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Friday, October 31, 2014
Upcoming Events in Franklin, MA Area: FRI 10/31/14 - THU 11/6/14
FRI 10/31 12-6pm Franklin Farmers Market - Town Common
SAT 11/1 10am-12pm CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER! Story Walk on the Rail Trail with Bellingham Public Library. Family event, park at Lake St, Bellingham parking lot.
SAT 11/1 1-4pm Farm to Table, Farm to Glass at Pour Richard's
SAT 11/1 6-11pm 9th Annual Casino Night to benefit the Franklin Education Foundation, Elk's Lodge, Pond St., Franklin.
SUN 11/2 2:30pm Pumpernickel Puppets present Sir George and the Dragon at Franklin Public Library
WED 11/5 6:30pm Franklin Art Association Public meeting with interactive art demonstration at Franklin Senior Center
WED 11/5 6:30pm Elementary Parent Info Night for NEW Math and Report Cards for Jefferson/Parmenter at Jefferson Elementary School
WED 11/5 7pm Friends of Franklin Library Public Meeting at Franklin Public Library
THU 11/6 8:30am Franklin Downtown Partnership Meeting at Dean College Campus Center
THU 11/6 5-7pm Preschool Fair at the Franklin Public Library sponsored by Franklin Mom's Club
THU 11/6 6-8pm First Unitarian Universalist Fundraiser at Pour Richard's
THU 11/6 6:30pm Elementary Parent Info Night for NEW Math and Report Cards for Oak St./Kennedy at Oak St. Elementary School
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Voices of Franklin: Carla Lievano - Vote Yes on Question 4 - Earned Sick Time for Employees
From Carla Lievano:
You can find all the details on the ballot questions for this election in the 2014 Election Collection here: http://www.franklinmatters.org/2014/10/november-4th-election-collection.html
If you are a Franklin resident and would like to share a position on one of the ballot questions, send me an email (shersteve @ gmail dot com)
This proposal would entitle Massachusetts employees to earn and use sick time according to certain conditions. Employees would earn one hour of sick time per every 30 hours worked. Employers with 11 or more employees would give paid sick time and those under 11 employees would give unpaid sick time. There are minimal exceptions mostly regarding certain city or town employees. This would not replace better sick time benefits an employee may already have.
Nationwide a big majority — 87 percent — enjoy sick time benefits among the top 25 percent of top earners. Only 34 percent of those in the bottom 25 percent have the same privilege, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Part-time workers are usually out of luck.
In Massachusetts about one third of all employees do not earn sick time, and are mostly in low wage jobs. To not lose a day of pay, which they can ill-afford, an employee will come in to their job (like restaurant servers and home health workers that are very likely to not have paid sick time and to have much public contact) and spread their germs. They may also may send their child to school sick and again potentially spread illnesses.
If passed this would allow families, especially low-income families to meet their needs financially and health wise. A single Mom would not have to make the awful choice to send her child to school sick or stay home and lose much needed income and in some cases potentially lose their job. I personally know of a single Mother (at the company two years and a very good employee as far as I am aware) that was fired for the bad luck of having her child be sick a few times over a short period and day-care would not take her child so she stayed home with her child and ended up getting fired. This was at a call-center and was in another state but she had no other options. Hopefully if this measure is passed no single Mom would have to lose her job like that!
The Institute for Women's Policy Research estimates the economic benefits of paid sick time outweigh the costs and I agree. If this passes we will be the third state (besides Connecticut and California) to enlarge the peoples rights. Question #4 in Massachusetts broadens the scope of these rights and just like we led the nation on Reforming Health Care and standing up to the Defense of Marriage Act let us lead again.
Join me in standing up for the people and vote YES on Earned Sick Time! It is the right thing to do!
|bandstand on the Franklin Town Common
You can find all the details on the ballot questions for this election in the 2014 Election Collection here: http://www.franklinmatters.org/2014/10/november-4th-election-collection.html
If you are a Franklin resident and would like to share a position on one of the ballot questions, send me an email (shersteve @ gmail dot com)
Staying Healthy in the Club
Timely info on staying healthy when you are really working to stay healthy!
Thanks to TeamFitness Franklin for their generous donation to enable the fund raising raffle helping the Franklin Food Pantry. If you want to take a chance on getting 5 luxury box seats to see the New England Patriots play the Detroit Lions on Sunday, Nov 23, please send me an email. I have tickets to sell..Or you can stop by the Food Pantry during its open hours to buy a ticket.
additional details on the raffle can be found here
Blackstone River Theatre - Deadstring Ensemble / Kathleen Conneely!
FHS Volleyball wins, Field Hockey goes to OT before losing
Hockomock Sports posted the results of the playoff action on Thursday.
For additional details on the results from Thursday, follow this link
VolleyballD1 Central East
|FHS Panthers
#9 Franklin, 3 @ #8 North Middlesex, 0 - Final - Megan Rogers had 14 assists and six aces and Holly Shumway added six kills and three blocks as the Panthers swept North Middlesex. Franklin advances to the D1 Central West Quarterfinals and will travel to #1 Lincoln Sudbudy (18-1) on Tuesday, November 4th at 7:00.
Field HockeyD1 South
#9 Franklin, 0 @ #8 Dennis-Yarmouth, 1 - Final (OT)
For additional details on the results from Thursday, follow this link
In the News: Best Buddies, civil service
School officials recognize the challenge in having younger students take part in a Best Buddies program, but believe the pairings will help foster respect and tolerance - values that will prove important as students mature.
The district already has chapters within the middle school and high school, and pending approval from Best Buddies Massachusetts, it would become the first in the country to offer the program to students during all points in their primary and secondary education.
"As a district and learning community, we value inclusion, and by supporting friendships, collaborative relationships and connections among our elementary students we can change perceptions, values and beliefs of children as they mature into middle school and high school students," Superintendent Maureen Sabolinski wrote in an email.Continue reading the article in the Milford Daily News here (subscription maybe required)
The Town Council's vote eight months ago to remove future fire department hires from the civil service process was never valid, and union leaders say they only learned weeks ago that the system remains in place.
Apparently the town did not follow the proper procedure under state law for removing a department from civil service.
To revoke civil service, cities and towns must take the same steps they did to adopt it, or petition the state Legislature to pass home-rule legislation, according to the Massachusetts Municipal Association.Continue reading the article in the Milford Daily News here (subscription maybe required)
My notes on the meeting Feb 12,2014 can be found here
|Franklin Fire Dept - Station #1
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Attention Elementary Parents - Info Night on new Math Program and Report Cards
From the Franklin Public Schools:
We will be running 3 information nights for parents to introduce our new elementary math program and elementary report cards, which will be issued in December. Information on these two important topics will be presented by teachers, math specialists, and administrators on the following nights:
Each evening will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
If you cannot attend on the evening designated for your child's school, please feel free to join us for one of the other presentations.
All materials will also be posted to school and district webpages after the last presentation.
This was posted to the Franklin Schools webpage here
We will be running 3 information nights for parents to introduce our new elementary math program and elementary report cards, which will be issued in December. Information on these two important topics will be presented by teachers, math specialists, and administrators on the following nights:
Parents of children at Jefferson and Parmenter
Wednesday, November 5th at Jefferson Elementary
Parents of children at Oak Street and Kennedy
Thursday, November 6th at Oak Street Elementary
Parents of children at Keller and Davis Thayer
Wednesday, November 12th at Keller Elementary
Each evening will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
If you cannot attend on the evening designated for your child's school, please feel free to join us for one of the other presentations.
All materials will also be posted to school and district webpages after the last presentation.
|Ladybug rug at JF Kennedy School
This was posted to the Franklin Schools webpage here
Voices of Franklin: Sean Slater - Vote YES Ballot Question 1
From Sean P Slater:
Vote YES on question 1. This should pass because all it requires is the ability to use common sense, something that unfortunately is in short supply on Beacon Hill. Any rational citizen of this Commonwealth understands that this bill in its purest form, is taxation without representation. We pay about 27 cents per gallon, the 3rd highest in the nation. Our legislators do not pay out of their own pocket for gas, we buy their gas. They now want to impose a gas tax which will be permanently tied to inflation, and they want to do this every year without a vote. If you want to introduce new taxes you should have to vote on it, period. If this does not pass think of the precedent it would set. There would be no accountability on how are future tax dollars are allocated and the automatic increase process would be repeated to include our property, excise and income taxes.
We have had a surplus in this state for the last two years to the tune of about $625 - $690 million. This state spent about $675K last year on highway maintenance, while the national average was about $160K. We do not have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. The TV ads and articles might be trying to deploy scare tactics by crying poor mouth but the facts contradict that message completely. The last time the gas tax was raised, how many of those dollars, as a percentage do you think went to road and bridge repair? Twenty percent? Fifteen percent? If we give these elected officials a free pass to ignore the will of the people on voting, do you honestly think there will be any accountability on where these dollars are spent?
Vote for common sense and We The People. Vote YES on Question 1.
|bandstand on the Franklin Town Common
You can find all the details on the ballot questions for this election in the 2014 Election Collection here: http://www.franklinmatters.org/2014/10/november-4th-election-collection.html
If you are a Franklin resident and would like to share a position on one of the ballot questions, send me an email (shersteve @ gmail dot com)
You're invited to Dinner & Comedy Night to benefit the Ellie Fund (Nov 13, 2014)
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In the News: taxes for better roads
The Milford Daily News writes about the Franklin ballot question to fund road repairs.
Additional details on the road plans can be found here
Voting yes would move forward a $1.5 million dedicated override to raise money for road and sidewalk improvements. The town council must appropriate the funds annually with a two-thirds vote. Councilors would not be able to use the revenue generated for anything other than roadwork, though it may tweak the amount needed each year.
Starting this fiscal year, the override would increase the taxes on a single-family home valued at $360,000 – the average valuation – by roughly $130 per year.
According to Town Administrator Jeffrey Nutting, the town needs the extra funds to get to a nearly $50 million backlog of road and sidewalk repairs. Franklin has more than 200 miles of roads, many of which need some level of work.
With annual state funds, normal town allocations, and override monies, the town could reserve about $4 million every year for roadwork, Department of Public Works Director Robert Cantoreggi has said.continue reading the article in the Milford Daily News here (subscription may be required)
Additional details on the road plans can be found here
|road work on Lincoln St during August 2014
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
Pumpernickel Puppets - Nov 2 - 2:30 PM
The Franklin Public Library will host a performance of the Pumpernickel Puppets on Sunday, Nov 2 at 2:30 PM.
This was shared from the Library page here
Pumpernickel Puppet shows are presented with a cast of colorful puppet characters, audience participation, live voices and sound effects and fast paced scripts that not only entertain, but stimulate children's imagination and creativity. A demonstration period follows every performance giving the audience some insight into what happens behind the scenes.For more information on the Pumpernickel Puppets you can visit their webpage here
All performances last approximately forty minutes and are appropriate for children ages three and up.
|Pumpernickel Puppets
This was shared from the Library page here
Third Annual Turkey Trot 5K Family Fun Run and Walk to benefit the Franklin Food Pantry
The Third Annual Turkey Trot 5K Family Fun Run will take place on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday, November 27th. The lollipop course will begin and end at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS Church) at 91 Jordan Road in Franklin. Sponsored by the Feed the Need organization located in Hull, MA, the race is open to runners and walkers of all ages, featuring medals for best overall, first, second and third and for men, women and children by age category. A free raffle and continental breakfast will follow the race.
Feed the Need races started back in 2003 to support food pantries and shed light on hunger issues in local communities. The first such race took place here in Franklin in 2005, an idea of the LDS Church to help give back."The race was renamed the Franklin Turkey Trot and began taking place on Thanksgiving morning three years ago when my son Hayden asked if he could plan the race as his Eagle Scout project – it has really hit its stride since," remarked Krystal Whitmore, Director of the Franklin Turkey Trot.
"We are inspired by the fantastic turnout for the Franklin race. It is wonderful to see something so simple create this great sense of community bonding and giving back on the holiday of Thanksgiving." Erin Lynch, Executive Director for the Franklin Food Pantry agrees, "When
people come out on this special holiday to get involved it shows a uniting and protecting of our community – our larger family – from the threat of hunger. We are grateful to Feed the Need for spearheading the race and raising awareness."
|Food Pantry Executive Director Erin Lynch and Rep Jeff Roy training for the Feed the Need 5k
Erin has been preparing to run this year's race for several weeks with Franklin's State Representative Jeffrey Roy. "Representative Roy and I decided to run the race in 2014 to bring more attention to the aspect of building sustainable solutions to end hunger. Jeff has been a huge supporter of our role in the Healthy Futures Franklin initiative, a collaboration launched by the Hockomock Area YMCA. We are all working together to improve the health of the community, and increasing access to nutritious food is a critical step."
"Franklin is a town that prides itself in connecting with one another in the face of adversity," said Representative Jeffrey Roy "On the issue of hunger, Franklin Food Pantry is at the heart of a collaborative network of organizations, individuals and volunteers who partner throughout the year to make food and healthy, life changing programs available to our neighbors. The Franklin Turkey Trot is one of those events where it all comes together and I would like to thank Erin Lynch for issuing me the challenge several months ago to join her in healthy living and training to run this year."
Entry Fee for the Turkey Trot $20 or 20 cans of food (or box of personal toiletries). To participate in the Turkey Trot, please pre-register online at http://www.feedtheneed.org/. Register in person at LDS Church on Wednesday night, November 26th, 7-9pm or on race day, 6:45-7:45am. The first 100 participants to pick up their race bibs on Wednesday night will receive a T-shirt.
As part of the mission to provide immediate hunger relief and healthy sustainable solutions, the Franklin Food Pantry has increased the amount of fresh produce offered, resulting in a 43% increase in households returning on a regular basis for their fruits and vegetables. From June through October the pantry hosts a weekly Healthy Futures Market, where families receive produce as well as cooking demonstrations and healthy recipes courtesy of Cooking Matters. Also implemented this year was the new Healthy Futures™ shelf, which offers healthy alternatives such as Gluten-Free, Low Sodium, Low Sugar, and Whole Grain options for each family to choose from.
Other ways to donate:To make a donation to the Franklin Food Pantry, please visit The Pantry located at 43 West Central Street, Route 140. Donations are accepted during business hours, Tuesday-Friday, 9:00am -1:00pm and on Saturdays from 9:00-11:30am. Non-perishables may be dropped off after hours in the bin by the front door, or monetary donations may be mailed to Franklin Food Pantry, PO Box 116, Franklin, MA 02038.
About Feed the NeedFeed the Need is a volunteer organization dedicated to promoting education and awareness of local hunger issues by sponsoring physical activities and events.
About Franklin Food PantryThe Franklin Food Pantry is a registered 501(c) 3 non-profit organization FEIN #04-327663. Established in 1987, the mission of the Franklin Food Pantry is to provide immediate hunger relief and healthy sustainable solutions, by empowering the community through resources, education and collaboration. It is part of the Greater Boston Food Bank network and depends entirely on support and donations from volunteers, corporate partners and the community at large. The Franklin Food Pantry currently serves more than 600 households throughout the local community; distributing more than 186,000 pounds of food and provisions annually. Families receive monthly food supplies; weekly produce and bread; and special seasonal items of holiday meal packages and school supplies. Please visit the website at www.franklinfoodpantry.org, and like Franklin Food Pantry on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/FranklinFoodPantry, or call us at 508-528-3115.
Where is the needle disposal kiosk located?
The town's new needle/syringe disposal kiosk has been relocated to the lobby of the DPW office at 257 Fisher Street. The kiosk will be available to residents during normal DPW business hours.
To protect the health of personnel servicing the kiosk, absolutely no needles/syringes or lancets will be accepted unless they are inside an approved sharps container. Laundry detergent containers, cardboard boxes and plastic bags are not acceptable. Also the needle kiosk is not for the disposal of medications. The Franklin Police Department has a collection bin for residents to dispose of medications.
Residents may purchase small sharps containers from Wal-Mart, Rite Aid, Walgreens and Target for a nominal fee. The Town of Franklin does not provide sharps containers to residents.
While this seems like a new notice, it was originally posted in Sept 2012. Franklin bought the needle disposal kiosk after the July 1, 2012 implementation of a new MA law requiring such.
The kiosk was originally hosted at the downtown Fire Station and then moved in Sept to the DPW office where it has remained since.
July 2012
Sept 2012
|Franklin DPW building , 257 Fisher St
Hockomock Playoffs - FHS volleyball and field hockey
The playoff schedule and seeding for FHS teams have been posted to Hockomock Sports
#9 Franklin (10-8) will travel to #8 North Middlesex (14-6) on Thursday, October 30th at 6:00.
All the volleyball seeding and schedules can be found here
#9 Franklin (11-3-4) will travel to #8 Dennis-Yarmouth (11-3-3) on Thursday, October 30th at 2:30.
All the field hockey seeding and schedules can be found here
For more information about Franklin High School visit their page on the Franklin website here
#9 Franklin (10-8) will travel to #8 North Middlesex (14-6) on Thursday, October 30th at 6:00.
All the volleyball seeding and schedules can be found here
Field Hockey
All the field hockey seeding and schedules can be found here
|FHS Panthers
For more information about Franklin High School visit their page on the Franklin website here
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
School half days - Thu/Fri
The Parmenter School sign touts their schedule for this week. Pumpkin Stroll today (and the weather should cooperate). Early dismissal on Thursday and Friday this week as elementary schools schedule parent/teacher conferences.
|pumpkin stroll at Parmenter today
FHS Soccer teams tie King Phillip
|FHS Panthers
Girls SoccerKing Philip, 0 @ Franklin, 0 - Final - Franklin carried the play but strong defensive play from KP's Kelly Halnen, Erin Machado, Emma Corcoran and Hanna Balunos, as well as goalie Maggie Gall kept the Panthers off the board.
Boys SoccerFranklin, 1 @ King Philip, 1 - Final - Franklin's Adam Moessing opened the scoring off an assist Cal Harmon in the first half. King Philip's Cam Mullins leveled the game in the second half.
Additional results from the Hockomock League can be found here
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Detroit Lions 2014 pre-NFL Draft Blog Part I
With less then two weeks to go before the 2014 NFL draft let's review exactly where the Detroit Lions are at. The (new) coaches, scouts and front office have reviewed all the players play from last year's Lions' roster and graded them... assigning each a dollar value (this was back in January and February). Based on this information a number of roster moves occurred; including cuts, new signings, waiver wire claims, and allowing various Lions free agents to find work elsewhere.
The Lions scouts and front office (with perhaps a little coaching input) also updated their grades (and dollar value) of every NFL player in the league on other teams... especially the players that were expected to make it into free agency. I highly recommend reading this article written last year by a former front office guy about this exact process, it explains, in detail, how many front offices grade and pay free agents http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1583998-how-nfl-teams-determine-a-players-value Once free agency started the Lions quickly added to their roster Unrestricted Free Agents DE Darryl Tapp and WR Golden Tate presumably for around the cap/salary amounts they targeted.
The following is a complete list of all the roster transactions to date:
1/30/2014 The Detroit Lions sign C Darren Keyton.
2/5/2014 The Detroit Lions claim S Isa Abdul-Quddus.
2/13/2014 The Detroit Lions have released WR Nate Burleson and S Louis Delmas.
3/4/2014 The Detroit Lions release G Leroy Harris and sign DT Corvey Irvin.
3/12/2014 The Detroit Lions sign Unrestricted Free Agent WR Kevin Ogletree, Restricted Free Agent RB Joique Bell, and Exclusive Rights Players WR Kris Durham, LB Julian Stanford and TE Matt Veldman.
3/13/2014 The Detroit Lions sign Unrestricted Free Agents DE Darryl Tapp and WR Golden Tate.
3/19/2014 The Detroit Lions sign FB Jed Collins.
3/21/2014 The Detroit Lions sign DT Andre Fluellen.
4/4/2014 The Detroit Lions sign T J.B. Shugarts.
4/4/2014 The Detroit Lions sign Unrestricted Free Agent QB Dan Orlovsky.
4/7/2014 The Detroit Lions sign WR Jeremy Ross and CB Cassius Vaughn.
4/14/2014 The Detroit Lions claim DE Kourtnei Brown from the Buffalo Bills.
4/15/2014 The Detroit Lions re-sign CB Rashean Mathis.
4/21/2014 The Detroit Lions sign CB Aaron Hester and CB Nate Ness.
4/22/2014 The Detroit Lions sign DE George Johnson.
4/25/2014 The Detroit Lions sign C Sherman Carter and WR Naaman Roosevelt.
The Lions currently have just over $1 million in cap space available and 77 players signed (by my calculations). See my Lions salary cap sheet at http://thenetrat.com/salarycap.html (Click on the 2014 cap link). However, they can still make some free agency moves if they so desire as only the top 51 contracts count until the season starts and there are more salary cap saving moves they could make if they really needed to. They are also working on a contract extension for Ndamukong Suh which if successful would lock him up for years and likely reduce his 2014 salary (freeing up salary cap space). Even if this doesn't happen the team may want to add some players after the draft to finish filling out the roster but they won't be big names or big contracts, perhaps players nearing the end of their careers who the Lions can get one more good year out of (for example). Who they will need to sign will depend on the results of the draft, for the Lions do not have any idea how the draft will fall or what needs will fail to be filled during it. The Lions will not rank their needs and target players to fill them in any kind of order during the draft, do not expect the biggest need to be filled in round 1, the 2nd biggest need to be filled in round 2, etc. When the Lions are on the clock they will have anywhere from just a couple to maybe a dozen players ranked similarly and will choose who to draft from that group... and it will be someone who has a good chance of making the final 53 roster (meaning they won't draft a player if there is no roster spot for him to fill). Some members of my forum call this BAPTFAN (Best Available Player That Fills Any Need). My forum can be found at http://badnetrat.proboards.com/board/1/lions.
To illustrate this, the Lions have at Quarterback their starter Matthew Stafford. So a starting QB will not be drafted (which is what you would attempt to get in the early rounds of the draft). The 3rd string QB is Kellen Moore and it's entirely possible the Lions will draft a developmental QB later in the draft to compete with Kellen Moore for that roster spot. It would have to be someone who is ranked higher then Moore and the draft would have to fall in such a way that that player ended up as one of the best players still available... and it would be in a very late round. If it happens it happens, if it doesn't then Moore remains the 3rd sting QB but might still be pushed for his roster spot by an undrafted free agent or some vet player the team picks up after the draft. The point is the Lions won't draft a QB early to compete against Moore as he's a 3rd stringer, won't draft a QB if he isn't at some point a member of the highest ranked group when they are on the clock, and won't draft a QB if he has no chance of beating out Moore for the roster spot.
After studying the salary cap chart, the current roster and the draft rankings (more on that in part II of this blog) I can foresee the Lions taking the following positions in the draft:
Rounds 1 through 3; OLB, S, WR, TE, and/or a DT (in no particular order)
Rounds 4 through 7; C, K, QB and two of whichever of the first 5 mentioned in the previous group that didn't get selected in the first two days of the draft (also in no particular order). I'm having a hard time seeing the Lions draft a cornerback, they already have 10 on the roster and I can easily see 6 of those making the final 53 without adding anyone from the draft. Of course, I said much the same last year only to watch them draft a CB in round 2 (Slay) so perhaps it will be a CB after all and one of the other positions may not be taken instead (such as K or QB).
They will be active in the undrafted group after the draft as well, for they should have around 5 roster spots left to fill to get to 90 and the draft may not fall the way it needs to for the above to happen.
To see my current estimated depth chart go to http://www.theNetRat.com/depthchart.html and select the 2014 chart, be sure to go to the tab marked pre-draft (the third tab).
To see my draft big board with the Lions visits highlighted be sure to re-visit here in a few days for part II.
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For an SEO-enthusiast, checking Matt Cutts' blog is not unlike checking the weather. You don't have to do it, necessarily, but it's nice to know which days you're going to want to bring an umbrella.
Of course, the weatherman isn't always totally accurate. There was that one time he called for a foot of snow and all we got was a drizzle.
If you're one of those folks who like to stay on top of the SEO forecast, you've probably seen Cutts' post last month called "The Decay and Fall of Guest Blogging for SEO." It was pretty anxiety-inducing; it's hard to hear, verbatim, that "if you're using guest blogging as a way to gain links in 2014, you should stop," right from the horse's mouth. "Stick a fork in it: guest blogging is done"; Cutts goes on, "it's just gotten too spammy."
But I think it's the next part that we really need to pay attention to: "In general I wouldn't recommend accepting a guest blog post unless you are willing to vouch for someone personally or know them well. Likewise, I wouldn't recommend relying on guest posting, guest blogging sites, or guest blogging SEO as a linkbuilding strategy."
So, you mean, you wouldn't guest blog without doing it right? Shocker. The weatherman might as well have told us that it's going to be hot near the equator.
I have to disagree that guest blogging is "done," "dead," or "too spammy," as Cutts argues. The fact of the matter is that, yes, spam is going to be spammy, but guest blogging is rampant with opportunities for those of us who truly want to reap the benefits. It's all about doing it properly. Here's what defines good guest blogging – a practice that, I think, will never truly die:
- Increasing brand awareness. Does your brand have a unique voice? Does your company have something unique to contribute to the industry? Is it entertaining? If you're guest blogging on a site whose audience is well within your brand's industry, and your blog post gives the audience something to remember your brand by, you shouldn't have a problem.
- Being authoritative. Get your facts straight. Be thought-provoking rather than obvious. Use statistics and numbers to reinforce your points.
- Building relationships. Get to know the others in your industry, and collaborate rather than compete if need be. Build relationships with bloggers and see if you can pitch a series of blog posts rather than a single post. Use LinkedIn and Google Plus to get to know other people – people who want to give you guest blogging opportunities rather than people who need to be convinced.
- Give and take. If you're not sure how to build relationships, start by trading opportunities. Let a name in the industry blog for you, once in a while.
- Not having your eye on the prize (links). Remember that links will come naturally if your content is good.
- Be an expert, not a guest blogger. Know what you're talking about before pitching an idea; don't do it the other way around.
And if you want to take guest blogging opportunities on for your own blog, use the above as guidelines to find quality contributors. Valuable guest blogging is all about building relationships, which goes both ways.


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The attorney general of Florida — a state where almost half of all mortgaged homes are underwater — opposes efforts that would force the nation's five largest mortgage servicers to reduce the principal on loans owed by struggling U.S. homeowners.
Attorneys general in all 50 states are part of a group now negotiating a settlement with the five lenders, which are accused of falsifying and otherwise mishandling loan documents and mortgage modifications. Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is one of seven members of the group who oppose a key negotiating point: Cut the mortgage principal for qualified homeowners.


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1st day in Seoul : I had a good meal in a trendy restaurant with a bad bottle of Aloxe Corton from a negociant I don't even remember the name – for lack of being recognized. Fortunately, I had a very good Cheval Noir 2005, a Saint Emilion Grand Cru from a negociant who could be proud of his wine (Mahler Besse, co-owner of Palmer).
While waiting for next Monday to cure my sore throat, I went to a Korean, or Chinese, doctor – acupuncture and ginseng + massage - and business meetings with our importer.
The hotel is OK with big rooms and TV5 to help me fight jetlag.
« Vive les voyages qui forment la jeunesse » (travelling makes you young)… as the French saying goes. In my case, travelling has been getting the best of my youth.
Once more, the journey via Helsinki on FINNAIR was more than an hour late.
Murphy's law I suppose.
2nd day (Sunday): very good business meeting. Many good Korean employees work on Sunday to catch-up and prepare the coming week.
The 35 hour week is more like the 50 hour week.


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Yes, people who attempt to suppress the vote of certain ethnic groups or religious groups should be punished to full extent of the law. Voting is the one of the most important rights that people have. People have died for voting rights and trying to suppress voting is one of the worst things that can be done. No person should tolerate voter suppression.
The attempts at suppressing the votes of certain groups are real and should be identified and strictly sanctioned. It is not only a matter of providing the grounds for more punishment at attempt to suppress voters. The Voting Rights Act should make it easier for groups and individuals that are victims of attempts at, or glaringly prevented from voting to seek redress in a court of law.
The fact here therefore is not only in campaigning for more punishment, it is in making it easier for the suppressed to come forward be identified to have their full electoral rights restored.
Voting is a central tenet of democracy. Any attempt to impede that right is a horrible affront to what our society was built on. Women and people of color, for instance, had to fight tirelessly to gain their right to vote, so anyone who tries to suppress people's voting rights should be adequately punished.
Anybody can claim that certain groups of voters are being suppressed, and can use a variety of different examples to prove it. However, there really isn't much a person can do to actually prove that it is happening, especially to prove that it is being done intentionally. It's hard to enforce and punish something that can't be proven.


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Methods to study gene expression
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Why would you want to study mRNA?
To ask questions about the sequence, amount adn what regulates the expression of this mRNA.
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Examples of techniques to study a single mRNA
Northern blotting, RT-PCR, RT quantative PCR, DNA sequencing and analysis
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How do we get DNA/RNA out of cells? The first step
break open cell membranes by SDS or lysosome
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How can we obtain cells from tissue
grind in liquid nitrogen or homogenise
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After lysis, what do you do?
Remove cellular debris, precipitate nucleic acids, and then spin down and resuspend
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What do most labs use to extract total RNA?
Spin column kits
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What is different between old method and spin column kits
the precipitation step is replaced with a column method
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How long does the spin column kit take?
30 minutes
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What are the magnetic beads coated in to elute RNA
OligodT - bind to PolyA Rna
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NORTHERN BLOTTING. what do we do first
To isolate RNA from tissue/cells of choice. You can use total RNA or polyA+ RNA
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What do you do in northern blotting?
Electrophorese RNA sample on a denaturing formadehyde agarose gel
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How much sample do you load in northern blotting?
10-20ug of total RNA per lane for moderately abundant gene, or 2-5ug of polyA+ RNA for a low abundance gene
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What do you do after loading?
Transfer to a nitocellulose type membrane
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What do we need to know before northern blotting is carried out?
Knowledge of a part of the sequence, so a probe can be bound.
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What information can northern blotting give us?
Information on relative expression of an mRNA and the full size of the transcript
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What can we use for a reference gene? Why do we need it?
Housekeeping genes such as actin, GAPDH. Possible to use rRNA as well. To recognise how much sample we had to start with. An internal reference.
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bad things about northern blotting
time consuming, often goes wrong. requires a lot of tissue/cell samples
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RT-PCR. Reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction. Why do we need to convert mRNA into cDNA before we perform PCR?
The enzymes don't exist in nature to do PCR on mRNA
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What is RT-PCR used for>
Amplifying specific mRNAs
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What enzyme converts mRNA into cDNA? What does it need?
Reverse transcriptase. works 3' to 5' and needs a short mRNA-DNA hybrid. So we use oligodT or random primers
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What's different about the enzyme reverse transcriptase?
Works in the 3' to 5' direction
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What are added to the mRNA sample in RT-PCR
Primers, spanning a short region.
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What should the pcr product contain? Why?
a restriction enzyme site, so that you can test to make sure you've amplified the correct portion of the gene
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What can RT-PCR be used for. What CANT it be used for?
used to confirm the presence of specific mRNA in human tissues and can work with very small samples. It can't tell you how much, or how long the sample is.
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EW has confirmed exclusively that Working Title Films, the production company responsible for the first movie released in 2001 and the second one dubbed The Edge of Reason in 2004, is moving ahead with a third installment. Based at Universal, Working Title has been mulling a sequel since 2009.
No other details were available, but last year, Bridget costar Colin Firth, who plays lovable Mark Darcy, told EW's Dave Karger some details about a possible plot. "I can tell you that Bridget and Mark can't have children, I think that's the way it goes on," Firth told Karger, who was reporting for Access Hollywood. "So then she makes the huge mistake of going back to Daniel Cleaver [Hugh Grant's character] for long enough to get pregnant. And I think he dumps her, and she's left stranded, and guess who comes back to rescue her?"
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Not many people change their career path after a conversation in a pub but it is an approach that has worked for Retiring IFA and Foundation Resourcing managing director Stephen Hagues.
"I had been working for an industrial recruitment firm in Leeds for five years when I met this guy in the pub," says Hagues. "He said I should join him in doing headhunting for financial services. It sounded better than trying to get people to sign up for work at a factory and I have never looked back."
After a two-year spell at Quest Executive Search, where he increased turnover to £400,000, Hagues struck out on his own. He now occupies a unique position as managing director of a recruitment business, Foundation Resourcing, and an IFA brokerage, Retiring IFA.
Hagues says: "I set up Retiring IFA three years ago. As the recession got worse, there were fewer areas for us to recruit in. It was like being on a rock with the tide rising." He quickly realised that recruiting candidates was not the only service he could offer to businesses.
"By finding retiring chaps no longer in need of their business or client base and who wanted to sell up, we realised we could help fast-growing firms grow even more quickly. The move to marketing businesses for sale rather than candidates was fairly easy."
Retiring IFA works by listing IFAs for sale and potential buyers on its website. "The acquirer gets introduced to services that can help grow their business, such as client funds and introducers," says Hagues. "From the retirer's side, we get a feel for their business and introduce them to three or four good prospects. We manage the process with a view to getting the best offer."
Haynes says the business is not exploi-ting the market or ramping up the value of businesses for sale. "It is not a case of going into IFA businesses, packaging them up and carrying them out. We have been in the industry for a decade and our success has been based on integrity. When someone is selling their business, they need to know it is being brokered by someone they can trust. We are not encouraging IFAs to leave the industry but are giving those who already want to leave, a route out."
This commitment to integrity is yielding results. Retiring IFA made more than 30 sales in 2009 and 40 sales last year and gets three or four buying enquiries a day, generated by direct communication channels such as mailings and emails. It has between 500 and 600 buyers on its books.
"We probably have the majority of the buyers out there," says Hagues. "There are more people wanting to buy IFA firms than sell them at the moment. It is bizarre because, with the retail distribution review coming, you would think everyone would want to get out."
Hagues believes one reason for the current influx of buyers is a need to build up client banks before the RDR. "There is a client grab going on. The RDR is going to increase transparency and I think lots of clients will not be happy to pay for advice once fees are stipulated more openly and are not absorbed by product providers.
"Combined with a rise in reduced-rate non-advised products on the internet, IFAs staying in the industry after the RDR need to attract more clients in order to grow and what retiring IFAs have got is an existing bank of clients who are happy to pay for quality advice. It is a resource people are wanting to use."
Surprisingly, the old-model IFAs that will eventually exit the market following the RDR are not putting themselves up for sale just yet. "The old commission models are biding their time. If you do not have any trail commission it does not matter what fee you multiply it by, you are not going to end up with a lot.
The best route for these IFAs is to carry on generating initial commission until the RDR arrives and then sell for what they can get."
Hagues is undecided on the effect the RDR will have on the industry as a whole. "It is better for customers if there are no salespeople charging sky-high commission – but how many people will save or invest if someone is not prompting them to do so? It will be a smaller industry and I am not certain that is a good thing."
For Retiring IFA, the impact of the RDR has been positive so far. "Many IFAs are looking for exit routes before 2012, which means we are getting a lot of business. But there is always more to be done. We want to get our turnover to £1m before 2012 and have been honing our buyer identification model to get the top quartile of buyers. The buying population is ready to absorb anyone wanting to get out. All we need now is more retiring IFAs."
However, the outlook will be drastically different for Retiring IFA after the RDR. Hagues says: "We will see a reversion to organic recruiting in financial services. There will be fewer competitors, so firms will focus on growth rather than consolidation – presuming they can find the people. That is where Foundation Resourcing comes in. Although we will keep Retiring IFA going, it will no longer be our engine for growth come 2013."
So what is the long-term engine for growth? A more aggressive approach to presenting struggling firms with the opportunity to exit the industry will play a substantial role. Hagues says: "We will look at which businesses the recruitment side is working with in terms of the bottom quartile and say to these firms, 'Have you seen this buyer who might pay you X, Y, Z your trail income?' Then we can see if we can help them sell their firm."
Hagues also intends to generate more business through an increased online presence and database expansion. "Restructuring the retail financial services sector and making it more effective is what we are here to do. We want to clear a path for the key organisations to grow and flourish. What is great about my job is that I get what I want by helping everyone else get what they want."
Born: Beverly, East Yorkshire, 1976
Lives: Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, with wife Emma and three children
Education: Business management degree at Hull Business School, postgraduate diploma at the Chartered Marketing Institute
Career: 2008-present: founder and managing director, Retiring IFA; 2005-present: founder and managing director, Foundation Resourcing; 2002-05: founder and managing director, Progession Consulting LLP; 2001-02: branch manager, Quest Executive Search; 2000-01: executive search consultant, Quest Executive Search; 1999-2000: recruitment consultant then business development executive, ASC Industrial Recruitment
Likes: Weight training, chess and martial arts
Dislikes: Bad payers, blame cultures and liver
Drives: A Porsche 911
Book: Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
Film: Highlander
Album: Red Hot Chili Peppers, Live In Hyde Park
Career ambition: Restructure and increase the GDP contribution of retail financial services through building more effective organisations around individuals of exceptional strength
Life ambition: To go from success to achieving something really significant
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- 08 Feb 2007
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Managing Know-How
Overview — For many firms, the ability to create, organize, and disseminate know-how is a key factor in their ability to succeed. But should all companies engage in formal knowledge management? If not, which companies derive most value from a formal knowledge system? Conditional on implementing such a system, should the company focus more on learning from successes or learning from failures? Should such knowledge systems simply capture all experience, or should they be more selective? This paper develops and applies an economic framework to examine these questions. Key concepts include:
- Supporting firms' focus on best practice, information about successes is typically more useful than information about failures. Past successes can guide future successes, while past failures only point out certain pitfalls.
- Recording mediocre know-how can be counter-productive by inefficiently reducing employees' incentive to experiment.
- Larger firms with high turnover potentially gain the most from knowledge systems, but should also be the most selective when encoding information.
- The framework in this paper can be used to explore other questions on knowledge management. As knowledge management continues to grow in importance, a systematic economic perspective may shed important insights.
Author Abstract
We use an economic model to study the optimal management of know-how, defined here as employee-generated information about the performance of specific solutions to problems that may or will recur in the future. We derive three main results. First, information about successes is typically more useful than information about failures, since successful methods can be replicated while failures can only be avoided. This supports firms' focus on 'best practice'. Second, recording mediocre know-how can actually be counter-productive, since such mediocre know-how may inefficiently reduce employees' incentives to experiment. This is a strong-form competency trap. Third, the firms that gain most from a formal knowledge system are also the ones that should be most selective when encoding information (i.e., the ones that are most at risk from the competency trap); namely, large firms that repeatedly face problems about which there is little general knowledge and that have high turnover among their employees. Beyond these main principles, we also show that it may be optimal to disseminate know-how on a plant-level but not on a firm-level, and that storing back-up solutions is most valuable at medium levels of environmental change.
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- Working Paper Publication Date: January 2007
- HBS Working Paper Number: 07-039
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In the Golden Era of Radio, people listened to live concerts from New York, soap operas like "Stella Dallas," the comedy of Amos and Andy, and thrillers like "The Phantom." Until 1950, all radio broadcasts were live.
On November 2, 1920, just ninety years ago, station KDKA in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, began broadcasting the first commercial radio signal. Without wires, needing only a relatively inexpensive receiver, radio was an instant success that soon went nationwide. Radio, however, and the waves that were sent into the air, were first considered as a wireless telegraph which was better suited for ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore communication than as a commercial means of entertainment.
Heinrich Hertz first demonstrated the ability to generate radio waves in 1886. Hertz was inspired by Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism and his prediction of the existence of electromagnetic waves that would travel at the speed of light. To generate and transmit radio waves, Hertz used a high voltage induction coil, a condenser, and a spark gap. The poles at each end of the spark gap oscillated and sent an electromagnetic wave. To prove the existence of the wave, Hertz invented a receiver made of copper wire molded into a circle with a brass sphere on one end. The sphere was placed close to the wave generator and when the receiver sparked, the existence of radio waves was confirmed.
The person who took radio from an interesting experiment in electricity to a worldwide phenomenon was Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy, on April 25, 1874. He was educated by tutors at his father's estate where he became interested in electricity in general and Hertz's waves in particular. In 1895, Marconi began his radio experiments, succeeding in sending an electromagnetic signal over a distance of 1.5 miles. In 1896, Marconi was awarded the world's first patent for wireless telegraphy. In 1897, he founded The Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company which was re-named in 1900 to Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company. In 1899 he established wireless communication between France and England across the English Channel. In 1900 Marconi was awarded patent No. 7777 for telegraphy and, on an historic day in December 1901, he proved that wireless waves were not affected by the curvature of the Earth when he used his system to transmit the first wireless signals across the Atlantic Ocean, a distance of 2100 miles.
The world began to find uses for Marconi's radio waves. In 1903, President Theodore Roosevelt exchanged greetings with King Edward VII by wireless transmission and in 1905 the battle of Port Arthur was reported in the same way. In 1915, speech was first transmitted across the continent from New York City to San Francisco and across the Atlantic Ocean from Naval radio station NAA at Arlington, Virginia, to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
Then came radio station KDKA.
The Westinghouse Company owned KDKA and, within months, launched radio stations in Boston, Chicago, and New York. Corporate stations soon competed with amateurs and experimenters for the airwaves. In response to the proliferation of broadcast signals, in December 1921, the Department of Commerce announced regulations to limit public radio stations to those that met new standards for equipment and signal strength. Standards aside, by the end of 1922 there were more than 500 public radio stations in the United States, operating in every state.
The general public wanted to know how to receive these radio signals and the programs that they carried. In response, radio clubs sprang up and a mini-publishing boom in how-to manuals ensued. But not everyone saw the radio as the road to paradise. The Nation magazine, in an article published in March 1922, lamented this new development:
"Think of the tragic fate of some future Thoreau who goes to his beloved woods in search of solitude only to find the night made suddenly hideous by the 'famous laughing saxophone' played at station XYZ and received and amplified by equipment in possession of the Boston Boy Scouts in camp not far away!"
The laughing saxophone of 1922 gave way to the Golden Era of radio, a 30 year period from 1925 to 1955. Everyone caught the radio fever. At its height in 1947, almost 90% of the population of the United States owned and regularly listened to the radio.
On November 15, 1926, just six years after the first commercial broadcast, the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) was formed. The network had the task of serving daily programming to 13 million radio sets. Their radio stations carried live concerts from New York, soap operas like "Stella Dallas," the comedy of Amos and Andy, and thrillers like "The Phantom." Adding to the drama, until 1950, all radio broadcasts were live.
NBC investors wondered how to pay for all this. In early 1922, the American Telephone & Telegraph Company promoted the idea of using advertising to finance programming. Initially AT&T claimed that its patent rights gave it a monopoly over national radio advertising, but a 1923 industry settlement allowed other stations to begin to sell time, as well. And so it was advertising that paid for free, public programs.
Then, in the 1950s, television broadcasting superseded the radio. Radio stations dropped their dramatic programming and became niche carriers of specialized content. Although the golden age of radio was over, the spread of wireless communication devices was about to begin.
The radio era began 90 years ago—and that's when it happened.
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Best places for fall in the Carolinas? Because leaf coloration depends on the weather, it varies each year. That said, these spots are prime places to spend an autumn weekend: All offer fun "extras" if Mother Nature isn't cooperating fully.
Blowing Rock
Location: On U.S. 321 in Watauga County
Prime leaves: Usually starting early- to mid-October
See & do: A vacation destination for over a century, Blowing Rock is both comfy and cosmopolitan. There's great shopping and dining; area resorts include the famed Chetola, Crestwood Inn and Hound Ears Club. The town is minutes from the BRP and its Moses Cone Memorial Park (www.blueridgeparkway.org) - the 3,500-acre spread that was once a tycoon/philanthropist's estate. It has 25 miles of trails suitable for hiking, horseback riding and carriages. The Cone family mansion nowadays houses the Parkway Craft Center, where the Southern Highland Craft Guild shows and sells handmade crafts by regional artists.
Prime weekend: Oct. 1 is the last Art in the Park arts/crafts show of the year at American Legion Park; the grand opening of the Blowing Rock Art & History Museum is also Oct. 1.
Area info: 877-750-4636; www.blowingrock.com.
Lake Jocassee, S.C.
Location: Near both the Georgia and North Carolina borders.
Prime leaves: Late October-early November.
See & do: South Carolina's surprisingly wild and rugged upcountry is visually stunning. The 7.500-acre lake is the dammed Jocassee Gorge: It has 75 miles of shoreline, little development and wraps around Mustardground Mountain - making a sublime vista reminiscent of British Columbia or the Alps.
Public access is via Devils Fork State Park (www.southcarolinastateparks.com; use the "Park Finder" window); popular activities include fishing, hiking, boating and camping. DiscoverBoating.com included Lake Jocassee on its recent list of eight top U.S. waterways for viewing fall foliage.
Prime weekend: Most any. Consider driving there via S.C. 11 (Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway); access it from Interstate 85 at Gaffney, S.C., and just head west.
Area info: www.lakejocassee.com.
Bryson City
Location: On U.S. 74, southwest of Asheville and Cherokee.
Prime leaves: Throughout October.
See & do: The quaint attractiveness of the Swain County seat is heightened by the mountains that ring it. Bryson is near Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pisgah National Forest and Lake Fontana - all incredible places for outdoor recreation that offer spectacular autumnal eye candy. Moreover, it is home of Great Smoky Mountains Railroad (www.gsmr.com), which runs excursion trains down the Nantahala River gorge to the Nantahala Outdoor Center (www.noc.com) - a great destination in its own right. Mondays-Thursdays in October, another route goes from Bryson City to Dillsboro. A "Peanuts"-themed "Great Pumpkin Patch" trip is geared toward kids. Fare for adults start at $53. Make reservations in advance, the earlier the better.
Prime weekends: Oct. 1-2 is when the craft/music festival is held at the John C. Campbell Folk School, in nearby Brasstown. Oct. 8, the Fall Harvest Craft Festival is staged at Old Mill 1886 (www.cherokeemill.com); the Maple Leaf Festival is held on Main Street in downtown Whittier. The NOC's NOCtoberfest is Oct. 28-31.
Area info: 800-867-9246; www.greatsmokies.com.
Black Mountain
Location: Just east of Asheville, off Interstate 40, Exit 64.
Prime leaves: Usually starting the third week of October.
See & do: The picturesque small town has Lake Tomahawk Park; it's good-size pond is ringed by an easy-stroll pathway. On the northern horizon are the Seven Sisters Mountains; beyond them is the section of the Blue Ridge Parkway that has such popular areas as Craggy Gardens and Crabtree Meadows. Access the BRP by driving west on U.S. 70 for 8 miles.
Downtown Black Mountain has many boutiques and cafes. Try the fine Central European fare at Berliner Kindl (www.berlinerkindl.homestead.com)
Prime weekend: Oct. 20-23. The twice-a-year Lake Eden Arts Festival will be is staged on the beautiful grounds of Black Mountain College, an experimental college that operated between 1933 and 1957. (The faculty included architect Buckminster Fuller, who built his first geodesic dome here.)
Music, theater and visual arts are featured. Headliners include Sweet Honey in the Rock, Leo Kotke and Wanda Jackson. Tickets ($42 or $52) must be purchased in advance. Tickets/schedule: www.theLEAF.org.
Area info: 800-669-2301; www.blackmountain.org.
Location: On I-40, west of Statesville and (via U.S. 321) north of Gastonia.
Prime leaves: Usually starting mid- to late October.
See & do: The portion of the Catawba River that's nearby was dammed in the 1920s by Duke Power; the result is Lake Hickory, which has five access areas and three waterside parks. Other great outdoor sites include Bakers Mountain Park (189 acres, with close to 6 miles of trails and a chestnut oak forest), Ivey Arboretum in Carolina Park (more than 400 labeled native and rare trees and shrubs) and Lake James State Park, a little farther up the Catawba.
Prime weekend: Oct. 7-9 is the city's Oktoberfest (www.hickoryoktoberfest.com) - a massive downtown celebration with two beer gardens, amusement rides, carnival, arts and crafts fair, and live music that ranges from polka to rock. Hickory's Old Schnitzel Haus restaurant (www.oldgermanschnitzelhaus.com) has its own Oktoberfest, Fridays-Saturdays, Sept. 23-Oct. 15, with live polka music. Last year, it was voted "Best German Restaurant in America" in a 400-eatery national competition.
Area info: 800-509-2444; www.hickorymetro.com.
Read more: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/09/16/2612994/finding-fall-in-the-carolinas.html#ixzz1YUrVJepR
Moncks Corner, S.C.
Location: A tad east of I-26 in Berkeley County, just north of metro Charleston.
Prime leaves: Late October and early November.
See & do: The town is on the Catawba-to-the-coast waterway, just south of where it's dammed as Lake Moultrie. The area is flat; Lowcountry swamplands abound. The turn of seasons isn't in the trees as much as it is in seasonal vegetation - and the best place to see it is at Cypress Gardens (www.cypressgardens.info), where 3 1/2 miles of walking/hiking paths wind among blackwater swamplands and gardens, and bald cypress and tupelo tower over everything. The county-owned facility has been filmed in numerous movies; you've seen its tranquil settings in "The Patriot" and "The Notebook." Get on the water in a $5 guided boat ride.
Nearby is Santee Cooper's Old Santee Canal Park (www.oldsanteecanalpark.org),which has 4 miles of trails in addition to other attractions..
Prime weekend: Cypress Gardens holds the Blackwater Ukulele Festival Oct. 15, and its Halloween in the Swamp Oct. 20-22. Old Santee Park's Common Ground Bluegrass Festival is Oct. 1.
Area info: 800-882-0337; www.visitberkeleycounty.com.


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PROMPT> ec2-create-tags ami-1a2b3c4d i-7d3e5a2f –tag webserver –tag "stack=Production"
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- In the second case, the RI is unused and not applied at all. The RI could be reassigned or modified to match instances from another group, but is not, and therefore the corporation loses money. If the RI has been ordered, unused and is not being applied, then the corporation has paid for it, however, it is not gaining the associated savings.
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