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A while back we told you about a disgusting practice that was taking place in Britain without broad public knowledge. The British version of Obamacare, the National Health Service (NHS), has surreptitiously been treating aborted children like simple garbage. The NHS had been sending miscarried and aborted babies to nearby waste to energy facilities where the bodies were incinerated right alongside common trash. The report that uncovered this travesty also found parents who'd lost their children early in pregnancy were not being treated with compassion by the NHS and their children's remains were destroyed without consulting the parents.
One of Britain's more important newspapers, The Telegraph, is reporting that some 15,000 aborted or miscarried babies were incinerated as "clinical waste." Officials from Britain's National Health Service (NHS) have admitted that thousands of children were incinerated with the garbage in a gross display of their disrespect for life.
At least 15,500 foetal remains were incinerated by 27 NHS trusts over the last two years alone, Channel 4's Dispatches discovered.
The programme, which will air tonight, found that parents who lose children in early pregnancy were often treated without compassion and were not consulted about what they wanted to happen to the remains.
One of the country's leading hospitals, Addenbrooke's in Cambridge, incinerated 797 babies below 13 weeks gestation at their own 'waste to energy' plant. The mothers were told the remains had been 'cremated.'
Another 'waste to energy' facility at Ipswich Hospital, operated by a private contractor, incinerated 1,101 foetal remains between 2011 and 2013.
They were brought in from another hospital before being burned, generating energy for the hospital site. Ipswich Hospital itself disposes of remains by cremation.
It was a disgusting story – from every angle. The only positive to take away was that this practice was not happening in the United States…
Sadly, there is no positive anymore. It seems that this disgusting practice is happening here in the US as well. A recent investigation by the B.C. Catholic has forced the British Columbia Health Ministry to admit that it sends the bodies of aborted babies alongside medical waste into the United States to be destroyed at waste to energy plants. These poor children are murdered and then their remains, instead of being treated with dignity and respect, are shipped to garbage facilities to be destroyed like so much trash.
The British Columbia Health Ministry has admitted that the remains of babies destroyed by abortion in B.C. facilities are ending up in a waste-to-power facility in the United States, providing electricity for residents of Oregon.
The province's Health Ministry said in an email to the B.C. Catholic that "biomedical waste" shipped to the U.S. to be incinerated includes "human tissue, such as surgically removed cancerous tissue, amputated limbs, and fetal tissue."
"The ministry understands that some is transferred to Oregon. There it is incinerated in a waste-to-energy plant," the email stated.
The ministry said that contractors handling the province's "biomedical waste" follow "health and safety protocols, as well as federal, provincial, and local regulations."
According to the state, the waste to energy facility in Oregon is still accepting waste from the Canadian hospitals – meaning that the bodies of dead children continue to be incinerated within our borders.
Bud Waterman, a former temp worker at Covanta Marion, Inc., said two to three times a week, 53-foot tractor trailers carrying biohazards dropped off loads at the facility in Brooks.
On more than one occasion, Waterman said the contents of the truck spilled out of their containers.
"It would make you sick, especially if you had to clean it up or have to pull a box off the trailer," said Waterman. …
"They knew it, they had to. I don't see how they could not know it," said Waterman.
Waterman told KOIN that the facility had incinerated dead babies for years, in part because the Canadian government won't dispose of fetal remains in this manner. That's presumably why the BCHM sent the medical waste to Oregon in the first place.
The holocaust of abortion should be enough of a horror within our borders, and yet here we are compounding our national sin by showing no respect to these murdered children. Not to mention our active participation in the Canada's own horrendous practices – now we have part in their murderous ways as well as our own. What have we come to?
The Oregon County Commission that oversees the power plant has ordered the facility to stop accepting medical waste from Canada.
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Anderson wins gold in parallel giant slalom
Jasey Jay Anderson of Canada wins gold in the Men's Parallel Giant Slalom event on Saturday February 27, 2010 at Cypress Mountain . (Jenelle Schneider/ Canwest News Service).
Snowboarder Jasey-Jay Anderson of Mont-Tremblant, Que., won gold in men's parallel giant slalom Saturday at Cypress Mountain.
Anderson overcame a 0.76 second deficit to beat Austria's Benjamin Karl in the final Saturday, amidst wet, foggy conditions. France's Mathieu Bozzetto won bronze.
"I had the better course and my style of riding requires a better course. When it's rough, I always get those mistakes in there and they break up the momentum."
Despite being one of the most successful racers in World Cup history -- with 26 career wins -- Anderson had never reached the podium in three previous Olympics.
"It was definitely surreal," Anderson said of crossing the finish line victorious.
"So many Olympics have eluded me, and this one at one, I can't even describe it. There's so much support and so much love and happiness. It's just the perfect moment."
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Apart from the desire for better or faster internet access, the main reason for buying a smartphone is to gain access to mobile apps, according to Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) ConsumerLab's Emerging App Culture report. The report is the result of research conducted in the high-growth markets of Russia, India and Brazil, and also reveals that new smartphone users embrace apps at the same pace as mature users. In addition, 69 percent of smartphone users in the survey accessed internet using apps on a daily basis and 20 percent used data-intensive services like video, TV, maps or navigation apps daily.
The top 10 activities performed by consumers who have recently purchased a smartphone, starting with the most popular, are: check in to locations, use maps for navigation or traffic info, watch internet TV, watch movies, play online games, watch streaming video, play games on social networking sites, watch live news, use Twitter, and read/write blogs.
For consumers, being connected and having access to tools and services is what matters. They make little distinction between having a smartphone and the apps they use in it. However, mobile apps are used differently across the three markets, with Indian smartphone users more interested in downloading personalization apps, such as screen savers, live wallpapers/themes and third party browsers apart from social media apps and games. On the other hand Russians put their smartphones to more utilitarian use and used apps that benefit the flow of their everyday lives, such as those for navigation and maps, shopping comparisons, barcode scanners, translators, dictionaries and so on, while the Brazilians used apps that enhanced their social interactions.
Jasmeet Singh Sethi, Senior Specialist, Ericsson ConsumerLab, says: "The app culture emerging in these high-growth markets reflects a trend similar to that in the US and other parts of the developed world. Apps are no longer only for early adopters. Although mature users use their apps more frequently than new users of smartphones, we see a general evolution toward new users purchasing increasingly specialized apps, such as those for dating services and price comparison, from the moment they get their smartphones. Usage of these specialized apps is almost as high among new users as it is among mature users."
Some app usage characteristics differ compared to mature markets. Two out of five users rarely or never visit an official app marketplace and instead download apps from third party sites and forums. Around half of the users downloaded apps on PC first and then transferred them to smartphone's to save on data limits.
In terms of respondents' daily app usage, 49 percent reported using apps for social networking, 39 percent for chat, 31 percent for weather forecasts, 26 percent for news, 20 percent for maps, GPS and navigation, and 12 percent for timetables and traffic.
"These figures reveal strong interest in apps that enable consumers to deal with daily challenges and interact with people, places and things in their urban surroundings. We believe that, "Smartphones and apps will be key in transforming everyday life for people in high growth markets going forward into the Networked Society", comments Sethi.
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The research was carried out among smartphone users between the ages of 15 and 54 who accessed the internet using their smartphones at least once a week in three key markets: India, Russia and Brazil. The study sample is representative of smartphone owners using mobile internet across these three high-growth markets. The quantitative part of the research consisted of 1,220 online surveys performed in Russia and Brazil and quantitative and on-device measurements in India among 5,000 smartphone users in late 2011.
During the qualitative component of the research, a total of 33 in-depth interviews were carried out in the three high growth markets to gain a deeper knowledge of how these consumers use smartphones and apps, and also how they rationalize their usage.
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The escalating extinction crisis shows that the diversity of nature cannot support the current pressure that humanity is placing on the planet.
Every day biodiversity is being lost at up to 1,000 times the natural rate. The extinction of individual species, but also habitat destruction, land conversion for agriculture and development, climate change, pollution and the spread of invasive species are only some of the threats responsible for today's crisis.
With the current biodiversity loss, we are witnessing the greatest extinction crisis since dinosaurs disappeared from our planet 65 million years ago. Not only are these extinctions irreversible, but they also pose a serious threat to our health and wellbeing.
What are the main threats to biodiversity?
Threats to biodiversity are numerous and human activity is responsible for most of them.
- Habitat loss and degradation affects 86% of all threatened birds, 86% of the threatened mammals assessed and 88% of the threatened amphibians.
- Introductions of Invasive Alien Species that establish and spread outside their normal distribution. Some of the most threatening invasive species include cats and rats, green crabs, zebra mussels, the African tulip tree and the brown tree snake. Introductions of alien species can happen deliberately or unintentionally, for example, by organisms "hitch-hiking" in containers, ships, cars or soil.
- Over-exploitation of natural resources. Resource extraction, hunting, and fishing for food, pets, and medicine.
- Pollution and diseases. For example, excessive fertilizer use leads to excessive levels of nutrients in soil and water.
- Human-induced climate change. For example, climate change is altering migratory species patterns, and increasing coral bleaching.
What about climate change?
Biodiversity and climate change are very closely related issues.
Biodiversity is strongly affected by climate change so we need to make additional efforts to minimize the negative influence of other factors, such as over-exploitation, habitat loss and fragmentation, pollution, and the spread of invasive alien species. This way we can ensure that ecosystems are less vulnerable and more resilient to the increasing threat posed by climate change.
But climate change can also largely benefit from conserved biodiversity and particularly healthy ecosystems when these are placed at the very centre of the efforts to tackle climate change.
Through absorbing and storing carbon in a range of terrestrial and marine ecosystems, such as forests, peatlands and other wetlands, biodiversity contributes to climate change mitigation- by storing carbon dioxide.
Biodiversity also helps people to adapt to climate change through providing the ecosystem services which reduce their vulnerability and enhance their adaptive capacity to change. This includes the coastal protection provided by coastal mangrove forests from flooding and coastal erosion caused by sea-level rise and more powerful storms.
From time immemorial, nature has fed us, cured us, and protected us. But today the roles have switched. We need to feed nature, we need to cure it and protect it if we want to secure a healthy and prosperous future for our children.


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MOSCOW (AP) — Russian gas giant Gazprom advanced its plan to lay a major pipeline network across Europe by striking a deal on Tuesday with Slovenia.
The South Stream pipeline project, due to start operating in 2015, is set to pump up to 63 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually. The gas would be piped from Russia under the Black Sea to Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria and Italy in one leg, and to Croatia and Greece in a second. Russia provides about a third of Europe's natural gas consumption. Last year, Gazprom exported about 180 billion cubic meters of natural gas.
The project is funded by Gazprom, which owns 50 percent in the pipeline, with the other half owned by partners France's EdF, Italy's Eni and Germany's Wintershall.
Gazprom's chief executive Alexei Miller said Tuesday that the final investment agreement on the South Stream would be unveiled on Wednesday while construction would begin on Dec. 7 on the Russian Black Sea's coast.
Miller's statement came after Russia's Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and his Slovenian counterpart, Janez Jansa, attended the signing of an agreement in Moscow giving the green light for the project.
Analysts and investors have warned that the project is too costly and the considerable investment involved in its construction and maintenance would hurt Gazprom's balance sheet.
Russia has also yet to secure approval for the pipeline's construction from Bulgaria, which is looking negotiate lower gas prices as part of the project.
Bulgaria's Prime Minister, Boiko Borisov , said Tuesday that he expects the final decision on Thursday when Bulgaria and Russia are due to sign an agreement on Russian natural gas supplies. Borisov said that the pricing and terms of the gas deal are crucial for his country and that he favored a short-term gas supply contract.
"I am convinced that in the next three or four years we will have a lot of gas from the Black Sea, so we should avoid contracts for over six years," Borisov told reporters.
Gazprom's stock was down 1.6 percent Tuesday afternoon at the MICEX stock exchange, in line with the market.
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from VA
Very nice spreader.
It was delivered today and with the easy to understand instruction I had it together in no time and tried it by putting down a layer of Grub X around the parameter of my yard next to the woods. This spreader laid an even amount and began dispensing immediately, not like the one it replaced where I had to rock it several times before it would dispense. Love the dial setting verses the handle lever on my old one which caused the setting to increase even with the set screw turned as tight as possible. I am looking forward to spring lawn fertilizing and seeding. Only complaint I have is the bolt closest to the T-handle needs to be longer if one tries to use the two washers as stated in the instructions. In order to get the nut on I had to omit one washer.
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Great Spreader
I've been very happy with the spreader. For this price range, it's much nicer than what I found at the big box stores. I also like that the User Manual was easily found on the website. (I misplaced mine and needed to check a setting.)
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This spreader has been a let down from day one. The plastic gears are a horrible design. When full of fertilizer(or any other material) the gears just grind and will not spin. The hopper can only have about two pounds of material in it to work. I called to see what I could do to fix it or return and was told they will get back to me. That never happened. I would stay away from this unit.
Gardeners Edge responds: Our customer service department has contacted the customer to resolve this issue.
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It Works!
I have had many brands and styles over the years, but none have lasted or worked properly. This one is off to a great start. So far - no complaints.
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I just got my new A.M. Leonard spreader the other day and found it fairly easy to assemble. Today was the first time that I got to use it and I found it VERY nice to use. The metering dial was easy to set and it worked very nice. It metered out and applied everything just right. Best spreader I ever used!


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FORT COLLINS, Colo. – Former Wesley College football player Chris Mayes has been activated by the Colorado Ice of the Indoor Football League (IFL) and will suit up for their game against Green Bay on Sunday, March 17 at 3 pm. The Ice play their home games on Majestic Roofing Field at the Budweiser Events Center located in Loveland, Colorado.
A six-foot-three, 255 pound defensive end out of Walforf, Md., Mayes left Wesley as one of the most decorated players in school history. Bursting onto the small college football landscape as a sophomore in 2009, Mayes received All-America recognition three-straight years, and was an AP Little All-American in his final two seasons. Also a two-time South Region Defensive Player of the Year, Mayes ranks second in school-history with 90.0 tackles for loss and fourth with 40.0 sacks. His 34.5 TFLs in the 2009 season is a single-season record.
The Colorado Ice was founded in 2006 and won its first Division Title in 2011 after going 11-3. Heron O'Neal, formerly of the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars and Chicago Bears, serves as the Head Coach and Defensive Coordinator. Mayes will be very familiar with the team's color scheme as its Navy Blue & White are the also the official colors for the Wesley College Wolverines.
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Walgreens (NYSE:WAG) is a U.S. drug retailer that sells both prescription and non-prescription drugs as well as retail merchandise (cosmetics, convenience foods, photo processing services, seasonal merchandise, etc). In addition to its store offerings, Walgreens provides pharmacy services like prescription fulfillment. The company operates roughly 7,000 retail locations in the U.S.[1]
The company is principally in the retail drugstore business and its operations are within one reportable business segment.
The company sells three types of products:
Walgreens recently launched a new campaign in 2011 to push for its own private-label brands, and decided to take the advertising across the country to promote its branded Health and wellness products. This is the first time Walgreens has gone beyond the Sunday paper to advertise their own brand, which emphasizes price and quality as the central themes.
Continued high unemployment has created a market for private-label products that are almost or exact same in quality but are different in price due to reduced marketing expense. These private-label products have especially caught on, as a recent study by Opinion Research Corporation stated that of 1,006 adults surveyed, 84% said they purchased store-brand OTC medications when they are available and 36% have increased these purchases of store-brand products last year.[7] kljeadkfjaskdjfaskjdfaslidfjaifj;laisjdf;ailsjfa;sidjfol
Walgreen's revenues come mainly from pharmacy sales (65% in total) and partly from front store sales. Though medical costs such as prescriptions are not discretionary expenses and thus less vulnerable to an economic downturn, patients still migrate towards lower cost generic drugs instead of more expensive brand name drugs. Walgreens stands to benefit from this, as they receive higher levels of reimbursement from groups like Medicare for generic drugs. Additionally, CVS Chief Executive Tom Ryan says that very little of front store sales comes from "true discretionary sales," meaning that same store sales won't be affected by penny-pinching consumers. A weak economy also means higher costs. These costs have a large negative impact on the company's bottom line.
Government cuts in Medicaid and the introduction of Medicare Part D have affected pharmacies like Walgreens.
While Medicare Part D had over 29.3 million enrollees (many of whom who were previously uninsured)[8], many of these used to be Medicaid patients. Medicaid reimburses more for drugs than Medicare, so cuts in the former and increases in the latter have resulted in two competing effects on pharmacies: more customers but lower margins.
At the same time, certain provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act seek to reduce federal spending by altering the Medicaid reimbursement formula for multi-source (i.e., generic) drugs. These changes are expected to result in reduced Medicaid reimbursement rates for prescription drugs. In addition, a class action settlement with two entities that publish the average wholesale prices (AWP) of drugs, AWPs have been reduced for many brand-name prescription drugs. While Walgreen's has reached understandings with most of its third-party payors to adjust reimbursements to correct for this change in methodology, but state Medicaid programs that utilize AWP as a pricing reference have not taken action to make similar adjustments, resulting in reduced Medicaid reimbursement for drugs affected by the change.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the much awaited and much debated health reform law signed into law on March 30, 2010 by President Obama, may indirectly help US pharmacies by encouraging increased drug utilization, which could boost pharmacy sales.
First, the law is projected to expand insurance to 32 million Americans previously without coverage. Presumably, newly uninsured patients will increase their utilization of drugs. Part of this expansion of coverage is done through an insurance mandate, while part is done by an expansion of Medicaid eligibility. Partially offsetting the benefit accrusing from those newly covered under Medicaid will be the lower reimbursement rates paid by the program to pharmacies relative to cash customers (who pay higher prices but generally buy fewer drugs).
Second, the law partially fills in the Medicare Part D coverage gap, or "donut hole". This is a gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage that kicks in after a moderately high annual threshold of spending on prescription drugs is reached. Before then, Medicare generally covers about two-thirds of drug cost; after reaching the gap, the next $3,610 worth of drugs is fully paid for by the patient, after which Medicare covers 95% of all remaining costs. Beginning in 2011, they will also receive a 50% discount on branded drugs. Over the next nine years, a series of discounts and benefits will lead to elimination of the gap. This should make sicker patients with high drug spend less price-sensitive and thus also encourage drug utilization. [9]
Several external trends are currently increasing all pharmacies' revenues across the industry. In addition to increased sales of prescriptions, CVS will benefit as additional foot traffic for the pharmacy naturally leads to increased retail sales in the front end of the store.
Major drug manufacturers carrying common household OTC medications such as Tylenol, Advil, and Motrin are six times more likely to be purchased by consumers than its same function generics.[10] The main idea behind this thinking, even though most often than not the drug facts are the same, is consumers grew up with these brands and perceive them as safer or more effective than inferior goods.
However, when in the rare case that these trusted household brands are recalled, consumers are often thrown into confusion and will make the switch over to retail pharmacy generics, sometimes permanently. This presents a very valuable opportunity for retail pharmacies.
As a result, all major pharmacies such as CVS, Walgreens and Wal-Mart have revamped private label drug manufacturing by five times capacity versus 2009.[11] As traditional JNJ loyalist consumers are forced to use generics, they may realize that they are just as effective as Tylenol and JNJ, except cheaper. As such, these loyal consumers may choose to permanently change over, which presents an extremely lucrative opportunity for retail pharmacies.
Drugstore competitors to Walgreens include:
In addition to other drugstore retailers, Walgreens also competes for market share with supermarkets, convenience stores, mass merchants, dollar stores, Internet drugstores, and PBMs. In particular, Wal-Mart (WMT) has grown its retail pharmacy business at its retail mega-stores. Wal-Mart is the third largest domestic retailer in terms of pharmacy sales, and it has continued to increase the number of total pharmacies in its installed store base. Wal-Mart also announced a strategy to aggressively undercut prices of generic drugs compared to traditional drugstores such as Walgreens and CVS.
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Devin Gardner threw a 24-yard, go-ahead touchdown pass to Devin Funchess late in the first half and No. 19 Michigan pulled away to rout Minnesota 42-13 on Saturday.
The Wolverines (5-0, 1-0 Big Ten) relied on their running game to take pressure off the turnover-prone Gardner. He didn't throw an interception for the first time since making his first start as a quarterback last year at Minnesota.
The Golden Gophers (4-2, 0-2) were without coach Jerry Kill for an entire game for the first time because of his epilepsy. He had a seizure Saturday morning, when he planned to travel to Michigan to coach in the game, and remained home to rest in Minnesota.
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Tea leaves destined to become oolong teas are "bruised" to allow the release of some of the polphenol oxidase present in the leaves. Oolong teas are allowed to ferment for less time than black teas before they are heated and dried. Consequently, the catechin, theaflavin and thearubigin levels in oolong teas are generally between those of unfermented green and white teas and completely fermented black teas.
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The mission of the degree and certificate programs is to help health care professionals acquire the knowledge necessary to meet the increased demand for comprehensive, evidence-informed, safe, and effective diabetes care for the 29.1 million Americans who currently have diabetes and the estimated 439 million people worldwide who are expected to have the diagnosis of diabetes by 2030.
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The goals of the degree and certificate programs are to prepare health care professionals to:
- work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to apply evidence-informed practices derived from biological and social sciences research, use effective communication and counseling skills, and employ sound educational strategies to empower individuals with, and at risk for, diabetes to achieve behavior changes that optimize health
- interpret and apply research studies on diabetes risk reduction and diabetes self-management behavior to improve interventions for diabetes and to challenge current practice standards, guidelines and protocols when current research and evidence indicate that revisions in the delivery of diabetes care may improve outcomes
- influence public policy, third party payers, employers and regulatory agencies to improve the quality and availability of diabetes care and to modify social and societal conditions such that behaviors that maximize diabetes management and risk reduction are enabled and supported
- advocate to reduce stigma and health disparities, and to raise awareness about the emotional and physical needs of people with diabetes.
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- Knowledge of Pathogenesis & Physiology of Diabetes
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- Assessment & Goal-Setting
- Facilitating Behavior Change
- Instituting and Managing Diabetes Education Programs
- Advocating for Persons with Diabetes at institutional, local, state, and national levels.
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You're ready to start building the website that will make your business a success. You understand how search engines work, at least enough to know that they will send programs called spiders to your site, and that the information these spiders send back to the search engines will help determine in what position your website will appear in the search engine results pages (SERPs). Obviously, you want people who are searching for what you can provide to find your website near the top of those results pages. How do you manage this feat?
The easy answer is "by using keywords and key phrases." These are the words that people type into search engines when they are looking for something. For instance, if I wanted to learn how to juggle, I might go to Google or Yahoo! and type in the phrase "juggling lessons" along with my geographical location to find out where I could take a class. The tricky part of that answer, as you might have guessed, is that you need to use the right keywords. Choosing the wrong keywords for your website's search engine optimization will guarantee that nobody ever sees your website. After all, when was the last time you went through all six million or so results that turn up in Google for a general word like "juggling"?
Choosing and researching good keywords is a process that takes several steps. I won't have the room to cover all of the steps completely in this article, so I will cover the rest in a subsequent article. Basically, the process goes through four stages:
- Collecting initial keyword ideas. This is also known as brainstorming. Come up with plenty of ideas; ask other people for ideas, too, including your customers. In this article, I'll discuss some do's and don'ts so you can target your ideas a little, and maybe even come up with a few you wouldn't have thought of originally.
- Checking keyword research tools. There are online tools that offer information about the number of times users perform searches for specific words. This is very important, because it will help you not at all to optimize for a keyword the search engines never see. Two of the best-known keyword research tools are Wordtracker and Overture.
- Selecting keywords. This is the point where you put the information from your research together and decide which keywords are going to deliver the best performance for you. Note that I said "performance;" the best keywords might not be the ones that will deliver the most traffic.
- Analytics. After you've chosen your keywords and optimized your site, you need to perform measurements to see whether it's delivering the amount of traffic and conversions you expected. You can use this information to make adjustments and refine your keyword strategy.
With keyword selection so important to making your website work for your business, let's take a look at the factors to consider when making that initial pool of keywords.
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If you have had anything to do with marketing, you've probably heard the phrase "think like a customer." You'll need to do that when you think about what keywords you want to use for your website. If you wanted to buy the product and/or service that your business offers, what words would you type into the search engine? I'll give you one hint: chances are it won't be the name of your business, or the name of a competitor's business.
You could do worse than to start your brainstorming by looking in a business directory phone book. Those yellow pages are already divided into various categories, and users have let their fingers do the walking for decades. The trick is, you certainly can't end your brainstorming there.
Keywords, unlike listings in a business directory, aren't something you buy and don't depend on factors such as the cost of ink and paper. Therefore, they can be as specific as you wish. Remember the six million plus results for "juggling" in Google? What do you think the odds are that your little juggling and magic shop could make it to the top of that list? Choose keywords with a narrower focus; you'll face a lot less competition. Besides, now that the web has been around for ten years or so, most savvy users know that the best way to get good search engine results for their queries is to be very specific and search for phrases rather than single words: "Silver Saturn Ion with sunroof" instead of "Saturn Ion," for instance.
If you're having problems coming up with keywords that are specific enough, don't panic. Start with your list of general keywords, then add specific words to each one. Using our earlier example of juggling, you could try "juggling balls," "juggling lessons," "juggling with fire," "juggling performances," or whatever would fit, based on your particular business.
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Think about the goods and services you offer. You may say you're already thinking about that, but if you run an electronics store and the only keywords and phrases you're coming up with are "electronics," "computer," and "DVD players," you can be doing a lot better. Are you trying to market your systems to gamers? Try the phrase "gaming computers." Do you buy and sell used computers? Maybe "refurbished PCs" will work for you.
Depending on your business, you might want to consider adding keywords that represent a particular geographical location. The most obvious example of this is real estate; no real estate company worth its salt would forget to mention prominently the location it serves! But it is certainly not the only one. Doctors, lawyers, accountants, and other professionals typically service clients in a particular region. Well-known restaurants may claim a clientele from all over the world, but most of them cater to the locals. Hotels, as part of the tourist trade, would do well to use the city in which they are located as part of a keyword phrase.
Even if you don't think it makes sense to use a keyword for a specific region, geographical location might affect your choice of keywords in a different way. Different parts of the world, even if they speak the same language, use different terms for the same object or idea. For example, the enclosed box that carries passengers up and down a shaft in a building is called an "elevator" in the United States, but a "lift" in the United Kingdom — and while there are "lifts" in the United States that serve a similar purpose, they are very different from "elevators." Even within a country — especially one as large and diverse as the United States — regional differences prevail. Is that carbonated beverage called "soda," "pop," "tonic," or what?
You might find it helpful to see what terms your competitors are using. You can do this easily enough by visiting one of their web pages and clicking View –> Source. If you can read HTML (or know someone who can), you will be able to see what terms they used in places such as the title, description, and keyword tags. You don't necessarily want to copy them; certainly not exactly, and certainly not if those terms are trademarked! But they can help you generate ideas for other terms that might work for you, and maybe even get you thinking about what will get you ahead of them in the SERPs.
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Still having trouble coming up with keywords? Don't worry, help is available online! Google has a keyword suggestion tool called the Keyword Sandbox. It's intended for users of Google AdWords, but anyone can use it. Type in your general keyword, click enter, and you'll get two lists. On the left you'll see a long list of words that are more specific. Our "juggling" example in this case turns up everything from "juggling supplies" to "cat juggling" to "juggling tricks" to "juggling shows, " and on and on. The list on the right is very handy too; Google explains that "Users who searched for your keyword(s) also searched for the following terms." This will turn up things that you might not have thought of as being related (like "unicycle," in this case), as well as common misspellings.
Overture also has a keyword selection tool. Type in a general search term, and it will not only give you a list of keywords that are related to that term, but it will also tell you how many times each of those words and phrases were searched on for the previous month. Again, this tool is designed for people who are looking to advertise; Overture is a pay-per-click search engine, and is designed to give users an idea of what terms to bid on, and how high to bid. Keep in mind that users will often check their own rankings after bidding for spots on Overture, so you might get distorted results. Still, it should give you a general idea of the popularity of the terms you're considering.
WordTracker, as I mentioned, is one of the most popular keyword research tools. They offer a free trial, for which you must register. After putting in your name and your email address, you get a friendly screen that allows you to start the trial (and includes a link to WordTracker's privacy policy). Click the link, and you get a screen in which you enter a general keyword. WordTracker will show you 30 keywords related to your keyword, as well as tell you how many keywords you would have seen with the full version of WordTracker (in the case of "juggling," it would have been 287!).
Click the words you'd like to research further and WordTracker will show you the information it has for the word in its database, set up as a nice chart. The data is taken from all Dogpile and Metacrawler queries over the previous 120 days. The chart has four columns: one with the keyword and its variations (for instance, "juggling equipment" includes such variations as "custom juggling equipment," "fire juggling equipment," and so on for 72 entries); count, which shows the number of times a particular keyword has appeared in the database (giving you a feel for how often users search for the phrase); predict, which is "the maximum total predicted traffic for all of the major search engines/pay per bids and directories today;" and finally, dig, which lets you closely examine the results for just one keyword out of the chart.
When you use dig, WordTracker applies its Keyword Effectiveness Index, which compares the number of times a keyword appears in their data with the number of competing web pages to help you determine which keywords are most effective for your campaign. Here, we discover that "custom juggling equipment," when measured in the MSN search engine, has a KEI of less than four — not very good at all, according to WordTracker. (In the fee-based version of WordTracker, KEI is measured for all other search engines as well).
I strongly suggest you try out each of these tools for yourself, particularly WordTracker. Once you do, you should have enough information to move on to the next phase, choosing the actual keywords that you will (finally) start using to optimize your site!


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Acid regurgitation is one of the commoner causes of indigestion and often presents with symptoms such as heartburn. The sensation of heartburn is caused by irritation due to the acid reflux from the stomach into the tube connecting the stomach to the mouth (the oesophagus). This syndrome may be called a 'hiatus hernia' although a variety of other names can also be used to describe exactly the same symptoms.
Acupuncture is not the treatment of choice for all types of indigestion. For instance, the best treatment for over-indulgence is to eat less, but some other causes of indigestion such as hiatus hernia and stress are definitely amenable to acupuncture therapy. Exact figures for success rates are not available, but the 'clinical impression' that arises from a number of acupuncturists indicates that about 60 per cent of patients gain some long-term relief of their symptoms with acupuncture. Symptoms do recur and usually require re-treatment after about six to twelve months.


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by Martin Luther King III.
I am humbled, gratified and overjoyed at the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial in commemoration of my father's leadership. It of course means a lot to our family. But more important, it is a great step forward for America.
From a speech by Martin Luther King, III.
Martin Luther King, Jr. is most well-remembered for his "I Have a Dream" speech, as well as his leadership of the American Civil Rights Movement. But I must take this opportunity to affirm that he was also a steadfast champion of the American labor movement. And when the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is dedicated…we will be honoring an American leader who not only lost his life in a labor union struggle, but one who also strongly supported unions as a central part of his ongoing commitment to social and economic justice.
by Cory Booker. Mayor of Newark
Last week, I was in Atlanta for a day. I went directly from the airport to meet Congressman John Lewis at the King Center, where he and I were to be filmed for a program that Henry Lewis Gates is putting together about our ancestry. As I juggled cell phones dealing with urgencies back in Newark, I approached the visitor's center and instantly felt that I was upon hallowed ground. Amidst greeting producers, the cameraman, museum staff and others, I gathered the gravity of the moment. I stood on sacred soil, in a hall of historic memory across from the legendary Ebenezer Baptist Church, and feet away from Dr. King's final resting place. And I stood, waiting for Congressman John Lewis, a true American hero — one of my heroes.
by: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. Representative, 2nd District of Illinois
Tonight, or in the very near future, I want everyone within the sound of my voice to read or re-read Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have A Dream" speech — a speech that I usually refer to as his "Insufficient Funds or Bounced Check" speech.


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Gov. Rick Snyder changed out of his Dutch costume and came to The Holland Sentinel offices in downtown Holland on Wednesday afternoon to talk about Detroit, roads and the education. He is up for re-election in November.
Gov. Rick Snyder changed out of his Dutch costume and came to The Holland Sentinel offices in downtown Holland on Wednesday afternoon to talk about Detroit, roads and the education. He is up for re-election in November.
On Detroit's bankruptcy
Why should West Michigan and the rest of the state pay to bail out Detroit?
"It's important in a lot of ways," Snyder said.
For those who live outside the state, Detroit is Michigan — "That's their impression of our state."
Snyder, a first-term Republican governor, spoke favorably of a one-time $195 million "grand bargain" that could help pull Detroit out of the depths of bankruptcy. A package of bills is expected to hit the state House today that would authorize the move. The money would be paid back to the state's rainy day fund from its tobacco settlement fund over the course of 20 years.
By solving Detroit's problems, Michigan could turn a negative into a positive, Snyder said.
"Just think of the 'Pure Michigan' value alone," he said.
On roads
The House passed a package of bills that would add $500 million to the state's road coffers.
"I think it's great the House is being pro-active," Snyder said. He supports the bills.
Some of the reforms in this package of bills are the same ones the governor has been suggesting for months or years. However, the Legislature has still fallen well short of the $1.3 billion Snyder says will bring Michigan's roads back from the brink.
Those who are upset over language in one of the bills that allows for "the charging and collection of user fees" are reading too far into it, Snyder said.
"The intent of that bill has nothing to do with toll roads," he said, adding, "If people are concerned, let's take it off the table."
Roads was a hot topic at the Tulip Time Festival Luncheon earlier in the day as well.
"I understand if you want a great experience, you should go out to Ottawa Beach Road," he quipped while speaking to the crowd of 900 at Hope College's DeVos Fieldhouse on Wednesday afternoon.
Grand Rapids voters overwhelmingly approved a road tax this week, something Snyder calls a "very positive indicator," that voters of the state at large might be ready to pay up for better roads.
"I think this winter really got people's attention," he said during a press conference after the luncheon.
On workplace discrimination
The Michigan Competitive Workforce Coalition includes Herman Miller and Padnos and has called for the state to update its anti-discrimination language to include gender orientation.
"I don't believe in discrimination, so it would be good for the Legislature to look at," Snyder said.
On education and funding
Much of the investment in the state's schools has gone to the under-funded teacher retirement system, he said.
"We had a big hole to get out of."
Accountability has always been a big topic for Snyder. Too many students are sliding through school and graduating without knowing the material, he said.
Common Core, he said, creates higher standards, but allows local districts control over how to meet those standards. He deflects criticism that it was handed down by the federal government, saying it was governors and states that developed the idea.
Students have long been told college is the best path to gainful employment, something Snyder calls a mistake. Science, technology, engineering and math careers can be obtained through technical training, he said.
"They're honorable, well-paying careers," he said. "Parents and kids are not looking at these options."
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Literary Magazines: A Brief History
The 1940s saw the publication of the Gargoyle (194150) and Prologue (194749), which perhaps encouraged the extraordinary blooming of poets in the late 1940s, among them the future beat poets Gary Snyder 51, Phil Whalen 51, and Lew Welch 50, as well as Bill Dickey 51, Don Berry 53, and others. Both the Gurgle (1951) and the Gorgon (1952) came soon after, but were short-lived, while the better-known Janus literary magazine started in 1950 and ran until 1957.
The 1960s saw several brief attempts at producing literary magazines, but none were carried on. Many titles appeared in the 1970s, several on a larger scale, such as BIGWORD (197479) and the Oregon Anthology of College Poetry (1977). The Rude Girl Press, begun in 1980, still brings out irregular issues of feminist writing, and the 80s also saw extended activity with the Small Press Collective, which lasted through 2002. The Reed College Creative Review has published annually since 2004, and there is an annual Mary Barnard Academy of American Poets Contest for Reed student poetry. The newest addition to Reeds roster of literary magazines, Counterverses, was published in 2007 by students involved with Reeds office of multicultural affairs.
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The Top 11 NBA Playoff Performers Since 2000
The postseason is where superstars are meant to shine. Basketball is a team sport, but when the stakes get high in the NBA Playoffs, stars are meant to take over and elevate their game. With that in mind, here are 11 of the best playoff performances since 2000, featuring some of the biggest stars of the last decade and a few up-and-comers making a splash this year.
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Do you want to get more from your Pinterest marketing?
Are you looking to get more traffic, pins and repins?
If you want to make the most of Pinterest, you need to create images.
A great image can increase traffic, get you more pins and repins and improve your presence on Pinterest.
Below are 5 tips to help you create a Pinterest-friendly image.
#1: Use Relevant Labels on Your Images
Great Pinterest marketing starts with the images you publish on your blog or website. One of the first things you need to do is use a relevant label for the images you publish.
When someone pins an image from your website or blog post, the label that automatically appears in the description is the name you give your image. When you give your image a good name, it'll automatically have a good description when someone pins it.
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by figamadood
Boulder, Colorad...
I really love the idea of the romper, so I was very excited to try out the new Doryon pattern. I had some trouble finding any fabric I was very excited about, so I decided to make a basic version and skip the inset part. I had some trouble with the fit – I think my torso is too long for the size I used, so I added ties to the shoulders to help adjust the length. This turned out to be another learning experience project, but I like the design of the pattern and think I know how to fit it better once I find the right fabric!
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Basic grey cotton, invisible zipper
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Aug 10, 2009, 01.11 PMby emjstone
I think it turned out very well and the shoulder ties are cute!
Jul 31, 2009, 04.41 PMby loveisaplace
Ooh I love this. I want to make one…
Jun 19, 2009, 05.11 AMby nikkishell
I love this pattern and yours looks great. Great idea with the ties ;)
Jun 17, 2009, 10.33 AMby missuscrime
I just LOVE your version of this! I would totally wear that all summer long! :)
Jun 16, 2009, 06.36 AMby benedikta
Figamadood, I have to say your solution with the ties is fantastic. I really really like it and it solves the issue quite well!
Jun 15, 2009, 11.56 AMby lizah
looks really good! great job :)
Jun 15, 2009, 11.42 AMby ghainskom
that was fast! And well done!
Jun 15, 2009, 10.48 AMby spiderlily
I like the ties at the shoulder…..good idea!
Jun 15, 2009, 10.28 AMby lunatepetal
very cute & looks good on you!
love the bows on the shoulders, too :)
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Amlin Challenge Cup - Round 1
Exiles retain Henson for Stade test
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October 12, 2012
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Gavin Henson will continue at fly-half for London Welsh as the Aviva Premiership newcomers step on to the Amlin Challenge Cup stage for their European debut against Stade Francais on Saturday.
The former Wales international made his much-anticipated return from injury last weekend as the Exiles gained a losing bonus-point in a 28-23 defeat to Saracens. Coach Lyn Jones though has rung the changes elsewhere following a busy period of Premiership action that has seen the Exiles pick up ten points with wins over Exeter and Sale Sharks as well as two losing bonus points.
Bath get their campaign underway in Romania against Bucuresti with 19-year-old academy fly-half Ollie Devoto handed the No.10 shirt. Flanker Ben Skirving will lead the side while there are also opportunities for wing Olly Woodburn, lock Will Spencer and No.8 Will Skuse. Anthony Perenise packs down in the front row alongside Nathan Catt and Ross Batty.
Elsewhere, Worcester journey to Spain to face Basque side Bizkaia Gernika. Andy Short and flanker Jake Abbott both return from injuries and England international scrum-half Paul Hodgson makes his first start since joining the Warriors from Irish.
London Irish are also on the road against Bordeaux and director of rugby Brian Smith believes the emphatic Premiership victory over Saints last weekend should not be underestimated. "Northampton was a big challenge for us because confidence wasn't high, but the boys really fronted-up," he said. "Northampton are tough and good enough to bully a lot of teams. The pack we played against, along with Leicester's, are the best in the league."
Guy Armitage and Chris Hala'ufia both make their first starts for Irish this season with the centre partnering Jonathan Joseph in midfield and the No.8 joining Jamie Gibson and Ofisa Treviranus in the backrow.
London Wasps face the Dragons at home with Christian Wade, James Haskell and Tom Palmer all rested. Jack Wallace replaces Wade on the wing while Ashley Johnson and Jonathan Poff both start in the back-row and Joe Launchbury moves to lock. Nicky Robinson is handed the No.10 jersey with his countryman Stephen Jones dropping to the bench.
Wasps director of rugby Dai Young said: "Newport are a good honest side and if we are not 100 percent up for the challenge they will happily punish us. After our win last week we are looking to improve our performance and we will then hopefully get a couple of wins under our belt.
"In a couple of positions at this moment in time we have more than one player vying for the starting shirt and the next couple of weeks provide a good opportunity for someone to stick their hand up and let me know that they are number one."
Friday night's games see Top 14 side Grenoble host Cavalieri Prato at the Stade Lesdiguieres in Pool 5 while Bayonne entertain Mogliano in Pool 3.
For a full run-down of the weekend's fixtures, click here.
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It was an exciting and action-packed last week for investors and traders alike, not only here in the UK but also across the pond.
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Treasuries rose for the first time in three days amid speculation the start of $85 billion in automatic federal spending reductions tomorrow will choke off the recovery in the world's biggest economy.
Bonds pared gains after a U.S. business barometer unexpectedly rose. Treasuries advanced earlier as revised data showed U.S. gross domestic product grew less than forecast in the fourth quarter. Benchmark 10-year notes rose for the first month since November as the prospect of fiscal cuts that harm growth, known as sequestration, boosted the case for the Federal Reserve to maintain asset purchases.
"It's pretty well baked into the cake that no action is likely to be taken on the sequestration tomorrow," said Thomas Simons, a government debt economist in New York at Jefferies Group Inc., one of 21 primary dealers that trade with the Fed. "GDP was weaker than expected. It's nice to see the negative sign go away, but it's still pretty weak."
The U.S. 10-year yield dropped two basis points, or 0.02 percentage point, to 1.88% at 11:09 a.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The 2% note due in February 2023 rose 5/32, or $1.56 per $1,000 face amount, to 101 1/32. The yield fell to 1.84% on Feb. 26, the lowest level since Jan. 24.
Thirty-year bond yields declined one basis point to 3.09%.
Yield Curve
The difference between the yields on two-year and 10-year notes, called the yield curve, narrowed to 1.64 percentage points, approaching the 1.63 percentage-point level reached Feb. 25, the smallest on a closing basis since Jan. 24. It dropped from a 2013 high of 1.76 percentage points reached on Feb. 19.
Treasuries have returned 0.5% this month as of yesterday, after losing 1% in January, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. They have declined 0.4% this year. German bonds gained 1.3% in February.
The 10-year term premium, a model that includes expectations for interest rates, growth and inflation, reached negative 0.72%, almost the most costly since Jan. 23. A negative reading indicates investors are willing to accept yields below what's considered fair value.
The U.S. central bank is buying $85 billion of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities each month in an effort to spur the economy and cut a jobless rate that was 7.9% in January.
"The Fed will continue to deliver quantitative easing and the most important risk is that they could even extend," said Patrick Jacq, a senior fixed-income strategist BNP Paribas SA in Paris. "Once there is evidence fiscal policy is weighing on growth, then the Fed probably will have to remain very dovish. The risk of yields pushing higher is very limited."
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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Playing for seeding in next weekend's Conference Carolinas Tournament, the King University baseball team opened a key series with North Greenville University on Saturday. The Tornado came back to take game one of the doubleheader 3-2 in 10 innings before dropping the nightcap 3-1.
North Greenville threatened early in game one as they loaded the bases in the first inning, but Tornado pitcher Reiss Stanley escaped the jam leaving the bases loaded. The Crusaders broke through in the second inning as they scored a run on an infield single to get on the board.
The Crusaders tacked on another run in the fourth, but Alex Gonzalez escaped further damage as he stranded the bases loaded full of Crusaders.
Down to their final at bat, Steven Todoschuck ignited the Tornado offense with a leadoff single in the ninth inning. Josh Huffman and Carl Roberts were both hit by pitches to load the bases with no outs. After and out, Garrett Cook registered the big hit, a two-run single up the middle to even the score. King couldn't plate any more runs and the game went to extra innings.
King worked around a leadoff bunt in the top of the 10th to keep the score tied, and Tyler Gaby started the bottom of the inning with a single. Todoschuk walked, and Huffman dropped down a sacrifice bunt to put runners on second and third with one out. Stephen Mullins then dropped down a bunt single to first base that scored Gaby and gave King the 3-2 victory.
Gaby, Todoschuk and Cook paced the Tornado offense with two hits apiece while Alex Martin earned the win in relief. Martin tossed one and two thirds innings, allowing just two hits.
In game two, King (28-18, 13-10 CC) jumped ahead in the third inning. Todoschuk laced a single to right field that scored Tom Hooker who walked earlier in the inning.
However, North Greenville (17-28, 8-15 CC) answered with a pair of runs in the fifth inning. Tyler Mitchell ripped a two-run home run to left field to give the Crusaders the lead. North Greenville then tacked on another run in the sixth inning to take the game 3-1.
Cook led the offense, going 2-for-3 while Todoschuk drove in King's only run.
The series will conclude on Monday on the campus of King University. First pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.


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By Lisa Capobianco
Staff Writer
The Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) met with Southington Town Manager Garry Brumback and other municipal water pollution control authorities of surrounding communities on Monday to take the next step in reducing phosphorus levels of non-tidal surface waters from municipal wastewater treatment plant discharges.
This collaborative approach stems from Public Act 12-155, which calls for the collaboration between DEEP and chief elected officials of Southington, Danbury, Meriden, Wallingford, Waterbury and Cheshire to evaluate and make guidelines for the reduction of phosphorus in accordance with United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) standards.
According to the DEEP, phosphorus becomes a threat to water safety in the state because excess amounts can lead to a reduction in water clarity, and even depletion of oxygen as well as fish kills.
In response to the Public Act, the DEEP has developed a Coordinating Committee co-chaired by Brumback, along with Macky McCleary, the Deputy Commissioner of Environmental Quality at DEEP. Both Brumback and McCleary plan to guide three established workgroups to discuss three major elements of the issue at hand, including the state-wide response to address phosphorus nonpoint source pollution, methods to measure current phosphorus levels and municipal options to meet water quality standards. Each workgroup consists of co-chairs: an elected official of one participating community and a DEEP official.
"We are trying to take a step back a little bit, and not only stop the focus on just one element, but also to look at the entire watershed, and define what success is for a healthy watershed," Brumback said during the meeting.
Denise Ruzicka, the director of Bureau of Water Protection and Land Reuse said the establishment of the three workgroups serves as a "logical next step" to address the issue of phosphorus levels.
"We can come up with a collaborative approach that comes from both sides of the equation," Ruzicka said.
During the meeting, McCleary, Brumback and Ruzicka presented an overview of each workgroup and its desired goals. The first workgroup serves as a state-wide response to phosphorus nonpoint source solution, according to Ruzicka. The second workgroup evaluates and quantifies the role of phosphorus in stream impairment and to determine phosphorus reductions as needed. The third workgroup will develop a technology assessment of new state-of-the-art resources to find possible treatments of phosphorus reductions.
Calling the establishment of these workgroups as a "huge step," Brumback said working with other local communities and DEEP will "yield better results" altogether.
"It means a lot," Brumback said. "We are embarking upon a new way of doing business that takes into consideration all aspects of the decision-making process."
Throughout the decision-making process, the Coordinating Committee will also communicate with EPA, and will hold quarterly meetings with the co-chairs of each workgroup. According to McCleary, each co-chair is responsible for schedules, organization and meeting agendas.
"I am excited to move this process forward," McCleary said during the meeting. "I think we can continue to provide a model for the nation."
The committee must submit a report on the committee's progress to the legislature by October 1, 2014.
Earlier this year, Southington, Meriden, and Wallingford, whose sewage plants discharge into the Quinnipiac River, won a negotiation with DEEP for a higher phosphorus discharge limit in the next five years, bringing the limit up to .7-milligram-per-liter and cutting millions of dollars in capital costs.
Working on the phosphorus issue; Brumback chairs coordinating committee
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The following forecast is taken from the National Weather Service.
Sunday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 32. North northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 15.
Monday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 33.
Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 17.


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Every Wednesday sees a new blog by Angler's Mail magazine's HQ, focussing on happenings in the wonderful world of fishing, including latest tackle. There will be something for everyone – whether you are into pleasure fishing, carp fishing, match fishing, specialist fishing or anything else.
This week's Angler's Mail HQ blog is by Ben Hervey-Murray, sub editor and controller of our Where To Fish This Weekend section.
We hope you enjoy the blog, and share it with your friends on Facebook and Twitter by clicking the icons above, or by the "old skool" method of telling fellow anglers! Feel free also to comment by using the special space at the bottom on this page.
THIS week's issue, for me, is defined by two fish that have made their captors very happy men indeed.
First, Al Rawling's record-breaking 431st 20 lb-plus pike (which beats the previous best total for 20-pounders in a lifetime held by Neville Fickling) and then the amazing mirror / koi cross on the cover, held by a Dutch angler who looks like he's not quite sure what someone put in his tea that day.
One is from a wild Irish lough, the other bred and stocked into a French fishery. They both represent quite different approaches to our glorious sport and this variety is what I love about my job at the Mail.
When that e-mail pops up or the page opens on screen, you just don't know what it is going to be. Hearty congratulations from all at the mag to both Al and the Dutch angler.
Hook, line and…sharpener?
Our Product News section this week features a trio of new specimen hook launches from three of the big specialist tackle companies; Gardner, Korda and Korum. New coatings, patterns and wire gauges all add to what is very crowded market place but the Korda Kontinental pattern looks particularly useful.
But if you're sitting there thinking 'More hooks? I only need one type' or 'I've used the same hooks for years, why change?' then let me be the first to tell you that not all hooks are equal, far from it in fact.
If you don't believe me, get hold of a jeweller's eyeglass (or just use binoculars in reverse for the same magnifying effect) and grab a good selection of hooks from your tackle box in roughly the same size, say eight or six.
Hold them up to a bright, light surface (a shaded, low watt lamp is perfect) and move the hook until the focus through the lense is sharp. Now look at the point.
If you're holding anything apart from about half-a-dozen hook patterns (E-S-P's Stiff Rigger Mk.II, Atomic Tackle's Chodda and Nash Fang Twisters are three of the best) that are genuinely sharp, you'll be able to see a blunt point with a finish akin to the rounded end of your finger.
Some are worse than others but almost all have a dull point that could easily be improved. I use a kit from specialist tool manufacturers JAG and it's spot on for all sizes of hook, but you'll notice the most difference when using larger sizes and heavier wire models.
If you're still unsure about what a difference this can make, give it a go and you'll see what 'needle point' really means! It might be the missing piece in your angling armoury.
Anyway, what would you rather be fishing with: a sharp hook, or a very sharp hook?
Match this!
I read with interest Steve Collett's recent blog detailing Dynamite Baits star Sammie Perkins' international competition preparation and the dedication and financial outlay required.
You've got to admire anyone who displays this level of commitment and hope that they get their reward, just as many have done this summer at London 2012.
'Fail to prepare, prepare to fail' is a good adage and one that's so true, especially when you look at the effort put in by consistent top performers like England International Sammie and her male colleagues like Scotthorne, Nudd and Raison.
The hours they put in making sure everything will be perfect on the day has ensured their place at the very top of our sport – they leave nothing to chance and have every possible option covered. We could all learn from this approach.
By contrast, I'll be taking part in a slightly different type of match in a few weeks time. Not four, five or six hours…or 20, 30, 50 or 70 people… this is the heavyweight 320-entry World Carp Classic on Lake Bolsena in Italy, which lasts an energy-sapping six days and five nights. That's 144 hours of solid fishing – no breaks or nights off.
Held on a 20 km-wide extinct volcano that, over thousands of years, has become a stunning beach-lined lake, the targets will be huge common carp that run to 70 lb. The average size is about 30 lb and they look like you could water-ski behind them, such is their muscular shape and paddle-like tail shape.
So, by way of contrast to Steve's list of match kit, here are a few items that are currently waiting to be shipped to Italy in a couple of weeks:
- About 110 kg of bait – mostly Nash Monster Squid and Scopex Squid in 20 mm sizes.
- Over 15 kg of custom-coated leads up to 10 oz, specially finished to match the dark, sandy lakebed. Leads this heavy are essential when fishing at extreme range and boating baits out.
- Three huge Mitchell Avocast 8000 big pit-style reels, holding a total of nearly a mile of 25 lb Nash NXT Bullet braid main line. Several Shimano big pit reels as back ups are also packed.
- Eight rods between 3.75 lb test-curve and 2.5 lb, plus spod and marker rods. Braid and mono main lines require different rods plus some are suited to boat work, and others distance casting and margin tactics.
- Roughly 25 different hook link materials and leaders, from spliced and bonded 12 ft, 50 lb leadcore leaders for snaggy swims to the near-invincible Kryston Ton-up (85 lb) for the really nasty stuff. Kevlar-coated link materials – such as Atomic Tackle's Jell-E-Wyre Barebak – are indispensable for big fish on rocky waters.
- A case of Red Bull.
I'm one half of Team Easy2Hook (GB) with Paul Smith of Global Tackle and we have a sister team from the US too, and I'll end this blog with a shot of my talented colleague from the American team – Larysa Switlyk.
So, anyone know how I can get my hands on a US visa…?
AM HQs LIKES OF THE WEEK
I've been invited by the Angling Trust to fish a charity pairs match on the rejuvinated River Wandle in South London in a few weeks. It's a great story – the river was horribly polluted a few years ago and the match marks the fifth anniversary of it's comeback. We're pairing up with local kids and Thames Water have donated prizes plus it'll be screened on Sky Sports Tight Lines. Good work all round, Angling Trust and Thames Water.
My mate Sarah Collins being made CEO of hard-working angling charity Get Hooked On Fishing and catching a PB bream (pictured, left) the other week. Well done Sarah, we look forward to hearing great things from GHoF in the coming months.
AM HQs DISLIKES OF THE WEEK
Easy one this week: The Guardian's disgraceful piece of 'journalism' entitled 'Anglers versus cormorants? I'm all for the birds' With journalists spouting fact-free rubbish like this, we need the people lobbying for our sport at the top of their game in the coming months. And if you think that Ms Hanson's piece is, as we do, hugely irresponsible, feel free to politely let them know: email@example.com
Just the one promo video sent to AM this week – watch it below. We also have lots more videos in our new TV player (top right on this page).
How to put up the latest Nash Titan AS bivvy
Here's the list of all the new blogs and when they go live:
MONDAY: Carp crews on rotation – Korda, Fox, Nash and ACE.
TUESDAY: Steve Collett, Mail contributor and ultimate all-rounder.
WEDNESDAY: Angler's Mail HQ – yes, us!
THURSDAY: Specialists from Pike Anglers Club, Korum and Pallatrax, on rotation
FRIDAY: Carl & Alex, Angler's Mail juniors and video diary makers.
SATURDAY: The Angling Trust – guys at the governing body.
SUNDAY: Colin Mitchell, veteran coarse angler and top journalist
Click HERE to catch up on all bloggers' introductions


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Chattanooga attorney H. Owen Maddux has been handed a nine-month suspension by the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility for ethical misconduct, according to a news release.
The board release said Maddux was representing a Chattanooga couple, Theodore and Nancy Hayes, in a civil action regarding a business dispute with the husband's partner.
Trying to collect money owed to his client, Maddux sent letters to customers telling them to make payments to him and that he would deposit the money with the court while the dispute was resolved.
Instead, the release stated, he gave the money to Theodore Hayes and didn't tell the partner until after a motion was filed seeking the payment of money to the court.
His actions violated rules of professional conduct for safekeeping property; truthfulness and candor in statements to others; and misconduct, the release stated.
After a hearing, Maddux appealed the nine-month suspension to Chancery Court, then the Tennessee Supreme Court, but both ruled in favor of original decision.


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This Japanese social networking pioneer deploys ioMemory PCIe cards to consolidate servers, improve service, and reduce maintenance and power costs.
The Challenge
mixi, Inc. (pronounced "Mikushi") is Japan's largest social networking site, with over 26 million users. Operating since 2004, it has pioneered the social network space in Japan.
mixi had been hosting its user space on a conventional, disk-based MySQL database system. However, it needed an agile and flexible infrastructure to manage its large and continually increasing user base. Application Operation Group Chief, Yoshitaka Yabusaki, and his team found they could not scale performance without increasing cost and complexity.
mixi needed a solution to do the following:
Yoshitaka said, "We urgently needed to consolidate our database farms to reduce our maintenance burden, as well as our operating costs."
The Solution
Yoshitaka had heard from many sources that Fusion ioMemory's read and write performance was the best on the market, so he contacted Tokyo Electronic Devices (TED) to place an order. The results were better than he expected.
mixi's primary objective was to ensure the reliable, best-in-class service its users had come to expect. As mixi's disk-based system grew, Yoshitaka's team faced the key challenge of deploying necessary database updates.
"Running the same database version across all live servers is essential for a trouble- free environment," said Yoshitaka, "but it was not possible for us to update database software and applications simultaneously across hundreds of servers. This was a grave concern to us."
The answer: move mixi's distributed, scaled databases from hundreds of local hard disks onto ioDrive® devices. This increased the workload each server could handle so much that Yoshitaka's team was able to slash the number of servers they had to maintain by more than 10 to 1.
Yoshitaka said, "We reduced the number of servers in our system to 1/10th, from several hundred to a few dozen. Even with such significant consolidation, the overall database system speed increased."
Reducing Hardware Footprint and Operating Costs
In order to achieve this level of server consolidation, Yoshitaka's team took advantage of Fusion ioMemory's ability to fully utilize server CPUs and upgraded to more powerful servers. The ROI on this investment was significant.
Yoshitaka said, "We reduced our data center footprint to 1/4th the size of the previous system, greatly reducing our floor space and system administration costs. This also reduced our database layer's power consumption by 80%—something that has become much more important with the rolling blackouts of post-Fukushima Japan and the mandate to eliminate nuclear power plants in 2012. We are now prepared for these events."
A Simple and Easy to Maintain System
Eliminating 90 percent of its servers greatly reduced Yoshitaka's team's system administration tasks and made it much easier to install needed updates.
"We had been putting off installing some large patches because we couldn't guess how long they might take to install," said Yoshitaka. "We can now update software much faster, more frequently, and without disrupting our customers' experience. We are now running the latest, most stable software versions. Daily maintenance tasks, including backups, also run much faster."
Yoshitaka Yabusaki , Application Operation Group Chief, mixi Inc.
Reduced number of servers 10 to 1, upgrading each as follows:
Implementing Fusion ioMemory gave mixi the following benefits:
Yoshitaka is thrilled with mixi's new system and told us, "The total cost of ownership of the ioDrive devices, including the operating costs, was lower than other solutions. Reliability was also extremely important to us. With SanDisk's proven reliability and wide US OEM and vendor support, we felt we could trust our mission-critical databases to SanDisk."
About mixi Inc.
Launched in Feb 2004, mixi is a Social Networking Service (SNS) that allows friends to connect in a fun, convenient way. mixi users now exceed 25.3 million (as of September 2011), offering a comprehensive social communication network that includes mixi Voice, mixi Photo, mixi Diary, mixi Check, mixi Apps, mixi Calendar, mixi Classmates, and mixi Colleague Network.
The performance results discussed herein are based on mixi internal testing and use of Fusion ioMemory products. Results and performance may vary according to configurations and systems, including drive capacity, system architecture and applications.
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