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Accessibility as Part of The Search Engine Marketing Strategy
In traditional marketing you're looking to define your targeted audience for your business or organisation. In Internet marketing things work in the same way. Unfortunately, with the growing popularity of the Internet in the past years and with the growing number of people building sites, a certain part of the online audience has been overlooked.
Big Mouth Media (2004). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Search Engine Optimization
Adding Value through Search Engine Optimization
The easiest way to increase your added value is to do small things that have a large positive return for the company. If you're looking to find something easy to do that has a large positive impact on your value, look no further than thinking about search engines and how your portion of a Web site can be optimized for them.
K'necht, Alan. Digital Web Magazine (2003). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
The title tag is one of the most important factors in achieving high search engine rankings.
Whalen, Jill. High Rankings Advisor (2004). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Basic Search Engine Optimization Guide And Tips
Search engine optimization or SEO is very important to get your website listed in search engines. Even if this is the first website you have built there are a few basic and easy steps that will help you with optimizing your website without being a pro.
DevBay (2005). Articles>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Be a White Hat SEO for Your Intranet: It's Good for Accessibility
The SEOs with white hats conduct legitimate optimising of web pages to make the site come up appropriately in the Search Engine Results Pages (also called SERPs). The back hat SEOs implement tricks to appear high in the results pages even if the web site is not necessarily relevant. The range of tricks is astonishing. But most of the techniques used by white hat SEOs were similar if not identical to the guidelines given by accessibility experts.
NetStrategy-JMC (2006). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Search Engine Optimization
Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization
This guide is designed to describe all areas of search engine optimization - from discovery of the terms and phrases that will generate traffic, to making a site search engine friendly, to building the links and marketing the unique value of the site/organization's offerings.
SEOmoz (2007). Articles>Web Design>Search Engine Optimization
Black Hat SEO Techniques to Avoid
Desperation, ignorance, and a moral compass that doesn't point due north often get perfectly logical, good people and companies in trouble with search engines. Because being listed high in search results is such a desirable goal to attain, many people search for shortcuts to the front of the line—which can land them in serious trouble.
Walter, Aarron. Building Findable Websites (2008). Articles>Web Design>Search Engine Optimization
Boost Your Website With Expert Content
The only effective way to promote a website is by hosting unique, quality content. Search engine optimization and paid inclusions are a waste of time and money if there isn't a compelling reason for your visitors to come back once they have found you.
Warren, Robert. TypePad.com (2003). Articles>Web Design>Writing>Search Engine Optimization
Build Up Links to Your Website
Link building is an essential part of any online marketing strategy. Learn how to in this article.
Moss, Trenton. Webcredible (2004). Design>Web Design>Marketing>Search Engine Optimization
Discusses buying text links, and whether it's good or bad for your SEO campaigns.
Whalen, Jill. High Rankings Advisor (2006). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Calculating The True SEO Costs Of Major Site Changes
Over the past year we have worked with a number of organizations that have chosen to relocate their sites from an existing domain to a new domain. One of the questions that always comes up early in the process is "how much traffic are we going to lose?" It is an excellent question and not an easy one to answer, but in today's column I am going to explore that exact question.
Enge, Eric. Search Engine Land (2009). Articles>Web Design>Redesign>Search Engine Optimization
Welcome to the murky world of search engine optimization (SEO). Before you throw your hands up in frustration, I have good news for you: You can learn how to reverse-engineer your archrivals' tactics and join them at the top of the search results heap.
Spencer, Stephan. GotoMedia (2005). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Common Sense Search Engine Optimization
For years, when people thought about search engine optimization, in all likelihood, gateway pages, doorway pages or informational pages probably came to mind. If you're a search engine optimization specialist, you've probably had clients requesting that you create these types of pages for them.
Whalen, Jill. High Rankings Advisor (2004). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Common Sense SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Checklist
I don't "really" know anything about SEO. What I do know is the folks at Google and other big search engines are just human beings like us who have created and constantly tweak the search algorithms. Their goal is to give us what we want when searching, the best possible websites relevant to what we are searching for. So let's set aside all the fancy technical stuff and just use some good ol' common sense.
Coyier, Chris. CSS Tricks (2009). Articles>Web Design>Search Engine Optimization
Compelling Headlines to Improve Your Search Engine Ranking
Write compelling headings that attract both search engines and your desired kind of site visitor.
Jackson, Steve. Webcredible (2005). Articles>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Comprehending the Google Dance to Stay Updated
The updating of massive indexes by Google is not a smooth affair by any means. Notably, as a result of updating process, old indexes do not simply yield to new indexes, but there is quite an haphazard movement in transition. It takes a couple of days for Google to complete its update. Especially during this period, both old and new indexes get their place on www.google.com, albeit alternatively or even in unpredictable ways before new indexes stabilize there for all to see. The fluctuations witnessed on Google between transition from old indexes to new indexes seem as if Google were dancing. Hence, in SEO parlance comes the word Google Dance. Varying indexes have a say in the final rankings just when PageRank calculation sets in action. So, the fluctuating indexes of your site should not be a cause of concern when Google is dancing. Wait for Google to come to a halt and you will see all the things stabilize.
Azam, Rahbre and Tabassum Naz. Amateur Writerz (2008). Articles>Web Design>Business Communication>Search Engine Optimization
In order to prevent your site from being penalized for spamming, you need to prevent the search engine spiders from indexing pages which are not meant for it.
Roy, Sumantra. 1stSearchRanking (2003). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Once you have established the keywords for which you should optimize your site for the search engines, it is time to figure out how you can get a high ranking in the search engines for those keywords. The solution is to create Keyword Rich Pages (KRPs) - pages which provide good content and in which a particular keyword is repeated a number of times so that the page gets a top ranking for that keyword.
Roy, Sumantra. 1stSearchRanking (2003). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Creating Usable, Search Engine Friendly URLs
There are many reasons to use mod_rewrite to create informative, useful URLs for your website. Most dynamic websites use some form of PHP or ASP to pull the data from the database and often times use that data in the URL as a string. This is not only a potential security flaw, it also gives the user and search engine alike a very uninformative destination for your website.
Robbins, Kyle. ReEncoded (2008). Articles>Web Design>Search Engine Optimization>Usability
The Definitive Link-Building Strategy
Learn how to go about starting that all-important link building campaign, to help ensure a higher search engine ranking for your website.
McGaffin, Ken. Webcredible (2005). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Design Strategies for Brand Landing Pages on Mobile Devices
On the desktop Web, ecommerce landing pages get a bum rap—sometimes well deserved. Laden with ads and gimmicks, pushing items with higher markups, and confusing customers with complicated information architectures, these marketing monstrosities typically strongly underperform the search results pages from a simple keyword search. However, passing a death sentence on all landing pages may be premature. On the small screens of mobile devices, well-designed landing pages can provide a much better experience than keyword search results. Currently, few mobile sites use landing pages, which makes them the next big mobile ecommerce opportunity.
Nudelman, Greg and Frank Guo. UXmatters (2011). Articles>Web Design>Mobile>Search Engine Optimization
Designing for Search Engines and Stars
Great search engine placement doesn't require you to sacrifice appealing design. While 'content is king' for high search engine rankings as well as overall site popularity, your imagination and creativity with designs can still reach for the stars. This tutorial provides a broad overview of ideal approaches, what can still work, and what you ought to avoid if search engine rankings are important. There are times when we forego the ideal for various reasons, so I'll try to steer you around the roadblocks on the way regarding graphics, Flash, frames, splash pages, and other potential perils. At the end of the tutorial are some resources for further exploration, too.
Kaiser, Shirley E. Digital Web Magazine (2002). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Diagnosing Technical Issues With Search Engine Optimization
Which pages have the search engines crawled? What kind of pages are they? Has the search engine Indexing indexed all of the crawled pages? How's the search engine ranking traffic?
Robot, Jane. SlideShare (2009). Presentations>Web Design>Search Engine Optimization
Directory Submissions: Understanding DMOZ and Yahoo!
Directory submissions, unlike search engine submissions, are reviewed by human beings and undergo a great deal of scrutiny by the editors reviewing them. It is important that your website is submitted correctly in order to obtain the listings you need.
Pass, Leann. Website Tips (2003). Design>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization
Diversity is Power for Specialized Sites
Small websites get less traffic than big ones, but they can still dominate their niches. For each question users ask, the Web delivers a different set of sites to provide the answers.
Nielsen, Jakob. Alertbox (2003). Articles>Web Design>Search>Search Engine Optimization


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All mail going into and out of Killeen is now being processed in Austin.
Starting Saturday, the U.S. Postal Service began processing all the mail in ZIP codes starting with 765 in Austin. USPS Central Texas spokesman Sam Bolen said the move reflects the Postal Service's ongoing consolidation efforts.
"The Killeen-area mail in ZIP codes starting with 765 is going to be processed going and coming in Austin," Bolen said. "All outgoing mail from 765, 766, and 767 goes to Austin now."
Bolen, who said the USPS loses about $25 million a day nationally, does not think the change will impact USPS service in the Killeen area.
"Last summer, we did 46 consolidations, and the consolidations were virtually unnoticeable to our customers," Bolen said.
"Killeen's mail has traditionally been processed at two separate facilities in Waco, but one of them closed recently. The local consolidations reflect national trends."
According to figures available at www.usps.com, the service ended the third fiscal quarter of 2012 (April 1 through June 30) with net losses of $5.2 billion, compared to a net loss of $3.1 billion during the same period in 2011. Bolen said there was a 25 to 30 percent decrease in first-class mail volume in that time.
"We've seen increases in parcels, but we have seen decreases overall in first-class mail," he said.
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe thinks Congress' inability to act is exacerbating the problem.
"The 112th Congress adjourned without having passed postal legislation," Donahoe said. "Such legislation could quickly restore the Postal Service to profitability and put the organization on a stable, long-term financial footing. This lack of action is disappointing."
Bolen said the shake-up should not cost local USPS employees their jobs. He said the recent consolidation did eliminate some jobs, but he said there were no layoffs. He said employees were offered "early-out incentives" to retire early.
"Last week there were 122 mail processors in Waco, but that was cut by 33 jobs," Bolen said. "Thirty-three positions were eliminated, but we didn't lay off any employees. Many employees will fill other positions by attrition."


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TTD Faugeres 2010, £7.99, Sainsbury's.
AS austerity bites deeper its likely that 2012 will be a year in which we see even more 'own label' wines on supermarket shelves.
This lovely Taste The Difference mix of Grenache and Syrah (Shiraz) from France's Languedoc region is a good example.
It's got bags of flavour and bite with 14 per cent alcohol.


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Riverside Pharmacy celebrated its 60th anniversary Monday with cake, nuts and speeches, including Gov. Nathan Deal praising the business for remaining steady in what's an increasingly difficult climate.
"We are always blessed when we have small businesses that have been able to not only survive, but prosper and serve so many people in a community," said Deal, who was at the event with first lady Sandra Deal. "This is remarkable in a day and time in which health care and health care delivery is changing so rapidly.
"The pressures on small businesses associated with health care have grown tremendously. I congratulate the current owners for their ongoing efforts to make sure that people have that personal touch that comes from being able to talk to their local pharmacist."
To kick off the event, cofounder Jo Ann Adams and longtime employee and former owner Wayne Gee shared a giant pair of scissors to cut a red ribbon in frigid air outside the store at 935 Green St.
Inside the warm building, a brief ceremony was held recognizing the store's history.
"Sixty years is phenomenal — it really is," Gainesville Mayor Danny Dunagan said. "I remember ... we'd come here and charge stuff to our parents and (then) we rode our bikes to middle school. There's a lot of good memories around."
He then read a proclamation honoring Adams and Gee for their work in the community.
Adams and Charlie Johnson first opened Riverside on Jan. 6, 1954, when the store was beside Green's Grocery, 971 Riverside Drive.
The store remained at that location for about 50 years.
Gee joined the staff in 1964, becoming one of the store owners. In the early 1980s, he took full ownership.
He sold the store in 2010 to Scottie Barton — who started his Riverside career in the pharmacy's free delivery service — and Gee's son, Stephen.
Wayne Gee told the group the last governor to visit the store was Jimmy Carter, who was in town looking for a local judge's house.
"He went on to become president of the United States. Maybe the same thing will happen to you," he told Deal, drawing a burst of laughter from the crowd.
"Let's hope not," Deal said, smiling.
The governor posed for pictures with employees, as well as Adams and Wayne Gee.
With guests also mingling while grabbing refreshments, the occasion was a happy one for Wayne Gee, who stood beaming near Adams.
"In this day and time, competition is so keen that you have to change constantly to keep up, to provide service for your customer that the other guy doesn't have," he said. "It will continue to be a challenge, but it's a challenge we look forward to."
One way to do that is to stay personally connected to customers.
"I try to call them by name when I greet them," Wayne Gee said. "They are the ones that put bread on your table. You ought to know who they are."
Adams, receiving handshakes and hugs as people passed by, said, "Everybody's been so nice all through these many years."
The business turning 60 "is hard to believe," she added. "I don't know if I have a fondest (memory). They're all pretty good.
"I have been blessed in so many ways — the drugstore and my family. I'm OK."


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With nearly a foot of snow now melting, it seems about right that the St. Louis Cardinals are less than a week away from opening the 2013 Major League Baseball season.
The Cardinals kick off the campaign with three games in Arizona starting Monday followed by three games in San Francisco before their home opener against Cincinnati Monday, April 8.
On paper, it looks like another good season is ahead in St. Louis.
The big question is health. This team needs to remain relatively healthy to have a chance to overtake the Reds in the Central Division.
And the season isn't exactly starting out great in the health department.
It appears closer Jason Motte is headed to the disabled list with an elbow injury.
David Freese has a back issue and Carlos Beltran has something wrong with a toe.
Guys like Jaime Garcia and Jon Jay have had injury problems in the past, and really need to stay healthy this year.
If the overall health of the team holds up, I like the Cardinals' chances for a return trip to the playoffs.
Like every season, there are questions.
Is Pete Kozma an everyday shortstop? What happens if he struggles? A trade is an option, but the Cardinals don't want to give up any of their young pitchers.
Another option would be moving Daniel Descalso from second base to shortstop and plugging in Matt Carpenter as the everyday guy at second base.
Allen Craig and Matt Holliday both are poised for big seasons.
The Cardinals don't have a very strong bench.
Matt Adams is the only player with some punch coming off the bench. Some will say newcomer Ty Wigginton has a power bat, but his best days are behind him.
What's the plan for rookie phenom Oscar Taveras? He might start the season in Triple A, unless Beltran goes on the DL. Who knows, maybe that will turn into an Albert Pujols replacing Bobby Bonilla thing.
The starting rotation is a bit of a concern to me.
We know Adam Wainwright is the ace and will do his thing. The Cardinals need to reach a new deal with him soon. He is eligible for free agency after this season.
I think Lance Lynn will have a good season. Jake Westbrook and Garcia are question marks. Will they be healthy? Even if they are, how effective will they be?
Shelby Miller has been named the fifth starter. He'll only get better as the season progresses.
Entering spring training, I felt good about the bullpen. But with Motte now injured, who will start the season as the closer?
The logical choice is Mitchell Boggs. So who pitches the eighth inning? Maybe Trevor Rosenthal?
The Cardinals signed veteran lefty Randy Choate during the offseason, but he's had a tough spring. Maybe he'll turn it on when the season begins.
Fellow southpaw Marc Rzepczynski got hurt while playing golf at spring training. He seems OK now, but his spring has been average.
How will the Cardinals use Joe Kelly, who was beat out by Miller for the fifth spot in the rotation? There's also Fernando Salas and Edward Mujica in the bullpen.
When push comes to shove, I think the Cardinals will be good enough to challenge the Reds, but fall a little short.
The two best teams in the National League are Washington and Cincinnati. Atlanta, San Francisco and St. Louis are a notch behind, but will be in contention.
I just think it will be Washington's year. The Nationals are loaded with young pitchers, both in the rotation and the bullpen.
Division winners in the National League will be Washington in the East, Cincinnati in the Central and San Francisco in the West. The two wildcard teams will be St. Louis and Atlanta.
The two best teams in the American League are Los Angeles and Detroit.
Think about the Angels' lineup with Pujols, Mike Trout, Josh Hamilton and Mark Trumbo leading the way.
Division winners in the American League will be Tampa Bay in the East, Detroit in the Central and Los Angeles in the West. The wildcard teams will be Toronto and Texas.
When the smoke clears, I'm going with Washington over the Los Angeles Angels in the World Series.


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By determining what goes missing in human cells when the gene that is most commonly mutated in pancreatic cancer gets turned on, Johns Hopkins scientists have discovered a potential strategy for therapy.
The production of a particular cluster of genetic snippets known as microRNAs is dramatically reduced in human pancreatic tumor cells compared to healthy tissue, the researchers report in a study published on Dec. 15 in Genes and Development. When the team restored this tiny regulator, called miR-143/145, back to normal levels in human pancreatic cancer cells, those cells lost their ability to form tumors.
"Our finding that these specific microRNAs are downstream of the most important oncogene in pancreatic cancer sets the stage for developing methods to deliver them to tumors," says Josh Mendell, an associate professor in the McKusick-Nath-ans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and an early career scientist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
"When we restore microRNAs to cancer cells in which their levels are repressed, the cells no longer are tumorigenic. We have every reason to believe that the efficient delivery of miR-143/145, if achievable, would be therapeutically beneficial."
The researchers conducted their studies in a multitude of model systems — human cells growing in culture, as well as those harvested directly from tumors, and also in mice and zebrafish.
"It is likely that some microRNAs will have very broad antitumorigenic effects in many different types of cancers," says Mendell, whose lab is building animal models to investigate how different microRNAs participate in different tumor types. "In fact, there is already evidence that miR-143/145 can suppress other types of tumors, such as colon and prostate cancer. On the other hand, the effects of some microRNAs will likely be very tumor-specific."
Adds Mendell: "We need a better understanding of their basic functions to more fully understand how microRNAs participate in diseases."


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U.S. Agricultural Safety and Health Centers YouTube Channelhttps://www.youtube.com/user/USagCenters
The centers have pooled their expertise on a YouTube channel featuring 80 videos. The videos can be used by Extension agents, agricultural science teachers, producers, first responders, families and others interested in agricultural safety best-practices.
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NIOSH Workplace Safety and Health Topics: Green Tobacco Sicknesshttp://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/GreenTobaccoSickness/
Green tobacco sickness (GTS) is a type of nicotine poisoning that occurs while handling tobacco plants. Workers are at especially high risk for developing this illness when their clothing becomes saturated from tobacco that is wet from rain or morning dew, or perspiration.
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Oregon OSHA's Quick Guide to Safety Committees and Safety Meetings for Agriculture Employers (PDF)http://osha.oregon.gov/OSHApubs/4908.pdf
Read this guide if you want to know how to comply with Oregon OSHA's Safety Committees and Safety Meetings rule – 437-004-0251. This rule – which is effective January 1, 2011 – applies to all agricultural employers whose non-seasonal workers (full time or part-time) work more than ten months during a calendar year.
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Respiratory Disease in Agricultural Workers: Mortality and Morbidity Statisticshttp://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2007-106/
Respiratory Disease in Agricultural Workers: Mortality and Morbidity Statistics presents summary tables and figures of occupational respiratory disease surveillance data focusing on various occupationally relevant respiratory diseases for the Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing industries.
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WISHA Safety and Health Information: Agriculturehttp://www.lni.wa.gov/safety/topics/atoz/topic.asp?KWID=353
On this page, you will find the rules, recommendations and training to keep you and those you care about working safely in the agriculture industry.
|(Washington Department of Labor and Industries)
|May 2005
WorkSafe Health & Safety Centre - Agriculturehttps://www.worksafebc.com/en/health-safety/industries/agriculture
Welcome to the WorkSafe Health & Safety Centre for the agriculture industry. Click on the links for tools, publications, and other resources to help prevent the most common injuries in Agriculture.
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|Jan 2003
OSHA Safety & Health Topics: Agricultural Operationshttp://www.osha.gov/dsg/topics/agriculturaloperations/index.html
The agricultural transitions from human to animal to mechanized power, and from mechanical to chemical to genetically engineered tools, have increased farm productivity, but have not decreased the health and safety stresses upon farmers. Over the last 20 years, agriculture has emerged from the third to the most hazardous occupation.
|Jan 2003
Farm Safety Links from MEDLINEplushttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/farmsafety.html
|Jan 2003
NIOSH Agriculture Pagehttp://www.cdc.gov/niosh/agforfish/
Agriculture ranks among the most hazardous industries. Farmers are at high risk for fatal and nonfatal injuries, work-related lung diseases, noise-induced hearing loss, skin diseases, and certain cancers associated with chemical use and prolonged sun exposure...
|Jan 2003
OR-OSHA: Agriculturehttp://osha.oregon.gov/Pages/topics/agriculture.aspx
This Oregon OSHA page identifies information on rules, interpretations, publications, videos and program directives relevant to Agriculture.
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The Hilton President Hotel in Kansas City Earns The Prestigious AAA 'Four Diamond' Rating
Presidian Hotels & Resorts today announced that for the Fourth year in a row, its Hilton President Kansas City has been awarded the AAA Four Diamond rating.
Philip Strnad, General Manager, commented, "we are very proud of our hospitality professionals that year after year deliver our Four Diamond service, it is an honor for all of us to work in this historic treasure."
The Hilton President was first open in 1926 and quickly became a Kansas City landmark. It re-opened in January 2006 following a $45 million restoration performed to exacting specifications and maintains its listing in the National Register of Historic Places. Today, it is again an elegant landmark in the heart of the booming Kansas City renaissance. It is the only hotel in the Power & Light Entertainment District, and is steps away from Sprint Center, Midland Theater and AMC movie complex.
The Hilton President Kansas City is managed by San Antonio's based Presidian Hotels & Resorts. Mark Kucera, President & COO, commented, "Consistently delivering 'Exceptional'
"I am excited for the President Hotel to be held out as one of the finest hotels in Kansas City and the Midwest." Said Ron D. Jury, the Managing Member of the ownership group, "As the First business to open in the Entertainment District we are the axle of the wheel of Downtown's revitalization. With the exciting Sprint Center, Power & Light Entertainment District, H&R Block World Headquarters, and the Kaufman Performing Art Center, we are at the Center of all downtown entertainment and business district. Presidian Management and the Hotel staff do an excellent job and make me very proud as the managing member of the ownership, President Hotel, LC."
About Presidian: Presidian owns, operates and develops upscale hotel properties and residential projects in six states, and represents flags under the Marriott, Starwood and Hilton family of brands. The quality of the portfolio has been nationally recognized by the companies they represent, and by the portfolio performance in the markets they cover. For more information on Presidian, visit www.presidian.com
About Hilton: With more than 500 hotels & resorts in 76 countries around the world and plans to serve 78 countries by the end of 2011, Hilton continues to build on its legacy of industry pioneer, developing products, services and amenities that offer today's travelers more choice and control over their stays. From Hilton Fitness by Precor™ to its Serenity Collection® of in-room amenities to Hilton Meetings, a premier global product for small meetings, Hilton's offerings are designed to enable guests to be at their personal best whether they travel for business or pleasure. Visit us at www.hilton.com
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Fond du Lac serves up affordable, active family fun
Published June 17, 2012
For families who want a nature-centered getaway destination with mid-size-city amenities, Fond du Lac is a solid choice. Only an hour from Milwaukee, the car ride isn't too brutal for young kids and yet it really feels "far away" from the city. Plus, the prices, particularly in restaurants, are noticeably cheaper.


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Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez Set To Wed This Weekend!
Never say never, right Halle Berry?!
The Academy Award-winning actress, who once claimed she would never get married again, will wed fiance' Olivier Martinez this weekend. This will be Halle's third trip down the aisle–She was previously married to baseball player, David Justice and singer, Eric Benet.
Berry and Martinez, who have been engaged since March 2012, are expecting their first child together, a boy, later this year. Halle has a daughter, Nahla, from her previous relationship with model, Gabriel Aubry.
As for the wedding, don't expect and over-the-top affair. Berry told InStyle magazine that the event "will be very small."
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Students and staff members from Northwestern Oklahoma State University were recognized during the Oklahoma Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) awards banquet Saturday, Feb. 20, at Rocky's in downtown Oklahoma City.
Journalists from two out-of-state SPJ chapters judged the contest's more than 1,200 entries.
Awards were presented in newspaper, television, radio, magazines, online and public relations.
Entries are judged on overall excellence, service to the community, and contribution to the public's understanding of issues and events. Judging criteria also may include readability, accuracy and completeness, as well as depth of research, quality of presentation and difficulty in obtaining information. Winners may be named for first, second, third place or honorable mention.
Valarie Case, university relations specialist, received five awards, and has been recognized with at least one award per year for her work since the 2002-2003 SPJ competition.
Case received honorable mention recognition in the Public Relations category for her press release written about Northwestern's television station NWTV7 winning the OBEA award for state's best newscast.
Case's awards, all in Photojournalism and on the Northwestern web site, are as follows:
• Feature photography: second, "Rockin' Out to 'RED;'"
• Sports photography: third, photo of Ranger football player Lantz Mathers;
• General photography: second, "NWTV7 Wins" – photo of news anchors and adviser getting ready for a news cast after being named the state's best;
• Best photographic portfolio: third, included photos of those above, as well as photos of the Ranger statue with freezing fog, and a science classroom.
"I'm honored to win these awards presented by SPJ, especially when I know that professionals in the fields of journalism and public relations are the judges, and they can decide whether or not an entry category is deserving of an award at all," Case said.
"I continue to learn about and practice my photography and writing skills every day, and awards like these are just the icing on the cake."
Also winning an award in the Public Relations category were Tim Lauderdale, recruiter, and Janet Valencia, coordinator of Printing Services. They received honorable mention for their work on the Northwestern Foundation annual report.
"This is the first award I have won for design and layout," Valencia said. "I am honored that Tim and I could do this together."
Both Valencia and Lauderdale said they were excited to win this award.
"This is the first professional award that I've won," Lauderdale said.
Crystal Herber, Alva senior, won two first place awards. One in the Entertainment feature, for a story on the Red Riot Concert band "RED," and another in the Criminal Justice Reporting category for an article about rape charges filed on a student.
"I feel that these awards are important because I proved myself among professionals," Herber said.
"I am proud that I could bring recognition to Northwestern's communication department through my awards. These awards show that all my hard work over the past four years has paid off."
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I love the Eurodam: Eurodam Cruise Review by lorbag
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I love the Eurodam
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Flights We are from just west of toronto but choose to fly out of detroit on spirit air because we got a very good deal. Our flight arrived in Ft. Lauderdale at 1:50 Pm on saturday. We were a bit worried about making it to the ship on time but there were no delays and we were on board by 3:00.
Embarkation This was the fastest embarkation process I have ever experienced. There was no one in line since we arrived fairly late and we had our cars and were up the gangways More in less than 15 minutes.
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The Eurodam as a new ship is absolutely beautiful and everything is still sparkling new. There were always staff cleaning or polishing something, definitely the cleanest ship I have been on. There was also complimentary hand sanitizer everywhere to clean your hands. Lots of little touches demonstrated to us the higher quality of the Eurodam. For example they provide hand towels in the bathrooms to dry your hands rather than paper towels and all of the public bathrooms have completely enclosed individual stalls. We enjoyed sitting in both the explorers lounge and the silk den for a few games, coffee and hot chocolate. Since we had our own group we didn't participate in many of the onboard activities, except for trivia and bingo once each. The explorers lounge had tons of games and books for anyone who might get bored, not to mention, dvds for rent for $3 a day. Both of the pools were beautiful. The one with the dome over it is open to children but the other is not and this was well enforced, it was nice to have a pool to go to that was quiet. We didn't see many people renting the cabanas by the lido pool or up in the relaxation/retreat area. To me they didn't really seem worth it. By the lido pool there was tons of comfy wicker chairs with cushions to sit it and tables, and the aft pool has the usual deck chairs. The pools were nice and deep so you could actually swim in them, with wading areas around them. They were always kept at a nice temperature as were the hottubs. There were a few areas that we were disappointed with. First the main atrium area is very understated and not impressive at all. Second we couldn't find any time in he culinary arts lounge that there were cooking classes except the first day. We did go to one cooking demonstration. We went dancing and to meringue classes and had a great time, dj glenn does at good job at playing a variety of music.
First of all the lido food is absolutely fantastic in both taste and variety. Breakfast The orange juice is fresh squeezed in the morning and there are tons of other juices to choose from. There is a waffle station, continental breakfast, buffet station and and omelet station. The staff are very attentive, they often got our drinks for us and carried our trays as well as pushing in and pulling out our chairs when we sat down. Lunch Lunch was also an excellent variety with a grill, pizzeria, sandwich station, two stations for foods of the world, a buffet and a salad bar. We also ate lunch one day in tamarind for dim sum which was also delicious (and free) one of our favorite parts of the eurodam was it's free ice cream station where you could get various types of ice cream in waffle cone, regular cone or bowl. There was an abundance of toppings for sundaes including flavor shots. Dinner Four nights we ate dinner in the main dining room and once in canaletto. I am disappointed to say that canaletto needs some serious work. The first night we ate there and the service was absolutely terrible. It took us over three hours to get through our meal and that was not because we were eating slowly. I think it was just our waiter though because a new waiter came to serve us dessert and he was much faster and more amiable. The anti pasta and dessert was delicious but the pasta i got was a plain creation that i easily could have whipped up in about five minutes at home (and i am not a good cook). Overall the dining room had fairly good food, even though some of it was bland. There was fairly good variety but some night i was left wondering what i could order because i didn't like anything on the menu. The service was an entirely different story. I have to say it was fairly bad. Not because of lack of effort ont he part of the staff but because there were not nearly enough of them. Nearly every night out plates would sit when we were finished with them for about twenty minutes before dessert menus came, and often the food took quite a while to come out. This was not a particular table or waiter because we had as you wish dining and had a different table every night. My friend and I went to afternoon tea one day which is not to be missed. they have delicious finger foods and desserts, even if you don't like tea! Midnight snack in he lido was also good but i couldn't eat it most nights because i was so full from the day!
Cabin My husband and i booked a large inside cabin while our friends booked the regular one. What a difference! The regular insides were extremely small, way smaller than on other ships I had been on. The large inside was comfortable with room for a couch and a vanity. Our bathroom had the distinct smell of urine in it every day and I am not sure why but it didn't bother us too much. Our room steward was excellent. cleaning our room and turning down our bed three times a day.
Ports of Call
Grand Turk This stop was rainy for us and so we didn't enjoy it much. We did swim in the pool at margaritaville which was pretty much empty, but didn't get to see much else of the island which was apparently destroyed by Ike. The ocean water was murky and brown, not very appealing at all.
San Juan we absolutely loved san juan. we rented a minivan from allied car rentals and drove the hour to get to the rain forest. the driving was not bad at all and we didn't even get lost. I would recommend that you book ahead through if you want to rent a car, it's way faster to getone from hertz at the sheraton but they were all booked up. We hiked in the rain forest to la mina falls where we went swimming. It was very refreshing and beautiful. Then we did a walk around old san juan with a tour of the old fort where they were having a festival with singing and dancing.
St Thomas. As we have been here before we decided to go back to Megan's bay which is stunning, with beautiful water and very relaxing. I hate swimming in he ocean but i love it there.
Half Moon Cay
This stop was better than expected, it is absolutely beautiful with crystal clear water. The island is very clean with lots of fun things to do and they had a great bbq for us. I would do it again in a second!
Disembarkation Again we chose the early option where you carry off your own luggage and it was so painless! we were on our way to the airport in less than 20 minutes.
Overall we loved the Eurodam and would sail on it again any day given the chance! Less
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On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Steele, Raymond <email@example.com> wrote: > Graham, > > Thanks for the info. I've never heard of LibreOffice until today. We currently have StarOffice installed on our Solaris systems. Do you know if Oracle is still developing StarOffice? It appears the Open Office is still being developed under Apache. > Oracle stopped working on OpenOffice in 2011 and contributed it to Apache. It is now Apache OpenOffice, and the most recent version, 3.4.0, was released in May. Next release is expected at the end of July. More info at: http://www.openoffice.org Of particular interest, there is a some progress on a Solaris port of Apache OpenOffice. Read more here: https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/porting_apache_openoffice_to_solaris AFAIK, no one is continuing development of StarOffice (Sun's old commercial version of OpenOffice). Though IBM (my employer) has stated that it plans an "IBM Edition" of Apache OpenOffice at some point. -Rob > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Weatherup [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 11:28 AM > To: email@example.com > Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: RE: Database base odb support > > OpenOffice.org is one of the leading competitors to the Microsoft Office suite of business productivity applications. Originally developed as StarOffice in the late 1990s, the suite had been managed in recent years by Sun Microsystems as an open source project. But when Oracle acquired Sun in April 2009, the future of Sun's software offerings -- particularly free ones like OpenOffice.org -- was called into question. Before long, key OpenOffice.org developers, unhappy with the status quo under Oracle, began defecting from the project. > > The result was LibreOffice, a new fork of the OpenOffice.org code base that's maintained by a nonprofit organization called the Document Foundation. LibreOffice looks like OpenOffice.org and it runs like OpenOffice.org. It even reads and writes OpenOffice.org's OpenDocument file formats. The difference is that LibreOffice is being developed in a fully community-driven way, without oversight from Oracle. (The "libre" in the suite's name is derived from a Latinate root meaning "liberty.") > > Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/applications/open-office-dilemma-openofficeorg-vs-libreoffice-716 > > From my very limited experience LibreOffice development seems more active and the development help more helpful. > > Graham > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steele, Raymond [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] > Sent: 13 July 2012 19:04 > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: RE: EXTERNAL: RE: Database base odb support > > My response will bring no value to the subject, but I thought I'd ask. What is the difference between OOo (OpenOffice??) and LibreOffice? > > Raymond > > -----Original Message----- > From: Graham Weatherup [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 10:57 AM > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: EXTERNAL: RE: Database base odb support > > Hi Rob, > > Thank you for your help. > > Our software (PAMGuard.org) is used to process acoustic data and output results to database. Tables hold information such as GPS data, audio file data then outputs from the processing of the files. We do allow storage to serialised binary files for data which is just being used PAMGuard but people like data output to database(currently access or mysql) so they can work on it for their own analysis of the output and so they can share the data easily. > > There are several reasons we would like to include .odb support. > > There are good free GUI editors that people can work with. OOo and Libre (I have not found such good editors for SQLite and most of our users are not SQL savvy but want to be able to run queries etc) Being able to use pure java hsql driver should allow for 64 bit support for extra RAM usage. > Giving the option of in-RAM databases may increase speed which should be possible with hsql Single files are easy for our users to send to each other. > > Below is the response I got from LibreOffice mailing list suggesting ODFToolkit. For the fastest implementation all I need to work out is the zipping issue of mimetype etc and if any other file get edited. However if I had the expertise I would much prefer to write the abstraction layer you talk of but I really don't have enough knowledge or understanding of even writing on top of ODFDOM to do something like that. > > From what I hear OOo works by working on the database and polling changes to the Zip(odb) file so data is not lost during a crash. Extracting it is more clumsy and risky but it get a working solution. The ODF toolkit must be able to at least deal with the zipping issue I mean in that it must be the same in odt/ods files. > > Graham > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > hi Graham, > > On 09/07/12 16:53, Graham Weatherup wrote: > >> The above link also directs to a description of how to unzip it in >> java** so I figured I should be able to zip the files up and open it >> again with Open Office. When I zip the files with java.util.zip using >> the method here*** the file called 'mimetype' comes out "compressed" >> but actually bigger and even setting compression off in the its still >> bigger but not as much 41bytes vs 43bytes (I don't remember the >> numbers >> exactly) but not the 39bytes that is required. Also I read on a linux >> forum that I cannot find that mimetype has to be 'at the beginning' of >> the file. >> >> Also I wonder if there are any files that should be updated if tables >> get added etc. any other files in the ODB file? >> >>* >>http://programmaremobile.blogspot.co.uk/2009/01/java-and-openoffice-bas >>e-db-through.html >>** >>http://digiassn.blogspot.co.uk/2006/07/java-creating-jdbc-connection-to >>.html >>*** >>http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/java/basics/java-directory-zippi >>ng.jspx >>**** >>http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=257220&highlight=#25722 >>0 > > there are very specific requirements on the "mimetype" file that are likely difficult for generic zip libraries etc.; note that there is an ODFDOM project that is a Java library that supports the ODF package specification directly so it makes this kind of thing much easier (it will also maintain the manifest automatically for you); it is now part of the Apache ODF Toolkit project. > > http://incubator.apache.org/odftoolkit/ > > if you use a generic zip library then you should really read the ODF 1.2 part 3 specification to understand the special requirements. > > i'm not familiar with the database part of ODF, but i could imagine it contains meta-data like column descriptions and such; for details refer to ODF 1.2 part 1 specification. > > https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=office > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: 13 July 2012 13:38 > To: firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Re: Database base odb support > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 6:17 AM, Graham Weatherup <email@example.com> wrote: >> I was directed to this toolkit by Michael Stahl from the LibreOffice >> dev list and would really like to use it for our java application >> PAMGuard. I assume it will maintain support for LibreOffice and >> OpenOffice as the files are the same? >> > > I theory, yes, since ODF is a standard and the ODF Toolkit is based on the standardized schemas. At the lowest level the Toolkit code is machine generated from the schemas themselves, so it is a very faithful implementation of the standard. > > >> I don't see any example/demos for databases or anything like >> DatabaseDocument in the Simple API. >> >> Having looked at the source code I see the package >> org.odftoolkit.odfdom.dom.element.db has a lot of database related classes. >> >> Is this something that is planned for development, side-lined or >> actually working? If it is working are there any demos/examples that I >> can use or can someone briefly explain how to use it? >> > > I'd be interested in what kind of scenarios you would want to support with database documents. > > As you've probably seen, the API is in layers. At the lowest level is the code generation and package support. Then ODFDOM, which maps > 1-to-1 to ODF schema elements. In theory you can do anything you want at this level, though you do need to know ODF well. And at the top level, in terms of abstraction, is the Simple API. This is a higher level wrapper of document manipulation functionality. > > So if your goal is simply to solve an immediate problem, then writing on top of ODFDOM is the fastest route. One useful application pattern is to start with an ODF document that was manually created in OpenOffice, and then write ODFDOM code to modify that document. This way generally requires a lot less coding than creating a document from scratch in code. > > On the other hand, if your goal is to create an SDK to enable others to create applications more easily, then writing an abstraction layer in the Simple API might work better. > > Regards, > > -Rob >> >> >> Thank You >> >> Graham Weatherup >> > >
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Saw the film with friends and each of us liked it. We do not care about the personal life of Tom Cruise, we went to the movies to have fun. Thought the actors were a good balance, enjoyed their banter and Ton Cruise looked good. Cruise's mature look is refreshing compared to the younger male actors on the scene. It is a fun film and it is more than a wait to see at home DVD.
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In an interview with the Weekend Financial Review, the billionaire described such a deal as "feasible" but emphasised that the two organisations were "very different . . . culturally".
Mr Triguboff said that, if he was certain he could "work for another 20 years, I would never entertain these people. But let's say I can't work, then it becomes more feasible to do something".
The Australian Financial Review reported this week that a merger with Stockland, the country's largest listed developer, had cropped up in Mr Triguboff's discussions about Meriton's future.
The billionaire celebrates his 80th birthday on March 3 and like many wealthy entrepreneurs is grappling with the question of succession.
Mr Triguboff said the Stockland merger was one of a number of plans that were on the table and insisted "these change all the time". However, he said he would prefer to keep his business in the family, possibly passing the baton on to his grandson who is at university. "He is out enjoying life at the moment . . and I would never try to influence him."
Mr Triguboff has two daughters, neither of whom are involved in the business.
The billionaire founded Meriton in the 1960s and, with the backing of the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, has constructed over 60,000 apartments including Sydney's tallest residential building, the World Tower. Every year the group develops about 1500 new apartments.
Mr Triguboff said his company had moved away from the build-and-sell structure of earlier times.
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Mr Triguboff said the management-focused platform had "taken 10 years to establish". A sale in parts would leave a hefty tax bill.
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While the merger remained only a remote prospect, observers said there was logic to the deal.
CLSA property analyst John Kim said the move "sounds enticing on paper" but claimed "it is difficult to see how the merged entity would be managed effectively" as Mr Triguboff is viewed as pivotal to Meriton's success.
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Back in the 1960s, Abagnale, as a teenager, travelled the world using fraudulent cheques and brilliant, but illegal schemes. Over a five-year period he successfully posed as a Pan Am commercial pilot, a paediatrician, a college professor and a lawyer.
He also wined and dined beautiful women, often 10 years older than himself, in some of the world's finest hotels. The confident teenager even managed to trick a $US1,000-a-night prostitute with a phony cashier's cheque.
When French police and the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) finally caught up with Abagnale, who was 21 at the time, he had illegally cashed cheques worth $US2.5 million. He spent five years in prisons in France, Sweden and the US.
Today, at the age of 54, Abagnale's brain is being used for good rather than crime. He is one of the world's top security experts, working regularly for the FBI and the US government.
He has now made Australia a second home. His Australian clients include Australia Post and blue chip banks Westpac and the Commonwealth Bank.
''I've been to Australia every year for the last 10 years working for the Australian government,'' said Abagnale, who lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with his wife of 26 years and three sons.
''I designed the passport that you use now in Australia; I designed the Australian postal money order for Australia Post. I designed most of the bank cheques that are used in Australia today by Commonwealth Bank, Westpac and most of the big banks.''
Abagnale, who has lived a largely anonymous life the last 30 years, will become a worldwide celebrity over the next few weeks with the release of a movie based on his teenage exploits.
DiCaprio plays the role of Abagnale in the film, Catch Me If You Can, Hanks plays the FBI agent pursuing him and Spielberg is the director.
''When I first read in the newspaper that Leo was going to play me my first reaction was that he didn't really look like me and I didn't think he could pull off being that debonair kind of person,'' Abagnale said.
But his opinion changed after DiCaprio sat in on a lecture Abagnale gave to 300 FBI agents in Los Angeles a few weeks before the Catch Me If You Can film shoot began.
After the lecture, DiCaprio introduced himself and asked Abagnale if he would like to stay at his Hollywood home for a few days so he could study the former con man's mannerisms and speech. DiCaprio, 28, even offered to pay him for his time.
''He was so sincere, so articulate and I was so impressed because I have three sons,'' Abagnale said.
''I said to him 'You don't have to pay me anything, I'll do it'. I stayed two days with him in the house and literally from the time I got up in the morning he turned his tape recorder on and he also had a notebook.
''One time I scratched my leg and he said 'Why did you do that?' I said 'I have an itch' and he said 'Do you do that all the time?' I said 'No, I just had an itch'.''
Abagnale says the key to his success as a teenage con man was confidence. It also helped that he looked a lot older than what he was.
''Had I been a pimply-faced 16-year-old kid I would never have gotten away with it, but I've had a little grey hair since I was about 15 or so,'' says Abagnale.
''I was six foot tall, I came from a family where I was raised with money so I knew how to act around people and adults. I believed that everything was presentation; people believed I was who I said I was by my appearance.
''I mean the cheques I made - the movie does a great job of showing how ridiculous they were.
''But it wasn't the cheque. They were buying me, dressed in a pilot's uniform and me saying that I needed to cash my expense cheque.
''They were paying attention to me and not the cheque because if they had looked at the cheque they would have said ''Are you crazy?''
Catch Me If You Can opens in Australian cinemas on January 9.
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Now when we saw a weather report a week ago predicting snow, I took a photo and laughed at it. But the mornings have got so cold, it feels like it's even too cold for snow. When you have to breathe into your sleeping bag for warmth all night and your alarm goes off at 5.45 and you already can't feel your toes, it makes getting into a wetsuit pretty difficult. Brrrrrrr.
Monday morning was no exception. So with all our clothes on, we packed up and headed out. We had to keep warming the gingers hands and reminding him to wiggle so he didn't pass out from the cold. And the sun took its time to come out. It wasn't until around mid afternoon, that we started to feel our limbs again. It was a welcome return. Maybe because it was Monday. Maybe because it was cold. Or maybe because St. Louis is getting so close I'm watching mile markers like a ticking clock? But this Monday was the slowest day. The flow was close to non existent but we ploughed on. We even took alternate naps in the front seat of the canoe. And when Ness was mid nap we actually took some inspiration from '50 Shades of Grey' and Dave kicked around the boat tying her in with straps. Like a bag. She woke up without Ben in the boat and was fast approaching a wing dike. I lost it and actually dribbled at one point. And I also make a slightly public loo stop off the side of the board and realised there was a barge right next to me. Maybe I should pay attention to civilisation. But it's hard when there are the most beautiful creeks, trees, greenery, hills and almost no people.
With 40 miles exactly under our paddle, we almost crashed over a wind dike and set up camp on an idyllic sandbar. With a pointed hill. Ness and Ben flattened it. As you do. And we ate delicious fajitas and rice pudding round the campfire. I think Ben deserves a camping Michelin star. He is whipping up some fine treats for us these days. And full and warm we slept.
Tuesday saw the sun and warmth as we started being able to take off a jumper or two. Ben and I stopped to whip up lunch and get some water as we were running out. Luckily the amazing Don and Bette pulled into the car park and drove me to Caseys to fill them up and even bought Ben a slice of pizza. What random wonderful people. And it was cracking to have a sneaky peek at Waverley, Missouri.
Now, we had a little bit of excitement on our sandbar search. I noticed a little stick that moved like a snake. Oh no. It was a snake. We pulled closer to film it and instead of disappearing it wiggled, slithered, swam…? Up onto our paddle board. And then off again. Hello little snake. Couldn't hear a rattle so think we were all good. Potentially an adder. Or something a bit bigger? But I loved it.
Without out friend on board, we hunted for a camping spot. And with 42 miles done (our biggest day yet) we just had to stop on a tiny patch of sand. And yet again Ben acted as the man of the house and built a fire. And while we ate, we took turns reading the story of Lewis and Clarke. Which by the way is set to be re-enacted by none other than Brad Pitt. Hello Brad.
Bed on a serious slope, with hundreds of mosquitoes the size of my fingers, huge splashes, odd banging noises and a little chatty animal was interesting. And just made me even happier to be away from London. I just love it. Even covered in infected insect bites?! We have crossed over the 300 mile mark and we are into the 200s. It's getting warmer. And we are closing in on St Louis with a boob still as my pillow. Everybody needs a bosom for a pillow.


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Such brutality will likely inspire fear and obedience among the overwhelmingly moderate Sunnis of Iraq, but not enthusiasm.
Browne expected clicking of heels in obedience rather than measured discussion.
Instead, schools demand an unrealistic amount of obedience at admissions.
We knew that obedience was immediate, complete, and without question.
Milgram summarized his findings in a 1974 article titled "The Perils of obedience."
The orderly saluted with his whip and drove on in obedience to Saxham's nod.
obedience to God's will is the permanent element in human life.
In the meantime, the bowels must be severely pinched into obedience.
No one can love for a price, or in obedience to laws or threats.
As if in obedience to its suggestion, he turned abruptly from the fountain and re-entered the palace.
c.1200, "submission to a higher power or authority," from Old French obedience "obedience, submission" (12c.) and directly from Latin oboedientia "obedience," noun of quality from oboedientem (nominative oboediens); see obedient. In reference to dog training from 1930.


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Saturday, December 7, 2013
There's a candle in your heart waiting to be kindled...
14 comments:
- Crafting Queen said...
They are beautiful photos. Those kitties are lucky little souls. Lots of hugs to the kitties and humans. :)
- December 7, 2013 at 6:50 PM
- Cosmic said...
My 20m son & adore these ultra-cute feline beauties, keep up the beautiful work, lovely!
- December 7, 2013 at 7:33 PM
- Mariette VandenMunckhof-Vedder said...
Dearest Joan,
Such a lovely project and I hope that many will open up their hearts to warm a kittens life!
- December 7, 2013 at 10:25 PM
- ANGEL ABBY said...
Since losing my Abby I have become immersed in Rumi quotes which fill such a void what a lovely lovely sentiment.
Best wishes for a new year.
- December 7, 2013 at 10:54 PM
- petspeopleandlife said...
Your photography is beautuful. You did a really fine job with your choice of photos and the lovely quote.
- December 8, 2013 at 1:22 AM
- Kjelle Bus said...
Beutiful cards !
I shall send my mom-person over to your Etsy shop :)
- December 8, 2013 at 1:25 AM
- Kitties Blue said...
These are absolutely stunning. You are very talented. Purrs and hugs, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo
- December 8, 2013 at 3:46 AM
- Barbara said...
They are so precious!!
- December 8, 2013 at 6:58 AM
- Alex aus dem Gwundergarten said...
All of them are so adorable. But my absolute favorite is Buttercup. He would fit so well to my Noah, but unfortunately Noah doesn't like other cats, he wants to stay king of the house.
Have a great day!
- December 9, 2013 at 12:32 PM
- 505whimsygirl said...
Hi Joan,
Such beautiful cards. I really like the quote from Rumi that you chose.
Are in you America at the moment? I have a new neighbor - from Greece. I told her about your blog.
- December 9, 2013 at 9:53 PM
- Cornelia said...
Am caught and moved by the beauty and the gentle power of your authentic presentation of God's Little People. Lots of love..
- December 14, 2013 at 2:42 AM
- Annuk said...
I love that quote, dear Joan!!!
And it is so true... "We rescue them and they rescue us right back!". It is indeed mutual! I couldn't agree more!!!!!
The cards are absolutely wonderful and heartwarming... You always manage to photograph your babies in such a loving way!
- December 23, 2013 at 1:12 AM
- Knatolee said...
You do take such beautiful photos of all the lovely cats!
- December 24, 2013 at 3:36 AM
- Adine Jasmine said...
beautiful Harga Helm
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FLOWERY BRANCH — As Oakwood prepares to complete the northern end of Thurmon Tanner Parkway in tandem with the state, Flowery Branch is looking at possibly adding a traffic light to the opposite end.
The City Council has voted to go forward with a study on whether a light is needed at Thurmon Tanner's starting point at Phil Niekro Boulevard and then, if warranted, a preliminary design of the project.
The city will spend between $3,500 and $13,700, depending on how far the work goes.
If the initial study determines a signal isn't warranted, "essentially the project dies there," said the city's planning director, James Riker.
Many South Hall motorists might argue the improvement is needed, as traffic backs up Thurmon Tanner to turn left on Phil Niekro and headed toward Interstate 985 or the heavily congested, retail-laden Spout Springs Road.
Traffic gets particularly nasty at rush hour and other busy times.
Flowery Branch "has received several complaints about this intersection from citizens and, as the final phase of Thurmon Tanner is finished in Oakwood, the increase in traffic flow will eventually be substantial," said City Manager Bill Andrew in a report to the City Council.
The traffic study not only will consider the number of cars at the intersection but also the safety of motorists traveling through it. Motorists turning left on Phil Niekro have a limited sight distance of motorists headed on Phil Niekro from the city to I-985.
One source of traffic at the intersection is the 456-unit TreePark Apartments that sits off Thurmon Tanner not far from Phil Niekro.
TreePark's property manager, Beth Hogan, said she hopes the project can be justified and then completed.
"I know when I leave to go home, I have to turn left ... and it's treacherous," she said. "I think it would it be wonderful for my residents to have easy access to the shopping and places where they need to go."
The project has drawn interest from Hall County in terms of substantial help with construction costs, Riker said.
"That's all dialogue. I have not seen anything in writing to say that," he added.
However, Riker said, "I would think this is an opportunity where perhaps if (the project) is warranted that we have contributed what we can and then the county would be able to foot (the) bill, which I would suspect would be very expensive."
Nearby Oakwood is spending $175,000 for a new traffic light at McEver Road and H.F. Reed Industrial Parkway.
The project is set to be completed early next year, Assistant City Manager Patti Doss-Luna said.
Oakwood has worked with the state Department of Transportation to build the final 1.3-mile leg of Thurmon Tanner.
The project, which will cost $6.7 million, involves extending Thurmon Tanner from Plainview Road to Mundy Mill Road. It is expected to start in the spring and be completed by Dec. 31, 2010.
Upon its completion, Thurmon Tanner Parkway will link Phil Niekro Boulevard to Atlanta Highway in Oakwood at the new Exit 17 interchange off I-985.
The four-lane road is expected to spur commercial and industrial development — office buildings already have sprouted — and serve as an alternative route to I-985.
The two roads run parallel to each other, much as Interstate 85 and Satellite Boulevard in Gwinnett County.
The Flowery Branch end of Thurmon Tanner still has large tracts of undeveloped land, with much of the city's commercial growth taking place on the eastern side of I-985 at Spout Springs and Hog Mountain roads.


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Madeleine Peyroux is helping to keep classic jazz vocals alive in the new millennium, and while her voice and delivery owe a supreme debt to the legendary Billie Holiday, Peyroux puts her own hip spin on Lady Day's musical tradition. As much an American version of Edith Piaf as a straight jazz singer, Peyroux interprets sorrowful songs by a host of artists across all genres, undauntedly tackling everything from "Careless Love" and "Lovesick Blues" to Leonard Cohen and Elliott Smith. She released her fourth full-length, HALF THE PERFECT WORLD, in 2006.
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LONG BEACH - Brad Pollak honed his marketing skills in a seemingly unlikely industry - music.
But for the Long Beach business owner and former A&M Records marketing executive, the lessons he learned in that industry apply to all industries.
"That's really where I found my niche in helping individuals market themselves," said Pollak, who started his marketing firm Brad Pollak Co. nearly two years ago. "You're helping artists tell their stories. There's all kinds of different channels, but at the core of it, you're helping artists market themselves and get them a better chance at reaching a bigger audience.
"What I'm doing now in many ways is absolutely no different than what I was doing in the record business."
Pollak will share his experiences at one of the six events in the Seal Beach Chamber of Commerce's EDGE (Educate to Drive and Grow the Economy) Business Seminar Series, which brings presenters such as Pollak and other local business experts from Long Beach, Seal Beach and Los Alamitos.
Erik Dreyer-Goldman, owner of Ask Erik Computer Services in Seal Beach, and John Zahn, co-founder of Omnibeat in Los Alamitos, are co-chairing the series, which takes place from Sept. 13 to Oct. 18.
"Entrepreneurs and local businesses are critical to revitalizing the nation's economy," chamber President Nat Ferguson said in a written statement. "The EDGE series gives business owners in the greater Long Beach area access to powerful business leaders with the insight and knowledge that can help take business to the next level."
Pollak will discuss the importance of marketing and storytelling for businesses.
"It might sound - at least on the surface - fairly obvious, but the reality is ... people approach marketing without thinking it through," he said. "Most people are going to engage your services and buy your products if they have a better understanding of your story."
Pollak brought up Apple maker Steve Jobs as an example of how telling the story of his struggles and perfection translates to product sales.
"Marketing is the act of telling stories about the things we make and the things we do and how those stories are spread," Pollak said.
Pollak's best marketing advice for business owners? Perfect the elevator pitch.
"Force yourself to be able to describe what you do, why you do it, who you can help, who you serve and be able to describe that in 60 seconds or less," he said. "Write it down. It doesn't have to be Moby Dick. It could be a paragraph and make it so you can tell it in 60 seconds. Once you can do that you can expand it."
Other EDGE Sessions include:
Sept. 13: "The Dirty Side of Email Marketing" by Daniel Miller of Benchmark Email;
Sept. 20: "A Conversation about Marketing and the Importance of Storytelling" by Brad Pollak of Brad Pollak Co.;
Sept. 27: "Identifying your Target Customer & Acquiring them through SEO" by Seth Eaker and Deb Machen of Black Market Business Solutions;
Oct. 4: "Social Media Engagement" by John Zahn and Nate Trimmer of Omnibeat;
Oct. 11: "How to Find and Capitalize on Your Unique Value Proposition" by Olga Mizrahi of Chunk of Change, Olga Mizrahi.
The sessions will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Marina Center Community Hall in Seal Beach.
Admission is free for chamber members and $15 per session for nonmembers.
Lunches are available for pre-order for $8 to $10 and are provided by Seal Beach eateries such as The Abbey, Dogz Bar and Grill and Crèma Café. Space is limited, so preregister with the Seal Beach Chamber at 562-799-0179 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. email@example.com, 562-714-2088, twitter.com/KarenMeeksPT


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By Chris Chase
You may say Rory McIlroy is living the dream because he's a two-time golf major winner, has millions in the bank, is dating a beautiful tennis star and has a Northern Irish accent that makes the other ladies swoon. I say he's living the dream because he gets to stand in the middle of a football field and take target practice using other inanimate objects as golf balls.
While hanging out with his tennis-playing girlfriend, former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki, at the U.S. Open tuneup in New Haven, McIlroy went to the famous Yale Bowl to see if he could drive a tennis ball through one of the stadium's concourse tunnels.
Getting it on the second try? Not bad; but less accomplished duffers, like Cosmo Kramer, would be slightly disappointed in Rors' efforts.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
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Paper Lanterns
I love the festive mood created whenever paper lanterns are strung around. Be they round, plain, patterned, it doesn't matter. As long as they can be illumniated and there's lots of them I'm a happy camper. I have a ton from Chinatown, but they're not wired with bulbs and are therefore relegated to mostly inside decorating schemes. Knowing me I'd be too lazy to bring them in and it would rain and they'd be ruined. Doesn't stop me from wanting them.


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Q: We have planned a very nice holiday party. Our company has grown quite a bit and our employees are diverse, but we have concerns about offending someone or a group by how we decorate, who takes times off, all that. Any suggestions?
- S.D., Hawthorne
Answer: The holidays are a time of cheer and goodwill. As such, I grimace at putting a "legal spin" on things, but since you asked: Employers should not treat people with different religious backgrounds differently. Even decorations arguably could raise an issue. So it is prudent to consider some limitations, applied in an even manner. For example, there are nonreligious decorations that convey a holiday message (such as a winter scene).
Also, I just read that the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission acknowledges a ruling made by the U.S. Supreme Court that Christmas trees and wreaths can be considered "secular," as long as (to my understanding) there is not an endorsement of any particular religion. Keep in mind that under the federal Civil Rights Act (Title VII), employers are to reasonably accommodate the religious beliefs of employees, provided doing so does not cause an undue hardship on the business.
If the company has a gift exchange, it is advisable to have some rules (this does not mean you are Scrooge by doing so). One person's "joke gift" may be another person's claim of sexual harassment. In sum, if you have concerns, it is best to consult with qualified counsel to err on the side of caution.
Q: We are going to throw a party for the holidays. It is our turn, we have a large group, and some get a little wild with the booze. Am I looking at a lawsuit if one of the guests then takes off, drives poorly and causes injury to another?
- J.L., Long Beach
A: California has what is referred to as a "dram shop law." A dram shop is an establishment where alcohol is served, but the law can also apply to the host of a party. Specifically, California Civil Code Section 1714(c) sets forth: "Except as provided in subdivision (d), no social host who furnishes alcoholic beverages to any person may be held legally accountable for damages suffered by that person, or for injury to the person or property of, or death of, any third person, resulting from the consumption of those beverages." The subdivision (d) exception is if you knowingly furnish alcohol at your residence to someone under 21 years of age.
Dram shop law or not, California Business and Professions Code Sections 25602(a) makes it a misdemeanor to sell, furnish, give, or cause to be sold, furnished or given, any alcoholic beverage to any habitual or common drunkard, or to any obviously intoxicated person.
Ron Sokol is a Manhattan Beach attorney with more than 30 years of experience. His column appears on Wednesdays. Email questions and comments to him at email@example.com or write to him at Ask The Lawyer, Daily Breeze, 21250 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 170, Torrance, CA 90503. This column is a summary of the law and not a substitute for legal consultation on any particular case.


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If you are going to be eating a significant amount of nuts, I would suggest macadamias. At 200 calories per ounce you will be hard pressed to find anything more calorie dense. They have a very favorable O3-O6 ratio, unlike most nuts, oh and they are delicious! Plus being in hawaii you can probably find them for a decent price.
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This tastes incredible and I often have it twice a day:
take 60 grams of coconut cream (it's also called coconut butter, coconut puree, or manna?)
small handful of walnuts (or any nut)
2 squares of Lindt 90% cacao chocolate, broken into small pieces
If you live in a colder climate and the coconut is too hard to stir, nuke it for 5-7 seconds. Mix all together and eat. AMAZING!!!!
I do this now on my bulk and have it in the morning and sometimes again in the evening. Gives about 700 calories each serving?
Also try using canned coconut milk/cream in some whey protein shakes. 1 can is something like 700 calories, so having that can with 2 scoops of whey and some water, will give you about 1000 calories.
Those two things I listed above will give you 2400 calories alone.
Hi Wanderlust,
I use these banana/cocoa muffins a lot as an easy portable snack/breakfast/energybar kinda thing. I only have the metric but will try to measure in cups next time i bake them. But in case you have a kitchen scale here you go:
200 g dates
200 g almonds
3 tbsp raw cocoa
75 g Coconut oil
2 ripe bananas
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/4 tsp. salt
4 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
Mix everything in a food processor. Put in muffinforms, and bake at 350F for app 20 min.


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Linux provides a method of automating a task or a set of tasks using the crontab utility. The tasks run automatically in the background on a schedule you specify. You can use crontab to automatically create backups, synchronize files, schedule updates, and more.
The backup shell script discussed in Back Up a Directory in Linux using a Shell Script can be automatically run on a schedule using crontab.
Crontab Basics
The name crontab derives from chronos, which is Greek for time and tab, which stands for table. To find out what cron jobs are running on your system for the current user, open a Terminal window and type the following at the prompt:
$ crontab –l
NOTE: The letter after the dash should be a lowercase "L."
If you want to see what cron jobs are running for root type the following:
$ sudo crontab -l
To edit the crontab file for the current user, type the following at the prompt:
$ crontab –e
If you want to edit the crontab file for root, to enable a command to run as root, put sudo before the crontab command as follows:
$ sudo crontab –e
Editing the crontab file
If this is the first time you are creating a crontab file, a message like the following displays. Press Enter to select the default editor.
When the editor opens, you will notice a line in the file beginning with a #, which indicates a comment line in a crontab file. The abbreviations following the # indicate the values to be entered on a line to set up a cron job.
Scheduling Values Explained
There are five numerical values followed by the command to be run.
|m (minute)
|from 0 to 59
|h (hour)
|from 0 to 23 (0 = midnight)
|dom (day of month)
|from 1 to 31
|mon (month)
|from 1 to 12
|dow (day of week)
|from 0 to 6 (0 = Sunday)
|Command or application to execute and any necessary parameters needed for the command or application.
When you enter an asterisk (*) for a numerical value, that means every. To illustrate, let's take the following example:
* * * * * /bin/execute/this/script.sh
This line will execute the script.sh file:
- every minute of
- every hour of
- every day of
- every month and
- every day in the week.
Basically, this script would be executed every minute.
If you wanted to run a script performing a backup every day at midnight, you could set up the following cron job:
0 * * * * /home/lori/user_guide_backup.sh
NOTE: For more information about the backup script mentioned in the above line, see our previous post, Back Up a Directory in Linux using a Shell Script.
There are special words you can use in the minute field to specify special values. The values are listed below with their description and the equivalent set of numerical values.
|Run once, at startup
|Run once a year – "0 0 1 1 *"
|(same as @yearly)
|Run once a month – "0 0 1 * *"
|Run once a week – "0 0 * * 0"
|Run once a day – "0 0 * * *"
|(same as @daily)
|Run once an hour – "0 * * * *"
When using special words, put the special word in for the minute value and leave out the remaining numerical values. Therefore, using a special word, the cron job entry above becomes:
@daily /home/lori/user_guide_backup.sh
Redirecting output
By default the output of the cron job is saved in the user's mailbox. You can choose to send the output to a log file by changing the cron job to the following:
@daily /home/lori/user_guide_backup.sh 2>&1 > /var/log/backup_results.log
Linux can report on different levels. There's standard output (STDOUT) and standard errors (STDERR). STDOUT is marked 1 and STDERR is marked 2. Therefore, the 2>&1 tells Linux to store STDERR in STDOUT as well, creating one stream of data for messages and errors.
To pour the stream of data into a file, we used the ">" followed by the full path to the desired filename. This creates a new file or overwrites an existing file. If you want to append data to an existing file, use ">>" followed by the filename to which you want to append the data.
The final cron job entry should look like the following:
NOTE: If you wanted to run more than one cron job, enter each job to run on separate lines. There is only one crontab file for each user. All cron jobs are entered into this file.
To save your cron job, press Ctrl + X in the editor. You will be asked if you want to save the modified buffer. Press Y to save your crontab file.
When asked where to save the crontab file, press Enter to accept the default location and name.
Reporting Results
We added a bit of code to the script discussed in the Back Up a Directory in Linux using a Shell Script post, as pictured below.
The echo command prints the text in the quotes to the results file and the date command following each echo command prints the current date with the time to the results file. Adding these lines gives you an idea of how long it took your backup to run.
In our case, it didn't take long at all because we were not backing up many files for our example.
If you decide you don't want any cron jobs to run for the current user, open a Terminal window and type the following at the prompt:
$ crontab –r
If you are removing the crontab file for root, enter the following:
$ sudo crontab –r
NOTE: Be sure you want to remove all cron jobs. Remember all your cron jobs are in one crontab file. If you remove this file, all cron jobs are deleted.
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Mr. Tutt readjusted his spectacles and slowly selected a stogy from the bundle in the dusty old cigar box.
Mr. Tutt took a sip from the tumbler of malt and relit his stogy.
The driver was almost as ancient as the car, a bearded fellow with a stogy stuck between his teeth and a crushed hat on his head.
He spat the remaining filaments of his stogy from the window and fished out another.
Mr. Tutt simultaneously removed his stogy with one hand and his stovepipe with the other.
The mercantile houses, the stogy factories and the garment factories are employers of Jewish girls.
An' if this stogy continues t' behave, we'll say no more about the vanishin' leddy.
In the stogy industry, the Polish women, some of them married and others immigrant girls, have the inferior and unpleasant work.
He drew fiercely on his stogy, which being desiccated flared like a Roman candle.
It certainly had the merit of cheapness, if that be a merit in tobacco, and I experimented with the stogy.
A cigar