Before we review what an SEO platform is, let's review what SEO is all about.
Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, is the process that makes your content more visible and interpretable to search engines and more valuable to users at the moment when they are performing a search with a specific need in mind. So, what does that mean?
SEO is the practice of crafting a website and content in ways that will make its content more likely to rank highly in users' searches on search engines like Google and Bing. Historically, this has sometimes translated to short-term tactics like using the exact search term, or keyword, many times within the body text of a web page (aka. Keyword stuffing), or publishing several URLs targeting multiple keywords that all redirect to a single landing page. Modern SEO, however, centers on a positive user experience with valuable information. Ease of navigation, high-quality content that answers user's search queries, authoritative backlinks pointing back to a page, and a fast page loading time are increasingly the factors that contribute to a site showing up at the top of the search results.
In short, SEO helps your content rank higher on SERPs (Search Engine Results Page) for the keywords that your content is relevant to. The more you focus on your SEO strategy, the more likely you will see your pages rising in the SERPs, thereby attracting more traffic to your content and subsequently, increasing revenue for your business from the website. Because SEO discoverability is measured at the level of every keyword, keeping a track of your content's strengths and weakness in relation to each keyword becomes nearly impossible without a comprehensive SEO platform - thus an SEO platform that does the heavy lifting for you is imperative. An effective SEO platform will allow you to focus on critical actions that will drive the biggest impact on your business, as opposed to spending hours and hours of time manipulating data to uncover insights.
An SEO platform is a comprehensive solution for managing keyword and content discovery, creating optimized content, and measuring SEO results on a site-wide as well as page-by-page basis.
The search engine's goal is to deliver an exceptional user experience by delivering the search results that best address their search users needs based on the keyword(s) inputted. This means that the only constant in search is that the SERPs are constantly changing. This creates both opportunities and challenges for SEO and content marketers. You need to ensure your web pages need to, first and foremost, satisfy the search engine algorithms for a specific search keyword, so that the pages will be ranked higher on the SERP, while also delivering value to the search user that will establish your brand's awareness and authority in their minds. Matching your content to search ranking factors and users' intent means the amount of data you need to keep a track of and make sense of is overwhelming. It is impossible to be truly effective without leveraging an SEO platform to decipher the data in a way that allows you to take action. The SEO platform needs to not only show you what your ranking position is for each keyword but also provide real-time actionable insights into the ever-changing world of SEO.
Every website is different and your SEO strategy will be unique to your business' objectives and goals. However, there is a basic framework you should consider when evaluating SEO Platforms. The following 5 capabilities are essential to a successful SEO strategy. You should ensure the SEO platform you select will enable you to be successful at each step of the life cycle of website content optimization. If you are evaluating SEO Platforms you will want to ensure all 5 sections are incorporated to maximize your value and increase your SEO and content marketing performance.
First and foremost, your SEO Platform should identify and prioritize key site errors for you to fix, so your content outperforms the competition on search engines.
BrightEdge ContentIQ is an advanced site auditing solution that can support site crawls for hundreds of millions of pages. ContentIQ helps marketers easily prioritize website errors before they impact performance. This technical SEO auditing solution is also fully integrated into the BrightEdge platform, allowing for automatic alerting of errors and direct integration into analytics reporting.
You need a powerful SEO research solution to prioritize and formulate successful search and content strategies. A good SEO platform should enable you to discover, prioritize and segment keywords easily.
Data Cube is the industry's most powerful SEO research solution to help you prioritize and formulate successful search and content strategies. Powered by DataMind, Data Cube reveals which web page URLs and content types are winning the top spots on SERP (search engine results pages) for any search keyword.
The SERP layout is always changing, with other content types taking over the precious above-the-fold space on SERP. Intent Signal evaluates the true organic ROI for every keyword and assesses whether your content is strong enough to win the top spots on SERP for any keyword group or content category. You can, therefore, easily segment target SEO keywords into sub-groups and create targeted work plans, to either defend your winning content, optimize existing content, create new content or pull in PPC team to maximize high-quality traffic acquisition for the website.
We often times lead through influence because we don't direct everyone who can impact the performance of the website. A quantifiable business case is critical to help us secure those resources. BrightEdge Opportunity Forecasting makes it easy to develop projections of SEO initiatives by automatically calculating the total addressable market and your potential gains in revenue or site traffic with the push of a button.
If you want to use a website to drive offline sales, HyperLocal is a key capability you must have in an SEO platform. The same search query from two adjacent cities will likely to yield different SERP nowadays. HyperLocal maps out precise search volume and ranking data for each keyword in every city or country that Google Search supports. HyperLocal connects the dots between online search behavior with increased foot traffic to your brick-and-mortar stores.
Insights - Improve your website with confidence. BrightEdge Insights acts like your personal data analyst to pull in all data relevant to improving your website's performance and recommends content strategies such as Quick Answer opportunities, in addition to highlighting key technical errors or competitive insights.
One of the most important capabilities of a winning SEO strategy is to know your competition and stay a few steps ahead of the competitors, so you can maximize your visibility to acquire as many ideal customers as possible. A good SEO platform must provide you an easy way to understand who is winning the top spots of SERP for the keywords you want to own. It will then help you discover high performing keywords that your competitor is winning over your content, and reveal actionable insights of how your competitor is winning.
Data Cube has an indispensable functionality called "Keyword Gap Analysis". Entering a domain or an URL of a competing site, you will easily see a full list of keywords that they are showing up for, but your website doesn't. This becomes are a great source of inspiration for you to see the opportunities that you may not be aware of.
Besides ranking position, it is also important to understand how much Share of Voice you own, when aggregating the search volume of each keyword under a similar content category. BrightEdge Share of Voice, a patented technology, calculates your organic Share of Voice based on both the ranking position of you and your competitors and the total addressable search market (as measured by search volume of each keyword), to give you a snapshot of where you stand amongst your competitors on SERP. Share of Voice also shows organic competitors for any keyword and content category. From there, the platform automatically dissects competitors' web page content to help you ideate content strategies to win back the market share in organic search.
Backlinks - Search engines leverage backlinking factor to grade the relevance and authority of websites. BrightEdge provides page-level backlink recommendations based on the top-10 ranking pages on the SERP, which helps you to identify authoritative and toxic links. Using artificial intelligence, BrightEdge Insights automatically surfaces authoritative backlinks recently acquired by you or new competitive backlinks for you to target.
Improve the SEO performance of your site with prescriptive instructions for every content page. The key actions in SEO is either to create new content, optimize existing content or launching website technical enhancements. A good SEO platform should provide all of these capabilities.
BrightEdge Recommendations compares each page vs. the top-10 ranking pages in SERP to give prescriptive page-level recommendations. Pair multiple keywords per page for the highest impact. Recommendations help you improve organic visibility and relevance with your target audience by providing detailed SEO recommendations of your existing content. Review detailed optimization instructions and assign tasks to relevant team members.
An effective SEO platform should always provide you with a comprehensive knowledge center of SEO performance, to enable you to know where you are winning, where are opportunities for growth and what optimization plans worked, so you can replicate further.
For every word, you need to know whether your optimization efforts have worked in the direction you desired. BrightEdge Keyword Reporting shows you the high-value keywords that drive results in the least amount of time.
To support different stakeholders, you need the SEO platform to help you create content performance reporting based on web content pages. BrightEdge Page Reporting provides deep insights to help you identify the content that drives business results. Slice and dice the data to develop page-level insights, or click to review detailed SEO recommendations, thanks to the power of the BrightEdge platform.
All good marketers are storytellers and SEO marketing is no exception. A central reporting capability is critical to help you threading all the beads together across SEO optimization projects. BrightEdge StoryBuilder is that mission control. With robust and flexible visualization capabilities, StoryBuilder can help you make data-driven decisions and elevate the role of the website. Use executive dashboards to showcase the positive impact on brand equity and revenue from website optimization efforts. Build convincing business cases for additional resources.
Organic doesn't operate in a vacuum - it needs to synchronize with other channels. You need to analyze Clicks and Impressions to understand how often your content pages show up on SERPs, how that visibility trends over time, and how often customers click on your content links, translating into organic traffic. Also, you need to know what channel's contribution to your site traffic is growing, and where you and teams should focus on for the next week, month or quarter. BrightEdge Site Reporting helps you track and analyze your sites to ensure they are driving business and bringing content to the right pages.
It is critical that the SEO platform of choice lets you rest assure that your data is safe. It is also important that the SEO platform is easy to use for advanced user management, so each platform user is focused on their areas of work.
Security - Security is BrightEdge's founding principal. BrightEdge is ISO 27001 Certified; audited and confirmed to meet ISO standards. The BrightEdge platform offers flexible password policies, sophisticated session settings, and trusted IP address ranges.
Integrations/Partnerships - Web marketing requires a full understanding of the impact of SEO on the outcome of the website. Toggling between SEO platform, web analytics, and Google Search Console or manually attempting to combine data in one place, requires significant time and resources. BrightEdge does the heavy lifting for you by integrating web analytics data, social data and Google Search Console data into BrightEdge SEO platform, providing a complete view and single source of truth for your organic programs.
Enterprise SEO capabilities - If you have global operations or manage a number of domains for a large corporation, you need this SEO platform to also have extensive capabilities to support the needs of enterprise SEO. Capabilities you want to look for include global support, flexible password management policies, custom fiscal year, ability to audit sites with custom rules using RegEx.
A good SEO platform is not just comprised of software codes, but also the expertise that it can transfer to you and your team members. Does it provide certification to platform users? Does it provide strategic consultation to you? Does it bring you the latest industry news and best practices in a timely fashion? Can you be supported with satisfactory resolutions?
What Is the Difference Between an SEO Platform and an SEO Tool?
There is a big difference between an SEO platform and an SEO tool. Understanding this distinction will be important in selecting the best solution for your business needs.
Most SEO tools serve a single purpose and are specifically designed to help with one specific area of your business or SEO, for example, keyword research, link analysis, or analytics. SEO tools are usually used by a single user and not a team of marketers. SEO tools usually have capacity limits that restrict their ability to scale up to the millions of keywords and pages a global platform user might need. You'll also won't escape the need to keep toggling between different tools and having to manually manipulate data from different sources in order to gain a holistic view of the true performance of your website content.
SEO platforms are built for end-to-end SEO management with enterprise scale. A platform provides a holistic solution to a number of business needs by offering a suite of integrated technologies that include workflow, productivity, user management, and advanced reporting capabilities.
SEO platforms are all-encompassing, integrating the SEO software and tools for SEO management. SEO platforms are also known as enterprise SEO software because they can integrate data and processes that span departments or teams (often including access to an API). An SEO platform, like BrightEdge,will easily and reliably integrate with the major analytics providers, like Google Search Console, Google Analytics, Adobe Analytics, Coremetrics, and Webtrends (or your home-grown web-analytics platforms), Adobe Experience Manager, Majestic SEO, Facebook with additional sources being added each quarter.
True SEO platforms come with well-organized human support in the form of customer success managers, solutions managers, and professional services.
Are you ready to learn more about how BrightEdge could be the best SEO platform for your business? Contact us here for a personalized demonstration of how BrightEdge can help optimize your enterprise SEO performance.
Additionally, download this SEO Initiatives Checklist to continue learning.


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* Friedrich von Grolman (1784–1859), deutscher Richter und Politiker, MdL Hessen
 Friedrich von Grolman (General, 1817) (1817–1881), preußischer Generalleutnant
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Thorpe Park resort the ultimate echelon of London theme parks today, and for a good reason. The assortment of adventurous rides and the fantasy of phenomenal speeds make this park one of a kind. For the 10 to 15 minutes you are on Derren Brown's creation creative Ghost Train, you will understand why he is England's legendary illusionist and mentalist. Your head will spin faster than the speed of light, the grand illusions will overwhelm your senses, the sequences will be exhilarating and the 4D special effects will add a provocative dessert to a speechless meal.
The speed and height of these rides, their sequences and the architectural framework on which they are anchored is incomparable to any other within and without Europe. Indeed, the experience will transform the theme park in totality, to the dreamland of adventure seekers. It is not just the thrill, the tension and and the fun, rather, it is something more than that. The experience is replica to witnessing and participating in transforming to a speed boat of infinite potential, and doing so when you are sited on the propeller.
Most notable among the rollercoasters currently at Thorpe Park include the Swarm, which is the first-ever winged rollercoaster to reach continental Europe. Imagine starting at zero and attaining a speed of more than 80 MPH, within two seconds? Well, that is the Then there is Stealth for you.
That does not even come close to the trademark features of the Slammer and the Detonator, both of which pride in defying the law of gravity at a height and speed that should only be possible with a jet. If these rollercoasters do not challenge your thirst for adventure though, then try the Colossus, and by its second twist, you will not remember that you are in London.
Still, the adventure goes even further than the rollercoasters. You can spend your time with the dodgems or even choose between the teacup rides and the high speed swings. If you are a water fanatic, then your options range from water rafting to water fountain and from waterslides to the log-flume water ride, the maze of adventure at the park is sky-bound. Strategically located at Surrey, between the towns of Staines-upon-Thames and Chertsey, Thorpe Park is owned and managed by Merlin Entertainments. In the truest sense, this is the home of mind-bending thrills, overwhelming illusions, intricate tension, intense thrills, and symmetry of high-end adventure. Now that is a destination you had better not miss if you ever want to understand the very heart of London.
London Zoo, located at the Outer Circle towards the northern side of Regent's Park, is the undisputed oldest scientific zoo in the world.
Westminster Abbey is a 700-year-old Gothic church and a leading tourist destination site in the United Kingdom attracting over a million visitors yearly.
Shrek's Adventure! London brings to live the imaginative animation inspired by the DreamWorks film through its unprecedented 4D experience.


Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions to the enterprise, today announced that it has signed ALSTOM IT as a new distributor in Australia.
David Ramsay, director of channels and alliances A/NZ, Red Hat, said, "Demand for Red Hat's open source solutions has continued to increase over the past year. We decided to increase our distribution channel and ALSTOM provided a natural fit. As one of Australia's leading UNIX distributors, they already had a solid understanding of the needs of the market and where open source solutions could satisfy customer needs."
Red Hat also sees the opportunity for both it and ALSTOM to benefit from mutual long-term partnerships with Oracle and IBM Software Group. ALSTOM also has a strong network of Sun partners and Red Hat Enterprise Linux provides these Sun partners with more choice of operating environment for Sun AMD Opteron Systems.
Skills were also a key factor in signing this distribution agreement. "We were impressed by the depth of experience of the ALSTOM sales team. With their solid technical skills base, we felt comfortable that ALSTOM would be able to provide comprehensive support to their resellers and partners", explained Ramsay.
Greg Newham, General Manager Distribution at ALSTOM IT said, "Red Hat is a natural fit with our expanding partner base and their needs. Customers are demanding open source solutions and through this distribution agreement, our partner network will now be able to satisfy this demand. Red Hat also complements our business and the skills of our team very well."
For more information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other Red Hat services, please visit http://www.redhat.com.
ALSTOM IT, a wholly owned Australian company, is one of the leading distributors of information technology and business solutions to the Australian reseller channel. ALSTOM IT differentiates itself by offering a total business solution based not only on a portfolio of world-class products, but by also providing its partners with value-added services that stimulate business growth. ALSTOM IT's head office and warehouse is located in Sydney with branch offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth.
ALSTOM IT offers its customers a complete range of best of breed IT solutions encompassing Server Based Computing, Data Management, Systems, Security, Development and Collaboration.
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Midnite's career has always blended art and music, with his gallery openings more often than not degenerating into beer-drenched rock and roll bedlam. The songs included here are off the Gunland C.D. from 1992. Though the C.D. covers diverse styles, in retrospect, were it re-released today, it would probably be labeled "Alt-Country".
Big John Bates burning up his '63 Gretch with 12 MIDNITE flame job while the Voodoo Dollz do what they do best.


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Q: Decision Tree Model, Splitting dataset into training and test -- Value Error: Could not convert string to float 'A12' I am trying to build a predictive model for a bank that needs to decide who will be approved for a loan based on the applicant's demographic and socio-economic profiles. The dataset has columns that detail an applicant's age, employment, credit history, etc. (a mix of objects and integers).
Below is what I've done up until the Valuerror:
import pandas as pd
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np

from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix
from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score

import seaborn as sns

import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")

credit = pd.read_csv('german_credit_risk.csv')

credit.head(10)

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credit.info()

<class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
RangeIndex: 1000 entries, 0 to 999
Data columns (total 21 columns):
 #   Column             Non-Null Count  Dtype
---  ------             --------------  -----
 0   Checking.Account   1000 non-null   object
 1   Duration           1000 non-null   int64
 2   Credit.Hist        1000 non-null   object
 3   Purpose            1000 non-null   object
 4   Credit.Amount      1000 non-null   int64
 5   Saving.Account     1000 non-null   object
 6   Employmnet         1000 non-null   object
 7   Disposable.Income  1000 non-null   int64
 8   Personal.Status    1000 non-null   object
 9   Other.Debtors      1000 non-null   object
 10  Present.Residence  1000 non-null   int64
 11  Property           1000 non-null   object
 12  Age                1000 non-null   int64
 13  Other.Loans        1000 non-null   object
 14  Housing            1000 non-null   object
 15  Existing.Credits   1000 non-null   int64
 16  Job                1000 non-null   object
 17  Number.Liable      1000 non-null   int64
 18  Telephone          1000 non-null   object
 19  Foreign.Worker     1000 non-null   object
 20  Cost.Matrix        1000 non-null   int64
dtypes: int64(8), object(13)
memory usage: 164.2+ KB

credit.describe(include='all')

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_ = sns.heatmap(credit.corr())

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col_names = ['Checking.Account', 'Duration', 'Credit.Hist', 'Purpose', 'Credit.Amount', 'Saving.Account', 'Employment', 'Disposable.Income', 'Personal.Status', 'Other.Debtors', 'Present.Residence', 'Property', 'Age', 'Other.Loans', 'Housing', 'Existing.Credits', 'Job', 'Number.Liable', 'Telephone', 'Foreign.Worker', 'Cost.Matrix']

credit.columns = col_names

cols = credit.columns

prediction_col = 'Credit.Hist'
feature_cols = [c for c in cols if c !=prediction_col]

x = credit[feature_cols].values
y = credit[prediction_col].values

x_train, x_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(x, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=41)

x_train, x_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(x, y, test_size=0.2, random_state=41)

from sklearn import tree

tree_model = tree.DecisionTreeClassifier()
tree_model.fit(x_train, y_train)

ValueError below:
ValueError                                Traceback (most recent call last)
/tmp/ipykernel_30064/311858196.py in <module>
      2
      3 tree_model = tree.DecisionTreeClassifier()
----> 4 tree_model.fit(x_train, y_train)

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    940             sample_weight=sample_weight,
    941             check_input=check_input,
--> 942             X_idx_sorted=X_idx_sorted,
    943         )
    944         return self

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sklearn/tree/_classes.py in fit(self, X, y, sample_weight, check_input, X_idx_sorted)
    164             check_y_params = dict(ensure_2d=False, dtype=None)
    165             X, y = self._validate_data(
--> 166                 X, y, validate_separately=(check_X_params, check_y_params)
    167             )
    168             if issparse(X):

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sklearn/base.py in _validate_data(self, X, y, reset, validate_separately, **check_params)
    571                 # :(
    572                 check_X_params, check_y_params = validate_separately
--> 573                 X = check_array(X, **check_X_params)
    574                 y = check_array(y, **check_y_params)
    575             else:

~/anaconda3/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sklearn/utils/validation.py in check_array(array, accept_sparse, accept_large_sparse, dtype, order, copy, force_all_finite, ensure_2d, allow_nd, ensure_min_samples, ensure_min_features, estimator)
    736                     array = array.astype(dtype, casting="unsafe", copy=False)
    737                 else:
--> 738                     array = np.asarray(array, order=order, dtype=dtype)
    739             except ComplexWarning as complex_warning:
    740                 raise ValueError(

ValueError: could not convert string to float: 'A12'

I think I understand why the error came up, but I'm still lost. It's because I'm dealing with both integers and objects, correct? Where I'm lost is 'A12'. A12 is varaiable that comes up in multiple columns. So which one? And why that particular one as opposed to A11 or A13 or one of the other variables?

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Q: How to detect is UPDATE sql query successed using Room? I'm using Room and i have a method to update a line into Database:
@Query("UPDATE packs SET is_opened = 1 WHERE pack_id IN (:packId)")
fun unlockPack(packId: Int)

I calling it from Repository:
override fun unlockOnePackById(packID: Int) {
        db.packDaoAccess().unlockPack(packID)
    }

which called from presener, and then result goes to Activity. When i use GET or another sql queries, i have Observable result:
@Query("SELECT * FROM packs")
fun allFullPacks(): Observable<List<AnimalPackFull>>

But as i know, UPDATE return nothing. How can i detect, it my UPDATE query completed correct? I need it to show popup to User.

A: If you tweak your query to have some return value of an Int like so
@Query("UPDATE packs SET is_opened = 1 WHERE pack_id IN (:packId)")
fun unlockPack(packId: Int) : Int

It should return you the number of rows affected by your update query.
Same goes for delete queries


"I just need some space." This phrase can come from either you or your partner at any point in your relationship. Regardless of who said it, needing space in love can be confusing, if not frustrating. After all, if you love each other, why do you need a break, so to speak? Needing space doesn't mean engaging one of the Perth escorts you find online when not with your partner, by the way.
The truth is, respecting each other's space even when you're a couple is important to helping each other grow as individuals and as a pair. And let's face it – you may have been in a relationship where you found yourself complaining about how clingy your partner was. Here's why not spending every waking moment with each other can actually strengthen your bond.
1. You don't run out of topics. Don't fret if you both lead busy lives where your careers are just as important as your relationship. When you find the time to call each other, or go out on a weekend, you'll really be able to catch up. There'll be no awkward pauses, no casting about for a new topic.
You'll also find it easier to ask about certain situations – for example, if the last time you talked, there was talk of her heading a project, you can ask if it pushed through, and how the project's coming along. These may sound like mundane topics, but couples who share such details about their lives eventually grow closer.
2. You pay more attention. When something happens while you're at work, for example, and it's something your girl would've found amusing, you're bound to take notice of it. You'll also appreciate everyday happenings, since they're things you can talk about when you meet up even just for coffee.
3. You have time to plan. When dates are a rare occurrence, you want to make them memorable. Not meeting for a week or so gives you time to really plan where you'll be going next. She'll appreciate that more than a quickly-thrown together date idea – no matter how simple the actual date turns out to be.
4. You appreciate your time together. Speaking of appreciating things, when you spend just one day a week with your significant other, they become that much more special. It won't take much for you to start grinning like a schoolboy, and you'll head back home with thoughts filled with her. She's likely to feel the same way, all giggly and shy as if you're on your first date.
Appreciating your time together means you'd enjoy it more, too. When you part ways afterward, it won't be long before you start looking forward to your next meet-up.
If you're not yet ready to get into the dating game, or if you're getting over a breakup, just keep these in mind for when you're already in a relationship. Until then, look for Perth escorts online who can keep you company when you need it.
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Ultimate is growing quickly all around the world, and fair play, which is called Spirit of the Game within Ultimate circles, is an integral part of the sport. In fact, Spirit of the Game (SOTG) is highlighted in the application that the World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) sent to the IOC requesting to become a recognized international sports federation.
According to the WFDF President Robert "Nob" Rauch:"New players' understanding of Spirit of the Game has traditionally relied on word-of-mouth at a grass-roots level.Now that the sport is growing, worldwide efforts are being made to more formally explain what it means, tell why it is important to Ultimate as a sport, and to promote it at all levels of competition."
A great example of SOTG is the "BE CALM" strategy that was developed a few years ago. This strategy can be used in any situation on the field where conflict can arise:
Breathe – don't react straight away
Explain – what you think happened
Consider – what they think happened
Ask – other players for advice (on perspective and rules) if needed
Listen – to what everyone has had to say
Make a call – loudly and clearly (and use Hand Signals)
"The current focus of the WFDF SOTG committee is on developing a mobile scoring application, further enhancingthe globally adopted scoring sheet, publishing role-model articles, and developing teaching aids", said WFDF SOTG Chairperson Patrick van der Valk.
The WFDF SOTG committee is comprised of volunteer leaders from throughout the world. They communicate regionally to obtain feedback, improve education and share information. Spirit of the Game committees with ties to the WFDF SOTG committee have been popping up all across the globe, many of them in the last couple of years.
Regionally a lot of effort is also being put into promotingand developing Spirit of the Game:
USA Ultimate created a SOTG Committee and in their2013-2017 strategic plan they committed to making Spirit of the Game real for today's Ultimate players and community.
Ultimate Canada created a SOTG Committee and isactively collecting teaching materials to include in their offering to coaches, teams and organizers.
The European Ultimate Federation started their firstSOTG Committee last year with representatives from many countries across Europe
UK Ultimate recently created a SOTG Committee andis implementing a Spirit policy to ensure that majorUK tournaments are played in a positive-spirited atmosphere with all teams and players upholding the spirit of the game.
The Japanese, Australian, and many other flying disc federations are awarding SOTG trophies at every major championship.
Globally, players and federations recognize the importance of SOTG and want to ensure that there are tools in place to support SOTG alongside the growth of the sport for years to come.
More information on SOTG, the score sheet (in 28 languages), as well as some tools to help improve spirit, provide feedback, and the BE CALM strategy, can be found here:
http://wfdf.sport/sotg/about-sotg
For more information, contact Patrick van der Valk, Chair of the Spirit of the Game Subcommittee, at patrick.vandervalk@wfdf.org
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JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. praised the U.S. Supreme Court after a ruling today that struck down a federal law that denies benefits to same-sex married couples. JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon said "this is good for our company and clients, but more importantly, it's the right thing to do." Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg
June 26 (Bloomberg) — A divided U.S. Supreme Court gave a victory to the gay-rights movement, striking down a federal law that denies benefits to same-sex married couples and clearing the way for weddings to resume in California. The court stopped short of declaring constitutional right for gays to marry, or even ruling directly on California's voter-approved ban. Greg Stohr reports on Bloomberg Television's "Market Makers."
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Michael Knaapen, left, and his husband John Becker, of Wisconsin, celebrate after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act and declined to rule on the California law Proposition 8 in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2013.
Michael Knaapen, left, and his husband John Becker, of Wisconsin, celebrate after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the Defense of Marriage Act and declined to rule on the California law Proposition 8 in Washington, D.C., on June 26, 2013. Photographer: Joshua Roberts/Bloomberg
The court overturned by a 5-4 majority the U.S. Defense of Marriage Act, rejecting many of the justifications for treating same-sex and heterosexual couples differently. The court also reinstated a judge's order allowing gay marriages in California, the nation's largest state by population.
Some of the biggest financial firms have criticized prohibitions of same-sex marriage, saying the measures could make it harder to recruit staff. Insurer Chubb Corp., which highlights the benefits it offers to domestic partners, said in 2011 that DOMA "imposes burdens" on businesses.
"Marriage equality lowers burdens and challenges imposed on employers, and will lead to building successful businesses and a strong American economy," New York-based Goldman Sachs said in an e-mailed statement. "We strongly support the Supreme Court's affirmation today of marriage equality."
The ruling could simplify administrative duties for employers in states like New York where gay marriage is legal, said J.D. Piro, national practice leader for the health-and-benefits legal practice at Aon Plc (AON)'s Aon Hewitt consulting business.
"Now, according to the decision, you look at the state law's definition of what is a marriage, and who is a spouse, and interpret the federal law that way," Piro said in a phone interview. "So in New York, for example, whereas previously you had to file separate federal income tax returns but a joint New York state income tax return, now you'd be able to file a joint federal return."
Apple Inc. (AAPL), the world's most valuable technology company, and Citigroup Inc. (C), the third-largest U.S. bank by assets, also welcomed the court's decision.
"Apple strongly supports marriage equality," Kristin Huguet, a spokeswoman for the Cupertino, California-based company, said in an e-mail. "We consider it a civil rights issue."
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A referee from Ashton-under-Lyne will be rubbing shoulders with some of the country's elite footballers on a regular basis from next season.
That's because Chris Kavanagh has been promoted to the Premier League as one of 18 Select Group officials who will take charge of top-flight games in 2017-18.
The 30-year-old, who hails from Manchester but lives in Tameside, was part of the Select Group 2 – a group of professional referees who primarily officiate in the Championship – last season.
After impressing during three years in the Football League, the highly-rated whistler is the only official to have been elevated by the Professional Game Match Officials Limited (PGMOL), which oversees referees, following Mark Clattenburg's departure to work in Saudi Arabia.
The news was announced last weekend by Manchester County FA, where Kavanagh quit his day as Referee Development Manager last summer to take up refereeing full-time.
He proved his worth by successfully handling a trial Premier League last term, handing out four yellow cards in Southampton's 1-0 victory over West Bromwich Albion at the Hawthorns in April.
Overall, Kavanagh officiated 40 games in all competitions last season – including 27 in the Championship. He issued 133 yellow cards, sent off three players and awarded five penalties in total.
One of his most high-profile career appointments to date was his one and only appearance at Wembley Stadium, as fourth official for Glossop North End's defeat by North Shields in the final of the FA Vase in May 2015.
Kavanagh has already had a taste of what's to come having previously encountered Premier League teams in cup competitions and has been fourth official for a number of top-flight games.
Also promoted to the Premier League list is assistant referee Dan Cook, who has ran the line in 12 top-flight matches over the last two seasons.


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Green Healthcare Institutions : Health, Environment, and Economics, Workshop Summary is based on the ninth workshop in a series of workshops sponsored by the Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine since the roundtable began meeting in 1998. When choosing workshops and activities, the roundtable looks for areas of mutual concern and also areas that need further research to develop a strong environmental science background.
This workshop focused on the environmental and health impacts related to the design, construction, and operations of healthcare facilities, which are part of one of the largest service industries in the United States. Healthcare institutions are major employers with a considerable role in the community, and it is important to analyze this significant industry. The environment of healthcare facilities is unique; it has multiple stakeholders on both sides, as the givers and the receivers of care. In order to provide optimal care, more research is needed to determine the impacts of the built environment on human health.
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One of James' agents in Scotland was John Spottiswoode. He was born at Mid Calder, West Lothian, in 1565, a son of the manse. After attending Glasgow University, he succeeded his father as minister of Calder, at 18 years of age. In 1601, he went as chaplain to the Duke of Lennox on an embassy sent to France by King James. He was away for two years, and back just in time to accompany King James when he travelled south to take up the English throne. Spottiswoode belonged to the strict Presbyterian party which did not want bishops in the church, but in 1603, King James appointed him Presbyterian Archbishop of Glasgow. James, like many kings of his time, believed that they were hand-picked by God and anointed to do his bidding - the Divine Right of Kings - and he and his son, King Charles 1, all thought they knew how a church should be run, and imposed bishops on the Church of Scotland and Anglican-style worship. We should spare a thought for our brothers and sisters in the Church of Scotland - they had much to suffer at the hands of interfering monarchs. Spottiswoode, it can be fairly said, sold his soul to King James. He was one of James' principal agents in Scotland, and he was suitably and regularly rewarded: in 1605, he was appointed to the Scottish Privy Council, and just after the martyrdom of Saint John, he was promoted to be Archbishop of St. Andrews. Later James' son, King Charles I, made him Chancellor of Scotland. The more he climbed the greasy pole, the stickier it became for him, and his final years were not particularly happy ones.


Prime Minister Kan announced today that Japan will embrace energy conservation. While many assume Japan's practices are very "green," this has not been the case in architecture. The turn-around is VERY exciting.
This has been coming for a while. What took them so long?
1) In some ways, Japan has looked pretty good when it comes to energy consumption. The nation's energy-to-GDP ratios, for example, are very good. Japan, with just over 125-million people, had the world's second highest GDP until about a year ago, when China (population 1.3-billion) surpassed it. The U.S. (population 307-million) has the highest GDP. So, if you compare a big number like GDP to numbers like population or energy demand, the nation is awesome.
And (yep, it gets worse), Japan's consumption of energy has been growing faster than in other developed nations. From 1990 to 2005, the OECD average energy demand growth was 5-9%. Japan's was 15%. The biggest area of growth in demand? Buildings.
2) Energy demand in buildings is rising faster than the other two commonly calculated sectors (transportation and industry), but per capita consumption in this sector also looks surprisingly good.
History plays a role here. In homes, most Japanese still tend to heat or cool only the rooms they are using, not their whole home. The amount of space per person in homes and offices is also less than in more expansive nations, like ours.
Energy consumption in architecture is rising a lot faster than in other areas: people are living in larger spaces, increasingly they are working and living in settings where heating the whole interior is the norm. AND, to make matters worse, demographics play a part. Society is aging (those over 65 tend to require more energy per person) and households are getting smaller (an individual in a 1-person household consumes about 1.7 times the energy of a person in a 4-person household).
I'd also point out that a lot of international comparative figures are more than ten years old. Much has changed in terms of lifestyle and computer use (just to give two examples) in the last ten years. These changes mean more space per person and more demand at the electrical outlet.
3) You'd think that with all that importing, the nation would have decided that reducing energy demand was politically wise. But in my field, Japan has tended to drive such decisions by consensus, not top-down regulation. So when it comes to energy, Japan basically has a voluntary building code. That has worked okay with larger buildings, where owners and designers are sophisticated, but not so well with the small businesses and individual owners who commission a lot of the nation's buildings.
There is less economic incentive at the small scale to insulate. Building life spans average about 25 years. That means the "pay-back period" for conservation is shortened. In California, we address this with taxes and subsidies, in addition to strong energy codes for buildings. Japan is reluctant to tax energy aggressively; the subsidies I have seen in architecture often seem to target areas which might yield market leadership in the long run (home fuel cells, say)–and when those subsidies go (as with solar hot water heating or residential PV), there is quite often a dramatic drop in demand, because the initial subsidy was not set based on efficiencies.
Scary fact: in a recent study, an estimated 70% of single-family homes and 60% of multi-family homes in Tokyo had NO insulation–and you'll find similar statistics for much of Japan, except the areas with the most extreme heat or cold.
4) Lastly, since the Kyoto Protocols, Japan has been more focused on greenhouse gases than on energy demand. (It's the world's fifth largest greenhouse gas emitter.) And if you believe that climate change is underway–I do–then that makes some sense. Japan's population is very vulnerable to rising seas.
But sometimes that single-minded emphasis on greenhouse gases has led to strange choices. I'd put the heavy emphasis on nuclear power on my list, but as an architect, that is out of my range. How about this one? I read a report recently, written by many of Japan's leading scholars in energy and architecture, one that came out against insulation. Huh?? Well, Japan tends to use foamboards, what we call rigid insulation. And it appears that there are still Japanese producers who use production methods that both rely on and leak CFCs–greenhouse gases. (Those must be old plants.) So instead of suggesting other forms of insulation (cellulose would make sense, considering Japan's lumber supply), the scholars suggested that increased insulation might not be a good idea. Using a power source with lower greenhouse gas emission made more sense.
More ahead: What does California have to offer on this topic? A lot.
"Effectiveness of Energy Conservation Measures in Residential Sector of Japanese Cities" by Ayako Taniguchi, Yoshiyuki Shimoda, Takahiro Asahi, Yukio Yamaguchi, and Minoru Mizuno, and published in Building Simulation Proceedings 2007. I like that one because it also charts the value of potential improvements.


Luke and I spent part of our extended weekend in Chicago to catch up with family. When we stay in Chicago, we usually stay with my sister, and when we stay with my sister, I usually weigh myself because she has a scale and I don't and I have yet to gather the courage to ask somebody how to work the doctor's-office one stationed in the women's locker room at the Y. I'm not sure what I was expecting to see. I've already told you all about the points-counting thing dying a quick and painless death, and though I've been dragging my carcass to the gym, it's two or three times a week at best, where I mostly walk on the treadmill.
As of Saturday night, I weigh 140.5 pounds. I've gained a pound and a half since my last weigh-in.
I suspect the pint of Breyer's I was inhaling minutes before may have been a contributing factor.
To top it all off, Magda's texturizing comb has left my ends as frayed as if I'd just skipped the damn appointment altogether. Maybe she figured out I'm part Arabian?
As if treating you to Frema's Body-Image Chronicles weren't enough, I've decided to answer one of Silly Hily's questions. Don't thank me all at once.
If you could change one thing about your past, what would it be?
The fact that I was so damned insecure in my relationships. The Boyfriend Who Went For Three Weeks Without Calling--well, often went three weeks without calling, and I didn't have the guts to call him on it (pun a little intended). It took five years to end our make-up break-up cycle, only for me to hook up with Mike, only to trigger Trophy Frema for ten months my junior year in college.
I can see my willingness in volunteering my backside as a doormat caused a lot of the issues I faced with both men. Why should Nick have called when I was so quick to excuse his absences? Why should Mike have made an effort to know my friends when I was dropping them to hang out with his? I was so wrapped up in the intensity of our physical attraction and the status that accompanied having a boyfriend that I didn't allow myself to dwell on the quality of the boyfriends I had.
This played out in some of my platonic friendships as well; I was always so worried about what people thought of me and whether or not I was viewed as a good friend. I'm much better now, but that "old" part of me still resurfaces from time to time.
I'd keep going, but it's twelve-thirty in the morning, and Luke is about ready to rip the keyboard from underneath my fingerpads so he can get some sleep. For my sanity and his, peace out.
I am not trying to help you make excuses or anything like that - but please remember that fat weighs less than muscle, and that if you have been walking a lot (treadmill?) lately, you may have gained 1.5lbs in LEG MUSCLES, and not in fat. I know you still want to lose 15lbs, but be careful about going 'by the scale' because it can often be misleading and daunting.
Don't beat yourself up over those boys (I realize, you were answering the question.) You ended up with the right one.
The one thing I learned through weight watchers is it's all about the portion control. Calories in, calories out. I lost about 16 or 17 lbs on WW my first time around and am trying to get back in the saddle, but it's tough. Especially since I don't particularly care for foods that are good for me, and I have a husband with absolutely no weight problem so he can eat whatever he wants. I have a hard time munching on carrot sticks while he's sucking down Dorito's.
Holy cow I could have said that word for word (only it would have been 3 years instead of 5). Other than that, seriously, word.for.word.
And dude, 140 lbs!!!??? Do you know what I would do to be 140 lbs???? Let's just say there are few things I wouldn't do.
Equilibrium: Energy In = Energy Out. However, if there is more going in than coming out then the difference stays inside in a concentrated form. Yet, it is true the muscle is more dense than other stuff of the body. Also, muscle is nicer to the eye. You are moving ahead. One week of menus is a super goal setting effort.
Good thing you don't have a scale at home. You would be driving yourself crazy!
And I have YET to schedule and execute a five-day dinner menu. Please, if you're able to follow through on consistently feeding youself, please pass along your secret. There are some mountains I have yet to climb.
Oh Frema, Well, that's all I can think of.I guess not,I just read "HOW USELESS CLUTTER CHANGED MY LIFE".It brought tears to my eyes.Okay,I do cry at the drop of a hat but it was the sweetest thing.I don't know you in the "real world" but I do think that what I love so much about you is that feeling that WHAT YOU READ IS WHAT YOU GET.
And also,I was just wondering,are you making a big loaf of garlic french bread to go with that spaghetti? And what about low cal desserts?
Debi: Nope, no garlic french bread here. We don't have anything with spaghetti, and usually our sides consist of fruits, vegetables, or some sort of rice.
Regarding low-cal desserts: we did pick up some Ben and Jerry's sorbet--"Berried Treasure." Trust Luke to find pirate-themed goodness in the grocer's freezer.
I think you're funny and so adorable. You remind me of my girlfriends I hang out with, here in Houston.
ANYWAY - My husband and I have been trying to eat healthy...I just got "A Weight Watchers Cookbook, Cooking for 2" this weekend. The recipes are really fantastic (I'm a food snob) and the portion controls have helped a lot. It's nice, because if you count points (the points are counted for you), you can have delicious tasting snacks during the day and not feel guilty. I'll make copies and try to email them to you (if you want).
I tend to snack also. If you can find a way to NOT snack...let me know!!
I think we were all relationship-idiots when we were younger. I see kids on TV shows and movies and they are always so cool when it comes to stuff like that. I NEVER was.


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March 29, 2017 December 1, 2020 / derekpsimonphd
I hate to be condescending but how the scientific community perceives a phenomena and how the public at large perceive the exact same thing can be starkly different.
For example, there is still a debate over the scientific legitimacy of global warming and climate change. Of course, this flies in the face of reality. In the scientific community, there is no more debate over climate change than there is over heliocentricity (the theory that states the Earth revolves around the Sun). Study after study comes to the came conclusion, the scientific evidence is overwhelmingly in favor. But I'm not writing to debate climate change.
The same type of dichotomy exists for replacement/maintenance therapies for addiction. Methadone and the related compound buprenorphine (Suboxone, one of its formulations) are still considered controversial or ineffective or "replacing one drug for another."
In brief, methadone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methadone) is a compound that acts on the same target as heroin (the mu opioid receptor) but unlike heroin, it acts for 24hrs. Dr. Vincent Dole, a scientist at the Rockefeller University in New York, and his colleague, Dr. Marie Nyswander, had the brilliant idea of using this very long-acting opioid compound as a way of treating heroin addiction. Indeed, methadone has the advantage of not producing the intense, pleasurable high that heroin produces but is still effective at curbing cravings for heroin and eliminating withdrawal symptoms. Dole and Nyswander published their first study in 1967 and methadone has been an approved—and effective—treatment for heroin addiction worldwide ever since.
However, controversy over the use of methadone exists. Even the opening of a methadone clinic can incite protests. The persistence of negative attitudes towards methadone and the stigma against treating addiction as a medical disease has prevented addicts from receiving proven medical treatments that are effective at curbing cravings and actually keeping them off of heroin and in treatment programs.
So just for a moment, let's suspend our preconceived notions about what methadone is or how it works and let's just ask our selves two simple questions:
Does methadone work?
Does methadone keep addicts off of heroin and in treatment?
The answer is a resounding YES!
Many controlled, clinical studies have examined the effectiveness of methadone
But a comprehensive, comparison of methadone versus control, non-medication based treatments has never been considered amongst the various studies.
Researchers at the Cochrane Library performed this type of comprehensive analysis. Data was considered from 14 unique, previous clinical studies conducted over the past 40 years. Researchers compared methadone treatment versus control, non-medication based treatment approaches (placebo medication, withdrawal or detoxification, drug-free rehabilitation clinics, no treatment, or waitlist). 11 studies and 1969 subjects were included in their final analysis.
Read the full paper, published in 2009, here.
The results were clear. Methadone was found to keep people off of heroin and in treatment more effectively than control treatments. Urine analysis confirmed methadone-treated addicts were more likely to be heroin-free and regularly seeking treatment.
Of course, as I stated above, this is nothing new. But it's important to note that abstinence therapies or treatments that encourage addicts to go "cold turkey" don't really work. A medical treatment exists to help addicts fight their cravings so theirs brains are not fixated on obtaining heroin and these people are able to regain normal daily functions. And in time, methadone doses can be tapered down as intensity and frequency of cravings decrease.
The debate now should not be whether methadone works, but on how to use it effectively and to expand its use so that as many people as possible can benefit from it.
Most importantly, methadone helps an addict to return to normal life. End of story.
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A year ago, energy prices (natural gas, petroleum, etc.), were near some of the highest prices of the decade. Nationally, natural gas had exceeded USD 11.00 per thousand cubic feet for industrial users and peaked at USD 13.07 in July, according to reports from the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration.
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