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Surigao City Bonok Bonok Marajaw Karajaw 2008
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Surigao City's Bonok Bonok Marajaw Karajaw Festival is set to unfold this year minus its defending champion, the Inuwak Festival from the town of Bacuag.
The Bonok Bonok Marajaw Karajaw is a festival is a Mamanwa ritual of thanksigiving. The fiesta also coincides with the city's patron saint San Nicolas de Tolentino, thus the festival date always falls on September 10.
Bonok bonok contingent during the Sinulog 2007
This year, the contingents from Wao, Lanao del sur; Province of Misamis Oriental; Butuan city; Jabonga,Agusan del Norte, Carmen, Cebu; Mandaue City; GL, Siargao; Cantilan, Surigao del Sur; and Lantapan, Bukidnon have confirmed. It is very noticeable that the town of Bacuag is not on the list. Hopefully they can still join the September 10 contest.
The Bonok-bonok Maradjaw Karadjaw Festival is an ethnic thanksgiving celebration marked by street dancing and stationary festivities held in line with the annual fiesta celebration of San Nicolas de Tolentino on September 10.
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Special awards for Best in Street Dancing is P50,000 plus trophy; Best Choreographer is P10,000 plus trophy; Best in Costume is P10,000 plus trophy and Best in Musicality is P10,000 plus trophy.
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In the eyes of the Iowa Racing and Gaming Commission there could only be one winner.
"Obviously very disappointed at the decision today. I'm also concerned about the implications for our shareholders as well as our employees," said Karen Bailey, Vice President for Public Affairs with Penn National Gaming.
Employees like Taylor Medina, who's worried about losing his job.
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Penn National Gaming, the current owner of Sioux City's Argosy Casino, was looking to build one of their two proposals, a Hollywood Casino in downtown or near Salix.
That wasn't the only plan shuttered on Thursday.
So was Ho-Chunk, Incorporated's proposal to build a Warrior Casino and Hotel downtown.
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Bronwen has some points to make about your lack of appreciation of Winnie Cooper.
Or, rather, the idea of [Winnie Cooper]. Details about Winnie's life, like things she might say that aren't sound bites about their relationship, are often left by the wayside when episodes end, so that future Kevin can learn a valuable lesson about love. Winnie Cooper is a device of convenience. She's a constant foil to Kevin's hair-brained schemes, or the person who eggs him on when he's being a wet blanket — like the time his friends want to hit up a dive bar in the hopes the Rolling Stones will show up. She has her own little acoustic guitar solo that plays when she enters and gives Kevin googly eyes. It's like she's a fictional girlfriend whom future Kevin Arnold is inventing for the sake of telling a compelling story. At the beginning of the show, it worked wonders; but by the end, given that Winnie showed very few signs of making Kevin a better person or demonstrating much of a personality of her own, I started to wonder what Kevin saw in her, especially given the myriad other women who cycled into his life and really shook things up.
Winnie Cooper's motivations and feelings are not meant to be fully understood by either Kevin Arnold or by the audience. At multiple points in the show, Winnie flatly refuses to explain what she thinks or feels to Kevin.
The most crucial point that stands out to me is, of course, from "The Accident." The episode in which everything happens. So, Winnie has these new friends and goes to the roller rink with them while wearing that fabulous tan leather jacket. And Kevin SHOWS UP UNINVITED to the skating and then can't even hold his own in crack the whip. Then, per transcript, the following exchange:
KEVIN: Winnie?
WINNIE: Hi Kevin!
KEVIN: How ya doing?
WINNIE: Me? Fine.
KEVIN: I… see that you have some new friends.
WINNIE: Yeah, they're really nice guys.
NARRATOR: O-kay.
KEVIN: Well, Winnie it's just that when we talked yesterday—
WINNIE: Oh.
KEVIN: You said—
WINNIE: I really don't think that's any of your business Kevin.
JUNIOR: Hey Winnie! Come on, we're doing a whip.
WINNIE: I'll be right there!
NARRATOR: I couldn't understand it. [WINNIE skates away.] What was going on with this girl?
KEVIN: [skating to her] Winnie? Is something wrong?
JUNIOR: [to line of skaters] Okay, get ready!
WINNIE: [to KEVIN] Don't be silly; everything's fine.
KEVIN: Yeah, but—
WINNIE: Kevin, I told you I don't want to talk about it anymore.
KEVIN: Well, I…
[WINNIE joins line.]
NARRATOR: And that's when I knew: something was wrong.
JUNIOR: All right, let's go.
NARRATOR: Winnie Cooper was out of control.
Yes, that's right, Winnie was out of control because she wanted to date a junior. Oh Kevin. So, of course, what happens next is that the junior crashes the car Winnie's in and she breaks her arm or something. So Kevin climbs up the tree outside her house, Bob Seger has got tonite, and Kevin mimes I love you and Winnie mimes it back. And Kevin, being a dip, interprets this as Winnie being in love with him. No, Kevin, no. She does love you, but she also wants to date hot dudes.
Winnie isn't merely a foil for Kevin. She's a girl with agency. And she's not always thinking what he's thinking or doing what he wants. The whole point is that Kevin fails to connect to Winnie as more than an idea. The show frequently shows Kevin interpreting other people living their lives as obstacles to Kevin's perfect order and plans. Winnie's no different from how Kevin interacts with Paul in this respect, really. Kevin's own immaturity keeps getting in the way.
Don't get me started on how he followed her across the country and got her fired in the series finale.
Also, I think there's totally an argument to be made for the audience view into The Wonder Years being just Daniel Stern's recollections and not actually how the events "really" happened.
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DVD Release Date: October 19, 2010
Theatrical Release Date: April 30, 2010 (limited)
Rating: R (for language, brief nudity, mild profanity, sexual content)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Run Time: 90 min.
Director: Nicole Holofcener
Actors: Catherine Keener, Amanda Peet, Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall, Ann Guilbert, Sarah Steele
Anyone who has ever lived in a big city will have their heart touched and their funny bone tickled by this sober comedy directed by Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing, Friends with Money), who has become known not only for her thoughtful films, but also for her television directorial credits (Sex and the City and Gilmore Girls).
Please Give is a quirky story revolving around the furniture store owned by Kate (Catherine Keener—Being John Malkevich, Capote) and her husband, Alex (Oliver Platt—Frost/Nixon, Bicentennial Man, A Time to Kill). The macabre twist to their benign business is in how they acquire their pieces—they buy them from the adult children of people who have died. And they usually do so for pennies on the dollar, which means they always pocket a healthy profit.
Is that ethical? This is the question Kate ends up asking herself when she starts seeing that perhaps what she's doing isn't right. Her gnawing suspicion creates a tension within that she must resolve in order to go on with life. She responds by searching for redemption; a way to atone, if you will, for her greed. She tries to volunteer at a convalescent home, attempts to help out at a center for the mentally challenged, begins purchasing worthless furniture for thousands—nothing helps.
Complicating the situation are neighbors, Rebecca (Rebecca Hall), a radiology technician, and her sister, Mary (Amanda Peet), a spa facialist. Both are constantly at odds over priorities. Rebecca is mature, concerned about others, and non-materialistic. Mary is shallow, beauty-obsessed, youth-fixated, immoral, and rather cruel. These qualities are primarily brought to light by how they treat their 90-year-old grandmother. Rebecca is loving and kind. Mary is nothing short of mean-spirited. Their lives intersect with Kate and Alex through the purchase of the grandmother's apartment by the couple, who live right next door. It's an investment. Once the grandmother dies, Kate and Alex will break through the wall, gut the new property, and attach it to their apartment.
The obvious tensions—both internal and inter-relational—serve as the backdrop for the entire plot. Each character finds himself/herself in a tense situation that must be resolved. Kate, for instance, in addition to her own personal struggles, must also deal with growing conflict between her and her teenage daughter, Abby, nicely played by the young Sarah Steele (Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Gossip Girl). Abby is livid over her mother's habit of giving money to the homeless when "Mom" won't even give her enough cash to buy a new pair of jeans (albeit a $200 pair of jeans).
There is also the tension between the two sisters, who argue about their grandmother and their responsibilities, or lack thereof, to meet her needs. And grandma doesn't help the situation. She only adds to the conflict by being cantankerous, inconsiderate, unkind, stubborn, and blunt to the point of being rude.
The most tragic relational tension develops between Rebecca and Alex, who have an ongoing sexual affair. But it is not an affair without consequences. Alex feels guilty. Rebecca ends up feeling guilty. Meanwhile, Kate is feeling guilty about essentially stealing (via her continual buying of valuable furniture for dirt-cheap). Guilt, a topic rarely discussed today, is free-flowing everywhere by the end of the film. And choices must be made. This is the ultimate question the movie is seeking to ask: What is important in life and what choices should be made in order to keep what is important in life? And that's a good question for anyone.
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TARP mission creep watch, SBA edition
I'm beginning to think that the TARP fund is really just an all-purpose slush fund, it has suffered from so much mission-creep at this point. Not only was it used to bail out the automakers, but now David Cho reports that
the Obama administration is developing an initiative to take money from the $700 billion program for the banking system and make it available to millions of small businesses.
This is pretty desperate stuff: a Stimulus II in all but name, using TARP funds because there's no way the administration has any intention of trying to push an actual second stimulus bill through Congress.
The reaction to this proposal should be exactly the same as the reaction would be to a stimulus bill proposing the same thing — and while I think that SBA loans are often good things, I also think there are other, more effective ways to stimulate the economy and increase employment over the short term. And in the long term small businesses have a way of looking after themselves; government is most effective in building large-scale national infrastructure. So I'm not a fan of this idea.
So if your business works on a cash basis with little to not debt, or if you save money yourself to start your business, you get squat. Only if you have to borrow money will this be a help.
I'm like Felix. It's mission creep and I'm not a fan. But if you're going to spend the money, how about simply giving employers grants to not fire the current employees. That's basically what the state governments are getting — payments so that they don't have to shut down certain programs.


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3. Improving my vocabulary: When I come across a word I don't know or don't know well, I can highlight the word and see the definition right away; I'm too lazy to go get my dictionary with similar words in paper books!
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Colin, When it comes to "the moderator slapping a candidate down", let's not forget the entire primary season: Several Republicans, and a crowd full of self-selected partisans, roared with disapproval at any moderator who dared to not just create an audition reel for Fox News. Not the best training for the "Candy Crowley isn't knuckling under" debate, is it? Cordially, Karl in the suburbs
I honestly can't believe the nonsense you and your guests are coming up with regarding the debate!
Will you stop at anything to convince yourselves or those listening to you, to come around to your twisted thought process?
Crowley or any moderators job is NOT to interfere with, correct or fact check, they are to ask the questions and try to keep the process moving. I understand the position of you and "your" show, but the debate moderator is to be "neutral"!
I realize I am talking about a fantasy world since the media is so far to the left, and there is no realistic chance of a neutral moderator.
Couldn't we watch over their shoulders while they put their ideas into a Sim Country game and see what happens?
Tom (The Toy Designer )
Continuing with your sports analogy I have thought for a long time that when a candidate does speak an "untruth" the penalty should be that he has to stand a foot further from the microphone so that after enough penalties he would become inaudible.
What do you think?


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PPI / DPI / Pixels / Resolution / Scanning / Aspect Ratios... Explained !
There have been many, many posts from users who are clearly totally confused by the whole question of DPI / PPI / Pixels / Resolution and Ratios… so… I thought it might be worthwhile writing up an overview to provide a basic explanation of these things – solely as they affect Blurb & BookSmart.
DISCLAIMER : This is NOT intended as a technical masterpiece; simply a layman's guide to dealing with this issue for BookSmart… You can find more information in the Blurb FAQs – but it's not always easy to uncover unless you know what to look for, and it's certainly not all in one place! (You can of course also do more research on Google, Wikipedia etc. etc.)
First, some definitions;
- PPI = Pixels Per Inch. PPI is the term used when dealing with SCREEN resolution and should NOT, technically, be confused with DPI (see below). However, for this purpose it's quite safe to assume that you can inter-change PPI and DPI. (Many people do anyway – if erroneously !)
"Standard" screen resolution is 72ppi – more later…
- DPI = Dots Per Inch. DPI is the term used when dealing with PRINT resolution.
"Standard" print resolution is 300dpi – more later…
- Pixels; are the minute, usually square, blocks of colour that make up your image.
All that really matters as far as Blurb/BookSmart is concerned is the pixel dimensions of your image. Simple measurement in inches is meaningless and irrelevant, unless associated with a "resolution" setting… more later…
E.g. if you have a 8Mp camera, the pixel dimensions will be in the region of 3600×2400. (Don't do the maths – it's not exact!!!)
The actual pixel dimensions will vary greatly dependant on the Mp size of the camera, and the aspect ratio you have set (see below).
- Resolution; is quite simply the number of pixels or dots per unit of measurement. This is normally expressed in terms of PPI or DPI dependant on the medium being used – screen or print.
So, 300dpi means 300 Dots Per Inch. This means that an image of 3600×2400 (as above) will print at 12×8" IF printed at 300dpi. (3600/300 + 2400/300).
Resolution can be varied to a very great extent… more later…
- Aspect Ratio; Is the relationship between the image Width and Height, and is set by your camera. The old traditional 35mm film aspect ratio was 3:2. I.e For every 3" wide, you got 2" tall… which normally resulted in the "standard" 6×4" print…
Today, there are many different aspect ratios in use; 3:2, 4:3, 5:4 and 16:9 are typical, but there are others… Why is this important? Because it will affect how your image is displayed in the BookSmart image containers. Again… more later…

Understanding Resolution…
Dealing with print resolution first, since this is what we need to understand for BookSmart…
Starting with our example image of 3600×2400 pixels, as noted above, if we print that at the standard of 300dpi it will generate an image size of 12×8" (3600/300 = 12" : 2400/300 = 8").
300dpi is the industry standard. It has been proven that there is no benefit in printing at any GREATER resolution because the average human eye just cannot see any improvement, so generating prints with a greater print-resolution is a waste of time, space, energy & resource…
However, you CAN print safely at less than 300dpi…(see below)...
But first, if we take our 3600×2400 image and only want a finished image size of 6×4" that would result initially in a dpi of 600…(3600/6" = 600dpi : 2400/6" = 600dpi). That is too great for all bar specialist printers; so Blurb will automatically down-size the image to 300dpi for printing purposes…
Equally if we wanted a finished image of 9×6" that would result in an initial dpi of 400… (3600/9" = 400dpi : 2400/6" = 400dpi). After this, it's a simple case of applying the same logic to whatever size image you need…
Although BookSmart actually does a pretty-good job at down-sizing in general, if at all possible, to ensure maximum quality, you should do this exercise in your post-processing software. If you have PhotoShop or similar, it's a very easy job to do… This is more important if you want to bring a very large image into a relatively small container in BooKSmart… (There is a tendancy to pixellation for these large differential down-sizings…)
What happens if we have a smaller image and want to make it bigger… Well, the reverse logic applies!
Starting with an image of 1800×1200 pixels (half our original sample), at 300dpi, we would get an image size of 6×4"... (1800/300 = 6" : 1200/300 = 4")...
But we can push that a little. A print at 250dpi will still yield a good result when viewed at normal reading distance… So, we could take our 1800×1200 at 250dpi and we will get an image print of 7.2×4.8" (1800/250 : 1200/250)...
You could go as little as 200dpi (to get a 9×6"), but I generally wouldn't recommend going below 225dpi… (To see what your image might print like, via BookSmart, at these lower resolutions, simply "Preview" the page at 100%, and you'll get a good idea… If it looks pixellated, then you need to increase the resolution, which will result in a smaller sized image…)
NOTE that the Blurb warning for a "low resolution" image only kicks in at 150dpi which is WAY too small for anything like a decent print, and should NOT be relied on to assess the print-quality of your image!
After this, again, it's a simple case of applying basic maths to "convert" any given image from its pixel dimensions to a printed size, dependant on the resolution applied…

Display Resolution…
Although the "principle" is the same (number of pixels per unit of measurement)... Display resolution is something quite different from Print Resolution, and causes a great deal of confusion amongst those new to the world of digital imaging…
Screen or Online displays are typically 72ppi as noted above. That means that you could, for example, have an on-screen image of 15" wide by 10" deep which will only be 1080×720 pixels big.
Most of the free (mass market) image hosting sites (like Flickr, Photobucket or SmugMug) automatically re-size images uploaded to these smaller dimensions because (like print resolution) anything greater is (for the majority of day to day tasks) just utilising too much resource.
The problem is that this image (of 1080×720) if re-downloaded for printing will only yield a print of 3.6×2.4" at 300dpi… An attempt to convert the image into a print of say 6×4" will result in a resolution of only 180dpi which is almost certainly not good enough for "normal" viewing from a normal reading distance…
As an aside, NOTE that: the further away you are from a image, the lower the resolution can be… So, if you were viewing an image from 10' away, you could easily get away with as little as 100dpi…
Consequently, the rule here is that you should NEVER rely on these hosting sites as your prime storage facility if you ever want to print the image at any stage in the future… External Hard Disks are now dirt cheap. It's a good idea to invest in at least a 500Gb disk for image storage…

PART 4…
Scanning images…
This is a similar area of confusion, but the principles are pretty-well identical to the above…
Once you get the gist, the rest is just simple maths, and you can apply the math to whatever sized image you are working on…
As we know now, industry standard prints at 300 dots per inch (300dpi), and so your old printed images will have been done at that setting. So, if you scan at 300dpi you will get a ratio of 1:1.
Taking a 6×4" original as an example; if you scan at 300dpi you will get a digital image with a pixel dimension of 1800×1200, (that's 6×300 + 4×300), which, when re-printed at 300dpi will reproduce a 6×4" print… 1800/300 + 1200/300…
However, if you are only scanning at 200dpi, then your 6×4" original will generate a digital image of 1200×800 pixels, (6×200 + 4×200), which, if then re-printed at 300dpi will only provide a reduced sized print of 4×2.7". That's 1200/300 + 800/300…
Now, if we scan at 600dpi (2x standard) you will get a digital image of 3600×2400 pixels (6×600 + 4×600), which, if re-printed at 300dpi will yield a printed image of 12×8 (2x original)... That's 3600/300 + 2400/300…. This math can now be applied to any sized image you have, or any resolution you set…
You almost certainly won't want to use these 600dpi scans as finals, but for practicality, a scan at 300dpi is UNLIKELY to generate a good-enough image to reproduce at 100%. That's because what you will now have is (at best) a third-generation copy of the original image, and the image quality will be MUCH reduced from the original… so…
I always scan at 600dpi or higher. This generates a large file, but it gives a MUCH better working image for PhotoShop'ing for cleaning up any creases, scratches, dust spots, colour-shift etc. etc. etc.
Once you're done with the PP work in PS, you can then re-sample the image back to a 6×4 (or bigger if it's good enough) at 300dpi, and you will have a FAR better image than you would otherwise have had with a simple 300dpi scan in the first place. It all depends on how much effort you want to put into preservation and restoration of the image…
Depending on how small your originals are, you may even want to scan at 1200dpi, re-work, then re-sample at 300dpi. FYI: Using this method, I have succesfully up-sized a number of very old and very small (2.5×1.5") images into very good 8×6's (with work in PS…)

Aspect Ratios and importing images into BookSmart containers…
As above, there are MANY different aspect ratios in use in todays digital image arena, and the chances of finding a BookSmart template image container which fits your image exactly, without you needing to do something to it (the image), is remote in the extreme…
Until such time as Blurb make "free-flow" templates available (where we can freely re-size and re-position containers), we only have two choices;
- Re-size or crop our image (either using PhotoShop or similar, or using BookSmart's own tools) to fit the template & associated containers we want to use… or…
- Create our own page layout (in PhotoShop, InDesign or similar), and then import that into a BookSmart template as a flattened JPEG file. (This does NOT need to be a full-bleed page!)
BookSmart's templates have been designed to be aesthetically pleasing in relation to the book size being worked, and so, even across the different book sizes, not all template designs are available across all sizes – on the basis of "they wouldn't look right"...
When importing an image into a container there are two important points to remember;
- You do NOT have to fill the container! Any unused space will simply blend into the background…
- Wherever possible, you should try & choose templates/containers that are "fit for purpose". Importing a small image into a large container runs the risk of "stretching" the image beyond reasonable print resolution – and recall that you won't get a warning until the resolution falls to below 150dpi… So, even if you are at 151dpi, BookSmart will NOT tell you that the resolution is too low!
You can see what pixel dimensions are ideal for each container by simply hovvering the mouse over the container. A small pop-up window gives you the pixel and inch dimensions (at 300dpi).
So, I hope this all helps…
If anyone has any added tips on this theme; chip in…
Blurb staff.. this should be locked at the top of the forum!!!
its so wonderful to see people helping people on this forum, for the pure reason that they want to and not because they have to!
thanks to EvERYONE who has helped me with all of my questions/concerns!
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Aug 14, 2008 5:07pm PDTPermalink
Hi babiigirl11x,
I agree. Lee's post is accurate and helpful, and he is very generous to share his knowledge with the Blurb community.
We'll look into linking this post where appropriate, as it's indeed great to have all this information in one place :-)
Thanks to Lee and happy Blurbing to all,
"Most of the free (mass market) image hosting sites (like Flickr, Photobucket or SmugMug) automatically re-size images uploaded to these smaller dimensions because (like print resolution) anything greater is (for the majority of day to day tasks) just utilising too much resource."
Smugmug is certainly NOT Free and they DO store full resolution images. Whilst they keep the full resolution images as uploaded they also create different sized images for viewing as well.
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Aug 22, 2008 1:58am PDTPermalink
Very helpful to have all that information in one place, and even more helpful to have it explained clearly and approachably. Well done.
I'd just like to make a similar point to GlennBatten's – Flickr also has the option of "pro" accounts (quite cheap, too), that allow unlimited upload sizes. I recently uploaded a jpg to the Creative Common via Flickr that was 9216×5568 at 72 dpi with no problems (here it is, btw – http://flickr.com/photos/shoes_on_wires/2765588977/ ).
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Sep 8, 2008 12:37pm PDTPermalink
Thank you so much for posting this. It helps a great deal. I just have one question and it's because I like 1-2-3 steps procedures. :-)
I work with PS Elements 5 and the default settings show that the screen resolution is 72ppi and the print resolution is 300ppi. I've done all the editing and resizing of the photos for my book but I haven't changed the ppi setting. Should I run through them all and reset them at 300ppi and then resize according to the size of each of the template spaces I'm using?
And one other thing, if I could ask…... I've read there are concerns with sharpening. All the photos I've prepared look the way I want them but do I need to use unsharp mask and sharpen them more???
Thanks for the help! Holly :-)
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Sep 21, 2008 3:52pm PDTPermalink
By the way, I apologize for the 'duh' question but when I've changed the resolution from 72ppi to 300ppi it makes a photo of 2450px on the long side shoot up to something like 11,000pixels….which seems a trifle large. :-)
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Sep 21, 2008 3:55pm PDTPermalink
Hi Chronicler,
Don't bother changing the dpi resolution of your images from 72 to 300. The dpi is irrevelant except in calculating your necessary image resolution for input or output. So you can figure that your 2450px image will print to 8.1667 inches on the long side when the output device prints at 300dpi, and will display in a 72dpi operating system at 34 inches when the pixel ratio is 1:1.
So just leave your image at 2450px. If it makes you feel better you can change the dpi, but leave the "resample" box unchecked. Your image resolution will not change, and the only effect will be when print to your home printer from PS it will print an image 8 inches instead of 34 inches wide.
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Sep 27, 2008 1:02pm PDTPermalink
Thank you so much for this! One question about scanning though – I'm trying to put together a wedding book, and our photographer shot with a film camera. I have our negatives and original prints – is it a better idea to scan from the negatives (which are smaller but perhaps not already pixelated) or from the pictures (which are larger, but may be pixelated already)?
As a follow-up, I do have our images that were put onto a CD, but at 300 dpi (hence why I need to scan some images in). I've noticed that the colors in the images that are scanned have nicer colors (green grass is much greener, etc) than in either the printed photos or negatives. Any advice for a photoshop newbie as to how to improve the color quality without looking like an oompa-loompa?
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Nov 3, 2008 9:16am PDTPermalink
Hello knitterbelle;
Well, I only just noticed that my post is a "featured post"... Pat on the back for me – I hope!!!
Anyhow; to answer your Qs…
- If you have a good negative scanner, then that will almost certainly be the way ahead, since you will be working on a first generation copy… but… the negative scanner needs to be GOOD! If it's just an OK model, then you will probably be better off scanning the prints at the higher resolution I suggested… Best way to judge – do a test of one of each, print it, and see how they compare!
- You say you have your images on a CD at 300dpi… Are they the original full-size image files? If so, you will almost certainly be better off just using those images! Check the pixel dimensions…
- As for editing images; before you do anything to adjust colours – you MUST ensure you are working on a calibrated monitor, otherwise you can end up doing more harm than good! You can search the forums for "monitor calibration". There's a whole bunch of threads on the subject…
Once your monitor is calibrated, then pull your images into PhotoShop and play away. There are no fixed or firm rules for adjusting images, since each tends to have a unique colour value, and so, needs individual attention… but… if they are film files, then I would be surprised if they need much in the way of adjustment; so be very careful in what you are doing… experiment on a couple of COPIES first – NOT the originals!
Good luck;
Thanks so much for your informative (and prompt!) reply. My image files are 1536×1024 pixels with the print size being roughly 5×3 at 300 dpi. I figure I can use a lot of these shots for smaller pictures, but will won't want to use them for full bleed images.
I've seen the info on calibrating my monitor, now to put that into practice…
Thanks a lot!
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Nov 3, 2008 1:41pm PDTPermalink
thanks a lot Lee for this very nice topic, and all the clear explanations that are in there :)
I'm sure many people here will be very happy to see all this in one single place !
One thing that I didn't notice and took for granted, is that the "low resolution" icon kicks in at 150dpi and not 300 dpi !!!!!! shut…. didn't pay attention. So now I need to go back and check all my pictures…
Blurb staff, could you consider the feature to display a warning icon as soon as we are bellow the 300dpi ? this would be really helpfull and would avoid us going back and force between the ideal size and our curent size…
Hey Guys,
Lee's done a great job summarizing many of the arcane points of Resolution and Sizing. However, there is one slight ammendment I'd like to make, and that's regarding DPI. Bear with me…
DPI = dots per inch, but it is not print or printer resolution. The 300dpi that's being mentioned is really File or Image Resolution. And as Lee and others have pointed out, it's not really Dots per Inch (DPI) at all but Pixels per Inch (PPI). The terms have, unfortunately, become interchangeable.
Blurb uses HP Indigo presses for printing its books. Indigo is a type of "digital press." Digital presses use what's called "halftoning screening" to render the image. That means that the image is broken up into little "spots" or dots that can be printed. (inkjet printers don't use halftoning but an alternative form of screening, but that's another story) If the dots are small enough and/or if you are far enough away, your brain tricks you into thinking that what you're seeing printed is a photo-realistic or "continuous tone" image. It's an optical illusion.
If you look at a Blurb book with a loupe or magnifying glass (or any magazine, book, brochure, etc.), you can see all the little dots. The more dots per inch, the more photo-realistic the image looks. But Blurb Indigo presses are NOT printing at 300dpi. Depending on which Indigo and which resolution mode they're using, they may be printing at close to 2400dpi.
Back to the images and their resolution. Look at a magnified Indigo or offset-printed image again and you'll that the dots are arranged in patterns. These patterns are typically described in terms of "lines" or "lines per inch" (LPI). And it turns out that Blurb Indigo presses use 175 as their "line screen". So your images are broken apart into clusters of spots or dots that have a regular frequency of 175 lines per inch (at their final size). These spots or dots are then printed at a printer resolution of up to 2400dpi (actually it's 2400×2400, or 800×1200 or whatever).
So how does LPI get us to 300dpi or more accurately ppi? It was known long ago that to achieve a photo-realistic impression or a continuous-tone-like printed image, the Image Resolution (PPI) should be around 2x the Screening Frequency, i.e., a PPI:LPI ratio of 2:1. Since many "quality" printing jobs used 150+ LPI in the old days, then the best reproduction came with a 300ppi file AT FINAL SIZE. And this was basically set in stone and has become sort of an Urban Legend. But because I used to be a publication art director for many years and I dealt with this stuff every day, I wanted to get to the bottom of this. And I discovered something. I experimented and learned that I could easily get away with a 1.5:1 PPI:LPI ratio. I did tons of (traditional) offset jobs using 1.5:1.
So what about the 175lpi and the 300dpi, and what does all this rigamrole mean to you (as I know you're scratching your heads simultaneously)? Here's my summary:
—When you're talking about images, it's PPI not DPI (the scanner people have always gotten it wrong from day one; have you ever seen a "dot" in a scan?). Open up any image in Photoshop or any sophisticated image-editing application and what do you see next to "Resolution"? Pixels per inch not dots per inch. If someone says "dpi", just smile, nod and move on knowing secretly that it's really "ppi".
—Whenever you see a number like "300dpi" you can be sure it's not about print resolution. Remember the first laser printers? They had print resolutions of 300dpi. And the pictures were lousy. There's nothing you can do about true "DPI" with offset printing, so don't worry about it.
—Blurb Indigo presses use a screening frequency of 175lpi. 175×2 = 350. That's your high end of the optimum PPI of your image AT FINAL SIZE. And 175×1.5 = 263. I would call this (or round down to 250) the lower end of your optimum PPI range (again, AT FINAL SIZE). Blurb says that 150ppi is the lowest they recommend. I haven't tried it so can't say if they're right or not. But if you are preparing images at final size for importing into Blurb BookSmart, you can't go wrong with anything between 250-350ppi.
So is everything above based on my massive experience with Blurb books and Blurb printing? *NOPE*. I'm just getting ready to order my first Blurb book. But it makes sense to me.
See you around the Forum.
P.S. I have some book images that illustrate a couple of the points above, but I don't know how to insert images into these posts. Let me know if you're interested and maybe I'll dig them out.
Very interesting discussion. Thank you Lee and Harald.
But in practical terms, if I have an image at a resolution of 3000×2008 and the blur template is at an optimal resolution of 2905×2275 which is best – purely from a print quality perspective:
Assuming image is NOT resized and stays at 3000×2008.
option 1: The image is resized by Blurb without cropping resulting in an image of 2905×2008. This means a slightly smaller image.
option 2: The image is resized by Blurb with cropping resulting in the full image of 2905×2275
This means a larger image with the width downsized from 3000 to 2905 while the height is scaled up from 2008 to 2275. Because the photo is not cropped the aspect ratio is the same as the blurb's container at optimal resolution.
In the above I'm making the assumption that the downsizing from 3000 to 2905 will not introduce any artefacts – am I right? I'm wondering however, if the upscaling from 2008 to 2275 will cause any issues. Photo and lens quality to begin with is high end.
In general, going DOWN in size is safer than going UP in terms of image quality (pixels smaller rather than larger), although I've seen posts here about how people's small photos looked worse than their bigger ones. Lots of post-image issues at play including "dot gain", "plugging", etc.
In your case, the differences are so small (e.g., +11% to go from 2008 to 2275) that it may not make much of a quality difference but might be more of an aesthetic choice: do you want to crop your images?
BTW, what's the "container" size? That will determine where you are on the "optimum image resolution" scale.
P.S. It sure would be good if BookSmart could tell you at what % you are from your original when using their size slider. Does it somewhere that I haven't seen?
Well, I thought I understood, but…
I started using Genuine Fractals which is nice for Blurb because it crops, resizes and sharpens all in one dialog. But this feature is based on document size. When I use the container size at 300 ppi it does not result in the same ppi for the container.
Eg Blurb container states 921×451 ppi / 3.1. x 1.5 in or 917×451 pp also has doc size 3.1×1.5
I input 3.1. x 1.5 at 300 ppi and get an image resized at 934×452 close but does this mean Blurb is going to resize my image unless I turn cropping off and then lose part of the image.
This is important enough it needs to be brought back up to the top and pinned up there?


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Google's Strongest Backlinks
We thought we would have some fun. Attached is a file showing the top 50,000 backlinks that we have to Google.com's root domain. Feel free to play with this data. Here are some interesting facts about Google's own backlink profile in Majestic SEO's database.
Some observations about Goole's Backlinks
1: All but 1695 were crawled by us in December or January. That's about 97%.
2: Many of Google's strongest links by ACRank are from widgets – in particular pulling in newsfeeds. For eample planet.wordpress.org uses Feedproxy to 301 redirect users to inner stories with links like: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogtoolscollection/UXMP/~3/k5JSiI6IzXI/ . These of course would not help Google, as they redirect straight out of Google. But this might set up the question: "If you have a link from feedproxy.google.com (something we can all do), is this worth more than a link directly within your site?" Majestic SEO is not the place to say what that means in algotithmic terms – but may be the best place to start if you want to set up some experiments of your own.
3: Cnet, WashingtonPost and Chicago Tribune are all linking to Google from their home page (Or at least, they were, when we checked)
4: If you take the file and start to analyze it, you will see that one page can typically link many times to Google in many different ways (and to many different subdomains). This demonstrates the need for care when deciding "which links count" (whatever you choose to mean for the word "count".)
5: I was surprised to see "mysimon.com" so near to the top of the list. I had never heard of "mysimon".
Getting this data within MajesticSEO is not hard. It is the equivalent of a "standard" report in the system – although the actual number of links you get will depend on your subscription level. So at £10 a month (about US$16) you would be able to get 10 such reports, but they would only have the top 5,000 backlinks for Google.com. You can make this report go a LOT further. though, by running the same report for the subdomain (WWW.google.com) or indeed the home page itself. Platinum subscriptions go to 20,000 depth, although you can get subscriptons that go 50,000 deep in the standard reports by agreement.
Why "Standard" is better than "Advanced"
Using the advanced report in theory will return ALL the links we have to Google.com. Now I am telling you here and now that you do not have a large enough subscription to run such a report and to do so would need us to prepare our servers for the ensuing onslaught as we serach through 25,492,660,101 links to 3,666,643,870 urls on Google.com we have indexed via 3180,909 subdomains. That's on awful lot of data! But that's why we created the standard report in the first place. It's SO much more efficient.
Now – this is 50,000 backlinks as we see them raw in our dataset, sorted by ACRank. Our definition of "strongest" is quite specific – so please don't go saying "But I know of many stronger links than these". Any data set of this size will have some unusual anomolies. Imagine the anomolies in the other 25 billion 442 odd million that we know of!
Attachment: google_com_top50k_backlinks_Jan_2011.csv (Gzip format).
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Thanks, 50000 is more than enough to begin with.
It is amazing to think that one website has so many links, and even more impressive that you can 'just' go get the data. Great work and keep it up!
I found your site from UniqueArticleWizard and just going through the list now… thanks for that… I did have trouble opening it initially.
Can you explain why you only see raw links and not anchor text?
Anchor text is part of the data – it's not just backlinks.
What free products do you recommend to unzip these files? Ive tried a few and they all had issues??
Hi Garry,
You can use this free produce to unzip files: http://www.7-zip.org/
50,000 will keep me busy for a while. That's a ton of data
If you have a subscription with 50,000 backlinks, are these the strongest 50,000 or just the first/last 50,000 in the collection? IOW, you could miss out seeing the strongest links if they were past 50k.
Hi Ash,
They are the strongest. I should clarify that they are the strongest as defined by ACRANK which – whilst not as sophisticated as the search algorithm definitions – is at least transparent!


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The Albany Devils picked up a big win Saturday night at Giant Center, with a Harri Pesonen third period goal earning New Jersey's AHL affiliate a 3-2 victory. Hershey's loss marked the end of the 2012 calendar year games wise for the Bears, as they look to reach the playoffs once again as the club hits the New Year. With the loss, Hershey will begin 2013 with a 16-14-1-1 record, when they faceoff against the Binghamton Senators, AHL affiliate of the Ottawa Senators.
The Devils were led in goal Wednesday night by Keith Kinkaid, who picked up his eighth win of the season with his 34 save effort. Albany forward and lockout casualty Bobby Butler paced the Devils offensively, contributing a goal and an assist, along with being one the ice for all three Albany goals.
"I thought we played a pretty good sixty minute game," Bears coach Mark French said. "We could of got more shots through or more shots on net and probably of been a little more inside from a forward perspective. I thought our compete level and our execution level offensively, maybe other than getting enough shots, I liked a lot of parts of our game."
The Hershey Bears took an early lead 8:06 into the first stanza, with Jon DiSalvatore's persistence leading to his 10th goal of the season. DiSalvatore rushed past a Devils defenseman, but couldn't beat Kinkaid, but he kept working through his shift. Hershey forward Garrett Mitchell fed Jon DiSalvatore later in the sequence in the offensive zone, which this time the Bears' alternate captain buried past the Albany goalie.
The Bears had numerous quality scoring chances in the first period, including a rebound attempt by forward Matt Pope. The fourth line forward's shot hit the post following a rebound save by Kinkaid, originating from a point shot by Hershey defenseman Julien Brouillette.
Albany earned a power play with two minutes remaining in first stanza, but couldn't beat Hershey goalie Braden Holtby. Last spring's Washington Capitals goalie continued his strong play of late, registering 12 saves on 12 shots in the first period.
The Devils tied the game at one near the midpoint of the second period, finding twine past Holtby. Albany forward Tim Sestito deflected a point shot by Eric Gelinas for his third goal of the season. Hershey would control the majority of the second period however, outshooting the Devils 11-8.
With the goal, Albany cut Braden Holtby's shutout streak at an outstanding total of 133:54 minutes. Although Holtby allowed three goals in the game, most were due to turnovers and ones in which he could do nothing about.
"It's been phenomenal," Bears forward Jon DiSalvatore said of Hershey's recent play in net. "Obviously we got to start with our goaltending. I was talking with some of the other guys, it seems all we have to do is score one goal and we have an opportunity to win a game."
"It's a lot easier to take away second chance opportunities from the d-zone coverage stand point when they come from an odd man rush," said French.
With the game tied at one in the third period, each team would look to grab a one goal lead. Albany struck first on Bobby Butler's 14th goal of the season, but his goal was quickly followed up by Zach Hamill's 10th of the season only 45 seconds later.
Albany would grab the lead once again later in the third frame, cashing in on an odd-man rush. Harri Pesonen potted home his fifth goal of the season, following a shot on goal by Bobby Butler.
"Certainly on their [Albany's] last goal it was the trailer on the rush," said French. "Last time we played them they were able to generate chances in transition and off the rush, seemed to be where they're dangerous rather than spending a lot of time in zone play. Certainly on their last goal that played true."
Hershey continued to push hard in the third period, outshooting the Devils 15-9. They even earned a man advantage opportunity with five minutes remaining, but could not beat Kinkaid.
"When guys are in slumps or when a team is in slumps the opportunities are there you got to keep going with it," said DiSalvatore. "It's a numbers game and you got to keep throwing the puck at the net, you don't want to change when you are creating that kind of momentum. You got to stick with that, because that will be the formula for success. You just got to keep going with that."
Hershey returns home in the New Year, taking on the Binghamton Senators January 5th at Giant Center.
Game Notes
1. Attendance: 10,896
2. Bears Injuries: T.J. Syner, Ryan Stoa and Dmitry Orlov
3. Hershey Healthy Scratches: Kevin Marshall, Boyd Kane (veteran), Matt Clackson and Jonathon Kalinski
4. With the home loss, Hershey holds a 2-9-0-1 record on Saturday nights at Giant Center
Three Stars
1. Harri Pesonen (one goal, one assist, plus two, three shots on goal)
2. Bobby Butler (one goal, one assist, plus three, four shots on goal)
3. Keith Kinkaid (34 saves on 36 shots)
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Title: Vulnerability Assessment of Masonry Public Buildings in the Reno-Carson City Urban Corridor
Authors: Jamie Roybal, David Sanders, and E. 'Manos' Maragakis
Date: May 1993
Sponsoring Agency:
Nevada Division of Emergency Management
Federal Emergency Management Agency
Performing Organization:
Department of Civil Engineering/258
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, Nevada 89557
Earthquakes can produce severe structural damage to certain types of buildings. One type of structure frequently mentioned in damage reports are masonry buildings. A masonry building is a building built using bricks, or concrete blocks, as the primary load carrying system. These buildings are vulnerable to horizontal loads resulting from earthquakes, especially if unreinforced.
By using a method known as the Rapid Screening Procedure, it is possible to get a preliminary idea if a building is seismically vulnerable. The procedure determines a structural score for the building. This Structural Score is a number that relates to the possible damage a structure would receive if an earthquake were to occur in the area.
The steps in the procedure are as follows:
The cut-off value of 2.0 is a recommended value by the Applied Technology Council and ultimately should be decided by the local building officials.
The Rapid Screening Procedure was utilized to evaluate 114 reinforced and unreinforced masonry buildings in Reno, Sparks and Carson City, Nevada. Of the 114buildings, 51 require further investigation. All 51 buildings were unreinforced masonry (Summary by authors).


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Fried Mashed Potato Balls Recipe
- 2 cups cold mashed potatoes
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/2 cup chopped green onions
- 1/4 cup real bacon bits
- 1/2 cup dry bread crumbs
- Oil for frying
- Place mashed potatoes in a large bowl; let stand at room temperature for 30 minutes. Stir in the egg, cheese, onions and bacon bits. Shape into 1-in. balls; roll in bread crumbs. Let stand for 15 minutes.
- In an electric skillet, heat 1 in. of oil to 375°. Fry potato balls, a few at a time, for 2-1/2 to 3 minutes or until golden brown. Remove with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Serve warm. Yield: 6 servings.
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every one Loved them. Also when mixing my potatoes ,I mixed in some flour & mixed together. I made over or close to 100 as this was for a large dinner of about 27 people. I went by feel of the mixture. Also cooked in Deep Fryer and kept warmish/hot in oven. Another occasion I tried doing them the day before & heated in the oven.
I had the same problem with them falling to pieces in the oil. So I prepared another egg wash, dipped them again and then rolled them a second time in the bread crumbs before cooking them in the oil and that worked like a charm. They were perfect after that. I will definitely make them again using the "double dip" method. They were a huge hit with the family!!
Followed the recipe. The balls just fell apart into bread crumbs
Good recipe and i wonder how this would work using mac and cheese inside???
I found this recipe on a different site. You have to add flour to your potato mix to hold it together. I just eyed the flour, but it takes a bit to make them stay in a ball. Other than that, they were good. The more cheese the better also.


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AWeber Email Marketing Tips
Threadless' Frequency Alert: Hot or Not?
Did your New Year's resolution involve overhauling your email marketing campaign?
Maybe you resolved to get on the ball and send more often. Or maybe you suspect you've been overwhelming your readers, so you plan to send less.
Either way, you've got some decisions to make. Do you tell your readers to expect the change in frequency? If you do, where, when and how do you tell them?
Let's take a look at how Threadless handled a recent frequency change. Would you do things the same way?
The Announcement
When Threadless increased their frequency from 2 emails per week to 3, they let subscribers know.
Better Off Alone?
There's a lot going on in this message, with the swirling vortex and all. Many readers may have skipped right over that lovely yellow box. Should Threadless have announced the change in a separate email?
Pro: A statement that arrived solo would be sure to be seen. Plus, it would become the natural topic for the subject line, so subscribers could observe the addition even without opening the message.
Con: On the other hand, giving the announcement such serious real estate might annoy some readers. They signed up for these emails to see fun t-shirts, and they get a schedule announcement? Disapproval or even unsubscribes could result if the message doesn't meet their expectations.
Knowledge Is Power…Too Much Power?
The box gave the facts about the extra emails, then gave readers the option to decline them. Should Threadless have forgone that second step?
Pro: With the veto power granted here, subscribers can control which messages they receive. (You can do this for your own subscribers, if you like.) This gives them a sense of ownership over their subscription, which may mean they'll appreciate these emails more.
Con: But what if they choose to opt out of the extra emails? Will Threadless miss out on potential sales? And what if readers evaluate their preferences and decide, "Actually, I'll just unsubscribe?"
Out? In? Which Way to Opt?
Notice that readers were invited to opt out of the extra emails, not into them. For general list subscription, that's widely considered a bad practice. How about for frequency changes?
Pro: Subscribers who don't open the message, see the box or change their preferences will start getting the extra emails, giving Threadless more opportunities to persuade them to buy.
Con: For those subscribers, the extra messages will appear seemingly without request or warning. If they notice, and if they mind, they may feel annoyed and unsubscribe.
How Do You Change Frequency?
Have you ever changed how often you send your marketing emails? Did you let subscribers know beforehand?
Did you offer them the option to choose which frequency they'd prefer, perhaps by switching lists?
How else could you handle the situation?
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I need to come here more often. This post is enlightening on how I can use my AWeber to greater effect.
Will definitely be around a lot more from today. Thanks for the post and look forward to witnessing a lot more great stuff.2/8/2011 12:31 pm
Comes a little late for me after I sent out some special issues of my email newsletter, on top of the regular monthly ones, over the past week.
From the beginning I always had in mind sending out ad hoc issues for special announcements, but until a few weeks ago hadn't really thought about when I might need to actually do it.
My newsletter is mostly that – a news service – it's not selling anything, but the people who advertise with me probably appreciate the extra exposure they're getting. The ad hoc issues also enabled me to feature additional adverts that I'd received since I sent out the last regular newsletter (end of January), so as well as the ongoing special news interest, there was new content among the adverts, too.
It might have been useful to include some kind of opt out box in the last regular issue had I known about this feature, and better anticipated my need for the special issues. Still, there's always next time!2/8/2011 1:52 pm
Very informative article. I like the way you addressed each section and enumerated the Pros and Cons. Helps make it easier for people to evaluate Threadless's choices relative to their own emails.
The only thing that was missing was a brief examination of the Threadless audience. They tend to skew young and are accustomed to a lot going on, so I think the design using vortex was a great choice and for me, actually served to focus on the yellow box immediately below. It was almost as if it was spotlighted.2/8/2011 4:12 pm
Good post, and good questions too. For my lists, I've been up front that letters would arrive "almost daily".
Works for me, and them.
Funny thing is, if I go more than a few days between emails, I get asked what's the holdup?2/8/2011 6:37 pm
When I was reading the newsletter above I got a feeling of ownership when I read the bit about having the option of opting in or out. It was profound.
Suddenly the relationship goes from "I'm at the mercy of this sender" to "This is my newsletter and I own and control it." So many companies these days are treating their customers like an open mouth they can shove in whatever they want.
I think it might be productive to change the way I think of subscribers from "newsletter subscribers" to "newsletter owners," each person owning their own subscription and having control over it.
I think this attitude of service is appreciated by people who will reward you with their attention.2/8/2011 9:40 pm
How does this work with the new FCC weird stuff? You know I'll make money on this blah blah type of stuff that's gotta happen now…2/9/2011 7:08 pm
Interesting topic and good info (as usual on the aweber blog), but to me something's missing here.
Eventually, what is the percentage of subscribers who opted out of the frequency change ? My guess is it wasn't too high.
I hope you'll get back to us to reveal the stats.2/10/2011 4:06 pm
CJ ~ Yes, there is always next time.
Andy ~ Yes. As always, being up front is best.
Aurelien ~ You'd have to ask Threadless what the stats were, since this is their campaign. Those would be nice to know, though!
Nathan ~ I'm not sure exactly which stuff you mean – clarify?
Michael ~ "Newsletter owners" – a very interesting idea. I feel like it would work well.2/14/2011 9:24 am


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Dr. Srougi earned her B.S. in Biology from the University of Toledo in 2001, and her Ph.D. in Pharmacology from Case Western Reserve University in 2007. Her graduate work, under the supervision of Dr. David A. Boothman, focused on the cellular mechanisms of a novel cancer chemotherapeutic agent beta-lapachone with an emphasis on the DNA damage response. Following completion of her doctoral studies, she completed a post-doctoral fellowship with Dr. Keith Burridge at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she studied the regulation of the Rho family of small GTPases after DNA damage. Dr. Srougi joined the Biotechnology Program at North Carolina State University in 2011.
As of August 2014, Dr. Srougi accepted a position as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at High Point University, High Point, NC. You may reach her at: firstname.lastname@example.com
My research interests are to understand how cancer cells acquire resistance to DNA damaging radio- and chemotherapeutic agents. I am particularly interested in uncovering how the Rho family of GTPases modulate the cellular response to genotoxic stress. Elucidating these signaling pathways may have significant therapeutic implications in the current treatment of cancer.
Questions Currently Under Investigation with Undergraduates:
1. How does loss of the DNA damage repair protein ATM affect Rho GTPase function?
2. Do agents that cause different types of DNA damage elicit similar pathways of Rho GTPase activation?
3. How are the guanine nucleotide exchange factors (GEFs; activators of Rho GTPases) regulated after DNA damage?
In addition to my laboratory research, I am also interested in the study of teaching and learning. My pedagogical research includes finding ways to improve student scholarship in the biomedical sciences with a focus on developing student-centered activities and inquiry-based laboratories. Two of my recent publications describe new research-based laboratory courses on signal transduction and stem cells.
Srougi, M.C., Thomas-Swanik, J., Chan, J., Marchant, J., and Carson, S. Making Heads or Tails: Planarian Stem Cells in the Classroom. (2014) Journal of Microbiology and Biology Education, 15(1), 18-25. PMID:24839511
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Bey, E.A., Reinicke, K.E., Srougi, M.C., et. al. Catalase Abrogates β-Lapachone-Induced PARP-1 Hyperaction-Directed Programmed Necrosis in NQO1-Positive Breast Cancers. (2013) Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, 12(10), 2110-20. PMID: 23883585
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Srougi, M.C., and Burridge, K. Undressing a Cellular Corset: Septins Exposed. (2009) Nature Cell Biology, 11(1),9-10. PMID: 19122592
Bey, E.A., Bentle, M.S., Reinicke, K.E., Dong, Y., and Boothman, D.A. A Novel NQO1-Mediated and PARP-1-Mediated Cell Death Pathway Induced in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells by β-Lapachone. (2007) Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 104(28), 11832-11837. PMID: 17609380
Bentle, M.S., Dong, Y., Reinicke, K.E., Bey, E.A., and Boothman, D.A. Non-Homologous End Joining is Essential for Cellular Resistance to the Novel Chemotherapeutic Agent β-Lapachone. (2007) Cancer Research, 67(14), 6936-45. PMID: 17638905
Bentle, M.S., Reinicke, K.E., Bey, E.A., Spitz, D.R., and Boothman, D.A. Calcium-Dependent Modulation of PARP-1 Alters Cellular Metabolism and DNA Repair. (2006) The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 281(44), 33684-33696. PMID: 16920718
Bey, E.A., Wuerzberger-Davis, S.M., Pink, J.J., Yang, C.R., Araki, S., Reinicke, K.E., Bentle, M.S., Dong, Y., Cataldo, E., Criswell, T.C., Wagner, M.W., Li, L., Gao, J., and Boothman, D.A. Mornings with Art, Lessons Learned: Feedback Regulation, Restriction Threshold Biology, and Redundancy Govern Molecular Stress Responses. (2006) The Journal of Cellular Physiology, 209(3), 604-610. PMID: 17001694
Bentle, M.S., Bey, E.A., Dong, Y., Reinicke, K.E., and Boothman, D.A. New Trick for Old Drugs: The Anticarcinogenic Potential of DNA Repair Inhibitors. (2006) The Journal of Molecular Histology, 37(5-7), 203-218. PMID: 16868862
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When not teaching or working in the lab, Melissa enjoys being outdoors, running, and reading. She also loves to spend her free time with her two favorite boys, Scott and Hunter.


text: 1 note Posted 19, November, 2013 rocks and trees on Flickr. Nova Scotia is grey and cold. And I don't just mean the people. Hiyoooo! Familiarity does breed contempt. Or at least disinterest. Or even just the awareness of the limited options you have. Or maybe I just mean that I've gotten very bored of sitting around waiting for my turn on the doctor's slab* and going through my daily depressing look at the job boards. Anyway, I find it hard to find something to photograph around here in the forest because, ehn. Every five steps bringing you through a bramble of skin-tearing thorns doesn't help. I sometimes think about learning to drive a car since I'm living in the ass-end of nowhere and for some reason government organizations seem to think a driver's license makes you trust-worthy. Then I think about the costs of driving a car. I also think of how much anxiety simply being a passenger gives me. Then I think about how much better it is to live somewhere with great public transportation. I stop thinking about learning to drive at this point. We know why governments want to you have a driver's license. It's another way for them to keep track of you. There's nothing a government hates more than someone they can't keep tabs on. And their corporate sponsors sort of set up a consumerist society that hinges on oil. Public transportation means that's one less car bought, one less home in the suburbs mortgaged, one fewer person going to a box store out in the low-to-no-rent industrial parks, hundreds of dollars less being given to insurance companies, and thousands of liters of gasoline not being bought. If I wasn't so fond of regular meals, and showers I'd go off the grid just to spite them. Being an expat means you put yourself under even more direct government scrutiny. Politicians are a lazy, cowardly lot and that means they tend to cater to the ill-informed, selfish aspects of the people they represent. That's why you need to take an AIDS test when you apply for a work visa in some countries. Anti-foreigner bigotry always comes with the assumption they're bringing disease with them. That's as true overseas as it is here. Yet, for some reason, the common-as-karaoke business trips a.k.a. sex tours of developing countries/ meetings a.k.a. lack of regular condom use when visiting the whore house with the boss, is never looked at as a possible disease vector. Despite the number of indignities that come from expat life, the benefits are also numerous. In a way, you are living off the grid. Few people know you beyond "That foreigner". You have the freedom to reinvent yourself, and if you get fed up with the situation you're in, you can simply up and leave. Honour demands you tell the people and organizations that depend upon you before you do so. It sucks when you have to work extra hours to cover for a missing co-worker. It also sucks that, for each unpaid bill someone leaves in their wake, companies make it even harder for an expatriate to use their services. But if you do decide to walk away, no one is going to cross the ocean to track you down for last month's internet bill or a few hundred in unpaid taxes. I paid all of my bills and taxes before leaving Japan. It's unlikely I'll ever be able to live and work there again given my lack of connections, youth, and good-looks. But just in case I did get back there, I wanted to be able to afford ramen until the first paycheque came in fifty or more days later instead of having my owed money being seized. The endless Korea vs Japan debate? Your boss in Korea is far more likely to front you some cash until the first payday. * Update: I think they read this post. The hospital called for my turn on their slab an hour after I put it up. No improvement on the job board as of yet. #government #canada #Nova Scotia #expat #expariate #korea #japan #travel #AIDS #disease #bigotry #big oil #B&W #film #135 #Dartmouth #salt marsh #nature #Pentax #KX #original photograhper #photography #photographers on tumblr