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It's been two years since for a variety factors we decided to stop posting to the Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum. Over that time, a lot has changed within the industry, as well as in my personal life (two kids) and professional life (Enomaly sold). The cloud has gone from a fringe concept to a mainstream phenomenon. A phenomenon that can be seen in almost every part of information technology today. We've seen open to data center alliances to open server specifications to open stacks, to say the least, the need for "open" has propagated far and wide. But alas, there is still no uniform access for a truly interoperable cloud. A single stack, hardware specification or alliance has yet to result in any global interoperability among cloud services.
Over the past several months, I have been busy in the acquisition of my previous company Enomaly to Virtustream. Now that this has completed I have time to re-engage in some of my previous passions, including the nurturing of cloud interoperability amongst other cloud advocacy activities. I have been approached by many folks in the industry over the last two years to revive CCIF. Like any community, I don't expect all of your to jump back into the fray as I understand we need to rebuild trust in the message and discussion. I believe this discussion must resume. There are currently more than 1300 members within the CCIF mailing list and another 3000 on our linkedin Group. If you are no longer interested in cloud interoperability, please take the this chance to un-subscribe. If you are as passionate about this subject as I am. Then I encourage you to speak up and re-engage in the conversation.
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Are you using Google voice search on your phone or laptop? Did you optimize your website for voice search as well?
Times are changing and as a marketer you should be always up to speed with everything that happens over the Internet, adapt to the new technologies and of course, the way consumers behave. What is voice search and why it's important to optimize your website for it?
Why is voice search important for SEO in 2018 and the years to follow?
Well, this article will answer these questions and at the same time, provide with some interesting facts and data marketers need in order to better understand the new trends in marketing and how to implement them as effective as possible.
The wind of change
Since the dawn of the World Wide Web, marketers spend most of their time optimizing their offers for the online audiences. And, one of the most important steps towards success is to invest time and money in content marketing and SEO. The two terms are related and inseparable, as valuable content can be one of the most powerful SEO tools. At the same time, we need SEO in order to drive the targeted audience to our pages and let them know we know the answer they are searching for.
Until recently, marketers had to optimize their web pages for traditional search queries, based on specific keywords and phrases that were rarely similar to the natural speech. Things are about to change, however, and they are about to change significantly, as voice search enters the mainstream and traditionally written commands tend to lose their appeal.
How important is voice search in today's context?
Almost two years ago, Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced during a Google I/O keynote something that most of the marketers already knew: According to him, about 20 percent of queries on Google's mobile app and on Android devices are voice searches. That was however only the beginning.
According to a research cited by Search Engine Land, the voice search grows, as a trend, faster than anything else.
In many ways, this turn of events was to be expected, considering that most of today's people use smartphones every day. It's easier to speak to a handheld device and command a search query by voice than to write your keywords on its tiny screen with its tiny keyboard.
Hence, all the major software developers and mobile device producers invested in developing more accurate and more effective voice activated tools and personal assistants.
Siri, Cortana, Google Voice Search/Now, Viv, Amazon Alexa, and Google Home, are today's most important voice activated personal assistants and search tools. They are in an equal measure responsible for the voice search proliferation by training people to communicate verbally with their mobile devices and use their voices whenever they want to search or command something.
Furthermore, it is expected that
there will be over 1 billion devices featuring voice assistants in use this year.
This trend will lead to at least 50% of all searches to be voice searches by 2020.
Based on these stats we can clearly see how important voice search is when it comes to website SEO. Your website needs to be ready for it.
Up to date with what's different
When it comes to technology and online technology in special, things tend to change fast. And, sometimes, they change faster than our ability to keep track of them. If you want your website to be ready for voice search and generate a certain increase in visits coming from organic search results, you need to understand what changed within the search engine and how people use the new technology when they conduct online research.
(The above Graph shows the major difference between voice search and text search)
As you can clearly see and probably already know, text searches were always based upon specific keywords.
When we conduct a text based search, we do tend to eliminate the unrelated words and we reduce the speech to some basic keywords that are more likely to generate the result we need.
For instance, if you look for a cheap restaurant in New Jersey, you will only search for three or maybe four key words: "restaurant New Jersey" or, "cheap restaurant New Jersey". You pick the first results and study them before making a decision on where to dine the next time you are in New Jersey.
Things are different when we speak.
Unlike text searches, we tend to do things more naturally. We talk with the machine as we are used to talking with each other. Therefore, the number of words we use tends to increase because phrases are now complete. The three or four words search query will thus become a complete phrase like "Where is the nearest cheap restaurants in New Jersey located?" or, "Which are the cheapest restaurants in New Jersey?".
Why are people of today using voice search?
Up until recently, Google search was the most popular text search engine. Its popularity grew over the years up to the point when we refer to the action itself as to "Google for something/somebody".
Alpine AI estimates that there are over one billion voice searches per month.
This is a huge number considering that the technology is no older than a couple of years. The same source estimates that the voice search market will grow by 2022 from $2 billion dollars today to no less than $40 billion.
These numbers, however, do not answer the "why" question, they only help us understand better the trend of the market. The answer comes from the way we, as consumers, understand our times and adapt to them.
We use smartphones.
We carry them around wherever we go. And, they helped us adapt to the mobile market easier as they evolved up to the point they are in many cases, better and faster than computers. While on the road, it's easier to voice command than type. With time, we get used with this new features and forget all about the typing.
How to optimize your website for voice search?
In order to be successful as a marketer in 2018, as I have already stated in the first paragraphs, you need to adapt to the trends and give to your audience the means to find your website. While in the past your SEO strategy would have been focused on text search, now, you need to optimize your website and make it ready for position V.
What is position V?
Well, "position V is the featured voice search result read aloud by either Alexa, Google or any other voice search assistant," said John Morabito who came up with the best definition you can find. In other words, it means that you need to optimize your pages for voice search as well and that everything depends on how you do it.
An optimized website will, of course, become more popular and will attract more visitors from organic search.
How can you do it? Well, here are some tips that will definitely help you with this task:
1. Optimize for page speed
This advice is not entirely related to voice search but nevertheless, it's important and I will explain why:
Google favors the website that loads quickly. It favors them to the point that out of two similar websites, the one that loads the fastest gets to be first on the search results list. Therefore, speed is important for all types of searches, text based or voice based whatsoever.
Here, you can perform a quick test and analyze your website speed.
2. Secure your website with SSL
Apart from the speed, Google also favors websites that are secured and certified. It favors the websites that are can be trusted regardless of the industry they adhere to or whether they are eCommerce websites or just blogs. The HTTPS protocol ensures the visitor and the Google's bot that your website can be trusted and as a consequence, that it complies with all the rules of the good online practices.
3. Create an FAQ page for your website
Remember what I have said earlier? Remember the major difference between text search and voice search? Well, if you want your website to be optimized for voice search, you should be able to provide answers to your readers. You need to answer some of the most common questions related to your industry, questions the users may ask verbally.
Here's a great example from McDonalds Canada of a very well made FAQ page. It contains all questions posed by their audience and of course, a form on which you can pose your own questions.
4. Create long form content
SEO depends not only on the technology behind the website but also on the quality of your content. You need top notch articles that are valuable for your target audience. You need content that answers their questions and draws them to you. The better your content is, the more likely is that the search engines will rank it better and people will come to you and maybe, they will become regular readers.
I recently came across a great study made by serpIQ on the length of the content and the relationship between length and position in search results.
According to the study, the top 5 results in a search query are on an average, long articles ranging from 2450 words to 2300 words.
If you want an example, take a look at this article published on Patagonia.com's blog.
5. Create short form content as well
While long for content is important if you want to gain influence and grow your pool of readers, short form content may also help you if you want to attract people who are searching for quick and short answers to some of their questions.
Here's an example of the first page of Google search.
Observe how the first results are providing clear and short answers to the main question.
6. Use simple words and short sentences
Why simple words? Why short sentences? Well, people who use voice search, are asking simple questions, questions the AI may understand and translate into search results easily. The shortest the sentence with the answer, the more likely is that people who asked the question will read it first. If it's a valid answer, then maybe they will also click on the link and visit the website. If you are concise and able to provide valuable information in simple and comprehensible words, then you are increasing your website chances to grow organically.
Take for example from Neil Patel's blog. He writes long articles but he always uses simple words and short sentences, easy to read, easy to be understood and SEO friendly as well.
7. Be active on Social Media
Social media is one of the most important marketing tools in today's online context. Almost all people are active members of at least one social media platform. They engage with their friends, read their news, plan their vacations and outdoor activities on Facebook. They are actively putting themselves in the job market on LinkedIn. They are sharing their precious moments on Instagram and the list can continue indefinitely. However, they are also engaging with brands and companies on social media. They ask questions, write reviews, buy products, share links, read the news and prospect the market on social platforms.
Therefore, if you find the inspiration to create content that has the potential to become viral, this may also be a great way to better market your website and grow its influence.
The creativity for writing stellar content on social media is not that hard to develop. Just try to limit the logic force in your brain and consider the tips from creative geniuses we all follow today: Gary Vaynerchuk on restrictions, Seth Godin on ingenuity, Bob Dylan on the environment, and others.
The more influent a website is, the more likely is for it to be placed higher in search results, voice search results included.
According to MOZ, viral content from social media is a valuable asset in SEO due to the fact that it generates a significant pool of backlinks to your page of origin. The more valuable backlinks to your website you have, the higher it will rank on search engines.
Also, if you want to rank high on social media regardless of whether your content is viral or not, try to remember the previous chapters and write your articles accordingly. Here's a screenshot from Kissmetrics that will help you understand better the relationship between social media success and the two types of content: long form content and short form content.
8. Get to the top and try to stay there
I am referring of course to the top of the search results for all the keywords and phrases you want and need to rank high for.
Your business may depend on search engines. While is great to be there, it is better to be on the first page and of course, even better if you rank first.
All these above advice can help you rank better and maintain your website on top of the search lists. It's important, however, to create valuable content for your readers on a constant basis and at the same time, to make sure you are able to answer most of their questions. Imagine what would you ask an expert if you would be needing information on a topic you master and make lists of all possible questions. Then, create short and long form articles that answer all these questions as good as possible.
The better your content is, the more likely it is for it to be shared and linked to other websites.
Thus, your rank grows but at the same time, so does your influence.
Voice search has become a trend nowadays and as a consequence, as a marketer, you need to adapt to it. In order to adapt and thrive in this new online context, you have to make sure your website is optimized for voice search.
All your SEO efforts should, therefore, be divided into two specific tasks. You can still optimize your website for traditional text searches but at the same time, you should optimize it for the voice searches.
Today, we've learned together what voice search is, why it matters and how to better optimize your web pages for it.
What do you think of this list and of voice search in particular? Did you intend to optimize your websites for it?

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[ syll. (c)hris-ta-bel(l), ch-ristabe-ll ] The baby girl name Christabell is pronounced as K-RIHSTAHBEHL- †. The origin of Christabell is Latin.
Christabell is a variant of the name Christabel (English).
Christabell is also a variant of the name Christina (Dutch, English, German, Greek, and Scandinavian).
Christabell is infrequently used as a baby name for girls. It is not listed in the top 1000 names. Out of the group of girl names directly linked to Christabell, Christina was the most popular in 2018.
Baby names that sound like Christabell include Christobell, Cristabell, and Christobelle.
† approx English pronunciation for Christabell: K as in "key (K.IY)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; S as in "see (S.IY)" ; T as in "tee (T.IY)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)"


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I am white. I live in a very white part of town, (Mid-sizedtown, USA) go to a very white church, and hang out with mostly white people. Being white is okay, but it's a little…vanilla for me. Had I gotten to choose the culture from which I sprouted, it would hands down be African-American.
Now let's get one thing straight right here, I am NOT racist. It seems as though that term is launched at every other person who acknowledges that there's a difference between being Caucasian and being Black. I, in no way, mean any disrespect, I just don't see the point in trying to argue that we're all the same. Yes, we're all of equal value, but WE'RE NOT ALL THE SAME. And that's totally awesome! We must acknowledge that this world of ours is made up of a vast array of experiences, skin types, languages, hair colors, and cultural background, and there's so much to be learned from people who had a different upbringing from ourselves. How to fry chicken, for instance. Among other things.
Even though I'm white (on the outside), I have lately been paying more attention to who I am on the inside: BLACK. I'm not a buxom, middle-aged Black woman, with spiral-curly hair, who waves her index finger, arches her eyebrow, and purses her lips when she talks. I am the tall, slender, fashionable black woman, who never wears animal prints. My kinky curls are under control. I'm loud and boisterous only when the situation calls for it, and can manifest the appropriate amount of attitude when people need a good verbal slap across the face.
The problem? I'm not black. But I've been trying a few ways to get accepted into Black culture, and I've hit on some foolproof actions. Follow these 6 steps, and you'll be guaranteed a spot in the club. And in this club, somebody always getting krunk.
1. DON'T ASK PERMISSION. If you ask for permission to join the group, the answer will most likely be no. But if you assume that you're "one of them," no one will ask questions. (This usually goes for most social groups in any setting.) Let's say you're at a crowded restaurant at lunch time, and all the tables are taken, except for one large "communal" style table, almost-full of African-American women. Don't ask "do you mind if I sit here?" Walk right up, pretend you've been friends with these ladies forever, and say "you girls are so sweet for saving me a seat! You be looking out for a sister, I appreciate that." And sit down. Just sit down.
2. USE SLANG. Without being over-the-top. You gotta know what you can pull off. For instance, some people can get away with "B!+@&, while we out hanging at AJ's crib, she showed us her threads she be throwing down the Benjamins fo, and then that new playa of hers roll up, and give this sermon on keeping up wit' all her bling…" Others of you, will have to make do with "girl, when we went to AJ's house, she showed us her expensive clothes, then her boyfriend came in and complained about buying all of her nice jewelry," with a nice "it was cray-cray" thrown in there.
3. DRESS A LITTLE ON THE WILD SIDE. Black women are daring, in ways that us boring white girls would never have the imagination to be. Now, you have to know how to work it no matter what you're wearing, and don't go too far off the deep end. It will look as though you're trying too hard. Whatever you wear, you gotta throw in some attitude.
4. ALWAYS THANK THEM. You're out shopping, and a black woman says that she likes your purse. Don't just smile. Make firm eye contact, cock your head and bit, and say "thanks girl." And if you want extra points, you can throw in a "you know I love me some leather/stripes/buckles/whatever."
5. PUT "ASS" AFTER ANY WORD. You might be offended. But it's true, and you know it. It works. 100% of the time. In fact, this is a great one to start with, since you don't need no have developed any of the other aforementioned skills to pull this one off. "My lazy-ass cat won't even go in the litter box." "Her ugly-ass dress should never have left the store." "That hot-ass barista is looking at you." Even stuff white people like can have an urban flair when you throw this word in.
6. BE LOUD, and LATE. For those of you white folk who are a little too white, this one will be tough. But the basic idea is that you want to speak loud enough to draw some attention to yourself. And always run on CPT. (For those who don't know what that means, you'll have to Google the Urban translation, because if you're white, you're not allowed to say it.)


text: HappyDaze 9,594 Posted April 20, 2013 When I play Relic the game usually seems to be decided in the first 30 minutes and then drags on for another 90 minutes until reaching its predictable outcome. I've only played five times, but only one game was even remotely close. In the other four, one player has cruised to the finish with ease while the others are often still struggling to handle the middle tier. Some characters seem way better than others, and some of the Relics throw the game the moment they show up (trying playing the mission against Corruptis when one of the players has the Canoness and gets the Relic that lets him discard a Corruption card every experience phase). I go into every game hoping for an enjoyable bout, but it has consistently let me down (even in the games where I've won). Most of us can't really maintain any interest in finishing when the outcome looks pretty certain - and when one player is several levels ahead with excellent assets, full life and little or no corruption, it really is pretty predictable. There really needs to be a way that the beaten-down players can draw together to work against the one rocketing through the game, otherwise I fear that I'll keep seeing games where everyone is ready to throw in the towel and simply declare a winner without ever actually finishing another game. Am I the only one having this kind of experience? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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With an increase in the adoption of cloud applications, most organizations today are in some form of hybrid state (i.e. using a combination of on-premise and cloud applications to run their business). Regardless of where the data resides, you need a complete view of the company spanning across different parts of the business, combining insightful data across both onsite and public cloud instances.
In this webinar, we looked at multiple approaches that organizations have successfully used to consolidate data from multiple cloud and on-premise applications and to perform seamless analytics across these varied data sources.


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Here's how to ensure you'll be on the ball in the lead up to Foxtel A-League All Stars versus Manchester United on Saturday 20 July.
Here's how to ensure you-ll be on the ball in the lead up to Foxtel A-League All Stars versus Manchester United on Saturday 20 July.
Foxtel A-League All Stars Starting XI Selector:
Put yourself in the shoes of inaugural Foxtel A-League All Star Coach Ange Postecoglou and select your Starting XI and formation to take on Manchester United.
Live Match Centre:
Whether you-re at the game, watching the broadcast on 7 Sport or you-re forced to keep up with the game via your mobile our Live Match Centre will keep you up to date. Featuring live commentary, match statistics and a minute-by-minute feed of the game, there-ll be no substitute to staying across the 90-minutes than via the Live Match Centre.
All eyes will be on Australia as football fans around the globe tune in. You can follow what-s happening around the world on social media in our Trendsmap. This page will show exactly what is occurring on Twitter during the match from top tweets and hashtags to hot-spots and popular images, videos and links associated with the game.
Win the coin toss competition:
Not only can you win tickets for you and a friend to see all the action of the sold-out clash, the winner of our competition will be on the pitch to facilitate the coin toss between both team-s captains at ANZ Stadium
Pick the score competition:
We want to know which A-League fans know their football by predicting how the teams will finish in our # 'Pick the Score- competition.
Fans have the opportunity to win a Hyundai A-League club membership for Season 2013-14 by guessing the correct match result and telling us why.
Social Media
You can follow all the action on game night through social media by following the official hashtag for the match #ALvMU The official team Twitter accounts are @ALeague and @ManUtd and click here.
There will also be exclusive content on the official team Facebook pages Foxtel A-League All Stars and Manchester United.
Fango FANGO will also be hosting a a hub where fans can chat with other fans using the app, Facebook and Twitter, see the live scores from all matches and catch up on the football news including pre-match interviews with players and coaches.
Football fans will be able to vote using FANGO to select the Player of the Match at the end of the game.


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We offer 'Species-appropriate' horse keeping, in accordance with the latest standards. Each stable has automated feed dispensers programmed to individual needs of each equine. Food is delivered throughout the day allowing the feed to be digested properly and the atmosphere in the stable remains quiet and relaxed. This method of feeding 'little and often' can allieviate bad habits such as crib biting or weaving and keep boredom at bay. Every stable has an a-joining paddock and an automatic fresh water trough that functions even in the coldest of weathers! And the stable floor has under-floor drainage that ensures dry, warm beds and of course, comfortable horses. And to add to our facilities, we have a horse walker, a warm water wash-down area and a solarium. Nearby turn-out areas and grazing all are well maintained and managed with automatic water troughs.
But the centre piece of the Ranch is the light and airy indoor riding arena.
Built to the latest standards, this wider than usual hall, has a base perfect for sliding stops! It's also well equipped for Western Trail practise with obstacles such as the gate, bridge and numerous poles and cones to utilise too.
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I asked Dennis Wills, proprietor of D.G. Wills Books in La Jolla, how he came to be a bookseller. "That's a very long story," he said. "It involves espionage, intrigue, years working for the National Security Agency and for Zbigniew Brzezinski — right before he became Jimmy Carter's national security adviser — encounters in Europe with great bookstores like Blackwell's in London, and, especially, two books that made a deep impression on me, Somerset Maugham's Razor's Edge and James Hilton's Lost Horizon. It also involves my father's illness that brought me back to Southern California after all those years away. Where should I start?"
"How about at the beginning," I said.
Dennis has been selling books in La Jolla for 20 years, first in a tiny, narrow converted office space on La Jolla Boulevard, and later in his present location on Girard Avenue. He collects photos of authors with books in their hands, statues and figurines of people reading books, book presses, and all sorts of other paraphernalia associated with books. There are several paintings and photographs in the store based on a famous painting called The Bookworm by the 19th-century German genre painter Carl Spitzweg, which shows an elderly man, apparently a scholar, on a ladder in front of a row of bookshelves with a book under each arm, one tucked between his knees, and yet another open in his hands. This is a man who can't get enough of book knowledge, and he seems emblematic of Dennis himself.
When I suggested to Dennis that he consider developing a website or at least catalog his rare and valuable books for one of the many used-book sites on the Internet, he looked at me as if I had gone loony. "You know," he said, "someone walked in once and asked if we had our inventory online. 'No,' I told him, 'our books are on the shelves. We walk over to the shelf and look.' Imagine that!"
One of Dennis's colleagues, Chuck Valverde of Wahrenbrock's Book House, at 726 Broadway, San Diego's oldest bookstore, recently underscored the feeling many independent booksellers have today. He likened book dealers to dirigible pilots or carriage makers. Some dirigible pilots learned to fly airplanes, and some buggy makers started manufacturing automobile chassis; others went out of business. Dennis shows no sign of adapting to the new technological realities of bookselling, but his bookstore remains a gathering place for the literati and a must destination for serious book lovers throughout Southern California. As I looked around the splendidly disarrayed yet orderly chaos of his one-of-a-kind La Jolla institution, I felt like I was in the middle of an archeological dig.
Nearly every square foot of space in the store is used. Yet Dennis still manages to host regular literary readings — aisles crammed with folding chairs, usually spilling out into the street — where speakers carry the word to faithful attendees. There is bric-a-brac everywhere: small Chinese sculptures, hand-carved busts, tribal ceremonial masks, a Laurel and Hardy poster, baseball caps, and, tacked all over, photos and letters and yellowed, curled newspaper clippings. Next to the arm of a worn-out easy chair, a pile of six or seven thick dictionaries proclaims the prominence of words in this place. Over the archway that connects one part of the store with another hangs a huge two-man crosscut saw, symbolic, I think, of the trees sacrificed to produce the books Dennis has sold. As if to emphasize this symbol, next to the counter is a circular, five-foot-long shellacked hardwood slab that has served as a podium for authors at his Friday- and Saturday-night readings. Among the writers who have stood at that podium are Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Yevgeny Yevtushenko (three times), and Nobel Laureates Francis Crick and Derek Walcott.
Dennis talks about writers with reverence, and he obviously feels honored to have had these literary figures read and sign books in his store. I asked him why he held them in such esteem. "Because it's knowledge," he said. "We're surrounded here by knowledge. To whatever extent members of our species are capable of understanding our failures or our potential is through knowledge. Our brains are capable of creating the symphonies of Beethoven or Brahms, or works of art that will excite us like those of Picasso or Michelangelo or Da Vinci, or words, stirring words that stimulate our thoughts and carry forth ideas about justice or freedom or individuality, as in the works of Thoreau, or Emerson, or Plato. And then there are characters in novels, plays, and short stories that give these ideas flesh and bones. While Hegel or Kant write very difficult books that only a handful of philosophers are going to fully understand, a character in a Tolstoy short story contemplating good and evil can speak to many more people who do not have serious, rigorous philosophical training." As I listened to Dennis talk about books, philosophy, art, music, and religion, surrounded by his tens of thousands of books, I nearly became convinced that hordes of people are rummaging through The Death of Ivan Illych, hungry for ideas, instead of staring at Who Wants to Be a Millionaire on TV. For him, books have a transformative power, and they certainly have transformed his life.
"I wasn't always interested in books," he told me. "Especially as a young man. I was born in Los Angeles in 1946. My parents came out from Nebraska during the Depression to Los Angeles, and I was their only child. My dad went to medical school in the Los Angeles area, and my mother worked at Newberry's department store. My parents, I guess, were Presbyterian. We didn't go to church that much because my dad was mainly at the hospital on Sunday mornings, and he was interested in sports medicine and sports in general. He ran track and was a pole-vaulter back in Nebraska, and so on Sunday we were never churchgoers in a formal sense.
"I went to California Military Academy for seven years and had a pretty good education there, I guess. Small classes. I lived at home. I did not board. And I went to Lutheran High School, which was then in Inglewood. I played football, in great part because my dad had played football, so I became very interested in sports. I loved football and particularly the Rams." At the mention of the Rams, Dennis became more animated and lively. His face brightened. "After all these years, they finally won the Super Bowl even though they are in St. Louis. There are a lot of us from Los Angeles who fantasize and have the delusion that the Rams are still in L.A., and naturally we were excited about this year's Super Bowl.


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I love a good vision meeting…
A vision meeting sets the stage for the sprint that follows, and when you get it right, it directly leads to a successful project.
Whether you're looking to build your own app or are working with a company like Chepri®, having a good vision meeting agenda offers a great head start. Here, we'll discuss what goes into a productive vision meeting, and provide a basic overview of what a vision meeting agenda should look like.
First though, if you're not familiar with the Scrum or Agile process, I should give you a brief summary.
Sprints are how we measure development time within the Scrum Agile software development framework. A sprint can be between one week to four weeks long. A project can potentially consist of a single sprint or hundreds, depending on the job.
In a nutshell, every sprint has 4 kinds of structural meetings:
- A vision meeting sets goals and the overall direction of the sprint.
- Daily Scrum meetings provide all members of the production team time to briefly discuss their progress and identify any blockers, at the start of each day.
- A review meeting allows the production team to present the work produced during the sprint, and stakeholders to evaluate it and determine next steps.
- A retrospective meeting allows the production team to critique this sprint's process and identify any improvements for the next sprint.
There may also be other project meetings, if needed, but these are the core of Scrum communications.
OK, back to the vision meeting…
Vision meetings are great, because they help us focus on achieving project goals, instead of simply completing tasks.
To see what I mean, let's take a look at a common vision meeting agenda:
Introductions (AKA: Roles & Goals)
We start by briefly introducing all of the stakeholders. This includes anyone who's working on the project, including our production team and usually a couple members of the client's organization – basically, anyone who is key to the success of the project. It's a good opportunity to get to know what skills and knowledge everyone brings to the project.
Setting the Stage Discussion
The client provides a review of the business opportunity and market, including competitive advantages and foreseen challenges.
This gives us insight into the client's goals and gives us an opportunity to ask questions about fundamental elements of the project, even including the business model.
Brand Characteristics
This exercise helps define the image and brand the client hopes to portray to their users.
Some clients will bring an existing brand bible, but many won't have one or, if they do, it's outdated. For those without existing brand guidelines, we like to use the brand deck from branding.cards.
The brand deck is great, because it helps limit the number of characteristics (or adjectives) available. It turns a potentially lengthy and expensive undertaking into a lively exercise most clients can complete in 10-15 minutes. It can take longer, depending on the project, but we've found that for most MVP (minimum viable product) projects, a brief branding exercise gets us the most bang for our buck. If there are any characteristics that are particularly important to the client, but weren't included in the brand deck, we'll add those at the end of the exercise.
Persona Creation Exercise
The client provides a brief overview of the target demographic. Together, the client and production team create personas to cover the primary use cases.
This exercise has some of the greatest variability from project to project and client to client. Some clients will bring existing personas to review, while others have never even heard of them. Hubspot's Buyer Personas are a great place to start, but your project may require more in-depth or simpler personas.
Determine True North / The Elevator Test
Using information already gathered, define the basic foundational purpose of the product.
Here are some of the questions we ask for the True North:
- Who is going to use the product? Who is the target customer?
- Which customer needs will the product address?
- Which product attributes are critical to satisfy the needs of the customer?
- How does the product compare against existing products? What are the product's unique selling points?
- What is the profit model?
Here's the format we use for the Elevator Test:
FOR [target users] WHO [need, opportunity or problem]. [Product Name] IS A [category of product/service] THAT [key user benefit]. UNLIKE [competitor], [Product Name] is [unique differentiator].
User Stories
The production team and the client work together to create and prioritize user stories for the personas we created earlier. What are user stories exactly?
User Stories are part of the Scrum framework. Instead of simply listing desired features, user stories make us accountable to project goals, instead of simply checking off a task. That said, user stories may lead to tasks, but implementation details like that are best left up to the production team. This is the longest part of most vision meetings.
User Stories are formatted like this:
As a [type of user], I want [some goal], so [some reason].
Here's an example:
As a user, I want to add my cellphone number to my profile, so I can receive SMS alerts.
Complex projects may require in-depth work from the project team and client stakeholders outside of the vision meeting, to complete the user stories. Additional user stories may be discovered throughout the sprint. If they are, they go into the backlog to be completed in the next sprint, or if there's still time in this sprint, at the end of it.
Next Steps Discussion
The production team and client determine deliverables and primary goals for the sprint.
At this point of the meeting, it's time to wrap up. We look into the future, set deadlines and review the schedule for the remainder of the sprint.
This is also where we congratulate everyone on a job well done. A thorough vision meeting can be hard work, but if you follow a good agenda (and have some fun with it), it's invaluable to the success of the project.


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In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law.
(Using these words or your own, pray to God.)
Lord, fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may give joyful witness in all I say and do.


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…she's got a client for life in me. I couldn't, wouldn't and probably won't do this on my own.I have never worked out regularly-so at 41, I was overweight and out of shape. Hundreds of dollars in unused gym memberships told me I couldn't do it on my own. When I first started working with Peggy, I still wasn't eating right-but after about 5 months of training, I'd lost 10 inches around my torso.
Peggy understands how women's bodies work, how they age and what we need to get healthy, feel good and look good. She gets to know and genuinely cares about her clients.
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Her workouts never get boring-she understands how to inspire me and when to challenge me. And-maybe most important- she's fun to hang out with. (You don't realize how much that means until you're spending an hour one-on-one with someone a few times a week.)
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London-based property developer The Archives Collective needed identities and stationery for their two emerging property brands: The Archives Collective, and Inigo & Co.
A mandatory element for inclusion in the identity was the pineapple. As a company that places so much emphasis on the strength of its research, the concept of the Grand Tour was an apt metaphor which served as a form of education for young, affluent Europeans. One curiosity of the Grand Tour was the pineapple, which only the most wealthy in turn could serve at their dinner parties. It is also a symbol of hospitality in parts of South America. The pineapple therefore became the heart of the identity for both companies.
Helm created the detailed pineapple device in painstaking detail, which was then foiled onto the business cards. The Archives Collective serves a more prestigious and affluent market, and its cards therefore took a palette of deep navy and gold, whereas the cards for Inigo & Co, with its focus on more edgy developments, featured a more industrial palette of black on grey.
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Climate scientists have told city planners that based on current trends,
So, Chicago is getting ready for a wetter, steamier future. Public alleyways are being repaved with materials that are permeable to water. The white oak, the state tree of
"Cities adapt or they go away," said Aaron N. Durnbaugh, deputy commissioner of Chicago's Department of Environment. "
Across America and in Congress, the very existence of climate change continues to be challenged — especially by conservatives. The skeptics are supported by constituents wary of science and concerned about the economic impacts of stronger regulation. Yet even as the debate rages on, city and state planners are beginning to prepare.
The precise consequences of the increase of man-made greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are hard to determine, but scientists are predicting significant sea level rise; more extreme weather events like storms,
Some of these events will occur in the near-enough term that local governments are under pressure to act.
The reinsurance giant Swiss Re, for example, has said that if the shore communities of four Gulf Coast states choose not to implement adaptation strategies, they could see annual climate-change related damages jump 65 percent a year to $23 billion by 2030.
"Society needs to reduce its vulnerability to climate risks, and as long as they remain manageable, they remain insurable, which is our interest as well," said Mark D. Way, head of Swiss Re's sustainable development for the Americas.
Melissa Stults, the climate director for ICLEI USA, an association of local governments, said that many of the administrations she was dealing with were following a strategy of "discreetly integrating preparedness into traditional planning efforts."
Second City First
Chicago is often called the Second City, but it is way out in front of most in terms of adaptation.
The effort began in 2006, under the mayor at the time,
As a first step, the city wanted to model how global warming might play out locally. Foundations, eager to get local governments moving, put up some money.
"There was real assumption that Chicago could be a model for other places," said Adele Simmons, president of Global Philanthropy Partnership, a nonprofit group based in Chicago that helped bring in $700,000 at the early stages.
Climatologists took into account a century's worth of historical observations of daily temperatures and precipitation from 15 Chicago-area weather stations as well as the effect of Lake Michigan in moderating extreme heat and cold to come up with a range of possibilities based on a higher and lower range of worldwide carbon emissions.
The forecasts, while not out of line with global predictions, shocked city planners.
If world carbon emissions continued apace, the scientists said, Chicago would have summers like the Deep South, with as many as 72 days over 90 degrees before the end of the century. For most of the 20th century, the city averaged fewer than 15.
By 2070, Chicago could expect 35 percent more precipitation in winter and spring, but 20 percent less in summer and fall. By then, the conditions would have changed enough to make the area's plant hardiness zone akin to
But what would that mean in real-life consequences? A private risk assessment firm was hired, and the resulting report read like an urban disaster film minus Godzilla.
The city could see heat-related deaths reaching 1,200 a year. The increasing occurrences of freezes and thaws (the root of potholes) would cause billions of dollars' worth of deterioration to building facades, bridges and roads. Termites, never previously able to withstand Chicago's winters, would start gorging on wooden frames.
Armed with the forecasts, the city prioritized which adaptations would save the most money and would be the most feasible in the light of tight budgets and public skepticism.
"We put each of the priorities through a lens of political, economic and technical," said Suzanne Malec-McKenna, the commissioner of Chicago's Department of Environment. "What is it, if you will, that will pass the laugh test?"
Among the ideas rejected, Ms. Malec-McKenna said, were plans to immediately shut down local coal-powered energy plants — too much cost for too little payback.
For actions the city felt were necessary but not affordable, it got help again from a local institution, the Civic Consulting Alliance, a nonprofit organization that builds pro bono teams of business experts. In this case, the alliance convinced consulting firms to donate $14 million worth of hours to projects like designing an
Mr. Daley embraced the project. He convened 20 city departments in 2010 and told them to weigh their planning dollars against the changes experts were predicting. The department heads continued to meet quarterly, and members of Mayor
Updating Infrastructure
Much of Chicago's adaptation work is about transforming paved spaces. "Cities are hard spaces that trap water and heat," said Janet L. Attarian, a director of streetscapes at the city's Department of Transportation. "Alleys and streets account for 25 percent of groundcover, and closer to 40 percent when parking lots are included."
The city's 13,000 concrete alleyways were originally built without drainage and are a nightmare every time it rains. Storm water pours off the hard surfaces and routinely floods basements and renders low-lying roads and underpasses unusable.
To make matters worse, many of the pipes that handle storm overflow also handle raw sewage. After a very heavy rain, if overflow pipes become congested, sewage backs up into basements or is released with the rainwater into the Chicago River — an emergency response that has attracted the scrutiny of the
As the region warms, Chicago is expecting more frequent and extreme storms. In the last three years, the city has had two intense storms classified as 100-year events.
So the work planned for a six-point intersection on the South Side with flooding and other issues is a prototype. The sidewalk in front of the high school on Cermak Road has been widened to include planting areas that are lower than the street surface. This not only encourages more pedestrian traffic, but also provides shade and landscaping. These will be filled with drought-resistant plants like butterfly weed and spartina grasses that sponge up excess water and help filter pollutants like de-icing salts. In some places, unabsorbed water will seep into storage tanks beneath the streets so it can be used later for watering plants or in new decorative fountains in front of the high school.
The light-reflecting pavement is Chicago's own mix and includes recycled tires. Rubbery additives help the asphalt expand in heat without buckling and to contract without cracking.
The new streets bring new challenges, of course. The permeable pavers have to be specially cleaned or they eventually become clogged with silt and lose effectiveness.
Still, the new construction is no more expensive than traditional costs, Ms. Attarian said. Transforming one alleyway costs about $150,000. But now, she said, "We can put a fire hose on it full blast and the water seeps right in."
Reconsidering the Trees
Awareness of climate change has filled Chicago city planners with deep concern for the trees.
Not only are they beautiful, said Ms. Malec-McKenna, herself trained as a horticulturalist, but their shade also provides immediate relief to urban heat islands. Trees improve air quality by absorbing carbon dioxide, and their leaves can keep 20 percent of an average rain from hitting the pavement.
Chicago spends over $10 million a year planting roughly 2,200 trees. From 1991 to 2008, the city added so many that officials estimate tree cover increased to 17.6 percent from 11 percent. The goal is to exceed 23 percent this decade.
The problem is that for trees to reach their expected lifespan — up to 90 years — they have to be able to endure hotter conditions. Chicago has already changed from one growing zone to another in the last 30 years, and it expects to change several times again by 2070.
Knowing this, planners asked experts at the city's botanical
Off came the ash trees that account for 17 percent of Chicago tree cover, or more than any other tree. Gone, too, are the enormous
A warming climate will make them more susceptible to plagues like emerald ash disease. Already white oak, the state tree of Illinois, is on the decline and, like several species of conifer, is expected to be extinct from the region within decades.
So Chicago is turning to swamp white oaks and bald cypress. It is like the rest of adaptation strategy, Ms. Malec-McKenna explains: "A constant ongoing process to make sure we are as resilient as we can be in facing the future."Continue reading the main story


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Archway is a phonetic scheme to help people of all ages to read, write and spell
Lynda Lunn, RSA (OCR) Dip SpLD, trained as a primary school teacher at Goldsmiths College, University of London and has taught at schools in Oxfordshire, Yorkshire, Surrey and in New Zealand.
She gained her diploma at the Helen Arkell Course, University of Surrey.
Lynda currently teaches students with specific learning difficulties in Berkshire and is a member of the Patoss Teachers' Support Group.
She is married with two grown-up children and two grandchildren.
Both her parents had learning difficulties. The scheme is particularly dedicated to her mother who, despite her difficulties, loved words . She taught Lynda many tricks to help her with her reading and spelling.


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• To reserve a villa we require a two night deposit which may be paid either by credit card (Visa or MasterCard) or by direct credit into our bank account.
• If paying by direct credit we still require credit card details as security for any incidentals that may occur, as per the terms & conditions listed below.
• If paying the deposit by credit card you may use our secure site, or we can send you a copy of our booking form for you to complete & return to us.
• If paying by direct credit then please be aware that if you are doing so from a non-NZ bank account there maybe an additional bank fee (charged by the bank) for the transaction, which needs to be added to the amount of the deposit or final payment.
• If you are using a debit card and not a credit card for payment purposes, I will require some actual credit card details or a bond to be paid to cover any incidentals that may accrue during your stay as per our terms and conditions of your stay (below).
• The deposit will be the first two nights accommodation, which must be paid for to secure your booking.
• Settlement of your bill must be paid approximately 6 weeks prior to your arrival.
• There is no refund of this payment / settelment on cancellation of the booking at any time after this date.
• If the above payment / settelment is not received then the booking will be cancelled with no refund of the deposit.
• Cancellations prior to 6 weeks out from your arrival will incur a 10% administration charge off your deposit.
• We recommend that you invest in travel insurance to cover for any unforeseen circumstances.
During your stay you are expected to take good care of the villa / holiday homes and the chattels therein.
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The Advent Church was constructed in 1859. Nothing is known about its interior and no photographs are known to have survived. A typical arrangement would be the placement of several large chairs along the back of the building facing the congregation which might be seated on plain wooden chairs arranged at will. It is also possible that the church had pews for the congregation.
The deed shows that the Adventist Society transferred ownership of the church building and the land on which it stood to Louis de Goësbriand of Burlington in February of 1876 for the sum of $1,800.
Since the sale transaction for the Advent Church occurred in late February of 1876 and its dedication as Saint Andrew Church occurred in November 30, 1876, all the modifications had to be completed in less than eight months.
The modification of the Advent Church for Catholic worship required a significant expansion of the church structure itself. The overall footprint of the church was probably expanded by between 25 and 33 percent of its original size. About 2/3rds of the new space was devoted to the sanctuary and the rest to the sacristy. The addition was build on to the back of the church — the end farthest from the street. The sacristy had its own entrance from the outside facing the rectory.
Among the internal improvements made at this time were:
The windows in the sanctuary would have been constructed with the addition. It is likely that the windows in the nave of the church were original although it is not clear whether the stained glass was added when the building was renovated for use as a Catholic church of thereafter. Since the donor names on the window are those of early residents of Waterbury including Father Galligan, the first pastor, it is likely that the stained glass was added fairly soon after building conversion if not in the conversion process itself.
We do not know whether there were pews in the Advent Church. If not, they were added at this time. It is also possible that the loft was added at this time.
Another typical furnishing for a Catholic church is the ambo — the place for the proclamation of scripture. There is no indication that an ambo was added in 1876.
The oldest known picture of the interior or Saint Andrew Church
The photograph above is the oldest known picture of the interior of the church. It was taken sometime after 1876 but probably before 1900. From the presence of the Pascal candle, we know the picture was taken during Eastertide. There is one electric light in the middle of the front of the church plus two fairfly primitive lighting fixtures at the entrance from the sacristy and the opposite side of the sanctuary. The latter seem to provide light for those sitting in nearby chairs.
Notable in the picture above is the fact that St. Andrew Church does not have a center aisle as it does today. The original pew layout is almost identical to that of St. Patrick Church in Moretown today. Both churches — St. Andrew in Waterbury and St. Patrick in Moretown — were either renovated or built by Father John Galligan around the same time.
The cross above the left side altar is worth noting. It commemorates a parish mission (probably the first parish mission) conducted by the Redemptorist Fathers in May of 1874. The mission was conducted in Saint Vincent church because what would become St. Andrew Church had not yet been acquired. The mission was probably a week-long event with daily mass and an evening service probably including a sermon and or religious instruction session followed by benediction. As indicated elsewhere, Bishop de Goësbriand was present during this mission. The text at the very top of the cross is "With Him is plentiful redemption" — a passage from Psalm 130 which is now translated as "With the Lord there is mercy and fullness of redemption."
The commemorative cross was probably first displayed in St. Vincent Church and then moved to St. Andrew church after its dedication since it commemorates what was probably a formative event in the history of the parish.
The picture below shows St. Andrew Church as it was before the 1949 renovatons. The picture is thought to have been taken in 1943 shortly after Father John Dwyer arrived.
Father Dwyer in Saint Andrew Church (taken between 1942 and 1949)
Picture 2 shows the front of the first pew on the left aisle indicating that the original pew layout still remains and that the 1949 renovations have not yet been made. However, the presence of the door on the left indicates that some changes had been made during the first half of the 20th century. There are also new statues in this picture as well as what appears to be part of an ambo at the right of the picture.
While it stands to reason that the 1927 flood inflicted damage on St. Andrew Church, there are no records of repairs or renovations.
In 1949, major renovations were done at St. Andrew Church under the supervision of Fr. John Dwyer. In addition to extensive repairs, pews were replaced and arranged so as to provide a center aisle. The center gate in the altar rail has been replaced with a rope.
Saint Andrew Church after the 1949 renovations
In addition, the following additions and modifications can be seen in the picture above:
Since the statues are covered, this picture was taken during Passiontide, the two week period before Easter. The church seems much brighter and less cluttered than in the pictures above.
Also visible is a suspended sanctuary lamp in a style quite common during the 20th century and even today. There are fewer statues in the sanctuary than pictured in the first sanctuary picture. Vigil light stands are plainly visible — a custom that has become rare today.
Perhaps the most esthetically interesting addition brought about during the 1949 renovations is the ambo pictured at the left. The picture shows finely detailed wood carving. Unfortunately, the ambo did not last very long — less than fifteen years.
The altar itself, is the original altar undoubtedly repainted and redecorated. The entire sanctuary appears much brighter as a result of the combined effect white or cream paint and an abundance of daylight from the windows above.
Except for the lighting of candles, the altar is ready for mass to begin. Altar cards are in place at the center and both sides of the altar and the Missale Romanum is on the missal stand.
Similar cards for acolytes are visible at the bottom of the picture as is a bell with a hammer on the right side.
Except for the lighting of candles, the altar is ready for mass to begin. Altar cards are in place at the center and both sides of the altar and the Missale Romanum is on the missal stand.
Similar cards for acolytes are visible at the bottom of the picture as is a bell with a hammer on the right side.
On September 26, 1964, the Vatican Consilium of Sacred Congregation of Rites issued an Instruction on implementing liturgical norms established by the Second Vatican Council. It is usually known by its Latin title Inter oecumenici. Among the norms applying to the sanctuaries of Catholic churches are:
The instruction ordered that its norms be faithfully observed beginning on the first Sunday of Lent, March 7, 1965.
The promulgation of these norms initiated a decade or more of renovations in the sanctuaries of Catholic churches world wide. The most dramatic of the renovations concerned the main altar. Since most existing main altars did not allow the celebrant to face the people, temporary portable altars were installed in most churches allowing time more time to create a more permanent solution.
Saint Andrew parish faced the very same issues. Complying with Vatican norms in a relatively short period of time required the installation of a temporary altar in the sanctuary.
Sanctuary of Saint Andrew Church
While undated, picture 6 was probably taken in 1965. It shows that a temporary altar has been installed while the main altar remains — used only for its tabernacle. The altar rail is still in place as is the sanctuary lamp. The flags seem to be new.
Sanctuary of Saint Andrew Church viewed from the right
Picture 6 presents a slightly different view looking from the right side of the church. It shows a new ambo with poster attached. Also visible is a free standing sanctuary light on left near the American flag.
Sanctuary of Saint Andrew Church viewed up the center aisle
Sanctuary of Saint Andrew Church several years later
In picture 8 the main altar is gone, the temporary altar has been replaced by a permanent one which includes a tabernacle. There are six candles on the altar and the ambo is to the left of the altar. The chairs for the priest and ministers is raised to be visible throughout the church. The walls and the curtain are light blue. The large cross is also new.
Sanctuary of Saint Andrew Church several years later as seen from the right side of the church
Picture 9 shows a free standing sanctuary lamp and a stature of the Infant of Prague. This picture probably represents the completion of renovations undertaken to comply with the norms of the Second Vatican Council. The sanctuary a rather austere in contrast to some of the earlier pictures above.
Other changes were made one at a time over the next few years. In some cases the actual date of the change is not recorded. They include:


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Give us a real world instance I hear you say. OK let's say you are working with the C-Sharp Razor programming language and want to be able check quickly for a series of strings within a URL at different stages of a UX journey. however you didn't want to have to compile a Model or two, a CS file and yet another CSHTML file. Let's just say (well I can say because it happened to me!);
The jQuery(actually it's JavaScript)
$(document).ready(function () { if(window.location.href.indexOf("registered") > -1) { alert("Congratulations you are now a member!"); } });
Developer Note = even if the index is not found, it will return -1, in which case the if condition will pass and execute; using this method, you should explicitly check that .indexOf('registered') > 0. Generally speaking you should search strings with > -1 or >= 0.
Another assumption made here is that you already have the jQuery framework plugged into your web app, otherwise it would be a waste really to reference the jQuery framework just to run a few lines of code.
In the real world you are not going to throw an alert box at your user, that is not unobtrusive! The larger function that this small script may be part of will be using a variable you've set within this function as trigger to set off another function.
What does jQuery have to do with any of this? The whole point of your story, checking if the URL contains a certain string, is done entirely without jQuery. The indexOf method is native JavaScript. Are you really going to load several kilobytes of jQuery to do something as trivial as this?
Remember: jQuery == JavaScript.
Quite right Gatzby, you are right. The inclusion of the jQuery framework is on the basis that you already have it.
I'm not sure if I've misunderstood you, but using the .indexOf method isn't jQuery specific, but something that's been part of JavaScript since version 1.0.
If the substring exists, then it's position in the string is returned – the first position being 0 like the first element of an array. If no occurance of the substring is found then -1 is returned.
Your example code looks correct, but the Developer Note below it is ambiguous.
If the code is going to be frequently run in a tight loop, then a slight performance increase could be to use an inverted identity comparison !== -1 rather than > -1.


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EDIT: /rant: Since I've posted this recipe I've received actual HATE MAIL due to it's raw nature (omg raw beef and egg in one recipe breaks the internet apparently). I have had GREAT health results on raw beef from a trusted local source and a neighbors eggs. As always, you control your source and only make this recipe if those sources are trusted. Knowing your farmer is best. Who knew a recipe that used to be served in every fancy restaurant now makes the internet lose its mind. See first comment by SK below (thanks SK for providing good info and not hate mail!) for actual good advice regarding raw beef. /endrant
It was a hot night and I really wanted to try making steak tartare for the first time ever. I was hungry, craving beef yet not wanting to bbq a steak. I used to love eating raw hamburger or steak as a kid, and I do like my steak rare, but as an adult never had any meat so "raw" before. I was a little intimidated.
Since I've been on zero carb and keto I've wanted a beef jerky snack that I can take with me and needs no refrigeration. Yes, I could buy jerky but the ones without the chemicals and sugar are expensive. Even the beef jerky with sugar is expensive, actually!
So I looked at my freezer full of ground beef – grass fed hamburger and said 'why can't I do this myself?' My ground beef grass-fed jerky was born! And the good thing is, I can flavor this however my family wants. I made mine in my Excalibur dehydrator but it's almost as easy to make this in your oven.
This decadent recipe for deviled eggs will help you get your bacon fix, plus it makes a great party dish, or even a lunch. There are two secret ingredients in this recipe that I use to punch up the flavor…
I got the idea to "keto-ize" this super easy chocolate mousse from a recipe that I saw linked from the Lifehacker site. This is a great dessert for a ketogenic diet because it stretches 1 stevia sweetened chocolate bar into 3 really nice sized satisfying servings. Also you don't really need any additional sweetener, although you could add more if you wanted to. Sometimes, simpler can be better! I made this recipe as-is and the result was fabulous, barely sweet with my favorite brand of stevia sweetened chocolate. The fina sugar free dessert is both dense and fluffy, which is a very pleasing combination!
Best yet, this dessert is only 4.5 net grams of carbs per serving, which are from the sugar alcohols. I eat 1/3 of this recipe at a time and it does not kick me out of ketosis. Try it with some marcona almond slivers and celtic sea salt sprinkled on the final product, it's amazing!
This amazing, versatile low carb salad is the accidental product of my laziness. I was trying to come up with a keto paleo sushi (really sashimi) hand roll using seaweed snacks but was having problems with them holding together. After struggling awhile (and having to eat my soggy failures haha), I decided WTH I'm just going to combine all of the ingredients and call it Keto Paleo Sushi Sashimi Salad, with Sriracha dressing and seaweed snacks "croutons"! Wow that's a lot of S's!
Many recipes in Eat Fat Lose Fat call for Crispy Nuts, and they are also great to eat plain as a nutritious snack. Crispy pecans, almonds, macadamias, peanuts, and cashews can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature; the omega-3 content of walnuts makes them susceptible to rancidity, so store walnuts in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Skinless almonds are recommended, as the skins can be irritating to the digestive tract, even when soaked.
These coconut oil 'candies' or 'fat bombs' as some people call them, are incredibly useful for evening sugar cravings. They can be made extremely low carb with your alternative sweetener of choice (I prefer xylitol/stevia mix for these), and they are great to have in the fridge for when you are in the throes of a craving, or just great as an evening snack. It's hard to explain but these seem to satisfy something in my body and I can just feel myself going 'ahhhhhh… I'm better now'. Maybe it's the combination of the cocoa powder and coconut flakes together working it's magic. Whatever it is, I'll take it!
I love Thai food. So. MUCH. So when I saw this recipe in the Eat Fat Lose Fat book by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig., I jumped at it! An easy soup with Thai flavors that takes less than a half hour to prepare and cook? And, it tastes like something you would get in a good Thai restaurant? I'm all for it! It also fits very well into Paleo/Primal, Keto (ketogenic) or even a Whole30 plan
I love curry. SO. MUCH. It's actually ridiculous how much I love it. And once I learned how easy it was to make at home, I rarely even order it in restaurants. My daughter is also addicted and could eat this curry every day if I made it that often, which I could if I wanted to because its so ridiculously easy.


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