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Community Alliance Party candidate for Murrumbidgee, Michael Lindfield said, "minor party's in the ACT can make a positive, significant and responsible difference in the ACT Legislative Assembly by bringing fresh and innovative ideas, solutions to government policy making, diversity and protect the interests of ordinary AC Territorian mums and dads, working families, the aged and disadvantaged, youth and small businesses.
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Review the ACT Public Interest Disclosure Act 2012
Strengthen ACT workplace bullying and harassment legal regime
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Reform the ACT Tattoo Industry
Relocate Floriade to Tuggeranong Town Park and Lake Tuggeranong Foreshore
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– abolish the ACT Planning Minister's "call-in" powers under current planning legislation.
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Chevrolet Volt Lease Questions
datanmotion Posts: 1waterman9 - I've been looking for just this sort of deal and knew that it could be had elsewhere (friend of friend got even better deal some time ago), but I'm in Hawaii and discovering the rules here may differ from he mainland. For example, taxes on leases are treated differently and less favorably here. We'd pay a use tax on the cap cost of car, not on the lease payment. At least that's my understanding.
Considering the markup I've seen here, one option is to purchase/lease the car in Cali and ship to Hawaii (c. $1100). So far it looks like HI prices would more than make up the difference and I could use a mainland trip for business as well.
I would certainly be interested in talking to the dealer, or (aimed at other readers) any other dealers that are willing to take a similar offer.
Carman or others,
Can you verify if there is $1k in conquest cash on volt leases or purchases?
deaddog Posts: 31There must be significant rebates out there that are not being disclosed - I have two dealers offering below $38,500 on cars with msrp of 44,545 using the 0%/48 mos -- both in Illinois.0
Interesting, deaddog, I can't get to that number even calculating 3% holdback.
Is there some sort of state incentive in IL the deal could be adding in?0
Hi gregdole7. General Motors is providing $1,000 conquest cash on the 2013 Chevrolet Volt right now, but it is only to people who are currently leasing a non-GM vehicle. It does not apply to people who own or are financing their cars.
Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Forum0
I think that GM is providing an extremely attractive 0% financing for up to 6 years plus a $2,000 cash incentive on the '13 Volt right now.
Prices Paid: Buying & Leasing Experiences Forum0
volt_confused Posts: 1Hi! I have read all the post from the past 2 months on the Volt. We are building out a new 2013 Volt as the dealership doesn't have what we want. Being concenrned about the changes in technology we were wanting a 24 month lease verses a cash purchase. But never having leased before, not sure how to handle negitiations when we go back to sign order, or what lease variables we should be considering.
Since we are new to the EV driving should we reduce the $895 NAV option and others to get the the max CAP rate mentioned? We are not planning on buying this lease out at end.
Dealer has negitiated price to $41036 plus TTL. We want We are currently offered the following:
2013 Volt $44,170*
MSRP1 from $39,145
Destination Freight Charge $850
17" 5-spoke polished aluminum wheels $595
Premium Trim Package Remove $1,395
Enhanced Safety Package 1 Remove $575
Chevrolet® MyLinkTM radio with navigation $895
Premium Bose® Energy Efficient Series sound system Remove $495
Premium all-weather floor mats (Dealer-installed) Remove $110
All-weather cargo mat (Dealer-installed) Remove $110
Options Total $4,175
Total MSRP $44,170
Price $44,170*0
Hi volt_confused. Since you are new to leasing, you definitely should check out the following informative articles on the subject that are available here at Edmunds.com: 10 Steps to Leasing a New Car and Calculate Your Own Lease Payment.
In short, the easiest way to get a good deal on a leased vehicle is to shop around for the lowest possible selling price and then have the dealer that you decide to go with calculate your vehicle's monthly payment using its buy rate lease money factor.
I just looked at the available lease programs on the 2013 Volt and I don't think that GM is offering special leases on 24-month leases of it, only 36-month terms. If you want to lease one, you're probably going to have to go with a 3-year lease.
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Looking to lease 2013 volt soon and worked with a local dealer recently on the following deal (was wondering if someone can do a sanity check on that):
36mo, 36k
No cap reduction (no money down)
Car offer price - $41,658
Residual - 59% (is this right for 12k/y 36mo currently?)
Dealer's offer: $444/mo (my numbers come to $419 or so)
Does anyone know other fees charged by dealer? Document fee is $80, I believe, there is lease acquisition fee of $595 (I think), plus tax and registration fees.
Dealer claims 2 advertising fees are due in North CA each is $421 (so total $842), sounds strange to me, but I'm not familiar with Chevy leasing. If I add $842 to my calculations, I can see how dealer came to $444/mo. This of course includes incentive of $2,820
Any feedback on the deal and current leasing conditions would be appreciated.
Not a bad deal. I leased a volt in San Diego for 39 months/12k miles, $284/month tax and everything included, $3000 down. Got my $1500 california rebate back so esentially $1500 down. I love it!!0
I actually ended up leasing from another North California dealer (Putnam).
$398/mo (includes lease return insurance for any excess wear/tear)
36 months, 12K per year
No money down
MSRP of the car $42K (Premium with polished wheels)
Have been enjoying 95% gas free driving for 2 weeks now. Just finished self-install of Voltec charging station.
Good luck!0
couchman57 Posts: 13Car_Man: I come to you again to review options for a loaded `13 Chevy Volt with an MSRP of $46,040 loaded with every available option including special white paint, nav, leather, rear-view camera, polished wheels. Looking to calculate a monthly lease payment with the following info:
> Money Factor
> Residual
> Discount off of MSRP
> 45k miles
> 36 months
> No $$ down
> Tag, title, dealer fees: $1k
There bigger question/issue is application of the $7,500 tax credit and how it applies to a lease in Georgia, if at all.
As always, thank you for your help and any additional negotiation points that I could use with this vehicle is appreciated.
- Couchman570
dutko Posts: 1I'm about to lease one in LA. What kind of rebate are you talking about?0
shouldiwait Posts: 14I was offered from a few dealers for a base Volt with only first payment and tax/license as drive off cost for $290/mo + tax, 15k per year. There's so much rebate on this car like $3000 from GM, $1000 conquest rebate for current non-GM lessor, $7500 fed tax credit, and CA rebate too. I am sure I can do better by $20/mo.0
Hello, long time member and this is the 4th lease that I have done in the past 10 years with the help of the Carman and the folks here.
Let me first start off by saying, if you search my previous posts where I leased Lexus vehicles, I've calculated leases to the final cent, finding out the money factor, multiple security deposits to get the MF down, residuals, etc, etc. I can calculate a lease payment to the cent with a hand held calculator but then that's a lost skill because now they have lease calculators you can download from the app store....haha..
This is the first time in my lease experience where I negotiated for a lease on monthly payment and down payment. I do not recommend this normally, anybody who negotiates on monthly payment and down payment and not on actual lease numbers, like residual and MF is going to get ripped off but if I do say so myself, this isn't my first rodeo and I know what I'm doing.
Here's the basics of my deal. I did not trade in a car. I did not buy an extended warranty. I did not buy accessories. I did not buy anything else, nothing, nada... there's no where, where they made money on me. People post great deals on cars and fail to mention that they traded in a car and took a 2000 loss or they bought 2000 of accessories or window etching, then of course they get a "good deal" on the car.
2013 Volt
36months/15,000 miles through US Bank.
$339 + tax
$0 down, I paid nothing down, nada, not even title, tax, acquisition fee, nothing. Everything was rolled into the lease payment.
I paid the first month's payment on drive off, nothing else, not a penny more.
I qualified for the $1000 lease conquest rebate since I was leasing a Lexus.
This price seems to be only possible in 2 or 3 SoCal Chevy dealers that it. I tried to get others dealers closer to me to match it but it was a no go. From what I understand, some really high volume dealers get a bonus rebate from Chevy for selling a ton of Volts, so the high volume guys can do prices that nobody else can.
Good luck everyone.0
I am currently leasing a 2010 Prius which I am paying $218 inc. tax with $1500 total drive off.
My lease will be due in two months and I am looking to lease a Volt.
I went to a local dealer and they quoted me $299/mo with $2500 drive off and 12k/Yr. I think
I can do better than that, so I need your help. What are the best lease terms in Los Angeles area?
Thank you.
fofer Posts: 1I'm also in the market for the same car, in Los Angeles area, so quite curious to hear any answers to sussan's question.0
I don't know the LA market but I leased my Volt in San Diego at Courtesy Chevrolet. I'm paying $284/month including taxes, 39 month lease. Drive off was $3000, $1500 of which I got back on the California rebate, and 12K miles/year. I leased at end of the month where they were willing to give a good deal to make their sales quota. Loving my volt!0
I just posted my deal before your post, it was the best deal I could find in the LA area. Good luck.0
The LA area dealers are giving a better deal just because the volume is higher here. My deal posted above didn't include the $1500 rebate which I'm still expecting to get in the mail hopefully. FYI, the cvrp fund just ran out, they are expecting more money but who knows. Look at the website, their funding is at $0.
When you post numbers, especially for leases, it's best to post the MSRP of the car you bought and mention if you had to buy any extended warranties, options or had a trade in, it gives a clearer picture of what you paid.0
rahulm Posts: 1Hi All:
I have been reading this thread and it has been very helpful, however I am still a little confused. I am looking to go lease a Volt soon. I am in NW 'burbs of Chicago. My questions -
1. When leasing, do I negotiate the federal tax credit from the price of the car.
2. Is anything other than the sale price negotiable or is it fixed by the bank (money factor/ residual value etc)
3. Any other advice would be helpful0
Hi Moolman,
Thank you for your post. Most of the dealers claim they are the high volume dealer. Can you name the ones that gave you a good deal?
Thank you.0
Hi Couchman57. On lesses, the $7,500 tax credit goes to the bank, not the lessee, because the bank technically owns the vehicle. Ally, or whichever GM captive finance company you lease your Volt through, pockets the government tax credit and uses it to artificially inflate the Volt's residual value...lowering its payment.
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Greetings rahulm. On lesses, the $7,500 tax credit goes to the bank, not the lessee, because the bank technically owns the vehicle. Ally, or whichever GM captive finance company you lease your Volt through, pockets the government tax credit and uses it to artificially inflate the Volt's residual value...lowering its payment.
Dealers are sometimes allowed to mark vehicles' money factors up. I doubt that would happen on a Volt, but I suppose that it's possible. Other than that, the main negotiable aspect of your deal will be the vehicle's selling price.
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Well, I don't like advertising who I bought from because you never know what will happen when you go in to get the same deal. All I will say is just google it, it's not hard, it comes up pretty quickly, there's like 2 dealers at least willing to deal on the Volts.0
96jagman Posts: 1I'M LOOKING TO LEASE A VOLT IN THE SUBURBS NORTH OF CHICAGO. ANY ADVICE? ANY SUGGESTIONS? IS THE TAX REBATE STILL $7.5K? HOW MUCH DOES GM REBATE? 36 MO VS 39 MO? HAS ANYONE RECEIVED A GOOD DEAL? WHERE?0
agentdeb Posts: 1Hello,
Reading through the posts and I have not noticed any posts from the New England Area. My husband and I are considering leasing a 2013 Volt. The one he is interested in has a MSRP of about $43K. It has safety packages 1 & 2. We are looking to lease for 36 months with 15K miles per year. We did see a lease special on the $39,995 MSRP $2399 down not including tax, title, insurance with 12K/year for 36 months for $269/mo When we go in, they are telling us that is the ONLY model they have lease specials on and then quote us ridiculously high monthly payments and money down. Any idea best lease on what we are looking for? Any specials you know of? How to negotiate?
Thanks so much for your help!0
ericfl Posts: 9I don't suggest putting money down on a lease. There's no point in doing it other then buying down your payment. The deal I got a couple weeks ago on a loaded 2013 with upgreaded paint came out to 360+ per month but I had a trade-in so it made the deal slightly more complicated because I wanted cash back for my trade. In order to make the deal the dealership gave me way above appraised value for my car and used the extra to "buy down the lease". My advice to you is to do everything over the phone with the dealer. That removes a lot of pressure on you and forces the dealer to make the deal while you're sitting at home at your kitchen table. Just look through these posts and find the car that most fits the one you want to lease and you'll get a good idea of what deal can be had. Once you have a realistic number in mind ask the dealer to match it. Get more than one dealer involved and you might have an easier time.0
pswar Posts: 3What do you guys think about following for a base model?
MSRP is $40,055.
Lease Monthly Payments with all Taxes and Fees $298.73. $2,000 Drive-Off.
36 Months, 15,000 miles per year.
$23,922.55 Residual (Price to buy at the end of the lease). $395 Disposition Fee at the end of the lease if you choose to walk away from the car.0
electrified89 Posts: 2I have been negotiating with a dealer and the current deal I have is as follows:
MSRP: 39,995 (Base)
Cap Cost: 32,000
10k miles/year (0.20/mile overage)
36 months
Money Factor: 1.05
Residual Value: 23600
My Cost: (Payments include Tax, License, and Fees)
Down Payment: 0 Monthly: 319
Down Payment: 1000 Monthly: 290
Down Payment: 2000 Monthly: 261
Additionally, he said that to upgrade to 12k miles per year would be $8 more per month. (Did not go into details)
Does this sound like a reasonable deal? Should I try to court other dealerships?0
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Dell, renowned for the efficiency of its direct-marketing machine, surpassed Compaq last quarter as the nation's biggest PC marketer.
Compaq awarded its account to BBDO sibling DDB Needham Worldwide, New York, in June, and it has all guns pointed at Dell to take back U.S. leadership and retain status as the world's largest PC marketer.
Omnicom Group now faces the task of carefully managing two sides of the PC industry's biggest battle.
Contributing: Alice Z. Cuneo, Carol Krol, Mercedes M. Cardona, Laura Petrecca.
Copyright September 1998, Crain Communications Inc.


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Assigned a new job this month. The universe decreed that I should be me. Who is this me that I should be? A me that can just 'be'. No title, no authority, no personal goal or direction. Follow the universe and catch the breeze. Nothing to do but to be a Self, the one connected to the One, the one without the many and the noise. I am
, yo.
Requiring no executive regional management decision, quorum, panel reviews or corporate-blessed titles, this new position is the one I have always been looking for. As Mooji says' What you are looking for is where you are starting from'. Well, starting from my true Self, the nobody, I have arrived at the place of wonderment, my true Self, the nobody. Liberation!
Service area:
Reality and
he world I am connected to in Oneness.
None. On your own.
: Extremely casual and respectful of cats and other living things.
Grateful, thankful, respectful and loving. Heart open, flowing like water around contention.
Just be practical, don't be a tool.
Primary Duties
: Listening for the teaching, shutting up, staying still and quiet in the heart and receiver dish wide open to blessings flowing all around. Receive, pass blessings and love on, repeat.
No office, no cubicle, no fake good morning smiles for co-workers. No co-workers! No sense of a past or future, now is time to be, time is only what is NOW and it is what it is. What will come of it will be the job the universe has declared, decreed and seeded.
Today's journey
Observe, letting the play of life pass without judgement, without a mental construct or concept of what should be based on the body/mind's false identity of a 'me'. Main objective? To lose the 'me' of the mind, to mind the 'Self' that I am, to 'Self' be true and let it be, let it pass, and enjoy the emptiness of surrender.
Net Net
: It's all being done, so showing up is all that is needed, nothing to be done by a doer or thinker, planner or strategist. No BlinkedIn, FaceSpace buddies, Twittfreaks, FeedFarce, MeatSpace, FlakeFake followers, sycophants or saddhus. No office manager or supervisor in sight, thank you very much.
: Inner harmony, peace, wisdom, awareness, stillness, space and the obligation to give freely from what is received. To incorporate all blessing, prayers, wishes and goodwill sent this way and to return it in music, poetry, prose and images that may do the same for another. As Damian Marley says: "More love, more life, more solidarity".
As long as we do not lose site that we are part of the connected Source, we will be alright. Remembering that the Source is dancing us, there is less pressure to prop up the role of one who is in hardship. The soul is not in hardship, our mental position of who we are,and what we 'should' be bringing home is impacted. Our changeless, impersonal self that is connected to all life will always be-perfect. Nothing to be done but surrender and accept what is. Good to be back to work as an employee of the universe.
What are your new job projections? Does the shitty downturn in the job market affect your job you are doing for the Universe?
Just be
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Electronic Music on the iPhone
Remixing music the next wave in consuming music?
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every song in the album. This is only the first step: The company plans to apply the same approach to several other electronica albums as well.
Exquisite writing on the nature of Truth
Here is a mind-opening sample:
Truth and the Work
The correct perspective from which you can do this work is always to be aware of whether you are interested in the truth of what is happening right now, or whether you are trying to achieve something. Are you doing the work now to acquire something, to arrive at a certain goal, or are you doing it because you love the truth? This is a shift in attitude that is needed for us to finally understand the hopelessness of the situation. You are caught and divided because you still have hope that things will be different. That hope creates desire, the desire creates rejection of what is there, the rejection of what is there creates division, the division creates conflict, the conflict creates suffering, the suffering then creates searching. The searching creates more rejection and more conflict and the cycle continues. (Diamond Heart Book 2, pg 72)
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See D. A. Smith, Mesa Verde National Park (1988).
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Gael Garcia Bernal cast in Jon Stewart's directorial debut Rosewater
Who knew that this was the path that Jon Stewart would take? Parts in HALF BAKED and BIG DADDY always made me love Stewart, no matter how big or small. Then when THE DAILY SHOW slowly but surely started its rise to the top, we got a different side to the actor and a great one, I might add.
All the ass kissing aside, it was certainly intriguing to hear that Stewart was taking on the role of director and script writer for ROSEWATER. The story is adapted from Maziar Bahari's 2011 novel, "Then They Came For Me: A Family's Story of Love, Captivity and Survival". Gael Garcia Bernal (THE SCIENCE OF SLEEP, THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES) has been cast in the leading role.
The true story follows, "Bahari (Bernal), a journalist who leaves his pregnant fiancée behind in London while he travels to Iran to spend a week covering the country's presidential elections. Instead, he winds up spending 118 days in a notorious Iranian prison where he is brutally interrogated by a man whose defining characteristic is the smell of rosewater. In a twist of fate, Bahari's appearance on "The Daily Show" was used against him when he was accused of being a spy."
Stewart will take off 12-weeks from THE DAILY SHOW to shoot the film. Correspondent John Oliver has hosting duties until Stewart's return.
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FEATURE FOCUS: Bruce Clay Announces SEO Charity Contest Winners
FEATURE FOCUS: Bruce Clay Announces SEO Charity Contest Winners
Bruce Clay Inc. celebrated the start of May by launching the first-ever Bruce Clay SEO Charity Contest. We challenged search marketers and wanna-be search marketers to donate their time to help a non-profit increase their visibility through a well-structured organic search engine optimization campaign. In return for their pledge to spend at least three months working with the non-profit of their choosing, the selected search marketer would receive a free pass to next month's debut Search Marketing Expo conference in Seattle, as well as a free pass to Bruce Clay's SEO training course and the Advanced Certification Course.
In all, the search marketer had the chance to win a prize package of almost $4,000 in search marketing education and training.
We asked applicants to partner up with a local non-profit that they felt would benefit the most from an organic search engine optimization campaign. The search marketer was to submit a site analysis documenting what that site was doing well and where they could improve. They had to show us how their non-profit would benefit from an organic optimization campaign and come up with a plan for action.
Over the past two weeks we've received some great entries highlighting an amazing set of worthy non-profit organizations. Today, we announce the winners.
Yes, I said winners. Because of the great response, we've selected both a Grand Prize Winner and a worthy Runner-Up. The Grand Prize winner will be awarded the prize package detailed above, while the Runner-Up will receive a free pass to our SEOToolSet and Advanced Certification Training course to be held July 16-19 in appreciation for all of their hard work. We hope this individual will consider using what he learns from training to help the non-profit he originally chose reach their goals.
And the winners are:
- Winner: Keri Morgret partnered with Open Education Resource
- Runner-up: Cavan Moon partnered with Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation
Congratulations to both Keri and Cavan. Below you'll find a quick summary of both winners selected nonprofits and their plan for action.
Winner: Keri Morgret/Open Education Resource
We were first introduced to Keri when she emailed us to alert us to a potential "problem" she was facing. A few weeks before we announced the contest, Keri had decided on her own to pair up with a worthy nonprofit to help them improve their Web site. Keri sent us an email asking if she was still eligible, given that she had already starting working with the charity. Our response went something like this: You freely volunteered your time to help a worthy cause succeed and you want to know if you can enter to learn and share even more? Of course, absolutely, and we're glad to have you!
Keri selected the Open Educational Resources, a teaching and learning network run by ISKME, a non-profit educational research institute studying knowledge management in education. The Web site was launched in March 2007 and is used to house all of OER's shared materials for teaching and learning. The site allows educators to collaborate on course material to benefit the education experience of its students nationwide.
Keri found that the OER site is already doing many things well. They're indexed in all three major search engines, their site contains lots keyword-rich content, they're using Title tags that are unique and descriptive to the content on the page they reside, they're using static URLs, multiple analytics programs and their site is hosted on a dedicated server. Upon our own review of the site, we were particularly impressed to see that the site is already using many Web 2.0 features, including tagging, ratings, social networking, reviews, etc.
Because Keri had been working on the site for a few weeks, she was able to include some of the changes she had already made in her analysis. Keri noted that she had begun a link building campaign, created unique Meta description tags, added a robots.txt file and XML sitemap, and ensured the site was verified in Google's Webmaster Tools and in Yahoo Site Explorer. Just a few weeks into the project and Keri was already working to give the site a solid foundation for optimization.
Despite all of the positives, there is still a lot to be done on the OER site.
One of the most pressing issues facing the site is to get rid of duplicate content. Currently, there are three version of the OER site indexed: oercommons.org, oercommons.org and www.oercommons.org. Keri's first recommendation was to implement a 301 redirect so that users and the engines are directed to www.oercommons.org.
Keri also advocated doing more keyword research, digging into the analytics data being compiled and to review the site's past optimization efforts to see what was done and what can be improve upon.
In terms of off-site optimization, Keri wanted to increase link popularity, reaching out to bloggers, direct contacts and providing news articles. She's also interested in extending the site's reach into social media.
We are confident in the depth and scope of Keri's proposed campaign. She has laid out a plan that focuses not only the "hot" optimization tactics that are all the rage in SEO forums and search blogs right now, but she also understands the importance of doing the little things right as well, taking time to focus on things like Meta tags. We feel that if given the opportunity, Keri will be able to significantly improve the OER site in both the eyes of users and the search engines.
Runner-up Cavan Moon/Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation
Cavan partnered with an organization that fights for something that is near and dear to all of our hearts - puppies! Or more specifically, the Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation.
The Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation provides homes each year for hundreds of dogs and cats that are traditionally slated for euthanasia because they are older, too young, have special needs or have simply been overlooked for too long by potential adopters.
Because the CCRF takes in even the most vulnerable of animals, all of their money must go directly to caring for the animals. This has made them unable to afford a physical shelter. Instead, all of their animals are cared for in foster homes, veterinary clinics and animal day care facilities. Without a physical adoption location, the CCRF relies 100 percent on its Web site to attract potential adopters. Cavan felt this made CCRF a unique and exceptional candidate for an organic search engine optimization campaign and we wholeheartedly agreed.
The CCRF site is five-years-old, has more than 80 pages indexed in the major search engines and is ranking (though not well) for several of its important key phrases. Because of the CCRF's low visibility, they have had to depend on costly pay per click campaigns to drive traffic into the site. Cavan hopes that by increasing its organic rankings, they will be able to lower their PPC costs.
He suggested a top-to-bottom optimization campaign to remove indexing obstacles such as confusing navigation, duplicate titles, broken links, and slow load times. Most severe, the entire ChicagoCanineRescue.com site is duplicated at ChicagoCanineRescue.org.
The first step in Cavan's optimization plan was to conduct a baseline analysis for the site. This analysis would evaluate the site today and track its progress over the next few months. The success of the campaign would ultimately be determined by increases in site traffic, donations, volunteers, and membership signups. Cavan would also begin his keyword research during this stage.
Like Keri, Cavan's search engine optimization plan focused on both on-site and off-site adjustments. Focusing on the on-page optimization, Cavan suggested reorganizing the navigation to make it both more accessible for users and more spider-able for the search engines. He would update page titles, description and keyword tags to incorporate newly defined keywords, create additional keyword-rich content, tweak internal anchor text, perform a site-wide link check, etc. Obviously, he also wanted to determine which was the most appropriate TLD and redirect all of the site's links to that domain in order to get rid of the duplicate content problem.
One thing we particularly liked about Cavan was his awareness of the getting into the engines' local search. Cavan was the only applicant who mentioned local search as part of his campaign. Cavan stated he wanted to create and expand the CCRF's business profiles in order to increase CCRF's visibility locally. Cavan also planned to focus on link building and creating an additional site to help garner support for the CCRF domain.
We were very impressed by Cavan. He demonstrated a clear understanding of the principles of optimization, even the seemingly "small" elements that are often looked over. If you're in the Chicago area, you can show your appreciation to Cavan and the Chicago Canine Rescue Foundation by adopting one of the available animals. May we suggest Tony, Wrigley or Saturday?
Both contest winners demonstrated a solid base of knowledge that we felt elevated them above the rest of the competition. We think given some additional training, both Caven and Keri will be able to make significant improvements to the Web sites for the non-profits they chose. We are excited about working with them to build upon their current knowledge in a way that will benefit both them and their causes.
To everyone who entered, we thank you for putting so much time and energy into your analysis. We're happy to announce that because of the overwhelming interest in this contest, we'll be running similar Bruce Clay SEO Charity contests through the year. If your charity wasn't selected this time or you weren't able to enter, keep your eyes on the blog to updates about the next SEO contest which will begin in July for a chance at a ticket to SES: San Jose.
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Coping with Failure
The Road to Success
Failure can be many things, we all define it in a different way. I haven't met one person in my life that has not seen failure in some way or another. Even the most successful people fail. There are many ways to cope with failure, we see these reactions everywhere we look today. Some people over eat, drink, take drugs and smoke to pretend they are coping with what they perceive as failure.
So many of us today have failed in our lives to live up to our own expectations. Many of us lived on the promise of a better life than our parents only to find out that they were really disillusioned. The better life came with a big price, you actually have to give up your life and give it to a corporation. Somehow materialism has become to symbolize success.
How can someone learn to deal with this, at times it seems like the only thing people can do is continue on the same path they are on. Its like they know what is happening but they do not take control of their lives. It reminds me of floating down a river sort of like being carried away and all you can do is float and not swim to shore. Well it could be time to think about swimming to shore and all it takes is a little effort.Truth is you can change your life any time you want to, its alright to fail as long as you learn from it. Thats right you can fail and become very successful in your life. Maybe we could measure success by how happy we are? Instead of measuring it by how much money we are making or how big our house is.
If you try to look at life more like a school and you are permitted to fail at somethings. Maybe you can try it again and you will succeed. Make better preparations this time. Take a look at your life, more than likely you have had many successes.
Coping with failure can be hard if you listen to your family ,friends and co-workers. You will realize that your can live you life for your self and your failures are taking you one step closer to success. Many times in life we can look to our so called unsuccessful endeavorers and say what was I thinking! But other times I know I needed the lesson and if I wouldn't have tried and failed I just would have never known.
For me I am the toughest on myself, I expect way to much of myself even if I wasn't prepared for the situation. Many times I haven't given myself enough credit for participating in a given event and I put to much value on winning. Just for the sake of winning. So try not to be to hard on yourself. But take responsibility for your actions. Be honest with yourself, you might be surprised to find that you do have the skills to cope. You will find a way to achieve your goals in life.
Try to remember we all have what it takes to be happy, because isn't happiness the success we are looking for?
Tony Robbins
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Article marketing is an effective method of promoting Click Bank products
Affiliate Marketing is one of the most sought after method of making money online in the modern world. All you need to have is a computer with internet connection along with the knowledge of directing traffic to the target site. With slight efforts, you can easily make good money right from the comfort of your home. However, finding the right products to promote might prove to be a difficult task. A great solution at the point can be Click Bank. There are thousands of digital products for you to chose from and promote. In addition, you need to make a profile only once and can get a unique URL for each product (hop link) that you can use to direct traffic by clicking on just one button.
Once you have identified the products to promote, you can chose form a number of different methods of promotion including
- Article Marketing
Article marketing is an effective method of promoting Click Bank products. The greatest point related to the same is that it does not cost a penny an can be a great source of income. You would only need to spend time in creating interesting and original content that is able to attract the eye of potential buyers. There is great scope of creativity as well. In case you are not too comfortable writing the content or do not have time for the same, you can always hire a freelance content writer to do the job for you.
You can write a general article explaining the products along with associated pros and cons or an expert review among others. The articles can be uploaded on a number of different article marketing sites including ezine articles, goarticles and ezinemark among others. The unique link can be added at the end of article using which the potential customers would visit the site and make a purchase.
- Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing has seen an unexpected boom in the recent past especially when it comes to promoting products online and earning a commission in return of every sale made. A number of different social media platforms have come up and can be used for the purpose including Twitter, Face book, MySpace, Delicious and Digg among others.
The greatest benefits related to the same is that the method is completely free and there is always a chance of the post going viral and reaching out to millions of viewers without any additional efforts on your part. The key to success is to have content that could actually pursue others to follow you. In addition, you do not need to advertise about the products in every single posting. Instead, you can write interesting or informative content about 10 times before advertising about the product along with the URL directing traffic to Click Bank.
- Blogs or Niche Sites
The method works in almost the same way as article marketing with the only difference being that you upload the articles on your own blog or website instead of article marketing sites. The goal is to direct traffic to your site before redirecting it to Click Bank products. The very first thing that you would need to do is select a niche about which you would be blogging. Then, you can create a website of your own or opt for a free blog. For the site, you would need to purchase a domain name and hosting space; however, they do not really cost a lot. In addition, you get better control and customization options. The traffic can be directed by placing back links on other sites that are generating good traffic or increasing the search engine rankings of your site. Writing about a particular topic helps in the same. Remember; better the ranking in a related search, more are the chances of potential clients visiting your site before clicking on the affiliate URL to visit Click Bank.
- Videos
Videos have emerged as a great tool to market about products and services in the recent past and there are strong points supporting the same. Firstly, people prefer watching a two-minute video to reading a long piece of text. In addition, since the number of videos or video-based sites is far less than the text based ones, chances of it appearing in a search are far higher. The unique link of the product directing the traffic to Click Bank can be placed in the bottom part of the video. A number of video sites are also there on which you can upload the videos. A few of these include YouTube, Vimeo and Daily Motion among others.
- Paid Advertising
Lastly, you can also opt for paid advertising to promote the affiliate products. A number of websites offer the service including Google and Yahoo among others. You can opt to choose from a number of different marketing programs including Pay per Click, Cost per Action and CPM among others. The hop link as provided by Click Bank can be placed in the advertisements to direct the traffic to the site.


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Friday, August 15, 2008
Three years in Europe with Trolltech
In January 2005 My wife and I visited Oslo for an interview at Trolltech. The day before my interview my wife and I walked to the address to make sure I could find the building. There we discovered that Trolltech was located in a somewhat rundown building, but the next day when I went inside I found it to be much nicer and more importantly filled with interesting people working on captivating projects. I took the job and six months later we moved to Oslo. It turned out we arrived in Oslo on the day of the big Qt 4.0.0 party, unfortunately I didn't know about this and we stayed at the hotel. There was around thirty developers and Trolltech was still small enough that the computer at your desk had an actual internet IP.Being new to Trolltech and Qt4 I figured I would have been assigned a minor task to some rarely used bit of code, but after getting setup I was asked to add a feature to QWidget and my first commit was adding support for freedesktop.org startup notifications. After using Qt for eight years the idea of adding code, a feature nonless to QWidget was amazing.
The first three months we stayed at the Trolltech Markvien apartment which is just a ten minute walk from the office. When we flew to Norway we came with just four suitcases. There was no internet at the apartment and as my blogs from back then can attest to I took advantage of the Trolltech library and read through a number of the books. Every weekend for the first two months Jen and I went to one of the tourist attractions around Oslo because we knew that if we didn't do them then we wouldn't at all. We went to the ski jump, the art museum, viking museum, the fjord, the statue park, and many more places. Moving to Oslo we sold both our cars and were now walking everywhere. Along with visiting attractions we frequently would just go off walking around Oslo to see what we could find. There is a path next to a river that flows through Oslo with waterfalls that we would walk down to get to the center of town. It was a very different experience then we were used to back in the states, but the biggest shocker has to be women on bikes. It is sociably acceptable for every day adults to ride bikes, even a women in a skirt which was something you would never see in the states.
On the first day of work I asked Marius (another developer at Trolltech) where the grocery store was and he told me it was across the street on the way to the apartment. I was very skeptical of this as I had walked to work that morning and hadn't seen any grocery store. That evening on the way home I went into the place where he said it was to discover a store about the size of a seven eleven. This I was very quickly about to discover was the average size of a grocery store in Oslo. It has most everything you need, just not fifty choices of everything. Rather then one massive store per town there are many little stores all over that are within walking distance. It makes a lot of sense when you think about it, but coming from Super Stop-n-Shop's it was a bit of a culture shock. Of course everything tastes different too, but no doubt after living here for so long when I return I will fondly miss food that I could only get here.
A month after arriving I went to my first aKademy in Spain. We went for the full ten days and in typical American fashion Jen and I both brought a suitcase, while everyone else from Trolltech only had backpacks. A good lesson to learn for all of our future trips in Europe. As it was my first aKademy I finally got to meet everyone who I had interacted with online and on the mailing lists. I had a blast going to all of the presentations, discussing endless ideas and possibilities and even getting in a bit of hacking. And after many years I finally got a stuffed Konqi which has sat happily in my office. We made grand plans thinking KDE4 could be out in less then a year, but little did we realize how wrong we would be. For me post aKademy I spent a bunch of time cleaning up kdelibs and in particular reducing KApplication to the point where I was able to run a KDE application that used QApplication.
Just a few months later on December 19th, Qt 4.1.0 was released. The biggest addition for me was qtestlib. The super cool little test framework that had been part of Qt-addons was now part of Qt. During aKademy that year it was decided that including it in Qt would add a lot of value and reduce the duplicated effort that had begun within KDE to make their own test framework. I am very big on testing and ended up writing a tool to generate autotests stubs for you. All you had to do is pass in your class header and out comes a file just waiting for you to flesh out that tests your entire class. And when you think you are done writing tests you run it through valgrind and feed the callgrind file into the new code coverage tool I wrote to discover just how much of your class you didn't test. And for anyone making a custom QAbstractItemModel I wrote the Modeltest to help you make your model better and more bug free. One thing I always wanted to see was releasing the Qt autotests with Qt which might (unless it doesn't) happen later this year.
During this time Trolltech was growing and in December 2005 we moved to a brand new building with plenty of empty space for us to grow. Me and Marius traded a view of a waterfall for a view of a hill, both better then any office view I have had in the states. Over the next year the development team at Trolltech doubled as we expanded. The new office was big and much more in line with Trolltech becoming a company rather then a group of hackers, but that didn't stop us from having a paper airplane contest off our 6th floor walkway.
In June of 2006 Trolltech sponsered a cabin trip for the KDE Developers to hack on KDE4. Developers from all over the world came to a little town in Norway and spend a week hacking in a very big cabin. Since the last aKademy KDE4 had deteriorated and was in need of some work. The first two days were spent fixing up KDE left and right and finally It was there for the first time that I was able to see and run KDE4. It was also there that QtWebKit was born. It was amazing to watch as the guys discussed the future of KHTML, grabbed the WebKit source and hacked on it until at 2am on Zack's screen there was the Google homepage. One of those moments you can't plan for or buy tickets to. Meanwhile I was fixing something in the KDE about dialog, depressed at the comparison I went to bed. While there the world cup was going on, Trolltech IPO'd, and the various outdoor meetings we had were just fantastic. For me personally this cabin trip ranks at the top of my entire time in Europe.
A few short months later Qt 4.2.0 was released on October 10th 2006. That date had been set in stone in time for dev days and after the fact everyone agrees that it was pushed out too early, a mistake we tried not to repeat since, pushing back releases by a few weeks when we knew that the quality would be significantly better. Unsurprisingly Qt 4.2.1 followed very shortly after. At some point after 4.1.0 (I don't recall when exactly) Mathias gave one of his fantastic speeches which determined one of the big directions of 4.2 which was better integration with the desktops. For my part I wrote QDesktopServices, but there were many more such as QCleanlooksStyle, QNetworkInterface, QSystemTrayIcon, QKeySequence's standard shortcuts, integration with Glib, and more. Another new class I got involved with (and wrote a few older versions of) was QTimeLine, something I have had lots of fun using ever since it was created. 4.2 also saw that introduction of the eye candy changelog.
Around this time I got involved with the netflix prize and ended up making a framework that used Qt and included a little app that you could use the view the entire database. While making the tool I improved Qt so that QTableView could display all 101 million rows of data. I didn't win the prize, but I had a lot of fun, learned a lot and if I ever get access to a farm of computers know exactly what I am going to mess around with. And to top it off every few months in the mail I get a thank you book or dvd from my amazon wishlist which is very cool.
For the first time since moving to Oslo Jen and I returned to the states for Christmas. After living in Norway for a year and a half we could both speak very bad Norwegian. With no real Norwegians around we happily talked to each other using our horrible pronunciations and bad sentences structure. We could understand each other and we were happy. While in the states I got a MacBook and have had it automatically take two or three photos every day for the past two years. Looking through the photos there are many photos of people, books, and other images of every day life that I would normally not have taken a photos of. It is nice to have captures the memories that would have been lost.
Returning to Oslo I formed a group and wrote up a proposal to get a Wii for Trolltech. A month or so later a box arrived with a Wii and extra controllers which was promptly setup (The Wii being somewhat easier to obtain in Europe we only had to wait a month). We have had tennis tournaments and many after lunch Bomberman93 (an absolutely fantastic five person, ten minute, easy to learn, multiplayer game) sessions ever since.
Looking back I was surprised to discover that I have been using Git for over a year and a half now. One of the first things I used it for was to port an annoyingly addictive Qt2.x game to Qt4.x called Anigma. The big thing in my life was that I cut my hair which had been very long. The first few weeks were very freaky and I kept reaching back to move it out of the way or to play with my phantom hair.
On my creative Fridays I had been hacking on a little class called QColumnView. A nice little class that I am proud of that got into Qt 4.3 which was released June 1st 2007. Also in 4.3 I wrote a new QFileDialog. The majority of the work was in the model, but I also tried out a new look a feel for the dialog that was a hybrid of OS X's and Vistas with animations and other 'improvements'. Which everyone completely hated and got torn to shreds online so I reverted the interface back to the 4.2 one. The biggest thing for me in the 4.3 release was QtScript. The kick ass, fast scripting engine that I had been messing around with for several months and used to play around with genetic algorithms. I even wrote a QScript profiling tool. Overall Qt 4.3 was a good solid release with more improvements then features I would say.
In the fall of 2007 I finally sat down and started to learn Lisp something I have always wanted to do, but just never made the time to. Unfortunately a much more exciting project was just around the corner that took my free time away...
Shortly before Christmas while at lunch one day I had a conversation with Simon and Lars about the QtWebKit module which had just been merged into Qt. I had been asking about if there was plans to make a little browser that could be used to help test the module. In WebKit there is the QtLauncher, but it was more for developers and not something that can be used for day to day browsing. They were also interested in such an application and I offered to help make one. All through Christmas I hacked and my last blog entry of 2007 gave a hint about what I was working on and what would become the demo browser. Starting with the cookie jar I took each feature one by one, fleshing them out and only integrating them when there was a manual test and matching autotests. I spent all of my free time hacking on the browser and then part of my time at work tracking down and fixing bugs in QtWebKit and the new networking code. I was ruthless with any segfault I found and by the time 4.4.0 was released QtWebKit was pretty stable. One of the very first QtWebKit bugs I fixed was adding support for tooltips so xkcd's tooltip would work. Unlike FireFox2 which would cut off long tooltips QtWebKit tooltips could wordwrap. Just like my first commit to QWidget in Qt the feeling of committing a patch to WebKit was really cool. In February Trolltech had its annual ski trip in the mountains. Before we left I printed out all of the code for the demo browser and with the help of other developers did a complete code review on the bus and in the cabins. This helped improve the code for the announcement of the little project. One day I was asked if I would be interested in writing a QtWebKit article for Linux Journal. Having never been published in a magazine before I jumped at the option and a few months later got three Linux Journal magazines in the mail which was really neat to see an article I wrote in print. Shortly before Qt 4.4.0 was released I forked the demo browser and created Arora. Although many people had been interested in seeing it forked much sooner I didn't want to do that until 4.4.0 was released to get as much feedback from everyone trying out the Qt 4.4.0 beta.
Around this time it was announced that Nokia was going to buy Trolltech. For me the biggest bummer had to be when I saw them taking down the Trolltech sign off the building the night before we became Nokia. Overall Nokia has not caused any major changes of doom as some feared and I expect Qt will continue to improve, grow and be even more open in the future. Trolltech has a lot of smart people in it and they wont let anything happen to Qt.
On May 2nd Qt 4.4.0 was released. This was while I was in Italy and as Qt got lots of press the demo browser also got mentioned various places (with lots of questions ending in my inbox), but I was unaware of all of this until I got back as I didn't think the 4.4.0 packages were going to be released until the end of the month. I had a few stress filled days catching up before things returned to normal. Other then the demo browser I had also gotten in QSystemSemaphore, QSharedMemory, QLocalServer & QLocalSocker, and the QFileSystemModel. But my favorite addition has to be QFile::map, something I have implemented several times on personal projects. Qt 4.4.0 also had a number of brand new features and I think that this release was the best .0 that Trolltech has had to date. One feature of Qt 4.4.0 that I think is a hidden gem is QtConcurrent. I have used QtConcurrent in some personal projects since it was first announced and the ease that it lets me use both of my cores to double my speed still amazes me. With the possibility of having six and eight cores very soon the speedup in performance will not be insignificant.
I am leaving before 4.5 is released, but I have been able to squeeze in some stuff including the new QTabBar and QTabWidget improvements and implementing a cache for the http backend in QNetworkAccessManager. I am looking forward to the 4.5 release.
Around this time Jen and I knew that we would be returning to the states and so we made trips to Italy and the camping trip to Trolltunga. While living in Europe I got the opportunity to visit Spain, Germany, France, Ireland, Scotland, England, Italy, and Jen visited even more. Because they were spaced out we took the time in each place rather then rushing from one to the next during a month long Europe vacation. I have tried to limit my blog to technical related articles, while Jen's blog contains many more of our every day adventures from visiting cities to laughing about the food we would find.
While visiting Euope can be a lot of fun, the act of living here has open my eyes to all sorts of things. The idea that we could get by without a car is one we could not imagine three years ago and yet somehow it works out just fine. With so many people from work walking to get there is is no surprise that on an evening stroll or walk downtown that you will run into someone you know. The closeness of the community is very nice. Many of the guys are Trolltech have stories of when they were in Army, unlike in the states where you get to sign up, here they don't really have a choice and although I knew that some countries did that it didn't really hit me about what it means until talking to many of them.
Another difference was the banking system where in Norway it is far ahead of the states. No one has a checkbook and my bank didn't even accept checks, all your bills are paid online, and if you want to send money to a friend it is easy to do online. Even taxes are calculated for you by the government and if there are no errors you can send a SMS to confirm the form and you are done.
The metric system, 24 hour clocks, A4 paper, currencies, and other things you don't think about when visiting, but you have to deal with when moving were just a few other things we had to adjust to. At least with the 24 hour clock I plan on continuing to use that and getting a 24 hour alarm clock in the states so I will never set the alarm for 7pm when I meant 7am. Overall living in Europe has been a fantastic once in a lifetime experience and I am glad that I did it.
While at Trolltech they managed to put out consistent releases with new features and improvements. From the time I started to my last day they strive to be open, from making the Windows version of Qt GPL, the launch of labs.trolltech.com, creative Friday's and involvement in many open source projects such as webkit, git and KDE, they have risen the bar about what a company can do. But none of this would have been possible without the people behind the scene. Above everything else coming to Europe and Trolltech has been about the people I have met and worked with. Trolltech is filled with some of the smartest and most interesting folks I have met who enjoy what they do and it shows. They are friendly, welcome you into your home and will help you out when you are completely confused.
Even though I am leaving Trolltech and returning to the U.S. I plan on continuing to use Qt, and probably submit a patch or two. Arora has really taken off and has an active set of users and developers and I am really looking forward to what it will become. Hopefully I will return to Europe to attend aKademy and get to see everyone again.
And to wrap it all up I thought it would be fitting to have the Qt4 dance.
6 comments:
- Jesper T. said...
You're going to be missed for sure! Feel free to drop by anytime! If nothing else, see ya at akademy! :)
- September 7, 2008 at 12:28 AM
- Denis Dzyubenko said...
yep, we'll definitely miss you. Who else will give me ideas how to improve demobrowser/arora or tabwidgets? :)
Have fun at your new-old place!
- September 7, 2008 at 2:50 PM
- thiago said...
"once in a lifetime experience"? I'm still hoping you'll come back!
You're one of the most dedicated developers I've ever met. It's sad to see you leave, but I can only be happy for you finding new opportunities and challenges. And I know your new co-workers are just as amazing.
See you soon!
- September 7, 2008 at 5:31 PM
- stuntmouse said...
I *really* want to read this post, having used Qt and been to Norway, but man, you've got to check your grammar. Sense != since.
I signed up for a freaking blogger account because this bothered me so much.
Otherwise, great reading.
- August 6, 2009 at 2:19 PM
- Benjamin Meyer said...
@stuntmouse, yah there was a bunch of badly autospelled sense in there. Thanks for pointing it out.
- August 8, 2009 at 10:34 PM
- Gary_W said...
After Watching hte video ,It's a lot of funing , Trolls ,interesting and smart guys
- November 20, 2009 at 1:49 PM
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But I couldn't escape last night. Mom gave us a scare. She had been feeling uneasy in the evening -- a throbbing headache and a nagging feeling that something was wrong.
At the hospital, her systolic blood pressure rocketed past 220. The doctor said this could lead to organ failure or a haemorrhagic stroke and got her admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
If hospitals are scary, the ICU is scarier. You can't really see the patient and what the doctors are doing. Who knows if she's being given unnecessary medicine with undesirable side-effects. Moreover, they allow relatives in only at certain times.
At other times, we wait.
It's the waiting that you dread, till the ICU attendant calls out a name -- and somehow that's worse.
"Annie ke saath?" (Who's with Annie?) he calls out in the waiting area and I rush to the doors of the forbidden kingdom.
But no, there's no good news. I am not being let in. It's only a nurse who hands over a list of medicines that must be bought right away.
It's not easy to relax in the waiting area. The blue hospital chairs are not very comfortable. I try taking a nap but my neck hurts. The ward boys are watching a Bollywood film on television and I watch it too, glad to have something to do.
I'm not the only visitor in the room. There are four other men waiting for news from the ICU -- all of us are strangers bound together by the unwelcome guest threatening our loved ones.
Two enterprising men (perhaps they've had days of practice) wait till the ward boy's back was turned, spread a sheet on the floor and are asleep within minutes.
A woman is brought in at around 3 a.m. But it's too late. Her son, a man in his 30s, leans against the ICU wall, bawling like a baby for his dead mother. Relatives rush to console him but the man doesn't stop weeping incoherently till the body, wrapped in a white sheet, was taken out. The ward boys, perhaps out of sympathy, muted the TV so that the dance beats of a Bollywood item song didn't interfere with the man's grief.
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April 11, 2013
Raleigh, North Carolina
Understanding the roles that forage species play within ecosystems has emerged in the scientific literature as a key element in the development of an ecosystem approach to fishery management. Forage species provide an important link between primary productivity and upper trophic levels within marine ecosystems. At the same time, forage species often support economically valuable fisheries through direct harvest. Recent scientific findings suggest that forage stocks may warrant special management consideration, especially with respect to achieving ecosystem level management goals and objectives. In addition, current National Standard 1 (NS1) guidelines recommend that consideration should be given to managing forage stocks for higher biomass than traditional MSY based reference points (Bmsy) to enhance and protect the marine ecosystem.
The purpose of this workshop was to discuss the key issues relevant to forage fish assessment and management under the Magnuson-Stevens Act. A panel of experts discussed the role of forage species within ecosystems and best practices with respect to the harvest of forage species, taking their role(s) within ecosystems into account. The Council expects to use the workshop as a starting point for development of a forage exploitation policy as part of its ecosystem approach to fisheries management guidance document.
For presentations 1 & 2:
- Lenfest Report
- Future directions in EBFM - Hilbourne Viewpoint
- National Standard 1 Guidelines
- Fisheries for small pelagic species - Patterson
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- Impacts of Fishing Low-Trophic Level Species - Smith et al
For presentations 3 & 4:
- NEFSC's Ecosystem Modeling Enterprise Overview - Link et al
- Ecosystem Status Report for Northeast Shelf Large Marine Ecosystem
- Importance of including predation in fish population models-Tyrell et al
- Using food web model results - Gaichas et al
- Assembly rules for aggregate-species production models - Gaichas et al
- Using an aggregate production simulation model - Gamble and Link
- Reading List for Presentation 4
Panel Members and Bios
- Dr. John Boreman
- Dr. Ellen Pikitch
- Dr. Edward Houde
- Dr. Robert Latour - College of William & Mary
- Dr. Sarah Gaichas
- Forage Workshop Opening
- Visioning Project- Stakeholder Input on Forage Issues
- Forage Workshop Trigger Questions
- Presentation 1, Dr. Ellen Pikitch: Little Fish, Big Impact: Managing a Crucial Link in Ocean Food Webs
- Presentation 2, Dr. E.D. Houde: Managing Lower Trophic Level Species in the Mid-Atlantic Region
- Presentation 3, Dr. Robert J. Latour: Potential Approaches for Assessment and Management of Forage Stocks
- Presentation 4, Dr. Sarah Gaichas: Current State of Information and Modeling Tools Available to Support an Ecosystem Approach to Management
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New Delhi: Film-maker Shekhar Kapur and Oscar-winning composer A.R. Rahman have launched their social media platform Qyuki. It will help uncover the creative potential of Indian people in the genres of animation, films, short stories, music and photography.
The platform will use a crowd-sourcing formula to develop a story, animation or even create and distribute music.
"With Qyuki, we are creating a platform where it doesn`t matter where you come from, but what matters most in your creativity. It is a domain, where people can collaborate with like-minded people and showcase their creativity. Through this we will see new `Shekhar Kapurs` and `A.R. Rahmans` coming out of it," Kapur said during a video conference here on Wednesday.
Rahman, co-founder of Qyuki, also agrees that the platform will emerge as a strong medium that will help the Indian youth to follow their creative instincts.
"There are platforms like YouTube where people create content and put it online, but what determines the quality? Qyuki is getting there. It will not only provide creative freedom, but also quality experience," said Rahman.
The social media platform has roped in experts from several creative fields like filmmaking, music, novel writing and photography. Among these are Imtiaz Ali, Chetan Bhagat, Ranjit Barot and Suresh Natarajan, who will provide creative ideas to artists and also collaborate with them in creating new content.
On the website`s homepage, there is a section called Qyuki Premiere, which showcases creations developed by the website team. The site has short video previews of two creations by Kapur – 'War Lord' and 'Moments In Motion' - and Rahman`s musical creation 'Melange', which has an Indian rendition mixed with Western classics.


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Kolkata: Ending a bitter fight with neighbouring Odisha, West Bengal on Tuesday won the Geographical Indication (GI) tag for the iconic 'rosogolla', signifying that the spongy, syrupy sweet originated in its territory.
The announcement by the GI registry has drawn the final curtain over an intense two-and-a-half year battle between the two states over the origin of the popular ball-shaped sweet made from cottage cheese.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, now in London, called it a "sweet news".
"Sweet news for us all. We are very happy and proud that Bengal has been granted GI status for Rosogolla," Banerjee tweeted.
The dispute began in 2015 when Odisha claimed that rosogolla originated in the state 600 years ago and was first served at the 12th-century Lord Jagannath temple in Puri.
The Odisha government set up three committees to look into the evidence regarding the origin of rosogolla in Odisha.
Countering Odisha's claim, the Bengal government applied for GI tag for the sweet, asserting there was "ample" documentary evidence to prove the sweet belongs to Bengal.
Bengal has steadfastly maintained that rosogolla was invented by famous sweetmeat maker Navin Chandra Das in 1868.