Lily pad template

Fantasy Hockey

2010.08.12 05:27 Linden94 Fantasy Hockey

A place where all fantasy managers can talk about all things related to fantasy hockey! Join other team managers and league commissioners to talk about league settings, give and receive roster advice, and any hockey news that is fantasy relevant. Please ensure to follow the rules and read the wiki on your way to winning your leagues!
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2008.09.15 23:36 Barry - you can't bury your past

Fan community for the HBO show, Barry. Premise: A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
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2011.12.10 09:21 Stencil Templates

Stencil Templates is a home and archive for the digital copies of stencils. We seek to produce and catalog all stencil templates in the world in one easily searchable place. We have two rules: follow the tag system and be excellent to each other.
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2024.05.21 18:57 president_elect_mark Imu going to the dark side after pad- I mean Lili left him

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2024.05.21 17:59 1moret1m3 What would you throw here?

What would you throw here?
Water is pretty clear, weed density fluctuates. Also a border of lily pads around most of the lake.
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2024.05.21 17:39 Turnip-Outrageous ISO advice converting my business to be fully electronic

Hello. I am looking for help on converting my business to be fully electronic. We recently got Apple iPads, but they don’t seem to be much use as we are trying to transition everything that we use. What I am most looking for is help with converting worksheets to be digitized. We are a small construction company and right now we have our employees fill out a handwritten worksheet to detail things such as when they were in when job start time and end time, job number, all the details of the job and notes and who worked on the job. I would like to make this digital so that they can fill it out on the iPad and submit it to the office manager electronically.does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach doing this? Is there a template I could write up? Or perhaps an app? Thank you.
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2024.05.21 17:38 Turnip-Outrageous ISO Advice for making my company fully electronic

Hello. I am looking for help on converting my business to be fully electronic. We recently got Apple iPads, but they don’t seem to be much use as we are trying to transition everything that we use. What I am most looking for is help with converting worksheets to be digitized. We are a small construction company and right now we have our employees fill out a handwritten worksheet to detail things such as when they were in when job start time and end time, job number, all the details of the job and notes and who worked on the job. I would like to make this digital so that they can fill it out on the iPad and submit it to the office manager electronically.does anyone have any suggestions on the best way to approach doing this? Is there a template I could write up? Or perhaps an app? Thank you.
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2024.05.21 17:05 woobling420 Tiny Lily Pad

Hi all, I have the lily pad pdf but would love to see the video to understand the "turn" step. If any of you have the pwd, would you please share it with me? Thank you!
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2024.05.21 16:31 squirrelfoot Edible frog on a lily pad: I got muddy getting this shot

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2024.05.21 16:17 Ok_Blueberry6593 looking to trade :D

looking to trade :D
hi! i’m looking to trade these items. the 1st is rare and next 2 are exclusive! the first is a wacky hot air balloon, second is a playpen trampoline, and third is a lily pad!
i don’t have a WL so i’m willing to just look through what u have :) thanks!
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2024.05.21 13:18 autogatos Overwhelmed trying to find the ideal “everything” database. Help!

I have ADHD and have increasingly found that my stress levels and ability to get things done are much better the more I offload stuff from my brain into some sort of digital repository.
I'm an iPad power-user (basically live on this thing) so I've been using the iOS Reminders app for most of this stuff. But while reminders has been great for, well, reminders/tasks, I'm finding I'm increasingly trying to use it for stuff it's not really well-suited for (like making lists of thoughts/info that I want to keep, not check off). I tried using Notes to fill in the gaps, but I just don't find it as pleasant and intuitive to use (reminders feels very structured, and color-coding in the sidebar helps keep me focused/find things). Plus there's stuff neither app does that I'd really like to find a good solution for.
Basically I think what I'm looking for is a personal knowledge/document/data management system. I've looked at a whole bunch and am frankly overwhelmed and struggling to figure out which would be best suited for my needs. Ideally the features I want (if possible to do all this in 1 app) are:
Some stuff that would be nice to have but isn't absolutely required:
I don't need tasks or calendar tools, fine using the iOS apps for those. Also a paid app is something I'm willing to consider if it's good enough. Infinite canvas is also not necessary and may be a detriment as I can easily forget about stuff that's drifted off-screen.
Some of the apps I've looked at are:
Thinking about productivity app experiences I’ve enjoyed, Reminders and Trello come to mind. Plus that drag and drop snippit feature in LiquidText…I guess I like modular stuff? My brain likes stuff to be neatly boxed in a visually clear way.
Sorry I know that was a lot! Thank you to anyone who made it through all that. I welcome your recommendations if there are any apps that do what I'm looking for.
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2024.05.21 13:10 autogatos Solutions for PKM and Drafts alternatives?

I have ADHD and and have increasingly found that my stress levels and ability to get things done are much better the more I offload stuff from my brain into some sort of digital repository.
I'm an iPad power-user (basically live on this thing) so I've been using the iOS Reminders app for most of this stuff. But while reminders has been great for, well, reminders/tasks, I'm finding I'm increasingly trying to use it for stuff it's not really well-suited for (like making lists of thoughts/info that I want to keep, not check off). I tried using Notes to fill in the gaps, but I just don't find it as pleasant and intuitive to use (reminders feels very structured, and color-coding in the sidebar helps keep me focused/find things). Plus there's stuff neither app does that I'd really like to find a good solution for.
Basically I think what I'm looking for is a personal knowledge/document/data management system. I've looked at a whole bunch and am frankly overwhelmed and struggling to figure out which would be best suited for my needs. Ideally the features I want (if possible to do all this in 1 app) are:
Some stuff that would be nice to have but isn't absolutely required:
I don't need tasks or calendar tools, fine using the iOS apps for those. Also a paid app is something I'm willing to consider if it's good enough. Infinite canvas is also not necessary and may be a detriment as I can easily forget about stuff that's drifted off-screen.
Some of the apps I've looked at are:
Sorry I know that was a lot! Thank you to anyone who made it through all that. I welcome your recommendations if there are any apps that do what I'm looking for.
Thinking about productivity app experiences I’ve enjoyed, Reminders and Trello come to mind. Plus that drag and drop snippit feature in LiquidText…I guess I like modular stuff? My brain likes stuff to be neatly boxed in a visually clear way.
Also as a side question: I recently tried Drafts, literally just as a drafts app (for when I'm replying to something and worried about losing my comment, or the web's editor is frustrating to use, like reddit). But is there any way to use rich text in it, or is it markdown only? Is there a similar app as smooth as this for this basic use with basic formatting tools? Just bolding, bulleted lists, stuff like that. I can go back to using Notes for this but just wondering if there's something better.
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2024.05.21 11:31 Toteldejesus How octogenarian Cecile Guidote-Alvarez rushed to the beauty salon to tackle West Philippine Sea

On a rainy Saturday afternoon not so long ago when internet connection was fluctuating in most homes, the 80-year-old Cecile Guidote-Alvarez, widow of the late Senator Heherson Alvarez, carrying a mini iPad, hurriedly alighted from a three-wheeled pedicab Toktok and stormed her way into a popular coffee shop in a mall in Manila.

A senior citizen in panic mode, she told the stunned baristas she’s looking for a Wi-Fi connection because she was about to interview retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio via Zoom.
The coffee shop, a known world brand, has Wi-Fi exclusive to its employees, so the old lady was told to try other establishments. She went from one coffee shop to another only to be told the same, until a kind stranger led her to a well-known beauty salon with a free internet connection.
The lady salon attendant was very accommodating to the octogenarian, even typing the password on her IPad. Of course, she needed to avail herself of their salon services. Initially, she opted for a haircut, but since she needed to talk and hear clearly who she was talking to, she settled for a foot spa with pedicure.
“They lowered the volume of the piped-in music, and since there were less customers because it’s been raining all day, I was able to do my interview,” Guidote-Alvarez said.
For the next half-an-hour, the hair dressers and manicurists working with their scissors, nail clippers and cuticle removers on their customers’ hair and fingernails, listened to Carpio and Guidote-Alvarez discussed how Filipino fishermen and the Philippine Navy ships helplessly negotiate their ways in Scarborough Shoal amid the territorial disputes in the West Philippine Sea.
“They were all very nice to me. I was able to finish my interview, with newly pedicured nails,” she told The Diarist.
For those who’ve worked with Guidote-Alvarez, her steadfast, almost stubborn, nature to accomplish a task, is nothing out of the ordinary. She would improvise, find alternatives, call up friends and former students, wake them up from sleep, just to get things done.
But now, in her 80s, legally blind and nearly deaf, she has mellowed down.
Cecile Alvarez with her mentors, National Artist for Literature Alejandro Roces, Jr and Fr. James Reuter. SJ
In her twilight years, Guidote-Alvarez has been solely hosting the 57-year-old Radyo Balintataw on DZRH, one of the oldest radio stations in the Philippines, where she tackles a wide range of topics, from climate change, women’s health, theater, culture, dance, to current issues, apart from playing old recordings of classic radio plays she produced and directed, dating back to the late ‘80s.
She shared with TheDiarist.ph how she started and continues to host one of the longest running advocacy programs on AM Radio.
Theater on TV
After founding the Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA) on April 7, 1967, or exactly 57 years ago, Guidote-Alvarez thought of the need to expose PETA’s members to television, so she started conceptualizing Balintataw, which in Filipino means the pupil of the eye, but in a larger context has something to do with having wild imagination, or what you might see if you have a third eye.
“I designed Balintataw as a bridge between cinema and the stage, where the youth being trained in theater skills can have a ready-made laboratory experience linked with the film and entertainment industry that would likewise have a natural on-the-job training and orientation regarding the theatrical discipline of working with a literary script, whether dramatic or comic—not the regular improvised script done on taping or copycat scripts from foreign themes,” Guidote-Alvarez wrote in her yet-to-be published Memoir of a Freedom Fighter’s Wife.
“A primary goal when I conceived PETA was to initiate and sustain artistic expression that draws meaning and power from the lives of the people, and sharing the literary gems with a greater number of audiences through a Broadcast Theater-Film Program with Balintataw on Channel 5,” she added.
“No matter how little the pay, at least it provided our local writers with a little honorarium. I sought permission for award-winning pieces of the Palanca Playwriting contest to be fleshed out to reach the masses. The much-awarded playwright Bert Florentino served as our literary manager, assisted by Mauro Avena. Eventually, Isagani Cruz took over when Bert left for the US,” she wrote.
“Writers need exposure and encouragement through a regular TV performance that will give them a sense of achievement and inspire them to keep on writing with some kind of honorarium. I was glad Lupita Aquino (now Kashiwahara) agreed to be TV director and Robert Arevalo as TV host.
She got members of the PETA Kalinangan Ensemble to serve as stage directors. “This is to undertake preliminary preparation with a rehearsal with the actors for character development and memorization and preliminary staging,” she wrote.
Five months after PETA was founded, Balintataw TV premiered on Channel 5 on Aug. 19, 1967, coinciding with the Buwan ng Wika birthdate of President Manuel Luis Quezon.
The first play, whose title escapes her now, featured Armida Siguion-Reyna and Maria Eva “Chingbee” Kalaw. She employed photo journalist and award-winning photographedocumentarist/cinematographer, Romy Vitug, to work with her in filming outdoor scenes for Balintataw.
In the pre-Martial Law Balintataw, among those initiated into television were Lino Brocka, Elwood Perez, Nick Lizaso, Maryo delos Reyes, Mario O’Hara, Joey Gosiengfiao, Behn Cervantes, and Frank Rivera.
Among the stage actors who crossed over to television were Lily Gamboa, Angie Ferro, Lorlie Villanueva, Jonee Gamboa, Joy Soler, Sherry Lara, Gardy Labad, Noel Trinidad.
Like with PETA, Guidote-Alvarez directed and managed Balintataw for five years. Because of Martial Law, she and husband Heherson went on exile in the US to escape a military shoot-to-kill order on Heherson, who was tagged as a subversive.
Post-Martial Law
Internationally acclaimed auteur Lav Diaz mentioned in several interviews how he learned writing radio and TV scripts in Balintataw.
This happened in the late 1980s, when the Alvarez couple returned from exile.
Despite its absence on the air in the Martial Law years, Balintataw was honored by Star Awards as among the 20 unforgettable outstanding broadcast programs in the Philippines.
“This encouraged me to consider reviving Balintataw on TV. Another blessing was a FAMAS award for having an important role in the development of cinema recognizing Balintataw as a bridge for synergizing cinema with the stage, providing a pathway of entry of our PETA artists into film and for movie stars to consider enriching their experience by acting on the legitimate stage,” Guidote-Alvarez wrote.
Though she didn’t return to PETA anymore because it had been surviving well and had its own set of officers led by Brocka, she just tapped some of its members for the return of Balintataw.
For 14 years, the Alvarez couple lived in the US as political exiles, shown here during a Ninoy Aquino Movement meeting. Cecile revived Radyo Balintataw upon their return in the late 1980s.
Channel 4 stint
“I arranged to revive TV Balintataw on Channel 4 in 1989. We began with a drama about a rebel returnee, title escapes me now, but I clearly remember it was written by Lualhati Bautista and directed by Maryo de los Reyes. We also had a good story series on the hazing of Lenny Villa, an Aquila Legis Frat neophyte,” she wrote.
At the time, Heherson had been elected senator after having served as Agrarian Reform Minister and eventually Cabinet Secretary during the first year of the Cory Aquino Administration.
“We were able to unravel the deadly hazing process from a fellow neophyte who broke the code of silence as we revealed graphically, acted the cruel process used. I had Jose Mari Avellana direct it. This presentation won all the awards. Lav Diaz was training with us and he started writing teleplays. We also had Nora Aunor in an adaptation of Bert Florentino’s The World Is An Apple, adapted by Frank Rivera, and I had Nick Lizaso direct.”
Emmy Awards
Balintataw TV was selected as one of five soaps for social change recognized by Emmy Awards. The Philippines was one of five countries cited, with Mexico, India, Brazil and Kenya.
“The nomination was made possible by the wonderful support from David Poindexter. It was a supreme honor for our country to be recognized in the Emmy Awards, to be cited among the five Third World countries using soap opera for social change.”
Poindexter was a Methodist minister and TV producer who founded the Population Communications International.
Surviving on radio
“In spite of the cry about how television can be deadening the minds of the people with copied themes with an eternal favorite love triangle story, there was really no funding for Balintataw,” she wrote.
“Sponsors would go naturally to the commercial stations where big stars were paid highly for the starring role. Balintataw may have substance but we could not afford payment of bankable stars,” she added.
“Financial stress forced me to drop TV and remain on radio because I didn’t want to kill Balintataw per se just because we didn’t have funds.”
Creative classroom
“We have focused on Balintataw as a creative classroom on the air. I was able to talk to Fred J. Elizalde of DZRH and the president of the network, Mr. Jun Nicdao,” she wrote.
In the ‘80s, the HIV/AIDS became a global epidemic and in the Philippines, the general populace was still clueless on how to deal with it.
“In order to get funding, the first series I did was about the explosive news regarding AIDS in Asia. I got the DOH Secretary at the time, Dr. Juan Flavier, to act as himself, providing the data. It was easier to start off with an AIDS radio serial.
They did a minimum of 13 episodes to raise awareness about the disease.
“From then on, some of our television scripts we transformed into a radio version. DZRH provided us with our initial production staff, so we used some from the network and some of its resident artists and drama talents. Our time slots were changing but always coming after the long-running horror drama, Gabi ng Lagim.
“We worked on the themes of overseas workers, the drug problem, corruption, aside from portraying contemporary and literary classics serving as social commentaries,” she wrote.
Women playwrights
“We dramatized the works of noted women writers and playwrights like Estrella Alfon, Genoveva Edroza Matute and Marilou Jacob, who is distinguished in being a founding president of Women’s Playwright International.
“Apart from our PETA staple of writers, we involved young, upcoming and budding university and community theater groups.
“We also had a lot of foreign plays, where we could feature theater festivals beyond borders. We could do Shakespeare, we could do Euripides but also the current playwrights in the Arab region we translated in our language.
“We brought in Chinese contemporary plays, Malaysian, Indonesian and from other women writers from ASEAN member countries.”
Virtual history book
“The significance of Balintataw is portrayed as a virtual history book on audio as it unveiled events in the country. Radio is fresh, instant and up-to date,” she added.
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Balintataw became Guidote-Alvarez’s outlet and therapy. Having lost her husband on the second month of the pandemic, a widow cocooned at home, she began hosting it six days a week, learning how to use an iPad and interviewing via Zoom.
The word “Balintataw” has been associated with her name.
Visual artist and editorial cartoonist Benjie Lontoc in casual meeting told us how in his younger days, when AM Radio was a national past-time, he was surprised to hear a Filipino adaptation of No Exit by Jean Paul-Sarte. This was when radio was airing soap, fantasy adventures targeting housewives and children.
Another was the airing of Larawan as a radio play in the 1990s, with Guidote-Alvarez as the voice of Candida Marasigan.
Leopoldo Salcedo (left) as Manolo in a confrontation scene with Dante Rivero as Tony Javier in PETA’s 1968 ‘Larawan’ directed by Cecile Guidote-Alvarez. (Photo from PETA archives)
In the 1960s, she directed Larawan, the first Filipino adaptation of Joaquin’s A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino for PETA’s second season. It ran from December 1968 to January 1969 at the Raha Sulayman Theater at Fort Santiago in Intramural. In the cast were Rita Gomez (Candida), Lolita Rodriguez (Paula), Leopoldo Salcedo (Don Manolo) and Dante Rivero (Tony Javier).
Guidote-Alvarez has a funny recollection of the radio play. It was Nick Joaquin himself who told her years ago how his pedicurist suddenly started a conversation about Larawan.
Joaquin was relaxing on the barber’s chair having a post-haircut pedicure and foot spa when the lady pedicurist asked him how the story would end. Joaquin was stunned because he didn’t want to be known in the barber shop as Nick Joaquin the famous National Artist for Literature, but just a regular customer.
“He told me he almost fell out from the chair. He was a very private person and the pedicurist recognized him as the playwright,” Guidote-Alvarez, laughing, told TheDiarist.ph.
When she was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, she was given only three years to live. It’s been more than two decades since then. She has also conquered COVID-19 twice.
Over and beyond her work in theater and various advocacies, Guidote-Alvarez is among the few surviving practitioners of AM Radio broadcasting.
The beauty salon incident wasn’t a first for the octogenarian radio host. She occasionally went back there to interview guests and record her shows whenever Wi-Fi connections in her home fluctuated.
Despite all setbacks, man-made or otherwise, the steadfast Cecile Guidote-Alvarez’s voice continues to be heard in this mass media platform in an era that knows mainly Spotify. As Joaquin wrote, “to remember and to sing, that is her vocation.”
(Except Saturday, Radyo Balintataw airs daily on DZRH 666 Khz AM radio after ‘Gabi ng Lagim’, and live streamed on radio.org.ph. Some episodes have been uploaded on YouTube.)
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2024.05.21 09:40 meady0356 They smell floral/sweet, zone 7

They smell floral/sweet, zone 7
I apologize for the terrible pictures , they were (obviously) taken at night. But I found these flowers, and I’ve lived here for 5 years and have never seen them before. The leaves are almost lily pad-like and the stalks were nearly 50 cm tall (roughly 1.5 ft) with flowers that smelt slightly like honey
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2024.05.21 02:18 Worst_Artist The Best SEO Plumber Guide From an Industry Expert

The Best SEO Plumber Guide From an Industry Expert
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Every month “plumbers near me” is searched up to 850,000 times globally.
To thrive, your plumbing business needs to be visible where most potential customers are searching, Google.
This guide will provide you with top Plumber SEO tips to enhance your plumbing business’s online visibility.
First, what is Plumber SEO?
Plumber SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the practice of affecting local search engine rankings for plumbers.
Why You Should Do Plumber SEO
Plumber SEO is crucial because it helps your plumbing service appear in search results when potential customers in your target area look for the services you offer.
A cool 54% of all clicks go to the top three organic search results.
If you’re not effective with SEO you’re invisible organically.
Can You Do Plumber SEO Yourself?
Yes, you can certainly get started with the basics of Plumber SEO, but advanced SEO, with some elements of Technical SEO, may require a specialist.
The most accessible way to stay abreast of updates is through reputable sources like Barry Schwartz and Lily Ray.
Learn useful techniques by following experienced Local SEO professionals like Joy Hawkins and Darren Shaw.

1. Optimize Your Google Business Profile

Google Local Map Pack
To appear in Google’s local search results, including the Map Pack, start with your Google Business Profile (GBP).
Claim and Set Up Your Google Profile. If you’re not on the map already, add your business name and category. Choose a primary category such as “Plumber” and you can add more later for more specific services like Gas Installation Service, Drainage Service, or Bathroom Remodeler.

Complete Your Profile Details

Review Darren Shaw’s Whitespark Local Search Ranking Factors to see how you should prioritize your time.
If you’re here doing pre-research before you even start a plumbing business take advantage of the knowledge that the keywords in your business name and the proximity to the location you want to rank in are top-ranking factors.
Set up your service area and you can choose up to 20 locations, but the guideline is that it must be no longer than a 2-hour drive from where your business is based.

2. Local NAP Citations

Most business directories list your business name, address, and phone number. These listings are known as NAP citations.

Local Data Aggregators

You can either use a data aggregator service like Data Axle and Foursquare to list you on multiple directories.
There’s also Whitespark who offer customizable citations and connections to large data aggregators.

Get Listed with Free Local Directories

You can also take care of some of the free ones first.
Once you’re verified for Google Business Profile you can import your business onto Bing as well with a few clicks.
Don’t forget to get listed on Yelp as well since Apple Map searches rely on data from Yelp. Facebook, X (Formerly Twitter), LinkedIn Business and Instagram also allow you to put your address.
YellowPages, Better Business Bureau, Nextdoor and Manta are some free ones to get listed on as well.

Paid Plumber Directories

Consider paid services for citations such as Angi’s List, HomeAdvisor, and your local Chamber of Commerce.

Put Your Address on Your Site

Place your address at the bottom of your footer exactly how it’s shown on Google and embed the map to help customers easily access leaving you a review.

3. Boost Your Reviews

Reviews not only enhance your credibility but also improve your SEO rankings. Here are some effective ways to gather more reviews:
  • Use Google’s Business Profile Manager to manage and respond to reviews.
  • Get a QR Code that uses a link from GBP to request a review and a Business Card or Fridge Magnet to leave for customers with your website on it.
  • Follow-Up Contact Requesting Feedback.
  • Email Signature with your website link and a link to leave a review.

4. Keyword Research

Understanding what potential customers search for helps tailor your website content to meet their needs. Effective keyword research is the foundation of successful SEO.

List Your Services

Start by making a comprehensive list of all the plumbing services you offer. Think about every specific service you provide, no matter how niche.
A detailed list might include: Drain unblocking, Burst pipe repair, Drain Cleaning, Toilet installation, Water heater repair, Sewer line inspection and repair.

Use Keyword Tools

Once you have your list of services, the next step is to use keyword research tools to find relevant keywords that potential customers are searching for.
Google Keyword Planner
Google Keyword Planner
Google’s Keyword Planner is an ultimate keyword research tool that’s free and can help you find keywords, helpful insights, and discover new keywords.

Enter Your Services

Discover New Keywords Google Keyword Planner
Input the list of services you created into the tool. For example, if you offer “drain cleaning” enter this term into the Keyword Planner Discover New Keywords followed by your target city.

Analyze Keyword Suggestions

The tool will generate a list of related keywords, showing their search volumes and competition levels. Look for keywords with a high search volume and low to medium competition. These are the sweet spots that can drive significant traffic to your site.

Include Local Geographic Modifiers

Add local modifiers to your keywords to target searches in your service area. For example, “drain cleaning near me” or “emergency plumber [your city].” This helps attract customers who are looking for services in specific locations.
Now I’ve found a low competition keyword that’s a longtail keyword (keyword phrase with 3+ words) “24 hour emergency plumber Atlanta”.
Check out Keyword Surfer from Matt Diggity to get even more keyword data for free. You can also see the estimated monthly traffic a website domain gets.

5. Website Content & Optimization

Plumber Website Example

Create Service Specific Pages

By creating dedicated, optimized pages for each service, you can attract more targeted traffic and convert visitors into customers. These pages not only improve your SEO but also provide valuable information to potential clients, helping them choose your services with confidence.

Unique Selling Points

Highlight what makes your service unique. This could be your experience, certifications, special equipment, or customer satisfaction guarantees.
Include positive reviews and testimonials from satisfied customers. This builds trust and credibility with potential clients.

Contact Page

Make it easy for visitors to get in touch with you. Throughout your site link to a contact page. Provide your phone number, email address, and a web form for inquiries with your address shown and your service area. Including a call-to-action (CTA) encourages potential customers to take the next step.

Craft Compelling Content

Each service page should clearly describe the service, its benefits, and why customers should choose you. Include certifications, unique selling points, and customer testimonials to build trust.
Create engaging and informative content such as blog posts, FAQs, and plumbing tips to attract and retain visitors. Demonstrate your expertise and authority with pictures from job sites and speak from first-hand knowledge.

6. Build a Strong Link Profile

Guest blogging and engaging in community participation are free ways to build high-quality backlinks and establish your authority in the plumbing industry.

Identify Target Blogs

Find blogs in the plumbing, home improvement, and DIY niches that accept guest posts. Look for blogs with a good reputation and engaged audiences. Use search queries like “plumbing blogs accepting guest posts” or “home improvement write for us.”
Reach out to the blog owners with well-crafted pitches. Propose topics that are relevant to their audience and showcase your expertise. Ensure your pitch is concise and highlights the value you can provide to their readers.
Write well-researched, informative, and engaging articles. Focus on providing valuable insights and practical advice. Include relevant keywords naturally and ensure the content aligns with the blog’s style and tone.
In your author bio, include a brief description of yourself and your plumbing business, along with a link back to your website. Some blogs may also allow you to include a link within the content itself. Ensure these links are relevant and add value to the article.

Join Relevant Communities

Participate in forums and online communities related to plumbing, home improvement, and DIY. Websites like Reddit, Quora, and specialized plumbing forums like PlumbingForums.com are great places to start.
Offer helpful and knowledgeable answers to questions. Avoid blatant self-promotion and focus on providing genuine value. Share your expertise and build a reputation as a helpful professional.

HARO (Help A Reporter Out)

HARO connects sources with journalists looking for expert quotes. This can lead to high-quality backlinks from reputable sites.
Sign up for a free HARO account as a source. You will receive daily emails with journalist requests categorized by industry. Plumbing-related requests might fall under Home & Garden.
Monitor the HARO emails for requests related to plumbing, home maintenance, or small business operations. Respond promptly with concise, informative answers. Highlight your expertise and provide useful insights.
When responding, be detailed and professional. Include your full name, title, business name, and a link to your website. Journalists are more likely to use your quotes if they are well-articulated and relevant to their article.

Replicate Competitors’ Links

Analyzing your competitors’ backlinks can help you discover new link-building opportunities.
Identify your top competitors by searching for your target keywords in Google. Note the websites that consistently appear at the top of the search results.
Use tools like SEMrush or SpyFu to analyze your competitors’ backlink profiles. Enter their domain into the tool to see a list of websites linking to them.
Assess the quality of these backlinks by looking at metrics like organic traffic. Focus on high-quality backlinks from reputable sites.
Look for backlinks that you can replicate. These might include mentions in articles. Reach out to these websites with a similar pitch to get your site linked as well.

Reclaim Lost Links

Reclaiming lost links involves identifying and fixing broken or redirected links pointing to your site.
Use tools like Ahrefs or Google Search Console to identify broken links pointing to your website. These tools can help you find 404 errors and other issues.
Identify links that are redirected to other pages or domains. Ensure that the redirects are still relevant and pointing to the correct pages.
Reach out to the webmasters of the sites linking to your broken URLs. Politely ask them to update the link to the correct page. Provide the exact URL to make it easier for them.
If you have moved content to a new URL, set up 301 redirects from the old URLs to the new ones. This ensures that any backlinks pointing to the old URL still pass on link equity to the new page.

7. Technical SEO & Website Performance

Technical SEO ensures that search engines can find, understand, and index your pages.

Plan Your Site Structure

Plumber SEO Site Structure Example
A well-organized site structure helps visitors navigate your website and allows Google to find all your pages.

Internal Links

Include relevant internal links (links on one page to another on your site) throughout pages to help users easily navigate to important pages.

Concise URL-friendly Slug

SEO Unfriendly URL Slug Example
When making slugs for URLs (characters at the end of the URL, shown above) make sure they’re short and to the point. It’s recommended to be under 70 characters total, that’s including the entire URL. However, it’s important to note that Google is known to truncate URLs depending on devices.
For instance, notice the cut-offs in the below image.
SEO Unfriendly URL Slug Example
With Yoast or Rankmath you’ll be able to see how your page will appear in SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages).

Write Compelling Titles

Your titles should be engaging and accurately describe the content. Use power words and numbers to make your titles more compelling. For example, “10 Easy Tips for Fixing a Leaky Faucet” or “How to Unclog Any Drain in 5 Simple Steps.”
Aim to keep your titles 50 to 55 characters (580px length to be exact, which free meta length checkers can help you with) to ensure they are fully displayed in SERPs and not cut off.
For a blog post on drain cleaning, a compelling title could be: “How to Clean a Clogged Drain: 7 Effective Methods”
Google is known to automatically change the title of your page in search results if it doesn’t match relevance. Follow best title practices to influence the result.

Keep the Meta Descriptions Concise

Clearly summarize what the page is about. Include the most important points that users should know before clicking. For a drain cleaning service page, you might write: “Get expert drain cleaning services in [City]. Our plumbers are available 24/7 to handle any blockage. Call [number] for a free quote.”
Try to keep your meta descriptions concise and within the 160-character limit (920 pixels to be precise) to ensure the full text is visible.
Include your phone number in the meta description as this is clickable on mobile.

Use Clear Headings and Subheadings

Heading Tag Structure Example
Organize your content with clear headings (H1, H2, H3) and subheadings. This not only improves readability but also helps search engines understand the structure of your content.
Break down information into bullet points and numbered lists where appropriate. This makes your content more scannable and user-friendly.

Key Pages to Make

Home Page, About Us, Contact Us
Service Pages
Service Locations (Be careful on this one and follow Google’s guidelines on Doorways)
Service Location City Page
Blogs for Informational Articles and How-To’s

Create and Upload Your Sitemap

Install a Plugin like Yoast or Rankmath to give you some useful SEO tools and create a sitemap to submit to Google and Bing.

Use HTTPS

HTTPS is a secure way for visitors to access web pages. Check if your website uses HTTPS by looking for a lock icon in the browser’s search bar.

Monitor Your SEO Health

Regularly monitor your website’s SEO health using tools like Google Search Console. These tools can help you identify and fix common SEO issues. Key metrics to track include organic traffic, keyword performance, and site health score.

Responsive Design

Responsive design refers to a web design approach that makes web pages render well on a variety of devices and window or screen sizes. It ensures that your website looks and functions correctly on desktops, tablets, and smartphones.

Optimize Images

Large images can slow down your website, leading to a poor user experience, especially on mobile devices with slower internet connections. Optimizing images ensures faster loading times, which can improve both user experience and SEO.
Use a site like TinyJPG to compress images for free.

Simple Layout

A simple, uncluttered layout improves user experience by making it easier for visitors to navigate your site and find the information they need. It also ensures that your site loads faster, as there are fewer elements to load. You can find highly optimized plumber templates that you can use with WordPress.

Click-to-Call Buttons

Click-to-call buttons are crucial for mobile users, allowing them to contact your business with a single tap. This convenience can increase conversion rates and improve customer satisfaction.

Advanced Technical SEO

If you’re savvy on the technical side you can use free diagnostic tools like webpagetest and Google’s PageSpeed Insights to get more details on how to improve your loading speed and other technical optimizations.
Another step is installing and configuring a free caching plugin like WP Super Cache.

Breadcrumbs

You can use breadcrumbs to help Google understand the hierarchy of your site and may help users on their journey through your site.

Local SEO Schema

Add Plumber schema to important pages like the home page, contact, and service pages. You can use Schemantra to create the code to place on your site for free.

8. SEO Content Marketing

Creating valuable content can attract traffic and customers from organic search.

Topic Keyword Research

Finding the right topics to write about is crucial for attracting organic traffic.
Begin with broad keywords related to plumbing, such as “leak repair,” “drain cleaning,” or “water heater maintenance.” Enter these into keyword research tools like Ahrefs Keywords Explorer, Google Keyword Planner, or SEMrush.
Use these tools to find related keywords and phrases that people are searching for. Look for questions and long-tail keywords (phrases with three or more words) that indicate specific user intents.
Instead of just “drain cleaning,” look for “how to clean a clogged drain” or “best drain cleaning services in [city].”
Evaluate the search volume and competition level for each keyword. Ideally, seek keywords with high search volume but low to medium competition. This increases the chances of ranking well without facing too much competition.
When reviewing these keywords go after transactional keywords as these will typically bring you more conversions. “Emergency plumber near me” is a transactional keyword because it has a higher likelihood of the potential customer seeking service. Compare this to an information keyword such as, “What’s the history of plumbing?”.
Analyze the search engine results pages (SERPs) for your target keywords to see what type of content is ranking.
Look for featured snippets, people also ask boxes, and top-ranking articles to understand the type of content Google favors. Keep in mind that when using standard browser settings you’ll see personalized results.
You can use tools like AnswerThePublic for free to find more of what people are asking about a given topic.

For Blogs Use Questions and Informational Keywords

Blogs focus on questions and informational keywords, such as “how-to” guides, tutorials, and tips. Good content written on this tends to attract more engagement and backlinks.

Publish Optimized Blog Posts

Analyze the top-ranking pages for your target keywords to understand the user intent behind the searches. Are people looking for how-to guides, detailed articles, or quick answers? Align your content with what users intend to find.
Ensure your content fully addresses the search query. If users are looking for a guide on fixing a leaky faucet, provide a step-by-step tutorial with images, videos, and troubleshooting tips.
Include Images and Videos
Use relevant images, infographics, and videos to enhance your content. Visual elements can help explain complex topics and keep readers engaged.
Having an embedded YouTube video with a person speaking on the topic or pointing out common plumbing parts can set you apart from many competitors.

9. Promote Your Content

Share your blog posts on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram. Tailor your posts to each platform’s audience and use engaging visuals and descriptions to attract attention.
Participate in relevant Facebook groups, LinkedIn groups, and online communities related to plumbing and home improvement. Share your content when appropriate if it adds value to the discussion.

10. Tracking SEO Progress

Tracking your SEO efforts is essential to understanding what’s working and what needs improvement.

Google Business Profile Performance

Monitoring your Google Business Profile (GBP) performance is crucial for understanding how well your business is performing in local search results.

Check Profile Performance

Log into your Google account and search for your business name. This should bring up your Google Business Profile. Click on the “See profile performance” button to access detailed metrics about how your profile is performing.

GBP Metrics

Views: The number of times your business profile has been viewed. This gives you an idea of how visible your business is in local searches.
Search Queries: The specific queries that led users to your business profile. This helps you understand what terms potential customers are using to find your business.
Customer Actions: This includes actions like visits to your website, requests for directions, calls to your business, and bookings. Tracking these actions helps you understand how effective your profile is at converting views into interactions.
Photo Views: The number of times your business photos have been viewed. High-quality photos can attract more attention and engagement.

Search Console Metrics

This report provides an overview of your site’s performance in Google Search.
Total Clicks: The number of times users clicked on your site in search results.
Total Impressions: The number of times your site appeared in search results.
Average Click-Through Rate (CTR): The ratio of clicks to impressions, showing how effective your site is at attracting clicks.
Average Position: Your site’s average ranking position for the tracked queries.
Search Queries: This section shows the specific queries that users are entering to find your site. Analyze which keywords are driving the most traffic and consider creating more content around those terms.
Pages: Identify which pages on your site are performing best in search. This can help you understand what type of content resonates most with your audience.
Devices: Understand how users are accessing your site (desktop, mobile, tablet). This helps you ensure your site is optimized for all devices, most importantly mobile.

Optimize Based on Insights

Use the data from GSC to optimize your site’s SEO strategy. If you notice that certain pages have a high number of impressions but a low CTR, consider updating the meta descriptions and title tags to be more compelling.
If specific keywords are performing well, create supplemental content around those topics to capture additional traffic.
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2024.05.21 01:50 General-Election-331 Electronic Bank Payments does the standard version work with Chase Business Banking file uploads?? Or is it time to pay...

Just moving over to Chase from Citizens Bank - largely because of the robust business (not commercial) banking platform. Wires, ACH, etc.
We were excited to stop printing checks and upload NACHA files a few times a month.
We've got everything set up using ACH - CCD/PPD - but seem to need to have the "COMPANY DISCRETIONARY DATA" field included in each batch header....and it is not with the "standard" template.
I manually zero-padded and added it to the txt file and it was accepted.
Are we really looking at "advanced" payments (and the payment!) to make it work??
This should be such a standardized thing in 2024 - no??!!
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2024.05.21 01:31 memolazer Any expert who can create an M4L device to upload a simple JPG image for inspiration. (Let me know @memolazer)

Any expert who can create an M4L device to upload a simple JPG image for inspiration. (Let me know @memolazer) submitted by memolazer to ableton [link] [comments]

2024.05.21 01:10 PracticalAd3621 the pond currently

the pond currently
lily pads haven’t come up yet but they’re on the way!! i’ll update more when plants come in for the season!
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2024.05.20 22:09 Vinc_Birston The end of the celtic vs roman saga

The end of the celtic vs roman saga
Shout out to lil_crumbs (Luna's/Selene's Lucid Puppet) and .lily_kuroki (Lily (trans, gay and silly :3)) for helping find the template :33
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2024.05.20 19:20 natalie2647 Any idea what’s happening to this plant?

Any idea what’s happening to this plant?
I got this plant a little over 3 months ago and it was doing great for a while. I believe it’s some kind of lily pad? When it was healthy they’d float on the surface. Now, anytime it sends out new leaves, it looks healthy until it starts getting these thin patches and holes. Parameters look fine and lighting and filtration are the same as they’ve always been. Any ideas?
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2024.05.20 19:13 wootwootkabloof Removable padded hip belts vs. Sewn-in: How does their performance compare? (in your personal experience)

Removable padded hip belts are a popular way to carry heavier loads with a no hip belt pack. They add modularity while offering the comforts of a sewn-in hip belt. They are an excellent choice for people who need a modular system, but people who know they need a hip belt may be considering whether to get a removable or sewn-in hip belt. As a matter of due diligence, we should explore the question:
Do removable padded hip belts perform at the same level as sewn-in padded hip belts? Or does the flexibility of the attachment point impact the way the pack carries? Does the type of attachment point matter?
If you have tried both, how do the experiences compare? Is there any difference in comfort, load-transfer, stability, or functionality? If there is a reduction or increase in performance, to what degree?
Any experience you have, even if you feel it to be atypical, will be helpful in building an overall picture. Even if your sewn-in padded hip belt pack was old and heavy, you can still use it as a basis for comparison.
**********TEMPLATE********** Removable hip belt: Brand/model Attachment type: 1” (2.5cm) webbing clips, thick velcro, etc. Used with: Pack brand/model Pack type: Framed/frameless Notes:
Sewn-in hip belt: Pack brand/model Pack type: Framed/frameless Notes:
Comparison: Your hip belts and pack may have many different variables that make direct comparison difficult, but your observations here are still very useful! **********END TEMPLATE**********
I am asking this question because my ideal pack is frameless, less than 20oz(567g), less than 40L, but also has a padded hip belt. A lot of packs in this range are no hip belt, but provide attachment options for a removable padded hip belt. If removable padded hip belts are just as good as sewn-in, then I have many options for packs. But if sewn-in hip belts perform better, then I only have a few standard options, or could request a custom pack. Of course, anyone who prioritizes modularity will get a removable hip belt regardless.
My instinct is that there is a sliding scale for performance, based on how robust the attachment system is. Some belts with a thick rigid attachment that wraps fully around the waist may perform just like a sewn-in. And a removable hip belt with a narrow webbing clip attachment may feel looser.
NOT interested in: discussion about pack recommendations, webbing hip belts, or the no hip belt life. These are all great topics, but outside the scope of this post.
Examples of removable padded hip belts:
Universal attachment systems: LiteAF (1”/2.5cm webbing clip) 2oz/57g Dandee Packs (1”/2.5cm webbing clip) 2.5oz/71g ULA (1”/2.5cm webbing clip) 2.5oz/71g Bonfus (1”/2.5cm webbing clip) 2.8oz/80g Nashville Pack (1”/2.5cm webbing clip) 4.8oz/136g Hyperlite Mountain Gear (1”/2.5cm webbing clip) 4.8oz/136g
Specific pack systems: Atom Packs (1”/2.5cm webbing clip, wrap around waist) 3.5oz/100g
Specific pack systems that are so robust they’re probably the same as sewn-in, but still removable: Zpacks Arc Series (Proprietary attachment system) ULA Photon (Proprietary attachment system) SWD Movement (Proprietary attachment system) Gossamer Gear Gorilla (Proprietary PVT frame and belt system)
Examples of sewn-in padded hip belt packs:
Mountain Laurel Designs KS Ultralight Durston Gear Wapta Hyperlite Mountain Gear
EDIT: Added Zpacks Arc series and Durston Wapta to examples, added back sewn-in examples after accidentally deleting them
CONSENSUS EDIT: From responses, it looks like the removable hip belts with more robust attachment points function similarly to sewn-in. Or at least, good enough for most carries. If you push any bag to much heavier loads than advertised, there will be some collapse of support. However, the jury is still out on the more minimal 1" webbing clip style attachments that are commonly found on ultralight frameless no hip belt packs. Hopefully someone with trail experience with these types of packs will have some data!
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2024.05.20 16:53 SannyManny frogging rod/reel that can be adequate for punching?

I've been fishing for years from a kayak but recently got a proper bass boat. I have one baitcasting setup (Dobyns FR703C with a Tatula CT reel) that I use for most fishing but I want to try my hand at doing some frog fishing and punching at one of the lakes I fish with pretty heavy grass and lily pads.
Not looking to spend a ton...hopefully around $200 range on a setup for this purpose. I've never fished frogs or punched heavy cover before so I'd rather see how I do first before upgrading to a better outfit down the road or getting rods/reels for each separate technique.
Any recommendations would be appreciated.
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2024.05.20 16:35 CommercialBee6585 Reborn as a Fantasy General (Army-Building Isekai) Chapter 47

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In the dreary depths of Fleapit’s dungeons, a single Yokun waited for death.
The rusted pinnacles that dug into her wrists and legs cut her flesh with every move she made to free herself. She’d learned, moments upon being interred within the sandstone walls of this tomb packed with dirt, that attempting escape through conventional means would be useless to her here. These vermin were thorough in the indignities they visited upon the other races. She had known that since she was a hatchling.
Her eyes flickered up during regular intervals at the guards during their shift changes, noting every small movement of each rodent that came to keep her caged. She committed the minute gyrations of their tiny limbs to her mind – gaining knowledge that would normally take a human of Marxon’s breed months of training and observation to pin down.
Such was the gift of her kind: memory, and longevity. They had whole centuries to measure the successes of their plots and campaigns, lifetimes to hone their skills with their blades.
And it had only taking Yeeva of the House of Whispers a few dull hours to plot her revenge.
Her kind were not as dull as the greybearded dwarves whose petty tribalistic squabbles reigned for longer than any of their Kings did. For a Yokun like her, blessed by the Silent Matriarchs, whose blood ran colder than even the most sinister predators of Thea’s jungles, revenge was a matter of swiftly executed cause and effect.
The rat that killed her sisters, and the human that was to be their new God – she would have their heads. Damned be the orders of the Pale One! None of them would leave this nocturnal realm alive.
Yeeva was roused from her comforting thoughts of bloody murder by a door opening at the end of the dungeon stairwell. Light – candlelight – beamed its dim luminescence into the normally pitch-black prison ward and threw itself across the bars of her cell.
She strained her eyes to see the new arrivals to this den of debasement. One of them seemed rather tall for a rat.
“Give us the room.”
Some hesitation from the guards meets this command. But then the second figure twitches slightly, perhaps in threat, and the ratmen assigned to watch over her prison march away, twisted tails between their legs.
She was alone with these two new figures, and as the candlelight held by the little one drew closer, she finally saw the face of the man who pulled up a dingy stool and sat across from her.
The Shai-Alud. The one the Lady called ‘Marcus.’
“I hope they aren’t treating you too poorly,” he said.
She bared her teeth, but she said nothing. The other rat with him she didn’t recognize. But she could smell the musky scent of his kind’s vile magic on him. It made her stomach crawl. The pathetic tricks of ones like this had felled her sisters. It seemed ratman incantations were far more potent than her kind gave them credit for.
“Yes,” Marcus continued after a time. “You know, our King – Shrykul – was planning your execution mere moments ago on the advice of one of our most esteemed commanders. I believe he said something about scooping out your entrails and tying them round your neck, forcing you to march around the city as your life slowly expired. I’m no expert on magic, but my Gloomraava Deekius here tells me such a method of execution is quite popular round these parts.”
Yeeva watched the furrowed lips of the little hooded ratman upturn into a vicious smile. But she did not show fear. The first code of the House of Whispers was inked into her soul: never let the enemy see you bleed.
“Your execution means nothing.”
“Indeed?” Marcus asked. “Then what I am about to tell you may mean less than nothing to you, but I have halted the proceedings. You won’t die today, Yokun.”
She raised an inquisitive eyebrow, momentarily forgetting herself. Was the human’s statement true? It had to be. She could detect no fluctuations in his bloodflow, no twitches or twinges in his facial features that might reveal this to be a deception.
But she sat deathly still. She said nothing.
“The problem though,” Marcus continued in the face of her silence. “Is that you and your team killed a lot of rats down here. Not to mention a high-born commander of one of our armies. That means there’s plenty of rats out there baying for your blood, and I don’t think I can keep them away from you forever.”
Yeeva sat back and let herself smile. The human had no idea what he was dealing with. In spite of her teachings, she decided to satisfy her own desires and tell him exactly what it was he was speaking to.
“You know nothing, do you, monkey?” she snarled. “I am a blade of the House of Whispers – a Yokun honor-bound since birth to serve a single purpose. My entire life is lived in service to my Matriarchs, and to them is my body and soul are committed entirely. You think I fear death? You think your threats of rodent retribution mean anything to me? We of the Whispers learned how to die a long time ago. When our Calling comes we are always ready. So let them take me, human slave to the dark, and spare me the incessant yapping of your toothless gums.”
The rat beside the human grew antsy, knocking his staff against the cage as though he were about to fly into a rage. But the human held up his hand, chuckling to himself.
“Eloquent for an assassin,” he said. “You remind me so much of her.”
The way he said those final words struck something in Yeeva’s cold breast. He said them with fondness. Almost with…love?
“Leave us,” he suddenly told his companion.
He sat forward, sighed, and fixed Yeeva with what she now saw were a pair of tired, bruised eyes. Only when his priest had closed shut the door behind him did he deign to say another word.
“I understand how someone in your line of work thinks better than you might believe,” he said. “You probably see me as nothing more than a marked man who’s living on borrowed time down here. Further, you don’t care if you live or die. I’d wager, in fact, that because you and your ‘Sisters’ failed to extract me you consider yourself already dead. Your people probably think the same. So, I doubt they will send any help for you.”
Yeeva did not give him the satisfaction of bowing her head in acknowledgement of these facts.
“But I’d also wager that you care about your Matriarchs,” he continued after wiping his glasses on his sleeve. “Especially your ‘Pale Lady’. Maria.”
She stiffened. He saw it, and she cursed herself.
“Do not say her name, monkey. Your lips are undeserving.”
“I don’t disagree with you!” the human replied, finding this statement funny. “But your lady happens to quite like these lips.”
“You now blaspheme before me?” Yeeva suddenly shrieked. “Do not speak to me of the Lady. What she desires from you is of no concern of mine. I had a duty. I failed. And now I am to rot or die. Get it over with before I break these chains and strangle you.”
Between the pair of them, a drop of water somewhere nearby was the only sound that reigned for a few unbroken moments. But the stare of the human never dropped from Yeeva’s gaze.
“Yeeva,” he said. “Your Lady – Maria – I must know if she is like me. Is she human? Did she come from this ‘Place Beyond’? Are her eyes the color of lily-pads? And…is she ok?”
The snake reeled back, sighing deeply into her wall of her cage.
“…what she sees in you,” she said. “I shall never know.”
“So it is her!” the human practically jumped. “She’s here, isn’t she? She’s alive, and she’s been working with you. That’s why she sent you to me, isn’t it? I just wonder…how does she know I’m here? And what does she want? Why send a pack of assassins at all – if she had just sent me a letter, just asked me to come up to join her…”
“Because your ratmen need to die,” Yeeva spat. “This whole ‘Underkingdom’ shall die. And tonight was only the beginning.”
She was breaking her oaths – she knew it. But she also knew that watching the boyish smile fade from the human’s face was giving her more pleasure than she’d had in weeks.
“Yeeva,” he said. “I need you to tell me everything. I need to know what’s happening to Maria up there. If you cooperate, I have the authority to orchestrate your safe return to your people. I need you to take a message to your Lady. I need you to tell her that I have found a way home. Tell her that-“
Yeeva spat a chunk of green slime at the Marcus’s face, cutting him off entirely.
“’Home?!’” she cackled. “Lady Maria does not want your ‘home’. She came to us when we needed her, and here she has chosen to stay.”
“…What?”
The human trailed off, and Yeeva decided she was done with this trivial conversation.
“Enough,” she snarled. “Put me to the sword or parade me before your filth-ridden ‘city’. But I will give you nothing, human. I came here to do the bidding of my Lady and to get the measure of you as I did so. Now that I have seen who you are, I am unimpressed. The Pale Matriarch was wrong. You are nothing.”
The human held her gaze for a time before slowly rising with a weary sigh. He crossed his hands behind his back, and then turned away as he delivered his final proclamation to the prisoner who was now, ultimately his.
“You aren’t going to die today,” he said again. “Because your life now belongs to me. See, I went through a lot of trouble to keep you alive and learn your secrets. And I’m afraid that, if you won’t tell me what you know, you’ll be dying for a very very long time.”
Yeeva watched as the candlelight faded away. The door opened, and the Shai-Alud addressed the ratman who had been waiting there, patiently, for the human to return.
But he had brought something with him.
And Yeeva, for the first time in her life, felt her cold heart shrink at the words they shared:
“I must ask too much of you once again, Deekius.”
Yeeva heard the snapping of pliers. The ratting of more chains. And at least a dozen other objects that clattered against the floor. Sharp objects.
“Believe me,” the little rat replied. “This is being a pleasure, Sire.”
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2024.05.20 15:14 Dal1971 Colors on cards does not update

Colors on cards does not update
Hi.
I have created some bubble card (thanks btw), but the colors in the cards does not change until I leave the dashboard and enter it again.
I don't know if it's my installation, or bubble card in general.
https://preview.redd.it/s1xi59dvyk1d1.png?width=542&format=png&auto=webp&s=6499e42becdf71e93f7d3e10d1cef5fe03314754
This is after I turn the light on. If I close the popup / dashboard, it looks like this, as it should
https://preview.redd.it/9q5al8dzyk1d1.png?width=534&format=png&auto=webp&s=ea03fa4d3e3adc50b905277c2f7db2555182d53d
Same goes when turning it off.
Code:
type: custom:bubble-card
card_type: button
button_type: slider
entity: light.kontor_taklys_hl
styles: ''
card_layout: large-2-rows
Not sure if it's a bubble card error, though.
I also have this card:
https://preview.redd.it/50np2tfezk1d1.png?width=260&format=png&auto=webp&s=afa9f2e305e394f6df5472d02be8c01e6c45a7ae
This is turned on. If I close the dashboard:
This is how it should look
This is a custom-button-card, and not a bubble-card:
type: custom:button-card
name: Lightstrip
label: Datakrok
show_label: true
show_state: true
entity: light.datakrok
tap_action:
action: toggle
state:
  • value: 'on'
styles:
card:
  • background: >-
linear-gradient(50deg, rgba(241,201,59,0.8) 30%,
rgba(250,227,146,0.8) 100%);
  • value: 'off'
styles:
card:
  • background: null
styles:
grid:
  • grid-template-areas: '"i" "n" "l"'
  • grid-template-rows: 1fr min-content min-content
  • grid-template-columns: 1fr
    icon:
  • width: 24px
  • color: black
    img_cell:
  • justify-self: end
  • width: 30px
  • height: 30px
    name:
  • justify-self: start
  • font-size: 18px
  • line-height: 40px
  • font-weight: 600
    label:
  • justify-self: start
  • font-size: 14px
  • font-weight: 500
    card:
  • padding: 18px
  • height: 90px
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2024.05.20 15:02 AutoModerator What Car Should I Buy? - A Weekly Megathread

Any posts pertaining to car buying suggestions or advice belong in this weekly megathread; do not post car-choosing questions in the main queue. A fresh thread will be posted every Monday and posts auto sorted by new. A few other subreddits worth checking out that will help your car buying experience are /WhatCarShouldIBuy, /UsedCars and /AskCarSales. www.everydaydriver.com may also be helpful.
Make/Model-specific questions should be asked on Make/Model-specific subreddits. Check the AutosNetwork for a complete list of those subreddits. Also check out our community-sourced Ultimate car buying wiki.
For those posting:
Please use the following template in your post.
Location: (Specify your country or region)
Price range: (Minimum-Maximum in your local currency)
Lease or Buy:
New or used:
Type of vehicle: (Truck, Car, Sports Car, Sedan, Crossover, SUV, Racecar, Luxury etc.)
Must haves: (4x4, AWD, Fuel efficient, Navigation, Turbo, V8, V6, Trunk space, Smooth ride, Leather etc.)
Desired transmission (auto/manual, etc):
Intended use: (Daily Driver, Family Car, Weekend Car, Track Toy, Project Car, Work Truck, Off-roading etc.)
Vehicles you've already considered:
Is this your 1st vehicle:
Do you need a Warranty:
Can you do Minor work on your own vehicle: (fluids, alternator, battery, brake pads etc)
Can you do Major work on your own vehicle: (engine and transmission, timing belt/chains, body work, suspension etc )
Additional Notes:
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For those providing suggestions: Facts are ideal in this thread, especially when trying to help out a new car buyer. Please help out buyers with sources and reasoning for your suggestions.
For those asking for help, be sure to thank those who take the time to offer you advice (especially those who lead you to a purchase.) A follow up thank you and the knowledge that their advice led to a purchase is a very warm fuzzy feeling.
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