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What's the difference between contracting and consulting? One major difference comes down to whether the job is handwork or brainwork. Whether you're an "innie" or an "outie," this is applicable.
Innies are UX professionals who work inside an organization. Even though they are part of the company, they are still consultants. They are brought on to projects with the intent of lending their skills to move the project forward. Sometimes they stay with one project for its duration, or sometimes they juggle multiple projects at once. Either way, they aren't really part of the long-term team in the same way others are—they move from team to team and are only there when their skills are in demand.
Handwork and Brainwork
Innies and outies have a lot in common. One thing they share is the need to distinguish whether a project is handwork or brainwork.
Handwork is when the hiring team knows what they want; they just lack the right number of hands to get it all done. Let's say the team needs new screens designed. They know what the screens are and how they should work. They've built many screens before, quite successfully, so it's not a problem of knowing what to do.
The problem is they don't have enough hands to get the job done. All of their internal resources are otherwise occupied, thereby stalling the screen-production piece of the project. In this case, they hire a contractor—someone who will come in and help them crank out more screens. This is handwork.
But there's another way the project could go down. What if our hypothetical team doesn't know what the screens are or how they should work? What if they don't have the experience of building screens before and lack the confidence and skills to get started efficiently?
In this case, they need someone to help them come up with a strategy for identifying which screens need work and how to tackle them. In fact, once that strategy is set and they understand what the project needs to be finished, they may have, internal to the team, all the resources necessary to complete it.
This is when they hire an outside consultant; someone who will bring in expertise and skills the team doesn't otherwise have. This we call brainwork.
Hiring Hands and Brains
It's quite critical, as a UX consultant (whether you're an innie or outie), to distinguish between handwork and brainwork—yet the distinction is often not discussed. As I talk to people who are looking to expand their careers, what I discover is they are often trapped doing handwork when what they really want to do is brainwork. (Occasionally, I meet someone who prefers to do handwork to brainwork, but that is quite rare.)
Handwork, for the most part, is commodity work. Once you qualify the basic skills, it really doesn't matter who does it. It doesn't take imagination. Previous experience, for the most part, doesn't play a role in the quality of the output.
If the team needs to produce 100 wireframes and they have a pool of 20 people who are capable of producing those wireframe to their specifications, then it doesn't matter which of those people you hire. Hire the one who charges the lowest rate, has the nicest personality, and produces the cleanest deliverables.
Brainwork, on the other hand, is where your expertise and experience come into play. If the team doesn't know what a wireframe is or how to decide what they should do, they'll want someone who can give them solid advice. It they're smart, they'll be selective about who they hire, looking for someone with a track record of helping other teams in comparable situations, and they'll pay top dollar for their help.
Maybe the team's leadership is mistaken and they shouldn't be doing wireframes at all? Well, someone hired to do brain work will have earned the respect and authority to say, "You know, there's a better way to do this" and the team will listen. (Occasionally, they'll even revise their plans, but that's another column for another day.)
However, if that same person was hired to do handwork, there's no way the leadership will pay attention. It's wasted breath (or worse, seen as belligerence that may result in removal from the project). Handwork is hired for hands, not brains. Please keep your brains to yourself.
UX professionals who do handwork are what we call the Hands. They're a rare and valuable breed. Find someone who loves being the Hands and you have a production machine.
The Brains are what we call folks who provide great brainwork. Prospective employers have to be more discriminating when hiring the Brains, because their advice will drive the results, either to success or to failure.
Hiring managers should know which they want. Get the right person for the job and you'll have a successful project. You need to distinguish between Hands contractors and Brains consultants. In the next installment, I'll talk about the qualities that separate a great Hands contractor from a great Brains consultant.
More thoughts on this topic: Should You Be Hands or Brains?
Want to meet Jared?
Jared Spool is the keynote speaker at UX Australia 2010, being held in Melbourne from the 25-27 August 2010. To pick up one of the (less than 30 at time of going to print) tickets, register on their site.


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Types of anticoagulants
The most commonly prescribed anticoagulant is warfarin.
Newer types of anticoagulants are also available and are becoming increasingly common. These include:
- rivaroxaban (Xarelto)
- dabigatran (Pradaxa)
- apixaban (Eliquis)
- edoxaban (Lixiana)
Warfarin and the newer alternatives are taken as tablets or capsules. There's also an anticoagulant called heparin that can be given by injection.
When anticoagulants are used
If a blood clot blocks the flow of blood through a blood vessel, the affected part of the body will become starved of oxygen and will stop working properly.
Depending on where the clot forms, this can lead to serious problems such as:
- strokes or transient ischaemic attacks ("mini-strokes")
- heart attacks
- deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- pulmonary embolism
Treatment with anticoagulants may be recommended if your doctor feels you're at an increased risk of developing one of these problems. This may be because you've had blood clots in the past or you've been diagnosed with a condition such as atrial fibrillation that can cause blood clots to form.
You may also be prescribed an anticoagulant if you've recently had surgery, as the period of rest and inactivity you need during your recovery can increase your risk of developing a blood clot.
Read more about when anticoagulants are used.
How to take anticoagulants
Your doctor or nurse should tell you how much of your anticoagulant medicine to take and when to take it.
Most people need to take their tablets or capsules once or twice a day with water or food.
The length of time you need to keep taking your medicine for depends on why it's been prescribed. In many cases, treatment will be lifelong.
If you're unsure how to take your medicine, or are worried that you missed a dose or have taken too much, check the patient information leaflet that comes with it or ask your GP, anticoagulant clinic or pharmacist what to do. You can also call NHS 111 for advice.
Read more about anticoagulant doses.
Things to consider when taking anticoagulants
There are several things you need to be aware of when taking anticoagulant medicines.
If you're going to have surgery or a test such as an endoscopy, make sure your doctor or surgeon is aware that you're taking anticoagulants, as you may have to stop taking them for a short time.
Speak to your GP, anticoagulant clinic or pharmacist before taking any other medications, including prescription and over-the-counter medicines, as some medications can affect how your anticoagulant works.
If you're taking warfarin, you'll also need to avoid making significant changes to what you normally eat and drink, as this can affect your medication.
Most anticoagulant medicines aren't suitable for pregnant women. Speak to your GP or anticoagulant clinic if you become pregnant or are planning to try for a baby while taking anticoagulants.
Read more about things to consider when taking anticoagulants.
Side effects of anticoagulants
Like all medicines, there's a risk of experiencing side effects while taking anticoagulants.
The main side effect is that you can bleed too easily, which can cause problems such as:
- passing blood in your urine
- passing blood when you poo or having black poo
- severe bruising
- prolonged nosebleeds
- bleeding gums
- vomiting blood or coughing up blood
- heavy periods in women
For most people, the benefits of taking anticoagulants will outweigh the risk of excessive bleeding.
Read more about the side effects of anticoagulants.

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After a week of anti-American violence in several cities over the "Innocence of Muslims" video, the rage pivoted on Wednesday to another Western country—France—after the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons lampooning a naked, clownish Prophet Muhammad, which seemed tailored to provoke outrage. Already on edge after the days of Islamic protests, including in Paris, the French government rapidly ordered shut its embassies and schools in about 20 Muslim majority countries.
In this North African capital, where the anti-American violence last Friday had already shut the U.S. embassy and the American school, French officials sent text messages at dawn to the parents of French schoolchildren, telling them to keep the young pupils away until Monday. On the very avenue where demonstrations drove out Tunisia's dictator in Jan. 2011, inspiring the Arab Spring, the French Embassy remained shut, as officials feared they could be the next target; in the protests last Friday, militant Islamists stormed the U.S. embassy grounds a few miles from downtown Tunis, then ransacked and torched parts of the American school. By late Wednesday, riot-police vans and plain-clothed security forces surrounded the French Embassy, and a French official peering through the tall, blue gates of the mansion said all visitors were being turned away.
(PHOTOS: Protests Rage in Middle East, Sparked by Anti-Islamic Film)
Yet despite the past week's events, in which several people were killed—including the US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens—for the editors of Charlie Hebdo, the cartoons of the Muslim Prophet were all in a day's work. Brushing off concerns that they could ignite fresh violence, editor in chief Gerard Biard told BBC World on Wednesday that such drawings were a core feature of his publication. "It is our job," he said. "We are a satirical, political magazine. We publish in France, which is a laïc [secular] nation. We are against all religions."
Indeed, the magazine hardly spares Jews, either. The cover of the 16-page weekly shows a man in traditional black Hasidic garb, pushing the Prophet in a wheelchair under the headline, "Intouchables 2." That is a reference to a hit French movie of earlier this year, which centered on the culture clash between a white paraplegic Frenchman and his black, Muslim caregiver. The magazine's back page shows a naked Prophet Muhammad being filmed close up, asking: "You like my buttocks?" Eight smaller cartoons alongside it all depict the Prophet in various states of ridicule. Rare for France, they include too a close-to-the-bone reference to the Holocaust—typically off-limits for French satirists—showing a crouching, naked Muhammad, with the yellow star Jews were forced to wear under Nazi rule affixed to his crotch, under the caption: "A star is born."
(MORE: Political Battles in Tunisia Shade Attacks on U.S. Embassy)
In Tunis, the response from Muslim activists was swift, as conservative Islamic sites lit up with enraged comments. On the Facebook page of a Salafist mosque outside Tunis, one person wrote that the ruling Islamist Ennahda Party should "do the same [to France] as you did with the U.S.: Kick out the Ambassador, tell them that we don't need your investments." After Friday's attack, the State Depatment withdrew almost all its diplomats from Tunisia—a country that until now had been widely seen by the West as the one clear success story of the Arab Spring revolutions. Although many Tunisians have expressed outrage about the video, there are many too who fear that their country—the ranking democratic moderate in North Africa—might be seen by Americans, and now the French, as anti-Western. ""We are very open here," said Nabil Mhamdi, 36, a theater technician sipping a glass of red wine (legal in Tunisia) in a downtown hotel lobby on Wednesday. "I don't like the fact that people are reducing Tunisia to an extreme, closed minority."
Some 20 months after the Jasmine Revolution here inspired the Arab Spring, the stakes are especially high for France, the country's former colonial master until the 1950s. France has Europe's biggest Muslim population, millions of them from Tunisia. For decades, it maintained close ties to Tunisia's dictator, Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, and French companies still have billions in investments here. When Tunisia's revolution exploded in late 2010, the former French Minister of Defense Michelle Aillot-Marie offered to send French troops to help protect Ben Ali. And although she was fired in an ensuing scandal, many Tunisians say they still do not entirely trust France's intentions.
(MORE: Did the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi Not Have Enough Security?)
Now French officials fear being the next target in the current wave of protests. In Paris last Saturday, hundreds of Muslims converged on the U.S. Embassy to protest the video, and Muslim groups said on Tuesday—before the Charlie Hebdo cartoons appeared—that they planned further protests in Paris this Saturday; Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Wednesday that the government would not issue permits for that demonstration.
Still, it could be difficult to halt demonstrations in this region. "Now we have a period of tolerance and openness," says Mhamdi. "Before, under Ben Ali, these Salafists were all locked up and jail. Now, they can speak—and they are."
MORE: Extradition of Gaddafi Deputy Plunges Tunisia into Political Crisis


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Military Advanced Education (MAE) has awarded Wright State University the designation of a Top Military-Friendly University in its 2014 Guide to Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities.
MAE's 2014 Guide to Military-Friendly Colleges & Universities provides potential students with information about institutions that go out of their way to give back to our men and women in uniform.
"This designation is another stamp of approval that Wright State's goals and service are among the nation's leaders in terms of addressing the needs of military students," said Seth Gordon, Ph.D., director of Wright State's Veteran and Military Center. "The Office of Veterans Affairs is honored to receive this designation for the fifth consecutive year. This honor affirms the university's commitment to serving our veterans and military-connected students."
The university serves more than 650 veterans or military-connected students—service members, Guard/Reserve members and military dependents.
Wright State offers an array of resources to help those students transition to campus. It awards educational credits for military training and experience and has designed courses open only to veteran and military students. It also delivers high-quality career services to best express military experience and helps veterans connect with other students through campus events, housing options and student clubs.
Among the attributes considered in evaluating this year's institution for inclusion in the Guide are the flexibility of online learning options, extent of transfer credits accepted by degree level, on-campus ROTC, Service member Opportunity Colleges (SOC) participation, on-campus active duty/veteran assistance, the support provided to the families of service members, faculty trained in veteran reintegration issues, presence on military installations, and full-time counselors trained in veteran-specific mental health concerns.
Military Advanced Education (www.mae-kmi.com) serves education services officers (ESOs) and transition officers (TOs) at every U.S. military installation, along with the service members they counsel. MAE's editorial coverage includes exclusive interviews with military executive leadership, educators, and members of Congress; best practices; career and transition spotlights service member, school, and program profiles; and periodic special reports.
Visit http://www.mae-kmi.com for online access to the 2014 Guide to Military-Friendly Colleges and Universities, or pick up a copy of the December issue of Military Advanced Education.


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Four people -- including two children -- were injured this morning when a tanker trunk overturned on a Camaro at Route 8 and Dinnerbell Road in Penn Township.
The driver of the car, Kevin Koontz, 46, of Mars, suffered moderate to serious injuries. He was flown by medical helicopter to a Pittsburgh hospital.
The man's two young daughters were in the car but escaped with only minor injuries.
The truck driver, Shawn Kepple, 30, of Manorville, Armstrong County, also suffered minor injuries.
Police said Kepple was northbound and turning right onto Dinnberbell Road shortly after 11 a.m. when he lost control of his truck.
The car was apparently stopped at the traffic light, westbound on Dinnerbell Road.
Police said Kepple caused the crash and they are looking at possible speed, mechanical failure and driver error as possible factors.


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We have this really magical thing happening over here.
It's what we hoped would happen when we started bringing women to the same place at the same time –
♥ women who own businesses and have started non-profits
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♥ women who make creative things
♥ women who write inspiring blogs
♥ women who want to offer healing to our world
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♥ women who believe that there is something called abundance
which simply means that there is more than enough to go around
♥ women who know how to be authentic and caring
♥ women who ask for encouragement
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♥ women who believe that one member's success is every member's success
♥ women who celebrate together
♥ women who support each other on tough days
♥ women like you
being community for each other.
We asked ourselves what would happen if we could wave a magic wand over our businesses, other women-owned businesses, and our community.
We asked ourselves what we could accomplish with and for each other through an organization that was member-owned. An organization that is organic and flexible, developing and growing according to the needs and desires of its members.
We asked ourselves what a community that embraced abundance, accountability, balance, creativity, generosity, financial well-being, growth, honesty, individuality, and mentoring would look like. And feel like.
And behold! This is what happened!
It's called the Magic Wand Collective.
It's a community for Women Small Business Owners.
We have added 90 members since our launch on January 20th.
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- Date: 11/30/2019 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
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For information http://puntagordachamber.com. Sullivan Street Craft Festival - Outdoor event featuring the work of crafters from around the nation! Free Admission


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Bike-maker looks to reinvent the wheel with 41mm-wide rims
Photos courtesy of Ibis.
A little company from Santa Cruz, Calif. delivered some big—or should we say wide—news today as Ibis announced the launched a new line of carbon wheelsets, including two trail/all-mountain models that measure a whopping 41mm in width. A third 29er cross country model boasts an extra-large-for-its-class 28mm width. And while the measurements may sound excessive, the company's founder thinks there's a significant advantage to it.
"I have to say that jumping on 41mm rims for the first time is a little bit like the first time I rode a RockShox front suspension coming from rigid," said Ibis Founder Scot Nicol. "You have to relearn what the bike is capable of—it's that dramatic."
Three wheelsets, no waiting
The 27.5-inch 741 and 29-inch 941 wheelsets feature a 41mm external rim width and measure 35mm internally. The rims feature a hookless bead Ibis says is not only much stronger than hooked rims, but less expensive to produce while holding tires just as well, due to the more precise construction of modern tubeless and tubeless-ready tires.
The 928 is—as you may have guessed—a 29er wheelset that's 28mm externally/22mm internally. The cross country wheels—which Ibis calls "The New Normal"—measure close to the width of typical all-mountain rims.
The advantages of wide rims
The company claims a whole host of advantages to wider rims, including better sidewall support so you can run lower pressures without fear of burping tires. The lower pressures in turn increase the tread's contact patch, resulting in better traction and subsequent increased braking power.
"Typically, riders are running 4–6 psi less than normal. Light riders on moderate terrain are running as low as 15-17psi," says Ibis. "In general, for a given rider, using tires you've used before in a given locale, you will be able to run lower tire pressures with wider rims. How much lower can only be determined through experimentation."
Carbon rims produced in tandem—but not jointly—with upstart Derby
For the design of the box-section carbon rims, Ibis, along with friend and fellow light-but-wide rim enthusiast Ray Scruggs tag-teamed the concept initially and even shared some early tooling costs. From there, the companies cordially developed their concepts independently.
Scruggs, who incidentally used his Mtbr forum user name "Derby" for the moniker of his company, began selling Derby Rims in 2012 while Ibis took a longer path to the marketplace.
"We wanted to have our own project with our own factory, design, fabrication methods and QC, so it took us a lot longer," said Nicol. "Ray was looking for help sourcing in Asia, and we provided him with a lot of good info and even went and verified the legitimacy of the factory for him. But the final products are independent—our rims are designed by us, and Derby's are by Ray."
Pricing and availability
All three models have a suggested retail price of $1299. The 741 and 928 are available starting today as optional upgrades on the Ibis Mojo HDR 650b and Ripley 29, respectively. The 941 is scheduled as an option for the Ripley beginning in May, and all three wheelsets should be available in the aftermarket in June.
Ibis Carbon Wheelsets
741 27.5-inch Carbon Wheelset
- Use: Trail/all-mountain
- External Width: 41mm
- Internal Width: 35mm
- Rim Weight: 475g
- Wheelset Weight: 1650g (pair)
- MSRP: $1299.00 (pair)
- Available: June 2014
941 29-inch Carbon Wheelset
- Use: Trail/all-mountain
- External Width: 41mm
- Internal Width: 35mm
- Rim Weight: 490g
- Wheelset Weight: 1770g (pair)
- MSRP: $1299.00 (pair)
- Available: June 2014
928 29-inch Carbon Wheelset
- Use: Cross-country
- External Width: 28mm
- Internal Width: 22mm
- Rim Weight: 375g
- Wheelset Weight: 1580g (pair)
- MSRP: $1299.00 (pair)
- Available: June 2014
For more information visit ibiscycles.com/wheels.


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by J.M. Gregson ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2014
A foray into a holiday community turns out anything but restful for Chief Superintendent Lambert and DS Hook (Cry of the Children, 2014, etc.) of Oldford CID.
Taking the concept of community policing to perhaps a new level, Bert Hook agrees to help his neighbor Lisa Ramsbottom find the source of the death threats pushed under her front door. But the unofficial investigation requires a trip to Twin Lakes Country Holiday Park, a community of vacation homes in sight of the Welsh hills. In addition to their house in Oldford, the Ramsbottoms own a unit in Twin Lakes, and it's through the door of that unit that the offending missives have been poked. Once in the country, Lambert and Hook find anything but peace and quiet. Everyone at Twin Lakes seems to be involved in something shady. History teacher Elfrida Potts uses her vacation home for trysts with one of her students. George Martindale makes trips to local highway rest stops to retrieve mysterious packages. Richard Seagrave pretends dishy Vanessa Norton is his wife, while Michael Norrington isn't actually Michael Norrington, but rather someone who's left his dodgy past by the wayside. Twin Lakes' near–full-time resident Debbie Keane makes it her business to ferret out her neighbors' secrets, so when her husband, Walter, is killed, there's no dearth of suspects. Still, Lambert and Hook have to tread lightly to solve a case well off their patch.Solid police procedure once again saves the day, as death doesn't take a holiday.
Pub Date: July 1, 2014
Page Count: 224
Publisher: Severn House
Review Posted Online: June 19, 2014
Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 2014
Categories: MYSTERY & DETECTIVE | POLICE PROCEDURALS
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by Kathy Reichs ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 17, 2020
Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.
A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it's been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department's earlier practice (The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner's analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Heavner isn't exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. But the hints of other crimes Tempe's identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.'s splenetic outbursts. Before he died, it seems, Felix Vodyanov was linked to a passenger ferry that sank in 1994, an even earlier U.S. government project to research biological agents that could control human behavior, the hinky spiritual retreat Sparkling Waters, the dark web site DeepUnder, and the disappearances of at least four schoolchildren, two of whom have also turned up dead. And why on earth was Vodyanov carrying Tempe's own contact information? The mounting evidence of ever more and ever worse skulduggery will pull Tempe deeper and deeper down what even she sees as a rabbit hole before she confronts a ringleader implicated in "Drugs. Fraud. Breaking and entering. Arson. Kidnapping. How does attempted murder sound?"Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine's survival.
Pub Date: March 17, 2020
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Scribner
Review Posted Online: Dec. 23, 2019
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2020
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by Lee Child ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 2001
Smashingly suspenseful fifth in Child's series (Running Blind, 2000, etc.) lands this British author's rootless, laconic action hero in southwest Texas, where a femme fatale lures him into a family squabble that inevitably turns violent.
In the kind of daylight-noir setting that Jim Thompson loved, ex-military cop Jack Reacher has his thumb out on a lonely west Texas highway when he's picked up by Carmine Greer, the Mexican-American wife of bad-ol'-boy Sloop Greer. It seems that Sloop, elder son of a white-trash-turned-oil-rich ranching dynasty, is nearing the end of a prison term for tax evasion, and Carmine, whose body Reacher sees is marked with signs of physical abuse, wants Reacher to be her bodyguard—or, failing that, kill the man in such a way that Carmine can still hold on to her terminally cute six-year-old daughter Ellie. Reacher refuses but decides to meet the folks: Rusty, Sloop's racist, charmless mother, and Bobby, Sloop's stupid, pugnacious brother. Meanwhile, a trio of paid assassins is littering the Texas roadside with corpses, starting with Sloop's lawyer, Al Eugene. In a set-piece as good as anything in Elmore Leonard, Bobby sends two ranch-hands to ambush Reacher at an Abilene roadhouse filled with 20 other cowboys spoiling for a fight. Reacher walks away without a scratch, telling Bobby that his hospitalized ranch-hands have "quit." Child twists his increasingly hokey plot into a pretzel when Sloop is found dead and Carmine confesses to killing him. Reacher just can't believe that Carmine is guilty and teams up with Alice Aarons, a leggy Jewish lesbian fresh out of law school, who trusts him with her car, her handgun, and her life.Child builds tension to unbearable extremes, then blows it out in sharply choreographed violence, even if his plot has more holes in it than the shirt Reacher uses for target practice.
Pub Date: July 1, 2001
Page Count: 368
Publisher: Putnam
Review Posted Online: May 20, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2001
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Oprah Winfrey's got a lot more free time on her hands these days, time that might be spent on a return to acting.
Oprah is being courted by director Lee Daniels ("Precious") for his upcoming film, "The Butler," according to http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oprah-winfrey-lee-daniels-the-butler-291534www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/oprah-winfrey-lee-daniels-the-butler-291534. The film centers on the story of a black man who worked as a White House butler from 1952 to 1986, serving eight presidents. It would be her first film since 1998's "Beloved."
David Oyelowo ("Red Tails") is Daniels' first choie to take the title role of Eugene Allen, whose story was made widely known by a piece in the Washington Post, "A Butler Well Served by This Election," which ran in 2008. Hugh Jackman, Mila Kunis and John Cusack are said to be others sought for the film.
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Allen's wife Helene passed away on the eve of President Obama's election, leaving her husband to vote alone. Allen died March 31, 2010, having lived logn enough to be a special guest at Obama's swearing-in ceremony.
Daniels next film, "The Paperboy," is a crime thriller starring Nicole Kidman, John Cusack, Matthew McConaguhey and Nicole Kidman, that recently dropped one of the better posters we've seen in a while.


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The Arboretum is located in northeast DC and is bordered on the east by the banks of the Anacostia River. The site is marked by Mount Hamilton on the west and Hickey Hill on the east with a broad central valley and Hickey Creek running through the center. Initially 189 acres were purchased in 1928; today it encompasses 412 acres.
As the only federally supported arboretum, and one of the larger arboretums in the country, the National Arboretum plays a unique role. It breeds plants for localities throughout the country. Its mission is to serve the entire country, and in the controlled environment of its greenhouses it breeds plants for particular locales. The primary functions of the Arboretum are research and education and its Federal support allows for long-term projects. The first and most popular exhibit, the azaleas, was the product of pioneering research of the first director.
The Arboretum grounds retain a sylvan look. This has been accomplished by retaining most of the natural woods, including beeches, oaks and Virginia pines, which stood on the grounds when the land was purchased, and limiting the amount of roadways. The exhibition areas are located either along the roadways or on pebbled paths off the roadside. Their design varies from the formal landscaping of the Gotelli Dwarf Conifer Collection on the north shoulder of Hickey Road to the natural planting of crabapples along Hickey Hill Road. Fern Valley is limited to ferns and other plants native to eastern North America.
When the US Capitol building was expanded in the 1950s, 22 34-foot tall sandstone Corinthian columns were removed. The columns, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and erected under the supervision of Charles Bulfinch were destined for a landfill when Mrs. George Garrett rescued them. Finally after years of negotiations, they were taken out of storage and English landscape architect Russell Page designed a setting for them on a knoll near the main entrance. Also on the grounds is the United Brick Corporation Brick Complex NR near the entrance at 2801 New York Avenue, which was built 1927-31.
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3D simulator for silicon nanowire field effect transistors with multiple gates
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The silicon nanowire field effect transistors with multiple gates around the silicon channel that can significantly improve the gate control are considered to be promising candidates for the next generation transistors. In addition to effective suppression of short channel effects, the transistors show excellent current drive and they are also compatible with conventional CMOS processes.
This tool simulates the silicon nanowire field effect transistors (FETs) with multiple gates, such as Gate-all-around, double, tri, pi, and omega gates. The simulator features include 1) effective-mass theory, 2) uncoupled mode-space non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF), 3) Poisson-transport self-consistent calculation, and 4) quantum ballistic transport. Only NMOS type can be simulated as of now. For the uncoupled mode-space NEGF applied to the nanowire FETs, please refer to the paper by J. Wang et. al. (J. Appl. Phys. 96, 2192, 2004). Users can also refer to the "NanoWireFet" tool on nanoHUB.
Detailed numerical schemes employed in this tool can be found in "Efficient Simulation of Silicon Nanowire Field Effect Transistors and their Scaling Behavior", Mincheol Shin, to be published in J. Appl. Phys. (2006) and "Three Dimensional Quantum Simulation of Multigate Nanowire Field Effect Transistors", Mincheol Shin, which has been submitted to Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (2006), both of which can be downloaded from our web site.
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M. Shin, "Efficient simulation of silicon nanowire field effect transistors and their scaling behavior," J. Appl. Phys. 101, 024510 (2007).


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I was bored. I put in a Korean film that's been sitting on my shelf. I buy movies from Chinatown on occasion just to keep some flavor and unpredictability in my life. I'm currently watching a film called "Night and Day". It was apparently an entry into the Berlin International Film Festival. Good for it. My DVD does not do the film justice, but it is a piece of art unto itself. In the top right hand corner is a logo "CH CHG". I will impart the story to you through simple prose of what I'm seeing, with the help of the translated subtitles, so you can experience what I'm experiencing.
A few points as you continue. I am adding punctuation that does not appear in the subtitles and all the capitalization is done in the subtitles. There are times in which the character speaks in English and the subtitles continue to translate them in staggeringly different English. (more…)


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Many of today's processors can address memory one 8-bit byte at a time. They can also access memory as larger objects such as 2- or 4-byte integers, 4-byte pointers, or 8-byte floating-point numbers.
Multibyte objects often have an alignment. The C Standard defines alignment as a "requirement that objects of a particular type be located on storage boundaries with addresses that are particular multiples of a byte address". The Standard leaves it up to each target processor to specify its alignment requirements. That is, a processor might require that a 4-byte integer or pointer referenced as a single object be word aligned at an address that's a multiple of four. A processor also might require that an 8-byte floating-point number be word aligned, or maybe even double-word aligned at an address that's a multiple of eight.
According to the C Standard, a program that attempts to access an improperly aligned object produces undefined behavior. This means that the program is in error, but the exact consequences of that error are platform-dependent. With many processors, an instruction that attempts to access improperly aligned data issues a trap. With other processors, an instruction that accesses misaligned data executes properly but uses up more cycles to fetch the data than if the data were properly aligned.
An object whose address requirement is a higher multiple than another is said to have a stricter alignment. For example, an object that must be double-word aligned (at an address that's a multiple of eight) has a stricter alignment than an object that must be only word aligned (at an address that's a multiple of four). Character objects always have a size of one (by definition) and can reside at any boundary. They have no alignment requirement.
Machines with 4-byte words and 8-byte double words are very common but hardly universal. The following discussion uses these common sizes for illustrative purposes only. Please bear in mind that machines with other word sizes and alignment requirements do exist.
Structure Padding in C
C compilers may insert unused bytes called "padding bytes" after structure members to ensure that each member is appropriately aligned. For example, given:
typedef struct widget widget; struct widget { char m1; int m2; char m3; };
on a machine where
int must be word aligned (on an address that's a multiple of four), the compiler will insert 3 bytes of padding after
m1, and also after
m3, as if the structure had been defined as:
typedef struct widget widget; struct widget { char m1; char padding_after_m1[3]; int m2; char m3; char padding_after_m3[3]; };
except that the added members don't actually have names. The C Standard gives compilers the freedom to add more padding, but I don't know why a compiler would add more than necessary.
typedef definition immediately before the structure definition elevates the name widget from a tag to a full-fledged type name; for more information, see Tag vs. Type Names. This lets C code refer to the type as just
widget, rather than as
struct widget. For brevity, I'll omit the
typedefs from now on, but you should assume that they are there.)
Padding between adjacent structure members is called "internal padding." Padding after the last member is called "trailing padding." The C Standard doesn't allow leading padding. It specifically states that "A pointer to a structure object, suitably converted, points to its initial member and vice versa. There may be unnamed padding within a structure object, but not at its beginning."
Each structure object must be at least as a strictly aligned as its most strictly aligned member. For example, the most strictly aligned member in
widget is integer
m2, which is word aligned. However, the
m2 member of an actual
widget object won't be word aligned unless that
widget object is also word aligned. Thus each
widget must be at least word aligned. A compiler could decide to make
widget double-word aligned, which it might do if the stricter alignment yielded faster memory access. (I'm just speculating here. I don't know of a compiler that actually does this.)


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MANATEE COUNTY — As Kirstin Shontere leaned her head back against the airplane seat, the week's events pressed on her chest like a 2-ton weight.
After nearly a week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it felt like her efforts — and those of her missions team — had been a mere pebble cast in an ocean of need.
During their trip, the East County team built two latrines at a local school, passed out more than 1,000 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and played games with children there.
"You kind of feel like, 'Wow,'" Kirstin said. "In the end, what were we really able to do to help anyone? We were able to help them for the few days we were there, but there's so much need. You have to tell yourself: You do what you can, and if everyone can help just one more person, that's one more person that's helped.
"We're here because God cares about them and that's why we're trying to help," she says. "It really does make a difference, even just a little bit."
Last month, Shontere, her husband, Dan, about a dozen college students in their Young Life College group and others loaded suitcases with clothing, shoes, crafts, games and more than 200 jars of peanut butter and jelly and headed to the streets of Haiti, where they distributed goods and shared their faith with children at the Good Shepherd School, the only educational facility in a small urban slum of Port-au-Prince called Pele.
"The trip was awesome," said River Club resident and Christ Presbyterian member Kelly Pleasant, who went to Haiti with her daughter, Karlie. "I (loved) the kids, and I have so much admiration for the (educated) people there."
Haiti does not offer a free public education for students, so families must pay for their children to attend. Sponsorships for students at the Good Shepherd pay for classes, uniforms and one meal per day.
Because of the rising prices of foods such as rice and beans, only about two-thirds of students are fed each day. The missions group distributed about 100 pounds of rice and beans to the Haitian people in Pele and used the peanut butter and jelly donated by their home church, Christ Presbyterian, to make sandwiches for the students, particularly those who wouldn't be eating.
"For a lot of them, it's the only meal they get for the day," Dan Shontere said "They have (peanut butter in Haiti), but it's not something they ordinarily would have. It's a (nutritious) treat."
At one point, the group was passing out sandwiches, but only had about 100 left, forcing them to close off the distribution area so they wouldn't run out of food.
"You could see their little feet outside the gate," Kirstin Shontere said. "There was one little boy who ran out, ripped his sandwich in half and handed it under the gate. It was so sweet."
The Shonteres have been involved with helping children in Haiti for 20 years. Kirstin Shontere began sponsoring a child there after her sister visited the country. After she and Dan married 17 years ago, the couple took up the cause. They began visiting the country about two years ago when they were trying to decide where to take their Young Life group for a mission trip.
"We figured, 'What better place to go than to the school?'" said Kirstin, a reading teacher at Lakewood Ranch High School.
Dan agreed.
"When we read (in the Bible) about 'the least of these,' they're basically our neighbors," he said of the Haitian people. "Haiti is the poorest country in the western hemisphere."
And, while the Shonteres said they were excited to share with Haitian students, they were equally eager to rekindle relationships with Haitian teachers and others at the school.
"By going back there, we get to maintain these relationships and let them know people care," Dan Shontere said. "They're not this forgotten spot on the globe."
The group originally was scheduled to arrive in Port-au-Prince in December but was forced to reschedule their trip because of rioting around the county's airport. The Shonteres plan to take another missions team to Haiti again around Christmastime.
Contact Pam Eubanks at [email protected].
For information about sponsoring a Haitian child at the Good Shepherd School, visit www.Haitichildsponsorship.org.


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Agency managers who want to use application gateways to gain better visibility and control over service-oriented architectures should look for technologies that can provide consistent processing across multiple services and flexibility for changing policy requirements, according to a report by a Forrester Research.
SOA is fundamentally about software design practices, and not vendors and products. However, products can extend SOA benefits by making SOA services and SOA-based solutions easier to build, operate and manage, the report states.
The overlapping functionality of SOA specialty products — particularly Enterprise Service Buses, gateways, SOA security software and SOA management offerings — presents difficulties in drawing clear boundaries to indicate where one category stops and the next one starts, the report states.
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A SOA application gateway sits as a control point in the network path between a set of SOA services and the consumers that use the services. Security is a primary function, but a gateway can also enforce business polices and provide technical functions such as routing a service request to a correct version of a service.
"The Forrester Wave: SOA Application Gateways, Q4 2011," written by analysts Randy Heffner, Alex Cullen and Lauren Blackburn, evaluates nine vendors' SOA application gateways.
"Layer 7 Technologies, Vordel, IBM, and Forum Systems lead the pack with broad and deep support for messaging styles, attack protection, trust enablement, and content transformation," the report states. These four vendors have been in the gateway market for the longest time. In IBM's case, the entry into the SOA gateway market was through the acquisition of the DataPower appliance. "All provide multiple hardware and software form factors, except IBM, which offers its gateway only as a hardware appliance,' the report states.
"Intel provides a functionally strong, developer-focused product. Progress Software and Software AG both provide software-only gateways, each of which has a bundling strategy that provides a head start on broader SOA governance," according to the report
"Tibco Software and Bee Ware round out the evaluation, and buyers may have focused reasons to buy either of these vendors' products," the report says. For example, Bee Ware, a French vendor, has the newest offering. "Although it centers narrowly on core SOA standards, its appliance is architected to simultaneously run SOA gateway, Web application firewall, and Web access management products." So IT administrators looking for a combined offering might be interested in this solution.
Tibco Software's gateway is integrated into the company's ActiveMatrix platform, which is a foundation for the Tibco Silver cloud platform. So users of Tibco Software might find this gateway worth considering, according to the report.
After examining past research, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews, Forrester developed a comprehensive set of 45 criteria to evaluate and compare the vendors. To evaluate the vendors and their products against the set of criteria, Forrester analysts gathered details of product qualifications through a combination of lab evaluations, questionnaires, demonstrations and/or discussions with user references.
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Access Hollywood has learned that Justin Timberlake will return to NBC's "Saturday Night Live."
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The multi-talented superstar will host the show's season finale on May 21.
Access has also learned that Lady Gaga is in talks to perform as the night's musical guest.
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The news first broke on the show's Twitter feed when a fan wrote, "I didn't realize that @nbcSNL isn't back until May 7th!!! What am I going to do!? Is Tina Fey the season finale!?"
The show responded with, "Nope! We have Timberlake after that!" in a Tweet that has since been removed.
With three Emmy nominations and two wins for his work on the NBC sketch comedy series, Justin has become a "SNL" favorite. His Emmy-winning "D*ck In A Box," as well as "Mother Lover," "The Barry Gibb Talk Show" and the "Give It On Up" sketches have proved to be some of the show's best in recent years.
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Justin last hosted on May 9, 2009 and also appeared in this season's premiere, where he appeared in host Amy Poehler's opening monologue.
Reps for Justin and Lady Gaga were not immediately available for comment when contacted by Access.
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Young women chasing the fake, plastic lookPublished September 26, 2012 by Jenny
Paul Weston
The Sunday Mail (Qld)
May 23, 2010 2:57PM
Young women chasing the plastic look
Asking for larger breast enhancements
"We're happy with the fake look"
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YOUNGER women are not only demanding larger breast and lip enhancements – they want the finished job to look fake.
The trend started about six months ago, shocking experienced cosmetic surgery operators who until now had a largely middle-aged clientele taking conservative steps to stave off ageing, The Sunday Mail reports.
Social psychologists fear the trend will take off not only with wannabe models but also a new generation of women obsessed with cosmetically enhanced celebrities.
Loren Hammerich, a 20-year-old Gold Coast model, says she and her friends are just being honest about their looks and prefer not to hide their decision to have breast implants.
"We're happy with the fake look. We're not hiding it. We're proud of the way we look," Ms Hammerich said.
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International Surgery Group spokesman Pamela Noon said women in their 20s were asking for "the fake look" after seeing cosmetic surgery on celebrities in the US.
"In Australia, the demarcation line is with age. Older woman don't want to look overdone whereas young girls in their 20s are happy to have a look that's a bit exaggerated," Ms Noon said.
"People want to look like they've got their money's worth."
Some women in their 20s and early 30s are asking for the size of their breasts not just to be doubled, as has been the norm, but tripled in size.
A standard augmentation costs $11,000 to $14,000.
The other growing but much less expensive trend is for lips to have permanent tattoo colouring along with dermal fillers, which costs about $1300.
Gold Coast-based model Kimberley Scott, 30, said it took several operations to perfect the look of her lips.
"I've seen some horror results but if you go to someone who knows what they're doing you will get a wonderful result," she said.
Dr Evonne Miller, a social psychologist at the Queensland University of Technology, said she was concerned about the latest plastic surgery trend.
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This was published 7 years ago
Radio's next big challenge
Video didn't kill the radio star but a free online music-streaming service called Pandora just might.
With 175 million listeners around the world, the web- and app-based service's success to date is all the more remarkable because unlike services such as Spotify and Rdio, users have no control over which songs are played.
Users create a playlist by entering one song and Pandora then starts playing similar songs, with users able to press thumbs up or down to show their preferences. The algorithm quickly gets to know what they like.
"It's like musical DNA," said founder Tim Westergren, 46, a former musician who believes most people don't want control over their music; they just want to sit back and let the tunes come to them.
Rather than a single playlist for every listener that constantly repeats the same tired old hits, as is the case with many FM radio stations, Pandora tailors its "music genome" to each individual listener.
"It's basically an enormous musical taxonomy of over a million songs that have each been analysed for as many as 450 attributes per song by a team of trained musicians," Westergren said. "It's going to compete directly with radio and in our opinion be the next version of radio."
Most people were sick and tired of their music collections and spent 80 per cent of their listening time on radio, but "radio has never had the ability to personalise", he said.
Furthermore, more than two thirds of the 1 million-plus tracks on Pandora are independently produced, meaning users are more likely to discover songs they haven't heard.
"There's this notion that people, all they really want is top 10 hits and that's good enough, or after you turn 18 your music tastes are fixed and you don't want new stuff," Westergren said.
"That's bullshit. Give someone an easy way to discover bands and new music and they're all over it."
Pandora officially relaunched in Australia this week after it was forced to shut down here several years ago due to licensing issues. It now streams more hours of music a month than YouTube streams video, said Westergren.
But it isn't without its critics, including R&B songwriter and producer Jimmy Jam, who told a US congressional committee last month that for every spin of a song on Pandora, the copyright holders and musicians get just one-tenth of one cent.
"Or, put another way, the listener would have to hear that song on Pandora for every single day for nearly two years to equal the payments earned from that one [Amazon] download," said Jam, chairman emeritus of the US music trade association the Recording Academy.
Pandora, despite being on track to make $400 million in revenue this year, is backing a US bill that would lower even further the royalties it pays to performers and songwriters.
But Westergren says that in addition to paying royalties, Pandora is the number one referrer to the US iTunes store because users discover music on the service that they don't own. He believes Pandora provides a marketing platform that helps "independent self-managed, self-produced, self-distributed" artists thrive.
"There's a cello rock band who say they are making a living now because of Pandora," he said.
Most artists, by chasing record labels, were "taking their careers into the wrong hands" because only a few mainstream top pop artists made it through the door, he said.
With Pandora he wanted to create a "musicians middle class", where people "can make a living out of music that are not Rihanna".
"We're going from a radio that plays a couple hundred artists at any given time to one that plays tens of thousands and plays them increasingly to lots of people at the same time."
But Zan Rowe, the host of Triple J Mornings, believes algorithms are no match for good radio DJs because "you can't really define or explain taste; it's a very primal thing and sometimes it can even surprise a listener as to what they're into".
"The iPod has been around for years, and in terms of Triple J's ratings, we're rating higher than we ever have before," Rowe said.
"We've got a 1.7 million listenership, on average, in the face of more and more technology and streaming services."
Asher Moses is the Technology Editor for Fairfax Media. He started his own gadget review website more than a decade ago at age 14 and has since written for most of Australia's leading technology publications. He has twice been named Young Australian Online Journalist of the Year by the Walkley Foundation.


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Search engines such as Google and Bing have built typical search algorithm technologies over the years. Whenever any user enters a query into a search engine, it determines the way to return best results. It needs to evaluate the pages that are most pertinent to the query and rank them in order of their actual relevance to the search. A prominent part of this algorithm technology is built around determining the kind of inbound links that point to your website.
Theoretically, every link to a web page is seen as a vote for that page in the online space. Building high quality links that appear natural to search engines is most important step towards improving your page rank. If there are two pages that are equally relevant for a given search query, the page that has a better inbound link profile will rank higher than the other page.
A link basically comprises two parts:
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator) – this is the web address of the site that your link points to.
• Anchor text – This is the visible text of the link.
An inbound link is a link that points to your web page from a different page hosted on someone else's website. Outbound links are located on your website and point to someone else's page. Links may also be categorized as one way links and reciprocal links. One way link points from one web page to a page on someone else's website. Sometimes webmasters can agree to exchange links with each other. Those links are referred to as reciprocal links. Link Popularity is the quantity of links pointing to your web page from other sites.
Having the keywords related to your site as the anchor text is one of the key elements of inbound link building and getting a high page rank especially on Google. Link Reputation depends on the type of keywords used in your anchor text. It is used to determine relevance for certain search terms in the search engines.
The notion of using links as a way of measuring a website's significance was first made popular by Google, with the implementation of their PageRank algorithm.
One of the challenges of implementing a link building campaign is deciding upon the strategy to follow. There are five major components to a link building campaign. These include:
• Getting links from authoritative domains
• Getting links from a volume of domains
• Obtaining links to pages other than the home page (also called "deep links")
• Local links for local rankings
A good way to start structuring a link building campaign is to identify high authority sites and then determine what it will take to get a link from them. The complication is that the search engines do not offer any direct measurement of web sites' authority. There is limited data that is publicly available. A good way to begin the process is to determine if major government sites, university sites, or well known media sites are potentially authoritative for your website's content. To be successful, it is important to have a good knowledge of your market, and then choose the best websites to get back links. If you are relatively new to the world on online marketing, it is advisable to search for places where your competitors have already placed their links. You can then place your own links in the same places. This advanced link building strategy can particularly help you to test the value of your website as against your competitors' sites.
It is important to receive links from several domains. Hundred links from a single domain are not nearly as valuable as one link from each of hundred different domains (provided that the pages involved are significant for your website content). This is because search engines prefer to count a link to a website as an endorsement by that site. Also, they want the endorsement to be an editorial decision by an informed person. Several links from one domain call for only one editorial decision, but one link from several domains would most likely involve numerous editorial decisions. The bottom line is that it is important to get links from many domains, to harmonize the process of pursuing authoritative links.
While working upon a link building strategy it is important to remember that homepage of your website is the only place for which your may want to invite traffic. You must get links to each major section of your site. Each page on a web site has the opportunity to rank for different search terms, and supporting those pages with direct links helps them rank better. Besides, direct links to lower level pages represent anchor text opportunities for those pages as well.
Local links are important for businesses that operate at an individual city level. Along with links from other businesses based locally, they can also be received through local business directories, local libraries and local clubs. Getting links from such sources reinforces the local theme of your website and individual web pages. This is equally important in international settings. If you need traffic from a search engine version for Australia, you must plan on getting some links from other websites hosted in Australia.
In natural link building the website owner needs to provide compelling content for the website. You may also use content curation as a part of your advanced link building campaign. Rounding up posts and contents from other related sites with topics that complement yours is a proven way for not only generating traffic and links, but also in building relationships, and in getting return traffic to your website or blog.
Keyword rich press releases (PRs) are a way of getting quality links to your website. The Optimizing a press release involves the choice of good keywords in title – this increases the PR's possibilities of being picked up by major news media editors. Once a press release is picked up by news editors and they find the content compelling, there is now a chance that they will also write about it. Such press exposure helps you get a link from the editors' sites, and some of their readers may like your site and link to it too.
It is essential to understand that link building is a crucial online marketing function. You need to carefully pick up the strategies while also staying away from the black hat ones!


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"This is ridiculous. This isn't even a final. This is just manual labor."—Jenn
"Well, ladies and gentlemen, just when you thought I couldn't get any more amazing…." —Kenny
It's really great we have Kenny and Wes. Not only are they a consistent source of amusement and tension, but they really saved last night's Rivals finale—and the season in general—from being an anticlimactic stream of people gushing about their partners. Up until now, with the notable exception of Evan and Nehemiah, who weren't speaking by their final Jungle, every single pair of "rivals" has ended their trip echoing Fatboy Slim: We've come a long, long way together, through the hard times and the good. I have to celebrate you baby; I have to praise you like I should. Even Adam and C.T. left on good terms!
So the overriding theme of Rivals was basically that people can set aside any differences and bury any past grievances when their financial interests are aligned. But then there were Kenny and Wes. Although they made it all the way to the end and in many instances put their animosity on hold to strategize, they bickered throughout the competition and constantly argued about who was failing the most in the challenges. So while every other team was friendly heading into the final challenge, it was clear that Kenny/Wes were on the brink of fracture. Continue reading


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Stevens Alumnus Pete Yurkowski to Compete on Survivor: Philippines
Stevens alumnus Pete Yurkowski has a chance to win $1 million, and you can watch him do it. The Class of 2011 graduate is a contestant on the 25th season of Survivor, the hit reality television game show from CBS. The upcoming season, Survivor: Philippines, premieres on Wednesday, Sept. 19.
An Engineering Management major from Holmdel, N.J., Yurkowski spent his post-Stevens year taking acting, art and imaging classes and developing a modeling portfolio. When his mother insisted it was time to find a steady job, Yurkowski answered a Survivor casting call he saw online.
"It definitely wasn't what my mom had in mind, but I wasn't ready to sit behind a desk just yet," Yurkowski said.
Although Yurkowski doesn't have any tangible survival skills or experience, he was briefly a Boy Scout, and he knows how to hunt and work with fire, thanks to spending part of his childhood in upstate New York.
"I'm definitely not a stranger to nature," he said.
To prepare for the show, Yurkowski said he, "ate everything I could find and went to the gym for three hours every day." He gained 20 pounds of muscle and fat before filming started, knowing he'd probably lose it all if he lasted in the game for long enough.
"I wasn't going there to look pretty; I was going there to win," he said.
In Yurkowski's cast interview video on the Survivor web site, he said people often don't believe him when he tells them he is an engineer, but his education and intelligence would take him far in the game.
In particular, he said some of his Engineering Management courses at Stevens taught him how to successfully pitch an idea, even if the idea wasn't always the best.
"Persuasive communication is a big thing I learned at Stevens that is critical on Survivor," he said.
Yurkowski's plan for winning Survivor was to adapt at every second of the game, knowing the downfall of many contestants is locking into one strategy too early.
He intended to be a "social chameleon," using the many diverse aspects of his personality to his advantage. He characterized himself as equal parts: hardcore gamer (he'd love a career in the video gaming industry); jock (he enjoys snowboarding, skydiving and anything "fast and dangerous where you could probably kill yourself"); and frat boy (at Stevens, he was a brother of Beta Theta Pi).
"My smile, my personality, and the fact that I can get people to do what I tell them to do is what is going to win me the $1 million," he said in the cast interview video.
On the show, Yurkowski is a member of the Tandang tribe. The cast of 18 includes Lisa Whelchel, a former teen star from "The Facts of Life," Jeff Kent, a retired Major League Baseball player, and three returning Survivor castaways who were removed from their previous seasons due to illness or injury.
Watch Yurkowski compete to be the last man standing on Survivor: Philippines, airing each Wednesday this fall starting Sept. 19 at 8 p.m. EST on CBS.
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