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Conner Contemporary Art is excited to present recent paintings by New York-based artist Wayne Gonzales. Since 2001, Gonzales has been known for his politically charged paintings based on photographs and documents culled from the archives of American history and popular culture. The artist's subject matter has included such diverse topics as the Hooter's girls, Lee Harvey Oswald, The White House and self-portraiture. This will be Gonzales's first solo exhibition in Washington, DC.
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Bullying issue to be addressed at Bullskin meeting
Bullskin Township Neighborhood Watch will be tackling the issue of bullying at its Tuesday meeting, scheduled for 7 p.m. in Pennsville Baptist Church Education Center.
Organizer Edwin Zylka said the principals from Connellsville Area and Southmoreland high schools and Mt. Carmel Christian School will be on hand to answer such questions as:
• What constitutes bullying?
• Is bullying a natural human characteristic that needs to be corrected?
• Why do children / people bully?
• Is school bullying more prevalent in recent generations?
Fayette County Probation Officer Heath Randolph will also be a part of the meeting.
Zylka said he chose the bullying topic because he has seen a lot of bullying on the news lately.
"We need to understand how people relate to one another and what we can do to help control the situation," he said. "We need to figure out how people get the attitude that they can treat other people in a negative way.
"Maybe there's something missing in the way children are brought up these days," Zylka continued. "Maybe it's movies or the Internet. The influences provided by society today are certainly different from in the past."
He added that with technology today, consequences of bullying are so much more severe.
"I have heard that some people have had to change their names because of what they've posted on Facebook in the past is now affecting their careers," Zylka said.
At its February meeting — the first since winter break — the group had the police chief from Connellsville and the assistant police chief from Scottdale talk about crime in the area.
"A lot of praise has to be given to our public servants who put their lives on the line every day for our safety," Zylka said. "The Bullskin Township Neighborhood Watch has a primary goal of supporting these often unsung heroes."
Zylka said Tuesday's meeting would be one for parents or individuals concerned with bullying to bring children.
Rachel Basinger is a freelance writer.


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This entry on Venus in Motion is not for an erotic film at all but it does meet the criteria of (naked) Venuses in motion, at least. Back in 1984 we went round to see our friend Agent DVD in his first flat. While round there he showed us a film by Peter Greenaway he had recorded from Channel 4 called Making a Splash (1984). We were both familiar with Grreenaway from his film The Draughtsman's Contract (1982) and its excellent score by post-minimalist composer Michael Nyman.
After the sight and sound of drops of water dripping, Nyman's score for this begins and accompanies the entire twenty five minute film. The theme of the film is human interaction with water and starts with scenes of the sea and rivers including fish and frogs. There is a clever cut from the bowed legs of a frog to the equally bowed legs of a baby in a swimming pool and much of the rest of the film features different human activities filmed in Putney and Fulham Swimming pools in south-west London. Children on a water slide, swimming races and that curious sport, Octopush are all cut to the beat of one of Nyman's most irresistible scores.
The initial up-beat musical part finishes, about half way through the film, as views of a sub-aqua club are intercut with a shot of the end of the empty pool lanes beneath the water. The mood changes with some slower and more reflective music and the sight of a girl doing backstroke down the pool lane. The sequence in the pool is shot at night in comparison to the daytime shots of activity so far.
There is a shot of the blonde swimmer emerging from the gloom at the far end of the pool. She is dressed in a black swimsuit, the cut of which is one of the things that dates the film.
The next shot, which appears for just a second has her swimming topless across the screen. There was nothing in the preceding 13 minutes of the film to indicate this development.
The film cuts back to the girl swimming underwater in her costume once more but then next we cut back to two naked blonde girls swimming underwater.
The next section consists of intercut scenes from three sequences: sunset over the sea, the girls swimming in their suits and the girls swimming naked.
Next we have a fourth element added in that we get shots of one of the girls filmed from above the surface of the pool of her doing the breastroke, naked under the water. The water breaks up the image into an abstracted patchwork of colours.
Finally, a fifth element in this sequence is added of one of the girls shot swimming on her back on the surface of the pool or just below the surface of the water.
What was really surprising at the time, and what seems completely unremarkable today, was that one of the girls had a completely smooth, shaved pubis which was something we had only seen in a magazine once before.
We suppose this short (about one and a half minutes) sequence comes under the heading of unexpected eroticism. The image of a naked woman underwater speaks of mermaids and Greek naiads as well as complete freedom in the enveloping environment of water. Although we often argue in these posts that nudity per se is not incipiently erotic there is something about it in water that adds a sensuousness that wouldn't be present in shots of the women just walking naked on land.
There is a tactile element to being naked in water as well, with the water literally caressing every inch of skin so the eroticism is, perhaps, by implication. The fact that the two principal subjects just happen to be very fit attractive young women doesn't hurt either.
There is actually a short sequence of one of the girls swimming naked with a man but obviously the director decided to focus on the women in the final cut as he only appears for a fraction of a second. Perhaps it was thought that having a man and a woman swimming naked together might add a more distracting, overtly erotic element.
Our final shot of a naked swimmer has her, uniquely, on the surface before she slips into the water, transiting from air into the watery element that the film is about.
The film climaxes with a long sequence of the British synchronised swimming team in action; filmed from both above and below the water, as Michael Nyman delivers one of his most propulsive pieces.
The film was commissioned by Channel 4 and, as far as we are aware, was only shown once on TV. For some reason it has never been released on DVD in the UK, unlike a lot of Peter Greenaway's other short films which the British Film Institute has issued. For a time it was available on DVD in Japan and Agent DVD ordered a copy from there. Today, you can see quite a good copy of Making a Splash on YouTube.
It is Michael Nyman's music, now named Water Dances, that makes the film, however, although the full score has never been released, despite him expanding it into a forty minute piece for concerts. We own five different versions of excerpts, however. The first one to be released was on the album The Kiss and other movements (1985) It contains three of the eight movements of the work: stroking, gliding and synchronising. The Essential Michael Nyman Band (1992) contains an eleven minute version of some of the score. Michael Nyman Live (1994) has the Michael Nyman band playing two movements, dipping and stroking, at their usual breakneck speed. Michael Nyman: Music for two pianos (2004) by the Zoo Duet features five of the piece's movements, dipping, stroking, submerging, gliding and synchronising, in a two piano arrangement. French pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque's version of the same five two piano arrangements, in their 2013 album Minimalist Dream House, is far superior, however. Oddly, none of these recordings contains the music for the naked girls sequence.


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Priya Kansara | December 26, 2006
As the year 2006 comes to an end, it is time to check how the stock market has performed, and what sectors and companies have rewarded investors. At first blush, the numbers are impressive.
The 30-share large-cap Sensex has gained 43 per cent from the beginning of the year till December 22. These numbers compare favourably to the Sensex gains of 42 per cent in 2005, 13 per cent in 2004 and 73 per cent in 2003.
However as the index becomes more broad-based, the returns keep tapering off. For example, the returns of the 50-stock Nifty stood at a lower 36.5 per cent. Similarly is the case with BSE 100 and BSE 500.
From the performance of the indices, we can construe that the market took a preference to large-cap stocks, and the mid-cap and small-cap stocks didn't do as well in the year 2006.
At the stock level, this conclusion is confirmed. Of the 2600-odd companies, traded on the BSE, about 50 per cent have ended the year in the negative! Of the remaining companies, about half the companies have underperformed the Sensex returns. Thus, only 25 per cent of India Inc delivered Sensex-beating returns in 2006.
Between January and May 2006, the stock markets saw a broad-based rally. Till May 10, the Sensex and BSE 500 was up 34 per cent each. But since then, investors" preference shifted to large-caps, thanks to the meltdown.
During the year, the sectors that have underperformed the Sensex include auto and auto ancillaries, pharma, power, oil and gas, FMCG, sugar, IT, metals, engineering and banks, though there are a few exceptional stocks that did very well in these sectors.
"One of the major reason for large number of stocks underperforming is also the under-performance of the mid-cap stocks with relation to Sensex," says Sandeep Nanda, head-research, Sharekhan. On the other hand, sectors like cement, construction, real estate and hotels have out-performed the key index.
Thus, the year 2006 was a historic period for the Indian stock market - the Sensex closed at 9397 points on December 30, 2005 and then went on to scale the 14,000-point peak.
But despite these unprecedented levels, not everybody on the street has gained. So what happened during the year? Here is how the top sectors performed.
Foreign tourist arrivals in India has been growing at over 20 per cent a year. Between January and October 2006, India registered 3.5 million foreign tourist arrivals, up 14 per cent and set to cross 4 million by the end of the year.
There is a shortage of 27,000 rooms.
Capex plans of leading hotel majors to materialise only by FY09.
Room tariffs went up by 20-60 per cent between April and October 2006. Delhi, Hyderabad and Pune saw one of the highest rise in tariffs, besides Bangalore, which is the most expensive city by room tariffs.
Revenues from food and beverages, which forms about 30 per cent of total revenues, is growing around 20 per cent.
Out-performer: Indian Hotels
Under-performers: EIH, Hotel Leela, Viceroy Hotels
Demand grew at 8-10 per cent while supply increased by 5 per cent in 2006. Strong demand from the housing, infrastructure, IT/ITES industry, malls and multiplexes. Companies operating at over 95 per cent capacity utilisation.
Overall, cement prices up by 37 per cent. While South and Central region saw biggest rise in prices, North and West each witnessed about 25 per cent rise. East saw a modest growth of 20 per cent.
Major capex for over 50 million tonne announced by players.
After a surplus in FY06, the industry will see a substantial deficit of 2.7 million tonnes in FY07.
Acquisition of major stakes in Indian companies by foreign cement majors. For example Holcim bought stakes in ACC and Gujarat Ambuja. Heidelberg bought a stake in Mysore Cement.
The sector has been a star performer with only 24 per cent of the total cement companies under-performing the index.
Out-performers: Shree Cement, Mangalam Cement, Mysore Cement, UltraTech, India Cements, Madras Cements, ACC, Gujarat Ambuja
Under-performers: Birla Corp, Kakatiya Cements, OCL India, JK Cement, Andhra Cement
Construction and Real estate
Increased government spending on infrastructure and rising housing demand led to bulging order books of companies.
Visibility of earnings improved.
Order book to sales ratio of major companies rose from 3x in FY06 to 3.5-6.5x in October 2006.
Key risks of execution capability, impact of higher interest rates and input costs pressures led to some correction later in the year.
Real estate companies dominated the out-performing pack, thanks to the rising value of their land banks, and overall, only 34 per cent have under-performed.
Out-performers: Unitech, Lok Housing, Ansal Properties, Anant Raj Industries, Era Constructions, Peninsula Land, IVRCL Infrastructure, Ansal Housing, Mahindra Gesco, DS Kulkarni, Jaiprakash Associates, Nagarjuna Construction
Under-performers: PBA Infrastructure, Patel Engineering, HCC, Simplex Infra, Noida Toll Bridge, Gammon
Though there were a few stocks that have done exceedingly well, a large proportion of the engineering sector universe was an under-performer.
Most of these stocks corrected sharply in the range of 20-60 per cent in the May market meltdown after touching peak levels prior to that.
Operating margins of many companies declined due to input cost pressures especially in the September quarter.
However, earnings visibility was strong with healthy order books due to increased spending on infrastructure and cost competitiveness of Indian players.
Investment in infrastructure are likely to be $275 billion in various segments over the next five years.
Out-performers: ABB, Siemens, BHEL, Elecon Engineering, AIA Engineering, Alstom Projects, Larsen and Toubro
Under-performers: ABG Heavy Industries, Bharat Earth Movers, Engineers India, Alfa Laval, Sulzer India
Strong growth in money supply and credit. Advances grew by 30 per cent over two consecutive years and also in H1 FY07.
The key highlights were strong retail growth, strong corporate capex cycle and investment in infrastructure.
Despite that, banks had been scrambling for resources. Deposits are growing by 15-20 per cent.
Improvement in operating efficiencies and non-performing asset levels.
Stable to declining net interest margins especially for public sector banks.
After various monetary policy measures like increasing the weightage on risky assets and the repo rate hike, RBI recently raised cash reserve ratio by 50 basis point from 5 to 5.5 per cent after almost two years.
Pause in interest rate hike by US Fed since August triggered the rally in banking stocks, which were major under-performers for one year prior to that.
Despite the recent rally, still 71 per cent of the banks have under-performed or given negative returns.
Out-performers: Yes Bank, City Union Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, UTI Bank, Bank of India, State Bank of India, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank
Under-performers: Indian Overseas Bank, Canara Bank, Allahabad Bank, Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda, Union Bank of India, Oriental Bank of Commerce
Almost all the companies reported robust top line growth in double digits.
Rising urban incomes coupled with strong demand in the rural economy due to increasing disposable income.
However, the higher base effect reflected in some categories like shampoos and detergents.
Companies grappling with input cost pressures.
Companies like HLL, Dabur India and Colgate went ahead with price hikes to protect margins
Ad spends on the rise.
This sector, which was an out-performer till May 2006, has been a major under-performer, with the exception of Marico.
Auto and Auto ancillaries
The auto and auto ancillary sector had over 80 per cent as under-performers.
Passenger vehicles have registered a 16.38 per cent y-o-y growth in sales between January and November 2006.
Cars grew at 18.6 per cent and UVs (utility vehicles) at 9 per cent.
Ban on overloading of trucks helped the commercial vehicle segment grow 26 per cent.
Though the growth in the two-wheeler segment has been about 16 per cent, intense competition and input cost pressures affected most two-wheeler stocks.
Except M&M and Maruti, operating margins of others especially two wheelers have been under pressure.
Though top line growth was generally robust, most auto ancillaries faced margin erosion due to higher input costs and pressure to reduce prices from manufacturers.
Out-performers: Eicher Motors, M&M, Sona Koyo, Federal-Mogul
Market performer: Maruti Udyog
Under-performers: Tata Motors, Bajaj Auto, Hero Honda, Ashok Leyland
Metals have had a roller-coaster rise on the bourses with volatility being the order of the day even as non-ferrous metals (aluminium, copper and zinc) touched their record high levels in May 2006.
While major steel stocks have performed well surprisingly despite the threat of Chinese imports, non-ferrous metal stocks have done even better thanks to spiralling rise in the copper, zinc and aluminium prices.
The global steel industry witnessed consolidation with the merger of two of the world"s top steel producers - Mittal Steel and Arcelor -- to become the largest global steel producer.
Tata Steel made a bid for Corus.
While domestic demand for steel has been strong, China became a net exporter.
After bouncing back in Q4 FY06, international steel prices have been more or less stable.
Out-performers: Hindustan Zinc, Sterlite Industries, SAIL, Bhushan Steel, Madras Aluminium, Kalyani Steel, JSW Steel
Under-performers: Hindlaco, Tata Steel, Jindal Stainless, Jindal Steel and Power, Nalco
Information Technology
Robust demand scenario leading to 30 per cent revenue growth for top-rung companies thanks to the addition of new clients and modest price hikes.
Indian IT companies continue to have an advantage of being cost competitive and talent pool.
Marginal impact of US slowdown, corporate IT spending on the rise.
Dependence on the US--the largest market for IT-- is slowly declining. Growth in Europe has been faster.
However, wage hike of 10-15 per cent and high attrition rates are capping margin expansion.
Both large- and mid-sized companies are acquiring global companies to become competitive. For example NIIT Technologies acquiring ROOM Solutions, UK, and Hexaware bought FocusFrame.
Stocks in this sector have declined less than many other sectors though many under-performers relative to the Sensex.
Out-performers: Infosys, NIIT, NIIT Technologies, Hinduja TMT, Zenith Infotech, i-flex solutions, Mphasis, Sonata Software, Infotech Enterprises, Subex Azure
Under-performers: Satyam, Wipro, TCS, Hexaware, Nucleus Software, Zensar
Strong growth in the domestic market given the high volume growth on the back of aggressive new product launches and the continued focus of companies in the high growth chronic lifestyle segments.
However, contentious issues of pricing control continues in the domestic market.
Robust export scenario driven by new launches of generics or supplying of active pharmaceutical ingredients to the global generic players.
Indian players garnering larger share in the DMFs filed with the US FDA.
But competition and pricing pressures persist in the key markets of the US and Europe.
Players mitigating pricing pressure abroad by expanding their product basket and stepping up R&D activities.
Many companies shifting production to tax-saving havens like Himachal Pradesh.
Only large-cap and some specific stocks have gained market attention.
Out-performers: Glenmark Pharma, Dr Reddy's, Divi's Laboratories, Lupin, Aurobindo, Elder
Under-performers: Cipla, Ranbaxy, Sun Pharma, Shasun, Matrix Laboratories, Nicholas Piramal
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by Will Ashworth | April 9, 2012 10:29 am
The S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.74% and 1.2% respectively for the week of April 2-6, shortened a day due to Good Friday. While the markets took a holiday, InvestorPlace.com did not. I'll look at some of our contributors' stock picks from last week, providing readers with ETF alternatives.
On Monday, Ivan Martchev was in a financial frame of mind. But his thoughts weren't of banks or even the Financial Select Sector SPDR (NYSE:XLF[1]). Instead, Martchev believes safer bets exist[2] in Visa (NYSE:V[3]) and MasterCard (NYSE:MA[4]), two businesses with good margins, no debt and zero exposure to credit risk.
Since those picks were made to avoid banks and other financial institutions, for an ETF you'll want to go with PowerShares Dynamic Market Portfolio (NYSE:PWC[5]), which has both Visa and MasterCard as top 10 holdings, yet limits its financial-services exposure to 13% of the fund. It does have an expense ratio of 0.59%, so those concerned with fees might also consider Vanguard Information Technology ETF (NYSE:VGT[6]), which charges 0.19% annually. But neither Visa nor MasterCard is in its top 10 holdings — both have weightings of less than 2%.
Sam Collins went north of the border Tuesday for one of his five stock picks for the month of April[7], recommending TransCanada Corporation (NYSE:TRP[8]), the folks behind the Keystone Pipeline. Being Canadian, I always notice when someone's recommending a homegrown business.
I, too, was in a Canadian frame of mind this past week, recommending three companies[9] operating in my own backyard. But I digress. TransCanada is an infrastructure play, and as such I'd suggest you go with the iShares S&P Global Infrastructure Index Fund (NYSE:IGF[10]), which has 76 holdings, including TransCanada at 4.08%.
Midweek, James Brumley had a hankering for silver, suggesting that its industrial applications make demand for it far more consistent than demand for gold. Deutsche Bank believes silver will outperform gold in 2012[11].
The obvious choice here is the iShares Silver Trust (NYSE:SLV[12]), which Brumley mentions. With almost $10 billion in assets, the fund dwarfs any other silver-related ETF.
A less obvious idea would be to buy a fund that combines silver and gold, thereby hedging your bet. ETFS Physical Precious Metals Basket Shares (NYSE:GLTR[13]) gives you a 50.4% interest in gold bullion, a 38.9% interest in silver bullion, with the remaining 10.7% invested in platinum and palladium bullion. At 0.60%, its annual expense ratio seems reasonable.
Lawrence Meyers spent Thursday discussing the relationship between Liberty Media (NASDAQ:LMCA[14]) and Sirius XM (NASDAQ:SIRI[15]). Three years ago, Liberty lent the satellite radio network $500 million[16] so it could continue operating. In exchange, Liberty acquired 40% of the company and is now seeking control.
Sirius XM CEO Mel Karmazin is intent on blocking any takeover move without some sort of premium paid by Liberty for this control. Meyers suggests you buy both stocks. I would be interested only in Liberty, but for those who agree with Meyers, your best bet is to buy PowerShares DWA Technical Leaders Portfolio (NYSE:PDP[17]), which invests in 100 U.S.-listed companies that demonstrate powerful relative strength characteristics. With a net expense ratio of 0.70%, you get Liberty Media at a weighting of 2.57% and Sirius XM at 0.58%. Not surprisingly, the fund's top holding is Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL[18]).
Ending the week on Good Friday, Jim Woods discussed a total of eight companies increasing their dividends[19]. The healthiest hike came from teen retailer Hot Topic (NASDAQ:HOTT[20]), which upped its quarterly dividend by 14.3%, to $0.08 a share, providing investors with a yield of 3.18% as of April 5.
Hot Topic is expected to turn a profit in fiscal 2013 of $0.36 a share, providing further upside to its 54% gain year-to-date as of April 5.
A safer bet would be WisdomTree SmallCap Dividend Fund (NYSE:DES[21]), which isn't weighted by market cap but instead by the dollar amount of dividends paid annually. Under these guidelines, Hot Topic represents just 0.13% of the portfolio. Most important, the fund's distribution yield is 3.4%, with an annual expense ratio of 0.38%.
As of this writing, Will Ashworth did not own a position in any of the stocks named here.
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Neil Young - Be The Rain
Author's Notes - Extremely easy song. Off Neil Young's critically acclaimed
2003 Greendale album. There are many different little solo bits. But rather
then tab them out, it's great for beginners to jam to with friends. At least
that's what I do. In this tab, I'm just giving you the chords and the lyrics.
So have fun.
Tuning - Standard eadgbe
C -x32010
Entire song.... (get ready because it's insanely challenging :p)Dm, Ab, F, C
save the planet for another day
"attention shoppers, buy with a conscience and save"
save the planet for another day
"save alaska! let the caribou stay"
don't care what the governments say
"they're all bought and paid for anyway"
save the planet for another day
"hey big oil, what do you say?"
we were runnin' through the night
never knowin' if we would see the light
paranoid schizophrenic visions
livin' in fear of the wrong decisions
we got to wake up
we got to keep goin'
if they follow us
there's no way of knowin'
we got a job to do
we got to
save mother earth
be the ocean when it meets the sky
"you can make a difference, if you really try"
be the magic in the northern lights
"six days....six nights"
be the river as it rolls along
"it has three eyed fish and it's smellin' strong"
be the rain you remember fallin'
"be the rain, be the rain"
yeah rain was fallin' and we're soakin' wet
hail is beatin' down on our heads
the wind is blowin' through our hair
faces frozen in the frigid air
we got to get there
we got to be there
before the big machines
we got a job to do
we got to
save mother earth
dream the hunter on the western plain
"the birds are all gone, where did they go?"
dream the fisherman in his boat
"he's comin' home empty, he's barely afloat"
dream the logger in the great northwest
"they're runnin' out of trees, they got to give it a rest"
(there's no other way to cut it)
dream the farmer in the old heartland
"corporate greed and chemicals are killin' the land"
next mornin' sun was up at dawn
she looked around and earth was gone
dark visions he had last night
he needed peace, he needed light
he heard the rumble and
he saw the big machines
the green army rose
it was a bad dream
he had a job to do
he had to
save mother earth
be the ocean when it meets the sky
"greek freighters are dumping crap somewhere right now"
be the magic in the northern lights
"the ice is melting!"
be the river as it rolls along
"toxic waste dumpin' from corporate farms"
be the rain you remember fallin'
"be the rain, be the rain"
save the planet for another day
"be the rain, be the rain"
be the river as it rolls along
"be the rain, be the rain"


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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 22.214.171.124
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What are the guidelines for a Google friendly site those days?
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The logic of not relying on SERPS to provide a large enough chunk of your sales - to the extent that your business is threatened if those SERPS change - is irrefutable.
I repeat, why and how do you assume that my business relies on Google SERPs? We're doing great thank you, now please put a sock in it :)
The irony is, I'll probably be the one booted off now for exceeding the TOS!
But no online business could have predicted the massive changes in the SERPs, and hence revenue, brought about by Florida /Austin.
Florida/Austin was a bad one, but certainly not the first big shake-up (or snafu) of its kind.
Here's a fun thread:
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Yes, but you will find that many business's here just did not exist before the web. It is the web (read serps) that has made them. Having done that, it is sensible to start advertising elsewhere, but when your business is only selling on the net, believe me, it is much more difficult to get offline advertising to convert.
Saying it is daft to rely only on serps is like saying to the man who sells shovels to the gold miners.... "what, you mean you never considered the mine would run out of gold?" Of course he did. Not so soon perhaps, but it is no problem, as now he has a bit of cash, and can set up selling shovels at the next mine (read search engine ). Not so many perhaps, but you never know, it might grow.
Most people here are opportunists, and are quite capable of thinking ahead :)
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how far Google have strayed away from its so much hyped mission statement...that's how we judge a search engine and not about where my site in terms of ranking.
When Google first came out, most of the discussion here or elsewhere is 'mostly' about how to make your site rank better with Google.
To the point of making us believe that honest and hard work...works great with Google unlike other search engines that were dominated by spam sites.
Google preaches fair play and work within the guideline...and we in turn preaches to the new web masters to do the same. Some of us are even zealous in protecting this ideal that any attempt to circumvent this principle is almost instantly meet with disdain and contempt.
We're not stupid but we like to believe what Google preaches, we like to see a fair and honest search engine. A true search engine for the people/webmasters.
In a way Google have given hope and faith to webmasters who believe in contents and no nonsense approach to web publishing.
With that...that makes Google accountable...maybe not to the Court of Law but definitely to the community it has courted once.
Who's courting who now? Does Google still need the support of the webmasters or is it the webmasters trying hard to get into Google. It's like G have s.c.r.e.w us royally and now we are just a nuisance after all it has gotten from us what it wants...we are just the old girlfriend and who knows maybe Google have found a new girlfriend.
Its PR dept. is starting to sound like the sleek playboy false promises if not outright lies just to keep the old girlfriend (us) in line and not to cause trouble.
Do you still believe that honest and hard work pays-off with Google now? If you do then you are not making money with your web site...dream on.
Where do we stand from here?
We can't change Google, we can only make noises but that's our right...we are allowed to do that...just like old girlfriend nagging their cheating boyfriend.
Would Google change in our favor? It's entirely up to them depending perhaps on how good they feel with their new girlfriend (money/investor).
Who knows maybe Google new girlfriend is s.c.r.e.w.i.n.g them royally too and no amount of logic or intelligence(all the Phd's) can convince greed and lust...it's all back to basic instinct.
It is the web (read serps) that has made them
it is much more difficult to get offline advertising to convert
I don't understand your shovel seller analogy but I certainly understand gold digging ;-)
Most people here are opportunists
Talk about cheating girlfriends, playboy promises, (not a) fair and honest search engine (sic), greed and lust and basic instincts, screws (and nuts) are way, way off topic.
Chelsea <sigh> chill.
how do you assume that my business relies on SERPS
Can we not agree to disagree on whether Google has a responsiblity to not suddenly dump sites they've previously been showing high up in the SERPS?
Most people here are opportunists
Fair enough. So they benefitted from free traffic. They shouldn't mind that it's now somebody else who's getting that opportunity.
I took that first quote to mean that Google, the internet in general, has brought opportunities for many of us here. I don't think having good listings is the "opportunity." The "opportunity" is having a shot at them.
When I've done well in Google, I never saw them as a wonderful benefactor. The traffic wasn't "free." I worked for it, spent countless hours learning and keeping up with search technology, and took credit for taking advantage of the opportunity. Same thing with Alta Vista years ago.
If Google went 404 and completely out of business tomorrow, I'm still way ahead. They owe me nothing, not even opportunity.
I am sympathetic to those of you who feel like they did the "carrot, carrot, carrot, stick" thing. (I can't remember who here originally said that.) Maybe they did. I'm still happy I wound up with three carrots out of the deal.
Keep adding the good content.


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10 Signs You're in an "Abusive" Relationship … With a Cat
Okay, first of all, real abusive relationships aren't a joke. However, one day I was sitting in my therapist's waiting room (I'm still recovering from some old wounds) and I was bored because I was — for once! — early, so I plucked a pamphlet from the wall. Those pamphlets always look like they've been …
6 Reasons Why Laundry Baskets Are Perpetual Cat-Magnets
Cats love laundry baskets. (Duh.) My Phoebe was born with fresh-laundry detection skills. She can be anywhere in the house and as soon as I place a basket of the good stuff on the floor, she's all over it. Even if there's no warm laundry to be had, my cats openly pledge unconditional love to …
Are You a Racist When It Comes to Cats? 8 Stereotypes Based on Breed and Markings
Are you guilty of "racial profiling" when it comes to cats? If you believe that a cat will act a certain way based on breed, then maybe you are.
5 Home Renovation Projects Your Cats Would Totally Commission
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So, My Cats Failed an Intelligence Test
Would you ever test your cats' intelligence? I did. The results were unimpressive. But I love my cats even if theyÔÇÖre idiots.
Cat Vaccinations: 8 Things to Consider
Although there is no simple answer when it comes to vaccines and their frequency, there are some guiding principles that can be used.
Wildfire Season Approaches: Keep Your Cat Safe
Summer is fire season in the U.S., so it's a good time to be prepared for action.
Do You Love Men Who Love Cats?
I'm seeking the cat-loving man of my dreams, and I have four big reasons. Do you agree with them?
10 Cats Doing Their Best to Make Us Jealous. (It's Working!)
It might seem petty to envy a cat, but look at the cats in these photos! Of course I'm jealous!
We All Have Hobbies; Does Your Cat Join You in Yours?
Although having a cat is certainly a hobby in itself, I never guessed when I adopted my sweet little calico, Tulip, that she'd partake in all of mine. As an elementary school teacher, I'm always hearing about the importance of helping our students become "well-rounded." I do my part at school by implementing various teaching …


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Where the Young and Tech-Savvy Go
What can Foursquare tell us about how people live?
The location-based social network, which lets people "check in" to places using their mobile phones, has about 8 million users and is used more than 1.5 million times a day world-wide.
To learn about where people go and what they do on Foursquare, Digits collected every check-in on the service for a week earlier this year, via the Foursquare "firehose." And what did we find?
Broadly: The top individual spots are places like malls, airports and train stations, because so many people filter through those locations. But the top categories are homes, offices, coffee shops and bars, even though each of the individual locations in those categories gets a very small number of check-ins.
It's unclear from the Foursquare check-ins themselves how old users are, or what their other demographic characteristics might be (except for gender, which we discuss separately). But Foursquare users tend to be young, tech-savvy and socially active, said Naveen Selvadurai, one of the co-founders of Foursquare Labs Inc.
We collected every Foursquare check-in for a week starting at noon Eastern on Friday, Jan. 21 until noon on Friday Jan. 28. See what we found.
A a survey last year showed that fewer than 5% of Americans had ever used Foursquare or its rivals, and only about 1% used such a location-based service on a daily basis.
Mr. Selvadurai said Foursquare's user base has been determined in large part by the people who first developed the company, which is headquartered in New York City. "In the early days it was a reflection of us and who we hung out with," he said. "It spreads from friend to friend, from that inner circle to that outer layer."
For this reason, we focused our analysis on New York and San Francisco, two cities that had some of the first early Foursquare users.
Looking at New York, it's easy to see trends that set Foursquare users apart. Most inhabitants of New York don't actually live in Manhattan, but that's where the vast majority of check-ins take place, no matter the time of day.
On weekdays, offices and lunch spots in Midtown and the Financial District light up with check-ins, while on Friday and Saturday nights, Foursquare users migrate to the nightlife of the Lower East Side. Except in the dead of night, transit hubs like Grand Central Terminal are consistently popular points. (Times Square also gets quite a few check-ins, but we assume those people are tourists.)
"There's a lot more density and things to do in Manhattan, and you're kind of seeing that," Mr. Selvadurai said.
Still, the top categories for Foursquare users each day paint a pretty good picture of life for a certain demographic in New York and San Francisco.
A Tuesday in New York looks like so: People are at home from midnight to 5 a.m., then at the gym until 8 a.m., when they head to work. They're at the office until 6 in the evening, when they go to the gym again before heading back home at 8. A New York Saturday, by contrast, goes this way: bars until 4 a.m., home and some trips to the airport until 10 a.m., gym or coffee shop until 5 p.m., and then back to the bar.
For San Franciscans, the weekday looks fairly similar — except for an astonishing number of trips to the coffee shop. On a Tuesday, San Francisans are at home until they make a 4 a.m. coffee-shop run. They go to the gym until 7 a.m., then back to the coffee shop. At 9 in the morning, they head to work — until 3 p.m. when it's time for another coffee-shop break. San Franciscans work until 5 p.m. and head to the gym until 8 p.m., when like New Yorkers they go home.
On Saturday, San Franciscans are at the bar, but only until 2 a.m. They too head home or to the airport for early morning travel, but they hit the coffee shop early — starting at 7 a.m. Aside from a brief midafternoon trip to a park, the coffee shop is where they stay. They do their grocery shopping on weekends from 5 to 7, have a nice American-food dinner, and then get to the bar at 9 p.m.
So why do people check where they do? Mr. Selvadurai says he sees two overwhelming patterns — people checking in at big events to share the experience, and people checking in when they're traveling, to announce to other people where they are.
Businesses have been trying to use Foursquare to entice visitors as well, offering deals if users check in. Brooklyn Bowl, the top New York nightlife spot in our survey, offers the Foursquare mayor the first drink on the house. That said, Chelsea Market and the Shake Shack, two of the top venues, don't offer such specials.
There are other reasons people might use Foursquare, said Judith Donath, a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. These range from keeping track of activities like you'd keep a journal to creating "a trendy public persona for yourself," she said.
Ms. Donath also pointed to another possible reason that check-ins at airports and even doctor's offices are so popular: "There's a whole set of check-ins where you have time you're trying to kill," she said. "You might just be sitting there … It's filling a physical space's void with something virtual."
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and New York City Department of Environmental Protection have reached an agreement on an enforcement Order to improve the overall water quality in New York Harbor waters. Under this agreement, the city will invest approximately $187 million over the next three years and an estimated $2.4 billion of public and private funding over the next 18 years to install green infrastructure technologies to manage stormwater before it enters the city's combined sewer system. The city maintains the flexibility to prioritize green investments in areas of the city that will benefit most from the resulting reductions in combined sewer overflows.
"DEC and New York City worked collaboratively to develop an innovative and cost-saving approach to water quality problems in New York Harbor," said DEC Commissioner Joe Martens. "New York City's use of green infrastructure to achieve water quality goals at lower cost to ratepayers should serve as a model for other large, urban communities in New York State and the nation. Green infrastructure beautifies the urban landscape, a benefit long sought by environmental justice stakeholders."
New York City, like other older urban communities, is largely serviced by a combined sewer system where stormwater and wastewater are carried through a single system. During heavy storms, the system often reaches capacity and must discharge a mix of stormwater and wastewater, called a combined sewer overflow, into New York waterbodies. If the overflows were not discharged, the city's wastewater treatment plants would be flooded and unable to treat wastewater.
Through a mix of cost-effective gray infrastructure and cutting-edge green infrastructure, the agreement aims to significantly reduce sewer overflows into waterways through a combination of traditional and green infrastructure practices over the next 18 years. The city estimates that approximately 1.5 billion gallons of CSO flows will be removed annually by 2030 through the application of green infrastructure. Green infrastructure, such as green roofs and porous pavement, improves harbor water quality by capturing and holding stormwater runoff before it enters the sewer system and contributes to CSOs.
As part of the agreement, the state and city have resolved all outstanding compliance issues associated with the Consent Order. The modified Consent Order requires the city to complete $1.4 billion in cost-effective gray infrastructure substitution projects to improve the city's collection system performance. These substitute projects will save the city taxpayers $1.4 billion from the original tanks and treatment plant expansions, required by the Consent Order, while providing equivalent water quality benefits.
The state has also agreed to defer decisions on the need for significant gray infrastructure projects, such as storage tunnels or holding tanks, to achieve water quality goals in Newtown Creek and Flushing Bay until completion of the green infrastructure demonstration projects. This will defer approximately $2 billion in capital projects. This approach provides an opportunity for DEP to incorporate green infrastructure into its CSO Long Term Control Plans, which are aimed at achieving full water quality compliance, and will be developed with public input between 2013 and 2017. There is potential for future significant savings to city rate payers should green infrastructure prove effective in these watersheds.
Under the provisions of the agreement, the city agrees to pay a $200,000 penalty; provide $150,000 to support a water quality evaluation of the Hutchinson River; and fund $5 million in environmental benefit projects, including supplemental funding for two neighborhood-scale green infrastructure demonstration projects and for DEP's existing green infrastructure grant program for the next three years. The city will also accelerate the 26th Ward gray infrastructure substitution projects, and is subject to an additional $1 million penalty if that schedule is not met.
The modified Consent Order puts into place the elements of a green infrastructure adaptive management approach. Over the next 18 years, the city will control the first inch of rain from 10 percent of the city's impervious surface with green infrastructure. The Order requires five-year incremental milestones to meet that goal, and annual reporting on progress. The $187 million in public funds will be used toward the achievement of the first five-year target.
SOURCE: New York State Department of Environmental Conservation


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From: ellen Levy <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Scientific American and N1a
Date: Sat, 7 Jan 2006 12:34:12 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <000301c613c6$20ee7a70$79bf19ac@sasonb46c858c2>
Part of the problem is that often times the
geneticists fail to adequately incorporate other
important areas of study in their analysis on this
issue, particularly archaeology (as well as sub-groups
such as archaeobotany). They also fail to adequately
incorporate other genetic studies, both
Y-chromosome/MtDNA and autosomal, and the Haak study
is a perfect example of this failure. Another problem
- failure to address an issue touched upon in
Caramelli's study - that the route of migrations for
anatomically modern Europeans appears to be out of the
Middle East to begin with (this is debatable, I
realize). Impact of the LGM. Impact of genetic drift
(this is biggie). Impact of land barriers, like the
Alps. Regional variations in genetic composition
(another biggie) rather than a persistent view of a
unified European gene pool.
Often, the conclusions of studies like Haak's appear
to be more a promotion of an agenda than a
presentation of a valid study on the origins of the
European gene pool.
Most scientists agree that contemporary Europeans
represent a hybrid between Near Eastern
agriculturalists and Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.
The debate rages around which had the greater impact.
Almost all the studies, save a few, fail to even touch
upon the issue I consider of extreme important and
have posted to the list about before - the
discontinuity between contemporary Europe populations
and those from the past. Europeans are significantly
different than their Neolithic ancestors and even more
so from their Paleolithic ones. Most of the studies
want to argue against drift as a factor here, but they
always fail to offer a more plausible explanation.
Ellen Coffman
--- Sasson Margaliot <>
> When the brilliant biologists tell the world their
> baseless fantasies about
> what might have happened in pre-historic times, one
> should not be surprised
> if the fairy tail is being changed from time to
> time.
> Sasson Margaliot
> Glen wrote:
> > I have to admit that I find this whole thing
> incredibly amusing. First
> > the
> > Neolithic farmers were supposed to have totally
> superseded the
> > Palaeolithic
> > hunter-gatherers ('wave of replacement' theory) in
> sort of an
> > anthropological version of Ex Oriente Lux.
> Bryan Sykes pretty much cut
> > the stuffing out of that. Now things seem to be
> swinging towards the
> > opposite extreme, with claims that the spread of
> agricultural practice was
> > effectively entirely due to cultural diffusion,
> with essentially no
> > genetic
> > diffusion. Ain't science fun?
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Occidental College
Campus Dining
At Campus Dining, sustainability is an ever-expanding effort, and there are plenty of things going on - join us!
Sustainable Food Sourcing
Oxy's Own dining service is a signatory to the Real Food Challenge - a nationwide network of institutions committed to redirecting 20% of all food purchased by colleges and universities (currently 4 billion dollars) towards real food (local, ecologically sound, fair trade, humane) by 2020. During just this past academic year (2015-2016) Oxy doubled the previous year, surpassed the national goal and achieved 24% Real Food! Our commitment is higher - we're committed to reaching 30% by 2020. Oxy has participated in the RFC since 2008, and signed the commitment in October 2014. We continue to work with new suppliers and reach out to encourage our customers to join us in making the choice for REAL FOOD. Look for the signs in dining facilities to help you make sustainable choices.
Student Participation
- Sammy Herdman continues a nine year tradition, as Campus Dining's current Lead Student Intern for Sustainability Research and Implementation. Sammy spearheads a team of interns who maintain the RFC database, co-chair the Food Service Working Group, communicate information to the Oxy community, research, implement and market procurement and new sustainability programs, and participate in sustainability forums.
- Ad-hoc collaborative efforts between students and Campus Dining have included bottled water reduction, plastic bag elimination, low-carbon meals, the Eco-Takeout program, an iron chef competition, and food preparation classes.
- Campus Dining joins with UEPI, REHS, OSL and ORSL in presenting Food Justice Month annually in October.
- Each November, Campus Dining presents a "Local and Organic Thanksgiving Feast" in the Marketplace - each station features an abundant selection of local harvest menu items.
- A full week of Earth Week activities are offered each April.
- Weekly sustainable features include a Wednesday night Organic Potato Bar, a Thursday night Organic Bar, "SLO" Sustainable, Local and Organic Lunch and Saturday brunch Organic Smoothies.
- Cooking with Joe (pictured above) is a small hands-on cooking class offered semi-annually, featuring fresh-picked ingredients from the FEAST Garden.
Waste Management
Download the "Green Oxy" Disposal Guide.
- Instead of using disposable to-go containers, participate in the Marketplace's Eco-Takeout Program. All students are enrolled in eco-takeout as First-Years. Faculty, Staff and Transfer students are also eligible and encouraged to join. Come to the Card Office to pick up your first token.
- BYOB: Bring Your Own Bag to carry items from the dining facilities - we've banned plastic bags! We offer a compostable bag on request ($.25).
- Eco-Bev discount: Bring your own CLEAN mug or bottle and receive 15¢ off the cost of your hot beverage or cold fountain drink. Please present your container to the cashier in advance to determine its capacity- the size you will be charged for is at the discretion of the cashier on duty at the time.
- The Marketplace has bulk dispensers for 5 condiments, as well as half & half and non-dairy coffee creamer, to reduce the use of individual packets. The Tiger Cooler has bulk dispensers for 3 condiments.
- In the 2015-2016 school year, Campus Dining donated 2167.5 lbs of surplus food to a variety of local food banks. We are also part of a national association, the Food Recovery Network.
- Campus Dining operates the most effective recycling/waste management center on Campus. At the Marketplace be sure to return all waste to the tray collector - our staff members sort recyclable and compostable waste from trash.
- As part of that waste management programe we utilize highly efficient compost and trash compactors, to reduce the number of pick-ups, thereby minimizing our carbon footprint.
- We work with FiltaFry to reduce our frying oil use via filtration. FiltaFry also recycles our fryer waste oil into biodiesel.
- Other used cooking fats & oils at the Marketplace are picked up and recycled into biodiesel by Baker Commodities.
- We contribute pre-consumer compostable food scraps to the College's organic garden.
- All other compostable waste from the Marketplace & Green Bean is diverted to local compost facilities. Compostable items include paper, cardboard, disposable flatware, some to-go containers, and pre-and post-consumer food waste.
- Marketplace, Tiger Cooler, Coffee Cart and catering disposable cutlery is a Karat Earth vegetable-based product, fully compostable.
- All facilities use compostable hot and cold cups. Hot cup lids are also compostable.
- The Marketplace sandwich/deli station uses compostable, corn-based take-out containers and compostable sandwich wrap. We are currently working with local suppliers to identify compostable alternatives that meet the heat tolerance and service requirements of our other to-go containers.
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This is part of a series of posts which tackles sexual ethics and debating strategies (but not at the same time)In this last post on problems with Christopher Yuan's rhetoric (meant as a caution to Christians or anyone else addressing a hostile audience), I want to highlight a misstep that occurred outside of the main lecture.At the beginning of the talk, some of the members of the sponsoring groups passed out index cards and told us to write down any questions we had for Yuan. After he … [Read more...]
Where Yuan Went Wrong (Part 3)
Ex-Gays and Debating Mores (Index Post)
On April 1st, 2011, it turned out that the advertised visit from an ex-gay, Protestant minister was no prank. When he came to campus, controversy erupted, even though the substance of his arguments was not as offensive as I had feared. His talk seemed like as good a lens as any to talk a little about sexual ethics and debating strategies (though, so far, not in the same post). Both are topics I like opinionating about, so here goes: Get Up to Speed on Yale's Ex-Gay Preacher - A q … [Read more...]
Where Yuan Went Wrong (Part 2)
This is part of a series of posts which tackles sexual ethics and debating strategies (but not at the same time)A few weeks ago, in my post detailing mistakes atheists make about Catholics, one of the big ones was assuming that Catholicism, a tradition with a 2000 year history, doesn't have at least a plausible sounding explanation for common objections to its tenets. Now, I know we atheists haven't had as coherent a series of apologetics, but we're not stupid. If you don't bother to ack … [Read more...]
Where Yuan Went Wrong (Part 1)
This is part of a series of posts which tackles sexual ethics and debating strategies (but not at the same time).Although I thought Christopher Yuan presented a reasonably compassionate explanation of his beliefs about sexual morality when he came to Yale, there were some parts of his talk that made my hair stand on end. I honestly don't know whether some parts of his talk were intended to be subtly derogatory of gay people and gay culture. I'm a debater, so I pay a great deal of attention … [Read more...]
The Ex-Gay Lecture Letdown
This is part of a series of posts which tackles sexual ethics and debating strategies (but not at the same time). To get an overview of the controversy under consideration, check out yesterday's summary post of the controversy that erupted when an ex-gay speaker came to campus (which has now been updated to include a link to the explanatory/apologetic letter from the groups that invited him).The talk was an anti-climax.Prior to Yuan's arrival, I'd gotten plenty of tip-off emails from the … [Read more...]
Get Up to Speed on Yale's Ex-Gay Speaker
I'm off to face down Tristyn of Eschatological Psychosis and other fine speakers tonight at the Yale Political Union's annual Party Prize debate (though I fear the topic "Resolved: Don't Fear the Reaper" plays to the formidable strengths of someone whose blog includes the tags "Death is the prize" "Tom Waits is the soundtrack to my life" and "Yugoslavia is just a dance party." Ok, maybe not that last one as much, but who knows?). I'm definitely looking forward to her speech, and I hope she p … [Read more...]
Update on Glee, Gays, and in-Groups
While I wait to see if my post yesterday ("Are Atheists a Side?") satisfies Dom, the commenter I was trying to address, I thought I'd share thoughts a recent piece I wrote for HuffPo (especially as I've written about Glee here before) and I've asked a few questions about religious communities at the end of this post.The article, titled "Glee's Gay Suicide PSA: It Got Worse" focused on the troubling example Kurt, the gay character, set for viewers, when he decided he had a duty to confront th … [Read more...]