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If you are looking to improve the way you blog, then you have probably looked into some of the big blogging courses that are available. Or you might be spending a lot of your precious time trying to glean best practice from what experts write online.
You might already know that I'm a big fan of Pete McPherson and his Do You Even Blog podcasts. His latest venture is an online course educational community (you'll see why it's not a course as you read on).
I'm delighted to have been able to interview Pete recently about Blogger U. As we are both in different time zones, we opted for a virtual interview which, due to Pete's creativity, I think worked very well.
Watch the video of the interview below, or if you prefer, scroll down to read a transcript.
Meet Pete McPherson…
Hello everybody and Elizabeth and Elizabeth's audience, I presume. Thank you so much for sending me these questions about Blogger U. Not only are these just really helpful things for me to think about, it's also a good sales pitch for my own programme.
If you don't know me, I am Pete. I run Blogger U, bloggeru.org, is a online community and course and blogging programme. I also run doyouevenblog.com, a podcast with world class bloggers, so on, so forth. So I printed out all these questions and actually put in my own answer here too. So great questions.
Pete, why did you start Blogger U?
So, I'll try and make these like really quick, I'll breeze through these. Past course experiences. When I first started, I spent over $1,500 in the first year on two or three different blogging courses, different subjects. And the course creators were super successful. The actual content in the courses was good. I'm not disappointed in that at all, but the engagement died down after like two weeks. Everybody was all gung-ho interacting in Facebook groups and then two weeks later it was like dead.
And the courses I took were very specific paths, one, two, three, do this in this order and you will be successful just like the product creator, just like the course creator. And that just didn't seem to be true.
There was valuable learning in there, but I didn't like the way they were laid out. That path was not the path for me. It was not customised, I didn't get to learn anything else that wasn't specifically on the course creator's path to success.
So the other reasons are this chose me, I blogged about a lot of things, and digital marketing, blogging, it just happens to be my passion. Like I'm fired up, I'm sincerely fired up.
I'm not saying that because I'm anything less than 1,000% sincere and genuine when I say I love talking about blogging to anybody and everybody, especially my Blogger U students.
Other than that, I did it to make money and provide for me and my family. I have no qualms saying that.
And I did it to offer all this value that I can, as much as I possibly can at Blogger U to save other bloggers' money. Because it's cheaper buying courses in bulk than it is like trying to pick and choose.
What are your aspirations for this course?
You see that? That is the world's first blogging university. An actual building, actually accredited, helps people quit their jobs in corporate America. Freelance economy, contract-based work, that is what I'm all about. And right now it takes the form of Blogger U.
Why does the world need another blogging course?
And I got my two-year-old's crayon right here, I'm gonna mark out the word course. No, actually I'll leave it in right here. It doesn't. The world probably doesn't need any blogging courses, it really doesn't.
Blogger U is not a course, it's over 36 online courses. It's a community, it's an accountability programme, it is a monthly challenge programme, it is live Q and As, ongoing content, ongoing updates for blogging topics and knowledge. Pinterest changes every month. You buy a Pinterest course that was made three years ago and hasn't been updated, it's useless now. They talk about group boards and that means something completely different.
So no, I don't really think the world needs another blogging course. What they need is well curation for one thing.
I am not the only person teaching at Blogger U, I bring in other bloggers to help me teach. Curation of good topics and content.
Style, everybody has a different learning style and I like the people that are attracted to the way I teach, that's why I'm doing this.
And then like I said, community. That's first and foremost when I'm building with Blogger U. It's not an online course, it's lots of courses. I got lots of courses, I got lots of education, what I have that other people don't have is this long term community of people that show up day in and day out and they're still supportive one week later, one month later, a year later since I've done this. It's great.
Tell me about your background. Why are you qualified to teach this course?
Okay, I went ahead and marked out teach and I put lead. I went ahead and marked out course and I put community.
So I'm not, partially. Am I a smart dude? Yes. Do I know a lot about blogging? Yes. Am I qualified to teach every blogger on the entire planet everything they need to know about blogging? No. Anybody who thinks they are is stupid, I don't care who they are. So I rely on others.
I have live Q and A calls that I do every other week where I bring on, sometimes it's just me, sometimes it's a hot seat with a Blogger U student, sometimes it's people like Bobby Hoyt at Millennial Money Man who's gonna come talk to us about running Facebook Ads 'cause that's how he gets like 90% of his traffic. He's a guru.
I got the former director of SEO at Moz to come talk to us about SEO. I don't rely on me, I rely on other people.
And the only other reason I'm qualified to lead this community is 'cause I have passion, more passion than anybody I've ever met when it comes to blogging. I think that's true.
Why are you approaching this launch differently than the way so many other people launch their products?
I know what you mean by this. One, it's 'cause I hate spam and my tribe hates spam. So any blogger, if I were in personal finance, if I were in travel, parenting, exercise, nutrition, any of those niches, my launch would look a lot differently.
But my audience is not everyday consumers, this is almost a B to B business, not B to C, business to business. My audience is bloggers. They've seen these launches a million times. It's boring, it's redundant, it's spammy when they get like three emails a day for like seven days straight for launches, like 15 plus emails, 20 plus emails. It's spam.
I don't like it, they don't like it, and that's who my audience is. So that's why I'm doing things differently.
What is the thing you are most proud of about this course?
Went ahead and crossed off course and put community, I'm most proud of the people. The people that I have in there, it's a small group from by beta, beta? My beta launch. My beta launch last year in 2017 and they're fantastic.
They keep telling me, I've heard, this is one of my testimonials in my sales pitch, yours is the only community that I come back to again and again and again. I'm quite proud of that.
In fact, if I could just delete all the courses and still have that and have people come in here, I'd do that. I'm most proud of the community.
So as far as courses, I really like my outreach and content. I have literally courses on blog content, which is like the least sexy part of blogging. It's what no one really wants. They want traffic and money, but they don't realise that they're never gonna get there without the content. So that is one of my favourite courses of Blogger U. And then my guests, the people I speak to on any given day. Last two.
What did you find the hardest about putting it together?
Just time. I'm doing this full-time, but I'm also doing freelance work to provide for my family, put food on their table. I am also running the podcast still, I'm also doing blogging. I'm doing as much YouTube and video as I possibly can. Just time, it's just hard. Okay, last question.
Is there anything else you would like to add?
Yeah, buy it. That's it. I offer 110% money back guarantee, because I believe in it. And not 30 days either, 365 day 110% money back guarantee. You join Blogger U, it costs $500 or 50 bucks a month for one year, payment plan, you buy that, you're not happy anytime in the first year, I'll give you 110$ of your money back if you're not satisfied.
As long as you can show that you actually did something. Like don't just sign up and not take any courses, like I'll track that. You do that and you're not satisfied, you're not happy with your blogging, you decide to quit blogging 'cause you hate it and you didn't learn anything from Blogger U, I'll give you all your money back and a little bit more.
That's it, thank you for sending me these questions. I sincerely and genuinely appreciate it. I love being able to think through this stuff. Even if I never published anything on this it would be awesome to see these questions and think about them.
So thank you, Elizabeth, thank you for everybody else. If you need anything else, I would just point you, hang on, let's go with the red crayon here. Blogger U, B-L-O-G-G-E-R, just the letter U, .org. July 2 through 5th. Here it is right there. BloggerU.org, July 2nd through July 5th, those are gonna be the open dates. After that you will not be able to get in until December 2018.
And that's it. Thank you for having me on, I appreciate it. And hopefully I'm doing some good out here.


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Dining With The Romans
Numerius was a slave and ate one meal a day consisting of gruelmade with cracked wheat.While Spurius a plebian purchased his meals from street vendors,food shops and taverns located nearlarge public buildings and bathhouses. Marius a patrician and amember of the Roman senate had the means and the influence toenjoy his meals that were cooked and served by slaves in one oftwo spacious dining areas within his home. Quintus a freedman lived in the country where he grew vegetables and raised somelivestock for an absentee owner. He and his family ate fresh produce, mashed beans, bacon and cheese that were cooked with fresh herbs, olive oil and salt.
Breakfast was not much of a meal and it consisted of a crackedwheat porridge or bread dipped in wine that was mixed with honeyand water. Depending upon one's status, dates or olives were included.
Cracked Wheat Porridge
1-cup Bulgar wheat, crushed2-cups water4-Tlbs. olive oil1-tsp. salt
Directions: In a skillet, heat the olive oil and stir in the Bulgar wheat until it is well coated with the olive oil. Removefrom heat and add the water and the salt. Drizzle some honeyin the porridge for added sweetness. Serve with some fresh figs,dates or dried apricots.
Lunch was the midmeal of the day. For the majority of the Romancitizens, it was either purchased from the street vendors or food shops and taken home to enjoy. Plebians and freedmenate bread, fruit, cheese or leftovers from last nights supper.Marius like the other patricians ate his lunch at home or purchased his food from the street vendors. Dinner was served late in the afternoon and it was the main meal of the day.The plebians and the freedmen ate their dinners at the taverns.The food was plentiful and the ingredients were fresh. Wine wasdiluted with honey and some water and served at every meal.
Grilled Sardines with Garum8-whole sardines, grilled4-cups grape juice2-Tlbs. anchovy paste1/4-tsp. oregano
Directions: Cook the grape juice until it is reduced down ot one-tenth of its volume. Mix in the anchovy paste and the oregano to the reduced down liquid. Grill the sardines and pour a portion ofthe garum sauce over them. Serve with some flat bread, ripe cheese and olives.
After a long day at the forum, Marius a Roman senator arrived athis spacious home where he was greeted by slaves. He joined hisfamily and guests in the dining area where appetizers were being served from a bronzed donkey. Everyone took individual portions of hot sausages, dishes of olives, crabs, figs, bacon and tomatoes eating them with their hands. For the entree, a whole pig was cooked and swordsmen cut indivdual pieces for the diners.After the main meal, dessert was served in another dining area where the wine flowed like water. All types of fruit was offered by the slaves. Poppy seeds mixed with honey as well as sweet cakes mixed with honey, nuts and chopped fruits were a special treat.
Pork Roast With Prunes, Apricots and Figs3 or 4 lb lean pork roast, with a slit cut into the side of it1/2-cup dry prunes, apricots and figs, chopped1-Tlb cooking oil1/4-tsp salt1/4-cup honey1/2-cup water
Directions: Have the butcher cut a slit or a pocket into the sideof the pork roast.In a sauce pan add the dried fruit, the honey and the water. Simmer the dried fruit until tender. Stuff the cooked fruit into the slit of the pork roast and tie it with astring. Rub the salt on both sides of the pork roast. In a skillet, heat the cooking oil and sear both sides of the pork roast Transfer it to a crock pot cooking for four hours on high and then turn it down to low four more hours. Test the donepork roast with a meat fork to make sure it is cooked through.The beverage of choice was Mulsum. Warm one-half cup of honey and add it to a bottle of Maderia dry white wine. Serve it chilled.
As soon as the sun went down, Quintus a freedman walked from thefields to his home where his wife and daughters were preparing fresh vegetables and a whole chicken stuffed with fresh herbs.Their gardens produced fresh vegetables and they raised chickensand pigs. Quintus had a small vineyard where he grew the grapes for his own wine. Tonight, they were making his favorite soup ofbroad beans that were mashed and seasoned with herbs,baconand small chunks of cheese.
Broad Bean Soup2-cups of small pasta, cooked3-cups of broad beans,peeled1-cup of bacon, precooked1-onion,chopped1/2-can tomato sauce1/4-tsp pepper1/4-teaspoon sea salt
Directions: In a soup pot or a dutch oven, saute the bacon and when it is almost done add the chopped onion and the tomato sauce.Add the peeled broad beans and the salt.Cover the beans with cold water. Simmer on medium low until the beans are tender. If they are dense after they are done cooking add more water. Pour in the cooked pasta.Let the soup cool and serve it with lots of pepper and pecorino cheese.Serve with a piece of flat bread and some olives.
1. Social Position And Food Of The Roman Empire. Jean Preston, Dr. Christian Renaud. December 2,1997. http://www.2cartage.edu/outis/food2.Essay sample on: Ancient Roman Meals And Eating Habits.http://www.essay.com3. Broad Bean Soup Recipe.http://www.eatit.com
A love for ancient history, the author has studied some Philosophy and History.
How to Make Your Own Low Fat Vanilla Ice Cream
Sometimes, when you have set yourself in the weight loss journey, you may miss your old friends: snacks.
Serendipity Frozen Hot Chocolate
Serendipity frozen hot chocolate is a signature dish at the Serendipity 3, nestled in the heart of the upper east side of New York. The place is a general store and restaurant combined with a coffeehouse and soda fountain and serves the most famous dessert in New York.
Rockfish Bessie
Ingredients 5-6 lbs. Whole Rockfish1 Onion1 Lemon1 LimeCilantroCorn HusksOlive OilSalt and PepperPreheat over to 375F.Make sure the fish is clean of all entrails. Slice the onion, salt and pepper it and place it in the cavity. Chop the cilantro and slice the lemon and lime and place it on top of the fish. Drizzle a bit of olive oil on top of the fish then salt and pepper the top. Cover the fish entirely in corn husks and then wrap the fish in tin foil. Place fish in a baking pan and place in the over. Bake for 30 minutes and then flip it over carefully and bake for another half hour. If the meat flakes, its ready. Serve with salsa, rice pilaf, black beans and fried plantains.
Weight Loss Recipe: Turkey Tomato Wrap
Are you struggling to lose or maintain your weight? Then this recipe can help you along the journey. Long term weight loss isn't about hunger, misery and crash dieting. It's a whole new way of learning to prepare nutritious food that your body needs and enjoys. This recipe is one of a range of hunger fighting, low fat recipes to assist you keep your weight under control.
Zucchini Carrot Salad
Summer is nearing and it is time to start thinking about serving succulent garden grown or farm fresh salads. This zesty Zucchini Carrot Salad recipe is certain not to disappoint you or your guests as it is an attractive meal to dish out after a hot summer's day! No cooking is involved; consider serving it with bread, if so desired.
Easy, Tasty Chicken Wing Recipes
You can serve chicken wings hot or cold, for a meal, or for snacks. They're great as appetizers at parties, or when you're just looking for a tasty midnight snack. Try these four easy recipes:
Going Halfway Around the World: How to Make German Cookies
I absolutely loved experimenting with foreign recipes, especially dessert recipes, when I was in high school. One of my favorite ones to make is German Cookies. I first learned of it after I'd tried a recipe for German Crumble Cake.
Rowan Jelly (Mountain Ash - Pyrus aucuparia)
Sharp and sour but sweet and succulent all at the same time, this traditional accompanyment to cold meat is bursting with flavour, and folklore !
Strawberry Rhubarb Coffee Cake
Bottom Layer:
Campfire Cooking (Some Yummy Recipes)
It's almost picnic and camping time across most of North America. For that next trip into the woods or at the park, consider these treats-especially for the kids.
Low Fat Flaming Bananas Treat
Nutritional Information: Serves 3, Fat: 8 g, Cal: 299, KJ: 1256, WW: 5 Points
Homemade BBQ Sauce Recipes
What makes great homemade BBQ sauce recipes? Well, it could be the time and love that you put into making this delectable barbeque sauce for your family to enjoy, or it could be the fresh ingredients that you use.
Fun & Fruity Recipes
Sometimes the easiest way to get children to eat healthy is to let them have a hand in making their own snacks?and add whipped cream on top. Here are two fruity recipes that are fun and easy to make, and even more fun to eat.
Sicilys Great Eggplant - Tomato Stew
I ran into a friend yesterday, who tells me that he should be harvesting eggplants from his garden any day now. Of course, this got me thinking about Caponata, the famous Sicilian eggplant and tomato stew.
Superb Melt In Your Mouth Rolls
SERVING SIZE,one roll (of 18). CARBS PER SERVING,: 2.8 grams of carb. SERVING SIZE,one roll (of 16). CARBS PER SERVING,: 3.1 grams of carb. SERVING SIZE,one roll (of 12). CARBS PER SERVING,: 4.2 grams of carb.
Fortunate Lemon Chicken
A delicious chicken meal for you to prepare at home. The lemon sauce is fresh and tangy and somehow I always end up eating too much :-).It takes a bit to prepare but is worth the effort. And ending the meal with a fortune cookie is great fun ? especially if you write your own fortune and make your own cookies (see below).
Four Easy Zucchini Bread Recipes
Tired of the same old zucchini bread recipe and want to trysomething new? Here is a standard zucchini bread recipe inaddition to three variations your family is sure to love.
Shrimp Scampi Recipes
Many people have different ideas on how to prepare great shrimp scampi recipes as you will see below. Some of the ingredients are the same and usually it is served with pasta. The type of pasta that you serve with your dish is up to your own taste.
Summer Salads
Green vegetables are the food most missing in modern diets. Nutritionally, greens are very high in calcium (120 -190 mg per cup!) They're also high in magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorous, zinc, and they are a power house for Vitamin A, C, E and K. Believe it or not, they are also crammed high with fiber, folic acid, chlorophyll and many other micro-nutrients and phyto-chemicals ? you just can't get any better than this. Take a look at the following two recipes to help move you into a sensational summer!
Wild Watercress Soupt (Nasturtium officinale)
Wild Watercress soup is a delicious and nutritious recipe with the leaves available in spring and early summer. Watercress is rich in Vitamins A and C, iron, iodine and phosphorus. Watercress has been used as part of a holistic response to cancer of the lungs, larynx, oesophagus, prostate, bladder, uterus, stomach and intestines. It can be used in the treatment of:
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Located in Pombia near Milan, Italy Safari Park is not the most modern or even very bigger animal park reviewed in our blog and with all attractions being aimed towards families with small children could not be your pick even in Italy. However if you love to photograph wildlife and drive in our own car to observe freely roaming animals.
In fact Safari Park Pombia has large animals from Sub-Saharan Africa such as giraffes, lions, rhinoceros, elephants, zebras, and antelope and a safari ride that we enjoyed better than the safari tour at Animal Kingdom at Disney. The Park also offers a closed-off area sporting a wild water coaster, a giant slide and other attractions that are popular among kids and families.
One of the greatest features of the park is a camping site. Yes, you can stay for the night in the Safari Camping (they have also Gazebos with two beds) at reasonable rates (from 25€/30USD) and to taste good Italian and European food (Saturday night was Mixed Grill night). There are also shows, all very spectacular: falconary, magics and more.
In sum, Safari Park Pombia is a wonderful place to bring your children if you are traveling in the area. As they say in Italy: Belloooooo 🙂
Practical Information
Location: Via Larino, 3, Pombia NO, Italy
Tickets: Adults (17€). Children 12€
Opens all year but from October to March just on weekends
Social and MultimediaWeb page Top Rides
Safari ride, water coasterVideos
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The NPB announced today that Eigoro Mogi (Rakuten) withdrew from the Pacific League All-Star team due to an injury (right elbow: olecranon and trochlea of humerus). According to Section 86 of the Baseball Agreement, Mogi will not be allowed to play in his team's first ten games immediately after the All-Star break.
Seibu's Sosuke Genda was named as Mogi's replacement.
Source: NPB 7/11/2017
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/me braces for the onslaught of excuses
If your business has
- to care about operating system end-of-life announcements, IT has failed. (unless you are an OS vendor or tools company)
- audit/compliance exposure due to old operating systems, IT has failed.
If, as a business (again, unless you are in the business around operating systems or tools), what operating system you run is a point of contention, IT has abdicated its responsiblity.
And until someone with authority in that IT system stands up and forces some change, we'll keep seeing things like
Most attacks exploit known vulnerabilities that have never been patched despite patches being available for months, or even years. In fact, the top 10 known vulnerabilities accounted for 85 percent of successful exploits. - Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report 2016
The Passivity of Enterprise IT
Enterprise IT, in general, has evolved to be order takers and janitors of the software world.
A conversation between Mark Schwartz and a former employer in The Art of Business Value by Mark Schwartz, IT Revolution Press 2016.
"You are missing the point," Takeshi said. "I have trusted you with an investment in an IT system. Your job is to make sure that I get a good return from my IT investments. I am not getting a good return." I argued, of course, that he wasn't being fair, that I had no authority over the business unit's management, and I couldn't compel them to change the requirements to something that would be more effective. But ultimately I had to admit that he had a point. Was I just responsible for executing projects, or was I responsible for delivering business value from IT investments?
Business Value?
Is there business value in running your IT infrastructure on modern, supported, patched servers? I think so. And if IT doesn't make that happen, no one will - until there is a breach.
The most important part of the above exchange was this realization -
Was I just responsible for executing projects, or was I responsible for delivering business value from IT investments?
IT is not just responsible for executing projects. IT is responsible for making sure the project will return business value (and on that topic I greatly suggest you go read Mark's book). And for purposes of this conversation, IT is responsible for making sure projects are done in a supportable manner.
Supportable Manner?
IT projects should:
(not a comprehensive or exclusive list)
- have a patching schedule
- a plan for migrating to currently supported operating systems
- emergency patching plans (for zero-days)
But This Is Just Temporary!
I have some more thoughts on that matter in an earlier post.
Time to decide
Are you an order taker or are you going to be professional and provide business value?


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Washington (CNN) – A Republican who sits on the Senate Banking Committee defended his party's lockstep opposition to the current version of the financial regulatory reform bill but said he thinks the GOP and Democrats can ultimately reach agreement on how best to oversee Wall Street.
All 41 Senate Republicans voted against a motion Monday that would have started debate on the financial regulatory reform bill. Speaking on CNN's John King, USA soon after the vote, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-South Carolina, said he hoped his party's unanimous opposition would facilitate more bipartisan negotiations.
DeMint called the current version of the legislation "another massive bill that doesn't keep the promises on the label." And the South Carolina Republican said the current bill doesn't adequately address the causes of the recent financial crisis but it does, in his view, expand regulation to parts of the financial industry that did not have a role in nearly bringing the economy to a halt in late 2008 and early 2009.
Related: Senate delayed on Wall Street reform
"So, we're hoping the vote tonight will at least get the Democrats to work with us on fixing the problems and making sure that we just don't have another overreach of government power without really fixing the problem," DeMint told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King.
DeMint added that one of the major points of disagreement has to do with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and how to fix the subprime mortgage market.
"[Democrats] are not allowing us to address it. So, hopefully if we can shake them up like we did tonight and help them see they're not going to ram this down our throat, then we can get a real bill that the American people can feel good about."
On the issue of immigration reform, DeMint said the federal government needs to secure the borders before moving forward with any overhaul of immigration policy.
Related: Graham's exit puts climate change bill in limbo
DeMint also accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, who is up for re-election this year, of "playing politics with immigration to try to show the people back home he wants to do something about it."
In a note of support for the senior senator from South Carolina, DeMint said fellow Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has taken "an important stand" in withdrawing his support for a climate change bill since Reid and Democrats began to signal their desire to prioritize passing an immigration bill this year.
And DeMint told King that he was not concerned about alienating Latino voters in November's mid-terms.
"Every immigrant that I've talked to - that's come here the legal way - wants us to continue to work on border security and a workable worker I.D. system. All of us as Republicans want to move ahead with those kind of reforms."
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What did you expect?
South Carolina Republicans...what a joke. The American people do not need lectures from these immoral losers. Get the job done, or get out of the way so that people in congress who want to the right thing can get to work.
DeMint, you and your cabal have finally made the point to the American people that you are the party of Wall Street.
When it comes down to it, the GOP's constituency is the top 5%. The rest of their rhetoric (i.e. abortion, God, guns, limited/small govt, etc) is just a smokescreen. They could care less about the American people.
DeMint's famous words for Obama was that blocking HCR would "break him" and would be Obama's "Waterloo." Well, DeMint was wrong then and he's wrong now.
As a liberal Democrat, I'm surprised to find myself agreeing with DeMint for at least the first 2/3rds of this article. This bill does need to address Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They were a massive part of the problem and need to be brought under control. Unfortunately, Dodd is pretty deep in their pockets, so doing anything that they wouldn't like is not very likely.
As for the immigration bit, DeMint needs to get real. Unless we declare martial law, our borders are not going to just get secured. We need to address a solution to the problem that changes our immigration system rather than trying to force a square peg into a round hole and make the current broken system work.
It is simple, enough with half backed ideas by people who have never been in main-street, never started a business, never did financing and have been in politics all their life! Good they stopped the nonsense!
Obama is trying to destroy the country. The Dems (and the CNN crowd) in general are not smart enough to understand that and will go along just to take their skim off the top of whatever Barry does. Our only lines of defense until November are these blocking actions.
DeMint is a possible republican presidential contender in 2012. DeMint makes Palin look like a Rhodes scholar. He makes Huckabee look like an atheist. He makes Rush Limbaugh look like a lefty. Plus, he is flat out goofy.
A Citizen of the State of South Carolina.
It seems like DeMint want to protect his special interest people on Wall Street just like every other rethugican.
To propose financial reform without addressing the sub-prime mortgage debacle is irresponsible. What Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did played an enormous part in the economic decline, but then to do something about that, the Democrats would have to admit their complicity in the financial meltdown. It's so much easier to say "It's Bush's fault".
These people sounds like spoiled brats... their way or no way.
Thank you again, Massachusetts voters. It's starting to become clear to Harry Reid and Barack Obama that they have to consider now something besides their own liberal agenda and special interests. They need to work with the Republicans and the tens of millions of Americans that sent them to Washington if they want to get anything else done. Bravo.
So, the republicans want to cut taxes for Goldman-Sachs and hope that teaches them a lesson??????
I don't get it.
To all Republicans currently in office:
Tender your resignation now. You are not helping this country or its citizens. If I had the ability I would give you a horrible performance review and fire you on the spot.
I am a registered Republican and I am getting tired of all the obstruction and immaturity. This is getting beyond childish and is really petty. What good did you accomplish? Nothing!!!!! Bush spent a whole year avoiding saying the word recession when all the signs were there.
You lost my vote. Come November every Dem on the ballot will get my vote. At least they are willing to do some work that is in a positive direction.
There is NO reason for you to vote to stop a debate. After all of the money the citizens of this country and the world has lost in the recession (or depression) this is all you can come up with. PLEASE do us all a favor and step down.
DeMint is just another republican trying to support Wall Street. Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac were more the result of the financial collapse rather than the cause. Republicans are trying to shift blame away from mortgage and investment bankers.
Also the problem is not that Democrats refuse to work with republicans. The Democrats have bent over backwards trying to come up with a bipartisan bill but the republicans will not even come to the table. The republican idea of bipartisanship is we are the minority party but we should have a major role in crafting legislation. The truth is: the republicans had their chance and they blew it. Also, the republican did not offer Democratic input on most of the legislation they rammed down everybody's throat.
Keep it up, refuseniks. The American people are waking up and they are finally catching on to your game. You are setting yourselves up for another defeat at the polls.
DeMint is just another republican idiot!
I do not understand the Republicans are so against financial reform that will stop the banks from bleeding the public. They should be ashamed all this happened under there watch and have the odosity to stop the reform from passing. They were bailed out by the people of this country and they owe all of us who lost money in our future investments. The Republicans do not understand people are hurting because they lost a lot of money and especially the elderly who are in there retirement ages to enjoy the rest of there lives. I think the Republicans should have a heart and think for the people of this country and not think about being an obstacle. This reform is a long time coming and we need our financial institutions accountable for there miscalculations/ self enriching and simply robbing the public. good Bless our country.
"We want nothing to happen, and we're gonna make nothing happen. Cuz nothing makes us free"
Palin's and McCain's, Tea partiers, (although, I think they are educated people who believe lies and like to Party with their S.S. Checks! NO BIG GOVERNMENT means NO ENTITLEMENTS!
We BETTER save S.S. and Medicare are we and our children and our grandchildren are screwed should we get sick. Companies don't want to hire/keep sick people. Thanks to the Insurance Giants!
Calling all DEMs, it is time to get these gop liars out of the SENATE & the HOUSE. The finance bill has been in committee since Nov. This committee consists of members from both parties (DEMs & GOP) and both parties have participated in discussions, negotiations, admendments, etc . Therefore, this is not a bill that is being rammed down American citizens throat. Since Fannie & Freddie are now the federal government, the committee agreed to deal with them in a separate bill. Please America don't be fooled again! The gop is not concerned about any of us. Their only concerns are centered around power, greed, and more greed. LET'S VOTE 'EM OUT!
The Party of NO wants to keep stonewalling any change to the financial system that keep them getting richer at our expense.
I say it's time to say NO to the Party of NO and vote out any and all republicans. The thieves can retire on the money they stole from our 401K accounts but, no more!
Enough of the back room Wall Street deals. Enough of the smoke and mirror obstruction. I'm done listening, GOPers.
Thanks, Dems, for working together to get our country moving forward again. I can't even begin to imagine where our country would be had all of you NOT stood up and made the difficult choices our country so desperately neede to be made.
Kudos's to each and everyone of you!
Didn't some Republicans help write this legislation. Man talk about senility.
DeMint is not a spokesperson who represents normal Americans. He is a fringe candidate, a fringe citizen, if you will, who does not see past his own needs.
Highlighting this contrarian is to rub the nose of Republicans in the mire.
Pelosi wrote a bill to change a health care system she didn't understand and it was passed and signed into law by democrats who didn't understand it nor bothered to read it.
Now Pelosi / Reid and Obama want to do the same with the financial system, of which they understand even less.
Open debate on the Senate Floor is not an overreach of government power. The vote tonight was not on the bill but on whether the bill would be debated and amended on the public record. The GOP chose to debate and amend behind closed doors.


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Earlier this week Izaak and I headed to Florida for a work thing, for him obviously since I am still unemployed, because he is a big deal and won an award. The agenda was set and sent to us via FedEx, excursions were scheduled, and I was looking forward to not needing to plan anything for the next couple days.
Our excursion choice was kayaking at Merritt Island with manatee. We really enjoyed this part of the trip and sadly there are no images to share. I was afraid to take my phone since I didn't plan ahead to bring anything waterproof. Sad, because there was so much to take pictures of on this trip. Not only did we see several manatee (awwww), but we saw dolphins (squee!), gators (creepy), a juvenile bald eagle, pelicans, horseshoe crab, sting rays, and puffer fish. Pretty amazing and very memorable. I took lots of pictures…..in my mind.
The dolphins may have been more amazing than the manatee. The manatee were cool and so great to see but the dolphins were incredible. We saw this ripple of fish moving toward a small cove and we would see the dolphin smoothly gliding behind them in and out of the water. Suddenly as they approached the beach there was this flurry of activity and splashing about of fish as the dolphin enjoyed his/her all you can eat fishy buffet.
The rest of the trip was uneventful. Orlando is not so much a destination for those not on the Disney track. We struggled to find something to do on our free afternoon. Cabs were super expensive so we took our first Uber ride to the outlet mall, yes the mall. Our drivers were friendly and the fare was affordable. We will definitely use Uber again, but as for Orlando I think we will skip it. I'd rather go to Key West.
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This book discusses the different aspects of a Christian worldview applicable to the times in which we live today, including the events of September 11, 2001. Any valid worldview must attempt to discern God's plan for the human race as well as God's plan for each of us.
Msgr. Michael contrasts three different Christian worldviews which he calls the Ptolemaic, Copernican and Einsteinian. In simple terms, these may be described as the Pre-Vatican II worldview, the Post-Vatican II worldview, and the new worldview that appears to be evolving. Not only does Msgr. Michael describe the variety of common worldviews, but the bulk of this book helps one move toward the worldview of Jesus.
A Christian Worldview is a follow-up volume to A Guide Book for Spiritual Direction and Adult Religious Education. It covers approximately one-third of the material used in the two-year training course of the Spiritual Direction Institute (SDI). It includes a bibliography of related books, and an index of key terms & concepts.
"For those who accept [the co-relational model] the only absolutes are such relationships as love, truth, justice, freedom. They are unwilling to admit that natures and substances are absolutely unchanging. This model sees everything on earth, including the Church, as part of an evolutionary process of growth and change from a less perfect to a more perfect stage … The primary concern is not so much the kind of church structure that Jesus Christ established or that was created by the Christians of the first and second centuries, but what is the structure that will best foster the establishment of good relationships of love, justice, truth and freedom among the people of today."
"Those accepting the co-relationship model are interested not in the Church as such, nor in some future Kingdom of God upon earth, but in how we can best create, preserve, and increase love, truth, justice, freedom in the 'here and now' situation on earth."
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- Modern Demons and their Antidotes
- Beatitudes
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- God's Plan for the Human Race
- Using the Bible in Prayer
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- What to Begin?
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Do you guys remember the show Art Attack?
For those too young to remember, the host Neil Buchanan would teach kids all these cool art projects they could do with just everyday household items. I used to love the show and would try to make some of the art myself, though I was no Picasso.
The beauty of Art Attack is he would always say "It doesn't have to be perfect!" which resonated with me even as a kid. The fact that the objective was in the experimentation, in the trying and failing and just having fun, I think I never stopped believing in those things.
I thought that it'd be a great idea to revisit a childhood favourite with a project of my own, INVISIBLE LETTERS.
Music credit: Salt Peanuts by The Quintet & Sleepy Tigers by Her Space Holiday
Psst: Our challenge this week was to make someone smile, and I hope my little tutorial managed to get you smiling! Thank you for all the positive comments about my videos and posts, I've been using the LISTERINE Bloggers Dare to take little steps towards a new, more creative direction for my blog and my life which I hope to be able to sustain – so all the support is greatly appreciated!
If you would like an INVISIBLE LETTER from me, just leave a comment with your email address and I'd be happy to make you one! (:
Second last week of the LISTERINE Bloggers Dare, phew it went by real quick!
If you like this post, do help me earn points by re-blogging the photos, share the URL on FB or RT it on Twitter!
Do continue to vote for me here! Click here for my Week 1, 2, 3 and 4 posts!
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Remember the chai&biskut giveaway I did two weeks back? Well, here are some photos of the packages I put together. I'm a rather bad present wrapper so I'm actually proud of these babies, hehe.
Photo credit: Fuzzygreenlights, Zsixshutter and myself
Not bad, no? Congrats to Fuzzygreenlights, Stephie, Sleepysteph, Teeks and zsixshutter! And thank you to everyone that participated, the response was amazing and I will definitely be doing more soon! (:
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Sorry for the long wait, I've picked my winners for the surprise giveaway!
They are:
Congrats to you girls! A rainbow surprise awaits, along with the INVISIBLE LETTERS which I am super excited about! I will be emailing you shortly to get your details.
Thank you to everyone that participated, it was a blast reading everyone's haiku! This is definitely the first of many giveaways! (:
Read my Week 3 post? This week the blogger with the most points and votes gets $500 to help them achieve their personal dream! I need all your help and support for this. Every comment gives me 2 points, and if you share any of my videos or photos on your Facebook or blog, I get 5 points! Or you can also vote here.
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Thank you to all for being super supportive of me for this whole LISTERINE Bloggers Dare thing!
For regular readers of my blog, you might have noticed that I've been pushing myself a little more in terms of doing creative posts. Every week I try to do something different, something creative, that's still in keeping with the chai&biskut spirit, and I hope I have not let you down in this regard.
As a symbol of thanks, I would like to send a little something sweet your way! It's chai&biskut's very first giveaway! I have to keep it a surprise for now, but I promise that you'll like it! I love getting something in the mail, don't you?
Unfortunately I can only pick 5 people (due to limited resources), so if you would like to enter this giveaway this is what you have to do:
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I will choose the 5 most creative comments as the winners. Contest will close on Tuesday, 11am.
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Nick Goepper wins Dew Tour ski slopestyle; Mark McMorris sets snowboard bar
BRECKENRIDGE — Slopestyle skiers battled high winds on Sunday at the Dew Tour, but still managed technical tricks as they pushed their sport toward its Olympic debut in February.
Top qualifier Nick Goepper spun double-flipping 900s and 1080s in four directions with lengthy grabs and smooth rail riding on his first of two runs to forge a lead that lasted the entire contest.
He was followed by Australia's Russ Henshaw and Canada's Alex Beaulieu-Marchand, whose finals runs — and flawless grabs — knocked U.S. Olympic hopefuls Bobby Brown and Tom Wallisch off the podium.
The wind played the same trajectory-thwarting role for snowboard slopestyle. Still, in a sport where double-cork trickery is mandatory to reach podiums and triples earn gold medals, athletes had to flip through the gusts Sunday to win. Many did not make it, crashing hard as wind grabbed their boards.
Mark McMorris, Canada's slopestyle boss, threw a strong double-cork 1260 on his first run to seize an early lead. McMorris stomped a massive triple-cork — that's three backflips — on the final hit of his second run to score 97.8 points and lock down his second Dew Tour victory and confirming the 20-year-old's Olympic-favorite status in Sochi.
"I had absolutely nothing to lose," said McMorris, whose Dew Tour triple likely established the new requirement for slopestyle snowboarding victory. "I told myself that if everything was going perfect I had to do the triple."
Norway's Sven Thorgen took second, followed by Canadian Maxence Parrot. Shaun White, who is hoping to be the top American to rival McMorris in Sochi, dropped from Sunday's contest after hurting his ankle in Saturday's halfpipe contest.
Without White, no Americans found a podium in Dew Tour's slopestyle contest, the only Dew Tour event without U.S. athletes on the podium.


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The State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg is Russia's premier art museum. It began life as the private art collection of the imperial family and was nationalised and greatly expanded after the Revolution. The Museum is housed in the buildings of the former imperial palace in the centre of St Petersburg. They comprise the Baroque Winter Palace built by Bartolemeo Rastrelli for the Empress Elizabeth, the Neoclassical Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage and Hermitage Theatre built by Vallin de la Mothe, Yuri Velten and Giacomo Quarenghi respectively for Catherine the Great and the Historicist New Hermitage built by Leo von Klenze for Nicholas I. The latter was built as a museum where the cream of the imperial collection could be shown to the public. It opened its doors in 1852 and was known as the Imperial Hermitage Museum up to 1917. The East wing of the General Staff Building, facing the Winter Palace from the other side of Palace Square, has been restored in recent years to display the nineteenth-century and modern collection.


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This examination of hierarchical incident command systems (ICS) used in crises explores how the network properties of crisis responses fundamentally affect ICS operations in terms of coordination, authority and trust.
The Network Governance of Crisis Response: Case Studies of Incident Command Systems
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- Volume or issue no.: La Follette School Working Paper No. 2008-020; an abbreviated version was published in 2009 in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 19(4): 895-915.
- Author(s): Donald P. Moynihan
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So I know I'm supposed to say 7 things about myself, but since I received this one before, I'll refer to one of the things I mentioned last time. I play the hand bells at my church. I finally figured out the compression, uploading, Youtube thing, so....here are the two songs we played at Christmas. I am the 3rd from the right. The first girl.
The first one is Nutcracker Sweets
The next is Carol of the Bells
Nerdy info: Our bell choir plays Four Octaves of Hand Bells. I am usually G4 and A4 with incidentals. That would be the G & A just below middle C on a piano. We practice once a week. I am by no means an accomplished musician. I had a few years of piano lessons, and I can carry a tune, but that's about it.
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From afar,
the poetry,
big fat bottles on a kitchen shelf.
A collection of colourful glasses,
with human hearts
preserved in salted water.
From afar,
the poetry,
big fat bottles on a kitchen shelf.
A collection of colourful glasses,
with human hearts
preserved in salted water.
If we want the world to move forward,
we must hold hands. Documenting the pain and the joy,
on the same page,
with water, with fire, with ashes
not with ink.
Freedom means nothing when the healthy and the sick
eat at separate tables.
Even the trees sit together. They know that life is actually simple.
But once people renounced their entitlement,
it will take more than a revolution
to reclaim such a right.
For too long we took the wrong turn.
What kind of world is this if
the madman tells us that
we should be ashamed of ourselves?
©Maria Stadnicka, 2017
Published today in International Times with illustration produced by Nick Victor.
'Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom.' (Snyder T. 'On Tyranny, 2017 )
Afternoon by the Sea (from Imperfect available at Yew Tree Press)
Through a window, the word points at a high fence.
Beyond the distant melted sands,
bullets across the sky keep in order
our grey memory –
dust in the old man's bone.
The promised justice moves further away,
into unlit dampness.
Nothing happens in the past, nor tomorrow.
A whisper grows closer, hungry at bedtime,
dissolved by the sound of
stones and cracked glass under my shoe.
The wooden clocks announce the return ashore
of an empty shipwreck.
©Maria Stadnicka MMXVII, published this morning in 'Stride' magazine edited by Rupert M. Loydell
Pentru cititorii in limba romana, saptamana aceasta a sosit cu o surpriza minunata. O pagina de poezie publicata in LitArt publicatie lunara de cultura, tiparita la Tg. Mures, sub egida onorifica a filialei locale a Uniunii Scriitorilor.
Multumiri redactorului-sef Adrian Armand Giurgea si echipei redactionale pentru promovarea valorilor culturale romanesti.
Pentru mine are o semnificatie speciala. 14 ani de cand am publicat ultima oara in Romania. 14 ani lungi, foarte lungi, de absenta si de dor. Editia tiparita este distribuita in Romania si poate fi accesata electronic in format pdf aici:
For Romanian readers, this week arrives with a beautiful surprise. Nine poems published in LitArt, Tg. Mures, Romania, under the Romanian Writers Association patronage. Gracious thanks to the editor-in-chief Adrian Armand Giurgea as well as the whole editorial team for the great work you are doing in promoting the cultural values of our generation, in Romania and abroad.
This has a particular significance for me, as it marks 14 years since the publication of my last poem written in Romanian. 14 long years.
The magazine is available in print and online, downloadable here:
Photograph: @Georgiana Calinescu-Barber


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YUI Theater — Grady Booch: "The Promise, the Limits, the Beauty of Software"
Software development has been, is, and I believe will remain fundamentally very hard. We have been able to build things we could not have conceived of some years ago because we have improved in our practices and our processes and our tools and in our languages. But every time we've overcome those barriers we realize we want to build more and more complex things. And, for many economically interesting systems, the problem is now one of scale. Not just computational scale or platform scale but scale of the sheer amounts of software that we have.
— Grady Booch
Grady Booch is an IBM Fellow and the author of numerous books on software design and architecture as well as volumes on UML (which he co-developed with Ivar Jacobsen and James Rumbaugh). Last week, Grady stopped by Yahoo! to meet with Yahoo! software architects and, while here, he gave an open lecture for engineers. This is a version of a lecture originally given to the British Computer Society in honor of Alan Turing.
While Grady doesn't look specifically at frontend engineering in this talk, the migration of software logic and complexity into the web browser in rich internet applications means that fundamental tenets of software architecture are increasingly relevant to the world of web development. For those of you who are working with YUI (or other UI libraries/technologies), I think you'll find Grady's insights about software unique, germane, and invaluable. Many thanks to Grady for allowing us to air the video here.
Video of Grady's lecture is available in an embeddable and platform-agnostic Flash format (embedded below) and as an iPod-compatible download. (If your computer doesn't recognize the
.m4v file, try renaming it to
In Case You Missed...
Some other recent videos from the YUI Theater series:
- Nicholas Zakas: "Maintainable JavaScript" (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download)
- Douglas Crockford: "Quality" (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download)
- Victor Tsaran: "An Introduction to Screenreaders" (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download)
- A Conversation with David Weinberger (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download)
Much more content, including Douglas Crockford's series of lectures on JavaScript, is available on the YUI Theater website.


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The intricacies of her work, Corvus, are not only show stopping, but would have any Arts major ask, 'Could you teach me how to do that?' My time with the creative Natalia Cuervo was one of great feats. Not only did we shoot on location in a field of industrial towers, but we also motored back to the photo guru, Tishan Baldeo's studio for a quick interview. It was a lot of fashion-fun, which is as good as an apple a day.
|Natalia with her lovely model Sarah
Natalia's love for design all began as a child sewing clothes for her dolls, and snatching extra material and fabric to create a little something special. And, after moving to Toronto from Columbia with her parents and attending the ever so posh Ryerson University for design, Natalia shows how far she has come from her mother's scraps. The challenging and competitive nature of Ryerson only helped to strengthen Natalia's technique as a designer. She explains, "You can make [the experience at Ryerson] as hard or as easy as you want it to be, because your [success and progress] is on you."
Coming from Columbia at age 14, helped to influence the spirited designer's aesthetic. And, growing up around fellow artists in her family as well as the culture of Columbia allowed Natalia to constantly be surrounded by creativity; which keeps her craft close to home. Her innovative mind is also motivated by everyday variables, as well as from art history, technology & architecture, and science. Such attributes are very present in her weaving and sculpting of raw silk and different textiles. The designs from the shoot were more so inspired by turn of the century European art, and the life of each artist. Such pieces were also created to support Miss Cuervo in her application and second place win in "The Art of Fashion": a competition which has been held for 10+ years that has designers apply their creations in summary and response of the competition's picked theme of the year. Thus, after the theme is picked, the applicants have a few months to complete their deigns, and those applicants chosen to partake in the competition show their creations at Toronto's art festival, "Scotiabank's Nuit Blanche." The creative Natalia won the opportunity to have the public choose her designs as "Best Exhibit". Natalia has also strengthened her repertoire as a Canadian designer by partaking in Ryerson's "Mass Exodus", the graduating class fashion show, and at Toronto's "Alternative Fashion Week."
Natalia's innovative mind, and I must say, eloquently spoken voice and pleasant attitude, shows to be as mighty of an attribution to her success as her technique and craft. Thus, it is undeniable that Cuervo's future goals, "to own [her] own company [under her growing label] Corvus," will inevitably lead to her to that fairytale ending.
|Behind the Scenes: Amanda MUA, Sarah, Natalia, and I
Contact Information: www.facebook.com/natcuervo and www.corvusfashion.com/
A past article I wrote about Natalia's behind the scene shoot can be found under: Behind the Scene Shots!
Designer: Natalia Cuervo
MUA: Amanda Blair Roberson
Hair: Brittany Sammy
Photographers: Tishan Baldeo and Bowen Mei
Models: Sarah Lipsit and Hannah B.
Designer: Natalia Cuervo
MUA: Amanda Blair Roberson
Hair: Brittany Sammy
Photographers: Tishan Baldeo and Bowen Mei
Models: Sarah Lipsit and Hannah B.
xo B.


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JOIN Calvin/Brandie Fields every second Monday from 6-8PM for BINGO for St. Elizabeth's Shelter. Part of the Boxcar Gives Back Tuesday Specials it's time for some legit bingo machine, dabbers and all! Time to join in on all the fun with all your family and friends every 2nd Monday. Enjoy a delicious meal, a quenching drink, hang out with family and friends, play some bingo and help raise funds for the St. Elizabeth's Shelter, all in the name of fun.
$25/6 games, happy hour drink specials available to those participating.
Space is limited, make reservations @ 505-982-6611 ext 104. #BoxcarGivesBack


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Consultant Caterers as part of Consultant Services Group endeavours to bring the most innovative products and services across all aspects of vending to businesses across the UK.
As well as Café Charissmo we offer traditional branded drink options from Nestle and Galaxy. Vended from machines in sizes to fit every environment from office to retail space.
CSG stock chilled beverage machines. These are packed full of your favourite branded drinks including Coca Cola, Pepsi and many more – All chilled to the perfect temperature.
Everyone has their favourite chocolate bar and flavour of crisps. When you need a little boost during the working day, our machines are bound to have what you want. While we offer creative options, we recognise for many the big brands are the kings of confectionery.
At the top of the vending 'food chain' sits our Quick Meal choices. With these units, CSG offers machines stocked full of fresh sandwiches, wraps and hot pasties, soups and noodles.
CSG are based in West Yorkshire with satellite offices across the UK and have local teams offering full support to fulfil all your needs.
Our dedicated, experienced team ensure your machines are fully stocked, cleaned and maintained on a regular basis - giving you a completely 'hassle-free' service.
We utilise market leading vending management systems to ensure we are efficient and effective in our Vending Service Provision. Route operatives and engineers are equipped with smart mobile devices to manage and record 'real-time' sales and cash data from your machine.
Our engineers are fully trained on technical innovations and new techniques. The CSG workshops are equipped with the latest diagnostic equipment and we carry an extensive range of spare parts to minimise machine downtime.
"As a facilities Manager, I cannot speak highly enough of CSG Catering, we have used their services since April 2010, and have recently extended this contract for a further 4 years.
The whole team from the catering staff to the supervisors are approachable and reactive to any of our requests, and we do have a diverse workforce with individual needs. The CSG team have very much become part of our team here at thebigword."
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Social media marketers often view engagement rate as the holy grail of metrics. It is a standard by which to measure the health of your online community. Having your fans engage with your pages validates the content you are providing to your audience. And while all of this is undoubtedly true, marketers must be wary of using engagement rate as the key metric for determining social media success.
Separating Vanity from Valuable
Data and measurement is essential to helping define social goals. Data in the form of metrics provides cold, hard facts to help you understand if your social media efforts are successful. As a marketer, there is an abundance of data available at your fingertips (engagement, reach, sentiment, etc.). While this provides a wide array of options for you, there is however, such a thing as too many metrics. Sometimes it can be difficult to sift through the mountains of data and draw insights to drive social strategy.
An often-cited warning is to avoid vanity metrics, which look nice but provide little overall insight. Instead, focus on data which better represents the health of your community and the strength of your brand online. Marketers will frequently point to "likes" or numbers of fans as vanity metrics, since they don't indicate whether the fans you do have are at all interested in what you are providing them. Many strategists and community managers will then point to engagement rate as a much more valuable option to determine social success.
Focus On Long-Term
While engagement rate is extremely useful in determining if your content is resonating with your community, it can become dangerous if used as an end goal for defining social success. Marketers will often use Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the success of online campaigns. These KPI's should be linked to your social goals and, ultimately to business value. Engagement rate can provide insight when used as a KPI to help understand how you are achieving social goals. The problem occurs when using engagement rate as a social objective, as it tends to drive social strategy focused on short-term wins rather than longer-term community sustainability and brand health.
Brands will often run contests and giveaways as campaign ideas to engage their fan base. These offers are among the top reason fans will like a brand page, and posts promoting giveaways almost always drive the highest engagement. However, often your fans driven to engage with this content are only motivated by the offer itself rather than the link to your brand. These campaigns deliver high short-term metrics that are great for show, but don't translate to your business goals nor convert fans into customers.
Strategy vs. Tactics
When thinking about how to use engagement rate to glean useful insights, consider the difference between overall strategy and tactical execution. Your social strategy helps define what you are trying to accomplish; tactics are methods you employ to achieve those goals. In essence strategy is the "what" part of the equation, whereas tactics are the "how".
Engagement rate is an effective mechanism when used to evaluate the tactics you are employing to execute your strategy. Number of engagements can determine how people interact with your posts and whether or not your content is worthy of discussion. You can use engagement rate as a benchmark to compare to your competitors and industry. As well, you can obtain insights into what tactics your competitors are applying and what seems to be working for them.
But, when you take engagement rate at face value, you become shortsighted in your strategy and focus on engagement as an end goal. Engagement is not an end goal. Improved brand awareness is an end goal. Customer retention is an end goal. Increasing sales is an end goal. Engagement rate is a useful metric to draw insights on how you are reaching your social objectives, but it should not be the objective.
Build a Framework for Success
Rather than viewing metrics first, take a top-down approach to social media marketing.
- Start with your business challenge and what you are trying to achieve.
- Define your greater marketing objectives which will help meet your particular challenge.
- Outline social goals that allow you to achieve these objectives.
- Finally, drill down to the social KPIs which characterize your goals and ascertain whether they were met.
Allow your social approach to be successful by building using your business goals as a foundation. This enables you to use metrics such as engagement rate effectively as a KPI to draw insight, rather than as an objective. Engagement rate is a valuable piece of your measurement puzzle, but it isn't the Holy Grail it's made out to be.
What do you think? Let us know in the comments.
About the Author
Paul is a social media marketer and startup enthusiast based in Toronto, Canada. He likes to traverse both the tech startup and marketing agency worlds (and everything in between). Paul divides his time equally between tech events and Blue Jays games.


text: Unbelievable! Us chooks do all of the work and these humans (Joshy, Cj and Finchy) take all of the glory, discrimination we tell you! In any regard being recognised as one of the Top 100 most influential people/chickens for Melbourne is a great honour for us and despite not being in the photo, us chookens made the most of the cock-tail night. Being legless is all fun and good, but when you have no hands and wings that can't fly it makes things rather tough. Thank God for Kebabs!


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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Water Infrastructure Finance Commission
Working Group Four
State and Federal Finance and Investment Practices
Minutes: October 25, 2010
In a meeting duly posted, Working Group Four (State and Federal Finance and Investment Practices) convened at one pm in room 348 of the State House in Boston.
Members Attending: Martin Pillsbury, Peter Shelley, Leah robins (for Rep Dykema), Sally Schnitzer (for Senator Eldridge), Paul Niedzwiecki, Phil Jasset, Bruce Tobey, Tom Tilas
Guest: Bob Ciolek – former Executive Director of the Boston Water and Sewer Commission, and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Mass. Water Resources Authority (1985 -95).
Chairman Martin Pillsbury brought the meeting to order and noted that he was going to be unable to attend the full Commission meeting on October 26. Paul Niedzwiecki agreed to report back to the Commission on behalf of Group Four.
The Working Group Four minutes of September 13 were approved with no changes.
Members brought up some additional information and suggestions, including:
- The 2008 bond bill has a 25 million dollar bond authorization for municipal water infrastructure. There has not yet been an appropriation of any of these funds, but the Commission should look into this as a potential source. Sally will find the language and circulate it.
- Mr. Niedzwieki noted that no town has yet taken advantage of the ten year zero percent interest rate program for nutrient reduction pollution abatement projects that was also authorized in the 2008 environmental bond bill. There are some high hurdles for towns to overcome in applying for the funds, including adoption of a local "flow neutral" bylaw.
- Federal bills. If any of the reauthorization bills look promising, we may want to look more closely at the various provisions in each, particularly as they affect SRF funding. One of the bills calls for doubling the authorization with a 20% set aside for green projects, and possibly a 30% principal forgiveness program.
The Working Group decided to revisit this after the election, when it may become clearer as to whether a bill may pass in Congress.
Governor Patrick made an election commitment in 2006 to rate relief. Promised $28 million. At its highest point, this program may have spent in the order of 61 million a year. Many communities used it to reduce their debt. Can we circle back to understand what happened to this program and why?
- Mr. Jasset noted that there are many smaller capital improvements that are not being counted in the SRF needs survey. As an example, he brought in a map from the Town of Norwood, outlining a long term project that will ultimately replace 134 miles of 1950's era cast iron pipes, either through relining or new installation. The town is spending between $300,000 and $900,000 per year on this project through its capital improvement program, but is not seeking SRF financing. How do we find out about these projects and how do they fit into our task?
This probably fits better in Group One, but Bruce Tobey mentioned that the Mass Municipal Association would be a good partner to send out a survey to ask towns to send in their CIP programs to see how large the problem is.
- Mr. Tilas suggested that an upcoming meeting take a look at two areas with potential for cost savings in large public works projects:
o Impediments in the Chapter 149 approval process for design and design/build
o The procurement implications for the operation and maintenance of plants once they are built. (Purchase of power, chemicals, transportation, etc)
We might be able to find someone in the design build institute to come speak to the Working Group
- Mr. Shelley suggested that perhaps an upcoming meeting might focus on public private projects. What is the state of this debate, and is there anything promising there? What are the downsides? A number of individuals might be invited to come address the group at the next session. Start with John Betkowski, vice chair of the CT DPUC.
It was suggested to take a look at the GAO report on public – private funding
- Don't forget to look at larger scale sources of funding, like casino gambling (a portion of proceeds to go to infrastructure) or the bottle bill.
Issues on Cape Cod
Mr. Pillsbury introduced Bob Ciolek, who has been active in understanding the potential water infrastructure needs on Cape Cod.
He stated that the biggest need is grant funding. Anything else is helpful, but palliative.
Mr. Ciolek then outlined some "broad strokes" analysis of the size of the potential Cape Cod wastewater capital improvement picture.
He started with a broad comparison of costs, population, area, and authority between the MWRA and Cape Cod. Sharing the costs of anticipated infrastructure investments on the Cape is going to be problematic for a number of reasons, including:
- The lack of regional entities or authorities
- Smaller population to share the costs on a per capita basis
- The Cape has never had shared infrastructure
- See attached chart.
Cape Cod has relatively little public wastewater infrastructure, but Mr. Ciolek anticipates that this will become a significant financial and political issue over the next decades.
The demographics of Cape Cod are part of the problem. The Cape is actually losing permanent full time residents. Much of the population is retirees and work force or service sector families. While there is a substantial "seasonal" population of nearly 70,000, rapid growth is not really happening on the Cape anymore. There are "high end" properties on the coasts, but there is also a substantial segment of homeowners who can't afford betterments, who may be living on pensions or modest salaries. Seasonal home owners pay substantially in taxes, but infrastructure improvements will be a hard hit for workforce/retirees and inability to pay may lead to economic dislocation that could last a generation.
Cape Cod has a single, vulnerable ground water aquifer. Pollution from septic systems and other sources has threatened the aquifer, particularly in terms of nutrient loading. Despite the fact that the most recent EPA needs assessment did not list major wastewater treatment needs, Mr. Ciolek presented estimates that over the next few years, at least $3 billion will be required in waste water infrastructure investments on the Cape.
From a regulatory and health perspective the issue is becoming imperative. Moreover, CLF has given a 60 day intent to sue EPA over enforcement.
There are independent water districts, often organized around fire stations; all water supplies are ground water.
Three of the larger Cape towns have initiated public projects for infrastructure improvements, while many of the smaller towns have yet to grapple with the anticipated costs. One of the issues on the Cape is organizational: there are many smaller governments, but the aquifer supports everyone. Regional solutions may be efficient and effective, but there are obstacles, including home rule. Regionalizing might relieve some of the local political pressure.
One of the key questions is: who should pay, and how much? Should the burden be borne by the rate payers alone, or should taxpayers across the Cape who will benefit from cleaner groundwater also share in the investment through taxes or another mechanism? What about the state and/or federal role? The town of Barnstable is proposing sharing of the investment split among ratepayers through a betterment, local option excise tax, and a debt exclusion, but it is likely not to pass muster with voters.
- Encourage Regional Solutions. Look at what is impeding such arrangements and fix state law.
- Take a hard look at the betterment law. There have been some creative home rule petitions to change the calculations of the betterment fees (Chapter 80) that might be applied statewide. For example, should betterments be partially factored on home value? Look at the Essex home rule that allows payment before the project is completed.
- Look at "benefits assessment" idea, to capture infrastructure investment payments from governments and non-profits who benefit, but that are exempt from property taxes.
- Consider allowing CPA funds to be used for water and wastewater capital projects
- Look at the recently eliminated "rate relief" line item, Chapter 59 Section 21N. Could this be funded again? Could it be tweaked in order NOT to require the offset of rates? Could be a way to avoid Prop 2 ½ overrides.
- Rent and utility rates are deductible on state and federal income taxes. Make water and sewer rates also deductible. Look at low income eligibility and raise the threshold.
- Look at what Barnstable is doing through its home rule petition (S. 2603) now in the legislature. This will set aside the new local option excise tax (meals and/or rooms) and earmark for capital sewer fund. Can this be set up for statewide enabling?
- Tax on bottled water.
- Is there any role for private capital?
- A regional water authority for Cape Cod? Compare to what MWRA has been able to do with similar issues. This authority might, for example, be given authority to privatize some services and/or to accept responsibility for Title V septage removal on a regional basis.
- Have the Commonwealth on the bonds
- Privatizing some portions of the overall picture?
Mr. Pillsbury thanked Mr. Ciolek for sharing his perspectives with the Working Group.
Mr. Pillsbury asked the members of the working group what to cover at the next meeting. It was agreed to try to meet on November 30 at one pm if possible, and to ask John Betkowski of the Connecticut DPU to come speak with the group about the issues with public private partnerships.


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Although you may only roll out your finest flatware for holidays and other rare special occasions, that doesn't mean you shouldn't provide it with plenty of TLC. High quality silverware is generally relatively expensive, and usually passed down from generation to generation.
(image from GeorgJensen)
In order to keep it at its gleaming, shining best, take heed of these simple silverware do's and dont's —
1) Firstly, do not polish your silverware with just any product as not all compounds are best suited for real silver. Some products may contain a chemical that could react with your silver and cause blemishes and damage. Invest in a high quality silver polish. If your silverware has a wood or other porous part (such as the handle), be careful not to spread the polish onto these areas.
by Dura Supreme Cabinetry
2) Next, never wash your fine silverware in the dish washer. Even if you clean your dishes on the most gentle setting, the silver pieces will clank against each other and cause dents and scratches. To keep your silverware at its best, hand wash each piece with a non-abrasive sponge and dry with a soft and clean cotton towel.
(image courtesy of Eighteen25)
3) Third, be sure to polish your silverware at the first sign of tarnish – such as a yellowish appearance. By attacking the tarnish immediately, you will be able to restore your silver to its most beautiful look. If you wait too long, your silver may need to be professionally re-plated. In other words, being negligent with your silverware could be a costly mistake.
by The Interior Edge / Robert Benson Photography
4) Lastly, when storing your silverware, keep it in a soft-lined case to prevent scratching. Always clean and dry your silverware immediately after use and before putting it away to keep it in top condition. While this may seem like a hassle, your silverware will remain sparkling and pristine year after year.
by Divine Kitchens LLC


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Model #1
Please welcome the front bike rack by TUbicycle.
Model #1
This front bike rack model is perfect for bicycle couriers, trendy hipsters and messlifers! …Or simply for those, who are done with carrying their stuff on the back.
Front Rack specifications:
Material: thin-walled steel tubes, 10×1 mm diameter
Platform dimensions: 25x25x25 cm Legs length: 37 cm
Matches: 28-inch wheels + rigid fork. The maximum distance between the hub axle and the center of the handlebar may be 60 cm.
Colour: powder coating RAL 9005 (Black Gloss)
Recommended load capacity: up to 12 kg.
Rack weight (including clamps set): ≈ 1 kg.
How to install your front rack:
The rack is attached to bicycle at 2 spots:
- Handlebar (you will find special clamps in a set for that)
- By a nut fastener or a quick release skewer to the wheel hub
You set the rack height over the wheel by choosing the most suitable hole in the rear wall of the rack.
You set the rack inline by adjusting the legs and choosing the right hole in the horizontal base of the rack.


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Does getting grilled by Congress really matter?
Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, is being grilled by Congress. He was questioned by Senators on Tuesday, as he appeared before the Senate Committees on Judiciary and Commerce and Science and Transportation. Today, he appears before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Lawmakers questioned Mr. Zuckerberg over his company's handling of user data and focused on the platform's privacy settings, but the question remains- will anything change?
The Guardian offered one of the best descriptions of Tuesday's hearing, "Part of the problem was the clear ignorance, if not befuddlement, in the face of technology displayed by most of the senators, many of whom are of a ripe vintage. At times Zuckerberg resembled the polite teenager who visits his grandparents, only to spend the afternoon showing them how to turn on the wifi."
The lawmakers ability to change how Facebook does business seems doubtful. In fact, the tech giant has proven it pretty much does whatever it wants.
Just last month Facebook admitted to Connecting Vets they blocked our content, even though it did not violate their policy.
Here is the notice they originally sent us, after we attempted to promote an article about firing an AR-15 at a gun range.
Here is an excerpt from our conversation with their Public Relations Department, after being rejected twice:
Whether or not these Congressional hearings were productive (or even neccesary) remains to be seen.
Ultimately Facebook users all accept the terms of use, and regardless of how anyone feels- they are legally allowed to dig through the data users agree to give them, and control what is seen and shared.
However, based on our expereience, we're certain they will continue to reject the content "they don't like" ... and lawmakers lack the power (and understanding) to change it.
Read also: "Is Facebook blocking posts about guns?"