Perhaps they're hearing footsteps – the footsteps of all those teachers who have turned out in recent months to call for better pay and more generous overall support for North Carolina's public schools.
Perhaps they're anticipating the footsteps of thousands of teachers, teachers' family members and teachers' friends who next year might want to take out their frustrations at the polls.
Whatever their motivation , let's be glad that key members of our General Assembly seem to be coming around to the conclusion that they really do need to do something about teachers' lagging pay. However, just what to do and how to finance it remain vexing issues for the legislature's Republican majority – not easy to square with the GOP's emphasis on pay for performance and low taxes.
Even if a fair system of merit pay could be devised, perhaps in the form of bonuses for exceptional work, North Carolina still would be faced with base salaries that have dragged average teacher pay down to 46th in the country. Teachers have had to make do with only one raise in the last five years – for 1.2 percent in 2012 – raising understandable concerns about the state's ability to recruit and retain an adequate teacher corps.
A Thanksgiving Day article in The News & Observer of Raleigh probed the legislative dilemma. For example, a House budget writer, Republican Rep. Bryan Holloway of Stokes County, wants to restore the annual pay boosts formerly given to teachers as they accumulated years of service.
The price tag to reactivate the pay schedule could be as much as $1 billion, and Holloway said any such move would have to be phased in over three to five years. "Cost is a big obstacle," he acknowledged.
A will and a way?
On the Senate side, one of Holloway's counterparts, Sen. Jerry Tillman of Archdale, speaks of "a will to do something for our teachers." He's keen on raising entry-level pay, now in the range of $30,000. But he also wants to couple teachers' salaries to student performance, saying "We have to pay for results." Sounds good, but what about the teacher who, despite his or her skills and best efforts, can't overcome the challenges presented by students who lack a supportive home environment?
Any move to pay teachers more might be further complicated by pressure to give similar raises to state government's non-teaching personnel, who also have seen salaries stagnate as the legislature wrestled to balance budgets amid the recession and its aftermath.
But the biggest obstacle would seem to be the conservative doctrine that puts so much stock in the virtues of low taxes. It's a doctrine that prevails in the Republican-controlled General Assembly, which this year enacted major cuts in the state's personal and corporate income taxes. It's one that has been saluted by Gov. Pat McCrory, who signed the scaled-down budget into law.
The cuts are envisioned as an economic development tool that hopefully will mean future revenue gains. Yet while waiting for that ship to come in – if it ever does — the state will forgo more than $500 million in revenue just in the next two years. Finding extra money for public schools, or for other state services caught in the budget squeeze, will be a tall order.
A leading national champion of the low-tax philosophy, the American Legislative Exchange Council, recently put North Carolina in a glowing spotlight that must have felt good to the tax-cutters hereabouts.
Here's the rub: To the extent North Carolina has succeeded in lifting itself out of the kind of hard-scrabble poverty that once was all too common throughout the South, it can credit the investment it made in its educational system.
That investment was especially notable at the university level, giving residents a path toward knowledge-based jobs and attracting leading-edge companies and agencies. Attention then was focused on the public schools as it became clear that graduates' skills needed to be enhanced. More money wasn't the sole indicator of that attention, nor is it the sole determinant of school quality, but it did enable the state to raise teacher salaries to the middle of the national pack.
North Carolina's business community has always been mindful of the benefits of low expenses, taxes included. But for many years a consensus prevailed that education investment was essential to prosperity. The ALEC tax-cutting school of thought represents a narrower, more ideological view, driven by national interests and out of sync with North Carolina's tried and true model.
The good news is that some of the state's influential business figures have started pushing for a rebalancing of priorities so that education can claim its rightful and necessary place.
They've formed a group called Business for Education Success and Transformation North Carolina, or BEST NC. Its 50-plus members include Ann Goodnight of software giant SAS, Jim Goodmon of Capitol Broadcasting, former University of North Carolina system president C.D. Spangler Jr. and Brad Wilson, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of N.C. and former head of the UNC Board of Governors. The chairman is Walter McDowell, retired regional CEO for Wachovia.
"We think that stronger public education outcomes will accelerate job growth and spur economic development," McDowell told The News & Observer.
It's hard to disagree with McDowell's guidance for the group – that it aim for investments that rate as targeted and strategic. "We do not believe throwing a lot of money at public education is the answer," he said.
Perhaps that's meant to position NC BEST as brokers in the middle of the debate. Still, what could be more targeted than finding the money needed to bring the state's teacher salaries back into the range of national respectability, so that well-qualified teachers don't continue fleeing this state for better deals elsewhere? What could be more strategic than finding the money to raise the state's per-pupil spending up from its spot near the bottom of the barrel? Even Gov. McCrory is starting to talk a better game, calling for a plan to improve teacher pay.
For many North Carolina residents, the public education system is an indispensible path to opportunity – their best, perhaps their only, hope as a route toward productive lives. It can be a powerful force benefiting people who, because of poverty or other unfortunate circumstance, must overcome steep odds if they are to flourish.
High-quality schools accessible to all thus are central to the ideals of social justice embraced by the N.C. Council of Churches. Treating teachers not only fairly but also wisely – paying them what they deserve as well as what's needed to keep good ones on the job – has to be a top state goal, and it's encouraging to see leaders from both government and business begin what could be a move in that direction.


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namespace {

variations::VariationID kVariationID = 123;

void OnDocumentSuggestionsLoaderAvailable(
    std::unique_ptr<network::SimpleURLLoader> loader) {}

void OnURLLoadComplete(const network::SimpleURLLoader* source,
                       std::unique_ptr<std::string> response_body) {}

class DocumentSuggestionsServiceTest : public testing::Test {
 protected:
  DocumentSuggestionsServiceTest()
      : task_environment_(base::test::TaskEnvironment::MainThreadType::UI),
        shared_url_loader_factory_(
            base::MakeRefCounted<network::WeakWrapperSharedURLLoaderFactory>(
                &test_url_loader_factory_)),
        identity_test_env_(&test_url_loader_factory_, &prefs_),
        document_suggestions_service_(new DocumentSuggestionsService(
            identity_test_env_.identity_manager(),
            shared_url_loader_factory_)) {
    // Set up identity manager.
    identity_test_env_.SetPrimaryAccount("foo@gmail.com",
                                         signin::ConsentLevel::kSync);
    identity_test_env_.SetRefreshTokenForPrimaryAccount();
    identity_test_env_.SetAutomaticIssueOfAccessTokens(true);

    // Set up a variation.
    variations::AssociateGoogleVariationID(
        variations::GOOGLE_WEB_PROPERTIES_ANY_CONTEXT, "trial name",
        "group name", kVariationID);
    base::FieldTrialList::CreateFieldTrial("trial name", "group name")->group();
  }
  DocumentSuggestionsServiceTest(const DocumentSuggestionsServiceTest&) =
      delete;
  DocumentSuggestionsServiceTest& operator=(
      const DocumentSuggestionsServiceTest&) = delete;

  base::test::TaskEnvironment task_environment_;
  variations::ScopedVariationsIdsProvider scoped_variations_ids_provider_{
      variations::VariationsIdsProvider::Mode::kUseSignedInState};
  network::TestURLLoaderFactory test_url_loader_factory_;
  scoped_refptr<network::SharedURLLoaderFactory> shared_url_loader_factory_;
  sync_preferences::TestingPrefServiceSyncable prefs_;
  signin::IdentityTestEnvironment identity_test_env_;
  std::unique_ptr<DocumentSuggestionsService> document_suggestions_service_;
};

TEST_F(DocumentSuggestionsServiceTest, VariationHeaders) {
  test_url_loader_factory_.SetInterceptor(
      base::BindLambdaForTesting([](const network::ResourceRequest& request) {
        EXPECT_TRUE(variations::HasVariationsHeader(request));
        std::string variation = variations::VariationsIdsProvider::GetInstance()
                                    ->GetVariationsString();
        EXPECT_EQ(variation, " " + base::NumberToString(kVariationID) + " ");
      }));

  document_suggestions_service_->CreateDocumentSuggestionsRequest(
      u"", false, base::BindOnce(OnDocumentSuggestionsLoaderAvailable),
      base::BindOnce(OnURLLoadComplete));

  base::RunLoop().RunUntilIdle();
}

TEST_F(DocumentSuggestionsServiceTest, AsoParamInRequest) {
  auto expect_aso_param = [&](const std::string& expected_value,
                              const network::ResourceRequest& request) {
    base::StringPiece request_string(request.request_body->elements()
                                         ->at(0)
                                         .As<network::DataElementBytes>()
                                         .AsStringPiece());
    absl::optional<base::Value> request_value =
        base::JSONReader::Read(request_string);
    ASSERT_TRUE(request_value) << expected_value;
    std::string* param =
        request_value->FindStringPath("requestOptions.debugOptions.optsParams");
    ASSERT_NE(param, nullptr) << expected_value;
    EXPECT_EQ(*param, expected_value) << expected_value;
  };

  {
    // ASO disabled.
    base::test::ScopedFeatureList feature_list;
    feature_list.InitAndEnableFeature(omnibox::kDocumentProviderAso);
    test_url_loader_factory_.SetInterceptor(base::BindLambdaForTesting(
        [&](const network::ResourceRequest& request) {
          expect_aso_param("enable_aso_search:true", request);
        }));
    document_suggestions_service_->CreateDocumentSuggestionsRequest(
        u"", false, base::BindOnce(OnDocumentSuggestionsLoaderAvailable),
        base::BindOnce(OnURLLoadComplete));
    base::RunLoop().RunUntilIdle();
  }

  {
    // ASO enabled.
    base::test::ScopedFeatureList feature_list;
    feature_list.InitAndDisableFeature(omnibox::kDocumentProviderAso);
    test_url_loader_factory_.SetInterceptor(base::BindLambdaForTesting(
        [&](const network::ResourceRequest& request) {
          expect_aso_param("enable_aso_search:false", request);
        }));
    document_suggestions_service_->CreateDocumentSuggestionsRequest(
        u"", false, base::BindOnce(OnDocumentSuggestionsLoaderAvailable),
        base::BindOnce(OnURLLoadComplete));
    base::RunLoop().RunUntilIdle();
  }
}

}  // namespace

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gem 'dm-core'
gem 'dm-migrations'

DataMapper.setup(:default, "sqlite://#{File.dirname(__FILE__)}/database.sqlite")

class Tarefa
  include DataMapper::Resource

  property :id, Serial, :key => true
  property :atividade, String, :required => true
  property :concluido, Boolean, :default => false
end

DataMapper.finalize
DataMapper.auto_upgrade!


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PM at rehearsals at the
Beyond Dimensions Bunker.
Along with all the studio work that I'm pretty deep into right now we're spending all the time we can get down rehearsing in the bunker, testing and rearranging songs for a new liveset featuring the heavier material. When it comes to playing live I want to stick with the format of the three-piece band, or powertrio if you will, I want to keep the lineup uncomplicated, keep plenty of room for improvisation. Beside getting the chops and the grooves together, and me playing guitar and singing at the same time, there's also some amount of work involved in rearranging the recorded material to work in a three-piece situation. Then put into the equation that time is a very exclusive thing in all of our lives, which is also one of the reasons I prefer going for as few personnel involved in the live band as is possibly possible (or very close to impossible).
PM and Moey back in
the Burnitude days.
Then some news, some personnel changes, Andreas "Drake" Mallander has stepped away from the PM Saari Band (my live band), so he's out and in is my way back bass compadre Mats "Moey" Öström adding new dimensions to the low end in our new heavier sound. We've rehearsed some and it all fits in very well and we're all very excited and looking forward to bringing it all out live on stage in 2023. Mr Mallander and I will however continue to work together in other parts of my music projects and endeavours, as for instance Järntrean, with whom we'll be out gigging again in 2023 after a two year hiatus.
So there's been some pushbacks in the Saari Camp, but it feels like we're back in the saddle again after a little restart. We also missed the christmas train and the early release deadlines now before the holidays but the next release, the single "The Lockdown Sessions", will be out in mid january 2023. It will be shortly followed by a single featuring two old Inagone songs that I've finished up and mixed, it will however be released as Inagone. Then later in the spring there will be an EP, a "Slight Return"-release, a sort of part two of the "Club For Internal Admiration"-release, but heavier.

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Monkees on "Hollywood Squares".
Well, PETER TORK is really out of the MONKEES. His final appearance with them will be whenever the MONKEES' TV Special is shown. It's a sad turn of events. When it was all over, PETER received a sentimental gift from DAVY, MICKY and MIKE—an old-time watch with the inscription "TO PETER TORK, from the guys down at work." The three MONKEES made their first television appearance since their series on NBC-TV's "Hollywood Squares," the daytime game show, during Christmas week. DAVY made his first solo TV debut since the series on "Laugh-In," as you can see for yourself on page 34 of this issue.
You'll probably be seeing more of DAVY than any of the other MONKEES in the months to come. Why? Because MIKE and MICKY will probably do recording and behind-the-scenes type work while DAVY is eager to try his hand at varied TV appearances, movies and possibly another stage role. Because of his super versatile talents, the offers have been pouring in from producers.
Didyaknowthat SHELLEY FABARES, late of the Donna Reed Show and a couple of Elvis' movies, is divorcing her husband, LOU ADLER. LOU is not moping, for the past several months he's been seen regularly around town with Mod Squad's PEGGY LIPTON. Together they attended the west coast premiere of the American tribal-love rock musical "Hair," along with such celebrities as the SMOTHERS BROTHERS, LIBERACE, JOANNE WORLEY, GOLDIE HAWN, RUTH BUZZI and JUDY CARNE and some of the other Laugh-In stars and a host of movie stars too numerous to list. It was quite a night at the newly-opened Aquarius Theater!
As if appearing topless at their New York club appearance wasn't enough, the TURTLES are slowly, but surely, chalking up some "firsts" in and around the record business. For example, MARK VOLMAN, who believes "without my hair I'd be just another pretty face," has insured his frizzy locks (in the amount of $100,000) against fire, theft or loss due to illness.
Next, in January all five TURTLES began sky diving lessons in San Diego, Calif. Also, JIM PONS and his wife have recently moved to a new home in Hollywood. Their former residence, they claim, was haunted by ghosts. When they left, after several months of putting up with strange noises, broken dishes and bizarre occurances, the landlord admitted they were the only occupants to stay longer than one month.
Eager to put another notch on their victory belts, the TURTLES have challenged the MONKEES to a basketball game which will precede the regular LA Lakers professional basketball game at the LA Sports Arena. The TURTLES have enjoyed an undefeated "season" playing other rock groups in both football and basketball.
BRITISH NEWS: One of Britain's most highly rated and successful groups, TRAFFIC, disbanded in December. The group's original organizer STEVIE WINWOOD said, "We feel that today's scene is moving very much away from permanent groups and more towards recognition for individual musicians." 20-year-old STEVIE will soon begin work on his debut solo LP.
Although the BEATLES had planned to give three charity live concerts in England at Christmastime, they had to shelve those plans until mid-January because of difficulties in bookings. If they do appear in January, PAUL McCARTNEY has promised: "the concerts will be free and we may do the show in a television studio." Meanwhile, RINGO STARR begins work on his second solo film in February, RINGO'S film is called "The Magic Christian" in which he is cast as PETER SELLER'S adopted son.
Do you dig the new double BEATLES' album? One of the cuter songs on the LP "Honey Pie" was written by PAUL even though the names LENNON-MCCARTNEY appear on the label. PAUL says, "My dad's always played fruity old songs like that, and I like them. I would have liked to have been a 1920's writer because I like that top-hat-and-tails thing."
Even though some gossipmongers have stated that ELVIS PRESLEY and his lovely wife PRISCILLA are having marital problems, it's just not true. PRISCILLA with their daughter LISA MARIE flew out from Tennessee to spend Thanksgiving with her husband and stayed at their Bel Air mansion until ELVIS wound up filming on his latest film (number 30) "Chatauqua." Together, they all flew home to Memphis for Christmas. By the way, if you dug ELVIS' TV special in December, he too was so pleased with the ratings he's talking with producer, Steve Binder, about making another TV'er in the Spring.
If you checked out the story in our January issue called "The Tiger Predicts", one of his predictions is almost coming true. The Tiger said DINO would be giving up show business to go to USC. Well, he's not giving up show business completely, but next fall he will be attending the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) on a Tennis scholarship. He'll spend summers and vacations doing movies and will continue to record with DESI and BILLY in his spare time.
Just last month, January, JON PROVOST taped a special for a major television network. It's a Ford special entitled "Sourwood Makes Good Honey." It's the story of a young boy and how he tends to his grandfather at the time of the old man's death. JON is the sole star along with MELVIN DOUGLAS as the grandfather. It is scheduled to air in the early fall; and you can look for JON'S movie "Has Anybody Seen Chris?" to be out soon.
Well, the six-man band, THE ASSOCIATION, has become a seven-man band. Re-joining the happy bunch is GARY ALEXANDER, who now prefers to be called JULES. So remember, when we talk about JULES ALEXANDER, we are talking about the former GARY. Okay? JULES left the group a year or so ago to "do his own thing" and when he'd had enough of that, he realized how much he missed his buddies, their groovy sounds, and life in front of an adoring audience. So, fuzzy-topped JULES is once again an ASSOCIATE and that's a gas!
It was a weird night at the Forum when the DOORS made their first Southland appearance since their successful European tour. Why weird?! Well, JIM MORRISON was in his usual strange mood and he didn't bother to get out of it for the DOORS' show. He sang a couple of the DOORS' hits like "Light My Fire," but even that was a drag because it went on much too long and therefore lost its impact. Like one writer said, "As MORRISON seemed content to wallow in the pleasure of his own talent, the audience became hostile."
JIM actually sat down on the edge of the stage, and merely sat for several minutes without a word. Then he began reciting his own poetry like "I am the Lizard King, I can do anything…" The audience came to hear music, DOOR music that they had heard on record and obviously liked. But they didn't get too much of that, just MORRISON'S egotistical rapping. Finally JIM said to the audience, "We can play music all night, if that's what you want, but you don't really want that, do you? You want something more, something different…" Well, they didn't. Many people walked out long before the "concert" ended and it's my bet they'll never pay as much as $6.50 to see the DOORS act again. In the future it would be wise if the DOORS' concerts were advertised not as "concerts", but as "Recitations by JIM MORRISON." Much more of this and the DOORS' stage days will be numbered.
I wrote last month that MAURICE GIBB was the last of the single BEE GEES, but by the time you read this he may not even have that distinction. In late December LULU and MAURICE announced their engagement on LULU'S TV show in England. They plan to marry some time this year, probably in Scotland, LULU'S home. If you remember, LU and MO dated last year, but LULU broke up with MAURICE when it was printed in the London papers that MAURICE had received a leap year marriage proposal from LU. After several months apart, they began dating again, and obviously they felt stronger than ever before about each other.
While LU was dating DAVY JONES she had told the press that she felt she was too young to marry. In December she said, "When you find someone you love you want to get married. I only said I was too young before because I hadn't found the right person."
Other engagements announced in December were that of CYNTHIA LENNON, JOHN'S ex-wife, who plans to marry a wealthy Italian, ROBERTO BASSANINI, 26. BASSANINI is the son of an Italian hotel owner. Also, NANCY SINATRA announced her engagement after Christmas to JACK HALEY, JR. who produced her Emmy-winning TV special "Movin' With Nancy." They plan to marry as soon as possible and may already have tied the knot by the time you read this. This is NANCY'S second marriage and JACK'S first.
GOLDIE HAWN has just signed for her first serious movie role as an actress. She'll star as WALTER MATTHAU'S mistress in "Cactus Flower." "It's my first big movie role," said GOLDIE, "and it's the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me." She has been in another, "The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band," in which she was a chorus dancer.
At SPANKY'S (of OUR GANG) wedding to MEDICINE CHARLEY in Miami, Florida on December 31st, TINY TIM gave the bride away! The ceremony, with 300 of SPANKY'S friends attending, was actually all in fun since she and CHARLEY were married last August 30th.
When HENRY FONDA narrated the opening festivities of Disneyland's holiday parade, daughter JANE FONDA, and son PETER were on hand . . . look for RYAN O'NEAL and his pretty wife LEIGH-TAYLOR YOUNG in "The Big Bounce," in which they co-star . . . HERB ALPERT bought the two-and-a-half acre house in which CHARLES BOYER once lived which he is demolishing and rebuilding. The ALPERT family plans to move in in about two years . . . BRITT EKLAND, 25, was granted a divorce in January from PETER SELLERS, 43. They have a four-year-old daughter, VICTORIA . . . MIA FARROW is purchasing a lavish estate on Martha's Vinyard, a resort island off the coast of Massachusetts . . . THE BEATLES are house-hunting in Los Angeles. In January, they sent a representative from Apple Corps. to scout for a six or seven-bedroom house in Beverly Hills, and they're willing to pay $250,000. A small sum when you realize that their new album is expected to gross 22 million dollars for Apple Corp. in the United States alone!
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Magazine: Tiger Beat
Author: Ann Moses
Editor: Ann Moses
Publisher: Laufer Publishing Company
Pages: 64, 66–67
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Keyword stuffing (in lingua italiana: ripieno o  imbottitura di parole chiave) è un termine relativo all'ambito web e seo che indica l'utilizzo di tecniche considerate poco corrette al fine di aumentare la propria visibilità sui motori di ricerca. In altre parole: ripetere in un testo la keyword da ottimizzare fino all'esasperazione. Tale "tecnica" è ormai malvista dai principali motori di ricerca.

Termine
Il termine deriva dalle parole keyword, che nel web marketing e nel posizionamento sui motori di ricerca ha assunto il significato di "gruppo di parole su cui è incentrata la pagina web in questione" (Es. "costruire una capanna, costruzione capanna" sono esempi di keyword per una pagina web che tratti della costruzione di capanne) e stuffing, ovvero "imbottitura", "ripieno".

Tecniche di keyword stuffing
Tra le varie tecniche usate nel keyword stuffing vi possiamo riconoscere due filoni nettamente contraddistinti:
fake keyword stuffing
real keyword stuffing

Fake keyword stuffing
Si tratta di una tecnica che prevede la scrittura della pagina web pregna di parole chiave per altri ambiti, non correlati al tema stesso della pagina (per esempio, con meta tag a sfondo sessuale) e contenuti nascosti sempre non attinenti al tema della pagina web che, ricevendo molte visite anche grazie all'indicizzazione su diversi temi nei motori di ricerca, scala molte posizioni nelle SERP.

Real keyword stuffing
È una tecnica meno pericolosa ma sempre deprecata di keyword stuffing, che consiste nel redigere una pagina scrivendo un altissimo numero di volte la stessa frase, lo stesso contenuto per cui vorremmo essere ben indicizzati nelle SERP.

Per non guastare l'aspetto della pagina tante di queste ripetizioni vengono spesso celate ai visitatori "fisici" mediante varie tecniche.

Tecniche per mascherare il keyword stuffing
Per mascherare questi atteggiamenti poco coscienti da parte di avventati (e poco esperti) webmaster vengono utilizzati nella maggioranza dei casi escamotage via CSS che rendono impossibile alla persona fisica la localizzazione di questi "tranelli" per i motori di ricerca.

CSS display
In molti utilizzano posizionare all'interno della pagina web un contenitore che come attributo CSS abbia:

div.mio_contenitore {
 display:none;
 }

non considerando che ormai i motori hanno imparato a non seguire i contenuti non visibili anche agli utenti fisici.

Colori contingenti
Su pagine a sfondo bianco si è soliti mascherare le keyword "di troppo" applicando esclusivamente al loro contenitore lo stesso colore dello sfondo della pagina:

p.keyword {
 background-color:#ffffff;
 }

Tecnica che oggi i vari crawler dei motori di ricerca riescono tranquillamente a scovare.

META tag "furbi"
In molte pagine web fino a molti anni fa era molto facile, analizzando il codice sorgente, ritrovarsi meta tag simili:

<meta name="keywords" content="sesso, orgia, video erotici, " />

perché la pagina risultasse in cima a molte SERP.

Questa tecnica oggi è completamente inutile, in quanto Google ha più volte dichiarato negli ultimi anni, che non presta la minima attenzione al contenuto del meta tag "keyword".

Vantaggi di queste tecniche
Al momento attuale il keyword stuffing è diventata una pratica oltremodo controproducente per il posizionamento e l'ottimizzazione di un sito web. Di fatto è una sovra-ottimizzazione tutt'altro che necessaria, per quanto intuitiva e semplice possa sembrare; alla prova dei fatti non esiste alcuna prova concreta che si tratti di un fattore realmente efficace, comunque da non utilizzare in nessun caso perché ignorato da Google, e frequente causa di penalizzazioni per spam.

Utilizzando una delle tecniche sopra descritte si hanno altissime percentuali di finire nelle blacklist dei motori di ricerca, con conseguente rimozione da tutte le SERP: oramai i motori hanno elaborato tecniche in grado di smascherare molti dei più comuni atteggiamenti poco etici dei webmaster (nella stessa categoria: cloaking, usare pagine di doorway), ed è quindi diventato totalmente inutile utilizzare queste tecniche per aspirare a solidificare la propria presenza sui motori di ricerca più comuni.

Inoltre, connesso a questo argomento, dobbiamo ricordare che keyword density e keyword in generale hanno praticamente perso tutto il peso acquistato a fine anni novanta nel ranking di una pagina web.

Note

Voci correlate
 Spamdexing
 Marketing dei motori di ricerca
 Posizionamento (motori di ricerca)
 PageRank
 Google
 Crawler
 Meta tag

Collegamenti esterni

Tecnologie per il Web

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Q: Moment. String to Date A date comes in a string and I need to convert it to a Date in javascrips, using moment.
myString="24/07/2018-09:13:24"

date = moment(myString, 'DD/MM/YYYY-HH:mm:ss').toDate();

I am doing it as I see in other comments and the documentation of moment, but it tells me that it is invalid.
Someone sees that I am doing wrong
"moment": "^2.18.1"

A: I think the problem comes from -
Can you try this code :
myString="24/07/2018 09:13:24";

var date = moment(myString).format('DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss');

I changed the - for space

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See, I told you this story would be back.
So, what was the delay? Did I get writer's block? Did my computer burn down? Did I just forget about this site altogether?
Nope, nothing that banal. No, at first the delay came from writer's block. No surprise there. From July onwards, however, the reason this site lay fallow was that I'd re-written the entire story — all six remaining scripts — completely in twenty days.
Let's set the Wayback Machine to the Fourth of July weekend, 2013. My family and I headed out to CONvergence, the local SF and Fantasy convention. This was the time of year where we shook off our corporate personas and got in touch with the burning core of nerd joy that drove us throughout the year.
See, I was burned out. Issue Three's script had kicked me in the crotch repeatedly, and this project was stalled. I considered not heading to the convention at all. Maybe if I closed myself off for the long weekend I could just write and break through my damnable block. I was gonna beat this problem, darn it; with that challenge looming, who had time for nerdy frivolity?
"This…this isn't a suggestion, is it?" I asked.
She just shot me a look.
So, off we went. I mean, what did I have to lose? Maybe I'd recharge my batteries. At the very least, I expected to play some games, watch some movies, and get back in touch with the things I loved.
The last thing I expected, though, was for those three days re-awaken my Muse.
Oh, who am I kidding? That convention didn't just wake my Muse up; it poured coffee down her throat, dipped her in an adrenaline wading pool, and zapped her with a cattle prod. Ideas, so long stymied, flowed unbidden. By the end of the long weekend I knew exactly how Issue 3 would flow. Even better, I knew how the rest of the story worked now. Not "kind of," or "I see where it's going;" no, I saw the path clear as day.
Finally — FINALLY — I was ready to proceed.
All it took to move me forward was some good — and more importantly, professional — advice.
More specifically, I attended Lou Anders' "Script Structure for Novelists" seminar. That one hour in a darkened convention room did more to move this project forward than months of my beating my head against a keyboard. It provided context, focus, and direction for Discarded Lives, all in sixty minutes.
Yeah. I think the convention was worth it this year.
I started re-writing Issue 3 on the Sunday I came back from the convention.
Twenty days later, I had it and all seven remaining scripts in the story completed.
Just like that, I had the entire Discarded Lives story laid out in front of me.
Just like that, I saw the path ahead.
Just like that, I realized that I had a lot — a LOT — more work ahead of me.
I didn't mind. I knew where I was going now. Now all I had to do was bring my scripts to life.
So, how did I make such incredible progress?
Well…I think that will have to wait for another article.
Welcome back to Discarded Lives, folks. Buckle up: This ride is just getting started.
Wow! I just discovered your comic today, and having read the above, I think my timing was really quite good. Your writing was what made me keep reading. Your art lacks some of the technical detail I've seen in some other CG comics, but all the flashy art in the world isn't going to save a poorly written story, and believe me, I've seen plenty of those come and go. You will not have that problem.
I'm looking forward to what lies ahead.
Oh, and thank you for your work!
Thanks! I'm glad you're enjoying the writing. Fortunately, I think you'll see a noted improvement in the quality of the 3D art as well. I've honed both my technique and my workflow since Issue 1. The biggest change is that I fully embraced the idea that this is a 2D project. I know that sounds weird, but it really was a revelation. It allowed me to tackle the problems in a completely different way. As a result the artwork — and thus the entire project — has improved.
Fortunately, just as I was finishing Issue 3, I came across a multi-pass rendering solution for DAZ3D. Without getting too technical, it will save me hours of back-end work, and also improve the end result.
Again, thanks for the kind words. It's appreciated.
…and I fibbed. The updated version of Issue 1 is now up on the site. Didn't take as long as expected to update.


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Lucknow Based Product IP Firm Microlit Launches New Brand Identity
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Lucknow, April 6, 2018: MICROLIT, a product IP firm headquartered in Lucknow, unveiled its new brand identity today. The firm manufactures high precision liquid handling instruments for leading biotechnology and pharmaceutical laboratories of the world. As a part of the launch, it revealed its new logo, product range, packaging and tagline, 'Experience Precision', in a move to reinforce its promise of accuracy and reliability in real laboratory environments. The new branding will be reflected across every major touch point including product catalogues, operation manuals, merchandise, collateral and MICROLIT'S official website in an effort to ensure that the company always provides a consistent and standardized brand experience.
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quintessential French luscious dish but chicken is great.
Here it's served with spinach and roasted potatoes.
1. Wash the potatoes, dry them and cut them in half.
about 4-7 minutes. Remove and hold warm.
flattenwith a mallet to a ¼" thickness.
2. Dredge the cutlets in the flour to very lightly coat them. Shake off excess flour and hold them.
immediately if you see that the oil begins to smoke or burn).
5. Arrange the vegetables and the cutlets as shown on warm plates.
skillet heat the butter on medium heat.
rich, rustic food that makes you break into a genuine smile. I'm getting hungry!


Place beets in a sauce pan with enough water to cover. Bring to boil, cover, reduce heat and simmer on low for 20 minutes or until tender. Drain and allow to cool. Trim and peel off skins; cut into discs. Pile arugula onto plate, add cooled beets, sliced apples and drizzle with dressing. Top with a sprinkle of feta cheese, walnuts and freshly cracked pepper.


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Making an extra chicken allows you to serve one tonight, and use the other for sandwiches, soups, and salads.
1. Preheat oven to 450 degrees. On a large rimmed baking sheet, toss the potatoes with 2 tablespoons oil, 1 1/2 teaspoons salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
2. To make the seasoning: in a small bowl, combine thyme leaves with 1/4 teaspoon pepper and 2 teaspoons salt; set aside.
3. Working from neck end of chickens, use your fingers to gently separate skin from flesh, including thigh and leg areas. Distribute thyme mixture under skin of each chicken, dividing evenly; season cavities generously with salt and pepper. Tuck wings under breasts. Using kitchen twine, tie legs together securely on top of chickens. Besides helping them cook evenly and stay moist, this will also help preserve their shape.
4. Nestle chickens, breast sides up, among potatoes; rub chickens with remaining tablespoon oil, and season each with salt and pepper.
5. Roast, tossing potatoes occasionally and brushing chicken with pan juices, until an instant-read thermometer inserted in thickest part of thigh (avoiding bone) registers 165 degrees. about 1 hour.
6. Let chickens rest in a warm spot 10 minutes before serving.
Line a cutting board with wax paper before working with raw poultry. You can toss out the paper when you're done and won't have to disinfect the board.
This is as good as, if not better than, Perfect Roast Chicken. Great flavor!
This is my favorite roast chicken recipe ever and I make it often. The potatoes are so good that they defy description.
The absolute best way to roast your chicken. Perfect every time.


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From A Great, Lost Book About God
Follow my trail of free-association.
I was thinking about my favorite pieces by Richard Cohen, little stories I think of often, that have become touchstones, permanent points of reference in my mind: one mentioned here, and another, Divinity School.
That led me back to one of the things I want to talk about in my spiritual-nomads book, which is how, today, in the light of quantum physics and the friction and even miscegenation of many traditions, we are . . . reimagining God. How outrageous that sounds, from a traditionalist point of view . . . yet how vital it feels, to the natives of now. And it struck me, not for the first time, that a lot of the people who are doing that transgressive thinking -- like Richard himself, like Michael Reynolds, in his own outrageous way -- are Jews. (Or at least half.) Of course. Who else would have the nerve, the intimacy?
That in turn made me think of a lost book I deeply love, a book I actually edited and helped to get published in 1980. It isn't lost to me: I have three copies on my shelves, and I keep coming back to it and fretting about how I can get it to Morgan Freeman for a movie. It's called Coal Mine No. 7 (I know, I seem to have a thing, a fate, with coal mines. It all started at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry), and the author, Robert Louis Nathan (yes, his mama named him after a great storyteller), is, of course, Jewish. It's a prophetic novel: the story of a Jewish "retard," Seth, too simple to learn enough Hebrew for his Bar Mitzvah, who is kindly taken in by a black coal deliveryman in late 1940s Chicago, and who winds up marrying the deliveryman's daughter and moving down to Vergennes, in southern Illinois, where he becomes the only white man to work in the only all-black-run coal mine in the region.
It's a strange, eccentric, downright weird book, written in a strange style, and the black people in it, lovingly and anything but stereotypically portrayed, talk in dialect -- all probably the kiss of death in an age of naturalism and political correctness. It is, I guess, a unique work of magical realism. Because God wants something from Seth, something that is first announced in a movie theater, at this pivotal moment in Seth's larval adolescence:
Seth had been eager for the cowboy film to begin. He had luxuriated in the cartoons of the mighty bunny. The Pathé News' initial trumpeting had only sharpened his relish for the horse opera. Seth rarely paid attention to the Frolic news, for rarely did those abbreviated reels depict events or personages of interest to him.
How the segment dealing with a concentration camp revisited by its past owners had drawn his mind from its perpetual half-slumber is a mystery. But Seth, in an instant, had noted a child's slight skeleton stacked in the bottommost tier of bones. At first he had thought it to be the corpse of a dwarf or a midget. It was only after the news camera had focused beyond Dachau to the beauty queen's roses that Seth's brain could accept the bare roundness for what it had been, a child's skull.
It will be many years before Seth knows that this is when God first touched him, but an ancient, devout neighbor of the coalman's, Billy Niger, who plays "songs of God" on his fiddle, already has his number (offense alert for the dialect):
"Dat's dat white boy for sure . . . Lawd Jesus, I'se shore glad I din' shoot dat fellow [ ... ] Dat's Brother Bob's friend, an' I t'ought he was da K.K.K. come to burn da place down an' plant a fiery cross in my stable. I ain't seen a white man livin' 'round here since da twenties . . . Boys, [talking to his dogs] dat's a holy man up dere on da porch. Look at dem roots! Jesus! Wonder wha' a man wit' roots like dat t'inkin? Probably prayin' to da Lawd dat da locust comes an' destroy us sinners. I can't figure out why mens got dis worl' 'less it's 'cause we musics so nice."
Seth moves to Vergennes, becomes a husband, a father, a coal miner, and an engineer, inheriting the important job of A.C. Baker, who drove the coal train engine and left a shrine deep in the mine wallpapered with cut-outs of Jesus. But it's when he goes down alone into the flooded mine to drain it at risk to his life that Seth becomes a man. And it's when he goes drunk to A.C.'s "cathedral," embittered by his mother-in-law's cancer, that he meets God, and becomes a reluctant prophet.
Read the scene below the fold.
(from Coal Mine No. 7 by Robert Louis Nathan. © 1980 Robert Louis Nathan.)
In his frayed jacket pocket he carries a half-pint of gin. It bumps ringingly on the iron rungs as he climbs down the air passage. He enters Baker's hall of photos and with his battery light searches out the lanterns. He lights them.
"Where are you, Lord? I'm here an' ready for anything," Seth shouts, lifting the glass-sided kerosene torch. "Where the hell are you, Lord? I'm as ready as I'll ever be, but God knows what you want with me."
The room emptied of coal is answerless.
"I'm a little man, Lord, but before I married my woman an' came to Seven I wasn't any kind of man. I'm trying to say I've done okay but what kind of hell world did you engineer? My old tramp engine works better than this stinking world."
"Those terrible things that happened to Marietta worse than any damn soap opera I ever listened to back in Chicago."
The [coal] breast is empty of answers. [ ... ]
Seth shouts at the face, "I'm gonna run away from Vergennes. Go out to California, leave Arley an' the kids an' see Hollywood . . . Remember when I wanted to be a rabbi? What a joke, what a dope I was. Thank God I was never Bar Mitzvahed. What a puke! Hell, any pick-an'-shovel man in Seven's worth twice any rabbi."
Seth takes the spirits from his pocket and unscrews the cap. "Well, here's to you, Lord . . . have a snort, Lord, it'll do you good."
"How the hell could you let all those people be burned up by the Nazis?"
No reply.
"Wonder that anyone pays you any attention anymore."
Seth shouts to the very bottom of his lungs, "You're a damn failure, Lord!"
"I know," answers the Captain of Hosts.
Seth falls to the earth by the base of the pillar he had been leaning against while yelling at the photographs. Pleadingly he calls, "Who's that?"
"I am here."
Seth is terrified and presses his face against the stone floor while with one arm he encircles the column. "What do you want from me?"
"There's millions better, smarter than me, holy men, doctors, go talk to them, Lord!"
God speaks, "You are Seth."
The engineer is no longer inebriated. "Whatever it is, I'm not up to it."
"What man is?" He responds.
Clamped to the earth, eyes shut, Seth asks, "What do you want me for?"
"Will you be my prophet, Mister Engineer?"
Seth refuses to listen to God's request and changes the conversation's track. "Lord, when did you come to this place?"
"Long before the Armistice."
"After we dropped the A-bomb?" asks Seth.
"No, I came here before the poisoned gases."
"Oh, World War One," says Seth.
"Yes, that is the right war."
" . . . Do you like it here, Father? I mean, this is such a small place when you think of heaven."
"A.C. was my friend and the universe is a cold, dreary place."
"Have you been here often with A.C.?"
"We spent quite a few decades here. I used to play pinochle in the 1880s with Bert Evans. Do you play pinochle, Seth?"
"No sir."
"Any of that gin left, Seth?"
"My god, God, you don't drink gin, do you?"
"When I breathe air do I not inhale my own substance?"
"Yes sir."
"When I eat bread do I not devour my own flesh? Am I not the universe, its end, its beginnings? Is gin not a potion of the earth?"
"Here, Lord," Seth says as he holds out the bottle without looking up.
The container is taken. "It is a poor quencher, Seth. You may finish it if you wish."
"Oh no, sir."
"Do you play baseball, Mister Engineer?"
"I didn't think so. Bert Evans was a young white man who threw a wicked curve ball. I caught him after we became friends right in this room." [ ... ]
[God talks about Bert Evans and A.C. Baker and Chief Oqoinqua of the Mound Nations in 1233 B.C., their lives and the precise moment and manner of their deaths.]
"You must have loved Bert Evans a lot, Lord."
"Yes, quite a lot. Bert used to bring a girl down here for intimacy. She died of mumps one springtime. There were other girls then. After we introduced ourselves, he stopped bringing them though I told him he didn't have to."
"What did Bert die of, Father?"
"T.B."
"Couldn't you have saved him? I thought you did that sort of thing all the time."
God responds, "Seth, why don't you get up and come over here?"
Seth raises his head quite slowly to view dimly the form of a middle-sized man seated at a mahogany table placed before the photo-strewn wall. There is an empty chair opposite the Lord. [ ...] On the square table are a burning lantern and a deck of cards. The Lord gently commands, "Come here, Seth."
The engineer crawls to the table and with head low huddles on the chair as God speaks, "Seth, might I have a bit of your tobacco?"
The man fumbles in his jacket for the pouch. With shaking fingers he reaches it across the table. As the tobacco is taken, Seth looks up. "Why Lord, you're a colored man, Lord."
"I'm sorry, does that offend you?""
"No sir, of course not."
"I was Anglo-African for A.C. and I thought . . . would you prefer I appear as a Jew from Eastern Europe? Perhaps your great-great-grandfather on your mother's side?"
[Cameo here by Woody Allen]
Seth comments, "He died in Russia, I guess. I never heard about him."
"Isidore died in Ukmerge, Lithuania, on April thirtieth, 1841, four eleven in the afternoon, from a beating by some drunken men. It was Easter time and the village priest, Father Glotz, had been inflammatory, I fear."
"I never knew."
"That's why your mother's father came to America. His father, Reuben, whom you named your second son Reuben after, insisted. Reuben had a charming -- magnificent, really -- image of me. I wouldn't mind."
"No thank you, Lord. I'm used to colored people an' it doesn''t matter anyway, you know that." [ ... ]
[They discuss another recent death: Samuel Adams, stabbed by the husband of his lover.]
"It was terrible about Sam, wasn't it?"
"Quite so."
"Lord, did he have to die like that?"
"No, awful waste," replies God.
"But Lord, why didn't you do something about it?"
"To breed, Seth, is not the simplicity that humankind believes it to be. Men and women had to be rewarded with storms of delight if they are to create destiny. I must have sand hurricanes of men to fulfill my universe . . . Seth, let's play a hand, cut the cards."
"I don't play pinochle."
"But you play gin rummy."
"Sure. Grandpa and I did all the time . . ."
[after the game]
"I miss grandpa, is he happy in heaven?"
"There is no heaven, Seth."
The engineer stills in his chair, the deck of unshuffled cards inert in his hands. He ventures a numb reply, "But Lord, if you are real there has to be a heaven, doesn't there?""
"No logic to that, Seth. No heaven, no hell, no purgatory, just Earth for men until they learn to sail off into the vacuum seas of my stars. Fellow like your grandpa dies and he sweetens the earth with his decay. Those were contented grubs that ingested grandpa's flesh."
Seth weeps, "Please, Lord, don't."
"The sensibiities of humankind," muses God. "They kill one another without remorse yet deny the gift of the corpses to redeem new life as do my mute worms beneath the leaf mold. If you slay your brother should you not eat him? The cannibals understood."
"Lord, the grubs, the worms, they don't love one another. People love people," the man states.
"That's right, Seth, how silly of me to forget."
"You forget nothing, Father."
"Seth, I've had enough gin rummy this evening, more would be graceless."
"Yes, Lord."
[Seth and God meet again, and play again, but God is losing patience.]
"Seth, pretty soon you'll have to measure up."
"What do you mean?""
"Seth, I am the universe and more. Seven is but a root. I can't pretend to be your grandfather forever."
"Lord, I didn't ask you to pretend anything.""
"Don't you think that your God has more important things to do than play cards in Number Seven?"
"Lord, you promised me you wouldn't push me."
"You must decide soon, Seth."
"Decide what?"
"If you will be my prophet."
"What would I have to do, Lord?"
"Take my Word to the furthest water veins of Earth."
"I've never met you before, have I, Lord?"
"Yes, Seth, we have met before."
"Where?"
"Must you ask?"
"I know," submits Seth.
"Tell me your truth," commands God.
"When I was in the men's room at the Frolic Theatre, I was finished wee-weeing and I started to cry because of the newsreel . . . the pictures of the little children's bones . . . "
"Yes . . . "
Seth places his cards to table and weeps holding his face in his hands. "I prayed that God would come and never let children be killed by war or gas chambers again. I prayed it many times. Did you hear me, Lord?"
"I heard."
"But what can I do?"
"Serve me."
"I've got to be the manager of Seven. We'll show a profit next quarter, our first three months since we became a cooperative. Banker Newton said he never expected us niggers to do as well as we have. Roosevelt has done better as boss of the third level than Sam, and Laddy is an okay engineer."
"Be my prophet, Seth."
It takes pleading and sneering from tormented ghosts of World Wars I and II, but Seth ultimately capitulates. The Lord promises, "I will give you the words."
In a scene that I see as a Thomas Hart Benton painting, Seth and his modest little following, black and white, start out across the country, pitching their tents in the rolling green hills of the midcentury Midwest. Seth has been told that "multitudes" will join them, tens of thousands, but for now it's mostly his family, the miners from Seven, and a handful of people who have joined them along the way. The engineer is worried about whether they've dug enough latrines and whether the microphone will work, because he's about to speak to his "grandest crowd" yet, about a thousand people in Moline. As he steps up to the microphone, one moment he's smiling and thinking of his children, the next moment these words come out of him:
"I am Henri and I died on the battlefield of Verdun in 1917 and I am Karl who shot Henri and then I was killed by an artillery shell." Incredulous gasps at the queerness of Seth, "And I am the dead spirit of each child bombed into fragmented flesh at Nankin, at Amsterdam, at Dresden, at Pyongyang; their names are my soul.
"I am each pregnant woman who became burnt-out eye sockets in Ethiopia, Manchuria, Estonia. I am every infant who starves to death. I am every father who is executed for stealing seed to grow grain to feed his brood. I am every mother who sells her flesh to feed her empty-handed family.
"I am your victim. You and I are twentieth-century man."
(And twenty-first century man, too, it seems.)
"I stand here to end the marauder in man."
AbeBooks has 24 copies of Coal Mine No. 7, for as little as a dollar plus $3.50 shipping.
Posted by amba on July 18, 2006 at 10:14 PM | Permalink
Shades of Mark Twain and foreshadowings of Blaugustine. It also made me think of James Howard Kunstler's 1988 novel *An Embarrassment of Riches* and my friend Steve Stern's stories and novels about Jews in long-ago Memphis. And Charles Johnson's fiction, of course. I think you'd like all of those.
I hope Seth got through all right. We could use more like him. And thanks for the links, as always.
Posted by: Richard Lawrence Cohen | July 19, 2006 at 05:15 PM
"...a child's slight skeleton stacked in the bottommost tier of bones. At first he had thought it to be the corpse of a dwarf or a midget. It was only after the news camera had focused beyond Dachau to the beauty queen's roses that Seth's brain could accept the bare roundness for what it had been, a child's skull."
Powerful stuff, Amba... prose worthy of but few -- an R.L. Stevenson, an R. L. Cohen.
Thanks indeed.
Posted by: meade | July 19, 2006 at 05:36 PM
I am currently reading "Coal Mine No. 7" and finding it tough going. Found your notes and see that you appreciate the book. . . perhaps I will persevere. Esta
Posted by: Esta | October 12, 2007 at 07:53 PM
Esta --
Persevere if you can. It's hard to get used to the dialect, for one thing, and the eccentric quirkiness of the author's way of writing, for another. But it's great, in my opinion. Not for everyone, but if you can connect with it, great.
Posted by: amba | October 12, 2007 at 08:14 PM
Wow ... My Dad wrote Coal Mine No. 7. It's kind of wonderful to see it described in such a warm way.
And I remember you (and your cats) :)
- h.
Posted by: hope anne nathan | July 17, 2008 at 05:27 PM


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Stars For Our Troops
Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of V-J Day
V-J Day, short for "Victory Over Japan" Day, is the day that Japan surrendered, effectively ending World War II. The term is used interchangeably for August 14-15, 1945, on which Japan ceased fighting and the White House announced their surrender, and September 2, when Japan's formal surrender was made in Tokyo Bay onboard the U.S.S. Missouri.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of V-J Day, a monumental day in American history that's definitely worth celebrating.
Celebrating V-J Day in 1945
The news of Japan's surrender was announced in a press conference at the White House on August 14, 1945. According to a speech made by President Harry S. Truman, "This is the day we have been waiting for since Pearl Harbor. This is the day when Fascism finally dies, as we always knew it would."
Following the same naming convention used for May 8, 1945 – the date on which Nazi Germany officially surrendered and was dubbed "Victory Over Europe" or V-E Day – Americans declared August 14-15 "Victory Over Japan" Day.
Reflecting the overwhelming sense of relief and joy felt by citizens of the Allied nations, V-J Day celebrations broke out around the United States and the world, many of which were caught on film. The most iconic photo, of course, is the one that appeared in Life magazine. Taken by photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt, the photo features a uniformed sailor and nurse embraced in a kiss in the middle of a exuberant crowd gathered in New York City's Time Square.
V-J Day Celebrations through the Years
As our relations with Japan improved, many V-J Day celebrations fell out of favor. They were thought to be offensive to one of our closest allies, as well as to Japanese Americans living in our country. In fact, President Bill Clinton referred to V-J Day instead as the "End of the Pacific War" during the 50th Anniversary in 1995. It was a controversial decision that drew marked criticism from those who felt the name change disrespected U.S. veterans who, as prisoners of war, had suffered greatly at the hands of Japanese forces.
In celebration of the 75th Anniversary of the End of World War II, the WWII Memorial will hold a V-J Day 75th Anniversary Commemoration in Washington DC. The National WWII Museum in New Orleans is also recognizing these historic dates, as well as the service members and home front workers who helped preserve our freedom and democracy, with a series of digital programs. The Museum will reflect on the legacy and meaning of the end of World War II through articles, highlighted artifacts, a podcast series, and video content featuring scholars, historians, curators and oral histories from the Museum's collection.
Americans can celebrate the 75th Anniversary of V-J Day at home, as well. In addition to flying an American Flag, families of WWII veterans may include POW/MIA Flags and other Military Flags as part of their anniversary display, or place WWII Grave Markers at their loved ones grave site. A World War II Commemorative Flag, or several WWII Stick Flags, is another thoughtful way to pay tribute to the Greatest Generation – perfect for celebrating the 75th anniversary of V-J Day and the end of World War II.
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The game of bingo has been played for almost a century. But now, technology is changing the way people play it.
by Tom Foxwell 22nd December 2022
A game that has been played for lots of years and is still played today, with a history dating back more than 500 years is bingo. As the game evolved over time, millions of players now recognise bingo as an entertaining game. Bingo's origins in the British Isles may be traced all the way back to the 18th century, when it may have arrived via France where it was known as Le Lotto, after being brought from Italy.
Bingo has long been connected to neighbourhood bingo parlours, where locals congregate to try their luck at a game and, more significantly, to socialise with friends and neighbours. Since the 1500s, bingo has been played, and despite its age, its worldwide appeal continues to astound people. It is one of the few games that have endured and aged incredibly well compared to many other titles available.
How technology has helped transform bingo
The game of bingo has been played for centuries. The game has no complicated rules. The numbers on the players' virtual tickets or cards must be daubed or crossed out when they show on the display or are spoken aloud by the caller. The winner is the first person to successfully complete a particular pattern. The fundamental idea of the game hasn't changed much throughout the course of the year, although technological advancements have caused a few alterations.
Possible to play bingo online
The possibility to play bingo games online against real-world opponents anywhere in the world is the biggest revolution that the most recent technological advancements have brought about. On numerous websites and applications, you can play with another player and you can also play with the AI while relaxing at home or travelling to work. As a result, it is considerably easier to access and fits into your schedule. You do not have to go somewhere to play a game. Reliable online platforms have also created a vast array of options for bingo variations and gameplay. You are now able to Play Bingo online at Unibet, using the available bonuses and incentives such as Bingo vouchers and free casino spins.
Due to the availability of mobile bingo games, players may now take advantage of games on their tablets and smartphones, which is a huge development. For instance, on your mobile devices, a number of programs and apps can be installed. Therefore, regardless of where you are, you can start a match. There are always opponents online waiting to join you in a game; naturally, you can make better use of your spare few minutes.
Bingo has also been touched recently by a number of social media networking services. On these sites, players can interact with one another and join groups where they can talk about bingo tactics. As a result, there is a sizable bingo player community on social media. They can aid in your rule-learning and professional development. With the advent of the digital era and the advancement in technology, there are now more efficient ways to play Bingo online.
Playing bingo with virtual reality
It is hardly surprising that VR technology, often known as virtual reality, is set to have an impact on the bingo gaming business given the pace at which it is developing. Because there are certain VR bingo games available to players, the shift has already begun. Players can fully immerse themselves in these games' genuine experiences. Furthermore, it offers a realistic gaming environment that makes players not miss being in a bingo hall in person.
Playing bingo with blockchain
The world of online bingo has already seen some impact from blockchain technology, but there will be a lot more dramatic changes to come. But as far as gaming is concerned, blockchain technology is only getting started. With the help of this technology, gamers should be able to enjoy more secure and private gaming environments that are fair and transparent.
The future of online bingo games seems promising, and new developments are on the way. The shift has just begun, and it's likely that the tendency will continue to rise.
Virtual reality and other technology are being incorporated into the games to provide gamers with a unique and lifelike experience. It enables gamers to fully immerse themselves without missing out on player-to-player interaction. It is also significantly more fun because of the social aspects.
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*Coughs* *Straightens clothes* *Calms down* Now back to nail polish.
Fashion Forward is a dark purple with blue shimmer. This homie is definitely a blurple, but it's slightly more purple than the pics.
Two coats, no topcoat. Good formula, good application, no issues.
Edit: Generally, I would change the picture of the moment along with this post, but that fox is just too cute. I have to leave it up for a little bit longer.
*Nods* I just wish I could have done a better job at capturing the true colour.
Yay! I'm glad Canada won for hockey, it just wouldn't have been right if they hadn't!
Agreed. I think if we hadn't won, people all over Canada would have considered the Olympics all sorts of fail despite what all the athletes in the other sports accomplished.
Very nice color. And I don't blame you for leaving that fox up extra long - he's just so...pleasant!
Mmmm that looks awesome! It reminds me of blueberry pie!
origami: I absolutely love that little fox.
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First Afghans Land in US as Massive Evacuation Effort Continues
August 22, 2021 ~ By Zachary Stieber ~
Afghan evacuees landed in the United States for the first time since the Taliban took over their home country, U.S. officials said Saturday.
Three flights touched down at Dulles International Airport in Washington, Army Maj. Gen. Hank Taylor told reporters at the Pentagon.
"There are now Afghans, in just one week after beginning this operation, that have left Afghanistan and will be transitioned to Fort Bliss today," he said.
Many of the Afghans have been granted Special Immigrant Visas under section 602(b) of the Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009, largely because of the assistance they or family members rendered to U.S. troops following the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Some 34,500 such visas have been allocated since December 2014, and some interpreters who received them landed at Fort Lee in Virginia last month.
Other Afghan evacuees are getting P-2 visas.
The new groups of evacuees were slated to be taken to Fort Bliss in Texas. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin approved that fort and two others, Fort McCoy in Wisconsin and Fort Lee, to temporarily house the special visa applicants, their families, and other Afghans at risk.
The evacuees, who did not need to test negative for COVID-19, were vetted by intelligence, law enforcement, and counterterrorism professionals, according to Taylor.
The government experts "are surging resources to evaluate all of these evacuees to ensure protection of the homeland," he said.
Space for up to 22,000 evacuees was cleared, military officials have said. That number could ultimately end up higher. President Joe Biden this week said it could be as high as 65,000.
The United States is flying Afghans, Americans, and others from the Hamid Karzai International Airport to Germany and elsewhere before the flights continue on to America, following the recent Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
Some 17,000 since Aug. 14. Approximately 2,500 were Americans, Major Gen. Hank Taylor, deputy director of the Joint Staff for Regional Operations, told reporters.
Despite expressing hope that the number of people flown per day could soon reach 9,000, though, the pace of evacuations has slowed as U.S. officials try to process the streams of people who want out and Americans trying to go home while keeping the airport secure.
In the past 24 hours, just 3,800 people were flown out on six U.S. military flights and 32 charter flights. That's down nearly 2,000 from a recent 24-hour period, and likely stems from an hours-long shutdown of flights that U.S. officials described as a pause to process special visa applicants.
Taliban fighters control the area outside the airport. They've been checking people's documents at various checkpoints. President Joe Biden said Friday that people with U.S. passports are being let through, though some Americans have said they were blocked by militants and there are reports of terrorists beating Americans in Kabul.
"We don't believe it's a very large number," Kirby said Saturday.
Governors across the nation have said they would welcome Afghan evacuees to their states.
"We are eager to continue that practice and assist with the resettlement of individuals and families fleeing Afghanistan, especially those who valiantly helped U.S. troops, diplomats, journalists, and other civilians over the past 20 years," Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, a Republican, said in a recent statement.
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#1,461. Wanderlust (2006)
Directed By: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Starring: Allison Anders, Jeanine Basinger, Robert Benton
Tag line: "On the Road with American Road Movies"
Trivia: This documentary was produced for IFC, the Independent Film Channel
Produced in 2006 for the Independent Film Channel, Wanderlust is yet another of those documentaries that I love, a cinema-centric motion picture that focuses its attention on a specific aspect of film. In the case of Wanderlust, the topic is the American road movie.
From as far back as the 1930s, Hollywood has had a love affair with the vast expanse of the American landscape as seen from the country's roads and highways. In movies like Frank Capra's It Happened One Night and Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels, characters hit the open road, sometimes with hilarious results. But it wasn't all fun and games; as John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath showed us, some people had no alternative but to drive, hoping to reach paradise just over the next horizon, yet finding only more heartache, more lost souls seeking the same relief. In the '40s and '50s, film noir classics such as Detour and Gun Crazy cast a shadow over the American road movie, giving us characters that, instead of searching for something, were on the run, trying to evade both the law and their own turbulent pasts. Then, in the late '60s, a revolution took hold of the American film industry, forcing the old guard (the studio system) from its comfortable perch and turning out pictures aimed at a younger audience. Yet even here, the road played an integral part, especially in two of the era's seminal works: Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider. Through the '70s (Two-Lane Blacktop, Badlands, Smokey and the Bandit), '80s (The Cannonball Run, Paris Texas, Something Wild) and '90s (Thelma and Louise, Natural Born Killers, The Straight Story), movies continued to evolve, reflecting the values of each new generation, and through it all, the American road remained as vital as ever.
While its presentation of the above material is definitely familiar (talking head interviews, film clips, etc), the topic explored gives Wanderlust an almost epic feel, taking us from one end of this country to the other as it examines the cinema's fascination with cars and driving, whether feeding a desire for speed (a key component in practically every movie directed by Hal Needham) or a quest to find comfort, both at home (Planes, Trains and Automobiles) and someplace new (Spike Lee's underrated 1996 film Get on the Bus centers on a group of guys traveling to the Million Man March in Washington D.C.). In addition, the filmmakers include several excerpts lifted from the works of such authors as Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs, read by the likes of Matt Dillon, Gary Sinese, and Lily Taylor. Aside from linking the documentary's segments together, these brief bits of narration also give the movie a mystical quality, as if the road was as much a religion to some as it was a route for transportation.
Even if you've already seen most of the movies that Wanderlust covers, you haven't experienced them the way they're presented here, and odds are, the next time you sit down to watch them, you'll see these films in an entirely different light.
#1,446. Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988)
#1,447. Knights of Badassdom (2013)
#1,448. That's Entertainment! III (1994)
#1,449. An American in Paris (1951)
#1,450. Nightmare Sisters (1988)
#1,451. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
#1,452. Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
#1,453. The Last Stand (2013)
#1,454. Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
#1,455. Seems Like Old Times (1980)
#1,456. Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
#1,457. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)
#1,458. For Your Eyes Only (1981)
#1,459. The Last Farm (2004)
#1,460. The Apple Dumpling Gang (1975)
#1,462. Dumbo (1941)
#1,463. The World's End (2013)
#1,464. Geri's Game (1997)
#1,465. Pennies from Heaven (1981)
#1,466. Wolf Creek (2005)
#1,467. Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
#1,468. Cold Turkey (1971)
#1,469. Slime City (1988)
#1,470. Heart of Glass (1976)
#1,471. The Lost Patrol (1934)
#1,472. Ninja Assassin (2009)
#1,473. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
#1,474. The Amazing Transparent Man (1960)
#1,475. Crawl or Die (2014)
#1,476. The Specials (2000)


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I headed on a road trip with some old friends to a beach area close to Bombay recently and as always I was on DJ duties for most parts of the trip. It was a lot of unravelling excitement for sure but when I got back I just wanted to sit back pour a drink and enjoy the cold seclusion that comes with the winter season when you're on your own and looking to build a career from scratch. Music has been it for me and after a long time struggling with what to make of life, I'm taking a leap into the unknown and it's as scary as it is exciting. That being said I got back to making a couple of playlists for the winter season this year, as is the case with all the years since I started my YouTube channel BOMBEATS in 2015.
I hope the tunes make you enjoy your winter break and relax. The first one is a bit heavy but the second one is mellow. At least music makes the soundtrack to those moments of life as it drifts by. I've got so much on my mind these days but the good old music helps me wind down. I hope it relaxes you too.
Sit by the fire, pour a drink and..


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2007 a year of weather records in U.S.
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Update: Two people shot in South Lansing
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UPDATE (10:11 a.m.) –
Lansing Police responded to a possible shooting at approximately 1:51 a.m. this morning, according to the Lansing Police Department.
Police were dispatched to the 2200 block of S. Cedar St. and arrived to find a 27-year-old male in the parking lot of a business with what seemed to be a gun-shot wound on his leg.
Officers helped the injured man until Lansing Fire Medics arrived and took over his care.
During this time, officers were informed a male had arrived at a local hospital with a gun shot wound.
The officer on scene at the investigation site determined the 27-year-old man with a gun show wound in the parking lot and the person with the gun shot wound in the hospital were a part of the same incident that took place on the 2200 block of S. Cedar St.
Initial investigation has determined the following: two separate groups of people were in a verbal argument in the parking lot business of the 2200 block of S. Cedar St.
The verbal argument turned physical between two people that resulted in two people being shot.
Both people who were shot have non-life threatening injuries, according to Lansing Police Department spokesman, Robert Merritt.
Currently, no one has been arrested.
Lansing Police Officers and detectives have identified the people involved in this incident.
Merritt said there is no ongoing threat to the public with regard to this case.
Editorial Note: a previous update for this article stated that the police situation was happening at the Fleetwood Diner. The shooting occurred near the diner.
UPDATE (4:40am) – 6 News have confirmed two people have been shot but both have non-life threatening injuries
Lansing Police are currently investigating, speaking to all parties involved.
It is an ongoing investigation.
We will stay on top of this story for you. Stay with 6 News.
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) – 6 News is working to get more details about a police situation happening at the Fleetwood Diner on S. Cedar St.
We're told several police cars are parked outside and the restaurant is taped off.
We've put in several calls to local law enforcement and will update you as more information becomes available.
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According to new court documents Riley Williams instructed a man to put on gloves before taking a computer inside Nancy Pelosi's office.
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The announcement Wednesday morning was part of a flurry of clemency action in the final hours of Trump's White House term.


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The Ultra Beasts are a classification for a collection of Legendary Pokémon that come from another dimension, and the Aether Foundation want to use one Ultra Beast, Cosmog, to create wormholes to harness the power of Ultra Beasts. Through the game, you will encounter and capture these mysterious Pokémon and when you encounter them, they start with a stat boost due to energy from the Ultra Wormhole.
After this encounter, you then see UB-01 again when Lusamine forces Cosmog to create an Ultra Wormhole. This causes Ultra Wormholes to open up across the Alola Region, notably seen with Buzzwole/Pheromosa appearing and facing off against Tapu Koko. After that, you'll see a group of Nihilego in Ultra Space, where one temporarily merges with Lusamine.
After defeating the league and becoming the first Alola Region champion, you will receive an Enigmatic Card from a mysterious man outside your house requesting to go to the motel in Route 8. Follow the instructions and you will meet Looker and his boss, Anabel. They will request your help to hunt down the Ultra Beasts, as many have managed to get through to the Alola Region and are causing havoc.
First, Anabel will challenge you to a battle. After defeating her, she will suggest going to the Aether Foundation to speak with Wicke. Wicke will give you the prototypes of special Beast Balls. These special PokéBalls have a high capture chance when used on the Ultra Beasts, but have a very low capture rate when not used on Ultra Beasts.
Return to Route 8 and Looker will burst into the motel saying that UB-01, the Pokémon Nihilego, has been spotted in Wela Volcano and Diglett's Tunnel. They request for you to go hunt it down and capture it. When you get there, it can be found in the grass/cave just randomly. You'll know it's in the area as the music shall change.
When the battle begins, Nihilego will be absorbed by an aura which boosts its Special Defense by two stages as standard. It is Level 55 and Rock/Poison-type.
When the battle begins, Buzzwole will be absorbed by an aura which boosts its Defense by two stages as standard. They are Level 65 and Bug/Fighting-type.
After capturing Buzzwole/Pheromosa, when reporting to Anabel, Looker will come in and say there has been another sighting in Akala Island so they suggest regrouping in Route 8. When there, you meet up with the final Trial Captain, Mina, who informs Looker that she has seen UB-03, otherwise known as Xurkitree. Before she tells you where it is, she challenges you to a battle. Defeat her and she will inform you that Xurkitree has been seen in Memorial Hill and Lush Jungle , and that there are two of them. It's your task to capture them all.
When the battle begins, Xurkitree will be absorbed by an aura which boosts its Special Attack by two stages as standard. It is Level 65 and Electric-type.
When the battle begins, Kartana will be absorbed by an aura which boosts its Attack by two stages as standard. They are Level 60 and Level 65 and Grass/Steel and Steel/Flying-type respectively.
When the battle begins, Guzzlord will be absorbed by an aura which boosts its Attack by two stages as standard. It is Level 70 and Dark/Dragon-type respectively.
Return to the restaurant and Looker & Anabel will congratulate you on a job well done and suggest reporting to Wicke about having contained all the Ultra Beasts.
When you go there, Looker bursts in and informs you of a mysterious black creatured zzipping across the sky of Alola. He insists it's an Ultra Beast but Anabel says there's no word of more Ultra Beasts. They say about how it must be Looker being tired. Anabel leaves to meet Nanu and Looker goes to the motel on Melemele Island.