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The comic, which Robinson is launching in May with artist Nicola Scott, will tell the story of heroes first emerging on the alternate Earth. It will focus on heroes like Batman, Wonder Woman, and Flash — but the people wearing those costumes may not be the same as the more familiar heroes on the main DCU Earth. (via newsarama)
*SUPERMAN — Superman is still Clark Kent, albeit with a new twist: the love of his life, Lois Lane, is dead. And according to Editor Pat McCallum, that has a profound effect on the Man of Steel.
"What would you have to do to teach Superman to kill? He's endured the loss of his home world, and now the Last Son of Krypton must weather the death of his soul mate Lois Lane. Just how far can you bend the Man of Steel before he breaks?" Writer James Robinson echoed that this will be a bit darker than the Superman we know.
*WONDER WOMAN — "Due the events that open the saga of Earth 2, Wonder Woman is already the last Amazon of this world and she is determined to avenge her sisters…at whatever cost," saidwriter James Robinson.
"How did Wonder Woman come to be the last of the Amazons?" asks editor Pat McCallum. "It's one of the mysteries we'll be getting into with the series. While there will be recognizable faces and settings on Earth 2, don't for a moment think you're on familiar ground."
*ROBIN — "Helena Wayne has been taught how to be the perfect Robin," said James Robinson, writer of Earth 2. "Assured as a detective, fighter, scientist, pilot and all around crime-fighter she's been groomed by Batman to be the perfect caped manhunter (or should we say manHuntress) when she grows up."
"Before coming to the main DCU Earth and taking up the mantle of Huntress, Helena Wayne fought crime alongside her father as the Robin to his Batman on Earth 2!" added Worlds' Finest editor Wil Moss. "But how did she come to be on this Earth? And why did she decide to become Huntress? You'll get some clues in next week's Huntress #6, but for the real scoop, pick up Worlds' Finest #1!"
*BATMAN — Written by James Robinson and illustrated by Nicola Scott, the exact nature of Earth 2 and its featured cast remain unclear, but Monday's reveal of Jim Lee's design for the book's alternate version of Batman contains some clues, most notably series editor Pat McCallum's statement that "there is a Wayne under the mask." (An adult Damian, maybe?)
"Who will Batman kill to save his own daughter? Right out of the gate that should tell you we're dealing with a different kind of Dark Knight here. More ruthless, dangerous…the costume is familiar and yeah, there is a Wayne under the mask, but we're looking at a man desperate to save the only family he has left. EARTH 2 is about to become a very bad place to be a bad guy."
I'm really anticipating when this comic drops, and reading all the interviews that James Robinson is making all across the comic sites is just adding to the excitement. I love Helena's Robin outfit so much, probably my favorite character design out of the bunch.
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Spicy Southwest Smashed Potatoes with White Cheddar
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- Calories: 192
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- Fat: 7.5g
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- 3 pounds peeled baking potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
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- 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
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- 1. Place potatoes in a saucepan, and cover with cold water to 2 inches above. Add 1/4 teaspoon salt; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes or until tender; drain. Return the potatoes to pan over low heat; add remaining 1 teaspoon salt and butter to pan. Mash the potatoes with a potato masher to desired consistency.
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N.H. groups team for new certification
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Friday, 03 October 2008 20:57The Association of Woodworking and Furnishings Suppliers has awarded 27 students a total of $82,000 for the 2008-2009 academic year. The AWFS scholarship committee gave out more scholarships this year than it has in the history of the program. In the General Industry category, $40,000 of the total went to students pursuing degrees or certificates in industry-related programs, such as fine woodworking, wood science, furniture studies and technology education.
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Water cooler talk at Birchbox is a little out of the ordinary: we're just as likely to have a ten minute cross-cubicle conversation about kohl liner as we are about the finer points of startup strategy. Case in point? A marketing meeting I was recently in suddenly morphed into a discussion about eyebrow grooming techniques. Here's what I learned about a few of my fellow team members and how they keep their brows looking bold, groomed, and fabulous:
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The online world has been talking about the importance of brevity for a long time, but never has it been so necessary. As screens shrink and we flock to smart phones and tablets in droves, the copy on our sites needs to be ever shorter and sweeter.
When making a mobile version of your site, you'll look to scale everything back – and your copy could quickly go on the chopping block.
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Well Endowed Men And My GfHello,
I'm 6ft 5 but probably less than average, 'size' wise to be honest. You know what it's like in showers and that, when you're kind of hiding yourself accidently on purpose while sneaking a peek at the confident guys :-). The older I get the more aware of it I am. When I was a teen/early 20's, it was always women in their forties (at least) that I enjoyed the company of and I think, looking back, I didn't worry about the size thing because I was much younger and felt that my age wa my main attribute. I suppose I substituted inches for stamina and repeat performance etc....
Anyway, I have been in a relationship for 9 years with my g/f and still have a very busy sex life but recently the conversation came round to adult films etc. Long story short, we watched one. To be honest, it was probably the biggest turn on I've ever experienced. When the guy's trousers came down, he was still soft but large. My g/f at that point said he's big isn't he? But it was kind of excited/nervous sort of thing. When she said that, the it was like a bucket of cold water thrown over me or something? Like super real experience. My heart was racing in my chest but it was magic. Obviously things progressed from there movie wise and hard size came into play which basically took her breath away. I don't know why guys like seeing therir partners with large men. Is it a guilt thing coz they don't have the size? Is it a gay thing coz they WANT the size? I've asked myself these questions so I'm not trying to be offensive. Why is it a turn on? We took it a step further but not full sex. We were at a private birthday party in a house and they got a ********. We were all very drunk at this stage and he did his thing. He was jumping about with the spray cream stuff and getting women to lick it off etc. He was a very well endowed guy. To be honest, bigger soft than I am hard and was enjoying it. My g/f played with him in her hand for a long time and even put him in her mouth and I couldn't believe how exciting this all was. The thing that kept me in check I think is that the majority of people there have been in this situation before and it's a laugh whereas my g/f seemed to want to go the whole way? I wouldn't have minded but I'm still asking myself why this is such a turn on? I know if a ******** (still in underwear) sat on my lap, my g/f would be furious, night would be over and silent treatment would ensue for 2 days because she loves me and because I didn't react the same way (even tho she wants to repeat her night) I obviously don't??
This probably reads quite bizarrely but I'm as excited/turned on/confused/and guilty in equal measures and could do with some feedback. I have no problem with what happened at all and would love to see it again.
I love seeing my wife get ****** by a bigger **** especially if he's ******* her good I mean what good would it be if he was so so there wouldbe no excitement
The most prevalent (and most popular) **** doesn't involve "making love," but the man's power over the girl; animalistic sex, making the girl take a big **** in all of her holes, the man making her take it. Most men get off on seeing how much a woman can take: a huge **** stretching her **** and/ or her ***, ***** in 2 or 3 of her holes, at once, 2 ***** in one hole. And, when he's ready to shoot his load, she gets in right in the face.
I don't mean to sound like the resident anthropologist, but another thing to consider regarding penis size is this. The largest primates (gorillas), have relatively tiny penis size. Other primates like chimpanzees have larger penis size. The gorillas are relatively more monogamous compared to chimps who are promiscuous. Studies of the ratio of index finger to ring finger show that chimps were likely to have had higher levels of androgen in the womb, which actually causes them to be more aggressive and promiscuous. Check your own fingers. A longer ring finger than your index finger means you were exposed to higher androgen before birth.

Female primates are more attracted by displays of confidence and certain dominance behaviors and not by penis size, which seems to be meaningless as a distinguishing factor. However, greater exposure to androgen in the womb (and possibly greater penis size as a result) normally means more aggressive behavior, so maybe that's what women are attracted to.
In the animal world, it's very common for the dominant or alpha male to be the one that gets to mate with the females. Often this involves the alpha driving-off the other males, but in primate cultures the other males remain but must endure the alpha mating with "their" female whenever the alpha wants. In fact, the act is performed in front of the other male as a show of dominance. Sometimes the female is just dominated and must submit, but at other times she is a willing participant and almost taunts her regular mate.

Penis size is a surrogate for dominance, and human males often get aroused seeing a dominant big **** male taking a female. This arousal stimulates other males to challenge the dominant alpha for the right to mate with females.

So, being excited either thinking about or watching your beloved female ******* a dominant, large-**** male is a normal arousal mechanism.
I know what your talking about im less than average and im 6 ft 2 and it always bothered me cause I notice I was small compared to alot of guys so it kept me from from dating and feeling like a MAN but eventually I got married and would never think about someone else doing my wife but after 15 years of marriage I started getting really turn on thinking about my wife having her ***** pounded by a huge **** and I can't stop thinking about it I even watch **** and imagine her riding the guys huge **** stretching her ***** so I think its just we know we can't do that so we like to watch are wife have something we can't give her like a guilt I guess but I let my wife do a buddy of mine that has a big **** and she loved it and I loved watching it so I would say for guys like us it's normal for us to want to watch are wifes gettig **** by a huge ****
I know what your talking about im less than average and im 6 ft 2 and it always bothered me cause I notice I was small compared to alot of guys so it kept me from from dating and feeling like a MAN but eventually I got married and would never think about someone else doing my wife but after 15 years of marriage I started getting really turn on thinking about my wife having her ***** pounded by a huge **** and I can't stop thinking about it I even watch **** and imagine her riding the guys huge **** stretching her ***** so I think its just we know we can't do that so we like to watch are wife have something we can't give her like a guilt I guess but I let my wife do a buddy of mine that has a big **** and she loved it and I loved watching it so I would say for guys like us it's normal for us to want to watch are wifes gettig **** by a huge ****
Humans are the product of evolution. For thousands of years, an "alpha" male would take females in the group and have sex with them in front of the group. This was actually a way for the alpha male to reinforce his dominance over the other males and females. The lesser males were excited watching this and wishing they were the alpha. That behavior still exists in many ape hierarchies or sociaties. The excitement would encourage other males to want to exert their dominance, so the "best" offspring were produced.

There's nothing abnormal about having these feelings. It's only more recent societal norms that make us feel guilty or invoke other emotions. There's also the threat that a female will "run off" with another male who is better at satisfying her desires.

When I hear my wife of many years respond to my questions about a past lover, it excites me tremendously. The thought of her reaching climax with that other man both makes me feel jealous and aroused.
ok ... i dont agree.. i dont like seeing my woman with another man .. unless we decided to depart.. that is ok then .. simply cause am a MAN .. i know that there is larger and smaller ( than mine ) penises out there.. but that is not the whole story ..why compare in the 1st place? in other words, if my woman thinks that she deserves to be with someone like ROCCO or Peter North ( famous **** stars) fine with me .. she should go ahead with it .. and i will choose a **** star too with a perfect body; better than hers.. but it is not about that .. it is not about size ..nor just sex..it is about MAKING LOVE .. why is it we want all women to be ******? why is it all come down to size?
I will wade into deep water because of something that happened a day or 2 ago. First i am 5'3'' and as much as I would like to greatly endowed I would look kind of funny.I am 73 years old married 32 years to a wonderful friend. We started playing with this about a year ago mostly because of me. I had some reasons for doing it because she is 53 and I have spent the last 7 years in the middle east. She is a very sexual person, and if anything happened to me I did not want her having to go to a bar to find sex. One of the things I wanted was for to get a big **** because from what I have read I wanted her to have all the pleasure she could get out of it. She has allways been very careful not to make me self consious of my 5 1/2 in. ****. So when someone looked at our pics, some one commented it was to bad she did not have a good sized piece of meat to suck on or something like that. She got very mad and wanted to delete the comment and I told her no, it did not bother me because at the end of the day she is still my best friend and the best lover I could hope for.I am still looking for someone in the 8 in range in the Dallas area for her. We love the few 3some we have had and it has made a different person out of her. But at the end of the day after we get home we still make love to each for 3 or 4 more hours. I love my hot house wife or **** or my best friend what ever you want to call her. ed
CBB's right on target there. You'll find lots of folks here on EP with similar interests, which ultimately begs the question, "Who decides what's normal?"
" I don't know why guys like seeing therir partners with large men. Is it a guilt thing coz they don't have the size? Is it a gay thing coz they WANT the size?".....

because men love women who are insatiable *****, ******, freaks (feel free to insert your own adjective here) in bed. Isn't is great to see your wife/gf as that hot **** star sucking a huge ****? I believe men are turned on by this because we are such visual creatures and really react to visual stimulus. Grant it, visual stimilus works for some women but as a whole you have to turn on a woman's mind first.

Is it gay just because you want to see your gf do another guy? Of course not but why should that even matter. I think the hard boundaries that exist about male sexuality are pointless and rather unforgiving to men. They do not allow men to venture or even think in gray terms. They are too black and white.

Welcome to EP and start reading more stories about wife sharing and you will find hundreds of others who share your desire and you will see that you are not so strange after all.

Larger smaller blab blab whatever when Ann gets it from her BF who is over 9" she is purring like a cat after I use to have a nice thick non cut 8" but it gone thanks to prostate cancer and other problems I can't perform AT ALL so thank God she has friends she is 63 and I am 77 more and more when it comes to a husband wife realationship its more her and her steady she's at his home more and more...... hey I can't deliver so I don't blame her and she lets me eat her and use my hand on myself, We been married over 44 years its true a bigger one can change her private part she's puffier and her buttion is bigger (I am writing this way so they don't block it out) J


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- Fleas will mostly bite below the waist (waist, feet, and ankles)
- Flea also like warm, moist areas (arm pits, waistline, under breasts, under socks, scalps)
- Flea bites are very tiny, and will look like little red rashes or hives
- Multiple flea bites will appear in a the same area
- The bump caused by a flea bite has a small puncture mark in the middle
- Immediately after the bite, there is a red "ring" surrounding the bump
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If there's one thing that Roland Emmerich is good at, it's blowing things up on a grand scale.
As a director, he has always erred on the side of vastness. Some of his large scale filmic feats have included: blowing up the White House (Independence Day), freezing New York (The Day After Tomorrow), and ending the world (2012).
With Shakespearean thriller Anonymous currently in post production, The Hollywood Reporter has news that Emmerich is scaling down for Zone.
The under-the-radar production is apparently a found-footage thriller in the vein of Cloverfield and Paranormal Activity, and will see Emmerich working with a budget of $5 million (a tiny fraction of what he's used to).
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While Lisa Borders signs the papers that will officially put her in the race for mayor this morning, Kasim Reed will be speaking to 80 or so African-American pastors at Paschal's.
This will be followed sometime today, by a news conference called by Clark Atlanta University political scientists William Boone and Keith Jennings, authors of the "black mayor" memo.
Which means we're in for another day of discussion about race and the Atlanta mayoral contest.
The topic isn't something that Mary Norwood, the white councilwoman targeted by that memo, thinks enriches her day. The acknowledged frontrunner sought to change the subject this morning by pointing to an audit that showed the city's water services in disarray.
Here's the ajc.com summary:
First, Atlanta mishandled last year's water rate increase. Then it screwed up sending out bills.
After that, water and sewer officials improperly cut service for some Atlanta residents.
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"The facts are pretty straightforward," said Leslie Ward, the city's auditor. "The real story has been in the aftermath. I don't think I've ever done an audit with indisputable evidence and the staff completely agreed with what happened, only to have the head of the department completely deny it. This is a new experience for me."
Says Norwood: "Once again, we see the value of the audits that I have demanded for years." She's posted the complete 51-page report on her web site.
There's no question which New York Times article today dominates the attention of Secretary of State Karen Handel — who recently asked the U.S. Justice Department to reconsider a veto of her voter-screening project:
Seven months after taking office, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reshaping the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division by pushing it back into some of the most important areas of American political life, including voting rights, housing, employment, bank lending practices and redistricting after the 2010 census.
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Gwinnett whiffs on stadium-naming deal. Authors of Atlanta 'black mayor' come forward. Jim Maddox to call it quits on Atlanta council. Atlanta schools soft on cheats? Metro Atlanta gets $9 million to help families pay rent. At Cobb forum, Gingrey's attack on health care bill delights most attendees. East Point delays 2010 budget vote after citizen input.
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From elsewhere in Georgia:
MDJ: Voters say Rep. Scott owes them answers. SMN: On John Barrow's town hall void.
And beyond:
Politico: White House fears liberal war pressure. WP: Virginia governor's race erupts over McDonnell's past views. WSJ: Health care anger has deeper roots.
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September 1st, 2009
9:24 am
Mary Norwood has no leadership qualities and that's why she shouldn't be mayor. It has nothing to do with her race. Borders and Turpeau (and their two CAU pawns) are dead wrong for making the latter suggestion.
September 1st, 2009
9:40 am
Hey fellow ATL politico-cats… race-schmace. Is that all you tired old farts have to talk about? So little time; such little imagination. (Very little correct grammar and punctuation too in those let's-go-racial e-blasts, but I won't get into that right now.)
This is no finalized list of possible mayoral candidates here. There may still be a new candidate surprise or two left to come in this race.
Now who will get the scoop on THAT juicy morsel? (Trust me, it won't be WABE. Just the thought sends me ROFL-ng merrily away here at the pink laptop palace.)
I'll never tell, but I will Twitter merrily away as always. Stay tuned!
September 1st, 2009
9:54 am
@GOP Man The memo's immediate target was Kasim Reed, not Mary Norwood. The light-skinned black elite (other than Andrew Young) seem to be afraid of him. We certainly can't have people opening their minds to candidates for mayor who happen to be white, but we can't have them seriously considering the merits of a candidate whose skin tone is darker than a grocery bag, either, can we? What's this world coming to when Atlanta seriously considers candidates who don't look just like Aaron Turpeau?
September 1st, 2009
10:03 am
Sorry,but the story that interested me most in the early AJC was about the cop who watched his/her cruiser being driven away by the suspected DUI that had been handcuffed and placed in the back seat.Seems the enterprising young man slipped the cuffs,kicked out the rear window and drove away while the officer was searching the stopped vehicle for …..evidence?Other officers joined in a search for the missing cruiser,only to see the DUI suspect run away.
The officer now knows the meaning of the old adage that a quail in the hand is going to taste better than a whole bevy still runing around in the tall grass.
September 1st, 2009
10:21 am
LiSA,do us all a favor and gracefully STEP DOWN!!
September 1st, 2009
10:25 am
Thank God this tripe was not written by white profs, or Al and Jessie would have already booked their flights.
September 1st, 2009
10:32 am
Here's a newsflash for you… very few Atlanta politicians are qualified for their office, and NONE have what it takes to be mayor of a major American city.
It also shouldn't shock anyone that it took two myopic, pointy-headed academics to go ahead and say what everyone has known about Atlanta politics for the last 30 years. I'm sure they're tenured and will face no repercussions for this.
September 1st, 2009
10:38 am
Can someone please explain to me what race has to do with any important issues in the contest for mayor?
Aren't the issues public safety, infrastructure, transportation, attracting business to the city and helping do something about the empty homes that result from foreclosure and overbuilding? (Other than public safety, not in that order.)
Don't let a few "academics" whose livelihood depends upon stirring the race issue frame this election. Why are the AJC and other media outlets giving this story legs? There are so many important issues to discuss in this election. Most citizens of Atlanta know it is 2009, not 1974. Race just isn't a factor, let alone the defining factor, in our lives anymore.
Most of us – black, white, pink, orange, brown, green and spotted – voted for Shirley Franklin because of her promise in solving our issues. Many of us applaude some of what she did and are disappointed by some of what she did, but none of us discuss race in our assesment of her job performance. What makes anyone think its important to us in choosing our next mayor?
September 1st, 2009
10:42 am
Bravasie – I understand your point and frustration, but it should be noted that there has been an outcry over the "study" from every corner of Atlanta. It will be interesting to see if anyone stands with these fools at their press conference or if they will be alone in trying to justify their bigotry.
September 1st, 2009
10:42 am
"Kasim Reed will be speaking to 80 or so African-American pastors at Paschal's."
Folks, tell me, why would a Black Candidate for Mayor of Atlanta, who is supposed to be running as mayor for all Atlantan's, do something like as quoted above? Could it be that he's a RACIST? Me thinks that the above says it all.
September 1st, 2009
10:43 am
Clark University must fire these two "professors". I am identifying corporations that support Clark, and will write them and insist they withhold funds until they're fired. It is wholeheartedly unacceptable Clark to allow these racists to remain on their payroll.
No more double standards. That day has passed.
September 1st, 2009
10:45 am
Also, why did Mayor Franklin calls the memo "bigoted"?
Is it because the word "racist" is reserved for use only against whites?
As a resident of the city of Atlanta, I am rallying around the effort to get any remnants of the past 35 years out of city hall.
September 1st, 2009
11:17 am
Aaron Turpeau has brought "swine flu" to the Borders campaign, and Lisa is not washing her hands.
She denounced his acts (people who get caught, get righteous) but never denied knowing about his actions.
Lisa should resign!!!!!!!!!
September 1st, 2009
11:22 am
GOP Man,
Since Mary Norwood has no leadership qualities she should go to the White House.She'll be among equals.
September 1st, 2009
12:05 pm
I totally agree with Clyde, let her head up to the white house, she will definitely be right at home up there if people feel she has no leadership qualities, but I beg to differ.
September 1st, 2009
12:22 pm
Listening to these two professors who now say they wrote the BLF memo was chilling. They see absolutely nothing wrong with suggesting that all of the black candidates conspire together to prevent a white person from being elected mayor because she is white!!
In their world, Norwood's race should be the only factor considered in deciding who to vote for in the Mayor's race.
In their world, all black people should have the same agenda because of their race. No thought given to diverse perspectives or needs. In the professor's world only race matters.
Not only should these two clowns resign from teaching, the BLF needs to apologize and renounce this memo for the piece of racist garbage it is.
Atlanta's black candidates for Mayor have all distanced themselves from this discredited race baiting. Jay Bookman temporized like the coward he is. What will the black leadership really do? Is this to be a new eara of Atlanta politics or will we just slip back to the easy race baiting of the past.
September 1st, 2009
12:27 pm
I fail to understand why this is coming like some big surprise. For decades, Atlanta has been the most racially obsessed city in the country. Mismanagement and corruption have plagued the city. Nothing has been done about it because it would mean breaking up the shaky alliance between the black and white liberal power structure has been unwilling to do.
September 1st, 2009
12:36 pm
cjkatl – Race just isn't a factor, let alone the defining factor, in our lives anymore.
CJ, what world are you living in? and what have you been smoking? This world and particularly this city are more RACIST than ever and not "White on Black" Racism but "Black on White" Racism.
September 1st, 2009
1:00 pm
dgroy -
I am living in the City of Atlanta. In a neighborhood that is pretty evenly split racially. There is more of an economic split that racial split where I'm sitting.
September 1st, 2009
5:04 pm
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September 2nd, 2009
3:29 pm
This queers it all for me. The racial attitudes haven't changed one bit in 40 years. Andrew Young, et al….bah. These preachers have little to do with addressing the violence and decay of their own race. Yet the fallout is within the quality of lives for all others. Including their own race. They are an impotent leadership, or perhaps just opportunists.
Race is not a deciding issue anymore for many of us. We have been hit over the head constantly with it, and we are now immune to those issues that should be attended to…but why bother?
Nothing changes here, in spite of the better attempts to 'love thy neighbor'.
Black Atlanta: your denial or refusal to curb the criminals, yes, your Children…who break in houses, rob, carjack, murder, etc…have made whites turn their compassion elsewhere. Your continued refusal to address these issues in real ways….have churned up resentment amongst other sectors. What really comes about is a hardening of the heart and arming of citizens who before would not think in these terms. The behavior especially of young black thugs makes for fear but also retribution in various and sundry ways.
I am shocked to hear that neighborhoods (and Grant Park and Ormewood are some examples) have citizens arming themselves, mothers and fathers, against these crimes and criminals. This is unheard of amongst a more liberal section of the white population.
How in hell does 12% of the national population become such a social issue?
Until someone seriously gets ahold of the violence coming from this Black community, there will not be peace. It's gone on far enough and too long. Atlanta is an embarrassment but so are the major cities where this same social behavior occurs.
And who in hell can attend to the 'so-called' important issues when people in many neighborhoods are afraid to leave their houses for the violence that lurks around their streets? It's a survival mode that many neighborhoods of Atlanta have come to, and we can see where the violence stems.
Where are the white criminals for a change? I want to see 'equal time' for white criminals. Just a change in the landscape.


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Albany- Dozens of laid-off Georgians head to the Department of Labor each day to learn about resources and benefits that can help them get back on their feet, and a new training program may make that transition a little easier.
"It's actually where an employer can try a person before they buy a person," says Lynne Jones of the Department of Labor.
It's called Georgia Works. For the first time ever, it allows out-of-work Georgians to go into a workplace setting for eight weeks, train for a job, and still receive unemployment benefits.
"It's an opportunity not only for the employer to try a person, but it's an opportunity for the potential employee to try a company before they buy into the company too," Jones explains.
The Advanced Rehab Center is one of ten official Georgia Works sites in Dougherty County. They currently have one trainee.
"Any extra hands we have in here with us during the day also helps the flow of clients coming through, so it kind of just helps us get through the day also a little easier, a little more efficiently, and at the same time he's getting the benefit of learning different things while he's here also," says Physical Therapist Bob Dykes.
And there's no charge for the extra help. Placing potential employees through the program is free to Georgia Works employers.
"I think it's a great opportunity for us to work with the area, and help these individuals get on the job," adds Dykes.
In addition to on-site training, Georgia Works participants can receive up to a $240 training allowance for childcare, transportation, tools and work clothes.
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Link Building Tip #1 – Finding Broken Links
I finally got around to making a commitment; from now on I will publish link building tips. Basically it will be a post explaining one single aspect of link building in detail. To tell you the truth this was inspired by Rand Fiskin's Headsmacking Tips on SEOmoz blog. For some posts I will obviously have to go in great detail, some will be smaller, some will be quite extensive. Let's start with the basics, and yes, if you want a certain part of link building covered send me an email and I'll get to it very soon.
Broken Links on Your Website
So back to the topic at hand, no one likes to follow a link and see a page like the one above, no matter how good it looks! So we need to find broken links on our website and on our competitor websites to scale our link building campaign. There are many ways to find broken links, many tools that can help you with that. For your own website you shouldn't move any further then your webmaster tools. If you go to the Diagnostics – Crawl Errors – Not Found you will see a list of 404 pages and the pages that link to them.
From this step you can see what is wrong with your pages, you can make them active again if there is a great number of links pointing to those pages or you can just correct those links to point to the right pages. Of course that is if we are talking about your internal links, if these are external links you will probably be better of activating that URL, or you can always contact the webmaster and ask them to change the links to point to the new page where your content can be found. And if you simply want to get rid of the broken pages with no links you can do so by going to Remove URL page in Webmaster Tools.
What if your broken links point to external domains? Well, you can use various available WordpPress plugins if you use WordPress, one of which is SEO Ultimate. If you want to check a regular website you can use Xenu Link Sleuth or other broken link tools.
Broken Links on Competitor Website
Next stop checking for broken links pointing to your competitors. This is easy, all you need to do is scan the competitor backlink profile and look for 404 pages, I use Open Site Explorer for that, if you want full functions and all the data available you will have to buy SEOmoz Pro package, but if you are serious about your SEO and link building this shouldn't be an issue.
After you finish scanning the links you can export the list to a CSV file and extract only links with 404 errors. You can than run a backlink check with open Site Explorer or Yahoo Site Explorer to see if there are any websites linking to those broken pages, simple as that. After you compile a list of websites and pages that have broken links all you need to do is contact those webmasters and point out that they have a broken link on their site and somewhere in between mention you have similar content they might want to link to instead.
If you find broken links of your competitors that link to dead websites, expired domains you can do some dirty work and buy the domain name and get your competitor links. After that all you need to do is 301 redirect the domain you bought to your pages and you have yourself some nice link juice flowing directly from your competition. Nice trick!
Bottom line, once a month check for broken links and pages on your website, and always look for competitor mistakes when link building. These are some of the easiest link building opportunities you can find when talking about quality links.
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19 Response to Link Building Tip #1 – Finding Broken Links
Jesica Wills on June 17, 2011
Thanks Zarko for writing this topic. Actually, I am new in on-page. Many things I don't know in it. Broken link is very important for the website and in seo. Very informative post. I wll forward this link to my other friends. Thanks.
Zarko on June 17, 2011
Thanks Jesica, like I said at the beginning no one wants to see broken pages, not you, not your visitors, and definitely not search engines!
Antonia@Conversational hypnosis on June 17, 2011
One every week? Are there really so many link building tips?
Anyway, from my limited knowledge about the subject, every broken link needs to give a 404 error for Google to like it.
But does it still show up in Diagnostics if it doesn't point to 404?
Anna on June 18, 2011
Hi, Zarko
When I just read your words about checking broken links at our competitors' sites, i couldn't understand why. But then you provided the answer – to buy them if they are expired and to get links through redirecting them to the required places. I guess it can be a good idea.
PS. I wonder if this fair or not?
Melanie on June 18, 2011
Hi Zarko, I think all people hate broken links :). I'm very new in link building and I didn't know these tools to check broken links. Very thanks for sharing.
Lynda on June 18, 2011
This is a great post. I look forward to your weekly posts on link building as I have a lot to learn. Thank you for sharing
Zarko on June 18, 2011
@Antonia, one every week and it will take a long time to finish, if we ever finish… About the broken link question, well, if it doesn't point to a dead page, a 404 page, that means it is not actually broken, it just points to a wrong page. For that you will need to check your backlinks and inner links to figure out which one is the faulty one. Broken link is a link that points to nothing… you can learn more here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot
@Anna, you can buy them, you can try to acquire them simply by offering great content to be linked instead of the dead one, there are ways to go about it, and honestly it is fair. if I forget about some of my pages it's my fault they got stolen, fortunately I check my backlinks often for my sites and for my clients, so I always make sure something like that doesn't happen. So, at the same time I have no issue about using other people's mistakes to my and my clients advantage.
@Lynda, thanks
Milan Cole@Portland Real Estate on June 19, 2011
It's amazing how often links get broken. Every single time I go into Google webmaster tools I find more links to fix. As for forwarding expired domains, I've always been concerned that Google might not like it; maybe this is a good standalone topic for a future post.
seo sydney on June 19, 2011
Thanks Zarko for this post!
I understand that nobody do like to see broken line on any links and therefore most link builders are eager to check them and fix them easily.
Though am not well versed with converting the broken link or forwarding the expired domain to the required sites, I will check the best way to work on this soon.
Tomek@8 Pack Abs on June 20, 2011
Hey, Zarko! The competitor broken link tip (buying the age domain and using a redirect) is massively cool. Thanks!! Tomek
Zarko on June 20, 2011
Hi Tomek, yeah it is, it's one of the tricks of the trade, a very useful and powerful one for that matter.
Maria Pavel@Nurse Assistant on June 21, 2011
It was so nice of you to decide to go for one tip per week. It will keep us all stuck to your blog gasping!
Now as far as the broken link problem is concerned, we all need to do everything in a proper planned way and hence try our most to solve these issues so as to gain the maximum profit from our online resources.
Mike Nolls on June 22, 2011
Clearing all 404 pages, layout errors, and mis-directs with 301 redirects is really important for clean spidering and trust with Google and such. Also, I always make sure to validate my website with W3C as soon as possible, fixing any issues that are found. These steps also greatly help the loading times of your site for viewers.
cayley v@netpaths seo on June 23, 2011
@melanie contacting webmasters to replace broken links of your competitors with those of your client is a tactic Matt Cutts would never tell you
Veronica Cervera@Miami Real estate on June 23, 2011
Hey Zarko,
It was interesting to read about broken links. Actually I'm not too well versed in link building terms so though I've heard about the broken links before I didn't digest the whole thing. I found your post very informative and I'll certainly try to dig further into the details about broken links.
nabil@constipation remedies on June 23, 2011
It was only a week or so ago that I was introduced to the idea of fixing broken links and the benefits of it and now this tip appears to be everywhere! I wonder how I missed it in my three years of blogging. I use a great free tool that periodically checks for broken links on my blog and notifies me.
SEO Whiz Kid on June 24, 2011
I agree that this is a great technique to use. i have gained plenty of links using this.
Martin@CDL Practice Test on June 29, 2011
Hi Zarko,
I've been using webmaster tools since…. well, forever, but i stil have no idea how to fix those errors. I keept looking at them, they keep looking back. And then we split ways.
I'll try to contact the webmasters and see if i can reduce their numbers a bit.
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Executive Summary
Corporate finance has evolved over many years to become a sophisticated specialism, for which the fees may be substantial.
The principles are the same for SMEs (small and medium enterprises) as for any larger company.
Often transaction-led, it is recommended that a wider full balance sheet approach be adopted because of the strategic financial significance.
SMEs often originate as owner/proprietor businesses, and this structure can often trigger transactions such as change of ownership or disposal for tax purposes.
By applying the same basic principles, there is no reason why similar sophistication should not be available to SMEs at affordable rates.
Working capital is a fundamental need in a recession. In order to survive, SMEs should strategically review and simplify the business, exploring all available sources of capital.
The term "corporate finance" is widely, and sometimes loosely, used in business. In accounting firms it typically relates to a department or function that primarily deals with:
mergers, acquisitions, and disposals (M&A);
raising finance (early stage through to mature businesses);
business valuations;
succession planning and exit strategies.
These might represent the practical application of corporate finance. In theory, however, its primary role is to maximize the value of the business while minimizing the financial risks. The essence of the present article is that the practice of corporate finance has become oversimplified—potentially to the detriment of the business.
Furthermore, while corporate finance is usually a specialized department in larger accounting firms and in some smaller ones, its application in SMEs can often be quite different. Here, accessing and managing sources of working capital becomes a fundamental need, especially in a recession.
We shall propose a wider approach to corporate finance, based on asset/liability management principles and the full balance sheet approach, that is just as applicable to SMEs as it is to larger, more sophisticated companies.
A Full Balance Sheet Approach
A full balance sheet approach is recommended as the underlying principle of applying corporate finance. This involves looking at each and every asset in the context of the liabilities that actually or notionally finance them. Two key measures are:
The amount by which the profit would increase or decrease as the overall result of a 1% change in interest rates.
The difference between the average duration (i.e. asset life weighted by value) of the assets and the average duration of the liabilities that fund them. The importance of this is that, if the duration of the liabilities is shorter than that of the assets and, for example, interest rates rise, there will be an additional cost to the profit and loss account that cannot be recovered by the assets.
A More Sophisticated Approach to Corporate Finance for SMEs
SMEs are often started and/or owned by owner/entrepreneurs. Corporate finance transactions may be precipitated by owners, their bankers, accountants, or lawyers, or by approaches from elsewhere. For example, two sets of circumstances have recently led to a flurry of transactions:
The British Government changed the capital gains tax (CGT) arrangements for businesses from April 6, 2008, ending taper relief. One result was that, leading up to this date, accounting and law firms were deluged by a spate of entrepreneurs seeking advice on financial restructuring or sale of their businesses to children, managers, and other interested parties so as to minimize CGT.
A growing number of owner/entrepreneurs are approaching retirement age and want to pass their businesses on to their children or managers.
Both of these typical situations create the need for advice and support on corporate finance, funding, and tax and legal advice.
The transactions referred to in points 1 and 2 are circumstantial. Other typical examples are refinancing the business, management buyouts and buy-ins, and M&A. These are routine corporate finance transactions, but if we return to the theory and apply it there are many more sophisticated possibilities which can be more appropriately driven by business or financial strategy, rather than circumstance. One of the less obvious times to consider these is during a recession or economic slowdown.
Business in Three Boxes
Entrepreneurs who have started their own business often end up trying to juggle all of what are known as the "three boxes," though such a simplified approach is entirely appropriate in a recession. The three boxes are:
business development, which includes both sales and marketing and the development of the business itself, whether organically or by acquisition;
operations, including delivery;
finance and administration.
It has been possible to outsource the last of these for at least 20 years. Not every business can afford or justify the appointment of a full-time finance director, but even that function can be contracted out these days at an economic cost—creating the "virtual F.D.". By doing so, the entrepreneur is able to focus on those aspects where his or her skills and experience are usually best applied—in the first two boxes. These should go hand in glove, as together they represent the "end to end" customer-focused processes.
Recession, Review, and the Application of Corporate Finance
A recession or similar downturn is absolutely the time to do a root and branch review, "lift the drains," and spring-clean the business. Why? Two reasons: First, because you have more time to do it during a recession; and second, because having done so, you will emerge lean and mean when the economic cycle turns favorable once more.
So often, corporate finance is transaction-led. Most accountants routinely offer the corporate finance services listed at the top of this article, but (and not just in the application of theory) there are many more opportunities, both holistically and in detail, to add measurable and lasting value to the business—and better understand it—if a corporate finance transaction starts with strategy and a thorough business review.
Business and Financial Reviews
Any accountancy firm worth its salt can do a financial review of sorts. This would probably focus on the profit and loss account, or tax, and how you can thereby save money. But the central focus of corporate finance is much more on the balance sheet. For example, an acquisition needs financing, either by debt or equity, or by both. Both need to be seen in the context of and integrated into the existing financial structure of the balance sheet.
A thorough financial review should ideally begin with a thorough business review. Every financial transaction is the consequence of a business decision. The business review starts with a review of strategy—especially the marketing strategy. It can go all the way through to the business processes and the systems that support them.
It's rather too simplistic to think that corporate finance transactions result solely from a need such as raising more working capital, financing capital expenditure, saving tax, selling or passing the business on, etc. Even if these are the circumstances that trigger a corporate finance transaction, each transaction should still be preceded by a thorough business and balance sheet review to see how it fits into the whole and ensure that the overall goal of maximizing the return on the balance sheet at a managed level of risk can be achieved.
Corporate Finance in a Credit Crunch
Credit shortages and squeezes are not unusual; they typically follow a credit "bubble," where credit has grown so fast that it necessitates an economic readjustment. More importantly, the recent credit crunch has actually been a liquidity shortage. Funds have been scarce and the cost of borrowing has gone higher because the banks could not raise sufficient, or even any, longer-term funds to lend to business.
The smaller the enterprise, the harder it is to raise sufficient funds and the higher the likely cost. It's hard enough that the economic slowdown has squeezed financial performance. Being unable to find additional funds readily when they are most needed can all too often lead to business failure. It's not lack of capital but lack of cash that busts businesses. So creativity in corporate finance becomes even more important.
So What Can SMEs Do?
Few SMEs have the opportunity to float via either an Alternative Investment Market (AIM) or full listing on the London Stock Exchange. Furthermore, the new issues market is unlikely to return to anywhere near normal before 2010. Most corporate finance transactions for SMEs involve rather less finance than might be raised through an IPO (initial public offering, or flotation).
One factor that unites all SMEs is the need to find and manage working capital. Many are wedded to the idea of unsecured debt—usually an overdraft. Some will even resort to moving banks just to get a bigger unsecured overdraft facility.
This may not be the most efficient or, especially, the cheapest means, however. The credit crunch produced some fundamental changes in the commercial and corporate banking markets (many UK bankers refer to finance for companies with turnovers of up to $1.5 million as "commercial" and above that level as "corporate"; there is no real difference in principle). First, it accelerated the transition from overdraft finance to invoice discounting. One of the key reasons for this was because in most cases banks wanted security for the debt.
This security can take many forms. The most common is assets—property, machinery, other capital assets, cash, stock, receivables, etc. The practice of taking unsecured personal guarantees has decreased, but banks may routinely ask for a statement of personal assets and liabilities. Ideally, they prefer to take a charge on personal assets, such as the owner's or director's house.
Parallel with these changes has been the move away from base rate related finance. At the worst of the credit crunch, Libor (the London Interbank Offered Rate, i.e. the rate at which banks lend each other money) diverged by up to 1.6% from base rate (usually equal to the Bank of England Base Rate as reviewed and set by the FOMC monthly), so banks preferred to use Libor as the basis for their lending rates. It also allowed them to blur the edges from one bank to another, as opposed to the common metric of the base rate.
So unsecured overdrafts became relatively dearer (up to 5% or more above base rate) and invoice discounting relatively cheaper (as low as 1.2% over base rate, although it rose as high as 2% above as Libor diverged).
The Cheapest Form of Working Capital
The cheapest form is that generated by the business itself, i.e. from sales. It is amazing how many SMEs approach their advisers or bankers seeking to borrow more money for working capital purposes when they could devote more time to selling and less to administration. This is the principle of working in the business rather than on the business. Sir Alan Sugar, the British entrepreneur and businessman, is not alone in referring to the concept of the "busy fool"—someone who works long hours and makes little or no profit.
Other Forms of Funding
Beyond sales and shorter-term borrowing, banks offer several other forms of financing, at various cost levels:
property finance;
asset finance, including leasing, HP, etc.;
stock finance.
payroll finance;
invoice discounting (not the same as factoring, but similar).
Unfortunately, as the credit crunch deepened, the availability of finance fell and the price increased. In particular, property finance became scarcer, with much lower loan-to-value (LTV) rates, as banks found they were yet again overcommitted to commercial property finance less than 20 years after the last property crash.
In summary, therefore, funding has always been available for well-run, profitable companies of any size generating regular cash flows and with assets to act as collateral. With little interbank lending taking place, resulting in shrinking wholesale funding and a liquidity squeeze, it has been no surprise that banks in general became more cautious about the scale and security of their lending.
Transaction-Based Corporate Finance
As in the wider markets, M&A activity has slowed dramatically, due both to a shortage of funds and to the greater overall perceived risk of corporates in a slowdown. In the case of both M&As and management buyouts/buy-ins, the transaction is primarily based on the track record of sales and profit generation and the capability of the business being acquired.
The more doubtful the recent and projected profit record, the more likely it is that the majority, if not all, of the funding will need to be based on assets and/or quasi-assets.
Tax, Legal, and Professional Advice
Some may think that corporate finance is an industry invented by professionals to generate fat fees. However, there are many pitfalls in trying to do it yourself. The finance director or owner is generally unlikely to get the best terms possible, even if they run a competitive auction.
Professional advisers, such as the accountancy firms, will usually have better and more banking and financing contacts. They should also be able to exert more leverage on the banks, as they have their whole clientele as the lever, rather than the business and assets of a single company or business.
Many people also resent paying what they regard as high or exorbitant fees, especially to lawyers. While there may be the odd less scrupulous professional adviser, in the main you will be paying for massive accumulated experience of the best and most efficient ways to source, transact, and document the finance, as well as avoiding myriad pitfalls.
While sale and purchase agreements and shareholder agreements may have a standard form at their core, each company and set of directors is different. Finally, there will be tax implications for every corporate finance transaction, whether for the organization or the individuals concerned. If you have the right advisers, there is no harm in taking a degree of responsibility on yourselves, but your advisers can save you money and help you avoid penal costs and consequences.
Corporate finance can mean different things to different people; even the banks divide it into at least three categories: commercial finance, corporate finance, and structured finance. In truth, however, it is about just one thing—how the business is financed. The key is the whole balance sheet approach, looking not only at the optimum mix of short- and longer-term finance, but also at the overall picture: which liability funds which asset, at an optimum balance of cost and risk.
At its best in practice, corporate finance can be a sophisticated science. This does not make it any less applicable to SMEs. While the scale and nature of transactions may often be smaller or simpler, there is no reason why similar principles and practices shouldn't be applied. Equally, for firms that have the necessary breadth of skills, the fees do not need to be exorbitant either.


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