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Non-farm payrolls increase 288,000 in June
WASHINGTON, D.C. (Reuters) — U.S. employment growth jumped in June and the unemployment rate declined to near a six-year low of 6.1 per cent, effectively dispelling fears about the economy's health and underscoring its momentum heading into the second half of 2014.
Nonfarm payrolls increased by 288,000 jobs, the Labor Department said on Thursday. Data for April and May were revised to show a total of 29,000 more jobs created than previously reported.
Economists polled by Reuters had forecast a gain of 212,000 jobs in June. It was the first time since the technology boom in the late 1990s that employment has grown above a 200,000-jobs pace for five straight months.
The closely watched employment report added to robust auto sales in June and data showing a steady manufacturing expansion in suggesting a plunge in economic output in the first quarter was a weather-driven anomaly.
Gross domestic product contracted at a 2.9 per cent annual rate in the January-March period, causing a sharp downgrading of growth estimates for this year. Growth in the second half of the year is forecast around a 3.5 per cent pace.
The sturdy pace of job gains was flagged by reports on Wednesday showing companies hired the most workers in 1-1/2 years in June, with small business hiring increasing for a ninth straight month.
With new applications for jobless aid holding at lower levels and the share of businesses that cannot fill open positions rising, there is little doubt the labor market is tightening.
The 0.2 percentage point drop in the unemployment rate in June to its lowest level since September 2008 came even as the labour force swelled. The unemployment rate has declined from a peak of 10 per cent in October 2009, driven by job gains and a shrinking labor force.
The labour force participation rate, or the share of working-age Americans who are employed or at least looking for a job, was steady at 62.8 per cent.
The improving tone of the labor market will be welcomed by the Federal Reserve and could spur debate on the timing of the first interest rate increase by the U.S. central bank.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen has argued that there is still considerable slack in the labor force, citing the low labor force participation, which she says partly reflects the departure of discouraged job seekers who could be enticed back into the workforce if conditions were to tighten
Most economists do not expect the U.S. central bank to raise rates until the middle of next year at the earliest, but with the labor market tightening that could change.
The Fed has kept benchmark overnight lending rates near zero since December 2008.
Job gains in June were across all sectors.
Manufacturing payrolls increased by 16,000, rising for the 11th straight month. Construction jobs advanced for the sixth consecutive month of gains.
Services industries employment jumped by 236,000, the biggest increase since October 2012, while government employment increased 26,000. The length of the workweek was steady at 34.5 hours. Average hourly earnings rose by six cents.


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This past weekend, the U.S. House of Representatives passed critical health care reform legislation that would strengthen Medicare for seniors and end discrimination by insurance companies that price millions of Americans out of affordable health coverage.
AARP wants to thank those New York Representatives in Congress who voted in favor of better health care for every New Yorker.
The House plan protects and strengthens Medicare for 2.7 million New Yorkers. The changes include reducing out-of-pocket prescription drug costs through closing the dreaded Part D "doughnut hole", allowing Medicare to negotiate drug prices, covering some preventive care free of charge, and preserving access to doctors.
It will also provide more than 400,000 New Yorkers age 50-64 who are uninsured with access to affordable insurance options.
And, finally, the House plan begins to repair the country's outdated system of long-term care by providing benefits to seniors and people with disabilities to continue to live in their own homes and in their own communities.
AARP is pleased to see this important step forward and we will keep working with Representatives in Congress to ensure that any final health care reform bill meets the needs of older Americans.
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From NBC's Lauren Appelbaum and Domenico Montanaro
After the news conference with Ed Rollins in Concord, NH, Huckabee and Rollins, his new national campaign manager, took some questions. The last question was about a Powerline blog, a conservative blog, story that he did not, in fact, have a theology degree, as he has claimed. Here is Huckabee's response:
"I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master's degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters -- three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion."
Here's what Huckabee said in a Christian Broadcasting Network interview:
"I'm as strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think I'm stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamofascism. These are people that want to kill us. It's a theocratic war. And I don't know if anybody fully understands that. I'm the only guy on that stage with a theology degree. I think I understand it really well."


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Trying to reset the agenda amid scandal in Washington, President Barack Obama turned his attention Friday to the economy and said lawmakers should spend every day resolute on how to help it grow and get people back to work. "Our focus cannot drift," he said.
After a week that put him on the defensive and consumed by a trio of political controversies, Obama left the turmoil behind on a short helicopter flight about 40 miles north to Baltimore. The city has had its share of tough times in its move from an industrial to service economy, but Obama wanted to highlight its progress. Maryland overall has experienced job growth this year as part of a nationwide economic recovery….
"We're now poised for progress, but our work is not done and our focus cannot drift," he said in remarks to employees of a factory that makes digging and pumping equipment for the mining industry. "We've got to stay focused on our economy and putting people back to work and raising wages and bringing manufacturing back to the United States of America."


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Greek beaches: the pride and joy of the thousands of the Greek islands and of the mainland's rugged coasts alike. Countless beaches, famous for the purity of their waters and their morphological diversity, inspire the visitor with the magic of their ethereal beauty as well as with their own unique history…
Navagio: the postcard perfect beach of the Ionian Sea
The landmark of Zakynthos; one of the most renowned beaches of Greece; a nature's miracle and the result of… a sea accident, Navagio (=shipwreck) is certainly one of the island's most remarkable sites.
With its mile-and-a-half long stretch of shiny white pebbles cutting deep into a sheer cliff and its crystalline turquoise waters lapping against the island's northwest coast, Navagio (pronounced "Naváyio") invites you to unveil its well-kept secret. In its white bosom rests the rusty skeleton of the merchant ship Panayiotis. It was in 1982 when the coastguard detected the ship transporting an illegal cargo. Due to the persecution that followed, and along with the bad weather conditions in the area, the ship was washed on the shore, named "Agios Georgios" until then.
Impossible to reach from the shore and only reachable via sea transport, the beach attracts thousands of visitors. Daily cruises departing from the port of the island's capital, from Alykes, and from Laganas Gulf make a necessary stop on the beach for photographs and fun dives!
If you want to take in a panoramic view of the beach, head to the village of Anafonitria, 30 km NW of the capital. An iron platform hanging on the edge of a cliff in the vicinity of "Agios Georgios ton Gkremnon" Monastery offers you the most awe-inspiring sight of the beach. Stand on the queue and wait patiently for your turn to take a wonderful picture of the wild pristine beauty of the beautifully embraced by the grandeur of the Ionian Sea Navagio beach.
Matala. The hippies' paradise!
On the border between Mesara and Mt. Asterousia, 70 km SW of Heraklion, lies Matala, a small fishers' village boasting one of the most renowned beaches of southern Crete (named Matala as well).
On the golden beach of 300m in length you will find a number of caves carved into the soft white limestone, many of which are reachable through the sea way while others are hidden underwater. Archaeological finds indicate that the area had been inhabited for the first time in the Prehistoric Era, while during Roman and Christian times the caves were used as tombs. Admire the church, which is actually carved out of the rock and was used as a catacomb during the times of the Christians' persecution. The area was also the port of Phaistos during the Minoan period and of Gortyna during the Roman times.
Matala gained international fame in the 60's and 70's, when it was discovered by the hippies. The restless lovers of "flower power" were flocking to Matala in the search of a place of freedom, inspiration and creation. Important celebrities such as Joni Mitchell (she has also written a song about Matala, named Carrey), Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Joan Baez and Cat Stevens were only some of them.
During the last decade the wider area has undergone a rapid tourism development offering to the visitor modern hotels as well as endless choices for food and fun! The beach, also awarded with a blue flag, is perfectly equipped with state-of-the-art tourism and sport infrastructure. The shaded by tamarisks part of the beach is ideal for carefree relaxation moments after a fun day by the sea.
Voidokoilia: a beach-embrace
On the northwestern side of historical Pilos in Messinia and at a close distance from Gialova lagoon you will find the Voidokoilia bay with its dreamy golden beach.
Symmetrical as if it was drawn with a pair of compasses or resembling an "aquatic" ancient theatre, the beach is nothing but a circular gulf with thin golden sand and crystalline azure-green waters. Two huge rocks form a narrow passage, from which the sea flows smoothly to meet the golden sand and the dune.
The bay and beach of Voidokoilia have been declared as an archaeological site and a landscape of unique beauty. Excavations revealed a plethora of important monuments representing a long period of time. On its north side you will find the ruins of a Mycenaean vaulted tomb while on its south side still stand the ruins of a 13th century medieval castle constructed by the Franks residing at that time in the Peloponnese. Today it is known as "Paleokastro" and it offers a fantastic view to the beach and the Ionian Sea. On its foot, below Paleokastro, you will come across the mythical cave of Nestor, where also ruins of a 4th century BC Neolithic settlement have been found.
Frangkokastelo: on the traces of "Drosoulites"
On the edge of a plain overlooking the Libyan Sea and surrounded by the imposing mountains of Sfakia lies a castle; it may be small but it is associated with great myths, mysteries and bizarre, inexplicable mirages.
Although built by the Venetians in 1371-1374, the most important day in the history of Frangkokastello proved to be the 18th May 1828, when Hatzi-Michalis Dalianis, a fighter from Epirus, arrived to the occupied island of Crete in order to support the revolution against the Turkish conquerors. One hundred horsemen along with six hundred fearless warriors fought against the 8.000 soldiers of Mustafa Pasha, the Turkish commander of Crete. In front of the Castel Franco a fierce massacre took place and the earth was filled with blood. Some 335 of the Greeks died, their leader included. Since then, it is said that its sun-kissed sand, whose grace is lavishly offered today to the visitor, is haunted by Drosoulites. Every year, on the anniversary of the sacrifice, from the end of May till the beginning of June at the break of dawn, a phantom army of black-dressed shadows parades from the monastery of Agios Charalambos all the way to Castel Franco, alongside the misty beach.
Harmless ghosts or simply a reflection of the sun? All scientific approaches have failed to explain the phenomenon so far. Inhabitants and visitors claim to have witnessed this unexplained phenomenon. Myth or reality? Until we know for sure, we shall let our imagination run free until we meet the legendary Drosoulites.
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Tech Journal: Instapaper Vs. Pocket
By Amit Agarwal
It was a five-hour flight to New Delhi and I didn't have enough reading material on my iPad. At the airport, I could see dozens of interesting articles on my Twitter timeline and Google Reader, but it was nearly impossible to open and save them in the 30-minutes I had before boarding the flight.
Instead of opening these stories one-by-one in the web browser, I forwarded the links to firstname.lastname@example.com. Then I launched the Pocket app and, within minutes, the entire text of all the articles was downloaded on my iPad. I could now read mid-air even though the airplane had no Wi-Fi.
The "Save Now, Read Later" category of apps is changing the way we consume online content, especially long-form content that we don't want to just skim through. You'll probably be too busy to read an 8,000-word story at work, but you can save it on your phone or tablet and read it later during your commute home.
Instapaper and Pocket are the two most popular apps in the "Read Later" category and they have lot in common. You can add any web page to your reading list (the queue) and the service will save an uncluttered version of that page to your account. You can catch up with your reading list on the web or your mobile - both Instapaper and Pocket offer "official" apps for iOS and Android devices, though you can use them on other mobile platforms as well through third-party apps.
The big advantage with using an app is that it lets you read saved stories even without the Internet. You can add stories to your reading list by using the bookmarklets or browser add-ons, or you can simply email the web page links to a specified email address and the underlying web page will automatically get saved to your reading list.
Instapaper and Pocket are also integrated with quite a few mobile apps – like Flipboard, Reeder, Zite, Tweetdeck – and you can save web pages to your reading list directly from any of these apps. In the case of Android, the apps add themselves to the system-wide sharing menu (or Intents), so you can add web pages to your reading list from most reading apps on your device.
The services have unique features. Instapaper can automatically send your reading list to your Kindle reader as an ebook. Pocket recently released a native app for the Mac that is much like the web version but works outside the browser.
Pocket uses a magazine-style layout to display the list of your saved articles, which is easier to scan than the text-only list displayed in Instapaper. The visual layout is particularly helpful when you have put lot of videos in the "watch later" queue. Pocket lets you organize stories using tags (much like Gmail), while Instapaper offers folders.
The other difference is in the pricing. Pocket apps are free but Instapaper charges $3.99 for the iOS version and $2.99 for the Android app. There's a search button in the Instapaper app but you have to become a subscriber – at $1 per month – to search through your bookmarked items. The free Pocket apps have built-in search, though there's no option to search through the story content.
I have been an Instapaper user for more than two years but I moved to Pocket in recent months because of the visually-appealing design and better support for web videos. While the two services mostly work as advertised, there seems to be no convincing reason to pay for Instapaper apps when Pocket, backed by VC funding, offers something similar (and better) for free.
Amit Agarwal writes a tech blog and is also on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook
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The Bordaleira ewes thrive on a diet of wild herbs, scrub, gorse blossoms and brambles, producing thick, luscious, aromatic milk. This special cheese is handmade in small batches using wild thistle (Cynara cardunculus) to coagulate the milk. The curds are broken by hand instead of cut. It takes an average of three hours to make one cheese and only two or three are made per day. After the wheel is salted, it is then wrapped in cloth and aged in caves.
When Serra is younger, the rind is sticky and pungent and the interior is so creamy that it is almost spoonable. As it ages, the rind becomes harder and smoother with the interior becoming denser and sliceable. Either way, this is an incredible Portuguese treasure. It has a perfumed intensity and a sweet grassy taste that is fruity and mildly bitter. All that's needed is some fresh crusty bread and a bottle a wine. Perfect!
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As we know, fertilizer reduces the grow time of plants. However, after some in-depth testing the actual effects of fertilizer have been coming to light and it appears a bit more complicated than previously thought. It has generally been accepted that fertilizer reduces a plant's grow time by about 1 hour. There also appears to be a limit to how much fertilizer a plant can receive before it no longer has an effect. It has previously been noted that it is possible to reduce a plant's grow time by half if fertilized every hour for the duration of the plant's life. This has been proven to be false.
Since the initial testing in 2017 the gardening community has been working on detailed testing to obtain more accurate growth-reduction times. The table below lists the current data we have on fertilizer growth reduction times. Current data shows about a 14-minute growth reduction for each day of grow time (Earth time) using only one fertilizer.
View detailed analysis of the data below.
|Fertilizer Grow Time Reductions
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|18 Hour
|22 Hour
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|2 Days
|3 Days
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|5 Days
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|2h 21m
|6 Days
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|7 Days
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|10 Days
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The information below is a bit outdated as further testing has been done recently. Going to keep this here for archive purproses.
This began when a player (Link Farore, Ragnarok) contacted me with a Google Spreadsheet he created to track grow times of plants being fed fishmeal. After tweaking the spreadsheet a bit he decided to start some in-depth testing of the effects of fertilizer on different plants. I will be sharing his findings below in his messages to me over the span of a few months. I've listed below a summary of some of the findings so far.
Fertilizer doesn't have an effect (or a small one if at all) on plants with grow times of 2 days or less (elemental seeds are the exception)
The goal of this project is to have the community do some more independent testings to confirm many of these results and to possibly see if we can figure out the inner workings on the effects of fertilizer. While this is not necessarily a game-changer for gardening I think it's important to try to understand this a bit further as the game devs have not been willing to give any info on the exact workings of gardening. I will be adding to the detailed analysis below as I get more findings.
August 20, 2017
I did some testing on Voidrake and Althyk Lavender where I planted 8 of each and first one of each with 0 fishmeal and increase one. I ended up with 8 of each with different number of fishmeals, but they all finished the same time. Voidrake was around 12h30m and Althyk around 22h15m. I'll retry them again to see the timing if it is correct and I test some of the chocobo and other items for further tests. I have some of the seeds that take over 4 days planted few days ago and I'm keeping adding fishmeals to them to see if it is really 1h reduce.
I'm planning to not have time reduce every time you add fishmeal for the short duration seeds and I'll make a note for that there because even after using like 7 fishmeals it finished the same as the one that wasn't fertilized.
August 23, 2017
I'm still doing more tests for some seeds but it looks like cloud acorn is a 24 hour item and I had another with 4 fishmeals and finished 10 minutes before which I think it is inconsiderable. However I noticed with the one that doesn't have fishmeals didn't grow up in the 24 hour time, and I even waited few minutes after with no luck. I had to give it fishmeal to finish it which made me think if some plants might get some delays or freeze before time and one fishmeal could be the one to unfreeze it. Did you get something like this? Do you know where people posted some of the tests they did for gardening, I want to read them if that's possible.
August 27, 2017
I just found out that fishmeal has a limit for the plants over 4 days. I used over 16 fishmeals on different plants that all should finish in 5 days. One of them had 19 fishmeal while the other two had 17. They should have finished hours ago but they just finished and the time shows that only 10 fishmeals did the effect on the plants. Anything more had no effect on the plant. Not sure if you heard that before but wanted to let you know.
September 3, 2017
I would like to let you know about my new findings. Today 7 out of the 8 black pepper (5 days of growth) finished. I had first seed the one still not done with 0 fishmeals. The rest I had each with different number of fishmeals. The number goes from 9 to 15. I wasn't there when it was done but I had my laptop record the game while I was sleeping. All plants that had 12+ fishmeals finished at the same time. This shows that 12 could be the max amount for them. The thing that surprised me is that the next hour 11 should be done but both 11 and 10 finished at the same time, and 9 finished the hour after. This made me think that plants could have checker every hour. If one plant still have 15 minute left and one has 1 hour left when the checker happens, both will not be ready because there is time to finish. However, if we pass the 15 minute mark, the first plant will have to wait for the next check to finish. In a few hours the last black pepper will be ready and I'll know how many hours does it need to finish without fishmeals. From that I would know how many minutes did each fishmeal reduce because I feel it is 45 minute for 5 days seeds. Tomorrow 8 Jute with same idea will be ready and after 8 blood pepper will be ready.
First, the last plant finished and the time for the black pepper is 121 hours. What I found is that the difference between the 0 fishmeal plant and the 12 fishmeals plant is 10h30m which means each fishmeal adds 52m30s to the plant, but this doesn't make sense because it would not make plant 11 and 10 finish at the same time. I thought about it and I remembered something about somethings' efficiency decreases with time. Like what if the first 9 fishmeals which is 75% of the fishmeals used reduce one hour where anything from 10-12 the 25% left would reduce only by 30 minute. I still need to check that again. For the 1-3 days seeds, it looks like it is not consistent for some reasons. I would do more testing on the black pepper. I'll have two patches and the fishmeals will be from 0-15 and from there I'll make sure of my findings.
September 7, 2017
What I have discovered right now requires further tests xD. It turned out that Jute is a 7 days seed like Blood Pepper, which means I didn't have a 6 days seeds. Both finished after 168 hours for the ones that didn't have any fishmeal. the ones that had fishmeal had an odd timing. The 12 isn't the cap for them that is clear, but it looks like 15 or close to it is the cap. The reason of this is that I noticed plants that had 14 and 13 finished at the same time meaning we were close to the cap like what happened with black pepper. The odd timing that I talked about is the difference between 0 fishmeal and 9 fishmeals timing should be close to 9 hours at least if the 1 hour is the one for the cap. However, the 9 fishmeals plant finished 12 hours and 40 minute before the 0 fishmeal one meaning each fishmeal should reduce time by 1 hour and 20 minute.
About the Thavnairian Onion, I'm still waiting for the plant with 0 fishmeals to finish, but the odd timing happened here too. I mean the plants finished hours before the usual timing. I even had more than 5 hours for the first one, but I even found three finished. It is either fishmeal reduction is more effective here like 1:30 hours more than other plants or the plant itself finish earlier than 10 days. I'll be doing more testings which will delay the timer.
September 10, 2017
Thav Onion without fishmeal kept the 10 days but there was a 30 minute extra for some reason. I'm trying to figure out the formula and I might need more testing. I plan to do 24 black pepper, 24 any 6 days plant, and 24 blood pepper and have each with 1 fishmeal more than the other from 0 to 23 to make sure of the limit of fishmeals. I'll do the same with Thav Onion, and getting as many seeds as possible while testing the other three plants.
October 11, 2017
I was able to record a video of black pepper from 0 to 22ish fishmeal (messed up in the end). The timing for them is so troublesome. The plant that had 1 fishmeal finished 1h53 before the 0 fishmeal. The 2 fishmeal finished around 1h6m, and the ones after decrease a little but sometimes two finish at the same time and the one after them finish alone. I'm planning to upload it to youtube after I speed it up a little because youtube doesn't allow my account to upload a 16 hours footage. I'm a little lost of how they do their plants but there must be a way. I'll try something later after I feel better and finish all the mid terms next week, but we might let people know that feritlizing might not be correct. Also if people have the timer on their hand, they might help time the feritlizer and help us with it.


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Several new resorts have opened up on Koh Rong and Koh Rong Samloem in the past year, so we thought it might be a good time to re-evaluate the best hotels on these beautiful islands, and decide the 10 best hotels on Koh Rong and Koh Rong Samloem. (For a more in depth review, see: Koh Rong Hotel Guide 2020).
1) Song Saa Private Island (Koh Rong)
Accessibility: 10
Beauty: 9
Pricing: $2000 / Night
Facilities: 10
Taking all of the factors into consideration, Song Saa Private Island still has to be the number one hotel on both islands.
The resort is simply outstanding, offering world class service, deluxe accommodation, and phenomenal views of the crystal clear ocean waters, soft white sandy beaches, and tropical habitat surroundings. Despite the hefty price tag ($2000+ per night), it still comes out first for these incredible features.
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2) Sol Beach Resort and The One Resort (Koh Rong Samloem)
Accessibility: 10
Beauty: 8
Pricing: $100 – $150 / Night
Facilities: 8
Second place is a tie between the fantastic Sol Beach Resort and The One Resort on Koh Rong Samloem. Both Sol Beach and The One offer very comfortable accommodation on one of the most beautiful stretches of Saracen Bay (the main tourist area on Koh Rong Samloem). The wonderful white sandy beaches are in pristine condition, and the ocean waters are truly mesmerising, changing from green to blue to turquoise on a regular basis.
Sol Beach has the better accommodation (the modern Khmer-style villas are outstanding), while The One has a stunning infinity-edge swimming pool, so it really depends on what you prefer. All in all, the two resorts provide excellent accommodation that's perfect for families and couples.
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4) Lonely Beach (Koh Rong)
Accessibility: 5
Beauty: 10
Pricing: $40 / Night
Facilities: 3
The fourth place has to go to the spectacular Lonely Beach Resort, though there are a few strong competitors here.
Located on the northern side of Koh Rong, Lonely Beach is a little-known bit of paradise. Ideal for those looking for a Robinson Crusoe style destination, it offers superb views of the crystal clear ocean waters, beautiful sandy beaches, and tropical island habitat. The rooms are quite rustic, but the scenery really is breathtaking, and the lack of people adds to that desert-island feel.
The main drawback of this resort is that it is quite difficult to get to, with no major ferry company servicing this part of the island. As such, be prepared for long uncomfortable boat trips. There are also no shops or other facilities around (including no Wi-Fi), so please bring everything you need with you.
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5) Lazy Beach (Koh Rong Samloem)
Accessibility: 5
Beauty: 10
Pricing: $30 / Night
Facilities: 3
Listed in the 'Top 21 Beaches in the World' by the National Geographic, Lazy Beach is a beautiful little alcove quietly tucked away on the western side of Koh Rong Samloem.
The beach area around here really is wonderful – the sands are silky smooth, the blue waters glisten in the sun, and the enveloping mountains offer superb views.
Perhaps what hits you first, apart from the scorching sand on the way to the entrance, is the peaceful tranquil atmosphere that Lazy Beach creates – Quiet, laid-back, so relaxing, with a few crickets chirping in the background.
As with Lonely Beach, the accommodation is very basic ($30+ / night), so this resort is not suited for anyone looking for some comfort during their stay. And, similarly to Lonely Beach, Lazy Beach is not the most accessible place on the islands – Although they do offer a private taxi boat from Saracen Bay, many guests end up having to walk the 40 minute jungle trail to get there.
Please also make sure to bring everything you need with you, as there are no shops or facilities on this side of the island. There is also no Wi-Fi, so you may have to stare at the phenomenal sunsets instead of Facebook!Book Lazy Beach
6) Sok San Beach Resort (Koh Rong)
Accessibility: 8
Beauty: 8
Pricing: $100 / Night
Facilities: 8
After Lazy Beach, it becomes extremely close between the remaining contenders, but one resort that just pips it to sixth place is the impressive Sok San Beach Resort. Originally built for the French Survivor series, this huge resort (600 villas) is located away from the main tourist attractions on a quiet secluded part of Sok San (near a local Khmer fishing village).
Here you can enjoy the spectacular scenery, wonderful white beaches, and sparkling ocean waters in a peaceful relaxing environment, while residing in a comfortable western-style accommodation.
Perhaps what's quite surprising is that, even at peak times, there is enough beach space to go around for everyone, but, admittedly, you don't feel as privileged as you do on say, Saracen Bay.
The resort offers a private (direct) ferry service from Sihanoukville, so as far as accessibility goes, it's easy enough to get to.Book Sok San at Best Price
7) Long Set Resort (Koh Rong)
Accessibility: 7
Beauty: 8
Pricing: $100 / Night
Facilities: 8
At number 7 is the beautiful Long Set Resort. Long Set offers a more comfortable accommodation on a wonderful part of Koh Rong. The soft white sandy beach is splendid, and some of the views are truly sensational. Relax by the pool or swim in the warm ocean during the day, then at night times admire the sparkling bioluminescent plankton.
Long Set Resort is relatively close to Koh Touch (the main tourist area on Koh Rong) and will organise transport for you from Sihanoukville. As such, it is quite easy to get to. If you stay at this resort, please remember to bring all necessities with you as the nearest shops are on Koh Touch – A one hour walk away along the beach.
8) Koh Rong Resort (Koh Rong)
Accessibility: 6
Beauty: 8
Pricing: $150 / Night
Facilities: 8
At number 8 is the brilliant Koh Rong Resort. Located a short boat trip away from the main tourist area on Koh Rong, the hotel comes with a superb ocean-facing swimming pool, a large well-kept beach area, and a beautiful pristine bay.
This more private getaway hasn't been getting the best reviews, but this seems to be in part because of a lack of accurate information about its location – Because the resort is a short boat trip away from Koh Touch, it is a little inconvenient to get to. Many people come here expecting it to be on Koh Touch, and are hence disappointed to discover that they have to travel further.
All in all however, this resort has all the makings for a wonderful destination.Book Koh Rong Resort at Best Price
9) Palm Beach Resort (Koh Rong)
Accessibility: 5
Beauty: 8
Pricing: $35 / Night
Facilities: 3
Overlooking Song Saa Private Island and around the corner from Lonely Beach, Palm Beach Resort, as the name suggests, is a palm-covered paradise getaway.
In our opinion, this is one of the best value for money places to stay on Koh Rong. It is always a shock to see good accommodation starting at just $35 per night on such a beautiful location. The beach is clean and well-kept, the ocean waters are crystal clear, sparkly, and inviting. The palm-tree enveloping creates an idyllic scene.
Perhaps the issue is that, like with Lonely Beach, the northern side of the island is much harder to get to, but the accommodation at Palm Beach is of an OK standard and has the potential for a great stay.
There are no shops at this resort, so remember to bring all necessities with you. There is also no Wi-Fi, so make sure to contact everyone you need to before you go.Book Palm Beach at Best Price
10) The Royal Sands (Koh Rong)
Accessibility: 8
Beauty: 9
Pricing: $730+ / Night
Facilities: 9
Now, technically, it isn't fair to put a resort on the list that has only opened recently, BUT The Royal Sands is shaping up to be fantastic, so we felt that it just must be included in this list.
Ranging from $700-$2700 / night, The Royal Sands offers premium luxury accommodation on a spectacular part of Koh Rong.
It is a breathtaking destination, with private swimming pools, deluxe accommodation, and world-class service. Enjoy your wonderful surroundings with sailing, snorkelling, and kayaking, or lie back and unwind with peaceful yoga and meditation sessions, relaxing massages, and luxurious spa treatments.
Western and Asian cuisines are prepared to the highest standard at the restaurant, and after dinner sit back and enjoy the mesmerising sunsets with a glass of champagne…
The resort is now open and you can now book it online here:Book Royal Sands at Best Price
- Q: How do I get to Koh Rong?
- Q: When is the best time to visit?
- Q: What activities are there?
- Q: What should I bring with me?
- Q: Is it easy to get a Cambodian Visa?
- Q: Is there an ATM on the islands?
- Q: Is there a medical facility on Koh Rong?
- Q: Is it a family-friendly place?
- Q: When is the rainy season?
It will take about 40 minutes to get to your destination if it's the first stop. If the boat first stops elsewhere, it may take 1 hour or so.
All 5 services will charge roughly $25 return, though prices can vary depending on time of year, special offers, etc. All services leave from the Ochheuteal (AKA 'Serendipity') pier in Sihanoukville and go to the main tourist beaches on the islands. If your hotel is not on the main beaches (Koh Touch / Saracen Bay), please read Sihanoukville to Koh Rong.
The 5 services offer modern speed boats with comfortable chairs, life jackets, and the option to buy food and drink on board. Not all of the ferries have air-conditioning, but once the boats set off there is a strong cool breeze throughout the sitting areas which more than makes up for it.
All ferry services tend to be very busy – we strongly recommend you buy your tickets in advance. You can buy your tickets online now here: Book Ferry Tickets Online Now
Middle of November / December / January / February: Warm and dry. 25°C daytime.
March / April / May: Hot and dry. 35°C daytime.
June / July / August: Hot and wet. 35°C daytime.
September / October / Early November: Warm and wet. 25°C daytime.
Please see our Weather Guide for more information.
The islands are known for their stunning underwater panorama. Whether it's snorkeling or scuba diving that you're after, there are plenty of superb locations.
Kayaking & Paddle Boarding
Enjoy the crystal clear ocean waters by Kayaking or paddle boarding your way around – An ideal activity for couples and families alike.
Mountain Biking & Jungle Trekking
Explore the exotic jungle habitat by foot or via a mountain bike.
Bioluminescent Plankton
Sparkling like a starry sky all around you, the bioluminescent plankton are a wonderful sight to behold at night times.
Jet Skiing & Windsurfing
For some fast paced action on the beautiful clear waters, hire Jetskis or Windsurf.
To learn more, please read our Activities Guide.
For example, those that visit during the rainy season get to enjoy half-priced accommodation and beautiful rainy scenes, and because it never gets too cold in Cambodia, swimming in the ocean is still a very pleasurable experience (the water rarely drops beneath 25°C). Take a look at this article for more information: 5 Reasons to Visit Koh Rong Island in Rainy Season


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NEA Delegates Vote on Key Issues, Defend Public Education
Members Celebrate NEA's Involvement 26th Amendment Passage
July 04, 2011
By Will Potter
The 90th NEA Representative Assembly completed another day of deliberation and action on a number of significant policy issues as delegates voted on key issues on Monday that will help NEA and its affiliates fight back against attacks on public education.
Delegates approved a policy statement on teacher evaluation and accountability. It puts NEA on the record, for the first time, as calling for a comprehensive overhaul of teacher evaluation and accountability systems to advance student learning.
Also on Monday, the 2011 Education Support Professional of the Year, Ernest "Jameel" Williams addressed the Representative Assembly. Mr. Williams is a bus driver and teacher's assistant for Vance County Schools in Henderson, N.C., who is active in his local and in his community. His colleagues have said the he exemplifies the strong bridges that ESPs create between their schools and their community. Williams told the RA, "We must put aside our personal and petty differences based solely on job titles" and unite for our professional survival.
Delegates honored international guests as well. Mary-Lou Donnelly president of the Canadian Teachers' Federation, urged delegates to help strengthen international partnerships.
In addition to the business of the RA, delegates also celebrated the 4th of July with a special program of music and honored guests. NEA members played a vital role in the passage of the 26th amendment, which, lowered the voting age to 18.
This Independence Day, delegates paid tribute to these "Project 18" educators who made that possible, and to the young people who are using their voting rights to ensure every child receives a quality public education.
As the NEA Representative Assembly winds down, be sure check out this behind-the-scenes video tour.


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UC Stadium Oak Grove Fence Prompts Violent Clash
It began with a flimsy yellow ribbon and ended with a riot, two arrests and a courtroom hearing.
At about 6 a.m. Wednesday, the UC Berkeley Police Department started taping off the oak grove adjacent to the UC Berkeley Memorial Stadium to construct an eight-foot chain-link fence around the grove.
Protesters have been camped in the trees since December in an effort to stop the university's plan to remove the trees.
A scuffle between the UC police and protesters during a Wednesday evening rally held by Save the Oaks turned into a riot when the police confiscated food and water that was being sent up to the tree sitters.
UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof told the Planet that the temporary fence would create a "safety zone around trees adjacent to Memorial Stadium" to protect both the tree-sitters and the 73,000 fans who are expected at the stadium for Saturday's football game against University of Tennessee.
The tree sitters are protesting the university's plan to raze the grove to make way for a $125 million student-athlete high performance center in its place, a move that led the City of Berkeley to sue the university over safety concerns.
"Emotions and passions are running high on both ends," Mogulof told the Planet. "A temporary barrier is needed because protesters continue to illegally occupy some trees at the site and investigations by the UC police have suggested that it would be a good idea to put a fence up before fans come to the game. We are going to analyze this on a week-to-week basis."
Assistant UC Police Chief Mitch Celaya told the Planet Wednesday afternoon that the tree sitters had been asked to come down before university-hired contractors had started constructing the fence.
"They made a choice," Celaya said. "We are not trying to start a riot. We are just trying to prevent potential problems. We don't want the football fans to walk into the [grove]. We are not allowing anybody to go in and if anyone tries to leave or provide food or water to the tree sitters they will be cited for trespassing."
Steve Volker, attorney for the California Oaks Foundation—one of the three plaintiffs in the lawsuit against UC's plans to construct the training center—arrived at the grove Wednesday to inform protesters that he had filed a restraining order for the fence that was heard Thursday in Hayward Superior Court.
"This fence is contrary to Judge Barbara Miller's ruling on Feb. 9 that there should be no physical alteration on the environment of the oak grove until the court rules on the merits of the case on Sept. 19," he said. "It is a direct attack on fundamental rights, a noose on the First Amendment ... Berkeley is the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement and it now threatens to be its graveyard. This day will be remembered as a day of infamy for this university as an attempt to crush the community's voice."
Citing a similar case at Cornell University where the court had upheld a student's right to remain on a tree to protest its being cut down, Volker said that courts have repeatedly ruled that no one should be deprived of their civil rights—food and water in this case—on a college campus.
"The sitters have a constitutional right to protest the logging of the trees," he said. "They have placed themselves in harm's way to protect these trees. We either make a stand now or watch our rights disappear."
The first altercation took place when the tree sitters got down to the lower branches and one of their supporters tried to attach a can of guacamole to a bag lowered with ropes. UC police cut the rope off with a pole cutter while an angry group of surrounded them, screaming "shame on you."
"Fuck you, Pigs," said one of the protesters. "What are the rules? We will get food up there one way or the other."
At one point supporters started throwing apples and granola bars inside the fence while others continued attempts to tie bottles of water and food packets to the ropes lowered from the trees.
Celaya said the police were preventing food and water from being sent up to the trees since the sitters were already stockpiled with supplies.
After observing the situation at the grove, Mayor Tom Bates said in a statement, "While the university may have serious concerns about the safety of the protesters and football fans at Saturday's game, there is simply no justification for UC Berkeley Police to deny protesters food and water."
"UC's actions are unacceptable and I believe they are putting people's lives at risk unnecessarily," Bates said. "I contacted the chancellor's office to urge them in the strongest possible terms to reconsider their position and allow the protesters access to food and water. Regardless of a person's opinion of the merits of the tree sitters protest or the UC stadium proposal, we all need to respect basic human and civil rights."
Close to 6 p.m. students, community members and a few city officials gathered outside the fence to watch the tug-of-war between the tree sitters and UC police. After about half a dozen attempts to prevent the protesters from handing over more food, UC police made two arrests.
Celaya said that Joseph Fisher, 18, was arrested on two counts of battery and one count of resisting arrest and Drew Beres, 18, could be charged with one count of resisting arrest. Nobody was injured.
The arrests led to more pushing, yelling and general chaos at the grove. At one point police chased a man dressed in black down Piedmont Avenue. Some protesters formed a circle in front of the evening traffic and refused to budge from the spot for almost 15 minutes.
"Cut your engine off," one woman told a driver of a silver Toyota. "You are not going anywhere."
"Berkeley's back," yelled another oak grove supporters. Drum beats echoed in the distance and strains from the UC football band practicing for Saturday's game added to the melee of sounds at the grove.
"They are attempting to deny the protesters food and water to starve them out of the trees," said former mayoral candidate Zachary Running Wolf, who was one of the initial tree sitters. "There are many measures that can be done to control crowds. They say they are protecting the sitters but are refusing them their fundamental rights at the same time."
"We shall overcome," sang Berkeley resident Debbie Moore strumming a guitar as she stood wrapped in yellow police tape to show her support for what might be the longest-standing urban tree-sit.
"How much did that fence cost?" asked Jonathan Huang, a UC Berkeley sophomore.
"That's my out-of-state tuition money that's going to build a fence," said another UC Berkeley student. "My parents worked their butts off to pay the $40,000 a year and this is what I get! I am pissed off!"
As evening paved the way for night, the UC cops pulled out six generators and 25 spotlights. A thick yellow rope was let down for water, but this time the police did not attempt to block it.
"I think our response will be summed up in one word: De-fence," a masked tree-sitter told media news crews from his leafy perch. "The tree sitters and UC are too polarized and it's hard to bridge that gap."
Amy Elmgren, a peace and conflict studies major from UC Berkeley, pressed her nose against the fence to watch the UC police officers videotaping the tree sitters.
"I think this is insane," she said. "Before today I was ambivalent about what was going on at the grove but this certainly changes it. I am hoping this will reinvigorate student activism on campus."
Gianna Ranuzzi, a long-time Berkeley resident, said she was worried that the poles were damaging the tree roots.
Catcalls, boos and whistles followed the police as they patrolled the grove. The crowds started thinning around 7 p.m.
The next scheduled showdown will be the lawsuit scheduled to be heard on Sept. 19.
In a statement released Wednesday afternoon Mayor Bates said that he was open to negotiations for a settlement agreement regarding the lawsuit.
"From the beginning, I have maintained that a negotiated settlement that addresses our significant public safety and legal issues is a preferred outcome," he said. "It is regrettable that the university made no offer at the court-mandated settlement conference in February and has yet to submit any settlement offer to the city in this litigation. In fact, the university's lawyers have at all times urged that this case be expedited to a court resolution. The university sent a letter to the City Council and me last month with an update on their plans—including modest changes such as a reduction in their new parking lot and improved landscaping—but made no offer to negotiate."
The statement, however, issues a caveat that the city was one of four entities engaged in legal action over the university's proposed stadium projects and "even if the city were to reach an acceptable resolution, the lawsuit would likely continue."
UC Berkeley officials have emphasized the importance of a new gym for its 13 athletic teams to replace the seismically unsafe Memorial Stadium, but the city contends that the proposed site is unsafe since it located on the Hayward Fault.
The Berkeley City Council is scheduled to meet in closed session with its lawyers on Tuesday to discuss the litigation. Bates has requested that the university provide information about a settlement agreement to the city's attorneys so that the council is able to consider it.


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No cheers: Slow refund leaves sour taste
Before Rita Salsini, with her husband and three daughters, moved to Charlottesville last April, she scoured the Internet to get acquainted with their new home. After checking out neighborhoods, schools, and churches, she sought "to set up extracurricular activities so my girls could make new friends."
The Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Football League (CAYFL) sounded like a good deal– not so that her daughters could suit up and break gender barriers, but because CAYFL also offered cheerleading. As it turned out, however, what Salsini hoped would be a fun experience has left the family "with a very sour taste."
Salsini registered the girls on April 30 and paid $150 each, for a total of $450. She got a receipt, but claims that after that, communication with CAYFL shut down almost completely. Three emails to the group's secretary to ask about uniform fittings, she says, went unanswered; in the end, she found out from a friend where the fittings were to be.
Between July 24 and September 5, Salsini's chronology lists eight emails to CAYFL asking when cheering practice would begin. All, she claims, went unanswered. In the last unanswered message, she asked about a refund. Ten days later she asked again– but again, got no response. On September 20, she emailed Chris Curtis, who handles public relations for the league.
Curtis replied the same day to apologize for the delay. "We are refunding all cheerleaders their registration fees," he emailed, "due to our cheer coordinator quitting and not letting us know she quit until a few weeks afterward. We knew nothing until all heck broke loose."
Curtis then vented his frustration in great detail. "It takes 23 volunteers to help us make football alone work. No one was willing to step up and volunteer as coordinators, coaches, or even helping out for the cheer. Everyone is willing to help out if they can manage people and tell a bunch of people what to do, but they do not want to do any work."
After saying that Salsini would receive her refund "within the next two to three weeks," Curtis added that CAYFL would "not move any faster that since we are in the midst of getting the football finalized. If you attempt to push us faster, it will not happen because we have only so much time."
In her September 21 reply, Salsini thanked Curtis for responding. "I will hold you to your word," she wrote, "and expect my full refund of $450 by October 12," which was three weeks away. When no check arrived, she emailed Curtis on October 13. "We have already filed a complaint [with] the Better Business Bureau," she wrote, "and will continue to pursue this matter. We demand a refund immediately!" Curtis's replied, "You will get your money, you need to relax."
Instead of relaxing, Salsini contacted me. I spoke with Curtis on November 1, who said, "Part of the problem is that these people need to get off their behinds and get involved." I pointed out that Salsini might never been given the chance to get involved, since the program she'd signed up for had been cancelled. "We've refunded every penny, and nobody's been denied," he declared.
I reminded him that Salsini's $450 still hadn't been refunded, and he replied, "I said no one's been denied."
I also spoke with CAYFL president Gary Popovich, who claimed that checks were being sent out every week as the group worked its way down a chronological list. I asked him whether Salsini's $450 might be moved to the head of the line, and he agreed.
Popovich and Curtis's frustration is understandable; such leagues provide tremendous opportunities for area kids, and are totally run by volunteers. One fifth of CAYFL's kids play on scholarships, which adds fundraising to their long list of duties.
Salsini received her refund the following day. The check, she emailed to report, was dated September 23. "I didn't know," she added, "it took the mail so long from Crozet to Charlottesville."
Do you have a consumer problem or question? Email the Fearless Consumer or write her at Box 4553, Charlottesville 22905.


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Shammi Kapoor hasn't lost his zeal for life. This was quite evident when the cast and crew of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na visited his home for the music launch of the film...
Enjoying this Saturday morning. Have a few boxes remaining to unpack, so I'll get to them while listening once more to a few new music albums, and hope to share a music review or two over the weekend. Promise to discuss Love Story 2050, which releases on July 4 as well, in addition to the film that is the subject of this post.
The official website of Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na is finally up at http://www.jaanetu.com; the bits of the storyline and characters that are revealed leads one to believe it will be maha-interesting (i.e. very interesting) and well worth looking forward to. The website is beautifully done -- a music player is present at every page (here is my music review), and its theme is consistent with the music disc artwork (not something to take for granted, believe it or not). Downloads include trailers for the iPod and iPhone, last seen on the Taare Zameen Par website.
For now, here are a few notes by producer Aamir Khan on Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na from this link:
"Taking over as director of TZP changed my life in many ways. One of the immediate ramifications was that I was no longer available to Jaane Tu... as a producer. Jaane Tu... is important to me for more reasons than one. The obvious reason is lmran, but the more delicate one is that this would be the first film from Aamir Khan Productions which I would not be acting in. As a production house we intend to produce many films which won't have me in the cast, and theses films are as important to me as the ones I act in. I believe my involvement as producer is as important to me as my involvement as an actor. Basically I am extremely particular about anything which has my name on it. Which is why when I took over as director of TZP, I had no choice but to indefinitely delay Jaane Tu... unless I found someone to take over from me, someone whose creative instincts I trusted as much as my own. For paranoid freaks like me that's not an easy one.
In fact there is only one person I trust more than myself in the business of filmmaking and that is Mansoor. But how does one get him to take over? The good old reliable method of course...emotional blackmail!
Mansoor who is taking an indefinite break from films, and who I have been trying in vain to lure back into making films is not an easy nut to crack. But I have been known to be persuasive. Bloodhound is how I am described by my near and dear ones, once I smell blood I don't let go, no matter how impossible the chase.
Well, Mansoor was kind enough to say yes. "Only the shooting stage," he grumbled. "Yes, yes," I said, "I'll handle the rest."
Mansoor was a godsend for us. And I pray that having spent these months with us afflicted people the germs would have gotten into him once again. Cinema is a very contagious disease, so please remember to thank me, folks, when he makes his comeback film. In the meantime my thanks to Abbas and his young team of actors and technicians for giving Aamir Khan Productions a film that I have absolutely no hesitation in putting my name to."
And here is a video of Aamir at the music launch in which he discusses some of this. The video can be thought of as one following the video shared in this post devoted to the music launch.


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COLUMBUS – The Columbus Crew's offense looks suddenly resurgent, and head coach Robert Warzycha knows why.
"We are less tired than we were before," he said. "We've got a chance to practice at home, sleep in our own beds. That always helps. You could see the difference in Toronto and see the difference [Sunday], and obviously in Trinidad."
After Sunday's 3-1 win over the Philadelphia Union in the regular-season finale, the Crew had posted seven goals in three games in all competitions after scoring just twice in the previous four.
They followed a 2-2 tie at Toronto FC on Oct. 16 with a 4-1 thrashing of Trinidad's Joe Public in the final CONCACAF Champions League group match before taking care of the Union.
Critics would contend those games came against MLS clubs that didn't make the playoffs and a very weak Caribbean representative. But Columbus struggled against those types of teams until getting a break in the schedule two weeks ago.
With no games between Oct. 8 and 16, the Crew had their first full week of training in more than two months due to CCL, MLS and the US Open Cup fixture congestion.
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"We wanted to get some momentum [into the playoffs], which I think we did."
[inline_node:321653]He'll soon find out.
The Crew are not happy that they are forced to play for the third time in eight days when they open their two-game, aggregate goal Eastern Conference semifinal on Thursday at the Colorado Rapids.
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The Crew will train Tuesday and Wednesday mornings in Columbus before heading to Colorado. The round trip will bring the air miles total to 28,002 since going to Mexico on Aug. 23 for the first Champions League match.
Through Monday, the Crew had spent 33 of the past 64 days (52 percent) either traveling or on the road. Add 18 more days for the six home games and rest or recovery days before and after them and that leaves just 13 days of possible full training in the past two months.
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Bots are complicated. They're made to process repetitive actions autonomously and can be fairly easy to build, but they aren't always working on the side of good. Here's what you need to know.
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In the web publishing world, managing web content and measuring web results have tended to remain two distinct domains, with different tools (web CMS vs. web analytics packages), different skills (editorial vs. analytics), and different goals (publish vs. measure).
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Measuring UpNearly all management theory posits the centrality of measurement. In this case, web metrics should help web managers make better editorial judgments. Let's say you're updating a document. Don't you want to know how popular it is? Or perhaps you're thinking about re-sorting elements on a page. Ideally you'd have access to the metrics right there in your web CMS control panel that would inform you of those items' popularity. Some CMS tools provide such an analytics dashboard, and similarly, many web analytics products will now overlay metrics over a representation of an actual page.
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At CMS Watch, our evaluations of the 13 major web analytics tools found that such capabilities are increasingly prevalent, but we also found that enterprises tended to lack the analytical resources to take full advantage of them.
Metrics MastersThe increasing need for advanced metrics and an integrated editorial/ marketing dashboard raises an important practical question: Where does the master data live? Analytics vendors have a very specific answer: in our tool. Most web analytics packages are trying to serve as a kind of website data warehouse, importing data from other web systems and providing broad analytics out the other side.
Web CMS vendors naturally proffer different answers. Many have built their own analytics capabilities. As you might imagine, those capabilities tend to pale in comparison to those available from web analytics vendors, but they have the advantage of tight integration with editorial functions so the web content manager can act right there on the metrics she sees, as opposed to toggling back and forth between two systems.
Other web CMS vendors are "partnering" with different analytics suppliers, but the integration challenges are not trivial. And some analytics vendors, like Omniture, are famous for offering APIs to ingest data for other systems while remaining quite tight about sharing data with other applications, including a web CMS.
These technical details can seem tedious, but they have important implications for web operations. Will you rely on your web analytics specialist to develop and distribute suitable reports to web authors? Or do you train your editorial managers or power contributors in how to use the web analytics system and regularly interpret the results? Will you end up with your web CMS and your web analytics packages dishing up two different sets of reports? The choices you make could have significant financial and operational consequences.
Analyzing the CMS Thus far, I've been talking about humans improving editorial judgments when informed by good analytics. Clearly that's essential. But since we're talking about data, let's also examine ways to make automated use of analytics within web pages.
The biggest trend here is to automate the elevation of most popular or most emailed articles and links. The more people visit a page, the more that link rises on the list. This capability has been present since the early days of the web, but was mastered by sites like Slashdot. Today it is increasingly prevalent as one more approach to socializing web publishing by having content consumers—and not just content producers—set priorities.
At a technical level, having an automated "most popular" list is not too complicated. It requires your CMS to tap reports developed by your analytics subsystem at some regular interval and to generate a list of items accordingly.
Popularity lists have actually proven to be a bit controversial. They tend to create feedback loops that multiply the popularity of certain links and, in the extreme, create a winner-take-all phenomenon. That might be fine for news sites with rapidly changing content and fickle readers, but is it suitable for your website? Perhaps the distortions really don't matter if people are getting what they want. Proof, if any were needed, that we are herd animals after all.


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The Peace Poles display "May Peace Prevail" is written in 28 different languages.
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