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I know about backlinks – also known as incoming links, inlinks and inbound links or inward links – and why they are important in terms of your blog's ranking. Positively and negatively.
I understand that knowing more about my backlinks and their quality is an important part of any search engine optimization (SEO) strategy.
But I know also that I don't know nearly as much as I should. And what is more problematic is that I don't know what I don't know.
Which says to me that my sites might be missing out on an improved ranking, just because I'm not paying attention and taking appropriate action.
One reason I know that understanding the whole backlink thing is that my China-based friend and colleague, Lonnie B. Hodge, who is a search specialist, refers often to backlinks and their importance.
And as I'm scheduled to record a conversation with Lonnie this afternoon, I thought it would be timely to do some checking in my own backyard, starting with my Des Walsh dot Com site on WordPress.
I discovered some interesting information and had a couple of surprises.
My checking used three types of tools:
- the list of backlinks you see when you log in to the admin section of your WordPress site
- the list provided by Technorati on your page there
- various automatic backlink checkers you can find with a Google search.
In this post I'm focusing on what I learned from the WordPress site.
When you go log in to the admin section of your WordPress site, it should open at the Dashboard. You see a column of recent comments on the left and a column of Incoming Links on the right as in the screenshot below.
What I found today, as the screenshot shows, were:
- a link from the Disaboom site where my friend Glenda Watson Hyatt, a.k.a. The Left Thumb Blogger mentions me – and links to Des Walsh dot Com – in the context of talking about going to Las Vegas for BlogWorld & New Media Expo
- a link from my partner Suzie's Abundance Highway site, where she is recounting a conversation she and I had and linking to the Des Walsh dot Com site
- a link from a site which has evidently copied, without attribution, a post which Suzie had sent to our colleague Liz Strauss for her Successful Blog site and which had a link in it to Des Walsh dot Com
- a link from the typepad Hacks site of John T. Unger who posted about speaking at BlogWorld & New Media Expo and specifically about the panel he and I are on
- a link from the mybloglog page of "Tangos", who had left a comment on Des Walsh dot Com
How have I used this information today?
- I left a comment on Glenda's post: this was a good thing to do, first because I wanted to publicly acknowledge my friend's mention of me and secondly because it is about conversation and I coach people to spend time commenting on other's posts so as to be part of the conversation
- I mentioned the apparently unauthorized copying discovery to Suzie, who sent a message to Liz Strauss: interestingly, the person who owned the site had left an easy trail back to his Facebook page!
- I decided to check out my backlinks on Technorati – with somewhat more startling and disturbing links. To be revealed in the next post in this series!
- also I used a few of the freely available online backlink checkers – that will be a third post.
What's your strategy or practice with managing your backlinks?
What am I missing that would make me more effective in this department, if you wouldn't mind sharing?
Latest posts by Des Walsh (see all)
- Work from Home to Navigate Your Future - April 2, 2020
- "Dress" or "Undress" for Success as a Home Based Entrepreneur? - February 8, 2020
- My Break from Blogging - September 17, 2019


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Kora jewelry creates a collection from unexpected objects
L.A.-based designers Maxandra Short and Amy Walker tap into unexpected materials that make their 2-year-old jewelry line Kora both eco-friendly and supportive of several communities in Africa.
The designers repurpose discarded cow bone from the Ankole cow (a common food source in East Africa), as well as the horn of the cow, to create their collection.
The metal used in the pieces comes from old car parts or pots and pans, which are melted down and used by the women to wrap around horn bangles or bone pendants.
They've recently collaborated on a necklace with "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo" actress Rooney Mara, who works closely with a charity called Uweza. Uweza tries to stabilize the lives of families living in the Kibera slum in Kenya, the area where Short and Walker also employ a team of craftspeople to create a majority of the Kora line.
All of the proceeds from the sale of the necklaces will benefit Uweza. "We wanted to do something related to the area we were working in," Short says.
The necklace has a pendant made from the Ankole cow bone, wrapped with recycled metal and retails for $95. Available at koradesigns.com.
Read more about Kora and other jewelry lines that utilize interesting found objects to create jewelry.
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Photos: Kora necklaces to benefit the Uweza Aid Foundation. Credit: Kora

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Silicon sponges are really interesting makeup tools. Some women have been raving about it, unfortunately, I'm not one of them. I still needed to use my brush to completely blend my foundation. But on a brighter note, I think, this is good for foundation application.


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The next Xbox console will still have a physical disc drive, says Xbox head Phil Spencer.
Speaking to GamesIndustry.biz, Spencer reiterated the company's goal of giving players choice with all its services, and that extends to the new Project Scarlett machine.
He adds that he believes digital has certain advantages, but the firm is not about to force gamers down the 'all-digital' route.
"Yeah [physical discs are part of our future]," he says.
"We know, because we see it, that more and more players are buying digital. We think the experience in certain instances, specifically if I am away from my console and everything is on my hard-drive with the entitlements are all there, there are some scenarios that are easy. But we know that people still have discs.
"So even when we put out things like the Xbox One S All-Digital edition, we are very clear with the name because I am not trying to confuse anybody, that if you are somebody that has a library of discs, or that's the way you want to acquire the content, then you should buy the Xbox One S, not the Xbox One S All-Digital... which is why we put it in the name, and yes I know it says SAD.
"I want to be very descriptive, because I am not trying to confuse anybody about what the options are. I want to give people choice, and right now physical is a choice that millions of people love."


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- Scotland's justice minister on Monday defended his much-criticized decision to free the Lockerbie bomber, as the U.S. State Department said that it disagreed "passionately."
- A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that the Los Angeles County coroner has ruled Michael Jackson's death a homicide. Dr. Conrad Murray, Jackson's personal physician, is the target of a manslaughter probe headed by Los Angeles police.
- The Iranian-backed Shiite parties that helped propel Iraq's prime minister Nouri al- Maliki into power three years ago dumped him Monday as their candidate for re-election. The move set the stage for a showdown within the Shiite coalition that has dominated Iraq's government since the fall of Saddam Hussein in 2003.
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The Ecosocialist Resources column is published at irregular intervals. It features links to new articles, reports, talks and videos that are relevant to Climate & Capitalism's mission and goals.
Inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement, or that we agree with everything (or even anything!) the item says.
Capitalism by blowtorch: Climate change meets economic growth in Vietnam
The impact of government policies directed toward profit maximization, industrialization and modernization of all commercial, industrial and agricultural sectors and continued export growth, dictate an emphasis on short-term expansion rather than on longer-term planning, equity and sustainability.
Chris Williams
Economics of transporting and processing tar sands crude in Quebec (pdf)
Tar sands proponents claim that Quebec will benefit from transport and processing of tar sands crudes, notably in terms of lower fuel (gasoline) prices and economic development (jobs and other spinoffs). In fact, more involvement in the tar sands would provide few (if any) benefits for Quebec, but would expose Quebec to substantial risks, costs, and negative environmental impacts.
Goodman Group
Greenpeace Canada / Equiterre
Obama's new emissions plan is a trick that will let the planet burn
His supporters greeted it as a dramatic step forward in the fight against climate change. But the plan is far less ambitious than it sounds. The only ones who really have much to celebrate are the bosses of fracking companies.
Dave Sewell
Socialist Worker (UK)
Obama's emissions plan won't cut it
The Obama administration hopes its too-little-too-late plan will convince people who care about climate change to support the Democrats in the 2014 elections, even as Obama may well approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline after the midterm elections. But as five and a half long years of nothing has proven, the Democrats won't follow through on their promises to protect the environment.
Socialist Worker (US)
Oil-by-rail on trial in Canada and Maine
The explosive growth of oil by rail traffic in the United States and Canada and the failure to do anything about safety except tinker around the edges of the matter all but guarantee that the string of oil train crashes that followed the Lac Mégantic tragedy will continue. And that's without addressing why oil production is expanding in a climate-warming world.
Roger Annis
A green-syndicalist responds to a 'socialist' defense of nuclear energy
Nuclear power reinforces the monopoly capital model. The future of socialism, if it's going to have any future at all, is going to be democratic and decentralized, not concentrated into the hands of a technocratic elite, the type of governance model that nuclear power presupposes.
Steve Ongerth
IWW Environmental Unionism Caucus
Climate change, carbon trading and societal self-defense (pdf)
Carbon markets have opened up new investment opportunities particularly for finance capital and a range of new career paths, but have contributed next to nothing to climate change mitigation. To avoid dangerous climate change, other policy means need to be applied as soon as possible.
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Chris is an Associate Professor in Hate Studies at the Centre for Hate Studies, which is based in the Department of Criminology. For almost two decades, he has been researching Islamophobia, counter-extremism and counter-terror, and wider issues relating to the 'problematisation' of Muslim communities. This has included researching the experience of street-level victims of Islamophobia, the anti-Islam ideologies of the far-right, the impact of counter-terror legislation, and how the British Government engages with Muslim communities. His research has also focused on wider issues religion in the political and policy spaces, notions of Britishness, cohesion, integration and identity. In doing so, he has been funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the Economic & Social Research Council, British governmental departments including the Department for Communities and Local Government, local authorities, the European Union and a wide range of state agencies, third sector organisations and charitable bodies.
He has published widely both in the UK and elsewhere including Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Serbia, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey among others. As well as academic and scholarly publishing he also regularly writes for non-specialist audiences across a variety of platforms and outlets. He is also committed to public engagement and regularly gives talks in various non-academic settings while also regularly appearing in the broadcast media.
Over the past decade, he has held various independent advisory roles across the British political spectrum. Until recently, he was an independent adviser to the British Government on Anti-Muslim Hate and Islamophobia. During that same pent years he also contributed written and oral evidence to a number of different government bodies and commissions including the House of Lords Select Committee on Religious Offences, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia, All Party Parliamentary Group on Universities, Home Affairs Select Committee on Hate Crimes, and the Commission on Islam, Participation and Public Life among others. He is a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Analysis of the radical Right, a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Royal Society of Arts, the US Department of State's International Visiting Leadership Program and an alumnus of the John Adams Society.


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5 August cruise deals for under US$550 you should grab now
St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (Photo credit: Peter Hansen)
We're quickly approaching August and you're probably thinking that you may have to give up your entire salary in order to enjoy a luxurious cruise in August.*
August is when cruises or any trip for that matter, will be at a premium, right?
We're always on the lookout for a good deal and we found quite a few cruises around the Caribbean and Central America that won't hurt your pocket. Here are five cruise deals** you should book for August.
When: Friday, August 31 - Monday, September 3 (3 nights)
Where: Miami, Florida--Cococay (Cruiseline Private Island)--Nassau, Bahamas--Miami, Florida
2. Celebrity Equinox US$484
When: Saturday, August 18 - Saturday, August 25 (7 nights)
Where: Miami, Florida--San Juan, Puerto Rico--Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands--Philipsburg, St. Maarten--Miami, Florida
3. Norwegian Getaway US$399
When: Sunday, August 26 - Sunday, September 2 (7 nights)
Where: Miami, Florida--Roatan, Bay Islands, Honduras--Harvest Caye, Belize--Costa Maya, Mexico--Cozumel, Mexico, Miami, Florida
When: Saturday, August 18 - Saturday, August 25 (7 nights)
Where: Miami, Florida--Grand Turk Island, Turks & Caicos--San Juan, Puerto Rico--Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands--Amber Cove, Dominican Republic--Miami, Florida
When: Thursday, August 9 - Monday, August 13 (4 nights)
Where: Tampa, Florida--Havana, Cuba--Tampa, Florida
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March Birthday Fun! Discounts and Giveaways!
Hello everyone! Every March I do some fun promos for my birthday week. This year I am turning 59! It's been eight years now since I escaped abuse. With your support and help my two youngest and I were able to get into a decent home over a year ago. Living at home with me are my 20 year old son with autism and my youngest child, who now attends college and high school at the same time (running start). Life has been good!
For March Birthday Fun I will be having all of my online baking courses at discount for only $13.99 until the end of March plus contests, discounts and giveaways!
Click on the image/s below to get a discount to the course/s of your choice:
Heads up! On March 22nd (my actual birthday) I will have the online course: "Sourdough Bread Baking 101" available for FREE. That coupon will only be posted in Perfect Sourdough on March 22nd and only for that one day. So if you haven't started baking sourdough yet, make sure to get that coupon. If you already have that course, then you will want share it with family and friends to help get them started on their sourdough journey.
My memoir, "Reach for Joy" is available for five days as a free download on Amazon from March 21 through March 25. Be forewarned that it isn't what you might expect and if you have a history of abuse there are triggers in the story. Also be aware that Amazon tries to get you to join Kindle Unlimited so use the BUY NOW button (you will be buying it for 0.00) DON'T use the Kindle unlimited "read and listen for free" button because it isn't free, it's a monthly fee. They also try and hide the kindle version (which you can read on any computer or mobile) look for a tiny link that says "see all 4 formats and editions" click on the link and then click on the kindle version and buy it. You will be buying it for 0.00 so it is still free!
If you feel so inclined please go back and leave a review for my memoir. On Amazon, reviews help immensely (and thank you!)
My four books, "Discovering Sourdough" are available at discount as pdf downloads on Etsy for only $10.00 for all four volumes (that's only 2.50 each!). They are sold all together on Etsy. If you wish to purchase them for your Kindle they are available at the regular price on Amazon.
On my new membership site, The Baking Network there will be a contest for the whole month of March(what's left of it!) I will enter the names of anyone who comments on any blog post, skills lesson or forum on The Baking Network, into a contest for a chance to win a KD8000 Bakers Scale (that includes this blog post!). Anyone can join in the contest.
And that's not all! Mockmill is having a special contest for my followers too! For March Birthday Fun Mockmill is offering a chance to win a FREE MOCKMILL 100!!!! to those that sign up on Mockmill's email list. Go HERE and fill out this form to have a chance to win . Just by signing up you will automatically be entered in their contest. The contests for both prizes (the KD8000 Bakers Scale and the Mockmill Grain Mill will end on the last day of March.
See official rules for the two giveaway contests HERE.
I will post the winners in a blog post on The Baking Network, in an email for those on my newsletter list and on Perfect Sourdough the first week of April.
So to summarize all of the fun:
- Go to Udemy and use the code MARCHFUN to join any of my online sourdough baking courses for only $13.99 (or click on the course images above).
- Check on Perfect Sourdough on March 22nd for a FREE coupon to "Sourdough Bread Baking 101."
- Get my e-book memoir, "Reach for Joy" for FREE (from March 21-March 25) on Amazon.
- Download my four volume book, "Discovering Sourdough" for only $10.00 (about 400 pages all together, pdf version which is printable).
- Go comment on any blog post, Skills lesson or forum on The Baking Network to enter the contest to win the KD8000 Baker's Scale.
- Visit Mockmill HERE to join their email list and automatically be entered into their contest for a chance to win a Mockmill Grain mill.
Happy Baking Everyone!


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Believe it or not, we're already approaching the last quarter of the year. How are your sales coming along? Are you on track to hit your annual goals? Are you ahead of schedule? Behind?
Whichever the case may be, if you'd like to finish the year on a strong sales note, listen to my latest interview on Breakthrough Business Strategies Radio with Michele Price.
In this hour-long segment, Michele and I discuss:
• The biggest myths about selling in the fourth quarter
• The first thing you need to do to boost your year-end sales
• Ways to take advantage of the year-end holidays
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• The one thing you shouldn't do
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It's like an hour of free sales training! To listen, just click on the link below. Or to download the interview to listen later, right-click the link and select "Save Target As…"
How to Boost Your Year-End Sales: Don Cooper on Breakthrough Business Strategies Radio (mp3)
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James Spader and Leslie Stefanson expecting
It appears as if Boston Legal's James Spader is going to be a daddy. The 48-year-old was spotted at the Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, May 18th with his girlfriend, actress Leslie Stefanson, 37, sporting a visible baby bump. This will be the third child for James, who has two sons — Sebastian and Elijah — from his previous marriage.
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Ben Barnicoat's first Bathurst 12 Hour adventure has come to a premature end after he crashed the #59 Tekno Autosports McLaren he is sharing with Jonny Kane and Will Davison during qualifying.
The McLaren GT Driver Academy racer hit the wall at the exit of the The Chase towards the end of the hour-long session, and the subsequent damage was enough to rule the car out of the rest of the weekend.
The #59 is not the only car to be withdrawn from the race, with the #99 Walkenhorst BMW of Jörg Muller, Ricky Collard and Nico Menzel also being ruled out due to damage.
Collard was spun around by #9 Hallmarc Audi driver Lee Holdsworth, with the damage enough again to rule the car out.
"I was on my way heading back into the pits. A Mercedes went past and I left him room. Then I don't really know what happened," said Collard on Motorsport.com. "There was contact with an Audi. This caused my car to spin.
"Unfortunately the damage resulting from this incident couldn't be repaired, which is a shame. But the Bathurst 12 Hour was definitely a unique experience. I learned so much – and would love to be back in the future to compete here."


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Emily Eavis thanks Jay-Z
Jay Z? No seriously. Emily Eavis has told the BBC that because of Jay-Z's set they have been able to book the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Blur to headline this year's festival.
Despite the fact that Blur headlined a few years ago and Brucey will play pretty much anywhere, Eavis seems to think that Jay-Z's controversial set at Glastonbury last year somehow raised the profile of the biggest and most famous festival in the world.
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This morning I was out on a job. I received two messages that looked like leads, and I had my Android Phone. I declined both of them from my phone.
I went back to work feeling that I had responded within the required four hours. Now that I am home, I receive a new email nudging me to respond. I log in with my desktop and see the same two leads that are way over four hours old so I decline them a second time.
Now my response time had dropped below 75%.
Is there any way to get the Android app to reliably decline leads? How will I ever get to Top Pro when I use the Android App?
@HansenJC did you have a stable internet connection when you were out on a job? A lot of the times that errors like this happen, it's usually due to not having a stable internet connection on your mobile device.
@Meckell Yes, the connection was and typically is 5 bars. I can see three cell towers from that location which is the interchange of two expressways. Most of the Chicago area is well covered. But that does not mean my carrier Verizon was performing properly that day.
However, you have still not addressed the question of auditing my response time. Failure of any one system should still have a backup or a way to audit the conditions we experience.
As a note, I find this morning that the Android app seems to function differently requiring two presses of the "Pass" function found on two screens.
I went through all of the troubleshooting steps but I did not actually see an update of the App. It is a challenge to check what version we have. (Again, this is a need to "audit" the version number)
@HansenJC there is not the option to audit your response time. I understand the frustration behind this situation, but because the leads didn't get passed on (could be due to connection error or not going through the two-step "pass" process that you discovered this morning) there isn't a way for us to go back in the system and say that it did.
To become a Top Pro, you need to respond within 4 hours 75% of the time, so I truly don't think this is going to negatively affect you if you're responding in 4 hours to all of your other leads.
@MeckellPlease add this as a formal request. Pros need to be able to audit the perfomance of the software. We need to audit the status of every opportunity. And we need to count on the reliablitiy of the software and the systems to perform as expected.
And now that I have "learned" that the one button to "decline" was not the official or final step in declining or "Passing" on a lead, and that I have to "decline" to get the screen where I must then "pass", I am asking that this too be changed. If you think I need to be given a chance to "confirm" declining a lead, that seems reasonalble, but why so many steps? Using a smart phone to replace the functionality of a computer needs to work with fewer steps, not more steps. Put this in as a formal request that the Android should be re-programed to a simple one-step decline/pass so that I can get back to the work that is making me money.
@HansenJC It wil be interesting to see what others report, but I had an android phone for the last couple of years and the consistency between the data on the phone and the website was always really poor. Nothing seemed to match up.
I have now moved to an IPhone (for a lot of reasons) and will say that the consistency now is great.
This is not just a TT issue though as Android is much harder to develop on as there are so many versions of the OS out there on so many different hardware platforms it really is a constantly moving target. IOS is so much more consistent in the install base that develepors have to deal with.
I have an Android as well. Sometimes the App works correctly, other times it doesn't..even after rebooting the phone, updates, etc. I try not to worry about responding while out on a DJ event, as I have my phone off for various reasons. But my response time during the week offsets those that I am unable to respond to in the timely manner that TT suggests.
Also, since my office is in my home, I have the luxury of using my laptop during the course of the day. And I am able to use the TT website better than with my phone.
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#Dr.EricHoskins, #BonnieLysyk, #Pan-CanadianPharmaceuticalAlliance, #Pharmacare, #WorldHealthOrganization, #SunnybrookHospital, #HamiltonHealthSciences, #LondonHealthSciencesCentre, #TheOttawaHospitalandUniversityHealthNetwork,
#paramedicineprogram, #Ontario'sHealthyKidsStrategy, #LaboratoriesandGeneticsBranch,
Toronto, Dec 6 (Canadian-Media): Today, Dr. Eric Hoskins, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care issued the following statement on the reports of Bonnie Lysyk, the Auditor General of Ontario, media reports said.
Ontario Drug Programs:
"We would like to thank the Auditor General for her report on the Ontario Drug Programs and the recommendations that follow. As noted by the Auditor General, the Pan-Canadian Pharmaceutical Alliance has successfully lowered drug prices for people in Ontario and across Canada, resulting in $1.3 billion in annual savings. There is more that can be done to ensure we are getting the best price for drugs so those savings can be reinvested into funding new innovative drug therapies. Canada is the only industrialized country with universal health insurance, but no national pharmacare strategy. We know it's going to take leadership to get this done, but we have an opportunity to lead the way in Ontario. Pharmacare would provide a cohesive, national approach for drug coverage. We look forward to continuing that conversation with our provincial, territorial and federal partners to help ensure affordability for government and access for patients."
Eric Hoskins (Centre): Facebook
"I would like to thank the Auditor General for her report on Ontario's cancer care system. The Auditor correctly points out that from an outcomes perspective, our system is excelling at providing timely, lifesaving treatment to those who need it most. We are fortunate to have a system that has the best survival rates for breast, colorectal and lung cancers in Canada and a cancer mortality rate that, according to World Health Organization figures, is among the best in the world, comparing favorably to the United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands and France.
We are already hard at work on improving the service delivery and outcomes on a number of the Auditor General's recommendations and look forward to reviewing all of her findings in greater detail. For example, we have increased funding for blood cancers, including stem cell transplants over the last two years by over $73 million to help build capacity here in the province. As well as investing in new capital projects at Sunnybrook Hospital, Hamilton Health Sciences, London Health Sciences Centre, The Ottawa Hospital and University Health Network.
With respect to cancer drugs, we recognize that some drugs can be costly to Ontarians, and we know there is more than can be done. That is why it's so important we are launching OHIP+: Children and Youth Pharmacare to provide over 4,400 prescription drugs on our formulary to children and youth 24 and under at no cost, and that we continue to work with our provincial, territorial and federal partners towards the goal of national pharmacare."
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Ontario's Healthy Kids Strategy was launched in 2013 and focuses on key interventions to support healthy weights among children and youth through increased physical activity and healthy eating. Ontario is also the only province to require the posting of calories on menu boards in regulated food premises, to help families make informed choices by giving people information about what they eat, when ordering in or dining out.
As a result of concerted efforts, such as through the Smoke-Free Ontario Strategy, the province has decreased the smoking rate from 20.9 per cent in 2005 to 17.4 per cent in 2014. We know however, there is more that can be done, and that it is crucial that we continue to work with our public health units and partners across Ontario to ensure we are utilizing local expertise and experience. We would like to thank the Auditor General for her recommendations and I look forward to reviewing with my ministry."
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Opened 6 years ago
Last modified 2 years ago
#13461 new enhancement
Point to Tor.framework in contrib, for iOS and macOS
|Reported by:
|Owned by:
|Tor: unspecified
|Core Tor/Tor
|easy, doc, osx, build, tor-client portability
|nickm, rl1987@…
|Actual Points:
|Parent ID:
Description (last modified by )
I've created an OS X Xcode project in Xcode 6.1, and I'm happy to share it with the community.
I'll post the branch as soon as I've added the changes file.
We should point to Tor.framework instead:
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Change History (42)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by
|new → needs_review
Branch: osxbuild
Repository: https://github.com/teor2345/tor.git
commit 2392be530a015642c648b0e28265f7ae1effe512
Author: teor <teor2345@…>
Date: Sat Oct 18 12:26:16 2014 +1100
Add an OS X Xcode build project in contrib/osxbuild.
Project requires ./configure to be run beforehand.
Builds x86-64 by default. YMMV.
Resolves issue 13461.
comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by
that link seems to be dead?
comment:3 Changed 6 years ago by
From GitHub:
"One of our mostly harmless robots seems to think you are not a human.
Because of that, it's hidden your profile from the public. If you really are human, please contact support to have your profile reinstated.
We promise we won't require DNA proof of your humanity."
Such is the cost of anonymity. Hopefully it will all be sorted soon.
comment:4 Changed 6 years ago by
All sorted now - I have passed the turing test :-)
comment:5 Changed 6 years ago by
How hard is it to make that project? What are the steps involved? And what does it help with?
comment:6 Changed 6 years ago by
It was surprisingly difficult to make the project, far more than I expected:
I had to run autoconf and configure, add the tor source files, change the build settings, then add the relevant libraries (it's configured for libraries in /opt/local, used by MacPorts). All but the first step had to be repeated for every executable (6 times).
I then created a few different "schemes" - runtime settings for tor that allow it to be launched using different settings (for example, torrc locations).
The Xcode project allows OS X users to use OS X-specific development tools, including graphical editing, build, static analysis, debugging, profiling, and git tools. In particular, I've found it far more difficult to use the debugger and clang static analysis without it.
comment:7 Changed 6 years ago by
I've edited the branch to remove two schemes that contained local paths. They won't be much use to anyone else.
comment:8 Changed 6 years ago by
It's also possible to add i386 and x64 build variants, which I haven't bothered to set up yet, as it would require multiple orconfig.h files (or maybe a bit of tricky undefine/redefine in the OS X project).
comment:9 Changed 6 years ago by
I need to look at the patch, but I'm fine with this in principle... especially if you'd mark this as unsupported, and volunteer to maintain it going forward. :)
comment:10 Changed 6 years ago by
Everyone needs a pet lorax, Nick...
comment:11 Changed 6 years ago by
|→ Tor: 0.2.6.x-final
comment:12 Changed 6 years ago by
Sounds fine to me. Could you throw in the a README documenting:
- What the xcode project is for
- How to use it
- How you made it
- What to do to maintain it going forward
- How to ask for help with it and how to submit fixes for it
I'd be happy to merge it then.
comment:13 Changed 6 years ago by
This does not seem to work on my system.
- First, it fails to find libevent, specifically
event2/util.hsince I used Homebrew to install libevent. Fixed it manually by adding
/usr/local/Cellar/libevent/2.0.21(recursive) and
/usr/local/Cellar/libevent/2.0.21/include)(recursive) to Library Search Paths and Header Search Paths respectively. Obviously this is not a solution for general case.
src/or/or_sha.iis generated by compilation process so you have to
makethe codebase for this file to appear.
ld: library not found for -lminiupnpcSeems to be related to miniupnp [1] library.
I think it would be worthwhile to research ways to generate Xcode project automatically, e.g. by doing
make xcodeproj. That way, we could account for machine-specific things, such as library paths.
comment:14 Changed 6 years ago by
|rl1987@… added
comment:15 Changed 6 years ago by
|needs_review → needs_revision
Yes, you're right - I should at the very least source the paths and libraries generated by configure.
I thought I had included a "make" step for some of the generated *.i files, but it's obviously not always working for all targets.
comment:16 Changed 6 years ago by
It would be nice if this could be made to work on homebrew too, and if it has a clear upgrade path for when orconfig.h needs to change. (Also I want a pony. Neither of these is a requirement.)
comment:17 Changed 6 years ago by
|osx build want-pony added
You'd like orconfig.h to be rebuilt by the Xcode project when the configure script's source files change? (I think the user will have to do this manually, unless the configure arguments are cached somewhere.)
Or you'd like the Xcode project to be updated when orconfig.h changes?
I'm just trying to work out the size and colour of the pony before I spend time breeding one.
comment:18 Changed 6 years ago by
I'd like to have an easy way to make sure that the xcode project won't lag behind changes in the configure script and the makefiles. That could be as simple as a script to regenerate whatever we need, or a script that detects that it's out of sync, or something like that. It would be even better if it were automated, but being automated is not as important as being and easy to diagnose and fast to fix. Otherwise I foresee many wasted developer hours spent investigating "why did Tor stop working" and coming up with the answer "the Xcode files are out of date again".
comment:19 Changed 6 years ago by
I'm starting to feel like I'm actually breeding a lorax :-)
I see several complementary solutions:
- Dynamically source as many variables in the project from the configure/makefiles
- Create Xcode target(s) that just run the makefile, allowing a quick comparison ("tor stopped working in Xcode? Try running the makefile target.)
- Automatically rebuild as much as possible
- Detect when anything else is out of date
cmake generates generic Xcode files already, so it can't be that hard to do project-specific ones.
comment:20 Changed 6 years ago by
Wow; that does actually sound like a lot of work. Maybe it should be a separate ticket from this one?
comment:21 Changed 6 years ago by
It doesn't seem that difficult now I'm most of the way through...
The current status is:
- Almost done, need to work out how to get header & library paths from configure/Makefile
- Done, Xcode has an "External Build System" target for Makefiles, I have created two targets, one which uses the existing configure invocation, and one which runs configure inside Xcode.
- Almost done, can build all generated .i files and architecture-specific orconfig.h (x86_64 & i386) as required. Dependencies still need to be sorted out, but that's nice-to-have for build speed. (Who wants to run configure every time they build?)
- The most common case here is a new file, which can be detected automatically using find and grep, then manually added to the tor, test, bench, test-bt-cl and/or test-ntor-cl targets as appropriate. We can even print out the relevant Makefile variables to assist the dev. Instructions for this aren't hard.
I'm just working through testing the new project file - I'll push it to GitHub once it's done.
comment:22 Changed 6 years ago by
|set to teor
|needs_revision → assigned
Status Update:
- TODO - move configure arguments out of the project (into an editable script?) and source header & library paths from configure/Makefile.
- Done
- Done, including architecture-specific includes for curve25519-donna[-64].c, and dependencies between the various components. The project uses configure to generate orconfig.h for x86_64 & i386, make to build micro-revision.i, common_sha1.i, and or_sha1.i, and Xcode to build universal binaries for tor, bench, and test*
- TODO - check for new files / print out Makefile variables
- Sort out the paths so that test/make can find test-bt-cl, test-ntor-cl, and test-child (these tests currently fail)
- Write README & changes file
It's not going to work with HomeBrew until step 1 is completed, but I've pushed it to github.
comment:23 Changed 6 years ago by
Oh, the i386 build will crash in donna unless one or more of the following compiler arguments are removed: -fsanitize=undefined-trap -fsanitize-undefined-trap-on-error -ftrapv
I'm working on a patch for curve25519-donna.c similar to the ed25519 SHL8/32/64 safe left shift changes.
comment:24 Changed 6 years ago by
Affected by #13540, as we replace the orconfig.h file with a short file that conditionally includes either the x86_64 or i386 config.
Resolution: concatenate the files with the appropriate #ifs in between, rather than including them.
comment:25 Changed 6 years ago by
|Tor: 0.2.6.x-final → Tor: 0.2.7.x-final
comment:26 Changed 6 years ago by
|027-triaged-1-out added
Marking triaged-out items from first round of 0.2.7 triage.
comment:27 Changed 6 years ago by
|Tor: 0.2.7.x-final → Tor: 0.2.???
Make all non-needs_review, non-needs_revision, 027-triaged-1-out items belong to 0.2.???
comment:28 Changed 4 years ago by
|Tor: 0.2.??? → Tor: 0.3.???
Milestone renamed
comment:29 Changed 4 years ago by
|tor-03-unspecified-201612 added
|Tor: 0.3.??? → Tor: unspecified
Finally admitting that 0.3.??? was a euphemism for Tor: unspecified all along.
comment:30 Changed 4 years ago by
|doc added
|→ Normal
|Tor: unspecified
Instead of adding a macOS project ourselves, we should reference Tor.framework in our documentation:
It sets up macOS and iOS builds, using git submodules for tor, libevent, and openssl.
It uses shell scripts to build the submodules, and then packages them into a framework.
It's already used by Onion Browser and iCepa (iOS Tor as a system-wide VPN).
comment:31 Changed 3 years ago by
|tor-03-unspecified-201612 removed
Remove an old triaging keyword.
comment:32 Changed 3 years ago by
|027-triaged-in added
comment:33 Changed 3 years ago by
|027-triaged-in removed
comment:34 Changed 3 years ago by
|027-triaged-1-out removed
comment:35 Changed 3 years ago by
|tor-client needs-osx-knowldge portability added; want-pony removed
|assigned → new
comment:36 Changed 3 years ago by
|teor deleted
|new → assigned
Disowning tickets I don't intend to work on in the next 6 months.
comment:37 Changed 3 years ago by
|assigned → new
Mark all tickets that are assigned to nobody as "new".
comment:38 Changed 2 years ago by
|modified (diff)
|easy added; needs-osx-knowldge removed
|Add OS X Xcode Project to contrib → Point to Tor.framework in contrib, for iOS and macOS
comment:39 follow-up: 40 Changed 2 years ago by
Not sure a mention of Tor.framework belongs in contrib or doc/contrib... I would rather close it as wontfix, as nothing really came off the efforts here.
Alternatively, we can look into: https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen .
comment:40 Changed 2 years ago by
Replying to rl1987:
Not sure a mention of Tor.framework belongs in contrib or doc/contrib... I would rather close it as wontfix, as nothing really came off the efforts here.
I'm not sure I understand what you mean.
Tor.framework is actively used in OnionBrowser and various other projects.
Alternatively, we can look into: https://github.com/yonaskolb/XcodeGen .
Good idea! If I get some time I'll have a look at it.
comment:41 follow-up: 42 Changed 2 years ago by
I mean, we generally don't link to community projects in any documentation that we have inside core tor repo. We probably should be linking it from somewhere in our wiki.
comment:42 Changed 2 years ago by
Replying to rl1987:
I mean, we generally don't link to community projects in any documentation that we have inside core tor repo. We probably should be linking it from somewhere in our wiki.
We bundle a win32 build project in:
My suggestion is that instead of bundling a project file for macOS Xcode, we could tell people to use Tor.framework.


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One look at most
lawyer websites in India and you can see there is a lot that's left to be desired: designs from the 1990s, unstructured layouts, poor choice of stock images, a lack of simple and easy navigation system and a complete disregard to the fact that websites need to be mobile friendly. On top of that, most websites have poor choices of title tags and content – something that reflects the Indian lawyer's compulsion of talking/drafting in paragraphs instead of sentences.
Run a Google search for "Lawyers in Delhi" and you will see a list of websites; all poorly designed, difficult to comprehend and usually grandstand. And if you are browsing any of these websites on your mobile phone, it just turns into a nightmare. It comes as no surprise that most lawyers haven't come to appreciate the importance of a website – because the few who have, haven't done it right and certainly haven't benefitted from it.
Let's take a look at some of the essential considerations that must not be ignored while setting up a website for a lawyer or a law firm. While each of these topics deserve a dedicated post on their own, I am limiting myself to introducing the concepts so it can be used as a checklist if you are looking to put up a website together.
1. The Architecture
Just like a house needs a blue-print before its constructed, a website also cannot be put up without one. Whether you are an individual practitioner, a small firm of 8-10 lawyers or one of the legal giants with hundreds of lawyers; if you do not have a clear understanding and vision of how your site will shape up before your developer/agency starts working on it, you would waste a lot of time, money and energy without accomplishing anything substantial.
A website's architecture is the basic layout sans the design elements. While working on the architecture, one decides the different pages that the site will have, what content will go on which page and how that content will be aligned with the different images, menu bars, header, footer, logo and any other elements you want to put on a particular page. It also includes the manner in which a user will be allowed to navigate from one page to another, no matter which page the user lands on first.
You can either ask your developer to come up with the architecture and then give him your inputs or you can give it some thought and simply make a hierarchical chart in MS Word/Excel that lists each page.
2. Keywords
Before we talk about keywords, we need to remember one very important aspect of search engines. A website does not rank for a particular keyword or phrase; a page does. Google, Bing and Yahoo will return a particular page of your website which their algorithm will determine to be the most relevant one for a query. Therefore, you do not want to pick too many keywords (corporate law, criminal lawyer, family lawyer, estate planning, business contracts etc.) for one page itself. What you should do instead is pick a list of keywords and then try to dedicate one page to each category. That would improve your ability to get more pages in search results.
Two tools that you should check out for keyword selection are "Google Adwords Keyword Tool" and the "Keyword Tool" which tell you the number of searches Google receives for a particular term. This would help you understand what terms people are using to find lawyers online and you can plan your keywords better.
A word of caution: Keyword Research is important but do not stuff your content unnaturally with the keywords. Google and other search engines have gotten much smarter as figuring out if you are unnaturally trying to stuff your page with keywords and can penalize you by removing those pages from their index.
3. The Meta Tags
Meta Tags are information about your pages that you give to search engines. These include the Title of your home page and every other page, a 1-2 line description of what the page is about and the URL of the page. Most lawyer websites either have the same title throughout or just use the page-name as titles. Meta-tags are your best opportunity to tell search engines in clear words what the page is about. So, if you have a "Practice Areas" page on your site, you do not want your Page Title to be "Practice Area" or "Practice Area – Ashish Arun". This, in itself, is not giving any relevant information to search engines. If you are a divorce lawyer, you would rather use a Title Tag that says: "Divorce Law Practice Areas | Ashish Arun". Another way could be to use your geographical location in the title tag: New Delhi Divorce Law Practice Areas | Ashish Arun. While there are many ways to skin a cat, you do not want to miss out on using relevant keywords in the Title Tag, Meta Descriptions and the URLs.
Make sure that no two pages have the same title tag or meta description as duplicate content is usually frowned upon, is confusing for visitors as well as search engines and leads to a low ranking on search engines.
4. Content
Content is king and this cannot be stressed upon enough. No matter how snazzy or cool your website looks, if your content lacks substance, it is not going to be of any help. Authoritative descriptions, the correct usage of grammar and spelling and naturally written content are the three parameters, which should always be kept in mind while writing anything online.
With the advent of search engines, most people stopped writing content for website visitors and instead, started stuffing their pages with keywords for search engines. Initially, the search engines thought that such pages with a high keyword density must be relevant for that particular keyword and those pages ranked high on search engine result pages. However, this started to turn into abusive practices where pages were created with a lot of keyword stuffing only for ranking and the user experience was totally ignored.
With time, the search engines got smarter and started to recognize such abusive patterns. Google updated its algorithm to include content quality as an important parameter and many low-quality websites were hit badly. Now, we are back to the time when quality content and user experience take prominence over ways to fool search engines into ranking your site higher than the rest.
When it comes to lawyer websites, the content is mediocre to poor at most places. Either the lawyers are passing on the task to write content to a junior or an intern or they are just not paying enough attention to it. If you are serious about your online presence, you cannot overlook the content. The mantra is: Write. Review. Edit. Edit. Edit. Proof. Publish.
Unfortunately, website development firms in India know little about content and more often than not, it results in a website that fails to communicate the right message or any message for that matter. The whole focus in building a website shifts to the design, layout and technical features and content just falls through the cracks.
Today, when everyone is connected to the internet through laptops, desktops, mobile phones and tablets (24.3 crore people in India have access to internet) and there are more websites than ever for everything under the sun, it becomes really important that the message being conveyed is clear, concise and to the point.
5. Content Management System
Because most lawyers are not expected to have a good grasp of technology and many are looking to get the cheapest solution out there, they fall in the trap of settling for a static website without a Content Management System (CMS). A CMS is basically a software that runs your website and allows you to easily edit, add and delete pages on your site.
Always ask your developer to create your website using a CMS as it will not only save you a lot of money from all those minor edits you will have to run to the developer for, you will also have the flexibility to edit it in real time and add new articles, news updates and additional pages.
There are many open source and free options like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc. which you can use; WordPress being my favorite. All these platforms are more than capable of handling any lawyer website, no matter how many pages or features you are looking at.
6. Images
Images constitute a very important part of any website. Images help you convey the right message, attract user attention as well as make your site look elegant. However, the biggest problem with images is that most websites, especially law sites, do not use the right images or do not use them in the right manner.
The first goal is to identify the right images – which in itself is not trivial as most lawyers do not have the time or energy to do a photo shoot in their office or have an agency click pictures for their website. In such a situation, most web developers turn to stock image websites like ShutterStock, iStockPhotos or Getty. However, more often than not, the images selected are not in line with either the website content or the target audience.
Each image that you use on your site should not only be closely related to your line of work, it should actually become a part of the content. If you are an Indian law firm, putting up images of white people in suits on your home page will not only be irrelevant, it will also look stupid.
With the advent of high quality mobile phone cameras, you can actually take good quality pictures of your office and your team, instead of using stock photos. The more real your website images are, the more credible you will come across. If you must use stock photos, a good idea would be to head to http://www.imagesbazaar.com/ where you can get stock photos for Indian audiences.
7. Design
For a long time, websites were designed for desktop computers. Then, laptops came and the screen size didn't change by much. Then came wifi, faster data connections, smartphones and tablets and suddenly, websites designed only for desktops and laptops were not easy to navigate or view on smaller screens. The new standard in cross-platform designs is responsive width design which basically adapts the website to the browser screen width.
With mobile penetration increasing at a faster rate than ever before, the importance of a clean, responsive design is paramount. Google recently started showing if a website is mobile friendly or not in its search results and may be using it as a ranking factor as well.
Responsive designs have now become the standard and if your designer/web developer suggests otherwise or tells you that it will add to your website budget, you need to look at other options.
8. Visitor Engagement
When your website gets a visitor, that is your first chance to engage him and make him take an action. An action can be in the form of leaving a query on the website, giving you a call, share your website or a specific page with friends/colleagues or simply signing up to receive newsletters and announcements from you. Therefore, it is important to offer a contact form, your contact details as well as a subscription form where users can specifically consent that you send them information such as legal updates, firm updates or any other announcements that you may have in the future.
Depending on the information you want to gather, you can ask them for their names and email addresses and create a mailing list which can be used to create a following of people who are either interested in the areas of law you practice or are looking for legal advice. You can also use this mechanism to send sector specific updates to different set of clients.
9. Social Media Integration
Several books have been written on Social Media for lawyers and with the amount of time everyone is spending on social media, it will be suicidal to create an online presence but not link it to your accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and most importantly, LinkedIn.
Using services like HootSuite, you can automatically post any new content to all your social media accounts. If you are creating a lawyer website, it will be advisable to create a separate page for your law chamber/firm and keep your personal and professional posts separate. You might want to share your professional posts with your personal circles, but the other way round is not advisable unless you are leading the life of a sage. Drunk and crazy pictures with friends are not things you want to share with your professional circles.
10. Sitemap and Analytics
Once you are done with the above steps and are ready to take your website live, ask your developer to set up accounts with Google Webmaster Tools and Google Analytics. Google Webmaster Tools lets you see how often Google is indexing your site, is it finding any errors, are any of your website pages not accessible to the Google crawler and if there are any health issues with your site with respect to malware or hacking attempts. You can also see how your page is doing in search results, for what queries your site is coming up in searches and what percentage of those people are clicking on your site and not the other 9 results on Google's result page.
Analytics is also a very useful tool provided by Google. It involves inserting a small code in each of your website pages and you can track the number of visitors, their locations, the amount of time they spend on your site, the pages they come to, the pages they exit from and how they found your website. Google also provides you this data in realtime so you can also assess the number of visitors right now on your site.
If you have covered these 10 points while planning/developing your website, you can be sure that your site is designed and structured better than 90% of the websites in the world. Beyond that, you will need to continue working on your website and generate concise, relevant and targeted content if you want to stay on top of the search result pages and actually make your website work favourably for your practice.


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Hi everyone. This may be a little bit long one.
I am a 20 y.o male and currently continuing my education on mechanical engineering. First thing I can say is, I've always been a shy, introvert, anxious and insecure boy growing up. This is maybe connected to my parents being very conservative.
All the kids at my age was playing outside all the time, while I basically grew up behind the doors, playing video games. I only had one friend until primary school, who was our neighbor. My father always came home after 11pm(even sundays), we couldn't share basically anything. And my mother started working too, when I was 9.
My personality haven't changed much until I was in high school. Then my parents decided(forced) for me to see a psychiatrist for being very introvert, not talkative. I had antidepressant treatment for about a year. And it actually made me feel better, less anxious, little bit more talkative at social environments. Then I decided to quit after a year because I felt I couldn't focus anymore. And I quit.
Following 3-4 years wasn't that bad. I made friends at high school (Still meeting some close ones) And then I started the university. My parents didn't want me to go to a school out of town, so I stayed and still living with my parents. Generally people develop wider friendship environments at university, mine is not like it. I have only 2 guys that I always hang out. Which doesn't bother me much tho. Making new friends is always been hard for me.
I thought about Erasmus, my parents supported me also. But on the last day of application deadline, the thought of leaving home and starting a new life in another country (even if its just a semester) made me extremely anxious and insecure. And I couldn't apply. I was so angry at myself on that day, but it also made me feel like I'm still a boy who can't leave his parents.
And I still experience that day's effects. I am 20, but I don't feel like an adult. I can't make even simple decisions my myself, always thinking my parents will be there to help me. I had to do my summer internship, but I didn't pursue. Anything involves interaction with other people makes me anxious.
I don't know what I should do, where to start. But even the thought of change makes me anxious. So I'm basically stuck with these feelings.
I just wanted to write my feelings down. But I'd like to see if anyone is, was experienced the similar things, and how they feel, or how they changed this situation.
Thanks for writing all of this.


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The prevalence of gadgets and electronics using USB as an interface for power has had us clamoring for an all-in-one charging device for years. But for every USB-powered product, there seems to be a dozen more that utilize some sort of propriety power connection port.
We've seen items like the Powermat that provide a wireless dock to transfer a charge, but the custom outfits you must wrap your gadgets with can get expensive and cumbersome. For these reasons we were intrigued when the Idapt i3 came across our desk.
Though it's not flawless, the Idapt i3 Universal Charging Dock does a good job at simultaneously powering up to three devices, but a few annoyances keep it from being a must-buy.
The Idapt i3 itself is small enough to place on a nightstand or end table, measuring only 1.25 inches high by 6.5 inches wide by 5.25 inches deep. The device is available in a number of colors, all listed on Idapt's Web site.
The product is simple enough: three interchangeable power slots line up in a triangle formation. Each unit comes with four "tips" that protrude a specific interface for charging, with the port's name labeled right below the attachment. When purchased at a retail outlet, six tips come with the package, at which point you'll need to buy additional ones at the Idapt Web site ($10 each). However, when purchased directly from Idapt, you're given the opportunity to pick and choose four tips that will suit your needs.
The six tips we received in our review unit were primarily for cell phones but also included Mini- and Micro-USB, along with an iPhone and iPod dock connection. We were also sent extra tips for our Sony PSP, Nintendo DSi, and DS Lite.


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The Magic of Color
An interactive journey delving into the mysteries of color. Whatever your current relationship with color is, it will expand. If all you know of color is what you like and what you don?t like, then you are in for a ride. If you've had a love affair with color for years, it will get even better.
You'll begin to understand how color is far more than a visual phenomenon. Your awareness of its impact and power will increase. Your curiosity will be piqued and your senses will be opened. Your creativity will be stimulated. You?ll find inspiration in the most unlikely places. And as you continue your exploration on your own, you may be surprised at how much you learn about yourself.
Discussion with projected images of color examples in all media including beadwork.
Skill level: All
Prerequisites: None
Length: 50-90 Minutes
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Arsenal set to break club transfer record again this season
Goonersden brings you news from top football news sites from the likes of ESPN, SkySport, Daily Mail, Daily Star and Metro… We also Analyse football, player, transfer and predict Arsenal starting line-up.
According to reports, Arsenal are emerging as shock contenders to seal the January transfer of £70million-evaluated Southampton star Virgil van Dijk.
Liverpool and Manchester City are keen on the Netherlands international defender, however, the Times additionally say Arsenal as considering a move that would break their transfer record for the second time this season.
The Gunners could do with greater quality at the back after some unconvincing late outing, with German defender Shkodran Mustafi looking guilty in the recent defeat to league rivals Manchester United, while there's little in the method for reinforcement.
Per Mertesacker will resign from playing at the end of the current season, and any of Laurent Koscielny and Nacho Monreal aren't getting any more youthful either.
Van Dijk, in the interim, has been one of the top focus maneuvers in the Premier League as of late and plainly has a lot of admirers.
Arsenal's present transfer record is believed to be at around £46.5million, the transfer fee BBC Sport report they paid Lyon to sign Alexandre Lacazette during the summer.
The France international striker hasn't precisely got off to a flying start at the Emirates, yet with the transfer market being what it is, this is the sort of cash required for this level of player now.
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Facilities in Animal Sciences
The Agricultural Sciences programs have a number of excellent facilities where students can learn and put to use classroom theory and gain hands-on, practical experience using facilities that stand up to industry-wide standards.
The College Farm
Feed storage buildings, covered pens, dry lots, natural pastures, and irrigated pastures all make up our Beef Unit facilities. We maintain a breeding herd of approximately 20 crossbred females used to breed project animals for our students.
Two barns are used for housing sheep used for student learning and projects: a project barn with a shearing area, and a lambing barn with pens for holding the ewes and lambs after they exit the jails. We also have a working corral with cutting chutes and sorting pens. We have 30 acres of pasture for our flock of 45 Suffolk and Hampshire ewes and two stud rams. Lambs are raised and sold through a club lamb sale organized by students. The lambs go to 4-H and F.F.A. students where many champions have been purchased for the flock.
A modern confinement swine unit with a farrow to finish program and several sows and a board help our students gain practical experience in swine production.
An eight-stall barn with two foaling stalls and a stallion barn and paddock with plenty of paddocks for young horses provide experience for students learning horse management. Training facilities include a bull pen, goose neck arena, hot walker and plenty of trails to ride on. We also house an artificial insemination lab in the barn. Eight broodmares and a stallion as well as numerous offspring help provide students with practical experience working with horses.


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As an organization we will continue to pursue partners that will provide MAA members with a discount on art supplies. If you want us to pursue a particular business please advise us via email at email@example.com
• DeSerres Art Supplies located in the St-Laurent Shopping Centre and Bell's Corners now offers the Manotick Art Association members a 10% discount on all regular priced art supplies. This discount is in addition to them providing loyalty credits for each purchase under their Creative Club Rewards Program. To qualify for this discount members must show their MAA Membership card along with their Creative Club Program card at time of purchase. If you are not currently a Creative Club Program member you can join at the cash when making your next purchase.
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This category shall be open to all former pupils of Raffles Institution, Raffles Girls' Secondary School and Raffles Junior College provided they are currently not attending secondary schools, centralised institutes or junior colleges (A Life Member on becoming a student at an institute of higher learning shall, ipso facto, cease to be a member during the period of his/her studies).
To enjoy Life Membership, simply pay $300 one-time subscription fee.
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These shall confined to current principals and members of the teaching staff of the schools. They shall not have any vote, hold office or have any say in the management of the Association.
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The ORA Council may elect to an Honorary Life Membership any person who, in their opinion has rendered valuable services & contributions to the association or RI, RGS, RJC and the nation. He shall not have any vote, hold office or have any say in the management of the Association. Their election shall be nominated and approved unanimously by the ORA Council.
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Students of institutions of higher learning who are former students of RI, RGS and RJC are eligible for Associate membership provided always that they are not currently attending secondary schools, centralised institutes or junior colleges. They will cease to be Associate Member once they leave the Institution of Higher Learning or 5 years from the date of joining. The ORA Council may extend the associate membership on a year to year basis.
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Salas' Juventus Match Shirt, TIM Cup 2001/02
The Prize
Take home this black Juventus FC away shirt, match version from TIM Cup 2001/02, for former forward Marcelo Salas.
- Black short-sleeved away shirt
- Juventus FC emblem sewn onto chest
- Sponsored by Lotto
- Made in Italy
- Lega Calcio patch on right sleeve
- Name and number in smooth plastic lettering
- Number 9
- Size XL
This item was supplied to the squad for a match, was made available to the players on matchday and differs from the shirts found on general sale. It is possible that this shirt was worn by the player for the match and then washed afterwards but it cannot be guaranteed.
The Cause
Croce Viola is a volunteer ambulance association based in Milan, Italy and founded in 1949.
It provides much-needed emergency services to the entire city but is entirely reliant on the goodwill of 120 volunteers, who give up their time to provide this vital service, 24 hours a day, every day of the year.
In total, more than 30,000 hours of emergency assistance have been volunteered per year, saving lives as well as supplying essential patient transportation services and non-emergency medical on-call service.
Croce Viola also delivers comprehensive first aid training programs to both the public and to companies, giving people the knowledge to intervene in crucial situations where it matters most—such as the Heimlich maneuver when a person's airways are obstructed. Not only that, but Croce Viola is also committed to helping at local and community events to provide first aid and safety procedures.
The association has recently put together an innovative campaign to promote the importance of first aid among primary school children. This plan will be extended to older children in the future, teaching them the essentials of first aid, from the very basics all the way to cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
All these important projects, as well each one of the association's ambulances, are funded entirely by charitable donations.


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Grower Manual for indigenous seedlings
This Grower Manual is a step by step instruction on how to germinate and grow healthy indigenous seedlings.
Your seedlings will require 5 to 6 months care to reach a height of 20 – 30 cm and a hearty root structure. Indigenous seedlings are bound for harsh rural conditions, they need to develop a strong robust root system with hardy stem and leaves. The developing seedlings need daily care and watering, however, be conscious not to overwater or over pamper your seedlings.
If you do not find the information you require in the step by step Grower Manual, TreeProject also provides three additional seedling propagation tools:
- Youtube video clips for each step of growing seedlings are available, the introduction can be seen below.
- The Seedling Database provides species specific information for seed pre-treatment, sowing notes and images of seedling growth stages.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 9 seconds If I were marooned on a desert island and came across a piano or keyboard and the deal was I was allowed to play it, but only if I played one tune on it - the tune I would probably choose is "Autumn Leaves", because it has so much potential for interpretation, for development, for improvising on. In certain ways "Autumn Leaves" is a paradigm for many other jazz standards, which is why we've put a lot of effort in this session into tooling up to play it. Let me first of all play it. Don't worry about the way I play it because I'm going to give you a transcription of the way I might play it - a two-fisted version.
Skip to 1 minute and 0 seconds Let's just get familiar with the tune.
Skip to 1 minute and 48 seconds First question: what key is it in? Well if you want to know the key of a jazz standard the best place to look is in the penultimate bar - the last bar but one - not the last bar because very often you've got chords in there that are to do with turning the piece around - the turnaround. Very often, though, the penultimate bar tells you the tonal centre - the key in which the piece is. In this case if you look at the last bar but one you get G minor. So it's in G minor. But what flavour of G minor?
Skip to 2 minutes and 21 seconds The way I played it just then, I played a G minor triad and I added a colour note which was the ninth - or the second if you choose to call it that. There are 3 distinct ways in which this lead sheet can be found in jazz resources. The first gives the final chord as G minor, which I've just played. The second set of lead sheets gives it as G minor7 … and yet a third gives it as G minor with a natural seven - G major minor7 … Of those 3 possibilities, I have to say my own particular favourite is the last of those 3, but all 3 exist.
Skip to 3 minutes and 20 seconds It just underlines the point I have been trying to make throughout that there's no such thing as a definitive lead sheet. The tune is interpreted by the instrumentalist who's playing it and the chords have a certain kind of looseness really associated with them, where different people will play different things on different occasions. One of the wonderful things about being a pianist is, of course, that you can alter those chords to your own predilection.
Skip to 3 minutes and 50 seconds Typically: fifths can be flattened or sharped, ninths can be flattened or sharped, minor chords - you can have sevenths - minor sevenths and major sevenths. So there's a lot more flexibility. Of course, if you're making those alterations then it's much easier for you to play the scales that fit those particular chords. If you do it behind a soloist then it may or may not work depending on how quickly they pick up the sound that you're playing behind them. OK, so it's in G minor. What about the structure? The structure is somewhat weird. It's a 32 bar sequence but it's not AABA. It's a little bit difficult to analyse exactly what it is.
Skip to 4 minutes and 35 seconds It's best if you break it down into a line of music on a lead sheet - 4 bars at a time - forgetting the pickup for the moment.
Skip to 4 minutes and 43 seconds Then it goes like this (harmonically): first 4 bars A1, second 4 bars A2, third 4 bars A1 again, fourth 4 bars A2 again.
Skip to 4 minutes and 56 seconds Then we come to the second half: next 4 bars A2 again, next 4 bars A1 again, next 4 bars A2 again (essentially), next 4 bars A2 again (essentially). So you see you have this strange use of just really 2 sets of 4 chords, but not played in the obvious order. Let's look at the first 4 bars then. You've got C minor7, F7, B flat major7. We know that's a II-V-I to B flat major. When we improvise we just improvise over B flat major. The next bar is E flat major7. We know that major sevenths are very strong, so what we have to do there is to improvise over E flat major7. Let's leave that for a second.
Skip to 5 minutes and 48 seconds Let's look at the next line, because the next line is what we've been working on. It's II-V-I to G minor - G minor. So the II - A minor7 - has a flat 5 in it, it may also have a flat 9 in it, as we've seen. The next bar, the V chord, has a flat 9 in it, the same note E flat and then we come home to G minor. - one of the flavours of G minor anyway. So what's the function of the chord in the fourth bar? Essentially, I interpret it - there's different ways of interpreting it - I interpret it as an A minor7, where you use the flat 5 substitute.
Skip to 6 minutes and 35 seconds So if you take a chord rooted on A and take the flat 5 substitute you get a chord rooted on E flat.
Skip to 6 minutes and 41 seconds So really what's happening to my ear is the chords go: C minor, F7, B flat major7 and then 2 chords of A minor, but the first one of those … is the flat 5 substitute of A minor … We've discussed at some length how you improvise over a II-V-I in a minor setting. That's more or less it, because then the third line is the same as the first line. The fourth line is the same as the second line. The fifth line is the same as the second line. The sixth line is the same as the first line. The seventh line is essentially the second line and the last line's essentially the second line.
Skip to 7 minutes and 30 seconds There is this difference, though, in bars 27, 28. Let's, first of all, look at the chords in parentheses as I think they're a bit easier, because it's just cycle of fifths. It goes G minor7 to C7, F minor7 to B flat7,
Skip to 7 minutes and 52 seconds then E flat major7 … So it's cycles of fifths: G, C, F, B flat, E flat, but that's not the way most people play it. Most people use the flat 5 substitute for the second and fourth chords. Instead of having a chord that's C7, we use its flat 5 substitute which is a chord rooted on F sharp - and we use F sharp7, and then instead of B flat7 we have a chord rooted on its flat 5 - which is E - so we get the chord I've written there. It's actually an E7, but I've given it some colouration. I've given it a sharp 9.
Skip to 8 minutes and 31 seconds We've discussed that before; if I consider that the root, then this is the octave, this is the 9th, this is the sharp 9th. Then if I include the ordinary third, the major third - you see the sharp 9 is a minor third - and that's the seventh. We get this chord with that mixed tonality major and minor simultaneously.
Skip to 8 minutes and 58 seconds This is all a big fuss about the fact that it's going down chromatically, but it's cycles of fifths that enables us to interpret it. If you wanted to you could ignore all that and just play over G minor and let the chords unfold. Then the last line is essentially, as I say, the same as the second line. You've just got E flat major, A minor 7 which, as I say, is the underlying chord there to the E flat major and then home again to G minor. I think I have discussed everything apart from the last bar - the eighth bar where I've got a couple of chords in parentheses. What's the status of these chords?
Skip to 9 minutes and 37 seconds Well they're quite interesting because they were given to me by the late British jazz pianist Bob Cornford. Bob Cornford is not as well known as he deserves to be in this country. He was a very close colleague of the saxophonist and clarinettist Tony Coe and a good friend of John McLaughlin as well - the British guitarist who worked with Miles Davis and now is based in the States. I happened one day to be playing the piano in Bob's flat in London where I played "Autumn Leaves" and when I got to the end he said "Well how do you get back to the top again?" Anyway I played 2 bars of G minor - probably with a natural seventh.
Skip to 10 minutes and 25 seconds I said "I don't know. Maybe you could play a G7 to get you back to the C minor. Or maybe you could play a C sharp minor to get you back to the C minor." He said "Well the G7 I think is stronger. Why not use the II-V to get you back to the I because II-V is so strong?" The answer is that that is the best solution to go II-V-I. You're going to C minor, so you have the chord rooted on the II, which is D, and then the V which is G. When I play this with other musicians, if the bass player knows this and plays it with me, it's a really strong turnaround.
Skip to 11 minutes and 7 seconds It's surprising how few people seem to use it explicitly - maybe they use it implicitly - but it works really well. Now the more astute of you may say but this is a II-V taking us to a I which is C minor, then shouldn't the II have a flat 5 and the V a flat 9, to which the answer is "Yes". You could have that if you wanted to. We're back to this wonderful flexibility of the music that you could have that and you don't have to if you don't want to. It's at your discretion as to what the colour is of the chord that you want to use.
Skip to 11 minutes and 42 seconds I think I've discussed the general structure of this piece and what I'd like to do now is to look at a two-fisted version I've written out for you.
Analysis of "Autumn Leaves"
We use our scale theory to analyse the chord sequence of "Autumn Leaves".
You can download the "Autumn Leaves (Tune)" chart in PDF format at the bottom of this step.
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On the mysterious Seaward Isle, a four-year-old girl named Alex — daughter of a Count — escapes a wizard's attack on her father's fortress with the help of two men who take her to her brother in the village of Nyla.
In Joni Parker's book "The Black Elf of Seaward Isle" Alex winds up disguised as a boy, in order to safely stay at the Sword Academy with her brother. Soon Alex learns of the death of her parents and vows revenge on the wizard who killed them.
But many challenges lie ahead for Alex. She is given to adoptive parents by the headmistress of the Sword Academy. Her adoptive mother meets an untimely death. And eventually Alex is slotted into a new role as a "tracker," during which her talents really begin to shine.
And then there is so much more ….
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How does Joni Parker picture Seaward Isle? Her website offers her impression of the magic island that is at the center of "The Black Elf of Seaward Isle."
Parker provides a history of Seaward Isle, as well, concluding with this:
It's relatively large island, about half the size of Australia, with a large volcano in the middle where Zenon resides. The southern half of the island is split in two by the large Futile River, duly named for the futility of trying to escape the island. The southwestern part is the Kingdom of Southport with the principal cities of Southport and Riverton. The southeastern side is divided into four communities. The Kingdom of Agana has as its capital, the city of Agana with the best deep-water harbor.
The Kingdom of Northeast Forest resides just to its north with its capital city, Verity. The city-state of Riesa, home of the Amazon Warriors who now call themselves Scinthians is along the east coast beyond the Morning Mountains, near a large community of Dwarves who reside inside the mountains. The northern part of the island belongs to the Elves with principal cities of Ridgedale and Marshdale. Leesdale is the home of the Titan Themius.
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The South African National Parks (SANPARKS) is offering the Latest Internships 2016 in different fields including Information Technology, Public Relations and Finance. The SANPARKS Internship Programme 2016 is available for the talented and hard working candidates living in South Africa. The SANPARKS Internships 2016 are available at Groenkloof National Park in Pretoria.
SANPARKS Vacancies 2016 have been announced for those candidates, who are willing to avail the Government Jobs or Government Internships 2016. It is pertinent to mention here that you may get more better Government Careers and Jobs after completing the South African National Parks Internships 2016. The Government Internship Opportunities are available at various government departments, and you may also avail the SANPARKS Careers and Jobs available for interns. The SANPARKS Jobs may also be available for you after completing the SANPARK Internships 2016. The interested candidates should have a look on the details and descriptions as appended below, before forwarding their application form to the recruitment department.
SANPARKS Internship Programme 2016 In Pretoria, South Africa: SANPARKS Vacancies
The South African National Park (SANParks) hereby offers internship opportunities to South African graduates. These opportunities are based at Groenkloof National Park – Pretoria. Applications are invited from candidates in the following disciplines/fields of study:
- Information Technology
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Who is eligible to apply?
Unemployed South African graduates, with a tertiary qualification in one of the abovementioned fields of study, who have not been previously employed and attended any internship programme. The duration of the Internship will be one (1) year with a monthly stipend paid to successful candidates.
SANParks is the body responsible for managing South Africa's national parks.
Closing Date: 30 March 2016
How to Apply for SANParks Internships 2016: Government Vacancies in SA
Applicants must clearly specify their fields of interest from the list above, accompanied by a typed CV, certified copies of Qualifications and copy of ID.
Applications should be submitted to:Human Capital Management Division
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If you meet the minimum eligibility criteria and other essential requirements as mentioned above, you should apply online for the Latest Internships at SANPARKS, Pretoria.


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This proposal is to have a Student discount on MTA. This discount will benefit students in socially and economically. The proposal have gained high momentum from political leadership, administrators, media and teachers. The request for a 30% discount on the 30 Day Unlimited Metro Ride Card will definitively benefit both Students and the MTA.
The proposal is submitted at New York City Council Chairman for Transportation committee , NYC Mayor's Office, New York State Senate and Assembly Transportation Committee, MTA Board and the Governor of New York State.
This is maiden proposal of Collegiate Congress.


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stun your guests by being bold in our Evangeline gown! textured, sexy and fun! The deep V neckline is flattering on all bust shapes and sizes. The ribbon at the waist helps accentuates the small of your waist, giving you the ultimate wow factor!
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