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Sunday, June 23, 2013
Lavrov: Syria peace conference could be derailed
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media after his meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, unseen, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 15, 2013. Russia's foreign minister says the evidence put forth by the United States of chemical weapons use in Syria apparently doesn't meet stringent criteria for reliability. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks to the media after his meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino, unseen, in Moscow, Russia, Saturday, June 15, 2013. Russia's foreign minister says the evidence put forth by the United States of chemical weapons use in Syria apparently doesn't meet stringent criteria for reliability. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
ST.PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) ? Russia's foreign minister has strongly warned that an international conference intended to negotiate peace for Syria could be derailed if the U.S. decides to push for a no-fly zone over the country.
Sergey Lavrov, speaking in an interview with The Associated Press and the Bloomberg news agency on Friday, also warned against pushing the demand for Syrian President Bashar Assad to step down, calling it unrealistic. He accused the West of sending conflicting signals to the Syrian opposition, encouraging rebels to keep fighting.
He said that supplies of weapons to the Syrian opposition promised by Washington and under consideration by the EU would be a "very big mistake."
A time and place for the international conference on Syria hasn't been announced yet.
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Saturday, June 22, 2013
Top 5 Posts on SEO for Real Estate - Placester
Love it or hate it, search engines are driving more traffic to your website than any other online channel. In fact, when it comes to traffic, search beats out social media by more than 300 percent! To help you understand the ins and outs of search engine optimization (SEO), we?ve rounded up five of our favorite posts on the topic. (For those who are entirely new to the world of SEO, take a quick look at our Little Black Book of SEO Terminology so you can get familiar with all of the different terms).
In no particular order?
by?John E. Miller (via Geek Estate)
If you?re looking for a quick read where you can get some solid SEO takeaways, this post is for you. The top ten list offers easily digestible insight, with tips that range from using internal links and obtaining backlinks to creating content and virtual tours. Quote: ?Utilization of videos and pictures are incredibly important in increasing SEO for any website; however, they are even more important for real estate SEO efforts.?
by Jeff Bernheisel (via Inman News)
An incredibly detailed post with a narrower focus than the previous entry, ?Winning the local SEO game? offers practical advice for optimizing your site for local search. The three main points author Jeff Bernheisel explores are 1) how to tag your site properly, 2) how to get indexed by different sites and social networks, and 3) how social media sharing and ?buzz? can help improve your search rankings. Quote: ?Many in the SEO world believe that this ?buzz? will eventually become more important than the old-school methods of building backlinks and worrying about keyword density.?
by David Friedman (via Realtor Mag)
The ?3 Pillars? post opens with some great facts and figures as to why SEO is crucial for real estate. Author David Friedman then goes on to thoroughly explain each of his three pillars: keyword strategy, website technology, and optimizing your content for search. Quote: ??when you invest in SEO, you?re constantly building on your earlier investments. This is like buying a home instead of renting. Your dollars build equity.?
by Emily Cote (via Outspoken Media)
An insightful post from the boutique SEO consulting company Outspoken Media, ?Guide to Real Estate SEO,? does a great job of setting up the challenges that real estate professionals face when optimizing for search. Author Emily Cote then does a deep dive that covers everything from strategy and content to IDX technology and URL structures. Quote: ?SEO is vital to a successful online presence for both brokers and agents because higher rankings can translate into significant sales increases?especially when each transaction is in the $100,000s.?
by Colin Ryan (via Real Estate Marketing Academy)
We?ve decided to include this popular post from our Academy on the list because it offers a slightly different approach than the other entries. Instead of focusing on new techniques that you can implement to improve your SEO, it covers seven common flaws that plague SEO strategies. It?s a great tool for evaluating the potential shortcomings of your SEO efforts. Quote: ?Trying to rank for ?Boston real estate?? You?ll be competing with hundreds of other companies, as well as big publishers like Zillow and Trulia. Instead, do your research: Use Google?s AdWords Keyword Tool??
Source: https://placester.com/real-estate-marketing-academy/top-5-posts-on-seo-for-real-estate/
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Flooding forces 75,000 from west Canada homes
CALGARY, Alberta (AP) ? Flooding forced the western Canadian city of Calgary to order the evacuation of the entire downtown area on Friday, as the waters reached the 10th row of the city's hockey arena.
About 230,000 people work downtown on a typical day. However, officials said very few people need to be moved out, since many heeded warnings and did not go to work Friday.
Twenty-five neighborhoods in the city, with an estimated population of 75,000, have already been evacuated due to floodwaters in Calgary, a city of more than a million people that hosted the 1988 Winter Olympics and is the center of Canada's oil industry.
No deaths were reported since torrential rains hit the region Wednesday night, although one woman swept away with a mobile home was still missing.
In the downtown, water was inundating homes and businesses in the shadow of skyscrapers. Water has swamped cars and train tracks.
The city said the home rink of the National Hockey League Calgary Flames has flooded and the water inside is 10 rows deep. The 19,000-seat Saddledome is one of the feature buildings on the famed Calgary Stampede grounds, which is largely under water.
Officials said there was little that can be done to pump the water out of the building because there is simply too much.
About 1,500 have gone to emergency shelters while the rest have found shelter with family or friends, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said.
Nenshi said he's never seen the rivers that high or that fast, but said the flooding situation is as under control as it can be. Nenshi said the Elbow River, one of two rivers that flow through the southern Alberta city, has peaked. And if things don't change, officials expect that the flow on the Bow River ? which, in in the mayor's words early Friday, looks like "an ocean at the moment" ? will remain steady for the next 12 hours.
Police urged people to stay away from downtown and not go to work.
The flood was forcing emergency plans at the Calgary Zoo, which is situated on an island near where the Elbow and Bow rivers meet. Lions and tigers were being prepared for transfer, if necessary, to prisoner holding cells at the courthouse.
Schools and court trials were cancelled Friday and residents urged to avoid downtown. Transit service in the core was shut down.
Alberta Premier Alison Redford promised the province will help flood victims put their lives back together and provide financial aid to communities that need to rebuild The premier said at a briefing that she has spoken to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is heading to Calgary and has promised disaster relief. She urged people to heed evacuation orders, so authorities could do their jobs. She called the flooding that has hit most of southern Alberta an "absolutely tragic situation.
The premier warned that communities downstream of Calgary have not yet felt the full force of the floodwaters.
It had been a rainy week throughout much of Alberta, but on Thursday the Bow River Basin was battered with up to 100 millimeters (four inches) of rain. Environment Canada's forecast calls for more rain in the area, but in much smaller amounts.
Calgary is not alone in its weather-related woes. There have been flashpoints of chaos from Banff and Canmore and Crowsnest Pass in the Rockies and south to Lethbridge.
More than a dozen towns have declared states of emergency. Entire communities, including High River and Bragg Creek, near Calgary are under mandatory evacuation orders.
Some of the worst flooding hit High River, where it's estimated half of the people in the town have experienced flooding in their homes.
Military helicopters plucked about 30 people off rooftops in the area. Others were rescued by boat or in buckets of heavy machinery. Some even swam for their lives from stranded cars.
A spokesperson for Defense Minister Peter MacKay said 354 soldiers are being deployed to the entire flood zone.
Further west, in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains, pictures from the mountain town of Canmore depicted a raging river ripping at house foundations.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/flooding-forces-75-000-west-canada-homes-163024507.html
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Friday, June 21, 2013
Life Is Sweet
In Virginia hunt country, 47 miles from Washington, D.C., you?ll find the town of Warrenton, population 9,735. On Main Street, across from the town library and next to the courthouse, there?s a small, refurbished filling station with a cherry-red pickup truck parked out front. This Norman Rockwell painting come to life is the work of Brian Noyes, 56, who, after more than 25 years in magazine publishing, decided to chuck it all in to start Red Truck Bakery.
Noyes helped launch local magazines in Tampa, Fla., Detroit, and Houston, then he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1984 to help the Washington Post redesign its Sunday magazine. He also served stints as art director at House & Garden, Preservation, and Smithsonian magazines. But no matter where he worked, Noyes says, he always brought in tarts and pies for his co-workers.
After living in the D.C. area for 11 years, Noyes bought a farmhouse in Cherrydale, a suburban neighborhood of Arlington, Va., which he restored with his partner, Dwight McNeill, a residential architect. Then, while he was still working at Smithsonian, he found a beautifully restored 1954 Ford pickup at a high-end auto-consignment shop. That purchase changed his life.
Noyes? interest in baking started with a series of cross-country family bake-offs. Noyes would bake bread and send it to his uncle in Florida, along with the recipe. His uncle would then send back his own creations, along with playful corrections to Noyes? recipes. Noyes credits his uncle with perfecting the recipe for Red Truck?s signature whole-grain wheat bread with honey, dried cranberries, and walnuts. He went on to train at the Culinary Institute of America and L?Academie de Cuisine in Maryland. ?He?s gone now, and I think, ?I sure wish he knew what I was doing these days,? ? Noyes says.
In 2006, Noyes obtained a cottage-industry permit from the county to start baking and selling his wares out of his farmhouse. He would bake all day Friday, then on Saturday mornings he would sell an assortment of baked goods out of the truck bed outside upscale country stores in the Virginia Piedmont region. He called his business the Red Truck Bakery. It wasn?t long before he found people in parking lots waiting for his truck to arrive. Noyes recruited investors from the farm town of Orlean, Va., where many well-off white-collar professionals live, for the startup costs of a bricks-and-mortar bakery. He figured it was just a matter of finding the right location. Then the economy tanked.
?I lost all my investors. They were just circling the wagons around themselves, so I was stuck with no help,? he says.
Just as Noyes thought his dream was dead, Red Truck got a break that completely changed his business model. As he tells it, in 2007 one of Noyes? regular customers took some Red Truck baked goods to a Fourth of July picnic in Little Washington, Va., which New York Times food writer Marian Burros also attended. She was so delighted with the food that she called Noyes and asked him to send her some items for further testing: Gruy?re quiche, mincemeat pie, almond stollen, fruitcake, rum cake, and sweet potato pecan bourbon pie. Then, in the 2008 edition of her annual holiday food guide, Burros wrote, ?One of my favorite discoveries is Brian Noyes, the owner of the Red Truck Bakery in Virginia, who has a deft hand with pastries and an unerring sense of flavor balance.?
The day before Burros? review was published, the Red Truck Bakery?s website received 24 hits; the day after it appeared, it got more than 57,000. People across the country flooded Noyes? inbox with orders, and he had to figure out how to meet a national demand. He spent the month of December at home, baking, boxing, and shipping orders for the holiday season.
?I knew it was time to make this a full-time gig?I had just turned 50 and thought, ?If not now, it will never happen.? So in 2008 I gave notice at Smithsonian magazine and spent the next year trying to raise money, searching for a location, and getting the place ready to open,? Noyes says.
Burros isn?t the only fan of Noyes? creations. Michael Stern, who writes about food for Parade magazine and blogs at roadfood.com, said Red Truck has ?[m]aybe the best chicken salad sandwich anywhere.? Washingtonian named Red Truck?s citrusy pumpkin pie the best in the metro area, and the Travel Channel?s Andrew Zimmern told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that Red Truck makes ?the best granola in North America.?
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But the greatest boost Noyes could have hoped for came from one mysteriously persistent customer from Chicago. In 2008, a woman ordered a sweet potato bourbon pecan pie to be shipped to Hawaii for Christmas. She then proceeded to email him multiple times confirming and reconfirming that the pie would be shipped in time. ?She got so anal about it,? he says, ?almost to the point of being troublesome.?
After the shipment went through, the woman apologized for being such a pain, explaining that it was her job to supply the sweet potato pie for the Obama family?s holiday gathering. The Obamas? regular pie shop in Chicago wasn?t able to supply them that year, so she decided to order from Red Truck after reading Burros? review.
When asked if he still supplies the White House with desserts, Noyes offers a discreet response: ?I?m not supposed to really talk about that.?
Noyes said the combination of turning 50 and being a little naive about the challenges of starting a new business helped him make the leap. ?If I were more analytical and not so seat-of-my-pants, I probably wouldn?t have done this,? he says. ?When I saw that this old gas station was available, I didn?t even think about it. I just thought, ?If ever it?s going to happen, it?s going to happen right there.? ?
So he cashed in his savings, signed the lease in March of 2009, and opened for business that August. Since then, Red Truck?s payroll has expanded to 15 people, and Noyes plans to open another bakery in The Plains, a town of 220 that?s a short drive from Warrenton. He?s in the final stages of securing a location for the new shop, a former pharmacy in a 19th-century mercantile building.
Noyes says he never misses his old career in publishing, and he?s been able to do the best part of his magazine job?playing with typography?while designing the branding for his next bakery. Still, that doesn?t mean it?s easy to make a drastic career change. ?I wouldn?t do it without a good amount of money in the bank,? he says. ?I still go to sleep each night wondering about meeting payroll. But I?m making this place pay for itself.??
One weekend a former boss visited the bakery without knowing that Noyes was involved. ?We just looked at each other, and he pointed at me and said, ?I know you!? I said, ?Here I am! This is what I do now!? ? And despite the late-night worries, he loves it.
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Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/briefing/second_acts/2013/06/life_is_sweet.html
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