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Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Advice to Thiruvananthapuram might not help alleviate the city's looming solid waste crisis

This post is a response to an article published by FirstPost.com with the title "Thiruvananthapuram sinks in its own waste as rulers look for shortcuts" on October 16, 2012.

Public protests - The Hindu
This critique is not about the conceptual or factual validity of the article but it is to distinguish between the short-term and long-term priorities and solutions for the city. In the absence of such a distinction, various stakeholders with the same goal of solving the crisis and with correct models will end up debating ideals and fighting within each other, finally doing no good to the city.

While depicting the situation as:
When the residents of Vilappilsaala said "no more garbage" to their neighbourhood, the corporation, which is used to an archaic collect-transport-dump routine, didn’t know what to do. They just stopped garbage collection and it started piling up everywhere. The city is putrid today.
FirstPost suggests a 4-step approach (edited for brevity)
1. Ask the city residents to mandatorily separate waste at source. Once recyclables and organic matter are removed, only about 20 per cent needs to be dumped in a sanitary landfill.
2. Once the source-segregation is made mandatory, the city corporation can collect both the recyclables door-to-door (women-run self help groups have been doing this). Engage scrap dealers to whom the materials can be sold.

3. The bio-degradable materials can be collected door-to-door and used in compost facilities at several locations in the city.
4. The remaining 20% of waste need to be disposed off in landfills.
Thiruvananthapuram - Deccan Chronicle
The 4-step advise can be followed if the City can get over the current crisis. For whatever reason, if it fails to do so, the crisis will continue like in Campania, Italy. In that case, Firstpost's advise will provide some relief but not real solutions. Therefore, it is irrelevant to the article's subject line. Let me explain how:
The subject line and the article speak about the imminent solid waste crisis in Thiruvananthapuram, but the solution suggested is not a process but a future state that should be achieved. To achieve such a state, the suggested components should evolve together with gradually increasing infrastructure, changing social habits and the city's institutional and financial abilities. Such a change cannot be brought in with sudden interventions in a short span of time.


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By  on February 14, 2013

PARIS — As it marks its first quarter-century, Chanel’s Première watch has never looked younger.

The French fashion house is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its first ladies’ timepiece with a chic and playful new take on the chain strap design, which was originally introduced in 1987.

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WASHINGTON — The Worker Rights Consortium, in a report released Thursday, charged a Cambodian apparel manufacturer with violating workers’ rights over nearly four years while allegedly making apparel for the U.S. Defense Department, several brands and retailers, and university licensees. The consortium called on companies and the government to pressure the firm to remedy the violations.

The labor rights watchdog group accused Zongtex Garment Mfg., a Taiwanese-owned company operating two factories in Cambodia that employ a combined 900 workers, with using underage workers, involuntary and excessive overtime, wage and benefit violations, health and safety violations and failure to allow union organizing.

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By and  on February 12, 2008

MILAN — Referring to the short-lived marriage between Lars Nilsson and the house of Ferré, IT Holding's Tonino Perna believes that in the case of divorce, it's always better when children aren't involved.

The children in this case would have been the fall designs that would have marked Nilsson's debut at Ferré next Monday. Needless to say, the buzz was mounting but, as reported, Ferré parent IT Holding SpA split with Nilsson on Friday with no reason given.

"It was an unpleasant decision to take, also because I respect Nilsson, he is a nice and professional person. It's no one's fault, but the relationship didn't work out and we thought it would be better to interrupt it before the show," Perna, IT Holding's chairman, told WWD on Monday.

He stressed the premature end to Nilsson's tenure was part of the designer's contract and didn't involve any extra costs for the group.

When problems started developing with Nilsson, Perna asked Ferré's in-house design team to develop fall looks that were a contemporary rendition of the Ferré style codes.

"What we learned when Ferré passed away was that the designer not only left us with a great brand but he had also trained a very seasoned and capable design team," said Perna.

According to sources, Nilsson not only steered away from Ferré's aesthetic but he didn't bond with the design teams, especially with the men's wear one that was hostile to him. But his supporters pointed out the teams were already in place when he arrived and he needed time to adjust to a staff that had worked with Ferré for years. Yet another source described Nilsson's debut approach as "very Italian: chic and salable."

Many agreed the Swedish designer had a lot on his plate, but his diffidence probably led him to misjudge his workload. According to one source, Nilsson did not take advantage of the teamwork approach that would have taken some weight off his shoulders. "It's always hard to replace a designer who has poured his heart and soul for decades to build a fashion brand," said a source familiar with the house.

Most people confirmed IT Holding went to great lengths to supply Nilsson with the support he needed and to produce the clothes for Monday's show.

Nilsson was not available for comment Monday.

Perna said a creative director will replace Nilsson. "A creative director today must have managerial skills in guiding a team and must also understand the market direction and the consumers' needs, especially when you have different lines and a wide product range. It's not easy to find someone with all these requisites," he said.

Aside from the Ferré main line, the house also produces the Ferré Milano diffusion line and the younger GF Ferré label.

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By  on November 26, 2007

LONDON — Gresham Blake is taking a city break from his Brighton residence.

This month the British tailor, known for his quirky style and roster of celebrity clients, has added a London studio to his business, with long-term plans for an online ready-to-wear retail facility, women’s rtw and a stand-alone London store.

“Most of my clients are here,” said Blake. “It made sense to set up a base.” Currently Gresham Blake has a 1,563-square-foot store in costal town Brighton, offering ready-to-wear, semi-bespoke and full bespoke suits for men and women, alongside ties and accessories.

The company was founded in 2000, and counts Christian Slater, Steve Coogan and Fat Boy Slim DJ Norman Cook among its fans. “Repeat commissions make up 70 percent of my business,” said Blake. “I know I’m doing something right.” Gresham Blake ties are stocked at Bloomingdale’s and the London boutique The Cross.

The new Gresham Blake studio, a 672-square-foot space, is based on South Molton Street, among such trendy boutiques and accessories shops as Browns and Browns Focus. It’s also near Savile Row and Bond Street. “I’m not trying to compete with Savile Row,” he said. “I think this fits with the Gresham Blake image. I’m doing my own thing.”

Blake said the studio space, housed on the third floor with rich, gray shag-pile carpets, red suede sofas, and fabric curtains made from pinstripe suiting fabric, was intended to be a lounge for clients. “I wanted it to look classy, but funky. I wanted people to feel at home.”

There are also plans to use the property’s 450-square-foot roof garden for al fresco fittings in summer. Blake said that currently women’s rtw was scheduled for launch in March 2008, but could not give further details on the time frame for his stand-alone London store, or online services.

Prices at Gresham Blake currently run $978 for a rtw suit and $2,526 for a full bespoke suit. Ties retail for $115, and shirts at $115 to $252.

Blake’s current annual sales volume is $2.94 million, but with the introduction of the new London space he hopes to up that figure to $3.59 million. “Everything so far has grown naturally. I want to keep doing what I am doing,” said Blake. “If you have a business, you are always just trying to move it forward.”

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By  on July 17, 2013

The geeks are coming into fashion.

Computers have already remade the world, changing business and culture as they jumped from clunky mainframe to desktop to phone. But now technology is growing even more prevalent, moving beyond the back office and factory floor and creeping toward the accessories, dresses and shirts themselves.

Wearable technology, if not yet mainstream, is having a serious moment.

“Technology’s so integrated in our lives, it’s like a second brain to us,” said Kit Yarrow, a consumer psychologist at Golden Gate University. “It’s just a no-brainer [that it will be integrated into fashion]. There’s a craving for that on the part of consumers. It’s a ‘postable’ moment when you can have special clothing that sort of boosts who you are. It’s interesting to other people. It gets your attention.”

Talk of “wearables” has taken the technology industry by storm, from Apple to Google. Serious outside money and talent are being devoted to developing a market in fashion’s backyard, a market that might — just possibly — be the Next Big Thing.

The buzz around wearable technology is only one indication of the fashion industry’s techie turn. Also looming is the potential of 3-D printers, machines that allow consumers to produce three-dimensional objects at home. At her couture show in Paris last week, Iris van Herpen showed platform shoes that were printed while Stephen Jones revealed he’s working on a 3-D printed hat. Dita Von Teese made plenty of headlines when she modeled Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitonti’s 3-D printed nylon dress, produced by Shapeways.

While the commercial implications are small right now, the potential is huge.

Robin Raskin, founder of Living in Digital Times, which produces technology conferences, said, “The fashion designers kind of gave up the fashion business once on the manufacturing side because our factories couldn’t retool fast enough, etc., and a lot of it was done offshore. I think technology is going to stop mass production to some degree. They’re learning how to 3-D print cloth.” For now, there are limitations. Shapeways gives designers access to its two production facilities — one in Long Island City, New York and one in Eindhoven, The Netherlands — that house industrial size 3-D printers, which can currently work with 30 types of materials, including ceramics, silver and plastics. The printers can only process one material at a time, which often yields smaller fashion items, such as jewelry or handbags. Nylon was used for Schmidt and Bitonti’s dress because it can be manipulated into a weave small enough to emulate traditional fabric.

At a recent symposium at the Fashion Institute of Technology, “Cross-Pollination: Fashion and Technology,” speakers discussed invisibility cloaks, airbag helmets for bikers, the sustainability of growing skin in a lab instead of killing animals and on and on.

Suzanne Lee, founder and director of BioCouture, which is working on techniques that use microbes to grow material for apparel, said this new, possible world “requires a shift in thinking. It calls into question everything about why we wear clothing and what we want our clothing to say about ourselves.”

“The real competition is really between you and your imagination,” said consultant Steve Zades, founder and chief executive officer of The Odyssey Network, a consultancy. “There’s a monster gap between what is technically possible today and what the consumer can buy on the shelf. It’s a team sport. It’s very collaborative. You’re not going to get there on your own with this kind of innovation.”

Zades told FIT students at the symposium: “Things are going to change big time in the next five years. When you think about who you’re going to work for, it may be Samsung.”

So while it used to be the geeks on one side and the fashion crowd on the other, the fashion set is now becoming increasingly geeky and the two sets are intermingling.

Already, Google Inc. introduced its hands-free digital interface, Google Glass, at Diane von Furstenberg’s spring runway show in September. While the tech world has continued to buzz about the potential for an always-on life via Google Glass, the fashion reaction mostly fizzled after the show. The technology is expected to be rolled out next year.

Apple Inc. ceo Tim Cook recently described wearable technology as an “incredibly interesting” and “profound area for technology.” “I see it as another very key branch of the tree,” he said, speaking at an All Things Digital conference.

Apple’s products have always stressed form as much as function, but an indication of how important fashion now is to the tech giant came this month when the company hired Paul Deneve, former ceo of Yves Saint Laurent. Deneve had worked at Apple before switching to the fashion world. Apple was vague about his new duties, saying only that he would be involved in “special projects.” Observers speculated that could be “wearables.”

Moves such as this put fashion directly in the crosshairs of both Google and Apple, two of the richest, most powerful and industry-transforming companies the world has ever known.

Apple is rumored to be exploring a “smart watch” and Cook, who predictably downplayed the potential of Google Glass, told the All Things Digital conference, “I think the wrist is interesting.”

The bar is high at Apple. “For something to work [on the wrist] you first have to convince people it’s so incredible that you want to wear it,” he said.

It’s safe to say Apple is more design-savvy than fashion is tech-savvy. However, there are a few players, mostly athletic brands such as Nike and Under Armour, that are already playing in the area with workout-related wearables that could contend for market share if the category catches fire.

Apple’s Cook wore Nike’s $149 FuelBand at the conference and praised the focus of the device, which looks something like a bracelet, syncs up with smartphones and tracks how active the wearer is. Under Armour also has workout gear that monitors activity and has hinted at a shirt with a digital display built into the sleeve.

Accessories are an easy first step for technology in fashion — and luxury brands such as Prada and Giorgio Armani have in the past even designed smartphones for the likes of LG and Samsung, respectively. Then there is the slew of fashion brands who design iPad and iPhone cases and laptop bags.

But the pioneers are now pushing beyond accessories. There’s a small core of budding businesses and do-it-yourselfers who are making a variety of fashion looks that can log in or light up. They are followers of Hussein Chalayan — whose illuminated dresses and other flights of fancy have delighted and amazed since the Nineties — and they want to transform the future.

The stakes are high, and incorporating technology into apparel could ultimately change what it means to be a designer.

“Instead of designing patterns flat and static, I design little videos and animations,” said Francesca Rosella, creative director of London-based CuteCircuit, which sells a dress with nearly 9,000 LED lights that are controlled by an iPhone and can change colors and flash patterns.

Video textile design would essentially be a whole new world for fashion, one that gives the consumer more control than ever, allowing the wearer to change the pattern of her dress on a whim.

Katy Perry wore a CuteCircuit light-up dress to the opening of a Costume Institute exhibit in 2010 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, giving the company a lift.

CuteCircuit has a variety of washable looks that light up, as well as a shirt that can remember what a hug feels like and then send a similar sensation on to another person wearing a hug shirt, which has sensors and actuators that are linked up with Bluetooth technology.

The fashions are sold at some boutiques and on CuteCircuit’s Web site — the New K-Dress with a strip of LED lights costs 2,500 pounds, or $3,797 at current exchange, while a men’s T-shirt with a few lights that turn on when the wearer moves runs 150 pounds, or $228.

“The garments that we make are really unobtrusive, and you feel like you’re wearing a normal garment,” said Rosella, who is an enthusiastic techie and fashionista.

She might be a template for what designers in the future will look like.

“Designers will have to learn the language of how technology works,” said Syuzi Pakhchyan, author of “Fashioning Technology: A DIY Intro to Smart Crafting.”

Pakhchyan said wearable fashions are still restrained by technology and described today’s techie styles as “expressions of ideas that will come in 10 or 20 years.” By the time the technology is ready, she said designers would be ready, too: “It’s going to be seamless for the fashion designer to be designing with some of this stuff.”

Others believe it might not take that long.

Joanna Berzowska, chair of Concordia University’s department of design and computation arts, said the technology for wearables was “getting exponentially closer.”

Take the athletic heart-rate monitors that have been built into shirts, connecting the sensors that touch the body with conductive thread. “It’s clumsy, you have to wet the sensors [to make the connection],” Berzowska says. “Then you have these big snaps and you need to snap the transmitter in it. It’s not a seamless experience. There is an amount of clunkiness. Early adopters are willing to put up with that clunkiness. So how long is it going to take to move past early adopters to the mainstream? It’s about five years. I’m involved with a couple of start-ups, so I have my time and my money on the line.”

Berzowska said technology’s point of entry in mainstream fashion would be very simple, for instance a strip that changes color for embellishment — similar to fashions that are already on the market.

In essence, wearable technology is in the process of being wrestled away from the function-minded engineering set and taken over by the designers.

“The goal is to really connect you to digital life without really taking you away from real life,” said Sergey Brin, the billionaire Google cofounder, of Google Glass. He went largely unnoticed backstage at von Furstenberg’s spring runway, where models and the designer helped introduced Google Glass to the world.

“It’s not just about technology,” Brin said. “It’s about lifestyle.…It’s a very important component of making technology desirable and compelling — it’s got to be stylish and fashionable.”

The collaboration between Brin and von Furstenberg left a big impression on fashion’s tech contingent, who are starting to feel their time has nearly arrived.

“As opposed to technology coming in and changing fashion, [the Google Glass debut showed] fashion kind of having an influence or an impact on technology,” said Emma McClendon, cocurator of the “Fashion and Technology” exhibit at FIT, which ended in May. “They chose to not only align it with a fashion designer, but New York Fashion Week…using the whole process and the whole aura of fashion to promote a tech gadget.”

McClendon said any move to the mainstream would likely be a gradual process.

As an analogue, she offered Pierre Cardin’s “egg carton” dress from the Sixties, which used heat-set Dynel to create a distinctive three-dimensional diamond pattern. The dress remained a novelty, but the technology lived on. Pants with heat-set pleats became a staple of the modern wardrobe in the Seventies.

Just which innovation today will become the staple of tomorrow is a project that seems likely to consume fashion for the next decade.

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Nearly 6,700 Men in Georgia will be Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer this Year

It is the second most common cancer in American men, behind skin cancer. However, more men with the disease are surviving than in years past because improving treatment plans are yielding better outcomes and enabling patients to continue having active, productive lives.

Not all men are appropriate candidates for screening. The American Cancer Society recommends that men discuss the benefits and limitations of early detection beginning at age 50 if they are at average risk for the disease and beginning at age 45 if they are at high risk. Men at high risk include African-American men and men with a first-degree relative (father, brother, son), diagnosed at an early age (younger than age 65). Men who have several first-degree relatives who had prostate cancer at an early age should discuss the pros and cons of early screening with their physician beginning at age 40.

Early prostate cancer usually has no symptoms. Though, if caught early enough, chances of survival increase. But early detection is the key. Talk to your doctor if you experience of any of the following symptoms:

  • A need to urinate frequently
  • Difficulty starting urination or holding back urine
  • Painful or burning urination
  • Blood in the urine or semen
  • Frequent pain or stiffness in the lower back, hips, ribs or upper thighs
  • Weakness or numbness in the legs or feet
  • Trouble having or keeping an erection (impotence)

The exact cause of prostate cancer is unknown but research indicates several common factors that may increase a man's risk of developing the disease:

  • Age: Most cases of prostate cancer occur in men age 50+. More than 60% of all diagnoses are in men over 65.
  • Race: African-American men are more likely than white men to develop the disease and are twice as likely to die from it.
  • Family History: Having two or more close relatives with prostate cancer also increases a man's risk.

Every case of prostate cancer is different. A variety of treatment options are available, including hormone therapy, radiation and surgery. Which treatment is most appropriate varies from man to man and depends on his age and health, stage of the disease, and benefits and side effects of each treatment. In most cases, prostate cancer grows slowly. So men usually have time to consider all available treatment options, gather additional opinions and, with the help of their doctor, decide which option is best for them.


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30 St. Patrick's Day Crafts, Activities, and Snacks

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Saint Patrick's Day is coming! Are you planning any fun activities for your kids? If you need some ideas for inspiration, here are 30 St. Patrick's Day crafts, activities, and snacks - all collected just for you. Have fun celebrating!
St. Patrick's Day - 30 super clever and unique crafts for kids, St. patricks day kids activities, snacks and more (spring, preschool, march theme, kindergarten, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade)

Did you know Saint Patrick's Day commemorates the arrival of Patrick and Christianity to Ireland? Be sure to celebrate the day by wearing something green!

Get ready to celebrate with these easy activities, fun projects for kids, and tasty treats.

St. Patrick's Day

ST. Patrick's Day Crafts for Kids

St. Patrick's Day Crafts for Kids

  1. Shamrock Window Craft from Hands On as We Grow
  2. St. Patrick's Day Bead Necklace Craft from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
  3. 3D Over the Rainbow Craft from Crafty Morning
  4. Shamrock Sun Catchers from Crystal & Co
  5. Mosaic Paper Shamrocks from Happiness is Homemade
  6. Beaded Rainbow Necklace from Buggy and Buddy
  7. Crayon Resist Art Project from Crafty Morning
  8. Rainbow Hand Art Craft from 123 Homeschool 4 Me
  9. Paper Roll Shamrock Craft from No Time for Flash Cards
  10. Easy Rice Sensory Bin from 3 Dinosaurs

St. Patrick's Day Activities for Kids

St. Patrick's Day Activities for Kids

  1. Shamrock Number Line Scavenger Hunt from No Time for Flashcards
  2. Gold Coin Hide-and-Seek from Buggy and Buddy
  3. Rainbow Gelatin Sensory Tub from No Time for Flashcards
  4. Play Dough Counting Mats from Pre-K Pages
  5. Rainbow Stomp from Enchanted Homeschooling Mom
  6. Leprechaun Hunting from Sunshine and Hurricanes
  7. Bath Activity for Kids from Artsy Momma
  8. Rainbow Science from Buggy and Buddy
  9. Cloud Dough from Elemeno-P Kids
  10. Rainbow Count Down Activity from DIY Inspired

St. Patrick's Day Snack for Kids

St. Patrick's Day Snack for Kids

  1. Saint Patrick's Day Cookies from I Can Teach My Child!
  2. Green White Chocolate Chip Cookies from Practical Mommy
  3. Irish Soda Bread from No Time for Flash Cards
  4. Lucky Charm Cupcakes from Crystal & Co
  5. Rainbow Water from Happy Hooligans
  6. Lucky Candy from Playtivities
  7. Shamrock Smoothie from Artsy Momma
  8. Over the Veggie Rainbow from Momma Young at Home
  9. St. Patrick's Day Punch from Crystal & Co
  10. Shamrock Treats from Family Fun Journal

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Are you planning to celebrate St. Patrick's Day? Leave me a comment and let me know what activities you'll be doing with your kids!

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Jury recommends 38 years in prison for driver found guilty in crash that killed two children

13News Now Audrey Esther has the story

PORTSMOUTH, Va. (WVEC) -- A jury found a driver guilty of all charges she faced in connection to a crash that killed two children in 2015.

Jury members recommended that Takiara Lewis-White serve 38 years in prison and one year in jail Wednesday.

Lewis-White led a state trooper on a high-speed chase down Interstate 264 in September of last year. She crashed her car, killing 8-year-old Destiny Wilson and 5-year-old Shawnta Lewis.

A jury convicted her on two counts of Felony Murder, three counts of Felony Child Abuse, one count of Eluding Police, one count of Driving with a Suspended License, and one count of Reckless Driving.

The prosecution said Lewis-White and the girls' mother were good friends.

During the trial, the trooper who was involved testified that Lewis-White refused to stop when he turned on his cruiser's lights. He said he had to drive at more than 100 miles per hour to catch up to her.

Dash cam video from the trooper's car showed the beginning of the chase and the crash that ended it. After the wreck, the trooper tried to save Destiny and Shawnta.

In the video, Lewis-White is screaming, "My baby! My baby!" and her 1-year-old son crying.

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Police: Husband, wife dead in murder-suicide - Tri-State News, Weather & Sports

Police: Husband, wife dead in murder-suicide

Kentucky State Police say they are investigating the deaths of a southern Kentucky couple as a murder-suicide.

Police said in a statement that they responded to a 911 call in Pineville Friday morning to find 45-year-old Anthony Scott Mace and 41-year-old Lisa Mace dead of gunshot wounds.

Police say the results of their preliminary investigation found that Anthony Mace shot his wife, then shot himself.

Both bodies are being sent to Frankfort for autopsies.

(Copyright 2013 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)

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Barros Port, 2011

Late Bottled Vintage Port (Price includes dark mocha leather effect gift box as illustrated)

The 2011 Barros is a superb example of LBV Port. It's silky texture leads to powerful flavours that are beautifully balanced. Ruby in colour on the nose there are dark ripe fruit notes, reminiscent of plum, figs and blackcurrants. Full bodied and well balanced it has ripe berry fruit and mulberry flavours.

The Barros Port 2011 Late Bottled Vintage is made by a careful selection of grapes and an extended maceration in order to obtain the necessary richness, colour and intensity needed for a LBV port. Fermentation was arrested by adding grape alcohol in order to produce a naturally sweet wine, which was bottled after 4 years in cask.

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Chianti Classico Colledila is 100% Sangiovese from a single vineyard cru located 380 meters above sea level and characterized by veins of chalky and clay soil. It opens with a bright ruby color and buoyant aromas of forest fruit, wet earth and garden leaf. In fact, those delicate floral-herbal aromas are what ultimately distinguish this expression. Silky tannins give it firmness and lasting momentum.

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A lovely LBV gift selection from the outstanding 2011 vintage in the Douro. This style of Port bridges the gap between the younger, fruitier Ruby Ports and the more complex, vintage Ports which require many years ageing. It is comprising of a bottle of Krohn, an unfiltered LBV on the traditional side that will need decanting and the Taylor's a modern style LBV which is ready to pop and pour.

2011 Wiese & Krohn Unfiltered Late Bottled Vintage Port
Deep ruby colour with upfront aromas of black plums, spice and dried herbs, firm and evident tannins and a rich, long finish.

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ZITF postpones 2017 WASHen Confex

The 2017 WASHen Confex has been postponed, the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair(Zitf) has confirmed.

Court says water disconnections are illegal

In statement signed by General Manager Nomathemba Ndlovu and posted on the ZITF Facebook page, it said:

Kindly be advised that the 2017 of the Water, Sanitation, Hygiene and Energy confex, (WASHen) which was due to take place from 21-22 September 20017 has been postponed. The event will be rescheduled for a future date to be advised.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you in advance for understanding.

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Grounding of planes not political – Zim government

Zimbabwe’s government has said the grounding of planes Air Zimbabwe and South African Airways planes was a compliance not political issue.

Joram Gumbo, Zimbabwe’s Minister of Transport and Infrastructural Development said that it was unfortunate that the ‘foreign operators permit’ issue had not been looked at earlier in what he described as ‘oversight’.

Gumbo also said he and his counterpart South Africa’s Minister of Transport, Mr Joe Maswanganyi  were in contact over the issue but could not interfere as it was an operational issue.

The South African Civil Aviation Authority grounded Air Zimbabwe planes on Friday night and the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe took action grounding SAA planes.

Air Zim planes barred from leaving, entering SA
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Both authorities are apparently working to restore compliance as soon as possible which has already inconvenienced hundreds of passengers.

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Bugging Hitler's Soldiers (2013)

In the mess and annihilation of total war, first-class intelligence is as crucial as firepower. MI19 set out to make use of the German prisoners of war in the most enthusiastic surveillance mission ever attempted. Three courtly homes in the British non-urban area were transformed into prison camps and wired for sound. MI19's microphones reached everywhere. Nothing was outside limits.

Cloaked away in cellars and top floors were the listening rooms filled with, what at that time was cutting edge, recording equipment. German prisoners of war were brought to the UK and interrogated. If they were suspicious of having important intelligence the prisoners were then sent to bugged locations where listeners were ready and waiting for them to start talking.

The evidence comes from one of the most aweless operations British intelligence ever attempted. Conversations between captured German soldiers were secretly recorded and then transcribed word for word. In this documentary we hear German soldiers as they'd never been heard before - uncensored and unguarded. Using transcripts buried for decades, these conversations are reconstructed for the first time.

In the aftermath of World War II, ordinary German soldiers claimed they knew nothing about the Holocaust. They blamed all its atrocities on the SS. But these recently publicized transcripts expose the full extent of that lie.

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Drunk Woman Calls 911 Claiming To Be Olivia Pope

Drunk Woman Calls 911 Claiming To Be Olivia Pope

( 4UMF NEWS ) Drunk Woman Calls 911 Claiming To Be Olivia Pope:

Lots of women want to be the character of Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington, from ABC’s hit show “Scandal,” but one drunken college woman took that aspiration way too far recently when she prank called 911 and pretended to be the famous TV character.

According to Fusion.net, after an episode of “Scandal” aired last month, 20-year-old University of Iowa student Kelsey Cousins called 911 from outside the Sports Column bar in Iowa City and claimed that she saw the character of Cyrus Beene outside of the bar.

When police arrived at the bar, Cousins reportedly was “talking about ‘Scandal’ and a car with a bomb heading toward the White House.”

“Everything that defendant stated was nonsensical and rambling,” officer Brad Reinhard wrote in his report about the incident.

As police questioned Cousins, she reportedly revealed that she used a fake ID to get into the bar. Cousins was also found to have a blood alcohol level of .206, which is more than twice the legal limit.

Cousins was subsequently arrested and charged with making a non-emergency 911 call and public intoxication.

Let this be a lesson to others. Don’t pretend to be Olivia Pope while trying to prank the police. It won’t end well.


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1. Unbalanced
2. Sevens
3. The Years Go Down
4. The Best I Have
5. Blue Sky
6. Related (Unreleased Jacked Version)
7. Mr. Magoo (Alternate Mix)
8. Flowers In The Sand (Alternate Mix)
9. Outskirts (Alternate Mix)
10. You Still Love Me (Alternate Mix)
11. Honey Run (Instrumental Mix)
12. Shotgun Angel (Bill Sprouse, jr / Daniel Amos Cover)
13. Go With God, But Go (Live/Unreleased)
14. Perfect Blues (Live/Unreleased)
15. Dave's Blues (Live/Unreleased)
16. Denomination Blues (Live/Unreleased)

Produced by the 77s

Mike Roe - guitars and lead vocals.
Mark Harmon - bass guitars and background vocals.
Bruce Spencer - Drums, percussion and vocals.

Carey Avery: Percussion on "Outskirts".
Live tracks feature David Leonhardt on guitar & Brian Myers on percussion.

"Go With God, But Go" recorded live at the Canal Street Tavern in Dayton, Ohio October 15, 1997.
"Perfect Blues" recorded live at Christ's Church, UCC in St Louis, Missouri November 5, 1997.
"Dave's Blues" recorded at Mt. Vernon Nazarene College in Mt. Vernon, Ohio October 8, 1997.
"Denomination Blues" recorded at Madison's Cafe in Seattle, Washington November 5, 1997.
"Shotgun Angel" recorded for the Daniel Amos tribute CD ''When Worlds Collide''.


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Camberwell Website Optimization

Basic SEO Techniques Camberwell :

A few basic SEO techniques:

  • View Google’s cache to see your page the way a search engine sees it. If you can’t see an element of the page in the cache, the search engines can’t see it either! This means that content isn’t gaining you any search traffic.
  • Be sure your page is reachable. Crawlers don’t perform searches, they travel by links. This means your page has to be viewable by clicking on a link on another page or crawlers won’t see it and it won’t be searchable.
  • Be sure you don’t have metaframes preventing your page from being crawled. Many Camberwell webmasters use metaframes to prevent rogue bots from crawling their page and don’t realize that these metaframes will also prevent search bots from crawling their pages!
  • Don’t let your links get lost in a sea of links. Pages with hundreds or thousands of links may not get crawled thoroughly in order to prevent spam and skewed rankings.
  • Use specific keywords. General keywords will have lots of competition. By using more specific keywords, a webmaster can reduce competition and increase rankings.
  • Don’t abuse keywords. Use your keywords in natural speech. Optimize your page for one or two specific keywords that searchers might use when looking for information available on your page. Be sure your keywords are relevant to your content.
  • Don’t use keywords in link anchor text pointing to other pages on your site. (This is known as commiting keyword cannibalization.)
  • Be sure your keywords are plain text HTML. Add ALT text for images, transcripts for videos and audio clips, and put captions with java or flash plugins or images. Although crawlers are improving, many are unable to process anything besides plain text.

Be Aware of User Experience

Increasing the usability, accuracy, and visual design of the website will also increase your search metrics. Search engines use search metrics and backlinks to determine the popularity and user-friendliness of your page. These factors play an important role in SEO. Always seek to create content that is pleasing for your reader.

Search Engines use Engagement Metrics to determine user satisfaction. Time spent on a search result means the user found the result much more helpful than a user who immediately hits the back button to look for another search.

The Panda update allows google to use machine learning to rank websites on quality and user friendliness. In 2011, human evaluators ranked thousands of websites based on quality and then implemented machine learning that mimicked those evaluators. This update changed more than 20% of search results.

Selecting Keywords:

Things to consider when selecting keywords:

  1. The Keyword’s relevance to your page. Will the people using that keyword in searches be satisfied with the content on your page?
  2. The Keyword’s specificity. Would a narrower keyword or keyphrase attract an audience that is more interested in your content than the audience of the broader term? On the other hand, is your keyword so specific it won’t be searched?
  3. The Competition on that keyword. Can you compete with the current top ranked websites for your keyword?

Where to Put Keywords:

  1. In the Title: as close to the beginning as you can put it
  2. At the Top of the Page
  3. Several times throughout the body of the page
  4. At least once in the ALT text
  5. In the URL
  6. In the Summary or Meta description tag

Optimizing Title Tags:

  1. Titles should be between 45 and 55 characters long. Titles that exceed 55 characters in length may not show properly in google searches.
  2. Keywords should be placed near the beginning of the title
  3. Consider putting your brandname at the end of the title
  4. Don’t sacrifice readability and emotional impact for keyword optimization

Visit to see how the title and summary of your page would show up in a google search.

Constructing URLS:

  1. Keep them short
  2. Be sure your reader has an idea of what he will find on the page when reads the URL
  3. Use plain text links
  4. Use hyphens to separate words
  5. Use keywords

How Links to your Page Effect your SEO

  1. Are a wide variety of websites created by a wide variety of webmasters on a wide variety of topics linking to your site?
  2. Are many sites on similar topics linking to your site?
  3. Are the ranking sites for your keywords linking to your site?
  4. Are sites linking to your page using your keywords in anchor text to link to your site? (Anchor text is the blue text that shows on a webpage instead of the URL to the link)
  5. Are you getting links from trusted sources?
  6. Have you refrained from linking to spammy or poor quality websites and websites that link to your page?
  7. Have you been accruing new links?
  8. Is your page being shared on social media?

If you can answer yes to the eight questions above, links to your content are doing their job and helping increase your rankings. If you can’t answer yes to each question, devise strategies to remedy your answer.

Creating good, quality content that related pages will naturally link to is one of the best ways to get links. Another great way, is through Manual Outreach. Don’t under estimate the traffic that a well placed link can generate itself. Target specific websites who cater to similar audiences, preferably websites with few links, high credibility and high rankings for your keywords, and invite them to link to your page. Be sure to explain how linking to your page is a benefit for them, and not just an act of charity for you. You may also use this tool to see your competitors’ backlinks. Finding sites who have linked to the top ranked sites for your keyword gives you a list of sites that whose links would be of value to you. Avoid self-created links on lower quality websites. While they may help rankings a little bit, they may also hurt your rankings. If you pursue this option, proceed with caution.

Search Engine Webmaster SEO advice

SEO advice from the major search engine webmasters includes:

  • Be sure all pages can be reached by static, plain-text links. (Links of the form: , as opposed to links buried in images, java or flash.) These links are easier for crawlers to find.
  • Don’t “cloak” your work, or try to present different content to the search engine than you present to the user. Make sure your page is optimized to be found by a search engine when a user searches a relevant query. Don’t try to cheat the crawler’s and their index.
  • Use accurate, descriptive, clear language with appropriate keywords in your titles, subtitles and ALT text. (ALT text is text that appears when an image cannot be displayed.) On hubpages, photo captions are ALT text and are therefore an extremely important part of search engine optimization.
  • Create content filled with relevant keywords.

Check for Errors

To check for crawl errors see Google’s Webmaster Tools.

Search Engine Optimization: Backlinks & How to Create Them

Online Seo Company

In a perfect world, you would have an unlimited budget to market your business in order to find new customers and increase sales. You could buy lots of online and offline advertising, run promotions to build traffic in store and online, and launch a proactive public relations campaign to increase your product or brand's visibility and awareness. But this isn't a perfect world. Realistically, most small businesses and even many mid-sized firms have more great ideas on how to peddle their wares than available resources.

So where do you start if you are looking for more customers? Learning to generate new sales leads is an essential skill for an entrepreneur. Even if you don't consider yourself a salesperson in the classic sense of the Willy Loman character from Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman, you need to understand that the possibilities for finding new customers range from cold calling names from the phone book to buying lists of potential customers to using newer Internet techniques like search engine optimization to drive new business to your website.

The following pages will delve into how to conduct market research to understand your target audience and their needs, how to determine which lead generation techniques are best to broaden your sales horizons, and how to increase sales by following several strategies to sell additional products and/or services to existing customers.

How to Find New Customers and Increase Sales: Understand Your Target Audience

Before you can find new customers and increase sales, you need to understand who your customer is, what value proposition you offer to customers, and what your competition is currently offering in the market and where there are gaps for a new entrant. In other words, you need to do some market research -- whether that means hiring an outside firm to do the legwork or trying to do it yourself. There's an underlying disconnect between your motivation to increase sales and your customer's motivation to solve their problems.

"Attracting more customers is really about listening to their needs, not being a solution looking for a problem," says Paige Arnof-Fenn, founder and CEO of Mavens & Moguls, a strategic-marketing consulting firm whose clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as early stage and emerging businesses.  "There are many existing problems out there that need to be solved that customers are willing to pay for today."

Dig Deeper: Getting to Know Your Frequent Customers

How to Find New Customers and Increase Sales: Find Out Who Your Current Customers Are

In order to develop a marketing plan to reach new customers, you need to better understand who you're already selling to. "If I'm trying to expand sales, I have to find out who my existing customers are. What are their demographics? What do they look like?" says Jerry Osteryoung, director of outreach for the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at Florida State University. "That means doing market research."

Market research runs the gamut from very simple qualitative research to in-depth quantitative analysis. It can be done very quickly and inexpensively by sending surveys to your existing customers using one of the many online survey tools, such as SurveyMonkey or Zoomerang. You can also get to know the target audience by looking at existing sources of information -- from the U.S. Census Bureau or other government agencies, from trade associations, or from third-party research firms. But depending on the questions you are trying to answer and your research budget, your market research can involve more extensive interviews with customers and qualitative studies on how target customers feel about your business, its products and services.

Certain products and services may appeal to one audience but not to another, so understanding the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in your target market is critical. You can get to know your customers and segment the market any number of ways including by:

  • Demographics -- statistical data on a population including income levels, age, etc.
  • Psychographics -- the attitudes and tastes of a certain demographic.
  • Ethnographics -- examination of particular cultures.
  • Buying habits -- how, what and where customers purchase products and services.

Dig Deeper: How to Conduct Market Research

How to Find New Customers and Increase Sales: Defining the Market for Your Product

Use the information about your existing customers to develop a target audience for your business in its drive to win new customers and increase sales. "While there are core customers you are trying to reach, often there are other markets that are also important to address," Arnof-Fenn says. "Make sure you know who the gatekeepers and influencers are; they will affect the decision makers and you will most likely need to sell to them differently than to the end user." For example, parents might be the gatekeepers for products targeted to children or technology managers might hold influence over a company's decision to invest in new software.

Determine which key messages, features and benefits matter to each potential market. Tell these customers how your business can help them solve their problems. "In order to have a customer go to your online shop, you have to find a reason why these customers want to come to you," Osteryoung says. "The value proposition has to be spelled out clearly."

Next, you need to figure out where to reach these customers and whether there should be a marketing or advertising plan that goes along with that outreach.

Dig Deeper: Make 100 Phone Calls to Find Your Target Audience

How to Find New Customers and Increase Sales: Generating Sales Leads

There are a variety of age-old staple techniques and newer tools you can use to find new customers and increase sales. It's best to understand the range of choices you have in order to determine which may best help your business reach new customers. Newspaper readers may not be moved by Internet-based sales techniques. Similarly, business people who are accustomed with hiring only people they know may be better swayed by meeting you at a chamber of commerce meeting than accepting a blind invitation to connect on LinkedIn or Facebook.

"It starts with good people," says Peter Handal, chairman and CEO of Dale Carnegie Training, the sales and leadership training organization. "If you're a one-man shop, it's one thing. But if sales people are really important, you need to hire and motivate good people and you want to give them an upside, such as sales on commission. The motivation is not just money it's also helping them overcome the fear of prospecting."

Here is a rundown on the techniques available:

  • Cold calling. This is telemarketing without the call center. It's a blind contact with a potential customer who isn't expecting a pitch. Customer leads can be picked up through scouring newspaper articles or items, lists of leads that are culled by a third-party, or paying attention to people or businesses moving into your turf. "People are always hesitant about cold calling or talking to someone they don't know," says Handal. "We coach people to give themselves a pep talk to get them in the mood. We suggest that they set a goal -- this is how many new people they will talk to this week."
  • Networking. This can be done the old-fashioned way, by getting involved in community organizations, such as the chamber of commerce, or attending business functions, such as trade shows. Social functions -- dinner invitations, book clubs, etc. -- can also lead to potential business. "All of those kinds of things are important ways to network to find new customers," Handal says. Networking has also taken a 21st Century twist on the Internet, with the rise in popularity of such websites as LinkedIn, Facebook, and Plaxo. Many businesses find that this type of networking, making contacts through friends or former colleagues, can lead to new customers.
  • Develop champions of your products. Use business contacts who have been happy with your products to help generate references and referrals. Once you have sold to them, customers can help you sell to others by offering positive testimonials and leveraging a refer-a-friend campaign created by your business. This technique also employs word-of-mouth marketing. Help customers help you by giving them the ammunition they need to tell your story to others.  "Don't be afraid to ask, 'Is there someone else I can talk to and also help?" Handal says.
  • Affiliate marketing. Look at non-competitive products or services that are reaching out to the same audiences to see if there are ways you can collaborate through shared outreach efforts such as newsletters, mailings (online and offline) or co-branding opportunities. You probably can uncover a handful of like-minded products or services that are talking to your customers, Arnof-Fenn says. Suggest to these business owners ways your businesses can support each other. Your customers will see joint efforts as a value-added opportunity to reinforce their choice of brands.
  • Leverage your website.  There are all sorts of tools these days through which you can drive potential new customers to your website. Search engine optimization (SEO) -- using keywords and other techniques to make your site appear on the first page of listings on search engines -- has become an art form. There are websites, such as Search Engine Watch, that will keep you updated about SEO techniques. In addition, there are a growing number of paid SEO consultants who can help you use all the tricks and techniques to improve your search results. You can also use a variety of blogs, chat rooms, podcasts, and webinars to generate awareness for your website and company. A website is a dynamic tool not a one-time experience.  The top search engines are constantly updating their algorithms, so you must monitor your website on a regular basis to make sure your keywords are leading customers to you.  Make sure you are keeping your website up to date with fresh content so your customers come back often for more.
  • Advertising. Typically businesses are encouraged to spend 3 to 5 percent of their revenue on advertising, but a small business needs to make sure that advertising is effective, Osteryoung says. One way to do this is to ask your customers where they heard about you so that you can measure what is effective. In addition, you also have to carefully pick your markets for advertising to make sure you're reaching your target audience. If you're targeting an older audience, newspaper ads might be the way to go. But if it's Gen X or Y you're after, then you may be better off advertising online or on TV, Osteryoung says. "You've got to define your demographics before you develop your advertising or marketing plan."

Dig Deeper: Converting Web Traffic into Sales Leads

How to Find New Customers and Increase Sales: Sell More to Existing Customers

In order to increase sales, many businesses believe the only way is to find new customers, but a number of experts say that this strategy leaves out an obvious potential source of new sales. It's much easier to get an existing customer to buy from you than to convince a new customer to take the plunge. "They're forgetting about low hanging fruit -- their existing customer base," says Osteryoung. "If I want to expand sales, the number one place to go is the existing customer base. They already trust you."

Here's how to increase sales with your existing customer base:

  • Bundle products. You can "bundle" a few products or services together for a special price to try to get an existing customer to try some of your other offerings.
  • Try the "upsell." Convince your sales staff to go back to existing customers and try to sell those clients related products or services. A common example is a warranty, Osteryoung says. Think of how many times you've purchased electronics and a sales person has tried to sell you on an extended service plan. Customers sometimes take the bait.
  • Offer inside information. If a customer is eyeing a product but about to put it back on the shelf, make sure you let them know that the product is going on sale the following week. If you monitor your website's online shopping cart, you may email an existing customer who didn't complete a sale and offer them a discount to complete the purchase.
  • Think about customer rewards. Like the airlines have done with frequent fliers, there is no reason a small business can't reward good customers with a loyalty program. Offer a discount on their birthday or for every 10 purchases give them one for free.
  • Give free samples. Offering freebies isn't necessarily going to cost you an arm and a leg, but it can increase sales by engendering good feelings among existing customers, convincing them to pass on the sample to a friend or family member, and/or convince them to buy your latest hand cream or ice cream flavor.

Dig Deeper: Tips on Creating a Customer Loyalty Program

"There's a lot you can do that doesn't require much more work," Osteryoung says. "You want to make sure you have saturation but obviously you never want to alienate the customer…. You never want to make the customer feel like you are hard selling them."

Recommended Resources
Dale Carnegie
Practical principles, processes, and programs that offer people the knowledge, skills and practices they need to influence and sell to customers

Word-of-Mouth Marketing Association
Trade association for word-of-mouth marketing to attract more customers

Find New Customers
Jeff Ogden's whitepaper on How to Find New Customers and more

Related Links
How to Use E-mail to Find New Customers
Strategies to use e-mail to build your business

Use an Affiliate Program to Snag New Customers
Use an affiliate program to get your existing customers to recommend your business to their circle of contacts.

How to Hire an SEO Consultant
A primer on how to hire an outside consultant to help you maximize your search engine optimization.

Drive Traffic to Your Business Blog
How to use a blog on your business website to find new customers.

The Return of Customer Loyalty
A veteran entrepreneur explains why it's more important than ever to keep the customers you already have

Teach Your Employees to Focus on Your Best Customers
Teach your employees to know who your best customers are and provide employees with techniques and tools to uncover customer preferences and make every customer interaction count.

SEO Is Dead. Audience Optimization Is Taking Its Place

Seo And Online Marketing

It's a major facet of every marketing plan, and every brand leader wishes they had a crystal ball to tell them its fate. Every consumer, client and professional uses it to educate themselves on their options, discover their peers' findings, and consider alternatives. I'm talking about, of course, online search.

Whether you rely solely on Google, or if you tend to stray to alternatives like Bing or even DuckDuckGo, the future of search engines plays a huge part in not only your daily life, but the success of your brand. Because the technology is constantly evolving, any book you read is already outdated; in order to stay on the cutting edge of search engine progress, ensure you continuously update your knowledge by reading articles (such as this one), staying up to date on new algorithms, analyzing your competitors' successes and failures, and consult expert opinions and insights.

One such expert is Baruch Labunski, CEO and Founder of Rank Secure, a leading expert in search engine optimization for businesses. Labunski gave us the insight scoop on what search engine habits and trends he expects to become normal in 2017. Consider this guide required reading for any brand that's interested in keeping - or improving - their search engine ranking in the next twelve months:

Mobile Friendly Or Bust

As of November, Google has started making mobile a priority - with the goal of their new mobile indexing algorithm the primary algorithm by 2018. Given that mobile searches now account for well over half of all search queries, this was a long time coming.

The reality is that the era of mobile-friendly websites being a perk or extra is over. Smartphones have now reached saturation in many major markets, including the US, Canada, Japan, Western Europe and China. If you're trying to sell to markets in these major economies, mobile is no longer optional.

The Rise Of Digital Assistants Make Her A Little Closer To Reality

SEO professionals are currently staring down the barrel of a very long gun - and that gun is held by Alexa, Siri, Cortana and Google's as-yet-unnamed assistant persona.

The challenge with the growing popularity of digital assistants is that, as more consumers submit their queries with voice controls, it becomes increasingly important to not just be on the front page, or the top five results, but the first result. Voice searches return only the top result - which means if you aren't it, it doesn't matter if you're the second result or on the second page, the consumer won't hear about you.

Hey Neighbor - Have You Conquered Local Search?

As Google reduces the clutter on their results page - and alternatives like Bing and DuckDuckGo follow suit, inevitably - the emphasis on local search will become all the more cut throat. By combining the highly specific locational data that's available from consumers searching on mobile, alongside Google's already in-progress goal of customizing results by location for all users, positioning your brand to those who are physically near you will become crucial in 2017.

Google is continuously improving their customer experience, and their technology has them approaching the thought patterns of actual users, however, this means that our jobs as brand managers and promoters will continue to become more complicated as time passes. The days of search engine algorithms filtering by obvious data points, or being easily manipulated are over. The new fact of search engine optimization is appealing to your immediate markets - those around you and those who are searching directly for your product.

The best way to master local search? Make sure you claim your location on as many review sites - and of course Google Places - as quickly as possible. List your locations on your main website. If you have multiple locations, give them each their own website (which should still be linked to the general brand site) with their address listed. Make it as obvious as possible where you are.

2017 will be the most challenging year yet for online marketers, as technology continues to advance at a breakneck pace. However, if you continue to stay current on updates, research your competitors and test your strategies, you'll make it through. Remember, the core goal of search engines is to find what the user is looking for; make sure that those who are looking for your product can find you, and can easily understand why you're the right option, and your brand will be just fine.


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Barcelona have agreed a deal with Brazilian side Palmeiras for the transfer of young centre back, Yerry Mina, according to Mundo Deportivo.

After a quiet January, the Spanish giants have moved quickly to sign the 22-year-old centre back on a pre-contract deal worth €9m.

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Discussions were reportedly held between Barcelona representatives and Palmeiras president Mauricio Galiotte, and sporting director Alexandre Mattos in a recent meeting.

By Barcelona's standards, this season has been below par. With Real Madrid leading in the league with two games in hand, as well as the thrashing the Catalan club received from PSG in the Champions League, Luis Enrique might be looking to inject new life into his side with this signing.

Standing at 6'5", the Colombian international would be a welcomed change into what is considered a team lacking in physicality.

The Spanish title holders definitely seem to be looking long term with this acquisition though, with Mina not linking up with his future teammates until January 2018 so that he can help Palmeiras in their bid for the Brazilian title and the Copa Libertadores.

Enrique will be hoping that Mina will be able to form a strong partnership with Samuel Umtiti, who was signed from Lyon last summer. As Pique's career will inevitably start to wind down in the coming seasons, Umtiti and Mina could potentially become the next Pique and Puyol.

Signing on a five year deal, and turning down Man City in favour of the Nou Camp outfit, Mina already has five international caps to his name and is predicted to have a very bright future.


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As an Outside Sales Representative, you must be a highly driven and motivated “hunter” type, with a strong work ethic, a high degree of integrity and an entrepreneurial and achievement-oriented attitude. You must also have strong time-management, organizational and prioritization abilities. It is also important that you display excellent communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, with the ability to quickly establish rapport and credibility with customers.

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Another Tabaadla that shook the house!

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As it’s already declared that for the week’s luxury budget task the challengers performed the best. Hence, now was their turn to gain a few rewards. And they were given two choices, which if I name would sound a tough call to take for even you! So Bigg Boss said that the team challengers could either buy their luxury food items or could swap one person from their team to the champions and could ask one team member from the champions team to come in their team! Who knew something like that was also possible as the housemates already had a tabaadla two days back. Discussing for a while challengers decided they would go with the second choice,to do one more swapping. Yeah! they sacrificed the luxury budget for this one. So who were the two people from both the teams who exchanged their mics?

Challengers asked Karishma Tanna to be part of their team going forward whereas Sana Khan to join the Champions team! You could look at their facial expressions going odd as the two changed their mics.

Sana wasn’t happy with many things but she wanted a swap. She was anyway upset with her team for not allowing her to give her name for the best performer during the task and now she took a stand to swap herself. This was just too much for the young lass! She even got into an argument with Gautam wherein she laid her opinion but Gautam stood by his words saying he said what he wanted to.

But certainly post this swap, everybody had come on guard. Now each one can feel the real jitters that the game is coming to the finale and the best performer would be the one who played the game the best way possible!

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The Unpleasant Man

Frederick Pollack

For a change, it isn’t his usual
ice-caps melting, species dying,
the fast-approaching deserts
and savagery.  Which fill (he fills) us
only with irritation: we know all this;
he uses it somehow as self-validation.
Shouldn’t he more properly
cherish and add to our moments of weary
comradeship (those moments which
alone are civilization),
making of each a kind of eternity?
Instead he raises his eyebrows
as if amused, and cites
statistics that, however accurate,
will deaden thought before disaster ends it.

But tonight, almost mercifully,
he proclaims a seemingly
more willed and avoidable doom: the Religious Right,
Islamofascism (he says he likes
the sound of the neocon term, which makes
us flinch).  Bad things, we agree;
yet he goes on to say
that something good will come
of the coming religious wars:
the definitive end of all religious nonsense.
Of God.  So that our heirs,
the great-grandchildren of survivors, when
they sit again with friends will know the worth
of wine and friendship and be satisfied
with science and mortality and earth.

Which sounds ingratiating, if
rhetorical, and we might be appeased
in advance; but he provocatively stops.
Unusually uncomfortable
(more so than if extinction were on the table),
we gaze through various objective and subjective
windows.  At our faithful cars,
our costly, well-deserved, embattled peace.
At long-dead nuns we love to hate.
At moments in a cathedral
or in some national park
when chatter fell away, and
as if in a new act
of an unconvincing play, some added props,
candles or stars, expanded our perspective.

Apart from which, not quite admitting it,
we each retrieve or fall
into that secret afterlife
where long-abandoned dolls will talk and cats
return, and mothers give up all
their secrets like the sea, and love
apologize forever in detail –
a far more poignant private sacrament
than the idea of sitting here someday,
not even as ourselves, but wiser strangers.
So that our friend, who smiles as if he knows
what we are feeling, faces something
like an unspoken hurricane that blows
from the Gulf into more and more northerly states,
disintegrating as it goes.

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Frederick Pollack is the author of two book-length narrative poems, The Adventure and Happiness, both published by Story Line Press. Other of his poems and essays have appeared in Hudson Review, Southern Review, Fulcrum, Salmagundi, Poetry Salzburg Review, Die Gazette (Munich), Representations, and elsewhere. Poems have most recently appeared in the print journals Magma (UK), The Hat, Bateau, and Chiron Review. Online, poems have appeared in Big Bridge, Snorkel, Hamilton Stone Review, Diagram, BlazeVox, The New Hampshire Review, Denver Syntax, Barnwood, Wheelhouse, Mudlark, Shadow Train, and elsewhere. Pollack is an adjunct professor of creative writing at George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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San Juan Unified School District reviewing policy after kindergartner walks off campus

Sacramento mother shares concerns after 5-year-old walks out of school.

The San Juan Unified School District is reviewing its security policies at Greer Community School after a 5-year-old kindergartner walked off campus Tuesday.

The kindergartner left campus after reporting to the school that she was not feeling well and was told by her parent to remain at school, SJUSD spokesperson Trent Allen said in an e-mail. The 5-year-old girl was found 10 minutes later by adults at a convenient store near her home, about a quarter mile from the school.

Employees at the convenient store called police and the girl was returned to school.

The child’s mother, Raeonna Ponce-Gonzalez, has since pulled her daughter from the school and does not plan for her to return.

“You can’t just sit there and let her walk by herself and expect me to give you a second chance,” Ponce-Gonzalez said.

She said she can't believe her daughter was able to walk out the front door.

In a statement, the district affirmed that safety for its students is a top priority. The school staff has reviewed its policies and are setting new plans in place to reduce the opportunity for a student to leave campus. All kindergarten students will now be escorted and will have more supervision in the area between the school office and their classrooms.

 “The site staff will also be discussing the incident during their safety team meeting to review and identify any additional strategies to reduce the opportunity for a student to leave campus,” Allen said in an e-mail.

Ponce-Gonzalez plans to speak with the school administration about the incident on Thursday.

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Ethoxylates Market Size Is Anticipated To Reach USD 14.75 Billion By 2025: Hexa Reports

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Growing use of the product in pharmaceutical industry as an ingredient in ointments and emulsions is expected to drive the market growth over the forecast period. In addition, high dependence on ethoxylates based herbicides and insecticides by the farmers, in a bid to increase the crop yield is likely to benefit the market growth.

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posted on Apr, 12 2005 @ 05:42 AM
i am extremley shocked...ney.....angered by the amount of swearing i hear in the world.....wouldnt it be better if we substituted these evil words..(that i never use) for the following below?

a womans front bottom= clacker
a womans back bottom= her unit
a mans front bottom=weapon
a mans back bottom=undercarrige

posted on Apr, 12 2005 @ 07:36 AM
Whenever you get scamed, or "f'd" over, you say you were: "CHOOCHED"

posted on Apr, 12 2005 @ 01:29 PM
a womans front bottom= cha-cha
a womans back bottom= trunk
a mans front bottom= hoo hoo dilly
a mans back bottom= bum

posted on Apr, 12 2005 @ 01:41 PM
Ok my suggestions aren't as much fun but...

a womans front bottom= vagina

a womans back bottom= backside

a mans front bottom=penis

a mans back bottom= backside

I'm such a party pooper. lol

posted on Apr, 12 2005 @ 01:52 PM
Seems to me...

We have a universally accepted convergence of alternate vernaculars at a previously undiscovered Vortex in Bristol, Tennessee.

I think that settles it.

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NEWS: Syria Squarely In The Sights Of American Diplomatic Offensive

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American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has been on a diplomatic offensive with the aims of suring up international support for UN action against Iran and Syria. An international consensus on Iran was elusive but according to Sean McCormack, Ms. Rice's spokesman, the countries are "unified" on the Syrian issue. The United States, with France, has accused Syria of arming militants in Lebanon and of carrying out the assassination of ex-Lebanese PM Rafik Harriri.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice mobilized support among major powers for diplomatic showdowns over the next few weeks with Syria and Iran on a trip that ended on Sunday.

Over three days, Rice held talks with the leaders of France, Russia and Britain -- all holders of vetoes at the U.N. Security Council - on how to make the two U.S. foes meet U.N. security demands.

In a show of diplomacy that reflected the Bush administration's efforts this year to consult partners more, Rice crisscrossed Europe seeking to build a common front against Syria's suspected support for militants in Lebanon and Iran's nuclear ambitions.

Rebuffed by Russia on Iran, she did not win all the support she wanted.

Rice used several one-on-one meetings to prepare the ground for concerted pressure at the Security Council this month against Syria and at the U.N. nuclear watchdog in November against Iran.

A U.N. investigator is due to report his findings in the assassination of an anti-Syrian ex-prime minister of Lebanon on Friday.

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I was aware of the American failure to get international consensus over Iran's nuclear programme, but I did not know Ms. Rice had Syria on her agenda. Im even more surprised that Russia is playing ball with the Americans over an economic and military ally such as Syria.

Why is it currently on the agenda to tackle two countries who only in recent months formed a mutual defence pact with each other? Does the United States wish to politically isolate both countries from their key benefactors and support bases in Russia? If Syria is found to of orchestrated the assassination of Rafik Harriri I think Assad's political capital would vanish as far as Russia is concerned.

Could this diplomatic offensive be the opening shots in a Syria/Iran vs America/Britain/France/Australia war? They sure are trying to set it up that way.

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