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WATCH: Fortnum's Honey Harvest London Rooftop Bees
WATCH: Fortnaums Honey Harvest
READ: "Sweet treats: bid for some rare Fortnum & Mason honey"
Interview with Steve Benbow, the founder of London Honey Company
What could we be doing for bees in London?
'I am often asked about what planting individuals could establish for bees across the capital. Honey bees especially love mature trees as a nectar source. Limes and acacias are particularly important but sycamores, chestnuts, hawthorns and blackthorns are good too, however although the planting of these is an essential thing, they do not provide instant bee fodder.'
What should we be planting?
'I recommend early pollen sources such as crocuses, snowdrops, daffodils and bluebells which are excellent early pollen yielders, pollen is rich in protein and fantastic for young bee growth. The autumn is also a key time, with ivy and buddleia providing late nectar flows, allowing the colony to build up for the barren months ahead. London is 65% green space but I believe there could be greater nectar sources and safe havens.'
What if I don't have a garden?
'If, like me, you have no garden or roof terrace, then I'd like to introduce to you "guerilla gardening". Have you ever thought that your local roundabout looked a little shabby or a local patch of wasteland needs beautifying? If so, just grab some wild flower seeds and scatter. We have just started selling bee bombs here at Bee HQ. When soaked they resemble a soil hand grenade and are fantastic as they contain everything you will need to start your own little wild flower patch – just soak and chuck.
Anything else?
'You could also persuade your local park or open space to reduce or stop their use of pesticide – the cumulative affect on bees is now well proven and catastrophic. There is a real move to make London free of these terrors, like Paris already is, and the sooner it happens the better. Persuading local authorities to make everything less manicured is also important, not only for bees but other wildlife such as butterflies. Long grasses are a haven and can also look wonderful. I passed Blackheath common the other morning and it had the most amazing white clover covering it… two days later it was fully trimmed! Finally, it's been a terrible year for honey production in the UK so where possible try and buy local or British honey.' Sonya Barber
For info about Steve, see thelondonhoneycompany.co.uk
[Click here to read the original article via Time Out London]
WATCH: But Live It Slant
by Charlotte Heikendorf
'But Live It Slant' is a short film about how we connect to the environment, set in an apiary in London. The film looks at the role bees can play in the lives of human, seen through the eyes of two urban beekeepers.
Urban bee-keeping talk at Petersham Nurseries
The buzz around urban beekeeping
London's Jewish Community Centre is doing its bit to ensure a sweet new year with a campaign to promote urban Jewish beekeeping. Community members are being encouraged to run their own hives to combat a dramatic decline in honey bee populations…
"I have always been fascinated by the bee world," she said. "But it's not like chickens where all you need is some space and some grain. I'm so grateful this opportunity came up."
Alison Benjamin, who runs the course with Brian McCallum, said: "It's really important to start keeping bees in cities, there's more of a diversity of flowers and plants. You can taste that in the honey. In the country, there are fields and fields of the same crop. In a city it's warmer and more sheltered.
"Bees can also be great for community cohesion. Some schools in south-east London have used beekeeping as a way of keeping kids calm because you have to be very careful and thoughtful when dealing with bees."
New North London Synagogue also has plans for a hive of its own."We think it's a great way to bring people together and teach important lessons around sustainability that are rooted in our faith," said executive director Claire Mandel.
Billboard poster design for the plight of the honey beeeee
My Revolution. Saving bees in Central London.
Urban beekeeping is increasingly popular around the world, with many cities lifting bans on inner-city beehives. London, in particular, has made a name for itself as a haven for urban beekeeping—even if some beekeepers are skeptical about the city's efforts to fund inexperienced bee enthusiasts. It's not just the city government that is stepping in to support London's bee population either—in fact a major corporate-sponsored program is helping would-be beekeepers to learn the skills they need…
From supporting research into Colony Collapse Disorder, through distributing wildflower seeds to customers and its own farmers alike, to providing direct funding and support for amateur beekeepers, this initiative always looked like a major step beyond your average corporate outreach effort. The video below would seem to confirm this, visiting urban beekeepers who have directly benefited from the Cooperative Group's support.
Click here to read the full article on treehugger.com
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Call the Food Network, Port Richmond Podcaster Nicole Yates Is Onto Something!
In 2013, Nathan Roman Kuruna and his wife, Teagan, launched the first-ever Philadelphia Podcast Festival. The city's podcast scene was small then, with 12 radio-savvy hosts laying down the internet groundwork for what would become a quick-growing community of indie digital-audio storytellers.
Now in its fourth year, Kuruna reports that 33 local podcasters have signed up to participate in the festival. For the annual event, podcasters take their shows out of the online oblivion and allow listeners a chance to put a face to their audio and catch them daringly unedited. The fest has even expanded to four venues — Tattooed Mom, Art Church, Moonshine and Amalgam Comics — and two back-to-back weekends (Aug. 19–21 and 27–28).
For the fest's first weekend, we hit Frankford Ave.'s Amalgam Comics to catch the raw action. The comic book-flooded venue acting as the backdrop for seven live podcasts including Port Richmond's own "DidjaEat?" hosted by stand-up comic and six-year food blogger, Nicole Yates. The 40-year neighborhood vet took to the stage with a select group of equally funny guests to talk food memories, Wawa vs. Sheetz and regional culinary stalwarts. The food-blabbing crew even underwent a live taste-test of gimmicky foods that are currently hitting grocery aisles.
Of Yates' guest host posse, we became acquainted with Philly comedians Aubrie Williams and Samantha Russell and BenFM & WMMR DJ and Northern Liberties resident Kristen Herrmann. The female pack, each with seemingly unique food quirks and obsessions, barreled through an hour-long discussion that was cushioned with Yates' questions that were targeted for the always-hungry. "What summer foods have you enjoyed this season" and "what one dish did/does a member of your family do best?" were floated out among the many.
Yates started the podcast two years ago as an offshoot of her food blog with the same name. "Food makes the world go round," she said in response to sticking with a talking-food shtick for her podcast. "At first, the podcast was just about food," she said. "Now, I talk to people I find interesting — but food is still always in there."
The "DidjaEat?" podcast has hosted an impressive guest list through its short two years, including NYC's Katz Delicatessen owner Jake Dell, the Grey Lodge Pub's Mike "Scoats" Scotese, Miss Rachel's Pantry's Rachel Klein and Tony Luke Jr.
Food snobs, be warned: this podcast takes a lighter approach. "While I am extremely serious about a small number of things, I don't take anything seriously — including myself," said Yates. "While I love food, almost to a fault, I also like to find the fun in it and that's just like in my stand-up, where I go with the silliness in everyday life. When I started the podcast, I figured I would just be me and the humor came along for the ride."
During the live podcast, Yates and troupe busted out good-humored topical discussions like drawing the comparison of Wawa to Democrats and Sheetz… "well, that gets into Trump territory," Yates remarked. We discovered that it is possible to eat 25 of Charlie's Hamburgers, a Delaware County staple, in a weekend and that you could identify bread and butter pickles as the "General Tso's chicken of the pickle world." We even learned it is possible to have an embarrassing collection of Hi-C Ecto Cooler "like you're saving it for a Ghostbuster apocalypse" and apple butter is just plain confusing. "It's not a butter, it's a jam," they collectively said. Then, there was one of the sweeter moments of the podcast, about Yates' grandmother having made one of the planet's best German potato salads. "It had big chunks of bacon — that's why she is dead," she chuckled.
If you've spied Key Lime Pie Oreo cookies, maple bacon or Orange Crush Pop-Tarts or feta-flavored Wise Kettle Cooked Chips and were curious how they tasted, you'll have to tune into The DidjaEat?'s episode for the cast's pro review. You can also catch all Yates' 21 episodes on iTunes (search "The DidjaEat? Podcast") or visit didjaeat.com.
You can still catch the second weekend of the Philly Podcast Festival, unfolding Aug. 27–28. For the full schedule, visit www.phillypodfest.com. •

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Ernest Shackleton led his infamous trip to Antarctica aboard a boat he re-named the Endurance after his family motto: Fortitudine Vincimus (by endurance we conquer). A painfully apt name as Shackleton and his crew survived twenty months at the bottom of the world, an endurance feat we never want to get near. Endurance is also an apt name for these Castelli Bib Shorts, as they're made to survive epic bike rides.Castelli makes no secret of their design ideas when it comes to shorts. Start with the chamois and build from there. These share many design traits with the top-shelf Free Aero Bib Shorts without sticking you with the same kind of price tag. The pad you sit on is Castelli's Progetto X2 chamois. It's a three-layer stretch pad. The top layer is soft and seamless bacteriostatic polyester fabric that wicks moisture away from your body. Underneath the top layer is a perforated viscous comfort pad located directly under the sit bones and the perineum to neutralize those high-pressure areas. The final layer has variable thicknesses. It's micro-thin at the edges and increases in thickness en route to the thickest area, under your ischial tuberosities. The legs have Giro++ grippers, just like the Free Aero Shorts. Pronounced "Giro Two" in Italy, or "Giro Due," this is a single-layer gripper that integrates gripping material into the fabric as the shorts are being made, so you can barely feel them even though they hold firmly. This technology is pretty cool; they've taken 43% Lycra content fibers and stitched them inside PowerLycra, which is 24-28% Lycra. As you stretch the material, the 43% fibers start to appear on the inside. Giro++ grippers are soft and rubbery and grip great.The body of the shorts have been simplified. They use an eight panel design to wrap around your body. The front and rear panels are made from Action PowerLycra, which is highly abrasion resistant. The side panels are made of Energia LycraPower. It stretches more horizontally than vertically so it offers good muscle compression. The ribbed knit surface also helps a bit with aerodynamics. The bib is a Lycra mesh that's thin, breathes well, and has great stretch.While they simplified the design a bit, there are still smart design flourishes. Four-needle flatlock stitching works great and helps maintain the compression. The rear shorts panel that moves from your glutes up your back until the mesh takes over is also a savvy touch. Because of this, they fit better, closer, and they also wick better.The Castelli Endurance Bib Shorts come in Black, Red, and White. There are reflective inserts on the back of the leg grippers. They come in sizes from Small to XX-Large.
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Day 17: Should You Change the Name of Your Podcast
It happens – you run with a podcast name and after ideas
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It happens – you run with a podcast name and after ideas
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When I was in High School drama club working on the semester's
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Have you been resisting the YouTube factor? Your podcast is audio –
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A couple weeks ago I had a fellow podcaster say they did
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Carlin had the seven deadly words. Words that most podcasters do avoid
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"Rosebud" – Citizen Kane Have you ever watched another show, heard something
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|S69-31739 (May 1969) --- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has named these three astronauts as the prime crew of the Apollo 11 lunar landing mission. Left to right, are Neil A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.
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S: My Life in Short
FC: My Life in Short
1: Dedication: I dedicate my book to those whom without, I could have never made this super wonderful mixbook project - my parents.
2: Table of Contents: Setting... page 3 Exposition... page 4 Irony... page 5 Symbolism... page 6 External Conflict... page 7 Theme... page 8
3: Setting - The context and environment in which a situation is set; the background. The most familiar setting of which I have become accustomed lies just beyond the border between Pennsylvania and New York. In the small town of Pine Bush, much of which is inhabited by dense and untamed forest and underbrush, lies the humble five-acre abode of my aunt and uncle. I use the term humble very loosely, and mostly sarcastically, because it is far from humble. As you enter their 300-foot driveway you pass by roaming fields and a full size pond, and you're sure to be greeted by the family chocolate lab, Tobias. Although I don't technically live on 128 Basel Rd., the accumulated hours I have spent on the premises definitely earns me the title of tenant. Each summer I spend my days with my cousin enjoying the bounty of the land. Two years this summer's prior we were being particularly woodsy, partaking in the construction of a woodland fort. All was well in our world; we had just finished building a drawbridge when brilliance dawned upon us. Pillows, stuffed with a soft moss growing on the center tree of our hideout! What could have gone wrong? After hours of chopping and stuffing, we had two perfectly soft pillows. However, it wasn't until early that next morning, that we had realized our triumphs were misguided and deceiving; the plant we had stumbled upon was poison sumac. I have never been in more pain; however, I have yet to have as much fun as I did when I was infected. Basel Rd. holds many good memories, even if they weren't so in the conventional sense.
4: Exposition - The first part of a composition in sonata form that introduces the themes. My beginning is something that will never change, and will remain unaltered for as long as I am remembered. My mother, Danielle, and my father, Daniel, already had a child when I was conceived, my sister, Emily. She was five years old when I was born, and given the choice my parents decided not to know the sex of the baby, which lead to her believing she was going to have a baby sister. My father, who at the time wanted nothing more than another Emily, gave this prediction. This is something I, to this day, am teased about on occasion. However, in the wee hours of the morning in Holy Spirit Hospital in Middletown, NY, my mother gave birth to me. On August 7, 1998 at 1:21 A.M. I, Jakob Daniel Sanchez, was put into the world. When described, I often times am referred to as a miniature sumo-wrestler, for I was as fat as I was long, and as short as I was fat. To my relief, I was not shunned away for not being a female, but perhaps embraced even more for just completing our family. Emily loved to have me around to use as a doll with her friends, a belief she most likely revoked sometime around the 9th grade. Nevertheless, my family never stopped loving me and made me into who I am today.
5: Irony - incongruity between what is expected to be and what actually is, or a situation or result showing such incongruity. Irony, a word whose correct usage is often thrown by the wayside due to either a lack of knowledge or laziness to find something of actual ironic stature, is rather interesting to think about. When you rack your brain for moments in your life, you may also find a period of time in which something you do now seemed impossible or ridiculous. The humor associated with irony comes from the mock sarcasm it is usually delivered with, to whom it is occurring and what it pertains to, and how well you know the person. My anecdote does not contain mock sarcasm, nor do you probably care or know me very well, despite that fact, your choice to read my Mixbook, so now you're stuck with me. The story begins up in the northernmost region of Maine; I'd tell you where, but due to the shear minuscule nature of the town it would mean nothing. So, in this speck of a border town in Maine is where I first began to skate. I was three years of age and loathed it! I couldn't understand why anyone would want to make inside, the place where you go to escape cold, even colder. The day was fraught with torrential crying, streams of mucus, and bruises, and due to my stubbornness, I refused to use the walkers, specifically engineered for people learning how to skate. The tears did not originate out of pain, but instead out of pure frustration. After that day, I wouldn't accept defeat and practiced at it as hard as I could. I didn't do this because I enjoyed it, but because I wanted to prove to myself that I could. Nine years later, I partake in organized ice hockey and am proud to say so. I grew to love the game, more than anything else. Despite my initial hatred, if Maine had been an interesting place with more than one sport I might have never started playing. And, to this day, I plan to make it to the NHL.
6: Symbolism- The practice of representing things by means of symbols or of attributing symbolic meanings or significance to objects, events, or relationships. A wristband is a simple accessory to many. However, to me, I know a wristband can mean so much more. I have a band in particular that holds deep sentimental meaning to me. It was a gift given to me by a dear friend of mine. That wristband rest snug upon my forearm for four consecutive years, only to be removed to get into water. I wore it not because it was fashionable or because it possessed demonic powers, but for the sole reason that I wanted to. The solid black weave background represents the strength of my friendships and bonds, where as the overlying red stars symbolize the goals I aspire to accomplish as well as the heart and ambition and drive of which I possess. I wore the band as a symbol of my loyalty to my friend, but also as a symbol of loyalty to myself. I challenged myself to wear the wristband for as long as possible, and I did not quit despite its decreasing structure. Not unlike my hockey anecdote, I did not give up despite obstacles and challenges faced. I kept my word, and what is man if not for his word? Nothing.
7: External Conflict - struggle between a person and an outside force. Conflict is a paradigm of brother-sister relationships; on occasion, however, my sister and my quarrels turn violent. One particular incident fell on midday on a rainy Saturday. Having been trapped inside all day, tensions were heating up between the two of us. A simple transaction occurred next, but escalated far beyond necessary. I had crawled over to the spot where my sister sat engrossed in a television show and snagged the remote out from underneath her. A fire lit in her eyes as she lunged after me, tugging and shoving me, until she finally prevailed in recapturing her precious clicker. Having just had the crap beat out of me over a remote, I became mad enough to retaliate. I had run upstairs to fetch my wooden bow and arrow, and by the time I returned Emily had already disappeared into HGTV. I drew an arrow from my quiver, loaded it onto the string and fired an arrow right next to her face - these were not point-tipped arrows. I debated whether to flee or fire again, but by that time, I had focused back on reality; she was on top of me. What she said to me, I'm unsure, but after a period of yelling, she resorted to beating me with my recently fired arrow. An arrow made out of oak, tipped with an eraser top-like item, broke over my arm and chest not but a few minutes into the onslaught. She dismounted and went back to her regular programming, as I lay there shocked and in pain. The moral of the story is never fight your sister over TV rights or you will get hurt.
8: Theme - a unifying or dominating idea, motif. Associating a theme to a 13 year olds life may seem a little tricky; however, there seems to be a consistent theme in mine. The theme of my life is persistence, to never give up, to give your all for everything and if failure rears it's ugly face get up and try again. I never gave up on hockey or any other of my sports; if I faced an obstacle, I would try my hardest to bind it. Without persistence, none of my talents or skills would be at the state that they are now. Nor would any of the greatest scientists or innovators have gotten anywhere if not for persistence to try new things and find what works best. When I was learning how to ride my bike, I kept pestering my mother to remove the training wheels, despite having never ridden without them. After she cautiously agreed to remove the only things stopping gravity from taking its course, I straddled the seat and just began to ride. Riding a bike came very easily to me, but it only got easier and better with time. Excelling at a staple part of my transportation wreaked numerous benefits early on and even more so once I began to venture out on my own. Where would we be without the questioners, the thinkers, the people who don't take no for an answer, where would we be without persistence?
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What I did was, I selected (but didn't buy) 50 domain names and placed a link to one of them on 50 sites I already have in the Google index. Six weeks later - I waited until a PR update had been - I actually purchased the domains and sure enough, they all had PR3-5's from the moment they came online.
Now a pratical application I drew from this was pre-empting pages I was going to create in the future and creating links early. For example: I run a newsletter and every week the page created on the site is named after the date - e.g. 23052004.html - and it takes Google a while to index these and rank them. NOW what I do is, create links to pages I'm going to have in the future and then when they are actually created they are listed AND ranked within 48 hours. This also seems to bypass the 'Sandbox Effect' as the pages did not drop over a two month period of tracking them.
So if I create links to newsletter pages I intend to create in August - e.g. 01082004.html, 08082004.html etc. NOW, when the time comes to actually write them I will already have PageRank and Google will have had the URL in it's index for three months so I shouldn't be hit with 'Sandbox'.
Like I said, this worked in that PR is instantly attributed when the domain/page comes online. It also seemed to have bypassed the Sandbox (if it does actually exist) as rankings stayed within the top 5 for two months straight.
You may have guessed from this that I am Anti-Sandbox and I think Google's results have become very stale since it (or whatever it was) was introduced near the beginning of this year. Therefore I'm always trying to find ways to jump the queue. I'm an avid user of Google, I just wish they wouldn't screw around with such daft ideas.
Consider that Google bombing works on Google and Yahoo even though the keyword appears nowhere on the target page. And consider that if you sell a domain that once ranked on top for a keyword, and the new owner of the domain does not use that keyword at all because he's doing a different type of site, his domain will nevertheless rank for your keyword forever and ever, Amen.
And that's after four months of redirects and an additional 14 months of "not found" for all content requested that was once on the original site.
I've seen pages rank number one for a keyword and they are simply an empty Unix root directory. Then I look it up in Alexa and discover that the directory has been empty for over a year.
The problem is that links, and their anchor text, are considered sacred by Google (and Yahoo), without any cross checking of whether the link or anchor text is valid. A 404 "not found" will eventually get a page removed from the index. But the juice from external linking remains in cyberspace through link rot, and there is no effort by the engines to clean up or validate this residue.
It requires too much overhead to run this sort of cross-checking, apparently.
If you control a few websites, and if you cloak or use hidden links so that your normal readers aren't distracted by non-working or irrelevant linking, you can build up an entire virtual empire of Google ranking juice before the first eyeball ever meets with any actual content.
One thing I have also noticed is that it's easier to get a higher PR sites by using less competitive keywords. This may be common knowledge, but I just came acrros it by accident (I think so anyway). For example if you have a website about tasty soup and use 'tasty soup' as your main target words, but if several other sites are aiming at this you may only ever reach PR6, but if you have 'taste soup' it's highly probably this could get higher than PR6 with no other changes needed. Anyone else noticed this?
When the site is developed and ready to launch the sandbox would be cleared :)
IMO its better to buy the domain and put atleast one page , rather than not buying/hosting the domain
> Don't put it online before you have a
> quality site to put online. It's worse
> to put a "nothing" site online, than
> no site at all. You want it flushed
> out from the start.
Seems that, the times they are a-changing...
Stuartc1 , PR is nothing to do with a subject of the page ... Its just a mathematical representation of the quality of link refrences a particular webpage have - Read the
famous paper [www-db.stanford.edu] written by Larry and Sergey when they were poor ,inncoent and virgin :)
We assume page A has pages T1...Tn which point to it (i.e., are citations). The parameter d is a damping factor which can be set between 0 and 1. We usually set d to 0.85. There are more details about d in the next section. Also C(A) is defined as the number of links going out of page A. The PageRank of a page A is given as follows:
PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))
IMO its better to buy the domain and put atleast one page , rather than not buying/hosting the domain.
Okay, I thought it would have been quite clear but I guess I'll have to explain it. The object of not buying the domains was to ensure that they were no other influencing factors in the PR other than the links I created six weeks before. I was NOT suggesting that you don't buy the domain until you've had links for six weeks - I only did it for the purposes of the experiment.
it's easier to get a higher PR sites by using less competitive keywords
Are you confusing PR (PageRank - the google green bar) and PR (Page Rank the ranking you have on the search engine results page)?
But yes, I agree that Brett's advice of not placing a site on the web until it's ready is good advice from a user point of view - BUT Google has created some sort of (useless) Sandbox and this forces webmasters to find ways around it.
Apparently Sandbox is supposed to weed out auto-generated spam pages or something but it is just NOT WORKING, all it does is make Google look stale! (Sorry, I had to shout that but Google are a little too interested in IPO right now to hear about their search engine.)
Stuartc1 , PR is nothing to do with a subject of the page ... Its just a mathematical representation of the quality of link refrences a particular webpage have - Read the
famous paper written by Larry and Sergey when they were poor ,inncoent and virgin :)
Sorry, I never explained it very well. What I was meaning was linked keywords. And I know PR = green in the toolbar.
I was thinking that it may be possible to get a higher PR if by using less competitive linked keywords (other sites linking to you), that way you have a better change of being number 1 in the search results (which in turn might go towards PR as a bonus!). OK, so this may be wrong, who knows. But Im not even going to bother reading some out dated articles, because we all know the rules change every couple of weeks (at least)....
Me too caveman , remember the good ol "-link:" command? :)
>> which in turn might go towards PR as a bonus
stuartc1 , obviously you can rank relatively easy for less competitive terms with good anchor text links , on page optimisation , some PR etc .
But PR is nothing to do with anchor text or competitiveness or the subject of the page or of the linking page... Its just a matamatical representation of how many pages linked to you and how important (PR wise) they are .Period
I beleive you are still confusing with the PageRank (PR) with SERP ranking!
Remember Brett's excellent "Successful site in 12 months with Google alone"?
> Don't put it online before you have a
> quality site to put online. It's worse
> to put a "nothing" site online, than
> no site at all. You want it flushed
> out from the start.
Flushed out, or fleshed out?
In any case, what is the value of links to nowhere? Sure it takes a while for the Googlebot to come by and find the links, and more time for the new links to be processed and placed into the index... but if these are real links to non-existent future pages, how many of your site visitors attempt to follow them only to get an error? Is the benefit worth the aggravation to your site visitors?
I have a feeling that the ability to do this is about to go away.
I certainly hope so, why do you think I'm announcing this? This was a great secret that I could use to get my pages ranked months before I release them/write them.
But I'm sick of Sandbox and anything I can do to point out to Google that it sucks (like telling everyone ways around it) might get them to actually try fighting spam instead of simply delaying it.
In any case, what is the value of links to nowhere? ... how many of your site visitors attempt to follow them only to get an error? Is the benefit worth the aggravation to your site visitors?
Good point but obviously I wouldn't be placing the links in user's reach, just in Googlebot's. Another example is one of my current sites. It has over 500,000 pages which were only uploaded two months ago. Googlebot is taking forever to find them and currently I'm only at 3,000 pages in their index. (BTW - Yahoo is storming away at 30,000!)
Now six months ago when I started that project I already knew what all the page names were going to be. I could have created sitemap pages linked to from the main page and left them there until the site was ready to go online. Therefore, right now Google would have that majority of the site in it's index and ranked already.
I think when he said he has a feeling the ability to do this is going to go away, he was referring to the ability to do what you've brought up, not the sandboxing.
The sandboxing will be here to stay. It's like this, why should a 1 month old domain/site rank higher than a 6 year old one that has consistently had the same rankings and built links up slowly over the years? I'm not saying there are no reason why the new one shouldn't but, it is somewhat safer to prevent a new site from skyrocketing to the top.
As to why they would fix this: It would be relatively easy for G to address, and things like this (i.e., having domains ranking without sites behind them) are the sorts of things G might prefer not to have people writing about at the present time...or any time, for that matter.
Like caveman said - "It would be relatively easy for G to address, and things like this" - so what are they doing right now?


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A mortgage clerk works for a bank or other lending institution, and works with all aspects of mortgage loans, from original paperwork and disbursement to accepting monthly payments, as well as many other duties. While a mortgage clerk is not considered to be an entry-level job, it is still a fairly low-level job, and a minimum of experience is required. Generally, formal education beyond high school or a two-year degree in a related field is not a requirement either.
Policies may differ in various banks regarding lending and employment practices, as well as job duties performed; however, many responsibilities of a clerk are similar in some institutions. A loan officer will typically make a decision regarding the approval or denial of a mortgage, and will then pass the paperwork on to a mortgage clerk, who may then enter the information into a computer system. The mortgage clerk may be responsible for generating documents informing customers and insurance companies of the mortgage information and payment plans.
The clerk may also be responsible for checking all mortgage documents, including deeds, to be sure they are in compliance with any escrow requirements, lending policies, or laws. The clerk may also need to write letters to other institutions, companies, the government, or homeowners as needed to communicate information. He or she will typically also need to be able to answer customers' questions regarding their mortgages, when they call the bank.
Processing loan payments is also a large part of a mortgage clerk's job. When a payment is received, the mortgage clerk must correctly allocate the funds to interest and principal, as well as any additional insurance or tax payments that must be made as part of an escrow agreement. The clerk may also be responsible for checking weekly or monthly reports generated by the bank to ensure correctness in various loans.
These are just a few of the duties of a mortgage clerk. One who succeeds in this job may be able to be promoted to the position of loan officer, which generally comes with an increase in pay and responsibility. Mortgage clerks may work full or part time at a bank, and will often work fairly normal hours, and have weekends off, along with benefits such as health insurance or vacation time. For those who are responsible and have a great attention to deal, a career as a mortgage clerk can be very rewarding.
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by Ray LaHood
I'd like to thank the folks at KDOT, not just for inviting me to write another blog post, but for making such a strong commitment to road safety through this 20-day run-up to Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day.
Safety is our number one priority at DOT, and events like Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day are a great way to remind everyone of the simple steps they can take to make our roadways safer for everyone who uses them.
Fortunately, people are listening. In 2010, traffic fatalities dropped to the lowest levels since 1949, and that's in spite of Americans driving 21 billion more miles than they did last year. In the region covering Kansas as well as Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, and Nebraska, fatalities dropped by 2.6% from 2009.
But, as anyone who has lost a loved one in a traffic crash can tell you, any number of fatalities other than zero is too high. If one of the 33,000 people killed on the road last year was one of your friends or family members, then you know all too well that we cannot rest on our laurels.
Other writers on this blog have talked about common-sense ways that you can keep yourself safe while on the road. Candice Breshears and Bill Self talked about the importance of wearing a seat belt. Rick Heinrich talked about not drinking and driving. We've tried to echo this with national awareness campaigns like "Click It or Ticket" and "Over the Limit, Under Arrest."
I'd like to focus on the epidemic of distracted driving. Whether it's visual (taking your eyes off the road), manual (taking your hands off the wheel) or cognitive (taking your mind off what you're doing), distracted driving slows your reflexes and puts you at much greater risk for a crash.
In fact, almost 5,500 people were killed and 500,000 more were injured in distracted driving crashes in 2009. And those aren't just statistics--they're parents, children, neighbors, and friends.
Our ongoing series, "Faces of Distracted Driving," shares some of their stories. The videos feature families from all across America who have been injured or lost loved ones because a driver was texting or talking on a cell phone behind the wheel. These people are proof that distracted driving can have tragic consequences for entire communities.
But the speakers in these videos don't just want to share their stories and be done with it. They're committed to reducing the number of traffic fatalities to as low a number as we can get. Many people--like Amanda Umscheid of Manhattan, Kan.--have used these tragedies as springboards to action, encouraging young drivers to put their devices away, urging their communities to sign pledges, or testifying in state legislatures on behalf of distracted driving bans.
While we've made significant progress on road safety issues over the years, we still have plenty of work ahead of us. That's why we need the dedicated folks who are part of Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day to keep up this terrific effort to remind people to drive as safely as possible on October 10, and every day.
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Staying healthy takes plenty of hard work, dedication and sacrifice. This is why most people find it hard to stay fit. Fortunately, there are a few clever tricks you could use to make it much easier to improve your health and fitness.
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If you find it hard to drink the recommended amount of water throughout the day, a water bottle may be the cheap, yet effective, health resource you need. Get a clear water bottle and divide it into 200 ml intervals that correspond with each hour in the day. This will make it much easier to stay on track with hydration. By early evening, you'll already have gotten the magic 8 glasses.
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While consumer electronics (like your phone/tablet) have definitely made life easier, the convenience comes at a cost. Such devices have blue-tinted light that stimulates daylight, which means your brain stays awake when you use them for a while. This ultimately affects your sleep. You should thus swap your phone for an old-fashioned alternative (like a book or a magazine) that doesn't rely on electricity. Setting your phone's screen to turn yellow after dusk could also help.
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Getting enough vitamin D lowers your vulnerability to illnesses like diabetes and prostate cancer. It also helps you sleep faster and deeper, besides enhancing your testosterone levels. So take some time to sit in the sun every once in a while. This will give you all the vitamin D you need, at no cost whatsoever.
Kick off Your Shoes Once You Get Home
Walking barefoot can work wonders for your fitness. In humans, the feet contain just over a quarter of all the bones in the body. There's also the massive network of nerves and ligaments that support these bones. So take your shoes off more often; this will greatly enhance your foot mechanics, besides reducing the pressure on your knees and hips.
Life is messy, busy, and full of unexpected surprises. So why contribute to the chaos by making fitness harder than it needs to be? Incorporating these tips into your life will not only save you time and money, but from potential headaches down the road as well.


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Issue 1 June 2017
Learn how women incarcerated in Peru are creating Carcel fashion statements being seen across Europe. Hear the latest Alpaca Owners Association news from the new Executive Director Bud Synhorst. We fight back against the unfortunate Senator Flake incident and his take on "tax loopholes." Discover Alpaca Partners and how they're pairing special needs kids with alpacas for greater good. See Monster Felt with your own eyes and learn what it took to create it.
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Alpaca Direct Co-Founder Testifies at U.S. Senate
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British Alpaca Society Judges Recertification
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"The defining moment for me to become a Realtor was when I heard countless stories from fellow soldiers - peers, subordinates, and superiors alike - complain about feeling like they should have gotten more out of their transaction, or feeling like they were not taken care of," Dey says. "I decided to take a more proactive role to help remedy the situation."
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"I have the highest discipline instilled in me to provide outstanding service to each of my clients, regardless of their real estate needs," he says. "I will continue to work as hard as I can from first contact until well after the transaction is complete to make sure they are 100 percent satisfied."
It is this connection to his clients that means the most to Dey. Every day he makes new friends and neighbors.
"What I love most is the interaction with other families in the community and being able to explore and discover new neighborhoods," he says.
Dey is a local and a graduate of Pine Forest High School and Campbell University. He knows the area well. He and his wife Cary have two children.
In his free time, Eric enjoys hunting, fishing, golfing and physical training. He is a member of Bladen Union Baptist Church and participates regularly with the church brotherhood to provide community service for those in need.
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Once your products are in your orders should have begun pulling in as well. Check the Orders page to confirm they are there and hover over the Sync Status to check that they have all downloaded to your Veeqo account.
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Books-A-Million Interview with Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples and the Saga #46 Cover Reveal
Here at Books-A-Million, we really like to geek out when it comes to comic books, graphic novels, and manga. So when Image Comics gave us the opportunity to interview Brian K. Vaughan, the creator of the award-winning Saga series, and reveal the cover for Saga #46, I jumped at the chance.
With the release of Saga Volume 7 at the end of March, Alana, Marko, and Hazel's story is still fresh on my mind. So I sat down with our resident comics expert – Spencer Simpson – and worked out a list of fanboy questions for Brian. Brian – always a good sport – gave us some amazing answers that worked as a perfect introduction to issue 46 cover.
BAM! Interview with Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples
BAM: Brian, I'm really interested in the creative process between artists and writers. Each collaboration seems a bit different. Can you tell me a bit about yours and Fiona's creative process?
Brian: For any of you process nerds out there, we describe this in obscene detail in the back of our first hardcover, but here's the condensed version of how we work. Before each new storyline, Fiona and I talk on the phone (or in person, if we're at a convention or something) about the general themes we're going to explore with the next arc. I also like to know what Fiona loved or hated drawing in previous issues, and what she might like to tackle next. I then write pretty detailed scripts for her that provide all of the dialogue and describe how I see each panel, but Fiona always has plenty of freedom to make changes or reinterpret my suggestions, since she's much smarter than I am. It's a very tight collaboration, but we also have enough trust to give each other a lot of space to do our respective jobs alone in our quiet rooms.
BAM: Are there any specific times something came back from Fiona that changed something you planned?
Brian: This happens a lot. The most significant time was when she sent over her very first image of The Will and Lying Cat. In my mind, they were going to be a fairly traditional duo of amoral bounty hunters, but Fiona instantly imbued them both with so much sympathy and complexity that I knew they were going to be much more important to Hazel's story than I had originally planned.
BAM: Fiona, you effectively do all of the artwork for Saga from illustrations to lettering. You're also well known for creating in a digital medium. What tools and programs do you use when you're working on Saga?
Fiona: I work on an iMac with a Cintiq pen display. I do the pencilling and inking in Manga Studio (now branded as Clip Studio Paint), and all the colour work in Photoshop.
BAM: Are there times when you prefer working physical medium vs. digital?
Fiona: Definitely! I actually do all my layouts with paper and pencil, before scanning them into the computer. And I fill up a lot of sketchbooks with rough drawings. But I don't tend to do finished artwork on paper- my inking skills aren't developed enough to get fast or consistent results. Over the last decade I've put way more time into practicing digital art, so it's both more practical and more enjoyable to work that way.
BAM: Brian, although you've spoken about it before, do you mind letting us know what led to you writing Saga? This story, in some form, has been with you a long time, correct?
Brian: I had been imaging a version of the war between Wreath and Landfall ever since I was bored in class in grade school, but I never dreamed of writing a story set in that universe until I had children. That's when I realized that an epic sci-fi-fantasy tale would be a great way to talk about the joy and terror of parenthood in a way that would hopefully be relatable to anyone who's ever tried to create something new, whether that's a kid, a song or whatever.
BAM: Brian, I know you've described Saga as Star Wars for perverts, but you and Fiona have navigated away from many of the typical science fiction tropes that occur in alien, world, and even galaxy building. Can you tell us about the influences that inspired the creation of characters and the artwork? Are there other authors and illustrators you owe homage to in Saga?
Brian: Man, I really regret making that "Star Wars for perverts" joke! I love the films of George Lucas, among many others, but I'm much more influenced by my own family than I am by the works of other creators.
Fiona: Brian's also called it "Star Wars meets Game of Thrones," but I like to think of it as "For Better or For Worse meets Starship Troopers."
BAM: Lying Cat is a fan favorite. However, it's a silent cat for the most part. Effectively, it says one word. There's a lot of non-verbal communication that occurs with the character. Why do you think Lying Cat has become such a popular character? Did her popularity surprise you?
Brian: I'd originally described Lying Cat as "a spotted space panther," but as soon as I saw Fiona's genius image of that giant hairless blue house cat, I had a suspicion that L.C. was really going to resonate with readers. It's a fun concept, but like everything in Saga, it's Fiona's interpretation that elevates it to something special.
Fiona: People love cats!
BAM: what's been the most impressive cosplay you've seen from Saga fans?
There was a Prince Robot IV with a working television-face that still floors me. But we've got another costume contest in the back of an upcoming issue of Saga, so I expect our readers to raise the bar even higher this year.
BAM: Fiona, you've created absolutely beautiful artwork for Saga and some really iconic covers for the book. Is there a specific cover you've created for Saga that was especially rewarding or challenging?
Fiona: We've done two special wraparound covers: one for issue 25, and one for 37, for some reason. So those were a montage of our whole cast and a big battlefield scene, respectively. They were more work, but fun to see in print.
BAM: Brian, you stated early on that Saga should be a comics-only story. You wanted to make sure it was so outrageous it couldn't be made into a movie or TV series. Can you explain that mindset? Do you still feel that way?
I like adaptations just fine, and if the right filmmakers ever presented us with a way to do Saga as a film or tv series, I suppose Fiona and I would be open to it, but it's still not a priority at all. I think comics are a vastly superior visual medium to either film or television because we can simultaneously do the boundless spectacle of a big-budget summer Hollywood blockbuster AND the sophisticated adult drama of a great ongoing cable series. Too many new comics feel like they're just somebody's unsold spec script. I wanted to make something that celebrated the kind of storytelling our medium can still do better than any other.
BAM: Fiona, beyond Saga, are there any exciting projects for you in the near future? Any characters or worlds that you've really wanted to do but haven't had a chance to yet?
Fiona: I'm concentrating solely on Saga right now! I fit in the occasional cover, though- most recently a rather sexy Orc Dave for an upcoming Rat Queens one-shot. It's an amazingly funny fantasy series and I did a cover for their very first issue, so it was fun to dip into that world again.
BAM: We're caught up through Volume 7, which came recently. There are some major deaths (No Spoilers!) and in Saga – unlike in a lot of Comics – characters tend to stay dead. Can you talk to us about the process for allowing a character to die, about what leads to that decision?
That's life, right? Sooner or later, we're all going to die, and there's no coming back. Fiction used to exist to help prepare us for this inescapable tragedy, but over the years, as characters in popular fiction became "intellectual property" owned and controlled by corporations, these creations became too valuable to ever "die," and I think the whole idea of death in stories became cheapened. But because Fiona and I own and control Saga completely, we can be cruel and vengeful gods, like authors used to be.
BAM: Fiona, have you ever tried (or maybe even been successful) in saving a character Brian has put on the chopping block?
Fiona: To me, every character death basically takes a month to happen- from when I first read that issue's script, to when I finally wrap up the art and send it off. So I'm kind of dwelling on it the whole time that I'm working on the issue. It feels bad. But that's how I know the story is pretty good.
BAM: Brian, do you have a firm ending for the series in mind? You can also just tell us it will go on forever, we'd be happy with that.
Ha, thanks! I've always known what the last line of the last page of this series will be, and Fiona and I have even discussed a possible date for when that ending might take place, but I can say that it's hopefully still a very long ways off.
BAM: Fiona, without spoiling anything, can you give us a little insight into the cover for issue #46? We're so excited to be able to reveal it here, but we're nervous about what the content may mean for the characters.
Fiona: This is a bit of a departure from our typical character portrait! The family is in need of some back alley medical services, so we went with some ghastly-looking antique instruments and one spacey thing.
Don't forget to grab your limited edition Saga prints!
Saga #46 Cover Reveal
Saga creators Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples provided Books-A-Million the exclusive cover reveal for Saga #46. The newest issues continue the story of Marko, Alana, and Hazel, each hunted for the terrible crime of love amidst a war torn galaxy.
Need to get caught up before new Saga issues drop? Make sure to grab your volumes, books, and special prints at Booksamillion.com.


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City Council
The Olathe City Council will meet Tuesday, Dec. 1, at 7 p.m. in the Council Chamber at City Hall for a regular session. Regular sessions are broadcast live on OGN (Comcast channel 7, AT&T channel 99 and on the City's website). For a recap of the previous Council meeting, visit the City Clerk's webpage.
WinterFest and Mayor's Christmas Tree Lighting Friday, Dec. 4
It's time to kick off the holiday season at the annual Olathe WinterFest, Friday, Dec. 4, at the Olathe Community Center, 1205 E. Kansas City Rd. The event begins at 5:15 p.m. and is highlighted by the Mayor's Christmas Tree Lighting at 6:45 p.m.
The WinterFest schedule includes:
- 5:15 p.m. – Visit with Santa, view Olathe Public Schools choir performances, enjoy free activities, face painting, and booths featuring the Mayor's Christmas Tree Fund recipients.
- 6:45 p.m. – Join Mayor Michael Copeland and special guest, Fox 4 Meteorologist Joe Lauria to light the Olathe Mayor's Christmas Tree.
- 7:15 p.m. – Watch "Elf" in the Olathe Community Center gym. Bring blankets only please.
Free park and ride service will be available from Olathe North High School, 600 E. Prairie St. For the complete schedule of activities, visit www.OlatheKS.org/ParksRec. Continue reading
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This is a very interesting video by Jeremy Bennett explaining how the power of the mind works. I am convinced that after watching this video you will be very careful about what you think about.
Let's compare your mind to the most sophisticated man-made device ever created, the computer. The average computer can hold about 250,000 pictures, 20,000 songs and hundreds of full length videos, nowadays, on something the size of my finger. Crazy!
But let's compare to your mind, your mind can perform an estimated 10 quadrillion operations per second without you even knowing it. Wild! Ask yourself right now, what's making your blood flow through your veins with the perfect amount of pressure to keep you alive? What's making your heartbeat right now? Are you consciously commanding your heart to beat right now?
Our thoughts create us!
Choose your thoughts wisely.


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Please read the following booking conditions carefully and make sure you understand them before booking your holiday as reservations are undertaken by Tailor-Made Journeys Pty Ltd trading as South America Travel Centre on the basis that you have accepted these conditions.
1. Basis of Contract
1.1 Acceptance:
Payment of a deposit indicates the Customer's acceptance of the Booking Terms & Conditions.
1.2 Varied Terms
Different Products may have specific terms and conditions, deposit requirements and cancellation charges applicable to each product. These will be communicated during the quoting and booking process.
2. Booking Your Latin America Holiday
2.1 Quotes
We can provide a written quote in relation to a price for your Travel Arrangements. The quote is *valid for a period of 7 days.
*Please note some prices may be subject to confirmation when booking a long time advance.
2.2 Deposits
A non-refundable deposit of 20% of the total of the land arrangements or $1,000 per person (whichever is the higher amount) is required to confirm your booking. Flight arrangements will require additional deposits or payment
in full. If you are booking an Antarctic cruise there will be additional/specific deposits (usually 20% of the voyage cost) just for the cruise.
We also require your full names as per passport to secure the booking. There may be additional deposits depending on the policies of the Supplier of Products being booked. Any additional deposits will be advised at time of booking.
2.3 Late Bookings
Booking requests within 75 days prior (125 days for Antarctica cruises) to your departure must be accompanied by full payment and may be subject to additional fees.
2.4 Itemised Pricing Not Available
Travel Arrangement prices are quoted for the entire package of services and itemised component costs cannot be given.
3. Tour costs
3.1 Costs are based on 'ground costs', airfares and exchange rates at the time of booking. While we make every effort not to increase prices, increases in hotel rates, airfares, entrance fees, fuel costs or increases in ground operator or government fees may occur and we reserve the right to amend our prices prior to having received full payment for your booking. Acceptance of this arrangement is an express condition of making a booking. If the 'ground cost' does increase your Australian dollar price will be calculated using the exchange rate used at time of booking, i.e. there is still no currency surcharge.
3.2. No Currency Surcharge Guarantee*
Once you have paid your deposit we Guarantee not to apply a currency surcharge.
*This does not apply to quotes/bookings made in US dollars, e.g. Antarctic or Galapagos voyages or other product sold/quoted in US dollars.
4. Not included in your tour costs
Airfares unless otherwise stated, visa and passport costs, travel insurance, excess baggage, airport departure and ticket taxes, laundry, postage, telephone calls and items of a personal nature, vaccination and medical expenses, meals
not mentioned in the itinerary, beverages, and gratuities are not included.
5. Insurance
It is a condition of booking with South America Travel Centre that you take out comprehensive travel insurance for the full duration of your holiday. We suggest that you take out insurance at the time of booking and that the policy should include, but not be limited to, the following features: loss of deposit through cancellation; injury; death; theft; loss of luggage and personal items; curtailment of tours en route; medical expenses; cancellation of advance purchase airfares; additional expenses to cover hotel accommodation and repatriation costs to Australia should your tour need to be extended or curtailed due to illness while overseas, or due to a need to return because of an unexpected death or illness of a close relative.
6. Changes and Transfers
Should you wish to change your booking after confirmation has been advised, a fee of $75.00 per booking will be levied on each change made. Any changes requested by you after final documentation has been issued will incur a fee of $150.00 per booking plus any other fees levied by hotels, ground/cruise operators and/or airlines. We will do our best to process and obtain confirmation for your changes but it is important to realise that changes, especially close to departure date, can take some time to confirm and some may not be possible. If you wish to transfer to another tour operating within
12 months of your original departure date, the following charges apply:
Transfers made more than 70* days prior to departure – $220.00 per person plus any applicable airfare charges.
Transfers made from 70 days up to original day of departure – charged as per cancellation fees.
*Many cruises and some lodges, in particular in the Amazon, Patagonia, Atacama and Antarctica, require transfers to be made up to 120 days prior to departure. You will be advised at time of booking of the individual conditions.
7. Itinerary variations
It is possible that circumstances beyond our control may necessitate a route or itinerary change and, in the event of such an occurrence, we reserve the right to cancel or re-schedule tour departures and itineraries. Where it is necessary to change a hotel, we reserve the right to substitute accommodation of a similar standard. No refund will be available in the event of an itinerary or hotel change.
8. Cancellation
If it becomes necessary for you to cancel your tour, you must notify us in writing. Upon receipt of your notification, cancellation will take effect. If cancellation occurs 70 days* or more prior to the scheduled departure you will forfeit your deposit and be liable for any penalties levied by hotels, ground/cruise operators and/or airlines. If cancellation occurs 69 days or less prior to the scheduled departure no refund will be made. Notwithstanding that, South America Travel Centre will, if possible, and at its sole discretion, consider refunds as circumstances reasonably permit.
*Many cruises and several lodges, in particular in the Amazon, Galapagos and Antarctica, require cancellations to be notified 90 to 180 days (dependent upon operator) prior to departure. You will be advised at time of booking of the individual conditions.
Force Majeure
South America Travel Centre has the right in the case of force majeure (e.g. war, uprising and, natural disasters, abnormal/exceptional weather and ice conditions, legal stipulations of the local/regional authorities and other "acts of God") to cancel your trip. South America Travel Centre may not be held liable for any claims made due to force majeure. If situations of force majeure occur during the trip, South America Travel Centre or its representatives will try to offer an alternative program. If this should prove impossible, either South America Travel Centre, its representative or you are entitled to cancel the trip. In such a case, South America Travel Centre cannot be held financially liable.
South America Travel Centre or your travel agent is obliged to assist you in obtaining a return transport/flight; however, in such case you are responsible for any costs incurred. South America Travel Centre is not liable for costs incurred by you in preparation of the tour, nor for reservations of travel components (such as, but not limited to, flights, hotels, connecting programs, travel insurance), which are booked elsewhere in combination with the arrangements booked with South America Travel Centre.
9. Refund/unused services
No refund is available for cancellation after travel has commenced. If you make any alteration to any portion of your holiday while you are away, costs incurred by such alteration will be at your own expense. After the holiday has commenced, no refunds are available for any services/ground content provided in the tour price but not utilised by you for any reason.
10. Health and immigration
It is your responsibility to inform South America Travel Centre of any pre-existing medical conditions and/or disability that could reasonably be expected to affect your booking (consideration should be given to any conditions that could be exacerbated by travelling at altitude; Cuzco, Lake Titicaca and La Paz in particular), as well as the enjoyment of others on the trip.
You may be asked to provide an evaluation of your medical condition and/or disability by a certified medical practitioner (it is a condition of booking a trip to Antarctica that all clients complete a Medical Form). Based on this evaluation, South America Travel Centre reserves the right, at its reasonable discretion, to refuse your participation on a trip and/or cancel your booking.
You should familiarise yourself with any health or visa requirements that may be applicable in the areas you intend visiting, and you shall be responsible for all exit, entry, health and other documents required by laws, regulations, orders, demands or requirements of the countries visited or transmitted.
You shall carry a valid passport at all times. Passport, visa and vaccination requirements are not our responsibility or that of your agent and we are not liable for any loss or expense due to your failure to comply with the above.
11. Consular Advice
We recommend you contact the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (www.smarttraveller.com.au) for current official travel advice concerning the countries you will visit.
10. Common Sense
Common sense and ordinary care before and during travel must be exercised. We cannot be held responsible for problems, damage or loss of enjoyment brought about by a lack of reasonable care, understanding or attention by you.
12. Documentation
It is your responsibility to check all air tickets and vouchers immediately upon receipt and to contact us immediately if you believe any bookings have been made incorrectly or necessary documentation has been omitted. Please note that route maps provided by us are for general information and may not necessarily indicate exact routes. South America Travel Centre has done its utmost to ensure that all tour descriptions, information and documentation issued is accurate in any printed or online media, brochure or publication. This information provided is given in good faith; however, things change and some of the information may become out of date. South America Travel Centre shall not be liable for any injury, damage or loss caused by any unintended inaccuracy.
13. Airline Responsibility Clause
South America Travel Centre brochures and web site are not issued on behalf of and does not commit any airline whose services are used in the course of our tours, such services being subject to the airline's conditions of contract.
14. Responsibility
These booking conditions form part of the general conditions. Payment of a deposit is an acknowledgement that you have read, understood and accept the terms and conditions of Tailor-Made Journeys Pty Ltd trading as South America Travel Centre and that we act only as an agent for carriers, hotels, ground operators, coach companies and suppliers of other travel services (suppliers) used on these tours. All bookings are subject to the terms and conditions of the liability imposed by the other suppliers, some of whom limit or exclude liability in respect of death, personal injury, delay, loss of or damage to baggage. All tickets, vouchers and documents are issued subject to the terms and conditions under which the suppliers provide the services. We accept no responsibility for carrier-caused delays, schedule changes, sickness or accidents. You accept that you may be travelling through areas of political or climatic instability, high altitude and remote areas, and areas without proper medical services, and you accept the associated risks. Should we deem it desirable for political, climatic or other reasons to amend or vary any itinerary we may do so by shortening, varying or completely re-routing the trip in which case no objection will be made by the participant. You authorise the company and its suppliers to take all necessary action in respect of medical treatment and emergency evacuation and agree that all associated costs are to be paid by you. The terms and conditions are incapable of alteration or waiver by us or any agent and by making a booking you, your next of kin, heirs, administrators and executors accept all the conditions of contract and are bound by them.
15. Customer Service
In the unlikely event that you should have a complaint about your services offered by South America Travel Centre, we urge you to bring this up with your guide, the tour/expedition leader or company representative immediately so that we can attempt to rectify the issue. If at the end of the trip you feel that your complaint has not been adequately dealt with, please notify us as soon as possible, and no later than 30 days after the end date of the services South America Travel Centre has provided.
16. Privacy & Publicity
You agree that South America Travel Centre may use images taken of you, without recourse and/or compensation to you. Such images will only be used for promotional and publicity purposes in whichever media South America Travel Centre finds appropriate. In order to supply services to you, South America Travel Centre needs to collect certain personal details from you. This information will be disclosed to our suppliers and representatives for the purpose of organising and operating your tour or expedition but will not be used for any other purpose. More information on publicity and privacy can be found at: www.southamericatravelcentre.com.au/privacy
17. Law of Contract
This contract shall by governed by the laws of the state of Victoria, Australia and any legal action arising from it shall be only under the jurisdiction of Victorian courts.
Tailor-Made Journeys Pty Ltd trading as South America Travel Centre, Level 3, 116 Hardware Street, Melbourne Vic 3000 Australia
Telephone 1300 784 794 Fax: (03) 9642 5454
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"Timeline" Appears on Forthcoming EP and Full-Length LP
"unadulterated, all-star straight-edge hardcore" - DECIBEL
Listen to the new Test of Time track, "Timeline", now on the Decibel Magazine Blog. This track appears on the band's forthcoming EP A Place Beyond which will be available May 20th and is up for pre-order now in the B9Store. This three-song pre-release EP includes this exclusive version of "Timeline" which features guest appearances from fellow Massachusetts edgemen Pat Flynn (Have Heart), Brian Connors (Caught in a Crowd), and Sweet Pete (In My Eyes) as well as the songs "Audible" and "Perception".
Additionally, Test of Time's first proper full-length is coming this summer from Bridge Nine. Titled By Design, this album was recorded via a partnership between the band themselves for guitars and vocals and Q Division Studios for drums. Songwriting topics on By Design include similar themes to the band's previous work: vegetarianism, perseverance, and one's own personal growth and change. By Design is Test of Time's landmark effort, and this album will be available July 22nd, 2014 on all formats from Bridge Nine Records.
Test of Time was formed just about two years ago by a group of friends with mutual admiration for both straight edge and hardcore punk music. Their mission early on was simple: to create music a little different than what was dominating the Boston hardcore scene. Test of Time succeeded in doing so, and wrote and released their debut EP Inclusion and followed that up with their Bridge Nine debut EP The Price in September of 2013. In conjunction, Test of Time played high-profile shows along the Eastern Seaboard and went on to tour Central America in the Fall of the same year.


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The Territorials 1908-1914: A Guide for Military and Family Historians
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The Territorials 1908-1914 is a unique, comprehensive record of the part-time soldiers who made up the Territorial Force that supported the regular army in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War. Previously information on the history and organization of these dedicated amateur soldiers has been incomplete and scattered across many sources but now, in this invaluable work of reference, Ray Westlake provides an accessible introduction to the Territorial Force and a directory of the units raised in each county and each town. The origin, aims and organization of the Territorial Force are described as well as the terms of service, recruitment, equipment and training. But the bulk of the book consists of details of over 600 Territorial units plus a comprehensive account of every city, town or village associated with them. Essential information on the all the infantry formations is supplied, but also covered are the yeomanry, the artillery, the engineers, the Royal Army Medical Corps and the Army Service Corps. Ray Westlake's historical guide of the Territorial Force – the forerunner of the present-day Territorial Army - will be of enduring value to military and family historians.


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Daddy's Money
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