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Greetings from HSBC Arena as the Sabres get set to meet the Los Angeles Kings. It's become a sad day for hockey fans as word broke tonight at 6:30 that former NHL coach Pat Burns has died after his long bout with cancer. Memo to the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee: Shame on you. You really blew this one. What purpose did it serve to not induct Burns this year? The top name this year was Dino Ciccarelli for God's sake. Yeeesh. Here's a terrific obit on Burns from Rich Chere of the Newark Star-Ledger, the longtime Devils beat writer who was in Burns' office in 2003 after the coach got his long-awaited Stanley Cup victory.
As for news from the warmup, Patrick Kaleta and Nathan Gerbe are both on the ice, meaning the Sabres still haven't decided if Kaleta is playing tonight. Jonathan Bernier led the Kings out, as expected, and will get the start in goal. Update: Looks like Kaleta and Gerbe will both be in the lineup. Don't see Matt Ellis on the ice.
And it's official: The Sabres' scratches are Ellis, Chris Butler and Mike Weber.
Keep it here all night for your updates from the arena.
---Mike Harrington
Third Period
9:24 p.m.: Lo and behold, the second goal has now been changed to Vanek. His seventh.
9:25 p.m: New addition to the inventory at the Sabres Store just brought for a look by information guru Kevin Snow: The Sabres' slick 40th anniversary yearbook. Super collection of full-page color photos of every player. It's $10. I still gotta get my 40th anniversary coffee table book. That's I think $39.95.
9:28 p.m.: We're under way.
18:48 left: Ryan Smyth for holding in the offensive zone. Sabres back to the power play.
17:50 left: Another PP goal. Pominville's shot leaks through Bernier and Connolly breaks his 0-for-November by tapping it home. Sabres lead, 3-2. That's 2 for 4 on the PP against the NHL's No. 1 PK. Just the second game this year with two power-play goals (the other was the Oct. 26 loss at Philadelphia).
12:47 left: Bernier stops Sekera and Myers just misses the rebound. Sabres doing a great job of puck possession in this period. Shots are 4-0 for Buffalo. And Johnson is going for cross checking Gaustad. Can they really come up with three power play goals in one game?
11:42 left: Great save by Bernier on a Roy tip.
10:44 left: Great save on Vanek in front just as the penalty ends. Shots are 7-0 for Buffalo.
10:30 left: Leopold and McCormick (rebound) are stopped. That's 9-0.
9:50 left: Miller makes a solid save on Williams on the Kings' first shot.
8:54 left: Gaustad goes hard to the net, doesn't get the puck but draws a hooking penalty on Dwight King. Sabres 2 for 5 on the PP and here's another chance.
4:43 left: Hecht nearly pickpockets Bernier behind the net. The goalie holds for a faceoff. Shots are 10-3 for Buffalo. A terrific period so far with a game up for grabs. Outplaying a solid team for the final 40 minutes just like Wednesday in Washington. Gotta start better. Attendance is 18,418, less than 300 from a sellout.
4:39 left: Hecht with a one-time rifle from the slot. His second of the year. Great feed off the boards from Pominville. Like i said, super period. Sabres lead, 4-2.
1:30 left: This would be the Sabres' first regulation win since Oct. 23 at New Jersey. That's 12 games ago.
It's over: A 4-2 win after a solid final 20 minutes. Final shots were 36-26 for LA, but 12-9 for Buffalo in the third.
Second Period
8:32 p.m.: We're under way.
19:23 left: That's how you start a period. The Gaustad-Kaleta-Gerbe line gets some pressure as Sekera brings it in from the left point and Kaleta tips his shot from the circle past Bernier. Game tied at 1-1 on Kaleta's second,
18:38 left: Connolly goes for hooking. Actually, it's Hecht but Connolly's No. 19 is on the board. In Marv Levy-speak, this game has been pretty overofficious.
16:07 left: Another penalty killed. Good shot block by Sekera, among others. Shots are 5-2 for the Kings and 17-8 overall.
15:14 left: More great work by Gerbe and Kaleta and Bernier has to make a sensational right pad stretch save on Gaustad alone in front to keep the game tied.
15:00 left: McCormick and Matt Greene go for roughing. McCormick was set to go and had shed the stick and gloves but the linesmen stepped in. Crowd boos.
14:08 left: Doughty hobbles off after taking a bomb from Connolly on the ankle. That would be a huge loss for the Kings.
13:40 left: Great save by Miller on a one-timer from Justin Williams.
12:53 left: McCormick gets his man right out of the box this time, pounding down Greene. They're both going to get five and the crowd loved it.
11:35 left: Wayne Simmonds beats Miller from the slot to make it 2-1 as the Sabres overskate the puck leaving the zone, notably Ennis, and Rivet might have screened his goalie on the shot from the slot. That's a big, fat minus-2 for Rivet.
11:17 left: More trouble. A tripping call on Connolly behind the Kings' net.
9:49 left: Sabres holding on with the PK. Close call as Jack Johnson's shot dribbled out of Miller's glove and went just wide. As JVogl wrote the other night in Washington, Miller's glove hand has been noticeably off this year compared to last.
9:25 left: Nothing wrong with Miller's reflexes however. Great save on a neat tip from the slot by Simmonds. Shots are 10-4 in this period and 22-10 for the Kings.
5:55 left: Myers and Sekera play with the puck in front of Miller and the goalie eventually has to make a good save from the point. Connolly, meanwhile, keeps firing pucks into the first man to come at him, in the best spirit of Ales Kotalik. Wonder how long Ruff can keep defending the $4.5 million man who doesn't have a goal this month (and is in the middle of his 10th straight scoreless game). But to paraphrasea what the coach said recently, "he's got more points than a lot of guys." Uh-huh.
5:06 left: Johnson goes for elbowing. Kaleta lucky he didn't get a slashing call in retaliation.
4:38 left: The PP connects against the NHL's No. 1 PK. Vanek tips home Roy's shot from the point after Pominville, who is completely snakebit and stuck on one goal, misses two tips from in front. Vanek's seventh makes it 2-2.
4:22 left: Lineup shift update -- Kaleta with a goal and a penalty drawn that leads to a power-play goal. Rivet? Minus-2.
4:10 left: What might be the NHL's goofiest stat crew has awarded the goal to Roy. How about watching the players' reactions? Everyone saw Vanek tip it home. (By the way, we all doubt Kaleta touched the first one too but I digress).
1:10 left: Miller with the great save on Kopitar after Brown bowls over Sekera to get the puck in front.
End-2nd: It's 2-2 through 40 minutes. Shots were 15-8 for LA and it's 27-14 through two.
First Period
Sabres starters: McCormick-Niedermayer-Grier-Sekera-Myers. Goal: Miller
Kings starters: Brown-Kopitar-King-Scuderi-Doughty. Goal: Bernier.
Nice touch by the Sabres to hold a moment of silence in memory of Burns and Army Specialist Blake Whipple, the Amherst native who was killed recently in Afghanistan and was buried on Monday.
18:05 left: Maybe the food poisoning is still bothering Rivet. On his first shift, he hooks Brad Richardson at center ice as Richardson was blowing by him and is gone for hooking. Rivet simply has not speed or mobility left. A play like that sends a distinct message he's done.
16:00 left: Sabres kill the penalty with two shots on goal, including a good save by Miller on Jack Johnson.
15:35 left: Shots are 7-1 for LA.
15:03 left: The Kings take a 1-0 lead as Dustin Brown goes wide around Morrisonn and beats Miller with a blistering snap shot to the stick side. That makes shots 8-1. Solid start just like Wednesday in Washington, eh?
14:15 left: Big scrum develops between the benches and Gaustad goes with Kevin Westgarth. Pretty even until the end, when Westgarth got the upper hand. They both get five.
11:41 left: Doughty goes for hooking Vanek in the LA zone. Let's see if the Sabres wake up. We've seen this act before: After the Washington-Vancouver wins, the Sabres clearly felt like they were back. Now it's two straight games they haven't shown up at the start.
9:23 left: Blistering one-timers wide of the PP by Pominville and Sekera. Gotta hit the net. A few seconds after it ends, Ennis breaks through and is hooked down. Scuderi goes for hooking. Sabres back on the PP. Kings came into the game leading the league in PK at 90.1 percent -- including a perfect 35-for-35 at home.
7:21 left: Penalty over. Sabres 3 for 37 at home this year on the PP. Terrible passing. Not enough battles. And the final 30 seconds of the PP featured Ennis-Gerbe-McCormick with Rivet and Leopold at the point. On a power play? Seriously, Lindy?
3:53 left: Leopold goes for holding as this is one dead-as-a-doornail period. Shots are 10-6 for LA.
2:38 left: Myers goes on a ticky-tack interference call along the boards on Doughty. It was but that was a 2006 call. They gonna call that every time tonight.
1:08 left: Sabres survive the two-man (they had given up a league-high four goals on two-man disadvantages). Nice block by Morrisonn helped.
:40 left: The penalties are over. Solid job on the PK.
:00 left: The period is over. Not such a solid job. Shots are 12-6 for LA and the Kings hold their 1-0 lead as Vanek just missed a goalmouth pass from Ennis in the final two seconds. It came after Ennis made a great play to backcheck on Anze Kopitar as he was trying to break into the Buffalo zone. Let's see if the Sabres get some momentum in the second period from killing off the two-man penalty.
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A mystery is solved, well sort of. For about a month now, I've been trying to track down for a reader the recipe for the red sauce from a long-shuttered Belleville restaurant, Ravioli Charlie's. While I still don't have the recipe, I do have more information. I heard back via email from Jerry Ahrens, president of the St. Henry's Men's Club at St. Henry's Catholic Church in west Belleville. Here's what he wrote: "The reader who reported that Ravioli Charlie gave his sauce recipe to St. Henry's Church is correct. We use the sauce in the spaghetti we serve at our Lenten fish fries. Although we won't disclose the recipe, we do invite everyone to our fish fries which will begin again on the first Friday of Lent in 2014."
Fall flavors
With autumn well under way, I started thinking of chiles and Santa Fe and Taos. If I had to pick another state to live in, it would be New Mexico, home to these two communities. Part of my fascination has to do with the food. My taste buds take weeks to stop yearning for posole, Indian fry bread, green chile stew or just a simple handmade flour tortilla.
In Santa Fe is a restaurant that has been open since 1944 in a centuries-old building. The Pink Adobe, called The Pink by those who frequent it, is one of the first places I ate during my inaugural visit in 1990. I left with a copy of the restaurant's cookbook, written by the late owner Rosalea Murphy, who originally hailed from New Orleans.
In New Mexico, green chile stew is legendary. Everybody makes it, everybody eats it, and cooks will tell you there are 100 ways to make it. Typically, pork is used, though chicken thighs hold up well. Sometimes there are potatoes, cumin seeds and tomatillos. Sometimes not.
Many of us think of the green chiles that can be bought in little cans, already roasted and chopped. They are very mild, so many Americans are familiar with them.
This time of year, you'll find ristras, strings of dried red chiles, hanging from porches, doorways and window sills in New Mexico. These chiles start off green and have a pungent but not really hot flavor when used at this stage. When they turn red, they actually are fairly mild.
Fall is the time to harvest and dry Hatch and other large New Mexican chiles. Grocery stores, restaurants and backyard aficionados set up fire pits and grills and roast fresh ones, then peel the skin and discard the seeds. (You can do it under the broiler.) Home cooks freeze the roasted chiles with their skins on for later use.
Drying the chiles is a centuries-old way to preserve their use. Want to order a ristra or purchase some green chiles? Try thechileshop.com, a brick-and-mortar store just off the Square in Santa Fe that also sells online.
Here is the green chile stew recipe from The Pink Adobe in Santa Fe.
Pink Adobe Green Chile Stew
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 pounds boneless pork, cut into 1-inch cubes
1/2 cup chopped onion
1-2 cloves garlic, minced
1/4 cup flour
2 cup peeled and chopped fresh tomatoes
2 cups roasted, peeled and chopped fresh green chilies or 2 (7-ounce) cans green chilies, drained and chopped
1 fresh jalapeno chopped, optional
1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 cup chicken broth
1. Heat olive oil in 4-quart Dutch oven with cover. Add pork and cook until lightly browned. Add onion and garlic and stir with meat. Add flour and stir 1-2 minutes. Add tomatoes, green chiles, jalapeno (if using), salt, pepper and sugar. Mix to incorporate. Add broth. Lower heat. Cover pot and simmer for 1 to 1 1/2 hours until meat is tender.
2. Serve with flour tortillas. Serves 6.
NOTES: Fresh green chile peppers, such as New Mexico or Anaheim, should be roasted over an open flame on a barbecue grill or gas burner or under the broiler. Once they are blackened and cooled, don food-safe gloves to rub off the skins, remove the stems and seeds, and coarsely chop the peppers. Six large fresh chile peppers will yield about 1/2 cup chopped.
Frozen green chile peppers are an acceptable substitute for fresh, if you can find them; use commercially canned chile peppers only as a last resort.
Make this side dish when fresh corn is in season; it just isn't the same with frozen or canned corn. The Vidalia onion is grated instead of chopped so it melts into the grits.
Grits with Corn & Vidalia Onion
1 tablespoon canola oil
1 Vidalia onion
2 ears fresh sweet corn
2 cups whole milk
2 cups water
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 cup stone-ground or course ground grits (try Bob's Red Mill)
2 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup Parmigiano Reggiano cheese
1 tablespoon parsley
1 tablespoon chopped chives
Grate the entire onion on a box grater. In a saucepan, heat the oil over medium heat. Add onion and cook about 2 minutes. Add corn and stir. Add milk, water and 1 teaspoon of salt. Bring to a boil. Whisk in the grits. Reduce heat to low and simmer until creamy and thick, about 30 minutes. Stir in butter, cheese, parsley and chives. Taste and add more salt and freshly ground pepper.
Serve with roasted chicken and green beans. Serves 4-6.
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Two men chased down a thief after police said he robbed a Chinese restaurant in Cresson Township.
Township police said two men chased John Martin Herman IV, 37, of Portage, after Herman allegedly stole a jug full of money from Grand China restaurant on the Admiral Perry Highway on Friday.
The pair caught Herman behind a building nearby, police said in a criminal complaint.
Police said Herman admitted to the theft.
"Herman admitted he went into the restaurant, sat there for a while and made the decision to take a jug of money." a court document reads. "Herman said that he took off out the door and the next thing he knew he was being chased. Herman said that he could not run anymore, dropped the money and gave up."
Police did not say if the men who caught Herman were employees or patrons of the restaurant.
Herman was charged with robbery, theft, receiving stolen property an disorderly conduct. He also was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia after police said they found a drug needle in his pocket.
Herman, of the 100 block of Main Street, was arraigned by on-call District Judge Rick Varner of Salix and sent to the Cambria County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $40,000.
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With time rapidly running out until sequestration goes into effect this Friday, many local officials still aren't sure exactly how the automatic federal spending cuts would play out in Washington state.
According to the White House, Washington's biggest losses would be in education and military spending. In 2013, officials have said our state would lose $11.6 million in funding for primary and secondary education, along with $11.3 million for education for children with disabilities—which would together put about 300 education jobs at risk.
In the Lake Washington School District, the loss of federal funding could amount to about $445,000 by district estimates, but luckily would not affect local schools in the 2012-13 school year, LWSD spokeswoman Kathryn Reith said. And, she added, though it's significant, the cuts would be in the context of a $213 million budget.
"The good news is our federal grants are awarded in July so we already have the grants that cover this school year, so we don't anticipate a mid-year cut," Reith said.
Altogether, eight federal grants could be affected in LWSD, including those for the most at-risk students: special education, Head Start, English language learners, vocational education, Indian Education, and Title I funding for schools with low income populations would all be impacted.
"The biggest impact would be on special education funding, up to $260,000" in cuts, Reith said.
Luckily, since the cuts would be for the 2013-14 school year, there is an opportunity as the budget is reviewed this spring to determine exactly how the district will deal with the cuts.
"At least this gives an opportunity to look for ways to reallocate funding or handle the needs in a different way," Reith said, barring an 11th-hour solution on Capitol Hill.
The impact to jobs would be more significant with military employees, according to the White House's projections. Across the state, about 29,000 civilian Department of Defense employees would be furloughed, resulting in a loss of $173.4 million in gross pay.
Some social services would also be hard hit. Washington stands to lose more than $1 million in nutritional assistance for senior residents and $143,000 in funds for victims of domestic violence—requiring the STOP Violence Against Women Program to serve approximately 500 fewer victims.
Unemployment insurance another area that could see some impacts from sequestration. The Seattle Times reports that up to 141,000 Washington residents who are accepting unemployment checks could be impacted, but state officials aren't sure exactly how severe the cuts would be.
The Federal Aviation Administration has said it might shut down eight airports in our state—including Renton Municipal Airport and Paine Field in Everett—but it's still not clear whether or not that would actually happen, according to The Times.
A state-by-state comparison compiled by Wells Fargo shows Washington would be one of the states hardest-hit by sequestration because 5.9 percent of our state's GDP comes from federal spending—much of it in the form of military spending.
President Obama will meet with top Congressional leaders on Friday, the day sequestration is scheduled to begin taking effect.
Are you concerned about the local impacts of sequestration, should it go into effect? Tell us in the comments section.


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Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator
In this article by Bart Kummel, author of Apache MyFaces 1.2 Web Application Development, you will be able to:
- Set up a project to use ExtVal
- Use ExtVal to generate validation based on JPA annotations
- Use ExtVal's added annotations for additional validation
- Implement cross validation using ExtVal's annotations
- Use ExtVal with custom JSF validators
- Create custom error messages for ExtVal validations
- Override and extend ExtVal's default behavior
Apache MyFaces Trinidad 1.2 Web Application Groundwork: Part 1
In this article we develop the basic parts of the web application that serves as Trinidad sample web application. For example, login registration, user authorization, navigation, internationalization (18n), and polling are implemented and briefly discussed. We cover all these areas and learn how this can be practically solved in conjunction with Trinidad, Facelets, and Seam and provide further completing information wherever required.
Also, at the end of this two-part article by David Thomas, we deal with deployment using Seam-gen to rapidly deploy at each change of any file.Read Apache MyFaces Trinidad 1.2 Web Application Groundwork: Part 1 in full
Apache OFBiz Entity Engine
This article, by Ruth Hoffman, author of Apache OFBiz, discuss' the recipe's for OFBiz entity engine.
This article will cover:
- Changing the default database
- Connecting to a remote database
- Connecting to multiple databases
- Creating entity groups
- Disabling automatic database checks
- Mapping database data types
- Creating a new entity model
- Modifying an existing entity model
- Building a view-entity
Apache OFBiz Service Engine: Part 1
In this two-part article by Jonathon Wong and Rupert Howell, we will be exploring the Service Engine. Services in OFBiz operate in a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). These services not only have the ability to invoke other services internally, but can also be 'opened up' and invoked by remote applications using, amongst other methods, the widely adopted messaging protocol SOAP.
Besides serving as a platform for interoperability, OFBiz services also offer us additional capability to organize our code. The traditional organizational strategies in object-oriented Java were a great improvement over the procedural paradigm. Wrapping both methods and variables together into objects to form a powerful "behavioral model" for code organization (where object's methods and variables define their behavior). Similarly with OFBiz services we are able to bundle groups of behavior together to form a coherent "service". We can say that OFBiz services, in terms of code or software organization, operate at a higher level than Java object-oriented organizational strategies.
In this part, we will be looking at:
- Defining and creating a Java service
- Service parameters
- Special unchecked (unmatched) IN/OUT parameters
- Security-related programming
Apache OFBiz Service Engine: Part 2
In the previous part of the article by Jonathon Wong and Rupert Howell, we looked at Defining and creating a Java service, Service parameters, Special unchecked (unmatched) IN/OUT parameters, and Security-related programming. In this part, we will look at the following:
- Calling services from code (using dispatcher)
- IN/OUT parameter mismatch when calling services
- Sending feedback; standard return codes success, error and fail
- Implementing Service Interfaces
- Synchronous and asynchronous services
- Using the Service Engine tools
- ECAs: Event Condition Actions
Apache OFBiz Services
In this article, by Ruth Hoffman, author of Apache OFBiz Cookbook, we explore the following OFBiz Service topics:
- Managing OFBiz Services
- Calling asynchronous, synchronous, and recurring Services from an HTML form
- Creating a Service definition file
- Creating a Service definition
- Service implementation
- Defining Service input and output attributes
- Service Event Condition Actions (SECAs)
- Service groups
- Handling Service errors
- Implementing Groovy Services
- Mail Event Condition Actions (MECAs)
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Apache Roller 4.0: Creating a Theme
In this article by Alfonso V. Romero, author of Apache Roller 4.0 Beginner's Guide, we will look at how to create your first Roller theme from scratch. We will also cover the basics about the theme.xml, weblog.vm, _day.vm, and stylesheet override files used inside a Roller theme.Read Apache Roller 4.0: Creating a Theme in full
Apache Solr Configuration
Setting up an example Solr instance is not a hard task, at least when setting up the simplest configuration. The simplest way is to run the example provided with the Solr distribution, that shows how to use the embedded Jetty servlet container.
In this article by Rafal Kuc, author of Apache Solr 4 Cookbook , we will cover the following topics:
Running Solr on Jetty
Running Solr on Apache Tomcat
Installing a standalone ZooKeeper
Clustering your data
Choosing the right directory implementation
Configuring spellchecker to not use its own index
Solr cache configuration
How to fetch and index web pages
We have a simple configuration, simple index structure described by the schema.xml file, and we can run indexing.
In this article you'll see how to configure and use the more advanced Solr modules; you'll see how to run Solr in different containers and how to prepare your configuration to different requirements. You will also learn how to set up a new SolrCloud cluster and migrate your current configuration to the one supporting all the features of SolrCloud. Finally, you will learn how to configure Solr cache to meet your needs and how to pre-sort your Solr indexes to be able to use early query termination techniques efficiently.Read Apache Solr Configuration in full
Apache Solr PHP Integration
Search is an integral part of any web application that is built today. Whether it is a content site, a job site, an ecommerce site or any other website, search plays a very important role in helping the user locate the information that he is looking for. As a developer it is imperative to provide the user of the website all the possible tools for searching and narrowing down to the required information. Apache Solr is a full text search engine which provides a large list of features for search. PHP is the preferred programming language for building websites.
This article written by Jayant Kumar, author of the book Apache Solr PHP Integration, will make the integration between Apache Solr and PHP easy for you. We will start with Solr installation. Look at how Solr can be integrated with PHP. And then explore the features provided by Solr through PHP code. After going through the book, you should be able to integrate almost all features provided by Solr into your PHP applications.Read Apache Solr PHP Integration in full
Apache Solr: Analyzing your Text Data
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- Eliminating XML and HTML tags from the text
- Copying the contents of one field to another
- Changing words to other words
- Splitting text by camel case
- Splitting text by whitespace only
- Making plural words singular, but with out stemming
- Lowercasing the whole string
- Storing geographical points in the index
- Stemming your data
- Preparing text to do efficient trailing wildcard search
- Splitting text by numbers and non-white space characters
Apache Solr: Spellchecker, Statistics, and Grouping Mechanism
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- Saving our "Funny Face" image using the toImage() method
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Application Development in Visual C++ - The Tetris Application
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A radical change of strategy by world champion Oakley's Cadel Evans resulted in the Australian winning the Fleche Wallone classic on Wednesday. Oakley's Joaquim Rodriguez "Purito" placed second and became the new UCI World Ranking leader. Double Tour de France champion Alberto Contador finished third.


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We need a sales letter gun to do a restructure/re write on 2 of our existing website sales letters. infertilityexposed.com and babygendertricks.com
First site is a info product targeting the infertility niche offering natural infertility remedies.
the sites no 1 competitor is pregnancymiracle.com which i know converts quiet well. second competitor is http://pickthegenderofyourbaby.com
Our second product which also needs a rewrite is in the babygenderselection niche and is once again a info product/ebook.
our no1 competitor for this product is http://www.planmybaby.com/ which also converts very well.
Our sites already have,contents, bullet extracts of the books, testimonials and has rolled over the AIDA principle a few times but somethings a miss.
The landing page is setup with optimizepress at the moment.
We are after a copywriter who has what it takes to tweak the copy and rejig this copy until we see a improvement on conversions.
Ideal candidate would be experienced with info products, clickbank, wordpress and optimizepress.
English MUST be your first language and you must be able to provide previous samples of your work.
Anyone interested please PM me as we are looking to move on this asap.
Open minded to ideas.
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you must also add nice graphical headlines similar to our competitors (we can provide the raw psd headlines for you to add the headlines into if needed.
on hand over you will update the content as a page on our wordpress site - once it is complete we will make it go live.
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Providing we are happy with the work we will order the same every 2 months to continue split testing new copy.
Send us 2 examples of relevant work
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The job will be done 1 site at a time and progress payments will be made as you complete the work.
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Water rate restructuring upsets some customersBy CHARLOTTE ALBRIGHT
Vermont Public Radio | June 21,2014The town of Lyndon has changed the way it calculates water bills, and that has nonresidential users upset about rate increases. The town says the rising costs of maintaining its water system demand a new approach.
Until the beginning of this year, 80 percent of the monthly water charge was based on actual consumption, and the other 20 percent was a base rate intended to cover the fixed costs of maintaining the system.
Municipal Administrator Dan Hill said the price of improving the water system has far outstripped the base rates the town had been charging customers.
Thats not sustainable, Hill said.
So Lyndon turned that structure upside down. Now 80 percent of a water bill is collected as a base rate, and only 20 percent reflects actual monthly consumption.
Many residential users have seen their monthly water bills stay level or go down, but large users are seeing large increases. Hill said the new system is actually more equitable than the old one.
But in any restructure, whether it be a reappraisal of land or a restructure of water or sewer, whatever it may be, its revenue-neutral in the big picture. But there are always winners and losers, Hill said.
One of those losers is Mark Bean. He owns three trailer parks in Lyndon. Most of his tenants are elderly and living on fixed incomes.
He said the new rates are forcing him to raise their rents by about $25 a month, and he complained that the new base rate has been unfairly set.
Lyndons water department maintains only one water input for each park, and Bean maintains the rest of the infrastructure. Yet Bean said the town is now charging him as if it were carrying that entire maintenance burden. And its basing that base rate on old data that does not reflect more recent improvements and investments he and his tenants have made to conserve water.
And now we turn around and say, Well, you know what, youve cut your water consumption in half, done a great job, but were going to charge you an extra $25, $28 a month for your efforts. Thats not right, Bean said.
The rent increases are putting Bean at legal loggerheads with his tenants and with the state. His attorney says he could sue the town, if the village trustees dont lower his rates.
Meanwhile, other large users, including car washes, laundromats and Lyndon State College, are paying as much as twice what they used to pay for water. Lyndon State Associate Dean of Administration Loren Loomis Hubbell said she understands why the town has to change the rate structure to maintain an excellent water system, but she thinks the redistribution of costs is not as fair as it could be.
We have no complaints at all about the water. We are just concerned about rates, Hubbell said.
She would like to see a more even split between the base rate and the consumption portion of the bill.
Town officials promise to review the new billing system next year and make adjustments if necessary. They also predict other communities are likely to face similar dilemmas as their antiquated water systems start to deteriorate.MORE IN This Just InBroadband tower Full StoryBOSTON Anthony Ranaudo pitched six solid innings in his major league debut and Dustin Pedroia... Full StoryPutney Mountain Full Story
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If you travel along Bedford Street, keep an eye out for a group of teenagers banding together to spruce up an area home.
Youth group members from Beulah United Methodist Church and Calvary United Methodist Church in Annapolis, Md., are doing renovation work this week to a home owned by Day Rowe and her son, Sonny, in the 600 block of Bedford Street in Dale Borough.
The project is sponsored by Teen Quest, a youth mission located in Somerset.
"This is a way for us to do outreach," said Dan Small, youth director at Beulah United Methodist Church. "We feel blessed and want to help people. We're giving back in the name of God."
The youth volunteers, who are in grades seven through 12, have been focusing their efforts on updating the kitchen by installing new cabinets, doing scraping and painting work, and fixing trim under the porch.
"It's divide and conquer," said Philip Cantrell, director of youth and adult ministries at Calvary United Methodist Church.
The project is not only about fixing up a home, but creating bonds with the homeowner and community.
"We build great relationships with everyone," said Kate Cumberpatch, 18, of Annapolis.
She said the hard work is paying off and they can see the progress that is being made. She recommends that other young people get involved in similar kinds of projects.
"Definitely go in expecting the unexpected, but you'll get a lot out of it," Cumberpatch said.
For Rowe, seeing her home being transformed is a blessing.
"I'm so humbled that God has given us this opportunity," she said. "Being a single mom, I could never have done this on my own."
She added that she's impressed by the work the young people have been doing.
"I'm just very happy they're all willing to do this," Rowe said.
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Statement as released by Acting Governor Kim Guadagno:
Calling on New Jerseyans to devote Martin Luther King, Jr. Day to helping fellow residents recover and rebuild after Hurricane Sandy, Acting Governor Kim Guadagno today joined members of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Commission and other guests for the 2013 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Celebration at the New Jersey State Museum in Trenton.
"For New Jerseyans, there is probably no more fitting way to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. than by using the day that's dedicated in his honor to serve and help fellow residents rebuild and recover from Hurricane Sandy," said Acting Governor Guadagno. "In the weeks since Hurricane Sandy struck our state, I have witnessed countless examples of friends, neighbors and complete strangers helping each other following the worst storm to ever strike New Jersey. It is through these individual selfless acts – no matter how large or small they may be – that Dr. King's spirit of service and kindness lives on."
This year's celebration included remarks from Reverend Joshua Rodriguez, pastor of Cityline Church, Jersey City and Reverend Ronald Slaughter, pastor of St. James AME Church, Newark and musical performances by the Trenton Children's Chorus and the Universal African Dance and Drum Ensemble.
Acting Governor Guadagno pointed to several "Day of Service" projects planned for Monday as examples of New Jerseyans continuing to assist each other and honor Dr. King's legacy.
"In Long Beach, the Paterson Community Service Corps will help clean up and remove debris from homes and surrounding areas affected by Hurricane Sandy. In Toms River, the Jersey Cares volunteers will assist families by clearing out furniture and cabinets, in addition to tearing up wood floors and sheetrock in homes. And in Long Branch, New Jersey AmeriCorps members will gather with the goal of rebuilding one, and perhaps even two, homes devastated by the hurricane."
"Of course, Monday's 'Day of Service' extends far beyond assisting in Sandy-related projects," concluded Acting Governor Guadagno. "In Newark, Salvation Army and AmeriCorps volunteers will lead an effort to revitalize a Newark volunteer center. And here in Trenton, volunteers will gather at a college fair to create 'college positive' posters and other promotional materials to display around local high schools."
Information about "Day of Service" events throughout New Jersey is available at http://mlkday.gov/. Information about volunteer opportunities throughout the year is available by visiting the Governor's Office of Volunteerism website at http://www.nj.gov/state/programs/dos_program_volunteerism.html.


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More Marketing Resources - May's Marketing Blog
I wanted to follow up with last month's blog, since I asked people for input of other marketing resources. Everett Reiss with Staffing Cooperative chimed in and his resources are:
Marketing over Coffee
10 Golden Rules of Internet Marketing
Copyblogger - www.copyblogger.com
Seth Godin - sethgodin.typepad.com
Community Marketing Blog - www.communitymarketing.typepad.com
Check them out, you might find a useful tool or two. Thank you Everett!
We will be Tweeting at our upcoming Risk Forum and Healthcare Summit. So if you want to follow the action check out www.twitter.com/riskforum and www.twitter.com/healthcaresumit (yes, summit is missing an 'm' in the URL.
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Also, see March's marketing blog for more information and advice about Twitter.
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Since the start of the school year, police in Hercules have been called to Hercules Middle/High School 161 times, the Contra Costa Times reports.
The figure is significant not only because the Hercules Police Department has eight fewer officers than it used to, but because Hercules is the only city in the West Contra Costa Unified School District with only one district-funded police officer, the Times reported.
Pinole and other cities in the district each have two officers at their schools.
The talk about school resource officers was part of a larger discussion about school safety during this week's joint meeting between the Hercules City Council and the district board of education.
The school board reportedly offered a solution during the Tuesday meeting:
School board President Madeline Kronenberg and Superintendent Bruce Harter promised to try to take care of that problem immediately by bringing a vote to approve funding an extra officer at the school board's Feb. 6 meeting.
If the district chooses to fund another officer for schools in Hercules, it wouldn't be alone: President Barack Obama this week directed the Department of Justice to provide grants to fund 1,000 more school cops around the nation.
Correction: A previous version of this story misidentified the number of times police have received calls from Hercules Middle/High School. Patch regrets the error.
Readers, what do you think? Are Hercules schools short on police protection? Tell us your thoughts on school safety in the comments below.


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The Department of Cognitive Science depends strongly on the generosity of former students, friends, and colleagues in order to be able to provide scholarships and fellowships for students, bring in distinguished outside speakers, and fund our exciting research programs. Our distinguished colloquium series, our cognitive neuroscience laboratories, and our international interactive videoconference connection between cognitive science students at Case Western Reserve and students in several other countries are made possible by gifts from donors. The department is proud of the opportunities it offers its students for lifelong learning. Our research programs in areas ranging from cognitive social neuroscience to communication, design of technology to the study of language, art to gesture, and computer simulation to cognitive syndromes and deficits are at the forefront of the study of the human mind. We hope that you will consider an online gift to the department to help support our activities. Please visit the Case Western Reserve University Online Giving website. The heading "Designation for this Gift" is a drop-down menu where you may choose either "College of Arts and Sciences Annual" or "Other" before specifying in the "Special Instructions" field that the gift is intended for Cognitive Science. We thank you in advance for your support, which is fully tax deductible, and which will be acknowledged in our annual reports.


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A large part of EPA's mission to protect the environment and public health is accomplished by awarding grants and cooperative agreements. EPA provides numerous grants for those with new technologies and ideas to further develop and implement their work. It is EPA's policy to promote competition in the award of assistance agreements to the maximum extent practicable. Depending on the assistance program you are applying for, you will need to obtain an application kit from the appropriate Grants or Program Office that will administer the assistance program. Below are several useful links with general information on federal grants and water-related grant opportunities. You should contact the appropriate office identified in the solicitation.
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I've been helping some folks develop a thoroughly juvenile, tongue-in-cheek game system called Braindead Barbarian Bimbos, and we've had a bit of trouble working out a school of magic that is available for characters that rely mostly on their looks to get by. After some brain wracking, I recalled some aspects of Erfworld that fit rather neatly, particularly when some Archons used their shockamancy to "flash" a full hex (or more) worth of opponents. Ah-ha! That's the kind of magic effect a school of magic that revolves around being attractive would create!
The game mechanics are extremely simple; you roll 1d6 for an easy check, 2d6 for a normal check, 3d6 for a difficult check, and all dice have to have a face value under your relevant stat for a success. Because this is a game about bimbos, we've been avoiding anything that sounds like in-game math, so there are no numeric modifiers to stats from equipment or abilities (or actions) and no hit points (when you attack, select a stat that you are targeting; if you hit that stat is unavailable for a turn; if that stat was already available you've incapacitated the target).
The magic school in question is tentatively called Tittiemancy. A degree of natural tittiemancy is available for any female character in the setting, and results in otherwise-inexplicable phenomena such as free bottles of champagne appearing at a bar or restaurant, traffic citations not being written, and human resources management placing you in positions of high visibility but little consequence.
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Shadura: "That looks good. I hope prices remain strong. It's always the concern of fishermen; it's not always just the amount of fish returning, but the price. But of course, we're concerned as set netters with what type of management plan we'll be under and what the Department of Fish and Game will manage us and if they're going to be extremely conservative as they were last year."
Shadura said the next important piece of information will be the Department's 2013 Chinook Salmon escapement goals.
Shadura: "We have to wait for the Task Force meeting this month before we'll really know any more. There was one thing on the forecast that was interesting; they talked about a 9,000 harvest of Chinooks this year in the commercial catch. It wasn't supported by any escapement numbers, just a projected harvest of 9,000 Kings for the Upper Cook Inlet area. So, I find that promising considering that we didn't even catch not even 1,000 Kings in the Inlet last year."
The next meeting of the King Salmon Task Force will be January 14th in the Challenger Learning Center in Kenai. You can find the Task Force website here: Upper Cook Inlet Board of Fisheries Task Force.
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We have to stop killing fish as sport fisherman! ADF &G needs to change the rules! If a bag limit is 3–then the 1st 3 to the bank fills the bag and no other fish are hurt/killed. Each year, i literally pick fish from the water by hand when the fish are twitching/almost dead due to the fight and "foul hook" rules–large gashes in the side/etc. I once watched a fisherman destroy 10 fish to get two. Catch and release must be done with barbless/crushed barb hooks.


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