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Making a Potted plant hanger out of a Key ring, Rope or twine & two Beers.
My first Instructable, so please be kind, but comments welcomed!
Step 1: Gather the Materials!
*2 Beers- Start drinking the first one as you gather your materials, Second one stays in a cool place (fridge or cooler) until you reach the later steps... you will know which ones. If you are under the required drinking age, please feel free to substitute Red Bull, Mountian Dew, your favorite soda, or skip this item entirely.
*Rope- You can use pretty much any type of rope, string, yarn, cord etc so long as it suits the application (holds up to the weight of the plant.) i.e. don't use thread to make a hanger for a Ficus.
- Ring of some sort- I used a empty Key ring, but feel free to use any type of "ring" you can find. (O'ring, D'ring etc.) However I wouldn't recommend using your, your wife's or anyone else's wedding ring.
- Empty Pot, or Potted plant- Generally you want to have an idea of the size of the potted plant you want to hang. In this case, we have a baby spider plant. The Blue pot is what eventually it would be transplanted into.
- Patience.... and about 30 min.
Step 2: Prep.
I know it's a lot, but I wanted to make sure I had enough since I've never done this before, as well as possibly allowing more room for a bigger pot in the future.
could not find a shop to buy one and your's looks better ,
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Thank you for the comment, the laughs and good luck on your second attempt. ;)
so- I skipped step #1. I made it to step 5 then referred back to the beverage step. I actually got it this time however; after last night, I used a bigger rope which was ok, but you need to make sure they are longer than 6 ft. It was only big enough to hold my Captian Morgan. This is an expensive project- lots of rum & rope :) cheers :)
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At South By Southwest (SXSW) last week, Matt Cutts was quoted as saying that Google is rolling out a new algorithm change that will penalize sites for "over-optimization." Here's the transcript of his statement, via Barry Schwartz:
What about the people optimizing really hard and doing a lot of SEO. We don't normally pre-announce changes but there is something we are working in the last few months and hope to release it in the next months or few weeks. We are trying to level the playing field a bit. All those people doing, for lack of a better word, over optimization or overly SEO – versus those making great content and great site. We are trying to make GoogleBot smarter, make our relevance better, and we are also looking for those who abuse it, like too many keywords on a page, or exchange way too many links or go well beyond what you normally expect. We have several engineers on my team working on this right now.
This has made some in the SEO industry understandably nervous – are we about to be punished for all the hard work we've been doing over the past few years, trying to make Google happy?
Let's look at some of the reactions.
What Qualifies as Over-Optimization?
As Jill Kocher at Practical Ecommerce notes, "No one but Google knows." She goes on:
Cutts did mention that Google is looking at sites by "people who sort of abuse it whether they throw too many keywords on the page, or whether they exchange way too many links, or whatever they're doing to sort of go beyond what a normal person would expect in a particular area." It's widely believed that keyword stuffing and link exchanges are already spam signals in Google's algorithm, so either Google intends to ratchet up the amount of penalty or dampening that those spam signals merit algorithmically or they have new over-optimization signals in mind as well.
She then lists five tactics that she thinks should count as too much SEO – most of them revolving around anchor text, e.g., "Linking repeatedly from body copy to a handful of key pages with optimized anchor text." (What do you think? Do SEO's abuse anchor text?)
Google to SEOs: Dance, Monkeys, Dance!
Ben Cook at Direct Match Media (who has dubbed this the "OOPS" update) posts a video in which Google's Maile Ohye lists five "common SEO mistakes" that could get you dropped from Google's index. One of the "mistakes" is "using rel=canonical tags on subsequent pages that point to their 'page one'" and "Ohye discusses this tactic as if it's some sort of sneaky or devious tactic used by SEOs." But, he points out, Matt Cutts himself advocated using this tactic in an earlier video!
Another way to get penalized is by having too many ads above the fold – but "Google has been asking site owners for years to place AdSense ads above the fold and where they'll be the focus of attention."
As one person said in a thread on Warrior Forum, "They create rules so that they can reverse the game on SEO's, then watch as everyone runs around in confusion."
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The more level-headed (or ostrich-headed) among us are saying "Calm down, son" – this is just another update meant to weed out spammers and black hats.
Joost de Valk is one of the optimistic ones:
Google wants to do something about over-optimization. That's not saying they want to do something about SEO. As Matt said on that same panel one more time, they have nothing against SEO, they have something against spamming … Now, stop over-analyzing everything Matt says and get back to work, building good websites for users.
David Harry, writing for Search Engine Watch, also thinks we're being needlessly paranoid:
Now, this one seems to be one of the largest heads on the many headed hydra of SEO paranoia. Time and time again we see those that truly are out-thinking themselves … Then of course there is the whole problem of the SEO inferiority complex; the need to be special. Maybe it's because we have been marketing whipping posts. Could have been an accident when it was a child. I'm unsure. I do know that each time Google shuffles to scratch its backside my brethren far and wide start to pronounce how it was somehow just to combat, mislead or piss them off.
Bill Slawski, speculating on what might qualify as over-optimization, also thinks that people practicing reasonable SEO are safe:
A penalty like this might do things like ignore the value of anchor text in blog comments or forum signatures pointing to pages, lessen the value of links between sites that are related in some manner, lessen the value of keywords or related terms that appear on the same page at a very high rate, or apply some other similar approaches.
That doesn't mean that the value of thoughtfully created, high quality pages, following best SEO practices will be harmed. The goals of that type of SEO align with the goals of search engines in helping people find pages that help meet their needs.
I'm on the fence myself. Realistically I don't think Google would roll out an update that could hurt big brands – and big brands are the companies that can afford to hire in-house SEO to optimize the crap out of everything. On the other hand, as a user, I find that the Google results are getting less and less relevant, and it's harder to find what I want without having to use extra search operators. So, as a marketer, I don't trust that just creating helpful, user-friendly content is enough – Google is still the middle man and they're not really doing their job of connecting end users with the best content right now. (Maybe because, as one ex-Googler says, they've become hyperfocused on one all-consuming goal: ad revenue. Or, as Mat Honan at Gizmodo puts it, "Search is no longer Google's core product.")
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I'll keep this section very brief this week, but I did want to mention that Firefox is switching to HTTPS by default, meaning webmasters and marketers are going to be losing even more search query information to the "not provided" black hole. Some of the none-too-pleased reactions:
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Thursday March 22, 2012
if google is going to punish for over optimization, does this mean i can just stop doing SEO work and watch the traffic skyrocket.
Thursday March 22, 2012
I stopped doing SEO a long time ago. Is it working yet?
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Thursday March 22, 2012
Yeah this whole thing seems sort of silly. If I told you these two things independent of each other:
1) Google is going to update it's algorithm soon.
2) Matt Cutts said in an interview:
"We are trying to make GoogleBot smarter, make our relevance better, and we are also looking for those who abuse it, like too many keywords on a page, or exchange way too many links or go well beyond what you normally expect. We have several engineers on my team working on this right now."
You would say "so what, Google pushes out algorithm changes all the time" and then "yeah of course this is the same thing Matt Cutts has been saying for years" but for some reason because he put them together everyone is losing their minds...
Friday March 23, 2012
Ha ha, that's true. It's sort of like the WSJ piece about how soon Google isn't going to be just 10 blue links and Danny Sullivan was like, Since when has it been just ten blue links??
Friday March 23, 2012
is it new that Matt Cutts used the word "penalty"? i thought that spammy links from low value pages were simply ignored.
Friday March 23, 2012
I think there have been threats about penalities and getting "de-indexed" for years, actually.
Friday March 23, 2012
perhaps what is the most significant about this "news" (if you can call it news) is that google is ratcheting up the rhetoric on their war on SEO's which Larry Page views as theft.
Sunday March 25, 2012
Good article and I think scary for some who have been going crazy cramming pages with keywords. I guess this is good for those who have legitimate websites - but the questions is, does Google really know which is which?
Monday March 26, 2012
Really sad to hear this type of news from Google.I am just confused what I do with my blog.Whether I want to SEO my blog or not.Or I wanna place ads or not.Really horrible time :(
Tuesday March 27, 2012
As long as you've been following Google's webmaster guidelines and implementing a white hat SEO strategy, there is no reason to freak out. Google is constantly changing the algorithm. We won't really know what this means for at least another couple of months. For now everything is speculation so there is no need to go changing what you are doing.
Sunday April 15, 2012
Great article, but it just add more fuel to the debate I think, The only way to truely find out is set some blog/websites up and test the theory for ourselves, Ive always written and layed my websites out for readers, not for search engines anyway so, hopefully I wont get hit with any stupid algorithim changes like the ones they have brought out recently!
Wednesday July 04, 2012
Hey, let's all just continue to share decent content. There's nothing wrong with that, we all benefit, and we simply don't know what Google is gonna do next.
Monday December 03, 2012
I think the message Mr Cutts always tries to put out there is the same, don't spam, don't go crazy on the keywords and definitely don't start getting links from exchanges and farms.
Overall nothing new just new way to say it. I do wonder though about anchor text and SERPs, one should definitely try to mix them up because if all the anchor text wording are exactly the same this will definitely cause issues, I have seen this before.
Good post, good tweets.
Thursday December 27, 2012
Weel your post kind of scared me. But is there any way one could know that google is knocking you down , due to overoptimized and alot of stuffing.? :O
Thursday December 27, 2012
Hi Umpreet,
Yes there is. On a site-wide level, you'd want to look at your overall non-paid website traffic data through Google Analytics. If there is a suddent drop on overall traffic after a Google Penguin update, there's a chance you were impacted. The over optimization penalty was later clarified as the Penguin update, which was an algorithm created to combat web spam. You can read more about it, and related resources here.
On a page level where you have your targeted keywords (which sounds like may've been stuffed) - you can look at both the movement in search engine results pages and page traffic via the landing pages view on Google Analytics. Again, assuming that you have steady traffic already, you'll be seeing drops when you are hit.
Wednesday February 06, 2013
I hold my hands up - I over optimised a whole load of sites. But, back then, they were not over-optimised. They were just...optimised, as in - we did what we had to do to get them to the top of the charts. Ultimiately, of all these updates have made Google a better place to be, for users, for website owners and for SEOs. It's really about spam, which I happen to believe Google itself created for leaving all these loopholes in it's intent vs actual.
Wednesday February 06, 2013
I hear you Mark! The line has changed a lot.
Wednesday April 24, 2013
I have never managed to over optimise a website, since the updates I have always been very cautious about it when using my techniques. Little and often I say, make it look as natural as possible.
Saturday May 25, 2013
I think i would have surely have to work on this link building and stuffing so that Google should feel relaxed and look it as a natural way. Thanks for telling dude.


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Cougar Town's second episode of the season deals with Jules (Courtney Cox) regrets about not living it up when she was in her 20′s.
The episode starts with the whole neighborhood being up at 6 AM. Jules is up because she has to get her date from the night before out of the house before anyone sees him, her neighbor Ellie is up because "her stupid baby" (her words) woke her up, Courtney's ex-husband Bobby stops over because he has an early golf lesson and son Travis is up to study.
Before you know it the adults are sharing war stories from their 20′s when 5 o'clock in the morning was the time they were walking in the door from partying. Courtney realizes that she doesn't have a war story from her 20′s since she had a baby by the time she was 22.
Jules tries to re-live her 20′s by going out with her co-worker, Laurie to Grayson's restaurant. Jules invites Ellie who stays for a bit before leaving to go home to a glass of wine. Laurie encourages Jules to drink and drink and drink before being carried out of the bar, going to the beach and waking up in the guest room of a house that she is selling. Jules pays for her "fun" night with a huge hangover.
When Laurie invites Jules out the next night, Ellie tells Jules that she is too old for "this crap" and she is acting pathetic. Jules and Ellie are experiencing growing pains in their friendship because of Jules new lifestyle. Something they quickly get over and move on – together.
There are definitely some funny lines in the show – Jules sees her neighbor, Grayson, while getting the morning papers and tells him that she has been up for hours. He responds by saying, "I had eggs for breakfast". Jules seems confused – when Grayson clarifies his response by saying, "I thought we were sharing incredibly boring facts about ourselves." Jules is looking for a friendship from Grayson since he is also recently divorced – unfortunately he has no interest at first but later waits for Jules to get her morning paper so he could tease her.
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Wow - what beautiful pictures - I love the gentle decay
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Hmmm, I guess I'm already past the "decay phase". Overload perhaps? Will see if it lasts. ;-)
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Oh great locations. I like the photos. Even with the snails. ;-(
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wow, the snails!
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I love it!
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Great pictures but to be honest I wouldn't want to drink that milk
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I really like the mood, but maybe a little bit too much of arrangement?
As far as I can see the snails are grapevine snails. I'm wondering where they've got them from and what they've done to them after the shoot.
Did you know that these snails can become up to nine years old and that they are very social animals? I admit, I may be one of the very few people who feel for slugs and snails, ha ha...
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Coupled with the recent news that The Avengers has earned over a billion dollarsputting it in the rarefied air of Harry Potter and Avatarit got me to thinking. (Yeah, yeah, I know: its about time.) We are at the brink of yet another summer of super-hero blockbusters dominating the screen and moviegoers consciousnesses (and wallets), and the line seems to stretch on into the century. And I learned that Avengers 2 has already been green lighted, as they say in Hollywood, and that Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and another Captain America film are all on the way in the next few years. We are also at the official opening of election season, with the promise of plenty of partisan gridlock to follow.
Now, American filmmakersjust as do those folks who produce TV showslike nothing so much as repeating what has worked in prior years. And repeating and repeating it, ad nauseam. Eventually, however, the viewing public tires of the same old same old, so the dream factories have to come up with something innovative or, at least, not quite so shopworn. So why have the superhero flicks, from Superman, Batman, Spider Man through the sundry X-Men and including Avengers, proved such a durable formula?
I think the cartoonist is onto something. The original Superman and Batman were spawned by the Depression, World War II, and the ensuing Cold War, all times when the country faced a lethal enemy and needed to act. That is, the usual disagreements inherent in a democracy had to be put aside so we could present a united front--or so the argument went. Squabbles and stalemates were not just frustrating, they were downright unpatriotic.
The superhero, by contrast, brooked no arguments; only pantywaists and pinkos disagreed with the tactics that brought the current threat to its knees. Even though large segments of Metropolis or Gotham might have been trashed while the ineffectual police looked on agape and the local paper editorialized against them, the heroes had to be given free rein. Discussing and debating and voting were just passé, not to say dangerous.
At the end of The Avengers, after the superheroes have destroyed whole blocks of New York City in the course of saving the earth from alien invaders, sure enough, a U. S. Senator calls for an investigation of them. We know about politicians: theyll talk the matter to death and come to a stalemate. They may even get mad, but they wont turn into giant green Hulks and start bashing evil demi-gods.
The temptation to carry this video game mentality into the public arena is great. In the last election cycle, we actually had a candidate chanting, Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran! Some of the current combatants have also been guilty of this kind of oversimplified approach, which is, lets say, counterproductive, however much it may satisfy our need to solve complex problems quickly.
The movies are entertainment, finally, but they do tell us a lot about ourselves, good and bad. A superhero is not going to appear and save us from evil incarnateor from ourselves. And thats good.


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Calcium Requirements and Sources in Postmenopausal Women
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Calcium is an important constituent of bones and teeth and plays a vital role in a number of physiologic and biochemical processes, including the blood coagulation cascade, enzyme activity, release of hormones and neurotransmitters, and regulation of nerve and muscle function. It is also an important mediator of intracellular hormone action where it functions as a second messenger. Cell division and secretion are initiated by the movement of calcium from the extracellular compartment to the cytosol.
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- Title
- Calcium Requirements and Sources in Postmenopausal Women
- Book Title
- Menopause
- Book Subtitle
- Endocrinology and Management
- Pages
- pp 221-234
- Copyright
- 1999
- 10.1007/978-1-59259-246-3_14
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- 978-1-61737-129-5
- Online ISBN
- 978-1-59259-246-3
- Series Title
- Contemporary Endocrinology
- Series Volume
- 18
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Copyright Holder
- Humana Press
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- Editor Affiliations
- 1. Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- 2. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, The Ohio State University
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