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A million dollars isn't cool. You know what's cool? A billion dollars.This is a line from a Hollywood movie that is so overused as to be, at this point, decidedly uncool. But it is also a line from a Hollywood movie whose truth has just been proven, empirically, in the real world. The cultural value of a billion dollars, the flip side of startup-flipping, now has hard evidence -- in the form of the acquisition deal Yahoo just made with Tumblr. Yesterday's hot Internet company, the Wall Street Journal reports, has officially purchased the popular microblogging site for a cool $1.1 billion. The experts...

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It's good to face a challenge. I cycle to work each day, five miles each way. For that I reward myself with a daily coffee and a Danish.In June however, I'm going to ride 960 miles in just nine days across the backbone of Scotland and England. From the rocky cliffs of John O'Groats to Land's End I'll ascend peaks from Glen Coe and Shap Fell. Then on the final day " toughest of all apparently " I'll traverse the endless undulations of Cornwall. I'm expecting a non-stop prevailing wind and constant rain. In total I'm going to climb around 15,000 metres, which is a bit like going up Alpe d'Huez 13 times....

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~li~ We're seeing the industry shift now that massive corporations finally understand the value of online marketing. Enterprise level SEO is becoming more prominent. This is a great opportunity for SEOs who can appeal to clients with that stature, but it presents a problem to SEOs and small businesses who have limited resources.In a world of massive promotions and big budgets, how can small businesses and local search optimizers set themselves apart? Here are first five strategies you can leverage to grab that much needed attention in the online sphere.Events can be an incredibly powerful way to capture...

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David Foster Wallace was a novelist and writer with an interesting view on life. He wanted all of us to think not about how we get up, get in a car, go to work, get in a car, and go to sleep again. He wanted us to really consider everything that happens in between, and how we are all small fish in a big pond.Originally excerpted from a commencement address he gave at Kenyon College three years before he died, the "This is Water" speech has now been turned into a wonderful little film by marketing firm The Glossary . It teaches a large amount about perspective, about our common humanity, and how most...

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Restoration of Holliday Park will have to wait until the Shawnee County parks and recreation department can come back with a better cost estimate.Shawnee County Commissioners on Monday deferred action on the improvements, leaving it up to the parks and recreation department to bring the estimated $110,000 project back to the body with a more accurate cost estimate.The project would extend the current Holliday Park, 1200 S.W. Western, by about 30 feet while moving a traffic circle, which has been removed after repeatedly being struck, back into the park. The proposed improvements also include extending...

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RACINE, Wis. - I've had about enough of cities and suburbs for the time being. Too many decisions to make. Too many parked cars to circumvent. Too many traffic lights. I've been going out of my way to seek out bike routes, but getting to them is hard work.It was a fine hiatus from my travels, except that I kept thinking ahead and was vexed about how to proceed. The lake was in my way, and pretty much every way around it struck me as unpalatable, involving passing through the congested region in Illinois and Indiana south of Chicago. I wore out several maps (paying attention to the suggestions of several...

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The winding, two-lane county roads that connect Yacolt Mountain to State Highway 503 weren't built to handle loaded gravel trucks traveling at 50 mph. In 2002, Clark County hearings examiner J. Richard Forester warned that the roads weren't safe for the volume of heavy truck traffic a proposed mountaintop rock quarry would generate. At peak production, quarry developers estimated that up to 410 trucks per day, each weighing 105,000 pounds, would haul rock and gravel off the mountain and through a rural residential neighborhood to Highway 503, the nearest state route. "I conclude that this quarry...

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Increasing traffic to our website and/or blog can be a full-time job. But it doesn't have to be. If you understand a few simple principles before implementing Search Engine Marketing (SEM), you'll save time and build a strong and steady stream of traffic to your website. First, it's important to know how search engines like Google rank you and measure traffic online. Page Rank: Google Page Rank, or GPR, is a number (between 1-10) that Google assigns to a website to indicate importance. The higher the page rank, the more important the site is. Sites like MSNBC have a high page rank, often 9 or 10. Niche...

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Redmond elected officials are not giving the green light to a citizen-driven petition calling for a vote on Redmond's traffic-enforcement camera program . Mayor John Marchione said the city has no plans of turning the 6,050 signatures over to King County to be validated for a possible ballot item in a special election next February. Elected city officials were advised they were not required to forward the petition, based on a recent state Court of Appeals decision in Bellingham , Marchione said Wednesday afternoon in a conference room at City Hall. "Our attorney has advised us that this particular...

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This past weekend, I was driving in downtown Starkville when a red compact car swerved out in front of me, forced me into the next lane and indirectly knocked my sunglasses onto the floor. After shouting many, many non-expletives, it became apparent drivers in Mississippi are not quite the safest.Hailing from Louisiana, it is easy to juxtapose the drivers of Starkville with the drivers from back home. Of course, there could be many reasons as to why Mississippi State University drivers are less cautious ( e.g . reckless college kids), but one thing really seems to stick out: the lack of state-mandated...

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