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She Won A $266 Million Jackpot!!!! And She’s Keeping Her Job!
May 7th
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Jacki Cisneros of Los Angeles and her husband Gilbert won $266 million playing the lottery!
Holy shiz!
And she’s still going to keep working as an overnight assignment editor at NBC because she “can’t imagine not working!”
Now that’s commitment — congratulations!
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Connect with your "neigh"bors using Google Places
Apr 29th
This is the second post in our Small Business series about entrepreneurship and the various Google tools you can use to establish and improve your business presence on the Internet. Here, you’ll learn how Google Places (formerly called the Local Business Center) can help you attract and be discovered by customers in your area for free. -Ed.
As a local business owner, one of the things that sets you apart is your ability to make personal connections with your customers because of your passion for what you do. Letting people know who you are and what your business is about is a vital part of finding customers, building lasting relationships with them and helping your business succeed. Google Places helps business owners like you to manage your online presence and supplement your Place Page with all the information that helps people decide to visit you — from basics like hours of operation and address to helpful extras like videos, coupons and special announcements.
To give you a firsthand account of how Google Places can help a small business grow and succeed, I’ve invited Danya Wright to share her experience:
I first began riding horses at age six. Ever since then I knew that I wanted to spend my life working with horses and sharing my passion with others. I had jobs working for several barns and riding programs around Arizona, but always dreamed of having a school of my own.Two years ago, I finally realized my dream and opened Specialized Training and Riding School — S.T.A.R.S. of Horsemanship. At S.T.A.R.S., we offer lessons to riders of all ages and skill levels, provide therapeutic horse training services for those with disabilities, and train Special Olympics riders. Our property is a 10-acre scenic environment for our students and horses. But because we’re located in a rural area of Gilbert, AZ, this also presents a big challenge: I don’t have the advantage of “window shoppers” or drive-by traffic. Without a storefront, those who do pass by may not realize that my stable is open to customers. Whenever I want to find a local business, Google Maps is my resource, so I wanted to make sure my business appears there too.
I did a little research and quickly found Google Places (which was known as Local Business Center when I first signed up). Within a few minutes, I was able to update the S.T.A.R.S. Place Page to add key details about my business, like exact location and contact information. And I could mention the special services we offer like group classes, private lessons, birthday parties, Scouting events, parent-child sessions and so on. Now when a company’s looking specifically for a team-building venue, they can find my business easily.
Since avid equestrians can be quite particular about facility details, I wanted to make sure that my Place Page included all of the specialized information that’s relevant to my target clients. Now when you search on Google, you can be taken to our Place Page to see photos that offer preview of our stables and even meet Salty, one of the horses. You can also find a coupon to help provide a little extra incentive to come try out our lessons if you’re new to horseback riding.Since I started using Google Places six months ago, my business has grown tenfold from what it was before — I’ve gone from averaging around 10 to 15 students to now serving more than 100. To be honest, I had just figured that new customers would trickle in over time, but it’s boomed far beyond my expectations. And now I can spend more time with horses and riders, and less at the computer!
Posted by Carter Maslan, Director of Product Management, Local Search
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Un po’ di foto da Eat, Pray, Love – ritorno sugli schermi di Julia Roberts
Apr 25th
Con solo un mese e mezzo di ritardo rispetto all’uscita americana (prevista per il 13 agosto) arriverà sugli schermi italiani in data 1 ottobre Eat, Pray, Love; incredibilmente tradotto – per una volta – letteralmente: Mangia, prega, ama (qui il trailer italiano).
Con Julia Roberts, James Franco, Billy Crudup, Javier Bardem, Viola Davis e Richard Jenkins diretti da Ryan Murphy, il film è la trasposizione cineamtografica del libro di memorie pubblicato da Elizabeth Gilbert Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia.
La storia è incentrata sulla figura della Gilbert (Roberts), uscita distrutta e depressa da un doloroso, quanto recente, divorzio. La donna decide di compiere un viaggio intorno al mondo per ritrovare sè stessa, facendo sosta a Roma per godere delle gioie della buona tavola; in India per riscoprire la propria spiritualità; ed infine a Bali, dove incontrerà Felipe (Bardem) e ritroverà l’amore. Vedremo Jenkins nei panni di un texano col quale la protagonista fa amicizia durante il suo soggiorno in India e Crudup in quelli di Steven, l’ex marito. Qui di seguito alcune immagini ufficiali della pellicola. Vi piacciono?
Un po’ di foto da Eat, Pray, Love – ritorno sugli schermi di Julia Roberts
Fonte: Collider
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The best things in life are free — Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
Apr 22nd
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Whyalla, South Australia, Australia
We commenced the long drive from the bottom of the Yorke Penninsula with the kids being entertained by Herbie the love bug, in the front debate raged between Tan and I whether or not I should be returning the waves of other travellers as they passed the other way. My argument is that my priority when passing another caravan is to keep the van on my side of the road and out of the dirt, not waving to to some flog who should be doing the same. Tans Argument is that it’s a nice thing to do and the Australian way. The debate continued on for the next six hours with neither of us prepaired to give any ground, I continued to ignore the waves and Tan started waving from the passenger seat. Just out of Port Augusta Tan delivered the knockout blow when she called me,” Un Australian”, this hurt and cut to the bone. Whilst on the canvas I said I’d compromise and start aknowledging cars pulling Jayco vans, she then kicked me while I was on the ground and called me a ,”caravan snob”. Tomorrow we drive to Port Lincoln and the debate will be reignigted, I apologise in advance to the other travellers I don’t wave to tomorrow. We are interested in what your thoughts are on this, to wave or not to wave????
We arrived In Port Pirie for lunch and were considering staying the night there but were unimpressed by a town dominated by its industrial port. Continuing on towards Port Augusta the southern end of the Flinders Rangers start to emerge out of the landscape creating an fantastic backdrop to the flat country we had become used to. Upon rounding the top of the Spencer Gulf at Port Augusta we decided to continue on to Whyalla in the Eastern side of the Eyre Peninsula. The next 76 kms we saw some of the most amazing landscape we’d ever seen. The dirt turned to a distinct red, the paddocks turned to scrub and the sky an amazing blue. None of us had seen this before and really enjoyed the last hour of our seven hour day.
Whyalla’s slogan is ,”where the outback meets the ocean”, their marketing guys couldnt have been more accurate as the red dirt actually runs down to the ocean and is replaced by a crystal clear ocean. We pulled into the Discovery Foreshore Caravan Park and secured an absolute beachfront site for the next two nights. We travelled for about seven hours today, 500km, and felt that it’s about our limit, we were all tired and grumpy and ready for an early night.
The following morning we awoke to our hottest day yet, 32 deg, and were slow to get moving.
The absolute beachfront site was no longer as the water had retreated about 500mts, revealing a beach littered with large red rocks. The kids were hot and wanted to swim and the caravan park didnt have a pool. They had seen in a brochure a big pool with a great kids pool with a water slide in town so we headed to the local pool, the kids pool was closed and the waterslides haven’t operated for two years (“council wont fix the stairs, darl” was the explanation) so we returned to the the foreshore to find the swimming enclosure full of jellyfish. Our day wasn’t going too well but it’s amazing how quick things can turn around. We stopped at the boat harbour for a look and found a pod of dolphins (including a baby) coming right up to us as we walked along the floating pontoons, it was amazing having wild dolphins at arms length. Tan, Summer and Cohen hung for ages just watching the dolphins in amazement, whilst Coop, Jude and I headed onto the Jetty to get the low down on the local fishing scene. We spoke with a nice group of Aborigines about the fishing and Gilbert explained their fishing and the fish they had caught so far. They had caught a few Tommies and a few “shities” (which were some crap, small fish) and at which Coop found hilarious.
After lunch we went for walk along the beach and found a terrific sandy swimming area where we settled in and just enjoyed watching the kids make the most of a special little area. . Back at the park me, Coop and Sum settled into some fishing right in front of our van as the water had returned, with Sum seeming to get the bug and on a mission to catch her first fish while Cohen and Jude hooked up with a new friend at the playground. Later in the day the couple in the van next door needed some computer help, I sent Sum in and a few minutes later she had the lady on Skype talking to her grandaughter. IT support for grey nomads now theres an idea, we were paid handsomly later on as Tan and Jude made short work of their freshly caught calimari. The couple, Neil and Lyn from Perth were on their way back west after picking up their brand new Jayco Heritage caravan with the lot from Frankston. They upgrade their van every two years and buy it in Melbourne as the price of the same van in Perth would cost 17k more, they then sell it two years later second hand in Perth and still make a handy profit. Not a bad idea, at least we know if we’re over the caravan thing by Perth we have a get out option (just joking).
After tea Summer wanted to keep fishing so we headed down to the jetty to try our luck, 20 minutes later she had her first fish a Tommy rough, she was so pleased with herself and I was so proud. Unlike Coopers first fish she baited her own hook, cast her own line and pulled the fish onto the jetty. She can’t wait to fish again, it just so happens we are are heading to the fishing mecca of Port Lincoln tomorrow.
What had started as an ordinary day turned into a great one you just need to look whats around you, as Tan and I climbed into bed that night Tan whispered to me ,”‘the best things in life are free”
I couldn’t agree more
SUMMERS CARAVANPARK REPORT:
Discovery foreshore caravan park Rating 6/10
Great park, right on the beach(sometimes), jumping pillow and playground. There were hardly any kids in the park, but all the oldies really look after us. We think they are all missing their grandkids and they all seem to love spending time with us. the man across the road spent ages on the beach with us whilst we were fishing.
The park had a free Sausage Sizzle for Thursday lunch, which was yummy.
Great if you like fishing like me.
COOPERS JOKE OF THE DAY:
MELBOURNE STORM
COHEN AND JUDES BIG THINGS
We did some really big skids on our bikes here.
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Bonnie Scotland — Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Apr 20th
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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
“You take the high road and I’ll take the low, and I’ll be in Scotland afore ye…”
However I wouldn’t recommend the high road right now, it’s reportedly covered in Icelandic ash. Just joking. Before I start my latest entry, I guess a comment about the volcano is in order. At this point, we don’t know if the grounding of air traffic is going to affect us. We just heard a BBC report that the UK will open some southern airports on Tuesday, and if the ash levels continue to diminish, we hope the backlogs will be cleared up by the time we’re scheduled to fly home from Gatwick on Sunday. If not, then our vacation gets extended by a disaster. It won’t be the first time. I’ll never forget being grounded in Lake Tahoe on Sept 11, 2001.
We certainly did not see any signs of ash on our tour today. It was a partly sunny day, light winds, and the skies were clear when the clouds broke. It was a little cool, the high only 6 Celsius. We took a private tour with Rabbie’s Tours, arranged by the previously mentioned Bob and Cheryl. We had a small bus of only 16 people, so the tour had a more personal feel to it. Diane has been to Scotland a number of times to visit family, but this was my first trip so I was thrilled to finally be here. The lowlands are so beautiful. The tour was great and Diane was impressed with how much we saw, places she’d never been before.
Our driver was Gilbert McLardy. Diane asked him if he was related to Danny McLardy, former Scottish footballer and owner of Opie’s Meats back home in Hamilton. He said he’s related to all McLardy’s. Anyway he picked us up at the pier in Greenock and took us across the River Clyde via the Erskine Bridge and headed north to the village of Luss on the western shore of Loch Lomond. We stopped for some great photo ops, walked through the village, visited the church and a gift shop. We doubled back and headed east through Drymen to Aberfoyle, where we stopped again to see a sheep dog shepherding demonstration, and of course visit the gift shop. We picked up some nice family clan souvenirs. Then we took some back roads through Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park to Loch Katrine for a photo op, then on through Callander to Doune. Doune Castle was interesting because we recognized it from the movie Monty Python And The Holy Grail.
Next we headed to the city of Stirling where we stopped at the William Wallace memorial (Braveheart), before continuing on to Stirling Castle. We stopped here for a fantastic pub lunch. I had fish and chips and Diane had steak pie. A lot of people on our bus didn’t want to go into the castle after lunch, since we only had 45 minutes and there was an entrance fee. They just wanted to walk the exterior grounds, but we went inside and got some great pictures. It was very interesting. Most of it was built in the 16th century, and has been restored to appear as it was when Mary, Queen of Scots lived there. I especially like the one of me on the throne.
We left Stirling after 3pm. We had an hour drive back to the ship and had to be back by 4:30. We couldn’t make any more stops so we missed going to a Scotch distillery but we didn’t mind. Gilbert took us through Glasgow so we could at least see it from the bus. It was a great day, and now we’re cruising back down the Firth of Clyde heading to our next stop in Dublin tomorrow. Til then, “Lang may yer lum reek’” (google it).
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