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To say Heather Garcia couldn't catch a break during the fall of 2005 wouldn't be entirely accurate.
After all, the list of maladies that ruined a promising cross country season included a broken arm. Add in the occasional asthma flare-up, allergies and the common cold, and the Baldwin High sophomore experienced an autumn she'd rather forget.
Fortunately for Garcia, once spring arrived, so did her immunity. In an enjoyable twist of fortune, nothing - and nobody - could catch her.
Proving the three medals she won as a freshman at the Class 4A state track meet were no fluke, Garcia strung together a series of strong performances during the 2006 campaign before turning Wichita's Cessna Stadium into her own personal playground the final weekend of May.
In an impressive feat of endurance, Garcia won gold medals in both the 3,200 and 1,600 meters, added a silver in the 800 and ran a leg on the fourth-place 4x400 relay - all in a span of less than 12 hours.
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The All-Area girls track team was selected by the Journal-World sports staff and is based heavily on voting by area coaches and performances throughout the season. Athletes were eligible for nomination in multiple events, yet can fill just one position on the All-Area team.
That one day of success - on the heels of two months of similar attention-grabbing results - made Garcia a runaway selection as the All-Area Girls Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
"It turned out better than what I was expecting," said Garcia, smashing to pieces any concerns about a sophomore slump. "At the beginning of the year, I wasn't really thinking about state. I was just trying to progress. By state, I was able to compete at my best. It turned out good."
Good? By any measure, that description falls into the category of understatement, especially considering the physical ailments Garcia endured six months earlier - and the emotional hurdles that figured to follow.
"She had what I consider a monster year," said longtime Baldwin coach Ted Zuzzio. "Not just the state meet, but she competed so well in all the big meets throughout the season.
"She started out the track season a little bit leery. We basically started her out gradually with just the two events (the 1,600 and 3,200). But she's very special. When you fire the gun, she's ready to run."
Asked how Garcia stacks up against the hundreds of other athletes Zuzzio has mentored during his 30 years with the Bulldogs, he didn't mince words.
"She's the best. She's by far the best, no doubt about it," Zuzzio said. "We've had some kids win at state ... but not with the quality of times Heather has shown in the last two years."
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Now comes the challenge of making the best even better. At merely the halfway point of her high school career, the push to sustain success - both externally and internally - already is taking hold.
"I put a lot more pressure on myself to just keep getting better and better," Garcia said.
Still, Zuzzio has no concerns about where it will lead.
"Our school record book just reads, 'Garcia, Garcia, Garcia,'" he added. "And it's going to read more 'Garcia.'"
All-Area Girls Track team
Emily Ballock ¢ Soph. ¢ Eudora ¢ 300 hurdles Won second straight Class 4A state title in 45.01 seconds Megan Ballock ¢ Sr. ¢ Eudora ¢ 400 Finished third at Class 4A state meet in 1 minute, 0.72 seconds Jackie Goleman ¢ Jr. ¢ De Soto ¢ High jump Won Class 4A state title with leap of 5 feet, 6 inches Brittney Graff ¢ Jr. ¢ Eudora ¢ 1,600 Finished second at Class 4A state meet in 5 minutes, 23.23 seconds Sarah Hartshorn ¢ Sr. ¢ Tonganoxie ¢ Discus Finished second at Class 4A state meet with throw of 130 feet, 7 inches Carrie Lister ¢ Sr. ¢ Eudora ¢ Shot put Finished sixth at Class 4A state meet with throw of 38 feet, 3.75 inches Aubrey Moore ¢ Jr. ¢ Wellsville ¢ 100 Finished fifth at Class 3A state meet in 12.56 seconds Jodi Mundy ¢ Fr. ¢ Santa Fe Trail ¢ 200 Finished fourth at Class 4A state meet in 26.39 seconds Ali Pistora ¢ Jr. ¢ Tonganoxie ¢ Javelin Finished second at Class 4A state meet with throw of 140 feet, 7 inches Christy Weller ¢ Soph. ¢ Tonganoxie ¢ 800 Finished seventh at Class 4A state meet in 2 minutes, 22.86 inches Jackie Chappell ¢ Jr. ¢ Wellsville ¢ Triple jump Finished seventh at Class 3A state meet with leap of 34 feet, 1 inch Sara Exon ¢ Jr. ¢ Mill Valley ¢ 100 hurdles Finished seventh at Class 5A state meet in 16.18 seconds Carissa Hughes ¢ Sr. ¢ Wellsville ¢ Pole vault Won Class 3A state title with vault of 10 feet, 0 inches Lena Poll ¢ Jr. ¢ McLouth ¢ Long jump Finished eighth at Class 3A state meet with leap of 16 feet, 5.75 inches
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You may think you know fantasy football, but if you believe it's merely a game, you have no idea.
We prefer to call the NFL, Major League Baseball, and other professional sports a game, too, but they aren't either. They cease being games when the Pee Wees and Little Leaguers hit high school. Then they become part of this giant mechanism that pushes athletes as far as hard work, luck, and talent will allow in search of riches, fame and glory. That mechanism is dwarfed only by the size of our military-industrial complex in this country.
Some time ago, the mechanism developed a social aspect outside of sports. Attending sporting events or watching them on television was no longer enough to satiate our appetite. We wanted to participate. We hacked into our favorite sports and developed our own competition. Then Al Gore finally stopped bogarting the Internet, and what was once painstaking became effortless, accessible even. Modern life in a nutshell.
See, long before MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, fans of professional sports developed a social network: fantasy sports.
The NFL sits at the head of the table, and gets the big piece of chicken, so there's no wonder its fantasy doppelganger holds a similar place in our society.
It's estimated up to 30 million people play fantasy football, on average for nine hours a week. According to Business Insider, the fantasy football industry is valued at around $800 million. We're talking TV shows, print media and websites raking in the dough, and projections say we're far from the pinnacle. Any of that sound like a game?
Sure, it's fun and offers a competitive outlet. There's money, trophies, and bragging rights on the line, but it's also about fostering community. Some of us participate in free leagues, with live drafts with people we will never meet, from countries we will never visit. Others develop private leagues that are closed off to participants, unless they are invited to join. Does that sound familiar?
If only there were a 140-character limit on message boards or in chat rooms.
According to the Fantasy Sports Trade Association, the average participant is a 37-year-old male, who is married with children, spends 4-plus hours online weekly, and has a $90K household income. Before you start thinking it's strictly a boys club, know women make up 25% of the fantasy football population.
What are all of us searching for? A reason to come together? Something more than painting our faces?
Managing a fantasy team (i.e. drafting, trades, waivers) forces interaction with each other and the sports we love.
How many Sundays do we spend glued to the TV, cellphone or computer checking to see our scores? How many different ways can we trash talk our opponent throughout the week?
With the explosion of social media and our addiction to the Internet, it is much easier to immerse ourselves in football.
It also makes us smarter fans. I shouldn't know who Taiwan Jones is, but I do. I shouldn't know he'll be the change-of-pace back in the beginning of the season for the Raiders, and with Michael Bush in Chicago, if Darren McFadden gets hurt again, Jones' 4.33 speed could make him a difference maker.
In the old world, I would have had a working knowledge of my favorite team, and possibly the top players the league marketed to me. Now I study practice squads. I can discuss each team's offensive and defensive philosophy and how that pertains to certain players. It really works out for the NFL, because I'm not just focused on my team. I scout all the teams, so I don't stop paying attention if my favorite doesn't make the playoffs or Super Bowl. My attention never really wanes.
More importantly, fantasy football has become a way for old friends to stay in touch or new friends to become bitter division rivals. It's opened a line of communication between people where one might not have ever existed before. It's broken the monotony of TPS reports or whatever your office calls mind-numbing, redundant and inefficient work.
In a world where many of us are feeling increasingly isolated, this "game" has given millions of people the excuse they craved to link up with others and create an enjoyable experience, based on a passion of which they can't get enough.
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He's doing just fine now, but it's hard to believe that its been almost a year ago, since Devin Patin suffered a career threatening and possible life threatening injury.
Working on the mound, Patin—then a sophomore— was zapped by a line drive while pitching in a playoff game.
The ball hit approximately one inch above his right ear and hit with such force, the ball ricocheted off his head and rolled into the opponent's dugout.
"It sounded like a wooden bat hitting a ball," said his mother Tammy Patin, who watched in horror from the stands.
"There's no way he could have gotten out of the way," said Thorndale Coach Kelly Kuhl. "I've seen pitchers get hit in the foot, the leg. Devin's first instinct was to go for the ball."
The line drive caused bleeding in his brain and he spent several days in the hospital.
Patin was initially taken to the hospital in LaGrange where it was discovered he had bleeding in his brain and he suffered seizures.
He was transferred to University Medical Center Brackenridge where he had numbness on the left side of his body and was vomiting.
He left the game after the incident and watched the remainder of the game from the dugout and shook hands with Weimar players after the Bulldogs' loss.
He was advised by doctors not to return to school for the remaining week that was left.
During his stay in the hospital, he received a gift package from Hall of Fame pitcher Nolan Ryan, who had read about his injury. The Bulldogs were facing Weimar in the first game of the area playoffs. They dropped the series to the state finalists in three games.
As a precaution, Patin— an offensive lineman and linebacker— did not play football last fall.
He doesn't play basketball to concentrate on baseball.
Patin—a first-team all-district selection last season—has already pitched in several games for Thorndale this season and there doesn't seem to be any side affects from the scary moment of a year ago.
He also plays outfield and does some designated hitting for the Bulldogs.
The only visible repercussion from the incident is, he wears a batting helmet at all times.
"He's doing good," said Kuhl.
"He is doing well this year," said Thorndale Athletic Director and head football coach Brent Brevard. "He is playing pitcher again and doing good. As far as I know he is not having any headaches, etc..."
Patin is aiming to help lead the Bulldogs back to the state tournament for the first time since 2010.
The state tournament once acted as the homeaway from-home for Thorndale, as the Bulldogs made five appearances in six years (2005-06-07-09-10).
Thorndale also hasn't won a district title since 2010.
The Bulldogs are loaded with experience to return them to the top, losing just two players of last season's 18-13, third place district squad.
The Bulldogs are currently 10-5 and unbeaten in District 26A at 3-0, but faced 3-0 Granger Tuesday and 3-0 Georgetown Gateway on Friday.
Thorndale is led at the plate and on the hill by senior all-state performer Riley Schaefer, who is hitting a blistering .529 and has also rung up three wins with a sparkling 1.59 earned run average.
Eric Guzman has also won three games.
Dillon Bankston follows at .463, while Eric Hinistroza has driven in 18 runs.
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Thorndale lost 6-4 despite outhitting Flatonia seven to three in a spring break contest.
Schaefer reached base three times in the game for the Bulldogs.
He singled in the first inning and doubled in the sixth inning.
Ian Leyendecker brought the heat against Flatonia during his outing.
Leyendecker held Flatonia hitless over 2 2/3 innings, allowed no earned runs, walked none and struck out one.
Patin absorbed the loss in one inning, walking six, fanning three, and allowing two runs.
The Bulldogs jumped out to an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first.
Schaefer kicked things off with a single. A stolen base then moved him from first to second.
Thorndale jumped out to an early lead on Buckholts and captured a 17-0 victory on Thursday at Thorndale.
The game was decided quickly as the Bulldogs exerted their will early with 12 runs in the first three innings.
An RBI double by Schaefer, an RBI single by Rowdy McCoy, a two-run single by Leyendecker, and an RBI double by Patin in the first inning and an RBI single by Dillon Bankston, a two-run single by McCoy and a two-run single by Jake Miller during the second inning supplied the early offense.
McCoy racked up four RBIs on three hits.
Coach— Kelly Kuhl (8th year,
2013 record—18-13
2013 district—9-5 (3rd)
Playofs— lost 2-1 in area to
state finalist Weimar.
Last district title—2010
Last state tournament—2010
Key losses—Price Miller, Gabriel Salinas,
Key returnees—Sr. SS/P Riley
Schaefer, district MVP, all-state;
Sr. OF Eric Guzman; Jr. C Rowdy
McCoy; Jr. 2B Dillon Bankston,
first-team all-district; Jr. SS Jake
Miller; Jr. 1B/P Eric Hinistroza; Jr.
OF Colton Austin; Jr. P/DH Devin
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A CB antenna matcher or tuner can boost your radio's transmitting power while on the road. A tuner matches the antenna's impedance, or resistance to electrical flow, to that of the radio. The radio can maximise the transmission strength once the antenna system has been balanced. A small antenna tuner in your car can correct this interference, and increase the distance you can transmit and receive.
Cut three 6-inch lengths and two 3-foot lengths of electrical wire. Strip 1/2 inch of insulation from each end of the five wires.
Drill two 1/8-inch holes in a corner of the project box. Insert screws through the bottom of the box, with the threads facing inside. Tighten a nut and washer over each screw.
Drill a 1/4-inch hole through the side of the box near the screws.
Drill two 1/8-inch holes, 1/4 inch from the end of the PVC tube. Thread the magnet wire through the holes, and wrap the wire 120 times tightly around the tube. Twist the wire into a loop every 10 turns. Drill two 1/8-inch holes after the 120th turn, and thread the wire through the holes, locking it in place.
Sand the insulation from the loops, exposing the magnet wire. Place a dab of epoxy on each set of holes in the tube to secure the wires in place. Trim the wire short on one end of the tube, and leave 3 feet of excess wire on the other end.
Epoxy the PVC tube to the inside of the project box, near the screws. Make sure the wire loops are facing up.
Seat the variable capacitor in the project box, and determine a suitable location to drill a hole for the capacitor's tuning knob. Drill a 1/4-inch hole in the side of the project box for the knob. Epoxy the bottom of the capacitor to the inside bottom of the box, with the knob sticking out the hole.
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Solder another 6-inch wire to the solder tab on the side of the capacitor. Twist the other end around the empty screw. This will be the antenna connector screw.
Crimp the alligator clip to the end of the remaining 6-inch wire. Twist the free end of the wire to the antenna screw, and attach the clip to a wire loop on the PVC tube.
Crimp the centre element of the female coaxial connector to a length of 3-foot electrical wire. Thread the free end of the wire through the hole in the side of the box, and twist it to the antenna connector.
Thread the remaining 3-foot electrical wire in through the side of the box, and twist the end around the ground screw. This will be the ground wire. Tighten a second nut over both screws, securing the wires.
Thread the excess magnet wire out through the side of the box. Solder the end of the magnet wire to the centre element of the male coaxial connector. Solder the free end of the ground wire to the ground shield of the connector.
Plug the CB antenna wire into the female coaxial connector. Attach the male connector to the external antenna jack of the CB radio.
Tune and match your antenna to the radio by turning the capacitor knob and clipping different wire loops on the PVC tube.
Make sure the CB antenna is properly installed and grounded to the car's chassis. Once you find the wire loop that tunes the antenna most effectively, fasten the project box lid and use the capacitor knob only.
Tips and warnings
- Make sure the CB antenna is properly installed and grounded to the car's chassis.
- Once you find the wire loop that tunes the antenna most effectively, fasten the project box lid and use the capacitor knob only.
Things you need
- Plastic project box, 8 inches by 6 inches, 3 inches high
- Variable capacitor, 365 pf, air type
- PVC tube, 1 inch diameter, 3 inches long
- Coaxial connector, PL-259, male
- Coaxial connector, PL-259, female, solderless
- Magnet wire, 24-gauge, 6 feet long
- Electrical wire, 16- to 18-gauge, 7 1/2 feet long
- Alligator clip, solderless
- 2 machine screws, 1/8 inch diameter, 1/2 inch long
- 4 machine nuts, 1/8 inch
- 2 washers, 1/8 inch
- Power drill, 1/4- and 1/8-inch bit
- Soldering iron and solder
- Wire-stripping tool
- Coaxial-crimping tool
- Pliers
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- Sandpaper
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GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 7 (UPI) -- A surfer is most at risk of a shark attack if it is Sunday during a new moon, is in shallow water and is wearing black and white, U.S. researchers found.
University of Florida researchers analyzed statistics from 231 shark attacks that occurred in Florida's Volusia County -- also known as the "Shark Attack Capital of the World" -- from 1956 to 2008.
George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File at the University of Florida, says the researchers also spent one year observing people between Daytona Beach and New Smyrna Beach.
"It's basically an analysis of why, where and when in an area that traditionally has had more shark-human interactions than any other stretch of coastline in the world," Burgess says in a statement. "One of our students, Brittany Garner, essentially camped out there, counted the number of heads on the beach and took photographs."
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Welcome to WebmasterWorld Guest from 188.8.131.52
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P.S. I won't be posting as often (gotta work, ya know :), but I will be checking this post and chiming in when there's something I can add.
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While it's true that the 20 character identity would add to storage space, at this time (3 billion pages) it would "only" be 16*3 billion, or around 40-ish gigs of space. If you spread this out over, say, 40 machines that's a gig apiece: not a lot. And the index would be spread out over more than 50 machines.
Excuse me, but read the essay by Brin and Page, "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine," about the Google architecture. They use two inverted indexes, the "fancy index" and the "plain index." Between these two indexes, plus the other places in the system where the docID is used, it amounts to a total space requirement of two docIDs per word per document indexed.
Yes, that's not one docID per document, it's two docIDs per word per document.
You can use a 20-byte hash if you like, but I think a four-byte or five-byte docID would make just a little more sense.
This is nothing new and honestly, they are handling it correctly. www.domain.tld is not necc .domain.tld
- Update will take several days to finalize. Sites will flux in/out until then.
- PR on the toolbar is not reliable.
- PR from -fi is not reliable.
- Directory has not been updated or is glitchy at times.
- Sit back, Relax and enjoy the flight.
> Brett, any chance of a trophy or citation or something
> for GG on this one?
He'd never take a gratuity. (I've even tried to help with algo on many occasions ;-) no go.
OK, so the actual hashed IDs might only be 40GB, but you need to associate each of those IDs with every word on the page in order to have a searchable index, probably by associating words themselves with the pages on which they occur. That's where the bigtime storage comes in, since you effectively have to multiply that ID by every word, but its necessary to index in this manner for computational efficiency. Gigabytes become terabytes pretty quickly...and you'll need to keep most (if not all) of it in RAM to return 10-100 results in under a second. Further computational and storage efficiency would be gained by keeping the IDs as short as possible, and in that sense I can see some credibility in the theories about running out of address space.
> Brett, any chance of a trophy or citation or something
> for GG on this one?
He'd never take a gratuity. (I've even tried to help with algo on many occasions ;-) no go.
I've learned SO MUCH on this forum!
The most astonishing thing so far that I've learned on this go-round:
BRETT actually has a sense of humor-and a GOOD, DRY ONE @ that!
Just when I thought that the mods were nuns with rulers poised to slap the hands of anyone trying to be creative-thanks for the comic relief, Brett (and for the fantastic forum that you have created)!
BTW, if this post is deleted, please disregard the 'sense of humor ' reference.
IFFF this PR sticks (and my hunch is that it will for most sites), seems like now Google is awarding PR more conservatively than it has in the past. In the past (its been my observation that) getting links from fewer high PR sites resulted in a greater boost in PR. Comparitively it seems now that getting links from a greater number of high PR sites is resulting in a relatively smaller boost (or no change) in PR. This change seems to be across the board on all of my sites.
I always felt that Google's (pre-Dominic) algo was rather too easy to 'work with' in order to achieve a high PR. Simple trick seemed to be to have 1 or 2 PR-7 sites link to you to get a PR of 5 or 6 (all other on and off page factors constant).
If that is actually the case, then this change is welcome since it's in line with some recent observations that Google's algo seems to be laying less emphasis on PR now (as opposed to the past) when ranking pages in search results.
But if incoming links from high PR sites is less of a factor now, how does that fit into Google's own description of their service. Here's some excerpts from one of their help pages.
The heart of our software is PageRank...
PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
So, is Google changing the *heart of their software*? Seems like this would be a strange thing to do. Almost like Microsoft deciding to dump Windows for Linux. Ok, maybe that's a wierd analogy, but it just feels off to me. Yet, this dance hasn't helped my PR in -fi (yet) despite the highly ranked links I've gotten from related sites. So, I am definitely confused. Am still hoping the rest of the dance will change this.
and I am wondering, since it's new to me and having a bad effect...
ok, it's true that www.domain.tld is not necc .domain.tld
but shouldn't google be able to tell if they are the same thing?
shouldn't they know that index.shtml is the same in both instances too?
I understand your point that this is nothing new, but I can tell you for a fact that it's new to a lot of sites that have multiple listings of different paths to the same page, and it only makes sense that this has something to do with the fact that those pages dropped significantly.
I'm not trying to start an argument with anyone, but it is probably not coincidence that having the same page indexed 4 or more times would dilute PR and ranking relevancy.
If google has to determine which page of a themed site should show up, and has ALWAYS chose the main page, splitting this main page into 4 duplicate listings can't make this choice any easier.
I understand that there is a lot of update left, and I'm not rushing out to change my .htaccess file until I see if this is something google will fix or not. I'm not going to ignore the problem and say there's nothing wrong though.
Maybe it's pointless to advise people to bear in mind that results probably will change some (based on the digging that I've done today), but hopefully it will ease a few minds, too. :)
[edited by: GoogleGuy at 3:32 am (utc) on June 17, 2003]
There's absolutely no doubt that PageRank is at the heart of Google's algo(s), however PageRank is only one of the variables that Google uses (in addition to other on page and off page factors; anchor text, kw density etc.) in order to rank pages in search results. I would like to think that in order to determine SERPs, the importance of page rank 'PR' (in relation to other on page and off page factors) is not a constant, and is controlled by Google's engineers who write that algo.
Let's not forget that Page Rank has been bought and sold in the past (and probably still is); therefore it's important that in order to deliver high quality results, authors of an algo are able to fine tune the importance of PR in determining the search engine result positions of web sites.
With content (and not PR) being the king, there are plenty other reasons why PR alone must not be the domineering factor in determining the overall position of web sites in search results.
Regardless, best of luck (PR and otherwise) with this dance.
[edited by: rts5678 at 3:51 am (utc) on June 17, 2003]
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Maybe it's pointless to advise people to bear in mind that results probably will change some (based on the digging that I've done today), but hopefully it will ease a few minds, too. :)
Here is hoping and praying that you had a chance to dig into the ranking of an internal page vs. index page issue and hope things will change for better:). Thanks
Hey, I wanted to get a chance to ask about what searches were good or bad. :) It snowed me under enough that I'll probably leave stickies off in the future except to duck in, ask for specifics from someone, and duck back out.
What, you thought I had some outside life or something? Note to self: gotta work on getting an outside life. :)
As far as stickymail goes, I was heartened to hear a lot of really nice messages. Even the reports of searches people disliked weren't as bad as I'd expected from reading the boards here; that was another interesting surprise.
I do understand that PR isn't the only factor in determining search position, and really, I guess you and I might have been talking about different things. I was referring to backlinks increasing PR, rather than PR affecting SERP position. But in any case, GG says PR is still stewing, so I will just be patient (or become a patient in a mental hospital) and see what happens...
There's absolutely no doubt that PageRank is at the heart of Google's algo(s)...
I'm not so sure about that. I would say language/semantics and HTML/web context is the heart of any web search engine. For many, many searches, pagerank has little or no influence on the results returned.
I guess I disagree
With G? How dare you Dolemite. You think this is a company that makes mistakes?
A long day for me, thx to G. Must go... but thought I'd give a parting shot to the almighty before I dream about her, even though I'll be erased- kinda makes me feel better in a way.
For me the update is good news, nice to see fresh backlinks in at last, especially as 2 months ago I had virtually no external links at all.
My index page is still not there for my main keyword in Google, but in Yahoo it's jumped a whole pile of places from around 150 to 41, all thanks to WW and a systematic 2-part campaign of content and link building. The jump is no doubt because of the links, but the question is does the better position in Yahoo bode well for Google too? As Yahoo uses Google it seems likely that I should see a similar jump, but on the other hand it's strange that my index page does well in Yahoo first.
What do people think are my chances of a similar jump in Google SERPS?
All the best everyone,
Obviously their are a bunch of other variables involved, but it seems strange to have an internal page with all internal links with a PR 2 higher than the home page. Did this guy crack the PR code and figure out how to make page rank consolidate on an internal page through a interlinking scheme?
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A nights sleep.... and I feel much better.... but still sad enough to get out of bed and head straight to the PC.
The above is absolutley correct. Many of those I received yesterday are back to more or less where they should be on their original index pages. A relief really, because there are some situations that just don't add up.
I'll study (and monitor) more today, including those that came in overnight. But it is clear that we are still in update flux (you'd think I'd should know better than to think otherwise on day 1 of the dance... let's just call it therapy!)
Thanks GoogleGuy by the way for looking over those. They were very typical.
At least today has started more positively. I lost yesterday completely!
After last month, I was expecting GG to announce that it had finally moved to the second datacenter sometime around July 4th. :)
At least today has started more positively. I lost yesterday completely!
As an aside. All interior pages (35) are still in the top 5 for their key phrases and the new content is also right on top. Losing the home page's key phrases accounts for only about 10% of the traffic, if that. It is the yardstick by which potential clients judge the site, however. I can't really say "Join my site, look how it ranks on MSN when you search for 'company name', now can I?"
I'm not whining here, just giving an example of why diversification (within a site) is not always enough.
OTOH, the directory is contractually limited in size and scope, and almost full. All I really have to do is keep bringing qualified traffic, regardless of where i'm ranked. Almost.
[edited by: Powdork at 6:54 am (utc) on June 17, 2003]
But if incoming links from high PR sites is less of a factor now, how does that fit into Google's own description of their service.
The heart of our software is PageRank...
I think we have to be careful not to confuse marketing prose with engineering realities.
PageRank likely will always be an important part of the process, even while the approach to calculating it might change. But its importance to the people developing the algorithms is one thing, and its importance to the people writing "why you should choose Google" copy is another. :)
In my case I think I have about 18 hours left in my penalty. The first of the June 14 fresh tags have disappeared. The second set should be dropping off soon. After the June 15 tags go I should be back on top.
The new index is now showing up on SJ and DC.
Funny, for one of my search terms I get different results on -sj then on any of the other datacenters. It's been this way for the last two updates, but I can't figure it out. I've never seen the -sj result turn up on www.google.com outside of the 'dance' period.
Has anyone else noticed this?


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The guys at AutoEvolution caught the new 2013 Mercedes SL inside and out. The new generation of the classic will be the sixth generation of the "Sport Lightweight", and if these styling cues are any indication, it should continue to hold its spot amongst the top roadsters on the market.
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2014-12-16 09:47:34 by Dr. Joe Congeni - Director of Sports Medicine, as posted on the inside.akronchildrens.org blog.
Guardian Caps
Controversy is rising this week over new helmet add-ons that major manufacturers have released to help further protect our young athletes during play.
The problem is they havent been tested yet, so many researchers and medical professionals are advising players and families to hold off on using these products.
Yet, people are outraged because they cant understand why authorities would withhold a product that might help our children.
Today, I had the chance to visit WAKR and speak with host Ray Horner about both sides of this topic. We also discussed ways parents can help their children remain healthy during the busy preseason sports practices.
Below is an audio file and transcript of our discussion.
HORNER: Pros, college, high-school teams all practicing football and, of course, the soccer and the band and all that stuff are also practicing right now. Dr. Joe Congeni from Sports Medicine Center at Akron Childrens Hospital is in our studio, and you have some pictures and information on this new football helmet, what the Guardian Cap?
DR. CONGENI: You know, its not a new helmet, Ray, but its a shell or a cover that goes over the existing helmet a soft shell that has padding in it. It supposedly, unlike some other ones that have been there in the past, does allow the impact to slide off, according to the guy who makes it.
Last year, he broke into the market and sold 10,000 of those around the country. Hes trying to sell a lot more this year. Its called the Guardian Cap.
There are so many products out there, though, trying to deal with concussion management, but the Guardian Cap got a little traction in the spring. A couple of schools used it in the spring: high schools and a few colleges.
Dr. Joe Congeni
This fall, the University of South Carolina is the best-known program, a Top 10 NCAA program, gonna be wearing the Guardian Cap.
So, obviously, you get the word out there and now there are all these pictures of USC and Jadeveon Clowney the best lineman on the planet supposedly wearing the Guardian Cap.
What happened was several high schools bought these, and this is where theres some outrage that went on around the country.
In Colorado and Alabama and a few other places, the high schools bought them. The problem is they havent been tested yet. So, the outrage of some people are saying, Why are we withholding something that might help kids? This may really reduce the risk of concussion and other issues. Get the Guardian Caps on people.
The people from the medical side of things are saying, These havent been tested yet. Not only do we not know if they help is there a chance that it could hurt?
The theory of the possibility that could lead to a problem is that the stickiness of adding the padding could actually lead to a neck injury.
If you have two or three kids who end up paralyzed from wearing this then we didnt do ourselves very much good. So, nationally, theyre saying they have to wait to test this tool, but what a lot of other people are saying is hey, theyre withholding this tool, go ahead and wear em anyway. And were gonna see because a very well-known school, USC, the University of South Carolina, will be wearing them this year.
HORNER: Yeah, thats the hesitancy there, when you get the fabric on fabric, and talk a little bit about what this Guardian Cap is made of, you do get that friction that could cause a little grab.
DR. CONGENI: Thats right. So, it has some pretty good padding in it. The latest is a very smooth plastic that slips off. But, there are people looking at several others, I could name ya five or six others.
Theres a bullet proof vest-type material that people are using to try to soften the blow.
Again, remember what I told you, typically up until now, helmets prevent against skull fracture and brain bleed. They really dont reduce that rotational mechanism that actually hurts the brain cells and leads to concussion.
So, whether this, you know, two and a half inches of additional padding on the helmet really is going to make a difference. Its going to reduce the straight-line impact, but not the rotational or whiplash mechanism weve talked about for so long.
So, were not sure. Its worth testing, but you cant just run out there when there are so many things on the market and every new one that comes up tell every kid in the country they should wear it.
The big issue is Colorado this week said they are not going to allow them in any high schools. Many teams had bought them already; parents had paid $50, $100, $150 for this equipment. So, thats one side of the coin.
The other side that you and I have been talking about is the sensors in the helmet. Theyve been tested for three or four years in the helmet or mouth guards to measure the amount of g-forces, which are the energy of blows to the brain, right? So, weve got a little of this information back to see what it means. Now, some of the manufacturers have gone out and put it in their helmets this year.
So for instance, Reebok is telling us about a helmet thats called the MC10, Riddell has the CheckLight version, which actually measures the amount of these g-forces in hits.
It has a red, green or yellow light. If the yellow light is on, it doesnt mean the person has a concussion, but that they maybe should be checked. If a red light is on, it means they had a more significant impact and should be checked.
Oh my gosh, again, these havent been tested. In the years theyve been studied at a couple of schools like the University of North Carolina, the problem was, Ray, a couple guys last year had concussions with 70 g-forces and other people had hits that were 120, 130 g-forces and it looked like there was no clinical affect at all. So, we dont know what to make of this information.
We need more information and research to say what to do; otherwise were just putting more and more pressure on those trainers on the sidelines. What do you do when a kid runs over to the sideline and has his yellow light on in his new Riddell helmet? What are the medical teams supposed to do?
So nationally because it hasnt been studied yet theres also a ban on sensors in the helmet. And this caused a real furor this week: a ban on Guardian Caps or anything added to the helmet. In fact, they went so far as all the helmet makers had said it totally voids any of their protective clauses if you put anything on the helmet at all.
HORNER: Oh, okay. Thats a good point.
DR. CONGENI: So, the players, families and the people that bought these are saying its all a liability issue and the NCAA, high-school sports and the NFL are trying to get out of a liability issue. But, the issue is theyve banned sensors for this year and theyve banned any add-ons to the helmet like the Guardian Cap.
HORNER: There are also those that say this is all big business and they are waiting for Riddell to come out with a newer helmet, but is it that? Is this a money area as well or are we talking more safety and concern?
DR. CONGENI: Oh, I mean, I worry about it being a money area, too. For sure, when there are so many products. I just talked about maybe three here. My office is inundated. Im not kidding you daily do I get things from people with new patents and new products. Everybodys trying to search for the Holy Grail.
I think theres a part of it trying to help kids, for sure. No doubt about it. But, people dont understand you cant just come out and say, Hey Ive got a new product. Lets use it Friday night.
You cant do that. There needs to be research and research takes years. The sensors are at least another year of study away. They just really are. We dont know what to do with them.
HORNER: Joe, how do you get the research and the study without using the product?
DR. CONGENI: So, theres the laboratory research first and then you have to follow that up with clinical research on the field. What they did is they looked at some of the sensor information at North Carolina last year, but they didnt go to the trainers or the team doctors with that information because nobody knows exactly what to use it for. So, youre exactly right. We need to see it both clinically on the field and we need to see it in the laboratory.
HORNER: Dr. Joe Congeni with us, Sports Medicine Center, Akron Childrens Hospital.
Joe, this is the time of year as well, a lot of kids, as we mentioned, out working real hard to get ready for the fall sports season. How about a little education for our parents out there?
Kids are coming home after a tough night of work, whether theyre a little dizzy from being dinged up or theyre dehydrated, whats the best way for one, our parents to take care of these kids to get them ready for the next days practice and two, for them to be aware that maybe there is a concussion or something else looming?
DR. CONGENI: Well, there are a lot of issues to it. We did get a chance to talk about heat a little bit last week, but lets start with the simple basics.
First, people are getting away from Im hearing it at camps even this year pre and post weights. So, the No. 1 thing that is going to happen is dehydration without question. I dont care that it hasnt been hot, in fact, Im very happy that it hasnt been hot. This is the time of year I worry the most for all the kids in this area. But, it hasnt been real hot, but still the pre and post weights are really important.
If a kid is sick at all, a kid has other issues and they are losing weight, youre gonna see it if they are dehydrated. And so, in T-shirts and shorts, they should be weighed every day before and after a practice. You can tell very quickly if somebodys lost 5 pounds, 8 pounds, 10 pounds, thats water weight. Thats dehydration.
One of the biggest things is its hard to keep up in a six-hour day. You know these kids are practicing six-hour days: a three-hour practice, a one-hour break and a two-hour practice after that. Thats a pretty long day. So, they are getting dehydrated in some situations, and whether they are keeping up with their pre and post drinking, one really good way to find out is to weigh kids every day. Thats an important thing.
, making sure that these kids and they know it get their sleep. They have to sleep a lot. At this time of year, get home, rest, eat, rehydrate and get a lot of sleep. Those are really some of the basic simple parts.
Now, when we get into some of the issues with heat, like confusion and dizziness and all that, thats where we count on our athletic trainers to make an evaluation. That can be from heat illness, that can be from head injury, that can be from dehydration.
There are many things, and you hear me say it all the time, the best people out there . Its like a MASH unit this time of year with 80 kids; the athletic trainers will do the assessing to see which of those things it is.
HORNER: Alright. Good visit, Joe. Thanks for coming on in and well see you again next week.
DR. CONGENI: Okay, Ray. Looking forward to it. Thanks.
HORNER: Alright. Dr. Joe Congeni, Sports Medicine Center at Akron Childrens Hospital, joining us.
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I recently shot a very fun commercial that I booked through my manager. It was a five-day shoot, and the director and I got along really well. I could tell he genuinely enjoyed working with me and was sincere when he said, "If you ever need a referral, let me know." He has directed commercials for 32 years, and I believe his word carries a good bit of weight.
How do I use this offer to my advantage? Do I find an agency here in New York that I want to work with and ask the director to call them up and get me in the door for an interview? I want to capitalize on this, but I don't want to ask for his referral and have a busy, successful man like him calling around telling agents about me who aren't going to care. What should I do?
—Hoping to Capitalize, New York
Dear Hoping:
First off, congratulations—on the gig and your on-set demeanor, which has earned the ultimate in raves from your director: a referral offer.
As far as I can tell, you have a few options, but you can't jump on any of them before answering the following: How is your relationship with your manager? Do you want to hold on to him or her? If so—and he or she got you this great gig, so I'm guessing the answer is yes—speak to your manager about the director's offer and get input on how the two of you can best use this to your advantage.
If you decide to pursue an agent, via this referral or otherwise, discuss that with your manager and clear up any issues that might arise. You don't need permission to add an agent to your team, of course, and most managers are happy to work alongside agents. But in a healthy actor-manager relationship, these things are discussed before action is taken.
Let's say your manager is on board (or at least you've told him or her that you plan to pursue another representative). You might contact the director and let him know you'd really appreciate any referrals he could make to agents on your behalf. It's likely the director will be best acquainted with commercial agents and will probably have two or three he's very close to. He'll call those two or three and pitch you. Perhaps one of them will need someone of your type, and voilà, a meeting. It's less likely he'll ask you which agencies you're interested in, but have a couple in mind before you make the call, just in case.
Another possibility: Say you and your manager are able to get you seen at a few agencies. This director could be listed as one of your professional references and perhaps, after the interviews, even make a follow-up call extolling your virtues. I think this option is less viable than the first one I described, mainly because it requires more work on the director's part.
If an agent isn't your primary concern, you could also ask the director to help get you in front of a couple of the casting directors he uses. With a quick call, he might be able to get you in on some upcoming auditions—or at least a general, where you might meet CDs outside your manager's network.
The important thing to keep in mind when you call the director is to follow his lead in the conversation. If he says, "Yeah, let me call a couple of my agent friends and tell them about you," don't reply, "Great, and could you also call CAA? Oh, and get me some generals!"
Finally, make sure to send a big fat thank-you to the casting director who booked you on this job. Often directors will use the same CDs time and again, and you want to be sure the CD calls you in every single time this director is casting.
Dear Jackie:
I have a question regarding "who you know" in the entertainment world. Oftentimes when looking at my résumé, casting directors will point out someone and say, "Oh, you know so-and-so?" This can be a very good thing when we have a mutual connection, but recently an issue has come up for me. I'm about to add two acting programs to my résumé, and, as every student knows, some teachers like certain students more than others. There's one teacher in particular who doesn't seem to like my work but can't seem to answer when I ask what it is she doesn't like.
What should I do if a casting director happens to ask me if I've worked with this teacher? Is it better to tell the truth and risk having the teacher speak poorly of me, or should I bend the truth and risk having my dishonesty revealed if I ever come up in a conversation between the two? I am usually a very honest person, but I'm really not sure what to do in this situation.
—Bettina, via the Internet
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I'd err on the side of brevity. Be positive, but don't dwell. Instead of lying about your acquaintance with this teacher, try responding to "Have you worked with so-and-so?" with an upbeat "Yes, she's great." Period. You could also go for diversion, as in: "Yes, a little bit. I mostly worked with [fill in the name of your favorite teacher at the school]. He was incredible!" Or try a turnaround with a jolly "Yes! Where do you know her from?"
Keep in mind that nine times out of 10, folks just want to chat and find common ground. They don't actually call the person in question. Even if they do run into each other, chances are they'll have forgotten your name—one of the few times competing with tons of others comes in handy! Besides, if they're actually friends, they'll have many other things to discuss besides former students and current auditionees.
What you don't want to do is get into a discussion revealing your frustrations with the teacher. A positive, upbeat attitude is much admired and sought after in our industry, and you don't want to take what was meant as a polite throwaway and turn it into a confession.
A final thought: Although this teacher may not be one of your biggest fans, chances are she wouldn't want to stand between you and a job. If a CD does call her about you, it's very likely she'll accentuate the positive in you, as you should in her.


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The elusive shrike strikes again
In all my life, I have observed just two shrikes. Both observations were memorable; I've written about them before. In both instances, the shrikes were being what they're known to be and doing what they're known to do; that is, being predators and displaying predatory behavior. The experiences were fascinating, to say the least.
My first shrike observation was of a bird that plummeted into a patch of tall grass and then flew to a nearby hawthorn tree with a vole in its beak. I watched in amazement as the bird impaled the newly captured vole onto a thorn and began to feed on the furry mammal.
My second observation occurred while deer hunting. My son and I shared the experience, in amazement, as we watched a shrike chase a downy woodpecker from a nearby woodland into a clearing where we happened to be.
Both birds were in flight, but the shrike overpowered the woodpecker and forced it to the ground where it promptly killed the downy with two quick blows with its beak behind the woodpecker's head. We were thrilled to have witnessed the act.
Minnesota is home to two species of shrikes. My bird sightings were more than likely northern shrikes. The other species of shrike, the loggerhead shrike, is much rarer. Loggerheads are slightly smaller than northern shrikes, and it is only the northern shrike that occurs in Minnesota the year around. Loggerheads occur here only in the summertime.
Northern shrikes are about 10 inches long, which is about one inch longer than loggerheads. Northerns also have longer and more hooked bills than do their loggerhead cousins. The bills of these two species of shrikes are the only features resembling that of raptors -- birds we typically think of when birds of prey are mentioned. Shrikes do not possess strong feet and sharp talons like owls, hawks, falcons and eagles do.
Shrikes are non-dimorphic; that is, both sexes look alike. Furthermore, both loggerhead and northern shrikes have similar markings. The adults of the two species sport solid black masks across their eyes that extend along the sides of the head. They are grayish in overall color, have black tails and share similarly patterned dark wings with white wing patches that are visible when in flight.
Shrikes prefer hunting solo. Scanning the ground for prey from treetop vantages, a shrike will suddenly dive, flying low and just above the vegetation, as it prepares to attack. Prey is captured by dropping on top of the quarry, just like what my son and I observed when the shrike overtook the downy woodpecker, and when I saw the shrike fall into the grass and capture a vole.
But shrikes also feed on prey less difficult to catch. Beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, wasps, crickets and other invertebrates are thought to make up about a quarter of a shrike's diet. The other three-quarters of its diet, particularly in the wintertime for northern shrikes, consists of larger prey such as mice, voles and lemmings, in addition to birds as large as blue jays and grosbeaks.
Since shrikes cannot securely grasp their prey with their feet to make feeding easier, the birds will commonly impale or wedge their food onto thorns of woody and herbaceous plants, or on the barbs of barbwire fences or into cracks of branches and bark. Their hooked bills do the rest of the work as they tear off small bits to swallow. Like owls, shrikes regurgitate tiny pellets of undigested parts such as hair, exoskeletons of insects and bones.
Interestingly, in just the past few weeks, two readers have notified me about observing shrikes in their own backyards. Like my shrike sightings, both reports appear to be of northern shrikes. The first observation was reported by Tanya Ekstrom of Cass Lake. She telephoned me and left a message. She excitedly told me about watching and photographing a shrike near her bird feeders. One of her photos accompanies this column.
To keep their shrike happy, her husband, Bob, placed some carrion in a tree. The shrike took advantage of the offering and, at last report, was still being observed by the Ekstroms as it feeds on bits of meat. I was also told that the chickadees aren't too pleased about the shrike being around!
Another reader, Darrel Lillquist, also from Cass Lake, wrote to tell me about a northern shrike that showed up at his backyard. He had just tossed a dead mole onto the snow near one of his sunflower feeders and had planned to dispose of the animal later, but had forgotten about it.
Later on, after remembering the mole, he looked through the window of his house and saw a shrike in the lilac bushes, then on top of the support pole of his feeder. Seconds later he watched the shrike drop to the snow, capture a mole and begin beating the animal with its beak.
After killing its prey, the shrike picked up the rodent and flew to the woods with it. Twice more Darrel watched the shrike attempt to capture other prey, but it wasn't successful. Darrell wrote about his shrike, ". . . it stayed around for a couple days and then disappeared. So did the mole problem."
Indeed, as my friends Tanya, Bob and Darrel have come to learn, shrikes are as much intriguing as they are mysterious. As many bird enthusiasts will attest, including yours truly, seeing a shrike is a rare and pleasurable experience.
Superficially, just by looking at them anyway, most people would never guess the shrike to be the hunter and predator that it really is. Not especially imposing at all, the shrike is no more than a mid-sized songbird, but with the temperament and skills of a raptor.
Shrikes, and searching for shrikes, provide one more reason to get out and enjoy the great outdoors.
Blane Klemek is the Bemidji area assistant wildlife manager, DNR Division of Fish & Wildlife. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Set aside the almost visceral disgust Justice Minister Peter MacKay seemed to show for sex workers while he unveiled the government's Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act this week.
Forget that he was barely able to say the word "prostitute" without lowering his voice like a Victorian maiden aunt in conversation with a six-year-old vicar and that he referred to sex work as a "so-called profession" and "degrading practice."
Let's take Mr. MacKay's word for it and assume the targets of the law are, as he claimed, alliteration substituting for sound reason, "the perpetrators, the perverts, the pimps," not the "vulnerable."
Let's assume that the Conservatives are genuinely concerned about "exploited persons" – and that, being adults, sentient in the 21st century, they have no interest in punishing a demographic merely because sex is involved in its profession.
Now, let's remove sex from the equation (sorry) and imagine the state of affairs that would ensue were these same "protections" applied to a different but also legal trade. Let's pick one largely practised by women who often work alone with clients, sometimes in their own homes.
Let's get really concerned about piano teachers, who, after all, are entitled to the same protection under the law as sex workers – that is, full protection.
What if, claiming concern for pianists' safety, the government legislated that piano teachers couldn't have others advertise on their behalf? Newspaper and Internet ads would be illegal, even on one's own website, because – despite containing an exemption for advertising one's own services – under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Ivory Ticklers Act, placing those ads where they might be viewed by a minor would be a crime.
A piano teacher, barred from advertising, then answering the phone and screening any budding Alfred Brendels seeking her services, would be more at risk from any unsavoury Alfreds. The law would also make trying to sell her services in public areas where people under the age of 18 might witness her efforts – so anywhere but a bar – illegal.
Mind you, it would also be illegal to inveigle anyone to visit a piano bar, or school, for the purpose of receiving piano lessons and, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, hanging out at houses of piano would be evidence you were illegally living off the avails of piano lessons, and you could be jailed.
Besides, while teaching piano would remain legal, learning piano would be a crime, and so the piano teachers would operate in the dangerous shadows anyway – where they would be at the mercy of both organized and chaotic crime.
Were an eager and skilled piano teacher to walk down a crowded street with a copy of Teaching Little Fingers to Play under her arm and a metronome in her hand, and respond "Boy do I! But I expect you to practise every day" to anyone who, merrily eyeing her metronome, asked if, by chance, she teaches piano, that response would be punishable by up to five years in prison. For her own safety.
Imagine that the government were to make the penalty for seeking a piano lesson "near a religious institution" worse, forgetting how, metaphorically, Jesus had love for Duke Ellington too.
The Supreme Court wouldn't let this anti-piano law stand, of course. It struck down Canada's old prostitution law months ago because it denied sex workers security of person, something to which all of us, even saxophone teachers, are entitled.
The court instructed the government to do better. It has done worse and, yes, I know some piano teachers might have hoped to be on the concert circuit instead, and some piano teachers might need to switch careers, but a police record won't get them there, and I also know there are people adept and inclined and happy to teach piano, and who are we to stop them?
"But," I hear some say, "why would a guy need professional piano lessons anyway? It disgusts me. Doesn't he have a friend who can teach him piano?"
"No, he does not," I might say. "Does that mean he should have no music in his life?"
Or I could tell you that perhaps he does have a musical friend but she plays only the oboe, and he thinks about pianos night and day.
Maybe he has a wife who is brilliant on the piano, but, she will confess to her friends, if she has to hear this guy bang out Fleur de Lis on her precious keyboard one more time, she'll lose it.
"No one needs piano lessons!" I hear some of you cry. "He can teach himself!"
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Welcome to the last week of spring. As the longest day of 2014, Saturday, June 21 marks the beginning of summer.
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POLLINATOR WEEK – National pollinator week is an annual event that brings attention to the important role that pollinators play in maintaining healthy biodiversity in our world – and a healthy variety of food in our diets! If you're thinking of planting something new, consider planting something that feeds the bees, butterflies, and other vital pollinators. You can find a list of pollinator-friendly plants for Georgia gardens in Beyond Butterflies: Gardening for native pollinators.
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At the wedding, Schneider gave a toast where he brought up his and Pete's exploits in Tijuana in 2009. Mariah, hearing the moans of Pete's Naval colleagues about the incident, looked at her new husband uncomfortably. Unknown to the attendees of the wedding, the wait staff were agents of HYDRA who spiked the champagne with a chemical to duplicate the effects of the Diviner. Mariah, who drank the wine, screamed as Schneider fell from the podium dead. Mariah suffered no ill effects from the drink.
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|Article 19's Submission to the UN Universal Periodic Review: United Republic of Tanzania
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|For consideration at the twelfth session of the UPR Working Group, October 2011
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