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Wow, it's already just about halfway through June.

It seems like just yesterday that we were talking about the primary results. And, well, we are still talking about the results in a couple of races.

These include the Democratic primary in Senate District 30, where there is an update in the Word from the Maxine Velasquez campaign.

And, of course, there are still those fires that are still raging in southern New Mexico. It would be nice to have those monsoons come through -- without the lightning that, spectacular as it may be, would be very dangerous in these very dry conditions.

On to the Word:

We won on election night, they won tonight, but there is still a long way to go until the recount on June 26th," Velasquez said. "I feel confident well come out on top in the end." Yup, a recount is acomin'.

The board revoked the license for La Mesa Racetrack and Casino in Raton because developers failed to open the casino by May 2010 and didn't show they had adequate financing to complete the racetrack.

In order to cope with the influx of a younger workforce, Jeff Aronoff created D:Hive, a community and business hub in downtown Detroit that serves as a one-stop shop for young people in the city. As executive director, Aronoff assists them with job, housing and quality-of-life resources. Like many of Detroits other economic development initiatives, D:Hive, which formally launched last month, is funded primarily by a grant from a local foundation (in this case, a three-year, $1.2 million grant from the Hudson-Webber Foundation).

Foundations, supported largely by money from the once-booming auto industry, are still a mainstay in southeast Michigan.

Look, we want to end the wars now. We want to bring home our troops from Afghanistan. We want to balance the federal budget now. We need to reform entitlements now. We want to repeal the Patriot Act. We want to bring an end to the drug war. Marriage equality is a good thing," he says according to the press release. "I am socially tolerant and I am fiscally responsible. I am the average American. I want to be represented.

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Morning Word, 06-14-12

LONDON, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

- A top destination for Holiday Hypermarket travellers this year is Palma, Majorca, in the Balearic Islands -

One of the most popular destinations among Holiday Hypermarket customers this year, Majorca has morphed from an island of package holidays to 'treasure island' for British summer holidaymakers.

Also fashionable among other nationalities, Majorca's airport fields flights from Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Netherlands and Sweden, and is a "rare profitable operation" for its body corporate, Spanish Airports and Air Navigation, which is increasing the number of routes to the island.

But the holiday island in the Balearics is not just a haven for budget travellers. According to a recent survey, Majorca and the nearby clubbing destination of Ibiza are two of ten locations in the world where holidaymakers are most likely to bump into celebrities.

Considering members of the Spanish royal family spend their holidays at the Marivent Palace in Majorca, and actors Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones own a Majorca mansion, while Claudia Schiffer, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Rafael Nadal - who was born there - have homes on the island, there's plenty of glamour to go around.

Calum MacDonald, Marketing Manager at Holiday Hypermarket comments, "Majorca has had a stylish makeover in recent years when many of the buildings were renovated and green spaces were expanded. Not to mention its unspoilt beaches, which are wide and golden, and close to luxury accommodation; it's a great place to spend a summer holiday."

About Holiday Hypermarket:

Holiday Hypermarket (http://www.holidayhypermarket.co.uk/) is a UK based holiday comparison community. We are passionate about helping people in the UK explore, learn and enjoy the world by removing the obstacles that keep them from getting the most out of their holidays. We do this by providing a completely independent travel comparison site that allows you to effortlessly find the best deals with the assistance of a knowledgeable community of fellow travellers who love to share travel advice.

With Holiday Hypermarket you have access to a huge number of travel suppliers which will help you put together flexible, restriction free, itineraries. This, combined with our excellent customer service and vibrant online community, makes Holiday Hypermarket a great place to start exploring the world.

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Treasure Island: Palma in Majorca is Trumps for Holiday Hypermarket Travellers

When it comes to SEO, most people understand that a website must have content, "search engine friendly" site architecture/HTML, and meta data (title tags andmeta descriptions).

Another meta element, if implemented incorrectly, that can also trip up websites is robots.txt.I was recently reminded of this while reviewing the website of a large company that had spent considerable money on building a mobile version of their website, on a sub-directory. Thats fine, but having a disallow statement in their robots.txt file meant that the website wasnt accessible to search engines (Disallow: /mobile/)

Lets review how to properly implement robots.txt to avoid search ranking problems and damaging your business, as well as how to correctly disallow search engine crawling.

Simply put, if you go to domain.com/robots.txt, you should see a list of directories of the website that the site owner is asking the search engines to "skip" (or "disallow"). However, if you arent careful when editing a robots.txt file, you could be putting information in your robots.txt file that could really hurt your business.

There's tons of information about the robots.txt file available at the Web Robots Pages, including the proper usage of the disallow feature, and blocking "bad bots" from indexing your website.

The general rule of thumb is to make sure a robots.txt file exists at the root of your domain (e.g., domain.com/robots.txt). To exclude all robots from indexing part of your website, your robots.txt file would look something like this:

User-agent: * Disallow: /cgi-bin/ Disallow: /tmp/ Disallow: /junk/

The above syntax would tell all robots not to index the /cgi-bin/, the /tmp/, and the /junk/ directories on your website.

In the past, I reviewed a website that had a good amount of content and several high quality backlinks. However, the website had virtually no presence in the search engine results pages (SERPs).

What happened? Penalty? Well, no. The site's owner had included a disallow to "/". They were telling the search engine robots not to crawl any part of the website.

Read more here:
Proper SEO and the Robots.txt File

Web giant says it received more than 1,000 requests from government officials for the removal of content in the past six months, complying with more than half.

Google reports it has seen an "alarming" incidence in government requests to censor Internet content in the past six months.

The Web giant said it received more than 1,000 requests from governments around the world to remove items such as YouTube videos and search listings. The company, which said it complied with more than half the requests, released a catalog of those requests as part of its bi-annual Global Transparency Report.

"Unfortunately, what we've seen over the past couple years has been troubling, and today is no different," Dorothy Chou, Google's senior policy analyst, said in a blog post. "When we started releasing this data, in 2010, we noticed that government agencies from different countries would sometimes ask us to remove political content that our users had posted on our services. We hoped this was an aberration. But now we know it's not."

Google said it had received 461 court orders for the removal of 6,989 items, consenting to 68 percent of those orders. It also received 546 informal requests, complying with 46 percent of those requests. The study doesn't reflect censorship activity from countries such as China and Iran, which block content without notifying Google.

"Just like every other time, we've been asked to take down political speech," Chou wrote. "It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect -- western democracies not typically associated with censorship."

Among the take-down requests was a Polish demand for removal of an article critical of a development agency, a Spanish request for removal of 270 blogs and links to articles critical of the public figures, and a Canadian official's request for removal of a YouTube video of a man urinating on his passport and flushing it down a toilet. All were denied.

However, the company said it complied with the majority of requests from Thai authorities for the removal of 149 YouTube videos that allegedly insulted the monarchy, a violation of Thailand law. The Web giant said it also granted U.K. police requests for removal of five YouTube accounts that allegedly promoted terrorism. Google also said it complied with 42 percent of U.S. requests for the removal of 187 pieces of content, most of which were related to harassment.

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Google sees 'alarming' incidence in government censorship

Web giant says it received more than 1,000 requests from government officials for the removal of content in the past six months, complying with more than half.

Google reports it has seen an "alarming" incidence in government requests to censor Internet content in the past six months.

The Web giant said it received more than 1,000 requests from governments around the world to remove items such as YouTube videos and search listings. The company, which said it complied with more than half the requests, released a catalog of those requests as part of its bi-annual Global Transparency Report.

"Unfortunately, what we've seen over the past couple years has been troubling, and today is no different," Dorothy Chou, Google's senior policy analyst, said in a blog post. "When we started releasing this data, in 2010, we noticed that government agencies from different countries would sometimes ask us to remove political content that our users had posted on our services. We hoped this was an aberration. But now we know it's not."

Google said it had received 461 court orders for the removal of 6,989 items, consenting to 68 percent of those orders. It also received 546 informal requests, complying with 46 percent of those requests. The study doesn't reflect censorship activity from countries such as China and Iran, which block content without notifying Google.

"Just like every other time, we've been asked to take down political speech," Chou wrote. "It's alarming not only because free expression is at risk, but because some of these requests come from countries you might not suspect -- western democracies not typically associated with censorship."

Among the take-down requests was a Polish demand for removal of an article critical of a development agency, a Spanish request for removal of 270 blogs and links to articles critical of the public figures, and a Canadian official's request for removal of a YouTube video of a man urinating on his passport and flushing it down a toilet. All were denied.

However, the company said it complied with the majority of requests from Thai authorities for the removal of 149 YouTube videos that allegedly insulted the monarchy, a violation of Thailand law. The Web giant said it also granted U.K. police requests for removal of five YouTube accounts that allegedly promoted terrorism. Google also said it complied with 42 percent of U.S. requests for the removal of 187 pieces of content, most of which were related to harassment.

The rest is here:
Google sees 'alarming' rise in government censorship