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Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives (edition 2013)
by Becky Aikman
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Saturday Night Widows: The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives by Becky Aikman
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Started off OK but after introducing us to the other women she goes off about how the stages of grief are all wrong and how her husband's shrink and others all agree. She goes on and on about this. Personally I just wanted the story of the six women. I wasn't interested in someone telling me the right and wrong way to experience grief.
This book was not what I expected. I was expecting a sad story of loss and I got instead a book about friendship, life, joy and love. Becky gathers together 5 widows and together they spend a year grieving the loss of their husbands while learning that they still have a lot of living yet ahead.
March 2013
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.This was a really great book. Though, I haven't lost a husband myself, I can imagine that anyone who has would find this book uplifting. I love the way she wrote the book through first person, yet, not overwhelmingly so. The stories of each woman are very interesting and not one overshadows the other.
A great book about grief and moving on with life. It was funny and it made me cry. It was honest and I think anybody who has lost someone close to them (not necessarily a spouse) could benefit from the story of the Saturday Night Widows.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.This was an enjoyable and emotional read. I was surprised by the challenges a young widow faces and by the reaction of older widows to her situation. Oddly – to my at least – I found myself able to relate to Aikman's situation. Not as a widow, but as a young woman facing major surgery tasked with wading through literature and support groups set up for much older patients. I recommend the book if you are looking for a relatable, humorous, and emotional memoir.
References to this work on external resources.
Wikipedia in English
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0307590437, Hardcover)
Q&A with Becky Aikman
Q. What gave you the idea of forming your own widows' support group?
A. Losing someone close to you has to be one of life's most universal experiences, but it wasn't until it happened to me at a relatively young age that I realized our culture doesn't provide much guidance about how to reinvent yourself afterward. I hoped that by joining with other young widows, we could lighten the task by facing this daunting transition together.
Q. What kinds of things did the group do together?
A. I had joined a traditional support group before, but the goal seemed to be to sit in a circle and talk about how sad we were. And there weren't even any snacks! So I put together more of a renegade group, looking to the future, and focused on doing, not talking. Although we did wind up talking our heads off, too, we also cooked together, volunteered, invited widowers to meet us. We went through the family home of one of the women when she was packing up to move. We even went lingerie shopping together when some of the women started to look for love again. Ultimately, we took a transforming trip to a place none of us had visited before. Along the way, we shared a few tears, but a lot more laughter.
Q. How did you put the group together? Did their differences create conflict?
A. My process for finding the other women, mostly by asking around, couldn't have been more random. Then when I introduced everybody the first time, I thought, "Wow, did I make a mistake." It was a crazy mismatch of personalities. All we had in common was that each woman had suffered through a tragedy that had turned her life upside down. I was afraid that this was going to be one sad story, snacks or no snacks. But instead, it turned into an adventure story, not only the adventures we shared, but the adventures each of us encountered as we navigated our way through incredible changes.
Q. Did the group help you, too?
A. When I started the group, I viewed myself as the journalist who would chronicle our story. I had remarried four years after my husband died, shortly before the group's first meeting. But my grief was still fresh, and I was coping with all the upheaval of trying to cobble together a new life, with a new career, new husband, new stepdaughter, new home, and new dog. I began to rely on the example of the group, and its good, old-fashioned girlfriend advice, for how to put a new life together and keep it in balance with my memories from the past.
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Thursday PM Reads
by Anna W - January 26th, 2012, 4:30pm
My train reading:
• Economists vs. Americans (Real Time Economics) see also Not all jobs are equal (LA Times)
• China's Connectivity Revolution (Project Syndicate) see also The paradox of prosperity (Economist)
• New-home purchases fall, 2011 worst ever for sales (Yahoo Fiannce)
• Adding Weapons to ATM Defenses (WSJ)
• Amazon's Hit Man (Businessweek)
• Romney Can Thank The Supreme Court For Newt Gingrich's Extended Campaign (TPM)
• Apple vs. PC Shipments: "PC" Decline Worse Than Reported (The Small Wave) see also In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad (NYT)
• Oldest dinosaur nest site found (BBC)
• Meet the Marriage Killer (WSJ)
• "What if…" Movies reimagined for another time & place… (Behance Network)
What are you reading?
Category: Financial Press
Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor implied. If you could repeat previously discredited memes or steer the conversation into irrelevant, off topic discussions, it would be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
19 Responses to "Thursday PM Reads"
Jojo says:
Not all jobs are equal (LA Times)
Good article! This is a point I have long harped on.
The government counts anyone who worked even 1 hour a week as employed and makes no distinctions regarding the QUALITY of jobs. All they are concerned with is QUANTITY. So a burger flipper job is the same as CEO to them. Logical people know that can't be right…
theexpertisin says:
Nice piece on the dinosaur nest found in South Africa. Sometimes we are so immersed in the day to day mayhem that we take scant notice of profound discoveries that are the result of dedicated professionals seeking to understand Earth and it's wonders.
The post gives a new twist to the term "nest egg".
rd says:
I work for a company that is very focused on safety. They had a couple of wake-up calls a few years ago and really put the focus on it. The major clients that I have worked over the past decade have also been very focused on safety.
It takes a serious corporate commitment with metrics tracking at a parallel level to the financial tracking to have a very safe corporate culture. The metrics are necessary because otherwise the financial metrics will simply take over and dominate every discussion and decision. Detailed tracking of numbers wins over amorphous feel-good arm-waving every time.
It also takes senior management to be visible on the issue, visiting job-sites and offices doing the equivalent of troop inspections on safety issues. This means that people reporting directly to senior management have to go onto the premises, do detailed audits and reviews, with immediate actions required to correct safety problems.
Employees have to know that they can report violations or stop work with no fear of reprisal. This needs to be enforced at the highest levels. One reprisal can undermine 100 feel good moments.
Safety has to be a major topic in performance evaluations (metrics again). Poor safety metrics mean that the manager's pay suffers. Eventually poor safety management will get you demoted or fired. As soon as it is obvious that short-term financial success trumps safety performance for compensation, you can kiss your safety program goodbye.
Companies are finding that good safety and environmental practices are saving them money and reducing turnover in their work force. Good practices lead to a long-term sustainable business model. In the developed world, the reduction in insurance costs, increased productivity, and reduced staff turnover retraining can be big enough to see a significant impact on the bottom line.
Julia Chestnut says:
70% ROYALTY! Wow. I think standard with a trad publisher is TEN – somebody correct me if I'm wrong. That is a really, really big difference in how the arrangement rewards the publisher vs. the writer; of course, the risks when you don't have to print copies and carry inventory are likewise completely different.
This whole ebooks thing is getting very interesting, even faster than I thought it would.
Francisco Bandres de Abarca says:
What am I reading?
A page marking that today is the NASA Day of Remembrance:
Tomorrow, January 27th, will mark the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 1 launchpad fire. Saturday will be the 26th anniversary of the Challenger disaster, and February 1 will mark the 9th anniversary of the Columbia disaster.
from the "Comments"..
Kansas City
Every Occupy Protester should read this article on their iPad.
would be a big +
"…This whole ebooks thing is getting very interesting, even faster than I thought it would…"
LSS: there is a /huge/ Economic benefit, to some 'Sectors', in the proliferation of 'Digital Media' ..
doing away with 'unsightly' (bad PR 'Optics') Bonfires is, just, an add'l +
streeteye says:
How Allen Stanford kept the SEC at bay with the aid of ex-SEC lawyers
Debate on fixes for housing market from yesterday's NYT
Francois says:
I'm reading this excellent post from Health Care Renewal blog about the "privatization" of UCSF, the egregious behavior of its higher-ups, with a segue into an unrecognized problem: The stunning growth in managerial positions in health care and education, at the expense of the front line professionals.
The money quote that floored me:
In 1988, Alain Enthoven advocated in Theory and Practice of Managed Competition in Health Care Finance, a book published in the Netherlands, that to decrease health care costs it would be necessary to break up the "physicians' guild" and replace leadership by clinicians with leadership by managers (see 2006 post here). Thus from 1983 to 2000, the number of managers working in the US health care system grew 726%, while the number of physicians grew 39%, so the manager/physician ratio went from roughly one to six to one to one
And there are still people ready to swear this is a free market health care, when we are witnessing is a textbook example of Sovietization/crony capitalism.
formerlawyer says:
The big lie continues, in the NYT no less but then what does one expect from an opinion columnist that boasts about a book entitled ""Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation." . And oh wait, a "journalist" from a libertarian think tank funded in part by the Koch brothers no less.
see also: "Poisoning the Well" (category: Logical Fallacies)
or, differently, "You're better than that..(~!)" (or, are you?)
formerlawyer says:
Sorry Mark E. Hoffer,
I was exaggerating for effect. The meme about homeowners "buying more than they can afford" and the equation of underwater=irresponsible is doubtful for most of the homeowners. I have no data to back that up – feel free to provide anything.
My point about the "big lie" goes back to my earlier post on the competing narratives 1) politicians made us do it versus 2) we lobbied for relaxation of the rules – and when the rules were relaxed we screwed up. Or am I reading this part wrong:
"The president blamed the nation's economic crisis on the busted housing bubble, yet he fails to place any responsibility on federal housing policies that rewarded banks for making loans to people who couldn't afford them. Despite his rhetoric, the mortgage industry is no font of unregulated capitalism. Every step of the loan-making process is driven by government rules."
maddog2020 says:
Mark –
Your link to the NYT story reminded me of the irony of listening to this podcast on my iPod (no iPad yet):
jbruso says:
Envisioning emerging technology for 2012 and beyond:
mathman says:
from http://questioneverything.typepad.com/
Am I Living in a Nightmare?
"My dreams contain more rationality and even my nightmares are not as frightful as what I observe when I am awake. The State of the Union Address and the Republican rejoinder afterward underscored this living nightmare reality. The talking-head commentaries afterward confirmed the madness.
I had planned to deconstruct the President's comments on energy as an example. As I went through the text of the speech, about energy, I realized how hopeless it would be to simply point out the inconsistencies and outright non-truths. There were too many, and the common person won't care anyway. Governor Mitch Daniels' responses regarding energy issues were just as insane, of course. And all the talking heads could do is analyze the whole thing in the framework of things like "energy independence" and "jobs creation".
Now I understand why zombie movies are so popular. The vast majority of people appear to be zombies. And clearly the so-called leaders (political and thought) have had their brains eaten.
Here is the President enunciating what is essentially a drill-baby-drill (Republican) notion:
Nowhere is the promise of innovation greater than in American-made energy. Over the last three years, we've opened millions of new acres for oil and gas exploration, and tonight, I'm directing my Administration to open more than 75 percent of our potential offshore oil and gas resources. Right now, American oil production is the highest that it's been in eight years. That's right — eight years. Not only that — last year, we relied less on foreign oil than in any of the past sixteen years.
What can we possibly conclude from this statement? Does the President really believe that opening lands for drilling is going to substantially increase our oil production, or even if it did (marginally) at a cost that would make it economical? More still does he grasp the energy cost of retrieving energy? Does he get that drilling more holes and deeper for a marginal increase in flows is just plain dumb? And does he realize this is not likely to produce any real improvement, even in the short run? I won't try to point out all of the illegitimate notions expressed here. For better analysis than I can do go to The Oil Drum or Our Finite World for high-quality analyses of the oil and natural gas situation in the US.
The highlight in my view was the fact that he did not use the phrase "clean coal". He alluded to clean energy. After repeating the hyped claim about America having one hundred years of natural gas (very likely a completely fabricated claim by the gas industry), he went on to say:
What's true for natural gas is true for clean energy. In three years, our partnership with the private sector has already positioned America to be the world's leading manufacturer of high-tech batteries. Because of federal investments, renewable energy use has nearly doubled. And thousands of Americans have jobs because of it. [Emphasis mine.]
High-tech batteries! Great. And just what will we fill those batteries with? What will generate the electricity? Renewable energy use has doubled? I suppose a 100% increase sounds impressive until you realize that we are starting from a miniscule base. And, thousands of jobs when there are tens of millions who could work but are not? Is there a disconnect in scale here? The real cost-effectiveness of solar and wind is still hotly debated, but when you add in EROI and external costs the evidence strongly suggests that these sources can never produce the wealth of energy needed to run our current kind of economy, nor will they ever scale up effectively. Moreover, where will the money come from to make investments? Will we borrow it? Will capitalism suddenly discover that the return on investment in alternatives is really so great that capitalist will race to pump money into the industries? Get real.
Later in the speech he asserts that he will direct the military to make substantial uses of alternative energy (the military has already been experimenting with several forms with mixed results). I suspect he believes that an economy of scale phenomenon will drive down the up-front costs (investment in energy production equipment) and help make solar and wind capital more affordable to Americans. That isn't an unreasonable assumption if it were not the case that right now it is fossil fuel inputs to the manufacturing costs that subsidize the production of that capital equipment, as well as being needed to maintain the systems once built and installed. Until alternative energy sources can produce enough excess energy beyond what is demanded from the consuming economy to build their own replacements, we do not have a true renewable process. The current approach is not sustainable, nor will costs ultimately go down as much as might be expected. The reason is simple. The costs of fossil fuels will continue to rise because of the twin phenomena of peak production and declining EROI. These increasing costs could easily negate any economy-of-scale effect. I have heard from a military insider that people in the Pentagon have, in fact, derived that same model and are quite worried that this "political" move by the administration will end up costing the military much more in the end! Of course there are many Pollyanna types even in the military who are convinced this will all be obviated by technological breakthroughs. They don't know what those breakthroughs are going to be. They just have faith that technology will always come through with solutions. Ah well, just one more scary thought to deal with.
Mitch Daniels, in his Republican response speech said, "The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands…" He obviously feels that Obama has not allowed enough drilling. He also asserts, without any evidence in support, that the proposed pipeline from Alberta tar sands to Houston (which Obama has temporarily suspended – not killed outright) would be perfectly safe. How in the name of all that is holy (or unholy) could he make that claim in a rational world? There is so much evidence that pipelines are dangerous to the environment. There is more than enough evidence that increased production of really heavy oil from Alberta will produce many times more CO2 than just from refining and burning the fuel products.
It doesn't occur to either of these men that their statements are empty words, unsupported claims, and generally internally inconsistent (as well as usually inconsistent with reality). Moreover, it never occurs to the electorate that both sides have it so horribly wrong. Most people are choosing sides in meaningless debates. They go for ideological-based faux-reality. And it never occurs to any of them that most of what passes for assertions about how to best govern are just ludicrous gibberish. It's the rhetoric not the substance of the messages.
And this attitude, or lack of awareness is everywhere. Is it any wonder that I would feel like I am living in a nightmare? George Orwell came pretty close to inventing a fictional dystopia in which double-speak was the norm, in which truth is lie and lie is truth. But in "1984" the powers that be actually had a rational plan in mind. They were forcing society to conform with constraints through their manipulations (we never learned exactly what those constraints were but assumed they were simply based on power struggles). Our leaders have no real plan. They are bumbling through and by helping the 1% get richer just hastening the day of demise for all. Orwell's world might have been frightening, but it didn't have the seemingly random logic of a dream/nightmare. Our world is completely out of control and chaotic, even as political and thought leaders try hard to produce the illusion of rationality and even progress (or promised progress).
The SOTU address, the rejoinders (even the Occupy response), and the analyses by political experts, all demonstrate just how far from reality our political and economic worlds are. It was somewhat amusing to watch the Republican candidates (read that clowns) perform in their debates and speech venues, as well as revelations of their complete hypocrisies with respect to their behaviors in life. But that race is just one small piece of the overall picture. What is happening in Congress, the Executive branch, the Supreme Court (where corporations were afforded the right of free speech – using money to talk) would have been considered totally unrealistic in former times. Completely, and totally, those governing the US have demonstrated that the United States way of life and means of government are without reason.
Yes those governing, and would-be governing, are without a shred of understanding of reality. But they are there largely because the electorate shares that same fate. Most people in this country are generally ignorant, undiscerning, selfish, unempathetic, and lazy. I think I know why (lack of sufficient sapience) but that is of no avail. This is just the way it is. So with a general population of people who are in this situation, what else should we expect from our leaders? People get elected when they make promises to people that those people want to hear. It doesn't matter if the promises can be fulfilled because they correspond to reality. All that matters is that they get the power and the wealth that comes with modern elected offices. Damn everyone else.
And that is exactly what is happening. Just how bizarre will this nightmare get?"
rktbrkr says:
Watching the Newt vs Mutt mudwrestling match last night I was struck by Newt's claim that Mutt would be the first president with offshore bank accounts. Will Mutt be able to convince Joe Sixpack that he will bring jobs to the US when he won't even bring his own money here?
Mutt might believe his Horatio Alger story struggling to survive as the son of a lowly CEO at American Motors but I think his enormous income, minimal tax rates and offshore accounts will not be a pretty picture for most of the remaining 99%
w/ "…I was exaggerating for effect. The meme about homeowners…"
I hear ya..
though, it seems that with 'everybody' "exaggerating for effect", no one can 'hear' the point that was being made(if there was one to begin with..)..
but, then there's the ~"He once looked at another Woman, while Married! He and Newt should join the same Fraternity!"-style of G*rbage — that, properly, are, merely 'ad hominems'..
there are, enough, Logical Fallacies — as you mention, one, the "big lie" — about, 'nary do We more, yes? :)
the Plains are, seemingly, populated with those types of dichotomies, no?
Winston Munn says:
Hey, it takes a lot of cash to satisfy all those loan-hungry borrowers demanding new cars and homes.
arthur.i says:
If you haven't yet seen this…ten minutes says it all about corporate abuse of power:
Monsanto & Cancer Milk: FOX NEWS KILLS STORY & FIRES Reporters.
rd says:
Mitt Romney is the intended product of 30 years of tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulation, and corporate tax policy almost designed to offshore jobs based on the supply side economics that Americans have specifically voted for several times and the Tea Party is espousing now.
If Americans don't like Mitt Romney's wealth, private equity background, investments, or tax rates then they need to vote for different policies. As far as I can tell, he has done everything legally and above board, including reporting and paying taxes on his offshore "diversifications".

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Older Women Dating Younger Men vs.. Older Men Dating Younger Women
What do you think of couples with age difference? Here is the post to discuss opinions and experiences along with celebrity, fiction and real life examples.
This is a subject that has always intrigued me. When I was younger, I used to think people should date people their own age or people really close to their age. Now, I really couldn't have cared less. In fact, I am in favor of dating older men (men who are 15 years older than me are OK) . Well, obviously I don'T find any older man attractive. I like a guy who is energetic but also know who he is, what he wants and is sick of playing games with the opposite sex. Plus, I think that men usually mature a little later than women. You might disagree, but all the men I know my age seem to prove this.
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Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore. Age difference: 16
Now, I am not against dating younger men either. While it might seem contrary to what I say earlier, I am not against being proven wrong. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher seem to be working out just fine. Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins (Susan was 12 years older) dated more than 20 years. Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn (Goldie is 6 years older) are still together. So it seems like I only ruled out dating people my age.
Society strangely still seems to favor men dating younger women. Well, the romantic and the feminist in me couldn't disagree more. Obviously there is no way I'd approve a 20 year-old dating a 80 year-old, a 10 or 15 year age gap seems trivial if the couple seems to be getting along. Hell maybe even 15-20 won't matter. But I recently watched a lovely stint on a comedy show:
A husband and wife are really having difficulty getting used to the fact that their son will bring home a girl to meet them. He is in college so they know it is time. However they are shocked when they realize the girlfriend seems a good 15 years older than him. Since this is comedy, they throw around hilarious jokes around, universally reflecting the opinions on age difference:
Dad: Really? Why did you bring your girlfriend's mother to meet us?
Dad: Are you sure you want more salt? Maybe you want to watch the high pressure?
Dad: Our son is failing history? Why doesn't he ask you? Did you meet Ataturk (the most respected Turkish leader- who died in 1938)
While you laugh your head off, it makes you think. Then the guy's uncle comes over. He seems to think that this is a prank. He even calls the woman "stale". But guess what kind of girls the uncle is into? High school girls!
Another fun example that you might have caught on TV is Courtney Cox's show Cougar Town. The show is fun and you can read my review here. But, to directly talk about our topic: In the show Courtney plays a 40-something-hottie of a single mom. She is newly divorced and nothing is holding back from dating. Although there is one issue: The men her age are either married or they are dating much younger women, including her newly divorced hot neighbor Grayson. And younger men seem to find older women hot and intriguing. So she starts dating younger men.
So I want to know what you think? Would you date someone much younger? Older? Have you ever dated someone younger/older? I once dated a 32-year-old when I was 21 and it was so much fun.
Or what kind of men/women would you break your own rules for? Yes, celebrity examples count. We need to visualize, right?
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On May 13, 2010 at 11:08 am
a very well written article
On May 13, 2010 at 1:10 pm
thanks, atanacio.
On May 13, 2010 at 1:23 pm
Beautifully written. I think it doesn't matter whether your partner is younger or older to you but what really matters is how much level of understanding you both has. Well…this is my opinion.
On May 13, 2010 at 9:35 pm
good post
On May 14, 2010 at 3:12 am
I don't think it should matter as long as you are comfortable with one another. My hubby is twelve years older than me and we manage well. An interesting write.
On May 14, 2010 at 4:47 am
@ Anuradha: Thanks. Exactly. I am still waiting to find that level of understanding.
@ Chrisitne: I can imagine. 12 years totally sounds ok to me as long as you get along:)
On May 14, 2010 at 7:33 am
Enjoyed your article.
On May 14, 2010 at 12:41 pm
@ thanks, steve.
On May 14, 2010 at 10:20 pm
very interesting article again. I think should be okay, but not too far apart… for example eg. 18 vs 50 or …. 80….hehe…
I think not more than 20 years difference…. er….. depends on individual….some mature earlier than another…
On May 16, 2010 at 10:55 pm
Love should have no age barriers. Nice article!
On May 18, 2010 at 9:59 am
@ Starpisces: Couldn't agree more. More than 20 is just too much. I think if you are a good match,15 seems even reasonable.
@ GWitt: Thanks. I totally agree:)


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By Ryan Clark | May 21, 2011 | Comments
BRISTOL, PA. (MAY 21, 2011)--Ring of Honor Wrestling owner, Cary Silkin, announced today the sale of the promotion to Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc., one of the largest television broadcasters in the country and which owns and operates, programs, or provides sales services to 58 television stations in 35 markets across the United States.
ROH, currently the third largest wrestling promotion in the country, just celebrated its ninth anniversary, and Mr. Silkin is excited about taking the next step towards increasing the company's visibility and expanding its operations.
"We have been waiting for and working for this opportunity for quite some time", he said, "and of our 9 years in business, there has been no better roster of wrestlers than this one to expose the ROH product to the masses. With Sinclair's resources and many avenues of distribution, we believe many new fans around the world will be as captivated as those who have followed Ring of Honor over the years."
The month of September will see the debut of the new Ring of Honor television program which will be syndicated across the Sinclair network of stations, and with it, ROH will become the only wrestling promotion in the United States with a major, multi-market presence on broadcast TV. But if you don't live in a market with a Sinclair station, fear not, says Mr. Silkin. "Through our revamped website we will be able to make the TV show available to anyone in the world with internet access."
Sinclair officials are enthused about the project as well.
"We are very excited about this acquisition," commented Steve Marks, COO of Sinclair's Television Group. "Television and professional wrestling have a long history of successful partnerships and driving viewership. Unfortunately, the broadcast networks have not protected that relationship, allowing professional wrestling to migrate to cable network distribution. We believe that the powerful promotional platform that our TV stations provide, coupled with our 22% share of the U.S. TV households, will allow ROH to achieve name brand recognition and grow its share of the wrestling market. When you consider the makeup of our station mix and the number of CW, MYTV and FOX affiliates we operate, this is a perfect fit for our viewer demographics." Mr. Marks also noted, "Longer-term, we can envision syndicating ROH wrestling to broadcasters in markets where Sinclair does not have a presence, and even internationally."
Mr. Silkin assures the ROH fans worldwide that they will be seeing the same exciting, hard-hitting style of pro wrestling that they have become accustomed to. "We have established the name Ring of Honor as synonymous with the best in-ring action in the sport. The only thing that will change is that it will now be easier for fans around the world to follow. Our visibility will increase greatly--our production will be upgraded--but the work ethic of our incredible talent roster and our athletic style of wrestling will remain the same. This is what our fans have told us they want, and we will continue to give it to them."
The current front office staff, including Cary Silkin, Syd Eick, and Ross Abrams, will remain with ROH going forward. Hunter Johnston, a favorite of ROH fans for years as the masked grappler Delirious, will still handle matchmaking, Jim Cornette will remain as executive producer, and other familiar faces like ring announcer Bobby Cruise and senior referee Todd Sinclair will be in place."
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So you have written your article and you are ready to publish it on your website or blog. But wait for a minute and ask yourself these questions.
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- Am I following the webmaster guidelines?
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If your answer is no to any of these questions, then you will never be able to drive any single organic traffic to that particular post. So the questions is how to write articles that will rank on SERP and at the same time will be delivering required information to your visitors.
And in order to help you, I have shared 5 step guide which will help you achieve what you desire. Make sure to check all referral links since they might deliver some extra knowledge.
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It can be an easy task if you have an handy SEO checklist to follow. SEO is ever changing and their could not be any perfect onpage SEO guidelines. But still their are some basic points which you should remember.
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- Adding keywords in your headlines. ( Try to place it close to the first position ).
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- Use keywords as alternate text for your images. Also add human readable captions.
- Use short and direct words for internal and external linking. ( Don't just nofollow all outbound links. )
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In our first section I have said to focus on one particular topic and at the same time I have said to target 2-3 key-phrases. Actually I means to say, you have to collect some LSI, long tail keywords and have to include them in your post.
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- Traffic Travis. You can use its free version.
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- Finally market samurai, one of the favorite tool of many internet marketers.
Note : Today their are many better and focused tool as compared to market samurai. You can give a try to Long tail pro and other. Since they are fast, easy and very cheap.
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In the 2nd section you must be able to find the perfect long tail and low competitive keyphrase. Now its time to implement it in your content. Actually its always suggested not to repeat targeted phrase all over, again and again in your titles and content. This make your post look spammy and non worthy.
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What makes a perfect article, which not only holds your readers eyes but also attract social shares and backlinks.
I think its all about quality and quantity. Back in 2010, many of bloggers and internet marketers used to focus a lot of meta keywords. In simple terms they all use to write their article for search bots rather than visitors.
But time has changed now. Today every search bot is smarter enough to judge if any webpage is following webmaster guidelines or not. If now then their are algorithms like Panda and Penguin who will take care for all your punishments.
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I mean to say, today ts time to focus on humans rather than written codes. Try to write engaging, emotional, personal and creative content. Try to add links to different sources, add quotations, ask questions and finally reveal secrets. So these were all about quality.
But when we consider quantity, I mean the article length then their is no perfect limit. Google says, they consider lots of different factors ( almost 200 plus ) before ranking any webpage on SERP. And post length is one among them, but still their are so many other factors which still matters.
For example : If we perform a search on google.com/ncr on " google seo guide 2012 "
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Finally the most essential part of content marketing is promotion. Many bloggers say "quality content drives traffic automatically ", but I don't think so. Just try it yourself.
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- Hubpages, second most popular web2.0 site ( I personally fell so ).
- Ezinearticles, it used to be popular but can still be effective.
- Yahoo voice, its a community based website which allows you to share your thoughts on any particular niche.
- eHow, a website with worldwide Alexa rank below 125 and with millions of monthly visitors.
Ok now below I am sharing top 5 dofollow social bookmarking and sharing websites.
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A novel in vitro bovine cartilage punch model for assessing the regeneration of focal cartilage defects with biocompatible bacterial nanocellulose
1 Experimental Rheumatology Unit, Department of Orthopedics, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Waldkrankenhaus "Rudolf-Elle" GmbH, Klosterlausnitzer Str. 81, D-07607 Eisenberg, Germany
2 Jenpolymer Materials Ltd. & Co. KG, Technologie- und Innovationspark Jena - TIP, Wildenbruchstraße 15, D-07745 Jena, Germany
3 TransTissueTechnologies GmbH, Charitéplatz 1/Virchowweg 11, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
4 Institute of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Lessingstr. 8, D-07743 Jena, Germany
5 Transfer Group Polymet e.V., Wildenbruchstr. 15, D-07745 Jena, Germany
6 Institute of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Otto-Schott-Straße 41, D-07745 Jena, Germany
Arthritis Research & Therapy 2013, 15:R59 doi:10.1186/ar4231Published: 14 May 2013
Current therapies for articular cartilage defects fail to achieve qualitatively sufficient tissue regeneration, possibly because of a mismatch between the speed of cartilage rebuilding and the resorption of degradable implant polymers. The present study focused on the self-healing capacity of resident cartilage cells in conjunction with cell-free and biocompatible (but non-resorbable) bacterial nanocellulose (BNC). This was tested in a novel in vitro bovine cartilage punch model.
Standardized bovine cartilage discs with a central defect filled with BNC were cultured for up to eight weeks with/without stimulation with transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1. Cartilage formation and integrity were analyzed by histology, immunohistochemistry and electron microscopy. Content, release and neosynthesis of the matrix molecules proteoglycan/aggrecan, collagen II and collagen I were also quantified. Finally, gene expression of these molecules was profiled in resident chondrocytes and chondrocytes migrated onto the cartilage surface or the implant material.
Non-stimulated and especially TGF-β1-stimulated cartilage discs displayed a preserved structural and functional integrity of the chondrocytes and surrounding matrix, remained vital in long-term culture (eight weeks) without signs of degeneration and showed substantial synthesis of cartilage-specific molecules at the protein and mRNA level. Whereas mobilization of chondrocytes from the matrix onto the surface of cartilage and implant was pivotal for successful seeding of cell-free BNC, chondrocytes did not immigrate into the central BNC area, possibly due to the relatively small diameter of its pores (2 to 5 μm). Chondrocytes on the BNC surface showed signs of successful redifferentiation over time, including increase of aggrecan/collagen type II mRNA, decrease of collagen type I mRNA and initial deposition of proteoglycan and collagen type II in long-term high-density pellet cultures. Although TGF-β1 stimulation showed protective effects on matrix integrity, effects on other parameters were limited.
The present bovine cartilage punch model represents a robust, reproducible and highly suitable tool for the long-term culture of cartilage, maintaining matrix integrity and homoeostasis. As an alternative to animal studies, this model may closely reflect early stages of cartilage regeneration, allowing the evaluation of promising biomaterials with/without chondrogenic factors.


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KNOX COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT)- Area shoppers once again mobbed the Knox County business community with cash.
It was part of the 9th Knox County Cash mob.
Multiple businesses were on the receiving end of Thursday's cash infusion.
A number of vendors who set up shop each week for the farmer's market, including local produce sellers and craft makers, say they saw an uptick in sales during the "mob."
Knox County Mayor, Tim Burchett, says he's pleased with how the cash mobs have been going and the national attention it brings to our area.
Mayor Burchett also says due to the approaching Winter season, this will probably be the last cash mob for the year.
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If you really wanted to see Mission Viejo sculptor Tuan Nguyen's latest series of ethereal bronze sculptures and bas-reliefs, there was no worse place to be than the first night of his show at Miranda Gallery in Laguna Beach. But then, art openings always hurt the ones they love. This wasn't tragic—this was art, not 9/11—but it was sad that Nguyen's vivid life story was reduced to a few sentences on a print-out, and that getting a look at his work meant going elbow-to-elbow with old ladies in sequined cowboy hats and men in blue blazers.
Nguyen, 43, uses only his first name professionally, which is a bit of an affectation. But he wields patina—a closely guarded mix of chemicals he brushes onto his pieces after they're poured, baked and cooled—like the master they say he is. Never heard of him? He's most famous for designing the Westminster Vietnam War Memorial—though not the tile portion of it, which is cracking—and he's recently been collected by the White House Presidential Art Collection. Somehow, he is able to make bronze look like polished granite—and then sell large chunks of it for upwards of $20,000. (It doesn't hurt his success that his most frequent subjects are hot naked people—one upon which we can all agree.) "Patina," Nguyen said at the opening, "is an amazing thing if you know how to apply it. White could be brown; black could be red. And after you wax it, the true colors come out." The whole evening was like that—as if his life was somehow bifurcated in 1988 upon his arrival in the states.
His arrival had every bit the drama of so many refugee journeys. But unlike them, he's descended from royalty—a descent that landed him in a concentration camp after the Communists took over Vietnam. Through his art and the past 20 years, he's achieved something of an ascension. It's remarkable and rather incongruous that the man some now consider a blue-chip artist spent a year in that concentration camp, sculpting busts of his fellow inmates from clay scooped out of his cell floor. And after they let him go, he walked to Cambodia—a journey he says took more than three weeks—and from there was passed off to Thailand and the Philippines. Nguyen's agent, Daniel Winn, can recite his client's past by rote—but even he still finds it interesting that when Nguyen left Vietnam his father gave his son a bag of teeth that native Vietnamese had collected from the bodies of dead American soldiers missing in action. Nguyen carried that bag with him for months wondering what it meant until he reached Thailand and gave it to the United Nations people. And learned his father's fantastic story was all true.
"I was in refugee camps for many years, but it made my life so rich," Nguyen had said over lunch, when I interviewed him in July. "If you think you suffer, there are so many suffering out there."
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The mood at his opening was celebratory—a variation of which was the title for one of his limited edition sculptures: Celebration, a graceful triptych of three smooth bronze women exploding upwards and playing instruments. Their bodies were young and lithe—not at all zaftig like the old masters would have done—and they'd look great in your foyer. The piece on display was one of 100 cast, and the red adhesive dot on the wall next to it meant it was sold.
"You can't have it. It's mine!" said Ingrid Phillips of Lake Forest, eagerly relating what Winn had told her each figure signified. "Well, the trumpet represents creation, and then the flute is life, and then the violin is the afterlife." And the price, $19,500? That seemed to represent a deal: "On Monday morning," gallery owner Shawn Miranda told Phillips, "that price is going up to $24,500."
Ingrid and her husband Dave seemed to have bought at the right time, even though it wasn't about that. They were investing in a cancer vaccine the University of South Alabama is working up, she said—and saving lives was more important than getting art for a rock bottom price.
"We don't do this for an investment," Ingrid Phillips said, laughing. "Can you imagine what the royalties on a cancer vaccine would be? The royalties on Viagra aren't too bad, but on a cancer vaccine?" When I called her back that Monday, Phillips said they hadn't bought the piece after all: they'd tried to low-ball the price and the gallery wouldn't budge.
"I know galleries have to stay in business, but again I know how much things are marked up. I was trying to negotiate a price," Phillips said that Monday. She was a little unhappy. "Yeah, well, we did come home and take a look where we were going to put it. And we just decided we're working on a far greater project." Maybe it was best to move on.
"You know, what I find is that once you tell somebody the market value of a work of art they get very distracted by that number," said Orange County Museum of Art curator Elizabeth Armstrong. "It becomes all about that price tag, and so you no longer think that you're looking at a work of art. And Andy Warhol long ago painted that dollar sign to make exactly that point."
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Let's see what Michael says. However, I must tell you that there have been a few KMV offered for sale on Ebay recently. The sellers seemed to be rather unfamiliar with the camera, or disingenuous in that they seemed to be reluctant to report about the real condition of the camera. In some cases the sellers stated that lens boards were easily available for $12-which tells you something about the sellers. In other instances the seller failed to extend the bellows to look for light leaks. In another sale the seller noted that small pin holes in the original bellows were not an issue and could be addressed by simply throwing the dark cloth over the bellows before removing the dark slide. Hence I wonder if you were notified in the listing about the issue that you bring to our attention. I suspect not-either intentionally or from ignorance-or both.
It's funny how many sellers state that their KMV for sale is "mint with the original bellows"....probably without fully understanding how the camera really "works". It would be hard to imagine the seller of your camera NOT seeing the same issue that you have identified.
If Michael states that the issue is more difficult to address then I would consider returning the camera. At least consider informing the seller about the issue immediately so that the seller cannot claim that you failed to tell him/her of any issues. I would hope that the issue can be dealt with for the KMV is a wonderful camera to use in the field. Hardly pretty to look at, but quick and easy to set up and take down, and the camaera has more then enough bellows draw and movements. As others have stated, original bellows will almost certainly ahve to be replaced and there are other small issues to deal with. Hopefully your issue will be readily solved....indeed, your plan seems quite reasonable. However, don't attempt anything until you have notified the seller!!
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HELSINKI -- Carolina coach Paul Maurice didn't go to Sauna Island with his players Tuesday, nor does he want to know any of the details from the players-only event organized by Helsinki resident Tuomo Ruutu.
Asked what he has heard about the players' full-tilt sauna experience, one of Finland's cultural phenomenons, Maurice said, "That they had a great time and it was a really, really good team event. I don't want too many details on the event."
"You know, if you don't go mining you don't get a lot of stuff," he added with a laugh. "It was, 'Did you guys have a good time yesterday?' Yup, good. And then you just keep moving. Don't get stuck in one spot. You'll hear too many things."
According to Hurricanes forward Patrick Dwyer there weren't too many juicy, 'Don't tell them I told you,' details to come out of the trip.
Specifically the North American guys -- save for captain Eric Staal, who has his own sauna at his lake house in Thunder Bay, Ont., the Finnish capital of Canada.
Dwyer said he could last in the hot sauna for only two or three minutes before he had to bolt.
"I'm not great with heat, but those Finnish guys were able to stay in it while I was right out of it," Dwyer said. "I do feel much better from it, though."
Ruutu said he had to hold his laughter when he saw the North American guys running out of the heat.
"It's lack of practice," he said. "You can imagine if you did it for the first time in your life, but I did it three or four times a week in the summer. So it is a lack of practice."
The tradition is to leave the sauna and dive right into the ocean, which Dwyer said he and most players did. But the water was only 50 degrees Fahrenheit, "so you got in to about the shoulders and you ran out. It's one extreme to the other," Dwyer said.
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The Republican-controlled House approved legislation restoring funds for federal disaster relief on a vote of 247-164. Another allowing the resumption of the Women, Infants and Children nutrition program was approved 244-164.
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Secret message • A National Weather Service dispatch for south-central and southwestern Alaska posted online and sent to media outlets at 5 a.m. contained a secret message: The first letters of each line on the left-hand column read "PLEASE PAY US." Agency employees are required to work during the partial federal government shutdown to provide weather forecasts and any warnings. It's unclear when they'll get paid. A version of the post that was on the agency website later Friday didn't include the apparent message.
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