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• skulk •
Pronunciation: skêlk • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb, intransitive
Meaning: 1. To move about sneakily, trying not to be seen. 2. To lurk out of sight in a cowardly, resentful, and rather sinister way.
Notes: This word is easy to spell. Just remember that both the [k] sounds are spelled K: it is a rarity to find a word spelled so consistently in English. The noun and adjective are both skulking. Don't confuse this word with sulk "to be withdrawn and sullen". Sulking does not involve resentment or anything sinister as does skulking.
In Play: Skulking first and foremost arises from resentment: "Denny Graden has been skulking around Fictitia's office since she started going out with Manley Hunter." However, skullduggery (unrelated) could just as well motivate skulking: "I called 911 when I saw a tattooed man with spiked hair and a half pound of scrap metal in his face skulking about outside my house."
Word History: Today's Good Word was borrowed from Old Norse during the Viking visits to the coasts of England in the 9th-10th centuries. Norwegian still uses skulka "to skulk, shirk, skip work or school". In Danish we find skulke and Swedish skolka with more or less the same meaning. No one knows where the Scandinavians got this word. It might have come from a long lost blend of two other words, but who knows.


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L.A. Confidential
Betty braves the front line of a SATC open call
-Carrie Seim
It's the stuff of Jimmy Choo dreams and Cosmopolitan wishes … Thousands of wannabe Carries, Samanthas, Charlottes and Mirandas lined up in Manhattan Tuesday morning, waiting to audition for an extra role in the next Sex and the City movie.
Casting directors were searching for fashion models, "celebrity types," upscale socialites, urban club goers, gays and lesbians, and "international types" to be placed in several different scenes in the movie. Sounds like they're planning some sensational scenes for the sequel – catwalks and clubs and celebs – oh, my!
As I made my way through the sea of strappy stilettos and designer handbags, I couldn't believe how happy these hopefuls were. No complaining about balancing in 5-inch-heels for hours on end (with nary a chair in sight). No whining about the steamy 90-degree-day ahead of them. No grumbling that the open call offered little more than a chance at glorified background work.
In fact, after hours of waiting in line, the auditioners didn't even get to read lines or act out scenes. They simply had their photos snapped and that was that. A representative from Grant Wilfley Casting told me that about 5,000 people auditioned in total. And rumor has it roughly 1,000 more were turned away.
But this didn't seem to put a damper on anyone's spirit. They were this close to being part of the legend that is Sex and the City. And they couldn't stop grinning.

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Paris Hilton is an awesome friend
Paris Hilton announced that Christina Aguilera is pregnant to a crowded Club LAX in Las Vegas over the weekend. While Christina has been seen with a noticeable bump, she has not yet publicly confirmed the pregnancy. Fortunately saints like Paris Hilton exist and have no sense of decorum. Us Magazine reports:
"Congratulations to the most beautiful pregnant woman in the world, you're gorgeous," Hilton, 26, said to the packed crowd, while Aguilera, 26 (whose video 'Candy Man' is up for Best Director at the MTV VMAs) sat nearby in uncomfortable silence.
Paris then went on to announce other obvious facts including the sky is blue, the grass is green and she has herpes. And also something about my abs being incredibly chiseled. I believe "sculpted steel" were her exact words.


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HOUSTON - A bipartisan coalition of legislators has filed plans to spur development of more hike and bike trails in Houston.
Senators Rodney Ellis (D-Houston) and Dan Patrick (R-Houston) filed legislation Monday with the Senate, and State Representatives Jim Murphy (R-Houston), Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston), Wayne Smith (R-Baytown) and Garnet Coleman (D-Houston) have filed legislation with the House.
The legislation, SB 633 and HB 200, will help create trails Houston voters approved last November in a quicker, more efficient, and cost effective way.
If passed, SB 633/HB 200 would provide up to 135 miles of connected trails in Houston. The legislation allows the City of Houston and area cities to enter into recreational use agreements with electric utility providers to create new hike and bike trails on right-of-way land owned or leased by utilities, at virtually no cost for the land. In exchange, the utilities will receive limited liability protection arising from the recreational use of their property.
The bill only applies to Harris County. "The people of Houston have said loud and clear that they want more hike and bike trails," said Ellis. "But it has become very difficult to acquire the land in urban areas like Houston that is suitable for development of trails. This legislation is a unique and innovative compromise solution to develop new trails without undue delays and excess cost."
"We've worked for several sessions to develop this solution for these trails. These bills provide significant savings to tax payers, improve transportation infrastructure, and expand recreational opportunities," said Murphy. "They also protect our trail users and those civic minded companies who provide their property."
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Saint Leo women's basketball team (6-10, 0-6 SSC) fell on the road to the Eckerd College Tritons (10-4, 4-2 SSC), 79-56, Wednesday evening from the McArthur Center in Sunshine State Conference action.
Nine first half three-pointers, all of which occurred in the first half, sent the Lions to a double-digit road loss. The defeat overshadowed a career-night from Chelsea Connelly as she poured in 19 points to go along with five rebounds and two blocks.
Saint Leo started the contest red-hot, connecting on three of its first four shots, including a pair of three-pointers by Shalisa Hill and Chelsea Connelly. However, the Lions early 8-6 lead was reversed as the Tritons countered with precision three-point shooting. In fact, over the next 10 minutes of action, the Tritons converted on six three-point field goals to give themselves a double-digit advantage. Being sparked to go on a 37-16 run over the last 17 minutes of the half, the Tritons defense denied strong first half efforts from Keishara Green and Connelly as they went into the halftime break up 25, 49-24. In total, Eckerd registered nine three-point makes, out-rebounded the Lions, 26-11, and shot 50 percent (16-for-32) for the half.
A much more aggressive Lions' bunch took the court in second half as Saint Leo posted a 9-2 run early in the second half to get the score within 20. Still, the Lions could not keep up the Tritons' scoring pace as they expanded their double-digit advantage over the course of the second half. Despite the final tally, the Lions did outscore the Tritons in the second half, 32-30. Connelly also demonstrated a strong second period as she converted a team-high 13 points, en route to a season-best 19-point evening.
Overall, the Lions were out-rebounded, 43-28, but committed a season-low 10 turnovers. Saint Leo also posted a season-high six blocks.
Saint Leo will continue its SSC road swing on Saturday, January 20, when they travel to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. to take on Nova Southeastern. Tip–off for the game is set for 5:30 p.m.
For the latest news, information, and updates on the women's basketball team, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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Hoffman Estates, Ill. -- Sears Holding Corp. reported a bigger-than-expected net loss of $279 million for the first quarter of fiscal 2013, compared to net income of $189 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2012. The retailer also said that it is considering selling its protection-agreement business in an ongoing effort to raise cash as it struggles to improve its profits.
Domestic same store sales fell 3.6%, which the company largely attributed to cold weather, and revenues dropped about 9% to $8.45 billion from $9.27 billion. In one positive result, the company's online business on sears.com and kmart.com grew 20% from the same quarter a year earlier.
Eddie Lampert, Sears Holdings chairman and CEO, termed the quarter's results "unacceptable" in comments to shareholders, but highlighted positive developments in the company's online business and in its "Shop Your Way" membership program, as well as in emerging technology areas.
"During the quarter, we have accelerated our activity to transform Sears Holdings into a leading integrated retailer that fosters relationships with members through our Shop Your Way platform" Lampert stated. "We launched new mobile capabilities, like Member Assist, which allows our members to communicate directly with our consultative store sales staff remotely in a manner most convenient for our members. We believe that if we leverage technology to provide our members with the easiest, most seamless shopping experience possible, we will be successful."
On the company's quarterly call with investors, Lampert said that Sears would continue to offer service agreements to customers even if it sold the business.
Sears executives also said on the call that Sears has $7 billion of liquidity or assets that can be converted to cash very quickly if needed.


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66 MY — By Capt. Bill Pike —
February 2004
Tried and True
|We test a heavily built, uncommonly outfitted motoryacht with a proven track record.
Usually, I know a bit about a test
boat before I test her—I've either done some preliminary Web-based research, read a brochure or two, or harkened to a little gossip. Occasionally, however, I find myself climbing aboard a test boat I'm about as boned-up on as I am on the finer points of brain surgery or the dating preferences of Mary-Kate and Ashley, the Olsen twins of television fame.
Such was the case with Uniesse's 66-foot Motoryacht. While hoofin' it around the marina at Miami's Biscayne Bay Marriott, looking for the 66, I realized at some ineffable juncture that I knew virtually nothing about the boat. Not what she looked like, not what engines she carried, not even if she was brand-new!
This last detail turned out to be critical. Once I'd located the 66, I decided to go onboard alone, since the guy who was joining me for the day, Uniesse importer Gerry Berton of Global Yachts, had called to say he was running late. So, with the blessing of one of the ladies in Global's front office, I opened the solidly constructed watertight door at the transom, stepped into a large lazarette (with 6'6" headroom), and immediately copped a bad attitude. To starboard, Craftsman tools and toolboxes were strewn across a welded-aluminum workbench. To port, spools of three-strand nylon were stashed against a stacked pair of Onan gensets. And in other places, plastic crates of cleaning supplies were scattered about haphazardly. "Jeeze," I grumbled.
The engine room was disappointing, too. I entered via a thick, louvered-aluminum door in the lazarette's forward bulkhead and surveyed an unlikely scene. Frowzy water lay in the bilges. Aluminum, diamond-plate panels in the deck showed wear. Rust stains blemished sparkling gelcoat. And rag-filled Tupperware containers obscured big banks of expensive, fast-charging, zero-maintenance Optima batteries. Had Berton not arrived when he did, with a four-person cleaning crew in tow, I think I might've thrown some kind of fit.
"Sorry I'm late, Bill," he apologized, "and sorry about the way things look—this boat's been through it. I'm just introducing her stateside, but she's been on tour in Italy for over a year now. See the hour meters."
I scrutinized the gauges Berton was pointing at—233.3 hours, they read—and experienced a change of heart almost immediately. Our test boat wasn't grubby and questionable, she was simply used. Moreover, she was a bonafide bluewater cruiser—Berton said she'd been built to "Class A" European standards for "unlimited offshore" duty. I looked around again. Under the superficial wear-and-tear that had sidetracked me earlier, I began seeing safety features, systems redundancies, and gutsy construction details galore.
Take the fire-suppression system, for starters. In addition to the automatic bottle-type setup, a fire pump was installed at the foot of the workbench in the lazarette. It supported two full-fledged fire stations, one on the foredeck and the other in the stowage trunk at the transom. The pump itself was a big, two-stage, cast-bronze affair from the respected Italian manufacturer Gianneschi & Ramacciotti. And the canvas hoses at the fire stations were of the commercial sort, with big, bronze nozzles.
The ventilation system was cool, too. Again, for the engine-room blowers, big Gianneschi & Ramacciotti electric motors and fans had been used, along with densely baffled, eductor-equipped demisting boxes with emergency air shutoffs. Topside, air-intake ports were installed in the after corners of the boat's deckhouse, not in her saltwater-ingestion-prone hull sides where most builders put them.
Next page > Part 2: Electrical firepower was even more impressive than the redundancies. > Page 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
This article originally appeared in the January 2004 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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AN irate woman launched an attack on a sports store assistant when she was refused an exchange on a pair of trainers, a court heard.
Ex-heroin addict Shelley Conway rained repeated blows on Joshua Pate, 21, in front of shoppers after rushing around the counter in JD Sports in Burnley.
She had earlier threatened, "I'm going to punch something or someone".
The town's magistrates heard she has 79 convictions but none for violence.
Conway, 33, of Brush Street, Burnley, admitted assault by beating on July 15 and failing to surrender. She was sentenced to a community order with a four-week, 8pm to 7am curfew plus £60 compensation and £85 costs.
Parveen Akhtar, prosecuting, said just before 3.30pm, Conway went into the store, wanting a refund for a pair of training shoes bought the day before.
She was told she could not have one as the receipt was inappropriate.
She shouted at staff and 10 minutes later was still asking for a refund.
Conway went around the other side of the counter and hit Mr Pate four times.
She then hurled the shoes at another staff member, picked them up and left.
Conway was taken into custody, owned up but said she could not remember how many times she had struck the victim.
Miss Akhtar said the victim was left with red marks on his neck.
She said: "It's clearly been upsetting for him and there would have been other people shopping at the time who would have witnessed this incident and it would have been distressing for them as well." Mr Mark Williams, defending, said Conway suffers epilepsy and is also on methadone.
The trainers did not fit properly and she decided to go back and exchange them for a larger size.
He added: "She didn't have the receipt. She wasn't asking for a refund. She was asking to exchange them for the next size up.
"She got worked up about it and in her own words, lost her temper, in a fairly spectacular fashion, it's fair to say."


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Oct. 12, 2009
Is There a Lunker Lurking in Your Attic?
ATHENS, Texas — The first photograph was taken 170 years ago, so you'd think that everyone who ever caught a largemouth bass weighing 13 pounds or more would have been photographed proudly holding it.
That may in fact be the case, but the database for the Toyota ShareLunker program run by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) has few photographs of lunkers caught before 1999. It wasn't until about that time that TPWD employees started carrying a camera with them to photograph anglers and their fish.
Toyota ShareLunker program manager David Campbell is looking for photographs of fish which TPWD presently does not have on the ShareLunker web site, tpwd.texas.gov/sharelunker.
One such photograph recently arrived unsolicited from Robyn Tassio of Frisco.
"One cold March day in 1996, my wife and I decided to go bass fishing from the bank at Lake Fork," Tassio recalled. "I made a long cast over a weed bed and after about the third crank of the reel, I felt the fish nail my lure. It wasn't until she jumped, only her head clearing the water line, that I realized I had hooked a huge fish. When I finally landed this ShareLunker, I would have sworn that her weight was over 15 pounds. She was HUGE! It turned out she was a solid 13.11 lbs with a belly that looked like she had just swallowed a giant grapefruit."
Like many anglers before and since, Tassio's life was changed by catching the huge fish. "When I caught my ShareLunker, I was participating in the Bassin' magazine Big Bass World Championship Tournament," he explained. "This catch secured my position as the state of Texas champion, which qualified me to compete against the other 49 state champions at Grand Lake in Oklahoma in the fall of 1996. I ended up placing 7th overall in the Champions Tournament and enjoyed sharing my story of the 13-pound bass that didn't get away!"
Tassio received a fiberglass replica of his catch as a reward for loaning the fish to TPWD for spawning, and he still gets a lot of pleasure out of it. "I've been fortunate to have fished in other countries such as Brazil for giant peacock bass and South Africa for tiger fish, but I always enjoy telling fellow anglers about that huge bass I caught in my favorite lake in the world," he said. "When my wife brags about catching several 10-pound-plus bass from Lake Fork over the years as well as having a state record bowfin, I just smile and point to my ShareLunker replica that hangs on the wall."
"We'd like to have as many photographs of anglers and their fish as possible to complete the historical record," Campbell said. "The current season is number 24, and we'd like to have photographs of all the fish by the time we begin our silver anniversary season in 2010."
Campbell also requests that anglers send a short description of how they caught the fish and what catching it has meant to them over the years.
So all you anglers out there who have photographs of yourself holding a monster ShareLunker-and there could be nearly 200 of you-send a copy of a print (which will not be returned) to Campbell at the Texas Freshwater Fisheries Center, 5550 F.M. 2495, Athens, TX 75752. Digital files of photos can be e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com. Be sure to include information identifying yourself and a mailing address, phone number and/or e-mail address that can be used to verify the information sent.
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Place the quinoa, water, sea salt and cinnamon in a medium saucepan. Cover and bring to a boil. Reduce the flame and simmer for 15 minutes. Add the Edensoy and maple syrup. Simmer uncovered for 10 minutes. Add the apples and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Turn off the flame and mix in the dried fruit and vanilla. Cover and let sit for 15 minutes to thicken.
This pudding may also be served as a breakfast porridge. Try garnishing with roasted, chopped nuts, Eden Shake or Organic Gomasio.
Per serving - 360 calories, 5 gram fat (13% calories from fat), 11 gram protein, 67 gram carbohydrate, 13 gram fiber, 0 milligram cholesterol, 121 milligram sodium


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Capitulation does not always have to be a bad thing.
Sometimes, it's more mature to recognize when a fight is no longer worth fighting. When it is better to keep your powder dry now to fight another day.
Unfortunately, in capitulating, you need to ensure you are not creating more problems than you had before. Yet that appears to be exactly what has happened with a decision by the province to capitulate in a battle with the Manitoba Jockey Club (MJC), operators of Assiniboia Downs.
The province announced Wednesday it reached a 10-year deal with the MJC to keep the race track open.
For many years now, MJC has enjoyed a larger share of VLT proceeds than any site holder in the province. No longer interested in subsidizing horse racing, in January 2013 the province served notice it was terminating the revenue-sharing agreement. The MJC went ballistic, hiring lawyers, filing lawsuits and threatening anyone they perceived to be a threat.
In reality, there never was much promise in all the MJC legal wrangling. And yet, the province backed down.
The settlement will see MJC receive increasingly smaller operating grants over the next decade, until the only support it will receive will be what any site holder would earn from the VLTs. MJC has said it will spend time over that decade on a development plan in partnership with Peguis First Nation.
That solves one problem. However, in knuckling under to the MJC, the province has created several other problems that could make this fight seem like an insignificant undercard.
First, let's be honest about the fact horse racing itself will never pay the bills at the Downs. It is a dying sport, in large part because the betting public has moved on to more modern and convenient forms of gambling. For many years now, the only thing keeping many tracks open has been government and taxpayer largess.
With these market realities, what will the MJC do to save the Downs? It has bet its entire future on a partnership with Peguis First Nation to build a $100-million redevelopment featuring two hotels and convention facilities. The MJC/Peguis partnership has also made no secret of the fact it would like to include a casino. This desire was repeated Wednesday in various media interviews involving MJC/Peguis lawyers.
This is where the province has done a great disservice to MJC. In addition to allowing it to continue drawing taxpayer money, in capitulating it appears the province has given MJC and Peguis hope a casino deal could be done.
The official line from the province is there will be no additional casinos on the outskirts of Winnipeg, and no casino deals with individual First Nations. There is no reason to believe that position has changed. But perhaps the MJC and Peguis believe that having successfully bullied the province once, they can do it again.
Ah, if only that were the only lingering concern created by this mess. In setting the MJC loose to pursue a redevelopment with Peguis, the province is also setting the stage for a huge battle in the future with similar existing or proposed developments.
Currently, the city, along with support from the federal and provincial governments, is expanding the RBC Convention Centre Winnipeg at a cost of $180 million. As well, the province is a co-owner of Brandon's Keystone Centre, a convention facility that is also home to the Royal Manitoba Winter Fair.
In addition to all that, the Red River Exhibition Association is in the midst of a major expansion and redevelopment of its lands adjacent to Assiniboia Downs. These plans include -- you guessed it -- convention facilities.
The RREA approached the MJC last year with a proposed partnership to redevelop the Downs and the exhibition lands together. One of the main reasons the province supported the RREA plan was it ensured all that land in far west Winnipeg would be redeveloped in a complementary fashion. Allowing the MJC a reprieve not only ends hope of a co-ordinated approach, it all but ensures the MJC and RREA will pursue competing developments, something that will erode the viability of both.
When you look at the consequences of capitulation in this instance, it is impossible to figure out what the province was hoping to accomplish. The MJC/Peguis legal assault, which included a motion for an injunction, was not destined to succeed. If there ever was a time for a government to dig in its heels and hold firm, this was it.
No, capitulation doesn't have to be a bad thing. But for it to be the right thing, you have to be sure that in backing down now, you haven't created bigger problems down the road.
With this deal, the province has not only committed itself to pouring millions of taxpayer dollars down a less-than-promising black hole, it has also set the stage for a whack of future trouble.


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There is nothing quite like a quick dessert or an afternoon treat any day of the week and today I was craving for a treat I remember from my childhood - köyhät ritarit, or Poor Knights, as it would translate in English. As so many sweet treats, this one too I think originally came to Finland from Sweden, and was often made using either day-old white bread or sweet cinnamon roll, pulla (or cut-up braided pulla).
Of course I had to modernise the traditional recipe a bit - I used my healthier spelt pulla instead of the traditional all-white, I replaced whipped cream with yoghurt and used berries instead of jam. The traditional version of this would be something similar to that of French toast - white bread dipped in milk and egg mixture, fried in butter and topped with berry jam and whipped cream - you get the idea. I can tell you, however, that I wholeheartedly enjoyed this lighter version of my childhood treat, and it was just as nice as I remembered! This really is the simplest dessert, but what a special treat to have every now and then!
Köyhät ritarit - Poor Knights
(serves 2)
2 whole spelt pulla, cut in halves*
1 free-range egg
dash of milk (100ml)
tiny pinch of salt
olive oil, for frying
250ml thick or strained yoghurt**
200g fresh or frozen (defrosted) berries
raw honey, to taste
* you could use day-old spelt bread as well.
**strain the yoghurt for at least 30 minutes before using, alternatively you could use quark or thick pot-set yoghurt.
1. Whisk the egg, milk and salt together in a bowl. then dip each pulla piece in the mixture. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a small frying pan and fry the halves on each side until golden. Set aside.
2. Mix the yoghurt with the berries and sweeten (to taste) with raw honey. Spoon a dollop of the berry yoghurt on top of the warm pulla and serve immediately.


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Renewed Interest in the Startup Visa
Every once in a while, we write about the ups and downs of the H-1B visa, which enables US companies to hire foreign workers for certain types of jobs (engineering positions are usually the most relevant for the high-tech industry).
But, the other day, while I was browsing The Wall Street Journal, my wheels started spinning when I read a story about a foreign-born software executive who came to the US with a J-2 visa associated with his wife's academic research exchange program. He founded a company in San Francisco in 2010, now employs 15 people, and was rejected for an H-1B visa. Really? A guy who's creating legitimate high-tech jobs can't stay in the US because of a problem with a stamp in his passport?
The plus side is that the executive is trying to get an E-2 visa. Have you heard about this kind of visa? I hadn't, but was glad to learn about it. At first glance, it looks as if it could not only help high-tech companies and foreign-born entrepreneurs: I think, if it's handled well, it could be the wide-scale jumpstart America needs to get out its unemployment slump. At the very least, it could empower immigrants -- many of whom got visas to study at American universities and nurture their entrepreneurial spirits -- to remain here and build their businesses in the US, thus slowing the brain drain of smart, risk-taking entrepreneurs who are stuck in immigration limbo and may be forced to take their brilliant ideas out of the US and back to their home countries.
The E-2 visa, commonly referred to as the "startup visa," would be for investors from countries that have a treaty to do business with the US, have invested a substantial amount in a company, and are in the country to "develop and direct" that business, according to the WSJ article cited above. Lately, more high-tech and corporate leaders and advocacy groups are urging Congress to pass the Startup Act 2.0 bill, a piece of legislation introduced by Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS) and co-sponsored by a bipartisan group, including senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Marco Rubio (R-FL).
The updated bill calls for immigration law changes, including the addition of a new visa that permits foreign-born entrepreneurs to stay legally in the US, "if they can raise $100,000 in capital and hire at least two American workers during their first year holding the visa," the newspaper said. There would be 75,000 of these entrepreneurial visas available, if the bill passes, and they would include startups in any industry, not just high-tech.
A separate part of the bill would also allow up to 50,000 US-educated foreigners with a Master's or Doctorate in a science-, technology-, or math-related field to remain in the US, according to CNET.
Although the bill was stalled in committee during the run-up to the recent elections, the Obama administration seems to back it, or at least it did about 11 months ago, according to this post. We'll see how far along it moves during Obama's second term. I, for one, have my fingers crossed that it passes.
Why? Well, because, besides the fact that the US symbol of liberty -- Lady Liberty -- tells the world, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," it makes sense for the US to find a way to keep educated, talented entrepreneurs and investors stateside. Also, the bail-out of already well established companies has not proven to be a job-creation engine, as New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman points out. And, as the Kauffman Foundation found, companies less than five years old accounted for nearly all new job creation between 1980 and 2005 (Data here sourced from bill sponsor Sen. Moran's website.)
And, seriously, how many road-repair or transportation-related construction jobs feasibly can be created when budgets of many towns and states and the federal government are being sliced to the bare bones? Those strategies worked in the Great Depression, but times have changed. Solutions for some of the Great Recession's most pressing problems (such as unemployment or under-employment) need to be rooted in ways that make sense in 2012 and support a global, free market -- from which Americans will benefit. Perhaps supporting entrepreneurs is one way to do that.
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If you haven't started using social media and you are wondering
whether you should be, the simple answer is an unequivocal YES! If
you are not using it at all or only minimally, you're missing
valuable opportunities to stay connected with your network and to
learn more about prospective clients and referral sources. You are
missing opportunities to get introductions to the influencers you
want to meet (i.e. the connections of your connections).
Social media is not a substitute for in-person marketing. It is
not where you should be spending the majority of your marketing
time. But it is an important complement to all the other things you
do to build your reputation and build your relationships.
If you are holding back because you don't know where to start,
here are six steps you can take:
1. Join LinkedIn. While there are many other popular social
networks including Facebook and Twitter, LinkedIn is a great place
to start and LinkedIn is the one network where you want to make
sure you are present. The free version is perfectly adequate for
most users.
2. Create a detailed profile which includes a nice photo and all
of your contact information. Once you join, LinkedIn will prompt
you for educational and other biographical information (essentially
helping you create a very detailed resume). Make sure you
create a profile which includes:
3. Other activities and professional accomplishments,
particularly those that reinforce your competence to handle the
types of legal services you are trying to sell and your experience
in helping the kinds of clients you want to serve.
4. Start sending out invitations to connect once you are
satisfied with your profile and start accepting the invitations to
connect that have been accumulating in your in-box. Try to connect
with at least 50 individuals you know (law school and college
classmates, former co-workers, past and present clients and
referral sources). Review their LinkedIn profiles to get more ideas
about what you might want to include in your own profile. In
addition, take note if you learn something that would be useful to
know about that person (e.g. they like golf, they are interested in
classical music, they attended the same college, they share your
political beliefs, they are active in their church or synagogue,
they started out as a litigator, they had a first career in social
work). For three weeks, make a point of going to your LinkedIn page
daily and skimming through the "updates" that your contacts have
posted. Don't pay too much attention to who they have connected
with (i.e. pay more attention to the substantive updates they have
posted). This means you'll have to skim past a lot of updates. You
will also receive a weekly newsletter (unless you change the
setting) which gives you a summary of all the updates your contacts
have posted since the last newsletter.
5. After three weeks, start posting your own updates once a
week. Try to include links. Possible updates include: linking to an
interesting article; linking to some content you have on your
website or to an article you have published somewhere; mentioning
one of your successes or one of your partner's successes; posing a
question you think your network might be able to answer; flagging a
recent court decision or a new statute and summarizing in a
sentence or two why it might be important; congratulating someone;
letting your network know about an event they may want to
6. Continue to connect with additional professionals who are
already in your network (and professionals you meet at networking
functions). After two months, identify some companies or
institutions that you would like to represent or some types of
professionals who you think might be good potential referral
sources. Conduct a search in LinkedIn to see if any of your
contacts know someone at that company and might be willing to make
an introduction on your behalf.
Tip courtesy of Stephen Seckler, president, Seckler Legal
Consulting and Coaching.
Published September 13, 2012


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Scherzer hangs tough, but bats can't best Yankees
Righty allows two runs over seven innings, takes loss in series opener
NEW YORK -- The Tigers are the first team in history to have three consecutive different Cy Young Award winners on their roster, and are hoping their band of aces can help carry them deep into the postseason.
They will get their first glimpse during this four-game series against the Yankees, where they had each of them lined up to pitch the first three games.
Max Scherzer, the reigning Cy Young winner in the American League, was the first to take the mound, but he was outdueled by Brandon McCarthy and the New York bullpen as the Yankees claimed a 2-1 victory Monday night at Yankee Stadium.
Scherzer acknowledged that he was not sharp through the first few innings while he allowed five hits and walked two, but some strong play by the Tigers' defense helped keep the team in the game.
The Yankees had the bases loaded with no one out in the third inning and could have broken the game open if not for an outstanding diving catch from Tigers center fielder Ezequiel Carrera, who was making his first start in center field since being promoted on Friday.
Jacoby Ellsbury drove a pitch from Scherzer deep into center field. Carrera raced back and dove, fully extended, for the ball over his head, and secured the ball in the heel of his glove, sliding at the edge of the warning track.
"We're going to see that one replayed from a while," Scherzer said. "That was spectacular."
Ellsbury was still credited with a sacrifice fly as Ichiro Suzuki scored from third base, but Carrera's play likely saved two additional runs and left Ellsbury and much of the 41,603 in attendance stunned.
"I haven't seen a better play made all year," Ellsbury said. "The time of the game. Bases loaded. Just a tremendous play. Shows his athleticism to get that ball. I think that's three RBIs, and at least a triple. That kept them in the ballgame. If that ball lands, it might break open the game for us."
Scherzer held the Yankees to just one more run in the inning and the Tigers trailed, 2-0.
That was enough support for McCarthy, who has been everything the Yankees have wanted since they acquired him from Arizona. With this latest victory, he is now 4-0 with his new team, and has not allowed more than one earned run in four of his five starts.
The Tigers forced McCarthy into long at-bats and ran his pitch count up high early in the game, but all they they could push across the plate was one run in the fifth inning on a single by Ian Kinsler. It took McCarthy 116 pitches to get through 5 2/3 innings, but he allowed just one unearned run on five hits while striking out eight.
"I know this is a big series for us, and I know what they're throwing at us," said McCarthy. "I took that as kind of a challenge for me. This is a chance to step up against one of the best and to make our own mark."
Four Yankees relievers combined to allow just one hit over the final 3 1/3 innings, punctuated by David Robertson's 30th save to close out the ninth.
Scherzer settled in eventually and lasted seven innings, and while he did give up nine hits, he only allowed two runs. It was a rare loss for Scherzer, just his 11th defeat in his last 60 decisions.
"Without my best stuff, I found a way to be able to go deep into a game," he said. "So there were some things I didn't do quite as well tonight, but at the end of the day, I was able to get some results, and at least you can hang your hat on that."
The Tigers' rotation does not offer any relief for opposing offenses. When the two teams continue this four-game series on Tuesday, the Tigers will send left-hander and 2012 AL Cy Young winner David Price to the mound to make his first start for the team since being acquired from the Rays last Thursday.
Jamal Collier is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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NVIDIA Releases GeForce GTX Titan Zby Ryan Smith on 5/28/2014 10:45 AM EST
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grahaman27 - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkIt's just a money grab. Reply
dagnamit - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkYeah, they're in the business of making money. Nvidia thinks that's what the market will bear. They're probably right. Titans have proven quite popular in a market that they've created (CUDA). Now they're reaping the benefits of that effort. Good for them.
If you're buying this card for gaming, you're rich or dumb, or both. The biggest problem is that it's best use case for gaming, small form factor 1440p/4k, is thrown out the window by the triple slot cooler. Reply
ddriver - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkOpenCL + ATi gives you about 10 times better bang for the buck. Only people looking to waste money will go for nvidia compute solutions. Reply
MadMac_5 - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkThere's a lot of inertia in the scientific community, though. For the longest time CUDA was the only API that was well documented enough to use, and as such there would be a lot of resistance to changing it. When code is written and released for free by academics or developed by a grad student/postdoc researcher who moves on to somewhere else after 2-4 years, it's a MASSIVE pain to re-write it for a different API like OpenCL. Hell, there's still legacy FORTRAN code running around the Physics community partly because no one has been able to dedicate the time to port it to something newer and make it as efficient. Reply
SolMiester - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkfor about 100 x less the applications! Reply
heffeque - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkYou only need it to run your own scientific application, not everybody else's apps. Reply
TheJian - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkROFL@OpenCL doing ANYTHING better than cuda. Only people wanting to waste money buy cards for opencl. CUDA gets real work done. I don't see AMD chanting OpenCL benchmark numbers VS CUDA at all. That means it sucks. Ryan etc won't test them vs each other either, so again it SUCKS or he would run it to make Cuda look bad. The problem is YOU CAN'T...ROFL. I'm not a fan of proprietary stuff unless it's better, and in this case it is. Gsync to, until proven otherwise by AMD (I suspect their solution will still have lag, and they'll wait on scalers just like NV who built their own rather than waiting). Cuda is taught in 100's of universities DUE to billions in funding from NV. It's in hundreds of pro apps.
In work, I don't care who it is I'm using, I just want to be faster. OpenCL isn't. Free crap generally is...crap. People don't like working for free, get over it or live with 2nd best for life.
Also AMD must be money grabbing too right? 2x290x is not $1500. But with a worse name in the business you can't charge what the king does. See Intel vs. AMD. Same story. You pay a premium for a premium product. Phase3 drivers for AMD means no $3000 money grab. People seem to miss why AMD can't charge what NV does. R&D like cuda, Gsync, drivers NOT in phase3...Get the point people? This isn't a comment on who I like, just stating the facts of business. Apple had a premium for a few years, but then everyone got retina like screens, fast chips etc etc...Now price parity at the top basically. If AMD stops getting phase 3 drivers, bad ref designs that can run as advertised, etc..etc...They will be able to charge more. Reply
Evilwake - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkI don't use CUDA to play games these are suppose to be gaming cards or at least that's what Nvida is saying they are if they are not where are the pro drivers for it.You fanboys believe crap smells like grapes as long as its your team saying so ,its a over price card that wants to be a gaming card and wants to be a pro card for that money if I need a pro card which come with pro drivers i spend the little extra for the reall thing. Reply
Flunk - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI don't think it's just that. I think they don't expect many people to buy them. It's there as a halo product to get people to buy their less expensive cards.
If you're a gamer going over 2x GTX 780 Ti doesn't make a lick of sense financially and if you're buying for compute multiple Titan Blacks makes more sense. Reply
dstarr3 - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkAs a compute card, the price is generally pretty fair. You could spend a lot more. But as a gaming card, it's a right ripoff. Reply
p1esk - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkAs a compute card it does not make any sense. For the same amount of money, you can get 3 Titan Black (x1.5 flops, x1.5 RAM), or 4 780Ti (x2 flops, same RAM).
And yes, I'm aware that 780Ti only does 32bit flops well, but that's actually more than enough for things like neural network simulations. Reply
Omniscientearl - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkBut it does make a lot of sense. You're thinking purely in terms of performance per dollar, but what if we look at performance per watt? Depending on how often you're pulling peak performance, you could be saving quite a bit on your electric bill. Reply
p1esk - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkThey are very likely to use the same chips in both Titan Black and Titan Z. What makes you think chips in Z are any more power efficient than chips in Black?
To get TDP down they clocked it lower (peak or not), obviously. Reply
JonathonM - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkFor the companies which use software like ANSYS the performance and price is great but Titan isn't certified for Quadro or Tesla. Otherwise we would buy heaps of these for compute. So we buy K40s instead at two or three times the price. Reply
p1esk - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkWell, sure, if you need that ECC memory, or whatever else Tesla's offers, and if money is no object, then it makes sense to buy K40.
But if you didn't need that, buying Titan Z instead of Titan Black or 780Ti wouldn't make sense. Reply
Gigaplex - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkBy aggressively binning for the better performance/watt chips of the bunch (there's a lot of variation in the individual chips they manufacture). Reply
p1esk - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkWhat makes you think Titan Z offers better perf/watt?
If my math is correct, they reduced TDP by 25% and reducing the clock by 20%. Reply
JarredWalton - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkPlus let's not forget: $1000 to reduce overall power use at max TDP by 125W is a huge investment. You're not saving on space, you're losing performance, and you're spending $3000 instead of $2000. Running 24/7 at the typical cost of $0.10 per kWh, you'd only "save" $0.30 per day! Break-even point for running 24/7/365 is thus 3333 days. Anyone out there really believe that:
A) The cards will still be functional in nine years?
B) People would want to use the cards in nine year?
Put it another way: if I offered you an X1800 or 7800 GTX right now for free, would you take it and would you actually use it? I think not. (And I believe in my "box of old stuff" I actually have a newer X1950 that has been unplugged and unused for several years.) Reply
mmrezaie - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkYou forgot to mention that you have to share the bus bandwidth with two gpus now, and in case you don't have that many iterations in your code (bootstrapping), you won't get the whole benefit of two gpus sharing the same bus. Reply
p1esk - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkDoes CUDA see this card as two separate GPUs, or as one? Reply
TheJian - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkI'm sorry. I must have missed that 3 titan blacks can be run at 375w total. WOW, NV sneak in some serious improvements in titan blacks since I read reviews? Where are these magical titan blacks? Same with 780ti. You're missing the point here. Reply
p1esk - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkWho cares about power? First of all, you're not paying for it - your company or university does, and second, even if you paid for it yourself - extra 100W = $10/month. Not exactly a bank breaking amount. Reply
BobSwi - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkTalking about niches.
Wonder what will sell more: GTX Titan-Z, or Core i7 Surface Pro 3. Reply
XZerg - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkEasily the Core i7 SP3. i7 doesn't mean quad core with HT but could be one of those low power dual core, eg: i7-4550u or i7-4610Y... Reply
SirMaster - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkThe Core i7 Surface Pro 3 comes with the 1.7GHz (3.3GHz turbo) i7-4650U with HD 5000 graphics. Reply
tabascosauz - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkPeople are already beginning to buy 295X2, but I highly doubt anyone will buy this card. Just because it's triple slot doesn't mean it won't run hot and loud; the GTX 690 was about as much as NVTTM can handle without scaling back the clocks.
Not to mention that the Titan Black is still out there...what's the point of this card? Reply
HighTech4US - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkQuote: People are already beginning to buy 295X2
How exactly do you run CUDA applications on the 295X2.
Oh, right, YOU CAN'T Reply
Senti - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkAnd who now needs CUDA? Oh, right: NO ONE.
Yes, we had to bear with CUDA when there was no alternative, but now you'd have to be pretty insane to target it instead of OpenCL. No one in industry likes proprietary standards that lock you to one hardware vendor.
The only strong point of this card is DP performance. But DP and no ECC? Ew, where are you going to use that? Reply
NukNuk - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkplenty of people are running legacy software that uses CUDA - and when they go to replace their dual Titan compute, they will probably just switch to one of these instead of trying to figure out a new hardware/software combination. Reply
Morawka - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkDeep Sea Oil is run by CUDA Reply
minijedimaster - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkFor now Reply
Evilwake - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkThat's why Gas prices are so high lol Reply
Evilwake - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkHey fanboy the 295x2 are gaming cards not pro cards.You fanboys are all like on both sides as long as your team said so you believe there crap.I don't buy gaming cards to do cuda or opcl i buy them to play games and this card does not know what it wants to be a gaming card or pro card(sorry no pro drivers)for that price i would spend a little extra sense it seems money means nothing to you guys and buy the pro card that comes with pro drivers. Reply
Jon Tseng - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkre: use as a compute card does this mean it has the double-precision floating point enabled? NVDA usually disable that on gaming cards to segment the market, right? Reply
blanarahul - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkAll Titan branded cards have the full FP64 capabilities enabled. Reply
ZeDestructor - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkI would much rather displayport also be abandoned, and instead we just have something like AMD's Eyefinity cards: a single row of 6 mini-DisplayPorts (or 3/4 miniDP + 1 DL-DVI) instead. Using that config and some FPGA-style software-configurable wiring, it's feasible to do conversion to DL-DVI using two ports into a passive adapter. Needless to say, passive conversion to HDMI is also trivial, and I doubt much more expensive (if at all in volume quantities) than the usual bundled DVI to VGA adapters that are usually shipped. Oh, and ditch the MOLEX -> PCI-E adapters too. They're not particularly useful in modern times.... Reply
Zok - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkGood catch! You can clearly see the "2.5 slot" size in this photo: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/8069/geforce-gtx-... Reply
Zok - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkWhoops. Posting fail. Sorry. Reply
WithoutWeakness - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - link"The triple slot design is also going to be notable since when coupled with the split-blower design of the cooler, it further increases the amount of space the card occupies. Axial fan designs such as the one used on GTX Titan Z need a PCIe slot's worth of breathing room to operate, which means that altogether the GTX Titan Z is going to take up 4 slots of space."
The card appears to be a 2.5-slot design with a 3-slot bracket which should allow enough room for the axial fan to pull in air even if a card is installed in the slot next to it. An empty slot between cards shouldn't be necessary given the design. Reply
Zok - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkGood catch! You can clearly see the "2.5 slot" size in this photo: http://images.anandtech.com/doci/8069/geforce-gtx-... Reply
GeorgeH - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkI'm confused about the video out comments. As far as I know HDMI and DVI are electrically identical (video), so why would a DP -> HDMI be significantly cheaper than a DP->DVI adapter? I could see dual link DVI being more expensive, but a glance at Newegg shows options for far less than $100 (akthough I've no idea about their quality). Reply
Meaker10 - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkDual link DVI is more reliable at going above 1080p than HDMI and has been used in many high quality but slightly older displays. Reply
SirKnobsworth - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkCertain DisplayPort ports allow HDMI or single-link DVI output with a passive adapter, but dual-link requires some electronics. Reply
ZeDestructor - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkDL-DVI (Dual-Link, up to 2560x1600@60Hz or 1920x1200@120Hz) requires active converters that re in the $50+ range. I picked one up from a Dell clearout auction for ~$25 (iirc) shipped a wihle ago.
SL-DVI/HDMI (Single-Link, up to 1920x1200@60Hz) on the other hand be done by passive adapters since they use fewer pins than DP (HDMI is 19, SL-DVI is 18 pins with more shielding), and most DP source ports will happily switch down to outputting HDMI/DVI signals instead of DP when connected to a passive adapter, which can be made for under $1. Reply
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkThe above pretty much sums it up.
DL-DVI requires two sets of TMDS signals while SL-DVI/HDMI requires one set. That makes all the difference since TMDS passthrough mode on DP only has enough pins for a single set of TMDS transmitters. Which is why we can do passive HDMI, but have to do active for DL-DVI. Reply
ZeDestructor - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkWeeell.... technically DL-HDMI exists..... Reply
The Von Matrices - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkHDMI 1.3/1.4 runs its single link at 340MHz compared to the standard 165MHz of SL-DVI and HDMI 1.0/1.1/1.2. Therefore, the HDMI port on this card has roughly equivalent bandwidth to DL-DVI and can theoretically drive a 2560x1600/60Hz monitor. Whether or not any 2560x1600 monitors have hardware that can decode the HDMI 1.3/1.4 signal is another question entirely. Reply
Ammaross - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkLet's not forget HDMI also does audio, whereas DVI does not. Reply
Casecutter - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkRelease Day with lots of press releases while No reviews? Kind of telling of the story!
I see Nvidia wanting to get (dump) the initial run they've made onto the channel / market and then be done with this with as little fan-fare as possible. That means giving out as few as possible for couple of sympathetic reviewers and sell the rest for those who see a cheap compute/Cuda option to hopefully cover a good portion of their costs. Reply
tipoo - Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - linkYeah yeah, halo product that 500 people buy. Where is the top to bottom Maxwell range? Reply
HisDivineOrder - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkCurrently being manufactured to be released end of this year with delays probably pushing it into next year around March? ;) Reply
Ettepet - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkThe main beauty of this device is its 6GB / GPU. If it was a bit more efficient (speed/power/size-wise) and not so expensive one or two would be in a pc or pci-e expension board I plan to buy within a month.
Where are the 4GB+ GTX 780 Ti's? Or 8GB+ GTX 790's? Bring them on... :-) Reply
krskipp - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkI'm definitely jumping ship to AMD from now on. Nvidia seem to have put the brakes on double memory cards by essentially calling them Titan, and charging double the money. They routinely give their standard cards *just* enough memory for today's applications, guaranteeing you'll need to upgrade in 18 months or so. My 2 680s in SLI would be desperate for an upgrade if I hadn't been able to get the 4Gb version that I currently have (I have a 1440p monitor). So given I'll have a choice between a (likely) 4Gb 880, or an 8Gb Rip off Titan for my next GPU, I'll go with AMD's 290x follow up which will probably have at least 5Gb RAM. In fact since memory is relatively cheap, AMD are missing a trick by not releasing a 6Gb version of the 290X, for a small premium. It would be a complete Titan killer if it was priced right. NVidia have just got greedy and cynical with their specs and pricing structure. Reply
piroroadkill - Thursday, May 29, 2014 - linkThere's an 8GiB 290X by Sapphire. Reply
Evilwake - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkYea and in reviews it craps all over the Titan Black we need more companies like Sapphire that step out of the box for its gaming fans. Reply
Evilwake - Sunday, June 08, 2014 - linkAt least someone sees the light i use to love nvidia but they gone crazy for that amount of money i could put 3 290x and blow that card to bits.O i forgot the cuda thing o well good thing i know how to code in opcl. Reply
Hrel - Friday, May 30, 2014 - linkthat shit cray Reply
jman9295 - Monday, March 16, 2015 - linklooking at the PCB in the 2nd pic, I'm assuming that if Nvidia or one of their vendors wanted to, they could fit all the components of a single Titan Black with the full 6GB on a half length PCB since that is essentially what they are doing here. Basically, the PCB will end where the PCIe teeth end. And, if they omitted one of the DVI ports, they could make it a single slot card assuming a thinner heat sink would be able to adequately cool a Titan Black with a single fan. Reply


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Guest blogging has become very popular as a way to build traffic and inbound links since last year.
As a blogger, I am receiving a ton of requests from authors, marketers, agency representatives of big brands and other bloggers to feature what they have written on my blogs. Many of these contributions are of low quality and almost all of them don't have a "voice" behind the writings. In fact, once you start reading, you will know that these articles are written for the sake of coming up with 500 words, or whatever word count that seems reasonable, so that the contributor will be able to get the much needed inbound link from your blog or website.
Here's my question to bloggers/website owners:
I am a website owner and have been thinking of accepting guest posts. However, I would also like to keep strict guidelines. 1. I will make the policies public for everyone so no one feels a sense of discrimination. 2. Yes, there will be strict editorial guidelines on both the number of words and the number of links. Not only that, the content that the guest will write in my blog should cater to and benefit my audience. In return, he or she will get a link back.3. The reason that I would use to reject a post would be irrelevant content, grammatical error and copied content.
Do you find having a strict editorial guidelines, on the links for example, turn quality guest bloggers away? My assumption is that many good bloggers often have great content themselves and linking to them actually benefits your readers, especially if they are relevant.
I am starting to accept the same "contributions" from guests on some of my blogs. My rules are, I review everything and make sure it is not offensive in any way and make sure it is not someone else's work. Plagiarism is a big issue that I won't be a part of.
Having strict editorial guidelines on links may turn some good bloggers away; but in general if the content of the post is relevant and of extraordinary quality, then there might be some (to some extent) loosening of restrictions on the links. But that may not be always the case. It totally depends on the content quality and the guest post the site is linking to.
For me there is nothing worse than writing something and then having someone else pick it apart because I didn't write it according to their guidelines. It is very important that those who offer guest blogging are clear to their guest authors. After all, it's hard to play any game if you don't know the rules. Most good websites will have a set of guidelines that let the writer know even the little things.---
Although this looks like a lengthy list, it will save both writers and blog owners a lot of time in writing, editing, and rewriting.
Err... This would be quite costly for a self-funded blogger, right? As of now, I still have to go through each of the guest post submissions manually. Often times, the first paragraph itself will tell whether the contribution is going to be a quality one or one that is just submitted for the sake of getting a link from my blog.
The list that you just shared is a gem, Linda. Definitely adding most of these into the "Write for Us" page that I am trying to come up with. I see how setting an expectation upfront will help to filter out a lot of submissions that are not up to par. Even if a shameless crappy submission comes through to my inbox, I'll at least have a link that I can point the author to rather than spending time to craft a nice email to decline the submission.
it is not easy to get people to write for you. it is not enough when you say "write good content for me and i will give you link back". nothing is free in this world. i guess you are not much experienced. nobody will put enough time and effort and write a good content article just to get a link back from a website that is not very, i mean very popular. your site must be very good in ranking and a popular one before people will voluntarily start writing for you. people pay for this stuff, including me - to get good original content.
Well, if you are going to publish the guest posts, you should make sure that they are free from the plagiarism issues. Noticeably, the plagiarized content can be easily caught with the help of a free plagiarism checker software and it will not be any difficult to use it for keeping yourself away from any controversy.
Trust me, I'm experienced enough in getting about one article submission almost every week now, as the more popular blogs are closing down their guest blogging opportunities.
However, what you mentioned is true, most of these "authors" will not even bother to reply when I respond to their submissions asking for edits. I'm trying to come up with a canned response for low quality submissions too just to save some time.
I too am very curious about guest blogging... actually accepting guest blogging. I think i would like to limit it to one link per blog post... and just check the quality of the links before accepting. Who has done this with success?? Please share your experience!!!!
You are confusing guest blogging with blog comments.


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The first week of March, I had the opportunity to 'live like an Adobe Evangelist' by touring with our 3 creative evangelists, Jason Levine, Rufus Deuchler, and Paul Trani. It was a daunting task, but I grabbed the reins with both hands and held on for dear life as we sped from city to city across Europe.
First, we had our London event on Tuesday 5th (see my blog post here). As soon as the last question from the audience was answered, the guys slammed their laptops shut, and we dashed off to a taxi, headed for Paddington Station and my first ride on the Heathrow Express train. It really was like touring with a rock band – I kept expecting crowds of screaming girls to rush the car!
After a quick flight to Stockholm, we only allowed ourselves one quick beer in the bar before getting a good night's rest.
It was a good thing we did have a good night's rest, as the Stockholm event had 600 attendees! The crowd were excited and energised, and gave lots of great feedback. Rufus again dazzled with his trick of taking a photo of the crowd on his iPad and then using Photoshop Touch to insert an image of himself into the crowd shot. Brilliant! Jason was on fine form with his 1970s John Travolta impression on video, and had the entire crowd in hysterics. And Paul really impressed the audience with his responsive web design.
Slamming shut the laptops and again jumping into a taxi, we sped off to Arlanda Airport for our flight to Copenhagen.
Recognising that I wouldn't be making myself popular by inhabiting every minute of their time, I let the guys have dinner to themselves and met up with a great Adobe community member. She gave me a lovely walking tour of the 'meat packing district' of Copenhagen and I got a few nice shots. What do you think?
The next morning, we had another phenomenal turnout; this time nearly 600 attendees at the Copenhagen event! We were treated to lots of great questions and excited attendees. You can get a sense of the excitement the guys were generating in this shot:
I was so sorry to leave the guys but I had a lovely lunch planned with several of our community members at a beautiful restaurant in the new foodie capital of Europe, Copenhagen. It was a delightful end to a whirlwind trip!
I can't thank the team enough for inviting me along, making me feel so welcome, and impressing the hell out of me. What they do is amazing and we should all be very appreciative of seeing them in action!
Until the next time, this is Christie The Roadie, signing off…


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I got all the forest service maps for where i hunt in south western montana. Shows all the state, forest service, private sections etc. Also have a garmin gps with the montana land ownership hunting maps, a must have in my opinion.
I got all the forest service maps for where i hunt in south western montana. Shows all the state, forest service, private sections etc. Also have a garmin gps with the montana land ownership hunting maps, a must have in my opinion.
I know the OP had asked about paper maps but I have been really impressed with the topo maps available thru the Cabelas Recon app. With the Public Land Boundaries add-on I was able to figure out some tricky BLM/private checkerboard boundaries while hunting mulies in Wyoming last fall.
There are some limitations I had to consider like conserving battery life of phone (android) by disabling gps when not needed. I also had to preload topo data to SD card while having a wireless connection beforehand. But with efficient use I was able to get the same things done with this setup as my buddie's $400 garmin with $100+ chip.
If you log online to their website you can also create custom maps with any boundary overlays, topo or satellite and any data pts you would like to have added. I have not used this function personally but it might be helpful.
Free GPS maps.
Not all areas you're after will be on there nor are they the BEST you can find, but they show the boundaries of private and public land and other essentials. I do not need to know the EXTREME details of a location and pay astronomical amounts. I think many of the high dollar digital maps for GPS are overkill. Just me...
I do not need to know someone once farted @ 10,235 feet @ these coordinates... Give me the basics that i can use to get where I need to go and get back. That's what you'll find @ the GPS Depot.
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Each national forest district seem to have their own maps they make available, not all Districts are the same. I have gotten paper maps from them that showed information that no other maps had. For example I got one that was useless for topo , but it showed special features, one really important one...gates blocking roads. Here is a site with a lot of BLM info http://www.geocommunicator.gov You can really get a lot out of it if you get into it. Look for the site mapper.
Just wanted to resurrect this one, I just got my maps in from these guys.
They have the USGS maps, which I like, but I also found out that you can specify an area that you want, i.e., it can span several USGS maps, add grids, pre-folded, etc, plus the waterproofing.
For the cost of 3 non-waterproof paper USGS maps plus shipping, I got three maps that cover all of the areas where I'll be hunting, getting wood, etc and cover the area of about 12 USGS maps.
Quite nice, thanks again.
Ah, the nostalgic aroma of a yak dung stove brewing up some tea full of herbs best left untranslated.
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Nelson Mandela was jointly awarded the 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with FW de Klerk.
Former president Nelson Mandela had been on the run from the South African apartheid government for 17 months, a feat that had earned him the name 'Black Pimpernel'.
But his luck was about to run out when police waved down an Austin Westminster on 5 August 1962 at a roadblock on the R103 near Howick in KwaZulu-Natal.
At the wheel was Mandela, posing as a chauffeur, with fellow comrade Cecil Williams in the passenger seat.
The two men had just visited Chief Albert Luthuli, then leader of the African National Congress, to report back on Mandela's trip abroad, where he had received military training in Algeria and had been to London to drum up support for the liberation movement.
Although Mandela insisted he was simply a chauffeur named David Motsamayi, the police were on to him (some say with the help of the CIA), and he was promptly arrested. His capture marked the start of Mandela's 27-year imprisonment and the journey that he would later call 'the long walk to freedom'.
Until relatively recently, the Mandela Capture Site was just a small bricked area with a plaque. But on the 50th anniversary of this event in 2012, an impressive steel sculpture and visitor centre was unveiled to give full recognition to the significance of this spot.
Designed by artist Marco Cianfanelli (of Apartheid Museum fame) with the help of architect Jeremy Rose, the sculpture creates something of an optical illusion. From a distance, the 50 steel poles of varying heights simply look like a random collection of poles, but as you approach to within 35m of the sculpture, they merge to form an image of Mandela's face.
Mandela's arrest that day was not only the start of a long, dark period in the liberation struggle, but also set Mandela on the path to becoming the world's most famous political prisoner, and ultimately the first president of a democratic South Africa.
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Who to contact
Apartheid Museum
Tel: +27 (0)11 309 4728 (Noelene Patel)
(The Mandela Capture Site is currently managed by the Apartheid Museum)
How to get here
About 5km north-west of Howick on the N3 between Durban and Johannesburg, take the Tweedie turn-off to Lions River. Turn right on to the R103. The site is a five-minute drive from the highway and well signposted. It's open from 9am to 4pm every day of the week.
Best time to visit
All year but summer (November to February) can be subject to rain showers.
Around the area
This is the start of the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, which has a host of galleries, coffee shops, craft outlets and other attractions.
Tours to do
Visit the on-site exhibition to learn more about the role Nelson Mandela played in South Africa's liberation.
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What will it cost
It is free at present.
Length of stay
An hour or two.
Where to stay
There are many accommodation options in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, ranging from B&Bs to guest houses and hotels in the foothills of the Drakensberg.
What to eat
If you visit between Friday and Sunday you can enjoy breakfast or lunch at the Truth Café, where there's a swimming pool too. They are open from 8am to 4pm.
Best buys
Buy a copy of Nelson Mandela's biography, The Long Walk to Freedom, at the bookshop. At certain times of the year you can also buy blooms of the Mandela protea, a flower named after the great man.


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Rezoning, Special Exception, Special Permit and Variance Applications Acceptance
The Applications Acceptance Branch within the Zoning Evaluation Division ("ZED") of the Department of Planning and Zoning ("DPZ") reviews rezoning, special exception, special permit and variance applications for compliance with the Fairfax County Zoning Ordinance's submission requirements and to identify any additional applications or waivers that are necessary with the filing of such applications. The Zoning Ordinance, which is Chapter 112 of the Fairfax County Code, governs the use of land in Fairfax County. The Zoning Ordinance is adopted to promote the health, safety and welfare of the public and to implement the adopted Comprehensive Plan for the County. The following provides you with general information about the requirements you must fulfill for acceptance of your application. An application must be accepted before it can be processed. The County provides application packages, which are available on the internet, or by contacting the Zoning Enforcement Division at 703-324-1290, TTY 711.
The rezoning and special exception processes require a public hearing before the Planning Commission and the Board of Supervisors with a processing time of approximately 6 months from the official date of acceptance. The special permit and variance processes require a public hearing before the Board of Zoning Appeals ("BZA") with a ninety (90) day processing time from the official date of acceptance, which is the date that all the submission requirements have been submitted and have been deemed to be acceptable.
In general, the following items, which are detailed in the application packages, are required:
You may find the following hints and time saving measures helpful when filing an application:
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Samsung Announces the Galaxy S5 Miniby Joshua Ho on 7/1/2014 10:30 AM EST
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Mobile-Dom - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkthe fact it doesnt use a Snapdragon 400 interests me, i want to see how this performs against the One Mini 2 and the Moto G Reply
craighamilton - Saturday, December 06, 2014 - linkwell between the three...S5 mini stands out having been rated as one of the top phone based on consumer satisfaction ( see http://www.topreport.org/phones/ for instance...) Reply
Achtung_BG - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkFor this price, Huawei Honor 6 is better. Reply
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYet another mid-range phone given the branding (and most of the price) of the flagship...
Dissapointing. Reply
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkOn the other hand, intel LTE chipset.. Looks interesting. Reply
jeffkibuule - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkInteresting but outdated, Intel XMM7260 should already be rolling out to OEM customers today. Reply
Spuke - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI didn't see a price. How much is it? Reply
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkLooking at what's out right now:
From mobicity.com.au (because I live in Australia, funnily enough) unlocked:
SGS4 Mini 4G LTE: 369.95
The Mini is over 2/3 the price, while having less than 3/4 the performance and much crappier software support (because presumably it will end up being a lower-volume model). Reply
Malih - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkThe Minis before this do seem like they were lower volume models, but with added gimmicks like water resistance, fingerprint security and heart rate monitor, this could sell better than previous models, considering the competition doesn't have such advantage. Reply
Death666Angel - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe "mini" moniker clearly denotes its specs in this day and age though. Or would you say a Radeon R5 is using the branding of the R9 flagship because of its "R" usage?
And yes, One Mini 2 (wtf were they thinking with that name) has only 1GB if a certain website called "anandtech" can be trusted :D. Reply
ZeDestructor - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkSony Xperia Z1 Compact would like a word. Yes, it's not "Mini", but most people suspect (probably quite correctly) that Sony went with "Compact" to distance themselves from the shoddy practice of "Mini" variants being cut-down parts.
The only downscaled bits are the screen (1080p 5" -> 720p 4.3"), battery (3000mAh -> 2400mAh) and, well, physical size. Reply
Mr Perfect - Friday, July 04, 2014 - linkOh really? Count me interested then. I'd like a small phone that isn't also a cut-down part. Reply
phoenix_rizzen - Monday, July 07, 2014 - linkThe Sony Compact phones are just that: the same innards as the flagship in a more compact form, generally with a smaller screen being the only real difference. Xperia Z1 Compact, Xperia Z2 Compact. Don't recall if there was an Xperia Z Compact or not.
They're the only one doing the "mini" phone correctly. Reply
Laxaa - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe One Mini 2 has 1GB of RAM, actually. Reply
Brandon Chester - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI just fixed that up and fired off a message to Josh to let him know. Reply
JoshHo - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkSorry about that. I definitely screwed up there. Reply
Nintendo Maniac 64 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkImplying that a 4.5" screen is "mini". Heck the Galaxy S2 in smaller than this supposedly "mini" phone in every dimension (including thickness@!) except width (this: 64.8mm vs S2: 66.1mm) Reply
emn13 - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkYeah, this thing's huge. Frankly, I wouldn't mind an actually decent smartphone that's easily pocketable - say more like 3.2 or 3.5 inch rather than this monster non-mini phone. Reply
Alexey291 - Friday, July 04, 2014 - linkIphone 4s? I don't even use apple but surely its a glaringly obvious suggestion :) Reply
KaarlisK - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkThe sad thing is, S4 mini probably performs better in most tasks. It has two Krait 300 cores at 1.7GHz – probably WAY better at web browsing. Reply
mczak - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - linkI wouldn't quite say the Krait 300 cores at 1.7 Ghz would be way better in general, but yes on the cpu side it's a side-grade at best (quite a bit faster multi-thread performance, but definitely behind by 30% or so singlethreaded). The gpu I'd consider even to be a downgrade (from adreno 305 to mali 400mp4 - though the clock is quite high for the latter so it might be about the same performance, but you'd wish if they'd gone mali which I could understand since if the rumors are correct you can pretty much get it for free they'd use something better than the quite crappy 400 which is only gles 2.0 capable).
Other than that, there's nothing in the specs which would make this an upgrade to the s4 mini neither, except the higher resolution and slightly larger screen (and the latter is probably not what everybody wants, as it is probably the reason why the device is both bulkier (in all 3 dimensions even!) plus adding 13% of weight. Ok the battery has somewhat higher capacity too which is always nice but all in all specs wise this looks like fail to me. Reply
Mumrik - Tuesday, July 01, 2014 - link"Mini" - 4.5" screen.
Remember when 3.5-3.8" was regular size? It's because that's a size most people very comfortably can single-hand.
Having a "mini" version of a phone be larger than that is just stupid. My hands are larger than those of the average guy, yet reaching the far-side upper corner (with a single hand) on my 4.5" Moto G is not comfortable. 4.5" is not "mini", it's just not quite as large as the large phones. Reply
jmunjr - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkHmm I don't think you have large hands. I can one hand up to 4.7" phones, though I do better when they are thicker. One reason I like replaceable batteries aside from longer life - the phone is easier to hold and use. Reply
Mumrik - Sunday, July 06, 2014 - linkComfortably reaching the corners. And yes, I have big Scandinavian bear hands. Reply
AnnonymousCoward - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - link2.5 years ago Samsung announced the Galaxy S2 Skyrocket. 4.5", LTE, 1.5GHz dual, 1GB RAM, 8MP camera. And now we have this S5 Mini with nearly the same specs. WTF? Was Samsung just trying to save a few bucks on component cost? If the phone costs 400 damn dollars, it should have better components to begin with. And if not, pass that cost onto me: I'll pay $415 for the right components. Not $400 for crap. Reply
Malih - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkSadly phones that have better specs with similar price, usually have to compromise somewhere else, like OS version, features, and/or support. Reply
Malih - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkI remember reading in another site that despite downgrade in specs, they keep the added features/gimmicks, like water resistance and more. Reply
Malih - Wednesday, July 02, 2014 - linkby more, I mean the sensors of the S5 Reply
jmunjr - Thursday, July 03, 2014 - linkIf it has a user-replaceable battery then this may be a good choice for me and my brother. Can anyone think of as good a phone at this size with a battery that can be replaced? Reply
krumme - Friday, July 04, 2014 - linkThe text says "Samsung has improved the display panel to a 720p SAMOLED" but in the specs sheet it says IPS LCD. There seems to be an error in the specs, its probably an oled screen. Reply
tipoo - Sunday, July 06, 2014 - linkIs that Mali 450 GPU better or worse than the other quad A7 competition, the Adreno 305 in the Snapdragon 400 (in the Moto G and such)? Reply
waoweo - Monday, July 14, 2014 - linkI have Samsung galaxy s5 cell phone. It has brilliant display
http://waoweo.com/samsung-galaxy-s5/wallpapers Reply
ritwik - Tuesday, October 14, 2014 - linkIf I compare Samsung Galaxy S5 with Huawei's Honor 6, I can see that I have almost the same features and some features in Honor 6 are much more superior in comparison to Samsung Galaxy S5. You can check the detailed comparison here: http://wp.me/p5cjTD-c Reply


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MORE than 1,700 pupils from across the county took part in the third annual Wiltshire Schools Games at Marlborough College last week.
The 500 youngsters from 36 primary schools and 1,200 students from 29 secondary schools featured in the multi-sport event organised by, among others, Wiltshire and Swindon Sport.
David Hemery CBE, the 1968 Olympic 400m hurdles champion, England Commonwealth Games judo ace Tom Reed, from Devizes, and top British junior decathlete Joe Hutchinson, from Bowerhill, were among those lending their support to the event.
Hemery said: "I am so pleased to be part of a day such as this to celebrate school sport and inspire and encourage young people to take part in sport and I always say if they improve their performance each time that is all that matters."
Operations Director Steve Neale added: "The day was not all about winning but about children taking part and achieving their own goals.
"The Games were also about instilling key values headlined for the event of passion, team work, respect, self-belief, determination and honesty."
As well as up to ten different sports taking place, the Games also featured an athletes' village, including attractions such as sumo wrestling, bungee run, Gladiator and a Rowing Challenge organised by British Rowing.
Wiltshire & Swindon Sport CEO Steve Boocock said: "We must say thank you to all the volunteers from a variety of national governing bodies of sport for their time in organising their specific events and for helping the day run so smoothly, and helping the young athletes to get the most out of the occasion.''
School Games co-ordinator Alma Borthwick said: "We are trying to build the School Games events each year and are keen to see more and more schools, both primary and secondary, taking part at the preliminary level two winter festivals so they can compete here at the ultimate level three finals event in the summer."
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HOUSTON - More than 100 people were evacuated from a northwest Harris County office building right after the start of business Tuesday morning.
Workers on the third floor of the Harris County Appraisal District's office in the 13000 block of the Northwest Freeway complained about a foul odor around 9 a.m.
An email was sent out to workers shortly thereafter, explaining that the smell was coming from fire standpipes.
"The water's in there a long time, and when you go to drain it, it smells bad -- kind of like a sewer," building engineer Tony David said.
Engineers were working on draining the pipes as part of regular building maintenance.
Mainly workers on the building's third floor were affected, the building has seven floors. Authorities said they were not sure why the stench was so heavy on that particular floor.
"It started to smell almost like gas, almost like a chemical smell at first," said third-floor worker Kaleena Patrick, who was among the evacuees.
In all, nine employees left because they were sickened by the odor. One of those nine was taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and the other eight were sent home for the day.
"The city's ordinance requires these standpipes be drained and inspected at least once a year, so this was a routine operation," said Jim Robinson, chief appraiser.
Robinson said maintenance like this will now take place on Saturdays, when the building is empty.
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Optional Insurance Plans- Several types of individual insurance programs are available through payroll deductions at employees' expense including disability, cancer, dental and vision coverage.
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Employees may have a specific amount of their salary payroll deducted and invested into a tax sheltered annuity plan.
Salary supplements are paid for sponsoring newspapers, yearbooks, speech, theater, pep squad, cheerleaders, drill teams, student councils and academic decathlon. Supplements are also paid for serving as department or grade-level chairperson. All coaches, band directors and choral directors are paid supplements as well.
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