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San Francisco & Golden Gate Recreation Area: Places to Experience Parks | Presidio of San Francisco | Oh, Ranger!
San Francisco is famed for its Painted Ladies, Chinatown, Golden Bridge and glorious bay. However, there is much more to this town than Ghirardelli Square and Lombard Street. Check out some of the exciting outdoor activities that San Francisco has to offer.
Within the greater San Francisco area there are multiple historic sites and parks. The Golden Gate National Recreation Area spans 75,398 acres of land and water and, as such, is one of the largest urban national parks in the world. The recreation area itself is 2.5 times the size of San Francisco and 28 miles of coastline sit within its parameters.
Alcatraz Island holds a notorious reputation for housing some of America's worst criminals. However, the penitentiary island did not start out with that intent. Initially Alcatraz served as a military base beginning in 1850. For 84 years the rock helped guard San Francisco. On the base there was a lighthouse and a military prison. Sitting in the middle of the San Francisco Bay, the prison created a world of isolation for inmates. The island became a penitentiary in 1934 and continued to be used as such for 29 years. Murders, tax evaders, bootleggers and burglars all took up residence on the rock. Al Capone is perhaps one of the most famous inmates to spend time in Alcatraz. The Chicago gangster, known for his role in planning the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929, spent four and a half years living in the prison. Alcatraz serves as an American icon and today can be toured. Take the ferry from Pier 33 over to the island, make sure to plan 2-3 hours for you trip.
In 1905 William Kent donated 295 acres of coastal redwoods to the government, which is now a monument honoring conservationist John Muir. The old growth trees were spared from almost certain logging and became one small patch of redwoods that once dominated the scenery. Take a stroll on the trails through the trees to explore the staggering giants. Some of the older trees in the park started growing almost 1,000 years ago and are still standing tall. The tallest tree in the monument stands at 252 feet and has bark that is 12 inches thick! Stand next to a tree 14 feet wide and get lost in what feels like a forest from the times when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
Angel Island sits smack in the middle of the San Francisco Bay and provides an extremely close getaway. The island features many activities including biking, hiking, camping, boating and touring. For those interested in the wildlife, California sea lions and harbor seals enjoy relaxing on the sunny rocks of the island, so be sure to bring along your camera to snap that memorable shot. For those history lovers, take a tour of the U.S. Immigration Station. The station processed close to a million people coming over to the U.S. to live on the west coast.
Don’t leave San Francisco without heading north to the Point Reyes National Seashore. Point Reyes is know for being located right near the migratory pattern of one of the largest mammals in the world, the Pacific Gray Whale. The winter is the best time to see the whales while they migrate from Alaska all the way down to Baja. Channel your inner Captain Ahab and set sail! For those land lovers, there is still plenty to do at Point Reyes. Take in breathtaking views of the California coast or go horseback riding near the shore. Be sure to check out the town of Point Reyes, which is home to the amazing Cowgirl Creamery.
The Presidio encompasses multiple historic sites, numerous trail and great locations to go fishing. The San Francisco National Military Cemetery, Fort Point, China Beach and Baker Beach all fall within the bounds of the Presidio. The Golden Gate Promenade, a 3.5-mile trail along the bay, runs past some of the areas most historical sites and right up to the bridge. The Promenade is a great location for a short walk with beautiful views. The Presidio is also a popular spot for pier fishing and crabbing.
If you are searching for the perfect picture of the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco skyline, search no further. At Vista Point, you can take in the stunning view from the other side of the bay. Don’t forget to hit up the Roundhouse for all your Golden Gate Bridge souvenirs. At one time, the building served as a restaurant for those passing by and heading into the city. Vista Point is the first stop off after crossing the Golden Gate Bridge out of San Francisco to the north.
Fort Point is rich in history from the Civil War and situated directly underneath the Golden Gate Bridge. Fort Point sits right on the bay, so close in fact that crabbing demonstrations are given 10 a.m. – noon from March to October. It’s a great place to take in the view of the water. For those interested in touring the fort, there are a variety of options. Visitors can take a self-guided tour or one led by a ranger. Learn how to load a cannon, how soldiers lived and how the fort was built while touring the site. There are also two short films offered, one about the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge and the other on the history of Fort Point.


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This week marks our halfway point in the 2014 Run For God program. Our group is doing a fantastic job of staying at it. We will start to see more time running result in greater improvement in how we feel and our overall endurance. I encourage everyone to keep trusting the plan! Thanks for your participation on Monday nights and your involvement in the study. I am hopeful that you are finding everything you hoped for in RFG III and more. I am truly blessed to be part of your race this spring.
Below are the slides to last night's session. The link to the sportsmanship video is attached. Also, I will be attempting to order shirts this week. If you have not indicated size and color, please do so quickly. Lastly, the ROCC 5k race registration is open, let me know of any questions. Have a great week - David.

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Published on May 22, 2014,	by JazzWeek in Latest Jazz Chart.
Back at No. 1 on the JazzWeek Jazz Chart is Monty Alexander Harlem-Kingston Express Vol 2: The River Rolls On (Motema). Most reported (58 stations) is Eric Alexander Chicago Fire (HighNote). The biggest gainer (+102), most added (+29) and top debut (No. 28) is Louis Hayes Return of the Jazz Communicators (Smoke Sessions).
Comments Off on May 26: Monty Alexander back at No. 1.

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NCC Department of Development is driven by the mission of NCC to improve the quality of life of the residents we serve by creating affordable housing that rebuilds communities and re-creates stable neighborhoods.
The Department of Development enhances neighborhoods by emphasizing a holistic approach to development that never loses focus of a community’s needs or vision. The Department of Development has been active from the beginning of NCC and has a staff well-versed in the development process, including both the financing and construction of facilities that create strength for communities.
Many energy-saving measures are being instituted at New Community’s residential properties. The improvements include the installation of high efficiency boilers, hot water heaters, boiler controls, ventilation systems, variable speed pumps, insulation and weather stripping. These improvements will save thousands, lower our carbon footprint and ensure residents’ comfort for years to come. Funding is provided by federal, state and PSE&G grants and loans.
New Community is New Jersey’s largest nonprofit developer of housing and has more than 45 years of experience in developing, selling and managing affordable housing. While today’s New Community is an all-inclusive provider of services to the community, NCC had its beginnings in the desperate need for affordable and livable housing in the Central Ward of Newark, New Jersey.
The projects that the Department of Real Estate Development pursues include traditional rental and for-sale affordable housing as well as support facilities for the homeless and others requiring safe housing assistance. The creation of these products is driven by the mission of NCC to improve the quality of lives of the residents NCC serves by creating affordable housing that rebuilds communities and re-creates stable and healthy neighborhoods. The Department of Real Estate Development enhances the lives of the residents it serves and neighborhoods by emphasizing a holistic approach to development that never loses focus of a community’s needs or vision.
The Department of Real Estate Development has been active from the founding of NCC and has a staff well versed in the development process including not only financing but also the design and construction of facilities that create strong and healthy communities.
New Community’s first housing development opened in 1975. Today, New Community manages nearly 2,000 units of housing as well as other community facilities that are home to some 4,000 people. The residential projects include rentals for individuals, families and senior citizens, and for sale affordable units.
The Department is currently developing projects that will include 109 rental units on Morris Avenue in Newark and a Safe Haven project for homeless and veterans, and is currently rehabbing hundreds of units of previously developed projects in Essex and Hudson Counties.

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Summer has instantly arrived over the past couple of days in the northeast! The past two days have been a triple H kind of a day, hazy, hot and humid. Which makes the article in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal so perfect, Sarabeth Levine described her ideal summer salads.
I love salads and all the different dressings available to me on a gluten-free diet! But, what I love most of all is growing my own salad. The sunniest spot in my yard happens to be my deck and this is where I have all of my containers. I planted the lettuce and cherry tomatoes last weekend. These are both low risk, high yielding options for a brown thumb gardener like me. I even bought a couple of strawberry plants for fun because they grow like absolute weeds and figure I would have a really difficult time killing them.
Last year I bought a bunch of herbs and just kept them in their little starter pots. I did not know that most herbs were perennials until a summer dinner party when the hostess showed me her herb garden and said she had planted it six years ago. She advised me to throw the herbs into a real pot with some good soil and then see what happened in the spring.
At the end of March, when we started doing some spring cleaning, I grabbed the pots that I had put on the side of the house and lifted the collection of dead leaves that had gathered on top to throw into the green waste bags. I was so surprised to see all of these little green leaves pushing up through the soil!
Mint, tarragon, thyme, oregano and rosemary had all started growing anew! Two months later, the herbs are absolutely flourishing. As I wait for my lettuce and tomatoes to grow, the Wall Street Journal Summer Salad article had some great dressing ideas using these herbs. One was to make a blender dressing using fresh tarragon is you are adding salmon or chicken to the salad. For a basic oil and vinegar, throw some basil, parsley and oregano into the blender. I just planted the parsley and basil so I will have to wait a week or two for that dressing.
For bitter greens, like arugula, lemon juice and a lighter oil such as canola oil, whisked together with a little salt and pepper is a nice combination.
My biggest problem with salads is that only one of four of my kids would be happy to see a big chopped salad with some chicken or fish on top. For that solution, I will turn to other articles on advice for getting picky tweens and teens to eat vegetables.

industry_corpus2: Agriculture & Fisheries


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If you later choose to delete your account (many people do as they find a new partner! Some of the bad adult websites keep it and sell it on to other dating networks who will bombard you with additional adult dating offers.
Hidden in the terms and conditions is this information and sometimes includes a complex method of opting out.
Often these sites have very few genuine female users, therefore making it near impossible to hookup.
Their sites are packed with inactive accounts which are used to trick you into sharing your credit card details for an upgrade.


text: Are you a die hard Starbucks fan? Or just like collecting all of their ''You are here'' mugs? Well Starbucks and Disney are offering a special set of mugs only available in the parks that they represent. Not coming to Disney World right now? Well while supplies last you can get them here from us.


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What do millennials, vegans, vegetarians, the wellness crowd and “Wall Streeters” all have in common? They're all early adopters of a growing trend in the restaurant business: offering cannabis-based items on the menu.
That’s according to a 2019 trends report from international restaurant consulting agency Baum and Whiteman. Members of each of the above groups have led consumer interest in seeing more marijuana on the menu at their favorite restaurant. Trend-setting eateries are already responding, and we’re not talking about the Maine restaurant that gets lobsters high before boiling them. Chefs in restaurants as diverse as juice bars, organic eateries and smoothie shops are getting cannabis on the menu.
In ranking marijuana menu items as a trend for 2019, Baum and Whiteman offered examples of restaurants that have already taken the plunge into cannabis-infused food and drink. In most cases, these items involve the use of cannabidiols (CBD), a chemical ingredient that naturally occurs in marijuana.
Although CBD is associated with health benefits that include pain management and relaxation, it is not to be confused with THC, which is the ingredient in cannabis that gets you high.
The Baum and Whiteman report includes references to a handful of restaurants. Here’s a closer look to give you some idea of where this trend is going. All these restaurants are, obviously, in states that have legalized recreational marijuana. Don’t expect CBD-laced truffles in Texas.
This vegan cafe in Stowe, Vermont, is offering smoothies, coffee drinks and baked goods that contain CBD. Part of the reason is that the cafe owner has Lyme disease and has been taking small amounts of CBD every day to reduce joint pain. In short, he’s a believer.
The cafe is starting out by offering smoothies and coffees made with CBD, including Jolly Green, Chilled Out Chai and Chronic. The cafe also offers to add CBD to whatever menu item a customer requests it on, including sandwiches or pastries.
In Burlington, Vermont, pastry shop Monarch & The Milkweed is offering truffles containing 20 milligrams of CBD. They come in two flavors: Andy's Mints, a liquid mint fondant encased in dark chocolate, and Strawberry Blonde, a white-chocolate shell that holds smooth strawberry fondant. The restaurant plans to eventually offer five varieties each day.
The vegan chain in New York City began this fall to offer the FEELZ line of CBD-infused food items that includes cupcakes, cookies, mini pies, popcorn, bubble tea and dog treats. The plan is to find out which are the most popular and then offer them on a regular basis later in the year.

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A Seoul court was set to decide Friday whether to extend the detention period of former President Park Geun-hye standing trial in a massive corruption case that toppled her from power early this year.
Park was ousted from office and arrested in March on charges of bribery and abuse of power in connection with an influence-peddling scandal. Her six-month arrest warrant expires Monday.
An additional warrant by the Seoul Central District Court can place Park under detention for up to another six months in accordance with the local code of criminal procedures.
Prosecutors asked the court to extend her detention late last month, saying it won't be able to finish courtroom interrogations of witnesses in the given time. Friday's trial is the 80th session of the court proceedings that began in May.
They pointed out that if Park is released, there is a high chance that she will not appear in the trial, which will seriously hinder the progress of the trial at the center of public interest.
Park stands accused of colluding with her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil, who has been also detained, in taking some 43 billion won ($37 million) from top conglomerates, including Samsung, and letting her meddle in state affairs.
The prosecution has claimed an additional warrant is possible based on the bribery charges related to two other conglomerates -- SK and Lotte.
Park's legal counsel has opposed the extension, saying it is not necessary for a trial that is coming to an end.

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German: status name from Middle High German grave, grabe, which was used as a title denoting various more or less aristocratic dignitaries and officials. In later times it became established as a title of nobility equivalent to the Romance count. The vocabulary word also denoted a variety of different minor local functionaries in different parts of Germany. In the Grand Duchy of Hesse, for example, it was used for the holder of the comparatively humble office of village headman. Compare Mayer, Schultz, and Vogt. The surname could have originated from any of these senses or be an occupational name for a servant or retainer of a count, or a nickname for someone who gave himself airs and graces. Variant spelling of Dutch Graef. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name selected, like Herzog and other words denoting titles, because of their aristocratic connotations.
Where is the Graf family from?
You can see how Graf families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Graf family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Graf families were found in the USA in 1880. In 1911 there were 26 Graf families living in Saskatchewan. This was about 34% of all the recorded Graf's in Canada. Saskatchewan had the highest population of Graf families in 1911.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Graf surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Graf ancestors do for a living?
In 1881, Cooper, Bookkeeper and Farmer were the top 3 reported jobs worked by Graf. The most common Graf occupation in Canada was Cooper. 33% of Graf's were Coopers. A less common occupation for the Graf family was Harness Maker.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Graf ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestor's social and economic status.
What Graf family records will you find?
There are 3,000 census records available for the last name Graf. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Graf census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Graf. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in Canada, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
There are 1,000 military records available for the last name Graf. For the veterans among your Graf ancestors, military collections provide insights into where and when they served, and even physical descriptions.
You've only scratched the surface of Graf family history.
What is the average Graf lifespan?
Between 1944 and 2004, in the United States, Graf life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1944, and highest in 2002. The average life expectancy for Graf in 1944 was 23, and 78 in 2004.
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Graf ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.


text: B and I joined hundreds of others in the Castro tonight to pay tribute to Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow flag, who died earlier today. Cleve Jones, who spoke about his close friend at tonight's vigil, told The New York Times earlier today, "It was his gift to the world. He told me when the flag first went up that he knew at that moment that it was his life's work. It needed no explanation. People knew immediately that it was our flag."


text: Newly listed 3 family home in Bay Ridge. Two 2 bedroom apartments over current medical office on ground floor (can be converted into a legal apartment). Apartments are in good condition with queen sized bedrooms, hardwood floors, ample closet space, tile baths, updated windows, windowed kitchens with formica countertops and decorative backsplash, and updated cabinets. Street level medical office has 5 rooms including patient waiting area, nurses station, 2 exam rooms, consultation office and two 1/2 baths. Easily convertible to a legal 2 bedroom apartment with some TLC. Updated gas furnace and hot water heater. Electric separately metered for each level. Detached one car garage plus carport located in the back of the property on a community drive. Located near all shopping and restaurants, 2 blocks from the “R” train 86th Street station. Bay Ridge offers great schools including Poly Prep Country day School, Adelphi Academy, Xaverian High School, Fontbonne Hall Academy, and several of the highest rated public schools in New York City.

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06.20.2004 - Attic vents are a common wildlife entry point, particularly for squirrels and rats. The above photos were taken at two different homes, one of which had a squirrel problem, and one of which had a rat problem. The rodents were entering the attic through improperly screened vents. You can see in the photo on the right that this vent used to have a screen of some kind, but it was very flimsy, and it eroded with time. Rats were able to easily climb right into the attic. I sealed off the vents with a heavy-duty steel screen. In the photo on the right, squirrels were using the attic. There was no screen at all installed on this louver vent. You can see that the squirrel did some chewing in the upper-right corner of the vent - not because it needed more room to get in, but because squirrels often chew at the entry hole. This building did not have any attic access. Thus, I installed a new steel screen from the outside, instead of the inside. Of course, I didn't install this screen until I had removed all the squirrels from this attic - they'd have gone nuts chewing out the wood had I sealed them in!
So if you have a critter problem in your attic, check your vents, and make sure that they are properly sealed, preferably with a heavy-duty steel screen.
Remember, the most important step in a total wildlife control solution is to stop the source of the problem - if you have wild critters in your attic or home, the only way to permanently solve the problem is to close all the entry points! This is a special skill, and it requires extensive knowledge of both architecture and animal behavior. Being a skilled repairman also helps. All repairs should be done in such a way that keeps animals out for good - this often means sealing with steel, and sealing openings so that they are airtight, with no trace of airflow for animals to detect. Remember, rodents can gnaw through almost anything, and raccoons can tear through almost anything. While it's important to trap and remove animals, and clean up the waste they leave behind, the most important step in solving the critter problem and in keeping animals out forever is to identify and repair every last critter access point into the building. Without this crucial step, the job isn't complete.
Do it yourself: Visit my How To Do Wildlife Repairs page for tips and advice.
Learn more: Browse my Examples of Repair Jobs blog to see some wildlife repairs in action.
For more wildlife stories, click my Wildlife Blog, or click my below banner to hire a local trapper.


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Munken Polar standard products are available as FSC® FSC-C020637, PEFC™ PEFC/05-33-99 and EU Ecolabel certified.

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Hacienda Heights is an unincorporated census designated place that is located in Los Angeles County. Perhaps the most notable landmark in Hacienda Heights is the Hsi Lai Temple, which is the largest Buddhist temple in Southern California and covers more than 15 acres of floor space. Additionally, Hacienda Heights is known for the Puente Hills Mall which was featured in the motion picture Back to the Future.
If you are facing legal charges in Hacienda Heights, you should probably speak to one of the experienced Hacienda Heights lawyers in the area. These attorneys regularly represent their clients in many legal areas including divorce, automobile accidents, contracts, real estate ,wills, criminal defense, DUI, personal injury, employment, business, and more.
The owner of a restaurant in Hacienda Heights is currently facing a lawsuit that claims she falsely advertised a sushi making class and fraudulent took the money of her students. The lawsuit claims that the owner advertised in a Chinese newspaper two positions in a sushi making class that would cost $3,000. Two students came forward and were promised a job in the Hacienda Heights restaurant upon completion of the course. The students paid up, and instead of making sushi, were instructed to clean the defendant’s house and do her chores. Before the completion of the class, the owner told her two students that classes would be suspended due to a shortage of fish. Instead, she enrolled another student with the promise of a job at her Hacienda Heights restaurant. None of her students ever learned how to make sushi, nor did they ever work at the restaurant.
If you have been the victim of some wrong in Hacienda Heights and you want to take legal action, you will most likely have to file your complaint at the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles. This is the largest and busiest court system in the state and this is why it is important that you have a qualified local attorney to represent you.
It is easy to give up your legal battle before it even starts if you have been having a hard time finding a great Hacienda Heights lawyer. This is where LegalMatch can help you. We offer you a free online service that can quickly and easily match your case to attorneys in your area that are excited about helping you and have the skills to do so. Best of all, when you use our service, you get access to hard to find information like attorney profiles and past client reviews.


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HJ Kingswood should be a very reliable bit of kit.
Holden's HJ series is the next development step along from the HQ, and the big styling difference is the squared-up American-style nose cone, giving it a more substantial if less elegant look than its predecessor.
At the rear, the car featured a new bumper and tail-lights.
It came in wagon, sedan, utility, van and Monaro coupe, while you had a choice of two sixes and two V8s, along with three or four-speed manuals and three-speed autos.
Around 176,000 were built over the 1974-76 production period. Located in WA, this example runs what was probably the most popular engine/transmission mix, which is the 202ci (3.3lt) six-pot red motor and the Trimatic transmission. It's a pretty bulletproof combination.
This car seems to have had a fair bit of maintenance work done on it over the years and presents very close to original spec. It's priced at $13,500.

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CAC0261 is regulated by 25 influences and regulates 0 modules.
Warning: CAC0261 Does not regulate any modules!
CAC0261 is enriched for 3 functions in 3 categories.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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I agree that /usr/info should not exist in sarge, not even as a symlink.
and even remove the symlink it created.
Then, and only then, it will be safe to remove /usr/info from base-files.deb.
(Feel free to reassign the bug back to base-files instead of closing it).
Same for /usr/dict. Please submit a bug against dictionaries-common.

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Richard Smith: Nestlé—a force for good or ill?
Nestlé, one of the world’s largest food companies, sells 1.2 billion products a day. This gives it huge potential for good or ill in a world where a billion people are undernourished, more than 2 billion are deficient in micronutrients (iron, iodine, zinc, and vitamin A), and 1.6 billion are overweight. So which is it, good or ill?
Readers of the Lancet and PLoS Medicine have been told that “big food” in general is a bad thing, akin to tobacco companies, and that Nestlé in particular is suspect. Nestlé is strongly associated with breaching the WHO international code on marketing of breast milk substitutes. These alleged breaches occurred in the 70s and 80s and led to a boycott of Nestlé products that still continues (but without much effect, as the company’s sales show). Indeed, the idea that Nestlé regularly breaches the code seems to be widespread, although it hasn’t been true for years and may never have been a major issue. This is a problem for Nestlé: once you are seen as a villain it can be very difficult to promote any other view.
Those attending the C3 Collaborating for Health breakfast meeting last week heard, however, from Janet Voûte, head of global public affairs at Nestlé, that breaching the code has long been a sackable offence. More surprisingly Nestlé is now the leading advocate for WHO’s recommendation of six months of exclusive breast feeding at the beginning of life in many countries—because, said Voûte, nobody else is doing it. (The meeting heard about the percentage of women in Scotland achieving six months’ exclusive breast feeding: less than 1%).
Nestlé has pioneered the concept of shared value. They define it as “going a step beyond corporate social responsibility to create value through our core business both for our shareholders and society.” The belief is that companies can only survive long term if they not only generate profits for shareholders, but also do good things for society. Nestlé has survived for a more than a century, which is much longer than most companies, and it is not listed on the New York Stock Exchange and so doesn’t have to publish quarterly results. The emphasis, said Voûte, is on the long term, which is made easier by some of the shareholders being fifth generation Swiss farmers. These differences have allowed Nestlé to escape the shareholder hostility experienced by Pepsico for trying to make existing products healthier and develop new healthy products.
The main targets of shared value have been improved nutrition, water preservation, and rural development. The company has set targets for reducing salt, fat, and sugar in its products, and one of the differences between a company like Nestlé and, say, WHO is that companies are much stronger on implementation and may be legally obliged to meet published targets. Nestlé manufactures lots of unhealthy products, like chocolate and ice cream, and it contemplated selling its confectionery business. But, said Voûte, “zero is not the answer,” and if the world is going to continue to have chocolate and ice cream then Nestlé can stay in the business, but reduce portion sizes and develop lower calorie but tasty products. Skinny Cow ice cream, hot chocolate, and candy are examples.
The company also wants to play a positive role, and it is doing this through supplementing its Maggi products (bouillons, seasonings, noodles, soups, and recipe mixes) with micronutrients. Around 200m people, most of them in Africa, use these, and the company has sold 100 billion Maggi products supplemented with iodine.
Interestingly Nestlé has also developed a health science business, trying to develop nutritional rather than drug treatments for conditions like diabetes and Alzheimer’s disease. Nutrition and healthcare is about 11% of the global business and contributes 14% of the profits. I can see that many people might prefer nutritional to drug treatments, and maybe adherence will be a lot better.
With 486 factories spread around the world Nestlé has great scope for reducing its water consumption, and its total consumption fell from 143 million m3 in 2011 to 138 million m3 in 2012, and it has a commitment to reduce consumption by 40% per tonne of product from 2005 values by 2015. An overall reduction in water use can be achieved only by reducing the amount used per product as overall production is increasing.
Reducing water consumption will reduce costs, something that’s important in all businesses, and the same goes for carbon emissions. Nestlé has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 24% since 2002. Over the same period the NHS carbon footprint increased by about 15%. Competitive pressure to reduce costs is strong for businesses but so is the social pressure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because companies are seen as “baddies” while health services are “goodies.” In many countries health services are exempt from reducing carbon consumption, which seems absurd to me.
The third part of Nestlé’s shared value proposition is rural development, and it has considerable scope here as it has contracts with 690 000 farmers, many of them in Africa and other low and middle income countries. As I learnt at the World Economic Forum Africa meeting in Cape Town last year, African farmers have huge potential to improve production and efficiency. But they must do this while coping with many problems, including rising temperatures and falling rainfall. Working with farmers is again self-interest for Nestlé because it needs a sustainable supply chain, but it has given financial assistance to 44 000 farmers and trained 27 000 farmers in 2012.
Just as there is division in the outside world so there is division within companies, and classically the researchers are keen on promoting health and the marketing people sceptical that financial targets can be met through encouraging healthy products. Voûte said, however, that with growing global concern over obesity the marketing people do not want Nestlé to be seen as part of the problem.
To many readers (if there are any) I must sound like an apologist for Nestlé, and when I attended the United Nations meeting on NCD in 2011 I spent some 40 minutes in a queue with a woman who talked without interruption about the evils of for-profit companies in general and Nestlé in particular. She would presumably like a world without such companies, but it’s impossible to imagine such a world. There will, of course, be times when the interests of the companies conflict with broader social interests, but that’s true of all organisations and individuals. (See our essay on the fallacy of impartiality). I’m convinced that companies like Nestlé have a vital role to play in promoting environmental sustainability and health, but just as we must all keep a critical eye on governments, so we must on companies.
Competing interest: RS works for a for-profit company, is the chair of a for-profit startup, and spent a year (at the expense of the BMJ) at the Stanford Business School, all of which probably incline him towards supporting for-profit businesses. And he’s a trustee of C3 Collaborating for Health, which avowedly believes that we can prevent the epidemic of NCD only with a “whole of society, whole of government” approach, which includes private companies. RS has no financial connections with Nestlé and doesn’t like instant coffee, but does enjoy chocolate.
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Google makes many changes to their algorithm annually (reported to be around 500+ or so a year), but the past 2 years have had two significant updates: Panda and Penguin. With the most recent Penguin update to their algorithm, we’ve seen some websites drastically affected to the negative. Some websites we believe have been very unfairly attacked like our heating company client MM Comfort Systems who’s run an incredible business for 3 decades. We know of two other websites that are the leaders in their verticals and they’ve been sharply affected where they’ve lost tons of traffic due to Penguin.
Well, it’s now going national with the Wall Street Journal showing how it’s basically killing other great businesses.
So, I could understand if the websites were very spammy themselves or if they provided no content at all, but what the heck are all the manual raters doing at this time and frankly, what does google think this recent algorithm has done to truly “enhance their results?” I’d love for them to report or show some proof how this major change has improved the state of search.
Unfortunately, google has too much vested in their Adwords platform to frankly not disrupt organic search engine optimization at least regularly. It makes too much sense for them to destroy or basically “warn businesses” they either need to pay to play.


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Target has announced plans to unveil a new clothing line designed specifically for plus-size women.
The line, expected to arrive in mid-February, was designed by Target's in-house design team and features "stylish basics along with trend-driven statement pieces that fashionistas will love," the company said in a release Wednesday.
Similar to Target’s other apparel line, the new AVA & VIV clothing will be updated monthly, with prices ranging from $10 to $79.99.
As part of their latest line launch, the Minneapolis-based retailer enlisted the help of a blogger who once called for a boycott of the company. Chastity Garner, along with fellow plus-size bloggers Gabi Gregg and Nicolette Mason, were hired to help promote the line and give feedback on the newest collection.
Last August, Garner announced she was boycotting Target after the company released their Altuzarra for Target collection.
"Year after year, season after season, you put out these gorgeous designer collections and you almost never include a plus range. Every time each of these collections is about to be released it feels like a slap in the face," Garner wrote. “You may ask, ‘Is there any way I will take you back?’ I will take you back, when and only when, you include true plus sizes in your designer range collaborations. Until then, I will take my money elsewhere."
The line will be available on Target.com on Feb. 22 and will arrive in stores mid-February through March, the company said.


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And yet he has been endorsed by the governor according to today’s DP.
Yes, he owned the New Balance outlets in VA Beach, Richmond and Charlottesville and was doing well. Then New Balance started allowing other stores to carry its products, even TV shopping channels and he lost his clientele. He closed VA Beach, then he closed Richmond and then he had to close his store in Charlottesville. Its a sad story because he had no control over his substantial investments.
He is not well thought of in the namesake of his district (the Town of Scottsville).
He offered to help a local ailing business and asked to see their books, after which instead off offering solutions, he instead offered to lease the business from the business owner. The business owner rejected the offer.
After that- He offered to purchase a local BBQ restaurant. He was reject. So he went to the land lord of that establishment and made an offer. The BBQ restaurant received notice that their lease would not be renewed. They had to close. Mr Norwood’s daughter now operates a restaurant from that same location.


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Monday evening there was a reception for the man in charge of getting us money through the state department. I met up with Kristin and Ellen, and we headed over there together. It was a nice chance to meet some of the senior scholars, and the coordinators involved over here in Sofia.
They provided us with some excellent hors-d'oeuvres, as well as some rakia and wine. Rakia is a Bulgarian plum brandy and very strong. It is great for a night of Bulgarian folk dancing, but not for a night of social networking and mingling, so I stayed clear.
Anyways, the most interesting conversation I had was with a couple of the Bulgarian Fulbright coordinators. Somehow, we got onto the topic of politics, and it became this huge discussion. Apparently the current government is trying to cut down on the education budget, and these commissioners, of course, are educators. We ended up talking about the political situation in Bulgaria, and to what extent it is effective. In terms of political parties, it does not seem like there is any sort of true ideological backing for the party. All of the parties pretty much have the same agenda. Politics is kind of just a game, and people are fighting for the power, not for any sort of ideology. Then again, that isn't that much different than any other country.
However, I was curious about how close the average citizen felt to politics. In the US, there is a lot of political participation through various groups and organizations, and I was curious if it was similar in Bulgaria. According to what I've read, Bulgaria had a decent growth in the civil society since the fall of communism. However, it seems like it has a long way to go. From what I've witnessed, there is a pretty large gap between the elites and the common Bulgarian. Civil society is an important part of a stable and productive democracy, and hopefully it can grow and dispel some of the pessimism I feel in Bulgaria when talking about politics.

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If you or your company already has a website, up-and-running, that’s great! You may also be in the position where you understand the importance of content creation and have decided that having a blog or creating audio or video content is a going to help you to generate more traffic and that ultimately this will help to develop more leads and close more sales. If you’re not sure, read “Why Your Company Website Needs a Blog Section”.
Unfortunately, many people then run into the reality of running a blog or generating high-quality articles, or audio or video content, on a regular basis. Posts can become sporadic, and even dry up altogether. And this can actually harm your website, because when visitors arrive they might see a really old date alongside the latest blogpost, and start to question whether the site is still active. Does the company still exist? This can lead to higher bounce rates and lower levels of interaction.
So, there comes a point in the development of many blog and corporate sites where the understanding is there, and the intentions are right, but the reality is different.
Why is this? Well, it’s often due to the fact that the person responsible for the blog runs out of time (they may have many other responsibilities within the company) or ideas (this can often happen in specialist niches where it sometimes appears, at first sight, that there are no other relevant topics).
In order to get started, you should think about what type of content you would like to release. There are many different content types available but generally they fit into the categories of written, audio or video. There are other categories of course, such as Instagram posts, which is more image-based and so perhaps they don’t fit into one of the aforementioned categories. But for many starting out in content creation, the categorization is useful.
It is often a good idea to start out with written content. The reason for this is that producing written content is relatively easy (it is usually easier to produce than audio or video content), it is easy to publish and has very clear SEO benefits. If the written content that you produce is relevant and high-quality, then over time others will find it, read it, share it and link to it, all of which will serve to enhance your Search Engine Ranking Position on Google.
Of course, that is not the case for everyone. Some people prefer to produce audio (such as a podcast), for example, and then generate “SEO juice” by producing a transcript to accompany the audio.
But, generally speaking, written content is a good place to start. If you decide on this course of action then it is also important to consider how often you would like to post, and how long those posts are going to be. Regular posting not only gets you into a good habit, it is also well regarded by search engines, and so by posting great content on a regular basis, you are probably going to get more exposure for your business.
There has also been a lot written about whether it is best to post short-form (say 500 words) or long-form (say 2,500 words) content. I think there are certain merits in producing different lengths of content, and I know some content writers also adopt the approach that a piece of content should be “as long as it needs to be”. Whatever you decide, it helps to have a target number of words to aim for.
The other component is frequency. How often are you going to release content? There are some bloggers who release a new post every single day, and there are others who post extremely detailed posts on an infrequent basis. There is no right answer, but I think that for many companies starting out, a weekly schedule makes sense. Releasing content weekly enables companies to release a good amount of content, and creates plenty of opportunities for sharing.
As an example, for one of our clients, we produce one 1,000 word blog article every week. It’s easy to make sure we are on track, and we are able to plan out the content in advance.
There are times when writing or producing audio or video content is not the most difficult part of the process. Instead, it’s coming up with great content ideas on a regular basis.
This is due to the fact that, when you are producing content for a particular niche, it’s usually easy to come up with 20, or even 50, good ideas, but after that it’s natural that your idea generation is going to taper off. Furthermore, it’s not a great idea to simply repeat content with a slightly different title as this might simply have the effect of diluting your own content.
There are quite a few online tools available that will help you to generate content ideas. Normally they work by asking you for a list of keywords or ideas, and by asking you a few questions.
Based on what you enter, the program will then give you a list of content or blogpost ideas. While these services can come up with titles that definitely don’t work, they can also come up with some great ideas. The titles might need adapting or refining a bit, but it’s a great way to get a bunch of ideas in a short period of time.
While some people may be more creative than others, I’m a firm believer that anyone can develop and improve their creative skills and that the main way of doing this is by practicing, or by actually being creative. In other words, the more you write and jot things down and work on ideas, the more this will start to come naturally.
And when those ideas do pop into your head, it can often be at the most inconvenient moment. You might be out jogging or driving to pick up your kids from school. That’s why it makes sense to have your smartphone handy, and note down your ideas as soon as you can. Once it’s down in your smartphone, it can easily be transferred to excel where you can work on developing the idea more comprehensively.
So, while not all of your posts need to follow this format, it would seem to make sense for at least some of them to. Besides, writing this type of post sometimes makes it easier to come up with a great title, and in the case of list posts, you already have an easy structure to follow when writing.
I don’t spend huge amounts of time analyzing the competition and their websites, because my business philosophy is based more around the success that one can achieve by focusing on one’s own goals. However, there are times when it is is good idea to see what your competition is up to, and checking out their content creation program is one such time.
By investigating the competition, you can not only see if they have a content creation program and how often they are updating their content (are they posting every week? When was the last time they posted? Are they producing video and audio?), but you can also get some ideas for your own content. Of course, you should not directly copy something that you see on a competitor’s website, but you might get some good ideas for topics to write about, and then you can come up with your own unique spin on a particular subject.
I am a big fan of evergreen content – content that is going to be relevant at all times and that is probably going to continue to be relevant for years to come. But there is also a case for producing seasonal content – content that relates to a particular event or time of year such as the start of summer, or Thanksgiving. While interest for topics based on these seasonal ideas is likely going to peak at the relevant time of the year, and drop off significantly afterwards, it can still be a useful strategy for a number of reasons.
First of all, it is possible to get very high traffic during the period in question, and that can make up for lower traffic during the rest of the year. Also, even though the content may not be evergreen in the sense of being relevant at all times, it can still be relevant for many years to come at the right time of the year.
Finally, seasonal content can be a bit more engaging and interesting as visitors really appreciate the relevance of the content. So, don’t discard seasonal content – it can work well as part of your overall strategy.
Interviewing people is a fantastic way to create content. It enables you to show another perspective and to share information and knowledge that you might not have with your audience. When done right, interviews also give content that authentic viewpoint – readers, listeners and viewers feel they are part of the conversation and that can make this kind of content very powerful.
There are several ways of going about this. You can record a podcast or audio interview with someone within your organization (or, even better, with a number of different people) and then share this audio clip or podcast as part of a blogpost. You can also include the full transcript of the interview in order to get maximum SEO value.
Alternatively, you can write out a list of questions and ask the interviewee to fill in their answers – a type of questionnaire essentially, which you can then edit and publish. If you can include a high-quality photo of your guest, even better.
I also find that while most of the time in such an interview should be dedicated to talking about the main theme in question (which could be marketing, engineering, new products, their experience in the company, or something else), it’s also a good idea to include a couple of more personal questions, or encourage the interviewee to share something about themselves which is not specifically work-related. This helps the audience to identify more easily with the interviewee and can contribute to the overall success of this type of content.
If you are a little stuck for new content ideas (and this happens to all of us, at one time or another), then one thing I can suggest is to start talking to other people and ask them for their ideas. It’s amazing what a fresh perspective can give you. You might even talk to people who don’t fully understand your niche, they can still give you fantastic ideas for pieces of content. Just start talking, and asking and you might be surprised how helpful others can be!
Creating content takes time and costs money (like so many other things in life!) and that’s fine, but it is important that you get the most out of your time and monetary investment. One way of maximizing the effect of your efforts is to repurpose content where appropriate. You can use the same idea or the same piece of content in different ways or different settings – you don’t need to produce every single piece of content from scratch.
Another good reason for repurposing content (as well as saving you time) is that it allows you to reach a larger audience. The reason for this is that some people prefer to read, others only watch videos, and others still like to listen to audio. While it is true that some people consume multiple types of content, producing content with similar themes but in different formats will definitely help you to spread your message further.
Now that you have lots of ideas, it’s time to refine them and decide which ones are actually going to make it to the website. You should consider a number of different factors when making your decision, taking into account the content you already have on your site, and the direction you wish to go in.
It’s best to avoid content that is too similar, so if you already have a blogpost entitled “10 Ways to Get More Instagram Followers”, then it probably doesn’t make sense to produce another one called “7 Ways to Increase Your Instagram Following”. If you do have some genuinely new ideas that you want to share, then I think you would probably be much better off going back to your original post and improving it. In fact, there are often times when it makes sense to go back and improve a previous blog post: add a new section, update links, and generally refresh a piece so that it can have a greater impact.
But for now, let’s focus on the new content. As well as making sure you are not simply repeating yourself, it’s probably a good idea to look at the overall balance of your topics in accordance with your goals. For example, if your company has 3 main business lines of equal importance, then it would seem logical that your content should also feature these same 3 business lines, with roughly the same amount of coverage for each.
Once you have a clear list of titles and content types, it’s time to move on to the next step: creating a content calendar.
Now that you have some great ideas, a really key part of the process is to map out when this content will be released. This is going to help you plan your content in advance, and make sure you have a timetable to stick to. The fact is, if you don’t have a schedule set up then the content that you are releasing will probably slow down and then stop altogether at some point. Having a content calendar will help to keep you on track.
The other thing to remember is that the benefits of content marketing are usually much more apparent in the medium term. While I don’t know exactly how the Google and YouTube search engines work, they appear to give credit to websites that post on a regular basis, and to channels (in the case of YouTube) which release videos in accordance with a regular schedule. So if part of the “secret” is producing great content, then the other part is probably releasing that content on a regular basis.
Creating a content calendar doesn’t need to be difficult at all. In fact, once you have a list of your upcoming pieces of content, ideally divided into sections (audio, video and written, say), then you can start to decide what on which days you are going to release each piece of content.
For example, for one of my projects, I release a podcast on Tuesdays, a blogpost on Wednesdays and a YouTube video on Thursdays. This enables me to plan content well into the future, and it makes it easy to ensure everything is going according to plan.
OK, so I accept that this is not the most sophisticated tool you are going to come across, but for many people starting out in content creation, it does the job.
For something a bit more advanced, you can use a calendar tool, such as Google Calendar.
What I particularly like about using Google Calendar, is that you can set up recurring events. For example, you can set it up so that a blogpost appears every Thursday.
Then, you can go in and edit each entry to reflect the title of the blogpost that you will be releasing that particular week.
Then, you can press “save”, making sure to click the option “This event”. This will save the changes on that event, leaving all of the other events in the series unchanged. This is a great feature because it means you can keep the title which reflects the content type, and then change the title of each event without affecting the recurring nature of the event.
Moving one step further, there are “premium editorial calendars” available such as Coschedule which make it easy to view multiple schedules, communicate on a platform and also to schedule social media posts.
This paid option is probably a great solution for those who already have a certain amount of volume, work as part of a team and/or are managing multiple websites. But for those getting started, the most important part is getting started and getting into the rhythm of producing and releasing content on a regular basis. For that purpose, using a handwritten calendar or an online calendar such as Google calendar should be enough.
One of the most common reasons for failing to release content on a regular basis is a lack of time. If you already have a full-time job, or if you are really busy with entrepreneurial projects, then taking on another task, especially one that is on-going, is not always easy.
This is where outsourcing part or all of the process can help. Outsourcing content creation can be a great way for a company to increase exposure while at the same time continuing to focus on their core business.
Many parts of the content creation process can be outsourced, from coming up with catchy titles for blog posts, to writing short and long form articles, to selecting images and uploading everything to your company website, there are providers to who can help. In fact, here at BigBoxContent.com, we work on content creation all of the time, helping many companies of different sizes.
Of course, it is likely that some work will be required on your part. The reason for this is that when outsourcing content creation, it is important to work hand-in-hand with the content marketing company, to make sure they are producing the types of content your require. They will need to understand your market and goals, and the tone of message you wish you share. This understanding comes by working together – and don’t forget that you will know and understand your company’s products and services much better than a content creator – at least at the beginning of the relationship.
Once you have decided the types of content you wish to release, and have come up with a content calendar, it’s time to start thinking about your content production workflow.
Why do you need a workflow anyway?
Well, technically, you don’t. For example, you can just start producing. You might hire someone to write a blogpost and then you might review it and upload it yourself to you site using WordPress. You might add some images yourself and then schedule the post to publish on the date you have planned out in your content calendar.
That can work, but some content production proccesses are a little more complicated and it can help to have everything planned out in advance.
For example, in the case of audio content creation, the workflow might look something like this.
I find this kind of workflow very helpful, it allows me to understand what it going on at each part of the process. It also makes it very easy for me to bring in extra help to work on the content creation process, as I can explain to someone exactly which part of the process they should be working on, and I can clearly see how that fits in with the overall objective.
Whether you are outsourcing the content creation, or producing it yourself, it makes sense to produce it in batches. It’s just so much more efficient.
For example, when writing shorter blog posts, it is more efficient to set aside some time and write 2 or 3 blogposts in the same session. When producing audio podcasts, it takes some time to set up the microphone, make sure the levels are correct, and that the level of background noise is acceptable. Once you have this all set up, it makes sense to record 2 or 3 audios in the same session. The same goes for creating transcripts, and many other examples of content creation. Producing content in batches will help you to be more efficient and produce more content in a shorter time.
Finally, make sure you you get ahead, and stay ahead in terms of producing content.
There’s nothing worse than having to wake up, produce a podcast, edit it and release it all within a couple of hours of waking up on deadline day. I know, I’ve been there! It can also affect the quality of content you are producing – producing great content takes time and dedication and it is not ideal to be producing content at the last minute.
So, when you have a content calendar, complete with a list of topics, I suggest you start creating, and produce more content than you need to cover the next couple of weeks. Ideally, I like to be one or two months ahead.
Sometimes it’s difficult to get started, and I wouldn’t expect you to be one or two months ahead straight away, but once you get into the routine, it is achievable and it certainly makes things easier – there is no stress to produce content at the last minute.
Producing large volumes of high-quality content does not need to become a chore. With a bit of planning and management, it is possible to set up a smooth process that works for the months and even years ahead. Content marketing takes time to have an impact on your business, and therefore it’s important that you are in this for the medium term – once it starts to work, the results can be spectacular and help the profile or your business or organization to a completely new level!
About the author: Paul Urwin is a Cofounder of Big Box Content, a content creation studio which produces audio, video and written content for clients, helping them to increase brand awareness and make more sales.


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The LG G7 ThinQ has already confirmed the date to be officially presented by the manufacturer. While the product is not revealed to the public, Evan Blass has been releasing new details about the device.
He released a new image of the device on his Twitter account. What we see below is just a high-resolution rendition of the G7, showing something we’ve seen previously. In addition to the already expected notch, we see that the power button is now on the side of the smartphone.
The image is a little closer, making the front camera and notch more visible than in the previous rendering. The design is already known, which adds more credibility to the look of the phone, which is what we can expect from the final product to be revealed in the coming weeks. Judging by the color of the device, this appears to be the Platinum Gray option.
It all indicates that the LG G7 ThinQ will have several functions and different design options such as the notch that can be masked by giving the phone an artificial bar at the top edge that basically “hides” the screen cut in a way that the phone seems to have just a thin frame.
The G7 ThinQ will also come with a host of enhanced AI features, some of which will be integrated into the camera to make photo capture more intuitive to users. And as seen in the leaked images, the device will have a dual camera in the rear, as well as features such as Portrait Mode, Live Pictures and 3D Stickers, all popular with other smartphones of different brands.
Of course, there is still no word on cost or an actual release date, but those details will be confirmed as soon as LG presents the device to the public.


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Climb to new heights at the indoor Valley YMCA rock wall. Certified staff and equipment are provided for anyone age 4 to adult. Appropriate climbing clothing includes closed-toe shoes and dry clothing. Skirts or dresses are not recommended.
The wall may be rented for special events. Ask Member Services for more information.
Climbers must be 4 years of age or older.
Appropriate footwear must be worn. No open-toe, open-heal, or hard sole shoes are permitted. No barefoot climbing. No climbing in wet clothes.
While waiting to climb stay seated on bench.
No running in the climbing area.
Only use designated holds on wall for climbing. DO NOT touch exposed metal, bolts, anchors/anchor slings, etc. DO NOT put fingers/hands in eye bolts.
Climbers must stay on route while climbing due to the dangerous swing factor caused by climbing off route.
All climbers should be familiar with the equipment, techniques & wall safety before climbing.
Belay Certification – belayers must have completed Spokane Valley YMCA’s belay certification to check out equipment and belay other climbers. Belayers must be 18 years of age to check out belay equipment and/or belay other climbers. Members between the ages of 15 – 17 who are Belay Certified must be directly supervised by a belay certified adult 18 years of age or older.
Belayers are required to check out a flag prior to climbing. This flag must be visible while climbing. Belay cards are valid for one calendar year and must be renewed annually.
Must pass bouldering safety check.
Must check in with front desk to receive a flag when climbing wall is not open. Flag must be worn while bouldering.
Ages 4-14, no solo climbing (bouldering) above the blue line.
Ages 15-Adult, no solo climbing (bouldering) above red line.
The YMCA recommends using at least one spotter.
The YMCA requires the use of crash pads while solo climbing (bouldering).
Children aged 4-8 must be supervised, and spotted, by their parents/chaperones while solo climbing (bouldering).
Yield to roped climbers and show courtesy to others bouldering/climbing.


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In an industry where loyalty means nothing, Mavin boss Don Jazzy may lose the trio of his Mavin 2.0 acts in February 2017.
Mavin Record boss Don Jazzy may lose the trio of his Mavin 2.0 acts in February 2017.
Don Jazzy has however revealed in his latest interview with Forbes TV that, ‘no one signs a life time contract. In the case of Korede Bello, Di’ja and Reekado Banks, they signed three years deals and if after three years they decide to move on to do something of their own, it’s fine, because at the end of the day that’s the goal’.
Don Jazzy continued to say, ‘at the point when that happens, the fans may feel offended and the media will get to work to make it look like something else’.
Already, Di’ja, a mother of one, is planting her ‘Dija Nation‘ movement in our minds. Korede Bello calls his teaming fans ‘Bellovers‘, while Reekado Banks calls them ‘Reekadicts‘ and if industry trends is anything to go by, these names might be setting the foundation for their own record label names.
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After decades of false starts, solar power in America is finally poised for its breakthrough moment. The price of solar panels has dropped by more than 80 percent since President Obama took office, and the industry is beginning to compete with coal and natural gas on economics alone.
But the birth of Big Solar poses a grave threat to those who profit from burning fossil fuels. And investor-owned utilities, together with Koch-brothers-funded front groups like American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), are mounting a fierce, rear-guard resistance at the state level – pushing rate hikes and punishing fees for homeowners who turn to solar power. Their efforts have darkened green-energy prospects in could-be solar superpowers like Arizona and Nevada. But nowhere has the solar industry been more eclipsed than in Florida, where the utilities’ powers of obstruction are unrivaled.
It should come as no surprise that the utilities have fought so hard. The rise of cheap, distributed solar power poses a disruptive – and perhaps existential – threat to the traditional electric utility business.
Monopoly electric utilities used to make sense. Dirty power, generated at a distance from population centers, was carried over a set of transmission lines to homes and businesses. Consumers got reliable power from a single provider. IOUs were guaranteed a profit – both for building power plants and transmission lines as well as for the electricity itself.
But in recent years, the nation’s IOUs have been abusing their monopoly powers to profit from massive infrastructure projects. Utilities more than doubled their capital expenditures last decade; costs were paid for by electric customers, whose power bills have soared nearly 40 percent. For investors, the formula is simple: More infrastructure equals more profit.
The rise of distributed solar power poses a triple threat to these monopoly gains. First: When homeowners install their own solar panels, it means the utilities build fewer power plants, and investors miss out on a chance to profit. Second: Solar homes buy less electricity from the grid; utilities lose out on recurring profits from power sales. Third: Under “net metering” laws, most utilities have to pay rooftop solar producers for the excess power they feed onto the grid. In short, rooftop solar transforms a utility’s traditional consumers into business rivals.
The Sunshine State is a gold mine for its monopoly IOUs. Air conditioning drives the second-highest electrical consumption in the nation; the average Florida household spends $1,900 a year on power – 40 percent more than the national average. Fossil fuel dominates electricity generation: Florida is 61 percent dependent on natural gas, followed by coal at 23 percent. Solar makes up less than one percent of the state’s energy mix.
Key policies that have spurred a rooftop solar revolution elsewhere in America are absent or actually illegal in Florida. Unlike the majority of states, even Texas, Florida has no mandate to generate any portion of its electricity from renewable power. Worse, the state’s restrictive monopoly utility law forbids anyone but the power companies from buying and selling electricity. Landlords cannot sell power from solar panels to tenants. Popular solar leasing programs like those offered by SolarCity and Sunrun are outlawed. Rooftop solar is limited to those who can afford the upfront expense; as a result, fewer than 9,000 Florida homes have panels installed.
Florida’s anti-solar policies are zealously defended in Tallahassee. “It’s no secret we play an active role in public policy,” says Mark Bubriski, spokesman for Florida Power & Light (FPL), the largest IOU in the state. FPL is the monopoly power provider for 4.8 million customers, whose electric bills generated $1.65 billion in profit for the company last year.
The utilities are top political donors in Florida. Since 2004, the state’s four largest IOUs contributed at least $18 million to state politicians and political committees – a preponderance to Republicans, who now control state government. In addition, since 2007, the companies spent at least $12 million on lobbying, employing an average of one lobbyist for every two legislators in Tallahassee. “They’ve got a pretty good harness on the whole deal up there,” says Crist.
The capital city of Florida is more “Southern Gothic” than “South Beach.” Tucked away on Florida’s panhandle, Tallahassee is a slow-walking city of whitewashed churches, wide verandas and dusky oaks, draped with Spanish moss. Nothing from its outward appearance would suggest this city of 190,000 is the seat of power for a state whose economy rivals Indonesia‘s.
A seven-hour drive from Miami, four hours from Tampa and another three from Jacksonville, Tallahassee sits at a far remove from the watchful eyes of voters in Florida’s biggest cities. The business of the state transacts in a tiny three-block district in the shadow of Florida’s modern Capitol building, a white 22-story tower flanked by a pair of low-slung domes that look – how to put this – happy to see you.
The utilities’ political reach even extends to the governor’s mansion, a stately brick building graced by a classical portico that – only in Florida – sits a 10th of a mile from a pawnshop where you can turn your gun into cash. Republican Gov. Rick Scott’s narrow 2014 re-election was financed by more than $1.1 million in contributions from the IOUs.
The governor did not respond to interview requests. But Scott has earned ridicule for allegedly banning state officials from using the terms “global warming” and “climate change.” Shortly after his re-election, he filled an open slot on the PSC with Jimmy Patronis, then-Florida state chair of ALEC, which fights renewable-energy mandates and climate regulations.
Even as it rolls back green initiatives, the PSC has rubber-stamped fossil-fuel boondoggles. In an unprecedented move, it approved FPL’s proposal to frack for natural gas – in Oklahoma. FPL convinced the PSC that the project, financed by the electric bills of its customers, would save money. But after a rocky first year, the project has already cost ratepayers nearly $6 million. “It’s a total rip-off,” says Dudley.
Seeking to crack open Florida’s energy market at the ballot box, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) mounted a $2 million campaign to qualify a “Solar Choice” amendment for the 2016 election. The constitutional amendment would have ended Florida’s rare lock on electricity sales; only Kentucky, Oklahoma and North Carolina have similar prohibitions. It would have freed consumers to install leased solar panels on their rooftops at no upfront expense. Retailers could have installed solar arrays and sold power to tenants in the same shopping complex.
SACE is directed by Stephen Smith, a tall Tennessean with water-blue eyes who dresses like Tom Wolfe on casual Friday. To advocate for solar choice, SACE knit together an implausible “green tea” coalition – comprising Tea Party activists and environmentalists like the Sierra Club, in alliance with Florida’s retail and restaurant federations, as well as religious groups like the Christian Coalition of America.
The campaign led with voices from the far right. Coalition member Debbie Dooley helped found the Tea Party and today directs Conservatives for Energy Freedom. The 57-year-old grandmother may run her shoestring outfit out of the back of a 2010 Hyundai Sonata, but she has an impressive track record, spearheading a two-year fight that overturned anti-solar restrictions in Georgia in 2015 – creating thousands of clean-energy jobs.
Confronting a popular threat to their monopoly power, the utilities fought back – with a vengeance. But rather than campaign directly against the Solar Choice amendment – which polled at nearly 70 percent – the IOUs mounted a competing ballot initiative called the “Smart Solar” amendment. Despite the name, their amendment doesn’t advance the cause of solar power. Quite the reverse: “It locks existing statute into the constitution,” says a skeptical Republican Florida lawmaker.
The Smart Solar amendment is financed, nakedly, by the state’s top investor-owned utilities, which ponied up $4 million through December, more than half the campaign’s total haul. “We are proud of who supports our campaign,” says spokeswoman Sarah Bascom. Other supporters include conservative pressure groups funded by fossil-fuel interests. 60 Plus – a seniors group that has received $15 million from the Koch donor network – donated more than $1 million. The National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), a tiny organization with an oversize name, added $100,000. The NBCC is funded by major polluters, including Exxon; its latest convention was sponsored by Koch Industries and Gulf Power. NBCC founder Harry Alford, unabashed, touts the “cozy, productive relationship we have with the fossil-fuel corporations.” The Koch grassroots political group, Americans for Prosperity, does not appear on Smart Solar’s donor rolls, but did issue a call to arms for its Florida activists to fight solar choice.
In the end, the utilities crushed the Solar Choice campaign by spending it into submission. Qualifying an amendment for the ballot in Florida is onerous and expensive under the best of circumstances. It requires nearly 700,000 signatures, and any serious campaign hires paid gatherers.
By mounting a competing measure, the utilities sparked a financial arms race – with the utility-backed measure typically paying gatherers twice as much per signature. “When we were paying a dollar on the street, they were paying $2,” says Smith. “When we were paying $2, they went to $4.” Soon, the IOUs had forced solar proponents into a burn rate of $350,000 a week. It was unsustainable.
Solar Choice threw in the towel in January. The campaign is now regrouping, aiming to qualify instead for 2018, when more than 400,000 signatures it has gathered would still be valid. Smart Solar is pressing ahead for the November ballot. If it passes, the utilities will be entitled, under the constitution, to hit rooftop solar customers with high fees simply to maintain their connection to the grid.
But Florida Power & Light isn’t waiting until November to take a brazen victory lap. In January, it submitted a proposal to the PSC, seeking to hike its electric rates by nearly 24 percent over the next three years and asking the commission to reward FPL investors with a higher guaranteed rate of return. If approved, FPL’s electric consumers would typically pay an extra $13 a month.
The utilities are working from a playbook developed by ALEC – the Koch-funded group that promotes “model” bills, often adopted virtually wholesale by Republican legislatures – and the Edison Electric Institute, the utility trade group.
After some initial legislative setbacks, the utilities and their allies are now working in the shadows – seeking to persuade utility regulators to put the brakes on solar by, in essence, taxing rooftop producers.
Arizona – a state that spends up to 85 percent of the year in sunshine, and stands second in the nation with a solar capacity of 1,800 megawatts – was ground zero for this approach. Last winter, the Salt River Project (SRP), the utility that serves Phoenix, hiked fees for rooftop solar customers and tacked on a murky “demand charge.” The effect was to increase bills for customers with solar panels by a whopping $50 per month.
SRP touts itself as a “community-based nonprofit.” But in an internal e-mail, an SRP director condemned solar advocates as “the enemy.” (SRP would disavow the comment as a joke.) The utility’s price hike puts into action policies long promoted by ALEC, which endorses “a fixed grid charge” for solar customers. SRP’s new fees have throttled the local rooftop market: Solar lease applications are down as much as 96 percent, according to SolarCity. In a scathing open letter, CEO Lyndon Rive blasted SRP for working to “entrench” its monopoly by “shuttering the solar industry in one of the sunniest places in the United States.” SolarCity is now suing SRP, alleging violation of federal antitrust laws.
law. Today, nearly five percent of California’s power is generated by rooftop solar. But this success also triggered a state review of the payments to rooftop producers – opening the door for utility monkey-wrenching.
The state’s biggest utilities lobbied the California Public Utility Commission (PUC) last year to hit rooftop producers with Arizona-style fees. Southern California Edison sought increases averaging $800 a year for its rooftop solar customers. But in the Golden State, solar producers are now a formidable political constituency all their own. In November, advocates of preserving the state’s net-metering program delivered 130,000 signatures to the PUC in wheelbarrows.
In December, the head of the PUC declared the utilities had failed to provide “a real basis” or “evidence” to justify the massive rate hikes on solar customers. In January, the PUC adopted only minor changes; the ruling was hailed as a huge win by the solar industry.
Nevada has some of the greatest solar potential in America; Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid touts his home state as the “Saudi Arabia of solar energy.” But where California rejected the Arizona model, Nevada is taking it to the next level.
In late December, the state’s PUC commissioners – all appointed by Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval – announced huge price hikes for rooftop solar customers. The changes will add nearly $40 a month to solar homeowner electric bills – wiping out the $15 a month in typical solar savings. The Nevada charges were put into effect despite the PUC’s own admission, reported by Forbes, that rooftop solar customers “do not impose any significant additional costs” on other ratepayers. In an unprecedented move, the new charges were also made retroactive, punishing the state’s 17,000 existing solar customers.
Even as the solar industry faces unprecedented regulatory obstruction at the state level, its future on the federal stage has rarely been brighter. In mid-December, Congress stunned activists, solar-industry executives and investors by cutting a deal to renew billions in federal support for solar power that had been slated to expire at the end of 2016 – avoiding a “solar cliff” that could have staggered the industry.
Signed into law with the $1.8 trillion year-end budget, the solar accord extends a tax credit that offsets up to 30 percent of solar project costs – even as those costs continue to plummet. The impact is projected to be massive: 20 gigawatts of new solar power added over the next five years, nearly doubling the nation’s output.
But this freakish fit of solar bipartisanship is fragile. In no uncertain terms, the American solar industry will be on the 2016 ballot. Last year, the Obama Environmental Protection Agency finally unveiled its mechanism to curb the power sector’s carbon emissions. By 2030, the Clean Power Plan would reduce national electricity sector emissions by one-third. Under the plan, the administration projects renewables like solar will rise to 28 percent of U.S. power generation.
Hillary Clinton, by contrast, has promised to build on Obama’s plan, vowing to treat it as the “floor, not the ceiling.” Clinton has an ambitious plan for solar energy. She calls for the installation of half a billion solar panels in her first term – a move that she says would drive a sevenfold increase in U.S. solar-power production. For his part, Sanders has not detailed a specific solar policy, but has promised “massive” investments in clean power to drive an 80 percent reduction in emissions by 2050.

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Why Motorola went with the term “XYBOARD” here in the U.S. is beyond me, but if you want a tablet with such a unique (to put it nicely) name that isn’t tied to a carrier and connects via WiFi only, then you can pick one up today. Both the 10.1″ and 8.2″ models are available in two sizes: 16GB or 32GB. The 16GB 8.2″ model runs $399, with the 10.1″ starting at $499. Personally at that price, I would recommend the Transformer Prime since it already has Ice Cream Sandwich (XYBOARDs do not), runs a quad-core Tegra 3 processor (XYBOARDs only dual-core OMAP), has an advanced display that is crazy sensitive to touch, and has one of the best cameras a tablet will ever see.
Moto, time to rethink your strategy.


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I am flying off to celebrate my mother's 93rd birthday with my family. In her honor, I'm posting the best peanut butter cookie recipe imaginable on this planet, and encouraging everyone to make use of their end-of-season produce in out-of-the-box ways!
*Adapted from "The Whole Jar of Peanut Butter Cookies"
1. In a large bowl, cream butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Add the eggs, yolks, and vanilla; mix until fluffy. Stir in peanut butter. Sift together the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into the peanut butter mixture. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips. Refrigerate the dough for at least 2 hours.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a cookie sheet.
3. Roll dough into walnut sized balls. Place on the prepared cookie sheet and flatten slightly with a fork dusted with flour. Bake for 12 to 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Cookies should look dry on top. Allow to cool for a few minutes on the cookie sheet before removing to cool completely on a rack. These cookies taste great when slightly undercooked. It is not humanly possible to eat just one.


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The name AutonomatriX is derived from the words autonomy and matrix to represent a self-directed and self-governing repository of information. The emblem of the Auto-nomatriX is a circular blade with eight teeth providing a background to t he glyph of Eris turned on its side.
The AutonomatriX is a networking chaos magic guild of those striving to discover and rejuvenate magical ideas and technical skills with success as the only key to validation. We do not discriminate on the basis of lifestyle, gender, affiliation, race, or sexuality. We seek to interact with creative magicians who are pushing boundaries instead of being trapped by them. We are a guild composed of working craftspeople, whereas an order/lodge/clique is generally an exclusive membership of supplicants.
The time of centralized info-banks is at an end; the nature of "classified" or "secret" information is that it is more often limiting than useful to the collector, and only profitable to the banker of such media. Hierarchical structures are unnecessary and undesired; checks and balances regarding membership are determined by an individual's interaction with the rest of the group rather than personal prejudices or acceptance for any member by any other member. The principles "sink or swim" and "(inter)action equals life" are applicable to this magical guild, as in any network.
When a candidate has made intentional contact with a member of the AutonomatriX (called the "AX"), that member sponsors the candidate himself and provides all pertinent information about that candidate e to another member as soon as is possible for co-sponsorship. Alternatively, if for any reason the member chooses not to sponsor the candidate after the initial inquiry, that member must send the information to two other members, one of whom is the member nearest to the candidate's geographic locale. Ideally, the two sponsors would be geographically separated from one another. All inquirers will be provided with the current AX manifesto by any member who accepts sponsorship of that candidate at the onset of their relationship. The suggested sponsorship period is three months, at the end of which the co-sponsors mutually decide upon whether or not initiation should take place.
The sponsored candidate is requested to provide information regarding any personal magical work done in a journal or magical record. The candidate may in turn be given any part of the Corpus Fecundi other than the Contacts Listing (see below) that the sponsors deem appropriate at any time. Initiation may be performed by one or both of the sponsors and/or an y other members of the AX with the consent of the sponsors. The candidate must provide a record of a magical working which has resulted in manifestation of the intent at least two times, and design a self-initiation ritual. All initiation s must be performed in person. At the climax of the initiation, the new member is handed the current Contacts Listing ( on a scroll) and the remainder of the Corpus Fecundi.
The Corpus Fecundi comprises a record of research, technical experimentation and ritual methods that have arisen since the emergence of this guild of Chaos. The entirety of this information is provided only after a period of sponsorship resulting in initiation and excludes non-requested information of a political or genealogical nature.
It is the personal responsibility of each member of the AX to update their copy of the Corpus Fecundi as new information becomes available. An active member of the AX is any person who is on the Contacts Listing. All information for inclusion into the Corpus Fecundi is transferred throughout the network on at least a quarterly basis.
The first part is the "Contacts Listing," which includes all participants in the AX. All are listed by their appellation (any titles may be chosen), mailing address, Working Group and/or Project involvement information, and a brief biography (bio) of personal interests, researches, requests for information on any topic, etc. To remain on the Contacts Listing each member is responsible for making their membership known by interaction with other members. If for any reason this cannot be done, membership requires that the current AX curators are notified of continued participation in the net-work by a work record semi-annually.
The second part is an "Index" of all works currently making up the Corpus Fecundi. All members are responsible for ensuring that their copy is complete via this Index. The author of each item will be listed here, rather than on the items themselves.
The issuance of Contacts Listings and Indexes are provided by the AutonomatriX curators, who ensure that each display the name and emblem of the AX upon them. Two curators are randomly chosen on June 27th of each year from volunteers to update and maintain securely the hard-copies and electronic copies of all material in the Corpus Fecundi. The Corpus Fecundi is maintained in its entirety in both formats at all times. Any individual in the network may assume these responsibilities, although no curator may have successive terms of office.
Each member of the AX is encouraged to form autonomous Working Groups. All WGs may be designated by whatever name (Coven, Project, Team, Clan, Temple, Group, Cabal, Tribe, etc.) deemed appropriate by those directly involved. A Working Group is composed of at least two active members of the network and as many nonmembers as desired by them.
Each Working Group is inaugurated by the generation of its own unique manifesto, accepted by all participating in that WG. It must be distributed by the AX members of that group to all on the current Contacts Listing. This particular manifesto should be made as detailed as possible, to outline the WG's objectives and intent, protocol, any offices assumed within the WG's internal structure, and whatever else the WG decides upon. Accompanying the manifesto should be each participant's signature (of their chosen appellation), mailing address, and bio. The AX will in no way interfere in matters of any Working Group's internal structure or protocol, with the fullest intention being to keep regulation to a minimum in regards to the network's guild structure.
Each WG is encouraged to access any form of media available for wider distribution of ideas and material, and the AX provides encouragement and/or assistance to members who have material suitable for this purpose.
Projects or Operations which include any member of the AX within or without one's Working Group are to be listed in the Contacts List. An "Operation" is usefully described as an extended working for a specific goal carried out by two or more members of the guild regardless of WG affiliation.
It is recommended that each WG and Operation designate a Main Contact Point (or MCP) elected by the members in that Working Group, for response to inquiries and distribution of information. It is the responsibility of the acting MCP of that group to distribute all information for inclusion into the Corpus Fecundi of the members in his Working Group and/or Operation.
Information is distributed throughout the entire active membership of the network in the issuance of the Contacts Listing and Index of the Corpus Fecundi by the AX curators. The authors of any item produced and distributed for inclusion into the Corpus Fecundi are responsible for the distribution of that information throughout the network. Any item may be marked "Private" by its author, and this is understood to mean distribution via the Corpus Fecundi only (not for public consumption). No items intended for the Corpus Fecundi may be marked with the author's appellation, although it is recommended that each item is accompanied by a cover letter providing whatever personal data the author or distributor desires.
When voting is required within the AX as a whole, all members must provide a written response of yes, no, or abstinence. The votes of each member are then listed beside their name on the next Contacts Listing. A measure's success depends upon at least a two-third's majority of all members of the AutonomatriX. All members are encouraged to voice their own o pinions at all times.
The AX does not employ any single clue to disclose membership in the guild. However, objects that are easily available are periodically chosen to represent active participation in the network, such as a certain semiprecious stone or a color-specific pen for example. At any time, suggestions may be supplied to a curator for random selection. The identifier is described as briefly as possible at the top of each Contacts Listing. Aside from this, each WG and Operation is encouraged to generate totems and/or fetishes to designate themselves symbolically within the guild.
Each Working Group in the AX chooses what ritual accessories are necessary. Some may choose specific forms of jewelry or ritual garments as a group. Each member must possess the current identifier object of the AX in the working area at the time of any meeting attended.
Gotta run. Neighbors just sighted Elvis making crop circles.

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Inspired by the beaches of Zanzibar, our Zanzi hoops feature Mother of Pearl beads and Swarovski Coral color crystal pearls. Made in America 14k Gold-filled metals, hoops and wire work.
Each Beck is made-to-order in Brooklyn, slight variations are the mark of the artisan work, a testament to the individuality of the piece.


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They have a way of speaking, dancing and singing. Full of grace, beauty and talent. Their smiles fills everybody’s hearts with joy and pride.
- Setar Mrs. of M.A.S.