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Bifunctional "crosslinking" reagents contain two reactive groups, thereby providing a means of covalently linking two target groups. The reactive groups in a chemical crosslinking reagent (Chemical Crosslinking Reagents—Section 5.2) typically belong to the classes of functional groups—including succinimidyl esters, maleimides and iodoacetamides—described in Fluorophores and Their Amine-Reactive Derivatives—Chapter 1 and Thiol-Reactive Probes—Chapter 2.
In contrast, one of the reactive groups in each of our photoreactive crosslinking reagents (Photoactivatable Reagents, Including Photoreactive Crosslinkers and Caged Probes—Section 5.3) requires light activation before reacting with a target group. Crosslinking of a biopolymer (such as an antibody, enzyme, avidin or nucleic acid) to a low molecular weight molecule (such as a drug, toxin, peptide or oligonucleotide) or to another biopolymer yields a stable heteroconjugate. This bioconjugate can serve as a detection reagent in a wide variety of research and diagnostic assays or as an immunogen designed to elicit antibody production. Crosslinking reagents are also useful for probing the spatial relationships and interactions within and between biomolecules.
In homobifunctional crosslinking reagents (Chemical Crosslinking Reagents—Section 5.2), the reactive groups are identical. These reagents couple like functional groups—typically two thiols, two amines, two acids or two alcohols—and are predominantly used to form intramolecular crosslinks or to prepare polymers from monomers. When used to conjugate two different biomolecules, for example an enzyme to an antibody, these relatively nonspecific reagents tend to yield high molecular weight aggregates.
In heterobifunctional crosslinking reagents (Chemical Crosslinking Reagents—Section 5.2, Molecular Probes heterobifunctional crosslinkers—Table 5.1), the reactive groups have dissimilar chemistry, allowing the formation of crosslinks between unlike functional groups (Figure 5.1.1). As with homobifunctional crosslinking reagents, heterobifunctional crosslinking reagents can still form multiple intermolecular crosslinks to yield high molecular weight aggregates, but conjugations that use these reagents can be more easily controlled so as to optimize the stoichiometry of the target molecules. Thus, heterobifunctional crosslinking reagents are very useful for preparing conjugates between two different biomolecules.
The photoreactive crosslinking reagents (Photoactivatable Reagents, Including Photoreactive Crosslinkers and Caged Probes—Section 5.3) are a special subset of the heterobifunctional crosslinking reagents. Upon UV illumination, these reagents react with nucleophiles or form C–H insertion products (Figure 5.1.2, Figure 5.1.3, Figure 5.1.4).
An additional variation is the "zero-length" crosslinking reagent—a reagent that forms a chemical bond between two groups without itself being incorporated into the product (Figure 5.1.5). The water-soluble carbodiimide EDAC (E2247, Chemical Crosslinking Reagents—Section 5.2), which is used to couple carboxylic acids to amines, is an example of a zero-length crosslinking reagent.
A noncovalent interaction between two molecules that has very slow dissociation kinetics can also function as a crosslink. For example, reactive derivatives of phospholipids can be used to link the liposomes or cell membranes in which they are incorporated to antibodies or enzymes. Biotinylation and haptenylation reagents (Biotin and Hapten Derivatives—Chapter 4) can also be thought of as heterobifunctional crosslinking reagents because they comprise a chemically reactive group as well as a biotin or hapten moiety that binds with high affinity to avidin or an anti-hapten antibody, respectively. Similarly, avidin, streptavidin, NeutrAvidin biotin-binding protein and CaptAvidin biotin-binding protein (Avidin, Streptavidin, NeutrAvidin and CaptAvidin Biotin-Binding Proteins and Affinity Matrices—Section 7.6) can tightly bind up to four molecules of a biotinylated target.
Figure 5.1.1 Schematic illustration of the heterobifunctional crosslinker succinimidyl acetylthioacetate (SATA, S1553): A) attachment to an aminosilane-modified surface, B) deprotection with base and C) reaction with a thiol-reactive biomolecule.
Figure 5.1.2 Photoreactive crosslinking reaction of a simple aryl azide.
Figure 5.1.3 Photoreactive crosslinking reaction of a fluorinated aryl azide.
Figure 5.1.4 Photoreactive crosslinking reaction of a benzophenone derivative.
Figure 5.1.5 Conversion of a carboxylic acid group into an aliphatic amine. The activated carboxylic acid is derivatized with a half-protected aliphatic diamine (mono-N-(t-BOC)-propylenediamine, M6248), usually in an organic solvent, followed by removal of the t-BOC–protecting group with trifluoroacetic acid.
In addition to the photoreactive crosslinking reagents that are briefly mentioned above and described in detail in Photoactivatable Reagents, Including Photoreactive Crosslinkers and Caged Probes—Section 5.3, we prepare photoactivatable probes. Flash photolysis of photoactivatable or "caged" probes provides a means of controlling the release—both spatially and temporally—of biologically active products or other reagents of interest. The chemical caging process may also confer membrane permeability on the caged ligand, as is the case for caged cAMP and caged luciferin. Our selection of caged nucleotides, chelators, second messengers and neurotransmitters has tremendous potential for use with both live cells and isolated proteins (Photoactivatable Reagents, Including Photoreactive Crosslinkers and Caged Probes—Section 5.3).
We prepare caged versions of biologically active molecules, as well as caged fluorescent dyes that are essentially nonfluorescent until after photolysis. These caged fluorophores have proven useful for photoactivation of fluorescence (PAF) experiments, which are analogous to fluorescence recovery after photobleaching (FRAP) experiments except that the fluorophore is activated upon illumination rather than bleached. Measuring the fluorescent signal of the photoactivated fluorophore against a dark background is intrinsically more sensitive than measuring a dark photobleached region against a bright field.
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The Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui ("Chinese Anglican") official publication The Chinese Churchmen (圣 公会报) ceased publication after the political changes in China in 1949. On 2 January 1955 Chinese Churchmen (圣工), literally meaning "sacred work", was launched. It appeared more or less a quarterly magazine until the end of 1957, the eve of the "Great Leap Forward" in China.
This publication is not widely known nor available in public, however. Copies still survive in the China East (Huadong) Seminary in Shanghai, and in the Shanghai Municipal Library. It offers important insight on the life and work of the Chinese Anglicans in the beginnings of the post-denominational period in Chinese Christianity.
We are grateful to Miss Li Cuixiang for compiling the index. The (unofficial) English translation is provided by Michael Poon.
Sheng Gong (圣工)Index (1955-1957)
See also CSCA Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui Source Documents.
A note from Dr Michael Nai-Chiu Poon, Director, Centre for the Study of Christianity in Asia

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An Operational Simplification Race is on to Displace CLI
"Boiled frog syndrome" refers to a fable that when you put a frog in hot water, it jumps out. However if you slowly heat up the water the frog is in, the frog will cook.
The number of features and associated CLI for networking equipment has increased gradually over the last 15+ years. Each feature is valuable in its own right, but the weight of all CLIs, all OSs, and all variations of deployment cannot be internalized by any human. The result: the concept of the über-CCIE is cooked.
The question is what displaces the CLI over time? It is argued by "good enough" network vendors that this complexity isn't necessary. But considering most networking costs are operational costs, this argument can generally be discarded.
More articulate arguments are made by people who want to simplify overall network operations activities versus concentrating upon enhancements to CLI. Businesses don't want to manage individual boxes; they would love to shed this complexity. Instead they would rather express their operational intents to their network, and let the network itself sort any box specific details.
Sorting the details here is a very fertile ground for new networking technologies. SDN, Autonomic Networking, OpenFlow, FEX, and other concepts are all in competition for mind share. What do these technologies have in common? Each establishes protocols where groups of network elements can be managed from one location, simplifying the Operator's experience by reducing the number of elements which need direct configuration. I.e., they emphasize Machine-to-Machine communications to reduce human (CLI) configuration.
Which of these technologies will win? This question will be explored in future entries of this blog. But there are some rules of thumb which can be generally applied:
- Where is the authoritative copy of a piece of information?
- How do you minimize the number of types of boxes in a network?
- Where are controllers actually valuable, and where can federations of equipment provide the same function?
- How much and how brittle is the integration needed to make a system work to some useful end?
Buzz word history is littered with failures here. Don't forget the lessons of the failed Policy Server market of the late 2000s. The initial winners of the network operations simplification game will be systems vendors who are able to allow less technical enterprise operators to express intent towards the full set of their network equipment without additional human operations required. The long term winners will be those who are able to generalized and grow from successful beachhead market niches.
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Famous for her crazy hair colors, MS MR's vocalist Lizzy Plapinger strutted onto the Coachella Stage with bright pink hair and lipstick. Her chunky lace-up boots tapped to the beat throughout the group's set and by the New York duo's third song she had to shed her white leather jacket due to the heat of the desert. Underneath, Plapinger revealed a black bodysuit covered with open mouths.
MS MR captivated and excited the crowd by dancing around the stage, with producer Max Hershenow leaving his keyboard and dancing in sync with the heavy bass. The duo sang forehead to forehead at one point, their matching thick gold chains dangling from their necks, making the crowd scream wildly.
This is the first year that the band has played at Coachella, but it's not the first year that members have attended.
In addition to playing their own songs, MS MR played an eerie, ethereal cover of "their favorite band" Arctic Monkey's "Do I Wanna Know?" and closed with their hit single, "Hurricane."
"They performed just the way they sounded on the CD," said Michele Munoz, a resident of the San Fernando Valley. "This is the first band I've seen at Coachella and it was an amazing way to start off the weekend."


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What else can i say that hasn't been said already in the above post except my sample thinks its an FS-102 on slimfast lol.Folks for the lunar/planet viewing the difference between this little 78 and 102 at least IMHO just doesn't justify the cost difference,not to mention its very portable and can use a smaller/lighter more portable mount.Check one out at your next star party.
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To mark the first annual Anti Street-Harassment Day, Dearbhaile Kitt reports on a growing movement that is aiming to put a stop to this most anti-social sexist practise.
Man-Friendly Feminism?
Heather Kennedy takes a look at the role of men in the feminist movement, examining why it is needed and asking why there isn't more of it!
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Stephanie Phillips, of Don't Dance Her Down Boys blog, went along to the launch event for UK Feminista to see what prospects the site might hold for the advancement UK women's movement.
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CHANGE: New Year, New You, New Life
FROM ME point of view, a new year is nothing but a new day. In a sense, there's nothing magically different between New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, except for the fact of human beings' reckoning of time.
Pausing to acknowledge and celebrate a new day, new week, new month, or new year is very useful, however.
Here's why: It offers the ideal opportunity to evaluate your life, assess your progress on your goals, and most important, to start anew.
A new time cycle offers a blank space on the vast canvas of time, to sketch the outline of your desired career and work life, financial life, love life, health, or spiritual life.
As the subsequent hours, days, weeks, and months unfold, you then fill out this outline with the colourful details of specific activities, events and experiences which all come together to create the masterpiece which is your life.
Take time
Everything starts with taking time at the start - of every day, week, month, and year - to decide what outcomes you're committed to achieving for that period.
Take New Year's Day for instance. It's not to be experienced merely as an opportunity to party, enjoy festivities and offer good wishes. Those fun things have their place, don't misunderstand.
But more important is to use the occasion of a new year to start over, to refocus and recommit to the goals and priorities that matter most in your business, career and personal life.
Almost all of us can look back at the missed opportunities, failures and disappointments, setbacks and unfulfilled desires of year 2012.
A new year however, means you can free yourself from the power of these past experiences. Let go of the pain of disappointment. Don't dwell on the missed opportunities. Learn from the failures.
Focus on what new successes you will create in 2013. What you focus on in your mind is what expands to manifest as your life experiences.
Don't limit your vision of what is possible by what journalists and politicians tell you about the poor state of the economy. That doesn't have to determine what you achieve in your career and life, unless you let it.
It's the clarity of your vision, the intensity of your belief, and your level of passion, creativity, resilience and self-discipline which ultimately determine your life. Those things are in your control.
Resolving to manifest the following ideals is a good start to taking charge of what the new year will bring:
For 2013, may you have ...
Enough faith to dare to dream big dreams.
Enough self-discipline to do whatever it takes to make those big dreams a reality.
Enough resilience to transform your adversities into advantage.
Enough setbacks to keep you strong.
Enough successes to keep you motivated.
Enough friends to provide love, support and comfort.
Enough confidence and courage in yourself to strive to make a difference in your home, your community, your company and your country.
Enough determination to stick with the goals you've set until you succeed.
And enough trust in God to know that all things will work for your good, no matter what happens.
Glenford Smith is a motivational speaker and success strategist. He is the author of a new book "From Problems to Power: How to Win Over Worry and Turn Your Obstacles into Opportunities".


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Reasonably entertaining if somewhat dubious when it was in theatres earlier this year, "Swordfish" comes to home video with two strikes against it. One is that, in the wake of September 11, what initially played as some abstractly unpleasant fantasy elements now comes across as borderline incendiary. The other is that, for a movie with gunfire and explosions at every turn, "Swordfish" has a remarkably tamped-down soundtrack.
There is a certain point at which "Swordfish" outsmarts itself with too many plot twists, some of which involve admiration for a character who is blowing up U.S. civilians and knocking transportation vehicles through skyscrapers, all in the name of a greater good. (On the commentary, director Dominic Sena repeatedly refers to the character as "a patriot." Other designations – "self-righteous terrorist," perhaps – may strike some viewers are more appropriate.) However, up until then, the film's pedal-to-the-metal action and a charming turn by Hugh Jackman make it bracingly entertaining, if never hugely plausible.
"Swordfish" begins, as if on a dare, with Gabriel (John Travolta) talking to the camera about how most movies are garbage. He rhapsodizes about "Dog Day Afternoon," musing how it would have been even better if Al Pacino's bank robber character had killed some hostages and gotten away with the loot. It turns out that Gabriel is right in the middle of robbing a bank himself. When the FBI SWAT team outside gets itchy, Gabriel proves he's serious. Officers attept to rescue a hostage rigged with explosives that detonate, and the camera follows the results of the shockwave in slow motion along the length of a downtown city block.
This attention-grabbing setpiece occurs in Chapter 2. Visually, it's extraordinary, but aurally, it is notable for being mundane – there's a big blast, but there are few directional specifics, save the rolling of a ball-bearing in the center channel as all the debris finally comes to rest. Cut to four days earlier, so that we can learn how ex-con good guy Stanley Jobson (Jackman, probably best known as Wolverine in "X-Men") came to be involved in this messy situation. Stanley is supposed to be the best hacker in the world, but the terms of his parole (following a felony term for tampering with FBI files) prevent him from even touching a computer. Hoping for visitation rights with his young daughter Holly (Camryn Grimes), who's in danger from her drunken mom and rich, predatory stepfather, Stanley wants to keep his nose clean. Then Stanley's approached by Ginger (Halle Berry), whose employer Gabriel wants Stan to hack into some accounts that will net Gabe $9.5 billion. Gabriel is willing to pay Stanley $10 million for his services, which is more than enough to pay the legal fees necessary to rescue Holly. Of course, Stanley has no idea of what he's really involved in, and by the time he gets a clue, it's too late to back out.
The screenplay by Skip Woods gets off to a great, curiosity-capturing start and has some fun dialogue and startling action, although there are a few too many elements thrown in just for effect – after awhile, suspension of disbelief becomes a chore. Director Dominic Sena stages some extraordinary stunts with cars, helicopters, guns and a cliff fall – see especially Chapters 2, 13, 18, 19, 26 and 26 – that are visually astounding. The sequences are so good in themselves that they aren't really dependent on the context of the story – the logistics and the kinesis are enough to blow us away.
All of this makes the unspectacular sound even more puzzling. Small effects – fluttering papers and footsteps in Chapter 3, flies buzzing in Chapter 4 – come through very well, but the showier elements, like gunfire and explosions, tend to be undifferentiated and not location-specific.
The menu is designed to reflect the story's computer elements, so that instead of "Play Movie," the option is "Run Program." Special features are listed under "Systems Folder." The two alternate endings come with optional director commentary and an interesting set-up – rather than the customary on/off options, to get the endings sans commentary, click on the top line ("alternate endings"); for the commentary, click on the second line ("commentary"). The HBO making-of featurette is high-spirited and the featurette on the film's effects has the agreeable added feature of splitting the screen between the effect in question and footage of the person doing the explaining, so we can put faces to the voices we're hearing.
The audio track is left unusually high during director Sena's commentary, coming up to full volume whenever he pauses and remaining well audible even when he's talking. The commentary is informative if a bit self-congratulatory. Anybody who found the film's arguable implicit messages arguable when they came without explanation may be pushed straight over the edge by Sena's articulated take on it.
"Swordfish" is made with demonstrable skill and enthusiasm, and it's so improbable in its particulars that most viewers in the mood to do so will be able to kick back and enjoy it as shoot-'em-up entertainment. People sensitive to nuance, however, even those who are normally engrossed in gunplay, may be made downright cranky by the film's definition of patriotism.


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If you are interested in renting one of these venues, please read the Campus Rental and Use Policy, then contact the Office of Events and Campus Coordination at 405.425.6300 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
History of the Phillips Welcome Center
Oklahoma Christian officially dedicated the Phillips Welcome Center on April 25, 2013.
The facility, located in the lobby of the Garvey Center, is OC's "front door." It serves as a beginning point for campus guests – including future students and parents touring the university.
Made possible by a gift from Oklahoma City philanthropist Jose Freede, the venue also houses OC's Office of Events and Campus Coordination.
During more than three decades at Oklahoma Christian, Lou Phillips was a longtime executive assistant and later served as coordinator of special projects.
She worked closely with five OC presidents – J. Terry Johnson, Kevin Jacobs, Alfred Branch, Mike O'Neal and John deSteiguer – and also served on the board of the Oklahoma Christian Women's Association until her passing in January 2013.
In 1992, Phillips was the official hostess for President George H.W. Bush's official campaign visit to Oklahoma Christian. She also helped coordinate George W. Bush's 1990 visit to Oklahoma Christian on "University Day." After Phillips' passing, George W. Bush sent a personal letter of condolences to her family.
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Publicist: 'Moon River' Singer Andy Williams Dies
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) - Emmy-winning TV host and "Moon River" crooner Andy Williams has died at the age of 84.
Williams' publicist, Paul Shefrin, said Wednesday that the silky-voiced singer died Tuesday night at his home in Branson, Mo., following a year-long battle with bladder cancer.
Williams said in November 2011 that he was diagnosed with bladder cancer but planned to continue performing at the namesake theater he built in Branson in 1992.
The clean-cut Iowa native began singing with his brothers as a child, and his easy style and mellow voice led President Ronald Reagan to call Williams "a national treasure." Though his version of "Moon River" made him world famous, it was among his many hits, including "Butterfly" and "Can't Get Used to Losing You."
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(CNN) — Tuesday is the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision, but a poll shows that many Americans don't know the significance of the case.
According to a new study released by Pew Research Center, only 62% of adults polled knew the decision affirmed the legality of a woman's right to abortion under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, and only 44% of those polled under the age of 30 could say the case dealt with abortion.
Among the under-30 set, Pew says, 16% thought the case dealt with school desegregation, and 41% either said it dealt with another issue or had no idea what it dealt with.
In comparison, 7% of all adults polled incorrectly associated the decision with school desegregation, 5% associated it with the death penalty, and 5% more thought the ruling dealt with environmental protection, according to a Pew report.
One in five said they had no idea what the case dealt with.
Equal percentages of women and men were aware that the case decided abortion rights, at 62% each, the report said.
Political parties differed, however, with 68% of Republicans, 63% of independents and 57% of Democrats able to identify the historic court case, Pew said.
The telephone poll was taken January 9-13 among 1,502 adults, ages 18 and older. The results were released on January 16. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 2.9 percentage points.AlertMe


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Usefulness of PET scans
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I have heard that there is a new scan for cancer patients? that is called a PET scan. They say that it lets doctors detect the exact location of the cancer. This keeps patients from having to have surgery to locate the cancer. Can you tell me more?
Peeyush Bhargava, MD, Chief Fellow in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, responds:
PET scans have been around for quite a long time but they have recently gained popularity in the management of a variety of cancers. They are useful in the diagnosis, the initial staging (to decide the treatment modality best suited for that stage of the disease) and restaging (monitoring response to therapy). Currently, PET scans are commonly used in the management of patients with lung cancer, colon cancer, melanoma, lymphoma, head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer and breast cancer.
Typically, in a whole body FDG PET scan, the patient is scanned from the chin down to the upper thighs and additional images are required if there are further areas of concern. Sometimes they show wide spread disease which makes the cancer inoperable. At other times, the PET scan rules out metastases indicating that the patient is a good candidate for curative surgery. PET scans are also very useful in evaluating suspicious findings on other studies such as CT scans and MRI's. They may be useful in detecting recurrent or residual disease in patients who have been treated for cancers and the follow up blood test (for example: CEA for colon cancer, CA 125 for ovarian cancer) is abnormal.
Please see the example below. These are the images of a patient who was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. The patient was being considered for surgical resection of the lung cancer. Image 1 is from the patient's CT scan that shows a mass in the right lung (outlined by the red arrows) and suggests malignancy. A whole body PET scan was performed for staging the lung cancer (to decide whether the cancer is operable or not). Image 2 is the whole body FDG PET image. The body contour has been outlined for better visualization. It shows a large area of intense activity (bigger red arrow) in the right lung that corresponds to the mass described in the CT scan. Also seen are multiple scattered foci of intense activity (smaller red arrows) suggesting diffusely scattered soft tissue and bony metastasis. Clearly this patient is not a candidate for curative surgery as the cancer has spread all over the body. The green arrow on image 2 points to normal activity in the urinary bladder. This example clearly illustrates how the FDG PET scan may help in staging patients with lung cancer.


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Dr. Walter Willett is the chair of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health. He's also a cow's best friend.
Earlier this month, Willett and colleagues, who have studied the link between diet and health for decades, published a study that followed more than 100,000 people over more than 20 years — and found that the amount of red meat they ate was linked to a rise in risk of premature death.
The notion that red meat might not be so great for you isn't exactly new, but carnivores cried foul. Willett answered a few of the critics this week.
Can you summarize briefly what you saw here? And what's the takeaway — is it OK to eat meat or not?
We looked at total mortality. And it wasn't too surprising that we did see a linear, step-wise increase in risk of dying prematurely with higher red meat consumption.
We went another step, and we compared one serving of red meat to other major protein sources, like poultry and fish and legumes. In every instance there was an advantage to consuming something else instead of red meat.
Individuals make their choices on the basis of many factors, health outcomes being one: religious beliefs, concerns about the environment, many things. But focusing in on health, it does appear that the data are quite strong.
There's no sharp cutoff. But when you get down to maybe one serving of meat or less per week the risk gets pretty low. If you really want to go for the lowest possible, it does look like not consuming red meat at all, or a couple times a year, is where you'd want to be.
This made a lot of people pretty angry and upset. One thing they wanted to know was, are you funded by PETA or the chicken industry? Another was, are you a vegan or vegetarian?
No, we are not funded by any of those industry sources. These studies are funded by the National Institutes of Health.
I eat poultry and I eat fish. Maybe a few times a year, I eat red meat. That certainly wasn't always my habit. I grew up in the Midwest, and I think probably I had red meat three times a day, like some of the people in the study. But I've seen the data come in.
This study relies on surveys. Maybe people don't remember what they ate.
In principle, the ideal study would take 100,000 people and randomly assign some to eating several servings of red meat a day and randomize the others to not consume red meat and then follow them for several decades. But that study, even with any amount of money, in many instances is simply not possible to do. Most people don't want to stay on any prescribed diet, particularly if they're living in an environment where other people around them are eating other things.
How about grass-fed beef? Does the way the animals are raised make a difference?
We don't know for sure. In this study we were investigating red meat as it is consumed in the United States, which is mostly lot-fed, grain-fed beef. I'm quite sure we would not have enough people consuming mostly grass-fed beef to be able to look at that on its own.
There are some differences. Omega-3 fatty acid levels are somewhat higher in the grass-fed beef. But if someone's getting other sources of omega-3 fatty acids — if they're having fish once or twice a week — the additional amount probably won't make too much difference.
The total fat may be a bit lower. But we don't see that the fat per se is really related to the risk of getting heart disease or cancer. Cholesterol is more in the lean part of the red meat, so that's going to be just as high and maybe even higher in the grass-fed animals.
I think it would be nice to be able to study grass-fed beef directly, but I think in the meantime it's reasonable to assume that the answer is probably not going to be very different from what we saw here.
We also got emails that said, "My Aunt Bertha ate meat three times a day her whole life and lived to be 95!"
Of course, yes. You can find people who smoked a pack of cigarettes a day and lived to be 100, too. Any one example doesn't make the case.
It is pretty clear that people back in the 1950s, eating all this red meat, were not living very long compared to how long we're living today. Red meat consumption has gone down; poultry has gone up. There has been a general shift in a better direction in our diets.
Red meat is not the whole picture, but the reduction probably has been a contributor to the reduction in mortality rates that we have today.


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Chess life in Puerto Rico
Written by (WIM) Raluca Sgircea
Chess is slowly gaining popularity in the small island of Puerto Rico. More and more kids are attracted by the game and start taking it seriously. The growing interest and competitiveness is probably the reason why Puerto Rico has so many young talented chess players. For almost two months, we have been lucky enough to be part of the chess community here and we can say that there is always some chess event going on!
The reigning national champion (in every possible category – women, open and juniors), (WIM) Danitza Vazquez, aged 15, is doing a great job promoting chess in Puerto Rico. For the holidays, she held a simultaneous exhibition where players of all ages tried to make a good result against the talented youngster.
In January, all chess enthusiasts were invited by Renier to a two-hour training session followed by a simultaneous in a very popular place: Le Petit Bistro, located in the mall Plaza Las Americas of San Juan.… Read more "Chess life in Puerto Rico"
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Use Interactivity To Attract Links
Got links? Obviously, a large part of SEO involves getting backlinks. We all want and need sites to link to our blogs. Ideally, those backlinks are natural and freely given, and the best way to obtain those types of backlinks is with attractive, highly linkable content. Of course there are lots of ways to create attractive content, but one of the best is with interactive content.
Interactive content encourages the reader to do something beyond passive reading. The two types of interactive content that immediately come to mind are polls and quizzes. Both ask the reader to participate by responding to one or a series of questions. Polls merely aggregate the results, while quizzes give the reader feedback on right/wrong answers with some sort of final score. Both polls and quizzes are popular as interactive content, however, quizzes are likely to be somewhat more viral than polls, because people like to show off the scores they obtained.
This type of interactive content often easily attracts backlinks and sometimes goes viral rather rapidly. Obviously, not every poll or quiz will attract a lot of attention, but if it interesting, it has a great chance of doing so. So the next time you're wishing for more backlinks, spend some time putting together an interesting poll or quiz. You might be pleasantly surprised with the results of your efforts.
Don't know how to make a poll or quiz? Luckily, you don't have to be a whiz-kid programmer to create polls and quizzes for your blog. There are several WordPress plugins available for polls and quizzes, and I've listed one for each type of content below. In addition, there are sites that offer widgets and cut-and-paste scripts, and again, I've listed one for each below. All of these plugins and scripts make the technical process simple. All you have to do is supply the fun. 🙂
WP-Polls Plugin
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Quibblo premade quizzes (or create your own)
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Top the Charts! 5 Must-Know SEO Solutions to Promote Your Managed IT Service
According to Internet Live Stats, Google processes over 40,000 search queries every second. That's 3.5 billion searches a day.
When someone searches for your managed IT service, you have the opportunity to attract them straight towards your website.
All you need is search engine optimization or SEO!
Here are five SEO solutions that can help drive traffic to your website. With these techniques, you can attract new customers and grow your business!
Let's get optimizing.
1. Topics & Keywords
An effective SEO strategy starts with a list of keywords. These keywords reflect the content your customers are searching for online. Using these keywords, you can create content that matches their search intent.
To start, you can use tools like Google Keyword Planner and Google Trends. These tools will show you the popularity of each keyword.
Once you have this list, you can create pillars and clusters. Pillars give your website visitors the main page of collective content. Then, the clusters break this content into sub-topics with specified information.
This strategy can help boost your SEO plan and attract people to your Managed IT Services.
That way, you're attracting new website visitors while providing them with an easy, efficient user experience, too.
2. On-Site SEO
Your website needs optimization as a whole as well as on a page-based level. To start, make sure your website's content hierarchy is well-structured.
Then, there are a number of areas that require review to ensure these SEO solutions work.
Once you've studied your target audience to determine your keywords, you also need:
- Descriptive URLs
- Keyword-optimized page titles
- Compelling meta descriptions
- Content optimization (includes keyword placement in headers, body text, etc.)
- Good user experience
- Structured data markup
- Effective call-to-action language
As part of your overall SEO strategy, on-page SEO is an important component of attracting visitors.
3. Off-Site SEO
An off-site SEO strategy includes local SEO. This strategy helps you attract local customers to your website and business.
To start, make sure your listings are updated with the correct content information.
This includes your Google My Business listing as well.
4. Technical SEO
Technical SEO ensures search engines can find your content. These areas include:
- Crawling
- Indexing
- Mobile-optimization
- Website speed
- Hierarchy
Technical SEO solutions are essential for success. Otherwise, how will customers find your website?
5. Content
According to Fit Small Business, search is the number one driver of traffic to content sites. In fact, it beats social media by over 300 percent.
Your content should consider customer search intent. That way, you're giving visitors content that answers their questions. This can include service content, credibility content, and marketing content.
This content should also add value to your business.
Consider writing blog posts or white papers. You can also post videos or add testimonials to your website.
That way, your SEO content shows visitors you're a valuable resource.
Bring It in: 5 Must-Have SEO Solutions
With these five must-have SEO solutions, you can attract new visitors to your website. The right techniques will then turn these visitors into leads, then leads into paying customers!
That way, your company grows, one SEO strategy at a time.
Check out our latest posts for more effective tips and tricks!
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SEO 101: The Essential SEO FAQ for Bloggers
I don't provide SEO services and I am self-taught – which hardly makes an expert. But I've been blogging for a lifetime and for all these years I've been reading about and implementing SEO practices – which means I know more than an average blogger.
With that said, I've decided to put together this SEO FAQ for those who want to quickly understand the concept without going too indepth:
What is SEO?
Simply put, SEO is about making a website easy for search engines to discover, go through and understand.
This includes:
- creating content (based on search engine users' needs),
- making your content "link-worthy" (i.e. attract backlinks),
- using HTML and structured data to make content easier to understand for the machine, etc.
SEO is NOT trying to "fake" any of positive signals search engines use to rank web pages. Search engine friendliness should be authentic and SEO professionals should work together with website owners to achieve that.
Do Bloggers Need to Know SEO?
SEO aims at helping a page rank on top of organic search results, and search engines are known to bring the most qualified leads (people turn to Google when they know what they want).
No traffic source is as effective as search traffic. Unlike driving clicks with ads (PPC), organic search is NOT interrupting user's surfing the web. Instead, it serves them content exactly when they ask
This makes SEO one of the most important digital marketing channels. It can drive highly targeted traffic and pre-qualified leads to your site on a continuous basis (no need to keep investing in ads)
How Has SEO changed over the years?
SEO is maturing fast and it has been exciting to watch. The biggest driving force behind this evolution is Google that has been working hard on their search algorithm to understand natural language and search intent, as well as penalizing any manipulating tactics.
The result: SEO has become more integrated into other marketing channels. Furthermore, SEO is more about focusing on long-term goals rather than quick traffic gains
If ten years ago SEO was all about creating fake signals (keyword stuffing, link buying, etc.), these days it's all about creating linkable assets that rank and engage potential customers.
The future of SEO is in voice search, artificial intelligence, more diverse content types and channels.
Can SEO Be Handled "At Home"?
WordPress bloggers generally don't have to worry about getting SEO help. WordPress is pretty well set up and there's a variety of free plugins to help.
Here's a detailed guide to get yourself educated: Google SEO: Should it be your only priority?
What is The Most Important SEO Element?
Content… by far! Content is the foundation of any SEO strategy. Content ranks, attracts links, spreads, engages customers and turns them into believers.
Content is not just an article or a blog post. By content I mean any kind of text you put on your site, from a landing page copy to your "About us" page or a product description.
Many businesses jump into digital marketing without willing to invest in content, and this strategy is doomed to failure. Building on-site content should be everyone's SEO priority.
Text Optimizer is a great tool that helps you create better content by providing you with the mindmap of associated concepts and questions. It uses semantic analysis to process Google's search snippets and break any keyword into subtopics.
While it's primarily search intent optimization tool, it's also helpful for overall content research showing which topics to cover and how to structure your article.
You can read my own Text Optimizer case study here.
What Are the Most Dangerous SEO Myths?
- Keyword density… This is one of the most persistent SEO myths out there. Why I dislike it so much is because it fills the web with trash content. Keyword-density focused strategy spoils the brand image and creates lots of problems which take lots of time to fix.
- On-page SEO alone will get you to #1. There are so many SEO agencies there that are happy to keep "optimizing" your website but rankings won't come. The reality, you still need outbound tactics to gain backlinks and external visibility (branding) to achieve higher rankings
- SEO is dying… SEO death has been predicted for years now. These days with Google's new SERPs features that aim at keeping the user using Google, and the fast growth of voice search, SEO is predicted to die soon again
The truth is, SEO is full of ingenuous tools and people. It is evolving together with search engines and it will survive Google's death one day.
What's the Best SEO Advice You've Received?
There's a real human being behind each query.
Really if you stop thinking of keywords as "word strings to optimize for" and start seeing them as a real person's question, SEO becomes much clearer (and more fun).
This mindset helps build more helpful content, optimize for search intent better (why would anyone type this into the search box? What are they willing to do once they find the answer?)
On top of that, by looking at keyword research as something that helps you serve your customer will help you understand your audience better and come up with better products and offers, on a higher-level.
Answer The Public is a nice free tool that turns keyword research into question research helping you to clearer see your readers' struggles behind their search queries.
On top of that, the tool also mind-maps the retrieved keywords / questions helping you in brainstorming.
Where Does a Blogger Start with SEO?
As stated above, there's not much a blogger can do to start with SEO except for creating useful original content.
Here's also a nice clutter-free introduction into SEO: SEO Basics: Complete Beginner's Guide to Search Engine Optimization . Here's a much easier guide but also one that lists the most essential step: 3 Basic Steps to Making Your New Blog SEO-Friendly. Here's also a helpful writing checklist that will help you handle the basics:
As you may have noticed, I am not listing a ton of tools here as I don't want this guide to overwhelm the reader. Those mentioned are a good start!
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Top 5 Best SEO Practices to Dominate Google Search Results In 2019
Who doesn't want to dominate Google? We all love first page rankings, right?
But there's one thing about dominating Google search results: SEO.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is almost a rocket science for most bloggers. The good thing is, you don't have to be an expert at SEO to be able to generate first page rankings to your site.
Just learn and implement "few" most important SEO techniques and you'll be way ahead of your competitors in search results. If you're looking to improve your search traffic, here are a few of the best SEO practices you can implement in 2019.
5 Best SEO Practices for Bloggers To Dominate Google
1. Perform in-depth keyword research
If you don't understand keyword research, you're missing out on huge amount of traffic and sales from search engines.
Keyword research is all about finding "low competitive yet profitable keywords" so that you can create highly informative content (by keeping your target keywords in mind) to your audience.
Here's the key to successful keyword research: "find low competitive keywords".
It doesn't matter what niche you are in, if you're going after high competitive keywords, you're not going to get any traffic from search (especially if you've a new website). So the key here is to find long tail keywords which have less monthly searches.
Quick note: Always have access to SEO tools like SEMrush if you want to find highly profitable yet low competitive keywords.
If you've a fairly new blog or website, I highly recommend you to go for those keywords which have less than 500 monthly searches. Why?
Low competitive keywords are easier to rank for. You can get first page rankings by creating informative content (you'll get great results even without building too many backlinks).
That being said, here are a few helpful keyword research tools you can use in 2019.
- Ubersuggest
- SEMrush
- Keywordtool.io
While doing keyword research, target long tail keywords.
Long tail keywords usually contain 4 or more keywords and they are easier to rank in Google search.
For instance, you can get better rankings for long tail keyword phrases like "best fitness apps for Yoga teachers" instead of targeting short tail keywords like "best fitness apps".
So that's how you can perform long tail keyword research to dominate Google search in 2019 and beyond.
2. Content creation and optimization is essential
Content is really the king. No matter what niche you are in, if your content is mediocre, it will not perform well in the search engines. That said, here are few incredible tips to create exceptional content that performs well in search engines.
Understand your target audience: This is the first step to creating great content. The better you understand your audience, the easier it is for you to create "high converting content". Make sure to find their wants and needs. Make a list of all the questions they might have by browsing through platforms like Quora or taking surveys.
Create in-depth content: If you want to dominate Google search results with your content, make it extremely detailed. According to many researches, it's proven that in-depth content (which contains over 2000 words) performs really well in search results.
In fact, we've been creating long form of articles for more than 4 years now at Bloggers Passion and the results are amazing both in terms of search traffic and sales.
Use platforms like Quora: Q & A platforms like Quora help you find out what your target audience truly wants. You can follow all the topics that you blog about, find all the questions and start creating content around the topics that you're interested in.
Last but not least, properly optimize your content for search engines which we're going to discuss now.
When it comes to content optimization, the following factors play a crucial role.
- Page title
- Meta description
- Heading tags (h1, h2, h3, h4, etc.)
- Image optimization
- Internal links
If you're using WordPress, I recommend you to check out the following 2 plugins (both are great) for content optimization.
WordPress SEO by Yoast: This is the most downloaded SEO plugin in WordPress history with over 20 million downloads worldwide. It helps you easily optimize all your contents (including posts and pages) for your primary keywords. From page titles to meta description to image optimization, you can do everything using this plugin.
SEO By Rank Math: This plugin is getting a lot of positive buzz and it's considered as the best alternative to SEO by Yoast. In fact, it offers all the premium features of plugins like Yoast where you can optimize your posts for 5 focus keywords per post. Not only that, it also lets you track your keyword positions in Google and offers a wide range of other helpful features to optimize your contents like a pro.
3. Make sure your website ticks all the boxes
Here are few things that your website must have for better performance in search.
- SSL integration
- Mobile-friendly design
- Faster website loading times
Now, let's talk about the above most important things to make your website great for both search engines and users.
SSL integration: Google considers https as a ranking signal, which means, Google is giving weightage to websites on https version. To get https version, you need SSL integration. SSL stands for Secure Socket Layer which makes your site go from http to https and it's a secured protocol which is used to establish a secure connection between server and client.
If you're using hosts like Bluehost, WPX hosting etc, you'll get SSL integration at free of cost (all you need to do is to turn on SSL to make your site https). Otherwise, you can free SSL integrations from sites like Cloudflare.
Super fast page loading times: If your site takes more than 3 to 4 seconds to load, your website visitors will most probably abandon your site. Your website speed is so much important not only for your users but also for improving your search rankings.
Did you know that Google takes page loading times into consideration while ranking web pages? Yes, that's true. Here are few quick tips to have a faster loading website.
- Move to a faster web host (at Bloggers Passion, we're using WPX hosting and it's really faster when compared to any other web hosting companies)
- Use less plugins
- Optimize your image size before you even upload them on to your dashboard
- Leverage browser caching
- Enable GZip compression (Gzip is a file format that essentially locates strings of similar code in your text files and then temporarily replaces them to make the files smaller which helps in faster loading times)
- Minimize your redirects
Mobile responsive design: Is your blog mobile-friendly? If not, you're missing a lot of traffic and sales on the table which can be beneficial to your competitors. So why leave your traffic and sales to them?
If you're on WordPress, you can simply install a plugin like WP Touch or buy a premium responsive WordPress theme. Problem solved!
4. Research your competitors
If you see your competition as an opportunity, you'll thrive online but if you see it as a threat, you'll fail in the long run.
Do you know who your competitors are? Do you know who you are competing against? By knowing and carefully analysing your competition, you can learn so much.
Here are a few things to analyse while researching your competitors.
- Find out their top performing blog posts (which are bringing them the most traffic)
- Find out their top "income generating" pages (so you'll have a better idea about what type of products to promote)
- Analyse your competitors website traffic (along with their traffic sources)
- Research your competitors backlink sources (so you can find link building opportunities to improve your own site's backlink profile)
In a nutshell, the fastest way to your website's success is to make a list of 10 to 15 competitors, find all their top performing pages along with their backlink sources and try to get links from those sites using various link building strategies.
5. Link building is the key
It doesn't matter how great your content is, if it's not attracting any links or you're not building back link to your content, it's not going to rank in the first page.
The sooner you realise the importance of link building, the faster you'll start generating better results from SEO. It's as simple as that. That being said, there are various ways to build quality backlinks to your site but the following strategies work like a charm in every industry.
- Roundup links
- Guest posting
- Build relationships
Let's briefly talk about each one of them now.
Guest posting: Guest posting is the evergreen strategy to build links from relevant blogs in your industry. You don't always have to aim for authority sites for guest posting as publishing and high quality, relevant and small blogs can also work like a charm.
Just make sure to write high quality guest posts so you can improve your authority as a blogger apart from getting relevant links to your site.
Roundups links: One of the easiest ways to build quality and highly relevant links to your site is to find and participate in roundup posts. There are a ton of bloggers (especially new bloggers) from all kinds of niches publish roundups on a regular basis.
You just need to be active on social media or use search strings on Google like "expert roundups + [your topic]" to find such sites. Make friends with them by sharing their stuff, commenting on their posts. That's how you can get into their radar to start participating in their roundup posts.
Link building by building relationships: Networking and building relationships with other bloggers is often the most underrated strategy to build links. Make sure to focus on helping people instead of solely focusing on getting links and that's the secret to successful networking.
We're currently building a Facebook group where we share mostly blogging and SEO related stuff. The whole purpose of the group is to help beginners to build a money making blog and to connect with other bloggers in our industry. The best part is that, there are so many bloggers who interviewed me (by linking to my posts) and they mostly came from the Facebook group.
That's the power of networking. So go and start networking with other bloggers using email, blogs and social media sites.Final thoughts on the best SEO practices to use in 2019
Practicing the best SEO strategies is the key to long term SEO success. Don't look for shortcuts as increasing your organic traffic takes time.
Focus on learning and implementing just 2 to 3 evergreen SEO best practices and you'll be way ahead of your competitors. Just be consistent and regularly create content that adds value to your target audience.
Let me know if you've any questions in the comments.
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When the six-game suspension of Denver Broncos star outside linebacker Von Miller for violating the NFL substance-abuse policy became official Tuesday, one of the first questions posed to executive vice president of football operations John Elway was if the AFC West club was aware that Miller could be punished at the time that Elvis Dumervil was released.
Apparently, they had no clue about the pending NFL discipline for Miller at the time of the Dumervil situation.
Dumervil was cut in March following a blown deadline on a proposed restructured contract where the Broncos didn't get the paperwork into the league in time. That prompted the Broncos to cut the Pro Bowl outside linebacker from the roster rather than absorb a huge salary-cap hit.
The Ravens pounced as soon as Dumervil hit the market. They quickly got in touch with Dumervil, who fired his previous agent, and wound up signing a $35 million maximum value deal with the Super Bowl champions in March.
Months later, the Ravens have Dumervil in place as a bookend pass rusher working opposite former NFL Defensive Player of the Year outside linebacker Terrell Suggs. And the Broncos, having lost Dumervil, now don't have Miller available for a Sept. 5 rematch against the Ravens, who defeated Denver in the AFC divisional round with a dramatic double-overtime victory.
The Ravens couldn't be happier with the acquisition of Dumervil, who was recruited by Baltimore inside linebackers coach Don "Wink" Martindale, his former position coach in Denver.
"Just personally, I didn't know Elvis until he got here," Ravens coach John Harbaugh said. "Don Martindale knew him really well, and Don talked a lot about him, what a great guy he was, and a hard worker, and how much we would really like him. I would say it's far beyond the descriptions I got, just that much better of a guy, a pro, a player. I'll give you an example: We do the stretching.
"He's in there at least three times a day, taking care of himself with the stretching and the different things we do for recovery. That's what a pro does, practices so hard. I really think between he and Suggs and [Courtney] Upshaw, and the other pass rushers, but he's kind of leading the way, he's made our offensive tackles that much better just by the way he practices. So, 4.0 [grade point average] across the board for Elvis Dumervil."


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The White House is releasing $1.2 billion in grants to help health care providers implement and use electronic health records, as part of the Recovery Act.
The grants comprise $598 million to fund about 70 regional centers to provide technical assistance and support for implementing Electronic Health Records, as well as $564 million in state grants to share information nationwide. The grants, to be available in 2010, are part of the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
"Expanding the use of electronic health records is fundamental to reforming our health care system," said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius in a statement. "Electronic health records can help reduce medical errors, make health care more efficient and improve the quality of medical care for all Americans. These grants will help ensure more doctors and hospitals have the tools they need to use this critical technology." Sebelius and Vice President Joe Biden announced the grants Thursday.
The federal government has set aside more than $20 billion in stimulus funds to implement electronic health records nationwide, as a means of improving patient care and cutting out costs by consolidating redundant paperwork.
President Obama has set a goal of computerizing U.S. health records in five years, with penalties for health IT hold-outs starting in 2015. The Congressional Budget Office estimates e-health records could save the U.S. $12 billion over 10 years, out of $2.2 trillion spent on healthcare each year in the U.S.


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Sarah Marie Dornfeld of Shallotte and Bryan Maynard Stephenson of Raleigh were married March 2 at historical First Baptist Church on Market Street in Wilmington.
Pastor Donald Sandburg officiated the ceremony.
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The summer of 2012 has been one to remember for shining efforts on the diamond.
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It's a moment that's hard to see the beginning of, like when a flock of shorebirds suddenly lifts into the air. Theoretically one bird gets the idea first, but to the human eye it looks like one flockwide impulse.
That's the way it is with the Disney Princess Thing. Some other child in Mara's group of friends got some Polly Pockets, which is the official name of a brand of Disney princess toys, and suddenly Mara wanted them. Before I knew what had hit me, all six princesses (sold separately!) had moved in and taken over my house.
The Pollys, as we now call them, are dolls about six inches high — Snow White, Cinderella, Belle, Ariel, Sleeping Beauty, and Jasmine. They are, respectively, the leading ladies of the Disney movies Snow White, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Sleeping Beauty, and Alladin. Each comes with several rubbery dresses that are kind of disgusting to the touch. The thing is, the dresses stretch, so members of their "target market" can pull and yank on them to dress and undress the princesses. They also come with tiny plastic shoes and necklaces, and in the case of Cinderella, I believe, a bird that sits on her hand. Ariel, of course, is a mermaid, so one of her dresses is her lower half as a fish. She wears this with a pink top made of two 32B clamshells.
We didn't really want Mara's early ideas of beauty and worth to be informed by the Disney narrative, where everyone of importance is physically attractive in really "standardized" ways. In fact, that's one of the reasons we were really delighted when she took a shine to Shrek and Fiona of the DreamWorks movie Shrek, which actually has an integrity missing from 99 percent of what we are encouraged to think of as wholesome movies or television shows.
Let's take this apart. In the usual fare, the ostensible moral is one that everyone can agree on but one that is actually undermined and contradicted by the underlying unspoken message. Beauty and the Beast is a perfect example and the most egregious one because of what it purports to say but doesn't really. The story purports to offer the valuable message that beauty is not an external thing, but an internal one. We grow to love Beast because he's good and kind. So does Belle, who is initially afraid of him and thinks him ugly. Frankly, she'd rather have been betrothed to someone a bit more…ahem…"charming". Well, she eventually sees the beauty in this beast, but the authors of the story (this is not Disney's original error) reward Belle's deeper vision by erasing it — they give her a twinkle-toothed frat-boy Breck advertisement. That is what Beast must truly "look" like, because he's good. To me this venerable fairy tale would have been so much better, and not the travesty it is, if Beast had retained his feral physique. Sure, the couple would have faced real difficulties. Shedding. Coyote breath. Scratches on all the furniture. But they would have worked it out. Instead, we get handed a slick fix ending that pulls up by the roots the beautiful seedling of truth the story has labored to sow in the heart of the reader/viewer.
By contrast, the message in Shrek is, you're beautiful because you are who you are, and you're beautiful even if you don't look like the all American dream. Which is to say a Disney Princess. The great moment in Shrek is when Fiona expects to be turned back into a hottie but finds that "love's true form" for her is her ogre shape. And we have grown to love Fiona's big green face and ogry ears. When she didn't turn into the skinny pinup, I was relieved beyond measure, as was Shrek, who is big and green and "ugly" and loved her the way she was.
Warning: Image ahead not for the squeamish.
Mara doesn't even know what McDonald's is. We've been really careful not to resort to the cheapest and easiest ways to feed her or entertain her. (Angela has been nothing short of amazing in the effort she has put into making sure Mara always has good, fresh, healthy food available, even for snacktime.) Cutting out McD's from the picture has enabled us to dodge a fair amount of pop-culture merchandising. But the Disney Princess Thing went through our kid community like small-pox. One day she was happily playing with her Thomas the Tank Engine trains, and the next day it was all about the Polly Pockets.
The Disney Princesses continue to be the most sought after toys in the lives of Mara and her little friends right now. Even the My Little Pony ponies are sitting idle most days. But the DPs have had their share of trouble. In a moment of exuberance on the part of her owner, the particular Jasmine depicted above went over the fence and down into the coil of blackberries that is creeping up the rockery from the neighbors' yard below. We made a cursory search, but alas, she is lost. She was replaced by a perfect clone of herself. Ariel's head came off, and though we pinned and glued it back on several times, we had to replace her as well.
And Belle, poor Belle, her fate was worse than pushing carts full of breath mints and raw steaks and lint rollers through the Costco checkout counter. Mara and lab partner Lily decided to experiment with the effects of setting a Polly on a light bulb last week and she melted all over it. I was nearly retching when I took the photo above. But yes. Yes, she is still beautiful. I will say it even now. Even twisted and impaled in this chilling fashion, she reposes in death as only a Disney Princess can.
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Android is able to animate any View object and each and every View has a startAnimation() method that launches animation. Animations exist as independent objects that can be applied to the Views. Animation objects can even be populated from XML resources that live in the res/anim directory.
You can download the example program from here.
Let's look at the animation file below (again, XML mangling due to the limitations of the blog engine). This file can be found as res/anim/magnify.xml in the example program bundle.
[?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?]
[scale xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:fillBefore="true" /]
This is a scaling animation. The attributes mean the followoing:
- The content of the view is actually shrinken first (fromXScale, fromYScale=0.5) to half before it starts to grow to double its standard size and 4 times of the initial size (0.5->2.0). This is done both in X and Y axis.
- The pivot point from which the object grows is 0% in the X axis. This means that the leftmost points of the object will stay in place and the object grows rightward to double size. Meanwhile, the pivot point on the Y axis is the middle of the object (50%), this means that the object will grow up and down from its center line.
- The animation starts immediately (startOffset=0) and finishes in 400 msec.
- Just because we animate, the list layout is not recalculated. Hence the generous top and bottom paddings around the list elements. There is enough space provided for the TextView to grow.
- In the list row layout (res/layout/row.xml), the layout_width is set to fill_parent. This is seemingly random choice but actually, the program does not work well with wrap_content as layout_width. Whenever a list element is selected, its color changes to highlight. If the width is wrap_content, then the size of the TextView (hence the higlighted screen area) is just the length of the text. When the animation starts, the text grows past this size and the end of the text becomes unreadable. This is very important therefore to allow the list row to occupy the entire available width because then the entire row will be highlighted and the animation cannot grow larger than the highlighted area.


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Juno slingshots past Earth on its way to Jupiter
If you've ever whirled a ball attached to a string around your head and then let it go, you know the great speed that can be achieved through a slingshot maneuver.
Similarly, NASA's Juno spacecraft will be passing within some 350 miles of Earth's surface at 3:21p.m. EDT Wednesday, Oct. 9, before it slingshots off into space on a historic exploration of Jupiter.
It's all part of a scientific investigation that began with an August 2011 launch. The mission will begin in earnest when Juno arrives at Jupiter in July 2016. Bill Kurth, University of Iowa research scientist and lead investigator for one of Juno's nine scientific instruments, the Waves instrument, says that the two years spent moving outward past the orbit of Mars before swinging past the Earth makes the trip to Jupiter possible.
"Juno will be really smoking as it passes Earth at a speed of about 25 miles per second relative to the sun. But it will need every bit of this speed to get to Jupiter for its July 4, 2016 capture into polar orbit about Jupiter," says Kurth, who has been involved with the mission since the beginning. "The first half of its journey has been simply to set up this gravity assist with Earth."
"One of Juno's activities during the Earth flyby will be to make a movie of the Earth-moon system that will be the first to show Earth spinning on its axis from a distance," says Scott Bolton, principal investigator for the Juno mission from Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
Kurth and colleagues UI Professor Don Gurnett and research scientist George Hospodarsky note that the real science will begin when Juno begins orbiting Jupiter some 33 times over the course of a year. Juno will be the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter over its poles. The orbit will be highly eccentric, taking Juno from just above the cloud tops to a distance of about 1.75 million miles from Jupiter, every 11 days.
The UI-designed-and-built Waves instrument will examine a variety of phenomena within Jupiter's polar magnetosphere by measuring radio and plasma waves. It's one of nine experiments to be undertaken of the gas giant.
In particular, Juno will explore the solar system's most powerful auroras—Jupiter's northern and southern lights—by flying directly through the electrical current systems that generate them.
"Jupiter has the largest and most energetic magnetosphere, and to finally get an opportunity to study the nature of its auroras and the role radio and plasma waves play in their generation makes Juno a really exciting mission for me," says Kurth.
Juno's other major objectives are to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system's largest planet by:
- Determining the amount of water and ammonia present in the atmosphere.
- Observing the dynamics of Jupiter's upper atmosphere.
- Mapping the planet's magnetic and gravity fields to learn more about its deep interior including the size of its core.
Gurnett, a world leader in the field of space plasma physics, says the Juno spacecraft and its unique orbit will expand upon Jupiter data gathered by previous UI instruments.
Juno's destiny is a fiery entry into Jupiter's atmosphere at the end of its one-year science phase as a means of guaranteeing it doesn't impact Europa and possibly contaminate that icy world with microbes from Earth. This would jeopardize future missions to that moon designed to determine whether life had begun there on its own.
The Juno Waves instrument will be the eighth UI instrument to make the trek to Jupiter. Previous Iowa instruments were carried aboard Pioneers 10 and 11, Voyagers 1 and 2, Galileo (including two UI instruments), and Cassini, currently in orbit around Saturn.
The Waves instrument was built at the UI by a group of about a dozen scientists, engineers, and technicians, led by research engineer Donald Kirchner. Terry Averkamp, Chris Piker, and William Robinson assist in the operation of the Waves instrument and in the data processing.
The Juno project is a collaborative enterprise, led by Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, including the UI and many other organizations and individuals.
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LONDON -- It's more than five years since Royal Bank of Scotland Group (LSE:RBS) (NYSE:RBS) and Lloyds Banking Group (LSE:LLOY) were bailed out by the British taxpayer -- and Barclays (LSE:BARC) (NYSE:BCS) narrowly avoided the same fate by raising 7 billion pounds from investors in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.
Today, RBS is still more than 80% taxpayer-owned, and the taypayer's stake in Lloyds stands at 39%. Meanwhile, Barclays has joined the ranks of the rank-smelling banks after a series of scandals, the latest of which concerns allegations that Barclays' Middle East rescuers were loaned money to invest in the bank by Barclays itself.
All three banks still have a long way to go to repair their reputations and businesses. After their recent annual results, which of the three offers investors the best value?
Value basics
Let's start with the key numbers used by classic value investors: discount to tangible net asset value (TNAV), price to earnings (P/E) ratio, and dividend yield
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|TNAV Per Share
|Discount to TNAV
|Forecast P/E 2013
|Forecast Yield 2013
For a simple overview, if we rank the banks on the three value measures, with one being the best value and three being the worst, we get: Barclays 2, 1, 1; Lloyds 3, 2, 2; and RBS 1, 3, 3. On this basic test of relative value, Barclays stands head and shoulders above its rivals.
For some value investors, the fundamental numbers are all that count, and such investors would declare Barclays the best value without going any further. But let's go a bit further and see where it takes us.
The banks have been slimming down their businesses by disposing of non-core assets. The affect of these disposals on the balance sheet can be positive or negative, as Lloyds and RBS demonstrated just last week.
Lloyds sold part of its shareholding in FTSE 250 wealth manager St James's Place for around 500 million pounds, adding 1.7 pence a share to TNAV -- bringing the end-of-year number in the table above up to 56.6 pence and the discount to 11%.
RBS also raised around 500 million pounds last week, but in this case incurred a modestly negative result. The bank's sale of part of its shareholding in FTSE 250 insurance group Direct Line was at 201 pence a share compared with a carrying value of 216 pence on the year-end balance sheet.
RBS's sale of Direct Line was mandated by the European Commission, and both RBS and Lloyds face further forced disposals under obligations to Europe.
Lloyds has been in talks with the Co-operative Group since last July about the sale of 632 branches. Meanwhile, there is currently no definite interest in the 316 branches RBS is obliged to relinquish, and there looks little prospect of RBS avoiding a loss on disposal.
While RBS appears to be more vulnerable to asset writedowns than its rivals, how future asset sales will actually play out is anybody's guess.
The banks have made provisions of billions of pounds for a litany of past vices, including the mis-selling of payment protection insurance and interest rate hedging products. Again, it's anybody's guess how those issues will pan out.
Put the uncertainty of the adequacy of provisions together with un-provisioned contingent liabilities and ongoing business restructuring, and it's nigh on impossible to predict future statutory bottom-line profits, even a year ahead.
How long it will take statutory earnings to come into line with underlying earnings -- and where underlying earnings will be in each bank's case when they do -- can only be speculation.
There is at least some clarity on dividends. Lloyds and RBS aren't currently paying them, for a start! They'd like to, and probably will, within the next year or two -- but these look sure to be token dividends initially, giving a negligible income.
Barclays is at least delivering dividends now, at a forward yield of 2.3%. Furthermore, the bank has given concrete guidance on its plans: "From 2014, accelerate our progressive dividend policy, targeting a payout ratio of 30% over time" -- which compares with a ratio of less than 20% for the most recent dividend.
As you can see, trying to value the banks is a murky business. Going by the simple fundamental value numbers at the start of this article appears to me to be at least as likely to prove successful as trying to find light in the darker depths of the accounts.
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It could be pitch black out during the dead of the night when there is not a ray of light around and "That Guy" would still cling to his sunglasses more than Roddy Piper in They Live.
He didn't just come from the eye doctor after getting drops put in, he isn't Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles, and he certainly isn't a celebrity with the paparazzi chasing him for pictures. He will most likely be a hipster with a pair of ironic sunglasses, a preppy with aviators, or a guido with a pair of Dior or Louie Vuitton oversized sunglasses glasses.
Apparently only "That Guy" and Corey Hart* wear their sunglasses at night.
* I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Watch you weave
Then breathe your story lines
And I wear my sunglasses at night
So I can, so I can
Keep track of the visions in my eyes.
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Monday, July 12, 2010
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The other thing that I know is that I now have enough places to plug all these different little doohickeys and other assorted electronic stuff into, thanks to the two little guys below:
(Thanks to Thomas MacEntee at GeneaBloggers for passing on this meme. Sorry that I fail so dreadfully at it….)
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I love your dudes that help you plug in! They are just tooooooooooooo cute! Loved the post too, it was supposed to be humorous, right? ROTFLOLReplyDelete
Oh, Greta, if my situation weren't so similar to yours, I could laugh at your post. And, unfortunately, my husband knows less about computers than I do so I can't rely on for computer care. I'm on my own with my paltry knowledge of technology. I like your little men.ReplyDelete
We fail together Greta :-)ReplyDelete
We fail together Greta :-)ReplyDelete
a few years ago, I would have just listed my son, the alpha geek. However, he moved 500 miles away (I dinna think it was to get away from my computer sniveling). Now I stumble along blindly until I hit a brick wall (computerwise--- but sometimes generated by genealogy needs), then to my sniveling, he replies, "Mother, I expect more from you." It's getting so sniveling isn't working very well --- sadly.
Loved your post.
Your doohickies plug into a whatjamacallit that is alot cuter than mine....maybe it's a MAC thing.ReplyDelete
Carol - Uh, yes, humorous; but pathetic, too, I know.ReplyDelete
Nancy - Glad you like the guys; I'm fond of them, too. My husband knows quite a bit about computers, but sometimes not as much as he says he does - then I'm in trouble.
Jo - I hate to say it, but I'm so glad I have company!
Joan - Time to check into blackmail. Works for me (sometimes).
Linda - My guys will go with all types of computers; you should check your local computer store to see if you can find them!
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I want one. How fun...I am always awesomeized..(new word) over user of Mac's that live in a hugely PC world.ReplyDelete
Hummer - I love the word "awesomeized." Sometimes it's a pain using Macs when you have to wait to get the Mac version of certain programs and apps, but I love the simplicity of it and besides, my husband would never support anything else.ReplyDelete
How neat-I've never seen the little dudes before! But I think I need one : )ReplyDelete
Aw, I must get me some power dudes! How cool!ReplyDelete