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THIS IS REALLY SAD; THIS IS REALLY BAD: JUMPING INTO NEW YORK'S REAPPORTIONMENT/ REDISTRICTING DEBATE (Part two of two).
posted by Rock Hackshaw
Tue, 02/07/2012 - 1:51am
If you keep fucking with the theories behind democracy, the way elected officials who are shallow, spineless, ruthless, power-hungry and egotistical (democrats and republicans) do, then expect one day to have an "Arab-spring" (political revolt) right here in the good old US of Amnesia. When will we ever learn?
There are those who seem to think an Arab-spring can never happen here, since the traditional institutions which are so embedded in the polity, offer some type of protection and buffer from the frustrations of most voters. They are wrong. They also believe that the implied power(s) of the federal, state and city/local governments (security forces, militias, executive branches of government, plus the legal system, etcetera) will always guarantee stability and compliance. They are wrong again.
The Tea-Party movement is about frustration within the political system. The Occupation-Wall-Street movement extends this frustration to the banking/financial system. Dwindling voter-participation all over the country is also about overall frustration with our so-called democratic system; which is in fact an unfinished democracy.
What happened in Seattle, Washington, a few years ago is about anger and frustration from perceived inequities and power-abuses in the international (and national) economic system of capitalism. The emotional outpouring of support for Senator Barack Obama's 2008 message of "change" was not only about frustration, anger and fear, but it was also about years and years of pent-up frustration, building-up and leading to an outpouring of hope and idealism.
Over the last century republicans and democrats have essentially stifled true democracy with their self-serving laws and rules relative to ballot access, political participation, party-formation, inclusion, empowerment, respect, policy-formation and true opposition to the powers that be.
One of the ways both parties have done this is via the reapportionment process. Every ten years we go through a redistricting process that locks us into certain patterns of control which essentially maintains a two-party system that operates counter to the spirit of the US constitution. There should be a more pluralistic system of party-participation in the process. Minor parties are strangled at every turn because of unfair and cumbersome rules.
In a recent column I wrote about the current debate raging all over the country. It's the usual ten-year fight over reapportionment (redistricting). In politics this is where the rubber meets the road so to speak. This is where the color-compositions of the national, state and city/local legislatures are determined. This is where race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, geography, history and other socio-politico-economic-cultural determinants come to a head; in negotiations over how and where lines are carved out for political representation in the legislative bodies of this country.
This process is even more important than say money in politics (Citizen's Union). This process is the beginning of the end so to speak. If the lines aren't sensitive and responsive to the myriad demands from groups within the polity, we can have resentments that would build up over time. In a state like New York where the population-diversity is overwhelming, and where individual -compartmentalization is as natural as taking a piss; the fight over representation is even more pronounced. And yet, you wouldn't know this if you had just landed from Mars. You would never see the importance given that the average person tends to ignore it: and elected officials love that. Why else would they not have a non-partisan commission drawing these lines after 235 years of the NY state legislature?
Many people casually assume that the legislative branch of government (on all three levels) arrives at its racial, ethnic, nationalistic, and religious breakdowns (compositions) automatically. They are very very wrong. A lot has to do with how the lines are drawn. A lot has to do with where lines are drawn. A lot has to do with who lives in these districts.
By now, those who faithfully follow my columns know that I have no great love for the "collective" bunch of black elected officials on all three levels of government (city/local, state and federal levels). They leave a lot to be desired. Take the census count for example.
You would assume that every ten years we could expect a strenuous effort by black electeds all over the nation, to ensure and insure that blacks are counted fully by census officials. After all, it's about monies. It's about federal programs and funding for things like education, sports and recreation, housing, seniors, pre and post-natal care, recidivism programs, crime protection programs, etcetera, etcetera. After all it's about representation in the halls and corridors of power. It's obvious that blacks have been perpetually undercounted. This usually proves itself when black candidates go on voter-registration drives, and find so many people who have been eliminated from official census tracts eager to engage the political process. You would then expect meaningful and significant lawsuits to stop the census count from being adopted, accepted and legitimized by the authorities; no? After all, once this count is accepted as factual, it becomes a precursor and basis for the implementation of many of government's fiscal, social, cultural, health, educational, and other policies?
I have gone on record consistently defending the right of ANYONE living in a district to run for public office: seeking to represent said district. It doesn't matter if that person is the only one of that ilk living there; even if more than 300 thousand (NY Senate seat) others are different. And yet, I am realistic enough to know that the more you pack individuals of one ilk (race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, etc.) into a district, the more likely that someone of that ilk will emerge to represent that district: it's all about numbers and mathematical possibilities. This is where numerology comes in. There will be a higher possibility of this outcome when compared to other options where specific populations are minimalized.
People don't only vote for someone because of his or her qualifications and experience(s); they more often than not, vote for one because of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion and such. These factors often come into play long before final voting decisions are made.
About five years ago I wrote a column arguing that the Supreme Court should be increased to reflect the population diversity of this country, and it was slammed by one of the regular writers to this site. I still believe that people will be more favorably predisposed to an institution if they see its composition as having someone (or others) who look similar to them relative to race, ethnicity, nationality, socio-cultural background, religion, and such. It is natural. All across this world of ours, we can see where the genesis of many a racial, nationalistic, religious, tribal and/or ethnic conflict, lie in refusal of one group to power-share or include others in the power equations and decision-making process.
In New York the six member panel authorized to draw up the new district lines are all male. Six of them are white; two are Hispanic. There are no women. There are no blacks, Chinese, Koreans, Indians, or others from the Asian diasporas; how come?
Many of those who attended last week's public hearing on reapportionment (in Brooklyn) came away with the distinct impression that members on the panel weren't listening. Group after group, after group, pleaded with the members not to draw lines diluting the potential political strength/power of racial, nationalistic and ethnic minorities in this borough. Panel members never asked for ideas around dealing with this to the satisfaction of those pleading. Maybe the answers were implicit within the pleas.
When you break up populations into four and five pieces, instead of having a seat where the majority grouping can increase its chances of electing one of its own, then you are playing politics with the process. Many groups in Brooklyn accuse the panel of doing just this; like the Russians in Sheepshead Bay and immediate environs; like Caribbean-Americans in Brooklyn-central; like Hispanics in Sunset Park and other places; like Afros in general.
Look, I am fully aware that this isn't an easy process for mapmakers. I do know however that there should be some preliminary expectations/agreements going in as to what should be the ideal final map; and also what would be the ideal final composition of the legislative bodies when elections are over.
I am yet to find in New York state, more than one or two districts (senate or assembly) where the population was at least 50 per cent white, which has elected a non-white person. I have been told of one or two of such districts in the 235 years history of the state legislature. Byron Brown won the 57th SD in 2001 to become the first Afro to ever attain this feat. I am unable to obtain specific clarification: the history, date and demographic-makeup of other said seats. And yet, there have been many times when minorities make up the majority population within a district, where whites have easily won election and re-election, as representatives (42nd AD/Brooklyn, for example). Marty Markowitz held such a minority-majority seat for about 20 years(20th SD/Brooklyn). Is this all just co-incidental?
Last week, Gary Tilzer publisher of the political blog "True News", stated that the panel at the Brooklyn hearing was nothing but a group of programmed monkeys. To him they are able, ready and willing to rubber stamp the redistricting aims of Shelley Silver (Democrat/assembly speaker), and Dean Skelos (Republican/ senate majority leader). He calls the whole process a sham. To him the republicans and democrats have refused to reform the legislative branch because of the power-sharing arrangement that the redistricting process maintains. "They will never address the idea of an independent commission to draw up objective lines", said Tilzer in a phone interview. "It's detrimental to their aims and objectives: maintaining the status quo".
The problem is this Gary: the sham will be legitimized as soon as the governor signs the redistricting agreement drawn up by this group. The challenge for progressives and people of good faith is to publicize this process as much as possible in order to bring pressure to bear on the powers that be for eventual lines that are much more transparent than in years past. Here again our electeds fail us; especially those representing communities where minorities make up the majority of the population.
Given that one in four city residents is black (and one in five statewide); I am flabbergasted at the fact that the legislature couldn't find one black person to place on this panel? It's about respect. It's about empowerment and inclusion. It's about power-sharing. It's about simple political decency. I have written many times before about all these boards, panels, commissions, and such, which never reflect the diversity of this country, its states, cities and localities: it's 2012 people. And some whites claim to honestly not understand the seething resentment of many blacks in certain quarters; blacks who have had to routinely deal with racism, discrimination, marginalization, exclusion, inequity and the like: all their lives.
Do you mean to tell me that they couldn't have found one woman for that six member panel? Don't women make up around 52 per cent of the population? Even if a little less than that, they are still in the majority all over the country; aren't they?
If all things were equal, the legislatures all over this country would reflect a composition as close to the natural demographics as possible; but we don't live in a perfect world. Still, when you have a 535- member Congress where there are no blacks in the Senate; and a House of Representatives with under-representation among Hispanics, Blacks, Native Americans, Chinese-Americans, other Asian ethnics and people of mixed races (compared to their overall percentages in the national demographics); then maybe it is time to draw lines in a way that will enhance the chances of electing (and reflecting) such a population-diversity. I want to believe that such an initiative is embedded in the spirit of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
In response to a recent article published on Room Eight New York Politics (www.r8ny.com), Michael Benjamin-the former state assembly member from the South Bronx- intimated that the Voting Rights Act was obsolete. I think Mr. Benjamin needs to clarify his position further since it really shocked quite a few people who called me up on the topic. It came off like New Jersey governor Chris Christie's ridiculous statement, that there should have been a referendum on the civil rights issue back in the day (since whites felt it was all imposed on them). It was so absurd you couldn't even consider it funny. Calling for a referendum on rights glaringly spelled out in the constitution, when blacks could hardly vote in most states without encumbrances, made no sense whatsoever. Christie later apologized; maybe Benjamin should too. This is sacred ground. Voting and free/fair elections are the cornerstones of democracy.
It took one hundred and forty years after the adoption of the NY state constitution to elect the first black to the legislature. That was in 1917 when a republican named Edward A. Johnson was elected. Twenty years later, the first Hispanic was elected to the body. His name was Oscar Garcia. In 1955, the first Afro woman was elected to the body. Her name was Bessie A. Buchanan. It took almost 200 years.
As historic as these feats were, they didn't' come about without lines being drawn favorably enough to facilitate such specific successes. In Brooklyn, folks like activist/educator Esmeralda Simmons, have been arguing for years, that lines can be drawn up more favorably relative to the aim of aiding the aspirations for minorities to secure larger representations on the legislative bodies (at all three levels of government). She is absolutely correct. It is a matter of the panel responsible for drawing up the new lines, not having the political will and courage to do it.
Let's look at the reverse. In both Nassau and Suffolk counties of Long Island maps have been consistently drawn to hinder minority representation. I conclude it has been deliberately done. Why else would you split up minority dominated areas into three or four different jurisdictions? It appears that the dominant rationale for redrawing lines has been incumbent-protectionism. This is why the maps are so oddly-shaped for the most part. In all five boroughs of this city, we can find evidence of maps being drawn whereby aims of increased minority-representation are negated or minimized. It also appears to happen around the Buffalo area upstate.
Imagine a panel having the gall to submit preliminary maps calling for the creation of a new (from 62 to 63) senate seat, and placing it upstate in the heart of republican country. This being done after upstate New York has been consistently losing population relative to the rest of the state, for the past fifty years.
Let me reiterate: drawing political maps is no easy feat; but with new and sophisticated computer software now readily available, maps can drawn up in mere hours. These maps can be fine tuned to accomplish almost any objective relative to the demands of varied constituencies.
The proposed lines recently released by the panel, should be immediately rejected offhand. Governor Andrew Cuomo must insist on lines which maximize the potential for increased minority participation in the legislative process. The minority-vote shouldn't be fragmented in order to maintain white supremacy in the legislative process. This is political-morality at its nadir. This is political-immorality at its zenith.
Stay tuned-in folks.


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Weatherford Democrat
By CHRISTIN COYNE
A series of collisions on U.S. Highway 199 in Reno early Monday morning led to the death of a 56-year-old Parker County man.
According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the driver of a 2007 Ford Ranger pickup, Larry Mitchell Perkins, was involved in a crash in the westbound highway lanes involving a silver Dodge Neon car driven by 25-year-old Justin Peterson, of Springtown, around 6:30 a.m.
The disabled pickup came to rest in the roadway about 73 feet west of the Midway Road intersection, according to Senior Trooper Gary Rozzell, DPS spokesman.
Perkins had gotten out of his vehicle and was standing next to his truck when a 1999 Lincoln Town Car driven westbound by Miguel Angel Ramirez struck the Ford Ranger, causing the pickup to spin around and strike Perkins, who was thrown into the right, outside lane of travel, according to Rozzell.
A Volkswagen Jetta driven by Freddy Rivera-Flores, of Springtown, then ran over the man, Rozzell said.
Perkins was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.
Details on the initial crash were not available Monday afternoon.
Tarrant County Medical Examiner's records indicate Perkins lived nearby.
Man OK after driving into pond
Officials say a man successfully escaped after the truck he was driving left Church Road late Friday night and landed in a nearby pond.
Parker County Assistant Fire Marshal Frank Watson said he received a call around 11:30 p.m. Friday reporting a completely submerged vehicle.
The driver was able to swim out but was reported to be unable to say whether he had any passengers in the vehicle, according to Watson.
Responding firefighters from Silver Creek VFD reportedly found the top of the immersed truck cab under about two feet of water, estimated at around 40 degrees.
Watson and Silver Creek VFD Lt. Matt Wander, both swift water rescue technicians and divers, checked the vehicle for occupants - none were located - and hooked up a tow chain for the vehicle's removal, Watson said.
The driver was reportedly treated and released by LifeCare.
Information on the incident was not available Monday from DPS.
Rollover in front of police station
Weatherford police didn't have go far to respond when an SUV overturned in the police station parking lot Monday afternoon.
The 17-year-old driver of the SUV, Rachel Dean, was not believed to have sustained significant injury and was transported to the hospital by LifeCare as a precautionary measure, according to police.
Dean, the daughter of a police dispatcher, had been southbound on Santa Fe and was attempting to turn into the parking lot from the center turning lane when the wreck occurred, according to Lt. Chris Crawford.
Though northbound traffic had the right of way, a northbound vehicle in the inside lane of traffic reportedly waved the SUV driver through, according to Crawford. However, another vehicle, a car driven by 20-year-old Kristi Vasquez, was northbound in the outside lane and struck the SUV as it crossed the roadway, causing the SUV to roll and come to rest upside down in the parking lot.
Dean was able to crawl out of the vehicle before emergency responders arrived, according to police.
"Luckily, none of the parties involved were significantly injured," Crawford said, adding that the same scenario plays out at locations across Weatherford.
Drivers should be aware of where all traffic is even if they can't see vehicles in the other lanes, Crawford said.

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Chapter 1: Getting Started: SEO Basics
Chapter 2: Customizing WordPress Settings for SEO
Chapter 3: Researching and Working with Keywords
Chapter 4: Understanding Technical Optimization
Chapter 5: Creating Optimized and Engaging Content
Chapter 6: Link Building
Chapter 7: Using Social Media
Chapter 8: Avoiding the Black Hat Techniques
Chapter 9: Avoiding SEO Mistakes
Chapter 10: Testing Your Site and Monitoring Your Progress
Appendix A: WordPress SEO Plugins
Appendix B: Other SEO Resources
- Chapter 1: Getting Started: SEO Basics
- Introducing SEO
- Improving your rank on all search engines
- Exploring the changing nature of search engines
- Understanding a search engine's inner working
- Preparing the index
- Querying the index
- Exploring on-page search ranking factors
- Weighing search factors
- Understanding the search algorithm
- Ranking factor: body content
- Serious ranking power: title tags and meta tags
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- Understanding off-page ranking factors
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- Converting visitors to customers: the third spoke of SEO
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- Chapter 2: Customizing WordPress Settings for SEO
- Setting goals for your business and website and getting inspiration
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- Knowing what WordPress already does for your SEO
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- Employing user roles to get your team involved
- Improving ranking with user comments
- Using update services
- Understanding what WordPress doesn't do for your SEO
- Tackling duplicate content within WordPress
- Overcoming landing page customization limitations
- Understanding limitations on page-by-page navigation
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Researching and Working with Keywords
- Building your site's foundation with keyword research
- Understanding relevance and the effect of short-tail and long tail keywords
- Developing a powerful long tail search strategy
- Researching keyword search volume with online keyword tools
- Google's SKtool
- SEO Book's free keyword tool
- Google Insights
- Online keyword tool: Wordtracker's free keyword tool
- Identifying and developing your keywords
- Gathering keywords: Thinking about your customer's (imperfect) intent
- Generating keyword ideas with online tools
- Generating alternative keyword ideas with Google Sets
- Generating alternative keywords with SEOTools Keyword Suggestion Scraper and Google Suggest
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- Spotting seasonal keyword patterns with Google Trends
- Tuning your list: Negative keywords
- Grouping keywords into families
- Finding new keywords
- Eyeing the competition
- Finding new keywords with Google Analytics
- Finding new keywords With Google AdWords
- Summary
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- Choosing a keyword-rich domain name
- Buying/acquiring domain names
- Hyphens and extra characters in domain names
- Creating an effective permalink structure
- Highly customized permalinks
- Optimizing your Page/Post titles and title tags
- Page/Post titles processing in WordPress
- Crafting title tags
- Crafting Page/Post titles
- Configuring WordPress to generate meta descriptions
- Best practices for meta descriptions
- Crafting meta descriptions
- A dying HTML element: meta keyword tags
- Optimizing your body content
- Best practices for optimizing body content
- Keyword density in body content
- Case Study: Keyword density test of master pages
- Optimizing heading tags
- Optimizing WordPress templates
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- Inserting images and optimizing image properties in WordPress
- Manipulating image sizes to speed up website load times
- The ultimate WordPress robots.txt file
- Optimizing with the XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress
- SEO power tool: Google Webmaster Central
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- Chapter 5: Creating Optimized and Engaging Content
- Engaging visitors with your content
- Writing effective titles and headlines
- Using WordPress tags
- Creating keyword-rich content
- Keeping it natural
- Avoiding automated content plugins
- Writing for your audience
- Thinking about a searcher's intent
- Providing quality information
- Writing to get results
- Developing your writing style
- Narrative styles
- Structuring your content using taxonomy and hierarchy
- Using WordPress categories
- Managing your categories with plugins
- Advanced Category Excluder
- Multi Column Category List plugin
- My Category Order
- Fold Category List
- Hiring a writer
- Where to hire content writers
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Link Building
- Understanding the importance of backlinks
- The mathematics and operation of PageRank
- The PageRank damping factor
- PageRank is shared among outbound links
- Distinguishing between dofollow versus nofollow links
- Understanding nofollow links
- Avoiding and identifying nofollow links
- The diminishing universe of followed links
- Making use of nofollow links
- PageRank: summary and conclusion
- Authority links: what they are and why you want them
- Link anchor text
- Site-wide links and footer links
- Repetitive links from common IP addresses
- How to measure your inbound links
- Measuring inbound links with Yahoo! Site Explorer
- Measuring inbound links with Google
- Measuring inbound links with online tools
- Measuring inbound links with paid tools
- Getting links through link directories
- Finding valuable link directories
- Building links with super directories: Yahoo! directory and DMOZ
- Building links with article submission sites and directories
- The best article directories
- Setting up accounts with Ezine Articles and Squidoo
- Ezine Articles
- Squidoo
- Link building by commenting on blogs and forums
- Blog commenting
- Comment for good, not for evil
- Forum commenting and signatures
- Building links through direct link requests
- Asking for links from the sites in your niche
- Telling webmasters why they should link to you
- Requesting links from vendors
- Reciprocal linking: is it dead?
- Building links by creating link bait
- Resource lists
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- Writing about current events
- Writing something controversial
- Interviewing an expert
- Giving something away
- Testing something
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- Creating video content
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- Using a catchy title
- Examples of effective link bait
- NxE's 50 most influential bloggers
- Fast lane—the slide
- The CMO's guide to the social media landscape
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Using Social Media
- What is a search engine?
- Going viral with social media
- Using LinkedIn to promote your business or website
- Microblogging with Twitter for business
- Employing Twitter for your business
- How to get people to follow you on Twitter
- Using Twitterfeed to automatically update your followers of new blog posts
- Top tips for using Twitter for business
- Using Twitter to promote your business
- Using social bookmarking sites to promote your business
- Getting started with social bookmarking
- Choosing a social bookmarking site
- Beginning with social bookmarking sites
- Promoting your website through social bookmarking sites
- Timing is important
- Your ranking matters
- Submit a catchy headline or title
- Remember to choose an appropriate social bookmarking site for your business
- Remember that social bookmarking websites are communities
- Leveraging Facebook for a business or blog
- Using Facebook to promote a new or existing business or blog
- Utilizing the full potential of Facebook
- Using a Facebook business page to promote your business or blog
- Using a Facebook group to promote your business or blog
- Choosing between a Facebook page and a Facebook group to promote your business or blog
- Sharing content and connecting with others on Facebook: useful features and applications
- Joining groups
- Increasing your circle of friends
- Updating your status often
- Posting wall comments
- Using the Birthday Reminder application
- Adding an RSS feed to your page or profile
- Using Facebook Ads
- Linking your external website to Facebook
- Building a Facebook landing page
- Step 1: Add the static Facebook master language application
- Step 2: Configure your new company Profile tab
- Step 3: Make your landing page your default home page
- Step 4: Add great content to your landing page
- Automating Facebook updates with FacePress II
- Going viral with the Share on Facebook plugin (and several others)
- Automating twitter posts with Tweet This
- Promoting your business or blog with YouTube
- Using YouTube as a hosting and delivery platform
- Using video delivery alternatives to embedded YouTube video
- Employing YouTube as a search engine
- Promoting products and services on YouTube
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Avoiding the Black Hat Techniques
- Typical black hat techniques
- Hidden text on web pages
- Spider detection, cloaking, redirection, and doorway pages
- Linking to bad neighborhoods and link farms
- Google Webmaster Guidelines
- Google Webmaster Guidelines in a nutshell
- When Google detects violations of its guidelines
- Diagnosing a Google ranking ban, penalty, or filter
- Understanding a Google ban
- Diagnosing a total or partial ban
- PageRank adjustment/PageRank penalty
- Diagnosing a PageRank penalty
- The -950 ranking penalty
- How to diagnose a -950 ranking penalty
- The -30/-40 ranking penalty
- Diagnosing a -30/-40 penalty
- False positives that aren't penalties
- Clearing a Google penalty
- Abandoning your existing domain and starting over
- Requesting reconsideration following a Google penalty
- Avoiding black hat techniques and purveyors who promote them
- The standard black hat scam: Link exchange
- The standard black hat scam: Website submission service
- The standard black hat scam: Offshore link building
- The standard black hat scam: Autoblogging
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Avoiding SEO Mistakes
- Pursuing the wrong keywords
- Poor internal anchor text
- Flash, JavaScript, image links, and other non-readable content
- Poor site architecture
- Expert site architecture with manual links and PageRank sculpting
- Over-optimizing to improve ranking
- Over-optimizing of on-page factors: Guidelines
- Over-optimizing of inbound links: Guidelines
- Jumping the gun
- Using free hosted domains
- Forgetting verification tools
- Ignoring local directory listings
- Always assigning as many categories as possible
- Getting reviews
- Uploading pictures
- Completing all optional fields
- Making multiple entries for multiple locations
- Writing a compelling business description with keywords
- Paying for clicks when you rank organically
- Leaving stray pages in Google's index
- Failing to produce fresh new content
- Summary
- Chapter 10: Testing Your Site and Monitoring Your Progress
- Google Analytics
- Setting up Google Analytics for your website
- Using Google Analytics
- Google Webmaster Tools
- Checking your website's code with an HTML Validator
- Checking your inbound link count with Yahoo! Site Explorer
- Monitoring ranking positions and movement with Rank Tracker
- Monitoring backlinks with majestic SEO
- Summary
- Appendix A: WordPress SEO Plugins
- All in One SEO Pack
- Dagon Design Form Mailer
- Duplicate Post
- Broken Link Checker
- Automatic SEO Links
- Google XML Sitemaps
- HeadSpace2 SEO
- Robots Meta
- SEO Blogroll
- SEO Smart Links
- Open in New Window
- Dean's Permalinks Migration
- SEO Friendly Images
- I Love Social Bookmarking
- WP Super Cache
- SEO slugs
- Future Posts Calendar
- Smart 404
- WPtouch
- Contact Form 7
- Smart YouTube
- WP e-Commerce
- Wickett Twitter Widget
- Share and Follow
- Yet Another Related Posts Plugin
- Facebook like button
- Quick AdSense
- Appendix B: Other SEO Resources
- Online forums
- Warrior Forum
- Digital Point forum
- The Keyword Academy
- SEO Chat forums
- SEO.com forums
- Google Webmaster Tools
- Google AdSense
- Google AdWords
- Google Alerts
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Thanks for these two recipies! I bought Polenta for the first time and didn't know how I was going to make it. Now I do!
The hubs and I are leaning towards a more vegetarian/Meditereanean diet this year.
YUM!!! I am going to try both of those! I have only had one experience cooking with polenta, and honestly I had no idea what to do with it. I knew there was frying involved, and that's about it. Imagine my family's surprise when they were served unusual brown and yellow circles that really tasted like nothing. Oops.ReplyDelete
I have had a roll of this stuff in my fridge for a while but have no idea of what to do with it, thanks for the insporation they bothe look so good.ReplyDelete
Yum! I bought polenta last week waiting for this post. I love polenta I've never tried them with recipes like this. So excited to try them out.ReplyDelete
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I absolutely love polenta! I was vegetarian for years and it became a major staple in my diet. I've made versions of that polenta bake (so good!) but definitely need to try that polenta with crimini sauce!
These both look so so good. I had never tried using that polenta before---wasn't sure about it, but I am definitely going to give it a try.ReplyDelete
Love polenta. Love anything with mushrooms. This looks delicious!! New subscriber! Pinning this! I would love it if you would share this at my linky party going on right now :) http://everything-underthemoon.blogspot.com/2012/01/bedazzle-me-monday-16.html
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Thanks for the polenta lovin', ladies! If you come across any other recipes that you've tried, let me know. If you end up having polenta problems (I'm sorry!) let me know if I can help.ReplyDelete
Just made the recipe with mushroom - YUM!ReplyDelete
Yay! So glad you liked it.ReplyDelete
I haven't cooked with polenta yet, but the veggie bake looks to good to pass up! I'll have to def try it outReplyDelete
Looks delicious! I am honestly swayed into cutting out meat at least once a week!ReplyDelete
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Cute blog!... I love polenta, but do the same recipe all the time. These look yummy! Thanks!ReplyDelete
Polenta is such a wonderful thing to have for dinner, love this so much!ReplyDelete
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Getting Started with Quickly
With the user interface complete, now let's write the search_for_term handler that performs the search. To edit your program's code, simply use the edit command in the terminal:
quickly edit
This will fire up each of your source files in your project into the default Ubuntu text editor, gedit. A number of different source files will load, but most of the action happens in the myapp file. This is the main Python program that is executed when you run quickly run.
The code you need to write to take the term entered into the search box and search Google with it is pretty simple, and you can use the webbrowser Python module to help. In the myapp file, after the import gtk line add: import webbrowser.
This imports the webbrowser Python module, which loads URLs into the system's default Web browser.
Now, scroll down, and after the on_destroy handler, add the following after the gtk.main_quit() line:
def search_for_term(self, widget, data=None): """Search for the term entered""" searchurl = "http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=" searchterm = searchurl + widget.get_text() webbrowser.open_new_tab(searchterm)
Here, you add the search_for_term handler, and it has three arguments that are passed to it:
self: all class methods are passed self, this is normal Python.
widget: this is a reference to the widget that called the handler. You can use this to get information from the text entry widget.
data=None: when you call a handler, you can pass it additional data if you like, but you can ignore this for this example.
When this handler runs, first construct the final search term by concatenating "http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=" and the content that was typed into the search box. To get this content, use the widget that was passed to the handler automatically. This is a reference to the text entry widget and can be used to run any of the methods that are part of the gtk.Entry text entry widget. One such method available is get_text(), which simply returns the text that was entered. As such, concatenate this with the Google URL, and you now have a complete URL you can pass to the Web browser. For example, if you typed in "chickens", the full URL would be "http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=chickens".
To pass the URL to the browser, use the webbrowser module and its open_new_tab() method that opens a new tab with the URL that you pass it.
With the code complete, let's run it to double-check that everything works:
quickly run
You now should see something similar to Figure 4 in which you can type some text, press Enter and see the results in your browser. If you see some errors in your terminal, be sure to double-check that you typed in everything correctly.
Quickly is an incredibly simple and powerful tool for generating applications, and I barely have scratched the surface of what is possible with it. You can find out more about using Quickly by visiting wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly.
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The last time the Stillwater High School baseball team faced Edmond Santa Fe, Ty Hensley dazzled the Pioneers — throwing a one-hitter and knocking Stillwater out of the state playoffs in the first round.
Fresh off a 2-2 performance in the Gladys Winters Tournament and with Hensley in the New York Yankees organization, the Pioneers (10-7) are hoping for a little revenge when they face the Timberwolves at 5 p.m. Tuesday in Couch Park.
"I'm happy (Hensley) is not on that roster, but they lost a lot of guys off that roster," Stillwater coach Tony Holt said. "It's nice to know that we don't have to face him, but at the same time we lost several players, too, with a couple of Division I players and several good players ourselves. It's two totally different teams and a new year. It's all new this year. That was a couple of good teams with a first-round draft pick on the mound. They got the best of us, but we're looking at this as a whole new year."
It may be a different year, but getting past the Timberwolves won't exactly be an easy task — even without Hensley on the mound.
"They don't have those great arms that they've been known for all these years — going back to the (Brandon) Weedens and even before that," Holt said. "They used to just keep throwing arm after arm at you. They're a little bit different this year. They don't have those 90-plus mph arms, but they still have the same pitching coach, David Walsh, who is a former major leaguer and a great pitching coach. Even though those guys may not throw as hard, I promise you that they know how to pitch and understand the game."
It's that understanding and knowledge of the game that makes Edmond Santa Fe such a difficult matchup for the Pioneers.
"They'll still be tough to score runs on because they are so well-coached and versed in the ways of pitching a baseball game," Holt said. "It's not all about velocity. I know they're going to put some guys out there that are going to be talented. We feel like our guys are talented, too. They just need some experience. It helps that we scrimmaged them and kind of have a feel for what they got and I'm sure they feel the same way."
Edmond Santa Fe may still have a plethora of arms in the cupboard, but don't count the Pioneers out just yet. In fact, Stillwater took the regular season battle exactly one year ago 8-4 — and that was on the road.
Now, it appears the Pioneers are hitting their stride once again, aided by a huge upset over Tulsa Union in Enid.
"We had a couple of games at the Enid tournament where I didn't think we particularly played well, but then we had two tremendous games," Holt said. "Two out of our last three have been good games. We talked about the rollercoaster we're on, but I think we're on an upward swing. We're playing a lot of kids and trying to find a good combination. I like our ballclub and we have a lot of kids that have contributed to our success and I like our chances this weekend. We're excited about it. There's no doubt about it, that big win over Union and Putnam City North will help us with our mind. Now we know what it takes to win and we can see what happens when you don't perform like that and get beat."
Stillwater and Edmond Santa Fe may be shells of what they were a year ago when they met in the state playoffs, but games like the one Tuesday will not only help both squads prepare for a grueling district schedule but may also plant the seeds of what could be another classic playoff matchup a few years down the road.
"They're going to run good kids out there that understand how to pitch," Holt said. "We've got some big district games coming up Friday and Saturday with Bixby. ... We've got our hands full this weekend and I look forward to playing Santa Fe because they're going to have a good ballclub. It's a non-district game, so we can do some things and get some kids some playing time against quality competition to get us ready for this weekend."
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That guy sure does know his stuff.
What do you think of Glover's chances, right now, against Jon Jones.
I think Jones dominates him on the feet and then finishes it on the ground via elbows or sub. Glover looked impressive against Rampage, but at the same time Rampage looked bad. Glover definitely has some nice hands and kicks, but he seems like a younger and slightly more well wounded version of Rampage. I dont think anybody with poor footwork is going to be able to give Jones trouble, and his fighting style seems VERY open to body kicks/leg kicks.
I think Jones takes him down whenever he wants and completely wrecks him......but I'm biased.
Edit: Fedoreli......you think that Glover will take down Jones if they were to clinch??.....thats interesting to say the least.
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I actually think I could see Glover being the one to get the nod and give Jon Jones some serious problems, but its much too premature to speculate before Glover gets another high profile matchup.
Teixeira vs Gustaffsson anyone? That would be a huge statement there, but most likely I see him getting matched up with Machida/Shogun/Thiago Silva next since Goose has Mousasi on his plate.
I think they need to keep Goose on a separate path in order to have fresh contenders for Jones. He really just fights and wins often enough that it makes things tough for the division and promotion IMO.
Assuming (and hoping) Evans goes to 185, the loser of Hendo/Machida would be my vote. A big step up but probably not a guarantee of being anything more than 1 away from the title if he won.
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Jones doesn't like being hit and Glover is patient and tactful with his power strikes.
Jones will look to shoot for the takedown the moment he gets touched and Glover has sick TDD. Jones will get stuffed and be in range(possibly pressed against the cage), and will get touched up. Best case scenario, Jones come in for the takedown and Glover touches him, even if he GETS the takedown, Glover's BJJ is very competent and Jones' wrestling isn't overwhelming.
This fight is closer than alot of people think.
How's his bottom game?
Like all champs with repetive title defences there's a mystic about them of unbeatable. Jones reach is a problem for anyone, but as soon as someone beats him we'll see a mass exceduss of his bandwagon. Glovers got the tools to make a fight out of it, time will tell.
Was Rampage just complacently ill-prepared like all his fights last night or was Teixeira's wrestling just that good? I've never seen him so effortlessly taken down.
One thing is for sure: John Hackleman got home and jerked off dreaming of dollar signs for the first time in six years since Jackson last fought someone in his stable.
I wasn't surprised at all that Glover beat Rampage the way he did. A lot of people continuously underestimate Glover, thinking he's all hype. I have been watching him since his fight with Sokodjou and his arsenal is very impressive. Funny reason I started even noticing him was because of Sokodjou. Sokodjou KO'ed both Lil Nog and Arona (two top 10 fighters), and I was looking at his record and thinking who did he possibly lose to.
The question mark with Glover was always how would he do if he steps up against top competition, and the answer is getting clearer with every fight. The line up for the LHW title is pretty long, but Glover with another impressive victory can really step up to the plate. If that fight happens with Jones, Glover is going to go after him which pretty much no one has done. He has a lot of tools to make it a difficult fight for Jones. Hard to tell if he's going to beat Jones, just because Jones has stormed through every opponent.
I actually think I could see Glover being the one to get the nod and give Jon Jones some serious problems, but its much too premature to speculate before Glover gets another high profile matchup.
Teixeira vs Gustaffsson anyone? That would be a huge statement there, but most likely I see him getting matched up with Machida/Shogun/Thiago Silva next since Goose has Mousasi on his plate.
Sad to see Rampage Lose, really wanted him to go out with a win and a huge Fuck you to Dana White. But he fought with PRIDE and to me exposed Glover a little bit. This guy can be hit, and a faster striker could pick this Glover apart. Glover dominated to a degree, but Rampage kept him honest. I think Glover is a top 5 LHW, but I don't see him as a world beater after last night. I think Jones beats him rather easily, unless he can catch Jones early....
The difference will be highlited when and if ever does fight Jon Jones who won't likely need to utilize his wrestling anyways.
There is a gross underestimation of Glover's wrestling and TDD.
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Not really imho.
Glover does have the chance of putting Jones out but I got two words for you "Greg Jackson". Jones will not exchange with Glover, he will just keep him at distance with those "oblique" and front kicks. The moment Glover starts overcommitting to his strikes.... BOOM takedown, all Jones need is one good elbow to mess anybody's face up (look at Machida).
Im not a Jones fan at all but simply the Glover that fought yesterday will be embarrassed if they fought. Glover's really gonna have his work cut out for him to prepare for that fight.
With that said, I hope Glover knocks his head off.
And there you have it in a nutshell. A fight with Glover would look just like the fight with Rampage and Rashad.
Noone at lhw likes to bang like Page and Glover outside of maybe Lil Nog. I have a feeling Glovers next opponent might be Rashad, Phil or Brandon Vera. Personally I am praying that Glover fights Thiago Silva.
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West Virginia has two of the 10 semifinalists in Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey for the Fred Biletnikoff Award presented to the year's top receiver.
Joining them on the ballot for the award that will be presented Dec. 6 during the College Football Awards Show on ESPN are Brandin Cooks, Oregon State; Austin Franklin, New Mexico State; Cobi Hamilton, Arkansas; Austin Hill, Arizona; Deandre Hopkins, Clemson; Marqise Lee, USC; Quinton Patton, Louisiana Tech; and Terrance Williams, Baylor.
Austin leads the nation in receiving with 10.67 catches per game while Lee has caught 98 to Austin's 96 but played one more game.
Baylor's Williams leads in yards receiving while Bailey is third and Austin 10th. Bailey leads the nation with 16 touchdowns.
It comes as no surprise but WVU confirmed Monday that wide receiver Ivan McCartney has left the team.
McCartney did not make the trip to Stillwater, Okla., last weekend and WVU coach Dana Holgorsen would not give an explanation. He also will have no comment on the junior from Miramar High in Florida's leaving the team.
McCartney caught nine passes for 112 yards this year, including a long pass of 52 yards, and for his career he caught 59 passes for 701 yards and three touchdowns. He started recently at the TCU game.
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the50ftsnail89 weeks agoThis is awesome, although I wouldn't put it on such a strong blue (I'm quite certain no tee of this colour exists anyway), ass kickingly good design though sir.
ShayLei89 weeks agoThanks! For the record the blue in the background isn't what was submitted for the tee, it's just the background I used for the print version. I'll also take the sir in stride as a gender neutral term, but for the record I'm a lady. No hard feelings :)
kingbilly89 weeks agoi think it's cool. what colour did you sub it on?
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kingbilly89 weeks agoahh right. i dunno how it works as i havn't subbed any myself yet but good luck in getting choosen
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May 22, 2013 — Grayson City Council met in regular session last Tuesday to consider a proposal from its Emergency Management staff to create a mobile command post.
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West Virginia University linebacker Najee Goode and cornerback Pat Miller rank among the Big East's leading tackles at the football season's midway mark.
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They have 41 tackles each for six games to date. Goode has 15 solo tackles and 26 assists, Miller 30 and 11, and Vaughan 23 and 18.
Four Mountaineer defensive backs also are listed among Big East tacklers.
Sophomore Darwin Cook (39 tackles) is 12th; junior Terance Garvin (38) has a share of the 14th spot; and senior Eain Smith (33) and senior Keith Tandy (33) are tied for 23rd place.
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