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Vital Brand Building Guidelines | How To Build A Million Dollar Personality Brand Without Breaking The Bank
Vital Brand Building Guidelines | The brand is one of the most important elements of any business, large or small. Your brand is the entire sum of what your business does, what you're good at and the experience clients have when doing business with you. Your brand will affect whether clients join your loyalty club and refer you to other people — or don't bother with you ever again. The benefits that a strategically defined brand can bring are the same as when people fall in love with each other. When clients connect emotively with your brand, it leads to better sales and better brand differentiation.
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Studies have shown that 75% of purchase decisions are based on emotion, which means an effective brand strategy will give you a major edge in increasingly competitive markets. The businesses that place value over price win hearts and are usually armed with a well-defined, genuinely appealing brands. The benefits of defining your company's values, voice, and market placement can include better profits, as well as better client and employee retention.
What Is Your Brand | Vital Brand Building Guidelines
As I mentioned above, it is about the sum total of the experiences your clients have when doing business with you. This includes the visual elements of your business, but it also includes what you do, how you do it, what your client interactions are like, the type of information you share in your marketing materials and on social media. All these elements help establish the trust and credibility of your business.
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Know Your Business | Vital Brand Building Guidelines
In today's competitive marketplace, you don't want to be a "jack of all trades, master of none." While it may be tempting to offer clients a wide array of products and services and serve anyone under the Sun, it's vital to keep your brand focused. Your clients may skew toward a particular demographic or socioeconomic group. They may have a specific problem, interest or need in common. Your brand needs to connect with these people. They're your target audience, the potential client you should be aiming to serve. Do your research. Learn the needs, habits and desires of your existing and potential clients. And don't rely on what you think they think. Know what they think.
Be Honest And Authentic About Who You Are | Vital Brand Building Guidelines
Your brand has to talk the talk and walk the walk. Otherwise, you'll present yourself inconsistently and confuse your target audience. Don't try to portray your brand as luxury if you serve price-sensitive market. Avoid being too "fun" if your ideal clients tend to be more serious. You'll struggle to deliver the right consistency across different platforms if your brand persona is nothing more than a facade, and clients won't return to you, let alone refer you to someone else, if you don't deliver on your brand promise.
Create A Voice For Your Company That Reflects Your Brand | Vital Brand Building Guidelines
What you say is important, but don't forget the way you say it. Your company's voice is the language and personality you and your employees will use to deliver your branding message and reach your target audience. This voice should be applied to all written communication and incorporated in the visual imagery of all materials, online and off. Reuse key phrases that are your unique selling points, whether they're used in your brochure, on your website or in print ads. Feature your business tagline on everything — it's your brand promise boiled down to a catchy, memorable phrase, after all.
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Keep Your Visual Identity Professional And Consistent | Vital Brand Building Guidelines
From business cards and logo to email newsletters and brick-and-mortar signage, all of your printed communications and sales materials should look, feel and sound like they come from the same source. Design templates and create brand standards for your marketing materials. Use the same color scheme, logo placement, look and feel throughout. Why should you care about brand consistency? You should care because brand consistency leads to familiarity, and familiarity leads to trust.
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Build Community Around What you Do | Vital Brand Building Guidelines
A successful brand is one that is trusted and respected by customers – building a strong community online and off can help you achieve this. You don't have to spend a lot of money to do this. In fact, many successful brands concentrate almost exclusively in online and offline community building as opposed to traditional advertising. Sure, you talk to customers when they come in, call or email you. That's a conversation. But conversations end. Dialogues are ongoing. Don't just throw advertising messages at your followers – instead, engage them, retweet and reply to their tweets. Social media should be social, after all.


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More patients in desperate need of a heart transplant will undergo the life-saving procedure at Harefield Hospital, after a revolutionary new technique known as a non-beating heart transplant was carried out for the first time. Until very recently, all donated hearts in the UK were from donors declared brain dead, but who still had blood pumping around their bodies. However, a pioneering new method of organ retrieval, which has so far only been carried out a small number of times in the UK, means surgeons can now also consider hearts for transplantation from donors whose hearts have stopped beating, in what is known as circulatory death. This is when both the heart and lungs have stopped working. Previously an organ donor who had succumbed to circulatory death could donate some other organs, such as the kidney and liver, but not the heart. In order for the heart of a donor who has died a circulatory death to be suitable for transplantation, it must be resuscitated by pumping warm oxygenated blood through the heart muscle. The transplant team at Harefield Hospital has achieved this by using organ retrieval technology, known as the Organ Care System (OCS). The OCS, sometimes referred to as "heart in a box", allows doctors to maintain and assess organ function and suitability for transplantation. According to specialist transplant clinicians at Harefield Hospital, the new development has the potential to increase heart transplantation by around 30 per cent in the UK. At present, Harefield and Papworth Hospital in Cambridge are the only transplant centres in the UK to carry out non-beating heart transplants from this group of donors. Lee Hall, from Illogan, Cornwall, was one of the first patients at Harefield Hospital to receive a heart from a circulatory death donor. The 26-year-old, who lives with his wife Danyelle and their one-year-old son Hayden, developed heart failure at 14. The condition was linked to chemotherapy he had as a small child to treat leukaemia. Initially, drugs improved his heart's function, but aged 20 he had become frequently breathless and tired while working as an electrician. He was referred to Harefield Hospital and fitted with a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), a mechanical heart pump often used to keep patients alive and enable them to leave hospital while they wait for a transplant. Lee remained in relatively good health for five years. However, earlier this year he was put on the urgent transplant list as his health deteriorated, and was asked if he would be happy to receive a non-beating heart. He explained: "I had previously read about this type of donated heart online so I was very happy to have one. A couple of days later a suitable non-beating heart became available and I had the transplant. "I'm grateful that I've been cared for at Harefield where this type of heart transplant is possible – without it I'd probably still be waiting for a new heart. "It is hard to accept that someone has died for you to carry on living and I'd like to thank my donor and their family for making this possible." Lee was discharged in July after a successful recovery. Mr André Simon, director of transplantation at Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust, said: "The use of non-beating hearts in transplantation is a very exciting development that will ultimately help us save more lives. It provides new hope to patients who are desperately waiting for a heart transplant. "We have pioneered the use of the Organ Care System for heart transplantation in the UK in recent years, which has resulted in more patients having life-saving transplants." To help the Trust extend its transplant programme into this new area of transplanting non-beating donor hearts, the team at Harefield Hospital has invested in a second OCS machine to ensure patients can benefit from the increased number of donor hearts that will now be available for transplantation. The new system was funded by money raised at a charity concert earlier this year.

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By Joseph Tocco
I appreciate the Dogood's and Mr LaDuke giving me the chance to contribute here. As Mr.LaDuke prepares for his new show in Ann Arbor, they have agreed to allow me to contribute here to keep this site relevant.
I am embarrassed to start with Matt Hemelberg. After Thursday's meeting, was pretty obvious that Matt wants to leave the city. This clip highlights this.
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Discussion in 'Other Linksys Equipment' started by Xadiaris, Jul 28, 2007.
It exists custom firmware for the WAG200G?
Voytekm !
The page you have requested could not be found. (404)
No, works fine !
I use woytekm build 0.6.2 and some some issues to resolve.
I need to break and reconnect at ~2 o'clock (night), so I've tried to use users made /mnt/mtd5/crontab. But somehow after DSL reconnect /etc/crontab is overwritten with version from flash...
Can any1 confirm or suggest workaround?
I even tried hack /etc/crontab on my own with /mnt/mtd5/rc.local, but see same sh*t.
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Look fast, feel fast, be fast! Prestige Pro is top-end, race-ready cycling apparel with a modern edgy design to appeal to the serious cyclist, but with a pop of color to keep things fun. The Prestige Pro bib short features lightweight yet compressive Milano fabric and the extremely comfortable 6+ hour Comp HP chamois along with PowerGrip leg bands.
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Strong and durable, flat seams are the ultimate in comfort and performance.
DryTech aka AeroGrid features lightweight box mesh construction and is ultra-soft to prevent any chafing. Exhibits superior breathability and moisture management.
Milano Spandex is milled in Italy from superior materials, including tightly knit fine yarns, increased elastane content, and surface texture for visual appeal. This combination makes for a lightweight, visually opaque, and highly comfortable fabric. UV rated at 28+.
* Milano is made with ultra-lightweight yarns, which enhance breathability and performance. Milano is designed for race day and hi-performance rides and is not intended for everyday riding.
Weight: 190 GSM
We're so excited to be able to offer this new PowerGrip leg band on our Pro line of Shorts, Bib Shorts and Skinsuits. With a fantastic array of features, we're sure you will experience nothing but the ultimate in comfort, durability, and performance. Made from form fitting, Silicone free Lycra fabric with 2-way stretchability. Specially engineered breathable fabric with carbon-texture on the inside of the band guarantees an effective grip on your skin. With a balanced level of compression proportionate to muscle volume, these PowerGrip bands help prevent the legs from riding up and eliminate the sausage effect you can sometimes experience with standard leg grippers. The compression also helps improve blood circulation and body performance. Standard on Pro Shorts, Bibs and Skinsuits.
The Comp HP is the evolution of the Multi-D Comp, one of Cytech's most successful pads. This updated version features a 3D pre-molded shape and an integrated EIT Carbonium fabric top for a smooth, seamless, and extremely anatomic design. The ultra high density foam inserts are 11mm thick to deliver a greater degree of comfort during longer rides while in an aggressive road or mountain bike position. While keeping minimalist, flat design, the central channel provides relief along the perineal area. The EIT Carbonium fabric is a three threaded textile allowing all-way stretch, great breathability, moisture transport properties, which aids in heat dispersion and reduced friction. EIT Carbonium is also naturally bateriostatic and antistatic.


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A particular focus has been on patients with conditions where timely access to high quality primary and preventative care can avoid the need for hospital admission in most cases.
These conditions are known as ambulatory-care sensitive (ACS). Aggregate rates of emergency admissions for ACS conditions are commonly used to measure how well the health system is preventing unplanned hospital use.
We were interested to understand how these rates varied across areas, and how they have changed over time – particularly in relation to the recent financial constraints introduced in the NHS.
To do this we used an anonymised record of all hospital admissions in England between April 2001 and March 2013; nearly 200 million episodes of care. We used the most common definition for ACS conditions and standardised rates for age, sex and in some cases deprivation of the population.
20% of emergency admissions were for ACS conditions
Analysis of the data shows that 20% of emergency admissions were for ACS conditions and the rate of admission (standardising for age and sex) has grown by 26% since 2001/02.
There was also substantial variation in rates of admission between areas. A substantial amount of the variation is related to deprivation, which must be considered when using ACS conditions as markers of health outcomes.
The variation that does not appear to be related to deprivation implies that reductions in ACS admissions can be achieved in areas with higher rates; but only if approaches developed in areas with lower rates can be transferred effectively.
Trends in admission do not appeared to have changed significantly since the introduction of current financial constraints.


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It basically need the basic ingredients you can find easily at home. The main ingredients is the Nan Ru (red fermented bean curd). Put just enough, cause it is salty. You don't wanna end up eating a salty pork instead. It actually tasted good enough if you just marinate it with the Nan Ru. You can add sesame oil, pepper and Chinese Wine. Deep fried till golden brown... and tadaaaa.... it's ready to be served..


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City staff leader resigns
On Monday night, during an executive session called by the Cassville City Council, City Administrator Eugene Dilbeck submitted his resignation.
The council began the special meeting in open session but quickly voted to adjourn to a closed session to discuss personnel. Aldermen Terry Heinz, Ann Hennigan and Darrell Ledenham and Mayor Bill Hill met behind closed doors with city attorney Don Cupps.
Around a dozen individuals attended the special meeting, including three members of the City of Cassville staff. Throughout the evening, the staff members were invited to address the council during the closed session. Dilbeck also addressed the council.
After four hours and 35 minutes, the council returned to open session, and Mayor Bill Hill announced that Dilbeck had resigned.
Dilbeck has served as Cassville's city administrator since Jan. 1, 2010. He and his wife, Lynette, were originally hired as the city's economic development team in April of 2008.
Lynette Dilbeck will continue to serve as Cassville's economic development director.
According to Cupps, who recorded minutes during the executive session, the aldermen voted unanimously to accept Dilbeck's resignation.


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Amnesia Labyrinth 2
July 14, 2013
Nagaru Tanigawa / Natsumi Kohane – Seven Seas Entertainment – 2011 – 2+ volumes
Okay! I was surprised by how much I liked volume one of this, but unfortunately the second one got buried under my significant to-read pile and was forgotten. I thought I'd clear it out of my backlog while I had some time off this weekend.
Now, I was a little more excited about this than I should have been, because I thought volume two was the last one. Apparently this is an ongoing series, but it looks as if no new volumes have come out since 2009 in Japan, so we may never know. I did the research just now to make sure, but I actually finished this volume thinking that was how the series ended. I'm so glad that wasn't the case, because there was absolutely no conclusion.
There's some exposition here, to be sure. The family situation doesn't get any less crude or creepy, and in fact we only meet Souji's "twin brother," locked up in the basement of the family compound. While it's not stated explicitly, and I'd like to give Tanigawa more credit than to be this obvious, I fear that there's a rather obvious plot device rearing its head right here as well.
Other than that… things get messed up for Yukako. Very messed up. I'm not entirely sure how that will work out, because I haven't decided how or what level of crazy the family is working on. Some characters seem crazy in one scene, and normal in others, so it's hard to tell.
Randomly, towards the end of the book, there's a flashback to what appears to be an ancient Japanese band of vaguely supernatural-flavored assassins. This doesn't tie into the plot nearly at all right now, so I was especially mad when that was thrown in as an unrelated thread at the end of the volume, then the story ended. But! Supposedly, there's more coming at some point. I suspect Tanigawa's output has been rather slow since the Haruhi Suzumiya series hit it big, but I so do want to see more of his work, and I'd love to read more of this one.
Amnesia Labyrinth 1
February 27, 2011
Nagaru Tanigawa / Natsumi Kohane – Seven Seas Entertainment – 2011 – 2+ volumes
I wasn't sure what to think of this volume. I was creeped out and intrigued in turns, and ultimately, I wanted hooked enough to wish for the second volume and some answers for the mystery. I gotta say, I liked it a whole lot more than I thought I would within the first couple pages.
Granted, the book starts with a murder. A kid gets pushed in front of an oncoming train. There are few hooks better than that in the first few pages. Then, the action switches over to Souji, a rather stoic and soulless boy, and his homecoming. He's greeted by three very enthusiastic sisters, and as the volume goes on, we learn that these sisters are not only overbearing, but creepy as well, and several make passes at Souji that he simply ignores. He has agreed to come back to his family's home for personal reasons, though officially he is taking his place as heir after the unexplained absence of his older brother.
The other side of the story is a murder investigation going on at Souji's new school. Three unrelated students have died, and Souji is drafted to help find out who the killer is by an outgoing girl named Yukako. This part of the story reminds me a lot of Spiral, a series I'm quite fond of. The whole book did, to some extent, with the murder investigations that the main character helps out with due to his intelligence and connections, the messed-up family situation, and the male main character and spunky female character tied into intelligence activity.
Throughout the course of the volume, we are shown the increasingly more sordid family life Souji leads, information and background of all the murder victims at his school, and a relationship that seems to be forming between Souji and Yukako. The elements of the story are a little chaotic and don't seem to have much to do with each other, but by the end of the volume, the reader is given just enough information to be hungry for more. We don't know anything about the killer or the root of the complicated and messed-up situation at Souji's house, and it seems confusing throughout, but a few revelations by the end of the volume means that enough makes sense that… well, we need an explanation.
I like the hints of the supernatural we get at the end of the volume. The entire story was rooted firmly in reality and most of the problems seemed psychological in nature, but the last few pages imply that some of the problems might be supernatural in nature. Maybe not, but I'm curious either way.
The series shares a writer in common with the Haruhi Suzumiya novels, and while I'm 50/50 on him at this point, I do like the way his stories come together in the end. I'm not sure if Amnesia Labyrinth is more than two volumes, but if it is, I'll be very curious how he puts everything together next time. The parts with Souji's sisters really put me off due to their implied (sometimes very heavily implied) sexual undertones, but the overarching mystery is interesting enough that I was willing to overlook those parts. It also helps that later, the story reveals that one or more of the sisters might not be related, despite the titles he uses for them throughout.
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Today Florida native Kodak Black was sentenced to 120 days in jail for two drug charges. According to the Sun Sentinel, Black whose legal name is Dieuson Octave, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of possession of 20 grams or less of marijuana, as well as one misdemeanor charge of use or possession of marijuana paraphernalia;
The report states that Kodak will not have to do the full four months as he will be credited with the time he already served in jail.
Kodak's license will be suspended for a year, and he's required to pay court costs of $298, we should expect Kodak Black home this November 30th barring any other setbacks.


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Q. How do we remove creosote from a brick chimney? Oren Brugman Huron, S.D.
A. Try a product that is equal to Sure Klean Asphalt and Tar Remover, made by ProSoCo Inc., 1040 Parallel Parkways, Kansas City, Kans. 66104. You might test it on the wall to see if it provides the desired results.
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British manufacturing activity slowed to a 21-month low in June, according to the leading monthly survey.
Weak demand at home coupled with cooling global demand meant new orders fell for a second month running, the Markit/CIPS UK Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) showed.
That helped the sector's overall growth rate ease back for a fifth consecutive month, coming in at a reading of 51.3 - little over the 50-mark separating expansion from contraction and the weakest result since September 2009.
"This is a hugely disappointing survey which fuels currently mounting concerns over the economy," said Howard Archer, UK economist at IHS Global Insight. "It is not just the fact that the headline figure showed overall manufacturing activity at a 21-month low in June but also that the more forward-looking elements of the survey point to further softness ahead."
The sector accounts for just under 13pc of the UK's gross domestic product.
British retail sales bounced back modestly in June from May's steep slump.
The Office for National Statistics said on sales volumes rose 0.7pc, slightly more than analysts had forecast but recovering only half the previous month's drop.
"We still expect consumption to have fallen in the second quarter and a negative reading for GDP is likely, too," said Hetal Mehta, economist at Daiwa Capital Markets.
Britain's huge service sector performed better than expected in June but growth was still not strong enough to generate jobs.
The Markit/CIPS headline services PMI index nudged up to 53.9 last month from a three-month low of 53.8 in May.
Chris Williamson, Markit's chief economist, noted that services growth appeared to have slowed to 0.5pc, from 0.8pc in the first three months of the year.
"Worries over the impact of government austerity measures continue, and a number of panelists were pessimistic about economic conditions in general," the survey reported.
Construction companies laid off staff at the sharpest rate in five months in June as confidence dipped across the industry.
The job cuts came despite robust growth across the sector, which accounts for 6.3pc of the UK economic output. Activity dipped from 54 to 53.6, with a reading above 50 indicating expansion, but remained in line with the long-run average.
The dip was primarily due to a slowdown in new business growth and continued weakness in housebuilding, according to the survey compilers Markit and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
"The June data round off a further solid quarter of growth, albeit down on the first quarter," Sarah Bingham, Markit economist and author of the report, said.
"The worry is that the level of business confidence has fallen to a six-month low in the sector, which suggests that companies are expecting growth to weaken over the next 12 months. That is perhaps not altogether surprising given a marked easing in the rate of expansion of new business inflows in June."


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Supposedly one can predict the outcome of a Section 2(d) case 95 percent of the time just by looking at the marks and the goods. In one of these three recent decisions - two oppositions and one ex parte appeal - the Board found no likelihood of confusion. Let's see how you do in figuring out which one it was. [Answer will be found in first comment].
In re Liquivita, LLC, Serial No. 86265014 (May 20, 2016) [not precedential]. Section 2(d) refusal of LIQUIVITA LOUNGE & Design (shown below) for various medical services and therapies [LOUNGE disclaimed], in view of the mark LIQUI-VITE for "multivitamin dietary food supplement."
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Abercrombie & Fitch Trading Co. v. FUB LLC, Opposition No. 91208221 (May 20, 2016) [not precedential]. Section 2(d) refusal to register F&A for "baseball caps; shorts; t-shirts," in view of various marks comprising or containing the term A&F for clothing items.
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Shoichi Matsumoto v. David Beaulieu, Opposition No. 91217806 (May 16, 2016) [not precedential]. Section 2(d) opposition to registration of NO RECIPE REQUIRED in standard character form, for "providing an online website that provides cooking and culinary information," in view of the registered mark NO RECIPES for"on-line journals, namely, blogs featuring recipes, cooking and travel information."
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It didn`t take Eric Cox long to find his mark, but he was beginning to wonder if he would ever start hitting it.
While preparing for the Broward County Junior Bowling Association tournament, the 15-year-old Hollywood Hills High School sophomore discovered that if he could roll his ball over the first arrow, it would hook right into the pocket.
But when the tournament started at Parkway Bowling Center in Miramar, he had trouble hitting the mark consistently. In singles competition, he started off with good games of 172 and 183, but knew he had no chance to win unless he rolled an excellent third game.
Suddenly he began to hit the arrow. His third game was a 253 -- best game of his life -- and he wound up with a 608 series, his first 600. With handicap based on his average of 162, his handicap score was 707, best in the tournament`s Class A.
``I don`t know why, but I seem to bowl well in tournaments,`` said Cox, who also finished fourth last year in singles in the state tournament.
Cox bowls Saturday mornings at West Hollywood Lanes.
Another West Hollywood Lanes bowler, Ann Wetmore, recorded the best scratch series in Class A -- a 548 -- and won the girls` all-events scratch title with 1,586. She placed second in singles with a 599 and was a member of the second- place team.
The 18-year-old senior at South Broward High School said she usually bowls better than her 170 average in major tournaments. She won the singles title in the 1984 Orange Bowl tournament.
``I think it is because I concentrate harder,`` she said.
Other West Hollywood Lanes winners in the county tournament: Cathy Cypress 257, girls` E handicap game, and 1,907, girls` E all-events handicap; Mark Winzell 560, boys` B scratch series; Melissa Tommie 1,131, girls` E all-events scratch; Theodore Cypress 1,002, boys` F all-events scratch.


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I greeted six new members, I posted pointless drivel to my contacts and said hello to random people.
Then I posted four messages of no value at all in the mybloglog community for all to see and took a screen shot.
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All this to provide research for this post because it is more fun than creating the ultimate feed parser in php.
As a five-message-a-day-or-less user I have 15 I could spam with or in exchange for something blackhat (if I approved of blackhat crap) I could spam 15 messages to a few users who like to spam and they could spam some more.
However just you try limited users to five messages or less!
Bloggers have faced spam for as long as there were blogs and we have faced spam from the very early days of the Internet before the world wide web even existed.
Most solutions today use a mix of advanced adaptive filters, blacklists and "time between messages" limits.
20 comments, per IP, per day would never, ever work - the chatty readers would get ticked off and the spammers would still get 20 spams a day in.
Like rel="nofollow" the only losers are those that do no wrong.
In case you are wondering this is what you will see when you run out of comments.
Leave a Message
Now just slow down there, rock star! You've hit your limit of personal messages today. What the #@$%, you say?
In order to reduce spam for our members, we've put a limit on the number of messages a member can post each day, 20 to be exact. Each time you post a message that number decreases by one. Each time someone leaves a message for you, the number increases by one. The hope is that this will decrease spammy one-way messages without keeping people from having real conversations.
This is only a test for now; we want to see what happens and if it helps. For more info, please check out this blog post and if you feel strongly either way, please leave a comment.
The thing is you can still spam the communities. It's not happened much yet but there is no reason why not.
The only reason they have not been spammed to date is that many users are largely unaware of them. Sure in their heads they "know" the comment system exists there too but "knowing" and knowing are not the same. After all like so much that is important on the community page - it's in the wrong place.
There are ten things wrong with the comment limit.
Problem #1: You feel the need to use up or conserve your comments resulting in less talk or meaningless talk depending on the person. The social result is less value in the talk and more spam, not less.
Problem #2: Anyone can spam a community with "nice blog" messages.
Problem #3: Without trying to comment I have no idea how many comments I can make.
Problem #4: (For MyBlogLog) discussions will go off site to IM or email to conserve comment count.
Problem #5: People have, are and will be turned cold by the comment limit and will simply stop coming back. It is not that users will be thinking "right, that's it - it's over between us" they will simply loose the warm glow and remember the "hurt" so some other click will come first. I know I use MBL less these days.
Problem #6: It shows they do not understand the community, the nature of spam nor it's history.
Problem #7: There are other options. MBL is no longer indisputably the best. To win in this game you must be the best not the first.
Problem #8: One can not "message oneself" when one has 0 messages left so one can not announce to one's members and fans or other followers.
Problem #9: It is unpopular. Reason enough to reconsider. It is so unpopular with me that I feel myself becoming passively aggressive about it all, irked even. Ready to protest loudly enough to get kicked out - that'd get me moved over to Blog Catalogue at any rate. Plus I'd have something to "bitch about".
Problem #10: It has caused a large-scale "investigation" of other services. This is not a problem for those other services (blog catalogue seems well placed to win from all this) but for MyBlogLog and it's remaining users this is a big looser.
...and as for the inane comments from "Robyn Tippins" like "You have no idea how helpful this is to our decisions. Please feel free to vent and suggest and you can be sure we'll listen.". I'm sorry but living as I do in a county with the most spineless political reps ever I can smell saying something nice even though I have no power any day.
All she did was re-summarise the points made already (like any good PR or spin doctor) without giving anything by way of fresh reply or actual insight. (others think so too but said so more nicely). I know we can't go back to the days when the guys that do the work answer questions themselves but now we can no longer talk to the organ grinder I feel less inclined to listen at all.
After all - that was a line right from the text book on how to deal with difficult customers when the technical support team is on lunch and the boss is too "busy" to take calls.
Yes I do work in IT, why?
My only conclusion is that unless MBL pull their finger out soon there will not be a community left.
Although this idea seems to me stupid and pointless it could be saved if it went far enough.
As it stands contact means nothing. It is a non-feature that just makes spam clicking too easy. Heck if I could be arsed I could write a script that would surf users profiles and open their blogs all day long at as fast as my ISP would let me. I'd be number one in no time.
But I don't do black hat.
Make something of the contacts feature and you could both justify this stupid rule and stop all the other abuses at the same time.
"Adding someone as contact allows them to message you as much as they want" - that would be a start.
"Joining a community allows the entire community to group message your group message box as much as they want" and "the community managers to message community members (as a whole mass) as much as they want" that would take things further still. It would make the membership count mean something if I could send a message once a week saying "have you visited because I'm running a give away" I could do very well.
I have three figures of fans and if I could bulk mail them every week to come back they would (a) go away or (b) visit and purchase stuff.
Of course, if you want "communities" to be such you need to make customisation, mass mailing and "announcements" part of the deal - community messages, a community wiki (also optional set to private) page or even a forum would add real value. Such an idea as a forum would require x active members before it became active (in the same way you need ten members before you get stats about the averages).
You also need to make it obvious when each member last visited and allow "spam joined" to be booted back out again. this way members only areas can be created. Optional "contact me" forms (to email), and other features to be arranged such that a well designed community area is worth as much as the blog behind it.
Also do a bit more with those feeds. That seems lazy.
You watch the whole community sort itself out in the space of two weeks if you did all (setting the tools to talk "en mass" and at length with lots of messages and even email digests once people have clicked that button).
Personally I'm just waiting for the social stats sit that gets nearest first. That's the one I'm going to go with.
Trust me: I'm Lord Matt, super geek.
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Glazed and Braised: 9 Non-Traditional Recipes for Thanksgiving Turkey
We will never turn down a good butter-basted turkey drumstick on Thanksgiving, but sometimes...well, we wonder if turkey has the potential to be even more. Whether you feel the same or whether you're just looking for something new for your Thanksgiving table this year, check out these non-traditional takes on roast turkey.
• Adobo Turkey with Red Chile Gravy from Gourmet - Roast turkey gets a spicy kick with dried chiles and cumin.
• Mark Bittman's Braised Turkey from the New York Times - What you lose in crispiness with this recipe, you gain in succulent and super-tender meat. This is one of our all-time favorite Thanksgiving recipes here at The Kitchn.
• Salted Roast Turkey with Orange, Fall Spices, and Sherry Gravy from Epicurious - By "fall spices," this recipe is really talking about "Asian five-spice." Glazed with molasses and soy sauce, this turkey sounds irresistible.
• Tuscan Roast Turkey Breast from Martha Stewart - This turkey breast rolled around a filling of rosemary, fennel seeds, and garlic would be perfect for a smaller Thanksgiving dinner.
• Pimenton-Brined Turkey from Food & Wine - What about a Spanish twist on roasted turkey?
• Spice-Rubbed Turkey with Cranberry BBQ Sauce from Feasting on Art - A smoky-sweet turkey glazed with a sticky barbecue sauce.
• Potato Crusted Turkey Breast Stuffed with Jalapenos and Corn with Mole Sauce from the Food Network - Woah. This recipe from Emeril LaGasse is just...woah.
• Grilled Jerk Turkey from Taste of Home - The spicier the better, we say!
• Plum-Glazed Roast Turkey with Plum Gravy from Epicurious - Want to go sweeter this Thanksgiving? This plum-infused turkey sounds divine.
Do you have a favorite non-traditional turkey recipe?
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Specialist 5 James McCloughan: the battle and the award from the President
I'll start with the latter first:
The Battle, from the US Army website which you can FIND HERE:
On the morning of May 13, 1969, "Charlie Company" was combat assaulted into an area near Tam Kỳ and Nui Yon Hill and came under small arms and machine gun fire. During the combat assault, two American helicopters were shot down, one of which had crashed roughly 100 meters from the company's position. With fierce enemy gun fire surrounding the position, a rescue helicopter could not land. Instead, a squad was sent out and ordered to bring the pilot and crew back to Charlie Company's defense perimeter.
When the squad reached the perimeter around the crash site, they saw a wounded Soldier lying on the ground nearby, too injured to move. McCloughan ran 100 meters to the Soldier through an open field, ducking and dodging the crossfire of his company and a charging platoon of North Vietnamese Army. Upon reaching the wounded Soldier, McCloughan shouldered him and raced back to the company, saving his fellow Soldier from being captured or killed.
Later that afternoon, 2nd Platoon was ordered to scout the area near Nui Yon Hill. The platoon was ambushed by a large NVA force and sustained heavy casualties. McCloughan entered a trench as American airstrikes were being dropped on the nearby NVA targets. Looking over the top of his trench, McCloughan saw two Soldiers without weapons, huddled near a bush.
With complete disregard for his life and personal safety, McCloughan handed his weapon to a fellow warrior, leaped on the berm of the trench and ran low to the ground toward the ambush and the two U.S. Soldiers. While McCloughan was looking for wounds on the men, a rocket-propelled grenade exploded and pelted him with shrapnel. He pulled the two Soldiers back into the safety of a trench. McCloughan ignored a direct order to stay back and braved an enemy assault, moving into the kill zone on four more occasions to extract wounded comrades.
Bleeding extensively, McCloughan treated the wounded and prepared their evacuation to safety. Although the Americans were heavily outnumbered by NVA forces, he refused to evacuate and remained at the battle site with his fellow Soldiers, knowing they would need a medic.
On May 14, 1st Platoon was ordered to move out toward Nui Yon Hill. The Platoon advanced to the initial trench line, and were approaching the second trench when they saw the enemy moving in the grass ahead of them. The Americans fired on the NVA while an airstrike was called on the enemy's position. The platoon then received orders to continue forward, but they were ambushed. The medic from 1st Platoon was killed, leaving McCloughan as the sole medical specialist in the company. In the intense battle, McCloughan was wounded a second time by small arms fire and shrapnel from a RPG while rendering aid to two Soldiers in an open rice paddy.
In the final phases of the attack, two companies from the NVA and an element of 700 soldiers from a Viet Cong regiment descended upon Company C's position on three sides. McCloughan, again with complete disregard for his life, went into the crossfire numerous times throughout the battle to extract wounded Soldiers, while also fighting the enemy. His relentless, courageous action inspired and motivated his comrades to fight for their survival. When supplies ran low, McCloughan volunteered to hold a blinking light in an open area as a marker for a nighttime resupply drop. He remained steadfast while bullets landed all around him and RPGs flew over his exposed body.
During the morning darkness of May 15, McCloughan knocked out the RPG position with a grenade. He continued to fight and eliminate enemy soldiers. In addition, he treated numerous casualties, kept two critically wounded Soldiers alive during the night and organized the dead and wounded for evacuation at daylight. McCloughan is credited with saving the lives of ten members of his company.
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Sensory exploration is important for young children as they not only develop their senses but also learn new ways to explore the world around them. One way to engage the senses, teach science skills, and encourage hands-on play is by digging for dinosaur bones! Here are four simple steps for starting your very own mini-excavation with kids:
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Video: Instruments of Adventure in Alaska
In this video we follow five friends as they set off on an epic adventure across southern Alaska, traveling by sea kayak, fat bike, and packraft as they go. Those are their instruments of adventure, which allow them to escape the well-trodden paths that most people take in their travels and instead find and carve their own. We all have these types of instruments at our disposal. What's keeping us from using them more too?
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What up hts'ers, this is just a basic question, lets say i have a network, with the mainframe being some server room or whatever. and im connected to one of the many attached wireless routers set up to make the network accesable in thw whooe building (large one). the question is, how do i connect to the router page at the very last point of the network, no matter how man routers are in the way. since in theory if i type the deafult fateway into the browser i should be getting the router page for the wireless or whatever is inbetween me and the mainframe.
thank you in advance.


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2017 Australian Open SF Rafael Nadal def. Grigor Dimitrov 6/3 5/7 7/6(5) 6/7(4) 6/4
Next opponent - Roger Federer
"It was a fantastic match. Very emotional," said Nadal. "I think Grigor played great. I played great. So was a great quality of tennis tonight. For me, it is amazing to be through to a final of a Grand Slam again here in Australia at the start of the year.
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"You don't have to look so worried all the time now, you know," The Leomon's deep rumble soothed Riley's nerves as he let a large paw rest on the teenager's left shoulder. "It's alright now."
Riley looked up at his partner and smiled. His forearms fell gingerly over the rusty and frail fencing of the balcony as he gazed at the skyline of the city. It was nearing sunset and the the sun's rays caught the clouded sky perfectly, as red, orange, yellow, and purple light bounced off of the many skyscrapers and sparkling buildings of the city. It was peaceful now. The serenity of the scene was quite new and distinct to the trio, but they enjoyed it nonetheless.
"Coming in!" The thunderous roar of Tas in his perfect stage echoed throughout the sky and his silhouette in front of the setting sun grew and grew, until the large dragon digimon was headed at full speed toward Riley and Baren. Once he got closer to the two he dipped below the building out of sight and then quickly reappeared, flying parallel to the building so the inside of his wings and belly were inches away from Riley's face as he shot back up toward the sky. The force of his flight and loud chuckle caused the balcony and fence to shake vigorously. Riley watched his partner soar up to the top of the clouds, shaking his head at Tas' amusement and at the same time marveling at his innate ability. The digimon quickly darted back down toward the building, while de-digivolving to his Demi V-mon form and landing forcefully on Baren's shoulder.
"You guys don't even know how beautiful it is up there man," The little one muttered between short pants. "The city is so....perfect!"
From high above Taz could definitely see it clear as day. Observing the city it was hard to miss something that was so out of place. It was a black fog that was cutting out the lights, a complete darkness that consumed and killed all sources of light. It looked like a shining red star was in the midst of that darkness. Even looking at the Red glowing substance inside of the unnatural darkness gave a sort of uneasiness to Taz. It was the feeling one had when you were afraid, but there was nothing to fear. The Fog wrapped around the abandoned structure and dissipated when the mysterious red glow went inside of it.
The loud creaking door let a screech throughout the abandoned building. A taller man dressed in a full black Attire with a golden eye and a Dban Digivice placed upon his wrist entered. Staring quickly towards where Riley and Leomon were. His Mantle looked broad and it hid allot of his body, his hood was off and he kept a single eye closed. It was a nuisance after all when he looked at people with that eye of his. A Yellow Kunemon could be seen crawling out of the mans hood and a white Viximon trying to stay in the shadows of his cloak.
Sitting on the mans shoulder the Kunemon would lay to rest the first greeting. "Heyo~ What are you guys doing here!" The Kunemon said in a sort of accent that made it seem that Riley and his partners were not welcome.
Victor lifted his hand to place it in front of the Kunemon revealing the Viximon in his cloak who fearfully wandered into the shady side of Victors mantle. "Be Silent Firyokutai..." He would say and walk towards the center of the room, eye closed he presented a hand over to Riley openly. "I am Victor Delixcroix... Digital Knighthood, Pleased to make your... Well that is... You are welcome to be here, even if Firyokutai protests it." Victor said with a nod his heavy steps echoed throughout the abandoned apartment building.
Alexis the adorable white Viximon started tugging at Victors pant leg. "Victor I don't like that guy... I-It's dangerous to go wandering around you know! We aren't supposed to be in the digital city..." The Viximons complaints might have sounded like a high pitched anonymous whining to Riley but Leomon could hear the words ring true.
Alexis obviously feared that tamers of the light did not have any love for the name Victor Delixcroix. For him to come to the digital city was a sin but for him to go to the apartment complex that he lead an army against... It was almost unforgivable.
Victor would look around with an exploratory glance he could still see the tattered remains of the hallways... The Somnia families apartments, The next floor up was Cleo, His, and AJ's apartments. The building was actually quite massive but a hole pierced through from the roof to a scorched crater on the main floor from Ogre's finishing touch upon the building. Insomnia's punishment to try and scare the tamers away from ever contesting her rule of the digital world.
"I must ask though young boy. Did you seek to play in such a dangerous place..?" Victor said narrowing his single golden eye. Victors age really showed when he made comments like that...


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This magic fairytale 'children's opera' has had many successful recordings over the years and Sir Georg Solti's version is surely amongst the front runners. Having been previously available on full price discs for a decade, it has now been issued in the laudable paperback opera series with the libretto on CD-ROM.
The trio of singers match perfectly well together. Fassbaender is in glorious voice here with some particularly telling singing in the Second Act. Lucia Popp is also at the top of her range, this much lamented singer is given a lastingly glorious tribute here. Berry and Hamari are also on top form as the Mother and Father whilst Schlemm's Witch is suitably grotesque and sinister.
I will not be going into detail on the respective arias and sections and the playing of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is beyond reproach, and it is enhanced considerably by the magnificent Decca recording. Although I still retain particular affection for the timeless recording with Karajan in 1953 featuring Schwarzkopf in her absolute prime, this late analogue recording at mid price is a huge bargain.
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It will be an all-Northern Minnesota final Saturday night in the Class 2A boys hockey state title game.
Grand Rapids secured it with a 3-2 upset victory over top-seeded Eden Prairie in the semifinals Friday night at Xcel Energy Center.
The fifth-seeded Thunderhawks will meet third-seeded Moorhead for the state crown at 7 p.m. Saturday back at the X.
Grand Rapids (22-7-1) got there largely thanks to a stellar effort from junior goaltender Zach Stejskal. He made 47 saves, each more important than the last as Eden Prairie continued to pepper shots at the Thunderhawks' last line of defense.
"Zach has had a wonderful season and been a backstop for us all year," Grand Rapids coach Trent Klatt said. "I'm just happy that he got this opportunity to show what he's capable of doing, and he really rose to the occasion tonight."
Friday's classic battle, a rematch of last year's state semifinal, won by Eden Prairie, featured as many hard checks as golden scoring chances, and there were plenty of each.
Eden Prairie (22-5-2) struck first in the first period on a goal from junior forward Ryan Lesko. But Grand Rapids knotted the score late in the period on essentially an own goal from Eden Prairie, as a Grand Rapids cross hit an Eden Prairie stick and bounced into the net.
The Thunderhawks took a 2-1 lead in the second on a goal from senior forward Keaghan Graeber as he took advantage of an Eagles turnover.
Eden Prairie tied it one more time on a right-place, right-time goal from sophomore forward Jack Jensen, who collected a blocked shot in front of the net and buried it.
Every time one team made a surge or scored a goal, the other answered. Until the third, that is, when Grand Rapids took the lead for good on a goal from Connor Stefan in front of the net.
Eden Prairie made every effort to net the equalizer in the mad dash that was the final nine minutes, but Stejska made every stop. Eden Prairie had a power-play chance in the final two minutes but couldn't turn it into anything dangerous.
"We didn't have a ton of puck luck tonight," Eden Prairie coach Lee Smith said. "You've got to earn your breaks, and we didn't have a lot of them tonight."
As the clock expired, Grand Rapids players and coaches celebrated, while Eden Prairie star seniors Nicky Leivermann and Casey Mittelstadt, sat on the other end of the ice.
Mittelstadt took a seat against the boards, Leivermann went down to his knees, soaking in the fact that the state's ultimate prize eluded a phenomenal Eden Prairie senior class once more after another dominant regular season.
Mittelstadt tweeted the following message after the game:
— Casey Mittelstadt (@CMittelstadt) March 11, 2017
"I'm proud of our guys," Eden Prairie coach Lee Smith said. "If you're going to go out, might as well go out fighting, which we certainly did.
"There's always that unfinished business," Smith said. "This team had a lot of pressure on it from the start. … It's not easy to win a state tournament. It takes a lot of things to happen right to allow it to happen. Our play was good enough to be a state champion, but the puck luck and the hockey gods weren't on our side tonight."
In this season, Class 2A belongs to the North.
"Us Northern hockey people stick together," Klatt said, "so it'll be a fun day tomorrow."


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text: I was thinking about how spread out all of us are and how we all have unique and hard to find sodas (at least to others) right in our backyards. Why not set up a trading system? No profits, just for the love of soda. We could somehow list on our profiles what hard to find sodas we have available to us and if someone wants one, then we could look on theirs and see if there is anything we want. It would have to work both ways, but then shipping would be even. I'm not talking massive amounts either. Just a 12 pack or a 2liter. Just to give all of us the opportunity to try some soda we've never tried or one that we've been missing. Isn't that why were all here anyways? Let me know what you all think.


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Microsoft President and CEO Steve Ballmer dropped some bombshells at a recent Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in late October 2000. During a post-keynote question-and-answer session, Ballmer disparaged high-end competitor Sun Microsystems and eased into the news that Microsoft will support the Palm OS and might eventually support Linux as well.
Sun, Palm, and Linux, of course, all offer products that compete head-to-head with Windows. Sun Solaris is generally considered the bulletproof high-end alternative to Windows 2000 Server and Windows NT Server. The best-selling Palm OS dominates Windows CE in the handheld-device market. (According to International Data Corporation—IDC—in 1999, the Palm OS owned more than 70 percent of the handheld market. After three lackluster generations, Microsoft Windows CE-based offerings—which are available from a variety of vendors—combined for less than 15 percent of the market.) And Linux presents low-cost competition to Windows on both desktops and servers.
First, Ballmer had a lot to say in response to Sun's CEO, Scott McNealy, who was the keynote speaker at the previous day's event. McNealy, whose company makes most of its money from high-end hardware sales, had said that "software is a feature \[of hardware\], not an industry," discounting the wide gulf between hardware-maker Sun's financial results and those of software-maker Microsoft.
"And that, my friend, is why you want to steer clear of Sun. It's software that lets you build scalable Web sites," Ballmer retorted. "When people benefit from PowerPoint or email, it's software that enables it. Sun just doesn't get it. Software is the future, not big, honking Sun servers." (McNealy had described his company as the maker of "big freaking WebTone servers." WebTone is Sun's term for an always-on Internet.)
Next, Ballmer surprised the audience by saying that Microsoft will begin offering software such as Word and Excel—as well as upcoming .NET products—for the Palm OS and other handheld OSs. "No offense to the Pocket PC, but we might need to bring .NET services to Palm and other PDA devices," Ballmer said, admitting that Palm has "more marketing position" than Windows CE. "We're not abandoning Pocket PC, absolutely not," he added. "We're 100 percent committed to it."
But the biggest news from Ballmer took the form of some offhand remarks about Linux, the open-source software solution that's already a credible challenger of Windows on servers and is increasingly interesting as a desktop OS. Calling the Linux movement a "phenomenon," Ballmer admitted that his company was continuously evaluating Linux and would probably port .NET services to Linux, although "there are hurdles to putting Microsoft software on Linux." These hurdles include a "messy and confused" intellectual-property environment, according to the Microsoft CEO. Small doubt that Microsoft finds a world of open and free software both messy and confusing: For 25 years, the company has made its fortune selling proprietary, closed software, a model Microsoft surely would like to continue. Observing that the PC's open hardware model is what let that system emerge victorious over closed systems such as the Macintosh, Linux analysts say that the open Linux OS will similarly triumph over the closed Windows environment.
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Reykjavik was the home of this amazing piece. A beautiful mix of wine, cinammon and black in a delicate soft fluffy Raccoon fur.Perfect for going out for dinner (jeans-t shirt kinda day, or dress up with a funky bow tie or a nice evening dress)
$39.00 CAD for Rabbit Coat, soooooooooo freaking good. My first vintage experience filled me with joy, I have never been in this kind of stores before and I have to admit that it was very interesting, among other things that I ended up buying , I left the store with this coat, 3/4 sleeves , shades of grays , beiges, whites and vanilla makes the perfect combination for this below the belt coat.
No words, they are just beautiful. Navy and baby blue with a pointed front. Gorgeous.
Handmade northern traditional mexican cape (just for the record you dont see people wearing this kind of things in a daily basis in Mexico, its is part of its history and tradition). Do I dare to wear it? Absolutely. This Harry Potter meets Maleficent meets mariachi cape is the perfect piece to make a huge statement anywhere.
Wellington's funky stores, unique fashion and diversity gave me the pleasure to obtain a very different cape, the Mushroom cape as I named it. This short sleeve, short, polyester gray cape its a Wearable Art piece, its uniqueness is extreme, made of satin looking polyester lining and soft sort of fury exterior with flying mushrooms all across the front and on the hood. Exquisite.
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At the 2017 State of the Community Luncheon on April 19 at Schoolcraft College, Northville Mayor Ken Roth spoke about improved communications, strategy for business development, and City finances. He was one of three community leaders – along with Mary Kay Gallagher, superintendent of Northville Public Schools; and Robert Nix, supervisor of Northville Township – who shared their vision, plans and opportunities with the greater Northville community.
The mayor pointed to multiple ways that the City has improved communication so people can be better engaged in City government. Among them:
"We are, at heart, a public service organization," he said. "We have to be more than just a resource, where people come, gather information and leave. This is an important part of our plan to hear what's on residents' minds."
Redevelopment and expansion plans
"A couple years ago the City asked a group of residents to come together and develop a plan for how some of the City's available parcels may be redeveloped. The result was an overlay district. The residents came up with a model for how we'd like to see these parcels used," the mayor said. (The information is available on the City's website.)
The Downtown Development Authority is taking a look 10 years down the road to envision what the City will look like. Extensive surveys were conducted as part of the strategy plan developed in partnership with a consulting firm.
"We are going to take this information and use it as our guidepost to how to continue to move the city forward," the mayor said. He wants developers to be incentivized to use those pieces of property to add more flexibility than what the City currently has.
"The 800-pound gorilla in the room that we get the most questions about is Northville Downs," the mayor said. "I can't emphasize enough that this is privately owned property and the Downs has been a major draw to the city for decades and they are welcome for as long as they want to operate.
"But, in the event that there is development for that property, we need to have a plan in place. The current plan indicates higher levels of development along Cady street, which is near the downtown and less development as you move toward Seven Mile," he said.
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It's been such a busy summer! I am just now getting around to posting the fantastic pictures from the annual Arts Camp sponsored by our local Stanly County Arts Council. My part was just a tiny piece of everything the kids had an opportunity to do this week. They had theatre, dance, and music each day along with art. I had four groups, divided roughly by age, and each group created a 16" by 20" canvas painting. I love how they turned out! I love even more that two canvases got to come home with me!
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I love the borders you added to these! They really make the art pop!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Pam! We had a blast that week!Delete
Fabulous! I love the borders, the colors (of course) and the size! And I can see the pride in the kids' faces!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much! I'm already working on ideas for next summer! It was a great week!Delete
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Review: RockBottoms Tango weekender (Torquay)
14th May 2009
Weekender Date: 8th - 11th May 2009
Location: Torquay, Devon
"Rockbottoms" is a group who organise weekenders, primarily for the Modern Jive (MJ) market. By MJ standards, these are small-scale events (200 - 300 people). In May 2009, Rockbottoms decided to run a joint MJ / Tango weekender, and I attended.
The Venue
The weekender was in Torquay, in deepest darkest Devon. Well, deep-ish, and quite sunny in fact.
Getting there
It's a bit of a schlep, it has to be said - from London, it took about 4 hours' driving, and that's without any major traffic problems and only one brief stop. The instructions on the Rockbottoms site are pretty good, however.
The venue
The Derwent hotel is part of a hotel complex (TLH). It's a great improvement on the standard of accommodation at most Modern Jive weekenders, in that there's food, facilities, and the dancing is all indoors. I'm never going back to Pontins Hell again, that's for sure.
It's also pretty good value for money - £175 per person, half board, is not vastly more than the average Pontins price in self-catering grotty chalets. Parking was available in hotel car parks, but that filled-up pretty quick on Friday afternoon - although there is street parking nearby, it's much nicer having your car locally available.
The Classes
There were classes in both Tango and Jive, at three levels (beginner, improver and intermediate) - and it's nice that the organisers actually tried to define what each level meant, and also encouraged us not to "mix and match" levels.
The teachers
The Tango teachers there were:
- Amir Giles and Tara,
- Ian and Mandy
- Flavio and Richard
(I assume there were Jive teachers there also, but I didn't care about them)
What I did
I managed to fit in three classes over the weekend: one absolute beginner class with Ian and Mandy (as a follower), and two improver classes with Amir. I didn't get a chance to do the classes with Flavio and Richard, unfortunately, as the timing didn't work for me.
Overall, the standard of teaching in these classes was superb - by far the highest standard, in terms of actual learning-stuff, I've encountered at any MJ-based weekender. Whilst the teachers themselves were very good, I think the main benefit was that the scale was smaller than at a normal MJ weekender - it's not realistically possible to do a "class" with 400 people, the most you can do is demonstrate a sequence of steps.
The milongas
These were.... mmmm... well, they were OK.
These were mainly held in the "Secret Disco", a small cellar-bar room in the hotel. It's a small floor, which is fine, but some of the floorcraft on display was, umm, a challenge to navigate around.
Each evening there'd be a two-hour tango set, then for a half-hour each evening, there was also a tango set played in the main dance floor. So you'd generally have 2.5 hours of tango playing. I'd have liked them to go on longer (only playing exclusive Tango music for 150 minutes per night is not much, really).
Also, they had the same DJ for each night - some variety would have been appreciated.
Summing up
Great venue. Good classes. Lovely company. Average milongas.
Would I go again?
Well..... probably not, but only because I want to focus on Tango weekenders now, I had a grand total of 7 Jive dances in the entire weekend. If they increased the AT component, especially with regard to the milongas, I'd be tempted.
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Want to learn how to give a mature sensual massage? Massages are one of the most underutilized sensual bonding activities. Keep reading to learn the ten things you need to know about giving the perfect mature sensual massage.
- Set the mood. Turn the lights off, light candles, and put some soft music on in background. Make sure that you prepare an area for the massage to take place. If you don't have a massage table you can do the massage on a towel on the bed, or on a blanket on the floor.
- Gather the items you'll need for the massage. Make sure you have all the items you'll need handy. If you're massaging on the bed you can put everything on your night stand. A bottle of lotion or massage oil, a glass of water, a towel and any other tools you'll need should be within arm's reach.
- Make sure she's comfortable. If you partner doesn't feel comfortable nude, you can begin massaging her in a loose fitting tee shirt and shorts. If you pressure her to get nude before she's ready you'll ruin the mood. As things progress you can help her disrobe further.
- Use plenty of lotion. Make sure that your hands and her body are properly lubed. Dry hands on dry skin is not a pleasurable sensation. Lotion or massage oil will make your hands glide easily over her body.
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- Experiment. Ask her what feels good and how she wants you to touch her. What you think would feel the best is often not what she likes the most. Have her guide your hands to the right spots.
- Tease her. Use a feather or the tips of your fingers to lightly trace around her most sensitive areas. Do not touch or rube those areas until the very end of the massage. The suspense of when you will begin touching them will make her excited and aroused.
- Hot and cold. Use an ice cube and self-heating gels to experiment with hot and cold sensations. Slowly rub the ice cube down her spine then blow down the trail of water. Different sensations will feel pleasurable to different partners. Make sure that you test the gel on her arm first to make sure that she isn't allergic to the ingredients.
- Take turns massaging each other. One partner shouldn't always do the massaging. Take turns massaging each other and using different techniques. Try using the heel of your hand, the tips of your fingers and your elbow to massage different areas of the body.
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