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"True Blood" is back, promising a sex-tactular, scare-ific and downright fang-tastic fifth season.
Sookie Stackhouse will once again have a stake at the heart of all the vampiric – and werewolfen, shape-shifted and fairy-fied – love, lust, life and death in Bon Temps, as HBO's horrific hit returns for another bloody big summer run. PopcornBiz tapped the veins of the creative team for every drop of scoop we could suck out of them.
Alan Ball (executive producer): A lot of this season is about vampire politics and vampire religion, and how a mixture of politics and religion is never a really good idea. We were starting to write the show just right around the same time the Republican primaries were starting up, and you have such powerful characters like Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum and their sort of desire to create a theocratic state. And we sort of thought, well, what would a vampire theocratic state look like? And let's explore that. And It's a great Bill/Eric season, because for two characters who've always been at odds to find themselves on the same side and to have to depend on each other, I think it's a really good season for them. It's a great season for Arlene and Terry. It's a great season for Tara – I won't tell you how! It's a good season for everybody.
Stephen Moyer (Bill Compton): Eric and Bill get themselves into a pretty dark situation, and I think they decide instead of fighting, as they always do, and being at each other's throats, that they'll actually do something together, put their heads together…I think people like favorites against others [as to who will win Sookie's heart]. There's big Joe Manganiello fans, there's big Sam Trammell fans. Everybody has their own ideas of what they want it to be, and the more characters you give them the more chance there is of pleasing at least some people some of the time. I think Alan's very clever, and it's a funny, dark, twisted, amazing show and it ticks a lot of boxes off.
Anna Paquin (Sookie Stackhouse): Alcide's got a lot going for him, you know. Easy on the eyes, he's protective…[Laughs] I get to work with incredible actors, writers, directors. Our crew is extraordinary. There's not one single person who doesn't give 2000% every single day. It's an unbelievable show to get to be a part of, and I think a lot of that shows up on screen. Plus the stories are really sexy, badass, and scary-weird!
Joe Manganiello (Alcide Herveaux): We go further than the books, let's say. It's the season I've been waiting for since I've been on the show, so this is really a really exciting third act to the play, for me, that we're creating: the whole new kind of a werewolf show-within-the-show this year. A lot of great new characters to play around with. You're going to meet Alcide's dad. The dynamic is so interesting. It's fascinating – you're going to get a lot of history between them, and it's really sad and interesting and exciting all at the same time.
Deborah Ann Woll (Jessica Hamby): Jessica hasn't been a vampire that long – It's been a year and a half or something, so she's reaching out. She's trying to find anyone to understand her, and hopefully at some point she'll succeed. We're not done with the Jason/Jessica storyline. For sure, we're not done with the storyline with Hoyt. We definitely have some resolving to do there, so you'll see more.
Rutina Wesley (Tara Thornton): I can say absolutely nothing but that I will be back. I can't tell you how. And Sookie has to figure it out on her own. I'm always game for whatever, because I was surprised and happy and scared and all kinds of things as an actor would be – but it's going to be fun. I'm hoping people enjoy it.
Denis O'Hare (Russell Edgington): I'm back! I think his experience has changed him. In a strange way it's shifted his priorities, from trying to acquire things to questioning why one acquires things. And I think he's looking to enjoy his life, in a strange way. He's not mellow – he could NEVER be mellow – but he certainly got a different perspective, and he's grateful to the people or person who dug him up.
Kristin Bauer Van Stratten (Pam De Beaufort): We're delving into Pam's backstory, which is so much fun for me, to finally know what that was – it was extremely fun to film, and I can't wait to see it myself, actually. And also, vampire politics are big this year. And the Authority is pretty intense. It's been really fun also having this political year that we're having as humans. And we took the outfits to a new level this year. It just keeps progressing inch by inch so we don't realize that Pam is in the craziest outfits ever. I think we're all just kind of learning from each other, so hair, makeup, and wardrobe are just one fantastic team. It's a lot of high heels, a lot of corsets, a lot of hair.
Todd Lowe (Terry Bellefluer): We're going to discover the source of Terry's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. His former commanding officer, his sergeant in the Marine Corps, shows up to Merlotte's Bar & Grille and can't be bringing good news. That doesn't make for good drama. And so we're going to discover what the two of them went through.
Carrie Preston (Arlene Fowler): This is definitely a season that is about the vampire authority. We've definitely come back to that and come full circle, in a way. And we're dealing with those who want to mainstream and those who don't. So I think that's the real thrust of it: Loyalty. Who are you loyal to? And I think that happens in the human character interactions, as well. Who are you loyal to?
Chris Bauer (Andy Bellefluer): Andy softens up a little bit, and kind of in the macro-thematic vocabulary of 'True Blood' he softens up because his life actually evolves. And the way that starts to happen is he kind of starts making connections to some women. On this show, you can go from zero to hero real fast.
Show Takes Cues from GOP Primary Season for Season Five
"True Blood" is back, promising a sex-tactular, scare-ific and downright fang-tastic fifth season.


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A Heroines Hospitality
This was the response of the late Rebbetzin Yocheved Wein, o.b.m., to the strange request for Shabbat hospitality from an American studying in Jerusalem. This former student of her husband, the renowned Torah scholar and historian Rabbi Berel Wein, had indicated that he only ate bread and peanut butter.
Not at all flustered by this rejection of her cuisine, this extraordinary practitioner of hachnasat orchim (inviting guests) prepared for her unusual guest the most exquisite plate of a peanut butter sandwich surrounded by the most delicious vegetables and appetizers. He enjoyed this meal so much that he asked to be invited for the next Shabbat as well.
This touching story was part of a moving talk given by Rabbi Wein in Yeshivat Ohr Somayach, where he teaches Talmud and Jewish history on a regular basis. It took place a month after the shiva visit to Rabbi Wein, where the heads of the yeshiva heard from him that the day his wife suddenly passed away she was scheduled to visit Ohr Somayach to see the Sefer Torah that she and her husband had dedicated to the yeshiva in memory of their parents. Although that visit never took place, the yeshiva decided to do something symbolic about it. The morning after the aforementioned talk, Rabbi Wein was given an aliya in the Ohr Somayach Beit Midrash so that he could make a blessing on the very Sefer Torah that his unforgettable wife had inspired him to find a home for in Ohr Somayach where he teaches.


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3-bedroom apartment for rent in Kiev at Andriyvs'kyi uzviz 2v
Sleeps: 2+2+2+2 guests.
For sleeping: 2 double beds and 2 double sofas.
There are 2 bathrooms: one - with bathtub, and another - with shower.
Check in is after 14.00 (2 p.m.), check-out is till 12.00 (12 a.m.).
A tenancy agreement will be signed at the check-in so your passport will be required.
In addition, you need to pay a security deposit which is equivalent to the daily price.
Security deposit is returned at check out if the property of apartment was not damaged and the rules were not violated.
to walk in shoes, smoking in the apartment, keeping pets, listening to a loud music after 21.00 (9 p.m.), celebrate birthdays and other events in the apartment. If you violate these rules, we have the right to evict you without a refund.
To book apartment you should contact manager (call or write) with all details for booking (dates of check in/out, quantity of quests, and quantity of bedrooms, desired location, and maybe you want certain apartment-so define it, please ).
After you will choose apartment from available offers (or after you will get confirmation of availability apartment if you requested certain one) you need to pay 1 day price for booking exact apart on your dates.
So you can agree with manager how to pay (or pay by bank card, or pay by cash in the office).
After your payment – booking will be done.
* Be attentive, if you pay by bank card – contact manager just before paying for additional confirmation of apartment availability on your dates. And then contact manager after sending prepayment - for confirmation of booking.


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|An example of our apple observation
Friday, August 29, 2014
Apple Observation
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Labels: 4th grade, Observation, Science
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Observation vs. Inference
|Observation vs. Inference Journal Entry
The kids will learn about making an inference in language arts, but it never hurts to hit it a little in science as well. This always proves to be a hard concept to grasp at 9-years-old! Really the main idea I wanted the kiddos to grab was that observations are strictly the facts about what's going on. When making an observation in science, it's very important to keep opinions and prior knowledge out of your observations. Those can be brought in later, when analyzing data and deciding which direction to go in an experiment.
One thing that's not on our journal page (and we'll probably add Tuesday) is the idea of using our prior knowledge. We discussed it in class, but forgot to add it in the journal. In class, we talked about how we make an educated guess by using the knowledge we already have that's stored in our little "file folders" in our brain.
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Labels: 4th grade, Inference, Observation, Science
Journal Example
When we begin our journals, I really try to emphasize the importance of neatness. Clean lines, neat handwriting, clear messages, etc. all make it much easier to find helpful information. We added our first journal entry together as we discussed what guidelines we should follow when writing in our journals. The student picked any two-digit number, and then completed three activities using it. We walked through neatly dividing our page into three sections, giving each section a title, then completing the activity. What do I know about the number? How can I get to the number? and Word problem where my number is the answer. I kept in fairly simple, since the main goal was to discuss journal guidelines.
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Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Introducing Centers with Wipe Out!
|Wipe Out game card
|A pretty logical explanation for a 4th grader! Great thinking!
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Overall: [42-17] Last week: [4-1]
Huge games for UCLA, ASU and OSU, Washington. Can Cal bounce back from a terrible loss to rival Stanfurd?
Colorado 10 – Oregon 52: Another easy win for Oregon, and another sad loss for Colorado.
UCLA 32 – Arizona St. 37: I'm going with the home team on a last second touchdown for the win.
USC 48 – Arizona 34: Barkley will continue to get back into the Heisman race.
Washington St. 14 – Stanford 32: This should be an easy game for the Cardinals.
California 27 – Utah 24: If Cal can't win here, bowl chances are extremely thin.
Oregon St. 24 – Washington 7: Potential upset? I don't think so. Not the way OSU's defense has been playing compared to Washington's Offense.


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Meh, I disagree with your theory about using less tags. You should use all 500 characters for optimal results. There is no proof that likes/dislikes does anything to the SEO. I'm sure that is more for the content makers info and viewers warning. The description can be up to 5000 characters. Best to post your other video links. You have no proof of anything, noone does, we can only guess how youtube seo works..
There is much you can do right with YouTube but there is also a lot of things you can do wrong! For instance all of my affiliate videos are on the same channel, if Google decided i violated their tos I would have to start all over but Google see the value I bring. I would suggest using different channels for different niches rather than having 1 channel or 1,000 channels.
7) Social Engagment - Likes, Comments, and social shares are the name of the SEO game. If you have a high likes to dislikes ratio then Youtube will favor your video so the goal is to get as many likes as possible and as many comments as possible. I'm not going to go into detail here as I cover this in this "Youtube VIDEO SEO" tutorial so pay close attention to the end of the video.
Local results favor the most relevant results for each search, and businesses with complete and accurate information are easier to match with the right searches. Make sure that you've entered all of your business information in Google My Business, so customers know more about what you do, where you are, and when they can visit you. Provide information like (but not limited to) your physical address, phone number, category, and attributes. Make sure to keep this information updated as your business changes. Learn how to edit your business information
I was wondering if you are still following the replies here..and if you are..my question: I used to be able to land a video on page one of GOOGLE for just about anything as long as the search count was typically under 500,000. It seems now, it is more difficult even to land on the first page for something like this..(and please go look at the examples and provide your input if you are still monitoring this page)
[…] Search engines are highly sophisticated, but they still have virtual limitations that a human brain doesn't. Discover how to rank a brand new site on Google Search engine optimization is an accumulation of strategies and techniques used to increase the number of visitors to a website by obtaining a high ranking in search results. An important feature of SEO is making your website intelligible for both users and search engine robots. SEO helps the engines figure out what a particular page is all about, and how it may be useful for users. In today's high level of competition, it is imperative to be as high as possible in the search results, and that comes with an efficient SEO strategy. However, many aren't sure of how to rank a new website on Google. Let's have a look at the two types of SEO: On-page SEO and Off-page SEO. ON-Page SEO On-page SEO is the practice of optimizing individual pages in order to obtain a higher ranking and earn more relevant organic traffic. In this piece, you will find different tips about On-page SEO: 1. Start title tags with your target keyword: You company/product may be right up on the Google search results page with the appropriate keyword, channeling a huge amount of traffic to your website. On the contrary, a misadvised or inappropriate keyword can make your site's chance towards prominence more remote than ever. The title of the article defines its content, and as such, a keyword rich title holds greater weight with Google. In general, the closer the keyword is to the beginning of the title tag, the more weight it has with search engines. You can see this in action by searching for the competitive keyword in Google. As you can see, most pages that rank for competitive keywords strategically place them at the beginning of their title tags. Although not mandatory, it's prudent to do so as it will make your website more relevant to what people search for. 2. Drop Keyword in first 100 words: The ideal place to start putting keywords in an article is within the first 100 words. There are many to whom these come naturally, but a large number of bloggers prefer a long intro before bothering with a keyword. This is inadvisable because of the obvious reasons that Google wouldn't find it very relevant in the search results. Here is an example from Positionly (Unamo SEO already): A keyword "content marketing" was used at the very beginning of the article. Placing a keyword near the beginning of the article ensures that Google has an easier time in understanding the topic and relevance of the article. 3. Use Outbound Links: Outbound links are the primary source of bringing more attention to your website. There are a lot of people who make the mistake of not including links to other websites/articles. Outbound links show Google that the article is both valid and informative and both are vital requisites for ranking. Therefore, make sure that if you aren't doing so, add outbound links to each of your articles. Just make sure that the links are relevant enough to your content and from authentic and high-quality sources. 4. Write click-worthy meta descriptions for each page: Meta descriptions are one of the most important and visible elements – next to your title tag and URL- that convince people to click through. If you want traffic on your latest article and efficiently on your website, make sure that the meta descriptions are attractive and informative. They should arouse the viewer's curiosity within the 150-word limit. Remember that YOU too click on a particular result after reading it's meta description. The same mentality extends to your audience. Pay attention to the meta descriptions, and you will naturally see the results. 5. Put your target keyword in the URL: As keywords are essentially the backbone of on-page SEO, you need to pay a lot of attention to them. There is no reason not to include them in your URLs. The inclusion has its benefits. When you assimilate the targeted keyword into the URL, you are ensuring that Google's has another reason and way to consider your article as more relevant for a particular phrase. 6. Add keywords to your post strategically: Strategical keyword placement is critical to a post's success and net traffic on a website. As search engines continually become more refined, it is not enough just to randomly stuff articles with keywords and hope for relevance in the search results. Please look how the Content Marketing Institute has optimized one of their blog posts with a relevant keyword – content marketing. Strategic placement of said keywords is now paramount to your SEO success. Note: Don't force keywords. Insert them where they make sense. 7. Post Long Content: Studies have shown that longer content helps to improve ranking on Google. A target of around 2000 words should be set in every article with a minimum of 1000 words at least. This would inevitably result in long-tail traffic which would boost your site's exposure. Longer content not only helps in adding more keywords to it, but there is also a natural emphasis on information. The authenticity of a post increases with longer text, which means that Google would recognize it as something more relevant than a shorter and concise text. As search patterns are synonymous with long tail keywords nowadays, a longer text also improves the chances of your article/website to be on a higher ranking than others. The authenticity of a post increases with longer text, which means that Google would recognize it as something more relevant than a shorter and concise text. As search patterns are synonymous with long tail keywords nowadays, a longer text also improves the chances of your article/website to be on a higher ranking than others. While writing an article that you want to grasp people's attention with, you must remember to research well before writing the first word. Make sure that all the relevant information is available to you before you start. Good research results in flair, which results in long and comprehensive writing. Additionally, grammar should be impeccable. Articles riddled with errors indicate incompetence and carelessness. The perfect piece is both elaborate and grammatically accurate. 8. Take Advantage of Internal Linking: Internal linking is critical to decreasing a website's bounce rate and optimization as it links to the different pages of a domain together. When link juice is spread, the users/viewers stay on the website longer and the site traffic also increases. It improves the navigational experience for the user. Not to mention that it will also contribute to decreasing the bounce rate of your website. Bounce rate is measured by how many users visit only one page and then leave the entrance page. Easy and accessible internal linking will naturally decrease this as users will be directed to other relevant articles. Also, Google bots are designed to emulate user behavioral patterns and evaluate your website. A smart and efficient network of links on the pages help crawlers find regions which are not frequently visited by the users, thus boosting your site's ranking. Wikipedia is adept at using internal linking which is evident whenever you visit one of their pages. They add keyword-rich internal links to every entry. However, don't overdo it. I recommend a simpler (and safer) approach; link to 2-4 older posts whenever you publish a new one. 9. Image Optimization: Ensure that the pictures on your website have file names which include the target keyword. Also, your target keyword should be part of your image's Alt Text. This will improve optimization for your article and also create a clearer picture for the search engines to the relevancy of your article/page. Images are an important component of any website as they make pages visually attractive as well as informative. Optimizing your images should naturally boost your ranking. Also, your image will get a high rank in Google image search. 10. Target less competitive – longtail keywords: Long tail keywords are queries that are more specific (and usually longer) than more conventional "head" keywords. Long tail keywords get less search traffic, but will usually have a higher conversion value, as they focus on a more specific product. source Long tail keywords are more targeted and less competitive than short term keywords. If you have just started your SEO campaign for a brand new website, then I would definitely recommend concentrating on long-tail keywords. Why? The truth is that you can't have your new website ranked with a single word keyword. Trying to optimize your new blog to rank for "SEO" is hardly possible. Take a look at the Google results for this keyword. As you can see in the above image, Search Engine Land and Wikipedia are ranking for the keyword SEO. There are 51,70,00,000 search results for this single phrase. It's a huge number. Should you give up and quit? Of course not! This is where the long-tail keywords and proper page optimization come into play. Target long tail versions of the single word keyword "SEO." For example, You can target "basic SEO tips for beginners" in your new SEO campaign. This long tail keyword is less competitive than "SEO." Two things to remember are to make the keyword as long as possible and to use Google's keyword planner to find a relevant keyword for future references. The question of how to improve search engine ranking is very common, but many of us overlook the significance of keywords as a major contributor to traffic and ranking. 11. Use LSI keywords in your body content: LSI keywords are the synonyms and variations of your main keywords which may be in the form of a phrase or word. Latent semantic indexing(LSI) keywords are part of Google's algorithm to understand user search habits and give users the best quality content for their search queries. The question is: How will you find those LSI keywords? That's really simple. Say your main keyword is "on page SEO techniques."Go to Google and search for your target keyword and scroll down to the "Searches Related to…" area at the bottom of the page. LSI Graph and Google Trends are tools you may also use for this purpose. 12. Ensure your site is super fast: A slow website is not only bad for the end-user, but also for search engine optimization. Thus, a slow website can cause your site to rank lower in the search engine results. That translates to fewer page views and less ad revenue or customer conversions for you. There are a number of ways to optimize a site for better speed. First of all, you should upgrade your hosting plan and rethink the plan you started with when you first launched your website. VPS hosting is probably the option you want to go with. It's "in the cloud," meaning it is distributed over multiple computers, sometimes even hundreds. It's less expensive and more flexible than Dedicated Servers. Understanding HTTP requests is another way to boost site speed as too many requests invariably slow down a page. Next, use Photoshop or Gimp to optimize pictures you wish to add to your web page as the larger the images, the slower the site speed. You may change the resolution without wholly sacrificing on picture quality, and this will keep your site interesting as well as smooth. Plugin clutter significantly slows down site performance by creating too many extra files, thus increasing load time. It's best to avoid the use of plugins whenever possible, and though it's not ideal to get rid of them altogether, there are ways to reduce the overall count. Regularly review plugins and use alternatives like adding links to your footers whenever possible. Aside from taking up space, outdated WordPress plugins are often responsible for security vulnerabilities as it's a third party code package. So try and minimize on plugins both for speed and security. Finally, page caching, where web pages store data, allows visitors to access that page more quickly since the database does not have to retrieve each file again. 13. Your website must be mobile friendly: Mobile-friendly websites should display on mobile devices like smartphones and tablets in a user-friendly way. This implies that when a user pulls the site up on their smartphone, he or she does not have to pinch and zoom in order to read the content and click on links. This makes it easy to read and easy to use on a smartphone, eliminating any excess effort. The recommended Google setup is Fluid Responsive Design. Responsive design describes a website that dynamically resizes to fit the width of the device or browser that it is being displayed on. Responsive design uses a single code base that works across hundreds of devices. Naturally, more mobile friendliness equates to more viewers which means more traffic on your site. Use the Mobile-Friendly Test tool by Google to see if pages on your site are mobile-friendly or not. Off-page SEO Off-page SEO refers to the techniques that go beyond a website. People associate off-page SEO with link building, however, it is more than that. The different tips related to this are: 14. Build high-quality backlinks only: Link building is the most important – and the most challenging – SEO strategy. The truth is, without any high-quality backlinks, your website won't rank for competitive and high traffic keywords. The websites with the most valuable and relevant backlinks will ultimately rank over the rest. But, the tricky part is how you will get those quality backlinks? Well, today I'm going to show you one of my favorite tactics to get the high-quality backlinks. 15. Broken link building: Broken link-building tactic is about identifying broken links on websites from your business niche. The main aim is to get the broken link replaced with an active one pointing to your content. This technique creates a significant opportunity for SEO link building because nobody wants to have broken links on their website. If you find any broken links on topically related websites, you can immediately contact the website owner and inform him about it. Since you will do him a favor by pointing out a broken link, you can also kindly request a replacement with a link to your relevant resource. Of course, the replacement – your article – must be informative and useful for their audience. Now, the question is, how to automate the process of finding broken links? You need a tool to do this. In my experience, the best free tool to use for broken link building is Check My Links. It's a simple Google Chrome extension. First, you have to install the extension in your Google Chrome browser. Once installed, it will appear as a little checkmark icon beside your address bar. When you click on it, it will immediately start scanning all the links on a particular web page. If a link is broken or dead, it will be highlighted in red, and the error will be shown right beside the text (e.g., "404"). Let's say you have a website on "virtual assistance." Go to Google and search with one of the following search strings. virtual assistant intitle:resources virtual assistant inurl:resources virtual assistant inurl:useful links virtual assistant + "useful links" virtual assistant + "resources" To detect broken links, open all the results one by one and scan each page using Check My Links plugin. Once you find one, write an email to the website owner about the dead link and kindly request to replace it with your active page. 15. Skyscraper technique: The skyscraper technique is a popular and effective method, introduced by Brian Dean, to improve search rankings and boost the relevance of your website. It involves three steps: Find a linkable asset that you can use again and again, an asset which is both informative and awesome. Authenticity is the 'name of the game' here. Then improve on what exists by making the content longer with more relevant keywords. Finally, reach out to the right people: those who work in your niche and have websites similar to yours. Rather than sending random cold emails, it's better to reach out to those who actually have a reputation in the business. Linking to their pages will give you a big boost in traffic. source 16. Guestographics method: Another link building technique that uses infographics. With this method, instead of publishing an infographic and begging other people to share it, you're pushing them to release it on their site in exchange for unique content. The complete steps are: Step 1: Post an infographic on your site Step 2: Find sites that write about your infographic's topic Step 3: Show them your infographic Step 4: Offer them unique content Step 5: Get your contextual backlinks in return source 17. Guest post on relevant blogs The benefits of guest blogging are clear: You land backlinks from authority sites. People look up to you as an expert. Targeted referral traffic floods to your site. a. Finding blogs to guest post via Google search strings: Here are a few search strings: – write us "your topic." – your keyword + "guest post by." Say your topic is the virtual assistant. Go to Google and search for "virtual assistant" + "guest post by" Also, you can use Google reverse image search, utilize Twitter and Google to find more posts, and go to alltop.com which has a complete list of the best blogs on the net. b. Researching your target bloggers is important when you have to separate the winners from the losers and cozy up to them by engaging them on Twitter/Facebook or via emails. c. Find a great and appropriate topic to write a guest post about. For example, a meat-related post on a vegan blog site is going to get rejected so it's important to know what you are dealing with. d. Have a great pitch ready to persuade bloggers to allow you to write for the guest post for them. e. The final step is to follow up on any and all comments promptly and comprehensively. 18. Answer on Quora: Quora is a website where users generate the content entirely. They post questions via threads and other users answer them. It's basically a yahoo answers type social network that works like an internet forum. Both threads and answers can receive "upvotes" which signify the answer was worthy and popular. The answers with the most upvotes are put at the thread's top. Quora is great for: Websites that rely on traffic for revenue (Ad publishers, affiliate sites, content publishers). Websites that sell information products. Websites that sell products (SEO tools, children's sneakers, coffee grinders). Bloggers that want to establish themselves as an authority on their subject matter. 19. Blog commenting: Commenting on blogs helps to create backlinks, which in turn create traffic for your blog. Most of these links are worthless and thus carry little value, but the process is still helpful. For new blogs, comments – user generated content – will help get a website indexed faster. Commenting helps drive referral traffic to your blog. However, it is important to post a valuable comment. Regular commenting is the best way to connect with any blogger personally. While it can take the time to create these connections, you will be noticed by the site's administrator and other co-bloggers which can be profitable in the long run. 20. Link roundups Link roundups are selected and organized updates from bloggers that link out to their favorite content during a given period. Roundups are mutually beneficial relationships. It's really hard to curate content as it involves a lot of work. The bloggers creating these roundups are actively seeking content to link to. You can land links in bunches. Over time, you will gain roundup coverage naturally. After you pitch the blogger who curates the roundup, you should connect on social media. That way, they'll discover your future updates naturally. I've gained some backlinks from link roundups. 20. Be active on social media Although Google doesn't hold much stock in social media as far as ranking is concerned, you can actually improve your site's popularity and traffic by being active on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. The more you post links to your blogs on social networks, the higher the chance people will visit your blog, thus increasing traffic. 21. Promote your new blog Promoting your blogs is important to let people know of its existence and to improve traffic. The more you promote, the better your blog's relevance is displayed and popularity soars. Before publishing your new piece of content, reach out to an influential blogger in your industry. Once your content is published, share it on social media and mention the people you've referenced. Anytime you mention someone, include a link to someone's article and inform that person by sending an email. With LinkedIn, you can get in an influential bloggers inbox even if you don't have their email address. Contact people who have shared similar content to the item you just published and if possible, turn the content into a video to appeal to an entirely different audience. 22. Stay updated with Google's algorithm Google updates its search algorithm frequently. For example, on February 23rd, 2016, Google made significant changes to AdWords, removing right-column ads entirely and rolling out 4-ad top blocks on many commercial searches. While this was a paid search update, it had significant implications for CTR for both paid and organic results, especially on competitive keywords. These kinds of changes must be understood to plan a strategy regarding site ranking. 23. Follow Google's guidelines These quality guidelines cover the most common forms of deceptive or manipulative behavior, but Google may respond negatively to other misleading practices not listed here. It's not safe to assume that just because a specific deceptive technique isn't included on this page, Google approves of it. Make pages primarily for users, not for search engines. Don't deceive your users. Avoid tricks intended to improve search engine rankings. A good rule of thumb is whether you'd feel comfortable explaining what you've done to a website that competes with you, or to a Google employee. Other useful questions to ask: "Does this help my users? Would I do this if search engines didn't exist?" Think about what makes your website unique, valuable or engaging. Make your site stand out from others in your field." These guidelines are absolute as Google is the most popular and efficient search engine out there. While you use its services, it's only prudent to follow the guidelines to the letter. Conclusion To conclude, web pages may very well be critical to our businesses and recognition, but it's the keywords and more importantly, the ranking which make us significant or otherwise. To maintain a name in the industry, it's important that your website is relevant to the user's search criteria. If you are wondering on how to get a brand new website ranked, remember the 23 methods mentioned in this article are essential to that end. To sum it up, what Google deems significant or reliable is what the public accepts. Anything I missed? Please write it down in the comment section. Source […]
Hey Brian! As you know I like to perfect my video rankings in Google. So I would like to share what's been simply amazing for me. Case study Google search tube sniper pro or any version of that keyword, review, 2, 2 review. And I'm number 1. Won't share all my secrets but I'm more than generous. I've managed to rank well by doing 3 simple things. 1. Using Soovle.com to get lsi keywords. 2. Commenting on the top 3 videos on YouTube for my topic. 3. Adding the top 3 ranking videos on Google YouTube username to my tags and the end of my description. What really helps my rankings is the suggested video views I get from adding the top video tags. Google loves that. Picture this… if the top rated video is being watched and the link is being clicked then the user is finding what they were looking for in Google's eyes. Genius really.
Ron, Google just had some major updates, avoid buying any type of views. Like I previous said, high pr backlinks is what you need. Best practice is using about 5 do follow web 2.0 properties to link directly to your YouTube video, and build all backlinks to your 5 web 2.0 properties so if your video gets deleted from buying views you still have all that backlink juice that you can redirect to the new video.
Youtube videos seem top of the search for almost everything now.I get Youtube is a massive cash cow for Google, but a lot of these videos that outrank traditional web pages are rubbish. It's getting to the point where Google are compromising their own search engine. By the time you've scrolled past the ads and the videos, you may as well start on page two.
Great Stuff Brian!! I have read carfeully throughout your guide and noted down a customized plan for myself to follow everytime I post youtube videos. By the end of the blog post, I saw that you had a checklist already provided haha. It is great however as I've written a more customizable one. You information is truly helpful and so valuable. Thanks so much for this blog post.
As keywords are essentially the backbone of on-page SEO, you need to pay a lot of attention to them. There is no reason not to include them in your URLs. The inclusion has its benefits. When you assimilate the targeted keyword into the URL, you are ensuring that Google's has another reason and way to consider your article as more relevant for a particular phrase.


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Two faculty members from the University of California, Davis, are among 12 scientists selected to receive Individual Biomedical Research Awards from The Hartwell Foundation this year. The awards provide $100,000 of direct support each per year for three years, as well as videoconferencing equipment for periodic communications with the foundation and other award recipients. The foundation is also funding a UC Davis Hartwell Foundation postdoctoral researcher with $50,000 per year over two years.
The awardees are: Frederic Chedin, associate professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, College of Biological Sciences; Noriko Satake M.D., assistant professor of pediatrics in the UC Davis School of Medicine and Comprehensive Cancer Center; and Paula Goines, postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Molecular Biosciences in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine.
In 2011, The Hartwell Foundation designated UC Davis as one of its Top Ten Centers for Biomedical Research. Including Chedin and Satake, the foundation has made Individual Biomedical Research Awards to five UC Davis scientists and engineers since 2009.
The prestigious designation in 2012 also meant that UC Davis received a Hartwell Fellowship to fund one postdoctoral researcher, chosen by the university, who exemplifies the values of the foundation. The fellowship award is intended to support scientists in the early stages of biomedical research careers by enabling them to pursue further specialized training. Goines is the first fellowship recipient from UC Davis.
"The foundation is impressed with the manner in which UC Davis has embraced the Hartwell process to inspire innovation and achievement. UC Davis' leadership exceeded our expectations by their collegial participation to identify outstanding proposals from interested faculty and win two awards this year," said Fred Dombrose, president of The Hartwell Foundation.
Chedin will use the funds to explore a novel approach to understanding a common autoimmune disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, in which the body's immune system attacks itself, including making antibodies against DNA.
At any time, most of our DNA is "silenced" or switched off by a chemical modification, except at a few specific sites, called CG islands, which serve as "on" switches for our genes. Chedin's lab has been studying how these CG islands are protected from silencing; he thinks that too little silencing might play a role in the development of systemic lupus.
He will test his hypothesis by using as a model system the severe but rare autoimmune disorder called Aicardi-Goutires syndrome, which mimics early onset lupus. The syndrome affects infants, and in most cases leads to death by age 10 to 15. Understanding the biological mechanisms that underlie Aicardi-Goutires will generate critical insights into how the innate immune system can be triggered. If Chedin is successful, his efforts will lead to the development of new diagnostic tests and therapies for children affected with early onset lupus and related autoimmune diseases.
Satake is working to develop a new method to treat childhood leukemia, called molecular targeting. The approach is different from conventional chemotherapy drugs, which kill healthy blood cells and leukemic cells equally. Satake proposes to develop a unique method to deliver a type of molecule that interferes with gene expression, called siRNA. She seeks to deliver it specifically to the leukemia cells, but not to normal healthy cells. If she is successful, her narrow-target approach could prove a transformative pediatric cancer treatment.
Satake explained that while considerable gains have been made in curing pediatric cancers, there are still lethal forms of the disease that resist treatment.
"Even when we cure the cancer, many of those patients are known to have significant long-term side effects or late effects derived from radiation and chemotherapy that can cause heart failure, osteoporosis, learning disabilities and even secondary cancer," she said. "Unfortunately, those are irreversible. The new targeted therapy to be developed will not only be more effective in treating cancers but also have fewer side effects to normal cells than current therapies."
Goines is a recent Ph.D. graduate from UC Davis. She will work with Pamela Lein, professor of neurotoxicology in the Department of Molecular Biosciences, on a new approach to studying autism by looking at nerve cells grown from adult stem cells present in the hair follicles of patients.
In the Hartwell competition, all nominees submit a detailed research proposal, are personally interviewed and make a formal presentation of their proposed research. In selecting awardees, The Hartwell Foundation takes into account the nature of the proposed innovation, the extent to which a strategic or translational approach might promote rapid clinical application of research results, the supportive role and extent of collaboration in the proposed research, the institutional commitment to provide encouragement and technical support to the investigator, and the extent to which funding the investigator will make a difference.
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|The look on her face after being "saved"
In a era were a dozen children are murdered every day in Syria without notice, the plight of little Maria quickly became an international headline. This is the way Diane Sawyer introduced the story on ABC World News on Monday 21 October 2013:
Next tonight the mystery of a girl known as Maria, a little girl with blue eyes found inside a kind of camp in Greece. How did she get there with those people and who are her real parents?As far as Diane Sawyer was concerned, this Roma couple couldn't possibly be the "real parents" of such a "little blonde girl."
There are some 10 million Roma people spread throughout Europe, mostly in gypsy enclaves. As the crisis of capitalism has dug its claws deeper into European society, the Roma people, who are generally darker than most white Europeans, have become a favorite whipping boy. Like the Latino immigrants in the United States, they have become the targets of increased harassment and deportations as the powers-that-be seek to deepen divisions among the exploited.
In a variant on the NYPD "Stop & Frisk" policy, the European authorities often carry out sweeps for guns and drugs in Roma camps. Like "Stop & Frisk" (for guns and drugs?), this justification for racist harassment is a double fix. It implies the criminality of the people being harassed and it says that harassment is being done for the protection of the white majority.
|With her family in happier times for Maria
It's her distinctive blonde hair and blue eyes that may have saved her, her young face being seen around the world.There is no doubt that the conditions of little Maria's life were terrible, as they are for poor children all over the world, but the ABC News reports showed little concern for the conditions of Roma children in the camps generally, or improving those conditions. The whole point seemed to be that little Maria, with her blonde hair and blue eyes, didn't belong with "those people," that she should be "saved." Accordingly, they strove hard to portray Maria's life among the Romas negatively. When they showed a video of little Maria dancing with neighbours, it was "a haunting home video" and "she looks out of step in her own world." Alex Perez continued:
Police thought she looked nothing like the couple who claimed to be her parents. A DNA test proved she was not theirs. Today they charged this gypsy couple with abducting her, accusing them of falsifying the paperwork for several of their 14 children.It should be noted in the margins somewhere that ABC News and Diane Sawyer are defining "real parents" as only those who provided DNA to the child. Adopted parents, no matter how legal the adoption, foster parents, no matter how real the love, and step-parents, never mind the trials, can never be considered "real parents" in the eyes of these representatives of the Disney Corporation. That is a very important subtext to Diane Sawyer's reporting on this story.
Authorities are also trying to figure out who their parents may be. The couple argue the child's mother gave the young girl to them and that they adopted her. As word spread, authorities here in Greece tonight say they were inundated with calls from around the world including the United States, many from desperate family members searching for their little children.
When DNA tests proved 39-year-old Christos Salis and 40-year-old Eleftheria Dimopoulou were not the biological parents of Maria, the couple that had raised her from infancy, and my neighbours accounts, given her good care, were arrested and charged with kidnapping and fraud. They have four children although it is said that they claimed fourteen with state agencies. They remain in jail still.
Today, we took a trip to the Roma or gypsy neighborhood where Maria was living. As you arrive, the first thing you see, children. Many, dirty.The people who actual knew and care for little Maria are very concerned but they are of no account because they are Roma. On Diana Sawyer's show, the view is very upbeat:
On the street where Maria lived emotions were running high. We came to the family members that are in the house. They're extremely upset, saying what's been said are nothing but lies. Authorities are investigating whether Maria was a victim of human trafficking.
The fact that Maria has been identified and rescued is a miracle in and of itself with statistics stating one to two percent ever get rescued. It's a miracle.A little girl has been abducted from her family by state authorities for entirely racist reasons and ABC News calls it a miracle!
|Maria's birth parents with sibling
"I gave my child away because we were hungry," Ruseva said.The Sydney Morning Herald reported:
"[The Greek woman told me]: 'Give me this child, I will take care of it. You can come and take it back anytime you want'," Ruseva claimed.
"I intended to go back and take my child home, but meanwhile I gave birth to two more kids so I was not able to go back."
Hospital birth records show a baby girl was born to Mrs Ruseva on January 31, 2009 – the same date given as the birthday by the Roma couple who claimed the girl as their own.
|Two of Maria's siblings by the Rusevas
The Irish police must have gone on an anti-Roma rampage in the wake of the Greek story because they also took another blonde-haired Roma child, a little boy this time, from his parents until the DNA results proved he was theirs. Like the Greek police, the Irish police had decided, on the basis of eye-color, hair-color, and skin-color that the child did not belong to that family. There is a bit of irony in this because the Irish have long been known as the niggers of Europe but it would seem that the Roma are the new niggers of Europe and the Irish are all too eager to join in the queue and pile on with the other whites, a trait they have also exhibited on this side of the Atlantic.
The way this story has been played up in the media has had the effect of promoting racist hysteria against Roma across Europe. There have also been reports of skin heads in Serbia attacking a Roma couple because their child had lighter skin than they had.
This was a new play on the white supremacist, King Kong theme, that the darker people covet and will steal the blonde-haired, blue-eye girls. That is the fear that Diane Sawyer was especially good at promoting. That is why they said that she had been "saved," why ABC News called it "a miracle" and "a global beacon of hope" for all the other lost little blonde girls the media has dwelt on over the years.
Without anything like a shred of evidence. they implied that Maria had been bought and would be sold, simply by dropping hints:
Authorities have taken her DNA, and are investigating whether she is a victim of human trafficking.That was three mentions, in just one segment! In case you didn't get the message that Diane Sawyer thinks that the Roma couple are kidnappers and little "blonde angel" a victim of human trafficking. Tuesday, 22 October, ABC News Good Morning America ran with the headline:
Authorities are investigating whether Maria was a victim of human trafficking. 30 million people worldwide are trafficked, 80 percent women and children.
We have the proper authorities investigating to identify trafficking rings.
4 US Families Believe 'Gypsy Girl' Is TheirsThey even entertained the irrational suggestion that Maria could be the missing child of a desperate Kansas City couple, a child that would be only two-years-old now. Then they went on to report:
Families around the world hold out hope after a Greek couple was accused of kidnapping a young girl.
Now, the Roma couple appeared at the courthouse behind me. They are both headed to jail. While police continue hunting for Maria's real parents.This trafficking charge is ridiculous on its face because poor Roma families don't exchange children for money among themselves and no one obtaining an infant for trafficking raises it for four years without selling it, but it remains the only fig-leaf protecting the authorities from the most acute embarrassment.
Even though the facts are as the Roma couple that raised Maria said they were all along and the birth parents have confirmed this, little Maria remains with the child charity that has been given custody of her while the adoptive parents remain in jail because they continue to suspect that Maria was exchanged for money. The birth parents have had their seven minor children taken away from them by authorities in Bulgaria.
The mythology is that the Roma take people's children but the reality is that there has been a long history of that state taking Roma children from their parents as is the case here. One example, between 1998-2002 502 Albanian Roma children went missing from a state run children's institution in Athens. The disappearance has never been adequately investigated but it has been suggested that they might have been given to human traffickers.
This little blonde Roma girl in Ireland was said to have been crying and "very upset" by her ordeal. It's hard to believe that it could be otherwise for a young child taken away from her family. That is why it is hard to believe the authorities reports about the current happiness of little Maria since she was taken from her family.
But for the authorities and the media, who both serve the same masters, this episode was not really about the welfare of little Maria or any child. It was about stoking the fires of racism among a people that are themselves being pressed hard by the capitalist crisis. What this episode shows is that while both the authorities and the media claim to be color blind, they are ready and willing to drop that façade in an instance when it suits them.


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The first time I saw this bottle of Ballantine's whiskey I thought: I need a drink. Then I looked closely and I thought: Fuck, I need a drink. And some disco dancing too.
Then I looked a third time, and discovered that the animated electro-luminiscent graphic EQ included in its label didn't actually respond to the DJ's antics. It is all automated, a gimmick designed to make it look like the real thing. Lame, Ballantine's. On the other side, I know that—given the quality of music in most clubs and the state of most of their patrons—this won't matter one bit to most of the people immersed in their booze stupor. So. Hookai. Whatever.
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The ages 11 through 14 years are often referred to as early adolescence.
These years are an exciting time of many varied and rapid changes. Your child
grows taller and stronger and also starts to feel and think in more mature
ways. You may feel amazed as you watch your child begin to turn into an adult.
But this can be a confusing time for both kids and parents. Both must get used
to the new person the child is becoming.
From ages 11 through 14,
a child develops in four main areas:
doctor visits are important to detect problems and to make sure your adolescent
is growing and developing as expected. During these visits, the doctor will do a
physical exam and give your child any needed shots. The doctor will also ask
questions about your child's friends, school, and activities to see how he or
she is doing.
It is a good idea to give an adolescent some time
alone with the doctor. This gives your child a chance to ask questions that he
or she may not feel comfortable asking you.
Adolescents should
also have yearly dental checkups to make sure their teeth are strong and
Call your doctor
anytime you have a concern about your child's physical or emotional health,
such as:
A call or visit to your child's doctor can help you keep
a healthy outlook and know how to recognize a true problem. This may help
relieve tension between you and your child.
Being the parent of an adolescent can be challenging. Even if your child
pushes you away at times, you still play a very big role in your child's life.
Try to stay positive and keep the lines of communication open. While it is good
to let your child make decisions, realize that adolescents need and want limits
that are fair and firm.
To promote healthy development:
Throughout these years, it is important to let
adolescents know they are loved and accepted, no matter what happens, even if
at times you don't agree with what they do or how they act.
Learning about adolescent growth and development:
Seeing a doctor:
Ongoing concerns:
Health Tools help you make wise health decisions or take action to improve your health.
Rapidly changing bodies, confusion,
excitement, new social situations, and increased reasoning abilities make ages
11 to 14 a thrilling and sometimes challenging time for children and parents.
Watching your child gradually mature is an amazing process. It also can be
puzzling for parents who may wonder during this transition, "Do I have a child
or an adult?" Since neither is the case, you must continually renegotiate your
relationship with and learn about your evolving adolescent.
Although each adolescent develops at his or her individual pace, general
growth and development patterns can be grouped into four main categories.
The years 11 through 14 are exciting
and confusing. Many parents have concerns about how their children will handle
the many physical and emotional changes that usually happen during this time.
Some of these common concerns include:
During this
time of trial and error, offer open, positive communication
while providing clear and fair rules and consistent guidance. You significantly
influence your adolescent's habits and attitudes, choices, and adjustments to
physical changes. But realize that your child's way of doing things does not
have to exactly match your own.
Help your child identify
important issues and be prepared for increasing responsibilities. Allow your
child the freedom to figure things out in his or her own way within the
boundaries you have set. Parents walk a fine line between respecting a teen's
need for independence and privacy and making sure that he or she does not make
mistakes that have lifelong consequences.
Promote your
physical development by doing the following:
Promote your adolescent's healthy
emotional and social development by doing the
Promote your adolescent's
cognitive development by doing the following:
Promote your adolescent's
sensory and motor development by doing the
Your child's doctor can help
you discuss difficult issues with your adolescent if you ever are having
trouble doing so on your own. Keep in mind that important subjects, such as
sex, should be addressed long before you think your child will face
Talk to your child's doctor if you are concerned about your child's health or other issues. For example:
Call a doctor or a mental health professional if your child
develops behavioral problems or signs of mental health problems. Signs may
Also be aware that these problems can sometimes be
warning signs of suicide.
Routine checkups (usually once a year) allow your
child's doctor to keep a close eye on your child's general health and
development. You also can discuss any concerns you have during these appointments. It may help you to go with a
list of questions(What is a PDF document?).
These checkups are
important to detect problems and to see if your child is growing and developing
as expected. The doctor will do a
physical exam, suggest any needed shots (immunizations), and ask questions about your child's
social, academic, relationship, and mental health status. For information about
recommended shots, see the topics:
Beginning in adolescence,
most doctors like to spend some time alone with your child during the visit.
Although many state laws are vague about adolescents' and teens' rights to
medical confidentiality, most doctors will clarify expectations with you and
your child. Ideally, you will all agree that anything your child discusses
privately with the doctor will remain confidential, with few exceptions. This
gives your child an opportunity to talk to the doctor about any issue he or she
may not feel comfortable in sharing with you.
Adolescents and
teens also need to have regular dental checkups and to be encouraged to brush
and floss regularly.
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) offers a
variety of educational materials about parenting,
general growth and development, immunizations, safety, disease prevention, and more. AAP guidelines for various conditions and links to other
organizations are also available.
This American Social Health Association Web site
provides a safe, educational, and fun place for teens to learn about their
sexual health and about sexually transmitted infections (STIs). The Web site
aims to help start conversations between parents and teens about sexual health.
If you have questions or concerns about STIs, you can call the STI
This CDC website is for children 9 to 13 years old. It gives kids the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices. There are interactive tools about fitness, safety, disease, stress, and more.
This nonprofit group rates media (such as TV shows, games, music, and movies) based on age appropriateness. The website also has information to help parents make informed choices about their child's use of computers, cell phones, and more. The group offers advice about how to teach media review skills to kids.
This website is sponsored by the Nemours Foundation. It
has a wide range of information about children's health—from allergies and
diseases to normal growth and development (birth to adolescence). This website
offers separate areas for kids, teens, and parents, each providing
age-appropriate information that the child or parent can understand. You can
sign up to get weekly emails about your area of interest.
This Web site provides a variety of resources about
protecting yourself and your family from Internet crimes. There is information
about Internet safety for children, identity theft, general Internet safety,
and Internet privacy.
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This week's Photo Friday entry: 'Interiors'
Hmmmm you'd think there weren't any interiors underwater but you'd be wrong. Its fun to go inside old ship wrecks but often very dark inside. Here Alex Mustard and I are using Off camera flash to light up the insides of the Ghannis D in the Red Sea.
If you want to see more of my underwater photos from various places then check out the galleries in my Reef Beasties Gallery.
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My First Trip to the New Yankee Stadium
This afternoon I found myself organizing a bunch of documents on my laptop. School assignments from my College years, newspaper articles from the school paper, and all of my recent work assignments were stockpiled in my computer folder.
I came across a personal experience story I had to write for my feature writing class in May of 2009. It should come as no shock that I wrote about my experience from the first trip I took to the new Yankee Stadium.
Reading this back, I felt like a little kid. It was priceless. I figured it might be nice to share it on here; put it on the blog. Most of the pictures in this entry are ones I shot that day.
I was exhausted as I looked out the window on the train ride home. As a die-hard baseball fan, I had just been through an absolute whirlwind. The day of my baseball-loving life.
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 was a very special day for me. I was privileged enough to make my first trip with my friends and family to the new Yankee Stadium.
In only the sixth regular season game at the new ballpark, the New York Yankees hosted the Oakland Athletics in an afternoon game.
Wearing my pinstriped Mariano Rivera jersey on my back and one of my many fitted Yankee caps on my head, I met up with my friends, Brian and Jenn, and my cousin Joe for what would be a memorable day.
On the train ride to the Bronx, we really did not know what to expect, other than a great time. I, for one, was not sure if the new Stadium would live up to the hype.
Sure, it looks incredible on television and in the newspapers, but how is it going look in-person? Will it be the same feeling as enjoying a game at the old Stadium? I couldn't help but think.
We walked off the number four subway in the Bronx to an overwhelming site: The new Yankee Stadium in all its glory.
As we approached the building, we did not know what we were in for.
"The Kingdom of Heaven!" I exclaimed, while I was glaring at the building.
"This place looks absolutely amazing, and we are not even inside yet."
The first thing we had to do was take pictures. I reached into my bag and pulled out my camera. I shot the façade of the stadium. I snapped pictures of the new Babe Ruth Plaza outside the Stadium.
And I got a picture of the new electronic game day board that read, "Oakland Athletics vs. New YorkYankees Today1:05."
With seats in the bleachers, we were unsure of where to enter. If you had seats in the bleachers at the old Stadium, you could only enter through the back of the building. But we wanted to see everything in the new stadium. We walked up to Gate Six, and asked where to go.
"As long as you have your ticket, you can enter at any gate," the gentleman informed us. "It doesn't matter if you're in the bleachers. We treat everybody equally at this Stadium!"
We happily entered the gate, right into the Great Hall. What I saw left me in disbelief. Yankees everywhere I looked.
"Wow," I said in amazement. "I…I just can't believe this. This place is unreal."
Of course we had to take more pictures. My friends got a shot of me standing in the Great Hall with all the Yankee banners behind me.
Reggie Jackson. Paul O'Neill. Thurman Munson. Me. What a picture.
After walking around and snapping a ridiculous amount of photos, we finally settled into our seats. Left field bleachers, Section 236, row five, seat 16. That was mine.
It was about11:00 a.m.by the time we made it to the seats. The A's were out on the field, stretching and taking batting practice.
I noticed so many baseballs fly out of the park. One flew right over our heads, landing about 20 feet away. Not long after that, one came within ten feet of Joe's seat, landing directly in the glove of the kid next to him.
"Holy cow," I said. "Pretty close!"
I then took a few minutes to take it all in. I looked at the frieze which now surrounds the top of the entire stadium. I looked out at the field. I looked at the flags around the top of the stadium, indicating the league standings.
"We are in second place right now," I noted. "Right behind Toronto."
And then I beheld the press box, which is located in the mezzanine behind home plate.
"I'll be there someday," I quietly said to myself.
"I just need my journalism degree, which I'll be getting very soon, and a little bit of time to work my way up. I'll be sitting up there with the rest of the writers, eventually."
It had started to lightly rain during batting practice, and I began to feel very skeptical as to whether or not the game was going to be played. There was rain in the forecast, and I was not certain they were going to get it in.
But the grounds crew thought differently. They did not come out to put the tarp on the field. They chalked the lines and the batter's box, raked the mound, and put the bases in, as if they were starting the game on time.
Then I noticed CC Sabathia chug from the dugout to the outfield to play long toss with the bullpen catcher. Pitching Coach Dave Eiland and Jorge Posada soon followed Sabathia out to centerfield.
I felt a little more confident now that the pitcher was warming up.
"If the game was not going to start on time, they would not have CC out there throwing," I thought to myself. "We'll see some baseball today."
It got to be 1:00, and the P.A. announcer gave us the starting lineups. Oaklandfirst. The visitors are always announced first. Then the home team.
"…And for the Yankees: led by their manager, number 27, Joe Girardi. Batting first, the shortstop, number two, Derek Jeter!"
I could not contain myself as each Yankee was announced. I am a passionate Yankee fan, and I marked out for every single Yankee in the lineup.
"YAY, Derek! YAY Johnny! YAY BigTex!" …and so on.
Then came the National Anthem. And after the on-the-field warm-ups, the start of the game.
The first pitch was so exciting. Everybody was up and cheering. The roar of the crowd gets to you, even as a fan. I don't know how the players handle it, but as a fan, it's extremely intense.
After the first pitch, which was ball one from Sabathia, we heard it.
"YOOOOOO, Melky!!!!!"
"Bald Vinny," the main bleacher creature who always sits in right field, started the Yankee roll call. He did this for every game in the old Stadium and apparently the tradition lives on.
"Some things will never change," I said with a smile on my face.
I watched as the fans standing in the bleachers cried out for every Yankee until they were acknowledged. I could only laugh as I watched right fielder Nick Swisher turn around, face the bleacher creatures, and salute them, as if he was an Army soldier.
In the top of the second inning, Oakland catcher Kurt Suzuki slaughtered Sabathia's offering to left field. Brian, Jenn, Joe and I all stood up as we gazed at the ball flying out to left field.
It carried far enough for a fan sitting in the front row to snatch the ball. He closed his glove and caught the ball for a three-run Oakland home run.
As the boos reverberated throughout the Stadium, Girardi came out to argue that the fan interfered.
"Here we go again," I said. "Just like Sunday against Cleveland – bring on instant replay!"
The umps went into the tunnel for what seemed like only five minutes to decide whether or not the ball was a home run.
"Here come the umps," Brian said to me as they walked from the third base tunnel out onto the field. "I hope it gets overturned!"
Third base umpire Brian Gorman twirled his index finger, signaling that the ball was indeed a goner. The Yankees were now down, 3-0.
A little depressed, we knew the Yankees needed a spark. Being down 3-0 early on in the game never puts any fan in a good mood.
But the bottom of the second inning lifted our spirits in a great way.
Hideki Matsui stepped up to the plate, and cracked a long, solo homer into the right field seats, putting us back within two runs.
"YES! I joyfully cried out. "We're back in it!"
After Matsui's blast, I high fived everyone around me, including two Yankee fans I had never met.
It doesn't matter if you don't know the other fans when a Yankee hits a home run. We're all Yankee fans, which makes us family at the game.
"That's what I'm talking about," one of the fans said to me as I slapped his hand.
The next batter was Melky Cabrera. We had just seen one Yankee home run, and Cabrera made it two.
Back-to-back jacks – the first set of back-to-back home runs in the new house, in fact. Cabrera clobbered Oakland starter Brett Anderson's offering into the area right below us.
Again, I yelled out, "YES! 3-2!"
While Cabrera rounded the bases, I borrowed Yankee announcer John Sterling's cheesy catch-phrase and shouted, "The Melk-man always knocks twice!"
With the Yankees now trailing by only one run at the end of the second inning and the rain pouring down rather steadily, we had no choice but to leave our seats and take cover.
One of the best facets of the new stadium are the standing rooms. You can leave your seat, and still view the on-the-field-action.
Now protected from the rain and perched over the centerfield gate with Monument Park beneath us, we stood and watched Sabathia and the Yankees give up another run in the top of the third, making the score 4-2.
"Are you kidding me? This just is not right," I told Joe while shaking my head in confusion.
Down 4-2, the Yankees received a much-needed lift in the bottom half of the third.
With Posada on second and Teixeira on third, Robinson Cano was able to push Teixeira across the plate for a run, bringing the Yanks back within one.
Soon after Nick Swisher came up and singled to drive in Posada, knotting the game at four runs apiece.
"Alright, we're making some progress here," I said as I peered out onto the field at the end of third inning.
"I have a gut feeling we'll be on top when this game is all said and done."
In the bottom of the fourth inning, we were treated to yet another Yankee home run. This time it was the Captain.
Jeter came up and blasted a solo home run directly below us in centerfield, taking the ball into Monument Park. If you looked closely enough on the replay, for a split second, you could just see the group of us cheering on the home run from the standing room platform above centerfield before it landed.
"Way to go, Captain! He did it again," I gleefully exclaimed.
According to the scoreboard, Jeter was playing in his 2,000th career game. A home run must have been a nice way to remember it by.
Oakland would get a run back off Sabathia in the top of the sixth, as Mark Ellis singled to score Jack Cust.
I could hear the other fans' disgust at Sabathia's pitching.
"Why does this guy suck? He's terrible," I heard one upset fan say.
"Go back toMilwaukee, you waste of money," I heard another disgruntled fan cry out.
The bad feelings towards Sabathia temporarily evaporated in the bottom of the sixth, as the Yankees re-took the lead.
Tied at five, Jeter doubled to score Cody Ransom, and Teixeira singled to score Jeter, giving the Bronx Bombers a 7-5 edge.
"This is real Yankee baseball," I thought to myself. "It doesn't matter how bad CC is, as long as the offense does its job."
With the Yanks up by two at the end of six, we decided to leave the standing area and see the rest of the palace.
The new stadium offers so much, and there's a lot to see and do. We heard that there was museum inside the ballpark, open to the fans. We asked around, and found out that we had just enough time to visit the museum before it closed.
So we went.
We walked in the Yankee museum, and just as I had been blown away coming off the subway, I was taken aback by everything in the room. There was so much to see.
We took pictures with the World Series trophies from the 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000 Championship years. The years I fell in love with the Yankees and with baseball.
I couldn't help but think of the great teams of those years, and how much I loved watching them at the old Stadium.
"I remember when Tino Martinez crushed that grand slam into the upper deck in right field in first game of the '98 series," I said to Brian.
"Tino was one of the greatest players to ever put on the pinstripes, and my favorite during the dynasty."
Then we made our way to the "ball wall," an incased shelf of baseballs autographed by practically every player ever to wear a Yankee uniform.
I was amazed, saying to my friends and cousin, "Hey, look here's Yogi! Oh man, it's Jeter's ball. And here's Tino's! And the greatest player to ever live: Babe Ruth."
After viewing the ball wall, we journeyed over to the replica clubhouse locker. You can type your name into the computer, and it will appear above the locker, as if you are in the Yankee clubhouse as a player.
I typed my name in, and it appeared.
"A.J. Martelli" appeared above the locker, much to my delight.
I thought to myself, "This is what it feels like to be a Yankee. It feels pretty good."
Of course, I got a picture of me in the locker with my name posted over my head to remember it by.
As all this was going on, we noticed on the high definition television screen that Sabathia was blowing the lead.
Ex-Yankee and current Athletic Jason Giambi grounded out to short while Bobby Crosby scored, and Matt Holliday singled to score Ryan Sweeney, knotting the game again, this time at seven.
Sabathia exited to a mixed reaction from the Yankee faithful, and those bad feelings toward him from the sixth inning came back.
We made our way out of the museum, and back to a standing area, this time by first base.
We could only look on as the Yankees and A's could not get anything offensive going. With the game still knotted at seven heading into the top half of the ninth, we watched Mariano Rivera come in to pitch.
As Metallica's "Enter Sandman" blared through the new stadium speakers and Rivera dashed in from the bullpen, it all looked so different to me.
"It's so weird to see him enter from right field," I said. "I'm so used to seeing him come in through the left field gate."
The new Stadium features the Yankee bullpen behind the right field fence, in contrast to the old Stadium, where it sat behind left-center.
Rivera mowed through the A's in the top of the ninth. The Yankees could not generate a winning run in the bottom of the ninth, and the game went into extra innings.
The 11th. The 12th. The 13th. After awhile we found ourselves completely wiped out.
With our legs tired and already harboring a seven and a half-hour day at the stadium, we contemplated whether or not to stay or hit the subway back to Grand Central.
"If they don't win after the 13th, you want to head out?" I asked.
"We are all really tired, I don't care what we do," said Brian.
"I just hope they win, either way!"
With sore legs from walking, a horse voice from cheering, and a tired mind, my friends, my cousin, and I made our way back to the subway.
Many others had the same idea, as the subway was crammed with Yankee fans.
"Was this your first game at the new stadium?" a man wearing a Yankee hat sitting across from me asked.
"Yeah," I replied.
"How'd you like it?" he followed up.
"It was amazing. I can't believe how stunning the Stadium really is. The television does not do it justice. You have to come down here and physically enter the building to really appreciate it," I again replied.
He agreed with everything I said.
When we reached Grand Central, we found that the Yankees were still playing in the top of the 14th inning.
We finally boarded the train back home, exhausted and worn out. However, I was not going to rest until I found out if the Yankees had won or lost.
Strangely enough, I looked out the train window as we passed the Stadium on the way home. Staring in awe at the ballpark from the train, I received a text message from another friend, Micheal.
"Melky just hit a walk-off homer in the bottom of the fourteenth. Yankees win!"
As I was glaring at the "Kingdom of Heaven" from the train, the Bronx Bombers were celebrating at home plate, mobbing Cabrera in a 9-7 Yankee victory. The first walk-off home run in the new Yankee Stadium. History.
I smiled, and knew that even though we didn't exactly see the game-winner, it was like I did.
I was satisfied knowing that I'll always remember my first trip to the new stadium. I was just an infant when my parents took me to my first game in the old stadium. I can't exactly remember that first visit to the old ballpark vividly.
But now I'll have memories that will last for the rest of my life. Memories from my first trip to the new Stadium that I'll remember forever.
Exhausted and staring out the window as we passed Dobbs Ferry, I finally shut my eyes.
The Yankees won. Now I could rest easily.


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"The Challenges of User Consent" – Handling Shibboleth User Attributes
One of the great things about the Shibboleth inter-institution single sign-on software package is the ability for the Identity Provider to limit how much a Service Provider knows about a user's request for service. (Not familiar with those capitalized terms? Read on for definitions.) But with this capability comes great flexibility, and with the flexibility can come lots of management overhead. So I was intrigued to see the announcement for an online webinar from the InCommon Shibboleth Federation with the title "The Challenges of User Consent" covering the issues of managing who gets access to what information about users.
From the webinar description:
Are you starting to see more requests from SPs seeking user attributes? Would you like to explore methods that would simplify the attribute release process? You aren't alone. Campuses are seeking a scalable approach to managing attribute release that will minimize admin involvement and allow users to access sites like those that support collaborative work and want such attributes as EPPN, name, and email.
Automating the user consent procedure, combined with metadata-driven attribute release, provides an approach that greatly simplifies this process for all parties, and allows users to reach sites without delay.
Join us for a discussion and demonstration from Brown University and the University of Southern California.
Host/Moderator: Tom Barton, University of Chicago and InCommon Technical Advisory Comittee
Steven Carmody, Brown University and InCommon TAC
Russ Beall, University of Southern California>
Lots more abbreviations and technical terms there, so here is a short primer:
- Service Provider (SP)
- A web server protected by Shibboleth that a user wants to access.
- Identity Provider (IdP)
- A web server that can authenticate a user (determine who the user is, typically with username/password) and store User Attributes.
- User Attributes
- Data about a user, including name, email address, affiliation status (student, employee, faculty, etc.), eduPersonPrincipalName, and TargetedIDs.
- eduPersonPrincipalName (EPPN)
- A string in the form of user@domain that uniquely identifies the user at an Identity Provider. (InCommon technical definition)
- TargetedID
- An opaque string stored/generated by the Identity Provider that is unique to each user and Service Provider pair. Passed as a User Attribute between the Identity Provider and the Service Provider, it can facilitate long-term user sessions at the Service Provider without revealing the identity of the user.
This is all stuff that as librarians we should be concerned about. Arguably, a Service Provider should only have enough information to satisfy the demands of a license agreement, and in most cases those demands can be satisfied with an assertion that a user is of a proper affiliation with a library (e.g. "patron" or "student" or "employee" or simply "member"). It is baked into the Shibboleth trust model that the Service Provider will honor the User Attributes presented by the Identity Provider.
What makes the announcement of this webinar interesting is that Service Providers seem to be asking for the non-opaque eduPersonPrincipalName attribute. I've long thought that TargetedID -- an opaque/random string shared between the Identity Provider and Service Provider -- is a much better answer to enabling privacy for functions like marked-item-lists, relevance ranking based on user search history, and other services that are unique to an individual. Because TargetedID doesn't give away the person's identity yet is guaranteed by the IdP to be unique to one person at one SP, it is ideal for situations when the SP doesn't really need to know exactly who is making the request. (Sure, if a user coming to an SP with a TargetedID then gives the SP his/her name or e-mail address, then that person is no longer anonymous but that was a choice the user made.)
So I'm planning on tuning in next Wednesday to get caugh up on what is happening with User Attributes in Shibboleth-land. If you care about this kind of stuff, perhaps you can join me, too.