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But our Hot 100 entrepreneurs won't go down without a fight. If anyone's going to roll up their sleeves and battle through the recession, it's this determined bunch. When we surveyed the business owners in the list, 76 per cent of respondents said they have kept or increased their sales projections, despite the current climate.
Mike Pickles, the 50-year-old founder of Yorkshire-based box manufacturer Really Useful Products (87th), saw the recession coming. "We do a lot of business in the States so we had a window into what was going to happen on this side of the pond," he says. So he adapted his business model to survive the blow, cutting the firm's product development budget from £1.8m to £250,000.
Ken Kelly's been tightening his belt, too. Kelly made movies for five years before setting up The Furniture Practice (99th) in 1997. Today, his Clerkenwell-based company employs 14 staff and turns over £10m, working with architects and designers to furnish corporate spaces, health centres, hotels, apartments and schools.
"How am I making the business more efficient? Well, I'm working longer hours! We've also slashed our marketing budget," says Kelly. "We used to take clients to the PalmerSport motoring event. Now, we're treating them to barbeques on our roof terrace."
Sally Bailey, chief executive of fashionwear chain White Stuff (88th), was also quick to respond to the changing climate. When she saw the retail sector collapse last year, she took precautions. "We began cutting back on stock last October," she says. "But November sales were strong and, by December, we didn't have enough stock left for a January sale!"
While unemployment has soared above two million – with economists forecasting that the number could reach 3.3 million in 2010 – eight in ten of our Hot 100 respondents said they hadn't made any redundancies in the past 12 months. The Furniture Practice's Ken Kelly tells us he "hasn't let a single employee go". Ronald Garrick, managing director of TWMA (45th) is actively recruiting. With disposal services in hot demand, he says he's looking to hire another 20 people by the end of 2009.
Other Hot 100 entrepreneurs are making sure their balance sheets are rock solid. David Evans, the founder of performance improvement firm Grass Roots (86th), says he's been storing up all the company's wealth: "We have zero gearing. We don't owe anybody anything. And we have tens of millions in the bank. That gives my staff confidence that we can ride over difficult times. Ironically, we're picking up business like I'm putting on weight!"
Evans, who started the £284.3m-turnover firm back in 1980, says he keeps the company healthy with a "bonsai tree approach". He explains: "If the business is getting out of shape, I trim it. I adapt the company constantly – there are no sudden knee-jerk reactions. And I always give my employees a longer-term perspective than the next six weeks."
But that doesn't mean Grass Roots is immune to the downturn. Evans admits that a couple of his big clients have toppled under bad debt. "There's not much we can do about it. We can't get the money back; we just move on – that's life. And there's nothing like a crisis to train up our younger employees. It's not just the fittest companies that will survive this recession, it's the most adaptable."


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Southern Kaduna: Saraki Acknowledges Receipt of Petition, Seeks Accelerated Consideration
Abubakar Bukola Saraki, Nigeria's Senate President, today, Thursday 8th October, 2015 acknowledged the receipt of the three-page petition submitted by Senator Danjuma La'ah (Kaduna South) on behalf of the group known as the "Southern Kaduna Coalition," against the nomination of Amina Mohammed.
The Senate President thereafter mandated Senator Samuel Anyanwu, the Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges to ensure speedy consideration of all petitions submitted to the Senate against ministerial nominees before the October 13 scheduled date for the screening and confirmation of the nominees.
Senator Danjuma La'ah (Kaduna South) yesterday 7th October, 2015 submitted the Southern Kaduna Coalition petition against the ministerial nominee titled: "Petition against the submission of Amina Ibrahim Mohammed as ministerial nominee for Kaduna State."
According to the petitioners, the Southern Kaduna Coalition is an amalgamation of all the pressure and public interest groups of Southern Kaduna extraction with the objectives, among others, of pursuing the socio-political interests of Southern Kaduna indigenes in the country and in the Diaspora.
The petition reads in part, "In the discharge of his constitutional duty to appoint Ministers to form the Federal Executive Council, President Muhammadu Buhari had, on Wednesday, the 30th of September, 2015, submitted the list of the ministerial nominees to the Nigerian Senate vide your good office for screening and, possibly, clearance.
"At the plenary session of the Senate on Tuesday, the 6th of October, 2015, the list of the ministerial nominees was made known to the public.
"To our consternation, the ministerial nominee for Kaduna State was one, Amina Ibrahim Mohammed, who we have credible evidence to believe that she is an indigene of Gombe State and not Kaduna State as constitutionally required."
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Label Roundup: Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions – Limbes, Mütterlein, Aorlhac, & Hegemon (Reviews)
Wonderbox Metal gets sent a lot of new music, (which is great), but there's no way that everything can get covered unfortunately, (which is not so great). This new column hopes to redress this balance, if only slightly, by taking a look at a handful of releases that a record label has recently sent out that might have otherwise slipped through the cracks.
Les Acteurs de L'Ombre Productions has released some very strong albums over the years, so I always like to keep up with what they're putting out. Imagine my horror when I discovered that I was a good couple of months behind with their releases. To rectify, I've collected the three below for your delectation…
Limbes/Mütterlein – Split – Doom – France
The first release, which appeared back in August, is a split between two solo acts. Limbes seems to be the new incarnation of Blurr Thrower, and starts the split off with a single 25-minute track.
Howling with raw violence and underground atmosphere, Vérité is simultaneously inaccessible and immersive. The track is a fuzzy ball of darkness and ugly aggression, yet also within and alongside this come moments of understated atmospheric grandeur. The music sometimes has a blackgaze quality to it that's quite enticing, especially when it becomes more atmospheric. Vérité follows on nicely from Blurr Thrower's past output, and is strong addition to the artist's work.
After that we're on to Mütterlein single 19-minute track, charmingly titled Liars Wankers. I'm not familiar with the artist behind this band's previous work, but this track reveals itself to be a great introduction to what she is capable of.
Liars Wankers offers a distinctly different experience to that of Limbes' side of the split. This is a heavily atmospheric piece that mixes together elements of dark ambient, avant-garde singer/songwriter-style writing, and a doom-fuelled feeling of creeping catastrophe. The end result is an eerie and captivating musical journey that has some truly exceptional moments within its running time. It's slow and unhurried, and focused on mood and feeling over any other consideration. It recalls a mix of artists like Chelsea Wolfe and Lingua Ignota if they produced a track of harrowing doom. It's hard to express how much I love this song. Mütterlein has seriously impressed.
Don't miss out on this split.
Aorlhac – Pierres Brûlées – Black Metal – France
Aorlhac's bright melodic black metal is engaging and enjoyable. There's an epic streak to the band's music, but also a sharp and fast aggression. When combined, as they frequently are, these two aspects of the band's sound are extremely effective in making for a very exciting and energising collection of tracks. When a band combines speed, melody, and blackened atmosphere as well as Aorlhac do here, it's hard to dislike what they do. Although I've mentioned speed a couple of times now, there's more than just this here. The band texture their music with other paces here and there. It's at these times that the bass guitar, (which already has more presence than it usually does for this sort of music), makes itself especially known. Overall, the songs are well-written and very moreish.
I loved this year's album from Jours Pâles, and as that band and Aorlhac share a singer, it's great to hear his voice once more. His vocals are frequently just the right side of unhinged, while at other times they become unexpectedly emotive. I like his style a lot.
Pierres Brûlées is a very satisfying listen, and I highly recommend getting lost in it if you're a fan of melodic darkness.
Hegemon – Sidereus Nuncius – Black Metal – France
Despite being around since the late 90s, I've never encountered Hegemon before. Sidereus Nuncius is their fifth album, and I like what I hear very much.
Hegemon's music is aggressive and grim. It's played in the classic blackened style, with plenty of serrated riffs and melodic venom. I like that even though the core heart of darkness of Sidereus Nuncius is an old-school one, the band have still been creative with the construction of these songs. Some of the piercing melodies and threatening riffs are quite striking. The songwriting takes advantage of the band's creativity, frequently producing an unexpected sound here, or a non-standard riff there. It's all very accomplished and compelling.
Hegemon may have been around for a long time, but they're not lacking in ideas or passion. Basically, Hegemon are very good at what they do and Sidereus Nuncius is a very strong album. This is a record to keep returning to.
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With The ESOP Association's conference season kicking off, we thought it would be a good time to remind Association members and speakers of our policies and guidelines. The information is being re-printed below but can also be found on the Association's website here. If you have questions, please send an email to meetings@esopassociation.org.
In order to ensure The ESOP Association's educational meetings maintain the highest possible level of style and competence in a volunteer organization that values decentralized decision making with regard to the topics reviewed and as to who formally presents the topics to attendees, a Task Force of volunteers knowledgeable about the Association's meetings and decision style has developed policies and procedures for the selection of presenters by the Chairs of the Association's Advisory Committees at The ESOP Association's national meetings on technical and operational topics. These policies and procedures do not apply to speakers at Association chapter meetings nor those nominated by Association chapters for presentation at the Association Annual meeting. These guidelines also apply to presentations by Professional members of The ESOP Association's Advisory Committee on Ownership Culture.
It is expected that the Advisory Committee Chairs' Council will monitor these policies and procedures, and their enforcement. Under certain circumstances beyond the control of a chair or presenter, a policy or procedure may be waived. Circumstances such as death, serious illness, or accidents are examples, when a waiver is justified but a presenter's need to tend to her or his business or professional affairs would not justify a waiver.
A presenter who finds that s/he cannot, make a presentation, must notify the Advisory Committee Chair who selected him/her for the presentation as quickly as possible. If for some reason the presenter cannot contact the Advisory Committee Chair within two working days of the Association meeting where he or she was to present, the presenter is to notify the national office of The ESOP Association. The Advisory Committee Chair will then proceed to select someone to take that presenter's place for the upcoming Association meeting. Any presenter who does not honor this policy, and proceeds, on her or his own to arrange for a substitute presenter will be suspended from speaking at any national Association meeting sponsored by the national Association until after the date of the next year's meeting which is the same one he/she was scheduled to speak. For example, if this policy is violated with regard to the Annual Conference the suspension lasts through the dates of the next Annual Conference.
A presenter may not include someone in his or her formal presentation on her or his own initiative. For example, assume an advisory committee chair has selected ESOP Association member "A" to make a presentation. "A" does come to the meeting prepared to make a presentation at the appropriate time, but has arranged for another person to present to the attendees during her or his allocated time, as if the Advisory Committee Chair had selected that person as well. Any presenter who does not honor this policy will be suspended from speaking at any national Association meeting through the next scheduled national Association fall or spring conference. For example, if this policy is violated during the Vegas Conference, the suspension is through the date of the Association's next Annual Conference.
A. If a presenter does not submit materials for the proceedings book for those Association meetings for which bound proceedings books, or CDs, are prepared for attendees, that person will be suspended from presenting at any national Association meeting through the dates of the next Association spring or fall conference, which ever comes first. For example, if a person does not submit materials for the Annual Conference proceedings book, that person is suspended from making presentations through the dates of the next Vegas Conference. If the failure to submit is for the Vegas proceeding book, the suspension is through the dates of the next Annual Conference.
B. If a presenter does not submit a copy of his or her handout for an Association meeting at which attendees are not given a proceedings book or CD, or fails to provide a handout to attendees of his or her session, that person will be suspended from presenting at any national Association meeting for the same period of time as set forth in 3.A.
C. If a presenter does not comply with Subsections A or B of this section, the Chair of the Advisory Committee that selected that person to present may ask that the Chair of the Advisory Committees Chairs' Council to consider presenting to the Council the Committee's Chair recommendation that the sanctions of A or B not apply to the presenter, only after the appointing Chair considers the reasons that the materials required in A or B were not submitted for inclusion in the proceedings book or for handout. After Council discussion, the Council Chair may waive the sanctions of subsection A or B of these guidelines.
A Committee Chair will designate one presenter as the moderator for each session. The moderator will receive instructions and guidelines. If a person is designated as the moderator and coordinator of a presentation panel, and there is no evidence that the person actually did anything prior to his or her session to co-ordinate the presentations of her or his panel, that person may be subject to suspension.
The Association and the Advisory Committees' Chairs' Council will provide incoming Advisory Committee Chairs with a full orientation in the policies and procedures for presenter selections, in writing, and at the first quarter Advisory Committees' Chairs' Council held each year.
A. Advisory Committee Chairs will provide to each member of her or his committee the policies and procedures for presenter selections, in writing at least at one committee meeting a year, preferably at the May meeting, and will provide time on the committee agenda for a verbal review of the rules.
B. An Advisory Committee Chair will provide a written copy of the policies and procedures for each new member as the time that person is appointed by the chair to be a committee member.
The Association will periodically publish to all members the policies and procedures for presenter selections either in direct mailings, inclusion with the presenter notification forms, a newsletter article, and other means of suitable circulation that may be accessed by all members.
The moderator of a session has an obligation to urge attendees to fill out evaluations, and evaluations of the session should note whether anyone urged the group to fill out evaluations. The Moderator's Instruction at the podium for each session will include a reminder that the audience should be urged to fill out evaluations.
Presenters are required to fill out special "presenter" evaluations of the session in which they participated as provided by the Association's staff. Presenters will give their "presenter" evaluations to Association staff.
The Association staff is responsible for collecting evaluations of the sessions, identifying which Committee Chair appointed each presenter, and provide the evaluations of each presenter to the appropriate committee chair, and the incoming chair if known. No person, including the Committee Chair, incoming chair, or past chair is excluded from this process of having evaluations tabulated and delivered to the appropriate Committee Chair.
An outgoing Advisory Committee Chair shall give the incoming chair the evaluations for presenters collected during his or her term, a list of committee members under suspension, noting when the suspension began, and share commentary about presenters from the committee with the incoming chair.
Association staff will become familiar with evaluations and become familiar with evaluations of individuals, and each presenter's "ratings". Using discretion, the Association staff will directly communicate to an Advisory Committee Chair views that indicate that a specific individual has consistently received below average ratings on the general evaluations for two or more presentations.
An Advisory Committee Chair should not select a person from his or her committee who has received consistently below average ratings from evaluations as reported to him or her by Association staff.
1. Chairs of the Associations Advisory Committees select presenters of topic on technical and operational issues for the Association's national meetings. They select members of their committees first, then a member of the Association if no committee member is available or qualified to present on the topic. Although it should occur rarely, a Committee Chair may select someone to present who is not a member of the Association if no member of the Association is qualified to address the topic after consultation with the Association's chief staff officer.
2. A presenter must respect the educational intent of Association programs and avoid sales pitches for particular products or services. For example, it is permissible for a presenter to say, "I am so and so, and I am a partner/principal/shareholder/ associate, etc. with the firm of xxxxx. Our firm provides (brief summary of services)." Furthermore, if during a break or before or after a program session begins, an individual attendee asks the presenter about his/her firm or states that s/he would be interested in knowing more about the services, certainly the Association does not prescribe the answer, and expects the service provider will answer in a manner positive of his/her services, and possibly take the name and address of the inquirer for future communications that will directly tout the firm. An example of impermissible touting would be "My firm sells an insurance product that can solve you repurchase obligation;" or "My firm has developed a unique S corp, LLC, family partner structure that you should contact me about", or similar statements enticing the attendees to contact the presenter for services after the meeting. If evaluations indicate the presenter was touting, that presenter may be suspended. The Committees Chairs' decision should depend on evidence that touting took place.


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Bernard Wangler
Bud was born in Wilkie Saskatchewan in 1937 and later moved to Vancouver as a young boy and then to Port Alberni where he attended high school and met Charleen his to be wife and mother of four sons; Rocky, Ricky, Donny, and Danny.
After joining the Airforce in 1954, Bud was posted to Comox, BC, France, Red Deer, AB, Portage la Prairie, MB and finally back to Comox. Bud served in the Airforce for 25 years until he retired and built a couple of homes and eventually bought Sleep-Eze Waterbeds in Comox until he closed the store and opened Crazy Bud's sporting goods in Nanaimo.
Bud really enjoyed carpentry and was always there to work on projects of his son's and others.
Bud moved back to the Comox Valley in 2011 to be closer to family as his health was starting to fail. He suffered from strokes and eventually was diagnosed with lung cancer and dementia. He spent the last year and a bit of his life in Ocean View care facility in Comox where he passed away on Monday, September 19, 2016. The staff there were very fond of Bud and his sense of humour and stories he told.
Bud was predeceased by his father John of Calgary, his mother Yvonne of Port Alberni, sister Jeannie of Nanaimo and his eldest son Rocky.
He is survived by his sons Rick (Mona), Don (Marie) and Dan; grandchildren Christy, Christopher, Jesse and Cody; sisters Lyla Curly, Betty Headman (Malcolm), Doreen Cyr (Omer), and brother Gary (Lynn). He was especially fond of his great grandson River whom he had opportunity to spend a lot of time with in his later years. He also loved dearly his great grandchildren Layla and Bella and would have loved Kenny & Logan just as much had he had an opportunity to meet them. Memorial donations in Bud's name may be made to Ocean View (2137 Comox Ave., Comox, BC V9M 1P2) or to the Canadian Cancer Society (565 West 10th Ave. Vancouver, BC V5Z 4J4). Please join us in remembering Bud by visiting our memorial at www.piercysmtwashingtonfuneral.com There will be no service by request.
Bud will be missed immensely.


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I got to DJ the Tumblr NYFW 2015 VIP POP UP this year and it was crazy. I knew it was gonna be one of "those nights" soon as I walked in to Lightbox and Valentine told me to pick out a jumpsuit from Print All Over Me. The jumpers had artwork designed by artist from Tumblr, a couple being friends of mine, that were pretty bomb. So, I went with it. Everyone said that it was the only party during Fashion Week where people were actually dancing with one another. It felt great to see models, photographers, bloggers, editors, stylist and hell even designers all cutting a rug in the heart of Hell's Kitchen. Shouts to the whole GIF Gang for showing love since day one and all the homies that I ever cooked for who came thru. Love is Love ya heard.
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Subject: Daily Briefing: Enrollment Leaders Bet on Africa
Welcome to Tuesday, January 24. Today's Briefing was written by Kate Hidalgo Bellows, with contributions from Julia Piper. Write to us: kate.hidalgobellows@chronicle.com.
The next big thing in international admissions?
Last academic year, international students contributed nearly
Last academic year, international students contributed nearly $34 billion to the American economy, according to NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
But over the past decade and a half, much of that has been driven by a single country, China, which accounts for one in three of the nearly one-million international students in the United States.
Recently, the number of Chinese students on American campuses has cratered. A Chronicle analysis found that 45 percent fewer U.S. visas were issued to Chinese students for the fall of 2022 than during the same period before the pandemic. That could be a big hit to colleges.
China's decline has been a sobering and urgent reminder that American colleges must cast their global-recruitment nets more widely. But where? India has been the perennial No. 2 to China. Some colleges are looking to Mexico and elsewhere in Latin America, cementing ties in their backyards. Then there's Africa, home to more young people than anywhere else in the world. Of the continent's 1.25 billion people, 60 percent are under 25.
Our Karin Fischer recently attended a recruitment fair in West Africa, held by eight flagship universities from the American South. Read more here.
Racial and gender-based disparities in college-going rates disappear when students receive similar levels of academic preparation in high school, a new analysis from the Brookings Institution found. (The Chronicle)
The family of Stone Foltz, a Bowling Green State University student who died after a fraternity-hazing incident in 2021, has settled with Bowling Green for $2.9 million. (The Columbus Dispatch)
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has started a mobile-billboard campaign at Hamline University, in Minnesota, in protest of the university's dismissal of a professor who showed an image of the Prophet Muhammad in class. The messages, affixed to the sides of a truck read, "Art Censorship: Where Does it Stop?" (FIRE)
Nursing schools in Mississippi are rejecting hundreds of qualified applicants each year because of a faculty shortage. (Associated Press)
The University of Albany men's basketball coach, Dwayne Killings, pleaded not guilty on Monday to a misdemeanor assault charge for allegedly pushing a player against a locker and slapping him before a November 2021 game. The alleged incident has already been subject to a university inquiry and a lawsuit from the athlete involved. (Times Union)
Quote of the day.
"The academic labor movement is on fire right now."
That's from Irene Mulvey, president of the American Association of University Professors, who flew from Boston to the Windy City last week to join the University of Illinois at Chicago faculty members on strike. The four-day strike over minimum salaries ended Monday after faculty members and administrators reached a tentative contract. Classes have resumed.
The campus labor movement has been heating up since thousands of University of California academic workers went on strike for six weeks in the fall.
Bonita Brown, vice president and chief strategy officer at Northern Kentucky University, has been named interim president of the university.
Matthew Bethea, assistant vice president for development at the University of North Texas, has been named vice president for university advancement at Sam Houston State University.
Zachary Kramer, interim dean and professor of law at Arizona State University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, has been named dean of the Elon University School of Law.
Prasant Mohapatra, vice chancellor for research at the University of California at Davis, has been named provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of South Florida.
We've all been there. You're talking to someone and they use a slang term you don't know, so you consult Urban Dictionary for a definition.
Will Walker Jr., a graduate student in higher education at Indiana University at Bloomington, can definitely relate. Last week he tweeted, "I'm 23, work in student affairs, and am currently Googling the slang that these students use. I don't know how to make this make sense. Is this how older people feel?"
Yes, I shout into the void! For example, Walker overheard some students say a residential community smelled like "zaza." He and a co-worker asked their colleagues, who confirmed "zaza" was marijuana. It's too bad "zaza" didn't refer to pizza — wouldn't we all want to live in a dorm that smelled like pizza all the time?
In the replies, other higher-education professionals shared terms they'd had to look up, including "I stan," which means "I'm a big fan," and "no cap," which means you're being genuine.
What other terms have you learned from students or had to look up? Let me know at kate.hidalgobellows@chronicle.com.


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"With a penchant for building strong connections, I serve as a champion to address the sophisticated challenges that individuals often face."
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Michael Kaplan is a Wealth Advisor and CFP with J.P. Morgan Wealth Management.
As a partner of The Corbett Mason Group, Michael draws on his strong relationship management skills to deliver tailored financial planning for the team's high-net-worth clients and their families. With a penchant for building strong connections, he serves as a champion to address the sophisticated challenges that individuals often face.
Michael employs a thorough discovery process to identify each client's unique goals and risk parameters. He integrates these inputs with planning tools and modeling simulations to explore potential trade-offs and outcomes. Michael carefully considers both sides of the balance sheet to develop a suitable roadmap to help pursue personalized wealth management objectives— retirement, estate planning and customized portfolios. He serves as a liaison to the private bank to help address mortgage, lending and credit needs. Additionally, Michael has a special affinity for leveraging Exchange Funds to help diversify concentrated equity holdings while deferring any taxes from capital gains.
Enthusiastic about working with people, Michael collaborates alongside attorneys and accountants to help ensure that all recommendations align with the entirety of each individualized scenario. He is known for his ability to 'get the job done', and serves as the point person to guide clients through a myriad of opportunities and issues. Michael blends his business development and operational capabilities to foster an environment where clients can excel.
Michael began as an Advisor at Ameriprise Financial and over the course of his career, he has built a well-diversified background that includes technological skills, sales support and strategic marketing. He joined the team at Bear Stearns and transitioned with them to Morgan Stanley/Smith Barney. While there, he was named to the firm's Pacesetter's Club, a global recognition program for Financial Advisors who, within their first five years, demonstrate the highest professional standards and first-class client service.
A graduate of St. Lawrence University, Michael has amassed more than 15 years of industry experience. He holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM designation which empowers him to develop wealth management strategies that target short- and long-term goals.
Born in Greece, Michael had a global upbringing that spanned Portugal, Maryland and the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. He currently resides in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood with his wife and two daughters. Michael and his family like to take advantage of all that the area has to offer, including the city's vibrant food scene, time at the beach, the outdoor theater and art culture in nearby Portsmouth, NH, and the Berkshires.
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If you want to build boxes with splined miters, using a jig like this along with your table saw makes the job easy.
The cradle i s made of two boards attached at 45 degrees to two outer boards. Your box sits in the jig which rides along the table saw fence while the blade cuts a perfect kerf in each corner. Move the fence to make a second kerf in each corner if you like.
If you use a flat tooth blade, the bottom of the kerf will be flat and your miter key will fit right in. If you use an ATB (alternate top bevel) blade, you'll have a little clean up to do with a chisel in order to flatten the bottom of the kerf so the key fits snugly.
That's the groove created by a sawblade, the width of the saw cut, like in the last photo. Cute doggies!
The first time I used oven cleaner on my blades, as I was drying them off, I noticed some gummy stuff on my fingers. Hmmm. Turns out it was my SKIN——I hadn't read the directions on the can and had not worn gloves when using the oven cleaner. Eeuuww!
Oven cleaner does work great, though. Thanks Ron! I just read somewhere recently that Simple Green also works pretty well. Thought I'd try that next and save my skin.
Do you think you could build an instrument case?
Hmm, not sure Wyldth1ng. I do have a friend who builds musical instruments (harps, lyres, and bowed psalteries) as well as instrument cases. Probably he could build one for you. Let me know if you want his contact info.
It may be best to wait till I get back to the states, but I would like the info.
I'm curious as to why you don't add a piece on the jig that would straddle you rip fence. This would prevent any side movement while cutting.
Hi Joe, you certainly could add a piece to straddle the fence, but I believe it's overkill. You put sideways pressure on the jig as you run it through the blade, just as you would a board, so it stays tight against the fence. I've never had any problems with sideways movement, but you could very well redesign the jig to straddle your fence and remove any possibility of that happening.
Nice jig! I have some splined miters to do and have been looking at people's various solutions online. I like yours the best! Thanks for sharing.
Edward, good luck with your splined miters!


After a short break, its time to resume our always highly-anticipated monthly ranking for the ten most popular Street Art pieces of March 2016. As usual, this ranking is solely generated by our readers and the page views recorded on our server.
Taking the first spot this month is a brilliant piece by the Italian superstar Blu which was painted on the streets of Napoli. Ranking second is French-Tunisian muralist eL Seed and his highly inspiring "Perception" project in Egypt. Coming third is ROA and his adorable creatures which appeared in Belgium.
This month, despite the winter season, 8 pieces out of 10 have been painted in Europe and two in Africa. Quite unusual for America to drop out in our rankings.
Discover the full ranking for the third month of the year below and then make sure to drop your two cents down in our comments section.


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Three-time Grade 1 winner Monomoy Girl and recent Grade 2 Mother Goose winner Midnight Bisou, who ran first and third respectively in the Grade 1 Kentucky Oaks, will vie for supremacy in the 3-year-old filly division as part of a field of five in the 102nd running of the Grade 1, $300,000 Coaching Club American Oaks over 1 1/8 miles on the main track on Sunday at Saratoga Race Course.
Carded as Race 9 with an approximate post time of 5:40 p.m., the Coaching Club American Oaks will be aired on NYRA's flagship TV show Saratoga Live presented by Claiborne Farm will have live coverage as part of a show that airs nationally through FS2 and regionally on MSG+ from 4-6:30 p.m. ET.
Bloom Racing Stable and Madaket Stables' Midnight Bisou has already been at Saratoga, putting in her final work before the Coaching Club American Oaks on Saturday, going four furlongs in 50.73 seconds on the Oklahoma training track.
"She's training great, it's a tough race, but we're looking forward to it," said Asmussen assistant Scott Blasi.
After starting her career with back-to-back second-place finishes as a 2-year-old, the daughter of Midnight Lute, who was trained by Bill Spawr, started her year by winning the Grade 2 Santa Ynez on January 7 and the Grade 3 Santa Ysabel on March 3, both at Santa Anita, before heading to the Kentucky Oaks.
John Oxley's Gio Game will look to build on her strong performance in her stakes debut when she ran third in the Acorn last month on Belmont's Big Sandy.
Chocolate Martini, the winner of the Grade 2 Fair Grounds Oaks on March 24, shipped in from Kentucky earlier this month and put in a four-furlong breeze on Saratoga's main track, going four furlongs in 48.03 seconds on Tuesday.
Two-time Eclipse Award winner Chad Brown will hold a strong hand on Saturday at Saratoga Race Course as he seeks his fourth training victory in the Grade 1, $500,000 Diana for fillies and mares on the grass with an accomplished trio of Sistercharlie, A Raving Beauty, and New Money Honey.
The 80th running of the 1 1/8-mile Diana, the first Grade 1 of American racing's premier 40-day meet, will be joined on Saturday by the Grade 3, $150,000 Sanford for 2-year-olds. Both races will be televised live on a special, extended edition of Saratoga Live, presented by Claiborne Farm, airing on FS2, MSG+, FOX Sports Prime Ticket, Fox Sports San Diego and Altitude Sports from 4-7 p.m. ET. Local post time is 5:22 for the Sanford (Race 9) and 5:55 for the Diana (Race 10).
Peter M. Brant's Sistercharlie will be cutting back in distance on the Mellon turf course following a close runner-up finish in the 1 ¼-mile Grade 2 New York on June 8 at Belmont Park. In that race, her third since arriving at Brown's barn in 2017, the 4-year-old Irish-bred filly by Myboycharlie was bumped at the start and navigated through rivals with a late run to finish a head behind stablemate Fourstar Crook. In her seasonal debut, Sistercharlie came back from a nearly nine-month layoff to post a gutsy, 2 ¼-length victory in the Grade 1 Jenny Wiley on April 14 at Keeneland.
Hall of Famer John Velazquez, who has been aboard for all three of Sistercharlie's North American starts, has the return call. Installed as the 9-5 morning-line favorite, the pair will break from the rail.
Rounding out the Brown triumvirate is e Five Racing's New Money Honey, exiting a neck victory in an optional claiming race on June 21, her first start of the year. The Medaglia d'Oro filly won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies Turf in 2016 and returned as a sophomore to win the Grade 3 Wonder Again and Grade 1 Belmont Oaks in 2017.
Among those looking to upset the Brown train are Patricia L. Moseley's homebred Proctor's Ledge, who swept last summer's 3-year-old turf stakes for fillies with wins in the Grade 3 Lake George and the Grade 2 Lake Placid at Saratoga. She earned her first victory since the Lake Placid two starts back with a half-length win in the Grade 2 Distaff Turf Mile at Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby Day. Last time out, the 4-year-old daughter of Ghostzapper finished second in the Just a Game, running in midpack early and dug in down the stretch to get within a length of A Raving Beauty.
"Obviously, it's a Grade 1, so it's going to be a tough spot, but she looks like she fits in there," said trainer Brendan Walsh. "She's been able to run with those fillies all year. We're happy with her and she's doing great, so we're very confident she can run her best race and hopefully, it'll be good enough and we'll get some luck and be thereabouts.
Proctor's Ledge, 4-1, will have the services of Jose Ortiz from post 2.
Graham Motion trainee Ultra Brat will try to replicate her most recent effort, a 10 ¼-length win in the Grade 3 Gallorette on May 19 at Pimlico Race Course. Owned and bred by Alex G. Campbell, the 5-year-old Uncle Mo mare won the Grade 3 Marshua's River in her season opener and finished third in the Grade 3 Suwannee River in February before finishing a dull 10th in the Jenny Wiley.
"I'd like to think I've given her plenty of time since that race because it was a big effort and I wanted to give her enough time to get over it," said Motion. "She's done really well and I think she deserves another shot at a Grade 1. In the race at Keeneland, I didn't think she had the best trip, to be honest. She was very wide and things just didn't work out very well. I think when she did kind of make a move, she was very wide and lost all chance.
One race earlier, Starlight Racing's Tremont runner-up Sombeyay leads a field of eight in the six-furlong Sanford. Trained by Todd Pletcher, the juvenile Into Mischief colt broke his maiden at first asking, drawing off by 6 ¼ lengths on April 27 at Gulfstream Park, before stepping up to stakes company.
The 6-furlong Sanford Stakes, which will be contested over 6 furlongs for the 2-year-olds, will be the 9th race on the card and is slated to go to post at 5:40 p.m. ET.
The field of 8 is led by the horse that draws the rail, Somebeyay, who has been installed as the 2-1 ML favorite. But this contest, like most of those in the past, is certainly wide open with the addition of Lexitonian, and entry mate of the preferred pick; Strike Power, from the powerful barn of Mark Casse; and the impressive winner Bano Solo, who is conditioned by Steve Asmussen.
Somebeyay, a son of Into Mischief who cost $230,000 as a Keeneland September Yearling, is owned by Starlight Racing out of Louisville, KY and will be ridden by Hall of Famer Javier Castellano. He won his first start on April 27 at Gulfstream Park for Team Todd Pletcher, and then nearly took the Tremont Stakes at Belmont Park with a late rush, after stumbling at the start of that one. He recently trained up for this spot with a bullet work at The Spa on July 14.
His teammate, immediately to his outside, will have the other barn stalwart in the saddle, John Velazquez. He won his debut start at Belmont Park on June 27 by closing from well off the pace to get up and pull away at the wire. This one is a homebred for Calumet Farm, and is by the popular stallion Speightstown.
Casse, who has a barn chalk full of runners prepared for the Saratoga meet, has Strike Silver in this spot. He is coming off a gate-to-wire win at Churchill Downs on June 14. Beat a good one from his barn in Nitros in that one. He has been training lights out at Keeneland since that race, as well.
Hronis Racing's Accelerate, who has emerged as one of the top older Thoroughbreds in America this year, will pack highweight of 125 pounds versus nine rivals in the Grade II $200,000 San Diego Handicap Saturday at Del Mar.
Co-feature Saturday is the $200,000 San Clemente Stakes for three-year-old fillies at one mile on the grass.
In the sharpest form of his career, Accelerate will have regular rider Victor Espinoza aboard when he seeks to defend his title in the San Diego at a mile and one-sixteenth on the main track. He was an 8 ½ -length winner a year ago while packing 117, a race also notable for the fact 1-9 favored Arrogate finished a distant fourth in a stunning upset.
Accelerate, a five-year-old son of Lookin at Lucky trained by John Sadler, has won three of four starts in 2018, including two Grade I events, the Santa Anita Handicap and the Gold Cup at Santa Anita. In his only loss this season, he was second, beaten a neck, to City of Light in the Oaklawn Handicap. He also won the Grade II San Pasqual. After his victory in the '17 San Diego, he was second to Collected in the $1 million TVG Pacific Classic.
Opposing Accelerate will be Catalina Cruiser, Drayden Van Dyke; Dr. Dorr, Joe Talamo; Sharp Samurai, Gary Stevens; Two Thirty Five, Franklin Ceballos; Curlin Rules, Tyler Baze; Prince of Arabia, Stewart Elliott; El Huerfano, Tyler Conner; Dabster, Flavien Prat, and Harlan Punch, Martin Pedroza.
Dr. Dorr was unplaced in the Suburban at Belmont Park July 7, but prior to that was second to Accelerate in the Gold Cup and won the Grade II Californian at Santa Anita. Sharp Samurai was Del Mar's champion three-year-old last summer after winning the La Jolla Handicap and Del Mar Derby on turf. In from the East Coast is Harlan Punch, victorious in the Grade III Phil Iselin at Monmouth Park.
The San Clemente Stakes attracted 14 fillies – Rocking Ready, Ms Bad Behavior, Flammetta, Miss Sienna, Ahimsa, Dulce Ride, Streak of Luck, Animosity, West Palm Beach, War Heroine, Pursuing the Dream, Lexington Grace, Ms Pintour and Ollie's Candy.
Post time for the first of ten races is 2 p.m.
Ms Bad Behavior, one of three representatives from the stable of trainer Richard Baltas, was tabbed the 9-2 morning line favorite in Saturday's Grade II $200,000 San Clemente Stakes.
A capacity field of 14 was entered for the mile turf test for 3-year-old fillies. In addition to Ms Bad Behavior, Baltas will saddle Flammetta (12-1), and Dulce Ride (20-1).
"Ms Bad Behavior is coming off a (three-month) layoff and she should run well," Baltas said."Flammetta is getting better and better and she's stretching out after (two wins) down the hill at Santa Anita. And Dulce Ride just broke her maiden so she's short on seasoning, but I like her a lot.
Ms Bad Behavior, a 3-year-old daughter of Blame, has two wins and two seconds in four 2018 starts and career earnings of $182,640. One win came in the $81,000 China Doll Stakes in March at Santa Anita.
The field from the rail: Rockin Ready (Joe Talamo, 8-1), Ms Bad Behavior (Kent Desormeaux, 9-2), Flammetta (Geovanni Franco, 12-1), Miss Sienna (Mike Smith, 5-1), Ahimsa (Evin Roman, 30-1), Dulce Ride (Rafael Bejarano, 20-1), Streak of Luck (Kyle Frey, 30-1), Animosity (Drayden Van Dyke, 6-1), West Palm Beach (Flavien Prat, 6-1), War Heroine (Tyler Baze, 6-1), Pursuing The Dream (Victor Espinoza, 20-1), Lexington Grace (Gary Stevens, 15-1), Ms Peintour (Stewart Elliott, 20-1) and Ollie's Candy (Corey Nakatani, 6-1).


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Tielt-Antwerp-Tielt was a men's cycling race organised for the last time in 1968. The race was run between Tielt (West Flanders) and Antwerp. In 1945, a shortened version of 144 km was run with start place Antwerp and finish place Tielt. In 1958, Antwerp was both start and finish place.

The competition's roll of honor includes the successes of Briek Schotte and Rik Van Looy.

Winners

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Cycle races in Belgium
1938 establishments in Belgium
Defunct cycling races in Belgium
Recurring sporting events established in 1938
Recurring sporting events disestablished in 1968
1968 disestablishments in Belgium

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Salman Khan who has been a supporter of the Congress party since many years now and has even participated in the political campaigns for the party, is NOT doing so this year ahead of Lok Sabha Elections. There were rumours that he is planning to be a part of the rally for a Congress leader Pankaj Chaturvedi from Indore constituency but he denied the same on Twitter. He said, "Contrary to the rumours I am not contesting elections nor campaigning for any political party." Not just Congress, he will not even campaign for Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). The actor's Indore connect goes long back as he was born in the city, Palasia area to be precise and has even participated in a rally in 2009, promoting the Congress party. But he has refrained from doing so this time around.
Up next, he has Dabangg 3 with Sonakshi Sinha post which he will be shooting with Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Alia Bhatt for Inshallah! Aside from this, his production The Notebook coming up.


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Nick Adams es una recopilación de cuentos de Ernest Hemingway (21 de julio de 1899 - 2 de julio de 1961). En todos los cuentos incluidos aparece el personaje semi-autobiográfico de Nick Adams. Fueron compilados en un solo volumen y publicados póstumamente en 1972. El libro se compone de 24 cuentos y relatos, 8 de los cuales eran inéditos. Algunos de los primeros trabajos de Hemingway, como «Campamento indio» están incluidos, así como algunos de sus cuentos más conocidos, tales como «El río de dos corazones». La primera edición en español fue publicada en 1972 por el editorial Emecé en Buenos Aires.

Contenido
El libro se divide en varias secciones.

La primera sección, llamada Northern Woods (Bosques del norte), incluye las siguientes historias:
«Three Shots», «Tres disparos»
«Indian Camp», «Campamento indio»
«The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife», «El médico y su mujer»
«Ten Indians», «Diez indios»
«The Indians Moved Away" , «Se fueron los indios»

La segunda sección, titulada  On His Own (Por su cuenta),  incluye los siguientes cuentos:
«The Light of the World», «La luz del mundo»
«The Battler», «El luchador»
«The Killers», «Los asesinos»
«The Last Good Country», «El último buen país que queda»
«Crossing the Mississippi», «Cruzando el Mississippi»

La tercera sección, War (Guerra), incluye:
«Night Before Landing», «La víspera del desembarco»
«Nick sat against the wall....», «Nick se sentó contra la pared»
«Now I Lay Me», «Ahora me acuesto»
«A Way You'll Never Be», «Nunca te sentirás así»
«In Another Country», «En otro país»

La cuarta sección, Soldier Home (Soldado en casa), consiste de
«Big Two-Hearted River», «El río de dos corazones»
«The End of Something», «El fin de algo»
«The Three-Day Blow», «El vendaval de tres días»
«Summer People», «Gente de verano»

La sección final, Company of Two (Compañía de dos), se compone de
«Wedding Day», «Día de boda»
«On Writing», «Sobre el acto de escribir»
«An Alpine Idyll», «El romance alpino»
«Cross-Country Snow», «Cross-country en la nieve»
«Fathers and Sons», «Padres e hijos»

Críticas
La publicación del libro fue recibida con críticas mixtas. Como fue publicado después de la muerte de Hemingway en 1961, Nick Adams puede haber sido revisado y editado en una manera ajena a las intenciones del autor. Un crítico de The New York Times tenía esto que decir acerca de uno de los cuentos:
Por si solo, "Tres disparos" se erige como una viñeta del miedo de un niño, que recibe simpatía de su padre e impaciencia de su tío. Sin embargo, como parte del crudo y sobrio "Campamento indio", era claramente un exceso de carga, y sabiendo que había sido recortado, sólo se puede leerlo con admiración por el impulso artístico naciente y despiadadamente cierto que causó la escisión.
Sin embargo, otros críticos literarios elogiaron la publicación del nuevo material acerca de Nick Adams, ya que llenó los vacíos cronológicos en las experiencias del personaje autobiográfico, y por lo tanto muestra gran parte de la vida de Hemingway que, hasta entonces, permaneció inédita.

Notas

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Libros de 1972
Cuentos de Ernest Hemingway


The ability to engineer metal particles at the nanoscale in which plasmons can be excited, directed, and manipulated has led to the rapid development of the field of ``plasmonics''. Here we demonstrate that the Raman scattering of $\lambda $-DNA molecules with colloidal silver nanoparticles is drastically enhanced by surface plasmon excitations. Colloidal silver nanoparticles ($\sim $ 90 nm size) were assembled onto DNA molecules using the molecular combing method. Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectra were obtained and compared for different solution concentrations of the DNA/Ag system. It is evident that the SERS peaks were shifted to a lower or higher wavenumber, depending on the concentration of the solution. These different shifts of Raman frequencies may indicate that the different stretching states of DNA molecules in different concentrations probably influence the Raman frequencies. It is speculated that the coiling states of DNA molecules might be different in different concentrations, thus making it a promising method for the study of DNA functionalities and DNA-nanoparticle interactions.
*Supported by China NSF 10625418 \& 90406024, MOST Grant No. 2006DFB02020, and US NSF CHE-0415421.


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Q: How would I use JavaScript to remove a video after it finishes playing? Here is my HTML section..
<section id ="information">
  <video id ="videoName" width="800" height="400" controls
   onplay="myAnimationPicture()"">
<source src="video/videoName.mp4" ; type="video/mp4">
 Your browser does not support the video tag.
 </video>
</section>

Here is my Javascript section...
document.getElementById('videoName').addEventListener('ended',deleteVideo,false);
function deleteVideo(e)
{
    var elem = document.getElementById('videoName');// What you
    want to do after the event
    elem.remove();
}

Please let me know if it is even possible. What I eventually want to try and accomplish is after the user watches the video, the video is removed and is replaced with a horizontal menu for stats information.
Thank you,
Josh

A: You could do something like this:
document.getElementById('videoName').addEventListener('ended',myHandler,false);
function myHandler(e) {
    //remove video here
    //add menu here
}

Which attaches a callback function (myHandler) that gets triggered after the video is done.

A: Get the parent event target and remove the child ('#videoName')
function deleteVideo(e) {
  e.target.parentNode.removeChild(e.target)
}

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Q: Error:org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.forProjectDirectory(Ljava/io/File;Ljava/lang/Appendable;)Lorg/gradle/wrapper/WrapperExecutor; I upgraded my Android Studio to version 2.3 and I began to get this error:
Error:org.gradle.wrapper.WrapperExecutor.forProjectDirectory(Ljava/io/File;Ljava/lang/Appendable;)Lorg/gradle/wrapper/WrapperExecutor;

All my projects refused to build; both the ones using gradle  3.3 or any other version.
Before the update everything was working smoothly.
Please how do I fix this?
EDIT: SCreenshot

A: As with all experimental or newish linux builds, there are things that break. You need to make sure that both /opt/android-sdk and /opt/android-studio (if those are indeed still your paths) have root:users ownership and most files and directories need 775, others 755, and some files require 664 permissions. Of course you need to belong to users group. Listing every detail is, quite honestly and no offense, not worth the points. Best thing you can do to get it right is to create a virtual machine with the same ISO and check both ownerships and permissions after a fresh install. If you still get errors (most surely regarding install properties files), dig deep inside /opt/android-sdk and the component you are trying to install and change the file permission to 775.
Hope this helps you. I went through the same hassle just now.


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Erdogan files criminal complaint against Dutch politician Wilders
ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has filed a criminal complaint with Turkish authorities against Dutch far-right leader Geert Wilders saying that he had insulted him on social media, state-owned Anadolu news agency said on Tuesday.
Wilders is one of Europe's most prominent far-rightists and has been a key figure in shaping the immigration debate in the Netherlands over the past decade, although he has never been in government.
On Saturday Wilders posted a cartoon picture of Erdogan and captioned it "terrorist". On Monday he posted an image of a sinking ship with a Turkish flag on it. "Bye bye @RTErdogan. Kick Turkey out of NATO," he said under the image.
Erdogan's lawyers filed a lawsuit with prosecutors in Ankara on Tuesday, saying Turkish courts had jurisdiction on the matter because the insults were directed at Turkey's president, Anadolu reported, citing the document filed by the lawyers.
"Even though the crime was committed directly against the person in the presidential seat, the value that is being violated is the state's political government structure," the lawyers said, according to Anadolu.
They said the comments by Wilders could not be viewed as freedom expression and that Wilders had targeted Erdogan's "honour, dignity, character and reputation".
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the lawsuit as unacceptable.
"I have a message for President Erdogan and the message is very simple. In the Netherlands, we consider freedom of speech one of our most cherished rights and that includes cartoons, including of politicians."
Ankara has long been critical of the views and policies put forth by Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Sunday called him a "loser racist" trying to gain support with animosity towards Islam and foreigners.
"It is time for Europe to stop its spoiled, fascist-minded politicians," Cavusoglu said on Twitter.
Devlet Bahceli, leader of Turkey's Nationalist Movement Party and an ally of Erdogan, said on Tuesday that Wilders had "dark ties" with terrorist organisations.
"The degenerate leader of the Freedom Party has stooped so low as to call our president a terrorist. He has shown who truly is the terrorist, the fascist and the barbarian," Bahceli told members of his party in parliament.
The move comes a day after Erdogan urged Turks to boycott French goods over images of the Prophet Mohammad being displayed in France, which some Muslims consider blasphemous.
Wilders has frequently shocked the Dutch political establishment and offended Muslims.
He was acquitted in a 2011 hate speech trial for remarks likening Islam to Nazism and calling for a ban on the Koran. Last month he was acquitted by an appeals court of discrimination, although the court upheld a conviction for intentionally insulting Moroccans as a group.
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Q: Can't open many tabs with the same link using express puppeteer P/S : I change "networkidle0" to "networkidle2" and it works perfect, thanks to vsemozhebuty who help me in a comment of the topic.
I'm coding a web scraping using Express & puppeteer . Below code is a part of my code , it is trying to visit a page and reload if getting an error.
       // getting itemid from many requests and do task below

        let browser = await puppeteer.launch();
        let page = await browser.newPage();

        url = 'https://tiki.vn/' + itemid ;

       await page.goto(url, {waitUntil: 'networkidle0'})
                .catch(function (error) {  throw new Error(error); page.reload({ waitUntil: ["domcontentloaded"]});
        });

        const tikiproduct = await page.evaluate( () => {

                 // Doing some actions to scrape data

        });

        await browser.close();

       return new Promise( resolve => { resolve(tikiproduct); });

But i only visit the link successful 1-2 times. Other visits always throw error : " TimeoutError: Navigation timeout of 30000 ms exceeded " . I tried to set "timeout : 0" but the page is still pending without any errors. Sounds like last visit not finished or cleared but i don't know how to fix it. Hope you guys help me in this problem, thanks for reading.

A: Here the "TimeoutError" definiton on puppeteer docs https://pptr.dev/#?product=Puppeteer&version=v5.5.0&show=api-class-timeouterror
It is a very simple error but there is not enough code sample to say where is the problem.


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Q: $n$-th Symmetric tensors as subspace of $n$-th tensor Let $V$ be a finite dimensional vector space over $\mathbb{C}$.
Let $T^n(V)=V\otimes \cdots \otimes V$ ($n$-times).
Let $S_n'(V)$ be the subspace of $T^n(V)$ spanned by
$$(*)\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\frac{1}{n!} \sum_{\sigma} v_{\sigma(1)} \otimes \cdots \otimes v_{\sigma(n)} \,\,\,\,( v_i\in V).$$
Let $I$ be the ideal of $T(V)=\mathbb{C}\oplus V\oplus (V\otimes V) \oplus \cdots =\bigoplus_{n=0}^{\infty} T^n(V)$ generated by vectors $x\otimes y-y\otimes x$ for all $x,y\in V$. Then

$S_n'(V)$ is a complement of $T^n(V)\cap I$ in $T^n(V)$.

Q. When stating this fact in Bourbaki's Lie groups and Lie Algebra Chapter 1-3 (P. 16) or in Knapp's Basic Algebra (P. 287), I didn't understand what is the role of taking $\frac{1}{n!}$? The subspace spanned by vectors $(*)$ is same as that spanned by removing the coefficient $\frac{1}{n!}$ in $(*)$. What is the significance of term $\frac{1}{n!}$?

A: The reason why it is stated that way is that
$$
\pi\colon v_1\otimes\dots\otimes v_n\mapsto\frac{1}{n!}\sum_\sigma v_{\sigma(1)}\otimes\dots\otimes v_{\sigma(n)}
$$
is a projection onto the space of symmetric $n$-tensors, i.e., $\pi^2=\pi$.

A: The $\frac1{n!}$ factor doesn't affect the span, but it is customary to include in symmetrification operators, to make it an "average" rather than a "sum". It makes the operation idempotent, along with other nice properties.

A: See the last page (starting in the 2nd paragraph, but look especially at the final sentence) of http://math.stanford.edu/~conrad/210APage/handouts/tensoralg.pdf or the bottom of page 12 and top of page 13 of http://www.math.uconn.edu/~kconrad/blurbs/linmultialg/extmod.pdf.


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Most of the Internet marketing advice you'll read on the web today will tell you to always write for users, not search engines. This is very true, but I believe it is a bit of a misleading statement. I have seen articles and web sales pages, for example, that don't use keywords at all. After all, they're writing for users, right?
Wrong. I think we do still need to write for search engines, but not in the lame way of sounding like we're writing for search engines.
My philosophy is this. In business, the goal of your initiatives and activities should be to make more money. That's why you're in business, right?
When I first started in SEO, I was being trained in how to write articles that would attract backlinks (I know, it was a horrid practice but it was popular at the time). Being a trained journalist, at first I was grossly appalled at what I thought was the lowest quality usage of the English language, not to mention the poorest ethical claims that any of this stuff could be credible advice.
I still think good research is invaluable in writing, and I still employ some of my journalistic styles and skills today, don't get me wrong. But eventually, as I learned more and more about SEO, I figured out the crux of the matter. It comes down to this: do you want money or not?
The problem is, most people don't know how to write for SEO (which makes money). If they do write for SEO, they basically just keyword stuff, or they forget about keywords altogether. So, with that said, let's get to the good stuff. I'm going to show you some tricks I use to write for SEO without sounding like I'm writing for SEO (though sometimes it's blatantly obvious to the trained eye, but no one can help that).
I purposely started the title with a keyword I wanted to target, which was "WordPress security," followed by a more luring after-thought. The closer the keyword is to the beginning of the title, the better. You can also use colons to accomplish this effect, though I used a dash here.
I could have made the title, "How to secure your WordPress website" but that would have been one of a gazillion web articles with the same title and, more importantly, it wouldn't have included the keyword I wanted to target.
This title targets two keywords: "Web development case study" and "non-profit website." See how I did that? Optimizing that title actually landed me a new client, so this stuff works for real, I'm telling you.
I changed the noun to a verb, which I think is also more interesting, since action words tell more of a story, and people like stories.
Title tags are different than page titles. This section of our SEO writing article is talking about the Meta title tag that goes in the code of your site, not the title of your actual article (it's the title that appears in the very top of the browser bar, next to the favicon). If you use WordPress, you can see and change what your Meta title is on every page or post by installing an SEO plugin like WordPress SEO by Yoast.
Why do we care about the title tag when it only shows up in the code? Because it doesn't only show up in the code, it shows up on search results too, which humans read (as do Meta descriptions).
This is where writing for SEO and not sounding like you're writing for SEO can get hard. It requires thought and creativity. I won't lie; your job has doubled. You not only have to fit in a keyword, you have to make it sound good too. Oh and did I mention you only have 70 characters?
Ok, that was a bit cheesy (I know, I know I'm so wonderful), but you get the idea. The point is to be interesting while still using the target keyword.
One of the most annoying things about doing SEO audits for my clients is when no one ever thought to use a keyword a customer would use to find their company in the actual body copy of a web page.
I totally made that up (not a real life example), but I see this mistake all the time. Where in this short wonderful paragraph about how great you are does it say what you do or sell? Specificity will not only help your search rankings, it will also help your marketing efforts. You need to tell search engines AND humans what your site is about – what other way is there? Stuffing a keywords Meta tag with a bunch of irrelevant words like city names? I don't think so!
Totally strange way of speaking, right? That would be writing for search engines, and that's what people mean when they say not to write for search engines and to write for your users instead. But there is still a way to do this right, and to please both search engines and users.
There you have it. Yes, we do make an effort to include keywords, and maybe it's not exactly how we would talk in real life, but it does the job, and it isn't jarring, the way the 'bad' example above was. It also doesn't just say "we're the best," it explains details of how the company is the best. As my journalism teachers used to constantly drill in my head: "show me, don't tell me." We should all be applying that principle in our writing, whether for SEO or not.
Natural SEO Writing Rule #4: Use Heading Tags for Headings Only!
Always remember this: heading tags are not for making fonts bigger. They are for headings. Don't use them for paragraphs either!
The idea behind heading tags is to identify a section of content so that users know what to expect if they read all the paragraphs below it. In this light, it makes total sense to use a keyword, because if you are using a keyword, you are not only helping search engines understand your site, you are also helping your users.
This example hasn't used the keyword our imaginary marketing software company wants to rank for yet!
The keyword here is "e-mail marketing." The H2 tag could even just be "E-mail marketing" because in this case, it would make a proper heading that both sounds reasonable and helps users scan your content.
Following the H2 tag, there should be a paragraph proceeding, describing what the heading set out to introduce. Don't follow immediately with an H3 tag!
Do not use heading tags to keyword stuff, and do not over-use heading tags on a page because you think they will help you rank better if all your content is contained in them. Also, do not use heading tags in all your links – I often see menu items embedded into H1 or H2 tags; this is a no-no! And do not use heading tags to enwrap an image (another strange way of coding I often see).
I tried not to over-do it, and I tried to insert these words consciously into my article, heading tags, page title and Meta title without sounding like I was trying too hard. Of course they are noticeable (especially now after reading this article), but if I hadn't used them, how would a search engine know what this page is about? The idea here is balance – just be creative, use real sentences and headings, speak naturally and don't over-do it.
Today the blogging and online business world has made it so that we are not writers of epic novels, poems or professional news stories. We're taking care of business, literally. And taking care of business online means taking care of search and social visibility. So my stance is that, if you are going to write an article, it should make you more money (or drive more traffic to your site, if you are a non-profit or some other organization with an objective). If you write an article that no one reads, you haven't helped your business. The time when money and traffic don't matter is when you only care about art for art's sake, and that's ok. But then don't complain that no one except your mom reads your blog.
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Thanks for sharing this great article. I agree that the quality of posts stays important and not just the 'seo-trick'. That way you can combine creativity with effective writing for seo purposes. I use the relatively new tool http://www.webtexttool.com as a basic for my own teksts. What do you think of it?
I am sure you didn't intend to be hurtful, but I would like to ask why you used the word 'retarded'. As well as being harmful and cruel, it's lazy and unprofessional writing. What about 'stilted', 'unnatural' or 'fake'? I have edited so many texts where the author used an offensive word as a shortcut, and it always detracts from the writing, as well as being insulting.
As I said, I am sure you didn't intend hurt anyone and this is not intended as a personal attack on you. You may just not have been aware. I hope you will reconsider your use of the word in the future. You have a good article otherwise. Many thanks, Que.
Hello Que, thanks for pointing this out. It is now changed. You are right, and no harm was intended at all.
Really cool article and writing. Thanks!
this blog is really helpful! it really amazed how you come up with this brilliant ideas about SEO blogs. I'll share your blog to my friends who working on SEO Fort Lauderdale. Thanks!
its really a awesome post. thanks for sharing this..
It was a great article. I have a slightly different situation for SEO and I am hoping you can help. I am working with a couple sites where we have a number of authors writing regular articles. I don't want to start rewriting their titles every time they submit an article. They don't write with SEO in mind and I don't see a high likelihood in changing that. What do you think I can do to improve SEO despite that? I already use Yoast's SEO plugin.
Hi Ari, if I were you, I would hire new writers, or train the ones you have 🙂 I don't think this is a fixable problem in any kind of automated way.
I think it's great how you've listed a lot of the ways people try to insert their keywords.
Normally I like to make a list of mine, and then build the article/whatever around them, it's amazing how much spun stuff you see out there.
I studied software development at university and one of the subjects we covered was Artificial Intelligence and natural language processing. The Turing Test is the gold standard, and computers are way off this yet. To pass the computer must converse with a human, and the human must not be able to tell it's a computer which is talking with them.
Found it all fascinating. This is a great article, thanks a lot.
Hi Philo, thanks for your comment!
Not sure if I'm explaining it right. Then other times I've noticed it depends on your other SEO on-site and off-site "brownie points" and what your competition is doing. Like you mentioned about keyword usage, I don't think it's that rigid, and I don't think there can be a yes or no answer for every instance of this.
But I can say that if you don't use the word "in" in the example you gave, that would be writing for search engines, not humans and search engines together 🙂 Cuz no one really talks like that….
How flexible is Google on parsing search terms? If I target a term that is, for example, "Personal Injury Attorney Las Vegas", will a title of "Are you looking for a personal injury attorney in Las Vegas?" match that search term?
Also, this is a great article, but I think the people who really need to read it are the site owners who contract for content – in my experience many of them think search terms are rigidly defined and must be stuck in the article like signposts. I won't name any names, but it seems that a lot of the text brokers have crafted their sites the same way, to the point where sometimes with an understanding client authors just have to shove the terms up top to get past the gate.
Splendid article, Joyce – I really enjoyed it.
My favorite point is: "#3: Make Your Sentences Specific and Relevant" – I just wish this were required reading for anyone working on SEO.
Can't tell you how many times I've come across hypnotically boring text that's chock full o' keywords, but makes no logical sense and reads like it was written by C3PO.
I also love your point about making sentences specific and relevant. Sad thing is that, as a web dev, I've seen copy that's almost identical to the mock copy you wrote, "We are so amazing; we have a proven track record and have won many awards in the industry . . " but it never actually says what they do or why I should care.