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Political statement from Summoning
Due to some Nazi propaganda videos which i found on YouTube using Summoning music I decided to finally write down all the facts I know, showing why metal music and rock music in general don't suit Nazi, fascist or racist ideologies.
Actually, Summoning was never accused of being connected to this scene, and so there is no need to defend us or excuse anything. The reason I write is that I think it's a pity the scene is tending more and more in this direction, and therefore working to its own extinction. Also, I think there is a lack of information coming from the non-national socialist side, information which needs to be said as no one else does it. At the beginning I never wanted to associate Summoning with any kind of political topics as our music is not connected to reality at all, but as national socialism-supporting bands are constantly spreading their political thoughts, I think the time has come to finally stand up and show people that Nazism is not the only ideology of the current metal scene.
Here you can read all the facts and thoughts I gathered in the last 15 years, showing why national socialism, fascism or racism is in contradiction to any kind of sub culture.
- Metal music has historically been heavily influenced by black music. First there was blues music done mainly by black people, then rock developed from blues, and finally metal developed from rock music. Metal has no roots in any of the old Germanic tribes at all. Any metal fan thinking that his music is an Aryan one is simply wrong, and singing German does not make this music traditional white music. Nazis in the third reich called music like blues (as well as jazz) "nigger music" and therefore would also not have liked metal music either.
- Apart from the black blues influences of metal music there are lots of other non-Aryan influences in metal. The bass drum used in metal music derived from the bass drum used in jazz, which is originally the Turkish bass drum "davul". Cymbals of any kind have Chinese roots, also with Turkish influences. The same goes for tom toms.
- Metal is not the only music that has non-Aryan roots - the same goes for classical European music:
- The oboe derived from the Arabic "mizmar" (or "zurna" in turkish), which later became a shalm and finally the oboe as we know it.
- The lute is nothing other than the Arabic "oud". Not even the shape has changed.
- The guitar is Spanish as well as Mauritanian (that's probably why "Varg Vikernes" once called them "nigger instruments" and therefore stopped playing guitars in "Burzum").
- The violin derived from the Persian instrument "rebab". It is well known that Persians are "Aryans" as well, but anyway they don't belong to the old Germanic tribes.
- The complete percussion section in European orchestra music comes from the Turkish military music of the Ottoman empire called "Janissary" music.
- All of these modern Nazis who use the 'fracture letters' because they think they are Nazi-styled should know that those letters where forbidden in 1941 by the NSDAP regime because they found out that they have centuries-old Jewish roots – the font was called "schwabacher judenlettern".
- Slavonic people where not considered Aryan by Hitler, and all of these Polish NSBM bands who think he was just wrong and that Nazis love the Polish people shall check the lyrics of a well known German Nazi rock band Landser, called "Polakentango". Polish people are pure scum for real German Nazis. If you are from Poland and need to be proud about something, rather be proud of great artists like Stanislaw Lem, Zdzislaw Beksinski, or even Marian Rejewski :-), than support Nazi propaganda.
- All those Varg Vikernes-admirers thinking that a nation can only survive if it is clean and pure should take a short look at the Ottoman empire that was an extremely multi-cultural nation and lasted 624 years - that's 52 times longer than The Third Reich :-). I know that the Ottoman empire behaved awfully to other countries and I did not mean to offend any person in those countries (because I realised how sensitive Nazis are concerning that). I do not mention the Ottoman empire because i adore it - actually they did nothing else than Hitler wanted to: try to conquer the world. I mention it to show that different ethnic groups don't need to fight with each other. For example in Austria you just need to take a look in the telephone book and read the different names there, you will see that 30% of all names are Slavonic ones, because during the centuries and decades people in Austria got mixed together a lot, and there was never a problem about it. No one will ever notice a difference between people with such names and people with pure German names. Those people look, speak and feel like pure Austrians (some of them even are against foreigners despite their non-Austrian names).
- If you think you are an individualist or rebel because you like fascism then you are wrong. There is no space for individualism in fascist regimes. In fascism conformity and obedience are the most important value. This goes for Nazi Germany as well as the Stalin-Soviet Union. Fascism means extreme conformity and following orders and leaders. You have to be a working component in the huge fascist system - thinking for yourself will disturb this system.
- Nazis leaders don't care about the people of their folk - they care only for symbols like flags, and for their personal advantage. A real Nazi leader did not mind if 1000 Germans died on the battlefield as long as the flag was not get damaged and the leaders could live in luxury. While thousands of people fought in a war, freezing and with hardly anything to eat, Hitler and his friends lived in luxury until the end. Officers at the Stalingrad front-line had champagne each day whereas the normal soldier was freezing with only 2 slices of bread per day.They could have prevented the death of a million German people and the destruction of thousands of German houses by stopping a war that was already obviously lost 2 years before its official end. But they did not because the end of the war would have meant the end of the peaceful and luxurious life they had each day.This doe not mean that i think positively about the huge English and American bombings of Austrian and German cities; they where also a crime in the Nazi style, but I want to say that the Nazis could have prevented that if they hadn't been such cowards.
- I often experience that people think if they are against Stalin then they have to love Hitler. Two wrongs don't make a right, and an idiot fighting against another idiot does not turn either idiot into a wise man. Stalin was fascist like Hitler. If you don't like Stalin then it is absurd to like Hitler.
- Another problem I notice often is that people can not decide between fascism, racism and nationalism. Those are three different things that don't necessarily have to be connected. Fascism means the maximum of conformity and control of its people, racism means a simplified way to understand people personality by just considering their race, and nationalism means to be free from other national influences. You can be a non-racist nationalist for example. Gandhi was something like that - he wanted to keep India free from English reign but was surely not a racist. On the other hand the Nazis were not strict nationalists. They still supported colonies for Germany, they always wanted to increase their German "master race" and take space from other countries for that etc. To be true nationalists they should have cared about their historically ground, their historically culture and not mess around in countries they didn't belong to.
- I prefer to be proud about things i did or am responsible for, but I never ever could feel pride for things I could not even decide upon. I can be proud about my music for example, but never that I was born in Austria. I am of course happy to live in a country like Austria instead of a poor country, but I am definitely not proud about that. It seems for me that Nazis have nothing else to be proud of than the coincidence that they were born in their father-land. Even if you are proud of your country, that doesn't naturally mean you're a Nazi. But if national pride is your most important pride, and probably the only pride you have, then it starts getting a bit weird.
If you feel like part of your country, and see the positive things your country did as a personal act of yours because of your derivation, then you also have to accept the consequences and be ashamed of all the bad things your country did. That's why I never ever felt ashamed about anything that Hitler did, what happened to the Jews etc. I am not responsible for that.
- I know a lot of Summoning fans and have friends from and contacts to people of different nationalities. I personally know and like people who are Arabic, Jewish, Chinese, Russian, people from Latin America, blacks etc. and I never could see any difference between me and them. For me the personality counts and not the ethnicity, and i prefer an Arabic or Israeli music fan 100 times more to an Austrian with total different interests. I choose friends because of their personality, not because of their ethnicity.
- If you like the old Germanic tribes, their traditions and their runes etc., that's fine. The ancient culture of your own nation is probably the most obvious one to deal with if you are interested in ancient cultures; I also have a Germanic drinking-horn hanging on my wall btw. But it is a huge mistake to think that you can accent those likings by supporting the Nazi regime. Apart from some runes on some uniforms they did not bring back any Germanic symbols or traditions. On the contrary they even supported the greatest historical enemies of the Germanic tribes, the ancient Roman empires. Here's some info proving this statement: Hitler decided to name his new empire the "Third Reich" because he considered the so called "Holy Roman Empire Of German Nation" (that lasted from the medieval times till 1806) as the first one, and the "German Empire" (from 1871 to 1918) as the second one. He even kept the Catholic and Protestant Religion as the main religion in Germany and did not really bring back the old gods like Odin etc. During the Third Reich they had a good relation to the Church, and the Pope and other important people from the Church even blessed the weapons of the German army. I am an atheist so I believe neither in Odin, God nor any other kind of higher force. I just wanted to show that Nazis did not care about old historic Germanic traditions very much, and saw the Christianisation of the German tribe as the real rise of the German empire.
- I support total freedom in speech and thought, and even a Nazi should be free to say whatever he thinks. For me forbidding special thoughts or opinions does not fit into a democratic society. Forbidding opinions turns them to taboo, which attracts young metal heads very much. It makes them feel like real rebels to break those taboos. I want that those taboos never even appear. As long as they don't abuse my music for that they can say or do whatever they want. The more they talk openly and freely about those weird ideologies, the faster people will realise all the contradictions ... as long as there are still some opposing people drawing attention to those contradictions.
- Original black metal has no national socialistic elements, so you are not more "true" or whatever if you follow national socialistic tendencies. For example Burzum makes good music which influenced us a lot at the beginning of Summoning, but this was never a reason for us to follow his ideologies because we always preferred to think for ourselves.
- There is nothing wrong if you only love your own culture and don't like other ones; nobody can force anybody to like anything, but what I want to add is that you cannot escape foreign influences even if you listen to pure European music. Of course European culture found its own way during the centuries and now doesn't have much to do with its outside influences, but it cannot be denied that without those influences, it would not exist.
For example Summoning definitely does not sound like blues, nor do we have any other obvious foreign influences, but like any other kind of music derived from metal it would not exist without it. That might be self-evident for some but not for narrow-minded Nazis who want to remove anything they thought is not pure German styled - even if there is the slightest non-German influence in it (like the above mentioned fracture letters). I personally don't like hip hop at all for example, but as it is so easy to turn off a radio or switch off a tv show i have no problems with it. I like being free to decide what I have to do, to like etc. and don't want any dictator deciding for me what i have to do, like etc.


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WP Academy - SEO Site Auditing for Wordpress Bloggers
- Introduction
- Diagnosing Traffic Drops
- Google Core Update June 2019: Overview
- Is a Google Algorithm Update Always a Penalty?
- Was Your Website Impacted by Latest Google Update?
- Common Issues Found in Site Audits
- Q&A on Site Audit Tips
- Final Tips on Auditing Your Own Website
Casey Markee: Hi, everyone. Welcome to this month's WP Academy special session on-site auditing for WordPress bloggers. My name is Casey Markee. Thanks for joining us today.
Joining me on the call today is one of the greatest guys I've ever met. I know he's blushing. He's blushing. He's a competitive bear wrestler. I don't know if you guys knew that. Arsen Rabinovich. Take a bow, Arsen.
Arsen is the owner of TopHatRank.com, which is a fantastic full-service digital marketing agency, located in... what is it, Encino? Is that right?
Arsen R.: Los Angeles, yeah. We're north Los Angeles. Encino, Sherman Oaks.
Casey Markee: Site auditing is a very interesting topic. It's amazing how many talking heads will come on and say you don't need a site audit, and then they're totally dumbfounded when their traffic falls off the proverbial cliff with Google, and they have no idea how to address that.
Our goal today is to try and provide you some tools, some strategies, to help you do this yourself, especially considering the extremely volatile nature of Google updates recently. We had a core update in June that followed a core update in March, and that followed updates last year.
What we're going to first talk about is just the general concept of site audits. I'm going to turn it over to Arsen. He's going to provide a little bit of background, and then I'm going to provide a little background. Then, we're going to talk a little bit specifically about the core updates. Then, we're going to talk a little bit about how to diagnose those. On that note, Arsen, take it away.
Diagnosing Traffic Drops
Arsen R.: I'm going to show you guys a few slides from a talk that I did at SMX London. The talk was about triage diagnosis and resolution of complex SEO issues. But I wanted to share just maybe five, six slides from that talk.
The important slides are the ones that talk about the process of... essentially, it's a diagnostics drill-down. Okay. You should be able to see my screen now.
This is a process that we use here in TopHatRank, internally, when we have clients who get in touch with us and let us know that... or potential clients get in touch with us, that they've experienced a decline in their traffic, conversions, or ranking.
Right away, we get into the process of triage, trying to understand what are the symptoms. Typically, the symptoms are you've lost traffic impressions or you're losing positions. From that point, you need to start to figure out and dissect exactly what happened.
One of the things that we start right away is with a timeline that's not shown here, that lets us know what's been happening with the site during the timeframe where they noticed that drops in rankings and traffic. Then, you get into the diagnostics.
Right away, the first thing you want to do is isolate the affected areas. One of the best ways to do this is looking at Google Analytics traffic data and doing comparison views between when things were good and when you noticed the decrease in traffic. At the same time, do the same date ranges, if possible, through search console, and look at the impressions and the clicks.
After that, you definitely want to take a look at which queries lost positions. Again, in Google Search Console, search analytics, you can take a look and see for which pages, the affected pages, which queries lost positions. You can also use SEMrush to do that.
Then, once you've isolated those pages, you want to take a look at the page level assessment and see what changed. Use the Google Search Console, your own inspection report, and click on "view live page" to see what Google's picking up.
You have some pages that lost 40% in traffic, but then you have other pages that picked it up. You want to definitely isolate between the entire website or just pages on your site.
You can also take a look at impressions. If you're not getting too many clicks and you're seeing that you lost positions, you can take a look at impressions and see which pages lost impressions there.
Once you've identified the pages, you can filter by queries and look exactly at which keywords or queries lost positions. Google will, right away, tell you if there are errors on the page; index errors. Google will tell you where it discovered the page, when it last crawled, and what happened.
Then, once you've identified that, you want to get into further drill-downs and take a look at server logs. You want to take a look at spider roadblocks and intermittent alternating status codes. This is more for the advanced user.
You want to take a look and see if Google and visitors are receiving different status response codes from your server. Check your backlinks. Look for any sudden influx of referring domains where the links drop off. Then, obviously, crawl the site.
Google Core Update June 2019: Overview
Casey Markee: Fantastic. Thanks, Arsen. What we're going to do now is we're actually going to go ahead and talk a little bit about the core update that happened June the 3rd. We're going to call it the Tiffany Update because that was my wife's birthday.
When Google makes a core update, it is literally dozens, if not hundreds, of little changes. It's not any one thing. It's very diverse. It is very complicated. Google even felt the need to announce it, and they, honestly, have only announced about three updates in the last two years. It's a big deal when they do these things.
The core update builds upon the March update. Google had a core update in March, around March the 12th, March the 13th, affected, negatively, a lot of bloggers. So, they took all the data. They tried to refine it as much as they can, and they did another update in June, which some people got improvement on, some people did not.
The problem with these core updates is that you will not improve until Google runs the core update again. You can have these little improvements between updates, where you can improve performance, UX, and other little variables, but until Google reruns the update, you won't really see any sort of large recovery. That's something that a lot of users don't understand, so I want to make sure that you're aware of that, right away today.
Maybe your content just isn't as good as you think it is, and that's what John Mueller (Google) will tell you. That's what we as SEOs will tell people all over again. You have been told repeatedly that you need to make these long posts, that you need to provide, ask, and answer questions, and do things like that.
Your goal is to write a qualified piece of content that asks and answers questions the user's going to have, that provides everything the user needs to make the recipe or the content perfectly; the how-to tutorial and whatever, but it's not superfluous.
We want to make sure that everything is as qualified as it can be. Word count is not now, nor has it ever been, a ranking factor, but you would never know that, talking to ad companies who keep telling you over and over again, "Make your posts this long", or, "Do this so that we can stuff it with more ads."
It's not really what Google's looking for. When you look at the breakdown of sites that were affected by the core update... Search Metrics has published a great treatise on this. SISTRIX has published a great finding on this.
One of the things that they all share, they were running a ton of ads. When you have a ton of ads that cover the main content, when you have a ton of ads that follow you as you scroll down the page, when you have content, ad, content, ad, content, ad, content, ad, over and over again, that's going to lower the perceived value of your content in the eyes of Google.
Arsen and I feel you when you say that you want to monetize your site, but there is an optimal approach to doing that. If you're relying on the logic-bearing algorithm of an ad company to determine how many ads you need, you're doing it wrong.
You need to visually look at your site and determine, "Okay, this looks like too many ads to me. It's definitely going to look like too many ads to my customers." So, be aware of that.
I'm going to go ahead and paste over, as well, a YouTube video recently that John Mueller did, where he talks specifically about strategies to recover from the recent core update. Make a note of these, whenever you can. Okay.
Is a Google Algorithm Update Always a Penalty?
Arsen R.: I want to touch on that point about the penalty. These are not penalties. When an algorithm goes through an update, these are not penalties. When they say quality update, they're not talking about the quality of how you write. Quality in Google's eyes is relevance.
When Google does one of these updates, they're not saying that your site is bad or crap. They're just saying that somebody else is a better result for this query. Through that process, they're moving them up in rankings, and the byproduct of that is you moving down.
We did get a lot of requests for audits just as soon as this update started rolling out and people started seeing this. One of the ongoing themes was, "I was penalized by Google. I was penalized by Google." You're not penalized. Google doesn't think that your site is quality or relevant enough for the queries that you used to rank for, that used to bring traffic to your site.
Casey Markee: When these core updates pushed out, it is a whole view of your site. It's site speed. It's technical issues. It's crawlability issues. It's doing pagination correctly. It's duplicate content. If you've incorrectly used your tag structures to link internally.
When we're looking at site auditing, we're looking at the whole thing. We call that a holistic approach. That's why, when Arsen and I do an audit, it could be 50, 60, 70 pages long, because our goal is to surface as many issues as possible and correct as many issues as we can.
Was Your Website Impacted by Latest Google Update?
What we're going to do now is we're going to get into how can you see if you were affected by this Google core update, especially from June. One of the things that I want you guys to understand or use, if you've never heard of it, is called the Penguin Tool.
I'm going to go ahead and paste this over into the chat for you. This is great for traffic drops because what this does is it will allow you to line up your analytics around published updates from Google.
What I've done is I've logged in here, and I've gone ahead and chosen the Google profile for the Real and Vibrant site. You can see here that traffic was going along, and then boom. There's the update.
This is the diversity update. Google is looking to not show more than two results from the same domain with this search update but may show more than two results from the same domain name, where appropriate. Google is really trying to provide more added value to users by eliminating what they call duplicate or very closely related search results.
Google rates content on a per-page basis. They don't even have a site-wide authority metric. It's true. John Mueller's come out and said that multiple times.
It's all about the bottom-line quality of the content. If you got the top apple pie recipe, from a user standpoint and from a literally hundreds and hundreds of other metrics, you're going to do fine.
Going back over here to Real and Vibrant, this is something to be aware of. In her case, one of the reasons that she was impacted by the core update is that she is called a "your money or your life" blogger. Let me explain that.
When you have a lot of recipe content that is tailored around different diets, gluten free, dairy free, paleo, vegan, there are very specific things that Google's looking for.
In her case, it's imperative that, as we go through the audit, that we take a look at her perceived author expertise, that we take a look that if she makes any dietary statements or any statements that impact health, that we've supported those statements accordingly or linked out.
Again, just a reminder, folks, we had about 80 submitted sites. As we kind of went through these, we opened up a spreadsheet. We went through it to look at some of the top-surfaced issues. We found a lot of themes. One of the themes, for example, is page speed. What did you notice specifically about that, Arsen? Anything jump out at you?
Common Issues Found in Site Audits
Arsen R.: I have a unique way of looking at page speed. It's something that needs to be constantly worked on. A lot of sites that were submitted do have page speed issues.
Page speed is something that you shouldn't look at just from a standpoint of, "Hey, this is my homepage suffering from a slowdown." You definitely want to take a look in analytics. There's a report that shows you how each page on your site compares to other pages, as far as their speed.
Casey Markee: Now, some of the other issues that we saw when we were looking at this. Number one, we need to really talk about the correct of h tags. You do not wrap whole sentences in h tags.
That's an over-optimization. It's the spammy signal, if anything. These little things, by themselves, are not going to tank you. Okay? We want to make sure that the structure is very clear.
Q&A on Site Audit Tips
We're going to very quickly answer some of these questions that are coming up, just so we don't get too far behind. "Tell me a little bit about if someone was auditing their site, what free tools are available for them that they can use? What's the best free tool for pages speed and the like?"
Arsen R.: Everything from Google. I'm a big fan of the new Search Console. I live in it. My entire team lives in it. That's essentially data directly from Google. You can't question that too much. We use POC, as far as the free tools, Google Analytics, Page Speed Insights. Anything from Google, we use.
Our other toolset, obviously, is SEMrush. Crawling, we use pretty much every single tool that's available.
There's a question here. "My website clicks when I check in GSC show the same; nothing more or less. Does this mean the website is not affected by core update?
No, that's doesn't actually mean that your site wasn't affected. It could have been affected positively. I wouldn't just look at the clicks. I would also look at impressions, and I would also look at which pages, so doing a date range before and prior to the update, and looking at that.
Casey Markee: Okay. Meg had a question here, a question about Jetpack image optimization. I already used this on my site. Is there anything else I should look into, in regard to lazy loading images?
Yes. The lazy loading in WP Rocket will work just fine with Jetpack, and that's honestly what I would suggest. Let's talk a little bit about chain redirects. Can you go ahead, Arsen, while I'm setting this up? Go ahead and just kind of explain to users why chain redirects are bad.
Arsen R.: Chain redirects are worst. We do a lot of migrations, as an agency, and chain redirects become a big pain in the butt for us. Chain redirect is when you have one page redirecting to another page, and then to another page, and then to another page until it arrives at its destination.
It's been kind of a known thing that Google doesn't follow anything in a chain that's over five hops on its initial visit. You want to make sure that you never have more than one hop in a redirect.
Casey Markee: You heard Arsen mention that Google can follow up to five redirects. Well, then why is this a big deal? Well, it's just not the best practice. Even though Google can do something, we never rely on them to do it. We always want to correct this stuff as much as possible.
Arsen R.: If you were affected by these recent updates, there's another thing you want to quickly take a look at. How well are you matching that query-intent? If the intent is to find a recipe for a specific dish, is your content super relevant? Google does a really good job in understanding that.
Is your story about this recipe being passed generation through generation being right above the actual recipe and taking up about six to seven hundred words of 1,000 word recipe post? Is that really relevant, and is that satisfying the query intent? The answer is no. The person is not interested.
If you look for things like apartments in Dallas, the results are going to be listing sites. They're going to show you apartment listings right away. They're not going to give you 12 paragraphs of text above the listings.
Casey Markee: I know that Jim Floyd, if you're still on the call, you had a question here. "Can you get duplicate content errors through bad use of categories or tags?" Yes, you can. Honestly, because the tag pages in many cases are never going to generate a ton of traffic for you. We usually just no index those, because we don't want those to compete or cannibalize our better category pages.
Category pages are like, again, windows into our house, and our house is the blog. We can actually optimize those very effectively. Add above the fold content. Add more internal linking and the like.
Something to be aware of folks is that if you are going to noindex something, you might want to just go ahead and make sure that you noindex nofollow it, as well. Unless... I mean, let's come up with an example of where it might be useful, Arsen, for someone to have noindex follow. If it's an expired post, but the post leaks out to very good resources.
Arsen R.: Yeah, absolutely. I've seen noindex follow used in a very interesting way in eCommerce sites, where you want to take somebody through a page or pages in the path, in a logical navigational path for a user, but that page, it could be a parent silo or a child index that shows a subcategory of products that you don't want Google to index because it's essentially a duplicate. But it's still a valid pathway to get to the asset. Then that makes sense, but I only rarely see that. I'm not a big fan of that combination of noindex follow.
Final Tips on Auditing Your Own Website
Casey Markee: Okay. Very good. Okay. We're going to be finishing up in just a couple minutes, guys. I think you can see the SEMrush questions that our fantastic moderator pasted over.
How long can it take for another core update to come into effect? Could be months. Google does not announce those. As we always tell users, your goal should be to optimize your site as much as you can in the trowels between these updates. Hopefully, we provided some issues and some guidance on things that you can do.
If you have 15 minutes a day, what reports would you run in SEMrush, Google Console to get up to speed on what is going on with the site? You know, you run the top pages report once a week. Run a comparison, a seven-day comparison, so you can see if there are any noticeable drops.
Make sure that you stay up to date on the Google Search Console crawl report, which shows your errors, and things that are indexed, and things that are no index. Does it look strange? Why is Google ignoring all these URLs? Maybe we can make some determinations from that. Arsen, what about SEMrush? What reports, specifically, do you think that they'd want to do in SEMrush?
Arsen R.: Not reports, unless you're tracking keywords. Nothing in there from a report perspective, but I would definitely say set up a weekly crawl of your website that's recurring if you are using SEMrush, and I highly recommend using that tool. We use it internally here. Each one of our clients is in there, and we set it up so it crawls as frequently as possible, and sends us alert on every time there's a crawl. This way, you can get in front of issues super, super fast.
Casey Markee: Okay. Next question was, "Should we not duplicate any of the notes content in the post content?" There's no duplicate content issue on the same page. So, if you've got some important notes that you've put as expert tips in the recipe post, do that. Make sure you take the most important of the tips and repeat those under recipe notes it the card, whenever possible. Users like that.
"My jump to recipe buttons haven't been working in Genesis. I add them to the post, but they don't show on the published pages. Is there a plugin that is better to make the jump with recipe buttons?"
I don't know of any quality plugins that will do it. This can be custom coded, usually by your developer, or you can use a plugin like WP Recipe Maker or Tasty now supports those buttons.
"Finally, what plugin allows us to create a table of contents with the links?" Very good question. I'll go ahead and paste one in really quickly. See if I can find it here. It's called CM Table of Contents. And I'm pasting it into the chat, TOC plugin. And we're good to go.
So, on that note, I want to thank everyone for coming out today. We tried to pull out the themes that we saw over and over again, in all of the audits. So, things like making sure that you've got the on-page optimization dialed in.
Making sure that you're using Google Search Console competitively. Understanding how to use a tool like the Penguin tool and your Search Console to see if you were affected by these updates. Understanding how page speed works. Using the best plugins. WP Rocket. Maybe ShortPixel for image optimization. If you have Jetpack installed, even better.
I'm going to let Arsen provide a couple of words here. Thanks so much, Arsen, for joining us.
Arsen R.: Thank you for having me. Yeah, absolutely. Keep technical in mind, at all times. Don't go crazy with redirects. Constantly audit your organizational aspects of the site, from topology to information architecture.
Look at your breadcrumbs. Do they make sense from a logical navigational organizational standpoint? Are you matching the query? Are you satisfying that intent of search? That's the question you need to be asking yourself every time you're sitting down to write a piece of content.
Think of topics. Don't think of keywords. Am I covering the topic? Am I covering it in its entirety, or am I adding too much fluff? Also, keep in mind dilution. If you're going to be writing about something and you're going to add a lot of content just for the sake of adding content, you're going to dilute the overall focus of that page.
All of those things are important, and when we start fixing those things, especially after these updates over the last two years, or year and a half now, we're seeing results. So, keep all of that in mind.
Casey Markee: Right. If you enjoyed this content, please go down, take a minute, click the thumbs up button, let us know that you liked it. Leave a comment. Share this out. And thanks so much for attending. Have a great rest of your week and be safe out there. We'll talk to you again soon. Take care.
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Tiny Bike Shop Concert • Thur. March 1st
This entry was posted on February 27, 2012.
This Thursday is the Tiny Bike Shop Concert at Perennial Cycle. We're excited to have Ann Reed and Dan Chouinard back to the shop for our first Tiny Bike Shop Concert of 2012. Last fall when they put on a show for us we had a great time yakking up bikes and hearing some fabulous music from a couple of local legends.
Ann was just on Prairie Home Companion where she wowed us all with her amazing talent and Dan, being comfortable with any keyboard instrument will knock our socks off with his accordion at the show. Together they put on a phenomenal show that you will not want to miss.
Not only is the show FREE, but there's rumor of a bit 'o grilling going on out back and snacks and lemonade area sure bet.
Lastly: Prizes, Lots of Good Ones… When you show up be sure and go through registration to be placed in a drawing to win A Linus Dutchi Bicycle, a Jon Nielson custom art-ified Banjo Brothers Backpack, three Walz Caps, and more.
We'll have a camera set up as well as a willingness to snap another with your camera.
-From 6:00-6:45 you can get an extra ticket in the drawing by having your picture taken trying on a Walz Cap
-From 6:30 to 6:45 you can get your picture taken with Dan and Ann on stage!
Here's the full schedule:
6:00 - Drawing registration begins
6:00 - (until Gone, limited supply) Weinie/Brat Roast on Grill Out Back
6:00 - 6:45 Walz Cap picture
6:15 - 6:45 O2 Rainwear's Adam Ziskin will be available for questions
6:30-6:45 pictures on the stage with Ann & Dan
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The Cosmological Argument is the argument based upon the idea that every effect has an adequate cause. The existence of the world cannot be denied. Scientists have concluded that the material of which the earth and planets are made is not eternal. Therefore, it had to have a beginning. This argument is closely akin to the Teleological Argument.
Simply, "Teleological" means purpose, design and adaption in the universe. These studies deal primarily with our solar system, particularly the earth. Evidence is abundant that the wonders we behold could not have come by chance or accident, but as purposed and planned by a designer. Mentality and intelligence are not composed of matter, and could not possibly have merely evolved. All of nature indicates intelligence; intelligence connotes personality, and personality indicates God. The following thoughts are adapted and paraphrased from the book Man Does Not Stand Alone by A. Cressy Morrison (Fleming H. Revel Co., 1954).
That the universe was brought about by Divine Intelligence can be proved by mathematical law. Suppose one puts ten coins into a container, having numbered each coin from one to ten. Shake them up thoroughly, and then try to take them out in sequence, one to ten, that is, remove coin number one, then put it back into the container, then remove coin number two. Place it back in the can and so on until all have been removed in order. Mathematically the chances of drawing number one is one to ten. The possibility of removing numbers one and two in succession is one in 100. To draw one, two and three in succession is one chance in a thousand, etc. The possibility of drawing one to ten in succession is one chance in ten billion.
By the same kind of reasoning it may be logically concluded that the many affairs necessary for life to exist on earth could not, by chance, exist in proper relationship. Therefore, the only reasonable conclusion is that such could be produced by intelligent purpose and design. For example, the earth rotates upon its axis at the rate of speed of one thousand miles per hour. If the rate of speed were reduced to two hundred miles an hour, the daylight periods would be so long that the heat from the sun would burn up all vegetable and animal life. On the other hand, darkness would prevail so long that everything would freeze. There would be five times as many heating hours and cooling as now.
Consider the sun. Scientists declare the sun to have a surface temperature of 12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The earth is located exactly the right distance from the sun that we receive the proper amount of heat and radiation. If the earth were located a million miles closer to the sun than the present arrangement, too much heat would be absorbed, and if a million miles farther away, too little. Further, if the great land masses of the northern hemisphere were to exchange places with the great masses of water in the southern hemisphere, even with the present distance from the sun, the same effects would result and all life would perish. Therefore, the land and water masses are located by design or purpose. Also suppose that the temperature of the sun were half what it is, everything would freeze, and if increased to 18,000 degrees, all life on earth would be roasted. Hence, an intelligently designed relationship is evident.
The moon is located some 248,000 miles from the earth. The moon's gravitational pull produces ocean tides. If the moon were only 50,000 miles away, the tides would be so great that the whole earth would be submerged twice a day, and everything wherein is the breath of life could not live; also the mountains and hills would be eroded. If the diameter of the earth were much greater, the crust of the earth much thicker, oxygen could not exist and all animal life would die. If the atmosphere surrounding the earth were much thinner, meteors that are now burned in the atmosphere by friction would reach earth and set fires all over the world. The slant of the earth's axis is no accident. If it were perpendicular instead of an angle of 23½ degrees, life could not exist. Therefore, it is conclusive that life on earth is not accidental, not one chance in millions or billions.
Law and order are found everywhere in the universe. Inanimate matter is not able to make laws to govern itself, nor is it capable of arranging itself into orderly patterns, which is the case in all natural things. For there to be a law, such necessitates a Lawgiver, and for things to be arranged in orderly fashion there must be an Arranger, which indicates intelligence, which denotes Personality, which in turn connotes Divine Intelligence or God. The Psalmist said: "I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are thy works" (Psalm 139:14). If the complex spaceships, huge telephone systems and complex computers require designers, how much more the human body, which has a nervous system greater and more complex than the telephone system of Memphis, or larger cities, and a brain that outshines all human computers in the world. The brain can design and build computers, but when did a computer ever design and build a human brain and nervous system? There could be no law and order without intelligence, which brings us back to God.
"What is life?" Science has speculated, but never found the answer. Life pervades our planet; it rides upon the dust particles, abides in the water, in the juice of fruits, in the smallest of insects and the greatest of animals, but no human can explain it. A watermelon seed weighs one four-thousandth of a pound. In this seed is what may be called the principle or germ of life. When planted in soil, which of itself has no life and can give none, sprouts and produces a vine and more melons thereby reproducing itself (the seed) hundreds of times, and its weight 500,000 times greater than itself.
An elephant weighs several tons. It is powerful enough to pull its own weight. Put a bullet into its brain and immediately it becomes a mass of inanimate matter. It weighs exactly the same after life is gone as it did before. The chemical analysis is the same. The body and legs have the same strength, but the power that moved the muscles is missing. This power cannot be seen under the microscope, weighed on the scales, nor analyzed in the test tube. What is such power? It is called life! The "Big Boy," the largest steam locomotive ever built, weighs about 1,189,500 pounds. Its power was not in the drive rods, pistons or wheels, but in the steam that moved them. This great, massive machine did not evolve; it was designed and built according to specifications. Spectators have looked upon it with awe and admiration! How much more, therefore, the magnificent earth upon which we chance to exist?
Life is said to be an artist that gives beautiful shape and color to every flower, and designs every leaf upon every plant. Life gives taste to fruit, perfume to the flowers, hence, not only an artist, but a chemical engineer. Life provides for the various tones of music sung by the birds and makes possible the calling of insects. Life is that entity that gives shape and form to the magnificent organism called the human body. Yet, the scientist is humbled to the dust in trying to explain this great phenomenon. While many who call themselves scientists and philosophers deny the existence of God, there are multitudes of others in scientific circles who consider the evidence and readily acknowledge God the Almighty.
Before the source of any object can be found, the character or personality of said object must be determined. If a coin is gold or silver, its quality and composition must be determined before its source can be found. In other words, such materials as these can be found only where such qualities can be located. Man has physical appetites such as animals, but mankind goes beyond mere passion. He has the qualities of will, judgment, thought, reason, love, hate, language, conscience, faith, hope, religion, etc. It is axiomatic that from nothing comes nothing, and like begets like. Since animals do not have the same qualities as man, it is conclusive that man did not come from animals or even the same stock, root or trunk as animals. It is impossible that life and all the qualities mentioned above could derive from dead matter; the source must be discovered elsewhere. The simple answer is: "And God said, Let us make man in our own image… So God created man in His own image… In the image of God created He him…" (Genesis 1:26-27).


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It was wonderful experience. we had some bad weather, but it gave me the opportunity to spend more time with nomad family and it was a very enriching time. Our guide Tuvshee was joyful and friendly and most importantly a very good cook (in extreme conditions) during tent camping. We want to come back and we will buy a ger to put in our garden!~ Anais Julienne & Bernardo Montufar, France
Day 3. Long day visiting to Buriat Ethnic Museum & Mongol Daguur (Dauria) National Park & Exploring Gazelle herds and 3 countries' border.
Having nice breakfast with home-made buriatian toasts and nice taste sour crème from milk is a shiny part of my travel memory. This morning we visited to very nice museum and we had lots of information about Buriat ethnic group. Buriats consider that their descendants are Khoridoi general and Swan lady from sky. Therefore, we could see the monument of Swan mother in small garden of this village.
Then we headed to Chukh lake area and Dauria national park. Beautiful Chukh lake and it's surrounding bulrushes are the comfortable home and stopover for migrating birds to/from Siberia and tropical countries. Here in summer hottest days more than 100 species of birds are nesting, breeding and homing. The most endangered species of birds are 5 species of cranes: white naped crane, black crane, white crane and blue cranes. When I was walking along the lakeshore and between bulrushes, I tried to imagine the summer view of this lake with flying and head-nodding birds. At the lake we met an old lady called Urjinbadam and she and her husband were trying to protect this lake and birds in last 10 years.
Mongol Dauria national park area is UNESCO World Biosphere Reserve area and Ramsar Site- International wetlands Importance Site. It includes several small pure water lakes and these lakes are stopover and home for hundreds of birds, as well as low rolling hills and mountains, which are keeping the endangered species of wild mountain sheep and wild goats herds. It has rich habitat of birds, gazelles, sheep, goats and as well as other wildlife: lynxes, foxes, wolves and so on..
We arrived later afternoon to Ereentsav village and today we did not have a free time to have lunch, our next destination was border point of 3 countries: Mongolia, Russia and China. On the way we have discovered and played around with big herds of thousands of gazelle. It was really nice to see that whole big valley is full of running gazelles and it looked like big steppe was moving and shaking. We run out off our van and everybody is busy with taking pictures. German speaking male manager sent the drone to shoot the big herd of thousands gazelles. Unfortunately, the drone battery was very low and it fell somewhere by the edge of the big herd.
When we arrived at the border, it was getting dark and the sun was setting down. We were at the most eastern point of Mongolia as looking at 3 sides of border column with 3 different scripts. 100 years ago our borders were not here. Mongolian border was 200 km north far deep into Russian present territory and 150 km east far deep into Chinese present territory. Present time all these big region with Mongolian names are registered under countries of Russia and China. Mongolian names of mountains and rivers are brainstorming today what the world politic made to Mongolia. Many buriatian and bargujin etnic groups are living in China and Russia now.
We went back to border check point and military border station. Here we had dinner and asked for the permission to stay overnight in this comfy warm building. Unfortunately, we were not allowed to stay there and we had to move back to the village. Our driver was tired and he almost missed one of us at the border station. He could shout loudly on leaving time, also we recognized that one seat is empty, soon we stopped and picked up him. Then we had cross eyed talking about the miss of a person and it turned into a movie scenario. The scenario started like this: Our driver missed 6 managers in east part of Mongolia. Those managers lived as wild tribe with many adventures for 20 years and later our driver came back to this area with tourists and he and his tourists are welcomed to our tent. Of course, managers will punish the driver, who made them to live as wild. In this scenario everybody needed to change their names as sounding ancient style names. Since that time we call each other with our new names with ancient style. During the scenario composition everybody was keeping laughs continiuesly. It was really great fun talk and nice fantasy refreshment in my travel memory.
Finally we arrived back to Ereentsav village. Everybody is exhausted because of driving and exploring after 6 a.m until 10p.m. Tonight we – 19 people all together stayed in a pretty big room at the secondary school dormitory. I had a great chance to seize the soft bed near the window, so I had nice fresh air from outside and I enjoyed and rested with my deep sleep, nothing any dreams and nothing any noise at my ears.
Day 4. Khukh lake depression and Leader's family visit and back to civilization
Today we continued our clockwise tour to Khukh – Blue lake depression. This is my 4th visit to this beautiful small salt lake. This area is the lowest point of Mongolia and it is 552 meters above sea level. When we arrived it's water completely frozen and we were enjoying with picturing on ice of the lake. The sun was shining brightly, the sunlight was reflecting and sparkling brilliantly on ice of the lake. I love the summer view of this lake and as well as the winter view of it. Maybe, after finishing my travel job and when I will be retired, I might come here to stay for summer season.
We drove to Choibalsan village of Dornod province, which is the birthplace of our travel leader Bolorkhuu. His parents are still living here, so we have visited to his house and had lunch there. His parents served us with nice taste of soup. The soup taste brainstormed me my mother's soup for special holiday and celebration in socialist time. The soup taste touched deep of my heart and made me cry as missing my mom.
Then we drove to Choibalsan big town, where Dornod Tourism Union people are waiting for us. We had official talk about tourism development in eastern part of Mongolia and travel agencies' roles and contribution into the successful tourism in this region.
Tonight we stayed in local hotels and we had great rest and thoughts about this region and buriat ethnic group.
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We're excited to share with everyone that Peponi Woods has been featured by Voyage Chicago. This is an exciting event in our amazing history. We owe our success to each and every one of you; our customers. Take a look at the article for yourself:
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We're Now Part of the Pro Sawyer Network
Peponi Woods is now a proud member of Wood-Mizer's Pro Sawyer Network.
"The Pro Sawyer Network is an elite club of professional, actively sawing Wood-Mizer owners that work with Wood-Mizer for mutual success."
We can now be found on their "Find a Local Sawyer" page.
If you're interested in purchasing your own sawmill, let us know. We'll demo our mill to you and answer all the questions you have.
Stately Ash to Find New Life
A customer called us recently with several Ash Trees that have fallen prey to the emerald ash borer. A total of four trees totaling ~1,500 board feet of sawn lumber were cut in one day. Some of the tree sections were lost to rot unfortunately, but we did our best to save as much as we could. We did have the privilege of sawing one of the best Ash trees we've seen this year. At 20' long, 27" in diameter and losing only 3" to taper over it's length, this was one impressive tree.
We are always in awe of the beauty in trees; so enjoy these photos of the fallen giant. Soon, they will meet a new life as a rich floor in this customer's home.
Saving Ancient Oak For Father and Son
We were recently called in by a customer in Lake Geneva, WI to give new life to a large oak on his property. This Burr Oak, a member of the White Oak section Quercus, was struck by lightning recently unfortunately bringing its days as a shade tree to a close. Estimated at ~250 years old, it measured an average of 45 inches in diameter as the base of it's trunk. We used our chainsaw mill to rip the sections in half before moving them onto the sawmill.
We enjoyed working with our customer in his father; sharing the love for preservation and conservation with fellow woodworkers. Thank you for the opportunity!
Milling Tree Line Cherry
A farmer was removing a tree line that was encroaching upon his ability to maximize yields on his fields. Instead of burning all of the trees, we were able to salvage most of the sound ones for milling into lumber, here's a few shots during the process and unloading the cut lumber.
More Elm from Our Property
The milling process of the two Elm trees we cut down was split across different days so here are some more pictures. This was from milling the largest of the two trees we cut last week. Do you have dead trees on your property? Give us a call and turn your trees into beautiful lumber.
Removing & Milling Elm
Our favorite part of the process is milling up the logs into lumber on our portable bandsaw sawmill. Enjoy some of the photos from the process with this slideshow.
Milling Oak
We recently milled up some oak trees through our cost sharing program for this client. The client is in process of doing some forestry management on their property. This Oak was a bit troublesome to mill as the trunk had two main branches coming out of it and was rotten at the base. We still managed to save quite a bit of it though. Take a look at some of the pictures we snapped during the process.
Saving Storm Damaged Hickory
A client asked us to recover the lumber in this hickory tree after it was blown over in a recent wind storm. This tree had some interesting bends in it towards the top so we had to buck the tree to get the most lumber out of it. Bucking is the process of cutting the tree into shorter logs.
Several of this clients trees were damaged in the storm and some cleanup work had already been done before we were asked to come out.
If your tree was damaged in a wind storm or needs to be taken down for other reasons, let us know first. We are ready to come out to you and turn your tree into lumber.
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Shaadisaga wishes the new innings of Suresh Raina & his childhood friend Priyanka Chaudhary.
Indian cricket all-rounder Suresh Raina married Priyanka at The Leela Palace Hotel in New Delhi on Friday. Priyanka Chaudhary, who just turned Priyanka "Raina" works as an engineer in the Netherlands.
Raina flew back to Delhi from Chennai, where he was training for the upcoming IPL series at around 6 PM on Friday to tie the knot with his fiancé Priyanka. They got married in a private function attended by family and close friends. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was also invited, couldn't attend the function, but has already sent his best wishes to the couple.
Pictures of Pre-wedding Bash
Fellow cricketers of the Indian team like 'M.S Dhoni', ICC Chairman 'N. Srinivasan', Irfan Pathan and West-Indies player & Suresh's Chennai teammate 'Dwayne Bravo' also attended this high-profile wedding.
Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh 'Akhilesh Yadav', Congress Member of Parliament 'Jyotiraditya Scindia' and Bollywood star 'Anupam Kher', Arjun Rampal, Anushka Sharma accompanied boyfriend Virat Kohli for Suresh and Priyanka's Big Day.
The report says, the couple wore Sabyasachi outfits for the wedding function.
The honeymoon of this newlywed couple will be postponed to next month as Raina will play the first IPL of this season on April 9 and has a very busy schedule. There are also reports that the couple, Suresh & Priyanka are planning to go to Milan in May end for their honeymoon.
According to the media reports, both families have been very close for a long time and Priyanka's father was also Raina's sports teacher in Ghaziabad, early in his sports career. Priyanka has done engineering from Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology (KIET) Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, and then moved to the Netherlands for work.
The venue has been profligately decorated with flowers & lights, and the food is prepared by Lucknow's Tundey Kebab.
Look what Suresh has to say about Priyanka and their marriage:
Raina, once in an interview with 'The Times of India' revealed, "The best thing is that the match has been decided by my mom," and added about the venue of his wedding: "We chose Delhi for the wedding venue as I have lots of friends here. Virat (Kohli), Shikhar (Dhawan), Ishant (Sharma) aur meri UP ki team ke bahut saare players hain, jo sab aa rahe hain. (Many of my teammates from the UP team are coming)."
IBN reported Raina as saying: "I have known Priyanka for long, but in the middle, I didn't have time to be in touch with her. I remember meeting her at the airport for five minutes in 2008. She was flying back to Holland (where she currently works) and I was going to Bangalore for an IPL game, and we met at the Delhi airport for just five minutes. Usse pehle main usse bachpan mein mila tha (before that we met during our childhood)."
"She doesn't know much about cricket. She is a great soccer fan. She is a huge fan of Messi and Robin van Persie. She loves me for what I am and not because I am a cricketer. She is a very nice girl and I love her," Suresh in an interview with IBN.
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Dear Jennifer Hale, Momocon, and the Cast of Overwatch,
First of all, thank you for all that you do for fans and gamers. Ms. Hale has given life to many of gaming's most beloved characters, and I have watched Momocon grow from a small, college-run convention to one of the greatest conventions in the southern United States. This letter is not a call to cancel Jennifer Hale, Momocon, or any other actors. I am simply writing to point out a harmful misconception on the part of Ms. Hale that has hurt me and likely other members of the disabled gamer community.
The misunderstanding in question occurred in a YouTube panel run by Momocon, which was presented online rather than in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic (and by the way, THANK YOU for making the effort to put these panels online! I have had to miss a few past Momocon events due to my disability and chronic illness, and it was wonderful to be able to hear actors from one of my favorite games speak on my computer screen). Below is a screenshot of the YouTube video so readers can search for the video and see it for themselves:
The video's title on YouTube is: "MomoConline: The World Needs Heroes: Overwatch Voice Actors Panel" and Ms. Hale brought up her misconception about disability at the 1:28:28 timestamp. At this point in the video, the cast have had a running joke about a well-known actor, and Ms. Hale brings up that she is disappointed in said actor because she saw him walk "perfectly well" to a car that was parked in a disabled parking spot. This statement reflects a misconception that many, if not most, abled people have about disabled people: that if we don't LOOK disabled (to the abled eye) we must not actually BE disabled. The disabled community has had to fight this misconception tooth and nail for a very long time, and we're tired. It's bad enough when some stranger in the parking lot at Kroger makes a disparaging comment about us as we walk to our cars (usually in so much pain that we have no energy, or "spoons," to retort), but when a celebrity uses her public platform to make similar statements to a viewership in the hundreds or thousands, disabled people can be seriously harmed. What's more: none of the other actors in the panel spoke up in defense of disabled people. Some of them even gasped as if they had heard some juicy gossip.
To set the record straight, here is a brief summary of the steps disabled people must go through to obtain a placard that allows us to park in disability parking spots (I am focusing on the specific rules in Georgia, as that is where I live and where Momocon takes place): first, we must obtain a MV-9D Disabled Person's Parking Affidavit. This must be filled out and signed by our primary care physician or other licensed doctor who is treating us, which can be surprisingly hard to accomplish considering many doctors are overworked and have little time to fill out forms for patients. The form specifies the types of disabilities that qualify, as seen in the screenshot below:
As you can see on the form, several of the eligibility requirements could include people who APPEAR to walk "perfectly well" for fewer than 200 feet. For instance, many celebrities of an older generation smoked regularly and may now have lung disease, which is one of the potential qualifiers for a placard.
Finally, I wish to tell a story about something that happened to me less than a year ago. I have multiple chronic pain conditions which make it difficult for me to walk, (as well as medications which make me dizzy and cause a fall hazard) especially without an assistive device. I usually use a rollator, or sometimes a wheelchair, when I leave the house, but on this day I was only out of my car for a few minutes so I left my device in the car. I had stopped at Walgreens to pick up my medicated shampoo, which I can only obtain there (usually I get groceries and essentials brought to my car at Kroger), and when my service dog and I went back to the car a lady raced out of the store to follow us. She knocked on my window and gave me what she thought was a stern but necessary talking to about how I was selfishly taking that disability spot away from people who needed it (the parking lot was almost entirely empty at this point and there were about five other disability parking spots to choose from). Her assumption was that because she had seen me walking and because I wasn't driving a van (my wheelchair fits in the trunk of my compact car), I must not need that disability parking spot. This is an unfortunately common occurrence for disabled people, even for people who are considered "visibly disabled." Abled people, for reasons I cannot comprehend, love to police peoples' disability.
In conclusion, Ms. Hale: please educate yourself about disability issues. Please practice not making assumptions about people based on your personal experiences alone. If possible, the disabled gamer community would LOVE it if you would take the time to educate yourself and THEN speak out about misconceptions against disabled people -- become a champion for disabled rights! I know you have it in you to make the right decisions and to help your fans in the disabled gamer community. And thank you again to Ms. Hale, Momocon, and the rest of the Overwatch voice cast who put forth this welcoming and inclusive online panel! This is certainly a step in the right direction towards including disabled fans.
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Best sneaker shops in Tokyo – updated
Sneakers are a modern fashion staple. Here's where to find the most stylish and comfortable kicks in Tokyo. By Vivian Morelli and Kaila Imada
Some blame it on 'normcore', the bland, anti-trend movement that channels fashion fatigue. But, far from being dull and unfashionable, sneakers have been reinvented in the past few years and are now a regular feature on the runways of major designer labels.
Tokyo is the region's streetwear capital and naturally its citizens are embracing the sneakers in every form and colour. Plus, with the amount of walking you'd be doing, sneakers are the sensible footwear for when you're out exploring the city.
So whether you're looking for big international brands, cult favourites, pre-loved trainers or even limited edition releases, this list will make your hunt for the perfect pair that much easier. Time to ditch the heels and find some new kicks in Tokyo's best sneaker shops.
Sneaker specialists
Styles Daikanyama
Styles Daikanyama has a well-curated selection of international best-sellers and some great limited-editions. The store prides itself in offering sneakers that are both fashionable and functional. You're best to check their website frequently to get the drop dates of rare collaborations. For mini versions of your favourite sneakers, they've got a decent kids' selection as well.
Visit A+S, otherwise known as Architecture and Sneakers, for a dose of Tokyo's ever-evolving streetwear and sneaker culture. Just as the shop name suggests, what you'll find here is a well-edit selection of sneakers inside an immaculately designed space run by the folks behind Japanese streetwear label Soph (whose store is located right below). Along with some of today's most popular footwear models, mostly from Nike, you'll also find sportswear basics like T-shirts and caps. They even have mini versions of selected shoe styles for children. The items here straddle a range of budgets, from Nike and Cole Haan to luxury brands like Balenciaga and Maison Margiela.
Atmos Pink
Sneaker select shop Atmos has finally opened their ladies-only store in Harajuku. You'll find all your favourite brands in the overwhelmingly pink space, including the latest releases from Nike, Adidas, Reebok and Puma. There's even a few domestic brands thrown into the mix. Besides the shoes, you'll also find original clothing, jewellery and accessories to complete the look.
Mita Sneakers
The food-centric district of Ameyoko might be the least likely place to find an amazing sneaker shop, but Mita Sneakers is just that. Skip the shop's small street-level outpost and go to the main store, located on the second floor of the Ameyoko Center, instead. They have everything from Nike, Adidas and Puma, plus some under the radar Japanese brands like Patrick and Panther. They sometimes offer a pretty good selection of sale items as well.
Pistacchio Daikanyama
Don't be fooled by its size: Pistacchio Daikanyama may be tiny, but its modern interior is filled with a wide range of sneakers, from classic to the latest trends. Located mere steps from Daikanyama Station, the store's blue exterior is reminiscent of a Parisian bakery, and the narrow wood and brick-walled boutique houses brands such as Nike, New Balance and Adidas. Lacoste, Patrick, Hunter rain boots and Sorel snow boots are also available in store or via their online shop. Follow the shop's Instagram account for inspiration and to see shoes photographed in their natural habitat.
Los Angeles-born sneaker shop Undefeated has finally opened on Shibuya's Cat Street with two floors of streetwear goods including everything from the brand's cult worthy sneakers, clothing and accessories to a selection of rare finds and brand collabs. Stick to the first floor for all your sneaker needs, as the shop offers a good range of Undefeated x Nike styles as well as Undefeated x Adidas designs.
Streamer Espresso Atmos
'Sneaker boutique' operators Atmos took a step into uncharted territory with this location, which combines rare sneakers with quality coffee. Teaming up with Streamer Coffee Company, Atmos have set up a 'sneaker gallery' in a Harajuku basement, decorating the space with a wall of shoes and selling mainly rare models and limited-edition items, plus the ultra-collectible Be@rbricks. As for the coffee, you can look forward to a full menu of joe, in addition to vanilla and chai latte smoothies, both available only here.
Kicks Lab
Opened in 2008 by a group of sporty-shoe aficionados, this light-filled shop houses limited-edition models and collections only released in Japan. If you're in the market for a rare item, check out collaborations such as the bright Taro Yamada-covered Converse x Chinyuki, a popular Japanese anime from the '90s, and tri-coloured trainers from French sportswear brand Le Coq Sportif with Tokyo-based Mita sneakers. While you're there, stock up on shoe-care goods from Jason Markk, and 'Sneaker Freaker' magazine.
One of the many sneaker shops in Harajuku, Gettry consistently carries a hefty selection of sneakers including everything from Nike, New Balance and Asics, plus Reebok Classic and Adidas. Keep an eye out as you might miss this store – it's hidden down in a semi-basement location off the busy streets. This shop is definitely a must-go for those looking for a new pair of sneaks.
Billy's Ent
Shoe geeks will love Billy's, which always carries an exciting selection of sneakers for men and women as well as exclusive models and unique colourways from your favourite brands. Look forward to shopping through kicks from the likes of Nike, Vans, Saucony Originals and Converse, as well as other shoe options including Sperry boat shoes and Danner work boots. Clothing and other lifestyle goods are available too, so you can get all geared up before you leave.
Onitsuka Tiger
Founded in 1949, Japan's biggest shoe brand Onitsuka Tiger has streetfront stores in all the trendiest districts of Tokyo. Many of their sneakers feature a vintage vibe, and their iconic Mexico 66 model continues to be one of the most popular pairs around. Onitsuka Tiger's sleek flagship store in Shibuya houses shoes for men, women and children. If you're feeling flush, continue on next door for the brand's premium made-in-Japanese collection.
Adidas Originals
As Tokyo's flagship Adidas Originals shop, this location has almost every Adidas model you can think of, with kicks for men, women and children spread over three floors. From collaborations with local designers and brands to countless limited-edition products, there's an endless amount of merchandise for Adidas fanatics. Here you'll also be able to cop the latest Adidas NMDs, which have been flying off shelves the past few seasons.
Nike Kicks Lounge
The revamped Nike Kicks Lounge is a chill space where you can shop through Nike's most popular styles along with customisable T-shirts and other sportswear. The shop also offers a curated selection of sneakers from the entire Nike range, including Jordans, Nike Sportswear, Nike Running and much more. Head on up to the second floor and the screen printing station, where you can customise items like shirts, hoodies and sports bras. There's even garment tailoring available, so everything you buy can be tailored perfectly to your fit.
Reebok Classic Store Harajuku
Harajuku's Cat Street, known as the spiritual home of Tokyo's vibrant street fashion culture, houses this shop that's centred around Reebok's casual line, Reebok Classic. The range of more than 1,000 items is a throwback to styles from the '80s and '90s, so you're bound to recognise classic motifs and designs used in their sneakers and apparel from those eras. The ground floor is focused on iconic lines like the Insta Pump Fury and the Ventilator, while the second floor is where to find clothing – including the Tokyo-themed TYO Collection. They may be very retro, but these creations all still feel as fresh as ever.
White Atelier by Converse
Converse sneakers are everywhere in Japan, so we were surprised to hear that this 'studio' shop is actually the brand's first dedicated store in the country. Aiming to represent everything that goes into the 'Converse lifestyle', White Atelier boasts an extensive lineup, including some items sold only here. True sneakerheads will want to check out the basement, where you can create your very own All-Star design, tweaking it with text, patterns and colours before moving on to fine-tuning the laces and other accessories. As far as one-of-a-kind footwear goes, this spot is hard to beat – it even hosts occasional workshops with top creatives from both Japan and overseas.
This small collectors shop which recently re-opened in Harajuku stocks some of the rarest editions in the city: think Kanye West Yeezys, models from the Off-White Nike collab and unique colourways from Adidas all in mint condition, wrapped in plastic and awaiting you. As for the rest of the shop, you'll find a mass of Nike styles including Air Jordans, Nike SBs and models from the Nike Running collection, as well as out-of-stock Converse and a few other rare finds.
Sneaker Shop Skit Tokyo Kichijoji
Rows of colourful, wrapped-up shoes line the walls at this Kichijoji store that offers an exhaustive range of sneakers from the likes of Adidas, Puma, Nike, Admiral, Reebok and Onitsuka Tiger. They deal in everything from the latest models to 'dead stock' while also carrying limited-edition versions – enough to pique the interest of even the most discerning sneakerhead. The store's Twitter timeline is a must-check, with daily updates on new arrivals. Skit mainly selects products on a pair-by-pair basis, so if you see something you like in your size, best make a quick decision. Men's shoes are the focus here, but they do offer some women's models as well.
Soma Shimokitazawa
Stocking a hefty selection of vintage sneakers, Soma imports their carefully curated selection directly from North America, as well as finds from here in Japan. Sifting through the store you'll mainly find rare, vintage kicks from the likes of Nike, Adidas and Converse. We highly recommend you check up on their blog every so often, as they update with the latest additions to their store.
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Capsule buttons
Capsule buttons are usually used for tasks and specific functions, but they're more flexible.
Capsule button example
When to use capsule buttons
- Links and calls to action below your left hand navigation (example: Child and Youth Care).
- Important choices like "view undergraduate programs" vs "view graduate programs" on the page content. (example: Giving to UVic)
- These buttons are usually used as search and submit buttons in forms.
Guidelines on using capsule buttons
- Because these buttons are text only, you can put slightly longer titles on them than other buttons. The text should still be clear and concise.
Adding class="btn_mid" to a link will create a button.
Here is an example:
Button textTo make the button narrower (as seen above), put it in a multicolum block and leave the second block empty.


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Pearl Avenue is a cool statement ring made in solid silver. Add a personal and chic element to your wardrobe with this ring and stand out from the crowd.
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One big difference between Social Media Week 2012 and 2013 is the amount of Google+ Hangouts hosted this year. Google+ Hangouts has been a hit with brands and publications when it comes to hosting live discussions with viewer participation. Great example leading this format is HuffPost Live. What's also impressive is the comments to the right of the video screen usually holds a steady active stream during the live programming.
SMW13 partnered with HuffPost Live to cover how "safeguarding free expression and an Open Internet is still a critical issue." The episode featured guests included: Jillian York of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Andrew Rasiej of Personal Democracy Forum, and Christine Chen of Google. Social Media week is also holding a Google+ Hangout contest this year, open to the community, where the winner gets a $5K prize! Topics of Hangouts range "from chatting about education with girls in underdeveloped nations, to cooking tortillas", the winner will be crowdsourced, of course. Here is the list of 40 Hangouts chosen to participate in the contest.
Here are some conversations and promotions from various Google+ Hangouts during SMW13:
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Personal Branding is about communicating what makes you different, unique and valuable to your target audience, so that you can stand out from crowd in today's competitive job market. It's not about being a jack-of-all trade (and master of none). It's about tapping into what you were put on this earth to do. Learn how to narrow your search and dominate your market. Join us as we explore Personal Branding, The Brand Gap Discipline of Market Leaders Positioning and the Battle for the Mind Developing your Unique Selling Proposition "Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You." -Tom Peters The Presentation will provide; 1) An exploration lessons learned from existing power brands 2) Tools for determining what makes your personal brand meaningful 3) Strategies for targeting employers who will respond to your brand.
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Shipley, Ober Named Harris Teeter Student-Athletes of the Week
Sydney Shipley | Softball | Junior | Pinole, Calif. | Sociology
Sydney Shipley picked up one of the College's two wins over the weekend against Hofstra. She threw a complete seven innings, striking out three, allowing only three hits, and one earned run. the junior transfer from Long Beach State maintained a no-hitter through 4.2 innings before allowing one hit in the fifth. On the season, her record stands at 10-9, through 21 starts and 25 appearances. Shipley has pitched 114.2 innings this season, and has struck out 55 batters en route to a 2.75 ERA.
Bailey Ober | Baseball | R-Sophomore | Charlotte, N.C. | Business Administration
Bailey Ober struck out 10 batters for the second consecutive start as the sophomore allowed one run on three hits in a 9-4 victory over Towson on Saturday. Ober fanned 10 batters against James Madison on April 23 and became the first CofC pitcher to strike out double-digit batters in consecutive starts since Taylor Clarke in 2015.
For more information on College of Charleston Athletics, visit CofCSports.com or follow the action on Twitter at @CofCSports.