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The President’s fiscal year 2017 budget and Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) released this week makes it clear that this Administration is committed to taking bold actions to protect Americans in today’s fast-moving digital world.

For OPM, the President’s budget proposal provides additional funding to continue the progress of enhancing our cybersecurity posture as well as modernizing our IT systems to meet evolving cybersecurity challenges.

During the past year, OPM acquired and deployed new cybersecurity tools that enhance our ability to rapidly identify and respond to emerging cyber threats. We also built a new modern infrastructure that strengthens the security of the environment to house our systems. The resources in the President’s spending plan will help us accelerate the movement of OPM’s current systems to this new, enhanced security infrastructure. Completing this migration will be a major step forward for OPM.

The CNAP roadmap will better enable OPM to build on our cybersecurity partnerships across government and will fortify our efforts to empower agencies to hire the cyber talent they need.

First, CNAP calls for the kind of increased collaboration between agencies that OPM has already established with DHS’s U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) and other government partners to proactively take steps to enforce and enhance network security infrastructures.

The CNAP takes this collaboration a step further by directing DHS and the General Services Administration to increase the availability of government-wide shared services for information technology and cybersecurity.

The President wants to take individual agencies like OPM out of the business of building their own new security services or capabilities when there is an opportunity to leverage the collective strength and power of the Federal Government.

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A critical element of OPM’s mission is to provide agencies with the assistance and tools they need to recruit, hire, and retain cybersecurity talent. As part of this work that is already underway, OPM hosted a cybersecurity talent summit this week where we brought together human capital specialists from throughout the Federal Government to learn what tools and flexibilities can help them attract the employees they need.

The President’s budget invests in several CNAP initiatives that will help support OPM’s efforts and help create a pipeline of cybersecurity experts. These include expanding the Scholarship for Service program by establishing scholarships for Americans who want to pursue a cybersecurity education and serve their country by joining the Federal workforce. The initiative would also establish a cybersecurity core curriculum and enhance student loan forgiveness programs for cybersecurity experts who enter Federal service.

As OPM continues its journey to transform its information technology infrastructure and help agencies bring on board the talent they require to bolster their cyber workforce, we will benefit from the resources included in the President’s FY 2017 spending plan as well as the national cybersecurity mission outlined in the Cybersecurity National Action Plan.

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Saturday, August 16, 2008

Sea Rocket Sputters

I was a fervent fan of The Linkery until they moved into their new, much larger space and decided to do ass-hat things like charge for ice tea refills (I think the charge for Kara's ice tea alone was $15 on our last visit!) while providing much slower service than at their old location. But, I'm still willing to give Jay the benefit of the doubt and I do plan to go back again in a few months, well after the growing pains have eased and they're more comfortable with their new size.

Unfortunately, I can't say the same for Sea Rocket Bistro, the restaurant that took over The Linkery's old location at the corner of 30th and Upas. I love seafood. I could eat seafood every single day and never get tired of it. So, naturally, I was ecstatic that a new seafood place with the same values that The Linkery espouses was moving in as soon as The Linkery moved up the street. And, it was natural that Kara and I tried the place during the first week it was open. My impression at the time was that the food was quite good, but the service was unbearably slow. I chalked this up to both the restaurant being brand new and this also being the restaurateurs' first restaurant. We left that first meal convinced that the place had real potential and that we would return after it had been open a few months to allow the owners some time to work out the kinks.

Sea Rocket opened their doors in June, had their "Grand Opening" in July and then had two favorable reviews last week in both the San Diego Reader and San Diego City Beat. So, I figured, now was the time to go back and try again. We tried again last night and we have no plans to return ever again.

First, I was disappointed they were out of the seafood paella, which looks quite good. But, I can understand that when you use only local sources and you're running a small restaurant, you will sometimes run out of stuff. After scouring the menu, Kara and I both decided to order small: we both ordered the Green salad, mine with the scallop topper and Kara's with the sardine starter, all served at the same time. I ordered a lemonade and Kara ordered an ice tea and we had a carafe of water to drink as well.

The water and the lemonade were both brought to the table in a timely manner, but the ice tea took much longer to come. (Perhaps they had to brew the tea, I don't know.) Then, the waiting began and we had to wait a very long time for our dinner to show up. I could excuse this if the place was busy or if they were short-staffed, but they were only half-full and looked to have 4 servers for 6 tables. I mean, seriously, how long does it take to make a salad, saute scallops on the rare side and grill up some sardines? The longest time might have been to prepare the sardines... but that could not have been the case (more in a second on this). I think we waited at least 30 minutes for the food, during which time I almost finished my lemonade and we drank most of the water.

The food did come, finally, and while the salad and the scallops were delicious, something seemed wrong about the salad. I quickly remembered how the salad was lovingly described as containing fresh figs from a North Park garden and, since I love figs, I was really looking forward to the salad. Hell, I decided to order the salad based on the figs. But, there were no figs in this salad and, instead, the salad had dried cherries, the kind you might buy in a sealed plastic bag from Ralphs. I summoned our server and asked about the figs and she said something like, "oh, they must have forgotten to put the figs in the salad, I'll go check in the kitchen". Seriously, WTF? How do you forget the main ingredient and worse, substitute with a vastly inferior product? The server did return shortly with a small bowl with a sliced whole fig, which was as delicious as I expected it to be, but it just seemed an incredibly careless mistake to make. Putting that aside for a moment, let me return to the sardines.

Kara is not the fish lover that I am. She likes fish, though and she wanted to be adventurous, so she selected the sardines. Now, I had read raving reviews of the sardines and I expected that they would be at least as great as the grilled green bean in ginger soy sauce (yum!) at The Linkery. I also understood that they were whole sardines on a skewer, but neither Kara nor I had much experience with whole fish. No big deal, I stopped one of the employees that was walking nearby (I think it was one of the owners) for some help. I explained that this was the first time we had ordered the sardines and we asked her the best way to "eat" the sardines. I can't believe no one has ever asked this question (hell, I think I read in one of the reviews last week that the reviewer asked the same question), and she seemed mostly bothered by the question, although she did offer some help, suggesting that we slip a knife or fork down the side to remove the fillet from the bones. Not the best attitude, but it was an informative answer and Kara and I had one each of the three sardines. I liked it well enough, Kara less so, but neither of us could understand what any of the raves were about. It was a messy proposition with little flavor and little meat once you took off the skin and bones. I liked it more than Kara, so she offered the third sardine to me. I took it, ate a little bit of the meat and immediately sensed that I had eaten the "bad" part of the fish. It tasted soft and bitter, so I slid the whole thing open and quickly realized that half the fish was still bloody and uncooked!

I had gotten the impression that the place had two signature dishes, one was the sea urchin (which I don't much care for) and the other was the sardines. So, how the frak do you mess up your signature dish by not cooking it, especially after it took half an hour to get it to the table in the first place? Once I realized that the fish was uncooked, I also realized that there was a small puddle of fish blood on the plate. We stopped our server, pointed out the problem and they offered to either replace the dish or take it off the bill. Since Kara had lost her appetite at the sight of the uncooked fish and fish blood, I asked that they remove it from the bill.

I should also mention that the sardine dish is described as being "on a bed of greens and lima bean salad". I'm sorry, but a single 1 1/2"-diameter piece of lettuce does not a bed of greens make.

By now, we were both discouraged and ready to leave. We had also been out of water for about 10 minutes and, even though we had stopped servers three times for problems with our meals, none of them had noticed that our water was empty and we were too distracted to notice until we were already thirsty and waiting for the check. I could say that we skipped dessert (which we did) and left quickly, except nothing quick happens here. The various servers passed the bill and my credit card sitting on my table a few times before noticing it was there and picking it up.

As I said at the beginning of this review, we will not be returning to Sea Rocket Bistro and I can't recommend it to anyone. Some of the food (the salad ingredients and the scallops) might have been really good, but the food preparation and wait staff are both severely lacking and have only gotten worse since they opened, not better.

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  1. Ray,

    Sorry about your experience at our restaurant. Just a few comments on the issues to help you understand them and let you know we hear your feedback loud and clear.

    We generally serve the salad with dried figs and cherries, but one of our regular customer dropped off some figs from her garden and we decided to put them on the menu that same night. That probably didn't get communicated to everyone in the kitchen since the change happened so fast. This has been a big challenge for us when bringing in various local ingredients and rapidly incorporating them in to our menu.

    The sardines should have been cooked more, and we've also had a lot of feedback (as well as when I eat them myself), that the guts are too bitter even when they are cooked more. In Portugal, they leave the guts in, but I started to prefer them without the guts, and comments from customer have been the same, so we've been considering removing the guts and also adding an acidic or salty lemon zest sauce to them. Removing the guts would solve the cooking problem since they would be thinner and be cooked in the middle before being burnt on the outside. We've been doing the sardines with the guts in for awhile, but it's only been recently that we've had enough comments to think that removing them is probably a good idea.

    I'm not sure why no one refilled your water or didn't pick up your check right away. Better table service and service times have been a huge focus for us in the past weeks after comments that we got early on. The only thing I can think of that would contribute to all these errors is that your ticket could have not been processed correctly from the beginning, the kitchen rushed through your order to get it out fast when they realized this (didn't cook the sardines enough and forgot the new fig addition to the salad because they were rushing), then the server got thrown off when he or she found out about the problems with the food and it just spiraled downhill from there. Obviously this shouldn't happen, but it did and I'll work on improving the system and training at the restaurant so that the chances of it happening go down.

    We (and most restaurants) rarely bat a perfect game over the course of an evening, and it sounds like we did a really bad job for you on Friday. We put comment cards on the tables and got a lot of positive comments on Friday, so I don't think it's systemic, but it obviously it needs more work.

    Thanks for your comments and we'll continue working on this to make this restaurant a fun and enjoyable experience for you and the community.

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By August 5, 2014 August 7th, 2014 Miniatures Games, Sheet Updates

…One must always choose the lesser of two weevils

Splice the mainbrace and clean the poop deck! Dreadfleet sails late into harbour.

Poor Dreadfleet. It could have been so good. Old Man O’ War players were quivering with excitement at the announcement of this return to fantasy naval warfare by Games Workshop, but when it was finally released, the disappointment of fans was a groan heard around the gaming world.

Sure, it looks fantastic. The ships are full of character, the gaming mat is spectacular, and it’s wonderful to see the John Blanche art throughout; in fact it looks more like something made by a 90s-era GW than the bland output of the post-2000 corporate behemoth. But they forgot to make the game play well. Dreadfleet is a long, tedious luck-fest in which your decisions are meaningless and the draw of a card can undo the work of three hours play. What were they thinking? They already had a great, time-tested game in Man O’ War—why not just keep the same damn mechanics?

Sadly, it is rumoured that many copies were recalled and destroyed, no doubt for some ridiculous tax-related reason. Dreadfleet is like the twisted younger brother locked in the castle tower that no one ever talks about anymore, and it seems GW prefers to pretend the whole incident never happened. It’s tragic, because if they’d thought about it, Dreadfleet could have been a classic. They just forgot to design a good game before they got carried away with designing the figures.

Just before I moved to New Zealand, I spent an age painting the ships, so felt compelled to bring the game with me, despite the fact it took up so much space in our small air shipment. Then I finally got to play it. I still look at the game on the shelf and contemplate which two, far superior, games I could have brought instead of that big box!

I created this rules summary back when I first got the game, but for some strange reason it slipped between the planks and I never posted it on this site. That error has now been rectified, so if you do ever get Dreadfleet out for a spin—and it does look beautiful—you’ll find this summary and reference useful.

Update: v1.1 fixes a slight error concerning broadside die results.

  • Avatar Brent says:

    I bought this as well, played once and quite frankly shelved it and have not even thought about the game until I saw this. I even paid someone to paint up all my ships and such. Do you think the game play could be salvaged? Maybe this could be a collaborative community project here on the EOG forums. I would contribute. Perhaps though the time is better spent on games that are already well designed and fun to play! Seems a shame though to let all this cool looking plastic just sit on the shelf.

    • I was thinking something similar myself actually. While I don’t have the time to contribute much beyond suggestions (this site takes up a lot of my spare time), I do think it’s a great idea. I agree with you that the game is too good-looking not to play, and at the very least, we can link to and discuss other attempts to improve it (there must be some out there).

      In fact rules modification is a great idea for a ‘room’ in the forums, and I’ll go set it up now. I’ll even start the topic on Dreadfleet and link to it from the main Dreadfleet page.

  • New room—The Study—constructed in the forums!

  • Avatar Rudi says:

    Great work with the reference sheet. However in the player sheet it says under broadsides:

    5. Roll to hit. Each D6 result equal to or exceeding the
    number required scores a hit. A roll of 1 always hits; a
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    Shouldn’t it be a 1 always miss and a 6 always hits? 🙂

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    I heard some guys griping about the complexity of Sails of War at my LGS just yesterday. Anyone care to comment if these rules are any (subjectively) better or worse than DF? I too paid a hefty sum to have the ships beautifully painted, but haven’t yet had a chance to play the game.

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new folding sequence for the tsuru (origami crane)

This came in as a post to the Origami-L mailing list, from Anna of Origami Austria (Origami Österreich).

Apparently at one of their meetings, they discovered a “faster” way to fold the traditional crane (also known as a tsuru).

Essentially, it involves using a double-rabbit-ear fold to speed up the folding process- if you’re good at eyeballing this sort of thing, it should really make things easier. I haven’t tried it yet, but it looks promising. They also put together a very nice PDF for it. (this is the english version- follow the link to their site above if you want the German PDF.)

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1. Alvin says

    It looks magnificent, if you got the diagram for this origami masterpiece, please send it to my hotmail: http://www.alvinhessing@hotmail.com , I am a origami “freak” but the library doesn’t have these sort of books…

    I would be very pleased to gain the diagram to fold it myself.

    Typed by Alvin, 14 years old.
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  2. Alvin, I don’t have diagrams for this but I think they might be in his latest book- available online via Sasuga, Kinokuniya, and probably Amazon.com. I would do a google search and see if you can find it. His work is so complex that you really want to have diagrams for it in front of you, rather than a scanned crease pattern…

  3. youcanfoldit says

    Avin you have some digram for us why dont you creat a model instead of just ask for diagramuc

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    I love love asian culture and origami. I highly respect your work and your openness to your viewer [your diagram page]. I’m 18 and I’ve been doing origami for about 4 years. You are a master of your craft and I bow in respect to you and your craft. I want to be as good as you and would love to learn from you through your diagrams. Especially the phoenix. I look at everything you’ve made in awe and wonder.

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A desirable appearance and star appeal are things that feed one's popularity. For young male South Korean actors, the fastest way to fame is often through the female audience's hearts and the marketability they gain from them. However, this is not always as good as it sounds. Attractive stars usually have to work twice as hard for their acting to be seen above their looks and it does not always happen. Kang Dong-won has successfully gone from a simple heartthrob to someone valued for his talent.

Kang made his debut through a second lead role in the 2003 drama 'The Funny Wild Girl', most commonly known as 'Country Princess'. His drama career was rather short-lived, ending with 2004 drama 'Magic', as he felt the drama filming system was too stressful and content often too melodramatic. His movie debut was in 2004 film 'Too Beautiful to Lie' as its male lead, but it was his role in the movie 'Temptation of Wolves' which garnered him great attention. It was in 2004 when Kang switched gears and started evolving into the actor he is today.

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Monthly Archives: October 2009

I have quite little motivation right now. I think I may have gone to deep into too many technique exercises and theory. It has really brought my playing to a whole new level, but I’m a bit blank when I sit down with the guitar – what do I do now? I was laboring with the […]

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DIY IKEA Pedal board

Some guy at Harmony Central has built a really nice pedalboard out of IKEA parts for about €60. I would build one myself if I had any pedals :-) (the POD X3 is a pedalboard in itself). Read he whole build thread at Harmony Central (via LifeHacker via IkeaHacker).

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I’m 35 years old and quite reasonable decided I’m going to start playing guitar. I’ve been at it for two years now. I feel incredibly good at it every other day, and complete crap the other days. All posts prior to this one I’ve moved from an old blog that was just links with no […]

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In addition to routine paediatric visits, this unit’s team consists of qualified professionals dedicated to:

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The Olympics in Sochi: costs are rising, preparations floundering

On 6-7 February – exactly one year before the Winter Olympics start in Sochi – President Vladimir Putin visited the city and inspected the Olympic venues construction. The president sharply criticised the state of preparations, and ordered the sacking of Ahmed Bilalov, the deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee.

  • The Games in Sochi have an essential dimension of prestige for Russia, as emphasised in the promotion campaign, which is designed to boost the country's image as a superpower. At the same time it is a personal project for Vladimir Putin, who has invested much political capital in his efforts to win the Games for Russia. The arbitrary dimension of this project is underlined by the fact that the city chosen for the Winter Olympics is located in the subtropical climate zone. Sochi was most likely chosen because it is one of the President’s favourite destinations (one of his main residences is located there, and he also regularly goes skiing in the nearby resort of Krasnaya Polyana).
  • Many aspects of the Games’ organisation have proved controversial with the public. In addition to the location, there are the questions of how these flashy new facilities will be used after the Olympics are over, and especially about the rising costs of the preparations. Since the initial announcement, these costs have soared from an estimated 206 billion roubles (about US$6.8 billion) to 1.5 trillion roubles (US$50 billion). The Sochi Olympics are already being estimated as the most expensive in history – for comparison, the previous Winter Olympics in Vancouver cost US$2 billion, the Summer Olympics in London cost US$15 billion, and those in Beijing about US$44 billion. The Russian media have reported that the lucrative contracts for constructing the Olympic facilities have been given to companies controlled by influential members of Putin’s elite, including Gennady Timchenko and Oleg Deripaska.
  • Despite huge expenditure, there have been great delays in constructing the facilities, as noted by the Audit Chamber, and most recently by the President himself. Observers have also criticised the state of the infrastructure in Sochi itself. In this context, Bilalov’s firing can be seen as an exemplary penalty for negligence and an attempt to personalise responsibility. Most commentators consider the main problem for the Olympic Games in Sochi to be the unprecedented corruption, which is making it difficult to implement this prestigious project. Official data on the subject is scarce; state auditors have indicated financial violations amounting to 30 billion roubles (US$1 billion). However, indirect confirmation of these suspicions of corruption may be found in the disproportionately high expenditure on the Games, as well as the frequent replacements of the directors (four since 2007) of the state corporation Olimpstroy which is coordinating the preparations.
  • The Games in Sochi may suffer the same fate of another prestigious Russian project – the APEC summit, which took place in September 2012 in Vladivostok. During the preparations, costs rose to US$10 billion, experts criticised the inflated building costs (which were much higher than those of foreign counterparts), and residents of Vladivostok and the media reported the appalling quality of the infrastructure constructed. Since the summit, several criminal cases for embezzlement of funds have been brought in which the defendants are state officials.


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Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake - Our Sunday Cafe
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Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake

Welcome to Our Sunday Café, we are pleased you stopped by for a visit. Today we are offering another delicious recipe from our kitchen. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did…

This Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake is delicious. This cake is also very stubborn! It is loaded with great flavor and lots of chocolate chips. Chocolate chips that sink to the bottom of the baking pan. In particular, a bundt pan, making it difficult to turn it out, in one piece.

Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake
Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake

This is the third time I have baked this cake, and the first time I could get it out of the pan in one piece. The thing is, this cake is so good, I keep trying to get it right, and I finally did!

A broken cake is still delicious, but when I bake for family and friends, I want what I bake, to be attractive.

Looks are everything, in food. And while this cake is on the plain side, it is so big on flavor. It does not need a glaze or topping of any kind and honestly is moist enough to be enjoyed for days after the initial baking, making it perfect for those weekend family gatherings.

I knew I did not want to tamper with the recipe, so the only thing left was science. I thought about it and came up with a possible solution, and I am proud to say, it actually worked. I will move right on to the recipe and show you the solution as part of the journey to a delicious cake.

Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake, applesauce and spices baking into a chocolate chip bundt cake.
Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake
Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake
adapted from: noble pig
350-degree oven

1 stick butter, melted and set aside to cool
1/2 c oil
2 c applesauce
2 eggs
2 t vanilla
1 1/2 c sugar

2 1/2 c flour
1 T dry cocoa
2 t soda
2 t cinnamon
1 t cardamom
1 t salt
1/4-1/2 t ground cloves, if you love cloves use the larger measure
1/4-1/2 t fresh ground pepper, (don't leave this out), if you love heat, use the full measure

2 c chocolate chips

In a large bowl, combine the melted butter, oil, eggs, applesauce, vanilla, and sugar. Beat well with a wooden spoon.

Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake, another wooden spoon, saucepan cake.

In a medium-size bowl combine the flour, cocoa, soda, spices, and salt. Whisk to mix well. Stir into the applesauce mixture, until smooth, with no dry pockets or wet pockets, remain.

Prepare the bundt pan for baking, by buttering and flouring the inside surface. Using a ladle, add 2 ladles of the cake batter to the bottom of the bundt pan. Pick up the pan, tilt to evenly coat the bottom of the pan with cake batter. See photo below, left to right.

Applesauce and Spice Cake, easy removal in one piece, with this technique.

Stir the chocolate chips into the remaining batter in the mixing bowl.

Spoon the batter evenly into the bundt pan (Important: Do not pour, this might disturb the plain batter and allow chocolate chips to sink to the bottom of the pan.).

Bake 1 hour and 15 minutes or until done in your oven. This is one cake you will want to see some pulling away from the side of the pan, as evidence that it is completely baked. Remove from oven, let cool in the pan 15 minutes, carefully loosen edges from pan, turn out onto a wire rack or clean toweling to cool.

Applesauce and Spice Chocolate Chip Cake, fresh from the oven.

Let cool completely before Sprinkling a bit of powdered sugar over the top to serve.

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  1. Mmmmm, that looks good. I can almost smell it! Applesauce cakes are so moist and tender . . .

    1. All the flavors come together nicely, thanks for visiting!

  2. As soon as I buy a new bundt pan I'm going to try this! Pinning it for later.

  3. Oh this looks perfect for dessert and with coffee for an afternoon treat. YUM!

    1. This cake goes great with coffee, thanks for visiting.

  4. Those ingredients and flavors just scream Autumn, what a wonderful desert to bring to a gathering.

    1. Thanks, it is also a very good keeper, perfect for weekends. Thanks for dropping by.

  5. I think my son would enjoy this cake very much.

  6. What a yummy looking and sounding cake!Thanks for linking up to Merry Monday! Sharing on G+! Have a great week!

  7. Applesauce and spice chocolate chip cake looks delicious, thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning and tweeting.

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Search Engine Optimization – Fairware Case Study

Out-Smarts worked with Fairware on search engine optimization through two redesigns, launching both new websites with no perceivable drop in traffic despite there being a complete revamp of the user flow, maintaining page one rank and growing traffic, with organic search rates up over 30%.

We began working with Fairware in 2015 to optimize their freshly redesigned website. In 2018, it was time for another website redesign, and they chose Out-Smarts again to optimize their new site.

About Fairware

Fairware is a pioneer in creating sustainable, custom branded products for businesses. These B Corp founders take great care to ensure your promotional merchandise helps tell your story and animate your brand. Fairware brings emerging retail, consumer and sustainability trends to the forefront of promotional campaigns and product assortments. They’re sustainable brand strategists and merchandise is their medium. Further, Fairware does the homework on ethical sourcing and sustainable materials so you can rest assured that your marketing merchandise lines up with your values.

Fairware website

SEO Services

With this project, it was crucial to optimize both website redesigns to maintain or improve their page rank and positioning given that the redesigned site would have a different user flow and navigation. To ensure this, we worked with Fairware on keyword research, keyword mapping, creation of keyword targeted META titles and descriptions, managing redirects, and identifying and fixing any crawl errors. We also provided extensive Google Analytics consulting services and developed custom dashboards and reports to measure SEO, social media, and email campaign impacts.

The Results

By implementing these strategies, we were able to produce significant results for Fairware and by creating Analytics dashboards and reports for them, they’re able to measure their efforts more effectively. Here is a snapshot of the results we produced.

Through both new website launches, there was no long term drop in web traffic. Fairware was not only able to maintain their page one rank, but they increased their positioning for priority keywords. Organic search rates went up over 30%. When it comes to first page rank for priority branded keywords and search terms, 29 keywords are now in the top ten Google rank for Canada and the US.

Results from the Latest Redesign

  • An overall increase in traffic 21% (in 6 months following redesign)
  • Increase in organic traffic 30%
  • 34% increase in search engine visibility
  • 29 priority Keywords in the top ten Google rank

In The Customer’s Words

“Fairware has worked with Out-Smarts on two projects so far: Search Engine Optimization for our website redesign and on developing an email marketing strategy. Traffic and conversions have increased, our business is growing and we’re very pleased with the results. Mhairi is a joy to work with and has been great at building our internal capacity so we can continue the work in house.”

Why We Loved this Work

At Out-Smarts, our priority is to work with clients that have mandates to make the world a better place. From their environmental impact to their B Corp status, to their ethical principles, it was a joy to work with and learn from Fairware, to understand their business and to provide search services to attract their target audience and improve their ranking. Through working with Fairware we believe we play a small part in helping disrupt and positively influence the promotional products sector.

Website Development, SEO, Consulting – Indalma Case Study

BackgroundIndalma Creative SEO

Out-Smarts worked with Indalma Creative collaboratively to develop a custom new WordPress website, complete with SEO and ongoing web maintenance.

About Indalma Creative

Indalma Creative is a Ladner-based graphic design and creative services studio with clients across BC and Canada. They help businesses big and small tell their stories through engaging brand identities and logo design, clean website design, persuasive content, beautiful print pieces and packaging. Indalma’s clients include local and national businesses, independent schools, and non-profit organizations such as health authorities and emergency services.

Indalma Creative wanted a brand new website overhaul that wasn’t just beautiful to look at, but was easy to navigate and search engine optimized as well. We wanted to make sure that they had all the tools in place to boost their agency the top of their niche in local Google searches.

In order to do this, we provided custom WordPress site development, SEO services (META review, keyword research and mapping, update SEO foundations and framework, crawl fixing), Google Analytics set up (traffic reporting, conversion tracking and analysis), and consulting services.

The Results

Indalma Creative is expanding, and they needed a website that suited the needs of their growing business. We created a custom web design with navigation and SEO capabilities to draw customers in and reflect their company values. The result was a successful site launch with a smooth workflow beginning to end, all due to hard work and a positive teamwork environment.

In The Customer’s Words

“Being our development partner, we knew we wanted to work with Mhairi and her team at Out-Smarts for our new website. We’ve seen first-hand the results she delivers for our clients which made this an easy choice! We couldn’t be happier with our new website. And, while the new site is exactly what we had hoped for, the process to get there was equally seamless. Mhairi and the entire Out-Smarts team made this project a fully collaborative process and let us be involved every step of the way.”

Why We Loved this Work

We love to work with companies that are leaders in their field with boundless ideas and striking attention to detail. We loved giving a creative powerhouse like Indalma a website that has a backend as intuitive and streamlined as their design capabilities.

Custom App Development – Pacific Forage Bag Supply Case-Study

Pacific Forage Bag Supply is an agricultural firm founded in 1995 that supplies silage equipment and seeds.  Co-owner Alexis sells specialized equipment to dairy farmers that helps them reduce feed loss from rot and spoilage. In the past, she’s relied on a helpful but outdated sales tool built in Excel to help her show farmers what they stand to gain from using the equipment. The tool did its job but was harder to use than it needed to be. Despite the essential information it provided her clients, the spreadsheet was becoming a hindrance to her sales process. Alexis approached Out-Smarts to explore the possibility of replacing the tool with a custom app.

Discovery Process

Alexis’ requirements were few: the tool needed to be easy to use, generate PDF reports she could download or print for her clients, including a defined subset of the functionality present in the Excel document, and be completed within her budget.

Because she often meets her clients on their farms and in rural areas without guaranteed internet access, we decided the tool should be a client-side, single page application that could be used offline. Since the app would generate PDF reports, we didn’t need to worry about permanent storage on a remote server or database access.

Our discovery process involved investigating the hundreds of formulas and macros built into the Excel document to get a clear picture of the work required to translate the calculations. Behind the scenes, the formulas were at times a classic case of spaghetti code: cells referring to cells referring to cells which in turn referred to yet more cells. Working with Alexis, we broke the spreadsheet down into its major screens and calculations. Then, we create a fully costed project summary for her, which she reviewed and approved.

Some of the formulas in the Excel document

React Web App Development

Initial design work was done in Figma — a design tool like Sketch.

After breaking down the excel document, we prototyped some interface layouts and visual styles in Figma, a design tool similar to Sketch. We worked with Alexis to map out the information architecture and user interface flows of the new tool. The goal wasn’t simply to recreate the Excel document screen-for-screen, but to design a workflow that would best support her whole sales process. By using modern web technologies and rebuilding the tool for the browser, Out-Smarts was able to deliver a user experience much improved over the Excel document.

We chose React, a JavaScript library for building user interfaces, because it supported our requirements of an offline, client-side, single page experience. And it’s popular; backed by Facebook, React is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.

We also used a few other well-supported open source libraries to deliver features like PDF file generation and animated charts: Webpack and Babel formed the foundation of our development toolchain; Redux and Dot Prop Immutable allowed us to store client-side data in a simple but flexible format; Big.js prevented unfortunate rounding errors in calculating monetary values; PdfMake generated PDF reports without the need for server software; and Victory gave us animated charts and graphs to display in-app reports.

Single-Page Application

The result was an offline-ready single-page application with 14 sections that used over 35 custom-built React components. We replicated the computations of the original Excel document with over 60 calculation functions, this time in an exceptionally user-friendly and portable solution.

Right from the browser, Alexis can export PDF reports for her clients based on the information she gathers during her discovery process. And she can even export and import client profiles as JSON files to share among her employees who also have access to the tool.

What Our Customers Have to Say

“I had a very old Excel-based sales tool that I needed updating, and I had a hard time finding someone who would take it on that I felt I could communicate with throughout the process just to ensure we were on the same page.  Out-Smarts Marketing was recommended to me by someone in the Marketing field, which I thought was a good sign. Kyle took on my outdated sales tool, with all it’s convoluted and confusing equations, and listened and learned about my Agriculture business and my needs.  His attention to detail and his comfort with the material made the plan very effective and surprisingly simple (at least from my end)! I am very happy with the final product and know it will serve my company well.”

Why We Loved this Work

Having a great working relationship with our clients really is the foundation to any project’s success, and Alexis was a joy to work with. We enjoyed learning more about her industry and the challenges she faces in the field, as her explanations gave us a great sense of how she uses the tool and the value a modernized version would add to her work life.

Building a React application after an Excel document may have been an unconventional task, but we love a challenge and the opportunity to do custom work that few others take on. We’re thrilled with the results!

Learn more about our custom app services or get started on your own custom developed app.

Search Engine Optimisation, Google Ads, Google Analytics – Out-Smarts Case Study

Out-Smarts worked with the Acne and Rosacea Society of Canada to drive targeted traffic to their two websites, Rosacea Help and Acne Action increasing website traffic by 60-200% in one year.

Sue, the Executive Director of the Acne and Rosacea Society of Canada, attended Out-Smarts’ founder Mhairi Petrovic’s Introduction to SEO, Analytics and Google Ads course at Capilano University. After learning about Out-Smarts expertise in the SEO and Google Ads fields at first hand, she engaged our company on a one year contract and saw enormous value and an ROI that produces results year after year.

About Acne and Rosacea Society of Canada

The Acne and Rosacea Society of Canada is a national not for profit organization led by Canadian dermatologists. They offer hope and help to acne and rosacea sufferers by providing independent, reputable and current information on these conditions and raising awareness. We were honored to work with an organization that strives to improve the lives of Canadians.

SEO Project

Sue wanted to see an increase in traffic to both of their websites to spread their message to a larger number of Canadians across the country. In order to do this, we provided SEO services (META review, keyword research, update SEO foundations and framework), Google Ads (Google Ads account plan, set up, ad creation and management including negative keywords, extensions), Google Analytics (traffic reporting, conversion tracking and analysis), and consulting services.

By implementing these strategies, we were able to produce significant results for the Acne and Rosacea Society of Canada. Here is a snapshot of the results we produced for each website.

The Results

Acne Action:

Overall increase in traffic 62%

Increase in organic traffic 40%

Paid search went from 0 – 20,000 visitors

Rosacea Help:

Overall traffic increase 200%

Increase in organic traffic 45%

Paid search went from 0 – 18,000 visitors

What Our Customers Have to Say

In the words of Sue, “We’ve seen our sites’ rankings improve a lot, traffic to the site has doubled and we have developed a much better understanding of how to work effectively in this important area thanks to Out-Smarts! Highly recommend Mhairi and the team for website SEO projects.”

Why We Loved this Work

For an organization like the Acne and Rosacea Society of Canada, an increase in traffic can directly impact the well being of thousands of Canadians across the country.


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Ramsley Log Store – 5ft Tall

Haleywood’s Ramsley log stores are available in various designs and sizes, and built to the highest standards with strength and air circulation in mind but still creating a beautiful addition to your garden.

  • Our log stores are constructed from 75 x 75 uprights and 50 x 100 timbers form a heavy duty frame and cladded from 150 wide feather edge
  • Each log store is designed to be free standing and slope of roof can be forward or rearward
  • The slatted floor is raised of the ground and air gaps are left at the base and top of the rear panel to aid air circulation
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Splitting Some More Atoms

Splitting Some More Atoms
RJD chief and Bihar’s chief minister-by-proxy Laloo Prasad Yadav has been having a ball with the unstable compounds that abound in Bihar.

Earlier this month, he managed to lure four of the five Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLAs with ministerial berths into his wife Rabri Devi’s cabinet. This proved for the umpteenth time that Dalit politics in the state could hardly be independent and was forever beholden to Laloo’s brand of Yadavised backward caste politics. Last week the Laloo magic was at work again. He engineered a split in the JD(U), delivering a body blow to the NDA in Bihar. Four of the 12 JD(U) legislators quit the party and formed the JD (Jayaprakash), offering "issue-based" support to the RJD government. Though the group has "no immediate plan to merge with the RJD", sources say the merger is a foregone conclusion. If and when it happens, the RJD’s strength would be 123 in the 243-member assembly, giving it a clear majority on its own.

The leader of the splinter group, Sashi Kumar Rai, who has been a minister in a Laloo government, said he and others who quit were feeling suffocated in the NDA. Recently, the Samata Party and the JD(U) had decided to form a joint legislature front to put pressure on the BJP to do away with its "big brother" attitude. But the effort was nipped in the bud by Samata leader and Union minister of railways Nitish Kumar. This triggered the defections.

A JD(U) leader has, meanwhile, taken potshots at the splinter group and ironically suggested that they call themselves Janata Dal (Laloo).

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Congress to Subpoena Sosa, Giambi, McGwire

Congress to subpoena Sosa, Giambi, others (ESPN)

Former Oakland Athletics sluggers Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire and Jason Giambi were among seven current and former baseball stars that a congressional committee plans to subpoena as soon as Wednesday to testify about steroids. Curt Schilling, Sammy Sosa, Rafael Palmeiro and Frank Thomas also were asked last week to testify. Thus far, only Canseco and Thomas have said they were willing to appear. “We hope subpoenas won’t be necessary, but we are prepared to move forward with subpoenas [Wednesday] if we receive information that witnesses are not willing to appear voluntarily,” David Marin, a spokesman for House Government Reform Committee chairman Rep. Tom Davis, said Tuesday.

The Baltimore Sun first reported on the subpoenas earlier Tuesday on its Web site.

According to reports, Barry Bonds, whose role in baseball’s steroids scandal has been questioned for the last year, has not yet been subpoenaed.

It’s unclear to me what this accomplishes, beyond grandstanding for the Congress. There have also been reports that a similar hearing will be held by the Senate.

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James Joyner is a Security Studies professor at Marine Corps University's Command and Staff College and a nonresident senior fellow at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer and Desert Storm vet. Views expressed here are his own. Follow James on Twitter @DrJJoyner.

  1. Methinks thou hast answered thine own question.

  2. Patti says:

    It’s not meant to accomplish anything. The congressmen just see an opportunity to get all these neat autographs.

  3. Myopist says:

    Beat me to it, Patti.

  4. Mark says:

    Definetely a PR move by Congress to capitalize on the steroid buzz. However, baseball does have a special exemption with respect to commerce and competition which could be removed by Congress if it so desires.

  5. Mark says:

    Grandstanding? Oh, just a bit. Also, can someone tell me what steroid use in baseball has to do with the GOVERNMENT REFORM COMMITTEE? At least they could have made it some subcommittee that deals with health-related issues – sheesh.

  6. Jim Henley says:

    This isn’t just typical congressional-hearing grandstanding. It’s grandstanding that could BACKFIRE. Supposedly the committee hearins are designed to show The Dangers of Steroids to teenagers. There’s an essential, congressionally mandated federal task for you. But the baseball witnesses called are noteworthy for having suffered no discernable ill effects from using steroids whatsoever. Quite the opposite, if they end up admitting use in testimony. Unintended but predictible hearing message: use steroids and be like a baseball superstar!

  7. James Joyner says:

    Jim: Quite possibly. There have been a few famous athletes (Lyle Alzado comes to mind) whose deaths have been hastened by ‘roids but they’re likely a tiny fraction of those whose performance has been enhanced. Ken Caminiti’s name comes up, too, but his death was likely caused by recreational drug overdose, not steroids.

  8. Jack Tanner says:

    I’m sure the testimony of Sammy Sosa, Giambi, Bonds, Palmeiro and Thomas will be riveting. Aren’t they all, like still playing. ‘I didn’t know nothing, man.’

  9. harry says:

    Government needs to butt out of baseball and do the job that they were created to do; assuming that they can remember what that was.


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A New York law firm is fishing for clients in a shareholder class-action suit it filed against Pacific Capital Bancorp.

Stull, Stull & Brody filed a complaint in federal court in Los Angeles on Sept. 9 seeking to speak on behalf of Pacific Capital Bancorp’s common stockholders from April 30 to July 30. Pacific Capital Bancorp is the parent of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust and several other banking brands in California.

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