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Paisley Mead has brought to Honolulu a fresh take on a brewing and distilling culture that has grown consistently here and abroad in the past decade. Sweetest of all, it’s made from Hawaii honey. And the food is amazing.
The making of mead dates back to 7000 B.C. It was written about by Aristotle, described in ancient Hindu texts, and drunk by the legendary warriors of Beowolf. Like wine and beer, mead is a fact and factor in the development of human civilization.
Paisley Mead is the only “adult beverage” created exclusively with locally-sourced products in Hawaii. Entrepreneurs are now brewing and distilling on every major Hawaiian island. Hawaii brands are being distributed nationally and internationally. Brewpubs seem to be everywhere now. Paisley stands alone as Oahu’s only “meadery”. All of the mead is made on-premises at their King Street location in the Chinatown Arts District.
Without designs on making the world market, founder and owner Brian Paisley is focused on creating a uniquely Hawaii product. Each Paisley batch, whether it be sparkling or straight, light or dark, is made from the honey of apiaries tended here in the islands. Even local brewers and distillers must import yeast and other vital ingredients.
Much of the honey in the mead that Paisley makes comes from Brian’s own hives, located in multiple areas all over Oahu. Some comes from Big Island Bees, a successful and organic apiary operation on Hawaii Island. Thanks to the wide variety of pollinating plants and trees in Hawaii, each batch will have its own distinct flavor and texture characteristics.
This is reflected in the mead varieties that Paisley offers. The honey that comes from the hives in Leeward Oahu is flavored by the blossoms of the keawe tree (mesquite). Bees from other hives on the island may produce guava, passion fruit, or even mountain apple honey. Some of the honey that comes from Big Island Bees is produced by bees that favor the vivid red blossoms of the ohia tree.
Brian Paisley had an idea when he left the Army in 2005. “Let’s bring something that’s local and high quality,” he says. And he has. You can note mango or Kona coffee in Paisley’s selections. Red Hibiscus, too, each a flavor of Hawaii.
Paisley offers a “Heathered Stout”, an artisanal brandy, as well as a high-octane “Meadshine.” The ingredients at Paisley are carefully curated. So is the food. A ribeye/porterhouse steak entrée shares the menu with linguine. Vietnamese pho also stars, perhaps an homage to the Asian roots of Paisley’s Chinatown home. Vegan and vegetarian options are also on offer.
Paisley has live music on weekend nights and enjoys a brisk “First Friday” crowd of discerning diners and drinkers. Paisley Mead opened on the first Friday of 2018, and after a banner night has forged ahead with new recipes. Reservations are recommended, as the modest floor space and thoughtful seating sees Paisley fill quickly during peak “out-on-the-town” hours.
The making of mead is a curious, ancient and esoteric pursuit. It depends on bees and the pollinating plants and trees that sustain them. Paisley Mead has found a way to bring the esoteric into the Hawaii mainstream.

industry_corpus2: Hospitality & Catering


text: This is a free event, to attend please RSVP. If you are unable to attend please remove your RSVP so someone else may take your spot. If this event has hit capacity, please email joel.clark@amnesty.org.au to be placed on a waiting list - - include in your email the name of all attendees, and the city you wish to see the movie in.

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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The unique artichoke pesto was inspired by the tangy flavor of piccata-style dishes, with hints of capers and fresh oregano.
I’ve always been a huge fan of pesto. I think my favorites until now were my spicy roasted red pepper pesto and cilantro peanut pesto. They’re a little different than your traditional basil pesto, but they’re still so satisfying and easy to make. I already had a million reasons to love it, but I went and created a new one – artichoke pesto.
This was my second attempt at creating a pesto sauce with capers. The first – and failed – attempt was a piccata-inspired pesto with capers and parsley. It was okay, but it was lacking that zip that you get when you eat a piccata dish. I am not sure why I was so stuck on this idea, but I just knew it would be great if I got it right.
And I did. I found a recipe for artichoke pesto in a Giada cookbook that I bought at our annual library sale, it didn’t actually call for capers and I tweaked a few more ingredients, but the artichokes provided a great base for the flavor I wanted. Combined with fresh oregano and parsley, you have a completely unique flavor profile.
In my mind, pesto alone justifies buying a food processor. So much so, that I teamed up with Hamilton Beach to give one lucky reader a chance to win their very own professional 14-cup food processor. That’s a huge food processor. You could literally make 4 or 5 batches of pesto at once. All you have to do to win is enter below the recipe. There’s a few different ways to enter, and you are more than welcome to choose each and everyone. Just follow the instructions listed.
In a food processor bowl, combine all ingredients.
This recipe makes enough sauce for 1 pound of cooked pasta. Save about 1/4 of pasta water to loosen the sauce if desired. If desired, serve with grated pecorino romano or parmesan cheese.
Refrigerate in an airtight container for up to 1 week or freeze for up to 6 months.
Recipe adapted from Giada’s Feel Good Food.
I love making my Fresh Basil Pesto Recipe! It has pine nuts or walnuts and basil in it.
Looks delicious. I did something similar and made artichoke hummus recently.
Oh that sounds like a great idea! I should totally try that.
My favorite kind of pesto is the original.
Oh! I’ve been dying to try beet pesto! It’s so beautiful.
I like your recipe I think I will make it. I have been varying that classic pesto recipe slightly by using walnuts instead of pine nuts.
I like a walnut pesto.
I love sun dried tomato pesto the best.
Traditional basil pesto is my favorite type of pesto.
I have only ever had basil pesto, so I guess that is my favorite! Your Artichoke recipe looks extremely delicious and I would like to try it!
I love Thai pesto on chicken!
That sounds delicious! What recipe do you use?
I do the best with what I can get around my small area. But this is the full recipe.
That sounds delicious! I’ll have to try it when we have Thai basil at our market!
I love a classic basil & pinenut pesto, but the zing of cilantro pesto is a close second.
Hard to beat good old basil pesto, but artichoke pesto sounds amazing!
My favorite kind of pesto is homemade. i love making pesto!
That looks so good! I love Basil pesto.
My favorite kind of pesto is the only one I have made so far, garlic pesto! I will however, try this one!!
My favorite pesto is sun dried tomatoes.
I like the original kind of basil pesto, but garlic pesto sounds good, too!
I like lemon basil pesto the best.
I LIKE THE ORIGINAL kind of pesto. THANKS FOR THE CHANCE TO WIN SUCH AN AMAZING GIVEAWAY. I WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.


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MISSOULA – Montana visitors who bought Montana-made products, Montana-grown food or who used local services in 2015 spent, on average, about $185 more in the state each day than visitors who did not purchase local products and services, according to a new study.
A recent analysis of nonresident visitor spending by the Institute for Tourism and Recreation Research at the University of Montana found that in the first three quarters of 2015, visitors spent an average of $147 daily. However, once the visitors were grouped into whether they purchased local products or services on their trip, significant differences emerged. Visitors who reported buying local goods and services spent an average $296 a day, while those who did not make local purchases averaged about $112 a day.
Visitors who made local purchases spent more money in every spending category except gasoline/diesel. Further analysis showed that this group was more likely to be on vacation or visiting friends and relatives compared to the non-local purchasing group who was more likely to be passing through the state.
Sixteen percent of Montana’s visitors reported spending money on local products and services during the first three quarters of 2015. The products purchased most frequently include food such as huckleberry items, baked goods and candy, followed by locally brewed beer and alcohol from local distilleries.
While visitors were up 8 percent in 2015, overall spending decreased about the same amount. Researchers attribute much of that spending decrease to lower gas prices and fewer Canadians traveling to Montana because of the strong U.S. dollar.
Despite the overall decrease in the amount spent by travelers from 2014 to 2015, spending in retail categories, which include “Made in Montana” products and services, increased in 2015, which UM researchers say is a significant indication that nonresident visitors are interested in purchasing items and services they can’t find elsewhere, or products that can “bring them back” to Montana after their visit to the state.
This report is available as a PDF at http://www.itrr.umt.edu/files/MTExpression-Locally-ProducedGoods-Services.pdf. All information and reports published by ITRR are available online at http://www.itrr.umt.edu.

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I’m reading Evermore by Alyson Noel. I’m really enjoying the storyline between Ever, Haven, Miles, and Damen. I’m curious what will happen with Riley and Sabine.
What about you? What are you reading today? Did you get some excellent books for Christmas?

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text: The real motive for searching the relevancy by any means (in these dark postmodern times) is in fact the lack of identity (from which we derive life meanings). There is no God anymore to know (and to tell us, if we pray enough) who we are; and is not enough our own judgment about our inner human essence (if there is one) or about what we have (or we can) become. Even if we receive an identity card from society, just by looking at it does not mean anything more than an identification mark and a set of obligations and rights that were imposed or offered to us. Now, we need more; we need to see our reflections in others. We need to convince acquaintances and strangers that we are somebody (either by climbing hierarchies, either by acting or looking different, either by copying them) in order to receive value. It is the same mechanism by which art works or useful goods are receiving value. Societies (and any other smaller cultures: religions, multinationals, etc…) have become human markets where we offer our souls and bodies for bidding and trading. As a paradox, for our identity we are ready to give in exchange liberty, truth, decency (the real meanings of life) and, in the end, our own lives.


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A random assortment of tips for getting stuff with some mix of expedience, safety, and broad coverage.
For single tracks, start with Skreemr. It doesn’t manage to find that much, unfortunately, but it’s a quick check. Other similar services include BeeMP3 and SeeqPod, which have (IMO) clumsier UIs. Once you’ve checked with Skreemr, just try Googling for the artist, title, and “mp3” – this usually works, esp. for popular tracks, but is less slick than Skreemr since you’ll probably land at a site where you need to satisfy some captcha, run a gauntlet of ads or gaudy web designs, wait some number of seconds, find a broken link, and retry with the next few hits.
Alternatively, download full albums. Even if you’re after just a single track, if you can’t find it, you may be able to find its album. You can do this by Googling for the artist and album name alongside the names of popular “private” file-sharing services (“rapidshare | megaupload | …”). These file hosting services are actually good for finding large media files in general, including movies and TV shows. I have a little script for making these kinds of searches.
You can always resort to BitTorrent or a file-sharing network if you’re feeling a bit more promiscuous. If you’re on Windows, one of the better file-sharing clients is Shareaza, which supports Gnutella, ed2k, and “Gnutella2.” For BitTorrent, Shareaza’s support wasn’t that great when I tried. I’ve heard good things about uTorrent, which is probably the most popular client on Windows, but I’ve only ever used the cross-platform Vuze (formerly Azureus). Vuze sports an awesome search interface that lets you breezily grab torrents from some of the popular sites out there including btjunkie and mininova.
When engaging in promiscuous file-sharing, try to operate from a WLAN for which logs are not kept (e.g., StataCenter). For a general public WLAN, you can fiddle with your MAC address and minimize concurrent traffic from the same host (esp. anything that could identify you).
You can use an IP filter (“firewall”) to prevent communication with certain hosts. BlueTack maintains popular blocklists. A paper from UCR called “P2P: Is Big Brother Watching You?” (Ars Technica article) concludes that users will exchange data with blocklisted users 100% of the time, and that blocking just 5 IPs reduces this to 1%.
Blocklist managers are optimized to filter large numbers/ranges of IPs. PeerGuardian 2 and moblock are popular blocklist managers for Windows and Linux, respectively.
Find iTunes shares and public file shares (CIFS/SMB, FTP, etc.) on your LAN. Might work well if you’re in something like a dorm or frat setting, depending on the network configuration. I don’t know if there’s some working continuation of myTunes or if ourTunes still works, but those are places to start looking for iTunes pulling.
For TV shows, another possibility is to just watch them streamed from the web. You can find a lot on YouTube (though certain videos might just be around for short windows of time). Sidereel is a community that organizes links to these videos into shows and episodes.
Updated 7/21/2009: added note on Googling for single tracks.
This entry was posted in computing, feature article on November 24, 2008 by yang.
Annoyingly, the above page from the language reference acknowledges that “This is generally not what was intended,” without justifying the status quo.
This entry was posted in python, quick tips on November 5, 2008 by yang.

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AMD and Valve have teamed up to make access to new ATI Catalyst drivers easier to obtain. Both companies have announced collaboration plans allowing Steam users to detect and install the latest ATI Catalyst divers for their ATI Radeon graphics cards.
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Sept. 15, 2010 — AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced its collaboration with Valve to deliver ATI Catalyst™ graphics driver updates via its Steam platform, a leading platform for PC games and digital entertainment. Steam users can now detect and install the latest ATI Catalyst driver for their ATI Radeon™ graphics card directly from within Steam. Valve’s most recent Steam Hardware Survey shows that fully 87 percent of DirectX® 11 gamers are enjoying ATI Radeon or ATI Mobility Radeon™ hardware.
This announcement is another example of the AMD latest pc gaming news Evolved initiative in action. The program, which represents AMD’s deep commitment to PC gamers, PC game development and the PC gaming industry, is dedicated to creating the best possible gaming experience on the PC. With auto-notification of driver updates delivered via Steam to users with ATI Radeon graphics hardware, this relationship will provide gamers the opportunity to optimize their PC gaming experience.
Designed to enable high performance, industry-leading stability and an intuitive gaming experience for ATI Radeon graphics customers, regular ATI Catalyst driver updates represent AMD’s ongoing commitment to stability, performance and innovation.
AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, ATI, the ATI logo, Catalyst, Radeon and combinations thereof, are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Valve, the Valve logo, Half-Life, the Half-Life logo, the Lambda logo, Steam, and the Steam logo are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Valve Corporation. Other names are for informational purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective owners.


text: Perhaps because of it implications for our understanding of human nature, recent philosophy of biology has seen what might be the most dramatic work in the philosophies of the ”special” sciences. This drama has centered on evolutionary theory, and in the second edition of this textbook, Elliott Sober introduces the reader to the most important issues of these developments. With a rare combination of technical sophistication and clarity of expression, Sober engages both the higher level of theory and the direct implications for such controversial issues as creationism, teleology, nature versus nurture, and sociobiology. Above all, the reader will gain from this book a firm grasp of the structure of evolutionary theory, the evidence for it, and the scope of its explanatory significance.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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Miss O’s 5th Birthday Princess Ball was so much fun! The planning and the party! I want to share all of the fun pictures so I am going to break it up into 3 posts – I: The Décor, II: The Desserts and III: The Fun! Okay let’s start with the Décor!
I played with the invitation to the party – a lot – but finally found a way to include ALL of the princesses! O will say her favorite princesses right now are Anna and Elsa but she really does love them all. I did not want this to be a Frozen party but did want to include Anna and Elsa in the princess lineup. I think the pink and purple princess theme worked well.
I found the darling princess graphics on Etsy from Grafos, the castle graphic came from Urban Willow another Etsy seller. I designed all of the other printable materials with the princess graphics as well. The printable princess invite is available in my shop now. The entire printable set is available HERE.
For the printable banners – I used a fun flag shape and a pink or purple crown as the base of each flag. A fun script font and polka dot backgrounds made it extra cute. The banner hung over the dessert table – but more about those in the next post!
I covered our wedding arch with pink and purple balloons to use as a backdrop for pictures.
The beverage table had a dark purple backdrop with a banner of princesses on it. The table itself was adorned with the pink tassle banner, blogged about HERE. Strawberry lemonade, water and soda for guests – with a little bubbly for Kings and Queens only!
The water and soda was in a galvanized tub by the beverage table. I wrapped all of the water bottles with cute princess bottle wraps.
The path leading from the dessert table to the beverage table was lined with these lanterns leftover from my wedding – filled with jewels, sparkly tulle and battery operated tea lights!
Of course there was a dress up area with all of O’s princess dresses (store bought and handmade) out for anyone who wanted to try one on!
My sister created this adorable dragon’s lair out of cardboard to give some purpose to an unfortunate pile of dirt that was in the yard from outside projects we had been doing. I think she did a fabulous job. I pretty much can tell my sister my idea about something and she can run with it and make it 100x better than I imagined it! Thanks A!
One project for the kids was to create a necklace using pool noodle flowers strung onto t-shirt yarn. So simple but cute!
Another project was to decorate a crown or shield! I purchased the foam crowns from Amazon, but cut out the shields myself from large pieces of foam. I had markers, glitter glue and a ton of jewel stickers available so the kids could decorate their hearts out!
The last activity I had was a Pin the Crown on the Princess game. I printed out a huge Elsa at Costco and cut out pink and purple paper crowns with my Silhouette SD. The blindfold was a leftover piece of fabric from the pink sparkle tassles.
The kids table was centered in the middle of the yard and was dressed up with fresh flowers from the Issaquah Farmer’s Market that morning.
Each guest had their very own personalized placemat and mug, along with a wand for the girls and a sword for the boys. You can find my tutorial for the DIY Princess Wands HERE. The mugs were again leftover from my wedding – I just painted over the monogram and added each Princess or Knights name with a paint pen.
The rest of the kingdom was dressed up with a little crepe paper garland and tulle bows!
The favor bags had their own special place closer to the dessert table.
Fresh flowers in a princess cup vase – perfect for a Princess Ball!
And to make sure every princess found the entrance to the ball, there were balloons and signs showing the way to the castle gate!
The stage was set for a fabulous Princess Ball! I have to say while I may have had the master vision for the party space, I could NOT have pulled it off without the help of my amazing family! My Mom, Mother-in-law, Husband and Sisters all pitched in!! Thanks everyone for helping me make O’s 5th Birthday Princess Ball spectacular! And speaking of spectacular please come back and see the amazing desserts that were served at the ball!


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Whenever I visit a school with Diversity Role Models, it’s like taking a trip down memory lane. I sometimes feel the awkwardness in the air as children gaze at us, some that are in the closet but will never say as well as others who might not yet know that they are LGBT.
But the difference when I visit a school now is that the conversations that take place in the workshops would never have happened when I was at school.
There was some innovation when I was at school. The internet was catching on, MSN Messenger was a thing and mobile phones were starting to become popular. But one thing that was still staunchly in place was Section 28.
That became a sore point for me, as I saw how easily it was used as a ‘Get Out of Jail Free Card’ for homophobic bullying. I didn’t get flak from students for the rumours that were circulating about my sexuality, instead it came from a teacher.
On hearing rumours that I was gay I vividly remember him asking me one day – in front of a whole class of students – whether I’d missed his last lesson because I had AIDS like the rest of my friends. He also made racist comments towards another student that day.
My mum complained instantly. While the school took the racism seriously, his offensive and homophobic comments were dismissed as being part of “his sense of humour”. They even tried to suggest that I should have more of a sense of humour about these things.
I was fortunate to have a parent who made it clear to me that it was wrong and that I should never accept that type of excuse for bigoted and prejudiced behaviour.
From that day on I despised Section 28 as I had myself experienced how destructive it could be. Fortunately I wasn’t being physically harmed for who I was, but I didn’t like the power it gave people to the bully, especially a teacher. Having that type of behaviour displayed by someone in a position of authority made me feel more vulnerable as a result. But at the same time I worked extra hard in his lessons; I didn’t want to give him any more ammunition.
Credit is also due to my peer group. I was scared of a few of them, but those who heard the homophobic and racist comments that day said that my teach was out of order. For the most part though, I kept myself to myself, at a time when the law didn’t fully support equality.
These experiences have changed how I think and feel about life. If there’s one thing I want to share when I speak in schools, is that you aren’t alone, even though not everyone will be visible or will fit a stereotype that people will try to project onto you.
Love is impossible to control, hide or repress. We don’t choose who we love, our hearts do. So why does the gender of a partner matter?
I am so pleased to be a part of Diversity Role Models. Their workshops tackle the legacy of Section 28, challenge the use of the phrase “that’s so gay” and show students that LGBT people are just like everyone else.
It’s 2015 and we’ve made great progress, but there’s still work to be done. We need to focus our attention on schools so that the next generation of young people can be informed and empowered by positive information, rather than outdated and bigoted values.
Only then can we truly overcome the legacy of Section 28.


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Our journey through the unbelievable history of Hue, the former royal capital of Vietnam. This tour takes you to visit its expansive historical sites. Such as: The Imperial City, the Forbidden Purple City, Perfume River, Thien Mu Pagoda, and the Tomb of Khai Dinh.
Our guide and driver pick up from Hotel in Hoi An. Say goodbye ancient town for visiting ancient capital of Vietnam. Make your initial start at the citadel of the Imperial City, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and grand historical landmark. Check out the Forbidden Purple City and the personal home of the Nguyen dynasty's emperors, and following that break for lunch before embarking on a boat ride that carries you on the Perfume River.
Take a boat trip to get a visit to the Thien Mu pagoda, an unofficial symbol of the city along with also an active Buddhism monastery with roots that date back to 1601. See an automobile that belonged to a monk who set himself on fire to protest the cruel treatment of Buddhists from the authorities of Southern VietNam, and after that check out the elaborate blend of Western and Eastern architecture in the tomb of Emperor Khai Dinh before you embark on the return trip to Hoi An.
Our tour will finish in Hoi An around 19:00. Hope you have a great memorable tour to Hue from Hoi An. Happy Travel!
Meals are noted in the tour program.
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The teenage midfielder once dubbed the “Japanese Messi” will move from FC Tokyo to Yokohama F. Marinos in a loan deal announced Thursday.
In a post on the club website, Marinos said they had reached an agreement to bring 17-year-old Takefusa Kubo to Nissan Stadium until the end of the year.
The youngster earned comparisons to five-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi after being invited to join FC Barcelona’s youth academy at age 9.
Following three seasons in the Barcelona program, he returned to Japan after the Spanish giants were hit by a transfer ban for breaching FIFA rules on the recruitment of underage players from overseas.
Kubo played four league and six cup games for FC Tokyo’s senior side this season. In March, he became the youngest goalscorer in the history of Japan’s league cup, netting the winner in a 1-0 victory over Albirex Niigata.
“Dribbling, shooting and reading the game are my strengths. I’ll do everything in my power to help the team reach its goals,” Kubo said.
Despite racking up a number of eye-catching wins, Marinos are currently languishing in 14th place, just one point above the relegation zone, in their first season under former Australia national team manager Ange Postecoglou.

industry_corpus2: Sports


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Dr. Solana served for ten years as Secretary-General of the Council of the European Union and EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, and Secretary General of Western European Union, ending in December 2009.
Dr. Solana earned a doctorate in physics and taught solid-state physics at Madrid Complutense University before entering politics. In 1977, he was elected to the Spanish Parliament, and from 1982 onward, he held a number of cabinet posts including minister of culture, government spokesperson, and minister of education and science. In July 1992, he became minister of foreign affairs, a post he held until he became NATO secretary-general in December 1995.
He is currently president of the Centre for Global Economy and Geopolitics at ESADE Business School, as well as President of the Madariaga - College of Europe Foundation. He is a member of Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome and a Knight of the Order of St Michael and St George. In 2010 King Carlos I appointed him a Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece for his career in diplomacy.

industry_corpus2: Politics & Administration


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So here is to a new blog segment for my blog - Meet My Family. I've decided that I've talked about my family quite a bit and no one really knows a thing about them. So I can mention them and no one would have no clue who I'm talking about or what they mean to me in my life. So here's to trying this new segment out and here's to everyone getting to know my family and their sense of fashion and style!
Favorite Memory: Our whole life together. Every day is a blessing with Israel and I couldn't be happier to be with anyone else. But for reals, I can't even pinpoint my favorite memory because so many things just come to mind!
How We Met: We were classmates at NAIT in the Chemical Engineering Technology program. Israel was actually really rude the first time we talked, he was handing out an assignment back to the class and said he didn't know my name and threw the pile of papers on my desk and told me to find my own.
Secret Skills: He's actually quite skilled in a lot of things - house renovations (he basically renovated our whole house), car repairs, he's good at photoshop (check out his Instagram) and he used to make music. I don't think there is a thing Israel couldn't do because he basically learns how to do everything on his own.
Well, there you have it. You've met the first and most important person in my family!
Btw, your look is absolutely cool!
This post is different and insightful.
Great post, it is always good to see into the life of the people you follow!!


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This is your invitation to have lunch with your Idaho state legislators, hear their review of the 2019 Idaho Legislative Session and have your questions answered.
Each year, the Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce hosts a luncheon at the end of the legislative session where local legislators present and discuss the decisions that were made and actions taken during the session. This is your opportunity to hear from elected officials and ask questions regarding the 2019 Idaho Legislative Session.


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Major League Wrestling (MLW) is coming to national television with a new weekly series on the beIN Sports Network premiering April 20th. beIN Sports, is available in 50 million homes across the United States.
MLW: Fusion is joining beIN Sports’ “Friday Night Fury” fight block. Tony Schiavone and Rich Bocchini will call the action, with tapings being held monthly throughout Florida.
MLW will crown a new World Heavyweight champion at the upcoming MLW: World Championship Finals show from Orlando (4/12). Later this year, MLW will unveil both tag team titles and a middleweight title.
MLW is getting television rights fees for MLW: Fusion, much like the deal between WWE and USA, and different from Impact Wrestling deal with Pop TV and Ring of Honor’s deal with Sinclair. MLW has a working relationship with Lucha Underground that allows Lucha Underground wrestlers to appear on there show as well.


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Bang! A beautiful cross and a header into the top corner of the net — it’s the sort of moment that’s perfect for World Cup fans to share on social media. Until, that is, the video disappears.
As the Wall Street Journal reported Monday, ESPN(S dis) and Univision have been sending in copyright strikers to take down videos of World Cup goals. In response, sports site SB Nation has had two social media accounts suspended, while Slate had to remove a popular clip that showed 138 goals in short succession. The Twitter account @replaylastgoal has also been suspended.
Fortunately, it is not every World Cup clip that ESPN, which is working with FIFA to enforce copyright, finds objectionable. According to the Journal, it is goal highlights — rather than things like fan celebrations — that are attracting the takedown notices.
All this, though, begs the question: does ESPN have the right to remove short goal videos at all? Under the doctrine of fair use, people can display a copyrighted work without permission in certain circumstances. For instance, an appeals court in California last year said that the musical “Jersey Boys” was allowed under fair use to play a 6-second clip of the Ed Sullivan show. And, indeed, the history of fair use and hip-hop explains why Vine videos are six seconds in the first place. There’s even a website devoted to Vine videos of TV’s best moments.
In the case of the World Cup, however, the law is not so cut and dried. That’s because fair use is not determined by a bright line rule, but by a four-part test that looks at things like the purpose of the use, and its effect on the market value of the original work. ESPN executives, who paid $100 million for the rights to the 2010 and 2014 broadcasts, would no doubt be quick to claim that goal highlights are the most valuable, important moment of a game — and that fair use should not apply. They are also no doubt keen to protect their current partnerships with Google(s goog) and others to distribute the highlights on their own terms.
But while the legal status of goal highlights is unclear, many other World Cup related clips clearly are fair use. The problem right now is that it is ESPN who gets to decide what is fair use and what is not. Under the rules of copyright law, ESPN lawyers can shoot first and ask questions later; it’s true that people can challenge the takedowns as invalid, but that process takes at least 10 days, by which time the excitement of the moment is long past.
Under these circumstances, the best outcome may be for Twitter and other companies that host such clips to challenge the takedown notices, but so far they appear unwilling to rock the boat.
So for now, the best fans can hope for is that ESPN and FIFA will have the sense not to go overboard, and use copyright to kill the social media excitement that has become part of this year’s tournament. And, if you’ve had a World Cup highlight takedown, please leave us a comment if you think that was fair, and what you think the rules should be.
Talk about short-sighted. Those clips are free advertising for ESPN’s programming.
@Steve, exactly. They don’t understand network effect. Nor do most silo-ed app, content or service providers when distribution or interworking costs drop but they retain artificial barriers to new consumption models.


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In Episode 024, we discuss analytics and SEO (search engine optimization). Mainly, in regards to how it impacts analytics and vice versa. Jan Christenson, digital developer at Creative Arcade, joins Jeff to discuss the basics and also unveils ideas on how to go deeper in its use to uncover business intelligence, how it impacts Voice marketing and overall search on the web.
Alexa: I'm having trouble understanding you.
Jan: Alexa's interrupting us again.
Jeff: That's okay, Alexa. We got this.
Jan: The new audio guy made a oops.
Jeff: Yeah, we have a newbie running the audio here, today.
Jeff: Yeah, well, hey everybody. This is Jeff and Jan. This is podcast, what is this 24.
Jeff: Number 24, episode 24.
Jeff: Yeah, that is nice.
Jeff: Yeah. I think we've got, how many in now, since we kind of restarted? We started on what 21? So this is our fourth or fifth since we kind of got back to doing it again. So welcome. You're usually the audio guy.
Jan: Yeah, I'm usually hiding behind the equipment.
Jeff: We decided to have you on today 'cause I know last time we kind of ... Last time we talked about voice. Phil had done some research and we talked more about voice, which led us down the road of talking about ... 'Cause a big part of voice is SEO.
Jan: Yep, optimizing for it.
Jeff: Optimizing for that so that those things can be found when the don't say her name, A-L-E-X-As of the world or Siris or any of those go on the Internet to find that information that it returns the right stuff. Right? So, but we decided 'cause it was related to SEO it'd be good to talk about some of that stuff.
Jan: Yep, SEO, analytics, all that other stuff that leads into it.
Jeff: So that's cool, but before I get into that, I'm just trying to think is there anything we got to share with everyone before we go? Anything cool happen lately? I'm trying, I'm wracking my brain not that cool stuff doesn't happen all the time.
Jan: Glass blowing. We did glass blowing.
Jeff: Oh, yeah. Glass blowing. That was fun.
Jeff: We talked about that last time. Where were you?
Jan: You said it would be for the holidays last time.
Jeff: It was after. You're right.
Jeff: You were in it. You were there.
Jeff: 'Cause I think you showed off some of the glasses.
Jan: I think so, too.
Jan: It's going really fast, though.
Jan: Can't believe it's the 24th already.
Jeff: Thank God. Thank God. I feel like there's stuff to talk about outside of our SEO stuff, but I guess not.
Jan: Nothing major. I mean no huge milestones have happened.
Jan: We've launched a few websites.
Jeff: We've launched a few websites, yeah. That's kept us busy recently.
Jan: Maybe that's where it's been.
Jeff: Well, we'll share more on those later. I think we're still making sure those are good to go with those clients. But anyways, so yeah, SEO and analytics. So I guess I'll just cut to the chase then if there's nothing else [crosstalk 00:03:14].
Jan: Dive right into it. This something we could probably drone on for a while about.
Jeff: So analytics, I think most people know what they are, but then I'm always surprised when we meet especially with a website client. Now we're using Hub spot more. We definitely, that's a huge part of that is the data behind it. What we learn about behaviors and what people are doing when they access content and websites, but I guess we might as well just make sure everyone knows what we're talking about. So in your words what are analytics?
Jan: Yeah, 'cause there's a lot more to it than people realize. A lot of people think of analytics, they think of just statistics. But there's a lot more to it. What analytics does as a whole is it takes every web server collects just statistical information about all the visits to the website and analytics goes a step beyond that and it takes that raw data and creates reports and it's analytics is the tool that does calculations on that data and gives you a way to communicate that information in a way that's meaningful for your business, for your users. And then you can use that information and the data that it communicates to make business decisions based on the raw data from the web server. Because you look at that raw data and it's just overwhelming. It's just numbers.
Jeff: And that's typically Google Analytics is a lot of other analytics tools, correct?
Jeff: Probably the most well-known I think.
Jan: Probably, I mean, I think when we do talk to people that have any kind of idea about analytics they'll say Google Analytics. I think they've kind of ... I mean it's kind of the standard.
Jeff: They've become the standard, yeah.
Jan: And the best part about them in particular, it's already integrated with so many other systems that it just works really well as a platform. But that's a really important distinction to make with analytics though is that it's more than just raw numbers. There's a lot of processing that goes into that to make it useful information.
Jeff: So as a company, what should people, what should they be looking for when it comes to their analytics? What are some of the rules of thumb in looking at analytics?
Jan: I guess some of the things we talked about with Google Analytics already, the number one is going to be reliability. There's a lot of vendors out there that offer analytics. You want a vendor that's going to be consistent and reliable and always on gathering consistent data. I think one of the major things you want to look for is a company. Second is going to be how easy is it to implement? 'Cause if ... You could pay for the greatest service in the world to use this software for analytics but if you can't figure out how to actually put it into your site it's useless. And so you want it to be something that's relatively easy to implement and that's difficult to balance because this is all very technical stuff, incorporating this into an app, but Google Analytics has done a great job of providing clear documentation and it's a pretty straight-forward process to incorporate this.
Jeff: Would you say, yes, that if you have a website or have had a website that it should be something that your developer, whoever, should have that stuff added?
Jan: It should be automatic. I think with any website that goes live, that should be just a natural part of the launch process.
Jeff: Right, so you can see what stuff is going on.
Jan: Yep, it's not going to do you any good if you can't see how your website is performing. And that's what analytics does for you. And I think the last really major thing a company needs to look for in analytics is the ability to customize it. You want to be able to build your own reports, you want to be able to filter data the way you want to filter the data, and you also want to be able to track additional information above and beyond the default. So that customization ability is really important. Being able to extend it.
Jan: Yeah, there's definitely a connection. SEO is kind of it's own separate animal. And it's a huge topic. SEO is Search Engine Optimization for those who don't know. Although I don't know how you could not know at this point in the life of the Internet and all the technology we use. But analytics is really closely related because analytics can give you an insight into how people are using your site or your application. And you don't necessarily know how to optimize your content for a search engine unless you have some insight into how it's performing. So analytics gives you a tool that you can use to see what route people are taking through your site. What pages they're viewing, how long they're staying on your page. And if you find an area of your website that isn't performing as well, then you can use that information to go in and optimize it and do the SEO on it.
Jeff: Well, a lot of times too, what's wrong with analytics even are like organic keywords. So meaning like the words people use to find your things on the organic or free search results. So a lot of times we'll get people that say, "How do I become number one on Google without paying any money for any sponsored ads?" And that's what we usually refer to is those free listings, if you will.
Jan: Yep, and people think of search engine optimization as their ranking on a search engine. And that it ends there. But analytics is another window into how your content is performing. And can give you insights into the keywords you need to optimize for and improvements you need to make. And when you start talking about integrations, that's one of the really nice benefits of Google as an engine is you can also integrate your analytics with this webmaster tools and search console and everything and it can give you a lot of information, almost an overwhelming amount of information to drive search engine optimizations.
Jan: Analytics is what tracks the data, keeps the statistics. Search console can actually, if you've integrated it with your analytics, search console can actually send you periodic recommendations. I got one the other day about some content that we had added to our website and it said, "Hey, there's something wrong with this content. To get it to perform-"
Jeff: Well, it was specifically about the accelerated mobile page. We viewed it and it said you can improve it by adding this field to your page. And so I hopped into the page, made the change, and submitted it and Google checked it again and verified, "Ta-da. You fixed your problem." That was Search Console. Webmaster Tools gets into where you can integrate both of those together and it'll start running, having more control over your website as a whole. And then on top of all of that, there's Google Tag Manager, which gives you kind of a central place to coordinate all of that. So it can get really deep into all the different integrations inside Google.
Jeff: And Google Tag Manager you can use for a variety of things, correct?
Jan: We're using it for tracking clicks and for tracking different events, different interactions. You can start to customize all of that information. You can start tracking analytics across multiple domains together and it gives you one central place that you can manage all of those tags you put on your site, including paid ads and ad integration.
Jeff: It makes it also easier to add ... Well, 'cause once you do it then you can use that same basically tracking pixel, correct?
Jeff: For like ads and things like that.
Jan: And like on our website we have multiple things integrated to it, but if I need to make a change I have one bit of code in the pages of our site. I can go into tag manager and make all of my changes without having to change code at all. It just, Google takes care of it through the tag manager.
Jeff: So if you're a small, medium-sized business and you're ranked high in Google, what tips do you have to help them become more visible online in regards to analytics or SEO?
Jeff: That's a really tough question. 'Cause we'll have people calling all the time, "I want to be listed number one in Google Search results." Or whatever insert search engine.
Jan: We're like, "Yeah, take a number."
Jeff: Everybody wants to be number one.
Jan: Right. Everybody wants to be number one.
Jan: I think the number one piece of advice, and we say this to people all the time, is be patient. It's a marathon, it's not a sprint. You're not going to start doing SEO and see immediate results. It's going to be an organic process over time. If you want to do it right, it's an organic process that goes over time. So be patient. You'll get results.
Jeff: Unless you're willing to pay for ads.
Jan: Unless you want to pay. But even then if you pay for ads, it's obvious it's a paid listing, that's not an organic ranking inside Google.
Jeff: Right. And it's also not guaranteed that you'll be placed in a certain order just because you bought an ad.
Jeff: 'Cause there's also others who might be bidding for the same search criteria you're paying for to return your ad, someone else might be willing to pay more for that space.
Jan: And depending on the phrases your trying to match for, the competition can be brutal.
Jeff: So that's we have some agents that do nothing but this kind of stuff, from a paid standpoint.
Jan: Yeah, they're dedicated to that entirely.
Jeff: Obviously we do a lot of those things, too, across the board. But there are some agencies that do nothing but that.
Jeff: For a good reason.
Jan: It takes constant monitoring and being able to adapt as circumstances change.
Jeff: So that's where probably content comes into play, too, where as far as analytics and rankings 'cause obviously if you put out enough content that can be found, it's just going to drive more traffic, which obviously more traffic means your numbers, your analytics go up or you might be doing certain actions through that content that you might want people to do based on behaviors. So that sounds almost like a third a prong if you will.
Jan: It is. And that's one of the recommendations I had in answer to that question was to just follow best practices, organize your content well, optimize that content around the keywords and searches you want to be ranked for, and then keep track of it as it trends up, and make adjustments as you go along. That's some of the best advice I would give you if you're starting off optimizing your content is do it the right way.
Jeff: We wrote a blog article a while ago about Future Proof SEO was the name of it blog post. And that was what I was talking about when you mentioned future proof SEO is you're not trying to trick search engines into getting the rankings you need. That used to be a really common thing, spamdexing. Back in the early days of the web and the Internet, when we were working on this and you had people who were experts in tricking search engines into ranking you higher.
Jan: But the problem with that is search engines get smarter and smarter as time goes on and they adapt to those techniques and it can actually reach the point where when you use some of those techniques to spam a search index, it'll actually have a negative hit on your ranking. Whereas future proof SEO is using good content, targeting keywords, and putting information on there that your users want. And so as web crawlers change, and they do change, they're always changing.
Jeff: As those adapt, your content is still going to be good. And it's still going to be consistent and you're still going to be building domain authority and improving your ranking on the search engine.
Jeff: So explain domain authority since you used that term.
Jan: Building trust and third parties validating your expertise in your area. You want to be the thought leader in whatever you're writing about. And that'll build your domain authority.
Jeff: So say you write a good article about SEO and analytics and it gets picked up and now everyone's linking to your article as a good example, that's obviously going to basically proving and validating the trust in that content.
Jan: Yep, you'll be gathering those inbound links.
Jeff: You create domain authority.
Jeff: So, when it comes to analytics and your website, what are some base things you should be looking for and then what are some base things ... And when I say that, like obviously you've heard about hits and things like that. What are some of the basics and then what are some maybe other things that you can track that maybe people don't realize they can track?
Jan: The base things are going to be the number of visitors you have. You want to keep track of whether they're new visitors, returning visitors, unique visitors. The sessions, which is a separate statistic. A session in a search engine, if you think of Google a session is a single visitor's interactions with your website up until there's 30 minutes of inactivity. And then that session ends. And so it's going to track a user as they go through that whole thing. And now of course that's going to vary 'cause it depends on the cookies in your browser and whether you're on the same browser on the same computer. All those different things contribute. So sessions can be a little tricky. You're also going to want to look at the route through your website. What pages they're landing on and where they go from there or if they go anywhere, which leads to the bounce rate. So it's when a user hits a webpage on your website and then does nothing else. That's a bounce. They haven't really connected.
Jeff: They didn't find what they're looking for, they just kind of moved on really quickly.
Jan: Clicked something else. Beyond those base statistics, there's also a lot of demographic information. You can find your geographic location, the language you're browsing in, the browser you're using, the computer you're using, and on and on and on. And you can start to segment that.
Jan: If you start to integrate it with other systems, you can actually start gathering more demographic data like their age range and other information like that. And almost to the point where it gets creepy. But you can go into analytics, and some people don't know this, and you can build segments to actually compare different groups of users so you can find a segment of users that your business is interested in, your target market, and start to compare statistics for those.
Jan: Really important feature that not everybody may know about is that you can actually watch how users go through your website. Their path through your content. And if there's a single page on your site where you see a lot of people dropping off, maybe there's something wrong with that page or you need to add some links to that page to encourage them to go somewhere else or a call to action.
Jan: So in that case, let's just say you followed a blog post and it led to some kind of call to action and it took you to a landing page, but maybe then they didn't convert on that landing page. You can say, "Okay, we at least know they got this far and the last 20 people that were there did the same exact thing. Why aren't they using it?"
Jeff: Why aren't they using our form?
Jeff: So maybe there's a way you can probably, you can test some other maybe content on the page, images, maybe the way it's written.
Jan: Or it could mean that there's something wrong with your form and it's not working. And people are just ... they drop off.
Jeff: They're trying to convert and they can't.
Jan: They want to, but they can't. And so do you have to do some research and look into that.
Jeff: So with analytics can you, I'm assuming you can track conversions. So like a form, or another like a login or some kind of button to either learn about who's going there or maybe segment them out.
Jan: Yep, you can go into analytics settings and actually track, you can add events to your webpage that will track different things. One example we have of that is on our own website I have events in our podcast page that will tell us how many users listen to our podcasts up to 25%, 50%, 75%, or who completely listened to our podcast.
Jan: Just to see who's actually engaging with the content we're providing and then see what number of users are actually reaching that point in the audio file. Now that's specific to people who are watching it directly through our website. I can't track it if it's provided by iTunes, necessarily. But it gives us a little bit of insight and we can start to see trends as to whether people are using that. But that takes some additional coding and some additional configuration. We've used in other places to track specific clicks, if there's a link in your nav bar that you want to see how many of your visitors are clicking that link, you can do that inside analytics.
Jeff: So, real quick example we have a client that uses software as a service, as a product they sell, and so for those current customers that are using the service, they come to the website to login to their specific place to use their software. And so that was one thing we filtered out so we could kind of take overall traffic but of that traffic, which are people there that are not necessarily there to use the product but maybe see other things.
Jan: Yep, I've used that to track that click link and it sets them as a user as an existing customer, essentially. And you're going to catch some people that are just clicking that login link just out of curiosity, but what you're going to look for in analytics is trends. The numbers are going to vary between different analytics providers, but you're looking for general trends in how your website's performing.
Jeff: And typically when we say trends, I mean that can be a lot of things. If I can think of a real easy one that's pretty common is just work week versus weekends. That's probably a good one as an example.
Jan: Yeah, you can narrow it down to what time of day and on which day during the week your website is the most active. We found that one particular client was it always seemed that Fridays at noon, that hour, was the highest activity on their site. So that can give you some insight on to when you should send out social media blasts.
Jeff: People are paying attention.
Jan: Yeah, either people are paying attention or do it at another time when people aren't paying attention to increase traffic at that time and kind of offset that. And that kind of leads into the last thing that not necessarily everybody realizes about analytics is you can start using it for business intelligence. And using the information from that performance to make business decisions based on that data.
Jan: And also you can set goals and conversions and you can actually give yourself some insight on revenue. If you have a particular action on your site that is of certain value to your company, you can configure that inside analytics and it will start ... You can set revenue goals and it will tell you whether you're meeting your goals or not.
Jeff: Probably the same with e-commerce, there's probably things there, too, where that would come in [crosstalk 00:21:56].
Jeff: Even more applicable to e-commerce.
Jan: Track how many people ... Really good example of it is track how many people have added a product to your cart and you can keep track of whether they actually completed the order or not.
Jan: And track that conversion.
Jeff: And then over time, you said trends, what are the trends with that specific product.
Jeff: Or if there's friction, yep.
Jan: That's preventing them from converting.
Jan: Figure out where it is.
Jan: Maybe your checkout page is confusing and abandoning it.
Jeff: So from our standpoint what are some things that we ... I know we do a lot of things currently with clients and a variety of things, but is there anything that you think we could be helping more of our clients with in this area? Or how could we better collaborate? Or even have clients ask the right question of us. What kinds of things could we do as an agency do you think to help them be successful?
Jan: I think it's really important just to educate them on what they can do with this. 'Cause some of them they know the term analytics and they may have Google Analytics installed on their site, but they don't know what to do with it. They don't know how to go in to look at the information or they don't have someone that can gather that information for them and so just remind them of what the power of this actually is. And how much they can play with it.
Jan: Just a little summary.
Jeff: A summary, I feel that's a better term for it. I think it's really helpful because it can be overwhelming.
Jeff: But then there are some clients that really want to dig deep and we can do that. And there's a couple different layers, if you will, that you can create based on your needs and what you're trying to get out of your online presence. But that's one of things, just is the fact you can measure, whether that's your website, whether that's actual paid ads, whether that's a form or a specific conversion, a landing page. There's so much you can basically measure. So I think actually allocate that to dollars or what people always term ROI, your return on your investment, that's why digital and just being online is such a powerful tool. Because it's so much easier really see like okay I spent x amount of dollars whether that's on my website or creating these landing pages or maybe on a specific paid ad spend, whatever, and then seeing what you got for that. It's pretty amazing.
Jan: Well, we mentioned earlier in search engine optimization that number one tip is to be patient. With really good use of analytics you don't have to necessarily be as patient because you can start to see those trends. When you put out a new piece of content you can see a sudden increase in your traffic.
Jeff: Or not. And find out whether your content is effective and tailor it. And so it kind of helps with that process and that you can actually get involved and see an impact on your analytics.
Jan: I think that's a good thing to think about or keep in mind is just being patient 'cause it does take time sometimes to not only put that stuff out, but allow the analytics to create those trends. You can't just make a good decision on a week's worth of hits or non-hits. You almost got to see a few months maybe of actual data to say is there an actual trend here or is this a mirage? So that's cool.
Jeff: Well, great. Thanks for being on.
Jan: Oh, happy to. In case you couldn't tell, I enjoy statistics. So this is fun stuff for me.
Jan: I really do like playing with it.
Jeff: That's good. Normally we usually have an Ask [inaudible 00:25:45] Question. This week we don't, but that's okay. I think we had some good stuff here that I think answers some base questions about analytics and SEO, so that's good.
Jan: Or prompted some more questions.
Jeff: Or promoted some more questions, which we'll be glad to answer if and when we have those. Great. I'm glad you were on. I think we'll have you on more often when we have some other specific topics. But this is one that's been kind of timely because we had a few other just client interactions where analytics had become very, very important, not only just on the base level, but just what's that next level deep. And it's kind of blown some minds I think, and we've shown what you can do with it.
Jan: And this is and today we just talked about one of the tools. There's a lot of 'em out there.
Jeff: Right. Well, cool. We'll have to talk more about that later then. But we'll make a Part Two at some point. How about that?
Jeff: Sweet. All right, well until next time, thanks for listening.
Jeff: Remember to comment if you have anything and ask any questions. Always, we'll see you later.


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Let’s gear yourself up for the IELTS Writing & Speaking with “academic” prepositions that are not so frequently used but suitable for academic writing and speaking. Learning these words and expressions will help you boost your IELTS score as well as contributing to your academic pursuit.
Example: He finished his speech amid tremendous applause.
Example: The hotel was in a beautiful position amid lemon groves.
Example: Apropos our date for lunch, I cannot go.
Example: Rights groups urged the Indonesian government to block a proposed law banning women from sitting astride motorcycles in deeply Islamic Aceh province, where the position is deemed “improper”.
Example: They put a table athwart the doorway.
Example: His statement ran athwart what was previously said.
Example: Fruit and vegetable prices rose 1.3 per cent atop a 2 per cent gain last month.
Example: Barring accidents, we should arrive on time.
Example: They found the body buried beneath a pile of leaves.
Example: He considers such jobs beneath him.
Example: He sat beside her all night.
Example: My painting looks childish beside yours.
Example: Besides working as a doctor, he also writes novels in his spare time.
Example: The road continues beyond the village up into the hills.
Example: I know what I’ll be doing for the next three weeks but I haven’t thought beyond that.
Example: Our success was far beyond what we thought possible.
Example: The situation is beyond our control.
Example: The exercise was beyond the abilities of most of the class.
Example: She was born circa 1920.
Example: All cases concerning children are dealt with in a special children’s court.
Example: Considering he has only just started, he knows quite a lot about it.
Example: Despite applying for hundreds of jobs, he is still out of work.
Example: We work every day except Sunday.
Example: Lunch cost 10 dollars per person, excluding drinks.
Example: Ask a friend to recommend a doctor or, failing that, ask for a list in your local library.
Example: He took charge of the family business following his father’s death.
Example: Given his age (Considering how old he is), he is remarkably active.
Example: Six people were killed in the riot, including a policeman.
Example: Notwithstanding some financial problems, the club has had a successful year.
Example: She stepped down from the train onto the platform.
Example: The window looked out onto the terrace.
Example: The bank is opposite the supermarket.
Acting in a film or plays as the partner of somebody Example: She starred opposite Tom Hanks.
Example: It was past midnight when we got home.
Example: He hurried past them without stopping.
Example: Unemployment is now past the 3 million mark.
Example: This country has a higher crime rate per 100,000 of the population than most other European countries.
Example: The soldier acted qua soldier, not as a human being.
Example: She has said nothing regarding your request.
Example: There were no potatoes so we had fish and chips sans the chips.
Example: They knew nothing about her save her name.
Example: They export their products to markets throughout the world.
Example: The museum is open daily throughout the year.
Example: They were heading towards the German border.
Example: This is a first step towards political union.
Example: He was tender and warm towards her.
Example: The money will go towards a new school.
Example: The coin rolled underneath the piano.
Example: Underneath her cool exterior she was really very frightened.
Example: The decision was based upon two considerations.
Example: It was the promise of better job opportunities versus the inconvenience of moving away and leaving her friends.
Example: We flew home via Dubai.
Example: The news programme came to us via satellite.
Example: Two elections were held within the space of a year.
Example: The question is not within the scope of this talk.
Example: There is discontent within the farming industry.


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Hi, I'm one of the maintainers of Mentorship System application from Systers Open Source community.
Mentorship System is an application meant to help women in tech mentor each other during a certain period of time. It is still in early development (not in production). This is being developed solely by open source contributors!
Regarding tech stack the project is divided into a backend coded in python (flask) and an Android application which uses kotlin.
We have plenty of beginner friendly first timers only issues. You can also check available issues by looking up issues with Status: Available label.
I would love to see people trying out and learning about Open Source through this project.
I obviously cannot help out, but that's a really cool project you have started!
Thank you! But why is it obvious you cannot help? Are you interested in these technologies? And open source? If yes you can definately help if you want to :) open source is open for everyone!
I may have misunderstood you. I thought because of the goals of your group you were primarily looking for women to assist, but if that is not the case, then I will look through your open issues sometime soon!
I am, for nightwatchjs.org and I know what you're thinking - ugh testing, what's the fun in that. Well, I can't argue with you there, I don't like testing either, but it's absolutely necessary, especially when you do refactoring all the time, like I do.
And working on the frameowork itself is indeed fun, sometimes, because a lot of people are using it already. And we are fun people to work with. Maybe.
Get it touch on twitter - @nightwatchjs. Thanks!
Emuto is a small language and command line tool that is specifically designed for restructuring JSON (and other) data files. The syntax is heavily inspired by jq and GraphQL.
Emuto isn't designed to query databases. Rather, it can be used to restructure data that you obtain form APIs, static files, databases and command line software. This is useful when you have different libraries or software that could theoretically work together, but use different data structures or formats.
A practical example of that would be taking the output of the command df, and converting it's output data into a JSON file that can be displayed by your charting tool or uploaded to an API.
... or anything you would like to do :-) If you are interested in developing languages, command line tools or you think that emuto is useful, then it should be a nice fit for you.
Hi, I'm building a yet another static site generator, called Kulfon.
It supports Nunjucks, Org Mode and Markdown. (I plan to add Marko.js, Stencil.js and Vue.js in the near future).
I am trying to learn go and I am looking for some Golang open source project that has tagged first bugs issues. I was looking for some projects, but they didn't have the tag or they looked really complicated for my current level.
That's very true, and I've experienced the same. But, then, Golang projects aren't supposed to be simple. :P It's a heavy-lifting language for serious work, and you'll rarely find people making reminder apps, trackers, CMS, and so forth. I'd say pick a project that looks interesting, no matter how complicated, and ask the maintainers to mentor you a little along the way. For example, you can begin by writing tests for a project, which is a great way to build familiarity and confidence.
That is a good idea! Thanks for the advice! Do you know if there are some project that are willing to do this kind of mentorship?
Do you know if there are some project that are willing to do this kind of mentorship?
For anyone looking for Ruby projects to contribute, Sail and Correspondent are always looking for feedback, new ideas and contributions!
This Rails engine brings a setting model into your app to be used as feature flags, gauges, knobs and other live controls you may need.
It saves configurations to the database so that they can be changed while the application is running, without requiring a deploy.
Having this ability enables live experiments and tuning to find an application's best setup.
Enable/Disable a new feature, turn ON/OFF ab testing for new functionality, change jobs' parameters to tune performance, you name it.
It comes with a lightweight responsive admin dashboard for searching and changing configurations on the fly.
Dead simple configurable user notifications using the Correspondent engine!
Configure subscribers and publishers and let Correspondent deal with all notification work with very little overhead.
Take a look to hydraecosystem.org.
Absolutely! we are looking for a mentor/administrator to apply for GSOD as well.
Cast-Bucket is an open source podcast App for developers. Its written in React native and aims to achieve up to 95 percent code sharing between web, desktop and the mobile codebase.
As always, I'll point out that if you need any contributors/help with your .Net or .Net Core project, let me know.
I'm also willing to help as much as I can with any CI/CD issues you may have. I'm familiar with CircleCI, Codeship, and Azure DevOps.
Hello Ben! How can I become a DEV Community contributor?
I'm a new graduate and I'm looking for my first oppununity as a developer.


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