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After closing last year's tourism season with a devastating wildfire, Torres del Paine National Park is gearing up for another high season. The thousands of tourists that will be arriving should expect changes.
The wildfire began at the end of December 2011, and raged for nearly two months. By the end of February 2012, an estimated 17,606 hectares (43,505 acres) of Parque Nacional Torres del Paine had been destroyed, according to Conaf, the national forest service. The entire park was forced closed until the blaze could be contained. Eventually the northern sector reopened.
The Puerto Natales hostel, erratic rock, informs V!VA Travel Guides that burned areas include along the trails in the Las Carretas, Paine Grande Italiano and Paine Grande Grey sectors. Ruth, an erratic rock volunteer says, "There is already new green grass growing, which makes the black even darker, so it is pretty impressive."
Reforestation of the burnt areas of Parque Nacional Torres del Paine has been slow. Thus far, only 10,000 native lenga beech (Nothofagus pumilio) have been planted. Conaf takes national and international volunteers in a variety of positions.
The high season opened on October 1. Since then, regular bus service has begun and most refuges opened. The ones at Los Cuernos and Chileno are slated to open October 15, and Refugio Dikson, which forms part of the circuit, will be online November 1. Catamaran service also has begun once daily; at the end of October, it will run twice daily, and as of November 5, three times per day.
Prices for the 2012-2013 season are:
* Park entry: 18,000 Chilean pesos (CLP) or $36 USD
* Public bus from Puerto Natales: 15,000 CLP ($30 USD) round trip
* Lago Pehoe catamaran: 12,000 CLP ($24 USD) one way; 22,000 CLP ($44 USD) round trip
* Refuges: 22,500 CLP ($45 USD) per bed, without sheets or meals
* Meals: breakfast 5,500 CLP ($11 USD), lunch 8,000 CLP ($16 USD), dinner 11,000 CLP ($22 USD)
Tourists will face many more regulations, especially concerning camping, and more education about park rules. Also, many more patrols will be on the lookout for people who camp in non-designated areas. Drop by erratic rock's free daily information sessions at 3 p.m. to learn about new changes and about all the challenges you'll face in Torres del Paine National Park.
A big thank you to the staff of erratic rock for the above information. Pack along your V!VA Travel Guides Chile for the most complete coverage of Parque Nacional Torres del Paine and the other wonder destinations of the region than any other guidebook on the market.


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Henri Bergius has a new post to his blog showing you how to use the popular Composer package management tool to manage dependencies in Heroku applications.
While Heroku got its start from hosting Ruby on Rails applications, it nowadays supports many different environments in the Cedar stack. Node.js is what many use, but they also do support PHP. Dependency management is easy for Node.js applications as Heroku recognizes your package.json files and automatically installs the libraries needed via NPM.
Until now PHP developers haven't had this convenience, but as Composer is emerging as the default PHP package manager, I've now added support for it. Before the pull request gets accepted, Composer dependency handling can already be used by specifying my custom PHP buildpack when creating Heroku apps.
He shows you how to get it up and running with a sample application - creating the new git archive, creating the Heroku app with the custom backapack (and a "composer.json" file), setting up the main "index.php" file and push it all to Heroku. You can view his sample application here (a simple URL encoding form).

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I've made a coconut stout before. My solution was to lower the alcohol a bit and add Malibu Rum when I kegged. Came out perfect! I used the whole bottle but you can try blending in a glass to see how much you think it needs.
I have made my coconut stout twice using the Malibu Rum method. If you do the math in a 5 gallon batch it doesn't add that much more alcohol. I like a half of a 750 bottle for a more subtle coconut flavor and aroma; but my wife likes the whole bottle. I think she wants to know she's drinking something with coconut. I tried extracts, but just didn't get the amount she liked in it. It has made me realize I could use any fairly neutral flavored alcohol (i.e. vanilla vodka) to add a flavor to a beer. I haven't experimented with any others yet but it is an option. I think you should do whatever you want to get the flavor you are looking for. We're homebrewers...we don't need no stinking rules.


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by Michael Caruso
My final pair of concerts of the old year featured contrasting yet complementary choral programs that highlighted the exemplary singing of two of the region's most celebrated choirs. Donald Nally led his chamber choir, The Crossing, in contemporary music for the holiday season Friday evening, Dec. 21, at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Chestnut Hill. Then on Sunday afternoon, Dec.23, the Philadelphia Singers Chorale joined the Philadelphia Orchestra and four vocal soloists for their annual performance of Handel's oratorio, "Messiah," in the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall.
The Crossing's program got underway with the choir singing John Tavener's "O do not move: a miniature icon of the Nativity" from the back of St. Paul's Church. Its angular melodies and open harmonies, reminiscent of medieval sacred choral music, evocatively set the tone for the entire evening. Eriks Esenvalds' "Stars" followed in a rendition that caught the profundity of its unhurried tempo, the beauty of its widely spaced textures and the elegance of its lyricism.
At the singing of Einojuhani Rautavaara's "Canticum Mariae Virginis," the choir moved forward to the front of the church. The music's densely voiced harmonies made comprehending its Latin text difficult on first hearing, but its technique of a chant rising up out of those harmonies was sonically effective. Bo Holten's "First Snow" was a welcome return to traditional major/minor tonality with discernible harmonic progressions and resolutions. Tavener's "Mother and Child" brought the concert's first half to a close with his characteristic haunting melodies, delicate harmonies and smoothly rounded rhythms.
Organist Scott Dettra performed his own "Improvisation on 'Divinum mysterium,'" a wild work of oversized, booming timbral effects. Although the first portion of the title of Thomas Jennefelt's "Music for a Big Church: for Tranquility" implies another loud score, it's the second half of that title that reveals its character. It offers a shimmering haze of delicate dissonances that almost float in the air as they approach your ear.
The program's oldest work was "Chorale Prelude on 'Silent Night,' from Die Natali" by West Chester native Samuel Barber, who both graduated from and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music on Rittenhouse Square. The composer made the transcription for solo organ himself, and Dettra played it beautifully.
Sunday afternoon's performance of "Messiah" brought together two great local musical traditions. In the 1950s, Eugene Ormandy joined his Philadelphia Orchestra with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to record "Messiah" for Columbia Masterworks, now Sony Classics. Their single album of highlights from the oratorio is the orchestra's best-selling LP of all time, clocking in at well over 100,000 units, which is more than all the orchestra's CDs sold under Riccardo Muti's baton. In subsequent seasons, Ormandy's associate conductor, William Smith, led annual performances of "Messiah" in the Academy of Music, often with the Temple University Choir. It was, of course, not a particularly "authentic" version of "Messiah" – rather something of a blend between Mozart's re-scoring of the work and Wagner's "Parsifal" – but it was very popular with local audiences.
When Michael Korn founded the Philadelphia Singers two decades later, he performed a different version of "Messiah" each year with pared-down chorus and orchestra at Christmas time, recalling the fact that Handel changed the internal make-up of the oratorio each time he conducted the piece. These performances became a signature of Korn's celebrated tenure as the Singers' artistic director and were instantaneous sell-outs.
The orchestra had more success when the two ensembles joined forces for "Messiah" by guaranteeing an excellently trained choir to sing the oratorio's famous choruses. The Singers, on the other hand, lost a level of prominence because they were now performing under the orchestra's banner rather than under their own. Local audiences also lost out because Korn's decision to schedule a different version of the score every year was abandoned by the orchestra's management.
All the same, Sunday afternoon's rendition was a triumph from start to finish. Guest conductor Paul Goodwin chose appropriately lively tempi, elicited authentically clear and bright textures and invested all the singing and playing with Handel's high sense of operatic drama. Soprano Karina Gauvin sang with airy eloquence; mezzo Diana Moore projected deeply felt pathos, and tenor John Tessier sang with stentorian clarity.


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by Lou Mancinelli
"Number 88 was Laura Myers, a waitress at the Great American Diner. Number 89 was Creamy Butter … I was numb. Some of the girls I knew about. Numbers 248, 249 and 250 were all notched on our trip to Arrow Golf … Tree helped his cause by being such a skillful liar, constantly able to cover his tracks until he no longer could … 'Belinda's coming; stall her!'"
So goes the story of "The Swinger," (Simon and Schuster, New York, 2011, $25), a new fictional novel by longtime West Mt. Airy resident, author and senior Sports Illustrated (SI) writer Michael Bamberger, a Mt. Airy Avenue resident, and his co-author Alan Shipnuck, also a senior SI writer.
The story is a fictional account based on Tiger Woods, the world's richest and most famous golfer, whose private life was shot onto the public scene in 2009, when word leaked about Tiger's extramarital amusements.
Only, instead of dabbling with the unknown details of Tiger's real life trysts with porn film stars, in "The Swinger," the world's best golfer, Herbert X. "Tree" Tremont, whips around the world in private planes, drinking scotch and sleeping with hundreds of women between tournaments before his infidelity is revealed to his fireplace tool weapon-wielding Italian bikini model wife, Belinda.
The book has already received a rave in the New York Times. Reviewer Janet Maslin wrote: '"The Swinger' is overgenerous enough to leave Tree happily roasting marshmallows, facing the likelihood of a brighter future. But in most other ways it is credible and brightly apt. And the authors incorporate an excuse for airing the dirty laundry that can be found here. For one thing, they haven't exaggerated its luridness. For another, they don't think journalists ought to lie."
In the book, Bamberger and Shipnuck travel with Tree across the country and world on the PGA tour. Helping tell the story is Josh Dutra, a "St. Petersburg Review-American Golf" writer with unprecedented behind the scenes access to Tree's inner-circle, his top-secret Florida compound, illicit encounters with women in a wine cellar at Augusta national and on the deck of Tree's $61 million yacht. When Belinda hears the news about Tree's infidelities, it's Dutra she calls first.
While the story may seem true and reflective of the life of a multi-millionaire celebrity, it's all made up, according to Bamberger. "I realized that I had been covering Tiger my whole professional career, and I didn't know a thing about him," said Bamberger, 51, who began to write for SI in 1994 after working as a reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
The difficulty was that in real life, Woods was one of the most guarded athletes Bamberger had ever met. "He's a total mystery," said Bamberger, who often speaks with top PGA players, their chefs, nutritionists, travel agents and other experts. "He's an enigma wrapped in a riddle."
And so, to answer questions like who is Tiger and what makes him tick, Bamberger and Shipnuck created Tree Tremont. During the writing process, which occurred in December, 2010, and January, 2011, the authors constantly asked questions like: who is this man, and what will he do next? Their answers came to form the plot and action in "The Swinger."
Meanwhile, Bamberger and Shipnuck introduce the characters in Tree's life like Turner Darlington, the founder of Tree's sponsor Arrow Golf (might that be Nike Golf?). And there is Dr. Antoine Matteo, a controversial doctor who injects Tree with performance-rejuvenating plasma. And Will Martinsen, Tree's "squeaky-clean" archrival with adopted children from three continents.
"We were both kind of frustrated that we never got a handle on Tiger when covering the PGA for 'Sports Illustated,'" said Bamberger. "When you make eye contact with him," said Bamberger, "he looks at you like you've intruded on him."
Once, during the Masters Tournament, America's most prestigious, Bamberger observed an Augusta Chronicle reporter get four minutes of one-on-one face-to-face time with Tiger, the golfer Bamberger describes as "a weird combination between alchemy and physical prowess." "I was in awe," said Bamberger.
While "The Swinger" may be a novel based on gossip and fancy, it offers one perception of a man who captivated a nation's interest whenever he was in the process of winning a tournament, the way Michael Jordan's fadeaway jumpshot captivated American sports fans in the '90s.
"After listing all the actors in the movie of his secret life," Bamberger and Shipnuck write in Chapter 24, "all 342 of them, it was inevitable that Tree was going to get killed on the divorce settlement. He knew it. His great strength as a golfer, his realism, served him well in the dissolution of his marriage, too."
In the book, Dutra says that when Tree gets back into the game of golf, with the scandals behind him, the game will mean more to Tree than ever before. Perhaps that observation, the chance for redemption that hangs unseen in the future, is the most accurate of fictions in "The Swinger."


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Few would disagree with Susan Stephenson's assertion ("Stepping on my rights," June 2) that we need to do more to help single expectant mothers and handicapped offspring to cope with daunting physical and financial challenges. But the answer is not to murder the unborn, nor is it an act of hypocrisy to defend helpless infants.
Untold thousands of Butler Countians have braved winter weather since the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision to participate each January in the March for Life in Washington, D.C., and we're not hypocrites because we don't usurp the place of God, deciding who should live and who should die.
Pro-abortion people find it convenient not to mention the heinous practices involving knives, scissors and powerful suction devices to rip that frail body apart, and immersing the infant in painful, hot saline solutions. Pro choice? The victims have no choice. They have no way of voicing their pain or trying to escape as a mistreated dog or cat could.
One of the most brutal leaders of all time was King Herod the Great, who ordered the slaughter of boys aged 2 or younger in the Bethlehem area as he sought to destroy Jesus. Yet Herod was a piker compared to abortion providers, as he killed only a few dozen babes in the Bethlehem area — modern abortionists have slain upward of 54 million innocent infants since Jan. 22, 1973.
There are indeed abortion options, including adoption providers and organizations like the Alpha Omega Centers in Slippery Rock and New Castle, which offer Christian counseling and donated supplies for young expectant mothers, deliver college and high school lectures on abstaining from Hollywood-glamorized premarital sex, and provide ultrasound viewings.
Once your average expectant mother sees her precious little baby via the ultrasound screen, deep love usually takes over, and another innocent life is spared.
In these days of daunting tax increases and decreasing revenues from an aging population, we've lost a large tax base from among those many millions who were murdered in infancy.
And in the hereafter, might God even show us that abortion had destroyed the one person who might have discovered a cure for cancer?


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Team Jack Video Changes Your Perspective
Randy York's N-Sider
The N-Sider tip for Nebraska's only bye football weekend this season was a poignant video that featured Jack Hoffman and Rex Burkhead, who not only helped kick off the Big Ten Network's weekend game coverage, but also helped a 12-school fan base understand an important cause - pediatric brain cancer.
Jack is a 7-year-old that had one wish atop his Bucket List when he was diagnosed with brain cancer more than a year ago – to meet Rex, who not only accommodated that request, but built a dynamic relationship between the Hoffman family and his own.
Dan Lindberg, the young BTN feature producer living in Chicago, recommended that viewers have Kleenex nearby before watching the 9½-minute piece he's been shooting for months. That proved to be good advice for Patrick Sullivan, a Husker fan who lives in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. "I barely made it through your article, so I didn't know if I should tackle the video," Sullivan wrote in an email. "Thanks to your warning, I held up a little better than I expected when I watched it. I thought it was a great segment. Maybe two losses isn't such a big deal, huh?
The video is a perspective changer, thanks to the Hoffman family giving Lindberg all kinds of access to tell a story that not only inspires Husker Nation, but everyone else who watched this compelling profile in courage on BTN's worldwide network.
Photo Shows Jack's Surgical Scars
The N-Sider is using the grainy photo above to help promote the BTN piece because it was taken exactly one year ago today in Boston Children's Hospital, two days after Jack underwent a second surgery for brain cancer. The picture shows Jack and all the battle scars from that surgery. Flanked by his dad, Andy Hoffman, and his mom, Brianna Hoffman, Jack is connected on the phone with Burkhead, whose voice had become just as warm and encouraging to Jack as his own parents in the midst of battling this deadly disease.
"It's been an awesome experience meeting the entire Hoffman family," Lindberg said. "They're great people, and I hope it really comes across in this piece how great Rex Burkhead is. A lot of college athletes would have agreed to meet Jack. It's what Rex has done after he met Jack that's truly impressive and truly indicative of what kind of person he is."
It's also indicative of what kind of program Burkhead plays for. BTN did not shoot and narrate this story to raise money and awareness for pediatric brain cancer or to support that cause through Uplifting Athletes, a national nonprofit organization that aligns college football programs with rare diseases. That organization already existed before Jack was diagnosed with brain cancer, but there is no doubt that Jack's relationship with Burkhead paved the way for launching Nebraska's chapter of that organization and created a platform for an anonymous gift of up to $100,000 to match private contributions.
"This story will make Husker football fans proud that Rex is on their squad," said Lindberg, who admitted interviewing Jack's dad was the most difficult. "My job," he said, "was to sit down and have him relive some of the most painful days of his life. It gets emotional, but we both had to keep our eye on the goal, which was to show what Rex did for Jack and this family. Rex really changed their life around and helped lift their spirits when they needed it most."
Hoffman, Burkhead Families Bonded
It didn't take long for Lindberg to embrace the football player who became a mentor, a friend, and almost an extension of the Hoffman family, along with his own parents and brother, Rick, Robyn and Ryan Burkhead.
"I hope what really, really comes across is that no one asked Rex to do all he did," Lindberg said. "It becomes very obvious that Rex was doing everything he did because he genuinely cares about Jack, his family and a pediatric disease that's been using the same protocol treatment for 25 years."
Football may keep Rex's cleats flying toward the opponent's end zone, but a discouraging fact like kids getting the same treatment for a quarter-century makes him sprint towards another opposing end zone – pediatric brain cancer.
In the teaser video at the top of this column, you'll see Jack ask his new friend, Rex, if he'd like to race on the first day they met. That footrace on Memorial Stadium's hallowed turf put a big smile on Rex's face and an extra beat in his heart. It marked the beginning of a healthy athlete uplifting a little buddy with brain cancer. Check the video to see who won. An hour or two after that race, Rex, Jack and his parents had lunch with Keith Zimmer, Nebraska's associate athletic director for Life Skills. Zimmer was the one who made it all happen and asked me to join Rex and the Hoffman family at the Nebraska Training Table that memorable day. It was an honor then and even more so now that I've seen and been able to write about a bond that keeps getting tighter between a kid with cancer and a selfless running back. Rex and Jack's relationship is authentic and, in my mind, nothing short of an awesome wonder.
Rex, Teammates Launch Own Chapter
Burkhead was a catalyst, asking his head coach if he could invite the Hoffmans to a pre-bowl practice last December. Pelini gave Rex and four dozen teammates the green light to start their own chapter to support Uplifting Athletes. The Huskers draw inspiration from Jack. Many of them wear his red bracelet that reminds them to pray. Big Red fans are equally inspired. They've bought 12,000 Team Jack Tee-shirts, and that will put about $120,000 into the fight against pediatric brain cancer. "None of this could have happened without Coach Pelini giving players his blessing," Andy Hoffman said. "Coach Pelini's support helped the cause meet all the compliance requirements to start their own chapter of Uplifting Athletes."
Lindberg is impressed with the structure, the cause and the inspiration everyone takes from it. "I am so appreciative that the Hoffmans, Nebraska Athletics, Coach Pelini and the Burkheads gave us access so we can tell this inspiring story about Team Jack and Rex," he said. "I don't have any nieces or nephews, but if I had a nephew, I would want him to be just like Jack Hoffman because I've had a blast with the kid. He has so much energy and such a positive attitude. When you're with him and his parents, you'd never know what they're dealing with."
Andy Hoffman knows, and he remembers every day in rather vivid detail, including that phone call from Rex one year ago today. "Jack was heavily medicated with pain medicines, and he was still recovering from the effects of surgery," Andy said. "Jack wasn't very talkative. Rex told Jack that he was proud of him and that he was glad the surgery went well. He also told Jack that when Nebraska was trailing Ohio State 27-to-7 that he thought of Jack, and he told himself and his teammates that 'Jack's not giving up, so we can't give up either.'"
As the Hoffmans look back over the past year, it's hard for them to believe that it's really been a year. "Our family will always remember the incredible support that Rex provided Jack and the rest of our family during an incredibly difficult time," Andy said.
Burkhead's Thoughts Were on Jack
Not only did Rex call Jack to wish him well a day before he played in one of the biggest college football games of his career, but he took it upon himself to tell ABC announcers about Jack. Rex conveyed information that would eventually evolve into a national prayer request for Jack when his family thought he needed those prayers the most.
The Hoffmans have had a year to absorb the transaction of events over a four-day span one year ago. "To this day, it still has not sunk in," Andy said. "When you get the kind of support that Rex provided our family during those deep, dark times, I don't think it will ever truly sink in."
The events of that experience will be forever interwoven in the minds of Jack's parents.
When Jack was moved from the Intensive Care Unit to the ninth floor at Boston Children's Hospital, a nurse realized that the Hoffmans were from Nebraska. She then proceeded to tell them about the Nebraska-Ohio State game over that weekend one year ago and asked if they watched it.
"We told her that we did," Andy recalled. "The nurse then said: 'Did you hear that part towards the end of that game when they talked about that boy having a brain tumor surgery out here in Boston?'"
Do We Know Him? Why, He's Our Son
The Hoffmans looked at the nurse somewhat in awe. "We did hear that, and they were talking about our Jack," Andy Hoffman told her. "The nurse's jaw just about hit the floor, and before we knew it, she went and got other nurses and started telling them that this was Jack, the kid that they were talking about on ABC."
That's not the only remarkable thing that Andy recalls because Rex isn't the only Burkhead who showed unbelievable support during Jack's surgery last year. "The whole Burkhead family poured on their support," Andy said. "I vividly remember Rick (Rex's dad) calling me on my cell phone one evening in the hospital. I will never forget sitting on a chair outside Jack's hospital room in Boston and actually listening to Rick thanking our family for bringing Jack into Rex's life."
The father of a pediatric brain cancer patient interpreted that irony with faith. "During a period of time when our family was so full of gratitude for everything that Rex and his family had done for Jack, even though they had only known each other for three weeks, it was Rick Burkhead thanking us for bringing Jack into Rex's life," Andy said. "It was very humbling to listen to the father of an All-Big 10 running back thanking me for allowing our two sons to be friends. It was not only touching, but it was one of those calls that you'll just never forget."
The irony does not end there. As the Hoffman family sat and watched Nebraska's greatest football comeback in history in an apartment in Boston, just two days before their son's surgery, they watched the Huskers struggle on the field like Jack was struggling at home and in school.
Barking Signals from a Boston Apartment
"Late in the second half, as the momentum started to shift, the entire room seemed to feel a certain connection of what was happening in Lincoln," Andy said. "Here we were, in a small two-bedroom apartment crammed full of family members who are all Husker fans. We all sat there and kept telling ourselves out loud: 'Give the ball to Rex. Give the ball to Rex,' and sure enough, they did!"
When Burkhead scored the last two touchdowns in the Huskers' 34-27 win, Memorial Stadium shook, but no more so than the that Boston apartment.
After Rex scored the second touchdown and ABC announcers gave their plug for Jack, via their discussion with Rex, "the entire room went from cheers to tears in a matter of seconds," Andy recalled. "We could not believe that our son just received what would equate to a national prayer request on ABC television. At that point, we felt like Jack could conquer anything, including brain tumor surgery on that next Monday.
"To this day, while it may sound crazy," Andy Hoffman said, "we attribute how well Jack's surgery went and how well he recovered from that surgery, to the fact that we had thousands and thousands of people praying for Jack, due to the selfless kind acts of Rex Burkhead, who made sure he told the ABC announcers about Jack before the game."
Now You All Know the Rest of the Story
This column may be the N-Sider, but I have no idea what all will be included in the piece about Team Jack and Rex at 10 a.m. CT Saturday on BTN. Whatever it is will be one of the more compelling stories related to Nebraska football and one of its all-time most popular players. "Most pieces like this are four or five minutes," said Lindberg, who produced the feature and admits he had people behind the camera crying while they were filming the raw emotions of a father reliving the family's darkest days. "We got it down to 9½ minutes, and they wanted more cut. But everyone who watched it agreed. We couldn't take any more out. There's just too much there."
The reason there's too much there is because of the Burkhead family. "It's not just Rex," Andy Hoffman said. "It's his brother, his parents, his uncle and both sets of his grandparents, who are all over Jack's CaringBridge website. I know this. When Rex has your back, the entire family does. They're a model family ... for all of us!"
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Beauty is an ever booming business that will never see a lack in customers and Hairdressers In Near Me in Bryanston because women and even men will continue to go to beauty salons for a new hairdo, for a manicure, a pedicure or even a tan. So, whether there is a depression or not, women (and some men) will still go to beauty salons to have their fix. In fact, it is in stressful times that you will see an increase in customers going to Beauty Salons Open On Sunday Near Me offering spa services for a spot of relaxation through aromatherapy, baths, manicures and massages.
Beauty Salon Equipment - What You Need To Know
So, if you are thinking of setting up a beauty salon, it is time that you go searching for the best ever beauty salon equipment for your business. You will need nothing but the most affordable and best beauty salon equipment to provide nothing but incomparable services to your clients.Lets take a look at the different types of services offered by beauty salons and Beauty Salons Open Near Me what sort of beauty salon equipments you will need for the services you offer at your salon. If your salon only offer basic hair styling and cutting services, you will need beauty salon equipment to cater to your hair styling needs. You should look at hair styling chairs, wash basins, hair dryers, steamers, trolleys, professional hair styling scissors set and even basic must-have furniture like mirrors, chairs, comfy chairs for the waiting area.
Beauty Salon, Beauty Salon, Wherefore Art Thou Beauty Salon?
In the midst of searching for the right equipment to furnish your salon, although it is important to compare prices, please do not settle for cheap, low quality equipment as it could end up sabotaging your business. Lousy quality equipment could break down in the midst of a hair styling session or worse, can you imagine the bath tub leaking or the hair dryer malfunctioning and injuring a client? So, compare prices if you must but do not try to save by buying low quality beauty salon equipment.
Hairdressers In Near Me in Bryanston ?
You've decided to open your own hair salon, selected the right location, hired qualified hair stylists and purchased the necessary equipment. Sounds like you have everything you need, right? Wrong. You'll need to have a good handle on the following key elements if your hair salon is to succeed.
1. Quality Staff
Running a successful salon also requires attracting and retaining quality staff. People become attached to their hair stylists. They want to know that they can call their salon and get an appointment with their favorite stylist. Clients become nervous when they are told that their trusted stylist no longer works at the salon. They will often follow their stylist to another salon. This would mean that you would lose that client forever.
Running a successful salon is not a mysterious venture. All you need to do is ensure the happiness of your clients, retain a quality staff, price competitively, and stock appropriately. All of the other details will simply fall into place.
Beauty Salon, Beauty Salon, Wherefore Art Thou Beauty Salon?
Setting up a salon would be a dream come true for many nail technicians. Working for yourself, offering whichever treatments you like and making a lot of profit are all advantages that you can achieve by working for yourself. However, as great as it is there are also many potential downsides to setting up and running your own salon. Unless you research more about these potential problems it is likely that your business will fail.
Things to Think About
When you are considering setting up your own salon the main points that you need to think about include:
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Overall working for yourself can be rewarding but first you need to work hard to make your business a success. You can get free business advice from the HABIA website. Offering you a "HABIA Guide to Business Success for Beauty Therapy Salon", it will tell you exactly what you need to create a successful salon. It is always advisable to get professional advice whenever possible. If you follow these tips and research as much as you can then you have the best possible chance of making a success of your salon.


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About FERC Office of the Executive Director
The Chief Financial Officer manages all the financial and asset management functions and programs for the Commission, on behalf of the Executive Director. Oversees budget planning, development, and execution. Coordinates the strategic planning process and the preparation, evaluation, and reporting on the Commissions performance measures. Oversees the use of appropriated funds through the Commissions automated accounting system. Authorizes disbursements of Commission funds and the collection and deposit of all funds due the Commission. Provides accounting and internal auditing expertise and services to the Commission. Oversees the performance of all operational management responsibilities for procurement and contract management in support of programmatic and institutional requirements.
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For his somewhat and views regarding Philippine History, I don't have a liking for F. Sionil José even if he's one of the late, great Nick Joaquín's dearest friends. I may have a preference for José's prose. I bought his famous Rosales novels as well as his other books, and I think they're OK. But like I always say to other like-minded people, he'd better stick to fiction where he's good at. Just like Ms. Bárbara González should stick to writing about the comforts of life.
But another thing that Mr. José may be good at aside from moulding fictitious characters and circumstances from his mind is art criticism. And this is what he has to say to describe Mideo Cruz's controversial works…
Sionil José calls Mideo Cruz immature, juvenile
By: Maila Ager
2:01 pm | Tuesday, August 16th, 2011
MANILA, Philippines—National Artist for Literature Francisco Sionil José lambasted on Tuesday the controversial artwork of Mideo Cruz, who put a wooden penis on the image of Jesus Christ, saying it was not an art but an illustration that the artist was "immature" and "juvenile"
"I saw the pictures, which too many people object and I said this is not art. These pictures illustrate that the artist is immature and juvenile in his attempt to express his views," José said in mixed English and Tagalog when he faced the Senate investigation on the controversial artwork.
"This artist is not all that good because we do it when we were kids, where you put a mustache in people… anó ba yan," he added.
But José defended art in general, saying there was nothing "obscene" in it compared to the obscenities of corrupt officials in government.
"The obscenities in this country are the powerful Filipinos who do not do their duties, the corrupt officials, who are not responsible. These are the obscenities in our nation. There are only bad artists and bad writers," he said, which elicited cheers and applause from the people in the hearing room.
José then called on the Cultural Center of the Philippines to be more sensitive to the definition of the art itself.
Good point. For future exhibits, how should art be defined? What are the parameters and benchmarks? Who should criticize art? These and other related questions should be answered so that in the future no more garbage will infiltrate our Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Immature. Juvenile. Probably the best, the most precise choice of words —without resorting to insults— to describe Mideo Cruz's Poleteísmo garbage.
For his age, Mr. José still has a good eye for aesthetics. So again: he'd better stick to fiction and the arts. So please, stay away from Philippine History. That would also be honoring a dearly departed friend in Nick.


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U.S. Equal Employment
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Popular Restaurant Refused to Promote Qualified Female to Bartending Job Because of Her Sex, Federal Agency Charged
RALEIGH, N.C. – Apple Gold, Inc., doing business as Applebee's, violated federal law by denying a promotion to a qualified female employee because of her sex, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed today. The EEOC charged that a Fayetteville, N.C., Applebee's discriminated against a server when the company failed to promote her to a bartending position because of her gender.
According to the EEOC's complaint, Amanda Antisdel worked as a server at the company's Applebee's restaurant at Raeford Road in Fayetteville, N.C., from around January 9, 2008 until around April 2009. Throughout her employment at Applebee's, Antisdel excelled as a server, the EEOC said, and expressed interest in being promoted to a bartending position. Upon learning of an upcoming open bartender position in March 2009, Antisdel immediately informed the restaurant's bar manager of her interest in the position. The bar manager assured Antisdel that as soon as the job became open she would be selected. The bar manager also permitted Antisdel to train behind the bar with the other bartenders for about three weeks.
Approximately three weeks after the company promised Antisdel the bartending job, which would have been a promotion for her, she learned that Applebee's recruited a less qualified male for the open bartending position and placed him in the position. Although Antisdel met all the qualifications for the position and was the most qualified person for the position and had more seniority than the male employee, the company recruited and selected him because Applebee's wanted a "straight male" behind the bar, the EEOC said.
Sex discrimination violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The EEOC filed suit (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Apple Gold Inc., d/b/a Applebee's, Civ. No. 5:10-cv-00363) in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, Western Division, after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement. In its suit, the EEOC seeks back pay, compensatory, damages and punitive damages, rightful-place hiring and injunctive relief.
"Denying a person a promotion because of her sex is unjust and unlawful," said Lynette A. Barnes, regional attorney for the EEOC's Charlotte District Office. "The EEOC will continue its fight for equality in the workplace for women and men, both of whom should be allowed an equal opportunity to compete in the workplace."
According to company information, Apple Gold, Inc., headquartered in Raleigh, is one of the largest franchised restaurant operators in the United States. In 2007 Applebee's operated 72 restaurants in three states (North Carolina, Oklahoma and Arkansas), and had sales in excess of $145 billion.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on the agency's web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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YORK, PA – The York College baseball took on the visiting Mighty Macs of Immaculata University for the Spartans' 2012 Senior Day. The Spartans earned the sweep on a sun-splashed Sunday, winning the opener 9-0 and completing the sweep with 10-1 win in the second.
In game one, the Spartans start out strong in the bottom of the first inning with freshman Derek Pitzer contributes to the Spartans scoring with a shapr single to center field that drove in Andrew Hershey and Steve Tretter, giving the Spartans the early advantage.
The Green and White kept rolling in the fourth inning when Nic Long walked. Senior Sean McCann advanced Long two third with a single to right field. Long then scores from third from a sacrifice fly to left field by catcher Adam Bartholomew. The Spartans continue their dominance in the fifth with six runs attributed from key hits from Pitzer, Justin Cohen, and Hershey.
The Spartans pitching was in peak form near the ending of the 2012 season. Freshman Dan Gurganus twirled a two-hit shutout as the right-hander picked up his fifth win of the year. He struck out nine and walked just one in his dominating performance.
Mighty Macs starter Alex Kobylinski pitched six innings, gave up 11 hits, nine runs, tw walks, and four strikeouts. The loss dropped Kobylinski to 2-2 for the campaign.
The Green and White also had an outstanding offensive performance today in the opening game. Pitzer went 3-4 with three RBI in the game while Cohen also went 3-4 as he had one RBI.
The Spartans begin their second game the same way began the last. Aaron Dietrich had a rough start to the second game for the Mighty Macs. Junior Dustin Worthman started off the productive first inning with a single. After Worthman was thrown out stealing on a blow call at second, Dietrich walked the bases loaded to set up a big Spartan inning. Pitzer singled to bring in one and Long followed with a two run double to give York the early 3-0 lead.
Immaculata had their first chance at scoring some runs against the Spartans in the top of the third when KC Beshore walked three batters to load bases. With great Green and White defense and clutch pitching by Beshore the Spartans were able to escape with no runs.
York took to the bats in the bottom of the third and picked up where they left off in the first inning. It all started with two singles by Cohen and Pitzer. Long then had a well placed bunt toward first base which advanced the runners. Hershey had a sacrifice fly to left field to score Cohen. The Green and White continued their hot bats with a double from Colin Porter and single from Tretter. The lead grew to 7-0 with the four-run outburst.
The Mighty Macs score their first run of the day with a error and a fielder choice by the Spartans. The Green and White get out of the inning with holding Immaculata to just one unearned run.
The Spartans continue their offensive power with scoring a combined three runs in the final three innings of play.
The Spartans had a solid performance offensively and defensively in today's second match up. Beshore earned the win with 4.2 innings of one hit work. He allowed one unearned run as he struck out two. Beshore improves to 2-2 for the campaign. Freshman David McGee threw 1.1 innings of perfect relief while senior Brandon Ullom pitched a quiet seventh inning including registering a pair of strikeouts. The appearance for Ullom broke the Spartan school record for appearances as he has now pitched in 64 games for his Spartan career.
Offensively, the Green and White had 14 hits, 10 runs, one stolen base, and four walks. Worthman and Cohen paced the Spartan game two offense. Worthman was 3-for-3 with an RBI while Cohen went 3-for-3 with three runs scored and two RBI. Long added two hits, two RBI and a run scored while Pitzer also had a pair of knocks for the Green and White.
The Spartans improve 20-19 overall as they have won three straight. York returns to action on Tuesday afternoon when they travel to Gettysburg for a non-conference contest. Game time is set for 3:30 pm.
Story written by Aaron Frischkorn - Atheltic Communication Practicum Student
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Well, this is the offical background for my army. I've spent alot of time working on this, so please, feel free to criticize it, suggest improvements, but keep in mind, this is my army, and I reserve the right to tell you where to stick it sideways.
The Red Arm Alliance
Chapter 1
About and History
The Red Arm Alliance is just that, a relatively loose alliance of several dozen worlds all united under one banner. The RAA is a upper-Teklevel 5 civilization just beginning to enter Teklevel 6. One of the more interesting aspects of the RAA is that they are constantly trying to recover artifacts from a long extinct Teklevel 7 civilization known as the Tekulain. They already have obtained several artifacts, some of which have made a massive impression in the military of the RAA.
The military of the RAA is divided into legions, with each star cluster providing the soldiers, mechanix, medix, and so on. However, there are some legions that are known as 'Spare Parts Legions.' These legions have almost no uniformity as they are made up of excess recruits, sole survivors of units that were wiped out, mercenaries, the odd cryo-revived and/or cloned soldier(s), and the scum of other legions. But these legions also keep the entire Alliance up and running as these legions can hit faster and harder than others, and can deal with a variety of needs, from assaulting a fortress that has survived a thousand years of siege, to holding a mile wide crater with no cover what-so-ever for months on end. They are the true backbone of the RAA, the first and last line of defense, and it is with one of these Spare Part Legions, the 13th Frozen Hell Legion, that our story(s) take place.
Chapter 2
Ranking and Identification
RAA military personnel are identified by their red right sleeve, which gives the Red Arm Alliance it's name. The left sleeve denotes ranks and specializations:
Trooper: Black
Medik: White
Mechanik: Orange
Officer: Green
Sniper: Tan
Pilot: Blue
Hero/Champion: Red
Chapter 3
Key Characters of the 13th Frozen Hell
Colonel Jackson 'DarkWolf' Cameron: Leader of the 13th Frozen Hell Legion (stats coming soon)
Jack O'kiase: Designer, tester, and pilot of the first Warhawk fighter/gunship/bomber. First non-Bucket-Boy pilot of anything (stats coming soon for both Jack and the Warhawk)
MK-33565: A mysterious, sentient Tek-level 7 warbot, found in the ruins of Azkar VI (stats coming soon)
Malleus Ordo: A great warrior of a time gone by, revived from a statue in the capital of Matakal, Kata City (stats coming soon)
Samantha Brekmen: A mercenary who has permanently signed on to the RAA payroll (stats coming soon)
Spartan-117 'Master Chief' (green): First of three SPARTAN warriors revived from cryo-sleep. Is the only one that can be deployed alone (stats coming soon)
Spartan-087 'Kelly' (red): Second of three SPARTAN warriors revived from cryo-sleep. Must be deployed with at least one other SPARTAN (stats coming soon)
Spartan-049 'Will' (blue): Third of three SPARTAN warriors revived from cryo-sleep. Must be deployed with at least one other SPARTAN (stats coming soon)
Carlos Hathcock: A United States Marine Corps sniper, cloned using DNA recovered from his old sniper rifle, which was recovered on the remains of the planet Earth, currently in it's 500th year of nuclear winter (no life forms)


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December 08, 2004
LOS ANGELES — In a series of reports released today, the UCLA Anderson Forecast foresees slightly less-than-normal GDP growth in the second half of 2005, specifically 2.8% instead of the normal 3.0% and 2.6% growth for all of 2006. In California, "solid, but not spectacular" are the watchwords for 2005, with personal income growth slowing to 5.2% from this year's 5.6% and taxable sales dropping under 5% from 2004's 6%. The growth path looks to be decelerating again in 2006, with some dangers in the economy (trade deficit, low national saving rate) looming on the forecast horizon.
The National Forecast
In his national report, UCLA Anderson Forecast Director Edward Leamer expresses doubt about the sustainability of both the current record spending on homes and the extraordinary, post-1998 rate of growth of productivity. In a rising interest rate environment, current levels of home prices and home building are dependent on powerful income growth that will allow consumers to handle growing debt service. But a return to normal in productivity growth would yield disappointing income growth in the next decade and pull the last prop from under the housing bubble.
Dr. Leamer is predicting a return to the normal rate of productivity growth equal to 1.7% instead of the 3.4% we have had since 1998. (On December 6, 2004, three days after the release of the UCLA Anderson Forecast's embargoed quarterly reports to the media, the BLS reported the revised third quarter productivity at 1.8%.)
Dr. Leamer concludes that 2005 will see rising interest rates, some weakness in housing and consumer durables and a bit-off-normal GDP growth of 2.8% in the latter part of the year. The concerns are greater in 2006, when a plunge in consumer spending on homes and durables could lead to more serious results.
The California and Local Forecast
According to UCLA Anderson Senior Economist Christopher Thornberg in his discussion of the California economy, "what recovery there was to take place, has taken place, and issues on the consumer side of the balance sheet will likely begin to have an impact on overall economic growth." Dr. Thornberg expects 2005 to be a solid one for the state, noting that payroll employment growth, which typically lags the economy, will be at 1.6% in 2005 after ultimately tallying 0.8% in 2004. In 2006, state and local economies will be impacted by national trends and an overall downturn in the US economy could derail the state's current solid but unspectacular growth.
Dr. Thornberg also notes that one of the long-run issues California faces is how well the economy is doing, given that much of the growth occurring is among the types of jobs that do not show up on payroll statistics — the so called informal employment. He sees this trend as one of the true reflections of the expensive process of employing workers in California, and he suggests that little is understood about the impact of moving so many jobs into the uncovered sector.
California State Budget Crisis
In his California and Local report, Dr. Thornberg also suggests that the state budget situation is still out of control. UCLA Anderson Forecast Economist Michael Bazdarich confirms this and provides a detailed analysis of the California state budget crisis over the last 15 months. In his report titled, "The Circus is Back in Town: More on the State's Budget Crisis," Dr. Bazdarich notes that because the state's current budget woes cannot be attributed to the normal ups and downs of the business cycle, economic recovery alone cannot be counted on to remove the budget crisis this time.
Dr. Bazdarich notes — as he has in the past — "that the state budget woes had their genesis in abrupt surges and declines in income tax revenues and in the failure of outlays to fall with revenues, even after they rose with them." He concludes that the only effective reform against a recurring budget crisis is "some measure that prevents expenditures from moving in response to very sharp, short-term swings in volatile revenue sources."
About UCLA Anderson Forecast
UCLA Anderson Forecast is one of the most widely watched and often-cited economic outlooks for California and the nation, and was unique in predicting both the seriousness of the early-1990s downturn in California, and the strength of the state's rebound since 1993. Most recently, the Forecast is credited as the first major U.S. economic forecasting group to declare the recession of 2001. Visit UCLA Anderson Forecast on the Web at http://uclaforecast.com.
About UCLA Anderson School of Management
UCLA Anderson School of Management is perennially ranked among the top-tier business schools in the world. Award-winning faculty renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, successful alumni and world-class facilities combine to provide an extraordinary learning environment. UCLA Anderson students are part of a culture that values individual vision, intellectual discipline and a sense of teamwork and collegiality.
Established in 1935, UCLA Anderson School of Management provides management education to more than 1,400 students enrolled in MBA and doctoral programs, and some 2,000 executives and managers enrolled annually in executive education programs. Recognizing that the school offers unparalleled expertise in management education, the world's business community turns to UCLA Anderson School of Management as a center of influence for the ideas, innovations, strategies and talent that will shape the future.


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If there's any good news to come from the announcement that the plug is being pulled on "Ugly Betty" it's that there is still time left.
Series creator Silvio Horta and ABC Entertainment Group President Stephen McPherson promised in a joint statement that while the show must end, "we want to allow the ample time to write a satisfying conclusion." The four-year run will come to end this spring with a fashion-inspired bang.
When "Ugly Betty" was in full-swing it was mad-cap fantastic television with larger-than-life villains and a diminutive hero wearing gigantic braces. "Betty" had great pace, great writing and smart characters. Even the smallest of these -- Betty's fashion obsessed gay nephew Justin comes to mind -- were hilarious. And the friendship between assistant Marc St. James and ambitious receptionist Amanda marked some of the best bitchy banter on television.
The show, based on a Colombian series, won plenty of award hardware. In 2007 America Ferrera won both a Screen Actors Guild award and a Golden Globe — the first television actress to pull both in the same year. But the show has dealt with falling ratings and struggled with scheduling changes in the years to follow.
At least the end promises a return to the glory days. It's going to be fantastic.


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No drama here.
Even though Clint and Dina Eastwood announced that they were separating after 17 years of marriage last week, the brunette beauty is speaking out in support of her husband.
She took to Twitter to vent her frustrations regarding negative feedback on the social media site and tried to put the name calling and rock throwing to rest.
"I don't like reading negative things about Clint," she wrote. "He is a wonderful, good natured, brilliant person. No matter what, I attest to that."
Now that's a powerful message, short and to the point.
She also tweeted a cryptic message last week that read, "Time and truth go hand in hand. I try to spend TIME being positive while the TRUTH percolates. What do YOU do to patient when you're antsy?"
NEWS: Clint Eastwood urges Supreme Court to legalize gay marriage
The cryptic nature seemed to have sent fans into overdrive, which is possibly what led to her supportive message about Clint.
Following the news of the split, the veteran actor was seen dropping off a mystery blond at LAX airport--which fueled the rumor mill into thinking there was something more romantic between the two.
Clint Eastwood's manager, Leonard Hirshan, who typically does not discuss his client's personal life, said he didn't know anything about the situation.
In fact, when E! News had reached out for confirmation of the Eastwoods' separation last week, Hirshan also said he knew nothing about that, adding, "Clint is shooting a picture right now, unavailable to reach, he doesn't have a press agent and that's all I can tell you."
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Another source, however, did confirm that Clint and Dina have been living apart for some time.
The 48-year-old and Hollywood icon married in March 1996 and welcomed their daughter, Morgan, 9 months later.
Dina, a former TV news anchor, costarred with Morgan on the E! reality series "Mrs. Eastwood & Company" in 2012.


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rene1611 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 21 designs submitted by 5 freelance designers.
New Smoke
With NewSmoke we want to bring light to the electronic cigarette market. We compare the market leaders on our site and proivde lots of useful information about this topic.
People who wanna quit smoking, age 20-70, United States market, interested in new products in order to quit smoking traditional cigarettes.
We need a nice fancy animated graphic for the header on new-smoke. The design should be fresh, fancy, modern, warm and sophisticated. You dont have to use flash for it, but an animation or so would be nice.
The brand New Smoke should be the focus. People should get the impression that when searching for electronic cigarettes New Smoke is the place to be. So there must be a "It's New Day - It's a New Smoke" lettering + "Experience a new way of smoking with the Electronic Cigarette". I also attached some graphics which you could use. We used to add the "leaf_ava.jpg" image to our logo. "New-Smoke-TCS-details.gif" is an image of an electronic cigarette. Would be good to have an electronic cigarette in the logo.
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He has served with the Guard for 36 years.
The commander of a North Dakota National Guard training center is retiring.
Col. Dave Rickford has been in charge of the Camp Grafton Training Center for the last two years. He has served with the Guard for 36 years.
Prior to taking over duties at the camp, Rickford served as director of operations and training, director of manpower and personnel, and mobilization readiness officer.
Camp Grafton has multiple training operations, including cook school, demolition ranges and weapons qualification ranges. The facility has several devices, simulators and other systems to help prepare guard members for duty.
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Download SEO toolbar here and restart Firefox. Now you're good to go.
What would happen if you smooshed together many of the best parts of Rank Checker, SEO for Firefox, the best keyword research tools across the web, a feed reader (pre-populated with many SEO feeds), a ton of competitive research tools, the ability to compare up to 5 competing sites against each other, easy data export, and boatloads of other features into 1 handy Firefox extension? Well, you would have the SEO Toolbar.
The Only SEO Toolbar You Will Need
The power of SEO Toolbar comes from combining all of the best SEO tools into one. There is really nothing new or original that SEO Toolbar offers. It simply arranges all must-use SEO tools into one convenient place.
Whenever you visit a page/site, SEO Toolbar automatically gathers/sends data to various services so you can access it in a click. If you have example.com open, than this is the domain on which SEO Toolbar is working. Data gathering is performed in the background and is very convenient.
Here's how the toolbar looks (sliced to fit here for all screens):
Let's look at the line up of features, tools and information you can access through SEO Toolbar.
{mospagebreak title=Basic SEO Information}
On the top left side of the toolbar, the information button lets you know instantly basic SEO information about the website such as:
Page PR
Site PR
Site Age
Google Cache Date – useful in identifying the importance of the domain apart from linkage data, since good domains are crawled frequently.
Google Indexed Pages
Yahoo Indexed Pages
Yahoo Site Links
Yahoo site links: edu, gov, mil, ac.uk
Link count from Majestic SEO (a tool that has its own spider and keeps its own index of the web).
Yahoo page links
Yahoo page links: edu, gov, mil, ac.uk
Directory listing: DMOZ, Yahoo and BotW.
Compete.com Traffic Data
Alexa Traffic Data
SEM Rush Traffic Data
Delicious Links
Digg Links
This information is very useful in analyzing the competition and potential link partners. You can also click on each piece of information and review details in a new window. For example, if you want a detailed snapshot of Yahoo Site Links, simply click on the link count and SEO Toolbar will open Yahoo search with the following command: linkdomain:example.com -site: example.com. If you want detailed WHOIS info, click on the Site Age option and you will be directed to the appropriate page.
Next in the line up of available features comes separate buttons that show Yahoo Linkdomain Count | Yahoo Pagelink Count | DMOZ Directory Listings | Yahoo Directory Listings | Best Of the Web Listings. Clicking on the buttons takes you to the appropriate pages where you can see all the details.
Archive, Compete.com and SEM Rush Data
SEOToolbar gives direct links to the Archive.com, Compete.com and SEM Rush data. You can access those tools in a standalone manner, but SEO Toolbar makes it more convenient, as all of the services can be accessed with a click of the button.
Archive.com (Way Back Machine) is an online service that allows you to view pages back to 1994 and monitor their progress. The tool is useful in observing changes in the page titles and content of competing websites. If you spend enough time, you can map the SEO strategy of a particular competitor.
Compete.com is an online service that offers competitive keyword and traffic intelligence on most domains in the US. Their traffic stats can be off, so don't put too much weight on it.
SEM Rush is a new service that offers keyword intelligence and keyword pricing estimates for the website. The tool is useful in monitoring competitors' search rankings, bids and in estimating an approximate PPC budget. Their traffic stats are off, as is true of most such services.
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Next comes a competition tab that has links (with appropriate URL inputted) to the following services:
Compete.com (mentioned above).
Google Search Based Keyword Tool is a new tool from Google that shows keyword suggestions based on website content and titles. Google gets keyword suggestions from actual search results and also shows search count. It's not clear if the search count is a broad match or exact match, but looking at numbers, my guess is – it is broad match. You need to have an AdWords account to use this service.
Google Trends for Websites is another newly-released tool from Google. Google Trends for Websites shows the traffic value of a website, geo location of its visitors, keywords that send it traffic and similar sites that people visited. Websites must exceed a minimum number of visitors per month in order to be featured in this tool.
Quantcast is an online service that shows demographic intelligence about a website. Take its data with a grain of salt.
Alexa is known for showing inaccurate traffic stats so be careful. I avoid its statistics altogether.
SEM Rush (mentioned above).
There are also WHOIS and IP search links.
Rank Checker
SEO Toolbar comes with Rank Checker.
Rank Checker is another tool from SEObook that lets you check rankings on Google, Yahoo and Live Search. To use the tool, specify search engines that you want to check (i.e. Google.ca, Google.co.uk, Yahoo England, etc), input the domain name along with all the keywords you want to check, and Rank Checker will give the results.
Results are not always accurate. Sometime they are off by 2 – 5 listings, and in some cases more. I prefer checking everything manually, but if you have several website to track, then this tool can be helpful.
SEO X Ray
Next in the feature toolset is SEO X Ray. This tool is useful if you want to look at page titles, meta description tags and meta keywords without going to the source code. SEO X Ray also shows the external link count from Yahoo Site Explorer, internal link count to the page from Yahoo Site Explorer and total number of links to the page (Site Explorer again). You can also click on the link count to view detailed linkage data in Site Explorer.
SEO X Ray also shows the outbound link count (useful if you're thinking about getting a link from the page). Here's how this sub-tool of SEOToolbar looks:
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SEO Toolbar has the ultimate search box that lets you search 16 tools from one spot. Simply select the tool you would like to use from the dropdown, type in your query, and press enter. SEO Toolbar will open a new window with the appropriate search results.
Here are the tools you can search:
You can also search SEObook tools such as the KW Density tool, KW list generator, KW list cleaner and KW typo generator.
Other Features
Other useful features include the ability to highlight keywords on the page, highlight nofollow links and compare websites.
SEOtoolbar has a built-in RSS feed reader so you can browse major search and SEO publications. I personally use Bloglines, but you may find this helpful.
Click on AdWords Without Charging an Advertiser and Giving Money to Google
The SEO Toolbar has a VERY controversial feature built into it. Once you install the toolbar, go to Google and search using any keywords; you will be able to see links on AdWords that lead directly to the advertiser's landing page. If you click on the links you will bypass AdWords:
Does Google let SEObook.com get away with this? After all, it is messing directly with Google's bread and butter. Only SEO professionals use this toolbar, but if it gains enough popularity, Google may have to step in. My guess is that, even if Google has to take action, it can adjust some code and make advertisers pay even if users click on a direct link with the SEO Toolbar enabled. Or Google will find some way to block it.
This particular issue has already ignited a blog post:
SEOBOOK SEO Toolbar May Kill Google AdWords
And a forums discussion along with it: Will SEOBOOK SEO Toolbar affect Google AdWords?
If you do any SEO this is a must-have toolbar. It does not offer anything you could not get without it, but it offers everything in one place, one click away, and this is its power. It gathers search engine optimization and search marketing data from the best tools on the web and makes it extremely accessible.
The new toolbar by SEO Book is a brilliant release combining most the necessary features any SEO consultant needs when doing research on a website or a competitor.- Icom.net


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What does a group of typical teenagers from the Chestnut Hill area and a third world family with no home and few provisions have in common? The answer: 10 days in July. For the fourth year Teenagers Inc. will make a service trip to Guatemala to try and ease the life conditions of children and families in and around Antigua, Guatemala.
What sort of support will they provide? They will construct a small house from the ground up, they will work with the children at Casa Jackson Malnourished Children's Center, they will carry suitcases full of clothes and supplies for the children and families, and will work at the Albergue Santa Madre Homeless Shelter.
How can you be a part of this service trip? Come out to an Earth Day Flea Market on April 14, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Water Tower Recreation Center, Ardleigh Street and Southampton Avenue in Chestnut Hill. Come join a great big "backyard" gathering to sell your household items (reserve your spot for only $30) or come check out what your neighbors have to sell.
One person's "trash" is another's treasure! This day is part of 2012 Philly Cares Day and the Water Tower Advisory Council and Teenagers Inc. are organizing to rake, spruce-up and recycle in our community. Gloves, rakes and bags will be provided by the council. Refreshments will be for sale. We just need you to help!
So whether it is supporting near neighbors in this area, or far neighbors across the globe – everyone can make a difference. Don't miss the opportunity to be a part. Contact Teens Inc. at 215-242-4976 or email email@example.com to reserve your spot now.


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The Black Keys – Attack & Release (Nonesuch): I'd always written off these guys as a retro act, because for years that's essentially what they were. But for this completely excellent album, they've dropped all ties to Cream and sound off with fresh sonic fabric: there's organ, flute, tambourine, piano, bass clarinet, and the whole thing has an incredibly warm, organic quality to it that their last album lacked. The songs are great, Marc Ribot and Ralph Carney are on it, Danger Mouse doesn't cheese it up too hard and the whole thing's a slam dunk. If this is the new white boy blues, sign me up.
Nick Cave – Dig, Lazarus, Dig! (Anti-): Homeboy is on a roll. I loved Abbatoir Blues, didn't care for Grinderman, but this is back on track. "Moonland" has that great brooding quality, and there's a few litanies with spoken-sung lyrics, as in "We Call Upon the Author." Not too many people can pull off the sermon thing the way Nick Cave does, and he gets downright Dylanesque on the 8-minute closing cut, "More News From Nowhere."
Boredoms – Super Roots 9 (Thrill Jockey): Other than Seadrum / House of Sun, there's been no existing recording of the Boredoms that comes close to capturing the band's mind-blowing live shows. Until now. This live set, from 2004, has the three-drummer setup with Yamatsuka Eye on electronics and—get this—a 24-piece choir. If you've been longing for more of the drum-based pounding that the Boredoms plunged headlong into at the turn of the millennium, pick this up.
Man Man – Rabbit Habits (Anti-): This will inevitably get compared to Tom Waits, but that's not fair to either Waits nor Man Man. Sure, there's circus elements, gravelly vocals, and stompy bluesy tracks ("Big Trouble"), but on the whole this is just a really quirky, creative record. Yes, the guitarist has obviously been studying his Ribot ("Easy Eats or Dirty Doctor Galapagos") and the vocalist goes into those high squeaks that Waits nails so well ("Top Drawer") but I don't think Waits fans will find a lot here to embrace. It's more of a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum thing.
Mountain Goats – Tallahassee (4AD): The victory of this day is beyond instant human comprehension, my friends. The Mountain Goats' Tallahassee, after six years, has finally been released on vinyl. Praise almighty, 4AD! This was the second greatest album released in the year 2002 and remains the best Mountain Goats album by far. One of the most mesmerizing opening songs ever—such construction, such poetry—and "No Children" will fuck you up so badly you won't know what hit you. Get this, get this, get this.
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Squadron, Kavanagh, Quinn, Tenants Rally for Rent Guidelines Board Reform Ahead of Annual Vote
Squadron-Kavanagh Legislation Would Require Council Approval of RGB Appointments, Ensure More Accessible and Diverse Board
NEW YORK – Today, State Senator Daniel Squadron, Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Tenants & Neighbors, the Real Rent Reform coalition, elected officials, and tenants from around the City rallied to urge passage of state legislation to reform the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB), ahead of the RGB's annual vote to adjust rents this spring.
The legislation (S741A / A6394B), sponsored by Senator Squadron and Assemblymember Kavanagh, would require City Council confirmation of the Mayor's appointees to the RGB, bringing necessary checks and balances to the system and making the appointment process more democratic.
The bill would also make more New Yorkers eligible to serve as public members and ensure that diversified views are represented on the RGB by including new professions among those qualified for appointment. Qualification for appointment would include experience in public service, philanthropy, social services, urban planning, architecture, social sciences, non-profit, finance, economics, or housing; currently, only experience in finance, economics, or housing qualifies someone for appointment.
The New York City Rent Guidelines Board establishes rent adjustments for the approximately one million units subject to the Rent Stabilization Law in the City. It is scheduled to meet on Thursday and throughout the following weeks to hear testimony and vote on this year's adjustment.
"The RGB's decisions dramatically impact the lives of millions of New Yorkers and the very future of our city. Yet it lacks the checks and balances that should go hand-in-hand with such serious responsibility," said State Senator Daniel Squadron. "By requiring Council approval of appointments to the RGB and broadening qualification for membership, we can create necessary accountability, ensure a variety of voices are represented on the board, and better protect the affordability that has made New York the vibrant and diverse city it is today. Thank you to my colleagues in government, Tenants & Neighbors, and all of the New Yorkers here today to fight for this pragmatic and necessary reform."
"In our democratic system, requiring advice and consent of a legislative body is a way of ensuring that those appointed to important government positions by the executive have an opportunity to discuss their qualifications and their approach to their duties in a public forum before their service begins," said Assemblymember Brian Kavanagh, who has pushed legislation to reform the RGB appointment process since 2009. "The Rent Guidelines Board is an extraordinarily important public body whose decisions affect the daily lives of literally millions of New Yorkers. We believe that requiring advice and consent of the City Council for appointments will improve the quality of the appointees, promote greater deliberation about the values that are at stake in the RGB's work, and increase public trust in the process. I'd like to thank Speaker Quinn and Senator Squadron for their commitment to advancing this important legislation, as well as Senator Toby Stavisky with whom we've worked on a similar bill, Assembly Housing Committee Chair Vito Lopez for his support in placing our bill on this week's committee agenda, and of course Tenants & Neighbors and all the tenant activists who are calling for us to get this modest reform enacted this year."
"I want to thank Senator Squadron and Assembly Member Kavanagh for sponsoring this important legislation that will make the Rent Guidelines Board more inclusive and grant the City Council the power to confirm its appointees," said Speaker Christine C. Quinn. "The Rent Guidelines Board is charged with enormous responsibility and this bill provides critical measures to ensure the most qualified candidates serve in these roles. I'm proud to support the legislation."
"Serving on the RGB is a grave responsibility. The decision that the board makes each year about what the rent adjustments for rent stabilized tenants will be has tremendous economic implications for over two million New Yorkers, and for the continued economic and racial diversity of our city," said Maggie Russell-Ciardi, Executive Director of Tenants and Neighbors. "We need to be sure that whoever sits on that board approaches their work with rigor, earnestness, and with a deep sense of accountability to the people who will be impacted by their decision. This bill will help us move in that direction, and will help ensure that tenants' active participation in the annual RGB process doesn't feel like an exercise in futility."
"The RGB is failing to protect NYC tenants from unaffordable rents. A majority of rent stabilized tenants are not able to afford their apartments, based on the HUD benchmark for housing affordability," said Adriene Holder, a Tenant Member of the Rent Guidelines Board. "In just the past 3 years alone, over 40,000 more tenant households or over 100,000 people now have rents that are unaffordable to them. This is astounding. We have never seen this type of increase in such a short time in the history of the RGB."
"We need a Rent Guidelines Board that represents the interests of the working and poor tenants of New York City and which can be held accountable to the impact of its policies and decisions on rent setting and tenant protections," said Damaris Reyes, Executive Director of Good Old Lower East Side (GOLES). "The current system of Mayoral appointees with no New York City Council oversight has failed to protect the communities from gentrification and displacement."
"We support this bill because it expands the qualifications of the public members. Currently public members are considered qualified only if they have a background in finance, economics or housing. The majority of the current public members come from the financial world. We believe the public would be better served with members drawn from more diverse backgrounds," said Ellen Davidson, Staff Attorney at The Legal Aid Society.
"The existing process for determining rent increases for New York City's rent-stabilized apartments is fundamentally flawed and has allowed landlords to unfairly squeeze working and middle-class New Yorkers year after year," said State Senator Liz Krueger. "This bill introduces needed reforms, bringing us a major step closer to a Rent Guidelines Board that can guarantee increases are decided after a full discussion and based on landlords' real expenses."
"Every year, without fail, the Rent Guideline Broad approves of rent increases over the vociferous objections of New Yorkers," said Council Member Margaret Chin. "It is time the members of the RGB are elected in a fair, transparent manner that ensures the makeup of the Broad is a true reflection of our City. I want to thank Senator Squadron, Assemblymember Kavanagh , and Speaker Quinn for spearheading this important piece of legislation."


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Memphis Commerce Square Partners has filed a $8.7 million permit application with the city-county Office of Construction Code Enforcement for renovation work to One Commerce Square, Pinnacle Airlines Corp.'s future headquarters.
According to the permit, which was filed this month, the work includes renovation of the concourse and floors two through 14. Grinder, Taber & Grinder Inc. is listed as the contractor on the permit.
In mid-December, Pinnacle signed a long-term lease to occupy 170,000 square feet in One Commerce Square. Pinnacle will move about 650 employees to its new headquarters by November.
Memphis-based Pinnacle Airlines Corp. is the parent company of Pinnacle Airlines Inc., Colgan Air Inc. and Mesaba Aviation Inc., employing more than 7,000. Memphis International Airport is one of Pinnacle's 11 U.S. hubs.
Source: The Daily News Online & Chandler Reports
– Kate Simone
David Pickler, president and chief executive officer of Pickler Wealth Advisors, has been named the top financial adviser in West Tennessee and among the top 1,000 financial advisers in the United States in the Feb. 19 issue of Barron's.
Out of the top 15 advisers in Tennessee, Pickler was ranked No. 12, and was the only adviser from West Tennessee.
Barron's ranks advisers using data provided by more than 4,000 of the nation's most productive financial advisers, ranging from Wall Street firms to smaller, independent agencies.
The top 1,000 advisers are ranked according to revenues generated from the firms, assets under management, quality of their practice, philanthropic work and their regulatory record.
– Taylor Shoptaw
The Memphis Chapter of the National Black MBA Association will host a special workshop on the topic of debt Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at International Paper, 6410 Poplar Ave.
"Debt: The New Slavery in the African American Community" will include discussions on personal budgeting, mortgages, credit card debt management and credit repair.
The NBMBAA Memphis Chapter, which sponsors several annual fundraising and social events, is involved in the corporate, civic, community and educational activities of the area. For information, visit www.nbmbaamemphis.org or e-mail email@example.com.
– Aisling Maki
The Comfort Inn Downtown announced it has received a prestigious 2010 Platinum Hospitality Award from world lodging leader Choice Hotels International Inc., franchisor of Comfort Inn.
Downtown Memphis' Comfort Inn is among the top 3 percent of properties within the Comfort brand, according to Choice, making it a top performing property among Comfort's more than 4,900 U.S. franchised hotels. The hotel is one of only four hotels within Tennessee to receive "Platinum Award" status.
– Andy Meek
First Tennessee Bank is launching an updated mobile banking application that includes a new mobile bill pay feature for iPhones and other smart phones.
With the mobile banking app, customers will be able to check account balances, transfer funds between accounts, view recent transactions and find the nearest First Tennessee ATM or financial center. The app upgrade will allow customers to pay bills, see payments made or cancel payments.
"We're constantly on the lookout for the next great thing that can make our customers continue to love banking with us," said David Popwell, chief operating officer for First Tennessee.
To download the app or get more information about it, visit www.ftb.com/mobile.
The 2011 Best of Home Expressions Show – presented by the Memphis Area Home Builders Association and sponsored by the Phoenix Unequaled Home Entertainment – is slated for March 4-6 at Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove Road.
Some highlights this year are more than 25 classic cars on display courtesy of the Olde Tyme Cruisers Car Club where show visitors can vote on their favorite entry; the return of Gary Shomers, a regular guest on the popular PBS show Antiques Roadshow; two chances for visitors to win a $50,000 Express Yourself Total Home Makeover and a $50,000 express yourself Total Landscape Makeover; and more than 200 exhibitors featuring the latest in home building, energy efficiency, remodeling and home services.
The show is 10 a.m. until 6 p.m. on March 4 and 5 and 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. on March 6. Tickets are $8 for adults, $7 for seniors and $4 for youth.
For more information, visit www.bestofhomeexpressions.com or call MAHBA at 756-4500.
– Sarah Baker
Memphis music legend Harlan T. Bobo, along with opening act Holly and the Heathens, will be performing at the Hi-Tone Café, 1913 Poplar Ave., March 5 to raise money for WEVL FM 89.9.
The event will kick off at 10 p.m. and feature special guest DJ Eric from WEVL's "In the Basement" show, which is hosted by Andrew and Eric and airs every Wednesday from 10 p.m. to midnight.
WEVL has been a nonprofit, noncommercial, volunteer radio station for 35 years, operating only with the help of volunteers and three paid staff members. The station plays a variety of music, including Memphis music, bluegrass, rock and blues. WEVL's mission is to entertain and inform its audience through diverse music programming with an emphasis on the culture of Memphis and the South.
Admission is $10 and can be purchased in advance by visiting http://www.hitonememphis.com.
– Allison Buckley
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam has appointed Alexia Poe as his director of communications effective March 14.
Poe, of Nashville, will fill the role Tom Griscom has held on an interim basis since Haslam won the governor's race last year.
Poe is a veteran of the administration of Republican Gov. Don Sundquist, serving as his press secretary during the latter part of his two terms as governor.
She also worked as deputy press secretary to first lady Laura Bush and established U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander's press office after he was elected to the Senate in 2002.
Most recently, she has been director of Nashville Mayor Karl Dean's Office of Economic and Community Development. Dean credited Poe for overseeing economic recruitment projects.
– Bill Dries
Media company E.W. Scripps Co., parent company of the Commercial Appeal, said Thursday its fourth-quarter net income more than doubled, boosted by higher revenue at its television stations thanks to an "exceptionally strong" political advertising season.
For the three months ended Dec. 31, the company earned $25.6 million, or 40 cents per share, up from $12.1 million, or 19 cents per share, a year earlier. Revenue rose 12 percent to $220 million from $196 million.
The company's TV segment saw a 37 percent revenue increase during the quarter, to $101 million. Political ads jumped nearly tenfold to $28 million.
Newspaper revenue slid about 3 percent to $114 million. Advertising revenue fell 5 percent to $79 million. The company said the rate of decline has eased – it was nearly 7 percent in the third quarter compared with a year earlier.
The Cincinnati-based company's other newspapers include the Knoxville (Tenn.,) News Sentinel and the Corpus Christi (Texas,) Caller-Times.
For the full year, Scripps posted earnings of $131 million, or $2.04 per share, compared with a loss of $210 million, or $3.89 per share, a year earlier, when the company reported $198 million in unusual items, including an accounting charge to reflect lowered value of its television stations.
– The Associated Press
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A Cookie A Day: Fine Cooking's Peanut Butter and Chocolate Shortbread Bars
Note: Welcome to our third annual Cookie Month! Every weekday in December we're going to be sharing a cookie recipe with all of you, just in time for the holidays. So let's get those ovens preheated and get baking!
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Imagine if your favorite peanut butter cups had an added layer of peanutty shortbread on the bottom. Well, that's exactly what these Peanut Butter and Chocolate Shortbread Bars from Fine Cooking Cookies are all about.
They begin with a buttery, crumbly shortbread studded with roughly chopped salty peanuts. Once the shortbread cools, it's spread with a layer of salty-sweet peanut butter mousse and finally topped with a glossy coating of chocolate ganache. These bars are part candy, part cookie—when cut into tiny squares, they bring to mind fun-size candy bars.
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Graduate Appointment Portal (GAP) Landing Page
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The Graduate Appointment Portal (GAP) is the application MIT graduate assistants and others use to create graduate awards including Fellowships, Research Assistantships, Teaching Assistantships, and Instructor-G appointments.
|In spring 2017, GAP replaced the Web Grad Aid (WGA) application. All appointments from June 2009 (aid year 2010) have been migrated into GAP. Appointments prior to that date can still be viewed in the Web Grad Aid application. No new appointments may be created or viewed in Web Grad Aid.
How to Access
The Graduate Appointment Portal can be accessed at https://gap.hcp.mit.edu. Touchstone and Duo authentication is required.
My Appointments
Creating an Appointment
Copying an Appointment (to create a new one)
Changing or Deleting an Appointment
Searching for Appointments
Exporting Reports/Search Results
Out of Balance Report
Approvals Workflow
Reasonable Compensation Rule
Student Assessments & Eligibility
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Additional Help
Contact firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions.