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Should I Delete Content or Should I Revise My Posts?
There has been the suggestion made that under performing content should be deleted from a site. This may be hard to do if you have been posting often to your blog, so what strategy should you follow?
I have been working on a website audit for a blog that has been running for three years now. When I began that blog, I was writing for many different sites, and I wanted a home for all of my posts. I did not really want to always be posting on sites that were not my domain. I started pulling posts from other places, and I included articles from ebooks that I had written, but I had not posted on the web. I think that a few business owners may be in a similar position to what I faced: no organic traffic, and you need posts to help generate that traffic. We begin posting items to have something there. I knew one blogger who was writing about fifty posts a week. Each post was about three hundred words at most, and he did not really say anything significant with any particular post. He claimed he could be writing two hundred a week if he desired. There was a belief that quantity equated quality, but we know better.
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Content that Converts to Content that Drives Potential Clients Away
Is marketing on the internet any different from your other marketing? We do have to jump through a few different loops, but marketing remains the same, so what are you doing with your content?
There seems to be buzz around the concept of Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), but I wonder why now. My point is: have we not always tried to convert potential clients into clients? Maybe we arebetter understanding the tools that will help us achieve this goal. I set up various goals for my website that I found to be pretty standardfor many sites. If someone is reading more than four pages, I know that they are engaged, and they could be a potential client (or they may be searching for a certain article with better information). If they stay on the site for more than thirty minutes, I may have a client (or did they walk away from the computer to deal with the children while leaving my site open). If they follow a certain path, ending up on the page to contact me for my services, they could become a client (or is that a competitor scoping out what I have done). As you can see, there may be a flip side to the metric that you are studying, but we have to discover how a user is moving through our site, and can we determine behavior that is indicative to a user becoming a client. I am speaking of a service site, but we could transfer the service request page for a checkout page. What we need to be sure of is our content working?
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What Should We Do with Dead Content
Should you dump pages that are not performing? Maybe they should be rewritten? How do you choose?
I remember being told that you never know what twists and turns your business can take. You may find yourself with an opportunity that will completely change your job, but it can be more lucrative, so you have to develop the ability to notice these chances. We could view our websites through this perspective. We create content that we think is relevant to our clients or potential consumers. The problem is that they may not feel the need to know. We may place some content up on the site that is helpful to our clients, but these pages or posts have nothing to do with our core business. For example, let us say that I am a doctor, a heart specialist, and I have found that there is a certain type of amaranth grain when eaten on a regular basis is the perfect food for heart health. I write about this on my blog. Problem is that this grain is not readily available, so my readers contact me for this grain. I could refer them to my supplier, or I could set up a business to sell this grain. We all have this kind of content on our sites, and we may be presented with this opportunity.
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How Unique Is Your Unique Selling Position?
We all know that we need our own call to action. We know that we have to distinguish ourselves from our competitors, but did we really accomplish a separation?
I had an epiphany when going over the copy of the tenth website that I was studying on that day. There was not really much that would tell me how the service provided was going to be different from the service offered by any other company in that field. I then asked myself why that could be. Were the companies trying to differentiate themselves? Yes. In fact, these service providers did make remarks about their experience, and they all had a different experience set. Some touted being Christians. Some touted belonging to a specific industry association. There was also different educational backgrounds. However, when it came to the service provided, all were stating similar facts about their service. Do our potential clients see this as well?
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Did You See Your Site Drop in the Search Result Rankings Last Week?
Many site owners are complaining of lost business through loss of traffic. Do you have a strategy in place for your web marketing when you have lost your rank? Maybe rethinking your content can help.
On each Monday, I study my analytics. I look at my analytics more often than that, but I do a more in depth analysis to guide my plans for the week on that day. Last Monday, I saw one of my sites drop significantly for keywords that I was targeting, while new sites popped up on my radar. By now everyone is aware that Google changed the method for how they obtain their search results, and you may see many sites upset about their loss of traffic. I had a different experience.Although my rank went way down, my traffic soared up. This is due to a strategy that I have maintained for a while, which I will describe below, but the real story may be a bit bigger: we cannot rely on a search engine to help our business grow, and I want to deal with that idea first.
When you first publish your first web page, you will not be finding massive traffic from a search engine right away. We have to work towards that goal. Most industries tracking consumer behavior will inform you of a survey that states that our clients are going on line first before buying a product. They do their research, and then they may go onto buy on line, but they may not. The take away for a small business is that we have to be on line. To be noticed on line, we have to be ranking well, so we become fixated on a set of keywords and our position on the list of results for that keyword. That is not a problem; the problem is that we do not look beyond that results page rank. The change in rankings last week in the Google search pages was done to improve the quality of the results for the end user; however, have you conducted a few searches lately? I am assaulted with more advertisements than results, and sometimes those ads do me no good. Furthermore, I am now being given results based upon my own social network, as well as results that are personalized to my own history. This leaves me wondering what is the significance of a ranking for a particular keyword. Many of us have a bad experience with a pay per click campaign, so we drop it. We also fail to understand where our potential clients may be lurking on the internet, so we miss opportunities. We are forgetting that marketing on the web is like any other marketing, we cannot put all of our eggs in one basket.
How did my traffic go up when my rankings went down? The answer is simple: quality content that is focused on providing the best information related to my business geared towards my local region. Let us forget about rules of how often you have to post- a good article will always bring in traffic. We should consider how to obtain local readers. I still see advocates stating that you need to discuss local events, no matter what the event is. For example, you are a plumber writing about the latest Spanish restaurant opening near your home on your blog. Hey the food was great, but what does it have to do with plumbing? A visitor coming to your blog will not return for plumbing advice; they will likely not return at all. If a new water feature opened at a park, like a new fountain, as a plumber I may write about this fountain, and I would mention how you could have a similar feature in your yard. If the event does not tie into your business, then you should not be in a rush to write about it. Many people conducting searches will want to know why something is happening to something they own in their area. Back to the plumber: why do my cold water pipes have hot water in them in Miami? (People do type in search queries like that one). The plumber could write a post about how the heat from the sun heats the ground and the attic, and this is where water pipe are located in certain houses. This Miami plumber may not have a top site for plumbing in that city, but he was discovered by the searcher who wanted to know what is effecting his water in that city. People looking for answers will type longer queries to their search input, and they often include location, since many people feel that location could play a part in their problem. Once your collection of articles dealing with specific concerns increases, and you have effectively placed references to your own community into the articles, you will find that locals will perceive your site as a resource. Hopefully, they will then use your service, but that gets into conversion optimization. I want to deal with the content that brings in traffic here.
Do not post just to be posting. I have heard rules that you should be posting once a day, four times a week, or three times a day. Nonsense. I will say that if you wish to build up an audience, you do have to post consistently. You cannot post five articles in one month, then go six months before posting another article (and the person who really did that is wondering why her site does not have more visitors). Consistency in marketing pays off. Of course, you want to go after that top position in Google for your keyword; I am not saying that you should stop trying on that front, but your site can still do well in bringing your message to your potential clients. My blog is my base. My print ads lead back to the site. I have a ppc campaign that drives traffic to that site. I advertise on different sites, which have users that could be good for my potential client base. I do email marketing, and I participate in social media. I do not try to spend too much effort on any one idea, because then I could be wasting an opportunity to gain clients. This is the easiest trap to fall into: focusing on the one big thing. For example, Twitter is big, so I need to work on building up a follower base, but really, are your clients on Twitter? The same could be said about Facebook.
Focus on quality. Quality content, or maybe I should say content that answers the query of a search, will continue to drive visitors to your site. I need to go back to the drawing board when it comes to the keywords that I want to hit. It is a shame that so much effort seems to be wasted. On the other hand, Google is sending more traffic to my site for many related topics, and that helps to build my brand. Think about it: did someone just hand you a Kleenex or a tissue paper? There are people who still hoover instead of vacuum. So maybe you are not the top result for plumbers in Miami, but you are the plumber everyone goes to have their questions answered, and when they cannot do the job, they call you.
Give the User What He Wants: Something for Free
However, is that free item what they really want?
The internet is changing. More sites in trying to find ways to monetize their content are charging for what they have. Users still want to find bits of information for free. Well, more than bits. For most of us who are providing a service our knowledge is what we charge for, and giving it away for free seems counterproductive. Yet, we hear stories of those who have done just that with great success for their business. I began thinking about giving away something for free, because of two incidents yesterday.
I had been on a job the week before to examine a specific job done by a contractor. In fact, the contractor was the one who hired me. While going about my work, I noticed a problem which had nothing to do with why I was there. This was a potentially dangerous issue, so I informed the contractor's client. This nugget of free information led to the client calling me about further work. In a way that is what I do with writing a blog post. A nugget of free information may lead to further work, but how many free nuggets should I give? Does there come a point where I have given too much away? I think that is where experience comes into play. I can mention what I do, but a user may not be able to replicate it exactly, due to the experience factor.
I received an email offering me a free trial of an internet service for a month. The problem is that there is a similar site which is quite popular offering this service always for free. This caused me to consider about what we offer. Free is good, but do we offer value? If we state that we are giving away something for free, did we actually offer something? Will the user pay for it at some point? Here is where small businesses may be failing.
Marketing is hard and expensive. Blogs provide a cost effective way to do marketing which can be quite simple for some. Lets face it, writing a post does not come easy to everyone. Going back to my job where I shared a bit of data. I obtained the call back because a gave a piece of valuable information away for free which demonstrated my experience, my knowledge. Would that work on the internet? Well, in my scenario, I gave a bit of specific data which struck home with a potential client. Internet users are generally faceless though. My information could help others. If I write the blog post in a personal way, and explain the situation as I did to the client, I may touch the user with this free nugget like I did in person.
Now consider your competitors. Are they providing such free nuggets? You may be reading several internet marketing sites to find ways to improve your business. How many of those sites are giving you free information which is entirely different from what you have read on another site? I imagine that few truly are. So do you read through your competitors' sites? You should. Being in real estate, I looked through several sites from people in the same specific real estate field. I discovered that you will see the same topic come up on various blogs with much of the same thoughts. One way to break away from your competitors is to write content on one aspect of your business. For example, you could focus on writing about new products in your field. Maybe a more specific example. Alright, you are an accountant. Maybe you specialize in tax preparation. How about writing about new laws? Just that. Not how to prepare your own taxes, or your thoughts about taxes. Laws which effect the financial market and how they may effect income, which is a factor on tax. You have a niche which no one else amongst your competitors has tackled.
Can we take this further? You have limited the topic of your blog; you are giving away free content; but you could do more. Creating ebooks or resource documents for journalists or other package for the user, you can build up word of mouth, as long as you brand the resource. Let us jump back to real estate. Everyone has a mortgage calculator on their site. Offering your own does not make you stand out. Changing the language to Spanish is a first step to being unique. However, we could offer something else. We could have a utility bill calculator, or a calculator that shows how paying more of the mortgage's principle will effect your mortgage over time. The utility bill goes in a totally different direction which meets a current concern, while the principle mortgage calculator offers a variation to the other calculator which can be a concern for the client/user.
Free works. Study your competitors. Provide something which shows the user something that they cannot find elsewhere, and which shows that you have value. Those are the take aways from this post. At least once a month find out what your competitors have done. Also find out who your competitors are. This can quickly change on the internet. Find a niche, and exploit it. This may be your experiences on the job. The soap drama that goes on behind the scenes may be what the user needs. You have to find it.
How Far Can You Stray With Your Content
Consultants who blog may wish to go further from their topic to help brand themselves
A golden rule in blogging is try to have a focus for your content; do not stray to far from it. Every blogger has the odd post that does not fit the true purpose of the site though, but what if that content becomes half of the site? I was analyzing some popular blogs in specific industries, and found that they go against the focus rule; however, they do engage their audience, which is the ultimate goal of the site, but does this lead to conversions?
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Writing Posts for Keywords Which are not Trending
Writing quality content may not be enough if no one is looking for a post on your topic.
I used to write an informative post without concern if the post would be read by users or found by the search engines, because the post served my greater writing goals in regards to my business. With a website, this can be an error. Each written post should add value to the site. Value will be defined as bringing in users to the site; users who will hopefully convert to being your clients. Yet maybe you still need a post on a topic that will not add value, so how can you craft your writing to meet the goal of adding value?
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How to create a post for your blog
The art of writing comes with its own rules that you need to know, once you begin to write a post for any webpage.
I was asked how do I develop titles for blog posts, and I thought that I might write a post on that topic, but writing for the web is different from other styles. I have been working on a couple of anchor/pillar posts, when I wrote a piece that fits into my overall scheme, and kept my blog post schedule. While writing this post, I became self conscious of the techniques involved. This feeling was enhanced when an editor worked on a post that I submitted for another site. With these thoughts in my head, I felt that a post about writing a post would be better suited here.
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Becoming a Thought Leader in Your Field
New websites are popping up every minute; however, this does not mean that quality content is being produced. How would you set yourself up to be the source of information in your field?
I have been doing research on why users come to my site. This involved finding how they came to the site, what content did they examine, and what content was actually read. That last one was important to me. You have a short time to attract a visitor to stay on your site, so I may want to improve content where people arrive on the site, but I need to understand which posts caused people to stay and why. Those posts (not the ones that have the most visitors- which may or may not be read) will show you what your readers truly want. For example, users of my home inspection site fall into different categories. Two main categories are people looking for my service and people who want to understand how a repair to their home is made. The first group will find my phone number, and they leave the site. The second group will spend seven minutes on average reading an article. Obviously, this second group can become important to me in marketing, so I do want to cater to them. Read the rest of this entry »


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---- — Traverse City — Violet May Bolek, 91, of Traverse City and formerly of Flint passed away peacefully Monday, Oct. 29, 2012 at Munson Medical Center with her family by her side.
Vi was born Dec. 15, 1920 in Bibon, Wis. to Eli and Hilga (Salga) Lasilla. She lived most of her life in Michigan graduating from high school in Brimley. Vi attended cosmetology school and worked in Sault St. Marie, Petoskey, Traverse City, Bay City and Flint. She became a cosmetology instructor.
On Sept. 6, 1946 Vi married Edward Bolek in Flint, Mich. The two met in Traverse City at a roller skating rink where they "danced" on skates. After being married and living in Flint Vi and Ed moved to Traverse City and started a family.
A sweet and wonderful lady, Vi's beautiful blue eyes sparkled like a smile. Her nickname "Blondie" came from those dear to her due to her beautiful light blonde hair. She loved life and was devoted to her family. Vi enjoyed anything involving family, spending time with them fishing and camping on family outings. She was a Life Member of VFW Auxiliary and liked spending time doing jigsaw puzzles, reading, knitting or crocheting. In more recent years she enjoyed watching her grand dog compete in dog agility.
Vi was preceded in death by her parents, her brother Elmer, and her husband, Edward in 1980.
Vi is survived by her daughter; Linda Bolek of Traverse City, and her son; Mark Bolek of Big Rapids, as well as many other loving family members and friends.
Visitation will be held this Wednesday, Oct. 31 from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2012 at 11 a.m., also at the funeral home.
In lieu of flowers the family requests donations be made to A.C. Paw.
Please share thoughts with the family at www.reynolds-jonkhoff.com
The family is being served by the Reynolds-Jonkhoff Funeral Home.

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – East Mississippi Community College has earned the distinction of being the 2012-13 NJCAA Softball Academic Team of the Year for achieving a 3.59 cumulative grade point average to rank first nationally among the 369 colleges that compete in softball at the junior college level.
In addition to EMCC's Lady Lion softball program collecting NJCAA All-Academic Team recognition for the fourth consecutive year for having a composite team GPA of 3.00 or better, the East Mississippi men's golf program has garnered national academic team honors for the third straight season with a 3.18 cumulative grade point average.
Individually, eight East Mississippi Community College student-athletes have collected NJCAA Academic Awards for posting cumulative grade point averages of 3.60 or higher, including a school-record three sophomores achieving Pinnacle Award status with perfect 4.00 GPAs. Lion pitching ace Smokey Ethridge, starting offensive lineman Tyler Stanley and reserve softball player Sarah Dudley all posted identical 4.00 GPAs throughout their academic careers on the Scooba campus.
"Earning the highest team grade point average among all NJCAA softball teams is a tremendous accomplishment for our program and a true indicator of EMCC's commitment to academic excellence," said EMCC Vice President/Director of Athletics Mickey Stokes. "We're extremely proud of Coach (Kyndall) White and Coach (Taryn) Gray as well as our student-athletes for their diligence and dedication throughout the academic year."
With 16 of their 19 players this past season posting composite grade point averages of 3.41 or higher, EMCC head softball coach Kyndall White's Lady Lions bettered the 3.55 cumulative GPA marks compiled by fellow MACJC member Copiah-Lincoln Community College and Rend Lake (Ill.) College.
"We are so very proud of this team for the excellence they displayed on and off the softball field this season," added EMCC's Kyndall White, who completed her first season at the Lady Lion helm following a standout playing career at Auburn University.
In addition to Dudley, three other Lady Lion sophomore softball players were honored individually by the NJCAA. Former Clarkdale High School teammates Alex Smith and Amber Spann earned Superior Academic Achievement ratings with respective grade point averages of 3.89 and 3.82, while Haley Tutor followed with a 3.72 GPA for Exemplary Academic Achievement.
Also picking up Superior Academic Achievement accolades for East Mississippi were women's basketball player Brianna May and linebacker D.J. Jordan with cumulative GPAs of 3.92 and 3.91, respectively.
"These achievements are a testament to the players for their hard work and to our coaches for continuing to stress the importance of succeeding in the classroom," noted Brittany Wagner-White, who serves as EMCC's athletic instructional advisor/compliance assistant.
"These honors also should be shared with the EMCC faculty for their dedication to educating young people."
Though freshmen don't qualify for individual NJCAA academic honors, Corey Dawkins added a 4.00 GPA for the Lady Lion softball team, followed closely by rookie teammates Taylor Hackney and Abby Roberts at 3.94 and 3.91, respectively.
Other members of East Mississippi's 2013 softball team included Jade Albritton, Charly Boswell, Kendal Carpenter, Meri Morgan Fortune, Halie Green, Sarah Harris, Allison Hauer, Angel Johnson, Amelia LaVergne, Misty Richard, Tori Seymour, and Kendra Wilson.
On the softball field, the 2013 EMCC Lady Lions posted a 24-19 overall record and finished as runners-up in the MACJC's North Division standings with a 17-7 mark en route to making the program's fifth consecutive appearance in the MACJC State Softball Tournament.
This year's eight individual NJCAA academic honorees marked the most for EMCC since 11 student-athletes were recognized nationally during the 2008-09 academic year. In addition, only Holmes Community College's four Pinnacle Award individual winners succeeded East Mississippi's trio of 4.00 GPA recipients this past academic year.
Under former head softball coach Kate Neely McCarty, now EMCC's event coordinator on the Scooba campus, the Lady Lions achieved prior cumulative team grade point averages of 3.47 in 2009-10, 3.39 in 2010-11 and 3.31 in 2011-12.
Headlined by freshman John Pittman's 3.92 grade point average and sophomore Miles Respess' cumulative 3.52 GPA, head golf coach Dale Peay's EMCC Lions ranked 21st nationally among the 206 colleges fielding junior college men's golf programs. This year's composite team GPA of 3.18 follows prior nationally recognized team marks of 3.15 in 2011-12 and 3.04 in 2010-11 for the Lions.
On the links this past spring, EMCC's golf squad earned MACJC state runner-up team honors for the third consecutive year in addition to featuring a school-record three MACJC All-State performers (Caleb Westmoreland, Nick Davis and Respess), including the golf program's first-ever NJCAA All-American (Respess).
MCC excels academically
Meridian Community College had seven of its athletes receive Academic Student-Athlete Awards Tuesday afternoon. Three members of the MCC tennis team and four members of the MCC baseball team were among the recipients. MCC tennis star Edward Warren received the top honor among the MCC athletes by being named a recipient of the Pinnacle Award for Academic Excellence. Warren finished the 2012-2013 academic year with a 4.0 GPA and helped the MCC tennis team to an appearance in the NJCAA National Tournament.
Stephanie Grayson and Tara-Beth Hall of the MCC women's tennis team also received academic honors by the NJCAA on Tuesday. Grayson received the Superior Academic Achievement Award with a 3.95 GPA, while Hall was awarded with the Exemplary Academic Achievement Award with a 3.62 GPA. Grayson and Hall were both members of the MCC women's tennis team that captured the Region 23 Championship in the spring, and helped pace the Lady Eagles to an appearance in the NJCAA National Tournament.
The MCC baseball team had another spectacular academic year in 2012-2013 and placed four players from its team on the Academic Award List. Mitchel Babb and Luke Stanley each were named Superior Academic Achievement Award winners and each ended the academic year with a 3.8 GPA. Jace Belcher and Alvin Franklin were the final two award winners named on Tuesday and both received the Exemplary Academic Achievement Award. Belcher finished the academic year with a 3.76 GPA and Franklin had a 3.68 GPA.


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Sponsors for the event included the Blount County Community Credit Union, Bahai of East Tennessee, Bethel Baptist Church, Blount County Chamber of Commerce, Blount Memorial Hospital, Blount County Health Department, Don Blue, Center for Strong Communities at Maryville College, Hall-Oldfield Maryville Empowerment, Inc., Mt. Pleasant-AME Zion, Muslim Community of Knoxville, Patch Ministries, Pellissippi State Community College, Pilgrim Temple Baptist Church, Race Relations Center, Rosa Tellis, St. Andrews Episcopal Church, St. Paul AME-Alcoa, St. Paul AME-Zion Maryville, Alcoa Chiropractic, ALCOA, Inc., First Tennessee Bank, Keep Blount Beautiful, Maryville College, Mona Naturelle, Townsend Market, Wal-Mart, Waste Not-Want Not and East Tennessee Ice.
Individual sponsors recognized were Kay Tate, Judy Knight, Mary Scott, Jane Carr, Melisha Cobb, Julia Henderson, Jackie Hill, Beverly, Carlos and Kouji Bahrami, Julie Loudin-Rich, Marjory and Jerry Tucker, Johnny and Daryl Ray, Tomas Mares and Denryl Ray.


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An ontology for immune epitopes: application to the design of a broad scope database of immune reactivities
1 La Jolla Institute of Allergy and Immunology, 3030 Bunker Hill Street, Suite 326, San Diego, California, 92109, USA
2 Knowledge Systems, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University and McGuinness Associates, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
3 San Diego Supercomputer Center, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608, USA
Immunome Research 2005, 1:2 doi:10.1186/1745-7580-1-2Published: 20 September 2005
Epitopes can be defined as the molecular structures bound by specific receptors, which are recognized during immune responses. The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource (IEDB) project will catalog and organize information regarding antibody and T cell epitopes from infectious pathogens, experimental antigens and self-antigens, with a priority on NIAID Category A-C pathogens (http://www2.niaid.nih.gov/Biodefense/bandc_priority.htm webcite) and emerging/re-emerging infectious diseases. Both intrinsic structural and phylogenetic features, as well as information relating to the interactions of the epitopes with the host's immune system will be catalogued.
To effectively represent and communicate the information related to immune epitopes, a formal ontology was developed. The semantics of the epitope domain and related concepts were captured as a hierarchy of classes, which represent the general and specialized relationships between the various concepts. A complete listing of classes and their properties can be found at http://www.immuneepitope.org/ontology/index.html webcite.
The IEDB's ontology is the first ontology specifically designed to capture both intrinsic chemical and biochemical information relating to immune epitopes with information relating to the interaction of these structures with molecules derived from the host immune system. We anticipate that the development of this type of ontology and associated databases will facilitate rigorous description of data related to immune epitopes, and might ultimately lead to completely new methods for describing and modeling immune responses.


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Sight & Sound List #2: Citizen Kane (1941)
O Orson! My Orson!
by Elisabeth Geier
For a long time, I knew Citizen Kane only as a cultural reference, primarily through the classic Kids in the Hall sketch in which Dave Foley struggles to recall the title of the film, and Kevin McDonald screams at him, "it was CITIZEN KANE it was CITIZEN KANE it was CITIZEN KANE!" Throughout my teens and twenties, I couldn't have told you what the movie was about, but if it came up in conversation, I could nod knowingly and pretend to know why it mattered. Ah yes, I'd say, of course, the great film classic Citizen Kane.
Why do we play at knowledge when we are young, pretending to understand cultural artifacts we have not actually experienced? Who am I kidding with this "when we are young," this "we?"? I am a grown-ass woman, and recently, on a first date, I pretended to know all about the band Beirut. That guy was like a boy genius, I said of the lead singer, a fact I picked up without ever having listened to the band. I don't know why I didn't just say I'm not really familiar with them. I guess I was trying to seem cool. You can guess how well that worked out. I actually have listened to Beirut since, and I like them a lot, and that is one good thing I took from that date. Another is that pretending to understand something feels wrong, but sometimes it's hard not to fake it.
At age 27, in grad school, I finally watched Citizen Kane. A writing professor shared an excerpt of Peter Bogdanovich's interviews with Welles, and spoke enthusiastically to the class about how much there was to learn from these conversations, and again, I pretended to know what the man was talking about. Welles and Bogdanovich, I nodded, classic interviews, of course. Then I went home and immediately bumped Citizen Kane to the top of my Netflix queue. My ignorance granted a certain purity to the experience; without knowing exactly why it was considered one of the Greatest Films Ever Made, I could make up my own mind about what I saw.
The first time through, Citizen Kane held my attention, but I wasn't particularly moved. I didn't much care about this newspaper tycoon, his failed political career, who and what he left behind when he died. I thought the aging make-up was pretty good for an old movie. I loved the way scenes were staged, with actors stacked strategically across the frame. But the story told within those frames seemed rather thin. Citizen Kane was nice to look at, but it lacked the depth of character I prefer. But speaking of nice to look at, holy moly, Orson Welles. That guy was a stone-cold dreamboat. When Charles Foster Kane first strides into the newspaper office in his coat and hat? Shut up. No, keep talking, Orson Welles.
I fell into a deep internet hole, searching for photographs of Orson in his prime, reading about his early days in radio, his transition to film, and his youth. Oh god, his youth. "At age 25, Orson Welles reinvented filmmaking with Citizen Kane, a movie based loosely on the life of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst." At age 25, I reinvented snacking with Elisabeth's Sad Little Toaster Oven Pita Chips, a recipe based loosely on how poor I was and how I needed to find some use for the pita bread going stale on the kitchen counter in my basement studio apartment. Now I was age 27, still living in a basement, still completely unaccomplished and, honestly, afraid to try.
Why do we constantly compare ourselves to others? Why do I keep asking questions I can only answer for myself? Maybe it's a middle child thing; I've always been a little obsessed with age, and what happens at what stage of one's life, and it continuously blows my mind that a 25-year-old can make any movie at all, let alone one of the Greatest Films Ever Made. Of course it's ridiculous to compare myself to Orson Welles. For one thing, I have no ambition to make a film. For another, our backgrounds are nothing alike. Being 25 in 1941 was a lot different than being 25 in 2007. Finally, duh, he's Orson Fucking Welles. But still.
I turned 30 in May, and have been freaking out ever since. Time seems to have fallen in on itself; yesterday I was making a list of Goals to Accomplish by Age 30, and now my twenties are suddenly my past, and very few items are crossed off the list. Many people I love and respect told me that my thirties would be great. One's twenties are a collection of confusion and mistakes, they said, and one's thirties are when one becomes a fully realized adult. For months, I joked that I couldn't wait to wake up on May 2nd to find my entire life fixed, the anxieties of my twenties gone, my path now clear and brightly lit. Of course, I wished for the joke to come true. Of course, this is as ridiculous as comparing myself to Orson Welles. My thirties have barely begun, I am the agent of change in my own life, blah blah blah. But still.
According to critics and scholars with the credentials to make such claims, Welles never again did anything else as important as Citizen Kane. Even if you enter blindly and watch it without knowing why it changed filmmaking—the technical innovations, the use of point of view, showing a ceiling in a shot, for heaven's sake!—you know its reputation as a Great American Film. "It was CITIZEN KANE, it was CITIZEN KANE, it was CITIZEN KANE!"
It was the director's first creative triumph, and though he had a long career, though he made what many consider to be objectively better films, it remains his most influential. Orson Welles peaked well before the age of thirty, and spent the rest of his life trying to live down his own reputation. So maybe it's better to bloom late.
But sometimes, it's hard not to worry about never blooming at all.
In the late 1930's, when Welles started planning his first feature film, he wanted to focus on "some big American figure." Howard Hughes was the first that came to mind, but Welles eventually switched to Hearst. Sixty-five years later, Martin Scorcese ran with his own film about Hughes. At age 23, I went to a matinee showing of The Aviator and broke down into sobs during the scene where Howard Hughes locks himself in a room stacked with jars of his own urine. Like they say, one's twenties are a difficult time. Locked doors and pee jars didn't feel so far off.
Last Friday, at age 30, I re-watched Citizen Kane, with all the knowledge and context I've picked up in the past few years. Alone in a living room in Oregon, I did not completely break down, but after it ended, I felt incredibly on-edge. There is something about this story of a powerful, isolated man, as there is something about Howard Hughes, as there is something about Orson Welles himself. Their singular obsession with success is relatable, even as it repels.
The line between wanting to succeed and setting yourself up for self-destruction seems so thin. Returning to Citizen Kane reminds me what I still have not done in my life, and what I'm still afraid might happen if I try. I'm thirty years old, and my Orson is forever 25, and god, oh god, what have I ever done?
The real Orson Welles got old. He drank a lot, burned some bridges, acted in a few terrible/hilarious television commercials, never matched the success of his very first film, and died of a heart attack at age 70. He was by most accounts pretty happy with his life, but who knows. Welles once told an interviewer that the only reason he was able to make Citizen Kane, the only way he stumbled into reinventing filmmaking at all, was through ignorance. "I didn't know what you couldn't do," he said in 1960, at age 45. "I didn't deliberately set out to invent anything. It just seemed to me, why not?"
Elisabeth Geier is a grown-ass woman with a picture of young Orson Welles taped to her bedroom wall.
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By Loretta Gillespie
The Cullman Times
We often hear someone say that the Lord has led them to a certain point in life, or given them direction in making a decision or otherwise helped them through the crossroads that all of us come to from time to time. But for Jamie Hardenbrook, the Lord had a circuitous route in mind.
Hardenbrook was born in Indiana, but lived most of his life in Georgia. He graduated from the University of Georgia, with a business degree in 2000.
It was while he was a freshman in college that he got serious about his salvation and accepted Christ as his Lord and Savior during a campus crusade in Valdosta, Ga., He was 18 years old at the time.
Like a lot of us, Hardenbrook was basically a good person, had never given his parents any trouble and lived a moral life. He had been in church for most of his life, but says he was mainly just going through the motions. "We were typical Easter and Christmas Christians," he said. "But I never had a real relationship with God until I actually learned about more Him through my involvement in a campus outreach ministry through a friend in my dorm."
After making the most important decision in his spiritual life, Hardenbrook began to befriend others in the ministry through campus meetings. But it was on a trip to Orlando in 1996, that he really felt as though God placed a picture in his head. "It was like a trust fall, where you expect your friends to be there to catch you, but instead it was Christ who was there with his hands outstretched," he recalls. "That was my 'Ah, Ha!' moment. I did a double take, and I realized that 'Oh, this is what its like!'"
From that time on, Hardenbrook has dedicated his life to serving in some sort of ministry or outreach to help others in realizing their potential in serving Christ.
One of the first steps he took to begin the journey was to volunteer as a missionary to Croatia. He was 25 years old by now, but his was his first time to live in another country. He wound up in the small city of Split, where he would work with college students for the next year-and-a-half.
"It was incredible," he says. "It felt like God was showing me what it's like to have ministry as an everyday part of my life."
But after a time he felt the tug of home. "I was confused," he admitted. "I thought God was calling me home, but I really couldn't tell at that point if it was just what I wanted, or what He wanted me to do."
He stayed on in Split, but he never felt at ease about his decision. Finally, he heeded the call and came back to the states. "God had provided all the funds for me to be there, which gave me the option to stay, but I just never had a peace about it."
"As I look back I can see that this was God's way of preparing me for the next season in my life," he said.
Back home, he quickly became involved in the church, specifically in a singles ministry in Atlanta. His involvement gave him the tools he needed for pursuing his goals in serving God in many areas. "I look back on how things fell into place and I realize that I came back at a time when I was supposed to. I reconnected with a former girlfriend who became my wife," he said.
The couple was married in 2006. It wasn't long before another series of events led him to where he is now, which is how his story connects with Cullman, Alabama.
A friend sent him a job posting for a position with Franklin Graham's children's charity, Samaritan's Purse. Hardenbrook was supposed to post it on a job board, but instead, he applied for the position himself. When he got the job, he says that he knew that it was exactly where God wanted him to be.
"I love working with volunteers," he smiled. "I love pouring God's love into people, helping them to prepare for the ministry."
His work has taken him across the country on various missions, but at the present time, he holds the position of Southeast Regional Director for Operation Christmas Child for Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia. In this position Hardenbrook strives to equip local volunteer bases throughout these states with the tools they need to continue to fulfill the goals of the Samaritan's Purse outreach.
In building these teams of volunteers, he often has the opportunity to lead people into the ministry. "About 80 percent of my job is about recruiting, equipping or leading volunteers to share and to be a part of the ministry," he explained. "I also do a lot of public speaking to groups throughout the year."
Another 10 percent of his job is managing the processing center, which is one of eight in the U.S. "My role here is to have leadership teams of volunteers who come in to process the boxes and see that they get where they are suppose to be."
Another part of his job involves traveling. At any given time he is visiting and recruiting about 650 volunteers throughout the area, per year.
Recently, he was in Cullman to meet with Operation Christmas Child Area Coordinator, David Osment, of Christ Covenant Presbyterian Church, which is one of the largest groups of volunteers in the county.
You might have noticed the big trailer near the courthouse on Highway 31 with the Operation Christmas Child logo. This year's goal is to fill that trailer with shoeboxes ready to be taken to the processing center, then shipped overseas to children who will receive them eagerly. For some, it will be the first gift they have ever gotten.
He stresses that although it is almost Christmas for us, Operation Christmas Child goes on throughout the year. "One of the neat things to come about recently is that you can track your shoebox," he said. "Through headquarters in Boone, N.C., you can build your box online. You will be given a number so that you can track it as it makes its way to its final destination."
Hardenbrook asks that people in Cullman continue to pray for the future of this outreach and for the area teams who always work so hard to insure that the collections are made, the boxes filled and the shipment made so that as many children might be reached as possible.
"The Cullman community had another outstanding year with packing the gift boxes. We saw a 22 percent increase over 2012 with over 6,400 boxes collected. This is so important because now 22 percent more children will be reached with a gift box over 2012," Hardenbrook said. "Much of this is due to the efforts of Dave Ozment and his team supporting the churches and groups in the Cullman area. We are thankful for each donor, supporter, and prayer warrior who have participated in getting as many gift boxes to these children!"
Often these small gifts are the first indication a child will have which represents the love of Christ, and of His people who send their blessings in a small shoebox that makes a huge impact on their lives. In 2009, Samaritan's Purse started a 12-week followup program, "The Greatest Journey", to teach children who received boxes about Jesus Christ. Several million children have participated in this program and many have accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Throughout Cullman County hundreds of local Christians are involved in this mission project. Their goal is to exceed last year's record 5335 boxes. To date, over 100 million boxes have been distributed worldwide in the last 20 years. This year, so far, they have collected 6,400 boxes in Cullman County alone, but it isn't too late to give more if you have it in your heart to do so.
Area Operation Christmas Child Coordinator, David Ozment said, "God is using this simple, non-denominational mission project to convert hearts to the Christian faith."


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In his State of the Union address, President Obama issued a call to action for Americans to "out-innovate" the rest of the world and build on our history of doing "big things." Green technology is the next big thing, and it's our best hope to reinvent ourselves as competitors in the global economy. But we won't get there without a comprehensive national agenda supported by all parties -- political, yes, but also businesses, consumers, educators and students.
A revitalized economy based on clean energy makes perfect sense. Energy independence will save money, create jobs and improve national security; energy innovation could put us back on top by creating the opportunity to sell the products we develop to the world, thereby reducing our trade deficit, creating American jobs and strengthening our economy.
Even if we can manage to get out of our own way and move forward without endless haggling and debate, there are many obstacles to our success: Chinese protectionism, the undervaluation of Chinese currency compared to the dollar and intellectual property theft, to name a few. (What good is American innovation if our products are copied, produced more cheaply and sold back to us?) Outsourcing is a huge problem. With a vast supply of workers willing to log 14-hour days for $400 a month, minimal environmental and worker safety regulations, and easy access to low-interest loans, it's no surprise that China, India and other developing countries are so appealing to American corporations. The green tech industry is no different. Last month, Evergreen Solar Inc. announced it would shut down its publicly subsidized solar panel factory in Massachusetts, laying off 800 workers and moving operations to China.
The argument that outsourcing is good for everyone because it lowers the cost of the product for the consumer may be true to a point -- but not when we've got a 9 percent unemployment rate and a record budget deficit.
Things have to change.
We can start with corporate tax reform. Yes, close the loopholes so all companies pay what they owe. But let's also make it harder for green-tech companies to move overseas. Offer incentives for those who create American jobs and stiff penalties for those who leave.
We can create domestic demand for our own clean-energy products by requiring defense contractors and government agencies purchasing green technology to get it from American companies -- and offering incentives for businesses to do the same.
Our government should be encouraging every American household to save energy and invest in clean energy. We could do this with an overhaul of personal income tax credits. What are credits for child care, moving expenses and mortgage interest doing for the economy? Let's focus instead on bigger tax credits for solar, wind and geothermal heating systems; energy-efficient appliances, doors and windows; compact fluorescent light bulbs and programmable thermostats -- and offer an extra credit for products made in America. Let's extend and expand credits for advanced-technology American-made vehicles and add credits for people who walk, bike, carpool or use mass transit to get to work.
Let's also add tax credits for purchases of food produced within a 100-mile radius. Supporting the local food market reduces energy costs related to transportation and puts money into the hands of small businesses rather than factory farms and corporations.
We must invest in education -- but not just to train teachers and raise standards in science, technology, engineering and math, although these are crucial in building the work force we will need to develop cutting-edge products. We should also invest in technical colleges and vocational programs because in addition to scientists and engineers, we will need farmers and builders and technicians.
We must continue to invest in innovation -- through low-interest loans and grants for new businesses as well as funds for research and development, especially in areas where we still have a competitive edge, like space. What if we could harness solar energy, store it on satellites orbiting the earth and beam it back down when and where we need it?
Locally we have a concrete example of innovation in Ioxus, which recently announced plans to move into the former Soccer Hall of Fame building and create at least 30 new jobs. Launched in 2008 with help from start-up grants similar to the ones Obama is proposing, Ioxus is rapidly expanding production of high-performance ultracapacitors -- small energy-storage devices used in urban transit systems and wind turbines, among many other applications.
This is great news for Oneonta, and a positive step on the path to "win the future."
Lisa Miller is a freelance writer who lives in Oneonta. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Let's take the number 345 for example. This is a three digit number. We know that the farthest right number, 5, represents the 1's column, and there are 5 ones. The next number from the right, the 4, represents the 10's column. There are 4 clicks in the 10s column, which we interpret as forty. Finally, the third column that contains the 3 represents the 100s column, and we know it to be three hundred.
Binary works in the same way. Each column represents a value, and when you have enough you move to the next column. The difference is that in our base 10 system we need to have 10 before we move to the next column. We can have any value 0-9, but once it goes above that, we add a column. In base two, you can only have 0 or 1 before moving on to the next column.
The number one is represented as 1 in both base ten and binary, so let's move on to the number two. In base ten this is represented as a 2, however in binary we can only have a 0 or a 1 before moving on to the next column. The number 2 is written as 10. This means 1 in the 2s column and 0 in the 1s column.
Let's take a look at the number three. Obviously in base ten it is written as 3. In base two (binary) it is written as 11. This means a 1 in the 2s column and a 1 in the 1s column. 2+1 = 3.
Each slot represents a value that is double the last value. The chart on this page helps to demonstrate this. The values of slots, starting on the right are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, etc.
Now that we know how binary works, reading it is simply a matter of doing some simple math. Let's try a few:
Since we know the value's each of these slots represent, then we know this number represents 8 + 0 + 0 + 1. In base ten this would be the number 9.
Again we can calculate what this is in base ten by adding the values of each slot. In this case it would be 16 + 8 + 0 + 2 + 1. This would be the number 27.


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Ronnie C. Strait, 69, of Preston, died Wednesday at his home.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church at Sugar Creek, rural Preston. Burial will follow in the St. Joseph's Sugar Creek Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 2 to 7:30 p.m. today at Carson Celebration of Life Center in Maquoketa, where a 7 p.m. Rosary Service will be recited.
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Saturday's El Presidente Ball tells us St. Joseph's Day is near.
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And the granddaddy of them all, the Swallows Day Parade is near.
So enjoy these photos and get in the mood. Don't let a little rain damper it. By Monday, it'll be gone, and the long-term forecast doesn't expect it to return for at least a week.
Let the festivities begin!


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JSE full-year results: Nicky Newton-King - CEO, JSE
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ALEC HOGG: Nicky Newton-King, chief executive of JSE Limited joins us now. Nicky, what happened at your board meeting? We were expecting to talk to you at around two this afternoon and finally got the information from you guys at four minutes to six. Was there some friction?
NICKY NEWTON-KING: Not at all, Alec. What we like to do is keep you guessing! No, it was an extensive disclosure and we just wanted to make sure it was perfect.
ALEC HOGG: All right, and so it was, particularly for shareholders who are going to get another R2.50 dividend. What's your cash pile going to be sitting at after – I think was a billion rand a year in June, you paid out that special dividend of R200m or R2.10, and now you are paying another dividend of R2.50. Is this going to be the way into the future?
NICKY NEWTON-KING: Well, if we are cash-generative and we don't have anything else we need to do with regard to the cash – for instance, reinvesting it in our business or the like – then clearly we would return it. But the question on our cash pile – it would still be over a billion net.
ALEC HOGG: Sounds lazy, like a lazy balance sheet. Do you have anything else to do with it?
NICKY NEWTON-KING: Well, you know, we are not into the lazy balance sheet game, but we certainly aren't into debt either. And I think in these particular times having enough cash so that we can meet our commitments – and, as you know, we are a particularly interesting type of business because we have to guarantee the settlement of on-market equity trades, and that does require a certain amount of liquid assets, and that's why we keep so much cash.
ALEC HOGG: How much would you have to keep for that, Nicky? How much would you have to set aside to make sure that that liquidity is there?
NICKY NEWTON-KING: That's one number we never disclose. We do indicate that we keep cash for three particular purposes: reinvestment, the guarantee of equity market settlements and four months of operating expenses. So we certainly always take the position that if we have surplus cash and we aren't going to do something with it, it goes back.
ALEC HOGG: This is your first set of financial results after 15 years of Russell Loubser. Looking ahead, what changes might there be under your reign?
NICKY NEWTON-KING: We are still going to be in the business of running an exchange – hopefully an even better and even bigger exchange. But I'm busy focusing specifically on making sure that our big-ticket items are dealt with, and that we build a significant post-trade services or risk-management business, specifically to take advantage of the opportunities of Basel III.
ALEC HOGG: So you won't be doing anything radical like moving away from the London stock market or the FTSE, which provides you with a lot of your back-end software at the moment?
NICKY NEWTON-KING: Well, the London Stock Exchange provides our equities trading engine as it turns out, and we are going to use their new equities trading engine, which we are implementing in July. But we'll bring it here. And once again we believe that's a very good business decision for us because it will enable us to limit our dependence on the global telecommunications network, and it will also enable us to provide services like prolocation and the like that enable faster trading, and bring our clients closer to us.
ALEC HOGG: That share price today reacted positively to results which saw the headline earnings per share up 29%.
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The M.A. in Education: Concentration in Language and Literacy Education Program is designed to extend each candidate's academic and professional background in the field of language and literacy development when teaching linguistically and culturally diverse groups of students, either in elementary, secondary or adult education. The combination of course requirements and electives allows students to develop an area of expertise that is relevant to their own professional interests and goals. The coursework options allow students to specialize at the elementary, secondary or adult education levels.
The program is closely aligned with the Reading Specialist Credential Program. M.A. candidates may earn the specialist credential by selecting specified M.A. course options and completing one additional 3-unit course, EED 723, In-service Leadership in Language and Literacy Education.
This program is Fall admittance only and offered through the Department of Elementary in cooperation with the Secondary Education and Department of Administration and Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Education at San Francisco State University.
Admission Requirements
Admission to the University as a graduate student requires:
- Possession of a baccalaureate degree from a recognized institution.
- Attainment of a 3.0 grade point average in the last 60 semester units attempted.
Admission to the Language and Literacy Education Program further requires:
- Possession of an elementary or secondary education teaching credential or 24 units of professional coursework directly relevant to education. A minimum of two years of teaching experience.
In addition we strongly encourage applicants who are interested in focusing on bilingual education and/or second language acquisition. Dr. Arce's expertise is in Literacy and two -way immersion bilingual education.
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Level 1: Met by successfully completing the Graduate Essay Test (GET). The GET will be administered each semester, a week before instruction. Contact the Testing Center, ADM 152, (415) 338-2271, early in December or July for registration procedures, test location, date and time.
Level 2: Satisfied by demonstration of English competency on the final project in E ED 895 or the Master's Thesis in E ED 898.
Required Course
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The problem is not how to save capitalism but how to save the unique and successful mixed economy built in the United States over the eighty-five years since the New Deal. Our system is not capitalism. Our economy has a large public sector, which at its best was competently concerned with research, defense, financial stability, environmental safety, social security, and large measures of education, health care, and housing. Today, after thirty years of attack on government, all these functions are damaged and in peril.And the solution? I'll let Dr. Galbraith explain it:
What we do not have is the capacity to figure out, in advance, a coherent national strategy toward this goal, and for using our government to advance that strategy. We have no capacity to plan, and that is what we need now. "Planning" has been a dirty word in American politics for decades. For the hard-line right, planning destroyed freedom: it was the "road to serfdom." Anti-planners also thought it a failure; for them the collapse of the U.S.S.R. was due to "central planning." But without public planning, who is in charge? Lobbyists who represent the private planning of the great corporations. The public interest ceases to exist, and the public sector becomes nothing more than a trough at which private interests come to feed.
What the government needs most today is to regain an independent capacity to think. The government needs a way to imagine the future that is not dominated by lobbies or even by Congress so long as Congress is dominated by lobbies. Planning is a process: thinking, coordination, action. What is the long-term national interest? What specific targets must be met? What is the best way to do it, and who plays what role?***
Imagine a Federal Department of Energy and Climate with real independence. It could make an honest evaluation of ethanol. It could review the prospects and assess the dangers of next-generation nuclear power. It could make a judgment on carbon capture. It could consider all the serious conservation proposals, such as Joe Kennedy's program to retrofit housing in the snow belt. It could fund new research centers in the major universities, so that in a decade the country will have trained the experts we will need to implement the plans we make. Planning is not coercive, but it should be privileged. Once Congress approves a plan, budgeting and appropriation rules should favor public capital spending that implements the plan. For instance, such investments would not be subject to "pay-go" restrictions; as long-term improvements, they properly should be funded by issuing long-term debt. The planning process would thus parallel the budget process, superseding it in the areas of infrastructure, technology, and environmental management that would be the main arenas for the plan. Dealing with the energy and climate crises will require direct public action and the cooperation of the private sector, which will be achieved in part by regulation and standards. Clearly, the challenge is daunting. But it's not hopeless. If the country gets it right, all of us can have work for a generation, a better living standard afterward, and leave the planet more or less intact. And in addition, we stand a chance, otherwise improbable, of persuading the rest of the world to keep our line of credit open.A hallmark of progressive politics is the abandonment of the principles of individual liberty that are the bedrock of the US Constitution and, more importantly, the Declaration of Independence, and a disdain for free markets. Perhaps, with the ascendance of intellegentsia such as James Galbraith and the election of Barack Obama, we are once again faced with the twilight of freedom. Of course, the Bush presidency may well have already set us on this road.


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Thank you for your interest in volunteering with the Julia C. Hester House, Inc.. As a non-profit organization, we rely on the dedication and enthusiasm of our volunteers to assist us with our mission to enhance the quality of life for residents in the Fifth Ward and surrounding communities.
In order to fulfill our mission and provide the best programs possible for our seniors and children, we require all potential volunteers to go through an approval process which could include a criminal background check before becoming a registered Julia C. Hester House volunteer. Please complete the Volunteer Application, Release of Information and Confidentiality forms and return them to our administrative offices.
Once we receive your application, confidentiality form, three references and the Release of Information form, we ask that you attend a volunteer meeting or make arrangements for a time to meet at our office. This meeting allows us to get to know you personally and also gives you an opportunity to learn more about the programs offered at Julia C. Hester House.
In order to keep our administrative expenses at a minimum, a $10.00 donation is requested from each prospective volunteer in order to help defray the cost of the volunteer associated materials. You will receive mailings, calls and can check our website for our monthly volunteer meeting dates and volunteer opportunities.
We greatly appreciate your willingness to become a Julia C. Hester House volunteer. Thank you for your interest in helping us to continue the legacy of commitment to the Fifth Ward and surrounding communities.
If you have any questions or require additional information, please contact me at 713-672-2573.
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By James Neal, Staff Writer
Enid News & Eagle
ENID, Okla. —
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second of a two-part series on the city of Enid's "Quality of Life" election slated for Tuesday.)
Residents of Enid Tuesday will decide the fate of the Quality of Life initiative, a $50 million proposal to build new and upgrade existing city parks.
A pair of ballot questions proposes to raise funds to improve existing city parks; build two new neighborhood parks; build a new downtown park and a new community park; build 10 miles of new city trails; and establish a parks and recreation department.
The $50 million in proposed funding is split into two ballot questions: one to raise $20 million by increasing the city sales tax rate by one-half percent for five years, and a second ballot question to pay for $30 million in general obligation bonds by extending an existing 7 mill ad valorem tax for a term of 20 years.
The 7 mill ad valorem tax previously was enacted to fund city bridge improvements. The one-half percent increase in the sales tax rate would begin July, 1 2013, and would expire June 30, 2018.
Enid City Manager Eric Benson said the Quality of Life initiative before voters this week is the result of five years' worth of public input and staff planning, beginning with public surveys in 2008.
He said parks improvements was consistently listed as a high priority in all of the public polls, taken through the mail, online and in direct interviews.
"Parks and overall quality of life issues were the No. 1 sought after and the most desired item from those polls," Benson said.
Based on that input, the city contracted with architectural planning firm Howell & Vancuren Inc. to conduct an audit of the city's parks and develop a master parks plan.
The result was a community-wide inventory of city park assets and a master plan that outlined almost $80 million worth of new park construction and renovation.
Benson said the $80 million plan put forward by Howell & Vancuren was a recommendation, and should not be confused with the $50 million plan being put before voters.
"We asked Howell & Vancuren to give us a comprehensive analysis of what we have and what could be," Benson said. "What we have done is taken that end-to-end analysis and then decided what we could feasibly address."
The resulting $50 million plan, as it appears before voters this week, calls for at least 70 percent of the $30 million in bonds to fund the following:
• A new community park, to be built at 30th and Randolph, which would include softball fields, soccer fields, football fields, outdoor basketball courts, playgrounds, a skate park, picnic shelters, restrooms and concession facilities, at a bond cost of $13.4 million.
• A new central park, to be located downtown. The city already owns the property for this park, which is located between Garriott on the south, Oklahoma on the north, Independence to the west and Grand on the east. The park would include green space, landscaping, and an amphitheater at its center, facing south toward the natural slope that comes down from Garriott toward downtown. The bond funding for this park is specified at $824,100.
• Improvements to all existing neighborhood parks, at a cost of $6.87 million.
The bond proposals together add up to more than $21 million — more than 70 percent of the $30 million in bonds, as required by statute.
The remaining $29 million in funding — $20 million in sales tax revenue and $9 million in unspecified bond funds — would cover any cost overruns in the bond projects, plus the following:
• Addition of 10 more miles of city trails, bringing the city's trail system up to 13 miles of the total 30-mile master trail plan.
• Construction of a new neighborhood park on city property in the northwest part of the city, near Prairie View Elementary school.
• Construction of a new neighborhood park, on land that has not yet been identified, in the city's northeast quarter.
• Addition of a water feature or water park at the 30th and Randolph community park.
Benson said the trails portion of the plan is solely funded by and dependent on the success of the sales tax portion of the vote.
"If the people vote down the sales tax, they vote down trails," Benson said, "and the trails have been one of the most popular pieces of this."
The $50 million plan also includes $5 million to establish, equip and initially fund a parks and recreation department.
Benson said creating a dedicated parks and recreation department is critical to ensure parks are maintained, and its funding source always has been included in the plan.
"This decision includes a long-term strategy to hire, equip and fund a full-time and very capable parks and recreation department," Benson said. "We didn't just look at half the issue and then kick the can down the road. We have looked at the long-term viability of this entire issue."
Benson said it will cost an estimated $1.5 million to $2 million to equip and staff the parks and recreation department, and the specified $5 million would cover the initial start-up cost and about the first two years of department operations.
After that, Benson said, the parks and recreation department would be funded in the same manner as any other city department: by a dedicated budget line established and approved by the city commission.
"If this council gets a commitment from the community of this amount, they're not going to back away from a budget requirement like this to fund the parks and recreation department," Benson said.
He said the initial $5 million in funding will carry the parks and recreation department until the city pays off the water bond debt in 2017, leaving the commissioners more than enough extra money to provide for the new parks and recreation department.
"By the time the initial funding tapers off to the long-term requirement for funding, this council will have $8-10 million in sales tax revenue available that is no longer going to water debt," Benson said. "And the commissioners that are on now and coming on will be on there through that whole process, so there will be good continuity."
Benson acknowledged there has been much public concern voiced over needed improvements in streets, water and infrastructure. He said approving the Quality of Life initiative would take parks off the general budget, and free up more funds for infrastructure improvements.
"If the people commit to funding this, and vote in favor of it, it will open up a considerable amount of money currently going to parks and recreation for other projects," Benson said. "We will have more money to spend on roads, streets and infrastructure, and that's exactly where we intend to spend it."
Benson said the size of the project, and the $50 million price tag, was set by evaluating past performance of the 7 mill ad valorem tax and current and projected sales tax returns.
Based on past performance of the 7 mill bridge tax, Benson said it is known the city would raise $30 million over a span of 20 years. And, he said, sales tax projections show the city raising at least the specified $20 million by a one-half cent sales tax hike for five years.
Benson said the bridge tax was designed to fund the specified bridge improvements and come up for renewal in time to fund the parks plan.
He said the bridge tax also served to demonstrate to the citizens what the city can do with dedicated project funding.
"We wanted the people to see what we could do with a simple five-year investment," Benson said. "Instead of the seven bridges specified, you got 11, all completed under budget and on time."
Now, Benson said it's time to carry on that level of performance with the parks proposal.
"We designed the bridge tax to give us this opportunity, at this time, with this funding source," Benson said.
He said the parks plan was split between ad valorem and sales tax to avoid raising the ad valorem tax, and to spread the burden for funding the project.
"Why should only the property owners pay for these improvements?" Benson said.
He said 42 percent of Enid's sales tax revenue is "generated by people who don't live here," and the sales tax portion of the plan extends the funding source to people who visit and shop in Enid.
And, with record-setting sales tax returns, Benson said the time is right to capitalize on sales tax as a funding source.
"This is a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of this economy, and to invest in ourselves," Benson said.
He remains optimistic city voters will approve the measure, and set Quality of Life in motion.
"We think we have this one opportunity to garner public commitment on this issue," Benson said. "I think people recognize the importance of quality of life, and of having good public parks, venues and green spaces in our city."


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You know the kind. They usually come in the middle of the night, when you're sound asleep. Suddenly the phone rings. Dare you answer? It's been months since you last spoke. Better to let it go through to voicemail...
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Saul and Joshua are a surprising pair forging an unlikely friendship. Saul is short and thick, a tough, self-taught, middle-aged Guatemalan rhythm guitarist. Joshua is a young, tall, soft-spoken, almost frail, American banjo plucker. Saul is a veteran of the trains, and rescued Joshua from the poverty of platform-playing. Together they are "Duo Twins," a joke name playing on how different they look - though the Twins gel together beautifully. They play mostly Latin standards though they have a fresh sound to them because of the combination of Joshua's virtuoso plucking with Saul's solid strum and charisma. But could the differences that make their music beautiful eventually tear the duo apart?
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2PM woll be holding their comeback stage on May 11.
After two years, 2PM will set their comeback next week in Korea. JYP Entertainment has revealed 2PM comeback stage on MBC channel trailer on Youtube to let their fans know they will coming back on next week.
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Editor's note: With her new cookbook, Ripe: A Fresh Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables, blogger and author Cheryl Sternman Rule treats produce with "the same sense of naughty decadence usually associated with cupcakes and cocktails." Here we've collected two springy recipes from the green chapter (the book is arranged by color). Enjoy!
With green favas, pearly couscous, and sweet shallots, this warming sauté is both comforting and light. (To make it more entrée-like, toss in some feta and toasted pistachios.) Buy the freshest favas you can find as older beans can be starchy.


text: The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan has a long and impressive history of archaeological fieldwork activity in the Mediterranean, the Near East, and Egypt. Over the past 80 years, the Museum has helped sponsor nearly two dozen projects in Turkey, Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Libya, Tunisia, Greece, and Armenia. In the Field presents a well-illustrated and informative summary account, with accompanying bibliographies, of each of these significant projects.