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When to Visit Toronto
Local Holidays
Local Customs and Language
The best time to travel to Toronto is during the summer months, when the weather is pleasant for exploring on foot and the city comes alive with outdoor events. Winters in Toronto are bitterly cold, but if you choose a Toronto holiday in the chilly months the underground shopping malls will provide plenty of entertainment without having to brave the elements.
1 Jan - New Year's Day
March/April- Good Friday
March/April- Easter Monday
1 July - Canada Day
October (2nd Monday) - Thanksgiving
11 November - Remembrance Day
25 December - Christmas Day
26 December - Boxing Day
The official languages are English and French (predominantly in Quebec).
Smoking bans have been implemented in enclosed public places such as restaurants, bars and shopping malls.
Toronto Tipping Advice
In Toronto, like the rest of North America, there is no automatic service charge added to restaurant bills. Tipping is generally expected and can be problematic if one is used to having a service charge included in the bill. Service charges can only be added to the bill with your consent and normally amount to between 10% and 20% of the total. Toronto doormen and porters are normally tipped at around CAD 1.00 per bag in a standard hotel. Maid service may be tipped at around CAD 1.00 a day.
No vaccinations are necessary for travel to Canada. The West Nile virus, spread by mosquitoes breeding in stagnant water, poses a threat during summer months in rural areas, so insect-repellent measures are advised for those visiting the countryside particularly in Saskatchewan, Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, and Quebec. Rabies is a problem and can be spread by a bite from small animals such as racoons and bats. Medical care is excellent, but expensive, so medical insurance is advised.
Most visits to Canada are trouble-free. The country is politically stable, but does share the common international risk of terrorism. There have been no recent terrorism events. The crime rate is low, but travellers are advised to take sensible precautions to safeguard their belongings as they would anywhere. Canada is prone to tornadoes between May and September.
Foreign visitors to Canada can apply for a rebate on the GST that is paid on accommodation (up to 30 nights per visit), and on goods purchased in Canada and exported within 60 days of the purchase. Be sure to keep your receipts – you'll need to have them validated by Canada Customs at the airport or border crossing when you leave.
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About This Project
Infancy is an ideal time to study brain rhythms during sleep in humans. During the first year of life, infants' brains are rapidly changing. We've been perfecting our methods for two years and now need two additional E4 autonomic sensors to run a study with 15 infants, at three ages, characterizing the changes in two sleep brain rhythms: slow waves and sleep spindles, along with changes in autonomic sleep patterns, and cognitive, motor, and social-emotional development.
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Join The DiscussionWhat is the context of this research?
Sleep patterns appear to play a role in almost all known psychiatric disorders, which often parallel cognitive deficits. Studying brain rhythms during sleep at the millisecond and millimeter scale, has led to a better understanding of its role in waking behavior and cognition in adults and children. Infancy is an ideal time to study these small scale sleep rhythms, given the speed at which they change and the speed at which behavior develops. Due to my experience with a sleep disorder which affected my cognition, I learned to enhance my sleep, which followed with improved cognition. This led to a passion for sleep research, which developed during a neuroscience PhD training, after 15 years working in mobile computing. Adding mobile sensors will allow us to broaden the impact of this work.
What is the significance of this project?
This work addresses specific gaps in the human infant sleep literature due to the limited frequency of measurements across ages, the inability to adequately analyze topography of cortical brain activity given use of low resolution electroencephalography (EEG), and most importantly the lack of concurrent and prospective cognitive measures that would permit predictive comparisons. This funding will allow us to continue our work using modern high resolution, or dense-array EEG (dEEG), and standardized measures of behavioral development, while adding measures of the autonomic nervous system, with research grade mobile sensors worn on the infant's legs. This additional mobile technology data will provide the basis for more comprehensive, ecological and citizen science based sleep research.
What are the goals of the project?
We have begun to collect, analyze, and characterize data from a longitudinal group of infants at 3, 6, and more recently 9 months of age, requiring 3 visits from each infant to our lab. The data includes concurrent measures of standardized behavioral development, dEEG during daytime sleep, and bi-lateral mobile sensor data during both the wake and sleep portion of each lab-based visit. The mobile sensor data includes four autonomic measures: actigraphy, skin temperature, pulse oximetry, and skin conductance. We will characterize the topography, magnitude, spectral frequency, and density of two sleep brain rhythms: slow waves and sleep spindles, which have been linked to cognition in adults, and brain development. We will examine their correlation with behavioral and autonomic measures.
We have been piloting our work, and perfecting our methods in infants at 3.5 and 6.5 months of age, for the last 2-3 years. We have funded this pilot work through private donations, and some funding from NSF, in particular through a $2500 trainee grant to me for our first pair of mobile E4 sensors. We hope to launch a larger study in the near future, with funding from NIH. For now, we have the lab equipment (EEG technology), two E4 mobile sensors, lab space, computers, and staff, but we need two additional E4 sensors, and money to pay and help recruit participants. Recruitment for participants in our research has become much harder over the years, and we need funds for creative promotion of our work to families who have or are expecting infants and are within a reasonable driving distance of our lab. We aim to recruit 15 infants before the age of 3.5 months. Participants receive $30 and a letter about their infant's behavioral development, after each of the three visits.
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Meet the Team
Team Bio
Infant brain development research takes a village. The Infancy Studies Lab, at Rutgers University - Newark, is a village of passionate researchers with over 60 years of combined experience working with children and infants. While sleep is a fairly new area of research for our lab, it is a logical next step for understanding how the speech and language related research we do can be influenced and even enhanced by sleep. Our lab director, Dr. April Ann Benasich, has an extensive biography.
Sue Peters
As a first year student in the Behavioral Neural Sciences PhD program at the Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience, I helped to introduce the first human cognitive neuroscience sleep research at the center, in a computational cognitive neuroscience learning and memory research lab. Using my background as a co-founder of a public mobile computing company, BrainDock, I co-wrote a successful proposal to the NSF Smart and Connected Health program. I co-facilitated the launch of this new area of research: "Long-term Mobile Monitoring and Analysis of Sleep-Cognition Relationship", which has led to novel findings of the trait-like aspects of sleep stages (REM and NonREM) with learning and emotion (in press). In 2012, I joined the Infancy Studies Laboratory, to learn dense EEG (dEEG) analysis skills with application to spontaneous wake brain activity of infants. For my thesis work, I initiated a new area of research in this lab, with a pilot study of infant daytime sleep. This work has led to my passion for understanding sleep microstructure and infant brain development, as it relates to information integration, emotional and cognitive development, and the development and prevention of psychiatric disorders. As an undergraduate student of biomedical engineering and computer science, I have the technical foundation required for work in scientific computing and digital signal processing. I continue to learn new dEEG analysis techniques that are used in adult research, and apply them to infant brain activity. These projects have been presented at various sleep, neuroscience, and learning and memory conferences, and are the foundation toward my long-term goals of combining lab-based research with more ethological monitoring tools, taking advantage of mobile health technologies and citizen science to help us to better understand developmental brain health, and provide mechanisms and interventions which will empower individuals to have a better quality of life.
Additional Information
Two scientific posters, with more detailed background and hypotheses, and in which relevant pilot data in the 3 and 6 month age groups have been presented, are available for viewing here.
2.Novel Approaches to Measuring Infant Daytime Sleep Neurophysiology and Autonomic Activity
Project Backers
- 73Backers
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- $4,945Total Donations
- $66.82Average Donation

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All Scripture is self‐attesting and being Truth, requires our unreserved submission in all areas of life. The infallible Word of God, the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments, is a complete and unified witness to God's redemptive acts, culminating in the incarnation of the Living Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.
The Bible, uniquely and fully inspired by the Holy Spirit, is the supreme and final authority on all matters on which it speaks. On this sure foundation, we affirm these additional essentials of our faith:
- We believe in one God, the sovereign Creator and Sustainer of all things, infinitely perfect and eternally existing in three persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To Him be all honor, glory, and praise forever!
- Jesus Christ, the living Word, became flesh through His miraculous conception by the Holy Spirit and His virgin birth. He who is true God became true man united in one person forever. He died on the cross as a sacrifice for our sins, according to the Scriptures. On the third day, He arose bodily from the dead and ascended into heaven, where, at the right hand of the Majesty on High, He now is our High Priest and Mediator.
- The Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead, has come to glorify Christ and to apply the saving work of Christ to our hearts. He convicts us of sin and draws us to the Savior. Indwelling our hearts, He gives us new life, empowers us, and imparts gifts to us for service. He instructs and guides us into all truth and seals us for the day of redemption.
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In Nashville, an apartment complex for people who earn low incomes is being demolished to make way for a new mixed-use development. WPLN's Ambriehl Crutchfield reports that trying to find a new home comes with many difficulties, especially for families.
AMBRIEHL CRUTCHFIELD, BYLINE: Virginia Holland is switching back-and-forth between making eggs, sausage and rice for her kids' breakfast and looking for a new home.
VIRGINIA HOLLAND: And so we go on here.
CRUTCHFIELD: Holland only has two weeks to leave, so she's tapping through her smartphone, looking at a government-run search website.
HOLLAND: OK. You see this? Zero properties in Nashville.
CRUTCHFIELD: Her six kids range from 1 to 6 years old. So ideally, she wants two kids per room. Finding the right number of bedrooms is just one of many challenges for Holland. She's been trying to leave since 2018, because the unit is infested with mice. The Riverchase Apartments are beyond repair, so the new owner is covering moving cost and security deposit. But that won't fix the current housing shortage.
HOLLAND: How is that the developer is going to make sure everyone has a place when there is not anywhere?
CRUTCHFIELD: Holland could be facing discrimination for how she pays for her rent - a Section 8 voucher. HUD says people should only spend 30% of their money on housing. The local housing authority covers what's above that for people earning low incomes.
HOLLAND: I don't even know if overwhelmed is the word for the situation now. And it's to the point where I'm almost, like, ready to just give up.
CRUTCHFIELD: In general, landlords turn down Section 8 for three reasons. One, they don't want to deal with the government's red tape. Two, they can charge more on the private market. Three, landlords stereotype who has a voucher. People assume single Black women like Holland are taking advantage of government resources - you know, the welfare queen thing. But that's a racist stereotype. Before Riverchase, a dangerous domestic violence situation landed Holland and her kids in a homeless shelter while pregnant.
JACKIE SIMS: The moms who have several children, that's very difficult. That's about as difficult as having a felony on your record.
CRUTCHFIELD: This is PATHE Executive Director Jackie Sims. The developer is paying the nonprofit to help families find new homes. The deadline to move out was originally set for May, but it has been extended several times to accommodate people who are hard to move. There are a few things the Federal Housing Department could do to make using Section 8 easier, especially in a tight housing market. Will Fischer is the senior director of housing policy and research at the National Organization Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
WILL FISCHER: That includes making sure the voucher covers enough rent to be competitive in the local market. Voucher units are inspected to make sure that they are not unsafe. And it's really important that housing agencies do those inspections promptly. So that's what's holding up the process.
CRUTCHFIELD: But that won't eliminate discrimination. A research journal called Housing Policy Debate recently found that being a single mother is seen as a negative thing for Black women and Latinas. It's not held against white women. This combination of pay, family structure and identity discrimination all stands in the way of what Holland wants.
HOLLAND: A backyard - that's ideal for me. More than one bathrom or washer and dryer connection. God, Lord knows I need a washer and dryer connection.
CRUTCHFIELD: After Holland's housing navigator searched for four months, she landed a house this July.
HOLLAND: It's very freeing to know that I can come in my house - my house, not an apartment - and just get a piece of tranquility.
CRUTCHFIELD: As she gets settled into her new home, she already has plans to remove the tree stump and plant flowers in the front yard. For NPR News, I'm Ambriehl Crutchfield in Nashville. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Enjoy the Summer Sun, but Protect Your Peepers!
The sunshine is here to stay! It's time to plant those petunias, take long walks in the neighborhood and enjoy lunch on the back deck. Your calendar is wide open, and you can't wait to fill up those days with baseball games and outdoor concerts to soak in some sun.
To protect your vision and keep the tissues around your eyes healthy, here are some summer tips to protect those peepers:
Check the Clock
The sun's ultraviolet (UV) rays are most intense between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Try to avoid spending time in the direct sun during those hours, and enjoy your outdoor activities earlier in the morning or in the later afternoon and evening.
Buy a New Hat
Summer styles change each year, so buy a new hat that will protect your vision and make a fashion statement. The hats that provide the best protection against UV rays have a wide brim that will protect your face, ears and even your neck and shoulders.
Find Sunglasses You Love
It's time to throw out that pair of sunglasses that are scratched up in the junk drawer and buy a new pair that you'll look forward to wearing every day. Try something different like bright colored frames or a different lens shape. Whatever shape of lens you choose, go large! Big lenses offer more eye protection. One requirement should always stay the same, and that is a pair of sunglasses that offers 100 percent UV protection.
Apply Sunscreen Regularly
Wrinkles only look cute on dogs, so be generous with the sunscreen and remember to reapply often. Choose the correct sunscreen level for your skin tone, and don't forget to check the expiration date of the product. If your sunscreen has expired, it is not providing the protective benefits that your skin needs. Throw it out and buy a new bottle (Source: Superior Vision).
Protecting your skin is easy, and you can show some style while you're at it. Enjoy a fun-filled summer of all the outdoor activities you love most. Before you finish filling your calendar, set aside a day to have a comprehensive eye exam. Your ophthalmologist will test your vision, adjust your prescription and evaluate your eyes for several common diseases. An eye exam is an hour well-spent in the shade before going back out to play!


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A breakthrough chiropractic technologyImagine thirty to forty years ago,
if we told you that dentistry would be painless, that doctors would watch television to perform surgeries, that brain surgery for tumors could be done with a laser, that fetuses could be operated on within the uterus, that knife-less surgery could be performed – you would not have believed us.
By the same token, would you believe us if we told you that Chiropractic treatments and reorientation of the nervous system could be done comfortably, while you were sitting in an upright position without any turning or sudden movements? Would you believe that newborns as well as the elderly with osteoporosis can be treated safely and gently?
Advances in computers and engineering technologies have been able to uniquely blend with Chiropractic in order to both analyze and treat the human body in such a way that was never before realized. The potential for the human being to end pain and to achieve their peak nervous system function has never been greater. Humans are consistently asking their bodies to perform at higher levels. Now we have the techniques and the technology to match the demand placed on the spine and the nervous system. We now have the capability to fine tune our own energy and enhance every aspect of our lives.
Complex Technology, Simple Solution. The ProAdjuster.
You can achieve maximum health for your body now and in the future beginning with a simple anatomical concept. The nervous system (the brain and all the nerves) controls every function of your body. If this network is interfered with, pain ensues, as does bodily malfunction, resulting in sickness and diminished overall health. The "something" you can do to improve performance and maximize health is to maximize the health of your nervous system. There are several ways to do this. The number one way is allowing a doctor of Chiropractic using the ProAdjuster equipment to analyze and treat your nervous system.
How it works
To better understand, let's examine the idea of palpation. When a Chiropractor palpates your spine, they are checking for joint fluidity, motion and or rigidity. Improper motion effecting the nerve function is called a subluxation. In a similar fashion to palpation, the ProAdjuster can determine whether the vertebra's motion is too rigid or too fluid. The spine should not be too rigid (hypo-mobile). However, instead of utilizing the doctor's judgment as to what areas are hyper-mobile or hypo-mobile, the ProAdjuster measures precise levels of motion. Therefore, the ProAdjuster can isolate a problem area faster and more accurately than manual procedures. First Our doctors will engage in a one-on-one conversation with you to determine your medical history, and the causes of your problem. The adjustment and treatment procedures are then customized to fit the patient's needs. The next step In evaluation and treatment is to utilize the Pro-Adjuster's sophisticated computer analysis to pinpoint the problem areas. The information is then charted graphically on a computer monitor, so your doctor can detect the problem areas on each and every visit. Your doctor Will now begin treatment with the Pro-Adjuster. By applying the Pro-Adjuster's Resonant Force Impulses precisely to the affected areas, you will receive gentle, effective treatment to that specific area, reducing the subluxation. This will relieve the pressure on the nerve, allow the nerve to heal, and restore the nerve's ability to transmit signals to the brain more freely. Most importantly, it will help relieve the pain! In addition, your doctor may again take the readings after the adjustment with the Pro-Adjuster to compare the results. Now that's putting analysis on a whole new level!A ProAdjuster Adjustment
The Pro-Adjuster is the most advanced Chiropractic analysis and treatment instrument in existence today. With the Pro-Adjuster, our office has built a sterling reputation by delivering results that make a difference.
This technological marvel can help you return to a healthier lifestyle. You may no longer have to live with a persistent painful condition. Let us HELP YOU!
How can anything so gentle and comfortable change my spine?
The ProAdjuster utilizes a precise oscillating force with uninterrupted motion. It is able to increase the mobility of the spinal segments by reducing or enabling motion in the abnormal areas. In other words, the ProAdjuster is "unsticking" the joint. Have you ever seen a woodpecker tapping in an oscillating fashion on a tree? It is hard to believe, but you can watch them bore right through the hardest wood! The ProAdjuster taps in much the same way but uses soft tips that are comfortable to the human body and do not create damage.


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AMBUSH® began as an experimental line of jewelry – innovative pop art inspired designs capturing a distinct Tokyo aesthetic. The iconic trademarked POW!® motif in particular received media coverage around the world.
With apparel created as a can-vas to complete the story, AMBUSH® evolved into designing unisex collections. The brand made its Paris debut in 2015 with VERBAL & YOON being listed as two of Business of Fashion's Top 500 people influencing the global fashion industry for 4 consecutive years from 2015. In 2017 AMBUSH® was selected as one of the top 8 finalists for the LVMH PRIZE.
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Obesity quotes chart wide ranging webinar
The merits and disadvantages of taxing fat and sugar, together with the role of food science plus a host of other subjects featured in our line seminar. We feature here key quotes from the speakers, our webinar partner the Institute of Food Science & Technology (IFST) and two other influential groups that backed online seminar: the British Dietetic Association and the Nutrition Society.
If you missed the debate, which aired on Thursday July 3, register here to hear the one-hour discussion. Once registered, you can listen at any time any number of times to the discussion.
Taking part in the webinar – Obesity and health: the big fat, sugar and salt debate – were: Barbara Gallani, director of regulatory, science and health at the Food and Drink Federation; Professor Graham MacGregor, Professor of cardiovascular Medicine at Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine; Dr Charlotte Evans, lecturer - nutritional epidemiology and public health nutrition at the University of Leeds and Professor Alan Jackson, director National Institute for Health Research at Southampton Biomedical Research Centre.
Here are their key quotes on pivotal subjects in the debate.
Scale of the problem
MacGregor: "We are faced with a global pandemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes and this is entirely due to ultra-processed fast food that is very high in sugar, fat and salt and sweetened soft drinks. Not of these give any feeling of fullness and satiation."
Jackson: "It's possible, by choosing one or other facet, to argue against almost any position and that makes for an engaging debate. But none of that detracts from the fact we have a serious problem [about obesity] in our society that touches nearly everyone and is threatening, not only the current health but the future health of the population."
Jackson: "The challenge is not only to speak frankly but to listen carefully to what others say. And to work out how we can bring all the different perspectives together to work towards our common ambition, which has to be the health of the population."
Taxing sugar and fat
Evans: "It seemed very sensible to increase the cost of butter by introducing a fat tax in Denmark. But they found that people drove [over the border] to Germany to fill up their car boots with butter. So, we know we can't just come up with good ideas; we need to evaluate them fully to ensure the obesity crisis is management in the best possible way."
Evans: "We need an holistic approach … we are in a position where the cheapest foods are not good for your health and so I think that tax is a very good idea, and of course evaluating to make sure we do identify any unforeseen circumstances as well."
MacGregor: "The government should also put a tax on sugar and move responsibility for nutrition from the ridiculous [public health] responsibility deal – where the food industry is responsible for itself – to the FSA [Food Standards Agency] and have a proper scientific plan …".
MacGregor: "If you look at cigarettes, look at alcohol, the higher the tax, the lower the consumption. Certainly my view is that we should plan in the UK to put a tax on sugar as a threat to the food industry in order to get them to conform to targets and we could have regulatory targets for sugar."
Gallani: "Additional taxes placed on food have not proven to deliver positive health impacts in other jurisdictions, rather they are regressive and have the potential for unintended consequences."
Gallani on the effectiveness of self regulation: "Product ranges contain fewer calories through recipe reformulation, new product development and changes to portion sizes. In some cases, companies are able to reduce the sugar in recipes in order to achieve an overall calorie reduction and offer individuals low sugar options that remain of high quality and keep the desired taste."
Gallani: "The two messages for me are: stick to the science and to the evidence. And also appreciate the work the industry has been doing over the year to improve products, recipes and access to food."
Jackson: "The food industry has lost the trust of many parts of the society and collectively they will have to work very hard to regain that trust. Failure to accept this work in the agreed direction of improvement should meet with a legislative approach as appropriate."
Jackson: "The food industry carries a special, heavy responsibility because of its enormous economic power, resource and capability to influence and modify individual choice and behaviour. This power and opportunity can and should be used for better outcomes and needs to be deployed in an open and transparent way."
Partners' support for the webinar
Jon Poole, ceo IFST: "Given the well-balanced make-up of the panel for this web-based seminar, I am sincerely hopeful we can through some of the unhelpful rhetoric and, instead, focus for just one hour on the scientific evidence. My expectation is that anyone involved in making decisions about diet and health – whether in government or in the food processing sector – can, once and for all, gain some clarity from this webinar."
Andy Burman, chief executive British Dietetic Association (BDA): "Obesity costs an estimated £5bn per year in England alone and there is no simple answer as to how to tackle it. However the debate is an important one and it is vitally important the evidence base informs the strategy. We need to be guided by current thinking and work collectively. The BDA hopes the debate will inform, educate, enlighten and engage with anyone interested in the challenges."
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Sundaram Tagore Singapore's second group exhibition explores the notion of home. Each of the international painters, sculptors and photographers in this show is affected by globalization and the world outside, yet tied to the cultural mores of his or her country of origin.
Using a rich variety of media—from bronze to crushed minerals and metalwork to pure pigment—each of these artists employs a visual language that is deeply rooted in tradition, yet wholly modern.
Acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky chronicles the human impact on nature in his disarmingly beautiful images of industrial landscapes around the globe. Shot from up to 7,000 feet above, Burtynsky's painterly, often abstract images bring the scale of environmental devastation into perspective.
Edward Burtynsky's works are included in the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; The Photographer's Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Kim Joon, one of Korea's most notable young contemporary artists, fabricates fanciful compositions of tableware and fragments of idealized nudes using the computer software 3D Studio Max. Coating porcelain-like surfaces and backgrounds with traditional Asian motifs and Western luxury brand imagery, Joon successfully juxtaposes old and new.
Kim Joon's works have been exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, London; Total Museum, Seoul, Korea; The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon, Korea; and the National Taiwan Museum.
American painter Susan Weil has been at the epicenter of New York's contemporary art world since the 1950s. An innovative and influential member of the New York school, she deftly combines unexpected materials—including collage, blueprint, and paint on recycled canvas, acrylic and wood—to create dimensional works exploring the passage of time and movement.
Weil is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Her work is included in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the National Museum, Stockholm; Helsinki City Art Museum; and Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid.
Taylor Kuffner is an American conceptual sound installation artist who studied ancient Balinese music while living in Indonesia. His installations, comprising an orchestra of handcrafted percussion instruments, are derived from the traditional Balinese gamelan. Kuffner both preserves and reinterprets this Indonesian tradition and his works have been shown and performed worldwide. He has received grants and sponsorship from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and The Trust for Mutual Understanding, New York; the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland; and the Indonesian Foreign Ministry.
Home and the World features works by Fernando Botero, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edward Burtynsky, Damien Hirst, Kim Joon, Nathan Slate Joseph, Taylor Kuffner, Annie Leibovitz, Vittorio Mattino, Ricardo Mazal, Steve McCurry, Robert Polidori, Sohan Qadri, Sebastião Salgado, Hiroshi Senju, Merrill Wagner and Susan Weil.


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Muhammad Ali Dies at 74
Boxing great Muhammad Ali has passed away at the age of 74. He died at a hospital in Phoenix from respiratory issues.
Ali was perhaps the most famous person in the world during the second half of the 20th century, garnering fans and attracting controversy all over the globe. Born Cassius Clay in 1942, Ali first reached the top of the boxing world when he upset Sonny Liston in 1964 to win the world heavyweight championship. He was stripped of his title in 1967 after refusing to be drafted into service in the Vietnam War, and didn't fight for another four years.
During that time, he became a highly polarizing figure, with the country largely split over whether his actions were honorable or cowardly. Eventually, he was exonerated in a unanimous decision by the Supreme Court and regained his license to fight.
Ali faced Joe Frazier, with whom he would be forever linked, at Madison Square Garden on March 8, 1971, in what was called the "Fight of the Century." Frazier won a unanimous decision. In 1974, though, Ali won the rematch. The two would fight a third time, in the 1975 "Thrilla in Manila," with Ali winning a 15th-round TKO.
The man known as "The Greatest" won the heavyweight title for the second time when he defeated George Foreman at the "Rumble in the Jungle" in Kinshasa, Zaire, on October 30, 1974. This was a fight almost no one thought Ali had a chance to win, as Foreman had recently dominated Frazier and Ken Norton, who had also beaten Ali. Foreman said after the fight, "I'll admit it, Muhammad outthought me and outfought me."
Ali lost the title to Leon Spinks in February 1978, but then won the rematch a few months later, making him the first three-time heavyweight champion. He fought only a few more times, before retiring in 1981.
In 1984, Ali was diagnosed with Parkinson's, a condition he coped with for the rest of his life. He spent time as a sort of world diplomat, using the international fame he acquired over the previous 20 years as a way to travel the globe pursuing various causes.
Ali is survived by seven daughters and two sons.


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BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sep. 26, 2013—The United States and Japan today announced that beginning January 1, 2014, organic products certified in Japan or in the United States may be sold as organic in either country.
This partnership between two significant organic markets will streamline U.S. farmers' and processors' access to the growing Japanese organic market, benefiting the rapidly growing organic industry and supporting job creation and business growth on a global scale.
"This partnership reflects the strength of the USDA organic standards, allowing American organic farmers, ranchers, and businesses to access Asia's largest organic market," said U.S. Agriculture Secretary Vilsack. "It is a win for the American economy and sets the foundation for additional organic agricultural trade agreements in Asia. This partnership provides economic opportunities for farmers and small businesses, resulting in good jobs for Americans across the organic supply chain."
"Today's agreement will streamline access to the growing Japanese organic market for U.S. farmers and processors and eliminate significant barriers for small and medium organic producers, benefiting America's thriving organic industry," added United States Trade Representative Michael Froman. "This represents another key step in strengthening our economic relationship with Japan by boosting agriculture trade between Japan and the United States, leading to more jobs and economic benefits for American farmers and businesses in this important sector."
The organics sector in the United States and Japan is valued at more than $36 billion combined, and rising every year.
Formal letters creating this partnership were finalized on September 26, 2013 in Baltimore, Maryland. Signatures to the partnership are Anne L. Alonzo, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator; Ambassador Islam Siddiqui, U.S. Trade Representative Chief Agricultural Negotiator; and Hiroyuki Kobayashi, Director General, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau. The announcement took place at Natural Products Expo East, one of the largest trade shows for organic products in the United States.
Without an equivalency arrangement in place, organic farmers and businesses wanting to sell products in either country had to obtain separate certifications to meet each country's organic standards. This typically has meant two sets of fees, inspections, and paperwork. Similar to previous U.S. equivalency arrangements with Canada and the European Union, this trade partnership with Japan eliminates significant barriers, especially for small and medium-sized organic producers.
Leading up to today's historic announcement, U.S. and Japanese technical experts conducted thorough on-site audits to ensure that their programs' regulations, quality control measures, certification requirements, and labeling practices were compatible.
The U.S. and Japan organic standards cover the lifecycle of the product, including allowed and prohibited substances and natural resources conservation requirements. Both parties individually determined that their programs were "equivalent" with no restrictions for organic plant and plant products. This means that—for the first time—certified organic farmers and businesses in the U.S. don't have to prove that they didn't use a specific substance or production method to gain access to the Japanese organic market.
This partnership streamlines the export certificate process, which also reduces the paperwork burden for farmers and businesses. It also helps provide American consumers with year-round access to a diverse array of organic products.
Both parties are committed to ensuring that all traded organic products meet the terms of the partnership, retaining their organic integrity from farm to market. Japan's Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Organic Program—which oversee organic products in their respective countries—will both take on key oversight roles.
The United States and Japan will continue to have regular discussions and will review each other's programs periodically to verify that the terms of the partnership are being met.
This agreement only covers products exported from and certified in the United States or Japan. For additional details on this agreement, please visit: http://www.ams.usda.gov/NOPTradeJapan.
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November 21, 2015
Bill Quackenbush
Bill Quackenbush played with the Detroit Red Wings and the Boston Bruins in his 14 year career in the NHL. The 5'11" 180lb blueliner was not only one of the best defensive blueliners, but also, much like Niklas Lidstrom in the modern NHL, was as gentlemanly as he was efficient.
While playing with the Red Wings he was teamed with such pugilists as Terrible Ted Lindsay, Black Jack Stewart and of course Gordie Howe. Later Bill would play for the Big Bad Boston Bruins. Quackenbush's play was completely contradictory to that of his teams. Instead of using violence and brute strength, he would use a clean, pure version of defense. He seemingly knew what the opposing team would do before it would happen and he'd break-up the play without having to resort to physically manhandling the player. His positioning was perfect, his defense as elegant as it was disciplined
Quackenbush was an extraordinary thinker. To play NHL defense and to do it without taking many penalties requires an incredibly intelligent level of hockey sense. That being the case, Quackenbush certainly would have to qualify as one of the games most intelligent players ever.
Bill, who had a brother named Max who also played in the NHL, won the Lady Byng Trophy in 1949, an incredibly rare accomplishment for defensemen. It was hard to not give it to Bill that year though as the NHL First All Star Team defenseman did not commit a single foul in the entire season. In fact, Bill once went a span of 137 consecutive games (spanning 3 different seasons) without taking a single penalty! He probably should have won the trophy more than once.
Hubert George "Bill" Quackenbush was born in Toronto on March 2 1922. The 5 time all star never won a Norris trophy as the league's best blueliner but always a candidate. "Quack" would play in 774 games, rarely missing any to injury. He would score 62 goals and assist on 222 others while accumulating a miniscule 95 minutes in penalties.
Bill Quackenbush was elected into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1976. Long time teammate Gordie Howe said it best about Bill when he said "He's one of the best all-around players I've ever played with."
There has often been talk about creating an award for the best defensive defenseman in the National Hockey League. There is an award for best defensive forward, so why not for the best defensive blueliner? There would be few better candidates to name such a trophy after than Bill Quackenbush.
Quackenbush lived an interesting life after retiring from hockey in 1956. In 1962 he received his degree in civil engineering from Northeastern University, but ultimately it was sports that would continue to preoccupy him. In 1967 he became head coach of Princeton University until 1975. In 1971 he added the varsity golf team to his duties, a position he held until 1985. And in 1978 he became head coach of Princeton's women's hockey team, also until 1985.
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"Yudhishthira said, 'I have heard from thee, O sire, the names of those kings that have ascended to heaven. O thou whose power is great in the observance of the vow of truth by following the religion of gift. How many kinds of gift are there that should be given? What are the fruits of the several kinds of gifts respectively? For what reasons, what kinds of gifts, made to what persons are productive of merits? Indeed, unto what persons should what gifts be made? For what reasons are how many kinds of gifts to be made? I desire to hear all this in detail.'"
"Bhishma said, 'Listen, O son of Kunti, in detail to me, O sinless one as I discourse on the subject of gifts. Indeed, I shall tell you, O Bharata, how gifts should be made unto all the orders of men. From desire of merit, from desire of profit, from fear, from free choice, and from pity, gifts are made, O Bharata! Gifts, therefore, should be known to be of five kinds. Listen now to the reasons for which gifts are thus distributed in five classes. With mind freed from malice one should make gifts unto Brahmanas, for by making gifts unto the one acquires fame here and great felicity hereafter. (Such gifts are regarded as made from desire of merit.) He is in the habit of making gifts; or he has already made gifts to me. Hearing such words from solicitors one gives away all kinds of wealth unto a particular solicitor. (Such gifts are regarded as made from desire of profit.) I am not his, nor is he mine. If disregarded, he may injure me. From such motives of fear even a man of learning and wisdom may make gifts unto an ignorant wretch. (Such gifts are regarded as made from fear.) This one is dear to me, I am also dear to him. Influenced by considerations like these, a person of intelligence, freely and with alacrity, make gifts unto a friend. (Such gifts are regarded as made from free choice.) The person that solicits me is poor. He is, again, gratified with a little. From considerations such as these, one should always make gifts unto the poor, moved by pity. (Gifts made from such considerations are regarded as made from pity.) These are the five kinds of gift. They enhance the giver's merits and fame. The Lord of all creatures (Brahman himself) has said that one should always make gifts according to one's power.'"


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Evangelical Convert: Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
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Jaymie Stuart Wolfe
Jaymie Stuart Wolfe is a convert to the Catholic faith who entered the Church in 1983. Her apostolate, Loaves and Fishes, is dedicated to teaching, evangelism and prayer through word and song.
I was baptized Catholic, but raised, Confirmed and Communicated in the Episcopal Church because my parents had both been divorced and remarried. My mother and I attended a Billy Graham Crusade the summer before I entered the 6th grade. That event introduced us to a personal relationship with Jesus which led to our joining an Evangelical Free church with a choir, Bible studies, and a dynamic youth ministry. I graduated from a Catholic girls' High School. Then, I left home for college.
When I became a Roman Catholic, I became the unimaginable—at least what had been up until that point, unimaginable to me. There was no reason to make a drastic move like that. After all, I had Christ. I certainly didn't need anything else. Both faith and Scripture were in my back pocket. Aside from my ambitions and goals, Jesus was the focus of my life. In my teens, it was easy for me to believe that even my unquenchable drive for success, somehow, served Him. Freelancing faith seemed like the best of this world and the next. But a series of experiences over the course of five years added up to convince me otherwise, so much so, that on the Vigil of Easter in 1983, at St. Paul's Church, as a senior at Harvard, I came into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church.
Mormon Convert: Richard Sherlock
Mormon Convert
Richard Sherlock
Richard Sherlock is a professor of philosophy trained at Harvard. He has 2 wonderful adult children and many wonderful friends who are with him and supportive of him in this journey.
Converting to Catholicism: My Journey
Utah State University
One should never leave the religion in which one was born or raised for anything but the most serious of reasons. Warm feelings, family, friends, a social ethos, should never be the reason for joining or leaving a religion. The fact that you do not like the priest, pastor or parishioners should never be a reason for staying or leaving. Anyone who knows me well knows that I have never been a person to "go with the flow" or seek popularity. I was a conscientious objector in the Vietnam War and I have a 1-0 draft card to prove it. I have been an absolute opponent of abortion, euthanasia, and capital punishment my whole adult life. When I was a professor of moral theology at Fordham University in the mid-1980's I happily defended the view that artificial birth control is morally wrong. This was at a time when many, if not most, actually Catholic moral theologians wouldn't do so, or wouldn't do so strongly. I have not left religion or Christianity. But I have left Mormonism. I have become a deeper, more intellectual, more spiritual and truer Christian than I have ever been, literally. I am converting to the Roman Catholic Church. All true roads do lead to Rome.


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KNOXVILLE -- As carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere rise, policy makers and scientists are looking at new ways to tackle the problems associated with the greenhouse gas.
One method under much discussion is carbon capture and storage (CCS), otherwise known as carbon sequestration. CCS, a newly developing technology, involves injecting carbon dioxide underground to remove it from the Earth's atmosphere.
Donald J. DePaolo, a distinguished geochemist from the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, raised new questions about carbon sequestration today during the Goldschmidt Conference hosted by the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
DePaolo's presentation focused on the significance of geochemistry in analyzing the effectiveness of proposed carbon sequestration. He examined how current plans for carbon storage could benefit by paying more attention to the critical role of underground chemical reactions. For instance, when carbon dioxide comes into contact with water in underground aquifers, it can form a weak acid that will start to dissolve minerals in the rocks. According to DePaolo, research is needed to analyze how fast such reactions proceed and which minerals are affected to better gauge the efficiency of carbon storage projects.
DePaolo's presentation, entitled "Carbon sequestration geochemistry," aims to open encouragement for other geochemists to start addressing the importance of geochemical questions in carbon storage programs.


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We recently visited Fes, Morocco for a week or so. We stayed in a beautiful hotel just on the edge of the Medina on a hill. It was a perfect spot to record the Call to Prayer that happens 5 times a day beginning at 5AM.
For those that might not be familiar with the Call to Prayer it is one of the strangest things you've ever heard, especially in the Medina as there are hundreds of mosques and minarets, all equipped with distorted loudspeakers and cheap microphones. The elder of the mosque starts wailing into this old fashioned PA system, then times that by 200 with each mosque trying to outdo the next in volume. It is eerie sounding.
It goes on for a while and is basically just a reminder to get to the mosque to do your prayer ritual.
Here is one of our recordings of the Call to Prayer:


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Jack Bauer
"Jack Bauer can stick Martial Arts, and his deputy, up Jet Li's ass!"
Throughout the history of machismo there have been many mega-bad-asses. You know some of them, like Darth Vader, Rodan, Norman Bates, Frankenstein, Jack Dempsey, King Kong, Samuel L. Mothafuckin' Jackson, Joe Pesci, Godzilla, Rambo, Superman, Chuck Norris, Bruce Lee, and even Tony Jaa. But among all super-humans, Jack Bauer is America's most horrific terror agent. He's not even remotely an anti-terror agent, he's a pro-terror agent, plain and simple. He fights terror with horror. The only notable differences between Jack Bauer and the terrorists is that he's a "horrorist", he's way worse, and he represents truth, justice, and the American way.
Earning well over 13 million dollars per season, Jack Bauer was the highest paid television actor and millions would spend 24 long weeks just to see what Jack did in one day. Everyone's life depended on the outcome. Bauer is different than Norris or Rambo, who are all about round-house kicks, brute martial arts, using a rattle snake as a condom, 50 caliber machine guns, eating horrible things, and skill. Jack Bauer is about apologizing to his partners for rendering them unconscious, and shooting people above the knee, torturing the bad guys, also giving his word, going dark, and fighting for justice while being chased by both the good guys and the bad guys at the same time that Jack's chasing them. And Jack shits on Martial Arts and his deputy, and never eats or uses birth control. He even gets repeatedly killed and resurrected, while neither Chuck Norris nor Rambo could ever survive getting killed. Bauer Facts are really quite a distinct genre.
Primary differences between Jack Bauer Facts & Chuck Norris Facts[edit]
There is simply no comparison between Norris and Jack Bauer. For example, Chuck Norris uses the Round-house-kick, a branch of Kung Fu - Jack Bauer uses OVER-WHELMING FORCE, a branch of Jack Dempsey. Jack Bauer can actually act - Chuck Norris is not acting! Jack Bauer doesn't consider sex unless he gets to be on the top - Chuck Norris doesn't consider sex. Jack Bauer is a cool-patriot - Chuck Norris is a red-neck hill-billy. Jack Bauer is All-American - Chuck Norris is 95% Red Indian and 5% Mexican. Jack Bauer Facts are documented, scientific truth - Chuck Norris Facts are just preposterous nonsense. Bauer says, "Who ever said you can't fight terror with horror, never watched 24!" - Norris says, "Who ever said you can't fight illegal immigration with round-house kicks, never watched, Walker, Texas Ranger." - Bauer's job is to protect the United States border - Norris' job is to protect the Mexican border. Norris counted backwards from infinity - Meanwhile Jack Bauer killed a finite number of terrorists, and counting.
Jack Bauer Facts[edit]
There are many Jack Bauer Facts, most are true, and some are just exaggerations. In this article we will only list the true, bone fide, scientifically provable, and verifiable facts. This is an incomplete list.
- Jack Bauer doesn't read your rights and arrest you, instead he lists your sins and executes you.
- Muhammad Ali changed his name back to Cassius Clay after Kiefer Sutherland changed his name to Jack Bauer.
- Jack Bauer beat the Mona Lisa in a "staring contest."
- Dracula wears garlic because Jack Bauer f**king hates garlic.
- Jack Bauer shot his first girlfriend. She was tired of being on the bottom during sex. Jack Bauer never compromises his position.
- Jack Bauer defeated a brick wall in a game of tennis.
- There have been NO terror attacks in the USA since Kiefer Sutherland changed his name to Jack Bauer.
- Jack Bauer used to hire a baby sitter when his parents were home.
- Having Jack Bauer as an enemy doesn't end when it's over.
- Jack Bauer refused a Ph.D. (H.C.) in "Anti-terror" because he's really PRO-terror.
- Peace is not an absence of war, it's an abundance of Jack Bauer.
- If you run away from Jack Bauer, you're just going to die tired.
- Anytime anyone in the World gets their ass kicked, Jack Bauer gets a royalty.
- After you make love to your wife she apologizes for not being Jack Bauer.
- If you are holding a loaded gun to Jack Bauer's head, don't count to 3 before you shoot, count to 10, that way YOU get to live an extra 7 seconds.
- Once Jack Bauer was being tortured. He didn't say a single word. But he got the interrogator to spill the whole beans.
- For Valentines Day, Jack Bauer cleaned his gun.
- When a convicted terrorist was sentenced to face Jack Bauer, he appealed to have the sentence reduced to death.
- When Jack Bauer goes to the airport and the metal detector doesn't go off, security gives him a gun.
- Jack Bauer once told Joe Pesci, "you're a funny guy!" - and Joe had to take it as a compliment.
- There are two types of people: 1) those who fear Jack Bauer, and 2) those who are Jack Bauer.
- Jack Bauer once broke the 'World Record" - into a million pieces (and said, "Damnit!").
- The reason 24 is called "24" and not "1" is because they never listen to Jack Bauer the 1st time round.
- Jack Bauer was killed. He recovered five minutes later.
- Jack Bauer himself ended the series to prove he could survive anything--even cancellation. And...he did! The revival of "24" premiers 2014. And the movie will premiere as soon as Jack Bauer feels like it.
The "essential" Bauer facts have been nicely summed-up in the following quotes:
"A 'Bauer-second' is the smallest possible measure of time known to science. It is determined as the period of time between when Jack Bauer orders a Terrorist to, 'Get down on the ground, now!!!' - and then shoots them for disobedience!"


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Knowledge Base
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Using a telephone to send keypad sequences to a telephony provider
You can use keypad sequences (character and number sequences, for example *50#) to activate and configure services offered by your telephony provider (for example network mailbox, call diversion) in the provider's exchange.
1 Configuring a telephone to use the keypad function
Keypad sequences are strings of characters and numbers that you can use to enable or disable functions. You can use keypad sequences immediately with telephones, such as FRITZ!Fon C5, that are registered with the base station of your FRITZ!Box. If you are using a cordless telephone that is not registered with the FRITZ!Box's base station, you must enable the keypad function first:
- Configure the telephone so you can send keypad sequences (sequences of characters and numbers, such as *121#) and enter special characters such as * and # with it. On many telephones, you can configure this function in the menu "Operation at a PBX > Dialing options > Dial * and #".
2 Sending a keypad sequence
- Enter *#[keypad sequence] (for example *#*50#) on your telephone. The telephone must be configured to make calls using the telephone number for which you want to set up the service via keypad sequence.
To send the keypad sequence *50#, enter *#*50# on your telephone. To send this sequence using the second internet telephone number, enter *122#*#*50# on the telephone. - Press the call key (pick up the handset).
- Hang up again.
Note:Many telephones have a character limit. For example, FRITZ!Fon allows you to enter a maximum of 22 characters. If you save the keypad sequence in the FRITZ!Box telephone book, the sequence is immediately available if needed and the length of the sequence is not limited.


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The following is a list of the Internet's eight biggest Google AdSense publishers. The information was compiled from interviews and articles found on the Internet. Whenever possible, I list the source of the information.
I apologize in advance if I missed anyone on the list. If you make more than the people listed, please send me proof of your Google AdSense earnings and I will add you on the next time the list is updated. This is a list of individual site owners – people just like you and me. Big corporate AdSense publishers like AOL are excluded.
1: Markus Frind: PlentyOfFish.com – $300,000 per month
Markus Frind is a local Vancouverite who is turning the online dating world upside down. His site, Plentyoffish.com is the biggest free dating site on the Internet. Plentyoffish.com receives up to 500 million page views per month and make over $10,000 per day for Markus, who runs the site from home.
You think a site this big would be staffed by a hundred people but the only employee that Markus has is his girlfriend, who helps to answer the emails. Markus coded Plenty of Fish all by himself. The site is lean and mean and requires only four servers to handle all that traffic.
Doubts about Makus's Google earnings were silenced when he posted this $900,000 check from Google. According to Markus's blog entry, the check represented two months of AdSense earnings.
2: Kevin Rose: Digg.com – $250,000 per month
Kevin Rose started Digg in December of 2004 with just $1000. Today Digg is one of the biggest news sites on the Net, with over 400,000 members and over 200 million page views per month. According to this article from Business week, Digg will make $3 million this year from a combination of Google AdSense and Federated Media ads. Unfortunately, only Mr. Rose and his accountants knows how much came from Google and how much came from Federated Media. I can try to take a guess based on the number of times I have seen a Federated Media ad vs. a Google ad on Digg but, being in Canada, it's almost 100% Google ads.
Whatever Google's share of Digg's $250,000 per month in ad revenues may be, one thing is for sure, it is not small.
3: Jeremy Schoemaker – $140,000 per month
If ever anyone can be considered an Internet marketing superstar, ShoeMoney would be near the top of the list. Jeremy Schoemaker is a search engine marketer who knows how to take advantage of both Google AdSense and AdWords. In the above photo, you see him with the biggest Google AdSense check he has ever received from Google. The income was earned back in the month of August 2005. Since then Mr. Schoemaker has moved to wire transfers. No doubt, he got tired to dealing with the bank tellers when trying to deposit $100K plus checks every month.
Unlike the other Google whores on this list, ShoeMoney, as he likes to be call, does not own just one site. He makes his enormous Google checks using hundreds of sites and thousands of domains.
4: Jason Calacanis: Weblogs, Inc. – $120,000 per month
Before Jason Calacanis sold Weblogs, Inc to AOL for $25 million, he got the network of blogs making over $4,000 a day from Google AdSense. So impressive was his AdSense performance that Google used Weblogs for a case study.
Now that AOL controls Weblogs, you can bet it is making a lot more than a measly $120,000 a month.
5: David Miles Jr. & Kato Leonard – $100,000 per month
According to this Washington Post article, David Miles Jr. and Kato Leonard, claims they make $100,000 a month from their site, Freeweblayouts.net, which gives away designs that people can use on MySpace.
The only problem with the revenue figure is it is not 100% AdSense. Free Web Layouts use other advertising networks in addition to Google. However, with a claimed $100,000 per month in revenues, I am fairly confident that the AdSense portion is higher than our next Google whore.
6: Tim Carter: AskTheBuilder.com – $30,000 per month
Tim Carter is a licensed master plumber and carpenter with his own radio show. He also makes frequent television appearances. He founded AsktheBuilder.com in 1995, The primary focus has been catering to an avid following of fellow builders on the site. According to the Google case study, Mr. Carter did such a good job tweaking the Google ads on his site that it now makes $30,000 a month.
Tim's AdSense revenues now average $1400 a day and growing. Overall, Carter is enthusiastic about AdSense: it allows him to focus on content development, and gives him built-in tools to measure ad performance and make changes to maximize revenues. "People come to me for help," says Carter. "They get what they need from my columns and advice – and also from ads delivered by AdSense."
7: Joel Comm – $24,000 per month
Joel Comm is get rich quick guru. He wrote the best selling e-book, What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense. The e-book, along with the website that promotes it has a screen shot of Mr. Comm AdSense earning from November 19, 2005 to December 15, 2005. Whether or not Mr. Comm still makes this much from Google is anybody's guess.
8: Shawn Hogan – DigitalPoint.com $10,000 per month
Back in January of 2005 the New York Times had an article about AdSense, featuring Shawn Hogan, founder of DigitalPoint. The article states that Mr. Hogan makes $10,000 per month from Google AdSense using a very unique revenue sharing model.
Google pays Digital Point about $10,000 a month, depending on how many people view or click on those ads, said Shawn D. Hogan, the owner and chief technology officer of Digital Point.
Mr. Hogan said he started the revenue-sharing approach in 2004 "as kind of a marketing gimmick."
"But everyone seemed to think it was a cool idea," he said. "I saw a lot of other sites doing the same thing maybe six months later."
DigitalPoint have grown a lot since that article and while Mr. Hogun would not say anything, the DigitalPoint forum members speculate that he is making at least twice that amount now.