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Andy says Vida will be on the reunion and it is going to be "scorched earth." He's giddy at the demise of the mother daughter relationship.
I totally had no idea Sharknado was on. I am taping a rerun now but it's over an hour in already I think. I will have to catch the first part on demand and then flip over so I can skip the commercials. It actually looked kind of good.
Dolores said she and Teresa had lunch the day before she went to prison and Teresa didn't mention it. She said she felt like Teresa didn't think it was really going to happen. Oh, but it did.
Please God let Andy ask Reza about all the shitty things he has done to everyone on the cast of Shahs and when he is going to apologize.
Wow, on the sneak peek of the re" union, Asa says that MJ is knocking on doors constantly trying to sabotage her business. It sounds like MJ is very jealous of Asa's success. They hid that storyline from us this season if true. MJ says she and Asa will never be friends again. That would be a big loss for MJ. In the commercials for the reunion we see Reza crying and leaving the reunion in tears. Does this mean that GG brought the sex tape? Please make it so. Reza so deserves a long hard fall.
Dolores doesn't think that prison changed Teresa. She is just a bit more calmed down and in control of her temper. We will see how long that lasts.
Reza goes in on "some queen named crazy divina," that would be my co-defendent Funky Dineva, an Atlanta blogger who claimed he had filed for chapter 13 bankruptcy. It was not true. I was sent the story at the time he posted it and I found nothing to support the claim. Wrong county. Wrong name. Not true.
Someone asks if Reza has apologized to GG after seeing that she is getting treatments. He says he has but the he says, "But Mohammed told me that GG's p…" which I have to admit is pretty fucking funny. But then he goes on to say more horrible things about GG.
Some asks why Reza is always all up in everyone's business. He says he loves hard and he cares hard. Really? He is completely delusional.
Dolores was a cop in the sheriff's office for six years. This really seems to impress Andy who says, "Wow, you are like a Charlie's Angel." Which makes zero sense. Much like that dark purple tie he is wearing with a lightweight cotton suit. Why doesn't Andy have a stylist?
Andy springs a boner when Frankie shows off his abs. The really were something to behold but I don't think it's legal to admit that for at least a few more months.
Dolores is fresh of a Brazilian butt lift so she is sitting rather gingerly.
The poll question was whose side are you on? GG or Reza? I was almost afraid to look but GG won with 63% of the vote.
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Choosing the platform where to host your blog is important as it serves as the foundation where your blog rests.
Therefore, it is crucial that you get selecting a blogging platform right the first time. If you feel that you have chosen wrong, you will need to undergo a painstaking process of transferring all your content from your old blogging platform to a new one.
This goes by also saying that there is no single perfect platform for everyone; rather, there is only a blogging platform that works best for you.
In this post, we will discuss the follow criteria to determine the best blogging platform that suits your business.
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User-FriendlinessNot all businesses have the funds to get someone to build the blog for them nor the skills and patience to set up a self-hosted blog for his or her companies. They prefer a quick and easy DIY platform where they can build a blog on the go without the fancy features known from another platform.
This is the reason why website builders exist. Not only can businesses build a beautiful website for their products and services to attract their audience and convert them into customers, but they can also create a content-rich blog that their target market would want to read. The key to the success of website builders is their drag and drop feature that allows website and blog owners to include elements on a site page easily without any design skills or experience.
One of the best and most popular website is Weebly. Perfect for small business and E-commerce sites, the platform takes away the guesswork from site building by allowing you to drag easily and drop website elements and bring your ideas to life. Here is a great review and tutorial about Weebly for your pleasure.
PowerfulOne of the many quirks that people do not like about website builders is the limited nature of the platform. Given that it is built for beginners due to this drag and drop feature, the platform provides little to no room for customization. As a result, there is a tendency for users of website builders to have to the same look and feel on their business blogs.
To truly stand out, you would want a platform that will afford you a customized appearance for your blog to help it stand out from its competition. A platform like a self-hosted WordPress blog ought to do the trick.
There is an excellent reason why almost half of the sites online use WordPress to run their blog, which is also the reason why I believe that this is arguably the best platform to use for your blog. Aside from customization, WordPress lets you supercharge your blog with thousands of plugins to choose from to help you achieve your business goals. Whether it is building your email list, selling your products and services, or engaging with your readers, WordPress has the plugin that you need.
To help you create a website using WordPress, this resource site will give you the details on how to make a beautiful looking blog in a couple of minutes.
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Responsive and Mobile-FriendlyWith the rise of mobile use to search the web, there is now need to build websites that are optimized for mobile viewing. Your blogging platform should have the ability to resize the page automatically depending on the screen resolution of the user browsing your blog, whether it is a desktop or a mobile device. With a responsive design for your business blog, you can ensure that your site loads fast on any device and prevent visitors from leaving your site due to slow loading speed.
Therefore, building a blog using Joomla is an excellent way to leverage the ability to provide a mobile-friendly design to deliver your blog content. Arguably one of the most professional platforms in the market, there is a lot to love about Joomla other than its mobile-readiness, which is clearly stated in this resource post.
Third-Party IntegrationAs a business blogger, you will want all the help you can get. This means getting different service providers to integrate with your choice of platform. Similar to WordPress plugins, Drupal's modules allow you to get the most out of your blog and bring it to the next level with added features. If you want to boost your social media activity, CRM, SEO, and security feature, Drupal has something for everyone. Check out other benefits of choosing Drupal as your blogging platform in this post.
SimplicityLet's face it - most of the blogging platforms out there are focused on providing the full-scale experience of designing, developing, and boost their blogs that it is easy to forget what a blog is all about, which is sharing ideas with readers through your content. If you simply want to focus on harnessing the power of the written word, then you may want to forego the platform mentioned above and go straight to a no-frills platform like Ghost.
Ghost brings back the "blogging" in blogging platform. It lets you build your blog around your content, which is the focus of the platform. You can customize the look and feel as you see fit, although you may need help from a developer to achieve the appearance you want. Nonetheless, this should not scare you if your primary focus is to blog and let your words do the talking.
In case you need more convincing to try out Ghost, here is a post to help get you to try out this platform.
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ConclusionGiven that you have been presented with not only different criteria to consider when choosing a blogging platform as well as the actual platforms themselves, but it is also time for your to test-run them yourself and see which one you are most comfortable using. The criteria should help you determine your priorities as a blogger using their platforms. From there, you can decide the perfect blogging platform for you.
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Most definitely. Social media has become a critical skill for networking and promoting your skills to potential employers. So you can bet I was surprised to learn that only a small percentage of my employment counselling clients have a LinkedIn profile, and the few with Facebook or Twitter accounts say they only use them to be in contact with family and friends. And none of them have used blogging as a tool to build their reputation or to get a job.
People choose to engage (or not) in different social media sites in different ways. Some want to keep work stuff separate from private life, some want to stay private altogether, while others see social media a valuable tool to stay in touch, share information, and broadcast their ideas and skills.
Whatever your preference, your use of social media, or lack thereof, can have an impact on your professional life. According to a 2012 survey conducted by Eurocom Worldwide, "Almost one in five technology industry executives say that a candidate's social media profile has caused them not to hire that person." Previous Eurocom surveys had found almost 40 per cent of survey respondents say they review job candidate's profiles on social media sites.
So what you are putting out there on social media matters, as it serves your first impression with employers.
Social media to impress
If you're not on social media much — or at all — you might want to consider starting at least a LinkedIn profile, which is the ultimate professional online networking tool. It allows you to showcase your skills, achievements, education, work and volunteer experience or business. Make sure you have an updated and professional picture, a succinct profile summary, current job information, past job experience, education, skills, awards, and even testimonials.
If you're on several social media sites already, such as Facebook and Twitter, here are a few other considerations. If, like most people, you use Facebook mostly to stay in touch with family and friends, be careful about what you post if your friends' list includes professional contacts. Nothing too personal or controversial! And remember to keep your settings private if you don't want your posts to be visible to everyone.
On Twitter, anyone can start "following" you, so be very careful what you share and say. That being said, if you use it wisely, it can be a very effective tool to share your knowledge, build your reputation, and connect with companies and other professionals. The same goes for YouTube and Instagram if you have video and photographic skills, and blogging using tools like WordPress or Blogger.
Remember that anything you post has the potential to be read, shared — and judged by potential employers! — so choose your words, pictures and videos carefully!
Argentine-born Silvia Di Blasio is a certified career development practitioner in Surrey, B.C., and volunteers for many community organizations in her spare time. She writes the "Job Search Strategies" column for Canadian Immigrant magazine.
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Recently, Twitter reached an agreement with ELEAGUE -- a professional eSports organisation - to provide live-streaming coverage of the semi-finals and championship of the gaming competition scheduled to take place on Friday and Saturday in Atlanta (Saturday and Sunday in Indian subcontinent).
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In addition to live event coverage, the @EL Twitter handle would provide real-time highlights, GIFs, memes, stats and score updates, Periscope content with ELEAGUE on-air talent and behind-the-scenes footage with players.
With this deal, eSports organisation would have an advantage of using Twitter's audience to interact with fans and promote competitive gaming, Tech Crunch reported.
For Twitter, the deal is a way to tap into a growing audience of gamers eventually getting more active users on its network.
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"ESports fans go to Twitter to see and talk about what is happening now in competitive gaming," Anthony Noto, Twitter's Chief Financial Officer, is quoted as saying.
"Gamers are one of the largest and most engaged audiences on Twitter and we are thrilled with this partnership to bring them the live content from Eleague and Twitter commentary they are already looking for, all on one screen," Noto added.
The micro-blogging website is on a spree to sign agreements across the spectrum to livestream their content on its platform.
Recently it inked a pact with Bloomberg Media to stream their shows on Twitter.
Twitter signed a deal with the US television network CBS to stream both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions.
It now has permission to broadcast the CBSN feed -- the company's 24-hour digital news streaming service -- and anyone online can watch for free even if they do not have a Twitter account.
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It is known that Twitter will make money from advertising when it streams 10 NFL games later this year, and CBS is a partner for those games too.
Twitter also live streamed the Wimbledon coverage and is also in talks with the NBA, Major League Soccer (MLS) and Turner for more streaming rights.
Source IANS
A FIR was lodged again actor Kamal Rashid Khan aka KRK in Versova Police Station in Mumbai for posting obscene messages and photos on micro-blogging site Twitter.
This came after lawyer Rizwan Siddiqui filed a complaint against the self-proclaimed critic for making lewd remarks against female models and actors on the social media platform.
According to some media reports, Maharashtra State Women Commission (MSWC) earlier took cognizance of the complaint and demanded action against Khan.
In a letter addressed to Mumbai's Police Commissioner, Dattatray Padsalgikar on July 18, the MSWC requested authorities to probe the matter and take requisite action. The MSWC sent the letter a week after the National Commission of Women (NCW) issued a directive against the controversial actor.
Reports suggest that the actor reportedly sexually harassed over 18 female actors on social media.
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DNC sends Trump into toddler rage: 'I wanted to hit a couple of those speakers so hard'
WATCH: Rev. Barber dares right-wing to go nuts: 'Jesus was a brown-skinned Palestinian Jew' at DNC
Donald Trump Jr. claims Obama 'plagiarized' his RNC speech — and is promptly slapped down
DL Hughley shreds GOP: If you're bragging about the 'motherf*cker on the penny–update your resume'
Stephen Colbert has one question for Donald Trump: 'What does Vladimir Putin's d*ck taste like?'
Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord blames gun violence on legalized abortion — and goes down in flames
MSNBC's Tamron Hall lays waste to DNC protesters for shouting down John Lewis
Fired pizza workers get the ultimate revenge against sexist boss at DNC
Prominent feminist writer drops off social media after rape threat against her 5-year-old daughter
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Tumblr bloggers: It's (almost) time to get paid.
The Yahoo-owned blogging service is rolling out ads today, which will translate into cold, hard cash for bloggers later this year.
Tumblr is still working out details of the "partner program," including how bloggers will get paid and how much. You will need to sign-up for the program to make money; you can't do that yet, but registrations are "coming soon." Tumblr said it plans to launch the partner program sometime in 2016.
For now, ads will appear on the three main instances of your blog, Tumblr said, including: the main page, within "the slide-out thing" on the Web, and on mobile apps and the mobile web.
"Tumblr is a place where brilliant, creative, funny, impossible people shape culture. Some of you have even turned your passions into jobs: book deals, music careers, paid gigs," the Tumblr team wrote in their announcement. "Now, that opportunity will be available to any eligible Tumblr—poet, musician, fan artist, and misfit weirdo memelord alike."
Rest assured that if you want to keep your Tumblr ad-free, you can. If you're not comfortable with ads invading your space, head over to your Tumblr's settings to disable on-blog advertising. Right now, you can only do this on the Web, but soon you'll be able to do it from the mobile apps as well.
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First, as a former college teacher, there's nothing I enjoy more than healthy, respectful, well-argued discourse about the issues of our time. As a writer, I also enjoy sharing my thoughts, which derive from a decidedly feminist, left perspective. My pieces often call for serious research because I believe in facts, data, and accuracy. Sometimes they're a reflection of my politics, which in turn reflect my values. I think a lot about the subjects and issues I write about, and I share my thoughts and ideas in what I always hope will be an atmosphere of constructive, lively, and again -- respectful -- exchange.
Sadly, unlike other fora in which my work is published, that has not been the case at OEN. The feedback I have received has largely been hostile, aggressive, uninformed, and insulting.
Don't get me wrong. As a journalist I can take the heat when it offers a point of view worthy of consideration and when it is expressed in a respectful way.
But I have been at this a long time. I'm a woman of a certain age with a lot of experience who takes my responsibility as a commentator very seriously. My copious followers in other venues value what I have to say, even though they sometimes disagree with me. When they do, they tell me politely.
I am no longer willing to allow toxic people into my life, nor am I willing to suffer fools gladly when I am donating my work, my time, and dare I say, my talent. My reward for writing commentary doesn't rely on agreement, but it does seek civility. In the absence of that, I can no longer continue to post on OEN.
If you wish to continue reading my work, you have 3 options: go to Daily Kos, go to my blog page on my website (www.elayne-clift.com), or ask to be added to my listserv which I send monthly, just tell me why you want to be added. Thank you.
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Canpotex's stand on contracts with China and IndiaPotashCorp's sales depend largely on demand from China and India -- the top two potash-consuming nations in the world. Absence of contracts from these nations was the major reason PotashCorp lowered its full-year earnings guidance in the first quarter to $0.60-$0.80 per share from $0.90-$1.2 a share.
Unfortunately, PotashCorp's hopes to crack a deal during the second quarter have been dashed even as rivals like Belaruskali recently signed contracts with both India and China. Canpotex -- the offshore potash marketing group comprising PotashCorp, Agrium, and Mosaic (NYSE:MOS) -- is yet to sign any. The only probable reason could be Canpotex's stand to not sell potash at the decade-low prices that other producers have agreed upon. However, that could cost Canpotex crucial market share if sales volumes don't pick up soon.
So how does PotashCorp intend to boost revenues in such a grim situation? That's an answer investors need to look for in the company's upcoming earnings call. While analysts are expecting PotashCorp's second-quarter sales to drop more almost 30% and its earnings per share to come in at only $0.19 per share compared to $0.50 a year ago, the numbers could look worse.
Is a merger or a sale in the pipeline?Last month, the rumor mills started spinning with reports of PotashCorp having appointed an investment banker after "possibly receiving an unsolicited takeover proposal." Analysts are even counting BHP Billiton, Mosaic, and Agrium among possible contenders.
Of course, I'd be surprised if PotashCorp management comes out this week and says the company's up for sale. However, I will be tuned into the upcoming earnings call to know the company's plans, especially after its recently failed multi-billion dollar bid for Germany-based K+S. With peer Mosaic reportedly eyeing Vale SA's (NYSE:VALE) fertilizer business to expand its global footprint, PotashCorp may have to up its ante to remain at the forefront in the industry in these challenging yet competitive times.
PotashCorp's take on the Belarus newsPerhaps the biggest news to hit potash headlines last month was Belarus' revelation its interest in reuniting with Uralkali, three years after the Belaruskali-Uralkali cartel split that sent global potash prices and producers' profits tumbling. The split ended up giving potash consumers greater bargaining power, which is why countries like China and India can command such low potash prices today.
Needless to say, a reunion will act as a balm for potash companies through better control over supply and prices. PotashCorp management may not directly comment on the speculation, but anything it says on a probable alliance could provide valuable hints. More importantly, whether PotashCorp itself is looking at partnerships to improve the demand and supply situation in the industry will be an update worth watching for in its upcoming earnings call.
Neha Chamaria has no position in any stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool owns shares of Companhia Vale. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that considering a diverse range of insights makes us better investors. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.
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