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5 Techniques for Effective Blog Marketing.Posted by: VIPWebDesigns | Posted on: July 3, 2014
Blog marketing is any process that publicizes or advertises a website, business, brand or service via the medium of blogs. You can use blog marketing to sell any product on earth, from a house, to a car, to a computer to a software package, to a pen or paper, as long as you can earn a commission, blog marketing is the perfect way to make sales.
1. Be an Expert and Build Authority:
To achieve effectiveness in your blog marketing effort, you need to become an expert in a profitable niche. Automobile products require you to have deep knowledge about automobile. Your blog post is the sales man and a poor blog post will not make a reader stay long and much less purchase anything from you. Start by perfecting your knowledge about those profitable niches and turn blog marketing into a power house of money.
2. Write Relatively Long Blog Posts:
You need to write long blog posts. Small blog posts do not present the reader with much expertise, do not show you are a true expert, just another writer trying to sell them something. Longer blog posts possess more keyword count and keyword diversity. The ideal blog post is always at least four hundred keywords long and the perfect blog post at least one thousand keywords long. Those writers with free time should aim to keep the blog post as long as possible specially for expensive products. Trying to sell a computer and earning 20% of the revenue? You definitely need to write at least three thousand words, like a sales letter.
Keeping your reader interested in reading more about your expertise is another portent techniques for achieving effectiveness in your blog marketing activities. If the directory allows, place several related reading links and focus on the product, send the reader to a blog post that is similar to the blog post the reader just read. For example you can write about computer search and in another blog post internet search or computer desktop search. All topics must be either exact or very similar.
4. Aim Higher in Your Blog Marketing Effort:
Aim to keep your blog post views high all the time, this salesman is very important but only if the salesman is getting customers. Send your blog post to all directories, Facebook if you have interested friends, Twitter if your followers love article marketing and StumbleUpon and Digg and all other networks that allow articles to be added and indexed. The more the better, this is a key component to success!
One blog post has enough power to deliver endless traffic, as long as the article is cared about. To care about a blog post means to constantly increase its size, adding new information, make it fresh. There is no sense in writing a ton of low quality articles that no one reads or clicks.
5. Use Rich Keywords:
Finally, your blog marketing techniques must be developed by learning new keywords. Google is blind to anything but keywords and so are readers. Research deeply the right keywords, keep them fresh and use them all each one in a new blog post. Do not combine keywords to confuse search engines and readers.
Remember the final goal is to convert a reader into a customer and then into a loyal reader and finally a loyal customer.
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FACTS: Most Websites are Unsuccessful WebsitesPosted by: VIPWebDesigns | Posted on: June 30, 2014
Frankly, there are a ton of unsuccessful websites out there. Some built by unversity students, some home grown from a free or paid template, and some built by people who should know a whole lot better (including some of my earlier sites I must admit!)
1. You've seen them – websites that contain all flash and no content.
2. Websites that takes several minutes to load (even on fast broadband),
3. Websites that have confusing or missing navigation.
4. Websites that are nothing but a bunch of ads that try to send you off
elsewhere to find the answers that you were promised you'd find there.
5. Then there's the sales letters websites that go on for 3 – 4 screen lengths with endless hype and dodgy testimonials!!
6. Websites that bombard you with pop-ups the second you arrive…
I could go on (believe me). Let's just say there are a lot of sub-standard sites out there. If you're looking for site for your business or even if you have one, you don't want to be like them… do you?
You might say to me "But there are also many good sites out there, too"
True. But even they have it hard. They are competing against each other AND the dross – here's the kicker – all for one of the 10 places in the search engines that matter – the page 1 listings.
Think about it: There are only TEN places and there might be hundreds of thousands of good websites or even millions of sites fighting for one of them.
So from this point of view, 99%+ of all sites could be classed an unsuccessful website. They never realize their true potential and seldom get beyond page 10 or 20.
What does that mean for your site (or soon to be, site)?
First thing is make sure it doesn't fall into the disaster categories mentioned above. Next is make sure it really easy for the search engines to work out what your site is about, so you rank as well as you can. And finally make sure you have more than one traffic generating strategy in place and
don't put all your eggs in the "first page on google" basket.
Remember from a business viewpoint a website is a marketing tool! Treat it like one and it will serve you well.
Who am I to Tell You What To Do, Anyway? Let me introduce myself.
My name is Imanuel Luminous Jannah, and I run a web design/development company called VIPWebDesigns. I am based in Anambra state Nigeria, and have been in IT for over 6 years and
a web designer for over 3.
I have built many very successful websites. I have also built some not so successful ones. Especially in my early days. But that was a long time ago.
The proof of this is I personally make a very good living from the business generated solely from my own website.
Through learning, trail and error and sometimes pure luck I have developed a very good idea of what works – and what doesn't – when it comes to making a website successful.
Hopefully by sharing this with you I can help you avoid some of the mistakes I have made (but no longer do… ehem….)
Yes, I am a web designer and developer. Yes, I would love to build your website for you. But this post is not really about that. Instead I enjoy speaking to you as a business owner who wants to help you.
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Making $8000/monthly Through Affiliate MarketingPosted by: VIPWebDesigns | Posted on: June 21, 2014
Affiliate marketing is the term used to describe a revenue-sharing plan where an online automated marketing program lets Webmasters place an advertiser's banner ads or buttons on their own Web site. Webmasters will receive a referral fee or commission from conversions when a customer has clicked the affiliate link and performs the desired action, such as make a purchase or opt-in for downloads or newsletters on the advertiser's site. Advertisers invest in affiliate programs for lead generation, and, of course, sales.
Not all affiliate plans work in the same way or pay the same rates. Some enable you to place text or image hyperlinks to products or a Web site, others allow you to set up a shopping or store page that offers products related to the content of your Web site, and others require you to simply place general advertising banners or buttons.
The payouts for Webmasters also varies, but in the most common forms the affiliate is paid per click, each time a person clicks the ad (pay-per-click) or you may be paid a commission when a sale is made (pay-per-sale) or you might be paid by lead (pay-per-lead).
Affiliate Marketing is actually based on a very simple concept, it is about
helping people who market their products and services online sell them and in return, you earn a commission/percentage on each sale you help them make. Simple and straight!
No website of your own is required; you don't have to come up with a product of your own as well, all you need do is choose a way to promote someone else's product successfully and in return, you will get a reward for doing so.
In a nutshell, affiliate marketing is an arrangement between an online merchant and affiliate (you), in which the affiliate earns a commission for generating sales, leads and/or clicks for the merchant's website. Also, when you send people to someone else's website to sign up for something, maybe to fill out a form or survey, or download a software, you also get paid.
For example, many credit card companies will pay you between $5 and $20 in commission for each visitor that you send to their site who completes a credit card application, and up to $55 for those whose applications are approved.
Here's another example. If you promote an Elite TR6633 Treadmill which sells for $6,495.00 as an affiliate of Mega Fitness, they will pay you a 10%
commission… which is $649.50!
Now imagine if you are able to make 10 sales in each month selling this Elite
TR6633 Treadmill alone, let's do the maths, 10sales x 649.50=$6,495. If we should convert that amount to naira. That means you can easily earn
N1,039,200 in one month from just this product alone!
Mind you, you can have as many products as you like that you are promoting. That is nobody's business. How much you will earn depends in part on the products you choose to sell, I'll show you exactly how to find the best companies and products to promote.


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The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion released a new album, Meat and Bone, this year and we spoke to drummer Russell Simins to see what his favorite albums of the year were. There is some new stuff there, but a good chunk of the list is made up of reissues and uncovered lost recordings, and he's got some really interesting inclusions. Check out his full list below.
As mentioned, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion will play a WFMU benefit (to help WFMU recover from Sandy damages) in NYC on January 13 at The Bell House with Jonathan Toubin, legendary Texas gospel funk group The Relatives (who also play Joe's Pub a day later with Debo Band), Dot Wiggin, and Di Dionyso. Tickets for that show are still available.
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Words were set to music for very practical reasons in a preliterate age. It was easier to remember them when you sang. But music also helps us give voice to our prayers. Through music we can express our deepest longings; we have access to what we might not be able to say otherwise to God.
Today I like to remind our oldest, Annie, who sings and plays the violin in the band, what a lot of noise she made as a newborn. She cried constantly.
Once I left her in the church nursery and when I returned to reclaim her, the nursery director gestured to Annie's bawling face and told me, point-blank, "Don't bring her back."
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The only thing that calmed her was George Gershwin's "Summertime" sung high and loud. I didn't care where I had to do it—singing top volume while putting her in the car seat or pushing the shopping cart through the supermarket— as long as it had its soothing effect.
It wasn't long before I realized one of the verses was really a prayer, a prayer a mother sings to her child: "One of these mornings / You're gonna rise up singing / Then you'll spread your wings / And you'll take to the sky...."
And that's exactly what happened to Annie and to all of my children. They have spread their wings and taken to the sky, with their music, their lives and their careers.
My prayers have been answered beyond my wildest imaginings. Music has blessed them and they have spread the blessing, in the Annie Moses Band, in every piece we play and every song we sing. May our music bless you.
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Mental Health Care In California Prisons Still In Crisis
"This is a life and death struggle for those with mental illness subjected to isolation, violence, and neglect. Everyone at the State from the governor on down has failed to demonstrate they understand their obligations under the Constitution," said Bien. "You only need to look at the photos that our experts took during their inspection visits last month to know that constitutional violations involving deliberate systemic indifference by the State in the treatment of prisoners have not been addressed."
The plaintiffs' five experts each filed detailed testimony with the court, have invested an extraordinary amount of time, effort and skill in investigating the current conditions of the California prison system: reviewing medical and correctional records, inspecting 11 major CDCR prisons, and reviewing numerous CDCR and Department of State Hospitals documents.
The experts include Dr. Craig Haney, Dr. Pablo Stewart, Dr. Edward Kaufman, Jeanne Woodford, the former Acting Secretary of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and Warden of San Quentin Prison and Eldon Vail, former Secretary of the Washington State Department of Corrections. According to Vail in his declaration, California's prison system "is an aberration, a system that continues to move in exactly the opposite direction from what is happening elsewhere in the U.S."
Dr. Haney, Professor of Psychology, Director of the Legal Studies Program and Director of the Graduate Program in Social Psychology at the University of California at Santa Cruz, notes in his declaration that California is still the second most overcrowded prison system in the U.S. behind only Alabama. Haney states, "Thus, even with the population reductions, California remains an outlier. It must be noted that some individual prisons are much more overcrowded than the overall system-wide figure indicates, and have scarcely benefitted from population reductions, if at all. It is also important to recognize that there has essentially been no reduction in the overall mentally ill prisoner population, even as the prison system itself has become somewhat less overcrowded."According to plaintiffs' brief filed in U.S. Federal Court in Sacramento on Friday, "The truth is that Defendants are still acting with deliberate indifference to the staffing and resources needed to provide minimally humane mental health care to the Coleman class. The effects of Defendants' systemic deliberate indifference are visible in severely understaffed mental health programs throughout the state where devoted and overworked clinicians struggle to provide care in dangerous conditions and without the support they deserve. They are visible on the faces of Coleman patients waiting in segregation units and holding cells for scarce treatment beds to free up. They are visible in a persistently high rate of suicides in California prison, the vast majority of which are avoidable and foreseeable, and in the long list of persons who have died unnecessarily in suicidal mental health crises in the year and half since Defendants ignored and buried the common-sense suicide prevention recommendations of their own nationally-recognized suicide prevention expert. The facts on the ground demonstrate that life-threatening constitutional violations are current and ongoing." Contact: Michael BienRosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP415-433-6830 SOURCE Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld
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This Oprah Winfrey-backed musical theater version of Alice Walker's powerful novel packs more emotional punch than your everyday Broadway musical.
This Oprah Winfrey-backed musical theater version of Alice Walker's powerful novel packs more emotional punch than your everyday Broadway musical.
You never know what you might find in Georgetown Tobacco, that's for sure. It's not the only tobacco shop in the Washington area, but it's probably the most original one. It is absolutely the most enduring, and it's one-of-a-kind shop in Georgetown, now celebrating its 47th anniversary.
Say happy 447 thbirthday, Master Shakespeare. It was a day in April when "the spirit of youth was in everything."
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A collection of Samuel Beckett's one-acts, directed by Peter Brook, will be at the Kennedy Center for One Weekend Only, April 14-17. In an interview with this iconic director, Brooks talks about producing the work of his old friend, as well as Beckett's humor, genius, current relevancy, and the public's perceptions.
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Earlier this week, I was talking to a neighbor of mine. And like a lot of people in my neighborhood and across the city, he's interested in the Mayor's budget proposals. And everyone thinks there's going to be trouble over the budget.
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At this stage in the campaign to fill the At Large City Council Seat vacated by Kwame Brown's winning bid for the City Council Chair, the candidate forums are like the political equivalent of speed dating. The election for the seat isn't until April 26, which leaves plenty of time for voters to get to know the candidates. And there's a lot to choose from—close to ten candidates are in the field, and one of them is already sitting on the council.
We have nothing but admiration for the Japanese people, especially those who suffered directly from the earthquake and the tsunami. No lootings, stoic bearing, grace under pressure. A nice word, too, for the media reporters who stayed and covered this disaster amid the obvious dangers, as well as those covering the tumultuous and continuing events in the Middle East and North Africa. They too placed themselves at risk and worked in dangerous conditions, and some of them paid the price. Not so for the home front television newsies who keep thinking that all news is about us.
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CAIXA SEGUROS, CNP Assurances's Subsidiary In Brazil, Acquires Previsul
PARIS, March 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
CNP Assurances, via its Brazilian subsidiary CAIXA SEGUROS, has finalised the acquisition of 70% of the outstanding shares of Previsul, a personal insurer present in Brazil for 106 years, particularly in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Completion of the transaction is subject to approval by SUSEP, the Brazilian insurance supervisor.
This BRL 70-million (€27 million) investment is aligned with the growth strategy of CAIXA SEGUROS, which is active in life, pension, personal risk, property and casualty and health insurance.
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I was wondering that myself! I even paused to refresh the page and then concluded it's my computer. Glad it's not.
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I've never heard of Bronies until I joined the Komm. Or Minecraft! There's a lot of cool people here with unique interests.
The Animaniacs were top notch. I need to check out these newer intelligent cartoons and see if they're similar.
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Ha! Interesting show. Now you should plan a how on how the Internet is a very dangerous place. (BTW, I'm a big Phineas and Ferb fan.)
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Hey Rhett and Link, I was just introduced to you guys by a mutual friend. You guys rock. Anyways, that's off topic.
There are two types of Bronies. There are guys that jut enjoy ponies and like sharing that fact. And those don't bother me. To each their own. I mean MLP isn't for me, but for others, cool.
NOW, there's another kind of the Brony species. There's the newly-post-pubescent, pain in the ass, my-life-is-so-much-better-than-yours type. And these Bronies rustle my jimmies. If you say one off word about ponies, let the wrath of god rain upon you. For real? Get a life. They look at it like a serious religion. Take a hint, and get a clue. There's more to life.
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To all Brony type B species: Shut the #$@! up.
Thanks Rhett and Link. Keep up the awesomeness.
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i know a guy on here who is a brony. ((lucas (im brony and im proud) and i never knew what bronies were. thanks for clarifying R&L. I might get my dad to put down his man card and become a brony!
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In this day and age, politicians are looking for new laws to make to address that they see as problems in the public sector. Some of these laws are not based very strongly in reality, but become laws nonetheless. If a situation where a kid opens up on a neighbor when they step out of their house, and hits them in the eye, blinding or killing them, and the media gets ahold of it, what do you think could happen? It could get blown way out of proportion, paintballers could be seen as evil, militant people bent on the destruction of the population, and paintball could become illegal. Don't think it can happen? I am also an aquarist. A few years ago, northern snakeheads were discovered in a pond in Crofton, MD. Soon, it was illegal to have any snakeheads in possesion. The media played it up, reporting very erroneous facts, and the government responded. This same thing can very easily happen to paintball.
Next time you think about doing a prank like this, think first. If you injure somebody, you could very well be the person who dooms all the paintballers nationwide to lose their rights to play this wonderfull sport. Don't say, it wont happen this time, or it's all fun, or whatever, just don't do it, or you could have a million people across the country PERTURBED at YOU!
If you ever see people doing this, speak up. Paintball really is a privelage, not a right, and it can be revoked. So please, for the sake of us all, don't do anything stupid.
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I'm barely 5 weeks and i'm already experiencing hip pain (at the crease of my leg) along with the normal stretching and pulling. Is it normal to experience this stuff so early? Maybe these are really tight muscles for me? Any tricks to help me sleep better?
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Hmmm.. that does seem a little early.
Most women I know (me included) didn't experience hip pain until the 2nd/3rd trimester.
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When I was pregnant with my daughter I had hip pain early on. I also had severe pain from my syatic nerve, which I have again with this pregnancy. If you are a first time mom, then it will probably come and go. Like SilentRage said, body pillows are good or just you a good firm pillow between your knees at night. (Or anytime you lay down) I had also noticed that my walk changed almost immediately. I usually walk with one foot in front of the other and when my hips started spreading right around 6 weeks, I stopped walking like that.
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my syatic nerve has been pinched since march but i just recently started having hip pain. Nobody seems to understand how it feels and its extremely painful. I work 5 days a week and my job isnt just sitting around. I want this pain to go away and im so scared that its going to be worse during labor. I didnt have this pain when i was preg with my son who is 3 1/2 yrs old... im having a daughter this time around :)
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On a morning in early March, I ride with Cody Neff, owner of West Range Reclamation (WRR), in his truck from Frisco, Colorado, to the company's nearby worksite in the White River National Forest. Light is just starting to reach over the high snow-covered slopes surrounding Frisco, but Neff is awake and ready to talk. He tells me that originally it was a love of cattle, not forests, that brought him west to the University of Wyoming, where he studied rangeland ecology while raising beef on a piece of leased land outside Laramie. Now, fifteen years later, he's running a fifty-employee company and supervising forestry projects on Colorado's Front Range and in Wyoming's Medicine Bow National Forest. It's a position he didn't necessarily imagine for himself, but one that he has taken on with enthusiasm.
Neff and wife, Stephanie—who Neff credits for his success—started WRR in 2001. They saw a need for what Neff calls responsible and beneficial rangeland and forest management.
From behind the steering wheel, Neff interrupts himself to point out areas on the slopes where the company has completed projects. As he steers up the rough road, he takes phone calls, fields questions, and jots notes for himself on the pad of paper nested in the truck's console.
When we turn off the main highway and bump slowly along the temporary dirt road that winds up the mountain, Neff points out tightly packed, small-diameter lodgepole pine as illustrative of the problems of this forest. The stands of thin trees are all the same species, the same age, and all are competing for the same resources, susceptible to the same pests. These stands are an easy target for bark beetles. Out the passenger window, I see the impact. Dead trees stand like skeletons among the green.
At the road's end, the forest opens into a clearing where a fleet of machinery cuts, hauls, and chips trees marked by the Forest Service for removal. Neff hands me a hardhat and a neon vest to put on before we walk over to the semi parked on the edge of the clearing.
[More industry propaganda than a news article, but it demonstrates the biomass industry's lust for National Forests to feed their dirty incinerators. -Ed.]
- by Ruth Heide, July 22, 2014, Valley Courier
There's a different kind of "gold" in "them thar hills."
It's in the trees themselves.
Correctly harvested, the beetle kill timber that exists on public and private lands in the San Luis Valley could provide a gold mine for the biomass and other lumber industries while at the same time improving forest health.
Rio Grande National Forest Supervisor Dan Dallas told SLV County Commissioners Association officials yesterday there's half-a-million acres of primarily spruce and fir in the Rio Grande National Forest alone that could be culled out. He said he has been trying to get something going to get rid of the dead trees during his entire tenure here, but it took columns of smoke that could be seen from Nebraska last year to really get people's attention.
- by Jarrel Wade, August 6, 2014, Tulsa World
Trash board members voted Tuesday to begin the process of seeking bids for contractors to pick up curbside green waste and take it to the city's burn plant.
The recently introduced plan from the Tulsa Authority for Recovery of Energy is to send green waste to the city's burn plant permanently, essentially ending Tulsa's curbside green-waste program as it was originally promised.
The TARE board vote authorizes staff to invite bids from contractors for board evaluation and possible acceptance at future meetings.
The vote followed discussion about several contractual obligations that hindered implementation of the new plan.
TARE officials have said their goals are to keep costs low, keep the system environmentally responsible and make the trash system simple for customers.
One problem is that the city would be forced to continue requiring that green waste be put in clear plastic bags even though it likely would go in the same trucks to the same location as trash.
The contract with the city's haulers, NeWSolutions, requires that green waste be in a separate waste stream, TARE attorney Stephen Schuller said.
"Competitive bidders could bring a lawsuit on such a fundamental change," he said.
Another problem discussed was TARE's inability to seek bids for contractors to take the green waste to the city's green-waste facility, which some board members had requested for price comparison.
Schuller said a contract between the board and the burn plant mandates that all green waste — if taken by a TARE contractor — go to the burn plant, owned by Covanta Energy.
- Kathleen McLaughlin, August 4, 2014, Indianapolis Business Journal
The city of Indianapolis faces financial penalties if it launches alternative recycling programs, under a pending deal with incinerator operator Covanta.
The Indianapolis Board of Public Works will vote Wednesday on an agreement that's worth more than $112 million in revenue to Covanta, which would become the city's main residential recycling provider for the next 14 years.
Covanta is proposing to build a $45 million recycling facility next to its incinerator on Harding Street. Under the deal negotiated by Republican Mayor Greg Ballard's administration, the city would continue to send all household waste to Covanta, but the company would pluck out recyclables and sell them on the commodities market.
Companies that rely on recycled goods oppose the deal because they say Covanta's facility would generate sub-par material for their industries. But the Department of Public Works says it's a way to boost the city's overall recycling rate without requiring residents to sign up for a separate curbside service.
Curbside recycling is currently available for an additional monthly fee through Republic Services, but participation is low.
Democrats on the City-County Council want the city to pursue other alternatives, but that would be impossible under terms of the Covanta deal, which were made available to the Board of Public Works on Friday.
- Linda Damas Kelley, August 6, 2014, West Hawaii Today
Just having returned from a monthlong mainland trip, I found that the waste-to-energy controversy has reached a boiling point. I just read recent commentaries by Hunter Bishop and Nelson Ho; like them, I too worked for the Department of Environmental Management during the Mayor Harry Kim administration. If nothing has changed in the incineration world, why are we even having this conversation? In case anyone forgot, the County of Hawaii has a standing Zero Waste Resolution adopted in 2007. A previous County Council voted down incineration because of its forever money-sucking maintenance issues.
So, why is our mayor, if he truly loves the Big Island, insisting on shoving an incinerator down our throats?
- July 24, 2014, Farmers' Advance
Michigan State University (MSU) plant biologist C. Robin Buell has been awarded $1 million from a joint U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program to accelerate genetic breeding programs to improve plant feedstock for the production of biofuels, bio-power and bio-based products.
Specifically, the MSU College of Natural Science researcher will work to identify the genetic factors that regulate cold hardiness in switchgrass, a plant native to North America that holds high potential as a biofuel source.
"This project will explore the genetic basis for cold tolerance that will permit the breeding of improved switchgrass cultivars that can yield higher biomass in northern climates," said Buell, also an MSU AgBioResearch scientist. "It's part of an ongoing collaboration with scientists in the USDA Agricultural Research Service to explore diversity in native switchgrass as a way to improve its yield and quality as a biofuel feedstock."
One of the proposed methods to increase the biomass of switchgrass, and therefore its utility as a biofuel, is to grow lowland varieties in northern latitudes, where they flower later in the season.
UPDATE: despite strong organizing efforts, an outpouring of community opposition and strong research we've compiled to show how awful this plan is, city council voted unanimously on Aug 13th to approve Covanta's plan that allows 30 years of New York City waste to be brought by train to Chester for incineration. In fact, it'll go through Chester to Wilmington, DE, then will be trucked back into Chester, with five more trucks than they'd normally need since rail boxes are smaller than normal trucks. It's an insane plan and we'll continue to fight it. See Chester Environmental Justice for details.
- by Vince Sullivan, July 24, 2014, Delaware County Daily Times
Dozens of city residents attended Wednesday night's council meeting to voice their opposition to a proposal that would allow the country's largest trash incinerator to construct additional buildings on its property.
Covanta's Delaware Valley Resource Recovery Facility, located in the first block of Highland Avenue, is seeking to construct a 16,000-square-foot building that would enable the facility to handle a different kind of truck traffic. The company recently entered into a 20-year contract with New York City to incinerate up to 500,000 tons of municipal waste each year. The waste would be brought from New York to Wilmington, Del., via train and then the rail boxes would be put onto tractor-trailers to be trucked to Chester.
A Covanta vice president attended two planning commission meetings where he explained that the incinerator is not seeking to increase its trash-burning capacity, which is regulated by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, but said the trash from New York would replace other municipal waste sources. He added that because more trash wouldn't be coming into the facility, the number of trucks driving to the incinerator would not increase. The rail box building would enable the boxes to be removed from the trucks and emptied onto the tipping floor.
The proposal also calls for a 1,000-square-foot office building. The Chester City Planning Comission recommended that city council deny the application.
- by Jo Nova, August 5, 2014, JoanneNova.com.au
The headline at Science Daily is that wildfires and other burns lead to climate change. The paper itself asks: "As such, particle burn-off of clouds may be a major underrecognized source of global warming." For me what matters are the deaths in the here and now:
"We calculate that 5 to 10 percent of worldwide air pollution mortalities are due to biomass burning," Jacobson said. "That means that it causes the premature deaths of about 250,000 people each year."
This is similar to Indur Goklany's conclusion in 2011:
Killing people with "concern"? Biofuels led to nearly 200,000 deaths (est) in 2010.
In a study published in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons, Indur Goklany calculated the additional mortality burden of biofuels policies and found that nearly 200,000 people died in 2010 alone, because of efforts to use biofuels to reduce CO2 emissions.
Goklany (2011) estimated that the increase in the poverty headcount due to higher biofuel production between 2010 and 2004 implies 192,000 additional deaths and 6.7 million additional lost DALYs in 2010 alone.
- by Morgan Watkins, August 5, 2014, Gainesville Sun
Local residents worried about the biomass plant showed up Tuesday evening for a public meeting on its draft Title V air operation permit, which could be approved this fall, to make their concerns known.
Folks milled around the Hall of Heroes Community Room at the Gainesville Police Department on Northwest Eighth Avenue, talking over the issues with fellow residents as well as with Florida Department of Environmental Protection officials who were on hand to answer questions.
Several people submitted written comments to the FDEP at the meeting, which was styled as an open house, although others stopped by a table in an adjacent room to give verbal comments instead.
The Gainesville Renewable Energy Center has applied to the FDEP for the five-year permit, which would be effective Jan. 1. This would be its initial Title V permit.
The biomass plant drew complaints of noise, odor and dust issues in the past from residents of the Turkey Creek Golf & Country Club, while government employees who work nearby at Alachua County's Public Works facility complained about odor and dust problems as well.
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Three parallel viewpoints--of ants, developers, and environmentalists--are woven together in this novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer, who turns to fiction at age 81. Wilson tells the wonderful story of a young boy from Alabama who grows up to do battle to save his beloved forest. This magical tale reminds us of the life-and-death struggle that is going on all around us to protect our wilderness. -- Karen Harris, Andover Bookstore, Andover, MA
"What the hell do you want?" snarled Frogman at Raff Cody, as the boy stepped innocently onto the reputed murderer's property. Fifteen years old, Raff, along with his older cousin, Junior, had only wanted to catch a glimpse of Frogman s 1000-pound alligator. Thus, begins the saga of Anthill, which follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, whose improbable love of the "strange, beautiful, and elegant" world of ants ends up transforming his own life and the citizens of Nokobee County. Battling both snakes bites and cynical relatives who just don t understand his consuming fascination with the outdoors, Raff explores the pristine beauty of the Nokobee wildland. And in doing so, he witnesses the remarkable creation and destruction of four separate ant colonies ( The Anthill Chronicles ), whose histories are epics that unfold on picnic grounds, becoming a young naturalist in the process. An extraordinary undergraduate at Florida State University, Raff, despite his scientific promise, opts for Harvard Law School, believing that the environmental fight must be waged in the courtroom as well as the lab. Returning home a legal gladiator, Raff grows increasingly alarmed by rapacious condo developers who are eager to pave and subdivide the wildlands surrounding the Chicobee River. But one last battle awaits him in his epic struggle. In a shattering ending that no reader will forget, Raff suddenly encounters the angry and corrupt ghosts of an old South he thought had all but disappeared, and learns that war is a genetic imperative, not only for ants but for men as well. Part thriller, part parable, Anthill will not only transfix readers with its stunning twists and startling revelations, but will provide readers with new insights into the meaning of survival in our rapidly changing world."


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Colin Hill
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Colin Hill co-founded GNS Healthcare in 2000 and has served as CEO since then. He brings years of hands-on scientific experience to his role, with expertise in the areas of computational physics, systems biology, and personalized medicine. He also serves as Chairman of GNS Healthcare's parent company Via Science, a leading big data analytics company focused on business intelligence, finance, and economic forecasting. He also serves on the Board of Directors of AesRx, a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the development of new treatment for sickle cell disease. Colin was the founding chairman of O'Reilly Media's Strata Rx, one of the first healthcare big data conferences.
In 2004, Colin was named to MIT Technology Review's TR100 list of the top innovators in the world under the age of 35. He is a frequent speaker at national and international scientific and industry conferences and has been quoted in in numerous publications and television programs, including The Wall Street Journal, CNBC Morning Call, Nature, Forbes, Wired, and The Economist. He graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in physics and earned masters degrees in physics from both McGill University and Cornell University.
Iya Khalil, Ph.D.
Executive Vice President and Co-Founder
Iya Khalil is responsible for initiating and developing GNS Healthcare's partnerships with pharma, biotech, and academia. In addition, she oversees the execution of projects in these areas.
She has extensive experience in creating and applying computational approaches that leverage large-scale genomic, clinical, and molecular data for healthcare innovation. Prior to joining GNS Healthcare, she worked at Cornell University, the University of Washington, and Abbott Labs.
A frequent speaker at industry events and conferences, Iya is an inventor on a number of pending patents and has published multiple articles on in silico technologies applied to drug discovery and development. She is also a co-founder and board member of the New Libya Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to nurturing the development of civil society organizations in Libya. Iya holds a B.S. in physics from the University of Washington and a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University.
Mark Pottle, M.B.A.
Chief Financial Officer
Mark Pottle is responsible for the finance, accounting, legal, and human resource functions of GNS Healthcare.
Before joining GNS Healthcare, Mark was CFO of N-of-One Therapeutics, which provides analysis and interpretation of a tumor's genome so that providers can personalize cancer treatments for patients. Prior to N-of-One, Mark worked at Picis Inc., which provides EMRs for emergency departments, ICUs, and ORs. After Picis was sold to United Healthcare/Optum in 2010, Mark became the CFO of Optum's Accountable Care Organization division. Mark has also previously worked at several start-up to mid-level companies and has helped raise over $50 million of venture-backed funding, as well as over $150 million in private equity funding.
Mark is also a veteran of the U.S. Army. He graduated from University of New Hampshire with a degree in economics and holds an M.B.A. from Southern New Hampshire University.
Carol McCall, FSA, MAAA
Chief Product Officer
Carol McCall leads the development of new products at GNS Healthcare and oversees the execution of projects for real world outcomes.
Carol is a health actuary with a background in innovation, predictive analytics and health services design. Her specialties are creating novel computational approaches that leverage big data in healthcare. She also designs services and business models that expand on the traditional notions of health, care, community and sustainability. Most recently, Carol served as Chief Innovation Officer at Tenzing Health, a subsidiary of Vanguard Health Systems, where she merged creative analytic approaches with innovations in health services that improved people's health and dramatically reduced their healthcare costs.
Prior to joining Tenzing, Carol led the R&D efforts in Humana's Innovation Center, where she pioneered using sophisticated analytic techniques to build a portfolio of prediction, knowledge discovery, and simulation models. She also launched Humana's innovations in personalized medicine and led Humana's Health Services Research Center (HSRC). Carol also served as Humana's Chief Information Officer and as VP of Pharmacy Management. Prior to Humana, Carol served as EVP of Managed Care Business Development for Allscripts Healthcare Solutions and as an actuarial consultant for Milliman, an international provider of actuarial services.
Carol also helped launch Green Ribbon Health, LLC a Florida-based company creating innovations in health support services for seniors in Tampa, and later served on their board of directors. She served as a member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, a member of the HSRC's governing board, and as advisor to the HRP Scientific Program Board. Carol is a member of the American Academy of Actuaries and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. She received a B.S. in actuarial science from University of Iowa.
Thomas Neyarapally, J.D., M.B.A.
Executive Vice President, Corporate Development
Tom Neyarapally leads GNS Healthcare's business and corporate development activities, as well as the expansion, protection, and monetization of the company's intellectual property.
Before joining GNS Healthcare, Tom served as an associate in the New York office of the law firm Frommer, Lawrence & Haug LLP, where he focused on transactional, product development, and litigation matters in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Tom was previously an associate in the corporate department practice at Chadbourne & Parke, LLP, and held the position of analyst at Arthur D. Little. While attending Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, he served as a partner with BR Ventures, the Johnson School's student-run venture capital firm.
Tom graduated from the University of Connecticut as an Honors Scholar with a B.S. in chemical engineering. He holds a J.D. and an M.B.A. from Cornell University and is a registered patent attorney.
Bruce Church, Ph.D.
Chief Mathematics Officer
Bruce Church is responsible for developing algorithms for REFS™ and leading projects for the development of new products and technologies.
An expert in statistical physics, machine learning, parallel computing, and causal modeling, Bruce helped develop the original REFS™ platform. Previously, he spent ten years at Cornell University, developing global optimization methods for computational protein folding, the results of which have been published in several peer-reviewed journals.
Bruce has served as the principal investigator on several major grants, including a $2.5 million award from the Department of Energy. He has served on the Board of Directors for U.S. Rugby and coached the under-23 women's Northeast rugby team. Bruce received a B.S. in applied and engineering physics and a Ph.D. in applied physics from Cornell University.
Lance Stewart
Vice President, Business Development, Payer Sales
Lance has an extensive background in healthcare, with over 25 years experience in U.S. and global markets. His expertise has been built from leadership positions in organizations with products, services and solutions across population health, care management, claims, healthcare networks and pharmaceuticals. Lance most recently led sales and strategic client relationship efforts for the payer and infomediary markets at emids, a healthcare-specific global services and solutions provider located in Nashville and Bangalore. Previous to emids, Lance was a senior sales executive at McKesson Health Solutions, with responsibility for products and care management services. Mr. Stewart also amassed seven years experience in the consulting space. Prior to his focus on healthcare IT, Lance served in multiple strategic roles at Merck, departing as Director, National Accounts for Integrated Health Systems. During his tenure, he had market management responsibilities for ambulatory, acute care, long-term care, integrated delivery networks, PBM's and managed care.
Jason Laramie, Ph.D.
Vice President of Modeling
Jason leads a team of scientists that work on client projects utilizing a diverse set of datasets and endpoints across a variety of therapeutic areas.
Prior to joining GNS Healthcare, he was the Director of Collaborations for Complete Genomics leading world-wide corporate collaborations. Prior to Complete Genomics, he was a Principal scientist and Human Genetics Lead in the Applied Quantitative Geno-therapeutics group at Pfizer utilizing human genetics to inform both novel therapeutic target identification and clinical trial design.
Jason graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia with a B.S. in Molecular Biology, Washington University in St. Louis with an M.S. in Computer Science, and Boston University with a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics. He has co-authored over 25 peer reviewed research articles.
John Kucera, M.B.A.
Vice President of Informatics and Data Services
John Kucera leads GNS Healthcare's informatics, data management, and client services efforts for new products.
John has extensive experience managing and utilizing healthcare data, measures, and analytics. He has a passion for building knowledge through innovative uses of data and information. Prior to joining GNS, John served as VP for Information Management and Finance at Tenzing, a subsidiary of Vanguard Health Systems, where he implemented an information management and decision support system, established and maintained financial reporting systems, and served as liaison between Tenzing and its clients.
Before joining Tenzing, John served in a variety of roles at Humana in Corporate Finance, Service Center Operations, Clinical Operations and, most recently, Director of Computational Health Intelligence in Humana's Innovations Center. While in this role, John led a multidisciplinary team to develop algorithms, models, and applications to understand and predict consumer health and health behavior. John has previously worked for Kraft Inc, QVC Network, and several successful start-up companies.
John is a member of both the Clinical Workgroup and Business Workgroup of the Office of the National Coordination for Health Information Technology. He received a B.A. in social work/sociology from Marquette University and an M.B.A. from University of Wisconsin.
Bill Thornburg, M.B.A.
Vice President of Product Management
Bill Thornburg leads product management for new products at GNS Healthcare.
Bill brings extensive experience in enterprise software product marketing and management to GNS. Most recently, he served as Senior Vice President, Solution Marketing and Product Management at Medecision, a vendor of disease and case management workflow software. Prior to Medecision, Bill managed and marketed health care payer analytics solutions at OptumInsight. He has also managed products for datacenter automation at mValent, software development at Rational Software, and electronic publishing at Dataware.
Bill holds a B.S. in mathematics and computer science from Colorado State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Colorado.
Jim Dutton
Vice President of Product Development
Jim Dutton leads software development for new products at GNS Healthcare.
Prior to GNS, Jim was the Chief Architect and VP of Engineering at Caringo, a cloud storage infrastructure company, where he designed and built scalable storage software. He grew the engineering team from zero to forty senior engineers and managed six major software releases. Prior to that, he was CEO at the SaaS vendor Traq Wireless, a billing optimization service for enterprise-owned cellular phones. He was responsible for software development, IT production services and customer care with about 30 employees in each group. After being promoted to CEO by Traq's board of directors, Jim grew the customer base, achieved seven consecutive months of profitability, signed two major reseller deals, built and released a new online procurement product, and prepared the company for a successful acquisition by Tangoe, Inc. in 2005.
Jim holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Florida Institute of Technology. He is inventor on a number of US and International patents for topics including Wireless Communication Billing Optimization, Generalized Namespaces, and Adaptive Power Conservation for Massively Scalable Storage Clusters.


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Mexican President Vicente Fox said he will continue to fight for better treatment of migrant workers who come to the United States during a speech Tuesday in downtown Phoenix.
As Fox laid out his plans for a more open border between the two countries to about 3,000 cheering fans inside Phoenix Civic Plaza, a small group of protesters outside called for passage of a statewide initiative to restrict the ability of illegal immigrants to tap into government services.
Mexicans have a "human solidarity" to their fellow countrymen living in the United States, Fox said during the afternoon event that capped a daylong series of appearances in the Valley. The Mexican president also is to meet with top New Mexico and Texas officials.
While in Arizona, Fox advocated expansion of a guest worker program to ease the flow of migrant workers from Mexico to the United States.
He decried the increasing number of Mexican immigrants who have died trying to cross the border into Arizona to find work, despite efforts to curb the dangerous journeys by authorities on both sides of the border. About 150 migrants have died this year crossing the border through the Arizona desert.
"It pains us the increase in the (number) of immigrants who lose their lives in the desert of Arizona," Fox said.
The people of Mexico feel "solidarity for the families that have suffered in this path going toward the United States," Fox said.
He will "work without rest to assure, not just good treatment and dignity to those who are here, but to ensure the respect to their human rights and to their rights as workers," he said.
Though he did not distinguish between legal and illegal immigrants into the United States, Fox said he is working to reduce the cost of transferring money they earn here to their families living in Mexico. He also said among his goals is ensuring Mexican workers in the United States have equal access to American schools and universities.
As Fox pushed for a more open border from inside Civic Plaza, about 25 backers of an initiative drive to curb statepaid benefits to illegal immigrants protested outside. The effort being pushed by the group Protect Arizona Now would put a measure on the 2004 general election ballot to require photo identification to vote and proof of legal residency to obtain state and local government services.
Other protesters shared similar concerns. Chandler resident Rob Sanchez said he opposed any plans to launch a new guest worker program, such as one proposed by U.S. Sen. John McCain and Reps. Jeff Flake and Jim Kolbe, all Arizona Republicans. Gov. Janet Napolitano, a Democrat who played host to Fox throughout the day, also has called for expansion of the program, which would allow immigrant workers to enter the United States legally, then re turn to their native countries.
Sanchez said he is unable to find work as a software engineer because American companies already hire too many immigrants with valid visas. A guest worker program would flood the labor market, displacing more U.S. workers and driving wages down, he said.
"They all are totally without conscience when it comes to (American) workers," Sanchez said of U.S. politicians pushing the program.


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