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- AFRICA: Kenyan security forces thwarted a terror attack by more than 100 heavily armed Al-Shabaab militants at a police station near the Somalia border.
- AMERICAS: Bolivia signed agreements with the Russian state nuclear energy agency to build a nuclear research center outside the nation's capital city.
- ASIA: The Chinese navy conducted combat drills near its southern island province of Hainan and the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
- EUROPE: NATO leaders began the second day of a summit meeting in Warsaw.
- MIDDLE EAST: Iran declared its intention to continue developing its missile program "with full force" to meet national security needs.
- TECHNOLOGY: The Obama administration announced that a counter propaganda campaign has led to a 45 percent reduction in the Islamic State's Twitter traffic.
- North Korea: The country performed a submarine-launched missile test
- According to South Korean Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff the missile was launched at 11:30 am off the peninsula's eastern coast.
- The Joint Chiefs say the missile appears to have failed in the early stage of flight, traveling only a few kilometers before exploding mid-air. The missile would need to travel 300 km before it is considered a successful launch.
- Japan, the United States, and South Korea condemned the missile launch as a flagrant violation of UN sanctions.
- The launch comes at the end of a week of sharply rising tensions on the peninsula. It is only a day after the U.S. and South Korea pledged to deploy an advanced anti-missile system to counter threats from Pyongyang, and two days after North Korea warned it was planning its toughest response to what it deemed a "declaration of war" by the United States.
- Coverage: WSJ, AP, Reuters, BBC, CNN
- Kenya: Security forces thwarted a terror attack by more than 100 heavily armed Al-Shabaab militants at a police station in Wajir County, near the Somalia border. (Xinhua)
- South Africa: Indian PM Modi marked a historic train journey by Indian independence leader Mohandas K. Gandhi during the final day of his visit to the country. (AP)
- South Sudan: Scores of bodies were brought to a hospital in Juba after fighting erupted across the capital. (AP)
- Region: The Bahamas issued a travel advisory for any of its citizens visiting the United States, recommending that young men in particular take care in cities affected by recent tensions over police shootings. (AP)
- Bolivia: The country signed agreements with Rosatom, the Russian state nuclear energy agency, to build a nuclear research center outside La Paz. (Xinhua)
- Ecuador: The International Monetary Fund approved a $364 million emergency loan to the country to rebuild after April's earthquake. (AFP)
- Region: The Chinese navy conducted combat drills near its southern island province of Hainan and the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea. (Reuters)
- India: Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in most parts of Kashmir after government forces killed the top rebel commander in the disputed territory. (AP)
- Pakistan: Tens of thousands of people filled a Karachi stadium to attend the funeral of philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who died after a prolonged illness. (AP)
- Philippines: Police killed nine people overnight in President Duterte's controversial war on crime. (AFP)
- Region: NATO leaders began the second day of a summit meeting in Warsaw that's expected to lead to decisions about Afghanistan, the central Mediterranean, and Iraq. (AP)
- Region: The Belgian foreign minister says his nation will provide at least 150 soldiers to a new multinational NATO battalion based in Lithuania. (AP)
- United Kingdom: The British government formally rejected a petition signed by more than four million people calling for a second referendum on EU membership. (AFP)
- Iran: In response to international criticism, the country declared its intention to continue developing its missile program "with full force" to meet national security needs. (Reuters)
- Syria: After a 12-day battle, government and allied forces took control of Maydaa, a rebel-held town east of Damascus. (Reuters)
- Syria: Rebel groups targeted residential neighborhoods in the government-held area of Aleppo, killing some 30 people. (AP)
- Technology: The Obama administration announced that a counter propaganda campaign has led to a 45 percent reduction in the Islamic State's Twitter traffic. (AP)
- Cyclones: Tropical Storm Nepartak
- Location: 168 NM W of Taipei, Taiwan
- Winds: 40 mph
- Movement: NW at 10 mph
- Map
- Hurricanes: Tropical Storm Blas
- Location: 1420 NM W of Baja California
- Winds: 70 mph
- Movement: NW at 9 mph
- Map
- Hurricanes: Tropical Storm Celia
- Location: 715 NM SW of Baja California
- Winds: 40 mph
- Movement: WNW at 13mph
- Map
- Earthquakes: Nothing to Report
- Volcanoes: Nothing to Report
- Global Disease Outbreaks:
- Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)
- Chikungunya Virus Disease (CHIK)
- Suspected Cases as of 08JUL: 159,830 (Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Bolivia, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curacao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guiana, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthelemy, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin (French), Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Sint Maarten (Dutch), Spain, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, UK Virgin Islands, United States of America, US Virgin Islands, Uruguay, and Venezuela)
- Confirmed Cases as of 08JUL: 34,172
- Deaths as of 08JUL: 18
- Deaths (01JAN15-31DEC15): 74 (Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico)
- Sourcing: WHO, WHO-2, CDC, CDC-2
- Novel Coronavirus (MERS-CoV, SARS-related)
- Cases as of 07JUL: 1,782 (Saudi Arabia (KSA), Jordan, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the United Kingdom (UK), France, Tunisia, Italy, Oman, Kuwait, Yemen, Malaysia, Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, the Netherlands, Iran, Algeria, Austria, Turkey, The Philippines, Germany, China, South Korea, and the US)
- Deaths as of 07JUL: 634 (Saudi Arabia, France, Qatar, United Kingdom, UAE, Oman, South Korea)
- Sourcing: WHO, WHO-2
- Zika Virus
- Reported autochthonous Transmission as of 07JUL: American Samoa, Anguilla, Argentina, Aruba, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Bonaire (Netherlands), Brazil, Cabo Verde, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Curaçao, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Fiji, French Guiana, Guinea-Bissau, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Indonesia, Jamaica, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mexico, Micronesia (Federated States of), Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Lucia, Saint Martin, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Netherlands), Sint Maarten, Suriname, Thailand, Tonga, Trinidad & Tobago, United States Vietnam, Virgin Islands, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of).
- Outbreak Terminated as of 07JUL: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Gabon, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, New Caledonia, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Isla de Pascua (Chile).
- Locally Acquired Without Vector Borne Transmission as of 07JUL: Argentina, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Spain, and the United States of America.
- Sourcing: WHO, WHO-2, CDC, CDC-2
- Africa Region: AU Summit to be held in Kigali, Rwanda (to 18JUL)
- Georgia: Referendum on early presidential elections in Abkhazia
- Japan: Upper House Elections
- Peru: President-elect Pedro Pablo Kuczynski to name cabinet
- Turkey: Nationalist Movement Party congress in Ankara


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Subcommittees of the Committee on International Activities (IAC)
The Committee is responsible for studying and recommending appropriate SOCIETY participation and cooperation in international undertakings pertaining to chemical education, professional activities, and scientific matters of interest to chemists and chemical engineers, and coordinating its efforts with those of other organizations, especially the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council.
Committee members may choose to serve in the following subcommittees, which specialize in regional issues and/or scientific freedom and human rights issues.
Subcommittee I: Africa and the Americas
Dr. Richard Danchik, Chair
Subcommittee 1 is responsible for the geographical areas of the Americas and Africa. In particular we have a concern for access for countries with low bandwidth internet capability. In general we are interested in facilitating the development of Chemistry throughout the Americas and Africa. In particular, we want to foster general and chemical education, especially at early levels and for women; we hope to develop partnerships with other countries to advance our shared goals in reaching out to fulfill our educational mission.
Subcommittee II: Europe and the Middle East
Dr. Nancy Jackson, Chair
Subcommittee 2 is responsible for Europe and the Middle East and in those regions works to (1) to serve as an informational clearinghouse for opportunities available to younger chemists for cooperative efforts and exchange of students, (2) to support and maintain liaisons with federations, (3) to promote and publicize programs of the ACS that would be of interest to sister societies and receive information from them in the same way; (4) to provide recommendations to the full committee to advise ACS President of member nominations to the U.S. National Committee and Divisional Membership in IUPAC; and (5) to serve as an international clearing house for International Activities of the divisions.
Subcommittee III: Asia and the Pacific Basin
Dr. Agnes Rimando, Chair
Subcommittee 3 is responsible for the Asia / Pacific Basin and works to advance the goals of ACS to identify common values, and to connect and collaborate with counterparts in Asia and the Pacific Rim. The subcommittee seeks to address, through the chemical enterprise, the challenges facing our world by focusing on activities that advance science education, knowledge, research, interaction, and collaboration through the expertise of network members and their counterparts in Asia and the Pacific Rim.

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Where can we stay?At our Cabot Links Lodge, of course! We have rooms and villas available.
How do I get to the Cabot Links?You can find all the information at our 'Travel to Cabot' page.
What type of attire is appropriate?Typical golf attire - golf shirts and pants or walking shorts with soft spike shoes.
What is the weather like?Daytime temperatures in Inverness range between 16-24°C (60-75°F), reaching a potential high of 29°C (85°F) in July and August. The course can be windy, what great links course isn't? We suggest wearing layers with a windbreaker (or rain jacket- just in case).
Are there carts?We are a walking only course. We offer carts for people who have genuine mobility related disabilities. Please call ahead to ensure availability.
Do you have caddies?Cabot Links offers traditional caddying which involves both the golfer and the caddie walking the course. Caddies at Cabot Links are expertly trained and as such, offer invaluable insight with regard to pin placements, yardage, strategy, club selection and, last but not least, moral support! Our caddies hope to boost your game and lower your score. - Class A caddy fees are $60 plus gratuity for 18 holes and Class B caddy fees are $45 plus gratuity. Caddies are paid directly, tipping is left to your discretion.
What other activities are there nearby?The Inverness Beach borders Cabot Links (and beyond!). It boasts the warmest water north of the Carolinas and is staffed with life-guards every day of the summer. The charmingly decorated Inverness Beach Cafe is a great place to grab a snack. If you have the energy to walk after a round, Cape Breton is home to numerous paths and hiking trails, be sure to bring good shoes and your camera. Live music is an intergral part of culture, with Gaelic song and dance experienced at local music venues, restaurants and pubs - day and night. Be sure to check out The Inverness County Centre for the Arts, which features local artwork and has a charming gift shop. On Wednesday evenings and Sunday afternoons, harness racing is alive and well at the track in town. Bring a few dollars and bet on your favourite horse!
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How long is your season?Our season runs from May to October.
How close are the nearest airports to Cabot Links?
- Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia (Private) is 80 Kilometers (50 Miles)
- Halifax NS is 317 KM (197 M)
- Sydney NS is 168 KM (105 M)
- Moncton NB is 403 KM (251 M)
What is the cancellation policy?While we know you won't want to cancel, in the unfortunate event that you must, our policy allows non-resort guests to cancel 72 hours prior to a tee time without penalty. Resort guests booked to stay with us at the lodge have up to 24 hours prior to their scheduled tee time to cancel without fee. The penalty for late cancellation is 100% of the golf rate as scheduled.
What kind of clubs can I rent at Cabot Links?Male rental clubs are Titleist. Female rental clubs are Cobra.


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What began last year as a sweeping discussion of strengthening the economy in Washington County is beginning to take shape as a plan with specific goals and strategies.
County commissioners say they want to support cities in their efforts to bring in businesses and jobs, without duplicating efforts.
Late last month, a consulting firm hired to study the issue suggested how the county might do that:
— Promote a high quality of life, which includes low taxes, public amenities, and available housing and training for workers.
— Build and maintain infrastructure, including transportation and transit opportunities and fiber-optic networks.
— Determine the county's financial contribution, which could involve loans or tax policies.
— Be a leader in regional and legislative efforts.
— Promote and market the county.
— Offer staff services to cities that need them or create economic-development programs that cities and businesses can use.
The next step for the county is to refine the result it is seeking and decide how to get there. That includes deciding the level of staff time, money and control the county wants to contribute.
"One of the things discussed was, you really shouldn't set up a structure until you determine exactly what it is you want to accomplish," Jane Harper, the county's senior planner, said Wednesday. "One of the big questions is: Well, you've got these strategies, but who should do it? A staff person here at the county? The HRA (Housing and Redevelopment Authority)? A new organization? An existing economic-development agency?"
The consulting firm's final report will likely be presented to the county board before mid-March. "And there will be hopefully more meat on it," Harper said of the specific strategies that are slowly replacing vague goals.
There's a reason the ideas have been broad and the process of getting involved has been slow.
"We're just starting to digest the data. This is the first time Washington County has ever been involved in economic development," board chairwoman Autumn Lehrke said. "This is really a change in policy for the county, and it's an exciting opportunity."
Harper also said this isn't an issue unique to Washington County. Economic development has historically been left to cities and states, but counties are slowly becoming more active players, she said.
The consulting firm's research has given county commissioners a good foundation, so they can make decisions based on reality, not perception, Harper said.
For example, a study of the county's labor market revealed that Washington County has not been bleeding jobs to neighboring Wisconsin, which is often rumored, Harper said.
Another interesting finding was that jobs in Washington County pay relatively low wages, but the average income is high; the combination means low-income earners have a hard time finding a place to live.
This presents an area where the county needs to come up with a strategy to bring in higher-paying jobs or expand affordable housing, or both, Lehrke said.
"Our main focus is, we understand the private sector drives development and creates jobs," Lehrke said. "And if you look at the study, there aren't very many high-paying jobs in Washington County. So, for me it's very interesting to find out what we can do to encourage people to come here."
City officials are pleased with the county's push to get involved and have been involved in the planning process from the start.
"I think they're really doing it right, asking the right questions, doing some good background research," Oakdale city administrator Craig Waldron said. "They also understand that they have to walk before they run."
Waldron said he'd like to see programs and policy changes that help the cities' existing economic-development activities.
"We've always been very aggressive as a city, in terms of economic development," Waldron said. "If there are pieces they can do to help us with flexibility or (development) policies or a revolving loan fund that could help our efforts, we would find that helpful."
Elizabeth Mohr can be reached at 651-228-5162. Follow her at twitter.com/LizMohr.


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================= Bob, Rick et all.
Well.. the network connection is back up.. took that good card out and put in a flakey one in it's place and bingo bango.. it's all ok.
I pounded away at the irq troubles but got distracted with a couple of dying hard drives... and never did get the usb irq conflicts solved.
I wouldn't worry too much about the USB IRQ conflicts. They're minor issues. So, you don't use the internal NIC, just the external? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens vitalstream com - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - ...Had this been an actual emergency, we would have fled in terror - - and you'd be on your own, pal! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------


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There are a lot of elements of modern cinema on which I'd like to see a moratorium declared.
Let's start with remakes - particularly remakes of really crappy movies. I mean, c'mon: Red Sonja? Red Dawn? Really? There's neither the irony nor the substance that could make either of those worth the time or money. And Overboard? That one wasn't funny the first time.
Then move on to an even lower rung on the content ladder: movie versions of terrible or anciently corny TV series from a past so distant that today's filmmakers have only seen them on Hulu or YouTube.
It's impossible to be either serious or funny in any meaningful or involving way about something that's not actually part of your own formative experience, something whose ironic value you've only experienced second-hand. I mean, get serious: Gilligan's Island? The Man from U.N.C.L.E.? Did we learn nothing from I Spy and The Wild, Wild West? Or Land of the Lost?
Sequels? It goes without saying. Reboots - urrgh. And forget about Americanizing foreign films. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo doesn't need to be watered down or tarted up by Hollywood; the Swedish version is perfect as it is, thanks.
If you want to remake something, remake movies that botched their source material the first time. How about a movie of Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities that gets it right?
Still, if I had to choose one current movie craze to which I'd call a time-out, it would be the comic-book movie. And I say that as someone who championed comic-book movies for years, before most people took them seriously.
That was before they become the dominant movie artform. These days, a movie that doesn't have a comic-book aesthetic is increasingly hard to come by.
I feel as though there isn't a facet of the comic-book movie that hasn't been ground to dust in the past 10 years. Even the ultimate comic-book movie - the movie that has served as a template for all others, despite not actually being adapted from a comic book - I'm speaking, of course, of The Matrix - even that film spawned two sequels that stumbled and disintegrated, proving that a thing of beauty should be a joy forever - and not the stem cell from which thousands of other ideas are cloned.


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The identity of the masked killer in the "Scream" movies has been accidentally revealed on a late-night U.S. TV show.
Director Wes Craven has purposefully kept the face behind 'Ghostface' a secret and refuses to let his cast know what the killer looks like – because it has helped him make the fear appear more real on screen.
However, during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Thursday, Craven's secret was revealed when the host flashed a photo of the previously unidentified actor, Roger Jackson.
Craven says, " We sneak him into the set before the actors arrive. We put him upstairs some place, in an obscure room and put a guard out front… No actor, until now, has ever seen him."
— WENN Newsdesk
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With two full days of speakers and knowledge, there was much to take away from SearchLove this fall. George (@gzlatin) and I were able to visit Boston and attend the conference, so we've summarized the multitude of things that we learned and heard at the event. You'll note that the "Keep it Real" comments from the speakers are missing most of the important words as these are supposed to remain "attendee secrets" for the next 30 days.
Yes, I know this list is long (it's supposed to be), so I've summarized it into the following categories to make things easier on you. (side note: within each category, the individual items are ordered from when they were provided throughout the event)
Speakers | SEO | Link Building | Local Search | Social Media | Content | Analytics | CRO | Mobile | Business | Tweets
You can download the speaker presentation decks over at Google Drive and even better yet, buy the full conference videos over at Distilled. Note all images are property of Distilled.
Dan Shapiro | Google, Inc. | Creating Serendipity
www.danshapiro.com | @danshapiro
Categories: Business, SEO
Rob Ousbey | Distilled | Characteristics of a Successful Outreach Campaign
www.distilled.net | @RobOusbey
Categories: Link Building, Content, Business
Ian Lurie | Portent | Making Your Pitch: Writing Clear, Compelling Proposals
Categories: Link Building, SEO, Local Search, Business, Social Media
Jen Lopez | SEOmoz | Utilizing Social Media for Customer Acquisition & Retention
Categories: Social Media
Wil Reynolds | SEER Interactive | Chasing Algorithms: Think Deviously, Act Angelic, and Never Get Hit by a Penalty
www.seerinteractive.com | @wilreynolds
Categories: SEO, Mobile, Content
Mike Pantoliano | Distilled | CRO & SEO - Better Together
Categories: CRO, Analytics, Content, Business
Annie Cushing | SEER Interactive | Establishing a Framework for SEO Audits
www.seerinteractive.com | @anniecushing
Categories: SEO, Analytics
Stephen Pavlovich | Wish.co.uk | How to get Attention, Links and Sales for a Scrappy Start-Up
www.wish.co.uk | @conversionfac
Categories: Business, CRO, Content, Social Media
Eytan Seidman | Oyster.com | Content Strategies that Work
www.oyster.com | @eytanseidman
Categories: Business, Content
David Mihm | GetListed.org | The Need to Know of Local SEO
www.getlisted.org | @davidmihm
Categories: Local Search
Lexi Mills | Distilled | Leveraging PR to get Big Links
www.distilled.net | @leximills
Categories: Content, Link Building, Analytics
Mike King | iAcquire | Reinclusion Afterlife
Categories: Content, Social Media, Business, Link Building
Ben Wills | Ontolo | Concepts and Practices of Efficiency, Scale and Value
Categories: SEO, Business
Mat Clayton | mixcloud.com | Marketing Hacks
www.mixcloud.com | @matclayton
Categories: Business, Social Media
Cindy Krum | MobileMoxie | How to Win at Mobile SEO
www.mobilemoxie.com | @suzzicks
Categories: Mobile, Business
Todd Friesen | Salesforce.com | Penguin Penalties: Diagnosis and Recovery
www.searchfanatics.org | @oilman
Categories: SEO, Link Building, Content, Analytics
Will Critchlow | Distilled | Head to Head - Inbound Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
www.distilled.net | @willcritchlow
Categories: Link Building, SEO, Analytics, Content
Rand Fishkin | SEOmoz | Head to Head - Inbound Marketing on a Shoestring Budget
Categories: Content, Analytics, SEO, Link Building, Social Media, CRO
- Google is making it harder and harder for SEO's. Over 500 updates to Google's algorithm in the past year. - Duncan Morris
- The new purpose of SEO is to build trust with your users. If you build an audience that trusts you, you won't have problems with updates - Duncan Morris
- Not one thing has changed in the last ten years if you aren't chasing the updates - Duncan Morris
- Don't file a reconsideration request until you really have to - Ian Lurie
- A site has to do some diligence before disavowing links - but she supports link disavow because old style reconsideration requests didn't really work. - Annie Cushing
- It's hard to make a sell to do Real Company Marketing when all the crap stuff works, it's a lot easier to get real buy in now to do real marketing. Especially since Penguin. - Annie Cushing
- The initial idea behind Penguin was just to Scare websites. The SERPS after penguin weren't that great but most brands won't take the risk now of doing grey link building. - Annie Cushing
- Europe wasn't hit as much by Panda because the nature of their market is different (it's much smaller) and therefore the content farm model didn't neccessarily work. Google's webspam team is English centric. - Will Critchlow
- Google is looking to replace search results for Cars, Credit Cards and other keywords that they feel they can provide a better experience for with their own results. - Dan Shapiro
- Marketing has always been about persuading people, but for some reason some people consider SEO to be manipulating spiders…instead of persuading people. - Wil Reynolds
- 242 Google changes since April - Wil Reynolds
- No one at this conference has PHDs (except for one guy who raised his hand). No one is going to outsmart googles 1800 PHDs - Wil Reynolds
- 4 Facts about Google patents (and why you shouldn't worry about figuring out how to game them) - Wil Reynolds
- #1 - they may never implement it - Wil Reynolds
- #2 - if they do, it could be 8 years from now - Wil Reynolds
- #3 - if it doesn't work they'll yank it - Wil Reynolds
- #4 - surfacing quality content - Wil Reynolds
- Every algorithmic change is designed to surface quality content - Wil Reynolds
- Quality assets are how you protect yourself - Wil Reynolds
- Use UberSuggest - Wil Reynolds
- 1 reason to follow ranking algorithms - protect yourself from affiliate/partner risk - Wil Reynolds
- Don't pay attention to algorithm changes, pay attention to SERP display changes and how they affect your business - Wil Reynolds
- Your best protection against algo updates is Real Company Stuff - Wil Reynolds
- The algo changes of today are more like a swinging pendulum - it's like a pengulum that comes back again and again. - Wil Reynolds
- Most common issues that lead to index bloat are "borked internal linking" & "internal search result pages" - Annie Cushing
- Main causes of indexed page bloat: borked internal linking, search results pages, ecommerce parameters (sorting options) and faceted navigation - Annie Cushing
- Bing only tolerates 1% dirt in a sitemap, after 1% dirt they don't trust it - Annie Cushing
- Annie wrote a very easy to use post on how to use regex - Annie Cushing
- Screaming Frog is the #1 site audit tool - screaming frog is a create resource to look at sitemaps and find dirt - Annie Cushing
- Make sure that your sitemap files are submitted in Webmaster Tools (both Google and Bing) - Annie Cushing
- Bing has a much harder time getting pages and full sites indexed - Annie Cushing
- Loss of valuable links can come from homepage that 302s, pages with links that 404, pages that 500 - Annie Cushing
- Use screenshots in your audits since your words may not make sense to everyone that reads it, especially one that gives URLs for the screenshots
bit.ly/audit-post for a list of 300 tips, tools and checklists for performing audits - Annie released this post during the conference. - Annie Cushing
- Bing is not as good at indexing URLs, Google got much better since caffiene - Annie Cushing
- Take ______ of your _______ sites on a _____ basis to see what new features have rolled out and if you can see spikes in _____ etc. and then _______ to see what they did that day on a _______ basis - Ben Wills from Keep it Real
- Give embed code for ________, don't just give the _______ - use the _________ as your __________ instead of putting _____ below that - Todd Friesen from Keep it Real
- ______ that aren't ______ for ________ and are just at the ______ perform better - Mike Pantoliano from Keep it Real
- Use a _________ from a _______ test to show clients how they match up to competitors - Annie Cushing from Keep it Real
Use __________ to import a __________ and clean it up and export the good one - Annie Cushing from Keep it Real
- Do not submit a reconsideration request if you have been hit by Penguin - Todd Friesen
- Cannibalizing your own stuff sucks - Make sure that the right landing page is the one that ranks - Rand Fishkin
- If you've been hit by Penguin and you can't get rid of those links, then use the disavow tool - Ian Lurie
- The disavow tool is the last resort - Ian Lurie
- Links disavow tool is a good thing because it helps business remove shady links that prior SEO agencies have built. For example, if you by a domain and it has crappy links that you can't get rid of. - Ian Lurie
- Disavow is a very "Matt Cutts-ian" name - Will Critchlow
- Penguin and Panda has not affected black hat link building at all since the game has always been churn and burn tactics - Will Critchlow
- Penguin has dramatically changed the grey area especially for brands, etc. the blackhats are still doing their thing but the clients in the middle ground are affected more. - Will Critchlow
- Germany is still big on low quality directories, spun article marketing and blog comment spam. - Will Critchlow
- Outreach = Prospecting > Contacting > Communicating > Conversion - Rob Ousbey
- Priorities for Outreach - Build Relationships, Get Coverage, Acquire Links - Rob Ousbey
- If you aren't doing outreach as yourself, then you are losing out on the networking opportunity - Rob Ousbey
- Help your outreach team learn more about the brand and consumers. If they have a good understanding of the brand they can do a much better job. - Rob Ousbey
- Avoid PageRank Magpies - don't judge opportunities just on DA - look at the relevancy as well - Rob Ousbey
- When doing PR and outreach, make sure to understand your real audience - Rob Ousbey
- Outreach is very similar to online PR. There's a huge amount that SEO's can look from PR people. - Rob Ousbey
- Pre-outreach is a great way to get buy-in from relevant sites and individuals, but it can also help guide the design of the content - Rob Ousbey
- People doing outreach have a great sense of what's going to work for a site as far as getting approved - content planners should communicate with outreach team - Rob Ousbey
- Treat bloggers/webmaster like people instead of only link building opportunities - "bloggers are people too" - Rob Ousbey
- Use Facebook and/or Reddit to find the target audience to line up outreach opportunities and build relationships - Rob Ousbey
- Don't use the term link building or SEO while doing outreach. Use something like "PR" or "digital marketing" instead. - Rob Ousbey
- If you aren't doing outreach as yourself, then you are losing out on the networking opportunity - Rob Ousbey
- Target guest blog opportunities using Facebook ads (or LinkedIn ads - Will Reynolds tweeted this tip during the conference). For example, you can target fashion bloggers over the age of 18. - Rob Ousbey
- Distilled spent $70 and got two good leads through Facebook from bloggers who are willing to accept guest posts. - Rob Ousbey
- Conversion straight to links - look at this awesome thing I found. If bloggers feel like they discovered something themselves, they are more likely to want to share it - Rob Ousbey
- Sometimes people _______ the link when they link to you and link to the _____domain name - find those sites and get the ______. Use your ________ to see what people have searched for and develop the list of _______. Then use ________ and then do the _______to contact those sites and get them ______. - Wil Reynolds from Keep it Real
- You should strive for your first 4 or 5 top anchor text variations to be branded terms before non-branded terms are coming up. - Wil Reynolds
- Making a story real, really helps it sell - Lexi Mills
find an idea that worked before and redo it - you don't always need a brand new idea - Lexi gave an example of an alien in a jar that was copied from a previous story about a dragon in a jar (or vice versa). - Lexi Mills
- If it's feasible, use the domain when referencing a client so that it's easy to ask for the link afterwards - Lexi Mills
- Ask to be credited with a link - Lexi Mills
- When pitching a locally or regionally relevant outreach story, make sure to include the location in the email subject - Lexi Mills
- Use the word byline instead of the term guest post - Lexi Mills
- Sites that use a paywall get a lot of readership, so don't skip the idea just because of the loss of SEO value - Lexi Mills
- B2B coverage and proof can lead to better success with B2C once you have the credibility built - Lexi Mills
- When using surveys, get a minimum of 2,000 results or you may run into troubles pitching the story for lack of respondents - Lexi Mills
- Getting on the phone increases results by about 70% over just email, plus you get more direct feedback. - Lexi Mills
- Try to include your clients domain name in the article. If they've already written you clients domain name in the article, you're more likely to get a link - Lexi Mills
- Byline vs guest post - When going after high level stories, tell them you want to pitch a byline (this is PR terminology) - A byline is exactly the same as an opinion based guest post - Lexi Mills
- Newsdesks are helpful - if in doubt send your request to the newsdesk and they will send it to the right person - Lexi Mills
- Stop creating patterns with your link building - Low level guest posting that uses duplicate bio descriptions will be axed by Google soon. - Mike King
- Linkdex categorizes the types of links a domain has pointing to it - Todd Friesen
- Organize your links so that you can scrub out what you need to: dump networks; reach out via email, phone, whois; duplicative content; and track all of your efforts/results - Todd Friesen
- Once you have done all of the work to get things cleaned up and removed, only then can you submit a reconsideration request - Todd Friesen
- Reconsideration request rules: Full Disclosure and Full Documentation: list of links, methods of contact, dates of outreach, etc. - Todd Friesen
- And only at the last, last, last resort should you disavow links - Todd Friesen
- Penguin means that you have a higher percentage of bad stuff than good stuff. So if you do more good stuff you can bring your rankings back. - Todd Friesen
- Go make yourself an alien baby and get 10,000 links! - Todd Friesen
- If you have been hit by penguin, don't forget that you need to continue with your day to day and continue to do good things and don't just focus on fixing the bad - Todd Friesen
- Google is using the public as their personal Mechanical Turk with the disavow tool. - Todd Friesen
- Sitewide links are not a good strategy anymore (obviously some exceptions apply with sister companies) - Todd Friesen
- In reference to anyone doing negative SEO - you're only doing that because you're not good enough to do the rest of it. - Todd Friesen
- Sometimes it's better to do SEO on someone else's site - pay attention to great news pieces on your brand and promote them - Rand Fishkin
- Co-citation may be the next anchor text - when you search for "backlink analysis" SEOmoz ranks because others mentioned the kw on the page when they linked to SEOmoz. - Rand Fishkin
- Siri and Apple are Google's biggest threat in search simply because they have the platform and devices, not because they are necessarily good at search - Ian Lurie
- For local businesses, you can __________ as a business, so attach those __________ consistently on ___________ like _________ to improve your business' visibility - David Mihm from Keep it Real
- Leave a _____ as a ________ and you can promote that easily as ___________. This will keep your ________ at the top (and a link to your business) - David Mihm from Keep it Real
- #1 need to know - 30% of all searches have local intent - number is directly from Google and Bing
- 50% of mobile searches are local in intent
- 10 packs started showing up in 2008
- In 2009, generic search terms deemed to have local intent started showing 10 packs
- Mike Ramsey wrote a great blog post on SEOmoz about the Venice local search algorithm update
- With blended search, you need to make sure that your organic and local strategies are in sync
- Google MUST be able to associate your website with your location in order to blend your +Local page.
- Name, Address and Phone number should be in HTML format on your website
- www.geositemapgenerator.com in order to create a KML file to upload to Webmaster Tools
- Schema and microformats not important for ranking, but are important for standing out in the search results
- Multi location businesses need a crawlable store locator with unique pages for each location.
- Multi location businesses should submit each location to Google+
- Embedding a MyPlaces map is the ideal way to include your location within a map on your website
- The over/under on decent, non-spam, non-directory links a typical SMB is likely to have is 3.6.
- Branded anchor text is also very important for local search, not just with SEO
- Location prominence = "A highest score associated with the documents referring to a business"
- Do a search for site:.edu Boston sponsors or site:.org Boston sponsors to find locally relevant and valuable links and citations
- Larger companies with many listings should get a local scent by leveraging internal linking, leveraging the corporate blog, leveraging social channels, hosting events and sponsorships at a local level (using individual location pages)
- In a multi location business, links from local resources and sponsorships should be to the location page, not the homepage
- NAP +W = Name, Address, Phone Number and Website
- Big 3 data providers are Localeze, infogroup and Acxiom
- Apple Maps get their data provided primarily from Localeze, Yelp, Acxiom, Tomtom and OpenStreetMap
- Finding niche citations CAN be the differentiating factor for SMBs
- Mine your existing links to see if you can get citations
- Bonus tip for getting citations for large companies: job listings
- Hospitals are great for getting niche citations as they will list local businesses as a resource to their guests
- whitespark.ca is a great paid tool to find niche citations
- Use Google Mapmaker in order to clean up old or incorrect listings
- Claim over an old listing instead of submitting a new listing when changing addresses
- Make sure to update the 3 major data providers before going to individual listings
- Reviews on +Local are slightly more important than they used to be
- it is important to diversify the places that you are getting reviews, don't just focus on one
- Keywords in reviews for both long tail and head terms
- Power of the reviewers is increasing as a factor
- Google is not using Yelp reviews in part of it's algorithm
- Sentiment in reviews is most prominent for restaurants, especially after their purchase of Zagat
- "At a glance" terms can be pulled from both reviews and non-traditional blog posts on completely non-local related websites
- In terms of getting reviews, segment customers with Gmail addresses and invite them to review you on Google
- Consider the ease of leaving a review for someone without an account by suggesting Yahoo and CitySearch
- Incorporate feedback into the everyday process
- Reviews from the Yelp elite definitely skew the rankings and ratings on Yelp
- Topsy is a good tool to find Yelp elite reviewers
- "title="Elite 2012"" Portland site:yelp.com/user_details - use this search term to find Yelp elite reviewers in Portland
- Create a Twitter dashboard using Hootsuite or something along those lines and develop a relationship with the Yelp elite
- Don't just offer a discount or free meal to the Yelp elite - can get your listing banned
- Use Followerwonk to isolate people that are following both the Yelp and Google Local Community managers in a specific city
- Get the categories squared away on Google Places first and then Google +Local next since they don't display them all like before
- Keyword research is best done with Google suggest and related searches at the bottom of search results
- Can use Google trends to drill down to regional and city level data to compare trends for various terms
- Do NOT use local tracking phone numbers
- Rankings not ideal to track for local simply because the display results change so frequently
- whitespark.ca has a ranking tool for local results - best used to show magnitude visually and not the exact ranking number changes
- Overcoming centroid bias - pay attention to the outliers to find out what those companies are doing that aren't right at the city center
- In order to compete in a tough market try to get at least one citation from a .edu or .gov
- Foursquare definitely counts as a citation, but it's unclear if number of checkins or velocity of checkins is any factor. Tips or reviews for a business do carry sentiment and are a better focal point than checkins.
- First things first: you have to optimize social sharing so you can further the opportunity - Jen Lopez
- Basics - optimize social sharing widgets on your site - Jen Lopez
- Use Followerwonk - Jen Lopez
- Use Simply Measured - A lot of info about your social data - Jen Lopez
- Show some data (and then make it really easy to share) - Jen Lopez
- Read the Noob Guide to Internet Marketing - get it for a tweet - pay with a tweet/share - Jen Lopez
- Make people tweet your link to download a report - generate your report by tweeting. - Jen Lopez
- Use social proof - Jen Lopez
- You can connect your Google+ and Google AdWords to increase CTR - Jen Lopez
- Images do really well on Facebook - Jen Lopez
- You can pay to promote your posts on Facebook - SEOmoz does this and it works well for important posts. - Jen Lopez
- Try something new and measure the difference in the results. - Jen Lopez
- Use social sign in to make it easier for people to use - Jen Lopez
- Make sure your social contact information is available on your contact page - Jen Lopez
- Sometimes you have to take it off social. Take stuff offline when you need to - sprout social sent @jennita cupcakes and made a lasting impression. - Jen Lopez
- Empower your social media manager to make decisions and take actions before the opportunity is lost. Don't make them have to get approval for everything. - Jen Lopez
- There's no one single best time to send/publish across all industries. Don't follow the data other people provide, test what works best for YOUR site. - Jen Lopez
- If you are tweeting something multiple times, make each post unique instead of saying the same thing 3 times. - Jen Lopez
- Use LinkedIn to post blog posts as well - not just Twitter/Facebook/Google Plus - Jen Lopez
- If you are posting a news mention or blog post on multiple social sites, use a different message best suited for each one (i.e. Facebook vs. Twitter) - Jen Lopez
- You should be where YOUR people are, not just where people are - Jen Lopez
- Talk to people like people and try to help them when dealing with negativity - Jen Lopez
- Don't use sponsored tweets or sponsored Facebook posts in a "douchey" way. You know when you're being "douchey". - Jen Lopez
- Tag people on Google + that might like your post. G+ makes this easier than Facebook or Twitter. - Jen Lopez
- LinkedIn groups are awesome - a lot of people like to ask questions on LinkedIn - Jen Lopez
- Get your social mechanisms in place so that you can leverage the sharing opportunities - Stephen Pavlovich
- Figure out who is the ideal person to seed your "product". It should be someone that is naturally a good fit for promoting the product based on their interests (and followers). - Stephen Pavlovich
- As soon as you get seed credibility, repitch to other celebs - Stephen Pavlovich
- Push on social media (advertise) and scale with services like buzz stream. - Stephen Pavlovich
- If you can't sell to someone due to geographic constraints, find another way to convert them (i.e. social connection and promotion) - Stephen Pavlovich
- Don't post to _______ from _______ - lowers your ______ - Jen Lopez from Keep it Real
- Use _________ to find out what people are talking about and ________ - Jen Lopez from Keep it Real
- _____________ created a tool for ________ to find the best folks to ______ for a specific search term. - Ian Lurie from Keep it Real
- Use Knowem.com to build all of your social profiles - Mike King
- New Facebook notifications have a 17% minimum CTR because they're considered too spammy otherwise - Mat Clayton
- What, when and how frequently we share matters a ton. - Rand Fishkin
- A picture is worth 50%+ engagement - Rand Fishkin
- Flywheel of brand credibility - start out by publishing quality content on your own site and then leverage that content to get better guest post opportunities on other sites. - Rob Ousbey
- The CEO of sales force guest posts on techcrunch and Forbes - get company heads to write content - Rob Ousbey
- Understanding the purpose and the reason that someone is writing in a particular niche will help increase your opportunities - Rob Ousbey
- Use the relationships you have built within a niche during outreach for networking purposes - Rob Ousbey
- Product - have product available to use in one way or another - it's remarkable how much it can affect success of an outreach campaign. - Rob Ousbey
- Add their own egg - if you can create "just enough work" you will get more buy in - if I give you a necklace and require a picture and at least 500 words. Have enough of an egg for them to feel useful. - Rob Ousbey
- Advertorial content usually fails - Rob Ousbey
- Anything with a competitive aspect helps drive further success. For example, Mac users donated more money than PC users. - Rob Ousbey
- If you're looking for good content ideas, look in your own analytics - for example, Adam and Eve put out a post on which state buys the most sex toys - Rob Ousbey
- Alignment of Outreach with Content Planners and Creators will drive higher levels of success - Rob Ousbey
- Be prepared to reformat the creative - Rob Ousbey
- Having a plan and a calendar is vital to a successful campaign. Why now? Special event, seasonal creates urgency - Rob Ousbey
- Most of your ideas suck - worry about what other people want and what they are looking for - Wil Reynolds
- The better you get at policing your ideas the better your content is going to be - Wil Reynolds
- If you are going to do an awesome infographic, do it in HTML5 instead of graphics so that you can rank for the search terms you are writing about - Wil Reynolds
- Get inspiration, don't just copy - Mike Pantoliano
- There are four types of content that get attention: topical, sexual, celebrity and controversy. - Stephen Pavlovich
- Gather quotes, media and "proof" - Stephen Pavlovich
- Create a new interesting product, create a fake product, spin an existing product - Stephen Pavlovich
- Follow up with a press release (include images and quotes, write the article for them) - Stephen Pavlovich
- If you have great images, use Google Images to find out instances of them being copied/stolen - Eytan Seidman
- Question to ask yourself: will someone take time out of their day to share this? - Eytan Seidman
- Photo fakeouts are extremely successful for Oyster.com - They compare doctored pictures that hotels provide on their sites to "real life" photos of the same hotels. - Eytan Seidman
- The Forbes 400 List (The richest people in America) - This is one of the most successful forms of content marketing - Eytan Seidman
- Your content marketing should produce things that only you are uniquely capable of doing - this is why photo fakeouts worked so well for oyster - Eytan Seidman
- Your content marketing should reinforce what is unique about you - Eytan Seidman
- Another successful content marketing strategy for Oyster.com: Bundle Breakdowns - Bundle breakdowns shows the real cost of travel bundles - this connects back to the oyster brand really well - Eytan Seidman
- Start out by focusing your content marketing on vertical niches (these are easier to get at first), then go broad once you have some examples and credibility to show. - Eytan Seidman
- Your content marketing has to be effectively branded - Oyster on huffington post has the oyster.com watermark on all photos. If a site doesn't want to add your logo, don't let them use your content. - Eytan Seidman
- How do you find people that produce content for you? Answer: Contracted employees who are in the field write the content - They have 75 people at different locations and all the content marketing efforts are produced in house. - Eytan Seidman
- One of the keys is starting with the smaller guys and then moving to the bigger guys - this Is how you get the bigger links - the rich get richer - Eytan Seidman
- Screencast your ________ and then make a _______ of it so that you can __________ to someone - Lexi Mills from Keep it Real
- Use _________to strengthen the quality of your ______ and get more ______- Mike King from Keep it Real
- Don't hit enter on Google and instead see what people are looking for in order to get content ideas. - Wil Reynolds
- You can get experts to comment on your stories and get coverage - just email universities and ask. Most experts are willing to comment on your story if you ask. - Lexi Mills
- If trying to portray a celebrity for a video, find a lookalike on the cheap! - Lexi Mills
- Use pics of hot ladies - Your story will get more coverage with hot ladies. - Lexi Mills
- Minimizing risk - think of multiple angles for content in case someone else comes out with something similar or if the media doesn't bite you can come out with your back up story. - Lexi Mills
- Use comparisons of size to relate-able objects like people or cars since people can more easily understand the magnitude of the data - Lexi Mills
- Don't piggyback or news jack stories that aren't happy, fun or cool - Lexi Mills
- Find trend data in your analytics and create a story relating the data to your industry - Lexi Mills
- Piggybacking - When you put together content that relates to something going on in the news. Some examples given were prince Will and Kate's royal wedding pizza and Lego's recreation of the Red Bull space jump - Lexi Mills
- Don't jump on the back of a negative news story like Hurricane Sandy - these can lead to negative press. - Lexi Mills
- If you want to try and get a link inserted into a story ask a night editor. Night editors will do things that regular editors won't do - don't ask the journalist, they usually don't know how to do it. - Lexi Mills
- Invest in content strategy, not just content marketing - Mike King
- Always have a crisis content strategy - Mike King
- File DMCA complaints on the duplicate content that other sites have stolen (you'd be amazed at how well they work) - Todd Friesen
- There are 2 kinds of "bootstrapped" marketing - #1 pay using something other than money or #2 spend someone else's money - Will Critchlow
- ROI is a terrible metric for bootstrapped marketing since the amount you put in is not an appropriate divisor - Will Critchlow
- If you have traffic and no content, find someone who has content but no traffic and work out a deal - Will Critchlow
- Rapportive makes it easy to find email addresses - Will Critchlow
- Macy's first Thanksgiving parade was just it's workers - Will Critchlow
- The Tour de France was originally a promo for a newspaper (and it put their rival out of business) - Will Critchlow
- Get in other people's emails - don't be afraid to send cold emails - Will Critchlow
- True Love - It lasts and it can't be bought - If you can get people to really love your content or service then they will stick with you through good and bad times - Rand Fishkin
- Empathy and creativity = great content - Rand Fishkin
- Innovation does't always trump imrovement - Seomoz's well known "Ranking Factors" post was not an original idea - It was an improvement on someone elses idea. - Rand Fishkin
- Even amateur graphics perform shocking well - you don't need high end graphics - Rand Fishkin
- Being transparent with success works, but being transparent with failure works even better - Rand Fishkin
- Only sharing your own content is a recipe for disaster - Share other people's stuff - Use the law of reciprocity - Rand Fishkin
- Real world interaction is greater than virtual world - Rand talked about his personal connection to Guinness beer after visiting the factory in Ireland once - now he drinks more Guinness - Rand Fishkin
- Make sure Deliverability isn't holding you back - if more than 1% of your list reports you as spam, Mail Chimp will block you - Rand Fishkin
- Include only the good stuff, not the kitchen sink - the little things devalue the greater stuff - For example, putting spanish on your resume as an added benefit doesn't really help if you're applying for something not related to Spanish. It actually hurts your chances of getting hired. - Rand Fishkin
- Some sites have over 55% of their traffic showing as (not provided) - Duncan Morris
- Spend more time on the Landing Pages, Funnel Visualization and Goal Flow reports - Mike Pantoliano
- Avoid geek speak in your filter titles in analytics - Annie Cushing
- Always add an annotation to your analytics when making filter changes - Annie Cushing
- First of the month is a good day to do add a filter just to have easier MOM reporting - Annie Cushing
- Make sure PPC traffic is coming across properly so that it isn't inflating organic traffic - Annie Cushing
- Use kwcid in a table filter to filter out ppc landing traffic in landing pages report - Annie Cushing
- ___________ can be used for ______ retargeting - Wil Critchlow from Keep it Real
- You can put your ________ pixel on your _______ websites - Wil Critchlow from Keep it Real
- Good Google Analytics functions for finding stories: Browser, Time of Day, Referring Traffic and Device - Lexi Mills
- Traffic for the sake of traffic isn't a relevant metric, need to focus on the business return and conversions - Todd Friesen
- CRO is helping your site become Panda friendly since you are improving usage - Mike Pantoliano
- The ROI on SEO goes down over time. CRO is a great way to improve that ROI and add value to clients. - Mike Pantoliano
- Successful headline tests can be applied across all marketing mediums. You can apply "headlines that win" to different marketing initiatives - email, banner ads, etc. - Mike Pantoliano
- CRO is 80% experience (doing) and 20% tactical (reading) - The only way you get better at it is by doing. - Mike Pantoliano
- The not-secret secret of CRO is testing - Mike Pantoliano
- Build, measure and learn from your tests - a lot of people don't do the learning step. Important to always ask - what did we learn from that test? - Mike Pantoliano
- Emphasize "You", not "We" - Mike Pantoliano
- For every 1 second of load time, conversion drops 7% for REI - Mike Pantoliano
- If you aren't running any promotions at the time, don't show the coupon code box - Mike Pantoliano
- Be Human - stop it with the stock photography - Mike Pantoliano
- The first rule of CRO is to become the customer - Stephen Pavlovich
- If you are offering a promotion like free shipping over $50 purchase, pre-fill that code in the checkout for increased conversions - Stephen Pavlovich
- Wish.co.uk _________ after the ________ to see what people are thinking. For example, what almost _____________ your purchase? - Stephen Pavlovich from Keep it Real
- Use a headline to draw people in when you want them to fill out a form. - Stephen Pavlovich
- Use real people looking either at you or at what you want them to look at on the page - don't use stock photos - Stephen Pavlovich
- Ranking #1 isn't all it's cracked up to be - video, authorship and other rich snippets really help you stand out and increase CTR - Rand Fishkin
- One of the great myth of CRO is that testing all the variants will produce greatest returns - survey and ask why do people buy and answer those comments - Rand Fishkin
- Mobile devices accounted for 41% of the Olympic coverage data consumption - Duncan Morris
- Responsive design is very important since mobile traffic accounts for a ton of the social traffic - Wil Reynolds
- Google now has a preference for responsive design as opposed to separate mobile pages - Cindy Krum
- Primary mobile site design options: responsive design, mixed solution (RESS), separate mobile pages - Cindy Krum
- Responsive design is far less taxing on Google's resources - Cindy Krum
- Responsive design is harder to target mobile specific keywords with one set of content since it's all on the same URL - Cindy Krum
- By using rel=alternate and rel=canonical to reference desktop and mobile versions of pages, you can retain the desktop ranking value in mobile searches - Cindy Krum
- DUST = Duplicate URL Same Text - make sure the URLs on both versions of sites are the same, including trailing slashes - Cindy Krum
- redbot.org to show site code as it downloads - Cindy Krum
- 50% of consumers watch TV whilst browsing the web on a different screen - Duncan Morris
- Don't do anything important (like launch a big update or new website) at midnight. You'll be up all night fixing it. - Dan Shapiro
- Believe in luck - Dan Shapiro
Fish in deep water - the kind of connections that move your biz forward are impossible to predict but you can control when and where they happen. - Dan Shapiro
- Triage quickly - know when to move on to the next set of conversations at conferences and events - make the best use of your time. - Dan Shapiro
- Learn the one, magic phrase - How can I Help? If you think from this angle, it will come back around to you. - Dan Shapiro
- Getting "buy in" from your client/boss makes the job so much easier - Rob Ousbey
- One of the first things you get when you get "buy in" from clients/boss is more budget - Rob Ousbey
- Flywheel of success = Good results > they like you > more buy in > you get more access - Rob Ousbey
- Kids are nature's way of teaching us to write great proposals - they always ask "why?" - Ian Lurie
- You have to talk about Why you do what you do, then you have to parallel the why with everything you do. why=value. If you can get How and Why in sync, then that's where you can really win - Ian Lurie
- Read "start with why" by Simon Sinek or at the very least watch his TED Talk.
- Active voice should be used whenever possible. - Ian Lurie
- Use you, we and our instead of talking about "the client" or "your website". "If YOU blank, then we're you're agency. if YOU blank the we've got a blank for you." - Ian Lurie
- Illustrate the process well instead of using ordered or numbered lists - Ian Lurie
- All things you do in a proposal can enhance or contradict the why - Ian Lurie
- User PowerPoint (or a similar software) to do all proposals. Microsoft Word makes you put a lot of words on a page. PowerPoint makes you consolidate and use only the important info. - Ian Lurie
- Be careful of overusing stock photos. Use services like iStockPhoto or original pictures instead. - Ian Lurie
- The person reading your proposal will find a way to screw it up, so use PDF to retain how you want it to look - Ian Lurie
- Use eye contact in your writing style. i.e. "If YOU think what YOU do matters, etc" - Ian Lurie
- Build imputed value - Ian Lurie
- Use your autoresponders to pitch your "Why?" and reinforce your message - Ian Lurie
- Silence does not mean all is well - stay in touch - Ian Lurie
- RFP's kill the "why?" - Ian Lurie
- Use data sparingly and well - don't send giant keyword lists or stuff that is overwhelming - Ian Lurie
- Do talk about ROI but just don't lead with that. Start with explaining the WHY first. - Ian Lurie
- Distilled uses toggle as their internal time tracking tool - Mike Pantoliano
- Having a good domain makes your site much more linkable - Stephen Pavlovich
- punch above your weight - focus on your domain name - they spent 10K on wish.co.uk and it was by far the best decision they made. The domain name commands respect right away. - Stephen Pavlovich
- Eighty percent of success is showing up - Stephen Pavlovich
- Prepare your server for craziness - Stephen Pavlovich
- Start with the goal in mind, work backwards - Stephen Pavlovich
- Hotel research has $50 billion of market capitalization, but lacks innovation - Eytan Seidman
- Oyster.com is equivalent to the CNET of hotels - They offer high quality reviews of hotels - Eytan Seidman
- Insist that the ______________ are included in company meetings and dinners. Send an additional _______ to that group to get your work done _____ and ______. - Todd Friesen from Keep it Real
- By default, ________ is checked when setting up _________ - uncheck the box to save money - Cindy Krum from Keep it Real
- ______ your ads to show your address when your ________ and your _______ when someone is ____________ - Cindy Krum from Keep it Real
- Ask "________________?" when talking to clients - Ian Lurie from Keep it Real
- Always monitor your reputation and know your opponent - Mike King
- Respond promptly when negativity does arise - Mike King
- Don't lean on other brands - Mike King
- Focus on what made you great - Mike King
- Fix whatever the problem is from the inside out - Mike King
- Omit needless work and needless time spent - Ben Wills
- Identify resources that are distractions - Ben Wills
- Identify efforts that aren't yielding results and aren't investments - Ben Wills
- Identify where time is unnecessarily spent - Ben Wills
- Know thyself - spend a lot of time figuring out what you and your business are really good at - Ben Wills
- Know they customer - Help them with their threats, obligations and opportunities - If you can help them in one of those 3 areas then they will work with you for a long time. - Ben Wills
- Search for "Jason Freid Curate" - Jason has a great TED talk about curation - The key to the process is figuring out what to keep out, not what to put in - Ben Wills
- The purpose of marketing is to increase the sales conversion rate. - Ben Wills
- Design your culture to make your companies value obsolete every 12 months - keep innovating - Ben Wills
- Users have 3 known states: active, inactive and dead - Mat Clayton
- Users go inactive when they get stale and active when they are resurrected - Mat Clayton
- User accounting = actives + new + resurrect - stale - die - Mat Clayton
- Find a way for your users to do your marketing for you - Mat Clayton
- Little known - @distilled had a negative SEO attack launched against it. Lots of bad links, no effect. We won't disavow. #searchlove - @dohertyjf
- How often do you use "disavow" in daily conversations #stuffgooglesays #searchlove - @JLBraaten
- It will be interesting to see what Google does with the disavow data in the coming months @willcritchlow #searchlove - @mackfogelson
- @jennita Wait, so we're NOT supposed to drink every time they say "disavow?" Oops #SearchLove - @JoelD_SEO
- Google created an ecomony that caused the issues we are experiencing with links @willcritchlow #searchlove - @mackfogelson
- My very own Duck of Awesomeness. http://yfrog.com/nvuv6luj #searchlove - @amykelinda
- Building serendipity is really about making friends and seeking to help others. Great mantra for life as well. #searchlove - @dohertyjf
- Now @distilled prefers to do outreach on behalf of themselves (as the agency), not the client. Helps to scale. #searchlove @RobOusbey - @mackfogelson
- @juliantrueflynn tweets are good for engagement #searchlove - @iamdchuk
- Answer this: we are in business because we believe that.....#searchlove @portentint - @mackfogelson
- #Searchlove "Great marketing can save the world..." -@portentint (especially if you have a TARDIS) - @RyanGPhx
- Imputed value - sum total of details around an experience - will reinforce value. Does how = why? That's when you win. #searchlove - @jessweiss
- If you can get the how to parallel the why, that's when you're gonna win. The stuff in your proposal's gotta match #searchlove @portentint - @mackfogelson
- If you're going to use the word "suckage," why not put it in the proposal and get it out of the way? #SearchLove - @JLBraaten
- Use data sparingly and well. Don't get in between the reader and what you're trying to help them understand #searchlove @portentint - @mackfogelson
- The best TED talk I've ever seen. "Start With Why." If you're in marketing, take the time to watch this -http://www.startwithwhy.com/Learn/LearningLibrary.aspx?control=ViewGalle... … #searchlove - @dohertyjf
- Dont use a proposal to get in the door, use a proposal to start a relationship. @portentint #searchlove #sales #Searchlove - @modelrania
- Tip: with social media, you don't have to tell people all the things all the time #searchlove @jennita - @mackfogelson
- "I don't really like that Facebook makes me pay 4 people who already like my page to see my sh*t." #truth #edgerank @jennita #searchlove - @modelrania
- "This is link earning, not link building" #Searchlove Conference Live Blog – Day 2 http://goo.gl/kU6g6 #SEO #linkbuilding @distilled - @RightHatSEO
- We're so plugged in we forget to take things offline and do something amazing for them. Little things add up. @jennita #searchlove - @shinheeson
- From @jennita - people send super angry tweets at OSE or@SEOmoz & when she gives them a personal response they're calmed #searchlove - @adammelson
- Directories and articles cannot kill a quality site #rcs #searchlove @wilreynolds - @mackfogelson
- @wilreynolds: Best protection against algo updates? Quality content.#searchlove - @rpboots
- Display changes in SERPs - that's where you can find golden opps, or find KWs Google already dominates @wilreynolds #searchlove - @JHTScherck
- 19/20 top website results for Wil Reynolds are for @wilreynolds. 7/7 image results are for the model Wil Reynolds #searchlove - @adammelson
- Sweat the small stuff, test the big stuff. Make things easy, you know, for the customer. #searchlove @MikeCP - @mackfogelson
- #SearchLove is happening across the hall from "Recent Advances in Humanized Mice: Advancing the Development of an HIV Vaccine."#perspective - @kellereno
- Use lots of scrennshots in your audits. It will help to walk the customer through the data. #searchlove @AnnieCushing - @mackfogelson
- The Best SEO Audit checklist - http://buff.ly/SQ6qg9 by@AnnieCushing #searchlove - @wilreynolds
- Don't ask devs to 301 redirect all the 404's - you'll make enemies, only look at the pages that get GOOD traffic#searchlove - @wilreynolds
- http://Wish.co.uk was purchased for only $10,000. That bought a lot of trust #Searchlove - @fairminder
- Try a benefit bar immediately below the nav that includes 3-4 key reasons why someone would choose your company over competitors #searchlove - @mackfogelson
- Venice rocked results harder than Penguin. Since Venice, the whole screen is being dominated by local @davidmihm #searchlove - @mackfogelson
- Rich snippets, not going to impact rankings. Will help CTR (10-20% increase personally) #searchlove #nodownside - @adammelson
- Keywords in reviews are really, really important. Really. #searchlove @davidmihm - @mackfogelson
- Proximity to searcher is important. See what you can Sherlock from the business that is furthest away & make changes #searchlove @davidmihm- @mackfogelson
- Tracking phone numbers: If you have 3, Google thinks u have 3 biz. Bad-Like splitting linkjuice #searchlove - @adammelson
- Sites behind pay walls can have more trust to them; help you build links from other sources easily. @leximills #SearchLove - @Sonray
- Find stories in your analytics! Create a trend stories based on what different groups of people are doing when. @leximills #searchlove - @agalluch
- I've not played around with http://brokenlinkindex.com/ until now. Two searches, two opportunities #searchlove @ipullrank - @adammelson
- @37Signals is getting a lot of attention at #searchlove - subscribe to their awesome blog http://ow.ly/f4jgA you wont regret it - @JHTScherck
- @willcritchlow: This is the royal wedding spoof video @leximills just mentioned: http://youtu.be/Kav0FEhtLug #searchlove" This was genius!! - @HudsonHorizons
- Just because you didn't get hit by penguin….yet….doesn't meant you won't. You need to prepare @oilman #searchlove - @mackfogelson
- Panda was inevitable because eHow had 10 articles on How to Pour a Glass of Water @oilman #searchlove - @digsart
- Use Wavelength for MailChimp to find newsletters similar to your ownhttp://bit.ly/ReKk7p #searchlove - @iPullRank
- Local events work. Even for a web company. #searchlove@willcritchlow - @mackfogelson
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Microlight Flying, the official membership magazine of the British Microlight Aircraft Association, is the only UK magazine dedicated to this sector of aviation.
Printed monthly in full colour, it is your essential guide to news, events, personalities and adventures in microlighting.
This site is the online home of Microlight Flying. Here you can browse past issues of the magazine, catch up on the latest news and stories from our monthly newsletter, Microlight Flying eNews, and view photos in the gallery.


text: A crew of Hike Maui guides took the day off from guiding visitors to explore two remote valleys on our own –Dustin, Dylan, Kate, UlaUla with owners mj & Ken. There were numerous waterfalls, but "Fairy Falls" floored us all. We were flabbergasted to see this canyon with waterfalls dripping down from high above.


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CALWF3 v1.8 Release Notes
CALWF3 v1.8 was released for internal use at STScI on October 26, 2009, but was never installed in OPUS or released to the public, because it has already been superseded by v1.8.1. There was one update to calwf3 in this version.
Relevant PRs for v1.8:
PR 63788 FLATCORR routines modified to use mean gain for calibration
The UVIS and IR FLATCORR routines, which divide a science image by the flatfield reference image and apply the gain calibration, were both upgraded to solve an issue regarding the gain calibration. The gain calibration is performed by multiplying each image quadrant by the gain value applicable to that quadrant, using the quadrant-dependent gain values stored in the detector parameters reference table (CCDTAB). But because the intrinsic differences in gain between quadrants are also included in the different signal levels recorded in the flatfield images, the science images were essentially over-corrected for the gain variations, resulting in DC offsets between quadrants in calibrated images. The gain calibration routines in the FLATCORR steps were therefore updated to compute the mean gain of all 4 detector quadrants, from the values listed in the CCDTAB, and apply the mean gain to the entire science image, thus eliminating the double correction problem. Note that the mean gain is only used when processing direct images and not for grism images, because grism images are not divided by a flatfield during calwf3 processing and therefore don't suffer from the double correction.
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Video: 14 seconds of karate kicks results in eight red cards at football game
A lower league Brazilian game between Potiguar and Baraunas descended into crazy violence for a short period and the referee was left with little space in his notebook after sending off eight players.
It's amazing that so much can happen in just 14 seconds. Karate kicks, punches and leaps in and out of rows by what seemed like every single player involved.
It does put the handbags at dawn stuff we have to endure in the Premier League each week.
Referees eventually broke up the brouhaha, and sent off four players from each team, leaving just 14 players on the pitch to play out the remainder of the 90 minutes.
Potiguar went on to win the match 2-1.
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Discussion in 'The Professional Gallery' started by Tally Ho, Oct 21, 2005.
From a shoot last week. We were experimenting with some different poses and techniques.
Tally Ho
an interesting and clean photo.
a little odd for me though. makes my eyes hurt when i try and make sence out of this.
Now if you really want something odd, flip this image 180 degrees which puts the shadow above her. NOW THAT'S ODD!
Tally Ho, Da Ho, Don Ho, Heidi Ho
I love the composition, but the hair doesn't seem quite right. Otherwise I really like it.
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The mission of the Quality of Life Committee (QOL) is to make recommendations to the president in those areas where a consensus exists on ways to improve the academic, social and physical character of university life.
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The North half of the room BEFORE...
The North half of the room AFTER!
The South half of the room BEFORE...
|Please excuse my Christmas decorations, this room is used for storage while we wait for our new bundle.
The South half of the room AFTER!
The Process:
|This is a more realistic shade of the colour, most of the pictures read a little too lime.
The Glorious Result!:
Most of the pictures make it look way more of a neon lime colour then it actually is. It's called Serengeti Plains, and is a softer mossier colour in actual lighting. I still need to tape off and repaint all the white trim and ceiling(because it's scuffed up over the years and some paint leaked a tiny bit) as well as the door, because it's still purple... Hang curtains, change the light fixture, etc...
The Leksvik wooden crib will go against the plaid wall, then we have the white change table and shelf.... and that's pretty much it! Maybe a dresser once we realize that we need more clothes storage space.
I hope you enjoyed my simple post about painting this room! Don't let paint intimidate you, after all if you don't like it, you can always paint over it!


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Lead Instructor: Viscount Richard de Camville, KSCA, OL, OP
Guest Instructors to be announced as the event gets closer
DATE: Saturday January 23rd, 2010
PLACE: Chateau de Camville
ADDRESS: 2735 Possum Creek Lane Placerville, CA.
EMAIL: dcamville@hughes. net
FEE: $10.00 (includes lunch and a BBQ dinner)
RSVP DATE: January 17th, 2010
NOTE: This is NOT official SCA event. The event is being held and sponsored by Chateau de Camville. Participants please RSVP by the deadline so we can plan to FEED you! You can show up the day of the workshop but if you don't RSVP you may not get fed! If you have questions about this one-day workshop please drop us a note at dcamville@hughes. net.
FOCUS: This is going to be a one-full-day workshop geared towards improving the foundation skills used in SCA and WMA Armored Combat. This will be a great starting point for new fighters and a wonderful refresher for those more experienced combatants. We will be TRAINING with drills, slow-work, focused sparring and more. Most of the day will be unarmored and the latter part of the day will be armored.
WHAT YOU WILL NEED: Bring your fighting gear. If you have loner bits, please bring them. Some loaner gear may be available. As part of the day will be unarmored we recommend training in your gambeson or other fighting clothes. A chair is also recommended. Your favorite sports beverage is a good idea. Water and lemonade will be provided. You will also need to PLEASE BE ON TIME! We have LOTS of material to cover and we need everyone up to speed and ready to go. Yes...there will be space to work on non-martial projects! If you would like to teach a class please let us know!
FOOD: A lunch grazing table and a barbeque dinner will be provided. Some soft drinks will be provided. If you have a favorite beverage please bring it along. If you have any food allergies PLEASE let us know by January 25th, 2010 so we can take care of your food needs.
CRASH SPACE/CAMPING: We have LOTS of room for tent set up and crash space for those traveling from outside the area. If you need crash space Friday or Saturday night (breakfast will be provided for guest Saturday morning who crash here), please let us know by dropping us a note at dcamville@hughes. net by January 17, 2010.
DIRECTIONS: From Hwy 50 heading towards Placerville, take the Missouri Flats Road exit and head SOUTH. Follow Missouri Flats Road (you'll pass several strip centers) until it T-stops at Pleasant Valley Road./Hwy. 49. Make a LEFT on Pleasant Valley Road. You'll go through part of Diamond Springs (really cheap gas there). There is an unoccupied office building on the right hand side just before Hanks Exchange Road. Make a RIGHT on Hanks Exchange Road. Make a LEFT on Ranch Road (it's gravel from here). Stay on Ranch Road (there is a fork and going to the right puts you back on Hanks Exchange). Make a RIGHT on Kenwood Rd. Make a SHARP LEFT at Possum Creek. At the end of Possum Creek there are two long driveways. Take the one to the LEFT and it will lead you to the house (there maybe a bus there for a landmark...yeah, really). We'll leave the lights on for you! For our "city friends" please be mindful of the wildlife. Lots of deer and turkey walk around in the evening and can cross the road at the most inopportune times. It is also VERY dark on the roads so take your time driving.
We look forward to sharing the day with you!
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- adv. Obsolete form of mo.
- adv. Obsolete form of more.
- n. Obsolete form of mow.
- n. Obsolete form of moa.
- v. Obsolete form of moo.
- v. Obsolete form of mow.
- n. Strong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction toward, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. More. See Mo.
- n. A wry face or mouth; a mow.
- intransitive v. To make faces; to mow.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- See mo.
- An obsolete form of mow.
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O usagijen: he's supposed to be the GEEK, the otaku!! usagijen: well I guess this is one of the few shows that break that stereotype. usagijen: w00t! the new girl appears usagijen: why not just pass the megaphone to Kitamura, o forgetful president? usagijen: Taiga's getting all jelly jelly (jealous) ~ usagijen: and a certain "pride" or "dignity" factor usagijen: the perfect way to calm down the tiger usagijen: and I'm gonna explode from too much Taiga moe moe usagijen: she sure is living up to her furry Tiger nickname usagijen: Minorin's doing the trademark: 9 smile of Peko-chan usagijen: honestly stupid, but still … moe~ usagijen: tsk, ryuuji should join the club so he can spend more time with his Minorin~
Both of these are excellently embodied in the schoolgirl; the term moe may in fact originate from the anime middle school heroine Sailor Moon (Hotaru Tomoe).
Part of it, perhaps, is out of the biases of those who would use the word moe or moeblob as a negative signifier.
Kyoko's so moe that the word moe is not good enough to describe her!
I laughed - I think the cat is an attempt of "moe" - to be overly cute, where the desire for cutsy overcame the artists rational side.
Lesbians Sleepover II Yuri & Yaoi: girls & guys play and Beth goes straight....again!
As a female anime fan, I have a lot of male friends who are into these so-called moe shows, but I wasn't sure if they'd apply to me: When the series's audience is male otaku, what is the appeal for women?
When I ordered an iced coffee, our cute "eternally 17-year old" maid Mizuki poured the cream and stirred it for me until I asked her to stop, using the magic word "moe," which is used by the otaku to express burning passion.
I was going, 'Eenie-meenie-minie-moe' – I'd got to 'moe', so I thought I'd better do it.
Six Nations 2011: Chris Ashton makes light of his killer instinct
On RPGnet, the largest tabletop RPG forums on the net as far as I can tell has had a long discussion debating the pros and cons of this, given Japan's proclivities towards "moe" and other Chris Hansen alerting things.
The otaku term "moe" pronounced "mo-eh"--which literally means "budding" and describes the sensation of being blissfully overwhelmed by cuteness or attractiveness, is already a very otome-like idea.


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Rabbi Hillel was one of the great heroes of the Jewish People. He was the "Nasi," a perhaps untranslatable term which has been translated "Prince," "President," etc. It was actually a position that combined religious and secular leadership, and was the highest position of leadership in Jewish Society during the several centuries preceding and several centuries following the destruction of the Second Temple. Hillel himself lived at the beginning of the century preceding the Destruction. Sitting opposite him at the head of the "Sanhedrin," Jewish "Supreme Court," and filling the role of the "Av Beit Din," "Chief Justice," was his colleague, Shammai, with whom he had, and their respective groups of students, had numerous classical disagreements recorded in the Talmud.
In addition to his contributions to the understanding of Jewish Law referred to above, he is famous for a number of incidents in his personal life, and "ethical" pronouncements that he made:
Rabbi Kook on the 'Hillel Sandwich'
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Separate or together? The sages disagreed on how to eat the matzah and maror at the Passover Seder.
The Talmud (Berachot 49a) teaches that mitzvot should not be performed "bundled" together (chavilot chavilot). We do not want to give the impression that mitzvot are a burden, an unwanted obligation that we wish to quickly discharge. For this reason, the mitzvot of eating matzah and maror should be performed separately.
But Hillel's custom was to combine the Pesach sacrifice, matzah and maror, and eat them together. Why did Hillel join these mitzvot together?
Matzah and Freedom
To understand Hillel's opinion we must first examine the significance of matzah and maror.
Matzah is a symbol of freedom. But what is freedom? Freedom does not mean to sit idle and unemployed. True freedom is the opportunity to grow and develop according to one's true inner nature, without the interference of foreign influences. This freedom is symbolized by matzah, a simple food consisting of only flour and water, unaffected by other ingredients and chemical processes.
The formation of the Jewish people as a holy nation required that their national character be free of all foreign influence. They left Egypt retaining none of Egypt's spiritual or cultural baggage. Before offering the Passover offering, they were commanded to "remove and take for yourselves sheep" (Exodus 12:21) - they needed to remove the small measure of Egyptian idolatry that clung to them (Mechilta ad loc).
Without any national character of their own, the Divine character could then be ingrained upon Israel's national soul. This is an aspect of the matzah metaphor: it lacks any shape and taste of its own, so that the desired form and flavor may be properly imposed upon it.
Maror and Servitude
Maror is the opposite of matzah; it symbolizes servitude. But even servitude can have a positive value. An individual whose life's ambition is to be a doctor must spend many years in medical school before finally achieving this goal. The long years of concentrated effort require great dedication and discipline. These years are a form of servitude - but a servitude that serves one's inner goal, and thus ultimately complements the true expression of freedom.
This concept also applies to the Jewish people. The soul is ingrained with a Divine character, but there is dross that clings to us and prevents us from realizing our inner nature. For this reason we need to accept upon ourselves a pleasant form of servitude, the service of God. We acquired this talent through our bondage in Egypt.
After removing the negative aspects of slavery, we are left with its positive contribution. It is through this trait that we are able to accept that which goes against the desires of the moment. This is the message of maror: acceptance of the bitter side of life, with the knowledge that before us lays a higher objective. For this reason, we eat the maror only after eating the matzah - after we have clarified our ultimate goal.
Slavery and Freedom
Now we can understand the disagreement between Hillel and the other scholars.
Freedom, as symbolized by the matzah, reveals the Divine character of Israel and their innate love for God, His Torah and mitzvot. It is this very force that gives us the ability to overcome inclinations that do not yet match the overall elevated goal. It is through our persistence and servitude to the overall goal that the inner power of freedom is fully revealed.
Both freedom and servitude need to act without interference from the other. When freedom is appropriate, it should not be limited by a servile attitude; and when discipline and a sense of obligation are needed, they should not be disrupted by a desire for freedom. Thus, according to the majority opinion, matzah and maror should be eaten separately.
The final goal, however, is attained only with the recognition that these two forces do not contradict one another. Joined together, they present the highest freedom, whose nobility and power is only revealed when it bears the crown of lofty servitude - the service of the Holy King, which is complete freedom.
Thus, Hillel would eat the matzah and maror together. He sought to emphasize that freedom and slavery are not contradictory concepts, dealing with distinctly separate stages. Yes, servitude belongs more to the initial preparatory stage - but in the overall picture, the two forces are connected, influencing and complementing one other.
"The highest form of freedom is when it is combined with servitude. Then one finds in his soul true independence, befitting for one who is truly free: when one can control even the greatest of his powers - the power of freedom."
[Adapted from Olat Re'iyah vol. II, pp. 287-289]


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Episode 7 - Currents - July 15, 2013
I normally really enjoy this show, it is one of my secret thrills but I guess because it has expanded from a 13 episode run to a 24 episode run this season it seems a little slow developing the main story arc. I do like that there are two overwhelming arcs the alpha pack and the druid sacrifices. Still I find the alpha pack story a tad boring. I think the only interesting alpha is Duecalion and the rest are just power hungry thugs who really serve no purpose except to kill. Well, Duecalion is power hungry he is just better at this then the others. There is no loyalty don't the other alphas realize that Duecalion is only using them to increase his powers? I guess he didn't pick them for his brains.
Sad to see Boyd go. Was it really necessary? Guess they needed room for Cora (Derek's younger sister) as I don't really get any vibes or feeling from her character except that she seems a useless waste of space.
Liking that Stiles is becoming the silent leader, the brains. I would mind seeing his dad become a member of the Scooby Gang like Scott's mom has. In fact Scott's mom pretty much rocked in this episode.
I think all the cast must be eating and working out as they looked incredibly toned. Referring much more to Scott's mom and Lydia.


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As we ready our popcorn and PVRs for the debut of 24/7: Road to the Winter Classic, we count down the top 10 characters on the Toronto Maple Leafs and Detroit Red Wings we're most excited to get to know better. No. 2: Phil Kessel and Tyler Bozak
Finally, the moment we've all been waiting for: a look at the dynamic duo that is Tyler Bozak and Phil Kessel. Best buds on the Toronto Maple Leafs, this pair is so tight, they earned the nickname Bert and Ernie and even became roommates. These two not only play on the Leafs' No. 1 line, they also share an address. Maybe they cook meals at home together, too.
Oooeeee, we can't wait for a closer look.
Bozak has always helped shed light on Phil. When Phil is sick, it's Tyler who fills us in on the flu symptoms. When Phil gives smile-free, eight-word answers in scrums, the media circus heads over to chat with his centreman, who's usually good for more than eight words and a smile.
Here's hoping with the constant presence of cameras, Bozak will help draw out a little personality from the fifth-year Leaf who goes out of his way to be bland on a daily basis.
There's a reason Kessel and "Bozie" click, right? Finally, we'll get to see it.
And if the cameras are always running, we're bound to see some great off-ice Kessel moments, right?
Fact is, Phil is the owner of a sneaky personality he's not prone to sharing with the media. Ever. The only reason we know this is courtesy of his little sister, Amanda (Phil calls her Mandy), who is, thankfully, more chatty.
A star on the American team (she's arguably a better player than big bro Phil), Mandy says Phil is "a shit-disturber." And, she notes, they had a lot of fun growing up, flooding the garage in the winter when mom and Phil Sr. were away so they could play stick hockey and slide around. It's good to know Phil has had fun before, because sometimes when he snipes a ridiculous goal and doesn't smile, you have to wonder.
If Phil doesn't open up while the cameras are around 24/7, we can at least rely heavily on his Twitter feed to inform us of his personality. His last Tweet, Oct. 1: "Really happy to be a Toronto maple leaf for the next 8 year." And his bio: "Nice guy, trys hard, loves the game. Play for the Toronto Maple Leafs".
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You'll even have a garage loaded with fun gear for your use - from bicycles to pool toys to beach gear. Osprey Court has everything you could ever need for a perfect Marco Island vacation... simply pack a toothbrush, a swimsuit, some shorts, and come relax in style! Situated on a scenic waterway that leads to the sea, Osprey Court offers the lucky angler in residence a lighted fish-cleaning station, and the dock option of a boat slip with power lift. Osprey Court's interior décor will lift everyone's spirits at no additional charge. A Caribbean Contemporary theme creates the most relaxing vibe you could want, in every room, from dark West Indies wood and bamboo stools in the kitchen to vibrant splashes of color and Key West-style ceiling fans.
Osprey Court is designed for comfort, with convenience and luxury. Explore the Marco Island lifestyle from this memorable home base and you may never want to go anywhere else!!
My first impression of the home was that it was fantastic. The bed was very comfortable. The pool area was great. As I began living in there, I worried about the lack of railings in and around the shower and bath. There is tile everywhere, but no safety measures or supports around the pool or bathroom. I kept thinking that a railing in the shower at least was needed. The railing into the pool wobbles and is not secure. This is not the best home for an older person. There was no comfortable place to put on makeup and mirrors were high up and no full length mirror to be had. I called about the railings and the mirror and a full length mirror was delivered. For a luxury home, I expected a little more comforts. There was a kayak in the garage but no paddles. I would recommend the home but just offering a few heads up for some who it might matter to...4 stars for sure.