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Hyperdrive is a name given to certain methods of traveling faster-than-light (FTL) in science fiction. Related concepts are jump drive and warp drive.
The idea of a hyperdrive in most science fiction relies on the existence of a separate and adjacent dimension most commonly called "hyperspace," though various other names have been used: "Drivespace," "The Immaterium," "slipspace," "Space2," "subspace," "Zero-space," etc. When activated, the hyperdrive shunts the starship into this other dimension, where it can cover vast distances in an amount of time greatly reduced from the time it would take in "real" space. Once it reaches the point in hyperspace that corresponds to its destination in real space, it re-emerges. Usually, hyperdrive refers to a method of travel in which it takes a measurable amount of time to go from one point to another. When the distance is covered instantaneously, the term jump drive is often used.
Fictional explanations of why ships can travel faster than light in hyperspace often accompany the storyline of novels, television programs, and films in which they are featured. Distances in hyperspace may be smaller than or geometrically inverse in relation to real space; it may provide a shortcut between two points in real space, thus effectively increasing the ship's speed by reducing distance travelled rather than time taken; perhaps the speed of light in hyperspace is not a speed barrier as it is in real space. Whatever the reasoning, the general effect is that ships traveling in hyperspace seem to have broken the speed of light, appearing at their destinations much more quickly and without the time dilation predicted by the Theory of Relativity.
While in hyperspace, spaceships are typically isolated from the normal universe; they cannot communicate with nor perceive things in real space until they emerge. Often there can be no interaction between two ships even when both are in hyperspace. To people traveling in hyperspace, time typically moves at its normal pace, with little or no time dilation; 24 hours in hyperspace equates to 24 hours in real space. This due to the fact that typical hyperdrive scenarios involve only changing the position of the craft, without altering its velocity (i.e. a ship will emerge with the same momentum, kinetic energy and direction of travel that it had upon entering hyperspace, thereby avoiding relativistic effects). One exception is David Brin's Uplift Universe; here, hyperspace is divided into "levels" where time passes at different rates. Hyperspace itself may be portrayed as swirling colors, total blackness, featureless gray, or as something that would drive a human mind insane should it be viewed.
In much science fiction, hyperdrive jumps require a considerable amount of planning and calculation, with any error carrying a threat of dire consequences. Therefore, jumps may cover a much shorter distance than would actually be possible so that the navigator can stop to "look around": take his bearings, plot his position, and plan the next jump. The time it takes to travel in hyperspace also varies. Travel times may be in hours, days, weeks or more, and in those cases can provide a setting in itself for a story that takes place during an extremely long journey.
Hyperdrives allow for drama in science fiction by eliminating the single biggest problem with space as a setting for a story: the vast majority of space is empty and thus more or less uninteresting. As in most depictions of hyperspace ships with hyperdrive can typically only interact with other ships while in "normal space", they would have to drop out of hyperspace to interact, and the chance of two ships appearing at the same location in deep space to take a navigation bearing at the same time is infinitesimal. Therefore, hyperdrive ships will encounter each other most often around contested planets or space stations, which can be light-years apart. Hyperdrive may also allow for dramatic escapes as the pilot "jumps" to hyperspace in the midst of battle to avoid destruction. Dramatic tension can also be evoked by the use of "Jump Calculations" in the same way. "Will the computer or crew be able to calculate the needed equations before being sucked into a black hole or before a group of missiles hits the ship?" Hyperspace also provides the means by which the literally astronomical distances between stars can be traversed in such a way that would enable an author to have a plot that deals with multiple star systems in a reasonable amount of time, something generally impossible if speeds less than the speed of light are observed. Authors that write about interstellar cultures without hyperdrives generally wind up with plots that last for centuries or more, something not all authors are willing to do. Given how critical transportation is to every human culture, it is unsurprising that in an interstellar culture, which must deal with distances orders of magnitude greater than terrestrial cultures, the unique ways in which interstellar travel is described in various fictional universes tends to create major plot elements in that universe.
In some science fiction, hyperspace travel is portrayed as potentially dangerous due to the chance that the route through hyperspace may take the ship too close to a celestial body with a large gravitational field, such as a star, or a black hole. In such scenarios, if a starship passes too close to a large gravitational field while in hyperspace, the ship is forcibly pulled out of hyperspace and reverts to normal space, or in some stories, is destroyed. Therefore, certain hyperspace "routes" may be mapped out that are safe, not passing too close to stars or other dangers. In some science-fiction universes, artificial gravity wells may be used to force another vessel to drop out of hyperspace. Other portrayals show less interaction between normal space and hyperspace, so that ships may actually pass through the position taken up by a celestial body in real space, without being affected. Various other properties of hyperspace have appeared in fiction, such as the presence of seemingly alive hyperspatial beings, unwanted side-effects in the normal universe caused by hyperspatial travel, etc.
Hyperdrives are the main FTL technology in many science fiction universes including:


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Liberty High School
Good Morning Liberty!
January 3, 2018
Happy New Year!!! Have a wonderful 2018!!!!
Mr. Thoroman will be here 4-8 periods two days a week during the months of January and February for students to drive. A sign-up sheet for Friday, January 5 is in the office.
January 9 – 8th hour
January 16 – 1st hour
January 23 – 2nd hour
Important Dates:
January 12 – 11:30 dismissal
January 15 – No School – M. L. King's Birthday
January 25 – 1:45 8th grade students – Commit to graduate with Jostens
January 29 – 8:15 Jostens will meet with freshmen about class rings
February 2 – 7:30 Jostens will collect orders & money for class rings
February 2 – LHS Homecoming game against Payson
February 3 – LHS Homecoming Dance at Liberty School
February 16 – LEF Fiesta Night at Boys Basketball game
March 29 – Spring Pictures taken by Lifetouch
Spring pics are scheduled for Thursday, March 29th.
Lunch for Today:
Wednesday, January 3 –Corn Dog, Baked Beans, Fruit, Chips
Liberty School District will equip the whole student with the knowledge, skills, and character to achieve personal success as they "Soar to Excellence."
Copyright © 2019 Liberty CUSD

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In the months before the events of the first movie, new mother Kristi (Sprague Grayden) and husband Daniel (Brian Boland) bring their infant son Hunter home from the hospital to their palatial mini-mansion in the suburbs. All is happy days and lollipops for a while, until one day the couple finds their house completely trashed, apparently by vandals who had the courtesy to lock the doors behind them and not steal anything of value. Being the wealthy, proactive father he is, Daniel has surveillance cameras installed so that they can monitor all nocturnal goings on in the house. But the footage thus captured doesn't reveal bored teenagers emulating their favorite MTV shows--rather, it's g-g-g-ghosts!
The strange happenings escalate--pots fall from kitchen racks, mobiles spin by themselves over Hunter's crib, the automatic pool cleaner inexplicably removes itself from the pool, and strange knockings are heard. As the frightened young parents try to make sense of things, they discover a dark secret in their family history that will threaten not only their own safety, but spill over into the lives of Kristi's sister Katie (Katie Featherston) and her boyfriend Micah (Micah Sloat)--the protagonists of the first film, whose own subsequent travails are a direct result of what happens here.
I was a bit lukewarm about Paranormal Activity (2007)--I thought it had some unsettling imagery and well-executed, totally legit scares, but found the main characters annoying and their actions more than a little contrived. I also felt it was a bit too light on explanation for the haunting, and the pacing much too slow. Paranormal Activity 2 (2010) does a bit better on the first count, proposing a Faustian bargain in the sisters' family history in which a first-born son was promised and must now be delivered, since Hunter is the first male in the line for a few generations. However, it does even worse on the second count. There are a few scare scenes in the flick, but you have to sit through more than an hour of fairly boring "found footage" before you get to them--by which point, if you're still awake, you might well wonder if the payoff is worth the wait.
The acting is okay, and the "reality" filming is done pretty well, but in the end there are few things more boring than watching someone else's home movies, particularly when you don't know or care about the people involved. While a little restraint and deliberate, slow-boil reveals are usually a good thing in a haunted house flick, I felt director Tod Williams went a little overboard here--when you're more than an hour in and the scariest thing that's happened has been a CG shadow disturbing someone's nap, you run the risk of trying your audience's patience.
Once we actually reach the climax, it's pretty good stuff--nothing we haven't seen before at this point, but well executed nonetheless--and I appreciated the creepy little tie-in to the ending of the last film. But after enduring an hour and fifteen minutes of only occasionally-broken boredom, I felt it was too little, too late. 1 thumb.
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It was hard to believe how many kid's wished my dad
was their dad. So many called him , Uncle Scott.
" We Remember You "
What does it profit a person to be earth bound ?
To be caught in the uproar. To rush madly down the
same path as everyone else. In the end kind deeds will
be the cherished memories. Stars twinkle at night but
we try to remember them in the daylight. You went
home for now …but we will always remember you.
God bless your sleep my dearest dad….Amen.


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Here is a great example of Blow Up used in the real world. Christian Popkes created a dramatic outdoor photo installation at the Schömberg Photo Festival in the Black Forest. Blow Up made the huge prints possible. They are about three meters tall!
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Great looking blow-Ups, I love it.
Looks very impressive.
Some background info on the images would be useful
i.e., what was the capture format etc
Very Cool Indeed!!! Love it.
Very impressive but I suspect the original files were also pretty large! Definitely interested in what they were taken with.
I agree! Very nice enlargements, but were these shot medium format digital or a cell phone? I joke about the cell phone, but knowing the medium of capture is paramount.
I cannot figure out where my installation is. It is listed under alein3 however I dont know how to use it, any suggestions I have Corel5 win
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Elvis Presley's "Raised On Rock" Reviewed
I feel oddly ambivalent about Elvis Presley's 54th album, 1973's Raised On Rock. It is a major release, the true follow up to Aloha, and despite the lack of a hit single went platinum. The band is great, Elvis is in superb voice, the performances are the definition of Adult Oriented Rock meets Middle Of The Road hausfrau music. Between "Raised On Rock" –a rollicking rockabilly track by "Suspicious Minds writer Mark James working to order and "Three Corn Patches," Leiber and Stoller in a minor "CC Ryder" rip, Presley hits an effortless groove and rides it with so much ease he makes the songs sound like they are half way there and they aren't, if he had really cared he'd have taken them all the way. I would guess these are LA rock but they were cut at Stax not Palm Springs.
I was listening to the Presley At Stax compilation back in 2013 and couldn't have been more impressed, but ROR, the first releases from the first sessions aren't quite there. In the three day session, he recorded seven of the ten songs here and the problems as such are as much about the songs as the performances. Except for "For Ol' Times Sake"," none of them are first tier Presley material . When he would return in September 1973, in what would prove to be his final (he didn't record in 1974) recording session he spent three weeks and the performance was great and so was the material was better.
"Are You Sincere" went in search of the Jordainiares and couldn't find them, "Find Out what's Happening" is 60s style faux blues, "Sweet Angeline" is gorgeously sung, Presley is as Presley does emotionally doe eyed. "If You Don't come back" is Stax soul without the song to back it up. According to the Elvis History blog (here) "Elvis was not a happy camper when the first Stax session began on July 20. According to Jorgensen, "It was obvious from the start that something was very wrong with Elvis Presley." Piano player Bobby Wood noticed that Elvis "had gained weight. His eyes were yellow. His complexion was yellow … I couldn't believe it was the same guy. He looked totally different and acted totally different too." Elvis arrived at the studio three hours late the first night and later left without recording anything. He was late again the next night, and, according to Jorgensen, his speech was "so slurred that he seemed scarcely awake. The sound of his voice on the session tapes makes it painfully evident that he had little interest in recording at all." Lacking enthusiasm and with his mood rising and falling, Elvis finally finished 10 uninspired masters during the six nights in July."
Unfortunately, it is impossible to disagree with that assessment and Raised On Rock stands as one of the least distinguished of his post-68 albums.
Grade: C+


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A kitchen is the potential to be two kitchens -- jim leftwich
A kitchen is the potential to be two kitchens
Thought generate and that virtue to, principles we that were live as a republic; electricity generate defeating or heat honor, keep deciphered every live in a monarchy; familiarity considers images, monster begins fear, architecture is how a logic locates the necessary despotism. Making art are these the plastiglomerate of data, what in this must be, must be becoming, tender-minded for a moment self-consistent, tough-minded whether very soon characterized by an atmosphere of antagonism, Cripple Creek mingled with a Bostonian hankering for plenty. Think of both life as worthy of rights and concepts. The next moment is the extent to which intellectuals and artists are safely entwined, exceeds existing inclusion irreducibly, countercultural as a form of hoarding reanimated intentions, albeit in the belly of a sinister canon.
From personae strange traditions spirit. Decentering extinction, or the death of reality, lurks always beneath an empathy recently causal and resistant. The unconscious is evidence of material fiat. Dust does not answer to resurgence.
A kitchen is the potential to be two kitchens. Hinges advance where cabinets are deployed as social values. A car is the minimal guarantee of the architecture of the feather. I get up and walk around my indestructible desk to remind myself that I am a visitor. Critique of reconstructed development. We must be external to the economy of capitalist forces.
Our clues advance our handles. Replaced aspects lose their place. This is not a kitchen, and that is not a frame. Together they form The Formless Pearl Museum. The photographs touch the belly to critique articulate wars. The unknown state replaces unknown capitalism.
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Compass v2.0.5
- Preset positions now better aligned to different screen-sizes
- Polish translations updated by Ziuta
- Russian translations updated by Gonimy_Vetrom
- Upgraded to FS15, and changed graphics to follow the style.
- Added more position presets for where compass can be shown on screen.
Mod description
Displays a compass on the screen while in a motorized vehicle.
Note! It will NOT drive the vehicle for you! - It only displays a compass, and thats it!
There are eight default preset positions, which can be cycled through using the action 'Compass position' (default keys: LEFT-ALT C).
When quitting the map, the Compass_Config.XML file - placed in the MODS folder - is updated with the available presets and current selected one.
If the screen aspect-ratio was different from last load, the Compass_Config.XML file will be overwritten with new calculated position values.
Default action/key assignments:
LEFT-ALT C - Compass position
This mod's script files MAY NOT, SHALL NOT and MUST NOT be embedded in any other mod nor any map-mod! - However it is accepted if this mod is packed into a mod-pack archive, when this mod's original ZIP-file and hash-value is kept intact.
Please do NOT upload this mod to any other hosting site - I can do that myself, when needed!
Keep the original download link!
Problems or bugs?
If you encounter problems or bugs using this mod, please use the support-thread at http://fs-uk.com - Find the mod (and correct version) in the mods section, in category 'Other - Game Scripts'.
Script: Decker_MMIV
Polish translation updates: Ziuta
Russian translation updates: Gonimy_Vetrom


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Recent phone conversation with a devotee about rules concerning how to deal with prasāda –
Advaitadās: "When the offering comes off the altar you should not throw the Prasād back in the cooking pot. If the contents of the cooking pot have gone cold you can warm it up again separately. Put the mahā-prasāda in the eating plates of the devotees and add the contents of the cooking pots to it. kṛṣṇa prasāda militair iha bhoja-peyaiḥ - Vilāpa Kusumāñjali (49) shows the principle of making food prasādī – "The food and drink (bhoja-peya) have joined (milita) Kṛṣṇa's prasāda." Not everything is considered prasāda just because an offering has been done. Then all the huge tons of wheat, sugar and semolina in the kitchen of a large temple would already all be offered after the first offering from them? Instead one must and can add prasāda to unoffered food and make it prasād through association or touch – kṛṣṇa prasāda militair iha bhoja-peyaiḥ. The rest of the wheat and sugar in the kitchen in the huge containers are then not considered offered. Suppose I buy 10 bananas and 1 pack of soy milk and I live alone. It means I will just eat 2 bananas per meal and offering. The other 8 bananas can then be offered the next time. It is not that they are now offered too because I offered 2 bananas from them. For a single person it would otherwise mean he would either have to eat 10 bananas at once or go shopping for 2 bananas every day. No, 8 bananas can be offered the next time (except when they are touched by the prasādī bananas). The same thing could be done with an excess of subji cooked in the morning. Unless eaten from or touched with prasāda it COULD be offered again the next evening (though personally I don't think that it is the most devotional thing to do). For the pack of soy milk – one small cup is offered and some more is added to my own drinking cup (thus making the contents of the whole drinking cup prasādī) but it is not that then the entire 1 liter-pack of soy milk is then also offered. Another sample is taken from it in the evening for the next offering, etc. - this is the most sane, practical and also devotional way of doing it. I cannot drink a whole liter of soy milk at once because a small sample was offered in the morning!
Look at Govinda Līlāmṛta, chapter 20 (64-66):
athāhūyāha jaṭilā viśākhāṁ mat suto gataḥ;
gośālāṁ śayituṁ bhuktvā bhoktum āhvaya me snuṣām (64)
sāha sāste gṛhe suptā śrāntāraṇya parikramāt;
tatraivātsyati dehyannaṁ satemanam (65)
sāpi hṛṣṭā tadānīya cādhāya bhojanālaye;
śrī rādhām etya tasyai tad vārtām āvedayan mudā (66)
"Jaṭilā then called Viśākhā and said: "My son went out—tell Rādhā to come and eat. Her husband will sleep in the barn tonight after his meal." Viśākhā said: "Rādhā is tired of walking around in the forest and fell asleep. Please give me the rice and vegetables, I will give them to Her." Viśākhikā happily took the meal and kept it in a corner of the dining hall. Then she went to Rādhā and happily told Her what had happened."
Śrī Rādhikā never eats anything unmixed with Kṛṣṇa's Prasāda.
Food for a Vaiṣṇava has one of three statuses – amanīya (unoffered), jhuṭā (already eaten and thus polluted by saliva) and prasādī (a status of being offered, and objects that touch prasāda also become prasādī and need to be washed or at least sprinkled if they are to be offered still.)


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text: Gravel Grinders have recently grown in popularity. If you are not familiar with what a gravel grinder is, the name explains it all. The concept of "gravel grinding" is where you ride on gravel and dirt roads for a long period of time and milage – you might say it is a mix between mountain biking and road biking. It has transferred over to the race scene as well, where a number of races have popped up in the past few years. The Trans Iowa is a notable race that has been around for 10 years now, and could be the leading force in the gravel grind movement. Race director, Guitar Ted, has dedicated his past 10 years to the Trans Iowa – sorting out logistics, gathering sponsors, and answering questions. It is no different this year as he has been scouting out another new route. The Trans Iowa, is a self-supported race that travels 300 plus miles on gravel and dirt roads in the farm country of Iowa. The length is usually equal to the length of the state from East to West. Each year, Guitar Ted stakes out a new route, sometimes making it more challenging. This year he has mapped in plenty of 'B' roads, which are more primitive dirt roads. All racers are given cue sheets that will identify the route in detail, including milage, turns, and checkpoints. The racers do not know the route ahead of time, nor will anyone else except for a few of the organizers. This is a unique strategy because it is a self supported race, which ultimately nixes the thought of cheating…and Guitar Ted really doesn't like cheating. Hiding the route and checkpoints insures that this is not a spectator race, racers are completely on their own. There are two checkpoints in this years race. Racers must make it to checkpoint 1 by 9:30am, on Saturday morning, and reach checkpoint 2 by 9:30pm on Saturday night. There are also numerous convenience stores on route providing resupply points for racers, however each stores hours are from 6am to 11pm. Traveling too fast or slow may make you miss out on specific store locations, racers must plan on the fly. In past years the race has been dependent on the weather. Last year was nearly perfect with little to no winds, 70 degree temperatures and no moisture. This year looks to be different, and it should be interesting to watch. Rain has piled up over the past two weeks, turning what was a very dry course into a wet route. Saturday should start out dry, but the wind will pick up bringing in a storm from the West. Lows for Saturday night are 45 degrees, along with wind and rain. The weather will likely make for slow riding conditions – especially on the 'B' roads, where the mud will lock up your tires after a good rain. In a typical year the leaders usually finish in around 24 hours, however, in 2006 no one finished at all because of torrential downpours. We hope that is not the case this year. In any event, the Trans Iowa is sure to test racers limits… with no knowledge of the race course, weather, and 300 plus miles of pedaling. Stay tuned to Trans Iowa website for updates as well as Trans Iowa Radio for racers call in's as well as some updates from Guitar Ted. Good luck to all racers! Hope you experience many tailwinds, and the rain only makes conditions better. For a bit of race history check out this link.


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BIG INTERVIEW: Former England international Dan Hipkiss embracing life after rugby
For sports stars, retirement from the career they have spent their whole life pursuing can be difficult, especially when it is forced through injury.
It often leaves them with the question of, what next? Where do I go from here?
But for Dan Hipkiss, the former England rugby union international who was forced to retire from a shoulder injury in May 2013, aged just 30, it opened up new avenues, something which he had been preparing for since he was a player.
The former pupil of Hartismere School in Eye said: "I started off cooking whilst I was still playing rugby. I got involved with the Matthew Hampson foundation, a player I knew well who was paralysed after a rugby accident, helping out with events in the kitchen."
Hipkiss, who came through the ranks at Diss Rugby Club, played professionally for Leicester Tigers and Bath and it was at the latter he came into contact with Richard Bertinet, a French chef, who gave him his chance in his cooking school, Bertinet Kitchen, based in the city.
"Whilst I was playing for Bath, myself and a few of the lads met Richard Bertinet, who was a Bath supporter himself. We had a few cooking sessions and after I retired, he offered me a job," he said.
"He was teaching classes and I was helping with the preparation of the food, something which I enjoyed."
Hipkiss, capped by England 13 times during his career, admits that this was a world away from the life he had become accustom to as a professional rugby player and in the early days, it was a challenge to adapt.
He said: "It was very difficult. Some days I would be getting into work at seven in the morning and not leaving until 7pm, without having much of a break during that period.
"Whereas rugby on the other hand, training was always steady and you would be home by 4pm. Perhaps you would do a hard hour or two session in the morning and that would be followed up by lunch and an afternoon session with the video player."
"All the same, it was an enjoyable experience and something I had a passion for, which made retiring from rugby all the easier."
That experience has been followed on to where Hipkiss is today, working for a building firm in the Cotswolds, training to become a project manager. He has no regrets in leaving the food industry to pastures new.
"If I was 19 again, who knows, maybe I would have tried to work forward and get up the ladder in the cooking industry but for now, I am happy," he said.
The 32-year-old believes players who have concerns over life after rugby need to take a look at what they are interested in and act upon it.
"A lot of players have apprehensions about finishing their careers but it is about looking at what interests you and for me that is food and property and luckily that has allowed me to be successful."
Regrets are clearly not something that Hipkiss deals in although he admits he would have loved to have come back and played for Diss before his career was over.
"Playing for Diss again is something that I would love to have done but unfortunately with my injury it wasn't possible as doctors advised me that I had to retire," he said.
His affiliation with the club, along with close family ties, sees him return to Diss, including for last year's annual Player's Dinner at the rugby club, but Hipkiss confesses he doesn't return to the area as much as he would like to.
"With working, it is about finding the time," he said.
"It is a four hour car journey from where I live.
"My parents still live near Diss, and my sister lives in the region too, so I do get back on occasions but not as often as I would like because it is nice to get back home."
Life after rugby has been kind for Hipkiss, who is happy with where he is at in his career. But getting back into to rugby is still something that could be on the agenda in the future, and maybe back in Diss.
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Those Touched by Cancer Remembered at RBR annual Relay for Life
By Carey Neff
RED BANK – More than $54,000 was raised for cancer research by hundreds of people who came to walk around the track at Red Bank Regional High School for the annual Relay for Life fundraiser.
More than 400 people attended the event, held in partnership with the American Cancer Society, that ran from Friday afternoon, May 18, through early morning Saturday, May 19.
The Relay for Life participants created teams and raised money in the months leading up to the overnight event. During the Red Bank relay, teams set up tents on the football field Friday beginning at 3 p.m. and prepared for the night. Each team was required to have one team member walking the track at all times until the conclusion at 5:30 a.m. Saturday.
Jon Bitman, a Little Silver resident and councilman, officially opened the event at 7 p.m. Bitman, who is fighting Stage IV pancreatic cancer, talked about his personal battle with cancer, telling people it was "the fight of a life." He gave those battling cancer the message: Stay positive and keep fighting.
Bitman also thanked those who came to the event to support cancer research.
During the opening ceremonies, cancer survivors were presented with medallions and asked to lead the ceremonial first lap of the night. That lap, known in the nationwide Relay for Life program as the Survivors Lap, allowed those who have battled the disease to walk with their families and caregivers while others gathered around the track to cheer them on with thundering applause and words of encouragement.
After the ceremonial lap, Relay for Life began.
Participants made their way around the track – some running, some hula-hooping, and others simply strolling in groups – throughout the night. Others enjoyed live music provided by local high school bands, or the various activities available, including tug-of-war, scavenger hunts, and game show-like contests.
Each participant had his or her own individual reason for attending relay.
John Luckenbill of Shrewsbury walked because his niece died from liver cancer at age 24. He and his family "wanted to carry on (his) niece's memory and support those that have survived and are fighting cancer."
Patty Metlitz of Little Silver came because her mom is a breast cancer survivor and wants to help find a cure for cancer.
Jack McLoone, a Little Silver resident, RBR freshman and six-year cancer survivor, spoke about his fight with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. "Relay is about trying to find a creative way to raise money for an important cause," McLoone said. The event is a "fun way to come together with those fighting and surviving cancer."
The 10 p.m. Luminaria Ceremony was one of the most emotional moments of the night. All participants walked a lap in silence while holding candles. The track was lined with luminaria, white paper bags lit from within by candles, that were placed in memory of those who have survived or died from cancer.
After those solemn moments, the fun continued. Bands played throughout the night, and activities went on to keep tired participants awake. As the night wore on, some participants napped while others huddled around tents to keep warm in the cool night. The walking never stopped, however, and many were still seen walking strong into the early morning hours.
The 5:30 a.m. closing ceremony wrapped another successful Relay for Life at Red Bank Regional. The tired participants gathered their belongings and went home after a long night of fun and remembrance.
Editor's note: Carey Neff is a junior at Red Bank Regional High School.
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Chapter 1 The New Web Order—How the Internet Has Brought Opportunity to Everybody.
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From Blogging to KaChing.
Chapter 2 Your Uniqueness Equals Cash.
Choosing Your Niche.
The Value of Your Niche—How Keywording Can Boost the Price of Your Passion.
Niches Are Nice, but Micro-Niches Create Nicer KaChings.
You're Not That Unique—Building Your Community.
The Seven Keys to Success.
Chapter 3 Content Is Not King . . . It Is KaChing!
You Don't Have to Be a Writer to Write Valuable Content.
Seven Content Types that Go KaChing.
It's Not Just What You Say, It's How You Say It.
Ghost and Guest Writers.
Turning Your Content into KaChing.
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Creating the Product.
Writing Copy that Sells.
Recruiting Your Affiliate Sales Team.
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The Big Launch!
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Choosing Merchants That Match Your Market.
Choosing the Products that People Want.
Strategies for Affiliate Success.
What The FTC's Guidelines Means for Affiliates.
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What Is a Membership Site?
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How to Do PR for Mass Impact.
Getting Started: Low-End Coaching.
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There are times when thinking in a box is attributed with being Conservative however I don't believe this to be true at all. Being Conservative to me is much like being a Republic. It's not that you don't move forward, it's that you move forward with principles. I don't believe this hinders progress, I believe it brings forward values that keep us strong while staying away from that which does us harm. I will never believe that the end justifies the means and if that's your idea of progress you need to see where this thinking has brought those that followed such ideas in the past. If you're progressive…ask yourself where you're progressing to and from…it matters. Cryptic? Well, it's where my mind has been.
I've seen a return to winter weather once again. It has a beauty of it's own but I have to leave the comfort of my home to really appreciate it. There were no comforts outside. Fact is there was no chair that I'd want to sit inbut the beauty was worth seeing…and because I brought my principle with me…in this case my camera…I could share the beauty with you all where you don't have to feel the bite in the air. The sky has a wonderful blue here usually but the white contrast made it all the more spectacular. I love the view from the back yard…I wish sometimes I had a big wall picture of it yet if I did maybe I wouldn't want to come out and see it as it changes with the seasons. It's actually been warm enough this winter that I'm quite spoiled…since when have I ever considered anything above zero cold? I love when the brilliant winter sun silhouettes the trees this wayand I also love when the snow sticks to the branches. The snow can make things appear like they belong in a snow globe. The stones in the yard look like Mexican wedding cookiesand the evergreens have a dusting that looks much like confectioner's sugar…or am I just hungry? This tree is one of my favorites. I'm very glad we have vinyl fence…the weathering would quickly destroy it after a couple years like we've had. Some neighbors have wooden fences that were put up just last year that are already showing weathering however ours remains strong…even in the powerful wind we get up here in the Heights. The truth is I will never get tired of this view. I love the shadows, I love the white and blue…I love it all. I still have to admit that though the sugar of winter might look sweetbut I like the feel of warmer seasons far more! If you venture out of your comfort zone…which I hope you do…don't forget to bring your principles with you…that doesn't make you closed minded…it makes you wise.


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Friday, 17 June 2011
Creating a level-access shower floor in a concrete screed.
Welcome to the latest edition of 'Ask the expert', where every month Shaun Hunt – Technical Manager of Impey Showers will be addressing issues relating to level-access and specialist showering for those with disability needs.
This month we will be looking at:
Creating a level-access shower floor in a concrete screed.
In order for a level-access shower floor to function correctly it needs to have an accurate drainage gradient to allow the water the drain effectively and the surface needs to be even to prevent pools of water forming.
When creating a level access shower floor in a concrete screed there are 3 main options.
Firstly, the wet screed can be shaped manually by eye. This can be incredibly time consuming and if the installer is inexperienced or in a rush to finish the job then there is the risk that the gradient will not be correctly formed which can lead to problems and call backs.
Another option is to chase out the solid concrete screed and retrofit a level access shower floor former such as a Level-Dec Advance.
Finally, and bar far the best option, is to use a level-access shower floor former designed to perfectly shape a wet concrete screed and provide efficient drainage.
Impey offers a product called Level-Grade which is the only product of its type available on the market. Level-Grade is a plastic matrix which when assembled and secured to the subfloor has a built-in gradient profile which guides the trowel of the installer to create a perfect drainage.
After Level-Grade is set into position and the waste trap and drainage pipes are connected the installer places shutters around the outside of the matrix and then fills it with a wet concrete screed mix and uses a float to shape the surface to the profile.
After the concrete has dried the shutters are removed and the remaining floor screed can be poured so that it finished flush with the outer edges of the shower floor area.
The shower floor can then be finished with slip-resistant vinyl, or tanked with a membrane prior to tiling.
Coming up next month.....
Choosing a suitable shower floor solution
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Lorna Zaremba has over twenty five years of experience in not-for-profit management. As an experienced leader and creative thinker, Lorna works in partnership with Ron Ulrich, Artistic Director, to ensure efficient operations to support achievement of artistic goals and strategic objectives.
As the Executive Director, Lorna has a mandate for building audiences, building capacity along with a sound administration of public and private funds. Upon arriving at Theatre Aquarius in 2003, her expertise resulted in Theatre Aquarius resolving $4 million of mortgage debt.
Lorna is a committed citizen of the arts through her personal and professional involvement with the Art Gallery of Hamilton, The Rose Theatre in Brampton, Deaf Culture Canada, The Print Studio, Haldimand Art Works, Hamilton Arts Council, and Hamilton Halton Brant Regional Tourism Association.
Her vision is to ensure that Theatre Aquarius plays a role in the transformation of the new Hamilton, and to demonstrate that art can live and thrive within the heart of an industrial city. The transformative power of theatre art is a powerful agent for change, and one that Lorna seeks to share with as many members of our community as possible.
Lorna was selected as the YWCA of Hamilton 2012 Woman of Distinction in Arts & Culture.
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More than three out of five U.S. residents plan to take at least one leisure trip this summer and 37% of those travelers will be Boomers, which is a 2-percentage-point increase over 2016.
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More than three out of five U.S. residents plan to take at least one leisure trip this summer and 37% of those travelers will be Boomers, which is a 2-percentage-point increase over 2016. "Those who think Millennials are replacing Boomers as the most-traveled generation are wrong, because, once again, Boomers will be the single largest traveling generation this summer," states Cheryl Schutz, vice president, products and services at DK Shifflet.
Historically, Boomers, which are people born from 1946 to 1964, and Traditionals, which refers to people born before 1946, have taken longer summer trips than the average traveler and they plan to do so again this summer. These longer trips result in higher spending so it is no surprise that more Boomers and Traditionalists say they plan to spend more this year than Millennials, which are people born from 1981 to 1997, or Gen Xers, which are people born from 1965 to 1980. Between 20% and 25% of all generations say, however, that they expect to spend more this year than last.
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By Jonathan F. Rouis
When I became chairman of the Sullivan County Legislature earlier this year, I knew that if my colleagues in the legislature and I were going to be successful in building a better Sullivan County, we needed to change the way things had always been done, particularly with regard to the county's economic development plans.
Whether it was the prospect of casino gaming or some other initiative, it has often seemed to me that Sullivan County is waiting for one grand catalyst that will spur the economy county-wide.I think first and foremost we need to get away from that type of thinking. Despite our size, Sullivan County has diversity among its communities. What works in Thompson or Liberty is not the economic development model that would work for Fremont, Tusten or Neversink; nor would we want the same type of development for these communities. We need to consider the communities we have, and the goals of their residents, and create one unified plan.
We have a number of agencies to help make this unified plan possible. I appreciate that we have dedicated Community & Economic Development and Center for Workforce Development staffs here in Monticello, and I also recognize and appreciate the efforts of our four outside economic development agencies: the Sullivan County Partnership for Economic Development, the Sullivan County Industrial Development Agency, the Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce and the Sullivan County Visitors Association.
However, with six different entities, there are six different approaches to economic development, as well as six sets of goals and missions. I believe in order to move our economic development agenda forward, in order to bring sustainable, responsible development to our county and to have residents who are trained for these new jobs, these entities must work together, in name and action.
The Sullivan County Economic Development Corporation (EDC) would serve as the umbrella organization, and would co-locate the organizations at a new building in the Emerald Corporate Park. By having one location instead of six, Sullivan County's economic development clients can obtain marketing, workforce development and business assistance in one location, rather than traveling from Liberty to Monticello, to six different offices.
Furthermore, with the EDC co-locating and staffing the six entities, we can dramatically reduce current redundancies. One office, with one rent payment and one set of office equipment would ensure that we can offer new and existing economic development clients the most professional services possible.
I am also advocating that we explore education as an economic development tool. Right now, Sullivan County is home to the healthcare cluster of Crystal Run Healthcare, The Center for Discovery and Catskill Regional Medical Center. All three of these businesses are growing, and between them will offer several hundred new jobs over the next 18 to 24 months. It must be our collective priority to ensure our local community college and workforce development agencies are offering the training and education our residents need to obtain these new jobs, which will pay a living wage and offer the health benefits so many of our residents need.
In the immediate future, we will begin meeting with all of the agency directors and board chairs to begin collaborative efforts, including the creation and implementation of the county manager's proposed branding campaign, which will unite government, not-for-profit and for-profit entities under one Sullivan County brand, as well as the exploration of state and federal grant opportunities to make broadband internet solutions throughout the county.
(Jonathan F. Rouis serves as chairman of the Sullivan County Legislature and Legislator for District Four, which includes the Town of Mamakating and the Village of Bloomingburg.)


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Virginia has its say on Super Tuesday
Voters at a polling station in Arlington, Virginia outside Washington, D.C., cast their ballots on ''Super Tuesday'', with some voters saying they support Democrat Hillary Clinton for her strong candidacy and others saying they altogether dislike Republican front-runner Donald Trump. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Voters in Arlington, Virginia cast their ballots on "Super Tuesday", the biggest single day of state-by-state presidential nominating contests for the Nov. 8 election. At one polling station in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., Democratic supporters of Hillary Clinton said they felt she was a stronger candidate than her rival Bernie Sanders, but Sanders supporters said his "vision" for change resonated with them. Several Republican voters at the same polling station strongly sided with candidate Marco Rubio, with most of those saying they strongly disliked his rival and front-runner Donald Trump. Polls in Virginia close at 7 pm local time.


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Any woot, at this present time they are doing construction on the outside of my building. It's been going on since probably June. There is scaffolding around the whole building, I'm on the first floor :(. That being said my natural lighting for my photos has been murdered. Sometimes I'm able to get enough light but today not so much. They started blocking my windows with boards during the day. I'm working on making a light box but for now I'm trying to make my in house lighting work for me. Please let me know if you feel the photos suck lol and what you think I should do, thank you in advance ;). Now back to our regularly scheduled program.
Lets talk about todays theme. It's the first of the Inspired By themes of the challenge and it's A Color. I was just as annoyed/confused by this one as I was last year. Last year I stole Sarah of Chalkboard Nails idea of being inspired by the name of a nail polish color. For example I chose Maybelline Autumn Leaves so I drew leaves, SEE! :) Wasn't feeling doing that again. I decided to pick a color that wasn't a part of the Color Themes and go with what that color makes me think of.
I chose the color pink and the first thing I thought of was Uniqua. She's a character from one of my sons favorite shows (I'm not going to lie I love the show too) The Backyardigans.
I love the way they came out. It was super easy to do. I thought I was going to need tape. I had it all set up but didn't bother. I feel like tape just gives me more work haha.
I bet you're wondering how I did the big polka dots, huh? :) I just used the end of my clean up brush. Anything can be a dotting tool. Just don't clean it like one :/
Polishes Used:
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News This Week
There are several poetry readings this week featuring local poets. Tonight, Karla Linn Merrifield and Catherine Faurot (a fellow Bennington alum) will be reading at Writers & Books for the Genesee Reading Series, 7:30 pm.
Thursday, Just Poets will hold a reading from their annual anthology, Le Mot Juste, at the Pittsford Library (second floor) at 7:00 pm. An open mic will follow.
Saturday, Patricia Roth Schwartz will be reading at Books, Etc. in Macedon at 2:00 pm. Pat has asked a few of her friends (I am among them) to read a couple of poems as well.
I'd also like to point you to a list of the top 25 writers of faith compiled by the editors of Image. Here's a link http://imagejournal.org/page/blog/the-iimagei-top-25-contemporary-writers-of-faith-list. Post a comment if you agree/disagree with their selections.
Just Poets Reading Series
Nancy Chalker-Tennant will be the featured reader Thursday, October 14 for the Just Poets Reading Series. The reading starts at 7:00 pm and will be followed by an open mic.
A bit about Nancy: Nancy Chalker-Tennant is both a poet and visual artist who teaches in both disciplines in the Rochester, NY area where she lives. While she is concentrating on poetry, her work has included painting, printmaking and small editions of hand made "artists' books" some of which are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Library, and The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry. Nancy is the recipient of several grants including a Mid-Atlantic National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and New York State Council on the Arts grants, among others. Her poetry has been anthologized in Le Mot Juste.
March Update
Spring has arrived early in western New York. Crocuses bloom through melting snow just as many literary journals have ended their winter reading and many Poetic Effect clients will soon be seeing their responses in the mail/email. Currently, more than 250 print journals are considering poetry submissions. Many of these will close to submissions when the tulips and lilacs are in full color here in May. Full-length book manuscript contests are at their peak with 35+ reading right now. More than 20 chapbook contests are running as well. If you would like to get into the Poetic Effect spring queue, get in touch soon email@example.com.
Congratulations to Poetic Effect clients who have recently had work accepted by Southern Indiana Review, Pearl, Inkwell, Chaffin Journal, Roanoke Review, Worcester Review, Blueline, River Oak Review, Soundings Review, Eureka Literary Review, Avocet, South Dakota Review, Clackamas, Yalobusha Review, Red Wheelbarrow, Coe Review, and others.
AWP, the largest conference for writers and writing programs, will be held in Denver next month. I will be blogging about various panels and other writing-related news. I hope to see some of you there.
The Just Poets Reading Series and Open Mic will be featuring James Cook (tonight), Sue Ann Wells (April), Suzanne Slack (May), and contributors to Le Mot Juste 2010 (June). The reading series is held at 7:00 pm the second Thursday of every month (except December) at Barnes & Noble, Pittsford.
Reading at Yesterday's Muse
Kathy Van Schaick will be the featured reader at Yesterday's Muse in the village of Webster, NY, Friday, March 5 at 7:00 pm. Bring your own work for the open mike that follows her reading.
Kathy is a board member of Just Poets in Rochester, NY and serves as the Managing Editor of Le Mot Juste, the annual Just Poets anthology. She also volunteers at a local hospice as well as public radio.
Le Mot Juste Reading
The premier reading of Le Mot Juste 2009 is Thursday, June 11 at Barnes & Noble, Pittsford, 7:00pm in the Community Room. Le Mot Juste is the annual anthology of Just Poets which celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. An open mic will follow. For information on Just Poets visit www.justpoets.org.


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Jarah Mariano is proof that everything is hotter in Hawaii. Born in Kauai, the fourth largest and oldest of the main Hawaiian islands, she is the perfect blend of rich Hawaiian, Chinese and Korean ancestry. Her unique and appealing mix of ethnicities has already made her one of the world's fastest rising and most desirable supermodels.
If you require proof of Jarah's sexiness, you don't need to look any further than her jaw-dropping ads for Victoria's Secret, MAC Cosmetics, Armani Exchange, Sephora, Abercrombie & Fitch, and PacSun. Jarah Mariano's arresting appearance has also captured the attention of A-list photographers like Bruce Weber, who photographed her for L'Uomo Vogue, as well as hip-hop moguls like Jay-Z, who personally cast her in his red-hot "Show Me What You Got" music video.
Of course, Jarah Mariano is more than just a pretty face. This raven-haired model is also a graduate of Pace University, the same academic institution that counts Rachael Ray, Vincent Pastore and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. among its distinguished alumni. Jarah Mariano lives in New York City, where she enjoys listening to Bjork, devouring fast food, drinking Jack Daniel's and Coke, and keeping the peace among fellow models, such as Alessandra Ambrosio and Adriana Lima. "I'm all about the love," she insists.
In 2007 she was on the cover of the April/May issue of Complex magazine. Jarah Mariano also appeared in the February 2008 edition of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue.
Birth Name: Jarah-Evelyn Makalapua Mariano
Nationality: Hawaiian
Ethnicity: Hawaiian/Korean/Chinese
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Date of Birth: ?
Place of Birth: Kauai, Hawaii, USA
Height: 5'7.5" ; 172cm
Measurements: (US) 34-24-34 ; (EU) 86.5-61-86.5
Dress Size: (US) 4 ; (EU) 34
Shoe Size: (US) 8 ; (EU) 39


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Thursday, March 25, 2010
Blog love - 'Handmade Charlotte'
5 comments:
- handmade charlotte said...
You are kidding me! You are sooo nice! thank You sooo much! I had the baby that day!!! That was crazy! I have my sweet Noah Wilson James in my arms right now!!!! I love your blog too! Thanks for your bloggy friendship! ....If you lived in Atlanta I would give you a hug and some bread! I just bought a mill today! I am soo excited to use it! also got a yogurt machine! i am not trying to brag ...just super duper excited about my purchases! Thank you again for this amazing post! Rachel
- Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 12:10:00 PM GMT+11
- Charlotta Ward said...
I always end up with the biggest smile when I hear from you! You are so great!
You are worth all the bragging and I can't think of anything better than to pop over for some of that mill bread and to look at your yogurt machine!!
So glad that Noah Wilson James is happy and healthy. He is very lucky to have such a wonderful mamma!
- Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 12:29:00 PM GMT+11
- Beth Snyder said...
Hey there!
We're so happy to have our little paper houses on your blog! Would you mind giving us a little link?
Thanks so much!
- Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 1:53:00 PM GMT+11
- Charlotta Ward said...
Hi Beth and thanks for stopping by.
Your houses are amazing as are many other things in your shop! If Rachel doesn't mind, I'd like to show some of them on my blog at a later stage.
I will get back to you once I have had a chat to Rache.
Sorry for not linking the image. Was trying to drive people to 'Handmade Charlotte'.
However have added the link just now.
Thanks again for stopping by - I hope I will see you again soon.
- Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 4:23:00 PM GMT+11
- Splendid Willow said...
LOVE the paper houses! How cute are they! Are they sturdy? Need to take a closer look. Thank you for sharing, love. ox, Mon
- Thursday, March 25, 2010 at 4:42:00 PM GMT+11


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Normally, I reserve these pants for the 9-5; however, I felt like dressing 'em down. Despite the initial instinct to pair them with other other fancy duds, printed pants work really well with more casual attire too. On this particular night of errands and Indian food, I threw on a knotted tee, colored denim jacket, and my trusty fedora. My favorite part of this ensemble is the rose gold, showcased with my newest gems and flat sandals. Actually, scratch that - my favorite part was the elastic waistband, which allowed for over eating of chicken tikka masala and lamb kebobs.
Recreate my look:
Narcisco Rodriguez for DesigNation pants (similar here and here), Anthropologie jacket (on sale!), Old Navy tee, Sam Edelman Gigi sandals, Stella & Dot Mesa necklace, Tribute Bracelet, Wrap Bracelet, Sidewinder Necklace, Goorin Brother's fedora


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In this new press release Zend has announced the posting of the results from their "Zend Developer Pluse" survey - a survey taken of developers world-wide about their habits, preferences and desires.
Zend Technologies addresses [the question of how a new demand for a new generation of apps] in Zend Developer Pulse, a new survey series that takes the pulse of a vibrant community of developers from around the world. The company's first developer survey conducted in late November 2011 offers insights on emerging technology and career trends captured from 3,335 respondents. The findings are summarized in a report now available at [http://www.zend.com/topics/zend-developer-pulse-survey-report-0112-EN.pdf].
The press release mentions some of the details from the survey including that 66% of developers will be working with mobile app development projcts, that next-generation UI deveopment scored high in skillsets, there was a strong interest in cloud development and that there's been a strong rise in the need for PHP development skills in the last year.
You can read the entire report here.


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SEO, or search engine optimization, is the practice of getting search engines to show your website when someone uses them. It can provide a great source of traffic for your website and build new customers and clients.
The Most Important Rules of SEO
The problem is, though, that most small business sites don't have what it takes to rank well in search engines. This guide will help you with the basics.
The most important rules of SEO?
1) Use a keyword researcher tool like Wordtracker
Find what keywords are being searched for. Then create pages that specifically target those. How?
2) Use the keywords in your
Each keyword you're targeting should have its own page specifically targeted at that keyword.
3) Then get people to link to you!
The hardest part is getting people to link to you. That is a major topic in and of itself.
9 Powerful SEO Tips for your Small Business Website
With the basics out of the way, here are 9 more powerful approaches. Enjoy!
Tip #1: Add Content!
Add a lot of content. Preferably in serviceable English, well written, and cogent. You want to get about 10-30 pages of new content a month and get this content linked to. If you write scholarly papers, you can get yourself linked to by .edu and high PR sites, which will sharply boost your site. Finally, by honing in your articles on specific keywords, you can target new areas and reap niche searches.
Remember, niche searches – as a group – are usually worth more than the major terms. This is for two reasons: a niche search indicates that the searcher is relatively more sophisticated. He or she knows what they want. They tend to buy product at higher rates. Secondly, around half of all searches are 2 or 3 words. Considering the vast amount of possibilities this creates, there is a world of marketing opportunity.
A spin on this is adding articles to other sites. While it may be hard to create an interesting article based on your subject, if you do so, and make it snappy, you may get some Digg or del.ico.ous love.
Also, many of the midrange keywords are not heavily contested. A lot of websites still think that a good search engine strategy is just repeating keywords, something that was true in the early years of 2000. Worst of all, because they may have OK search engine results, they may be complacent.
Often their good results come from a lack of competition, and an adept campaign can eat away at their share.
Tip #2: Beware Grand Promises
SEOs who promise to submit your site to thousands of search engines are misleading you. There are only a few major search engines, the top three of which are Google, MSN, and Yahoo for the US. For marketing in Asia and Europe, other engines hold reign, but again with a few industry leaders. The top search engines of every single country put together would be far less than 100.
There may be some special cases where your content is very, very specific, and you'd want to target quite selectively. In that case, submission to a specialized search engine would be fine. But in general, a promise to submit your website to thousands of search engines is meaningless.
Worse. After submission to thousands of search engines, your website may end up on a link-farm. Even if Google has not already devalued the links from that page, hurting your site, it may do so at will later.
Legit link building submission techniques are, of course, a component of online marketing. But ignore offers that sound too good to be true. Know what is happening with your information.
Tip #3: Avoid Black Hat Tricks
Your competitor is out-ranking you. You check their website out: two things stand out. They have hundreds of keywords stuffed on their page, and they use two titles (repeat the title tag). Thinking this is their key to success, you quickly copy that technique, or request your tech guys to do it for you.
Try this instead. Use a PR checker tool to evaluate their website. Analyze their backlinks. Most likely you'll find that their position is not the result of high quality SEO – the competition is simply just doing a worse job.
Using Black Hat techniques to try to trick search engines won't work in the long run and, in the worst case scenario, will result in your page being removed from the search index entirely. Car giant Mercedes Benz once had their site removed from Google due to such violations.
Tip #4: Make Everything Work
Optimize everything. Google is increasing its use of Universal Search, but is doing so subtly. It's not hitting you over the head with images in every search. Search for Monet. First you'll see "Image Results." Search for Bird Flu. First you'll find a prompt to refine your results, then, scrolling down, perhaps a news entry. Then, on the bottom, images. Images, video, and news articles are now mixed in with regular search results. This is a cutting edge shift, and some laggards have yet to realize its potential.
You need to have every part of your website optimized.
What this means is giving images accurate titles. Instead of "02303212.jpg," have "widget-doing-dance.jpg." The better image title has some impact on search engines. Also, make sure to give your images alt text (by simply adding alt = "text-here" in the html that adds the image). This does three things: makes your website accessible to people who can't see your image and helps your search engine rankings.
Your alt text should be pertinent, add mood, and if possible contain keywords.
Tip #5: Page Title is Important
Do not put your company name in your page title. Keep the titles short and focused on the keyword content. If someone searches for your company name, they will find your website. What about when they search for keywords related to it? Search engines value very highly the page title.
Also, having your company name repeat over many pages can negatively affect the behavior of search bots. It may seem like duplication. The page title holds a lot of weight with search engines. Don't waste that power!
Tip #6: Use Wikipedia
Write a Wikipedia article if your website is big enough. If not, keep pumping out the content until it is. Although Wikipedia itself will not add much to your ranking, it is almost a search engine in and of itself. If and when a potential client/customer wants to look up your information, many times they'll just plug it into Wikipedia and see what pops out. Also, many other websites copy the Wikipedia information, and those links to your website may add value.
In writing your Wikipedia article, make sure to be balanced. In general, try to create some conflict or story. Give free product to less well-off people. Start a scholarship. Find a celebrity to siphon attention from. Who knows?
Tip #7: Use YouTube (and others)
Create a YouTube video!
Consumers are very good at figuring out what is an ad and what isn't, at least in the conventional sense. Online videos, however, can easily slip under the radar as long as they are entertaining. Take advantage of this by creating a few videos that deal with whatever it is you do.
Make the videos funny. Make them good-sized but not too long. Make sure to include a URL in the video itself. You probably won't reach the fame of the Star Wars kid or the John Kerry girl, but you may make some more sales and increase awareness. Which should be enough, at least for your accountant.
Tip #8: Catch alternate URLs
Type in http://yoursite.com, where yoursite is, well, the URL of your site. Does it resolve? Does http://www.yoursite.com also resolve? Unless you are doing this on purpose, this could be a problem. The two URLs are treated as separate websites, and can confuse Search Engines.
In the worst case scenario, the Search Engine flags the two different pages as being duplicates of one another. Being flagged as duplicate material will, at the least, hurt your rating. At worst, it'll send your site to the Supplemental index, which is like a garbage dump for websites.
To fix this problem, use this .htaccess code: (without the >>>:)
>>>: Options +FollowSymLinks
>>>: RewriteEngine on
>>>: RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
>>>: RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
This will redirect the http://yoursite.com to http://www.yoursite.com. The opposite can be done to redirect http://www.yoursite.com to http://yoursite.com, if so desired.
Tip #9: Help your users help you
Make it very easy for your users to spread the word. Include "Tell a friend" functionality where and whenever possible. Also make sure to make it really, really simple. Everyone likes it when something works without too much thinking.
Another form of this is to add Social Bookmarking (SB) capability. SB is relatively new by real world standards and old stuff by internet standards – what it is, basically, is sites like Digg, Del.icio.us, and others, that let users compile their website preferences with others. You want to make it easy for you users to SB you.
In addition to spreading the word, Social Bookmarks have tremendous influence on Search Engines. Expert SEO-ers have recently done experiments where, by using the power of Social Bookmarking, they were able to gain top ten positions for very, very competitive search terms.
Quite recently, though less by standard SB sites, a Google search for "Miserable Failure" would lead to George Bush's as a first result. This was an orchestrated campaign that worked by having many people link to George Bush's website with the link text "Miserable Failure." Their success in manipulating the results only underscores how important SB is.
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|Rosetta Stone English for Business Language Program Honored with 2015 Tabby Award/Business
(Thomson Reuters ONE via COMTEX) --Rosetta Stone English for Business Language Program Honored with 2015 Tabby Award/Business
ARLINGTON, VA (November 5, 2015) - In recognition of its continuous efforts to help address critical language and communications challenges in the workplace, Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST) has received a 2015 Tabby Award/Business for its Advanced English for Business iPad app in the competition's Education, Training and HR category. Widely recognized as the industry leader in providing effective language programs, Rosetta Stone Advanced English for Business was selected from a highly competitive field of entries and is helping some of the world's leading companies improve their business-specific communication skills for workplace settings.
The Tabby Awards judging panel stated: "The value of the Advanced English for Business for professional development and language education was immediately apparent in our evaluation. We found the multiple device synchronization, individual program tailoring, feedback and progress marking features particularly useful. The app also scored highly in the areas of performance, tablet-optimization, business value, design and ease of use. We would like to congratulate the Rosetta Stone team on their recognition as a category-leading iPad app for business."
Now in its fourth year, the Tabby Award/Business competition celebrates the best tablet apps for work and productivity across the world. In determining the winners, an international judging panel of 24 independent mobile experts conducted multiple rounds of assessments using a range of criteria that included overall business value, user experience, design, innovation and performance. More than 300,000 business apps collectively are available on the Android and iOS platforms, and according to the Tabby Awards, this award positions Rosetta Stone in the top 0.01% of all apps.
"We're constantly working to move the needle in language education and give our customers the innovative tools they need to strengthen communication and achieve their goals. This is especially critical for our customers who are looking to enhance overall business performance and drive business value through language learning," said Judy Verses, President of Rosetta Stone's Global Enterprise & Education division. "We're extremely proud to see our Advanced English for Business program selected from such an esteemed field of entries and we thank the Tabby Awards for this recognition."
The Advanced English for Business app helps learners improve their English-language proficiency with a comprehensive program that targets their abilities and needs and enables them to more effectively collaborate with prospects, customers, managers, employees, and colleagues. The product's approach to language learning provides rapid results for learners of intermediate to advanced ability levels, with self-paced, online lessons, as well as live virtual tutoring. The program also helps to further develop learner's reading, listening, speaking, and writing through personalized instruction, actionable feedback, and job related activities. The Advanced English for Business mobile app allows learners to access their lessons whenever and wherever they like, and automatic syncing enables customers to never lose their place in a lesson.
For more than 20 years, Rosetta Stone has been working with thousands of corporations worldwide to provide their employees with language training that's immediately applicable to their business. Rosetta Stone provides industry-specific language solutions designed for intermediate and advanced learners and savvy business leaders recognize that English language training improves productivity and profitability. Earlier this year, Rosetta Stone's Advanced English for Business app was also released on the Apple Watch.
About Rosetta Stone
Rosetta Stone Inc. (NYSE: RST) is dedicated to changing people's lives through the power of language and literacy education. The company's innovative, personalized language and reading programs drive positive learning outcomes in thousands of schools, businesses, government organizations and for millions of individual learners around the world.
Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone pioneered the use of interactive software to accelerate language learning and is widely recognized today as the industry leader in providing effective language programs. The company's cloud-based programs allow users to learn online or on-the-go via tablet or smartphone, whether in a classroom, in a corporate setting, or in a personal learning environment. Rosetta Stone is also a leader in the literacy education space, helping millions of students build fundamental reading skills through its Lexia Learning division. Additionally, the company's Fit Brains business offers personalized brain training programs developed by neuroscientists and award-winning game designers to be fun and help keep your brain sharp.
Rosetta Stone is based in Arlington, VA, and has offices and operations around the world. For more information, visit www.rosettastone.com. "Rosetta Stone" is a registered trademark or trademark of Rosetta Stone Ltd. in the United States and other countries.
About The Tabby Awards and Mobby Awards
The Tabby Awards is the most comprehensive awards program honoring the best apps for tablets and iPads. Every year since 2012, it has held two separate competitions: one for consumer apps and games and one for business and professional apps. Tablet-optimized apps are recognized through the Tabby Awards and smartphone-optimized apps are recognized through the recently launched Mobby Awards. In each competition, nominees and winners are selected by an international panel of independent app experts. The Tabby and Mobby Awards benefit from the support of media partners including VentureBeat, ITProPortal, SocialTimes, Applause and TabTimes.
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I love visiting Cape Cod in the fall and winter – it's a family tradition that has taught me how to enjoy travel during all seasons. As nice as it is to wander through the Provincetown crowds and lay on the beach in the summer, the colder months represent a slower and more subdued side of the Cape that I appreciate just as much.
My parents had been to Karoo once before and had a great experience, so I was excited to try South African food for the first time. There are two Karoo locations on the Cape: the seasonal Karoo Kafe in Provincetown (opened in 2002) and the year-round Karoo Restaurant in Eastham (opened this year). In both locations, Chef Sanette Groenewald brings flavors from the Western Cape in South Africa where she grew up, while incorporating extensive vegan and gluten-free options.
South African cuisine is very multicultural as a result of colonization and immigration. As in all areas where people have experienced racial injustice, it is difficult to celebrate unique combinations of food that result without recognizing that people have been discriminated against or worse for decades. However, I always feel that people can appreciate and respect fusion cuisines if they understand the history that contributed to those flavors. Enjoying South African food at Karoo inspires me to better understand the history of the region.
Karoo in Eastham has a great beer selection, including many local breweries on tap and imported bottles. One of their weekly draft specials was Clown Shoes Vampire Slayer Smoked Imperial Stout from Ipswich. I enjoyed the strong coffee and molasses tastes that are smoothed by a hint of sweet brown sugar – all of these deep flavors were a nice complement to the light curry of my meal. I liked the glass that it was served in as well – a mini goblet of sorts.
The West African Peanut Soup has a pumpkin-carrot base with hints of peanut. The clean peanut taste reminds me of fresh peanuts, which I really enjoyed. This was a great appetizer, particularly for the rainy and blustery day that we visited.
I love trying new-to-me food and I am slowly adding to my list of ingredients and dishes that I've tried and cooked with. One food that I had never tried until Karoo was snails! I know, I can't believe it either. The Fried Snail Rangoons served with a soy, ginger and honey sauce are not your typical escargot. Each of the five pieces that come in the appetizer are unfortunately mostly wanton wrapper, but the creamy snail inside the middle is very pleasant. I look forward to trying more snail dishes in the future, although I probably wouldn't order this dish again.
These Peri-Peri Wings, however, I will absolutely order again. The Karoo website describes Peri-Peri sauce as an "African Portuguese sauce is made from tomato, chilies, onions, ginger, and a variety of different herbs and spices. Spicy, not hot." It is SO good and my perfect kind of heat for wings. The grilled chicken wing meat is extremely tender and it is served with the perfect amount of sauce. There are a must-try and I can't wait to make my own.
For my meal I ordered Bobotie, the national dish of South Africa, which is a beef meatloaf (my second meatloaf after the Painted Burro Yucatan Meatloaf!). This bobotie is a very soft texture, gently flavored with curry, and completely melts in your mouth. It is topped with a thin layer of egg, baked, and served with rice, chutney, and a few banana slices. The picture I have from the meal does not do the dish justice (it's really not that pretty of a dish in general), so just trust me that you need to try bobotie.
The atmosphere was very easy-going and welcoming. Our server was fantastic – he seemed to really enjoyed working there and was happy to answer all of our questions. The bartender was also very friendly and knowledgeable – Karoo would be a great place for drinks (their cocktail list has some fun local flavors) and appetizers at the bar if you are looking for something lighter.
I'm so glad Karoo was my first experience with South African cuisine and I hope to return soon.
Karoo Restaurant, 3 Main Street, Unit 32B, Eastham, MA