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Fixing Web Sites with GreaseMonkey
Here's a strange thing: hacking open source isn't done only at midnight, in the spare room, hunched over the protocol analyser, the breadboard, source code control and some helpless device. No, sometimes it's done inside a different crucible entirely: a public world of shameless posturing and self-promotion. A lurid and neon habitation of signs, shops, styles and stuff populated by the babble of conversations both informed and banal. It's a place of great joy and great angst; a place of towering conservatism and the last bastion of the radical voice. Within it, a good hairdo or a radically cut legline can get you as far as a symbolic debugger, possibly even further. Devices they may be, but of a different cut entirely from those of hardware. Its denizens slip hyperactively in and out of view like character actors with coffee addictions and inspired agents. Of course, I refer to the World Wide Web.
In this article, you learn how to code in a new way, a way that's about changing media, not about changing programs. To enter this nightclub and experience the beat, you need the right gear, and the right gear is Mozilla Firefox and GreaseMonkey. Alfred Bester and William Gibson are waiting, so ready your Mojo and prepare for cyberspace insertion. But first, a bit of background.
We tend to forget that the Web is open source, in a way. Some of the Web's infrastructure, browsers and servers, is traditional open-source software, but the idea also applies to Web page content. Appropriation of code is an everyday occurrence. Everyday, Web developers and designers use the View Source browser feature to appropriate (industry term: steal) code and design from other people's pages. It was ever thus, and it remains so. Ideas and code are shared freely and often; it's an art design sensibility.
Fortunately, matters have improved tremendously as of late, and the Web is reviving as a technology platform. Better standards support, more standards support and the decline of hoary old misgivings, such as Netscape Communication 4.x and Internet Explorer 5.0, have left Web developers with a nearly clear shot at real portability, a shot frustrated only by the once shiny but now fairly rusty Internet Explorer. In 2005, the buzz is about Modern DHTML, Layout without Tables, Semantic Markup and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). Client-side Web development is coming back, and these are the things of which it's made. This time, the Web is backed by professionals with formal Web training and veterans with ten years of experience. These people have their acts together, and it's possible to say things about Web technology that are no longer drowned out by the static of incompatibility issues.
GreaseMonkey is a Firefox extension (see the on-line Resources). You have to click on the link twice, once to trust www.mozdev.org and once afterward to install the extension. GreaseMonkey differs from the other extensions because it provides no specific user-interface enhancements of its own other than a configuration dialog box. Instead, it creates a macro-like scripting environment into which you put JavaScript scripts. Those scripts operate on Web pages that you specify. When such a page loads, your script goes to work on the page content, no matter who provided it. You're intercepting a content provider's content and modifying it before it hits you. No wonder GreaseMonkey's been called "TiVo for the Web". I wrote about page modification tactics in Rapid Application Development with Mozilla (Prentice Hall, 2004), but GreaseMonkey has moved that idea into the mainstream by supporting traditional Web-scripting techniques and by packaging it all up into a digestible product.
For all Firefox extensions, you must restart Firefox completely to finish the install. Use File→Exit to do that safely.
Bucket-loads of pre-existing GreaseMonkey scripts are available (see Resources). Before you get too excited though, note that such scripts are tied to one Firefox installation and have no effect on any server. On a Linux or UNIX box, such scripts might affect a large user population, but they're primarily a personal thing. For those readers switched on to people problems, the broader implications should be obvious.
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Don't forget to install Platy
Don't forget to install Platypus, a GUI for Greasemonkey. It works aces.
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I have been researching my family history since 1999. I started it to find out about my ant that no one wanted to talk about; my dad loved her to bits, but never spoke of her. Being the curious person I am and over a few wines with my sister one night I decided it was time to find out. Since then I have been hooked and with allot of help from some wonderful people have traced the Barbour's back to 1580. Allot of this information came from a lovely lady by the name of Sheila Behan, who has been researching the Barbour's for well over 20 years!! I have spent the last 12-18 months double checking information as I want to put all the information into a book form and give it to certain family members to keep. I have only recently started to get back into the family history, maybe now some of those brick walls can be chipped away at or hopefully knocked down. I have posted a genealogy report on the site. Its 86 pages long. As far as I know all the information is true and correct. If you happen to think otherwise drop me an email so I can look into it. This report should cover the Barbour family. Other names I am interested in are KNOX, & SHIRKIE ON MY Paternal side. On my Maternal side: GRAHAM, ADAMS, WATT, MCNAUGHT. RITCHIE. To name a few. |
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That users saw these conversations as a part of the historical record was news to the editors at Boing Boing. "It has shown me what our readers, our community and even what people who don't read us—people who can't stand us—project on to us, and what they expect Boing Boing to be," says Pescovitz.
"There's a big difference between working for National Public Radio, producing something that is a news piece for that outlet, and writing for Boing Boing," argues Jardin, who currently works as a commentator for NPR. "They are two entirely different kinds of entities, even though they have really big footprints culturally. Boing Boing is not trying to be CNN or NPR or the Library of Congress."
But if there is a lower standard for sites like Boing Boing, what is the higher standard for newspapers online? The practice of deleting controversial stories without notice, known as "scrubbing," is a new ethical challenge that newspapers have just begun to face. "It's certainly a practice that surprisingly large media organizations are using," says Craig Silverman, the editor of media corrections aggregator Regret the Error.
Newspapers still underestimate the speed and reach of their Web sites. It's nearly impossible to remove an inaccurate story before it does any harm. Corrections, inevitably, are as important for a story that has been posted for half an hour as they are for a story in a print edition.
Just ask the New York Daily News, which, during April's NHL playoffs, reported online that New York Ranger Sean Avery had been taken to the hospital, unconscious, not breathing, and in a state of cardiac arrest. Though wording of the story was changed to reflect the truth - Avery only had a lacerated spleen - the Daily News never ran a correction. And by the time the story was changed, a number of popular blogs had picked up the incorrect story.
"They reported that a guy was in danger of dying, and after they realized that they were completely wrong about it, they tried to pretend like it was never there," Silverman says.
The hoary maxim that a lie gets halfway around the world before the truth is out of bed has never been more true.
Any time content is removed from a credible site, Silverman expects some public attention devoted to what was removed and why. So should Boing Boing be treated as a credible site? It's up for debate.
"Years ago, at a meeting, I referred to Boing Boing as an institution," says Shirky. "[Co-editor] Cory Doctorow blew up at me and said 'It's not an institution. It's just our blog.' A lot of the charm of Boing Boing has been its relentlessly saying, this is stuff we're obsessed with."
Jardin echoes Doctorow's feelings. "This is historically a personal blog. It may be a really high-traffic personal blog, and it may be a blog that is important to a lot of people - it's certainly important to each of us - but at its heart it's still a personal blog shared by a number of people."
Still, Silverman and Shirky both consider the question of a site's credibility to be an audience decision, not an editorial one. Blue takes a more rigid approach, choosing to hold all blogs written for the public to the highest journalistic standards. "I really believe in the concept of a permanent history and keeping a journal that is an accurate telling of history," she says. "My site is a personal site, but it's something in the public sphere, something of permanent record." Blue is quick to say that many of her posts reflect personal opinions that have changed over time. She claims never to have deleted a post—even the ones she posted while drunk.
Moving forward, Boing Boing's editors promise to involve readers in the archiving practices of the site. Shirky, who is one of those readers, offers this: "I think it would have been optimal if whatever problem the editors had with Violet Blue had led to an editor's note, a strike-through, or just a sense that 'we stopped posting her stuff a year ago,' that she's persona non grata, and simply letting the other stuff go."
Silverman hopes that Boing Boing begins to conform to the standard blogging practice of noting how and when a post is updated. And the Boing Boing commenters continue to wage a major debate on new media archival ethics.
"I'm not quite ready to say that I'm glad this took place, but it raised these questions that are fundamentally new questions," said co-editor Pescovitz. "I'm glad that the discussion is happening on our site."


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Enterprising Nonprofits
J. Gregory Dees
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Because they face rising costs, more competition for fewer donations and grants, and increased rivalry from for-profit companies entering the social sector, many nonprofit organizations are looking for commercial ways to raise more funds. For example, San Francisco's Delaney Street program for addicts has opened a restaurant staffed by clients, which helps pay the bills while providing on-the-job training. There are many such opportunities but also many pitfalls in this approach. Professor J. Gregory Dees of the Harvard Business School offers a framework to help nonprofit leaders figure out when commercial activities will or will not work.
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A Fire Burns LyricsArtist: The ChurchAlbum: The Blurred Crusade The rusty stream of dawn completes The scenes where cars once crawled these streets A face against the moving sky Brings back an alien hope Just like they said to me Keep your heart inside your coat Well there's muddy shoes outside your door Is anybody home I ask once more A silver-plated jet comes home But the map leads her astray Just like they said to me Find your heart and lose your way A fire burns inside me The snow still falls in flakes The reins around a horse's throat Turn into a lake And people so familiar Their words are in my mind A fire burns inside me Dancing cool and blind Beside the wall the flowers grow And down the sticky stems I go Watching changing skies below Your arms so far away Just like they said to me Life is worth another stay
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S/S Hjerter Kung
A short story of the beginning:
The idea of having a steam launch is 9 year old. During a trip on Göta canal with S/Y Yonder we ended up in Forsvik, placed inside Karlsborg on the coast of lake Vettern.
Forsvik is wonderful and alternative place with an ancient mill, at that time in full production with a replica of paddle steamer ERIK NORDEVALL II. In addition smaller steam launches keept transporting people round the shoreline. Maria jumped ashore and walked up to the canalstore "5 Knop" and asked to buy a steam boat, however it did not happen at that time.
Later that autumn Mr. Bernt Breding, the manufacturer of the B2 steam engines and boilers, called Maria on the phone and told her he found a drawing dated from 1892 made by designer Harald Olsson from Vänersborg.
The boat had suitable price and size and also, no boat had been built to the drawing earlier. Said and done, Maria ordered a hull made according to the wet epoxy saturation system with a pine core. The hull was made by Lars Qvist at Kungslena cabinetwork. The delivery were set to summer 2006.
Steam launch Hjerter Kung, main dimension and principle description:
Loa: 9,48 m
B: 2,38 m
D: 0,65 m
Dpl: 4,4 t (ca)
Hull: Pine and epoxy, finish with linseed oil paint
Deck: Frames made of oak, fillings Oregon pine varnished with 12 layer Le Tonkinois linseed varnish.
Roof outside: Cotton canvas soaked with Le Tonkinois Bio Impression on Siberian lark and painted.
Roof inside: Offwhite linseed oil paint by Ottosson paintshop
Saloon: South American and Afrikan mahogany varnished inside 7 layer, outside 12 layer Le Tonkinois varnish.
Engine: 2 cyl. high pressure steam engine by B2 Ånga 10Hp
Boiler: Water, 90lit. 35Kw wooden fired made by B2 Ånga
Propeller: Diam. 50 cm pitch 1mSpeed: According to the Swedish Defence Office we are not allowed to reveal the speed.
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Fullständigt ofattbart att någon kan utföra ett sådant projekt ochmed sån kvalité på bygget! för oss "vanliga" hobbybyggareframstår detta bygge som en bragd
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The Patriots today announced the following 5 players will definitely not play in the season opener against Miami on Monday Night:-
- (OT) Sebastian Vollmer (Back)
- (DL) Jermaine Cunningham (Hamstring)
- (WR) Taylor Price (Hamstring)
- (OL) Ryan Wendell (Calf)
- (LB) Jeff Tarpinian (Knee)
Sebastian Vollmer was almost a certainty before this announcement to miss tomorrow's game as he didn't practice all week. Taylor Price being out may be a slight concern at receiver and may result in Mathew Slater needing to step up for one game at least.  Wendell hasn't been seen all preseason so it is of little surprise that we aren't seeing him and despite limited participation, it is clear Price, Tarpinian and Cunningham are not game ready.
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Welcome to The Waterfall Cottage, our home away from home. The Cottage is located steps from the quaint town on of "Belgrade Lakes" and sits on pristine Long Pond, the most popular vacation lake of all the lakes in the Belgrade Lakes Area (and cleanest lake in Maine). Long Pond is 13 miles long, making it the longest of all the lakes in area. With no loud speed boats, water skiing, jet skies, the lake community is more about swimming, fishing, canoeing, and kyacking.
PEAK SEASON Rates: JUNE 22-SEPT 7TH (SAT-SAT only) $1600 WEEKLY + sales tax, maid, deposits ect.
PRE/POST-SEASON Rates: $1200-$1300 per week from MID MAY thru JUNE 22 & Sept 7th thru Oct 20th.
THREE NIGHT MIN: We do OFFER 3 NIGHT min only during off season at $275 per night + fee's.
A GOLFERS & FISHERMAN's DREAM: THE WATERFALL COTTAGE is nestled quietly between a breath-taking waterfall where Long Pond & Great Pond meet. Wake up to the sounds of a waterfall or fall asleep in front of a HUGE flagstone firplace.
The Waterfall Cottage is LITERALLY steps from the village of Belgrade
Lakes, a popular summer residentail community, famous for it's B&B's,
fine dining, shopping, outdoor activities including THE BELGRADE LAKES GOLF COURSE, a PRO 18 hole golf course voted in May 2002 one of America's top 5 public courses. So if you or your kids like the idea of walking intotown to get ice cream or groceries, coffee, shopping or dining--this is the cottage for you.
Our lake for both places: 12 miles of clear & clean lake water, surrounded by scenic Maine!! Whether you are a boater, swimmer, hiker or fisherman -- it
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Dr. Christopher's Blood Stream Formula, formaly known as Red Clover Combination, is a blend of natural herbs that help to promote a healthy blood streaam. These herbs are blended together to help cleanse the bloodstream.Blood Stream Formula helps the body reduce choletserol and may help fight infection. It also helps to strengthen the vein and arterial walls as well Helps Promote Clean & Healthy Blood Stream Function as enhance elasticity.
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- Foster peer-to-peer and community-to-agency connections
- Support exchange of knowledge, identify common challenges and work toward team problem-solving
- Promote the development of new understanding around the ecological, social and economic objectives of collaborative forest stewardship
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For more information about Conservation Connect services, please contact Karen DiBari at (406) 830-3352 or firstname.lastname@example.com .
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Peer learning sessions are 90-minute web conferences on specific topics that are facilitated in a roundtable format. We invite you to check out upcoming peer learning sessions and the extensive video library of past recordings.
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Through Conservation Connect, the NFF documents tools, best practices and structural examples of collaborative processes in short, readable formats to create a "toolbox" of shared knowledge. The best practices and tools generally provide a brief summary to give context to the issue, with the actual tool or model document attached. You can find these resources on the Collaboration Resources and Learning Topics and Tools pages.
Technical Assistance and Referral to Coaches
Conservation Connect provides direct technical assistance and coaching in person, over the phone (406-830-3352) and via email , offering information and referral on a variety of topics related to collaborative stewardship of National Forests and Grasslands. Our coaching is customized and service-oriented. Through one-on-one discussion, we can often help identify other needs and more effectively match groups with the resources, people, Web links and documents appropriate to the issue. We do our best to refer people to community-based collaborators or agency resource staff who offer specific expertise relevant to each request.
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The National Forest Foundation offers skilled facilitation services for collaborative efforts involving the Forest Service at the forest, state and regional level. The NFF is known and respected for our neutrality, and we bring experience and knowledge of collaborative process and structure. We have been actively involved in facilitating and/or participating in the following processes:
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When stakeholders are considering entering into a collaborative process, they often appreciate learning about the approaches used by other groups and their results. The NFF staff's familiarity with collaborative efforts across the country is often of great benefit to new efforts. Our services include:
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Community-based conservation, especially in the realm of collaborative stewardship and restoration, continues to grow and evolve. We have built Conservation Connect services around peer learning because:
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The National Kefir Association
was founded in order to educate the public about the health benefits of Kefir, a yogurt-like drink that has been around for nearly 2,000 years. We want consumers to be aware of the significant health benefits associated with Kefir – most notably, improvement of digestive troubles and support for the immune system.
These benefits come from the high level of live and active probiotic cultures found in Kefir (10 probiotic strains). Kefir is also an excellent source of protein, calcium and fiber, which makes it especially nutritious for children and women.
National Kefir Association has stringent standards with regards to products it deems kefir.
Kefir must contain:
a dairy base
at least 7 billion units of activity per cup
a combination of the following cultures:
Lactobacillius Lactis
Produces exclusively L(+) lactic acid
Increases digestibility of milk
Improves stomachal digestion
Lactobacillus Rhamnosus
Inhibits the growth of most harmful bacteria in the intestine. It is used as a natural preservative in yogurt and other dairy products to extend the shelf life.
Streptococcus Diacetylactis
Has the same properties of Streptococcus lactis
Produces diacetyl and CO2. Diacetyl is a characterictic aroma of kefir
Lactobacillus Plantarum
Exhibits antagonistic activity against Listeria monocytogenes
Produces plantaricin, a bacteriocin inhibiting microorganisms which cause spoilage.
Strong producer of lactic acid.
Tolerates high concentrations of bile salts
Adheres to intestinal mucosa
Lactobacillius Casei
Produces L (+) lactic acid
Produces large quantities of lactic acid
Colonizes intestinal tract
Adheres to intestinal mucosa
Creates a favorable environmental for the desirable microbial balance.
Limits intestinal putrefaction, thus controlling production of toxins and their noxious effect upon vital organs and body cells
Inhibits pathogenic bacteria and prevents diseases caused by intestinal infections.
Limits lactose intolerance. Contributes to Immunity.
Saccharomyces Florentinus
Boosts immune system after taking a course of antibiotics
Leuconostoc Cremoris
Produces lactic and acetic acid
Produces acetyl-methyl carbinol and diacetyl, two aromatic agents of kefir
Bifidobacterium Longum
Keeps the digestive system running smoothly, blocks the growth of harmful bacteria, and boosts the immune system
Bifidobacterium Breve
Modifies the intestinal flora, helps balance intestinal flora
Lactobacillus Acidophilus
Ferments lactose into lactic acid
Protects against some unhealthy organisms
Benefits include improved gastrointestinal function, a boosted immune system, and a decrease in the frequency of yeast overgrowth
Kefir can only be produced from dairy.
Contrary to what some believe, Kefir CANNOT be made out of non dairy bases such as water, fruit juices, teas, and coconut water. There is no such accepted definition as "dairy-free Kefir."
The National Kefir Association will be involved in promoting the public awareness of Kefir and ensuring that consumers know what Kefir is, what it can do for your health and where you can find it for sale.
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No it's not OK; here's the Official Google guidelines:
'Cookie-cutter' content - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66361?hl=en
Doorway pages - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/2721311
I used to see loads of these, particularly in the web design niche, years back; I've not come across them in any niche lately - at least not ranking.
WRT to big sites 'getting away with it', depending on your own site's overall trust factor in Google, you might be able to get away with stuff that others with less trust couldn't.
It is possible to write pages for multiple areas and make the content different. If it's a bricks and mortar business then different areas could have different office addresses, different staff, different customers, delivery times, etc etc. Whatever makes the service different in that location, focus on that. Testimonials are a great 'randomiser'.
If it's an information-type service, then I would have thought it would be even easier to create something unique for each area.
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8:11 am on Jan 17, 2014
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Frantic Fish it�s a websites for people who offer a type of service to advertise that service but travel the entire UK, so all work every town and city. So I would want to target the phrase "hire a SOMETHING Town/city"
The other 5-6 websites who dominate just change the name of the town/city per page. If I changed the town/city name, PHOTO of the town/city, maybe a google map and perhaps a very short paragraph about that town/city would that be okay with G? The result set from my database would also be ORDERD with the closest service provider at the top. Maybe collect unique testimonies from each area over time and display these on that page as well? (but I would need to get the traffic first)
We already come on page one for "hire a SOMETHING" with no town/city at the end but from research I know that people search via hire a SOMETHING town/city!
I would need about 1500 pages to cover every town/city but they would all be searching for the same thing, a list of my clients who offer their service in their area which then clicks through to each clients unique profile with lots of media, if that makes sense?
Sorry what does WRT stand for?
Msg#: 4637993 posted
9:36 am on Jan 17, 2014
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WRT = with regard to.
My first thought is this: do you have a service provider in each of the 1500 areas? If not then the risk involved in trying to rank there would go up in my view, because the one thing searchers hate is results that aren't results.
If you do have something to offer in each of those 1500 areas then the process you outlined might work. Don't be surprised if it doesn't though. When you're looking for local services, do you give a damn that the town you're searching in has 100,000 inhabitants and dates back to 1600 when there was a farmer's market there?
If your service providers will show on more than one page I'd be wary - remember, having too many pages that are too close content-wise is one of the things Google's Panda update set out to identify.
I guess it's up to you to weigh risk/reward for yourself. If it were my site I'd aim to bring on pages in batches as and when they are ready. I'd perhaps do something like this...
LEVEL 1: Page is just names / addresses of service provider(s), the basics. I'd probably have these 'noindex,follow'
LEVEL 2: UNIQUE mini-bio has been added for at least one provider. Allow Google to index.
LEVEL 3: Page has lots of useful content unique to that locality.
I'd have the site CMS help me keep tabs on this.
Msg#: 4637993 posted
11:00 am on Jan 17, 2014
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You make some good points!
What about this idea as well, each town/city page that has a Supplier of Service BASED in that town/city is *only* pulled from the database and displayed on that page giving a unique list (bios) per town/city which isn't repeated on other pages.
And under that list I present to google for inxe I have a button with an Ajax call to "load "service providers" who travel to city/town" That way the user gets to see what�s most local straight away, a quick click to see what�s available further afield loaded via ajax and g doesn't see more than 1 identical page with JUST a area name changed? even if some pages might only contain 1-2 entries to begin with.
The only downside is some cities I have a few listings but others I have none, but I could add on a city/town page as and when I get a supplier based in that town city, as you suggested build it slowly?
I have already done this at the county level, completely unique initial result set per page (mini bio, profile photo, sample image, add to shortlist) with link to main profile but not many people seem to search UK counties vs towns/cities for services in my experience.
Msg#: 4637993 posted
11:28 am on Jan 17, 2014
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the town/city name, PHOTO of the town/city, maybe a google map and perhaps a very short paragraph about that town/city
What proportion of the total page content is unique to the page?
Msg#: 4637993 posted
1:08 pm on Jan 17, 2014
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>>>What proportion of the total page content is unique to the page?<<<
Nothing that can�t be found elsewhere on the site just a �cut down� version of each MAIN profile for an "at a glance" preview condensed list I suppose.
So for each listing I exact I have
200 letters from their profile page bio > read more option
1 sample photo from their profile page bio (enlarge option)
1 sample video from their profile page bio (view option)
Its important for me for the user to get a good idea of the SERVICE provider from a quick list like this without having to click on the profile unless they like what they see.
I would start the page with one H1/paragraph/h2 tag that is the same just with a different area town/city changed.
The only completely unique aspect of the pages would be no where else on the site will there be a selection of the "service providers" from just that town/city displayed together like this unless you used the search filter which G wont index anyway.
So basically like Yell does for each town/city/service but more in depth before you "click through". Since G loves yell so much that it scores number one for every service and every area I assume it cant be bad unless Yell is whitelisted?
bad idea?
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Billionaire Randy Lerner, owner of the National Football League's Cleveland Browns, won a court order for the return of the remainder of his $40 million investment in a hedge fund that had refused to say where the money was invested.
Aston Villa owner Randy Lerner said he plans to sell the English Premier League soccer team after the club struggled to 15th place this season.
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- Read web pages in greater detail: You can now read the next letter or the next word on web pages. Use the right arrow key to read the next letter on a web page. Hold down control and press the right arrow key to read the next word.
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We are the WitchesMore Like This
A witch's heart,
Never dims.
The fire inside,
Never dies down.
The thrill of casting spells,
Never gets old.
The magic flowing inside of us,
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The connection between Nature,
Never breaks.
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Never goes away.
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Catholic Conference League varsity volleyball "All-Star" plans to attend college after this school year and major in journalism, with minors in English and psychology
She's a senior at Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Brighton.
She's an Honor Roll student and is in an Advanced Placement (AP) English class.
On her junior varsity volleyball team, she was the "MVP" in her freshman year. As a varsity volleyball player, she was the recipient of the team's "Sportsmanship Award" as a sophomore, and was the team's "MVP" in her junior year. As a senior, she was selected as team captain, and during her sophomore (2004) and senior seasons (2006) she was chosen as a Catholic Conference League "All-Star". As a senior, she had a tremendous "Serving streak" of eight consecutive kills, thereby scoring eight consecutive points for her team.
She was on the junior varsity basketball team as a freshman and sophomore. She received the "Most Improved Player" Award at the conclusion of her first season, and during her sophomore year was the team captain as well as the recipient of the "Coaches" Award. She was on the varsity hoop squad as a junior and will be on the court again as a senior when the 2006-2007 season begins. She doesn't like to shoot that often and concentrates more on her passing game, and thus far, has registered many assists throughout her high school career.
Her name is Julie Brynes.
Julie, 17, is a pleasant, well-mannered, polite, young girl who attends Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Brighton. She is doing well in school and plans to attend college and major in journalism, with minors in English and psychology.
At school, Julie is the Student Council Secretary. As their secretary, she is involved in coordinating "Student Spirit Week" and "Student Spirit Day" in which students gets together, have some fun playing sports and get to know each other better outside of the classroom. The Student Council also runs a fashion show, a Halloween social and other events throughout the school year.
Julie is also the President of SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions). These students discuss such issues as AIDS Awareness, drunken driving, and how to fight against negative peer pressure. Lastly, Julie is the secretary to the Athletic Association, wherein she assists the Athletic Director, her beloved aunt and mentor, Marie Laundry.
In her spare time, Julie is an avid reader and loves historical books, particularity the Elizabethan/Victorian Age. She also likes to shop with her mom and hang out with her cousins in Southie. Her favorite color is lime green. She loves watching Angelina Jolie on the big screen and also loves scary movies. Julie enjoys eating her favorite dish, Chicken Marsala, whenever she's watching "America's next top Model" or "Grey's Anatomy" on the tube.
Julie is also cognizant of the world around her. If she were the President of the United States, she said she would pull the troops out of Iraq. She would like to see students accepted to college based on their grades, demeanor, and behavior, rather than their race. She would also have the illegal immigrants become citizens before they were given any rights, and would like to see higher wages for all people.
In addition to keeping a watchful eye on the national stage, and aside from school and family life, Julie keeps herself busy in the athletic world and began her adventures there in the local arenas. She played softball for a couple of seasons for the Gate of Heaven CYO Program and begin her journey in volleyball in the Gatey Volleyball League run by William "Touchie" McDonough.
Julie began playing basketball in the Gatey Instructional League and subsequently hustled on every play, at the famed Gatey Hall, until she donned her high school uniform. Julie received some solid instruction throughout these years from a many a coach, especially from her Gatey middle school team coaches, Marie Laundry and Debbie Duffy. And not forgetting her roots, Julie has been coaching in the Gatey midget league for the past three seasons, and officiating for the past two years.
"I have coached many, lovely young ladies over the years," said Laundry. "But Julie is a standout. Of course, some of that is because she's my number one niece. She has a kind and quiet presence. She is a good and loyal friend who is committed to all of her endeavors.
"Julie's greatest asset to her teammates is her willingness to play any position and always look for the open person," added Laundry. "She does a great job of engaging other people while helping them to feel comfortable. I have been involved in all facets of Julie's life, family, and sports, and I am very proud of her. I know she will accomplish great things. 'Love Ya.' "
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Facial recognition is central to the diagnosis of many syndromes, and craniofacial patterns may reflect common etiologies. In the pleiotropic Bardet-Biedl syndrome (BBS), a primary ciliopathy with intraflagellar transport dysfunction, patients have a characteristic facial "gestalt" that dysmorphologists have found difficult to characterize. Here, we use dense surface modeling (DSM) to reveal that BBS patients and mouse mutants have mid-facial defects involving homologous neural crest-derived structures shared by zebrafish morphants. These defects of the craniofacial (CF) skeleton arise from aberrant cranial neural crest cell (NCC) migration. These effects are not confined to the craniofacial region, but vagal-derived NCCs fail to populate the enteric nervous system, culminating in disordered gut motility. Furthermore, morphants display hallmarks of disrupted Sonic Hedgehog (Shh) signaling from which NCCs take positional cues. We propose a model whereby Bbs proteins modulate NCC migration, contributing to craniofacial morphogenesis and development of the enteric nervous system. These migration defects also explain the association of Hirschsprung's disease (HD) with BBS. Moreover, this is a previously undescribed method of using characterization of facial dysmorphology as a basis for investigating the pathomechanism of CF development in dysmorphic syndromes.
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text: Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity "Mystical Theology & the Sublimation of Gender" first appeared in the Spring 1993 issue of Touchstone. Mystical Theology & the Sublimation of GenderSuppose an ecstatic lover (voluble but sincere) were to tell his beloved, "Darling, my love for you surpasses the bounds of human understanding—in fact, the strength of my affection is of such transcendent intensity that 'love' as used in human discourse does not suffice to describe my feelings for you." Suppose then she snorted back, "You see there, I knew it all along—you don't really love me at all!" Would she not have inferred the very antithesis of what he meant? Similarly, what are we to make of the claim that ecstatic theology's insistence that human thoughts and words cannot contain or describe God means that the words and thoughts we apply to him must be denials of the reality for which they stand? Let us think that here, too, something has gone far wrong. In his response to my article "God, Gender and the Pastoral Office," Steven L. Foster, serenely inspecting a field of battle his knowledge of mysticism and semantic philosophy allows him to remain above, suggests that I consign the mystical tradition to heresy and dally with idolatry by defining God within the confines of patriarchy. This, indeed, is one of the principal charges leveled these days against those who defend the Christian tradition in these matters: We do not understand the way in which what is unutterable—here, the relation of God to gender—does away with the merely utterable—such as the gender aspect of titles like "Father" and "Son." Since we fail to perceive how gender terms cannot be applied to God as he truly is, naturally we fail to grasp the deeper things of the doctrine of the ministry, where in like manner the law of gender distinction is allegedly to be relativized by the gospel of sexual equality. While he does not confess full agreement with Thomas Torrance's argument for women's ordination [from "The Minstry of Women," in the same issue], Foster apparently concurs with this part of it. Here Professor Torrance lays claim to a venerable Christian teaching on the nature of God—that his transcendence places him beyond human gender, thought and speech—connecting this to our own happy discovery of the transcendence of gender as touching pastoral ministry. I think that Dr. Torrance and Mr. Foster (who really has joined the battle) have erred, but precisely how have they done it? The difficulty in explaining the error as an error arises from the fact that what they affirm is correct; it is what they deny or will not profess consequent to their affirmation that causes the problem. They are as right as the Arians who insisted that Jesus was a man, as right as the Docetists who claimed that he was God, as right as the feminists who confess that the woman is the man's equal. In the same sense, those who are invoking apophaticism on feminism's behalf are right: it is true that human language and conceptualization cannot define or contain God. The attempt to do this is idolatry. One cannot, however, leave it at that. To be half right on such matters is to be wholly wrong.1 Apophaticism, the theological method associated particularly with the mystical theology of Eastern Orthodoxy, emphasizes that God in his uncreated essence lies beyond categories we can entertain, that the symbols through which his life is conveyed to us—whether they be words or other elements of creation—must be understood as provisional, standing for the Divine Life into which we are called to enter in an ever deeper and more intense way, but ultimately unable to hold it in its fullness. This being the case, the most accurate statements that we can make about God are not to say what he is (kataphatic theology), but what he is not (apophatic theology). Apophatic theology, however, cannot stand alone. It can never become, to use Dr. Torrance's word, "independent." To express the fullness of the faith, negative theology must be accompanied by the positive. The dark rays of the Light beyond light may fall upon the mystic, but what they touch and affect in him is the flesh and blood and senses of someone who exists in a human body, and will for eternity. When mystical theology thinks to slip its moorings in creation, when kataphatic theology—the theology of icon, Scripture, confession and creed—is replaced by an apophatic theology that claims to leave it behind, something is amiss. It is, I think, no accident that Eastern Orthodoxy preserves alongside its mystical element a devotion to iconic, "material" theology so dogged and emphatic that to the Western eye it appears to verge upon idolatry. (And one should wonder, if apophatic theology teaches us what is being alleged here, why the Eastern Church—which, after all, named it to begin with—remains the part of Christendom most implacably opposed to all these new revelations!) Mystical theology denies no tenet of confessional theology. In Christian mysticism "negation" is supercession, not variance or deletion, a point which must be eliminated or made ambiguous by those who are using the mystical to obscure the iconic. Positive theology is fulfilled (in the same sense that the gospel fulfills the law), not exterminated, in the negative. The transcendence of gender is not its destruction, but its perfection. We also need to understand this clearly: something that uses the language of apophaticism, and can pass for it among those who are not sufficiently alert, may be actually anti-Christian and must be tested by observing its response to the Christian confession, that is, in accordance with what it does when turned loose in the realm of kataphatic theology. If apophaticism "moves toward God by asserting that he is not, in fact, any of the things he is called" (R. C. Bondi), and in doing so cuts itself loose from the positive theology—the theology of word and symbol, of earth, water, body, and blood—that must accompany it in order for it to be true, then it must be rejected. Here again is one of those perils in which something true falls from grace when it denies or destructively assimilates that which must stand with it. When the humanity of Christ is used to overcome his deity, when gender equality consumes and digests the hierarchy in which it rests, when "divine darkness" is employed to eclipse "that which we have heard, we have seen with our eyes, felt with our hands and preach to you," it is no longer true. When it is forgotten that even in his final beatitude redeemed man remains man, and contemplates the glory of God with senses and categories still those of the creature—this being his peculiar glory!—then Christian doctrine has been corrupted. Proclamations declaring the inadequacy of human language to express the being of God must be given close scrutiny, for they are analogous to assertions of the inadequacy of human flesh to contain him. On one hand it is true (this we dare not forget) that there is a radical separation between Creator and creature, and from this point of view the incarnation of God, the salvation of men, the inspiration of humanly produced Scriptures, or the application of human categories of understanding to God, are indeed impossible. On the other hand, however, the great Paradox of our faith is that all these things are not only possible with God, but have actually happened through the Lamb who was slain at the world's foundation,2 and by happening open the way for human conceptualizations and metaphors about God to partake, in accordance with their nature, in the truth of their divine object. What we are hearing from people who wish to advance feminism in the churches is, however, the insinuation that because metaphors are "merely" metaphors, they must in some sense be false—that if "Father" is a metaphor, God is not "really" Father. But true words about God (or anything else) are never "merely human" in the sense that my interlocutors imply here, for the very possibility of human discourse, that is, of the interchange of true words, words that have meaning, is based upon the incarnation of God. The divine act that makes it possible for human words to contain truth is the same one that made it possible for human flesh to contain God, and is dependent upon it. And yes, this is to say that semantics rests upon a Christological basis, and that philosophies of language may ultimately be judged on the clarity of their consciousness of how this may be. No true word is merely human, but partakes truly in the Truth of God, who is Christ. And this is true a fortiori of divine titles like "Father" given by God through the mouth of his Son. They have the character of their giver and are therefore also both human and divine. From a "merely human" point of view, they are indeed inadequate to express their object, but no merely human point of view is under consideration here, for we are charged to speak as the oracles of God—that is, to speak the truth, to speak every word as a symbol in which heaven and earth are bound together. Words given to man by God, or procreated by man made in God's image in obedience to the divine command, have a sacramental character, partaking fully in both the human and divine nature, thus incorporating and relating, through the person of Christ himself, what we can and cannot say about God and his creation—that is, apophatic and kataphatic theology. Will anyone dare say that even to redeemed humanity in the glory of its final blessedness, God will no longer be "Father"? Or is it more likely that instead we will be entering more deeply into the inexpressible mystery of what the metaphor means? Does all this patriarchal imagery, Dr. Torrance, become false in statu beatitudinis? And if not, might it be among the irreplaceably important things given by God to connect us to eternity while we will dwell here among the tombs? If male gender terms as applied to God in Scripture are both meaningful and true, then the invocation of apophatic theology (and with it the God we are assured is beyond gender) to relativize them out of existence is clear case of the defeat of the confessional, the iconic, the sacramental, and the symbolic aspect of the faith, and hence a defeat, in the character of docetism, of the enfleshment of the God whom the heaven of heavens cannot hold. Thy mystics should be consulted with caution on these matters, for the claim, such as that of Pseudo-Dionysus, that kataphatic theology is a primer that leads one to superior levels is, if presented by itself, ambiguous. If it points to the destruction of positive theology in the negative, teaching that only once we abandon the merely human we can begin to reach into the truly divine, then it cannot be allowed, for this is a Gnostic, not a Christian, idea. Believers, when they become divine, become new creatures, not un-creatures. They do not leave their humanity (and all that entails with regard to words, conceptualizations, and so forth) behind them. Philip Schaff's Terentian epigram comes to mind here as a truth of the faith that abides on both this and the other side of eternity: Christianus sum; nihil humani alienum me puto.3 Who can deny that mere creatures cannot contain or express God? Here we speak apophatically. And yet, the heart of our life and confession as Christians is that the creature did, does, and can contain and express God in Christ Jesus and the power of his resurrection. Here we speak kataphatically. Hold them together, brothers—hold them together.4 The argument against feminism and for the traditional doctrine of ministry I have put forward against Dr. Torrance in the pages of this journal depends on the belief that human gender terms applied to God are icons that serve as open windows, not closed doors, upon the reality they depict. Diaphanous they are, but one cannot use their "see-through" character to dissolve them into non-existence by declaring them independent of the reality they represent. It is the uncreated light which, passing through them, partakes in creation and formed these words within us to begin with, as true descriptions of what cannot be described. Notes: 1. In describing the relationship between what God is and the thought and language we use about him, Dr. Torrance does soften what he maintains about their independence by saying the former are to be considered "diaphanous" rather than illusory, and that our problems lie in having to employ "ordinary mundane usage" rather than in the inherent inadequacy of human thought and language. At the end of the day, however, his argument for the ministry of women is based upon the independence at the expense of the connection. If the words and concepts we use for God are diaphanous (which I think is an accurate way to speak of them), then they must in some way partake of the reality they describe. If they are independent, then they cannot. One may have both at once only by accepting a paradox in which human words and concepts are both equal and not equal to the task—something I think orthodox theologians do instinctively. But if one does this he must play fair and not attempt to claim that in one theological instance this is the case while in another it isn't. You cannot say that the language of theology may be true and meaningful (this is implied by Dr. Torrance's willingness to write theology in the first place), and then turn around and claim that in the case of using Father and Son to describe God we must suspend the rules for a bit to make theological terminology independent of the reality it portrays. 2. In the Odyssey the shades in Hades cannot speak with Odysseus until they have drunk of the blood of the animals he brings. Perhaps the intuition that discourse is a gift gained through sacrifice is deeply fixed in the heart of the race. 3. "I am a Christian, therefore discard nothing human." Terence's original: "Homo sum . . . ." 4. Utterances of a professedly apophatic theology should be treated with profound suspicion, bearing intense scrutiny for Gnostic elements before they are "passed" for Christian use. I would suggest that they very point at which they show themselves false is where the symbols in which the greater theology must reveal itself are destructively subsumed. Dionysius says that "In the humanity of Christ the super-essential was manifested in human substance without ceasing to be hidden after this manifestation, or, to express myself after a more heavenly fashion, in this manifestation itself" [cited in Vladimir Lossky, The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church (Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1976), 39]. This, to my mind, is a nearly perfect example of formally correct apophatic and kataphatic superimposition. The solidly iconic persists ("manifested in human substance"), within the greater sphere of the "super-essential." 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