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Monetizing A Blog
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How I monetized a blog in 30 days: what worked, and what didn't
The Pinterest Gods
I help my mom run a cooking blog called The Yummy Life. She writes all the content, and I make sure the site actually works. We've been at it for almost two years, and until recently there wasn't much reason to worry about monetizing it because there was never enough traffic for it to matter. Then one day the Pinterest gods decided that we deserved better and in a frantic storm of pinning, our traffic shot up to about 25,000 visitors per day...... Before the spike we were getting ~4k visitors per day. The peak of the spike brought ~67k. It then fell to about 20-25k and it's stayed there ever since. There hasn't been any downward trend in the past three weeks, and almost all of the traffic is still coming from Pinterest.Tips
#1 - Remove as much crap as possible from the sidebar (Good, Bad)Bad Ideas
#2 - Use affiliate links to customize the ads for each post .... create her own ads for each post. Each ad links to a product on Amazon through an affiliate link. .... the Amazon affiliate links are generating almost twice as much revenue per visitor as the AdSense ads (~$5 RPM from Amazon, ~$2.50 RPM from AdSense).
#3 - Have the ads scroll with the page
.... steps #1 and #3 combined to increase our AdSense CTR (click-through-rate) by a factor of 33 (.03% to 1%).
Google AdSense text ads
Amazon pre-made banner ads
Amazon aStore .... This month we've had 3,288 orders placed through our on-page ads. We've had exactly zero placed through the aStore.
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Fruit Juices for a Renal Diet
A renal diet is generally prescribed for those suffering from chronic kidney disease, although a modified renal diet is sometimes used during a bout with kidney stones. Your recommended diet may change over time as your disease improves or worsens. Always adhere to your doctor's specific recommendations, particularly if you have additional medical conditions. Additionally, always talk with your doctor before adding or subtracting any foods. In general, fruit juice can play an important role in a renal diet, provided you follow certain precautions. Avoid star fruit in any form, as it is a known kidney toxin.
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Fluid Intake
All fluids are processed through the kidneys. If you have advanced kidney disease or are on dialysis, your kidneys may become overwhelmed by an abundance of liquids. Therefore, most renal diets require you to limit your overall intake of fluids, particularly once your disease begins to progress. It is very important to count all liquid products including ice cubes and soups in your overall daily total. Fruit juice provides essential vitamins and minerals and can be an excellent choice, but be careful not to exceed your total daily fluid intake.
Potassium is vital to maintaining a regular heartbeat, but too much potassium can be dangerous. Since potassium is regulated by the kidneys, a renal diet includes specific recommendations for potassium consumption. Orange juice and prune juice are particularly high in potassium. Depending on your specific guidelines, you may be able to consume these juices in moderation provided that you minimize other sources of potassium for the day. Apple juice and cranberry juice are relatively low in potassium.
Phosphorus is also regulated by the kidneys. A build-up of phosphorus can lead to calcium depletion, leaving you at risk for osteoporosis and other disorders. Your doctor will provide guidelines for phosphorus consumption. In general, fruits and fruit juices are low in phosphorus, but carefully read the labels for blended juice drinks.
Our bodies require some sodium, but too much can cause fluid retention and increase blood pressure. Restricting fluid intake can worsen these problems. Consequently, most renal diets require you to limit the amount of sodium you consume. Fruits are naturally low in sodium, but blended fruit drinks may have sodium added. Look for pure fruit juices or carefully read the label. Watch out for "low sodium" drinks, which may contain potassium-based salt substitutes.

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Southwest Chicken Egg Roll – 7.99
A zesty mix of chicken, corn, spinach, monterey jack cheese, jalapeños, and black beans. Served with chipotle ranch dressing.
Nachos… Mine – 7.99
Crispy tortilla chips piled high and layered with two cheeses, chili, onions, black olives, tomatoes, and jalapeños. Served with salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.
Crab Dip – 7.99
A smooth creamy dip loaded with lump crabmeat. Served with warm toasted French bread.
Hop's Smothered Fries – 6.49
Crispy potato wedges smothered with a blend of cheeses, bacon, and jalapeños. Served with a side of ranch dressing.
Buffalo Wings – 8.99
Mild, Medium, Hot, Spankin' Hot, BBQ, Honey BBQ, or Hot & Honey. Served with bleu cheese and celery.
Homemade Pierogies – 4.59
A local favorite. Served fried to a golden crisp or sautéed with onions.
Broccoli Bites – 5.99
Golden fried and stuffed with broccoli and cheddar cheese. Served with a side of ranch dressing.
Crab Stuffed Portabella – 8.49
A jumbo portabella mushroom overflowing with our homemade crab mix.
Mozzarella Moons – 6.99
An authentic blend of mozzarella cheeses battered with a special blend of Italian seasonings. Served with marinara sauce.
Hop's Hungry Man Sampler – 11.99
Can't decide on one? Have five! Chicken Fingers, Mozzarella Moons, Egg Rolls, Pierogies, and Broccoli Bites. Accompanied with sauces for dipping.
Chicken Fingers – 6.99
Lightly breaded chicken strips fried to a golden crisp. Served with BBQ sauce or honey mustard. Have 'em tossed in your favorite wing sauce for 50¢ more.
Quesadillas – 6.99
The BEST in the valley! Your choice of Plain, BBQ, or Cajun. Served with cheddar and jack cheeses, bacon, tomatoes, onions, and black olives. Smothered between two jumbo tortillas. Add Chicken or Steak for an additional 1.99.
Homemade Soup of the Day
Bowl – 4.29 / Cup – 2.99
Ask your server about the nearly famous creation of the day.
*An additional 50¢ for Seafood Soup.
Hop's Chili*
Bowl – 4.59 / Cup – 3.59
A sweet, but mildly spicy mix of fresh ground beef and kidney beans. Available with cheese and onions for 50¢.
Crock of French Onion Soup – 4.49
Our homemade French onion soup bubbling with Swiss cheese.
Top your House, Caesar, or Taco Salad with:
Grilled Chicken* or Steak* – 3.00
Chicken Salad – 3.00
Fried Chicken or Tuna Salad – 2.00
Chili – 2.00
House Salad – 4.29
Assorted greens and garden veggies.
Caesar Salad – 6.99
Crisp romaine, parmesan cheese, and croutons tossed with our signature dressing.
Taco Salad – 5.99
A crispy tortilla shell filled with two cheeses, tomatoes, onions, and black olives over a bed of assorted greens. Served with salsa, sour cream, and guacamole.
Chef Salad – 7.99
Ham, turkey, American and Swiss cheeses, tomatoes, and a hard boiled egg atop a bed of assorted greens.
Buffalo Bleu Salad – 7.99
Our breaded chicken strips, smothered in buffalo sauce, piled high on a bed of greens and topped with bleu cheese crumbles.
Cobb Salad - 7.49
Bed of fresh greens, hard boiled egg, diced tomato, blue cheese crumbles, black olives, mushrooms, guacamole and bacon bits.
Crab Cake Sandwich – 8.49
Our homemade crab cake served on a kaiser roll with lettuce and tomato.
Philly Chicken Steak Sandwich – 6.99
Delicious chopped chicken and onions grilled to perfection and covered with marinara sauce. Add your choice of cheese for an additional 75¢.
BBQ Bacon Cheddar Chicken Melt – 7.49
Grilled chicken smothered with BBQ sauce, cheddar cheese, and topped with bacon. Served on a kaiser roll with lettuce and tomato.
Turkey Rachel – 7.99
Turkey, cole slaw, and Swiss cheese served open faced on deli rye bread with a side of Thousand Island dressing.
Philly Steak Sandwich* – 6.99
Choice steak and onions grilled to perfection and covered with marinara sauce. Add your choice of cheese for an additional 75¢.
Grilled Reuben – 7.99
Lean corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut served open faced on deli rye bread with a side of Thousand Island dressing.
Turkey Cheddar Melt – 6.99
Deli style turkey and cheddar cheese served on your choice of bread.
French Dip* – 7.99
Our soon to be famous, thinly sliced prime rib piled high on a steak roll. Add your choice of cheese for an additional 75¢.
Buffalo Chicken Sandwich – 7.49
Grilled chicken breast topped with Buffalo sauce and smothered with monterey jack cheese. Add Bleu Cheese or Ranch Dressing 75¢.
Tuna Melt – 6.49
Served open faced on your choice of bread with sliced tomatoes and American cheese.
Traditional Hot Ham & Cheese – 5.99
Sliced ham piled high and smothered with your choice of cheese.
Chicken Your Way Sandwich – 7.49
Cajun, Teriyaki, or Plain. Grilled to perfection and served on a kaiser roll with lettuce and tomato.
Chicken Parmesan Sandwich – 7.49
A golden fried chicken breast smothered with marinara sauce and topped with Mozzarella cheese. Served on a kaiser roll with lettuce and tomato.
Club Sandwiches – 8.99
Our clubs are made with full size helpings of meat, lettuce, tomatoes, and bacon layered between three slices of bread. Your choice of turkey, tuna, chicken salad, ham, grilled chicken breast, or roast beef and your choice of cheese.
All sandwiches below can be served as a wrap or on your choice of white, wheat, or rye bread with lettuce, tomato, chips, and ask for a pickle.
Tuna or Chicken Salad – 6.49
Grilled chicken or chunk tuna blended with a light mayo and special seasonings.
Ham & Swiss – 6.99
Sandwiched with our homemade honey dijon spread.
Turkey – 6.99
Sliced turkey piled high with lettuce and tomatoes.
Roast Beef & Pepperjack* – 6.99
Sandwiched with our homemade creamy horseradish sauce.
The Classic* – 6.99
8 ox. of fresh ground beef, grilled to your liking. Add American, Swiss, Cheddar, Mozzarella, Pepperjack, or Monterey Jack cheese for 75¢.
The Famous Fogelburger* – 7.49
Our classic burger topped with sautéed onions and crowned with a fried egg.
The Savory* – 7.49
Our classic burger topped with bacon, mushrooms, and sautéed onions.
The Patty Melt* – 7.49
Our classic burger served between a grilled Swiss cheese sandwich and sautéed onions on deli rye bread.
Turkey Burger – 7.49
A juicy turkey patty served with lettuce and tomatoes.
Veggie Burger – 6.99
Made from whole grain vegetables, served with lettuce and tomatoes.
Portabella Mushroom Burger – 7.99
Fresh grilled portabella mushroom topped with roasted red peppers and smothered with mozzarella cheese. Served with lettuce and tomato.
8" (Personal) - 4.99
Toppings - 75¢ each
12" (Our Most Popular) - 8.49
Toppings - 1.50 each
Pepperoni, bacon, sausage, burger, anchovies, green peppers, onion, mushrooms, black olives, garlic, jalapeño peppers, pineapple
Served with a potato choice, house salad, or vegetable. Substitute a cup of soup for an additional 1.99. Add fresh lump crabmeat to any steak for 4.99.
Ribeye* – 17.99
USDA 16 oz. ribeye cooked to your liking.
Broiled Salmon* – 17.49
A salmon filet topped with mushrooms and crowned with our crabmeat stuffing.
Blackened Salmon* – 15.99
A salmon filet blackened with your special seasonings and pan-seared to perfection.
Broiled Homemade Crab Cakes*
One – 10.99 / Two – 17.99
Our special blend of crabmeat and seasonings broiled to perfection.
Fettuccine Alfredo – 9.99
Our smooth and creamy Alfredo sauce accompanied with fettuccine. Add grilled chicken* for an additional 3.99.
Chicken Penne Rosa - 14.99
Sauteed chicken, roasted red peppers and mushrooms blended in a pink alfredo sauce. Served over Pene Pasta.
Louisiana Pasta - 16.99
Shrimp, Chicken, and Sausage in a cajun seasoned cream sauce. Tossed in Linguini.
Chicken Parmesan* – 12.99
Dual breaded chicken breasts smothered with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese. Served over linguine.
Soft Drinks – 1.99
We proudly serve the following products:
Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, Sprite Zero, Ginger Ale, Birch Beer
Coffee – 1.99
Regular or decaffeinated.
Hot Tea – 1.99
Fresh Brewed Iced Tea – 1.99
Unsweetened, sweetened, green tea, or raspberry.
Milk – 1.99
Regular or chocolate.
Juice – 1.99
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- Flying Dog Raging Bitch IPA
- Goose Island IPA
- Guinness
- Labatt Blue
- Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy
- Michelob Ultra
- Miller Lite
- Moosehead
- Sam Adams Boston Lager
- Sam Adams Seasonal
- Stella Artois
- Stone IPA
- Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen
- Yards IPA
- Yuengling Lager
- Abita Purple Haze
- Amstel Light
- Anchor Steam
- Becks
- Bells Two Hearted Ale
- Bells Winter White
- Budweiser Select
- Corona
- Dogfish 60 Minute IPA
- Heineken
- Heineken Light
- Hoegaarden
- Labatt Blue
- Labatt Blue Light
- Labatt Blue Light Lime
- Left Hand 400 Pound Monkey
- Left Hand Fade to Black
- Left Hand Nitro Milk Stout
- Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat
- Jever Pilsner
- Michelob Ultra
- Miller Lite
- Moosehead
- Otter Creek Winter Red Ale
- Pabst Blue Ribbon
- Palm
- Red Bridge (Gluten free)
- Red Stripe
- RJ Rocker Son of a Peach
- Rolling Rock
- Rogue Dead Guy
- Rogue Yellow Snow
- Sam Adams Boston Lager
- Sierra Nevada Pale Ale
- Smirnoff Ice
- Smutty Nose IPA
- Spaten Optimator
- Spaten Premium Lager
- Stone IPA
- Twisted Tea (Original, Peach, an Raspberry)
- Yuengling Lager & Light
- Anderson Valley IPA
- Abita Amber
- Blue Point Toasted Lager
- Slyfox 113 IPA
- Slyfox Oktoberfest
- Oskar Blues Old Chub
- Sixpoint Resin
- 21st Amendment Back in Black
- Bare Foot Pinot Noir
- Rex Goliath Cabernet
- Lambrusco
- Yellow Tail Merlot
- Yellow Tail Shiraz
- Beringer White Zinfandel
- Blue Fish Riesling
- Chablis
- Fetzer Chardonnay
- Kendall Jackson Chardonnay
- Yellow Tail Pinot Grigio
Hop's Cosmo
Absolut Citron Vodka, Triple sec, cranberry juice, and lime juice.
Caramel Apple Martini
Green Apple Vodka, Buttershot Schnapps, apple juice with a cherry garnish.
Key Lime Martini
Stoli Vanilla Vodka, Malibu Rum, Melon Liqueur, lime, and pineapple juice.
Chocolate Martini
Three Olives Chocolate Vodka, Dark Creme de Cacao, Bailey's, splash of Frangelico.
Apple Martini
Vodka, Apple Pucker, and apple juice with a cherry garnish.
French Martini
Stoli Vanilla Vodka and Chambord shaken with pineapple juice.
* Beer and wine lists change often. Please check with your server for the most up to date list.
* Menu items and prices are not guaranteed. Changes may not be immediately reflected on our website.


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The Blackhawks Max Shacknai Invitational is a Stay n' Play tournament. As a condition of acceptance into the tournament, accommodations must be made through our housing agent, WSC EVENTS. WSC Events is pleased to provide the lowest team rates available. Teams using hotel rooms are required to obtain them from our approved hotel list, using the group reservation procedure established by the Scottsdale Soccer Club and WSC Events. Please contact WSC Events at your earliest opportunity to make accommodation arrangements for your team to secure your entry into the Blackhawks Max Shacknai Invitational. For all inquiries regarding hotel arrangements, please contact Hapie Denfeld by email at email@example.com or (520) 396-0162.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - Ireland will seek to raise 750 million euros in a dual bond auction on Thursday, the National Treasury Management Agency said.
Ireland, which has already secured 8.75 billion euros of its 2017 long-term debt issuance target of 9 to 13 billion euros, will auction five- and 28-year bonds, the agency said in a statement on Monday.
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An MP in German Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has said Monday's terror attack in Berlin will "radicalise the German public" and "create a feeling of insecurity".
Speaking to BBC Radio Four's The World Tonight, Roderich Kiesewetter said anti-mass immigration politicians would try to "profit" from the attack on a Christmas market in the German capital, adding that the government will have to "explain" the attack to the public.
"Incidents like [the Christmas market attack] will create a feeling of insecurity in Germany," he said, adding: "So-called right-wing Alternative for Germany will make profit [from] this, and it will radicalise the German public, and we will have a lot of work [to do] to explain it to our public."
He said the German government would have to "calm down" the public and that the country needed better intelligence to combat terrorism.
A recently-arrived Pakistani migrant has been arrested after allegedly driving a truck into the crowded Christmas market Monday evening.
The attack has already provoked anger against Angela Merkel, who last year allowed over a million migrants to enter the country. Speaking Tuesday morning, she said: "I know that it would be especially hard for us to bear if someone who had asked for refuge and asylum turned out to have done this."
One senior politician in Alternative for Germany (AfD) slammed Mrs Merkel's migrant policy, saying "When will the German state of law strike back? When will this cursed hypocrisy finally stop? These are Merkel's dead!"
The Christmas market attack is the latest in a serious of terror attacks in Germany this year. In July, an Afghan migrant launched an axe attack on a train in Bavaria, just a month after an Islamist killed one person in a knife attack in Munich.
In July, an asylum seeker also blew himself up in the town of Ansbach, killing himself and injuring 15 others.


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Too Many Angels by Jackson Browne (C#, A, E) X2 C#m B A E Looking through some photographs I found inside a book. C#m B A E I was taken by a photograph of you. C#m B A E There were one or two you that I know you wouldve liked a little more. C#m B A E But they didnt show your spirit quite as true. B E You were turning round to see who was behind you. B E And I took your childish laughter by surprise. E C#m And at the moment my camera happened to find you. A -G# -F# E There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes. C#m B A E Now the things that I remember seem so distant and so small. C#m B A E Though it hasnt really been that long of time. C#m B A E What I was seeing wasnt what was happening at all. C#m B A E All though for a while our paths did seem to climb. B E And when you see though loves illusion there lies the danger. B B/A B B/A And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool. E C#m And you go running off in search of a perfect stranger. A F#m (E) A While the loneliness seems to spring from your life, A -G# -F# E Esus4 Like a fountain from a pool. Chorus1: A B C/B C#m B Fountain of sorrow, Fountain of life. A B C/B C#m B Youve known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight. A B C/B C#m B Youve had to hide sometimes and now youre all right. E A -G# -F# E Esus4 (X2) And its good to see your smiling face tonight. (Interlude1: C#m,B,A,E) x2 C#m B A E Now for you and me it couldnt be that had to reach our dreams. C#m B A E But that magic feeling never seems to last. C#m B A E Well the futures there for anyone to change, but still you know it seems, C#m B A E It would be easier sometimes to change the past. B E Im just one or two year and couple of changes behind you. B E In my lessons love thats pain and heartaches good E C#m Well if you feel to free and you need something to remind you. A F#m (E) A Theres this loneliness bringing in from your life, A -G# -F# E Esus4 Like a fountain from a pool. Chorus1: Interlude2: C#m, B, A, E, B7, C#m, D9th, A(barr), B(barr) Chorus2: A B C/B C#m B Fountain of sorrow, Fountain of life. A B C/B C#m B Youve known that hollow sound of your own steps in flight. A B C/B C#m B Youve had to struggle, youve had to fight. A B C/B C#m B To keep understanding and compassion in sight. A B C/B C#m B You could be laughing at me, youve got the right. A B C/B C#m B But you go on smiling, so clear and so bright. (Calm to end) A B C/B C#m B (X2) A (-G# -F#) E Esus4 A (-G# -F#) E Esus4


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Yesterday was my last day of work in the SQL Server Security team. Next week, I will be joining the Cybersecurity and Systems Management Research Group in MSR (http://research.microsoft.com/csm).
It's been a great experience working in SQL Server and one of the best parts of that experience was the ability to interact directly with you, the customer, and get direct feedback on how our product is used. Using the technical forums and the feedback site provides you with a line of contact to the development team - you really get to provide your feedback directly to the engineers that can change the product. So, keep using these resources, they work better than you may expect.
I intend to keep posting about SQL Server, as I still have some ideas about articles that may be useful. I will not monitor the forums as much as before, so if you have a question for me, you should add a comment to this post.


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The glorious., glamorous, glittering 30th anniversary of the annual Brit Awards took place at London's Earls Court on the 16th February 2010, presented by comedian Peter Kay and broadcast live on ITV 1.
XL Video once again provided LED screens, projection, PPU, camera system and playback content management to the show - for the 9th consecutive year.
XL project manager Chris Saunders, who coordinated the camera and playback elements was also clocking up an impressive 16th Brit Awards, working alongside XL's Paul Wood, who managed the screens, projection and specials. Saunders and Wood both work closely with The Brits production team each year, together with lighting designer Al Gurdon and set designer Nicoline Refsing from Stufish, to create a distinctive look and feel for the show.
This year, the central onstage 'artists' screen was made up of 80 square metres of Pixled F11, which returned after leaving such a massive impression last year. This product was specially developed by XL, and has become extremely popular since first appearing on the rental market last year.
The 'presenter's' screen was much larger than in previous years, and constructed from 10 wide x 8 high Lighthouse R7 modules, positioned stage right behind the presenter's area. This gave a much-improved viewing field for the audience.
All screens were fed by XL's new DVI fibre systems, yet another bespoke item built by XL to solve the specific need to deliver a high quality DVI feed in a robust manor to LED screens.
XL also provided special performance video pieces for Cheryl Cole and Robbie Williams. Cole had 120 Barco Mi-Strips inbuilt into the front of her 10 onstage steps, while Williams' set consisted of 1800 X-Spheres, positioned in decreasing sized rectangles as they traveled upstage.
Over and above the standard IMAG projection, XL had a late request to add some scenic projection for Lady Gaga's set, to enhance the dynamics and three dimensional visual aspects of her uniquely abstract performance.
One of XL's HD PPUs was at the core of the live screen IMAG mix, cut by Ollie Bartlett. Based around a Grass Valley HD Kayak mixer and fed by 2 of XL's HD cameras, plus another 7 feeds supplied from the CTV OB, this was directed by Phil Heyes.
Four Catalyst media servers were programmed and run by Richard Turner with playback supplied via 2 Virtual VTR machines, operated by Jonathan Bond.
Artists performing live included Lady Gaga, who won 3 awards and dedicated her performance to late fashion designer Alexander McQueen, Kasabian, Lily Allen, a collaboration between Dizzee Rascal and Florence & The Machine ….. and Robbie Williams … who also walked away with this year's Outstanding Contribution to Music Award.


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Girls' Generation Yoona to release first solo song
Girls' Generation Yoona and acoustic folk Indie band 10cm are teaming up for her first solo!
The Prime Minister and I actress is finally releasing her first solo single through SM's music release project STATION. Her urban pop song titled "Deoksugung Stonewall Walkway" is scheduled to be released on music sites March 11. For her debut solo single, the Girls Generation member is complemented by 10cm's guitarist Yoon Cheol Jong and the smooth vocals of Kwon Jung Yeol. The delightful single, which is about overcoming the superstition that a couple will break up if they stroll down Deoksugung Stonewall Walkway, will also feature an electric piano.
Yoona's song is the fifth one to be released in the SM STATION series. She follows Taeyeon's "Rain," D.O. and Yoo Young Jin's "Tell Me (What Is Love)," Yoon Mi Rae's "Because of You," and Eric Nam and Wendy's "Spring Love." SM Entertainment's STATION project promises to release one new single a week for an entire year, so this may be the first of many for the talented idol. I think it would be great if she joined forces with a YG artist or a 2PM member in the future.
If Yoona were to collaborate with another recording artist this year, who would you want it be?
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After Super Wal-Mart, Charles and Kara came home and found zombies in their front yard. There were like one hundred zombies trampling their lawn. Zombies on the neighbors' lawns and on all the lawns. Most of the neighbors were zombies. Some of them moaned. "Zombies are cool," said Charles. Zombies stood in the driveway and in front of the garage. One was eating a cat. Kara honked the horn. Zombies stood. It was October and yellow and orange-red leaves fell off the trees and onto zombies. Charles and Kara had been dating a year and a half. They were having relationship problems. Charles was five years older than Kara and had asked her to marry him. In a panic, she said yes. She was in her mid-twenties and unprepared for life's vicissitudes. She had imagined that she would be able to sleep around until she was in her thirties. At least. Somehow, she felt, someone had tricked her. "Honk the horn," said Charles.
"I honked the horn." She honked again. Zombies found a living person. It was Mr. Lau. They pulled him off his bike and tore him to pieces. The blood sprayed ten feet in the air. Another thing that she disliked about Charles was his pushiness.
"I have to pee," said Charles.
Zombies were on a killing rampage. "We can't get married," said Kara. "I can't." One of the zombies was the piano teacher, Mrs. Young. Her jaw hung from her face in a permanent gape. Off and on Kara had taken lessons for eight years but was never very good. "You have to practice your scales," Mrs. Young used to say. "Play your scales. Play C minor. Play C minor now."
Now Mrs. Young threw a dismembered limb at Kara's car. The limb landed on the car, left a blood-streak, and rolled to the ground.
"What about our plans?" said Charles. "Our plans for a long and happy life. A life sanctified by the blessings of God." Charles crossed his legs. When he bought his coke, Kara told him not to super-size. He super-sized it anyway. The empty yellow wax-paper cup rolled beneath the seat.
"Pee in this," said Kara. She reached under the seat and shoved the cup at Charles. "You never listen to me," she said. "I want a secular service." She felt sleepy and wanted to take a hot bath. A bath with bath beads. But zombies...
Zombies broke into Kara and Charles' house. They smashed down the door and carried out the television, the VCR, the stereo system. They flung clothing across the yard. A zombie ripped apart Kara's favorite bra. Another wore Charles' corduroy pants. "My pants," said Charles. He frowned and looked at his pants. There were dirt stains near the ankles. "Listen, maybe if you honk the horn longer. Press on it for a long time." He reached across the seat and held down the horn. Kara's father didn't like Charles. He called him effeminate. Charles was a computer programmer. He programmed pop-up advertisements for the Internet. He had programmed more than one thousand. Whenever Kara was on the Internet and an advertisement popped up, Charles told her which ones were his. "I made that one," he said. "I made that one and that one and that one and that one."
"Charles?" said Kara's father. He was in low-security prison for tax evasion. Kara told him about the engagement during her weekly visit. "Don't marry him just because you're upset with me."
"I hate you," said Kara. Charles turned away from her and a zombie pressed its rotten genitals against the car window.
"O.K." said Charles. "Fine." Another zombie leaned against the car and exposed itself, and then came another and another. Rampaging zombies crowded around the car. They pushed their bodies against it and climbed on top of it until it was completely covered: a green-red, puke-ish, rotting, fleshen lump. "Hate me," said Charles. "Fine. Fine. Fine."
A few weeks later Charles and Kara went back to Super Wal- Mart. They bought bed skirts, decorative pillows, down comforters and duvets, electric blankets, throw rugs, slip covers, panel curtains, floor lamps, wall lamps, touch lamps, ceiling fans, sectional sofas, microfiber ottomans and faux-leather chaise lounge chairs, bar stools, wine chillers, rice cookers, slow cookers, jug blenders, citrus juicers, electric can openers, sonic toothbrushes, oral irrigators, extrawide hair straighteners, self-cleaning shavers, deep cleaners, wet/dry upright vacuums, yard rakes, garden claws, oscillating sprinklers, bamboo fencing, spade shovels, pick mattocks, corded and cordless screwdrivers, lithium-ion inflators, handheld GPS navigators, cellular telephones, digital music recorders, DVD players, sling boxes, flat-panel televisions, home entertainment systems. They bought ninety-day replacement plans. Three-year warranties, lifetime warranties, etc...


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If you've decided to pursue bouncy castle hire in Auckland, you've definitely made the right decision. You really will find that bouncy castle hire is one of the best ways to keep a crowd's attention — especially when the crowd is made up of small children. They will truly enjoy that you've given them something that they can really enjoy for hours.
However, a good bouncing castle isn't just for small children — teenagers and even adults can get in on the fun. You just need to figure out what is involved when hiring a bouncy castle.
First and foremost, you want to figure out what date you really need the castle. If you can schedule in advance, this is the best way of really making sure that you will have your chosen date for bouncy castle hire reserved properly. There are times where last minute cancellations can mean that you get a different date, but you really don't want to count on this.
From here, the next thing that you really need to make sure that you do would be to figure out what size you're looking for. If you have a small party or small children, then one of the smaller models would be just fine. However, if you are going to have adults or teenagers bounce along, you will want to make the appropriate upgrade.
Once you get the bouncy castle of your choice and have it delivered, you'll need to set it up. Make sure that you try to go for a flat spacious area with no sharp objects. A ground sheet will keep the bouncy castle from getting dirty.
You just unroll the bouncy castle and get the blower tubes to the back. Then you connect the blower to the tubes at the back, and begin to let the blower inflate the castle.
As long as the blower is running, you will have no problem keeping the bouncy castle inflated while the kids are playing. You have to also strap the castle down with pegs to keep it from moving around with the wind.
That's about all you have to worry about when it comes to setting up your new bouncy castle — how easy is that?


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The official announcement of the "Young Justice" animated series first hit the wire back in April, with Cartoon Network revealing plans to kick off the animated series featuring a team of young heroes from the DC universe during the 2010-2011 season. During this year's New York Comic Con, fans got their first look at the series, courtesy of a six-minute extended trailer that debuted during the show.
If you weren't able to catch the trailer during NYCC, don't worry — because now you can watch it exclusively here on Splash Page.
Premiering on November 26 at 7 PM Eastern, "Young Justice" will begin with a one-hour adventure.
When the series was first announced, the team's roster was said to include Robin, Superboy, Artemis, Kid Flash, Miss Martian and Aqualad. It's interesting to note that Green Arrow protege Artemis and the alien shape-shifter Miss Martian don't appear in the trailer, though Speedy (Green Arrow's former sidekick) has a big role.
"Young Justice" is executive produced by Sam Register ("Batman: The Brave and the Bold") alongside producers Greg Weisman ("The Spectacular Spider-Man") and Brandon Vietti ("The Batman").
Comic fans will likely recognize the title of the show as a reference to the 1998 "Young Justice" comic book series that ran for 55 issues and was created by Todd DeZago and Todd Nauck (though the majority of the series was written by Peter David). Of the television series' roster, two characters from the comic appear to have been omitted: Wonder Girl and Secret.
Keep it locked to Splash Page for more "Young Justice" news and clips as the series kicks off!
Let us know what you think in the comment section or on Twitter! You can also follow me, Splash Page editor Rick Marshall, on Twitter!


text: Why the iPad won't replace newspapers, magazines Published on February 23, 2011. Apple's iPad tablet computer has the publishing industry all atwitter (you should excuse the expression) with the possibilities of digital subscriptions. This viral video on behalf of the new Newsday app agrees. But certain benefits of ink-on-paper—lining bird cages? wrapping fish?—just can't be replicated in glass and aluminum, including this key use of rolled up newsprint. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Steelers have gotten pretty good at beating the NFL's best.
They've nearly perfected losing to the worst.
And while San Diego is more underachieving than utterly horrific, the Chargers' 34-24 win over the Steelers on Sunday continued a perplexing trend for a team that considers itself among the elite.
Pittsburgh (7-6) has won on the road at Baltimore and the New York Giants this season. It has also fallen to lesser-lights Oakland, Tennessee, Cleveland and now the Chargers (5-8). It makes for one of the weirder resumes of any playoff contender.
"There's nothing we can really say," Steelers center Maurkice Pouncey said. "We know we went out and messed up a lot of games. We know we're going to pay for it here."
The Steelers certainly paid for it on Sunday.
Pittsburgh hoped the return of quarterback Ben Roethlisberger from a three-week layoff due to a sprained right shoulder would provide the final piece to a puzzle that's only come together in fits and spurts this fall.
While Roethlisberger's arm looked fine while throwing for 285 yards and three touchdowns, he got little help from his teammates and was hardly perfect himself, throwing for an interception and having a botched screen pass turn into an easy San Diego score that put the Chargers up 24 midway through the third quarter.
"We felt like we missed a lot of plays out there," Roethlisberger said. "I missed a lot of throws. I threw it to them once. We all have to play better."
Amazingly, the Steelers are still in prime position to secure one of the AFC's six postseason spots after Cincinnati lost to Dallas. If Pittsburgh can win its final three games — starting with a road game against the Cowboys next Sunday — it's in no matter what happens elsewhere.
"I feel great about this team," nose tackle Casey Hampton said. "We didn't play our best today and they got us but going forward I feel like we're going to win every game. That's what we've got to do to get in the playoffs."
There are no such visions in San Diego, which came in having lost seven of its last eight. Yet the Chargers were able to make history by winning in Pittsburgh in the regular season for the first time, snapping a 14-game losing streak.
They did it by playing with the fearlessness and tenacity of a team with postseason dreams. Those are long gone, and head coach Norv Turner and general manager A.J. Smith may soon be on their way out, too.
Not that it mattered on a day the Chargers looked like the team playing with something on the line.
Philip Rivers threw three touchdown passes, two to Danario Alexander, and San Diego cruised.
"This isn't necessarily the team we thought we'd have on the field in December, but this is the type of performance we thought we'd put together," said Rivers, who completed 21 of 41 passes for 200 yards.
The injury-ravaged offensive line kept Rivers out of harm's way. The Steelers only sacked Rivers once, and all that extra time in the pocket helped him convert 12 of 22 third downs, allowing San Diego to chew up the clock and keep Roethlisberger from getting going while the game was still competitive.
"We all know that this team has played this way through large parts of many games," Turner said. "We did not make the big mistake in the football game."
Instead, it was the Steelers who couldn't seem to get out of their own way.
The Steelers didn't even cross midfield until a last-gasp drive to end the half ended with Shaun Suisham's 49-yard field goal that pulled them to 13-3.
Any boost the kick provided disappeared during the first 10 minutes of the third quarter.
San Diego converted five straight third downs during a clock-chewing drive, including a 17-yard burst up the middle by Ronnie Brown on third-and-13 from the Pittsburgh 29.
The play wasn't designed to get a first down, but a pair of missed tackles helped the Chargers extend the drive. Three plays later Rivers found Michael Floyd for a 3-yard touchdown to make it 20-3.
The 17-play march ate up nearly 10 minutes. The Chargers then needed barely 10 seconds to put the game away.
Backed up yet again after Floyd's score, Roethlisberger tried to hit Brown on a screen pass. The ball smacked into tight end David Paulson's rear and rolled into the end zone, where Quentin Jammer fell on it.
The play appeared to be overturned on review. Pittsburgh's offense ran back onto the field when referee Scott Green popped out from under the hood.
Instead, Green pulled a switcheroo, confirming the score to give the Chargers a 27-3 lead and a brief moment of joy in a year full of chaos.
"Yeah we've been struggling the last five weeks," tight end Antonio Gates said. "But at the end of the day it only came down to one or two plays in those games we lost. Today, we just were playing the way we were capable of playing, the way we know how to play."
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
Major League Baseball umpires made a special visit to treat some local kids to much-needed smiles on Wednesday. They brought a Build-A-Bear workshop to patients at Rady Children's Hospital.


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Author Notes: This is my gluten free scone. It tastes nice and its good for your health. —Satomi
Makes: 8 scones
200 gram Buckwheat
100 gram black sesame powder
50 gram Suger beet
150 milliliter Soymilk
1 teaspoon Baking powder
- First of all mix Buckwheat and Baking powder in a bowl.
- Add Black sesame powder, Sugar beet and Soy milk then mix well.
- Keep in the Refrigerator for 30 min.
- Put the scones on the Oven trey, set the Oven to 200 ℃ for about 30 min.
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CAN THO (VNS)— The National Fund for Vietnamese Children yesterday awarded scholarships to 100 students in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta region under a US$150,000 programme.
The programme, funded by an energy consortium led by Chevron Viet Nam, will provide 800 scholarships and upgrade five schools in the Can Tho, Hau Giang, Bac Lieu, Kien Giang and Ca Mau provinces.
Since 2009, the programme has provided more than 3,000 scholarships and upgraded 14 schools in the region. — VNS


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FAYETTEVILLE, Tenn. (WHNT)- Five people are running to be the next mayor of Lincoln County. Monday night they faced voters who had questions as they attempt to decide who they will vote for.
There was a large turnout. At one point the doors to the municipal center had to be closed.
The Lincoln County Citizens Action Network hosted the forum. Voters were allowed to submit questions before the forum began, but the candidates did not know what those questions might be.
"Well at this point taxes are certainly an issue," said organizer Bruce Avilla. "There's also a current debate that's going on about the sales tax sharing between the city and the county. It has not been solved so that is a very important topic. The people are interested in knowing what the future vision is for the future mayor is and how they are going to work together with the city.
Current Mayor Peggy Bevels is facing four opponents. They are Jack Atchley, Bill Newman, Gwen Shelton and David Smith.
The election will be held on August 7th during the state primaries. If you missed tonight's forum it will be posted at a later date on the Lincoln County Can website.


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Blogger is an easy blogging platform that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. WordPress is a powerful and flexible content management system (CMS) that allows users to customize the website appearance with themes and extend the functionality with plugins. Many users start with Blogger for the Google friendliness, but they quickly want to transfer to WordPress as they need full control over their blogs. This tutorial just comes to help readers who are struggling for Blogger to WordPress migration. Follow the detailed guide step by step, you can easily transfer your website without losing Google Rankings.
Before to migrate, you are required to have a blank WordPress website so that your Blogger blog can transfer to. To build up a WordPress website, you should register a new domain name and sign up a WordPress hosting account to power the site. We have reviewed out a series of excellent WordPress hosting providers, which come with high performance services and offer special discounts and coupons for our readers. Especially, some of them even include a free domain name as bonus.
When registered domain name and signed up WordPress hosting account, you need to install WordPress on the new website. The process is quite easy, and we have written a detailed tutorial about How to Create a Blog with WordPress yet. If you get an account from BlueHost, you can refer to this page to learn about WordPress installation with BlueHost.
Step 1: Import Blogger Posts Into WordPress
When everything is ready, you can start to import Blogger posts into WordPress at once. Login into your WordPress dashboard, go to Tools -> Import, and you can see the following systems that can import to WordPress.
Just feel free to choose Blogger. Then, it will pop up an Install Importer window, which introduces the Blogger Importer description. You can click the button of Install Now to set up the plugin, and WordPress will download and install it automatically.
Once installed the importer, you are asked to activate the plugin. Just do it. Then, you are needed to authorize WordPress to transfer Blogger posts. Click on the Authorize button on this page and it will link you to the Google account page, where the page prompts that WordPress is asked for permission to handle your Blogger account. You can simply click the Allow Access button to continue.
After then, you will be linked back to WordPress, and you can see the list of your Blogger accounts. Now, what you need to do is clicking on the import button and WordPress will automatically import it. Once completed, WordPress will ask you to set an author for the imported posts.
At present, you have successfully completed the Blogger to WordPress migration. However, you still need to make the following configuration to ensure that your visitors from the old blog can reach the new WordPress site and keep the search engine ranking reversed.
Step 2: Change the Permalink Structure
By default, WordPress generates URL like http://www.yourdomain.com?p=123. On the other hand, it gives users the ability to configure the URL friendly to readers and search engines by changing the permalink structure.
Back to your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings -> Permalinks, and you can see the common settings options as the below. Now, click the radio button for Custom Structure and enter the character of /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%.html into it.
In this case, the WordPress URL will match the structure on the old Blogger blog, which greatly ensure links working well and minimize the number of broken links.
Step 3: Redirect Blogger Visitors to New WordPress Site
Your old Blogger blog may have many monthly visits. How to inform these visitors about your new WordPress site and transfer them to the new site as well? In the following, we guide you to redirect visitors to the new site.
Login to the old Blogger blog, go to Settings -> Template, scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Revert to Classic Template link.
After that, you can see the Edit Template HTML area, where you are required to replace the entire content with the following code. Note that, you need to replace the http://www.yourdomain.com with your actual domain.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en" dir="<$BlogLanguageDirection$>">  <title><$BlogPageTitle$></title>  <MainPage><link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/" /></MainPage> <Blogger><ItemPage> <link rel="canonical" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>" /> </ItemPage></Blogger>

Our page has moved to http://www.yournewdomain.com.

 <MainOrArchivePage><$BlogTitle$></MainOrArchivePage> <Blogger><ItemPage> <a href="http://www.yourdomain.com/<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogItemTitle$> </ItemPage></Blogger>

Now, your visitors from Blogger blog can be automatically linked to the new WordPress site. To test whether the redirection is working, you can search the Blogger blog and see if it brings you to the new URL.


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I'm not good at math, never have been. The guys I play golf with won't let me near the scorecard because once I have to "carry the one," I'm lost. In high school, I scored a "See me" on math SATs.
And I'm no better at applying math to TV issues. In 1989, NBC, 42 years the worthy home of MLB's "Game of the Week," lost the contract to CBS. NBC's Kevin Monaghan called with the news:
"You're not gonna believe this, but we just lost baseball. CBS won the bidding."
"Wow, that's incredible. How much did CBS bid?"
"Four hundred million more than us."
"Wow, geez. … Ah, Kevin?"
"Is $400 million a lot or a little?"
Kevin: "I don't know."
And that was in 1989.
Anyway, I wanna give my TV/sports math one more shot, so try to stick with me, and circle in red all the mistakes.
Last week ESPN proudly announced that this college football season it will televise a record number of weekday games — 69 — almost all of them at night.
OK, so now let's figure, very conservatively, that each team brings 65 players to those weekday/night games. That's 69 games times two teams, 138 teams.
So 138 teams times 65 players equals 8,970 student-athletes. In exchange for ESPN money and TV promotion and attention, 8,970 student-athletes will be expected to forget all about school during the week — when classes are held — and instead concentrate on football. Just for one season and one TV network.
In many cases, thousands of these players will be absent from school for at least two days in order to travel, play, return to campus. Or will Arizona St. at Washington St. and Rutgers-Central Florida — Thursday nighters — be day trips?
Also consider that football players, recruited through full scholarships, are generally among the schools' weakest students. Often enrolled — begged to enroll — despite academic achievement far below the admission standards for non-athlete students, many-to-most are among those who can least afford to miss classes.
Then there are some bands and cheerleaders. We're looking at roughly 10,000 college students who this season will lose class time to just ESPN's weekday football schedule in service to their schools' chase for TV exposure and TV money.
Meanwhile, congenial third-year NCAA president Mark Emmert continues to claim that he recognizes the academic shortfall that plague D-I football and basketball, that he recognizes the need for reforms. Same NCAA song, different crooner.
As the latest reform-minded head of the NCAA, Emmert could've demanded that ESPN reduce or even eliminate weeknight televised games, or at least ensure that the games include only teams whose two campuses are close to each other.
But that would be a common-sense reform, one that regards colleges primarily as society enriching educational institutions. But there's no TV money or exposure in such practicality.
Emmert might even remind folks the reason college football games were almost all played on Saturdays was because that made academic common sense for all.
And so the academic and financial fraud — our universities serving as fronts (see: federal RICO or racketeering statutes) to operate money-first sports teams — not only will persist, it will worsen. Just do the math.
Then there's the student-athlete crime problem . . .
Sadly, this Phoenix won't rise again
Phoenix Communications, N.J.-based former operator of MLB Productions — it sustained the presence of Mel Allen through "This Week In Baseball" — and for three decades a proving pad for broadcasters, producers, directors, tape operators, writers, editors and all hands-on TV gigs, closed Friday, having sent its last sports news satellite transmission.
Known as a friendly, nurturing place to work, Phoenix's weekly productions and projects reflected professionalism, creativity and charm.
"By people who cared, for people who cared" is how Phoenix alum and current longtime ESPN field producer Willie Weinbaum put it.
If a company could have a funeral, Phoenix's would be packed.
* Know why Dodgers star Matt Kemp star has been on the disabled list since July 24?
Against the Nationals, bases loaded, two out, Kemp was on third. Run on contact, right? Baseball 101.
But Kemp presumed that a high, slow grounder toward first — he didn't consider that it would be a tough play at first — would have nothing to do with him. So he jogged on contact. Thus, the first baseman, with no play at first, threw home for the force.
Kemp, too late, turned it on, then, in an awkward semi-slide, hurt his ankle.
Nike roles on Lyin' Braun
Nike has dropped its endorsement deal with Ryan Braun. Guess that Nike/Charles Barkley "I am not a role model" ad campaign didn't apply to him. Nike still has an enormous deal with Kobe Bryant, the settlement he reached in the sexual assault case with that Colorado teen apparently was no big deal, nor was his 2011 referral to an NBA ref as a "f—–g f—-t."
* With Time Warner cable's removal of CBS and CBS's cable networks, over the weekend, TW today will announce significant reductions in subscribers' monthly fees. Or as Steve Allen would say, "From the movie 'Fat Chance.' "
* Perhaps the most fascinating part of Tiger Woods' spectacular 61, Friday, is that based on the Golf Channel/CBS coverage, Woods was the only player on the course. At times it was tough to tell whether he was "alone, atop the leaderboard," or just alone.
* Holy Bernie Madoff Bobblehead Day! The Mets are doing everyone a big favor this week, selling "No Fees" tickets. In other words, you can purchase a ticket — ready? — for the face value on the ticket! Of course, that's no comfort to those who already purchased tickets with all the nonsense tack-on, sucker-fee charges attached.
* That was ex-Mets' radio and current Phillies' broadcaster Tom McCarthy, Jersey guy, who called Saturday's Braves-Phillies on Fox. Strong, pleasant voice, no attempt to dazzle with hypothetical or deep statistical additives, no check-me-out gimmickry. McCarthy let the cameras tell most of the story. Stress-free viewing!
* Saturday, bottom of the 11th, Marlon Byrd on first, one out, Daniel Murphy at bat, 3-2 count. "Would you run Byrd?" SNY's Gary Cohen asked Keith Hernandez. "Yes," he said, "Murph doesn't strike out." Next pitch, Byrd goes, Murphy swings and misses, Byrd is thrown out at second. Hernandez: "How's that for analysis?"


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March 31, 2010
Foss attains environmenal milestone
Foss Maritime has earned ISO 14001 certification. ISO 14001 is an internationally accepted specification for environmental management systems created by the International Organization for Standardization to help organizations minimize how their operations affect the environment and comply with related laws, regulations and requirements.
Foss Maritime will use ISO 14001 as a blueprint to achieve its "zero trace" corporate goal.
With its new certification, Foss' entire marine division, both shoreside and marine, moves to the forefront of American maritime companies that have publicly committed to sound environmental practices and continual improvement, bringing in outside auditors to certify their safety, quality and environmental (SQE) processes.
The SQE audit, which incorporates ISO 14001, was conducted by ABS. The ABS SQE certification program allows shipowners to demonstrate adherence to the highest levels of safety, quality and environmental standards.
Foss was certified for its environmental management system, which includes a number of programs with objectives that include:
Foss has already received safety and quality certifications from ABS that include SQ certification, which incorporates ISO 9001 for its Quality Management System and ISM (International Safety Management) for its safety management system.The recent certification adds the E for the environmental component.
Foss has also received certification from AWO (American Waterway Operators - Responsible Carrier Program) for meeting safety, quality and environmental standards.
"Our employees are committed to achieving the highest safety and quality standards. We are now demonstrating our commitment to the environment as well - it is what our customers have come to expect from us," said Gary Faber, President and COO of Foss.
"Protecting the environment is a core corporate value for Foss. This program goes beyond federal state and local regulations, moving from compliance to proactive prevention of environmental impacts on air, land and water. It goes without saying that that is where Foss wants to be," said Faber.
The ABS SQE and ISO 14001 certification follow on the heels of Foss winning the U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Benkert Award gold medal for environmental excellence in 2008.


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November 6th, 2012
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FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) --Crews are looking for an experienced hiker from Clovis who went missing in eastern Fresno County.
Family members say 33-year-old gregory hein went on a back-packing trip a week ago. They say he planned to start at Florence Lake and hike to Mount Goddard -- which is a more than 13-thousand foot peak in Kings Canyon National Park.
His family says Hein was supposed to come back on Monday. Authorities say his car was found parked at Florence Lake, but hein hasn't been found.
The Fresno County Sheriff's Office released the following statement to Action News late Thursday morning:
The search continues this morning for missing hiker, Gregory Hein, in eastern Fresno County.
At first light this morning, Eagle One responded back to the search area to assist ground searchers.
Approximately thirty personnel from the Sheriff's Office are now involved in the search, including mountaineers, and members from the horse posse, jeep unit, and air squadron.
The Sheriff's Office is also being assisted by the National Park Service and California Highway Patrol.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of Hein, or anyone who may have seen him in the Florence Lake area is asked to immediately contact the Sheriff's Office at 600-3111.


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Though we've yet to find a link to the story on FOXSports.com, which is starting to look even more cluttered and confused than Disney's Alphabet Junkyard ride, Jay Glazer of FOX firmly believes that quarterback Brett Favre will resurface at some point with the Vikings.
Glazer isn't reporting the move, yet. But the guy is sufficiently connected to cause us to believe that his conclusion is based on facts and circumstances picked up while talking to his many sources, not supposition and conjecture that came to him at the bingo tables.
Mike Greenberg asked Chris Mortensen about the prediction on ESPN Radio this morning, and Mort essentially said that it wouldn't surprise him.
So stay tuned. We'll find the link (eventually) and we'll see how Glazer couched it.
UPDATE: Here's the answer, via a separate post that delves into the details.


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Nussbaum on Hung: No Motion to This Ocean
It just doesn't go deep enough.
Oy, what a disappointment. I had high hopes for Hung, with its HBO imprimatur and naughty premise: Large-cocked loser finds his smile by marketing what's in his pants. Basically, the series promised something like Boogie Nights without the porn, plus all the guilty-pleasure satisfactions of Sex and the City and early Entourage — smart dialogue, funny-dark graphic sex scenes, and the excuse to say "large-cocked loser" while discussing the show with friends.
But sadly, there's no motion to this ocean. For one thing, it's hard to avoid the fact that Boogie Nights really makes no sense if it's not set in the actual porn industry, i.e. a man with a monstrous endowment is not really all THAT marketable to your average straight woman — especially in recession-era Detroit, and particularly when he's a charmless, embittered, divorced middle-aged gym coach, and one not notably skilled in bed, judging from the show's funny-dark graphic sex scenes. (Also, there's no mention on the show that sex with decently endowed bitter middle-aged men is available for free, any time of day, on Craigslist.)
Part of the problem is that Thomas Jane, so appealing in other roles and theoretically a physically attractive man, is peculiarly off-putting as Ray Drecker. The character stinks of defeat; he's an ex-jock, self-admittedly not too smart, and he sulks around the high school where he coaches gym brooding over just about everything — his ex-wife and her new husband, his job prospects, his miserable teenage twins, the house that burned down and that he can't rebuild because he was too flaky to send in the insurance payment. (We learn all this in voice-over, a lazy go-to device used better on Showtime's Diary of a Call Girl.) To Ray, everyone is a "fucker" — which might be acceptable, except that the show validates this lazy contempt: Like About Schmidt (also directed by Alexander Payne), it's stuffed with misanthropic sketches of self-help seminars and yuppie dermatologists. Basically, Ray's Rabbit Angstrom, except he's not all that observant.
There's one bright spot here: Jane Adams, playing Tanya, a barely employed poet who suffers from what Ray describes irascibly as "veganism and the yakking and the coming that had no beginning and no end." A crunchy proto-feminist, Tanya is somehow at once acerbic and pathetic, and she has a real comic chemistry with her fellow sad sack, even before she decides to pimp him out. Tanya and Ray have several bouts of terrible sex (at least from his perspective), but she's the one who designs the marketing scheme, which is to brand Ray as a "Happiness Consultant." Anne Heche is there too, doing a decent Teri Garr imitation as Ray's wife, a shallow nitwit the show struggles to make layered and succeeds only in making incoherent. Ray's twin teenagers are more interesting, two puffy brooders with good reason to loathe their parents, but it's not enough — the emotional engine never kicks in; the comedy stalls.
Now, this is HBO: There's some smart dialogue here and a few pleasantly goofy riffs on Tanya's own idea for a business (pastry stuffed with poetry, like "a croissant folded around Maya Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman'"). It's not impossible that the show might improve in time, becoming, as it seems intended to be, a sitcom riff on Susan Faludi's Stiffed, a perverse fable about the way a man emasculated by the bad economy learns to strut again. But to do that, it would have to have a grander, more thoughtful, more empathic vision of the world around Ray. Right now, it just doesn't go deep enough.


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Over the course of the last few years, Chicago's come under more and more scrutiny for its alarming murder rates, school closings and other blights on its inner city youth, so when Lupe Fiasco addressed young men who had recently graduated from area high schools this past Saturday (June 29), he took that as an opportunity to speak his mind on the frustration of the Windy City's "terrible, substandard school systems."
"Congratulations, you have graduated from one of the most terrible, substandard school systems in the entire world," Lupe said at the special ceremony to honor the teens' achievement. "You have just spent the last 12 years receiving one of the worst educations on earth. You are at least four, five steps behind people in other countries that are younger than you."
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the Food & Liquor MC served as the keynote speaker to what organizers called the "Mass Black Male Graduation and Transition to Manhood" event.
"Transition to manhood is the most important thing that's going on right now," he continued. "The caps and the gowns and your tassels and your honorary blah blah blahs don't mean nothing. That's just dress. That's just some clothes. Meaningless clothes, too, because they have no real purpose in life. They don't keep you warm. What do they do? They just represent to someone else that you've achieved something. But then when you look back at it, what have you achieved?"
As local doctors, lawyers, businessmen and politicians looked on, the 150 graduates in attendance were transfixed by the socio-political rapper, who told them he was also a product of the CISD and that they all had to earn and maintain their manhood.
"For young black men . . . it is one the last things that we have . . . and one of the last things that we can control. Manhood is connected to humanity," he said.


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Polynomial Vocabulary
Lesson 9 of 18
Objective: SWBAT identify the degree and leading coefficient of a polynomial expression and determine if the expression is quadratic.
Big Idea: Students learn best when working collaboratively and examining structure and patterns. Students teach themselves vocabulary terms in this lesson.
Warm Up
This short Warm Up allows students to use their knowledge of multiplying polynomials to show why two expressions are equivalent (MP1). Give students about two minutes to think about the problem and try to prove it themselves. They can then turn-and-talk with their partner about why the two expressions are actually equivalent. As students are discussing this, listen for students that are offering a thorough explanation so that they can enrich the thinking of the class. Try to call on one or two other groups to add to the thinking of the first group (MP3), so that the Warm Up provides a good summary of the class's current level of understanding.
Resources (1)
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Exit Ticket
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Australia's AAA credit rating at risk following cliff-hanger electionWritten by admin on July 3, 2016 – 9:00 pm
Australia's trek to the polls on Saturday has resulted in a nail biting, too close to call result. At the conclusion of counting at 2am Sunday morning, the ALP had 67 seats, LNP – 65 and the minor parties have picked up five. 13 seats remain in doubt with counting to resume on Tuesday.
The results suggest Australia could be heading for a hung parliament and three years of political deadlock for economic reform and attempts to rein in spending.
Such a deadlock could spell the end of Australia's coveted AAA credit rating with speculation Australia could be put on credit watch negative within weeks.
The consequent loss of the triple AAA credit rating will not only make government debt more expensive, but it will result in a spate of downgrades for Australian banks and companies and potentially result in the rise of mortgage rates due to banks over reliance of wholesale funding. The downgrade will also be a blow to confidence.
Australia's total debt surges to 254 per cent of GDP
The loss of our AAA credit rating was going to eventually happen, regardless of the outcome of the election. There has been speculation looming about the loss for months.
An Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) release last Thursday tallied another record high for Australian debt levels. Total debt racked up by households, the public sector and business (but excluding finance companies) totaled 254 per cent of GDP for the first quarter to March.
Households' insatiable appetite for a slice of the Australian housing bubble, and at any cost, made the largest contribution to total debt levels at 125 per cent of GDP. Australian households remain the most indebted in the world as a percentage of GDP. A significant risk is our big banks' reliance on overseas wholesale funding to support the residential mortgage market. As the world increasingly questions the Australian miracle and recalculates risk, the spreads of this wholesale funding will increase.
According to the Courier Mail, analyst, John Steiner from United States based Hedgeye Risk Management has recommended investors short Australia's big four banks. He believes the housing oversupply and falling demand has signaled Australia's housing market is in a bubble and is about to blow.
Business debt now sits at 84 per cent of GDP, while Government debt ticks up to 47 per cent of GDP.
Earlier this year when total debt was only 243 per cent of GDP, Morgan Stanley calculated for every dollar of extra GDP growth, Australia accumulated an extra $9 worth of debt. At the time, Daniel Blake, a Sydney based economist for Morgan Stanley said Australia needs to urgently find other sources of growth that are less debt-intensive rather than the hugely leveraged property market.
"We're not getting that much growth for the money we're borrowing,"
» Australia's debt levels hit record high as households, businesses and governments load up – The Courier Mail, 30th June 2016.
» Australia's debt problem looks worse than China's, says Morgan Stanley – The Australian Financial Review, 4th July 2016.
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12 Comments to "Australia's AAA credit rating at risk following cliff-hanger election"
Patrick Says:
July 4th, 2016 at 5:36 am
The way I see it is our big four are insolvent if overseas funding disappears. For example, if we wake up one Monday to find Wall st closed indefinitely because someone worked out the sum of the bond markets and negative interest rates.
We are heading for a reset.
Bradley Smith Says:
July 4th, 2016 at 8:48 am
I'm new here so please go easy on me…
# 1 It seems to me that household debt is way to high in Australia but that government debt on infrastructure is too low given economic conditions. Wouldn't an increase in government spending on infrastructure improve the economy?
# 2 The whole idea of a government credit rating seems like a scam because Australia prints its own currency. Why can't Australia buy its own bonds? The government could set the interest rate on its own bonds and then buy them.
# 3 Allowing investors to buy Australian bonds seems like a massive and unnecessary give-away to private investors.
What am I missing?
Morpheus Says:
July 4th, 2016 at 10:11 am
Excuse my French but "La classe politique", the 2 major parties have so decimated the middle class with failed policies and corruption that they have created a "Precariat class" that will continue to savage them until they have an alternative to vote for. The class structure of Australia is splitting into the "Have nots against the have yachts" with only credit supporting the dreams of those at the bottom. Global class warfare has now reached Oz with the supposed Trickle Down Theory of economics turning into Pee On The Poor. This election was the wake-up call for the 1% running this country for their own benefit.
mark Says:
July 4th, 2016 at 5:46 pm
I was overseas in 2011, the AU$ was buying US$1.12 for most of my time. I could have doubled my money if I bought US$ then and sold now.
The problem I see is the big 4 and others have borrowed US$, a lot at the high rate and are now hoping they don't have to pay back at todays exchange rate.
Suddenly $100m is worth $65m or less (ramp that up to the billions borrowed), the shortfall has to come from somewhere and bail in seems to be a catch word.
Those that own their house and have more than one income stream will be OK in the main, but if it goes bad (Greece/Cyprus bad) owners will suffer, and those hocked to the hilt will suffer loss of nearly everything.
Matty Says:
July 4th, 2016 at 7:37 pm
@ Bradley
What you say is correct, but! The aussie currency (like all world currency ATM) is FIAT, just printed paper with nothing but the government promising to pay out on it (it really just means as long as there is faith in the government being able to tax and control the population, then the dollar is fine).
But as it's purely faith backed (we believe the governments promise) if it prints too much, too quick we loose faith in the ability of the government to pay it's bonds, leading to rapid inflation. So think of it like an argyle diamond. There's billions of them there, but if they hit the market too quick, people will work out they're nothing special and their value falls. so you trickle them out as fast as the market can take without collapsing….that's how the elite pump debt into the system, as fast as it can take without collapse, except they ALWAYS get too greedy, and debt is required to pay interest, then the system fails.
The fact that government and company bonds are yeilding -ve dictates that a massive, massive economic collapse is guaranteed. 2009 was just a warm up. In 2009 it was individuals and companies going broke, this time it is going to be central banks and governments….. Think it was bad when 1 million a month in usa loose their job and hit social security? Imagine what happens when 50 million don't get their social security and have NO INCOME AT ALL….. Horror movie stuff.
As for government infrastructure, the governments have proved they are useless at running any form of infrastructure program, public or private. All that happens is small business and individuals pay even more tax for badly designed and over budget programs…. Government spending is not the answer. At all. On any level. but the guys who loan the government money have tricked almost everyone to believe it's the answer.
Treat your personal finances as though you were one of the elite and you'll be ok. ie. no non-productive debt, only hard assets and income streams that are recession proof.
As for point #3, now you're getting it. Read the book, the creature from jeckyll island. It will answer everything you're asking. No, they're not silly questions, they're just questions very few ever think of. The rich own the whole economic system, the central banks and governments. But! the rapid decline in the faith in politics (starting in the middle east, now sweeping Europe, USA and Australia) is what happens when democracy gets too debt saddled, and is the peoples response to breaking free.
Be under no illusion, Trump, Brexit, Hung parliaments etc. are directly attributable to the economic situation of the people. Will be interesting to see how the elite manage the next few years.
Remember, even after the most prosperous time in history (since world war II until now) only 4% of Australian's are able to retire financially independent of the government. That means 96% of people are living their lives completely wrong. 96%! It's simply mind blowing.
The government love people on pensions, it's SOOOOO EASY to get their vote!
nexusxyz Says:
July 4th, 2016 at 7:53 pm
When the economic music stops there will be a hell of a debt hang over.
Bradley Smith Says:
July 5th, 2016 at 8:54 am
Thanks for that. I've got a few more beliefs that I've been told (by my betters) are just nuts:
# 1 Inflation is not an issue in Australia right now, evidenced by the ridiculously low cash rate being set by the RBA.
# 2 The RBA is working at cross purposes because the ridiculously low cash rate inflates house prices leaving home buyers with less disposable income, thus putting a drag on the economy. Yet the stated goal of the ridiculously low cash rate is to spur economic activity.
# 3 The only possible way to let the air out of the housing bubble is to make mortgages harder to get. Legislating a tightening of mortgage lending criteria by increasing downpayment size or changing the income to loan ratio would make mortgages safer and put downward pressure on house prices.
# 4 If the AAA bond rating really is important, it is the perceived ability to pay the bonds that determines the rating. An economy where workers have enough income to pay for shelter along with OTHER goods and services (i.e. a growing economy) will ensure the ability to pay those bonds.
# 5 Finally, only when governments do not collect the required taxes to pay for the goods and services that the citizens demand does borrowing become a necessity. Collecting the revenue needed to pay for these services eliminates the need to borrow. Perhaps Gina Rinehart and other multi-billionaire Australians should be paying more in tax.
JamesR Says:
July 5th, 2016 at 11:55 am
@ Matty said:
"Treat your personal finances as though you were one of the elite and you'll be ok. ie. no non-productive debt, only hard assets and income streams that are recession proof."
Could you please expand on this? What is an example of "non-productive debt"? And "hard assets? Do you mean land (with not debt against it) and gold?
Bradley Smith Says:
July 5th, 2016 at 2:36 pm
One more thing…
I was watching internet news and I came across a video clip with two economic advisors for the presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. This twenty minute interview with Bill Black and Stephanie Kelton suggests that government debt on productive assets and/or jobs programs can boost economic growth and employment. In the end such a stimulus would increase Australia's ability to pay its bonds.
Real News "Time for a New Deal Jobs Program"
David C Says:
July 5th, 2016 at 6:47 pm
# 1 Inflation is not an issue in Australia right now, evidenced by the ridiculously low cash rate being set by the RBA.
That's consumer inflation. Asset price inflation is another thing. This is why the RBA cash rate is a "blunt instrument". There needs to be some mechanism to set the interest rates differently for different sectors of the economy. Banks already do it to a certain extent with different rates on business loans, personal loans and home loans.
The RBA needs to be able to penalise the commercial banks that are not lending in a balanced way.
Bradley Smith Says:
July 5th, 2016 at 9:02 pm
@David C
Agreed. Good point about asset price inflation.
As I mentioned in # 3, one mechanism for limiting the amount of lending that goes into the residential housing sector is to tighten the criteria for mortgage lending. Legislating 30% of the purchase price of a home as a downpayment is just one example of how to prevent an over-allocation of capital to the housing sector of the economy. This type of regulation doesn't penalise banks for misallocating money, it is a restriction designed to prevent that misallocation from happening in the first place. There must be other regulations that would work in a more targeted way than simply raising and lowering the cash rate to spur or slow the economy.
Your point is well taken.
Matty Says:
July 5th, 2016 at 9:33 pm
non-productive debt is stuff like car loans, huge PPOR loans, loans for holidays etc. Productive debt is stuff like the debt you take on to expanded a successful business, well managed stock portfolio etc.
Hard-assets are those that aren't reliant on a whole host of variables being favourable just to make the asset worth while. So at present, housing is not a hard asset. Things I call hard assets are things like viable and recession businesses, precious metals, valuable art, cars, etc. Things that will hold value when the going gets rough.
Two of the greatest lies of the current times are:
A: Your home is an asset: It is an asset, just not to you, its and asset to the bank until paid for in full.
B: You super is an asset: Again, just not to you. It's listed as an asset for the government when they present their financials…. So either they borrow against your super….or they will allow the bond holders to take you super if the government defaults… Oh hell.
This is why I say try to be sovereign in your own right. thinking that the government, your super or anything else will look after you is plain deluded.


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Seventeen years ago today I was living in a town that hadn't grown more familiar over time. The yard was an archeology dig with layers of accumulated blizzards somewhat offset by highly efficient snow removal. Going out involved getting four children, ages 6 ½, 5, 3 ½ and nearly 2, dressed to the point that no one would call the authorities. But that day there was a break in the action, a bit of a thaw so that you felt like perhaps, it would not be always winter.
It snowed the next day of course.
But at that point it no longer mattered because there was new life in my arms and spring in my heart. Matthew Fredrick, known from the moment he joined us, as Matty, had arrived. And although my children were tiny themselves, it was from the beginning as if Matty was everybody's baby. There were challenges—deathly food allergies in an era when the words 'gluten-free' drew nothing but a blank stare—but even this was faced together. Six pairs of eyes always watching, multiple hands held out to cross busy city streets, laps for sitting never in short supply.
I worried about this sometimes. Wondered if a day in the future would come when his wife would look at me and say, "What were you thinking? He's completely helpless!" But it didn't turn out that way. When he went to school his kindergarten teacher said, "He does for his classmates what has been done for him—tying shoes, helping with schoolwork, seeing those who need a friend."
Today is his Golden Birthday, the natal celebration when one turns as old as the date of one's birth. Seventeen is my favorite number, but this was a much shorter trip than I imagined on the day he arrived.
Happy Birthday Matty Fredrick. You are loved.


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