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Here's what we know about the links between video games and violence
A growing number of experts say there is no evidence of a link — and yet some groups (including the NRA) continue to foster that perception.
March 2, 2018, 10:38 PM UTC / Updated March 2, 2018, 10:38 PM UTC
By Daniel Arkin
President Donald Trump plans to invite representatives from the video game industry to the White House, an administration official told NBC News on Friday — just days after the president suggested that there is a link between violent games and mass shootings like the one in Parkland, Florida.
"I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts," Trump said last Thursday during a meeting about school safety.
A gamer plays the Virtual Reality "TraVR, Shadow Ops" game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, California on June 17, 2015.Mark Ralston / AFP - Getty Images
Trump is by no means the first politician to say that bloody, brutal video games can lead to real-world violence. Mitt Romney, for example, once blamed the Virginia Tech and Columbine massacres on "pornography and violence" in music, movies, TV shows and video games.
But what do researchers make of these claims? A growing number of them say there is no evidence of a link — and yet some groups (including the National Rifle Association) continue to foster that perception. Here's a look at the scholarship.
Scant evidence
Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old accused of gunning down 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, on Feb. 14 reportedly played video games for up to 15 hours a day.
"It was kill, kill, blow up something, and kill some more, all day," Paul Gold, a neighbor, told The Miami Herald.
But that anecdote, troubling as it may sound, is not scientific proof of Cruz's propensity to commit acts of violence, according to many researchers.
The "violent video games cause violence" hypothesis was a not-unreasonable thing for people to worry about in the early 1990s, but 25 years later it's clearly false.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) March 1, 2018
"It's hard to attribute video games to any kind of violence in society," said Christopher Ferguson, a psychology professor at Stetson University in Florida. "We're not able to find any evidence to support this idea."
Ferguson is joined in that view by Whitney DeCamp, a professor of sociology at Western Michigan University, who says the relationship between video games and violent behavior is insignificant and trivial.
The Supreme Court in 2011 dismissed any link between game violence and real violence when it ruled, 7 to 2, that California could not block the sale of violent games to kids. Justice Antonin Scalia, a hero in the conservative movement, wrote for the majority:
"Psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively. Any demonstrated effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media."
Alarms raised
A review of scientific literature by an American Psychological Association task force identified a link between violent games and short-term spikes in hostile or mildly aggressive behavior.
But many academics, including Ferguson and DeCamp, have pushed back against that report; hundreds signed an open letter to criticize what they described as poor methodology and "bias."
In any case, there is no reason to believe playing violent games has any significant "long-term effects or that it translates into real-life violence down the road," DeCamp said.
A nation of gamers
Forty-nine percent of American adults play video games on a computer, TV, console or portable device (like an iPhone), according to a 2015 survey from the Pew Research Center. And another 10 percent consider themselves to be "gamers."
The American public is fairly divided on the question of whether violent games are tied to violent behavior.
A slight majority (53 percent) disagree with the statement "people who play violent video games are more likely to be violent themselves," according to Pew. But 40 percent say there is a relationship between game violence and actual violence.
Wayne LaPierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, has castigated the entertainment media for its purported role in contributing to mass shootings. After the 2012 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, LaPierre blasted the video game business as a "corrupting shadow industry that sells and sows violence against its own people."
Gun control is surely not the issue - traditional family values have been demonized and attacked. It starts with the family and how you're raised. Video games, movies and music all promote violence. It's a societal issue.
— Ryan Fournier (@RyanAFournier) March 1, 2018
In his comments last week, Trump appeared to side with the NRA view of the video game industry. But his comments were quickly challenged by several researchers — and at least one survivor of the Parkland shooting.
"My friends and I have been playing video games our whole life and never … have we ever felt driven or provoked by those actions in those games to do something as horrible as this," Samuel Zeif told CNN last week. "I don't think anyone is."
"It's a video game," he said. "Something happens, you restart. We know that's not how life is."

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I have finished The Chocolate Course!
Short and sweet news today!
Well I am busy with the start of my course and already loving it. I have to research as many independent chocolatiers and find three that inspire me and the style I would like to emulate. Well these are two of them I think I have decided to go with. Check them out, tell me what you think!
Click on boxed collections, then seasonal collections. I love her use of colour, its like art!
I like his designs but especially the flavours.
and I am still deciding on my last one..if you know of any outstanding ones that you like let me know!
With thanks to my fantastic parents I will be studying for three months through Ecole Chocolat.
It is an online chocolate program where you do all the practical work at home and then meet fellow students and lecturers online. I am very excited and hope to post my progress, assignments and chocolate developments here. I feel so blessed being able to study chocolate!!!
Jean Pierre Wybauw Showing how its done.
In October 2008 I had the privilege of studying under Jean-Pierre Wybauw for a short course in Belgium Candy Making – Fine Chocolates. It was held in Orlando, Florida at The Notter School of Pastry Arts. We spent 3 days learning different techniques, flavours and how to use specific equipment. I had an absolute ball and realised that becoming a chocolatier was definitely what I wanted to do.
Jean-Pierre began by teaching us all about tempering chocolate (which I will post about soon) and chocolate decay and spoilage. Then we got into the fun part. Together with my chocolate partner for the course, Sally, we began making so many different varieties of chocolates. I believe we each had approximately 150-200 chocolates each to take home with us. I can certainly say my family were happy to see me return home that weekend!
We learnt how to make traditional shapes and flavours such as molded liquors, anisette, lavender, almond praline, butter truffles with vanilla. However the ones I enjoyed the most were the flavours of cardamon and pistachio, mango saffron and mint with green tea.
To finish the course as a treat Jean-Pierre demonstrated how to make several decorations. We learnt how to use transfer sheets which place a coloured pattern of cocoa butter on the chocolate, various shapes and bowls to hold desserts, curls, striped cigars and my absolute favourite, a gift bow made out of chocolate. I will have to practice these once I have purchased my own marble slab but for now I am content with getting up each day and deciding what chocolate challenge I will undergo next!
A selection of our creations.
Chocolate dessert cups, curls and decorations.


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Grundy's featured a massive four-slide water flume opposite the Surfers Paradise beachfront.
Grundy's Entertainment Centre, an arcade game and water slide venue affectionately known as Grundy's, opened on a long weekend in March, 1981. Situated in the heart of Surfers Paradise at the beach end of Cavill Avenue, it was developed by media entrepreneur Reginald (Reg) Roy Grundy AC OBE (1923-2016).
Grundy's was located in the Paradise Centre and was part of a $5.5 million lease signed in 1980 by the Grundy Organisation with the owner of the Paradise Centre, Eddie Kornhauser. In the 1970s, Kornhauser had demolished the Seabreeze and Surfers Paradise Hotels to build the shopping and hotel complex which included the accommodation towers Ballah and Allunga.
The opening of Grundy's took place at the same time as plans to remove vehicles and permanently turn Cavill Avenue into a pedestrian only mall. The idea for a pedestrian only mall had initially been trialled in 1978. Following the success of the trial, Cavill Mall, the first of its kind in Queensland, was completed in 1982.
Grundy's featured a massive four-slide water flume opposite the Surfers Paradise beachfront. The venue also included a traditional carousel, live variety entertainments, arcade games, a ghost train, a shooting gallery, an old time photograph studio and an Australian version of Chuck E. Cheese that was named Charlie Cheese's Pizza Playhouse.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s computer arcade games were becoming increasingly popular and ride based theme parks were starting to be established on the Gold Coast. When Grundy's opened its nearest rival was Magic Mountain in Miami which featured water slides, a miniature train, a chair lift and other attractions. Sea World, on The Spit, had yet to incorporate large rides into their theme park and remained a sea life and water ski based attraction. Dreamworld did not open at Coomera until December 1981.
The water slides at Grundy's were very popular with young tourists and locals and featured in rock band Australian Crawl's 1981 music video 'Errol'. The water slides were closed in 1987 and removed in the early 1990s. It was around this time that the Grundy Organisation sold the amusement centre. Grundy's eventually closed in 1993 and later that year, Timezone Australia took over the operation as part of its expansion across Australia.
Grundy, R. (2010). Reg Grundy. Pier 9.
https://www.parkz.com.au/parks/AU/Surfer_s_Paradise/Grundy_s_at_Surfers_Paradise Retrieved 28 Mar, 2017.
http://timezonesurfersparadise.com.au/about-us.html Retrieved 28 Mar, 2017.
http://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/lifestyle/take-a-look-back-at-the-gold-coasts-first-theme-parks-including-magic-mountain-and-grundys/news-story/39b8869b4142b7576e515be01760fc86 Retrieved 28 Mar, 2017.
Reg Grundy. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reg_Grundy Retrieved 11 Jul, 2017.


My favorite programs these days are the ones that send me as far away as possible, to places without even the hint of other people. It's like taking a brain vacation, and the solitude is the entire point. The free Guided Meditation program can send you deep into a forest, or allow you to spend time inside a temple in Japan.
You can hang out on a beach with gently lapping waves, or sit in front of a canyon in the desert with your thoughts. Each experience comes with a 10 minute audio meditation program, and it's a brilliant way to clear your head of distractions and frustrations.


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The Fast and the Furious (1954)
Posted on August 4, 2020 by rdfranciswriter
Before "Racer X," the 1998 Vibe magazine article that detailed an illegal street racing circuit operating within New York City . . . before Vin Diesel and Paul Walker . . . there was this tale of romance and cops-on-the-case originally known as Crashout, written by Roger Corman.
In a deal similar to the one Corman made with Ron Howard years later on Grand Theft Auto: John Ireland agreed to star only if he could direct. And in nine days on a budget of $50,000, Ireland (The Shape of Things to Come, Incubus) directed his first feature film, Corman had his second producer's credit (after Monster from the Ocean Floor), and the newly-incorporated American Releasing Corporation (which would become American International Pictures) had their first feature film. For Ireland's co-star, Corman was able to get a down-and-out Dorothy Malone, who was without talent representation at the time, for an affordable price.
In the pages of his 1990 biography, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, Roger Corman states that producer Neal H. Moritz and Universal Pictures approached him to licensed the title for 2001's The Fast and the Furious after Moritz learned of Corman's 1954 film while watching a documentary about American International Pictures. At the time, Moritz toyed with the idea of retaining the Racer X title from the Vibe article, along with the titles of Race Wars and Street Wars. One of Moritz's rejected titles, Redline, was later used by one of the many F&F rip-offs, a 2007 film starring Tim Matheson and Eddie Griffin. (And another of the knockoffs, 2008's Street Racer from Asylum Studios, sounds suspiciously like a portmanteau of Mortiz's others rejected titles.) The deal that got it done: Moritz could have Corman's title-by-trade: all he had to do was give Corman some stock footage to use in his later productions.
Universal welcomed Corman into the fold again when he got the idea to make his own sequel to 1975's Death Race 2000. The idea came to fruition when an Italian journalist interviewing Corman commented The Hunger Games shared similar social and political themes explored in Death Race 2000. So Corman reached out to Universal, who produced Paul W. S. Anderson's 2008 remake, with a plan to bring back the dark, sociopolitical satire of the original — and the killing of pedestrians. Universal was on board: the studio co-produced the film that became Death Race 2050 with Corman's New World for the home video streaming market.
As you watch Corman's '54 car racing drama, you'll notice the plot bears a striking resemblance to the glut of low-budget indie knockoffs made in the wake of F&F 2001's success: We have another ne'er-do-well charged with a murder he did not commit and his salvation lies on the quarter mile.
Broken out of jail and on the run, someone recognizes Frank Webster (John Ireland) in a small, roadside coffee shop. To facilitate his escape, he kidnaps a customer, Connie (Dorothy Malone), and hits the road in her white Jaguar sports car. To elude police, and courtesy of Connie's sleek ride, Frank easily slips into a cross-border sports car race into Mexico. Cops, guns, crashes . . . and love, ensues.
You have a couple of streaming choices. You can watch this on TubiTV or on You Tube HERE and HERE. The quality on all three uploads is about the same, but the Tubi upload carries ads. You can also watch it over on the Internet Archive, which is turning out to be a great repository for hard-to-find and classic films.
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The Turn Of The Century - The Year 2000 In Music
December 31st, 1999! Do you remember where you were? Maybe the question should be "do you remember what you were thinking?" The END OF THE WORLD as we know it. No, not the song by REM, but literally worried that all the myths and rumors were going to come true. Then, without missing a beat, you partied like a rock star, and woke up, just like everyone else, somewhere around 1PM on 01.01.2000. The clock was still ticking, the electric was still surging, the phone was still ringing, and the TV was still broadcasting. And then this happened…. The BOOM of music that invaded the year 2000!
So what is music? What does the word "music" mean to you? Is it how you relate the world to yourself? Is it a way of expressing who you are as an individual? Is it a source of inspiration to get you through the day, a class, work, a car ride?? Is it a drug? But a good drug. :-) What really is "music?"
To me, music is everything. Every song has a story!!! Some lyrics are good, some lyrics are bad, some lyrics are happy, some lyrics are sad. And then there are those songs where the lyrics make absolutely make no sense, but we sing them out anyway. Ya know, the songs where the lyrics rhyme, and sound catchy, but really have no substance or sustainability. *** I like girls that wear Abercrombie and Fitch, Chinese food makes me sick. *** LFO – Summergirls … fun song, but I still don't get it. :-)
The year 2000 brought us some incredible and outstanding anthems! Staples that will forever be blasted through sound systems across the globe. In no particular order check out some of my favorites from the turn of the century. From Faith Hill, to J-Lo, here's my list of top nine favorite songs from the year many of us thought we'd never get to see. Hey, guess all the experts were wrong after all.
"I Knew I Loved You" is a song by Australian pop duo Savage Garden, released as the second single from their second studio album, Affirmation. The song went straight to number one on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the band's second number one in the United States after "Truly Madly Deeply". After its third week at number one, the single was knocked off by Mariah Carey's "Thank God I Found You" featuring Joe and 98 Degrees. It later returned to the top again the following week for its fourth and final week at the top.
"Amazed" is a song written by Marv Green, Aimee Mayo, and Chris Lindsey. The first version of the song was recorded by the American country music group Lonestar, whose version was released in March 1999 as the second single from their 1999 album Lonely Grill. Lonestar's version is their longest-lasting Number One single and biggest hit, spending eight weeks at the top of the Billboard country chart. A remix later reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks charts as well. Since the release of the original, the song has been covered by Bonnie Tyler, Duncan James, and Fady Maalouf, all of whom have released their respective versions as singles. Ben Mills, Boyz II Menand Shane Filan have included covers in their respective albums.
"Thong Song" is a song recorded by American R&B artist Sisqó. It was released on January 4, 2000 as the second single from Sisqó's 1999 solo debut LP Unleash the Dragon. "Thong Song" garnered 4 Grammy nominations and numerous other awards as well. The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100, Sisqó's second highest-peaking, and the biggest hit in the United States.It was a major success worldwide as well, reaching the top ten throughout European charts, including number one in Sweden and Norway, and number three in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Denmark. The song also topped the charts in New Zealand.
"Back at One" is a song written and performed by American recording artist Brian McKnight, taken from his fifth studio album of the same name. "Back at One" made its first chart appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100 eventually peaking at number two. The music video was directed by Francis Lawrence and was nominated for R&B video of the year in the Music Video Production Association Awards
"You Sang to Me" is a 2000 hit song by Marc Anthony, and was released as the third single of his first English language album Marc Anthony. The song was written and produced by Marc Anthony and Cory Rooney, and like the previous English single from Marc Anthony also a Spanish version was recorded, but wasn't included on the first edition of the album. Both versions of the track were very successful in the United States. The English version peaked at even higher than "I Need to Know", climbing to number 2 in the Billboard Hot 100, kept off from the top slot by "Maria Maria" by Santana featuring The Product G&B. It also spent seven weeks at No. 1 on the Billboardadult contemporary chart. The Spanish version ("Muy Dentro de Mi") hit No. 1 on the Hot Latin Tracks chart for 3 consecutive weeks. According to Anthony, he wrote this song for his then-friend Jennifer Lopez, whom he married soon after. This version was nominated for a Lo Nuestro Award for Pop Song of the Year, losing to "A Puro Dolor" by Son by Four.
"Let's Get Married" is the title of a number one song by American four piece R&B group Jagged Edge, from their album J.E. Heartbreak. It spent three weeks at the top of the US R&B chart in 2000 and reached #11 on the US pop chart. The song is a slow, love ballad about a man's desire to get married to his girl. The remix features DJ Run of Run-D.M.C. and samples "It's Like That" by Run-D.M.C. The remix was directed by Bryan Barber. The group performed the single at the kayfabe wedding of Theodore Long and Kristal Marshall on the September 21, 2007, episode of WWE Friday Night SmackDown.
"The Real Slim Shady" is a hip hop song written by Eminem, Dr. Dre and Tommy Coster for Eminem's third studio album The Marshall Mathers LP (2000). It was released as the lead single a week before the album's release. The song was later released in 2005 on Eminem's greatest hits album Curtain Call: The Hits. "The Real Slim Shady" was Eminem's first song to reach number one in the United Kingdom and it also peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100, giving him his biggest hit up to that point. The song was the 11th best selling of 2000 in the United Kingdom. It won multiple awards, including MTV Video Music Awards for Best Video and Best Male Video, as well as a Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 80 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years". The song was featured in 21 Jump Street during the opening of the film. It was listed at number 396 on NMEs 500 greatest songs of all time.
"Party Up (Up in Here)" is a song by American hip hop recording artist DMX, released as the second single from his third album ...And Then There Was X (1999) and is his highest charting and most successful single ever. There are three versions of the song: an explicit/album version; a censored album version, and a radio/video edit version. The song was voted number 56 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '00s.
"The Next Episode" is a single by American rapper Dr. Dre, released on July 4, 2000 as the third single from his second studio album, The Chronic 2001, which was released in 1999. The track features Snoop Dogg, Kurupt, and Nate Dogg, the last being uncredited. The song is often mistakenly titled "Smoke Weed Everyday" on video-sharing sites such as YouTube, as Nate Dogg says the phrase at the end of the track. The song peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot 100.


Kenya-based commercial bank, I&M Bank Limited has successfully acquired Youjays Insurance Brokers Limited (YIB) through its subsidiary, I&M Insurance Agency Limited (IMIAL). The move has seen the bank merge two insurance entities into one as a means of expanding revenue streams for its non-funded income portfolio.
The acquisition process began in 2017 when IMIAL and YIB entered into an agreement that IMIAL should acquire 100 percent of the issued share capital of YIB Group's Bancassurance division.
After about 6 months of settling regulatory issues with Central Bank of Kenya, the Competition of Kenya Authority and the Insurance Regulatory Authority of Kenya, IMIAL successfully acquired the insurance broker with over 400 customers and an insurance premium portfolio of over Sh400 million (about $4 million).
The Kenyan commercial bank is owned by Nairobi Stock Exchange listed I&M Holdings Limited (IMHL) which operates in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Mauritius and has a market capitalization of about Ksh51.5 billion with total assets of Ksh240 billion as at December 2017, a branch network of 84 and a staff complement of over 1,850 spread across the four countries.


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Praying Drunk by Kyle Minor
By sonorareview	in Book Reviews, Reviews	on June 12, 2014 February 10, 2018
Typically, I don't like "dark" stories about suicide, drug addiction, or cancer because those themes are emotionally loaded. The work is already done for the writer. There's also this false assumption that a lot of writers fall into, which is that dark things—suicide, drug addiction, cancer—are serious, and all serious things are profound. Having said that, Kyle Minor's new short story collection Praying Drunk, Stories, Questions is, well, dark. The characters in Praying Drunk struggle with love, suicide, religious institutions, abuse, and drug addiction. Every conflict comes from, or leads to, the frantically sublime. But somehow, all this "dark" heavy stuff plays well with me—even when he starts one of his stories with eye-rolling seriousness, like the first line of "The Sweet Life" which reads, "The boy in the casket was my wife's nephew." The drama is recursive in a weird way too. For instance, Minor repurposes the same suicide in numerous stories, and a pastor uses the same crude biscuit analogy to describe death at every funeral. It becomes clear after the third or fourth story that Minor writes from his life and thereby breaks the logic of the false assumption. All this "darkness" is his experience, and as it happens, that is profound.
Sprinkled with instances of "meta writing," the collection reveals a narrator who is confounded by his own morbidity. In the appropriately named opener, "The Question of Where We Begin," the narrator launches into a philosophical meditation of causality and the elements of a good story after his uncle's suicide. Minor writes, "Perhaps he wouldn't have killed himself if his children had more demonstrably loved him." This "what if" rhetoric leads to a wildly electric paragraph in which the narrator tries to find the root of his uncle's trouble, from his breakfast decisions the day he killed himself, all the way back to the pre-humans and everything in between. In his mania, the narrator asserts that God lacked agency after the fall. Eventually, the hysteria drains the narrator and prompts the reflection, "…what does it say about me, the god of this telling, that I have to take it to these dark places?" All in all, a roundabout way of avoiding self-criticism. The narrator plays the messenger, and the message is, "life sucks."
The collection's primary concerns are tethered to religion. Minor, an admitted ex-evangelical Christian, writes about the struggle of adjusting to a secular lifestyle. He grapples with the debt he owes the people and culture that inspire his stories, the desire to make them real people instead of political reductions of Middle America, and his own indignation at having the burden of the soul/debt relationship to God placed on his impressionable shoulders. In "You Shall Go Out With Joy And Be Led Forth With Peace," the narrator (also named Kyle) is an ex-pastor recently divorced from his faith. He gets a call from Tony, an old disciple from his congregation, saying he has terminal leukemia. As he visits Tony in a Florida hospice, Kyle has trouble finding words for comfort in a new vocabulary. "…I didn't tell him what I had learned," he says, "what life had taught me, which is there's no such thing as miracles. God probably doesn't answer our prayers."
Most of the characters in Praying Drunk are or were evangelical Christians. At times, the writing borders on religious exploitation, the mining of evangelical beliefs for shock value. In "You Shall Go…" the narrator mentions something disquieting about Christian private schools after describing complex Old Testament geopolitics involving Isaiah and the Assyrians. He writes, "Twelve years old, and I know all these things. They teach us these things at my school." A similar moment occurs in "Glossolalia" where a character explains to her atheist boyfriend what it's like to speak in tongues. This is a tricky political minefield. Fortunately, Minor focuses his criticism primarily on the institutions and not on the characters. The characters are portrayed with genuine respect and tenderness, despite their radical beliefs and values.
The most impressive story of the collection, "In a Distant Country," features some of the more exploitative features of the book, but also the most developed characters. Set in a Haitian mission during the 80s, the piece talks about the dangers of religious certainty through the form of correspondence letters. "…What I was hearing—clear as day—was the word from the Lord: This young woman, this Shelia Broken, is the one I've been keeping for you." This is a letter from a middle-aged missionary named Sam, talking about an 18-year-old student who went to Haiti on her senior mission trip. If the story ended there, with Sam's inappropriate interest in a girl much younger than himself, with only Sam's voice telling the story, then it would be a pretty standard case of character-used-as-political-device-makes-blanket-statement-about-culture. However, the piece is complicated with many voices and contrasting opinions. It turns into a series of critiques of morality inside a standardized system of morality. Minor evaluates the situations on his characters' terms, without dismissing the vocabulary outright, despite his new religious consciousness, and I find this to be one of the most generous gestures of the collection.
There is also a "Q&A" in the book, an interview Minor conducts with himself, another one of those meta-fiction moves I mentioned earlier. "Q: On the cover of this book, it says 'Fiction.' A: That's what people write when they want to get away with telling the truth." I can't tell you how annoying it is for me to read this, to hear an author who uses so many dramatic "dark" clichés interview himself and call his work the "truth." What a God-like ego. And what's even more annoying, I think he might be right.
Kyle Minor is the winner of the 2012 Iowa Review Prize and the Tara M. Kroger Prize for Short Fiction.
Praying Drunk, Stories, Questions was published by Sarabande Books in 2014.
Daniel Phelps—intern for Sonora Review Issue 66 (2014)—reviews Kyle Minor's book Praying Drunk, Stories, Questions (Sarabande Books, 2014).
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Unlike today, it was a time of consensus in foreign policy in dealing with the Soviet Union, partisanship was an afterthought. The outset of the Cold War produced the Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, Point Four, and NATO, but the mindset of these individuals would also lead to mistakes embodied in the disastrous coups of the Eisenhower era, the Bay of Pigs, and the Vietnam War. Greg Herken tells the story of these influential people, how their ideas dominated American policy, and what the ramifications of that influence were. The reader is exposed to intimate details and tremendous insights as these power brokers are examined, and it makes for a fascinating read.
The narrative focuses on the most important foreign policy debates of the 20th century, where the residents of Georgetown aligned themselves, and how their views affected the success or failure of presidential decision making. Once the Nazis and the Japanese were defeated in 1945, the foreign policy debate focused on the communist threat and the motives of the Soviet Union. The debate was symbolized by George Kennan, who at one point was head of the Policy Planning Staff in the State Department as well as stints as ambassador to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia; and Paul Nitze, former Secretary of the Navy, and author of NSC-68 which along with Kennan's "X Article" formed the basis of American policy toward Russia for well into the 1980s. The debate centered on "whether it was America's moral example or material power that kept the Russians at bay" during the Cold War. Many other individuals draw Herken's discerning eye during the period, the most important of which were Joseph and Stewart Alsop, the journalism brothers who advised presidents, and helped articulate positions on Vietnam and Cuba that some would argue pushed our nation's chief executives into making unwise policy choices.
At times the book reads like a biography of the Alsop brothers as Herken develops their careers as the centerpiece of the monograph. Of the two, Joseph Alsop dominated their relationship and developed numerous sources within the national security apparatus in presidential administrations from Truman through Nixon. Joseph Alsop had his own agenda and his columns created enough pressure on Lyndon Johnson that many believe forced him to consider Alsop's readership when making decisions about Vietnam, a subject that Alsop seemed obsessed with and had difficulty accepting any information that contradicted what he believed. The Alsops hosted numerous dinner parties that were used as conduits to different presidential administrations as conversations yielded information that turned up in their newspaper columns. Herken almost makes the reader as if they are invited guests to the Sunday night gatherings among the "Georgetown Set" and at times the reader might feel like a "fly on the wall" as you witness history being made. In addition to the Alsops, the inner sanctum of the Washington Post is laid bare as great events are reported. We see the newspaper under the stewardship of Philip Graham at the outset of the Cold War until his suicide, when his wife Katharine takes the reigns of the paper and turns it into a strong competitor to the New York Times. Reporting on Watergate, My Lai and other issues reflected Katharine Graham's growth as the head of a major newspaper and her dominant role in Washington politics.
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Victoria Gold Enters Into Agreement to Sell its Mill Canyon Property in Nevada
Victoria Gold Corp. (TSX-V: VIT-V "Victoria" or the "Company")("Victoria" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement (the "PSA") with a wholly-owned subsidiary of Barrick Gold Corporation ("Barrick"), to sell its interest in the Mill Canyon Property (the "Property"), located in Eureka and Lander Counties, Nevada. The Property consists of claims which the Company acquired from Newmont Mining Corporation ("Newmont"), through a purchase agreement dated May 13, 2003 (as amended).
Total consideration for the purchase of the Property of up to US$24,000,000 shall be satisfied by the delivery to Victoria of:
US$15,000,000 on closing of the transaction;
all of the right, title, and interest of Barrick in the Santa Fe Property1 , located in Mineral County, Nevada, with an ascribed valued at US$4,000,000; and
an additional US$5,000,000 should the right of Newmont to back into a joint venture in respect of the Property expire or otherwise be eliminated.
1 Victoria is currently earning into a 60% interest of the Santa Fe Property as per an Exploration, Development and Mine Operating Agreement dated May 21 st , 2008. Upon closing of the sale of the Property, the Exploration, Development and Mine Operating Agreement will terminate and Victoria will hold a 100% interest in the Santa Fe Property.
John McConnell, President & CEO of Victoria stated "While continuing to advance the development of the Company's flagship Eagle Project in Yukon, we have been successful in finding value in our non-core properties. The sale of the Mill Canyon property combined with the recent sales of the Relief Canyon and Cove properties is anticipated to provide aggregate consideration of approximately C$49,000,000 to be used for Eagle construction. This is exclusive of contingent payments of approximately C$25,000,000 and royalties."
The sale of the Relief Canyon property, announced on March 27, 2012, closed on April 5, 2012. The sale of the Cove property, announced on April 10, 2012, is expected to close in June 2012. The closing of the sale of the Mill Canyon property, announced herein, is expected to occur in June 2012.
Victoria Gold is an emerging gold producer whose flagship asset is its 100% owned Dublin Gulch property which hosts the Eagle Gold Deposit. Dublin Gulch is situated in central Yukon Territory, Canada, approximately 375 kilometers north of the capital city of Whitehorse. The property covers an area of approximately 650 square kilometers, is accessible by road year-round and is located within Yukon Energy's electrical grid.
The Eagle Gold Deposit is expected to be Yukon's next operating gold mine and includes Probable Reserves of 2.3 million ozs of gold from 92 million tonnes of ore with a grade of 0.78 grams of gold per tonne, as outlined in a National Instrument 43-101 definitive feasibility study. The NI 43-101 Compliant Mineral Resource has been estimated to host 222 million tonnes averaging 0.68 grams of gold per tonne, containing 4.9 million ounces of gold in the "Indicated" category, inclusive of Probable Reserves, and a further 78 million tonnes averaging 0.60 grams of gold per tonne, containing 1.5 million ounces of gold in the "Inferred" category.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange, nor its Regulation Services Provider accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This press release includes certain statements that may be deemed "forward-looking statements". All statements in this discussion, other than statements of historical facts, that address future exploration drilling, exploration activities, anticipated metal production, internal rate of return, estimated ore grades, commencement of production estimates and projected exploration and capital expenditures (including costs and other estimates upon which such projections are based) and events or developments that the Company expects, are forward looking statements. Although the Company believes that the expectations expressed in such forward looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions, such statements are not guarantees of future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those in forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in forward-looking statements include: metal prices; exploration successes; continued availability of capital and financing; and general economic, market or business conditions. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.


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Q: unable to access MySQL server remotely from centOS VM MySQL Server is running on Dreamhost VPS and i am able to make connection with it through my Dev machine (Windows) and when i connect with with MySQL Server from my CentOS7 VM than i get following error:
PHP message: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2003] Can't connect to MySQL server on '*******'

I have configured my MySQL Server to accept connection from all hosts (%) Not sure why i am able to connect through my Dev machine and not from CentOS 7 VM running on my Dev machine, I have not installed MySQL on my CentOS VM (Minimal) only PHP + nginx are installed.
Thanks
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A: It sounds like your permissions are correctly setup in mysql for the user to connect from all hosts (%). This sounds more like a networking setup issue.
By default the mysql configuration file only allows connection from localhost. To enable connections beyond localhost you will need to edit this config file (usually found in /etc/mysql/my.cnf on Unix/OSX and  "C:\Program Files\MySQL\" with filename my.ini)
Edit the line:
bind-address = 127.0.0.1
You can allow connections from any source by commenting out this line, changing it to:
# bind-address = 127.0.0.1
See also: How to allow remote connection to mysql

A: From my point of view your virtualization software does not allow you to go outside vm's private network.
Which virtualization sofware do you use (virtualbox, vmware )? Can you enable connection with telnet your_mysql_server_ip on port 3306?

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Rabanada, também conhecida como fatia dourada, fatia parida ou fatia de ovo, é um doce de pão de trigo (pão-de-forma, baguete ou outro) em fatias que, depois de molhadas em leite, vinho (no Minho usa-se vinho verde tinto ou branco) ou calda de açúcar, são passadas por ovos e fritas ou assadas.

As rabanadas são um doce tipicamente do Natal e fazem parte de muitas mesas da consoada em Portugal, e em várias ceias do Brasil. São servidas polvilhadas com açúcar de canela ou regadas com caldas, de  açúcar, xarope de bordo, mel, vinho ou vinho do porto. Outrora, a palavra "rabanada" era apenas utilizada ao norte do rio Mondego e ao mesmo doce atribuía-se, a partir da margem sul do referido rio, o nome de fatia-dourada, ou fatia-de-parida.

Em outros países são típicos nas celebrações espanholas da Quaresma e da Semana Santa, assim como em várias partes do México, tal qual Zacatecas.

História
A rabanada aparece documentada no século XV, citado por Juan del Encina: mel e muitos ovos para fazer rabanadas, ao aparecer como prato indicado para a recuperação pós-partos.

As primeiras receitas remontam ao livro de cozinha de Domingo Hernández de Maceras (1607) e "Arte de cozina, pastelería, vizcochería y conservería" de Francisco Martínez Motiño (1611). A rabanada era, no início do século XX, muito comum nas tabernas de Madrid e era servida com jarros de vinho "razos").

A associação das rabanadas à quaresma deve-se provavelmente à necessidade de aproveitar o pão, durante o tempo que não se comia carne, portanto sendo menos consumido, mesmo sendo produzido na mesma quantidade.

Variantes de Portugal

Existem múltiplas variantes, começando pelo pão, que pode ser corrente ou preparado especialmente para as rabanadas. Hoje em dia é muito habitual encontrar esta opção nas pastelarias que oferecem um pão enorme em forma de barra (pão de forma) feito com farinha refinada (antes denominado pão bimbo). Algumas receitas substituem o vinho por leite, e outras prescindem da água, molhando as rabanadas só com mel quente. Com frequência acompanha-se de canela e cravo da Índia. Outras variantes empregam casca de limão ou de laranja ralada para aromatizar o leite, e para o toque final, um pouco de açúcar de canela.

Algumas das variantes mais populares são as rabanadas tradicionais, as rabanadas com vinho do porto, as rabanadas com calda e as as rabanadas a poveira.

Mais recentemente apareceram variedades veganas que substituem o leite de vaca por leite de soja e o ovos por farinhas de grão de bico, farinha de soja ou outras leguminosas.

Variantes Internacionais

Na França prepara-se com características similares o "pain perdu" ("pão perdido"), não sendo frito em azeite abundante, mas sim em manteiga ou numa chapa. No Reino Unido e em países de língua inglesa, bem como no Japão, é conhecido como "French toast". Em Portugal as rabanadas são preparadas de forma muito similar às torrijas ou torradas da vizinha Espanha. Em Portugal também tem o nome de "Fatias de ovos" ou "Fatias Douradas".

Na Colômbia, Chile e Equador chamam-se "tostadas francesas". Na Guatemala se chamam "tostadas a la francesa"; e na fronteira norte do México "pan francés". Na Argentina e Uruguai existe um modo simples de elaborar rabanadas (que podem ser chamadas nestes países "torrejas": umedece-se com leite migas de pão comum, formando um bolo, que é passado pela gema de ovo batido, depois frito e por fim pode ser polvilhado com açúcar. Na Venezuela as rabanadas já foram conhecidas como "tacones", porém o termo caiu em desuso. No Brasil elas são cozidas especialmente para a temporada natalina, em que, logo depois da fritura, a rabanada é molhada em sumo de fruta ou leite condensado.

Doces de Portugal
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2 Chron. 9 The Awesomeness of God
By Gary Hines | December 14, 2016 | 0
Solomon's notoriety spread across most of the then known world with visits from royalty to sit at the feet of the wisest man. Among those who came was the queen of Sheba; which 1 Kings 10 records as well. She tested Solomon with hard questions that "Solomon answered all". What seemed to impress her besides the wealth were his wisdom, his personal home, food, how his servants dressed and acted. The way he entered into the "house of the Lord" so took her, she had "no more spirit in her."
Her testimony was everything she'd heard was true; yet "the half of the greatness . . . . not told me."
The queen of Sheba represents every individual that comes to Christ, but also she represents the Church.
My friend that is the benefit of bringing someone into the presence of the Lord. There are many incredible things that could be said; but the half cannot be told. The only way for people to benefit from the Lord's greatness is to experience it for themselves.
In response to his greatness, the queen gave much to him "in great abundance". However it is recorded that Solomon gave her "much more than she had brought to the king." That's true for us as well! We bring the Lord our blessings, that are meager in quantity to what He has for us, and He gives us MUCH MORE.
In the final verses we read of what Solomon created and acquired. There are accounts of what Solomon made concerning the throne that defy description. There were a total of seven steps ascending to the throne, the seventh being the level on which the throne sat. There are accounts of what happened and was created on each of the six steps; which would boggle the natural mind.
The books of Nathan, Ahijah and Iddo were lost and no manuscripts remain from these books of antiquity.
Bring people to the Lord and share with them His goodness. They as the Queen of Sheba will discover His awesomeness for themselves and give praise to the Lord God.


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Days of Our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas (2021)
Before the Christmas Eve deadline, Sonny helps Will write a holiday movie that includes stories about Salem favorites as they embrace the holiday spirit with their typical extra spice and flavor.
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A Brother in the Catholic Church must choose between his vow of chastity and the man he loves.
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Akiko, a young woman, comes to Vladivostok to meet Matsunaga, a young businessman she has met in Tokyo only once. Akiko finally finds Matsunaga. However, he leaves her again, warning…
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It seems like every day I am getting busier and busier and I don't see any signs of it slowing down, yikes! This weekend, I was supposed to get a ton of quilting done but it didn't work out quite like I hoped. Ryan was supposed to take the dog to the vet to get a vaccine so that we could drop her off at the boarding place on Friday morning but as usual, he didn't do what he said. We take Willow to Banfield at Petsmart and their website said they open at 8am. I had a 10am haircut so I was hoping to make it back in time but when I got to Banfield, they said that while they open at 8am, it's only for drop offs - the nurses and doctor don't get there until 9am. So I drove back towards the house. I stopped at JoAnn's hoping to get some fabric I needed but they didn't open until 9am either. So I stopped by Toys R Us to get a birthday present for our nephew but they didn't open until 10am. I finally gave up and went home to eat some breakfast. About half an hour after I got home, the vet called to say Willow was ready for pickup so I headed back over there. I picked her up and drove her to Pet Paradise for boarding.
On the way home, I stopped by to check on our rental home (looks fine) and then I had about 20mins at home before Ryan called to ask if I wanted to go to lunch. I went out to lunch with them and got home with about half an hour before my rescheduled haircut appointment so all I managed to get done was paint my toenails and file my fingernails. Then a haircut and by the time I got hone all I had time to do was a little bit of laundry and straightening up before Ryan got home and we had to pack/leave for Orlando. So...I basically got nothing done - I was NOT happy. I have a ton of quilting to do, I wanted to mail the invitations our on 8/7 but they're not even close to done, I was hoping to choose/book our honeymoon but we've made no progress, etc. etc.
But we went to Orlando and had a nice dinner with Ryan's parents and siblings and then played some Mexican Train Dominoes at the hotel. Saturday we went to Legoland for our nephew Ethan's 6th birthday and it was exhausting! I thought we were all about to get overheated until we went to the waterpark area to cool down. The park is pretty neat but it's definitely geared towards the 5 - 9 age group.
We didn't get home from Legoland until midnight so we slept in today. I've been trying to work on some quilting but all I got done was to iron on a few applique pieces, finalize the design for Emmy's quilt and start cutting it. Unfortunately I also cut through the skin between my thumb and index finger...ouch! By the end of this week, I'm hoping to finish Danielle's quilt, interface Emmy's quilt and get an agreed upon layout for Victoria's quilt. I also have an Alpha Phi meeting and I have GOT to squeeze in some time for invitations and wedding stuff - no TV for me this week, lol!
Ok sorry for a long text with no pics or anything cool but I need to head to bed and get ready for another work week. Hope everyone had a good weekend!


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Black Panther leaps from comic books to big-budget movie
By Mark Hughes Cobb and Abby Banks
Feb 14, 2018 at 8:11 PM Feb 14, 2018 at 8:11 PM
In the overdue sweepstakes, Wonder Woman still carries an edge over Black Panther. Created in 1941, the star-spangled Amazonian didn't get her own headlining big-budget film until 2017, a gap of 76 years, while the first African superhero waited from 1966 until this weekend.
Today's "Black Panther" movie opens to overpowering expectations, becoming the first superhero of color to star in his own movie. Fandango noted "Black Panther" became its fastest first-day-selling ticket of all times. Early reviews have almost been unanimously raves: "Black Panther" currently holds a 98 percent positive rating on aggregator RottenTomatoes.com.
"This has got the ability to be the next really great Marvel movie," said Andy Holmes, co-owner of Sho'Nuff Comics, which is holding a "Black Panther" movie-related event 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, with Alabama comic artists Geoffrey Gwin and Rick Johnson in-house, and specials throughout the store, at 618 15th St., in Parkview Plaza.
It's not just driving slam-bang previews that spark anticipation: The cultural weight can't be overlooked.
"I've heard interviewers put this up there with the election of Obama as a significant moment in black history. I'm excited for Black Panther," Holmes said. "I love the character, I've loved the character forever, but I just worry sometimes that there might be too much pressure being put on this movie."
"Black Panther had always been an important fixture in the Marvel Universe for the simple fact that he's always had the moral high ground of the Marvel Universe," said the store's co-owner Jon Chandler. "Going forward, I can see where he could become as important as Captain America in the movies."
For those catching up on 52 years of Black Panther history, some background:
• Also like Princess Diana of Themyscira, T'Challa is born into a royal family on his also mostly hidden from the outside world home, Wakanda. After the death of his father, as shown in "Captain America: Civil War," T'Challa becomes king of the African nation, and as such its chosen protector.
• Black Panther debuted in Marvel comics in July of '66, months before the activist Black Panther Party was founded. For fear of confusing the two, the character was temporarily renamed Black Leopard. No one liked that, so the name swiftly switched back.
• T'Challa earns super speed, strength, agility and near invulnerability, when combined with his vibranium-weave suit, from ingesting a mystical herb found in Wakanda. Director Ryan Coogler confirmed that part of the film's origin story: "People who read the comics would be familiar with the Heart-Shaped Herb and the ceremonies that surround that," Coogler said in an Entertainment Weekly story last summer. "That's partially spiritual. We certainly don't call it magic, but there's vibranium that has been interwoven within that soil and that land for thousands of years, so there are other things going on with it."
• Black Panther is an earned title; a piece of the heart-shaped herb comes as part of the ritual of assuming power.
• Vibranium is another Marvel wonder-metal, somewhat like adamantium, the substance bonded to Logan's bones to make the Wolverine even more devastating. Vibranium was earlier known as the substance composing Captain America's bulletproof shield, though it was actually introduced in a Daredevil comic. Wakanda seems to have an excess of the rare mineral, deposited on Earth by a meteorite 10,000 years ago.
• Multi-faceted actor Chadwick Boseman reprises Black Panther from "Civil War." In recent years, he's played characters ranging from Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall to Jackie Robinson to James Brown to the Egyptian god Thoth. Also a playwright and director, he's from Anderson, South Carolina, but has studied at Oxford, England, and Howard University in Washington, D.C. Boseman first broke through as an actor on television, including soap opera, crime dramas and other series, working as a regular on "Lincoln Heights" and "Persons Unknown."
• Director and co-writer Coogler created 2013's highly-praised, multi-award-winning "Fruitvale Station," and the 2015 Rocky sequel that restored life to the franchise, "Creed." For the plot of "Black Panther," he's credited films as diverse as "Blade Runner," the "Godfather" series and the 007 series.
• Coogler cast his frequent collaborator Michael B. Jordan, who played the title role in "Creed," as villain Erik Killmonger in "Black Panther." The all-star supporting cast also includes Forest Whitaker, Lupita Nyong'o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Andy Serkis and Angela Bassett. Serkis returns, from "Avengers: Age of Ultron," as Ulysses Klaue, a mercenary arms dealer. Though the plot's been kept under warps, it apparently involves Klaue and Killmonger teaming to rob Wakanda of vibranium stores.
• Filmmakers have credited Marvel's godfathers Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for inspiration, but also more current writers such as Christopher Priest, the first African-American editor in mainstream comics; Avengers comic writer Jonathan Hickman; filmmaker Reginald Hudlin, who has written Black Panther comics from 2005 onward; and acclaimed journalist and author Ta-Nehisi Coates, who began writing for the character in 2016. "We had a bigger surge with sales, in regards to Black Panther, when Ta-Nehisi Coates was announced as the new writer because he's such a popular figure in black culture and such a well-known writer," Holmes said. From what Chandler's seen, the more recent stories and writers drive the film. "Those more than anything shaped what Black Panther kinda is in the movies. Those shaped what Wakanda is in the movies and who Black Panther really was. He became a major player once those series came about," Chandler said.
• Boseman is also slated to appear as Black Panther again later this year, in summer's "Avengers: Infinity War." Though the group was shattered by the events of "Civil War" -- Black Panther fought on Captain America's side -- the Avengers are brought back together, and joined by other Marvel heroes including the Guardians of the Galaxy, to face a dire threat to the entire world. Part 1 of "Infinity War" comes out May 4, with Part 2 due out a year later.


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In this episode of Bar Towel Radio we have a beer and a chat with an good long-time friend of The Bar Towel, Michael Hancock. Michael was the brewer and owner at the legendary Denison's Brewing Company in Toronto, and has been for the past number of years the founding brewer and currently beer ambassador at Side Launch Brewing Company in Collingwood. We had our chat at the Brewer's Backyard in Collingwood about Michael's history in beer, some stories about Denison's, his role currently at Side Launch and the beer scene in Collingwood.


I like panda's not the point of this post but just putting it out there. This is a lesson on being sure to do your keyword research. Both on developing your own niche site and if you are looking at purchasing a site. This falls under lessons learned for myself. early last month I found this site on Flippa.com in a self help niche. It was already ranking page 1 I think (at least page 2) and I thought great! Its a popular topic should get lots of traffic and make some money, so I bought it. Since then it has moved up to #1 on google for its keywords and I was excited, but the traffic and therefore the money never came in.
After the fact I have run it through Market Samurai to check it out and was disappointed. The good news was that the adsense value was $1.45 a click, bad news is that it only gets 210 exact searches a month. Now Market Samurai does say that a site ranking #1 (which it is) should get 3 visits a day and should equate to $4.20 in revenue. Im finding that you should take this info lightly. Right now in the past 30 days it has only received 33 visits.
You never know though in time maybe it will start making money, Id be happy with that $4 a day 🙂 Next step I guess is to add some more content targeting some other keywords in the niche. I'm also going to play with the theme and tweak ad locations and just see what happens.
Now I am sure to run each site I'm considering through Market Samurai as well as any keywords I'm considering in developing my own sites. Im looking for nothing less then 1800 exact match monthly searches (ok I may consider down to 1000 with other good factors). If you look at it these numbers and consider if you are in the top 3 on google you should get about 20% of these numbers to your site (360), although research shows this to be as high as 60% but im being conservative. And if lucky 1% of these will convert to monetary conversions (36). So 36 visitors clicking your adsense or buying your affiliate product would be a good thing and a good goal for me.
So the moral of today's story boys and girls is when buying a site on Flippa or getting ready to develop your own, do your research and see if it is indeed a viable site to pursue.
Oh like the panda? 🙂 when searching for an image I mostly came across South Parks panda, but fell in love with this one… its more my kinda panda. Illustrated by David Aguilar check out his site aguilaranimation.com.
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I really need to learn more about this SEO stuff. I don't have a clue about key words, rankings of words, all this.
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It can be easy to rank for something that no one cares about and thus searches. It can be exceedingly difficult to rank for a popular topic. That is why long tail searches are a good place to start. Hopefully you can find some related keywords and incorporate those into your site to get more traffic. Best wishes.
What about using those SEO skills to write posts about those narrow keywords on an already highly ranked site?
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The price of gold slipped back towards two-month lows after upbeat US jobs data added to speculation that the Federal Reserve is getting ready to hike interest rates.
Payroll processing firm ADP said that non-farm private employment rose by 177,000 in August, beating expectations of an increase of 175,000.
Some traders think a rise could come as soon as next month, and it may not be limited to just one.
Fed vice chair Stanley Fischer backed-up his dovish comments last week by telling Bloomberg that he doesn't expect a "one and done" approach to a hike.
The Fed has suggested all summer that, should US economic data continue to demonstrate progress, it would seriously consider upping rates.
A rate rise would likely have an adverse effect on gold as it increases the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets such as bullion.
The US dollar index – which measures the greenback against a basket of other currencies – made some gains on Wednesday, too, following Fischer's comments.
A stronger dollar is generally an indication that gold might struggle as it makes the metal more expensive to foreign currencies.
Although there has been a lot of focus on the negative impact a rate hike could have on precious metals, it's worth remembering that this year's rally came about not long after the Fed upped rates, so a downturn in the gold price isn't necessarily a given.
Analysts at Commerzbank are still targeting a long-term gold price of around the US$1,450 mark.
Could your old mobile be a gold mine?
According to researchers at the University of Edinburgh, the answer to the question above is yes.
Scientists have developed a new technique for recovering precious metals, such as gold, without the need for toxic chemicals.
It's estimated that as much as 7% of the world's gold is contained within electrical waste, and the team believe their method could help to salvage some of the 300 tonnes of gold used in electronics every year.
Existing methods of extracting gold from circuit boards are inefficient and potentially hazardous given that the process involves harmful chemicals such as cyanide.
The team say they have been able to develop a compound that can be used to recover gold more effectively.
"We are very excited about this discovery, especially as we have shown that our fundamental chemical studies on the recovery of valuable metals from electronic waste could have potential economic and societal benefits," said Professor Jason Love, from the university's school of chemistry.
At UK market close, gold was down US$2 to US$1,309, platinum was down US$3 to US$1,050, while silver bucked the trend and gained 8c to trade at US$18.67.


"Recovery is described as a deeply personal, unique process of changing one's attitudes, values, feelings, and goals, skills, or roles. It is a way of living a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life even with the limitations caused by mental illness. Recovery involves the development of new meaning and purpose in one's life as one grows beyond the catastrophic effects of mental illness." – William Anthony, PhD, 1993.
Recovery focuses on the development of new meaning and purpose as individuals or families grow beyond the problems associated with the concerns that led them to seek services.People with mental illnesses can and do become productive members of their communities but they often need more than medication to realize their potential. New psychotropic medications coupled with evidenced-based practices, and informal familial and social support is proving to be effective. This 'recovery'-based system recognizes the patients' needs for a team-effort that is helping them in learning to live with mental illness and the societal stigma associated with it.
It is important to us that our clients are referred to as being 'individuals with mental illnesses' rather than simply mentally ill individuals. Not many people would see the difference, but to us, the difference is vital. It is this difference that sets us apart from others because The Recovery House rejects the idea that an individual with a mental illness should be isolated. We utilize evidence-based practices to treat and rehabilitate the whole person, not just their mental illness, to make them re-learn their life skills, to enable them to feel better without so much help, and to feel independent and comfortable with themselves.
Our foremost goal as psychiatric rehabilitation experts is to ensure that every individual in our care, called clients, receives the necessary skills, interventions and assistance to live an independent and fulfilling life. Where appropriate, we assist both clients and their families with grief counseling as they learn to let go of some of the hopes and aspirations they had for a client who has been diagnosed with serious mental illness and embrace a new appreciation for the client's potential for a healthy, meaningful and productive life.
Our clients are all unique—each with their own needs, aspirations, skills and talents. When such a fundamental difference exists, it is not possible for us to force our clients into an inflexible rehabilitation scheme, or to box them into one category. Because of all that sets them apart, we believe that our clients are entitled to the highest quality of care, and a customized rehabilitation plan, specially tailored as per the needs of each client. Each client works with our staff to set their own specific goals and objectives, based on their desires, and levels of functioning. The Recovery House's recovery model is to work with people with mental illnesses to enable them to pave their individual path to recovery themselves, rather than do it on their behalf.


The final stretches of North Brevard's long-awaited "rail trail" officially open Saturday with a Community Cycle Fun Day.
It can be used by walkers, runners and bicyclists, with a section from Mims to the Volusia Ciounty line also open to horses and their riders.
The paved 12-foot-wide multiuse trail will connect with 52 miles of rail trail in Volusia County.
Sarah Kraum, multimodal specialist for the Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization, said a separate parallel 8-foot-wide equestrian trail north of Aurantia Road is available for horse riders.
There also is a rail head with parking at the west end of Aurantia Road.
the Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization. "Ultimately, this section serves as an essential piece of multiple converging trails."
The trail system is expected to help attract tourists to the Titusville area.
"I think it's extremely important for Brevard," Hemenway said. "It's all about being multi-modal, and getting out there and being healthy."
• The 250-mile-long Coast to Coast Trail, which spans from St. Petersburg to Titusville.
• The 260-mile-long St. Johns River to Sea Loop, which will connect five counties, going from Titusville north to St. Augustine, then west to Palatka and back around.
• The 2,900-mile-long East Coast Greenway, which runs from Maine to Key West.
On Saturday, a Community Cycle Fun Day will be held for the public, with 377 cyclists registered in advance.
Cyclists who have not signed up can register that day at the Titusville Welcome Center, 419 S. Hopkins Ave., which is on the southbound side of U.S. 1.
• 40-mile ride at 9 a.m.
• 30-mile ride at 9:15 a.m.
• 20-mile ride at 9:30 a.m.
• 10-mile ride at 10:15 a.m.
• 5-mile ride at 10:30 a.m.
The rides will end with an after-party with food, music and family activities at Sand Point Park in Titusville.
• Eric Draper, director of the Florida Parks Service.
• Florida Rep. Rene Plasencia.
• Brevard County Commission Chair Rita Pritchett.
• Titusville Mayor Walt Johnson.
• Heather Garcia, shared-use nonmotorized trail coordination Florida Department of Transportation District 5.
• Georganna Gillette, transportation planner with the Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization.
The East Central Regional Rail Trail has "pocket parks" along the way. These are loops that give trail users a place to rest or turn around.
The trail does not have bathrooms or benches, but "comfort stations" will be set up with water and snacks for Saturday's event, Kraum said.
The initial idea for the trail project dates back to 1996.
Development of the 12.8-mile section of the Florida East Central Regional Rail Trail that just opened cost more than $10 million, with funding coming through the Florida Department of Transportation through a combination of state and federal money.
The funding process was coordinated by the Space Coast Transportation Planning Organization.
The city of Titusville funded a 2.2-mile section of the trail that previously opened.
The trail will be maintained by the Brevard County Parks and Recreation Department.


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The Act gives a central task to the dean of the faculty with respect to the arrangement of the faculty education and research. The dean certifies the Teaching and Examination Regulations (TER), as well as the faculty regulations which governs the management and organization of the faculty.


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