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The Definitive Guide to Guest Blogging
Brian Dean
Last updated Jan. 11, 2017
The benefits of guest blogging are clear:
1. You land backlinks from authority sites.
2 . People look up to you as an expert.
3. Targeted referral traffic floods to your site.
Amazing, right?
The only question is:
How can you get BETTER results from guest posting?
That's easy: follow my step-by-step guide to guest blogging domination.
Step 1: Find Guest Post Targets
Before you write a single word you need a list of targets to submit your content to.
Here are eight proven strategies to find them.
#1: Google Search Strings
Looking for something besides the typical "keyword" + "write for us"?
I've got you covered.
Here are 40-ish search strings you can use to find guest blogging opportunities with ease:
Your Keyword "guest post"Your Keyword "write for us"Your Keyword "guest article"
Your Keyword "guest post opportunities"
Your Keyword "this is a guest post by"
Your Keyword "contributing writer"
Your Keyword "want to write for"
Your Keyword "submit blog post"
Your Keyword "contribute to our site"
Your Keyword "guest column"
Your Keyword "submit content"
Your Keyword "submit your content"
Your Keyword "submit post"
Your Keyword "This post was written by"
Your Keyword "guest post courtesy of "
Your Keyword "guest posting guidelines"
Your Keyword "suggest a post"
Your Keyword "submit an article"
Your Keyword "contributor guidelines"
Your Keyword "contributing writer"
Your Keyword "submit news"Your Keyword "become a guest blogger"Your Keyword "guest blogger"
Your Keyword "guest posts wanted"
Your Keyword "looking for guest posts"
Your Keyword "guest posts wanted"
Your Keyword "guest poster wanted"
Your Keyword "accepting guest posts"
Your Keyword "writers wanted"
Your Keyword "articles wanted"
Your Keyword "become an author"
Your Keyword "become guest writer"
Your Keyword "become a contributor"
Your Keyword "submit guest post"
Your Keyword "submit an article"
Your Keyword "submit article"
Your Keyword "guest author"
Your Keyword "send a tip"
Your Keyword inurl: "guest blogger"
Your Keyword inurl: "guest post"
allintitle: Your Keyword + guest post
#2: "My Guest Posts" Pages
Some bloggers love to brag about the places that they've been published.
And these lists are a gold mine of hard to find guest post targets.
Here's an example of what I'm talking about:
Here's how to find them:
Your Keyword "my posts on other blogs"
Your Keyword: "guest post"
Your Keyword "my guest posts"
Your Keyword "my guest blogs"
Your Keyword "posts on other blogs"
Your Keyword "I've been featured on"
Your Keyword "sites I've written for"
#3: Google Reverse Image Search
This is cool:
First, find a competitor that tends to guest post on a lot of high-quality blogs in your niche.
Then grab the URL of their headshot and pop it into Google reverse image search:
And you'll get a list of places they've guest posted presented to you on a silver platter:
#4: Twitter and Google +
You can use most search strings in Twitter and Google+ and get a completely different set of results .
And because Twitter results are fresher than Google's index you can usually find sites that are actively on the hunt for guest posts.
First, head over to Twitter search and enter your search string:
Then sift through the results to find potential guest posting targets:
You can follow a similar process over at Google+.
#5: Reverse Engineering
Reverse engineer your first and second page competition using your backlink tracking tool of choice.
When you do, you'll uncover a treasure trove of niche-specific guest posting opportunities.
The best part about this strategy is that you can find sites that aren't openly advertising the fact that they accept guest posts (which can make them hard to find using search strings).
But you CAN find them with reverse engineering.
#6: AllTop.com
If only there was a place that listed the best blogs on the internet, organized by niche.
Oh, wait there is !
It's called AllTop.com and it's my secret weapon when I want links from my niche's cream of the crop.
Just head over to AllTop, enter your keyword and you'll get a list of the niche's best sites:
Of course, not all of the sites in AllTop accept guest posts. But with enough legwork you can find a few gems that you may have otherwise missed.
#7: Blog Comment Bonanza
This is one of my all-time favorite link building strategies:
If you're a serial guest poster you've probably noticed that other bloggers often comment on your posts:
Instead of patting yourself on the back, why not reach out to Simon and Dave and ask them if they'd accept a post on their site?
They'll usually say yes (after all they liked your content enough to comment on it).
Here's a script that I use:
Hey Simon,
Thanks for taking the time to comment on my guest post at Example.com.
I never thought of the fact that (insert something they said in the comment).
That's a good point.
Anyway, I actually have another guest post idea that would be perfect for your site.
It's called: "5 Tips X…"
I could have it sent to you this week.
Either way, thanks again for your insights!
#8: Pre-Made Target Lists
Why spend hours searching for guest posting opportunities when other bloggers have already done the hard work for you?
For example, here's a fantastic list of guest posting targets:
To find them yourself, use these nifty search strings:
Your Keyword "guest posting sites"
Your Keyword "accept guest posts"
Your Keyword "guest post sites"
Step #2: Research Your Targets
Now that you have a decent-sized list it's time to refine the list and warm up your prospects.
Here's are four ways to do it:
#1: Separate Winners and Losers
High quality guest post writing is a resource intensive process.
Don't waste your precious time on sub par blogs.
Go all Darwin on your target list…and weed out weak sites.
In general you want sites that:
Have an authoritative link profile
Are related to your site
Only post high quality content
Have a real following
Can bring you targeted traffic ( Alexa )
Won't bury your link in an author bio area far below your content
Have a significant amount of Twitter followers and Facebook fans
Of course there's no objective set of criteria that will tell you "this blog fits the bill" or "this one doesn't cut the mustard".
You have to just use your noggin and stick to sites that give you the most bang for your buck.
#2: Warm Up Your Targets
If you're desperate for a link from a particular site (or if the site gets a lot of guest post submissions) you want to get on the webmaster's radar screen before your pitch.
That way, when you reach out, they'll be like "Oh yeah, that's Jim, the guy who leaves all those awesome comments."
Because this takes some time I recommend using this strategy ONLY for top-tier blogs in your niche.
Here's how:
1. Engage on Twitter: One of the fastest ways to get your name etched on a blogger's brain is to engage them on Twitter.
This is something that Andrew Youderlan of ecommercefuel.com did to get published on Shopify.com:
2. Blog Comment: Take a few minutes to write a legitimately insightful and helpful comment or two on their site and you'll be their BFF.
3. Email Them: If you're feeling frisky you can even email the site owner a week or two before your pitch just to tell them how helpful a specific piece of content was to you.
#3: Find The Perfect Guest Post Topic
Now that you've warmed up your list, it's time to find some killer topic ideas.
But an incredible topic isn't enough:
If you send an article on "10 Health Benefits of Beef" to a vegan blog you're going to get it tossed back.
So remember this:
You need a topic that fits their site like a glove
Take it from someone that has published over 250 guest posts…
…if you can write content that speaks to their audience you'll have no problem whatsoever getting your post accepted.
Here's how to find the perfect topic:
Audience Knowledge Level: If you're hell bent on writing a guest post about SEO, you need to know who you're writing for before you set pen to paper. If it's Moz, you can go hog wild with SEO jargon. But if it's for a small business blog you may need to tone things down a tad.
Outdated Information: Check for popular articles on the site that are a bit out of date. Write a similar piece with updated content.
Read Published Guest Posts: What have other people posted already? This will give you an idea of what the site owner looks for when vetting posts.
Recent Stuff: If they've posted about Pinterest twice this week you probably don't want to send them something Pinterest-related (even if it's a completely different angle). Keep it fresh.
#4: Guest Post Guidelines
I know you have better things to do with your life than to read a set of boring guest post guidelines.
I get that.
But some bloggers have really, really specific guidelines.
Some are there to standardize their posts.
Others are there to make sure people actually read them .
Either way, it's important that you take them to heart.
Because there's nothing worse than writing up a 1200-word masterpiece…only to have it rejected because of a 1000-word limit.
Step#3: The Pitch
Imagine for a second that you're the owner of a bustling, authority site.
You've got posts to write, tweets to tweet, and an overflowing inbox.
How are you going to react when you get a generic email that's trying to hard sell you?
You got it: hit the delete button as fast as possible.
Here's a battle-tested email template to use instead:
Hi (name),
I'm a long time reader. You may have noticed my comment on your post on X (awesome article by the way).
I'm writing to you because I'd love to contribute a guest post to Example.com.
I've been brainstorming some topics that I think your readers would get a ton of value from:
-Idea #1
-Idea #2
-Idea #3
I'll make sure the piece overflows with information that can't be found anywhere else.
To give you an idea of the quality I'll bring to your site, here's a link to a guests post that I recently published on Example.com.
Here's what makes this email template so effective:
Starts off with something specific about THEIR SITE
Short and sweet (aim for 150 words or less)
Gives them specific topics to choose from (less work for them)
Soft sell
Touches on your experience and published work
Send a Complete Article
If you want to roll the dice you can send over a complete article that's ready to rock.
I usually only do this with medium-tier blogs. A-list bloggers usually want to work with you through the entire process.
Step #4: The Post
You've put in enough digital elbow grease to compile a streamlined target list.
Now you need to actually send them something.
My "2 Tier System"
There are only so many hours in a day.
You can't produce a 3000-word masterpiece for every single site in the world.
That's why you should separate your targets into two tiers:
Tier 1: These are the top 25-50 undisputed authority sites in your niche. Sites that you actually visit and learn from.
Tier 2: Sites that are acceptable enough to warrant a guest post…but not authoritative enough to spend a day researching, writing and editing.
Tier 1 Content
Content for tier 1 sites should be as good or better than what you post on your own site.
I'm talking mind blowing pillar content that forces the hand of the site owner to hit "publish".
Content that changes minds, sparks conversation, and spurs action.
Content that could appear on the homepage of Life Hacker or the Huffington Post.
Because if you try to sneak something "meh" onto their site…you're not going to get very far.
Remember: Authority sites are authorities because they only post quality stuff. Period.
And they're not going to drop their standards just because you commented on their site a few times…
…you really need to bring it.
Here are some things you should do when writing Tier 1 guest post content:
Send a System: If you look at pillar content on any site (including this one) you'll notice that they have one thing in common: they lay out a complete step-by-step system for reaching a certain outcome. Systems have a much higher perceived value than a generic set of tips.
Length is Strength: Longer posts look much better than 400-worders. I shoot for at least 1500-words for tier 1 sites…although I've gone as far as banging out 5000-word monsters to help me stand out from the pack.
Edit Like a Madman: Show the blogger that you care about their site by editing your post like you have OCD. Hire an editor on Elance if you have to.
Custom Screenshots, Flowcharts and Images: Screenshots and other visual tools to illustrate your system adds meaty value to the post.
Internal Linking: Imagine the warm and fuzzy feeling your target will get when you link to some of their best content in your guest post. Remember that bloggers are human beings that appreciate these little things.
To give you an idea of what tier 1 guest post content looks like, here are two examples:
Be Everywhere: How I Got 2000+ NEW Visitors To My Site…With A Front Page PowerPoint Presentation on Slideshare
5 Travel Lessons You Can Use at Home
Tier 2 Content
Tier 2 sites deserve some love too.
If they're on your list, it that they must have something going for them.
While I don't go hog wild for these sites…I DO send something of value (even if I outsource the writing).
Of course you can always go the extra mile for these sites too…
…but I rather spend that time watching Shark Tank (love that show).
Contextual Links
Pop quiz:
What's better than a link from an authority site in your niche?
That's right: a contextual link from an authority site in your niche!
Sure, big G gives author bio backlinks some love…
…but nothing beats a good old fashioned link imbedded inside an article .
I've been able to finagle contextual links from tier 1 sites by doing one simple thing: asking.
If you send a 2000-word beast then it's perfectly reasonable ask for a contextual link in return.
Step #5: Follow Up
You're almost done.
Here are some things I do to get the most from every guest post:
1. Actively Respond to Comments: Don't post and run. Take the time to respond to people's comments as they roll in. In fact, I usually leave a comment to show the blogger that I'm happy to answer comments:
2. Promote Using Your Social Media Channels: This is a win-win-win. Your target gets traffic, you look like a published expert and you've shared something of value with your community.
3. Send a Thank You Note: I usually send tier 1 sites a quick follow up email letting them know I appreciated the opportunity (this keeps the line open for the next time you want to guest post on their site).
4. Blog Comment Bonanza: As described in Step 1, I'll sometimes reach out to commenter and see if I can land a guest post opportunity on their site.
Insider Secrets
Just a few golden nuggets I couldn't find space for in the guide:
1. Send your post in HTML so they can easily copy and paste it into WordPress (If you want to use images you can link to Flikr images or upload them to another photo hosting sites).
2. When you send the post, change the file name so it's tailored to their site: Backlinko_GuestPost.txt vs. 10SEOTips.txt.
3. If you're sending over a how-to or tutorial post, consider throwing in a video or .pdf download to compliment the article. This is one of those things that no one does and makes you look like a rock star.
4. Bloggers love posts that inspire debate and conversation. Don't be afraid to write something controversial or that goes against conventional wisdom.
5. For a better CTR to your site, make your author bio super enticing. Don't just say "Brian is the proud owner of Backlinko ". Give the reader a reason to click through to your site. Let them know about your free report, an awesome post or just tell them a benefit they'll get out of visiting your site.
That's enough from me…now I want to hear from you.
Any shortcuts or tips that I missed here?
Post your thoughts, insights and opinions in the comment box below.


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One of my selling points to get a dog was that dogs are super cheap. They barely cost a thing. All you have to do is buy food and maybe take them to the vet once or twice a year for shots.
So, we went skipping home with our eight dollar dog and here is what happened next:
- Doggy health insurance plan. Thank heavens we got this. ($300)
- Kennel cough. ($150)
- Digestive issues for 6 months. Likely cause- food allergies. ($300)
- Conjunctivitis. ($110)
- Digestive issues caused by possible "obstruction in tummy". Who the blank knows what he swallowed. ($175)
- Ear infection. ($50)
- Puppy acne. No, I'm not kidding. It's real. And it's fairly expensive to treat. ($75)
- Conjunctivitis round two. ($110)
- Ear infection round two. ($50)
- Not included: Procedure to remove his manhood, routine shots, heartworm, flea&tick, food, treats, toys, daycare and numerous dog beds that somehow keep getting destroyed.
I may have miscalculated a tad on the cost of an eight dollar dog.


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A not very good film
Posted in Film by Ben
"Now I want you to look miserable in this direction."
Going in, I thought my four chest hairs, and memories of only having the same number of TV channels would be the biggest hindrance to enjoying Twilight New Moon. Despite my better judgement I found the first part to be strangely compelling and sporadically hilarious, while being almost unremittingly shit. The biggest obstacle preventing my enjoyment of Twi Harder, however, was the fact I put it in the player in the first place. It made a fairly enjoyable coaster.
For the uninitiated, Twilight concerns itself with the adventures of Bella, a girl who cannot smile. She claims to find pleasure in the company of Edward, whose equally outlandish claim is that he's a vampire. I say outlandish because he looks like an iron deficient GAP model, dines on woodland creatures and drives a Volvo. That sounds pretty far from the seductive charm and animalistic savagery that has consisted of pretty much every single telling of the vampire myth so far. And that's without taking into account the fact that he can also survive in sunlight – the vampire curse in this instance serving only to make him look like Jean Michel Jarre playing a gig in Gerald Ratner's garage.
If lying about being a vampire weren't enough, Edward's also a complete arsehole. Not only does he take advantage of Bella's lack of confidence and personality to make her fall in love with him but, when she yields to his wooden charms, he fucks off, leaving her to fend for herself against vampire tribute acts to Mick Hucknall and Milli Vanilli (or maybe even the 'real' Milli Vanilli?). If that weren't bad enough, the only way she can see him is if she rides backwards on a motorbike or jumps off a cliff, which would be fine if Twilight 2 was a study of supernatural Stockholm syndrome, but the series is now popular enough to be remembered as the definitive fictional romance. This is, without a doubt, the scariest thing about the entire Twilight saga. Those CGI werewolves need to try harder.
Twilight's essentially about complacency: Your boyfriend's surly and mysterious – he's probably a vampire, it's not your fault. The other object of your affection would rather run around the woods in his underpants with other boys, he's, erm, well, he's probably a werewolf. And there's nothing you can do about that. Bella's a leaf being blown wherever events take her, which, when you consider the film seems made up of a series of largely unrelated events, could be anywhere. One minute she's not smiling in a place where it pisses it down all the time, the next she's stood in the Italian sunshine looking miserable. It's a joyless, overly serious existence.
Then again, that's essentially what being a teenager's all about isn't it? Perhaps we can look forward to Edward hitting his vampire middle age, trading the Volvo in for a Porsche and hoping all that glitter conceals the receeding hairline and protruding belly, as he hangs around the school car park, attempting to attract the attentions of another young girl who's seriously lacking in confidence and personality. Bella, meanwhile, will be sat at home, surrounded by dream catchers and ceramic wolves, attempting to keep their little Liberaces away from the hamster.
While we can hope, an excellent post on Chud reveals the true ending of the saga. And even though a vampire caesarian scene is almost enough to get me to check out the next film, I'm still going to award Twilight 2 a 'not very good'/10.
PS Move & Sports D'bags
Posted in Games by Ben
Robocop greatly appreciated Jimmy's efforts.
Here's a rule of thumb for maintaining your hardcore video gaming credentials: never invest in anything that your grandmother could beat you at. Like, for example, the Nintendo Wii, scourge of the hardcore gaming elite.
My own grandmother passed away several years ago but, as the Wii's raison d'être seems to be in allowing old people to experience the joys of ten pin bowling without having to replace their slippers for lace-up petri dishes, I think even she has a good chance of beating me at the Wii's most hardcore multiplayer experience: Jedward's Pejorative Party.
I've so far avoided the Wii, despite the occasional flashes of gaming brilliance because I know I'd inevitably end up having to buy reams of shovel-ware for house guests who can't work a controller with more than one button. Strangely, none of my dinner guests have ever shown much delight at watching me watch Metal Gear Solid 4, but it seems a solution could be at hand with the Playstation Move.
The Move promises to satiate the hardcore gamers' unfulfilled desire to stand in their living room and move around like a complete prick. It also promises a more acceptable face for motion based gaming peripherals, something that seems at odds with the physical appearance of its controller: a black cone with a glowing orb at the end that, basically, looks like Robocop's todge.
However, the controller is just the means to experience the next level of gaming right? Well, yes – unless you're talking about Microsoft's Kinect, which seems more like a videogame version of Brian DePalma's The Fury. Maybe that's why Peter Molyneux cancelled Milo? He probably came home to find the angelic little fucker floating on the ceiling, before trying to push him out of the window.
The Move's claims to offer something a little more hardcore than the Wii means the inevitable sports compendium – Sports Champions – offers an eyebrow-raising array of lesser-known events. Alongside volleyball, archery and table tennis, you have disc golf, bocce and a gladiator type thing, which is kind of like Soul Calibur as retold by The Arsehole Theatre Group. In fact the only obscure sport they appear to have missed out is this…
Peter Duncan's Wood-Beast Challenge – a highlight of Sports Champions 2?
Despite the slightly random sports on offer, what they've included is a pretty good selection, offering solid and satisfying mechanics, with the added bonus of feeling like they're games you can master. Well, as much as getting better at virtual 'bocce' could be considered a bonus. But if there's anyone out there whose life goals include "beating a racial stereotype at ping pong" then get that marker pen ready, you're about to tick some boxes.
Among the parade of wankers that make up the "Champions" is a black man, whose interests run from hip hop to dancing, a Brazilian woman (Giselle, natch) who does capoeira and shakes her booty, an oriental chap who likes swords and electrical goods, a cowboy who likes oil and sleeping with his sister, and a Scotsman, who'd play his deep-fried bagpipes if only he could stop concentrating on not spending money.
And speaking of Connor, you'll notice that he bears more than a passing resemblance to the world's most dangerous chicken and lager fanatic: Raoul Moat, which adds some much needed credibility to The Star's (mysteriously deleted) GTA Rothbury 'story'. It also explains why 'fishing' and 'armed robbery' didn't make the game's final lineup.
Moat – enjoying Disc Golf from beyond the grave?
Despite being little more than a tech demo, in Sports Champions, the Move ably demonstrates that the nuts of bolts of 'hardcore' motion control are more than fit for purpose. Now all it needs is for someone to find a weightier use for Robocop's wanger than just hurling virtual frisbees. That's for someone with far more vision than me. In the meantime it means my dinner party guests no longer have to fear two-hour soliloquies on the nature of war after their dessert. And that's something like a win-win.
Exorcist III review
Posted in Film by Ben
I recently wrote a (spoiler-free) review of Exorcist III for groovy UK film blog: Live for Films.
Make like a seagull and click on Fabio's ethereally beautiful face to read it.
Dead Rising 2
Posted in Games by Ben
Dead Rising 2: Not afraid of asking the important questions.
As the old saying goes: 'Zombies improve anything'. Look at the films they've enlivened with their shambling grotesqueness. Night of the Living Dead would be like a more annoying Noah Baumbach film if it weren't for zombies turning up to eat Barbra's brother – though I'd put money on it still being better than Margot at the Wedding.
Video games are no exception to the rule, as virtual shoplifting simulator Dead Rising 2 demonstrates. Without zombies you'd be walking around a deserted shopping centre in Las Vegas looking for things to take, which isn't too far removed from that Michael Jackson documentary a few years back. I guess they thought having MJ in a game called Dead Rising might have been poor taste. Then again, they recently announced a Jackson MMO so who knows if taste comes into it. Maybe they realised having Martin Bashir asking you for a running commentary of your actions every few seconds would be un fun, or that you'd get bored of hearing the "I'm dancing on your stupid face, Martin" sample.
I didn't own an X-Box when the original came out so as far as I was aware Dead Rising was the working title for Pele's erectile dysfunction ads. I jest, the original game nearly made me buy a 360 because it looked like someone had reached into my brain and created the world's finest game. And if it weren't for rumours of early X-Boxes sounding like Brian Blessed bringing a mammoth off in a wind tunnel, and getting hot enough to melt the fillings in your neighbours' teeth, I'd have made the leap a long time ago.
Dead Rising 2 offers proper zombies from days of yore, before they learnt skills like running and Krav Maga. It also offers equally old school game mechanics. It's a game that hates you and is more than willing to wee all over the chips you tirelessly made from aspirational potatoes. Think you've reached a point where you can handle its many challenges? It brings out a broadly painted, psychotic Italian chef to remind you that you're a complete pussy.
But keep chugging away at Dead Rising 2 and eventually you'll reach a point where none of its broad racial and sexual stereotypes give you that much bother. And then the wee doth start to flow in the other direction. Of course it helps that 'chugging away' involves twatting zombies about the head with different sized objects and causing comic pratfalls with a variety of different substances. It presents a number of creative options that are perfectly pitched for anyone who has long-harboured dreams of running around a shopping mall, dressed in lady's underwear, beating zombies about the face with a dildo. (You know who you are).
Dead Rising 2 is no Little Big Planet but it presents you with a number of amusing outlets to fulfil your most puerile creative desires. That is, once it's finished beating you about the brow. At first you will find it surly and obnoxious but after a while you'll begin to understand its bizarre logic and see a uniquely amusing character emerge. It's a bit like John Prescott, really. John Prescott with zombies.
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Who is there?
There was no response.
Cringing and bawling at the thoughts of the things that lurks in the dark.
We wanted to scream but it then occur to us that we live miles away from the sane and saints.
I dialled the only number I could trust.
"Hi, this is Sam, you know what to do"
Oh Goodness!
We were not sure what to do next.
Our lives, being determined by the chirps of the crickets, by the hoots of owls.
We pray to hear the cockerel in no time.
We silently pray to make it through the night
Just maybe we would be able to survive, if it was just a maze or a labyrinth, at least there is a way out of these two.
It's an abyss.
The other night, we heard a loud cry, it was a woman with her infant.
Gone beyond!
"Omotoyosi, I don't think I am going to make it"
"Common Trish, we will survive this night like we always do"
We will survive this abyss.
It's happening again.
They are here for one of us.
"Not this night"
I thought to myself whilst staring at the heavily built men as they matched towards us deliberating on who is next.
NO! I cried as they dragged Trish and this old man away.
I felt a quick flash of what happened earlier
"Omotoyosi, I don't think I am going to make it"
The thought left me jolted and broken.
I met Trish and these other people here.
But they have been wiped by the jingles of the cruel
I am perplexed but I still have hope.
I hope this is a tunnel. Hence, I yearn for light by dawn.


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The U.K. lacks the professionals to tackle the growing threat of cybercrime and it could take 20 years to plug the skills gap according to the U.K. government spending watchdog.
A National Audit Office (NAO) report "The UK cyber security strategy: Landscape review " (PDF) warns of a serious long-term shortage of professionals with cyber security skills.
The NAO estimates the cost of cyber crime to the U.K as being between £18 billion ($28 billion) and £27 billion ($42 billion) a year. With 8% of the U.K.'s GDP estimated to come directly from the Internet, it has the highest proportion of any G20 country.


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What is hypermobility? People whose joints have a more-than-normal range of motion are called hyperflexible or hypermobile - the clinical term is joint hypermobility syndrome (HMS), which may also be an expression of the more serious Ehlers Danlos Sydnrome.
Research suggests that up to 3 in 10 adults may be hypermobile to some degree, with women being more likely to be affected than men due to the relaxing effects of female hormones. Many people with hypermobility have a 'harmless' variety: that is, they experience no unusual effects except being more bendy than the rest of us. But for others, HMS can be debilitating, causing chronic pain.
In either case, people who are hypermobile are generally more prone to injuries, fractures and dislocated joints, because their joints have more mobility than stability.
Yoga and hypermobilility
Hypermobile people may come to yoga because of an injury, one of those inexplicable "I was just walking/running/surfing/playing tennis and then I felt this pain..." injuries that are common among the super-flexible. Or they naturally gravitate to yoga because of their flexibility. Once in a yoga class, super bendy people are often told they are "amazing" by teachers who don't recognise or understand their hypermobility.
Some may even quickly want to become teachers themselves, since after only a few months of practice they find themselves doing "advanced" poses with ease. And in a yoga culture that increasingly idolises the physical performance of postures that require extreme flexibility (just do a pinterest search for yoga if you don't believe me!), it may be hard for people to believe that extreme bendiness is not actually what yoga is all about.
However, underneath that ease in bending a hyper-flexible body is the danger that hypermobile joints are lacking the muscular resistance to properly support the joints in the range of motion that yoga puts us through. This may manifest slowly, through unexplained aches and pains after a seemingly "easy" practice; or it may manifest all of a sudden through an injury: a dislocated joint, a chronic pain, or a repeatedly inflamed muscle or tendon.
And yoga is not a miracle-cure:
over time, the sustained practice of yoga without counter-balancing hyperflexibility can lead to a dangerous instability in the joints, that can manifest in chronic joint pain and even symptoms of early arthritis.
How can I tell if I'm hypermobile?
You may be hypermobile to some extent if any of the following sound familiar to you:
- You have always been able to place your hands flat on the floor in a forward bend or flop into the splits
- Your friends and family all remember your "crazy" flexibility as a child
- You feel a constant need to stretch but it never seems to satisfy you
- You are deep in a pose that is supposedly challenging, but you don't "feel" anything
- After hardly any time at all, you put your body into the positions of 'advanced' yoga poses such as the splits, one-legged king pigeon pose, or touching your head to the ground in wide-legged standing forward bend
- You sometimes feel fatigued after simply stretching or doing gentle yoga
- You find it hard to sit comfortably in a chair for a long time and are constantly folding yourself into different positions
So, should hypermobile people do yoga?
It's easy to understand why many doctors and physiotherapists who work with hypermobile people advise against doing yoga.
However, many hypermobile people find that the right yoga practice can help them a great deal by building body awareness and helping them to develop the strength that they will need to balance their natural flexibility. The key thing to remember is that yoga is about balance: in this case, achieving a balance between flexibility and strength.
Guidelines for choosing a yoga class if you are hyper flexible:
- Find an experienced and well-qualified teacher, preferably someone with some yoga therapy experience or someone familiar with hypermobility, and make them aware of what you are working with. Get them to help you create some goals for your practice that don't rely on flexibility alone.
- Avoid styles of yoga that emphasise short, fast movements, such as ashtanga or vinyasa flow, until you have built up a solid foundation of strength that will keep you stable and safe from injury in these movement-oriented styles.
- Instead, choose styles of yoga that emphasise proper alignment, stability and strength, such as Iyengar yoga.
- Complement your yoga with strength and resistance training, and with core strength building exercises like pilates (again, with an experienced teacher) that will help you isolate important muscles and begin to build strength in key areas.
- Focus on harnessing muscular energy: engaging your muscles in a pose, instead of 'flopping' into it. For example in any forward bend, strongly engage your quadriceps and feel as if you are trying to "suck" the floor up through your leg muscles.
- Make sure you always put a micro-bend in your knees and elbows to avoid putting too much stress on your joints - combine this with the muscle engagement above, and you will be properly supporting your joints!
- Always keep your head supported by your neck muscles, and avoid the temptation to let your head flop back in upward-looking poses or backbends.
- Avoid the temptation to go as deep as you can into a pose, and instead focus on engaging your muscles as much as you can. Consider 'gapping' your joints - for example placing a small rolled up towel in between your belly and your thighs in a standing forward fold, or placing your hands behind the backs of your knees in a seated forward fold.
- Avoid hyper-extending backwards in backbends by strongly engaging your abdominal muscles and focusing on the sensation of lengthening your spine.
- If you can, see a qualified yoga therapist for a one-on-one session to get a personalised assessment and advice.
- Avoid starting a practice on your own or with a DVD: until you have more experience, you should work with a teacher who can tell you if you are hyper-extending.


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One of my friends, Diana conducted this amazing workshop of painting Ukrainian Eggs at the Mystic Arts Center, CT.
Pysanka (plural: pysanky) is a Ukrainian Easter egg decorated using a wax-resist method. The word comes from the Ukranian verb pysaty, "to write", as the designs are not painted on, but written with beeswax on raw eggs!
Pysanky were traditionally made during the last week of Lent by the women of the household. Traditionally The dyes were prepared from dried plants, roots, bark or berries. The dyes were prepared in secret, using methods handed down from mother to daughter to attain the necessary brilliance, clarity and lasting color. These da
ys however chemical dyes are used. A stylus, known as a "kistka" is used to write with the beeswax. A Kistka is a piece of thin brass wrapped around a needle, forming a hollow cone. This is attached to a small stick with wire.
The process is similar to Batik. Molten wax is applied to the white egg, any bit of shell covered with wax would be sealed, and remain white. Then the egg is dyed yellow, and more wax applied, and then orange, red, and finally black. (The dye sequence is always light to dark). Bits of shell covered with wax remains that color. After the final color, the wax is removed by heating the egg and gently wiping off the melted wax and this is the toughest part of it all.
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Josh Nunes wins Stanford QB job
There will be no hiding from Andrew Luck's legacy this season.
Every time Josh Nunes walks into the Stanford football offices he will see the trophies Luck helped win. When he runs through the Stanford Stadium tunnel for the first time as the starting quarterback, No. 12 jerseys will be littered throughout the crowd. And if he reads the record books, there's one name dominating the top.
"It's the biggest shoes I think you could have to follow," Nunes said.
Cardinal coach David Shaw announced Tuesday that the junior quarterback beat out sophomore Brett Nottingham, ending a lengthy and close competition to replace Luck, the NFL's No. 1 overall pick and two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up. Shaw informed both in his office before the morning practice.
"Over time, Josh has been the most consistent," Shaw said. "Make no mistake. This is not about wild plays, it's not about doing something outside the framework of the offense. This is about consistency. This is about executing the plays that were called. It's not about who hasn't played well. All of our quarterbacks have competed. All of our quarterbacks have approached this with a workmanlike attitude. But Josh has been the most consistent over this time."
Experience is still a major concern.
No. 21 Stanford will open the regular season against San Jose State on Aug. 31 with a quarterback who has thrown all of two passes and completed only one – for all of 7 yards – in his college career. Both also came two years ago.
Nunes (pronounced Noon-es) also will have little time to transition. After playing Duke the following week, a monumental matchup looms against top-ranked Southern California at Stanford Stadium on Sept. 15.
"The great thing is the path has been laid for how to be a successful quarterback here at Stanford," Nunes said, referring to Luck's career. "So, really, it's just following that pattern and emulating the kind of player that he was and the kind of person that he was here. I also got to realize I'm not Andrew Luck, and by no means am I trying to be exactly him. I'm trying to come out here and run this high-powered offense that we got and get it to the playmakers that we got."
Luck left Stanford as the school's leader in touchdown passes (82), completion percentage (.670), passing efficiency (162.8) and total offense (10,411) – among other marks – despite playing only three seasons. A year after rolling past Virginia Tech 40-12 in the Orange Bowl, Luck didn't quite have the finish he had hoped. Stanford lost 41-38 in overtime to Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 2.
Replacing Luck is a task even Shaw had to address the first day of spring practice.
"I told them all flat out: Don't try to be Andrew Luck because you can't. It's impossible," Shaw said. "I don't know there's a guy in the nation right now, young or old, that's where Andrew was when he left here. So for us it's about managing the game."
While Luck is replacing four-time NFL MVP Peyton Manning with the Indianapolis Colts, Nunes is facing a task equally daunting in the college ranks.
Nunes missed most of last year with a right turf toe injury and never saw game action. The native of Upland in Southern California played in four games in 2010. He worked with the first-team offense in Stanford's spring game and started last Sunday's scrimmage, and coaches believe his knowledge of the playbook and game management top Nottingham's strong arm.
Nottingham replaced Luck in six games last year, finishing 5 of 8 passing for 78 yards. The quarterback, who played at Monte Vista High School in San Francisco's East Bay, was not made available by Stanford to speak to reporters. A message left at his parents' house seeking comment also was not returned.
Shaw wouldn't commit to Nottingham being the backup, insisting redshirt freshman Kevin Hogan will continue to challenge for the spot. But he said the months-long competition made each quarterback and the team better.
"It's a very good thing," Shaw said. "If I had to make this decision the first week that would have meant that we didn't have competition. We had a serious competition."
Former Stanford tight end Coby Fleener and wide receiver Griff Whalen, both rookies along with Luck in Indianapolis, said they had just one preference for the next starter.
"Whoever wins us games," said Fleener, drafted 34th overall. "They're not throwing me balls, so it's whoever wins games. I'm a Stanford fan forever."
Whalen also recognizes the parallels for Luck and Nunes as they try to replace such standouts at quarterback.
"It's going to be tough because, whoever it is, is going to be in a similar situation to what Andrew has here," Whalen said before the official announcement. "The important thing is to go one day at a time and focus on the things you can control."
While there is no bigger hole to fill than replacing Luck, Stanford has built depth over the last two seasons – both of which ended at BCS bowls – and Shaw refuses to call this a rebuilding year.
Stanford has a talented mix of tight ends and running backs, including back-to-back 1,000-yard rusher Stepfan Taylor, one of the Pac-12's top defenses and the league's Coach of the Year. The program also has a proven record recently of overcoming key losses, including 2009 Heisman Trophy runner-up Toby Gerhart and coach Jim Harbaugh before last season.
If Nunes can be a steady hand at quarterback, perhaps there's no reason Stanford should slip.
"Being behind Andrew Luck was pretty much the biggest blessing I think you could ever ask for," Nunes said. "I learned a lot from him and I feel like I'm ready to lead this team."


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THE LONELINESS WAS terrible, she said.
They had called themselves the troika: three elderly widows who had gone to the movies together, shopped and dined together, talked often on the telephone, and now one had died, another lay dying and the third was feeling so lonely. And she couldn't understand it, for it wasn't as though she were alone. She had three good children, grandchildren, a devoted younger brother, plenty of kin, and though certainly it was sad to lose one's friends, why should she feel so lonely?
We are just now learning that loneliness, that most intimate and least congenial of companions - not Alienated-in-America loneliness, but the real stuff - follows in our developmental footsteps, keeping a growth chart of its own. Elderly people, like this widow who was interviewed for a study on loneliness; teen-agers, young adults - we all get lonely for strikingly different reasons at different stages of life.
At the University of Iowa, recent work with students has shown that these reasons change fast. What typically makes college freshmen lonely is not homesickness; it is a lack of friends. But for seniors, just three or four years older, the issue is no longer friendships; it is romantic bonding. Are you seeing someone special? Are you living with anyone? - these are the questions that best predict loneliness among older students.
All this makes sense developmentally. The sociologist Robert S. Weiss, of the University of Massachusetts, who some years ago set out the first theory of loneliness and remains the don in the field, thinks there may be an ''attachment latency'' in late adolescence: ''At 17, 18, kids feel ambivalent about relinquishing parental attachment and seem not to want to get too committed in new intimate relationships. It's a kind of cautiousness, a self-protectiveness. They seem to know instinctively that these relationships are not going to last.''
But what makes no sense to anyone are findings on the elderly. It is one of our cultural givens that old age is the loneliest time of all. But in a yet-unpublished study, Iowa researchers, Daniel W. Russell and Carolyn E. Cutrona, both psychologists, using the same test they used with students, have found that elderly people were less lonely by every measure; and that lack of friends, not lack of kin, was the main cause of their loneliness. In a study with Dr. Robert Wallace, a physician, they have found, too, that loneliness among the elderly was a better predictor of mortality than blood pressure, and one of the best predictors of admission to nursing homes.Continue reading the main story
''It's not that family relations are unimportant to older people,'' Dr. Russell says. ''They turn to family for assistance. But they can have lots of family to assist them, and still feel terribly lonely if they don't have friends. Why? We all wonder. Why aren't they lonelier? We don't know. They may have adjusted to lacking certain relationships, but no one knows, really.''
It may be a developmental form of beating the rap, a mixed blessing. Dr. Weiss, who some years ago set out the first generally accepted theory of loneliness and remains pre-eminent in the field, says: ''My guess is that everything is becoming less pressing and less responsive as people age. It happens with sexuality, despite those upbeat outlooks that we keep hearing now. And I think it also happens with the need for emotional attachment.''
The findings on loneliness and mortality become urgent in light of a new study at the Ohio State University College of Medicine, which confirms a precise and dramatic connection between loneliness and physiological function. (A linkage, this is called; it's a hot word now among behavorial scientists, who love these linkages because they rebut a traditional clinical resistance, persisting even today, to the idea that feelings have physiological consequences.) We seem always to have known, in a common-sensical, folkloric sort of way, that loneliness can make you sick. Dying of loneliness, we say. And not long ago, widely publicized epidemiological studies of men recently separated or divorced and testing high for loneliness, showed that they did have more illness than married men. But the specific linkages were guesswork.
Now, the Ohio State study demonstrates that such men, at least in the first year of divorce or separation, have different immunological profiles than those of married men. Their immune systems do not function as well, leaving them more vulnerable to a whole range of infectious diseases. If loneliness were found to take the same toll in old age, when immune function is diminished anyway, it would appear that one can indeed, without poetics, die of loneliness.
The research was done by Dr. Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, a clinical psychologist, and Dr. Ronald Glaser, an immunologist. The findings confirm those that emerged from their earlier study of divorced and separated women, but with a tantalizing difference: the women do better. They, too, show lower immune-system function than their married counterparts, and get sick more often - but not as often as the men. (Though they admit more readily to loneliness. In other tests that ask explicitly ''Are you lonely?'' women score higher than men. In tests that avoid the L-word, they score the same. ''It appears,'' says Iowa's Dr. Russell, ''that men just don't want to say they feel lonely.'') From all possible explanations, Dr. Kiecolt-Glaser plucks a fact of contemporary life: ''Across our samples, and across all the current literature on divorce, you find that two-thirds of the initiators are women. It makes sense that the ones who are saying 'I want out' would experience less loneliness, with less effect on the immune system.''
Beyond the loneliness of circumstance, which is bad enough (so bad, in fact, that people often describe it as being ''painful beyond description'' and cannot, when it's over, in any way recall how it felt), and beyond the loneliness of season, which for many people is an annual malaise that hangs on like a germ from Thanksgiving through New Year's, is the persistent, pervasive loneliness that is dictated from within. There is the lonely personality.
The social psychologist Warren H. Jones, of the University of Tulsa, has studied subjects who go through long stretches of life feeling lonely. He placed them in social situations, such as cocktail parties, where they behaved ostensibly quite the same as everyone else. But they asked fewer questions. They talked more about themselves. Most tellingly, later they were far more critical of the social performance of others (''unfriendly, cold'') and of their own social performance than the others were of them.
It is not mere shyness, Jones says. Loneliness-prone personalities consistently show a lack of empathy and an avoidance of intimacy: ''They say that they are lonely because they lack social opportunities. But the question that keeps gnawing at me is, is this lack real? Or does it reflect their own negativism?
''Therapy - almost any kind - will help such people somewhat. But at the end of it, they'll still be lonelier than other people. I'm sure it begins in the prototype relationship we all have. If that one doesn't go well, if it nurtures suspicion and distrust, subsequent relationships won't go well either.'' Current research generally confirms Robert Weiss's theory of loneliness. It comes, he suggests, in two bitter flavors: the loneliness of emotional isolation, which means the lack of an intimate emotional attachment, most typically a spouse; and the loneliness of social isolation, which means the lack of friends, community, social networks. The lack of either can cause feelings of the most desperate, desolate loneliness.
This model helps to explain why people who lack one-on-one relationships can feel wretchedly lonely amid good friends; and why happily married people can feel miserably alone when they move to strange communities. But the mechanism that makes such feelings palpable - the muscular tension, the pulmonary agitation, the visceral wrench - is still a mystery.
Recently contemplating this mystery, Dr. Weiss exhorted sociologists and biologists to look to the chemistry of loneliness: ''How else except by finding some triggering mechanism can we explain how the perception of emotional isolation is followed by a dull ache in one's chest, a sense of wanting to cry or having cried, a need to search, and a high level of physiological mobilization? . . . My question would be, 'How does it work?' And I can't imagine the answer being in terms other than neurochemical.''
Perhaps, then, the cure as well. A linkage, a loneliness pill; how our pharmacopeia grows.Continue reading the main story


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The ultra modern elements of boost technology and the minimalist aesthetic of Belgian designer Kris Van Assche combine to create a contemporary argyle hit.
From the pairing of argyle with Adidas classics by well dressed soccer fans all over Europe, to the inclusion of argyle in a variety of classic soccer and tennis pieces, Adidas has deep roots with the venerable pattern. The Kris Van Assche ultra boost references this past without slavishly reproducing it.
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The Minority in Parliament's call for the withdrawal of the "illegal" 2018 budget has been described as "one of those jovial things people say in parliament".
Deputy Finance Minister Kweku Kwarteng said he is surprised at the demand by the Minority spokesperson on Finance Cassiel Ato Forson
"Honestly, I don't think he meant it", he told Joy News Tuesday.
The Minority has maintained the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta in July 2017 revised revenue targets without parliamentary approval and went ahead to include those estimates in the new budget statement.
Minority Spokesperson on Finance Ato Forson argued on the floor of the House Tuesday that the revisions are illegal and breaches the Public Financial Management Act.
Ato Forson making his statement on the floor
He threatened that the Minority could withdraw support for the approval of the budget.
But Deputy Finance Minister Kweku Kwarteng told Joseph Opoku Gakpo Joy News' Parliamentary correspondent that Ato Forson was not serious with the comment.
Even after the Joy News reporter pointed out that the former deputy Finance minister repeated the demand to the media, Kwaku Kwarteng who is also Obuasi West MP struggled to believe it.
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The deputy Finance minister explained that government comes back to Parliament for approval only if it plans to exceed the expenditure ceilings it has set out in the earlier budget presentation.
In this case, the government through its Finance minister comes to present a supplementary budget to Parliament for approval, the Obuasi West MP explained.
Photo: Deputy Finance minister Kweku Kwarteng
Until the Minority can prove that the government exceeded its expenditure targets without seeking parliamentary approval, the demand by the Minority has no basis.
"I don't even want to contest [their] point and give it credibility. I don't even understand why they would want to make such a point in Parliament", the baffled deputy minister said.
Joining in agreement, Chairman of Parliament's Finance Committee Dr. Mark Assibey Yeboah said the Minority's demand is "much ado about nothing".
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