California Wildfires

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A wildfire in the mountains north of Los Angeles nearly doubled in size overnight and continues to threaten a broadcasting antenna complex and thousands of homes. Spokeswoman Dianne Cahir said the fire had burned 134 square miles of brush and trees by early Monday. At least 18 homes have burned and 12,000 are threatened in a 20-mile stretch from Pasadena to Acton. Two firefighters died when their vehicle rolled down a mountain.

In the Sierra foothills town of Auburn, more than 60 structures -- many of them homes -- were destroyed in a fast-moving fire, officials said. CalFire spokesman Daniel Berlant said Sunday it is unclear how many of the burned structures were homes and how many were industrial buildings, and it was likely to remain uncertain until daylight. The fire broke out at about 2:40 p.m. Sunday and had burned some 275 acres. (21 images)

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A United States Forest Service air tanker drops fire retardant next to a line of fire as the Station fire burns in the hills above a home in Acton, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 30. AP / Dan Steinberg

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A helicopter drops water on hot spots while fighting the Station Fire Aug. 30, in Acton, Calif. The out of control Station Fire has burned more than 35,000 acres and is burning towards homes from Pasadena to the Antelope Valley. Getty Images / Justin Sullivan

A Los Angeles County fire fighter sprays water on burning trees as he fights the Station Fire Aug. 30, in Acton, Calif. The out of control Station Fire has burned more than 35,000 acres and is burning towards homes from Pasadena to the Antelope Valley. Getty Images / Justin Sullivan

Los Angeles County fire fighters mop up hot spots as they fight the Station Fire Aug. 30, in Acton, Calif.Getty Images / Justin Sullivan

Los Angeles County fire fighters mop up hot spots as they fight the Station Fire Aug. 30, in Acton, Calif. Getty Images / Justin Sullivan

A Los Angeles County fire fighter monitors hot spots as he fights the Station Fire Aug. 30, in Acton, Calif. Getty Images / Justin Sullivan

Spot fires glow after the Station Fire burned through Aug. 30, in Acton, Calif. Getty Images / Justin Sullivan

Los Angeles County fire fighters Kevin Klar, right, Eric Tucker, center, and homeowner Henrik Hairapetian, who stayed behind to protect his home, are illuminated by the glow of the Station Fire as it scorches a hillside on Bristow Drive in the La Canada Flintridge foothills on Aug. 29, above Los Angeles, Calif. Getty Images / Kevork Djansezian

Los Angeles County Sheriff deputies and residents help evacuate horses as the Station fire burns in the hills above Acton, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 30. AP / Dan Steinberg

Residents help Roberto Bombalier evacuate a 2-year-old horse on foot as the Station fire burning in the Angeles National Forest above Acton, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 30. The horse had not been trained for trailer travel yet. AP / Jason Redmond

A woman carries personal belongings while evacuating her home as the Station Fire burns through the Angeles National Forest towards her home Aug. 30, in Acton, Calif. Getty Images / Justin Sullivan

A Fire Chief from El Dorado County in Northern California waits as flames from the Station Fire blows over Aliso Canyon Road near Acton, Calif., Sunday, Aug. 30. AP / Mike Meadows

The remains of burned cars and structures are seen after a fire hit the area on Friday, Aug. 28, in Soledad, Calif. Hundreds of residents near Soledad remain evacuated as firefighters battle a blaze that's also threatening Pinnacles National Monument. AP / The Californian / Richard Green

In this photo taken from Monterey Park, smoke billows from a fire in the foothills above La Canada Flintridge, Calif. in the San Gabriel Valley Sunday Aug. 30. AP / Nick Ut

Marla Gordon with her daughter Chaniah Gordon, 12, take a first look at their home which was destroyed in in the Auburn fire on Sunday, Aug. 30. The Sacramento Bee / Bryan Patrick

A firefighter works on the blaze at the the Auburn fire on Cedar Mist Lane in Auburn, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. The Sacramento Bee / Bryan Patrick

Ema Lujan carries a hose to help firefighters save what's left of her Harley Davidson business destroyed in the Auburn fire in Auburn, Calif. The Sacramento Bee / Bryan Patrick

A resident walks along homes burned in the Auburn fire on Aug. 30 in Auburn, Calif. The Sacramento Bee / Bryan Patrick

Rachel Varquez, left, who's house burned down on Creekside Place is comforted by neighbor Coleen Beldner in Auburn, Calif. on Sunday. The Sacramento Bee / Bryan Patrick

Lyle Swesey sits in a lawn chair across the street from his burned down home on Creekside Place in Auburn, Calif., Sunday Aug. 30, as a helicopter drops water on hots spots. The Sacramento Bee / Bryan Patrick

Marla Gordon holds her daughters as they looked at their burned down home on Oak Mist Lane in Auburn, Calif. The Sacramento Bee / Bryan Patrick

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How to Plugin SEO to Wordpress : 9 Great Plugins

How to Plugin SEO to Wordpress : 9 Great Plugins: "

I am an avid reader of Search Engine Journal due in large part that it has actual SEO meat with real takeaways especially the posts by Ann Smarty.

In the Internet Marketing field we often see articles created just for the sake of content and just as with some presentations at conferences, they just bloviate about the same general information we already know.

So as to not fall in that trap I will quickly get into some key plugins I feel add to the SEO of your Wordpress site.

• All in One SEO Pack – As it states it’s an all in one tool to automatically & individually customize your site’s SEO.


• Google XML Sitemap – If you are going to use an XML sitemap as a backstop to make sure your pages are found by the search engines then this is best tool to make sure its continually and automatically done.


• Permalink Redirect – Automatically 301 redirects your posts to the clean SEO friendly URL you setup


• Post Teaser – You could code this in most themes but this will automatically do so to prevent any chance of duplicate content while also increasing your page views.


• WordTwit – Automatically tweets your post on your Twitter account once its published.


• TweetMeme – Great plugin to easily encourage your posts/pages to get retweeted on Twitter – also shows some great stats.


• Yet Another Related Posts Plugin – Great way to keep your readers on your site and increase internal links to relevant posts.


• Cookies for Comments – Matt Cutt’s not so secret plugin along with Akismet to prevent bot comment spam from devaluing & infesting your site.


• Wptouch iPhone (ANDROID) Theme – Automatically presents your site in a mobile friendly format when viewed on the iPhone or Android device.

Right now the popular SEO theme is Thesis which is used by Matt Cutts, Michael Gray, Rhea Hoffman, among others in the Internet Marketing space as its a great theme if you can’t or just don’t want to code.

Thesis has a lot of the SEO structure inherent within the theme so you would not need the All in One SEO Pack but to really reduce your coding I would highly recommend adding the Thesis OpenHook plugin.

I will be speaking more on SEO for Wordpress at WordCamp LA on September 12th after which I will be speaking at SMX East & PubCon.

Michael Martin is the SEO Director of Project Management at Internet Marketing Inc. – http://www.internetmarketinginc.com/ – based out of San Diego, California. Michael graduated from UMass Dartmouth with a Computer Engineering degree and a minor in German before quickly entering the IT Project Management field in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Check out the SEO Tools guide at Search Engine Journal.

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Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away

Our Last Chance to Preserve Life On Earth Is Slipping Away: "

Shallow news coverage causes most Americans to underestimate the urgency of the threat of global warming.

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The Roving Giraffe - says that as we use more of our Earth and its precious resources then we start to see the decline of our life, where only people can value possessions and people become surplus to requirements.For many years we have imagined that the good life as it was called will continue forever but slowly our children have become the controllers and parents are controlled by their wants. We call it peer pressure but l say it is a way for children to get what they want by saying our friends have a the new design or it has better features. It is time to say save not spend and no not yes ? Fancy debating the issue add your point of view? G

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We Need Clean Electricity In Our Homes - People in the West Need to Live With One Car: India's Environment Minister

We Need Clean Electricity In Our Homes - People in the West Need to Live With One Car: India's Environment Minister: "
left photo: Mats Lindh; right photo: Nir Nussbaum

Speaking at a conference in Delhi, India's environment minister Jairam Ramesh urged Western nations to leave population out of climate talks, The Guardian reports. Ramesh said, 'Influential American think tanks are asking why should we reward profligate reproduction behavior' in the developing world. Then Ramesh really laid out bare the gap between rich and poor nations in the w...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Roving Giraffe - says this is as true as l said on our business blog at http://bit.ly/ace_wws29 when l wrote about the cash for clunkers deal fuelling peoples need for more cars and damaging the environment. I see it takes a developing country to tell us the same. But the west has other ideas and wants to include population statistics into the equation and eventually the blame given their way will end up being the poor peoples fault and not the west`s greed. G

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The Week in Pictures: Rare Tiger Dismembered, BPA-free SIGG's, Eco-Vacations and More

The Week in Pictures: Rare Tiger Dismembered, BPA-free SIGG's, Eco-Vacations and More: "

From an ultra rare Sumatran tiger killed and dismembered at a zoo in Indonesia to SIGG's announcement that their bottles are now BPA - free, a lot happened this week. Jasmin showed us how to attain fresh, glowing skin -- without the botox or chemical peels -- and get crafty in the kitchen; KFC introduced their lard-laden Double Down sandwich where the bread has been replaced with two slabs of fried chicken; readers sent in photos of their eco-vacations and backyard nature photos for our weekly user-generated slideshows and Dr. Chris Cavacuiti of the University of Toronto, in a study, concluded that...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Roving Giraffe - says here is a manufacturer called SIGG`s that has announced that their bottles are BPA - free take a look and let me know ? G

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Friday's Big Green Question: is Climate Change Hijacking the Environmental Agenda?

Friday's Big Green Question: is Climate Change Hijacking the Environmental Agenda?: "
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It's Friday, and quite frankly, my brain hurts. It's been a long week, filled with dismembered tigers, robots designed to keep plants alive on Mars, the noisy end of Cash for Clunkers, and me getting yelled at (via civil and intelligent comments, of course) for suggesting we're in the beginning stages of a Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Roving Giraffe - says is it not time to stop all this tinkering with the edges and look at the real problems, we do not need to make robots to put on Mars to feed the world, or other items that will only fill the pockets of people saying " l am green buy this product " when the only people that are really green are the people parting with money believing they are helping the environment. G

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Beyond Parabens: 7 Common Cosmetics Ingredients You Need to Avoid

Beyond Parabens: 7 Common Cosmetics Ingredients You Need to Avoid: "
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Consumer choice is a powerful thing. Say 'jump or I'll spend my cash somewhere else' and you'll set executives scrambling to use one another as makeshift human trampolines. It's for this reason and this reason alone—at least for the major corporations—that we're seeing such a proliferation of products cheerily proclaiming that they're BPA-free. Well, parabens are the bisphenol-A of the beauty industry, from t...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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The Roving Giraffe - says this is a follow-up to my article released through digg and commented on sometime ago about the dangers of make-up and Parabens and how when challenged manufacturers start find alternatives and thank you to treehugger for a great article. If we all boycott these products {yes even men} l do not need make-up as l am a Giraffe and have great colour and l can hide in the environment quite easily from the poachers.

Sorry got carried away back to " Not using these ingredients that are not BPA free " so let us get them stopped ? G

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