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Top 10 Technical SEO Issues (and How to Fix Them)
ZOG Digital
Business 2 Community May 21, 2014
In the age of "Penguin," "Panda," "Hummingbird" and other big Google algorithm updates, winning the search engine optimization (SEO) game means publishing high-quality content that earns links. But all the quality content in the world won't help your search rankings if your site has structural or other technical issues.
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We asked the SEO community to weigh in on the most common technical issues that can adversely impact your site's search rankings today. Many of these technical challenges, such as duplicate content, have been around for years. But as the SEO game matures and evolves it's even more important to clean up site messiness. After all, successful SEO is one third on-page optimization, one third off-page optimization (such as backlinks), and a third clean website structure that's free of technical issues, according to Bill Sebald, owner of Greenlane Search Marketing.
Here are the top 10 SEO technical issues in 2014, according to nearly 30 experts, along with tips on how to address them.
1) Duplicate Content
Almost all of the SEO professionals we queried cited duplicate content as a top technical concern. Simply put, duplicate content is any content that is "appreciably similar" or exactly the same as content that resides on your site, according to Google Webmaster Tools.
"Google's crawlers must cover a lot of ground," says Michael Stricker, U.S. marketing director for SEMrush. "Google can't consume all of the data, especially when one considers that Google must revisit each page again and again to find changes or new material. Anything that slows Google's discovery or crawling of the Web is unwelcome. Dynamically created websites that create Web pages on the fly from databases are frequently misconfigured from an SEO point of view. These sites may create lots of pages, or URLs, that contain basically the same content, over and over."
Other sources of duplicate content include the use of both "plain" and secure protocol URLs (HTTP and HTTPS); no expressed preference for a www.domain.com versus domain.com (without the www); blog tags; and syndicated RSS feeds.
Duplicate content can also result from common content management system (CMS) functionalities, including sorting parameters, according to Johnny Ewton, Web analyst for Delegator.com.
The remedy is to crawl your site looking for duplications and apply "crawl directives" to inform Google of the relative value of multiple URLs, Stricker says. You can use "robots.txt" (a file that allows you to control how Google's bots crawl and index your public Web pages) to tell Google the specific folders and directories that are not worth crawling.
It's also a good idea to tell Google which of several URLs to prefer for its index by applying the rel="canonical" link element to point to the preferred URL. Canonical tags can help with duplicate content issues because they tell search engines that one page is a duplicate of another, as well as which of the duplicate pages to consider the primary one for indexing by Google's bots, says Scott Benson, founder and president, Benson SEO.
International sites that target multiple countries with content in a variety of languages can also end up with a lot of duplicate content, according to Matt Naeger, executive vice president, digital strategy for Merkle. In this scenario, Naeger recommends using the rel="alternate" hreflang code within the of every page to identify the geolocation of the content in a similar, but more targeted language. Using IP detection to generate the correct language and default currency for a page is another solution.
A common duplicate content issue occurs when one site has either a URL beginning with "www" or a URL that doesn't contain "www," according to Ramon Khan, online marketing director, National Air Warehouse. Thankfully, there's an easy fix.
"Try to type in your URL with the non-www URL and see if goes to the www version, then try the opposite," Khan says. "If both work without any one of them redirecting, you are not properly set up. If so, go to your Google Webmaster Tools. Go to Settings and then Site Settings. See if you have specified a version you prefer. If you're not sure, get a professional to assist you in determining which version to set up and keep using that going forward."
Similarly, by default most websites end up with multiple versions of the homepage, reached through various URLs. Having multiple versions of the homepage can cause a lot of duplicate content issues, and it means any link equity the site receives is spread across the different URLs, says Colin Cheng, marketing manager of MintTwist.
You can fix this issue "by choosing one URL that you want as your main URL," according to Steven Weldler, VP, online marketing for CardCash. "This is entirely a matter of preference but once you choose one, stick with it. All the other URLs should automatically point to the main URL using a 301redirect."
2) Poor Mobile Experience
If your website offers a poor user experience on smartphones and tablets and is slow to load on mobile devices, visitors will likely click away, upping your site's bounce rate. "It's important to make sure your site is lean and loads fast, as that's important on mobile," noted Matt Cutts, Google' head of Web spam, at a search conference in 2013.
Some companies divert users to separate mobile sites, but doing so can cause problems, according to SEMrush's Stricker. For example, using a mobile subdomain (such as http://m.domain.com) can split your link equity, raise concerns about diverting traffic from the original URL without informing the user and offering options, and increase resource consumption and maintenance, he notes.
"Google can become suspicious of sites that present different content to different devices, depending on how it is accomplished," Stricker says.
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Responsive design (when a website displays automatically and appropriately for both mobile and desktop devices) "provides an experience customized to the device, yet the content is the same for all users," Stricker says. Thus, it can improve secondary signals that Google takes into account for search rankings, including page visits, time spent on a page, visit duration and bounce rates.
3) Shady Link Building
Google's Penguin updates put sites that engage in questionable link building practices in its crosshairs. (For details, see "Link Building Strategies and Tips for 2014.") Link building can help a business "see significant gains in Web traffic, but it also introduces a level of risk," according to Justin Anderson, CEO of HKSEO.us.
Unnatural, spam-like, irrelevant, and "black-hat," or "just plain bad," backlinks can cause your site to take a hit in the rankings, adds Mike Waller, owner of SEO Zones, Inc. Backlinks today "should be done at a natural pace, should be diverse and varied and look and appear natural," he says. "The links you place on your site that link out to authority sites is important, and cross-linking between pages is also important to help the Google crawlers get deep into your site."
If the Penguin updates hurt your site, it may be necessary to disavow questionable backlinks to it, and if necessary, ask webmasters to remove those links to your site.
4) Poor Navigation
If visitors come to your site, and they can't get around easily because navigation is set up poorly, they won't engage with your site.
"Poor engagement statistics paired with 'crawlability' issues and other technical issues are all indications of low authority" according to Google, says Ashley M. Orndorff, director of marketing, ParadoxLabs. "If your site is considered irrelevant and is not deemed useful to visitors, it's not going to rank in the search engines. Search engines are businesses too and their business is showing the most relevant resources to their users."
5) Images That Are Not Search Friendly
Many website designs today emphasize stunning visuals without taking into account how those visuals can adversely impact search rankings, according to Salman Aslam, CMO, Omnicore.
"A lot of people are using images with beautiful fonts and strong colors to make the page appealing, but to Google it's just an image," Aslam says. By using a combination of Web fonts, HTML and CSS, it's possible "to retain the beauty and achieve good SEO by creating all of the text elements within a banner as 'live text.'"
6) Improper Redirects
Sometimes a Web page, or an entire site, needs to be moved to a different URL. A 301 redirect is "the best way to ensure that users and search engines are directed to the correct page," according to Google.
"If you've ever rebuilt your website without enlisting a reputable SEO, then there is a good chance that links and URLs from your old site aren't properly set up to connect to your new website," says Ricky Shockley, search marketing specialist for Web Success Agency. "Your Webmaster should set up 301 redirects from old pages to the new ones," to help users find the old site pages and ensure those pages pass "link juice" to your current site.
You should locate any 404 "not found errors" on your site and use 301s to direct users to the correct pages, adds Greenlane Search Marketing's Sebald. "Google Webmaster Tools make it easy to find your 404s, so you can 301-redirect them to more relevant pages. On big sites this is a daunting task but a very useful one."
7) Messy URLs
CMS and blog platforms sometimes create awkward URLs for new content. For example, you may end up with a page that has "index.php?p=283581″ at the end of the URL. Such "messy URLs can hurt your trust and credibility with search engines and users, leading to decreased clickthrough rates," says Shockley. "Clean up those messy URLs to include a keyword that explains what the page is about, such as 'dentist.com/dentures.' Make sure to set up proper 301 redirects on the old URLs."
"SEO-friendly URLs contain keywords and are easy to read and understand for both search engines and users," says Mike Mothner, founder and CEO of search marketing agency Wpromote. "Since it's important to make your site as easy to index and rank as possible, it's crucial to have SEO friendly URLs."
Depending on your site's CMS, you may be able to make "link templates" that can be applied across your entire site, he adds.
8) Slow Page Loads
Page speed is important not only for a good user experience but also for achieving good search rankings. "If your website has many elements on it, such as images, videos, CSS style sheets, JavaScript code and the like, be sure it's as optimized for speed as possible," says Oleg Korneitchouk, director of digital marketing and development for SmartSites.
"I recommend running several of your pages through a page-speed test such as GTmetrix and implementing the suggestions they provide," Korneitchouk says. "Applying even just a couple of their suggestions can shave seconds off your site load time."
Google also offers Google PageSpeed Tools to help you test and increase your site's overall speed, according to Delegator.com's Ewton.
Your Web hosting service could be part of your speed problem. "I'm a firm believer in paying for reliable, secure and fast hosting services," says SEO Zones Inc.'s Waller. "If you're doing the shared hosting thing, that is OK starting out. But if you grow or are a large organization, make the transition to a dedicated server. It gives you more control over all aspects of your website, which is what you want anyway."
9) Local Search and Structured Data Markup
If you aren't taking advantage of local search data or Structured Data Markup, you're missing big opportunities, Ewton says.
"Google recognizes local search intent better than ever, and sites that ensure they have a presence on all the local search data providers, such as Yelp, Foursquare, Facebook, Bing and Yellow Pages, can see boosts in local searches within their immediate city scope."
"For local SEO, the most common issue I find with clients is with their location-specific Web pages," says Jason Squardo, executive vice president of optimization and founding member of ZOG Digital. "Many times, businesses don't have them at all. By creating a separate Web page for each location, businesses can more effectively leverage local SEO, which is geared toward providing local results to consumers looking for information about local businesses specifically. This is also becoming more important as the number of mobile-device searches continues to increase."
Taking advantage of Structured Data Markup can help your site's search results through "rich snippets." An example of Structured Data Markup at work could be a list of upcoming events at a nightclub, positioned directly underneath the main search result listing for that nightclub. Though rich snippets and Structured Data Markup may not affect search result rankings, they can help improve clickthrough rates, according to Korneitchouk.
10) Too Much Flash
Though Flash is less common on today's websites, it's still around — and it can still hinder search engine robots that are trying to index your site's content.
"If the search engine bots can't read or understand your website, they'll have a hard time trying to figure out what to rank it for," says Sameep Shah, founder of SimpleWebDesign. "The best advice for solving this is to not use Flash or to use it sparingly. There are technologies such as HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript that can be used instead, and if you really need animation, consider using a video."
By James A. Martin
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0241A: Queue Tales
Today I queued for 2.5 hours to help resupply medicines for the family at Mercury Drug. It wasn't the most pleasant experience as beyond the long wait, a lot of the time was spent waiting in the summer sun as the guards did their best to manage the different queues for people who only wanted to do grocery shopping, people who needed to buy medicines and priority cases like senior citizens.
The heat definitely added to everyone's stress as you could hear a lot of grumbling about the queue system they had arranged for (e.g. people questioning what to do if they wanted to shop for both types of items) and the inevitable accusations that people who had gotten in through the grocery queue (which was the faster line) would eventually line up for medicines. I have no idea if that was true or not - I just tried to be patient and got some reading in while waiting.
Yesterday Tobie did a supply run and it took him over four hours to get through SM Supermarket at SM Aura. Since he brought his car, he entered through the basement where the mall had set up a fairly organized queue including seats for a lot of the folks in line and efforts to also regularly sanitize those seats when the opportunity presented itself. This felt long, but apparently, it can get a lot worse.
On social media, I followed along with a friend who queued to grocery at Waltermart Makati, where they had set up an oddly complicated queue that snaked through the mall starting on the first floor then up to the third floor to end at the grocery on the second floor. That process took over four hours as well, but I guess at least there was a system. Other friends have shared that getting through the grocery at SM North Edsa took over 6 hours, so yeah it's pretty crazy out there.
I guess more people are making the effort to shop now as initial supplies acquired right before the lockdown are probably starting to run out, forcing people to head out. At least there are things to buy, so that's something to be thankful for. I'd freak out more if the grocery shelves wouldn't turn out to be poorly supplied, which would make queueing not quite worth it.
I've given up on attempts to pursue online grocery providers as our quarantine logistics infrastructure is pretty strained and is barely able to support the deluge of orders. Everytime I try to assemble an order, at checkout I'll find that no delivery dates are available.
Finally, over the course of my walking around BGC, I noticed that more convenience stores have opted to close entirely in recent days. At the very least it seems like most Lawson branches have closed their doors while even places like 7-Eleven had shuttered some shops that primarily catered to BGC's office workers. More signs that our overall infrastructure can only handle so much and stores aren't seeing the value in staying open if they can meet certain income minimums.
As our number of confirmed COVID-19 cases has just crossed the 1,000 person threshold, it really feels like this quarantine isn't necessarily going to end on 14 April as originally promised. The battle against this disease may take longer than that.
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Fogueteiro (port: Estação Ferroviária de Fogueteiro) – stacja kolejowa w Arrentela (gmina Seixal), w dystrykcie Setúbal, w Portugalii. Znajduje się na Linha do Sul. Jest obsługiwana przez pociągi prywatnego przewoźnika Fertagus.

Historia
Stacja ta została otwarta 6 października 2004.

Linie kolejowe
 Linha do Sul

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne

Stacje i przystanki kolejowe w dystrykcie Setúbal

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Sometimes dreams do come true. For Washington resident, Genelle T., it was as easy as seeing something she wanted and filling out a form. After doing just that while shopping for sewing supplies at Quality Sewing and Vacuum, her name was picked as the winner of the 2013 I'm Dreaming of a Koala Studio holiday sweepstakes.
Genelle has been sewing for many years, and has known about Koala Studios sewing furniture for some time now. "I always liked Koala, so when I went to the store and they had an entry box, I thought I'd try," she said. It was as simple as that. She was surprised to win the grand prize, the Koala Storage Tower.
Genelle is excited about the extra storage, though she said there's still one aspect that takes up too much space. "I have too many used machines. My husband said I can't get anymore," she said laughing. Though her machines are all used, they still come to good use; each serves a different purpose. She has an embroidery machine, a cover stitch-only machine, a serger, and a longarm machine.
Before she owned a variety of machines, Genelle learned to sew by sewing garments. She sewed a skirt in high school and later continued to make clothes for her mother-in-law. "She just wanted something comfortable to wear and couldn't find it in the store," she said. Additionally, Genelle sewed for herself after achieving a significant amount of weight loss. "Nothing fit anymore, and clothes that did fit needed to be hemmed." Today, she still repairs garments but prefers embroidery and quilting.
Thanks again to everyone who entered the sweepstakes, and a special congratulations to Genelle!
You go girl. I love my Koala set up. Hope you enjoy yours as much as I do.
Congratulations to Genelle! Enjoy and make many beautiful things!
You will love your Koala, congratulations!
So…..she won a storage tower and it "Made her dreams come true."?????
Congratulations to you on your win of such a beautiful set of sewing drawers/cabinets. I am TRULY tickled for you!!
How exciting. Congratulations Genelle. I'm sure you will enjoy the Koala storage tower.
Good for you Genelle! I'm sure you will enjoy. Congratulations!
I love my Koala studio and I'm sure you will love your storage tower.
So glad you won. Enjoy your new furniture. Koala is the best.
Congratulations!!!!!!!! My sister has this and it is beautiful!!!


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Okrug Stormarn (njem.: Kreis Storman) je okrug u njemačkoj saveznoj pokrajini Schleswig-Holstein i pripada metropolnoj regiji Hamburg.

Zemljopis
Okrug Stormarn graniči na sjeveru s okrugom Segebergom, na sjeveroistoku s okrugom Istočni Holstein i gradom Lübeckom, na istoku i jugu s okrugom Vojvodstvo Lauenburg i na zapadu s gradom Hamburgom. Okrug Stormarn jedan je od šest okruga Schleswig-Holsteina koji pripadaju metropolnoj regiji Hamburga.

Gospodarstvo
Stormarn je gospodarski vezan uz gradove Hamburg i Lübeck, što se može vidjeti i u demografskom rastu. 1973. u okrugu je 163.000 stanovnika, a danas ima čak preko 220.000 stanovnika. Isto se primjećuje u blizini ta dva grada dolaskom razne industrije.
Unatoč tome na sjeveroistoku okruga stanovnici se pretežno bave poljoprivredom.

Promet
Za promet su najvažnije autoceste A1, A24, A20 i A21 i željeznica između Hamburga i Lübecka.
Javni promet okruga je u sklopu javnog prometa grada Hamburga.

Kultura

Spomenici
 Dvorac Ahrensburg
 Dvorac Reinbek
 Samostan Nütschau

Gradovi, općine i službe
(stanovnici 30. ruijna 2006.)

Službe

Literatura
 Barbara Günther (Hg.): Stormarn-Lexikon. Neumünster 2003.
 Johannes Spallek: Stormarn zwischen Alster und Bille. Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster 1994.
 Helmuth Peets: Stormarn ist einen Ausflug wert. Oho Verlag, Bad Oldesloe 1999.
 Günther Bock, Hans-Jürgen Perrey, Michael Zapf: Stormarn. Geschichte, Land und Leute. Medien-Verlag, Hamburg 1994.

Vanjske poveznice

 Službena stranica okruga Stormarn
 Daljnje povezica o okrugu Storman

Schleswig-Holstein


I have a fresh install of MODX 2.5.1 with a few Extras installed including pdoTools. Something odd is going on with the value being output for a Placeholder. The issue is resolved by uninstalling pdoTools.
The Placeholder value is set by a snippet eg. [[regFile? &item=`file1`]]. Each time the snippet is called the value passed by &item is concatenated to the previous value and stored in the placeholder.
At the end of my Template a second snippet [[outputScripts]] is called. It parses myPlaceholder and returns an HTML block with script tags based on the files stored in the Placeholder eg.
If I change the [[regFile]] snippet to output the current Placeholder value each time it is called the Placeholder value is correct, after the second call the 3 .js files are included.
0.896 [[outputScripts]] <<< this should be the 3rd event but the timer shows it is the 2nd.
I don't know why but calling [[!outputScripts]] uncached while pdoTools is installed also resolves the issue.
Changing the System Setting for pdotools_fenom_default to No has no effect (I don't think it should though, I think this relates to the way pdoTools snippets handle Chunks).
Disabling the pdoTools Plugin has no effect.
Can anyone suggest what might be the cause or how I can investigate further?
What is the actual name of your placeholder? What you're describing sounds like something that would happen if a placeholder had the same name as a resource field or TV.
But I couldn't figure how to adjust my code. Looking again I must not have had pdotools_fenom_parser enabled.
Need to try again as I could use a speed boost by being able to use [[!pdoResources]] on the site I'm working on.
There's mention over on the Slack Channel of a System Setting to select whether to use the pdoTools parser or the MODX parser. I did look for this last night, there are around a dozen system settings for pdoTools but I don't remember one to select between parsers.
which reads like the parser can be chosen. I'll go install pdoTools again because I can't see a list of System Settings in the documentation just now.
Issue resolved by changing the default pdoTools system settings parser_class and parser_class_path to use the MODX parser.
Snippets are now executed in the order they appear.
Could you please post the right settings in this case?


UPDATE - February 25, 2015: The Huntington Beach Dining Guide has been retired. Please view the restaurant listings on our website for up-to-date dining information.
Huntington Beach, Calif., April 17, 2012 - Surf City USA - the Huntington Beach Marketing and Visitors Bureau (HBMVB) announces the publication of their all-new, all-inclusive Dining Guide for the city of Huntington Beach.
"This dining guide is unique in the sense that it reflects the funky, and eclectic nature of Surf City USA and offers the reader an insider's look into HB dining," explains HBMVB Board Chair and Shorebreak Hotel General Manager Marco Perry. "This mini-magazine reads as if your good friend were referring you to their favorite place to enjoy a meal - unlike most dining guides that read more as paid restaurant listings accompanied by ads."
Insider scoops on favorite diners and restaurants come from Huntington Beach locals in the "Meet the Locals" section, and from Surf City chefs (who even share some of their favorite recipes) in "Compliments of the Chefs." Readers will get "Grab and Go" ideas for the perfect picnic, and find inspiration on - "Setting the Scene" for an Old School, Surfside, Cool & Contemporary, or Romantic experience.
With multiple new and trendy restaurants arriving on the dining landscape, Huntington Beach is on the fast track to dining acclaim. From high-end steak, seafood and martinis, to hidden gems popular for their burritos or sandwiches, Surf City dining satisfies discerning "foodie" palates.
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The Unihan code charts aren't user-friendly
January 26, 2021 (updated January 27, 2021 )
In the past few days I have been working on a personal project that's long overdue: the Meta-index to etymologically correct written forms of Cantonese words. It's still a work-in-progress, but I already got to a point where I had to use data and charts published by the Unicode Consortium.
Let me first explain what I mean by "etymologically correct". You see, we're not supposed to write in Cantonese. (It's like you spoke English but had to write in Latin.) Cantonese is a marginalized language.
Although we're not supposed to write Cantonese down, sometimes we have to,[Note 1] or just want to. But we don't know how to write many of the words that we use, so we made up new ones.
In the past two decades or so, people have been rediscovering that many of our words are actually in the dictionary; we just didn't know. So people had an idea: instead of the words we made up, we should use these "correct words" (正字, ˉdziŋ ˍdzi).
One problem with these etymologically correct words is that many of them are so archaic that even when they are listed in Unicode there's often no way to type them, and sometimes even when you find a code to type there's no font that will show them.
So I found myself looking for a few of these pesky words in the Unicode Radical–Stroke Index.[Note 2] After a few successful tries I hit a brick wall and I ended up looking through the actual standard documents. One of these was Unicode Unified Ideographs Extension B,[Note 3] a gigantic PDF at 39 megabytes.[Note 4] It's 741 pages. And it's virtually impossible to look up anything.
The first page of the Unicode Unified Ideographs Extension B that is not the copyright page. There is no table of contents. No index. No section heads. The header gives the start and end code points on the page, and each character gives its radical and stroke count, but there are otherwise no useful pointers on the page.
First, you have no idea where to even start looking. Let's say you want to find U+265BF.[Note 5] Which page is that? Page 500? Page 600? 700? No one knows.
Second, within the general traditional, radical-based groupings, it's hard to figure out where you are. Let's say you want to look for something that might belong to the "water" radical. Which page is that? Say you flipped to a random page and it's a different radical. Do you flip back a few pages or forward? The radicals form a 214-letter "alphabet" that few can remember.[Note 6]
Or, say you flipped to a random page and it happened to be the "water" radical. Are you at the right place? Yes, stroke count is in the charts but it's so small. Even if you don't find this an issue how do you skip back or forward by say two stroke counts, when the entire grouping could be several dozen pages?
In short, it has all the hallmarks of an improperly indexed work. Location information is not perceivable, and when you do land at the wrong place, it's impossible to recover.
The Unicode Consortium does not seem to understand or appreciate the traditional radical–stroke method of lookup. When I was tackling the first problem I encountered building my meta-index — that CJK characters were not being sorted correctly — I rediscovered Unihan Dictionary-like Data,[Note 7] a data set published by the Unicode Consortium. This data file mentions a technical report #38 for "documentation", but the report includes this very judgmental comment:
To find a character using the radical-stroke system, one determines its radical and the number of residual strokes, then looks through the list of characters with those characteristics. This is a clumsy system compared to alphabetical lookup, but is one of the most widespread systems throughout East Asia. Unfortunately, it is also ambiguous.[Note 8] [Emphasis mine]
It seems since this traditional system is so "clumsy" and "ambiguous", they've concluded it must be quite useless and therefore, in the actual code charts, there's no need to including people who rely on it.
I cannot explain this cognitive dissonance. Perhaps they don't have anyone who speaks a Chinese language and therefore don't understand the usability issue at hand: Precisely because CJK ideographs are not "alphabetical", these "clumsy" and "ambiguous" methods are essential.
To be fair, they do include us in a way, because radical–stroke count is what the Unicode Radical–Stroke Index does. But the reason I had to turn to the PDF files in the first place was that radical–stroke is rarely the only way to organize a large dictionary.
Looking up by radical and stroke count is indeed the primary way we look up a real dictionary, but — let's face it — we do admit the system isn't perfect, and that's why most real dictionaries provide a second, fallback method to look up words: a table called the "index to difficult-to-look-up words" (難檢字表, ˏnan ˊgim ˍdzi ˊbiu) that allow lookups by stroke count only.
I have to point out that the Unicode Consortium has not given any thought to this fallback method at all. None of their interactive lookup tools supports looking up words by stroke count. If they truly find radical–stroke lookup so "clumsy", why don't they at least provide this standard fallback method? kTotalStrokes is in their data files; exposing this in their interactive tools would have made their tools a lot more usable.
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"Unihan Radical–Stroke Index," http://www.unicode.org/charts/unihanrsindex.html.
"Unicode Unified Ideographs Extension B" (Unicode Consortium, 2020), https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20000.pdf.
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To give you an idea of how big a problem this is, assuming the whole 20000–2A6DD range is filled, the chart contains 42,718 characters.
My home form teacher in Grade 5 actually tried to teach us to memorize the radicals. I can still recite the first few dozen (out of the 214); they begin: ˈjɐt, ˊgwɐn, ˊdzy, ˉpit, ˍjyt, ˉkyt; ˍji, ˌtɐu, ˌjɐn, ˌjɐn, ˍjɐp, ˉbat, ˊgwiŋ;.... You can see the problem right there: some radicals have the same pronunciation. Also, if you can remember how to pronounce a radical it doesn't mean you remember how to write it; I don't remember ˉkyt or ˊgwiŋ, or one of the ˌjɐn's.
"Unihan Dictionary-like Data", Version 9.0.0 (Unicode Consortium, 2016), ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/9.0.0/ucd/Unihan_DictionaryLikeData.txt. In Version 14.0.0 of the standard the stroke count data has been moved to a different file.
Unicode Han Database (Unihan) (Unicode Standard Annex #38) , Revision 29, ed. John H. Jenkins, Richard Cook, and Ken Lunde (Unicode Consortium, 2020), http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr38/, 3.6.
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A man was killed in Redondo Beach late Friday when he stepped in front of a car on Artesia Boulevard, police said.
The man was trying to cross the street about two blocks west of Inglewood Avenue about 8:10 p.m. He stepped in front of a car traveling east and was killed, said Redondo Beach police Sgt. Phil Keenan. His name has not been released.
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Brexit: historic vote in the British Parliament
AFP 19th Oct 2019 08:30:35 GMT +0300
This is a historic vote with a very uncertain outcome: the British Parliament meets on Saturday to decide on the Brexit agreement between London and Brussels, just 12 days before the planned exit from the European Union.
Taken off in extremis after laborious negotiations, the agreement is supposed to settle the conditions of the divorce after 46 years of common life, allowing a smooth exit accompanied by a period of current transition at least until the end of 2020.
But its success is suspended by the approval of the British Parliament, which has already been intransigent in the past. MEPs rejected three times the previous exit agreement between former Prime Minister Theresa May and the other 27 EU members.
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Convened for the first time on a Saturday since the Falklands War 37 years ago, the House of Commons will open at 08:30 GMT (09:30 local time), for debates that could last all day.
No better way out
Boris Johnson has spent all his efforts in recent days to convince members to support his agreement, chaining phone calls and interventions on television.
Arguing that there was "no better way" than his agreement to leave the EU on October 31, the prime minister urged the elected to imagine a world where the obstacle of Brexit, which paralyzes the British political life for three years, will have been "exceeded". "I think the nation will breathe a great sigh of relief," he added.
If the agreement is approved, it will still have to be validated by the European Parliament.
SEE ALSO :Brexit on a knife edge as PM Johnson stakes all on 'Super Saturday' vote
In case of rejection, Boris Johnson has always said that he prefers an exit without agreement to a new deadline, the Brexit having already been postponed twice. But a law passed by the Parliament requires him to ask for a postponement of three months to the EU.
The prospect of a Brexit without agreement is feared by economic circles, because it could lead according to the forecasts of the government itself shortages of food, gasoline or drugs.
The government, without a majority, needs 320 votes to validate its agreement.
The opposition parties have already announced that they oppose it: the centrist liberal-democratic party (19 votes) and the Scottish nationalists SNP (35 votes) are anti-Brexit, the Labor Party (242 votes) believes that the new agreement weakens the rights of workers, the Greens (1 vote) it does not respect the environment ...
Above all, it stuck with the North Irish Unionists of the DUP (10 votes), allied allies of Boris Johnson Westminster, for whom the text grants a different status to Northern Ireland and isolates the British province from the rest of the country.
SEE ALSO :Five reasons why Boris Johnson's Brexit deal is worse than Theresa May's
The divided British society
The government hopes to convince some Labor as well as independents, including deputies excluded from the Conservative Party because they opposed a "no deal".
If the Parliament is divided, so is the British society, almost three years after the 2016 referendum that decided 52% of the UK's departure from the European bloc. While debates will be in full swing to settle the terms of the divorce, an anti-Brexit protest is planned in Westminster to push for a second referendum.
The decision of the deputies will also be scrutinized across the Channel. Several European leaders urged them to approve it, in order to move to the next phase of negotiations, which will determine the future relationship between the EU and the United Kingdom.
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned that a rejection of the text would lead to a "very complicated situation", while French President Emmanuel Macron spoke out against "new delays".
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The Boris Johnson agreement is supposed to solve the squaring of the circle of the Irish border, on which the process had stumbled until now. The aim is to avoid the return of a physical border between British Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, a member of the EU, to preserve peace on the island.
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He is involved on the paper's new project, College Town, a website focused on the four main universities in central North Carolina. The goal is to engage the college audience. It will include advice on topics from financials to the best place to eat. Students will have the opportunity to blog for the website.
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The concept of the Parks Interpretive Centre is based on the three "angular stones" of History, Environment, and Culture —- the past, the place and the people — and is known as Interpretive Triangle. The development of the Parks programme is based around this three-side geometric shape.
The victorious triangular form is also seen in the bold and colourful national Flag of Antigua and Barbuda. It can also be found throughout the country as an architectural feature on many buildings.
In the symbol, history is represented in the graphic depiction of Georgian Military Architecture, and the sun shines on the mountain peaks of the islands, set in the blue sea. History brings the population to an environment which together creates an ambiance; these blend overtime, establishing permanently the unique character of the people and their land.
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Wikipedia. License. Sodium sulfide is the chemical compound with the formula Na2S, or more commonly its hydrate Na2S·9H2O. Both the anhydrous and the hydrated salts are colorless solids. They are water-soluble, giving strongly alkaline solutions.
What shape is Na2S?
Sodium sulfide
Crystal structure Antifluorite (cubic), cF12
Space group Fm3m, No. 225
Coordination geometry Tetrahedral (Na+); cubic (S2−)
What type of bond is formed between Na2S?
Type of Bonding: This compound is an ionic compound in which 2 Na atoms are there per 1 Sulfide atom.
Is Na2S acid or base?
Sodium sulfide (Na2S) is an strong alkaline solution and is acidic in nature.
What is the name for FeS?
Ferrous sulfide | FeS – PubChem.
What is the symbol of sodium sulphide?
Na2S
Sodium sulfide/Formula
What is the Lewis dot structure of Na2S?
Na2S N a 2 S is known as sodium sulfide. Na and S have 1 and 6 valence electrons each. Thus, there is a total of 8 electrons. As the valency of Na is only 1, thus, only two bond pairs will be there which consist of 4 electrons and the remaining 4 electrons will act as lone pairs.
Does sodium sulfide Na2S conduct electricity?
Yes sodium sulphide conducts electricity. It can dissociate in water to form ions to conduct electricity.
Is na2co3 an acid or base?
Na2CO3 is a basic salt formed from the neutralization of Sodium hydroxide(NaOH) with Carbonic acid(H2CO3). The pH value of the aqueous solution of sodium carbonate is greater than 7.
Is KBR a base or acid?
KBr is a neutral salt as it is made from the neutralization reaction of the strong acid(HBr) with a strong base(KOH)….Is Potassium bromide (KBr) an acid or base or salt?
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Award-winning recording artist John Michael Ferrari again impacts the music world. His recent single, "My Heart Can't Breathe", is an emotional breakup song that literally catches one's breath. Just released by Cappy Records, this pop country crossover has already heated up radio waves in the U.S. and internationally, is climbing several Top40 and AC radio charts, had a line dance created to it by choreographer Teri Rogers, and the music audience relates with a smile and a reminded heartache. The inspiration for "My Heart Can't Breathe" came after Ferrari's heart ached seeing a photo of himself with a loved one from years ago.
This single, "My Heart Can't Breathe," teases John Michael Ferrari's upcoming January 2022 album of the same title. As with his previous award-winning album, "Be the Smile on Your Face," it was recorded at Larry Beaird Studios, Nashville; produced by Pepper Jay; written and performed by John Michael Ferrari for Cappy Records; and includes the gorgeous background vocals of one of Nashville's favorite singers, Tania Hancheroff.
The line dance "My Heart Can't Breathe" by Teri Rogers is finding its way to dance floors across the globe. These beginner steps may be located on several line dance sites CopperKnob in the UK and LineDancer in the U.S.
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John Michael Ferrari and Pepper Jay "appreciate the heart-warming responses" to their songs. "Thank you for being part of our journey." Ferrari's favorite expression: "There's never a stranger in the audience!" Ferrari performs his emotional uplifting story-telling songs he has written about life experiences, his and those of others. With touches of sophistication and child-like wonder, Ferrari's songs cross several genres.
Trivia: John Michael Ferrari is the author of "Acting with Your Eyes" and co-author of "Dynamic Song Performance, The Singer's Bible."
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Award-winning John Michael Ferrari writes emotional story-telling cross-genre songs with touches of sophistication and child-like wonder. John Michael Ferrari writes songs about his life experiences and the experiences of others. His music speaks to us; we can relate to the message or story in the song. John's album, "Be the Smile on Your Face," released 6/15/20, was recorded at Larry Beaird Studios, Nashville. Take a listen to one of the radio chart climbing tracks, "So Beautiful." After a lifetime of performing other people's songs, and at the encouragement of his music producer Pepper Jay, John Michael Ferrari has written and arranged dozens of original songs across several genres. John Michael Ferrari's first album, "My Early Life," w/ 12 songs John wrote years ago; a combination of country, pop, and flirtation! Born in Los Angeles, California, John Michael Ferrari's early years were spent in San Francisco, Reno, Vegas, and Carson City. At 15, a Judge called him incorrigible and, although John Michael didn't know what that meant, the Judge sentenced him to the Carson City Orphanage. John Michael joined the Army at 18. During and after the Vietnam War, John Michael further educated himself, and communicated with others through his song performance and song-writing. John Michael not only writes music and lyrics but he is an accomplished music arranger. He lives with his music producer of 30 years, Pepper Jay, first in Hollywood, California, and the past 4 years on a ranch in Pahrump, Nevada. John Michael writes emotional story-telling alt country pop bubble-gum love & cross-genre songs with touches of sophistication and/or child-like wonder. John Michael Ferrari writes songs about his life experiences. John Michael Ferrari's music producer for over 30 years, Pepper Jay, describes John Michael Ferrari's music as "poetry and stories put to music with unique retro sounds and emotionally piercing lyrics."
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With eye on China, Suga seeks tighter ties with Vietnam, Indonesia
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Japan's new leader will aim to beef up security ties when he visits Vietnam and Indonesia next week amid concerns about Beijing's growing assertiveness, but he is likely to steer clear of the harsh anti-China rhetoric used by U.S. counterparts.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, whose resume is scant on diplomatic experience, will follow in predecessor Shinzo Abe's footsteps by making the two Southeast Asian nations the destination for his first overseas trip since taking office in September."I think it is important to show ... we put more emphasis and importance on that region and we are interested in the security situation, especially in the South China Sea," said former diplomat Kunihiko Miyake, a special advisor to Suga.
Suga will visit Vietnam, chair of the 10-member ASEAN(Association of Southeast Asian Nations), and Indonesia, its biggest economy, on a four-day trip from Sunday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato announced on Friday.Japan must balance its deep economic ties with China with security concerns, including Beijing's push to assert claims over disputed East China Sea isles.Abe oversaw an improvement in ties but some ruling party MPs want a tougher stance.
ASEAN members, many of which have territorial feuds with China in vital South China Sea waterways, are wary of alienating a big economic partner and reluctant to become entrapped in an intense confrontation between the United States and China.
Scott Harold, associate director at the Rand Corporation's Center for Asia-Pacific Policy, said Japan's approach is to be firm, calm and advance its interests without asking countries to explicitly push back against China.Beefing up defense cooperation will be a "key point" of Suga's trip to Vietnam following last week's port call of three Japanese vessels at the country's Cam Ranh naval base, said Ha Hoang Hop of the Singapore-based ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute.China claims swathes of Vietnam's exclusive economic zone as well as the Paracel and Spratly Islands while Indonesia has been angered by Chinese coast guard intrusions into its exclusive economic zone off its Natuna Islands.
Japan plans to sign an agreement with Vietnam to allow it to export defense equipment and technology to the country, the Nikkei newspaper reported this week. A Japanese official said Japan was talking about enhancing defense cooperation with both Hanoi and Jakarta but could not comment on the outcomes.
Suga's trip follows last week's Tokyo meeting of the "Quad", an informal grouping of India, Australia, Japan and the United States, which Washington sees as a bulwark against China.Beijing has denounced the Quad as a "mini-NATO" meant to contain China.Hop said Vietnam could endorse the Quad as the group becomes more inclusive and as Beijing becomes more aggressive in South China Sea. Indonesia, however, is wary."Indonesia, which puts a high primacy on ASEAN's centrality, is going to be very ambivalent about the Quad because it undermines that whole principle …
They are unlikely to jump on the quad bandwagon," said Euan Graham at the Singapore-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.Suga's visit also coincides with Japan's efforts to diversify its supply chains and reduce reliance on China by bringing production home or locating more in Southeast Asia.He will likely announce an expansion of Japan's subsidies for production in Southeast Asia on his trip, the Nikkei said.Vietnam is a popular choice for Japanese firms.
Half of the 30 Japanese firms that took advantage of a 23.5 billion yen($223.28 million) government scheme to diversify supply chains in Southeast Asia targeted Vietnam, which has aggressively courted Japanese investment.Only one opted for Indonesia, where Japanese firms complain about a sometimes arbitrary regulatory environment, prompting Tokyo to call for improvements.


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Explain to your counselor the hazards you are most likely to encounter while participating in snow sport activities, and what you should do to anticipate, help prevent, mitigate, and respond to these hazards.
Discuss first aid and prevention for the types of injuries or illnesses that could occur while participating in snow sports, including hypothermia, frostbite, shock, dehydration, sunburn, fractures, bruises, sprains, and strains. Tell how to apply splints.
Explain why every snow sport participant should be prepared to render first aid in the event of an accident.
Explain the procedure used to report an accident to the local ski patrol for the area where you usually ski, ride, or snowshoe.
Tell the meaning of the Your Responsibility Code for skiers snow-boarders, and snowshoers. Explain why each rider must follow this code.
Explain the Smart Style safety program. Tell why it is important and how it applies to participants at snow sport venues in terrain parks and pipes.
Explain the precautions pertaining to avalanche safety, including the responsibility of individuals regarding avalanche safety.
Tell the meaning of the Wilderness Use Policy. Explain why each skier and snowboarder must adopt this policy.
Complete all of the requirements for ONE of the following options: downhill (Alpine) skiing OR cross-country (Nordic) skiing OR snowboarding OR snowshoeing.
Show how to use and maintain your own release bindings and explain the use of two others. Explain the international DIN standard and what it means to skiers.
Explain the American Teaching System and a basic snow-skiing progression.
Discuss the five types of Alpine skis. Demonstrate two ways to carry skis and poles safely and easily.
Demonstrate how to ride one kind of lift and explain how to ride two others.
On a gentle slope, demonstrate some of the beginning maneuvers learned in skiing. Include the straight run, gliding wedge, wedge stop, sidestep, and herringbone maneuvers.
On slightly steeper terrain, show linked wedge turns.
On a moderate slope, demonstrate five to 10 christies.
Demonstrate the ability to ski in varied conditions, including changes in pitch, snow conditions, and moguls. Maintain your balance and ability to turn.
Name the major ski organizations in the United States and explain their functions.
Show your ability to select, use, and repair, if necessary, the correct equipment for ski touring in safety and comfort.
Discuss classical and telemark skis. Demonstrate two ways to carry skis and poles safely and easily.
Discuss the basic principles of waxing for cross-country ski touring.
Discuss the differences between cross-country skiing, ski touring, ski mountaineering, and downhill skiing.
List the items you would take on a one-day ski tour.
Demonstrate the proper use of a topographic map and compass.
On a gentle, packed slope, show some basic ways to control speed and direction. Include the straight run, traverse, side slip , step turn, wedge stop, and wedge turn maneuvers.
On a cross-country trial (sic - should be "trail"), demonstrate effective propulsion by showing proper weight transfer form (sic - should be "from") ski to ski, pole timing, rhythm, flow, and glide.
Demonstrate your ability, on a tour, to cope with an average variety of snow conditions.
Demonstrate several methods of dealing with steep hills or difficult conditions. Include traverses and kick turns going uphill and downhill, sidesteps, pole drag, and ski-pole "glissade."
Show your ability to select the correct equipment for snowboarding and to use it for safety and comfort.
Show how to use and maintain your own bindings, and explain the use of the different binding methods. Explain the need for leashes.
Discuss the four types of snowboards. Demonstrate how to carry a snowboard easily and safely.
Demonstrate the basic principles of waxing a snowboard.
On a gentle slope, demonstrate beginning snowboarding maneuvers. Show basic ways to control speed and direction. Include the side slipping maneuver.
On slightly steeper terrain, show traversing.
On a moderate slope, demonstrate an ollie, a nose-end grab, and a wheelie.
Demonstrate your ability to ride in varied conditions, including changes in pitch, snow conditions, and moguls. Maintain your balance and ability to turn.
Name the major snowboarding organizations in the United States and explain their functions.
Name the parts of a snowshoe.
Explain how to choose the correct size of snowshoe.
Describe the different types of snowshoes and their specialized uses. Discuss factors to consider when choosing a snowshoe.
Explain how to properly care for and maintain snowshoes.
Describe how to make an emergency snowshoe.
Describe areas that are best for snowshoeing. Discuss some advantages and dangers of backcountry snowshoeing.
Discuss the benefits of snowshoeing.
Demonstrate the most efficient ways to break trail, climb uphill, travel downhill and traverse a slope.
Take a two-mile snowshoe hike with a buddy or your troop.
Demonstrate your ability, on a hike, to cope with an average variety of snow conditions.
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If disaster strikes, you'll need to know about the various edible insects for survival that are available to you.
It's true that most people in the United States get a bit squeamish when they hear they might have to swallow a few bugs – even if they're doing so to stay alive.
However, the fact is there are certain survival situations (like being stranded in the woods without food, or being involved in a nuclear holocaust) when knowing which insects you can eat could very well save your life.
When it comes right down to it, this survival food isn't even that unheard of – many countries love eating bugs, and eat them routinely. Most types are packed with protein, and have essential nutrients you might not get elsewhere.
You need to be careful, though – not all bugs should be consumed. For example, bugs with bright colors are often toxic (their bright colors are a warning to predators to stay away). It's also important to avoid insects with lots of hair (as the hair is often covering stingers), and any bug with a foul odor (except, weirdly enough, the stinkbug in #4 below).
It's also important to note that you will enjoy most bugs much more after cooking them versus eating them raw (I'll show you how in just a bit).
Cooking bugs also helps eliminate the parasites and harmful bacteria living inside (as well as highly improves its flavor and your ability to digest the nutrients), so it's very much in your best interest to cook the little buggers first before popping them in your mouth.
Note: If you don't have survival cookware ready to go, you're setting yourself up for a LOT of unnecessary stress and inconvenience later on. Stock up on the cookware below now to better prepare yourself for a crisis.
Termites are an excellent source of protein! They spend their lives buried in wood, like in tree trunks; as a result, they rarely see light (making it a little harder to get a good supply). To catch these tiny buggers, break apart a large piece of wood (like a log) and shake it out. Gather as many termites as you can before they bury themselves back in the wood.
When you've got a good supply, you can eat them after roasting them. Do this in a dry pot/skillet.
Despite what you might think, scorpions are edible (apparently they taste similar to crab); you can find these delicacies in the southwestern U.S.
Scorpion dens are buried underground, usually under rocks and branches. To catch them, you'll need a large plastic container. Dig a hole immediately in front of the den, and place the mouth of the container over the hole.
When the scorpion leaves its den at night and enters into the container, you can stab it through the container. Cut off the stinger, and roast it over charcoal until it's tender and brown.
Note: Don't throw away that charcoal when you're finished cooking – it's got a ton of survival uses you can read about right here!
Crickets and grasshoppers are some of the most common insects, and can be found almost anywhere. Look for them at night in tall grasses, under rocks, on branches, and in damp places. You can gather them in jars, or by shaking branches onto a sleeping bag or shirt.
Once you've collected enough for a meal, start by removing their heads and entrails (this will lower your chances of consuming parasites). Take off the legs and wings, and then roast them in a dry pan. You can also put them on a stick and roast them over the fire.
Despite their name, stinkbugs are actually edible. You can find them most prevalently in the wintertime under rocks and logs (or even out in the open).
In order to get rid of the smell, let them sit in water for 10 minutes, and then roast them in a dry pan. Note: If the critters are still alive, don't be surprised – they can live for a full week, even after being boiled. Eat them anyway.
Luckily, ants are pretty easy to find and actually taste good. They tend to walk in lines, allowing you to follow them straight back to their home. One way to capture them is to stab a stick into their anthill, and then dunk the stick into a jar of water when the ants crawl onto the stick.
Once you've gotten enough to eat, boil the ants for about 6 minutes. They've got a distinctive spicy flavor.
As disgusting as these look, they're actually edible. And. if you're in a SHTF situation, you may have to depend on them for your survival.
You can gather grubs on rotted logs, under tree bark, and under rocks. One of the best way to cook these suckers is to skewer them onto a stick and stick them over the fire. Cook until crispy.
Earthworms live exactly where you would think – in the earth. Dig into the soil, and you're likely to dig up one of these slimy creatures. Because earthworms often have parasites, remove them by cooking them over an open flame.
Wood Lice, aka Pill Bugs or Potato Bugs, tastes uncannily like shrimp. You can find them under rocks, logs and dead leaves.
Boil these creepy crawlies in water until cooked through. Strain the bugs out of the water before eating. Alternatively, you can also pan roast these until cooked through.
Now I don't know about you, but writing this blog article makes me even more sure that I do not want to survive on bugs if I get in a crisis. And, even though unexpected disasters can occur, I want to be as prepared as humanly possible…which means stocking up on delicious, nutritious, and protein-packed canned meat instead.
Not only is our Survival Cave canned meat ridiculous delicious, but it's also incredibly filling, allowing you to keep moving for a longer period of time than other foods.
Each can is also incredibly healthy, as it contains nothing but salt and meat. That's right – you won't find any artificial colors, preservatives, or hormones in this meat. Just pure, natural protein.
And if you're skeptical that an emergency isn't going to happen soon enough for these to come in handy, you'll be happy to know that each can has a shelf-life of 25+ years. This will give you plenty of time to stock up for a crisis (although we highly doubt you'll be able to utilize your self-control once you've tasted these astoundingly delicious meats).
Below you'll find two of our incredible Survival Cave varieties: Chicken and Pork. Why those two? Because, although it's been said that bugs might taste like chicken or pork, I want you to experience the real thing instead of making you settle for guzzling down creepy insects.
Click on the images below to start stocking up on tender chicken and succulent pork today and start preparing for disaster.
This entry was posted in Emergency Survival, Nuclear Survival, SHTF, Survival Cooking, Survival Food Recipes, Videos, Wild Animal Survival, Wilderness Survival and tagged best survival foods, DIY Survival, food, survival, survival food on August 23, 2016 by Survival Frog.


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William "Willie" Fernie (* 22. November 1928 in Kinglassie; † 1. Juli 2011 in Glasgow) war ein schottischer Fußballspieler und -trainer. Er gehörte als Spieler der schottischen Nationalmannschaft dem Kader bei den Weltmeisterschaften 1954 und 1958 an.

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Fernie spielte zunächst in seinem Heimatort bei Kinglassie Hearts. 1949 wechselte er zu Celtic Glasgow, wo er sich in den folgenden Jahren als flexibler Spieler auszeichnete und verschiedene Spielpositionen einnahm. 1954 holte er mit der Mannschaft das schottische Double und wurde daraufhin für den Weltmeisterschaftskader 1954 nominiert, nachdem er im letzten Vorbereitungsspiel gegen Finnland erstmals für die "Bravehearts" aufgelaufen war. Er gehörte zu den 13 Spielern, die die Reise in die Schweiz antraten, aber nach zwei Niederlagen am Ende der Gruppenphase ausschieden. 1956 und 1957 gewann er mit dem schottischen Ligapokal zwei weitere Titel mit Celtic. In der Zwischenzeit unregelmäßig in der Nationalmannschaft berücksichtigt, stand er bei der WM 1958 erneut im 22 Spieler umfassenden Kader und war abermals einer der 13 Spieler, die nach Schweden reisten. Erneut stand am Ende der Gruppenphase das Aus.

Fernie verließ Schottland 1958 und schloss sich dem englischen Klub FC Middlesbrough an. Nach zwei Jahren kehrte er jedoch zu Celtic zurück und spielte eine weitere Spielzeit für den Klub. Anschließend schloss er sich dem FC St. Mirren an, mit dem er 1962 das Pokalfinale erreichte. Ab 1963 stand er jeweils kurzzeitig bei Partick Thistle und Alloa Athletic unter Vertrag, ehe er im schottischen Non-League-Fußball beim FC Fraserburgh, in Irland beim FC Coleraine und Nordirland beim Bangor FC seine Karriere ausklingen ließ.

1967 übernahm Fernie das Traineramt bei der Reservemannschaft von Celtic Glasgow, das er bis 1973 innehatte. Anschließend trainierte er den FC Kilmarnock, mit dem er 1974 in die Division One aufstieg. Nach dem Abstieg 1977, mit dem Ziel Wiederaufstieg in die Spielzeit gestartet, misslang der Saisonauftakt, woraufhin er von seinen Aufgaben entbunden wurde. Anschließend verließ er das Fußballgeschäft und arbeitete unter anderem als Taxifahrer in Glasgow.

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 http://www.londonhearts.com/scotland/players/williamfernie.html
 http://www.killiefc.com/Web%20Pages/Manager%20History.htm

Fußballnationalspieler (Schottland)
Fußballspieler (Celtic Glasgow)
Fußballspieler (FC Middlesbrough)
Fußballspieler (FC St. Mirren)
Fußballspieler (Alloa Athletic)
Fußballtrainer (FC Kilmarnock)
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Geboren 1928
Gestorben 2011
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Teilnehmer an einer Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft (Schottland)


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