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Food is political. It is something that affects all of us on a daily basis; the food choices we make each day both impact the food system and are impacted by a food system that has been shaped by a variety of laws and policies. This course will introduce students to the wide range of complex legal and policy issues related to the food system. We will cover the foundational topics in food law – including the Farm Bill, food labeling, and food safety – along with other topics such as the environment, technology, marketing, diversity and justice, food waste and recovery, additives and GRAS, organic and other certifications, labor, and the developing body of law for cannabis. Evaluation will be based on student papers and class participation.
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Miami is my all-time favourite layover ever. Even though the flights are long and pretty hard work, standing with my bare naked feet in the Atlantic Ocean 12 hours after departure is always well worth it.
The sun, the warmth, the spirit, it´s like coming home every single time.
Unfortunately, we fly Miami only as a seasonal service during wintertime from Munich, so I was more than happy to have it as an unrequested flight pattern before the operational break would begin from April till November.
While there is no better way to finish the arrival day than with a Dirty Martini on the hotel´s terrace, it is my favourite tradition to hop into shorts and flip flops to take a stroll down the beach while the sun is slowly diving into the ocean on the horizon.
The next morning is always perfect for an early workout in the gym or running errands on the beach, when it´s not yet too hot. Decided for the climatized gym this time though before heading down to South Beach for a rich breakfast at one of my favourite places there, the Betsy Hotel.
The Betsy is not only a stylish place to spend your next Miami vacation, it is also a lovely location for enjoying a nutritious and healthy breakfast while watch SoBe coming to life.
The menu is diverse and you will find anything from light to savoury dishes, vegetarian and non-veg.
My favourites are the Ham & Cheese "Croque Monsieur" Croissant and the Plain Yogurt with Berries along. Completed with a delicious cappuccino, and you´ll get me happy!
Service is very friendly and the atmosphere is elegant casual, yet very relaxed. Nothing for people who try to save a buck on their meals, but great for everyone who favours good quality and fresh ingredients at fair prices!
And what would be a stay in Miami without a decent stroll on the beach and a little sun lounging before the long night flight back home? Right. Nothing.
So I take the chance to walk "off" at least a few calories of that evilly delicious Ham & Cheese Croissant the 15 blocks back to the hotel while enjoying the warmth of the Floridian sun shining down on me and the sound of the ocean in my ears.
With two hours left before having to change into the uniform again, I grab a double shot latte down at the hotel´s coffee shop and head to the beach.
Knowing that at home it is still grey and cold, the Floridian sun is just what I need for the next hours.
And even though I did catch a little sunburn, every second was worth it! It will be almost 6 months until I can come back. But I will 🙂


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The Goyers: Opting for Multigenerational Living
By Amy Goyer , July 18, 2012 02:40 PM
I've had a strange obsession with watching The Waltons the past few months. I find myself DVRing every episode on three different channels. I watch 4 episodes a day. For some reason, I've been oddly attracted to their TV-land multigenerational family living and the connection to my childhood (when The Waltons was in its prime.)
Now I know why.
In the beginning of September my parents and I will be moving in together, forming our own version of 21 st century multigenerational living. A gradual process has led us to this point...
Almost three years ago, I wrote about The Big Move when my parents decided to move to a senior living community. At the same time, I moved across the country from Washington, DC to the home they were moving out of in Phoenix so I could be nearby to be their caregiver. And so it has been for the past three years. I went through the very difficult transition of living in their home without them. They adjusted to living in a smaller home and a new community.
For two years we did pretty darn well. Mom and Dad had several health crises, but overall maintained a certain level of independence with my support and minimal paid caregivers. Dad's Alzheimer's disease progressed very slowly. All that changed suddenly when Mom had a bout with colitis, fell, and seriously fractured her spine.
Mom was hospitalized for a total of 40 days last summer and endured three months in skilled nursing rehab. During that time, Dad struggled to stay centered. The stress took its toll on all of us, and Dad's cognitive abilities began to decline more rapidly.
I had my hands full with Mom, so began paying for more assistance from caregivers to help Dad get going in the mornings. When Mom finally came home last September, I was told by the rehab nurses that she slept through the night. I planned to sleep at their apartment the first week or two to help with transition and ensure her safety. I don't know where those nurses had been for three months, because Mom was up every two hours to go to the bathroom, and not stable enough to go on her own.
After a few months of juggling work, their care, keeping our homes and finances going and sleep deprivation I was beyond depleted. I began paying caregivers to stay with them several nights a week and had others check in every 2 hours during the day. Then Dad got sick in December.
After 10 days in the hospital, Dad came home with a feeding tube and greatly reduced cognitive functioning, as often happens for those with dementia after an illness or hospitalization. At the same time, my beloved niece lost her life to suicide and our family was reeling. We were numb, really, and I needed more help.
Since January we've had family or paid caregivers with Mom and Dad 24/7. Mom's health and mobility have declined. Dad had throat surgery, got rid of the feeding tube and thankfully his cognitive functioning has improved greatly since January, but they continue to need help 24 hours a day.
Which brings us to this juncture in my parents' life and my caregiving journey. We cannot afford the cost of the community where they live as well as paid caregivers to supplement what family can provide. At $8,000 a month over budget, the savings are gone and it's time for a change.
I have done a great deal of scenario-planning, researching, budgeting, prioritizing and agonizing. I've considered moving my parents to the DC area or to Ohio near my sister who lives there. I have investigated assisted living, group homes and other options. I've looked into buying a bigger house more suitable for multigenerational living here in Phoenix. Finances, their health and safety and our quality of life have been my guiding factors.
In the end, the decision was made clear: Assisted living is, in reality, not 24 hour care and we would have had to pay for extra caregivers - even costlier than our current situation. Moving them out of state would have been very bad for Mom's health and Dad's neurologist confirmed that much change would jolt his fragile brain health - he would certainly dwindle away much faster. He also said we are lucky to have the option for Dad to go back to the home he lived in for 28 years that is still familiar to him.
So that's what we'll do. While I will have to modify the house, rent office space, lose privacy, put furniture in storage and deal with many other changes, it will also be easier in some ways - relieving a great deal of financial pressure, eliminating all my daily trips to their apartment, and integrating my caregiving with my life more easily.
The more things change, the more things stay the same...
I don't know how Waltonesque The Goyers will be, but one thing we have in common with them is our faith, our desire to look for the positives, and our love. And so ... goodnight John Boy!


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When Dave and I started planning our family, my biggest concern was how much sleep I was going to lose. We all know the horror stories, and have seen those poor, sleep-deprived Mommas dragging themselves, and sometimes their little ones, through the motions of the day with one eye barely staying open. I know enough about myself to know that I would not function well, if at all, under these conditions. No good can come of me not sleeping.
And God, I think, knew this, too. He has blessed me with two children who also seem to enjoy their sleep (praise be)!! The Ladybug was sleeping through the night at five weeks and The Sprout at six weeks. The Ladybug, at almost two (WHAT?!) is still taking two naps a day. Bedtime has always been fairly easy-peasy each night and I count my lucky stars everytime I crawl into bed around the 9:30pm mark that I am able to drift off to slumberland for the next seven or eight hours, mostly undisturbed.
*Cue ominous music- did you catch that foreshadowing?*
And then we had to change it up. We moved The Ladybug into her toddler bed AND redecorated her room, all in one foul swoop. This has caused a bit of turmoil to her normally calm and pain-free bedtime routine. Now, she says, "Mommy, seep" every time I try and leave after our bath, books and snuggles. If I'm silly enough to be sitting by her bed, she'll grab my neck and pull me to the pillow and hold on for dear life. She cries now when we turn off the light… not for long, but she does. It's heartbreaking, but it only lasts for a minute and then she usually falls right asleep, be it in her bed, on the floor or standing and leaning on the bed.
*Cue Jaws music, which is even more ominous*
And then she fell out of the bed. Hard. And she apparently remembers it.
So last night, something woke The Ladybug up at around 10pm. I thought it was just a lost binky- I quickly found it and laid her back down, hoping she'd fall back asleep. No such luck. She was awake. As I laid her down for the first time, she acted like she was going to sleep after whispering, "I fall down." I tell you what- that was heart wrenching. I was hoping she was trying to tell me she fell during the day but eventually I concluded she was talking about falling out of bed TWO nights before (we have since put a pool noodle under the fitted sheet- she's going to have to work hard to fall out now, but she doesn't understand that). But she stayed in her bed and let me leave after a few more kisses and snuggles.
Ten minutes later, she was at her door, calling for her Daddy (she has a baby gate across the door so escape is impossible). Daddy went and comforted her and when he came back to bed, he reported that she had said the same thing to him.
Five minutes later, she was back at the gate. I went in for some rocking and singing, extra kisses and snuggles and then she let me leave again.
Fifteen minutes later, I heard the door open. She didn't say anything this time but was just sitting with her back against the baby gate, holding Violet. I've never seen anything sadder.
So I went in. I pushed the carpet up to her bed and put a fluffy blanket on the ground right beside her. I sat down on the floor, stroked her hair and face and told her to close her eyes. For almost thirty minutes, I sat beside my big girl while she fought going to sleep. At first, I was so tired myself that every time she opened her eyes, I got a little annoyed. I am used to her sleeping. I am used to me sleeping. We don't have to work for bedtime in our household. Then, I started to reflect on what was happening.
My big girl, who is really so, so little, was scared. She was afraid of falling out of her bed. And I was there- I was the thing that was making her not be afraid, making her feel safe enough to fall asleep. Not the blanket on the ground, not the pool noodle under the sheet, but her momma, who was holding her hand, stroking her hair, and staying by her for as long as she needed me. And when she finally fell asleep, I sat letting her little hand hold my fingers for a couple of extra minutes.
I was tired this morning. It was so hard to get out of bed. But it's okay. And it'll be okay if it happens again tonight. Because I'm the Momma. That's my job.
(After tonight, I might start to get annoyed, though… just kidding!)


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Pregnancy Over 40, Unexplained Infertility Means They Don't KnowMany women/couples have a diagnosis of "unexplained infertility". You may wonder, what does that mean? Well...it basically means nobody knows why you're not getting pregnant.
See also: getpregnantover40.com for more on natural ways to conceive, even over 40
The difficult part about being over 40 is that it is very tempting for the medical community, in absence of any other diagnosis, to blame it on your age. Okay, I admit, it probably does take a woman over 40 longer to conceive, but studies have shown that many women/couples with unexplained infertility will conceive in the second year of trying rather than the first.
If you suffer from recurrent miscarriage, that's another ball game. Try to get one of these doctors to tell you why you're miscarrying! My experience was, since I was over 40, they didn't even bother trying to figure it out. I was given the miscarriage statistics at my age and that was it. Well, let me clarify that - one RE did do a hysteroscopy after one of my miscarriages but my uterus looked clean as a whistle and as normal as can be (then he fell back on the miscarriage statistics over 40) Another RE wanted to do a whole work-up on whether or not my immune system was the culprit, however due to the cost involved and our lost faith in the medical system, we declined.
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Here is an article about how the diagnosis of "unexplained infertility" probably shouldn't be used at all:


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The winter season 2018 starts at the middle of february and ends in the beginning of april.
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Last year was fantastic for people who like to go fishing. The fishermen from Germany caught 5 halibuts, the biggest with 42 kilos was a troufé. The ideal period for hobby fishing is the month of march to june. Then the days are long and it is not cold. 15 degrees centigrades in the sun and 8 degrees or more in the shadow is rather common. This is due to the Golfstream.In Northern Norway, in the land of the midnight sun, Eidet Sjocamp offers you a site filled with tranquility. Situated on the boarder of the fjord which is surrounded by high mountains, you can observe a multitude of spieces like: sea eagles, puffins, different kinds of seagulls, seals, otters, dolphins and cormorans. Last december was special, then there was a family og killer whales visiting our fjord several times. The last day they were very close to the quay.
More info on http://home.online.no/~tar-jako and www.visitvesteralen.com
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Titanfall studio Respawn Entertainment made one of the biggest games on Xbox One so far but they may not stay Xbox exclusive forever. Respawn chief operating officer Dusty Welch says that the company has fond feelings for the PS4.
"Well, we love the platform and we love playing on it," Welch told CVG. "As we go forward, we will of course consider all of the platforms that make sense for our games. So there's nothing in the short term, but certainly PS4 is something we're looking at in the future."
Respawn has always shown a preference toward multiplatform development. While it was heavily marketed for the Xbox One, Titanfall was also released on Xbox 360 and PC. They also indicated a year ago that Titanfall could come to PlayStation platforms.
The studio said prior to the game's launch that it will never be released on PS4 due to a deal struck between EA and Microsoft. Because of Titanfall's status as a prominent Xbox One game, Microsoft probably wanted to ensure that it wouldn't be released on the rival console.
However, there's always a chance that Titanfall 2 could appear on PS4. Welch seems encouraged by the strong launches of the new generation of consoles.
"Oh absolutely. If you go through enough console cycles, you'll see new technologies and concepts that add a level of uncertainty about the viability of consoles. But look at what's happened - there is an unprecedented install rate for next-generation consoles. That's extraordinary. I love that Microsoft has adjusted its price value mix for the Xbox One, I think it will really help the system grow. Sony is off to an amazing start too with the PS4, and part of the reason is that the system has become so developer friendly when compared to the last generation."
"So overall I love what's happening, and it will continue to encourage us to make major triple-A titles because we know the audience is there."
Respawn's not done with the original Titanfall just yet, though. They announced three map packs for the game, the first of which arrived in May. These premium DLC packs are being supplemented by free updates containing new modes and other content. Welch said that they plan to support the game "throughout the year."
While the commercial success of Titanfall makes a sequel seem inevitable, Welch added that they may branch out into another franchise as well.
"If you create a franchise like Titanfall, it's important to expand in that universe. That being said, I think it's always important to have your eye on the market and know what you long-term vision is, and see if you're able to test the waters in other ways like with mobile or free-to-play."
"Look at what model Pixar has adopted. They try new IP over a two-to-three year period, while at the same time supporting their key franchises. Their major successes allow them to take the risk with other projects."
Well, whatever Respawn's planning next, it sounds like PS4 and Xbox One owners have a good shot at playing it. That's great news because the studio showed some serious talent with the first game.


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The Birkin bag
1984The English actress and Jean-Louis Dumas meet ten thousand feet above the ground. The young mother laments that she cannot find a shopping bag big enough to carry her daughter Lou's bottles. No sooner said than done, the empathetic, clever Monsieur Dumas designs a deep and supple holdall. It has distinguishing features such as a polished plaque, a swivel clasp, and, of course, the house's signature saddle stitching. A legend is born.
1990Within ten years, the Birkin bag has captured the attention of the world. The contents of a house could fit inside this 40-cm-large piece. The Birkin should be held by its two handles, with the flap inside. It comes in cowhide, ostrich leather and calfskin; and in two new dimensions: 30 and 35 centimetres, and later in 25 centimetres. The Birkin varies, yet never changes.
2009The Birkin bag is shaped like a simple rectangle. So why not play with its geometry? Take this Birkin shadow bag, which plays with trompe l'oeil: are the straps real or fictitious? Viewed from a perpendicular angle, the optical illusion is exquisitely unsettling. A Birkin bag of tricks, but, when all is said and done, a real bag nonetheless.
2010The Birkin So-Black bag was made for monochromatic blackaholics. Not only is the box calfskin in splendid black, but, thanks to a process as secret as it is innovative, all the metallic pieces – the padlocks, strap brackets, swivel clasps, keys and base studs – are in dense, shiny black. It's only natural that the Birkin So-Black bag shows its true colour inside a black box.
2013Hermès has been using canvas since the beginning of the 20th century. Praised for its lightness, it is used to make beach clothes and summer hats. It is then paired with the finest leathers to give the pieces a sporty look. The Birkin flag bag recalls voyages on the great transatlantic ocean liners of the past, when discerning travellers would fix a tag of a distinctive colour to their luggage for easy identification. The contrasting canvas panel in the middle of the Birkin flag bag is a visual reminder of these crossings.
2017Take a scarf whose name sounds like a nursery rhyme and print it on a Birkin bag. Printed leather, that's the trick! The original drawing has been reworked, adapted to the model – using screen-printing with one colour per screen – and assembled with minute precision so it is in perfect continuity with the bag. Lo and behold, you have it: the Birkin One Two Three and Away We Go.
2018An all-too-long-forgotten, fully vegetable-tanned heritage leather is back in the saddle! For the smooth-grained version of the Birkin bag in natural cowhide, the oh-so-rare material is tanned using aniline, without any fixative, while its transparent finish reveals all the natural qualities of the cowhide. This grained leather gets a beautiful patina over time. The Birkin bag in natural cowhide comes exclusively in natural sand.
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Slim, stylish, and reliable laptop for everyday tasks. Designed for long-lasting performance, this stylishly designed HP 15.6" laptop has a long-lasting battery that keeps you connected, entertained, and productive all day. Speed through tasks or sit back and socialize. Do it all, all day. Responsive and reliable performance. A laptop with the power to surf, stream, and do so much more with an Intel Pentium Gold processor and a rich FHD display. Plus extensive quality testing ensures that you can keep going. . . And going.
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I especially love Japanese Nail Art, because of how diverse, intricate and creative it is. Even though I love getting my nails done, I rarely do so, since I want to prevent my nails from thinning and growing unhealthy. It's been months since I've last had my nails done, so I think it's time to start gathering inspiration! :) My friend recently had her nails done, which really stirred up my cravings. hehe
With that said, I spent over an hour yesterday finding inspiration. Haha I've nailed it down to 15 designs, and I thought I'd share my finds with you guys! Let me know if you like any of them! Note: My style is all over the place. Some designs are colorful, some are dull, some are complex and some are simple. I guess that's a good thing, cause that means there's something for everyone! :) All of the pictures are from Instagram. I made sure to include the nail artists' Instagram accounts in the screenshots, so go ahead and follow them for more of their work!
Alright, enough said, let's begin!
1. I'm usually the type to go for dark colors; however, I was drawn to these set of nails! The color contrast of gold and nude is so pretty! What I especially love about these nails are the STARS of course! How adorable!
2. What a pretty green monochromatic color scheme! I've actually never had my nails done green before. The closest I've had to green was teal/turquoise. Green's one of my favorite colors, but it's pretty hard finding a shade of green professional enough to wear to work.
3. OMG So pretty! Remember how I said earlier that I usually go for dark colors? That's simply because dark colors best compliment my skin tone. A gold accent on top of dark green is so pretty! I actually wouldn't mind all my nails with the partially painted dark green and gold stripe design.
4. Another nude color design. This is definitely the most work-appropriate design so far! Again, I'm loving the gold accent against the nude. This design is even more simple than inspiration #1.
5. Okay, so by now, I'm sure you guys can see some sort of pattern. *cough cough gold and nude* *cough cough* Haha to be fair, this is more like pink & beige against gold! The design on the ring finger is my favorite! It's like a combination of opal and gold flakes!
6. Well what do we have here? I guess we broke the nude and gold color pattern, cause here's nude and silver! :) How simple yet elegant! I can totally imagine someone wearing these at a wedding!
7. What a great balance between simplicity and avante-garde. The design looks great, but another option would be to substitute the nude with black. I guess it depends on whether I'm going for a softer or bolder look!
8. Imagine these as a manicure! The designer played with complimentary colors (blue and yellow) and balanced the design with neutrals (taupe and white). Hmm, maybe I should go for this look. I've never had my nails done in yellow, taupe or silver before! Since I don't get my nails done that often, maybe I should go for something super different from the norm. Thoughts?
9. AWWWW how cute! So sweet! Pink and green is my favorite color combination, but for some reason, I rarely wear those colors together. Not sure why, but I feel so happy looking at these nails, especially the middle nail with all the pink and green stones!
10. The color combination reminds me of inspiration #8. The colors are more dull though, and the design looks completely different. I really like the color combination. What caught my eye were the white and black flower designs. I believe those are stickers right? How cool!
11. I... love everything about this!!! I don't even know where to begin. As cheesy as this sounds, I actually love the combination red, white and blue. So patriotic of me right?! And can we just take a moment to appreciate the gold accents?! Love it! Also, I love floral patterns! This one's perfect, it's so me! LOL whatever that means! :P
12. This one reminds me of a Disney princess! To be honest, I'm not sure if I can see myself wearing these. These are definitely not work-appropriate....... and I can't say I like purple. But why? Why am I actually liking these?! LOL
13. Even though I don't like purple, this purple is my favorite shade of purple LOL! Since it's Spring, I don't think I'll be going for this. I actually like the overall design, especially the nails with the abstract art! I think I'll save this for fall though.
14. Here's another work-appropriate one! LOL and no surprise, it carries my favorite combination, gold and nude. This is actually a really practical design. First of all, the design is so versatile for all occasions. Second of all, because of the clear to nude color gradient, I can probably wear these for weeks without people noticing my nails growing out. This simple design is so pretty; take a look at the ring finger! It kinda reminds me of Christmas lights or a dream catcher.
15. These are soooooooo BEAUTIFUL! So simple, but omg how elegant! These definitely make it to my top 3 favorite! I'm not gonna explain why I like these, I'll let the design do all the talking! :)
Whhhheeeew! Alright, so that concludes my 15 Japanese Nail Art design inspirations! After looking through all of these, my top 3 would be: #3, #11, and #15. I seriously can't wait to get my nails done! haha Let me know which ones you guys like the most! :)


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- Google Analytics examples
- Google Analytics in a nutshell
- This is not an A-Z guide
- Exclude internal IP addresses
- Exclude CMS referrals
- Figure out what people are clicking on
- Figure out what people are searching for
- Figure out what pages people are interested in
- Real estate specific goals
- Marketing campaigns
- Google Search Console
- Further reading
- Wrapping up
You're a newly minted real estate agent, entrepreneur, or blogger looking for effective lead generation strategies. But what neighborhoods should be the focus of your marketing efforts? Who is your core demographic and what are they interested in? Where should you invest funds for effective lead generation?
If you had infinite money, chances are you would just throw cash at every potential market and see what sticks - but sadly, this is often far from the truth. Most of us have to spend our dollars wisely and sparingly, and it's not always obvious where we should devote time and effort (and money).
This is the part where I tell you there's a better way. Google Analytics offers you a way to track customer behavior, interests, locations, and more, informing your lead generation strategy for more targeted marketing. If you integrate Google Analytics into your website, you'll not only know what pages people are interested in - you'll know exactly what links they clicked on while they were on that page. It can be a bit difficult to grasp the value of such insights so I'll give some illustrative examples.
Google Analytics examples
You're a real estate agent in Massachusetts looking to expand into new neighborhoods. You want to start door knocking, flyering, and farming, but you're not sure what neighborhood to start in. Looking at your Google Analytics dashboard, you see that tons of people are searching your site for properties in Dorchester - so that's where you begin. You've narrowed the scope of your marketing campaign significantly, allowing you to direct funds toward qualified leads with a proven interest in owning a home.
You're a blogger looking to increase the number of visitors that come to your site. More importantly, you want those visitors to stay on your pages longer, giving them more time to click on links and ads. Looking at your Google Analytics dashboard, you see that your blog posts about Pokemon have a high number of sessions and a low bounce rate (I'll talk more about what these things are below), so you write more articles about Pokemon. More people come to your site, more people engage with your content, and you earn more money.
You're an entrepreneur selling clothes through your website and you want to increase sales without spending any money (wouldn't we all?). One thing you can do is setup a funnel in Google Analytics that tracks user interaction with your shopping cart. Your Google Analytics dashboard tells you that 50% of users are bailing out of your checkout process before finalizing their purchase; this information leads you to investigate your checkout process and - surprise! - your link doesn't work in the Google Chrome browser. You fix the problem and regain a whole subset of buyers.
The icing on the cake is that Google Analytics is completely free to use. Anyone with a website can create an account and start collecting data today. The catch is that there's significant setup involved, which can be particularly challenging for non-technical folks. Even worse, if you fail to setup your Google Analytics account correctly, you could be receiving data that misdirects your marketing efforts and wastes money.
This is not an A-Z guide
There are already lots of articles on the internet about how to set up your Google Analytics account from start to finish. They include complicated, technical operations that I'm guessing most people are not going to do themselves. This article is an overview of Google Analytics as it pertains to lead generation and does not delve too deeply into the actual implementation of those strategies.
If you're a real estate agent or entrepreneur, chances are you've got an IT professional to help you out with things like this. You should read this article, see the interesting opportunities presented by Google Analytics, and talk to your tech whiz about how to implement them. Going to them with a more solid notion of what you would like to accomplish (e.g., "I want to know when someone clicks on a property in Newton, MA") will help them tremendously.
If you want to implement these solutions yourself, great! This article will give you a taste of what you can do with Google Analytics. Use it to see what insights are available, then do some digging to figure out implementation. Just remember that a poorly setup Google Analytics dashboard can generate useless and even misleading data.
As a side note for the DIY crowd: if you're creating and managing a website by yourself, you should take a look at our other article "5 Website Template Mistakes and How to Avoid Them".
With that out of the way, let's start with the basics...
Google Analytics in a nutshell
Google Analytics is sorted into Accounts, Properties, and Views. These units are described below:
- Account: Typically you would create an account for each of your businesses.
- Property: One property is usually associated with one website. Each property has a unique tracking ID that Google uses to track user interaction with that site.
- View: A specific subset of data for a given property. You could, for instance, create one view per county in your state.
Views are contained within Properties, and Properties are contained within Accounts.
Data is organized into three reports: Audience, Acquisition, and Behavior.
- Audience: Describes who is visiting your site - whether they are a new or returning user, their geographical location, what browser they're using, what device they're using, etc..
- Acquisition: Describes how people are finding your site (social media, Google search, advertisements, etc.) and what they're doing once they get there.
- Behavior: Describes how people are interacting with your site - what pages they navigate to the most, what pages they do and don't interact with, how long they stay on your site, etc..
There's a ton more to learn about Google Analytics, but this high-level overview gives you an idea of how the application is structured and what sorts of data you can collect.
Exclude internal IP addresses
One of the big problems with Google Analytics is that it provides an enormous amount of data. Not all of that data is useful and you can immediately filter out some subsets of that information.
Before you go applying any filters, Google recommends creating a "Raw Data" view. This is the pure, unfiltered data set for your website - you should never attempt to filter this or otherwise alter it. By establishing a raw data view, you're ensuring that you don't miss out on any information flowing into Google Analytics. You can always go back to the raw data view if you feel like you're missing something.
After you've set that up, the first thing you should do is create a new view for your website, or treat the default "All Web Site Data" view as your master view. Apply a filter to that view that excludes all traffic from your home computer's IP address. You should make sure that your work computers and those of your co-workers are filtered out, as well.
By filtering out these IP addresses, you'll ensure that internal traffic from your home and business are excluded from your Google Analytics reports. This is especially important if you have a fairly low volume of visitors to your website, since a small office could easily skew your Google Analytics reports. You want to know how your customers, clients, and leads are interacting with your website - not your own co-workers.
Exclude CMS referrals
If you're running a blog, you should also make sure to exclude referrals from your own content management system (CMS). For example, the Ghost blogging platform (which is fantastic for blogging) allows you to add blog posts via a ghost.io domain. This serves the same purpose as excluding your own IP address, making sure that the traffic in your Google Analytics reports comes solely from your customers.
You should implement these filters before starting any marketing campaigns - failure to do so could obfuscate the results of your campaign. With that out of the way, we can finally get on to some examples of the insights Google Analytics can give you.
Figure out what people are clicking on
Real estate agents often list their properties on the home page of their websites, allowing potential clients to quickly click on the homes that interest them. In Google Analytics, you can associate events with these listings - when a user clicks on a link to a property, that event is recorded. In this way, you can see which properties people are most interested in. For example, you may find that a large number of users are interested in purchasing real estate in a specific location - you can then use this to inform your marketing strategy.
Figure out what people are searching for
Similarly, if you have a search bar on your page, you can figure out what people are searching for on your site by enabling a feature called "Site Search". You can find this option by going to your Google Analytics View and toggling on the "Site Search Settings" option.
You could find that users are searching for things that are not on your website, in which case you could create new content to satisfy that need. On the other hand, you could discover that users are searching for something that should be easy to find (e.g., "how do I finish my order?"), which would suggest areas on your website that need improvement.
Figure out what pages people are interested in
Many businesses now incorporate a blog into their website for search engine optimization (SEO). Google Analytics allows you to see how users interact with each blog post. You can see the number of sessions, which is essentially the number of people that have viewed your post, and the duration of those sessions. You can also view the bounce rate, which reflects user engagement with your website as a whole (a "bounce" is when a user visits a single page on your website without otherwise interacting with your site).
These metrics give you an idea of which blog posts people enjoyed and which they didn't. A post with a low number of sessions and a high bounce rate, for instance, probably wasn't very popular; conversely, a blog post with a high session duration and low bounce rate was well received. By measuring which blog posts were popular, you can figure out what topics draw in more potential clients.
Real estate specific goals
Goals are another hugely important part of Google Analytics that we'll only scratch the surface of in this article. In short, Google Analytics allows you to establish measurable, quantifiable goals that are tied to specific events on your website. If your business goal is to have people make an appointment, you can establish a related goal in Google Analytics. You can find these settings by navigating to your view of interest and clicking on "Goals".
Google Analytics provides a default real estate goal template, which includes fields like "find an agent" and "contact us", making it even easier for real estate agents to establish measurable goals. These goals are linked to user interactions, such as navigating to a specific location or clicking on a specific link. You can even assign a monetary value to each goal, so that each time the goal is accomplished, Google Analytics records the value earned.
Marketing campaigns
When you're ready to start your marketing campaign, Google Analytics continues to be a source of information. If you're running ads on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, for example, Google Analytics can be configured to identify when traffic is coming from these sites. If you've set up goals, Google Analytics can even help you find which of these groups is the most likely to progress through your marketing funnel.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a related (also free) Google service that you should sign up for. It alerts you to problems on your site, like links that cause 404 (Not Found) errors. More importantly, it shows you what Google searches are putting your site in front of customers. You can figure out how many times they've clicked on your website in the search results, how many times they've seen it, and even what position your site appears in for a given Google search.
Further reading
First, take a look at the Google Analytics Youtube playlists. The "Analytics Academy - Google Analytics for Beginners" playlist is a great place to start. You can also try out "Analytics Academy - Advanced Google Analytics" if you're feeling up to the task.
This setup article will help you get your account up and running.
Next, once you've figured out how you want to use Google Analytics, start searching around. For instance, if you're looking to track a Facebook ads campaign with Google Analytics, you could look at this article.
You'll notice that many guides refer to "analytics.js" - Google recently switched to a new system called "gtag.js" (AKA Global Site Tag). So keep that in mind when searching for solutions online.
Wrapping up
If you're looking at this overview and salivating at the completely free lead generation insights available through Google Analytics, sign up for an account now. Also make sure to sign up for Google Search Console and add your property (your website) there as well. After account creation, you can link your Google Search Console with Google Analytics.
Why should you add your properties to Google Analytics and Search Console now? Because it can take time to build up useful data. At a bare minimum, I would make sure to sign up for these two tools at least a month in advance of any marketing campaigns. This allows you to establish a steady-state condition for your website before you add in any extra variables that may increase/decrease traffic or change user behavior.
I hope this article has given you a small taste for just how powerful Google Analytics can be. If you take the time to set up this free tool on your website, you'll have a golden opportunity to learn about your customers - past, present, and future.
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The Forester women's hockey team closed out the regular season with a 2-0 loss at the College of St. Scholastica on Saturday.
Lake Forest out-shot the home team in each period and finished the contest with a 40-29 edge in that category.
The Saints started the scoring at the 10:23 mark of the second period and tacked on an insurance goal at 12:24 in the third.
The loss dropped the Foresters' overall record on the season to 14-6-5 and they finished third in the Northern Collegiate Hockey Association standings at 11-3-4 in the league. St. Scholastica is now 18-6-1 overall and will be the runner-up in the NCHA standings at 15-3-0 against conference foes.
Lake Forest will host Trine University in a two-game NCHA Slaats Cup quarterfinal series next weekend. Game one will begin Friday night at 7:00 with game two set to start exactly 24 hours later. Should the teams split those contests, as they did this year's regular season meetings, they would play a 20-minute minigame later Saturday night.


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My students particularly enjoy this activity as everybody has a chance to try out the sounds, whilst I can step away from the board and observe the class at work.
You will need to produce a set of around 12 cards, with a (regular) past simple verb on each. Make sure they're large enough to be seen from the back of the room.
- I start by holding up the cards, for students to tell me what the words have in common. Once they've identified that they're verbs/past simple/regular (i.e. All with '-ed' endings), I drill the verbs.
- I then write up three categories on the board:
-ed= / t / -ed= / d / -ed= / Id / liked learned wanted
- I point out that these represent different sounds and ask the class to read them out. I then show the first card, e.g. like, ask students to say it aloud, and decide which category it goes in.
- Once they indicate the correct category, I stick the card to the board. If necessary, I over-emphasise the 't' sound to highlight that it corresponds to the '-ed' ending. I repeat this for a second card, e.g. wanted.
- I then elicit that the two verbs, like and want have the same past simple ending, but the pronunciation is different. I tell the students that I'm going to give them the cards to put in the right category. Depending on the size of the class, I hand out two cards per pair / group.
- I then sit at the back of the class and observe as the students decide where their verb goes. I remind students to say the verb aloud to help them.
- Usually, within minutes, one of the more confident students goes to the board; the others soon follow.
- Once I feel students have done what they can, I tell them how many verbs are not placed correctly. Note: I don't say which ones, just how many, e.g. '3 verbs are not correct'. I then encourage students to make changes. Again, I comment, e.g. 'Now, 2 verbs are not correct!', so students know how to proceed.
- Once changes have been made, I ask the class to read the verbs aloud. I praise them for successfully completing the task!
- With older or more analytically minded students, the rule for when the verb is pronounced / Id / (i.e. When the verb already ends in a / t / or / d / sound) can now be elicited. As regards the / t / and / d / distinction, I find that students produce this quite naturally (being a question of which sound is easier) - a better option than trying to work out complex rules.
- Students then have a few minutes to copy their work to their notebooks, adding one verb of their choice to each category.


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Suna died today. Around 3:45 pm. She was 21, but was still a teetotaler. She never even had a drink in Danny's bar, alcoholic or otherwise.
Suna had some problems over the weekend, but we thought she had hooked a claw in a sheet jumping down from our bed. June called me at work this afternoon to say that something was seriously wrong and that I should come home. I did.
Suna was finding dark areas to hide in. When she moved from place to place she just dragged her rear half. We made an appointment to see the vet at 3:40. Suna died peacefully with her family at her side.
Her sister and littermate Mariko predeceased her by 3 years. In addition to her humans, Suna is survived by her adopted niece Paisley, 15.
Because her mother had abandoned Suna and Mariko, we adopted them early before they were weaned. It was an interesting experience to wean two kittens. Feeding them with eye droppers, constantly sticking their face into a dish of milk after which they would lick off their noses until they finally caught on and started licking directly out of the dish.
Avid hunters early on, they were disciplined if they caught birds and learned relatively early that if they didn't want to be grounded, they couldn't hunt birds. Neither of them learned to hunt deer, or even to chase the deer out of the yards. Later on, they wouldn't hunt, even when locked in the bathroom with an errant mouse. Paisley has been in charge of keeping the house safe from Republicans (with dispensations, of course, from time to time), but Republicans weren't for eating, they were just kept at bay.
Suna was a decent traveler, but Mariko was terrible. Ordinary travel pills made Mariko worse so I had to get a cat prescription for valium which had to be picked up at the drug store. The vet could not dispense it. I dropped off the prescription before dinner and said I would pick it up later. I hadn't looked at the prescription. It turns out the prescription was issued in Suna's name and not Mariko's or any human's name. Of course when I returned to pick up the prescription, a different crew was in the pharmacy. While they were searching for the prescription the line grew in back of me. Of course the directions on the label didn't say how long before traveling to dose Mariko with the valium so I asked the pharmacist. This was before the days of setbacks and privacy laws. The whole line had suggestions; indeed, they had more suggestions than the pharmacist.
Suna was an avid garden supervisor and years ago disappeared while supervising the weeding of the front flower garden. We had the key to Ted's house, a neighbor, and the code for his burglar alarm. Ted was overseas. Somebody had been working in the house while I worked in the front garden. During the course of the afternoon, the police showed up because the burglar alarm had gone off at Ted's house. We let the police in, but nothing was disturbed and they and we couldn't find the cause. Later, when we realized Suna had been gone long past her curfew, we went looking for her and ultimately found her wedged between a heavy couch and the wall. She could only squeak she was wedged in so tightly. Fortunately I was able to move the couch enough so that she could back out. Although Suna never gave us the full story, we assume that when the burglar alarm went off she tried to find a place to hide and got stuck. From then on Ted called her "Suna, the cat burglar". Her book has never been written.
The last few years, Suna has been totally deaf. But her eyes were good and she was still agile up until today. In fact she was more agile than Paisley who was 6 years her junior.
Starting 2 or 3 days after Mariko died, Suna started roaming the house in the middle of the night giving off these horrendous cries. The frequency of the cries decreased over time. I think Suna was calling to her sister. Perhaps, now, Suna and Mariko are together in cat heaven.
We gave Paisley some time with Suna before we took Suna to the vets today. I don't know if it registered with Paisley what has happened, but I have left my slobbered blue jacket by Paisley's nest for Paisley to smell.
For 2 years before Marmaduke died June had been saying that when Marmaduke died, there would be no new cats. June lasted 6 months before she said we have to talk. We have to get 2 cats. I reminded her of what she had been saying. She said the house was empty when she came home from school. I said to her then you realize that we can't retire until the last cat dies. We'd never had a cat live longer than 12 years. June has now been retired for 12 years. Paisley has slowed down considerably. I doubt she'll make it to 21, but who knows.
Pets become family. We miss them when they die, but hopefully we keep their memories with us to keep them (and all their predecessors) alive in another way so long as we live. Now I am saying we will have no new cats unless and until our traveling days are done.
So long Suna. We loved you and we love you still, and we always will.


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The Queen's Royal Hussars
The QRH was formed on the 1st September 1993, with the amalgamation of The Queen's Own Hussars and the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars. The Regiment has been particularly active since amalgamation. It was the first regiment to deploy Challenger 1 tanks into Bosnia with the NATO Stabilization Force in 1996 and soon after it deployed to Northern Ireland in the dismounted role.
An independent Tank Squadron deployed to Kosovo in 2001 with Challenger 2 tanks, before the Regiment deployed as a whole later that year in the dismounted role. The current Regiment embodies the traditions and fighting spirit of it's predecessors. It is currently based in Sennelager, Germany where it makes up the Armoured Regiment of 20 Armoured Brigade.


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Seagate Technology plc (STX - Free Report) recently expanded its Exos X family of enterprise drives with helium-based Exos X16 HDD.
Seagate also extended IronWolf and IronWolf Pro family based on Network Attached Storage (NAS) architecture with 16TB storage capacity drives. The company claims the new drives can support workloads of around 300TB capacity per year.
The latest 16TB drive is expected to help customers in improving the overall system reliability with actionable prevention, intervention or recovery options.
We believe incremental adoption of the new high capacity drives will boost the company's financial performance in the days ahead.
Moreover, expanding portfolio with robust solutions instill confidence in the stock. Shares of Seagate have returned 15.6% year to date, outperforming industry's rally of 2.7%.
Robust Features to Boost Adoption
The 16TB capacity drive offers high performance to enable hyperscalers and data center customers to manage complex data workloads seamlessly. The drive, priced at $629, has been made available from Jun 4.
When compared with Exos X12 which provides 12TB capacity, Exos X16 offers 33% additional petabytes per rack with a count of 7200 RPM (or revolutions per minute).
Moreover, with Exos X16 customers can leverage the company's data protection solutions like Seagate Secure Instant Secure Erase.
Notably, Tencent Cloud is leveraging the latest Exos X16 HDD to improve storage density and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).
What Investors Should Know?
Seagate is investing heavily in order to deliver high-capacity storage devices that would support expansion of cloud infrastructure and cloud applications, which bodes well given favorable market trends. In fact, per IDC data, global spending on public cloud services and related infrastructure is envisioned to hit $210 billion in 2019, up 23.8% over 2018.
The expanded capacity is expected to improve demand for the HDDs among large enterprises, small and medium size businesses (SMBs) and creative professionals. The HDDs are capable of addressing growing storage needs amid huge influx of data generated by emerging technology and services like augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), high resolution. In fact, it has a MTBF (mean time between failures) 2.5M hours.
Notably, per recent IDC estimates, the global datasphere will grow to 175 zettabytes (that is a trillion gigabytes) by 2025, from 33 zettabytes in 2018. The effective storage is absolutely essential to properly harness this data which favors the adoption of Seagate's latest solutions.
Moreover, the company's expanding portfolio with higher capacity drives is likely to boost its competitive position against Western Digital (WDC - Free Report) and other storage peers.
Markedly, Western Digital is likely to introduce 16TB HDDs utilizing microwave assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) technology in 2019. Meanwhile Toshiba unveiled 16TB hard disk drives in January, 2019, which are based on Conventional Magnetic Recording (CMR) technology.
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Confetti falls on Marco Belinelli's game-tying buzzer beater, but 76ers fall in OT
Less than two seconds separated the 76ers from a nearly impossible 3-0 deficit against the Celtics. Then Marco Belinelli stepped in.
With just 1.7 seconds remaining in the game, Bellinelli caught the inbounds pass near the baseline, turned around and tied the game with a floater in one fluid motion. The Philadelphia crowd roared and Belinelli was immediately picked up and carried away by the Sixers bench.
Belinelli nails at the buzzer to force OT pic.twitter.com/lcULKjXaJt
— Agent of NBA Chaos (@World_Wide_Wob) May 5, 2018
That's the kind of shot you honor with confetti, even if there are still at least another five minutes left to play in the game. A local hero was responsible for the flub.
They really dropped the confetti in Philly pic.twitter.com/vIFJp72vQD
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 5, 2018
Ultimately, it was probably for the best that the 76ers released the confetti as regulation ended, because they didn't have much to celebrate in overtime. Al Horford and Jayson Tatum took control to deliver a 101-98 win and give the Celtics that 3-0 lead. But at least Belinelli, who finished with 112 points on 4-of-12 shooting, was able to give his team hope for just a few more minutes.
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text: F1 ace Fernando Alonso has reportedly signed a secret, four-year deal to drive for Ferrari starting in 2011. The Spanish driver first made waves in F1 while driving for Renault, during which time he became the the youngest ever Drivers' Champion and added a second title at the expense of F1 legend Michael Schumacher. After a disappointing though lucrative season in 2007 with McLaren, Alonso returned to Renault in 2008 and recently signed a two-year extension through 2010. Once that contract expires, the rumored secret four-year deal with Ferrari will begin. We're told that both Alonso and Ferrari have a number of out clauses in case things go awry, though the unconfirmed deal means that at least one of Ferraris current drivers, Kimi Raikkonen or Felipe Massa, won't be wearing red come 2011. In fact, Alonso could join the team even earlier if Raikkonen performs as poorly in 2009 as he did last year.


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Practical Best Practices in Software Developement
This is a boring article about some of the basic best-practices and principals for writing software. I have broken this down into concepts and the subsequent best practices and principals in software development. This article is focusing on best practices for programming languages like Java, PHP, JavaScript and am using industry standard frameworks like Laravel (PHP), Spring MVC (Java), and Angular.js/jQuery (JavaScript). This guide is not comprehensive, but hopefully over time it will be.
I know that there are a bunch of guides and practical programming guides on this, but since I am a programmer, everyone else's isn't as good as mine, so I decided I needed to write my own. Yup


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Mole Valley District Council (MVDC) publishes its budget books online. The budget books provide details on MVDC's Medium Term Financial strategy, Revenue budgets, Capital budgets, fees and charges for all services and service agreements for all services annually.
MVDC's budget books for the past 3 financial years are available to be viewed (see 'Downloads').
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As Dangerous Climate Change Looks Increasingly Assured, What Does Environmentalism Do?
We're supposed to be cheery, can-do sorts of people around here in the modern green movement. Optimistic that our environmental problems, our energy problems can be solved. Nay, will be solved. We have solutions at our fingertips -- countless reports show how we have enough technology now to stop climate change, for example, and present different scenarios how it is possible to have an all-renewable or nearly-all-renewable energy supply, and soon.
But as two recent reports, one by the International Energy Agency and one by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, clearly show we're clearly not utilizing those solutions.We've got just five years to move away from fossil fuels or dangerous climate change becomes inevitable, one says. We will have used up our "carbon budget" by building more fossil fuel power plants and it will be nigh impossible to keep greenhouse gas emissions low enough to keep temperature rise below the 2°C threshold above which, all bets are off, essentially.
The other one, just released, shows that renewable energy investment over the next decade is on track to double compared to 2010 levels (yay!) and will almost triple by 2030 (right on!). Except, that level of investment is just about one-third of what's needed to keep greenhouse gas emissions at safe levels (sigh...).
As Dave Roberts recently wrote over at Grist, hitting the nail squarely on the head. "The limits [to using more renewable energy] that matter most are political, not technological," Roberts says.
"We are not even close to doing as much as we can, cost-effectively, with the technology we've got. Why not? Because fossil fuels have a lock on our sociopolitical systems. Because American politics is ridden with choke points where a vocal minority can block progress and there is a core of angry conservative white men determined to block it."
As much as I genuinely hold out hope that we will still muster the political and social will to overturn the current energy order, to instill a new sense of environmental awareness and concern throughout a good swath of society, all in the shockingly short (and diminishing) time we are told that we have to act before worst-case scenarios become worst-case events, my inner voice keeps getting louder, telling me that realistically we probably won't act quickly enough.
The odds are very good that we won't prevent dangerous climate change. We won't keep atmospheric carbon levels below 450ppm, let alone the safer 350ppm.
We in the environmental movement really ought to consider this, consider it publicly that is (I know we all talk about this privately), as a very real eventuality and start talking about what comes next. What are we going to do? What are we going to recommend people do?
Sure, climate adaptation gets discussed all the time, and some money and resources does get allocated to it on the international level, but not enough. Not enough mental and emotional resources get devoted to adaptation either, or at least in anything other than a sky-is-falling, the-end-times-are-seriously-fucking-nigh sort of way.
And sure, there's plenty of virtual and physical ink expended on solutions to climate change, to adapting to a resource constrained world, et cetera, etc. But at least to me it seems like most of the time these things are presented in an abstract way, or an in the future sort of way. Or with an air of inevitable success, eventually.
The thing is, going back to the recent IEA reports, the future is increasingly looking less like one where we successfully and adequately address climate change, but one where we do not. And I think we need to make that mental shift in our presentation of both what the future will look like from a climate, environmental, and social perspective, as well as how we will deal with it.
What do you think? How does our messaging change? Does it need to change?


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DOLE Fruit Bowls and Captain Planet Foundation are teaming up to provide schools across the United States the opportunity to win up to $5,000, a year's supply of DOLE Fruit Bowls, and Learning Garden tools from Captain Planet Foundation.
The DOLE Fruit Bowls and Captain Planet Foundation's Learning Garden Challenge will honor schools that are teaching students environmental stewardship and the importance of healthy nutritional habits through learning gardens. The competition launched January 29 and will run through March 12, 2014, and is open to US schools (K-8). Please visit DoleGardenChallenge.com for more information.
A panel of judges will select five finalists in April. Chef Linton Hopkins, James Beard Award winner for Best Chef in the Southeast, will select the Grand Prize Winner, who will receive $5,000 to benefit their school. The four other finalists will each receive $1,000, and all five will win a one-year supply of DOLE Fruit Bowls and tools from Captain Planet Foundation to grow their learning garden. All five winners will be announced around Earth Day (April 22, 2014).


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As I've recently been documenting, I've felt a little assaulted by images of romance, particularly heteronormative romance and chick flicks. It might just be because it's getting closer to Valentine's Day, but I'm starting to feel a little down as a single white female in Manhattan.
When even Carrie from Sex and the City is married, I'm failing in the romance department. But I'm not going to get depressed, and I'm not going to settle, and I'm not going to join eHarmony and become one of those gawdawful commercials.
Because, despite what the multiplex wants to tell you, the point of your life does not have to be to find a partner, have two point five kids, and spend the rest of your life making them make up for the fact that you gave up the rest of your life for them. How do I know this? I watch Zooey Deschanel films.
Zooey Deschanel is one of those indie actresses who is a sex icon to any one who has ever read Salinger (RIP) in a coffee shop. But the reason I bring her up for Single People's Weeks is that, though she got married in September and is an indie sex icon, she doesn't tend to pick movies that are about falling in love (i.e. not chick flicks.) Sure, she acts as the possible love interest to Will Ferrell's childlike Buddy in Elf, but if she shows up in a romantic comedy like Failure to Launch, she plays the clown with a bemused smile on her face. "Oh, look where I am," she says as she falls on her face. Even when she appears in the Sci-Fi channel's Tin Man miniseries (back when SyFy was Sci-Fi), her "DG" focuses on adventuring rather than romance.
She also opts for movies like Adam Rapp's Winter Passing, a coming of age story about the estranged twenty-something daughter of two writers. It's refreshing to see a movie where Daddy issues are front and center and her aborted (and rather dysfunctional) romance with Will Ferrell (again!) takes a back seat.
Some of her admirable work:
Her sense of romance is about possibility, loss, and charming absurdity, as evidenced by this music video for her band She & Him's "Why Don't You Let Me Stay Here?", starring her and her co-star from 500 Days of Summer, Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (Yes, that is Tommy from Third Rock from the Sun, but if you haven't seen his work in Brick, you are missing something very special.)
And then there's 500 Days of Summer:
500 Days of Summer sets up and then deconstructs the protagonist's fantasy of romantic love. Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) tries for 500 days to live a life in summer: a quest romance with himself as the devoted hero, the Orpheus to Summer (Zooey Deschanel)'s Eurydice. From the beginning, Summer refuses to buy into the scenario the film has set up for itself: "You can't believe in love. It's a fantasy." Tom's idyllic view, based in his generation's myths, British pop songs and The Graduate, is systematically broken down by the reality of his situation, illustrated by a day counter that jumps back and forth in time, showing the passage of seasons by the growth (and death) of leaves on a tree.
As Tom explains to the people at his workplace, a greeting card company, after Summer, the woman he believes to be his soul mate, has left him because she "didn't want a boyfriend" and is now engaged to somebody else:
These are lies. We're liars. Why do people buy these things [greeting cards]? It's not because of how they feel. It's because they can't say how they feel. We're the service that lets them off the hook. You know what? I say the hell with it. I say, level with America. At least let them speak for themselves. Look…what is this? [picks up a greeting card] This one with all the pretty hearts on it. I think I know where this is going. [opens it and reads] "Happy Valentine's Day Sweetheart. I love you." That's sweet. Ain't love grand? This is exactly what I'm talking about. What does love even mean? Love. You know? Do you? Anybody? It's these cards. The movies and the pop songs, they're to blame for all the lies. And the heartache. Everything. We're responsible. I'm responsible. I think we do a bad thing here. People should be able to say how they feel, how they really feel. Not some words that some strangers put in their mouths. Words like love. That don't mean anything. I'm sorry. I quit. There's enough bullshit in the world without my help.
Labels, Tom explains, are to blame. The archetypes of love that we as a culture create condition us to believe in this idea of "the one," a concept that is generally held by modern sex columnists as a destructive myth. As Dan Savage, explains:
The One is a lie. Every long term relationship is a myth, and myths are built on lies. What's beautiful about a long term relationship is that I pretend that my boyfriend is the lie I met, when I first met him, and he does the same favor to me. You become The One because someone is willing to pretend you are.
"The One" and the genre of romance aren't realistic. We don't live in only one season. We move in and out. Our comedies become romances, our romances tragedies, then bitter satire. Then we get over it and laugh again.
To quote Zooey, "I think everybody is Tom or Summer at different points in their life. Most people vacillate between them."
Remember folks, love can end in this:
Happy Single People's Weeks!


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Leukaemia Foundation's Sunflower Dash in Fremantle, WA
Sunday, 29 June 2014
Esplanade Park, Marine Terrace, Fremantle, WA
It's the Leukaemia Foundation's cheery fun run to bring sunshine to families facing blood cancer at Esplanade Park in Fremantle. Sign up for a 3.5 km run or 500m mini dash to bring sunshine to families facing blood cancer.
Get sponsored to brave the elements in a fun dash down the street! The money you raise will provide emotional care, family counselling and telephone support.


text: Borex Posted October 15, 2016 (edited) So as i saw in the forum information and help part of Eurobricks that we are allowed to continue to talk about minifigs done by clone brands as long as they are not copies of Lego. Let this be a new beginning of a long thread about minifigs that are not copied from Lego. I think most of the earlier visitors of the bootlegsuperheroes thread are just people that buy Lego, and use knockoffs for a more complete collection of superheroes (you know all the characters never been done, and probably never will be done by Lego), or even use knockoffs for customising. They buy official lego products but have an urge to make their collection as complete as can be. So let's avoid talking about sets and let's avoid sending links to ali-shops. I used to watch the bootlegsuperheroesthread daily, so i miss that thread :-) MODS, please feel free to adjust, lock or get rid of this topic. I read the thread in the information and help part and thought that it was ok to start a new topic about bootlegminifigs. If not, my bad and kill this topic. Edited October 15, 2016 by Peppermint_M Fine idea, not so sensible title. Fixed ;) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The Watcher
Based on true events. Aesha goes to an isolated b&b in Kent after her mom books her in so she can get some head space for her studies. In the night Aesha is visited by a nun at the door who will progressively begin to show her true colours as the night unfolds – As the nun continues to bother Aesha at the door, Aesha begins to question her surroundings in this isolated suspense horror.
Genre: Horror
Director: Scott Jeffrey
Actors: Becca Hirani, Lucy Chappell, Patsy Prince, Thomas Mailand
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Quality: SD
Release: 2018
IMDb: 4.0