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Picture perfect. In some places in the world, that phrase isn't a cliche. It's an accurate description.
The beaches of Antigua, for example, are picture perfect.
Located in the heart of the Lesser Antilles' Leeward Islands, Antigua boasts 365 beaches ("one for every day of the year," as the saying goes) — a sandy parallel to lush Dominica, 100 miles south, which claims 365 rivers.
But while Dominica's waters act as if they're charting their own courses, twisting, turning and entwining themselves — sometimes violently — within dense jungle paths, Antigua's beaches, especially on the southern and western shores, lie still and serene.
Antigua's sand is the stuff of hourglasses: perfectly smooth, almost sparkly in appearance. Where the Caribbean Sea reaches ashore to lap it up, it begins to look even brighter under that perfectly clear, clean, bluish-green water, whose pallid color appears increasingly intense as your eyes follow it out to the horizon. But as soon as you drive south of the airport into the island's interior, away from the multimillion-dollar resorts whose property lines divide and define the beaches, a very different landscape unfolds. Paradise and poverty become neighbors. At least that's what I discovered on my second day here, in search of Hermitage Bay.
The stretch of gravel that leads to the all-inclusive Hermitage Bay resort is unmarked and easy to miss, thanks to dozens of indiscernible, pothole-laden roads veering off from Valley Road on the island's west side. About 4 miles southwest of the capital of St. John's, Hermitage Bay lies due west of the village of Jennings.
Guests are received via explicit directions from town, recited over the telephone by the resort's front-desk clerk. They go something like this: "Down the road from St. John's near Jennings, there's a restaurant called Hometown, and you'll want to turn left down that road. Once you get to the very top of that street, it's only a right or a left turn. Take the left to the dirt road, which is a very long and winding road that's a bit bumpy, and we would be the very last stop."
After 15 or 20 minutes of blind navigation and several false turns, there it was: an oasis in the form of a neatly landscaped roundabout guarded by a single attendant and, behind him, a simple, elegant, open-air lobby through which shone a stretch of white sand and horizontal stripe of turquoise sea.
After parking my economy-size Toyota and allowing the attendant to open my squeaky door, I straightened my sundress and approached the sleek, low-slung monolith that is the Hermitage Bay resort.
Once in the lobby, I approached the concierge desk and asked if I might have a word with the co-owner, Andy Thesen, whose name had been passed along by a host at my lodging a few days before. I was in the market to swap hotels and wondered what the rates were for this oasis in the dust.
A few minutes later, when Thesen emerged from his property's wings, he appeared just as one might expect an owner of a multimillion-dollar luxury Caribbean resort to appear: of indeterminate age, evenly tanned, casually yet elegantly dressed down to his leather flip-flops, and talking with a thick British accent. He was pleasant enough in answering my questions and, after consulting briefly with a member of his staff, humored me with a quote for a slightly discounted two nights' stay: $1,200. Per night. In U.S. dollars. It was about $150 less than the average nightly price of the least expensive of the resort's 25 private suites — each of which, it should be noted, is outfitted with private plunge pools and top-of-the-line amenities.
Trying not to look horrified, I thanked Thesen and politely declined his offer, excused myself, strolled as casually as I could back to my economy Toyota that the parking attendant was so carefully watching over and returned down the dusty road from which I'd come.
The 10-mile drive over the island's hilly southwestern sprawl back to my own hotel — the modest Copper & Lumber Store Hotel in English Harbour on Antigua's sleepy southern coast — took so long over the curvy, unmarked roads that I found myself navigating the last half-hour in pitch-black night. All the while, I was lost in thought about what it meant to stay in a resort like Hermitage Bay in a tiny country like Antigua.
The contrast of economy is startling.
Along the western and southern coasts, wealthy Americans, Britons and French sip bottomless mojitos surrounded by isolated, man-made beauty, graciously waited on by local staff who likely live in or near the shacks that line those secluded dirt roads. Oprah has a home here, as does Robin Leach.
The island is fueled by tourism and populated in spurts radiating from St. John's, which, like many Caribbean capitals, is built around a cathedral, a market and a handful of luxury malls. There are a few very good restaurants, dozens of gleaming resorts, two universities and a half-dozen intimate inns.
But there isn't really a middle class.
This sharp contrast between the privileged and the impoverished is hardly unique to Antigua. It's apparent throughout most of the Caribbean; tourists only see the side of paradise that has been carefully groomed in anticipation of their arrival. But unlike eco-conscious resorts more popular on adventure-tourism islands such as Dominica and even some remote stretches of the Bahamas, Antigua's hotels tend to be too big to hide their enormous carbon footprints or too small to have the means to do anything about it.
Most months, Antigua's hundreds of beaches are dotted with international vacationers soaking in 80-degree temperatures, lazing about under the shade of the mangrove hugging its patches of sand. There are about 69,500 residents on this 108-square-mile island, but more than anything, this is a magnet for tourists and tourism, and it's outfitted accordingly. It's apparent from the moment one lands at the airport, whose grounds are as plushly landscaped as some of the westside resorts. Which begs the question: What did this place look like before the tourism industry had its way?
Small pockets provide the answer, striking an inviting balance between natural beauty, indigenous culture and warm hospitality.
English Harbour, for one, is wonderful. It and Nelson's Dockyard is a mellow tourist destination to which small groups of international travelers flock for fish and chips, rum and conversation on those picture-perfect beaches.
It was in English Harbour that I found an Antigua I might want to return to someday. A cluster of French restaurants line the streets near Nelson's Dockyard, and the best of them, Catherine's Cafe, is a water-taxi ride away across the jetty. The pace of life is more casual here in the south than at the stuffy resorts along the west coast. Restaurant and hotel staff are friendly but not stiff. The creme brulee is amazing; the reggae is ripe.
Just west of Nelson's Dockyard over a quaint hill is Pigeon Beach, whose sand is not quite as bright as some of the others on this island and thus appropriately less populated. To the east, the main road curves south to hug picturesque Willoughby Bay. Just beyond it, if you make the right number of tiny turns off the main road, you'll stumble upon gorgeous Half Moon Bay, where there are no resorts — at least that I could see — to spoil the intimate serenity of the waters.
While arguably as beautiful, Half Moon Bay is just about as far as one can get from Hermitage Bay, geographically speaking. And, perhaps, metaphorically.
On the day I visited, a small cluster of tourists quietly waded in the waters, taking in their perfect surroundings.
There weren't any waiters with trays to offer cold drinks in the shade; there weren't any bungalows with plunge pools tucked into the foothills.
Still, at that moment, Antigua couldn't be blamed for resting on the laurels of its beaches — all 365 of them.
If you go: Antigua Getting there: Antigua lies in the middle of the Lesser Antilles in the West Indies, on the northeastern edge of the Caribbean archipelago. Antigua and the much smaller island of Barbuda form a dual-island nation. V.C. Bird International Airport, the island's only airport, is about 5 miles northeast of the capital, St. John's. American Airlines flies non-stop between Miami and Antigua, for about $540 round-trip.
Staying there: Luxury resorts such as Hermitage Bay (268-562-5500; hermitagebay.com) can cost upward of $1,000 per night and, for that price, are usually all-inclusive of meals, drinks, activities or some combination thereof. There's also a Sandals here (888-726-3257; sandals.com).
For tourists on a more modest budget, the English Harbour area: The Admiral's Inn (268-460-1027; admiralsantigua.com) and the Catamaran Hotel (268-460-1036; catamaran-antigua.com). Copper and Lumber Store Hotel (268-460-1160; copperandlumberhotel.com) resembles a Georgian inn and is friendly and well located.
Dining: Antiguan food is heavily influenced by the French. English Harbour's popular Catherine's Cafe (268-460-5050) has bistro-style dining right on the jetty. Also recommended in English Harbour: Trappas (268-562-3534), with an eclectic mix of seafood and pub fare; and HQ (268-562-2563), a French-owned pub with live music on Sundays.
Information: Official Antigua tourism information: 646-215-6035; www.antigua-barbuda.org


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Television images show smoke pouring into the sky above the downtown market that includes hundreds of stands selling food, clothing and other goods. The Televisa network says firefighters are still struggling to control the blaze.
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The fact that some Florida death sentences take decades to carry out is surely frustrating for families of murder victims.
The fact that some Florida death sentences take decades to carry out is surely frustrating for families of murder victims.
In December, Florida executed Manuel Pardo for committing nine murders during a 1986 crime spree. He accepted blame for most of the killings and even asked for the death penalty.
So why take 26 years to carry out the sentence in a clear-cut case?
There are plenty of other examples of wrongful convictions that result in death sentences.
When the state executes the wrong person, there's no making up for the mistake.
That's why there is reason to be wary of state Rep. Matt Gaetz's call to speed up executions. Gaetz, a Fort Walton Beach Republican who chairs the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee, has said that long delays in carrying out executions show that Florida has a broken death-penalty system.
He's right about the system being broken — but not only in the way that he suggests.
Last year, Florida ranked No. 1 in death sentences imposed. The state also has the dubious distinction of exonerating more death-sentenced inmates than any other state since 1973, reports the Death Penalty Information Center.
Some of those exonerations come too late. Frank Lee Smith died of cancer after spending 14 years on Florida's death row for rape and murder. Eleven months after his death, he was exonerated based on DNA testing.
Wrongful convictions do more than damage the accused. They also mean the real perpetrator remains free. In Smith's case, DNA showed that the crime was committed by a serial killer who spent another couple years on the streets before being brought to justice.
Florida's death-penalty problems go beyond high-profile exonerations. In 2006, the American Bar Association issued a report on Florida's death penalty that found racial disparities in death sentences, juror confusion about the requirements for those sentences, and problems with the pay and qualifications of defense attorneys in capital cases.
The report called for capital jurors to be unanimous in recommending death sentences, something that the Florida Supreme Court has also recommended. Florida is the only state with the death penalty that doesn't require a unanimous verdict in capital cases.
The Bar Association also urged the state to conduct a comprehensive review of its death penalty process, something that still hasn't happened.
Speeding up a broken process is a bad idea.
The frustration and weariness of victims' families having to live with what they see as justice unserved is understandable. The public's frustration with what appears to be government sloth makes sense.
However, when talking about taking someone's life, indeed executing a human being, there can be no room for error.
Before Florida moves to speed up the death penalty process, it must first demonstrate that its death penalty is being carried out fairly and not leading to the wrong people being executed.


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TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — A Tunisian court convicted on Thursday a rap artist for insulting police with a song calling them dogs and sentenced him to two years in prison, his lawyer said.
The verdict comes as Tunisia's justice system is under increasing scrutiny after a series of controversial decisions, including sentencing women's rights activists to four months in prison for demonstrating topless while releasing suspects in last year's attack on the U.S. Embassy.
Lawyer Ghazi Mrabet described the sentence as overly severe and said he would appeal the verdict against his client Alaa Yacoub, 24, known by his rapper name Weld El 15, or "Son of 15."
Yacoub's song "Boulicia Kleb," or "the police are dogs," was released on YouTube.
He was originally tried and convicted in absentia for inciting violence against officials and insulting police back in March. He turned himself in and was retried, but given the same two-year sentence.
His supporters were outraged by the verdict and struggled with police outside the courtroom. Four people, including a journalist, another rapper and two friends of the artist were arrested, according to Mrabet.
Yacoub's case is remarkably similar to that of Moroccan rapper Mouad Belghouat, who last year served a year in prison for insulting police with his song "Dogs of the State."
Tunisia under former President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was a police state in which security forces were widely reviled.
Tunisians overthrew the government in January 2011 in an uprising that sparked off pro-democracy movements around the region.
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While I have not been overly impressed with the options available to photographers for a pocket camera to carry I think the new Canon S90 comes the closest.
Briefly comment on what camera you might have selected as your "pocket" digital image taker.
I'm now using a Nikon P6000 as a 'carry camera'. For travel, events, and people it gets the job done without the weight, bulk, and presence of my DSLR in many circumstances. The P6000 won't replace my D & F Nikons, but it is a worthy companion.
I am a Nikon DSLR shooter. I believe that in the battle of DSLR's Nikon is beating Canon hands down for quality at this time. However, when it comes to point and shoot cameras, Canon has the distinctive edge. From the cheapest to the top of the line in point and shooters, Canon outperforms for sharpness, clarity and color. I have heard some complaints that the new G11 is not powerfull enough. However, it is a far superior product when compaired with the G10. From its' ability to shoot low noise images at high ISOs to its' swiveling LCD and its' larger sensor with a more reasonable number of pixel sites on the sensor it blows anything else in the point and shoot catagory away. Shoot for the Stars...
In the past I had used a Canon G9 as my take everywhere second camera. But I've found the G series (including the G11) to be too bulky. The Canon S90 fits the spot as a take everywhere second camera now. The S90 has the same image sensor as the G11 making it the perfect take-along camera.
Actually I have 2 "second" digital cameras in addition to my digital SLR. I have the 6.0 MP Olympus Stylus 600 for my travel pocket model selected for it's compact size & features & older (first model for me) 6.3 MP Fuji FinePix S7000 for snapshot action.
Leica D-Lux 4. Small, quiet, discreet, good motor drive, good stabilzer, and amazing in low light situations. Best of all the lens is amazingly sharp like capturing a diver in mid-air who jumped off the top off a pier in Hawaii. All was in focus and so were the surfers 100 yards out. Simply put it in your pocked and leave. Same is true when writing a journalism story and you need a good lens to peek into areas where your eye can't reach like grabbing images of chickens walking around the yard of a killer who savaged a wife of his neighbor about a mile away. The Leica is always reliable. Wish the zoom was a little longer, but you can't have everything at least not yet.
I have a G10 great features but still looking for the immediate response and image quality of an SLR. Haven't found it yet but the some of the newer entrants are looking great. With the G11, I am disappointed that Canon did not take the opportunity to enlarge the sensor but am impressed with the reduction in the pixel count.
At present I carry a Canon SD1100is in a little leather holster on my belt next to my cell phone. I would much prefer a camera near that size but with a bigger sensor and "real" exposure and focus controls.
I recently bought a Canon SD990 IS. One of the reasons I bought it was that it is a Canon and I was already familiar with the way they do things. The primary reason I bought it was because of it's manual controls. I didn't want to rely completely on a camera's automatic controls; even if it is a point and shoot. Thus far I'm very satisfied with it. The photo quality is not what I get with my DSLR but I didn't expect it to be. Having said that the quality is great and I find the camera very easy to use.
This last summer I purchased a Canon G10 as a back-up/second camera. By the middle of my first trip with this camera I found that I was taking just about all of my photos with it and the DSLR (a Nikon D70s) was getting little use at all. Since then the Canon has been the usual camera of choice when I go out, but the DSLR still has a place in my photographic efforts as it is more dependable when exposure and/or focus is critical in low light and macro work. I'd give the Canon G10 a score of 9 out of 10 though and am very happy with it.
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Ben McKenzie falls to the floor as his co-star Donal Logue aims his gun on the set of Gotham on Wednesday (March 26) in New York City.
Brand new character portraits were just released of many of the cast members, which include first look images of Donal as Det. Harvey Bullock, Robin Lord Taylor as Oswald Cobblepot (aka The Penguin), Carmen Bicondova as Selina Kyle/the future Catwoman, Sean Pertwee as Alfred Pennyworth, and of course, Ben as a young Jim Gordon.
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According to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, worried parents can protect their teenagers by choosing a safe vehicle. Teenagers should drive vehicles that reduce the chances of being in a crash and that offer state-of-the-art protection in case they do crash.
Parents should:
- Avoid choosing a vehicle with a high performance image for their teenager to drive. Sports cars and other vehicles with performance features such as turbocharging are likely to encourage speeding. In choosing a vehicle with a sedate image, parents can reduce the chances that their teenager will be in a speed-related crash.
- Prohibit their teenager from driving an unstable vehicle. Sport utility vehicles, especially the smaller ones, are inherently less stable than sedans because of their high centers of gravity.
- Consider a mid- or full-size vehicle for their teenage driver. Large vehicles offer more protection in crashes than smaller ones. However, this doesn't mean that parents should put their teenager in the largest vehicle they can find. Many mid- and full-size cars offer more-than-adequate crash protection. Parents need to check the safety ratings of mid-and full-size cars. (IIHS)


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Morning Five: 08.23.12 EditionPosted by rtmsf on August 23rd, 2012
- It seems like all we talk about in these M5s are player eligibility issues, but something new is released almost every day. The latest release involves the other half of the top two players in the incoming freshman class (depending on whom you ask). With UCLA"s Shabazz Muhammad sitting in Westwood yesterday as his team flew off to China without him, SI.com's Pete Thamel published a piece revealing that the NCAA is taking a closer look at the recruitment of Kentucky big man Nerlens Noel, visiting his former high school for the second time in three months to inquire about some of the associations he has with various prep basketball hangers-on, and specifically, how Noel paid for some of his unofficial recruiting visits. As expected, Kentucky fans have been quick to play the victimization card by their media public enemy #1, Thamel, but the truth of the matter is that this is becoming NCAA standard operating procedure for elite recruits in today's environment. Just this offseason, Noel, Muhammad, Providence's Ricardo Ledo and NC State's Rodney Purvis have been more carefully vetted by the NCAA, and in the era of players frequently jumping high schools, more and more powerful AAU basketball, and vast coteries of agents and runners looking for a piece of the action, these careful evaluations of elite recruits is going to continue.
- It was therefore superb timing on CBSSports.com to release another of their Critical Coaches series Wednesday asking a question along these lines. They asked their coaching contacts which player's recruitment from the last decade was perceived (there's that word again) to have been the dirtiest? Recall that a couple of weeks ago, John Calipari, Scott Drew and Ben Howland were perceived to be the biggest cheaters in the sport — among the group of players named in this follow-up question, the top four named and six of the top 10 were recruits under either Calipari or Howland. Interestingly, none of Drew's guys — from Quincy Miller to Isaiah Austin to Perry Jones — were named in this poll. But boy, both Calipari and Howland's guys sure were — the top four: Shabazz Muhammad, Anthony Davis, John Wall, and Kyle Anderson. The next two on the list? OJ Mayo and Derrick Rose — two players who, you know, were proven to have committed serious violations during their recruitments. A number of other players received votes but it's clear that, with nine of the 24 players named (Terrence Jones, DeMarcus Cousins, Enes Kanter, and J'Mison Morgan were also named), the Kentucky and UCLA head coaches are perceived to be playing a different game than everyone else.
- Sigh… While on the subject of the shamelessness of some of the questions in this Critical Coaches series, would it be too much to ask the CBSSports.com gentlemen — all of whom are good and capable dudes — to follow up with some of the hundreds of coaching contacts they have and do the proper journalistic legwork to prove (or disprove) these perceptions? If Shabazz Muhammad's recruitment is perceived to be the dirtiest in the last 10 years of college basketball (or Anthony Davis'… or John Wall's… or Kyle Anderson's… you get the point), how about spending some of that energy nailing the people responsible; or, alternatively, clearing those mentioned from that perception? It all just feels a bit too US Weekly, which as John Clay suggests, is fine if that's what the site wants to be — but unlike most college basketball portals, that group has the resources, the time, and quite clearly the contacts to find out where the bodies are buried. Instead of pure sensationalism, how about digging up a few bones here and there along the way?
- Let's continue a theme with today's M5 by mentioning that UNC has "quietly" moved its director of academic support services for athletes into another position at the university. Specifically, Robert Mercer, the department's leader for 10 years, has become a "special assistant for operations" at the school's Johnston Center for Academic Excellence (where everyone who wants an A, gets an A!). Sorry. UNC of course went to great pains to lay blame at the feet of Mercer for the problems that occurred under his watch, but it's clear to anyone watching that he's falling on the sword in return for an opportunity to keep his job (current salary: $81,900 + bennies). One note on this story — outside of Tobacco Road, it's not well-known just how much vitriol exists between NC State and North Carolina. Take a read at some of the 15 pages of user comments under this Raleigh News & Observer article, and you'll understand very quickly that the hatred between those two fan bases runs very, very deep.
- Back to basketball. One of the best ongoing columns if you're looking for insightful information about the sport is Mike DeCourcy's Starting Five piece. If you can get past DeCourcy's floating head at the top of each article, it's really an excellent read, and this week was no different. He doesn't get cute with it, but the insight is that the questions he answers are often a step or two beyond the typical "how do you see XYZ next year?" type. In this installment, he discusses the paucity of elite point guards in college basketball, Keith Clanton's loyalty to UCF, and the possible upside for a number of non-power conference teams, among other things. There are few regular offseason columns that we'd describe as must-reads, but DeCourcy's Q&A is definitely worth a few of your minutes each week.


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A robot avatar for physicians that can navigate hospital corridors on its own has received the green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The RP-VITA robot represents the "smartest" telepresence robot that physicians can control remotely to interact with patients in hospitals hundreds or thousands of miles away. Onboard software "brains" from iRobot — the company that makes the self-driving vacuum "Roombas" — allow the new robot to obey movement orders without requiring direct human control.
"Previous generations have had to be driven," said Charlie Vaida, a public relations manager for iRobot. "This one you can operate on your iPad by tapping on patient Joe Smith in room 32, and it's going to go there while avoiding people and obstacles."
One of the RP-VITAs showed off its navigational skills by wandering around the iRobot booth at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January. The clever machine represents a joint project between InTouch Health, a seller of telepresence robots, and iRobot.
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Physicians can open the robot's app on their iPad to see an electronic map of the hospital and simply direct the robot to their next patient as they study the person's electronic medical record. RP-VITA carries cameras, sensors and a touch-screen display, including an LCD screen "head" that can show the face of the physician controlling the robot.
"It's the only autonomous telepresence robot for hospitals," Vaida told TechNewsDaily."And it's the first one to be cleared by the FDA."
The new FDA clearance allows the RP-VITA to help monitor patients before, during and after surgical operations. It also permits the robot's use in critical care assessments and examinations.
But smart robots don't come cheap. The RP-VITA would cost between $4,000 and $6,000 a month for hospitals to operate, according to the Boston Globe. Hospitals would have to weigh the costs against the possible benefits of allowing the world's top specialists to consult on their patients face-to-face.
RP-VITA will likely go on sale within several months, Vaida said. The robot represents the first commercial product from iRobot's remote presence group — a unit set up to help the company expand beyond its household cleaning robots and bomb-disabling robots for the U.S. military.
A similar robot could allow retailers to remotely help customers in stores, or give security guards a remote helper to patrol large buildings from a central command center.
"You can imagine this kind of technology would be really cool for retail or security," Vaida said.
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Sort of like the Group A thread, but with Group C instead.
Teams are Argentina, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast, for the un-French of us), Serbia and Montenegro and the Netherlands.
Sort of like the Group A thread, but with Group C instead.
Teams are Argentina, Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast, for the un-French of us), Serbia and Montenegro and the Netherlands.
Netherlands and the Ivory Coast... (Argies out in the 1st Round) Hopefully
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Ah, The Group of Death . Or is that Group E?
Head says Argentina & Holland, heart says anyone but yer Argies. S&M are no mugs, qualifying ahead of Spain & Holland waltzed thru the qualifiers. I think The Ivory Coast may struggle, although the presence of two Gooners in their probable XI secures my "pat on the head" interest, despite Chelski's king of the hand-ball up front.
Holland to top the group for mine, but I think yer Argies may already have done enough by the time they play.
1) Holland
2) Argentina
4) Ivory Coast
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Group F is a tough one too, on the GoD front.
Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised to see one of the big two miss out in this group. It's not all that uncommon at a world cup to have one of the fancies sides bow out early, and while Italy and France are both a shot to do so for various reasons, I think this group is the other obvious chance.
I'll tip Argentina and Ivory Coast to go through, with Holland frustrated by draws against the weaker sides.
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ivory Coast and S&M hopefully.
For some reason i don't like the Dutch side at the moment. That reason may or may not be the horse.
Cote d'Ivoire to top the group, Argentina v Holland will be the decider.
Serbia and Montinegro and Holland.
lol only just noticed that gag...3) S&M
could be any of those teams and holland for me, would like to see ivory coast upset a few of the big sides.
Not really, since it only has 1 really good side, unlike others that have 2 or 3.Originally Posted by FaaipDeOiad
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Depends on your view really. Comparing E and F, Czech Republic are obviously a good side, but they've not done anything at a major tournament for a decade, while Japan performed at the last WC and Croatia came 3rd in 98. USA and Ghana are certainly not significantly better than any of the teams in F.Originally Posted by marc71178
This group obviously has two world class sides, but the rest are just competitive. This group is probably the toughest of the lot to draw as a weaker team, since you have to face two top quality nations to quality for the 16, but in terms of consistent quality across the 4 teams, E and F are both just as strong.
i'd say Argentina will go through but who will be the second team is debatable.
Semis in Euro 2004. Bigger achievement than 2nd round at home in the WC IMHO.Originally Posted by FaaipDeOiad
Not that I rate them overly, mind.
I can't honestly believe the amount of people who didn't pick Arg & Hol
But then i think about it, both of the WCs i've seen a big teams have been knocked out in the first or second round
1998:Spain(group), England (Ro16)
2002:France, Portugal, Argentina(group) Italy(second)
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — A deer wound up in an unlikely place over the weekend in Eau Claire.
A small buck charged through a window at the Clarion Hotel and Green Mill, not far from Interstate 94. General manager Eric Hoium went to investigate and found shattered glass and the frightened deer running around inside a meeting room Saturday evening. WEAU-TV says animal control was called and the deer left the same way he came in.
The buck bolted and broke through another window at a home across the street, then ran toward some nearby woods.
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Looking for some facts here rather then rumors.
As of right now, including the guys who just signed their letters of intent UW has 93 players under scholarship for next season. The scholarship limit they''ll have to be down to by fall is 85. Just wondering if you guys have heard how they're going to get rid of 8 scholarship players? Rumors from my Duck board are:
A. Sark is going to be a douche and run off a bunch of kids he gave scholarships to in the past.
B. Several Huskies are going to have to medically retire (specifically i've heard Kohler and Tanigawa mentioned)
C. Several of this years commits are not going to qualify academically. (specifically i've heard that the entire d'line recruiting class is going to struggle to get into UW, as well as 2 of your WR commits)
Now, to be clear these are all just rumors that i'm hearing from Duck fans, not exactly neutral observers. (although the fact that youre going to need to lose 8 scholarship players is a fact). So i'm looking for maybe some more real information from you guys.


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Harriette Ross, 85 - January 10, 2007
Harriette K. Ross, 85, of Gothenburg, died Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2007, at Hilltop Estates in Gothenburg.
Services were held on Monday, Jan. 8, at the First Baptist Church of Gothenburg with the Revs. Tom Harris and Larry Viter officiating. Burial was at the Walnut Grove Cemetery at Cozad.
Ross was born at Ruskin on March 23, 1921, to Vergil and Mabel Johanna Christensen Sykes. She attended school at Ruskin and Lexington.
She graduated from Lexington High School and went on to attend nursing school. She married Robert E. Ross at Lexington on Dec. 24, 1942.
Ross enjoyed baseball, genealogy, reading and politics, according to family members.
She was preceded in death by: her parents, Vergil and Mabel; her husband, Robert on Oct. 7, 1995.
Survivors include: two sons—Jim Ross of Hastings (fiance, Dawn Stewart of Doniphan) and Bill (Cheryl) Ross of Lincoln; two daughters—Karen (Dan) Hudson of Gothenburg and Virginia (Gerald) John of Ord; eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church, 1003 Ave. C., Gothenburg, NE 69138, and the Gothenburg Public Library, 1004 Lake Ave., Gothenburg, NE 69138.
Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blasestrauser.com. Arrangements have been placed in the care of Blase-Strauser Memorial Chapel of Gothenburg.
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Vin Sylvia: Making the case for CarpenterVIN SYLVIA
November 30. 2013 11:00PM
Chris Carpenter's retirement as a player last month begged the question: Who was the greatest pitcher ever to come out of New Hampshire?
For most astute baseball observers, the debate would be over two candidates: Raymond native Carpenter and Manchester's Mike Flanagan ... though Concord's Bob Tewksbury certainly merits discussion, and true hardball historians justifiably could bring up Derry's Lefty Tyler, who averaged 15 wins a season in his prime of 1912-18.
All four Granite Staters won more than 100 major-league games. Each for a time served as his team's ace.
Yet, mainly due to career-interrupting injuries, none maintained the sustained dominance that engenders serious Hall of Fame consideration, leaving no obvious hands-down choice as New Hampshire's all-time best pitcher. (For position players it's another matter; there's Carlton Fisk, and then there's everyone else.)
So let's look beyond the obvious.
Of the four Granite Staters to surpass the century mark in pitching victories, Carpenter has the best winning percentage - and by a substantial margin: .605 to runner-up Flanagan's .539. The Trinity High of Manchester grad also leads by a large margin in career strikeouts, with 1,697 to Flanagan's second-best 1,491 - this despite trailing Flanagan, by a lot, in games (526-350) and innings (2,770-2,219.1).
In addition to games and innings, Flanagan leads in wins (with 167 to Carpenter's second-best 144) but also in losses (with 143 to runner-up Tyler's 116).
Tyler, meanwhile ranks first on this short list in two noteworthy statistical categories: ERA (2.95) and WHIP (walks/hits per innings pitched, 1.264).
Of course, including a Deadball Era player such as Tyler in the discussion requires placing his numbers in historical context, which brings modern statistical adjustment into play. And it's here where Carpenter really separates himself from the rest of this distinguished bunch.
While Tyler's career ERA is by far the best of New Hampshire's Century Club members, his ERA-plus (a measurement comparing a pitcher's ERA to the league average in the same season or seasons) is a fairly modest 102, meaning his career ERA is only about 2 percent better than that of his early 20th century contemporaries.
Carpenter's ERA-plus, largely compiled during what's come to be known as the Steroid Era, is 116, or about 16 percent better than his contemporaries. That's far and away the best of of New Hampshire's best, with Tewksbury ranking second (104) and Flanagan ranking fourth (100, or equal to the league average during his career).
Carpenter also ranks highest in WAR, the statistic incorporating a complex formula to measure the number of wins a player meant to his team against the number of wins a player replacing him (from the bench or the Triple-A level) would have produced. Carpenter's career WAR is 35.5, Flanagan's 26.0, Tyler's 23.3 and Tewksbury's 21.5.
Using the far less scientific tool of Cy Young Award voting, Carpenter also comes out on top. He and Flanagan each won one Cy - Flanagan the American League award in 1979 (23-9, 3.08 ERA, 131 ERA-plus), Carpenter the National League award in 2005 (21-5/2.83/150) - but, unlike Flanagan, Carpenter also finished among the top three in the voting for two other seasons, 2006 and 2009.
Tewksbury had one top-three finish in the Cy voting: third in 1992, when he went 16-5 with a 2.16 ERA and a sensational 158 ERA-plus. Tyler's career, which overlapped with Young's by two seasons, predated the Cy Young Award.
Flanagan's Cy came amid his peak seasons of 1977-84, when he went 122-81 for some very good Orioles teams, including the 1983 World Series winners. His career postseason record includes seven games (six starts), a 3-2 record and 4.33 ERA.
Carpenter's Cy came in the middle of a career divided into three parts: the Toronto years (1997-2002), Part I of the St. Louis years (2004-06) and Part II of his Cardinals career (2009-11), which followed two seasons almost entirely lost to injury. The Toronto years - let's face it - were pedestrian: 49-50, 4.83 before shoulder surgery led the Blue Jays to let him go to free-agency. Parts I and II of the St. Louis years were spectacular, the peaks of a Cardinals career in which he went 95-44 with a 3.07 ERA and 133 ERA-plus.
The Cardinals of that period were among the best teams in baseball, reaching the postseason five times in eight years, with World Series victories in 2006 and '11. Carpenter benefitted from playing for quality teams, but of course he also was a major reason for their success, not least of all in the postseason.
Here again, he stands far above the rest.
In 18 career postseason starts, the big right-hander went 10-4 with a 3.00 ERA, including one of the most clutch pitching performances in St. Louis' long postseason history: his three-hit, 1-0 shutout of Roy Halladay and the Phillies in the deciding Game 5 of their 2011 National League Division Series.
Tewksbury, sadly, never got to pitch in a postseason. Tyler pitched in the 1914 and '18 Series and performed well, going 1-1 in four starts with a sterling 1.91 ERA.
How would ol' Lefty have fared in the modern era? We'll never know. I'll take him in my all-time New Hampshire starting rotation, however, along with Flanagan and Tewksbury. The guy who gets the start for the Granite Staters in Game 1 of the Celestial Series, though, is Carpenter.
No question.
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Clinton, his voice hoarse from a flurry of campaign events, said he had given "my voice in the service of my president." The former president vouched for Obama's economic agenda, saying he had done a good job with a bad hand.
Obama, in his fourth rally of the day, sought to draw a connection between the flush economy Clinton presided over and his own policies for a second term, including increasing taxes on upper income earners.
The joint rally drew more than 24,000 people to an outdoor arena on a chilly November night. Obama and Clinton will campaign together again Sunday morning in New Hampshire.


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To win in the offline, outdated, and broken share-of-voice model, pharma companies needed to simply outspend the competition by putting more boots—or cap-toe oxfords and high heels—on the ground. If you had a physician's ear more often than someone else, market share consistently followed. Post patent-cliff, there are fewer resources to throw at professional promotion, and when money does talk, it's mostly the government that's listening. Physicians in general are less available to sales reps—less than half of the physicians surveyed by CMI/Compas recently said they'd see a sales rep in person without restrictions—and many have ceded the fundamental choice of which drug to prescribe to formulary committees overseeing networks of clinics and hospitals, where a growing number of physicians now practice medicine.
Like the US economy, the drug market seems to have turned a corner, with key indicators like the number of FDA approvals on the increase. But also like the US economy, external forces in the healthcare ecosystem are having unpredictable effects on the recovery. Outside of specialty companies in key therapeutic areas—like Novo Nordisk, Biogen Idec, and Gilead—most companies are experimenting with new ways to get more bang for their buck, while simultaneously promoting a culture of compliance. "The industry is in middle school right now, everybody is trying out new behaviors to figure out what works and what doesn't," says Matt Gurin, vice president, Hay Group. As the Hay Group finishes tabulating the results of its annual pharmaceutical sales force effectiveness study, a portion of which is devoted to compensation, Gurin says the reemergence of potential blockbuster products has some companies scrambling to retain the reps they still have.Pay structure largely unchanged
Andrew Ajello, SVP, national diabetes sales at Novo Nordisk, says he feels good about offering Novo reps a 75/25 salary to bonus split. "Reps hate what GSK did," says Ajello. "We hired all their good people." In addition to direct compensation, Ajello says Novo offers solid benefits and "awesome cars," the latter of which many younger generation reps find attractive. "We're unique in the cars," says Ajello, adding that while Novo is shifting toward a diabetes education and patient-management approach with physicians, the company is "still selling something, and if you do it right, you'll get a nice compensation based on the volumes that you generate."
Ajello notes that when Schering-Plough launched Claritin, in 1993, the company offered up a Dodge Viper to the top selling rep in the nation, and set compensation at 50/50, salary to bonus. In that kind of situation, "people are going to go overboard," says Ajello. (Novo's cars aren't bonus prizes—they come with the job.)
Among therapeutic areas, oncology reps are still the highest paid in general, and greater specialization usually commands a greater base salary, somewhere between $80K and $90K, says Melillo. For smaller pharma companies with only one or two products on the market, it's not uncommon for the salary base to be down around $55K per year, with another possible $25K or so in bonus. Then there's the recent college grad getting paid "thirty something thousand dollars a year just to go in and make sure there are samples in the office," says Melillo.


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Climate planning
The climate is changing, water levels will rise, and ocean storms will inflict more damage, all of which should be of great interest to Connecticut, a state with a littoral southern border. This is why it makes good sense that the state is creating an "Institute for Community Resiliency and Climate Adaptation."
The new agency will be located at the University of Connecticut's Avery Point campus in Groton, another good choice. The coastal campus specializes in the study of marine sciences, making it an appropriate location to pursue the new institute's mission of developing science-based policy proposals for dealing with rising seas.
A state law approved in 2013 called for creation of the institute. The administration of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has now identified a source of seed money to get it started, a $2.5 million settlement of a lawsuit brought against a Unilever manufacturing plant in Clinton for unlawful wastewater discharges.
The new institute will partner the University of Connecticut and the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Its research should help identify the most vulnerable areas, guide policy on building regulations along the state's coastlines and tidal rivers, and find ways to mitigate future storm ravages in the most environmentally sensitive manner.
The growth potential for such an institute could be enormous. Its timely and important mission should be able to attract government and private research grants. The research will have implications for other coastal communities and provide opportunities for partnerships across state borders.
In recent editorials this newspaper has urged the governor, legislature and UConn President Susan Herbst to find a greater role for the strategically located Avery Point Campus as it seeks to expand and improve science and technological learning at the state university. This is exactly the type of initiative that meets that aim.
More details can expected when Gov. Malloy, Ms. Herbst, DEEP Commissioner Daniel Esty and local legislators formally announce the creation of the institute at an 11 a.m. Friday news conference at Avery Point.
There is reason for excitement.
The Day editorial board meets regularly with political, business and community leaders and convenes weekly to formulate editorial viewpoints. It is composed of President and Publisher Pat Richardson, Editorial Page Editor Paul Choiniere, retired Day editor Lisa McGinley, Managing Editor Tim Cotter and Staff Writer Julia Bergman. However, only the publisher and editorial page editor are responsible for developing the editorial opinions. The board operates independently from the Day newsroom.
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Launch of a new report on Protected Areas
07 September 2012 | International news release
Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 7 September, 2012 (IUCN) – Protected Areas –parks, nature reserves and other natural areas– assist in reducing deforestation, habitat and species loss, and support the livelihoods of over one billion people, while containing 15 % of the world's carbon stock, according to a new report released today at the World Conservation Congress.
The Protected Planet Report 2012 finds that protected areas are growing in number and coverage of the earth's surface, today comprising 12.7% of the world's terrestrial area and 1.6% of the global ocean area.
"Protected areas have contributed significantly to conservation of the world's biodiversity and an increase in their coverage and effectiveness is vital to a thriving planet and communities for the
future," says IUCN Director General Julia Marton-Lefèvre. "These rich natural areas are very important for people, who rely on them for food and clean water, climate regulation and reducing the impacts of natural disasters."
The new report measures progress against the Aichi Targets, a set of goals released two years ago by the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) that included the objective of at least 17 % of the world's terrestrial areas and 10 % of the world's marine areas be effectively and equitably managed and conserved by 2020. The new report has been produced through a collaborative effort between IUCN and the UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (WCMC), with other partners.
The report shows that from 1990 to 2010, global protected area coverage increased from 8.8% to 12.7% in terrestrial areas (including inland waters) and from 0.9% to 4% in marine areas under national jurisdiction. Current numbers, however, are well behind the Aichi targets, with under 13 % of the world's terrestrial areas protected today, and just 1.6 % of the world's ocean areas protected.
An area more than twice the size of Argentina comprising more than 6 million square kilometers of land and inland waters would have to be recognized as protected to meet the Aichi target. For oceans, an area more than the size of Australia comprising 8 million square kilometers would need to be recognized.
Protected areas are, however, diversifying rapidly in areas critical to their success, such as management and governance arrangements. According to the report, nearly half of the world's protected areas are within sustainable-use areas and protected landscapes / seascapes, and nearly a quarter are managed by non-governmental actors or under co-management arrangements, often with indigenous peoples or local communities.
This is the first edition of the Protected Planet Report. It is scheduled to be published every two years, with the next edition planned in time for the IUCN World Parks Congress and the CBD COP (Conference of Parties) 12 in 2014. Future editions will provide updated information on progress towards the Aichi targets, as well as information on existing protected area indicators and progress towards protected areas connectivity.
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Older News » Healthy Kids websiteLast updated 10:56 AM on 15 September 2011
Keeping kids active and healthy has been made easier with the relaunch of the Healthy Kids website.
Healthy Kids is the main source of online information in NSW focused on the prevention of childhood obesity through healthy eating and physical activity.
The website's five main messages you can share with your kids are:
- get active each day
- choose water as a drink
- eat more fruit and vegetables
- eat fewer snacks and select healthier alternatives
- turn off the TV or computer and get active.
The website has great information, such as lunch box ideas, buying on a budget, how to make the most of organised sport, ideas on keeping kids active, and tips on keeping kids healthy.
There are nine fact sheets for you to download as well as five new fact sheets that have been designed specifically for children.
The website includes advice on assessing a child's weight status and on safe ways to work towards a healthy weight.
The Healthy Kids website is a joint initiative of NSW Health, the NSW Department of Education and Training, Communities NSW and the NSW Division of the National Heart Foundation.
Find out more on the Healthy Kids website.


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Im trying to currently create a VPN on my home network ( which is all currently Peer-to-peer settings) so that I can access it from anywhere outside our LAN. The model of our Linksys router is the WRT54GS which can supports both 802.11B and 802.11G standarads as wireless capabilities.
I read through the User manual, but the instructions to setting up a VPN passthrough was not very informative. As much as the manual told me was that I can enable IPSEc passthrough, PPTP passthrough and L2TP passthrough for the VPN passthrough options.
I have a basic understanding of the security protocols, but the manual does not tell me how I should access my home computer from a remote workstation when VPN passthrough is enabled as well as setting up an authentication check. More information would be highly appreciated


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Next month all around the country, Americans will be celebration Mardi Gras. Along with New Orleans, Louisiana and Mobile, Alabama, Jefferson, Texas also has a cultural link to the Mardi Gras Celebration.
From 1845 to the late 1870s, Jefferson was a steamboat trading partner with the city of New Orleans. New Orleans' steamboats traveled North on the Mississippi and veered off onto the Red River traveled across to Caddo Lake and then up Big Cypress Bayou to the Port of Jefferson. The New Orleans influence is still recognizable in the architecture and heritage of Jefferson.
Jefferson's first Mardi Gras celebration was held in 1871. By 1876, Mardi Gras In Jefferson, Texas had grown into a city wide celebration that still carries on the tradition of the Mardi Gras Upriver Celebration where revelers dress in purple, green and gold, dance in the parades, eat cultural foods, and catch beads off of the many floats and balconies that line the streets.
We here in Jefferson, Texas hope to see you at the celebration. Put on your green, gold and purple and come and join in Jefferson's Mardi Gras Upriver Celebration. The celebration will consist of three parades, carnival, food vendors, arts and crafts, live music along with fun, frivolity and zany events during this three day celebration. Friday evening begins with a Doo Dah Parade. Saturday features a Grand Parade with colorful floats, marching bands and more. Sunday allows the kiddos to get in on the action with a Children's parade.
The bed and breakfasts are all decorated with the spirit of the celebration. The local restaurants will have specials and music playing everywhere. Plenty for all to do.
Until then, Mardi Gras "Fat Tuesday"lie in the Christian calendar as the "last hurrah" before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. Some see Mardi Gras as a late-winter celebration welcoming the coming of Spring. February 6th, 7th & 8th join in the celebration.


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If you're making a new website and thinking of using Flash – stop. Though Adobe made Flash crawlable and shared technology with Google and Yahoo (leaving out Microsoft), Flash is still a bad choice.
If you don't show much content to the search engines, you will have to invest more in links. Not only does a Flash site cost more to make, but you'll need more money to optimize it. If there is no real reason to use Flash, don't. If you want cool movies and features, consider embedding Flash videos and using cool CSS styles.
No Use of Title Tags
"The most powerful HTML tag you have at your disposal" – Ross Jones, Search Engine Ranking Factors. Put keywords you target the page for into the tag. This is the part that shows up in search results as a big blue link, so make it count.
Another mistake webmasters make is to put something like "Welcome To…." in the title tag. Aaron Wall calls this "Welcome to low rankings."
Title Tag Duplication
Many designers create a site design without much regard for SEO, using one title tag for an entire website. Make sure to vary the title tags on your pages.
Messed up Robots.txt
It's a good idea to have a file to keep your error log clean of robot.txt requests, but if you can mess up a lot if you use it incorrectly. Here's how it looks, assuming you don't want to block ANY pages:
User-agent: *
Not Using Keywords in Internal Links and Navigation
Your internal onsite links have as much SEO weight as some outside links. If your home page has link authority, then links from your home page to internal pages pass pagerank in the same manner as outside sites pass pagerank to your home page.
By linking from your most powerful pages to internal pages with keyword-rich links, you're doing exactly the same thing as getting keyword-rich inbound links from high PR pages.
To make the most use of link power, make sure that your navigation consists of keyword-rich, targeted descriptions. Do the same with keywords scattered within content. Don't worry about your footer; Google doesn't put much weight on those.
{mospagebreak title=Aggressive Search Engine Optimization Firms}
Aggressive may mean effective. All effective SEO firms buy links, meaning that most good SEOs are official black hats. Are you okay with the risks? Many effective firms actively use spam and other black hat methods to promote their clients. Greedy ones get burned. Those who are smart watch carefully and know when to pull back — because there is no safety net.
You should know if your SEO firm does black hat up front. Rewards are great, but so are the risks.
Automated Content Generation
Automated content generation involves a bot scraping the net, mixing articles and producing low value pages camouflaged as a web site. It's often part of the link farm an AdSense site.
Duplicate content detection has improved to the point that search engines will know in no time if you're spamming.
This is not spam, but a bad mistake, like building a Flash-based web site. Frames are hard to crawl for spiders; they have no unique URLs to link to and are horrible from a usability perspective. Sites that use frames lose on all fronts.
Cloaking still works if done correctly. Some good SEOs still use cloaking, but if you're new, stay away from it. Cloaking presents a normal page to visitors but a super-optimized page to search engine spiders.
Hidden Text
Hidden text involves stuffing keywords onto a page and making keywords the same color as the background. This is an absolutely pointless technique since search engines discount pages if they see keyword stuffing.
If you put legitimate text or an optimized article on your site as hidden text, just to make page look shorter, it still doesn't make sense. There are CSS "hide/show" tricks that can conceal text while being search engine friendly.
Keyword Stuffing
Keyword stuffing involves putting a bunch of keywords on a page simply to get higher rankings. It's pointless. Search engines can tell when you're using too many keywords for natural content, and your visitors will find keyword-stuffed content to be difficult to read.
Doorway Pages
Doorway pages are one-page websites optimized for a specific keyword and made with one purpose – to rank in the search results. All links on the "doorway" page lead to the real website, essentially acting as an entrance, hence the name "doorway page." Search engine do not like doorway pages, but they still work.
{mospagebreak title=Alt Tag Stuffing}
ALT tags are designed for blind people. Alt tags should describe images, buttons, navigation and other site elements to make browsing easier for those who can't see. Some people stuff their keywords into ALT tags, in hopes of ranking better in search results. This doesn't work. If spotted, you'll be punished.
On top of being ineffective, it's a real hassle for blind people who have to listen to the BS webmasters stuff into these tags to manipulate search engines. Use alt tags for image descriptions, and don't worry about the keywords.
Comment Spam
There are several types of comment spam.
One type uses robots to put in generic BS comments and links back to their owner's site in hopes of getting more valuable inbound links. Google discovered this and doesn't count comment links anymore. Bloggers also use the nofollow tag, so it doesn't matter if there are links in comments.
Another way to spam comments is to leave generic comments like "I did an article about this too, come check it out" in hopes of driving traffic and subscriptions.
Blog comments are designed for discussion, so saying something useful without intent to get something back plays a lot better in the long term. You get respect and eventually the blogger becomes more interested in you. Then you get your link.
Forum Spam
Forum spam involves leaving forum messages disguised as editorials, but are nothing more than ads for a website.
This type of spam looks really nasty and irritates all forum users. Don't do it. If you want to drive visitors from forums, participate in discussions, offer advice and help everyone. You will gain respect and people will visit your site from the signature. This time however, instead of saying "who the hell is that guy?!" they will land on the home page wit the thought of "that guy is good, let's see what he's built here."
Reliance on Meta Tags
Meta tag's days are over. Keyword meta tags do not work. I wouldn't bother spending more than few minutes on keyword meta tags. The description meta tag, on the other hand, is very useful. It is the description that shows in search results, so make sure there are clear calls to action.
Submission to a Bunch of Social Media Sites
You've probably seen those one-vote articles sitting in no-man's-land with headlines like "New marketing methods" and "Super interactive website www.spamsite.com" Those are attempts by marketers to get diggs, reddits and other types of votes. Social media marketing is a craft of its own, and a link to a generic site doesn't do it. You can learn a great deal about social media marketing over at Sphinn.
{mospagebreak title=Long and Dynamic URLs}
Some content management systems produce long URLs that search engine spiders do not like.
Keep URLs short and sweet. There are plenty of content management systems that make search friendly URL stings. They include Joomla, WordPress, Drupal and more.
Some content management systems also produce dynamic URLs, which have different strings, but lead to the same place. Those are not friendly it terms of page rank, so make use of SEO-friendly CMSes (above).
JavaScript Links
Search engines have a hard time following JavaScript. Make your links classic <a href= …>. Though Google crawls JavaScript, it's better to be on the safe side.
Free for All Reciprocals
Link exchanges in general are not effective. Exchanging with a quality site is never bad, but getting 100 random reciprocals can get sites punished.
Free links exchanges are very easy for search engines to spot. Once detected, all participants can get banned. If you trade a lot of low quality links, your link profile may raise red flags.
Randomly Changing File Names
If you change a filename, you lose all the power from previous links. There's no point to doing this. If you feel like there's a need to make some changes, then leave the ranking pages as they are. It's hard to get links, and it's even harder to get quality links from good sites that have aged.
No Site map
A site map is a page that has links to all other pages of your site. It can guide search engines to pages which spiders would otherwise not discover. Make sure that your site features a site map; there are a number of guides available on the Internet that explain how to build one.
Creating Link Networks or Link Farms
Depending on how you do it, this can still work. Google places more value on authority, so creating link networks is not as effective as it used to be. If you do create a link farm, make sure that:
Sites are on different servers, preferably in different countries.
Sites have different WHOIS data and ownership.
Sites have many outside links apart from those within the network.
Include several older domains, since a network of new domains looks very spam-like.
Given how much work is involved to hide the nature of the link network or link farm, you have to seriously question whether it's worth it, even if it does fly under the search engines' radar.
Duplicate Content
Duplicate content involves use of the same content on more than one page or plagiarizing from other sites. Search engines are very good at detecting this, so once spotted, expect to be banned. You can also use CopyScape to find out if anyone stole your articles.


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PARACHINAR, Pakistan (AP) — A new offensive by the Pakistani military against militants in a northwestern tribal area has displaced thousands of people in the past week, an official said Wednesday.
For years, Pakistan has been battling militant groups such as the Taliban in the tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. Civilians are often caught in the middle of the fighting, and hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced over the years of conflict.
About a week ago, the military launched a new push in Kurram, one of seven Pakistani tribal regions near the Afghan border, the official and displaced people said.
Details of the fighting have not been revealed so far but on Wednesday, Mujahid Hussain, chief of disaster management efforts in the Kurram tribal area said an estimated 35,000 and 49,000 have left their villages in the area.
The Pakistani military has launched numerous operations in the past to displace militants based in Kurram and other areas who often travel back and forth into Afghanistan.
Most of those who fled are staying with relatives but Hussain says tents would be set up in a refugee camp near the city of Parachinar for those who have nowhere to go.
A local resident who fled said the fighting started on May 8 in the central part of the Kurram region, forcing people to flee their homes.
"We don't know from which side these mortars and shells are coming from, but we were the ultimate victims and we had no option but to leave our homes in haste," said Malik Hayat Khan, speaking at a press conference Tuesday in Parachinar.
Another person who fled, Sadeen Khan, said many families had to spend all their money on hiring a vehicle to help them flee the area. "Whatever cash we had we spent on transportation to save our children," he said.
Often when families are displaced from conflicts in the tribal areas, they stay with family members or rent homes. But if the conflict drags on and they're not able to return home, they run out of money and are sometimes forced to move into camps run by the government or aid groups.


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Tom Daschle has spent millions of dollars on television ads, beginning months before any campaign was otherwise underway. Only recently has John Thune begun his media campaign. But the latest South Dakota poll shows Thune with a two-point lead. There are a number of signs that the tide is turning against Daschle.
Daschle's basic problem is that he can't tell South Dakota's voters anything they don't already know. His whole career has been based on pork, not principle. But no matter how many millions of dollars Daschle spends, he can't materially add to the pork factor. He's already got that.
Meanwhile, Thune is running as a man of principle, and, as it happens, his principles match those of the majority of South Dakota voters far better than Daschle's. Daschle can't hide this fact by running ads showing him hugging President Bush.
Jon Lauck's Daschle v. Thune is the place to go for information on what could be the year's most important Senate race.
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