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Road repairs, upcoming projects, the Second Amendment and more are slated for discussion at Tuesday’s regular Town Council meeting.

The council will take time to consider passing a resolution “Affirming the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution,” an item suggested by members of the Paradise Tea Party. The resolution would have the councilmen reaffirm their oaths of office and promise to oppose “any provision infringing upon the Second Amendment or any other constitutional rights granted the citizens of our nation.” It would also have the council recommend that state and national leaders refocus their efforts in gun control to issues of mental health.

Grant money will play into a large number of budgeted items for council approval Tuesday: town staff prepared a finalized disbursement of $22,495 from Community Development Block Grant; the Paradise Police Department issued a request for refurbishing two police cruisers for $51,687 of COPS grant money; and a proposed bid from town staff for a $20,083 contract for quality assurance services in the Pearson Road/Recreation Drive Signalization Project.

Town Council will also evaluate multiple items concerning roads in Paradise, such as a proposal to use Prop. 1B road funds to do “microsurface” repairs to portions of Skyway, and Pearson and Clark roads.

There will also be discussion of whether the council will automatically re-appoint Planning Commissioner Jody Jones at the June 11 meeting or open her position

The Town Council meeting begins at 6 p.m., Tuesday, at Town Hall, 5555 Skyway. The agenda packet can be found at Town Hall or online at www.townofparadise.com.

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Search marketing agency, SEO Consult, have published the findings of new research which resulted in the discovery of some worrying loopholes found with two popular content management systems.

Cheshire, UK (PRWEB UK) 7 February 2013

What began as a routine keyword monitoring test by the team of SEO Programmers, as part of on-going SEO Consult research and development, soon became a much more complex exercise when it was found that the UK Payday Loans industry had an incredibly high turnover of websites ranking at the top of search engine results for generic keyword searches. John Doyle, an SEO Consult programmer, looked into some of these top ranking websites and discovered that two main methods, or CMS loopholes were being utilised by many of these sites, some of which were using domain names just a few days old, but were already ranking at or near the top of search engine results, seemingly regardless of the quality or reliability of the companies in question.

Doyle has published his detailed findings in a comprehensive blog post, which includes an explanation of which CMS he discovered were vulnerable to being exploited and instructions for worried webmasters on what they can do to help ensure that their own sites are not hosting this malicious code or unwittingly linking to other websites and essentially giving credibility to these brand new sites in the eyes of search engines and helping them rank well.

We were shocked to discover the widespread use of these hacks by a large number of the sites we investigated and I’m amazed by how successful they were, at least in the short term, in convincing search engines that these websites were worthy of top rankings in such a short space of time and in such a competitive industry, said John Doyle, SEO Programmer at SEO Consult. The tricks we discovered these sites using boil down to a hidden link being places on many thousands of innocent websites. The result is that these sites are unwittingly helping all kinds of potentially unscrupulous websites manipulate their search engine ranking position and make buckets of cash. Thankfully, since I first started the investigation, it seems steps are being taken by some of the CMS involved to prevent this issue, and many of the site owners I contacted have also been able to remove the malicious code. My blog on the subject gives more information to anyone worried that their website could also be involved.

For more information about this investigation or any of the services that the agency offers, visit the SEO Consult website http://www.seoconsult.com or call 0845 205 0292.

About SEO Consult:

Located in North West England, SEO Consult is the dedicated search marketing division of UK leading company Click Consult. Founded in 2003, Click Consult offers internet marketing solutions to over 350 clients across the UK. With a highly skilled team of professionals, Click Consult has seen significant web design and development success amongst other achievements. Other services include social media marketing, reputation management and pay per click advertising.

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More than two million tourists visit Langkawi every year, lured for the most part by the promise of sun, sea and sand. The island boasts a large number of beaches to choose from, each with its own character. Heres a roundup of the best beaches on Langkawi, some very busy, others well off the beaten track:

Pantai Cenang and Pantai Tengah

The vast majority of tourists who comes to Langkawi stay at two adjacent sweeps of sand in the south west of the island, Pantai Cenang and Pantai Tengah.

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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Liberty Tire Recycling, the premier provider of tire recycling services in North America, and Bridgestone Americas, the U.S. subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, the world’s largest tire and rubber company, will highlight the innovative benefits of rubberized asphalt on February 27, 2013 with an event called “Recycle NASHVILLE: 2013.” The event will be held at Bridgestone Americas’ headquarters (535 Marriott Drive, Nashville) and will gather transportation and environmental professionals, civic leaders and policymakers to learn more about scrap tire management in Tennessee and rubberized asphalt materials and applications. Speakers will include experts from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, the Tennessee Department of Transportation, and local industry professionals, including the Tennessee Road Builders Association.

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“Locally sourcing recycled tire rubber for asphalt projects is a win-win for Tennessee at both the state and municipal levels,” said Jeffrey Kendall, CEO of Liberty Tire Recycling. “Rubberized asphalt provides a sustainable outlet for scrap tires and contributes to improved infrastructure in the form oflonger-lasting, less expensive roadways.”

The sessions at Recycle NASHVILLE: 2013 will consist of presentations on topics including “Scrap Tire Management in Tennessee,” “Scrap Tire Processing and Uses,” “Tennessee Asphalt Industry Overview,” “Tennessee Experience with Rubber and Modified Asphalt” and “Rubberized Asphalt Materials and Applications,” which will provide an overview of the advantages of rubberized asphalt, from enhanced safety and reduced tire noise to better crack resistance and cost savings.

“More than 300 million tires come off the roads annually, and while they may no longer be of use on a vehicle, they are still a valuable resource,” said Tim Bent, environmental director for Bridgestone Americas. “Our company is working to ensure that for every new tire we sell in the U.S., one spent tire a tire that has been removed from use is sent to another valuable purpose. If we are to succeed in reaching that goal, we must create, promote and encourage the use of spent tires in secondary markets, and rubberized asphalt has enormous potential for utilizing a large number of those tires that are discarded each year for an incredibly important product.”

Rubberized asphalt is a low-cost, high-performance alternative to traditional paving mixes that reduces dependency on oil and limits carbon dioxide emissions. Added to traditional asphalt, crumb rubber comprises 8 to 22 percent of the binder and increases tensile strength. For more than 40 years, rubberized asphalt has proven to diminish maintenance costs and provide a smoother, safer ride. Plus, recycled rubber provides a reliable and consistent supply of material.

“We encourage state and municipal engineers and road maintenance supervisors to take rubberized asphalt specifications from this event and put them into practice in Tennessee to save money without sacrificing performance,” Kendall added.

For more information about Liberty Tire Recycling, visit www.libertytire.com.

To learn more about Bridgestone Americas and its environmental commitments, visit www.OneTeamOnePlanet.com.

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This summers Safeswim beach water quality monitoring is underway with more than 60 beaches in the region included in the programme.

Samples from 69 beaches stretching from Hatfields Beach in the north to Sandspit Beach, near Waiuku, in the south are now being collected and tested for specific bacteria.

Results from Auckland Councils weekly monitoring will be available online and via an 0800 Safeswim number. The programme will run to 26 March next year.

Environmental Services manager Janis McArdle says the Safeswim programme ensures the water at the regions key recreational beaches is regularly tested and the public advised if it is safe to swim at the monitored sites.

“If the tests indicate there is any potential public health risk, Auckland Council will promptly erect warning signs in the relevant locations. These will only be removed once the water quality is assessed to be safe.”

Water samples are collected on a Tuesday or Wednesday, using a helicopter to help the team cover a large number of sites quickly and cost-effectively. The test results are available by the weekend via 0800 SAFESWIM (0800 723 379) and online at www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/safeswim.

Generally, the water quality at Aucklands swimming beaches is very good and meets New Zealand heath guidelines. However, if there is heavy rain, or if pollutants enter our waterways, this can quickly change.

People should wait 48 hours after heavy rain before swimming at the beach. They should also avoid swimming near stormwater outflows, stream and river mouths at all times, she says.

Remember, if you see any pollution please report it to the councils pollution response team via 09 301 0101 or directly on our Pollution Hotline 09 377 3107.

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There is a firestorm over a Virginia marketing firm that allegedly flooded mobile devices with political text messages. But lost in the media coverage is the price some consumers might pay if they lack unlimited texting plansand whether free speech will keep the practice alive.

TextingThe controversy is about a large number of text messages originating from websites tied to a marketing firm called ccAdvertising. On October 30, Washington, D.C., residents received the messages in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

The messages werent storm updates: They were short missives attacking Barack Obamas presidential campaign and his stance on same-sex marriage and abortion. And they were showing up on mobile phones apparently at random.

Enough messages were received by reporters in the D.C. area to cause them to look up the owners of the websites and link them to ccAdvertising.

But anyone following the issue of political text messages wouldnt have been surprised at the tactic, since the firms owner said just a week ago such campaigns were just an another example of free speech, and permissible under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act.

Gabriel Joseph told the website Campaigns & Elections on October 25 that he was taking part in an FCC review of the practice, and that any action that banned the mass messaging campaigns was unconstitutional and against the intent of the First Amendment.

Such efforts take away Americans free speech rights that are now protected by current law, FCC regulations and the Constitution of the United States, Joseph told Campaigns & Elections.

What Joseph calls his constitutional right is labeled an FCC loophole by his opponents.

The controversy is about the practice called email-to-text messaging. It uses websites, instead of texting services, to send an outgoing email to someones cellphone number as a text message. It looks like a text message to the person who receives it, and the FCC doesnt bar such messages as spam in its current regulations.

The rub, says Campaigns & Elections, is that ccAdvertising claims people who have unlimited texting plans arent paying for the messages, so they are permissible under the TCPA.

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Treacherous surf conditions have seen hundreds of people rescued at Perth beaches as temperatures climbed into the mid 30s and thousands flocked to the sea.

Surf lifesavers were kept busy throughout with more than 200 individual rescues at Scarborough Beach alone.

In one situation, lifesavers had to launch a mass rescue as about 10 people got caught in a rip at Scarborough.

Scarborough surf life saving captain Jody Ballard says that despite the high number of rescues there have been no serious injuries.

“Just getting out to people as quick as we can and getting them back to shore safely,” he said.

“No major injuries, no spinals, no near-drownings, so really a great day on the beach to start the summer with, albeit with a lot of rescues.”

Surf Lifesaving says rescue jet skis were busy pulling people from the water as they got caught up and down the coast.

In an out-of-water incident, police were called after a brawl at Scarborough Beach involving a large number of people.

It is understood dozens of people started fighting on a grassy area above the beach.

Meanwhile, Surf Life Saving WA had to ground its shark patrol helicopter on the first day of its season due to mechanical issues.

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Liberty Global, Inc. (Liberty Global) (Nasdaq: LBTYA, LBTYB and LBTYK) announced the winners of its 2012 Vendor Awards at the Liberty Global Technology Summit in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Senior management from 80 key vendor partners attended the event together with Liberty Global’s senior management in the areas of technology, IT, product development and procurement.

The company recognized its partners achievements in four categories: Best Product & Service Quality’, ‘Best Support & After Sales, Best Innovation/Breakthrough Supplier and the Best Technology Pitch at the Liberty Global Technology Summit.

The award for Best Product & Service Quality’ was won by Arris, while Technetix won the ‘Best Support & After Sales award. The award for Best Innovation/Breakthrough Supplier went to a group of four partners who jointly contributed to online video platform delivery: Kit Digital, Empathy Lab, thePlatform and Intellicore. The fourth award winner for Best Technology Pitch was MirriAd, as selected by the audience at the Summit, which mostly consisted of representatives from key vendor partners as well as Liberty Global employees.

The winners of the first three Liberty Global Technology Awards are selected based on input from a large number of senior executives across the entire Liberty Global group. It is the fifth time that Liberty Global has acknowledged its relationships with its partners and suppliers in this way, especially those relationships that have structurally supported the high level development and innovation of Liberty Globals business.

In selecting companies to receive our Vendor Awards, we looked for those partners that have consistently demonstrated a commitment to quality, innovation and an ability to collaborate, said Balan Nair, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Liberty Global. We want to thank our partners for helping us to create the highest quality products and services that frequently exceed our customers expectations. Liberty Globals track record of success is due in large part to our suppliers.

About Liberty Global, Inc.

Liberty Global is the leading international cable company, with operations in 13 countries. We connect people to the digital world and enable them to discover and experience its endless possibilities. Our market-leading television, broadband internet, and telephony services are provided through next-generation networks and innovative technology platforms that connect 20 million customers who subscribe to 34 million services as of June 30, 2012.

Liberty Globals consumer brands include UPC, Unitymedia, KabelBW, Telenet and VTR. Our operations also include Chellomedia, our content division, UPC Business, a commercial services division and Liberty Global Ventures, our investment fund. For more information, please visit www.lgi.com.

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The Union Ministry of Urban Development and WBHIDCO Government of West Bengal organised a meeting in New Delhi for creation of an international financial hub in New Town, Kolkata, West Bengal.

The meeting was chaired by Minister of State, Urban Development, Prof. Saugata Roy and Shri Firhad Hakim, Minister in charge of Urban Development and Municipal Affairs, Government of West Bengal.

The meeting sought to initiate the creation of a financial cluster for various financial activities like banking, insurance, mutual funds, offshore banking investments and debt, by setting up a financial hub at New Town Kolkata. The proposed hub would serve as a great source of employment and generate investment capability. The hub would have facilities for data warehousing, disaster recovery, back up office and IT BPO centres, in collaboration with township Infrastructure, Human Resources, IT and Telecommunications.

The day-long meeting was attended by a large number of public and private sector banks and financial services companies. Dr. Sudhir Krishna, Secretary, Urban Development Ministry was also present on this occasion.

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Over the past 20 months, SEO India (http://www.seoindia.net/), a search engine optimization company based in Bangalore, India, has been overseeing all the SEO activities for an online house plans seller. This month, SEO India hits the 20th month milestone and continues to offer great traffic and visibility for an house plans seller. SEO Indias terrific efforts have provided us good online visibility and traffic. We have now joined the ranks of competing sites that are 10 to 15 years older than we are. I couldn’t be happier with the progress and look forward to a continuing business relationship with SEO India, said Matt, owner of house plans retailer in California.

Matt manages California-based house plans company that offers residential building design solutions including architectural designs, house plans and modeling advice for home owners. The company sells a wide range of house plans with instant cost-to-build report and estimates for home remodeling needs.

The website sees a large number of daily traffic and sign ups. According to Matt, the success of the website can be attributed to their user-friendly website design, their offerings and equally importantly, the targeted marketing activities and online branding by SEO India.

SEO India has played a significant role in building online visibility and traffic for the house plan retailers website. By developing ongoing collaboration with a number of satisfied clients, the company is committed to provide high quality SEO and Online Marketing services worldwide. With our unwavering commitment to providing unparalleled services to our clients, we will continue helping our clients achieve online visibility, says Vivek Srivastava, the CEO and Founder of SEO India.

The year of 2012 has shaken many online businesses with Google introducing multiple algorithm updates like Panda and Penguin. However, the house plans retailers website has not seen any negative impact on their rankings and continues to hold its positions on the first page of Google search results.

Today, when online businesses are vying to get to the top of Google search engine results, SEO India has proven to be a great asset for their clients. What makes them different from other SEO companies is that they do not spam search engines, instead, they use quality content for earning natural inbound links for their clients.

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About SEO India: SEO India offers search engine optimization (SEO) services to businesses of all sizes. They employ organic search engine marketing techniques for generating traffic and increasing brand visibility online. With over 162 projects completed in over 44 business sectors, SEO India has experience in working with a wide range of clients worldwide.

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With high organic (unpaid) search rankings essential to online businesses, receiving a 20 per cent rise in traffic from organic search in just three months can make a massive impact to a website. This impressive statistic was delivered by search specialist theMediaFlow for one of its clients. New Media Knowledge asked how. By Chris Lee.

Search engine optimisation (SEO) and social media agency theMediaFlow was approached by iAnnounce, a provider of online family announcements, to help it grow its presence on Google and made an immediate impact. NMK quizzed theMediaFlows founder on how it was achieved.

iAnnounce provides community announcements – traditionally births, deaths and marriages – online. As well as providing such data on its own site, its offering can be white-labelled so that regional and weekly newspapers in the UK can use iAnnounces technology to provide regionalised announcements to online readers in their communities.

Starting the SEO analysis

theMediaFlow conducted an initial audit and evaluation of the sites organic search performance. It was found that the site was technically well optimised and that a large number of very high quality links were pointed to it, therefore it concluded that neither a technical SEO review nor link-building plan would facilitate the greatest opportunity for growth.

What did emerge from the initial review was the finding that there were a number of extremely interesting data stories to be derived from the large volume of visits and keywords from organic search, explained Nichola Stott, founder of theMediaFlow. As an example it could be seen that for the hundreds of thousands of organic search visits each month; almost all of them came from a unique keyword. This is extremely unusual as most often a site will attract multiple visits from the same keyword.

theMediaFlow proposed an extensive forensic data analysis project, designed to identify patterns in keyword phrases; subject matter, regional variation, seasonality, phrase length and syntax in order to provide optimisation recommendations based on data patterns.

Forensic analysis

Data from more than three million visits from two million-plus keywords over a number of months of search activity was exported from Google Analytics to Excel for detailed analysis. Data was sliced and diced into a number of different pivot charts including by subject group (birth-related, death-related or marriage-related), daily rate of visits, geo-location, query term make-up and phrase syntax. This produced a number of significant findings, according to Stott.

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Just a quick note to let you know (if you havent already heard the cheering in the streets) that Steve Jackson Games (SJG) finished its OGRE Kickstarter project with $923,680 raised in backer funding. Yes, thats right almost (pinky to corner of mouth) one million dollars raised for a game that sold well over 30 years ago for $5 and came in a small plastic baggie.

One major milestone that was reached was the $700,000 mark which is where SJG promised to do a Car Wars Kickstarter campaign. Ill be writing up a Retro Review hopefully in the next few weeks on Car Wars, but the bad news is that we wont likely see the Car Wars Kickstarter for some time and the actual game isnt expected to be delivered (if its successfully funded yeah, right!) until late 2013. Of course, this gives all of us who backed OGRE plenty of time to start saving our pennies, selling plasma, and/or visiting Vegas to raise the proper funds that this next SJG Kickstarter will surely devour.

SJG definitely has a handle on how to deal with stretch rewards, and every time we (backers) thought wed reached the maximum money that could be raised along would come another stretch award that enticed a large number to either increase their funding or another large number to finally make the commitment.

2012 and 2013 are going to be interesting times for SJG fans, and I imagine that the success of this Kickstarter campaign is going to have other gaming companies looking at reviving some of their old titles. (I would love to see SJGs Illuminati redone, but one big non-SJG game on my wish list would be Traveller.)

What about you? Any classic games youd like to see given the Kickstarter treatment? And dont say Metamorphosis Alpha that ones already been successfully funded!

Congratulations to Steve Jackson Games!

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Google has stirred up some fear by sending out the following message within Google Webmaster Tools, resulting in several discussions in the Internet marketing community on the current effectiveness of negative SEO.

It was previously known that Google would send messages notifying a site owner if their site was pointing to what would be considered spammy pages. It now looks as though Google feels comfortable letting site owners know links they have identified as part of what they would call a link schemeare currently pointing to their site. This is an attempt by Google to discourage the use of paid links to manipulate PageRank and gain higher rankings.

The Google Webmaster Tools message shown above, in combination with the recent Penguin algorithm update,has lead many people to believe that negative SEO is a very real danger. This is because Penguin was partially created to take out sites utilizing paid links.

Negative SEO attacks can come in a few forms. Generally, negative SEO refers to when one website buys links and points them at a competitors website in an effort to torpedo their rankings.Other instances of negative SEO have included such tactics as hacking a website to inflict some sort of malicious damage on a website, review bombing (pointing a large number of 5-star reviews at a business so it appears they paid for them), or simply by reporting another websites black hat tactics to Google.

Since external links are more or less beyond the control of the site owner, it would seem competitors could very easily improve their search rankings by using tactics to negatively impact their competitors.

The reality of the situation is… this is only partially true. You can do things to protect your website. Before you get too worried about a competitor targeting your site to harm your rankings using negative SEO tactics, understand that:

Below are some notes on tactics that were part of what was considered to be a successful negative SEO campaign.

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If your company operates a large number of remote branches, stores, or franchises regardless of whether they are nursing homes, steel service centers, car dealerships, or insurance agencies, driving more organic traffic can mean all the difference. The secret to success on projects with a large number of similar sites is scalability.

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Effectively, according to a large number of people and companies who have availed PHP development services from the offshore companies , the offshore PHP developers are the greatest selections for developing PHP language. …

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There is always real estate for sale in the Cayman Islands . A burgeoning services hub, the Cayman Islands sees a good amount of flux of working people

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Many individuals and companies think of offshore banking in terms of its potential tax advantages. It is certainly true that a large number of offshore jurisdictions are tax advantaged in some way or another

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Phuket has a large number of beautiful white sandy beaches and most of these amazing Phuket beaches are located on the west coast of the island.

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There you can find a large number of beaches , from rocky beaches with rough waters, to smooth, sandy beaches sloping into warm, tranquil water. In the north the beaches have unsafe riptides and chilly waters

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