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The Ten Levels of SEO
I read Ten Levels of Hangover in the bitter defeat blog some time ago but forgot about it until I read Rand's recent Levels of Search Marketing Knowledge. Levels of anything seems like a fun idea to me so here is my version of The Ten Levels of SEO.
The Ten Levels of SEO
You have built your first website, hosted it on Geocities and submitted it to Google and Yahoo. A week later you can't find it anywhere in the search engines. A friend tells you that it was the same for them, that it takes a long time and you have to be patient. Three months later after submitting several more times you still can't find it anywhere in the search engines. Your nephew tells you about the keyword meta-tag and says you have to submit every day. This doesn't work either. You use Yahoo Answers to ask why the search engines are ignoring your site. Replies are moronic but there is one answer that looks promising from cool_guy_97. He says that you need to know about search engine optimization. You decide to investigate further, you have discovered SEO.
You have searched Google for 'search engine optimization' and number one is a site that offers 'Free Submission to 40+ Search Engines'. You go to the site and enter your url because that's 38 more search engines than you are submitting to at the moment. While you are there you notice that they have a free online meta tag analyzer and decide to type in your home page for analysis. You are amazed to find that you are missing a load of tags, including the revisit meta-tag. Obviously that's why the search engines are ignoring your site and you put in a revisit meta-tag right away. With further research you are able to find 25 more meta-tags and you spend all evening putting them in the header of your home page. Next day at the office Eric in the Mail Room tells you that submitting to 40 search engines is small fry and that he has some 'multi-award winning web promotion and site submission software' which submits to 100,000 search engines. You think this unlikely but when he lends you the CD and you try it at home it looks as if it really does what it says on box. Several weeks later your site is still not in Google or Yahoo but mysteriously your inbox is receiving hundreds of spam emails every hour. You email cool_guy_97 at Yahoo Answers and he replies telling you that submission is not necessary and what you really need is inbound links. You decide to investigate further, you have discovered links.
You return the 'multi-award winning web promotion and site submission software' to Eric in the Mail Room and tell him your news about links. He seems to know this already and offers to lend you his copy of 'professional auto links power plus enterprise edition linking software'. You spend all the following weekend with the software and by Sunday night you have a brand new links page and you have sent out 1,400 link exchange requests. Two weeks later you have rejected links from 842 porn sites but you have made 26 link exchanges with various casino and gift sites. The good news is that when you type your url into Google and Yahoo it is definitely there for everyone to see. You tell everyone at work you are in Google, including Laura the Receptionist, who asks you what she should search for to find your site. She laughs when you give her the url and says do you come up for something like chocolates, flowers, dirty dancing or sports cars? You tell her you don't know yet but it gets you thinking. When you return the copy of 'professional auto links power plus enterprise edition linking software' to Eric in the Mail Room you tell him it seems to have worked but that you can only find your site by typing in the url. He tells you something about keywords which you don't understand. You decide to investigate further, you have discovered keywords.
When the boss isn't around you use Google to find out everything you can about keywords. Lots of irrelevant stuff about AdWords and other things get in the way but you discover a free on-line tool that tells you everything you need to know about your keywords including the keyword density. Keyword density seems to be very important and when you mention it to Eric in the Mail Room he confirms this and says it should be around 40%. You spend all weekend rewriting your content but when you have finished it reads like a speech impediment. You decide to email cool_guy_97 to ask if he will take a look and tell you if you have the correct keyword density. He replies and tells you that keyword density is irrelevant and anyway why are you bothering with all this stuff when all you have is a lousy free Geocities domain. He sends you a second email saying he doesn't have time to answer any more questions and not to email him anymore but he gives you the url of a webmaster forum where everyone has time to answer questions. You decide to investigate further, you have discovered webmaster forums.
Your first six questions on the forum are followed by very short answers referring you to the search function. You learn to use the search function and find your next few questions are more specific and get answered. Sometimes the answers are contradictory but that doesn't matter because by now you have discovered four other webmaster forums and if you don't like the answer on one you ask it on another. The advice you get encourages you to buy a brand new domain and host it on a reliable server. You have decided to create a website on mechanical toys because that has been your hobby since you were eight when your grandfather left you his mechanical toy collection. You spend the next there months photographing and writing about your collection. You add pages on the history of mechanical toys and their makers. You write about buying them on eBay and in garage sales. You even write about museum collections and other rare mechanical toys belonging to people you have met at antique shows. When you finish you have 200+ good looking pages reasonably optimized and quite a few links. During the next month you add a forum to your site so that collectors like yourself can exchange information and talk about the subject with like minded individuals. After nine months you are top in Google for a search on mechanical toys and almost top in Yahoo and MSN. The time spent on webmaster forums has paid off and you are now the proud owner of a high ranking website. When you tell your nephew he points out that an exact search for mechanical toys produces less than 100,000 pages and that his Xbox forum site is on the first page of Google out of 75 million. He also tells you he is making $200 a month with AdSense publishing. You decide to investigate further, you have discovered how to monetize a website.
The next day you sign up to become an AdSense publisher. On the same day Eric in the Mail Room tells you that his site is no longer in the Google index and he thinks he might have been banned. You offer to take a look at his site and help him if you can. That evening when you scan his site, thanks to the long hours you have spent on the webmaster forums, you see what's gone wrong. You find a world record amount of hidden text and multiple links to link farms. You make some notes and add the email address for Google's reinclusion request. The next day you hand your notes to Eric in the Mail Room, who seems very impressed. The first thing you do every day when you get to the office is check to see how much you have made with AdSense and at the end of the first full month it totals $8.55. The second thing you do every day is scan your favorite webmaster forums and the third thing you do is read the blogs of well known SEOs. You make a major decision to build another website but this time with AdSense revenue in mind. Since you work for a life insurance company and you know a little about the subject you decide to replicate the success you have had with mechanical toys but this time with life insurance. You buy a nice domain and Nicole in Customer Services supplies you with a list of 1,500 common questions clients and potential clients ask about life insurance. After a couple of dates she also hands over a photocopy of the scripted answers. You spend the next five months rewriting them and building your new website. You are able to persuade Jason in Sales to hand over his copy of the in-house sales-force bible. It explains things about life insurance that even you did not know. Nicole in Customer Services helps you translate the best parts from sales speak into English and you add it to your content. After six months you have over 2,000 pages of original content that explains everything you need to know about life insurance. Your site progresses nicely in the search engine results pages and you are now answering a few questions in the webmaster forums. Eric in the Mail Room asks you to meet his brother-in-law who runs a pet food business. He wants someone to SEO his website and you agree to do it for $350, you have discovered how to monetize your knowledge.
Your guide to life insurance website is making $1200 a month with AdSense and Nicole in Customer Services is sharing your apartment. Her experience in customer services proves invaluable in soliciting links, which she does mostly over the telephone. You have given her a list of almost 10,000 public library websites to call, which might link to your life insurance resource. Eric's brother-in-law has quadrupled his revenue on his website thanks to you and he sends you a number of prospective clients from his local chamber of commerce. You take them all on and you and Nicole try hard not to let your office jobs get in the way of your SEO activities. You are now a moderator on your favorite webmaster forum and one of the other moderators asks if you are going to the upcoming Search Engine Marketing and Optimization Conference in New York. You book the conference, tell Nicole and arrange leave from the office, you have discovered networking.
At the conference you attend every session and realize that the speakers do not say much that you don't know already. However the bar is very lively and on the first night you get to drink with a bunch of well known SEOs until 5am. You learn a lot including what you should have been charging your clients from the chamber of commerce. You spend most of the next day in bed but catch a couple of late afternoon sessions followed by a party given by one of the exhibiting companies. By chance you get to go with 50 other people to a restaurant for dinner, there a lot of the well known SEOs and search engine representatives including Matt Cutts. You get to sit 14 seats away from Matt and it is the highlight of your trip. After the dinner you are in the bar again until 6am. You learn a lot especially about black hat SEO. By a strange coincidence you get to meet cool_guy_97 who turns out to be a regular geek. When you get back you tell Nicole that you are going to quit your job and become a full time SEO. You go to see Scott in Accounts who tells you how to incorporate and arrange your tax affairs. Nicole quits too and becomes your first employee. In the first year you and Nicole have made as much money as you did working at the life insurance company and business is getting better all the time. You are an SEO.
LEVEL 9 (Some people skip this level and go straight to LEVEL 10)
Your business is expanding and you have your first blue chip client. You employ eight people including cool_guy_97 and Laura the Receptionist, and have a nice modern office. You have attend a lot of conferences and at the last one you were invited to speak on long tail search which has become one of your specialties. You have a successful blog where you talk about all the usual things like what Matt Cutts has posted on his blog and what all the well known SEOs have posted on their blogs. Occasional you post tantalizing reports from a conference you are attending but because you are in the bar until 7am every night they read like something out of Hello! magazine. As CEO you are working 16 hours a day, including weekends spending most of your time client facing and fire fighting. Nicole spends all day link building and running link building courses. She also plays the role of your company customer services department. You travel a lot to meetings and when you get home late every night you are exhausted. Fortunately Nicole is exhausted too. One night Nicole points out that both of you have worked almost every day for three years and never had a holiday. You like the idea of a holiday because although you have several AdSense sites bringing in a total of around $12,000 every month you haven't built a new one for two years. Also you have several ideas for potentially very profitable affiliate sites that you would like to build. Next day at the office you look at your diary, rearrange a few client meetings and speaking engagements, check with Nicole and book a week's holiday for two in Hawaii. Just before you go on holiday you take delivery of your new Porsche. You are a successful SEO.
Your holiday is not what you thought it would be and it's not because Nicole would not let you take the laptop. The first two days you both sleep for almost 48 hours and on the third day you get a call from the office. A prospective new client, the CEO of a well known retail group, wants to see you urgently tomorrow in New York. As you pack Nicole begins to cry. On the plane returning home you don't speak but you think about what you really want from life. All those places that you want to see, all those sites you want to build and all those black hat techniques you would really like to try for fun. By the time you step off the plane you have decided to sell your company and travel the world. You tell Nicole who begins to cry again. You sell your company for just enough to by a nice house in a nice part of town. You arrange to rent it out and buy two round the world tickets. You sign off on your blog and start a new one detailing your traveling experiences. You get as far as the beautiful and unspoilt Sao Beach in Vietnam where you rent a beach villa for six months. Most days you spend a few hours on the laptop building those new websites you always knew would be gold mines and keeping in touch with old friends by email. Nicole does all the link building and writes lots of content. Occasionally you dispense SEO advice to old clients for obscene amounts of money. Very occasionally you take on a new client simply because you like them. You play with black hat techniques just for fun. It's cheap to live and the money is coming in. Your house back home is rented out for $10k a month and your old and new sites are bringing in AdSense and other publishing income of another $60k a month. Most of the time you walk and talk with Nicole, explore the coast on a rented boat, cook and eat wonderful food and meet interesting people. Where to next? Explore the Australian outback, learn renaissance history in Venice or find another idyllic beach but this time in the Seychelles? You have reached SEO Nirvana.


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Sam Champion, the weather anchor for "Good Morning America,' got engaged to his boyfriend Rubem Robierb, ABC News announced on October 5.
Champion and Robierb met through mutual friends in Miami, where the Brazilian-born fine arts photographer lives. The pair plans to wed later this year.
"We are thrilled and so excited and thank everyone for their good wishes," Champion said in a statement.
The 51-year-old anchor Tweeted on October 5, "I've never been happier to share a bit of personal news!!"
Champion is expected to talk about the engagement on Monday's episode of "Good Morning America."
Champion spoke of his impending nuptials to The New York Times, announcing, "We're getting married New Year's Eve in Miami."
Robierb corrected his fiance, telling the newspaper, "We'll do it here [in New York] officially, and then have a party in Miami."
Champion got his start with ABC in 1988 as the weatherman for WABC-TV's Eyewitness News in New York City. He joined "Good Morning America" and ABC News in September 2006.

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Three Lakes High School recently announced it is hosting Nicolet College's Certified Nursing Assistant program. Taking part in the program were, front row from left, students Kristina Vanderstone, Alex Hennessey and Natalie Miller; back row, instructor Connie Gensler, Steve Schacht and Gene Welhoefer of Three Lakes High School. —Contributed Photo
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My thoughts on the "3:00 AM Deployment"
And I am only talking here about those deployments which unfortunately cannot be done seamlessly while the application is running and without even users noticing anything ( except maybe new/improved features ).
My opinion: DON'T ever have a late-night, 3:00 AM or otherwise, deployment.
DO have an early-morning deployment, meaning 6-7 AM, 5 AM or why not 3:00 if really necessary.
It's the best to come in at work earlier to do such things. People will still be in the office if something comes up not sleeping because they stayed awake in preparation for deployment.
I've done my fair share of night-deployments and usually if something went wrong customers started complaining in the morning after starting to use the app and when I was either asleep or just woken up and forgotten what I did some hours ago since I dreamt of fluffy clouds.
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The Twitter Conversation
I'm usually expecting to see conversations or fragments of conversations on Twitter, but it's also nice to see that companies have conversations
A few minutes ago:
And then after a couple of minutes:
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Archiving: Preservation of Service
If you care about either the past or the future of our digital assets, you should really watch this "ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack" Defcon presentation by Jason Scott.
I am sadly too young to fully appreciate some of the older or more exotic things they archive (like old tapes, floppy disks, others) but I can see their work and the whole community building around it are invaluable.
One of the current day dangers to web present, past and future in my opinion are URL Shorteners.
They fragment the web, they make things harder to read/parse, they are just plain ticking time-bombs for a lot of use-cases (although I agree some advantages exist).
So watching the video I found out about the subcommittee URLTE.AM dealing specifically with URL Shorteners.
With a motto like "url shortening was a fucking awful idea" I can't help but feel close to them and fully agree with their motivation.
I'm downloading the torrent with the May 31st backup. It's a whooping 39.2 GB! (COMPRESSED!). I can't wait to jump into it when I have a little time.
Which brings us to another great reason for having these kinds of archives and having them publicly available: They're great data sets for a lot of research opportunities.
Old, stupid, broken pieces of pottery from thousands of years ago are put on display in museums. Some historians/scientists fight over who can study some old bones …
… but old websites or other digital media from 10 years ago is thrown away in the garbage by most people or silently disappears without warning from the web. This is really sad…
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Worst "reason" to switch to Linux
I love Linux. I don't use it anymore as a desktop OS but all the servers I use at work and for personal projects are Linux and I use it daily. I did have it as a desktop OS for quite some time a few years ago and of course it worked and I knew how to use it well both at work and at home.
But that doesn't mean Linux is the solution to all problems and it certainly has quite a few differences from Windows which let's say most people use.
So I get a request some days ago sounding like:
Someone: I've got a colleague at work who wants to switch to Linux on his work computer, but he needs helps with some kind of programs, could you help?
Me: Sure. But first…why does he want to switch to Linux? Has he ever used it before?
Someone: No, never used it. He had problems with viruses and such on Windows and knows that there aren't any for Linux and it's much more secure.
Me: F*CKING IDIOT! He should keep his Windows and install an anti-virus and get some common sense.
Fact: Linux can be more secure and maybe even better at some tasks.
Fiction: Linux is the solution to all problems and it's easy to switch to Linux for your actual work computer.
You can be perfectly secure using Windows, having even a free anti-virus installed and just using some small amount of common-sense when downloading and running certain software. It's really not rocket-surgery. Just a dash of common-sense with a few sprinkles of paranoia to be really safe.
People who say "Linux has no viruses" obviously don't know how many (successful) attacks there are on badly configured servers. And if you run Linux and have no idea what you're doing you can install a lot of services which open you up to exploitation without even knowing it.
But skipping these arguments there the real argument is:
At work you need to do your job!
If you've never used Linux before and don't even know if the applications you use now daily have a Linux version or if there is some other Linux application which meets your needs then you're going to be in trouble.
You might not find the right software. You might have weird issues with Printing for example (I did at various points).
Any new OS and/or piece of Software requires some time to learn and understand. And when you have a job to do you might not have that time. A colleague will come over asking you to print an invoice and expect you to have it done in 10 minutes because that's how long it usually takes you. But suddenly after 2 hours you're still working on it because your switched to Linux. That's not acceptable for you or the company. And it's really silly too.
I really like standing out but if most of the people in the company use a certain OS there already is a lot of experience, knowledge and people who can help you resolve any issues. If you want to stand out by being different…that's ok…but you're on your own most of the times.
Start Small, Switch Gradually
Linux is free, Linux is cool, it's easy (well..much easier than before) to try out. So just go ahead and install it at home or another computer/laptop. Start gradually by using it for browsing the web and listening to music. Use the software available and see how it compares to Windows software you use every day. Keep trying out and comparing your software needs until you know enough to make an informed decision.
Keep getting to know it better and after you have some experience if you still think it's a good idea start using it at work. This also means you'll be able to advise other co-workers who might be interested in Linux if it really is a good fit for them. You won't be the odd-one-out but rather the guy who knows and can advise on Linux issues for various things.
Words of wisdom from our sysadmin at work during a conversation with a colleague (software developer):
Colleague: I want to switch to Linux, can you install it on my work computer for me?
SysAdmin: Sure! But don't come to me with any problems you have with any software. And if it slows down your work it's your fault.
* Footnote: The same reasoning applies even if you're switch from Linux to Windows. Or Windows to Mac, or Mac to Linux…or whatever…you get the point.
Tech Support Intervention – Shibboleet
Be sure to read the actual post after the comic :)
Man….I so wish that were true…
My parents' internet connection didn't work and I was called in for an "Intervention".
Basically they were taken through the whole stop the computer, start the computer, check Control Panel, etc. process.
So they called me over. Waited 5-10 minutes to get an actual person on the line, specified name and address etc and then handed the phone over to me:
Me: Hello, this is Cristian
TechSupport: Hello, can you tell me what error appears when you try to connect to…
Me: (cutting him off in mid-sentence) Let's skip the formalities. Tries on two different computers/network cards and cable coming into the home has no Link. Please check your managed switches for any configuration issues or get over here and plug it back it.
TechSupport: Ok. We'll investigate and call you back when we know more about the issue.
So that was all I think 40-ish seconds.
I didn't try saying "Shibboleet" but I doubt that would have worked. And even though I may not have been too friendly I gave him clear information (no link), showed him I put in some effort into resolving the issue (tried different computers/NICs), and saved both me and the tech support guy a lot of time.
Don't be afraid to assert yourself, things can go much quicker!
* On the other hand I understand tech support is stressed out sometimes. When a customer opens an issue for an application I work(ed) on and just says "It doesn't work" I feel like killing somebody. Give me more information, show me you gave it some thought and/or effort like trying different pages or buttons. Give me a screenshot or the exact error text if one was visible in the application.
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How NOT to promote your company on Twitter
XX (@Y) is now following you on Twitter!
(I will disregard the fact that it's a stupid attempt of "let's follow a ton of people, some will follow back, we have people watching/reading what we say" )
So of course you may click to see the twitter profile and see if it's worth following back.
It's a company let's say… 2000-ish followers, following 1500 people. There's also link to a Facebook page with like 9.5 thousand Likes.
And a fucking big grey lock image and a text telling you "@Y's Tweets are protected.".
What the hell? Don't you want people to see what you write?
Just take the "marketing" team out back and shoot them.
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To My Dear Customers: Continue Testing!
Continue Testing! Or…
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Email etiquette
Wikipedia defines an email Subject as:
Subject: A brief summary of the topic of the message. Certain abbreviations are commonly used in the subject, including "RE:" and "FW:".
Pretty straightforward, right?
Still this seems to be hard to grasp even for some of the more-educated people I talk with using email.
What usually happens: I send an email maybe including someone in CC on a specific subject A. Then either the actual recipient or a person in CC remembers that they want to talk to me about some completely unrelated subject B. So they hit reply and a nice "RE: A" appears talking about B and of course preserving all the previous talks about A from my original message.
I have only one thing to say: If you do this, don't be surprised if I don't reply to your email. I usually need to walk away from my computer every time I see this since it's one of those little things which makes me an angry man-eating panda..
Is it really so hard to change a subject line? Please try.
Funny thing is…there is a perfectly reasonable explanation for not replying to emails like that: "Oh…I knew I solved that issue/thing so I just archived all emails with that subject, sorry!"
Thread Hijacking is punishable by ignore.
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The Adventures of Alice and Bob
If you've read anything related to cryptography, chances are you've heard some of the stories with Alice and Bob
They're probably some of the most known characters in general in the computer field and I always love hearing Alice and Bob stories.
And now on RSA Conference's youtube channel I also found videos of them, oh joy.. Enjoy:
You can find a lot more great videos on the youtube channel, including lots of shorts with the creators of today's cryptography, so go ahead.
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Fiscal Cliff would be Devastating to Brown University
Saturday, December 15, 2012
If Congress fails to reach an agreement to avert going over so the so-called fiscal cliff, research funding at some of the national top institutions – including Brown University— could be in danger, according to Clyde Briant, Vice President of Research at Brown.
"The American Association for the Advancement of Science estimates that federal research and development spending nationwide could be cut by at least $50 billion over five years," Briant said. "If the level of support drops as dramatically as is called for under sequestration, it would profoundly change the way in which universities have to approach their research endeavors."
Under the Budget Control Act of 2011, Washington lawmakers are expected to craft legislation that would trim the nation's deficit by $1.2 trillion over a decade. But if a deal cannot be reached by the end of the year, an automatic round of cuts will be triggered, which would include many research-based agencies. In addition, the majority of American households could see a tax increase thanks to the expiration of the Bush-era tax cuts as well as the 2 percent temporary cuts to payroll taxes for businesses.
Briant said the cuts could have substantial economic effect on Rhode Island.
"I do worry about the long-term impacts on economic development if the cuts are as severe and sustained as is possible," he said. "At a very basic level, research funding has an economic impact through salaries and support for faculty, staff, graduate students, and postdocs, who spend their money in the community. Cuts there certainly have the potential for local economic impact. But beyond that, universities are great producers of ideas. Those ideas are the economic generators of tomorrow."
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there is nothing that can be done at this point by Congress, and Obama has no clue, either. let the US go off the cliff, and then people will hopefully learn what it means to seriously cut spending.
small example of Obama spending - as part of the Hurricance Sandy package, Obama is requesting 13 billion for "storms to be named later". this means he will spend 13 billion on whatever he wants, and then taxpayers will be on the hook again when a bad storm actually hits.
wake up, America.
Comment #1 by Mateo C on 2012 12 15
Couldn't the school tap into some of their own dough to fund their research efforts?
Comment #2 by Art West on 2012 12 15
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The Manitoba Premier explains why he's obsessed by trade
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Paper Bag Records labelmates PS I Love You and Mozart's Sister have announced the dates of their fall tour of Canada. PS I Love You is hitting the road in support of their third release For Those Who Stay. The album was recorded when recorded when Paul Saulnier briefly moved to Toronto from the band's
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I'm finally on the board for the 8th Canadian Book Challenge. What kind of host am I, taking this long? You'd think I'd set a better example.
Anyway, at least I'm in with a good one: Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel. A classic. As a fan of A Bird in the House and the Diviners, I don't really know why it's taken me until now to get around what it is arguably Laurence's best known work. For that matter, I'm not entirely sure why I'm such a fan. When I hear people complain about CanLit, with its slow-paced, character-driven, landscapey dreariness, I've usually offered them Alice Munro, begged them, to please use her as an example. Name names! I cried. But then, if I'm being fair, Laurence's work also matches those unfortunate labels. There's only one reason I forgive Laurence for it: she does it freakishly well.
The Stone Angel is once again insightful, beautifully written, and Hagar belongs is a top 10 list of best-developed Canadian literary characters of all time (the others being Anne Shirley— of course, Barney Panofsky, Sheilagh Fielding, and… I don't know? The Paperbag Princess? Let's just say top 5 list for now until I think more on this). Notice I said best-developed, not likeable. She's enjoyable to read, not entirely detestable, but certainly annoying in her prideful, demanding, and snobbish ways. She's also funny, but in a CanLit sort of way, so if you haven't read the book already, I hope you're not expecting Marg, Princess Warrior or anything that outlandish. (Saying that, I think Mary Walsh could do a marvelous job portraying her in a movie— no I didn't see Ellen Burstyn's 2007 take on the character). Because Hagar is so old, I started to think the book actually might have more appeal today than when it was written in 1964. With our great number of baby boomers slowly moving into the oldest demographic, and the societal costs of this move, I figure it must be about time the world focuses on them again instead of being so obsessed with youth. Alas, this, this, this, and this. So, if Hagar has anything to say about feeling ostracized in your last years on Earth, shut up. Millennials!
The theme of pride runs through the book and treated with due respect. More often, Laurence seems to making a point about the folly of pride, but not simplifying the issue, there are times when I think I understood at least where the pride came from and even the occasional time that I thought it was necessary. Hagar, despite her increasing senility or maybe sometimes even because of it, is not a static character and, though it isn't handed to a reader in certain terms, learns something about herself and others over the course of the book.
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Dan Browns famous novel "The Da Vinci Code" mixes history, mystery, and a curious plot that keeps pages turning. Whether you love it or hate it, I personally remember putting that book down several times while reading it and thinking "Woah, it all makes sense!". That feeling of "what the…" is hard to come by. […]
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Post-Colonial Africa
Despite having 54 different countries and being the world's second-most populous continent, Africa is often regarded from the outside as a single, homogeneous place. And that place, of course, is most commonly associated with tragedy, devastation, and corruption. What is the real story? Are things as bleak as they seem? How did we get to this point? This course will approach sub-Saharan Africa from the ground level, blending historical and travel writing in order to shake the simplistic stereotypes, identify meaningful themes, and also understand the many internal differences that characterize the continent. Special attention will be devoted to South Africa, Ghana, Rwanda, and Sudan, among others.


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Derek Mason, who has been associate head coach/defensive coordinator at Stanford, has been named the new head football coach at Vanderbilt, the school announced on Friday.
Mason will be introduced at a 10 a.m. press conference on Saturday.
"I am so excited to be at Vanderbilt," Mason said in a press release. "This university combines the best of what's good about college athletics and academics. We expect to be competitive and look forward to competing for an SEC East crown."
Mason, 44, has spent the past four seasons at Stanford where academic requirements and recruiting challenges are similar to Vanderbilt. He joined former coach Jim Harbaugh's staff in 2010 as a defensive backs coach after serving in the same position with the NFL's Minnesota Vikings from 2007-09.
He was promoted to co-defensive coordinator and associate head coach when David Shaw took over in January 2011. He has had complete control over the unit the last two years.
Mason replaces James Franklin who left for Penn State on Jan. 11. Franklin was Vanderbilt's head coach for three seasons, leading the team to back-to-back nine-win seasons for the first time in the program's history.The Commodores finished the 2013 season ranked in the Top 25 for the second straight season, marking another first in the program's history. Vanderbilt finished ranked No. 24 in the final Associated Press poll and No. 23 in the USA Today Coaches Poll released after the national championship game.
Vanderbilt hadn't finished in the final AP poll before Franklin arrived since 1948 under Red Sanders.
Vanderbilt wrapped up its search in exactly a week, and athletic director David Williams said they are very happy with their search. Williams said they found the football world is aware of Vanderbilt's progress, resulting in lots of interest in the job.
"We talked to outside experts and did our own evaluations and the person that always seemed to be in the spotlight was the same person that was at the top of our list and that was Derek Mason," Williams said.
Mason takes over a program that is in much better shape than the last time Vanderbilt hired a coach in 2010. Franklin took over a program that had gone 4-20 over the previous two seasons. Now Vanderbilt is 24-16 over the past three seasons, and the Commodores are 16-4 over the past 20 games - second in the Southeastern Conference only to Alabama.
But a recruiting class that had been ranked in the Top 25 before Franklin left has been losing commitments left and right, forcing Mason to try and salvage a class before signing day Feb. 5.
Vanderbilt Chancellor Nicholas Zeppos said they trust Mason to build on the work that has taken Vanderbilt football to "unprecedented heights."
"He embodies integrity, strategic thinking and a demonstrated commitment to success. He understands the important role that athletics plays in the life of a vibrant university, and that outstanding scholarly pursuits and top-notch sports are integral parts of the Vanderbilt experience," Zeppos said.
A fiery and energetic coach whose personality plays well with recruits, Mason has helped mold the Cardinal into one of the nation's best and most physical defenses.
Stanford allowed only 19 points per game last season, best in the offensive-oriented Pac-12 Conference and 10th nationally. The Cardinal also led the country with 44 sacks. Stanford has won the past two Pac-12 titles and is the only program to make a BCS bowl each of the last four years - all during Mason's tenure.
Mason is a former cornerback at Northern Arizona and has been an assistant at various colleges the past 20 years, including stops at Ohio, New Mexico State, Saint Mary's, Utah, Weber State, Idaho State, Bucknell and San Diego Mesa College.
He has gained greater acclaim at Stanford for finding ways to slow down hurry-up offenses and read-option runs, especially against Pac-12 division rival Oregon, which Stanford has beaten the past two years. About a half-dozen NFL teams even sent coaches last summer to see Mason, who taught tutorials on his defensive schemes.
"We are so excited to be introducing him as our head football coach because we are confident he can build upon our successes on and off the field and that he will take us to the next level," Williams said.
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WESTMINSTER - Authorities are warning pet owners to be cautious as coyote attacks are on the rise, especially in the west side of Westminster.
Experts say coyote breeding seasons lasts until around March, which can make the animals more aggressive and brazen.
Westminster police say six dogs have been attacked since Jan. 1. Five dogs were killed and the other was injured.
The issue isn't exclusive to Westminster. Pet owners in parts of Golden have had similar issues in the past.
Cristy and Mark Rusch have a Yorkie named Tucker that was viciously attacked last October when a coyote jumped their fence and entered the backyard in the middle of the night.
"I was two steps of turning back in the house. I heard coyotes yelping and screaming," Cristy Rusch explains. "It was the worse night of my life. It really was."
She was able to scare the coyote away.
"I ran out, and I just bellowed a scream, and I was hitting the stick on the side of the house," she said.
Tucker suffered serious injuries and it took months for the Yorkie to fully recover.
Many other dogs aren't so lucky.
Veterinarian David Specht has treated numerous dogs after coyote attacks. He says pet owners often forget that coyotes travel in packs and can lure dogs away from homes. He says big dogs and even dogs on leashes can be attacked.
"They will proceed to take them right off your leash. So, if you do see a coyote in the vicinity, it may be best to pick the dog up," Specht said.
In addition to making loud noises to ward off coyotes, Specht says pet owners can also buy animal scent.
"They're very sensitive to smells so you can pick up a lot of mountain lion, bobcat urinations that are concentrated and sprinkle it around the yard," he explained.
Westminster police plan on holding a meeting in February to warn the community about the spike in attacks.
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Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond is an author, physiologist, evolutionary biologist and bio geographer, as well as a medical researcher and professor of geography at UCLA.
He is the author of Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed and the widely acclaimed Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, which won him a Pulitzer Prize as well as Britain's 1998 Rhone-Poulenc Science Book Prize. His book, "The Third Chimpanzee" was a best-selling award winner. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Professor Diamond is a MacArthur Fellow who has published over 200 articles in Discover, Natural History, Nature and Geo magazines.
Diamond is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (Genius Award); research prizes and grants from the American Physiological Society, National Geographic Society, and Zoological Society of San Diego; and many teaching awards and endowed public lectureships. In addition, he has been elected a member of all three of the leading national scientific/academic honorary societies—National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Philosophical Society.
Diamond's field experience includes 22 expeditions to New Guinea and neighboring islands to study ecology and evolution of birds; the rediscovery of New Guinea's long-lost golden fronted bowerbird; and other field projects in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. As a conservationist, he devised a comprehensive plan for Indonesian New Guinea's national park system. He has also taken part in numerous field projects for the Indonesian government and World Wildlife Fund. He is a founding member of the board of the Society of Conservation Biology and a member of the board of directors of World Wildlife Fund/USA and Conservation International.
Jared Diamond was interviewed by Sarah Hrdy, professor emerita at the University of California-Davis. A former Guggenheim fellow, she has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the California Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.
Hrdy's books include The Langurs of Abu: Female and Male Strategies of Reproduction; The Woman that Never Evolved, selected by the New York Times as one of the Notable Books of the Year in 1981; Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection which won the Howells Prize for Outstanding Contribution to Biological Anthropology and was chosen by both Publisher's Weekly and Library Journal as one of the "Best Books of 1999", and Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, an exploration of psychological implications of humankind's long legacy of shared child-rearing which is being awarded the 2012 J.I. Staley Prize from the School of Advanced Research.
Sarah Hrdy is also co-editor of Infanticide: Comparative and Evolutionary Perspectives and together with Sue Carter and others of Attachment and Bonding: A New Synthesis.
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Tactical switch backfires as Bassett crash out of Senior Cup
6:00am Monday 19th November 2012 in Sport By Ned Payne
DAVE Turner admitted his tactical switch had backfired after watching his Wootton Bassett side eliminated from the Wiltshire Senior Cup at Westbury.
Bassett were level at 0-0 at half time in the last-16 clash but after boss Turner elected to switch to a 3-5-2 formation from 4-4-2, the visitors never carried the same attacking threat.
Matty Bown had seen his shot saved in the first half while Mark Barnes and Ethan Delaney had efforts cleared off the line.
However, Nathan Hallett scored within five minutes of the resumption and a second quickly followed, before Mark Young made it 3-0 to wrap up the victory.
"I'll take some of the blame because I changed the formation and obviously it didn't work," said Turner.
"Their keeper made three very good saves in the first half and we could have gone in 2-0 up.
"I changed the formation because they seemed to have more of the ball, but within 10 minutes we were a goal down. We never looked like scoring in the second half.
"If you are to learn from it you have to look at your own performance as a manager and I've had an ear-bashing from the three players in the back of my car.
"I don't have a problem with that as I'm quick enough to tell them when they make a mistake.
"It's gone now and we are focusing on a must-win league game against Lydney on Saturday."
Highworth were also knocked out of the cup after being sunk 2-1 at the Conigre by Melksham.
The hosts took a controversial first-half lead when an offside was not given and the home striker was able to drive low into the net.
Melksham extended the advantage from the spot in the second half after the visiting goalkeeper brought down his man.
Steve Robertson was thrown into the fray and he grabbed a goal back but Highworth were unable to find a leveller.
Worthians manager John Fisher said: "It could have gone either way, they had chances and we had chances. Unfortunately they scored the goals and we didn't.
"I thought their first goal was offside but even so, we still had a couple of chances to equalise at the end."
The only local Hellenic side to progress into the quarter-finals was Cricklade, who triumphed 3-1 at Laverstock & Ford, with Jack Allan scoring a hat-trick.
Crick now face a trip to Shrewton in the next round on January 19.
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You may have heard...the City of Los Angeles is readying itself for the 2012 edition of CicLAvia (first, we've got to break on through this storm) and your Los Angeles Fire Department would like to take the opportunity to offer a few safety tips.
"Ciclovias" first started in Bogota, Columbia over 30 years ago, in response to their heavily congested streets. These events promote street safety for pedestrians, skaters, riders, runners and anyone else you can think of that takes to the roadways. Similar events soon found their way into other parts of Latin America and ultimately, the United States.
This Sunday, April 15, 2012, from 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, the City of Los Angeles will (for the fourth time) present its version: "CicLAvia." Ten miles of asphalt will be wide open to pedestrian traffic and become completely car-free.
Fun activities for all, are planned along Sunday's route, as store-owners, restaurateurs and entrepreneurs will join this gathering in the streets. For just a short time, the streets will become a park for all to enjoy. Please be sure and visit one of the featured stops along Sunday's route: the LAFD's old Fire Station 30, which is now home to the African American Firefighter Museum. This museum is the first and only free standing museum of its kind in the United Stated and offers an incredible history.
We applaud the effort and encourage all to get out into the Southern California Spring (especially after having been couped-up for a few days with the rain) and participate in CicLAvia. But don't forget to observe some basic safety. And please be extra careful, you riders on the storm, as the streets may still be quite wet and you may even find some lingering showers.
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US Ambassador to Nepal Nancy J. Powell has said that the US would give continuity to the process of resettling Bhutanese refugees in the US as per the agreement reached with the Nepal Government. In a written interview to The Rising Nepal, Powell said that the initially agreed number of 60,000 was not a limit set by the US Government. Powell who took office on August 9, 2007 after submitting her credentials to erstwhile Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala expressed her governments keen interest to assist Nepals peace process in the days ahead. She previously served in Kathmandu as a consular officer from 1980 to 1982 and as the State Department Nepal Desk Officer from 1982 to 1984. Born in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Ambassador Powell joined the Foreign Service in 1977 following six-and-a-half years as a high school social studies teacher in Dayton, Iowa. She is a 1970 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa. She has studied French, Nepali, Hindi and Urdu. Excerpts:
America has been a true partner in Nepals march towards achieving lasting peace, how is the US government looking forward to assist Nepals peace process in the days ahead?
The U.S. has been one of the most consistent supporters of peace and development in Nepal since our first agreement in 1951; a true partner, as you put it so well, with the Nepalese people. We recently gave the Prime Minister a summary of U.S. assistance for peace and development in Nepal, and I will be offering a similar presentation to members of the Constituent Assembly at my residence over the coming year.
We have invested over $1 billion ($1,000,000,000) in Nepal since we established our first technical cooperation agreement with Nepal in 1951. In partnership with the Government of Nepal, US assistance plays a crucial role in supporting the transition to peace, building a representative government, establishing rule of law, ending human rights abuses, improving health care and addressing poverty.
As part of our most recent support for the peace process, we provided training in peace-building and reconciliation skills to 25 government officials; we supported the production of numerous Public Service Announcements for radio and TV about the CPA; employed youth to repair roads and schools in Terai communities and provided over 6000 Nepali child victims of conflict with educational opportunities.
We are eager to sustain this partnership for peace with the new Government of Nepal and hope it may begin soon the urgent task of providing the people with the security and economic opportunity Nepalis so richly deserve.
You have just returned from your trip to the US, did you meet your seniors at the State Department, any good news for Nepal?
I did recently return from a working visit to the U.S. The good news for Nepal is that Nepal has many friends in the U.S. who are interested in this country and committed to assist Nepalis in making democracy a success. There are both Democrats and Republicans in our national legislature interested in the latest developments here and eager to hear of progress in providing services and security to the people of Nepal.
The US government has been assisting Nepals development endeavours through the USAID and has been giving a large amount of foreign aid, what has been the impact of the aid, could you point out the areas of improvements needed for better results?
USAID and related US government assistance to Nepal has indeed helped in Nepals development endeavors. The United States spent more than $83 million ($83,000,000) in Nepal just last year. The U.S. has also supported strengthening Nepals democracy and governance through programs like the Media and Results Center for the Election Commission, purchased printing machines and paid for the printing of 41 million ballots through which the Nepali people elected the new Constituent Assembly; established 3 new mediation centers to help justices manage court cases in Nepal and funded a pilot series of live radio broadcasts featuring CA members discussing "The CA and the Future of Nepal."
USAID has provided assistance to the health sector in Nepal for more than 50 years, with significant contributions to malaria control, family planning and maternal health, infrastructure development, logistics management and equipment for health facilities, as well as clinical education and training. Nepals hugely successful child health programs including vitamin A supplementation and pneumonia treatment through community health workers and volunteers have received significant support by USAID. As a result of these programs and others like immunisations, Nepal has seen an almost 50% decline in under-five mortality since the time I was here in the mid 1980s. This is a remarkable achievement given the political and economic difficulties Nepal has faced in the same time frame. Nepal has made significant progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals with reductions in maternal and child mortality, increases in contraceptive prevalence, and stabilisation of the HIV epidemic in key vulnerable groups.
My hope is that USAID will continue in this role and that the new government will encourage the reforms in the health sector that are necessary for continued progress. These include better human resource planning and management to ensure health workers have the skills and supplies they need to provide services, are deployed to the places they are needed most, and that they are in-place and accountable to the communities they serve. The health sector needs more financial resources, and at the same time greater transparency and accountability that the resources are directed to address the major public health needs of the citizens.
Following the departure of 1,255 Bhutanese refugees living in different camps in eastern Nepal to the US for third country resettlement by June 25, 2008; many more have been showing interest for the same despite threats from pro-repatriation groups. Against this backdrop, does the US plan to increase the initially committed number of 60,000 refugees, which it agreed to resettle?
As the country that admits more refugees than all other countries in the world combined, the U.S. is committed to providing the option of third country resettlement to the population of Bhutanese refugees who have been living in "temporary" camps for 17 years. Last year, the U.S. committed to having a major role in resolving this refugee situation. The 60,000 figure was not a limit. The United States will consider for resettlement any refugee that expresses interest.
I am pleased that nearly 4,000 refugees who sought resettlement in a third country have been successfully relocated so far, and that tens of thousands of refugees have come forward for resettlement consideration. We expect the resettlement effort to continue for several more years.
Political parties in Nepal, often the left parties accuse the US of meddling in Nepals internal politics, how far do you agree or disagree with the charges?
U.S. engagement in Nepals development and democratisation has been sustained over more than 50 years and a dozen U.S. Ambassadors.
We support the people of Nepal and their democratic process. We dont "meddle" in Nepals internal politics. The people of Nepal know this. It would be a great help if the media did not publish every wild accusation of meddling.
The American Peace Corps Volunteers had been assisting Nepals development initiatives in the villages for many decades, they decided to leave in the midst of growing insecurity, now that peace has been restored to a great extent, are there any plans of resuming Peace Corps activities in Nepal?
Peace Corps contributions to Nepal have been enormous, and Nepal has made lifelong friends of hundreds of Peace Corps volunteers over the years. All of us were disappointed when declining security conditions, particularly in hills and villages, forced Peace Corps to terminate the program in Nepal.
I spoke with Peace Corps while I was recently in Washington. We will continue to jointly review the evolving security climate in Nepal. I think we have to admit that security conditions outside of Kathmandu vary considerably from district to district. When villages of Nepal benefit from improved security, and the government of Nepal indicates it would welcome a return, I am confident that Peace Corps will be ready to see how the program might be re-instituted in Nepal.


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Original post made by David Taylor on Sep 25, 2007
'It's more hands-on than psychological,' said Police Agent Donna Arndt, one of the two officers who will facilitate the 13-week class for parents."
--"Palo Alto police to begin parenting program", 10 Sep. 2007, Palo Alto Online
According to FBI statistics, the most common known cause of murder are arguments (400% more frequent than juvenile gang murders). So if we are going to have programs where police teach skills to deal with problems that can lead to crime, then society would achieve the greatest value from a program of police teaching conflict resolution skills. That is, police should be teaching people how to resolve their differences without resorting to force. After all, when you think of peaceful resolution of conflicts, who comes to mind? Certainly not counselors or mediators. Right - Mahatma Ghandhi, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., and the police.
Alcohol plays a significant role in arguments that lead to brawls and murders. So it would also make sense for police to teach skills to prevent alcohol use or abuse. After all, when you want a group free of alcohol-related problems, who you gonna call - Alcoholics Anonymous? Of course not! Right - the police. Oh - wait. According to a 1999 FBI report: "Estimates show that alcohol abuse among police officers in the United States is approximately double that of the general population". But we all know you can't believe the FBI - they're just a bunch of cop-haters with an anti-police agenda.
Domestic violence always ranks high in the crime charts. So let's have more police teaching us the skills needed for a harmonious household. After all, you never read about domestic violence by police, right? Oh - wait. The National Center For Women and Policing, founded by the first woman chief of a major U.S. city, reports that three studies indicate that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than American families in general.
We could also learn from police by applying their tactics in other areas. For instance, we could approach the domestic violence problem as we do with gang violence: let's have police sweep streets and houses, busting anyone with known (or suspected) marriage ties, or sporting marriage insignia ( aka "wedding rings"). Surely it's the next big cash cow for federal grant funds. Or, since police statistics indicate that family violence (including spouse abuse, child abuse, elder abuse, or violence against any family member) comprises nearly 33% of all police-recorded violence (dwarfing incidents of gang violence), let's broaden our vision to a war on family terrorism and reel in family violence at the source, in the hot hangouts of "familysters": let's swoop down on the Chuck E. Cheeses, to root out anyone with known (or suspected) ties to a family.
Clearly police are uniquely positioned to provide innovative and effective strategies for dealing with our social problems, and therefore should be entrusted with teaching those strategies to the rest of us. If we are to remain a civilized free society, not a police state, then our only recourse is to get police to tell us how to live every aspect of our lives.
on Sep 25, 2007 at 9:04 am
I am not sure if I agree with you wholeheartedly on this one. Yes, I can see that there are times when the police can show us and in fact teach the legal end of this question. However, I am not sure if I want to be taught social skills by the police. I have nothing against the police as individuals, but since they primarily are to be looked on as police, not teachers or moral leaders, or guidance counsellors or mentors or so on, then I would be concerned about asking them to help advise me in a particularly difficult hypothetical situation. How can I be sure that if I said I was worried that my child was taking drugs, as an example, that they would not give me some advice, but put my child on a "possible watch list" which he was only there for because of what I had said.
I do not like the idea of a police state. I am concerned that this idea could be taken to the level of giving the police a ready made list of who to look out for. If I have problems with my teens, I would much rather go to a professional, secular or religious, or anything else rather than the police.
on Sep 25, 2007 at 10:48 am
Ha ha ha Parent !
I am not sure I read the original post by David the same way as you did. Reading his post, I detect a tongue-in-cheek sarcasm that I find quite funny. As a matter of fact, I believe David finds that it is NOT a good idea to have police do the type of "counseling" mentined in the article. So in the end, it seems you two agree.
Add me to the group of people who are not at all enthusiastic about the idea of police taking over the role of "counselors".
on Sep 25, 2007 at 12:24 pm
OK I admit I skimmed the post. There was another thread a week ago that seemed to think this was a good idea and I was sceptic then and still am. Therefore, I acted too quickly. My apologies to the original poster.


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on Oct 20, 2013 at 4:44 pm
It's not surprising to see this article, given that the PAHC has come under so much scrutiny, and criticism, because of their heavy-handed, and possibly even dishonest, dealing with the public over the Maybell Orchard development.
What's interesting about this article is that the Weekly seems to have failed to ask a lot of questions about why this women is in the predicament that she is. It would be interesting to engage her with questions like:
How long have you been unemployed?
What kind of job did you have before you become unemployed?
Why can't you work part-time when your kids are in school?
Where is the father of your children? Doesn't he have some financial responsibility for their upkeep?
Do you have any family that can help you?
Where were you living before moving into publicly subsidized housingwhich you are calling "affordable"?
Why is moving to a more affordable community impossible?
What do you plan to do when your children graduate from high school?
What do you think society is paying to subsidize you and your family?
Maybe to some this article is a heart-tugger, but for those of us whose parents lived through the Great Depression, and WWII, it's difficult to believe that this woman is even remotely trying to live her life like the rest of us--who live within our means, pay the taxes that are necessary to fund the government, and subsidize the millions that are now on food stamps, and dependent on checks from the government.
Perhaps some people will be appalled that there are people in Palo Alto asking this women: "when are you going to get a job and pay your own way?" .. but the question needs to be asked.
on Oct 20, 2013 at 4:52 pm
Especially in Palo Alto, the economy has been strong.
She has the advantage to not have to commute.
on Oct 20, 2013 at 6:35 pm
The Weekly puts out an editorial against affordable senior housing and then wants us to tear up of PAHCs efforts to keep people in homes.
Weekly, you can't have it both ways. You're position is stopping affordable housing. Now you see the result.


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|Ottawa teen accused of murder pleads not guilty
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Michael Aaron Fay, 17, appeared before Judge Randall Basinger following his indictment by a grand jury. Fay has been charged with two counts of aggravated murder and two counts of abuse of a corpse, the latter fifth-degree felonies.
Fay was also indicted on one count of tampering with evidence, a third-degree felony; and one count of grand theft of a motor vehicle, a fourth-degree felony.
Following his counsel's advice, Fay waived his right to a speedy trial.
"Ninety days is just not enough time for us to prepare fully," Fay's attorney, Bill Kluge said.
Judge Basinger also ruled to keep Fay's bail at $5 million, which was set at a July 2 hearing, where Judge Michael Borer of Putnam County Juvenile Court bound Fay over to Common Pleas to be tried as an adult.
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Servings: 15 pieces
Prep Time: 5 min
Cook Time: 15 min
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1 prepared and cooled The Lady's Cheesy Mac cut into 15 pieces
Plain bread crumbs, for dredging
Flour, for dredging
1 egg, beaten
Peanut oil, for frying
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4 cups cooked elbow macaroni, drained
2 cups grated Cheddar
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1/2 cup sour cream
4 tablespoons butter, cut into pieces
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
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Dredge each Cheesy Mac square in flour, then egg, and then bread crumbs to coat. Fry for about 1 minute on each side until golden brown. Drain on paper towels before serving.
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What happened to the bacon? I pulled ths recipe up awhile back and it was wrapped in bacon. Maybe it was a different recipe bu this is so good..but better with bacon.
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OMG I'm in heaven this was sooo good.
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This recipe was pretty easy, but I was expecting a different taste! I think the mac & cheese needs more cheese & salt. My family liked them hot, but when they cooled they were not nearly as good. Will try this one again.
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People magazine has come out with their annual "Most Beautiful People" list and…Rumer Willis is on it? Isn't it a little late for an April Fool's joke? Because, c'mon, let's be honest. Rumer is not beautiful. Rumer may be interesting looking and she may have a unique look, but beautiful?


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Sometimes you have to just stop your car, and take a photo. That's what this is. The sky, the trees, the colors, the air - crisp and inviting. I seem to like everything crispy, my bacon, my air" my toast, the sound of stepping on frosty grass in the morning. I'd say that's a crisp(y) sound. The days are darkening, winter is coming (har har), but day light savings is around the corner, so there's that.*
*This post was quite disjointed. I just needed an excuse to post the photo. Later.


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If the LA Kings were to ever win the Stanley Cup, this would be the year to do it.
Analysts would probably tell you that although Chicago, Vancouver, San Jose or even Detroit are the toasts of the Western Conference, history proves that anything can happen in the regular season, and more importantly: the playoffs.
The hottest team in the Western Conference would have to be Los Angeles. They had a great regular season last year, and gave the Sedins and Vancouver all they could handle in the playoffs. They gave Canucks coach Alain Vigneault a lot of sleepless nights I'm sure.
Chicago won't be as powerful as they have been the last two years. They lost many key components/role players like Antti Niemi, Dustin Bfyuglien, Ben Eager and Kris Versteeg. Replaceable? Sure. But sports teams need a combo of star players and role players to compete for a championship, and Chicago lost a lot of their "mop up guys".
Vancouver is like the Utah Jazz of the NHL. They finish with an unbelievable regular season, and then when they hit the playoffs, they choke. The Sedins aren't tough enough. They lack the mental toughness and edginess to take that next step. They need some real bonecrushers on defense and to help Roberto Luongo.
Phoenix will be so concerned with the possibility of packing up and moving to Winnipeg that I think it will effect their psyche on the ice. They will make the playoffs but won't be as strong as last year. Plus Shane Doan isn't getting any younger.
The Red Wings will be back to healthy form this year, but you got to wonder how much hockey does Niklas Lidstom still have left. I would say the Wings win the Central Division for sure.
San Jose needs role players to get them to the Cup. They should have picked up Sergei Gonchar, but were probably hard pressed by cap limitations. They will be nose to nose with a pack of hungry Western Conference teams.
The new NHL is all about youth and speed, and the Kings have plenty of it. I predict 46 wins from LA this season, and possibly some playoff success. This would be a great chance for Los Angeles to steal away some of those Ducks fan and rebuild a fanbase that hungers for a champion.
Former Calgary Flames superstar Theo Fleury has accepted an opportunity to be a contestant on "Battle of the Blades" on CBC. With this, a failed NHL comeback, and a tell-all book in stores, something tells me Theo needs some cash.
NHL '11 on XBOX 360 is the most addicting thing since the invention of pizza. I literally can spend five hours playing this game without a rest. With multiple game modes, and terrific online gameplay, it's the only thing I would choose over a date with Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Ilya Kovalchuk stated he feels the New Jersey Devils were wronged by the NHL for being fined and having some draft picks taken away. Of course, when you just signed a big deal worth over $100 million, you will say anything, like that's a wonderful shade of orange on Elton John's head, or I do believe Hole was a better band than Nirvana. Crazy stuff like that.
The Canadian sports network TSN reported today that former NHL coach and overall good-guy Pat Burns had succumbed in his fight with lung cancer. But there is just one problem: Pat Burns is alive and kicking! Sensationalism runs amuck in today's media. It's all about how can they make the story interesting rather than telling the truth. In closing, check your facts before you post a story! Journalism 101 guys!
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