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It seems that every person and business today has a blog. They are used to share information and news with an Internet audience. People start blogs for dozens of reasons, so it can be tricky to make a successful blog happen. Use the advice found in this article to skyrocket the views on your blog, and attain success!
Don't ever try to copy something else. Plagiarism is dishonest, and it is the surest way to ruin your reputation and destroy any chance you have of creating a popular blog. Writing expertise is not required to be an effective blogger. It's more about the amount of passion you have for your subject.
If you plan to blog for the long haul, then invest in a domain name. Though there will be some initial expense involved, your blog will have a professional appearance. It also makes it easier for readers to remember who you are.
Don't make long, meandering posts or posts that meander and don't get to the point. While you still have to provide enough detail to inform your readers, overly long and wordy posts will bore your readers and drive them away. Blog readers typically aren't interested in reading something that gets bogged down in details. Your readers will want useful information without the garnishment.
You should let visitors leave comments on your blog posts. This is a good networking move because it helps you develop relationships with other bloggers. You never know how these types of relationships will help your success. These relationships can prove to be of great use down the road. Guest blog posting will give a boost to both of your sites. There is also the added benefit of having someone who you can ask for favors in the future.
Writing A Blog is one of the most popular online activities. There are so many categories and reasons for blogs these days. Luckily, there is a place for all kinds of bloggers, once they find their niche. Apply what you've learned, from the article above, to become the best blogger you can be.


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If Rupert Murdoch thinks readers will pay to read his websites, maybe he should think again. Exclusive research commissioned by paidContent:UK from Harris Interactive shows that most readers would run a mile. As the chart below shows, 74 percent say they'll look for a free site while only 5 percent say they would pay. The first installment is live now; more to come throughout the week.
PCUK/Harris Poll: Only Five Percent Of UK Readers Would Pay For Online News
Paywalls aren't going to succeed or fail in a vacuum. The package has to be convenient, easy to use, and valued by the purchasers. News publishers are going to have to think about product design as well as protection technologies.
A recent study done by Belden Interactive (http://www.niemanlab.org/2009/09/lots-of-data-to-mull-on-charging-for-online-content/) shows a different picture.
Given the situation that one's favorite online news would no longer be available [as a free site], 54% respondents said they would turned to local TV stations for the news; 39% would check other area newspapers' sites (given they are free), etc. (the respondents were allow to mark multiple choices) . Only 11% would go to "other [free] sites."
Interestingly enough, 32% responded said they would use Cable TV (CNN) as their favorite source of news. Given that CNN is not free, the survey shows that PCUK/Harris Poll might indeed be biased, largely underestimating the Web users' willingness to pay for news.
Sorry, but if the possible answers were pre-defined by Harris (and it seems they were), the results might be biased toward the "negative" answers, as they show many options the readers have. If one asks simply, Will you pay to continue to read your favorite paper(s), the distribution will be quite different.
Then, there is the issue of ALL possible differences between free and paid, including perceived quality, favorite authors, favorite format with or without ads, cookies, etc. Then, there is the issue of how easy and safe the payments can be.
Once people start to realize that "another free site" is not the same as "my favorite paper, only without any charges," the breakdown of responses will be a lot more positive towards the paid option.
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Mr. William Ray Harner Sr., 74, of Keymar, Md., died suddenly Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, at his home.
Born April 22, 1937, in Emmitsburg, Md., he was the son of the late James Donald and Clara Adams Harner.
He was the husband of Josephine B. "Jo" Crouse Harner, who died in 2010.
Mr. Harner was a 1955 graduate of Emmitsburg High School.
He was formerly employed with Castle Farms Dairy and Gary R. Airing Painting.
He was a member of the Terra Rubra Lions Club and Pheasants Forever.
He enjoyed bowling in his younger years, and was a great outdoorsman, involved in hunting, fishing and crabbing. He was an avid sports fan, enjoying baseball and football. He also enjoyed life and people, and spending time with his family, especially his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Surviving are a daughter, Diann L. Airing of Taneytown, Md.; a son, W. Ray Harner Jr. of Keedysville, Md.; six grandchildren, Jessica N. Levine and husband, Justin, of Westminster, Md., Laura Cooper and husband, Jason, of Salisbury, Md., Julie Heuer and husband, Jeff, of Martinsburg, W.Va., and Monica Pereschuk and husband, Clint, and Sherry and Sandra Harner, all of Keedysville; six great-grandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 22, at Hartzler Funeral Home, 6 E. Broadway, Union Bridge, Md. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 2 p.m. until the time of the service.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Monocacy Valley Chapter, National Wild Turkey Federation, c/o Gale Taylor, 5 O'Brien Ave., Taneytown, MD 21787.
Expressions of sympathy may be shared with the family at www.hartzlerfuneralhome.com.


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Gemista is a traditional Greek dish, in Greek the word Gemista means stuffed, which is exactly what this dish is. The main vegetables in this dish are tomato, zucchini, eggplant, capsicums. Depending on how many servings or what vegetables you prefer you can modify this recipe as you like. The following recipe is for one tray of Gemista. While making this recipe it is best to use larger veggies so they are easier to stuff.
Want to try more Greek Recipes?
- 3 large tomatoes.
- 4 large eggplants.
- 2 large zucchini.
- 3 Capsicums.
- 3 Potatoes.
- 1 diced onion.
- 2 cloves garlic.
- 1 cup of rice.
- 1/2 cup olive oil.
- 1 tbsp tomato paste (for colour).
- Salt & Pepper.
- Parsley, Basil and Dill
- Currents (optional)
Cooking Method
1. Preheat oven
Set oven to 200c fan. By the time we finish hollowing out our food the oven wil be preheated.
2 .Hollowing out the vegetables
Cut the zucchinis and eggplant in half lengthways and cut the top off the capsicums and the tomatoes. Once cut, get a spoon and start to scrape out the inside of the veggies to hollow them out. Make sure to keep all the scrapes as we will use this in the filling.
3. Making the filling
After you have finished scooping out the insides of the vegetables, you need to grate them so they become fine (or you can also quickly blitz them in a food processor). In a bowl add all the grated vegetables and season with salt and pepper, grate in the onion and the garlic, add the parsley, basil, dill, tomato paste, currents and olive oil and mix well. Finally add to the mixture 1 cup of rice and cook on the stove for five minutes.
4. Stuffing the vegetables
Take the filling off the heat and put to the side. In a tray place all you vegetables down, one by one we will start to stuff the veggies. Make sure you place the veggies up right so the filling doesn't fall out. Once all the vegetables have been stuffed, peel your potatoes and cut into wedges. Before adding the potatoes to the tray make sure to salt and pepper them (for crispier potatoes deep fry them until they are a little under half cooked).
5. Cooking
Once the veggies have been stuffed and the potatoes have been added to your tray, drizzle oil oil and put in a preheated oven at 200c. Cook for about about an hr until the rice has cooked and the vegetables turned a nice brown.


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Yesterday evening everyone was put to work getting out office & workshops ready for a customer visit. Col uses it as a way of getting painting / cleaning/ refurbishment done as otherwise we get the mañana mood. Jordan took charge of the office and Kate took so long getting herself changed that she copped for the grim job.. cleaning the toilets!
... need we say more, she is so funny! Spent the rest of the evening talking about Jones Towers (as in the Hilton) and how 'Daddy would have to help her with that..'
Two layers of latex gloves and plenty of bleach later she came back into the house...'a human being should not have to do that job' she sighed..' I felt like Paris Hilton on the Simple Life'


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I see it's been over a month since I even attempted to blog about anything.
Not that I haven't done anything of importance during this time but I've gone through 3 different bouts of colds with varying degrees of severity. This last one has been the killer cold mainly because it turned into the killer cough last weekend which unhappily kept me up for an hour last night.
However, in the service of country and family, I plod along. Just.
Despite all that I got out of bed this lovely morn determined to get some cleaning done. It had to be done.
With all the modern conveniences at our disposal, there are still something's one has to get down on one's knees to do. Plus I had 5 year old doing some scrubbing although her stamina failed to match her initial enthusiasm.
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It's been a long road! I was discriminated when I took my BSN the 1st time so I took a yr off school to think about what to do. During that time, I met & married hubby & he convinced me to go back to school to at least complete my practical nrsg. It was a long journey of distance Ed - completing my LPN to BSN degree in six yrs as I faced so many health challenges. But I made it through!!! Now I'm on the road to being the RN I've always dreamed of being - look at me shine
Monday, April 11, 2016
Metabolic acidosis is next up - what next?
From the time of discharge life has sucked - first it was because my head was still killing me when they sent me packing after they increased my Diamox dose. However, that action was very short sighted as my head started to hurt less and I started to experience more and more nausea, dizziness and fatigue.
NOW - here's the kicker..... with ideopathic intracranial HTN (IIH), those symptoms can be symptoms of increased pressure and therefore I just need to be patient that the increased dose that we started me on will eventually work at managing that. OR those symptoms could be a dangeous set of symptoms called metabolic acidosis where the medication causes ingestion poisioning (sorta) and increases the acidity of the body - thowing off the pH of the body. As I've said before, with Diamox, I sit slightly acidotic but my body is able to compensate by increasing HCO3 (sodium bicarbonate) and my body also increases my respiratory rate to utilize my respiratory system to help compensate for what Diamox is trying to do.
So I waited a little bit to see if things would settle down - they didn't and so I went and saw my physician on Monday - had bloodwork drawn on Wednesday and then saw him again on Friday for the results. When I saw him on Friday the ONLY result that was sent was the useless pregnancy test that my physician threw in just for good measure! UGH - and because the lab was closed for the weekend, we would have to wait the weekend to know what the results from wednesday were.
So I went home from the appt rather irritated. I knew that something was wrong - I had the feeling that I was going acidotic and that something needed to be done. I took things upon myself and skipped doses of my diamox here and there to try to manage how severe the acidosis was. I just had an inkling - my lovely nursing senses were just a tingling let me tell ya!
Once home I had dinner then went for a nap. When I woke up I figured that I would try to get some school work done. Things are starting to become due and I can't just procrastinate just because I'm feeling terrible. I was sitting in front of the computer and watching a show and my chest started to hurt with a shocking pressure and charley-horse pain in my left arm from my shoulder to my elbow and I had interscapular pain - I tried not to think about it. I worry about whether I'm actually feeling this or whether it's all in my head. I know that when metabolic acidosis gets really bad that it can affect the heart so it's completely possible. Man did I hurt!
I waited about an hour of feeling like crap - with the dizziness, nausea, diaphoresis to go along with it - that I couldn't take it anymore. Off I went to the hospital. The initial ECG showed tachycardia but other than that it was normal. I also told them that it felt like I was losing beats. The ECG didn't pick it up but it's only a 10-15sec picture so big woop! But of course they don't put me on the monitor (which they really should have - stupid ppl) - considering when I got there my BP was 164/102!
I waited another 5 hours until I actually saw the Dr and when I did she was prepared at least - I didn't have to tell her my back story. She asks what brings me in - I told her about the metabolic acidosis thought and that I seriously needed a venous blood gas. She agreed! I got that then waited. I waited about 2.5 hours to find out that indeed I was suffering from it - though no results were given to me, nor was there any treatment. I was only told that my pH was 7.3 - but that she was concerned that that may continue to drop as my body tries to get through this.
When I was discharged with the blood work results & I was only told to reduce the amount that I was taking daily and to follow up in the hospital clinic during the week (though it doesn't open until monday and I wouldn't know when my appt time would be until monday when they would be the one to call me) but I also went to my family Dr and brought the bloodwork results to show him that I had developed moderate metabolic acidosis and that we needed to come up with a plan. Oh, and the blood work also showed that I had hypernatremia and hyperchloremia - which should have been dealt with considering I am taking diamox - a diuretic! Geeze ppl, way to drop the ball!!! So I told my Dr about what I had been doing to take care of matters myself.... making sure that I drink way more water (no juice or anything else - my K+ = 4.0 so it was ok to go ahead with this) and to skip more doses of the Diamox - but I had to be careful with this because I didn't want to put myself back in crisis mode trying to play catch up...... what a tricky thing I'm trying to accomplish!
So tomorrow is the day that will show everything. I have the requisition for bloodwork to take to my local hospital to have it drawn - unless I hear back from MY hospital of when they want me to see the Dr in the clinic - this would also include blood work. Tomorrow will tell me - I was told that I should hear something by noon. I still feel rather yucky but I feel better than I did. At least I don't feel like I'm having cariac issues anymore - when I got home I was still having the pain - so I had to self medicate with some morphine and zofran - thankfully after that and a nap I was feeling the cardiac pain was sooooo much better.
I had to let my profs know that's been going on with me as well - thankfully both of them have been great and have given me extensions. I just can't believe how I keep getting sick at the same point in time each semester. Now I just need to get better and STAY better!!!!!!! Wow though, these hits just keep coming! Just know that metabolic acidosis is rare - and it's amusing that IIH is a rare condition and then I get the rare of the rare things happen...... go figure!!!!
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Goodness gracious! I'm so glad you were able to self-diagnose and know how to treat and when to go in. I'm so glad you're a nurse and know what's going on and can advocate for yourself! I cannot imagine what happens for people who don't know anything about medicine and health when they are in similar situations. I pray you begin to feel better and I'm grateful your professors are helping you a bit.ReplyDelete