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The WSU Spokane Office of Communications plans, organizes, and promotes events on campus. We are also here to help provide support, guidance, and resources to the campus community.
Our goal is to have professional and successful events that bring people together to celebrate our outstanding programs, research, and accomplishments.
Room reservations and setup:
Reminder: Academic uses come first. Requests to use classroom space for special events cannot be confirmed until after the 10th day of classes for each semester.
Please keep in mind that all activities should be consistent with campus policies and procedures, as well as the mission/purpose of your organization.
- Check available space on campus for the date and time of your event
Need to know capacities and configurations of the rooms on campus? Check the online room resource page and see a listing of conference rooms and auditoriums.
- Request a room. If you require a specific setup, be sure to mark this on the room request form. (For example, you may list the number of tables and chairs needed and indicate in what configuration you need them placed. Keep in mind there might be extra costs associated with your setup.)
- Contact Vivian Knapp in Facilities Operations for a meeting to go over your setup needs.
- Serving food? Don't forget to fill out a Request to Serve Food form (PDF) to be submitted to the Budget and Finance Office. Also, be aware of safe food handling guidelines.
- Do you plan to have your event catered? If so, please note that we do not have a standing contract with any particular caterer. You may use any caterer whose service fulfills the needs of your event. If you plan or make arrangements for food services for several meetings or events, we encourage you to use a variety of caterers.
- Serving alcohol? Be advised of special permits required for your event.
- You are responsible for leaving the facility in the same condition it was in when you arrived for your event or additional charges may apply.
If you have questions about the room reservation system, please contact student affairs: firstname.lastname@example.com.
Parking and visitor information:
We want patrons to our campus to have a good experience while they are here. Providing them with clear and consistent information is the key to making this happen.
- We typically send campus visitors the following information to help them find us and know where and how to park: Name of event; date of event, time of event; location of event (Riverpoint Campus, Building Name [not the scheduling abbreviation], room number, physical address [Look up a physical address/building name]); hosting/sponsoring unit (Example: Office of the Chancellor, Washington State University Spokane, or College of Business, Eastern Washington University)
- Please notify campus visitors of the WSU Spokane Campus tobacco-free campus policy. You can use the following paragraph in your event communications:
"The WSU Spokane Campus is 100 percent tobacco free—smoking and other forms of tobacco are not allowed on campus property, including parking lots, sidewalks, and grounds. For more information on the tobacco-free campus policy, see the tobacco-free campus Web site."
- Here is a sample paragraph about parking and transportation:
"Visitors to campus are encouraged to use public transit; STA Routes #26, #28, and #29 serve our campus. Bike racks are located by every building, and the Centennial Trail provides pedestrian/bike access. Unless instructed otherwise, drivers should use the meters in the green parking lots, or park in the Pay and Display lot (uses cash, coin, debit or credit) located just off of Spokane Falls Boulevard to the west of the South Campus Facility at 412 E. Spokane Falls Blvd. One-hour parking on city streets is also available. A map to help guide you to your campus location can be viewed or printed here."
- For special events, you can request an electronic parking pass from Parking Services, which you can e-mail out to your guests ahead of time. The department paying for the permits must submit the payment in advance by IRI (WSU) or Purchase Order (EWU).
- Please include a disabilities accommodation statement when promoting your event. If you have questions about any requests that come your way, contact Becki Meehan. You may use this boilerplate statement:
"If you are a person with disabilities requiring assistance, please contact [INSERT CONTACT NAME HERE] at [INSERT PHONE NUMBER AND/OR EMAIL ADDRESS HERE] seven days prior to the event you will be attending to make arrangements. Advance notice is appreciated, and will help us make the best possible accommodations for your needs."
For additional information on parking at the Riverpoint Campus, please visit our Parking Services site or contact the WSU Spokane Parking Office.
Promoting campus events:
We can help you tell people about your event, but only if we know about it. Please keep us in the loop.Here are some potential ways to promote your event::
- WSU Spokane Online Event Calendar
Fill out the online form to have your event listed. Just click on the padlock icon in the upper right corner, enter your network ID and password, then click on the submit event icon located under the calendar on your right. The form will pop up, and you'll be on your way.
- Weekly Events Notice
Contact Connie Sakamoto or Becki Meehan to have your event featured.
- Posters/flyers on the bulletin boards
An approval stamp can be obtained at either of the Student Affairs Counters located in the Academic Center or the Phase I Classroom Building.
- Table tents placed in common areas
- WSU Spokane Campus Digital Signage (LCD screens in building lobbies)
Go to the digital signage page for formatting guidelines and to download templates
- WSU Spokane Facebook and Twitter accounts
Contact the Communications Office, and we'll help you spread the word.
- Media Release
Is this event special news and/or open to the community at large? Let us know, and we can help determine whether or not it warrants a release.
Other considerations:
- Do you have a special guest coming to campus? Have you invited an elected official or a VIP who might attract media attention? If so, please notify the WSU Spokane Office of Communications, so we can keep WSU administration in the loop.
- Is this a fundraiser? If so, please alert your campus or college development officer.
We encourage campus faculty and staff to share our stories with their social networks.
For general questions,
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Night Train to Munich
1940. Great Britain. Carol Reed. 93 min.
Introduced by Lady Mercia Harrison and other members of the Harrison family
Wednesday, March 5, 2008, 6:15 p.m.
Theater 2 (The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2), T2
Night Train to Munich
1940. Great Britain. Directed by Carol Reed. With Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, Paul von Henreid (later Paul Henreid), Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne. The first of Harrison's collaborations with Reed (they were reunited a quarter-century later for The Agony and the Ecstasy), Night Train to Munich—distributed by Twentieth Century Fox, then headed by Darryl Zanuck, the only non-Jewish major studio boss—was finally released in the Nazi-squeamish U.S. in October 1940, barely a week after Chaplin's The Great Dictator shattered the Hollywood taboo against portraying the Third Reich as murderously anti-Semitic. For the understandably less-fastidious Brits, the film (originally entitled Gestapo) had come out in a besieged and bombarded London the previous May. In some ways a more politically charged reworking of Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938), this film enabled Harrison to establish himself as a potent anti-Nazi hero in Britain's hour of need. Harrison went on to serve three years as Flight Lieutenant Reginald Harrison in the Royal Air Force. 93 min.
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Since 1988 Allegheny Surveys has performed rural boundary surveys throughout the state. Our focus was initially in the central part of the state, in Clay, Webster, Nicholas and surrounding counties. As our personnel and client base grew, so did the range of our boundary efforts.
Allegheny Surveys has arguably retraced, monumented, marked and painted more miles of boundary than any other firm in the state. Our clients include many of the largest landowners in the state, including Pardee and Curtin Realty (formerly Pardee and Curtin Lumber Co.), Coastal Lumber Company, The Jim C. Hamer Company, The Forestland Group, Southern Land Company and Dickinson Properties, and Columbia Forest Products. We have, in the past ten years, performed and completed a 27,000 acre boundary survey in Nicholas and Webster Counties, several surveys between 2,000 and 4,000 acres in Kanawha, Clay, Braxton, Webster, Raleigh and Fayette Counties, most of the boundaries of 12,000 acre survey (for Fola Coal Company), and we have surveyed over 70% of the exterior and interior boundaries of a 69,000 acre tract owned by Paul B. Barringer, II (who also owns Coastal Lumber Company) in Clay and Nicholas Counties. We are currently in the process of surveying a 45,000 acre tract of land in Kanawha and Fayette Counties, an 11,000 acre tract in Webster County, and a 2,000 acre tract in Putnam County.
In addition to our performance of large boundary surveys for corporate clients, we maintain a strong presence in the private arena, performing numerous rural boundary surveys throughout a given year for private landowners. Normally the firm has between ten and twenty private rural boundary surveys under contract at any given time. In spite of its strong presence in the corporate arena, over 10% of its total revenue in the past two years has come from private landowners.
Over the years, the firm has been called on to prepare surveys and provide testimony relevant to boundary litigation. The president of the firm, Marshall W. Robinson , has provided expert witness testimony in dozens of cases throughout the central and southern parts of the state, and has given several seminars on boundary related issues. He has worked closely with numerous lawyers in the small communities of the state on delicate private boundary and right-of-way issues. As many of his senior party chiefs have attained licensure as Professional Surveyors, they have also begun, in the past few years, to interact closely with lawyers and clients in resolving or litigating difficult boundary issues.


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Welcome to the most unique school of Loma Linda University. In addition to offering three graduate degree programs and two post-baccalaureate certificate programs, the primary mission of the School of Religion is to enrich programs in the other seven schools of the University with a faith-based, wholistic approach to the health sciences.
Studying at Loma Linda University is about more than just careers and professions; it is about mission and purpose for all of life. The School of Religion is pleased to have an important role in helping to prepare you for the most fulfilling life and career possible.
So, whether you are pursuing a master's degree in Religion or are enrolled in a program in one of the other seven schools of the University, we welcome you and invite you to become more familiar with our mission and purpose, our degree programs, and to learn about the religion courses that have been designed to enhance your educational experience here.
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In configuration of Loma Linda University as a health-science university, the role of religion as integrative in each of the programs of the University is mandated and regularly affirmed by the University administration and Board. The School of Religion was established to provide teaching, research, and service in the area of religion for all the schools of the University. Read More >>
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Live Like A Superhero? ~ Tiffany Cruikshank
Photo: Lady Yoga, Superhero
Recently I wrote an article on how to unleash your inner superhero…and it got me thinking.
Normally I think of superheroes as fantasy figures with superhuman powers that live in a world (very) separate from my own. But, really, superheroes are just ordinary human beings with what seems to be limitless power. So as a human being how can I harness that potential?
Now it's been a while since I watched Superman, but I do vividly remember images of him saving the day. I remember Superman as a normal everyday human being…when suddenly duty calls, and he would dart off to save someone.
What I really love about this image is the selfless premise of the life of a superhero. A superhero lives an ordinary life saving the day as needed with no thought of being a hero because their normal human existence is unknown to the world. A superhero saves the day because they know the future of the world depends on it. A superhero gives up anything from their life that is unnecessary so that they can focus all their effort on cultivating their super powers to save what's good in the world.
From a yogis perspective superheroes are the ultimate karma yogis. They save the day with no thought of anything in return, not fame or fortune or anything at all, simply to help mankind.
So I started thinking about it more and more. What if I were a superhero, how would my life be different? How would a superhero practice yoga? How would a superhero eat? How would a superhero live?
How different would your day be if you approached it as a superhero, so that everything you do is to feed yourself so that you can better support your community?
What if your life, like a superhero, was a selfless gift to the world?
To be continued…
An internationally known yoga teacher, author and health & wellness expert Tiffany Cruikshank travels the globe inspiring people all over the world to live their lives to the fullest. Tiffany is known for her lighthearted attention to detail and passionate dedication to the practice. With her training in Acupuncture & Sports Medicine her yoga classes are guided by a strong anatomic focus intermingled with her characteristic playfulness using movement as medicine. Tiffany is the Acupuncturist & Yoga Teacher at the Nike World Headquarters in Portland, Oregon and has been featured in various video & print ads including ads for Nike and Lululemon. You can take class with her on YogaGlo.com or read her articles on MindBodyGreen.com, Origin Magazine & ElephantJournal.com among others. Her book, Optimal Health For A Vibrant Life, is a 30 day detox for yogis. For her traveling, teacher training & retreat schedule go to www.TiffanyYoga.com
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Love this article and totally worth living it!!! funny, this years Childrens book week theme in october is: (Super) Heroes. I will let them read your articles for sure!!! Thanks Tiffany.
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Renting is easy, fast, and cheap! Renting from eCampus.com can save you hundreds of dollars compared to the cost of new or used books each semester. At the end of the semester, simply ship the book back to us with a free UPS shipping label! No need to worry about selling it back.
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Returning books is as easy as possible. As your rental due date approaches, we will email you several courtesy reminders. When you are ready to return, you can print a free UPS shipping label from our website at any time. Then, just return the book to your UPS driver or any staffed UPS location. You can even use the same box we shipped it in!
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The perspective that this text will take presupposes that offender reentry is not a static isolated event, but a process that occurs over time. Moreover, if reentry policy and practice is contextualized as a process rather than as a finite event, preparation and planning can drive reentry, not a prison release date. Consequently, this text will discuss the issue of offender reentry in more global terms and locate solutions to reentry issues on a continuum of service that begins at entry to prison, includes release from prison, and culminates with integration into the community.


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Warning: New Twist to Nigerian Fraud Scheme
The perpetrators of Advance Fee Fraud schemes are often very creative and innovative. This scheme is commonly known as "4-1-9" fraud, in reference to the section of the Nigerian penal code that addresses this type of activity. Nigerian nationals, purporting to be officials of their government or banking institutions, will fax or mail letters to individuals and businesses in the United States and other countries.
FinCEN has recently become aware that the perpetrators are trying to provide legitimacy to the scheme by sending a letter on imitation U.S. Government letterhead with the forged signature of FinCEN's Director, James F. Sloan. In addition, this letter indicates that pursuant to the USA PATRIOT Act and an Executive Order, any money being wired into the country requires a fee to be paid, which would be applied to rebuilding the World Trade Center. The information contained in this letter is false and the letter is fraudulent. FinCEN has never issued such a letter, there is no such fee required under federal law and Director Sloan's signature was falsified.
If a financial institution has received an Advance Fee Fraud letter, but no action has been taken and no loss has occurred, the letter should be forwarded to the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) using one of the following methods:
1) email to email@example.com;
2) fax to (202) 406-5031; or
3) mail to: United States Secret Service
Financial Crimes Division
950 H Street, NW, Suite 5300
Washington, D.C., 20223.
If the financial institution has been victimized by one of these schemes, all written documentation should be forwarded to the mailing address listed in item (3) above or telephone USSS at (202) 406-5850. To learn more about Advance Fee Fraud schemes, you may also visit the U.S. Secret Service website located at


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Bomb Threat
1. Bomb threats usually occur by telephone.
2. The person receiving a bomb threat call should remain calm and attempt to obtain as much information as possible from the caller by using the checklist on the next page. In order to secure needed information, the caller should be kept on the line as long as possible.
3. Call University Police at x 2222, giving your name, location, and telephone number. Inform them of the situation including any information you may have as to the location of the bomb, time it is set to explode, and the time when you received the call.
4. Inform your supervisor and/or department head.
5. If instructed to evacuate, move a safe distance away from the building (a minimum of 500 ft.). If inclement weather conditions exist, you may move to another building a safe distance away. Do not re-enter the evacuated building until instructed by authorized personnel that it is safe to do so.
6. Handicapped individuals will be assisted from the building according to your individual building evacuation plan.
7. If you should spot a suspicious object, package, etc., report it to the authorities, but under no circumstances should you touch, tamper, or move it in any way!


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43.530. 1. For each request requiring the payment of a fee received by the central repository, the requesting entity shall pay a fee of not more than nine dollars per request for criminal history record information not based on a fingerprint search. In each year beginning on or after January 1, 2010, the superintendent may increase the fee paid by requesting entities by an amount not to exceed one dollar per year, however, under no circumstance shall the fee paid by requesting entities exceed fifteen dollars per request.
2. For each request requiring the payment of a fee received by the central repository, the requesting entity shall pay a fee of not more than twenty dollars per request for criminal history record information based on a fingerprint search, unless the request is required under the provisions of subdivision (6) of section 210.481, section 210.487, or section 571.101, in which case the fee shall be fourteen dollars.
3. A request made under subsections 1 and 2 of this section shall be limited to check and search on one individual. Each request shall be accompanied by a check, warrant, voucher, money order, or electronic payment payable to the state of Missouri-criminal record system or payment shall be made in a manner approved by the highway patrol. The highway patrol may establish procedures for receiving requests for criminal history record information for classification and search for fingerprints, from courts and other entities, and for the payment of such requests. There is hereby established by the treasurer of the state of Missouri a fund to be entitled as the "Criminal Record System Fund". Notwithstanding the provisions of section 33.080 to the contrary, if the moneys collected and deposited into this fund are not totally expended annually for the purposes set forth in sections 43.500 to 43.543, the unexpended moneys in such fund shall remain in the fund and the balance shall be kept in the fund to accumulate from year to year.
(L. 1986 H.B. 873 & 874 § 11, A.L. 1993 S.B. 180, A.L. 2003 H.B. 613 merged with S.B. 184, A.L. 2004 H.B. 1453, A.L. 2005 H.B. 487, A.L. 2007 H.B. 41 merged with S.B. 84)
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Don't Quit!
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2:00 pm
Official opening of the "Village"
Distribution of bibs numbers, race informations…
3:00 pm
Country music : Coyottes dancers savoisiens
4:00 pm
Race information and presentation of sponsors - Top of podium activities, games, gifts, 6:00 pm
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Closure of "Village" in Valfréjus
Village Gourmet from Saturday 2:00 p.m. to Sunday 9:00 p.m.
2:00 pm: Cheerleaders
4:00 pm: Cor des Alpes
6:00 pm: Country music coyottes dancers savoisiens
8:30 pm: Group folk Aussois
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Opening of the "Host Village", further distribution of bibs numbers. Race information and presentation of partners
11:00 am Podium activities, games, gifts,bands and local activities 2:00 pm
Yann Fiard 4:00 pm
Tombola and presentation of the Environment Charter
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Closure of "Village Home" Valfréjus.
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Late withdrawal of bibs numbers
10:00 am: The Alphorn 2:00 pm: Coeur Perdu, harmonie 5:30 pm: "Pasta Party" offered to all competitors
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Opening BREAKFAST coffee dispensing and record luggage
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Opening locks
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End of the establishment of the "Device Check", in order of bib.
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Top start of the 19th edition of the Etape du Tour Mondovélo Crossing the line by the first cyclists 7:25 to 7:30 am
Crossing the line by the last cyclists
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Check the device limit (cars brushes)
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- Callus removal — Having calluses isn't actually a bad thing. In fact, if you're a runner or are serious about a sport, you probably need yours. Plus, having your calluses peeled off or shaved away leaves you open to infections and injury.
- Extra deep conditioning — If you've had a perm or color service, your salon should already make sure that your hair is in good shape when you leave.
- Acrylic soak offs — You can't remove gel nails on your own, but you can definitely get acrylics off at home without a hassle. You just have to soak your tips in acetone nail polish remover for 10 or 15 minutes (in a well-ventilated room, please).
- Paraffin treatments — The warm wax feels good, but it doesn't make enough of a difference to justify the high price most places charge for it.
- Hair glosses — These are great for making your hair look healthy and shiny, but the version you can buy at the drugstore is just as good and easy to use as well.
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GQ: Philly has Worst Fans in America
According to GQ Magazine, Philadelphia has the worst fans in America, writing:
Over the years, Philadelphia fans have booed Santa Claus, their own star players, and most absurdly, the recipient of America's very first hand transplant, whose crime was dribbling in a ceremonial first pitch. … Things reached their nadir last season, when Citizens Bank Park played host to arguably the most heinous incident in the history of sports: A drunken fan intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl. The truth is this: All told, Philadelphia stadiums house the most monstrous collection of humanity outside of the federal penal system. "Some of these people would boo the crack in the Liberty Bell," baseball legend Pete Rose once said. More likely, these savages would have thrown the battery that cracked it."
How much do you want to bet they figure out some way to make this New York's fault? Because, like with everything Philadelphia, they can't help but drag New York in to it.
Speaking of New York, the Yankees check in at No. 9 (not New York as a whole), while the Mets are no place to be found on the list, just like it should be.


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eG Foodblog: Panaderia Canadiense - Surf, Sand, and Sierra
Posted 23 October 2012 - 11:37 AM
I decided yesterday that if I couldn't get it on the bus or at a bus stop (apart from a bagel sandwich, which I had with me), I wasn't eating it - and that means you get a tour of a quintisentially important facet of travel in Ecuador, namely, bus food.
In Ecuador every bus station has shops that look like these, which sell essentials and snacks.
I bought a Bon Yurt (pronounced Bonjour; cost: 50 cents) with Froot Loops to start off my day right. I love this stuff - it's thin sour yogurt and just enough cereal to give it a bit of crunch.
Later on, I had the bagel and cheese sandwich I'd packed for this very occasion (and you can see I was hungry, as there were only a couple of bites left when I got around to taking the picture!) and some Rizadas Picanticas, which are sort of like spicy sour cream and onion potato chips; they're my favourite flavour.
Next up were Maní Dulce and Encocado Dulce, which are sweets typical of the lower highlands around Santo Domingo de las Tsáchilas, a town that is (hypothetically!) about halfway to my destination. Due to landslides, it wasn't. We took the long detour.... Maní Dulce is fresh boiled peanuts coated in crunchy salted panela candy with sesame seeds. Encocado Dulce, on the other hand, is balls of coconut and ginger in a sort of molassesly type syrup. Those who have been to Jamaica are familiar with this sweet as a tart filling; Ecuadorians bypass the pastry and roll it into balls. Whichever way you slice it, it's delicious.
The brief lunch stop made by the bus driver was in Puerto Carmen, and that lunch consisted of a hastily grabbed Batido de Piña, some sweet oranges, and some Pan de Yuca, an intruiging tapioca-based bread with cheese. Pan de Yuca is made differently in each province; this is the first time I've ever had one with a yellowish dough. Batidos also deserve an explanation - they're fruit frapped with ice and either milk or yogurt; in this case, yogurt. Sort of like smoothies, but with extra pulp.
About 3 hours later, a fellow got on selling Empanadas de Verde, which have green plantain dough and in this case a pleasantly spiced chicken and mashed potato filling. Just about anything can come stuffed into an empanada shell, so it's always worthwhile to ask before you buy. These were extremely fresh, having just come out of the oil at the roadside stand. To drink, because at this point we were definitely into the coastal hills and it was 36 C in the bus, I bought a bottle of frozen tamarind juice, sort of a bus version of a slushie. Tamarind is stupendously refreshing when it's cold. This was hour 8 of the trip, and the empanada man was the last vendor to enter the bus.
Finally, as I dragged my weary butt to the beachfront. The only remaining place with food was a burger joint, so we all got a round of cheeseburgers (and the fries were on the burger rather than the side!), a chocolate shake for me, and 1L of beer (the big bottle) split three ways for my travelling companions. Hunger is really the best seasoning - I wouldn't normally touch a burger like this with a 10 foot pole, and I'm not entirely certain what the meat was (if indeed it was meat - I'm not entirely convinced it wasn't tempeh, and I was waaaay too tired to ask) but at the time it was the best thing I had ever eaten. Mission accomplished, I returned to my hostal to find a kitten napping on my bed, debated what to do for five seconds, crawled in next to it, and passed out.
Next up: what to do in a tiny fishing village when it's 6 am and you need coffee, right friggin' now....
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 11:54 AM
At 8, when other cafes open, we switched to a beachfront place. This was Nescafe instant, but they also had a real coastal breakfast item: the Bolón de Verde. This is a ball of green plantain stuffed with some sort of cheese and deep fried. Properly made, they're ambrosia, and improperly made, they're hideous little cannonballs of starch and lactose. There is no middle ground. This one was properly made.
--Quick Aside--
* When selecting a comedor, it must meet two out of the following three criteria to be considered safe:
1. It must be clean and smell good
2. It must be busy
3. Police should eat there.
Any two conditions mean you're safe. All three at once mean that you wait until there's space at one of the tables. Cops will not eat anywhere that will make them sick, and they're also good judges of economy.
Since my companions did not partake of the plantainy goodness, slightly later on it was brunch time. Using our usual selection tactics, we settled on a seafood restaurant on the beachfront. Oh I am so glad we did.
I had Pulpo en Salsa Maní, a specialty of this region of Manabí. It's tender rings of fresh octopus stewed in a thick yellow peanut sauce, with rice and patacones to mop the yumminess up with. Words simply do not describe how scrumptious this was. There are a million ways that an octopus dish could go wrong, and this didn't hit a single one of them.
My companions had Shrimp in the same sauce, Corvina Apanada (fried breaded fish, in this case a Sea Bass of some sort - Corvina is a catchall term for any mild white basslike fish), and Shrimp and Veggie stirfry.
I'll be back after dinner - it's time to wander up the beach and see what the catch of the day is. The cloud of royal Frigatebirds means that somebody's cleaning something, and new boats are constantly coming in.
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 12:23 PM
While on your (way too long of a) drive were you marking off things you saw on that paper?
Edited by Shelby, 23 October 2012 - 12:24 PM.
Posted 23 October 2012 - 12:28 PM
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 12:32 PM
Ah, that was Bus Bingo. Since there are four of us on this trip (myself, my mother, and my two aunts) we had cards made up for things we saw on that trip, to help us forget how looooong it was going to take. The loser buys the ice cream. I'm proud to say that while I wasn't the first to call bingo, I only had one square left and thus am not in the hotseat.
I wanna hang out with you guys! Sounds fun!
I need to introduce that game to my family....except the loser would probably buy wine lol.
Posted 23 October 2012 - 12:34 PM
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Posted 23 October 2012 - 05:32 PM
I hope you find great meals for the rest of your trip. I'm looking forward to lots of great seafood. Thanks for blogging!
Posted 23 October 2012 - 07:50 PM
"Planes, trains and automobiles'' is a beauty adverb.
I just made a cornish game hen with chestnut stuffing. . .
Would you believe a pigeon stuffed with spam? . . .
Would you believe a rat filled with cough drops?
Moe Sizlack
Posted 24 October 2012 - 03:09 AM
I was already enjoying this blog... now I'm loving it.
Posted 24 October 2012 - 04:48 AM
Posted 24 October 2012 - 10:02 AM
Now: yesterday's catch of the day, coffee time, and ''dinner'' (the lunch having been so filling as to remove all temptation to eat anything much heavier than a crepe....) Something went hinky last night with transferring photos, but it all seems to be working today (huzzah!).
Down at the fishing boats, the day's haul was coming in. Yesterday's catch was primarily Corvina (the lungfish looking ones with full body dorsal and caudal fins) and one fish that the fisherman told me was a ''Colorado'' (literally, the big red one - does anybody recognize it? It seems so familiar and yet I can't quite place it... A grouper of some sort maybe?)
Bonito (these are smaller examples of this fish - they're normally about 1/4 of the size of tuna),
Ocean Perch and striper,
and one fisherman had a particularly lucky day and went home rich: he brought in a Picudo (swordfish) and a pair of small sharks. Billfish of any description are big-ticket items; a single one can fetch over $300. Shark is similarly valued, and has only a very short catch season (September and October) - but unlike other fisheries, all of the shark is used here. Fins are removed and sold to Asian markets, and the body is cut into steaks for domestic consumption.
Cocktail hour meant a Frappucino Amaretto - yummmers. Just what every gal needs after a hard day's walkin' down the beach: a coffee milkshake with amaretto and chocolate syrup in it. One of my aunts also went for a chocolate crepe, which was lovely - a layer of bittersweet ganache drizzled with condensed milk. This is a pair of photos that aren't working even today, so you'll have to take my word for it!
Dinner, if you can call it that, was a rather unlikely Ham and Cheese Iguana and some Equilibrias (domestic aguardiente rum and cola). I couldn't resist the iguana - it was just the weirdest but at the same time most appetizing thing at the local bakery. It was delicious, and also surprising, since the baker simply said it was ''salt bread'' but made no mention of any sort of filling.
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 10:07 AM
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 11:01 AM
--Quick Aside--
* When selecting a comedor, it must meet two out of the following three criteria to be considered safe:
1. It must be clean and smell good
2. It must be busy
3. Police should eat there.
:D When living in India we had essentially the same considerations - a brilliant indicator of safety when choosing a dosa joint.
"The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd."
"What's hunger got to do with anything?" - My Father
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 11:38 AM
Then I saw the picture and laughed, mostly in relief ! They are beautiful, I hope the bakers are proud! Do they come in other flavours besides ham and cheese ?
Posted 24 October 2012 - 03:56 PM
Since I last posted, it's been lunchtime and cocktail hour.
For lunch: no luck with encocado or lobsters within short walking distance (I did something to my foot, which is now quite sore, and I don't want to have to go too far!) but there was an Arepa con Camarones Hoga'o, which is a Colombian seaside favourite and which sounded tasty. Hoga'o (literally, ''drowned'') is a sauce based on tomatoes and green onions, in which the shrimp are poached. The arepa tasted like it was made from rice.
My dining companions opted for a really stellar cream of chicken soup, and Patacone Pisa'o de Camaron Apana'o (stepped-on plantain with breaded shrimp), which was a giant fried plantain with delectable breaded shrimp on top. Of course, we all broke off bits of the patacone and dipped it in the soup, which was unlike any cream soup I've ever eaten before. Soooo yummy.
Plates at the end of the meal:
(and you should all know that it's entirely possible in this blog that I'll show you an empty plate or bowl and simply describe the meal to you. Yeah, I'm bad, I know it.)
Cocktail hour involved Margaritas on the beach, a deadly combo to polish up a sunny day. I'm half snapped as I write this (three Margaritas later... I think I may have mentioned in my previous blog that these things are my Kryptonite....)
And the catch of the day is various types of Pargo (snapper). The fishermen say it's the only thing that was running today; only one of the boats had Corvina, and only one shark came in (a small nurse shark)
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Posted 24 October 2012 - 04:15 PM
in sight. I'm enjoying this so very much.
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Posted 25 October 2012 - 09:57 AM
:D When living in India we had essentially the same considerations - a brilliant indicator of safety when choosing a dosa joint.
--Quick Aside-- * When selecting a comedor, it must meet two out of the following three criteria to be considered safe: 1. It must be clean and smell good 2. It must be busy 3. Police should eat there.
now i know - will remember this for future reference!! great blog!!
Posted 25 October 2012 - 05:09 PM
Dee: I'd have to go to either McDonalds (eewwww) or a really scuzzy restaurant (one that does not meet my admittedly rather simple criteria) before I ever saw foam plates - even beachfront shacks and the roughest comedores here have beautiful melamine or china tableware. I think it's part of the country's zero tolerance policy for non biodegradable anythings. Even the plastic bags I take home my groceries in are oxi-biodegradeable plantain and corn based plastics.
Last night's dinner was another Manabita specialty: Corvina de la Roca (Chilean seabass) al ajillo with a cilantro crust, in Salsa de Mariscos (seafood sauce). Every chef here does Salsa de Mariscos a little differently; on my last trip to the beach, it was a cream-based sauce with chunks of lobster and shrimp in it. This time around it was tomato based and filled with succulent squid squiggles, tender chunks of octopus, huge shrimp, small mussels, and some several concha (a type of mangrove clam that I have only ever seen in Ecuador). On the side is a rice preparation I've only ever had on the coast - I have no clue what's in it, and it looks like regular white rice, but one bit says it's clearly not. I am embarrassed to say that this dish conquered me - it was so rich and filling that I couldn't finish it, and had to settle for picking my favourite parts out of the sauce.
My dining companions went shrimp crazy, and opted for Camarones Apanado (breaded, deepfried shrimp in light beer-based tempura batter) and Spaguettis con Camarones (exactly what it sounds like, with a red sauce based on shrimp stock and fresh tomatoes.)
Now: I've had my mochachino and I'm still regaining my land legs. Isla Plata was my destination today, and as I mentioned above, I forwent my usual breakfast and lunch for the opportunity. This island is where Captain Drake is rumoured to have stashed the silver he plundered from the Spanish galleons he sacked off of Ecuador's coast (hence the name, which means Silver Island - the landing spot on it is Drake Bay), but the real reason to visit is that it's the closest island habitat to the mainland of one of Ecuador's most famous residents: the Blue-Footed Boobie. Isla Plata is a wildlife sanctuary dedicated to the birds, and conditions are such that it's rather difficult to visit it, especially in this season. I was stunningly lucky to get a space on one of the three boats that departed today, and even luckier to have been in the one that spotted the season's last Humpback Whales (they breed in these cool coastal waters when the Humboldt current rises towards the Galápagos.) So, with the risk that this become a travel blog, I'd like to share a bit of what I was here to see:
Boobie mother and 1-month old chick
Sea Turtles, mate
And finally, some sort of Butterflyfish
Unfortunately, my camera is not waterproof, so I have no photos of the hammerhead sharks, manta ray, or other reef dwellers that I saw while snorkeling.
I promise to return with lobster for dinner - I'm ravenous!
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Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:36 PM
My dining companions opted for Langostinos a la Plancha (giant estuary crawfish on the grill) and simple chicken medallions.
Belch. I am so full of seafoody goodness that I am completely ready to just waddle back to my hotel and fall into bed. Which would definitely be the plan if I didnt have to pack....
Tomorrow is another travel day, so look forward to a late update with all new bus food!
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Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:40 PM
This has been an awesome pictorial. You have me drooling with the Arepa con Camarones Hoga'o! Shoot I'm due for a walkabout. Ecuador looks totally cool.
BTW a trick to bagels is to add add about a tsp or so of sodium hydroxide (lye) to the boiling solution. This creates that wonderful golden brown crust.
Posted 25 October 2012 - 07:49 PM
The Arepa Hogao is actually Colombian food with an Ecuadorian twist (and it is fairly common style of fusion here). It is also very easy to make at home. Once I get back to semicivilized Quito, I will borrow my friend`s fusion cookbook and find the recipe for the Hogao sauce.
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Posted 26 October 2012 - 05:33 AM
I love the tropical bus Bingo! I wish we had thought of that when our boys were younger.
I want that Pulpo en Salsa Mani
Coincidentally, I recently met an old acquaintance who has been running a shrimp farm in Ecuador for the past few years.
More seafood!
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Posted 26 October 2012 - 07:50 AM
Posted 26 October 2012 - 10:32 AM
Radtek, have you tried the lye with doughs high in non wheat grains? I will, of course, but it would be interesting to know if it has the same effect on lower gluten preparations....
I make my bagels with 25% Kamut (Khorasan wheat), so a non-traditional grain, and I still get great browning using lye.
Loving your blog. I have spent a little time in Ecuador (as well as several other places in Central and South America) and lived in Panama for a year, so I'm getting the travel bug reading your blog.
Posted 26 October 2012 - 11:40 AM
Posted 26 October 2012 - 08:49 PM
Radtek, have you tried the lye with doughs high in non wheat grains? I will, of course, but it would be interesting to know if it has the same effect on lower gluten preparations....
I make my bagels with 25% Kamut (Khorasan wheat), so a non-traditional grain, and I still get great browning using lye.
Loving your blog. I have spent a little time in Ecuador (as well as several other places in Central and South America) and lived in Panama for a year, so I'm getting the travel bug reading your blog.
I believe it to be the starch reacting with the lye that causes it to gelatinize and turn color, which becomes a nice golden brown while baking- almost like a pretzl.
Posted 28 October 2012 - 07:39 AM
I want shrimp, by the water, on an arepa> I love this. Amazed at the quality and variety of the food....and it's interesting about the dishes. Would an "only English" speaker be able to find and buy such things....following your rules of course?
Depends on where in the country you choose to travel. Beach places, like Puerto López, tend to have a high percentage of multilingual people living and working there - the restaurant where I had the shrimp arepa, for example, is owned by a Colombian-Ecuadorian couple who also speak English, French, German, and ISL. However, the place in the market where I went for 6 am coffee? That's Spanish only, since it's not somewhere that a tourist is normally likely to venture. Since I'm not really a tourist, I knew to look for it, but anybody who's just vacationing would never have even thought to go to a market comedor. Highland and jungle places, outside of major cities, are less likely to have English speakers in them.
However, almost the first vocabulary that any decent traveller in a foreign country accumulates (apart from please, thank you, and pardon me) is to do with food, so it's not really all that difficult even in areas where a little English isn't spoken. I learned basic Spanish by hanging out in farmers' markets in small towns in the south of the country, and asking ¿Qué es esto? (what's that?) You figure out pretty quickly what you like and don't like, and for the first while I kept a little list in my pocket with translations of most of the more common foods, so that I could figure out menus quickly. If you like shrimp, for example, you'll learn pretty quickly that they're the camarones on the menu. What took me the longest was figuring out the difference between Langostinas and Langosto (crayfish and lobster, respectively) as the seasons for both are relatively short and even if they're on the menu, they're not necessarily in the kitchen....
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Posted 28 October 2012 - 08:21 AM
Pretrip, it was back to the comedor for a last cup of coffee. We got there before the fishermen, so I can actually show you the establishment. It's three plastic tables, about 18 lawn chairs, and a cooking nook.
For breakfast, a Tres Leches purchased from the bakery across from the bus stop. This was a fabulous example of the dessert - a piece of Brazo Gitano (a rolled cake but in this case with a condensed milk filling) bathed in vanilla cream, with whipped coconut cream on top. It was cold and very fresh, an disappeared promptly.
This was followed by a tub of Milk Fudge from the bus station in Portoviejo - not technically bus food but rather bus station food, but who's counting? This stuff is marvelous - all the flavour of gooey manjar de leche, all of the texture of smooth, creamy fudge. And I'm also going to show you the stand I bought it from, which was stocked with all manner of milk-based confections. Portoviejo is in coastal cattle country, and the main breed are Brahma cattle; the sweets available to me here remind me strongly of Indian gulabi.
Next up, a scary empanada from, I think, somwhere near El Carmen. This was an ill-advised purchase, really - I was very hungry and they smelled lovely. However, it was filled with some sort of... well.... how do I describe it? Nondescript goo? Plantain, or tapioca, or what? I'm not even sure I want to consider what it was. Oh, and some shredded chicken as well. Ugh. I finished it out of sheer morbid curiousity, as I was at the time more curious about what the goo was than I was prudent about what I was eating. In other circumstances I'd probably have chucked it out the window.
These coconut cookies, however, were quite nice. Sort of like mildly coconutty digestives.
And the final thing I was able to get on the bus, before the driver decided to close his doors and push onwards like a mad fiend, were in the town of Chone, and were a pair of coastal specialties: Muchines de Yuca and Corviche. The former is finely grated yuca (manioc) formed into sticks around cheese and then deep fried. The latter is plantain dough around a fishstick, also fried. The muchine (gold) was stellar, the corviche (brown) uninspiring and dry.
We woozed into Quito at 10 pm, and the only thing open, bless its caffeinated little soul, was Coffee Tree, a 24-hour latte joint. Mochaccinos for everyone, and off to bed!
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Posted 28 October 2012 - 08:57 AM
Breakfast was a mochaccino and a slice of mora cheescake. Thoroughly lovely.
And onwards and upwards to Otavalo! This town, in the province of Imbabura, hosts the world's largest indigenous market, which is at its peak on Saturdays. Despite what it may look like (it was in fact a balmy 23 C), it's winter here right now, which means that the market is primarily dedicated to alpaca products (everything from scarves and sweaters to alpaca leather slippers and rugs). In the summertime, it switches over to cotton, which is grown in the surrounding areas. The outskirts of the market are farmers' territory, although everything is sort of mixed in together. It all spans an area of about 100 square blocks. The Otavalos are an autonomous government within Ecuador, and are perhaps one of the most successful native groups in the world - all commerce here is owned by guilds of producers and goes back into the community's wellbeing. If you've ever seen Alpaca Camargo branded woolen goods up north, this is where they're made.
In the van on the way up, we ended up stopped at a traffic jam. Lovely sunny day that it was in the desert between Quito and Otavalo, enterprising souls were selling ice creams. From left to right, these are: coconut-strawberry, mora-cream, and coconut-cream.
And here's the market at Otavalo itself. I am now kicking myself for not taking more photos for you, but we were heavily into the shopping vibe. The outskirts are an interesting blend of commerce - here dry goods are being sold right next to clothing.
Lunch here was a hastily grabbed fast-food chicken sandwich and fries. Caravana is a locally owned franchise with (and this strikes me as slightly odd, since I'm used to the North American method of doing things) table service. The food is inexpensive, fast, and reasonably tasty, although I must say I'm not a fan of the untoasted, soggy buns.
Dinner, however, more than made up for lunch's faults. This is one of the best things that can be eaten in Imbabura province.... Just north of the provincial capital, Ibarra, lies Lago Yaguarcocha, site of a famous battle between the Inca and the preincan Ibarra culture. It's now a destination for locals to relax and spend a pleasant afternoon; we arrived as the moon was rising over the ridge and my photos didn't turn out at all, but we were really here for the fish. The lake is an extinct volcanic crater fed by subterrenian springs, and it has been stocked with Tilapia, which grow to an enormous size in its cold, clean waters. Numerous eatieries devoted to catching and cooking these fish line the banks of the lake. Between five of us, we managed to devour three Tilapia, two of which were classed as ''small'' (they were only 25 cm long, and about as broad), and one of which was a ''medium'' (30+ cm and fat!). For reference, the inner surface of that plate is 30 cm long. The fish was lightly flour dredged and then fried in hot oil, and came to us still sizzling. On the side, you can see patacones and some fried yuca as well. The fish had been out of the lake less than 5 minutes, and it is probably the best in the world (and I've eaten a lot of tilapia in a lot of different places).
*slurp* *burp* *yum*
Needless to say, I never visit this province without visiting the lake.
Cheers! Sunday is my mother's birthday, and we'll (with great luck) be dining at an Ecuadorian haute cuisine restaurant, so I can show you how one of the country's more famous chefs treats what you've been seeing all week. Off to reserve a table! (For the curious, the restaurant we'll be going to takes reservations in the morning for the evening's dining, and you have to make them in person.)
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
SAN Carlos City Mayor Gerardo Valmayor Jr. said the City Government is preparing documents to set a deadline for San Carlos Bioenergy Inc. (SCBI) to address the pollution problem from its ethanol plant.
"The company has promised improvement of their pollution control but they have not totally solved the pollution problem," Valmayor told reporters at the sidelines of the inauguration of the Phase 1 of the 22-megawatt solar farm of the San Carlos Solar Energy Inc. Thursday.
For several months now, foul odor has been emanating from the plant's waste water facility.
Valmayor said that a resolution was passed by the City Council asking SCBI to provide solution to the pollution problem, and President Benigno S. Aquino III was also given the copy of the said resolution.
The President was in San Carlos City Thursday to lead the switch-on of the solar plant.
Valmayor said a meeting was conducted last Tuesday attended by various sectors, including the City Government, SCBI, and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to map out an action plan to address the pollution problem.
"We are now in the process of putting it on paper and setting a deadline on the company's activity," Valmayor said.
The foul odor from the SCBI's plant was smelled during the inauguration of the solar energy plant Thursday.
Valmayor has been demanding that the pollution issue be settled by the SCBI otherwise, the city government will be compelled to impose appropriate sanctions on the company in accordance with their Environmental Compliance Certificate.
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My Story of How I Wound Up Making Money Online
My name is James Hussey, I began online commercially in 2009 writing under the pseudonym, "JamestheJust" at Elance as a freelance writer.
The story that follows is more of a detailed account of what I described (more positively) at the Affiliate Blog Online, a blog for affiliate marketers run by good friends of mine in the business. Read that original version here. Or, dive in to the gritty version below.
How Did I Start Online?
I'm just as surprised as anyone that making money online is even possible, and as a writer in a content-driven internet, it dawned on me one day that not only were writing skills in crazy demand, but marketing savvy was as well.
Thank God I was groomed for both. I still sometimes believe, naively, that "Anyone can do this!"
That's not true.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but everyone thinks that "Anyone" can write, or that "Anyone" can market – it takes all of 5 minutes to prove this to be nothing more than wishful thinking.
Most people aren't driven to succeed, and think a half-baked attempt at a website can do miracles.
There are few "easy buttons" in this business. Few shortcuts last long, if they work at all. I'm one of the few willing to put his back into the content building and research needed to make a profitable business online, and that's what I've done.
But it took a lot to get here. Right now I'm funded by my SEO and affiliate marketing efforts. I had a lot to learn. What follows is my not-so-pretty-but-sadly-true account of why I in particular wound up online making money.
The details aren't pretty, I'm warning you now – and writing it out you'll feel my frustration at the fallout of events that drove me to make me what I am today.
Maybe your story's in here, maybe you'll pity me at the end of it (don't, I'm getting paid whether I work or sleep these days)…but this is my story of how I wound up online making money through affiliate marketing.
See, I don't think I'm "special," insofar as I think I'm "driven."
I'm madly, crazily driven to beat my competitors. I see the world of marketing online like being tossed into a pool of piranhas, every one of which wants to take my family's next meal out of their mouths.
I won't stand for it.
One fact that drives me is having a family to feed – and by the grace of God, I do feed them, thankfully.
But I had to learn the hard way…
Welcome To The Internet: This is Sparta!
Really, that makes no sense unless you've seen the movie 300, and if you haven't then I look like an idiot with that line.
What I mean simply is that being online commercially enters you into a competition.
Pages compete with pages.
Your ranking in Google competes with thousands or millions of other pages.
I thrive on the challenge.
When you're not competing with another marketer, who may just have thousands of dollars in advertising to paste you with, you're competing against an ever-changing landscape of algorithms and laws…it's tough.
Many just quit.
What makes me so driven? Let me tell you my story.
Why I'm Driven to Succeed
I'd started online only after being forced into it. I thought the idea of websites making money was for people with pocket protectors, "real work" meant calloused hands, right?
I had calloused hands. I swung hammers, carried 20-foot ladders, carried 5-gallon paint cans and gypsum ("mud") on my shoulders up said ladders, pushed wheelbarrows full of concrete, helped bricklayers as a hod-carrier in the noonday sun of California summers while wearing fire-proof Nomex coveralls…
I've not only traded time for money, I've traded sweat for bread.
Virtual businesses sounded like some form of pixy dust, only harder to believe.
I come from a hard-working family. Dad was a Vietnam veteran. They didn't draft him, he signed up for two tours as an air-evac medic.
He was in a helicopter crash once, wound up saving a Japanese photographer's life who was trapped inside the burning hull. I think of him often, I think his fighting spirit thrives somewhere inside me, never too far from the surface.
Dad wasn't a quitter until he quit this life in 2000.
He fought tooth and nail after getting shot down. There are some awesome pictures of him with his M-16 hurling fire, lead and brimstone that were taken by the Japanese photographer after the crash.
Both the photographer and my dad made it out alive. In fact, there are other people alive on this planet because my dad saved their hides.
It's not some story I'm making up for dramatic effect: my dad made Chuck Norris look like a wet noodle – dad was the real deal.
I'm not nearly that heroic, but I have that same fighting spirit and tooth-and-nail survival instinct that kicked in at some point in my story…
I'm like my dad in another way – I like to help people, believing it's just the right thing to do…so why am I telling you all this?
Well, I'd lived a life of barely having anything worth bragging about. My mom and dad taught us kids to be hard workers.
I started my family at 19 years of age, marrying my high school sweetheart after having our daughter shortly after high school.
Now we have a large family (7 kids in the home, I have 1 more who lives on her own now). That translates into: me doing whatever it takes to feed my family, usually in a time-for-dollars economy and burning the candle at both ends.
I'm not uneducated, but I did decide to work versus become a doctor, lawyer or architect like my mom wanted.
Bad choice. Mom was right.
I've worked long, thankless hours – most of my "overtime" has gone un-paid, and most of my working years I've not had a vacation.
My wife doesn't work (by her own choice), so that means the pressure's on for both of us. By the way, my wife "works" very hard at motherhood and being the world's most amazing wife, I just mean she doesn't have a "job" that brings an income.
Get the picture that I wasn't a professional anything, but a professional hard worker, a professional do-what-it-takes-er.
I strive at what I do and do it to the best of my ability…
…even if that has meant putting in 70 hours a week, sometimes 80, and getting paid for 40…
…even if it has meant moving my family 3,000 miles from our home in California, away from friends and family, to start fresh in North Carolina with a business-to-business direct marketing franchise, selling an over-priced coupon package that was delivered in the (snail) mail in this age of digital marketing…
(what a joke and waste of money – but I learned a hell of a lot about marketing)
…even if it has meant losing it all and moving to Idaho of all places, to be "rescued" by my brother-in-law. This is where the story gets very interesting.
When Push Comes to Shove
When my business fell apart in North Carolina, I began a residential paint contracting business. I worked more hours for myself than was good for me, but people only let you put in so much overtime when you're painting in their homes.
I also built fences, digging up the Carolinian hard-baked clay since there was a drought that season; peeled up wooden floors on slabs of concrete (read: holy cow, what was I thinking taking that job?!); sheet-rocking a sound-proof basement theater for a guy who's WIFE fired me since it took me too long…
Yeah – I had no crew but I got a boatload of work done I'm proud of…even if I did throw out my back, holding up 70-pound sheets of soundproof Sheetrock overhead while screwing them into place in the humidity of a Carolinian summer.
Good times.
I made the rest of that year work out somehow (at one point I was "fortunate" enough to get into a car accident that wasn't my fault, nobody got hurt but I totaled 2 cars in the process…we lost our van but got paid enough to eat that month).
Let me be clear in what I believe actually happened behind the curtain of what we see with our eyes…
I believe God watched out for us more times than not. Yes, I am a Christian, and yes I believe God's hand moves in everyday lives – I do believe that insurance check was a blessing, we were hanging on by our teeth.
If I'm painting a dismal picture here, good. I want you to feel a bit of my story.
We languished in North Carolina and I struggled with depression and exhaustion.
My life was falling apart at the seams, and my wife had our 6th child in the middle of the chaos. We lost touch with our best friends during a time we needed them most, we really felt abandoned during that time – and we were in a large regard.
In the middle of this bleak picture, my brother-in-law was building a business in Idaho and offered me to come out and work for him if I had no other prospects.
I didn't.
Nor did I want to go to Idaho, but California is no place for a family our size who had lost nearly everything like we had.
I didn't want to go to Idaho for a number of reasons, one of them was knowing the character of my brother-in-law: it wouldn't end well.
I had known him since he was 14 years old, I knew the man's character.
Sadly I was right: things didn't end well.
3 Years Later
The business he had built up was a dry cleaning delivery business. I was told there could be a management position for me if I helped build the business up by signing on new customers.
I did that. I also ran everyday operations (I was the only employee, "we" partnered with a dry cleaner in town): pick up and delivery, loads of paperwork for their invoicing, route management…
What happened?
Well, after 3 years of practically running his business in the day-to-day marketing efforts – going door-to-door and selling the service by interrupting people during their dinner time (since they'd be home, so I was instructed)…
…after 3 years of putting in overtime each week without pay (with a few exceptions, I had some short weeks)…
…after adding thousands of dollars to the bottom line of the "family" business where I wasn't treated like family: I "earned" a $12,000/year pay cut right before the holidays, with my wife expecting our 7th child.
I saw where that $12,000 was spent, by the way: vacations, new furniture, fat Christmas presents for his family (meaning his wife and kids, not my side of the family)…Yeah, it was insulting.
To think he thought I bought his song and dance about how "tight" his money situation was when all these purchases were made on the heels of my pay cut was a blow to my ego: he thought I was blind or stupid…
I was hurting to make ends meet and was lied to about the cause of the pay cut, evidenced by the investments made before my eyes.
Needless to say it was a punch in the gut.
There's a lot more to the story which includes plenty of verbal "intimidation," power plays and an overall hostile work environment, not to mention constant debates over when payday was and other forms of degradation, but I think it's clear that work sucked.
That decision on the part of my brother-in-law to cut my pay would send me, panicked, to find a way to make the money up really quickly.
The solution?
Work more. My brother-in-law told me to sign up more customers, since I'd taken the summer off of marketing (because my wife was horribly sick with the pregnancy, I wanted to get home versus stay and knock on doors for a few hours).
What choice did I have?
I worked from 7 a.m. until 9-10 p.m., Monday through Friday.
I managed to replace a lot of that lost income by closing more sales.
Enough Was Enough
Working like that in a delivery van for what turned out to be a tyrant of an employer wasn't my cup of tea.
I used to be more of a pushover (ya think?), and in fact I'd gotten literally pushed at work (oh that was a nice exercise in degradation)…
Then I snapped.
Who was he kidding?
Who was I kidding?
Was I going to be pushed around by this bean-counting tyrant my whole life, begging for scraps?
If it wasn't him, it was going to be some corporate bean-counter – and looking around, I didn't have a lot of choices left in life.
So to my "brother's" credit, he kept telling me about Elance. He also gave me a copy of a silly book on making money with AdSense and WordPress websites, leveraging this thing called "SEO" and making tons of "micro-niche websites."
It all seemed like a joke, but who was I to kid? I needed options so I did both: I built a few websites, and did Elance.
At that point, I realized the pickle I was in. If I didn't take control of my life, this wasn't the last thankless job or the last tyrant boss I'd have.
It wasn't his fault that I hadn't made a ton of "smart" decisions up to that point.
Having no professional background except in the building trades and a work history that spanned every odd job on the planet wasn't working in my favor. If I kept working at jobs, trading sweat and time for money, I'd get nowhere and drag my family down with me.
My brother-in-law was singly the worst employer I'd worked for – and God used that as a 2 x 4 to smack some sense into me. He wouldn't be the last tyrant in my life if I kept working at these thankless, odd jobs.
I was sick of it, tired of living hand-to-mouth, and really tired of worrying about what to do next.
It was getting harder and harder to look my wife in the eye, and the tension was building up at home, too. You can't put a family through the ringer without the stress taking its toll, and that constant worry ate away at us both.
To say it was awful is like saying, "The sun feels warm," while you're in the middle of summer in the Sahara Desert.
Squeezing Elance into a 60-80 Hour Week
Imagine this: working as a dry cleaning delivery driver, which takes 10-12 hours on its own. During that time, you need to knock on doors to make up some extra cash and keep the boss happy.
Walking up to doors with clothes in hand, getting stared at like you're "The Help" just isn't very good on the morale…but you have to.
You have no professional experience and no entry-level jobs can sustain your family…
On top of that, your only answer is to work harder once you get home from your 12-15 or 16 hour job.
That was my life.
While my wife and kids were eating dinner, I was either bidding or finishing gigs on Elance.
They'd go to sleep and I would stay up until 1 or 2 a.m., back to work at 7 a.m.
To win gigs at Elance, I'd bid bottom dollar if that's what it took. Then I'd over-deliver.
I got so good at SEO and content that I gradually raised prices and fired clients. I got picky and still had more work than I could manage.
Often I'd not make a ton there, but it was something and every little bit closed the gap on my $12,000 pay cut.
So I worked during lunch "break" as the clothes were being processed at work. I brought my laptop to Starbuck's next to the cleaner, working on article after article for clients, or my own websites.
[T]he people in Starbucks saw me jump out of the dry cleaning van and I won plenty of stares – what was the 'help' doing? I looked at everyone in this light because there was definitely a sense of 'class' distinction I couldn't help but be reminded of, from my employer to his partner and many customers.
I'd had plenty of customers berate me, as well as the boss – I was pretty sick of the whole situation. So I found solace in buying earphones and tuning everyone out while I typed my way into Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and took so much Ibuprofen my insides were hurting.
At least if my stomach hurt, I could still type.
Nonetheless, my attitude was still hopeful I could work my way out of the hole.
The routine was to pick up the dirty clothes in the morning, deliver the clean clothes during the afternoon and into the evening, during which time I'd also knock on doors, that was my gig.
I'd do paperwork and marketing on top of all that, while my in-laws were pretty carefree, watching movies, doing anything but work the "family" business since my shoulders had broadened to carry most of those responsibilities.
I was a hard-working, one-man show; a 3-ring circus of efficiency.
But all of this demeaning work and restlessness added up to my overall frustration. I worked harder and harder until I began making little mistakes at work.
Those little mistakes came from my fatigue (ya think?) – the problem was created by the needless pay cut to begin with, but at this point there was no going back. I'd proven I could do it all, so I was being asked to keep working fiendishly.
Rug Getting Pulled From Underneath Me
To say that things were rough at work is a gross understatement. It may seem like I'm pouring a lot of gory details in here – for posterity's sake, I am – but I'm leaving a lot out.
I'll just say things went from bad to worse when I realized I could negotiate better terms at Elance, once I learned about SEO thanks to my own websites ranking and making money from AdSense…at the time I wasn't doing much affiliate marketing but on one site.
That one site really began to produce, making me a thousand dollars one month and I couldn't believe it. My eyes opened up to the possibilities of quitting Elance and my day job, having more time to build more websites like it.
Then a cascade of events happened that ripped the rug out from underneath me. I thought things were going "OK" until…
My brother-in-law tried to force more work out of me, this time even telling me my pay for marketing was no longer guaranteed. See, my marketing was always performance-based pay: if I signed up a customer, I got paid, if not, too bad – even it took me 3 hours to get 1 customer.
Now he wanted to re-negotiate terms by saying he'd pay me up front, but would reserve the right to take the money back if a customer cancelled or if he thought the customer wasn't "good enough."
I'd had it.
I told him to pound salt, I'd just put more time into Elance. He didn't like that, but it paid off for me as I continued to grow in knowledge of SEO link-building, content marketing and copywriting.
Then my wife had our 7th child.
Her brother demanded I go back to work the day after my son was born, during which time my mind snapped in two.
I was incensed.
I couldn't believe I was being asked to do that – but he didn't like being in my shoes for one day. He couldn't hang. He told me he'd been in the van for 12 hours, screaming at me how angry he was that he was lost.
Ironic, I'd gotten lost plenty of times on the route, and spent up to 16 hours in the van.
Not one to argue (at the time), I complied, biding my time and gritting my teeth. I told my wife Elance and AdSense would rescue us.
Then, my mother-in-law had several strokes.
Who took care of her?
My wife, with no help from her brother or sister-in-law, or from me…
She also took care of our 7 kids (we homeschool, by the way).
Thanks to working from 7 a.m. until 1-2 a.m. every day, I couldn't do anything to ease her burden.
If it sounds like I'm frustrated – I can't tell the story without gritting my teeth. It's unbelievable and a lifetime ago (this was in early 2010).
I made such a success of Elance that I stopped marketing for my "brother's" business entirely.
I told him I wouldn't work for "not-guaranteed pay" and that I'd be an imbecile to say otherwise. He didn't like my new backbone.
He demanded I stop Elance so I could market his business – but he wasn't willing to re-negotiate terms.
Mind you, he's a natural salesman. If he wanted to, he could have marketed the business just fine and done just fine.
At the time, he had nothing else pressing other than his love of leisure time. He didn't want to put in the 10 hours a week to market his own business, which I told him at the time was madness when I was working 50-60 hours with unpaid overtime as it stood.
What I Learned
I had been pushed and shoved enough. I was standing up to a bully, something I was never known for – by nature I'm a complacent pushover, a nice guy who likes to get along with everyone.
But I'd had it. I had no other choice but to push myself, demand more from myself, make smarter choices and take the bull by the horns and put it down.
I had some hard choices to make, at the time I could sense the business "partnership" dissolving. I was going to quit in December of 2010 (it was July of 2010 at the time), when I figured my websites could produce the necessary income for me to quit both Elance and working for the "brother."
So what I learned after struggling my whole married life (some years were better than others), was this:
- Entrepreneurship was my only promise of stability. I was done with playing by someone else's rules.
- I needed to write, it's what I loved doing and what I was good at.
- I knew and understood people, I was a born natch for marketing.
- The internet would become my escape hatch, no more tyrants.
I had a long list of tyrant bosses, but not all my bosses were that way. I've had my share and finally had enough, that was what I learned working in the worst, most "taken-advantage-of" position in my life.
Funny that I'd heard for years that going into business with family could end up this way, and I'm glad it did.
I've not looked back since.
Getting Fired? Really?
After telling me he'd be looking for my replacement in March of 2011, which would give me about 9 months of income and plenty of time to pay off all our debt and really get ahead…just a few days later, he fired me.
This was July 3rd or so of 2010.
I remember being completely horrified.
I smiled and said, "OK, I'll finish out the next week, no problem."
It was a Friday. I was to work until the next Friday.
I was expecting two weeks of pay. I was paid one week of pay and our rent was due – and he knew it.
This was a calculated, vindictive move, timed to pack the most whallop.
My plans to get out of debt and bide my time for 6 more months or so were just shot.
Quickly, I could feel my wrists burning up and a long time of endless gigs on Elance before me. I wasn't looking forward to it.
My Carpal Tunnel wasn't "bad," if it was I wouldn't have worried…
…it was horrible, excruciating… The pain didn't subside.
At this point, I would wake up at night from the pain in my arms and wrists, even though I was exhausted from burning the midnight oil and working a mindless job.
It was horrible news. It terrified me since I didn't have medical coverage to do anything about it.
I was taking so much Ibuprofen I could feel my stomach lining in a constant state of pain, and I knew that a combined attack of Ibuprofen coupled with anxiety was a sure-fire recipe for an ulcer.
Just what I needed.
I wanted off the "Job/Endless Gigs/Deadlines/Write Content For Others" train: because I kept working long hours into the night. It was exhausting…I didn't have it in me.
I knew that I needed a passive income, not an active income. I wanted to work once and get paid again and again for my efforts: work smarter, not harder.
By that time I'd had this blog, The Average Genius, and I petitioned for work here and got some gigs.
I got more gigs on Elance than I really could manage, and I got thrown into another bout of depression.
I was insulted, lied to, bullied and the injustice of it all infuriated me. Try to work your best while furious: it doesn't jibe.
The only reason I didn't become an alcoholic at the time was because I couldn't afford the liquor.
So here I was again: worried, done for, back against the wall and my brother-in-law would make his passive income while I slaved away. It was just what he wanted, a vindictive move.
It took a while to build things back up, but the fourth quarter of 2010, my life changed.
Sales shot up on my website (I had about a dozen sites, but one website was particularly killing it).
I'd taken top rankings for lucrative terms on expensive products and I sold them like hot cakes – I was going to retire from Elance…and I did.
Easy Money But a Hard Road
Why'd I tell you all that? Just to be a jerk and throw my "brother" under the bus?
No – and sorry to say, I don't really care what anyone thinks of me or him.
My story is simply a historical account of what happened.
If you don't like it, sorry. That makes two of us. I wish it never happened.
I wish I was a fiction writer and made all that up. I don't wish that story on anybody – but I told you my story because this isn't a joke for me.
This is life and death, this marketing business.
Search engines supply me with a boatload of traffic, I'm largely dependent on Google to bring new customers my way, and they do. But it takes work to get free traffic.
It takes determination to succeed.
I had a lot to learn from my clients at Elance that I didn't know, and I got paid to learn. I studied their methods and surmised what they were doing – and if they kept paying me thousands in repeat business, that meant they were making thousands upon thousands from my efforts.
I was right.
So I started doing it, too. I talk more about what I learned (and what works) in my newsletter. Have you subscribed?
I also recommend you read my posts on my methods with Commission Junction (a series). After learning and improving my performance marketing skills, I released a book called CJ Tactics – and no, they're not rehash of that blog post series. Get the book here.
I talk about the tools I use in the section entitled Recommended Tools in the navigation area up top, I have reviews to products up there in the drop-down menu if you look.
My WordPress SEO Book for Beginners
If you'd like to learn how to rank without risking a search engine penalty, and without large expense – YES it CAN be done, I've done it over and over and use various ranking methods in my business – then read my book, I talk more about it at Duct Tape SEO.
You will also be offered my free 54-page e-book entitled The Unfair Advantage with no need of an opt-in, see my sales page at Duct Tape SEO to find out more about that.
Or read the story why I bothered to write Duct Tape SEO.
For a non-endorsed 3rd-party review of Duct Tape SEO, head on over to Leo Dimilo's blog. He surprised me with that one, Leo doesn't bother to use an affiliate link, a rarity online. He's an honest marketer and doesn't pull any punches in his review.
I also gave Pat Flynn of Smart Passive Income a copy. He had a lot to say, including:
I can tell it has everything a beginner needs to understand SEO & how Google works.
(Note that Pat doesn't officially 'endorse' the book, as he only endorses what he personally uses himself, but he gave me permission to use that quote.)
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MIAMI University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science Professors Shuyi S. Chen and Brian J. Soden have been elected as Fellows of the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the nation's leading professional society for scientists in the atmospheric and related sciences. Dr. Bruce Albrecht, who is a Fellow of the AMS has been recognized with the 2013 AMS Teaching Excellence Award.
The honor of Fellow is given to an individual for recognition of outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic sciences, or their applications, during a substantial period of years. The Teaching Excellence Award is given annually to an individual in recognition of sustained outstanding teaching and mentoring at the undergraduate and/or graduate levels and the impact this individual has on student education.
Chen is a Professor in the Division of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography at UM. She is a widely published author whose work focusing on the dynamics and air-sea interactions in tropical convection and cyclones. Chen leads a research group at UM that has developed a new generation fully coupled atmosphere-wave-ocean model for hurricane research and prediction. Chen has been a lead scientist on several global tropical cyclone research programs, among them: the Coupled Boundary Layer Air-Sea Transfer (CBLAST); the successful Hurricane Rainbands and Intensity Change Experiment (RAINEX) using three Doppler radar aircraft collecting unprecedented in-situ data in Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Ophelia in 2005; and the largest international program to study typhoons in the West Pacific, Impact of Typhoons on Ocean in Pacific (ITOP) in 2010. Chen is also a lead aircraft scientist in the DYNAMO field campaign collecting data over the Indian Ocean to improve our knowledge of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) and its impacts on global weather. She is now working with a team of scientists in CARTHE that focuses
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