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Content Marketing and Best Keyword Research Tool are buzzwords of the moment but there is confusion over what that really is and why a business should do it. This article sets out some of the basics.
The Best Keyword Research and Article Writing Strategies
If you create content that your prospective customers need and want, they will find it, consume and engage with it and ultimately transact a profitable action with you. They may also share that Best Keyword Research Tool derived content with their own friends and contacts, amplifying the effect.
So this is where you start – developing a content marketing strategy. First you need to work out what your audience wants. Finding them is easy, but working out what they're really interested in and why they visit certain sites or retail outlets is the issue.
All consumers are looking for solutions to their problems. Work out what those problems are and you can target your article marketing based on your Best Keyword Research Tool derived strategies for maximum effect.
Once the aims of the content marketing programme are set and customer needs identified, then you need to create the content to fulfil that need. That content can take many forms – here are just a few; videos, infographics, social media content, apps, website articles, blogs, eNewsletters, photos/illustrations, animations, webinars, microsites, etc.
If you can't produce that content yourself, you will need the support of writers, bloggers, designers and web developers. You will need a network of tried and trusted partners – videographers, coders, app builders etc – who will work to your strategy and brief.
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Are you looking for strategies to build a more successful article marketing business? Are you seeking strategies to enhance your internet marketing overall? Then keep reading. In this article, I will reveal effective strategies that can have an impressive result on your article marketing. The result of implementing them will be to gain the attention and recognition that you and your articles deserve.
Article marketing is all about the numbers. Writing and submitting five or even ten articles per day will have some results. However, the more articles you create and submit, the greater the results. Eliminate ten articles per day from your thinking and go up to twenty. When you reach twenty then go to twenty-five. The more quality articles you create and submit the better. If you lack the time to create and submit the required numbers, then look for other options. Hire a ghost writer to help. There are many writers who can provide high-quality articles at fair prices. Check out the options at elance.com or any of the other freelance websites. Just be sure to do your homework before agreeing to terms. Check references and examine samples of the writer's work. Be sure the terms are clearly documented before finalizing any agreement.
Effective article marketing is all about successfully using each and every word you write for your readers. If you don't already, get to know your readers well. Know their problems and questions. Know that they are busy and will likely be scanning rather than reading your articles. Be reader-friendly, brief and crisp in stating your thoughts and ideas. Don't bother your readers by including lots of fluff. Proofread articles before submitting them. Make sure the terms and ideas you communicate are easy to understand. Double check and then fix grammar and spelling errors.
Titles are critical to gaining reader attention. If you want readers to stop and read your articles then your title must be noticed. It must draw reader interest. Invest the time to really think about the topic and the best possible title. Article titles that are brief, to the point, and well-written work best. Your title is a way of informing prospective readers about what you have to say in your article. Your title will be the basis of whether a reader will stop and spend the time to actually start to read your article or not.
Keywords and keyword phrases are extremely important. Remember that keywords have two very important functions. First, your keywords make your articles search engine-friendly. Second, your keywords identify the topics that prospective readers use when they are looking online. Always invest the time to complete keyword research before you make a decision about the keywords you will use.
To your article marketing success!
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We have used (and regularly test) a variety of SEO tools and services in order to compare them. This includes not only direct competitors to my own products, but also the "Big Data" providers in the SEO industry.
Great data is only great if you understand what to do with it. If you're a beginner to ranking your site in Google then you need guidance more than a bunch of stats and numbers.
This is where most of the SEO tools fail miserably. While the individual data points provided by these tools are often pretty good, when it comes to using this data to give you practical advice they almost always fall flat.
Take estimating keyword competition for example. How difficult will it be to rank in Google for a specific set of keywords? With all of that data at these tools disposal, you would think they would be pretty good at estimating that difficulty.
They're not. In fact, they're usually pretty bad at it.
Let me back this up by giving you an example of some keywords where these tools get it wrong. This example is a "long tail" (that is, a set of keywords that don't get searched very often and contain 4 or more words).
Keywords: online acoustic guitar lessons
Difficulty rating from popular tools (scale is 0 to 100):
Moz – 50
SEMRush – 69
SpyFu – 56
KWFinder – 49
Difficulty rating from my soon-to-be-released SEO system:
Keyword Titan – 28
Notice the difference? The four popular tools shown estimate it to be about twice as difficult to rank for "online acoustic guitar lessons" as Keyword Titan does.
The reason why their estimates are so (incorrectly) high is because those tools appear to be averaging the authority of Google's top 10 ranking domains / pages for the keywords. That's a mistake, a serious mistake, and it's where pretty much every keyword tool goes wrong.
You see, the true estimation of how difficult it will be to rank for a set of keywords in Google isn't found in the strength of the top 10 sites ranking for the keywords — it's found in the weakness of the weakest ranking site in those top 10 results.
That is, if there are 9 very strong sites ranking for a set of keywords and one weak site mixed in among them, that weak site is the true indicator that ranking in the top 10 for those keywords is not so difficult. After all, if it was difficult to rank for then that weak result wouldn't be there, right?
Almost no other keyword tool gets this right. They always average the strength of the top 10 Google results together to come up with their difficulty estimations.
Article Marketing Using TextSuite - The Art of Successful Article Marketing
Content marketing has already evolved over the past several years and today it has become a key factor for any business or product to go through this unique marketing strategy in order to gain audiences. The purpose of content marketing is not only to pitch your product or services, but also give your audiences something that is relevant and timely to help them solve their issues.
As market standards are shifting, technology is evolving, and consumer preferences are being changed, "What they really want?" becomes a more difficult question to answer. Nowadays content marketers are required to evaluate the subjective situations and adapt emerging market trends at a faster rate than ever before. They need to keep updated with all the latest trends.
Data-driven Insights:
Assuring convincing, reliable customer experiences are the main target for marketing executives. Yet many marketers declare it as an overwhelming task to distribute the right content at the right time to the right audience.
As most of the audiences spend more time online with their mobile devices, there are enormous amounts of data to manipulate strategies for companies in every industry. To have the maximum impact, content marketing businesses should work on gathering, interpreting, and acting on data to turn it into valuable insights and actionable data-driven marketing campaigns.
Video and Live Feature:
Due to evolution in mobile technology, the demand for interactive video content is making a massive impact. It's a fact: studies have confirmed that visual marketing and content is powerful and humans get attracted to visual content faster. Consumers want something incredible that stands out, pulls them in, and connects them. Video and live streaming feature for content marketing will help your efforts stand above the rest. Social media platforms like Facebook are enhancing and optimizing their live video feature to make it easier than ever for users to promote videos and submerge themselves in the content.
Re-emergence of Email Marketing:
Even though many think newsletters are among a disappearing class of communications, email persists to be a critical approach to promote and grow audiences. According to a research, more than 205 billion emails are sent daily. Plus, the numbers are in actual consistently going up in many cases, demonstrating that email is on the rise as a source of information for customers. This figure is expected to reach 246 billion daily emails by 2019. So, considering email marketing in the coming years is highly recommended as its one of the rising trend these days.
Social Media Platform:
As social media websites are being used by many users every day. It has become one of the key part of human's life these days. Many startups and small business promote their organization and services on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn etc. The necessity of the promotion of content on these platforms has become essential due to its countless usage. So, content marketers should consider this uprising trend of promoting on social media critically and make the most of it.
There are many other trends as well that can be considered by content writers and marketers to reach millions of potential users to address their needs and promoting businesses. However, these are some of the most critical and rapidly rising trend for the coming years that must not be neglected.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
In memory of Tom Buckley
Well, it's long past time to close down this blog, and I've been wondering for some time whether it would be a good idea to go out with my reminiscence of my dear friend Tom Buckley. After months of dithering, I've decided that it might be just the thing to do.
Tom died suddenly this past March, leaving behind his wife, Nita, and his two teenage daughters, Gwen and Ellen. (The Charlottesville Daily Progress obituary is here). He had spent the previous day playing racquetball with Nita and taking her to dinner; that evening, they went to bed, and Tom passed on in his sleep. His heart simply stopped. Needless to say, Janet and I were shocked by the news, and spent weeks and months thinking about him and talking about him. We visited his family in July. They're doing as well as humans can possibly do under the circumstances, but clearly, these are the kind of circumstances that call for grieving.
For Janet the news was especially jarring: Nita is one of her best friends, and five years ago, another of her best friends lost her husband to a mysterious illness. Jimmy Crofts was only 48; Tom Buckley was all of 53. These would be reasonable life expectancies in the United States somewhere around the year 1910; in 2005 and 2010 they are anomalous, and therefore all the more devastating.
But Janet said something brilliant to Nita, something that only becomes more brilliant if you happen to know that they met while working as cardiac intensive-care nurses in the University of Virginia Medical Center: she pointed out that Tom's father had died of heart disease at 41—and that Nita's gentle vigilance, watching over Tom's cholesterol, his blood pressure, and his love of spicy salty meats, probably gave Tom another ten years of life. Another ten years of marriage, another ten years to watch his children grow. Janet is surely right about this.
I wrote the following tribute to Tom back in July, and have been waiting ever since for the right moment to post it. (After I got Nita's permission, of course.) I'll leave it up until the end of the month, and then, just like back in aught-seven, I'll draw the curtain over the blog and leave the archives here for Blog Archivists of the Future. Thanks once again to everyone who stopped by this humble blog since its humble origins in 1985—it's been lovely to meet you all. I'll be seeing you now and then at Crooked Timber or in a comment section yet to be determined.
I met Tom Buckley in 1987, not long after he met Nita Reigle, and one of the first things I learned about him was that he relished telling the story of how he met Nita Reigle. He assured me and Janet that he had noticed Nita months earlier in the course of his duties at the UVa hospital—"hmmmm!" he hmmmmed, raising his eyebrows dramatically—but had also noticed that she was wearing a wedding ring. A few months later, he caught a glimpse of her again, and, from across the room, immediately checked out her left hand. "Hmmmm," he hmmmmed, more emphatically this time, "no ring." He made his move a few seconds thereafter, and wound up putting a brand new ring on Nita's finger in 1988. And there was much rejoicing.
And why wouldn't there be? No one was as delightful or as silly or as sweet as Tom, and all of Nita's friends celebrated—as well they should have, because miraculously, Nita had found someone as delightful and as silly and as sweet as she was. Who else would name his house, nestled somewhere in the hills and woods of Charlottesville, "Buckocello"? Who else would greet friends by channeling Telly Savalas and growling, "Who loves ya, baby?" Who else would remember that the Little Rascals referred to people of short stature as "fidgets"? Who else would greet me, as I was struggling with writing an unwieldy dissertation, by asking me "how's the book report going?" That question did me no end of good: nothing puts things in perspective like having your 400-page dissertation called a "book report." But that's how Tom kept things in perspective: by gently deflating anxieties and obsessions. One night, Nita and Janet were talking about their work in the cardiac intensive care unit—this patient, that patient, the new crop of interns, the difficult ethics consult, and so forth. Tom turned to me and launched into a riff I've cited many times since: "it's so weird," he said, "no matter where I work, we go out afterwards and we talk shop. I used to work for Birdseye, making those 'frozen fresh' peas. After work we'd all go out for a beer, and goddamn if we didn't sit around talking about freezing the peas." "Well, yeah," I replied, "but you three are actually dealing with real people. I mean, it literally is life and death." "Ahhhh," Tom demurred, "it's freezing peas."
Now, lest anyone get the sense that Tom regarded his patients as mere Birdseye feed, let me explain that he was a neonatal intensive care nurse—and a brilliant one at that. While Nita and Janet were treating patients who came in with everything from your standard strokes and heart attacks to your genuinely weird fell-into-a-lake-after-drinking-24-beers and scraped-oneself-with-a-rusty-nail-while-housepainting cases, Tom was downstairs saving babies. On one long (and legendary) shift, Tom and a colleague had kept a precariously premature infant alive overnight by competing with each other to work the Ambu bag, manually squeezing oxygen into the child's teeny lungs for twelve hours. We are talking about a guy who served on the Board of Directors for the National Association of Neonatal Nurses Certification Committee and who was sent to rural China to help set up neonatal intensive care units. There's no telling how many children he saved or how many lives he touched. But he would be the last person to talk about any of this when we all got together. So, instead, the conversation about work would go like this: he would ask me, "how's the book report going?" and I would reply, "pretty good. How are the peas?" "Freezin' 'em fresh," Tom would say, whereupon we would proceed to talk about pretty much anything except our jobs.
Like all great souls, Tom loved a good joke even when the joke was on him. We hadn't known him very long before he told us the story of when his Bayside, Queens apartment was burglarized (by which I learned that Tom and I grew up within a two or three miles of each other, back in the day). Tom and his roommate called the police to report the missing stereo, and when they arrived the officers were flabbergasted by the ransacked state of the apartment. "Wow, these guys really destroyed the place," they said. "Do you have any enemies? This looks like a vendetta." Tom didn't admit to them—but cheerily admitted to us—that "this" was in fact the apartment's natural state.
And then there was the epic joke that took years to play out. I think it started when Tom and I were talking about our childhoods in Queens, and about the fact that there was no place to play stickball in Charlottesville. This would be outer-borough stickball, which involves a schoolyard with an appropriately distant home-run fence and a strike zone spray-painted on a wall, as opposed to Manhattan stickball, which involves a batter bouncing a ball on a manhole and swatting it. The former version, obviously, is a test of pitching, and can be played one-on-one—which was the point of our discussion. Eventually, we realized that we could devise a ramshackle stickball field by playing sideways across a bunch of UVa tennis courts at night, under the lights, long after the tennis players had left. We agreed to play a seven-game series, which Tom eventually won, 4-2, after three or four years: unfortunately, in the middle of the series Janet and I moved to Illinois, making stickball scheduling somewhat difficult. (Though Tom and I did play one game in Champaign, in a schoolyard with a ridiculously short porch, which Tom exploited for something like a dozen home runs.) But along the way, during the games or perhaps during a post-game beer, Tom and I fell to talking about hot sauce. (Not peas!) I learned that Tom was something of a hot sauce aficionado, one of those guys who puts hot sauce on everything from hot dogs to pancakes and who will not rest until he's found the sauce that makes his head asplode. So we agreed to try to get each other some seriously hot sauces, and to find out who could stand the heat. The following Christmas, he sent me a couple of jars of very fine, very hot sauces he'd found in (of all places) Charlottesville's Fashion Square shopping mall. (This would be long before the days when everything in the universe could be found on an Internet near you.) Trying to reciprocate the following year, I searched central Illinois for hot sauce—but because that area of the Midwest, in the early 1990s, was a place where people found Gulden's mustard too ethnic and burny for their tastes, I came up empty. The best I could do was to respond in jest, by buying Tom a two-gallon jug of salsa at Sam's Club. The salsa, of course, was mild. So I crossed out "mild" in magic marker and wrote "Extra Extra Hot! Danger!" instead, festooning the jug with skulls and crossbones. It was funny, kind of, but it was also a sad admission of defeat in the first round of the hot sauce playoffs.
OK, so now we're halfway through the joke. The following year, what should appear in the Champaign shopping mall but a temporary kiosk devoted to ... hot sauce! "Thank you, God," I murmured as I went up to the kiosk and told the hot saucepeople about my good friend Tom, who loves sauces called "Bat Guano" and "Holy Habanero" and the like. "Does he like really really hot sauces?" they asked. "Oh yes," I insisted, "he's looking for the hottest sauce on the planet." "Well, then," they replied, "we have just the sauce for him." They proceeded to show me Dave's Gourmet Insanity Sauce, and to give me a sample, they dipped the tip of a toothpick into the bottle. "Now, don't put this whole thing in your mouth," they warned. "Just touch your tongue to it." Quoi? I took the toothpick, skeptical that a teeny drop of sauce would tell me anything—until I actually got a couple of molecules of it on my tongue, at which point I burst out laughing. The sauce was indeed so insanely hot that even the microdrop I'd been given was enough to make my head asplode. "Oh, this is perfect," I said when the smoke had cleared, "one bottle of this stuff, thank you, and please gift-wrap it." And just like that, my Christmas shopping for Tom was done.
Well, it must have been the "Extra Extra Hot! Danger!" warnings I'd scrawled on the two-gallon jug of Sam's Utterly Innocuous Salsa the previous year that convinced Tom to blow off the notice on the Dave's Insanity Sauce label. That notice, no doubt the result of Dave's Insanity Legal Division, read as follows: "WARNING: Use this product one drop at a time. Keep away from eyes, pets and children. Not for people with heart or respiratory problems." Ordinarily, a warning like that, plus the tag line "the original hottest sauce in the universe" across the top of the label, would have put Tom on notice that he was dealing not so much with a hot sauce as with a chemical solvent or an incendiary device. But no, Tom decided that he'd seen many a hot sauce in the course of his life, and was not going to be scared off by a little sales-pitch hyperbole about the "hottest sauce in the universe." So he opened the bottle, gave it a sniff, and proceeded to run his tongue along the inside of the cap, thinking he could get a concentrated, efficient dose of insanity that way.
Three days later, when Tom was finally able to take some of the ice chips out of his mouth long enough to hold a conversation, he called me up and said simply, "You." Chomp, chomp, more ice chips. "Win."
Janet and I have so many indelible memories of Tom—of the day we held a tag sale and Tom brought the most hideous lamp we'd ever seen, an octagonal wooden thing with a hanging chain. But it was the way he brought it, limping up our lawn and barking at us in a pirate voice, clanking the chain behind him, that makes the memory indelibly Thomistic. Or our son Nick's memory of what he called, at age two, the "running Toms"—the photos of Tom finishing a couple of New York City marathons in the 1980s, which Nick found fascinating and we found totally impressive, especially since his times were somewhere in the three-and-a-half-hour range, indicating that the running Toms had just run 26 consecutive eight-minute miles (he ran thirteen NYC marathons. Thirteen!). Or of the gentleness and good humor and bursting pride with which he raised his daughters, Gwen and Ellen. Or of Nita and Tom's wedding reception, which was so much fun, complete with a rockabilly band and capped off by an ecstatic Tom doing an dionysian dance that somehow involved sliding repeatedly across the floor. Or the dearest and silliest memory of all: the night Nita and Tom and Janet and I went to dinner at what was then Charlottesville's first and only sushi restaurant, ate and drank and had a great old time, and then—this part was Tom's idea, of course—had a Couples Chicken Fight in the strip mall. That's right, a chicken fight. Janet got up on my shoulders and Nita climbed on Tom's, and we squared off and tangled and menaced each other menacingly until our laughter and our wobbliness began to make us a clear and present danger to ourselves and others. We learned an Important Life Lesson that night, namely, that it is good for good friends to have chicken fights every once in a while. And that you need to be especially careful on the dismount.
There can't be many humans who have enjoyed life more than Tom Buckley, or who have brought more love and happiness into the world. The boy was full of mischief, I tell you—but it was never the least bit mean-spirited; it was always the very best mischief, the kind perpetrated by people with kind eyes and warm, ready smiles. As Janet and I were trying to deal with the shock of his death, I remarked, "you know what never happened? No one ever came away from a party or a dinner or a casual get-together saying, 'that was nice, but Tom was a bit of a pill.' He was always hilarious, always sweet, always great company. Everyone else in the world is a bit of a pill sometimes. But not Tom." It is no wonder that six hundred people turned out to his funeral, stunned by the news but suffused with a sense of Tom's profound goodness. There was no one else in the world like Tom Buckley, and though the world is poorer for his untimely departure from it, his spirit will surely be sustained in the memories of the innumerable people whose lives he touched—and changed.
And now to go out with some appropriate music, something beautiful and elegiac, something about the frailty and the beauty and the preciousness and precariousness of our lives. Oh, I know:
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Sick and tired
So on Thursday night, after grading and returning my first batch of student papers, I decided it would be a really good time to get sick. Accordingly, I woke up on Friday with a wicked sore throat and assorted other symptoms—shaking, chills, weariness, and so forth. But no coughing or sneezing! Just a general sense of unease. And that was good, because late Friday afternoon I had to drive down to Baltimore, because many months ago I told the Maryland AAUP that I would speak to their fall meeting on October 9. Armed with ibuprofen and throat lozenges, I made the three-hour drive, had dinner with my hosts, then repaired to my hotel room and crashed at 11.
I awoke from a deep sleep alert and refreshed ... at 1:30 am. I then spent the next six hours slipping in and out of weird dreams, and finally roused my now-groggy self at 7:30. My talk was scheduled for 10, and I managed to pull myself together (shower, breakfast, more ibuprofen) in plenty of time. I had just enough energy to get through a one-hour talk and 30 minutes of questions, and just enough left over to make the three-hour return trip. I got back home at 4 and crashed again. But I had to go to a reception that evening, so rallied around 5:30 and put on my nice suit and my game face.
Sunday is usually a day of rest, but many months ago I accepted an invitation to speak at this event, thinking it would be fun. And it would have been, if I hadn't spent so much of Sunday morning and early afternoon curled up in bed. If you've seen TED presentations, you know that speakers don't read papers or work from notes, so I spent much of the week memorizing my 12-minute presentation on disability in "low" popular genres. I don't ordinarily have performance anxiety about speaking gigs, because I'm used to them by now ... but this was different: it would be part of a pretty amazing lineup, it would have to be tightly scripted and executed, it would be livestreamed and tweeted all over the place, and it would take place in front of 800 students in Penn State's Schwab Auditorium. I took the stage around 3:30 feeling like I was swathed in cotton—and, I see, looking as if I were stuffed with cotton too. But the talk seemed to go reasonably well. I did not faint, and I did not lose my train of thought and stare helplessly out into the middle distance. Fifteen seconds before I stepped out onto the stage, I thought there was a good chance that either one or the other might just happen, just this once. At the last moment, though, my Public Persona draped itself over me, and—whew!—I got through it.
But I basically had to divert all my meager energies to what should have been routine talks, which is why I am now four days behind on everything I was supposed to do between Thursday and today. Dear everyone who is waiting for something from me, I apologize. I am back on the case, feeling much better, thanks, and will get to you momentarily. And, of course, my schedule will be a bit more flexible once I am free of this aged blog, this paltry thing.
But I have one more post before I sign off, and one more task to accomplish today. I direct your attention to the New APPS blog, which you should henceforth read regularly, and especially to this timely post by John Protevi, with the distressingly dead-on accurate title, "Stanley Fish Doesn't Know What He's Talking About." It's funny, you know. I devoted a good portion of my talk to the Maryland AAUP to arguing one of the real crises of the humanities is that so many humanists say so many stupid, wrongheaded, uninformed things about their fields, all of which take the form of "we know we're ugly and pointless and nobody takes our classes and everybody is right to hate us." That lament, having been disseminated steadily over the past two decades, is now responsible for the widespread attitude that when university programs and departments have to be eliminated, of course the humanities should go first, because they're a bunch of boutique disciplines and also they lose money and have to be subsidized by other departments and also enrollments have declined precipitously since 1970 and also they have been ruined by trendy theorymongers and queer feminist theory deconstructionists and also there was the Sokal Hoax, Q.E.D. And so it is that when SUNY-Albany looks to cut programs, they look first to French, Italian, Russian, classics, and theater.
To his credit, Stanley Fish knows why the SUNY-Albany decision is a travesty, but by starting from the premise that the humanities don't earn their keep, he's given away the store. Do read Christopher Newfield's latest, and while you're at it, read this indispensable Chris Newfield essay too (.pdf), and then send it to a legislator—or a New York Times blogger—near you. Two relevant excerpts:
First we must understand that though the humanities in general and literary studies in particular are poor and struggling, we are not naturally poor and struggling. We are not on a permanent austerity budget because we don't have the intrinsic earning power of the science and engineering fields and aren't fit enough to survive in the modern university. I suggest, on the basis of a case study, that the humanities fields are poor and struggling because they are being milked like cash cows by their university administrations. The money that departments generate through teaching enrollments that the humanists do not spend on their almost completely unfunded research is routinely skimmed and sent elsewhere in the university. As the current university funding model continues to unravel, the humanities' survival as national fields will depend on changing it. (271)
The humanities and social sciences are major donors to science and engineering budgets. Major dogmas about university research turn out to be wrong: science and engineering research costs money, and humanities and social sciences teaching subsidizes it. Furthermore, humanities and social sciences students receive a cheap education—that is, they get back less than they put in. Making matters worse, university officials have historically perpetuated the myth that the science and engineering fields are the generous subsidizers of the "soft" humanities and social science fields. This concealment of the humanities' contribution to the progress of science fed the vicious cycle of the culture wars: underfunded humanities fields cannot buy respectability through the media, think tanks, or prominent science agencies, a limitation that gives free rein to assertions that the humanities produce only pseudo-knowledge. This belief has lowered the humanities' status, which in turn has justified flat or declining funding, which further lowers the humanities' status, which encourages further cuts. (279)
Yep, that sounds about right. Read the whole thing, as they used to say on blogs. Read New APPS. And come back and read my last American Airspace post, which should be up by Friday.
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Friday, October 08, 2010
Bad Futures—one week from today!
The .pdf of the program copy is available in an Intertube near you. It is not true that I wrote the whole thing just to be able to use the phrase "zombie playoffs." But it's close enough.
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Thursday, October 07, 2010
On loving queer kids
Much, much too busy to blog these days. You want to read stuff on the Internets, go read Richard Kim. You'll be glad you did.
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Finally, a Senate candidate worthy of Moloch's endorsement
Some of the YouTube comments are pretty good, too. "Build a bridge out of her" ... yes, a bridge ... to nowhere! Bwah hah hah, etc.
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Monday, October 04, 2010
And how did your team do this weekend?
For a long time now I've been rooting for the Neoliberals. I know, I don't talk much about them on this blog, where my commentaries on sports have been confined to posts on hockey and the occasional stray comment on baseball or golf or Penn State women's volleyball. But I've been following the Neoliberals ever since they started out as an expansion franchise in 1973, and it's been most gratifying. They had some modest success in the New York area at first, taking advantage of the city's financial crisis in 1975 and instituting some dynamic rules modifications that were truly game-changing. But it wasn't until the advent of free agency in 1980 that the team really took off. Since then, they've been on a 30-year winning streak, and some people—including me!—now consider them unstoppable.
Their success can be attributed in part to their innovative "Rewarding Excellence" program, which concentrates the distribution of resources to top performers. The Neoliberals are in it to win it, year in and year out, and that's why they're not wasting time and money on poor or middling talent.
Perhaps most impressive, they've beaten their traditional rivals, Social Welfare State, for thirty consecutive years (often in routs), emphatically putting an end to State's decades of dominance in head-to-head matchups. Even in years when SW State seemed to gain back some ground, in 1993 and 2009, the Neolibs' smothering "Third Way" defense managed to hold their opponents to minimal, short-term gains and merely symbolic victories.
Still, they've had their setbacks now and then, like any team. Their deregulation campaign has always featured a strong offense, but occasionally an oil rig will explode or a financial system will collapse or a biosphere will degrade here and there. Thankfully, after seeing Gasland last night, I'm reassured that the team's strong bipartisan support will ensure that high-energy players will never again be tied down by pesky nanny-state "holding" and "interference" regulations. Yes, the player pensions are still too high, and the league probably needs to appoint a blue-ribbon commission to look into alternative, personalized retirement systems. And the minimum salary and child-labor laws aren't ideal, since they inhibit franchise growth and recruiting, respectively. But I have every faith that the Neolibs will overcome these obstacles just as they've triumphed over everything else, and find some way to combine 21st-century technology with 19th-century capitalism.
The Neoliberals: because it's fun to root for a winner for a change.
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Deba church
- 自治区: Basque Country
- 省 / 岛: Gipuzkoa
Deba is an important holiday destination. The church of Asunción is one of the most interesting places in town, from a cultural standpoint. This Gothic temple was declared a National Monument. Deba represents traditional tourism from the most positive perspective: "as an escape from overcrowded cities, in search of peace and quiet". The sea and the mountains offer a wide variety of leisure and holiday activities. The municipality of Deba has three urban centres: Deba, Itziar and Lastur, plus some 130 hamlets scattered around its territory. The village of Deba, located on the right bank of the Deba estuary, has a big and beautiful beach. On Lersundi street we find the magnificent façade and atrium of the church of Nuestra Señora de la Asunción, a Basque Gothic temple from the 16th century, with a beautiful cloister of the same style. The Baroque City Hall is another noteworthy building. In addition to the civil and religious patrimony, Deba also has a rich archaeological heritage, specially in the caves of Ekain, Ermittia and Urtiaga. The most important fiestas in Deba are the festivities of San Roque, the town's patron saint. These are celebrated between August 14th and 20th. The beginning of the celebration is quite interesting, as well as the drum circles, the running of the bulls ("encierros"), the bullfights with young bulls and novice bullfighters ("novilladas"), the traditional dances, and the "verbenas",or open-air parties.
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Texans safety Ed Reed still isn't sure when he's going to be able to get on the field with his new teammates, but he was much more certain about one aspect of his hip injury on Tuesday.
There have been some questions about whether or not the Texans were aware of the severity of his injury when they signed Reed, but Reed said Tuesday that there was no talk of surgery until after he joined the Texans. While there were reports that the Ravens knew Reed's hip was troublesome, Reed said an MRI was done on the hip after he experienced discomfort while working out in Houston and coach Gary Kubiak also said that "obviously" the Texans didn't know there was a possibility that Reed's debut with the team would be delayed by a torn labrum before signing him.
With that out of the way, Reed moved on to talk about when the injury occurred. He doesn't know for certain, but suggested that a kick delivered by Patriots quarterback Tom Brady could be to blame.
"Only play I can look at is when I got kicked by a certain quarterback but even then I played in the Super Bowl and you saw what happened there," Reed said, via Tania Ganguli of the Houston Chronicle. "Even then I had two MCL sprains, a second degree one in the left in the Super Bowl in the first quarter and played through that. So if you've got any questions about my heart and how I play and how I work."
Brady was fined $10,000 for the kick, which came as Brady was sliding down late in the first half of the AFC Championship Game, and Reed, as he mentioned, went on to play two weeks later. Whether or not that rules out the possibility of the kick being the culprit is unknown, but it also probably doesn't matter all that much to the Texans.
They signed Reed to be a leader on their defense and in the secondary, something that they'd like to see happen sooner rather than later regardless of why Reed needed to have an operation.


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Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Ganymede's Shadow (Full-Disk, Color)
Hubble treats astronomers to gorgeous close-up views of the eerie outer planets. But it's a bit of a trick when it seems like the planet's looking back at you! This happened on April 21, 2014, when Hubble was being used to monitor changes in Jupiter's immense Great Red Spot (GRS) storm. During the exposures, the shadow of the Jovian moon Ganymede swept across the center of the GRS. This gave the giant planet the uncanny appearance of having a pupil in the center of a 10,000-mile-diameter "eye." Momentarily, Jupiter took on the appearance of a Cyclops planet! The shadows from Jupiter's four major satellites routinely cross the face of Jupiter. This natural-color picture was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3.
NASA, ESA, and A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center);
Acknowledgment: C. Go and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)


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Ipamorelin is a growth hormone releasing pep***e. It stimulates the body to release more human growth hormone and igf-1. Increases in gh and igf-1 can result in many benefits including:
- Builds Lean Tissue
- Lowers Body Fat
- Improved Recovery from training
- anti aging
- Improves Mood and Sleep Patterns
Ipamorelin is similar to other GHRP's such as GHRP-2 and GHRP-6. However Ipamorelin does not cause sudden spikes in prolactin or cortisol like GHRP-2 and GHRP-6 can do. Although I have to add that spike is usually minimal with GHRP 2/6. Both of those hormones when elevated can cause negative side effects. Cortisol is a steroid hormone that is released when stressed and can be very catabolic. Prolactin counteracts the effect of dopamine, which is responsible for sexual arousal. Elevated prolactin can cause a variety of unwanted physical and psychological effects.
Raun K et al. (1998) highlighted ipamorelin's beneficial effects over the other ghrp's. In pentobarbital anaesthetised rats, ipamorelin released GH with a potency and efficacy comparable to GHRP-6. In conscious swine, gh release after ipamorelin injection was high and again vey similar to GHRP6. In the same study GHRP-2 displayed higher potency but lower efficacy. The specificity for GH release was studied in swine. They found none of the GH secretagogues tested affected FSH, LH, PRL or TSH plasma levels. Administration of both GHRP-6 and GHRP-2 resulted in increased plasma levels of ACTH and cortisol. Very surprisingly, ipamorelin did not release ACTH or cortisol in levels significantly different from those observed following GHRH stimulation. This lack of effect on ACTH and cortisol plasma levels was evident even when extremely high doses of were used. Ipamorelin was the first GHRP-receptor agonist with a selectivity for GH release similar to that displayed by GHRH.
A pharmacological profiling using GHRP and growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) antagonists clearly demonstrated that ipamorelin, like GHRP-6, stimulates GH release via a GHRP-like receptor. However ipameolin is slow in its delivery unlike GHRP's which spike GH levels at a faster rate. This another notable difference when researching ghrp's. Moreover it has been shown that Ipamorelin is able to exert a dynamic control effect on the somatotroph population and on GH hormone content (Jiménez-Reina L et al. 2002).
A variety of promising effects have been displayed when ipamorelin has been studied. Adeghate E et al. (2004) examined the effect ipamorelin had on insulin secretion from pancreatic tissue fragments of normal and diabetic rats. Ipamorelin evoked significant (p<0.04) increases in insulin secretion from the pancreas of normal and diabetic rats. It was shown that ipamorelin stimulates insulin release through the calcium channel and the adrenergic receptor pathways.
Nitrogen balance is very important in humans. A positive value is often found during periods of growth, tissue repair or pregnancy. This means that the intake of nitrogen into the body is greater than the loss of nitrogen from the body, so there is an increase in the total body pool of protein. A negative value can be associated with burns, fevers, wasting diseases and other serious injuries and during periods of fasting. This means that the amount of nitrogen excreted from the body is greater than the amount of nitrogen ingested. Aagaard NK et al. (2009) studied the metabolic effects of Ipamorelin on selected hepatic measures of alpha-amino-nitrogen conversion during steroid-induced catabolism. Prednisolone was the steroid used to induce this catabolism. In prednisolone treated rats ipamorelin reduced CUNS by 20% (p<0.05), decreased the expression of urea cycle enzymes, neutralised N-balance, and normalized or improved organ N-contents. Therefore accelerated nitrogen wasting in the liver and other organs caused by prednisolone treatment was counteracted by treatment with Ipamorelin.
Ipamorelin is ideal for pre bed dosing due to it's long active life and minimal effect on hunger levels. When other GHRP's are used such as GHRP 2/6 they can cause a sudden increase in appetite which can be awkward pre bed. Doses as little as 200mcg are highly effective but I feel Ipamorelin truly shines when you boom dose it. I have gone up to as much as 1mg pre bed and that was incredible. Although for most a dose of 500mcg would be more than enough when combined with a GHRH. My favourite pep***e cycle to date has been CJC-1295 DAC with GHRP-2 through the day. Then a high dose of Ipam used pre bed.
Finally just want to list what I feel is a key advantage ipamorelin has over GH injections in a research environment. Unlike GH injections it does not shut down the body's natural production of this hormone, it just enhances it. In the long run this is a huge factor and I feel future studies will highlight the importance of this in relation to health.
1. Aagaard NK, Grøfte T, Greisen J, Malmlöf K, Johansen PB, Grønbaek H, Ørskov H, Tygstrup N, Vilstrup H (2009) Growth hormone and growth hormone secretagogue effects on nitrogen balance and urea synthesis in steroid treated rats. PMID: 19231263 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
2. Adeghate E, Ponery AS (2004) Mechanism of ipamorelin-evoked insulin release from the pancreas of normal and diabetic rats. PMID: 15665799 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
3. Raun K, Hansen BS, Johansen NL, Thøgersen H, Madsen K, Ankersen M, Andersen PH (1998) Ipamorelin, the first selective growth hormone secretagogue. PMID: 9849822 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
4. Jiménez-Reina L, Cañete R, de la Torre MJ, Bernal G (2002) Influence of chronic treatment with the growth hormone secretagogue Ipamorelin, in young female rats: somatotroph response in vitro. PMID: 12168778 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Each week, we'll ask our stable of scribes across the globe to weigh in on the most important NBA topics of the day — and then give you a chance to step on the scale, too, in the comments below.
BLOGTABLE: Level of concern for Team USA? | Will Warriors, Cavs meet in 2017 Finals? |
Who will have biggest impact on Knicks?
> Never in NBA history have the same two teams played each other in the Finals three years in a row. I know it's only August, but are we destined for a historic Cavs-Warriors rematch next June?
Steve Aschburner, NBA.com: I can't see myself picking anything other than Cleveland-Golden State when we do season predictions in October. No team in the Eastern Conference closed the gap on the Cavaliers, and the Warriors' biggest obstacle will be themselves. Fitting in Kevin Durant's offense game, notably his "touches," won't be simple without sacrifice by others. Klay Thompson in particular might wind up texting and calling Russell Westbrook a bit seeking ways to cope. And let's remember, Father Time catches up with all NBA players but Crazy Uncle Injury picks and chooses those he torments – if Steph Curry, Durant or Draymond Green comes up lame for any length of time, the West could split wide open. Well, for San Antonio and the Clippers, anyway.
Fran Blinebury, NBA.com: Yes. And it will be spectacular.
Shaun Powell, NBA.com: No, and I say that only because history is against it. On the surface, those two are the Goliaths of their respective conferences and therefore it would make most sense if they're the last teams standing. Still, I suspect LeBron James' 6-year run to The Finals will be snapped. I just can't answer by whom, and how. Just a silly hunch that somebody else in the East — Toronto or maybe Boston — will sneak through.
John Schuhmann, NBA.com: It's very difficult to imagine any other scenario. The Warriors took the best player off the roster of team that almost kept them from making The Finals last season. The Cavs, meanwhile, cruised through the Eastern Conference playoffs and no team behind them made enough changes this summer to be much of a threat.
Sekou Smith, NBA.com: No one had won 73 games in a season before the Warriors pulled it off last season, so I'm choosing to believe that we'll see a bit more history made in June of 2017. While I think an upset of either team along the way makes for an infinitely more interesting postseason, I'm just not sure I can identify the team that's supposed to pull that upset off. The whole parity idea is lost on me. I want to see the best of the best battle it out for the title every year. If it happens to be the Warriors and Cavaliers for a third straight season, I'm fine with Round 3.
Ian Thomsen, NBA.com: Cleveland will be there. I'm not so sure about the Warriors, who will need to go through some adjustment pains along the way. Can they figure it out in one season? We saw how the San Antonio Spurs were more talented last year with LaMarcus Aldridge and yet not as effective, in part because of changes to their style and a weakening of their bench. Golden State is going to win championships, that is a given, but Durant is not some plug-and-play component that can be added automatically. The guess here is that the Warriors are going to learn how to win multiple championships by way of losing in the Western playoffs next spring.
Lang Whitaker, NBA.com's All Ball blog: It may feel that way, but if we've learned anything from watching the NBA over the years it's that expectations rarely manage to match reality. The Cavs and Warriors certainly seem like runaway favorites to end up in the Finals, and if I had to pick I'd probably go with them just to be safe. That said, there's a little nagging part of me wondering about the Warriors. It's not that I don't think Kevin Durant won't be helpful, it's that I wonder if losing Harrison Barnes, Andrew Bogut, Festus Ezeli, Leandro Barbosa and assistant coach Luke Walton won't completely be outweighed by the addition of Durant (and David West and Zaza Pachulia). The last two seasons, the Warriors built something of a dynasty with a lot of moving parts. This season, the parts have changed and I don't think the Warriors will just waltz back to The Finals.


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15 May 2012
Perspective view of the enormous Valles Marineris canyon on Mars.
ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum).
View from an imaginary point above the adjacent highland across the central Valles Marineris from south to north. The three central valleys – Melas Chasma, Candor Chasma and Ophir Chasma, each around 200 kilometres wide – can be seen running parallel to one another. Candor Chasma is visible in the foreground, with Ophir Chasma behind. The steep cliffs in the background and the centre of the image are around 5000 metres high and show traces of intensive erosion; the remnants of massive landslides can be seen at the foot of the cliff wall. It is unclear how this massive structure was formed.
Individual swarm elements communicate and share the latest data on the terrain with one another. A ground station then forwards all relevant data to Earth.
Schematic representation of the navigation of an airborne unit as it searches for life in Valles Marineris.
Valles Marineris, the largest canyon system in the Solar System and a potential refuge for extraterrestrial life, is 7000 metres deep and stretches for some 4000 kilometres along the Martian equator. But this complex terrain of mountains, gorges, canyons and caverns can only be explored efficiently and cost-effectively using a swarm of airborne and ground units. The Valles Marineris Explorer project is jointly funded by the Space Administration of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and the German state of Bavaria, and involves researchers from Technische Universität Braunschweig, the DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation and Technische Universität München. Conducting simulations and practical experiments on Earth, this project aims to devise navigation solutions to enable such a robotic swarm to search for life deep in the craters and canyons of another planet.
Searching for life in Valles Marineris
The Valles Marineris canyon on Mars is an interesting exploration target; the deep breaks in the Martian crust offer new insights into the geological history of the Red Planet and, possibly, prospects for finding extraterrestrial life. Spacecraft only image areas visible from orbit, so they are not suitable for finding evidence of microorganisms. Semi-autonomous rovers, which have been used on the surface for some time now, can only explore easily accessible areas with no large obstacles. "But these places are of rather limited interest in the search for extraterrestrial life on Mars. If life did develop on Mars billions of years ago, it could only have survived in protected niches, because the environmental conditions have since become hostile to life. The deep chasms in Valles Marineris represent such a biological niche. The atmospheric pressure in such places may even be high enough for pools of water to exist – the ideal habitat for microorganisms, as we know from Earth. These places, which are hard to get to, can only be explored with any efficiency by a robotic swarm," says Oliver Funke, leader of the DLR Space Administration elements of the project.
Exploration with a robotic swarm
The key technologies for dependable position finding with a swarm of airborne devices and rovers that do not rely on an infrastructure must first be researched and tested on Earth. This has potential for other uses, such as navigation underground or during search and rescue operations in regions devastated by catastrophes. But what form might such a mission scenario take? A swarm is despatched from a base station to the target area. Upon arrival, it will need to navigate through the unknown terrain autonomously, reliably and accurately. Potential obstacles will need to be detected and bypassed or flown over. The individual elements of the robotic swarm will need to be able to locate one another in order to orientate themselves while they are exploring the target area by means of cameras, laser scanners and measuring instruments. These two tasks are being combined into a compact navigation solution, under the leadership of Technische Universität Braunschweig.
"While the airborne elements will survey large areas quickly and generate a map, the rovers will explore the mapped area and any objects of interest in detail. The orientation of the rovers will be improved by the better view from the airborne elements and the knowledge of their positional relationships. This can be extremely helpful both in the Valles Marineris on Mars and for catastrophes on Earth," says Funke, explaining the benefit of swarm navigation. Street maps quickly become useless for logistical purposes in a city devastated by an earthquake, because of the rubble. In this event, accessible routes for heavy machinery need to be found quickly.
As soon as all the swarm elements are in place, a communication network used to transmit the data acquired about difficult terrain to all the swarm elements is established. The DLR Institute of Communications and Navigation is working on the technical solutions for this swarm communication and cooperation, and is building a Mars scenario simulator. The network established by the swarm provides redundancy for the exploration and data transfer as well as in the event of failure of individual swarm elements – but if several systems fail, these faults must be compensated for. Technische Universität München is working on this challenge, as well as flight control and optical navigation.
Fast, autonomous navigation in difficult terrain
But a large number of technological challenges will need to be solved before an airborne device can be used on Mars. Due to the lack of systems such as GPS or Galileo there, an airborne device has to rely on the terrain and on a limited number of onboard sensors for navigation. "Airborne devices will need to use the data acquired immediately for flight control, so navigation must operate substantially more autonomously than with the NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. It takes 40 minutes for a radio signal to travel from Earth to Mars and back, so remote control via telemetry is out of the question. The airborne device must therefore be capable of exploring independently," says Funke. At the moment, there are large gaps in our capabilities for exploring other planets; the partners in the Valles Marineris Explorer project are looking to close these gaps.
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