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Shopware is an open source, PHP-based eCommerce platform that scales to meet the demands of any unique business requirements.
First steps with the Bitnami Shopware Stack
Welcome to your new Bitnami application running on Amazon Web Services! Here are a few questions (and answers!) you might need when first starting with your application.
What credentials do I need?
You need two sets of credentials:
- The application credentials that allow you to log in to your new Bitnami application. These credentials consist of a username and password.
- The server credentials that allow you to log in to your AWS Cloud server using an SSH client and execute commands on the server using the command line. These credentials consist of an SSH username and key.
Watch the following video to learn quickly how to obtain the application credentials of those applications deployed using the AWS Console:
What is the administrator username set for me to log in to the application for the first time?
Username: user
How do I get my SSH key or password?
SSH username: bitnami
What are the default ports?
A port is an endpoint of communication in an operating system that identifies a specific process or a type of service. Bitnami stacks include several services or servers that require a port.
IMPORTANT: Making this application's network ports public is a significant security risk. You are strongly advised to only allow access to those ports from trusted networks. If, for development purposes, you need to access from outside of a trusted network, please do not allow access to those ports via a public IP address. Instead, use a secure channel such as a VPN or an SSH tunnel. Follow these instructions to remotely connect safely and reliably.
Port 22 is the default port for SSH connections.
Bitnami opens some ports for the main servers. These are the ports opened by default: 80, 443.
How to start or stop the services?
Each Bitnami stack includes a control script that lets you easily stop, start and restart services. The script is located at /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh. Call it without any service name arguments to start all services:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start
Or use it to restart a single service, such as Apache only, by passing the service name as argument:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
Use this script to stop all services:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop
Restart the services by running the script without any arguments:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart
Obtain a list of available services and operations by running the script without any arguments:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh
How to change the default administrator password?
For security, it is recommended that you change the default administrator password as soon as possible. Follow the steps below:
Log in to the application as an administrator.
Select the "Configuration -> User Administration" menu item.
Click the "Edit User" button for the current user.
Enter the new password in the "Password" field and then it will require your current password to confirm the change.
Click "Save" to save your changes.
How to access the administration panel?
Access the administration panel by browsing to http://SERVER-IP//backend.
How to configure outbound email settings?
Configure the SMTP settings of your email provider in the "Configuration" panel following the steps below:
Select the "Configuration -> Basic Settings" menu item.
Select the "Shop Settings" and then select the "Mailers" field from the list.
Enter details for the SMTP server to be used for outbound email. For instance, you can use a Gmail account settings to send emails from the Shopware application.
To configure the application to use the SMTP service provided by Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), refer to the guide on using Amazon SES.
To configure the application to use other third-party SMTP services for outgoing email, such as SendGrid or Mandrill, refer to the FAQ.
|NOTE: If you are using Gmail as the outbound email server and have experienced issues trying to send emails correctly, check the How to troubleshoot Gmail SMTP issues to learn the causes of these issues and how to solve them.
How to install additional plugins?
Install additional plugins for Shopware from the Shopware administration interface.
To install a plugin, follow these steps:
Log in to the application as an administrator.
Select the "Configuration -> Plugins Manager" menu item.
On the resulting page, select the "Install" button for your plugin.
Once the installation is finished, click "Activate" to enable the new plugin.
How to create a full backup of Shopware?
The Bitnami Shopware Stack is self-contained and the simplest option for performing a backup is to copy or compress the Bitnami stack installation directory. To do so in a safe manner, you will need to stop all servers, so this method may not be appropriate if you have people accessing the application continuously.
Follow these steps:
Change to the directory in which you wish to save your backup:
$ cd /your/directory
Stop all servers:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop
Create a compressed file with the stack contents:
$ sudo tar -pczvf application-backup.tar.gz /opt/bitnami
Restart all servers:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start
You should now download or transfer the application-backup.tar.gz file to a safe location.
Follow these steps:
Change to the directory containing your backup:
$ cd /your/directory
Stop all servers:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop
Move the current stack to a different location:
$ sudo mv /opt/bitnami /tmp/bitnami-backup
Uncompress the backup file to the original directoryv
$ sudo tar -pxzvf application-backup.tar.gz -C /
Start all servers:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh start
If you want to create only a database backup, refer to these instructions for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
How to upgrade Shopware?
It is strongly recommended to create a backup before starting the update process. If you have important data, create and try to restore a backup to ensure that everything works properly.
To upgrade the application only without modifying any other stack components, follow these instructions.
How to create an SSL certificate?
OpenSSL is required to create an SSL certificate. A certificate request can then be sent to a certificate authority (CA) to get it signed into a certificate, or if you have your own certificate authority, you may sign it yourself, or you can use a self-signed certificate (because you just want a test certificate or because you are setting up your own CA).
Follow the steps below:
Generate a new private key:
$ sudo openssl genrsa -out /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key 2048
Create a certificate:
$ sudo openssl req -new -key /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key -out /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/cert.csr
IMPORTANT: Enter the server domain name when the above command asks for the "Common Name".
Send cert.csr to the certificate authority. When the certificate authority completes their checks (and probably received payment from you), they will hand over your new certificate to you.
Until the certificate is received, create a temporary self-signed certificate:
$ sudo openssl x509 -in /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/cert.csr -out /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.crt -req -signkey /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key -days 365
Back up your private key in a safe location after generating a password-protected version as follows:
$ sudo openssl rsa -des3 -in /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key -out privkey.pem
Note that if you use this encrypted key in the Apache configuration file, it will be necessary to enter the password manually every time Apache starts. Regenerate the key without password protection from this file as follows:
$ sudo openssl rsa -in privkey.pem -out /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key
Find more information about certificates at http://www.openssl.org.
How to enable HTTPS support with SSL certificates?
|TIP: If you wish to use a Let's Encrypt certificate, you will find specific instructions for enabling HTTPS support with Let's Encrypt SSL certificates in our Let's Encrypt guide.
|NOTE: The steps below assume that you are using a custom domain name and that you have already configured the custom domain name to point to your cloud server.
Bitnami images come with SSL support already pre-configured and with a dummy certificate in place. Although this dummy certificate is fine for testing and development purposes, you will usually want to use a valid SSL certificate for production use. You can either generate this on your own (explained here) or you can purchase one from a commercial certificate authority.
Once you obtain the certificate and certificate key files, you will need to update your server to use them. Follow these steps to activate SSL support:
Use the table below to identify the correct locations for your certificate and configuration files.
Variable Value Current application URL https://[custom-domain]/ Example: https://my-domain.com/ or https://my-domain.com/appname Apache configuration file /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf Certificate file /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.crt Certificate key file /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server.key CA certificate bundle file (if present) /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server-ca.crt
Copy your SSL certificate and certificate key file to the specified locations.
NOTE: If you use different names for your certificate and key files, you should reconfigure the SSLCertificateFile and SSLCertificateKeyFile directives in the corresponding Apache configuration file to reflect the correct file names.
If your certificate authority has also provided you with a PEM-encoded Certificate Authority (CA) bundle, you must copy it to the correct location in the previous table. Then, modify the Apache configuration file to include the following line below the SSLCertificateKeyFile directive. Choose the correct directive based on your scenario and Apache version:
Variable Value Apache configuration file /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf Directive to include (Apache v2.4.8+) SSLCACertificateFile "/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server-ca.crt" Directive to include (Apache < v2.4.8) SSLCertificateChainFile "/opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server-ca.crt" NOTE: If you use a different name for your CA certificate bundle, you should reconfigure the SSLCertificateChainFile or SSLCACertificateFile directives in the corresponding Apache configuration file to reflect the correct file name.
Once you have copied all the server certificate files, you may make them readable by the root user only with the following commands:
$ sudo chown root:root /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server* $ sudo chmod 600 /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/server*
Open port 443 in the server firewall. Refer to the FAQ for more information.
Restart the Apache server.
You should now be able to access your application using an HTTPS URL.
How to force HTTPS redirection with Apache?
Add the following lines in the default Apache virtual host configuration file at /opt/bitnami/apache2/conf/bitnami/bitnami.conf, inside the default VirtualHost directive, so that it looks like this:
<VirtualHost _default_:80>
DocumentRoot "/opt/bitnami/apache2/htdocs"
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !=on
RewriteRule ^/(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}/$1 [R,L]
After modifying the Apache configuration files:
Open port 443 in the server firewall. Refer to the FAQ for more information.
Restart Apache to apply the changes.
How to debug Apache errors?
Once Apache starts, it will create two log files at /opt/bitnami/apache2/logs/access_log and /opt/bitnami/apache2/logs/error_log respectively.
The access_log file is used to track client requests. When a client requests a document from the server, Apache records several parameters associated with the request in this file, such as: the IP address of the client, the document requested, the HTTP status code, and the current time.
The error_log file is used to record important events. This file includes error messages, startup messages, and any other significant events in the life cycle of the server. This is the first place to look when you run into a problem when using Apache.
If no error is found, you will see a message similar to:
Syntax OK
Updating the IP address or hostname
Shopware requires updating the IP address/domain name if the machine IP address/domain name changes. The bnconfig tool also has an option which updates the IP address, called --machine_hostname (use --help to check if that option is available for your application). Note that this tool changes the URL to http://NEW_DOMAIN/shopware.
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/apps/shopware/bnconfig --machine_hostname NEW_DOMAIN
If you have configured your machine to use a static domain name or IP address, you should rename or remove the /opt/bitnami/apps/shopware/bnconfig file.
$ sudo mv /opt/bitnami/apps/shopware/bnconfig /opt/bitnami/apps/shopware/bnconfig.disabled
|NOTE: Be sure that your domain is propagated. Otherwise, this will not work. You can verify the new DNS record by using the Global DNS Propagation Checker and entering your domain name into the search field.
You can also change your hostname by modifying it in your hosts file. Enter the new hostname using your preferred editor.
$ sudo nano /etc/hosts
Add a new line with the IP address and the new hostname. Here's an example. Remember to replace the IP-ADDRESS and DOMAIN placeholders with the correct IP address and domain name.
How to find the MySQL database credentials?
- Database username: root.
- Database password: The same as the application password. Find out how to obtain application credentials.
How to connect to the MySQL database?
You can connect to the MySQL database from the same computer where it is installed with the mysql client tool.
$ mysql -u root -p
You will be prompted to enter the root user password. This is the same as the application password.
How to debug errors in your database?
The main log file is created at /opt/bitnami/mysql/data/mysqld.log on the MySQL database server host.
How to change the MySQL root password?
You can modify the MySQL password using the following command at the shell prompt. Replace the NEW_PASSWORD placeholder with the actual password you wish to set.
$ /opt/bitnami/mysql/bin/mysqladmin -p -u root password NEW_PASSWORD
How to reset the MySQL root password?
If you don't remember your MySQL root password, you can follow the steps below to reset it to a new value:
Create a file in /home/bitnami/mysql-init with the content shown below (replace NEW_PASSWORD with the password you wish to use):
UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('NEW_PASSWORD') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
If your stack ships MySQL v5.7.x, use the following content instead of that shown above:
UPDATE mysql.user SET authentication_string=PASSWORD('NEW_PASSWORD') WHERE User='root'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
TIP: Check the MySQL version with the command /opt/bitnami/mysql/bin/mysqladmin --version or /opt/bitnami/mysql/bin/mysqld --version.
Stop the MySQL server:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh stop mysql
Start MySQL with the following command:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --pid-file=/opt/bitnami/mysql/data/mysqld.pid --datadir=/opt/bitnami/mysql/data --init-file=/home/bitnami/mysql-init 2> /dev/null &
Restart the MySQL server:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart mysql
Remove the script:
$ rm /home/bitnami/mysql-init
How to access phpMyAdmin?
For security reasons, phpMyAdmin is accessible only when using 127.0.0.1 as the hostname. To access it from a remote system, you must create an SSH tunnel that routes requests to the Web server from 127.0.0.1. This implies that you must be able to connect to your server over SSH in order to access these applications remotely.
|IMPORTANT: Before following the steps below, ensure that your Web and database servers are running.
|NOTE: The steps below suggest using port 8888 for the SSH tunnel. If this port is already in use by another application on your local machine, replace it with any other port number greater than 1024 and modify the steps below accordingly. Similarly, if you have enabled Varnish, your stack's Web server might be running on port 81. In this case, modify the steps below to use port 81 instead of port 80 for the tunnel endpoint.
Accessing phpMyAdmin on Windows
Watch the following video to learn how to easily access phpMyAdmin on Windows through an SSH tunnel:
|TIP: Refer to these instructions to learn how to obtain your private key.
In order to access phpMyAdmin via SSH tunnel you need an SSH client. In the instructions below we have selected PuTTY, a free SSH client for Windows and UNIX platforms. The first step is having PuTTY configured. Please, check how to configure it in the section how to connect to the server through SSH using an SSH client on Windows.
Once you have your SSH client correctly configured and you tested that you can successfully access to your instance via SSH, you need to create an SSH tunnel in order to access phpMyAdmin. For doing so, follow these steps:
In the "Connection -> SSH -> Tunnels" section, add a new forwarded port by introducing the following values:
- Source port: 8888
- Destination: localhost:80
This will create a secure tunnel by forwarding a port (the "destination port") on the remote server to a port (the "source port") on the local host (127.0.0.1 or localhost).
Click the "Add" button to add the secure tunnel configuration to the session. (You'll see the added port in the list of "Forwarded ports").
- In the "Session" section, save your changes by clicking the "Save" button.
- Click the "Open" button to open an SSH session to the server. The SSH session will now include a secure SSH tunnel between the two specified ports.
- Access the phpMyAdmin console through the secure SSH tunnel you created, by browsing to http://127.0.0.1:8888/phpmyadmin.
Log in to phpMyAdmin by using the following credentials:
- Username: root
- Password: application password. (Refer to our FAQ to learn how to find your application credentials).
Here is an example of what you should see:
If you are unable to access phpMyAdmin, verify that the SSH tunnel was created by checking the PuTTY event log (accessible via the "Event Log" menu):
Accessing phpMyAdmin on Linux and Mac OS X
To access the application using your Web browser, create an SSH tunnel, as described below.
- Open a new terminal window on your local system (for example, using "Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal" in Mac OS X or the Dash in Ubuntu).
- Make sure that you have your SSH credentials (.pem key file) in hand.
Run the following command to configure the SSH tunnel. Remember to replace KEYFILE with the path to your private key and SERVER-IP with the public IP address or hostname of your server:
$ ssh -N -L 8888:127.0.0.1:80 -i KEYFILE bitnami@SERVER-IP
|NOTE: If successful, the above command will create an SSH tunnel but will not display any output on the server console.
- Access the phpMyAdmin console through the secure SSH tunnel you created, by browsing to http://127.0.0.1:8888/phpmyadmin.
Log in to phpMyAdmin by using the following credentials:
- Username: root
- Password: application password. (Refer to our FAQ to learn how to find your application credentials).
Here is an example of what you should see:
How to modify PHP settings for Apache?
The PHP configuration file allows you to configure the modules enabled, the email settings or the size of the upload files. It is located at /opt/bitnami/php/etc/php.ini.
For example, to modify the default upload limit for PHP, update the PHP configuration file following these instructions.
After modifying the PHP configuration file, restart both Apache and PHP-FPM for the changes to take effect:
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart php-fpm
How to modify the allowed limit for uploaded files in Apache?
Modify the following options in the /opt/bitnami/php/etc/php.ini file to increase the allowed size for uploads:
; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 16M
; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 16M
Restart PHP-FPM and Apache for the changes to take effect.
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart apache
$ sudo /opt/bitnami/ctlscript.sh restart php-fpm
How to upload files to the server with SFTP?
Although you can use any SFTP/SCP client to transfer files to your server, the link below explains how to configure FileZilla (Windows, Linux and Mac OS X), WinSCP (Windows) and Cyberduck (Mac OS X). It is required to use your server's private SSH key to configure the SFTP client properly. Choose your preferred application and follow the steps in the link below to connect to the server through SFTP.


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After slow start Taft turns up the heat in home victory
It has been a long couple of weeks for the Taft varsity girls basketball team. They found something to smile about again Friday evening following a 48-17 victory over the Robert F. Kennedy Thunderbirds at home.
Taft's offense had a rough time getting out of the gate. After scoring 1:03 seconds into the game, the Lady Wildcats did not score another point until the 4:16 mark of the quarter. They would not score another field goal until the 2:56 mark before sinking two free throws with three seconds left.
Meanwhile, the only points the Lady Thunderbirds were able to score during that period of time came with 3:09 remaining.
Taft found their stride in the second quarter scoring 15 points with four coming from Kennedy Kunce and five coming from Caitlyn Emberson. Meanwhile, Robert F. Kennedy was held to two layups.
The Lady Wildcats carried their run into the fourth quarter with 13 points while the Lady Thunderbirds picked up the pace with seven. Taft matched their total in the fourth quarter while Robert F. Kennedy was limited to four points.
To read the full story, pick up Tuesday's Driller.

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When MTV's pioneering reality series "The Real World" came to San Francisco in 1994, its attractive young cast featured Pedro Zamora, a 22-year-old openly gay man who seized the attention of viewers through his struggle with AIDS and sparked a national conversation about gay issues.
It was one of the first times that reality TV was used for a greater purpose.
Twenty years later, "The Real World" is back in San Francisco, but like so many shows of its genre, it no longer harbors such lofty ambitions. Now, the big news is a gimmicky ploy to inject new life into an wheezy franchise: a surprise twist that sees the housemates being confronted by their former lovers.
Bring on "The Real World: Ex-Plosion" — and all the artificially amped-up drama that entails. Shot over a 10-week period last fall, it begins like any other season: Seven diverse strangers are plopped, like lab rats, into a house and forced to live together. Lots of arguments, hookups, bouts of drunkenness and dips in the hot tub ensue. Only this time, after the roommates have had a few weeks to form new bonds, they go for a day trip and return to their swanky crib on Sutter Street to discover — shockingly — that their exes have moved in.
MTV hopes the twist will make "The Real World" appointment viewing once again. The show that set the stage for TV's reality invasion — its 1992 debut preceded "Survivor" by eight years — has since been eclipsed in buzz and popularity by raunchy imitators such as "Jersey Shore." The youth-centric network has gone from airing two editions of "Real World" a year to one, and the most recent season averaged only 1.5 million viewers.
For Arielle Scott, a 22-year-old housemate from Oakland, the twist made for some major stress. She had recently broken off a two-year relationship with Ashley Ceaser, 26, and was focused on other things.
"I came to the house thinking I was single," Scott said during a chat shortly after filming ended. "I was ready to meet people and have fun. I needed to stop thinking about her, calling her … And then she shows up here. Oh my God. The whole thing was just crazy."
And more than a little turbulent.
"It was like reality TV on steroids," Ceaser said. "No one wants to deal with this stuff on a national television show. It's nerve-wracking enough. But add to that all the roommates in your face and tossing in their opinions about us. … We kind of freaked out."
Fans just might eat it up, but a recent Salon.com commentary dismissed the contrived twist as the latest iteration in the show's "journey into fakeness." No one was throwing around barbs like that when Zamora and his mates participated in Season 3 of "The Real World." Zamora was an AIDS activist who, in a landmark TV moment, exchanged vows with his boyfriend on the show and had several emotional confrontations with fellow housemate David "Puck" Rainey, who was eventually evicted.
Zamora died in November 1994, just hours after the season finale aired. President Clinton praised his efforts to bring awareness and understanding to the HIV/AIDS cause.
"Probably more than anything, Season 3 told us that reality TV could be about something important," said Jim Johnston, a "Real World" executive producer. "That season felt more like a documentary. It had a vision about it. It told real stories. It was about something that felt relevant."
Of course, unlike their modern-day descendants, Zamora and company hadn't grown up on reality TV. In fact, the term hadn't even become popular yet. Thus there tended to be less playing to the cameras and more of a sense of raw authenticity as they conducted earnest conversations about issues of race, religion and sexuality.
Nowadays, gay and interracial relationships and diverse casts are common sights on reality TV shows. Moreover, cast members of any reality series come in fully aware of the genre's formulas and knowing that more bad behavior pays off in more airtime. During interviews with the current "Real World" housemates, several spoke about feeling the need to "up the ante," while claiming their season would rank as one of the "most controversial" yet.
"Minds will be blown," said Houston-born cast member Jamie Larson, 22, sounding like someone straight out of the MTV marketing department. "If you haven't been watching because you think 'The Real World' has gotten boring, or it's the same old thing, let us prove you wrong."
Meanwhile, don't expect any shout-outs to Zamora during the current season. As Johnston notes, most of the newbies were only 2 or 3 when reality TV history was being made in San Francisco.
"You've got to remember that it doesn't mean anything to them," he says.
Still, at one point during the shoot, some of the housemates strolled past the dwelling on Lombard Street that served as the site for Season 3 and were briefly informed what went down there.
"I heard it was a legendary season — the season that 'The Real World' really blew up," said Bronx, N.Y., native Jay Gotti, 26. "It kind of put things in perspective."


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Namche Bazaar
Earth : Asia : South Asia : Nepal : Himalayas (Nepal) : Khumbu : Namche Bazaar
Namche Bazaar (3440m) is the unofficial capital of the Khumbu region of Nepal, and is a major stop-off point for trekkers and climbers heading for Mount Everest base camp.
The village is located on crescent shaped mountain slopes that offer stunning views of the mountains across the valley. It is a grueling 3 to 4 hour climb up from the river to Namche, and at 3,500 metres, it is possible to suffer altitude sickness here. Therefore, it is advisable to spend at least two nights in the village to acclimatize.
Traditionally the village was a trading post, with locals bartering yak cheese and butter for agricultural goods grown at lower altitudes. However, after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay's successful climb of Everest in 1953, the dynamics of the village changed forever as climbers and trekkers soon followed in their wake. At first the groups came in a trickle, but in the 60s and 70s this turned into a torrent, and being located at a confluence of trekking trails, Namche was best served to meet their needs. In addition, as Namche is the first place on the Khumbu trek that is above altitude sickness threshold, most travelers prefer to spend at least two nights here in order to acclimatize. Still, despite the village's popularity with trekkers, geographical restraints have contained its growth, and it remains a small settlement with no more than 60 dwellings.
Namche has prospered from the tourist trade, and according to government statistics it is the wealthiest district in Nepal, with 7 times the average national income and twice that of the capital, Kathmandu. In addition to an abundance of hotels, the village also boasts three small museums, a stupa, monastery, several cafes (locally known as bakeries) and many well stocked stores.
Namche has several official money changing facilities, and as it is the only place in the region to offer this service (besides Lukla), travelers should ensure that they have sufficient cash for the remainder of their journey before leaving the village. NB: The rate of exchange in Namche is much lower than in Kathmandu, and so it is advised to only use the facilities in Khumbu as a last resort or for changing small amounts of money.
The winters are cold and dry, while summers are warm, but characterized by persistent mist, and so the spectacular mountain peaks often lost from view. The best time to visit the area is from mid-September to mid-November when it is still not too cold and the air is at its most pristine, affording crystal clear views of the mountain scenery. The Spring is also a good time to visit Namche, though due to the higher proportion of dust in the air, the mountain views lack the clarity of the Fall. However, to compensate, the hedgerows and wild flowers are in full bloom in April and May and bring a dash of colour to the mountain paths.
Get in
The trek from Lukla to Namche can be done in one full day, but unless you are experienced at trekking at high altitude and extremely fit, taking two days over the journey is strongly recommended. Many people who rush to Namche suffer altitude sickness and have to be brought down again the following day.
See also: Everest Base Camp Trek
Get around
There is only one way to move around in Khumbu - on foot; unless you are a former president of the United States. In October 1985 Jimmy Carter, his wife Rosalynn, and future senator from California Dianne Feinstein's husband Richard Blum helicopetered in on the King of Nepal's personal whirligig. The next morning, protected by two secret service agents, the former president walked throughout the village shaking hands and conversing with the locals.
Namche is really geared for the ravenous tourist, and offers all kinds of delights. Namche's bakeries are quite famous in Nepal and, considering that the town is a six day walk from the nearest road, they bake up some amazing pastries. None of the bakeries are open during the tourist "off-season" from June until September. All the hotels have dining facilities open to non-residents. Again, during the off-season, not every hotel in Namche remains open.
Traditional Sherpa dishes include:
Additionally, be sure to try the delicious Nak-cheese, that can be bought in most of the stores and costs around 100Rs per 100g.
Accommodation in Namche ranges from around 200Rs for an old style room with shared bathroom up to around 1,000Rs for a modern en-suite twin. Most have hot water. NB: Check the regulations regarding meals. Some hotels offer very cheap room rates, but in return expect their guests to eat on the premises.
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The Post office is located near Namche Hotel. It is a personable little facility, but there are mixed reports of letters reaching their destinations. Postage stamps are also available in local shops.
International phone calls can be made in the town, however this is very expensive compared to Kathmandu. The cheapest place is the one-phone government telephone office, on the second floor of the nondescript wooden building behind Hotel Buddha, identified with an official yellow sign in Nepalese with a faded paper sign in English stuck on to it. Expect a lengthy queue on Saturdays (market day).
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Start with 2 cakes (mine were apple & cinnamon), one slightly bigger than the other.
Get the bigger one and divide it in 6 huge slices.
Cut the 6 slices with a serrated knife.
Again with the serrated knife, cut the rounded edge of each cake piece, making perfect triangles.
Now get the smaller cake and divide it in 5, making a pentagon.
Cut the 5 ronded edges of the cake.
Get 5 of the 6 triangles and attach them to each side of the pentagon. There you have it: a star! Now all you have to do is to fill it (I've used dulce de leche) and decorate it as you like. By the way you can check my latest cakes here. I've used the extra slice to do that small round cake on top of the star, but you can use the scraps to do Bakerella's famous Cake Pops or go crazy like my friend Morgana and use Bakerella's technic to produce all kinds of cool shapes. Or of course, eat it, that's allways a perfectly good option.


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The first solo display of photographs by Neil Libbert opens at the National Portrait Gallery on 17 September 2012. The display of 10 portraits will celebrate Libbert's 55 year career as a photojournalist by showcasing a selection of his portraits from the Gallery's Collection.
The display focuses on key works from 1958 – 1984, many on show for the first time, and will include two portraits that were used on the front page of the Guardian newspaper. One of these photographs is of conservative politician and statesman, Sir Winston Churchill, with Sir Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Academy, taken in 1963. The other cover photograph is of actress Jayne Mansfield, union leader Ted Hill and general secretary of the Labour party, Morgan Philips. This portrait was taken just two years into Libbert's photographic career, at the opening of the Trades Union Congress in Blackpool a day after Mansfield had switched on the Blackpool illuminations. Another portrait on display is of a young Helen Mirren (1969) taken inside her flat at a time when she was playing Cressida in the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Troilus and Cressida. Other portraits on display are of novelist Kingsley Amis, artists Francis Bacon and Edward Burra, footballer George Best, photographer Patrick Lichfield, singer and actor Paul Robeson, and playwright Harold Pinter.
Born in Salford, Neil Libbert studied at the Regional College of Art in Manchester before starting to work as a photographer and opening his own studio in the city in 1957. He joined the staff of the Manchester Guardian, and moved to the paper's London office in 1961. He stayed with the Guardian until 1965 before working under contract to The Sunday Times, the New York Times, Granada TV and the Illustrated London News until 1968 when he again became a freelance photographer. Libbert still regularly covers performing arts photography for the Observer.
His work has been exhibited at the National Theatre, Camden Arts Centre, Whitechapel Gallery, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, Michael Hoppen Gallery and the Stables Gallery, New Mexico amongst others, and 16 of his works are held in the Collection of the National Portrait Gallery. In 1999 he was Nikon News Photographer of the Year and won a World Press Photo Award for his exclusive coverage of the bombings in The Admiral Duncan pub, Soho which made the front page of the Guardian. Libbert has also received an award for his coverage of the homeless and has made his enduring reputation through street photography and reportage, including his coverage of the Brixton riots in 1981.


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Stand aside Beyonce, there's a new sound in town. More than 9,000 sounds, to be more precise. The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has just finished digitizing its huge archive of wildlife sounds and made it available online.
"It represents the voice of the world — all the voices of the world," Greg Budney, audio curator for the archive, tells NPR's Scott Simon. Among the vast collection are birds, mammals, insects and amphibians, Budney says, all made available "to anyone who has an interest in nature, in conservation and in the world around them."
The library's holdings total more than 7,000 hours of sounds, the result of an 80-year collaboration between the scientific community and the library's "volunteer collaborators: private individuals who record for a hobby, really with no other purpose than engaging in science," Budney says.
Some highlights from the collection: the clarinet-like cry of the indri lemur, which the archive describes as the "best candidate to appear on a John Coltrane record," and the spine-tingling call of the common loon.
In compiling such a vast collection, Budney has hit upon a few favorites — like the tuneful call of the musician wren, a small brown bird found throughout the Amazon region. "It walks along the forest floor," Budney says, "flipping over leaves looking for insects."
Then there's the walrus, one of Budney's favorite mammalian recordings. The sound produced to attract females, he says, "starts out with these methodical beats — and then what sounds like a gong or banging on a garbage can lid."
The brown-backed solitaire, found in Mexico and Central America, also has a distinct call — one that Budney considers among the world's most beautiful bird songs.
The brown-backed solitaire and musician wren images by John S. Dunning are from the VIREO Collection of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Audio files are courtesy of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
Beyonce, stand aside for just one moment please. The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has just finished digitizing its huge archive of wildlife sounds and made it available online. This includes, direct from the Adirondacks, the common loon.
SIMON: Which the archives says make spines tingle. Most likely to be mistaken for aliens arriving, they say it's the Curl-crested Manucode from New Guinea.
SIMON: And there's this one, best candidate to appear on a John Coltrane record.
That's the Indri, with a voice describing the press release as part moan, part jazz clarinet. Greg Budney is audio curator for the archive. He joins us from Cornell. Thanks so much for being with us.
GREG BUDNEY: It's a pleasure to be with you.
SIMON: And what makes this archive distinctive?
BUDNEY: It's the world's largest archive of wildlife sounds. What's really distinctive about it, what's incredible, is it represents the voice of the world - all the voices of the world. There are over 9,000 different species represented in the library, and that encompasses birds, mammals, insects, amphibians. But I think for the first time we're now able to swing the doors open on the archive and make all of these sounds available to anyone who has an interest in nature, in conservation, in the world around them.
SIMON: I'm going to give you a chance to draw our attention to some of your favorites.
BUDNEY: One of my all time favorite recordings is the Plainfin Midshipman. And this is a sound that's produced under water, and it's a sound from a fish.
BUDNEY: It's not a sound you can hear standing along the shoreline. So if you're in Sausalito, California where the fish are known to inhabit the waters, you can't hear anything when you're standing on land. But if you live in a houseboat, you're directly coupled to the water. In fact, you live in what amounts to a speaker cabinet, so when a male Plainfin Midshipman sings, you're home resonates with sound.
SIMON: Where do these sounds come from? Is there any one answer to that?
BUDNEY: The holdings of the Macaulay Library are really the result of a collaboration of the last 80 years, between the scientific community and what we refer to as our volunteers, volunteer collaborators - private individuals who record for a hobby, really with no other purpose than engaging in science.
SIMON: I gather you've got a sound there from a bird who - well, we would say the bird is impersonating a movie star of some note.
BUDNEY: Indeed. It's the Tui of New Zealand.
SIMON: It sure sounds like R2-D2.
BUDNEY: It does. In fact, Ben Burtt Junior, the sound designer who created the voice or R2-D2, feels the same. I played it for him out at Skywalker a number of years ago and one of the other staff members walking by heard it and assumed that Ben was playing the sound for me. Ben told me it took him three months to develop R2-D2's voice, and here it is in nature.
SIMON: Let me ask you about a - how do I say this nicely? A mating call among especially large beings?
SIMON: If you're a female walrus, this is the voice or Brad Pitt.
BUDNEY: It is indeed, and this male is giving a beautiful delivery of that sound. He starts out with these methodical beats, and then what sounds like a gong or banging on a garbage can lid, I'm not sure, depending upon one's interpretation.
SIMON: Next sound, let me ask you about a bird that seems to be a supremely accomplished musician.
SIMON: Very tuneful. Who is this?
BUDNEY: This is the Musician Wren, which is a small brown bird found throughout Amazonia. And it walks along the forest floor flipping open leaves, looking for insects.
SIMON: It's been brought to my attention that today is Groundhog Day. Anything you can give us?
BUDNEY: For you, for Groundhog Day, we have the vocalization of a groundhog right at the entrance to its burrow, a lovely little whistle.
SIMON: And I can't tell if that means that we have, you know, what is it, seven more weeks of winter or not, but...
BUDNEY: It was still in the burrow when he delivered it, so...
SIMON: So you have to be out of the burrow for that, right?
BUDNEY: One would assume so.
SIMON: Yeah. Greg Budney is an audio curator for the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. They have just finished digitizing their archive. There's a link on our website at npr.org. Greg, thanks so much for being with us.
BUDNEY: It was a pleasure to be with you.
SIMON: Are the animals singing or just lip-syncing? You're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Late last year I wrote an essay about the science and history of the Kermadec Islands for a gorgeous new book, Kermadec. I was just getting an excerpt from it ready to post when I heard that a Department of Conservation volunteer was missing off Raoul Island, presumed dead, probably the victim of a freak wave. Awful. Mihai Muncus-Nagy was from Romania, he was passionate about conservation and had always wanted to visit New Zealand and its beautiful outer islands.
These islands are wild. Another Department of Conservation worker died there in 2006 when the Raoul Island volcano erupted while he was taking temperature measurements at Green Lake.
I've never been to the Kermadec Islands, but when I was writing my essay last year, I immersed myself in the topic, and spent several days sitting in a glass-fronted house in Seatoun, while it rained outside, seabirds dived in the wind and waves crashed against the beach across the road. A perfect setting to be writing about a group of islands and the marine sanctuary around them. There are calls for the Kermadec Islands and the waters around them to be made an ocean sanctuary, to protect the entire area from fishing and mining, and Pew Environment Group, who published the book, are leading the call.
You can buy Kermadec at Unity Books and Parsons Bookshop if you live in Wellington or Auckland or directly from Pew Environment Group if you don't. It's a beautiful book, with photographs as well as art from the group of artists who travelled to the islands last year – Gregory O'Brien, Phil Dadson, Bruce Foster, Fiona Hall, Jason O'Hara, John Pule, John Reynolds, Elisabeth Thomson and Robin White – hard cover, full colour and only $40!
Here is a slightly abriged excerpt from my 3000 word essay that appears in the book. Unusual for me, this time I got to write about critters.
A line in the ocean
On Raoul Island, tuis and red-crowned parakeets forage for nectar and insects in the pohutukawa and nikau that blanket the mist-shrouded slopes. Near the centre of the island, a caldera – a depression formed by land subsidence after a large eruption – holds three lakes that are home to the island's grey ducks and pukeko. The smallest, Tui Lake, is a pond nestled in the bush, but Blue Lake is large enough for swimming and, until a 1964 volcanic eruption deposited sediment in the lake, was a fresh water source for the island's meteorological camp.
The eruption came from Green Lake, Raoul Island's steaming volcanic crater, where it's said that the alkaline water will erase your fingerprints in 10 minutes. The Raoul Island volcano remains active. In 2006, a Department of Conservation worker was killed when the volcano erupted while he was taking a temperature measurement from Green Lake. The 30-minute eruption – the first in more than 40 years – came without warning and deposited metres of ash, mud and rocks around the lake. There have been no eruptions since, but earthquakes are an almost daily occurrence.
Raoul, with its fresh water and cloud forests, is the only island in the Kermadec group with a human settlement. The rest of the islands belong to the seabirds. Six million birds breed on the islands, and twice that many – representing more than 40 other species, including albatrosses, prions, petrels, and frigatebirds – frequent the area. While some seabirds make annual visits to the islands from breeding sites in Siberia and Alaska, 14 species breed in the islands, building their nests in branches of trees, high on cliffs, on rocky ledges and in crevices and underground burrows. Three of the nesting species are endemic – the Kermadec storm petrel, the Kermadec little shearwater and the white-naped petrel. Now that the rats are gone, the bird population is growing.
Some birds, the pelagic species, forage widely. A black-winged petrel was tracked travelling to Tonga and the Chatham Islands, a round trip of 3000 km, before returning to the burrow to feed her chick the oily mix of digested squid, krill and fish she had gathered. Other birds, like the small noddies and storm petrels, stay close to the islands, where they feed on tiny fish eggs, larvae and crustaceans from just beneath the water's surface; or dive for squid, wings outstretched, as if in flight.
The endless sea
The ocean around the Kermadec islands, once a favourite with whalers, is now home to at least 35 species of whales and dolphins, many of them vulnerable or endangered. Bottlenose dolphins now frolic around the islands while families of sperm whales and mother and calf humpback whales pass by in their hundreds on an annual migration to Antarctic feeding grounds. Alongside them, critically endangered giant leatherback turtles, far from their tropical nesting sites, paddle through the deep water in pursuit of their jellyfish prey. Smaller green and hawksbill turtles forage in shallower waters closer to shore.
For 12 nautical miles around each island, the waters are protected, part of a marine reserve from which no species may be taken. These waters provide a sanctuary for a unique mix of tropical, sub-tropical and temperate species of fish. This is a rare ecosystem, where large predators rule, untroubled by fishing lines or nets. In the shallow waters, the Galapagos sharks and the spotted black grouper swim fearlessly. Deeper down the spiny dogfish competes with bass and bluenose for the tastiest prey.
Raoul Island is only the top 516 metres of a submerged giant volcano whose slopes extend for thousands of metres beneath the ocean. On the submerged flanks of the volcano, giant limpets park on the rocks, and anemones wave their multi coloured tentacles in the crystal-clear waters, gathering and grazing on passing plankton. Strange and wonderful species of corals, crustaceans, and molluscs make up a complex ecosystem that scientists are only beginning to understand.
The zone of imagination
Around the islands, deep beneath the ocean, is an undersea world of seamounts, trenches, black smokers and strange exothermic species that stretch the limits of the scientists' imagination.
The Kermadec Islands stretch over 2 degrees of latitude, or 250 km. But in recent years, exploration of the ocean between New Zealand and Tonga has revealed that these islands are part of a 2500 km chain of mostly underwater volcanoes. This line of mountains – the longest underwater volcanic arc on the planet and the most hydrothermally active – is the result of a collision between the Pacific and Australian Plates. On the east side of the collision zone is the Kermadec-Tonga Trench, a slash in the ocean floor that extends 10,800 metres deep and into which no one has seen. West of the trench, stretching from New Zealand's Bay of Plenty to Tonga, are more than 50 underwater volcanoes and the Kermadec Islands.
Scientists are only just beginning to learn about these underwater volcanoes, or seamounts, which were discovered in the 1990s. Recent underwater excursions, by deep sea submersible, have found widespread volcanic activity in the form of diffuse hydrothermal vents, where gas-rich hot water flows into the surrounding sea, and black smokers, where high pressure plumes of super-heated, mineral-rich water jet out of the rock, leaving chimney-like deposits of heavy minerals like iron and manganese, copper and gold.
Some of the strangest creatures in the Kermadecs exist around the hydrothermal vents. Living so far from sunlight, with no opportunity to photosynthesise, these "chemosynthetic" species draw energy from chemicals and minerals in the hydrothermal fluids. Around the vents are forests of stalked barnacles and clumps of giant mussels that provide food for predatory starfish and gastropods. Tiny orange shrimps swarm towards the warm waters where hot vent fluid mixes with the cool sea. Among the many odd creatures are the giant tubeworms, with their symbiotic bacteria that turn hydrogen sulphide – a poison to many species – into food. On top of the vent mussels, strange and tiny marine animals called bryozoans, whose intricate structures can only be seen through powerful microscopes, form colonies of hermaphrodite clones. Other species of bryozoan are found throughout the Kermadec waters – from the shallow waters around the islands to 8000 metres down the Kermadec Trench. The scientists who first named these creatures had an creative bent, and their names are rich with metaphor: different types of bryozoan are known as lace corals, moss animals, or sea mats.
The first major scientific exploration of the Kermadec Islands was in 1908, when New Zealand naturalist Walter Oliver led a small group of scientists in a year-long exploration of Raoul Island's flora, fauna and geology. More than 100 years later, visiting geologists and biologists are still making discoveries about this remarkable group of islands and the ocean that surrounds them. Even so, the Kermadec region remains the least explored of all of New Zealand's waters, and every visit yields new discoveries. In 2011, a group of plant, fish, shark and ecology specialists travelled to the Islands on a biodiscovery expedition that revealed new marine species, like the brilliant orange zebra fish, a small left-eyed flounder and a silver flying fish that landed on the boat in front of a surprised photographer.
Just as the biology and geology of the Kermadecs have long inspired scientists, who have shared their understanding of this world through scientific articles, lectures and photographs, the islands have now inspired a group of artists, who are sharing their experiences through poetry, paintings, sculpture and music.
Science and art might seem, at first glance, to be two different worlds, but in these islands the disciplines intersect, with both artists and scientists diving into this new environment, driven by a desire to discover, to interpret, to see things no one has seen before. Art and science merge when a scientist lovingly renders a map or an illustration, or carefully frames a photograph, or when an artist spends hours watching a bird or a fish, immersing herself in her subject and obsessively recording every detail. Beyond the specialist languages of science and art, the visitors use a common language, describing the Kermadecs as "exhilarating", "spectacular" or "stupendous"; "a frontier of wonders" that's "better than my imagination"; a "classroom", a "mystic garden" that's "wonderful and frightening". But there's one word that comes up more often that most. Again and again, visitors refer to the islands and the marine ecosystem as "pristine". To scientists, this pristine, unspoilt environment is a "baseline of normality" that shows us what the world was like before humans began changing the planet.
For artists and scientists, the Kermadec Islands, where birds fly underwater and fish jump into the air, where black smokers spew into the sea and earthquakes shake the land, are a place of imagination and inspiration. For the seabirds, sea creatures and marine mammals that live on and around the islands, they are a safe passage from breeding grounds to feeding grounds or, to many species, home.
But at the same time as new underwater species and ecosystems are starting to be documented – many of them weird and wonderful, and some of them endemic to the Kermadecs – they are under threat. The Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve, established in 1990, protects the waters near the islands, but outside of the 12 nautical mile no-take zone around the islands, fishing boats gather to net species shoaling above the newly-discovered seamounts, and mining companies fund exploration to assess the seafloor for minerals like gold, copper and lead.
Our planet is currently in its biggest mass extinction for 65 million years. If we want to protect our planet's biodiversity – which scientists believe is essential for the health and resilience of our earth ecosystem – this pristine group of islands, and the expanse of ocean around them, is a great place to start. There are not many "baselines for normality" left on this planet. Let's protect the ones we still have.
You can find out more about the campaign to protect the waters around the Kermadec Islands at The Pew Environment Group's Global Ocean Legacy site.


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The National Weather Service issued a warning, noting tornado-like activity had been reported in McMinnville. It said, "There is also a report of a funnel cloud in Hillsboro," but added, "Conditions for further funnel cloud development should end by 7 p.m."
The agency said it would be sending personnel to determine whether the damage was caused by a tornado or microburst.
A tornado reportedly touched down in McMinnville shortly before 5 p.m. Thursday, ripping the roofs off at least three buildings at 1205 N.E. 11th Way.
"We're putting the ladder up now to see exactly how many roofs were damaged," McMinnville Fire Chief Rich Leipfert said.
Emergency crews shut down several feeder streets from Lafayette Avenue, and on Eighth street, and temporarily shut down Highway 18 eastbound, as well as notifying the National Weather Service, airport and the county Emergency Management Department.
Traffic is shut down temporarily on Lafayette Avenue, but Leipfert said it should be opened up again by 6:30 p.m. Water & Light crews were on hand, removing debris from downed power lines.
The National Weather Service noted that a tornado had been reported in a special weather statement, noting that "there is also a report of a funnel cloud in Hillsboro. Conditions for further funnel cloud development should end by 7 p.m."
Kelly McDonald, managing partner in the Granary District said that he saw the tornado hit.
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Sean Cahill was driving from Safeway along Lafayette Avenue toward downtown when torrential hailstorm occurred. He didn't see any cloud, but he did see building debris flying in circles about 100 feet in the air as if a tornado was there.
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All formats limit a single sitemap to 50MB (uncompressed) and 50,000 URLs. If you have a larger file or more URLs, you will have to break your list into multiple sitemaps. You can optionally create a sitemap index file (a file that points to a list of sitemaps) and submit that single index file to Google. You can submit multiple sitemaps and/or sitemap index files to Google.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:image="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1" xmlns:video="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-video/1.1"> <url> <loc>http://www.example.com/foo.html</loc> <image:image> <image:loc>http://example.com/image.jpg</image:loc> <image:caption>Dogs playing poker</image:caption> </image:image> <video:video> <video:content_loc> http://www.example.com/video123.flv </video:content_loc> <video:player_loc allow_embed="yes" autoplay="ap=1"> http://www.example.com/videoplayer.swf?video=123 </video:player_loc> <video:thumbnail_loc> http://www.example.com/thumbs/123.jpg </video:thumbnail_loc> <video:title>Grilling steaks for summer</video:title> <video:description> Cook the perfect steak every time. </video:description> </video:video> </url> </urlset>
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- Break up large sitemaps into a smaller sitemaps to prevent your server from being overloaded if Google requests your sitemap frequently. A sitemap file can't contain more than 50,000 URLs and must be no larger than 50 MB uncompressed.
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- Familiarize yourself with our Webmaster Guidelines, and our SEO Starter Guide if you're considering hiring a consultant to help you optimize your sitemaps. It can also be useful to check with colleagues with similar sites or businesses to get the most of your sitemap.
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