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Garvin Jabusch, Cofounder and CIO of Green Alpha Advisors in Boulder, CO and manager of the Sierra Club Green Alpha Portfolio also thinks REITs would be a good structure for solar investments.
"Making PV [photovoltaic solar] a REIT eligible asset class will give investors access to what is currently the best value in solar, the annuity of electric power sales agreements. Currently investors can mainly invest in panel manufacturers (and to some degree BOS [balance of system] providers such as converter manufacturers), which is not these days the most profitable way to play solar. Buying a piece or pieces of solar PV projects on the other hand is profitable right now but is currently the province of private equity investors. Utility scale solar on a project basis is very attractive because, unlike a coal or other fossil-fuels based plants, once the solar plant is running it produces electricity which can then be sold essentially indefinitely without risk of the price of its fuel increasing (or indeed ever costing anything at all), with very low risk of plant failure (and if it does fail, it's likely only offline for a short time, no risk of explosion), and relatively low overhead in terms of maintenance.
Legal Considerations
"The IRS could declare that solar assets were REIT-safe with a stroke of the pen."
The other potential advantage of REITs as an solar investment structure is that it would not require an act of Congress for PV to become a REIT-qualified investment class. Joshua L. Sturtevant, an Associate with solar aggregator, financier, and developer Distributed Sun of Washington, DC, has done extensive research on the changes which would allow REITs which would generate all or most of their income from solar generation.
He found that "the IRS could declare that solar assets were REIT-safe with a stroke of the pen. Because of the broad authority it has been granted to regulate REITs, it could bring solar assets into the fold simply by issuing a ruling to that effect. … [I]t wouldn't require legislation or huge changes to the tax code." Getting a favorable IRS ruling might not be easy, but it would almost certainly be easier than getting legislation through Congress.
Sturtevant says that an IRS ruling might take the form of a "private letter ruling" or through a "revenue ruling." The IRS grants a private letter ruling in response to a taxpayer asking for clarification on an aspect of the tax code applies to them. A private letter ruling does not have broad applicability, in that it is only binding on the requesting taxpayer and the IRS. However, private letter rulings "often end up having some trickle-down influence on business decisions as they are generally accessible to tax lawyers and accountants."
A revenue ruling is "often issued at the prompting of a government official. To the extent that an issue might be a close call, it is better for the request for clarification to come from within the government as there is a better chance of obtaining a favorable (from the perspective of the requestor) outcome."
The Wheels of Government Turn Behind the Scenes
No one was able to tell me anything definite, but there are rumors that a request for an IRS revenue ruling is imminent. In June, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) issued a report, "The Technical Qualifications for Treating Photovoltaic Assets as Real Property by Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs)." The report concluded that PV meets many of the important criteria to be considered "real property" and hence a proper asset class for investment by REITs.
The fact that NREL issued this report suggests that someone in the government is working to prepare the way for a favorable revenue ruling. David Feldman, an NREL analyst and co-author of the report, said "We're not trying to make the decision — the Internal Revenue Service will do that. We're giving them the technical information they need to make the decisions." But somebody asked them to write the report.
Sturtevant says, "My pulse of the situation suggests that there are parties who are moving to place a request to the IRS by election time. If such a request were successful, it could be less than two quarters before a company claiming REIT status is developing solar."
Jabusch has also heard rumors predicting everything "from year end this year to Q2 2013."
UPDATE: The Renewable Energy Trust Capital, Inc., a San Francisco, CA based mission-driven company founded in 2011 to "facilitate the transition to a clean and sustainable economy" apparently already has ruling request "on file with the IRS." I'm seeking an interview with RET to determine if this is a request for a private-letter ruling (most likely since this is not a government entity) and when the request was filed. 10/12: I've published an article about Renewable Energy Trust's request based on my interview here.
Will the IRS Rule in Favor of Solar REITs?
If there has already been a request to the IRS for a revenue ruling on PV as real property, the the odds are good that the ruling will be favorable for those of us who would like to see Solar REITs. According to Sturtevant, enough political will would be sufficient to guarantee a favorable ruling. The political will is likely to depend on the outcome of the election on November 6th.
Giving solar a similarly advantageous investment structure to the MLPs enjoyed by investors in fossil fuels should be a "politically neutral concept," as Sturtevant puts it. Obama has long been in favor of leveling the playing field between alternative energy and fossil fuels, while allowing Solar REITs is seemingly in line with Romney's expressed belief that alternative energy should sink or swim on its own merits: Investors would evaluate each deal on its investment merits, as both Hansen and Schalkwijk implied above. On the other hand, Romney has repeatedly called green jobs "fake" or "illusory" while championing the fossil industries, and has plans to sharply cut funding for clean energy: He may have already concluded that PV has no "merits," and hence might see little point in giving it similar privileges to the extractive industries he promises to promote in the name of energy independence.
The First Solar REITs
Even if there is a favorable ruling, it may take a while for the first REITs dedicated to solar to emerge. The first movers are most likely to be traditional REITs that are already thinking about renewable energy investments.
A few REITs have dabbled with solar already as a revenue enhancement. IRS rules allow them to generate up to 25% of their income from sources other than real property, and this allows some scope for solar on REIT-owned buildings, for instance. Some solar developers are even specifically targeting the traditional REIT market. However, few REITs are likely to use this option to obtain more than a few percent of their income from solar because " the IRS tends to be very wary of anything that doesn't smell right in the context of REITs" and " leads to wariness and conservatism by many REIT managers," according to Sturtevant. REIT managers generally feel that a little extra revenue is not worth risking greater IRS scrutiny.
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A method and system for incorporating textual and audio material into a JPEG file in a manner allowing both a photograph and the textual material to be stored as one unit and transferred as one unit. The textual materials stored in various photograph tag markers which become part of the JPEG file. The JPEG file including the textual material can be transferred to an authorized user who could edit the file based upon password security. The textual materials can appear around any of the borders of the photographs or can be directly embedded into the photograph.
1. A method for creating an augmented media file, comprising the steps of:
creating an original digital photograph having a plurality of n digital pixels said plurality of n digital pixels including a first section within said n digital pixels containing m digital pixels;
transferring said original digital photograph to a first storage device provided in a first microprocessor provided with a first data entry device;
editing said original digital photograph using said data entry device by replacing said first section containing m digital pixels with a second section of m digital pixels of non-photographic material, thereby producing an altered digital photograph; and
creating an augmented media file by storing said altered digital photograph and said first section of digital pixels as a single file, wherein said first section is stored within photographic tag markers appended to said altered digital photograph.
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the altered photograph with the first section containing m digital pixels replaced with a second section of m digital pixels of non-photographic material; and
photographic tag markers affixed to said altered photograph to create the augmented media file, said photographic tag markers further including the first section of m digital pixels, wherein said altered photograph and said photographic tag markers form a single augmented media file.
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a device for creating an augmented media file, said augmented JPEG file including said altered digital photograph with said second section of m digital pixels replacing said first section of m digital pixels, said augmented media files including photographic tag markers said photographic tag markers including said first section of m digital pixels, wherein said altered photograph and said photographic tag marker form a single augmented media file.
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The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for appending textual material to JPEG files and transferring these files to a remote source.
The current technology on the market permits cameras to take digital or non-digital pictures, and attach date and time stamps to the picture. The date and time stamps become permanent non-modifiable information that is either attached to the developed picture of pasted as pixels into a digital picture. This implies that if a particular viewer of the picture does not want to view the additional data attached to the picture, they will not have the opportunity to do so. Furthermore, if someone wants to modify or remove that data, that is also not possible.
Other current technologies exist that permit users to add captions to their digital pictures. However, these captions are stored in a database on a local machine or Internet site. If the user wants to move a picture from one environment to another, or send digital pictures to other users, then the caption does not move with the picture. Furthermore, if a sound file was attached to the JPEG file, the same problems would exist with respect to transmitting both the photograph and the sound.
Several U.S. patents have issued generally relating to the subject matter of transferring JPEG files. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,014,170, issued to Pont et al is directed to an information processing apparatus which stores information in recording units. Each recording unit includes at least one of a main image data, a sub-image data, and audio data. As illustrated in
U.S. Pat. No. 5,805,215, issued to Mizoguchi shows an information processing method and apparatus utilizing a notebook-type electronic camera. Various information relating to a particular image, such as the date of the image is automatically recorded along with the image data.
U.S. Pat. No. 5,170,253, issued to Horiuchi et al illustrates an apparatus for superimposing a title onto an image produced by a video camera. A title to be displayed is elected by a control signal from a control signal input terminal. Both the patents to Mizoguchi and Horiuchi et al, while discussing adding material to a digital photograph, neither of these patents suggest a manner for insuring that only authorized individuals could alter the non-photographic material after it is sent from a first location to a second location.
It will be appreciated from the foregoing that there is still need for improvement in a system and method of attaching non-photographic material to a photograph, transmitting both the photographic and non-photographic material and allowing only authorized individuals to modify the non-photographic material at a second location remote from a first location.
The deficiencies of the prior art are addressed in the present invention which would allow individuals to take digital pictures and attach textual data to the picture file itself so that the data will accompany the picture wherever it goes. If it is sent through the Internet or any other medium, the accompanying text, or, additionally, an audio file, is always attached to the digital picture both in the picture itself and as an ASCII text so that it is capable of being edited and displayed. Information provided in a JPEG marker would include a password allowing only a certain individual or individuals to edit the digital, non-picture material. Furthermore, the present invention would allow individuals to modify certain information in the digital picture, but not allow modification of other information in the picture. Additionally, the present invention would allow certain individuals to modify one type of information and other individuals to modify a different type of information.
The text/audio material that is attached to the picture will be viewable/playable for anyone that receives the picture. The user would determine exactly where and how this text will be displayed with the photograph. The textual material can be produced as a caption displayed around any of the borders of the picture or could be directly included in the picture itself by overlaying certain pixels of the picture. However, only those having the appropriate photograph tags application will be permitted to modify the text if they so desire, providing that the owner of the picture has sent permission to allow this. Furthermore, based upon the password or passwords included in the application, certain individuals would have the ability to modify all of the textual/audio material, while other individuals could only edit a portion of this material.
Other individuals that receive the photograph would not require any special technology to view the captions or other types of data that is attached to the photograph, since the creator of the additional data and/or sound will attach this additional information as part of the digital photograph. The non-photographic material will be provided in the digital photographic file in its raw form, so that if the creator requires modification of a text, this will be possible.
Furthermore, since the actual textual/audio data will be stored inside the JPEG file, it will now be possible to search all of one's photographs on their personal computer or other device for textual data. For example, if textual material, such as the location of a photograph is added to the digital photograph, the owner of these photographs could search for only those photographs which were taken at a certain location or of a particular individual. Furthermore, if a number of photographers sent captioned material to a news organization, such as a newspaper, this organization could search for all of the photographs submitted by a certain photographer, or on a certain subject, or by the date of the picture. The combination that could be searched would vary with the type of material stored in the JPEG file.
It would now become possible based upon the present invention to make each picture into a separate database suppository of data that describes attributes about that picture, and when joined together with many other photograph tagged pictures, it becomes possible to build a database of pictures, where each picture has information describing the contents of the picture. Thus, when joined with many other pictures, this will form a database of pictures that can be searched and processed as a group or as individual pictures.
The application software utilized to produce the desired results of attaching textual captions and audio material directly to a digital photograph, viewing this photograph as well as editing this photograph would reside in many different devices, such as personal computers, hand-held computers or even cameras that will know how to edit and display this digital data in any form. The photography tagged technology would be published as a software developing kit preventing (SDK) so that third parties may integrate the concept of adding and editing textual and audio captions into digital photographs in their own products. The present invention extends the current market file format restoring digital pictures in the JPEG format by utilizing certain reserve tags in the JPEG file for adding the data required to store the metadata into the JPEG file for editing.
The present invention will be understood and appreciated more fully from the following detailed description taken in conjunction with the appended drawings in which:
Similar to the first computer 12, the second computer 14 includes a hard drive 28 provided with a memory therein, a monitor 30, as well as a standard keyboard 32 including standard alphanumeric keys 34 and standard function keys 36. The keyboard 32 is connected to the hard drive 28 via a communication line 44 and the display 30 is connected to the hard drive 28 via a communication line 46. Information is transmitted between the hard drive 18 of the first computer 12 and the hard drive 28 of the first computer 14 via any known communications link 38 such as a wired link, a wireless link as well as the Internet.
The purposed of the present invention is to allow a caption to be added to a photograph in such a manner that both the caption and the photograph are stored as one JPEG file such that the entire file can be transferred from one memory device such as a computer to a second memory device such as a computer. Additionally, the present invention would allow the textual information to be altered by an individual having permission from the person generating the photograph and appended captioned material. It is also noted that a caption need not be limited to textual material and could also include sound such as a verbal commentary for music or any other type of supporting sound to enrich the photograph. This sound file will be any standard sound file format such as WAV. Other types of textual material would include a caption describing the contents of the photograph, the photographer's name, a copyright notice as well as a time stamp. The photographer's name as well as the copyright notice would include as ASCII string with the name of the photographer as well as the copyright notice. It is also noted that the term "textual material" utilized with this invention would include one or more of the above-noted metadata attributes as well as any additional attributes which would fulfill the scope of the present invention. Furthermore, it is noted that the computer or memory device could also be a camera or cellular phone.
The above-noted textual attributes can be appended to the bottom of the photograph or embedded in any form directly in the photograph. Information relating to the position of the textual material would be included in the JPEG file. Furthermore, the present invention would allow the textual material to be displayed in various fonts, colors and sizes as well as a display angle in the digital photograph. Additionally, the X,Y position in the picture of any of the above-noted textual attributes as well as the rotation angle, background color (if the textual material is not embedded in the picture) as well as the text color, font name, font size and font style (any combination of bold, underline, italics or the like) would also be stored in the JPEG file format.
A standard JPEG format utilizes markers to break the JPEG file stream into its component structures. Each marker is two bytes in length with the first byte always having the value FF and the second byte containing a code that specifies the marker type. The JPEG standard is fairly flexible when it comes to ordering the markers within a file. The only rule that is employed is that each file must begin with a start of image (SOI) marker and end with an end of image (EOI) marker. In most cases, all other markers can appear in any order.
The JPEG format supports general purpose markers for third party applications for a multitude of uses. The JPEG format contains a set of 16 markers designated as APP0-APP15 that are used to store application specific data. These markers would allow information beyond what is specified in the JPEG standard to be stored. Although it is unimportant which of these markers are utilized in the present invention, the photography tag for the present invention will store all of the relevant textual data in the APP10 marker. The JPEG file format does not require that any and all of these markers be used. They are merely definitions of markers that a standard application that opens and reads the JPEG file can ignore. Since they are used for application specific data, it is quite probable that most of the JPEG files will not have any APP markers.
The concept of assigning numbers to these APP markers gives 15 possible APP markers that may be used. The present invention has chosen to use the APP10 marker purely on an arbitrary basis. However, if another application decides to employ the APP10 marker for their own internal reasons, the APP 10 marker of the present invention will be differentiated from these other APP10 markers by the inclusion of a signature in the marker structure that is 8 bytes long.
The APP10 marker utilized in the present invention inside the JPEG file will contain basically the same data structure as shown in Table I.
The photography tag application requires three types of markers, namely a header marker, a non displayable data marker and a displayable text data marker. The particular type of marker will be indicated in the type field in the header structure as shown in Table I.
The header marker 80 is the first one loaded by the photography tag software development kit (SDK) and will have a fixed size so that it can be accessed correctly. The structure of the header marker is shown in Table II. The header marker is used to point to the first photography tag marker in the file so that it can be quickly accessed rather than to scan all the markers in the file sequentially. The header marker also contains the height in bytes of an external caption area appended to the JPEG file if the user decides that the caption will not be embedded in the picture but displayed in an attached area 76 (see
The non displayable data marker can hold any form of data for a single element and would include the concept of open field names. This means that the application can create its own field types. As shown in Table III, these internal fields could contain but are not limited to the type of caption, the name of a photographer, the copyright notice, the date of the photograph, a textual description as well as sound. Other types of fields such as a price of the photograph could also be included. The structure of the non displayable data marker is shown in Table III. This data marker allows a user to store any form of the data in the JPEG file that is not used for displaying. This data can be used for searching various items in this database. It is important to note that this data need not be textual and would also include sound data. This is important since the searching capacities of the present invention would then not be limited to just textual data but would also include the possibility of searching the audio data. Various input devices associated with the present invention such as voice recognition devices can be employed in this searching process.
The caption marker 76 as well as the copyright marker 78 is stored in the JPEG file in front of the header marker 80. The types of textual data which is stored in this file could include a caption, a time stamp, the name of the photographer, a copyright notice as well as a sound commentary. The structure of the test data marker is shown in Table IV. If the text is to be embedded into the JPEG file picture, it stores the bits of the picture before the overlay so that it may support editing and rebuilding of the old picture, if needed. All of the text fields are designed to be of variable length, thereby requiring that there be a length field proceeding each of the text field data attributes.
The displayable text marker is illustrated in Table IV. The displayable text marker stores the display attributes of a piece of text and is basically a superset of the non displayable marker since it contains all of the information contained in Table III as well as all of the information contained in Table IV. The main difference between Table III and Table IV is that Table IV also contains the display attributes of the text. Furthermore, if the text is to be embedded to the photograph, the displayable text marker would store the bits of the picture before any overlay is created. This is important so that the photograph and the textual material may be edited subsequent to the compilation of the JPEG file as well as rebuilding the photograph created before the overlay, if this is necessary. The RGBBits store the bits of the picture area being overlayed. These are the pixels of the picture which has been eliminated from the photograph when textual material is embedded therein. This is illustrated in
Referring to
The present invention utilizes a software developing kit which is loaded in both the device in which the JPEG file including the textual material is created or compiled as well as the device in which the complete JPEG file including the textual material would be sent. Initially, as illustrated in
If a JPEG file is loaded having the proper markers, all of the data markers are loaded into a memory as shown in step 104. This is true whether the JPEG file has all of the markers therein when it is loaded or whether the markers have recently been created. At this point, it is now possible to gain access to each of the data markers. It is now also possible to obtain all of the picture bits of the bit map located in the JPEG file so that the picture can be displayed on a screen as illustrated by step 106. At this point, any of the data attributes provided in the data marker can be edited as step 108. As will be subsequently explained, this edit step can only be accomplished if the potential editor has entered the proper password. After all of the data attributes have been reviewed and edited, if necessary, the JPEG file will now be saved as step 110.
The process of saving the photography tag file is accomplished by initially decomposing the image at step 116 in which the actual photograph is decomposed and then rebuilt, eliminating the photography tag inside of the JPEG file. This means that the end of the decomposition step 116 the photograph would be as if it returned to its original pre-captioned state. This is important since all of the textual data must be rebuilt within the photograph after it has been edited.
The method of decomposing would initially include the step of traversing through all of the data marker nodes. For each node, the RGBBits attribute is obtained. These bits are the original picture pixels of the area that the text is currently overlaying. If there is no overlay, this step would not be necessary. For each RGBBit it has to be re-overlayed on top of the rectangle position (a second attribute in Table IV). This step would effectively erase the pixels that have the text of the marker and would return the original rectangle pixels that were included before the text overlay. This step must be done for all of the text markers that have been created in the photography tag JPEG file.
At this point, as indicated by step 118, after all of the old data has been removed and the image returned to its original pre-photography tag state, the picture must be recomposed. This means that all of the text markers must be rebuilt into the picture. This is accomplished by traversing to all of the data marker nodes and, for each node, the proper rectangle position must be extracted in the picture where the text is to be overlayed. This is produced by extracting the original pixel bits from the photograph that was decomposed and saved in the RGBBit attribute in the text marker. The text string, font, color, etc. from all of the attributes are then written into the picture. Therefore, since the portion of the picture behind the textual material was saved, the original picture can always be reconstructed. This process must be accomplished for all of the text markers created in the photography tag JPEG file. Finally, the recomposed image is saved as step 120 by saving the picture pixels of the JPEG, saving the photography tag data markers, saving the photography tag header and then rewriting the EOI marker. At this point, the produced JPEG file including the textual material can be transmitted to various devices as shown in FIG. 1.
As previously indicated, the present invention allows the transference and editing of a JPEG file including textual material. However, to insure that only authorized individuals can edit this material, the photography tag software includes a security mechanism allowing the creator of the JPEG file to protect the data inside the file from being modified without permission of the creator. This security system would also decide which photography tags will be viewed on the picture as well as how they will be viewed.
The security aspect of the present invention operates since the header marker as illustrated in Table II includes a password. Therefore, as shown in
Furthermore, as previously indicated, the software of the present invention can be composed in a manner allowing a first individual to edit all of the non-photographic material included in the JPEG file, but preventing a second individual from modifying some of this data, but allowing this second individual to change other sections of the data. This is accomplished by including more than one password as shown in Table II and illustrated in FIG. 6. Based upon the assignment of different passwords to different individuals, full or limited access would be given for the purpose of editing the non-photographic material on the JPEG file. Finally, the application could be formulated preventing any editing of some of the data, such as the time stamp.
It will be appreciated that, although an embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail for purposes of illustration, various modifications may be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the invention is not to be limited except as by the appended claims.
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HUNTINGTON -- A Milton child pornography case has netted a local man more than four years in federal prison.
Charles D. Cunningham had signed an agreement with prosecutors stating he possessed more than 600 images and videos.
U.S. District Judge Robert C. Chambers ordered Cunningham to a 4-year, 3-month prison sentence. He had pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography.
The items were found March 22, 2009, at his residence in Milton.
Federal prosecutors agreed to dismiss a count of distributing child pornography, in exchange for Cunningham's admission.
Cunningham's case was among several involving pleas or sentences entered in Chambers' court. Others are listed below.
First sentence ordered in heroin case
Alvaro F. Jaime Jr. received a 3-year, 10-month prison sentence. He had pleaded guilty to aiding and abetting the distribution of heroin. The same plea was entered by Jaime's co-defendants, Charles Lee Woods Jr. and Ashlei Steinbrecher.
The charges were enclosed in separate indictments, but all stemmed from a Jan. 23 transaction in Huntington, according to plea agreements each defendant signed with prosecutors.
It involved Steinbrecher arranging a meeting between undercover agents and Jaime at a pharmacy in Chesapeake, Ohio. Jaime indicated he did not have enough heroin himself to satisfy the agents' request, and then agreed to them to Woods at a restaurant along Washington Avenue in Huntington, according to the agreements.
That led to a $600, 4-gram transaction between the agents and Woods, the agreements state.
Federal prosecutors agreed to dismiss additional charges against Jaime and Woods in exchange for their admissions. The plea represented the sole count facing Steinbrecher.
Crack case lands prison sentence
Jaron Dontae Reed received a 3-year, 1-month prison sentence. He had pleaded guilty to distributing crack cocaine.
Reed had signed an agreement with prosecutors stating he sold an unspecified amount of crack cocaine to undercover agents Sept. 23, 2010. It occurred during an undercover investigation at a fictitious storefront along 20th Street in Huntington.
The agreement further states that was among three transactions at the store, however federal prosecutors dismissed one other count and did not file charge pertaining to the other.
2012 heroin deal leads to guilty plea
Michael Duane Dixon pleaded guilty to distribution of heroin. Sentencing is set for Nov. 25.
Dixon, 40, signed an agreement with prosecutors stating he sold 5.03 grams of heroin to a confidential informant for $1,000. It happened Aug. 27, 2012, at 11th Avenue and 22nd Street in Huntington.
The agreement also mentions other drug transactions, however federal prosecutors dismissed charges connected with those events in exchange for Dixon's plea. Prosecutors also agreed not to pursue an enhanced punishment based upon Dixon's prior, criminal record.
Man admits guilt in pill case
Robert Douglas Black pleaded guilty to distribution of oxycodone. It was the sole count of his indictment. Sentencing is set for Nov. 4.
Black had signed an agreement with prosecutors stating he sold a confidential informant 10 oxycodone pills. It occurred Jan. 11, 2013, near Black's residence in the along 5th Avenue West in Huntington.
Probation granted in false testimony case
Nadia Ann Carter received five years probation. She had pleaded guilty to making false declarations before the court.
Carter, of Huntington, signed an agreement with prosecutors stating that she provided false testimony regarding her brother's address, falsely asserting that he had lived with her for five years preceding his arrest. It occurred at an Oct. 23, 2012, detention hearing in federal court.
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Clarice Lemons father never attended high school, which was not unusual for a man born in the early 20th century. But he put all six of his children, five daughters and a son, through college.
There was no question that Lee James Bennett believed in getting a good education, Lemon says.
Being educated and having good manners were recurrent themes in his conversations, Lemon says. That was true whether he was shepherding his own children or advising other young people he coached on several teams in the community.
Were all so proud of him, Lemon says. He was a good dad, she says of the former rigger at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, who usually is praised for his association with the Little League legacy he helped to create.
Bennett, who was born July 22, 1922, and died Dec. 5, was a coach for the Cannon Street YMCA Little League in 1955. It was the only chartered African-American Little League program in South Carolina. When each of the 61 chartered white teams refused to play them in postseason games, the youths could not qualify to play in the Little League World Series.
It was no mystery to him why it happened, says Lemon, citing racial discrimination. He was disappointed for them. The coaches tried not to make a big deal about it, and they decided to go ahead and take the guys to the World Series (in Williamsport, Pa.) for the experience, to be in the atmosphere.
Bennett was interested in doing what was best for them, despite the circumstances, she says.
The story is recounted in the 2011 book Let Them Play (True Story) by Margo Theis Raven and Chris Ellison.
Bennett was a man who regularly served his family, church and neighbors, she says. Her father, who also once was an upholsterer in a shop downtown, would upholster pieces for his home, his neighbors homes and his church, Mother Emanuel on Calhoun Street.
Hed spend hours in his garage with his foot pedaling his old Singer sewing machine, turning out remade chairs and cornices and embellishing pieces such as bedspreads to match. He eventually bought a more modern machine but kept his old-fashioned ways, which included making pillows from scrap fabric to present as gifts, no matter the occasion.
He didnt have any formal training, Lemon says. When it came to making patterns, he just had an eye for it. When I got married, he actually dressed the pulpit. He also upholstered the chairs that the children (at Emanuel) now use in Sunday school.
Church was a place where he was very comfortable, Lemon says. You could worship the way you wanted, but you had to go to church. My oldest sister was a sister of Notre Dame in Baltimore.
Bennett did a lot with his hands, Lemon says, describing her father as a clever man.
He made signs with tiny sticks that were like puzzles, she says. She and her siblings enjoyed looking at them from a distance and being able to find the word Jesus in his creations. He also made ones for each of his children with their names on them.
As was often the case with the upholstery he did for others, he created the tiny little stick structures from scrap wood, and saw to it that someone who would enjoy it received it at no charge.
He was just a family-oriented person, Lemon says.
Being attuned to what his family needed included teaching his children frugality and responsibility.
When you graduated from college and were living at home, you paid rent, but when you left, he and my mother (Josephine Whaley Bennett) gave it all back to you.
He cared deeply about his larger community, but always kept his familys needs in sight, she says.
We didnt always have what we wanted, Lemon says. But we always had what we needed.
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Serious Reads: Why We Get Fat, by Gary Taubes
No one needs to read another diet book. That's why journalist and author Gary Taubes didn't write one. What he presents in Why We Get Fat, and What to do About It is more of a scientific, analytical approach to food consumption and fat accumulation. He takes on dieting myths, he challenges the general understanding of obesity; and yes, he does make some eating recommendations. All in all, he's produced a compelling challenge to the dieting status quo that, like all rebellious texts, is both liberating and a bit unsettling. More


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A fellow who oversees lobbying in all 50 states for a major corporation recently told me about a certain Republican U.S. senator up for re-election in 2010, someone generally regarded as fairly conservative who might face a serious challenge from a very conservative fellow Republican. The incumbent has not been tainted by scandal, has never embarrassed himself by making a major mistake, is highly regarded in Washington, and is considered a very effective senator.
I was dumbfounded. Although it isn't hard to see why a moderate Republican such as Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter could face a conservative primary challenge, it is difficult to understand why a conservative Republican would be challenged from the right. This is a party in danger of cannibalizing itself.
The party's contraction and rightward movement have become self-perpetuating.
One can look at the American electorate like a football field. Most voters are fairly centrist, sitting between the 35-yard lines. Democrats are on the left end of the field; Republicans on the right. The theoretical center for each party is roughly the 25-yard line on its side.
The Republican Party dropped from parity in terms of party identification four years ago and now is about 8 percentage points below the Democratic Party. The GOP has narrowed its base and moved to the right. The defections from the GOP have been among its least conservative members. Thus, the center of the Republican Party has moved to the right, between the 15- and 20-yard lines.
This shift means that GOP primaries have become more conservative, putting pressure on incumbents to chart a more rightward course than they would otherwise take. And it means that GOP primaries, particularly in open-seat races, will be even more likely than in the past to nominate ideologues. The party's contraction and rightward movement have become self-perpetuating, and will continue to be until something breaks the cycle.
At a time when Republicans should be starting to think about how they can expand their party to reclaim those who abandoned it, the party is instead lurching ever more to the right, exacerbating its problems. Many people who watched the recent debate between contenders for the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee came away thinking that the only memorable moments were when each candidate expressed love and devotion for Ronald Reagan and when all but one bragged about how many guns they own. Not to belittle the importance of Reagan's iconic status or the Second Amendment, but when the only takeaways are about the importance of a political figure who last won an election a quarter-century ago and how big a person's arsenal is, these guys are not hot prospects to chair the GOP's Welcome Wagon, much less to lead the party out of its wilderness.
For anyone who thinks that it is important to our democracy to have two strong, vibrant parties and that having both major parties healthy keeps the system accountable, seeing one of those parties being self-destructive is not encouraging.
Beyond the fact that an inwardly focused Republican Party will have a hard time restoring its lost support, it's hard to embody Reagan's "Big Tent" approach when you are pushing folks who don't totally agree with you out of the tent. Especially for Republicans on Capitol Hill, the narrowing of the GOP presents a challenge as lawmakers try to develop policies to help pull the country out of its horrible economic decline.
With the Federal Reserve Board having dropped interest rates to practically zero, only two other major instruments to fight recession remain: government spending and tax cuts. Democrats tend to think that spending is the way to go and typically aren't wild about most tax cuts. Conversely, Republicans believe that tax cuts are the preferable route and disdain new spending. President-elect Obama is putting together a package that incorporates both, hoping to build bipartisan support and professing his fear that doing too little is more dangerous than doing too much. The fact that neither congressional Democrats nor congressional Republicans are in love with his package suggests that Obama may have found a good balance.
But if Republican lawmakers have to look over their shoulders and worry that backing a balanced stimulus plan would trigger serious primary challenges, they could be intimidated into jeopardizing measures needed to get the country out of the recession, into further isolating their party by making it more extremist, or both.
This article appears in the January 17, 2009 edition of National Journal Magazine.
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Informing Reproductive Choice? Prenatal Genetic Testing in the 21st Century
May 29, 2012 8:30am - 5:30pm
As new technologies transform prenatal testing from a risky procedure to a mere blood draw, the current trickle of prenatal genetic testing will become a flood. At least two companies have introduced non-invasive tests for Down syndrome and a few other conditions in the United States since last October. More companies, more accuracy, and more conditions are rapidly coming. Non-invasive prenatal genetic testing (NIPT) raises questions about who will pay for this testing, how it will be regulated, and how to ensure patients' informed consent, as well as vexing social issues involving abortion, disability rights, and eugenics.
On Tuesday, May 29, the Center for Law and the Biosciences will host a broad range of experts - including genetic counselors, ethicists, law professors, and representatives of the NIPT industry, the FDA, and the disability community - to analyze recent developments in the industry, their practical, legal and social implications, and future directions of the prenatal testing revolution.
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You need:
2 slices of bread (any kind your heart desires. I used wheat sandwich bread)
Olive Oil (Or tomato sauce. Or pesto. Whatever you want)
Shredded Cheese (Again, anything works. I used a blend of provolone and mozzarella)
Toppings-I used banana peppers and sun-dried tomatoes. Mushrooms, chopped deli meat, bell peppers, olives and onions, also work well
Seasoning- I used red pepper flakes and Italian seasoning. Use what you like.
Step 1: Toast the Bread
This step keeps the bread from getting soggy when you put the oil/sauce on it.
Put the bread on a foil-lined baking sheet. This eliminates the need to scrape off baked-on cheese.
Next, brush on olive oil or spoon on sauce.
Step 2: Add the Toppings
For the toppings, make sure they are either pre-cooked or okay to eat raw, because they won't be cooked, only heated. Chop them up well before putting them on your pizzas.
Add any seasonings you want
Step 3: Bake
And I've made hundreds of gallons of pizza sauce. Add some extra onion powder, black pepper, and lots of sugar to a can of spaghetti sauce for that pizza restaurant flavor.


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I'm going to preface this by saying that I am not a veg, but I think its healthier and try to eat vegan 70% of the time, if that makes sense... but I have a meat eaters menu planning skills and a love of eggs and cheese... Anyway... dh is a die hard meat eater (would live off McD's if i would let him, etc) so I need to figure out how to menu plan.
For example, I have a share from a csa and there are some great veggies to roast -- turnips, beets, potatoes and cauliflower. To me, those are all great sides... how do I turn them into a meal? (if that is all I serve, I will have a mutiny).
I have this mentality that its either pasta, burritos/tacos/mexican something with a veggie or rice side, OR its a protein with 2-3 sides (like the above). BUT, without meat, what protein would you choose (and i know that most people would have a hard time being protein deficit, i just can't figure out another term for it) Oh... and I just can't see building roasted veggies into a salad (my other full plate of veggies meal)...
I personally think that it's easier to let adults who have different ways of eating prepare their own foods. My husband eats a lot of meat and no vegetables, so he just buys his meat and cooks it for himself, but I realize that type of set up won't work for everyone. And, then, of course, kids; I mean I often cook and serve a number of things because if I just make one thing and my younger daughter doesn't like it, she basically won't eat, and then will later try and have some cereal or cheese and crackers. So I definitely can commiserate because I am a bad meal planner, and I have at least one child who only eats one part of a meal that I make.
You can mix cauliflower and white potatoes together to make mashed potatoes, and I have a vegan cookbook that serves this with a chickpea piccata over top. If I were doing root veggies, I'd serve it with a green salad or some greens to balance things out, and some raw fruit too.You could do oven roasted root veggies or a root veggie stew, something like red flannel hash in two versions, one where you add some bacon or leftover chopped cooked meat, and one where you don't. It can also be made with eggs in place of meat.
I'm not sure we actually need a big slab of protein, but I admit I often want that. I feel like I turn to wheat overly much, things made with bread when I should be eating more salads and just plates of greens. Usually the vegan cookbooks have a lot of good suggestions for how to combine things into meals. It just depends on how difficult some of the things are to cook. You can use high protein grains & legumes as a main course with other vegetable dishes as the sides. Percentage wise in relation to the calories, greens often have the highest protein content of vegetarian foods, but I suppose we'd have to eat a lot to feel like we got the satisfaction of eating a chicken breast, I suppose.
Garnishing with meat instead of serving it as an entree might help create a feeling of a complete meal. I think it's very easy to get into that feeling that a meal is a piece of meat with a starch and a vegetable. I think this is what makes my own meal planning hard, but whenever I read through my cookbooks, they have good ideas of how to mix and match things usually serving different kinds of vegetable dishes that complement each other.
For the roast veggies you mentioned, if I was doing roast meat for me then I might do a stuffed mushroom for DH.
Or if I had leftover roast chicken I might do some roasted chickpeas and turn it into a cous cous salad. Or, just toss it all together with spinach, fetta and a citrusy dressing.
Mother of two spectacular girls, born mid-2010 and late 2012
katelove - stuffed mushroom --- I don't know why but when you said that, you just gave me some great ideas :) (stuffed artichoke bottoms, stuffed those big mushrooms that i cant think of the name, those round squash things... ) Those totally feel like something to be accompanied by sides :) THANK YOU!! Maybe I just need to figure out entree worthy vegetarian things that are not pasta that I can pair with obvious sides like roasted veggies :) And hope they dont take FOREVER to prepare :)
viola -- I like to cook, my dh does not (and I don't want our kids to see dh's example of "cooking" either to be honest, as horrible as THAT sounds) So that totally wouldn't work for me :) (The plus side of that is the dh cleans :) Double woohoo :) Do you have a particular favorite cookbook that shows you how to make meals? I have a few, but they all just have recipes... none do actual menus except for one that has a few special occasion tons of work ones...
But I'm now realizing that the answer may be more obvious than I thought... :) I'm having a DUH, why didnt I think of that moment :)
I have this mentality that its either pasta, burritos/tacos/mexican something with a veggie or rice side, OR its a protein with 2-3 sides (like the above). BUT, without meat, what protein would you choose (and i know that most people would have a hard time being protein deficit, i just can't figure out another term for it) Oh... and I just can't see building roasted veggies into a salad (my other full plate of veggies meal)...
I don't think there's anything wrong with that, actually. We are a family of three omnivores (two of whom are former vegetarians) and one vegetarian (who occasionally eats fish). We make a lot of vegetarian/vegan/meat-optional meals. I try to think in terms of a category for each day and then fill that with things we like.
For example:
Mon - Mexican something > Black bean rice bowls with toppings
Tues - Salad dinner > Big salads with choice of chicken or chickpeas on top - good way to use up CSA!
Wed - Stirfry > Rice, 2-3 vegetables and some tofu with stirfry sauce - CSA vegetables make great stirfry
Thu - Curry > Potato-chickpea curry or Thai red curry with vegetables - again, CSA!
Fri - Pasta > Baked pasta with cheese and a salad
I look up a lot of recipes on the Internet and when something becomes popular in my house, add it to a card. I don't always do this, but when I get stuck, I can pull out my stack of cards and figure out meals for the week based on that. Sometimes I have forgotten great stuff over time! Also, if I feel we're a bit veggie deficient in a meal, I sometimes just cut up a plate of raw vegetables I have on hand - and serve with something like grilled cheese, fried egg on rice, pasta, etc.
Hope that helps!
Mom "D" to DD1 "Z" (15) and DD2 "I" (12) DH "M"
Didn't answer this directly, but you can see from my example above - beans, chickpeas, tofu, cheese.
Mom "D" to DD1 "Z" (15) and DD2 "I" (12) DH "M"
My husband and I used to go around and around about meal planning. I tried to get him involved, but it failed miserably as he is a meat eater and I got tired of BBQ 4 nights per week!. Now, we eat a great deal of Mexican food without meat (beans provide a great source of protein). Plus, we can spice it up different ways to prevent food boredom.
Mother of two, Gluten Free Guru, and Chief Family Meal Planner.
@Ragana - I really like the nightly category thing!!
We are newly Vegetarian (about 3 weeks now I think) and I'm needing to revamp my meal strategies a bit! I like this thread!
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Interesting thread. I've recently been exploring Turkish cuisine which has plenty of veg meals that offer different tastes and flavours.
Here's what we ate for dinner every night in February, which gives some idea of how it all comes together:
We do a lot of one-dish meals, bean dishes, occasional tofu or eggs.
Try this homemade vegan burger that really has taste and texture very similar to ground beef:
This blog has a lot of helpful suggestions for placating omnivores alongside vegan meals:
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GUNTERSVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — Many north Alabama schools were closed for days last week because of the winter weather, and as the Common Core Standards testing dates come closer school systems are working to make up for that missed time.
Marshall County was hit especially hard by the winter weather. "Last week we were absent four days total," Guntersville City Schools Superintendent Dale Edwards says.
Edwards says this is the first year the Common Core Standards tests will be fully implemented, so he says any days missed are crucial. "Common Core is very important in meeting our educational objectives and our goals for our school system," Edwards says.
Edwards says because this year the test will be fully implemented these few months leading up to the test in April are important to ensure students are fully prepared.
Edwards says the system is finding the best way to make them up. "We've been working this week to address that situation and to determine how we want to revisit our instructional pacing guides," Edwards says.
The school system is also utilizing a resource that was already in place. "We have a very comprehensive tutoring program in our K through eight schools," Community Education Director Sherry Manley says, "We are fortunate enough to have a 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant. It's a federal grant that allows us to do a tremendous amount of extra work with our students."
Manley says any student that is struggling to learn the material from the missed days will have the opportunity to do so with the program. "We'll be able to take any students who are struggling and let them come to our after school programs where they get extra help."
Edwards says the system is also planning to use E-Learning to help make up for the lost time.


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"Free China: The Courage to Believe" wins another top award
The New Nostradamus of the North
The New Nostradamus of the North
Finally, a powerful documentary about human rights violations in communist China. Hopefully this film will be shown on nationwide television channels in all those countries - e.g. Germany - which through trade relations prop up the repressive and aut...


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If you hear your 'SEO specialist' touting any of these trends like it's 2012, find a new one—fast.
search engine optimization: the process of maximizing the number of visitors to a particular website by ensuring that the site appears high on the list of results returned by a search engine. —Google (so meta!)
It's 2014, and SEO is still not dead. Its death has been declared time and time again, but the truth is, it will never go away. It will evolve, it will mutate, it will become unrecognizable to many—but it won't die until search engines do.
SEO firms, however, have and do fade away as they fail to update their toolbox of techniques. What worked in 1997 won't work today. Hell, what worked in 2012 won't work today. If you manage an online presence with the help of an SEO partner, it's good to know how to spot a bad one.
So in typical linkbait form, here are 5 SEO trends we should all stop talking about—or at least change in our conversations. If your SEO specialist keeps dropping these buzzwords and phrases like it's still 2013… It's time to move on.
#5. Pleasing the Google-bots.
From the humble beginnings of the SEO industry, two camps emerged: black hat and white hat. For the unfamiliar, black-hat techniques are meant to exploit search engine algorithms, delivering results that might seem impressive but are all-too-often busted by the next algorithm update. The rewards are short-term at best, and devastating at worst.
It's easy to laugh at black-hat techniques with the advantage of retrospect. Oh, keyword-spammy page footers! Oh, link farms! Oh, Anglo Rank! But big websites are still being penalized by Google's police force for engaging in shady link-building tactics. If you want to know more about that, ask Rap Genius. They've just recovered from a hefty penalty that cost them 80% of their traffic for eleven days. Even major retailers like J.C. Penney have faced "manual action" that Google has taken against them.
White hat techniques, on the other hand, are generally considered to be ethical practices founded on sound marketing principles. It might take more investment upfront, but the results are geared toward the long term. These strategies put the customer first — not the Google-bots.
The fact of the matter is, your primary focus should always be your customers. What you're doing on your website (and off) should never detract from your customers' experience or perception of your brand. Stuffing your content full of keywords and doing other things "to please the Google-bots" will only alienate your audience and raise your potential for a hefty penalty. Don't let a rogue black-hatter trick you with get-clicks-quick schemes!
#4. Mobile websites.
Hey guys, did you know mobile is the future?! If you don't have a mobile website, you're done for!
Just kidding… kind of. Though if you don't understand the impact mobile devices have had on the way we read, watch, talk, shop—you know, live—well, I'm not sure anyone can explain it to you. Ol' Steve Jobs really changed everything with the iPhone, you know?
Speaking of the legendary visionary, here's an interesting factoid: He really didn't like Flash. He even wrote a lengthy treatise about it in 2010. The fact that Apple refused to support Flash on any of its devices really dealt a blow to Adobe's widely-used platform. So much so, that even Adobe says Apple killed Flash.
So Flash didn't really make it to mobile, which was too bad for all the companies that invested lots of time and money into creating dynamic content in Flash for their websites.
For this and other reasons, the differences between coding for websites and mobile sites led most companies to adopt a two-website strategy: one with a mobile domain (mobile.something.com) and one for desktops. This strategy was meant to optimize customer experience, though most of us know that the mobile versions were often stripped-down to the point of being restrictive. Sure, it helped with speed and smaller screens, but shouldn't there be a better way?
Yep. It's called responsive design, and if you're not investing in it, it could be costing you.
Responsive or adaptive design eliminates the need for multiple websites, which is great for several reasons:
- The "mobile or desktop" paradigm is outdated; we now have tablets and devices of all sorts and sizes.
- Responsive web design will react to the needs of the viewer, no matter what device or browser they're using. Your customers get the same great branding experience, every time they visit your site.
- Google now penalizes duplicate content—so having two websites with the same content is a liability.
- Google also clarified its stance on mobile website strategies and search results, with strong support for responsive design.
- Maintaining one site (and one SEO profile) is cheaper, plus it's easier to push out updates when you only have to do it once!
Ditch the separate mobile site and start thinking about responsive web design. When your SEO guy says "mobile-friendly," make sure he means "responsive." And as for Flash… Better to use HTML5 instead.
#3. Cloned geo-targeted pages.
There is no better example of "pleasing the Google-bots" than creating cloned geo-targeted service pages. They're essentially carbon-copies of a business's services with localized keywords thrown in. These pages don't offer anything new to the customer, and can actually be downright confusing (wait—does this business even have an office here?).
Now understand me: this is different from redirecting users with geo-location techniques based on the user's location. As long as you aren't cloaking your techniques, Google won't give it a second thought. It's also good practice to create geo-targeted pages that feature unique information about each store location—address, hours, great employees, service awards, you name it. That's valuable for your customers.
No, what I'm talking about is Some Guy's Plumbing Service hosting a bunch of pages that look like this:
- http://someguysplumbingservice.com/knoxville
- http://someguysplumbingservice.com/maryville
- http://someguysplumbingservice.com/greeneville
- http://someguysplumbingservice.com/johnson-city
- http://someguysplumbingservice.com/every city in the state
And no matter which one you read, the message is the same: "If you need [plumbing in CITY, STATE], call Some Guy's Plumbing Service. We offer all the [plumbing in CITY, STATE] services you need!" Except for about 300 more words. Guess what that looks like to customers and search engines? You got it: straight-up spam.
For businesses who serve a radius-area, there are ways to create great geo-targeted pages. But it takes a little more work than saying to your SEO, "Write 25 new pages, one for each city on this list." You're going to have to provide some information and make some basic strategy decisions. If your SEO isn't already asking questions… Prepare for duplicate content and a potential penalty.
Lest you think I'm blowing smoke, here are a few articles about engaging ways to optimize for [your keyword in CITY, STATE].
#2. You've gotta be on Pinterest!
Ahh, Pinterest. The popular blogging platform has captured the hearts and screens of Hispanic & white females in the 18-64 age bracket. Turns out, that's a pretty big chunk of the US market in general, so it's no surprise that trendspotters are shouting "Land ho!" while pointing to the craft & recipe paradise.
But what do the numbers really mean? Should articles like this determine your business's social media strategy for the new year? Well, that depends. Whether you're considering Pinterest or any social networking/blogging site, first ask yourself a few important questions:
- Who's using the site? If your target market isn't actively using the site, don't bother. There are so many sites to choose from, there's bound to be one that closer aligns with your target audience. You can't (successfully) use them all, so pick the ones that give you the best odds of reaching your base.
- What are they doing there? Just as important as who is there is what they're doing. Each social site has its own culture and "code of conduct" which unsavvy businesses can easily break. Look at tumblr and Reddit, for example. Users on tumblr (a very visual platform) share images and GIFs, using tags to build tight-knit fandoms and communities. On Reddit, it's all about ideas, as subject-focused subreddits delve deep with long-reads and discussions. If your content doesn't play by the rules, it's not going anywhere. It's important to understand user behavior on any network, and Pinterest is no exception.
- Can I commit to creating/curating content on this network? So you know your audience is there. You know the types of content they like. Before you throw another social account into your marketing mix, consider — Do you have the time and energy to fully engage for the long haul? Social network success depends on cultivating relationships with fans, customers, and the curious. You can't repin a few photos and call it a day. Whether you're curating content from other users or crafting your own, it will take time and consideration to do it right.
- What will I get out of it? Social media is notorious for being difficult to measure in terms of ROI. If you're looking for a discrete effect on your bottom line, you're going in with the wrong attitude. Social media is about managing your brand and connecting with customers—being part of the conversation. There are excellent examples of businesses reaching out on Twitter and Facebook, and brand success stories on nearly every social network.
If you can find the right site and mix of content, you're going to increase your share of mind with the people who matter most. Could that site be Pinterest? Maybe. But if the above questions don't point in that direction, well, tell your SEO specialist that you're "not Pinterested."
#1. Content is King.
We've known this phrase was going to be problematic as soon as it started catching on. Having trouble in the SERPs? No problem! Just get some content on your low-performing pages and watch the traffic roll in. People love content. Content is valuable.
Fast forward to where we are now, and it's even more obvious that this strategy isn't going to work forever. People's web browsing habits have made it clear that quality wins over quantity, every time. The SEO's rallying cry of "More content!" ignores a vital fact: Content is not inherently valuable, because "content" isn't actually a thing at all.
No, really. "Content" is one of those words that doesn't actually mean anything (like "concept" or "value") until you fill it in. It's defined as "something contained." The contents of a book. The contents of an unopened box. The contents of your stomach. Sure, you could put anything in there—but they don't all guarantee the same results.
And that's what it's all about: results. Your content strategy should be driven by business goals and the desired results. It should have purpose. Content for the sake of content is empty and pointless. It fulfills no promise. Content created with a goal—to inform, to persuade, to entertain—is more likely to use vision, strategy, and effort to attain that goal. To fulfill its promise.
There are four main types of content, and the business who wields them wisely will easily pull ahead of the pack. Sharing information effectively in right type (whether it's text, audio, image, or video) will 'make' your message. Ineffective content will break it. Therefore, content should never be your king… It should be your messenger.
This is the logical conclusion of all the previous points I've mentioned. Put them all together, and it becomes clear that good content:
- Puts the customer first, not the Google-bots
- Is shaped by website design and the customer's user experience
- Provides real value, delivers on its promises, and is not empty or repetitive
- Is accessible and shareable on the sites that matter most to your customers
And the best part of all? This is the kind of content Google—and your customers—will always be looking for.
Thanks for reading my article! If you enjoyed it or found it useful, please consider sharing it on your favorite social networks. You can also find me on Google+ and my music blog, ExplorersTM. Keep calm and optimize on. ~Alice
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Scott Boras proposes posting fees for minor leaguers
Nov 29, 2010, 9:22 AM EDT
Ken Rosenthal passes on a bright idea from Scott Boras: a minor league posting system:
Each team would protect a set number of players: 40, the current number, or maybe even 45. Every other player in a club's farm system would be available through a blind posting process similar to the arrangement baseball maintains with Japanese clubs.
In Boras' vision: A prospect-rich team such as the Royals could sell off unprotected young players in return for money they could redirect toward free major-league agents. A club deep in young pitchers, but not position players, could use the process to create more balance, selling one type of player and buying another. If a team preferred to keep a player another club wanted, it would match the posting price and send the money back the other way.
I agree with Rosenthal's assessment: interesting, but there just isn't the kind of talent off of 40-man rosters to justify creating that kind of system. I mean, sure, ideally each team is totally aware of all of the talent available or potentially available, but if you get into posting all of the minor leaguers, teams will have to put a hell of a lot more money and effort into tracking these guys. I just don't see how the reward will outweigh the necessary cash outlay.
Also, given what we've seen from some teams in terms of hording cash and going low-money on amateur signings, I don't think we want to create any system under which a team can sell off young talent like this. What are the odds that the money gained on posting fees would be plowed into free agency? Pretty low in some cities, I imagine.
Fun, but no thanks.
- Jason @ IIATMS - Nov 29, 2010 at 9:29 AM
Now, if the posting fees are not subject to the lux tax/rev sharing calculations, won't the uber-rich teams be able to just spend like crazy, under-the-table-like, to scarf up the best of the unprotected? Of course, the limits of the protectables might preclude this.
Interesting, but I can't see it, either.
- bloodysock - Nov 29, 2010 at 9:37 AM
I'd like to see a posting fee for Boras – bail.
- BC - Nov 29, 2010 at 9:46 AM
If you upped it to like 60 protected players, it might work.
- ThatGuy - Nov 29, 2010 at 9:54 AM
It could work, but the team doing the bidding would have to put the player on the 25 man roster I would think. There is no point to transfering from one minor league system to another.
- The Baseball Idiot - Nov 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM
That's a great idea by Boras. Create more free agents that he will then sign as his clients, thereby increasing his income.
Becasue I'm sure Boras is only looking out for the welfare of the players, and isn't concerned about anything else.
- Jonny 5 - Nov 29, 2010 at 10:16 AM
*A prospect-rich team such as the Royals could "sell off" unprotected young players in return for "money" they could redirect toward free major-league agents.
Key words, "Sell off" and "money"
*A club deep in young pitchers, but not position players, could use the process to create more balance, selling one type of player and buying another.
Key words "selling" and "buying"
*If a team preferred to keep a player another club wanted, it would match the posting price and send the money back the other way.
Key words "posting price" and "money"
"It would create a currency in the game," Boras says. "It also would create an excitement in the game. It would be like a mini-free agent period. You would have a 40-man roster that really means something."
Key words "currency" and "excitement"
Well at least we all know where Scott's brain is anyway… Was he even thinking about baseball in the least bit? Or is this, all about the money stupid? I mean we should always take Scott Boras seriously when he's so determined to make everything about more money in his pockets right?
- dayrunner9 - Nov 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM
the funny part is, or maybe the sad part, is that Boris has no clue that his endless (and successful) quest to drive up player compensation gives him zero credibility on any ideas to improve the game or the lot of weaker franchises. anything he says automatically has to be seen as a way to raise salaries and his own income.
as a fan in nyc, i no longer go to games just because prices for decent seats have gotten so out of hand. thank you scott boras. you've always kept the best interests of the game in mind. yeah, right.
- Alex K - Nov 29, 2010 at 10:51 AM
Player salaries have nothing to do with ticket prices. It's supply and demand. More people want to sit in the decent seats than number of seats = they cost more.
- Utley's Hair - Nov 29, 2010 at 11:01 AM
Ticket prices=revenue; higher revenue=more pay demand by players=higher ticket prices
- Charles Gates - Nov 29, 2010 at 12:25 PM
@Utley's Hair: That's not correct.
Ticket prices will rise as fast and as far as the supply and demand equation will allow them to. Baseball is a business. Attendance drives revenue. Salaries are an expense. Certainly movement of one item on a P&L can allow for flexibility in another, but to think they work in tandem is wrong.
- Utley's Hair - Nov 29, 2010 at 12:44 PM
I guess my comment was overly simplistic. But my point is that they are not entirely independent of each other.
- Detroit Michael - Nov 29, 2010 at 12:25 PM
MLB already has a rule 5 draft that accomplishes this to a large extent.
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The CRCPD and FDA conduct the Nationwide Evaluation of X-ray Trends (NEXT) survey program, a federal-state collaboration that is the sole mechanism in the U.S. for capturing significant indicators of the state of practice in diagnostic radiology. Each survey collects data on patient exposure, radiographic equipment, image quality, and population workload from a randomly selected sample of facilities performing selected radiographic procedures. Selected exams for survey include adult chest, abdomen, spine, and pediatric chest radiography, fluoroscopy, computed tomography, and dental radiography. Digital x-ray imaging is becoming a significant player in the x-ray field and recent surveys are capturing baseline data with which to observe trends over time. NEXT also is focusing attention on emerging diagnostic procedures and technologies such as computed tomography which is being used for an increasingly diverse array of examinations, coupled with substantially high patient doses compared with conventional film x-ray procedures. NEXT recently completed a survey of computed tomography in 2000, and plans another for 2005 to document not only trends in patient exposure and technology, but also to assist the sectors of the professional community involved with public health efforts and regulatory activities.
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- The Lorad Digital Breast Imager in March 2002
- The Lorad Holgic Selenia FFDM System in October 2002
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GE Senographe 2000D (approval date 12/18/02; effective date 02/15/03)
Fischer SenoScan (approval date 07/24/03; effective date 08/15/03)
Lorad Selenia (approval date 09/05/03; effective date 09/15/03)
- State of Iowa –
GE Senographe 2000D (approval date of 08/28/03; effective date 10/01/03)
Lorad Selenia (approval date 08/28/03; effective date 10/01/03)
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States as Certifiers (SAC)
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Inspection Demonstration Program
Under the Mammography Quality Standards Reauthorization Act, Congress authorized the FDA to undertake an inspection demonstration program (IDP) to assess the results of conducting some mammography inspections less frequently than annually. The purpose of the program has been to evaluate whether selected mammography facilities could maintain the same level of quality without FDA's current scrutiny through annual inspections. In final form, the IDP included approximately 160 study group facilities and an equal number of controls in 14 states or other governmental jurisdictions that had agreed not to inspect these facilities under their own authority during the study period. The first half of these facilities were selected and notified in November 2001 and the second half were selected and notified in May 2002. Each facility was randomly selected from a set of eligible facilities on a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction basis. To be eligible, the facilities had to have a clean inspection history for the last two inspections. The facilities in the study group were undergoing biennial inspections during the demonstration program and the inspection process looks at the same areas as the current annual inspections but records are reviewed for the entire period since the last inspection date. Most of these facilities have now received their biennial inspection. All study group facilities should be inspected by the end of May 2004 and results should be available by early in FY 05.
MQSA Compliance Activity
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I didn't pick the volleyball team, but I know that the criteria was just to pick the top players regardless of position for volleyball and soccer. Football had position restrictions. I picked football and did worked some magic moving two-way guys around to positions that might have been their second-best just to make sure we had the best athletes possible on the team. With any of the teams we picked, some very talented athletes were left off.
You are absolutely right. The deadline for picking the team was early last week, so we could get everyone down for photos. Clint Galvas did another amazing job at New Lothrop and is still certainly worthy, but I would've picked Bob Buckel had I had the entire playoffs to go by.
It was a blast. I can't imagine doing it in the 22s like Curtis Vollmar and Kenny Wall, or in the 25s like Erin O'Mara. I know they're great runners, but I'm amazed they can fly through those obstacles like that. I slowed WAY DOWN on the climbing stuff just to be safe.
You should get ahold of Bauman's and have them take care of that for you.
Thanks, Addman. It did, but I had a faster time from Detroit last October which counts for 2012.
There is a mountain bike club that maintains these trails, but they are open to anybody. You just have to be alert for mountain bikes coming up from behind you. At Holdridge Lakes, you can usually hear them well in advance because of the twisting, turning nature of the trails. That also allows you to sometimes see them off to your left or right when they are a couple of turns away.
I've been on some trail runs where we counted more than 30 bikes on a 9-mile run. We constantly had to hop off to the side to let them through. Some mountain bikers don't yell anything to give you a heads-up they're coming, and they don't slow down when they're approaching. Most are great, though.
I love going to Holdridge Lakes because it is so close for those of us in the Flint area. It's a fairly technical trail. I recommend Island Lake in Brighton for anyone who is new to trail running.
The "they" in "they were not interested ..." referred to Hurley. I supposed I could have been more clear about that, but thought that the "not interested in trying to run a road race ANYMORE" phrase made it clear. I guess it wasn't clear to everyone. I could have put (Hurley) parenthetically in the quote to make it clearer.
Great. Now you guys let the cat out of the bag. I don't cover Carman-Ainsworth basketball because they have a good program and all the usual reasons. I cover them for the cookies and candy T-Money provides.
I'm not going to publish anything on the allegations about Kip Litton cheating. It's a very tricky subject to write about without creating potential problems. I will say that I do regret writing this piece. When I wrote it, I did not know about the circumstances surrounding these results. I saw the times and was impressed that any marathoner could nail all of his or her times within about a five-minute window without having one bad day in there, as happens to ALL marathoners. Perhaps there's a reason for such remarkable consistency ... and it's not remarkable at all.
Sorry about that. I hope you were able to find the blog on some of the other posts that did have links to it.
The headline caught my eye. I'm thinking, "Are you kidding me?" Would a Republican governor be given a free pass because he was "dealt a bad hand"? Was this written before or after the news that Michigan is the only state to lose population since the last Census? Gov. Jen Jen presided over eight of the last 10 years.
Very predictable stuff from the liberal media. I haven't read enough of Peter Luke's writing to know if he's assigned to be a liberal commentator for Booth, which would make this kind of stuff OK even if totally off-base, or if he's paid to be an objective reporter. As someone in this business, I surely hope it's not the latter.
Unfortunately, this race isn't as organized as most races are today. No computer scoring, no computer results. The race organizers kind of like it being a throwback kind of race. The three miles isn't even really three miles, more like 2.9-ish.
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It's a challenge, first to finish your first one, then to either keep finishing them or to run them faster. At times, you question your own sanity, but you come back for more. By Saturday night, once I was back in the land of the living, I was already planning my training for a fall marathon to make sure I don't suffer like this again, heat or no heat.
Shane: I wish I did. That was amazing. We were on deadline at that point, so I wasn't videotaping. Once the game went to overtime, it was past our deadline and I had time to just turn on my Flip video recorder. Your boy scored a pretty sweet goal to win it.
Right you are, Murph. You don't want to know the thoughts that swirl around my head though. It's a scary place.
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