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David, Nanci, Kathleen, Edward, & family, I am deeply saddened at the passing of Gladys. She was always a kind and caring person to those around her. I'll never forget the conversations over the years and her support of my family and our soccer community. Deepest Sympathy, Jim Barrington & family
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My deepest condolences to the family and friends of Gladys. I spent many memorable and joyous times at her home when I was younger with her granddaughter, Faith. "Grinka" was always accommodating, generous, and patient with us! She could be a tough cookie, but it was always with a caring and loving heart. I truly admired her giving nature and her energetic spirit. She was so involved with so many things. She was a very special person and I know she will be dearly missed.
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Rockland, Ma,
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Whitman, MA, US
To the Estabrooks family on your loss: I was lucky enough to have Mrs. Estabrooks as a crossing guard as a child and I remember her fondly as always being a sweet lady and looking forward to seeing her before and after school. So sorry for your loss. Sincerely, Carolyn Greene
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I am so sorry to hear of your loss. I remember Gladys from school, where she always had a smile and her caring for the children was so evident. My thoughts and prayers are with the family. Bonnie Loring Goodale

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Title: Pixel Apocalypse Podcast Episode 102
Hosts: Nathan Schmidt, Joe Anello
Soundboard: Scotty D
Runtime: 1:03:52
Intro/Outro Music: Mother We Just Can't Get Enough – New Radicals
On this week's epsiode of the Pixel Apocalypse Podcast we discuss Volition's Saints Row IV in all it's super powered glory. Bethesda explained their feelings, or lack there of, towards the Wii U and Nintendo as a whole.
The 2DS has been announced leaving our intrepid hosts, and the rest of the internet, wondering WTF?
Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn has finally returned to the market…kind of.
Nate's Note 1: Make sure to stick around after the outro music for a very special story time with Nathan Schmidt, Joe Anello, and Scotty D!
Nate's Note 2: I'm rebuilding our Itunes feed this week to make it a bit cleaner and easier to find. All the latest episodes are available now, and the older episodes will be added back in throughout the week. As always, if something goes wonky with your feed unsubscribe and then resubscribe. This should fix any issues. If not feel free to leave a comment below and I'll do my best to help fix it;)
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Oaklandblue wrote:DaDitka wrote:Oaklandblue wrote:Too many ifs.
Perhaps, but that doesn't change the financial landscape.
Right now, after this season the only players you will have under contract that have played in the NHL (more then 7 games) are Backes, DP, Steen, Sobotka, Reeves, Jacks, Polak, and the Goalies. We have to resign or replace the rest of the roster. Their simply wont be enough room to keep all our kids and bring in a big name - big time contract. I for won am not willing to loose out on Shatty, Bergie, and a couple other guys to overpay a 'scoring' forward who's traits will be minimalized in this system anyway.
We have a plan and they are actually sticking to it. Find out what Swartz and Tank can offer this year, get your finances in order and then you can make moves either at the trade deadline or next offseason.
It simply doesn't make since to tie your hands right now. Not to mention Army even stated during the DP press conference that we either can't or won't participate in the signing bonuses being shelled out right now. He believes it is a temporary situation based on the threat of the expiring CBA.
I don't mean to disagree with your point about all the 'ifs', I just don't see the club doing anything drastic financially right now.
I agree. I think we'll end up staying put until something cheap comes our way. I think we value a few players higher than their actual 'ice' value, but know that we can't get much for picks for them, so we hold on to them or try to develop them.
Then we have situations where we re-sign players that are just flat useless. Woywitka comes to mind. What's next, are we going to sign Chris Pronger again if no one else will want him if teams decide he's a major injury case and that just happens to make him cheap? Sorry, this is just frustrating as heck. I don't get it. Are we trying to win the Cup or fielding the best Ice Capades group in the NHL?


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If you are one of those who want to have a workspace dedicated to specific types of activities, then nSpaces from Bytesignals is definitely the app for you. It helps you set up virtual desktops tailor-made for whatever purpose you choose.
The free virtual desktop application, once installed, requires a little bit of work configuring the different desktops you want to add. However, once this step is done, using the app is quite easy. You can switch desktops by assigning hot keys or launching the Switcher and choosing the desktop you want to use from there. There is also the option of protecting the desktops using passwords. This is useful if you want to limit access to a particular desktop.
nSpaces is an application that brings Mac-like functionality to Windows machines. We did find some minor installation issues with the software, though. It installed a desktop icon without permission during setup and left some folders when it was uninstalled.


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So why Tuly Street? -
There is quite a bit of history bound up in street names and a better understanding of the history of a town can be gained by looking at their origin. Barnstaple has some quite revealing examples. Of the main thoroughfares, High Street requires little explanation and the Strand is clearly the riverbank, while Boutport Street is less obvious. When the town was walled, this was the way that went "about the port", in Old English: butan porte, the Old and Middle English 'port' meaning 'a town with a market'.
The curving line of Boutport Street echoes the course of the town wall. Newport was the Bishop of Exeter's 13th century 'new town and market' set up to rival Barnstaple. Cross Street was originally Crock Street and was inhabited by potters. Bell Meadow is thought to be the 'bailey meadow', which was presumably grazing land outside the town and somehow identified with the castle bailey, while Barbican Lane was probably marked by an outwork of the castle, perhaps a tax gathering point for traders entering or leaving the town by the route across Frankmarsh.
Litchdon Street commemorates the Iktun, the cemetery of Saxon Barnstaple. Bear Street was the road that led to or away from the bar or barrier at the east gate of the town (like Temple Bar in London or Bargate in Southampton). Magdalen Street lies in the vicinity of the Cluniac Priory of St Mary Magdalen, which lay immediately to the east of the town.
So what about that very odd name, Tuly Street?
A sixteenth century map of Barnstaple drawn by Bruce Oliver (Fig. 1) includes within the precincts of the castle the location of King Olaf's well on a site now occupied by the library and North Devon Record Office. Olaf, a scion of Norwegian aristocracy, fought on the side of the English king Ethelred II in his wars against the Danes in 1013. On his return to Norway he became king where his rule is mainly remembered for converting that country to Christianity. In 1030 he was killed in battle and from his grave, springs of water with healing properties flowed and miracles were reported. He was declared a saint and his cult became widespread in Scandinavian areas and in England too, especially in the 'Viking' parts. * There are over forty ancient church dedications to Saint Olaf mainly in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia and the Western Isles of Scotland. In Devon there is one in Exeter and a chapel at Riddlecombe. And in Barnstaple there was King Olaf's or St Olafs well. In the course of time, Olaf's name became corrupted by the transfer of the final 't'of 'saint' to give 'Tolaf which eventually became 'Tooley' or 'Tuly' as it remains today in the name of Tuly Street.
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Over the weekend, I was hugged no less than fifty times by the thirty-some in-laws who had gathered with us in Rockford, IL to celebrate Thanksgiving. It was a joyous occasion to be sure, one in which the expressing of affection and gratitude was as delicious and abundant as the Thanksgiving meal itself. "It's so great to see you," we said to one another, but also we embraced, both upon arriving and leaving. We communicated physically what was etched there on our hearts: this family is a cherished source of comfort and support. We are blessed.
When my youngest daughter Mary woke us up at 1:00 am on Friday morning by vomiting on the floor, I empathized with her suffering by stroking her hair and kissing her forehead.
Saturday night, I watched, for the fourth time, the movie Lars and the Real Girl and, for the fourth time, was moved so profoundly tears welled up in my eyes and dripped down my cheeks.
If I get anxious at night, I'll pull the arm of my sleeping husband up over my shoulders and melt into the warmth of his chest.
The smell of spearmint Certs makes me nostalgic for my grandfather.
Hearing Rod Stewart's 1988 hit, "Forever Young" brings back overwhelmingly vibrant memories of my first high school dance.
When St. Veronica, the woman with the issue of blood, was desperate for healing, she wrestled her way through a crowd and reached out to touch the hem of Jesus' garment.
As human beings, we are dependent on our senses for interpreting and responding to our highs and lows, to love and loss, to the sacredness and banality that surrounds us.
In the Orthodox Church, we worship God not just with our souls but with our bodies. An Orthodox service might look (and feel and sound and smell) a little strange at first to those not used to such a sensory rich expression of faith; I will never, ever forget my initial shock at the incense, the icons, the brightly colored vestments, the lilting hymns, woven together throughout the liturgies and vigils I attended as a nervous inquirer into Orthodoxy. On the other side of that unfamiliarity, however, I discovered a treasure, a feast. The Kingdom of Heaven, once an airbrushed, streets of gold themed, vague idea, became a fiery, holy, mystical reality via the sacramental and unearthly experience of engaging my whole being in the timeless and communal veneration, alongside my fellow Orthodox Christians and "the great cloud of witnesses" mentioned in Hebrews 12, of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
"Take, Eat, this is my body which is broken for you," said Christ at the Last Supper, mercifully becoming for His feeling, hearing, seeing, hungry children consumable food. And thus we use our arms to make the sign of the cross, we light candles, we sing, we kiss, we inhale the ancient aroma of incense ("Let my prayer be set forth before you as incense" wrote David in the Psalms), we wear a cross around our necks, we sometimes even fall down on our knees – face to the floor, and, beyond all comprehension, we open our feeble mouths and partake of Christ, our Savior, through the Eucharist. We participate, using everything we have, including our minds, our souls, our flesh, our resources in the lifelong pursuit of salvation.
"We Orthodox would say, make some prostrations when you pray," said Father Thomas Hopko regarding number six of his fifty-five maxims for spiritual living, " Kneel down, bend over, bow down, use your body. As Saint Ephraim said, 'if your body is not praying when you're praying, you're not really praying.' Prayer is not just an activity of the mind and heart. It's an activity of the whole person." Well, doesn't that just change everything? I mean, if worship encompasses more than merely our invisible inner parts, our spirits, our thoughts – if even our skin, our bones and muscles, our stomachs and tongues can become prayer, than our opportunities for serving and praising Christ increase exponentially. No longer need we view the drive to work, the preparing of meals, the ironing of clothes, holding hands with our spouse, cradling our weepy children in our laps, using our ears to listen, as but trivial exploits. Oh how reassuring and convicting to realize prayer is a verb, an action. And how compassionate a God we have to consider our very real need for a tangible means of interacting and communing with Him and receiving, through His Church and each other, the strength and courage we long for to help us press on toward the finish line.
After five days away visiting with loved ones, my house is FULL of chances to pray physically. I am off to unpack and clean. Maybe today, I will keep the radio turned off and my mind more engaged in the process of loving, of praising God, through manual labor. A blessed Monday to you!


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Ms. Hevener advises large U.S. and multinational companies on minimizing payroll taxes and maximizing corporate deductions with respect to worker benefits. She has dealt with executive benefits triggered by corporate mergers, acquisitions, and spinoffs, including golden parachute issues and stock option deduction allocations. She counsels on information reporting, compensation plan design, employment contracts, corporate and payroll tax audits, penalty abatements, and IRS ruling requests. Her group annually handles dozens of payroll tax and corporate tax audits relating to compensation and benefits. Ms. Hevener has also assisted with numerous tax litigations of first impression, including the payroll taxation and deduction of employee meals, the deductibility of corporate aircraft, the taxation of all types of payroll, stock options, and the tax treatment of payments to former employees made outside of qualified retirement plans.
From 1981 through 1984, Ms. Hevener served as an attorney-advisor for the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of the Tax Legislative Counsel, where she focused on tax issues affecting current and deferred employee benefits (including parachute payments) and tax-exempt organizations. Ms. Hevener also worked on legislation and IRS guidance affecting alternative minimum taxes, social security taxes, and a variety of excise taxes.
Ms. Hevener has served for 30 years as a member of the advisory board of New York University's Institute on Federal Taxation, and is a frequent speaker before the Tax Executives Institute. She formerly served on a volunteer basis as one of the original members of the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee to the Internal Revenue Service.
Ms. Hevener received her J.D., with honors, from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1978 and her B.A., cum laude, from Wellesley College in 1974.
Ms. Hevener is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and in Virginia and before the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the D.C., Eighth, Eleventh, and Federal Circuits and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
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In a recent blog post I mentioned the biennial SAE Convergence conference and exhibition. I spent most of last week in the Motor City dividing my time between the Mentor Graphics® and National Instruments™ booths on the exhibition floor. Among other products, we highlighted our partnership with National Instruments, and our SystemVision® SVX client for their LabVIEW™ test program development environment. We took our guitar tuner demo, which highlights the results of the SystemVision integration with LabVIEW.
As I mentioned in my earlier post, 2010 marks my first year at Convergence. And quite frankly, the exhibition seemed a bit small to me. Talking with other exhibitors, this was indeed the case. The exhibit floor space was about half the size as the last conference two years ago, which was itself significantly down from earlier years. Seems to be a general trend across many industries. As companies tighten their financial belts, travel is often the first budget item to get trimmed, if not eliminated. With the economy still struggling to regain positive momentum, employees board planes, rent cars, stay in hotels, and eat in restaurants (i.e. travel on business) only when absolutely necessary.
Despite the smaller exhibit floor footprint and the lower customer attendance, the conference was interesting from a newbie perspective. Got to see a few new automobiles and an occasional emerging technology. One of my favorite exhibits, however, came from a surprising source: high school students. The SquareOne Education Network sponsors high school Innovative Vehicle Design competitions where students are given the opportunity to design their own vehicle, with the requirement that their project introduce an innovative design concept beyond just moving a driver from Point A to Point B. Several student groups brought their vehicles to the conference. Their design innovations included a driver-adjustable suspension, handicapped driver access and control, solar powered propulsion, hybrid propulsion, weather and environment monitoring, carbon fiber body components, and integrated vehicle computer and navigation. Click here to see some of the vehicles in action during their recent performance tests, where projects were judged in a variety of categories.
The SquareOne Education Network's mission is best summarized in this statement from their website: "The SquareOne Education Network is dedicated to igniting the creative potential of students in the exploration of engineering, science, and mathematics." The student exhibit at Convergence was just a small sample of what young minds, given the encouragement and chance to apply technology, can create. Kudos to the students, the SquareOne Education Network, and the instructors, volunteers, and sponsors that make these competitions possible.
I'm interested in learning about similar competitions that bring applied engineering to K-12 education systems around the country. Let me know if you have a favorite program or competition in your area.


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Her thoughts on housekeeping and the allure of throw pillows
How is your house like your mom's house?
One of the best compliments Blake has ever given me was, "You really know how to make a house a home." I like country music on the radio and something cooking on the stove. When I'm home, that's what I do, because that's always what I've walked in to find at my mom's and my grandmother's.
And how is your house different?
At Blake's, there are a million deer heads on the wall. My mom would never allow that!
What makes a house a home?
You throw a Yankee Candle Company scented candle into a room, and immediately it's more homey; I like the cinnamon, pumpkin spice, and holiday scents the most.
What won't men ever understand about making a home?
I think throw pillows will always be a fight between women and men. Men do not understand them. And women insist on them. So every time Blake is like, "Will you hand me that pillow?" I'm like, "No, 'cause you hate throw pillows, but now you need it 'cause you can't see the TV."
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sitting on the porch with a Mirandarita and my husband, definitely!
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Born in Okeechobee and raised in Miami Florida, Acie Mitchell has built an impressive reputation and career as a martial arts, defensive tactics, and self-defense Master Instructor. Acie worked as a corrections officer for both the state of FL and the county of Dade where his 4th degree black-belt Aikido skills were often put to the test.
He was the only law enforcement defensive tactics instructor to teach at both Broward and Miami Dade School of Justice police academies simultaneously in the year 2005. He also became the primary defensive tactics instructor teaching police and corrections personnel defensive tactics in several areas: striking techniques, pressure points, takedowns, transporters, restraint devices, impact weapons, handgun disarms/retention, edged weapon defense, escapes from street attacks, vascular neck restraint, and ground survival tactics at Miami Dade College, School Of Justice.
In 2006, Acie became a crewmember self-defense instructor for Homeland Security trained by the US Federal Air Marshal Service. He also teaches firearms and law enforcement vehicle operations to law enforcement personnel. In 2007, Acie became a certified F.I.G.H.T. instructor of the Haganah system, founded by Israeli Special Forces Commander, Mike Lee Kanarek. By the end of 2008, Acie has added Israeli Tactical Knife Fighting and Ground Survival to his list of credentials of the Haganah system.
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Wiley gives Gold Rush its first loss of the season For immediate release . . . November 24, 2007 Box Score MARSHALL, Texas — Wiley College didn't have a double-figure scorer, but the Wildcats scored 17 second-chance points Saturday to defeat Xavier University of Louisiana 57-54 in the Wiley Classic and drop the Gold Rush from the unbeaten ranks. Shaun Dumas scored a season-high 16 points for Xavier (6-1), ranked 10th in the NAIA Division I coaches poll. Cornelius Kennedy scored 11 points, and Mark Stewart had 10. Tremaine Enoch and Michael Essien scored eight points apiece to lead 19th-ranked Wiley (7-1), and Terrell Jacob — who scored 29 two weeks ago in a 68-67 loss at Xavier — had seven. Wiley clinched the victory after Xavier rallied from a 35-28 halftime deficit to take a one-point lead in the final two minutes. Kennedy and Alfred Williams each had seven rebounds for Xavier. Jacob and Lael Johnson each had seven rebounds for Wiley, which outrebounded the Gold Rush 42-23 and grabbed 20 offensive rebounds. Xavier outshot Wiley 44 to 40 percent from the floor, but the Rush was 5 of 14 from the line and scored 14 fewer second-chance points. Wiley was the only 2-0 team in the four-team event. Xavier and Loyola — a 72-69 winner over Texas College in Saturday's other game — were 1-1, and Texas College was 0-2. Xavier's next game will start at 7 p.m. Friday against Spalding in the adidas Hardwood Classic at The Barn. SUNO will play Savannah College of Art & Design in the opening game at 5 p.m. Friday.
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Uzbekistan steps up anti-drug fight
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Iran criticizes Turkmen-based nuclear monitoring station
Site is being used to monitor nuclear test ban compliance
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ALIBECK, Turkmenistan – A new seismic monitoring station in Turkmenistan used to keep track of nuclear tests around the world has drawn the ire of Iranian officials who claim it is a post for western powers to spy on them.
The Associated Press reported that Abolfazl Zohrehvand, an adviser to Iran's nuclear negotiator, told the state news agency IRNA that, "with the disclosure of the identity of such stations, it clears the activity … is to monitor Iran".
But other international officials say the monitoring station has no motives other than to measure seismic events and that Turkmenistan is merely keeping up the diplomatic promises it previously made with the international community.
Annika Thunborg, a spokesperson for the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive -Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), said the test detection site in Alibeck is one of 340 sites in 89 nations used to monitor compliance of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Of the 340 monitoring stations that are proposed or already operating, 120 are stations that monitor seismic waves within the earth to determine potential underground nuclear test detonations. Alibeck was designated to be a seismic detection location.
"The monitoring stations are an integral element of the treaty", Thunborg said. "Both Turkmenistan and Iran are member states and were part of the negotiations for where these monitoring stations would go. This station is nothing new".
Kenley Butler, an executive officer with the Center for Non-proliferation Studies, said there is no reason to believe that Iran's allegations indicate any sort of dispute between its government and that of Turkmenistan, which borders Iran.
"This is simply Turkmenistan complying with their obligations as a member of the test ban treaty", Butler said. "Iran is merely posturing and any complaints by Iran of Turkmenistan having the station would simply fly in the face of reason".
Butler noted that Turkmenistan has signed and ratified the test ban treaty, meaning it has vowed not to test any nuclear weapons and will help monitor other nations' nuclear testing status.
Butler and Thunborg said Iran, itself, has monitoring stations.
According to the CTBTO website, Iran has three stations– all seismic–and three more are planned, including one that would monitor radioactive materials in the air created by nuclear test detonations. Butler said that in addition to its role in monitoring nuclear tests, Turkmenistan is also providing regional geological support with its station.
"That is a very earthquake-prone region, so to have a seismic monitoring station located there will provide more data on seismic events, nuclear and non-nuclear", he said. In 1948, Ashgabat, which is about kilometres of Alibeck, was devastated by an earthquake registering 7.3 on the Richter scale, according to CTBTO's website. Almost 110,000 people died in the earthquake.


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Liss Fights "Fear" and Hatred in "Black Panther"
In Marvel Comics' "Black Panther: The Man Without Fear," "Fear Itself" has come to Hell's Kitchen. Writer David Liss reveals how T'Challa responds.
ADVANCE PREVIEW: "Black Panther: Man Without Fear" #521
Marvel has released an advance look at "Black Panther: Man Without Fear" #521 by David Liss and Francesco Francavilla. Discover what makes T'Challa become American Panther on July 13!
TALK TO THE HAT: From Captain America to American Panther
Tom Brevoort returns for a jam-packed Q&A announcing the return of a lost Mark Waid comic, discussing the "Spider-Girl" cancellation and dissecting the American Panther teaser with a new piece of art.
"Fear Itself" Results In The American Panther
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Peter Bedding: So we are back. Thanks for tuning in, we got a great show for Talk About The Noise for you all tonight. As always, I am Peter Bedding, a music critic for the Crystal Lake Herald.
Joe DeProfundis: And I am Joe DeProfundis, I'm a pop music critic for the Elgin Trumpet. Peter, what are doing on the show again? (giggles)
PB: You lost the bet, Joe, so you must pay the consequences.
JD: Oh crackerjacks, They don't pay me enough for this side-bar job.
PB: Ha-ha! OK folks, let me explain what's going on. Joe here wanted to do a show tonight on Conway Twitty's influence on Johnny Cash, and *I* wanted to devote tonight's broadcast to the musical legacy of The Anderson Council.
JD:The least talented band in the history of rock.
PB: Right, of course, that's your opinion, Joe.
JD:Yeah, so this came up like, last week, after we went out to Jolie's after the show. You, me, and Mr. Hand...
Mr. Hand: Yowza!
PB: Yes, our lovely and talented producer Harry Handel--
JD: And Julie the phone girl, we were all arguing about which topic we would cover for this week's show--
PB: Meaning today, right here.
JD: Uh, huh, so--I hot just--no, we were all just about in our collective cups, at about 3am. You kept goin' "Joe, we GOTTA do Anderson Council, we GOTTA do Anderson Council!"
PB: And you snapped, "What do you wanna do to NOT do an Anderson Council show topic?"
JD: So I countered with, "If I can drink a shot of whisky, 1 for every 45 seconds, for the next 10 minutes and 49 seconds without passing out"--the length of The Doors' classic 'The End'", which happened to be available on the jukebox--"then we will do the show I wanna do about Conway Twitty."
PB: Ha-ha-ha!! And guess who was kissing the floor by 'Father I want to kill you...."?
JD: Well, I'm not getting any younger, ya know!
PB: You lost!
HH: So now, gentlemen, what does this mean for our lucky listeners?
PB: It means we get to talk about the lasting impact of this great, great--
PB: --band!
JD: As usual, Peter, you are off your chain. This band sucked in the '60s, they sucked in the '70s, they sucked in the 80s, and if they ever scrape together the foetal matter that is Wang, Shriner, Gilless and Lakes and got Brian Eno to produce a new album, it would suck too!
PB (singing:) "This is the end, my only friend..."
JD: Pgffft!! We'll be back in a moment...
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Newly minted solicitor Jonathan Harker journeys from England to Count Dracula's crumbling, remote castle in the Carpathian Mountains. At first enticed by Dracula's gracious manner, Harker soon discovers he has become a prisoner in the castle. After observing Dracula's nocturnal activities and realizing what his host really is, Harker barely escapes the castle with his life. The classic story unfolds as entries in the characters' journals and diaries, and the writing is vividly descriptive.
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Ways for Small Sites to Beat Larger Sites
Msg#: 4635503 posted
1:00 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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The great thing about the internet is that it is possible for smaller businesses to compete with larger businesses. I am not saying it is easy or that every small business is capable of this. With a good mix of passion and creativity, it is possible for your small website to outperform even the biggest companies.
Find Your Niche
Since you have limited resources don't try to cover the entire industry. For example a huge car manufacturer website has enough writers to cover the entire automotive industry. It would be smarter for you to just pick one specialty niche like 4x4 off road trucks or motorcycles with sidecars. Now you can be the master of your niche and do a great job on it.
Move Faster
The large corporate websites have huge teams and countless meetings for all of these teams to talk to each other. You don't need to waste time on this, so you can move faster and respond to the changing public demand before the corporations even schedule their conference calls. You need the courage to make fast decisions. If you waste time being indecisive, the large corporate competition will catch up to you.
Steal Their Research
I am not talking about breaking into their offices but their are many ways you can take advantage of the research the competition does. When you are at a search conference, look at the name tags and you might come across a loose lipped competitor. At one conference, one of my competitors bragged how great he was and exposed their entire strategy to show-off without even realizing who I was. Pay attention to press releases and industry interviews. Larger companies often give sneak peaks of what they are working on. Also set-up Google alerts for your larger competitors. This will help to notify you of whenever they make changes which you should be able to quickly recreate for your own site.
Develop Brand Advocates
If you do a great job, you can develop of strong following of advocates that will virally spread your brand. This will lead to more direct traffic, type-in searches and other strong usage signals. Make it easy for your fanatic fans to spread the word about you. Keep your urls short & easy to retype into twitter or email. Send out interesting emails that have a stronger chance of being forwarded. Don't be scared about offending someone and avoid being plain vanilla. Develop a personality for your brand to make you unique from the large faceless corporate companies.
What other ways would you use for a smaller site to beat larger sites?
Msg#: 4635503 posted
2:13 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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My focus on this has been mostly for ecommerce sites.
Extreme Customer Service
Large companies sometimes outsource their customer service, or limit it to just arranging for a replacement item to ship. Smaller companies can often focus more on the individual customers' needs.
Better Product Knowledge
One of my clients has to compete with Amazon on a lot of his products. Generally they're pretty close in price. But Amazon doesn't have the industry or product expertise to advise the customer on which product is most suitable for his needs. Buyers have to rely on reviews rather than experts. We've found some success by emphasizing this.
Niche Specific Usability / Features
A smaller store may be able to offer features that some of the large companies can't - they can keep track of an organization's tax exempt status, in some cases can offer net 30 terms, can do auto ships or manage inventory for multiple warehouses. Price discounts for quantity. In one case, when a client noticed a lot of business on the other side of the country, he opened a warehouse in that area and is now able to offer faster delivery times and reduced shipping costs to that sector.
Other features we've worked with are configurators or "builder" apps that lets the customer pick exactly what they want in the mix and match area (i.e. they buy 1000 widgets at the 1000 widget price, but can mix and match the attributes they want, such as 200 blue widgets, 500 red widgets, 100 yellow, and so on)
None of this stuff is easy to think up or implement, but it's all stuff we'd have to be doing constantly just to compete anyway, large OR small.
But mostly, you have to believe that you *can* compete. If you think the deck is irretrievably stacked against you, you probably won't have much success.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
5:38 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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>Steal Their Research
Sometimes the research is very hard to understand or poorly presented.
Taking the same research and presenting it better is a good strategy.
Both of your posts are about niche marketing. This is becoming harder to do however is extremely important.
I find one of the biggest problems in Seo is competition. An industry that has a high amount of competition, is going to be very difficult to get organic traffic. No matter what strategies you use.
This means sometimes we have to abandon a website because there's just too much competition. Many people have not caught on to this. They're still looking for old tricks to get that website to rank. There are times we should just abandon the website if our only source of traffic is organic.
Work smarter.
I have found a couple ways to gain advantage. Fast loading websites are a big advantage. Good mobile experience is an advantage.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
7:56 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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Sorry to remind, but it's '14 not '04. The days of "be an expert on blue cute round widgets - and they'll buy" are [almost] over.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
8:16 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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please be so kind and share your view on
What other ways would you use for a smaller site to beat larger sites?
Msg#: 4635503 posted
9:51 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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I have been combining smaller sites into a bigger site to compete with heavy weight sites.
Google is doing a good job knocking out little websites, mid size and large sites will duke it out for web traffic.
move faster and respond
Best way to compete with the larger sites.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
10:05 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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Understand how the people in the niche think, how they process information. Then present the same data that thousands of other sites have in just the way they will process it easiest to make quick decisions.
Most sites show info the way the general public expects it, or how it's been done traditionally. Niche specialists focus on different details, they compare points not normally on the same page. They don't care about certain details -- drop those. Simplify. Focus.
Make their work (or play) so quick and easy that they check in constantly.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
10:10 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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Get Personal
Actually responding to readers can go a long way for a content based site. Many of the gargantuan content sites and big brands don't really make themselves available on social networks (sure, they have an account - but they have a rotating cast of interns who manage them) and good luck getting a response from an email to them.
Average people have very little concept of how "big" a website is, so hearing from you will likely be as thrilling to them as hearing from a "big" company. Something as small as "Hey, glad you stopped by!" in response to a FB post or a tweet goes a long way in creating repeat visitors and goodwill for them to share, tweet and pin your content. Bonus points if you freely answer questions and concerns with them having the knowledge that you aren't selling anything.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
10:17 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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Almost every big guy started small and built up.
Niche... Niche... Niche... start small with one niche, dominate it, take the niche away from the big guy, don't even leave them the crumbs. The big guys can not focus, will not focus, on the long tail, they will dump the long tail in a second if it does not come easily for them.
Repeat with the next niche.
Sell out before the next little guy starts eating at your niches.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
11:18 pm on Jan 6, 2014
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The great thing about the internet is that it is possible for smaller businesses to compete with larger businesses.
Yeah, right.
Sometimes I wonder whether I live on the same planet like some other people.
The great thing about the internet WAS that it WAS possible for smaller businesses to compete with larger businesses. That WAS ten years ago.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
1:08 am on Jan 7, 2014
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Understand how the people in the niche think
eCommerce ... and not just people who buy, but also those ex-competitors who had their own sites and who now use Mega Sites(Amazon, Etsy, and such) as their "Store Fronts".
All though they have the link love from/via Mega Site, they compete on the same level with other ones that are the same as them. They compete on a Mega Site level, duplicating each others efforts due to the fact they are given the same tools which often does them no good.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
2:31 am on Jan 7, 2014
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Big sites have a few weaknesses.
They can not easily keep all their content fresh and up to date. Fresh content, which has more recent information is better than stale content.
They get sloppy because they don't want to over optimise, and they don't want to bother with many long keyword combinations because normally their ranking gives those to them without effort.
They can not easily keep track of local search results. Nobody has the time to change their location from zip code to zip code across the country. Local search has left them blind.
Various keyword spy tools reveals their market demographics and major sources of traffic. Excellent materials for small competitors to research.
It is nearly impossible for them to make rapid changes to changing conditions. Customers expect the link that was on the front page yesterday to be there today. Changing it throws their repeat visitors into complain mode.
Search engines need to stay on the leading edge or they may lose visitors because of no turnover.
Small sites with one webmaster have a weakness too. Production of high quality content takes man hours and one webmaster has less time than a team of webmasters. It hard to grow faster than a site with 10 or 50 times the content creators.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
4:09 am on Jan 7, 2014
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Re niches:
Our site has always appealed to people who like to read, and who like in-depth information.
After more than 15 years, I've finally come to the realization that we've been leaving traffic and money on the table by not going after the Cliff's Notes audience.
Now that mobile is coming on strong, it seems like a good chance to pursue the "keep it short and sweet" crowd, so I'm currently in the process of building a responsive-layout site about our most popular (and profitable) subtopic for people who are in a hurry or who surf the Web on smartphones.
The new site will be freestanding, but it will have deep links to the existing site's in-depth articles where appropriate, because even the person who's looking for an overview of A, B, and C may be interested in learning more about C if that subtopic is especially important to him.
In effect, we'll soon have two sites about one
niche that appeals to two
niches. This isn't a strategy that big sites can pursue easily, but for a mom-and-pop team, it's a fairly simple process that costs nothing but a month's time.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
4:39 am on Jan 7, 2014
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I agree with Netmeg about the importance of extreme customer service and product knowledge. Combine those things with email that informs and products that bring repeat sales, you can bring in sales continually no matter how far down the search engines bury you.
It helps to have your website url and/or your phone number on your products so the customers know how to reach you when they need more, too.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
7:09 am on Jan 7, 2014
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Another one: just being local.
A lot of this just reflects what happens in the rest of the economy where big companies have an advantage that has increased over the years for a range of reasons from technology to legal changes.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
11:36 am on Jan 7, 2014
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I also agree with the customer service sentiment.
One thing I would add to that is not being afraid of speaking to customers/users on the phone. Some of the best ideas I've implemented on my site have come directly from my users and customers, via a phone call.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
2:59 pm on Jan 7, 2014
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The great thing about the internet WAS that it WAS possible for smaller businesses to compete with larger businesses.
Ok, so I just had to get this out. Just because it seems like people on the internet have lost perspective just a little.
Sam, the guy who runs the Big & Little convenience store around the corner from me, has been successfully competing with Walmart down the block for the past 7 years (Sam's store has been there at least the 13 years I have lived here). And he has out lived the chain grocery store and Target that Walmart put out of business when it moved in. We are talking about a one man (ok and a lazy teenager to work the counter) shop. He isn't even part of a chain.
And he did it by pretty much using the very same things listed here. Despite the fact that he is only a quarter mile from a store that not only sells almost everything he does but about 10,000 things more, he is convenient for people who are running home. On top of that, he knows what his customers like that they may not be able to get at Walmart, and he stocks it (yes, so mostly that means black plastic wrapped skin mags - but that is beside the point). He also knows most of his customers by name and knows what lottery tickets they like to play.
The road he is on is less traveled than the road the Walmart is on. The place certainly is not as shiny as the Walmart is. Heck, his prices aren't even competitive. In fact, in many cases they are higher. Yet he has made a decent living that has supported his family for quite some time.
So if this guy can survive for a decade plus, outliving even big boys on the block, why do we feel it is unfair when we are online to be put up against the same conditions? It has never been fair for small businesses. And good many big businesses in the US started as small businesses at one point in time.
The fact of the matter is that it was "easier" before simply because small businesses typically get there first not because it was easier. Sam was there long before Walmart, but Walmart is still going to make more money. That does not mean Sam can't make a good living too.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
4:00 pm on Jan 7, 2014
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It isn't just big business vs. small business. Big businesses fade or fail, too. Montgomery Ward is gone, Sears is a shadow of its former self, and Woolworths closed its last U.S. store more than 15 years ago.
The fact of the matter is that it was "easier" before simply because small businesses typically get there first not because it was easier.
Good point. Also, in the less competitive Web environment of 10 or 15 years ago, it was easier to build a business on a foundation of SEO. Today, other skills--such as knowing how to use advertising effectively--may be more valuable.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
4:37 pm on Jan 7, 2014
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Websites and companies, don't wake the dragon
I agree on what's been discussed, but sometimes competition between sites depending on the nature, means competition with the bigger company. Don't wake the dragon (chess concept) why? because some niches involve not only information but also service and in certain cases no matter how good you are with your work and website, the other one has more credibility (at first).
Some projects are easier to sell just because. Sometimes the same projects become difficult to sell once you are obviously in competition with the bigger site (and thus company). Even if you have everything to win, chances are old clients already have a communication relationship with the competition and they could be easily be told you are not worth the time.
So, at times it works to compete on the sides, not waking up the giant, meaning? go slow, low profile. Once you are strong then you can impress people with how good and fast you are VS an old and slow dragon.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
4:39 pm on Jan 7, 2014
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such as knowing how to use advertising effectively
That is a more relevant point than most will consider.
Advertising/marketing is often thought to be the advantage of the big guys/gals because they have deeper pockets. But in fact, marketing is more effective for the smaller player. The small player has the opportunity to get a better ROI on their marketing.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
5:46 pm on Jan 7, 2014
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The small player has the opportunity to get a better ROI on their marketing.
Long before the Internet was invented, there were small businesses that did well by running classified ads and tiny display ads in the back pages of magazines that ranged from
National Geographic
to small trade and enthusiast publications. (I've been seeing a number of small advertisers in
The New Yorker
for decades.)
Msg#: 4635503 posted
10:04 pm on Jan 7, 2014
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I still see those ads, these days they give web site rather than a snail mail address.
Also they are genuinely offering niche products or services.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
11:04 pm on Jan 7, 2014
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the guy who runs the Big & Little convenience store around the corner from me, has been successfully competing with Walmart down the block
reminds me of why I like the local dollar stores. I can stop at a dollar store, park very near the door, pick up my items, pay, and be driving away in five minutes.
Long before the Internet was invented, there were small businesses that did well by running classified ads and tiny display ads in the back pages of magazines that ranged from National Geographic to small trade and enthusiast publications.
there used to be sections in the back of outdoor life, field and stream, and various gun magazines for small ads.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
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Title of this thread is:
Ways for Small Sites to Beat Larger Sites
However seems to me that most posts here refer to the "triumph" of lowlife bare survival of small sites and single-employee corner shops, rather than "Ways for Small Sites to BEAT Larger Sites".
Are we confusing survival with ability to actually compete and flourish?
Fifteen years ago, it was possible to build and promote startup content and ecommerce web sites able to truly *compete* with established brick & mortar businesses - most of today's ecommerce "giants" came out of almost nowhere at that time.
But that was fifteen years ago.
Is it still possible to build a new Amazon out of nowhere? I believe that in exceptional circumstances it still is. But for most of us, that window of opportunity available for a short period of time, is past history.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
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Are we confusing survival with ability to actually compete and flourish?
Depends on your definition of "beat".
But if you want to go with your definition of "beat" as defined by:
Is it still possible to build a new Amazon out of nowhere?
I will add this then.
Learn how to court Venture Capital
Nobody, not even Amazon, got big without some serious VC investment (or a giant parent company who provided the cash). If you are looking to become a mega giant, you need to look at how to fund it. And it is still totally possible. But the fact that you need money to do it has never changed.
I've thought about doing it myself. I go to local conferences and meetings all the time where I meet all kinds of people who don't have any traffic yet but lots of VC. I figure I at least have a proven plan so I could cash in on that too - really be able to compete with the big guys in my niche (who also have VC or a giant parent company). But I just personally like surviving and growing steadily.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
3:44 pm on Jan 8, 2014
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Every website needs to have a strategy. We've been talking about different things to apply to a strategy.
We need to have a plan. We can't just throw a website selling widgets. We need to have a strategy to sell widgets to a certain group of people. The more focused strategy can be, the better the results.
Many of the things talked about here are tactics. Tactics in an of themselves, will not do the job.
We have to do market research to know who to target. Who are my most profitable prospects. Who are the ones who will give me the least aggravation.
Once we know who we want to serve, then we want to understand them. We want to define them. This helps us think of ways to serve them better. This is what persona is all about.
Often people try to do personas without market research. Sometimes we think we know our market. I been selling to this market for 10 years. But when we do surveys, we are surprised at the answers. We didn't know them as well as we thought we did.
So to
really make money
in this Internet business, competing against big guys, we need three things:
- Market research
- Personas or profiles
- Strategy and strategic plan.
By the way, this is what the big guys are doing.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
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Is it still possible to build a new Amazon out of nowhere? I believe that in exceptional circumstances it still is. But for most of us, that window of opportunity available for a short period of time, is past history.
I don't think this thread is about building a new Amazon out of nowhere. The theme is "ways for small sites to beat larger sites," not "ways to create a new megasite."
What most of this thread's participants are concerned with (I think) is how or whether small sites can compete with large sites in their niches. Offhand, I can think of several things that can help to achieve that goal:
1) First and foremost, have a business that's built around more than a set of keywords and SEO skills. (In the Internet Gold Rush of the 1990s, a lot of people got into e-commerce and affiliate marketing on the strength of their technical and SEO abilities.)
2) Know how to use advertising effectively.
3) Think beyond organic search. (I know people who have built a profitable tour business through word of mouth on TripAdvisor, and my neighborhood has a successful bookstore that does a worldwide business in used books--including rare books--mostly via Amazon.)
Msg#: 4635503 posted
4:36 pm on Jan 8, 2014
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Is it still possible to build a new Amazon out of nowhere? I believe that in exceptional circumstances it still is
First of all, not everyone can build and/or run an Amazon. Second of all, why would we WANT a gazillion Amazon.coms out there. Third of all, how is any of this different online than it is offline?
The only way it's different, really, is that in many cases small business and entrepreneurs jumped online a little ahead of some of the big players. They pretty much had to, because many of them were being eaten alive offline (I don't believe a single downtown store still exists in the town where I grew up, once the mall over by the freeway went in) Now that everyone's online, it happens again. As far as I can tell, it comes with the territory. All I can do is either adapt, or go get another job.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
5:52 pm on Jan 8, 2014
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So to really make money in this Internet business, competing against big guys, we need FOUR things:
- Market research / Product
- Personas or profiles
- Strategy and business plan
- Venture Capital
By the way, this is what the big guys are doing.
Msg#: 4635503 posted
6:10 pm on Jan 8, 2014
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Depends on the niche.
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- 1 package(s) cream cheese,, softened (8 oz.)
- 1 package(s) Italian salad dressing seasoning mix
- 1 cup(s) mozzarella, shredded
- 1 cup(s) parmesan, shredded
- 1 cup(s) pizza sauce
- desired toppings, pepperoni, olives, mushrooms, etc.
- In a small bowl, mix cream cheese and seasoning. If time permits, mix and refrigerate 24 hours before making dip.
- Spread cheese mixture in the bottom of a 9 inch pie plate or shallow baking dish.
- Sprinkle 1/2 mozzarella and 1/2 parmesan on top of cream cheese.
- Spread pizza sauce on top of cheeses.
- Add desired toppings and top with remaining cheeses.
- Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. Serve hot with Italian style pita chips or crackers.
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