During its 50 years of political isolation in the 20th century, Albania amassed massive stockpiles of weapons and ammunition in response to perceived threats to its security. But in 1997, during widespread civil unrest, more than 600,000 weapons and thousands of tonnes of ammunition were looted from dispersed storehouses.
The danger came not just from theft and looting, but from inadequate storage safety. Since 1997 there had been a number of storehouse incidents, including explosions caused by the degradation of the ammunition itself. Nothing illustrated this danger more than the March 2008 Gërdec disaster.
An ammunition demilitarisation programme had been allowed to develop with inadequate oversight or safety controls. A major explosion destroyed the facility and severely damaged inhabited buildings nearby. Some 26 people were killed, more than 300 were injured and widespread damage occurred with significant clean-up costs that are still ongoing today.
Albania is now a NATO member and, like some other members, its forces continue to experience the challenge of modernisation. Over the past decade a significant quantity of ammunition had been destroyed or sold. But by 2009, around 85,000 tonnes of excess or obsolete munitions still remained largely to be processed for destruction.
In early 2011 a NATO project, funded principally by a $10 million commitment from the US State Department, began in Albania. The project will help the country develop its main industrial demilitarisation factory at Mjekes and will demilitarise around 24,000 tonnes of munitions over four years.
NATO has been playing a major role in trying to help destroy these weapons and munitions in a number of countries other than Albania. Over the past decade in Albania alone, NATO Trust Fund projects helped to destroy 1.6 million anti-personnel mines in 2001-2 and a second project in 2003-2007 destroyed 11,500 tonnes of small arms and light weapons (SALW) including 2 million hand grenades and 130,000 mortar rounds. These successes, brought about by mulitlaterally funded projects, help NATO to improve regional safety issues.
NATO engagement has been focussed through the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency (NAMSA) based in Luxembourg. NAMSA manages large demilitarisation programmes on behalf of NATO members, and this led to the agency becoming the managing agent for similar programmes through the NATO Trust Fund.
The NATO Trust Fund policy, developed in September 2000, first aimed at supporting nations having to destroy stockpiled anti-personnel landmines within 4 years of their ratification of the Ottawa Treaty.
While as a NATO Partner nation in 2001, Albania was the first to benefit from this new policy. The NATO Trust Fund provided the financial resources, NAMSA provided the project management, contracting and financial control, and the host countries provided engineering skills and labour.
Other countries, such as Ukraine, Moldova, Tajikistan, Belarus or Serbia and Montenegro saw more than 4 million stockpiled anti-personnel landmines destroyed. This contributed to the Balkans becoming the world's first region free of stockpiled anti-personnel mines.
Recognising the importance of a UN resolution on the eradication of illicit trade in small arms and light weapons, the NATO Trust Fund policy was modified in 2001 to incorporate SALW assistance projects. Following this, Serbia, Montenegro, as well as Albania saw the destruction of more than 100 million small arms ammunition cartridges and Ukraine saw the destruction of over 400,000 SALW.
The Trust Fund also incorporated international assistance in 2001 on surplus munitions. Albania, Georgia (twice), Ukraine and Moldova have benefitted from projects destroying stockpiled ammunition.
In Afghanistan, without proper controls, there is a good chance that poorly guarded and inadequately maintained government owned stocks would eventually fall into terrorist hands.
In Afghanistan, minefields, battle areas contaminated by unexploded munitions, arms caches, poorly guarded and inadequately maintained government owned stocks all contribute to its dangerous environment. Without proper controls, there is a good chance that they would eventually fall into terrorist hands.
So what has NATO done to tackle this? The €7 million NATO physical security and stockpile management (PSSM) Trust Fund project set out to build a modern NATO-standard ammunition depot at Chimtallah, in the Kabul region.
Following the September 2006 Afghan-NATO Declaration, which identified ammunition PSSM as one of the key areas of NATO cooperation with Afghanistan, NAMSA was asked to develop a proposal to build a depot to accommodate a large proportion of the stocks required to support the needs of the expanding Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF).
The project started in 2008 and by the time it finished in late 2010, 12 earth covered 'igloos' had been built. An ammunition inspection building and other infrastructure such as roads and security fencing were also built. Fork lift trucks, mechanical handling equipment and ammunition management training were provided to give the ANSF a high capacity depot.
Chimtallah already had 39 earth covered ammunition bunkers, but they were not accessible for mechanical handling equipment and their capacity was limited. Now, two of the new NATO standard igloos can accommodate everything in the existing 39 bunkers.
The United States is now providing even more of these state-of-the-art ammunition storehouses, which should go a long way to completing the storage requirements at the hub of Afghanistan's ammunition distribution system. Ultimately this will provide secure and safe ammunition storage conditions in the deployed locations of the ANSF throughout the country.
The most effective way to reduce weapons and munitions stockpiles is by concerted international efforts, regulated by legally binding treaties. The bigger the consensus, the stronger the moral authority, the more difficult it is for states to remain on the outside.
One of the principal strengths of a UN General Assembly resolution or an international treaty is that it acts as a lever for making finance available, particularly for international aid programmes. So it is to be hoped that an international treaty tackling surplus or obsolete ammunition stockpiles will bring about a fundamental re-assessment of this major problem.
Over 10 years, €50 million has been committed to NATO Trust Fund projects by more than 40 NATO Allies and Partner Nations. The European Union, the United Nations Development Programme, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe and some non-governmental organisations have also contributed to the success of these projects.
While this might be seen a huge investment, international efforts are still insufficient to tackle the issues, particularly for the disposal of excess ammunition stockpiles that remain in large quantities in certain nations .
Despite the best efforts to secure and dispose of obsolete stockpiles originating from the cold war era, much remains to be done. As NATO continues to develop relations with relevant international partners, more opportunities will arise to support destruction efforts worldwide. Until that time, mechanisms like the NATO Trust Fund will continue to provide a necessary vehicle to support such work.
The opinions in this article are those of the authors alone.


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"The age of children in the study … coincides with what's felt to be the sensitive period for speech and language development," Cosetti said.
Unlike antibiotics, she explained, ear tubes "may provide immediate relief from hearing loss related to middle-ear fluid — the value of which may be difficult to quantify in the current study."
To Sobol, the study "emphasizes the importance of creating an individualized approach to management."
The trial included 250 children, ages 6 months to nearly 3 years, who had suffered recurrent middle-ear infections — at least three within six months, or four within a year.
Hoberman's team randomly assigned them to have either an ear tube surgically placed or receive oral antibiotics whenever a new infection struck.
Kids given ear tubes also received antibiotics when a new infection arose — but by ear drop. If that didn't work, they switched to oral antibiotics.
One potential advantage of ear tubes, Hoberman noted, is that they allow ear-drop antibiotics. That could reduce the risk of bacteria elsewhere in the body developing antibiotic resistance.
Over the two-year study, though, there was no clear advantage of ear tubes when it came to new infections, or antibiotic resistance.
The average rate of recurrent ear infection was around 1.5 per year in the ear-tube group, and 1.7 in the comparison group. Infections declined in the second year in both groups.
Children with ear tubes did spend fewer days on oral antibiotics, the study found.
But the two treatment groups showed no difference in the likelihood of harboring antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the nose or throat.
Still, Sobol pointed out, there were some other advantages in ear-tube group.
For one, they tended to remain infection-free longer before their first recurrence. They also generally had fewer days with infection symptoms — with the exception of drainage from the ear.
At the same time, Hoberman said, ear tubes carry risks, albeit small. During the procedure, there can be bleeding or reactions to the anesthesia. In the longer term, the tube can become blocked or cause structural changes in the eardrum.
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Međunarodni dan volontera, 5. decembar, obeležava se u svetu kao podsećanje na dan kada je 1970. godine stvoren Program Ujedinjenih nacija za volontere. Cilj je podstaći što veći broj ljudi da ponude svoje volonterske usluge. Ljudi dobre volje, kako ih nazivaju, za svoj rad ne očekuju materijalnu nadoknadu, sem moralnih i društvenih satisfakcija, a pomaganje i posvećivanje vremena drugima smatraju izrazom ljudske humanosti, solidarnosti i uzajamnosti, kao i osećanjem odgovornosti za svoju zajednicu.

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Generalna skupština Ujedinjenih nacija je 1985. godine proglasila 5. decembar za Međunarodni dan volontera, kao podsećanje na dan kada je 1970. godine stvoren Program UN za volontere.

Motivi za volonterski rad izraz su visoke svesti i spremnosti da se odgovori na potrebe drugih i unapredi život u svojoj zajednici. Pored saznanja da čine nešto za "pravu stvar", volonteri su u prilici da dobiju nova iskustva, znanja i veštine i da ostvare nova prijateljstva i kontakte, kao i da iskoriste mogućnost stručnog usavršavanja i ličnog napredovanja.

Volonteri UN promovišu ideale volonterizma u celom svetu, pomažući najsiromašnijim i manje razvijenim zemljama.

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Kancelarija Programa Ujedinjenih nacija za razvoj (-{UNDP}-), preko koje organizacija funkcioniše, šalje volontere u zemlje članice, od kojih su dve trećine zemlje u razvoju.

Organizacije Ujedinjenih nacija imaju značajno iskustvo u 115 različitih profesija, a svake godine 5.000 volontera UN iz više od 150 zemalja aktivno podržavaju programe, fondove i specijalizovane agencije Svetske organizacije.

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Svaki treći čovek u svetu se bavio volonterskim radom.

Rezultati globalne studije "Glas ljudi", sprovedene u 56 zemalja pokazali su da je Srbija na 45 mestu svetske liste, a na drugom u regionu po broju volontera, sa 16 odsto ispitanika koji su u proteklih 12 meseci radili za neku neprofitnu organizaciju bez nadoknade ili plate.

Istraživanje u kojem je ispitano 60.000 ljudi, a koje objavljuje Medijum galup pokazalo je da je Bosna i Hercegovina sa 22 odsto prva u regionu po broju ljudi koji su se bavili volonterskim radom.

Bugarska je zemlja sa najmanjim brojem volontera i u regionu i u svetu. Svega 5 odsto ljudi volontira u toj zemlji.

Najviše volontera u svetu ima u Norveškoj, čak 57 odsto, zatim Luksemburgu, 55 odsto i Kamerunu 53 odsto.

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Was disturbed to see people celebrating 'Telangana encounter: Jwala Gutta
Published : Dec 7, 2019, 2:08 pm IST
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She also said that she was relieved that some people still shared her concerns.
Jwala Gutta on Saturday said that she was really disturbed to see so many people celebrating the encounter of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinarian in Telangana. (Photo: Instagram/ Jwala Gutta)
New Delhi: Shuttler Jwala Gutta on Saturday said that she was really disturbed to see so many people celebrating the encounter of the four accused in the rape and murder of a veterinarian in Telangana.
"Yesterday I was so disturbed n disappointed to see the kind of celebrations which took place that I just couldn't sleep. But also relieved to see a lot of people who showed the same concern as me-I just hope we all stand united and not lose trust in our constitution and judiciary," Gutta tweeted.
Yesterday I was so disturbed n disappointed to see the kind of celebrations which took place that I just couldn't sleep
But also relieved to see a lot of people who showed the same concern as me-I just hope we all stand united and not lose trust in our constitution and judiciary
— Gutta Jwala (@Guttajwala) December 7, 2019
Ten days ago, the victim left home on her two-wheeler in the evening to go to a doctor's appointment.
Later she called up her to say she had a flat tyre, and a lorry driver had offered to help.
Efforts to contact her afterwards were unsuccessful, and her charred body was discovered under a flyover by a milkman the following morning.
The incident created a national outcry with people demanding stricter laws for the crime against women.
According to the police, the four accused men, who had been in detention, were being taken to the scene of the crime, when they tried to escape and were shot at.
"The accused Mohammed Arif, Naveen, Shiva and Chennakeshavulu were killed in a police encounter at Chatanpally, Shadnagar today in the wee hours, between 3 am and 6 am," Cyberabad Police Commissioner V C Sajjanar had said.
Police said the veterinarian was brutally gang-raped and killed by the accused before they burnt her body in Telangana's Shamshabad on November 27. Her charred body was recovered on November 28.
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I know, by the score I've already made a few people go "What?!". Well tough. This film has been getting a lot of bad press, and to be honest I really can't see why.
Okay, it doesn't have a very intricate plot that makes you think, fills you with dread or ensures you are leaping out of your seat (although I technically did twice, then laugh!). It does, however, give you a fun packed value for money movie.
There are a good few laughs in it, and the special effects are excellent, sure there are a few moments when you see that Hellboy has suddenly become computer generated, but that's because we can still tell the difference, not because it was badly done. As for that, go spot when Abe is computer generated…no? Very good isn't it? Yes – well you cheated and searched on the Internet!
Ron Perlman is just superb in this, and his makeup is stunning. He really seems to play a perfect character, and from what I've seen, just like the comic book – although that doesn't have to be in movie adaptations.
Abe Sapien was very cool as well, played by Doug Jones, although the credit goes to David Hyde Pierce for the voice. Oh lord, Niles from Frasier!
The only thing I personally found slightly odd was the character of John Myers. Why was he there as he served no real purpose, and why were there a few references which hinted at him having some power but were left totally uninvestigated? Perhaps that's something for Hellboy 2!
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. cbs evening news is up next. we will be back on kpix 5 news at 7:00 ♪ ♪ ♪ o'donll: tonight, ns that a coronavirus vaccine approved in europe could help stop the spread of covid-19. so, when will that shot be available here in the u.s.? and could it only take one dose? as the country faces vaccine supply shortages, the question tonight about vaccinating our teachers. why the c.d.c. director says it's not required to get our kids back in the classroom. the future of the republican party. the house g.o.p. chooses not to punish conspiracy theorist marjorie taylor greene, as party leader liz cheney says she won't apologize for voting to impeach former president trump. honoring a hero. congress pays tribute to brian sicknick, an officer killed in the capitol riot.
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that super bowl parties could become superspreader events, and he's urging americans to please only watch the big game with family members they live with. well, we've got a lot of new reporting tonight for you and your family. our team is standing by. cbs's meg oliver is going to lead off our coverage tonight from new york city. good evening, meg. >> reporter: good evening, norah. today, vaccinations resumed at mega-sites like this one in new york city after that monster storm forced them to reschedule thousands of shots. it's just the latest challenge complicating the vaccine distribution nationwide. tonight, signs of a vaccine breakthrough. researchers in the u.k. saying the astrazeneca vaccine may slow the transmission of covid, and a single dose is 76% effective. it's still not available here in the u.s. it's in late-stage trials, but it's not been approved by the f.d.a. former c.d.c. director tom frieden. how quickly could that arrive in the u.s.? >> the astrazeneca company has
not provided the kind of transparent information that the other companies have. but it has some very favorable characteristics.g hool today, san francisco filed suit against its own school board, demanding in-person learning as quickly as possible. schools have been remote-only since last march. in chicago, a looming showdown, with the city pressuring its teachers' union to get back to the classroom now. half of all states are now giving teachers priority to get vaccinated, but the c.d.c.'s director saying no shot is required. >> that vaccination of teachers is not a prerequisite for safe reopening of schools. >> reporter: there is also a roll-out backlog. the u.s. has distributed 56 million doses of the vaccine. less than 34 million have been administered. cvs, the latest chain to announce in-store vaccines. the u.s. is shipping one million vaccines per week to 6,500 pharmacies.
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rapid tests as game-changers for classroom safety. norah? >> o'donnell: meg oliver with that new reporting, thank you. a growing number of senate republicans are denouncing conspiracy theorist marjorie taylor greene, as their house counterparts decide not to punish the congresswoman. this is sparking a fight for the heart and soul of the republican party. cbs's kris van cleave has the latest from capitol hill. >> reporter: tonight, an uncivil war inside the g.o.p. top house republican kevin mccarthy rejecting pressure to punish two prominent members of his party-- wyoming's liz cheney, under attack from trump loyalists for her impeachment vote; and georgia'or taylor greene, undirtrumics wh e assignme>>od ffor >>mments >> reporter: another recently- surfaced video from 2019 shows greene, an ardent trump supporter and q-anon follower, mocking parkland shooting survivor david hogg. >> because i'm looking at this
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use will now fine members mel tectoroutside eto avoid house floor.fumoment this morning, capitol police officer brian sicknick, killed in the violence on january 6 was remembered for his heroic sacrifice. the 42-year-old's remains lay in honor in the capitol rotunda. president biden and vice president harris among the lawmakers and scores of police officers paying respects... ( bagpipes ) ...before sicknick was taken to his final resting place at arlington national cemetery. leader mccarthy told house republicans today, he supportsen aan alogy. pelosi is calling mccarthy "cowardly" for not taking action against greene. norah. >> o'donnell: all right, that all continues up there. kris van cleave, thank you. and while house republicans were
battling, top senate democrats met today with president biden. topic number one was that huge possible compromise. cbs's ed o'keefe has late reporting from the white house. >> reporter: president biden today confident republicans will back his covid relief plan, despite little evidences they will. >> reporter: but utah republican mitt romney, who backs a much smaller, targeted bill, said members of his party will only get on board if the president cuts the size of his plan. >> if it goes forward without any changes from what was originally proposed, i would predict that not a single republican will support the $1.9 trillion plan. epte oa potential compromise: who is eligible for new stimulus checks. >> that money will go out the door immediately. >> reporter: mr. biden says he wants to fulfill a campaign promise of $1,400 payments, but might be willing to negotiate over who qualifies. ere haenclusn, butng that has certainly is open to having that discussion. >> reporter: with former president trump's impeachment
trial approaching, president biden tells "people" magazine that it's unlikely two-thirds of senators will vote to convict. but... >> i think it's important that there be certain basic standards, that people at least are able to see what happened and make their own judgments. i'm not looking for any retribution. >> reporter: bruce castor, who will represent mr. trump, said today that individual protestors and not the former president are at fault for what happened at the capitol. >> just because somebody gave a speech and got-- people got excited, that doesn't mean that's the speech maker's fault. it is the people who got excited and did what they know is wrong that are at fault. >> reporter: also today, more history from the biden cabinet.t openly gay mon egan j as a cabinet secretary. trsptaon secretary exa the iowa caucus. what a difference a year makes,
norah. >> o'donnell: indeed. all right, ed o'keefe, thank you. and this programming note: we'll be sitting down with president biden for his first television interview. it will air sunday during the super bowl pregame show, and we will have a preview here on friday. now to this story. tonight, video has surfaced of three minneapolis police officers charged in the death of george floyd making a violent wrongful arrest just weeks prior to floyd's death. and there are more accusations that the former officer who knelt on floyd's neck has used similar tactics in the past. here is cbs's jeff pegues. >> what y'all doing? >> reporter: police were responding to a 911 call and reports of a woman being held hostage in an apartment building. >> y'all wrong. >> reporter: as officer derek chauvin, who was a training officer, stood by observing, officers thomas lane, alexander keung and louis realivasquez ended up taking down adrian drakeford.
turns out drakeford was not armed as officers claimed, nor did he have anything to do withl call. the original call. the incident occurred three weeks before george floyd was killed, when once again, officers chauvin, lane and keung were involved. on may 25, chauvin, the training officer, took the lead, pressing his knee into floyd's neck. prosecutors will try to establish if what was captured on video was part of a pattern. zoya code's claim that chauvin used a similar tactic on her in 2017 will be part of the trial evidence. in a marshall project investigation, she says "he just lengim to ha, dst to ut me up." because aws on the bor the light of day. >> when you keep this kind of disciplinary record basically invisible to the people of the
city, they have no way to respond and no way to react except after the fact, and we can see the tragic consequences. >> reporter: chauvin goes on trial next month. the other three former officers are going to be tried together in august. meanwhile, on a separate track is the justice department's civil rights investigation into floyd's killing. norah. >> o'donnell: jeff pegues, thank you. tonight, two f.b.i. agents are home from the hospital after anb being wounded in an ambush tuesday in sunrise, florida. two other agents were killed. the suspect, who later killed himself, was identified today as 55-year-old david huber. he was wanted in a child pornography investigation. f.b.i. director christopher wray met today with the families of the agents who were killed. and tonight, we want to clear up some widespread misinformation about covid vaccines and fertility. the rumors have scared some women from getting a covid shot. cbs's nikki battiste continues our series, "women and the
pandemic." >> reporter: as production lines started rolling out the vaccine, social media began rolling out the rumors-- and they spread as rapidly as the virus itself. how often are you being asked by patients if the vaccine causes infertility? >> every day. >> reporter: jay huber is a fertility doctor in new orleans. he say there is no evidence that covid vaccine causes infertility. what is the biggest misconception? >> this concept that the vaccination will actually train the human immune system to create an antibody that can cross-react with that vital placental protein, which would ultimately cause infertility. >> there's a lot of emotion... because i've gone through this twice before, and it wasn't successful. >> reporter: stacey clarke, a 36-year-old nurse, is getting fertility treatments from dr. huber. she fears the vaccine could somehow affect her ability to get pregnant. >> what if there is something in
there that wasn't tested? will it cause, you know, females to be sterile? >> reporter: what have your discussions about the vaccine with dr. huber been like? >> he of course very much feels that there is enough evidence for me to get the vaccine. >> reporter: what do you need to hear, if anything, to change your mind about the vaccine? >> honestly right now i don't think there is anything that would change my mind. >> reporter: not even this. 35-year-old anna almendrala got covid after her fertility treatment, and wound up in the hospital. what do you say to women who are hesitant or do not want the vaccine at all, who are also going through fertility treatments? >> with the virus so widespread, you are either choosing between getting the vaccine or getting covid. >> reporter: almendrala says she's relieved there is a vaccine, and she'll take it. >> i was a couple days away from losing everything. >> reporter: nikki battiste, cbs news, new york. >> o'donnell: and there is still much more news ahead here on
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>> o'donnell: it's all about the numbers at super bowl 55-- number 12 tom brady versus number 15 patrick mahomes. but the real history will be made by number 53, in stripes. cbs's mark strassmann reports from tampa. >> reporter: we first met sarah thomas at a job audition nearly eight years ago. >> 29 again. >> reporter: the former collegiate line judge wanted the n.f.l. to hire her and make history. the n.f.l., at this point, it's the "no female league." >> is that what they call it? the "no female league." no. i know a lot of females are maybe inspired by that there's a gender barrier that's been
broken. >> reporter: she got the j. another barrmissispp outf bounda super bowl.e play tti difference and hear my tone. >> reporter: so when you have some 300-pound guy in your face, yelling about some call that you've made, what is that like? >> i was an athlete myself one time, and i joke about it, but i couldn't stand the officials. >> reporter: seven women now coach for various n.f.l. teams. two of them, assistant coaches for the tampa bay buccaneers, are also heading to the super bowl. >> it's not one step at a time. it's a whole walk at a time. >> reporter: amy trask was the league's first female c.e.o. for the then-oakland raiders. >> the growth has certainly been tremendous since i started my career. is dream47-yr-old'omas' ady y, dit.
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Dr Johanna Budwig was very specific in the drinks that were allowed on her diet.
All of these are permitted, but please note that coffee is not part of the diet other than as an enema .
No milk or sugar to be taken with drinks but the occasional teaspoon of cold-extracted, raw, natural honey is permitted.
Juices – freshly-made, any variety you choose, see juicing pages for ideas and recipes. Johanna Budwig recommends fruit juices on the Budwig Diet are consumed with ground linseed, The fibre in the ground linseed helps slow down the absorption of the sugars in fruit juice, makes them lower Glycemic Index/low GI which helps keep blood sugar and insulin levels stable.
Champagne – Johanna Budwig says that there is nothing wrong with a glass of champagne. See separate section on how best to enjoy the bubbly! She recommends are these wines are consumed with ground linseed.


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Romantic and unique honeymoon destinations!
Looking for unique honeymoon destinations? Cosy Tents located in the Hepburn Shire provides guests with a stylish and luxurious outdoor camping experience perfect for romantic getaways and newlywed couples. We were able to get in touch with the owners Jarek and Eva to ask a few questions about their vision and aspirations for their romantic outdoor accommodation. Such honeymoon destinations are great for those nature loving couples!
What was your vision for Cosy Tents?
Our vision was to create a unique experience that brings together the outdoors with the little luxuries and creature comforts of home. We didn't want to lose the real elements of camping, like the smell of the fresh air, the sounds of birds calling, watching stars and just being out in nature, but at the end of the day we still wanted to have a good nights rest and have a cosy bed to tuck into.
Our mission is to get our guests to "fall in love with the outdoors again". As kids, most of us have many fond memories of going camping with friends and family, but as we get older we find that we tend to fall into our busy lifestyles and just don't have the time to enjoy the outdoors as much. So we wanted to create an easy way for people to enjoy the outdoors and experience camping again without forgoing the little luxuries in life. Like the warmth of our beds, a hot shower and a fresh cup of coffee first thing in the morning! We also wanted to take the hassle out of camping, so you can spend more time enjoying yourself.
What inspired you to create this style of accommodation?
It really all started with our own experiences. We were camping on the Murray in Echuca and had a wonderful time. As we were sitting in our two man tent enjoying the sounds of nature we thought to ourselves how nice it would be to have a hot shower and a comfy real bed and still be able to experience this.
What designers or themes inspired you for the tent decor?
We were initially inspired when we first stepped into a canvas bell tent. There was something romantic about them. They have this honey glow when you stand inside one, it must be the way the sun's rays light up the tent. Every element we used to decorate the tents had to work well with the canvas and we looked for natural colours and fibres. For example we use raw hessian floors and old wood crates with added accents of white and stoney grey decor. We look for furniture that's rustic and natural and love the look of raw wood against the canvas backdrop.
What can guests look forward to when planning a night or two at Cosy Tents?
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The tents are very inviting, when guests first walk-in they will notice the large real bed positioned in the centre of the tent (queen size in our 5m tents and double size in our 4m tent). The tents are fitted with most hotel room amenities, including: 1200 thread count linen, goose down quilt and pillows, towels and robes, a selection of teas and coffee and even a bluetooth speaker to play their favourite tunes. Our larger 5m tents are also fitted with wood fire stoves for heating during the colder winter months.
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By Emily J. MinorGULF STREAM — Frank Anthony Bianchini, who moved to Florida in 1970 with his wife, Rita, to escape the cold and start another chapter in the family business, died at his home Dec. 17 surrounded by his family. He was 88. Born in Philadelphia on May 29, 1922, Mr. Bianchini — whom everyone called "Beke" — was one of 12 children in a hardscrabble, working class family that relied…


Cadastral map of village Pielnia, 1852, Austrian Empire.
A cadastre (also spelt cadaster), using a cadastral survey or cadastral map, is a comprehensive register of the metes-and-bounds real property of a country. A cadastre commonly includes details of the ownership, the tenure, the precise location (some include GPS coordinates), the dimensions (and area), the cultivations if rural, and the value of individual parcels of land. Cadastres are used by many nations around the world, some in conjunction with other records, such as a title register.
In the United States, Cadastral Survey within the Bureau of Land Management is responsible for maintaining records of all public lands. Such surveys often required detailed investigation of the history of land use, legal accounts and other documents.
The word "cadastre" came into English by way of French, itself from Late Latin capitastrum, a register of the poll tax, and the Greek κατάστιχον [katastikhon], a list or register, from κατά στίχον [kata stikhon], literally, "down the line", in the sense of "line by line" along the directions and distances between the corners mentioned and marked by monuments in the metes and bounds.
The word forms the adjective cadastral, used in public administration, primarily for ownership and taxation purposes. The terminology used for cadastral divisions may include counties, parishes, ridings, hundreds, sections, lots, blocks and city blocks.
Cadastral surveys are used to document the boundaries of land ownership, by the production of documents, diagrams, sketches, plans (plats in USA), charts, and maps. They were originally used to ensure reliable facts for land valuation and taxation. An example from early England is the Domesday Book. Napoleon established a comprehensive cadastral system for France which is regarded as the fore-runner of most modern versions. Cadastral survey information is often a base element in Geographic/Land Information systems used to assess and manage land and built infrastructure. Such systems are also employed on a variety of other tasks, for example, to track long-term changes over time for geological or ecological studies, where land tenure is a significant part of the scenario.
A cadastral map is a map showing the boundaries and ownership of land parcels. Some cadastral maps show additional details, such as survey district names, unique identifying numbers for parcels, certificate of title numbers, positions of existing structures, section or lot numbers and their respective areas, adjoining and adjacent street names, selected boundary dimensions and references to prior maps.
Scott, in Seeing Like a State, has argued that all maps, but particularly cadastral maps, are designed to make local situations tangible to an outsider, and in doing so enabling states to collect data on their subjects. He sees the origins of this in Early Modern Europe, where taxation became more complex. Cadastral maps, he argues, are always a great simplification, but they in themselves help change reality.
^ a b c "Cadastral Template - Field Data C4" (lists nations), www.CadastralTemplate.org, January 2008, webpage: CT-C4: also has term "cadastral survey" and other land records.
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I began making this puzzle on January 12, 2013, two days after Kevan Choset's "Wheel of Fortune"-themed puzzle appeared in the Times. I'm a big fan of "The Price Is Right", and like other classic game shows, I thought its cross-generational appeal would make for a good pop culture theme. I discovered that THE PRICE IS RIGHT, BOB BARKER, and DREW CAREY could make a nice 9/15/9 scaffold, and I started designing potential grids.
In my earliest draft, "Showcase Showdown" filled two symmetric 8-letter entries; however, I soon embraced the idea of making the "wheel" shape that you see in the puzzle, which somewhat resembles the 20-sided wheel they use for this game on the show. (If you draw straight lines to connect the letter sequence, you'll see what I mean.) The best visual approximation I could come up with required breaking the 16-letter phrase into 3-letter pieces connected by single letters. It was very fortuitous that the triplets at 15A, 33D, 57A, and 27D didn't require iffy fill.
I completed the first draft in 15 days — at the time a record pace for me — and sent it to Will. He liked the theme and asked me to revise some less desirable fill. The second draft was accepted in July 2013. Will made a few cosmetic improvements, particularly the lower-right corner, where I had NCAA and EERY(???) at neighboring Downs. Today, I'd certainly spend some extra time to smooth over little rough patches like that.
I'm especially happy with the longer Down answers I found I could fit in — LOVE BITES, BREWED UP, GAS RING, BEER CAN, IDLEWILD, and PG RATINGS were all part of my original draft. Getting the double stacks in the top-left and bottom-right corners was especially satisfying because of the triple-checked letters in SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN.
I was happy to see that my clues for 39A, 56A, 10D, 26D, and several other entries made it through intact or with minor adjustments. I continue to learn from Will's clue editing, and this puzzle was a lesson in precise, vivid cluing. A perfect example is at 48D, where my original clue was [Nonplussed response]. Thanks for reading, and thanks to Will for making it possible for me to share all this with you!
As a latchkey kid, I watched an embarrassing amount of terrible TV (which was *ahem* incredibly enjoyable). Sometimes I wonder what I could have done if I hadn't spent those three hours a day watching THE PRICE IS RIGHT. Sorry about that, world hunger, but the showcase showdown was on.
Is the show still popular? I sort of paid attention when DREW CAREY took over, but quickly forgot about it again. It seems a bit too niche to have an entire puzzle based around it, but then again, I do know a couple of die-hard fanatics. A few years back, a good friend of mine made it her mission to get her grandmother on the show (accomplished!), thus achieving the top line item on her grandmother's bucket list. Apparently ending world hunger was number two.
Neat representation of the showcase showdown wheel. I especially liked how it intersected THE PRICE IS RIGHT — so fortuitous to have those two H's in exactly the right spots. And I liked the symmetry of BOB BARKER on one side, representing the old guard, and DREW CAREY as the show's attempt to draw in another generation.
It would have been nice to have more theme density, as I was left with a sense of wanting more. I'm not sure what that would be — I'm sure I'm forgetting some catchy phrase related to the show? Also, I found the start position and direction of SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN odd. I tried to read it from the top, clockwise, but that gave the almost-making-sense DOWN SHOWCASE SHOW. The other natural orientation would be to start it where it is but go counter-clockwise, as is the standard with angular measurement. Either could have been possible, the former achieved by running THE PRICE IS RIGHT vertically.
Given only 47 letters of theme density, I'm glad Kyle made strong use of longer fill, giving us some great entries to give the puzzle more meat: LOVE BITES, BREWED UP, BEER CANS, even the kooky but great OK, SO… well done. The constraints are a little more difficult than usual, so Kyle does well to keep the glue bits to the esoteric TERCE and a bit of minor ATA MEI kind of stuff.
Rats, can't think of the catchy phrase. I have to come on down to the conclusion that my memory isn't what it used to be.
Average word length: 4.92, Scrabble score: 304, Scrabble average: 1.63.
Puzzle has 12 fill-in-the-blank clues and 2 cross-reference clues.


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Net Neutrality: What it Really Means, and How it Could Impact You
Lily Dane November 19, 2014
Net neutrality. That sounds like a friendly term, like something we all would WANT, right?
When I first heard people talking about Obama's attempt to push the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to "keep the internet free and open" I thought, well, that sounds good to me. Last Monday, in his plea for the implementation of rules for net neutrality, Obama used terms like "fairness" and "freedom." He expressed the need for more government control to ensure equal Internet access for everyone.
And he said that abandoning the principles of net neutrality "would threaten to end the Internet as we know it."
But, as with everything else that interests me, I had to research it for myself. Whenever a politician (especially one who aggressively forces things like Obamacare) pushes for something, I think it is natural to have some level of skepticism.
So, for the last week, I have been heavily researching this so-called "net neutrality" to find out what it is all about, and why so many support it.
In reality, "net neutrality" is as confusing as its name.
There are two pieces to this that need to be identified and explained before we go further. One is the term "net neutrality" and other is "Title II regulation."
What IS net neutrality?
Here's what Obama wants to you think it is:
"Net neutrality" has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas. That is why today, I am asking the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to answer the call of almost 4 million public comments, and implement the strongest possible rules to protect net neutrality.
Obama wants the FCC to "create a new set of rules protecting net neutrality and ensuring that neither the cable company nor the phone company will be able to act as a gatekeeper, restricting what you can do or see online." (Could it be that this is a way for the GOVERNMENT to restrict what we can do or see online? Read on to find out.)
Here are the rules he is recommending:
No blocking. If a consumer requests access to a website or service, and the content is legal, your ISP should not be permitted to block it. That way, every player — not just those commercially affiliated with an ISP — gets a fair shot at your business.
No throttling. Nor should ISPs be able to intentionally slow down some content or speed up others — through a process often called "throttling" — based on the type of service or your ISP's preferences.
Increased transparency. The connection between consumers and ISPs — the so-called "last mile" — is not the only place some sites might get special treatment. So, I am also asking the FCC to make full use of the transparency authorities the court recently upheld, and if necessary to apply net neutrality rules to points of interconnection between the ISP and the rest of the Internet.
No paid prioritization. Simply put: No service should be stuck in a "slow lane" because it does not pay a fee. That kind of gatekeeping would undermine the level playing field essential to the Internet's growth. So, as I have before, I am asking for an explicit ban on paid prioritization and any other restriction that has a similar effect.
How does Obama want the FCC to do all of this?
His explanation, in his own words:
So the time has come for the FCC to recognize that broadband service is of the same importance and must carry the same obligations as so many of the other vital services do. To do that, I believe the FCC should reclassify consumer broadband service under Title II of the Telecommunications Act — while at the same time forbearing from rate regulation and other provisions less relevant to broadband services. This is a basic acknowledgment of the services ISPs provide to American homes and businesses, and the straightforward obligations necessary to ensure the network works for everyone — not just one or two companies.
The "other vital services" Obama is referring to are public utilities like water and electricity. In other words, he wants the internet to be regulated the same way.
All of that makes it sound like Obama is looking out for American citizens, doesn't it?
Let's investigate.
Back in June, Tom Woods
talked to Berin Szoka about net neutrality and what it means.
Szoka is the president and founder of TechFreedom, a non-profit technology think tank in Washington, DC. Before founding TechFreedom, Berin was a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Center for Internet Freedom at The Progress & Freedom Foundation, and previously practiced Internet & communications law.
Please visit TechFreedom's net neutrality myth-busting website Don't Break the Net for a more detailed explanation of Title II and what reclassifying the internet would mean for consumers.
Here is Szoka's interview with Woods.
Last week, the Cato Institute spoke with Szoka:
Is Obama exploiting the confusion over net neutrality in an attempt to push draconian Title II regulation – and, ultimately, more taxes – upon citizens?
It sure seems that way.
He is misrepresenting what "net neutrality" actually is and what Title II regulations would actually do.
From TechFreedom's November 10 media statement titled Obama Cynically Exploits Confusion over Title II, Misses Opportunity to Lead on Legislative Deal:
This morning, President Obama called on the FCC to "reclassify" broadband under Title II of the Communications Act so it can ban all paid prioritization. TechFreedom President Berin Szoka responded as follows:
Title II means the very opposite of net neutrality. Even under Title II, the FCC can't legally ban all paid prioritization — only regulate it to make sure that prices are just and reasonable. In fact, Title II would authorize broadband providers to charge some price to content and service providers for carrying their traffic to users — and there's no precedent for the FCC from "forbearing" from this requirement in a market that it claims is a "terminating access monopoly." Title II would raise a host of other problems, including choking broadband competition, inviting regulation of the rest of the Internet and validating Russia and China's push to have the International Telecommunications Union regulate the Internet as a telecom service.
Obama's statement is simply a cynical political ploy, a way of playing to activists on the radical Left who have built mailing lists and a political movement on the most absolutist conception of net neutrality. Forbearance, the process by which many claim the FCC could make Title II palatable, will only be politicized even further by Obama's inflammatory rhetoric.
This is simply the opening salvo of the legislative fight over net neutrality that has been brewing for nearly a decade. No-blocking and transparency rules are uncontroversial: back in 2006, 215 House Republicans voted for them as part of badly-overdue update to the Communications Act. The debate has always been about two questions. First, how to craft a non-discrimination rule that bans anti-competitive behavior — but doesn't ultimately harm consumers? That means policing paid prioritization under flexible rules, not banning it. Second, how to prevent net neutrality from leading to larger regulation of the Internet? That means barring Title II, clarifying that Section 706 isn't a grant of authority, and giving the FCC narrow authority to deal with truly harmful broadband practices.
A legislative deal is possible, but both the President and Congressional Republicans would have to get beyond soundbites and start talking substance. President Obama's bizarre insistence that four million Americans supported Title II, when nearly a quarter of the comments filed with the FCC actually opposed Title II, doesn't augur well for the negotiating process. A more pragmatic president would have used this opportunity to work with Republicans and the dozens of Congressional Democrats who've opposed Title II on a legislative deal — the way that Clinton and Gingrich resolved welfare reform and the key debates of their day.
If FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler does what Obama wants him to do, the repercussions to Americans will be quite unpleasant.
If broadband is reclassified as a Title II public utility, the FCC will soon start taxing it – at an estimated $87/year per broadband household.
And then, there's this:
On September 18, 2014, President Obama signed House Joint Resolution 124, which includes provisions
extending the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) through December 11. The Act was previously scheduled
to expire November 1, 2014, and the extension gives Congress a chance to consider the ITFA's long-term
future during the lame-duck session after the midterm elections. (source)
Why is this significant? Steve Pociask, president of the American Consumer Institute Center for Citizen Research, explains:
Using existing state laws, these regulations would be free to tax Internet services as a regulated or public utility service. In addition, the Internet tax moratorium will end on December 11th, which will give state and local governments the right to levy Internet taxes on consumers. If common carrier taxes are any benchmark, we can expect Internet taxes on consumers to increase to a rate of 17 percent. Ironically, the increase in price would suppress consumer demand and block Internet access far beyond whatever "openness" could hope to be achieved by net neutrality. This would be regulatory mismanagement at its finest.
And what about privacy? Grant Babcock of Reason addressed this in his article Net Neutrality—and Obama's Scheme for the Internet—Are Lousy Ideas:
We know, indisputably, thanks to the heroic disclosures by Edward Snowden and the tireless work of journalists like Laura Poitras and Glenn Greenwald, that the federal government is attempting to use the Internet to build a global Panopticon, capable of accessing everyone's personal information at any time for any reason or no reason.
We also know that one way the government is trying to accomplish this is by securing the cooperation of private companies. You can attempt to thwart surveillance by using encryption—but encryption only protects data in transit. Once it's received and decrypted, it's an open book. If the government can compromise private data custodians, encryption loses a lot of its efficacy. This is exactly what happened to Google, which had its internal traffic bugged by the NSA.
Sometimes, instead of outright sabotage, the government pressures companies into turning over information about their customers. See, for example, the brave efforts of Ladar Levison, head of now-defunct secure email provider Lavabit, to protect his customers—including Edward Snowden—from the government's prying eyes.
But not all tech companies have the spine of Lavabit. What we risk doing by ramping up the government's regulatory authority over the Internet is to make it easier for the government to pressure ISPs, many of which are data custodians, to get what they want.
Babcock also points out that the government is not above using its "'legitimate regulatory' authorities to bully private actors." He references the heavily-regulated financial industry and the blackmailing of healthy banks into taking unwanted TARP money by Bernanke's Federal Reserve. The government's "Operation Choke Point" program, which puts pressure on banks to refuse to deal with people engaged in perfectly legal businesses the Obama administration, for one reason or another, doesn't like, is another example.
The bottom line? Obama's idea of "net neutrality" is not "neutral" and is not consumer-friendly. Not one bit.
Here's a heavily-researched video on the history of the internet and FCC regulations, related corruption, and why net neutrality is not good for consumers. It is long, but worth watching.
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Colorado Murder Suspect Was Out on Bond in Laramie County Case
Joy Greenwald Published: November 2, 2020
Weld County Sheriff's Office
A suspect in a Windsor homicide who was arrested in his hometown of Fort Collins Friday morning had recently bonded out of the Laramie County Jail, according to court records.
Trevor Daniel George, 32, was arrested around 9 p.m. on Oct. 8 after a Wyoming trooper saw him drive a truck off the road near the intersection of U.S. 85 and Yellowstone Road, north of Cheyenne.
Troopers reportedly found a glass pipe with meth residue and 3.0 grams of meth in the truck, and when they asked George where he was going he told them he was running from zombies and that he'd stolen the truck and two guns inside the truck to protect himself.
According to an affidavit, the truck was reportedly stolen around 6:30 p.m. from Fort Collins, but the guns did not come back as stolen or missing.
On Oct. 9, the Laramie County District Attorney's Office charged George with two counts of felony theft and misdemeanor possession of meth, and his bond was set at $3,000.
George waived his Oct. 23 preliminary hearing and, despite objections by the prosecution, his bond was modified to 20 percent of $2,000, which he posted on Oct. 26.
According to the Weld County Sheriff's Office, George was arrested in Fort Collins on Oct. 30 after detectives working a homicide in the 7900 block of Crossroads Boulevard developed information connecting him to a car stolen out of Windsor.
He was booked into the Weld County Jail on charges of first-degree murder and first-degree murder after deliberation, among a host of others.
Monday afternoon, officials identified the homicide victim as 30-year-old Ryan Ray Rogina of Greeley.
According to CBS Denver, Rogina was babysitting when she "reportedly heard someone trying to steal a truck ... went outside and was shot."
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Holger Sumelius (ur. 28 grudnia 1901 w Tampere, zm. 6 grudnia 1977 w Espoo) – fiński żeglarz, olimpijczyk.

W regatach rozegranych podczas Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1936 wystąpił w klasie 6 metrów zajmując 7 pozycję. Załogę jachtu Lyn tworzyli również Curt Mattson, Yngve Pacius, Ragnar Stenbäck i Lars-Gunnar Winqvist.

Brat Oscara Sumeliusa, również żeglarza-olimpijczyka.

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Fińscy żeglarze sportowi
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Uczestnicy Letnich Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1936
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What will happen to empty-nesters when no one wants their nests?
According to data from the American Housing Survey, from 1989 and 2009, 80 percent of new homes built in that era were detached single-family homes. A third of them were larger than 2,500 square feet. And most startling – "I checked my numbers over and over again," a bemused Nelson says – 40 percent were built on lots of half an acre to 10 acres in size. Now, he says, 74 percent of new housing demand will come from the people who bought these homes, now empty-nesters, wanting to downsize.
Demographics will further complicate this picture. We're moving toward a future in America when minorities will become the majority. But given entrenched educational achievement gaps, particularly for the fast-growing Hispanic population, Nelson fears that the U.S. is not doing a good job educating the "new majority" to make the kinds of incomes that will be required to buy the homes we've already built.
As the Hispanic population expands, and more baby boomers retire, the gap between the two groups in the housing market – expressed in unsellable houses – will only widen.
Roughly 7 percent of over-65 households move each year, and as people get older, their likelihood of moving from owning to renting gets higher and higher (it's about 79 percent for households over 85). By 2020, there were will be around 35 million over-65 households in the U.S. That year, Nelson calculates, seniors who would like to become renters will be trying to sell about 200,000 more owner-occupied homes than there will be new households entering the market to buy them. By 2030, that figure could rise to half a million housing units a year.
In that environment, he says, there will be two classes of seniors in America: those "aging in place" voluntarily, and those "aging in place" involuntarily because they can't sell their homes. Nelson is critical that "aging in place" will really be feasible for many seniors.
Our most recent housing crisis targeted all age demographics, including large numbers of young families and first-time homebuyers. The coming problem, Nelson predicts, will originate with – and primarily affect – America's aging grandparents already well into their retirement.


Actors Lori Loughlin and Felicity Huffman are among a list of names indicted in a large-scale college admissions bribery scheme. Here's what you need to know.
Actresses Lori Loughlin (Full House) and Felicity Huffman have been indicted in a major college admissions scheme. The college admissions bribery scheme involved many wealthy people paying to get their children into prestigious universities including Yale, Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman, and others were among those indicted. Lori Loughlin Hallmark movies are what the actress has been known for since Full House. The college admissions scam or college admissions scandal has already rocked the nation and captured the attention of those who know these celebrities from TV. Lori Loughlin indicted and Felicity Huffman indicted read many headlines.


I attended the Webinar with the Twitter Queens, and I think that might stick. 5 Min. after the meeting I went and signed up my Twitter account and starting posting. I didn't know how to use Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. Now I know how to use Twitter very well. I can see how you might be able to get a client or 2 from Twitter.
A question that I would have is why would people from Twitter follow me? Is it just because I post news my 360 virtual tours of the area or virtual tour industry news? I also have seen the Twitter Queens posting news throughout all of the day. I could post but I really don't have as much time as them to keep on posting the way they do. However the webinar did teach me something new that I really needed to learn and have been putting off.
Overall I am really happy that I attended the Twitter Queens Webinar. I will keep on posting news on Twitter and posting my Parma Virtual Tours and see if this will help my business grow.
As a hopeful SEO candidate to get my website www.alamoareavirtualtours.com on the first page or even within the first 10 sites on a search, I have been working and studying how, what and when to make changes or not to make changes for that matter. The free RTV SEO course you gave me as a virtual tour provider made me aware of the need to be diligent and persevere in becoming noticed by the bot crawlers.
Having said that, I can say that within, what, five months, I am either on page two or three of google, yahoo, dogpile and bing. However and it is interesting that each engine seems to crawl at a different algorithm. On one engine, I am found under L'oeil L'esprit. On another I am found as AlamoAreaVirtualTours, but not L'oeil L'esprit. On another I am found using the search 'San Antonio Virtual Tours', which leads to my local virtual tour provider website.
In March of this year we held our very first IMAGE webinar all about virtual tour photography and photography related topics. We started hosting the IMAGE webinars to help each of our virtual tour providers grow in photography knowledge and skills and become more successful with their virtual tour businesses. Since then we have held an IMAGE webinar each month. Since these webinars are recorded we have been developing a library of photography knowledge, and now…It's available online to all of our RTV virtual tour providers!!
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Thanks for all of your contributions in making RTV a better company every day!
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LADY AT THE BAT: Are The Yankees Really At Full Strength With Stephen Drew On Their Roster?
Are The Yankees Really At Full Strength With Stephen Drew On Their Roster?
Jacoby Ellsbury and Andrew Miller are two huge cogs in the Yankees' machinery, and their return to the roster yesterday went a long way in securing hope for a return to the playoffs. Ellsbury proved his legs were fine when he legged out an infield hit, and Miller notched his 18th save, as the Yankees beat the Athletics 5-4, setting up a rubber game at the Stadium this afternoon.
Assuming Chase Headley's calf is only a minor setback, the Yankees are now at full strength, and it looks as if their 2.5 game division lead might hold steady, or even increase in the near future. But, wait. Can a team with Stephen Drew on its roster be considered to be at full strength?
Drew's solo home run turned out to be the difference in the game last night, but he is still hitting well under .200. At this point in the season, "full strength" might not mean including Drew. It might mean Rob Refsnyder, who has been playing much better lately at AAA.
After about 90 games last season, the Yankees released Brian Roberts. Is the same fate awaiting Stephen Drew? No. The difference between the Roberts and Drew situations is that, last year, the Yankees were languishing in the middle of the division, and this year, they are in first place, expected to make a playoff run.
In other words, Drew's not hurting anyone, so leave him alone.