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SlideShare Presentation of "Get Social or Die" by Josepf Haslam at #SMBS12
Warning, the following Slideshare are the presentation slides, however, they are Story Elements mainly. Video of the presentation may be found above! Gist of the presentation is:
- Google/Bing/Yahoo's inherent promise to us is the most relevant Search Results.
- What makes up or goes into search results has evolved quickly over time.
- Social Signals and Social Conversations are influencing Search Results.
- Social Platforms are increasingly becoming places where people "search".
- Statistic show that people are Socially influenced in their decision making.
- IF people get "Trusted" reviews or recommendations they'll typically take them over generic search.
- YOU and your business need to get Social, now, today.
- Study referenced below, shows that Social has already been proven to drive increased revenue!
- IF you do NOT adopt Social you will lose SEO relevance and your competitors will win.
Video Transcript of "Get Social or Die"
Get social or die as presented at the social media business summit buffalo February sixteenth special thanks to Renee martinez and melinda sanderson from Canisius College
for the event.
We are at the dawn of a new Age with social media. It's both an evolutionary and revolutionary age. It's a truly disruptive technology and social system for businesses and individuals.
I assert that you need to get social or die if this is your view of social and believe me a couple years ago when i looked at twitter I had the idea perfect combination of narcissism ADHD and stalking for some people it still is for you and for businesses you need to change this you need to make it your force for being found and getting business.
Let me walk through this by first taking a look at the most obvious way getting found search engine results pages the promise of a google or a bing or a yahoo there is an implicit promise it's the most relevant search result we use google sixty five percent of us because we believe it gives us the most relevant result how that result is formulated how people find you though has been changing and evolutionary way since the very begining now it's proceeding to the revolution.
Let's take a look at a search engine result page first let me point out that i am currently logged in right here to google note that as a result there are forty personal results people but i know who have said something about lawyers auto accident any keyword phrase I put up top there i will see some personal results for based upon my social network now let's clear the page seventy percent of clicks on the search engines results page go to pay-per-click. Mind you this is how Google makes all of its billions. Some of us will click through the pay-per-click results; note here three percent of clicks will go to random other places than the search engine results page. They might click through to page two of the search engine results page or go to videos or images. Eighty percent of the results go to the top organic positions also called above the fold, its an old newspaper term, it's what you see on your screen depending upon your screen size,
typically the top four or five results. Here we're barely seeing three now, a couple of things of note. the item here in yellow is here because is somebody I was prospecting as potential
client and shows me that I visited this page two times and what my last visit was.
It is very very important to understand this. Google is working in social results Bing is doing the same thing they're working social results into your search engine result page because they believe it's going to make those results more relevant for you. I believe this as well, however, this is not the only way to be found. Very important for you to understand the entire space of engagement here. Let's start with that, here's a slide from David Armano from edelmandigital — this is the world of engagement. Let's clear the four quadrants. The first thing is your own digital property. As a person, as a business you need to have an owned property. God forbid relying on facebook page, any page: google plus, linkedin, posterous, you need to have your own your own owned property your website, your custom built portal, for yourself. With that said let's take a look at advertising
Advertising, or paid media, is not just pay-per-click or display ads or banner ads or anything else like that. It is those things, however it could also be any type of endorsement you may have. It could be a billboard, radio spot, t_v_ spot, could be a celebrity who's promoting your product or services. The important thing is you want to capture relevance from those advertisements or publicity or PR and have it be SEO'd back to your owned properties.
Drive everything back to your owned properties. Now let's take a look at your owned media. We had some very good examples earlier today from Ramon De Leon of Dominos who showing where he's been talked about out in the world on blogs and other websites. He's earned that position. You as a business also need to earn those positions need to find influencers need to find niche platforms where people will talk about you your products and your services. Again driving everything back to your owned properties. Let's take a look at social platforms, they're what Armano calls embassies, things like a facebook, a twitter, slideshare, linkedin, youtube and there's also outposts, things like blogs and message boards and forums.
This is where you're going to concentrate your social engagement. It's an intersection between earned media social platforms owned properties and also sometimes paid media, take a little care for that one, you'll see influencer engagement called out here.
It'a very important, especially as you scale your business and your business presence, to understand who's influencing those social platforms, those communities and those niches. Become friends of those people, engage those people, interact with those people. You do not have the ability if you have two hundred thousand followers to talk with or engage all two hundred thousand or million or even two thousand. You want to understanding who the key influencers are and engage them. That they in turn once you build a relationship well reference you as part of the earned media or what happened with social platforms and again is an excellent opportunity to get more visibility and increase traffic back to your owned properties.
So there's been a huge evolution taking place in a very rapid period of time and back when i was dealing with dupont and apranet and martin marietta and others we would publish our own directories so people could get to our information. The internet wasn't even really built yet (i never did see al gore anywhere by the way, never saw him). Then you had people like yahoo come in and they were publishing search results for us. We'd go to yahoo and we look something up, then we had altavista come in and count words on a page which led to keyword density and when Google came in as well lead to the SEO industry and people trying to optimize their websites for search engines.
It keeps getting more complicated; Google saw that people were spamming the external links so they started to look at a site and say this was a really good one, it has a authority it has credibility, and we're going to give that page rank of nine this one's not so good, give it a pagerank of one… Now what's happening is they're adding social voting. Think about it, so you as a consumer, you as a business person, if you'd like something you would talk about something, tweet it, put it on linkedin, and your votes are going to start to count. Showing up in search results both for yourself and also for your friends with people that you influence. So right now what we have is something like this: we've got a bunch of spiders runnign around, a bunch of bots, it's all being hashed into math somewhere on a google server and we're all feeling a little bit like we're living in the matrix somewhat.
But that's not what we want, this is what we want: we want the personalized recommendations. What somebody we know, we trust, that we care about, to tell us that you should try this! So I'm here in Buffalo and I'll ask Renee Martinez "hey i want a really good Thai place" and she'll tell me. I've done this before with Renee and she's always spot on with the recommendations. I'm not gonna go google that! Yesterday, i wanted to run out to a bestbuy and asked her and Brian where should I go. He said to down to the galleria mall, do this, do that, we stopped at P.F.Changs we had a good lunch. They messed up our calamari; I tweeted them; they fixed it. I tweeted back "good customer service at PFChangs". PFChangs talked back to me today "hey how was the rest of the meal"? That whole interaction was based on personal recomendations and interestingly enough Google and Bing are trying to figure out who you care about, who you interact with, and to the extent that you care and interact with people socially they're putting that back into your search results so hold on to your hats here.
What's going on, well I published a blog article and a bunch of links that are backing up everything i'm saying here today so you can click through and read articles and do some more research on this yourself. But three different articles range anywhere from seventy one to eighty three percent of people are using reviews to influence a purchase decision. Makes sense and I go out to Cnet all the time and read what's going on. I'll look at amazon dot com to take a look what people saying about the product. Eighty percent of people will change their decision because they see negative reviews of the product or service, eighty percent.
If you're not out there monitoring your own yelp profile and people are banging on your business or bang on your restaurant and you don't even know it then yes the sales are going down. Not that many people in on Wednesday night anymore. And that's the use social or die part. You will go out of business! Now this is fascinating, so does social media have a return on investment? Alright. well guess what? This just came out two weeks ago, ten days ago, fifty six billion, fifty six billion impressions two point seven billion clicks, thirteen billion dollars in revenue. When social media was in the stream of those clips eighty-four percent more revenue happened then natural search results alone. Eighty-four percent more revenue, you're in business, would you like to have eighty-four percent revenue than your competitor because you're using social? Fascinating, so we looked at this a little bit earlier today but basically when you have people out there in social they buy something from you, they really like it, they talk about it, they tell their friends, they have "social proof". It creates this whole feedback loop where they're working on awareness of other people because they like it. They're getting you to consider, maybe i should try that. We see this all the time. You play around with tools, I'll Tweet out something like I really like, suc as my Scoop.it. People say maybe i should try that, maybe i should check out Scoop it. So this is what you're looking for, to get with social and we'll break it down back to search engine results page of sean mcginnis who'll be here later on today. We're gonna tag-team here a little bit, he's got a dive deeper on how you create some social links out there and help you with SEO. Matter of fact, walking in today the young lady handing me the bag first thoughtI was Sean, it was a great compliment. I didn't know i was that good looking and smart. So you know but here's the deal right up top here I'm signed in. I typed in Sean M that's as far as i got. Autofill suggesting maybe i'm looking for sean mcginnis displaying his google plus profile. It gives me three other people i know socially. Shows me right here in the SERP, I haven't even finished typing it yet I paused mid-typing and captured this with Camtasia. It's showing me his goolge plus profile, showing me images for Sean that either he sent out or other people like paul biederman has sent out. It has his Twitter profile as shared by sean, his linkedin as shared by sean, the whole page and the second page results as shared by sean who I know. Okay, so autofill finds him because he's in my social circle his G+ profile shows up, images show up, all the other first page search results are there because he shared them.
I go anonymous, I'm signed out he does not exist doesn't exist can't find him! Bunch of other people you probably recognized the names as they're probably a little more famous out there in the world. Different complete different search results cause I'm signed out. He is nowhere to be found here the world as we have looked at it before was SEO and pay-per-click pretty well-known keyword research optimization a lot of maths in how you go about in social media world's different. You always start out with research but it's very very different it's not about broadcasting as you've heard already today it's about your audience segmentation your communities your influencers. Fascinating thing is all of this interacts back with SEO. It gets you found helps you get found more relevantly. Okay and then the important thing to talk about here is owning your profiles as well there's a lot out there right, it can be a little bit confusing. This graphic dipicts the difference in the platforms: here Linkedin my skills include donut eating. Each platform has a little bit different purpose and you need to find out where your people are where they are engaging in what
they are trying to do and find a platform for them. This presentation, also the video, all the links I talked about are up on the web. Tweeted out already on this hashtag and you can at Tweet me and I'll send out anything you want as well. Alright, so the good news is Ric Dragon is writing a book called social marketology. This graphic is also a chart from that book what you have is you have a, let me go ahead and come back okay so what have you have people out there and you want to say where do you belong where are communities out there do you need to create a community where are the influencers in that community once you have an idea of what that is you've always starts here, with profit you always start with what are your desired outcomes are, what are you trying to accomplish.
It comes back to your main business object and mission, your main marketing objectives you come out anywhere on this loop it doesn't matter where you start start with yourself because work with them whom you're targeting understand communities understand the influences within that community you do not have to talk with two hundred thousand people you have to talk with maybe twenty people who are really influencing those two hundred thousand people and you need to identify who they really are this is an action plan that it's executed measured and reinvented anybody tells me that they don't understand the ROI of social and and suggest that you can't do it I literally just laugh at them that rude I just laugh at them because i measure everything i put out custom links i've put UTM tracking on anything I'm putting out there measure all but it's very measureable if you understand what you are doing this here this whole process basically you go back and say are we meeting our desired outcomes or not do gap analysis go back to your plan revise your plan, you're measuring all along the way, it is very doable different than SEO very different than SEO and pay-per-click but very very important and worthwhile where do you belong.
Back to SEO old-school short hand optimization reciprocal backlinks bullshit backlinks relevant connections newschool seo very different broader longtail based on relationships i want Ramon to blog about me cause you know we've met a couple times he met me here we had a good time time last night and he's gonna talk about me I'm going to talk about him that's true relevance
with relevant connection to this is being fueled by social media and connected together through social media both tweeting Facebook Linkedin and also through things like blogging as well.
in summary we're really at a sea change here. A very very importance sea change still at the very beginning. The very beginning of understanding. The very beginning of the technologies of it. But it's very very important do it and to get it. We're cutting it short because of our time constraints here but in my little rainbow colored thing here: dragonsearch.net if you go onto the Blog there and also go online to the hashtag yet more background on this and later on this year will have the book on the process how to use social media, a soup to nuts guide including measuring analytics and the why and the wherefores available as well.
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". . . How long are the majority of Southerners going to allow themselves to be caricatured by these Claghorns? How many Sunday School children have to be dynamited to death? How many Negro leaders have to be shot in the back? How many governors have to be shot in the chest? How many presidents have to be assassinated?
"It is time the decent people in the South, with all their might and strength, told the bloody-shirt-wavers to climb down off the buckboards of bigotry . . ."
Though it wasn't his intent, it was reported that he had blamed the South for Kennedy's assassination. His real purpose, overlooked by many, was to declare racial justice to be "a national commitment and a national necessity . . . an idea that can never be stopped, not by custom, not by prejudice, not by hate, not by murder, not by armies, not by any mortal force."
Collins' transformation was complete. It had been less than nine years since he had been elected as a segregationist, but neither had it been an instant epiphany. His journey had been gradual but steady.
Collins was courting political suicide. If he were to run again in Florida, as he eventually did, the state still wasn't ready for such a racially liberal voice.
Johnson, the new president, drafted him to head the Community Relations Service that had been established by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It meant a huge cut in salary and a cloudy political future.
"There was never any doubt in my mind, really," Collins wrote many years later, "but I kept repeating over and over to myself, 'Why me, Lord?,' and the answer I kept getting back was something like 'This is no time for questions like that.' "
But the Lord had not spoken to Thurmond or a handful of other Southern senators who were seething over the "Claghorn" speech. Thurmond gave Collins a hard time at his Senate confirmation hearing. To Thurmond's charge that he had been "inconsistent" on racial issues, Collins replied, "I hope I have grown since I left my mother's knee, and I hope I continue to grow."
As the committee was about to meet to recommend Collins' confirmation, Thurmond literally wrestled another senator to a corridor floor to try to prevent a quorum from assembling. The Senate subsequently confirmed Collins 53-8. Thurmond and seven other Southern senators were the naysayers. Speaking at Birmingham in January 1965, Collins admitted that "over the span of my life I have been quite inconsistent in positions I have taken, both public and private, concerning civil rights and the place of the Negro in our American society." He had, he said, "looked at segregation through the eyes of a man who was raised from a boy on the privileged side of a racially segregated social system." He had even rationalized that "Negroes actually preferred it that way." What had changed, he explained, "was my own understanding and comprehension of what was right."
Less than two months later came the confrontations at Selma between civil rights marchers led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and troopers under the command of Gov. George Wallace. Hoping to prevent the marchers from being beaten a second time, Johnson personally ordered Collins to Selma to try to negotiate a settlement. He worked all night before getting the state's consent to let the marchers go to a point, but no further, pending the outcome of a court case. The march was already under way before Collins could reach King's aides with the proposal. A photograph was taken as he walked along, explaining it to them. The picture, widely printed in Florida, made it appear that he had been marching in support of the demonstrators. He had averted violence and most likely saved lives. But the moment proved fatal to his career.
Collins ran in 1968 to succeed Florida's retiring junior senator, George Smathers. Selma became an issue that nearly denied him the Democratic nomination. Weakened politically and financially by a bitter runoff with Atty. Gen. Earl Faircloth, Collins never had a chance against Ed Gurney, a congressman who became the first Republican Florida voters would send to the Senate. Gurney capitalized also on the riots that had followed King's murder and the disturbances at the Democratic convention in Chicago.
"My opponents . . . just kept pounding away at me for being a 'liberal' and classifying themselves as being 'conservatives,' " Collins wrote 10 years later. "They would say, 'He was at Selma,' and leave it to me to explain what I was doing there."
Gurney's victory marked an early and conspicuous success for what came to be known as the "Southern strategy" that also elected Richard Nixon and began the Republican Party's swift climb to power throughout the South. In a word, the strategy was race.
This is why the Senate Republicans had to dump Lott as their leader. He had become a lightning rod for that disconcerting history. It had to please the Democrats that it was such a long-running story.
Collins never ran for office again. On the day of his death in 1991, however, the Florida House eulogized him as the "Floridian of the century."
The year that ended his political career saw the beginning of Lott's, as an aide to the racist Mississippi congressman he would succeed in 1972. While Collins had been speaking ever more forcefully for civil rights, in the early '60s, Lott had been helping to lead Southern opposition to the integration of his fraternity. As recently as a few years ago, he was mixed up with the openly racist Council of Conservative Citizens.
Until now, no one ever had reason to question Lott's consistency.
With the majority leadership at stake, Lott confessed his own "misbehavior," recanted his vote against the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and even declared himself to be in favor of affirmative action. It will be fun to watch how that plays in Mississippi.
Like Collins, he described his conversion as "evolutionary."
But who would have known it?


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Norfolk St. takes down Fairleigh Dickinson 70-62
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- Malcolm Hawkins scored 16 points, nine coming at the free throw line, as Norfolk State got by Fairleigh Dickinson 70-62 in the consolation round of the NIT Season Tip-Off on Monday.
All but one Norfolk State (4-2) starters finished in double figures. Anell Alexis scored 14, Brandon Goode had 13 points, five blocks and Pendarvis Williams added 10.
After trailing by double digits for most of the game, Mustafaa Jones made three free throws with 1:30 remaining to pull Fairleigh Dickinson closer at 65-58. Norfolk State's Marese Phelps made a bucket on the next possession and the Spartans made enough free throws in the final minute (3 of 6).
Sidney Sanders Jr. scored a game-high 19 for Fairleigh Dickinson (1-6). The Knights made just 4 of 21 from 3-point range and 35.6 percent overall. Mathias Seilund had 11 points and eight rebounds.
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Rosacea, a chronic skin condition involving inflammatory papules and redness, is treated with the use of oral and topical medications. Treatments such as photorejuvenation and laser treatments can reduce both the appearance and root cause of rosacea and are effective in combination with topical and oral treatments.
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(Vatican Radio) Tensions are rising between the Palestinian Authority and the Czech
Republic after residents in a Prague district demanded the closure of the Palestinian
embassy complex. The demands came after a booby-trapped safe killed the ambassador
and illegal weapons were discovered in the building. Residents in the Suchdol district,
where the Palestinian ambassador's residence and embassy are based, already placed
banners with slogans such as "we like the city, not weapons." They recall that dozens
of people living nearby were briefly evacuated when Palestinian Ambassador Jamal al-Jamal
was killed when an old embassy safe exploded.
His daughter, Rana Al-Jamal, has said she believes the 56-year-old career diplomat was killed. Officials had claimed it was an accident. People living in Suchdol are especially concerned about the discovery of weapons. Czech media have reported that there are enough weapons, including assault rifles, to arm a 10-men fighting unit. Prague's Suchdol district has asked the Czech Foreign Ministry "to move the Palestinian embassy outside its premises," explained its mayor Petr Hejl.
He said following the deadly explosion and the discovery of illegal weapons and explosives, the local council concluded that the "embassy presents a security risk to the public and should be closed," he said. Hejl stressed that the embassy "violated Czech and international laws" by holding illegal arms and could no longer be considered trustworthy. Czech media have quoted a counter-intelligence officer as saying Palestinians had the weapons to protect themselves against possible attacks from Israel's secret service Mossad. Additionally, the Palestinian Liberation Organization had close ties with what was Czechoslovakia and other Soviet satellite states during the Communist era, while preparing attacks.
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This is a very nice program, however I plan on having my program run zenity then xmessage if zenity can't be executed. The whole world does not use Gnome (even as good as it is).
Can we merge partitions?
I have Red Hat 5.0 and I want to get Linux From Scratch installed. My hard disk is laid out like this:
/dev/hda1 = Microfat-DOS 6.22
/dev/hdb1 = Home dir
/dev/hdb2 = Swap
/dev/hdb3 = Red Hat Linux 5.0 (About 300 MB.)
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After I get LFS installed I want to merge or outher wise re-use my Red Hat partition.
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Dearne jobseekers are in for an early Christmas present after Royal Mail announced they are delivering 265 temporary jobs for the festive season.
The majority of the seasonal roles will be available at the extended Sheffield Mail Centre to help handle its hefty festive mail bag.
And the remaining positions in Rotherham will be for Royal Mail's express parcels business Parcelforce Worldwide, based near Magna Centre.
Jon Adams, plant manager at Sheffield Mail Centre, said: "The roles are part of Royal Mail's substantial financial investment in additional resources at Christmas to help ensure we provide the best service to our customers and get every card and parcel to its destination on time.
"The jobs come at a crucial time of the year for many people and offer great flexibility in shifts, from early working hours to night shifts."
He added the extra workforce has been drafted in as Royal Mail is seeing an increase in deliveries year on year.
"An increase in people doing their Christmas shopping online means we are getting busier every year."
Dearne MP John Healey said: "I hope Royal Mail will give local people first call on these jobs and support them as much as they can to move from these temporary posts into permanent work afterwards."
Positions are available across all shifts from early November to Christmas Eve and will support postmen and women who sort and deliver the mail all year round. No previous mail industry experience is necessary as training is provided. For further information about the roles available, visit www.royalmailgroup.com/xmasjobs site.


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A few days ago, on Day #2 (april 30th) of the campaign to "Stop Pay To Fly", just as we finished discussions at VNV's office that concluded with their open support the same day:
Help #StopPaytofly and sign the petition now! Morally reprehensible airlines are abusing fully dependant employees! https://t.co/fDaaxbX9ZU
— VNV.nl (@VNVPresident) 30 Avril 2015
...we learnt that the topic would be raised at an EP (European Parliament) small Hearing this 7th of May afternoon in the EP EMPL (Employment) Committee, where the Ghent University, Cardiff University, ECA, AEA and ETF (which all played a role in shaping the European study on atypical employment) will make presentations and engage in Q&A with the related MEPs (Members of the European Parliament).
We hold good faith in our representatives and hope their political interlocutors will fully appreciate the seriousness of the situation.
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How can two items on the menu be a feast? For most of us, it wouldn't be enough. It is for a child: milk and cookies or cake and ice cream. It is for anyone in Maryland during the summer: crabs and beer. And, for Catholics, we have the bread and wine becoming the Body and Blood of Christ.
Many cultures have a story, often called "Stone Soup", whereby a traveler without any food of his own enters a town seemingly without as well. He claims that he has the power to feed them all with only a stone which he draws from his pocket. The villagers gather around to laugh as he tosses the stone in a pot of water and begins heating it. Throughout the day as the stone simmers at the bottom, the villagers are coaxed to open their cupboards to bring forth whatever they have as 'a bit of carrot would make it taste that much better.' As the familiar story unfolds, by the end of the day a full pot of stew, with meat and vegetables is ready all because everyone was willing to share.
Now there are those who would claim that Jesus' Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes is nothing more than a Stone Soup story wherein everyone just pulled out what they had, so all could have enough. But, we know better, Jesus did what it says in the Bible — he multiplied just the five loaves and two fish. It was, and is, a miracle just as his Body and Blood. A miracle of a feast to sustain us. There might not be a lot on the menu, so to speak, but more than enough.
Over the past few Sundays we have been taking in the Bread of Life Discourses from St. John's gospel wherein Christ reminds us, again and again, of how His very life will save ours. Not only through his sacrifice on the cross but throughout all of time at the altar. However, an inability to accept this promise of a feast has plagued Jesus' promise since the very beginning. Throughout the readings from John we hear about those around Jesus who grumble at his words unable to comprehend them, but also unwilling, it seems to either ask Christ how it can be true or give it some quiet thought on their own.
This attitude of grumbling continues to this day amongst Jesus' followers — us. We can grumble and complain about what we hear in the Gospel, from the pulpit, from our bishops and our Pope. Often, neither asking for needed clarification nor assenting to what we know to be true.
And complaining guests never help the atmosphere of a feast, do they? Neither do ungrateful ones: ones who dismiss what is being offered and demand more. If you think what Jesus is offering is not enough to sustain you, then take strength from the other offerings left by Christ for our mission. He gave us the Church itself to shelter us. We have saints and teachers who give us words to help us grow in wisdom and understanding. We also have each other. Traveling alone can be very hard so we are called to be brothers and sisters who can offer a prayer when someone is empty spiritually or a loaf of bread (often literally) if another is hungry.
However, the Eucharist remains the center of the feast if we allow it. Saint stories abound of those for whom the Eucharist was more than enough for their every meal. While few of us will be called to live only on the Eucharist we must admit we don't live on it enough. We don't fully appreciate all that having Christ be a part of us, can do for us. For that brief moment after receiving Him, He is truly one with us. For the rest of the week, we are asked to recall that moment and relive it. Pondering the reality of this Catholic teaching can do much to keep us full throughout the day. Making use of a Spiritual Communion on a daily basis if Mass is not possible, brings back the reality of Jesus within us. And life with Jesus is so much easier than life without!
But, on those days when the Eucharist just isn't enough, don't worry. If you need more for your own stone soup just open up the Pantry of our Church and pull out some Church Fathers, pick a saint's biography or a current apologist to mull over and chew on. Add a helping of some good Catholic TV shows or evangelizing YouTube videos. And toss in the spice of a Catholic blog finishing it off with a side of some good Catholic music. You can fill you plate with centuries of spiritual delights from men and women of God for both your pleasure and edification, for your strength and support. No one need go hungry in the Catholic Church — literally, figuratively or spiritually! Take what you need — there's always more, more than enough for all.


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Op-Ed at San Jose Mercury News: Congress should update electronic privacy laws
The San Jose Mercury News has an editorial about electronic privacy laws, which have been in the news as numerous groups have called on Congress to update the laws and lawmakers have announced hearings on the issue:
In 1986, cell phones were an expensive novelty, GPS tracking was only a dream, texting had yet to be invented and only 30 million computers were in use in the United States. That's the year Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, establishing the standards in effect to this day for government access to e-mail and other electronic communications in criminal investigations.
The law has been changed only slightly over those 24 years and desperately needs an overhaul. The only people defending the status quo are those still using their Apple Mac Plus, which also was introduced in 1986. [...]
The law now is a muddle of inconsistencies that befuddle service providers and law enforcement alike. [...]
But for routine criminal investigations, Congress should give private electronic information and communications the same level of protection as paper ones, regardless of the platform in which they were created or the time that's elapsed since they were sent.
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Answer: No. The Acai Berry is a great source of anti-oxidants with the result that does possess anti-aging and cancer fighting properties; but as far as weight loss goes, it really does not offer any real benefits. It is just another fruit and as such can be a great addition to a healthy diet for increased variety. Fruit contain lots of sugar though, so try to restrict your fruit portions to about two per day. Beware of unscrupulous vendors selling Acai products. Some of them falsely claim an association with Oprah Winfrey, and are currently being sued. Many of them imply that Oprah endorsed acai as a weight loss product, which is untrue. There are also a number of vendors out there that automatically ships a monthly supply of acai to you once you've signed up, and then make it extremely difficult to cancel the order! For more info see this discussion of acai and weight loss.


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Pebble Beach delivers another first look – this time from the Crewe, England Bentley house. The luxury automaker unveiled sketches of their new Bentley Mulsanne Convertible Concept Car.
The interior of the new concept Bentley Mulsanne Convertible is inspired by the high-power and high-performance world of power boats. This is an open-top affair; one very familiar to the Bentley family. The "Mulsanne saloon" is indeed a strong base to build on. More on the new Mulsanne when available.


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Gilmore urges North parties to rise above 'one-dimensional politics'
THE hope which followed the Good Friday Agreement should not be lost through one-dimensional politics, Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore said.
Mr Gilmore urged politicians to make progress in north/south relations and the Richard Haass talks on parades, flags and dealing with the legacy of the past.
He called for renewed friendship and trust as well as broader mobilisation by members of the community to create a more reconciled and prosperous future.
"Making progress, whether in the context of north-south relations or in the context of the Panel of Parties talks, relies on the maintenance, building and renewing of trust and friendship in the totality of relationships across these islands," he told delegates at the SDLP party conference in Armagh.
"One-dimensional politics does not fit with the concept of the Good Friday Agreement, which requires all of us, the SDLP, the government and others to all work together.
"We cannot risk letting the germ of hope, opportunity and ambition which has taken hold in so many communities be left to go to seed."
Mr Gilmore's address focused on boosting the economy - including tackling high levels of youth unemployment and better cross-border cooperation - as well as the need for reconciliation.
He said people needed to realise the potential of the 1998 Agreement and all its parts, including a bill of rights, a civic forum, greater participation of women in political life, integrated education and shared housing.
"We cannot be selectively blind to those parts we find difficult. When we pick and choose, the balance and integrity of the whole is picked apart," he said.
"We need to recall and renew the hope, ambition and political leadership which made the Agreement possible in order to deal with the challenges which we are currently facing, including in the context of the ongoing Haass process."
The Labour Party leader acknowledged that these are substantial and ambitious undertakings which can only be achieved through close and honest cooperation between the British and Irish Governments and parties in Northern Ireland.
"It also requires a broader mobilisation of opinion across business, community, faith and other sectors to demand real and consistent investment by all in a more reconciled and prosperous future," he added.
He commended the SDLP's approach to the Haass talks.
"This is a time for hope and the ambition to see further progress made towards advancing reconciliation and the creation of a truly reconciled society."
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This musical weekend we will be treated to the wide and varied musical talant of many bards of many different walks of life and fandom. The below links will take you to some suggested articles and sites to better familiarize yourself with the many different groups that will be gathered at White Lake Beach Resort for this event. Musical filk, Celtic themes, renaissance faire feels, SCA~dian epics... You'll find these and more at this year's Bardstock V.


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A lot of people have fantasized about being a spy. Many people would love to have access to top secret information.
If you have had these kinds of fantasies, you should know that there is a way for you to make them come true! Here are a few ways you can learn how to spy on someone else's phone.
Download Monitoring Software
There are many programs that can remotely connect with someone's phone. This is especially true of Android devices; a lot of them have fairly lax security. When you use the right software, you'll be able to see everything that is happening on the phone, from the pictures they are sending to the messages they are receiving.
Use A Spy App
You could also try installing an app directly on someone else's phone. This app will spy on them and then send all of the relevant information back to you.
It's clear that there are plenty of ways to spy on people through text messages. Thankfully, most of these spying methods are actually pretty discreet. If there is someone that you want to spy on, you can go ahead and do that without a problem!
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Re: What to call this operator?
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:11:57 +0200
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In article <1120066601.412830.82070_at_g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
marshall.spight_at_gmail.com says...
> > However, the symmetry/duality is lost in the semantics of the
> > operations---the relation predicate of the result. If relvars A and B
> > have predicates PA and PB, respectively, the expression A JOIN/<AND> B
> > has the predicate PA AND PB (logical and) in both D&D and Tropashko.
> > However, D&D's A <OR> B has the predicate PA OR PB (logical or), while
> > Tropashko's A UNION B has a rather more complicated and less intuitive
> > predicate (on first glance).
> I look at it this way:
> (I'll call Tropashko's operator "generalized union.")
> A natural join B: the union of the columns and the intersection of the
> rows
> A generalized union B: the intersection of the columns and union of the
> rows.
> Quite symmetric, as I see it.
Yes, but the relation predicate is not. Given relations A(x,y) and B (y,z) with predicates PA(x,y) "employee x works in department y" and PB (y,z) "department y is led by manager z".
The predicate PJAB(x,y,z) of A join B is "employee x works in department y, and department y is led by manager z" (or more simply, "employee x works in department y which is led by manager z").
The predicate PUAB(y) of A generalized union B is "there exists an employee x such that employee x works in department y, or there exists a manager z such that department y is led by manager z"
Whereas the predicate POAB(x,y,z) of A <OR> B is "employee x works in department y, or department y is led by manager z".
Questions of usefulness may of course be raised; I am merely pointing out that there is a lack of symmetry from this viewpoint.
-- JonReceived on Fri Jul 01 2005 - 11:11:57 CEST


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Regional Reviews: New Jersey
Harold Pinter Enters No Man's Land
After more than a bit of boozing at a public house, Hirst and Spooner find themselves sharing a drink in the library of the former's house in tony Hampstead (northwest London). Both men are writers. Spooner, who says that he is a poet, is full of braggadocio as to his genius and success. His tattered clothes suggest that Spooner is anything but successful. The weary, decimated Hirst is overwhelmed by Spooner's prattle. He says, "Today, you find me in the last lap of a race that I have forgotten how to run" shortly before collapsing onto the floor and then crawling into the next room.
Two younger men, Foster and Briggs, enter from another door. They corner Spooner menacingly. "You laid your hand on a rich and powerful man." Foster warns Spooner against coming between them and Hirst. "He is an artist and we make his living possible." He describes himself as Hirst's "amanuenses." Briggs is his chauffeur and bodyguard. Spooner's very life seems in danger even before they extinguish the lights as they lock Spencer in the library for the night.
The second and final scene (designated as act two although there is no intermission) is set on the next morning. Here the battle for the favor and control of the successful artist Hirst between his two retainers and the down at the heels intruder plays out as Hirst fearfully contemplates his future as a crippled lion in winter.
An English drama critic was the first to describe the Pinter style as comedy of menace. And there is a fair share of humor largely from absurd comments (i.e., garlands are purported to hang in a church for people who died as reputed virgins), odd, gratuitous insults, and eerily, off center threats. However, while the relationships and past events depicted are subject to varying interpretations, never before have I found the basis behind Pinter's pervasive sense of menace as clear as it is in this production. Hirst appears to be a surrogate for Pinter or, more precisely, for Pinter's fears. As even those who seem closest to him vie for his approval, Hirst fears that each has his own agenda and will use him for personal benefit at his expense. Each and every of the four characters are potential threats to the others. To extrapolate, Pinter finds that as people progress through their always dangerous lives, there is potential for harm in every encounter and situation. Also the threat of failing old age, a no man's land of living death, is on Pinter's mind here. It seems somewhat odd that a 44-year-old PinterNo Man's Land was written in 1974would be so obsessed with old age. (Pinter died in 2008 at the age of 78.) Perhaps, you will interpret this play differently than has this senior age reviewer. If you are intrigued as to how you might interpret all this, then this play is for you.
While the talent and legendary star power of Ralph Richardson (Hirst) and John Gielgud (Spooner) certainly created excitement in both London and New York when originally produced (1975), this Shakespeare Theatre production is in no manner lacking in quality. Edmond Genest smoothly conveys the alcohol assisted fatigue and weakness of Hirst, as well as the now faded fire and powerful authority that he is now only able to arouse intermittently. Sherman Howard (Spooner) embodies the goodtime Charlie likeability of an entertaining raconteur whose drinks are dependent on the generosity of others.
Paul Mullins (Briggs) is most overtly menacing when he is protecting his territory, extremely rattled by his replacement as Hirst's most trusted retainer, and unexpectedly gracious when at ease. Derek Wilson (Foster) strongly conveys the ambiguity of the play as he wordlessly alternates between menacingly eyeballing Spooner and following his interaction with the others. Both Mullins and Wilson convey a largely unspoken, ambiguous tie between them.
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As the lights came up for the curtain calls of this extremely well tuned, insightful production of No Man's Land, I felt a strong sense of satisfaction about my evening in its presence.
No Man's Land continues performances (Evenings: Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday 7:30 pm; Thursday, Friday 7 Saturday 8 pm; Matinees: Saturday and Sunday 2 pm) through August 29, 2010, at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, on the campus of Drew University, 36 Madison Avenue, Madison, NJ 07940. Box Office: 973-408-5600, online: www.shakespeareNJ.org.
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