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66th Primetime Emmys: Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Leave a comment
Now that I'm done with the TV movie and miniseries categories, let's now begin to dissect the guest acting categories of the drama and comedy series of the past television season. For today, we'll be highlighting the Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nominees. While I personally am still opposed with combining variety performers into this, it seems like they're here to stay, but I wish there was room for Sarah Baker in Louie, which will definitely make my personal ballot for this year. Now as for the actual nominees…
Proving that she really has a hold in the guest actress category may it be drama or comedy, Joan Cusack gets her fourth consecutive nomination as Sheila Jackson in Shameless. Not only is she still the most nominated actor from her show, but she still has a perfect track record when it comes to getting nods for all her seasons. The move to comedy is an advantageous move for this one SNL regular since her submission this year is indeed funny. In "Liver, I Hardly Know Her", we see Sheila resort to an alternative cheaper plan in order to fix Frank's liver problems only to see it go awry. This ended with a glorious moment for Sheila when she decided to marry Frank in the hospital.
Speaking of SNL ladies, we have Tina Fey getting her fourth nod as well in this category, once again, for hosting the season opener of SNL. At this stage, as much as I love Tina, this is just name checking on their part since she's not even the focus of this episode, and even her cold opening has her giving the spotlight to the newbie cast members of the said show. Her only funny bit in this is the Girls parody and that happened in the first segment after the intro. The rest of the episode has her but on a limited use.
The other SNL host nominated this year is Melissa McCarthy who's now enjoying her third bid in this category as a host for this variety program. While I'm still confused how she lost the first year (though in hindsight that was Kathy Bates playing Charlie Sheen, so I should have known better), her material keeps on getting weaker over the years. The same can be said about her hosting stint this year, though I must admit that of all six episodes here, she has the broadest (re: in your face) comedic style in her episode. She gets to be physically funny and does her usual "angry woman" shctick in it. On one hand, this might work to her advantage, but on the other, if she was passed up the last two years, I don't see how it will all change up for this year then? I have to say though that between Fey and her, the latter's submission is miles ahead better than the former.
And dominating this category is Orange is the New Black filling up half of the six slots in this lineup. Getting that surprise nod is Natasha Lyonne who plays Nicky Nichols on the show. Lyonne's submitted episode "WAC Pack" fortunately is a flashback of her character so that works well on her side. But then again, she shares the flashback scenes with that of Laura Prepon's character, and hers was the dramatic arc of the episode. It has her dealing with the drug addiction, and seeing a mother in Red, and I don't know if that's enough to stand out in this race.
Laverne Cox also gets a flashback of her own in the Directing nominee episode "Lesbian Request Denied" which was directed by Jodie Foster nonetheless. As Sophia, we have witnessed in this episode how she deal with her gender reassignment operation and unlike, Lyonne, she was the focus of this episode. It is an open secret though that it wasn't Cox who played the male version of Sophia in the episode and it was her twin brother, so I don't know if it will affect the voting pattern. Methinks that people won't even realize that, and think that it is Cox doing double duties which can work well on her favor.
Lastly, submitting the same episode as co-star Cox is one of TV's breakout stars Uzo Aduba. Sure it's crazy (eyes! LOL) to think that she submitted the episode which has her co-nominee's flashback, but when you watch it, Aduba's moments were the comedic breathers of the said submissions. In this, she gets to be totally crazy with Piper's character calling her "dandelion" and following her everywhere. The episode also ends with Suzanne doing a "revenge" to Piper after her continuous dismissal of her. It is a pure comedic performance as compared to the two other Orange ladies.
While I'm not sure if Orange is the New Black will be rewarded with acting wins for lead star Taylor Schilling or supporting actress veteran Kate Mulgrew, I think it will find its win over here. I see it as a two person race between Uzo Aduba and Laverne Cox. Aduba needs to overcome the great moments that Cox had in their submission, though the buzz for her is really growing. However, one factor that might be telling in figuring this out is that the guest tapes aren't edited for the first time this year, so that puts her at some sort of a disadvantage. Add the fact that it will be a historical moment if the Emmy makes a statement of rewarding a transexual, and I predict Laverne Cox to win the Emmy here via a strong combo of submission and narrative. If they're not in a giving mood for Orange here, then expect Melissa McCarthy to finally grab a win in this category then.
Prediction: Laverne Cox, "Orange is the New Black"
Alternate: Uzo Aduba, "Orange is the New Black"
01. Laverne Cox, "Orange is the New Black"
02. Uzo Aduba, "Orange is the New Black"
03. Melissa McCarthy, "Saturday Night Live"
04. Joan Cusack, "Shameless"
05. Natasha Lyonne, "Orange is the New Black"
06. Tina Fey, "Saturday Night Live"
Tagged with 2014 Emmy Predictions analysis, emmy 2014 awards, Emmy predictions 2014, joan cusack, Laverne Cox, melissa mccarthy, Natasha Lyonne, Orange is the New Black, saturday night live, SNL, tina fey, Uzo Aduba
66th Primetime Emmy Awards Nominations Predictions Part 3: Comedy Leave a comment
Hi guys! We're now past halfway the Emmy week over at Tit for Tat, and after discussing the possible nominees and my predictions for Reality and Variety, and TV Movie and Miniseries, it's time to continue the prognosticating before Mindy Kaling and Carson Daly announce the nominees on Thursday morning. For this part, our focus will be on the laughter source for the past TV season: COMEDY!
OUTSTANDING DIRECTING IN A COMEDY SERIES:
• Brooklyn Nine Nine, Pilot (Phil Lord, Chris Miller)
• Girls, Two Plane Rides (Lena Duham)
• Louie, Elevator Part 6 (Louis CK)
• Modern Family, Las Vegas (Gail Mancuso)
• Orange is the New Black, Lesbian Request Denied (Jodie Foster)
Sixth nominee: Silicon Valley, Minimum Viable Product (Mike Judge)
Okay let's begin with current champ Modern Family. This show has been dominating this category winning the past three years, and a fourpeat is indeed very possible. This Las Vegas episode is one of their more buzzed ones this season, and it's a very obvious possibility to win as well. Then of course there's Jodie Foster. Sure she's no Fincher or Scorsese, but Lesbian Request Denied is a top episode for OITNB's first season and with the deafening buzz it has, it's likely she'll get in here. I'm also predicting the pair of writer/creator/director Louis CK and Lena Dunham. Both have been nominated here for the past two seasons of their shows though I have to say Louis CK is probably the more assured contender here as compared to Dunham. But this semi-sort of creative resurgence for Girls can give her a nod here. As for the last spot, I'm giving it to the duo of Phil Lord and Chris Miller simply because they love pilots in here and it's the most logical pilot in contention, and second, the duo comes from a hit summer film and a great 2014 year so far.
OUTSTANDING WRITING IN A COMEDY SERIES:
• Episodes, Episode 305 (David Crane, Jeffrey Clark)
• Louie, Pamela Part 3 (Louis CK, Pamela Adlon)
• Louie, So Did the Fat Lady (Louis CK)
• Orange is the New Black, I Wasn't Ready (Pilot) (Liz Friedman, Jenji Kohan)
• Veep, The Special Relationship (Simon Blackwell, Tony Roche)
Sixth nominee: Girls, Beach House (Lena Dunham, Jenni Korner, Judd Apatow)
As much as it does not make sense, Episodes is 2/2 so far when it comes to getting a nomination, so it's really hard to bet against it. Thus, I guess I'm going with it for my first slot here. Then the writing/directing categories is a haven of some sort for pilot episodes, and I think that will put I Wasn't Ready in a good position for a nomination as well. Louis CK has won in this category two years ago and has three nods under her belt, so a nod is assured. So Did the Fat Lady is his best contender this year, and I won't be surprised if it goes on and win all the way. The risk I'm doing though is to predict two Louie nominations here, though I guess I'm putting a lot of faith with the writers and they have delivered before. As for Veep, they finally did the right thing of submitting only one episode for consideration, so it's really easy to rally up at this point, though I won't be surprised if it misses simply because it's not even their best episode of the season (Debate anyone?) and that this sort of "submitting only one episode" has backfired in the past (last year's Arrested Development as for starters).
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES:
• Louis CK, "Saturday Night Live"
• Jimmy Fallon, "Saturday Night Live"
• James Earl Jones, "The Big Bang Theory"
• Nathan Lane, "Modern Family"
• Bob Newhart, "The Big Bang Theory"
• Jeremy Renner, "Louie"
Seventh nominee: Andy Samberg, "Saturday Night Live"
Right now, two previous winners are in the running this year: Jimmy Fallon for SNL and current champ Bob Newhart for The Big Bang Theory, and I think it will be an easy repeat of nomination for the both of them. Then there's Louis CK coming back for a consecutive nod for SNL as well. Louis CK is one the Emmys love to nominate and he has been beating his own record the past few years already, so another nod here isn't surprising at all. I think James Earl Jones will get nommed as well since Big Bang managed to pull of a win for an overdue veteran last year, so they know how to headline their vets to get awards traction. As for Nathan Lane, it's really hard to argue against him especially if he managed to get in for a cameo-like performance last year. And he even had meatier role this year. The last spot I reserve for that "dramatic" performance that usually gets in every year (Eli Wallach and Bobby Cannavale for Nurse Jackie, and Idris Elba for The Big C the past four years), and this year I think Louie is the show getting that slot, and my bet is on 2x Oscar nominee Jeremy Renner. His performance is very dramatic and no comedy element to it at all, but his sheer star power can and Oscar pedigree can give him an Emmy nod as well.
OUTSTANDING GUEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES:
• Sarah Baker, "Louie"
• Laverne Cox, "Orange is the New Black"
• Joan Cusack, "Shameless"
• Tina Fey, "Saturday Night Live"
• Melissa McCarthy, "Saturday Night Live"
• June Squibb, "Girls"
Seventh nominee: Ellen Burstyn, "Louie"
Despite her SNL guesting going mediocre over the years, it's hard to bet against Melissa McCarthy getting in once again so that's one slot. The same can be said for Tina Fey who got in the last three years she was eligible here. In a fair world, none of them are getting nominated. And with Shameless shifting to the Comedy categories , it's easier to get confident with Joan Cusack's chances. If she can get in every single year in a more competitive Drama, this one is an easier path to a repeat nomination. And then we have Oscar nominee June Squibb. La Squibb is in contention for three different performances in this category: Girls, Glee, and Getting On. My bet is on Girls though since it's her baitiest one (she's on the brink of death, voters!!!). Then as for the last two spots, I have reserved one for an Orange is the New Black. My bet is on Laverne Cox since it's more of a statement of some sort for someone like her to get awards recognition and her episode submission is basically where her character is the focus of it. But then again, I really wouldn't be surprised if she missed instead for co-star Uzo Aduba. Aduba has been the viewer favorite character all along, and she's been working the circuit the past few months. And then the last slot I'm giving to a Louie lady. I went with Sarah Baker with the same reasoning of why I went with Laverne Cox: her episode is the more buzzed Louie one. But then again, she's up against Oscar winner and Emmy semi-fave Ellen Burstyn. Last year, the Emmy went with the popular Oscar winning actress (Melissa Leo) over the online favorite (Parker Posey), and I won't be surprised if they follow the same format this year with Burstyn getting in over Baker.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES:
• Andre Braugher, "Brooklyn Nine Nine"
• Ty Burrell, "Modern Family"
• Adam Driver, "Girls"
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson, "Modern Family"
• Tony Hale, "Veep"
• Eric Stonestreet, "Modern Family"
Seventh nominee: Ed O'Neill, "Modern Family"
So will Modern Family get four actors again? I won't be quick to say that again. Last year, Stonestreet missed a year after winning, so I won't be too easy in thinking they'd get all of them in as well. Let's get with the easy ones: Ty Burrell is making it in. I think he's the last standing survivor when the Emmys start to drop it. And for some reason, they have a hard on for Jesse Tyler Ferguson. He's the only other guy aside from Burrell to get in the past four seasons, so I think he has the other advantage as well. And then of course we have current champ Tony Hale from Veep who probably has a huge chance of repeating that win. I'm also predicting Andre Braugher. I mean if he can get two nods out of Men of a Certain Age, they won't let the opportunity of nominating him for a comedic role pass by. And of course he's good in it. I'm going back and forth with Girls' Adam Driver since he seems like a one time thing, and I'm expecting a decline of nods for the show in general, but between his film projects and his recent Star Wars casting, he's slowly building the clout to have a strong résumé. The last spot I'm reserving for the two Modern Family men. Ed O'Neill can easily go on for his fourth consecutive nod here, but my hunch is that like Jane Lynch's comeback last year, Eric Stonestreet will have his this year especially since it's a crucial season for his character.
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES:
• Mayim Bialik, "The Big Bang Theory"
• Julie Bowen, "Modern Family"
• Anna Chlumsky, "Veep"
• Allison Janney, "Mom"
• Kate Mulgrew, "Orange is the New Black"
• Sofia Vergara, "Modern Family"
Seventh nominee: Merrett Wever, "Nurse Jackie"
Unlike the men of Modern Family, the women have an easier time getting in annually just because there are only two of them in this category. Thus, it's easy to say that both Julia Bowen and Sofia Vergara will be back as nominees again. And the same can be said for The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik who even got an individual SAG mention earlier this year which pretty much indicates that there's a level of support for her performance. If only for the reason that she's in Veep, and I'm sensing an upward trajectory in terms of its overhaul nod, I'm predicting Anna Chlumsky this year too. She doesn't have a winning season or a winning tape, but I don't see her being a one time deal here (even if she makes sense as one). And since her last nomination eight years ago, it's nice to finally see Allison Janney back in the race, even doing some sort of the record Edie Falco had (by winning a Lead Drama and Comedy Actress Emmy) only this time, she'll do the Supporting one for her role in Mom. This has been some sort of a banner year for Janney in TV if her double wins at the Critics Choice Awards is too looked at. And lastly, we have current champ Merritt Wever versus Kate Mulgrew. It's quite odd that Wever isn't a shoo-in when she beat those four ladies I'm predicting as "sure bets" in this category, but it's the Emmys we're talking about here, and a surprise of some sort usually happens. The reason I predicted Kate Mulgrew over here there though is that because Mulgrew is a respected veteran who hasn't been nominated for any Emmy yet, and she seems poised as the most logical supporting actress from Orange to make some sort of impact in this race.
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTOR IN A COMEDY SERIES:
• Don Cheadle, "House of Lies"
• Louis C.K, "Louie"
• Matt LeBlanc, "Episodes"
• William H. Macy, "Shameless"
• Jim Parsons, "The Big Bang Theory"
• Andy Samberg, "Brooklyn Nine Nine"
Seventh nominee: Robin Williams, "The Crazy Ones"
TALK. ABOUT. BARREN. Oh god this category can't even get any more lively after Alec Baldwin's exit last year. Well let's begin with Jim Parsons, as surely he's one of the two I'm 100% confident in. The other is definitely Louis CK. While his is not the type of performance they usually reward here, a nomination is another thing. So whatever happens in this category (may it be a revamp or the same old line up), those two would manage to be in the final line up. We also have Golden Globe winner Andy Samberg who benefits from a weak line up. If we still have the Carells and the Baldwins here, I'm sure he would be struggling to get a nomination to be honest. And that's coming from someone who LOVE him in Brooklyn Nine Nine. Just like his show, Matt LeBlanc seems to have his fans in the voting Academy that I won't be surprised if he gets in again. I mean I had him as an alternate last year and look at what happened. You also get to predict Don Cheadle at this point even if his show stopped making sense a long time ago simply because we have to fill in the six slots here. Oh my god that was very boring to type. And in a certain surprising turn of events, Shameless suddenly decided to shift genres this time, and if there's one benefit I see happening from that, it's that William H. Macy can take advantage of this line up to finally get himself a Lead Acting nom. I mean if not him, who else is there? Thomas Middleditch in a show no one cared about? Jonathan Groff in a show everyone cared about… to trash? Canceled sitcom stars Robin Williams and Michael J. Fox? This is so barren that Macy can consider himself lucky. Sadly the same can't be said about his co-star Emmy Rossum.
OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS IN A COMEDY SERIES:
• Lena Dunham, "Girls"
• Edie Falco, "Nurse Jackie"
• Anna Faris, "Mom"
• Julia Louis Dreyfus, "Veep"
• Amy Poehler, "Parks and Recreation"
• Taylor Schilling, "Orange is the New Black"
Seventh nominee: Mindy Kaling, "The Mindy Project"
I mean at this point who even cares? Let's just send the Emmy to Julia Louis Dreyfus' home and we'll be done with this. Or not. Maybe because she'll give an extremely awesome speech the way she did the last two years. But yes, Julia's winning this easily so let's just see the five other clappers in this category. First we have Edie Falco. Nurse Jackie's sort of semi-comeback among awards show contenders means only two things: 1. the show is having some creative resurgence or 2. the field is so empty. I guess I'll leave the answer to you then. Then we have Lena Dunham in possibly the best season she had as an actress of the show. I think that if the field continues to be this weak here, Dunham can manage to survive one to two more Best Actress nods under her belt regardless of the show's reception. And then there's forever the bridesmaid Amy Poehler. At this point, Poehler had done everything to win the Emmy, but voters aren't really responding to these type of Michael Schur characters (I mean hello Steve fucking Carell). In the past, she already submitted a two parter, achieved a nod when her show is a Series nominee, got Writing and Acting nod the same year and yet none of those still worked. So I guess a nomination would suffice again this year. Then this year's newbie is filled by Taylor Schilling as the core character from the huge ensemble of Orange is the New Black. That last spot I can see can go to Mindy Kaling (who's a past nominee for Writing) and her announcing the Emmy nods might be an obvious indicator of that, but I guess I wouldn't just underestimate Chuck Lorre at this point so I'm going with Mom's Anna Faris for the last slot.
OUTSTANDING COMEDY SERIES:
• The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
• Brooklyn Nine Nine (NBC)
• Louie (FX)
• Modern Family (ABC)
• Orange is the New Black (Netflix)
• Veep (HBO)
Seventh nominee: Girls (HBO)
And we're here at the final stretch. Okay let's get the obvious ones out of the way. Modern Family is soooo getting in so there's Slot 1. Veep is easily making it for Round 3 so there's Slot 2. Orange is the new Black is too big to ignore that if there's only one room for a newbie here, that would be it. So there goes Slot 3. Louie's msot recent season has been more dramatic than comedic, but it has the critics rallying up behind it that it's gonna be surprising if it suddenly missed after finally penetrating last year's line up. And then there's the fourth slot. The Big Bang Theory hasn't achieved the same critical and commercial buzz it had last year (and yet it was used to no avail since they did not win Series), so even if their chances somehow weakened, a series nod is still manageable. Now there's five slots already. As for that sixth slot, it starts to get tricky. On one hand, there's Brooklyn Nine Nine a.k.a Fox's only contender in this category. On its side, it's a freshman show who has some sort of buzz, it's Fox's #1 priority here, and it's a traditional comedy from a broadcast network. However, it's ratings aren't something to write home about, it doesn't have a Tina Fey or an Alec Baldwin in its side, and that Orange is the more buzzed freshman show. Then on the other, there's Girls. On its hit stride, voters can easily just vote the recurring nominees from last year's batch and it can easily make it, it's still getting awards and mentions, and its third season has been some sort of a creative resurgence from critics and fans alike. But then again, it's not HBO's priority, and all its buzz has dwindled so fast it's not even the watercooler show of the season nor of this line up. Of course with the new 2% rule, there's a possibility that we might get seven nominees in the end, but let's stick to the current six line up. Now who do I think gets in that coveted last slot. I guess I'm going with Brooklyn Nine Nine by a hair over Girls. I think there's more buzz for the former and traditional comedy shows still has their hold in this category despite the slow HBO dominance the past few years. Plus, the shelf life for female-led/centric shows are just two seasons and they easily drop them off. Sure Sex and the City is an exception, but Ally McBeal and Glee were lucky enough to get two nods while the likes of Desperate Housewives and ugly Betty have to settle for their only pilot season series nods. So yeah, i'm going with Brooklyn in this one.
Now there you have it. Do you think Allison Janney is finally making that Emmy comeback? Will Shameless shamelessly moving to the comedy category finally catch another acting nod aside from Joan Cusack? And how many Modern Family actors can survive this season? Tomorrow, the last part as we tackle the drama categories! Thanks for reading!
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The concept of this project came up in the year 2002 when President Obasanjo's Administration planned to increase the Electric Power Capacity of the Nation to 10,000 MW to meet the ever increasing power demand of the Nation.
The project which is located at Olorunsogo about 17 KM to Papalanto in Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State required boosting to stabilize electricity power supply in the country within the shortest possible time. The construction works commenced on 28th November 2005 after completion of Design Review meetings. Also, as construction was going on, a number of Factory Acceptance Tests tours were made to China to ascertain the viability and integrity of the Turbines and Main Transformers for the Plant.
The contract for the supply, delivery, installation and commissioning of the Power Plant was awarded to SEPCO Electric Power Construction Corporation of China under the supervision of Oska~Jo & Partners Ltd/Scott Wilson Plc. (now URS Corporation).
The design, procurement, supply and construction of 335 MW Gas Turbines comprising of 8Nos x 42 MW. single shaft heavy duty model PG6581B (Frame 6 type) manufactured by Nanjin Turbine Company of China under GE license.
Construction of 330kV Switchyard with 4 Main Transformers (105MVA) and control room.
The project was sponsored under a special arrangement of 35% direct payment by the Federal Government of Nigeria and 65% bilateral credit facility from the Export Import Bank of China.
"To make use of the totality of human talent, time and material resources at our disposal for the promotion and enhancement of humanity, through the application of engineering technology at its best.."


It's cold outside! This Star Wars Hot Chocolate is just the thing to make while snuggling under a blanket and watching your favorite Star Wars episode.
We just returned from visiting our family "up North" and freezing in the process. We desert rats don't really do cold. Much of the country is buried in snow, and while we are enjoying slightly warmer temps outside, it still feels cold! And what do my boys want when it is cold? Cup after cup of hot chocolate.
What could be more fun than floating Storm Trooper heads in your hot chocolate? This Star Wars hot chocolate is fun to drink at home or package it up to give as a gift to a neighbor or teacher.
1. Wipe the outside of a mason jar with rubbing alcohol and let dry.
2. Print out the Storm Trooper Templatewith a pencil and paper.
3.Place it onto the face of the jar and paint a white outline around the pattern.
4.Fill in the center of the storm trooper with white paint. Let dry for one hour. Paint a second and possibly third coat of white paint, letting dry an hour between each coat.
5. Lightly draw in pencil on the storm trooper to create the rest of the face. Paint the items with black paint and let dry completely.
6. If you'd like to cure the jars so the paint stays on, place the jar on a cookie sheet in a cool oven. Heat to 350 and bake for 30 minutes. Let cool in oven. Do not allow paint to come in contact with food (these directions are on the back of the paint, so each paint may vary).
7.To make marshmallows, use the black decorating pen to draw a Storm Trooper head on each marshmallow.
8. Once jar is cooled, fill it with hot cocoa powder and place marshmallows on top.
9.Screw the top on and give as a gift or enjoy as a family.
Who do you know that would love this Star Wars Hot Chocolate? Make sure you share it with them!


Minecraft: Pocket Edition 0.10.4- Best. Diamond. Seed. EVER!
Before you go ahead and judge me, try it out yourself. As soon as you spawn into your world, do not move. Look at the sand block directly below you (your spawn point) and start digging straight down. I recommend looking at it in creative mode first. In survival mode, place a block on your spawn point and dig down later without having to dig directly down.
In Minecraft, diamonds are coded to be found near dangerous places. Especially near lava. As soon as you reach a lava cave, carefully look around while placing torches. You may make a bridge to help. You will see that there is a truckload of loot, including tons of redstone, iron, lapis lazuli, and gold. You will even find up to 12 diamonds!
This seed is a MUST for anybody who dreams to be rich in Minecraft PE. The only hard part is avoiding the lava, but there is also a lot of water, so you can take it out.
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There are tons of ways to do SEO keyword research. Today, there are over 100 keyword research tools, with many different methods to research keywords. Some people spend more time than others, and more than a few have found a system that works for them.
This article aims to help you understand why keyword research is essential and to ideally help you find the best way to do SEO keyword research that works for you.
When you hear people say that they want to rank a web page, what they are saying is that they want to rank for a specific keyword or longtail tail. You just "rank" a page on a search engine.
When a consumer searches on Google or any other search engine, they are using a keyword or a phrase, today semantic search dominates. Google will take their query and retrieve information based on that keyword.
Keyword research when done correctly will find your content and site sitting towards the very top of the search engine results pages (SERPs).
That's why content marketing and keyword research go hand in hand; good content marketing doesn't start with the copywriter writing an article that's ideally relevant to a specific niche.
What kinds of keywords should you look for?
Keyword research begins with market research, as all good marketing initiatives do.
We're going to assume that you have already done the market research necessary for keyword research and understand your target market, overall.
That's because it's the same thing as the market research you included in your content marketing strategy and plan.
The mistake that ones see from people who are either misinformed or novices is they will start their keyword research using the Google Keyword Planner or a software SEO tool such as, SEMRush. This misguided effort puts the cart in front of the horse.
Before you can use Google's keyword planner or any other keyword tool, you first need to understand your target market and the people it represents. You need to know when they are searching for information, related to your product or services the keywords they are using for their searches.
Then segment your target audience into smaller subgroups based on their needs, interests, and demographics.
Why is it important to segment your market and target audience?
Different people within your target market may search using with different keywords, including longtail keywords.
Now that you've segmented your market based on interests, the next step is to segment your market based on their intent to purchase.
They're not ready to buy anything yet; they're searching and browsing the web doing research and looking at options.
Another subgroup has done their research and is ready to buy.
Your goal and objective are to build brand-name awareness and buzz while defining your brand among the tire-kickers and move fast for a quick close with the people who are searching with an intent to buy.
The point here is that you'll use different keywords to foster and close people in either category.
So, if you're running an e-commerce store selling "Green Tea" when someone searches Googles for "Best Green Tea" or "Compare Organic Green Tea" they are probably a tire-kicker. When someone searches Googles for "Coupon Organic Green Tea" or "Buy Green Tea" they are highly likely ready to make a purchase.
Start with a simple spreadsheet, creating columns and rows to specify the demographics and interests of each market segment that you just identified.
Now repeat this for all of your market segments.
Now that you have your market segments broken down and itemized, its time to make a list of keywords that each segment would use based on purchase intent for internet searches.
For example, someone in the segment for green tea described prior might search for "best green tea" if she was researching and browsing the web and not interested in buying anything right away.
You'll l find there's a degree of overlap in search terms between many of your target audience segments. Fortunately, this means you can reach many segments with one keyword or longtail keyword phrase.
Now that you have the list of search terms, you've taken the first step forward with targeting your audience with quality content marketing.
Let's dial your list of keywords, now that you have completed the brainstorming. In this step, you'll add to the list, modify a few search terms, and kill off some keywords from your list.
I prefer to let Google guide me in enhancing my keyword list. With a Google search page open, in the search box, type in your search terms one at a time.
For each search term, scroll to the bottom of Page 1 of the SERPs and look at what alternate suggestions Google gives you.
At the bottom of the page, in a box labeled "Searches related to" followed by your keyword.
Add the relevant related searches to your keyword list.
A magic moment, the search term "lipton green tea coupons" looks like a great option to pull people who are at the upper end of the sales funnel, searching for a mid-priced product. Make a note of this longtail keyword.
Now, go to Wikipedia to expand the keyword list further.
This is something your competitors may not have been thinking of, how green tea reduces cholesterol and high blood pressure. This may lead to you to write an article about the health benefits of green tea and how it adds to the quality of life.
At this stage, we are still writing down everything we can think of that may be relevant to our target audience; this is genuinely a brainstorming session.
We'll clean up our keyword list a bit later.
Now that you've used Google Search and Wikipedia to add to your keyword list, it's time to add to it even more.
In comes the SEO tools.
There are three types of tools – free Google tools, other free tools, and premium (paid) tools.
The first free Google tool that you may want to use is Google Search Console and Google Trends; I'm not a big fan of the Google Keyword tool for keyword research anymore.
Google's AI is presently, remarkably stupid, and broad matches to utterly unrelated search terms. For example, it matches "Pella" the door and window company, to "Paella," a Spanish rice dish.
Today, you need to take note of all the tools you use that pull search volume estimates from Google; if they are drawing their volume estimates directly from Google. I'd be leary to trust any tools that use Keyword Planner's data.
A key to ranking for keywords is to not shot for the moon. What I mean by this is keywords that have a lot of traffic also have a LOT of competition. You will be better off trying to rank for low hanging fish aka keywords.
For example, you stumble across what you think is a great search term that receives 40 searches every month. You need to evaluate if it's in your best interests to rank for that longtail keyword when you could spend your time and energy ranking for keywords that receive thousands of hits every month.
Use a Keyword tool and go through all of your search terms so that you can get as many ideas as possible.
In the left-hand sidebar of the Search Console, click on "Search Traffic" and select "Search Analytics" from the drop-down menu that appears.
The default report should be all you need for this exercise. Scroll down and look at search terms that you already are ranking for.
Write these down. It's pretty easy to rank again for terms that you already are ranking for.
Now go back to the Keyword Tool that you are using an input these terms into the keyword tool. This will give you some additional keyword ideas from the keyword search terms that are currently ranking for that are sending traffic to your website.
Now lets head over to Google Trends. Staying with "green tea" type in "green tea" at the top of the page in the field that says "Explore topics." Hit Enter.
Scroll to the bottom of the page, and you'll see a list of searches and queries related to your search term.
First, you may see terms you didn't see in the Keyword Tool (I'll be that you will).
Second, Google Trends gives you more flexibility in your search.
Go back to the top of the page, and you'll see that you have filter options. You can select searches by region, date, and category. By toggling between these options may give you different keywords you may be able to use.
What Google Trends does, is it helps you narrow down where your search term is most popular by region and more.
Now, let's look at a few other free keyword tools.
The first is Soovle. Type in your search term, and you'll see a variety of related terms splattered all over the screen.
If you type "green tea" in the input field, you'll see related terms like "green tea pills," "green tea shot," "green tea benefits" and others that you can add to your keyword list.
Now, lets head over to Ubersuggest. Input your keyword.
Plug in "green tea" and click on the "Suggest" button.
Once you get your results, go through the list adding the keywords that you think are of value to your content marketing efforts. If you click on a suggested related keyword and look at Google Trends, this will give you even more keyword and longtail keyword ideas.
Lastly, lets head over to Keywordtool.io this will also give you great keyword ideas.
All of these tools are free; none will give you any information about search volume, CPC, and competition will be blurred out unless you paid for the premium version of the tool of Keywordtool.io.
If you have been following along, you should have an extensive list of keywords related to your niche and even more substantial if your product is a generic term.
The goal of this exercise is that you gathered an expansive a list as humanly possible during your initial keyword research.
Now, let's move over to premium tools to tweak that list some more. Including eliminating some of the keywords on your list.
Here is where we focus in on the keywords that should drive traffic.
I know, paying for a keyword tool is not where you want to spend your hard earned cash, however, rest assured, it will pay for itself over and over again if you use them correctly.
Type "green tea" on the home page search bar and click the "Search" button. Take a look at the report that follows.
You'll get an overview of the organic and paid search results, the number of searches, along with a bar graph that shows the general trend of the search term.
Click on "Keyword Difficulty" on the left-hand sidebar. Here the keyword is assigned a difficulty level as a percentage. For green tea, the difficulty is 86.70%.
So that means that the odds of ranking for "green tea" are nearly impossible, the competition is steep.
Scratch "green tea" off your proposed keyword list.
By utilizing SEMRush to analyze the keywords on your list, you will eliminate the keywords that are too hard to rank for.
Long Tail Pro – Requires you to install software on your laptop. Long Tail Pro does not run in the cloud environment as SEMRush does. It still gives you good keyword ideas with competitive analysis.
Scrapebox – Black-hat SEO likes Scrapebox. Even then, its still a useful tool for finding other keywords, what its lacking is the ability to determine keyword difficulty.
SECockpit – Using the Pro (paid) version, you get keyword suggestions and analysis along with a rank tracker.
Now that you have a manageable and workable list of keywords that you believe will give the basis for quality content marketing opportunities.
Let's dig in a little more about the type of keywords.
SEO practitioners break keywords down into three main categories: heads, bodies, and longtails.
Heads: Broad keywords that you usually move on from since they're difficult to rank. The keyword "tea" is an excellent example of a head keyword.
Longtail keywords are the easiest to rank for since there is usually less competition for them.
The downside of longtail keywords is the amount of search traffic volume is lower. You won't drive as much web traffic, even if you rank in the top spot on Google or other search engines.
Bodies are harder to rank for; they have more search volume. They generate a lot of the longtail traffic since bodies are usually part of a longtail keyword.
If you are starting with content marketing, it's better to start with longtail keywords.
This gives you the time to learn and see what is involved in ranking for keywords and moving up to working on ranking for bodies.
Even though you've eliminated some of the tougher keywords, you're still going to need to do a little more competitive analysis before you can start creating content.
Below are a couple of free add-ons (or extensions) that I would highly recommend that you add to your browser.
Start with SEOQuake install the extension that you see offered on the home page.
Then onto Moz and install the MozBar. You need to activate the MozBar. It's easy, just follow the instructions once you've installed it. You need to set up a free Moz account, here's the link to create one.
SEMRush has an excellent backlink tool and has partnered with Majestic which makes it that much better.
Now watch what happens when you search for "Coupon Organic Green Tea" on Google.
You know see the Page Authority (PA) and Domain Authority (DA) for every result.
So you're wondering what Page Authority (PA) and Domain Authority (DA) are?
PA is the authority of the page, and DA is the authority of the domain.
The lower the PA and DA, the easier it will be for you to rank on top of the page for your keyword.
In plain English, if you see a page ranked at #6 with a low PA and DA, you can probably rank your page at #6 and push that one down to #7 on the search results.
The PA and DA boxes also show you the number of backlinks pointing to the page and domain.
Why is that important? Because Google looks at over 200 factors when determining rankings and considers backlinks to be a sign of authority.
The more backlinks that are linking to a page and domain (and the anchor text used), the harder it will be for you to outrank that page.
In the case of the Qwaya Facebook Ad Manager site (#1 in the SERPs), you see that there are over 2,400 links pointing to the page and the site has a DA of 52 and PA of 60.
This search was for "Facebook Ad Manager" you can see that Qwaya has over 2,400 backlinks whereas Startup Nation only has eight links pointing to the page.
Qwaya is going to offer some stiff competition that you will not beat initially.
What tools do for you is make it easier to quickly scan for websites and pages on Page 1 of search results that have a low PA and DA and a limited number of backlinks.
The other thing to check with the tools is the backlink profile.
Remember reading that the more backlinks that a page and domain have, the harder it will be for you to rank your page above it?
In reality is there are pages ranking with a ton of low-quality backlinks.
This is a result of SEO practitioners using black-hat tools to build backlink spam. Eventually, Google catches up with them, and they will get their content downgraded or the website banned.
The good news is that if a site ranks well with a lot of spammy backlinks, you can beat it in the SERPs with quality backlinks.
This makes the job to get quality backlinks to your content from sites with a high DA. You probably can still outrank a website that ranks well with backlink spam.
How do you know if a page is ranked using backlink spam?
Moz gives you a Spam Score that will provide you with an idea about the quality of the sites that the backlinks are coming from.
Open Site Explorer (Moz) has a spam analysis tool, or you can try. If you don't like Open Site Explorer, Link Detox is also good; it's pricey.
Moz tools are great for competitor analysis, just click on the magnifying glass for on-site SEO.
That's good news. When a website isn't using the search term in the title of the page, it's a sign of poor on-site SEO. You may be able to rank ahead of it in search results (SERPs).
Click on the link to open the page. Now, look at that the SEOQuake and Moz toolbars are at the top of the screen.
Next, click the magnifying glass on the Moz toolbar. This will give you an overview of how well the page is optimized for the search term that is on your keyword list.
See that the phrase "organic green tea" doesn't appear in the meta description, the URL, or page title. Again, all good news for if you're trying to rank for the keyword.
Next, you need to review the quality of the content on the page.
Since the search term, "organic green tea" directing you to e-commerce sites, let's take a deeper dive at a search term that would be used by people a little higher up in the sales funnel, closer to the purchase stage.
We see that it's got a PA of only 15 and a DA 19 better yet its keyword is "Rishi tea." It's ripe for the picking.
The rest of the page isn't much better; it does improve when you get to the individual product pages.
What happened? The meta description, the H1 tag were written by someone who understands the very basics of SEO.
Possibly. More than likely it was written by an SEO tech, at best. The result is low-quality crap you're reading.
Therefore, what's bad news for the consumers searching and reading that product page is good news for you!
On top of that, the website has no blog; it has a "learn" page that has recipes, brewing guides, and origin. Zero content marketing that would help with SERPs and engage the consumer.
Now that you've gone through the laborious process of researching for the right keywords for your niche or product/service, and determined which ones you should use in your content marketing efforts.
Now, its time to get started.
Include your keywords in your content letting Google know to rank your page for that search term.
Every good website that ranks starts with SEO keyword research. Today, there is a plural of tools to aid you in finding the best keywords for your niche and product or service. A few are free, and some cost money but are well worth the investment.
We covered a lot of ground showing you how to do manual keyword research. To speed up this process, try either Moz or SEMrush.
If you want assistance with your keyword research, please contact us, we are happy to help.


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His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts (HMSC) is a British early music group founded in 1982. The ensemble presently consists of three cornetts and four sackbuts, with chamber organ or harpsichord. The group frequently collaborates with other instrumentalists and singers, and has an extensive discography on Hyperion Records and other labels.

History
HMSC's first concert was on 3 September 1982 at the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London, with guest soloist Richard Wistreich. Meridian Records expressed their interest in recording the group as early as the interval of that first concert.

Members
The original line-up was cornettists Jeremy West, David Staff and sackbut players Sue Addison, Richard Cheetham, Paul Nieman and Stephen Saunders. Each member attended the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, with the exception of Addison. Later non-current members include Peter Bassano (sackbuts).

Current ensemble
Jeremy West, founder member and cornett (1982–);

Stephen Saunders, founder member and bass sackbut (1982–);

Susan Addison, founder member and Alto and Tenor Sackbut

Jamie Savan, cornett (2005–);

Helen Roberts, cornett (2012–);

Stephanie Dyer, alto & tenor sackbuts (2016–).

Founder members (est. 1982)

Cornetts
Jeremy West, David Staff

Sackbuts
Sue Addison, Richard Cheetham, Paul Nieman, Stephen Saunders

Keyboard
Alistair Ross

Selected discography
His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts - by His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts Meridian
Giovanni Battista Grillo - complete instrumental music & selected motets by His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
The Twelve Days of Christmas by His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Buccaneer - Music from England and Spain by His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Grand Tour - Music From 16th And 17th Century Italy, Spain And Germany by His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts Hyperion
Giovanni Gabrieli: The 16 Canzonas and Sonatas from Sacrae Symphoniae, 1597 His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Timothy Roberts
Andrea Gabrieli: Missa Pater peccavi; Motets and Instrumental Music Timothy Roberts
Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzoni Per Sonare, Venice, 1608 by His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
1615 Gabrieli in Venice by Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
A Bach Album by His Majestys Consort of Voices and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
Guerrero: Missa de la batalla escoutez by Westminster Cathedral Choir  and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts
For These Distracted Tymes - Music from the Civil Wars His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, London Baroque Meridian
Music from 17th Century Germany Richard Wistreich His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Meridian
Venice Preserved - Gentlemen of the Chappell, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, Peter Bassano ASV Gaudeamus
Castello and Picchi: The Floating City - Sonatas, canzonas and dances by two of Monteverdi's contemporaries His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts Hyperion
For His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts - English music from Henry VIII to Charles II  His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts Hyperion Records
Lassus: Missa Vinum Bonum  Ex Cathedra & His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts, Jeffrey Skidmore ASV
Giovanni Gabrieli  Ex Cathedra & His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts, Jeffrey Skidmore Hyperion
Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610) Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts, John Eliot Gardiner Archiv
Monteverdi L'Orfeo Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts,  John Eliot Gardiner Archiv
Schutz Musikalische Exequien Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts,  John Eliot Gardiner Archiv
Philippe Rogier: Music from the Missae Sex His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts & Magnificat, Philip Cave  Linn Records
Philippe Rogier: Polychoral Works His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts & Magnificat, Philip Cave
Guerrero - Missa Super flumina Babylonis Ensemble Plus Ultra, Schola Antiqua & His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Michael Noone Glossa
Gioseffo Guami 'La Luchesina' His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts  SFZ Music
Capriccio Stravagante, Vol.1 by The Purcell Quartet Chandos
Capriccio Stravagante, Vol.2 by The Purcell Quartet Chandos
Laudent Deum: Sacred Music by Orlande de Lassus by Andrew Nethsingha Chandos
Lassus: Missa Bell' Amfitrit' altera by Westminster Cathedral Choir and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts Hyperion

References

External links
 Homepage

British early music ensembles

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Australia sorely missed David Warner and Steve Smith during the Boxing Day Test.
STEVE Smith and David Warner were the elephants at the MCG for Australian cricket, on and off the pitch.
First the Smith and Cameron Bancroft interviews aired before the Boxing Day Test highlighted the deep fault lines that persist in the wake of the South African sandpaper debacle. Everyone waits nervously to see whether Warner will have his say.
Then Australia's terrible top-order batting in the 137-run loss showed how badly they miss Smith and Warner.
After a fighting performance in the Perth win, the Australian top order was no match for India's quality pace bowlers and thorough planning. No.8 Pat Cummins showed everyone up with his 63, Australia's only half-century of the match.
Smith and Warner remain banned until late March, while Bancroft is now available.
"It's been an interesting year, a difficult year ... the silver lining is in the next few months we've got some world-class players available," Paine said after the third Test loss.
"In the next few years we'll see some benefits of what's happened, but we're under no illusions we've got to work really hard."
Tim Paine expects Warner and Smith to bolster the batting line-up.
Asked about the torrent of noise around Smith and Warner this week, Paine sarcastically replied: "Was there?" But he said the Smith and Bancroft interviews were not a distraction to the Test team.
"I'm sure guys went home that night and listened to them and had their own thoughts on it, but it certainly wasn't discussed during play," Paine said.
"We're getting towards the end when those guys are coming back - that's what the conversation should be around now.
"It's all been out there, people have had their say.
"It's time we started focusing on the fact they're coming back and from that there are real positives."
On the field, Paine noted Australia would not be the only Test team struggling if two players of such quality suddenly were unavailable.
Pat Cummins showed the way with the bat for Australia's top order in the Boxing Day Test.
"If you took Pujara and Virat out of India's side, you'd have the same conversation," he said.
"If you have world-class players who aren't in the team, are they going to add to our team? I think they will.
"While at the moment it's challenging and everyone is frustrated, it is what it is and everyone is working as hard as they possibly can."
As Australia try to avoid a first series loss at home to India, Paine said it will be crucial to dismiss Pujara and Kohli in Sydney as cheaply as possible.
"There's been a helluva lot of talk about our batting and our top six," he said. "But as you're seeing, if we can keep Virat and Pujara out, there are some holes in the opposition's batting as well."


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Arkansas to continue playing in Little Rock through 2024
PMN Football
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Hunter Yurachek has been asked repeatedly since his hiring in December what he planned to do about Arkansas playing football at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, nearly 200 miles from its campus in Fayetteville.
The new athletic director finally had an answer to the great stadium debate on Thursday, making his most significant decision yet with the Razorbacks in announcing an agreement that keeps Arkansas playing annually at War Memorial through 2024.
The six-year agreement between the school and the state's Department of Parks and Tourism calls for the Razorbacks to play Missouri in Little Rock during the 2019, 2021 and 2023 seasons, a game traditionally played on the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving.
Arkansas will also seek waivers from the Southeastern Conference to play its spring football game at War Memorial Stadium in 2020, 2022 and 2024. The Razorbacks played their spring game there last month because Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville is undergoing a renovation and addition that will be ready for the start of this season.
"While it might not be a perfect solution for our constituents individually, it is the right decision for Arkansas collectively," Yurachek said.
Arkansas has played on a part-time basis in War Memorial Stadium since 1948. A presence in central Arkansas was considered crucial to former athletic director Frank Broyles' vision of the Razorbacks becoming the dominant athletic program in the state, a plan that's held to form.
The number of games in Little Rock, however, has dwindled since the turn of the century, thanks to a 19,000-seat expansion of Razorback Stadium in Fayetteville in 2001.
That expansion fueled discussion about whether Arkansas should drop Little Rock altogether. Critics note the school pays the War Memorial Stadium commission $75,000 per game to play there while the stadium also collects concessions and parking fees — all lost revenue when the Razorbacks didn't play in Fayetteville.
The debate had increased recently, both because of the $160 million expansion of Razorback Stadium and because Arkansas' contract with War Memorial Stadium was set to expire following a game in Little Rock against Mississippi this upcoming season.
"If this were simply a dollars-and-cents decision, it would be an easy one for a director of athletics to make," Yurachek said. "And while providing the necessary financial support for our student-athletes is and always will be essential to our success, when it comes to the Razorbacks in this state, the investment is much deeper than a simple spreadsheet."
The agreement comes with conditions in the form of improvements and enhancements to the 70-year-old stadium. Those include replacing the worn artificial turf along with updating the stadium's speakers and out-of-date broadcast and wireless infrastructure.
The stadium debate was thought to have played a significant role in the firing of former athletic Jeff Long last year. Long had echoed former coach Bret Bielema's thoughts about Little Rock games being more difficult in terms of travel; he had the team fly back to Fayetteville after games rather than travelling by bus.
Also, the Razorbacks are unable to host recruits in War Memorial Stadium because the game is off campus and several former players have spoken out in recent years about their dislike of games in Little Rock.
Still, tradition and ties to the rest of the state won out for now, with Arkansas remaining the only SEC member to play home games away from its campus.
"It is something unique in Arkansas, and I have come to fully embrace that and fully understand that," said Kane Webb, executive director of the parks and tourism department.
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Sea Shepherd Diver Viciously Attacked by Wildlife Trafficker While Documenting Aquarium Trade in Hawaii
Laura Beans
A diver documenting an aquarium trade wildlife collection operation on a Hawaiian reef off the Kona Coast as part of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society's Operation Reef Defense was nearly killed by a reef fish collector in an unprovoked and highly dangerous attack on Thursday, May 8.
As the Sea Shepherd divers approached the coral reef, they came across two other divers poking coral and collecting fish. As they filmed from a distance, one of the collectors noticed the camera from afar and quickly "rushed" diver Rene Umberger without warning and pulled the air regulator from her mouth. This device is what provides oxygen from a diver's air tank, and forcibly removing it from a diver's mouth can become deadly in a matter of seconds.
The divers were at a depth of approximately 50 feet in the ocean, and a diver with less experience than Umberger could have quickly become panicked and disoriented, leaving them unable to replace their air regulator or making a dangerous attempt to quickly swim back to the surface. Fortunately, Umberger was able to put her air regulator back in place, despite some damage that was done to it, and the divers continued to document the incident on video as the reef wildlife trafficker continued to make threatening gestures.
"This violent assault is nothing short of attempted murder," said Sea Shepherd USA Administrative Director, Susan Hartland. "The fish trafficker responsible should be charged and held responsible to the fullest extent of the law. All of us at Sea Shepherd are relieved that Rene is okay, but a less accomplished diver may not have been so lucky."
One of the collectors quickly "rushed" diver Rene Umberger without warning and ripped the air regulator from her mouth causing the damage shown here
Photo credit: Sea Shepherd
Sea Shepherd founder, Captain Paul Watson, had this to say upon viewing the video: "This incident shows just how far fish collectors are willing to go in their greedy operations that are turning reef ecosystems, once teeming with life, into barren wastelands. The reefs are dying in our time, and Sea Shepherd remains committed to exposing the destruction caused by the lucrative global aquarium trade."
"As part of Reef Defense in Hawaii, Sea Shepherd is engaged in working with the island community to support their initiative to respect the ocean and coral reef wildlife," added Mike Long, Sea Shepherd's reef defense coordinator. "This incident was very unfortunate and we know that it is not representative of the people of Hawaii. The aquarium trade is a dark hobby. We are grateful to be here and involved in a movement to protect such a remarkable ecosystem."
The world's coral reefs, often referred to as the "rainforests of the sea," are in a state of immediate crisis. Sea Shepherd launched its campaign, Operation Reef Defense in order to preserve these critical and biologically diverse ecosystems that provide habitat to approximately 25 percent of all marine species. Human activities including overfishing, coastal development, pollution and climate change as well as the removal of reef wildlife for the aquarium hobby trade, have had a devastating impact, leaving 25 percent of the world's reefs gone and more than 60 percent damaged or at risk of collapse.
Consider these statistics:
An estimated 350,000 reef animals are taken off the Kona Coast of Hawaii alone each year and sold to the aquarium trade.
More than 90 percent will be dead within one year either initially from; 1. the stress of capture and transport or 2. the stressful conditions of captivity.
11 million reef animals are imported into the U.S. each year.
The U.S. is the largest importer of reef wildlife in the world.
There are 1.2 million household and business (lobby) aquariums in the U.S.
Most people are under the impression that the animals they purchase for their tanks are captive-bred, but in reality more than 98 percent are wild-caught.
The impact of this "hobbyist" trade is devastating reef ecosystems in Hawaii and worldwide.
As the aquarium trade expands, the reefs will continue to suffer as a result of the removal of species from reef ecosystems. Just in Hawaii, the top ten aquarium fish species have decreased by 59 percent over the last 20 years. Full tanks mean empty reefs, and empty reefs mean dying oceans. Sea Shepherd will continue to defend the reefs, preserving the future of the oceans on which all species on Earth depend for survival.
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On June 5, World Environment Day, Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (PA) held a ceremony to announce its eco ideas Declaration for Asia Pacific, aimed at reducing its impact on the environment in Asia, and at boosting environmental awareness.
The ceremony was attended by a total of around 110 guests, including government officials and members of the press. At the ceremony, Managing Executive Officer Ikuo Miyamoto said that the eco ideas Declaration for Asia Pacific will see all of Panasonic's 48 manufacturing sites in seven countries in the region work to promote the spread of environmentally friendly products, reduce CO2 emissions from manufacturing activities, and actively engage in environmental conservation activities in their communities.
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ABŪ 'ĪSĀ AL-WARRĀQ AND THE HISTORY OF RELIGIONS
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Adam Gacek, Arabic Manuscripts: a Vademecum for Readers (Handbook of Oriental Studies, Section 1, The Near and Middle East, volume 98).
Paul Auchterlonie.
April 2012; p ublished online March 2012 .
Addenda et Corrigenda to the Hamito‐Semitic Etymological Dictionary (HSED) by V. Orel and O. Stolbova (II)
Leonid Kogan.
The present article presents additional critical remarks on the Semitic and Afroasiatic lexical comparisons proposed in the Hamito‐Semitic Etymological Dictionary (HSED) by V. Orel and O....
Addenda to Non-Verbal Clauses in Old Babylonian*
Eran Cohen.
This paper re-examines some issues related to non-verbal clauses in the letter corpus of Mesopotamian Old Babylonian. The various types of non-verbal clauses are classified as follows: 1. u...
An Addition to The Christian-Palestinian Aramaic Literary Corpus: Logos XV of Abba Isaiah of Scetis
Alin Suciu.
This study focuses on two Christian-Palestinian Aramaic parchment folios from the Monastery of St Catherine in Sinai, which were published by Pavel Kokowzoff in 1906. The fragments are...
The Affiliation of Sargonic Akkadian with Babylonian and Assyrian: New Insights Concerning the Internal Sub-Grouping of Akkadian*
Rebecca Hasselbach.
The affiliation of Sargonic Akkadian with Babylonian and Assyrian is still a matter of dispute. It has recently been suggested that Sargonic Akkadian is not related to any of the later...
AgnÈs Tichit, Le verbe en hébreu bibliqueAgnÈs Tichit, Hébreu Biblique: Grammaire de base et introduction aux fêtes juives. Textes expliqués
Edward Lipiński.
Agustinus Gianto (ed.), Biblical and Oriental Essays in Memory of William L. Moran
W.G. Lambert.
Ahmad Al-Jallad, An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions
G. Rex Smith.
Stephanie Dalley.
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Article. Subjects: Historical and Diachronic Linguistics; Middle Eastern History. 145 words.
(1) Term used until 1869 for the language now known as *Sumerian. (2) Term used since 1869 for the East Semitic language that is also known by its northern and southern dialects as Assyrian and...
The Akkadian Iprus from the Unidirectional Perspective
Alexander Andrason.
This paper is aimed at describing the Akkadian construction iprus from the perspective of the unidirectional theory of grammaticalization. First, general notions of grammaticalization,...


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By James N. Thurman and Warren Richey Staff writers of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON AND MIAMI
Jose Basulto is no cream puff in the Cuban-exile community. The leader of the Brothers to the Rescue organization strongly advocates keeping Elian Gonzalez in the United States.
But that wasn't always his position.
"Elian could have gone back to Cuba in the first few days," he says, if Cuba President Fidel Castro and the Clinton administration had not each moved to use the case for their own political gain.
Hindsight, the saying goes, is always 20/20, and many analysts in Miami and Washington now claim to see clearly how Attorney General Janet Reno should have handled Elian's case differently - especially early on.
While the weeks of standoff in Miami's Little Havana might well have been averted, the outcome - a successful reunion of father with son - may change history's assessment of one of America's most visible - and embattled - attorney generals.
"You have to have great sympathy for her in this episode," says Dale Schwartz, an Atlanta attorney and former president of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. "I believe she honestly and sincerely wants to do the right thing."
Indeed, as the standoff in Little Havana ended over the weekend, polls show as many as 66 percent of Americans thought the raid was justified.
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Critics point out it was Reno who decided to turn over the boy to Lazaro Gonzalez and who suggested to the Miami relatives that they file for custody of the boy in family court. And it was Reno who encouraged Lazaro to file suit in federal court to challenge her eventual determination that Elian's father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, had exclusive authority to determine whether his six-year-old son would seek political asylum in the US or return to Cuba.
Finally it fell to Reno, who worked 14-hour days on the case, to act resolutely, sending an armed team to the Gonzalez home to retrieve Elian.
"It's embarrassing the way the rule of law is being flaunted," said a federal appeals-court official on the eve of the raid. "[Lazaro] should be held in contempt."
The impasse over Elian presented Reno with one of the biggest challenges of her long career in public service. Others include riots in Miami, during her tenure as a Florida state attorney, over her office's failure to convict police officers in a racially charged case, and her decision to end a standoff in Waco, Texas, that resulted in the deaths of some 80 Branch Davidian followers and their children.
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"I really don't understand the impetus behind the back-biting," says Viet Dihn, a Georgetown University law professor who, in 1978, escaped Vietnam. "I do not see from the US perspective anyone who has a specific interest in a non-negotiated decision in this."
But most agree that the passage of time helped leaders in the Cuban-exile community rally public support and assemble a skilled legal team to try to keep the child in Miami. Within a very short time, Elian became a powerful symbol of every Cuban exile's struggle for freedom.
Today, Reno is set to appear before a group of children at the White House Easter Egg Roll, where she'll read "Voyage to the Bunny Planet."
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Resolve 14 has really stepped up Blackmagic's NLE game with many great new updates over the past few months. While I typically refer to Resolve as a high-end color correction and finishing tools, this review will focus on the Editing tab.
Over the last two years, Resolve has grown from a high-end color correction and finishing app to include a fully-capable nonlinear editor, media organizer and audio editing tool. Fairlight is not currently at the same level as Avid Pro Tools, but it is still capable, and with a price of free or at most $299 you can't lose. For this review, I am using the $299 version, which has a few perks — higher than UHD resolutions; higher than 60 frames per second timelines; the all-important spatial and/or temporal noise reduction; many plugins like the new face tracker; multi-user collaboration; and much more. The free version will work with resolutions up to UHD at up to 60fps and still gives you access to all of the powerful base tools like Fairlight and the mighty color correction tool set.
Disclaimer: While I really will try and focus on the Editing tab, I can't make any promises I won't wander.
My favorite updates to Resolve 14's Editing tab revolve around collaboration and conforming functions, but I even appreciate some smaller updates like responsiveness while trimming and video scopes on the edit page. And don't forget the audio waveforms being visible on the source monitor!
With these new additions, among others, I really do think that Resolve is also becoming a workable nonlinear editor much like industry standards such as Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro and Apple Final Cut Pro X. You can work from ingest to output all within one app. When connected to a collaborative project there is now bin-locking, sharing bins and even a chat window.
Multicam works as expected with up to 16 cameras in one split view. I couldn't figure out how to watch all of the angles in the source monitor while playing down the sequence in the record monitor, so I did a live switch (something I love to do in Media Composer). I also couldn't figure out how to adjust the multi-cam after it had been created, because say, for instance, audio was one frame out of sync or I needed to add another angle later on. But the multicam worked and did its job by allowing me to sync by in point, out point, timecode, sound or marker. In addition, you can make the multicam a different frame rate than your timeline, which is handy.
Another addition is the Position Lock located in the middle right, above the timeline. The Position Lock keeps all of your clips locked in time in your timeline. What is really interesting about this is that it still allows you to trim and apply other effects to clips while locking the position of your clips in place. This is extremely handy when doing conforms and online passes of effects when you don't want timing and position of clips to change. It's a great safety net. There are some more fancy additions like re-time curves directly editable in the timeline. But what I would really love is a comprehensive overhaul of the Title Tool that would allow for direct manipulation of the text on top of the video. It would be nice to have a shortcut to use the title as a matte for other footage for some quick and fancy titling effects, but maybe that is what Fusion is for? The title tool works fine and will now give you nice crisp text even when blown up. The bezier curves really come in handy here to make animations ease in and out nicely.
If you start and finish within Resolve 14, your experience will most likely be pretty smooth. For anyone coming from another NLE — like Media Composer or Premiere — there are a few things you will have to get used to, but overall it feels like the interface designers of Resolve 14 kept the interface familiar for those "older" editors, yet also packed it with interesting features to keep the "YouTube" editors' interest piqued. As someone who's partial to Media Composer, I really like that you can choose between frame view in the timeline and clips-only view, leaving out thumbnails and waveform views in the timeline.
I noticed a little bit of a lag when editing with the thumbnail frames turned on. I also saw recently that Dave Dugdale on YouTube found an interesting solution to the possible bug. Essentially, one of the thumbnail views of the timeline was a little slower at re-drawing when zooming into a close view in a sequence Regardless, I like to work without thumbnails, and that view seemed to work fluidly for me.
After working for about 12 minutes I realized I hadn't saved my work and Resolve didn't auto-saved. This is when I remembered hearing about the new feature "Live Save." It's a little tricky to find, but the Live Save feature lives under the DaVinci Resolve Menu > User > Auto Save and is off by default — I really think this should be changed. Turn this fuction on and your Resolve project will continually save, which in turn saves you from unnecessary conniptions when your project crashes and you try to find the spot that was last saved.
Coming from another NLE, the hardest thing for me to get used to in a new app was the keyboard layouts and shortcuts. Typically, trimming works similar to other apps and overwriting; ripple edits, dissolves and other edit functions don't change, but the placement of their shortcuts does. In Resolve 14, you can access the keyboard shortcut commands in the same spot as the Live Save, but under the Keyboard Mapping menu under User. From here you can get grounded quickly by choosing a preset that is similar to your NLE of choice — Premiere, FCP X, Media Composer — or Resolve's default keyboard layout, which isn't terrible. If this could be updated to how apps like Premiere and/or Avid have their keyboard layouts designed, it would be a lot easier to navigate. Meaning there is usually a physical representation of a keyboard that allows you to drag your shortcuts to and from it realtime.
Right now, Resolve's keyboard mapper is text-based and a little cumbersome. Overall, Resolve's keyboard shortcuts (when in the editing tab) are pretty standard, but it would do you well to read and go through basic moves like trimming, trimming the heads and tails of clips or even just trimming by plus or minus and the total frames you want to trim.
I have always treated Resolve as another app in my post workflow — I wasn't able to use it all the way from start to finish. So in homage to the old way of working, a.k.a. "a round trip workflow," I wanted to send a Media Composer sequence to Resolve by way of a linked AAF, then conform the media clips and work from there. I had a few objectives, but the main one was to make sure my clips and titles came over. Next was to see if any third-party effects would translate into Resolve from Media Composer and, finally, I wanted to conform an "updated" AAF to the original sequence using Resolve's new "Compare with Current Timeline" command.
This was a standard 1080p, 23.98 sequence (transcoded to one mezzanine DNx175x codec with 12 frame handles) with plenty of slates, titles, clips, speed ramps, Boris Continuum Complete and Sapphire Effect. Right off the bat all of the clip-based media came over fine and in its correct time and place in the timeline. Unfortunately, the titles did not come over and were offline — none of them were recognized as titles so they couldn't be edited. Dissolves came over correctly, however none of the third-party BCC or Sapphire effects came across. I didn't really expect the third-party effects to come over, but at some point, in order to be a proper conforming application, Resolve will need to figure out a way to translate those when sending sequences from an NLE to Resolve. This is more of a grand wish, but in order to be a force in the all-in-one app for the post finishing circle, this is a puzzle that will need to be solved.
Otherwise, for those who want to use alternative nonlinear editing systems, they will have to continue using their NLE as the editor, Resolve as a color-only solution, and the NLE as their finisher. And from what I can tell Blackmagic wants Resolve to be your last stop in the post pipeline. Obviously, if you start your edit in Resolve and use third-party OpenFX (OFX) like BCC or Sapphire, you shouldn't have any problems.
Last on my list was to test the new Compare with Current Timeline command. In order for this option to pop up when you right click, you must be in the Media tab with the sequence you want to compare to the one loaded. You then need to find the sequence you want to compare from, right click on it and click Compare with Current Timeline. Once you click the sequences you want to compare, a new window will pop up with the option to view the Diff Index. The Diff Index is a text-based list of each new edit next to the timeline that visually compares your edits between the two sequences. This visual representation of the edits between the sequences is where you will apply those changes. There are marks identifying what has changed, and if you want to apply those changes you must right click and hit Apply Changes. My suggestion is to duplicate your sequence before you apply changes (actually you should be constantly duplicating your sequence as a backup as a general rule). The Compare with Current Timeline function is pretty incredible. I tested it using an AAF I had created in Media Composer and compared it against an AAF made from the same sequence but with some "creative" changes and trimmed clips — essentially a locked sequence that suddenly became unlocked while in Online/Color and needed to reflect the latest changes from the offline edit.
I wasn't able to test Resolve 14 in a shared-project environment, so I couldn't test a simultaneous update coming from another editor. But this can come in really handy for anyone who has to describe any changes made to a particular sequence or for that pesky online editor that needs to conform a new edit while not losing all their work.
I can't wait to see the potential of this update, especially if we can get Resolve to recognize third-party effects from other NLEs. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not oblivious to the fact that asking Resolve engineers to figure out how to recognize third-party effects in an AAF workflow is a pie-in-the-sky scenario. If it was easy it probably would have already been done. But it is a vital feature if Blackmagic wants Resolve to be looked at like a Flame or Media Composer but with a high-end coloring solution and audio finishing solution. While I'm at it, I can't help but think that Resolve may eventually include Fusion as another tab maybe as a paid add-on, which would help to close that circle to being an all-in-one post production solution.
In the end, Resolve 14 has all the makings of becoming someone's choice as a sole post workflow solution. Blackmagic has really stepped up to the plate and made a workable and fully functional NLE. And, oh yeah not to mention it is one of the top color correction tools being used in the world.
I did this review of the editing tab using Blackmagic Design's DaVinci Resolve 14.2. Find the latest version here. And check out our other Resolve review — this one from a color and finishing perspective.
This entry was posted in Audio, Collaboration, Color Grading, Editing, Review and tagged Blackmagic Design, Brady Betzel, color grading, editing, Resolve 14 on January 24, 2018 by Randi Altman.
Regarding third party effects you wrote: "Resolve will need to figure out a way to translate those when sending sequences from an NLE to Resolve." Does Avid even put that information in an AAF? I don't think they do, so that's on Avid not on BMD. In my experience, the most seamless interchange is from the FCPXML produced by FCPX to Resolve.


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