There are so many things to remember when trying to write a successful blog post. Don't you wish there was a simple blog post checklist to help you make sure you don't leave anything out?
Well, my friends, I've created this article just for you.
In case you didn't know this about me, I am a massive advocate of blogging. Why? Because I think it can be absolutely life-changing if taken seriously.
Now, I'm not talking about blogging about random daily events in our lives (which is actually how blogging started). What I'm talking about is using a blog as a marketing tool to build your brand.
I see a lot of bloggers out there who could be leveraging their blog so much better than they currently are.
And the only reason I know this is because I have worked for years, banging my head against a wall trying to figure out why my blog wasn't taking off.
It turns out that just like a great recipe, a great blog post needs the right ingredients to be truly remarkable.
So I'm writing this for you–the blogger who knows they want to create amazing content but just needs help learning the recipe.
Ok, Dustin, I'm ready for the checklist. Where do I start?
Before you do anything, please remember that this checklist is for those who understand why blogging is a powerful marketing tool.
You need immense discipline to make sure that your content is interesting, engaging, and of the highest quality.
You will be putting a lot of effort in order for this to work. But trust me, the results will speak for themselves!
Bonus: Are you in a hurry? Just grab my printable Epic Blog Post Checklist right now!
By the way, if you haven't read it yet, I actually published a guide on how to write a blog post. It's my documentation of the process I go through every time I publish something, and this checklist I'm giving you here is the same one I use.
Ok, on to the checklist!
Does your blog post have a minimum of 2,000 words?
Look, I wish we still lived in the days where 300-500 word blog posts were a thing that worked. But they just don't anymore.
With the sheer volume of content being produced these days (and it is staggering how much is being produced), short and sweet articles just aren't cutting it anymore.
Don't believe me? There are three reasons why your blog posts need to be at least 2,000 words long. And two of these reasons have enough data behind them that I almost don't need a third.
Think about this for a second– What is Google's job?
Is it to give people the answer they're looking for?
Is it to find people the best websites?
Google's job is to find the best answer for someone's question (or query).
And how does Google differentiate between the first best and the tenth best answer?
Well, that's a question that only Google's magical engineers could definitively answer.
My response to them is, yes, you're right. Most people don't like long articles. But Google does. And Google sends me more traffic than most people do.
Longer articles mean you have more opportunity to answer a person's questions in high detail. It also means you have lots of room to add the right keywords and keyword variants to give your article all the ammunition it needs to blow Google's digital socks off.
Here's another one that's a bit of a mind-boggler.
Yes, we live in an age where attention span is at its lowest. But the data shows that longer content tends to get more shares.
My guess is that it has something to do with the fact that people want to share things that make them look good–things that make them look smart. And guess what–long articles seem smarter than short ones.
I know you wanna be all Seth Godin and write quick words of wisdom that drop people's jaws in 10 seconds flat. But until you've got Seth Godin's celebrity status, shoot for long-form, in-depth articles that are 2,000 words or more.
People may not read the entire thing. They may skim right through it only reading your headings. But they'll see how in-depth the article is, and be compelled to share it.
An evergreen article is a piece that can withstand the test of time. It will be as relevant two years from now as it is today.
In a blog post, I've written about the benefits of writing evergreen content, I mentioned that I raised my traffic by 41% with just 5 blog posts.
It may be more work up front, but it means less work in the long run.
Do you have at least three internal links on your blog post?
An epic blog post must link to other epic blog posts on your site.
In SEO speak, internal linking is one of the best things you can do to leverage your blog. By doing this, it is believed that the higher ranking page will "share" a bit of its authority with the other page, giving it a slight boost.
Linking to your other posts can also prolong your audience's stay on your website. Keeping them on your site longer can build greater trust and increase their likelihood of recommending your or converting into a subscriber.
And session time is also one of the more important things that search engines look for when it ranks websites.
A longer session time indicates that the reader is getting value, and if they're getting value, that means Google did its job in sending them there. That's a win-win.
Do you have at least three external links on your blog post?
Epic blog posts must reference other authoritative content from other websites.
Search engines like it when sites link to other websites. It helps them determine how to better rank those linked pages. And they put more value to those who do it in a natural manner.
Whenever you link to other websites, you give search engines the idea that you are contributing to the circulation of websites all around the world.
But if you're doing it in a legitimate way, you're also adding value to the user experience because those links should be giving additional context to things you don't necessarily cover in your article.
Be careful though to avoid linking to external pages that have the same target keyword as you. This may signal to search engines that the article you're linking to is more authoritative, and therefore ranks higher, than your article.
Do you have at least two click-to-tweets on your post for better sharing purposes?
And when they see something useful, witty, funny, or interesting they want to share it with their followers.
That's where this tool comes in.
Click-to-tweets are one of the best things you can add to your posts in order to make it more shareable.
By utilizing this tool, your audience can easily share a quotable part from your article with just a couple of clicks.
The easiest way to add these tweetable quotes (or Click-to-tweet quotes) to your website is to use a plugin like Social Warfare. It is a plugin I co-founded and makes it super easy to add these Click-to-tweet quotes within y our blog post.
Social Warfare also does a lot of other things as well that help you to get your content shared more, so definitely give it a look.
Do you have at least five SEO-optimized images and a gif?
Images break up your blog post so that it's not just one giant wall of text.
Images help to convey ideas in a manner that is more engaging to those readers who may be more visual.
Also, images can be further optimized for SEO purposes.
However, reducing file size for better loading times, proper alt tags and title tags must be done in order to fully enjoy the benefits of having an image in your post.
More information can be found in my guide on how to create optimized images.
GIFs are those moving images that are super trendy on social media. And, personally, I love me a good GIF. They just allow you to communicate so much more than a static image.
GIFs are fun, interesting, and are highly shareable on social media, and therefore they are a big win for your article's sharability.
Do you have at least one "hidden" Pinterest-optimized image on your site?
Pinterest is a social bookmarking site that can help your blog massively increase its exposure and traffic.
But the key is to properly optimize your blog post for maximum pinnability.
If you are not doing this properly or if you are not doing it at all, then you are definitely missing out on a lot of potential traffic.
If you want to know the in-depth details, read my Pinterest Guide for Bloggers.
The short version is this: Create a tall image (735px wide by 1102px tall) for every single blog post that people can save to Pinterest.
Wait, Dustin. I am using Pinterest and am putting Pinterest optimized images in my post. But my audience doesn't seem to pin it. What gives?
That is where Social Warfare, the plugin I told you about in point 4, comes in again!
One other feature that the plugin can do for your soon-to-be epic blog posts is to make sure your readers are pinning the right image.
When they click on the "Pin" button, instead of getting an option to pin any image on the page, they get the one Pinterest Optimized Image that you've chosen for them to pin.
And it also lets you write the description for them, giving your readers even less work to do when sharing your articles.
On top of that, Social Warfare makes it so you can actually hide the tall image from the page if you want. Because let's face it, giant images just don't look great in a blog post.
You can create images that are Pinterest-worthy dimensions and just add it to the Social Warfare Custom Options in your blog post.
Are you sure that your headlines are grabbing your reader's attention?
An epic blog post needs an epic headline. That much is a no-brainer.
Headlines are super important since they make sure that you send out a strong message to your audience about your post using the first words they will ever read on it.
And I do this by using CoSchedule.
CoSchedule has a tool called Headline Analyzer that scores your headline according to how attention-grabbing it is.
You can use their free Headline Analyzer or if you are a CoSchedule user, it's built right into their WordPress integration.
Just type in your headline and it will pop out a score. Keep working at it using their suggestions until you get a score that is "green".
Success at blogging starts on your headline, and CoSchedule can be a powerful tool that can decide a make or break point in your article.
Do you have a Content Upgrade on your post?
Ah, Content Upgrades. Did you know that by utilizing this, I was able to grow my subscriber rate to over 4,000 per month?
Yes! And you can definitely do it too!
Content Upgrades are basically a Lead Magnet that is specific to the post you are doing. You put a Call-to-Action on your post saying that your reader can learn more or get fantastic bonuses related to the topic of your article by subscribing to your site.
You can then reward those who subscribed right then and there with something they can only get if they used that specific Content Upgrade.
An example of this can be seen in my article The Ultimate Guide to Branding Yourself on Social Media. I included a downloadable quick-reference checklist for things I discussed there.
A lot of experts already know the power of this. They are utilizing this tactic for their clients and their own businesses, growing their subscriber list like crazy.
Once your blog is published, are you looking at other possible link opportunities using old blog posts?
Well, it still applies even after you have published your post.
Go back to your old blog posts and relevant links to your new article.
It might take you 5-10 minutes at first, but once you make this a habit, you'll get better and faster because your brain will more easily remember key articles that are great link opportunities.
Have you promoted your blog post on all possible social media channels?
After publishing your masterpiece of a blog post, it won't make it big by itself immediately. You need to do the first move to make it epic.
And that is where social media networks come in.
Social media is an extremely powerful tool in getting your content discovered. It has been the single most important way I've found my audience to date.
That won't work. People are bombarded by headlines all day and are completely blind to the words "check this out"nowadays.
You also don't want to just share it out once, right after you hit "Publish" and be done with it.
That won't be very effective. People are on social media at different times throughout the day, and you never know what percentage of your audience will see that one social post at that exact time you share it.
Instead, create several interesting social media messages to promote your new article, and do it over the course of at least 30 days.
Whoa, Dustin! Who in their right mind has that kind of time?!
Oh, trust me… I know.
And that's why I've even created a template for you to help you create a month's worth of social media messages in 5min or less.
That template will help you create lots of different social media posts to promote your article over the course of 30-days using one of the social media management tools of your choice.
Are you promoting your blog post in other niche outlets, such as Tailwind?
There are other ways to leverage your online community to get your content noticed.
One such example is one I use regularly– Tailwind Tribes.
Tailwind is a social media app that lets you schedule Pinterest Pins and Instagram Posts. But they've also created a feature they call Tribes which allows you to join groups of other users with similar interests who want to help each-other share great content.
Let's say you are in the digital marketing industry. You can find numerous Tribes to join and share your article to, and the idea is that all the other members will share your article to their Pinterest accounts.
It lets your blog post reach highly-targeted audiences which are most likely to share your post if they see value in it.
I have been using Tailwind Tribes for a while now, and so far it has given me great results in terms of content promotion!
Of course you do, you're a smarty.
If you check off every item on this list, you will undoubtedly have an epic blog post you can be proud of.
As an added bonus, I've created a printable version of this checklist to help you remember every time you're about to publish a new post.
Just add your email below to join our Insiders List, and I'll send you the download link right away! You'll also get my best social media news, insights, and projects I'm working on sent regularly. You can unsubscribe any time.
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As long as you remember the things on this checklist and discipline yourself into doing this constantly, then you can create an epic blog post every single time.
Hi, Andrea! Well, the truth is that it really depends on your audience and your goals. There's no one answer for everyone.
However, if you want Google to send you lots of traffic, shorter posts are going to hurt you. You'll have to rely heavily on social media/word-of-mouth, which can be great, but you can lose it as quickly as you gain it. Search traffic is much less short-term.
Don't get me wrong, I grew my blog in the beginning with posts that were 700-1,000 words and social media traffic. SEO was never something I thought about (because it was so intimidating) so I just did what I felt my audience needed. When the social media traffic eventually hit a plateau, I decided to give SEO a try (doing a massive content audit) and the results were 600% increase in blog traffic. And that wasn't "here today, gone tomorrow" traffic… the growth has been sustained for well over a year.
So that's why every blog post I write must be epic, because I know the time I put in will be worth the resulting long-term search traffic. And as it turns out, longer articles actually perform better with social shares anyways, so it's a win-win. It's just a lot harder of a discipline than just posting short articles.
Just wanted to say the Content Upgrade idea has been really beneficial for my job. I got this suggestion from you almost 3 years ago and we implemented it into our most popular blog posts to great results. Keep up the good work! I'm going to check out social warfare now.
I feel better now, I've been a full-time blogger for more than 6 years now and (except for my first embarrassing posts) I have always written massive articles. For me, 1500 is a very short article. Recently I created a guide that was so long that my theme got stuck and I had to split the content into 3 separate articles (each one is more than 6000 words).
Some people say it's way too long but as you said, Google (and apparently the RIGHT readers) love it, and it's clear because these are the articles that get an average of 100/300 comments as a minimum, very long comments with further questions!
It's true that people skim the content but if they are interested in what you are saying and you provide valuable info for them for free, they are going to read the whole thing (to me it's a bit easier as being a travel blogger, images/maps & co are a big part of the article), but I try to help the reader as much as possible by using a lot of subheadings, bullet points, bold sentences and other tricks to make the content more readable.
My biggest issue is consistency and time. It takes me forever to write these posts as I've learned English from scratch at age 30 and I'm a perfectionist, so I might publish a massive article per month or every 2-3 months if I'm lucky.
Now it's getting better, and I'm publishing more regularly but I'm still behind my schedule. Glad that at least the ones I publish usually go straight to page n.1 on Google and I monetize them so I have a steady income even if I'm not publishing much.
Thanks for the checklist, very useful reminder when I'm stuck with one of those articles and I feel like giving up on it as it's too much work!
So awesome to hear this, Clelia! You're an inspiration to be writing such epic content… 18,000 words for one article before you broke it up into three?! That's insane! And also super cool.
Sounds like you need to be working on authoring a book. Have you ever considered that?
Thanks Dustin… oh the book! Yes I obviously thought about it a lot. Both an ebook and also a printed one as I was approached by a publishing house but I seriously don't have the time right now. I was thinking that maybe I could offer a PDF version of the massive posts (including the affiliate links that have no cookies) … do you think it's a good idea?
Absolutely! Many bloggers have used a series of blog posts to create a book… I think Darren Rowse of Problogger was the first person I heard do that, and it was hugely successful.
You have so much wonderful information and has really motivated me to pursue my long waited goal of starting a blog. I feel a little unsure still, so any additional tips on getting started and what to write (I know what I want to make my blog about, just unsure what to say to keep interest really) would be really appreciated!
Thanks for leaving a comment, Naman! If you're just starting out, I wouldn't recommend starting with this checklist. In the beginning of your blogging journey, you need to build a writing habit first. Don't worry about making it perfect, just start writing about what you're passionate about. Aim to publish one blog post per week for 6 months and see where you're at then.
It's only once you've built up your blogging muscles for consistently publishing that you should start working on more advanced tactics and strategies.
This is great!! I am now feeling inspired. Amazingly detailed post. Lots of things I need to work on. Thank you ?
Now i feel like I've been leaving a lot on the table which are unsettled. Well, thanks a lot for listing out all those things anyways. But what if i don't want content upgrade and don't want to be using many social media accounts?
Hope i can still gain traffic as i want?
Then it looks like you'll have to rely pretty heavily on SEO. Start learning everything you can–Brian Dean (backlinko.com) is a good place to start.
Super helpful! Thanks Dustin. We need to up our blogging game.
Thanks, Alli! Great to hear from you.
2000 words. Really? I can't argue with that because you have proved your point with reliable data. However, I think we don't have to play by the Google's rules all the time right?
Thank you very much for sharing this great and epic content as always. Really love to read your blogs.
The truth is, you don't have to play by the Google rules at all. But if you want Google to send you free traffic, you need to produce content that they deem worthy. And as the data shows, content they deem to be worthy tends to be over 2,000 words.
Indeed, a great blog post needs the right ingredients to be truly remarkable. I believe blogging is one of the most powerful tools in numerous search engine optimization for its boost Ecommerce site. It gives an essential element to every site's online visibility and company's growth. Great Checklist, keep posting.
I've been following you around the web, by accident, stumbling upon you, for a few years and remember your name and your face. So. Well done you are making the consistent digital presence work.
I love this, it is just what I need and will be working on it! Cheers Dustin.


The Alabama Legislature will reconvene in March. This is a shot from 2016.
It has begun. The Alabama Legislature will return in March, so legislators have their snouts in the air, trying to figure out what kind of rancid red meat will suit the sniffers of their constituents.
The early bird gets the cred, so the most eager state representatives have begun to pre-file bills to put their mark on the session and their name on the line.
Nobody does it like Rep. Tommy Hanes, a retired firefighter who represents Dekalb and Jackson counties in the northeast corner of Alabama.
He fired off a bill that would require users of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – that thing we used to call Food Stamps – undergo drug testing in certain circumstances.
Boom. That's HB3. Put those deadbeats in their place.
But that wasn't good enough. Hanes also fired off HB9, another bill aimed at food stamp recipients. This one would prohibit DHR from requesting a waiver of work requirements for recipients.
Which is a bloody beefsteak for an outrage that … doesn't exist.
Hanes has tried this bill before. And while the Department of Human Resources can, in rare cases, request waivers for able-bodied food stamp recipients, it almost never happens. But Hanes wants to be ready in case. Lord knows what would happen if we let some hungry soul eat.
Hanes also filed a bill, HB14, that would drug test recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families – we used to call it Welfare. The full text of that bill is not available on the state site, yet, but you get the picture.
Hanes hates the deadbeats and the entitled class. He sneers at public assistance.
Unless, of course, it's public assistance for public employees.
Hanes has filed 10 of the 23 bills so far pre-filed in the Alabama House.
Hanes, with HB1, wants to restart a form of the old DROP program, or the Deferred Retired Option Plan for state employees that was abolished in 2011. The program was designed to help the state hold on to experienced workers, but became politically unpopular after workers left with huge windfalls. At the time it was cancelled, then-AEA bosses Joe Reed and Paul Hubbert were eligible for a combined $2.8 million in DROP money.
Hanes – he pre-filed 10 of the 23 filed so far this year -- also filed HB4, a bill that would prevent the governor or others from giving bigger raises to appointed department heads than a merit employee gets. The prolific Hanes also pre-filed a bills to allow tax deductions or contributions to state parks, to the Alabama Department of Mental Health or the Medicaid agency. Another of his bills would give tax credits for storm shelters.
He filed three bills aimed at taking care of firefighters, including bills allowing firefighters with cancer to, under certain conditions, have it considered an occupation disease in order to collect worker's comp.
Did I mention Tommy Hanes is a retired firefighter? Sigh.
I'd like to pre-file a bill or two. The first one would be to end the annual Legislative session. Seems to me getting these guys together every four years would work just fine.


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Second studio album by Simon & Garfunkel, released on January 17, 1966. The album's title is a slight modification of the title of the duo's first major hit, "The Sound of Silence", which originally was released as "The Sounds of Silence". Pressed on standard black vinyl.
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Sean Moncrieff was among the well-known faces who stepped out for a family friendly preview screening of The Missing Link over the weekend.
Joining him at the screening which was hosted at Cineworld in Dublin was Caroline Moncrieff and baby Cora who looked every inch the mini superhero in training.
The hugely-anticipated animated comedy sees Hugh Jackman step in the role of a fearless explorer Sir. Lionel Frost.
Frost sets off on an adventure to the pacific Northwest to prove the existence of a legendary creature – Mr. Link voiced by The Hangover's Zach Galifianakis.
Tired of living in isolation the eight foot tall Mr. Link meets and recruits Frost to guide him on a journey to find his long lost relatives in the mystical valley of Shangri-La.
The Missing Link opens for general release on the 5th April.
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The new trailer for Jon Favreau's The Lion King has arrived and, boy, it looks visually flawless. In fact, I'm no longer convinced this a CG animated film—it's live-action. They somehow found a jungle full of first-time acting animals, offered them a good salary, and shot this film on location.
Just look at this beast:
Once you've wiped your eyes, consider what your ears just experienced too. Yes, that reprised score still delivers chills, but it's also great to hear Chiwetel Ejiofor as Scar, going full thespian as Jeremy Irons did in the original.
And then there's James Earl Jones, doing pretty much the exact same bass-baritone job as he did in the first film. Why mess with perfection, right?
We also see the scene at the elephant graveyard, which looks just like the first film. There's also the stampede sequence—straight from the first film. And then there's the timelapse montage ripped right out of the storyboards of the first film…
To be honest, I'm really not big on all this repeated material, and that bums me out a little. I'd be more on board if they also showed some tweaks and diversions from the story we already know, similar to what they did with the last Aladdin trailer. But I'm not seeing any of that here.
"Why change something that's literally perfect!?!?" Because then you set yourself up to match perfection, but never succeed it. By shifting the path, you allow for two films that are great for their own separate reasons, rathern than one that eclipses the other. Faverau pulled this off before with 2016's The Jungle Book, which strayed far enough from the 1967 version to where both can be enjoyed for very different reasons.
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As our old mate Rafiki wisely said: "Change is good." Hopefully, we'll get more of that in the finished product.
There is one subtle, but significant, change I spied in this trailer. Rather than teaching Simba that whatever they do is all good because their bodies become grass for antelope or whatever, Mufasa emphasises how the act of giving defines a good king—not the act of taking. Seems like a moral you'd think was in the original, but actually kinda wasn't.
Here's hoping this points to a new Circle of Life, instead of just a flat circle.
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Colbert Cartoon: Trump the 'Grand Wizard' of Conservatives
By Karen Townsend | July 7, 2019 10:46 PM EDT
It took quite a journey to get there, but Showtime's Our Cartoon President found a way to call a group of conservatives a "white-power rally" and President Trump the "Grand Wizard." Along the way, prominent conservatives in public life, like Ben Shapiro, are dragged into the fray.
In the July 7 episode titled "Save the Right," President Trump decides to speak up against discrimination against conservatives, especially after social media companies Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram suspend accounts of conservatives. Steve Mnuchen is used as Trump's foil, reminding him at every turn that conservatives have power and that his (Mnuchen) name is on the money.
The president teams up with Ben Shapiro to organize a march in Washington, D.C. to demand equal rights for conservatives after Shapiro convinces President Trump to sign an executive order declaring conservatives as a protected class. He gets some advice from Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who is again portrayed as a beer hound and mocked for crying at his Supreme Court nomination hearing.
President Trump: The oppression of conservatives is becoming too much to bear.
Justice Kavanaugh: Uh, no doy! After my confirmation hearing, I couldn't show my face at O'Shittery's Beer Dump for three whole Thirsty Thursdays!
Trump: If only there was a way to throw a big enough tantrum that this nation gives us what we want just to shut us up.
Kavanaugh: Oh, but there is...
Trump: What's this a photo of -- a bag of congealed oatmeal?
Kavanaugh: It's me havin' a good cry! Do the same until the tears make such a huge puddle, it won't be clear if it's tears or pee. Everyone will be afraid to ask, so they'll just take whiffs to see if they can smell pee. Once they're sure it's not pee, they'll be so grateful, you'll get exactly what you want from them.
Trump: You're overselling it. I'll do it! This country will finally become a safe space for everyone who whines about safe spaces.
The march is held and then a rally. CNN's Anderson Cooper reports from the scene and describes the rally for conservatives as a white-power rally and calls President Trump the Grand Wizard.
President Trump: Tomorrow millions of conservatives are coming here to march and I can't think of one thing to tell them other than I forgot to get port-a-potties.
Shapiro: Just tell them that, some day, we will achieve true equality and be able to wear a Confederate flag unitard to soulcycle.
♪♪ What do we stand for?
♪♪ Why do we fight? ♪♪
♪♪ To protect the lives ♪♪
♪♪ Of rich men who are white ♪♪
♪♪ So Rush Limbaugh ♪♪
♪♪ Can sleep sound at night ♪♪
♪♪ And we are never held accountable ♪♪
♪♪ For a joke we made in front of a biracial co-worker ♪♪
♪♪ This is why we fight ♪♪
♪♪ For Proud Boys and alt-rights ♪♪
♪♪ For rich white men ♪♪
♪♪ And rich white men's wives ♪♪
Ben Carson: I'm cool with this also.
Anderson Cooper: Conservatives from all over the country have gathered in Washington to fight for the rights of Republicans or, said another way, the president has hosted a white-power rally. The Grand Wizard is about to speak.
♪♪ Why ♪♪
♪♪ We fight ♪♪
♪♪ Save ♪♪
♪♪ The right
The rally is interrupted by a police officer because the rally organizers didn't secure the proper permit. Trump, Kavanaugh, and everyone else there cries until the officer agrees to let them continue. Yes, it is just that dumb.
At the end of the episode, just in case it isn't perfectly clear that to Stephen Colbert and his writing staff conservatives are really bad people, a closing message was shown at the end of the final scene. It read, "Dedicated to all those fighting those fighting for equality."
It is just more of the same from this show. While Colbert's show does mock some Democrats, mostly Speaker Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, it is centered about the ugliest possible criticisms of President Trump and his administration, along with other Republicans and conservatives in Washington, D.C. This is not the first time the left has smeared Ben Shapiro as being associated with the alt-right or white nationalism. Pelosi and Schumer, by the way, are mocked for not being liberal enough. It is quite the liberal bubble in which Colbert dwells.
Anderson Cooper's labeling President Trump as a Grand Wizard wasn't even original. On CNN, Chairman of the House Democrat Caucus Hakeem Jeffries called Trump the Grand Wizard of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in an interview on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Classy, right?
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Some of the companies in multi billion oil and gas industry that operate across oilfields of Texas are very large due to the large amount of equipment and resources needed to exploit reserves of oil. Taken the scope of operations, the biggest oil companies like Chevron, Exxon Mobile, British Petroleum etc. together with their contractors hire a large number of workers, providing thousands of jobs in oil and gas.
There are different types of jobs available in oil and gas sector in Texas.
There are lots of entry level oil rig jobs for workers that do not require much qualification. Responsibilities of such low skilled workers, who as a rule, don't have previous experience of working on oil rigs, often involve hard physical labor, and training and instruction for this category of jobs normally is given on workplace. The core of them consists of roughnecks and roustabouts. Though they are low end and unskilled workers, no oil rig can do without them.
There's an ever growing need for technical professionals including operators, technicians and engineers in the Texas oil and gas industry that together maintain all equipment and machinery needed to run an oil rig or offshore platform.
Specialized operators are required to control the machinery and equipment necessary for the day to day operations of oil facilities.
Technicians are mainly involved in the installation and maintenance of this equipment.
Jobs that employ Geology, Geophysics, and Geoscience professionals form a relatively small part of the employees in oil and gas across the state of Texas, but without them the oil companies would stop oil exploration and petroleum production. Earth Science professionals are needed to determine whether the site is suitable for heavy drilling and other processes required to pump the oil from beneath the earth to the surface. The oil and gas careers in this sector are mentally challenging, and normally require University degree or at least college diploma. These positions can expect to often travel around the world, as even multi billion oil companies can not afford to hire many of them, therefore each Geosciences professional is expected to travel from one drilling site to another.
Finally, there are the oil jobs in the logistics sector that ensures transportation of the workers and equipment to and from the workplace.
Now that you have a general idea of the types and categories of oil jobs available in the oil industry of Texas, potential candidate will have a better idea whether any of them might be suitable and whether you want to send your resumé and apply for a specific vacancy in offshore or inland oil rigs in the area of Texas.
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In detail: Indian GP track
120000 spectators could be cheering on home favourite Karun Chandhok at new Indian GP track.
Published On Apr 29, 2010 07:00:00 AM
More details have been revealed about the Indian Grand Prix Circuit which is currently under construction about 32km outside of New Delhi. This circuit is designed by Hermann Tilke.
The first race scheduled for 2011 will consist of an undulating 5.1km course with 16 corners - largely medium-speed corners - where the F1 cars should lap at an average speed of about 210kph.
Slight modifications are done to the track design, such as the Turn 3 which has been widened from its original layout which helps cars run side by side. The cars will then get opportunity to accelerate upto 320kph on the back straight before again rising to Turn 4 which is a likely spot for overtaking.
A lot of analysis has been done by the teams via their simulators, following their advice; race organisers have taken a decision to modify Turn 7 in order to maximise overtaking opportunities into the banked Turn 10. A grand stand with 13,000 seating capacity overlooks both Turn 10 and Turn 11 which are similarly banked, making this part of the track especially exciting for the fans.
The impressive waved roof main grand stand will hold around 30,000 fans bringing in the total estimated capacity at 120,000 spectators. The organisers wont have much problem in selling each and every seat at the event due to the presence of home favourite Karon Chandhok.
Track boss Mark Hughes said "Karun's presence on the F1 grid has certainly whipped up a lot of interest in India."
"The feedback from the teams has also been very encouraging and we hope the race will speak for itself," he added.


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Winogrand's Women Are Beautiful
Untitled (Woman in a Telephone Booth, New York), about 1972, gelatin silver print, Gift of the Schorr Family collection, 1991.280 © The Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Winogrand snaps an off-kilter photograph of a faceless, smiling woman in a telephone booth. Central to the photograph is the provocative fork between her thighs, the result of a propped up foot. Winogrand's innovative use of a cockeyed camera effectively makes the booth appear to tilt while the woman remains mostly aligned. By distorting the perspective this way, Winogrand draws attention to the opening of the woman's legs.
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Simon Feldman, who teaches Ethics and Feminist Philosophy at Connecticut College, describes the caller as "an anonymous, caged go-go dancer rather than a specific individual". Interestingly, only two people look in the direction of the viewer. On the left a man in a white shirt appears to be turning around, perhaps toward the woman or Winogrand. On the right, a woman dressed in a casual suit, similar to that of the man beside her, carries Cosmopolitan wearing sunglasses. Her gaze toward the booth coupled with the turned head of the man in white, imply a "V" shape, again emphasizing the woman's split-open legs, but also underscoring the position of the viewer through Winogrand.
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I get a lot of calls on my radio shows every week about cars and car care. Here are some questions and answers typical of the most recent calls.
Question: It's been a long, hot summer, and every time I turn on my car's air conditioner, I notice a strange smell coming out of the vents. Also, sometimes, when I first turn it on, there seems to be a mist blowing out. What gives?
Answer: The mist one is easy. With our El Nino-related summer weather this year, you've noticed that along with the heat we've had enough humidity to make Miami Beach proud. The mist you see is simply the air conditioner working overtime to get the extra humidity out of the air and not being able to remove it all before the air recirculates back into the cabin. Nothing to worry about here.
Now for the strange odors. Assuming you haven't been indulging in some new and unusual fast foods, that smell is the result of a buildup of mold and mildew in the hoses of the air-conditioning system. How to fight it? The same way you fight it at home: with Lysol.
Turn on the engine and the air conditioner (on the "normal" setting), exit the car (make sure you're out of gear and the parking brake is on) and spray some plain Lysol into the air intake vents, which on most cars and trucks are located where the windshield meets the top of the hood. But don't overdo it. A few one- or two-second sprays should clear up that odor problem--and at the same time help your allergies, which the mold and mildew might affect.
Q: I recently bought a full-size sport-utility with a V-8 engine, and the mileage I am getting is lousy. Nowhere near what the window sticker says I'd get. Is there something wrong?
A: You go out and buy a 5,000-pound truck with a V-8 engine, and now you complain about the mileage? Sport-utes are different from cars in a lot of ways and, well, this is simply one of those ways. When gas prices start going up again, look for a lot of almost-new sport-utes for sale at very low prices.
There are a few things you can do to get better mileage, tricks that apply to all vehicles but that could make a dramatic difference in your sport-ute. First, use the lowest-octane gas you can get away with. I don't care what the manufacturer recommends--if you use 87 octane instead of 91 and the truck runs fine without pinging or knocking under hard acceleration or when going uphill, then stick with it. You won't need to use the higher-octane gas until the engine starts exhibiting some problems, which it may never do. Right off the bat, that will save you some money.
Next, helping the engine breathe better will not only gain you extra mileage but can also increase the horsepower while remaining well within emissions standards. The simplest way to accomplish this is with some bolt-on products on either end of the engine, at the intake and exhaust sides.
Replacing the stock air filter with a high-performance aftermarket air filter, especially a washable one that will last the life of the vehicle (cost: about $50), can help get more air to the engine, and that improves efficiency and mileage.
Next, replacing the stock exhaust system (from the catalytic converter back) will help mileage and performance. These bolt-on systems are available from a variety of manufacturers (check out the ads in most truck magazines). They cost anywhere from $300 to $750. Many truck and sport-ute owners, however, believe that the high cost is justified by the fuel savings and horsepower enhancement.
Q: It seems every time I take my car to be serviced for anything, the mechanic checks my wheels and then tells me I need new brake pads. He says my car would be dangerous without new pads, and I don't want to have an accident because I neglected the brakes. Why do my brake pads keep wearing out so quickly?
A: They may not be wearing out all that quickly. You may be getting ripped off. Unscrupulous mechanics can easily play on your emotions to have you order parts and work you may not need. What parent, for instance, is going to put his or her kids in a car or truck someone has just deemed "unsafe"?
In normal use in Southern California driving (for the average driver not regularly involved in freeway pursuits or drag racing), the pads on your disc brakes should last as long as 20,000 miles without needing replacing.
Remember that pads are used only on disc brakes; drum brakes do not have pads, so find out what kind of brakes you have before going to the mechanic (check your owner's manual for the answers). Most modern cars and trucks have front-wheel disc brakes and rear-wheel drum brakes.
If your brakes seem to be OK, if the pedal is not going farther down to the floorboard than usual when you step on it, if there are no warning lights about the brake system on the dash, if you do not notice a grinding noise or vibration when you step on the pedal, you probably do not need brake pads.
And incessant squeaking is not necessarily a problem. That squeaking can be an inherent part of any disc brake system, and in fact most people who get new pads will notice more squeaking than with the old ones.


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General Roca es una localidad situada en el departamento Marcos Juárez, provincia de Córdoba, Argentina.

Está compuesta por  y se encuentra situada sobre la RN 9 y sobre el ferrocarril de cargas General Mitre, en el sudeste cordobés, a 270 km de la Ciudad de Córdoba y a 10 km al oeste de Tortugas (Santa Fe), aproximadamente en ambos casos.

La principal actividad económica es la agricultura seguida por la ganadería, además y como se señaló antes, General Roca está situada en el límite con la provincia de Santa Fe, lo que convierte a la localidad en un lugar de paso para los camiones que se dirigen generalmente al puerto de Rosario.

Existen en el municipio 750 viviendas aprox.

La fiesta patronal es el 30 de agosto, en conmemoración y honor de Santa Rosa de Lima.

Parroquia de la Iglesia católica en General Roca

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Epónimos de Julio Argentino Roca
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If you live in the Commonwealth of Virginia, you can't miss all the coverage of the tragic murder case where two young people attending the University of Virginia were caught up in a volatile and finally, lethal relationship.
It is a sad and sick story, even more so because it is a story that could happen to any family, under the same circumstances. In this case, it occurred in a family of financial and societal means. The Huguely family had everything going for them, by our current standards of success and good fortune. He was nice looking, smart, athletic, privileged. So, how does something like this happen to a family? Is it environment, culture, genes, or a deadly combination of them all?
The young man, George Huguely V, is on trial for murdering his former girlfriend, apparently in a drunken rage. Reading the accounts in the newspapers of his massive alcohol consumption and drinking habits is disturbing by itself.
Even more disturbing is the information that on at least occasion, he was drinking with his father, George IV; and on another occasion with his mother. Perhaps this is considered normal in many families, and if that is the case, I think there is more to worry about than college high- jinx and partying. Parents take note: many of you are NOT going to like some of the things I am going to say, but perhaps you may need to listen.
I am truly disturbed by the sad details that have emerged from this trial. In addition to being shocked by the amount of drinking that is going on in the lives of college students, the worst and most damaging part of this tragedy is that the parents were at best, enablers, at worst, accomplices.
Clearly the culture of alcohol abuse and addiction is passed from generation to generation, not only through genes, but by the messages and values these parents are imparting on their kids. Perhaps the parents, and this is clearly speculation on my part, as I do not know any of the parties involved- are so steeped in their own alcoholism that they failed to recognize the serious warning signs in their son's behavior.
Perhaps it is simply the culture of boozing and getting plastered so you can let your inhibitions out in a very button-downed, WASPish environment. I know of families who engage in what I consider outrageous drinking with their adult children and I have very strong opinions about it. I am not going to get on a pedestal and say that they are being bad parents. I don't have to. The proof is in the pudding.
Time and time again there are instances that come to light about parents who allow their children, even encourage them, to drink to excess. Some of them have been famous- politicians, celebrities, sports personalities. Now and again there are articles or news stories about everyday "regular" families where this happens. The kids get in trouble, and upon further investigation, it is discovered that they were partying with the parents.
The death of common sense or generational problems?
This leads us to ponder, what are these parent's thinking? Clearly there are some very serious family dynamics to investigate, but we will leave that to the mental health professionals. Many parents don't have proper boundaries with their children and want to "be their friends" more than they want to play a parental role.
And last but not least, the addiction issue. If mom and dad can't monitor or control their own alcohol use, how are they going to be able to have a clear and objective view of Junior, or in this case, the fifth's alcohol use or abuse?
So here we have a beautiful young woman, brutally killed in the prime of life by a young man with everything to live for, who is now most likely going to spend the rest of his days behind bars. Being drunk out of your mind is not a legal defense. Many people don't realize that important legal reality. Just because you were drunk does not negate responsibility.
Such a waste of two young lives, and for what? It's all fun and games until someone gets killed. How many people die every year as a result of young people, or their parents, being drunk behind the wheel of a car? It is a wakeup call when it happens, but then… it's too late.
I hope and pray that this case will be the wakeup call for many of these college kids and their indulgent and reckless parents.
Parents- please stop getting drunk with your kids. Kids- please get the clue that just because mom and dad do it doesn't mean it is right or okay. Be man, or woman, enough to see that excessive drinking and alcohol abuse is no way to deal with life or problems or societal pressure. If everyone at the country club is shitfaced, be an individual and save yourself, and your future kids, some heartache.
If you find that you can't stop or you need support outside your family, there are places you can go for encouragement and support in a sober life. Don't wait until something horrible happens, because it usually does.
What I've learned from watching "Downton Abbey"
I am a huge fan of British period shows and movies. Let me repeat it for emphasis- I AM A HUGE FAN of British period shows and movies! I have watched "Sense and Sensibility" more times than I can recall, and am teased about it by my family.
I started watching PBS Masterpiece Theater as a pre-teen and have followed it religiously over the years. I have worshiped at the church of Anglophile television with a passionate fervor that most people can't begin to understand. I don't know what it is about the British that appeals to me so much. To my knowledge, I don't have a drop of British blood in my veins. So you can only imagine the joy and excitement I experienced upon embarking on my "Downton Abbey" experience.
For those who have been living in a cave for the last year and haven't, shudder, heard about "Downton Abbey", I will enlighten you now.
"A star-studded cast (Dame Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Brendan Coyle, Dan Stevens) round out the glittering, gossipy, and beguiling men and women of this epic tale!
After a tragedy at sea claims the life of the presumed heir, Lord Crawley is faced with the possibility that the house he's loved his whole life might someday belong to a distant cousin he's never met. But before that can happen he must deal with his scandalous daughter, Lady Mary - considered by many to be the rightful heir to Downton. Even the staff has opinions on the family's affairs. And while most are devoted to the Crawleys, there are others whose selfishness and scheming do more than simply disrupt the well-oiled inner workings of the estate. As the servants' mischief escalates, even the most faithful employees begin to imagine a different life.
The many hours I spent watching "Downton Abbey" were a wonderful escape into another world, another era, another culture. But what truly moved me about the series was the emphasis on the value of ties that bind people together, year after year, through hardships and triumphs.
The servant-master relationships are very difficult to relate to or fathom from an American, twentieth century perspective. The turn of the century was a harsh and unforgiving time and place in which to live, especially for the poor and uneducated.
The show was balanced in portraying both the wealthy and privileged, and lowly and poor alike with character flaws. The rich folk were portrayed as mostly kind and fair, and servants were shown to have just as many character flaws and evil intentions as the wealthy, titled crowd. I found that to be refreshing and more sophisticated than many programs or movies which portray servants and poor people as completely free of malice or misdeeds.
Lesson #1- If you are going to marry for money, make sure you can tolerate the person on some level.
Lesson #2- If a doctor tells you that you will never walk again, make sure you get a second opinion.
Lesson #3- Servants have much more interesting lives than their masters.
Lesson #4- Having only daughters can be an expensive proposition. Especially when they can't inherit any of the money or titles upon your death.
Lesson #5- Greedy, scheming, and nasty people will get what's coming to them in the end.
Lesson #6- Dowager Countesses get all the really awesome lines!
Lesson #7- Class matters, especially in times of war and hunger, but it can't protect you from tragedy.
Lesson #8- Sometimes the chauffer gets the heiress, but not usually.
Lesson #9- Watching outrageously wealthy people attempt to perform mundane tasks is endlessly amusing.
Lesson #10- Being the father of three spoiled, indulged, daughters is a challenge, even if you have a castle.
The greatest one of all: Lesson #11- Good, loyal friends and family bonds and are the things that truly get us through the difficulties and trials of life.
"Downton Abbey" may not appeal to everyone at first glance, but I promise it has entertainment value beyond the historical and cultural. There is plenty of humor and universally understood emotions that most people will be able to understand and appreciate.
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The Myth of the 'Natural Republican' Hispanic
Robert Hampton, American Renaissance, April 26, 2019
Conservatives have a persistent fantasy that Hispanics are deeply religious, socially conservative, "natural Republicans." Just this month, Trump campaign adviser Steve Cortes claimed Hispanics were flocking to the president: "As the Democratic Party lurches left on social issues the largely Catholic and Evangelical Hispanic community of America finds itself orphaned by the Democratic Party." Mr. Cortes also claimed many Hispanic Democrats consider themselves conservatives.
A new Gallup poll has found that only 45 percent of Hispanics belong to a church. This is a big decline since 1999, when 68 percent of Hispanics were church members. Overall, church membership in America declined from 69 percent in 1999 to 52 percent today. Hispanics were a major part of that decline and are now 7 percent less likely than other Americans to be church members.
In 2010, 67 percent of American Hispanics were Catholics, but by 2013 the figure had reportedly dropped to 55 percent. Twenty-five percent of Hispanics said they were former Catholics, 22 percent were Protestant, and 16 percent evangelical.
In 2014, 60 percent of Hispanics said religion was very important in their lives, and 40 percent went to church every week. These rates were higher than for whites. Forty-nine percent of whites said religion was very important and 34 percent attended church weekly. However, more whites belonged to a church (53 percent). Furthermore, the dramatic decline in self-identifying Hispanic Catholics from 2010 to 2013 and the new Gallup poll suggest numbers for Hispanics could be lower today.
Hispanics are somewhat more conservative than whites on some issues. Sixty-one percent of whites say abortion should be legal compared to 49 percent of Hispanics. Sixty percent of Hispanics support gay marriage, slightly lower than the 64 percent for whites. (Only 51 percent blacks support gay marriage.)
However, both Catholic and evangelical Hispanics think immigration and the economy are more important than social issues. Evangelical Hispanics are much more progressive than their white co-religionists. Non-white evangelicals are far more likely than white evangelicals to support liberal immigration policies, favor an apology for slavery, and promote the Black Lives Matter movement.
According to the New Yorker, many non-white evangelical pastors have committed themselves to left-wing causes, including anti-police activism and support for more immigration. "We talk about racism, we talk about gay marriage, any political issue," says Hispanic evangelical pastor Liliana Da Valle. "We talk a lot about gun violence right now." Miss Da Valle added that Hispanic evangelicals see themselves as separate from the Religious Right: "[Evangelical] means [only] that we are Christ-centered."
"It comes down to really caring about Latinos," says National Latino Evangelical Coalition Vice President Rev. Walter Contreras. "[Y]ou're going to have Latinos voting for people who represent them well."
Hispanic Catholics are more liberal on issues such as abortion than Hispanic evangelicals. Prominent Hispanic Democrats such as New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and presidential candidate Julian Castro claim their Catholic faith shapes their politics, yet both support abortion and LGBT rights. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez says her faith makes her progressive. Mr. Castro says his faith reaffirms his Hispanic identity and commitment to social justice. Hispanics of whatever religious stripe continue to vote overwhelmingly Democratic.
Julian Castro (Credit Image: © Robin Jerstad/ZUMA Wire)
Hispanic Christianity is often different from the conservative faith of white Republicans. Many Hispanic congregations promote "social justice" and more immigration, and some even practice paganism.
Mesoamerican pre-Christianity heavily influences Central American religion. Farm animals are frequently sacrificed in the Chiapas region of Mexico. The Santa Muerte cult, which has an estimated 12 million followers, is probably based on the Aztec goddess Mictecacihuatl.
Santa Muerte is a Mexican folk saint of death, and is portrayed as a skeleton. Devotees offer her tequila, cigarettes, and other gifts to bring good luck and protection. She is associated with Mexico's Day of the Dead and is popular in drug cartels. The Catholic Church in Latin America condemns it as a heathen death cult, but the American church is quiet. Santa Muerte expert Andrew Chestnut claims American bishops mute their criticism because they don't want to imply that Hispanic migrants worship death and associate with cartels.
A mariachi group plays in a ceremony at the temple of Santa Muerte de Tultitlan, Mexico. (Credit Image: © Jose Mendez/EFE via ZUMA Press)
The cult is growing. Mr. Chestnut argues this is due to Santa Muerte's universal appeal. "On one level she's very Mexican," he says, "but on another level, since she's death herself, she knows no borders or frontiers." The cult can include human sacrifice. In 2012 in Mexico, devotees sacrificed two boys and a woman. Last November, a man in Tennessee barely escaped sacrifice.
Hispanic Catholicism is often liberation theology. Heavily influenced by Marxism, liberation theology aims for a radical redistribution of wealth, social revolution, and separating Christianity from its European roots. It's very influential in Nicaragua and El Salvador, the homes of many Hispanic immigrants.
In the past, the Vatican officially condemned liberation theology despite its support from several Latin American bishops. However, Pope Francis, while not a liberation theologian himself, has been friendly towards the movement and tried to reconcile it with the Church.
Whatever form of Christianity Hispanics practice, it is rarely the faith of white Americans. Hispanic Christians, whether Catholic or evangelical, see themselves as a people apart from the historic American nation. Their faith reinforces that separate identity and advances their interests. Social conservatism is secondary to la raza.
Hispanics will not save American values. They're here to replace them with their own.
Topics: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Christianity, Featured, Hispanic Family Values, Liberal Myths, Racial Identity
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Robert Hampton is a contributing editor at American Renaissance. He is a Middle American who chose to wake up.
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Emirates' focus on Vietnamese perishables bears fruit
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Emirates SkyCargo has seen a near five-fold increase in the volumes of exports of fruits between Vietnam and Dubai over the last year.
Collaborative efforts between Middle East carrier's cargo arm and Vietnam's Trade Promotion Agency Vietrade saw perishables exports to Dubai, including rambutans and lychees, touch a record close to 110 tonnes in January 2017.
Vietnam is an important market for food exports and in 2016, Vietnam's agro-forestry-fishery exports were valued at over $32bn.
Emirates SkyCargo has been working closely with Vietrade to understand the requirements of Vietnamese exporters and to help develop export opportunities for Vietnamese produce in international markets specifically in the UAE and other parts of the Middle East.
Ravishankar Mirle, Emirates vice president, cargo commercial, Far East and Australasia, said: "Emirates SkyCargo started operations in Vietnam in 2008 and has since then played an important role in the growing trade between Vietnam and the UAE.
"By working closely with Vietrade and by building upon our expertise in shipping perishables, we developed air freight solutions that have helped increase the exports of premium fruits and vegetables from Vietnam to Dubai."
He added "We will work with our customers and stakeholders to promote and develop new trade lanes for exports from Vietnam to global markets".
Pham Binh Dam, Ambassador of Vietnam to the UAE, said: "Vietnam has huge comparative advantages in agriculture. That is why we requested Emirates SkyCargo to position its product offering to facilitate exports of perishable products by air freight to capitalise on the country's vast potential.
"We are happy to see the sharp increase in volume in the past year and will continue to work with Vietnamese producers and exporters for their greater market penetration. We thank Emirates SkyCargo for listening to us and for the great cooperation."
Emirates SkyCargo offers exporters in Vietnam a weekly capacity of over 580 tonnes through 18 flights including four weekly freighter services.
The carrier has announced the launch of a daily Boeing 777-300ER passenger flight from Dubai to Hanoi on the, offering up to 20 tonnes of cargo capacity per flight from July 2017.
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Is All Neuropathy The Same?
Learning as much as you can about a condition that is rather common could potentially help prevent the diagnosis of it. Neuropathy is a miserable yet common condition that affects more than twenty million men and women each year. When neuropathy attacks it does so in such a way that the neuropathic patient is left feeling frustrated and immersed in pain. One of the questions that come into play is the categorizing of or the classification of neuropathy. Most neuropathy patients want to know if there are other types of neuropathy or do every individual suffering from neuropathy experience the same pain and symptoms?
Neuropathy has several different classifications and this article is going to address three of them. Every neuropathic patient is different not only because their classification might be different but because each person's body is different and depending on when treatment was sought there could be a large difference in pain, symptoms and nerve damage. So what are the three classifications of neuropathy?
Neuropathy just like the human race comes in various shapes and forms, this is why it is important to read up on and educate yourself not only on the different types of neuropathy but on various forms of treatment as well.


Trading on the foreign exchange has been done to varying degrees of success by traders. If you are looking to be successful on the market you need to know what the differences are between the successful and unsuccessful traders. The best way to do this would be to complete a foreign exchange comparison between these two groups.
All new traders are told that they should not be too risky. While this is something that all successful traders keep in mind they know that it does not relate to being overly cautious. The constant fluctuations in the market create unique opportunities for traders to make a profit. The successful trader will take these opportunities when they present. However, the unsuccessful trader will often wait too long and miss the opportunity in the name of caution.
Whenever you start a new venture you are told to set goals and create a plan to achieve these goals. The only way this can ever work is if you set realistic goals. The successful forex trader will set realistic goals while the unsuccessful trader will not. The goals that the successful trader set are not actually monetary in nature. Successful traders are considered successful because they have a good reward to risk ration and are able to consistently follow their trading plan. The goals you initially set should help you achieve consistency and a profitable reward to risk ratio.
Herd trading is a strategy that a lot of people use to make a profit. However, you should be careful when you simply follow the crowd. The successful trader will know what the crowd is doing, but they will also complete their own analysis to determine if this is the way they should be trading. The unsuccessful trader will not do this and simply moves with the crowd. The problem with doing this is that you do not know when to close a position.
Many unsuccessful traders see forex trading as a one man job and do not look at the help they can get. The successful trader knows that they are trading alone and only they can make trading decisions, but they are willing to use help. The help that they use varies from forex signals to expert insight. When the successful trader looks at expert insight they see it as a starting point for their own analysis.
There are a lot of trading tools on the market and both types of traders use them. However, the big difference is the level of understanding that the trader has of their tools. The unsuccessful trader may use a tool because they were told it can help them. They will also look at certain things with the tool and not understand the rest. The successful trader will know all about the tool they are going to use. If they are using moving averages then they know the indicator points and what the rest of the average means. The unsuccessful trader will only know how to identify a point without understanding how the point was made.
What Is Forex Trading's Relationship With Discipline?


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 KLOQ-FM, a Californian FM radio station
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Q: How to Auto remove closing tags I was wondering if there's a plugin that when u delete the opening tag eg <div> the closing tag is removed too </div>.

A: In fact, yes, there is a plugin called Emmet, installed by default in VSCode, that allow you to remove both tags at the same time.
You just need to put the cursor in the tag that you want to remove and, in Command Palette, choose (or write) Emmet: Remove Tag

It removes both tags.
And for sure, you can assign a keybinding shortcut to do it more quickly. Following instructions here

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18 September – 13 November 2010
The Galerie Nelson-Freeman is pleased to present recent sculptures and new drawings by the English artist Rachel Whiteread.
Over the past twenty years, through redefining traditions of Minimal and Conceptual art, Rachel Whiteread has created an influencial body of sculpture which explores the themes of absence and memory through the manipulation of architecture and space. Using industrial materials such as plaster, resin, and rubber, she often creates casts that reproduce the interior spaces of familiar objects, revealing unfamiliar negative spaces in which emptiness takes on a material presence and what was once invisible acquires a palpable shape. The molded shapes originate from everyday objects (a bed, a house, a box, a bathtub, interior space), yet the materials' presence, and sometimes transparency, can give these sculptures as much a ghostly dimension as a profound presence.
For her first exhibition at Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Rachel Whiteread presents a series of sculptural works in which intimately-scaled casts in resin and pigmented plaster are grouped into still lifes; the familiar and ordinary objects of the kitchen cupboard and bathroom cabinet (cardboard tubes, food and medicine packages, fragments of packing materials) recombined into their own new landscape. New in these works is a strong presence of color, which explores a wide range of subtlety; most works are on the wall, though one free-standing sculpture, Ghost, Ghost 1, is a transparent polyurethane cast of a doll's house, a domestic memorial dedicated to childhood, and an echo to the shift of scale from the monumental to the intimate that defines this exhibition.
Whiteread's works on paper are also central to her work - according to the artist, "My drawings act as a diary of my work1"- and while rarely exhibited in the past, the Nelson-Freeman exhibition will be one of the first exhibitions to show sculpture and drawings together. Included will be an important new series of drawings, Postcard studies, created from postcards collected on her travels that show houses or churches against a background of countryside. The images are then reworked using white gouache and a hole punch, obliterating the "fact" of the image while somehow leaving the integrity of the forms, almost creating an abstract Memento mori.
Rachel Whiteread was born in London in 1963 and continues to live and work there. A large number of exhibitions have been dedicated to her work in the most prestigious international institutions such as the Serpentine Gallery (London) in 2001, The Guggenheim Museum (New York) in 2002, the MADRE (Naples) in 2007. She has received numerous awards including the celebrated Turner Prize (1993) and has been chosen for a number of important public commissions: House (London, 1993), Water Tower (New York, 1998), Holocaust Memorial (Vienna, 2000). Her work is present in many public collections such as the MoMA (New York), the Tate Modern (London), the Stedelijk van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven) and the Pompidou Centre (Paris).
From September 2010 to January 2011, Tate Britain, in London, presents the final venue of a travelling retrospective of works on paper, after the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and the Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas).
1 Allegra Pesenti, "Like Shallow Breath : Drawings by Rachel Whiteread", Rachel Whiteread Drawings, Hammer Museum & DelMonico Books, Prestel, Los Angeles, 2010, p.9.


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ONSLOW, Denzil (c.1642-1721), of Pyrford, Surr.
Not surprisingly Onslow's wealth and social standing soon encouraged him to aspire to a parliamentary seat. With great difficulty and amid much contention, he managed to secure a first electoral success at Haslemere during the Exclusion crisis. The borough was some distance from the main concentration of Onslow estates at the heart of the shire, but Denzil succeeded in regaining the seat in the aftermath of the Revolution. Moreover, his office of out-ranger of Windsor Forest helped to consolidate his family's influence in the north of the county. While benefiting him personally to the tune of £600 p.a., the post also established a link with the court that was to be an enduring feature of his political career.
In spite of this apparent lack of parliamentary prominence, the general election of 1695 saw a notable rise in ambition on Onslow's part as he successfully stood for one of the county seats alongside his nephew Sir Richard Onslow, 3rd Bt.* He only managed to beat off the challenge of Edward Harvey* by 24 votes, and then had to face an inquiry by the committee of privileges after Harvey alleged that some of Denzil's supporters had falsely sworn themselves as qualified freeholders. Once the House had upheld Onslow's election on 16 Jan. 1696, he proved a solid supporter of the Court, being forecast to support it in the division on the council of trade later that month, and voting to set the price of guineas at 22s. in late March. In this session, he also appeared at least twice in the Journals: as a teller on 17 Feb. 1696 in opposition to going to the question on a motion to postpone the assizes for two weeks, and as a subscriber to the Association ten days later.
In this contentious atmosphere there was no alternative seat available for Onslow, and he therefore had to wait until the next general election before a vacancy occurred in a constituency where his family's interest was well established. Foot Onslow's decision to resign his seat at Guildford in June 1700 in preference for an excise post gave Denzil the opportunity to return to Parliament in the following February, and he found little trouble in maintaining his place there for the next six elections. However, the election of his great-nephew Thomas Onslow* soon afterwards undermines any attempt to chart his parliamentary activity, and the first definite and noteworthy reference to Denzil in his second spell in the Commons does not occur until January 1709.
In the next session, Onslow's name was again linked to metropolitan and county matters, he being named to drafting committees on bills to regulate hackney carriages, to establish a Surrey land registry, and to vest an estate in the hands of hospital governors. Although he remained inconspicuous, the heightened political temperature of this session and its aftermath caused him considerable financial problems. In early 1710 he had supported Sacheverell's impeachment and thus became one of the targets of a vigorous campaign by Surrey Tories at the ensuing general election. Ill-health initially threatened to make him withdraw, but he managed to secure his seat despite a bitter contest over the second Guildford seat. In the first session of the 1710–13 Parliament he was forced to secure two grants of leave of absence from the House on health grounds. He suffered further discomfort in the course of the year when he lost both his offices 'for refusing to comply with the then measures of the Court in Parliament'. In the House itself he was one of the few Whigs appointed on 15 Nov. to the committee to investigate complaints against the poor Palatines. But in spite of losing his posts, he maintained his Whiggish principles by voting for the motion of 'No Peace without Spain' on 7 Dec.
1. Manning and Bray, Surr. iii. 54; IGI Yorks.; Cam. Soc. n.s. xxii. 79.
2. CSP Dom. 1686–7, p. 315; Luttrell, Brief Relation, vi. 54.
3. Surr. RO (Guildford), BR/OC/1/3, f. 168.
4. HMC 14th Rep. IX, 495; Clothworkers' Hall mss, apprentice bk. 1641–62; Evelyn Diary, iv. 255.
5. HMC Downshire, i. 449; HMC 14th Rep. IX, 496.
6. BL, Evelyn mss, [–] to John Evelyn, 8 Nov. 1695.
7. HMC 14th Rep. IX, 496; HMC Hastings, ii. 236.
8. HMC 14th Rep. IX, 496; HMC Lords, n.s. viii. 301.
9. Bath mss at Longleat House, Portland misc. pprs. bdle. of letters to Robert Harley, memo. on elections [?1710]; HMC 14th Rep. IX, 496; EHR, lxxxiii. 483; Boyer, Pol. State, vii. 308.
10. Cal. Treas. Bks. xxxii. 194; HMC 14th Rep. IX, 495–7; Boyer, xxi. 672; PCC 136 Buckingham.


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Carlo Cafiero
(1846-09-01)1 September 1846
Barletta, Apulia, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies
17 July 1892(1892-07-17) (aged 45)
Nocera Inferiore, Kingdom of Italy
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Carlo Cafiero (1 September 1846 – 17 July 1892) was an Italian anarchist, champion of Mikhail Bakunin during the second half of the 19th century and one of the main proponents of anarcho-communism and insurrectionary anarchism during the First International.[1]
1.1 Early years
1.2 Conversion to anarchism
1.3 Exile in Switzerland
Early years[edit]
Carlo Cafiero was born in Barletta, in the Apulia region of southern Italy, then part of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, into a rich, land-owning family. His father was member of the Carboneria in 1821, one of his brothers and a brother-in-law were deputies, while Carlo Cafiero was always considered the 'black sheep' of the family.
In 1864, he moved to Naples, where he got a degree in law. He then went to Florence to embark on a diplomatic career. Here, he first came into contact with atheist ideas through the rationalist movement. At the beginning of 1870, he was in Paris as guest of the painter Giuseppe De Nittis, a fellow townsman who described him as a "beautiful young man, fascinating to women". He then went to London, where he matured, renouncing his diplomatic career, wealth and family to join socialism and the revolution. It seems that hearing the enthralling rally of a shoemaker caused Cafiero to become conscious of the pitiful conditions of the working class. In London, Cafiero made contact with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Cafiero joined the International Workingmen's Association and was charged with winning Italy over to Marx's ideology in a country where workers were under the strong influence of the republicanism of Giuseppe Mazzini or in some places the anarchism of Mikhail Bakunin. He re-formed the old branch of the International in Naples, with the help of the young Errico Malatesta. During an assembly in Naples, he was imprisoned for the first time.
Conversion to anarchism[edit]
Cafiero spent over a year in Italy as a representative of Marx and Engels to hinder the influence of anarchism. However, thanks to the contact he had had with Giuseppe Fanelli, he sided with Bakunin and his Italian followers. In early 1872 came the first issue of the newspaper La Campana and Cafiero wrote for and donated for its publication. In the same year, he met Bakunin in Locarno spending a month with him, discussing Bakunin's ideas and objections to what Bakunin perceived as Marx and Engels' authoritarianism, winning Cafiero in the end to his cause. In the summer of 1873, with the help of Cafiero, an old project was realised, namely to create an international center for the revolution in Italy and the world. Selling all his inherited lands, Cafiero bought a farm in Switzerland where Bakunin could live. This center was called La Baronata and it would also be a safe shelter for revolutionaries persecuted by their respective governments. In 1875, Cafiero went to Milan and joined the editorial staff of the first socialist daily paper, called La Plebe and edited by Enrico Bignami. At Giuseppe Fanelli's funeral in 1877, Cafiero stated: "My friends, let us hurry on the Revolution as quickly as we can, since, as you see, our enemies are letting us die like this – in prison or in exile, or crazed with sorrow." In a 1880 report to the Congress of the Jura Federation of the Anti-authoritarian International, titled "Anarchism and Communism", Cafiero argued:
The common wealth being scattered right across the planet, while belonging to the whole of humanity, those who happen to be within reach of that wealth and in a position to make use of it will utilise it in common. . . . As part of humanity, they will exercise here, in fact and directly, their rights over a portion of mankind's wealth. But should an inhabitant of Peking visit this country, he would enjoy the same rights as the rest, in common with the others, he would enjoy all the wealth of the country, just as he would have in Peking.[2]
In April 1877, Cafiero, Errico Malatesta, Pietro Ceccarelli, the Russian Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinskyt and 30 other comrades began an insurrection in the province of Benevento. They took the village of Letino without a struggle and were greeted with great enthusiasm. Arms and expropriated goods were distributed amongst the people, tax money was returned and official documents destroyed. In dialect, Cafiero explained the ideas of anarchism, freedom, justice and the new society without the state, masters, servants, soldiers and owners. His proclamations even convinced the parish priest, who explained to his parishioners that the Internationalists were "the true apostles sent by the Lord". The following day, the village of Gallo was taken in a similar fashion. However, as they were leaving Gallo, the Internationalists were surprised and surrounded by government troops and all were arrested. Held in prison for over a year before being brought to trial, all the accused were eventually acquitted in August 1878.
During his imprisonment, his contacts with the International never ceased and Cafiero wrote his best-known work, titled A Compendium of Das Kapital and published in 1879 by the publishers of La Plebe in Milan. The work was appreciated and praised by Karl Marx, the author of the original book, who found it superior to other similar works. The book was written in order to bring the theory of Das Kapital to students, educated workmen and small proprietors. In 1878, Cafiero, unable to return to Italy because of Giovanni Passannante's attempt to bring a strong repression against republicans and internationalists, was living in Marseilles, working as a cook and docker. In October, he was arrested along with Malatesta, then released and deported from France. He went to Switzerland, where he met Peter Kropotkin. With the collaboration of Élisée Reclus, he promoted the publication of the Bakunin's essay God and the State. Andrea Costa, who had deserted the anarchist camp by passing over to legalitarian, parliamentary socialism, disappointed Cafiero, who described him as "an apostate, a renegade of the revolutionary faith and the people". After being arrested and soon released in 1881, Cafiero went to London, where he remained for a long time. There, he was the victim of a strange illness which was accompanied by feelings of persecution. He saw spies everywhere and was frightened by the telephone which had just appeared in the world. In March 1882, he returned to Italy, expressing a will to take part in the imminent electoral campaign. On April 5, he was arrested without any charge. On May 2, while imprisoned, he fell victim to a strong mental crisis and attempted to kill himself. The scandal of a crazed man, imprisoned without reason, exploded and Cafiero was released. He was given a choice of living in Barletta, his home town, or exile to Switzerland.
Exile in Switzerland[edit]
Emaciated and feverish, Cafiero chose exile in Chiasso, where he again attempted suicide. Emilio Bellerio took Cafiero to his house in Locarno and Malatesta wrote about him that "though his mind is ill, his heart is still healthy". In February 1883, Cafiero left for Florence, where he was met by a friend. He immediately headed for Fiesole and took rooms in an inn, but he then immediately fled into the woods, where he was later found half-naked. After being aided by a doctor and the police, he was transferred to the San Bonifacio psychiatric hospital in Florence. Olimpia Kutusoff, Cafiero's wife, returned from Russia in September 1883 to look after him at the Imola psychiatric hospital, where he had been transferred. Olimpia left him after one and a half years because Cafiero was violent with her during his moments of crisis. Cafiero expressed the will to return to Barletta, where he arrived in the second half of 1889, but his brothers turned him away. After living some time in a hotel, he was taken in by his brother Pietrantonio. Cafiero's mental conditions improved, but when returning home one day, he saw a group of peasants eating a piece of black, hard bread which revived his revolutionary spirit and entered his house screaming against his family. In 1891, following another crisis, Cafiero was confined in the psychiatric hospital in Nocera Inferiore, where he died on Sunday 17 July 1892 of tuberculosis at the age of 45. In a letter to Serafino Mazzotti about Cafiero, Malatesta wrote:
Carlo was first of all great for his inner nature, for the affect treasure, for the ingenuousness of his faith. These memories must not be lost, even today that there is the need to elevate the moral level of anarchists, who must react against the egoism and brutality that invade us, to return to unselfishness, to the sacrificial spirit, to the sentiment of love, of which Carlo was such a splendid example.
Carlo Cafiero. Revolution. Black Cat Press. ISBN 978-1-926878-11-9
Il Capitale di Carlo Marx, brevemente compendiato da Carlo Cafiero, Biblioteca Socialista, n. 5, Bignami e c. editori, Milan 1879. Online version (in Italian)
"Anarchia e Comunismo", Le Révolté, Geneva, 13 and 27 November 1880. An English translation is in Daniel Guérin, No Gods No Masters, Book 1, AK Press 1998.
Carlo Cafiero, La rivoluzione per la rivoluzione. Raccolta di scritti a cura e con introduzione di Gianni Bosio, Milan 1968 (some texts are in French). This book was republished with all texts in Italian, as Carlo Cafiero, Rivoluzione per la rivoluzione. Raccolta di scritti a cura e con introduzione di Gianni Bosio, Rome 1970.
Gian Carlo Maffei (ed.), Dossier Cafiero, Bergamo 1974.
^ Pernicone, Nunzio (2009). Italian Anarchism 1864–1892. AK Press. pp. 111–113. "Anarchist communism as a coherent, modern economic-political philosophy was first formulated in the Italian section of the First International by Carlo Cafiero, Emilio Covelli, Errico Malatesta, Andrea Costa and other ex-Mazzinian Republicans."
^ Guérin, Daniel. No Gods, No Masters. Book 1. p. 250.
Lane, A. T. (1995). Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-26456-6.
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