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Well, here's our last post in the difficult year known as 2021. So, my plan is to go back to the happy past with a fun Beany & Cecil cartoon!
The gang's out exploring the old south in their converted Leakin' Lena wagon pulled by Cecil and his little pony pal...
Cap'n reads an article in the newspaper which says that $100,000 is being offered to anyone that brings Davey Cricket to Hollywood to star in a slapstick western!!
On a map, he then points to the place they're going to in Tennessee, Davey Cricket's Thicket.
And of course DJ reads the same article. He's a talent agent for his movie company, Citrus Pictures. You can read the rest of the joke there on his phone booth.
DJ speeds away to Tennessee in his company airplane, that's all the budget would allow for.
At Davey's place, the little cricket is beating the crap out of all the critters there that want to take him on. Davey wins every scuffle.
DJ jumps out of his plane and falls into Davey's fireplace, trying to get to the little guy ahead of any other agents that may pop in.
DJ wants Davey to sign his CONtract and tells him about all the things he can afford as a star in Hollywood.
Like owning lots of homes and land, cars and a butler to top it off.
But, Davey's not having any of it...
Davey has DJ act out a part with him, then he attacks!!
DJ tries to get away but Davey's hot on his trail, riding a bear skin.
Here's how it ends for DJ, stuck in a wooden wheel on his way to oblivion!
Then Beany and the gang show up and ask Davey to sigh their contract to star in a movie. Davey says no way to the boys...
But Cecil has a little surprise to show him!
It's Leading Lady! Davey can't resist and signs the contract, then they all head back to Hollywood for another adventure... So, like, let's all hold our breath and dive into 2022, Eegah!! will be here tomorrow with our first post of the new year!
Tonight's Wholesome, Wholehearted, and Whimsical Wednesday presentation is what comes after W for a change, "The X Files."
This was the third episode of "The X Files," and was titled "Squeeze." The truth might be out there, but these days, it sure doesn't feel like we're getting any closer to finding it!
"Squeeze" is very similar in scope to films like "The Night Strangler" and "The Night Stalker."
There is a little deviation in the fact that this killer comes out every thirty years instead of every twenty years, and instead of blood, he's in need of livers, and all of the victims are found with theirs forcefully removed!
Just in case you don't already know, this is gorgeous Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully.
Her partner of course, is David Duchovny as Fox Mulder. Clever like a fox, or crazy like a fox? This Fox is kind of a combination of both! By my count, David has either played or done the voice for himself, or Agent Mulder, in at least six roles not related to "The X Files."
Trapped like the rat that he is, Agent Scully finally gets the killer in her sights!
Now it's just the matter of what they are going to do with him.
The killer is named Eugene Victor Tooms and is played by Doug Hutchison. About seven months later, Tooms will reappear in episode 21 after he gets paroled from prison.
Among many other odd roles, Doug was Golum in "Batman And Robin."
Doug was also the front man in a band called "The Yuh-uh-uh-uhs," who did this mondo-bizarro song called "Vampire Chickens."
Now it just doesn't get much better than that, and yet somehow, incredulously, that video has less that 700 views!
Believe it or not, I actually missed "The X Files" when it was on TV because I was busy trading cassette tapes at the time, and it's pretty cool to have a great show like this to still be able to watch, and catch up on, because it's just as good as it was back then!
With Mulder and Scully's assistance, the Police finally concur that there is definitely something weird about Tooms, and it's more than just being a killer, but stupidly, they still let him go!
This guy looks ripe, and is all set to be the next dish on the menu!
In the year 2022, get ready to see Gillian in the role of Eleanor Roosevelt in a TV series called "The First Lady." I think she is probably going to nail it!
This is the place where Tooms was hiding out thirty years earlier!
And it's the same place they will find him in the current day!
I know from first hand experience that it's really helpful to have flashlights when you're shooting a scene in a super low light situation!
Tooms haunts ventilation systems in buildings, and that is how he was able to get in and out of so many places without being detected!
We've still got a couple more days until this crappy year is over! I think I'll end it on a positive note, and binge out on "The X Files." Thanx as always to my Editor-In-Chief in Germany for handing this cub reporter this assignment! Hopefully we'll see you again next year!
Here's a good way to end this messed up year, with who else, Those Three Stooges! As an added feature, this one goes out to Mr. KD, of which I'm sure he'll elaborate on later in the comments section, betcha!
Boy oh boy, looks like the boys really know how to hook up with the best lawyers!
Emil Sitka is their attorney, he lets the Stooges know they need to serve subpoenas to another lawyer, a Mr. Icabod Slipp...
Slipp has slipped into a closet when the boys come to his office. He hears them say that they don't know what the guy looks like, and so he pretends to be someone looking for Slipp, there to get their money back from that crook, and accuses them of being Slipp!
And there to rough him up! One by one he dismantles the Stooges and slips out the door after tearing up their subpoenas...
After the boys recover, they realize that Slipp was the guy that beat them up.
They also find a note that shows he's leaving on a train, trying to escape with their inheritance! So...
The boys board the train, thinking Slipp may be wearing a disguise. Let's take a look!
Here's Jerry in a cameo as a sleeping Curly. Was this the only time the three brothers appeared together on the screen?
OOPS!.. Not Slipp!
The conductor is after the boys because they don't have tickets, so, they hide in box in the transport car. When will they ever learn to read?!
And of course, they let the lion out.
You can imagine how that goes over!
So, the boys find Slipp, who's ready to get off the train with all their money.
After giving the boys the slip yet again, he hides in the cargo room.
It looks like it's curtains for the Stooges, until...
Moe tosses away the hammer he's holding, and it knocks the Hell out of Slipp!
The boys recover their inheritance, oh boy!!
And they celebrate in a classic Stooge manner, breaking eggs on Shemp's noggin!


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March 22, 2016, 11:20:54 PM #870
Quote from: doubledragoncc on March 22, 2016, 11:06:06 PM
The pull down menu for choosing riders that Piboso has is good for swapping to other riders but a bit slow. You need to be able to do as in Maxhud and have what you need in front of you for the race. Basically, the replay page needs a new design to utilize space better and be set up for this kind of thing. I am sure if the right person asked P he would be willing to think about it.
The commentator should also have a large screen. I use an ASUS laptop with a 17in screen but push out HDMI full HD to a 40in flatscreen. I find it so much better for editing and not just playing, its the kind of setup needed to run the streaming, plus a good internet connection lol.
Max, myself and a few other guys had a good discussion about this very subject with Piboso quite a while ago and he seemed well enthused about implementing it at the time, and I hope he will implement it in a future update at some stage. But it would be great if for now Max could find a way to achieve at least the minimum of what we'd really need to do good live stream events with plugin features that would help a commentator do his job.
One of the biggest drawbacks Furious had when he tried Live-Stream commentary was that it was impossible to know where the action was and also needed a simpler or quicker way to switch to rider cameras to see that action.
I suppose for a bare minimum requirement, a plugin to just have the dynamic map that Max already has in his MAXhud showing on the live replay screen would allow a commentator to see where the action was and then he could select a camera from the drop down rider camera menu. But that would be a bare minimum needed I think? But it would also be great to have the TV Style dynamic rider list with the rider time diffs too. I think that would work quite well.... What do you think DD?
Hawk.
"One of the biggest drawbacks Furious had when he tried Live-Stream commentary was that it was impossible to know where the action was and also needed a simpler or quicker way to switch to rider cameras to see that action."
That is SO important and what makes a stream come alive. It is the biggest problem I have had, NO action on my own lol.
I think it will be important to know which system we would stream on as they all have there good and bad points and it will be important to know what is needed for each system of live streaming.
I will experiment a bit with youtube and Xsplit to see, also twitch is good. My friend live streams all the time with Star citizen and for long times too. I will ask him for a bit of advice.
All in all it looks like we might be getting the ball rolling.
Great work chaps
March 23, 2016, 12:00:51 AM #872
Quote from: Hawk on March 22, 2016, 11:05:44 PM
Quote from: HornetMaX on March 22, 2016, 10:45:39 PM
Ideally we need to be able to use a map like what you have now which shows the riders and their positions on track,
That should be doable.
but with the additional feature of the commentator being able to click on a rider widget on that map which will switch the live view to a camera that follows that rider.
That's not doable: as I said, the plugin have no control on which camera is currently selected.
That with the TV style list of riders and times which change position accordingly when a rider is passed - All this on the live-replay screen.
Are you sure that's not doable Max?
Yes I am. Once again, right now a plugin can't switch to another camera. Are you gonna ask me another time if I'm sure ? In case, the answer is (again), yes, I'm sure
I can (eventually) provide the map and the classification, but when you want to chnage camera, you'll have to do it manually.
If P made it so there was a rider list that was permanently open, it would be simple to actually change to a rider, or if there was a live timing and place list like on MotoGP and F1 where you see who is where and when they switch position you could just click on the rider you wish to view. I shite at writing and expressing this stuff sorry guys lol. This is where Max's map and rider placement can be the visual and P can give us the buttons to do it???
I think I need to do a graphic to show what I mean or you guys will be rolling on the floor laughing at my dumb words lol.
Quote from: HornetMaX on March 23, 2016, 12:00:51 AM
It's okay Max, I was just double checking to make sure you had not overlooked an alternative way of doing it, or as I stated, that maybe it could be one of those mysterious plugin commands that Piboso will suddenly reveal that we didn't know about. I'll almost guarantee that Piboso will have a plugin command to do that with the cameras otherwise the select rider camera menu wouldn't be there. How's about it Piboso..... Is it possible with a plugin command that we don't know about yet?
But yeah Max... Even if we have to select the rider camera manually, if you could create a plugin for all the other suggested features that would be FANTASTIC! It would really help us get Live-Streaming off the ground for GPB!
March 23, 2016, 12:31:25 AM #875 Last Edit: March 23, 2016, 12:33:45 AM by Hawk
Quote from: doubledragoncc on March 23, 2016, 12:13:09 AM
Yeah I know what you mean DD, but if the Plugin SDK won't allow Max to develop exactly what we want then we'll have to make compromises to get the Live Stream ball rolling, because the trouble with anything we'd need developed from Piboso's side, no disrespect to Piboso, but we could be waiting months or even years before he decides it's time to implement such a feature.
If Max can do as much as the plugin SDK will allow him to do just to get the ball rolling with Live-Stream then that would be a great start for sure. I'm convinced live-streaming events will greatly increase GPB's exposure, attraction and therefore sales.
As far as Piboso knowing what we need for Live-Streaming, he already knows because as I stated we had a good discussion about this very subject with Piboso quite a while ago, and all and much more features we've covered here were discussed back then, so Piboso does know what we want for this already.
"no disrespect to Piboso, but we could be waiting months or even years before he decides it's time to implement such a feature."
ROFLMBO....................I you think I DONT know THAT ROFLMBO......................................OUCH
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LAUGHING......................................ME BALLS HURT!!!!!!
Sorry I was being diplomatic and did not wish to say that. I fully understand dude. I wont say more. Max is our best bet and we need to butter him up as they say lol. The biggest problem is doing anything and not setting off a core crash bomb after it seems online racing has had fewer than eva over the last weeks since beta8 release.
On another point about cams, Brands Hatch is great but NO TV cams its a travesty bro. Rode it for the first time yesterday doing an dxACE app test and saw it dont have ANY track cams at all? Brilliant track btw fab for S80.
At the same time, I'm really not convinced that this live streaming stuff is so important right now (but that's just my opinion).
Bike physics are more important as is stability of the game BUT if there were live streams and we found a way to let people know it would bring new customers for P and help fund him and development. Its a bit of a PR thing really. It would help boost sales and it is something that may attract more people to join online racing.
It is not a necessity, but it could really help P and the community.
And rightly so for Piboso it isn't high on the development priority list this is why I said what I said.... I'm just keeping it real.... there was absolutely no intention to disrespect Piboso at all because I know that the development process has stages that need doing before other features can be got around to developing and implementing, so as I say, I was just telling it how it is and no disrespect was intended to Piboso at all. My apologies to Piboso if it came across that way.
But that doesn't stop us from trying to get this Live Stream going ourselves if we can, right?
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Ello again...................
So Race 6 for most but I missed one so this is the 5th week racing for me and here is Race 2 with the 4st S80, but with my 2st setup as I did not have time to practice on both. My gear ratio sucked donkey balls big time. Only eva done 20 laps on this track so I think I did okay as I did not crash once over both races. WOOHOO!!!
https://www.youtube.com/v/iZ_Je7WgnVA
Not sure about Aragon, but I might get persuaded lol
Top stuff DD! Love the different views, very smooth system you have there.
Best bits are as always the commentary - but there is just not enough of it. You should just let your mind go blank and let come out what comes out! Guaranteed to be a smile raiser anyway.
Yeah but I get kids watching my tube too so it would be X rated lol.
New video comin tonight, a MUST WATCH lol
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March 23, 2016, 10:33:46 PM #882 Last Edit: March 23, 2016, 10:58:14 PM by Napalm Nick
Careful the thread is going back OnTopic
Oh heck DD I was hoping for an early night now I gotta wait up!
"The post you are writing has been written at least ten times already in the last 15ish years. Its already been reported, suggested, discussed, ignored or archived (but mostly ignored). Why are you doing it again?"
It is a video that I made on exploration of a ghost rider for GPB after matty said about the Trainer in MXB. I found out some very interesting things tonight.
Just call me Dr. Frankensein..................hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa
DONT BLAME ME.................................IT WAS MATTY!!!
Hi guys, urm, I was chattin about ghost rider in GPB today and Matty told me that MXB has a Trainer!!! WTF is that I asked................A painted ghost says matty......................ooooooooooooooooh says me..............................cogs churn........smoke rises..............darsterly plans come to mind.......................
ITS ALIVE!!!
https://www.youtube.com/v/3YOhCoiA1pk
I could not resist playing Dr Frankenstein and so you can see, this video bring question about the bikes behavior between the 2 programs. It really was smooth riding it and very precise. It had slower turning speeds but that was due to the big dudes standing on the bike and upsetting the weight distribution from what I could tell between the 2 rider models.
Well I am knackered and off to bed so see you guys later
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Boeing's structural reboot vital to prepare for rebound
By Flight International2020-04-24T13:44:00+01:00
Management changes at US airframer are required as it seeks stability ahead of any recovery
Last week Boeing rebooted itself, very much in the literal sense. Possibly figuratively as well.
The company restarted commercial production in the Seattle region after temporarily closing its plants there on 25 March due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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But with the sounds of final assembly once again ringing out, Boeing has also announced a series of management changes aimed at aligning the company with the real-world state of its industry.
Several times in the recent past it has been suggested that Boeing had turned a corner – that it might have finally set itself on a path to recovering from the series of calamities that have marred the pride of US aerospace.
Such suggestions followed sparks of optimistic news: a confidence-inspiring Max order from IAG in 2019. Acceptance in January that Max pilots should have simulator training. Also at the start of the year, a new chief executive.
But each spark of optimism has been rapidly extinguished by a deluge of fresh troubles, the latest example being the coronavirus pandemic.
Of course Covid-19 has hammered the entire industry – indeed, countless industries. But as with those infected by the disease, any underlying health conditions increase the health risk, and Boeing's pre-existing Max malaise has made the airframer particularly vulnerable.
But perhaps the decision to halt commercial aircraft production – which is, let's face it, essentially everything Boeing Commercial Airplanes exists for – and the restart last week provided the company with a shot in the arm.
Production of 747s, 767s, 777s and 787s in Washington state is now up and running, though 787 work at the company's site in North Charleston, South Carolina remains in limbo, as does Max production, albeit for separate reasons.
Boeing says it will use the continuing Max production pause to seek quality and process improvements.
While it is too early to gauge the impact of the management changes, Boeing says the overhaul will make it more efficient and streamlined, and better prepared to compete in a smaller post-coronavirus industry.
The overhaul includes creating a new company-wide "operations, finance and strategy" team led by chief financial officer Greg Smith.
Additionally, Boeing is revamping its commercial airplane management. Notably, Mark Jenks, head of the 737 programme, credited by some for helping fix the 787 programme, will now be vice-president of airplane programmes, overseeing all of Boeing's commercial models.
No doubt Boeing still faces the inescapable reality that airlines currently need no new aircraft. But analysts believe the industry will rebound in the coming years.
Perhaps changes now afoot at Boeing will help it rise again when the recovery takes hold.
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I've heard of the cross key technique before, but it's not a lighting setup I've tried yet. I don't get too many opportunities to actually light the scene when I do interviews. They're usually at some show or other using whatever's already there. But I think I might have to give this a try next time I shoot a sit down interview in a more controlled location.
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Without Trotsky there would have been no Bolshevik Revolution, but Trotsky was no Bolshevik. Providing a full account of Trotsky's role during the Russian Civil War and concentrating on his time as an active participant in Russian revolutionary politics, rather than his ideological writings of emigration, Swain gives the student a very different picture of the Bolshevik Commissar of War. This radically new interpretation of Trotsky's career spanning 1905-1917 incorporates the tense relationship between Trotsky and Lenin until 1917, and pays particular attention to the Russian Civil War and Trotsky's military organisation and contribution to the war. Swain argues critically that Trotsky achieved where Lenin would have failed, suggesting that Trotsky was in the main part responsible for the Bolshevik Revolution.
Written from a critical socialist standpoint, this book provides an analysis of Trotskyism which argues that it is increasingly irrelevant as a means of achieving socialism.
Fourteen volumes covering the period of Trotsky's exile from the Soviet Union in 1929 until his assassination at Stalin's orders in 1940.
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Together with Lenin, Trotsky was the most charismatic and dominating figure of the Russian revolution. A dynamic public speaker, a brilliant organizer and theorist, he was largely responsible for advocating the system of state terror which was ultimately to lead to the nightmare of Stalinism. This biography describes Trotsky's career as a revolutionary before World War I and his roles successively as chief organizer of the October revolution, military hero of the Russian civil war and outspoken critic of the Stalinst style of leadership. Widely regarded as Lenin's likely successor, Trotsky was outmanoeuvred by his enemy, Stalin and found himself expelled from the Communist Party, written out of the history of the revolution, exiled and finally murdered in Mexico by Stalin's agents. The author tracked down members of Stalin's overseas hit-squad and found relatives of Trotsky in Russia. Combined with his access to Soviet archives, this biography lends insight into one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, whose faith in the world socialist revolution remained undimmed to the end.
Traces the life of one of the men behind the Russian Revolution of 1917, from his early years, through his leadership in the Communist regime, to his exile as "the most unwanted man in the world."
This new biography provides a full account of Leon Trotsky's political life, based upon a wealth of primary sources, including previously unpublished material. Ian D. Thatcher paints a new picture of Trotsky's standing in Russian and world history. Key myths about Trotsky's heroic work as a revolutionary, especially in Russia's first revolution of 1905 and the Russian Civil War, are thrown into question. Although Trotsky had a limited understanding of crucial contemporary events such as Hitler's rise to power, he was an important thinker and politician, not least as a trenchant critic of Stalin's version of communism.


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Last Name First Jersey # Pos Total Pts Gms Avg PPG
Barnes Leonard Jr 41 C 134 24 5.6
Campbell Henri Jr 25 F 290 26 11.2
Eathorne Mark Sr 15 G 138 26 5.3
Garinger Bryan Sr 45 F 236 26 9.1
Hackett Ray Sr 23 G 110 26 4.2
Hayford Jeff Jr 31 F 46 11 4.2
Langston Oza Jr 53 G 175 26 6.7
Lindberg Larry Jr 21 G 125 22 5.7
Olson Kevin Sr 51 F 82 11 7.5
Torseth Rick Sr 33 F 33 19 1.7
Walker Rick Sr 55 C 635 26 24.4
Wischoefer Art Sr 35 G 20 17 1.2
Entering the 1974 season, my expectations were that we are going to win but beyond that I didn't have a prediction because you never can predict the tournament because the tournament is one game and you're out but I thought that we'd get there.
We were returning five players from a state championship team and we were adding very talented kids from our junior varsity program. Of course we would be built around Rick Walker who had two years of varsity experience and two state championship runs under his belt. We also thought we'd have Kevin Olson who in 1973 was our sixth starter and was on the floor for the final minutes of the game against Timberline. Unfortunately for Kevin, this coach and the team, we lost him for most of the season to a knee injury.
We did return Mark Eathorne and Ray Hackett at the guard position and Bryan Garinger and Rick Torseth at forwards. While these players entered the season without any starter experience, they had spent the prior year practicing everyday against a state championship team and gaining significant game experience as well.
To this group we added juniors Henri Campbell at forward, Leonard Barnes at center, Oza Langston, Larry Lindberg and senior Art Wischoefer at guard. It was my belief that while this team didn't have the experience of the 1973 team, we had great depth at all positions. That would be important as we lost Olson for most of the year and we also lost Torseth and Lindberg for parts of the season. We called up Jeff Hayford from the junior varsity to play forward and we added Johnny Golden for a stretch of the season to play forward until Olson could return.
Our starting five included Walker at center, Campbell and Garinger at the forwards and Eathorne and Hackett at the guards. We played our guards in tandems. If the opponent played primarily a zone defense, we used Eathorne and Hackett a bit more; if they came at us with a man-to-man, I'd go with Langston and Lindberg who were a bit quicker. Barnes paid the price in practice of having to guard Walker everyday. His reward turned out to be a much improved game. He saw plenty of action spelling Walker and he responded with quality play throughout the season. He became a player I could count on at anytime in the game.
Basketball as we played it at East is very much a team game. We relied on team coordination to run the press effectively, we needed all five players running the floor on the fast break to make that strategy work and we demanded that all our players be able to dribble, pass, move without the ball and read the flow of the game because so much of our offense was improvisational. We only had four set plays and we usually only ran one play during the game. East players knew that we started each game by running play number two. After that, we pressed, ran the floor and look to exploit the weaknesses of the defense whether it was a zone or a man-to-man.
All the players on the 1974 team knew how play East basketball and could do it well. We also knew that at the center of it all would be Rick Walker. Walker was an exceptional talent. One of the finest players to come out of Kitsap County, Rick entered 1974 with improved skill and produced one of the finest seasons in the history of East High School averaging nearly 25 points a game.
You build up certain rivalries over the years and sometimes schools would call because everybody wanted to play us. I was the Athletic Director and I would just sit and I would say, "okay I want this" and then I'd just wait for them to call and they always called. I could pick before the league started the teams that were fun to play but you know some teams; they would have trouble filling out a 20-game schedule; we never did. Everybody wanted to beat East and especially after we won the state championship. I think I could have scheduled 40 games quick."
We got off to a good start winning our first five games including wins over Timberline and a much improved O'Dea. We carried a thirty game winning streak to North Kitsap and saw it end when they beat us 65 to 60. Here we are going along and we have won so many we just assumed that we would go out on the floor, they'd throw up the ball and at the end we would just walk out, go take a shower and we would be the winners. And that game taught us a big lesson.
We did beat West twice which was always good. We won all the rest of our league games including beating North Kitsap at our place to off-set that loss. But the best game of the regular season was when we traveled to Seattle to play O'Dea. We played in a small gym at Holy Rosary school. A remarkable display of basketball talent was put on as Walker squared up against Clint Richardson. Rick scored 42 points and Richardson had 40 and we won in over time.
We entered the tournament with an 18-1 regular season record. We began with a win over our post-season rival Curtis and then beat O'Dea for the third time. We played Foster in the district championship and escaped with a 62-60 win. What was significant about all three of these games was that each win featured strong performances for different players. In the Curtis game we got a big game from Lindberg, against O'Dea Eathorne broke them down with his long-range shooting and against Foster, Barnes came up big down the stretch. This balanced team play was becoming our strength.
We entered the regional tournament at St. Martin's College a better team because we got Olson back. His knee was not great and his mobility was limited but he could still shoot and he had big game experience we could put on the floor in the big games we had left. We beat Washington High School in the first game and then played Timberline for the regional championship winning a close game 83-78. It was off to the state championship at the University of Puget Sound.
First up was Cleveland. A team of great athletes, this team would eventually win two state championships and send three players on to the NBA. We were able to combine our experience, good free throw shooting, quickness off the defensive board and speed on the break to separate ourselves from them. It was a tough game that we won 79 – 73.
The state championship would be a rematch of the district championship with East playing Foster, a team that featured a talented 6'8" center and a very good point guard. They had stretched us to the limit the last time we met so they had every reason to believe they could beat us in the rematch. I thought that when playing them at UPS, we would feel like we can move better. It's a college-sized floor and we were much faster and could move around and so I thought well it might be close again but I thought that we could beat them. I also thought that we had been going along pretty good and then all of a sudden we get somebody like Foster who scares the hell out of us in the district game. I didn't have to tell the team much to get them going now.
1974 Locker room
What the first game did do was give them more confidence and I'm sure their coach said, "Now the first game you just missed on a couple of calls and you would have beat these guys." Well, the fact that we didn't playing too well and they came within two points of beating us the first game. Well fine but I learned a lesson there too; you never predict the next game by the last game; it just doesn't work that way. We came out ready to play and our tournament experienced was a valuable asset. We got on them early and never let up. By comparison to last season, this championship game was a bit easier but we never did let Foster get into their game. Our pressure was too much for them and we won going away 77 – 52. We were state champions again winning back-to-back and going 51 – 2 over that period.
READ – East Champs Honored – shares insight into the close knit community
Arena gives Walker "2" and celebrates Back 2 Back State Champs with team.
1974 Newspaper clippings
Opponent We They We They We They
Timberline 62 43 83 78
Washington 67 43 66 45
Mt Tahoma 88 55 70 56
O'Dea 82 69 87 85 84 70
Central 72 60 89 66
North 60 65 80 53
West 84 58 74 66
Bainbridge 72 44 66 55
Mt Lk Terrace 85 54
South 80 78 98 81
Port Angeles 89 51 64 48
Curtis 87 61
Cleveland 79 73
State Championship 62 60 77 52
Clips from 1974
Congratulations letter from Lyle Bakken


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Throughout his thirty years of making music, Troy has been awarded numerous accolades including 36 Golden Guitars, 4 ARIAs, 2 APRA Country Song Of The Year awards, 9 Deadlys (Australian Indigenous Artist Awards), 4 CMAA Entertainer of the Year awards, plus 2 NIMAs (National Indigenous Music Awards). In 2017, Troy was honoured as the 50th inductee into the prestigious Australasian Roll Of Renown.
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We only discovered our passion for horses after a small vacation at the Desert Palm Resort with our children. This is where we met Marie.
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After being with Marie for about five months, we made the decision to buy our first horse. Once again, Marie stepped up and gave us a tremendous amount of advice! I travelled personally to Germany to buy our horse. When the horse trainers saw me riding many of them mentioned that I had been riding for at least two years. Little did they know that I had been riding for only a few months! Our horse came from Germany in April 2010, this has been one of the most rewarding experiences in our lives.
Also, our children were with other instructors in the riding school and they were taking lessons for at least four months and not progressing. We then transferred our children into Marie's lessons and their level of riding and confidence immediately improved. Now, our children are cantering and galloping on the riding school hacks! Plus, they are having a great time!
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All: Repeaters in primary school are the number of students enrolled in the same grade as in the previous year, as a percentage of all students enrolled in primary school."
Female: Repeaters in primary school are the number of students enrolled in the same grade as in the previous year, as a percentage of all students enrolled in primary school."
Male: Repeaters in primary school are the number of students enrolled in the same grade as in the previous year, as a percentage of all students enrolled in primary school."
Select year 1993 1994 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
All 0.3 2008 101st out of 124
Female 0.27 2008 100th out of 121
Male 0.32 2008 101st out of 121
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'Encourage your children, wards to choose TVET schools' – Director-General of CTVET
Source: Fred Smith
4 November 2022 3:49pm
Director-General of the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah
The Director-General of the Commission for Technical, Vocational Education and Training (CTVET), Dr. Fred Kyei Asamoah, has urged parents to encourage their children and wards to consider choosing TVET schools as they go through the school selection process.
He explained that selecting a TVET school would allow students to reap the benefits of the TVET sector, which holds the key to the nation's economic transformation.
According to the Director-General, the Commission has projected about 80,000 vacancies in TVET institutions in the country for the 2022 academic year and urged students to take advantage of the vacancies as against 64,641 vacancies declared in 2021.
Dr. Kyei Asamoah made the call on Friday when he briefed the media about the ongoing nationwide school selection and placement exercise in Accra.
The exercise is aimed at ensuring that all candidates select their preferred Senior High and or Technical and Vocational Institution they would like to attend next academic year if they pass the just-ended Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
The Director-General mentioned some of the measures put in place by the government to increase intake as the upgrade and retooling of all erstwhile NVTI's institutions, building on new institutions and including the Head Office together with 10 regional offices.
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"Ghana recently won two gold medals and two silver medals at the World Skills Africa Competition in Swakopmund Namibia)," he said.
The D-G again mentioned the establishment of TVET Clubs in Junior High Schools to generate interest in TVET courses, TVET Ambassadors and Role Model Campaigns, TVET Career Guidance and Counselling programmes in communities and schools and Radio and TVET adverts and engagement and adverts.
State of the Art Centres
The D-G stated that Cabinet and Parliament in 2020 approved a concessional loan of €158,901,273.00 to finance the construction of phase one of the establishment of 32 State of the Art TVET Centres project which is currently under construction.
He indicated that the construction of five new District TVET centres of excellence is ongoing with that of Anyinam and Pakyi No. 2 completed while that of Assin Jakai in Central Region, Akomadan and Manso Abore in Ashanti Region are also under construction.
Dr. Asamoah said, in addition to the mainstream free TVET, the government has also provided free apprenticeship training to over 18,000 Ghanaians since 2017 through the Ghana TVET Voucher project being implemented by CTVET with support from the German Government.
The D-G mentioned the rehabilitation and upgrading of 10 Technical Universities and 13 Technical Institutes which includes the construction of new workshops/laboratories and the supply and installation of equipment fit for disciplines in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Welding technology, Automotive maintenance, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering have also been completed and inaugurated.
2022 School Selection guidelines
Introduction of a cluster of schools: These are similar schools that belong to the same category which candidates may comfortably accept as alternative schools to their initial choices.
A Candidate who opts for a cluster and is displaced may have the opportunity of being considered in any of the schools within the cluster.
For instance, if candidate Yaw selected Accra Technical Training Centre (ATTC) as his 2nd choice, the candidate will be considered for similar schools in the cluster of Accra Technical Training Centre (ATTC) for available space.
The mandate of the Commission
The Commission's primary responsibility is to regulate, promote and administer technical and vocational education and training for transformation and innovation for sustainable development.
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Disparate, siloed content and processes, coupled with the dependence on legacy paper files are affecting the digital transformation journeys of organisations in healthcare, manufacturing, financial services and government, according to a global survey.
The Forrester survey was commissioned by open-source pioneer Alfresco Software and revealed that organisations have content and documents scattered across many locations, leading to two thirds (67 per cent) acknowledging that users need to frequently or always reference external information in a workflow application. The lack of content integration is most significant in manufacturing, with 83 per cent reporting having to scour multiple applications, systems and files for vital information.
The survey also found that organisations are still reliant on paper legacy files, only 14 per cent have enterprise content that is virtually digital today. However, there are plans to convert to digital, data driven content in the next two years, with half expecting to be virtually all-digital then. Manufacturing and healthcare organisations are more ambitious, with 58 and 55 per cent respectively intending to be virtually all-digital in two years.
There is a desire to speed digital transformation efforts as organisations recognise the benefits of marrying process and content into a single integrated and digital platform across industries. However, the top benefit varied across verticals:
Manufacturing: improved user experience (53 per cent)
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Financial services: business agility (48 per cent)
Government: more productive staff (67 per cent)
"Digital transformation initiatives are being hampered by legacy technologies and the bolting on of new solutions as a business grows. Such an approach is creating content silos, affecting productivity and decision making," said Paul Hampton, Product Marketing Director at Alfresco. "It is time to leverage the technologies that will enable effective content integration to deliver the right information, in the right context, in a timely way."
Content silos continue to frustrate organisations across industries. This was most significant at the stage of process initiation, where each cited a different pain point:
Government: poor integration across multiple data sources
Financial Services: lack of immediately available content
Healthcare: lack of visibility of process status
Manufacturing: content stored in too many places
In the age of the customer, IT leaders must remove the barriers between process and content, and intensify integration efforts across the business to deliver greater productivity and agility.
"The UK's recently announced Digital Strategy underlines the importance of and need for digital transformation of businesses. Now is the time for organisations to kick their digital transformation projects into high gear. Creating a cohesive and integrated digital business platform that will deliver the contextual information efficiently to users for informed decision making and better customer service will be key," concluded Hampton.
Alfresco commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate organisations' evolving needs for technologies that support enterprise content and business processes. The survey was conducted with 158 IT Professionals at the director level or above in the United States and the UK across manufacturing, financial services, government and healthcare sectors.
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DeFi Under Attack: $1.5B Stolen in Top 5 Crypto Heists of 2022: Forbes
Cryptocurrency firms struggled greatly in 2022, with multiple companies facing financial issues and bankruptcy. In addition to these challenges, over $3 billion was stolen from crypto projects this year, according to Forbes. These setbacks have caused turmoil in the industry and raised concerns about its stability.
According to the report, crypto projects witnessed more than 125 hacks, and the top five heists (all involving decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols) accounted for $1.48 billion of the total amount stolen.
DeFi Protocols Suffered the Most Losses in 2022
Forbes highlighted that these top five biggest crypto heists range from cross-chain hacks, code exploits, and flash loan attacks.
The top five hacks are Ronin Network's $625 million exploit, Wormhole's $325 million theft, Nomad Bridge's $190 million hack, Beanstalk Farms' $182 million flash loan attack, and Wintermute's $160 million exploit.
According to the report, DeFi hacks represent around 49% of the total amount stolen by hackers this year. This has led to reduced investment in the sector, as data from blockchain analytics firm Elliptic shows that DeFi protocols lost 75% of their total value locked (TVL) in 2022. However, that also accounts for the declining asset prices.
Data from DeFi Llama also shows that TVL from DeFi protocols dropped from 166.58 billion at the start of 2022 to $39 billion in December.
The Forbes report stated that cross-chain bridges, which enable the swap of tokens between blockchains, were the top target for hackers this year. Hackers stole nearly $2 billion from blockchain bridges, accounting for 70% of all crypto theft in 2022.
Hackers Love DeFi
The reports also show that DeFi has become a favorite playground for hackers despite its uniqueness. But how is this happening?
Blockchain analytics platform Chainalysis reported that most thefts in the DeFi space are due to flawed codes, where smart contract errors have been used to steal money from protocols.
The report explained that because the DeFi ecosystem is open source, anyone, including hackers, can search for vulnerabilities or errors and plan exploits well in advance.
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Use modifiers to extend the Purge command.
Designer Robert L. Zipprich sent us a tip to ensure the Purge command actually purges your unwanted AutoCAD objects.
In one drawing I found there were 84,383 registered applications deleted."
Notes from Cadalyst Tip Patrol: AutoCAD files can get cluttered with styles and other unused objects. This increases the size of the drawing's database and can slow down performance. That's where the Purge command comes in; it empties the file of unused content. It will get rid of unused layers, dimension styles, text styles, blocks, and more.
The tip here suggests entering the Purge command through the Command line. The dash (–) before the text Purge will start the command without a dialog box (you can do this with almost any command). Type –Purge on the Command line, then A to purge all the objects listed in the first bullet list above. But All won't purge everything. Why? I don't know. You have to enter R for registered applications, Z for zero-length objects, and E for empty text objects. If you run the Purge command with the dialog box, you can select a box to purge zero-length objects, but you'll still need to type in the modifiers to get the apps and empty text objects.
Another method for removing those pesky items that don't like to purge is to use the WBLOCK command. I used to tell my co-workers that WBLOCK is "Super Purge". I don't use WBLOCK as much as I used to since I personally think that PURGE has been much more effective since 2007, but it is a powerful alternative. Just be careful that any items you want to keep are being used. WBLOCK will also strip out frozen layers, unused dim and text styles, etc.


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Clinton Lost Strategy Fight on How to Keep Iraq Stable
She wanted a bigger US presence, but her State Department ended up gutting programs
By Newser Editors, Newser Staff
Posted Aug 15, 2016 5:19 PM CDT
The last convoy of solders from the US Army's 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, crosses the border from Iraq into Kuwait, Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
Donald Trump likes to lay much of the blame for the rise of ISIS on Hillary Clinton, though a joint investigation by ProPublica and the Washington Post finds that there's plenty of blame to go around. "An intensive review of the record during Clinton's tenure presents a broader picture of missteps and miscalculations by multiple actors—including her State Department as well as the Maliki government, the White House and Congress—that left Iraqi security forces weakened and vulnerable to the Islamic State's 2014 surge," write Jeff Gerth and Joby Warrick. The piece makes clear that Clinton herself fought for a "robust" civilian presence to replace departing US troops, experts who would provide training and deliver on-the-ground intelligence. She also wanted to keep a modest US military presence.
However, she lost that fight to top national security advisers at the White House, including Joe Biden. Congress didn't have much appetite for the State Department's "ambitious" plans for a largely civilian takeover of military programs, either. In fact, pressure mounted to reduce the existing US footprint. "Clinton, having lost the argument for a larger force, was briefed about the developments but left it to her subordinates to decide how the cuts would be implemented," says the story. It leaves the impression that those cuts to programs once considered vital for Iraq's stability happened too quickly—the upshot being that the lack of a strong US presence, combined with misguided moves by Nouri al-Maliki, created a void that allowed the Islamic State to surge. Click to read the full piece. (Read more Hillary Clinton stories.)
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Long may they run: Ed and Sandy are fixtures at races, 'fun runs' across SE Wisconsin
Posted 9:16 pm, February 13, 2019, by Ted Perry, Updated at 09:58PM, February 13, 2019
Ed Blumberg
MILWAUKEE -- 86-year-old Ed Blumberg is about to take us on a run, but first, he wants to show us the rewards of what has already been a pretty good run.
Blumberg sprawled out dozens of trophies and ribbons. It's a mere sampling of his considerable hardware.
As Blumberg starts his run, we realize he's got a pretty good clip going – and that's exactly what he wants us to think.
Then, he wants you to picture yourself doing the same thing.
"I feel it's an accomplishment," said Blumberg. "What I mainly try to do now is interest other people at the same time. You can still run, slow or fast, you can do it. Be outside and exercising and keep yourself healthy."
Not far away, soon-to-be 80-year-old Sandy Weinstein is layering up. It's a typical Wisconsin winter morning, and Sandy can't wait to get out in it.
Sandy Weinstein
"I kid with my friends that I'm allergic to sitting, but I think I am," said Weinstein.
Running has been the one thing that helped her most when she lost her husband 25 years ago.
"I was working full-time as a nurse and I was under a lot of stress," said Weinstein. "I thought it'd be a good stress reliever."
A woman who lost her husband, and a man who lost his wife – come so close each day to intersecting.
It'd be tragic if they never met. Oh, but they did.
Ed and Sandy have become fixtures at races and 'fun runs' across Southeast Wisconsin.
From January's 'Samson Stomp' to the sweltering heat of the 'Hank Aaron Run' in August, they're there.
"During the running season, we would do a race every weekend almost," said Weinstein.
If a cause or disease has race, Ed and Sandy have not only run it, they've likely won it, too.
"To be honest, the reason I'm almost always number one isn't because I'm fast, but because I'm the only one out there my age," said Weinstein.
Sandy Weinstein, Ed Blumberg
If we're being honest, Sandy would likely not be doing this many races had she not met Ed.
And Ed wouldn't be running at all, had he not met Sandy.
"When I met Sandra, she was running, and I thought it'd be a good idea to get back into it," said Blumberg.
Sandy would run a certain path in Fox Point and Ed knew if he ran the route backwards, they'd eventually have to pass each other.
After that meeting, they started doing races together and running together on weekends.
Over the years, the medals, memories, and even the meals have added up.
"Every evening, we have supper together," said Blumberg. "I appreciate it from a health standpoint more than anything. I give her credit – the health I have at this point I wouldn't have, had I not gone into running."
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Fairtax acquires Onager Solutions to form the largest Canadian firm focused on securing Government Grants and Incentives.
Toronto, Ontario – As a result of recent negotiations, Fairtax Recovery Consultants Ltd., Canada's leader in tax recovery, is excited to announce the acquisition of Onager Solutions Inc., a professional services firm that specializes in Government Grants and Incentives.
Mike Janke, President of Onager Solutions, founded the company in 2010 and has grown the firm into an award winning industry leader in identifying and securing Government Funding. Onager Solutions, will be fully integrated into the Fairtax Grants & Incentives division which dramatically expands the existing capabilities of Fairtax.
The "Fairtax Funding Strategy" provides a unique integrated approach to optimize clients' government funding opportunities, tax incentive programs, and SR&ED funding. The firm will leverage existing expertise spanning every industry and jurisdiction across Canada to provide a comprehensive approach that encompasses all aspects of identification, application, and post-approval compliance.
According to the FundingIndex, more than $14.4 billion in government funding was issued last year and rising numbers of government funding programs are being offered to businesses in 2015. Accessing these programs has historically been a challenge for businesses, as programs are not readily accessible in a consolidated location and are constantly in a state of flux. Funds are continuously introduced, renewed, depleted or discontinued. The FEI cferf research study on, "The Funding of Innovation in Canada" revealed that fewer than 38% of companies surveyed have taken advantage of these programs, due to these issues and the complex eligibility criteria.
The Fairtax team of government funding experts help clients navigate these complexities and deliver substantial financial benefits through a comprehensive and strategic approach. "I am proud of the entire team of professionals we have assembled over the years and I am enjoying this celebration with our new teammates!" exclaimed Dan Civiero, CEO of Fairtax, at a recent party that marked the official integration of Onager into the Fairtax Grants & Incentives team.
Fairtax is a Canadian owned and operated company that leads the industry in Canadian sales tax recovery and obtaining government grants and incentives for its clients. FairTax is part of the Braithwaite Global Inventta Group of companies with over 130 employees, and has recovered in excess of $1 Billion for clients across Canada. Onager Solutions, now Fairtax Grants and Incentives, has visibility into over 4,000 government programs that represent over $4 billion in government funding beyond the SR&ED program. "We are not new to this Industry, FairTax and Onager have successfully secured significant amounts of government funding for clients within a variety of sectors across the country" said Dieter Eisbrenner, President of FairTax. The family of companies already provides leading SR&ED, Sales Tax Recovery and Grant services. The acquisition of Onager provides greater visibility into all available programs and the ability to identify and secure funding for major future expenditures. This creates an opportunity for clients to gain a competitive advantage and overcome challenges while increasing their profitability.
The leadership at Fairtax continues to believe it is critical to provide staff who are dedicated strategic professionals that add value to each client interaction. These shared fundamental values are at the core of the culture found at both firms and has fostered valued relationships with clients. Mike Janke will become Vice President of Fairtax leading the Fairtax Grants and Incentives division with all of Onager Solutions' staff continuing in their existing roles.


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New Art Initiative Aims to Improve Understanding and Discussion of Parkinson's Off Periods
by José Lopes, PhD | December 18, 2018
A new initiative by Acorda Therapeutics uses art to help people with Parkinson's disease recognize and communicate about their off-period experiences.
The initiative, called Framing OFF Through Art, builds on Acorda's Live Well. Do Tell program, launched earlier this year.
Framing OFF Through Art includes artwork inspired by the experiences of patients with Parkinson's and their caregivers. The artists who created the pieces also have personal connections to the disease. Each artist partnered with two patients and their caregivers. The art aims to educate and encourage others with Parkinson's and their care partners to identify off-period symptoms and discuss them with their healthcare professionals.
"Art is a powerful way to engage a community, and in Framing OFF Through Art, our goal is to create an emotional connection that results in better dialogues about Parkinson's symptoms," Ron Cohen, MD, Acorda's president and CEO, said in a press release.
The artwork debuted on Oct. 23 at an event in New York, where the artists, patients, and their caregivers were guests. The first piece was created by Julie B., whose mom is living with the disease, and is available on the Live Well. Do Tell website. More art and personal stories will be revealed each month.
"I know that some of these symptoms are really difficult to put into words. A visual representation can really communicate what you are going through," Julie B. said in a video interview. "One of the big takeaways from this initiative is the idea of an open and honest conversation."
Off periods are a common complication in Parkinson's patients, characterized by the return of motor and non-motor symptoms — such as anxiety and sadness — when levodopa's effects wear off. The need to better understand off periods, as well as how to talk with others about them, had been originally highlighted in the Live Well. Do Tell statement of need.
This report was the first output of the campaign, and includes six actions for the Parkinson's community: tailor resources at diagnosis; broaden the Parkinson's community's ability to identify off periods; educate about motor fluctuations and how they do not necessarily mean disease progression; identify opportunities for caregivers to discuss their experiences with healthcare professionals; enhance the patient-clinician dialogue; and improve clinical practice via insights from movement disorder specialists and a new tool to measure off periods.
The report was based on insights from the campaign's steering committee meeting that included Parkinson's community leaders. Others may join the conversation by signing up for initiative updates and news.
"Off periods can be frustrating and challenging, as symptoms are varied and often difficult for patients to communicate effectively to their care providers," said Matthew Stern, MD, director emeritus of the Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders Center at Penn Medicine.
"By helping people with Parkinson's understand how to verbalize what they are experiencing, we, as their healthcare providers, can better understand their needs and help them achieve a better sense of well-being," added Stern, who is the chair of the Live Well. Do Tell steering committee.
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Pennsylvania is recruiting school bus drivers amid a statewide shortage
Katie Blackley
Pennsylvania is mailing 375,000 holders of commercial driver's licenses in a recruitment campaign meant to address a shortage of school bus drivers, officials said Thursday.
The state has a little more than 42,000 school bus drivers, the smallest complement in five years and about 2,000 fewer than in 2017.
The Department of Transportation will mail all current CDL holders about the need for bus drivers and inform them how they can get the right endorsement to operate a school bus, said Kurt Myers, PennDOT's deputy secretary for driver and vehicle services.
The state is hoping to address the shortage by appealing to drivers looking for work or seeking to supplement their income.
"We want to do everything we possibly can to expand the number of individuals with school bus endorsements to be able to get our children to school. That's the critical part of all of this," Myers said.
Schools across the nation are facing driver shortages, and many Pennsylvania districts are impacted, Myers said.
PennDOT will also temporarily offer another day of CDL skills testing per week. The additional testing days will be held on Mondays for four consecutive weeks beginning Oct. 18.
Myers spoke at an online news conference about the state's efforts to keep schools open for in-person learning during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Central Bucks school board has ties to a Christian nationalist group and is considering removing 4 LGBTQ books from its libraries.


You own a blog, and you want to make money from it. How do you do that? Well, to start with you need to get traffic to your blog. It doesn't matter how brilliant the content of your blog is, if nobody ever sees it, then you're never going to make any money from it. So how do you go about getting more visitors to your site? Well, unless you're willing to pay money for a Google Adwords campaign or something similar, then you need to make sure the major search engines like you.
Or more to the point, convince the search engines that other websites like you! This is known as link popularity, and is often used by the search engines to determine whether or not to improve the ranking of a site in search results. The more links you have from other websites pointing to your website, the more "popular" your site is deemed to be, and the better its ranking. Of course, like most strategies for improving traffic, linking has been abused and overdone in a big way with Internet marketers. They set up thousands of links from sites that had nothing to do with their own blog, and got rewarded for it. Now, however, search engines are mostly interested in relevant links. So if you have a blog about grooming dogs, and you have a link from a dog site, great.
If the links is from a site about cheese, however, chances are it won't help with your link popularity. So the bottom line is that there's no point joining any type of link farm, where you can buy or trade links with sites that have no relevancy to yours. You need to focus on obtaining links from complementary sites, which is best done by finding those sites online and writing to the site owner. Time consuming, but it pays off.
Particularly if the site that links to you has a high page rank in Google. If this all sounds like a lot of work - guess what, it is! That's where the tag and ping technique comes into it. Basically, you list your blog on an authority site, and every time you update your blog, you let them know. The authority site needs can be either a social bookmarking site, like del.icio.us, or a blog directory, like Technorati.
When you list your blog, you include a list of tags, or keywords, that your blog is about. So going back to the dog grooming example, you would use tags like "dog", "dogs", "dog grooming" and so on. That way, when people go to these authority sites and search for dog grooming, your site will be on the list.
The second part of the technique is to ping the sites you list your blog with. A ping is simply like giving the site a courtesy phone call to tell them your blog has a new post on it. It's all done automatically, either by visiting the site and clicking on an update option for your blog, or you can set up a ping facility at a site like Pingomatic. Then all you need to do is refresh your ping request, and Pingomatic will automatically notify as many blog directories as you choose. This is a great way of letting lots of places at once know you've updated your blog.
It takes a few minutes to add your site to sites like del.icio.us, or to create a new job in Pingomatic.
But the good thing is that once it's done, it only takes a minute or two to update these authority sites, so that they can list your freshest content immediately. To help you get started with tag and ping, I recommend that you check out an automated social bookmarking tool called the Auto Social Poster. This tool will allow you to automatically bookmark pages of your Wordpress blog and then tag and ping those pages. It does the tedious work so that you can focus on other aspects of your business. Tag and ping is quite simple, so give it a try, and once you get the hang of it you'll find it's almost an automatic thing to tag and ping every time you post something new to your blog. Even better, you'll start to see an improvement in your traffic and ranking.
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ID Technologies Awarded ITES-SW2 Contract
ID Technologies, a mission-driven integrated solution provider to the US Federal Government, announced today that it has been awarded the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software 2 (ITES-SW2) contract by the Army's Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solution (CHESS) office, in coordination with the Army Contracting Command (ACC), Rock Island (RI).
ID Technologies Awarded DPI 2020 BPA
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ID Technologies Awarded Small Business on NIH CIO-CS Contract
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ID Technologies Named to CRN's 2020 Solution Provider 500 List
ID Technologies announced today that CRN® a brand of The Channel Company, has named ID Technologies to its 2020 Solution Provider 500 list. Each year, CRN releases its list of top 500 solution providers, a ranking of the leading IT channel partner organizations across North America by revenue.
ID Technologies has been named one of The Washington Post's 2020 Top Workplaces in the Washington, D.C. area. Selection is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an anonymous third-party survey administered by research partner Energage, LLC, which measured several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution, and connection.
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