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New Blind Spot Monitoring from ZF
At the IAA Commercial Vehicles Show, ZF, a global leader in driveline and chassis technology as well as active and passive safety technology, will present solutions that can help make trucks safer in inner-city trafficusing a radar-based turn assist system to monitor the entire vehicle side.
The system tackles the challenge of blind spots presented by current mirror configurations. The driver is given a warning as soon as other road users approach the blind spot or collision zone.
This will be further developed into the Side Vision Assist system, which will additionally incorporate camera images. Thanks to intelligent algorithms and interconnected sensors, this system can also actively engage the steering system and, if necessary, carry out emergency braking. This makes it an important building block for trucks with automated functions.
When trucks that are driving in inner cities are involved in accidents during turning, these can have severe consequences. Incidents can involve vulnerable individuals such as cyclists and pedestrians. In the past year, there were 76 fatalities and over 3000 injuries in Germany alone, according to the German Statistics Office.
Fredrik Staedtler, head of Commercial Vehicle Technology Division, said: "Assistance systems can help to make trucks safer and help prevent accidents during turning. At IAA in Hanover this year, we'll be giving an outlook on solutions in this area.".
In the near future, ZF will add a turn assist system to its portfolio. The system is based on two radar sensors, which are mounted on the lower right side of the truck. This can provide comprehensive coverage of the potential collision zone, even in unclear situations or poor visibility. The turn assist system is of particularly help to the driver when objects approach the truck's hazard area or when stationary road users suddenly start moving – which can be the case when cyclists are involved in accidents during turning. In this event, the system gives out a visual, acoustic or haptic warning as necessary.
Further development towards an active system
To help prevent collisions during turning even more efficiently, ZF is developing its turn assist function into an active system. The Side Vision Assist system can not only warn drivers, but can also intervene and initiate emergency braking or avoidance maneuvers if necessary. To accomplish this, the Side Vision Assist system uses several cameras in addition to radar sensors to recognize movements and identify pedestrians and cyclists. By doing this, the system creates a comprehensive view around the truck arranged in one display, a decisive advantage for drivers, as they now receive important information which they previously would have gained only by using six separate exterior rear-view mirrors..
With this active system, ZF creates an important requirement for autonomous capable trucks: The algorithms developed by ZF support deep learning. This enables ZF proAI to perceive the truck's surroundings, evaluate the situation on the road in real time and react accordingly if necessary. This is made possible because ZF's system approach enables the control unit to be connected directly to the truck's actuators. If the driver does not respond to a warning, this allows the system to independently brake, come to a complete stop or navigate around obstacles.
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Denmark is set to welcome a record number of travellers this year.
Its life philosophy of "hygge," a world-famous foodie scene and a wildly popular Nordic Noir film industry are among attractions luring tourists.
The Danish Chamber of Commerce estimates that at the current rate, hotels in the country will respond to the influx by providing enough beds to accommodate 10 million tourists by 2021, which is almost twice Denmark's population.
Notable recent visitors include the Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman, who in a New York Times column noted that Denmark is "doing a very good job of hiding" its alleged status as a "socialist hellhole."
Given the buzz around visiting Denmark and with hotel occupancy rates already around 80%, the industry is planning to raise supply considerably to accommodate even more tourists. And as banks and other businesses move into cheaper accommodation, hotels are popping up in prime locations everywhere.
Examples include a five-star waterfront Hilton that is due to replace the local headquarters of the Nordic's biggest bank, Nordea. At the other end of the scale, the budget chain Wakeup is adding hundreds of rooms across the city.
In all, there'll be about 8,000 more rooms over the next four years, raising supply at a rate of around 11% per year (in contrast, a total of 6,500 rooms were added in the previous 17-year period).
The Copenhagen tourism board, Wonderful Copenhagen, is forecasting an annual growth rate in visitors of 3.9%, raising projected hotel stays to around 7.58 million a year by 2021.
The expected increase in demand may fall short of supply. But Lars Ramme Nielsen, head of tourism at the Danish Chamber of Commerce, says giving customers more choice is well worth the risk, given that a standard room in an average hotel today can cost more than €220 per night.
City officials say they want to build on the popularity of restaurants like Noma to lure more foodies and turn Copenhagen into the gastronomical capital of Europe.
Unusually warm weather and hosting of the ice hockey World Cup in May helped push arrivals in the first half of the year to a record.
In his column, Krugman spoke glowingly of a bike ride he made from Copenhagen to Helsingor (the Elsinor in Shakespeare's Hamlet). However, a note of caution is warranted.
Danes take bike riding very seriously and the best way to anger a local as a tourist (aside from criticising the socialist welfare model) is to stand in the middle of one of the country's many bike lanes.
With 350km of dedicated paths and lanes, Copenhagen is considered the most bike-friendly city in the world. About a third of its citizens cycle to work on a regular basis, and rent-a-bike businesses have multiplied.
"I don't think the tourists realise how hardcore cycling in Copenhagen is," said Christian Vas, a 38-year-old Hungarian waiter who drives a typical Christiania cargo bike and who made the city his home four years ago.
Aurimas Mul, a
30-year-old business owner, notes that tourists are easy to spot on their
rented bikes, so the trick is "to keep your distance, especially when I
ride my racing bike".
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Over 2,500 users in Luxembourg could be affected by Facebook scandal
Over 87 million users have been affected worldwide by unauthorised data usage
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The latest Facebook scandal also affects users from Luxembourg.
Up to 2,645 users from the Grand-Duchy could be affected, Benelux Facebook spokeswoman Tineke Meijerman told the Luxembourg Times' sister publication the Luxemburger Wort on Friday.
The unauthorised use of information from millions of Facebook users by the data analysis company Cambridge Analytica has sent the social media giant's value plummeting and forced its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, to apologise publicly following worldwide outrage.
Cambridge Analytica gained access to user data through the application "Thisisyourdigitallife", a personality test.
The application also let the company access data from Facebook friends of anyone who downloaded the app, which triggered a snowball effect.
Overall, the company is said to have gained access to the data of 87 million users. In Luxembourg, only one person downloaded the application, Meijerman said.
Facebook wants to inform its users worldwide starting Monday about the possible disclosure of their data to third parties. The information should appear at the top of users' newsfeeds.
All apps that users are connected to on Facebook should also be displayed there in a separate message and it should include an easy way to delete these apps.
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After suffering through the worst crisis in a generation, Norway's oil industry is now back on its feet Oil rig in Norway (AFP) Here are five charts that tell the story of how Norway's biggest industry tackled the crisis, from the surprising windfalls to the challenges ahead. Most are based on new data from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
1. Recovering Investments
Oil companies in Norway are increasing spending for the first time this year since crude prices collapsed in 2014, the directorate predicted in annual forecasts published last week. Optimism has returned with crude prices hitting €57 a barrel at the same time as drastic cost cuts have made projects even more profitable.
2. Costs Slashed
Forced to react as crude prices hit a low of €22 a barrel in January 2016, oil companies not only cut back on activity levels but also implemented sweeping efficiency programs to lower expenses across their operations. Drilling an exploration well offshore Norway cost about 240 million kroner on average in 2017, half the price from 2013 and 2014, according to the NPD. Operating costs have been reduced by 30% in the same period.A Norwegian oil rig in the North Sea (AFP)
3. Production Revival
Arguably the most surprising result of the oil crisis is a spectacular rise in production. Companies have been able to pump more oil and gas thanks to cheaper and faster drilling, smoother platform operations and simpler and quicker development work. After reducing long-term output forecasts in January 2015 and 2016, the NPD raised expectations for the second year in a row last week. Total production is now seen close to 2004's record in 2023.4.
Exploration Concerns
But looking ahead, there's concern. The number of wells drilled offshore Norway was the lowest in almost a decade in 2016 and activity hasn't picked up since. As discoveries also get smaller, Norway isn't close to replacing production with new reserves. Explorers must get moving if the country can hope to limit a new drop in output from the middle of the next decade, the NPD's head Bente Nyland said on Thursday.
5. Big Oil Flees
During the oil slump, BP and Exxon Mobil gave up on their role as active operators on the Norwegian continental shelf, with Total all but following suit. After disappointing results in a record exploration campaign in the Barents Sea in 2017, all the majors except for Royal Dutch Shell snubbed a new, Arctic-focused licensing round. That's created concerns in Norway's oil industry, as the Barents holds more than half of the country's undiscovered resources.
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Anytime I have been able to create a one-to-one relationship with another brand and push forward with a marketing and monetization plan, that's been the most lucrative.
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But they pale in comparison to the times I've been able to work directly with a brand's CEO or Marketing Manager and partner with them in the form of sponsored content, webinars, or even brand evangelism.
Those are the kinds of deals that certainly require a history of proven site traffic and social engagement, but once you build up your brand to that level, it's a lot of fun and very profitable.
That's why I'm looking forward to using Trafeze to generate more relationships along those lines.
What Has Been Your Least Effective Monetization Technique?
I've deliberately experimented with a lot of monetization techniques, particularly passive ones, so there have been quite a few that have resulted in terrible returns.
AdSense has never been fantastic for me, but there have been far worse techniques.
As a category, for me, the least effective monetization techniques have been "Related Content" — widgets that usually appear below existing articles on my site and recommend other (external) stories my readers might be interested in.
It's a great concept, and I know it works well on larger, mainstream sites like CNN.com, but on my site the recommendations have always been too off-topic. Instead of showing 8 business- and marketing-related articles, the widgets include stories about celebrities, weight-loss, and other uninteresting content.
And so, not surprisingly, my readers don't click on the articles. One service I tried, Nster, ran for about 3 months and resulted in approximately $0.06 in earnings. Six cents! That's on a site that gets about 50k readers a month.
The silver lining here was that it underscored for me the importance of matching your monetization techniques with your target audience and content topics. The more inline they are, the more effective they will be.
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Now, as we mentioned earlier, these experts represent a wide array of bloggers and online businesses, all of them with their own goals and models. "Monetization techniques" therefore had different meaning to each.
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Most of the experts cited Products, Email Marketing or Courses as their most effective technique for monetization.
What's interesting is that for information-based businesses, it's easy and natural to combine all three of those, isn't it?
A course, technically, is a product, and once you've developed an email list of interested subscribers, you can market and monetize that course. That's something that Tor Refsland talked about, specifically.
He said that he pre-launched his course by inviting interested people to subscribe, surveyed them, then built both a free course (as promised) and a more advanced course that was fee-based.
As you read and re-read the techniques outlined above, it's that kind of synergy that you want to look for. Combine multiple techniques and approaches to create revenue streams that are lucrative and sustainable.
Least Effective Monetization Techniques
As for least effective, well, that wasn't even close.
Nobody likes banner ads.
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A meal lacking color is not as aesthetically pleasing nor as flavorful and nutritious as a meal bursting with green, orange, red, purple and more.
Yesterday, as in many previous posts, I made reference to the phytonutrient-rich properties of colorful vegetables.
Last week after posting information about food-pyramids, the ANDI food ranking list and tips for shopping on a budget for health and wellness, a friend remarked that sometimes food just seems scary!
That is, she said, if you deviate from the prescribed 5 servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
Prescriptive information can be scary; in fact, I think it's best used as a guideline rather than the formula.
When I googled "servings of fruits and vegetables per day," five did appear to be the number, but it did go as high as nine.
One food pyramid suggested 2-4 servings of fruit and 3-5 of veggies a day -- if you did eat the 4 and the 5 then you would be consuming 9 servings in total.
Frankly, I find the idea of the 2-4 and 3-5 servings not scary, but potentially daunting in its capacity to cause me to feel obsessive about counting and weighing and measuring my food, which is no fun.
I like color. And preparing my meals so that they are filled with a combination of green, purple, orange, red, yellow and white is a far easier, less neurotic way to ensure eating sufficient veggies and fruits.
And I like this fun little tune about color; it sure beats perusing pyramids and counting portions.
I also get quite excited by the art of coordinating vegetables and fruits so that the end result is a plate vibrating with interest, texture, flavor, and of course color.
The pic above is a plate of braised winter vegetables: leftover orange-yellow acorn squash from yesterday's meal, purple cabbage, curly green kale, and white and green spring onions.
I love the combination of the purple against the yellow-orange squash -- I probably wouldn't wear it, but it's gorgeous on a white plate!
For flavor, I tossed in a clove of peeled and chopped garlic and the same of a chunk of fresh ginger root, plus a couple rashers of Applegate certified-humane turkey bacon.
I served the veggies atop a portion of cooked quinoa (yesterday it was quinoa noodles) which I'd drizzled with olive oil, salt and pepper and then I poached an egg and set it in the middle (pic left).
This made for a rainbow-of-meal with who knows how many servings of veggies, but without a doubt plenty of color, and thus plenty of phyto-nutrients, and it included neutral-colored quinoa, a high-protein grain, plus a white and yellow Omega 3-rich egg.
Color: Eat it; it's good for you!
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Discursividades da/sobre a ditadura militar em uma hemeroteca digital
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This work aims to study the discourse functioning of the brazilian military dictatorship in the headlines and the Última Hora's journal reports, using the french discourse analysis theory, specially inscribed around Michel Pêcheux and the studies of Mikhail Bakhtin. The way the subject is positioned in relation to the military dictatorship and how this positioning is reflected in the digital newspaper libraries that stores the papers constitutes the problem of this study , which has as its theoretical pillars of the sociohistorical conditions of production of meanings and discoursive memory underlying all sayings. Therefore, this work will analyze the corpus of headlines and reports from the collection of digitized periodic Última Hora from 1964 to 1969, copies of which are available on the website of the Public Archives of the State of Sao Paulo. To make a counterpoint, also have added to the corpus of newspaper headlines and reports Folha de S. Paulo (1965), Jornal do Brasil (1964), and O Estado de S. Paulo (1973 to 1974), available in their electronic holdings. Analysing the selected clippings, we can assume how memory and archive discoursive, which are inserted in a certain socio-historical context, inscribes itself in this discoursivity and influences the production of meaning. Note that these movements of meanings in clippings includes a way to think about how language is constantly struck by history, how the senses migrate according to the position the subject occupies as the circulation of words in the headlines and reports newspapers dialogues with the senses in the different socio-historical contexts


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Last season, there were rumors about some tension between New England Patriots quarterbacks Tom Brady and Jimmy Garoppolo.
But over the weekend, Brady and Garoppolo, along with other members of the Patriots, were at Churchill Downs to take in the Kentucky Derby.
Hear what Jermaine Wiggins had to say about the two signal-callers' relationship in the video above from "NESN Sports Today," presented by People's United Bank.
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For their second layover on The Daily Buzz, The Savvy Stews' layover kicked off with a tour of Santa Monica, by bike — but not just, any bike! The Stew's and a few of their friends went for a ride on the Original Beach Barcycle. A 16 passenger bike that requires manpower to glide you to nearby local pubs. It's a great way to burn those liquid calories! – The Beach Barcycle
They then headed over to check-in at Hotel Angeleno, a perfectly situated hotel for easy access to all that the Los Angeles area has to offer. The West Lounge, located on the top floor of the hotel, offers patrons a great place to relax for happy hour while overlooking the infamous LA rush hour. West also offers a fine dining experience with a full dinner menu! – Hotel Angeleno
Los Angeles has so much to offer, and we needed to see all of it, so next we headed off to the Cangoa Park Art Walk and got to meet Allan Carter, the author of the comic book "Damn Tourists." – Carter Comics
Lastly, the Savvy Stews headed over to Brick and Mortar in Santa Monica to check out their food..and beer! Their food was as fresh as it could be since the restaurant doesn't own a freezer! The manager told our Stews that they converted the freezer into a keg storage area forcing the chef to ensure that all ingredients were delivered fresh – daily! They tried too much good food to list — seriously everything was amazing! You've got to check out this restaurant when visiting Los Angeles! – Brick & Mortar


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Noah Lukeman is President of Lukeman Literary Management Ltd, which he founded in 1996. His clients include winners of the Pulitzer Prize, American Book Award, Pushcart Prize and O. Henry Award, finalists for the National Book Award, Edgar Award, and Pacific Rim prize, multiple New York Times bestsellers, national journalists, major celebrities, and faculty of universities ranging from Harvard to Stanford. He has also worked in the New York office of a multi-talent management company, where he represented many New York Times Bestsellers, and, prior to founding his agency, he also worked for another New York literary agency. Prior to becoming an agent he worked in the editorial departments of several publishers, including William Morrow, Delphinium Books and Farrar, Straus, Giroux, and as editor of a literary magazine. He was creator of PrePub.com, one of the first publishing rights websites, which eventually became the "Booktracker" division of Inside.com. As a literary agent, he has been written up in media ranging from
The New York Times to Variety (Page 1).
Lukeman is also an accomplished author. His best-selling The
First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying out of the Rejection
Pile (Simon & Schuster, 1999), was a selection of many of
Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers and is now part of the
curriculum in many universities. His The
Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life (St. Martins Press,
2002) was a National Bestseller, a BookSense 76 Selection, a Publishers
Weekly Daily pick, a selection of the Writers Digest Book Club, and a
selection of many of Writer's Digest 101 Best Websites for Writers. His A
Dash of Style: The Art and Mastery of Punctuation (W.W. Norton,
2006 and Oxford University Press in the UK, 2007) was
critically-acclaimed, a selection of the Writers Digest Book Club and the Forbes Book Club,
was profiled on NPR, and is now part of
the curriculum in over 50 universities and writing programs. As
a way of giving back to the writing community, Mr. Lukeman gives away for free
two of his books: How to Write a
Great Query Letter, which was the #1 Bestselling title on Amazon Shorts for
many months, and How
to Land (and Keep) a Literary Agent. He has also made available over 100
pages of free advice for authors from all his books, which you can read by
clicking here. He also maintains a blog, Ask
a Literary Agent, where he gives away 200 pages of free information.
has also worked as a collaborator, and is co-author, with Lieutenant
General Michael "Rifle" Delong, USMC, Ret., of Inside Centcom
(Regnery, 2005), a selection of the Military Book Club. His Op-Eds
co-authored with General Delong appeared in the Sunday New York Times,
The Wall Street Journal and The Dallas Morning News. He has
contributed articles about the publishing industry and the craft of
writing to several magazines, including Poets & Writers, Writers
Digest, The Writer, the AWP Chronicle and the Writers Market,
and has been anthologized in The Practical Writer (Viking, 2004).
Noah is author of The Tragedy of
Macbeth, Part II, (Pegasus Books, 2008) an original play written
in blank verse, which aspires to pick up where Shakespeare's Macbeth
left off. Macbeth II was critically-acclaimed, and featured as
recommended reading in New York Magazine's 2008 "Fall
Preview." He has also written several screenplays, one of which, Brothers
in Arms, was chosen as one of Hollywood's 100 Best Scripts of the
Year on the 2007 Black List and is currently in development at a major
Noah Lukeman has been a guest speaker on the subjects of writing and publishing
in numerous forums, including
Harvard University, the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, the
graduate writing program at Stanford University, the graduate
playwrighting division of the Juilliard School, The Hotchkiss School, the Writers Digest Panel at Book Expo America, the MFA at Northern Michigan University, the National Society of Newspaper Columnist's annual Boston conference,
George Mason's Fall for the Book Festival in Washington, D.C., writing
conferences in New York City, Portland, Oregon, Seattle, San Diego, North
Carolina, Columbus, Ohio, and in Riker's Island Penitentiary. He earned his B.A. with High Honors in English and Creative Writing from Brandeis University, cum laude.
Noah also serves on the board of the BedStuy Campaign Against Hunger.
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For years I wished there was a way to make the referral process smoother, for myself, my team, my referring doctor and the patients caught in the middle. After time, I identified these key steps to lessen the frustration for everyone throughout the referral process, no matter what specialist you're working with. So here is how to be a good (and happy) referring dentist:
The Paperwork
We often get patients without referral slips, so we ask at the very least, please fill out the form! Put any of your clinical findings on there, and make sure they are accurate — I can't tell you how many times the wrong tooth number is circled! Or the doctors just use the referral slip as a way to give the patient directions to the office, and there is no clinical information on it.
Make sure the patient brings the referral form to the office, because that's really the only information or communication between your office and the specialist. You won't believe how many patients leave the form at home or in their car because they don't understand how important it is.
We recently had a patient who had a huge language barrier, and there was nothing on the referral slip, so I didn't know what the doctor wanted me to examine. The patient pointed to everywhere in her mouth and said "It hurts me here." The patient was frustrated and we didn't know where to start. The appointment took double the time. Not a great patient experience, and all of this could have been prevented with a completed slip!
Is it an Emergency?
Handling emergency patients is something that endodontists deal with every day, both true and supposed dental emergencies. And while most practices leave spots in the schedule for patients in need, assessing what is TRULY an emergency is SO important for a referring dentist. In our office we use a pain scale: P1, P2, P3:
- P1 is what we label when the patient is in so much pain they can't think straight.
- P2 represents that yes, the patient is in pain, but pain meds are working.
- And P3 represents that the patient needs a root canal, but they really don't have any pain and they can wait for an appointment.
And sometimes we get referring dentists who are pushing patients with little to no pain (P3s) as emergencies, that we "MUST fit in immediately!". We want our level of communication with referring dentists to be open and transparent, so we can be on the same page. This pain scale is a simple communication tool that can be used by both the GP office and the specialist's office and it's easily understood by the non-clinical team members, too.
In our office if we are getting a patient sent over the same day, we like to speak to the patient directly. We want to discuss their insurance and finances, or let them know there may be a wait because we're working them in. A lot of patients arrive and expect to be brought right back, and the patient may not be able to wait that day. So let your patient know about the schedule, or that there may be a delay, so they can arrive prepared and in the right mindset, since they didn't have an appointment that day.
Prepping Your Patient
You want to make sure your patient understands WHY they're being referred. Let them know the specialist is also going to be doing an evaluation, mainly to confirm your diagnosis and also to orient the patient with the procedure. Most Endodontists see so much referred pain on a daily basis that they need to confirm your findings before they dive in.
In my office, the evaluation is more of an orientation, so the patient knows what we're going to do, what to expect, how they're going to feel, and what the post op recovery is going to be like. We take time because we really want patients to understand what goes into their care. Perhaps your Endodontist works the same way. Sometimes an extra evaluation appointment can be frustrating, for both the patient's schedule and finances. But in the end I've learned that people really want to learn about their health and understand the process.
Your patient should also know that additional radiographs may be necessary, taken at different angles than the ones that are sent by your office. And maybe additional imaging is needed, like a cone beam, that could help diagnose but also be used as an education tool to show the patient. For example if there's a missed canal, a cone beam image can show the patient why re-doing the root canal would be beneficial.
So you should prep your patient that there may be an evaluation and additional radiographs first. Most endodontists will triage patients, using proper pain management, and then decide whether within 24-48 hours they can get all the treatment done in one step. Or if the patient's pain level is through the roof and they can't make it through the night, that patient should become first priority and treatment is usually started right away. Trust your endodontist to make the right call for your patient.
When you spend just a few more minutes to walk your patient through the process of going from your office, to the next office, and then back, they feel good. If your specialist is having the same conversation with the patient that YOU'VE had, that confirmation puts the patient at ease. It decreases their anxiety, they feel better about both parties, and they feel better about the whole process.
Build a Relationship
A level of communication from your front office to the specialist's front office is imperative. Take the time to get to know your specialist, and get to know their flow. Meeting the people on the "other end" to make a connection is so important. Get together over coffee, at a lunch and learn, or for dinner to put the face to the voice, so there can be better communication — THAT in my opinion is the best recipe for success. Your patient will be cared for better and the specialist will understand the patient's level of pain a bit better.
And don't underestimate that sometimes the doctor needs to get on the phone and talk to the endodontist because it's such a special case. I will tell you that I'm leary of the doctor who calls me wanting a same day appointment, but they've never referred to me before, yet they're expecting emergency treatment. That's why having a relationship with your endodontist is key. It's disheartening when we get the call from a referring office "If you can't see this patient right away we're going to call someone else" – click! We get that a lot, and it's not a great way to foster a partnership.
You will want to start a relationship with a few different endodontists or specialists. So when you have that patient who can't stand the pain, and your main specialist may be fully committed to other patients, you have somewhere to go. We're not happy to say no, but sometimes there's just no wiggle room in the schedule.
So, I hope that was a helpful view from the "other side" of the referral slip. Putting these steps in place will make the referral transition much smoother for both you and your specialist. When you become a good referring dentist, your patients' experiences improve, and so does your practice!


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"I'm a bit of a gourmet chef. I love cooking – mostly Thai food." – Will Ferrell
There is always that one individual at work or in the family that always looks angry or never happy. Even during occasions that are cause for celebration we end up asking ourselves, why does he always look pissed off? Why does he always seem like he is never happy? What is that guy's problem? And we come to conclusion that guy looks like a straight douche bag. Well friends I am here to tell you that in actuality he suffers from "RDF" or Resting Douche Face. RDF is a very real condition that afflicts millions around the world. The name RDF is just one of many names for this affliction. Other more common names such as "stone face," "resting a-hole face" and "Hey! That guy is a douche!" are more well-known in society.
RDF is a condition that progresses very quickly into full-blown RDF. RDF sufferers spend a large amount of their time telling others how important, miserable, and tough they are. These individuals are literally so important they develop full blown RDF in just a few weeks' time. When the RDF is not busy talking about themselves it is very easy them to hide among crowds, given the high number of RDF sufferers.
In this article I hope to help educate you in the anatomy, psychology, recognition, and empower you with the ability to help those afflicted with RDF. Also, I will help you identify those resting douche faces that use their affliction to serve the Dark Lord and the forces of evil. And together we can help bring an end to this crippling and often times nasty affliction.
Below we start with the facial structure of someone with RDF.
Facial structure of the RDF:
The cranial facial structure of the RDF is simplistic in nature. The mouth is the most noticeable feature always flat, resembling a frown or an arrogant smirk. The brows give the afflicted the appearance they are angry, not happy, or just plain better than all those around. The eyes of the RDF are looking forward most of the time and usually hide from the gaze of others who attempt to greet them. The more confident RDFs will stare down those they perceive as weak or silently look around the room judging all those in their gaze. And the hair is more elusive and can be any style or fashion.
All of these signs are clear indicators of RDF.
Psychology of RDFs:
Those afflicted with RDF like to project a sense of importance, arrogance, sadness, anger and misery in doses and sometimes all at once. The RDF is ingrained in the affected individual's psychology with a primal urge to spread misery or their importance much like a virus. The RDF feels their purpose on earth is let everyone know they are important or how miserable their existence really is. Do not confuse the psychology of the RDF with those existentialists or nihilists who are legitimately dead inside.
The psychology of RDF is very similar to that of a soul sucker and a jive turkey.
Methods of identification:
There are methods that can be used to identify those afflicted with RDF. Below is a list of a few of these methods.
- You observe that their face is in a constant state of douche.
- You hold the door for them and they do not thank you.
- You walk give them the greeting of the day and receive no acknowledgement.
- You ask them how their day is going and immediately they start telling you about how valuable or miserable they are.
- You ask them to "hold the elevator" and they do not.
- You ask them if the information you sent them helped and they reply with "Yeah."
- In email exchanges there is no "greeting" or they reply with one word/sentence responses.
- You make a positive comment about their work and they ignore you.
There are many more effective methods to identify suffering from RDF. The common RDF sufferer sometimes has the special ability to feed off the life force or auras of others. Not to the degree that an energy vampire can but just enough to make others around them know they are in the room. Others have the ability to literally "suck" the joy out of the room when they enter (Very much like dementors in J.K Rowling's world). This often times drains the energy of others around them leading to midafternoon naps at the work station or heavy alcohol consumption after work and in more extreme cases while at work. Possibly the rarest of these special abilities is the ability to suck out a person's soul through mere eye contact (Again, very much like dementors in J.K Rowling's world, though I have not noticed eyes on those creatures in the movies. Wife forced me to watch Harry Potter movies. She is a fanatical Potterhead). The RDF will actually use this energy to strengthen their RDF powers. The most tragic side effect from an RDF possessing these abilities is that most of the time they are not even aware they are doing it. This further leads to their RDF growing more pronounced and aggravating.
Types of RDFs:
The most dangerous of the RDFs are those that are aware of their affliction and special abilities and use them for the forces of evil. These individuals can leave a wake of destruction in their path and are actively working to spread their misery or sense of self-absorbed importance. Misery loves company and so do the RDFs. These individuals only have the desire to torment others with their RDFs and keep the affliction running strong and spreading. They care only for self-gain and their megalomaniacal pursuits. Many of these dangerous RDFs answer to the Dark Lord i.e. the Dark Lord of insecurity and misery. Some will moonlight as collections agents, social justice warriors or politicians when not working at their day jobs. This class of RDFs also has the uncanny ability to fend off any unwanted attention and can actually adapt to the environment around them. They use their RDFs as a form of cloaking device that allows them to camouflage themselves in the work environment, intensifying their already dangerous nature. The good news for the general population is that these RDFs are few and far between.
Average RDF sufferers are much milder and are not as dangerous. Most do not mean to project an RDF or to suck the energy out of their coworkers. They do this passively. Being around the average RDF leaves non-afflicted individuals in a constant state of irritability and tiredness, but this usually subsides when the RDFs are out of line of sight. This often leaves the average RDF feeling isolated or with the heightened need to display their RDF to others. The average RDF is left with a longing to let others know how important or miserable they are.
RDF Intervention:
Most afflicted with RDF have no idea they have it. And often times when brought to their attention that they may be suffering from RDF, many become offended, triggered, and secretly wrought with guilt. RDF is scientifically proven to play havoc on the male ego and directly attacks innately Type A- personalities. Those that diagnose someone suffering from RDF need to be ready for retaliation from the individual. Be prepare for snarkier comments, your name being added to the workplace rumor mill and even a possible direct confrontation resulting in either a bat or knife fight in the workplace parking lot. Rarely will those suffering from RDF attack you directly. Typically, those RDFs who feel the need to retaliate do their deeds or plot their vengeance behind the scenes working ruin you. I guess you could add backstabbing to their many malevolent ways/skill sets.
Taking on the responsibility of informing those afflicted with RDF that they have RDF is something not to be taken lightly. Remember, you just diagnosed them with an affliction that could affect them for life. You are a crusader for the truth and want them to be aware of their affliction. You are a beacon of truth in helping them cope with RDF and finding the strength to endure it and thrive. Continue marching forward and helping those afflicted with RDF by bringing them down a notch. This is their beginning to the path of recovery or your untimely doom.
Treatment for RDF:
There is hope and treatment for those with RDF. If you think you or someone you know is experiencing RDF, here is a short list of effective treatment methods for you:
- Stop being a selfish douche bag.
- Stop thinking you are the world's greatest gift.
- Learn to laugh at jokes.
- Misery will only lead you down a path of destruction.
- If someone says hello, say hello back.
- If a person sees you, acknowledge them and they will likely acknowledge you back.
- Say thank you.
- Smile
To the rest of society, keep up the good work in helping those with RDF. Being able to recognize the signs of RDF is important, so arm yourself with that knowledge and do your homework. Because remember it is up to you to identify, intervene, and stop RDFs from dragging everyone else down. As someone afflicted with RDF myself, I am confident that by sharing my expertise in RDF anatomy, I am doing a great service to all. And while I have had it for years, believe me when I say, today is a new day.
About the author: Bobby has been afflicted with resting douche face for most of his life. He often times claims it is because of the cranial maxio-facial reconstructive surgery he suffers from RDF, but this claim is false. He often time refers to himself as an "awaken RDF" wanting to make others aware just how dangerous RDF really is and how to stop it. Bobby enjoys lattes, blogs, hand warmers, and key chains in the shape of human ears. Muse credit to Mr. Mack.


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In my previous blog, I defined the critical capabilities of Container Native Application Protection across five key domains. These domains were aligned to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as an easy guide to evaluate these capabilities. Now that the critical capabilities are defined, let's compare and contrast them with the other approaches. In this blog, let's focus on the kernel plugin approach.
For this comparison, I'm going to consolidate a number of critical capabilities into the "Top 10". These "Top 10" address the critical runtime capabilities across all five domains. Since the Identify domain focuses primarily on static images, I have not included it in this review. Also, the static analysis components of the Detect domain are also not included in this review.
This domain focuses on initial deployment and supported technology requirements of the solution. For this domain, I've included the following five key deployment capabilities combined into the first three of our "Top Ten" for comparison:
- Does not require changes to container infrastructure (i.e., kernel module, host agent, etc.)
- Supported technologies, including:
- Support for Container as a Service (i.e., AKS, ECS, EKS, GKS, etc.),
- Support for Function as a Services (i.e., Lambda), and
- Support for Serverless Computing
- Does not require root privileges/commands to run (i.e., nsenter, capsysadmin, etc.)
Since the kernel plugin requires a kernel module to be installed on the host, changes to the underlying container infrastructure is required. This also limits such solutions portability to Container-as-a-Service, Function-as-a-Service, and Serverless Computing offerings.
Now remember, we're skipping Identify and focusing on the runtime aspects of Detect. This domain focuses on identifying cybersecurity events and detection processes for running containers. For this domain, I've included the following four key detection capabilities combined into the fourth of our "Top Ten" for comparison:
- Dynamic, or runtime, analysis, including:
- Monitor system calls
- Monitor storage activity (i.e., read, write, volume mounts)
- Monitor network communication (i.e., ports, services, protocols)
- Monitor application calls
Although the kernel module can monitor system, storage, and network activity, it does not natively support the ability to monitor application activity. Additional capabilities would need to be added, specific to the application languages(s).
This domain focuses on implementing appropriate protective safeguards for containers, specifically at runtime. For this domain, I've included the following nine key protection capabilities combined into the next five of out "Top Ten" for comparison:
- Support for dynamic policy enforcement (i.e., real-time policy updates)
- Dynamic, or runtime, protection, including:
- Enforce system call activity/behavior
- Enforce storage activity/behavior (i.e., read, write, volume mounts)
- Enforce network communication (i.e., ports, services, protocols)
- Enforce application call activity/behavior
- Additional file/storage protection, including:
- Enforce binary whitelist
- Enforce file/binary integrity
- Isolate/segment container-level communication (i.e., micro-segmentation)
- Enforce application call path
The same limitation from above, lack of native application support, impacts the comparison here, as well. The kernel module can support the system, storage, and network capabilities identified.
This last domain focuses on actions to address cybersecurity events, commonly known as incident response. For this domain, I've included the following three key response capabilities combined into the last of our "Top Ten" for comparison:
- Alerts and notifications, including:
- Support allow and alert
- Support allow, capture, and alert
- Support block and alert
The same limitation from above, lack of native application support, impacts the comparison here, as well. The kernel module has limited response capabilities for the application.
Although the kernel plugin covers three quarters or more of the critical capabilities across the Detect, Protect, and Respond domains, it's deployment capabilities are lacking. If your organization is looking to migrate to Container-as-a-Service, Function-as-a-Service, or Serverless computing options, then the kernel plugin approach will require you to re-architect your security solution.
On the other hand, a Container Native approach provides the added application protection and flexible deployment options. You can learn more by visiting layeredinsight.com/solutions/, requesting a demo here, or contacting us at [email protected].


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Genesis is a book of beginnings. It is the record of the beginning of all creation: the universe, the earth, mankind, and the people of Israel. It also contains a record of the beginning of sin and the circumstances of that beginning. This is normally referred to as 'The Fall.' As time progressed and sin increased, man eventually digressed so far that he started believing in and worshipping other so-called gods. As a part of this apostasy the account of the beginning of man slowly evolved to fit with the lifestyle of sin, as well as with these new gods and beliefs. Other things crept in to sometimes completely distort the account. But, some similarities remain.
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Archaeological, scientific and historical articles dealing directly with the issue of origins, evolution, the early chapters of Genesis and the Genesis Flood. (Genesis 1-9).
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Frequently in this column, the phenomenon of fitness cost has been discussed. This is when an organism, as it undergoes minor changes in reaction to changes in its environment, improves in one area of its abilities but pays a price by becoming less fit in another area. These minor changes are known as microevolution, in which the individual organism may undergo noticeable alterations and improvements, but does not become a new, superior species.
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Lateral gene transfer has been discussed several times previously in this column. This phenomenon occurs at the microscopic level, when bacteria or viruses that get inside a living organism transfer strands of their DNA to the host being. These strands then get worked into the DNA of the host, which in turns causes the host to change or mutate.
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In the 1970's, geologists discovered hydrothermal vents, holes in the ocean floor that spew out scalding hot water. They subsequently learned that these seemingly inhospitable environments actually permitted the existence of primitive life forms. Some scientists believe that such conditions, and not the 'warm little pond' theorized by Darwin, might have been the setting for the formation of the first life on Earth.
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The cover of the March-April 2010 issue of Harvard Magazine features the headline 'Malaria: An Elusive, Evolving Foe.' The article inside opens by referring to 'a reality of evolutionary biology: EVERYTHING changes and adapts, and microbes have a way of outmaneuvering medicine' (Humphries 2010: 42 [emphasis added]). The clearest case of this phenomenon is malaria, which rapidly adapts to outpace any new drug employed to combat it.
According to the article, 'Treating the disease with a drug immediately prompts its evolution toward developing resistance' (Ibid.). For example, after World War II the main anti-malarial drug, quinine, was replaced by a synthetic drug, chloroquine. 'Chloroquine resistance emerged separately in Southeast Asia and South America more than 50 years ago, and scientists can trace its origins to mutations in a specific gene. Gradually, the resistant types [of malaria-causing parasite] came to dominate' (Ibid. 42-43).
One notable aspect of this change in the malaria parasite is the extreme rapidity with which it occurs. The article refers to 'malaria's rapid evolution' (Ibid. 43) and further states:
In Africa, P. falciparum [one of the four parasites that cause malaria] has textbook conditions for an evolutionary perfect storm. With its two hosts [humans and mosquitoes] living in close proximity, the parasite has many opportunities to mate and diversify, but the bottlenecks it faces as it moves between mosquito and human ensure that only the best adapted individuals survive. This abundant variation, when combined with stringent selection, fosters rapid evolution (Ibid. 45).
The article then points out that the human species has likewise adapted to meet the onslaught of the malaria parasite:
…[T]he parasite's numbers exploded around the time agriculture was developed 10,000 years ago. Humans were then living in denser populations and clearing land for fields and settlements, which meant that some of them were living close to wet habitats where mosquitoes bred. Much of the malaria genome evolved after this large expansion, which was also when the mosquito species that transmit malaria began to expand and diversify' (Ibid. 45-46).
The article immediately goes on to state:
Scientists looking at the human genome can see that malaria has been one of the most important factors in shaping it ever since. The disease has a direct effect on human survival and reproduction….In fact, it was human adaptation to malaria that provided the first direct evidence that the human race has indeed evolved….[S]ickle cell anemia was found to arise from a genetic adaptation that protects people from malaria. Other blood disorders have subsequently been linked to malaria resistance as well, which helps explain why these seemingly harmful genetic diseases have become prevalent among people living in tropical areas' (Ibid. 46).
There are three important points to keep in mind. First, when the article mentions 'evolution,' it is referring to changes within a species. For example, it explicitly compares human evolution to the evolution of the four micro-organisms that cause malaria, yet, just as humans are still humans 10,000 years1 after suffering their first assault from malaria-causing parasites, the four parasites are still the same species. Second, as already mentioned, these micro-evolutionary changes have occurred rapidly, sometimes even within a few years of a new drug having been introduced to combat malaria. Third, as has been discussed several times in previous installments of this column, when a species (including humanity), micro-evolves to adapt to a new threat, it does so at a 'fitness cost,' that is, it grows stronger in its ability to combat the new threat (e.g., malaria), but gets weaker in another area (e.g., blood disorders in people who have built up an immunity to malaria).
In light of this, the use of the term 'evolution' in the Harvard Magazine article is not to be taken in the strict Darwinian sense of one species eventually turning into a new, different, superior species over millions of years. In both humans and the malarial parasites, they're still the same species.
Humphries, C. 2010. 'An Evolving Foe: Applying Genomic Tools to the Fight against Malaria.' Harvard Magazine 112, no. 4.
1. Editorial note: ABR holds that mankind, specifically Adam and Eve, was created recently, probably less than 8000 years ago, based on Biblical chronology (Genesis 1:27; 5:3; Romans 5:12ff; Mark 10:6). Part of the author's purpose here is to illustrate the fallacious equivocation that secular scientists regularly use in discussing macro and micro-evolution.
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Recent studies have suggested that the earliest life sprang from RNA, and two scientists have successfully created a strand of RNA that startlingly mimics the way primitive life is believed to have developed.
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Marrok is a 1930s criminal and a character exclusively featured in the 2010 videogame adaptation of Disney's The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
Also better known as the "Crime Lord" in the 1930s, Marrok actually a sorcerer who use his Morganian magic to enhanced his own physical attributes beyond normal sorcerers, giving him superhuman strength. He was eventually trapped inside the magical nesting doll known as The Grimhold by the Merinean wizard Balthazar Blake for aiding Maxim Horvath in his quest to free Morgana le Fay, the most powerful and malevolent witch of all time.
Marrok is a mafia crime lord from early 20th century New York who is known having strength beyond that of normal human and possesses a fancy car to cruise the city. His crime and involvement with Horvath resulting him confined within the Grimhold by Balthazar himself. To prevent suspicion from authority that led the world of magic into being become exposed to the public, Balthazar confiscated Marrok's car and hid it.
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He was released by Horvath in a junkyard at New York City's Uptown District where he expected Dave Stutler. He belittled Dave for being weak and having weaker physique than him. Dave wondered where did Horvath recruit the man, and Balthazar, through his telepathical projection, explained Marrok's history that led him to being incarcerated within The Grimhold. During the sorcerer's projection and his apprentice's conversations, Marrok wondered why Dave seemingly talked to himself (Balthazar uses his telepathical powers to only speak with Dave that Marrok cannot see the sorcerer's projection), confused that only two of them who physically present there. Marrok became impatient and challenges Dave to a fight.
In spite of his skills as physical adept, Marrok was defeated with Dave's more superior ability thanks to Balthazar's tutelage. This left Marrok become humiliated, and thus when Horvath seemingly come to his rescue, Horvath casts the Parasite Spell on Marrok to kill him and took his enchanted ring away. As Marrok lays dead, Balthazar realized that Horvath is worked on empowering himself to release Morgana from her centuries-old imprisonment.
Marrok is a brutish, combative, and belligerent Morganian who is quite confident to the point of arrogance. This conjuror always think himself tough, which Balthazar Blake stated to be true as he uses brute strength to end the battle. He is a short-tempered, aggressive and savage ruffian, but he is rather bright. He loves his fancy car, and his motivation to defeat the Prime Merlinean Dave Stutler is to retrieve his car from both him and Balthazar.
Powers and Abilities
Unlike other Morganians, Marrok was more like a physical adept due to utilizing his own magic to enhanced his physical attributes beyond regular sorcerers and had a golem fight with his side. He can also conjure several volatile bolts from the ground that can release omni-directional shockwave.
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BuddyBot – AARM
The Assistive Autonomous Robotic Machine, AARM, is a personal project led by two 3rd Year Mechanical/Mechatronics University of Waterloo friends, Safwan Qazi and Russell Wong. The project was initiated as part of the school's Velocity Residence program, a program which encourages students to invent creative solutions to challenging problems. With strong passions for robotics, Safwan and Russell are determined to bring more robots to the real world that interface well with human environments. AARM is a Robotic Butler Arm, that aims to be a consumer grade assistant robot that can perform menial tasks in the home to improve domestic life. This early prototype was made from the ground up with custom designed 3D-Printed parts based on a Arduino microcontroller. The Arm is controlled with a joystick and buttons to move the claw with an inverse kinematics algorithm which determines the motor angles to move the claw appropriately. The current iteration was designed to handle and move pop cans, ideally in a recycling scenario.
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Those visiting our exhibit will be able to play a game with our robot arm by controlling its motion, picking up and releasing various objects to get goals.
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There are many different topside boat paints and qualities, generally the more you spend the better the results.
Duralux High Gloss Marine Enamel is affordable and easy to apply and only recommended for above the waterline or moderate use on the bottom (a day or so in the water, not extended periods). This topside paint works best in very thin coats; see the prep recommendations found on product page on "how to use" tab. Duralux marine enamels does have a limited color offering in a flat finish, but those color choices are limited to their camouflage paint colors. For use on aluminum the Duralux Zinkromate Primer is recommended and for use on wood the Duralux Yacht Primer is recommended for best adhesion.
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The best available boat paint for the topside with the best finish is Awlgrip, most expensive but best results and loved by customers. Awlgrip marine paint also requires a little more "do it yourself savy" to apply these paints, and require the correct activators and reducers when applying. The manufacturer of Awlgrip recommends it for above waterline use only.
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Pakistan suffers from an extensive education crisis. Millions of Pakistani children do not attend school, and those that do must deal with absent teachers and poor learning environments, among other challenges. While this crisis is frequently discussed in Pakistan and beyond, it is often misunderstood. This new Wilson Center report, based on dozens of interviews with officials and experts across Pakistan, seeks to set the record straight. It reveals, for example, that contrary to popular narratives, Pakistan's education spending has increased significantly in recent years and is now nearly equivalent to the military budget. The report argues, however, that Pakistan must spend better, not simply spend more, in order to ease and ultimately solve its education crisis. Nadia Naviwala, the report's author and a Wilson Center public policy fellow, highlights myths about Pakistan's education budget and foreign aid; and compares how foreign donors and local leaders have sought to transform education in Pakistan, with emphasis on the central challenge of very poor learning levels.
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Nothing Young, Nothing Old
Posted by Dori on 16 April 2015 01:16 PM
If time is compressed, then we are always in the present moment? Even if our minds are in the past or future? Hmmm, so if this were true, and I am not saying that it is, then nothing is new or used, young or old. Hmmm.
What I do know is that spending time with people you love and who love you is the best possible thing to do in the present moment. Life is too short, let's have fun, kick some Google ass and make some money in the process! I LOVE SEO!
Speaking of SEO, now of course Forbes would only publish tips from "white hat" SEO's all about writing great content, but some of the tips were cool so I thought I would share it.
Barely anyone is doing SEO anymore. Google scared them all away so it is EASIER then ever to get your rankings back. Our guys at SEORockstars even talked about getting out of a manual penalty, which just makes me think more about time. What's that saying? Everything old is new again? LOL
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Calling All SEO's – I'm Hiring
Posted by Dori on 16 April 2015 12:58 PM
Yep, I'm hiring.
I am looking for the most talented SEO Professionals on the planet to join my team in an educational project to help Newbies not only understand but thrive with SEO/Online Marketing.
If you think you are good.. really good, and have a calling to teach, coach and mentor
If you think you have a seo product inside you and want to get it out and have me and
And, if you have extensive expertise in ANY of these SEO business models, reputation management, launch jacking, local seo/busienss placement, renting/leasing sites, affiliate seo, adsense, agency seo, ranking major keywords, ranking Amazon pages, ranking long tail, etc..
Email me at email@example.com with the suject line: SEO AWESOMENESS
p.s. Anik Singal may make Internet Marketing History. So far, we think the largest launch has been ASM but Anik has had over 200k opt-ins for this so he stands a chance to BEAT that launch!=:0
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Google Algorithm Change Launched.. and Felt!
Posted by Dori on 23 February 2011 03:14 PM
There has been a TON of buzz going around about the what I would like to call the "Valentine's Shake Down" and even though some people are reporting that their ranking are starting to come back, others are still down a couple spots or so, and others still, blown to the wood shed!
So, what happened?
On about Feb 7th rankings starting to rumble and it has sent SEO professionals (including me) into a frenzy trying to figure out what the heck was causing the decrease in rankings of seo'ed sites. (And, we still don't know for sure were the devalue is, but most will agree, there is a devaluing happening somewhere.)
So let's start late last year…
Last November, there are numerous reports from bloggers letting us know that they heard Matt Cutts speak and Pubcon and he said that "some of the webspam engineers had been loaned out on other projects but since the completion of most, he is getting them back and there were two big projects they were working on."
He was also reported to say that they will be taking a look at "Exact Match Domain" names and that he thinks right now having an exact match domain is giving a site too much power in the ranks and that this will be revealed in the coming months.
So it should be no surprise that…
On January 21st Google released a "State of Search" type of blog post that dove into webspam. In short, they said even though they have already made great progress, they "have new efforts underway to continue to improve our search quality." And.. "we're evaluating multiple changes that should help drive spam levels even lower, including one change that primarily affects sites that copy others' content and sites with low levels of original content."
And then on January 28 Matt Cutt's further told us on his blog in reference to the above quote, "That change was approved at our weekly quality launch meeting last Thursday and launched earlier this week." And he went on to say… "The net effect is that searchers are more likely to see the sites that wrote the original content rather than a site that scraped or copied the original site's content."
Well, I thought, that is great news!
Nobody likes the webspam sites anyway (Google defines webspam as junk you see in search results)
And, most of us who are doing any type of linking don't want the site we are linking "from" showing up in the rankings and heaven forbid they land on top of the site we are linking "too." (which sometimes happens if you are linking from an nice authority sites to a long tail keyword) I mean, we are NOT trying to rank THOSE sites so.. check, we're good!
So then on Feb 7th, the shake down became obvious that it may not just be sites with low quality content being targeted, it may also be low quality linking was next on the list.
Back in the original January 21 Google blog posts said, "The new classifier is better at detecting spam on individual web pages, e.g., repeated spammy words—the sort of phrases you tend to see in junky, automated, self-promoting blog comments." (see original site citation above)
Ok, check on that one too as I was glad I didn't do any of THAT! lol
But Backlinksforum.com was buzzing with so much conflicting evidence that a direct pin point on exactly is causing a link devaluation is unclear at best. I just know none of my moneys sites that have been linked to exclusively from my private blog networks were NOT affected, AND, what surprised me most is that I had one of my assistants doing some testing with profile links and xrumer and THOSE money sites were not affected either as they all held their rankings. Hmmm.
One of my sites did however drop from #4 to #17 on a major keyword, but I had also used someone else's link network on it AND the links were not contextual) Hmm.
Then on Feb 12, the JC Penny debacle was released to the world in the New York Times. WOW!
Bottom lining it, JC Penny was in so many #1 spots that it drew attention to the New York Times and as they investigated their story, it drew the Google's attention! Weather or not Google did a manual review and de-indexed sites that were contributing to the inflation of their rankings we won't know for sure, but JC Penny's rankings have suffered the same sort of ranking drops as many other seo'd sites. Not to the woodshed, but just a couple of spots or more.
And, since it has affected the entire SEO community, my bet is on the algorithm change that lowered JC Penny's rankings not a manual review. Or maybe both, but one thing is for sure, the rest of us got caught in the back wash. lol
Oh and for the most part "Exact Match Domains" are history. There are some exceptions of course, but unless they are a .com and have age and size, they have been pushed back into the nowheresville just for being an EMD.
So, the take away is?
Google's WebSpam engineers are baaaaaaack… making our lives interesting again!
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OMG! A Page Rank Update?
Posted by Dori on 25 January 2011 11:48 AM
It looks like it, smells like it, being reported as it, so… must be it! lol
Only took, what, 9 months since the last April 2nd Update? I really was beginning to believe we had seen the last of PR, but even though Google tells us not to pay attention to it, they give us another bone.
Not confirmed yet however. http://googlepagerankupdate.com/
And like the guys over at Search Engine Round Table asked… did it make you happy, sad, excited, bewildered, ready to throw the computer out the window?
Well, I will say that I am in the bewildered zone. I mean, I have SO much PR pointing at this domain that it should of been no less then a PR5!! But know, it went from a PR2 to a stinken PR3!?! WHAT THE?
And in all other cases most of my either stayed the same or lost PR, but that was expected as links shift around and I this is the only site I purposely did some PR sculpting.
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