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Posted on 04/13/2012 3:18:58 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch
Why did the North Korean missile fail to launch?
You signed up in 2000 to pst this today?
More like "topical fail."
It tried to fly on an empty stomach.
Because Oriental "missiles" traditionally fail.
Even if they succeed, nobody notices due to the diminutive nature.
Because it was starving.
They ran out of bamboo.
The peons ate it all.
Not enough vinegar to mix with the baking soda?
It ran out of fuel. Haven't you heard about the rice shortage in North Korea?
Well, Technically it DID get off the pad
It just didn't stay up
Insert Viagra joke here
It didn't fail to launch. It went 100 miles. They don't have the know how or technology. They are morons.
This might'a worked
Too bad the woman above is REALLY a man. No joke.
Aye, it just might
Aye, it just might
You have one more week, I see...
One more week?
Dear Leader told his own joke and the missile obediently cracked up.
Yeah. You'll be FR 14 years. As I will be a few days later....
(Ya codger)
Holy crap and my guidance counselor said i would not add up to much
North Korea should know that joke warfare has been banned since the end of World War II
Some how, some way, US Dept of Energy guaranteed the financing.
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To The Editor: What a touching tribute Susan Hanley Lane gave her husband Eric in your paper Monday.
Already your most gifted columnist, she reached new heights Monday morning with her tie-in of love and kudzu. How interesting that her column appears above the letters section. While the writers of your letters are sincere, and often themselves quite skilled in expressing opinions, when we get to the heart of the matter, few of our letters really count for much.
They are usually about "stuff" that is here today and gone tomorrow. The best pastor I ever had used to say "we must never allow the urgent things to crowd out the really important."
Ms. Lane reminded us again Monday morning of that vital truth. Thanks, Susan. We know Eric continues to be proud of you.
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It's a good chunk of the reason that I can't stand any of them and can't take the minor parties seriously.
Your faith is touching, when you find such a party let me know.
The answer to your question is of course "yes, but......"
Which Party Do You Support?
Posted 01 May 2012 - 01:59 PM
Posted 01 May 2012 - 02:26 PM
Which is the quandary I find myself in.
It's a good chunk of the reason that I can't stand any of them and can't take the minor parties seriously.
The difference between Labour and the Conservatives now seems negligible. 30 years ago, there were clear ideological differences (Mrs. Thatcher versus Micheal Foot). But now?
One example, the business about the surveilence state. Both David Cameron and Nick Clegg opposed it while in opposition, yet now they're bringing in the same kind of laws that (to quote David Cameron, speaking before the last election):
Oceania is at war with Eastasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
Faced with any problem, any crisis given any excuse Labour grasp for more information, pulling more and more people into the clutches of state data capture And the Government doesnt want to stop with the basic information. They want the most complex, important, personal information there is Scare tactics to herd more disempowered citizens into the clutches of officialdom, as people surrender more and more information about their lives, giving the state more and more power over their lives. If we want to stop the state controlling us, we must confront this surveillance state.
So I'm sorry, but I can never envisage voting for any of the big three again. What's the point in making a distinction? The same general policies seem to get through in slightly amended forms.
The people with real clout are those who pay £250,000 for the Prime Minister's ear (that's the only kind of voting paper that matters).
And it's hardly something unique to the Tories.
Cash for honours: 'Labour deliberately tried to conceal secret loans'
Four Labour MPs implicated in 'cash for influence' scandal
Stephen Byers: just how far a £5,000 cab fare gets you
See what I mean?
And of course, we can't forget the granddaddy of all payoffs.
Tony Of Arabia Earns $43M As Advisor To Kuwait, While Getting Paid By Morgan Stanley And The UN
I'd love to know what sort of "advice" is worth $43 million.
If you really want to influence our politicians, don't vote, start saving your pennies.
Posted 01 May 2012 - 03:18 PM
How many key marginal seats are there? About 80 out of 640... the rest are safe seats (relatively to very). First Past the Post makes it nigh on impossible to change the political landscape.
Fascinating that even after all that the last government have done with Wallace at the helm they will still have people (with short memories and gullible tendencies) coming back to them.
Posted 01 May 2012 - 06:42 PM
Before the bail out it didn't seem to be doing too badly.
I wish we hadn't outsourced our manufacturing base and we'd invested in our own people via our own talents and skills, but there we go, that's another matter for another day.
You mean as in the city took a lot of bonuses before the bail out based on what transpired to be fictitious profits and we now have to pay for the losses. It's like why we needed the bail out. The doing well and bailout are not mutually exclusive.
I'm afraid I cannot vote for a city **** licker like Farage. Though he shouldn't feel too badly about it because there isn't a party I would bother voting for at he moment. I'd rather vote for the PG Tips chimpanzees at least they might steal less.
If you say "Democorruptcy" quickly, it sounds a bit like "Democracy". In a "Democracy" people vote for politicians who represent their interests. In the UK's "Democorruptcy" people can only vote for expense fiddling thieving MPs who are in the hip pocket of big business and the finance sector.
A "Governbankment" is a Government like ours, that has no line between itself and banks. It diverts public money (our taxes) to private companies (banks). George Osborne's Help to
Buy Bail Banks, promises our taxes will go to bankers, to cover their losses on mortgages that default.
The more houses cost, the more hours you have to work to buy one. The more hours you work, the more taxes you have to pay the Governbankment. The more debt you take on and the longer the mortgage term, the more interest you have to pay bankers, so the more hours you also have to work for them. House were cheap when people did mortgages at 3x main income for a whole house. Now banks encourage them to do 4.5x joint income, often for only a share of a house, the houses cost a lot more. House prices are all about people's appetite for lending.
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man -- and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages -- it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Posted 01 May 2012 - 07:29 PM
If you don't vote BNP, you may at least have to drown the kitten.
I voted Tory at the last election. George Osborne is my local mp. To redress this, I have since adopted a kitten.
Could never ever vote labour, for obvious reasons. Lib dems are a joke and I'm not racist enough for bnp. So I shall not bother next time.
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The Danish ambassador to Israel Liselotte Plesner asked Israeli authorities on Monday for clarifications over the beating of a pro-Palestinian activist by a senior Israel Defense Forces officer which took place on Saturday.
During the incident, Andreas Ias, a Danish activist, was hit in the face with an M-16 rifle by senior IDF officer Lt.-Col. Shalom Eisner.
Liselotte met with Rafi Shotz, Deputy Director-General for Europe in Israel's Foreign Ministry. She asked him for detailed information of the incident and requested updates on the investigation once it is complete.
Denmark's Foreign Minister Villy Sovndal said in a statement that Denmark is still unaware of all of the circumstances surrounding the event, which is why the ambassador has asked for details. The minister added that the Danish citizen will receive all necessary consular assistance if he so wishes.
The minister added in the statement that he was aware that the officer had been suspended and that an investigation had been launched, and said he agreed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that violence against protesters must be condemned.
The beating of the pro-Palestinian activist was seen in a film posted on YouTube on Sunday.
An IDF spokesman told Army Radio on Monday morning that there was no justification for the behavior of the officer, and that it was against IDF principles, but said there was violence on the part of Palestinian and foreign protesters, and that the video does not present the full picture of Saturday's events.
Following that, Ias told Haaretz that the IDF spokesman's claim that the protesters were violent was "a complete lie," adding, "We just wanted to enjoy the bike tour and the view."
President Shimon Peres on Monday said he was "shocked" by the incident, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday condemned the incident.
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There isn't any because there is nothing to it (assuming correct
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Setting aside design complaints, being able to effectively administer Squid is a big priority, so recently I worked on getting it properly under the control of the Service Management Facility (SMF). It's also a good example of how to improve a program's administrative controls with SMF.
The first task was to look through Squid's existing start/stop/restart capabilities. There's a RunCache script, which I had always thought was the supported way to start the daemon. Looking at the documentation, RunCache is now aparently obsolete, but still installed along with squid anyway (sigh). RunCache has many problems which I won't detail here.
In the same neighborhood, there is the squid binary, which has a number of relevant command line options:
Usage: squid [-dhsvzCDFNRVYX] [-f config-file] [-[au] port] [-k signal] ... -f file Use given config-file instead of /aux0/squid/etc/squid.conf ... -k reconfigure|rotate|shutdown|interrupt|kill|debug|check|parse Parse configuration file, then send signal to running copy (except -k parse) and exit. -s Enable logging to syslog. ... -z Create swap directories ... -N No daemon mode. ...To add to the complexity, squid has its own restarter directly built into itself. This is somewhat suboptimal, as SMF tends to trump these facilities, and allows monitoring software to have visibility into restart events. Anyway, we can make use of the -k option to control the daemon to some degree, and give the administrator the power to create multiple service instances if we use the -f option. In my testing, I found the -k reconfigure option to be somewhat useless, so I decided not to implement an SMF 'refresh' method. Perhaps I missed something?
Another problem we'd like to solve is that Squid doesn't operate properly "out of the box." First, one must run the daemon with the -z option in order to create the cache metadata. I'm not sure why the squid team made this decision; I certainly don't think it's a good one. Our startup scripting can simply take care of cache creation for the administrator. After working out the right set of dependencies for the cache as I'd set it up (./configure --disable-internal-dns --enable-ssl --prefix=/aux0/squid --enable-storeio='ufs aufs'), I prepared a service manifest file which captured those dependencies; the dependencies look like this:
$ svcs -d squid STATE STIME FMRI online Jan_26 svc:/milestone/network:default online Jan_26 svc:/system/filesystem/local:default online Jan_26 svc:/network/dns/client:default online Jan_26 svc:/milestone/sysconfig:defaultThe network milestone is the stable way to depend on "networking being up on the box." A buglet in some of the S10 FCS manifests (notably, Apache) is that some of them have finer grained, and less stable dependencies (for example, on network/physical). When stable dependencies in the form of milestones are available, please use them.
Note that the default mode for squid is to use it's own internal DNS library (ugh), so you may or may not need the DNS dependency. This is (double ugh) a compile time setting. Regardless, you'll want to have an /etc/resolv.conf file present, and the network/dns/client manifest checks for that.
Next, I worked on revising the startup script to be much more intelligent. To start up the cache, it uses squid's -k parse option to decide whether the configuration file has a valid syntax. If not, it exits with the $SMF_ERR_CONFIG error code, which indicates a configuration problem. Next, it populates the cache directory using squid -z as needed. Finally, it starts up the cache. Every failure logs a clear and detailed log message.
I also added a couple of service properties, which the script uses to set its behavior. Ideally, this will be automatically and correctly generated from the configure script in the future. Just tweak the manifest before importing it. In the example manifest, squid has been configured to be installed into /aux0/squid. You will want to search the file and alter all of the places which reference /aux0/squid, adjusting them for your installation (you can also use svccfg after you import the manifest to make corrections). Here is a draft of the network/http-proxy:squid service manifest; and a draft of the svc-squid startup script. To install:
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- svccfg import /path/to/squid.xml
- svcadm enable squid
[Sigh. Sometimes I feel like I'm just too slow to post. Since I started this post a month ago, some of the work Trevor posted obviates mine. While I'm not happy about having multiple similar solutions to a single problem I think this represents a substantial improvement, and it did take quite a while to refine into the current state. It has also been checked and nitpicked by the SMF team, so I'm optimistic that it is roughly correct. One interesting result is that my dependencies are different than the set which Trevor worked out. Determining the right set of dependencies is, at present, a bit of a black art.]


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Both Dothan and Northview High Schools have failed to meet adequate yearly progress, as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act, for the past 4 years.
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Monday night the Dothan City School Board approved a plan they hope will bring necessary changes to Dothan's secondary schools.
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Scientific and technological cooperation between Germany and Brazil has a great tradition going back almost 40 years. Another example underlining this is the ECOGERMA environmental technology fair, held from 12-15 March 2009 in São Paulo and to be jointly opened by Annette Schavan (the German Federal Minister of Education and Research) and Sérgio Machado Rezende (the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology). At the German government stand, among other things, scientists from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) will be presenting a German-Brazilian project officially launched only less than a week before in the presence of the Governor of Brasília, José Roberto Arruda, and the deputy of the German Ambassador for Brazil, Hermann Sausen - the project IWAS Àgua DF. IWAS stands for International Water Research Alliance Saxony Àgua is the Portuguese word for water. DF means Distrito federal, i.e. the federal district of Brasília, the capital of Brazil.
In launching IWAS, the intention of the UFZ and Dresden University of Technology is to develop system solutions for the various water problems in five model regions of the world: Latin America, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South-East Asia and the Middle East, always involving regional and international partners from research and industry. The project IWAS Àgua DF, under the lead of the UFZ and Dresden University of Technology in cooperation with the University of Brasília and the regional water supplier and sewage company CAESB, has the aim to develop a water management concept for Brasília. The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF); the project partners will initially be provided with just under one million euros until the end of 2010.
Brasília, the capital of Brazil, was founded in 1960. The city was literally conjured up out of the ground within four years. It is in the Distrito Federal do Brasil (a federal district) which today includes 18 satellite towns which grew up, among other things, from workers' districts, (forced) relocations and new settlements. Over the last five decades, the population in this metropolis region has shot up. While only 36,000 people lived there in 1950, today there are almost 70 times as many, with about 2.5 million inhabitants in an area of 5,822 square kilometres. The federal district is not a continuous urban area, but, with a rather low population density and dominated by agricultural land, can better be compared with a small federal state in Germany - it is more than twice the size of the Saarland. Brasília is located in the tropical climate zone of the central plateau in the interior of the country at an altitude of 1,158 metres. The average annual temperature in the city is 20.7 degrees Celsius and the annual precipitation level is 1,555 millimetres. Average monthly temperatures hardly differ. Despite the high annual precipitation level, the extreme differences between the rainy season and the dry period create seasonal problems with the water supply.
In the years to come, the rapid population rise and climate change will lead to a drinking water deficit compared with demand. Until now, more than 90 percent of drinking water in the federal district has come from the Rio Descoberto dam, 25 km from Brasília, and from the Rio Paranoá. According to calculations made by the CAESB based on the current consumption per person and an unchanging population, the quantity of water which can currently be produced will no longer meet demand as early as 2010. For this reason, scenario-based concepts need to be developed, aimed at guaranteeing a sufficient supply of water in Brasília. Considerations must take every aspect into account, from cutting back on consumption to tapping new sources of ground water and surface water, or using cleaned waste water. "For a metropolis of millions, a solution based purely on a 'space station' solution, i.e. waste water purification, is of course a fantasy", says Holger Weiss, who coordinates the project on the part of the UFZ. This is why German and Brazilian partners in the project from the fields of science, business and politics got together from 2-11 March in a workshop in Brasília to forge initial plans for the ten working groups. What are climate scenarios like for the federal district, and what regional consequences can be expected? How is land used in the region, and how is that land use changing? What are the water cycle and the overall water balance like in Brasília? What additional resources can be used, and under what circumstances? What is the function of soils and sediments, and how do they interact with the surface water and ground water? How is the quality of water resources and drinking water? Do wastewater cleaning facilities have sufficient capacity and power? How can the water balance be modelled and scenarios developed? What data and information will this require? The aim of the IWAS Àgua DF is integrated water resource management (IWRM) for Brasília which, alongside possible technical solutions, should also include improved water policy approaches and facts to aid decision-making. Time is pressing: in the coming year, the first research results are to be used to improve the drinking water supply.
There is great international interest in German water expertise. German water research skills are strongly developed in certain regions and on certain topics, yet extremely fragmented; the combination of excellent regional water-related skills in IWAS is an example of how these skills can be brought together to deal with issues from the fields of politics, business and science in a more deliberate, efficient manner. Another example is the water alliance of the Stuttgart metropolitan region (WAMS), which unites the skills of the UFZ and water experts from the "Environmental Science and Technology" competence centre (universities of Stuttgart, Tübingen and Hohenheim). Its goal is to improve our understanding of solute fluxes in the water cycle at the catchment scale, as well as to develop monitoring, modelling and management strategies. Other regional water research alliances, each partnered by a Helmholtz Institute, are to follow.
Further Information:
Press release and
International Water Research Alliance Saxony (IWAS)
Contact:Prof. Holger Weiß
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ
Phone: 0341 235-1253
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For me - and the woman I used to be - cancer became The Scariest Thing in my life. Like every scary thing that comes to fruition, it had never previously crossed my mind. No. My mind was too consumed with all the things that most likely will never happen. All that worrying. Why? It is such a waste. But the cancer did happen, and I wanted everyone to feel as sorry for me as I did for myself and howl about the unfairness of it all. I wanted sympathy. I even wanted the kind you get from an Irish mammy over endless cups of tea with reminders that there's always someone worse off. Always.
I remember my mother cursing the cancer for the thief that it is, but she'd temper her remarks with reminders that I was so lucky to be married to the best man in the world. "You could set your watch by him!" she'd say, and then she'd jokingly ask him how in the name of God he had put up with me for over twenty years. Not known for my punctuality or having a place for everything and everything in its place, she regularly wondered aloud how I would ever manage without him since he waited on me hand and foot. Without him. In our house. Now that would be a scary thing. Me? A widow?
But in the wee hours of 2013 on a magical New Year's Eve, I was still Ken's wife, one half of an "us," and I was looking ahead and happy. Like mischievous kids, we set off fireworks at the end of our street. My parents' faces illuminated by sparklers bought one July 4th in San Luis Obispo, my daughter toasting us with cider that shone in one of the good Waterford crystal glasses, it was a magic time, and I remember thinking, "all is well."
When everyone went to bed on January 1, 2013, I stayed up, savoring the silence of our slumbering house and the opportunity to consider Ted Kooser's bang-on assessment of life, that it is ". . . a long walk forward through the crowded cars of a passenger train, the bright world racing past beyond the windows, people on either side of the aisle, strangers whose stories we never learn, dear friends whose names we long remember and passing acquaintances whose names and faces we take in like a breath and soon breathe away …"
It is just like that. And on this shortest day when the sun stops for a moment, I find myself in between two cars, aware that I still have some distance to travel. Forward. Ready or not. A slow turning. From the inside out.
But there are still so many cars ahead, and the next and the next and the next clatter to clatter to clatter. And we close the door against the wind and find a new year, a club car brightly lit, fresh flowers in vases on the tables, green meadows beyond the windows and lots of people who together — stranger, acquaintance and friend — turn toward you and, smiling broadly, lift their glasses.


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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Chapter 5 Summary
How It All Goes Down
Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes
- When Harry arrives at the Burrow, Fred and George (the twins) quickly ask him if Dudley ate "it"? "It" is a "Ton-Tongue Toffee" (5.4) – a sweet that makes your tongue grow huge.
- When Mr. Weasley comes through the fireplace, he's pretty furious with the twins.
- He points out: "That sort of behavior seriously undermines wizard-Muggle relations!" (5.15).
- Mrs. Weasley steps in too, and things get tense in the Weasley living room.
- Luckily for Harry, Hermione and Ron's little sister Ginny come in the room.
- Ron, Harry, Hermione, and Ginny all go up to Ron's room while the twins argue with their irate mother downstairs.
- Ron and Ginny tell Harry about the twins' new business: they're making magical practical jokes ("Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes") that they plan to sell once they get to school.
- But Mrs. Weasley is annoyed that the twins want to open a joke shop rather than work for the Ministry of Magic like Mr. Weasley.
- Percy Weasley, Ron's older brother and recent Hogwarts graduate, is working for the Ministry of Magic, in the Department of International Magical Cooperation.
- Percy's a jerk – totally full of himself.
- Harry also gets to meet Ron's tiny owl, Pig (full name Pigwidgeon – can't say we thought of that one) formally.
- They all go down to dinner.
- Mrs. Weasley is slamming dishes and pots around and generally seems annoyed.
- She's worried that Fred and George are going to get in trouble with their tricks.
- (There's a Ministry office called the Improper Use of Magic Office, and it deals with cases of wizards who have done magic in front of Muggles, something that is strictly forbidden by wizard law.)
- Meanwhile, Percy Weasley is going on about his boss at work, Mr. Crouch, whom he admires.
- Percy mentions a missing witch, Bertha Jorkins, who never came back from her holiday in Albania a month before.
- Apparently, the head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports, Ludo Bagman, hasn't looked into the case yet.
- Around the dinner table, everyone is talking about the Quidditch World Cup. The final match is going to be between Ireland and Bulgaria.
- (Harry is a member of the Quidditch team for his house, Gryffindor, at Hogwarts.)
- After dinner, Ron quietly asks Harry if he's heard from Sirius.
- Harry mentions sending Sirius a letter, but he's feeling too content at the moment to talk about his painful scar.
- Mrs. Weasley sends them all off to bed – they have to get up early.


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This is a home audio dual cassette deck that will dub cassette tapes quite nicely. So far as I know, it is in perfect condition. It is somewhat old and has been used, but not for a long while. It is taking up space in the fishing tackle section of my shop and I'd rather put more fishing tackle in there because I don't have any cassette tapes any more.
Free to good home. Or even a cruddy one. It would be nice if you offer to reimburse me for shipping expenses, but not necessary. Maybe buy me a beer or an ice cream if we ever meet.
First person to e-mail saying they want it and provides a shipping address gets it.
Sorry, no picture.
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Hotels all over Meridian are booked and local officials say the restaurants will be packed as well, because of The State Games of Mississippi. More than 5,000 athletes are expected to attend.
State Games officials say each athlete brings an average of 2.5 people and that adds up to quite a crowd. In 2002, an economic impact study said The State Games brought $5.5 million to our local economy.
The games have grown in those four years and executive director April Luke says they're hoping for even more.
"The cities will be full. The restaurants will be full. Hotels are full. We've put some out in Quitman. We've put them in Forest. We've put them in Scooba, Neshoba County. So we know hotels are full up to a 30 - 40 mile radius," Luke said.
The Meridian/Lauderdale County Tourism Bureau is geared up for the crowd, packing every available venue with information about local attractions. Guest services liaison Withrow Newell says The State Games pack out the city year after year.
"Last year when State Games were going on, I just didn't go out to eat. Every restaurant was booked. Every one had a line of kids running out of them," Newell said. "So, I mean everywhere gets a boost, even the mall and, you know, there's kids going out to the theater and all of that so, I mean, it's helping us out."
Newell says The State Games is one of the biggest events hosted here and he says it can only get bigger.
The State Games has expanded over the years, with Philadelphia now hosting events. The city will host youth and high school baseball, Choctaw stickball and barrel racing.
Philadelphia Mayor Rayburn Waddell says The State Games will bring in thousands of people to Philadelphia. Area hotels are already full and that's revenue the city welcomes.
"It gives us the opportunity to showcase Philadelphia and Neshoba County. It brings in tourism dollars, hotels get full the month of June, so were just glad we can accommodate State Games and have them in Philadelphia," Waddell said.
Events will be held at Neshoba Central High School, Neshoba County Coliseum, Burnside Park, and the fields at the Choctaw Reservation.
"They're going to spend money and we get tax dollars," Waddell said.
"Get income tax and sales tax. It's pretty big for us. We get a lot of tax money from it."
Waddell says he's glad to see more variety come to Philadelphia. And he feels certain The State Games will provide something all in the community can enjoy.


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Home » The 5 Magic Steps to Refresh an Old/Expired Domain
This is our brand new SEO Q&A session with a pretty interesting question: "How would you do a restart or refresh an existing project?" A website or an older domain that has been sitting there for a while and you did not spend time on it (no links, no new content…).
We received this question from one of our readers – thanks for that! It actually is a quite challenging question, because we do not know exactly which website and which domain we are talking about. Depending on the age of domain, history in rankings, history in link building, possible filters/penalties, topic, language etc. that the site had different measures have to be taken at different paces!
In the following we will give you some general rules to follow.
Do not touch anything. You leave the domain registration as it is, you leave the same hosting and you leave the content as it is. First we do some analysis of what we are trying to improve on the site. Obviously the first question and the most important thing to look at is does it actually have traffic? and if we find it to have Traffic, either via Alexa or the much more preferred SEMrush, this leads us to the next point.
Does the website have organic traffic and more important, for which keywords does it have traffic for? If the domain is just sitting there, not having traffic for any keywords or even worse not even indexed in Google the question is what is YOUR value for that domain?
If you don't see any organic traffic this domain might as well be banned from Google at all and this is definitely something you should check of course before you spend any time or money on it. A good idea for older domains is to check the previous content in the Webarchive Wayback Machine or simply the Google Cache. This is especially important if you plan to buy a domain from someone rather than developing your own. Again, SEMrush does a great job in listing organic traffic positions in Google for various markets, and we couldn't live without it. For the german market (that is Germany only!) tough the Sistrix Toolbox is the tool of choice – and likewise we couldn't live without it.
Next thing to look at is to review the backlink structure of the website. Where do backlinks come from and do they receive new backlinks on a regular basis? Especially if you buy an existing domain from someone else chances are good that he had a couple of link deals (paid links, link partnerships, and so on) and those would be canceled after you got the domain. So chances are that you not only have a natural churn with some links going up and down but also some (possibly important) links missing suddenly the domain had in the past.
If this sudden link drop happens to your domain Google might devalue your website and will take away your rankings. This is probably the worst thing to happen. Therefore this point of leaving links intact i.e. sticking with link partnerships refers to rule number one – leave everything as it is (for the starting time at least). Even if it costs you some time and money to pay for the links that where there for years you should definitely stick with them until you know if these are the links you want to keep.
Our favorite tool for link profiling is the LinkResearchTools since the introduction of the
link profiling features some weeks ago that are nowhere else available like that. It's an awesome time saver and helps to give you a high level view of any domain and compare those against other own or competitor domains. More info on link profiling was summarized in our most important link profiling rules.
Below you see an example screenshot of how an awesome back link profile could look like, measure by SEOmoz Domain authority in this case.
Ok, now that we know and assume that the traffic is there and that you have a website that ranks for a couple of keywords this leads us to step number four.
Let's assume for a minute that you have not done anything for the site for a year or two maybe. Any massive increase in content and/or links would raise a BIG red flag at Google. It's common sense but also SEO knowledge that you may not overdo it in terms of link building and content creation speed. An automatic Google filter can really push you back and bury you in the SERPs for weeks or months sometimes. So plan wisely and start out slow!
You have to understand your playing field. There's not a magic number of links per month that are OK for everyone. This could be 1 (one!) or one-thousand – depending on your industry, language and competition. So doing a competitive research should be the starting point for ANY project. Either you do it yourself or hire someone else to do it – but you HAVE to understand the market you're in.
That's why doing an upfront analysis and then starting out slow is what we also recommend to all our new clients. It's tough to manage (your own) expectations if you don't know what you should aim for. Goals like "Top 3 position for all keywords for xxx EUR /month" are only very high level dreams but not the basis for the planning of an SEO and link building campaign if you have no idea where you're competition stands…
Then you might notice:
OMG – all Top 10 results for keyword X are on domains that are 10 years older than my domain, have about 20x times more links in quantity alone and had links coming to their sites from major sites for more than a decade? Oh boy, you're in trouble!
We've seen a LOT of sites that lose link juice because of poor server maintenance and onsite-SEO.
So before you even start link building, try to find out which links you are losing juice from!
We mean Link Juice Recovery and the newest version of our LinkResearchTools has a tool for doing that. This tool helps you to find out which links are going into the site that do not have any corresponding page. This fact means a 100% loss in link Juice. Every link that ends in a 404 error or another error page is a lost link.
If we find that a website has that problem (and it only takes a couple minutes with the tool) we now know we have to repair that.
Repairing means to implement 301 redirects for the missing pages, the Link Juice Recovery Tool generates those redirect rules for you. All you have to do is take this output and fill it in your Apache Web Server Config and then wait for a couple of days to see how those links you missed before pushed the site.
This method is specially important for abandoned domains or domains that you bought from someone else. Any expired domain that you could get hold of has that problem (or actually it's you having the problem not knowing the previous website structure precisely). By fixing the redirects for missing pages and recovering the link Juice from links that you forgot about the first push to the site could already happen. Especially Google will then see that somebody takes care of the site.
We often compare Google to a human: give them the good feeling that you care about your site again they will give you credit and try to help you with better rankings.
Now slowly start to build links and add content. You add one page and one link maybe to another page and then see what happens. Then maybe you add a link and a page a day assuming that you have a small to medium size website.
Let us assume that you have an average sized website with a couple hundred links maximum. Then adding a few links a day or a week is just sufficient for you to test how the website responds to new links and new content. You should see some changes in traffic and rankings over the weeks for those keywords you linked and possibly other phrases as well (depending on the trust of links you got).
This is what usually happens to healthy sites. But you have to give it time. Don't expect results after days if you haven't done anything for years. But after 2 or 3 months we know that this is a really healthy domain and we can maybe increase the pace.
Add more content, add more pages and obviously build links around those keywords you already rank for. If you have a website that was trying to target a couple of different topics like electronics, baby wear and so on, just like a shopping site with everything on it like Amazon but you only have the trust of a small little blog you will never ever be able to get rankings for whatever it had been before. You have to focus what it is (still) best in.
To sum up: the idea here is to follow up with what Google already gives you credit = rankings for. Take that and build upon it!
After you see the first signs of success go back to step 3 and start from that point again. SEO and site development is an iterative circle that is being repeated over and over again. You add content and new links and see what happens and if the domain is healthy and if you took care of all the links and recovered all the links it already had then you should see an increase in traffic, an increase in rankings and you can build out that site to what Google thinks is good for.
If you do that for a couple of months you will have a nice, strong and healthy website again that you can monetize. But be careful do not but up ads on every corner; do not try to sell links on it after the second week or something like that because this is just a waste of time. Try to make really nice content for the people. If you start to attract links naturally as well to the links that you have build then you are a winner. Then you build a new but although young authority on a topic that you can build upon. Again we are talking about weeks and months not days here. The more time you will give it the better will be your benefit of it. You had it sitting there for one or two years so you should be prepared to let it sit around for another year to make it strong if you decide to build it out.
Again it is all about repeating the whole process of adding new content, adding links to the website and monitoring the impact of the links and finally reaping the benefits.
This was the new Q&A on how to refresh an old project or website for which you have not done anything for a while. We hope this helps you to revive your old projects.
PS: if you have a question you want handled in one of our next Q&As, please post them in our SEO Q&A user feedback forum.
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Exhibit: Ron Wyatt's China at Calumet Gallery, NYC
Ron Wyatt's China
Photo Exhibition at the Calumet Gallery
October 26 to November 4, 2011
The Calumet Gallery is pleased to present "Ron Wyatt's China," a solo exhibition of large-scale photographs of China by editorial and corporate photographer Ron Wyatt from October 26 to November 4, 2011.
Please join Ron Wyatt and the BlackRapid team at the opening reception on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 from 7-10 PM at the Calumet Gallery, 22 West 22nd St (2nd Floor), New York, NY.
The reception is free and there will be R-Strap giveaways throughout the evening.
This collection of more than thirty newly printed large-scale images by Ron Wyatt represents two bodies of work: photographs of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and images of China's cities, towns and people. Wyatt says:
"Photographing the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games was the ultimate photography assignment for me. Having the opportunity to visually report on this great athletic competition through my photographs was a life-changing experience. After three weeks of covering the Olympic Games, I had but one regret–I hadn't seen much of China. That all changed when I served as the guest pro photographer on a photography tour of the country for M&M Photo Tours. I'm overjoyed to be able to share many of my images and observations from that trip."
Wyatt's Olympic photos include iconic images of athletes from many countries, including an almost gravity-defying image of USA gymnast (and Dancing with the Stars winner) Shawn Johnson, an emotion-filled photo of Spanish Tennis star Rafael Nadal and photos from the opening and closing ceremonies. Wyatt's images from across China include breathtaking scenes and a diversity of natural and man-made landmarks, including photos from Tiananmen Square, the Terra Cotta Warriors at Xi'an, the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai and The Great Wall. But what truly stands out are his portraits of people. People at work and people at play, young children and the elderly going about life. Through his photographs, Ron Wyatt gives us a glimpse into the ever-changing landscape of modern China.
For more information, visit www.ronwyattphotos.com or call 732-619-9628.
Ron Wyatt's China - Photos from M&M Photos Tours China Trip Sept 2010.
BIO: Ron Wyatt
In his 20+ year career, Ron Wyatt has photographed a wide range of subjects, including international sporting events, world leaders, celebrities and religious figures. He has covered NBA, NFL and Major League Baseball, and his photos have appeared in many publications and on-air broadcasts, including ESPN, USA Today, Time Magazine and TV Guide. Major corporations, including Six Flags, Eastman Kodak, Continental Airlines, CVS, PepsiCo, Verizon and many others regularly call on Wyatt for his editorial and corporate photographic services. As the leader of multiple international photographic tours, Ron has helped others improve their photography through hands-on instruction and daily critiques.
His Olympic work has been featured in Studio Photography Magazine and Rangefinder Magazine, and he has shared his images and personal stories through lectures and presentations at photo conventions, schools, camera clubs and other locations, including Calumet Photo, WPPI Las Vegas, Berks Photographic Society and Hallmark Institute of Photography. Ron Wyatt's photographic prints on paper and canvas are sold through his website and via phone. For more information, visit www.ronwyattphotos.com or call 732-619-9628.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. — SSR Motorsports, a leading Pit Bike industry distributor and proud sponsor of the AMA/Maxxis MiniMotoSX, has announced a huge contingency bonus for SSR Motorsports mounted riders.
In particular, SSR has stepped up their 2008 presence at the prominent Las Vegas event, known as "the Biggest Mini Bike race on the Planet," and is offering the largest win bonus in MiniMotoSX history — $5,000 to win on a SSR machine! In addition, SSR is offering an impressive bonus to any SSR mounted rider that makes the Main Event in either of the two Amateur or Expert classes; but put it on the box and that is where it really starts to pay off.
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Comfort Inn Casa Grande. 2-star hotel "Comfort Inn Casa Grande" is an excellent pied-a-terre from which visitors can explore Casa Grande. A total of 65 rooms is featured. Thanks to the air conditioning, the temperature is never unpleasant. Don't forget to bring your swimsuit as this hotel features an outdoor swimming pool. This accommodation features a gym. For visitors' well-being, there is a jacuzzi available. You can indulge yourself with, for instance, a relaxing massage treatment. This hotel includes a restaurant for your gustatory enjoyment. Breakfast is included in the price to provide guests with a good start to a new day. Of course, access to the Internet is available free of charge.
Set in a prime location of Casa Grande (AZ), Comfort Inn Casa Grande puts everything the city has to offer just outside your doorstep. The hotel offers a high standard of service and amenities to suit the individual needs of all travelers. Service-minded staff will welcome and guide you at the Co...Read more on the website
The Comfort Inn Casa Grande in Casa Grande, Ariz., is positioned 18 miles from Skydive Arizona and 19 miles from the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Within 45 miles of the property are the Fiesta Bowl, Phoenix Zoo, US Airways Center and Chase Field. Complimentary continental breakfasts are ...Read more on the website
Conveniently located on half mile off I-10 exit 194. This hotel has 65 clean and comfortable rooms. Some of which fact the west where you can view a beautiful Arizona sunset. all rooms include a refrigerator, blow dryer, coffee maker, and iron/ironing board. Also, a heated pool and Jacuzzi to add...Read more on the website
The Comfort Inn Casa Grande in Casa Grande, Ariz., is positioned 18 miles from Skydive Arizona and 19 miles from the Casa Grande Ruins National Monument. Within 45 miles of the property are the Fiesta Bowl, Phoenix Zoo, US Airways Center and Chase Field. <br> Complimentary continental break...Read more on the website
Comfort Inn hotel provides friendly customer service, superior accommodations and affordable rates to everyone visiting the Casa Grande area.
Comfort Inn Casa Grande type(s): Family ,Budget
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Katie Couric got engaged to John Molner last weekend, according to People magazine.
Never heard of him.
Molner proposed with a diamond ring at sunset on the beach in East Hampton, and Couric "ecstatically" accepted, said the magazine.
I imagine you sort of have to be ecstatic in that sort of situation. I mean, it's not like you can shrug your shoulders and say "OK ... I guess."
Couric's spokesperson confirmed the engagement to People.
Couric's husband Jay Monahan died from colon cancer in 1998. Couric has two daughters, Ellie and Carrie, according to ABC News.
Molner is the head of mergers and acquisitions at Brown Brothers Harriman. He and Couric started dating in spring 2012.
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Yves "JetMan" Rossy Friday morning delayed his rocket flight through the Grand Canyon, saying he needed more time to practice.
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LINCOLN, N.H. (AP) — Crews are working to reopen a section of Kancamagus Highway in Lincoln after a power line came down across the road.
About 1,700 customers were left without power Thursday morning.
Loon Mountain also lost power and was closed for the day. Loon marketing director Molly Mahar said the power outage occurred at about 5 a.m., so no skiers were left stranded. She said she can't remember the last time the ski area closed altogether.
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Walked past them often enough on the way to and from the market, but never thought to find out anything about them.
Tasked with doing so by the Faithful (Virginia, Kate, Paul, Gucki et al), I quickly found out that there is NO easily accessible knowledge about the sculptures.
- The museum shop knows nothing
- The museum management knows nothing (well, ALMOST nothing and if they know more, they're not telling…)
- The city knows nothing
- The cultural chroniclers know nothing
- The guidebooks know nothing
- Wikipedia knows nothing
- Google knows
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This is about to change.
- I've tracked down the artist
- I know the history of the commission
- I know the story of the gates and how they were made almost 50 years ago
- I've learnt the casting process from a local fine art foundry
- I've learnt that when you tell people the story, they're spellbound
It'll be an 12-part serialisation starting today.
Part 1 - The Story so far (this post)
Part 2 - Johannes Gutenberg and his museum
Part 3 - A new museum
Part 4 - The Commission
Part 5 - The Artist
Part 6 - The Decision
Part 7 - The Gates
One of the chosen few
Part 8 - The Process
Part 9 - Talkin' 'bout a Revolution
Part 10 - Lost and Unlost
Part 11 - But where are the originals?
Part 12 - Mystery solved?
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By the end of it, we'll have a repository of available knowledge about a work of art from a sculptor described as "one of the most important artists of figurative sculpture of the second half of the 20th century"
What I can't get my head around, though, is why I'm the only person who's ever bothered to try and find out.
It's not as if you can overlook them.
They're as big as barn-doors , for goodness' sake....
Tomorrow: Johannes Gutenberg and his museum


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In 2009, Cedar Rapids native Ashton Kutcher (remember him?) challenged CNN to a Twitter popularity contest. As he and the news channel's Twitter account ran neck-and-neck toward becoming the first to 1 million followers, Jeff Pulver looked on at the media storm that surrounded the challenge.
News stories ran across the Web. Television stations trumpeted the story. Meanwhile, Twitter's popularity exploded.
But for Pulver, what the notoriety did was take away from the social media site's actual usefulness.
"There was so much media attention that so much more of what is possible was overlooked," the New York-based organizer of the 140 Character Conference said today in Des Moines. "It made me want to try to explain that there is much more deeper meaning (to social media)."
Enter the 140 Character Conference.
First launched shortly after the Kutcher/CNN challenge (Kutcher won soundly), Pulver has since changed the name of the conference to the State of Now conference. He says he did so to make it clear that the aim is to highlight how all forms of technology and social media can help people in several sectors, not just Twitter.
The daylong conference, held at Stoner Studio Theater on Monday, included talks from leaders in agriculture, education, marketing and other areas on the importance of social media in their respective fields.
Farmers talked about how new technologies help them make their important work more accessible to non-farmers.
Dwolla's Jordan Lampe talked about his business and how social media has helped their growth.
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Angela Maiers, who spearheads a campaign called "You Matter," outlined the effort to change the message students and children receive, and let them know that they do, indeed, matter, reinforcing their curiosity and their drive to change the world. I began my career as an education reporter and still have a soft spot for schools and educators so perhaps my bias is showing.
But helping children learn and change their school environments is a noble cause.
Not certain when the event and its speeches will be available at the conference's YouTube channel but it'd be worth a browse when they are.
Pulver said, although he loves social media, the fact that he has more than 400,000 followers is not important. What is important, he said, is getting to know people.
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November 12th, 2013 - 5:24am
(Port Angeles) A Sequim woman has been sentenced to 90 days in jail and told to pay back money she stole from a local real estate business.
Marie Lynette Barnett plead guilty last week to first degree theft, admitting she stole more than $18-thousand dollars from Jace, The Real Estate company.
Barnett was the bookkeeper for the company's Sequim office. She wrote 19 business checks to herself and signed the owner's name without permission between July of 2012 and May 2013. She also wrote four checks for her personal rent without permission.
At the time of the thefts, Eileen Schmitz was running the company. But Schmitz was out of the office regularly dealing with the death of her husband, Jace who founded the company.
Clallam County Superior Court Judge Erik Rohrer converted half of Barnett's sentence to Electronic Home Monitoring.
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