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Celebrity Actors Smoking Part V
Here we have the fifth part of selected pictures with Hollywood Famous Actors smoking cigarettes. Enjoy the collection of photos with Celebrities Smoking Cigarettes.
1. Gerard Butler Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Gerard Butler Smoking Winston XS Silver Cigarette
About Gerard Butler : Gerard James Butler (born 13 November 1969) is a Scottish actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television. A trained lawyer, Butler turned to acting in the mid-1990s with small roles in productions such as the James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies (1997), which he followed with steady work on television, most notably in the American miniseries Attila (2001). He garnered critical acclaim for his breakthrough work as the lead in Joel Schumacher's 2004 film adaptation of the musical The Phantom of the Opera. In 2007, Butler gained worldwide recognition through his portrayal of King Leonidas in the film 300. Since then, he has appeared in projects including P.S. I Love You (2007), Nim's Island (2008), RocknRolla (2008), The Ugly Truth (2009), Gamer (2009), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), The Bounty Hunter (2010), and as a voice actor in How to Train Your Dragon (2010).
Butler was born in Paisley, Scotland, the youngest of three children of Margaret and Edward Butler, a bookmaker. Of Irish descent, he was brought up in a strict Roman Catholic family. Butler spent the first few years of his life in Montreal, Quebec, before the family returned to live in Scotland. Butler regularly attended Celtic Park as a supporter but has found that moving to Hollywood can be a problem when trying to keep up with the results.
2. Heath Ledger Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Heath Ledger Smoking Winston Super Slims Blue Cigarette
About Heath Ledger : Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 1979 – 22 January 2008) was an Australian television and film actor. After performing roles in Australian television and film during the 1990s, Ledger moved to the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work encompassed nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), Monster's Ball (2001), A Knight's Tale (2001), Brokeback Mountain (2005), and The Dark Knight (2008). In addition to acting, he produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in Brokeback Mountain, Ledger won the 2005 New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and the 2006 "Best Actor" award from the Australian Film Institute and was nominated for the 2005 Academy Award for Best Actor as well as the 2006 BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Posthumously he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film I'm Not There, which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Dylan's life and persona. Ledger received numerous accolades for his critically acclaimed portrayal of the Joker in The Dark Knight, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards, for which he became the first actor to win an award posthumously, the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Ledger died in January 2008, from an accidental "toxic combination of prescription drugs". A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his penultimate performance, as the Joker in The Dark Knight, his death coming during editing of the film and casting a shadow over the subsequent promotion of the $180 million production. At the time of his death, on 22 January 2008, he had completed about half of his work performing the role of Tony in Terry Gilliam's film The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
3. Humphrey Bogart Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Humphrey Bogart Smoking Winston Super Slims Silver Cigarette
About Humphrey Bogart : Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon. The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.
After trying various jobs, Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s. When the stock market crash of 1929 reduced the demand for plays, Bogart turned to film. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster with films such as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938) and B-movies like The Return of Doctor X (1939).
His breakthrough as a leading man came in 1941, with High Sierra and The Maltese Falcon. The next year, his performance in Casablanca raised him to the peak of his profession and, at the same time, cemented his trademark film persona, that of the hard-boiled cynic who ultimately shows his noble side. Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947) and Key Largo (1948), with his wife Lauren Bacall; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), The African Queen (1951), for which he won his only Academy Award; Sabrina (1954) and The Caine Mutiny (1954). His last movie was The Harder They Fall (1956). During a film career of almost thirty years, he appeared in 75 feature films.
4. Henry Fonda Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Henry Fonda Smoking Winston Super Slims Menthol Cigarette
About Henry Fonda : Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor.
Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor. He also appeared in 1938 in plays performed in White Plains, New York, with Joan Tompkins. He made his Hollywood debut in 1935, and his career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath, a 1940 adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts and 12 Angry Men. Later, Fonda moved both toward darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (portraying a villain who kills, among others, a child) and lighter roles in family comedies like Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball.
Fonda was the patriarch of a family of famous actors, including daughter Jane Fonda, son Peter Fonda, granddaughter Bridget Fonda, and grandson Troy Garity; his family and close friends called him "Hank". In 1999, he was named the sixth Greatest Male Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.
5. Hugh Grant Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Hugh Grant Smoking Winston Super Slims White Cigarette
About Hugh Grant : Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide. Grant achieved international stardom after appearing in Richard Curtis's sleeper hit Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994). He used this breakthrough role as a frequent cinematic persona during the 1990s to deliver comic performances in mainstream films like Mickey Blue Eyes (1999) and Notting Hill (1999). By the turn of the century, he had established himself as a leading man skilled with a satirical comic talent. Since the 2000s, Grant has expanded his oeuvre with critically acclaimed turns as a cad in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001), About A Boy (2002), Love Actually (2003), and American Dreamz (2006).
Within the film industry, Grant is cited as an anti-movie star who approaches his roles like a character actor, with the ability to make acting look effortless. Hallmarks of his comic skills include a nonchalant touch of irony/sarcasm and studied physical mannerisms as well as his precisely-timed dialogue delivery and facial expressions. The entertainment media's coverage of Grant's life off the big screen has often overshadowed his work as a thespian. He has been vocal about his disrespect for the profession of acting, his disdain towards the culture of celebrity, and hostility towards the media. In a career spanning 30 years, Grant has repeatedly claimed that acting is not a true calling but just a job he fell into.
6. Hugh Jackman Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Hugh Jackman Smoking Davidoff Classic Slims Cigarette
About Hugh Jackman : Hugh Michael Jackman (born 12 October 1968) is an Australian actor and producer who is involved in film, musical theatre, and television.
Jackman has won international recognition for his roles in major films, notably as action/superhero, period and romance characters. He is known for his role as Wolverine in the X-Men series, as well as for his leads in Kate & Leopold, Van Helsing, The Prestige, and Australia. Jackman is a singer, dancer, and actor in stage musicals, and won a Tony Award for his role in The Boy from Oz.
In November 2008, Open Salon named Jackman one of the sexiest men alive. Later that same month, People magazine named Jackman "Sexiest Man Alive."
A three-time host of the Tony Awards, winning an Emmy Award for one of these appearances, Jackman also hosted the 81st Academy Awards on 22 February 2009.
Jackman was born in Sydney, New South Wales, the youngest of five children of English parents Chris Jackman and Grace Watson, and the second child to be born in Australia (he also has a younger half sister, from his mother's re-marriage). One of his paternal great-grandfathers was Greek. His parents divorced when he was eight, and he remained with his accountant father and siblings, while his mother moved back to England. As a child, Jackman liked the outdoors, spending a lot of time at the beach and on camping trips and vacations all over Australia. He wanted to see the world: "I used to spend nights looking at atlases. I decided I wanted to be a chef on a plane. Because I'd been on a plane and there was food on board, I presumed there was a chef. I thought that would be an ideal job."
Jackman went to primary school at Pymble Public School and later attended the all-boys Knox Grammar School, where he starred in its production of My Fair Lady in 1985, and became the captain of the school in 1986. Following graduation, he spent a gap year working at Uppingham School in England. On his return, he studied at the University of Technology, Sydney, graduating in 1991 with a BA in Communications. In his final year of university, he took a drama course to make up additional credits. The class did Václav Havel's The Memorandum with Jackman as the lead. He later commented, "In that week I felt more at home with those people than I did in the entire three years [at university]".
After obtaining his BA, Jackman completed the one-year course "The Journey" at the Actors' Centre in Sydney. About studying acting full-time, he stated, "It wasn't until I was 22 that I ever thought about my hobby being something I could make a living out of. As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that. I found the courage to stand up and say, 'I want to do it'." After completing "The Journey", he was offered a role on the popular soap opera Neighbours but turned it down to attend the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts of Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, from which he graduated in 1994.
7. Jack Lemmon Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Jack Lemmon Smoking Capri Azzurro Cigarette
About Jack Lemmon : John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor and musician. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts (for which he won the 1955 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award), Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple, Save the Tiger (for which he won the 1973 Best Actor Academy Award), The Out-of-Towners, The China Syndrome, Missing (for which he won 'Best Actor' at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival), Glengarry Glen Ross, Grumpy Old Men and Grumpier Old Men.
Lemmon was born in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. He was the only child of Mildred Burgess LaRue (née Noel) and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., who was the president of a doughnut company. Lemmon attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and The Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. He later revealed that he knew he wanted to be an actor from the age of eight. Lemmon attended Phillips Academy (Class of 1943) and Harvard University (Class of 1947) where he lived in Adams House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs - becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club - as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard. After Harvard, Lemmon joined the Navy, receiving V-12 training and serving as an ensign. On being discharged, he took up acting professionally, working on radio, television and Broadway. He studied acting under Uta Hagen. He also became enamored of the piano and learned to play it on his own. He could also play the harmonica, organ, and the double bass.
8. James Dean Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity James Dean Smoking Capri Bianco Cigarette
About James Dean : James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were as loner Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955), and as the surly farmer, Jett Rink, in Giant (1956). Dean's enduring fame and popularity rests on his performances in only these three films, all leading roles. His premature death in a car crash cemented his legendary status.
Dean was the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy Award nomination for Best Actor and remains the only actor to have had two posthumous acting nominations. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Dean the 18th best male movie star on their AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars list.
James Dean was born on February 8, 1931, at the Seven Gables apartment house in Marion, Indiana, to Winton Dean and Mildred Wilson. Six years after his father had left farming to become a dental technician, James and his family moved to Santa Monica, California. The family spent several years there, and by all accounts young Dean was very close to his mother. According to Michael DeAngelis, she was "the only person capable of understanding him". He was enrolled at Brentwood Public School in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles until his mother died of cancer when Dean was nine years old.
Unable to care for his son, Winton Dean sent James to live with Winton's sister Ortense and her husband Marcus Winslow on a farm in Fairmount, Indiana, where he was raised in a Quaker background. Dean sought the counsel and friendship of Methodist pastor Rev. James DeWeerd. DeWeerd seemed to have had a formative influence upon Dean, especially upon his future interests in bullfighting, car racing, and the theater. According to Billy J. Harbin, "Dean had an intimate relationship with his pastor... which began in his senior year of high school and endured for many years." Their sexual relationship was earlier suggested in the 1994 book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams: the life, times, and legend of James Dean by Paul Alexander. In 2011, it was reported that he once told Elizabeth Taylor, his co-star in Giant, that he was sexually abused by a minister two years after his mother's death.
In high school, Dean's overall performance was mediocre. However, he was a popular school athlete, having successfully played on the baseball and basketball teams and studied drama and competed in forensics through the Indiana High School Forensic Association. After graduating from Fairmount High School on May 16, 1949, Dean moved back to California with his beagle, Max, to live with his father and stepmother. He enrolled in Santa Monica College (SMC) and majored in pre-law. Dean transferred to UCLA and changed his major to drama, which resulted in estrangement from his father. He pledged the Sigma Nu fraternity but was never initiated. While at UCLA, he was picked from a pool of 350 actors to land the role of Malcolm in Macbeth. At that time, he also began acting with James Whitmore's acting workshop. In January 1951, he dropped out of UCLA to pursue a full-time career as an actor.
9. John Wayne Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity John Wayne Smoking Davidoff Blue Cigarette
About John Wayne : Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. He epitomized rugged masculinity and became an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distinctive voice, walk and height. He was also known for his conservative political views and his support, beginning in the 1950s, for anti-communist positions.
A Harris Poll, released January 2011, placed Wayne third among America's favorite film stars, the only deceased star on the list and the only one who has appeared on the poll every year since it first began in 1994.
In June of 1999, the American Film Institute named Wayne 13th among the Greatest Male Screen Legends of All Time.
Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Winterset, Iowa. His middle name was soon changed from Robert to Mitchell when his parents decided to name their next son Robert.
Wayne's father, Clyde Leonard Morrison (1884–1937), was the son of American Civil War veteran Marion Mitchell Morrison (1845–1915). Wayne's mother, the former Mary "Molly" Alberta Brown (1885–1970), was from Lancaster County, Nebraska. Wayne was of Scots-Irish and Scottish descent on both sides of his parents, and he was brought up as a Presbyterian.
Wayne's family moved to Palmdale, California, and then in 1911 to Glendale, California, where his father worked as a pharmacist. A local fireman at the station on his route to school in Glendale started calling him "Little Duke" because he never went anywhere without his huge Airedale Terrier, Duke. He preferred "Duke" to "Marion", and the name stuck for the rest of his life.
As a teen, Wayne worked in an ice cream shop for a man who shod horses for Hollywood studios. He was also active as a member of the Order of DeMolay, a youth organization associated with the Freemasons. He attended Wilson Middle School in Glendale. He played football for the 1924 champion Glendale High School team. Wayne applied to the U.S. Naval Academy, but was not accepted. He instead attended the University of Southern California (USC), majoring in pre-law. He was a member of the Trojan Knights and Sigma Chi fraternities. Wayne also played on the USC football team under legendary coach Howard Jones. An injury curtailed his athletic career; Wayne later noted he was too terrified of Jones's reaction to reveal the actual cause of his injury, which was bodysurfing at the "Wedge" at the tip of the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach. He lost his athletic scholarship and, without funds, had to leave the university.
Wayne began working at the local film studios. Prolific silent western film star Tom Mix had gotten him a summer job in the prop department in exchange for football tickets. Wayne soon moved on to bit parts, establishing a longtime friendship with the director who provided most of those roles, John Ford. Early in this period, Wayne appeared with his USC teammates playing football in Brown of Harvard (1926), The Dropkick (1927), and Salute (1929) and Columbia's Maker of Men (filmed in 1930, released in 1931). Also, it is during this period that Wayne is reputed to have met the legendary gunfighter and lawman Wyatt Earp.
10. Javier Bardem Smoking Cigarette
Celebrity Javier Bardem Smoking Davidoff Blue Slims Cigarette
About Javier Bardem : Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (Spanish pronunciation: [xaˈβjeɾ baɾˈðen]; born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor. He has garnered critical acclaim for roles in films such as Jamón, jamón, Carne trémula, Boca a boca, Los Lunes al sol and Mar adentro.
Bardem has been awarded an Academy Award, a Golden Globe, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA, five Goya awards, two European Film Awards, a Prize for Best Actor at Cannes and two Coppa Volpis at Venice for his work. He is the first Spaniard to be nominated for an Oscar (Best Actor, 2000, for Before Night Falls, lost to Russell Crowe for Gladiator), as well as the first Spanish actor to win an Oscar (Supporting Actor, 2007, for No Country for Old Men). He received his third Academy Award nomination, and second Best Actor nomination, for the film Biutiful.
Bardem was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands (Spain). His mother, Pilar Bardem, is an actress, and his father, Carlos Encinas, was a businessman who was involved in environmental work; the two separated shortly after his birth. His mother raised him alone. Bardem comes from a long line of filmmakers and actors who have been working since the earliest days of Spanish cinema; he is the grandson of actors Rafael Bardem and Matilde Muñoz Sampedro, and the nephew of screenwriter and director Juan Antonio Bardem. Both his older brother and sister, Carlos and Mónica, are actors. Bardem was raised Roman Catholic by his grandmother. He also comes from a very political background, his uncle Juan Antonio was imprisoned by Franco for his anti-fascist films.
As a child he hung around theatres and film sets. At age six he made his first film appearance in Fernando Fernán Gómez's El Pícaro (The Scoundrel). He played rugby for the underage Spanish National Team. Though he grew up in a family full of actors, Bardem didn't see himself going into the family business. In actuality painting was his first love. He went on to study painting for four years at Madrid's 'Escuela de Artes y Oficios'. In need of money he took acting jobs to support his painting. But, he has expressed to have been a bad painter, "otherwise I would've keep on painting. It's not it was bad or good. It was like, I felt it was not my place to be," Bardem explained on his decision to leave painting. In 1989, for the Spanish comedy show El Dia Por Delante (The Day Ahead) he had to wear a Superman costume for a comedic sketch, the job made him question whether he wanted to be an actor at all. Bardem has confessed to have worked as a stripper (for one day only) during his struggling acting career.
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012
First the good news....
... and very exciting news it is! - I have been chosen to join the design team at southerngirls, an amazing New Zealand based challenge blog! It's really fun , with something for everyone, so if you haven't already discovered it check it out now! I am really looking forward to it, can't wait to start - my very first DT!
Less is More challenge-foliage.They're not quite what I envisioned when I started, but at least making them made me feel a bit better! I got nice and inky which is always good!
Wishing you all a very pleasant evening
PS -Have linked both cards to challenge as totally messed up the first link (brain just not fully functioning....!)
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sorry to hear things have been difficult and hope they soon improve - congrats on joining the DT - I am sure that will help - great cards - my fave is the square one as yuo get more of an essence of the colours you have usedReplyDelete
Wow, that's great. This is a challenge in itself, be part of a DT! I wish you lots of fun and creativity.ReplyDelete
Your LIM cards are very beautiful. Especially the first one I like enormously. The fall colors are sublime.
These are super, the inky effect is really eye-catching... I'm glad making them gave you respite from your difficulties at work and many congrats on your DT appointment.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much
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Super cards, love the contemporary lookReplyDelete
Congrats on your DT appointment
Thanks very much
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FABulous colours. LOve how your sentiment matches too.ReplyDelete
Many Congratulations on your DT appointment..
Great cards. Love the colours. Congratulations on your DT post.ReplyDelete
Both simply smashing - great colours tooReplyDelete

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Palau Announces New Marine Mammal Sanctuary at International Biodiversity Meeting in Japan
Oct 22, 2010, 11:00 ET
NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Honorable Harry Fritz, Minister of the Environment, Natural Resources and Tourism of the Republic of Palau, announced the establishment of a sanctuary for marine mammals in the waters of Palau. The Sanctuary, which covers all of Palau's Exclusive Economic Zone (more than 600,000 square kilometers), was announced today during Ocean's Day, at the meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan. The Sanctuary covers all whales, dolphins, and dugongs. The Minister made the following statement:
"Biodiversity has always been integral to the Palauan culture. Our traditional identity, values, legends, and practices are intimately linked to our surroundings and to our relationships with living creatures. Conservation of biodiversity is ingrained in our daily approach to life and inherent in the meaning of our words. From ancient times to today we have conserved our biodiversity through the tools of "bul" or moratoria, and protection of critical areas. Global threats and their influence on our values have made us recognize the importance of partnering and engaging internationally, including with the Convention on Biological Diversity. Today, we continue to use our traditional practices of bul and protected areas, but we enhance those practices with new ideas and information, gleaned through our partnerships with others.
"At the global scale, we have provided a refuge for critical species, becoming one of the first countries in the world to declare and legislate our waters to become a Shark Sanctuary. Palau's dugongs are the most isolated and endangered population in the world. We also have at least 11 species of cetaceans in our waters, including a breeding population of Sperm Whales and possibly as many as 30 other species of whales and dolphins that utilize our EEZ. This sanctuary will promote sustainable whale-watching tourism, already a growing multi-million dollar global industry, as an economic opportunity for the people of Palau.
"The hunting of marine mammals, largely by foreign countries, in the 19th and particularly the 20th centuries has dramatically reduced populations in the Pacific Islands Region. The International Whaling Commission has recognized that there is clear scientific evidence that in the Pacific Islands region many of the great whale species remain severely depleted in numbers, due to the impacts of past whaling. It is a well-established scientific principle that to protect migratory species it is necessary to protect them not only in their feeding areas and migratory routes but also in their breeding grounds.
"Therefore, today, during this tenth meeting of the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity, I am pleased to announce that President Johnson Toribiong of the Republic of Palau has now declared our country's EEZ a sanctuary for all marine mammals, including dugongs and all whales and dolphins. This will prohibit the deliberate hunting and harassment of any marine mammals. We urge other countries to join our efforts to protect whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals—for the sake of the species, as well as the future economic, social, and spiritual development of coastal peoples."
Note: Palau's declaration coincided with Nagoya Ocean's Day, a day where representatives from all sectors, including governments, international agencies, NGOs, science, and industry gathered to address the problems and contributing factors to ocean and coastal biodiversity loss.
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Juan Martin del Potro: Is he the Elvis of tennis? In 1977, famed and brilliant rock critic Lester Bangs eulogized the King by saying that "he was the last thing that we'll agree on." The "we" was the baby boom generation of music fans who had grown up with Elvis, but who by the mid-70s had splintered into various subcultures, like punk and disco, that loathed each other. I could say something similar for del Potro. He seems to be the one guy whom all tennis fans—Federer-ites, Nadalians, Djokovichers, you name it—can rally around. Everyone loves the big Argie, from Hall-of-Famers to hackers. I talked to Andre Agassi in New York today and tried to get him to speak a little about the 2011 season so far, and on Djokovic and Federer. He spent most of his answer saying how happy he was to see del Potro in action again. In the seven minutes since I started writing this post, a tennis buddy of mine emailed to ask: "Is del Potro back?"
"Yes, sort of," was my answer. That may seem a little hesitant for a guy who just won his first tournament after a layoff of nearly a year, but del Potro's win over Janko Tipsarevic in Del Ray yesterday was not vintage stuff. He came into the match saying he was tired, and then he got much more tired very quickly in the afternoon Florida heat. Over the first five games, four of which he lost, del Potro appeared to play exactly one point at top speed. Otherwise, he was late to the ball and late to set up; out of necessity, and desperation, he even began to develop a whole new shot, a stick-save backhand slice hit while he was spinning away from the net. It kept him in quite a few points.
It was a windy, ugly, schizophrenic, and all around very strange match, the equivalent of an American football game where one team—in this case, Tipsarevic—is in the red zone five times and comes away with a field goal, only to watch the other team—in this case del Potro—which has done nothing all day suddenly throw a Hail Mary at the end of the first half to score a touchdown and take the lead. "All the factors were going my way to win," a frustrated Tisparevic said afterward. "But I really didn't use my chances."
It was windy, del Potro was reeling, but still Tipsarevic stuck with his usual game plan of hitting big and aiming toward the lines. He regretted it later. "I think the tactic I had was too aggressive," he said, "probably because I was afraid that maybe If I start letting him play that he would dominate the court." Before the match, Tennis Channel commentators Jimmy Arias and Leif Shiras said that Tipsarevic should be relaxed because he had nothing to lose playing a former U.S. Open champion. In theory, that was true. Except that (a) Tipsarevic is not what you would call a relax-er; he was on the lookout for bad calls from the start. And (b) you stop having nothing to lose the minute you get a lead. That's when you get really nervous. And that's when Tipsarevic started to have his troubles.
However long he's been gone, I would have expected del Potro to be able to handle coming back from two sets of tennis the night before a little better than he did. But it's been a long road back for the big man, and it's a little early to get critical, especially after a win. He also seemed to be in the kind of negative mental funk that he sporadically goes into, even during big matches—he spent most of the final of the 2009 World Tour Final against Nikolay Davydenko in one. But the way he broke out of it was also characteristic. Tipsarevic, seeing that del Potro was dragging anchor, tried a drop shot. Out of nowhere, the Argentine was all over it. He got to it easily, flipped a winner up the line, and lifted his arms to rev up a startled crowd, who he had just spent half an hour lulling to sleep. That was vintage del Potro: One minute he's got his chin on his chest and is ambling his way out of the match; the next he's in full war cry.
"Janko had control in the first set," del Potro said, "but I was focused on my serve because it was only a break. If I get a break soon, maybe I can come back to win that set, and that's what happened." He knows it's one step at a time.
The best of del Potro's game is still somewhere inside of him, waiting to break out—the skiddingly flat crosscourt forehand wasn't in evidence yesterday, but it will be. What was in evidence, though, was the winner's calmness that resides at the core of his otherwise highly emotional self. "It was very hot and of course I felt it," del Potro said. "But in the final, you have to think how you can win. Even if you play bad or not, you have to win the final."
"You have to think how you can win": there's a one-line tennis textbook if I've ever heard one.
Why do we like del Potro? I would say it's the emotion, the genuineness, and the paradoxical, gentle-giant fragility that we see in a big man—we figure little guys can look out for themselves. There's also that monster forehand, spectacular when it connects, and his understated but obvious passion for the game.
And now there's something else: Del Potro is fighting back from adversity, from the same type of exasperating injury problems that so many of us weekend warriors have been through. As my tennis buddy who emailed me today said, "I'm rooting for him because I feel like I'm going through the same thing. Taking a bit of time to get back to where I was."
My friend has been injured as well, but you can be perfectly healthy and root for someone for the same reason: A lot of us are trying to back to where we were, aren't we? It's just that none of us got to where del Potro got—U.S. Open champion; future of the game—in the first place. We want, at the very least, to see him get a fair chance at that future. That much we can all agree on.


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[Note: The inner ear controls balance (via the vestibular system). The VEMP assessment is a computerized test that measures portions of this balance system in patients with symptoms of dizziness. It involves raising or turning the head sharply as directed.]
Objective: To assess vestibular evoked myogenic potentials in patients with fibromyalgia syndrome.
Methods: Twenty-four patients with fibromyalgia syndrome (two men and 22 women) and 21 female controls were included in the study. All patients underwent vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing.
Results: Statistical comparison of fibromyalgia patients with control subjects showed a significant difference with respect to n23 latencies and interpeak latencies (p 0.05).
Conclusions: Although patients with fibromyalgia syndrome generally have subjective neurotological symptoms, clinical and laboratory assessments usually fail to detect any objective abnormality.
However, it is possible to detect abnormalities on vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing in such patients, indicating dysfunction in the vestibulospinal pathway, possibly in the saccule.
Elongation of the n23 latency and of the interpeak latency of waves p13-n23, during vestibular evoked myogenic potential testing, may be a useful, objective indicator demonstrating neurotological involvement in fibromyalgia syndrome patients.
Future research investigating the mechanisms of this latency elongation may help increase understanding of the pathogenesis of fibromyalgia syndrome.
Source: Journal of Laryngology and Otology, Feb 22, 2010; 1-6. PMID: 20170583, by Bayazit YA, Celenk F, Gunduz AG, Gunduz B, Ondag N, Meray J. Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey.


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Project case histories illustrating Benring's resin systems expertise
A diverse and, we hope, interesting selection of project case histories demonstrating our extensive experience of supplying and applying our own formulated resin based repair and protection systems. With a lifetime of experience and a wealth of knowledge Tony Grimes and his Benring operatives have worked on an incredible range of projects and provided resin-based solutions to many problems encountered within the building and construction industries, repair, conservation and restoration of buildings and fine artefacts.
Resin repair system donated to Gipsy Moth IV restoration
This tales stretches back to 1968, when I sold the original resorcinol adhesive to Camper and Nicholson, after Peter Nicholson had attended the series of lectures I had been invited to present at Southampton University on "glues for boat building". Peter was impressed with the ease of use of the adhesive in the work place and its meeting BS1204 for weather and boil proof adhesives; although no-one was going to boil a boat it did mean that these veneered craft would be fine/serviceable in any of the World's oceans and waterways.
Everyone knows of Sir Francis Chichester's exploits with Gipsy Moth, culminating in his being knighted on board by HM The Queen at Greenwich.
Years went by and GM lay quietly mouldering in her berth near the Cutty Sark: she appeared OK but in the bilges rot was attacking her keel area. When I learned of her planned restoration by Camper and Nicholson I had phoned Paul Gelder of the Yachting Monthly to offer to donate the same resin system for repairs as the one used in the original build. This was taken up and I took the adhesive down to Gosport to find that the same man whom I had met all those years ago was the one who would be in charge of repairing GM IV's hull!


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12/04/06 NOAA Awards University of Puerto Rico $450, 000 to Examine Science to Protect Deep Water Caribbean Coral Reefs
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11/21/06 NOAA's Olmpic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Seeks New Advisory Council Members
11/15/06 Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument Named One of New "Seven Wonders of the World"
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11/2/06 U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Addresses Caribbean Coral Reef Management Challenges, Launches Planning for 2008 International Year of the Reef
11/1/06 Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Marine Monument Trustees Partner in Marine Debris Removal
10/31/2006 Monitor National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council to Hold Public Meeting
10/30/2006 U.S. Commerce Deputy Secretary Announced $2.5 Million to University of Michigan to Develop Forecasting for Dead Zones in Lake Erie
10/30/2006 NOAA and National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Award $3 Million for Coral Reef Conservaton Grants
10/19/06 Department of Commerce Presents NOAA Chart to Louisiana Port of Lake Charles
10/17/06 NOAA National Marine Sanctuary Program Dedicates New Research Vessel Fulmar
10/11/06 New Coral Reef Management Guide Provides Strategies to Conserve World's Coral Reefs
10/11/06 NOAA Awards WHOI $7.5 Million over Five Years to Extend Harmful Algal Bloom Models & Forecasts to New Areas of the Gulf of Maine
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10/10/06 NOAA and U.S. Navy Develop First Pre-incident Survey
10/6/06 Draft Management Plans for Three California National Marine Sanctuaries Released for Public Comment
10/5/06 NOAA Adds Wind Component to Coral Bleaching Warning System
10/4/06 NOAA Implements Harmful Algal Bloom Forecast System for Texas Gulf Coast
10/3/06 William Corso Named Deputy Assistant Administrator of NOAA's Ocean Service
9/29/06 NOAA Reports Decreased Levels of Toxins in Mollusks
9/28/06 New Shipwreck Discovered During First Expedition to Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Since Marine Monument Designation
9/28/06 NOAA Team Assesses Marine Debris Impacts in Gulf Region
9/27/06 Research Expedition Reveals Details of Submerged Wreck of Historic Naval Airship USS Macon in NOAA Monterey Bay Sanctuary
9/25/06 Commerce's NOAA and Interior Department Release Draft Framework for Developing System of Marine Protected Areas; Public Comment Period Open for 145 Days
9/25/06 Sanctuary Advisory Council Applicants Requested for Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
9/25/06 NOAA, National Science Teachers Association Unveil Comprehensive Online Teaching Tool for Coral Reef Ecosystems
9/22/06 NOAA Awards More Than $1 Million for Community-based Marine Debris Projects
9/21/06 New Research Strategy Report Aims to Reduce Human Impacts of Harmful Algal Blooms
9/14/06 NOAA Office of Coast Survey, National Marine Protected Areas Center Partner to Enhance Safe Navigation in Alaska Waters
9/7/06 Ocean Expedition Explores Submerge Wreck of Historic Naval Airship USS Macon in NOAA Monterey Bay Sanctuary
9/6/06 NOAA Experts to Conduct Whale Disentanglement Workshops in San Francisco and Santa Cruz Areas
8/9/06 NOAA Researchers Determine Important Indicator of Ecology Health
7/27/06 Invasive Lionfish Focus of NOAA Research Cruise
7/26/06 Container Ship Owners and Operators to Pay $3.25 Million in National Marine Sanctuary Settlement
7/25/06 NOAA Issues Bulletin on Introduction of Non-native Red Sea Bannerfish into Florida Waters
7/20/06 NOAA Forecasts Larger than Normal "Dead Zone" for Gulf this Summer
7/18/06 NOAA's Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary Completes Move to New Key West Facility
7/18/06 NOAA Launches Debris Removal from Main Hawaiian Islands
7/17/06 NOAA Brings Shipwrecks, Marine Life Closer to Home Through New Marine Science Web Portal
7/17/06 Researchers to Broadcast Live from Site of Historic USS Monitor Wreck
7/14/06 NOAA, California State Parks Officials Praise Opening of New Coastal Discovery Center at San Simeon Bay
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6/26/06 NOAA Scientists Discover Expanded Range of Deepwater Corals off Washington State Coast
6/22/06 Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Holds Public Hearings On Draft Management Plan
6/20/06 After Five Years of Protection, NOAA Marine Reserve Shows Increasing Numbers, Size of Fish
6/16/06 NOAA Celebrates 20 Years of Supporting Emergency Responders and Planners with CAMEO
6/8/06 Sweep the Reef, Sweep the Beach Clean Up Set for World Oceans Day
5/15/06 David Kennedy Named Director of NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
5/11/06 NOAA Releases Report on Protecting, Understanding Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reefs
5/8/06 Barnum Named Director of NOAA Office of Coast Survey
5/5/06 NOAA, State of Texas, and University of Texas Announce New Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve
5/2/06 Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Announces New Advisory Council Members
4/11/06 NOAA Research Links Water Mold To Lesions, Ulcers In East Coast Estuarine Fish
4/10/06 Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council To Hold Meeting
4/10/06 NOAA Promoting Ocean Science Through School Milk Carton Campaign In St. Louis
4/03/06 NOAA Releases Science Study on Ecosystems in Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary
3/23/06 NOAA Promotes International Collaboration with Australian Counterparts
3/20/06 NOAA Leads Research Mission of U.S. Virgin Islands' Underwater Habitats
3/17/06 Final Environmental Impact Statement published in designation process for 27th national estuarine research reserve
3/14/06 Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary Announces New Advisory Council Members
3/10/06 NOAA Introduces New Version of nowCoast Web Mapping Portal Displaying Real-time Coastal Information
2/28/06 NOAA Announces Winners in Competition to Design an Environmentally-Friendly Anchor
2/25/06 Volunteers Count Whales from the Shores of O'ahu, Kaua'i, the Big Island and Kaho'olawe
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2/21/06 NOAA Awards Major Hydrographic Survey Contracts
2/10/06 NOAA Survey Shows Most Flower Garden Banks Coral Reefs Recovering from Bleaching Event
2/7/06 NOAA Administrator Announces 2007 Budget Request
2/7/06 NOAA budget request includes $230 million for Climate Program
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2/7/06 NOAA budget request includes $170 million for Commerce and Transportation Program
2/7/06 NOAA budget request includes $1 billion for Ecosystems Program
2/6/06 New Members Join Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council
2/3/06 NOAA Announces Expanded Coral Warning System
2/2/06 Zilkoski Named National Geodetic Survey Director
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1/26/06 Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council to Hold Public Meeting
1/9/06 NOAA Names John H. Dunnigan Assistant Administrator For NOAA's National Ocean Service
1/5/06 Mariners Can Chart Courses at No Charge; NOAA Offers Free Navigational Charts on Web
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George T. Davis, age 81, of Goggin Lane in Danville, Kentucky, formerly of Indianapolis, Indiana and Fort Meyers, Florida, passed away Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center in Danville. Born Sunday, August 9, 1936 in Indianapolis, he was the son of the late Charles Andrew & Fannie May Freeman Davis. His loving wife, whom he married February 17, 1996, is Shirley Wilson Davis of Danville. George was a US Army National Guard Veteran, and retired, working for 30 years as an Engineer, at Ford Motor Company. George was a previous member of the American Legion Post in Indianapolis and previous member of The Elk Club in Florida. George enjoyed fishing and redecorating homes, and loved antiques.
In addition to his wife, George leaves behind three daughters, Barbara Pardoe of Danville, Laurie Phillips (Perry) of Wyoming, and Shari Davis of Indianapolis; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; five great-great grandchildren; and one sister, Rosemary Cassidy of Greenfield, Indiana.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by five brothers, Glenn, Donald, Charles, Chester, & Leon Davis; and one sister, Timi Bunting.
Honoring George's requests, Cremation Rites have been carried out. A Memorial Service will be planned soon.
Memorial Contributions suggested to George T. Davis Memorial Fund, c/o Fox & Friend Funeral Home, 312 West Main Street, Stanford, KY 40484.
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Client Case Studies: Improved Lead Generation and Profits
These case studies of some of our clients are a very simple demonstration of the new online marketing reality. Investment in your website, to create a positive return on the investment you have made in your business, is one of the most effective ways to increase profits and viability, particularly in these days of hesitant recovery. Traditional advertising simply doesn't produce the returns that it used to. Paper advertising is so wasteful, it's an affront to green business. It cannot be tracked with any accuracy and it almost always results in people trying to find you online anyway. So make it easy for customers or clients to find you and reduce the friction – that takes them to your competitors. Whether you need help with social media marketing, getting your website found or turning web visitors into engaged fans and buyers, who come back for more; we can help you find the pathway that will funnel more customers your way.
Social Media Case Studies 1
Challenge: to Assist SM Marketing Company with Management of Social media Accounts for an International Outdoor Industry Client
I was approached by Tony Stephenson Social Media for Business. Tony was seeking some assistance with work for one of his major clients Tentipi AB of Sweden, manufacturers of Nordic tipis. The remit was to promote the Tentipi Adventure range of Nordic tipis internationally via Twitter and Facebook. With an increasing work load he needed someone with experience of the outdoors and with an understanding of the equipment needed to engage in a range of outdoor activities. This had to be combined with social media skills and an ability to apply an understanding of Brand values across several social media platforms. This fitted into my development plan perfectly, so we agreed to collaborate on this work. Over the following 3 months Tony inducted me into the very intense work pattern established by the company, based on his own and his colleague's extensive training and experience of a full social media management workload. My early foundations in social media marketing have been substantially enhanced through this level of business involvement. Communicating with the target audience has involved developing a high level of understanding of products, the audience, and the Brand values too. All this has been necessary to allow sourcing of good quality materials of interest to the target market, promoting everything about the Tentipi brand and its values in a proportionate manner, responding to user engagement, referring sales leads and enquiries to the most appropriate suppliers internationally; and the management of lists, followers and fans. Building on the foundations established before September 2012, we have continued to test and refine what we offer to the Tentipi audience. Followers on Twitter have grown from around 3000 to current levels of almost 4300. We have a low level of unfollowing and good levels of engagement. The Facebook account has grown from around 1200 to over 1800 in the same time frame and very high levels of engagement are common. During my period of involvement with Tentipi social media marketing has been directly involved in new distributors and retail stores selling the brand. Numerous retail enquiries now combine with excellent levels of engagement within our target markets. Feedback from our client Tentipi AB is, likewise, excellent, and CEO Bengt Grahn is increasing his commitment to social media marketing activities for 2013.
Update: August 2015 The ongoing work with Tentipi has seen the Facebook account grow to 16,738 Page Likes, a typical Talking About figure that hovers between 900 – 1000 on most days. The page now generates an irregular stream of sales enquiries that can be redirected to the retailers in the appropriate country.
Website Restructuring Case Studies 1
Challenge: Improve On-Page Optimisation and Local Business Listing Optimisation so that a completely invisible website began to generate phone leads.
Solway Timber Engineering Ltd (STE) were established in January 2012 on the site of a previous timber frame manufacturer. A website had already been prepared and launched but did not appear in any search results for products or services; apart from "floor cassettes Dumfries" and it's own brand names. The website was an almost direct copy of the company's brochure and was constructed in a tables format that severely distorted many of the images. There was no sign of any keyword awareness in the text and the navigation menu did not correspond with any queries that customers or clients make. The client asked for a social media package initially, but I had to point out that the current website would simply bounce potential clients away as it did not address any searches at all. As a result it was agreed to use the simplest approach to attracting leads through organic search engine optimisation. After detailed keyword research and assessment of competing websites, 6 primary keywords were identified. Content was rewritten, the layout of the website was tweaked to improve the images; navigation links were altered to echo the chosen keywords and the metadata of each page and image were updated to match the theme of each page. Social media sharing buttons were also added to the pages to encourage some sharing. Externally, a set of directory listings were generated, as was a Google Plus Local listing. (Again this caused problems as Google kept regenerating business listings at STE's location but with an incorrect address. This was traced to the previous company's listing which seems to have used a non standard address, of which there were many copies still scattered around in the major business directories.) Slowly these old listings are being found and eliminated and the correct Google listing for STE is gaining ground. The website continues to generate leads from its surrounding area which are converting to sales of many products.
Further Work Recommendations:
- Redesign website fully and focus it on lead generation rather than business place marker;
- build out landing pages for other town/service combinations nearby;
- develop a blog section; build robust social media profiles on Twitter;
- Facebook, Google Plus, Pinterest and Linked In;
- Develop a review generating strategy for the website and for the directory listings.
Update: In 2014 the business was sold to BSW Timber and has been put on hold until marketing conditions change. A subsidiary website Scots-Pods.com has been transferred to BSW as TimelessPods.co.uk.
New Website Case Studies 1
Challenge: to Compete with High Authority, Long Established Community Websites, that are Part of a High Authority City Council Network.
Stanwix Community Association required a website that would help them get over a period of 2 years when the community association was unable to generate any revenue; due to a long drawn out refurbishment and frost damage. Members of the community association were keen to be able to automate some of the booking processes and to be found in local searches for appropriate keywords. One committee member with an eye for design chose the overall look of the website. It was then optimised for a series of 7 keywords that appeared to be related to the target audience we wanted to attract to hire the room and keep it viable for the community members to use for their activities. Despite being up against a network of long established local authority community centres, different landing pages soon began to appear in searches for the services we offer. 1 page failed to: but this is deliberately de-tuned: until the facilities are in place to actively promote Stanwix Community Centre as a training room. Currently the website brings in 2 or 3 ad hoc bookings per month which is on target for the first year. It is also one of the key factors that has attracted the attention of adult education leaders to take the "tiniest" community centre seriously as a venue.
Further Work Recommendations:
- Rewrite website with a stronger copy-writing focus;
- Build out further landing pages for other keywords;
- Involve volunteers in writing for the blog section;
- build robust social media profile Linked In;
- optimise overly large image files to speed up load times;
- identify a caching module that does not interfere with the booking module to further improve load times.
Update September 2015: The website now generates 4 – 5 enquiries and on aversge about 2 new bookings per week.
Website Restructuring Case Studies 2
Challenge: On-Page Optimisation and Local Business Listing Optimisation to improve a "home made" website
The owner of Arte Plumbing and Electrical Services in Andover sounded quite pleased when he told me that they had finally got round to getting a website online. When asked how many leads it had generated, the answer was none! When we looked for it online, it only showed up for searches that included the brand name. Educating the company about the possibilities of being able to tune in to what prospects were looking for online allowed a very low budget project to take place. The business did have good placements in Yell and Mybuilder listing services; but had little else showing up online. However despite the alphabetical advantage of the company name in the listing services, they were still lost in a sea of competitors. The strategy for Arte involved focussing the website on a 3 keywords that suited the business he wanted to attract; rewriting the text content of the pages and then converting the site to a very basic WordPress installation. Next, a series of local business listings were set up and a Google Places (now Google Plus Local) listing set up. There is virtually no social media work being done for this website. We discovered in the course of this work that there was a troublesome rogue Google listing which had been placed on the business address of Arte Plumbing. Research indicated that the company listed, no longer existed (in fact it had ceased trading years ago from it's central Andover location) and a long drawn out process of enlisting Google's support people, to permanently remove the listing followed. After moving the marker several times (and it being placed back on the wrong address); it did begin to look like another example of malicious work by a competitor. Persistence paid off and Google eventually got back to us with a phone call and the listing was removed. This highlights the importance of claiming, taking control of and editing your local business listings in all the important directories. The changes resulted in Arte being in the top 3 results for plumber / plumbers/ emergency plumber and commercial plumbers for Andover consistently for the past two years. Recent changes in the way Google assesses the search results and website's suitability for ranking have actually increased Arte's ranking, highlighting the effectiveness and long term value of the original work carried out. The website continues to generate a slow steady 2 or 3 leads per month which convert to paying customers.
Further Work Recommendations:
- Redesign website fully and focus it on lead generation rather than business place marker;
- build out landing pages for other town/service combinations nearby;
- develop a blog section;
- build robust social media profiles on Twitter, Facebook and Linked In.
Website Restructuring Case Studies 3
Challenge: On-Page Optimisation – and Local Business Listing Optimisation.
Amberdrive Services are a driving school in Carlisle. On first acquaintance with this client, we found that the company's Google Places listing was quite strong, being found in 3rd to 5th place for most of the keyword phrases that are valuable to the business. The website however, languished at the bottom of page 5. There was a programme of Pay per Click advertising in place which was generating leads and paying customers for the learn to drive market and the training to become an instructor market. The rate of generation was low and the company was paying a high rate to get any adverts into prominent locations. Several of the keywords targeted were disallowed by Google because of low quality scores for the landing pages and there was virtually no organic search traffic to the website. In this case the cure was relatively straight forward, as the content simply had no optimisation for key phrases such as "driving lessons Carlisle" or "instructor training Carlisle". In other words, it did not speak to the questions being asked by people looking for driving lessons and driving instructor training. Content was rewritten within the limitations of the existing html website's graphically controlled layout, as the client was unwilling to start over. Within 4 weeks the website had risen from the depths of page 5, to 5th place on the first page of search engine results. (Interestingly the Places listing completely vanished.) What at first appeared to be a disaster; proved to be an affirmation of success. The new found prominence of Amberdrive had prompted a competitor to flag the business as permanently closed. This was rather inconvenient for the 2 weeks it took before we could remove this status.) The Places listing soon returned to its place and over the following months it would often be 2nd in the Local Listings Pack on the search results page. The website ranked in the top 3 for an extended period of over 18 months. (update Feb 2013: The business owner decided not to continue with any more organic SEO work, other competitor websites improved their standard and gradually pushed Amberdrive out of their place in the first page of organic results). Local SEO, tuning your website in to the needs of your locally based prospects, works… and it can severely rattle your competitors even in a small city like Carlisle! It is important to understand that Search Engine Optimisation is rarely a one time fix; your competition are also looking to own the positions at the top of the search results and will gradually overtake your standard if you do not continue to adapt and improve your offering. (update May 2013: The business moved out of Carlisle to new offices at the owner's home and this has resulted in a noticeable decline in its ranking in the following 6 weeks). Further Work Recommendations:
- Redesign website fully and focus it on lead generation rather than business place marker;
- build out landing pages for other town/service combinations nearby;
- develop a blog section; build robust social media profile on Twitter;
- update website and business listing information to reflect the new address.
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- The addition of content to your website that is tuned in to those customer questions and targets the words and phrases they are using.
- Planning and implementing the internal link structure your website. A website that is well connected internally can receive a noticeable boost in its authority and visibility.
- Implementing a Google places page and optimising it with a selection of most appropriate categories, the uploading of photographs and linking to appropriate video material.
- Submitting your business details in a consistent format to the most appropriate business directories online.
- Attracting genuine backlinks from good quality websites using a variety of compliant strategies, to enhance your online authority.
- Building of a mobile friendly annex to your existing website or a responsive redesign, which suits your customers thought processes and habits.
- Design of a completely new website if necessary.
- Social media promotion in the appropriate channels for your market.
- A schedule for ongoing maintenance of all theses assets to keep you ahead of competitors and entice new visitors to use your services.
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WASHINGTON – With a desperate wave of his stick, Ryan Miller somehow kept a point-blank shot out of the net, saving the Buffalo Sabres from matching the longest road losing streak in franchise history.
Miller reached right to deflect Mikhail Grabovski's attempt with just over 2 minutes remaining in regulation, and then made two more saves in the shootout Sunday to give the Sabres a 2-1 win over the Washington Capitals.
"I was looking down at my papers for the next line combination, and the boys tell me I missed the save of the year," Buffalo interim coach Ted Nolan said. "He was really good."
Miller finished with 28 saves, Tyler Ennis scored in the first period, and Cody Hodgson had the only goal in the shootout for the Sabres, whose 11-game road skid was the second-longest in club history, behind a 12-game streak in the 2011-12 season.
"We didn't want to make it 12 in a row. It's already gotten too far," Miller said. "But it's something the guys can feel good about."
Miller provided a big lift for Buffalo with his terrific stop after Grabovski gathered a rebound in front of the crease. As skilful as it looked, Miller said he was more lucky than anything.
"That's one of those ones where you're just completely out of options," said Miller, who will represent the U.S. next month at the Sochi Olympics. "The puck came through traffic, hit me right in the pads instead of the stick, and I knew I was in trouble. I saw him kind of reload and get position, and those can certainly go wrong for you. More often than not, those guys are going to score, and I don't think he quite got all of it."
Jason Chimera scored in the first period, and Philipp Grubauer made 30 saves for the Capitals, who have lost five of seven, including a pair of 2-1 shootout losses to the worst-in-NHL Sabres.
NHL rules require that every game have a winner, which seemed a generous gesture in a game in which both teams played as if they were already on the Olympic break. The mascots and youngsters who played a mini-game during the first intermission generated more riveting scoring chances than the Capitals and Sabres did for long stretches of the second and third periods.
"I think the guys are a little tired," Washington coach Adam Oates said. "I don't think we had the energy we should."
But Buffalo will take any win it can get. The Sabres actually put the puck in the net twice in the first period—once for themselves and once for the Capitals.
Brian Flynn, trying to stop a pass from Chimera to Marcus Johansson, got his stick on the puck and directed it past his own goalie to give Washington the early lead. Chimera was given credit for the goal.
Ennis tied it late in the period on a power play.
With 53 seconds remaining in regulation, Karl Alnzer put the puck in the net for the Capitals, but the goal didn't count because Nicklas Backstrom had tripped Hodgson to give Alzner the clear shot. The Sabres were given a power play that carried into overtime.
The Sabres welcomed back Hodgson, who had missed eight games with a hand injury, and Ville Leino, who had been out for three games with a lower body injury. Not on the ice was prospect Mikhail Grigorenko, who is refusing to accept an assignment to the juniors.
The Sabres, who have scored by far the fewest goals scored in the league, are trying to steady themselves during a period of upheaval. Sunday's game was the second under new general manager Tim Murphy.
"I think today was a good opportunity to reset and say we're going to play a hard-nosed game," Miller said, "and we did a nice job."
NOTES: Washington D Connor Carrick got his first NHL assist on Chimera's goal. … A blue tarp hung in the rafters at the Verizon Center, one day after a Washington Wizards NBA game was delayed twice because of a leak in the roof. There were no such weather delays Sunday.
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May 4, 2013 Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, New Orleans, LA
With the launch of the new 2013 tour and the upcoming March release of a new album, Crowes fans can expect some changes. Not everyone will be back for the tour, as it was announced that Jackie Greene would be performing on vocals and lead guitar. Greene, who has been collaborating with lead vocalist Chris Robinson and Bob Weir of The Grateful Dead during the Black Crowes hiatus, will replace Luther Dickinson who is currently focusing on his band The North Mississippi Allstars.
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With "Guardians of the Galaxy," the Disney-owned Marvel Studios introduces a new film franchise that's off to a great start. Lighthearted in spirit and quick on its feet, the two-hour sci-fi adventure flies by in a whoosh of nimble action and colorful characters.
Five unexpected heroes join together in a mission to save their imperiled galaxy, though this gang of misfits seems unlikely to save anything. That's part of the fun.
The previously unaligned guardians unite after handsome young adventurer Peter Quill is hired to find an orb for an unknown buyer. Quill doesn't know it, but the object inside the orb can destroy entire worlds.
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Like "Star Trek," "Stars Wars" and other enduring sci-fi adventures, "Guardians of the Galaxy" succeeds most of all through its characters. Quill has a sad backstory that begins on Earth. He keeps the past with him via a vintage Sony Walkman player and a collection of cassette tapes containing hits songs of the late 20th century.
Most of the other guardians have tragic pasts, too, including displacement and the loss of loved ones.
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武士道 is the title for, "The Code of the Samurai."
Sometimes called "The Seven Virtues of the Samurai," "The Bushido Code," or "The Samurai Code of Chivalry."
This would be read in Chinese characters, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja as "The Way of the Warrior," "The Warrior's Way," or "The Warrior's Code."
It's a set of virtues that the Samurai of Japan and ancient warriors of China and Korea had to live and die by. However, while known throughout Asia, this title is mostly used in Japan, and thought of as being of Japanese origin.
The seven commonly-accepted tenets or virtues of Bushido are: Benevolence 仁, Courage 勇, Honesty 誠, Honour 名誉, Loyalty 忠実, Respect 礼(禮), and Rectitude 義. These tenets were part of an oral history for generations, thus, you will see variations in the list Bushido tenets depending on who you talk to.
See our page with just Code of the Samurai / Bushido here
忠實 is a Japanese way to write "Loyalty" - it also contains the ideas of being faithful, devoted, true, and obedient.
The second character is a modified form only used in the Japanese lexicon, however, Chinese speakers can easily guess the meaning.
This is also a virtue of the Samurai Warrior
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道 is the character "dao" which is sometimes written as "tao" but pronounced like "dow" in Mandarin.
道 is the base of what is known as "Taoism." If you translate this literally, it can mean "the way" or "the path."
Dao is believed to be that which flows through all things, and keeps them in balance. It incorporates the ideas of yin and yang (e.g. there would be no love without hate, no light without dark, no male without female.)
The beginning of Taoism can be traced to a mystical man named
Lao Zi (604-531 BC), who followed, and added to the teachings of Confucius.
More about Taoism / Daoism here.
Note that this is pronounced "dou" and sometimes "michi" when written alone in Japanese but pronounced "do" in word compounds such as Karate-do and Bushido. It's also "do" in Korean.
Alternate translations and meanings: road, way, path; truth, principle province.
Important Japanese note: In Japanese, this will generally be read with the road, way, or path meaning. Taoism is not as popular or well-known in Japan, so that Daoist/Taoist philosophy is not the first thing a Japanese person will think of then they read this character.
See our Taoism Page
智 is the simplest way to write wisdom in Chinese, Korean Hanja, and Japanese Kanji.
Being a single character, the wisdom meaning is open to interpretation, and can also mean intellect, knowledge or reason, resourcefulness, or wit.
智 is also one of the five tenets of Confucius.
智 is sometimes included in the Bushido code but usually not considered part of the seven key concepts of the code.
See our Wisdom in Chinese, Japanese and Korean page for more wisdom-related calligraphy.
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The first character is the spirit or essence of a warrior. The second character means soldier, officer, or official. 武士 is also used appropriately enough to describe a piece of a chess game. This can also be translated as soldier, cavalier, palace guard, or samurai and sometimes as knight. I've occasionally seen this translated as strong man or tough man (gender not necessarily implied).
By far, this is the most common way to write warrior in Chinese characters, Japanese Kanji, and old Korean Hanja.
Note: In Japanese, this is Bushi, as in Bushido.
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武士道see styles
| wǔ shì dào / wu3 shi4 dao4
wu shih tao
bushidou / bushido / ぶしどう
bushidō or way of the warrior, samurai code of chivalry
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|Romaji(Romanized Japanese)
|Various forms of Romanized Chinese
The Way of the Samurai
|bu shi do / bushido
|wǔ shì dào
wu3 shi4 dao4
wu shi dao
|wu shih tao
|chuujitsu / chujitsu
|michi / -do
|dào / dao4 / dao
|chi / tomo
|zhì / zhi4 / zhi
|bu shi / bushi
|wǔ shì / wu3 shi4 / wu shi / wushi
|wu shih / wushih
|In some entries above you will see that characters have different versions above and below a line.
In these cases, the characters above the line are Traditional Chinese, while the ones below are Simplified Chinese.
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All of our calligraphy wall scrolls are handmade.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to my art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Allow a few weeks for delivery. Rush service speeds it up by a week or two for $10!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The wall scroll that Sandy is holding in this picture is a "large size"
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We also offer custom wall scrolls in small, medium, and an even-larger jumbo size.
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days.
Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over 6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt such a feat.
Check out my lists of Japanese Kanji Calligraphy Wall Scrolls and Old Korean Hanja Calligraphy Wall Scrolls.
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Germany's soul-searching over its high unemployment took a bizarre turn yesterday when a minister was forced to disown his apparent support for giving the jobless electronic tags.
Christean Wagner, justice minister for the state of Hesse, provoked outrage by suggesting on his website last month that electronic tagging would offer the long-term unemployed "the chance to return to a regulated daily schedule and be found a job".
After newspapers were alerted last week, Mr Wagner's office initially accused critics of malign distortion. It later blamed "an unfortunate mis-wording", saying that the proposal should have applied to "criminals on probation who were also unemployed or drug addicts in therapy".
However, his opponents said the Christian Democrat's gaffe was typical of his patronising, not to say hostile, attitude to Germany's almost five million jobless. One, Jürgen Walter, said Wagner thought "unemployed people are lazy riff-raff who don't get out of bed in the morning and by eleven have already drunk five beers".
Germany's unemployed have a reputation for being unwilling to travel far for work or take low-paid or unskilled jobs. Recent measures aimed at increasing the incentives to find work have provoked huge ill feeling with, so far, very little success.
The regulations have even given birth to a powerful, if totally apocryphal, urban myth that women have been threatened with benefit loss for refusing to work in brothels.