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Everyone likes Italian right? If you don't, there's gotta be something wrong with you. Thought I'd share this place with you guys for the love of all things pasta.
One of my friends showed me this delicious restaurant last year and since then, I can't get enough of it. It's called Vincenzo's.
It's located in Southwest Omaha. There's one in the Haymarket too and from Google it looks pretty charming.
The waiters here are dressed tastefully with white shirts and black ties. This would be a place you dress up for. I can promise you'll match the atmosphere. Dark paint colors. Black and white framed photographs. White light. Wine glasses. Cream linens.
They also have patio seating for the warmer months!
Best part? Most of their entrees come with bread and soup or salad. I always opt for the salad with their house dressing. My mom still randomly raves about this dressing! "What was that place called again?!"
My favorite entree is the Chicken Franco. I would take a bath in that white wine lemon sauce. It's light, refreshing, and doesn't make you hate yourself after you eat most of the plate. The vegetables are tossed in oil and perfectly cooked. Not much of a squash girl either, but these were great. I love chicken and the breading on this thing could not have had a better crunch. Buttery. Lemony. Herby.
My friend ordered The Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken and that looked yummy too.
I have so much love for this place because it reminds me of Grisanti's. Ever try it? It's unfortunately closed now, but damn they had the best mac and cheese. Now I'm mourning that place all over again. :( At least Vincenzo's has similar options and an ambience that'll make you feel like you're in Pretty Woman!
My ticket total was $13.10 for bread, salad, and a huge plate of angel hair and chicken. Basically two meals. My kinda dinner.
*Have you been to either location? What was your experience?
*What's your favorite thing on the menu?
*Do you have a different favorite Italian place?

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everyone likes italian right? if you don't, there's gotta be something wrong with you. thought i'd share this place with you guys for the love of all things pasta.
one of my friends showed me this delicious restaurant last year and since then, i can't get enough of it. it's called vincenzo's.
it's located in southwest omaha. there's one in the haymarket too and from google it looks pretty charming.
the waiters here are dressed tastefully with white shirts and black ties. this would be a place you dress up for. i can promise you'll match the atmosphere. dark paint colors. black and white framed photographs. white light. wine glasses. cream linens.
they also have patio seating for the warmer months!
best part? most of their entrees come with bread and soup or salad. i always opt for the salad with their house dressing. my mom still randomly raves about this dressing! "what was that place called again?!"
my favorite entree is the chicken franco. i would take a bath in that white wine lemon sauce. it's light, refreshing, and doesn't make you hate yourself after you eat most of the plate. the vegetables are tossed in oil and perfectly cooked. not much of a squash girl either, but these were great. i love chicken and the breading on this thing could not have had a better crunch. buttery. lemony. herby.
my friend ordered the fettuccine alfredo with chicken and that looked yummy too.
i have so much love for this place because it reminds me of grisanti's. ever try it? it's unfortunately closed now, but damn they had the best mac and cheese. now i'm mourning that place all over again. :( at least vincenzo's has similar options and an ambience that'll make you feel like you're in pretty woman!
my ticket total was $13.10 for bread, salad, and a huge plate of angel hair and chicken. basically two meals. my kinda dinner.
*have you been to either location? what was your experience?
*what's your favorite thing on the menu?
*do you have a different favorite italian place?


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After months of anticipation, just over 5000 delegates have descended on the Durban ICC for the 25th International Union of Architects World Congress (UIA2014). Held from the 3rd – 7th August, this is the first time that the ‘World Cup of Architects’ is being held in sub-Saharan Africa and constitutes the largest gathering of architectural, design and built-environment professionals ever held in the region.
The event boasts a world-class line up of high-profile speakers exploring the congress theme ‘architecture OTHERWHERE’ which is aimed to celebrate diversity in design and stimulate debate around how architecture influences human settlements and the evolution of cities today. The congress also includes an extensive Student Programme offering over 1500 future young professionals the opportunity to engage with architects, pioneers in urban planning and academics from around the world.
The event has occupied the entire Inkosi Albert Luthuli ICC complex. The main academic programme and parallel sessions are being hosted at the Durban ICC whilst the Trade Expo in the Durban Exhibition Centre showcases the latest product developments, technological innovations and service offerings in the world of architecture and design. Even Walnut Road has been utilised to host Warwick Street traders as examples of local design.
“This is an incredibly exciting time for the South African architectural profession and a special time for South Africa in general in terms of cities, spaces and design,” said Hassan Asmal, President of the Local Organisation Committee UIA2014 Durban. “Through the scientific programme, trade exhibition and numerous fringe events the social, cultural, historical and urban fabric of Durban is being showcased. The success of the first few days is far beyond our wildest dreams”.
The Congress seeks to leave a lasting legacy for the city of Durban. UIA2014 will be used as a launch pad for a three urban regeneration projects, which focus on stimulating interest in the built environment sector. These include the redevelopment of the Rivertown Precinct, located between the Durban ICC and the beachfront, which aims to transform the area into a thriving urban space incorporating mixed residential, hotel, commercial, cultural and retail offerings. The other projects include the activation of a section of Pixley Ka Seme Street, showcasing the creation of a high quality, pedestrian-priority public space, and “Pocket Parks” which aim to provide places for relaxation and play areas for children.

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after months of anticipation, just over 5000 delegates have descended on the durban icc for the 25th international union of architects world congress (uia2014). held from the 3rd – 7th august, this is the first time that the ‘world cup of architects’ is being held in sub-saharan africa and constitutes the largest gathering of architectural, design and built-environment professionals ever held in the region.
the event boasts a world-class line up of high-profile speakers exploring the congress theme ‘architecture otherwhere’ which is aimed to celebrate diversity in design and stimulate debate around how architecture influences human settlements and the evolution of cities today. the congress also includes an extensive student programme offering over 1500 future young professionals the opportunity to engage with architects, pioneers in urban planning and academics from around the world.
the event has occupied the entire inkosi albert luthuli icc complex. the main academic programme and parallel sessions are being hosted at the durban icc whilst the trade expo in the durban exhibition centre showcases the latest product developments, technological innovations and service offerings in the world of architecture and design. even walnut road has been utilised to host warwick street traders as examples of local design.
“this is an incredibly exciting time for the south african architectural profession and a special time for south africa in general in terms of cities, spaces and design,” said hassan asmal, president of the local organisation committee uia2014 durban. “through the scientific programme, trade exhibition and numerous fringe events the social, cultural, historical and urban fabric of durban is being showcased. the success of the first few days is far beyond our wildest dreams”.
the congress seeks to leave a lasting legacy for the city of durban. uia2014 will be used as a launch pad for a three urban regeneration projects, which focus on stimulating interest in the built environment sector. these include the redevelopment of the rivertown precinct, located between the durban icc and the beachfront, which aims to transform the area into a thriving urban space incorporating mixed residential, hotel, commercial, cultural and retail offerings. the other projects include the activation of a section of pixley ka seme street, showcasing the creation of a high quality, pedestrian-priority public space, and “pocket parks” which aim to provide places for relaxation and play areas for children.


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Your business can rely on me to guide it through the intricacies of employment law. Whether you need advice regarding issues that arise with employees, or you want someone to draft an employee handbook or a employment contract, I am here to assist. In addition to providing legal guidance and helping you implement preventive measures, I have many years of experience successfully representing companies in adversarial proceedings such as an unemployment hearings, EEOC Charges and litigation. The link above will provide more information about the assistance I can provide to your business.
If you think you have a work-related legal issue in Georgia, you need to have a trained professional evaluate the facts to determine if you have a viable claim. For the majority of my career I have been reviewing workplace issues and pursuing legal remedies on behalf of employees. My services to individuals include contract review, severance negotiations, representation before the EEOC and other administrative agencies, litigation in federal and state court, and appeals. Please click on the link above to learn more about the types of employment-related claims that I handle on behalf of individuals.

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your business can rely on me to guide it through the intricacies of employment law. whether you need advice regarding issues that arise with employees, or you want someone to draft an employee handbook or a employment contract, i am here to assist. in addition to providing legal guidance and helping you implement preventive measures, i have many years of experience successfully representing companies in adversarial proceedings such as an unemployment hearings, eeoc charges and litigation. the link above will provide more information about the assistance i can provide to your business.
if you think you have a work-related legal issue in georgia, you need to have a trained professional evaluate the facts to determine if you have a viable claim. for the majority of my career i have been reviewing workplace issues and pursuing legal remedies on behalf of employees. my services to individuals include contract review, severance negotiations, representation before the eeoc and other administrative agencies, litigation in federal and state court, and appeals. please click on the link above to learn more about the types of employment-related claims that i handle on behalf of individuals.


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DRIVERS travelling toward Portsmouth are facing delays on the M27 because of a broken-down vehicle.
Lane one of the road, eastbound, is partially blocked at J7 for the A334 at Hedge End, pictured.
Hampshire traffic service Romanse has advised there are ‘short delays’ on approach to the breakdown.

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drivers travelling toward portsmouth are facing delays on the m27 because of a broken-down vehicle.
lane one of the road, eastbound, is partially blocked at j7 for the a334 at hedge end, pictured.
hampshire traffic service romanse has advised there are ‘short delays’ on approach to the breakdown.


text: Loft the can be found at 19367 Lorain Rd . The following is offered: Restaurants . In Cleveland there are 590 other Restaurants. An overview can be found here.

lowercased: loft the can be found at 19367 lorain rd . the following is offered: restaurants . in cleveland there are 590 other restaurants. an overview can be found here.


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AEM’s 30-0303 X-Series Digital Voltmeter gauge combines incredible looks, increased readability and a multitude of new, easy-to-use features! It is a must for users who want highly a accurate voltage readout in their high performance vehicle. NOTE: The 30-0303 comes with a black bezel and blac..
The AEM Digital Voltmeter Gauge combines unsurpassed accuracy, speed and control with an easy-to-read digital LED interface that displays voltage in 1 volt increments, and a sweeping LED "needle" that lines the edge and moves as voltage changes from 8 to 18v. The voltmeter gauge's digital readout wi..
Volts gauge readout from 8-18V Ideal for carbureted or EFI vehicles Adjustable backlighting via a dial on the back of the gauge Includes black and silver interchangeable bezels and white and black faceplates 320 degree viewing area for unsurpassed resolution Easy-to-install harness 0-5v analog outp..
Gauge Style: Innovate MTXGauge Series: DigitalGauge Type: Water temperature/VoltmeterShape: RoundGauge Size (in): 2 1/16 in. diameterGauge Size (mm): 52.00mm diameterSweep: Bar graphSending Unit: ElectricalGauge Face Color: Black/WhiteGauge Number Color: YellowBezel Finish: Black/SilverOEM Replaceme..

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aem’s 30-0303 x-series digital voltmeter gauge combines incredible looks, increased readability and a multitude of new, easy-to-use features! it is a must for users who want highly a accurate voltage readout in their high performance vehicle. note: the 30-0303 comes with a black bezel and blac..
the aem digital voltmeter gauge combines unsurpassed accuracy, speed and control with an easy-to-read digital led interface that displays voltage in 1 volt increments, and a sweeping led "needle" that lines the edge and moves as voltage changes from 8 to 18v. the voltmeter gauge's digital readout wi..
volts gauge readout from 8-18v ideal for carbureted or efi vehicles adjustable backlighting via a dial on the back of the gauge includes black and silver interchangeable bezels and white and black faceplates 320 degree viewing area for unsurpassed resolution easy-to-install harness 0-5v analog outp..
gauge style: innovate mtxgauge series: digitalgauge type: water temperature/voltmetershape: roundgauge size (in): 2 1/16 in. diametergauge size (mm): 52.00mm diametersweep: bar graphsending unit: electricalgauge face color: black/whitegauge number color: yellowbezel finish: black/silveroem replaceme..


text: Kate Williams is an author, social historian and broadcaster. She fell in love with history whilst studying for her BA at the University of Oxford. She has an MA from Queen Mary, University of London and a DPhil from the University of Oxford. She is currently Professor of Public History at the University of Reading and is also a lecturer and TV consultant, appearing regularly on the BBC and Channel 4. Kate is the author of four historical biographies of Emma Hamilton, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth II and Empress Josephine as well as a series of novels. She lives in London.

lowercased: kate williams is an author, social historian and broadcaster. she fell in love with history whilst studying for her ba at the university of oxford. she has an ma from queen mary, university of london and a dphil from the university of oxford. she is currently professor of public history at the university of reading and is also a lecturer and tv consultant, appearing regularly on the bbc and channel 4. kate is the author of four historical biographies of emma hamilton, queen victoria, elizabeth ii and empress josephine as well as a series of novels. she lives in london.


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Using the latest technological advances, we are able to help you achieve a beautiful healthy smile, with options ranging from simple preventive measures to our more specialised smile make-over cosmetic treatments. A dental experience in our modern high tech office will open your eyes to the wonderful possibilities today’s dentistry offers.
Dr Jennifer Corson is a graduate of the Otago University Dental school, with over 22 years experience as a Cosmetic and General Dentist first in Auckland, and now here in Tauranga. She is an active member of the NZDA, ADA and ASCD, regularly attending national and international meetings in order to stay abreast of dentistry’s latest advances.
Since moving with her young family to Tauranga in November 2004, Jennifer has been combining dental excellence with uncompromising patient care at Corson Dental, 2 Willow St, assisted by her highly skilled administrative and clinical team.
Her passion is creating healthy long-lasting beautiful smiles, creating a balance between the art and science of dentistry. With the use of Tooth Whitening, Porcelain Veneers and Crowns, Implants, Tooth coloured fillings, Microdentistry , and the latest diagnostic tools, Jennifer is able to achieve and keep the smile you have always wanted.
Dr Jay graduated from Griffith University School of Dentistry, Australia.
He is an active member of the New Zealand Dental Association and Australian Dental Association. He has traveled the country and spent hundreds of hours in seminars, study clubs and other continuing education courses in order to stay current on advances in the field of dentistry. Dr Jay has dedicated himself to the art and science of cosmetic and aesthetic dentistry.
Dr Jay is a proud father of two sons, Jayden and Jacob. He loves spending quality time with their families, and his personal hobbies are basketball, spending time at the beach.
Larsa graduated from Otago University in 2015 with a Bachelor of Oral Health. Her dual scope allows her to practice both Dental Hygiene and Therapy.
She is passionate about providing a thorough service for her patients and places a high importance on patient education. She ensures patients are left feeling confident and satisfied with her services.
Larsa recently moved to Tauranga from Auckland and is absolutely in love with the area. On her days off you’ll find her with friends and family or enjoying the outdoor activities New Zealand has to offer.
Laura joined CorsonDental in January 2018 as an Oral Health Therapist. She trained at Orago University and is originally from Tauranga.
When not at work Laura enjoys all aspects of the Mount and our beautiful beach BOP lifestyle.
Trudi joined Corson Dental in 2010 when she and her family returned to New Zealand after 20 years in Europe and the Middle East.
She has worked both chairside and reception, and most recently in the principal sales role for dental materials while based in Qatar.
As well as assisting Dr Corson with all clinical procedures, she is responsible for the preparatory laboratory work for our whitening treatments and reconstruction cases, and runs the high tech audiovisual system we have for our patients. Trudi’s calm and relaxing nature is wonderful for helping put our patients at ease. She particularly loves seeing the changes in patient’s smiles with the dramatic results of our smile makeovers.
Khushbeen joined Corson Dental in January 2019.
She originally trained as a Dentist in India and also has chairside experience.
Khushbeen moved to Tauranga with her cute three year old daughter and husband in 2018.
She loves meeting new people and has a great sense of fun.
Her primary role is to chairside and also help with general tasks to ensure that every dental appointment you make with us is comfortable and stress free.
Barbara joined Corson Dental in 2017 as a Chairside Assistant where she came to us with a medical reception background.
Barbara came to Tauranga 4 years ago from Wellington where her husband runs his own business with their two sons.
She enjoys interacting with patients of all ages and is especially skilled at making the patients feel at ease and welcome.
In her spare time Barbara enjoys being outdoors the most either tramping, running events or just walking the dogs.
Fiona and Andra have the friendly voices that greet you when you call our practice, and are also likely to be the first people to welcome you on your arrival.
Both utilize their excellent customer service skills at reception, taking on additional specific responsibility for appointment co-ordination, and administration.
It is Fiona’s delight to ensure that all our patients at Corson Dental are greeted with a cheery and friendly smile. Whether you take time to call us or visit the surgery she endeavours to provide you with excellent customer care. Fiona truly enjoys getting to know our patients and meeting the varied administrative needs. Please feel free to ask questions about the services we offer at Corson Dental.
With over 20 years experience each in the Customer Service; they are well equipped to provide you with a wide range of information on the services we offer at Corson Dental.
Andra particularly enjoys watching patients transform as their confidence is restored with a new smile, or their dental issues are resolved. She enjoys getting to know our patients over time and catching up with their news, not just their teeth, when they visit reception!

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using the latest technological advances, we are able to help you achieve a beautiful healthy smile, with options ranging from simple preventive measures to our more specialised smile make-over cosmetic treatments. a dental experience in our modern high tech office will open your eyes to the wonderful possibilities today’s dentistry offers.
dr jennifer corson is a graduate of the otago university dental school, with over 22 years experience as a cosmetic and general dentist first in auckland, and now here in tauranga. she is an active member of the nzda, ada and ascd, regularly attending national and international meetings in order to stay abreast of dentistry’s latest advances.
since moving with her young family to tauranga in november 2004, jennifer has been combining dental excellence with uncompromising patient care at corson dental, 2 willow st, assisted by her highly skilled administrative and clinical team.
her passion is creating healthy long-lasting beautiful smiles, creating a balance between the art and science of dentistry. with the use of tooth whitening, porcelain veneers and crowns, implants, tooth coloured fillings, microdentistry , and the latest diagnostic tools, jennifer is able to achieve and keep the smile you have always wanted.
dr jay graduated from griffith university school of dentistry, australia.
he is an active member of the new zealand dental association and australian dental association. he has traveled the country and spent hundreds of hours in seminars, study clubs and other continuing education courses in order to stay current on advances in the field of dentistry. dr jay has dedicated himself to the art and science of cosmetic and aesthetic dentistry.
dr jay is a proud father of two sons, jayden and jacob. he loves spending quality time with their families, and his personal hobbies are basketball, spending time at the beach.
larsa graduated from otago university in 2015 with a bachelor of oral health. her dual scope allows her to practice both dental hygiene and therapy.
she is passionate about providing a thorough service for her patients and places a high importance on patient education. she ensures patients are left feeling confident and satisfied with her services.
larsa recently moved to tauranga from auckland and is absolutely in love with the area. on her days off you’ll find her with friends and family or enjoying the outdoor activities new zealand has to offer.
laura joined corsondental in january 2018 as an oral health therapist. she trained at orago university and is originally from tauranga.
when not at work laura enjoys all aspects of the mount and our beautiful beach bop lifestyle.
trudi joined corson dental in 2010 when she and her family returned to new zealand after 20 years in europe and the middle east.
she has worked both chairside and reception, and most recently in the principal sales role for dental materials while based in qatar.
as well as assisting dr corson with all clinical procedures, she is responsible for the preparatory laboratory work for our whitening treatments and reconstruction cases, and runs the high tech audiovisual system we have for our patients. trudi’s calm and relaxing nature is wonderful for helping put our patients at ease. she particularly loves seeing the changes in patient’s smiles with the dramatic results of our smile makeovers.
khushbeen joined corson dental in january 2019.
she originally trained as a dentist in india and also has chairside experience.
khushbeen moved to tauranga with her cute three year old daughter and husband in 2018.
she loves meeting new people and has a great sense of fun.
her primary role is to chairside and also help with general tasks to ensure that every dental appointment you make with us is comfortable and stress free.
barbara joined corson dental in 2017 as a chairside assistant where she came to us with a medical reception background.
barbara came to tauranga 4 years ago from wellington where her husband runs his own business with their two sons.
she enjoys interacting with patients of all ages and is especially skilled at making the patients feel at ease and welcome.
in her spare time barbara enjoys being outdoors the most either tramping, running events or just walking the dogs.
fiona and andra have the friendly voices that greet you when you call our practice, and are also likely to be the first people to welcome you on your arrival.
both utilize their excellent customer service skills at reception, taking on additional specific responsibility for appointment co-ordination, and administration.
it is fiona’s delight to ensure that all our patients at corson dental are greeted with a cheery and friendly smile. whether you take time to call us or visit the surgery she endeavours to provide you with excellent customer care. fiona truly enjoys getting to know our patients and meeting the varied administrative needs. please feel free to ask questions about the services we offer at corson dental.
with over 20 years experience each in the customer service; they are well equipped to provide you with a wide range of information on the services we offer at corson dental.
andra particularly enjoys watching patients transform as their confidence is restored with a new smile, or their dental issues are resolved. she enjoys getting to know our patients over time and catching up with their news, not just their teeth, when they visit reception!


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At least I won 1 award (turd of the week)!
If you are older than 12 or not mentally retarded, this movie is not for you. My wife and I mistakenly thought this might be enjoyable on a Sunday afternoon. We were very wrong. This was the worst movie I have ever seen. I enjoyed the first couple of Scary Movies and thought was going to be similar. Unfortunately, this movie resembled Scary Movie 3. The jokes are so lame and unfunny that I am baffled this movie was ever made. he jokes try to be current but frankly in 5 years no one will even know what these jokes were references to. This movie is laughably bad and the writers should be beaten with big sticks. We actually left about 30 minutes in. We traded our tickets for tickets to Babel and that was a great movie.
Well, atleast this game was interactive enough for it to work fairly well.
Let's get this out of the way... The graphics are horrible. Your drawings are very lame, and the animations are very simple and don't take much skill at all. You blood looks very unrealistic, and this game is just not fun to play because it is way too easy and too short. This game took me about thirty seconds to complete, meaning that this game is not long enough at all.
PT 2 of Broken Sword Cold as Ice OH YEAH!!!
1st part/area of the story!
Broken Sword a Remake Enjoy!

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at least i won 1 award (turd of the week)!
if you are older than 12 or not mentally retarded, this movie is not for you. my wife and i mistakenly thought this might be enjoyable on a sunday afternoon. we were very wrong. this was the worst movie i have ever seen. i enjoyed the first couple of scary movies and thought was going to be similar. unfortunately, this movie resembled scary movie 3. the jokes are so lame and unfunny that i am baffled this movie was ever made. he jokes try to be current but frankly in 5 years no one will even know what these jokes were references to. this movie is laughably bad and the writers should be beaten with big sticks. we actually left about 30 minutes in. we traded our tickets for tickets to babel and that was a great movie.
well, atleast this game was interactive enough for it to work fairly well.
let's get this out of the way... the graphics are horrible. your drawings are very lame, and the animations are very simple and don't take much skill at all. you blood looks very unrealistic, and this game is just not fun to play because it is way too easy and too short. this game took me about thirty seconds to complete, meaning that this game is not long enough at all.
pt 2 of broken sword cold as ice oh yeah!!!
1st part/area of the story!
broken sword a remake enjoy!


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Charlie Haskins is an artist living and working in Southern Ohio. He received his MFA in painting from East Tennessee State University. He comes from a large family of artists and has recently become a father himself! In his artwork he uses a mixture of illustration and caricature to create a whimsical fantasy world full of word play, puns, and riddles.
Haskins House is the name of his art studio located in Portsmouth Ohio’s historic Boney Fiddle district at 534 2nd Street. Part art gallery, part museum, part store, it is a space that celebrates a plethora of creative sights and sounds where Haskins can show his artwork, take commissions, and contribute to the area’s artistic community.
When is Haskins House open?

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charlie haskins is an artist living and working in southern ohio. he received his mfa in painting from east tennessee state university. he comes from a large family of artists and has recently become a father himself! in his artwork he uses a mixture of illustration and caricature to create a whimsical fantasy world full of word play, puns, and riddles.
haskins house is the name of his art studio located in portsmouth ohio’s historic boney fiddle district at 534 2nd street. part art gallery, part museum, part store, it is a space that celebrates a plethora of creative sights and sounds where haskins can show his artwork, take commissions, and contribute to the area’s artistic community.
when is haskins house open?


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Seat belts and roll over protection structures save lives!
A recent investigation into a workplace incident involving powered mobile equipment highlighted the importance of roll over protective structures (ROPS) and seat belt use. We want to remind New Brunswick workers and employers of the priceless value of these protective measures.
Tell us about your health and safety superstar!
Do you know a health and safety leader or champion in your community or workplace?
If you weren’t able to attend WorkSafeNB’s Annual General Meeting in Moncton on July 17, a copy of the presentation is now available on our website.
It’s that time of year again, summer is just around the corner and some of us are starting to work outdoors for the season. Outdoor workers have up to a 3.5 times greater risk of developing skin cancer than indoor workers. Extra diligence is needed to make sure that you are safe from UV rays and heat stress.
The Walk and Roll Challenge gives participants a chance to walk – or roll – a kilometre in someone else’s shoes to get a first-hand glimpse into what it’s like to live with a disability.
In response to employer and employee concerns on the legalization of cannabis and to help workplaces address alcohol and drug use in the workplace, WorkSafeNB has released a new topic on its Guide to OHS Legislation (NB OHS Guide) app.
Today, New Brunswick’s Auditor General released the results of an audit focused on the governance of WorkSafeNB. We welcome this report. In fact, we have worked closely and cooperatively with the audit team over the past year to ensure this final report will help us become an even better organization.

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seat belts and roll over protection structures save lives!
a recent investigation into a workplace incident involving powered mobile equipment highlighted the importance of roll over protective structures (rops) and seat belt use. we want to remind new brunswick workers and employers of the priceless value of these protective measures.
tell us about your health and safety superstar!
do you know a health and safety leader or champion in your community or workplace?
if you weren’t able to attend worksafenb’s annual general meeting in moncton on july 17, a copy of the presentation is now available on our website.
it’s that time of year again, summer is just around the corner and some of us are starting to work outdoors for the season. outdoor workers have up to a 3.5 times greater risk of developing skin cancer than indoor workers. extra diligence is needed to make sure that you are safe from uv rays and heat stress.
the walk and roll challenge gives participants a chance to walk – or roll – a kilometre in someone else’s shoes to get a first-hand glimpse into what it’s like to live with a disability.
in response to employer and employee concerns on the legalization of cannabis and to help workplaces address alcohol and drug use in the workplace, worksafenb has released a new topic on its guide to ohs legislation (nb ohs guide) app.
today, new brunswick’s auditor general released the results of an audit focused on the governance of worksafenb. we welcome this report. in fact, we have worked closely and cooperatively with the audit team over the past year to ensure this final report will help us become an even better organization.


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Member of the Jamaica Assembly for Trelawny, and husband of Catherine Jackson nee Haughton James (q.v.). Dead by 1797 when his daughter married William Feilden (q.v., under William Feilden MP). According to another son-in-law, Edward Tyler Coleman (q.v.), Edmund Jackson had willed Southfield to his wife for life.
Jamaica Almanac 1787; Columbian Magazine August 1797.
'Edmund Jackson', Legacies of British Slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650341 [accessed 19th April 2019].

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member of the jamaica assembly for trelawny, and husband of catherine jackson nee haughton james (q.v.). dead by 1797 when his daughter married william feilden (q.v., under william feilden mp). according to another son-in-law, edward tyler coleman (q.v.), edmund jackson had willed southfield to his wife for life.
jamaica almanac 1787; columbian magazine august 1797.
'edmund jackson', legacies of british slave-ownership database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/2146650341 [accessed 19th april 2019].


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Last week I did some spring cleaning and I came across a trunk that had some of my favorite skirts from college. Digging up these relics from my past was not only a fun trip down memory lane but also illuminating. My style has certainly changed in the last decade or so. In college I loved Anthopologie above all stores and gravitated much more to a "Boho chic" aesthetic. This included a lot of long, full, embroidered skirts. Now that I am working, my look has become more polished and refined, yet still fun and playful. I still shop at Anthropologie, but I buy only a couple key items each season whereas I used to earmark almost every page of their catalog, lusting after at least one thing on every page.
This Palm Garden skirt is one example of a piece that I recently picked up from Anthropologie. Its print and shape are a little Boho, but I tried to make it look polished with a blouse (instead of just a tee), statement necklace, and cobalt blue heels. I'd love to jet off to some place exotic to take these photos as is always the case in the pages of the Anthro catalogs, but I settled for this little piece of wilderness in the jungle that is Los Angeles.
I am glad you kept this stunning skirt who looks beautiful with cobalt and bright yellow. That necklace is awesome!
Thanks Ada! I hope you have a great week!
Thanks for stopping by Susan! I fell in love with this skirt too and was so happy when it hit the sale rack at Anthro!
This is such a cute look. I love the pattern on that skirt with that bright colored top!
Thanks Julie! The pattern on this skirt is really fun. I was thinking about pairing it will all black, but maybe next time!
i love yellow right now!!!!!!
Yellow certainly is perfect for spring! Thanks for stopping by!
I love your style, I get a few pieces here and there, great you were able to "dig" this up! Love the shape and pattern on this skirt with a bright yellow.
Hope to see you tomorrow at TH Tuesday link up!
Thanks Jessica! The shape is really fun with this skirt because it's a "paper bag" skirt with a tie. I don't have any skirts like this, but it's fun for something different. Can't wait to see you for the link up!
Very nice look! Great skirt and shoes!
Thank you! These shoes are my new favorites!
Love this look, especially the bright colors and fun patterns. Looks like spring has finally sprung!
Thanks Sophia! The pattern on this skirt is super fun for spring, and yes, it's great that spring has finally sprung!
Thanks for stopping by Jan! I think because of the neutral color palate of this skirt it will go with a lot. It will be fun to style differently in the future.
Cute! I love all the pops of color, especially those super cute blue heels. I've been looking everywhere for heels in that color, never thought to look at H&M. I'll definitely need to check them out - thanks for the tip!
I love these shoes paired with your outfit! So unexpected!

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last week i did some spring cleaning and i came across a trunk that had some of my favorite skirts from college. digging up these relics from my past was not only a fun trip down memory lane but also illuminating. my style has certainly changed in the last decade or so. in college i loved anthopologie above all stores and gravitated much more to a "boho chic" aesthetic. this included a lot of long, full, embroidered skirts. now that i am working, my look has become more polished and refined, yet still fun and playful. i still shop at anthropologie, but i buy only a couple key items each season whereas i used to earmark almost every page of their catalog, lusting after at least one thing on every page.
this palm garden skirt is one example of a piece that i recently picked up from anthropologie. its print and shape are a little boho, but i tried to make it look polished with a blouse (instead of just a tee), statement necklace, and cobalt blue heels. i'd love to jet off to some place exotic to take these photos as is always the case in the pages of the anthro catalogs, but i settled for this little piece of wilderness in the jungle that is los angeles.
i am glad you kept this stunning skirt who looks beautiful with cobalt and bright yellow. that necklace is awesome!
thanks ada! i hope you have a great week!
thanks for stopping by susan! i fell in love with this skirt too and was so happy when it hit the sale rack at anthro!
this is such a cute look. i love the pattern on that skirt with that bright colored top!
thanks julie! the pattern on this skirt is really fun. i was thinking about pairing it will all black, but maybe next time!
i love yellow right now!!!!!!
yellow certainly is perfect for spring! thanks for stopping by!
i love your style, i get a few pieces here and there, great you were able to "dig" this up! love the shape and pattern on this skirt with a bright yellow.
hope to see you tomorrow at th tuesday link up!
thanks jessica! the shape is really fun with this skirt because it's a "paper bag" skirt with a tie. i don't have any skirts like this, but it's fun for something different. can't wait to see you for the link up!
very nice look! great skirt and shoes!
thank you! these shoes are my new favorites!
love this look, especially the bright colors and fun patterns. looks like spring has finally sprung!
thanks sophia! the pattern on this skirt is super fun for spring, and yes, it's great that spring has finally sprung!
thanks for stopping by jan! i think because of the neutral color palate of this skirt it will go with a lot. it will be fun to style differently in the future.
cute! i love all the pops of color, especially those super cute blue heels. i've been looking everywhere for heels in that color, never thought to look at h&m. i'll definitely need to check them out - thanks for the tip!
i love these shoes paired with your outfit! so unexpected!


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When Should A Scientist’s Faith Disqualify Him From Scientific Institutional Authority?
I anticipated creationists figuring in your reply. The problem is, though, I’m not really sure they’re the best example of religion ‘polluting’ the scientific endeavor. Outside of other creationists and evangelical Christians, nobody takes ‘creation scientists’ seriously. If these people were peddling their faith-polluted science in peer-reviewed journals and whatnot I think you’d have a point, but since these people aren’t really part of any respected scientific circles I wonder if it’s appropriate to call them scientists in any meaningful sense. On the other hand, all 10 of the folks Dr. Heddle referred to in his challenge are respected members of the scientific establishment who publish in peer-reviewed journals and generally seem to be good scientists. If you could tell me how you detected the 5 religious scientists among them–or how to detect the pollution of religion in any scientific endeavor that has managed to pass peer review–I would be a bit more impressed.
I brought up the creationists as an example simply of how faith based reasoning is unscientific. I never in any of this said that the creationists were considered legitimate scientists or that religious scientists as any kind of rule brought their faith into the laboratories. I cited the potential areas of conflict with Dr. Collins where he has explicitly said false things (like that altruism is not observed elsewhere in the animal kingdom) or showed a willingness to let dogmatic religious beliefs close off avenues of explanation.
But I was not arguing that any good scientists were bad scientists just because on Sunday mornings they jettisoned their laboratory’s intellectual scruples at church. My focus of my point was that insofar as their science is good it does not employ faith. So faith and science are NOT compatible in the lab. And in a fully rationally scrupulous life, they’re not coherently compatible in a full picture of the world where Monday-Friday, the world is investigable view critical reasoning. And on Sundays, centuries old arbitrary faith claims not subject to critical rejection are taken to have mystically guaranteed authority. That’s the whole point. That the existence of scientists who live in cognitive dissonance does not prove faith and science are consistently capable of rational reconciliation.
Thank you for your links to both Harris’ clarifications on his original piece and Myers’ post, but I must admit I find neither to be particularly convincing. Although I won’t go into too much detail (I’m not sure what the size restrictions on comments on this blog are), suffice it to say that to be most accomodating to your viewpoint, and to concede that Harris has proven Collins’ religious views are stupid and unscientific, I still wasn’t very convinced that they would actually harm his science. Despite his ‘problematic’ views on stem cell research, Harris admits he would probably not be able to do much damage to it as director of NIH. Harris casts aspersions on how Collins has said that “science offers no answers to the most pressing questions of human existence and that the claims of atheistic materialism must be steadfastly resisted,” but these are rather vague statements, and it seems to me Harris is reaching quite a bit by assuming that Collins would be opposed to understanding ‘human wellbeing at the neurological level’ or that he views methodological naturalism to be exactly the same thing as atheistic materialism. Perhaps he does, but Harris’ article has not convinced me.
In regards to Dr. Myers’ post, while Collins may not possess ‘integrity’ in regards to his religious beliefs and in the sense of ‘unimpaired and sound in construction,’ neither do plenty of other scientists in regards to other secular matters–to take the example of Dawkins again, despite his advocacy of rationality he opposes foxhunting for fundamentally irrational reasons (his parents told him to) and his arguments have tended to be vitriolically irrational (even if, as you say below, it’s okay to be mean so long as you make cogent arguments, making fun of the way someone pronounces ‘nuclear’ is just meanness for the sake of meanness and not a cogent argument for or against anything). Dr. Myers is on stronger ground when he mentions how he fears Collins may use his post to inappropriately evangelize, but again, I’m still not convinced by this either. He may have gotten Clinton to mention some religious stuff and talked about ‘The Language of God’ and all that, but given the disproportionate representation of other religions in the medical establishment, such as Muslims and Hindus, I find it hard to believe that Collins has a proven track record of being inappropriately evangelistic, because if he had, he almost certainly would have offended someone important a while ago and wouldn’t have managed to get as high as he did in his position in the Human Genome Project.
and 2: That there is some meaningful, tangible way in which religion undermines religion.
So, while calling people pinheads, he speaks outside of his specialization to wander into epistemology, demanding an empirical argument for what is a normative claim—making it pretty clear he cannot discern the difference between the two.
Well, he may have his own response to that, but just to make sure we’re on the same page, what *is* the difference between the two? You’ll have to excuse my ignorance here, whereas you have a doctorate in philosophy (I think) I’m just a Wandering Internet Commentator whose experience with philosophy extends no farther than a 101 college class. So if you wouldn’t mind me asking, just what is the difference between an empirical argument and a normative argument, and why should we consider the latter having as much merit as the former, or even any merit at all?
Dr. Heddle equated the New Atheists aggressively advancing atheism publicly as tantamount to overstepping the bounds of their scientific specialties in a comparable way to James Dobson wanting to influence public policy rather than focus on spreading the “gospel.” That’s pretty much a “stay out of public discussion and stick to your jobs of promoting evolution” line to me. For a brief start towards answering your other question (about why normative arguments should have merit), click here and respond to this post addressing it.
Why wouldn’t I? Didn’t I just argue that their intellectual scruples should not be left in the lab? I am a philosopher and I specialize in ethics, I am concerned with scrupulousness in all manners of belief and action, be they matters of inquiry in philosophy, history, social sciences, natural sciences, religion, politics, etc. I am against irrationalism.
Whether or not rationality is the supreme, greatest, or even best good and whether or not irrationality is something to be weeded out and eschewed in general is a debate I shall again refrain from having here, but I brought up the example of Dawkins simply to illustrate that if you believe Collins is a bad scientist and should be denied his position on the basis of holding bad beliefs for bad reasons, one could make the same argument for very many other famous scientists, Richard Dawkins not being the least among them.
I will simply reiterate that if you believe Collins is ineligible for his NIH position because his theological and epistemological views are incorrect and able to be refuted, one could make similar arguments that Dawkins and other atheistic scientists are ineligible for their position because they have incorrect and refutable views on secular matters ranging from ethics to means of argumentation or whatever.
I didn’t say Collins was all-bad as a scientist. I said that there were worrisome infections of his attitudes towards scientific projects that came from religious prejudices. Whether or not those play out or have played out in tangible practical scientific matters is ultimately up for those with more knowledge of his track record than I to assess. What I can say though is that the concerns about him have to do not with his religious beliefs but with his explicit attempts to relate them to science and show how they demarcate for him the limits of science.
As Myers has pointed out (in a post I can’t seem to locate right now) we live in a nation chock full of Christians and have had numerous Christians as NIH heads with no peeps of complaint from New Atheists. The issue is not their private beliefs, which we may criticize the way we criticize any one’s private beliefs but not consider to have bearing on their job performance insofar as they do not interfere with their job performance. I may have loopy ideas about economics but that doesn’t make me a bad philosophy teacher as long as in my capacity as philosophy teacher I do not presume to speak unqualifiedly on economics.
We are all probably shallow and painfully bad thinkers on the majority of topics outside our specializations and active hobby interests. So, it has not mattered whether previous NIH heads held religious beliefs or not. What matters in this case is Collins has specifically merged his science and his faith and made explicit arguments about their compatibility and the supposed effects of limiting scientifically acceptable answers in accord with his interpretation of his faith. He has made his religious beliefs part of his scientific identity, choosing to leverage his scientific credibility to bolster the credibility of believing on faith (“if this great scientist thinks faith is rational, then how can we less intelligent people call it irrational?”) There are consequences to doing that when faith is antithetical in principle to rigorous naturalistic scientific investigation.
Now, maybe in the past Collins has kept the two segregated in practice wherever real knowledge was on the line. In that case all his showy language about faith and science mixing just fine is revealed to be something he does not believe in practice since he knows in practice faith is bad thinking that would corrupt his science (which is where he does his serious thinking). So, maybe that’s all he’s doing. Claiming that faith and science are compatible just because he adopts both whereas in practice he carefully separates them and implicitly reveals his real awareness that they’re not compatible and mutually reinforcing at all. So, maybe he safely keeps faith out of his science and will do so as NIH director. But since he made an issue of stressing their compatibility, this should be scrutinized carefully and I find some of the red flags suspicious. Beyond those flags, I cannot speak since I am not an expert on his career by any means.
If Dawkins used his scientific posts to argue for methods of reasoning (such as faith-based ones) that contradicted scientific methods when relating to scientific issues, then he would indeed be worthy of the same criticisms. If his politics are bad or his ethical judgments badly formed (and, again, I’m not sure I trust his own judgment on that) the question is “does he make part of his platform his willingness to mix these with his science as Collins does when he wants to use his scientific cred to bolster faith?” If so, then “hell yes” we would have a serious problem with Dawkins. Soviet science was infamously corrupted by political dogmatism, so we can say there are real possibilities in theory for anti-religious dogmatisms also to infect science and there are instances of it happening. If somehow Dawkins tailored his scientific theories simply to critique Bush or deer hunters then he would be a bad scientist who should not have any authority over major scientific institutions.
But, in fact, Dawkins shows a fascinating willingness to both argue vehemently that we embrace the fact of selfish genes as the most essential evolutionary unit while vehemently denouncing Social Darwinism politically. If he were letting his English socialism politics corrupt his science, surely he wouldn’t be one of the coldest proponents of selfishness (metaphorically) being the key to successful evolution! But he adequately recognizes that our social and moral norms are a separate matter from how evolution objectively works. He thinks it functions along principles at odds with socialistic ideals.
I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to the science of how life has actually evolved, but a passionate ANTI-Darwinian when it comes to the politics of how humans ought to behave. I have several times said that a society based on Darwinian principles would be a very unpleasant society in which to live.
For more on what I think constitutes unjustifiably leveraging one’s credibility (as Collins does to an extent), click here.

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when should a scientist’s faith disqualify him from scientific institutional authority?
i anticipated creationists figuring in your reply. the problem is, though, i’m not really sure they’re the best example of religion ‘polluting’ the scientific endeavor. outside of other creationists and evangelical christians, nobody takes ‘creation scientists’ seriously. if these people were peddling their faith-polluted science in peer-reviewed journals and whatnot i think you’d have a point, but since these people aren’t really part of any respected scientific circles i wonder if it’s appropriate to call them scientists in any meaningful sense. on the other hand, all 10 of the folks dr. heddle referred to in his challenge are respected members of the scientific establishment who publish in peer-reviewed journals and generally seem to be good scientists. if you could tell me how you detected the 5 religious scientists among them–or how to detect the pollution of religion in any scientific endeavor that has managed to pass peer review–i would be a bit more impressed.
i brought up the creationists as an example simply of how faith based reasoning is unscientific. i never in any of this said that the creationists were considered legitimate scientists or that religious scientists as any kind of rule brought their faith into the laboratories. i cited the potential areas of conflict with dr. collins where he has explicitly said false things (like that altruism is not observed elsewhere in the animal kingdom) or showed a willingness to let dogmatic religious beliefs close off avenues of explanation.
but i was not arguing that any good scientists were bad scientists just because on sunday mornings they jettisoned their laboratory’s intellectual scruples at church. my focus of my point was that insofar as their science is good it does not employ faith. so faith and science are not compatible in the lab. and in a fully rationally scrupulous life, they’re not coherently compatible in a full picture of the world where monday-friday, the world is investigable view critical reasoning. and on sundays, centuries old arbitrary faith claims not subject to critical rejection are taken to have mystically guaranteed authority. that’s the whole point. that the existence of scientists who live in cognitive dissonance does not prove faith and science are consistently capable of rational reconciliation.
thank you for your links to both harris’ clarifications on his original piece and myers’ post, but i must admit i find neither to be particularly convincing. although i won’t go into too much detail (i’m not sure what the size restrictions on comments on this blog are), suffice it to say that to be most accomodating to your viewpoint, and to concede that harris has proven collins’ religious views are stupid and unscientific, i still wasn’t very convinced that they would actually harm his science. despite his ‘problematic’ views on stem cell research, harris admits he would probably not be able to do much damage to it as director of nih. harris casts aspersions on how collins has said that “science offers no answers to the most pressing questions of human existence and that the claims of atheistic materialism must be steadfastly resisted,” but these are rather vague statements, and it seems to me harris is reaching quite a bit by assuming that collins would be opposed to understanding ‘human wellbeing at the neurological level’ or that he views methodological naturalism to be exactly the same thing as atheistic materialism. perhaps he does, but harris’ article has not convinced me.
in regards to dr. myers’ post, while collins may not possess ‘integrity’ in regards to his religious beliefs and in the sense of ‘unimpaired and sound in construction,’ neither do plenty of other scientists in regards to other secular matters–to take the example of dawkins again, despite his advocacy of rationality he opposes foxhunting for fundamentally irrational reasons (his parents told him to) and his arguments have tended to be vitriolically irrational (even if, as you say below, it’s okay to be mean so long as you make cogent arguments, making fun of the way someone pronounces ‘nuclear’ is just meanness for the sake of meanness and not a cogent argument for or against anything). dr. myers is on stronger ground when he mentions how he fears collins may use his post to inappropriately evangelize, but again, i’m still not convinced by this either. he may have gotten clinton to mention some religious stuff and talked about ‘the language of god’ and all that, but given the disproportionate representation of other religions in the medical establishment, such as muslims and hindus, i find it hard to believe that collins has a proven track record of being inappropriately evangelistic, because if he had, he almost certainly would have offended someone important a while ago and wouldn’t have managed to get as high as he did in his position in the human genome project.
and 2: that there is some meaningful, tangible way in which religion undermines religion.
so, while calling people pinheads, he speaks outside of his specialization to wander into epistemology, demanding an empirical argument for what is a normative claim—making it pretty clear he cannot discern the difference between the two.
well, he may have his own response to that, but just to make sure we’re on the same page, what *is* the difference between the two? you’ll have to excuse my ignorance here, whereas you have a doctorate in philosophy (i think) i’m just a wandering internet commentator whose experience with philosophy extends no farther than a 101 college class. so if you wouldn’t mind me asking, just what is the difference between an empirical argument and a normative argument, and why should we consider the latter having as much merit as the former, or even any merit at all?
dr. heddle equated the new atheists aggressively advancing atheism publicly as tantamount to overstepping the bounds of their scientific specialties in a comparable way to james dobson wanting to influence public policy rather than focus on spreading the “gospel.” that’s pretty much a “stay out of public discussion and stick to your jobs of promoting evolution” line to me. for a brief start towards answering your other question (about why normative arguments should have merit), click here and respond to this post addressing it.
why wouldn’t i? didn’t i just argue that their intellectual scruples should not be left in the lab? i am a philosopher and i specialize in ethics, i am concerned with scrupulousness in all manners of belief and action, be they matters of inquiry in philosophy, history, social sciences, natural sciences, religion, politics, etc. i am against irrationalism.
whether or not rationality is the supreme, greatest, or even best good and whether or not irrationality is something to be weeded out and eschewed in general is a debate i shall again refrain from having here, but i brought up the example of dawkins simply to illustrate that if you believe collins is a bad scientist and should be denied his position on the basis of holding bad beliefs for bad reasons, one could make the same argument for very many other famous scientists, richard dawkins not being the least among them.
i will simply reiterate that if you believe collins is ineligible for his nih position because his theological and epistemological views are incorrect and able to be refuted, one could make similar arguments that dawkins and other atheistic scientists are ineligible for their position because they have incorrect and refutable views on secular matters ranging from ethics to means of argumentation or whatever.
i didn’t say collins was all-bad as a scientist. i said that there were worrisome infections of his attitudes towards scientific projects that came from religious prejudices. whether or not those play out or have played out in tangible practical scientific matters is ultimately up for those with more knowledge of his track record than i to assess. what i can say though is that the concerns about him have to do not with his religious beliefs but with his explicit attempts to relate them to science and show how they demarcate for him the limits of science.
as myers has pointed out (in a post i can’t seem to locate right now) we live in a nation chock full of christians and have had numerous christians as nih heads with no peeps of complaint from new atheists. the issue is not their private beliefs, which we may criticize the way we criticize any one’s private beliefs but not consider to have bearing on their job performance insofar as they do not interfere with their job performance. i may have loopy ideas about economics but that doesn’t make me a bad philosophy teacher as long as in my capacity as philosophy teacher i do not presume to speak unqualifiedly on economics.
we are all probably shallow and painfully bad thinkers on the majority of topics outside our specializations and active hobby interests. so, it has not mattered whether previous nih heads held religious beliefs or not. what matters in this case is collins has specifically merged his science and his faith and made explicit arguments about their compatibility and the supposed effects of limiting scientifically acceptable answers in accord with his interpretation of his faith. he has made his religious beliefs part of his scientific identity, choosing to leverage his scientific credibility to bolster the credibility of believing on faith (“if this great scientist thinks faith is rational, then how can we less intelligent people call it irrational?”) there are consequences to doing that when faith is antithetical in principle to rigorous naturalistic scientific investigation.
now, maybe in the past collins has kept the two segregated in practice wherever real knowledge was on the line. in that case all his showy language about faith and science mixing just fine is revealed to be something he does not believe in practice since he knows in practice faith is bad thinking that would corrupt his science (which is where he does his serious thinking). so, maybe that’s all he’s doing. claiming that faith and science are compatible just because he adopts both whereas in practice he carefully separates them and implicitly reveals his real awareness that they’re not compatible and mutually reinforcing at all. so, maybe he safely keeps faith out of his science and will do so as nih director. but since he made an issue of stressing their compatibility, this should be scrutinized carefully and i find some of the red flags suspicious. beyond those flags, i cannot speak since i am not an expert on his career by any means.
if dawkins used his scientific posts to argue for methods of reasoning (such as faith-based ones) that contradicted scientific methods when relating to scientific issues, then he would indeed be worthy of the same criticisms. if his politics are bad or his ethical judgments badly formed (and, again, i’m not sure i trust his own judgment on that) the question is “does he make part of his platform his willingness to mix these with his science as collins does when he wants to use his scientific cred to bolster faith?” if so, then “hell yes” we would have a serious problem with dawkins. soviet science was infamously corrupted by political dogmatism, so we can say there are real possibilities in theory for anti-religious dogmatisms also to infect science and there are instances of it happening. if somehow dawkins tailored his scientific theories simply to critique bush or deer hunters then he would be a bad scientist who should not have any authority over major scientific institutions.
but, in fact, dawkins shows a fascinating willingness to both argue vehemently that we embrace the fact of selfish genes as the most essential evolutionary unit while vehemently denouncing social darwinism politically. if he were letting his english socialism politics corrupt his science, surely he wouldn’t be one of the coldest proponents of selfishness (metaphorically) being the key to successful evolution! but he adequately recognizes that our social and moral norms are a separate matter from how evolution objectively works. he thinks it functions along principles at odds with socialistic ideals.
i am a passionate darwinian when it comes to the science of how life has actually evolved, but a passionate anti-darwinian when it comes to the politics of how humans ought to behave. i have several times said that a society based on darwinian principles would be a very unpleasant society in which to live.
for more on what i think constitutes unjustifiably leveraging one’s credibility (as collins does to an extent), click here.


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lowercased:
kale, alkaline water, activated charcoal, and now, cbd, is joining the long list of health and wellness crazes taking the world by storm.
also known as cannabidiol, cbd is a naturally occurring, non-psychoactive compound in hemp and one of over a hundred different cannabinoids. cbd is sold internationally as a health supplement and has been deemed safe and non-toxic by the world health organization. for decades, people have reported improved well-being and pain relief with cbd, but its recent popularity has given way to a myriad of products.
is this the same thing as hemp seed oil?
nope! this common misconception is due to the fact that cbd hemp oil and hemp seed oil have incredibly similar names. although they are both extracted from hemp, hemp seed oil comes from cannabis seeds, hence “seed” being in the name. there is absolutely no cbd present in this oil. cbd hemp oil, on the other hand, is extracted from the leaves and flowers. a sticky resin, similar to tree sap, covers cannabis buds. more than 400 naturally occurring organic compounds are found within this gooey mess, including cbd and other cannabinoids.
what are the thc levels?
thc, or tetrahydrocannabinol, is the primary psychoactive component in cannabis. the vast majority of cbd products contain less than 0.3% of thc. there are also cbd products on the market that have no thc whatsoever. there is a chance that a highly sensitive drug test could detect the low levels of thc in some cbd products. prior to deciding to incorporate cbd into your personal wellness, you should review your company’s drug policies and testing procedures.
can some cbd be more “pure” than others?
actually, yes! although it has become a recent health fad to throw out buzzwords like “purity” or “superfood” without any scientific backing, cbd can differ in purity, at a chemical level. full-spectrum cbd is the “impure” version of cbd, but that doesn’t mean it’s bad. the term “full-spectrum” just means that it contains other compounds naturally found in cannabis, along with cbd. cbd isolate is somewhat self-explanatory: it is cannabidiol that has been chemically isolated, or “purified”. no other compounds are present. cbd isolate is extremely useful for those who want to embrace the benefits of cbd, but cannot chance consuming even minute amounts of thc.
still, many find full-spectrum preferable, believing it confers more benefits than cbd isolate. one study comparing the two found that full-spectrum cbd had greater efficacy in relieving inflammation. the responsibly-sourced full-spectrum supplements with less than 0.2% thc are perfect for experiencing the health benefits of cannabidiol without getting intoxicated.
wait. how much am i supposed to take?
tinctures and capsules and vapes, oh my!
once you find a trusted brand to purchase from, you might find your options for cbd overwhelming. different intake methods can have varying effects, so it’s important to take the time to seriously consider what will work best for you.
gummies, brownies, chocolate bars—you name it, and there’s probably an edible version available. the effects are long-lasting, usually for around 4 hours. however, edibles don’t kick in right away, taking anywhere from 30 minutes to 2 hours to take effect.
this method has the quickest rate of cbd absorption, allowing cannabidiol to immediately enter the bloodstream through the lungs. cbd vape cartridges come in a variety of flavors to suit anyone’s tastes. the effects of vaping last for roughly 2 to 3 hours.
they are made from cannabis flowers infused into an alcohol or oil. tinctures can be taken orally via drops or sprays. most people feel the effects of a cbd tincture within 5 to 15 minutes, and they can last for 4 hours or more. however, some find the taste off-putting.
convenient for travel, tasteless, and odorless, they are the multivitamin version of cbd. capsules are quite slow—usually taking from 20 minutes to 2 hours to kick in.
they are a thick paste taken from hemp resin. due to their purity and extraction methods, oil concentrates are highly potent. however, they are slow, taking 30 to 90 minutes to have an effect. this is an excellent option for someone looking for no added ingredients and maximum strength. cbd oil has been found to be efficient at alleviating headache, joint pain, endometriosis pain and neuropathic pain.
with lotions, creams, and patches, topical application delivers fast relief to the affected area, absorbing through the skin. topical cbd is effective at reducing inflammation in conditions such as arthritis and has even been found to soothe acne and eczema.
while cbd has improved the lives of many, this does not excuse outlandish claims about its efficacy. the fda issues public warning letters to companies that have falsely advertised its benefits. take a moment to read through the fda official warning letters for a list of companies that have made dubious claims.
the growing industry of cbd is losing no momentum—the market for cbd is increasing by 55% annually and will soon be a billion-dollar market. millions of people around the world are improving their nutrition and well-being, on their own terms. join them!


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A FURIOUS Spanish politician has rejected an apology after the FBI used his “hair and forehead” to create a present-day image of Osama Bin Laden.
Former Izquierda Unida leader, Gaspar Llamazares was enraged after the agency’s “cutting edge” technology merely involved using a photo of him found on Google.
And he has now refused the US ambassador’s attempt to defuse the tense political situation.
“Apologies are not enough,” blasted Llamazares.
Llamazares added that he was concerned what the repercussions would have been if the face of a general member of public had been used instead.
The FBI previously revealed that a technician inexplicably used a photo of Llamazares found on Google to help produce the Bin Laden mug shot.
Next articleCatch of the day!
Stop protesting and making a meal of it.
A pity Llamazares didn’t make such a dogs dinner over all the cheating and profiteering going on in the Property and Building Industry by his countrymen when he led Izquierda Unida but then he wouldn’t would he?
Paul, take pity on Sr. L.
There is a rumour that someone has photo-manipulated your features to represent a certain Sr. Z!
Think the accompanying text is about his government’s unconditional apology to the public on behalf of his ‘professional’ political, legal and architectural countrymen in respect of the Property and Building Industry’s profiteering, and exploitation using Juntas, Town Halls etc.
See the good you might have done through possibly have been misrepresented. Shame it’s only a rumour!

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a furious spanish politician has rejected an apology after the fbi used his “hair and forehead” to create a present-day image of osama bin laden.
former izquierda unida leader, gaspar llamazares was enraged after the agency’s “cutting edge” technology merely involved using a photo of him found on google.
and he has now refused the us ambassador’s attempt to defuse the tense political situation.
“apologies are not enough,” blasted llamazares.
llamazares added that he was concerned what the repercussions would have been if the face of a general member of public had been used instead.
the fbi previously revealed that a technician inexplicably used a photo of llamazares found on google to help produce the bin laden mug shot.
next articlecatch of the day!
stop protesting and making a meal of it.
a pity llamazares didn’t make such a dogs dinner over all the cheating and profiteering going on in the property and building industry by his countrymen when he led izquierda unida but then he wouldn’t would he?
paul, take pity on sr. l.
there is a rumour that someone has photo-manipulated your features to represent a certain sr. z!
think the accompanying text is about his government’s unconditional apology to the public on behalf of his ‘professional’ political, legal and architectural countrymen in respect of the property and building industry’s profiteering, and exploitation using juntas, town halls etc.
see the good you might have done through possibly have been misrepresented. shame it’s only a rumour!


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Our polycarbonate plates will help keep your commercial establishment functioning efficiently. These polycarbonate plates units are a must-have for busy commercial restaurants, buffets, fast food chains, hotels and school cafeterias.
Our polycarbonate plates are a great addition for any cafeteria, commercial restaurant, pizza chain, catering company, or bar. The selection of polycarbonate plates available here at Restaurant Equipment Solutions features an array options, all from one of the most trusted manufacturers out there.
No matter your restaurant kitchen or convenience store needs, we have the polycarbonate plates for you. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact our helpful Restaurant Equipment Solutions specialists at 1-877-236-5780.

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our polycarbonate plates will help keep your commercial establishment functioning efficiently. these polycarbonate plates units are a must-have for busy commercial restaurants, buffets, fast food chains, hotels and school cafeterias.
our polycarbonate plates are a great addition for any cafeteria, commercial restaurant, pizza chain, catering company, or bar. the selection of polycarbonate plates available here at restaurant equipment solutions features an array options, all from one of the most trusted manufacturers out there.
no matter your restaurant kitchen or convenience store needs, we have the polycarbonate plates for you. should you have any questions, please feel free to contact our helpful restaurant equipment solutions specialists at 1-877-236-5780.


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After only years of trying, The Funny Book Company has infiltrated an Amazon top 10. The very latest from Howard of Warwick, A Murder for Master Wat, has lodged itself in the top 10 comedy books in the UK – climbing as high as the number 3 spot.
Extrapolation by the company IT department (which we have warned them about before) indicates that the top 20 was penetrated on Amazon.com as well.
Things can only get better, or worse, or stay pretty much the same, and we look forward to it.

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after only years of trying, the funny book company has infiltrated an amazon top 10. the very latest from howard of warwick, a murder for master wat, has lodged itself in the top 10 comedy books in the uk – climbing as high as the number 3 spot.
extrapolation by the company it department (which we have warned them about before) indicates that the top 20 was penetrated on amazon.com as well.
things can only get better, or worse, or stay pretty much the same, and we look forward to it.


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A Vegas Girl at Heart: Ohuhu Marker First Impressions - Copic Marker Alternative - Cheap Alcohol Markers!
Ohuhu Marker First Impressions - Copic Marker Alternative - Cheap Alcohol Markers!
The other day while browsing YouTube I came across a set of inexpensive alcohol based markers available on Amazon from Ohuhu. I had a gift card and they are really cheap (less than 50 cents a marker), so I thought I would go for it. I ordered the set of 100 Ohuhu markers, but they do come in sets of 40, 60, and 80 as well.
As I mentioned in my video, after testing them all, I found none dried out or cracked. Just one cap that had a little melty thing going on, but it didn't affect the marker or it's ability to close.
Here is my full color swatch chart of the 100 set of Ohuhu markers. As you can see there is a really great range of colors, and they even include a few neon colors, which is kind of neat (not sure what I'll use those for though!).

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a vegas girl at heart: ohuhu marker first impressions - copic marker alternative - cheap alcohol markers!
ohuhu marker first impressions - copic marker alternative - cheap alcohol markers!
the other day while browsing youtube i came across a set of inexpensive alcohol based markers available on amazon from ohuhu. i had a gift card and they are really cheap (less than 50 cents a marker), so i thought i would go for it. i ordered the set of 100 ohuhu markers, but they do come in sets of 40, 60, and 80 as well.
as i mentioned in my video, after testing them all, i found none dried out or cracked. just one cap that had a little melty thing going on, but it didn't affect the marker or it's ability to close.
here is my full color swatch chart of the 100 set of ohuhu markers. as you can see there is a really great range of colors, and they even include a few neon colors, which is kind of neat (not sure what i'll use those for though!).


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It has been decided that this feature (originally bug 592284) should be removed from gecko 2.0 in order to reduce risk and the testing surface at this late stage.
Will reapply with a few modifications post 2.0 release - separate bug to be filed for that.
as this is backout, but has been in tree for a while, not sure if it requres a+ or not..
It makes me sad to see us have this backed out, let's get this back in the tree as soon as we branch for the release.

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it has been decided that this feature (originally bug 592284) should be removed from gecko 2.0 in order to reduce risk and the testing surface at this late stage.
will reapply with a few modifications post 2.0 release - separate bug to be filed for that.
as this is backout, but has been in tree for a while, not sure if it requres a+ or not..
it makes me sad to see us have this backed out, let's get this back in the tree as soon as we branch for the release.


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In my opinion one of the more powerful and underutilized tools of a blog or website is the ability to tag your pages and posts. That said, effectively using tags isn’t easy or straightforward. In this post I’ll take you through some examples of how to use tags and get the most out of them, the pitfalls to watch out for, and some advanced strategies you can use with them.
First we need to take a step back and understand that there are several ways you can arrange your website/blog. The first is by subject, which most blog and CMS platforms call “categories.” The second is by date, which occurs as most blog/cms systems put things in year, month, and date groupings. A third is by tagging, which consists of the notes or descriptions you put on your posts or pages.
All of these different classification methods bring about one of the hallmark problems of blogs and CMS’s: duplicate content. Let’s assume that you publish one page. That page will exist on the page, but also on the category archive page, year archive page, year-month archive page, year-month-day archive page, and the archive page for any tag that you attach to the page/post. This can create issues as the search engines have to figure out what page they should really list in the SERP’s. First I suggest blocking all of the date archives from being indexed by using the “noindex” directive in the robots.txt (note Google is the only search engine who currently supports this command). I also use the “noindex/follow” robots tag on each of the date archive pages. Basically we are telling the robots don’t put these pages in the SERP’s but follow through and get the pages. We go with the exact same settings for the tag pages. If you are running wordpress you can use the Robots Meta plugin from Joost de Valk to get this done. This only leaves us with the duplicate issue on category and individual pages. To combat this problem, only show limited sections of your posts on the category pages. The thesis theme has this functionality built in. If you aren’t using thesis, you can use the teaser plugin to get a similar result or remember to use the “more” tag 100% of the time.
OK now that we’ve got the duplicate content issue resolved, why would anyone want to use tags in the first place? Can’t you achieve the same results with categories? Yes and no. Here’s an example of how I would use categories and tags: let’s say you have a celebrity website with categories like “baby bump,” “fashion,” “news,” “rumors,” etc. You are also going to have celebrities who are always in the news like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears. What I would do is create tags for each celebrity and, whenever I did a post about the celebrity, I’d tag it with his or her name.
Another example. You have a travel website with categories like “adventure travel,” “family travel,” “skiing,” “cruises,” and so on. I would set up tags for countries, states, or cities, like Bahamas, France, or Colorado. You could have a white water rafting page in the adventure travel category tagged with Colorado. You could have a Skiing in Vail post in the skiing category also tagged with Colorado. You can also have a family travel article about visiting the Museum of Science and nature and Botanic Gardens in Colorado. Those three separate articles would be interconnected by using the Colorado tag.
Here’s where the magic of tagging comes into play. If you use the cross linker plugin, you can set it up to automagically link any word like “Colorado” to the tag page for Colorado. So if the person reading any of the three Colorado articles clicks on “Colorado,” they visit the tag page and see all of your posts about Colorado. I’ve found that in-posts links get much higher click throughs than “tag” links at the end of an article. You could set it up the same way for Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, or any other word/tag you used. What this does is create an alternate navigation path that’s both really useful for readers and keeps your content exposed to the search engine spiders. You could link the word individually as you write each post, but I find it easier to manage a website when I cut down the maintenance wherever I can.
Another advantage is that tagging is a much more effective way to choose which ads to display. If I’m only using categories like “family travel,” it’s hard to know which ad to serve. Do I use Disneyland tickets, family cruises, or city based Go Cards? However with tagging I can be much more specific by only serving cruise advertising to the pages/posts with the “cruise” tag. If you want to get really specific you can have general “cruise” tag and a separate “family cruise” tag. You just have to decide how granular you want to get.
If you’re blocking the tag pages from being indexed it’s not a huge issue. But it can come into play with an advanced tactic I’ll be talking about next, so I bring it up now as a problem to be aware of. To be honest the tools for administering and editing tags is pretty limited. The best one I’ve found if Simple tags. It isn’t perfect, but it gets the job done.
Using tagging this way creates a problem: you squander internal anchor text on pages you are blocking from the index. In the examples above, you would certainly want a page about Colorado to appear in the index, but maybe not the tag for a small city with little value and traffic. In the example above you would set up the word “Colorado” to link to “http://example.com/tag/colorado/”. However, what if you set the cross link to a normal page like “http://example.com/colorado/” instead of the tag page? Then you could create a page with some editorial copy, install the EXEC PHP plugin, and use it to issue a WP Query and automatically list posts tagged with Colorado. You will need to know PHP to make that happen, but it’s not too hard.
Another trick. If I’m creating “head and tail” content, I’ll set up the cross link to point to the “http://example.com/keyword/” page/post. However, if there isn’t any content there yet (ie only the “tail” pieces of content exist) I’ll use the redirection plugin to temporarily redirect to the tag page. I’ll take the redirect down once the “head” is written. This can get kind of tricky, so you should only use it if you are confident about what you are doing.
By using tags you can provide a more granular way to break down the content on your website.
This break down can provide alternate navigation paths to your content for both humans and search engines.
This break down becomes more useful to humans if you link words/tags within the main body of the content.
This break down is extremely effective for serving very targeted advertising or affiliate links.
Lastly one of the original purposes of tagging was to help blog search engines like Technorati understand your content; however, to be honest, that value is so non-existent it’s really not worth mentioning. When was the last time Technorati or ice rocket brought you any traffic?

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in my opinion one of the more powerful and underutilized tools of a blog or website is the ability to tag your pages and posts. that said, effectively using tags isn’t easy or straightforward. in this post i’ll take you through some examples of how to use tags and get the most out of them, the pitfalls to watch out for, and some advanced strategies you can use with them.
first we need to take a step back and understand that there are several ways you can arrange your website/blog. the first is by subject, which most blog and cms platforms call “categories.” the second is by date, which occurs as most blog/cms systems put things in year, month, and date groupings. a third is by tagging, which consists of the notes or descriptions you put on your posts or pages.
all of these different classification methods bring about one of the hallmark problems of blogs and cms’s: duplicate content. let’s assume that you publish one page. that page will exist on the page, but also on the category archive page, year archive page, year-month archive page, year-month-day archive page, and the archive page for any tag that you attach to the page/post. this can create issues as the search engines have to figure out what page they should really list in the serp’s. first i suggest blocking all of the date archives from being indexed by using the “noindex” directive in the robots.txt (note google is the only search engine who currently supports this command). i also use the “noindex/follow” robots tag on each of the date archive pages. basically we are telling the robots don’t put these pages in the serp’s but follow through and get the pages. we go with the exact same settings for the tag pages. if you are running wordpress you can use the robots meta plugin from joost de valk to get this done. this only leaves us with the duplicate issue on category and individual pages. to combat this problem, only show limited sections of your posts on the category pages. the thesis theme has this functionality built in. if you aren’t using thesis, you can use the teaser plugin to get a similar result or remember to use the “more” tag 100% of the time.
ok now that we’ve got the duplicate content issue resolved, why would anyone want to use tags in the first place? can’t you achieve the same results with categories? yes and no. here’s an example of how i would use categories and tags: let’s say you have a celebrity website with categories like “baby bump,” “fashion,” “news,” “rumors,” etc. you are also going to have celebrities who are always in the news like paris hilton or britney spears. what i would do is create tags for each celebrity and, whenever i did a post about the celebrity, i’d tag it with his or her name.
another example. you have a travel website with categories like “adventure travel,” “family travel,” “skiing,” “cruises,” and so on. i would set up tags for countries, states, or cities, like bahamas, france, or colorado. you could have a white water rafting page in the adventure travel category tagged with colorado. you could have a skiing in vail post in the skiing category also tagged with colorado. you can also have a family travel article about visiting the museum of science and nature and botanic gardens in colorado. those three separate articles would be interconnected by using the colorado tag.
here’s where the magic of tagging comes into play. if you use the cross linker plugin, you can set it up to automagically link any word like “colorado” to the tag page for colorado. so if the person reading any of the three colorado articles clicks on “colorado,” they visit the tag page and see all of your posts about colorado. i’ve found that in-posts links get much higher click throughs than “tag” links at the end of an article. you could set it up the same way for paris hilton, britney spears, or any other word/tag you used. what this does is create an alternate navigation path that’s both really useful for readers and keeps your content exposed to the search engine spiders. you could link the word individually as you write each post, but i find it easier to manage a website when i cut down the maintenance wherever i can.
another advantage is that tagging is a much more effective way to choose which ads to display. if i’m only using categories like “family travel,” it’s hard to know which ad to serve. do i use disneyland tickets, family cruises, or city based go cards? however with tagging i can be much more specific by only serving cruise advertising to the pages/posts with the “cruise” tag. if you want to get really specific you can have general “cruise” tag and a separate “family cruise” tag. you just have to decide how granular you want to get.
if you’re blocking the tag pages from being indexed it’s not a huge issue. but it can come into play with an advanced tactic i’ll be talking about next, so i bring it up now as a problem to be aware of. to be honest the tools for administering and editing tags is pretty limited. the best one i’ve found if simple tags. it isn’t perfect, but it gets the job done.
using tagging this way creates a problem: you squander internal anchor text on pages you are blocking from the index. in the examples above, you would certainly want a page about colorado to appear in the index, but maybe not the tag for a small city with little value and traffic. in the example above you would set up the word “colorado” to link to “http://example.com/tag/colorado/”. however, what if you set the cross link to a normal page like “http://example.com/colorado/” instead of the tag page? then you could create a page with some editorial copy, install the exec php plugin, and use it to issue a wp query and automatically list posts tagged with colorado. you will need to know php to make that happen, but it’s not too hard.
another trick. if i’m creating “head and tail” content, i’ll set up the cross link to point to the “http://example.com/keyword/” page/post. however, if there isn’t any content there yet (ie only the “tail” pieces of content exist) i’ll use the redirection plugin to temporarily redirect to the tag page. i’ll take the redirect down once the “head” is written. this can get kind of tricky, so you should only use it if you are confident about what you are doing.
by using tags you can provide a more granular way to break down the content on your website.
this break down can provide alternate navigation paths to your content for both humans and search engines.
this break down becomes more useful to humans if you link words/tags within the main body of the content.
this break down is extremely effective for serving very targeted advertising or affiliate links.
lastly one of the original purposes of tagging was to help blog search engines like technorati understand your content; however, to be honest, that value is so non-existent it’s really not worth mentioning. when was the last time technorati or ice rocket brought you any traffic?