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T.J. Johnson: big on leadership

Name: TJ JohnsonThe Chapel Hill High School senior is in his fourth year as varsity quarterback for the Tigers, leading them to the playoffs for the second straight time and the third time in four years. Class: 2013Ht/Wt.: 6-3, 235 pounds Grades: a solid ?B? Favorite subject in school: History Hardest subject: Math College choice: Undecided but ?I?ll make a decision in December. A Division II school is possible if I think I can make a real contribution there.? Other sports: In his fourth year of varsity football, the 6-3, 234-pound Johnson also has played every year so far with the CHHS basketball team as a powerful inside presence. ?I?ve always liked basketball, but football has turned into my love.? Favorite movie: ?Titanic? Favorite book: ?Through My Eyes: A Quarterback?s Journey? ? by Tim Tebow, with Nathan Whitaker. Favorite TV: ESPN. ?Anything on ESPN ? straight up.? Favorite video game: NBA 2K ?13 Last thing on my radio: ?Over My Dead Body? by Drake Football has taught me: ?The spotlight is always on a quarterback, but football is a team sport. You have to have a team around you, and in life you need to have good people with you to be successful.? Childhood memory: ?The first time I played football in my backyard. I was 7 years old. We were playing against the big boys ? teenagers ? and scored three times. That?s the first time I knew I could play football.? Biggest athletic thrill: ?Senior Night? against Southern Vance in 2011, throwing a game-winning pass to Stephen Winsor with zero time left on the clock. Most people don?t know: ?I?ve been at least 200 pounds since fourth grade.? Pregame ritual: ?I always listen to Enya.? Words to live by: ?I?ve been looking or my father all my life, and then I realized I was just looking for myself and trying to become the man he never was.? T.J. = Terriek Johnson

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Job Search Assistance Programs offered Nov. 2012 ? FortBendJobs ...

Fort Bend County Libraries are offering several valuable programs for local job seekers in November:

ICAN CENTER BUSINESS MIX & MINGLE?AT MISSOURI CITY BRANCH LIBRARY

?Job-hunters who are interested in networking are invited to attend the ICAN Center Business Mix & Mingle at Fort Bend County Libraries? Missouri City Branch Library, 1530 Texas Parkway, on Wednesday, November 14, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm, in the Conference Room.

Those attending will have an opportunity to meet other individuals with similar job-hunting experiences, to exchange ideas and business cards, and to establish relationships that may assist them in their networking and job-hunting endeavors. Job-search techniques and interview skills will be discussed.

The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. For more information, call the branch library at 281-238-2100.

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GET JOB-SEARCH ASSISTANCE?AT MISSOURI CITY BRANCH LIBRARY SERIES

Fort Bend County Libraries? Missouri City Branch Library, 1530 Texas Parkway, will present a series of free Job-Search Assistance programs in November. All programs will take place from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm, in the Meeting Room of the library.

The schedule of programs is as follows:

November 1 ? Evaluate Your Skills & Develop a Plan presented by Texas Workforce Solutions

November 8 ? Networking & Using the Internet presented by Texas Workforce Solutions

November 15 ? Rebranding Your Skills presented by Texas Workforce Solutions

The programs are free and open to the public. For more information, call the branch library at 281-238-2100.

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?LIBRARY RESOURCE OFFERS PRACTICE TESTS?FOR VARIETY OF CAREERS

?Are you getting ready for the SAT or ACT tests?? Can you pass the U.S. Citizenship test? Fort Bend County Libraries? LearningExpress Library, an online computer resource for test preparation, uses interactive practice exams for civil service tests (firefighters, EMTs, postal workers, and police officers), tests for teaching, nursing, real estate, and much more.

The Adult Services staff at the Bob Lutts Fulshear/Simonton Branch Library will provide a basic introduction to using the LearningExpress Library resource on Wednesday, November 14, beginning at 10:15 am, in the Meeting Room of the library, located at 8100 FM 359 South in Fulshear.

Those attending the class will learn how to access the various practice tests that are available in the LearningExpress Library resource. The online practice tests provide instant scoring and feedback, and they may be repeated as many times as needed. This resource will help test-takers overcome test anxiety, gain confidence, and improve scores, while working at their own pace.

The class is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. Those attending the class are welcome to bring their own laptop computer if available. For more information, call the branch library at 281-633-4675, or the library?s Public Information Office at 281-341-2677.

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Suicide Silence singer Lucker dies in California motorcycle accident

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Mitch Lucker, the lead singer of extreme heavy metal band Suicide Silence, died on Thursday of injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident in Huntington Beach, California, police said.

The band from Southern California was given the Golden Gods award for best new talent by Revolver magazine in 2009.

Lucker, 28, was on a new Harley Davidson motorcycle driving in the Orange County city of Huntington Beach on Halloween night when he lost control and crashed into a light pole, according to a statement from the local police department.

He was taken to the University of California, Irvine Medical Center where he later died, police said. Investigators said they were looking into the cause of the collision and whether alcohol was a factor.

"There's no easy way to say this," the band said in a post on Facebook. "Mitch passed away earlier this morning from injuries sustained during a motorcycle accident."

Suicide Silence in 2007 came out with the album "The Cleansing" and followed that up with the 2009 "No Time to Bleed" and last year's "The Black Crown," which made its way to No. 9 on the Billboard hard rock chart.

The band, whose musical style is referred to as "deathcore," is originally from Riverside, California, a working-class community 50 miles east of Los Angeles.

(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Will Dunham)

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MAYOR BLOOMBERG: MANDATORY 6 ... - Weekly World News

With New York City?s mass transit in the early stages of coming back on-line due to the overwhelming amount of damage caused by Hurricane Sandy, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is taking a proactive approach to keeping street traffic in Manhattan at a manageable level.

The mayor announced during his Wednesday afternoon press conference that effective Thursday morning there will be restrictions on cars entering the borough. ?And even more restrictions are cars driving in Manhattan.

?I have ordered the four East River bridges be restricted to high-occupancy vehicles coming into Manhattan, meaning six or more people per vehicle, all day Thursday and all day Friday from 6 a.m. to midnight,? Bloomberg said.

If you are caught with only one or two in your car, you will be evicted and your car will be tossed into the East River.

?I think anybody that tried to drive around New York City today realized there are a lot of cars on the road; traffic is heavy. To reduce the number of cars coming into Manhattan we have to take some steps because the streets just cannot handle the numbers of cars that have tried to come in.?

The mayor went on to say that there will be no exceptions. ?Violators will be arrested and put in internment camps in upstate New York until the city returns to normal.

Taxis will also be required to have at least 4 passengers at all times, except when drivers start a new shift.

Bloomberg spoke with Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is issuing the same mandate for the Triborough and Henry Hudson bridges, as well as the Lincoln Tunnel. ??If you don?t have six in your car ? stay home,? ?Cuomo reportedly said.

?I know it is inconvenient for a lot of people, but the bottom line is the streets can only handle so much,? the mayor said. ?Hopefully, we can find ways for you to pick up people who will be standing by the bridges. They?ve got a problem of getting in; you?re their solution and they are your solution as well.?

The mayor went on to say that even though the power should be back on in the next few days, driving remains treacherous and that safety should be the only priority among motorists.

?People should use extreme caution when driving on the streets, particularly where there are no traffic lights operating,? Bloomberg said. ?We?ll have Police Department recruits at these intersections starting tonight to direct traffic.?

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Obama, Romney Poles Apart on Domestic Issues (Voice Of America)

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Be Afraid: 33 Scary Online Marketing Tales of SEO, Social Media ...

Posted on 31. Oct, 2012 by Ashley Zeckman in Blog, content marketing, Small Business Internet Marketing, Small Business Marketing, Social Media

Happy Halloween to all the online marketing ghosts, ghouls, and goblins out there.

Have you ever heard or received a really bad piece of online marketing advice? ?Maybe the recommendation was founded on total?hearsay, completely out of date or you discovered that the suggestions actually hurt, rather than helped? Scary! At one time or another we?ve all received the trick and not the treat in our internet marketing candy basket.

In this post you?ll find 20 scary SEO, social media and content marketing tales from the team at TopRank Online Marketing and from our friends on Twitter @TopRank, fans on Lee?s Facebook page and the TopRank Facebook page.

BOO! Scary Stories From the Crypt

1 ? Classic scary: ?Build great content and it will attract visitors all on?it?s own. SEO isn?t necessary for good content to stand out.?

As Lee likes to say, ?Great content isn?t great until it gets discovered, consumed and shared.? Competition for attention online is tough and unless efforts are made to promote great content or build social promotion into the content creation itself, there?s a chance it won?t be able to attract the audience it deserves. Great content + smart and relevant promotion = WIN!

2 ? Marketing Bandwagon: As people in the SEO community jump on the content marketing bandwagon, many seek advice on how to incorporate content in their search engine centric online marketing mix. ?One of the scarier pieces of SEO / Content Marketing advice is: ?Content Marketing?s Goal Is Not To Convert Customers Directly, To Acquire Leads Directly, or To Make Sales Directly.?

Sure, you don?t execute a financial transaction for a product within the text of an article, but the ?buy this? button is only one click a way. The ?contact us? for a lead form is just one click away. Content Marketing is designed specifically create the information customers need to become aware, interested and to consider products and services. Further, content marketing is also designed to specifically influence customer leads, sales and conversion actions. That?s called optimizing across the sales cycle and it?s been around for a very long time.

3 ? Keyword Density:??To increase the ranking of web pages in Google,?optimize the keyword density of meta description tags.? from a SEO professional.

While meta descriptions are often used in the search snippet displayed in search results, they content of meta descriptions are not a ranking factor according to Google. ?Meta descriptions could influence clicks on search results which could lead to other signals affecting ranking, but as a driver of ranking on it?s own? The not so scary advice from Google: ??Even though we sometimes use the description meta tag for the snippets we show,?we still don?t use the description meta tag in our ranking.? Matt Cutts,?Distinguished Engineer at Google.

SEO Horror Stories From The TopRank Team

4 ? Lee Odden?- The competition is doing (tactic XYZ) so we need to do that too.

5 ? Brian Larson -?Brand is not important ? I?ve heard from several SEO ?experts? that there?s no need use your brand name in your onpage copy and meta fields, since people will always be able to find your site if they know your name.

6 ? Rob Bayne ? The SEO process is complete! It?s finished! There?s no more work necessary.

7 ? Shawna Kenyon?-?Stuff your content full of keywords. This is not only a bad user experience but Google doesn?t really fancy it either.

8 ? Sara Duane-Gladden?-?Why would you need to write keyword optimized webpage content when you can hide keywords in HTML? Just make text the same color as the background or set it to such a tiny size no one can see it. Search engines will love it and people won?t notice it at all.

9 ? Thom Craver -?Reciprocal?linking is where it?s at. I link to you, you link back to me and we?ll both succeed! More links is always better, right?

Terrifying Online Marketing Stories From Fans of @TopRank & our Facebook Fans:

10 ? Lisa Barone ? Good content doesn?t need to be promoted.

11 ? Brian Crouch ? Be needlessly controversial! Say things you don?t mean just to get a rise out of people. ?Curse-filled comments on a post gets links!

12 ? Tammy Emineth ? Hey! ?You can get 3,000 backlinks for just $9.99.

13 ? Josh Peters ? There is not such thing as black hat. ?Google can?t tell the difference.

14 ? Krista Neher ? You don?t have to track ROI trust me, engagement just ?works?.

15 ? Jordan Kasteler ? Play hide and seek with keywords for search engines.

16 ? Steve Farnsworth ? You should tie your content marketing into hot memes to drive tons of (unqualified) traffic to your website.

17 ? Amanda Maksymiw ? We should just do whatever we did last year.

18 -?Phil Gomes -?Social media is just another channel.

19 ? Carolyn Shelby - We dont? need a website. ?We have a Facebook Page.

20 ? Dave Roher - So we had the designer put all of the content in the image. ?Doesn?t that page look great?

21 ? Wendy Bauer Piersall ? Don?t worry about (Not Provided) because it will only be 5% or so of your search engine traffic.

22 -?Patricia Skinner ? Ah, that would be the advice to use link building software. Hands down the scariest SEO advice ever.

23 -?Lydia Fabry Mazorol ? ?We think it would be well advised for us to get the link building [spammers] we?ve been paying to add us to directories and random sites for years and now pay them to clean up that mess!? #pay?!!!

24 -?Andrea Sodergren Vahl ? ?Just add a whole bunch of keywords in white lettering?

25 -?Robyn Green Tippins ? Just keep tweeting the sale link. People like that.

26 -?Becky Ryan ? ?Oh we tried to do that Social Media, and we were doing great until Matt Cutts said Google hates. My boss stopped all of us and after that my phone crashed, so I have been on twitter for months?

27 -?Carri Bugbee ? You can get 10k Twitter followers for just $5! [BTW, you actually can. They just happen to be fake.]

28 -?Brian Crouch ? ?Be needlessly controversial! Say things you don?t mean just to get a rise out of people! Curse-filled comments on a post gets links! ?

29 -?Tammy Emineth ? ?Hey! I can get 3000 backlinks for just $9.99!?

30 -?Ross Dunn ? Most recently it was an affiliate ?Guru? posting to all of his followers delight that it is a good idea to buy comment link building services through Fiverr. I nearly lost my lunch.

31 -?Josh Peters ? ?There is no such thing as black hat. Google can?t tell the difference.?

32 -?Patrick Garmoe ? Our yellow pages company said they could handle all our online marketing for far less than you charge.

33 -?Jayme Westervelt ? ?It?s too risky to optimize your site by adding Title Tags and descriptions. Google will penalize you, so instead we concentrate on inbound links via a network of sites my friend owns.?

A lot of people that are learning about SEO, Social Media and Content Marketing may find it difficult to tell the difference between scary and smart when it comes to online marketing advice. Our advice is to connect with a trusted and experienced resource or better a network of resources that you can bounce ideas off of. Test things for yourself and be involved with the industry and you?ll soon be able to see how many zombie marketers there really are.

Those are some pretty dark online marketing tales. ?What are yours?

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Folding funnels key to biomimicry

ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2012) ? Proteins are able to self-assemble into a wide range of highly ordered structures that feature a diverse array of properties. Through biomimicry -- technological innovation inspired by nature -- humans hope to emulate proteins and produce our own version of self-assembling molecules. A key to accomplishing this is understanding how protein-folding -- a process critical to the form and function of a protein -- is extended from individual proteins to complex assemblies.

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have now shown that a concept widely accepted as describing the folding of a single individual protein is also applicable to the self-assembly of multiple proteins. Their findings provide important guidelines for future biomimicry efforts, particularly for device fabrication and nanoscale synthesis.

"We've made the first direct observations that the concept of a folding funnel with kinetic energy traps for individual proteins can be equally applied to the assembly of ordered protein structures," says Jim DeYoreo, a scientist with the Molecular Foundry, a DOE nanoscience center at Berkeley Lab, who led this research along with Berkeley Lab chemist Carolyn Bertozzi. "Our results tell us that efforts to discover and codify the design rules for the self-assembly of complex molecular systems will have to take into account the impact of kinetic traps associated with conformational transformations."

DeYoreo and Bertozzi are the corresponding authors of a paper published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that reported this research.?

Proteins are essentially biomolecular nanomachines capable of performing numerous tasks because of their ability to fold themselves into a multitude of shapes and forms. When individual proteins self-assemble into ordered structures the resulting ensemble often adopts conformations that are quite distinct from those of the individual components.

"For example, collagen matrices, which constitute the organic scaffolds of bones and teeth, are constructed from triple helices of individual collagen monomers," DeYoreo says. "These helices will further assemble into highly organized twisted fibrils that exhibit a pseudohexagonal symmetry."

The folding funnel concept explains individual protein folding on the basis of conformational changes to reach a state of minimal free energy. An unfolded protein starts out in a state of high free energy that makes its conformation unstable. Initially, there are a number of possible three-dimensional conformations that would reduce this free energy. However, as the protein starts to fold, the free energy begins to drop and the number of possible conformations begins to decrease like the shrinking width of a funnel. The bottom of the funnel is reached when free energy is minimized and there is only one available conformation. As the free energy drops, however, there may be kinetic traps along the way that can stop the folding process and hold the protein in partially folded conformations, known as molten globules and folding intermediates, for extended periods of time. Eventually these trapped conformational states will be transformed into a stable conformation but the shape and form of that final conformation is influenced by the kinetic traps.

"In a protein folding funnel, the funnel walls are presumed not to be smooth and the resulting bumps and valleys define kinetic traps," DeYoreo says. "This physical picture of folding has been explored in some detail at the single molecule level, but has not been considered for protein self-assembly into extended architectures even though conformational transformations are part and parcel of the self-assembly process."

DeYoreo, Bertozzi and their colleagues took steps to correct this knowledge deficit by studying the surface-layer (S-layer) proteins that self-assemble into a crystalline membrane around the single cells of bacteria and Archaea. This outer membrane serves as the first point of contact between the microbe and its environment and is key to the microbe's ability to survive. Using in situ Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), the researchers imaged in real time and at the molecular level kinetic trapping during the 2D self-assembly of S-layer protein structures on mica surfaces.

"We observed that self-assembly of S-layer proteins tracks along two different pathways, one leading directly to the low-energy final, ordered state, and the other leading to a kinetic trap occupied by a long-lived transient state that is more disordered," DeYoreo says. "Although either state is easily accessible during crystal nucleation, if the system falls into the high-energy state, escape to the final, low-energy state is strongly impeded at room temperature. This demonstrates the importance of kinetic traps in determining the pathway of S-layer crystallization and suggests that the concept of folding funnels is equally valid for self-assembly of extended protein structures."

This research was supported by the DOE Office of Science.

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1. S.-H. Shin, S. Chung, B. Sanii, L. R. Comolli, C. R. Bertozzi, J. J. De Yoreo. Direct observation of kinetic traps associated with structural transformations leading to multiple pathways of S-layer assembly. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2012; 109 (32): 12968 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201504109

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