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The Marvel Comics Universe is about to get a major overhaul. Every summer, Marvel launches a story that ties all of its flagship books together - and in 2012, the Marvel superheroes are embroiled in the Avengers vs. X-Men conflict, which sees the two iconic superteams battling it out. It's been a geek-pleaser storyline, but the aftermath is looking far more interesting: EW has dropped the exclusive that Marvel will be shuffling their characters and their creative teams, as part of an initiative that has officially been dubbed "Marvel NOW!"
Marvel NOW! will introduce new titles and re-fashion old ones; among some of the more intriguing books in the lineup will be Uncanny Avengers, which will be the first official blending of the X-Men and Avengers into one team. Scroll down to learn more about this bold new rollout - and what it may have to do with Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In an interview with EW, Marvel editor-in-chief Axel Alonso made sure to differentiate Marvel NOW! from competitor DC Comics' total reboot of their universe with the "New 52" initiative. For one thing, there will not be a sudden halt to the old universe followed by a hard push into the new one - the new relaunches will be unveiled a month at a time. Said Alonso:
"This ain't a reboot. It's a new beginning...I feel that it's a much more humane approach for retailers and fans to tell them: 'Look. In the months of October through February, every week you can go into a comic book store and find a few new jumping-on points for the Marvel Universe, a place you're going to like visiting. Or revisiting."
For a sneak peek at the upcoming Marvel NOW! Universe, check out this artwork by Marvel CEO Joe Quesada, which contains plenty of interesting hints and teases:
A few of the Easter eggs in the image:
- Thor has swords
- Cable has an eye-patch
- Hulk has space armor (and a robo-orb)
- Nick Fury is Ultimate Universe Nick Fury [Correction: Apparently that's Fury's illegitimate son(???)]
- Cyclops has a new uniform and eye-beam
- Fantastic Four member Sue Richards is out on her own (for once)
- Iron Man has new armor
- Marvel Girl (Jean Grey) is back to land of the living
- Rocket Raccoon and Nova - characters rumored for the Guardians of the Galaxy movie Marvel is developing - are (literally) being brought front and center
For details on the more cryptic elements of this picture, check out the interviews with the Marvel creative team on the following pages - and find out about the new books they will be launching. Needless to say, there are some big surprises in store...


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Bring good cheer to your parents this Christmas! Christmas time always brings up many wonderful memories, from baking cookies to watching snow fall gently past the window. Create tons more memories this year by filling the holiday season with happiness and joy! Finish the year on a magical, joyful note by sending your parents this Christmas card and fill the holiday with love.
From the tinsel on the tree to the glossy presents sitting beneath it, your parents have always given you the perfect Christmas. Toys you wanted, your favorite candy, and lots of time to play in the snow. Return the favor this year and make this Christmas perfect for your parents. Use this gorgeous Christmas card to make sure their Christmas is incredible.
Warm your mom and dad's hearts this Christmas season. Every season we continue to make memories with our friends and family. Those memories, which resonate in our hearts, are more precious than the money we spend on gifts or the lights on the tree. Brighten your parents' Christmas this year with this card to express your gratitude beyond the presents under the tree.
Shrink time and space to send your love to your parents for Christmas! For those that spend the season away home, Christmas can be strange but the warmth of family is never far. It lives in your chest, a core of traditions, love, and peace. Let your parents know you are thinking of them this Christmas. Send them this beautiful card to express both your sorrow at being away and your love for them this holiday season.
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I got to thinking about the word "hoof'. Don't ask me why. It's not as if I were this lady or this gentleman who regularly deal with ungulates. Hell, I don't think I've ever gotten a live, close-up look at a hoof.
OK. I'll get to the silly point.
I learned in school that the plural of the word "hoof" is "hooves".** Hooves? How crazy is that?
Why then doesn't a roofer repair multiple "rooves" instead of "roofs"?
Why aren't more than one "poof" called "pooves"?
Perhaps a bunch of "goofs" should be "gooves".
Why wouldn't two "woofs" by a dog be called "wooves"?
Or, why wouldn't two "spoofs" be two "spooves"?
Flipping the matter around, why isn't one of many "grooves" called a "groof"?
There's simply no accounting for the caca that occupies my cruller sometimes.
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The government is to raise the salaries of volunteer soldiers and give additional subsidies to soldiers stationed on outlying islands starting next year, as an incentive to encourage more young people to sign up for a career in the military, according to a proposal approved by the Executive Yuan yesterday.
Under the proposal, volunteers will see a salary increase of between NT$2,000 and NT$4,000, depending on their rank.
Additional subsidies will be raised to NT$20,000 from the current NT$12,360 for soldiers assigned to the Spratly Islands (Nansha Islands, 南沙群島) and to NT$12,000 from NT$9,790 for those assigned to the Pratas Islands (Dongsha Islands, 東沙群島) in the South China Sea.
Soldiers stationed on Dadan (大膽) and Erdan (二膽) islets — two of the islets which surround the main island of Kinmen — will also get a pay raise of between NT$9,790 and NT$12,000 in additional subsidies, according to the proposal.
With the adjustment, a private — a soldier of the lowest military rank — whose current salary is NT$29,625 will earn a salary of NT$33,625, or NT$53,625 if the soldier serves on the Spratly Islands, the Executive Yuan said.
The number of volunteers enlisting in the army since the government began recruiting soldiers to replace the existing conscription-based system was much less than expected, but the government has vowed to stick to its goal to have an all-volunteer force by 2017.
Whether a military paycheck is comparable to salaries in the civilian sector is a crucial factor determining the success or failure of the transition policy, the Executive Yuan said in a statement, adding that it would continue to review the salary structure of the military to boost recruitment and help retain personnel.
Separately yesterday, President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) said the government would continue its efforts to replace compulsory military service with an all-volunteer system, dismissing concerns about the difficulty enlisting sufficient volunteers.
The all-volunteer system, a major campaign promise of Ma during his presidential campaign in 2007, was originally scheduled for 2015. However, the plan was postponed for two years by the Ministry of National Defense in September this year because of low recruitment numbers.
Ma, while presiding over a rank conferral ceremony for military officials in Taipei, insisted that the two-year extension is an adjustment period to execute and examine the new mechanism.
"The system of compulsory military service has its merits, but the one-year military training has presented a challenge for the military to maintain its strength. The new system aims to establish a high-quality military force and quantity is not what we are aiming for," he said.
Minister of National Defense Yen Ming (嚴明) said the ministry is determined to establish the all-volunteer military system, adding that it would strengthen recruitment measures to attract more people to the military.
"We will not accept a failure of the all-volunteer system, and the ministry will eliminate obstacles hindering the new system," he said.
The Ma administration's defense of the all-volunteer system came after a Control Yuan report suggested that a majority of military experts are pessimistic about the transition to an all-volunteer force due to the difficulties of enlisting sufficient volunteers.


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Since September 2010 the Bank of Canada has held the key rate steady. And today was no different. The Bank of Canada is staying the course and not changing the benchmark rate. Today's announcement noted that "downside risks to inflation assume increasing importance" and "the Bank must also take into consideration the risk of exacerbating already-elevated household imbalances. With these considerations, ...


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Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health: 50 Years of ProgressJan 17, 2014
Today it's an accepted truth that smoking causes lung cancer and other diseases, but this wasn't always the case. Groups including the American Cancer Society worked with the government to launch the anti-tobacco movement 50 years ago in response to the landmark 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health. Today the Surgeon General's office has released a new report detailing the progress made in tobacco control in the US since that time, while calling for continued efforts to reduce smoking rates even more.
The 2014 report from the Surgeon General's office, The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress, shows that smoking prevalence among US adults has been reduced by half. Adult smoking rates have fallen from about 42% in 1965 to about 18% in 2012. Research led by Yale University estimates that 8 million deaths have been avoided through 50 years of stop-smoking efforts. And anti-tobacco efforts have led to a decrease in the rate of new lung cancer cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Despite the progress, more than 42 million American adults and more than 3.5 million middle and high school students continue to smoke. Cigarette smoking remains the leading preventable cause of cancer death in the US.
The report calls for a comprehensive public policy approach to tobacco control that includes mass media campaigns, smoke-free policies, age restrictions, price increases, and full access to proven quit-smoking treatments.
New evidence about the harms of smoking
Despite the drop in smoking prevalence, more than 20 million people have died from smoking and secondhand smoke in the past 50 years. If young adults continue to smoke at their current rate, 5.6 million Americans who are younger than 18 today will die prematurely from a smoking-related illness.
Previous Surgeon General's reports have shown that smoking impacts nearly every organ of the body and that there is no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke. New evidence in the 2014 report supports these conclusions.
The new report also expands the list of diseases caused by smoking and secondhand smoke. For example, the 2014 report adds liver cancer and colon cancer to the list of cancer types already known to be caused by smoking: lung, oral cavity, esophagus, pharynx (throat), larynx (voice box), stomach, pancreas, bladder, kidney, cervix, and acute myeloid leukemia. In addition to lung cancer, coronary heart disease, and other conditions, the health problems linked to secondhand smoke now include stroke.
Other conclusions from the report
- For the first time ever, women are as likely as men to die from lung cancer.
- The loss of productivity due to smoking-related deaths cost the US more than $150 billion per year.
- Patterns of tobacco use are changing, with more occasional use of cigarettes and an increase in use of other tobacco products, including cigars, hookahs, and e-cigarettes.
- Advertising and promotions by tobacco companies cause adolescents and young adults to start smoking and keep smoking.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said the federal government has a significant role to play in reducing Americans' tobacco use, but needs an "all hands on deck" approach.
"Today, we're asking Americans to join a sustained effort to make the next generation a tobacco-free generation," said Sebelius. "This is not something the federal government can do alone. We need to partner with the business community, local elected officials, schools and universities, the medical community, the faith community, and committed citizens in communities across the country to make the next generation tobacco free."
In a statement, John Seffrin, chief executive officer of the American Cancer Society and its advocacy affiliate the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), said the two organizations "are leading the nationwide effort to end the tobacco epidemic through public education, scientific research and advocacy."
"It is imperative that we establish a nationwide movement to make the tobacco endgame a reality and ensure that ending death and disease from tobacco use does not take another 50 years," Seffrin said.
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Whitney Shaw had two hits and an RBI in a 4-3 win over Providence Sunday (Gil Talbot).
BOCA RATON, Fla. – In its final day at the Miken Classic, the Harvard softball team picked up its third win of the tournament, downing regional foe Providence, 4-3, Sunday morning on the campus of Florida Atlantic. Harvard leaves Florida with a 3-2 record on the young season.
In the first at-bat of the game, Ellen Macadam knocked a homerun to stake the Crimson to an immediate 1-0 lead. Ashley Heritage followed with a single to right-center later came home with Harvard's second run on a Stephanie Regan sacrifice fly. Laura Ricciardone started the game in the circle for Harvard and held the Friars to just one hit through the first four innings, striking out two.
Harvard extended its lead to 3-0 in the top of the third where Heritage reached base on a fielding error to start the inning. Two batters later, Kasey Lange notched her fourth RBI of the tournament, driving a double to right center and scoring Heritage from second base. The Friars got on the board in the fifth, knotting the score at 3-3 with runs coming home on a wild pitch and a two-run single.
The Crimson made two quick outs in the top of the seventh but Heritage reached base after being hit by a pitch. Whitney Shaw stepped to the plate and punched a single to center, scoring Heritage for the go-ahead run. In the bottom of the inning, Rachel Brown forced a pop-out and groundout and a line-out to seal the 4-3 win for Harvard.
Shaw finished the game with two hits and a run batted in while Lange and Macadam had a hit and an RBI each in the win. Brown earned her third win of the season, pitching 2.1 innings of relief and striking out three.
The Crimson will travel to the West Coast for its next 11 games, beginning with a March 11 showdown against UC Riverside to kick off play at the UCR Tournament.


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Ok what does everyone think. This is as far as I've gotten on the first Veterans lapquilt. Going to be making them for the hospice I volunteer at. was thinking of a small white border than a larger Dk blue/navy outside border.
The red stripe really is red LOL!!! my camera makes it look orangie.
All and any advice is appreciated. Have enough of the star fabric to make 1 more like this but with maybe a soldier in the middle instead of the eagle.
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Panasonic has revealed it will produce a 145in plasma screen with a resolution of 7680 x 4320, the world's first 8k display not to require a backlight, apparently.
The Super Hi-Vision project - detailed on the Panasonic press site, but hidden behind a password to keep the great unwashed and bloggers out, and let real journos in - is a collaboration with Japanese broadcasting company NHK.
Panasonic was keen to stress that the pair have come up with new tech that inhibits the flickering plasma screens show when their resolution is increased this far.
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What a coincidence! Just one day after we posted an exhaustive and comprehensive post titled How To Make An Emergency Maxi-Pad, gynecologist Lisa Masterson from that show The Doctors demonstrated her "special little trick," for making a pad in an emergency. This does indeed feel familiar to us. We're glad we could be so inspirational, and we're sorry our post came without a seriously cringe-worthy video and a bunch of dudes standing around stupefied.
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The Yetties are proud to announce the birth of their 50 Golden Yers DVD.
It is 1 hour 45 minutes long. (That is why the birth was so difficult and time consuming.)
It is a story a fiction writer would have difficulty conjuring up. Take 3 young erks from a Dorset village with no musical background and set them out on a career of TV, radio, recordings and gold discs plus tours around the globe and performances in front of royalty and presidents. It's been great and I will be eternally grateful for those who helped us on our way.
Who would have thought THE YETTIES would have reach retirement age? Well, we couldn't have done it without all you folks supporting us. It's been the best 50 years of my life - let's hope the next 50 is just as good!
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Partnerships in Character Education Program
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Partnerships in Character Education
Application Number: R215V980010
Project Period: 8/1/987/31/02
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FY 1999 Award: 247,838
FY 2000 Award: 250,213
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This character education initiative will demonstrate how character traits can be identified and developed in schools and communities. Ten elementary schools in Denver will pilot approaches that integrate activities to develop desirable character traits in the environments of schools and communities. Using the High Impact Planning process, each school has developed a declaration statement on character education. From this statement, each school and community will design activities to support the actualization of selected character traits.
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Draft Framework for Policy Engagement – Why, When, and How
September 26, 2012
Over the past few years we've become more engaged in public policy issues driven by proposed legislative and regulatory actions that threaten core tenants of the open web. These threats are global in nature and manifest themselves in national legislative bodies, judicial venues, trade organizations, and international treaty setting bodies among others. After engaging in a number of policy issues such as SOPA, ACTA, DNT, jailbreaking, and further seeing a forecast of "more rain" we set out to craft a draft framework that could guide our approach on these issues.
The framework is not meant to be exhaustive nor be a detailed roadmap, but rather directional in nature. Hopefully it's a level set and creates a common point of reference for our community. As time goes on, we'll naturally iterate and develop the ideas further. At this point we want to test it, incorporate feedback, and see if the approach makes sense. Please add any comments to the governance thread here.
Some key assumptions that inform the framework are:
• Tech policy can help or hurt the web
• Key attributes of the open web need to be nurtured and protected
• All tech policy issues are not the same
• We can make a difference
• The nature of the threat will dictate different kinds of responses
• We remain a project that is primarily focused on building stuff
• Don't build what already exists
The framework reflects our current thinking and should answers key questions like:
• What's the goal? What are we trying to protect?
• Can we make a difference?
• Why do we get involved?
• When do we get involved and when don't we?
• How do we engage?
If you want more color on some of these ideas, take a look at the presentations below where we have begun discussing the broader notions of threats to the open web.
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Problems in children have not been reported with intake of normal daily recommended amounts. Some studies have shown that infants who are totally breast-fed, especially with dark-skinned mothers, and have little exposure to sunlight may be at risk of vitamin D deficiency. Your health care professional may prescribe a vitamin/mineral supplement that contains vitamin D. Some infants may be sensitive to even small amounts of alfacalcidol, calcifediol, calcitriol, dihydrotachysterol, or ergocalciferol. Also, children may show slowed growth when receiving large doses of alfacalcidol, calcifediol, calcitriol, dihydrotachysterol, or ergocalciferol for a long time.
Studies on doxercalciferol or paricalcitol have been done only in adult patients, and there is no specific information comparing the use of doxercalciferol or paricalcitol in children with use in other age groups.
Problems in older adults have not been reported with intake of normal daily recommended amounts. Studies have shown that older adults may have lower blood levels of vitamin D than younger adults, especially those who have little exposure to sunlight. Your health care professional may recommend that you take a vitamin supplement that contains vitamin D.
It is especially important that you are receiving enough vitamin D when you become pregnant and that you continue to receive the right amounts of vitamins throughout your pregnancy. The healthy growth and development of the fetus depend on a steady supply of nutrients from the mother.
You may need vitamin D supplements if you are a strict vegetarian (vegan-vegetarian) and/or have little exposure to sunlight and do not drink vitamin D-fortified milk.
Taking too much alfacalcidol, calcifediol, calcitriol, dihydrotachysterol, or ergocalciferol can also be harmful to the fetus. Taking more than your health care professional has recommended can cause your baby to be more sensitive than usual to its effects, can cause problems with a gland called the parathyroid, and can cause a defect in the baby's heart.
Doxercalciferol or paricalcitol have not been studied in pregnant women. However, studies in animals have shown that paricalcitol causes problems in newborns. Before taking this medicine, make sure your doctor knows if you are pregnant or if you may become pregnant.
It is especially important that you receive the right amounts of vitamins so that your baby will also get the vitamins needed to grow properly. Infants who are totally breast-fed and have little exposure to the sun may require vitamin D supplementation. However, taking large amounts of a dietary supplement while breast-feeding may be harmful to the mother and/or baby and should be avoided.
Only small amounts of alfacalcidol, calcifediol, calcitriol, or dihydrotachysterol pass into breast milk and these amounts have not been reported to cause problems in nursing babies.
It is not known whether doxercalciferol or paricalcitol passes into breast milk. Be sure you have discussed the risks and benefits of the supplement with your doctor.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking any of these dietary supplements, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using dietary supplements in this class with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with dietary supplements in this class or change some of the other medicines you take.
Using dietary supplements in this class with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. Discuss with your healthcare professional the use of your medicine with food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of dietary supplements in this class. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
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All the talk this Knicks off-season has been about the flashy names. The Jeremy Lin debacle. Jason Kidd and his egregious 3 year $9 mil contract. The Camby man! Marcus Camby returning to the squad. The return of
Rashweed Rasheed Wallace to the NBA. But for all the glam, a meat and potatoes player may end up the toast of New York's free agent class. Signed on a veteran minimum contract from the Chicago Bulls, Ronnie Brewer is an exceptional wing defender. Chicago rated out best in the league in defensive rating, allowing just 95.3 points per 100 possessions. Having recording a defensive rating of 95.0 in 24.8 minutes a game last season, Brewer had much to do with Chicago's defensive prowess.
Thanks to NBA.com Stats cube, we can see how Brewer's on court presence impacted Philadelphia's offense in the Bulls-Sixers first round matchup.
With Brewer on the floor, 83 minutes over 5 games, Philadelphia's offensive rating dropped from 99.9 to 88.4. The Sixers true shooting percentage fell from 49.8% down to 44.5%. Chicago's offense did struggle a bit with Brewer on the floor, but that had more to do with the loss of Derrick Rose to injury than it had to do with Brewer.
Those numbers are consistent with many of Chicago's lineup statistics. According to Basketball Value, Chicago's most used lineup by minutes last season was Rose-Brewer-Deng-Boozer-Noah. In 286.83 minutes played this lineup had an offensive rating of 112.38 and a defensive rating of 96.37, an overall rating of +16.01. Again, Brewer was a part of a lineup that had an excellent defensive rating.
If we look to synergy, we see that Brewer held his opponents to 37.2% shooting last season, including the playoffs. Brewer really excellent in defending isolations last season, holding opponents to just 31.8% on 66 shot attempts. For some perspective, lets compare these stats to those of Iman Shumpert, a great defender in his own right. Shumpert held opponents to 38.9% shooting overall and 33.8% in isolation. Brewer and Shumpert posted nearly identical defensive points per possession numbers, coming in at 0.8 and 0.81 respectively.
Defensive metrics are far from an exact science and they do not always tell the full story about a defender (look no further than Carlos Boozer's 98.9 DefRtg last season), I think they are useful in the case of Brewer. His reputation as an elite, versatile wing defender is backed up by the statistics. So how does he fit in with the Knicks.
Unfortunately at a 24.4% career clip, Ronnie Brewer won't contribute as a three point shooter. In fact, he is quite limited offensively as he shot only 42.7% last year. However, his defensive value will outweigh his lack of an offensive game. With Iman Shumpert sidelined with injury till at least December or January, Brewer is going to play a major role on this team. Health permitting, he should be the starter at shooting guard. At 6'7 225 pounds, Brewer has the ability to guard 1's 2's and 3's. If the Knicks wanted to go really small, they could get away with using Brewer to guard 4's as well. Given the depth of this Knicks team, Mike Woodson has a plethora of different lineup possibilites at his disposal. Brewer should be a good fit in most, if not all of them.
When Shumpert returns, the Knicks will really be able to do some interesting things. Woodson could play Shumpert and Brewer together and just lock teams up on the perimeter. A lineup like this would really be useful alongside Anthony at the 4 and Stoudemire at the 5, which would in theory open up the offense for both superstars. Against smaller teams, Woodson could run Felton with JR Smith, Novak, Brewer and Chandler and just run and gun, but keep a lockdown defender on the floor. The possibilities really are endless and it'll be interesting to see how Woodson uses Brewer.
In todays evolving NBA with smaller lineups and more athletic wing players, you can never have enough elite defensive wing players. Most teams would kill to get one, but the Knicks will have two of the best at their disposal upon the return of Shumpert. For a team trying to overtake the Dwayne Wade-LeBron James led Miami Heat in the Eastern conference, this is huge. Only time will tell how Brewer ends up impacting this Knicks squad, but I think his impact will be immediate and it will be great. The Knicks should get great bang for their buck from Brewer and he should be a great fit on what was already a great defense.


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Build A Great B2B Search Engine Marketing Campaign
Indispensable Tips For B2B Search Engine Marketing
The Scenario:
The elephant in the room that everyone is talking about: the economy's taken a dive; it's down for the count. Your B2C clients, while realizing that search marketing is a cornerstone in any successful campaign, have cut back their spending (drastically). It's the ultimate domino effect, and it finally hit you. There's a corporate brainstorming session. The one big idea (a no-brainer, really); let's get business we have never bothered with: B2B.
Why you haven't bothered with B2B until now:
Not surprisingly, there are very few Search Marketing Firms and SEOs out there willing to take them on. It's not exactly a gold mine, not by any stretch, but it is a relatively virgin segment. For those with patience and moxy, it can be a very successful venture.
1) Build The Right IA
Most B2B companies want/believe that their website IA should accurately reflect what already exists in print or a catalog. Wrong. To construct the "right" IA, it takes a two-fold effort:
a) You, as the SEO/SEM, really have to TALK with them. Not simply let them tell you what they want to see represented, but consider their products and industries they serve. It may not change the main buckets of product engagement with the user, but you may find/add another way to engage users.
b) It's got to be a team effort. As I mentioned before, the majority of B2B is very niche. They, whether you believe it or not, know their customers well. What they don't know, is how to engage them outside of their traditional media, and you do. These two knowledges clash: in some cases violently.
Each side has to be willing to make a concession or two in order to get an IA that's going to be able to target trafficked keywords, convert users, and that all parties are happy.
2) Keyword Targeting
You know, as a seasoned SEO, that the keyword and keyword phrase targeting has to lean more to the longtail. The client, however, thinks the most general terms are going to bring traffic (which they will). For example: the client makes "Micro-Perforated Tubing", but believe that "Tubing" should bring in all the traffic. Beyond the fact that there are dozens of terms associated with "tubing", even if we did target the term, what are the chances we'd be driving the most qualified and viable traffic ready to convert? Low to none.
When keyword researching and targeting for B2B, it's essential as an SEO/SEM to understand that traffic volumes, in the majority of cases, are going to be low, so setting the expectation for the client is paramount. They need to understand that targeting uber-general terms (i.e. "automotive oil", or "tools") is not where they're user base is.
Sure, their consumers may start with these general terms, but the SERPs they get (sites they have no use for) will teach them to refine the searches with more longtail keywords.
So that's where you as an SEO/SEM need to be: in the mid-longtail and longtail keywords to get the most qualified traffic and those ready to convert.
3) PPC Campaigns
Of course it's an extra expense. And, yes, they can get costly. The fact is they are a must for B2B; it's a necessary evil. Why? Because organically, it's going to take time to get position and traffic for keywords. Consider all the link building that's got to be done and the onsite optimization, and relying on that alone will take 6-8 months before good movement and results appear.
Consider this effort an "adrenaline shot" for your search marketing. You get instant exposure in the SERPs, you get traffic to deeper pages on the site: ergo telling Google your pages should be considered important, and, most importantly, your SEO/SEM gets instant keyword search query results. They won't have to guess as to which term(s) are most popular among your consumer base. That, in itself, is worth its weight in gold.
B2B PPC Tips:
Target a small selection of general terms in your campaign. The CPC is high for these terms, not to mention, competitive, so you'll blow through your daily budgets quick.
Work a big variety of mid-longtail and longail words
Get a good list of negatives to make sure your budget is maximized
4) Get Local
It's seems so common sense, but I can't tell you how many B2B's I've seen with no shred of locality at all. Now that the Google Algorithm has changed to show local results for general queries based on IP Address of the searcher, it is more important than ever to make sure your company show up for local.
What B2B Local You Should Have Been Doing:
Get in Google Local Business Center
Get on some local review sites (a protracted list): Yelp, Yellowbot, Yahoo Local, Live Search Local Listing Center, and ThinkLocal
It also helps to get some positive reviews in all of them, but for Google's purposes, the more reviews you have, the better
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Dropbox Breach Result of Password Reuse: Can We Fix This?
Dropbox acknowledged that a recent outbreak that flooded user inboxes with spam promoting online gambling sites was likely the result of a Dropbox employee's account being compromised.
As PCMag.com reported earlier today, Dropbox said attackers had used passwords stolen from other websites to access a "small number" of Dropbox accounts. One of those stolen passwords belonged to an unnamed Dropbox employee, and the breached account had a project file containing live customer data, Dropbox said.
The document should never have been using live customer data to begin with, Rik Ferguson, director of security research and communications at Trend Micro, wrote on the company's Countermeasures blog. But more importantly, the document was accessible because the employee had reused his or her corporate password on another website, which had been compromised. Ferguson wanted to know which site it was, and wondered why Dropbox didn't disclose that information.
"There are a few really concerning elements to this news and the way it was handled," Ferguson said.
For my part, I am more concerned that there seems to be no way for companies to restrict their employees from reusing corporate passwords on non-corporate sites.
Why Do We Reuse Passwords?
Password reuse is a serious problem, and we've written several times on the subject here at Security Watch. However, with sites increasingly demanding stronger and complex passwords, and the exploding number of Web services requiring passwords, people are struggling to come up with unique ones for each.
"Once somebody finally comes up with an acceptably complex password that they can remember, who can blame them blame them for wanting to use that password on multiple systems?" Jay Heiser, a research vice-president at Gartner asked on his blog today.
A recent password management survey by mSeven Software found that 75 percent of respondents have at least 10 websites they need to remember passwords for. That sounds kind of low to me, but remembering 10 complex passwords is difficult enough. That's why we recommend using password managers, and we've flagged some of the best password managers for PC users.
The thing is, if Dropbox was breached because an employee reused a password, Dropbox couldn't really have prevented this incident by mandating complex passwords, Heiser said. The only difference between a strong password and a "3-character first name" was that the complex password came with a "false sense of security," Heiser said.
"What's the point of password complexity requirements, or any of the other useless and impractical policies typically associated with this fatally flawed mechanism? It's a cynical exercise in denial," Heiser wrote.
Here's An Idea
While companies can't force employees to always use unique passwords across all sites, it seems like there should be a way to make sure at least the corporate password is unique.
What if the company's IT department could monitor what users were entering in password fields for other sites? If the password string being entered matched the user's corporate password, the monitoring system could step in and either block access to the site or display an alert to remind users to use a different password for that site.
All the company would have to do to make this work would be to standardize on a Web browser, and put the monitoring logic behind a Firefox of IE plugin, or a Chrome extension.
Companies are already looking at what employees type via data leak prevention tools, so this level of monitoring doesn't seem all that different or intrusive. I am sure there are plenty of privacy and civil liberties issues that I am overlooking at the moment, but it seems like something like this would at least be a step forward to protect corporate accounts from the password reuse problem.
Alternatively, we can just make sure two-factor authentication is used everywere.
What am I missing?
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I've started this thread to aid both new and existing user in the administration of FreeBSD systems.
Please don't make this thread too chatty and only put helpful commands.
"No, that's wrong, Cartman. But don't worry, there are no stupid answers, just stupid people." -- Mr. Garrison
Forum Netiquette
adduser(8) - a script to aid the addition of new users
watch(8) - snoop on another tty line. An administrator can watch ( and interact ) with tty sessions. I use this to watch ssh users on my boxes
feh(1) - image viewer and cataloguer
import(1) - import - saves any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the screen.
"No, that's wrong, Cartman. But don't worry, there are no stupid answers, just stupid people." -- Mr. Garrison
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camcontrol To add/remove SCSI devices on runtime
The script utility makes a typescript of everything printed on your ter-
minal. It is useful for students who need a hardcopy record of an inter-
active session as proof of an assignment.
tcptraceroute Check which hop/router in path is blocking your tcp segments. /usr/ports/net/tcptraceroute
write Send message to another logged user
lastcomm Watch all executed commands with details, when process accounting is enabled
pr It may be used for beautifying the text output. Useful when getting piped input from other command.
People should also note any thing they mention, that is not included in the base install as being so.
pw -- create, remove, modify & display system users and groups
That is the single best command I have ever encountered for taking care of such jobs !!!!
vi -- standard screen editor on all unix systems (this is NOT vim).
vipw -- safely edit the systems passwd file using your $EDITOR, default is vi -> check the handbooks chapter on 'shells' or your shells manual for details on setting your default screen editor. If no $EDITOR or $VISUAL are set, it uses /usr/bin/vi to edit the file.
pwd_mkdb -- generate the password databases, very useful if you ever edit the file without using the vipw program.
portupgrade -- a useful utility in ports for installing and updating programs (I don't use it, but many do I think).
sh -- the systems /bin/sh, great for writing scripts, THIS IS NOT BASH.
test -- great manual page for those doing shell scripting.
perl and related manual pages, Perl can be installed from ports and is a great tool if one needs a best friend.
awk -- pattern-directed scanning and processing language, great language to learn whether you use Perl or not. THIS IS NOT GAWK, if GNU AWK is needed, install it from ports.
hier -- map of the file system.
dump and restore -- great backup tools
tar -- tape archive managing program, this is not GNU tar so check your GNU'isms at --the-manual if the switches are different (I've never used gtar and rarely use the GNU style options of bsd tar). Install gtar from ports if you need GNU tar.
tar, gzip, bzip2, dump, and lzma are my favorite backup programs.
psearch a great utility you can install from ports/pkg for searching the local ports tree.
csup -- useful for dealing with ports and source code, check the handbook for details. -> install via ports if using older versions of FreeBSD.
My Journal
Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''.
sudo, to give specified users certain rights. (/usr/ports/security/sudo)
visudo, installed with sudo, a vi-editor (which can be changed) that will edit the sudoers file and also check for syntax errors.)
lsftp (/usr/ports/ftp/lftp) a very simple yet versatile text ftpclient.
screen (/usr/ports/sysutils/screen) an incredibly useful program
gives quick rundown of some of its uses.
gstat(8) - prints nice output of currently used filesystems/partitions [ gstat ]
netstat(8) - great tool for checking network deamons listening ports, number fo packets and buffers [ netstat -ib | netstat -Lan | netstat -m]
diskinfo(8) - get info about disks, also benchmark them in hdparm(8) style [ diskinfo | diskinfo -c ad0 | diskinfo -t ad0 ]
iostat(8) - displays current disks usage, reads per second, transactions per second and so [ iostat 1 | iostat -x 5 ]
religions, worst damnation of mankind
"If 386BSD had been available when I started on Linux, Linux would probably never had happened." Linus Torvalds
Linux is not UNIX! Face it! It is not an insult. It is fact: GNU is a recursive acronym for "GNU's Not UNIX".
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Basic but took me a few hours.
reboot - reboots the system
shutdown -p now - Powers down the system rather than halting it.
df -h - Shows the amount of disk free in a human readable format.
screen -- A great tool for remote or console administration. Not BSD specific.
I second screen. Invaluable when rebuilding kernel/world over a remote connection.
I just saved a bunch of money on my car insurance by fleeing the scene of the accident!
sockstat(1) - Gather information about sockets (sockstat -c4 | grep ^www | awk '{print $7}' | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort +1n)
strace(1) (devel/strace) - Useful for tracing process execution (similar to truss(1))
lsof(8) (sysutils/lsof) - List opened files / sockets by programs (lsof /dev/dsp0 - who's that bastard blocking my sounds!??!, similar to fstat(1))
iftop(8) (net-mgmt/iftop) - Display live information about network bandwidth usage by interface and host.
tcpdump(1) - totally awsome tool for network debugging and sniffing. Also check wireshark (net/wireshark).
shutdown should be used to halt (-h), poweroff (-p), or reboot (-r) a running system.
Help for FreeBSD: Handbook, FAQ, man pages, mailing lists.
/usr/ports/net/trafshow - Light, easy, flexible traffic monitoring
pfctl(8) - pf's uber switch
BSD, Eggdrop and the random Blah
The basic commands for user management:
* chpass(1) <= Add or change user database information
* login(1) <= Login user, invoked by getty
* passwd(1) <= Modify user's password, using login class' settings
* finger(1) <= Display user information
* adduser(8) <= Add a new user interactively or in batch mode
* pw(8) <= Add, modify, delete users and groups
* vipw(8) <= Directly edit the password database
* pwd_mkdb(8) <= Generate password databases (used by chpass, passwd, etc)
* rmuser(8) <= Remove user and his files
* pam_passwdqc(8) <= Optional password quality check PAM module for passwd
* passwd(5) <= User database without passwords
* master.passwd(5) <= User database with passwords, class, change and expire settings
* login.access(5) <= Login access control table (who, from where)
* login.conf(5) <= Defines resource limits, environment, authentication options
* netgroup(5) <= Defines groups (host, user, domain)
* adduser.conf(5) <= Default settings for adduser
* pw.conf(5) <= Default settings for pw
Although not really commands - when dealing with users and groups one should know:
Group wheel:
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 6, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
The danger and scandal of this excommunication subsisted above three years, till the popular clamor was assuaged by time and repentance; till the brethren of Arsenius condemned his inflexible spirit, so repugnant to the unbounded forgiveness of the gospel. The emperor had artfully insinuated, that, if he were still rejected at home, he might seek, in the Roman pontiff, a more indulgent judge; but it was far more easy and effectual to find or to place that judge at the head of the Byzantine church. Arsenius was involved in a vague rumor of conspiracy and disaffection; *_0018 some irregular steps in his ordination and government were liable to censure; a synod deposed him from the episcopal office; and he was transported under a guard of soldiers to a small island of the Propontis. Before his exile, he sullenly requested that a strict account might be taken of the treasures of the church; boasted, that his sole riches, three pieces of gold, had been earned by transcribing the psalms; continued to assert the freedom of his mind; and denied, with his last breath, the pardon which was implored by the royal sinner. 25 After some delay, Gregory, **_0018 bishop of Adrianople, was translated to the Byzantine throne; but his authority was found insufficient to support the absolution of the emperor; and Joseph, a reverend monk, was substituted to that important function. This edifying scene was represented in the presence of the senate and the people; at the end of six years the humble penitent was restored to the communion of the faithful; and humanity will rejoice, that a milder treatment of the captive Lascaris was stipulated as a proof of his remorse. But the spirit of Arsenius still survived in a powerful faction of the monks and clergy, who persevered about forty-eight years in an obstinate schism. Their scruples were treated with tenderness and respect by Michael and his son; and the reconciliation of the Arsenites was the serious labor of the church and state. In the confidence of fanaticism, they had proposed to try their cause by a miracle; and when the two papers, that contained their own and the adverse cause, were cast into a fiery brazier, they expected that the Catholic verity would be respected by the flames. Alas! the two papers were indiscriminately consumed, and this unforeseen accident produced the union of a day, and renewed the quarrel of an age. 26 The final treaty displayed the victory of the Arsenites: the clergy abstained during forty days from all ecclesiastical functions; a slight penance was imposed on the laity; the body of Arsenius was deposited in the sanctuary; and, in the name of the departed saint, the prince and people were released from the sins of their fathers. 27
The establishment of his family was the motive, or at least the pretence, of the crime of Palaeologus; and he was impatient to confirm the succession, by sharing with his eldest son the honors of the purple. Andronicus, afterwards surnamed the Elder, was proclaimed and crowned emperor of the Romans, in the fifteenth year of his age; and, from the first aera of a prolix and inglorious reign, he held that august title nine years as the colleague, and fifty as the successor, of his father. Michael himself, had he died in a private station, would have been thought more worthy of the empire; and the assaults of his temporal and spiritual enemies left him few moments to labor for his own fame or the happiness of his subjects. He wrested from the Franks several of the noblest islands of the Archipelago, Lesbos, Chios, and Rhodes: his brother Constantine was sent to command in Malvasia and Sparta; and the eastern side of the Morea, from Argos and Napoli to Cape Thinners, was repossessed by the Greeks. This effusion of Christian blood was loudly condemned by the patriarch; and the insolent priest presumed to interpose his fears and scruples between the arms of princes. But in the prosecution of these western conquests, the countries beyond the Hellespont were left naked to the Turks; and their depredations verified the prophecy of a dying senator, that the recovery of Constantinople would be the ruin of Asia. The victories of Michael were achieved by his lieutenants; his sword rusted in the palace; and, in the transactions of the emperor with the popes and the king of Naples, his political acts were stained with cruelty and fraud. 28
I. The Vatican was the most natural refuge of a Latin emperor, who had been driven from his throne; and Pope Urban the Fourth appeared to pity the misfortunes, and vindicate the cause, of the fugitive Baldwin. A crusade, with plenary indulgence, was preached by his command against the schismatic Greeks: he excommunicated their allies and adherents; solicited Louis the Ninth in favor of his kinsman; and demanded a tenth of the ecclesiastical revenues of France and England for the service of the holy war. 29 The subtle Greek, who watched the rising tempest of the West, attempted to suspend or soothe the hostility of the pope, by suppliant embassies and respectful letters; but he insinuated that the establishment of peace must prepare the reconciliation and obedience of the Eastern church. The Roman court could not be deceived by so gross an artifice; and Michael was admonished, that the repentance of the son should precede the forgiveness of the father; and that faith (an ambiguous word) was the only basis of friendship and alliance. After a long and affected delay, the approach of danger, and the importunity of Gregory the Tenth, compelled him to enter on a more serious negotiation: he alleged the example of the great Vataces; and the Greek clergy, who understood the intentions of their prince, were not alarmed by the first steps of reconciliation and respect. But when he pressed the conclusion of the treaty, they strenuously declared, that the Latins, though not in name, were heretics in fact, and that they despised those strangers as the vilest and most despicable portion of the human race. 30 It was the task of the emperor to persuade, to corrupt, to intimidate the most popular ecclesiastics, to gain the vote of each individual, and alternately to urge the arguments of Christian charity and the public welfare. The texts of the fathers and the arms of the Franks were balanced in the theological and political scale; and without approving the addition to the Nicene creed, the most moderate were taught to confess, that the two hostile propositions of proceeding from the Father by the Son, and of proceeding from the Father and the Son, might be reduced to a safe and Catholic sense. 31 The supremacy of the pope was a doctrine more easy to conceive, but more painful to acknowledge: yet Michael represented to his monks and prelates, that they might submit to name the Roman bishop as the first of the patriarchs; and that their distance and discretion would guard the liberties of the Eastern church from the mischievous consequences of the right of appeal. He protested that he would sacrifice his life and empire rather than yield the smallest point of orthodox faith or national independence; and this declaration was sealed and ratified by a golden bull. The patriarch Joseph withdrew to a monastery, to resign or resume his throne, according to the event of the treaty: the letters of union and obedience were subscribed by the emperor, his son Andronicus, and thirty-five archbishops and metropolitans, with their respective synods; and the episcopal list was multiplied by many dioceses which were annihilated under the yoke of the infidels. An embassy was composed of some trusty ministers and prelates: they embarked for Italy, with rich ornaments and rare perfumes for the altar of St. Peter; and their secret orders authorized and recommended a boundless compliance. They were received in the general council of Lyons, by Pope Gregory the Tenth, at the head of five hundred bishops. 32 He embraced with tears his long-lost and repentant children; accepted the oath of the ambassadors, who abjured the schism in the name of the two emperors; adorned the prelates with the ring and mitre; chanted in Greek and Latin the Nicene creed with the addition of filioque; and rejoiced in the union of the East and West, which had been reserved for his reign. To consummate this pious work, the Byzantine deputies were speedily followed by the pope's nuncios; and their instruction discloses the policy of the Vatican, which could not be satisfied with the vain title of supremacy. After viewing the temper of the prince and people, they were enjoined to absolve the schismatic clergy, who should subscribe and swear their abjuration and obedience; to establish in all the churches the use of the perfect creed; to prepare the entrance of a cardinal legate, with the full powers and dignity of his office; and to instruct the emperor in the advantages which he might derive from the temporal protection of the Roman pontiff. 33
But they found a country without a friend, a nation in which the names of Rome and Union were pronounced with abhorrence. The patriarch Joseph was indeed removed: his place was filled by Veccus, an ecclesiastic of learning and moderation; and the emperor was still urged by the same motives, to persevere in the same professions. But in his private language Palaeologus affected to deplore the pride, and to blame the innovations, of the Latins; and while he debased his character by this double hypocrisy, he justified and punished the opposition of his subjects. By the joint suffrage of the new and the ancient Rome, a sentence of excommunication was pronounced against the obstinate schismatics; the censures of the church were executed by the sword of Michael; on the failure of persuasion, he tried the arguments of prison and exile, of whipping and mutilation; those touchstones, says an historian, of cowards and the brave. Two Greeks still reigned in Aetolia, Epirus, and Thessaly, with the appellation of despots: they had yielded to the sovereign of Constantinople, but they rejected the chains of the Roman pontiff, and supported their refusal by successful arms. Under their protection, the fugitive monks and bishops assembled in hostile synods; and retorted the name of heretic with the galling addition of apostate: the prince of Trebizond was tempted to assume the forfeit title of emperor; *_0019 and even the Latins of Negropont, Thebes, Athens, and the Morea, forgot the merits of the convert, to join, with open or clandestine aid, the enemies of Palaeologus. His favorite generals, of his own blood, and family, successively deserted, or betrayed, the sacrilegious trust. His sister Eulogia, a niece, and two female cousins, conspired against him; another niece, Mary queen of Bulgaria, negotiated his ruin with the sultan of Egypt; and, in the public eye, their treason was consecrated as the most sublime virtue. 34 To the pope's nuncios, who urged the consummation of the work, Palaeologus exposed a naked recital of all that he had done and suffered for their sake. They were assured that the guilty sectaries, of both sexes and every rank, had been deprived of their honors, their fortunes, and their liberty; a spreading list of confiscation and punishment, which involved many persons, the dearest to the emperor, or the best deserving of his favor. They were conducted to the prison, to behold four princes of the royal blood chained in the four corners, and shaking their fetters in an agony of grief and rage. Two of these captives were afterwards released; the one by submission, the other by death: but the obstinacy of their two companions was chastised by the loss of their eyes; and the Greeks, the least adverse to the union, deplored that cruel and inauspicious tragedy. 35 Persecutors must expect the hatred of those whom they oppress; but they commonly find some consolation in the testimony of their conscience, the applause of their party, and, perhaps, the success of their undertaking. But the hypocrisy of Michael, which was prompted only by political motives, must have forced him to hate himself, to despise his followers, and to esteem and envy the rebel champions by whom he was detested and despised. While his violence was abhorred at Constantinople, at Rome his slowness was arraigned, and his sincerity suspected; till at length Pope Martin the Fourth excluded the Greek emperor from the pale of a church, into which he was striving to reduce a schismatic people. No sooner had the tyrant expired, than the union was dissolved, and abjured by unanimous consent; the churches were purified; the penitents were reconciled; and his son Andronicus, after weeping the sins and errors of his youth most piously denied his father the burial of a prince and a Christian. 36
II. In the distress of the Latins, the walls and towers of Constantinople had fallen to decay: they were restored and fortified by the policy of Michael, who deposited a plenteous store of corn and salt provisions, to sustain the siege which he might hourly expect from the resentment of the Western powers. Of these, the sovereign of the Two Sicilies was the most formidable neighbor: but as long as they were possessed by Mainfroy, the bastard of Frederic the Second, his monarchy was the bulwark, rather than the annoyance, of the Eastern empire. The usurper, though a brave and active prince, was sufficiently employed in the defence of his throne: his proscription by successive popes had separated Mainfroy from the common cause of the Latins; and the forces that might have besieged Constantinople were detained in a crusade against the domestic enemy of Rome. The prize of her avenger, the crown of the Two Sicilies, was won and worn by the brother of St Louis, by Charles count of Anjou and Provence, who led the chivalry of France on this holy expedition. 37 The disaffection of his Christian subjects compelled Mainfroy to enlist a colony of Saracens whom his father had planted in Apulia; and this odious succor will explain the defiance of the Catholic hero, who rejected all terms of accommodation. "Bear this message," said Charles, "to the sultan of Nocera, that God and the sword are umpire between us; and that he shall either send me to paradise, or I will send him to the pit of hell." The armies met: and though I am ignorant of Mainfroy's doom in the other world, in this he lost his friends, his kingdom, and his life, in the bloody battle of Benevento. Naples and Sicily were immediately peopled with a warlike race of French nobles; and their aspiring leader embraced the future conquest of Africa, Greece, and Palestine. The most specious reasons might point his first arms against the Byzantine empire; and Palaeologus, diffident of his own strength, repeatedly appealed from the ambition of Charles to the humanity of St. Louis, who still preserved a just ascendant over the mind of his ferocious brother. For a while the attention of that brother was confined at home by the invasion of Conradin, the last heir to the imperial house of Swabia; but the hapless boy sunk in the unequal conflict; and his execution on a public scaffold taught the rivals of Charles to tremble for their heads as well as their dominions. A second respite was obtained by the last crusade of St. Louis to the African coast; and the double motive of interest and duty urged the king of Naples to assist, with his powers and his presence, the holy enterprise. The death of St. Louis released him from the importunity of a virtuous censor: the king of Tunis confessed himself the tributary and vassal of the crown of Sicily; and the boldest of the French knights were free to enlist under his banner against the Greek empire. A treaty and a marriage united his interest with the house of Courtenay; his daughter Beatrice was promised to Philip, son and heir of the emperor Baldwin; a pension of six hundred ounces of gold was allowed for his maintenance; and his generous father distributed among his aliens the kingdoms and provinces of the East, reserving only Constantinople, and one day's journey round the city for the imperial domain. 38 In this perilous moment, Palaeologus was the most eager to subscribe the creed, and implore the protection, of the Roman pontiff, who assumed, with propriety and weight, the character of an angel of peace, the common father of the Christians. By his voice, the sword of Charles was chained in the scabbard; and the Greek ambassadors beheld him, in the pope's antechamber, biting his ivory sceptre in a transport of fury, and deeply resenting the refusal to enfranchise and consecrate his arms. He appears to have respected the disinterested mediation of Gregory the Tenth; but Charles was insensibly disgusted by the pride and partiality of Nicholas the Third; and his attachment to his kindred, the Ursini family, alienated the most strenuous champion from the service of the church. The hostile league against the Greeks, of Philip the Latin emperor, the king of the Two Sicilies, and the republic of Venice, was ripened into execution; and the election of Martin the Fourth, a French pope, gave a sanction to the cause. Of the allies, Philip supplied his name; Martin, a bull of excommunication; the Venetians, a squadron of forty galleys; and the formidable powers of Charles consisted of forty counts, ten thousand men at arms, a numerous body of infantry, and a fleet of more than three hundred ships and transports. A distant day was appointed for assembling this mighty force in the harbor of Brindisi; and a previous attempt was risked with a detachment of three hundred knights, who invaded Albania, and besieged the fortress of Belgrade. Their defeat might amuse with a triumph the vanity of Constantinople; but the more sagacious Michael, despairing of his arms, depended on the effects of a conspiracy; on the secret workings of a rat, who gnawed the bowstring 39 of the Sicilian tyrant.
Among the proscribed adherents of the house of Swabia, John of Procida forfeited a small island of that name in the Bay of Naples. His birth was noble, but his education was learned; and in the poverty of exile, he was relieved by the practice of physic, which he had studied in the school of Salerno. Fortune had left him nothing to lose, except life; and to despise life is the first qualification of a rebel. Procida was endowed with the art of negotiation, to enforce his reasons and disguise his motives; and in his various transactions with nations and men, he could persuade each party that he labored solely for their interest. The new kingdoms of Charles were afflicted by every species of fiscal and military oppression; 40 and the lives and fortunes of his Italian subjects were sacrificed to the greatness of their master and the licentiousness of his followers. The hatred of Naples was repressed by his presence; but the looser government of his vicegerents excited the contempt, as well as the aversion, of the Sicilians: the island was roused to a sense of freedom by the eloquence of Procida; and he displayed to every baron his private interest in the common cause. In the confidence of foreign aid, he successively visited the courts of the Greek emperor, and of Peter king of Arragon, 41 who possessed the maritime countries of Valentia and Catalonia. To the ambitious Peter a crown was presented, which he might justly claim by his marriage with the sister *_0020 of Mainfroy, and by the dying voice of Conradin, who from the scaffold had cast a ring to his heir and avenger. Palaeologus was easily persuaded to divert his enemy from a foreign war by a rebellion at home; and a Greek subsidy of twenty-five thousand ounces of gold was most profitably applied to arm a Catalan fleet, which sailed under a holy banner to the specious attack of the Saracens of Africa. In the disguise of a monk or beggar, the indefatigable missionary of revolt flew from Constantinople to Rome, and from Sicily to Saragossa: the treaty was sealed with the signet of Pope Nicholas himself, the enemy of Charles; and his deed of gift transferred the fiefs of St. Peter from the house of Anjou to that of Arragon. So widely diffused and so freely circulated, the secret was preserved above two years with impenetrable discretion; and each of the conspirators imbibed the maxim of Peter, who declared that he would cut off his left hand if it were conscious of the intentions of his right. The mine was prepared with deep and dangerous artifice; but it may be questioned, whether the instant explosion of Palermo were the effect of accident or design.
On the vigil of Easter, a procession of the disarmed citizens visited a church without the walls; and a noble damsel was rudely insulted by a French soldier. 42 The ravisher was instantly punished with death; and if the people was at first scattered by a military force, their numbers and fury prevailed: the conspirators seized the opportunity; the flame spread over the island; and eight thousand French were exterminated in a promiscuous massacre, which has obtained the name of the Sicilian Vespers. 43 From every city the banners of freedom and the church were displayed: the revolt was inspired by the presence or the soul of Procida and Peter of Arragon, who sailed from the African coast to Palermo, was saluted as the king and savior of the isle. By the rebellion of a people on whom he had so long trampled with impunity, Charles was astonished and confounded; and in the first agony of grief and devotion, he was heard to exclaim, "O God! if thou hast decreed to humble me, grant me at least a gentle and gradual descent from the pinnacle of greatness!" His fleet and army, which already filled the seaports of Italy, were hastily recalled from the service of the Grecian war; and the situation of Messina exposed that town to the first storm of his revenge. Feeble in themselves, and yet hopeless of foreign succor, the citizens would have repented, and submitted on the assurance of full pardon and their ancient privileges. But the pride of the monarch was already rekindled; and the most fervent entreaties of the legate could extort no more than a promise, that he would forgive the remainder, after a chosen list of eight hundred rebels had been yielded to his discretion. The despair of the Messinese renewed their courage: Peter of Arragon approached to their relief; 44 and his rival was driven back by the failure of provision and the terrors of the equinox to the Calabrian shore. At the same moment, the Catalan admiral, the famous Roger de Loria, swept the channel with an invincible squadron: the French fleet, more numerous in transports than in galleys, was either burnt or destroyed; and the same blow assured the independence of Sicily and the safety of the Greek empire. A few days before his death, the emperor Michael rejoiced in the fall of an enemy whom he hated and esteemed; and perhaps he might be content with the popular judgment, that had they not been matched with each other, Constantinople and Italy must speedily have obeyed the same master. 45 From this disastrous moment, the life of Charles was a series of misfortunes: his capital was insulted, his son was made prisoner, and he sunk into the grave without recovering the Isle of Sicily, which, after a war of twenty years, was finally severed from the throne of Naples, and transferred, as an independent kingdom, to a younger branch of the house of Arragon. 46
*_0018 Except the omission of a prayer for the emperor, the charges against Arsenius were of different nature: he was accused of having allowed the sultan of Iconium to bathe in vessels signed with the cross, and to have admitted him to the church, though unbaptized, during the service. It was pleaded, in favor of Arsenius, among other proofs of the sultan's Christianity, that he had offered to eat ham. Pachymer, l. iv. c. 4, p. 265. It was after his exile that he was involved in a charge of conspiracy. - M.
25 Pachymer relates the exile of Arsenius, (l. iv. c. 1 - 16:) he was one of the commissaries who visited him in the desert island. The last testament of the unforgiving patriarch is still extant, (Dupin, Bibliotheque Ecclesiastique, tom. x. p. 95.)
**_0018 Pachymer calls him Germanus. - M.
26 Pachymer (l. vii. c. 22) relates this miraculous trial like a philosopher, and treats with similar contempt a plot of the Arsenites, to hide a revelation in the coffin of some old saint, (l. vii. c. 13.) He compensates this incredulity by an image that weeps, another that bleeds, (l. vii. c. 30,) and the miraculous cures of a deaf and a mute patient, (l. xi. c. 32.)
27 The story of the Arsenites is spread through the thirteen books of Pachymer. Their union and triumph are reserved for Nicephorus Gregoras, (l. vii. c. 9,) who neither loves nor esteems these sectaries.
28 Of the xiii books of Pachymer, the first six (as the ivth and vth of Nicephorus Gregoras) contain the reign of Michael, at the time of whose death he was forty years of age. Instead of breaking, like his editor the Pere Poussin, his history into two parts, I follow Ducange and Cousin, who number the xiii. books in one series.
29 Ducange, Hist. de C. P. l. v. c. 33, &c., from the Epistles of Urban IV.
30 From their mercantile intercourse with the Venetians and Genoese, they branded the Latins: (Pachymer, l. v. c. 10.) "Some are heretics in name; others, like the Latins, in fact," said the learned Veccus, (l. v. c. 12,) who soon afterwards became a convert (c. 15, 16) and a patriarch, (c. 24.)
31 In this class we may place Pachymer himself, whose copious and candid narrative occupies the vth and vith books of his history. Yet the Greek is silent on the council of Lyons, and seems to believe that the popes always resided in Rome and Italy, (l. v. c. 17, 21.)
32 See the acts of the council of Lyons in the year 1274. Fleury, Hist. Ecclesiastique, tom. xviii. p. 181 - 199. Dupin, Bibliot. Eccles. tom. x. p. 135.
33 This curious instruction, which has been drawn with more or less honesty by Wading and Leo Allatius from the archives of the Vatican, is given in an abstract or version by Fleury, (tom. xviii. p. 252 - 258.)
*_0019 According to Fallmarayer he had always maintained this title. - M.
34 This frank and authentic confession of Michael's distress is exhibited in barbarous Latin by Ogerius, who signs himself Protonotarius Interpretum, and transcribed by Wading from the MSS. of the Vatican, (A.D. 1278, No. 3.) His annals of the Franciscan order, the Fratres Minores, in xvii. volumes in folio, (Rome, 1741,) I have now accidentally seen among the waste paper of a bookseller.
35 See the vith book of Pachymer, particularly the chapters 1, 11, 16, 18, 24 - 27. He is the more credible, as he speaks of this persecution with less anger than sorrow.
36 Pachymer, l. vii. c. 1 - ii. 17. The speech of Andronicus the Elder (lib. xii. c. 2) is a curious record, which proves that if the Greeks were the slaves of the emperor, the emperor was not less the slave of superstition and the clergy.
37 The best accounts, the nearest the time, the most full and entertaining, of the conquest of Naples by Charles of Anjou, may be found in the Florentine Chronicles of Ricordano Malespina, (c. 175 - 193,) and Giovanni Villani, (l. vii. c. 1 - 10, 25 - 30,) which are published by Muratori in the viiith and xiiith volumes of the Historians of Italy. In his Annals (tom. xi. p. 56 - 72) he has abridged these great events which are likewise described in the Istoria Civile of Giannone. tom. l. xix. tom. iii. l. xx
38 Ducange, Hist. de C. P. l. v. c. 49 - 56, l. vi. c. 1 - 13. See Pachymer, l. iv. c. 29, l. v. c. 7 - 10, 25 l. vi. c. 30, 32, 33, and Nicephorus Gregoras, l. iv. 5, l. v. 1, 6.
39 The reader of Herodotus will recollect how miraculously the Assyrian host of Sennacherib was disarmed and destroyed, (l. ii. c. 141.)
40 According to Sabas Malaspina, (Hist. Sicula, l. iii. c. 16, in Muratori, tom. viii. p. 832,) a zealous Guelph, the subjects of Charles, who had reviled Mainfroy as a wolf, began to regret him as a lamb; and he justifies their discontent by the oppressions of the French government, (l. vi. c. 2, 7.) See the Sicilian manifesto in Nicholas Specialis, (l. i. c. 11, in Muratori, tom. x. p. 930.)
41 See the character and counsels of Peter, king of Arragon, in Mariana, (Hist. Hispan. l. xiv. c. 6, tom. ii. p. 133.) The reader for gives the Jesuit's defects, in favor, always of his style, and often of his sense.
*_0020 Daughter. See Hallam's Middle Ages, vol. i. p. 517. - M.
42 After enumerating the sufferings of his country, Nicholas Specialis adds, in the true spirit of Italian jealousy, Quae omnia et graviora quidem, ut arbitror, patienti animo Siculi tolerassent, nisi (quod primum cunctis dominantibus cavendum est) alienas foeminas invasissent, (l. i. c. 2, p. 924.)
43 The French were long taught to remember this bloody lesson: "If I am provoked, (said Henry the Fourth,) I will breakfast at Milan, and dine at Naples." "Your majesty (replied the Spanish ambassador) may perhaps arrive in Sicily for vespers."
44 This revolt, with the subsequent victory, are related by two national writers, Bartholemy a Neocastro (in Muratori, tom. xiii.,) and Nicholas Specialis (in Muratori, tom. x.,) the one a contemporary, the other of the next century. The patriot Specialis disclaims the name of rebellion, and all previous correspondence with Peter of Arragon, (nullo communicato consilio,) who happened to be with a fleet and army on the African coast, (l. i. c. 4, 9.)
45 Nicephorus Gregoras (l. v. c. 6) admires the wisdom of Providence in this equal balance of states and princes. For the honor of Palaeologus, I had rather this balance had been observed by an Italian writer.
46 See the Chronicle of Villani, the xith volume of the Annali d'Italia of Muratori, and the xxth and xxist books of the Istoria Civile of Giannone.


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"He had a great instinct about it," says Reiner.


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The political world is all a Twitter today, debating whether Vice President Joe Biden actually did endorse gay marriage on NBC's Meet the Press this morning when he said he was "absolutely comfortable with…men marrying men, and women marrying women." (If he did, the statement is beyond the Obama Administration's stated policy opposing gay marriage, but supporting equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.) What is crystal clear, though, is Biden's endorsement of NBC's Will & Grace as one of the biggest reasons American public opinion has moved steadily in the direction of approving same-sex nuptials.
"When things really began to change is when the social culture changes," Biden told Meet the Press host David Gregory. "I think Will & Grace probably did more to educate the American public than almost anybody's ever done so far. People fear that which is different. Now they're beginning to understand."
Keen pop-culture observers may point out that Ellen DeGeneres, Modern Family, and Glee have also likely helped "educate" audiences about same-sex relationships. But Biden's point certainly caught the attention of Will & Grace stars Eric McCormack and Debra Messing, who wasted little time tweeting their reactions. "I'm thrilled Biden has come out in support of gay marriage and am beyond proud of what he said [about Will & Grace] #PROUD," read one Messing tweet. "Thank you Mr. Vice President for yer support and yer words about W&G. #humbled," read another. (The latter was in response to an inquiry from Meet the Press producer Chris Donovan.) A few hours later, McCormack tweeted this reaction: "Three cheers for VP Joe Biden! Fantastic interview. Now who ELSE is gonna step up?" (Their Will & Grace costar Sean Hayes re-tweeted the news with no further comment.)
You can check out video of Vice President Biden's Meet the Press interview below:
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