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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution – Wiki Article
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Amanda Bynes And The Illuminati
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You may be reading this because, like me, you usually spend a few minutes each day making sure you’ve trawled the main SEO news publications for new, useful thought pieces on organic search, analytics, or other aspects of online marketing. But have you ever thought which of those sites statistically provides the best content? Or have you ever wondered if what people on these sites write about ever really changes? The sunsetting of Google Reader forced me to find out
I’m sure you’re all by now aware of Google Reader’s demise; to many of you this story will have barely warranted a second glance, but for an SEO news addict like me it is a serious pain in the ass.
Since March 26, 2009, I have been using Reader’s “star” functionality to highlight SEO resources I feel will be useful to me again at some point in the future, or warrant sharing with my team.
The result of this obsessive reading and starring of RSS feeds, usually on the bus in the morning, was an easily-accessible, hand-curated database of great articles covering almost any conceivable SEO topic stretching back 4 years.
While migrating to a new RSS reader, The Old Reader, I realized that I couldn’t transfer my starred items.
The good news was Google allowed me to get a backup of them as a .json file. The bad news was that no RSS reader (to my knowledge) had the functionality to import them alongside the feeds I subscribe to.
End result: I was faced with the task of cleaning and formatting the data in the .json file if I wanted to still be able to access my 4 year-old collection of useful blog posts and news items.
I soon realized that although this task was onerous, it would provide me with a great opportunity to: 1. Build a great resource for other SEO professionals 2. Understand how my perception of “a great SEO article” had changed since 2009 3. Rate the major SEO publications based on whose feed had received the most stars.
I won’t go through how you can filter and clean a .json file into something useful, but if you want to have a go, you’ll probably find it useful to know how to remove blank cells from a list without changing the order of items, how to convert UNIX timestamps to dates, and you’ll also need the SEOTools extension for Excel. Contact me if you’re interested to know more.
The first thing I want to do is share my article collection. Obviously, whether an article from an RSS feed was starred or not was purely subjective, so I am not saying this is a definitive collection of every amazing article published since 2009!
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Everyone in SEO is talking about ita new Penguin update is on the way and it is rumored that it will make last Aprils ruthless Penguin update look like childs play. People are running scared, wondering if their site, and business, will be slammed like so many others were last year.
In this article I will review 6 ways to protect your site so you can sleep safe and sound, knowing traffic to your site wont dry up overnight. And if youve already been hit, Chuck Price gives some great suggestions for recovery.
1. Audit your Links Monthly
Start by running your backlinks and getting a baseline. How many of your links are from high quality vs low quality sites? And who is actually linking to you?
If you find links from spammy or low quality sites, why not email the site and request for the link to be removed? If you do, document this! Keep track of everyone youve emailed and when. You may need this information if you DO get penalized and have to file a reconsideration request.
There are a number of SEO tools you can use to monitor your backlinks. Pick your favorite and dont forget to do this every month!
2. Whats your Anchor Density?
High anchor density for money terms is one of the main indicators of SERP manipulation that leads to Penguin penalties.
Keeping an eye on the anchor density of your keywords is important. Anchor density will change constantly as new links are being built. Every month, make sure you run an anchor density report and make sure you are under 15% for a money term.
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With gun control in the news, Lyle Denniston looks at the argument that a new constitutional amendment would be the only way to satisfy groups on both sides of the issue.
Opinion polls suggest that a majority recognize a right to bear arms, subject to reasonable regulations protecting public safety. This strong dual commitment, if clarified and entrenched in our Constitution, could reassure most, though not all, of us. Before you mock the idea of a constitutional amendment, consider that hardly anyone is happy with our unstable status quo: gun enthusiasts fear their rights are under constant threat; gun control advocates point to the danger of illegal guns and easy access to firearms. A new gun-rights amendment would need to articulate a basic consensus that would let both sides claim victory.
Zachary Elkins, a government professor at the University of Texas, in an op-ed column April 5 in The New York Times, Rewrite The Second Amendment: The fight over gun rights can be settled with a constitutional change.
checkIn the 222 years since the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution, Americans in every generation have toyed with the idea of adding more amendments. At any given point, at least a handful of proposed changes circulate in the body politic. And yet, only 17 additional amendments have actually made it into the Constitution.
There are a couple of lessons in this history. One of them, in fact, can be found in a phrase that Professor Elkins wrote at the end of his column: the need for a basic consensus before an amendment can succeed. Another is that, since 1803 and the Supreme Court decision in Marbury v. Madison, Americans have more or less trusted the Supreme Court to provide change when it was deemed truly necessary.
And, if the Supreme Court got it wrong, contradicting some basic consensus prevailing across the country, the formal process of amendment under Article V has been available to make the correction. Indeed, six of the 17 amendments since 1791just about a thirdwere added for just that purpose.
It is important to note, though, that only two of those were quick in coming: the 11th Amendment, reinforcing state sovereignty, came just two years after a ruling by the justices in 1793, and the 26th Amendment, guaranteeing 18 as the minimum age for voting in all elections, came within about a year after a 1970 decision.
The other four responses to the court had to simmer for some timeone might say until a basic consensus had formed. Those were the three post-Civil War amendments (the 13th, 14th, and 15th), not added until at least eight years after the courts decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford, and the 16th Amendment, allowing an income tax, 18 years following the courts decision in Pollock v. Farmers Loan and Trust Co..
Judicial reviewthe notion that the job of interpreting the Constitutions formal meaning is better performed as a judicial than a political functionis now widely accepted in America, although not universally. One thing clearly to its credit is that it has prevented the Constitution from ballooning into a huge document that reflects every passing fancy in politics, without any sense of lasting value. Free people need to know what the constitutional rules are, and frequent changes in the basic rules add too much uncertainty.
Professor Elkins plea for a clarifying amendment for the Second Amendments guarantee of a right to keep and bear arms is based largely on his argument that the Supreme Court has not yet adopted fixed doctrine on what the Second Amendment means. That is his view of the justices 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller. Its unsettled nature, he suggests, was due to the 5-4 vote in that case.
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Unique among the human body’s larger organs, the liver has a remarkable ability to recover from injury. An individual can lose a big chunk of it in an accident or during surgery, but as long as at least a quarter of the organ remains intact and generally free of scars, it can grow back to its full size and function. Alas, this capacity for self-regeneration does not hold for other body parts. A salamander can regrow its tail, but a person cannot regain an amputated leg or renew sections of the brain lost to Alzheimer’s disease. For this feat, humans need helpand that is the promise of an emerging field of research called regenerative medicine.
Stem cellsprogenitor cells that can give rise to a variety of tissuesplay an important role in this endeavor. Scientists are learning how to mix a hodgepodge of sugar molecules, proteins and fibers to create an environment in which the stem cells can develop into replacement tissue. As the following stories show, investigators have made strides in replacing damaged heart tissue and rebuilding muscle. They are also in the early stages of developing new nerve cells. Some of these advances could emerge from the lab as treatments in a few years, or they may take decades, or they may ultimately fail. Here are a few of the most promising ones.
The Future of Medicine Special Report
A Change of Heart: Stem Cells May Transform Treatment for Heart Failure Stem cells may transform the way doctors treat heart failure
Doctors Repair Soldiers’ Wounds with Biological Scaffolding Material Regrowing muscles, tendons and even organs may be possible using nature’s own adhesive
Use for 3-D Printers: Creating Internal Blood Vessels for Kidneys, Livers, Other Large Organs To build large organs that work properly, researchers need to find a way to lace them with blood vessels
Neural Stem Cell Transplants May One Day Help Parkinson’s Patients, Others Neurodegenerative disorders devastate the brain, but doctors hope one day to replace lost cells
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Future of Medicine : Advances in Regenerative Medicine Teach Body How to Rebuild Damaged Muscles, Tissues and Organs
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New Rochelle, NY, Mar 28, 2013Explosive growth in the field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine has led to innovative and promising applications and techniques, many of which are now being tested in human clinical trials. Hot topics, research advances, and transformative publications that are driving the field forward are highlighted in a comprehensive overview of the field presented in Tissue Engineering, Part B, Reviews, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. publishers (http://www.liebertpub.com). The article is available on the Tissue Engineering website (http://www.liebertpub.com/ten).
Matthew Fisher, PhD and Robert Mauck, PhD, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia Veterans Administration Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, identify four key areas in which the field is progressing. The first main theme, in the area of tissue engineering, focuses on advances in grafts and materials, including human or animal tissue from which the cells are removed and the remaining scaffold is used to regenerate new tissues, as well as scaffolds made of new types of biomaterials. Second, in the field of regenerative medicine, the authors highlight the role of novel scaffolds and various growth and control factors in promoting tissue formation and, for example, bone healing.
In the article “Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: Recent Innovations and the Transition to Translation,” (http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ten.teb.2012.0723) the authors identify two additional areas that signal progress in the field: the increasing number of applications advancing into clinical trials; and the growing use of novel types of cells, such as induced pluripotent stem cells.
“Considering the rapid pace of growth and development in regenerative medicine, it is imperative that we fully consider recent advances,” says Reviews Co-Editor-in-Chief John P. Fisher, PhD, Professor and Associate Chair, Fischell Department of Bioengineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD. “Dr. Matthew Fisher and Dr. Robert Mauck have wonderfully reviewed the efforts in the tissue engineering field over the past few years, highlighting advances in biomaterials, cell-based constructs, and translational endeavors.”
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Tissue Engineering is an authoritative peer-reviewed journal published monthly in print and online in three parts: Part A–the flagship journal; Part BReviews; and Part CMethods. Led by Co-Editors-In-Chief Antonios Mikos, PhD, Louis Calder Professor at Rice University, Houston, TX, and Peter C. Johnson, MD, Vice President, Research and Development, Avery Dennison Medical Solutions of Chicago, IL and President and CEO, Scintellix, LLC, Raleigh, NC, the Journal brings together scientific and medical experts in the fields of biomedical engineering, material science, molecular and cellular biology, and genetic engineering. Tissue Engineering is the Official Journal of the Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS). Complete tables of content and a sample issue may be viewed on the Tissue Engineering website (http://www.liebertpub.com/ten).
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Philadelphia magazine published an article called Being White in Philly, with the subtitle, Whites, race, class, and the things that never get said. Apparently the Mayor of Philadelphia, Michael Nutter, thinks theres not even a constitutional right to say those things; in a letter to the Philadelphia Human Relations Commission, the mayor argues,
While I fully recognize that constitutional protections afforded the press are intended to protect the media from censorship by the government, the First Amendment, like other constitutional rights, is not an unfettered right, and notwithstanding the First Amendment, a publisher has a duty to the public to exercise its role in a responsible way. I ask the Commission to evaluate whether the speech employed in this essay is not the reckless equivalent of shouting fire! in a crowded theater, its prejudiced, fact-challenged generalizations an incitement to extreme reaction.
The implication which I think is very strong that the speech is indeed unprotected by the First Amendment under the incitement exception is absolutely wrong: Under Brandenburg v. Ohio and Hess v. Indiana, the speech in the article is clearly protected. (Its true that a narrow range of speech that is intended and likely to produce imminent illegal conduct, with imminent meaning within hours or at most a few days, rather than at some unspecified future time, is unprotected, but the magazine article definitely does not fit within that.) And its quite troubling, I think, when a mayor (who has power over, among others, the Police Department) suggests that the expression of opinions that he disapproves of about race is constitutionally unprotected.
The specific call in the mayors letter, which is for the Commission to conduct an inquiry into the state of racial issues, biases, and attitudes within and among the many communities and neighborhoods in the City of Philadelphia, and to consider specifically whether Philadelphia Magazine and the writer, Bob Huber are appropriate for rebuke by the Commission, is not as troubling both the mayor and the Commission have the right to express their own views, and indeed it is commonly argued that the proper alternative to suppression of speech is counterspeech. But the Mayors rationale wasnt just, this speech is constitutionally protected but so is our response. Rather, the Mayor expressly suggested that the speech in the article was unprotected, and therefore punishable outright and not just worthy of public disapproval.
Thanks to John Bennett for the pointer.
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Ezra Levant, the carnival barker of the conservative movement in Canada and the foremost heel to Canadian progressives, was trying to explain the problem with environmentalism.
I have no problem with treating the environment on an issue by issue basis: weve got to fix this or solve that, he said. But environmentalism is a philosophy, like most words ending with ism. Socialism, communism hinduism, its a faith. And so the question is if your true ideology is conservatism or libertarianism, and you also think you can be an environmentalism person, you may have a conflict there.
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Mr. Levant and Mr. Solberg were one of three short debates that preceded the arrival of the star attraction of this weekends Manning Networking Conference. After a short introduction from Preston Manning, the would-be grandfather of Canadian conservatism, Ron Paul arrived on stage to warm applause and what sounded like the theme from Star Wars.
The American libertarian, a whimsical little old man, is an icon of ideological purity. His answer to most any issue of social order and well-being is liberty. In a world of compromise and contradiction, he is a model of consistency. And consistency of thought has its appeal. Up and until the point you realize it means opposing the Civil Rights Act.
The spirit of liberty seems like its alive and well in Canada, he ventured upon taking the lectern, winning whoops from the crowd.
After explaining that he thought the world was undergoing profound change in the direction of liberty, Mr. Paul took a moment to discuss labels.
This is a conservative group and Im seen as a conservative, but even the term conservative has relative terms. You know, if you were in the Soviet Union, when it was starting to come apart, the conservatives were the ones who wanted to conserve Marxism and the Liberals were the ones who wanted to believe in liberty, he explained. The founders of the United States called themselves liberals and that term was in many ways destroyed and undermined. Today, you know, one of the terms that I used to always have sympathy for because it sounds goodshouldnt we all be progressives, shouldnt we want to look in the future and see new things. But progressives, I dont know how the word is used up here, but in the States its a bad term, if youre a conservative. But maybe thats true here too. But then the term libertarian comes up and that has a controversial connotation. So you have moderates and libertarians and conservatives and liberals and progressives and socialists. And terminology is very tricky. So Ive simplified my terminology for what I believe in to a simple term and that is interventionism. If you believe in interventionism across the board, that means you want the government to tell us what to do with our personal lives, you want the government to tell us what to do with our economic activity and you allow the government to tell other people around the world what to do. So guess what? Ive come down on the side of saying, I am a non-interventionist.
This pronouncement won more applause and more whoops.
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Since search quality indicators have become an increasingly important factor for search engines, evaluating SEO content performance in search engines using Google Analytics is becoming equally important.
Content analysis is made more complex with the loss of data from users logged into their Google accounts and, eventually, users from the Chrome browser as well.
This article is for individuals who are starting content analysis using Google Analytics. It describes a simple top down method for content insights.
The traffic sources level view is the view of Google Analytics when only have one segment applied for a single medium or a medium and source. The traffic source level view is useful for getting a birds eye view of organic search engine traffic. This view is useful for mapping overall search performance, identifying any unusual drop-offs, and reading annotations.
Traffic source level data is useful for looking at broad trends, such as comparing year-over-year performance. However, this data ought to be taken with a grain of salt, since you run the risk of increases in traffic in one section of your site masking drops in other sections, when the data is viewed in aggregate at the traffic sources level.
Usually at the traffic source level, its useful to use advanced segments to segment by Google and Bing traffic. This helps identify if there is a nascent opportunity from Bing traffic. One way this can be easily done is by creating an advanced segment that include
Generally, after you have a birds eye view, it’s useful to conduct deeper drill-downs into this data by source such as Google or Bing in addition to medium, which is organic search for organic content research.
The landing pages report is by far one of the most insightful reports for SEO content research. It can be found in the side navigation under standard reporting in content > site content > Landing Pages.
The beauty of the landing page report is that it tells you where organic visitors are landing on your website. I usually evaluate the landing pages report by segmenting it by source, such as Google or Bing.
Usually at this point, it is useful to break out the content into different sections of your website.
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Erath County Republican Party Chairman Danny Pelton.
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2013 9:06 am
Supporters of Second Amendment to rally at courthouse By DONNIE BRYANT donnie.bryant@empiretribune.com Stephenville Empire-Tribune
A Second Amendment rally has been planned for Saturday and will take place at 10 a.m. at the Erath County Courthouse square. The event has garnered quite a bit of attention and support from surrounding counties.
“We have had calls from Jack and Hill counties,” Republican Chairman Danny Pelton reported. “And Hamilton County will be bringing a group.”
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