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his year, smoke filled the air and fish filled the waters of Flathead Lake for the Great Montana Mack Attack.
Yes, the fishing was excellent for the hundreds of anglers that fished the derby. The two-day event saw plenty of fish weighed and entered. Every category from lake trout to whitefish and pikeminnow had the anglers busy catching eligible fish both days.
"We were down in the total number of anglers competing from a year ago, but we still had a great turnout," said Gene Fincher, tourney organizer.
Dean Vaughn, from Charlo, and his seven-year-old daughter fished the tourney and for a long time held the lead in the over-36 inch class with a 23-pound-plus lake trout.
That fish held up until Sunday afternoon when Vaughn and his daughter brought in another large lake trout. This one weighed in at 28.86 pounds and was 40.5 inches long. It was enough to crown them the largest fish. You can view the winning lake trout on www.montanaoutdoor.com
"We just got lucky," Vaughn responded when getting his cash close to $,1000.
Under 30 inches found Don Schaeffer win with a 10.83-pound lake trout. The largest lake superior whitefish caught was 8.39 pounds by Ray Zebro and Steve Schwenck caught the largest pikeminnow that weighed 4.44 pounds.
As was expected, the lake superior whitefish bite was very good. "I think today I witnessed the most aggressive bite I have every seen" reported Jim Vashro, Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks regional fisheries manager for Region 1.
"We must have caught 200 fish and at least 10 times our boat had quad hookups," he said.
Vashro estimates that there are millions of whitefish in the lake and about only 40,000 are harvested each year. Look for 40 to 50 feet of water just about anywhere in Flathead Lake right now, and if there are baitfish, the whitefish will be there in large numbers.
You will also occasionally catch a lake trout and a bull trout – make sure you know the difference because you need to release the bull trout and the lake trout have a slot limit of 30 to 36 inches.
Last Sunday Bill Brown of Missoula caught a wall-hanging northern pike. "I was using smelt and caught it in the Flathead River around sunrise," said Brown. The pike was 40 inches long and weighed close to 26 pounds.
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According to the Associated Press, they must turn in more than 120,000 signatures by June 6 to challenge the proposed law. An anti-gay marriage initiative has also been filed. To qualify, 241,153 signatures must be submitted by July 6 and if opponents gather enough signatures to take their fight to the ballot, the law is put on hold pending the outcome of a November election.
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Discussion in 'NFL Zone' started by Cowboys&LakersFan, Nov 19, 2012.
Thank you for providing me an answer ... And for being able to read.
prime example of our fanbase always always always overrating in house talent.
Gruden: "All these hits are unfair to the QB. I'd be really upset if I were Campbell."
Makes me a little jealous.
Bears scored.
I wanted to see a shutout. Guess U can turn the game off now
your sig is such a tease.
It's background noise at this point. I'm going to hit the sack here shortly.
One thing that's stuck out to me, is this Kaepernick kid makes quick decisions, every play. He never holds the ball too long.
How has Campbell not requested to be sat? He's getting torn up out there..
Do the Bears have another QB active right now? He looks completely and totally dejected, but I don't think there's anything else behind him.
Yeah, #12 or something was warming up, Caleb Hennie?
Caleb Hanie, yeah I remember him from last year when Cutler was hurt. That's why they signed Jason Campbell.
Leonard Davis sighting?
If there's one person that doesn't want to see Campbell yanked, that would be the guy.
4.5 or 5.0 for Smith tonight.
Showtime gave Jim Rome his own show? loool.
I thought they gave Hanie the axe but I don't follow the Bears that closely and I knew he was with them last year. Hell, I'd put McCown in for sure at this point.
And this same Bears line effectively stonewalled our pass rush. How?


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Beezle and Bub the Pair of Lovebirds
Beezle and Bub the Pair of Lovebirds
The Angel Popoko
Owner: Vixien
Age: 5 years, 3 months, 2 weeks
Born: February 12th, 2012
Adopted: 4 years, 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Adopted: March 12th, 2013
- Level: 8
- Strength: 10
- Defense: 10
- Speed: 10
- Health: 10
- Intelligence: 76
- Books Read: 76
- Food Eaten: 0
- Job: Seed Sorter
Oh my Darling, Oh my Darling, Oh my Darling Clementine. Thou art lost and gone forever, Dreadful sorry, Clementine.
Light she was and like a fairy, And her shoes were number nine, Herring boxes without topses Sandals were for Clementine
Drove she ducklings to the water
Every morning just at nine,
Hit her foot against a splinter
Fell into the foaming brine.
Ruby lips above the water, Blowing bubbles soft and fine, But alas, I was no swimmer, So I lost my Clementine
How I missed her! How I missed her! How I missed my Clementine, But I kissed her little sister, And forgot my Clementine.
Then the miner, forty-niner, Soon began to peak and pine, Thought he oughter join his daughter, Now he's with his Clementine.
In a churchyard near the canyon, Where the myrtle doth entwine, There grow roses and the posies, Fertilized by Clementine.
In my dreams she still doth haunt me, Robed in garments, soaked in brine; Then she rises from the water And I kiss my Clementine.
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30 Kids Party Favors for Pennies
Party favors do not need to be expensive, they are just a simple way for your guests to remember the good time they had at your child's birthday party. Each of these party favors cost under $1.00 per person, some only pennies apiece.
Shop dollar stores and discount outlets to find these great party favorites. Use individually or mix and match, using your chosen party theme as a guide.
- Craft stick picture frames (decorated by party guests of course) with a picture of the party child with each guest!
- Small plastic toys, stickers, stringed beads, candy coins, etc. inside an inflated balloon!!
- Glow necklaces, rings and bracelets
- Small pack of crayons with a coloring book
- Books matching the party theme
- Frisbee
- Bubble Bottles. Preferably to match your theme.
- Assorted sidewalk chalk
- Puzzle (again great if you can have the picture in the puzzle match your theme)
- Beach balls. Sometimes you can get them in the shapes of animals!
- Temporary Tattoos
- Balloons
- Decorative Pencils
- Hair ornaments, scrunchies, barrettes
- Watercolor paint set
- Address book
- Tiny Notebook / Journal
- Plastic Rhinestone Tiara
- Lollipops
- Pez Dispensers
- Seed packets to plant
- Unused fast food toys
- Fast food coupons worth $1
- Homemade modeling clay and a cookie cutter
Make and Take Party Favors:
Kids love to make crafts and these double as party favors when kids get to take them home...
- Personalized and decorated foam sun visors
- Hand painted and decorated sunglasses
- Personalized and decorated bookmark
- Handmade potpourri sachet
- Handmade refrigerator magnet
- Hand painted sun catcher
- Handmade beaded jewelry
- Homemade soap
Party favors do not need to be expensive just fun! Keep it small, simple, and easy on your wallet.


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Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Chicago Naperville
About the Hotel
Property Location
Located in Naperville, Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Chicago Naperville is close to Arrowhead Golf Club and DuPage Children's Museum. This hotel is within close proximity of North Central College Fine & Performing Arts and Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church.
Make yourself at home in one of the 105 air-conditioned rooms featuring LCD televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with bathtubs or showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include desks and complimentary newspapers, and housekeeping is provided daily.
Enjoy recreational amenities such as an indoor pool and a fitness center. This hotel also features complimentary wireless Internet access and a television in a common area.
Grab a bite from a snack bar/deli serving guests of Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriott Chicago Naperville.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include a business center, express check-in, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in Naperville? This hotel has facilities measuring 200 square feet (18 square meters), including a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.
Hotel Facilities
- Accessible bathroom
- Conference space size (feet) - 200
- Free self parking
- Express check-in
- One meeting room
- Snack bar/deli
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Number of floors - 3
- Business center
- Coffee/tea in common areas
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Multilingual staff
- Smoke-free property
- Luggage storage
- Total number of rooms - 105
- Laundry facilities
- Elevator/lift
- Free breakfast
- Roll-in shower
- Fitness facilities
- In-room accessibility
- Free WiFi
- Television in common areas
- Conference space size (meters) - 18
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Indoor pool
- 24-hour front desk
Room Facilities
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Free toiletries
- Free newspaper
- Free WiFi
- Premium TV channels
- Microwave (on request)
- Desk
- Iron/ironing board
- Air conditioning
- Sofa bed
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Hair dryer
- Rollaway/extra beds (free)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Bathtub or shower
- Daily housekeeping
- Cable TV service
- Private bathroom
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I'm a senior at XXXX University signed to go into [Name of big corporation] for a full-time role as [name of a corporate role] and had some questions I'd really appreciate some guidance on.
I'm very interested in entrepreneurship. How long should I stay in a corporate working environment before I'm ready?
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Thanks for your email. Congratulations on your job with [Name of big corporation]. While corporate experience is not necessary to be an entrepreneur, I think it's a great way to start. For one thing you will (and if this isn't your plan and you want to be an entrepreneur it probably should be) learn a lot. Things to keep an eye out for:
1. All the different roles in an organization – which ones make money?
Which ones cost money? How is the organization run? How is leadership talked about and measured?
2. How [Name of big corporation] makes money – What makes up its revenues? How does it drive revenue? Understand its stock price and financial statements.
3. Other great people – no matter the role, no matter inside or outside of the company. What makes them great? You'll find that some are great with people, some are great at coding, and some are great at synthesizing important information. There are all types of greatness. Think about who you would want on your team in the future. Then make sure you establish relationships with these people. Not because you need something from them, but because you want to learn from them.
4. You. One of the most important skills of a great entrepreneur and leader is self-awareness. What are you good at? What are you weak at? What do you want to improve? Are you the same person at work when you're down as when you are happy? How do you handle conflict? Are you able to communicate your ideas and your needs?
Finally, keep your eye on the prize. If you really want to start a business be sure to live lean. Save your money so when you have that great idea/opportunity you'll be able to jump ship and capitalize on it.
As for how long you should stay, only you will be able to answer that. But I think your answer will be clearer once you've answered the questions above.
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Date of Stay: July, 2010
Very large sites. Nice spot across drive from river. Water level was low, but kids enjoyed exploring rocks and ankle wading. B section had very large campsites. Had activities on weekend (tie dye, hayrides, singers). Staff friendly. Although doesn't have a "barking lot" they do have several grassy areas for the dogs to sniff. Only issue we had was with the bathrooms. One near our campsite was very small and had a lot of spiders. One up the trail had private bath/shower area but severe wood rot on floors. One unit had hole in floor and felt like you would fall through. Baths were clean but overall rundown. We plan on returning here.
Date of Stay: September, 2009
Second visit to this park. We moved "up" to a concrete site and would never go back. Concrete was so nice to not have to deal with sand, fire ants and kids stayed dry in the tent when it rained. Only reason I gave a 9 is the bathrooms. They clean them at 7:30 and it's prime time for needing to use when you wake up and the bathrooms are needing some updating. A/C made it very cold to shower and floors never looked completely clean with the tired tile. Amenities abound and this is an awesome park for children (pools, skateboard park, shuffle board, play grounds, planned activities).
Date of Stay: August, 2009
This is a spotless campground. The showers, especially ones near the laundry were hardly used and were immaculate. The staff was super friendly. There is an awesome pier on river, amenities for kids (playground, tether ball, swimming pool) and the dog park was an incredible surprise. To have a grassy fenced area and other fenced area with doggy exercise equipment was such a treat for our dog. Dog parents were very respectful and area was clean. The Camp store has lounge area with games and free coffee. Only issue we had was why we were charged for kids AND charged another $15 a night for the boys to sleep in their tent. We would have all slept in camper if we knew we were going to be charged $75 extra for 3 nights of boys sleeping in their tent. (equals $25 extra per night with $10 for 2 kids and then $15 for tent). I think either one charge or another (people or tent) but not both. We could have rented 2 lots and it would have only cost $5 more and would have been worth the space so each site would have 1 adult, 1 child and no additional fees for pup tent. The staff was very receptive to my inquiry over pricing and suggested I follow up with owners, which I will.
Date of Stay: June, 2008
Nicest park we've stayed at so far. Recently undergone renovations with fresh landscaping, larger sites (they took like 30 away to spread people out), updated bathrooms, clean laundry and fresh gravel on roads and sites. Staff was super friendly, amenities very nice: pool, fishing pond, rec hall, play area, outdoor movies, hay rides, ice cream socials...kids wanted to just hang out at camp :-) Only issue is they still need to repair concrete deck area around pool as it is rough in spots but pool itself is sparkling.
Date of Stay: November, 2007
We booked off the of the internet for Thanksgiving holiday. We were totally impressed with operation. There were activities even in the off season for the kids (breakfast with Santa, bingo, karaoke, church services) and the staff was so friendly. I'm not sure where the last reviewer stayed, but EVERYONE here waves, says hello and starts of conversations. We needed duct tape, 5 mins later someone showed up as our neighbor radio'd them. Thanksgiving night another neighbor brought us a nice table cloth to "fancy up our picnic table" for our dinner. Campers are friendly, trusting and make the experience worth it. The park is pristine, no trash, bathrooms were heated and always clean. We already booked to go back this summer and the kids are so excited to partake in the outdoor pools and beach.
Date of Stay: August, 2007
We were shocked about how nice the campground is now that KOA has taken it over. Pool and grounds were immaculate. Great location, very close to the beach. It was tough, however, to have to wait in line to use the bathroom, only 3 stalls for women, I wish they would expand or build another bathroom facility. We will definitely stay there again.
Date of Stay: July, 2007
This was our first time to campsite and we were spoiled! Park was incredible...clean, decorated for Holiday, attendees very attentive. Only issue was that "heated pool" was a brisk 70, if that. They told us they were waiting on a propane delivery. It was unseasonable warm, so kids didn't mine but few adults would swim. We plan on returning every July 4th. Visit Butts on the Creek restaurant down the road (walking distance)...it was delicious and a change from camp food!
Date of Stay: June, 2007
We had a double lot, $20x2 = $40 a night. We only went for weekend so bathrooms were tolerable. Bath houses did not have soap nor lighting during day and could have been cleaner. We will return to campsite again. We had campsite that had short footpath (15 feet) to lake which was great.


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Italian White-Bean-and-Mustard-Greens Soup
Mustard greens have a sharp, radishy bite that's delicious in a bean soup, but, if you like, you can substitute kale or collards. Smaller white beans such as cannellini can be used in place of giant white beans.
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- Servings: 6
Source: Martha Stewart Living, January 2013
- 1 pound dried giant white beans, such as gigante, Corona, or lima
- 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for drizzling
- 1 onion, finely chopped (1 1/4 cups)
- 2 medium carrots, cut into 1/4-inch dice (1 cup)
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 1/2 pounds mustard greens, washed well and stems removed, cut crosswise into 1/2-inch-thick strips
- 5 thyme sprigs
- 5 flat-leaf parsley sprigs
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 Parmesan cheese rind (about 1 by 4 inches; optional), plus freshly grated Parmesan cheese, for sprinkling
- 2 quarts water
- Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1 cup farro
Place beans in a large bowl, cover with 2 inches cold water; let soak overnight at room temperature. Drain and rinse beans. (Or quick-soak them: Boil beans 1 minute, then let them sit off heat, covered, 1 hour.)
Preheat oven to 300 degrees. Heat oil in a large, heavy-bottomed ovenproof pot over medium-high heat. Add onion and carrots, and cook, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are golden brown in places, 8 to 10 minutes. Add garlic and greens to pot, and cook, stirring frequently, until greens wilt, about 2 minutes.
Tie together thyme, parsley, and bay leaves with kitchen twine, and add to pot along with beans, Parmesan rind, and water. Bring to a boil over high heat. Cover, transfer to oven, and braise 1 hour.
Remove from oven, and stir in 1 tablespoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper. Cover, return to oven, and braise until beans are tender, about 30 minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to boil. Add farro, and cook until grains are tender and begin to split, about 25 minutes. Drain.
Divide farro among 6 bowls, and ladle soup over farro. Sprinkle with Parmesan, and drizzle with oil. Soup and farro can be refrigerated in separate containers 2 days; let cool completely before refrigerating. Gently reheat together in a covered pot over medium heat, stirring occasionally.


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We're only a month away from Jordan turning one. It floors me. Today I had to run around doing way too many things… So I didn't get to spend enough time with Jordan on her big 11 month old birthday. But I did catch her happy this morning as I got her ready for a breakfast snack at school.
It's so funny to see her as one of the "big kids" in her room. I think back to when she was tiny and would play with the big babies and couldn't even imagine my daughter growing up.
Speaking of growing up… As promised, here's video of Jordan scooting around during our Thanksgiving fun in the newsroom last Thursday:
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In a time where we're all threatened by a rhetoric of hate from the people in power; A Gay And A NonGay challenges many of our differences head on and promises that no matter who you are, or what you're into (Bruce Springsteen or Britney), love is love and gay and nongays can be friends. Contact us on Twitter @gaynongay


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About Full Package Athletics:
Steve Pratt founded Full Package Athletics in September 2000, offering classes and basketball lessons at the Highwood Recreation Center. News traveled quickly about his unique ability to train basketball players in both individual and team skills effectively. In the winter he was invited to use facilities at the nearby Bannockburn Club for practices and training sessions, and the Full Package Athletics program was firmly established.
"We've developed a family atmosphere at Full Package Athletics," notes Pratt. "I care about people and embrace the joy I get out of kids growing and giving back to the community. We help them, and they lift us up and make us better people.
"Full Package Athletics isn't just looking for kids who are going off to college to play Division I basketball. We are looking to help every kid who enjoys playing basketball and is willing to work and learn. There are no other requirements.
"We are offering a very positive experience in basketball. The kids learn to play well. For a team to be successful, the kids must be unselfish and must think about other people. To build a championship team, it takes time, and it takes sharing the ball and playing well together. We want every kid to have a healthy experience at Full Package Athletics.
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Indiana native wins $800,000 grant for research
A source of more sustainable and cleaner energy may be in the future as a result of one Indiana native receiving funding to pursue her goals.
Sara Skrabalak, a 1998 Indiana Area Senior High School graduate, has received an $800,000 grant from the Department of Energy that will support a project to design a better catalyst for fuel cells.
This project, Skrabalak said, "will provide us with cleaner energy as well as energy security."
The funding for this project is based on a proposal that Skrabalak said she wrote to enable what is called rational catalyst design for fuel cells.
"All proposals go through a process of peer review," Skrabalak said, "where they are evaluated by several leading scientists in the field for novelty and potential impact as well as for the ability to conduct the proposed research."
The research, she said, could help provide more sustainable energy platforms compared to what can be achieved with fossil fuels.
Her proposal was one of 61 selected from 770 applications.
In addition, Skrabalak has received a fellowship from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which provides unrestricted research funds to her program at Indiana University, where she is an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry.
Her current research group at the university is developing new synthetic methods to shape controlled solids and study the structure-function relationships of prepared materials as they are applied to energy applications, according to the university website.
Sloan fellowships are given to early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as the next generation of scientific leaders.
"I have been working in the area of nanoscience, which concerns itself with materials that are on the scale of one billionth of a meter, or 50,000 times smaller than the width of a piece of hair," Skrabalak said. In this size regime, she said, materials can display new properties that can be harnessed to treat disease and address energy needs.
"My research program provides new strategies to make nanoscale materials."
In regard to the fellowship, she said, "it is a real honor to be recognized in this way."
Skrabalak received her bachelor's degree in chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 2002 and her Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2006, but attributes her love of chemistry to her time in high school.
"My interest in chemistry started in high school with Mrs. (Ann) Parow as my teacher," Skrabalak said. "She was excellent and explained chemical concepts with enthusiasm and provided special opportunities for students with interests in chemistry."
Parow, she said, gave her confidence that she could excel in the field.
The Indiana Area School District also provided students with activities that allowed her to think outside the box, she said, like field trips and Science Olympiad.
Like many college freshmen, she said, she was undecided initially about what she wanted to study. By getting involved in an undergraduate research program at Washington University, she finalized her career decision.
"Research allows you to test your ideas and pursue your curiosities," she said. "Sometimes you even get to observe something that nobody else has ever observed and that is really exciting."
Her love of chemistry and her profession also contribute to a life of travel. She's had the good fortune to travel abroad as well as through opportunities like conferences.
"A lot of my travels have been to other universities, where I meet with scholars at the hosting institution to learn about their work and give a talk on my group's research."
Skrabalak said that last year she visited Singapore for a conference composed solely of researchers under the age of 40 who were interested in the same sciences as her.
"It was great to meet the people behind the work I had been reading."
In addition, she participated in a global research program that provided the opportunity for her and a graduate student to travel to New Zealand to establish an international collaboration with a professor and his students there.
They will continue this collaboration in the summer when Skrabalak and her student travel to SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford.
"This was a wonderful opportunity scientifically, but it was also a lot of fun to travel through the beautiful country with my student," she said. "I learned that besides being a great researcher, she is quite an explorer and can negotiate down the price of hostels with amazing skill!"
Skrabalak intends to stay in academia in a research-focused institution because of the independence and resources available to pursue her ideas.
"I also love teaching and working with undergraduate and graduate students, both in the classroom and in the laboratory."
Ellen Matis is the digital media coordinator and a staff writer at The Indiana Gazette. She is the person behind the Gazette's social media. A 2012 graduate of Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Ellen has a degree in journalism and public relations. Follow her on Twitter, @EllenMatis, or email her at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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There is a lot of weather news going on across the country. It appears to be a very active weather pattern in the next week or so. You'll want to bookmark this website and burrow down for details.
Good news, most of the heavy precipitation stays south of the Red River Valley for a week. Bad news, if you like spring, we remain on the chilly side in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Watch out for severe storms in southeast US today and tonight.


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Criminal Justice Department
Organization for Justice Studies (OJS)
As you walk through your college years, come, be a part of the Organization for Justice Studies (OJS). We invite students from all majors to be a part of the learning experience that aims at all round development. OJS is a student body that organizes itself through meetings and fundraisers. The money raised by the organization is used for various trips during the academic year. These trips include visits to places of interest in the field of criminal justice, cybersecurity, & economic crime investigation, as well as interaction with professionals and experts. Most of all, it is an opportunity to interact with other students that have the same interest.
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Search engines are still one of the most important traffic drivers to sites these days, which is why Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is incredibly important. While SEO is often thought to be just a set of some technical tricks – and as a professional SEO, I confess to spending a lot of time with clients fixing technical issues – the site structure is just as important. Your site's structure determines whether a search engine understands what the topic of your site is and how easily it will find and index content relevant to your site's purpose and intent.
By creating a good structure, you can use the content you've written that has attracted links from others, and use your site's structure to spread some of that "linkjuice" to the other pages on your site. On a commercial site, that means that you can use the quality content you've written to boost the search engine rankings of your sales pages too. Did I get your attention now? Ok, now we've covered what and why, let's get on to how.
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When developing a new site, or restructuring an existing one, it helps to draw out your site's structure in something like Visio, or even putting it in Excel. What you'll want to do is put all the pages and sections in there as a tree, something like that shown in Figure 1 (based on my own old site structure):
Now as you can see this structure is unbalanced, as the Code section constitutes more than half of the entire site. You should make sure your site structure looks like a reasonably balanced pyramid. I'd advise you to have something between 2 and 7 main sections, depending on how content heavy your site is, and no section should be more than twice as large as any other section.
As well as the code section being way too big, there's another couple of points to consider about Figure 1. First, there are three pages that are basically about me: "About", "Projects" and "Websites". In addition, upon checking my site statistics I found that the WordPress pages were responsible for about 30% of my site traffic, yet they were down on the third and fourth level.
The benefit of using a tool like Visio or OmniGraffle, as I did, is that it's quite easy to rearrange stuff, and it's easy to get a good "feel" for whether the new structure is going to work. I've often used a desk or a wall and a lot of post-it notes for this purpose too, and that has also worked fine for me.
So I started to rearrange the sections and came up with the section structure seen in Figure 2.
As you can see I decided to move some pages "up" the tree, and I removed some pages. When you're rethinking your site structure you'll often find that some pages are not really beneficial to your users. Deleting them is the best thing you can do if that's the case.
Another choice I made was to move the blog to the homepage. My homepage was utter nonsense, and basically yet another "About" page. And though I like myself, that's not what I was hoping people came to my site for. My blog is the basis of my site, so I decided to make it the cornerstone of this structure too.
Naming your sections
Once you're satisfied with your site structure, have a look at the names you've come up with for your sections. If you have enough content about a subject for it to be able to have its own section, you can bet people are searching for it as well. That's why it's very wise to make sure your section names use the keywords people are searching for!
For example, if you're like me and you've written WordPress plugins and created a section for them, you should not call that section "WordPress". What would you search for? "WordPress plugins", right? So name it that (which doesn't mean you can't call it WordPress in your menu structure if that works better, just make sure the page title and breadcrumb links are "WordPress plugins"). You can do quite a bit of research on which keywords people search for. Some freely available tools are:
- Google Trends
- The Google AdWords Keyword tool
- Bing Ads keyword tool (Bing Ads account required)
Pick the right names for your sections and subsections, and you're halfway there. Now use the same techniques to pick the titles for your pages, and make sure to keep them short and clean. My sections now have names as shown in Figure 3.
Now we've covered the two most important parts of defining your site structure, we'll turn our attention to some other important points to consider.
Other things to keep in mind
There are another couple of things to keep in mind when working out the structure of your site.
Forums, and other user-controlled content: If one part of your site is producing way more content then another part, and the quality of that highly productive part is poorer, you may not wish to mix the two. For instance, let's say your front page is like A List Apart, updating every few weeks with very high-quality articles gathering loads of links. Another section of your site is your forums section, which produces loads of new threads every day, of questionable quality.
Your forum is probably going to deteriorate the rankings for your front page, because you're constantly "flowing" ranking strength from your high-quality front page into your forums. So the best thing you can do with them is move them to a subdomain of your site.
This is less of a problem when you have a blog on your site, which you control. The quality of that will be less questionable, and you may want those blogposts to rank well.
Redundant categories and tags: Sooner or later you're going to fall into this trap – I know I have – of having multiple categories on your site/blog, and constantly assigning the same two categories to certain posts. Let's say you have the "browsers" and "Opera" categories, and Opera is the only browser you write about. Now when you look at the category overview page for the "browsers" category, you will be seeing the exact same content as when you look at the "Opera" category page – the two tags are basically redundant.
When you're using tags, this happens even more. You're probably wondering "what's wrong with that?" Well, let's say a few people wanted to link to all those posts, because they liked them so much. You've just lost control over which category they will link to – the first one might pick the "browsers" category, and the second person might pick the "Opera" category. If this happens multiple times, you're "throwing away" good links.
Let's say you have 2 links to your "browsers" category page, and 2 links to your "Opera" category page. A less popular competitor has 3 links to his single "browser category" page, because he doesn't have a redundant "Opera" category. In a real simple world where every link is equal, your competitor would now rank above you.
It's very important to make sure you're not showing the same content on multiple pages, because that's not helping your rankings. I created a tag optimization tool that can help you solve issues like these.
Internal link structure
If you did it all right with your new site structure, it should look like a pyramid. Now you should consider how you're going to connect the sections of this pyramid together. Look at those sections as small pyramids inside your larger pyramid. Each page in the top of that pyramid should link to all its sub pages, and the other way around.
Because you're linking from pages that are closely related to each other content-wise, you're increasing your site's possibility to rank. You're "helping" the search engine out by showing it what's related and what isn't.
Take figure 4 as an example.
You should make sure you keep your links between each page relevant to those pages. For example, if you linked from subpage 3 to plugin 2 all the time, the search engine might think that subpage 3 was related to plugin 2, whereas it's only related to plugin 4.
From your new site structure to URLs
Once you've created your new site structure, you can go forth and create the URLs for this structure. Each page's URL should describe the content of that page, yet be as short as possible. If you have determined what keywords you want to rank for, you might include the most important ones in your URLs.
Things to keep in mind while implementing your new URLs
- If you're using multiple words, separate them with hyphens.
- Mixed case URLs are an absolute no-no, as Unix and Linux servers are case sensitive. Having mixed case URLs drastically increases the
possibility of typos – have you ever tried remember a URL that /LoOks/LiKe/ThiS/ ?
- Numbers might be easy for your CMS, but not for your users. Remembering a URL with a number in it is hard, so the chance people will remember
it and link to it is smaller – don't use numbers in URLs.
- Make URLs guessable if you can. If people can remember your URLs they can also talk about it with their friends more easily.
- Make sure you redirect all your old pages to their new equivalents using 301 redirects. A 301 redirect is a permanent redirect, and this way
search engines will move all the link value from the old URL to the new one.
- Make sure content is available under one URL and one URL only, for example by implementing print stylesheets on your pages. There's no valid reason anymore to have a different page for printing purposes because all major browsers support print stylesheets.
For more info on URLs and the problems they can cause, see my article on duplicate content.
Conclusion: work on your site structure
A good site structure is a requirement for Search Engine Optimization. It allows both your users and search engines to find content within your site more easily. A good structure is well categorized, and pages within it only link to other pages on the same topic.
Using the right URLs for the pages within that site structure increases the chance that people will remember and link to your URL, and heavily increases your ability to rank in the search engines as well.
Read more: 'Site structure: the ultimate guide' »
Note: I originally wrote this article in October 2007 for dev.opera.com. When I came to the conclusion I needed an article on the topic, I found this old one. Nothing has changed since it's appearance, so other than adding a a few reference links here and there, I've not changed a thing.


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She has no Wikipedia page, which momentarily caused a short circuit in our founding editor's hard wiring (biddy biddy biddy … does not compute … biddy biddy biddy). Oh well .. maybe she'll be in the next edition of Encyclopaedia Brittanica.
What we've been able to gather from Google is that Stoner is 27 years old, a Virginia native and the one-time romantic interest of Transformers (cough) director Michael Bay. She's "famous" for her role in The Spin Crowd, which is a reality show based on … you know what … we're just gonna stop right there.
More to the point, Stoner hit the beach in Miami earlier this week in a tight red two piece – which included one piece that was later taken off.
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No sooner have we been given a good dose of summery beach-going weather, I am already seeing wintery fashion in the shops. What is with that!? NO Witchery I do not require a new winter coat just yet. It is 35 degrees and I am still looking for a good pair of sandals and killer sunglasses!
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Kym Ellery is one super inspiring lady I must admit. After originally studying fashion design in her native Perth, Kym travelled to London to undertake further studies at the very prestigious Central st. Martins. Upon returning home she pursued an interest in fashion styling – landing a role at Russh Magazine, where she worked for 4 years before launching her own label in 2007.
Since then Ellery has gone from strength to strength, and Kym has picked up a swag of impressive awards and accolades, including being named one of 6 finalists in the 'Woolmark Designer of the Year Award' in 2010, receiving the Prix De Marie Claire 'Best Up & Coming Designer' award in 2011, and recently being named one of 'Five Australian Designers To Know Now' by influential fashion-news bible Style.com.
It is possibly irrelevant and yet I feel worth mentioning that Kym is also drop-dead beautiful, as you can see over here.
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I thought the pairing of Cohen and Wagner was a stroke of genius. Wagner appears to be such a positive, intelligent person and such a good motivator, and she and Cohen seemed to have clicked almost immediately.
Perhaps, however, Cohen is blaming her coach for her second-place finishes at the Grand Prix, US Nationals, and Worlds last year - all of which she would have won, had she skated clean long programs.
Perhaps Cohen thought that Wagner would instantly and magically transform her from a perpetual wanabee into a champion, ala Sarah Hughes. Cohen should remember that Hughes and Wagner worked together for many years, first as a choregrapher, and later as a coach. "Overnight success" is a rare thing in figure skating, IMHO.
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Nicola Lamb dives into the spirit of the Spanish capital.
In the land of the black bull, meat is still king.
And it's not just copious amounts of beef, pork and lamb that are consumed over lengthy lunches and light dinners. Fish and shellfish often dominate tapas menus. Despite being an inland city, Madrid's fish market is the world's second largest after Tokyo, turning over about 220,000 tonnes annually.
There's also the unique sight of city street stores devoted entirely to ham - the Museo del Jamon - and racks of the delicacy hanging in markets. Once you've become used to spearing a shaving of salty jamon from Iberian acorn-fed pigs you won't want to return to supermarket lunch-sliced or even prosciutto in a hurry.
Fresh cooked produce, preferably downed in dark-lit tapas bars late at night as crowds swarm the streets, is a huge part of the Madrid way of life. It's central to the hot energy of the place.
The city has quite a different vibe to the cool grace of Barcelona with its wide Passeig de Gracia, shopping boutiques, unique architecture and Catalonian cuisine.
Madrid has a number of grand buildings, a trio of impressive museums, and plenty of parkland. But it's the intensity of the nightlife that's most striking. It just feels like a creative place.
So given Madrid's dining-fuelled city buzz it's appropriate that an old abattoir is now an arts space stimulating multi-format creativity over a sprawling 12 hectares at Plaza de Legazpi.
The old matadero ("slaughterhouse") and livestock market in Madrid closed in 1996 after nearly 70 years.
The Madrid City Council, looking to preserve industrial buildings and promote culture, began renovating the 48 buildings on site with a mixture of public and private funding.
Where once cattle clattered, now dance, music, painting, photography, sculpture and design workshops, performances and exhibits are held at Matadero Madrid.
The abattoir complex features large, impressive pavilions of red brick and white stone. Promising designers have been let loose on the interiors.
It's the combination and contradiction of the old outer style and new inner flash that makes it so striking.
Blackened and ripped ceilings and walls give the entrance an industrial, alternative atmosphere. A cinema, the headquarters of the Documenta Madrid film festival, is superbly and simply refurbished with black hose pipe on the walls.
A theatre and cafe features lush red, black and yellow padded seating and drapes against harsh industrial beams and walls. Chairs and ceilings are a riot of colour in the music lecture room. The reworked refrigeration room is an arts resource while the former water tank is a plant archive. About a million people visited the site last year.
A spokesman says the aim was to use cheap, industrial and renewable materials.
The Spanish appear to be more creative with development projects where New Zealanders would be more practical and functional.
For instance, in a nearby land recovery development called Madrid Rio which involved diverting the old M-30 motorway underground through 17km of tunnels, considerable flair has been shown in bringing the Manzanares River area on both sides into use.
There's a 6km track for walkers, cyclists and joggers, a park with a skating area, a playground and two pedestrian bridges artistically shaped like over-turned boats. Recycled glass mosaics are painted on the inside. Another bridge is made of dynamic spiral shapes.
It links parks, gardens, old monuments and new landmarks together while opening up areas for leisure and sport.
The mixing of old and new is also occurring in Madrid's dining scene.
At Mercado de San Anton, a traditional food market full of specialised shops for fish, meat, cheese and fruit sits beneath the fine dining La Cocina De San Anton restaurant.
Along the Paseo del Prado, the Estado Puro bar - a sidelight of Michelin-starred chef Paco Roncero of La Terraza del Casino - is part of a nouveau tapas trend. The setting and presentation are upmarket and traditional dishes are given a radical twist - like asparagus in tempura with romesco sauce and a Russian salad served with reganas (toasted bread). There's an oddball sign on the wall here on "Tapas language" that reads: The Bill, La Dolorosa, "The Painful"
Small beer, Cana, "Fishing pole"
The waiter, El Jefe, "The Chief"
Eat for free, Comer por la Patilla, "Eat because of your sideburn."
Joanna Wivell of Insider's Madrid, a transplanted Yorkshire native who has been in Spain for 12 years, takes tourists through Madrid neighbourhoods on tapas crawls, among other guiding tours.
The firm's usual tapas tour (€85 per person) is from 8-11pm and involves four bars in the historic centre of Madrid, selected for their regional specialities and ambience.
She says the central idea of tapas dining is about enjoying and sharing the same dishes of food with other people while socialising and eating with alcohol, rather than going out to get drunk. There's a "very alive" energy as people get out to find what's going on. The city's people tend to "live in the present".
At El Pez Gordo on Calle del Pez, a bar with photos of jazz and blues musicians on the walls, locals go for good food and beer. There's carpaccio de buey (oxmeat carpaccio); salmorejo (gazpacho dip); pavo en escabeche (turkey in escabeche sauce) all washed down with beer.
People gravitate to certain tapas bars for specialties. At Cerveceria La Ardosa, on Calle de Colon, they flip out a great Spanish omelette - tortilla de patatas. In suitably dim light, with rows of old bottles, bags of hanging onions, ham and salami nearby, we also tried the empanada de atun (tuna pie) with vermouth served from the bar tap.
Posters of bullfighters decorate La Trucha at Manuel Fernandez and Gonzalez and curing ham hangs from the walls. On offer here: adobo - chunks of swordfish coated in paprika, cumin, vinegar and garlic; pimientos de padron (little green peppers); boquerones (fried sardines); and jamon. The wine: Vizconde de Ayala, rioja and crianza.
Finally, at Mercado San Miguel, there's desserts: caracas de pistachio (pistachio biscuits); coconut cream truffles; marzipan from Toledo; and chocolate rocas (dark chocolate "rocks" with biscuit and almond) washed down with a rosé cava, Vilarnau.
In the gourmet paradise of Madrid, the only way to make a statement of subversion and indifference is to draw on the soulless shallowness of the mall multiplex. One ultra-cool urban bar with seats only zero-sized bums could perch on, served a big carton of popcorn with drinks. How very post-post-post-modern.
Likewise, no-one could really explain the sudden hipness in Spain of stuffy old gin and tonics. Ricardo, of Javier de las Muelas's Dry cocktail bar, said there was a gin and tonic "fever" in Madrid that had "snowballed". I sipped a delicious coconut martini instead.
The crowds in the central district made it feel like the departing spill from a test match or a concert.
At a tapas lunch in the garden of the Ritz, the hotel sales and marketing director Marcelo Moscheni outlines the typically prolonged but broken up day of office workers.
Moscheni, who lived for years in Auckland and has a house in St Heliers, says people start late, about 10am, but take a short cafe break at about 11am. Lunch is later than Kiwis are used to, about 2.30pm. By 4.45pm people are back at work and don't leave until about 8.30pm, when they go out. Wivell says work is seen as part of life rather than the dominating force.
Some would suspect that approach is part of Spain's economic woes, but the country was caught out by a burst housing bubble, the 2008 credit meltdown and subsequent recession after a boom period in which people and institutions over-extended and became indebted. House prices have fallen by 25 per cent since 2008. The banking system has struggled to swallow toxic real estate.
Europe has offered Spain a bailout package of up to €100 billion ($154 billion) to help rescue the country's banks. Bankia, Spain's fourth largest bank, had to ask for a €19 billion bailout.
Although Spain is mired in a nightmare of joblessness - 24.3 per cent unemployed and 51.5 per cent of youth unemployed - just a few years ago in 2006 the figure was 8.5 per cent, about the European Union average.
The country's major cities look wealthy, as befits the eurozone's fourth largest economy. Its transport infrastructure is impressive. No doubt a lot of money has been ploughed into construction.
All who enjoy Spain's creative spirit will hope the country can bounce back quickly.
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Mental Health: Time to Stop White-Knuckling It
Posted on Mar 1, 2013
By David Sirota
As anyone who has ever experienced a panic attack well knows, one of the most difficult aspects of managing anxiety disorders is having to do it in secret for fear of being labeled a freak. I can personally attest that such a fear often makes the problem worse, compounding generalized worry with the specific concern that you will be ostracized.
This is why the last year has been so important for the 40 million Americans like me who the National Institute of Mental Health says periodically suffers from anxiety-related disorders. It was a year that saw these all-too-common ailments emerge from the shadows.
It started in professional sports, a particularly difficult arena for a mental-health coming out party. After all, it's a machismo-dominated world where showing any signs of weakness is usually depicted as nothing more than a personal failing or a lack of "toughness."
Yet, last April, San Francisco Giants first-baseman Aubrey Huff put himself on the disabled list for an anxiety disorder and courageously opened up to that city's newspaper about his struggles. Then came what the New York Times called "one of the more frightening—and remarkable—rounds of golf ever caught on video"—the one in which Charlie Beljan competed in (and eventually won) a PGA tournament while experiencing a five-hour panic attack. His attack was so severe, in fact, that upon finishing a golf round, he had to be carted away in an ambulance.
Soon after those episodes, Hollywood jumped in with director David O. Russell's masterpiece film, "Silver Linings Playbook." Though it did not win best picture at last week's Academy Awards, it should have—and not just because it examined mental health disorders in general, but because it examined those disorders in such a thoughtful way.
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"Silver Linings Playbook," however, says the opposite. Yes, it does have two characters who are debilitated by the kinds of mental illnesses that often involve anxiety disorders. But it also has an ensemble cast of other characters—a sports crazed father, an enabling mother, a stressed out neighbor—whom society sees as "normal" and yet they too are likely suffering from such disorders.
Put the sports news together with Russell's film, and the pop culture megaphone is countering the reductionist news coverage of mass shooters with a complicated, honest and entirely necessary message about the more nuanced reality of mental health. In the process, we are being reminded that these problems are not isolated and not either/or—they operate on a gradual continuum and they are everywhere.
Having that truth out into the open is, unto itself, a welcome step away from ugly stigmas and, hopefully, toward solutions. Indeed, if such a trend continues, it is possible that those who are suffering in silence will eventually feel less frightened to seek help.
Right now, though, too many either feel uncomfortable or do not have access to that assistance. Millions are like "Silver Linings Playbook's" bipolar protagonist who says of dealing with his mental health troubles: "I've been doing this all on my own with no help and basically just white-knuckling it this whole time."
Maybe now is the moment that finally starts to change.
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Date of Stay: April, 2009
My family and I stayed at this park for a weekend getaway. We live in Matagorda county, but we wanted to camp near the beach for the weekend. This is a great park situated where the Colorado river meets the Gulf of Mexico. The sites have concrete pads and are level. There is lots of room between each site so that you don't feel cramped by your neighbors. It is a short walk to the beach and the jetty pier. If you are accustomed to having lots of entertainment by way of restaurants and shops, this is not the place for you, but if you want a peaceful beach setting and fishing opportunities within a few yards of your rig, this is the perfect place. There are a few restaurants to choose from that are good including the Reef and Riverbend, but if you normally do the cooking, be warned that the grocery store is several miles back into town. LCRA has a lighted pier within walking distance of the park and there are lots and lots of birds to watch and take pictures of if you are a bird watcher. Beware during the summer months that mosquitos may be a problem; so, come prepared. Also, as with anything near the beach, be prepared for wind gusts. If you have small children, take care to go further down the beach away from the jetties because of strong rip currents. The only reason this park did not receive a 10 rating from me is because while we were here, we had a very bad thunderstorm and about 5 inches of water was left standing in our site. We had several objects floating around because of it. I did notice that the other sites did not have the same problem; so, we must have been in a low area. We stayed in site #39.
Date of Stay: March, 2009
Campsites are very close together. Had to move our vehicle a few times to accommodate our neighbors coming in or leaving. If you want to be close to the beach, this is a good spot though. You don't have to walk far to feel the sand between your toes. However, we went there during spring break and the noise at night on the beach and the beach access road was pretty loud from the music from cars. Not a horrible experience if you just want to stay a few days. We will probably scope out different parks in the area before trying this one again.
Date of Stay: December, 2008
This park was very quiet and beautiful. There are lots of trails to walk or bike through. We took the Vanishing River Cruise but did not see any bald eagles. The lake levels were down about 15 feet due to a drought; so, there were places along the hiking trails that didn't have water that should have. Overall, we really enjoyed this spot. We would definitely stay here again. For reservations call: (512) 715-0290
Date of Stay: November, 2008
This was an excellent overnight spot for us. There is a very friendly staff, nice store, and laundry facility. Showers were individual rooms with toilets and sinks. Sites were clean and well kept. My only complaint would be if I had wanted to open my awning, I wouldn't have had room because of the trees they have planted. Otherwise, this is a nice, safe place.
Date of Stay: November, 2008
This is a very nice place. There are lots of trails and things to do for the family. We stayed at the Hackberry Camp Area. It had lots of wildlife -- turkeys, deer, gophers, coyotes. The canyon is beautiful. Showers weren't as private as other state parks. Trails are well marked. We would stay here again.
Date of Stay: November, 2008
This is a beautiful park. Campsites are clean and have fire rings. There are tons of trails to choose from and lots of wildlife. Restrooms and showers were clean and private. The only complaint -- bees and yellow jackets attacked when we first set up camp. We stayed at site 18 in the Honey Flat.
Date of Stay: November, 2008
The hosts were very friendly and helpful, and the sites were clean. The only complaint I have about this park is the cost. Also, GPS doesn't take you directly to the park so ask the park for directions.
Date of Stay: November, 2008
This is a very nice park with lots to do. The site was large enough to accommodate our 33' trailer with a slide and still had enough room to park the Ford 250. A cold front blew in while we were there, so the fire rings were a nice addition. There was lots of wildlife. My husband and I watched a buck grazing near the lake with the moonlight bouncing off the water -- how can you not enjoy that? We took bike rides along the trails with our son and played putt-putt. We stayed in lot #68 with a great view of the lake with full hook-ups.
Date of Stay: November, 2008
This was our first stay pulling our new RV. We were in the area for the yearly chili cookoff and had to stay at this site because the nearby state park was full. The hosts were very friendly and made sure we had logs for our fire ring. We also didn't have a cable for the cable TV, and the park host loaned us one for the night. There were nice big oak trees and plenty of room at the sites. The only complaint I have was the highway noise at night, but earplugs did the trick.


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Beef prices have hit record highs the last couple of months, and they are not coming down any time soon. A cattle shortage caused by the drought and a very harsh winter has the U.S cattle herd at its lowest level since 1951, and it will take at least a year to recover.
Being from Texas, I dont think I have lived through a beef shortage like this before. I have always been a buy a steak and cook it that day kind of guy, but at these prices I have decided it might be time to start buying steaks in bulk and freezing them when I find them on sale. The whole concept of frozen meat is kind of new for me. Sure, I remember everybody getting freezers and buying a half a cow when I was a kid, but who does that now? Well, I guess it is time to learn; last weekend Albertsons had choice boneless rib eyes for under $6 a pound, so I decided I would give this frozen-meat thing a try.
After a little research on the subject, it looked like using freezer paper is one of the best ways to wrap your meat for the freezer. So along with picking up five pounds of steaks, I also picked up a roll of freezer paper and some tape. My research also turned up that if you plan to freeze meat, it is best to do it as soon as possible, and not to wait until the meat is about to go bad before freezing it. With that thought in mind, I promptly wrapped my steaks in freezer paper, then bagged them in freezer bags and placed them in the freezer after my purchase.
Wrapping with freezer paper was pretty easy; the process is actually more like folding. You place a steak in the middle of a sheet of freezer paper, grab two ends of the paper and bring them together over the steak and start folding the paper downward until the fold is snug against the steak. Then you fold and tuck the ends under the steak and tap so the ends are secure. I have step-by-step photos in the slide show above the story.
So now that I have frozen steaks, the next question that comes to mind is the best way to fix a steak that has been frozen? It turns out that Modernist Cuisine author Nathan Myhrvold has got that covered. In his quest for perfecting a method to cook a perfect medium-rare steak, Myhrvold developed a simple technique where you first freeze your steak, sear it in a hot pan (or with a blowtorch), then bake in an oven at 200ºF for one hour. This gives you a steak that is seared on the outside, but is a perfect medium rare from edge-to-edge inside.
This sounds perfect; since my steaks are already frozen I can even skip the first step of freezing them. Since I have a blowtorch, I plan to sear my steak with the torch, instead of searing it with a hot pan. I also decided I would smoke my steak on my smoker at around 200ºF instead of using an oven.
Fire and Ice Smoked Steak
• Frozen steak
• Peanut/vegetable oil if searing in a pan
• Salt and pepper or your favorite steak rub
Preheat oven or smoker to 200ºF.
Sear frozen steak on all sides in a hot pan with peanut oil till it has a nice brown sear, or sear frozen steak with a blowtorch if you have one (my preferred method).
Season seared steak with salt and pepper or your favorite steak rub.
Place steak on rack in smoker or on a shallow baking sheet in oven and smoke/bake for around 1-hour at 200ºF. Pull steak when it reaches 130ºF on an instant read thermometer.
Let steak rest for around 5 minutes covered before serving.
It worked! The steak was a perfectly cooked medium rare, and I did not have to thaw it out first. Smoking it instead of baking in the oven also gave it a nice smoky flavor. I might survive this beef shortage after all. Be sure to check out the slide show above the story for step-by-step pictures.


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(IRVING, Texas) — The Dallas Cowboys signed free agent tight end Dante Rosario on Monday, and released rookie and fellow tight end Paul Freedman.
The 28-year-old Rosario spent last season with the San Diego Chargers. In 13 games with the Bolts, he had 10 receptions for 95 yards and three touchdowns.
Rosario was originally selected out of Oregon by the Panthers in the fifth round of the 2007 NFL draft. He spent four seasons in Carolina where he had 82 receptions for 894 yards and five touchdowns in 62 games.
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Re: st: xtlogit: panel data transformation's recast to double makes model incomputable
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Re: st: xtlogit: panel data transformation's recast to double makes model incomputable
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Dear Jay,
At first I thought that the problem may indeed be related to near
perfect prediction, but this would only be possible with a very small
sample size (it is not possible to perfectly predict prices with large
samples). Therefore I looked if any of the groups had a small number
of observations, and indeed there were a few due to some missing
values. I removed these such that every group now has at least 250
observations, but the issue remains and seems to be exactly the same.
Therefore I do not think this is related to "near perfect prediction
For completeness, this is a log of the (still running) regression
showing that it cannot compute:
I'm still getting such messages:
log likelihood = -1.#INF
(initial step bad)
What else can I try or what other information can I provide? The
methods I know on finding leverage points require me to actually get
the regression/estimation results. What approach do you suggest,
considering that I cannot get the results?
Kind regards,
On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 9:30 PM, JVerkuilen (Gmail)
<firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Tom <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote:
>> Hi Jay,
>> Per request these are the results of the "offending IVs" alone:
> <snip>
> So it seems like it works on its own.
>> This is real price data, I also verified it several times. There
>> appear to be no mistakes in the data.
> Yeah, I'm sure they're real, that's not the issue, it's the fact that
> the variable is so crazily skewed. That's what price data are like, of
> course.
>> Do you have an explanation why close_g100 would fail whereas close_g30
>> does not? If you look at the summary statistics you'll see that the
>> close_g30 variable and close_g5 etc. are actually much more skewed and
>> have higher variations.
> The best guess I have is that that variable creates a near-perfect
> prediction. Collinearity in and of itself is a problem but the big
> issue with logistic regression is usually perfect prediction. If you
> have that, the whole thing blows up and that's something that Stata
> detects automatically. What it will have a much harder time with is
> finding near-perfect prediction, where you are *close* but not quite
> at perfect prediction. The numerics will start to break down but it
> can happen in an unpredictable way that depends on small decisions on
> the way routine was programmed that ordinarily make no difference and
> thus are unlikely to be noticed in the testing process.
> You might want to look for really super high leverage points in the
> relevant design matrix. That might help identify if you have a
> problem. Also, start with a model that just has the offending variable
> in it and then start adding variables to the model.
> Another might be to experiment with different top coding schemes on the prices.
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Sounds like the rumors might be true: Crain's reports that Facebook is expanding its New York presence to 770 Broadway, home to Aol/Huffington Post, Billboard Magazine and J. Crew.
While Facebook hasn't confirmed, Crain's says the social networking site is taking 160,000 square feet across two floors in the "Midtown South" (but really, the Village?) building.
Zuck and his excavators can expand an additional 60,000 square feet in two years if needed. This is its second New York outpost, as Facebook reportedly plans to keep its offices operating at 335 Madison Ave.
Crain's offers additional details of the deal:
Facebook will take 15-story 770 Broadway's entire eighth floor and part of the seventh in the deal. The company is paying rental rates in the mid $70s per square foot, sources say. When its expansion option kicks in, Facebook will likely take the building's entire seventh floor, but until then, a company called High 5 Games, which creates digital gambling games both for use online and for casino slot parlors, will take about 60,000 square feet of the floor.
High 5 Game's lease ends in two years and would be forced out if Facebook triggers its expansion deal. Betabeat has reached out to Facebook but we haven't yet heard back.
Anyway, this new office arrangement makes for a neat, one true pairing of Arianna Huffington and Mark Zuckerberg.


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Editorial: Several issues in East Providence remain murky at best
If history is any guide, very little in East Providence is ever clear cut, and the events of the last week did nothing to dispel that notion as several of the key issues in the city remained murky at best.
The Budget Commission met for a second time since being reinstalled for personnel matters, the overseers moving forward in their attempt to hire an Administrative and Finance Officer to serve as part watchdog over the city's management and part conduit between the leaders of East Providence and the state.
We learned an AFO will be hired. What we failed to gleam from the meeting though was how and where exactly that person will fit into the hierarchy of city government.
The Commission also as expected reinstated Joseph Tavares to his position as Chief of the East Providence Police Department, doing so however with one significant caveat. A State Trooper will be investigating some, if not one particular charge made by an unspecified party during the chief's recent stay on administrative leave.
We did not learn who leveled the accusation(s) nor did we find out what exactly the State Police are looking for, of course, and it may be some time until we do on either count.
Finally and under the auspices of the State Department of Environmental Management, the long-awaited "closure" of the former TLA/Pond View recycling plant on Dexter Road began. According to a press release authored by the DEM, the process must be completed in a rigid and rapid manner so as to finally end this matter once and for all.
But will it? All indications at the moment point to property owner Ken Foley being able to restart a recycling business under existing codes and parameters set by the city and the state, which certainly won't go over well with those in opposition to the plant's future operation.
Each of these issues, like so many others, haven't yet been definitively decided. And if the past has so often shown to be the prelude here, then what else would you expect from East Providence?


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