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Mildred Loving passed on today. Her story was one of love. Mildred Loving fell in love with a white man in 1967 and had to sue the government in order to realize her dream of marrying him.

Mildred Loving died at 68. In 1967, her and her husband Richard Loving ended up having to fight all the way to the supreme court in order to get married. Their efforts resulted in 17 states overturning laws that made interracial marriage legal.

Mildred Loving makes us all realize just how long the U.S. has come concerning race in the last four decades, and how far the country still has to go. Her friend, Peggy Fortune, had this to say: “I want (people) to remember her as being strong and brave yet humble — and believed in love.”

Mildred and Richard Loving stayed married until Richard’s death.

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SEOs A Bunch Of Drunken Wahoos?

If you don’t know who Michael Martinez is, he’s one of the best people writing about SEO right now at his blog, SEO Theory. Today he takes a look at the SEO business, and where things are headed for some companies.

But mostly, I enjoyed his take on the SEO Conferences.

The SEO conferences are notorious party magnets and most conference insiders willingly admit that you get more and “better” information after the panels have ended for the day. What does it say about our industry that people are getting the best technical advice from other folks with drinks or drugs in their hands? Alcohol-based SEO instruction is not optimal, so there is considerable irony in the notion that you’re learning how to optimize from someone who may be three sheets to the wind and is willing to mumble something about how to steal links from Web sites.

If that is the best this industry has to offer, I can almost guarantee you that government mandated licensing, certification, and regulation are only a few years away. All the professional organizations and training programs in the world won’t stop the lawsuits, coinsumer complaints, and search engine penalties.

Haha, ain’t that the truth? As a teetotaler, I only attended one SEO Conference. I never did learn any “big secrets”, even at the bar. My sense of the event was it was more of a social event, where people are traveling on someone else’s expense account. Not exactly the type of place for small businessmen and non-drinkers like myself and my wife.

In the end, Michael’s conclusion that change may very well be forced upon the industry seems likely. If the issue of SEO Malpractice becomes big enough, the whole game will change overnight. Bad SEOs hurt everyone, the same way scammers do in any industry.

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Lee Haney

Lee Haney is making the news today because he appeared on the Steve Harvey show.

Lee Haney is an eight time winner of Bodybuilding’s Mr. Olympia contest. Lee Haney was well known for his balance of symmetry and huge muscularity.

For more information: Lee Haney.

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Wayne “Frosty Freeze” Frost

Wayne “Frosty Freeze” Frost has died. This is sad news for fans of hip hop, since Wayne “Frosty Freeze” Frost was an original pioneer of the movement.

Wayne “Frosty Freeze” Frost was famous as a breakdance, or B-Boy. He was best known for his creation of a move called “Suicide.”

He died after a battle with a long, undetermined illness.

As a member of “The Rock Steady Crew”, Frosty Freeze was one of the first B-Boys people ever saw.

R.I.P. Frosty Freeze

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Gulf Of Aden

The Gulf of Aden is in the news, because it’s where a French boat was seized by pirates. The Gulf of Aden is located in the Indian Ocean, off of Somalia.

In 2007, Pirates captured at least 24 ships off the coast of Somalia.

Here’s a map of the Gulf of Aden.

Please make sure to study it, so that you too, do not become the victim of Somalian Pirates. They are the skinny African guys with eye-patches and peglegs, so be warned.

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Wrestlemania Fireworks

Wrestlemania fireworks injures dozens. According to WFTV 9, dozens of people who attended the WrestleMania XXIV were injured by a fireworks display held during the event.

The Edge and The Undertaker were battling away, when the pyrotechnics display went horribly wrong.

A victim described what occurred.

“It felt like a whip. I have a welt on my neck. Like a baseball bat hit me. It was horrible. Horrible.”

Luckily, no one was seriously injured by the WrestleMania fireworks.

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Coupon Mom

Coupon Mom is the newest idea to help save consumers money.

Coupon Mom basically uses coupons to achieve the savings.

When you get your Sunday paper you will follow the steps below:

1) Remove relevant store ads and coupon inserts and date the inserts with a marker on the front. You will put the date and the code for the insert distributor (see “key” below), (i.e. “3/2 SS”)

2) Slip the inserts into a page protector. Note: you may opt to use the address labels to label the outsides of the page protectors instead of writing on them.

3) Slip all the store ads into a single page protector at the back of your notebook. You will want to keep the Sunday ads separate from the Wednesday ads (if your area has both) for ease of reference.

It may be helpful to you if you glance through the coupons and the sales fliers each week but you DO NOT need to clip the coupons (YET)!

Doesn’t sound too difficult. Visit Coupon Mom for more details.

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First Day Of Spring

Today is the first official day of spring. The reason I can tell is because my calendar says so. If I had to judge based on looking out my window I would not think this is the first day of Spring.

In fact, it looks more like a typical day in the Winter. But anyways, I rejoice at the notion that the long and brutal Winter may be ending.

Hail Spring!

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Vicki Van Meter

Vicki Van Meter has committed suicide by shooting herself. She was the youngest pilot ever to cross the U.S., when she did it as a young girl. Unhappiness is the reason cited for her recent actions.

Van Meter died Saturday and her body was found in her Meadville home on Sunday.

Her brother said she battled depression and opposed medication, but her family thought she had been dealing with her problems.

“She was unhappy, but it was hard for her to open up about that and we all thought that she was coping,” Daniel Van Meter said. “This really is a shock, because we didn’t see the signs.”

Vicki Van Meter was 26.

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Irish Blessing

Time for an Irish Blessing. Here’s one of my favorite blessings from my 100% Irish American background.

“May you be in Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you’re dead.”

That one is another of my favorites. Enjoy St. Patrick’s Day.

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