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Time to do a lot of giving back -- I've been meaning to write out a major post of all the ways online writers can get more visitors to their websites.
Some of the below tips are specific to writers who write for sites that appear in Google News, like Examiner.com -- but many of them can help all online writers of their own single blogs and the like.
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Lots of the tips are focused on news writers who write about breaking news topics as opposed to seasonal, evergreen stuff -- but still, the tips can help those who aren't up-to-the-minute entertainment writers.
Take what you need, leave what you don't:
About the Headline Title:
1. Put first things first. If you're going for "Tiger Woods updates" as your keyword phrase, try and put those first 3 words in the first 3 word position in your title, not toward the end or later. Don't waste your first precious spots in your title for words not related to what you're trying to rank high for.
2. Make sure the URL of your title contains mostly words, not numbers and symbols. This is a factor of the website you're writing for, but if you control your own website -- like a WordPress.org hosted one, for example, under permalink settings, use a Custom Structure like this: /%postname%/%post_id%/
3. Use stuff that catches the eye, like a dollar sign, if your subject lends to that fact. ("Tiger Woods allegedly paid $60,000 for hookers" can catch the eye, for example)
4. Putting a website name in your title can help, like YouTube.com or whatever, especially if you're in Google News. More people than you could imagine type URLs in the Google search box.
5. Write something new in your title – something that few people know yet…
6. …and something that interests you, because your passion will shine through. (Like when I wrote my "Save the Bonnie Hunt Show campaign" article. That qualifies as something new and something that interested me.)
7. Use a variety of words – make use of the space given you in the title to sometimes include different words that people may type into Google – like how this article you've found called "50 Ways to Get More Page Views, Hits and Visitors to Your Website, Blog or Articles" leaves room to capture all the people who may type in different synonyms of the same idea.
8. Header tags can help (see tip #2 in this post)…
9. …as well as bolding a few words or names or using italics. But don't go crazy.
10. Write something interestingly clickable, something that you as a reader would click on. Something interesting – a buried point in research you've read, for example. In a bunch of articles or one piece, the most fascinating point may be buried in tons of text. Pull it out and make it your title – like when Tiger Woods called himself Blasian. That's what I found to be one of the most interesting things about those text messages. It's the first thing my eye really trained on when The New York Post put up the text messages -- and later I was rewarded with visitors when TMZ featured confusion over that "Blasian" term.
About the Content:
1. Write a lot of content, write a lot of quality...when you can. Of course when you're racing to meet breaking news deadlines, "Into the Wild" style prose ain't always gonna happen. Some people complain that they don't get many hits, but then confess they've only written 3 -5 articles per week on a news site. Whereas studying some of the top traveled writers, we'll see some create at least that many articles per day -- and they SEO the pieces.
2. Keep your keyword phrase in mind. If "get more page views" is the 4-word phrase you're trying to rank high in Google for, try and sprinkle "get more page views" naturally throughout your article – but not too much. About 5% - 7% may be good for Google – no one but Google really knows for sure.
3. Your first paragraph is important. It's like Google looks at that with more importance, and studying how your well-ranked articles and pieces appear in Google, you'll sometimes see those first paragraphs highlighted with the keyword phrase, especially if you have it listed a couple of times in the top paragraph. (It can be bolded in other places as well.)
4. Longer posts can be better, but short can be better than nothing. In terms of having so much quality content, longer posts may help you win more obscure searches just by the probability of them typing in combined search terms and finding words you've used.
5. Make it pretty – and readable. Some stuff I just don't read online if it ain't pretty enough. Some of my own posts – I say, "Eh! How did I write that?" – and try to go back at times and make it prettier, adding more white space or structure to make it easier on the eyes.
6. Link liberally…if you've got the time to research and back up your facts. This lends credibility and helps other people discover you with backlinks at times. I think I got a great link from Huffington Post (at least 500,000 pageviews a day for that site) that way. And don't forget to link to yourself, your own categories -- but again, don't go crazy. Google banned this blog for my own name in 2007 because I didn't know that I shouldn't have linked "Paula Mooney" back to my homepage in a bunch of posts. Live and blog.
7. Or don't link at all…if you don't really have the time. Sometimes it's more about getting the content online, spelled correctly, correctly researched and published. And sometimes that doesn't include linking out to folks.
8. Write the next thing, the new thing, the thing that people will be searching for today and tomorrow. For example, as I write this, people are writing about the tragic death of Brittany Murphy. While most people are writing to inform people that she died, I just wrote a piece about the next logical thing people are searching for, chiefly: Will Brittany Murphy's autopsy results confirm or dismiss rumors of drug use and anorexia?
9. Take your time sometimes...because once you know how to SEO stuff well, it's a bonus. I didn't rush writing the Brittany Murphy piece, because I've learned that sometimes a well-SEO'd post can bring more traffic than a fast one that hasn't taken any of these tips in mind. Plus, taking my time allows me to spell check better, actually read the post aloud to myself if I'm so inclined -- and makes for a more credible report, thus more likely is it that folks will pass the thing around.
10. But speed up...if you have to. Sometimes us online writers have only a few minutes to publish stuff before we must attend to other duties, so learning to type fast, think fast, research fast and write fast is of the essence. Thankfully I had a great teacher in high school -- a bearded fellow who taught us how to type without looking at the keys. But I heard about a teen recently who types over 100 words per minute by using a typing game that escapes me right now. It wasn't that SpongeBob typing game, but something else on the PC, methinks. Find a good one and try it out if you're a hunt and peck type of typer. I've been one a little bit this week because of my holiday acrylic nails, and I can tell already how much I've slowed down.
About the Images:
1. Use .jpg – a fact I was surprised to learn from a Google video that said that's what Google prefers in Google News articles that rank high (I can only find a great summary of that video here, which reminded me of other points like using large photos, and don't break up your text.)
2. Don't link the images if you want that sweet Google News prime spot – another fact I was surprised to learn in the same video (See the same article till I can find the video)
3. Make full use of ALT Tags, and if your article is about "Tiger Woods' new mistress" for example, your ALT Tags might look like "Tiger Woods,Tiger Woods wife, Tiger Woods mistress count" and the like, all separated by commas. But don't go crazy again. Google doesn't say how many tags are too many, but one can assume 50 would be too many. Are 20 too many? Google knows…
4. Name the images something related to what you want searches to find…
5. …and separate the words with dashes, which are better than underscores or nothing at all. Therefore, a piece about Jamie Jungers might be named http://yoursite.com/Jamie-Jungers-Tiger-Woods-new-mistress-list-count-photos-pics.jpg
6. Get new and fun images, or ones that people haven't seen before – and try to keep it all legal by either buying them from places like iStockPhoto or AP Images, or getting them for free from PicApp or places like that. (John Chow has a great article here about free photos and here, too.)
7. Include caption ID text. That's another thing that Google looks for, caption ID text. Depending on your content management system, this may be found under "CaptionID" based on your WordPress theme -- or vary for Blogger and other sites. Search thru your code for the text, or thru Google to find what I mean so you can add a caption to your images that helps Google find what your image means -- and therefore send searchers to you not only thru Google News (if your site is blessed to be there) but also for those Google Images searches, too. Hopefully.
Where to Find Breaking News:
1. Take advantage of toolbar options, like the ability to add Alexa.com's "What's Hot" URLs (http://www.alexa.com/hoturls) to your toolbar (http://www.alexa.com/toolbar) so you need only glance up and see what's going on any second.
2. Most online news writers know about Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends), a list now whittled down to
3. Add feeds that actually update frequently to your iGoogle page -- and put them at the top (http://www.google.com/ig?hl=en) – so that when you're signed into your free Google Account, you'll see some of the most recent headlines right there on ONE page together without having to scroll through Google Reader. This can slow down your Google page loading, but whenever I need to get to another Google feature like Gmail or Google Analytics, I just right-click "Gmail" or "My Account" and open that in another tab while some of these websites' feeds I have on my iGoogle page load up:
a. http://www.radaronline.com/rss
b. http://www.popeater.com/
c. http://technorati.com/
d. http://www.foxnews.com/
e. http://hosted.ap.org/
f. http://showbiz411.blogs.thr.com/
g. http://www.upi.com/
h. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/index.html?partner=rss
i. http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=AssociatedPress
j. http://www.usatoday.com/
4. For feeds that don't update as often, or ones that aren't as important to you – but ones that you still want to keep track of, add those to Google Reader – and peruse those for new news and updates as well. I remember reading that Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com reads 600 or so feeds on a daily basis through Google Reader, so it's a good way to keep track of things, along with checking out aggregator sites like TechMeme.com
5. Surchur (http://surchur.com/) is another type of aggregator that looks at trending stuff from Bing.com, Technorati.com, Yahoo Buzz and other sites to figure out what's trending. I don't use it often, but it is another option.
6. Twitter Trends - Twitter.com keeps track of trending topics on the right-hand side of their page once you're logged in, so it can be good to check it often to find immediate trends.
7. Get Twitter search results on Google by using the Greasemonkey script (http://mt-hacks.com/20090302-realtime-twitter-search-results-on-google.html) – something Google has just duplicated with their real-time-search doohickey that automatically shows during some searches.
8. Focus on the "most viewed" articles and videos on YouTube.com, Hulu.com – as well as news sites like TodayShow.com, CNN.com and the like to see what people are hungry to read at the moment.
9. Add a bunch of cities other than your own to Google News. I just found this feature on Google News that lets you "add a section" via a link with that same name in the top right-hand corner of Google News. I went thru and added a bunch of cities like Miami, DC, New York, Chicago, London, etc. -- and to my delight, now have all those cities news reports in my Google News. Sometimes news bubbles up locally first, then globally.
10. Make full use of Google to find stuff other people haven't. For example, check out how I used Google to find the most recent AP reports:
Or look how I made use of it to find all the "Breaking News" on Twitter:com:
Learn to love all of Google's advanced features -- and how they can help your online business and writing.
11. Pay to play...I just renewed by 12 buck a month subscription to IMDb Pro because I wanted to find out more info about the upcoming "Will You Be My Black Friend?" movie. Sometimes it's worth it as an online writer to get info that not many other SEO-ing journalists may have. Step away from the crowded pack.
About Promoting:
Sometimes promoting your content to other sites is not just about the few visits they can bring, but about the link juice they can provide. In that same Google video about Google preferring .jpg photos and ones that aren't linked – they talk about their formula paying attention to links coming in to an article, making it rise higher in trust value as an original source of info.
1. So use Twitter, Digg, Facebook, Redditt and other places to link people to your article, in hopes that they'll pass it around if they think it worthy and interesting enough – and in hopes the website will pass on some good Google juice to your pieces -- perhaps even if they aren't "dofollow" sites. (One cool way I'm discovering to get more Twitter followers is to use a big ol' "Follow Me on Twitter" pic like I've used at the end of this piece about TMZ.com and Jon Gosselin -- already more followers have come in a couple of days at a greater rate than before.)
2. Build your email list by encouraging people to subscribe, and using Feedburner or AWeber or whatever email subscription service you prefer if you want email readers.
3. Split off specific content into other sites to encourage specific kinds of email readers. Lately, this blog you're reading I've dedicated to mostly blog-writing type of stuff, so those are the kinds of readers that subscribe.
4. Use Google Adwords and other advertising methods to lead readers to your work, especially when they send out free coupons and such, like they recently did when they sent some random folks $100 coupons for free advertising. Even if you don't have a coupon, learn how to run a cheap campaign for 5 bucks a day or something to gain new readers that might stay.
5. Download toolbars to make the repetitive promotion easier. For example, I've got the StumbleUpon toolbar and the Delicious toolbar on my Firefox browser so that every time I want to promote a piece, I put it on there easily by clicking buttons right in front of me. Redditt makes it easy to promote stuff, too, since Firefox remembers my passwords.
6. Make it easy for others to promote your writing -- and subscribe themselves. Although I'm not practicing what I preach on this blog, other sites have an easy "email signup" box for readers to drop their email address into, and sites like Examiner.com have the handy-dandy "share this" at the end of articles to help readers share the pieces they want to via their favorite means.
About the Karma
Sometimes gaining popularity online is just about doing the right thing, and the right thing comes back.
1. Let other writers have the spotlight sometimes, and give them their hits. Writing for Examiner.com, I like to peruse those articles when I come across them in Google News, giving my fellow Examiners some pageviews.
2. When I come across a piece that another Examiner has done that already has good ranking that I may have planned on writing, at times I'll say to myself, "Just let them have that one." Only when I've been busy writing my own pieces and didn't know other Examiners were covering a subject – or, when I know I can add my own value to a piece – do I go ahead and write what I want about the topic.
3. Giving credit where credit is due. If I've watched a video or read a breaking news piece via someone else, sometimes I will link on over and make sure to give that person the credit – and instead of embeding a video I found on their site over to mine, I'll lead my readers to watch it on their page so that writer's bounce rate will be better.
All these things help, and God has really shown me favor beyond what I'd expected in this online writing game. I know that for a fact. Having that internal "knower" gives me a creativity that's like having an edge.


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It wasn't long after Tami Sand had her twin sons that she succumbed to friends' and acquaintances' comments that Cole and Jadon were cute enough to be in pictures.
Agents were contacted, photos sent out, a baby management company called. Cole snagged a catalog shoot when he was 9 months old. Then nothing else happened for Cole or his fraternal twin for the next four years.
"The reality is, there's not a lot out there for non-identical twins," said Sand, a stay-at-home mom in Santa Clarita.
Identical tots are especially valued because they can be switched out to double the amount of shooting time allowed under California's strict child acting labor laws. But Cole and Jadon, now 7, don't even resemble each other enough to play show-biz brothers.
All of which was fine with Tami Sand. As the boys grew, they enjoyed auditioning for parts, but she'd always planned to put an end to it when they reached school age.
Then Jadon started booking jobs six months before kindergarten started.
Since then, he has appeared in numerous commercials, a television pilot and will be in an upcoming Disney Channel show. Cole has had guest roles on "General Hospital" and "Parks and Recreation" and made ads for Disneyland and Wal-Mart. Both have been in small films, and they're making a movie together this summer.
Four-year-old brother Carter filmed a role for the recent Jennifer Lopez comedy "The Back-up Plan" - that was cut, unfortunately, when the father of his character was recast with someone of a different ethnicity.
Sand home-schools her children, which provides the flexibility needed for casting calls and line memorizations. But she also makes sure the boys have play dates and a schedule of outside activities such as gymnastics and Spanish lessons.
And the Sands have instituted a policy of celebrating with all the kids whenever one of them books a job to help mitigate any sibling jealousy.
But when both Jadon and Carter got last-minute callbacks for commercials on the date the family birthday party at Disneyland had been planned, well, the date with Mickey Mouse got postponed.
"Parents have to realize that if they're going to get their kids in the industry, they are then on the industry's time," Sand said. "You get calls, you have to go. You can turn down auditions, but if you turn down too many you're going to have an unhappy agent."
Tami is certain she could have made more money working a regular job than the boys have brought in over their young careers. But there's no sense of regret.
"I can name families that have definitely done much better," Tami said, "but I also know families that have been at this for years and have only booked one job. I mean, you have to love it."
As for the future, "I don't have the boys in the industry in hopes of them becoming adult actors," Sand said. "I have them in the industry because it's something they really, truly enjoy doing. My best-case scenario is that they land roles that make them happy."
It is generally inadvisable to pull up stakes and move to L.A. from somewhere else solely because your kid wants to break into show business.
But there are ways to do it right, as Elizabeth McLaughlin and her family can attest.
Now 16, Elizabeth started singing and acting eight years ago in community theater productions in her hometown of Zephyrhills, Fla. She made commercials in the Tampa area and landed an agent in Orlando.
The agent relocated to L.A. and hooked the girl up with some Hollywood representation.
The daughter of eminently sensible education professionals, Elizabeth visited for one week in November 2005 with her mother, Kim.
She scored.
"I got my very first audition for a Disney show that I actually watched," Elizabeth said.
"That's when I guess the sickness of being an actor really set in! That was it."
Elizabeth returned to L.A. with one or the other parent for the next two TV pilot seasons.
That's when Kim realized how lucky her daughter was.
"We stayed at the Oakwood Apartments," Kim recalled, "and I was shocked by the number of people who spent that money to come out and had no representation, no dreams of representation, just making that level of rounds. The guidance counselor in me worried about those kids and families."
When Elizabeth's dad, Larry, was laid off from his college administrator's job, the two of them moved here. She quickly landed an episode of "Ugly Betty" and the lead role in a feature, "The Clique," while Kim sold the Florida home.
It's been two-and-a-half years since the whole family, including Elizabeth's 27-year-old brother Matthew, settled in Burbank - and since the actress has booked a job.
She's come awfully close many times, but despite her charisma and the looks of a younger Kristen Stewart, Elizabeth has hit the "dead zone."
That's the age when youthful-appearing adult actors, who can work more hours and with fewer restrictions, get most teenage parts.
No tragedy that. Much to her parents' delight, Elizabeth has had time to complete her secondary education - she'll graduate from the Options for Youth Charter School in Burbank a year early this summer. Passionate about political science, journalism and the art of cinema, she may pursue any or all topics in college.
"I think it was Laurence Olivier who said, `It's never going to happen for any actor who has a back-up,"' Elizabeth said. "Sorry, Olivier; you're an amazing man, you're a great talent, but I'm a practical person. Acting isn't a dependable career for money."
Not that she's giving up on the love of her life.
"Will I ever stop doing it? No way," Elizabeth said. "Even if I end up in a cubicle in Utah, I'll still do community theater when I can. And yeah, if I get a career out of acting, I'm the luckiest girl in the world."
Speaking of work, Larry found a position at a college in Palm Desert, where he stays during the week. Now that her daughter is old enough to drive herself to auditions, Kim's recently been able to accept a position with United Teachers Los Angeles.
The home in Burbank is smaller than the one in Florida, and it cost twice as much.
"We do questioning as a family," Kim revealed. "Yes, there was some success, but there's always disappointments and the financial strain. Did we do the right thing?
"The good thing is, every time we have that conversation, we come back to, `yes, absolutely."'
Being from Southern California is certainly an advantage for kids who want to break into show business.
When sisters Amanda and Madeleine Misquez of Granada Hills decided to give it a try three years ago, the fact that no one in their family knew anything about the industry - Mom is a nurse practitioner and Dad's a software engineer - wasn't an obstacle. Schoolmates and family friends with experience were helpful, and the BizParentz.org provided scads of useful information.
"It was just a very positive thing that we were here and it was in our own backyard," said the girls' mother Lupe, who's reduced her own work schedule in order to have more time to facilitate her daughters' careers. "That just made it an easy choice."
Acting lessons and volunteering for non-paying short and student films quickly led to representation for both girls.
Amanda, now 11, has made some television appearances, done several commercials and has been seen in film and live productions. Song-and-dance-loving Madeleine, 15, has done a lot of stage musicals and legitimate theater work, a Neutrogena commercial and several PBS documentaries.
No matter how much or how late they work, the young actresses are expected to do their household chores and maintain academic excellence: Amanda's GPA is 3.72, Madeleine's 3.9.
They say it's hard, but the Misquezes have developed methods for coping with stress. Amanda gets through the hurry-up-and-wait boredom between shots on set by "just occupying my mind," she said. "I take my books, I bring my homework, play a lot of games."
"If you're really enjoying it, time seems to just pass by, you're not worried about the elapsing hours," Madeleine added.
Which makes us wonder how enjoyable it is to compete with other teenage girls at auditions.
"I put myself in a bubble in the waiting room," Madeleine said. "That's the part where people can be sabotaged the most - by themselves. As for the cattiness of it, you just have to block everything out and stay positive."
Parents behave themselves pretty well, Lupe has discovered. The best ones are supportive and the vast majority are, at minimum, cooperative. They're there to keep an eye on their kids while they're working, and few if any want to act in a way that would jeopardize a child's future employment.
"This is a huge commitment," Lupe said. "It involves a lot of energy, a lot of time, a lot of patience.
"You not only have to be aware of what your child is supposed to be doing on a day-to-day basis, but remember that you are the parent and, first and foremost, it's their welfare that you're most concerned about," she said. "Every decision that you make has to be based on how it is going to affect your child in the future."


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Zarzuela by Savor, a must visit at the level 6 New Wing of Edsa Shang
With all the restaurants with different menus to choose too, sometimes all you miss is the food you eat served at home, the Filipino dish.
Zarzuela by Savor is a must try all-Filipino restaurant at the LEVEL 6, NEW WING of Edsa Shangrila in Ortigas. The NEW WING of Shang Edsa has been opened few months back, and at the level 6 are shops and restos. And like we mentioned, if you missed the old style Filipino dishes, Zarzuela has it all.
Owned by young entrepreneurs, Zarzuela by Savor has mixed of Filipino dishes like "Ginataang Kangkong", "Adobo", Cowboy "Sisig" Krispy Pork Binagoongan and many more.
We tried their menu yesterday and of course, we can't let the moment pass without taking photos of the mouth-watering food in our table.
Here are some of the must-try dishes at Zarzuela.
If you are like me who likes fish, try their Spanish Style Bangus Belly, and their boneless Chiken Inasal are simply yummy! It doesn't taste so salty, and the
After your sumptuous dinner, you should not skip their dessert. Here's a sample of the locally made dessert, very Pinoy dessert.
Of course, this article won't be complete without having to mention prices in the menu. Well, you have to visit to try it. Its not too high, and its not too cheap, its in the middle. If you are working hard for the two weeks, then bring a friend, a special someone or your family perhaps, a lunch date or dinner before going to movies and I'm sure you will not be disappointed.
Zarzuela by Savor is the third resto owned by the young entrepreneurs, Savor Filipino Classics and New Traditions is the fist one located in Rockwell and the other one is Savor Park Cafe in Leviste st., in Makati.
If you want to see the high resolution photos, it's in my Flickr account, or click this link.
Zarzuela by Savor is located at the level 6, New Wing of the Shangri-la Edsa Mall. Telephone number +63 2 470 3296
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|Re: [patch] Fix behavior of TER on unrolled loops
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Hello, > > > Google for optimal register allocation and you'll find a bunch of papers > > > that try to take *everything* into account. > > > You'll discover that except for coalescing, the "simple approaches" > > > actually aren't more than ~3% off completely optimal approaches that > > > take literally everything into account. > > > > The only thing I ever said is that all of the "simple approaches" suffer > > from the local minimum type problems, and that their behavior is too > > unreliable and unpredictable to claim things like "this is only a > > workaround that we will be able to remove once we improve RA". > > You missed my point. > Existing research on optimal register allocation argues very well that > it is *not* the case that simple approaches get stuck in local minima. > They are, in fact, in almost all cases, globally optimal, except for > coalescing strategy. as you yourself admit, its only "almost all cases" (and cannot be reasonably expected to be better). And if we are going to create difficult instances of RA in the preceding optimizers, we are bound to be hitting the "few" cases where the RA behaves significantly suboptimally sometimes. And yes, we are bound to be hitting them sometimes even if all the other optimizers are careful about register pressure; I would expect it to be less frequently, but of course I have nothing but the common sense to place my expectations upon -- I cannot really think about a way how to measure any numbers about this, without significant changes (including, but not limited to, writing a new RA) to GCC. Zdenek
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University of South Carolina graduates entering the job market this month can expect to face significantly tougher competition than last year, according to the University of South Carolina Career Center.
On-campus recruiting in Columbia is down significantly, Career Center personnel confirm, though other universities have seen an even steeper dropoff. Career-fair attendance was down 4 percent from last year; nationally, career-fair employer registration was down 25-30 percent. An additional career fair for science, engineering and technology students brought in 59 more companies to the Columbia campus than last year.
"Recruiting activity does not always equate to hiring activity, and that is clearly the case this year," said Tom Halasz, director of the Career Center. "With fewer companies coming to campus, we did see some sectors hiring fewer graduates. But, at the same time, some employers hired equal numbers as previous years. What it means is you can't draw clear conclusions about the job prospects for graduates from recruiting activity alone. Many students received job offers as a result of their internships last summer and did not participate in recruiting this year."
Halasz said the Career Center continues to see the most demand for engineering, accounting, finance, information systems, insurance and risk management, computer technology, global supply chain and operations management students. Demand for liberal-arts graduates has not retained the high levels of demand experienced in the previous years, though college graduates of all majors who have strong technical, leadership and language skills, as well as previous internship experience, can still find opportunities.
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With the greater number of available candidates has come slightly lower overall salary offers for bachelor's-degree graduates. According to a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released April 8, the average offer to a 2009 bachelor's-degree graduate stands at $48,515, down 2.2 percent from last spring.
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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
There is great interest in the development of antimicrobial peptides as a potentially novel class of antimicrobial agents. Several structural determinants are responsible for the antimicrobial and cytolytic activity of antimicrobial peptides. In our study, a new synthetic peptide analog, AamAP1-Lysine from the naturally occurring scorpion venom antimicrobial peptide AamAP1, was designed by modifying the parent peptide in order to increase the positive charge and optimize other physico-chemical parameters involved in antimicrobial activity. AamAP1-Lysine displayed potent antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The minimum inhibitory concentration was in the range of 5 to 15 µM with a 10 fold increase in potency over the parent peptide. The hemolytic and antiproliferative activity of AamAP1-Lysine against eukaryotic mammalian cells was minimal at the concentration range needed to inhibit bacterial growth. The antibacterial mechanism analysis indicated that AamAP1-Lysine is probably inducing bacterial cell death through membrane damage and permeabilization determined by the release of β-galactosidase enzyme from peptide treated
Antimicrobial resistance currently represents one of the biggest challenges facing human health and the medical community. The misuse of antibiotics over the past decades has resulted in the emergence of several multi-drug resistant strains of microorganisms [
AMPs represent the first line of innate immune defense mechanism against infectious agents of a variety of organisms including insects, invertebrates, plants, birds and mammals [
In pursuit of novel antimicrobial agents, several peptides from scorpion venoms with antimicrobial activity were identified recently [
In the present study, we aimed to employ the antimicrobial peptide AamAP1 as a platform for the design of a novel peptide analog with enhanced antibacterial activity and decreased cytolytic activity against eukaryotic cells based on enhancing the net positive charge on the parent peptide while optimizing other physico-chemical properties of the peptide that are known to influence AMPs activity. The strategy applied here produced a novel peptide named AamAP1-Lysine with enhanced antimicrobial activity and decreased toxicity towards mammalian cells. AamAP1-Lysine could prove to be a potential candidate for antimicrobial drug development in future studies.
AamAP1-Lysine was designed based on increasing the net positive charge of the parent peptide while relatively optimizing other structural determinants that control AMPs activity. These structural determinants include: hydrophobicity (H), hydrophobic moment (MH) and percentage helicity. Several peptide analogs were generated using this strategy and the peptide with the optimal structural determinants was selected (AamAP-1-Lysine) for further characterization of the effect of structural modification on the enhancement of peptide antimicrobial activity and target selectivity.
The ProtParam software from the ExPASy server was employed for the evaluation of the physicochemical parameters of AamAP1-Lysine [
AamAP1-Lysine was synthesized by the solid-phase method and Fmoc chemistry, purified by reverse phase high performance liquid chromatography using an acetonitirile/H2O-TFA gradient. The identity of AamAP1-Lysine was confirmed by ESI-MS mass spectrometry (GL Biochem Ltd., Shanghai, China).
The bacterial strains used for the determination and testing of the antimicrobial activity of AamAP1 in this study were acquired from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC, Manassas, VA, USA) and included:
Susceptibility testing was performed by adopting the micro broth dilution method outlined by the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guidelines using sterile 96-well plates [
The ability of the AamAP1-Lysine to inflict damage on the cytoplasmic membrane of bacterial cells and cause significant membrane permeabilization can be assessed by measuring the release of cytoplasmic β-galactosidase from
The Wizard® Genomic DNA Purification Kit (Promega, Madison, WI, USA) was used for the isolation of
The effect of AamAP1-Lysine on DNA gel retardation was preformed as described previously with minor modifications [
The determination of the hemolytic activity of AamAP1-Lysine was performed as reported previously [
The following cell lines (HEK 293 Human Embryonic Kidney 293 cell line and Vero African green monkey kidney epithelial cell line) , purchased from the ATCC were routinely cultured in RPMI 1640 or Dulbecco's modified Eagle's medium (DMEM) containing 10% fetal bovine serum (FBS), 1%
The cytotoxicity of AamAP1-Lysine against cultured cells was determined by the MTT assay. Each cell line used in this experiment was seeded at a density of 5 × 103 cells per well into a 96-well microtitre plate containing 200 µL serum free media. Cells were incubated with various concentrations of the peptide. After 24 h of incubation, 20 μL of 5 mg/mL of 3-(4,5-dimethylthiazol-2-yl)-2,5-diphenyltetrazolium bromide (MTT) was added and incubated for 4 h. Conversion of MTT into purple formazan by metabolically active cells indicates the extent of cell viability. The medium was replaced by 200 µL of dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and mixed to dissolve the formazan crystals that had developed. Absorbance was measured using an ELISA Microplate Reader at 550 nm. The GraphPad Prism software was used for statistical analyses.
The peptide sequence of the natural scorpion venom antimicrobial peptide AamAP1 was used as a platform for the development of a novel synthetic peptide analog with enhanced antimicrobial activity. AamAP1 displays a net positive charge of +2, percentage helicity of 66.6%, a hydrophobic moment of 0.44 and a hydrophobicity average of 0.90 (
The amino acid sequences and properties of the peptides employed in this study.
|Hydrophobicity (H)
|Hydrophobic moment (MH)
Three-dimensional structural modeling of AamAp1-Lysine. Red regions correspond to helical structures within the peptide while the green regions represent hinged regions and unordered conformations, respectively. The structure was visualized using Accelrys Discovery studio software.
The broth micro-dilution method was employed for the investigation of the antimicrobial activity of AamAP1-Lysine against five strains of Gram-positive bacteria and four strains of Gram-negative bacteria. The MIC values of AamAP1-Lysine against the bacterial strains are summarized in
Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) of AamAP1-Lysine against the test microorganisms employed in this study.
|Strain (Gram positive)
|MIC (µM)
The hemolytic activity and potential toxicity of AamAP1-Lysine against human erythrocytes was examined at a concentration range of 1 µM to 100 µM. Results of the hemolytic activity of AamAP1-Lysine are presented in
Hemolytic effect of AamAP1-Lysine on human erythrocytes after 60 min of incubation.
|Peptide concentration (µM)
|Hemolysis (%)
In addition to the hemolytic and cytolytic effects conducted with human erythrocytes, the antiproliferative activity of AamAP1-Lysine on the viability of two different eukaryotic cell lines (HEK 293 and Vero) was investigated and performed using the MTT assay. As shown in
To assess the effect of AamAP1-Lysine on the integrity of the cytoplasmic membrane of bacterial cells, the intracellular leakage and release of β-galactosidase from damaged bacterial cells degrades OPNG producing
Cell survival curves as measured by MTT assay for AamAP1-Lysine against two different eukaryotic cell lines HEK 293 and Vero cells lines. Cells were incubated with various concentrations of the peptide, for 24 h, at 37 °C. Control cells represent 100% proliferation, and the mean absorbance of treated cells was related to control values to determine sensitivity. Error bars represent standard error from mean cell proliferation as determined by repeated experiments.
Release of cytoplasmic β-galactosidase from
The ability of AamAP1-Lysine to bind DNA and retard its migration was evaluated using an electrophoretic gel mobility shift assay. Different ratios of peptide to DNA were mixed with a fixed amount of
Gel retardation assays. Binding was assayed by the inhibitory effect of AamAP1-Lysine on the migration of DNA bands. Various amounts of peptides were incubated with 500 ng of
Scorpion venoms contain a cocktail of bioactive peptides that display numerous biological activities [
Finally and in order to confirm the membrane targeted mechanism of action of AamAP1-Lysine, the membrane permeabilization ability of the peptide in addition to its ability to bind genomic bacterial DNA was investigated. AamP1-Lysine managed to increase
In summary, we report the design and functional characterization of the antimicrobial and cytotoxic activity of a synthetic scorpion venom peptide analog with enhanced potent antibacterial activities and low hemolytic and cytotoxic activities against eukaryotic cells. Several additional studies are needed to assess the activity and potential toxicity of AamAP1-Lysine using
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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Lifton: Productive Legislative Session Yields Real Reform, Real Results
July 6, 2005
This year's legislative session was one of the most productive in decades. In addition to passing the first on-time budget in 21 years, several bipartisan reforms were signed into law, and the Assembly passed historic rules changes opening up state government and making it more accountable to the public. The Legislature came together with the governor to hold open budget negotiations and pass an on-time spending plan that protects working families. The budget protects health care, improves our schools, makes it easier for our students to afford college, and will create more and better jobs by making it easier for businesses to thrive. Improving New York's budget process The Assembly and Senate finally passed New York's first on-time budget in two decades and adopted reforms to ensure we continue enacting budgets on time. The Legislature's budget reform plan will be on the ballot this November so the voters of New York can decide the best budget process for our state. This plan has been endorsed by good government groups like NYPIRG, Common Cause, and the League of Women Voters. The Legislature's bipartisan plan (A.1, A.2) would move the start of New York's fiscal year from April 1 to May 1 to allow for better revenue and spending projections and bring greater accountability to the process. If no budget is passed by May 1, a contingency budget equivalent to that of the proceeding year would take effect. The plan would also require a two-year appropriation for education aid, helping schools stay a step ahead by finally giving them the information they need, when they need it. Making the Assembly more open and responsive To improve the openness and responsiveness of the People's House, the Assembly majority worked across the aisle to implement several rules changes. The reforms include:
- ending empty-seat voting;
- prohibiting lobbyist access to the back of the Assembly Chamber;
- instituting member sanctions for missed standing committee meetings;and overhauling the Assembly's Rules Committee.
- creating a restricted contact period in which all communication for negotiating contracts will be made by designated contact officers;
- raising the threshold of allowable expenditures and compensation to require lobbyist registration from $2,000 to $5,000 annually; and
- prohibiting payments to lobbyists contingent on the acceptance of a bid or contract by any governmental entity, or other procurement-related decisions.
- creating an inspector general with jurisdiction over authorities to make sure they are given the kind of oversight they've been lacking;
- creating the Authority Budget Office to review authority budgets;
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to demonstrate their capacity and willingness to make a
mortgage payment at the estimated H4H monthly payment amount
(including PITI) that does not exceed the 38/50 cap.
Non-occupant co-signers (i.e., borrowers who do not
hold ownership interest in the property) may be added in order
to meet these underwriting guidelines for the new H4H
When using a trial modification,
the lender must include documentation in the file that
demonstrates the borrower, using his or her existing gross
income, made full and timely mortgage payments on the existing
senior mortgage pursuant to the terms of the trial
modification for the three consecutive months preceding
application for the H4H loan, and in an amount that is
at least 90 percent of the estimated total monthly mortgage
payment on the new H4H mortgage payment.
In addition to
standard FHA policies regarding documentation and verification
of employment and income, the underwriter must also review
income as reported on the transcript of the borrower's income
tax returns or a copy of the borrower's income tax returns
obtained directly from the IRS for the previous two years.
Consistent with the requirements
above, for those borrowers current on their mortgage,
underwriters should not automatically reject them for making
their mortgage payment their first priority at the expense of
meeting other recurring obligations in a timely manner. If
the borrower was offered partial forbearance, the underwriter
must determine that he or she has made payments under the
forbearance agreement in a timely manner.
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Fire investigators are still trying to figure out if the apartment fire that left a dozen people homeless was intentionally set the same way officials say several others were set there over the past week. Fire department officials say they did respond to multiple fire calls at the apartment on Polk Street the week before the fire. One person was hospitalized for smoke inhalation, but no one else was injured.


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June Filofax Inspiration
One of the searches that keeps me on Pinterest for longer than I care to admit while I'm laying in bed before I fall asleep is definitely Filofax. Daily planners are one of my biggest weaknesses and I love seeing how people decorate their weekly calendars in their Filos or kikki. K journals. I've put together my top nine favorite inspirational pics for this month for you so I won't be alone as Iday dream about how beautiful I'll try to make my diary next week.
Love the simple use of these cuuuute little bunnies. I really love those short rectangle bunny post-it notes with the to-do lists. From @filocuteness.
There is that bunny to-do list again! Where?! I need it! I also loooove the little bunting strands "hanging" at the top of this week layout. Great idea. From @cre8tivecre8tions.
The gold! The handwriting! The adorable little drawings. This is .. amazing. Her handwriting along is killing me. From @thedailyroe.
The colors are so pretty in this, but ... do you see the stripes in that calligraphy?! The word "pizza" has never looked so beautiful. Definitely gives me something to work for. Almost lost because of all the script - the cute wood grain tape AND those side tabs!! EDIT: Thank you to the comments, this image is from Instagram user @kikkinetter. xoxo.
The cloud insert is definitely killer. I'm curious about the page inserts, though - do those come standard with this kikki.K journal?! I love the big numbers, the different colored font .. halp! From @threadofhearts.
Sorry that it's a little blurry, but I wanted to show you the full effect. This pastel is my number one thing in the world right now. I need that kikki.K planner. In that big size. Big size!! Also, I want Little Twin Stars binder clips. These inserts are way cute and she gives info on where to find them on her blog, Coloursnme.
I have this type of Filofax - Metropol Personal - but in a different color. This lavender is so pretty, though, I wish it was mine. And all those tabs and pages in there! Looks so worn and perfect. From My Filo World.
What! Look at this free form journal. There are no set day rectangles - it's so much more like a sketchbook than a planner. The drawings, again, are just too much for me to handle. From flickr.
This was the one that started it all. The skinny washi is just the best. I love using it. All I need, though, is the pen that is used to write on it. I still just use a thick sharpie! From Inside The Crafter's Studio.
Here is my Filofax board on Pinterest - it's filled with all the best stationary, planners, and writing utensils that I see on Pinterest. I have a board for washi, too.
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Beautiful inspiration. Makes To Do look so fun. :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Right?! I love it.Delete
Love your beautiful blog! Found you through SITS today in the comments. So glad I clicked through to check it out.ReplyDelete
I am a bit of a new journal junkie. I've shared quite a bit about my prompts and the different types of journals you can create. I opted for an inspirational journal and am loving it! And that washi tape is the best thing ever. It's so nice to meet you! ~TopazReplies
Aww, thank you for visiting! I will check your blog out!Delete
Ah, those bunnies! thedailyroe one... Wow. ♥ I love that more sketchbook than planner one, ah! And bright pink like the last one?! YES PLZ. I love all of these!ReplyDeleteReplies
SOOOOO cute, EVERYTHING!!!Delete
The photo you didn't know the owner is from @kikkiknetter on instagram. She's part of a fbgroup I'm in. :-) Pretty inspiration!!ReplyDelete


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