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Great to see somebody starting up the Hetalia gathering for AM2 this year!
If you need anybody for the Hetaila Panel/Cosplay Dating Game, I'd love to participate as either China or Austria~
For the Hetalia gathering, I may cosplay as Austria this year~ (unless I change my mind when the time comes near)
BTW, last year (AM2 2012), there were actually 2 Hetalia gatherings held on separate days: Day 2, June 16 and Day 3, June 17. Do you think it's possible to hold 2 gatherings again?
I'm not quite sure why there were 2 separate gatherings, since clearly Day 2 had a larger group than Day 3, but the gatherings themselves were still small in scale--I don't see why they had to be separated, in terms of group size, though I understand that some people can't make it on certain days...[Reference:
I was also one of the original hosts (panel and gatherings) from year 1 of am2 so im glad to be back in control haha. Thank you for the offer, I may contact you about the dating game (we might need people to audition for it) but for the regular hetalia panel we already have a cast picked out, sorry!
It is entirely possible to hold 2 gatherings! Alas I will be unable to do so. My plan is to head this gathering on day 2 because it will be on the same day as the hetalia panel with the same cast as year 1. Day 3 I will be in One Piece cosplay as I cohost the dating game panel so I can't exactly run a second hetalia gathering. I myself am unsure why exactly there were 2 of them (since i wasnt part of organizing anything for 2012 as I was busy with the hetastuck dating game panel, i suspect it might have something to do with a hetalia panel not run by my group being hosted on day 3??? dont quote me on that though.) but if someone else wants to step up and plan with me theyre more than welcome to head a day 3 gathering and i'll just add it to here and keep track of it to make things easier on everyone since 2 seperate boards for 2 different days would just get hectic!
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Group saves environment by buying it
NATURE CONSERVANCY: Land deals, education at heart of organization's agenda.
By Paula Dobbyn
Anchorage Daily News
(Published May 14, 2001)
It's the rare environmental group that attracts more power suits than fleece.
But a Nature Conservancy reception at an Anchorage oil company headquarters last month drew a decidedly upscale crowd. Leather loafers and silk ties defined the soiree. Dapper executives from the petroleum, timber, seafood and other extractive industries sipped cocktails with bankers, Native corporation leaders, general counsels and other notables.
With a high-rise view of the Chugach range warmed by an early evening sun, guests picked at baked brie, crab dip and poached salmon with dill garnish. The talk centered on market-based solutions to environmental problems.
"There's no room for polarization. We're all conservationists," said David Banks, the conservancy's Alaska chapter president, drawing applause from the distinguished crowd.
The fete was a chance to wine and dine members of The Nature Conservancy's Corporate Council on the Environment. These deep-pocketed local donors help bankroll the organization, which describes itself as the world's largest conservation group. More than any other national green organization, the conservancy has courted the business world for its money and clout. With 1.1 million members and an annual budget of $7.4 million, the Arlington, Va.-based group's message that preserving the environment makes business sense has convinced an impressive roster of wealthy donors.
Unlike any other environmental group in the state, The Nature Conservancy's Alaska chapter has a board of trustees that reads like a who's who of the Alaska business world. It's stacked with heavyweights like BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. president Richard Campbell, Phillips Alaska Inc. president Kevin O. Meyers, Key Bank of Alaska president Michael J. Burns, Alaska Communications System chief operating officer John R. Ayers, two former governors, and a university chancellor. David Wight, president of Alyeska Pipeline Service Co., comes onboard in June.
And it's not like the conservancy has to twist arms to fill those seats.
"In a lot of organizations, you have to go out and recruit board members. In our case, people come to us and ask to serve," Banks said.
While The Nature Conservancy knows how to throw a good bash, it's just as adroit at fund raising as it is in hobnobbing with the affluent.
The Alaska chapter launched a capital campaign last year with the goal of reaching $10 million by 2005. More than $6.5 million has flowed into conservancy coffers so far, the group says.
Phillips Alaska Inc. gave the group $1 million last year. Board member Richard Goldman of San Francisco slipped the group a cool $2.5 million donation recently. Goldman heads The Goldman Fund, a private charitable foundation supporting environmental and quality-of-life issues.
Gene T. Sykes, a partner with Goldman Sachs, recently made a $1 million gift. Sykes, of Los Angeles, is also a board member of the Alaska chapter.
While the 29-member board helps guide the conservancy's Alaska agenda, it's also an economic and marketing engine.
"It's a nonprofit. We're expected to bring in the cash," said Burns, referring the board.
Unlike with other environmental groups known for in-your-face tactics or expensive lawsuits targeting industrial polluters and developers, The Nature Conservancy's strategy is low-key, almost stealthy, in comparison. It avoids confrontation as it quietly buys up key parcels of private land for habitat protection. Usually only after the deals are closed does the public find out.
It also works on conservation easements and educating landowners on how to protect public resources.
Conservation easements preserve property for recreation, habitat, open space or historical importance. Along the Kenai River, for example, the conservancy has worked with private property owners, government agencies and communities to conserve the watershed from development, pollution and fishing pressures. It's done the same in Kachemak Bay and is making inroads in Southeast, where it recently opened an office in Juneau.
In the past year, the conservancy has bought 1,460 acres in the Copper River Delta, the Kenai River Watershed, the Palmer Hay Flats, on Admiralty Island in Southeast, and other areas.
More than half of the $10 million raised in the capital campaign will go toward land purchases and $3 million will be earmarked for promoting eco-friendly businesses, the group says.
Founded 50 years ago in New York state by a small group of scientists wanting to preserve biodiversity, The Nature Conservancy has since matured into a prominent, worldwide organization with a reputation for huge land acquisitions and promoting ecological research. The group has protected more than 12 million acres throughout the United States and Canada, including 70,000 acres in Alaska. It owns 1,300 nature preserves, the largest private system of sanctuaries in the world.
Susan Ruddy, a University of Alaska Anchorage vice chancellor, said the Alaska chapter has come a long way since she founded it in 1988. Relations with the oil industry back then weren't as cozy as they are now. The first attempt Ruddy made at wrangling money out of the local BP president didn't exactly get off to a smooth start.
"He said, 'I never thought I'd have a tree hugger in my office,' " she said, laughing. But Ruddy said they ended up having a delightful conversation and she didn't go away empty-handed.
The Nature Conservancy's ability to pay market-value prices to protect land from commercial development appeals to private property and business owners who might otherwise shun contact with environmentalists.
"They don't go into court and try to exercise eminent domain. Their rationale is to try to find pieces of property to take out of private ownership and put into the public domain. It takes a willing seller," said board member Alec Brindle, president of Wards Cove Packing Co., a Seattle-based seafood company that operates in Alaska.
Brindle said he sold property to the group before becoming a board member.
"I found them very reasonable," he said.
None of the board members asked said they joined for the public relations value. Most said they sit on a variety of boards and consider it a public service.
"It's no different than serving on the Red Cross board," Brindle said.
But for industries often at odds with environmental groups, donating time and money to a prominent conservation organization certainly can't hurt.
Only one of the nine board members interviewed said they would sit on the board of another environmental group. June McAtee, vice president of land and natural resources for Calista Corp., a regional Native corporation, said she's also been a board member for an Audubon Society chapter. But she identifies with The Nature Conservancy for its pragmatism and search for middle ground.
"I like their respect for people who earn their living off the land," McAtee said.
Many board members said the conservancy's cachet and business savvy make them comfortable associating with it. They also like the group's heavy reliance on science to steer its decisions.
"They don't always go for the prettiest place. They look for the most scientifically valuable piece of property," said Robert Ritchie, a board member from Fairbanks. Ritchie, an ornithologist, owns an environmental engineering firm.
Business people are also attracted to the conservancy because it stays away from contentious political issues like oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge or allowing helicopters in wilderness areas.
"Their role in conservation is to build consensus. They don't get anywhere near controversial issues," said Deborah Williams, executive director of the Alaska Conservation Foundation and former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt's top official in the state.
The conservancy's low-profile approach sits just fine with Williams. Each group has a role to play and The Nature Conservancy has cultivated an important niche, she said.
"There are some issues that are truly yes or no, like ANWR. They don't aspire to those issues. Nobody expects them to," Williams said.
The fact that veteran environmental activist Jack Hession said he doesn't know much about the group is testament to the conservancy's understated culture.
"They tend to stick to themselves. They do their own thing," said Hession, senior policy analyst for the Sierra Club's Alaska chapter.
One of the group's most heralded projects nationally is a deal the North Carolina chapter worked out with Georgia-Pacific Corp., according to conservancy publications.
The conservancy and the paper giant agreed to jointly manage 21,000 acres of hardwood forest along the lower Roanoke River, with both sides having a say in how the company logs the area. The conservancy holds an easement on 7,000 core acres where no cutting can take place. Georgia-Pacific agreed to restrictions on where and how it logs.
Finding a balance between a region's economic needs and its ecological values is what the group strives for, Burns said. It makes sense from a banker's standpoint.
"We can only be as successful as the communities we operate in. A community needs balance between business and environmental interests. If conservation makes a better community, it makes it a better environment for us to do business in," Burns said.
The conservancy's longtime national executive director, John Sawhill, who died last year, summed up the group's philosophy with signature pragmatism that defines the organization.
"The fundamental way that we protect the environment, frankly, is to buy it. I think there's a growing recognition that we can't leave things up to the government," said Sawhill, as quoted in his Washington Post obituary.
Bob Malone, BP's regional president for the western United States, said serving on The Nature Conservancy's Alaska board has been a learning experience. When Malone bought a ranch in West Texas three years ago, the previous owner offered to fill in a lake for him, thinking that would increase the value of the land by adding more pasture. Malone declined the offer, saying he cringed at the thought of eliminating critical habitat for wild turkeys and songbirds.
The ranch had been overgrazed for decades with native prairie grasses being wiped out by mesquite, cedar and prickly pear cactus. Malone spends time rehabilitating the soil, pulling up and burning the invasive species and planting wild grasses. While he's always considered himself a conservationist, the oil executive said his concern about the environment has deepened.
"Being on The Nature Conservancy board had a lot to do with it," he said.
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Nature Conservancy Officials
Chairman: Al Parrish, vice president of government relations, Holland America Line Westours, Anchorage
Vice chairman: Robert J. Ritchie, president, ABR Inc., Fairbanks
Secretary: Kate Janeway, environmental attorney/mediator, Seattle
Treasurer: Michael J. Burns, president, Key Bank of Alaska, Anchorage
Vera Alexander, School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks
John R. Ayers, senior vice president of marketing and sales, Alaska Communications Systems, Anchorage
Alec Brindle, president, Ward's Cove Packing Co., Seattle
Richard C. Campbell, president, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., Anchorage
George W. Cutting, investment adviser, New York and Homer
Brian E. Davies, Anchorage
Patrick Dougherty, editor, Anchorage Daily News
Suzanne Fischer, St. Louis
Edward Lee Gorsuch, chancellor, University of Alaska Anchorage
Jay S. Hammond, former governor, Port Alsworth
James E. Hemming, environmental consulting, Corvallis, Ore.
Walter J. Hickel, former governor, Anchorage
Philip James, executive vice president, ConAgra Inc., Fort Collins, Colo.
Bob Kaufman, principal, Audax Ventures, San Francisco
David Klein, professor emeritus of wildlife management, University of Alaska Fairbanks
William L. MacKay, vice president public affairs, Alaska Airlines, Seattle
Bob Malone, regional president of the western United States, BP, Los Angeles
June McAtee, vice president land and natural resources, Calista Corp., Anchorage
Kevin Meyers, president, Phillips Alaska Inc., Anchorage
Mike Navarre, president, Zan Inc., Kenai
Susan Ruddy, vice chancellor of university relations, University of Alaska Anchorage
Grace Berg Schaible, former state attorney general, Fairbanks
John L. Sturgeon, recently retired president of Koncor Forest Products Co., Anchorage
Gene Sykes, managing director, Goldman, Sachs & Co., Los Angeles
Alma Upicksoun, assistant house counsel, Arctic Slope Regional Corp.
Tom Barron, author, Boulder, Colo.
Richard N. Goldman, Goldman Fund/Goldman Environmental Prize, San Francisco
Celia Hunter, environmental organizer, Fairbanks
John T. Kelsey, Valdez and Anchorage
Byron I. Mallott, executive director, First Alaskans Foundation, Juneau
Hans C. Mautner, vice chairman, Simon Property Group, New York
Larry Merculieff, Bering Sea adviser, Anchorage and St. Paul
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NEW YORK – Adult magazine Penthouse will end its print edition after 50 years, becoming the latest publication to go exclusively digital.
Parent company FriendFinder Networks Inc. said the magazine will henceforth be released in online-only format, and that subscriptions would be converted to digital.
"This will be a new way for its readers to experience the world's best adult magazine," said FriendFinder CEO Jonathan Buckheit in a statement.
"Re-imagined for the preferred consumption of content today by consumers, the digital version of Penthouse Magazine will combine and convert everything readers know and love about the print magazine experience to the power of a digital experience — giving people an open-ended reading experience, available anytime, anywhere."
The magazine division, which operated out of New York, will move to the company's Los Angeles-based office.
Besides publishing Penthouse, FriendFinder Networks operates a number of adult-oriented social networking sites including AdultFriendFinder.com, Amigos.com, AsiaFriendFinder.com and SeniorFriendFinder.com.
The group filed for bankruptcy protection in 2013.
Bob Guccione began publication of Penthouse in Britain in 1965 and four years later in the United States, earning him a fortune estimated at $400 million at one point with a more explicit alternative to Hugh Hefner's Playboy.
But as the Internet became dominant in porn, Penthouse publisher General Media Inc., which was 85 percent owned by Guccione, filed for bankruptcy in 2003, leading to its acquisition by FriendFinder Networks.
Guccione died in 2010 after a battle with cancer.
Playboy last year said it will stop publishing nude photos in its iconic magazine, throwing in the towel in the face of rampant online pornography.
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Google has unveiled the first three smartwatches that will run Android Wear, a cut-down version of Android for wearable devices, and we got our hands on one of them: the Samsung Gear Live.
The watch, which is available now in Google's Play Store, retails for US$199 and will compete with the LG G and Motorola 360.
While the watch runs Android Wear, it wasn't shown at I/O paired with a phone. Instead, Samsung demonstrated it with preloaded cards that don't offer the same level of interactivity but do illustrate how Google has shrunk Android for watches.
The system provides reworked versions of familiar Google services and other apps made for a smaller screen. Instead of the usual grid layout of apps, apps running on Android Wear are a lighter affair, focused around voice commands and simple taps and swipes.
For people who can't be bothered to use their smartphones, the Gear Live has the Google Now personal mobile assistant, Google Maps, Gmail, Hangouts and other apps, with more sure to come.
You can reply to messages on the watch, but since there's no keyboard, you're limited to pre-programmed responses, which may be set on the paired Android device.
But it also supports voice commands, so you can say "OK Google," and ask it for sports scores or the time of a flight departure, or send a text.
Physically it's a little larger than the average digital watch, and that might feel awkward for some.
The device is designed to be paired with any Android device running version 4.3 or higher.
The unit has a 1.2GHz processor, a 1.63-inch high-resolution display, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of internal memory. The battery on the unit should last about a day between charges, Samsung said. The unit also has a built-in heart rate monitor designed to work with other fitness-tracking apps.
The Gear Live has some similar specs compared to LG's G, though that watch retails for $229.
The Motorola 360, however, has generated interest at the show for its more classic look and circular watch face. Google, however, isn't releasing specs yet on that watch, which goes on sale later this summer.


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Politico's Budoff Brown Dutifully Translates Obama's Head-scratching Syria Speech
Apparently we can't grasp the full brilliance and nuance of Barack Obama's speeches without having someone from the establishment press telling us what he really meant to say when he said what he really said.
That's the impression one gets from reading "What President Obama said, what he meant" early Wedesday at the Politico. In it, along with an accompanying video dedicated to the same idea, we see Carrie Budoff Brown's exercise in explaining Obama's 15-minute speech on Syria to the ignormamuses of the world. Her weakest translation concerns the extent to which Obama apparently assumed he'd automatically have support from the vast majority of Republicans, apparently because, as the web site's equally surprised Alex Isenstadt and Reid Epstein also believed two days ago ("'Party of Hawks,' Has Gone 'Dovish'"), they just love to go to war for any reason, no matter how incoherent or unplanned. That passage follows the jump:
President Barack Obama sought Tuesday to clear away 10 days of confusion surrounding his Syria strategy.
But what looked on the surface to be a sober policy speech also included some unmistakable political messages.
Here's a guide to what he said — and what he meant.
... What he said: And so to my friends on the right, I ask you to reconcile your commitment to America's military might with the failure to act when a cause is so plainly just.
What he meant: Hypocritical Republicans, you supported intervention before you opposed it. Translation: The White House knew the president's attempt to seek congressional approval wouldn't be easy.
But aides acknowledge that they underestimated the extent to which Republicans who advocated for intervention days or weeks before Obama's announcement would flip so quickly and oppose the president's plan.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) made statements over the last two years that led the White House to believe that they would support the type of action that Obama had sought. But each senator came out against the resolution.
Two obvious thoughts.
First, six senators making "statements" does not make for a majority, let alone a near complete consensus. I wonder how much discussion, if any, there was with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell about the outlook of party members?
Second, it's one thing to say "we need to do something" about Syria, and another to evaluate what the President is actually planning to do about Syria. There are plenty of indications that the "plan" (a generous term) the administration has wasn't fully vetted by the military before its presentment to congressmen and senators. Who would be so naive as to the believe that the other party would go along without this obvious prerequisite completed?
But to the larger point of Budoff Brown's translation exercise — If we need a Politico reporter to tell us what the President really meant, then there's obviously a problem with what the President is saying.
I don't recall a Republican president who needed such "help" from an establishment press outlet. Instead, what has happened during Repbulican presidencies is that reporters have struggled mightily to read into what they have said to divine meanings which were never there.
Both in the video and the text, Budoff Brown also tells us that Obama is claiming credit for the perceived improvements of the past few days, and that they didn't come from an offhand remark from John Kerry ("Obama sought to convey Tuesday that the breakthrough wasn't just luck"). Readers here probably already know that's exactly why the situation changed.
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Your netgear wg511u has the ATHEROS AR5004X (a/b/g) chipset.
Try this. It should fix it.
Open a new shell window..pop your card out..then back in and type this in your prompt....
and read the last few lines of output..is your card there? Does it say something similar to
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pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0xa000 - 0xafff
cs: IO port probe 0xa000-0xafff: clean.
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0xb0300000 - 0xb03fffff
pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x50000000 - 0x53ffffff
pccard: Cardbus card inserted into slot 0
pccard: card ejected from slot 0
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
IF SO type this in the shell prompt....
modprobe ath_pci
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ifconfig wifi0 down
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airmon-ng start wifi0
airodump-ng ath0
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I took a browse through the Salon Finder hoping to find some Salons in my area. I was able to find a few, but I didn't see any reviews from individuals with (what I think) my hair type is -a mixture between 3c/4a-b. So, might there be any CT'ers that have a similar hair type and have had a good experience with salons in their areas?
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June is set to be anything but calm, but that doesn't mean that it will be bad. June is about looking in the mirror to see where you want to implement changes and take action. A tiny wrench does get thrown in at the end of June and into July (June 26th until July 20th) [Read More…]
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Last Wednesday the kids were off from school for Veteran's Day. And although I have technically been a stay-at-home-mom for the past five-and-a-half years, I will admit to you that I often find myself trying to do whatever I can to avoid being home with my kids for any length of time. And so having an extra day with kids home sent this Mama into a bit of panic.
I quickly made plans to get us out of the house early and fill our day.
Tuesday night as we were getting ready for bed I shared the plans with the kids. Using my most enthusiastic, life-is-swell-camp-counselor-voice, I said:
We have a lot of fun things to do tomorrow guys!
First we're going to get up and go to a parade…
Then we're going over to Charlie and Gwen's for lunch…
Then we're picking up our cousins to go roller-skating…
(I will admit that even as I was saying the words I was wondering what the heck I was thinking but I continued…)
Then we're going to Grandma's house for dinner.
Without hesitating, Lily looked at me and said, "Wait a minute, Mama. It sounds like we are going to be leaving our house early in the morning and not getting home until late at night. And visiting with a lot of people. And going to a parade, which can be really loud. Don't you think that's a little bit much for one day?"
Quinn agreed. "I like eating lunch at our house, Mama."
In the morning I called our friends and cancelled our parade and lunch plans.
Instead we enjoyed a relaxing morning watching a movie in our jammies and planting bulbs.
And eating lunch at home.
And then had a wonderful afternoon roller-skating (Quinn's first time, Lily's second) with Grandma and our cousins.
{This is the same rink I skated at as a kid. It hasn't changed a bit!}
It was an absolutely perfect day. So glad these babes of mine keep this slightly nutty, adventure-loving, always-multi-tasking Mama in check!
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WASHINGTON – It's not quite "Rich Man, Poor Man," but the story of how Rep. Chris Collins lives in the nation's capital and how Western New York's other lawmakers live couldn't be more different.
Three weeks after his 2012 election to Congress, Collins purchased a brand new two-bedroom, two-bath, 1,131-square-foot condominium in a trendy neighborhood a few blocks northeast of the Capitol. The purchase price: $775,000.
It's a unit in a former convent that has been converted into the Landmark Lofts at Senate Square, which is, according to its website, "a brand new urban resort where 19th century styles meets 21st century luxuries!"
Meanwhile, Reps. Brian Higgins and Tom Reed live a few blocks away – in their Capitol Hill offices, where there's no kitchen, no full bath, no luxuries and no rent.
"I've had two kids in college," Higgins, D-Buffalo, said in explaining his money-saving move.
Higgins said that living in his office is also more convenient, given the early mornings and late nights that are common on Capitol Hill. And Reed, R-Corning, cited convenience as the main reason why he sleeps in his office.
But the housing choices of Western New York's federal lawmakers also reflect their very different financial situations.
Collins, an entrepreneur before entering politics, ranked as the 17th-richest member of Congress, based on personal financial-disclosure statements filed by 535 lawmakers in 2012, the Roll Call newspaper reported last fall. And a 2013 personal financial-disclosure form filed this spring by Collins, R-Clarence, shows that he got even richer last year, with a net worth of at least $22.5 million and perhaps as much as $96.3 million.
In contrast, Higgins, a career politician, listed between $5,007 and $77,000 in assets and debts of between $115,001 and $300,000 last year. Most of that debt consisted of a mortgage on Higgins' South Buffalo home, but it also included credit card debt of between $15,001 and $50,000.
Reed, a lawyer and former Corning mayor, reported assets of between $233,007 and $645,000, albeit with student loan and mortgage debt that was almost as high.
Of course, there is nothing really new or surprising about Collins' wealth, which he has worn as a badge of honor ever since first running for Congress in the 1990s.
But it's not that he's flaunting his wealth by buying his condo in D.C.'s burgeoning H Street Northeast corridor. Housing prices are almost three times higher in Washington than in Buffalo, according to the National Association of Realtors. So the unit for which Collins paid $775,000 in the nation's capital would cost about $279,000 back home.
Besides, Collins said, he has good reasons for buying his own place for his time in Washington.
"A mental separation from work and nonwork is a just way to recharge your batteries," he said. "So for my own effectiveness in Congress, that mental separation is important."
On top of that, Collins' wife, Mary, visits Washington on occasion, and his daughter Caitlin, who has a summer internship in D.C., is living with him here now. "It's good to have the convenience of having a place where the family can come down," Collins said.
Still, the Landmark Lofts aren't exactly starter homes. Photos of the units on realty company websites show an array of glittering granite countertops and sparkling stainless steel appliances amid sprawling apartments with open floor plans that seem designed for entertaining.
It's likely a comfortable nest for a person such as Collins, who reported income of between $1.83 million and $10.1 million off his investments last year.
That income came both from the companies he has owned for years, as well as his stock investments, many of which he sold last year.
"It was really my own investment decision," Collins said. "I'm somewhat of a value investor."
He's also a congressman with some sway over federal policy who owned and then sold stock in companies such as National Fuel Gas, Halliburton Co. and JPMorgan Chase last year.
Such investments could raise conflict-of-interest questions, but Collins said he has never considered putting his investments in a blind trust, as some wealthy politicians do.
"I think transparency is important, and I've certainly complied with the regulations for personal financial disclosure," he said. "But I saw no compelling reason to put them in a blind trust."
And while he continues to be listed as director and chairman of three companies – ZeptoMetrics, Audubon Machinery and Block Industries – he said, "I gave up any day-to-day management role all the way back in 2007, when I ran for county executive. They're mostly title-only, just because of the family ownership."
Meantime, the Higgins family doesn't own much more than a house, and the Buffalo congressman has a mortgage on that. His son, John, graduated from SUNY Fredonia last year, and his daughter, Maeve, is still at Canisius College.
Higgins vowed to pay for all of his children's college costs, which he acknowledges have caused some financial pressures even though his annual salary as a member of Congress is $174,000. His wife, Mary Jane Hannon, earned $54,562 as a teacher.
"My wife's a schoolteacher, and we're just at that point where we don't get (college financial) aid, so it's our full responsibility, so that's challenging," Higgins said.
Besides, "there's no cheap living in Washington," Higgins noted, and that's for sure. A survey of Capitol Hill studio apartments advertised for rent on the Zillow.com website this week found the median monthly rent to be $1,625.
And so Higgins crashes on the couch in his office in the Rayburn House Office Building, ignores the occasional 12:30 a.m. test of the security alarm system as best he can and then heads down to the House gym, where he pays $400 a year for workout and shower privileges.
It's a routine he shares with Reed, whose finances are far stronger than Higgins' but who said he decided, after a year of renting, that there is really no reason for him to have an apartment.
"I was finding that we spend so much time – late nights, early mornings – having to be in the office," Reed said. "And my lease came up, and I just found it was more practical, to be perfectly honest with you, to stay in their office."
About 50 House members do the same, and believe it or not, the lifestyle of some senators isn't much more fancy. Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has crashed in the living room of a notoriously unglamorous townhouse that he has shared with other lawmakers for decades – which is the model for "Alpha House," a television satire produced by Amazon.
In contrast, Sen. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., owns a Capitol Hill townhouse with her husband, Jonathan, where they are raising their two young sons.
As for Higgins, he reported a mortgage of between $100,001 and $250,000 on his South Buffalo home, as well as credit card debt of between $15,000 and $50,000.
Those credit cards are in his wife's name.
"She manages that," Higgins said. "She's scheduled to eliminate that in 36 months. I think that's kid-related expenses."
Financial planners frown on the notion of piling up large amounts of credit card debt, given that the interest rate on credit cards is so high. According to Bankrate.com, the average credit card interest rate is 13.02 percent – more than four times the rate on a home equity line of credit.
But the Higgins family's credit card debt is nothing unusual. Federal Reserve statistics show that the average household credit card debt stands at $15,191.
And to Higgins, it just serves as further proof that he's not one of those fat-cat politicians.
Noting that he has spent his career in public service, Higgins said: "I'm not coming to the public sector after spending time on Wall Street or something."
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Her long black raven hair elegantly cascaded behind her back. Her ivory complexion contrasted to the dark shade that was her hair, making her even paler. Her eyes were like big blue marbles, and her lips were full and red. She walked with a tall, handsome man with olive skin, and long brown curly hair that he tied into a ponytail. He had long and curly eyelashes that you could see even from afar.
They looked like a picture taken from a fairytail book: the princess and her knight. With him standing beside her almost protectively, one would think that they were more than just friends.
Their friends walked behind them, talking and laughing. Other students stared at the group, reveling at how beautiful they all were. Envious glances were also turned to them.
Most of the stares were directed at the two people walking in front. They two of them were talking to themselves, seemingly detached from the rest of the group. Something that the guy said must have struck her funny bone, because she laughed. Some students smirked. They all knew too well of how loud her laugh was, and how boisterous they both were. They were so unlike their physical appearance.
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I checked myself in front of the long mirror I had in my room.
Black leather shoes with two-inch heels? Check. Knee-length black socks? Check. Short pleated skirt? Check. Long-sleeved white blouse with collar? Check. Navy blue cotton vest? Check. Yellow tie? Check.
Yes! I was ready for school. I smiled at myself in front of the mirror. I took my school bag, and ran down the stairs. My mother was probably at work already. My sister? Eh, probably still in her room. I hardly had a concrete conversation with her in centuries. My dad, on the other hand, passed away when I was just five. He was the former councilor of the town. He left little money for us (well, the money he had from being councilor). It sure didn't pay well, but it was enough to get us going. My mother was a housewife, but ever since dad died, she had to get a job to support us. She was working as a waitress in a nearby famous restaurant. I admired her perseverance.
I stepped outside of my house, and into the cool morning breeze. I saw Ren standing outside the gate with a grim face.
"Where's your car?" I asked.
"Do you really expect me to be your driver everytime? It's bad enough that I have to pick you up every morning."
I gave him a peck on the cheek. I oozed with sweetness. "And I thank you for that."
He rubbed the place where I kissed him with the back of his hand. He feigned disgust. "Let's go. We're gonna be late."
We walked towards the train station, talking. Ren was my bestfriend. Well, I wasn't quite sure what our relationship was exactly. Ren transferred during my first year of middle school. The teacher, knowing how overly friendly I was, instructed that I would guide him as the year progressed. Ever since then, we've been really good friends. Did that mean that we were bestfriends? Or did the title have to be mutually agreed upon?
Like always, I felt the stares of people burning on the side, back, front of my head. I felt an especially lewd stare coming from behind, and I clenched my fists. If that person with such perverted thoughts came so close as fifty meters, I was going to sharpen my teeth, and chew his head.
"Relax, K," Ren said. He was smiling broadly. He definitely liked all the attention from the girls. His hair wasn't in a ponytail today, and he shook his head, his shoulder-length hair flying all over the place. While others thought what he did was sexy, it was disgusting for me.
"Whatcha doin?!" I exclaimed, perturbed. His hair was annoying my face. Then something struck me funny. "You look like some model—"
He smiled at me, his pearly whites shining (yeah right). "I know."
"—in some Head and Shoulders commercial." I guffawed. "Like your dandruff's falling. Or better yet, you're so happy that you don't have dandruff that you're acting like a horse whinnying under the sunlight with its mane—"
He pinched my arm. "Shut up!"
I heard a woman whisper. "He has dandruff?" Then I heard a bunch of girls speak. "That's such a turn-off." "Is dandruff, like, contagious?" "That's too bad."
Oopsies. So maybe I was a little too loud.
"Kiri!" he looked outright irritated. I smiled sheepishly. He took my wrist, and headed into the open doors of the train. Was it bad that I didn't feel any guilt? No. It wasn't. BWAHAH. Well, it wasn't my fault he tried to act like a horse.
After we took off from the train, we were running towards the school gates. Our breaths were ragged. We managed to participate in our morning assembly in the quadrangle, though. I was glad.
Mimi and Cherry gave me wide-eyed stares. Ren and I were never late. Well, that was because we had a car then. I breathed in and out, my chest heaving. Apparently, I lacked stamina. I was still heaving even after we said our school vows and sang our hymn. Our principal was now stating the morning announcements.
"Are you okay?" Lolly asked me from behind. Her long oval-shaped fingernails stabbed me on the neck. Her nails were a threat to humanity. "You look haggard, as if you joined a marathon." She turned to look at Ren, who looked completely fine, curse him. "You need to exercise more, love."
I nodded my head slowly. Then I saw this huge bee hovering above me. It was buzzing like crazy, as if it was taunting me. What bee buzzes like crazy? Definitely this one.
"AGHHHHHHHHHHHH," I shouted. I was prepared to attack the crazy bee with the heel of my shoe, but I noticed that the principal had stopped talking to look at me. That was the first thing I noticed. The second thing I noticed was that everyone was staring at me with my shoe clutched in one hand. I waved my shoe at the principal. "Proceed, proceed, sir!" There was a chorus of laughter. I felt slightly mortified, but the principal continued with his morning speech anyway.
"Cherry, Lolly, Mimi?" Ren said. "Remember to gag Kiri whenever you see that mischievous bee."
"Roger!" The three of them said, acting all military-like.
"Oh, don't listen to the head-and-shoulders guy," I said, crossing my arms against my chest.
Cherry looked at me askance. "I don't get it."
"Me neither," Mimi said. "This is a personal joke, ain't it."
I clasped my hands together in excitement. "So I'll tell you!"
"Kiri!" Ren said threateningly.
"Ok, so, we took the train awhile ago, right? And then—" My voice was inching higher and higher. Oh how exciting it was to deliberately bestow humiliation on others (others: Ren). Ren was heading towards me, his eyes menacing. I could just imagine his hands having claws that would rip me apart. Oh, did I just see him grow a fang or two?
"KIRI!" The principal hollered on the michrophone. "How many times have you disrupted the morning assembly, and my announcements? I tried to let you off before, but I will not tolerate this any longer. Who are the rest of your conspirators?"
Cherry, Lolly and Mimi turned bug-eyed on me. They practically cowered behind the pillar. I pointed at Ren. "Him, sir. He's my accomplice."
Now it was Ren's turn to look bug-eyed. It was such a fascinating sight.
"Detention for you two. For a whole month," the principal said.
Hi guys! I'm writing another story. For those who wanted me to finish Jakome Academy, I'm so sorry >__< I'm putting that on hold for awhile until I come up with better ideas for it. Right now, I'm starting on this story, which I hope to finish this Christmas break xD weee! lol. I'm going to write 10 pages for it everyday, so I'll make sure to gain 100+ pages before school starts again. C: Well, I hope you like it!
I'm a new reader. Love the story so far. I think Ren and Kiri will end up being a couple. They jjust seem perfect together, in my opinion anyway. Well, I'm gonna read some more to find out what happens next. Oh and is there anyway I can read the Jakome Academy story you wrote? It has a Japanese ring to it.
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this was truley AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how are you so good at writing?
it truely astounds me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i would love to seea sequel of this when they are older.
it could be about them in college or leading up to when they get married.
that would ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Portuguese Study on The Evaluation of FFR Guided Treatment of Coronary Disease (POST-IT)
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|First Received Date ICMJE
|April 16, 2013
|Last Updated Date
|May 22, 2015
|Start Date ICMJE
|March 2012
|Primary Completion Date
|November 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Current Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Major adverse cardiac events [ Time Frame: One Year ]
Combined endpoint of major adverse cardiac events (cardiovascular mortality, myocardial infarction and coronary revascularization)
|Original Primary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Change History
|Complete list of historical versions of study NCT01835808 on ClinicalTrials.gov Archive Site
|Current Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Secondary Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Current Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Original Other Outcome Measures ICMJE
|Same as current
|Descriptive Information
|Brief Title ICMJE
|Portuguese Study on The Evaluation of FFR Guided Treatment of Coronary Disease
|Official Title ICMJE
|Observational Study of the Evaluation of FFR in the Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease
|Brief Summary
Functional evaluation of coronary lesions, through the evaluation of fractional flow reserve (FFR) with pressure-wire in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) was evaluated in a randomised trial - the FAME trial - where it was showed to be superior to classic anatomical evaluation. Based on these results, current guidelines recommend the use of FFR (class I-A recommendation) when objective evidence of vessel-related ischemia is not available. Since the FAME trial was published, FFR use increased dramatically in most European countries, Portugal being no exception to this trend. FFR is currently being used in many interventional cardiology centres quite beyond the European Guidelines recommendation, since many physicians now trust more on the information they can collect with pressure-wire during the angiography, and less on non invasive imaging stress tests.
Considering this widespread use of FFR in the evaluation of patients with CAD, there is a need to clarify the clinical results of this approach in a "real patient setting". The Portuguese Study on The Evaluation of FFR Guided Treatment of Coronary Disease (POST-IT) was planned to evaluate if the use of FFR in the decision of coronary revascularization is feasible and allows optimized clinical results in "real world" non selected patients, as showed in clinical randomised trials.
|Detailed Description
|Portuguese Study on The Evaluation of FFR Guided Treatment of Coronary Disease (POST-IT9 is a national multicentric, prospective, consecutive (non selected) anonymous observational study of all patients submitted to coronary angiography and in which functional evaluation with pressure-wire of coronary lesions is to be performed. The main purpose of the registry is to collect data on the medical decisions and clinical results in CAD patients evaluated with FFR (using pressure-wire®, St. Jude Medical), in order to provide evidence in "real world" non selected patients. This evidence will add to the already available clinical data from randomized trials. All Portuguese interventional cardiology centers performing regularly FFR studies were invited to participate in the study. Data will be collected at the time of the procedure and patients will be clinically followed-up for 1 year. Information concerning medical history, past exams, the angiography, the FFR study and the follow-up will be collected on registry forms. The treatment strategy for each patient will be decided by the operator physician, according to his best clinical judgment. Changes in treatment strategy due to FFR results will be recorded, but the intention of the study is just to collect clinical information, and not to influence physician practice. An informed consent form must be signed for all patients included. Patients will be free to withdraw this consent at anytime.
|Study Type ICMJE
|Observational [Patient Registry]
|Study Design ICMJE
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Target Follow-Up Duration
|1 Year
|Not Provided
|Sampling Method
|Non-Probability Sample
|Study Population
|Consecutive CAD patients submitted to coronary angiography and in which coronary lesions are to be evaluated with pressure-wire (FFR functional evaluation).
|Condition ICMJE
|Coronary Artery Disease
|Intervention ICMJE
|Device: Fractional flow reserve (St. Jude Medical pressure-wire)
CAD patients submitted to coronary angiography and in which coronary lesions are to be evaluated with pressure-wire (FFR functional evaluation)
Other Name: Pressure-Wire (St. Jude Medical)
|Study Groups/Cohorts
|Fractional Flow Reserve
Coronary artery disease patients submitted to coronary angiography and in which coronary lesions are to be evaluated with pressure-wire (FFR functional evaluation).
Intervention: Device: Fractional flow reserve (St. Jude Medical pressure-wire)
|Publications *
|Baptista SB, Raposo L, Santos L, Ramos R, Calé R, Jorge E, Machado C, Costa M, Infante de Oliveira E, Costa J, Pipa J, Fonseca N, Guardado J, Silva B, Sousa MJ, Silva JC, Rodrigues A, Seca L, Fernandes R. Impact of Routine Fractional Flow Reserve Evaluation During Coronary Angiography on Management Strategy and Clinical Outcome: One-Year Results of the POST-IT. Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Jul;9(7). pii: e003288. doi: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.115.003288. Erratum in: Circ Cardiovasc Interv. 2016 Aug;9(8). pii: e000017. doi: 10.1161/HCV.0000000000000017.
* Includes publications given by the data provider as well as publications identified by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number) in Medline.
|Recruitment Information
|Recruitment Status ICMJE
|Enrollment ICMJE
|Completion Date
|November 2014
|Primary Completion Date
|November 2013 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Eligibility Criteria ICMJE
Inclusion Criteria:
Exclusion Criteria:
|Child, Adult, Senior
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers
|Contacts ICMJE
|Contact information is only displayed when the study is recruiting subjects
|Listed Location Countries ICMJE
|Removed Location Countries
|Administrative Information
|NCT Number ICMJE
|Other Study ID Numbers ICMJE
|Has Data Monitoring Committee
|U.S. FDA-regulated Product
|Not Provided
|Plan to Share Data
|Not Provided
|IPD Description
|Not Provided
|Responsible Party
|Portuguese Society of Cardiology
|Study Sponsor ICMJE
|Portuguese Society of Cardiology
|Collaborators ICMJE
|Investigators ICMJE
|PRS Account
|Portuguese Society of Cardiology
|Verification Date
|May 2015
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Weekends have been pleasant of late. I have been able to get in a few rides and a few long walk/runs. While driving back from a ride in the Gorge last weekend, I had an ah-ha about why my rides and walks and runs are so important to me. Thom drove me and Patty to our drop off point at Cascade Locks so that we could pick up the bike trail there and bike to the Falls… not a long ride at all, but it has its small challenging climbs and some of the most amazing views of the Columbia Gorge.
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This post details how to setup and use Amazon's Mechanical Turk with the SERP Turkey tool. If you're not familiar with SERP Turkey, or want instructions on that tool then you should first read the SERP Turkey introduction.
If you've never heard of mTurk then there are good introductions here and here. Basically mTurk provides a huge online pool of workers – people at home who get paid anywhere between a few cents to a few dollars to complete simple tasks online. Anyone can join the workforce as a 'worker', and people in the US can become 'requesters' that set tasks. Here I describe how to become a requester and how to setup tasks that bring workers to your SERP Turkey tests. Don't despair if you are not in the US – there is a method for you to get Amazon Turk workers with an extra step – see the section below.
Once you've registered as a requester (which may take a day for your first payment to go through), and created your template (10 mins) you'll be able to create new SERP Turkey tests and get the live in SERP Turkey in less than 5 minutes.
Registering as a requester
So – lets get started. Head over to the mTurk request start page, and fill in your email and press the button to proceed. You'll be asked for your name, email confirmation and to create a password. Next you'll be asked for your company name and US address and phone number. Check the box to agree to the terms and proceed to the next screen. So far so good!
Ok, if you'd like to take the tour you're offered now, go for it and I'll see you on the over side. Otherwise just press 'Get Started' and start setting up your first task.
But some credit
mTurk works on a prepayment system and you have to buy credit to start. This is simple – just goto 'Account Settings' and then click the 'Prepay for Mechanical Turk HITs' link.
You'll need a US registered credit card (though I've heard some people got through without one) to make the payment. be aware that your first payment might take 24-36 hours to get approved.
Creating a task (HIT) for SERP Turkey
mTurk tasks are called HITs (Human Intelligence Task) and are generally created using re-usable templates. Templates will define:
- HIT Title, Description & Keywords
- Payment per task (per worker)
- How many workers you want
- Time allotted per assignment
- How long before the task expires?
- Worker required qualifications
Templates will also define how you wish the question of the task to be presented to the user.
So, lets get going… You'll be asked what sort of work you want the user to do:
Select 'Categorization' and you'll be presented with a list of pre-built template types:
Select the Search Relevance template, which we'll customise.
Here are the settings I've been using:
Title: Click the best result from a set of Search Results
Description: Simply click on the result that you'd select yourself for that search.
Keywords: search, evaluate, opinion, google, quick
Time allotted per assignment: 2 minutes
HIT expires in: 7 days (generally I've not been fussed about needing the results before a deadline – at $0.05 per HIT you should allow 24-36 hours per 100 users)
HIT Approval rate: >=90% or >=95% depending how quickly I wanted the results. Obviously >=95% gets slightly improved results but a little slower.
Number of HITS approved: >100 or >500, once again depending on speed vs. quality
Reward per assignment: $0.05 – I experimented with $0.10 but didn't see any real benefit in speed or quality. I'd rather twice the number of users!
Number of assignments per hit: 200 – this is entirely up to you and your budget and the number of variants you want. The more the better! I'd say ~100 per variant is an absolute minimum. If you're experiment has subtle changes only between the variants then you'll need even more. Note that each worker can only do a HIT once.
If you want to read more about your configuration options then look at page 10 of this mTurk guide.
Once you've chosen your settings press the 'Design Layout' button to proceed. We'll overwrite the template provided – press the "Edit HTML Source" button you see at the top of the text area. Paste in the code here:
Click the 'Edit HTML source' button again to toggle back to display mode and you should see something like this (click to enlarge):
The ${term} and ${result_page} markers you see will be filled in when you create a task from this template. This makes the template re-usable for multiple SERP Turkey tasks. We ask the user to paste the response code they get back from mTurk as we have to ask them a question (mTurk rules), and this response code encodes whether their click was recorded or not (if they timed out by taking longer than 5 minutes, or fiddled with the page somehow they'll get a failure code). Only you will know which codes are a success for a test (shown in your SERP Turkey dashboard).
Hit the "Preview and Finish" button and you're template will be saved and ready to use. Woo!
Creating a SERP Turkey task in mTurk
Now you have a template, you need to create a HIT when you want to run a SERP Turkey test.
Step 1: Create your test in SERP Turkey. If you're not sure how, then read the SERP Turkey introduction blog post I wrote on SEOmoz.
Step 2: On the SERP Turkey Dashboard page you'll find a download link for an mTurk input file; download it. This input file will fill in the ${term} and ${result_page} variables we created in our template.
Step 3: Login to mTurk and hit the chubby "Publish" button at the top. Select whichever template you want (you probably just have the one we just created if this is your first time).
Step 4: Upload the input file you downloaded (or select a previously uploaded one).
Step 5: Now you'll see a preview of how the HIT will look to workers. If everything looks in order press "Next" to see the final screen.
Step 6: You can now give this batch of HITs a name, review how much it is likely to cost etc. If everything looks good then hit "Publish".
Now you're test is live and out there in the world!
Monitoring results
You can now monitor (and download) the results in realtime via the SERP Turkey interface. You can also view the "Manage" tab in mTurk to see how many workers have recorded completing the job on your end.
You should periodically review the results in mTurk and approve the workers work, so they get paid (you want to establish a good relationship as a requester so try to pay within a couple of days – you can automate payment in your template settings). If you're so inclined you can see what response code each worker entered and compare this to the 'success' response code in SERP Turkey's dashboard to see whether their click was counted or not – they are only not counted currently if they took longer than 5 minutes from viewing the SERPs to clicking a result. You should be able to safely ignore this and just pay all the workers.
Cancelling a job
If you're monitoring the results and realise that the test isn't going how you planned, there is a problem or you think you already have enough data then you can cancel a job at any time in the Manage page of mTurk.
Outside of the US?
If you are outside of the US and cannot access mTurk directly, worry not. There is another solution: Smartsheet Crowdsourcing actually leverages Amazon's Mechanical Turk, but you don't need to be in the US to use it. You do have to pay a $30 monthly subscription but then you can leverage Turk. If someone wants to write a Smartsheet SERP Turkey post I'll happily add a link in here and on the SERP Turkey page!
IF SERP Turkey proves popular I will look at adding more features, and either way I will soon make it so you can download all the raw click data for your tests to do your own more detailed analysis. I just haven't had time!
Wrap up
That's pretty much all there is to it!
If you have any feedback or suggestions then contact me by email at [email protected] or via twitter at @TomAnthonySEO, or leave a comment here.
Happy Turkeying!
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