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Monday, March 8, 2010
2010 Hell on Wheels 4th Annual MotoRally & Scramble
Events: Rally /rides to the event. Motorcycle Show, Hot Rod Show, Pin-up Style Beauty Pageant, Whiskey Challenge Dirt Bike Scrambles (races). Bands: Over night camping.
Location: Lake Elsinore MX park.
31919 Cereal Street, Lake Elsinore, CA 92530
Time: Noon to Midnight.
Cost: $10.00
Rally/ Rides to the event:
San Diego: Meeting at Trophy Motorcycles and departing at 11:am.
Contact Joel Cherry from Ton Up Club.
Inland Empire: Meeting at Biltwell?
Coastal Orange County: Meeting at Rooster Café?
Whiskey Challenge races:
First time ever Hell on Wheels is hosting dirt bike scrambles.
Anyone can enter.
Classes include
Vintage 75 and older…
Modern everything after 75.
Mini: everything under 100 cc's.
Experience level:
Trophies will be given out and a Bottle of Whiskey with each.
$40 to enter for the first class and $30.00 more for the second.
Entry forms can be obtained at http://hellonwheelsmc.blogspot.com/
Honor System… No Sandbagging or Cherry Picking… these are exhibition races for fun and do not count toward any racing points for any organization… Bragging rights only.
Beauty Pageant:
40's, 50's, or 60's style lingerie or swimwear.
$500 grand Prize and other Prizes for runners-up.
To enter contact Rose at firstname.lastname@example.com or call at 714-563-2418
An application and Photo Must be submitted by June 4th.
Application can be obtained at http://hellonwheelsmc.blogspot.com/
Bike Show and Hot Rod Show:
Ride or drive your car or bike into the designated show areas at the event…
If it doesn't run… don't bother. Ugly and Unique are Encouraged.
We will have categories ranging from Purdiest, to Ugliest…
No pre-entry form is needed… no entry fee.
Judges will consist of Hell On Wheels personnel, Club Captains, and Honored Guests.
Trophies will be given out and a Bottle Of Whiskey with each Trophy.
Gypsy Run Style Camping:
Overnight camping is encouraged.
After the stage is shut down… we will have a Bon Fire and will have a Special presentation of Two Wheel Terrors II from the Hot Rod Havoc guys.
Camping spots for both motorhomes and tents will be available. See the organizers Booth at the event for a spot. The only amenities will be Porta Potties.
No alcohol will be served by the track or the event organizers. Some clubs may be bringing beer and if you are really nice they might share… However, we encourage everyone to BYOB. And stay overnight at the track.
This Event will be filmed for upcoming Two Wheels Terrors project and a Documentary being put together by Meatball and Scott Curtiss
Clubs are welcome to participate. Any car or bike club that officially participates will be asked to donate one Customized bottle of Whiskey to be given out with trophies… and nominate one member to be a judge of either the car or bike show.
If interested please Contact Scott Curtiss : firstname.lastname@example.com
Vendor Spots are available for only $25.00. Contact Scott Curtiss: firstname.lastname@example.com to get your spot.
Food will be available from both charity fundraisers and professional food vendors.
Some of your company product to go toward the raffles and prizes.
One Sponsor customized Bottle of Whiskey to be given out with the Trophies.
two free passes to the event.
Vendor Space at the event.
Inclusion in the advertising
Inclusion in the sponsor page online
Currently Sponsors Include:
Seven Sins Choppers
Rooster Café
JRC Engineering
Lowbrow customs
Hot Rod Havoc
The Speedage
Wakula Racing
Announcing: the 4th Annual Hell On Wheels Moto Rally, Pin-up Pageant and Show.
New This year: a Vintage motor cycle race and Motocross…
This year it will be bigger and better than ever. Building on the last 3 years of Rallies and shows… we have now expanded to a larger venue… and because we at Hell On Wheels really love racing. We are adding the Scramble to the mix. Yes, in addition to the insane line-up of events from years past, this year we will include actual motorbike racing… and just to ensure that everyone can have a good time and get home safely we have arranged it so everyone can camp out at the track… yeah sleep it off before heading home. Sort of a Gypsy run... party... and ride home...
We have had tons of interest and queries from all over the world about this year's event and we are expecting upwards of 500 in attendance. At least 200 bikes and hot rods. 20 or so of the most beautiful classic style pin-up girls in So Cal. And 5 of the best underground bands in the country…
In order to afford this party we need the help of sponsors. So if you or anyone you know might be interested in suppoting this event... please let us know...
Support at any level will be appreciated. Sponsorships will go to help cover the cost of the event, provide prizes for the pageant and bikes and hot rod show and advertising.
We typically have about a dozen motorbike and car clubs join us for this event and we are looking forward to even more this year.
We are also looking for volunteers to help out with planning and implementation for the event...
So if you are interested in sponsorship or volunteering... please let me know.
Hell on Wheels
MotoRally and Vendor Coordinator
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EXCELLENCE III - an exciting addition to the Burgess sales fleet
BURGESS are delighted to announce our appointment as joint Central Agents for the sale of EXCELLENCE III.
Designed by Donald Starkey and crafted by the highly acclaimed German shipyard Abeking & Rasmussen, the 57m EXCELLENCE III is truly one of the world's most admired superyachts.
With an enviable reputation in yachting circles, EXCELLENCE III has been maintained to the highest standards by her one owner, and one, highly experienced captain since launch.
An ideal purchase opportunity for the discerning yacht buyer, EXCELLENCE III's timeless exterior profile and bold lines make her a striking presence on the water. The yacht's rich mahogany and macassar ebony interior is complemented with light soft furnishings, which mix classic and contemporary for a relaxed and peaceful atmosphere. Natural light flows through the yacht from oversized windows, which also offer superlative views across the water.
The yacht's considered and practical layout is designed specifically for entertaining to the highest standards, with expansive guest areas allowing for maximum flow and minimal intrusion. Meanwhile, out of doors, very generous and well shaded deck areas present multiple lounging and al fresco dining options.
Spacious and flexible accommodation for up to 14 is provided in the full-beam owner's suite on the main deck, a large VIP suite on the upper deck with additional children's or staff cabin and four generous guest staterooms on the lower deck that can be converted to two full-beam suites. The fully equipped gymnasium and office offer additional guest areas that a new owner could convert into two further guest staterooms if required.
For more information on this exciting addition to the sales fleet contact a Burgess sales broker.
Burgess has also been appointed exclusive Central Agents for the charter of EXCELLENCE III. To discuss charter options talk to a Burgess charter broker today.
Not for sale or charter to US residents while in US waters

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St. Catherine's Chapel
St. Catherine Feast Day 11/25/2018
Did you know that:
... the two icon veneration stands (Proskinitaria) and the candle stand (Pangari) were donated by the Assumption GOYA Chapter in 1954? (our GOYA Chapter at that time was the largest in the U.S.)
...there are five icons of St. Catherine in the Chapel? (do you know where they are located?)
... the large mosaic icon of The Good Shepherd on the east wall of the Sanctuary (behind The Holy Altar Table) is a copy of the original 6th Century icon found in Ravenna, Italy)?
... air Holy Altar Tables within Greek Orthodox churches contain relics of martyred saints?
... during the late 1950's, on given Sundays, four Holy Altar Tables were in use during Divine Liturgies within the church? (two were used in St. Catherine's Chapel - one by the visiting St. Nicholas Albanian Orthodox Church who were allowed to use our Chapel while their own church was being built nearby at Narragansett and Diversey Ave. The Divine Liturgy for the Sunday Church School followed shortly after. Upstairs, in the main church, there were two additional Divine Liturgies on Sundays - one was in Greek and the other was in English. According to Canonical Law, a Holy Altar Table can only be used one time during a given day).
... the ten icons hanging on the sides and rear wall in the Nave are believed to have once hung in the old wooden church where Plato School now stands?
... of the ten large wall icons hanging in St. Catherine's Chapel, two icons are clearly identified as having been produced on Mount Athos? (evidence suggests that six other wall icons in the Chapel were also produced on Mount Athos, each in 1927).
... the iconographer who produced the icons on the Chapel's Iconostasis, also produced the icons on the Iconostasis in the main church of Panaghia's upstairs.
... there are eight icons on the Chapel's Iconostasis? (can you name who is on each of them?)
... before the Chapel was built, the hall space below the main church was used for Sunday Church School classes, wedding receptions, special events and youth dances? (the small kitchen served to provide food during dinner events).
... when the Chapel was built, the small classrooms on either side were not included? (they were added later, once the Chapel began to be used).
... the twelve mosaic icon medallions that surround the large mosaic icon of The Good Shepherd in the Chapel's Sanctuary were a gift to the Assumption Church by Sts. Constantine and Helen Church.
Contact Us
Assumption Greek Orthodox Church
601 S. Central Avenue
Chicago, IL 60644
Phone: (773) 626-3114
Fax: (773) 626-3141
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Upcoming Events / Dates To Remember
Live Divine Liturgy Services can be viewed every Sunday morning beginning at 9:45 am CDT
Assumption Greek Orthodox Church is now streaming our services to those that are unable to attend in person. We are also giving you a way to submit an online offering by using the form below.
Please make a custom offering by indicating your offering in the area provided.
If you would like to make a recurring offering you may do so by using the form below to set up the amount and frequency of the offering and clicking the submit button.
Your recurring offering will automatically be deducted from the form of payment you indicate for the amount and frequency you selected until you decide to stop or change the amount/frequency.


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Can the penalty for aiding and abetting a Rs 7,000-and-odd crore fraud be just Rs 5 lakh and a debarment?
That, incidentally, is what the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India – ICAI, the audit profession's self-regulatory body – has fined C Ravindranath and P Sivaprasad, employees of Lovelock & Lewes, an affiliate of Price Waterhouse India, for their role in the Satyam Computer Services fraud perpetrated in cahoots with the promoter, B.Ramalinga Raju.
ICAI has debarred them from practising as chartered accountants by removing their names from the institute's register. A BusinessLine report quotes ICAI President G Ramaswamy as saying: "We are proactive in taking action against our erring members. ICAI is competent and bold enough to take action. Our disciplinary mechanism is strong.â€
How strong can be gauged from the fact that while Price Waterhouse India and its partners have settled with the US Securities & Exchange Commission – SEC, the US market regulator – for a penalty of $6 million (around Rs 30 crore) and debarment from any audit in the US till they comply with a whole set of demands imposed by the SEC, here they have gotten away with a minor fine.
In an order dated 5 April 2011, the SEC said Price Waterhouse's audit reports on Satyam "did not conduct Satyam's audits in accordance with PCAOB (the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board) standards… Specifically, the PW India partners and staff on the Satyam engagement team failed to maintain control of the confirmation process with respect to cash and cash equivalent balances as well as Satyam's accounts receivables. The failure to properly execute third-party confirmation procedures resulted in the fraud at Satyam going undetected until the former chairman's public confession in January 2009.â€
Further: "The respondents (PW) failed to identify the material overstatement of Satyam's assets, in part, because the engagement team failed to carry out the confirmation processes and procedures related to cash and interest-bearing deposits in accordance with PCAOB standards — and its own audit plan — for fiscal years 2005-2008. PCAOB standards require, among other things, that auditors test the existence and valuation of reported cash and interest bearing deposit balances.â€
Short of saying that the auditors were in league with the Satyam management, the SEC seems to be suggesting that the fraud could not have happened without the auditors knowing about it.
The points to note are this:
One, the fraud happened in India, and hence India's regulators and ICAI should have been first off the block. But while SEC has got a blow in, ICAI has done its two bits six months after the SEC. What does this say about the speed of its actions?
Two, since it is more than likely that the two debarred auditors knew all about the Satyam fraud – they were doing the audits from 2001 to 2008 – is it enough to fine them just Rs 5 lakh each? Surely, they would have received more than their share of the Satyam loot for looking the other way when the fraud was being perpetrated over years?
Three, the ICAI has been battling suggestions for creating a separate regulator or oversight board for audit companies, and has been particularly wary about market watchdog Sebi's efforts to probe the auditors' role in the Satyam scam.
Four, the most significant element in Satyam scandal, which started off on 7 January 2009 when Ramalinga Raju sent a letter (See here) to the stock exchanges informing them about the fraud, is that Raju never mentioned how his scam escaped the auditors' notice. This omission speaks louder than words about the nexus between management and auditors.
The failure of the auditors to raise an alarm itself suggests that the audit profession is in need of strong external supervision and regulation. But there is not a sign of any contrition at the ICAI. BusinessLine quotes Ramaswamy of ICAI as saying: "There is certainly no case for a separate regulator or oversight board to regulate audit profession as suggested by Sebi.â€
Well, the contrast between SEC's action against Satyam's auditors and ICAI's belies that claim.
PS: All loose ends in the Satyam scandal are being closed one by one. Raju and Co are out on bail — and the cases against them are proceeding at a leisurely pace. The company itself has been sold to the Mahindras, who have chosen to pay off Satyam's US investors at the cost of Indian ones. Maytas, another Raju group company that was at the real estate end of the scam, has been sold. YS Rajashekhara Reddy — former Andhra CM and a key link in the Satyam scandal, is dead. His son Jagan Reddy, who surely must know a thing or two about the scam, is being pressured by the Congress government because he has chosen to challenge the Gandhis. And now the auditors have got away with a rap on the knuckles.
The Satyam scandal will soon be history with no lessons learnt.
Source: Firstpost.com


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I am a very content husband and father of two wonderful children. I'm also a Chartered Financial Planner, a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) and Managing Director of Jacksons Wealth Management in Penzance, UK.
After reading 'Crush It' by one of my internet heroes Gary Vaynerchuk, I realised that I could use the internet and social networking to get a very important message across.


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Earlier this year I created a lab assignment for Sally Hermansen's Advanced Cartography course at the University of British Columbia. The purpose of this lab was to introduce students to Google Maps and managing data in Google Fusion Tables. I'm posting it here in case anyone else finds it useful. I'd also like to thank Sally's TA Sam Walker for his help testing this assignment. For that course I also created a short QuantumGIS tutorial, which I will post separately: A Very Short Introduction to QGIS.
Geographical Biogeosciences 472
Advanced Cartography
Lab 2: Google Maps
The objective of the lab is to create an interactive, web-based map that would be suitable for inclusion on the web edition of a major newspaper or in a blog post by an advocacy organization. In this lab you will have to consider the differences between static paper maps and dynamic web maps. You will also confront the challenge of making a map using nothing but free tools, skills which will be useful to you when you have graduated and no longer have access to a lab with ArcGIS installed. You will also be learning more about Open Source GIS software and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in the second to last week of the course.
In this lab you will use a variety of free mapping tools built on Google Maps. You will use Google Fusion Tables to manage and map your data, and you will learn how to use the Google Maps API to customize the appearance of the basemap.
The point layer you create will be clickable, using pop-up boxes to provide the map reader with additional information such as statistical information, photographs, or links to web pages.
For demonstration purposes, each step of this lab will be explained using city population data from Statistics Canada. You are welcome to use this data while you work through the lab and learn the techniques. However, you must select a different point data set for the final map that you will turn in. Do not turn in your assignment using the same city population data used as the example in this lab.
Part 1: Getting Started
1.1: Overview of web mapping
A web map consists of three main parts: the basemap, the content layers, and the web page that holds the map together.
In some cases all three parts are hosted on the same web site (for example, on Google's servers). However, it is also possible that the frame, the basemap, and the content layers are all sourced from different data providers across the web. In this lab we will mainly use Google products, but we will experience some of the various possibilities in how a web map can be assembled.
Google provides several different ways to make maps. Here are a few of them:
- Custom Maps (formerly called "My Maps") is the simplest way to add points, lines, and polygons to a map. These features must be created and edited manually; there is no way to import data into a Custom Map. Also, Custom Maps are limited to a fixed set of symbols and must use one of Google's default basemaps (roads, satellite, or terrain). The map content and the basemap are all hosted on Google's servers. We will not use Custom Maps in this lab. To read more about Custom Maps: http://support.google.com/maps/bin/answer.py?answer=62843
- Fusion Tables are the newest method for mapping data on Google Maps. A Fusion Table is an online database similar to a spreadsheet. In part 2 we will load data into a Fusion Table and use the built-in tools to visualize the data on a map. In part 3 we will combine our Fusion Table and the API, using Fusion Tables to manage our data, but using the API to control the appearance of the map, and host it on our own web page. For this lab then, we will be using Fusion Tables with the Google Maps API.
In addition to Google Maps, there are several other for-profit and Open Source alternatives – Some software alternatives include: Bing Maps API, MapQuest API, OpenLayers, and Leaflet. Other sources of data include OpenStreetMap and GeoCommons, to name a few.
1.2: Setup
For this lab you will need to create a Google account if you do not already have one: http://accounts.google.com
Next, you will need to create an API key here: https://code.google.com/apis/console/
Switch the "Google Maps API v3″ status from OFF to ON. Then, in the left hand bar, select "API Access". Ignore the messages about creating an OAuth client ID, that is only necessary if you intend to solicit information from the users of your map. Note the API key, a long string of letters and numbers. Copy this key somewhere; we will use it later.
Part 2: Fusion Tables
2.1: Data processing
Collect a dataset of point data that you wish to map. The data must have at least one column that can be geocoded: this could be a city name, a postal code, or a full street address. You do not need to find data that already contains geographic coordinates such as a shapefile. Your data can be at any scale, from street addresses within one city up to the locations of several cities across multiple countries. You may use data for anywhere in the world, although Google's geocoding may not be very successful if you plan to use street addresses in countries outside of North America or Europe. Your dataset should have more than 20 points, although larger numbers (100 or more) are preferred.
For the examples given in the lab we will download the recently-released "Population and dwelling counts, for census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations, 2011 and 2006 censuses" table from Statistics Canada: http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2011/dp-pd/hlt-fst/pd-pl/Table-Tableau.cfm?LANG=Eng&T=201&S=3&O=D&RPP=150
Load your data into an Excel spreadsheet, if it isn't in one already. Remove any columns (or rows) that you do not want on your map.
We will upload our Excel file from the page http://docs.google.com/. Click the red "create" button and select "Table (beta)" from the drop down options. In the next window, choose to import a file from your computer. Select the .xls file from your computer when prompted. Next you will be prompted which columns you want to import. Remember that all of the fields in this spreadsheet will be visible to anyone who has the link, so if any of the columns contain private information, do not include them. Then, in the final window, you will be prompted to change the table's name and to add some metadata. It is not necessary to "allow export" at this stage.
2.2: Geocoding and visualizing the data
When the import is complete, you should see your data displayed in a new Fusion Table. The import process may have already recognized which column contains your geographic data. These will be highlighted in yellow. If the import did not detect which column contains your locations, go to Edit > Modify Columns and make sure that one of your columns is set to have the "Location" type. (You will see this as the second entry under Column Details.)
Select File > Geocode to save the geocoding results. If the geocode window seems to be stuck on 0%, make sure you press "start". You can tell an address has been geocoded by mousing over each address and seeing the Google Earth icon appear (a small blue globe). Fields that have not yet been geocoded or where the geocoding failed will be shown in yellow.
More information about geocoding in Fusion Tables: http://support.google.com/fusiontables/bin/answer.py?answer=1012281
Now select Visualize > Map to view the result of the geocoding. Look for any dots that seem out of place. If there are any problems, return to table view (click Visualize > Table) to edit the geocoded field and re-geocode. You can update the geocoding for a row by clicking the Google Earth icon next to the location name.
In map view, you will see several links right above the mapped area. Let's look at these one by one.
- Click "Configure info window". A new window will appear titled "Configure info window contents". Here you can modify the window that pops up when a user clicks on a map feature. Check or uncheck the fields that you want to be visible. Optional: if you know HTML, you can click "Custom" and have more control over the style of the info window. When you are done configuring the info window, click save.
- Click "Configure styles". A new window will appear titled "Configure map styles". Here you can change the symbology of your map if you like. Note, however, that we will override this symbology using the API in part 3.
- Notice the link to "export as KML", which would let you view the table in Google Earth. This link will not be active if your table is not set to be "exportable". You can make your table exportable by choosing File > About and clicking "Edit table information"
- Also notice the link to "get embeddable link". This is a quick way to embed the map in a web page, although it is less powerful than the API technique we will use later. The embeddable link does not give us the ability to add multiple content layers or control the appearance of the background layer.
Click the "Share" button in the upper right corner of the window. My default your table will be set to "private", but we have to make the table "public" or "unlisted" if we want to view the data using the Google Maps API (in the next section). Again, remember that all the fields in your table will be visible in table view, even if they aren't visible in the map view.
Finally, view File > About, and make a note of the table's Numeric ID. We will use this ID in the next step.
Part 3: Google Maps API
3.1: Creating a web page
First we will be creating an html page which will be the container for our map. HTML is the computer language (or "code") that determines the content of a web page and what that page looks like. When you type in a web address (a Universal Resource Locator or URL) into a web browser such as Firefox, the browser downloads the HTML code and converts it into the web page you see on the screen.
Use a text editor or word processor program such as Notepad++ (Wordpad or Word will work if Notepad is not available) or a specialized HTML editing program like Dreamweaver, if you are comfortable using it.
Create a file index.html in your H: drive, in the "www" folder. If you are using Word, make sure you save the file as "Plain Text" type, not as a Word document. However, it must have the ".html" extension, not ".txt".
Paste code: be careful to type in all the names and punctuation exactly as shown. Computer code is very sensitive to the smallest errors, so leaving out a comma or a semicolon could cause the entire page to malfunction (usually without explaining why).
<!DOCTYPE html>   <title> Google Fusion Tables map </title>      Hello world!

You do not need to understand everything that is happening in the HTML and JavaScript.
Any text between
 is called a "comment". (Note that the string of characters that begin a comment include an exclamation point, but the closing characters do not. This is not a typo!) Anything written between these symbols will be ignored by the computer. Comments are a good way to leave notes for yourself or for other people who might need to view or edit your HTML code. These comments will not be visible when your web page is viewed in a web browser. For this lab you must use comments in your code to explain what you are doing. Your final mark will depend, in part, on the readability of your code.
You should modify this code in three places (in bold above). First, edit the title of the page (between the <title> and </title> tags). You can call the page whatever you like. Second, edit the API key, replacing it with the key that you created in part 1.2. Third, edit the text of the web page, replacing "Hello world!" with whatever you like. You may also need to modify the starting latitude and longitude in the google.maps.LatLng() statement, if you need to center your map on an area other than Canada. This will depend on what data you choose to map. In the example above, we specify the center of the map is "55, -95". (In other words, 55º N, 95º W, which works well for a map of Canada). You can also change the scale of your map by changing the number after the "zoom:" statement. Higher numbers make the map more zoomed in. A zoom levels of zero results in a world map, while a zoom level of 16 is approximately neighborhood scale. You can use trial and error to determine the best zoom level for your map.
Note that everything within the      Hello world!

Click here to view a live example.
Part 5: Hand in the following on a few typed pages:
- The link to the web page you created that contains your Google Map. You do not need to hand in a printout of the map or of your HTML code; the TA can view the source code of your web page from the web browser.
- The link to view your fusion table. (When viewing your table, click Get Link in the upper left corner to get this URL). You do not need to hand in a printout of your data.
- A short written response that answers the following questions:
- What is the purpose of the map, and who is your imagined audience?
- How did you select and process your data? Were you able to find the data you wanted?
- How did you decide on the final cartographic styling of your map? What challenges did you encounter using the Google tools? Were there any things you wanted to do, but couldn't?
- Compare the process of making a Google Map with the process you went through in lab 1. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each approach? When might you choose to make a map using traditional GIS and design tools (as in lab 1) and when might you choose to use Google tools?
Your written response will be worth 30% of your lab grade. Your map (including the supporting web page and the underlying data) will be worth 70%. Your web page will be marked on the following criteria:
- Appearance. Are the content layer(s) symbolized in a logical and effective manner? Has the basemap been modified in a way that supports the map's theme? Does the map load at an appropriate level of zoom, and is it centred on the correct area? (30%)
- Functionality. Does the map respond to the map reader's interaction? Are the map features clickable and do they display useful information (such as links, images, and/or additional Fusion Table fields)? Are the pop-up boxes well-designed? (10%)
- Data. Is the data appropriate, and has it been processed and formatted correctly? (10%)
- Integration between the map and the rest of the web page. Does the map support the message communicated by the images, text, and links on the rest of the page? Does the rest of the page sufficiently explain what the map reader should learn from the map? (10%)
- Cleanliness and readability of your HTML code. Your HTML does not need to be significantly different from the example given above, but all the changes you make should be logical and well-formatted. (10%)


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become what is "considered attractive" in the good ol' USA?
I feel like I woke up one morning and our planet was taken over by what I like to refer to as the Blonderix Zombies. It is an epidemic the overblown fish lips, the Morgan Fairchild pig nose, the over done/crispy platinum hair, bad tans, bad boobs, bad clothes oh and let's not forget way too much make up and the shaved draw them back on eye brows which I totally do not get. Why would you shave them off to have to draw them back on....man I hope you don't have to do that when your hungover because that would just suck.
Did a space ship land when I was not looking and dump these creatures onto our already fragile planet? I mean....I have NO problem with folks getting a little nip n tuck here in there, whatever tickles your pickle...but in some of these cases the shit has gone completely insane. I mean can you honestly look at some of these pics and tell me that they don't look like some kind of alien circus freaks? I couldn't even begin to guess you how old these women are because they massacred their faces so bad it is hard to tell if they are still human. I bet some of them were just fine before they decided to do this in order to improve their looks?
What gets me is these women think they look good and because of this many women out there think this is the norm to what the male species think is attractive, in turn women as young as 18 are beginning to dabble in plastic surgery which in turn could have you end up looking like Ms. Heidi "I am not to bright" Montag. Who has said time and time again she has regretted the work she has had done. Why put yourself through this much pain and torture in order for vanity?
I really would have liked to be around when these {below}ladies were at the top. So naturally beautiful not manufactured, classy and not trashy.
|Grace Kelly
|Raquel Welch
|Sophia Loren
|Bridgette Bardot
Damn what a shame.


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From CNBC
The cyber threat is real.
If you have control of valuable assets, including trillions of dollars of transactions, as The
Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) does, your company will be attacked. It's a matter of when, not if, it will happen. That means you need to develop a sophisticated and multi-faceted approach to cyber-security.
Only a few years ago, corporate cyber-security might have been limited to installing the latest software patch—an activity on a par with, say, facilities management.
However, given the increasing number and magnitude of cyber-crimes, as well as new types of threats, cyber-security now requires a coordinated effort between companies, government agencies and advanced academics with cutting edge insights into the future of technology. In a networked world, no one can afford to go it alone.


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Top Line
President Calvin Coolidge isn't typically remembered as one of the great American presidents, but as Congress moves to consider the president's budget released Wednesday, biographer Amity Shlaes makes the case that Washington could learn a thing or two from the 30th president.
"When he left office, the federal budget was lower than when he came in real terms, nominal, with vanilla on top," Shlaes says of the former president, pointing to this as his great legacy.
"He actually cut the budget."
In her new biography Coolidge, Shlaes lays out how that the former president led a successful battle to rein in the government and cut taxes.
"The big drama of his life was holding the government back, and he did that when he was president by vetoing and by cutting taxes and it wasn't an easy campaign," Shlaes tells Top Line.
Coolidge is more commonly remembered as "silent Cal" rather than an "economic general," as Shlaes characterizes him. But Shlaes asserts that his silence was a political philosophy.
"He was selectively silent," says Shlaes. "He didn't want to hand out political favors."
Shlaes explains that the president used silence as a way to build political trust, while being careful not to make promises he couldn't keep. Shlaes says modern politicians focus too much on "their celebrity and their personality" which leads to a sort of insincerity with their electorate, pointing to Gov. Christie (R – N.J.) as an example.
"Today we have an absence of political trust, because they yap on and then do the opposite of what they said, and you actually see that a little bit in Chris Christie, who's supposed to be a 'free marketeer' and then was asking for help in this horrible storm," says Shlaes.
To hear more about how the 30th president might approach the budget if he were in office today, as well as how he would handle immigration reform, check out this episode of Top Line.
Eric Wray and Sherisse Pham contributed to this episode.


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Employees from the 3M manufacturing site at Clitheroe turned their hand to horticulture to help out at the East Lancashire Hospice in Blackburn.
The volunteers spent a day digging over flower beds, renovating fences and generally tidying up the grounds around the in-patient entrance to the hospice.
They were taking part in the annual 3M Global Volunteering Day together with colleagues from the science-based technology company's sites around the world. Last year employees from more than 80 locations carried out voluntary work in their local communities.
The Clitheroe manufacturing site makes valves and components for asthma inhalers and the hospice was chosen as a thank you for the care it provided to Derek Threlfall, the father of the company's business development manager Laura Walsh.
"It's a remarkable place," said Laura, who was among the volunteer gardeners. "My dad passed away there two months ago, at the age of 76, and his family are so grateful for all they did for him."
For more than 30 years, East Lancashire Hospice has continuously provided a special way of caring to people suffering from life limiting illnesses throughout Blackburn, Darwen, Accrington and Clitheroe.
The volunteer efforts were supported by donations of plants and paint from Clitheroe-based businesses, Holden Clough Nursery and Jeff Parker Plastering and Roofing.


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We recently created an alert regarding the arrest of Carly Jo Underwood, of Midland, Texas. Carly was arrested in December for having left her foreclosed-upon house eight months previously with sixteen dogs inside, some loose in the house, others caged, to die the horrid deaths of dehydration and hunger. Upon further review, it's become increasingly apparent that this simply wouldn't have happened with better shelter management and/or procedures in place. We must act now to ensure nothing like this happens ever again at a shelter aspiring to the high standards of a "no kill" facility.
News of the gruesome findings and Carly's arrest included information that Carly had been on the board of the Dust Bowl Animal Shelter (DBAS) in Texas and a foster to its animals. Mesha Randolph, President of DBAS, a "no kill" facility, was interviewed following Carly's arrest. According to news reports, Mesha aided with the investigation and told media that she couldn't imagine why Carly had acted as she had, that it was "uncharacteristic" of her. Equally troubling is the lack of a working animal tracking system, as when asked to help identify the dead dogs, Mesha said that she was unable to distinguish between, or identify the dogs as there was, "just fur, fur everywhere." With proper policies, identification records, and tracking, there's absolutely no way that sixteen dogs would go unaccounted for over such a long period of eight months when the person fostering them had left the state.
We have also studied Dust Bowl Animal Shelter's foster home application. It is thorough, except that it contains only one reference to a home check that appears to refer to an initial visit when the organization inspects a potential home as a condition of approval for the application. The form also addresses reporting changes in the home, like the number of animals kept, but lacks mention of follow up home checks.
Because Mesha Randolph disclosed that she was unable to identify the dogs, and because they were somehow "lost" in the system at the Shelter for eight months after Carly left the state, we have taken the position that the Shelter, and the President, Mesha Randolph share some of the responsibility for the vile death of each of these precious, defenseless lives. How could a "no kill" shelter, of all shelters, allow a volunteer, foster caregiver, or board member to foster so many animals without keeping up with their status for more than half a year?
Why, when Carly did not report the dogs as being adopted, or adopt some of them herself, did they not check on their welfare? We hold that the organization is culpable in the death of the dogs by either failure of policy or of a failure to follow policy.
Please join us in writing the board members of Dust Bowl Animal Shelter to ask that they ask for the resignation of DBAS President Mesha Randolph and that they review all Shelter adoption and fostering policies to identify exactly how such a grossly negligent and horrific incident was allowed to happen on their watch. A "no kill" shelter should set standards for the highest concern for and supervision of fostered and adopted animals.
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UTA stands for Utility Technology Association. It is an association of utility IT and finance professionals that
meet annually to discuss trends in utility-centric technology.
Just visit the Contact Us link located at the bottom of each page and then select "Membership" in the contact
dropdown list, and fill out the form. This will send an email to our membership committee to put you on the mailing list for our conferences.
Then you will be notified of all upcoming conferences that UTA has planned. There is no membership fee for UTA and we do NOT sell our membership
UTA meets once per year in the fall. Each year a utility agrees to be the host utility and plans the location of the meeting. The fall conference
typically take place Wednesday through Friday.
First, click on Create UserID that is located on all pages and set up an account. Then you can click "Register" on the
Events page and complete the form to register.
Creating a UserID is only required if you want to register, online, for our Fall Conference.
Click Login that is located on all pages and then select Forgot Password
and answer your security questions to receive an email with your new password.
If your company is not listed then please scroll to the bottom of the list and select "Add Company Name" and enter your company's name.
The Thursday evening event is dinner accompanied with some form of entertainment. If you are registered for the conference then there is no fee to attend
unless you are bringing guests ($90.00 per guest). Please let us know during registration if you plan to attend along with the number of guests you will be
bringing so we can prepare accordingly.
If you get this message then you have entered either an incorrect User Name or Password. You can select Forgot Password
if you cannot remember your password.
If you are using a credit card then select the "Paypal/Credit Card" option located at the bottom of the Fall Registration
page. Next, after you submit your payment to paypal then select "Don't have a PayPal account" to enter your credit card information and complete your purchase.
If you already completed the Paypal/Credit Card checkout then the payment has been finalized. To reverse the payment, please contact "web support" on the Contact Us
page and we will help you with any corrections needed.
If you did not complete your checkout then View your registration confirmation and click the "CANCEL REGISTRATION" button after you click your registration confirmation link. After
completing your cancellation, you will be able to register again using the correct method.
Visit View your registration confirmation and click the "CANCEL REGISTRATION" button after you click your registration confirmation link. After
completing your cancellation, you will be able to register again using the correct method.
If you have not already paid, then cancelling your registration is easy. Sign in using the UserID that was used to register you. Go to the Events Page, Click on the Registration link. It will state that you have already
registered but will also give you a link to View your registration confirmation. Click on the View registration link and then click the "CANCEL REGISTRATION" button at the bottom of the page.
If you have already paid, we request that if your company can swap a paid registered attendee with another person that would be our preference. UTA understands things come up especially in the IT field, but we consider
a paid attendee when building the budget and planning the logistics for capacity and meals. To swap and attendee's name and keep the attendance commitment your company has made, please visit the Contact Us link located
at the bottom of each page and select the "General Info/Comments" in the contact dropdown list. Explain the situation and name of the new attendee. Please include a phone number in case a UTA representative needs to
speak with you.
If you have already paid, and there is no one else that is able to attend, UTA will issue refund checks after the completion of the conference. If you paid via paypal/credit card, there is a small processing fee that was
incurred that will be refunded. The amount of the refund will be the NET amount received. Please visit Contact Us, and include the name the refund check is to be written to and the mailing address to send the refund
check to.
UTA is governed by an executive committee compiled of UTA members which includes the current Chairman, Vice Chairman and the
past Chairman.
Our program committee is committed to bringing topics of relevance to the UTA meetings and can span across a wide variety of topics
from data storage to automated meter reading and everything in-between. If you would like to submit a topic request we will be happy
to try to work that topic in as well.
Just visit the Contact Us link located at the bottom of each page and then select "Vendor Information" in the contact
dropdown list, and enter your contact information and a description of your product and/or a detailed proposal of the topic. This information will
be sent to our program committee for review.
If there are no more vendor booths available, a vendor can still continue registering and attend the conference and networking opportunities.
The vendor will just not be able to have an exhibiting booth.
Depending on the conference venue the committee may be able to open up more space. Visit the Contact Us link located at the bottom of each page and then select "Vendor Information" in the contact
dropdown list to make an inquiry about this option.
Just visit the Contact Us link located at the bottom of each page and then select "General Info/Comments" in the contact
dropdown list, and let us know your questions.
Time is valuable and we recognize that. UTA is here to bring information from many resources to you all at one time for the purpose of information,
education and empowerment. The more you know, the more you are able to accomplish and we believe that the dissemination of information that we bring will
help you be more effective in your work place. Not only will you benefit from the information but you will also benefit from the people network that you will
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Thursday, October 27, 2011
Water Everywhere in the City of Accra
Monstrous incompetence sluiced through the City of Accra on Tuesday night. It turned God's bounty into a Greek gift; destroying lives and houses, cars and mattresses. It is among us the depravity resides. The wealthy wise-ass who chiselled and cast his brick-and-mortar in a water way because there was space; because he could; because nobody stopped him; because be bought off whoever tried to stop him. His workmen bought food in plastic bags and created compost blocks in gutters. Between the government goon and the conniving contractor who constructed a ten-millimetre gutter, if any at all, don't you deserve to go Gaddafi!
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Do you hear what I hear?
Maybe not. Don't assume that your speech audience understands your every word. You might want to use some different words when you repeat a point or summarize. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines a modegreen as:
"A word or phrase that results from a mishearing of something said or sung."
In December 2013 the Snopes.com web site had a page about The Red and The Mondegreen with misheard lyrics from Christmas carols including the opening line:
"Joy to the world, the lord has gum!"
Was that regular or sugar-free gum?
I just got another illustration of just how far off some listeners can stray. When the Master Calls the Roll is a song about the Civil War on Rosanne Cash's new album The River & the Thread. You can watch a video of it performed live here or listen to the studio version here.
When I did a web search for the lyrics, I found many sites had copied the same silly version. Here's the second half, with ten misheard words or phrases coralled inside square brackets:
"Chorus 2:
[Know] Though the season may come
[Know] Though the season may go
Beware the storm clouds gather
Take [heat in warm of soul] heed dear mortal soul
When the master calls the roll
But, can this union be preserved?
The soldier boy was crying
I will never travel back to her
But not for lack of trying
It's a love of one true [heart at last] hearted lass
That made the boy a hero
But a rifle ball and a cannon blast
Cut him down to zero
Oh Virginia [once] whence I came
I'll see you when I'm younger
And I'll know you by your hills again
This [town] time from six feet under
Chorus 3:
[Know] Though the season may come
[Know] Though the season may go
[A man is] What man has torn asunder
[But someday we may know] Will someday be made whole
When the master calls the roll
Final chorus:
Though the storm clouds gather
Let the union be made whole
When the master calls the roll."
Note that they got the final "Though" correct, but didn't think about whether all their preceding "[Know]s might be wrong.
The 1901 image came from the Library of Congress.
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Capturing, preserving and disseminating the university's intellectual capital - this is the role of the digital archive or institutional repository at the University of Wollongong.
An institutional repository exists to archive and make available research outputs such as journal articles, conference papers, working papers, reports and data sets or teaching and learning material such as tests, images, animations, web sites, video or sound files. An IR can also encourage sharing and collaboration of teaching and learning material and increase the visibility and accessibility of research output.
A multidisciplinary UOW team spent 2005 investigating the benefits of an open access institutional repository for digital objects. The final report of the team is available here.
On 14 November 2005 the University adopted Bepress's Digital Commons software under the banner Research Online - the University's open access research repository. Research Online was rolled out during 2006, with the aim of collecting and exposing the University research outputs for the period 2000-2006. The Learning Edge (Equilla) was also put in place locally around this time to accomodate the teaching and learning object needs of the Graduate School of Medicine.
Research Online (ro.uow.edu.au) site went live on 12 December 2005 and the first objects were loaded on 18 Janaury 2006.
This present site contains information on the concept of repositories for teaching and learning and research objects. It records the work of the Content Management System Evaluation Team during 2005 and the Research Online Management Committee 2006+. This site also links to relevant examples of higher education institutional repositories both locally and abroad, to supplier information and to related commentary.
For further information please contact Michael Organ, Manager - Repository Services, University Library, University of Wollongong 2522, Australia. Ph: 02 4221 3108.
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Water is a limiting factor in agriculture and when improperly managed reduces the yield potential of crops. The objective of this study is to develop a Fuzzy Irrigation Decision Support System (FIDSS) to optimize water management for soybean production.
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Enthusiastic Matt Nagy sold on the Bears' future as he becomes franchise's 16th head coach
LAKE FOREST – If fans of the team were watching his first words as Bears head coach, perhaps you were skeptical. Frankly, that's a natural reaction.
This is the third time that such a news conference has been held at Halas Hall to introduce a new on-field leader. They did so with Marc Trestman early in 2013 and then again with John Fox in 2015. Promise of a new and more positive era of the franchise was preached, but never followed through as the team missed the playoffs with all five head coaches.
So why should Matt Nagy be any different? It's a fair question that fans should ask for an organization that's not won a Super Bowl since the 1985 season nor made the postseason since 2010.
But the enthusiastic new coach tried to sell the fans on Tuesday at Halas Hall when asked specifically what he would tell the new head coach
"Passion and positive energy, and creating a culture. I just got chills saying it," said Nagy. "It's real, so everybody in here, just having that energy, and that belief, and that trust of what's going to happen on a daily basis."
While it might take sometime for the former Chiefs offensive coordinator to convince fans of that, there is no doubt that Nagy is sold on the franchise to which he lead on the field in 2018. That was perhaps the biggest takeaway from his initial comments to the media as the 16th head coach in franchise history.
Starting with an interview at 8 AM in Kansas City and finishing with dinner later that night, Nagy was sold on the future of the franchise, especially from general manager Ryan Pace, describing the conversation as "powerful."
"I go a lot on my gut feeling of how things are going to go. I had no idea, it was my first interview ever, interviewing for a head coaching position and I had no idea how it was going to go," said Nagy of his interview with the Bears on Sunday. "As I went into the interview, in that room, I felt it. It's a special feeling, and when we walked out, and we just had a conversation amongst the two of us, that you just kind knew this could be really good."
Nagy even said that the vibe from the interview was as appealing to him as was the prospect of working with quarterback Mitchell Trubisky. He visited the Chiefs before the draft last Spring and Nagy described the day with the quarterback as "unbelievable." Still, it's the quick repore with Pace that Nagy continued to point out a number of times during the question-and-answer session as a critical reason he took the job.
"The direction of this team and this organization. You see it, you feel it, there is a want there to be great. So one of the things that I noticed right off the bat with Ryan is understanding how easy it is for us to have a partnership," said Nagy of Pace. "It's going to be strong. I told him, I said 'I've got you, and this is something here that we're going to do together, no egos involved.'
"I'm gonna help you with any questions you have you have, you do the same to me. You criticize me, I'll criticize you. We may agree to disagree, but we're gonna do it to benefit the team. In the end, we'll be able to look each other in the eyes and respect each other and smile because we'll make good things happen."
Believing is one thing, but selling it to a frustrated fanbase is another. It might not be for another year or two until those rooters at Soldier Field and around Chicago buy in. All that Nagy can do now is try to sell them as well as the Bears did on Sunday.
"I come here and start meeting everybody and you see where they're at. They're hungry and the fans are hungry, and I get that," said Nagy. "That's why they selected me to come in here is to help get that culture back to where it's just a prideful thing. We go out there each and every day in practice at the games.
"Now it's talk, but we've got to make it happen."
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CSG vs LKK 2nd Semi Final Live Score Ball By Ball Result Highlights 17th September 2016 :- The second semi-final of Tamil Nadu Premier League will be played between Chepauk Super Giles and Lyca Kovai Kings. These both teams will lock their horns on September 17, 2016, at MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai.
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Chepauk Super Giles Team Preview
Rajagopal Sathish is the captain of this team, and a lot depend on him when Chepauk Super Giles takes Lyca Kovai Kings in the second semi-final match.
This team has performed brilliantly throughout the whole tournament, and they just need to play aggressive brand of Cricket to book their seat in the big final. Meanwhile, the batting unit of this team relies heavily on the likes of Antony Dhas, Gopinath, Joel Joseph, Yo Mahesh.
The bowling unit of this team depends on the likes of Ashwath Mukumthan, Baskaran Rahul, Rajeel Abdul Rahman. Although, this team lacks big match winners one should not forget that these youngsters have taken this team to the semi-final round.
A good all round performance will help this team to secure a win in this semifinal match.
Chepauk Super Giles Squad
Arun Kumar, Rajagopal Sathish(c), Antony Dhas, Gopinath(w), Joel Joseph, Yo Mahesh, Dakshinamoorthy Kumaran, Sathiamoorty Saravanan, Thalaivan Sargunam, R Alexander, Aditya Barooah, Jothimani Gowjith Subhash, S Karthik, Ashwath Mukumthan, Baskaran Rahul, Rajeel Abdul Rahman, Ravisrinivasan Sai Kishore, Uthirasamy Sasidev, V Shibi Jawahar, SI Vasudevan, PS Nirmal Kumar.
Lyca Kovai Kings Team Preview
The captain of this team is JS Mohammad, and he leads his team beautifully in this tournament. This team has genuine match winners in the form of Murali Vijay, S Ajith Ram, Devendra Anchit, Vijay Shankar, and MK Sivakumar.
Although, there is still doubt whether Murali Vijay will be included in the playing XI or not. But, there is guaranteed of one thing that his experience of the IPL and he has been the part of Chennai Super Kings who won the IPL title for two seasons.
But, this will not be going to easy for Lyca Kovai Kings as their opponent is Chepauk Super Giles. A good aggressive cricket will the key for the success of this team.
Lyca Kovai Kings Squad
Adhithya Giridhar, S Ajith Ram, Devendra Anchit, B Anirudh Sita Ram, JS Mohammad(c), B Arun, Ravi Kumar Rohith(w), K Gowtham Thamarai Kannan, S Harish Kumar, Murugesan Kamlesh, M Mohammed, Vijay Shankar, MK Sivakumar, Akshay Srinivasan, L Suryaprakash, S Tarun Srinivas, Krishnamoorthy Vignesh, Murali Vijay.
The Lyca Kovai Kings is favorite to win this match.


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Nursing symphony: wanted breastfeeding mamas
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Do you love nursing your baby? Does your little one "perform" every time he or she is at your breast? I am working on new breastfeeding series that will include the sounds of nursing babies. I am looking for moms to contribute audio recordings of babies feeding. If you are interested in having the sounds of your baby feeding included in the piece please let me know.
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Artist Statement and Bio
Escobar-Morales is a team comprised of Maya Escobar and Andria Morales. The two artists, based in Chicago and Philadelphia respectively, have been working together over the Internet since 2010. They produce digital media and performance art that explores the role of self-representation in visual culture and its ability to deconstruct ingrained ideological conventions. By locating their performances online where they are free from restrictions of time and place, Escobar-Morales is able to concurrently enact multiple personas while simultaneously creating a unified hybrid self.
Maya Escobar was born in Chicago, IL in 1984. Andria Morales was born in 1982 in New York, NY. Escobar received a BFA from the School of the Art Institue of Chicago (2007) and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis (2009); Morales received a BA from the University of Pennsylvania (2004) and an MFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University (2008).


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Blog Posting affects different people differently. Writing A Blog can be a tool that will be useful for you whether you want to share information or opinion with a large audience. Discover some basics on how to blog successfully by reading the information in the following article.
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Always do your homework and research any topic you will cover on your blog. If you are not an expert on the subject, you will provide faulty or incorrect information. In addition, even if you can "fake" knowledge of the subject well enough to write about it, you won't be able to respond to comments appropriately if you don't know anything about the topic.
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You need to practice attention getting techniques so that readers will stop and read your blog instead of continuing to surf the web. Do this by creating interesting headings, using eye-catching visuals, and including intriguing content that draws readers in. A list that utilizes bullet points is another way of conveying a lot of information in a clear and concise format.
Advertising freebies that you give away can generate a lot of traffic to your blog. Everyone loves getting something for free, and it does not have to be something big. If people feel like they are getting something tangible from your blog, then they will value and visit it more. If you pepper your blog with frequent freebies, then readers will check back often.
Take opportunities to gain knowledge from expert bloggers through a class, a website, or even a writing a blog conference. You can get lots of great information to enhance your running a blog at these conferences. As well, these conferences enable you to network with successful people, which can help you grow your blog.
Focus on other bloggers who are in your niche and make sure you are one step ahead. Because they are your competitors, knowing what they are doing is helpful to you. Your competition will probably be scoping you out with the same ideas in mind.
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Choose one topic per blog and stick to it. If you attempt to write about too many things, it can make your blog cluttered and too hard to try to follow. While this tip might seem like common sense, it is one of the most important things to remember while blogging.
Near the link bar, use relevant and short content. A lot of people peruse this section of a page. It is here that you can add in your total subscribers. While the link bar isn't as frequently read as the beginning or end of a blog, it is still a good place to encourage new subscriptions.
Choose topics that will be popular over the long run to write about. Try to avoid blogging about trendy topics, but instead focus on long-term issues.
You will want to consider carefully whether to allow advertising on your blog. Advertisements are one of the more commonly used ways to make money with a blog. The dilemma is that they are clearly advertisements. This means your readers know you are attempting to earn money.
It has been shown that many web surfers are not interested in reading content; therefore, you highlight the information in your blog using several techniques. Good headings are key to reeling readers in while proper use of bolding and italics will draw their eyes to pertinent words and points. Bullet points are also great for snagging readers' attention.
One thing to incorporate into your blog is current events. Find stories that are relevant to your blog. For example, if your blog has a political slant then choose news that reflects your opinion. This is information your readers will probably be interested in knowing.
Decide if you want to include ads on your blog. They are often used by blogs to generate money. Ads can irritate some of your readers and reduce the effectiveness of your message. The visitors will know instantly that you are attempting to make money.
Put up new posts on a regularly scheduled basis. Try to always post on the same days of the week. Not only will your readers appreciate the format, they will love all the fresh content you provide. Keep topics diverse, relevant, and fresh, and don't repeat yourself.
Think about search engine optimization when you choose a topic and theme for your blogs. A theme like this will bring your blog plenty of search engine traffic, and should also allow your site to load quickly. Today's readers expect instant gratification both in message and in design. They'll be moving on quickly if you make it painful for them to stay on your site.
Incorporate a link-building feature as part of your blog. When paired with your blog, this is something simple to do that can help you receive more visitors and earn more money when writing a blog.
Create great content and market your blog to others. They represent two critical aspects of any successful blog. If you are not coming up with good content on an everyday basis, you will see your readers not returning to your blog. Even if your content is good, you will get no readership if you fail to advertise your blog properly. When you work on both of these aspects, you are ensuring that you are getting the most from your blog.
Make sure that you pay attention to your site's statistics so that you know which links are really producing for you. Experiment with different techniques to see what works best with your blog, and you will get more out of your efforts.
Do not overlook the importance of proofreading. A blog filled with spelling errors or grammatical mistakes looks amateurish. Readers will turn away. This is no doubt imagining the worst case possible, but things you need to watch out for include malapropisms and commonly confused homonyms, including "your" and "you're." Especially watch for errors the spell checkers will overlook.
Make sure that any important information on your page is placed in an area that is easy to view on any computer screen. Tweaks like these give viewers an easier time navigating, which can only mean more viewers.
As your site starts to gain some ground, pay attention to the site statistics, such as total number of readers and what pages they visit. See what works. There are many programs available to help you decide on what is and is not working on your site.
Include graphics and photographs on your blog to provide visual interest to your content. These can range from quotes, charts and graphs to interesting images that can grab readers and keep them interested and engaged. If you're struggling to find viewers, this tip is a simple, easy way to improve your site.
It is important that you include visuals throughout your blog. Anything ranging from graphs to lists to pictures can make your blog more appealing. You will increase the interest of your readers in this manner.
An effective and efficient way to generate more traffic for your blog is by using social media networking. A Facebook connection to your blog can include a personal page for your friends to post on. Twitter is even easier to use, as all you need to do is write tweets containing the titles of your most interesting posts along with links to those posts. Be careful, as overuse of this tool can cause people to view your tweets as spam. With the right consistency, this kind of sharing can greatly increase your readership.
Post a list of your top 10 previous blogs on the side of your blog. This helps new readers quickly determine whether they are interested in your blog's topic. Your visitors will get a good idea of the type of articles you provide, in addition to increasing your search engine ranking.
This article has provided you with blogging information which will improve your blog, no matter what the reason for it's existence. Apply the tips that seem most relevant to your own blogging endeavors, and remember to always blog responsibly!
Know who your audience is, and reach out for them. If your blog's visitors spend large amounts of time logged in at social sites, you need to do this as well. Readers want someone who shares common interests; therefore, it is important that you know your audience.


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The U.S. Financial Accounting Standards Board will vote tomorrow on an accounting rule change that could allow Apple to report significantly higher GAAP iPhone revenue and profits, which could eventually drive shares higher.
The rule change would allow Apple to report its iPhone revenue and profits during the period they're collected, versus dividing them over eight fiscal quarters.
That could drive Street estimates for next year significantly: Morgan Stanley analyst Kathryn Huberty estimates in a note today that Apple's calendar-year 2010 revenue could grow an extra 11%, EPS could grow 21%, and gross margins could grow 60 bps as a result of the changes.
The benefit, according to Huberty's note:
- Apple shares will seem cheaper, which could drive uptake from "quant-driven strategies and retail investors."
- Apple could drive larger earnings surprises given the relatively extreme profitability of the iPhone. Huberty estimates 50%-60% gross margins over the last year.
Apple has used the 24-month "subscription accounting" technique for its iPhone and Apple TV gadgets since they launched -- as does Palm for its Pre -- so the company can offer free software updates over the period. (This is why iPod touch users must pay a nominal fee to upgrade to the latest operating system; Apple doesn't use subscription accounting for its iPod line.)
If the rule change is passed, Huberty thinks Apple will implement the changes in its December quarter this year. She estimates that 33% of Apple's revenue is subject to current subscription accounting rules.
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Wednesday within the Octave of the Feast of the Holy Trinity
Scripture: Joshua 4:1-24 (NKJV)
1 And it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed over the Jordan, that the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying: 2 "Take for yourselves twelve men from the people, one man from every tribe, 3 and command them, saying, 'Take for yourselves twelve stones from here, out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet stood firm. You shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place where you lodge tonight.'"
4 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the children of Israel, one man from every tribe; 5 and Joshua said to them: "Cross over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, 6 that this may be a sign among you when your children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do these stones mean to you?' 7 Then you shall answer them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. And these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever."
8 And the children of Israel did so, just as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the midst of the Jordan, as the Lord had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 9 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.
10 So the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the Lord had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and crossed over. 11 Then it came to pass, when all the people had completely crossed over, that the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed over in the presence of the people. 12 And the men of Reuben, the men of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them. 13 About forty thousand prepared for war crossed over before the Lord for battle, to the plains of Jericho. 14 On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15 Then the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, 16 "Command the priests who bear the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan." 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan." 18 And it came to pass, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks as before.
19 Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho. 20 And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. 21 Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What are these stones?' 22 then you shall let your children know, saying, 'Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land'; 23 for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over, 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever."
Joshua has a representative man from each of the twelve tribes of Israel take a large stone from the bottom of the Jordan River and take it to Gilgal to make a monument of remembrance. It was a sign of the Lord's strong hand to save His people. It was erected so that all generations could see and be reminded that God saved His people through the midst of the water. There is wonderful typology in this.
Joshua is a type of Christ here. Joshua leads his people down into the water, and through it, to the promised land. He compares this to the crossing of the Red Sea with the same significance. Fathers would tell their children this story when they saw the stones. But many miss the second set of twelve stones in verse nine. Joshua sets up a cairn of twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan River. Why? They would not be remembered as a memorial once the river began flowing again. They would be lost. Passing through the water is the path of life for God's people. If one rejects the way of the Lord, the water is a symbol of judgment. Pharaoh's army was destroyed in the water. The sinner is lost in the depths of the waters until he is caught in the net of the Gospel. The waters sweep away the rebellious people and they are remembered no more. But the people of God are remembered forever because their God remembers them.
Lord God make us to remember Your mighty deeds for us so that we may always be a part of your eternal family. Amen.


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If you have trouble with sleeping, insomnia, headaches, eye problems, and dizziness or stuffy nose, use so-called Aku-point "third eye" (aku-extra). And all your problems will disappear.
This point is known as the extra point 1 (puncta extra, extra points). The Chinese called YinTang and it is also known under the popular name – point "third eye" because the position he takes on the face.
This point lies between the eyebrows, above the root of the nose. That's why they call it "Third Eye" .
First sit down, relax, and close your eyes. Stimulate (press) this point with the middle finger of your hand or palm 1 minute and breathe deeply.
If you repeatedly press the point 15-20 seconds, all the problems that you have with insomnia, headache, eyes, dizziness, stuffy nose will disappear. Do this session several times a day. Pause 10-15 minutes after every 5 sessions.


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I knew something was up when my Instagram feed was flooded with posts from friends giving a shoutout to "@Delta_giveaways" on Sunday evening.
According to the account's profile page, Delta was giving away free one-way flights to the first 15,000 people to tag them on the site ("Just in time for the holidays!").
By 10 p.m., the account had more than 21,000 followers, with word spreading like wildfire on Twitter and Facebook.
I found at least four other airlines offering simliar promotions, including American Airlines (@americanairlines_giveaways); United (@united_giveaways); JetBlue (@jetbluegiveaways), and Delta, (@delta_giveaways).
Too bad the whole thing is a hoax.
JetBlue was first to alert customers to the scam on Twitter and Delta followed suit on Monday.
Some of the accounts appear to have been removed by Instagram, but it looks like it's too little too late. There are already three copycat profiles for JetBlue and another for Delta "giveaways" that has 16,000 followers to date.
Whether it was a prank that spun out of control or not, there's no telling how much trouble this might spell for airlines in the future.
"It's unclear why these accounts were set up and what the people behind them ultimately hoped to achieve," says CNET's Roger Cheng. "The promise of free flights could lead to headaches for the airlines as duped followers attempt to collect on their reward."
No kidding.
Whether Instagram is capable of identifying and shutting down all of the rogue accounts is unclear. A company spokesperson hasn't yet returned a request for comment.
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Lloyd's List Events is pleased to announce that RORO2006 will take place at the Flanders Expo, Ghent, Belgium from 16 to 18 May 2006, when the biennial conference and exhibition will bring together key representatives from the ro-ro industry for the 18th time to discuss up-to-the-minute issues and challenges. RORO is the largest meeting of executives involved in all segments of the ro-ro business, providing a great opportunity for networking between industry peers and senior decision-makers from around the world.
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By Karen Cilento — For three weeks in October 2009, 20 teams of college and university students will compete in the US Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The competition provides the teams with an opportunity to "design, build, and operate the most attractive, effective, and energy-efficient solar-powered house." Organized in three stages, (building, moving to the solar village in the National Mall in Washington D.C., and the actual competition) the Solar Decathlon aims to raise awareness among the general public about renewable energy and energy efficiency, help solar energy technologies enter the marketplace faster, foster collaboration among students from different academic disciplines, and educate the student participants. "The Solar Decathlon brings attention to one of the biggest challenges we face-an ever-increasing need for energy. As an internationally recognized event, it offers powerful solutions-using energy more efficiently and using energy from renewable sources."
Santa Clara University, known for their excellence in engineering/business got the third place at the 2007 competition, and for this year's competition they teamed with CCA, dedicated to architecture, art and design, to create a 100 student team to participate in the Solar Decathlon. The team is the only undergraduate-led team participating in the competition (most are filled with Ph. D programs), combing "youth and process, [they] set the standard in green living". The young team of future architects, engineers, construction managers, graphic designers and interior designers have created a proposal, entitled Refract House, that is dedicated to promoting the idea of "Living Light: harnessing sunlight to power our energy needs, lightening our carbon footprint upon the earth, and enlightening today's consumers and the next generation of concerned, responsible citizens about the possibilities of sustainable living." "We want the project to have a lasting impact as both a case study for green design and as an exhibit of technology. We already know it's going to have an impact on all of us," explained Allison Kopf, an SCU Engineering Physics student.
The Refract House, an 800 square foot zero energy home, breaks from "the classic hyper-efficient box shape" to prove that zero energy can occur with bold aesthetics. "We propose a new precedent for energy efficient homes that prioritizes visual, spatial and functional connection with the surrounding environment. The bent form of the structure mimics the path of the sun of the sun from dawn to dusk. This speaks to the name Refract House, because we change the way light is used," explained the team.
The team stressed their cutting edge solar thermal and photovoltaic system. The solar thermal array is comprised of plate type collectors that reduce heat loss. "By combining cutting edge technology in the home with our most abundant resource-the sun-we can start using our natural resources more intelligently, and we can show others how it is done," explained Tim Sennott, an SCU Mechanical Engineering student.The lighting of the home maximizes the admittance of high quality sunlight "to create a stronger spatial connection to outdoors."
An outdoor courtyard compliments the Californian ecosystem and climate, in addition to providing a smaller garden with edible plants. The home also features a grey-water treatment system, bamboo joists, and a storage pool, plus a monitor that displays energy and water consumption levels inside the home. All systems and sustainable design features were created by the students. Never mind their finishing place, we are impressed with the dedication and determination of this young team.


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Two Volvo cars were destroyed in separate arson attacks last night.
Firefighters from Doncaster attended the incident in Sandall Beat Lane, Armthorpe Road at 10.15pm (Monday March 30).
Another Volvo was torched in Anfield Road, Cantley at 10.50pm (Monday March 30). Firefighters from Doncaster attended.
Both incidents have been logged as deliberate.