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Friday, June 22, 2012

NEVER has a cocktail gained more fame than the liquid food known as BM or Bloody Mary.

Because the drink is served cold, it makes an excellent refresher even if it has alcohol. It makes you imagine a white beach, some pretty bikini-clad girls and you, with no care in the world.

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The worlds most complex cocktail has securely established itself in popular culture. A Family Guy episode couldnt resist the enticing drink. One scene had Peter Griffin drinking a Bloody Mary to ease the symptoms of a hangover. His drink was garnished with celery.

Bloody Mary is the drink of choice of George (actor Bob Hoskins) in Mona Lisa. He orders several glasses in the 1986 film. In Back to the Future III, Emmett Brown (Christopher Lloyd) pops out from unconsciousness with a Bloody Bull Shot, a variant of BM, that the bartender renames as Wake-Up Juice.

In the film Johnny English, Rowan Atkinson orders a Bloody Mary not too spicy from a waiter at the unveiling of the crown jewels.

Two names are linked with the drink. One is George Jessel, who claims to have created the grandmother of all BMs with his concoction around 1939. His prototype was made with half tomato juice, half vodka.

Fernand Petiot, a bartender at the New York Bar (later named Harrys New York Bar), in Paris, France, is the second claimant to the cocktails birth. He said he invented the drink as we know it today in 1921.

He said the first two customers for whom he made the drink were from Chicago, and they say there is a bar there named the Bucket of Blood. And there is a waitress there everybody calls Bloody Mary. One of the boys said that the drink reminds him of Bloody Mary, and the name stuck, according to wikipedia.com.

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Chyler Leigh

More than a month after we lost Lexie on the chilling Grey's Anatomy season finale, it still hurts to think about helpless Little Grey trapped under the wreckage of a downed plane as she struggled to breathe through bloodied teeth. Well, Lexie's portrayer, the always lovely Chyler Leigh, is happy to remind us, "I'm alive." Here, for the first time since she released a brief statement explaining her reasons for leaving the series [we agreed not to get back into that], Leigh opens up about her last moments on set, what's next and being honored by an organization helping to bring water to the world's thirstiest.

TV Guide Magazine: Chyler! How are you? Leigh: I'm good. If I cough, I'm sorry. I'm kind of getting overa little cold.

TV Guide Magazine: Well, you're in much better shape than the last time we saw you on TV. Leigh: [Laughs] For sure.

TV Guide Magazine: I first have to tell you, as hard as it was to lose you, your death scene was brilliantly acted. Leigh: Aww. Thank you. I wasn't really dying though. That was quite an experience. I haunted a lot of people.

TV Guide Magazine: We'll talk more about that. In the meantime, what have you been up to? Leigh: Life. A whole lot of life and I am so grateful that I get to be home with my kids who are three beautiful, complicated, dynamic children. I have a lot of life to live.

TV Guide Magazine: You also had a movie out that Justin Chambers [Alex] was originally slated to be in. Leigh: Yes, Justin wasn't available [because of his Grey's shooting schedule] but we still made the movie called Brake with Stephen Dorff as the main character. I played his wife. It came out in March. A really incredible little movie.

TV Guide Magazine: So what's next? Leigh: A few things. My husband [actor Nathan West] and I write. There's a musical thing and a children's book we're in the process of. It's still all very much in the developmental stage.

TV Guide Magazine: Why is a children's book something you wanted to do? Leigh: We read books to our kids every night and my husband is such an amazing storyteller. He has them rolling with laughter. So we had some pretty profound ideas come up.

TV Guide Magazine: You and Nathan are being honored next week with the Pioneering Spirit Award by an organization called the Thirst Project. What's this all about? Leigh: The Thirst Project is a phenomenal organization [about] the water crisis. Almost one billion people on our planet don't have access to any clean drinking water. 4400 kids die every single day from diseases caused by contaminated water. And eighty percent of all global diseases are water-born. It's ridiculous. My eight-year-old son will complain about having to drink a cup of water and I'll show him a video to watch. The Thirst Project has been able to build wells in several developing countries all around the globe and teach the people in the villages how to maintain them so they have clean water for life. Clean water has been brought to over 100,000 people over the world in just four short years. For my husband and I to be able to put our names out there, we're able to be a part of it. We were also able to finance a well in Swaziland that's making an impact.

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How human biology can explain the behavior that drives banks to the brink of disaster

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As the world's economy struggles to pull out of a recession, traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in the New York financial district on Wall Street on April 8, 2009 in New York City.

Coates' latest book is The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings and the Biology of Boom and Bust

Every so often we read of a star trader who has lost so much money that he has given back all the profits he made in the previous few years and shaken his bank to its foundations. How on earth does this happen? Were the risk managers at the bank mistaken all along about this traders skill?

Maybe. But recent research in physiology and neuroscience suggests an alternative explanation that the winning streak itself changed the trader. Human biology can today help explain the behavior that drives traders to acts of folly.At the heart of this research lies an important fact that is frequently overlooked: when we take risk, including financial risk, we do a lot more than think about it we prepare for it physically. Body and brain fuse as a single functioning unit.

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Consider what happens when an important piece of news flashes across the wire. At that very instant, across the trading floor, traders senses are placed on high alert, allowing them to hear the faintest noise, see the slightest movement. Breathing accelerates, and they feel the thump of a heart gearing up for action. Muscles tense, stomachs knot and an imperceptible sheen of sweat creeps across their skin, anticipatory cooling for the expected activity. We do not regard information as a computer does, dispassionately. We register it physically.

This fusion of body and brain normally endows us with the fast reactions and gut feelings we need to survive in a brutal world, and a brutal market. My colleagues at the University of Cambridge and Ihave conducted a series of experiments on a trading floor in London and found thatunder circumstances of extraordinary opportunity otherwise known as a winning streak our biology can overreact, and our risk taking become pathological. A model from animal behavior, called the winner effect, provides an intriguingly illustration of how this can happen. When males enter a fight or competition their testosterone surges which increases their hemoglobin and hence their bloods capacity to carry oxygen; and in the brain it increases confidence and appetite for risk. The winner emerges with even higher levels of testosterone and this heightens his chances of winning yet again, leading to a positive feedback loop. For athletes preparing to compete, traders buying risky assets, even politicians gearing up for an election, this is a moment of transformation,what the French in the Middle Ages called the hour between dog and wolf.

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The Anatomy of a Huge Trading Loss

When Chyler Leigh decided to leave Grey's Anatomy in May after five-and-a-half years, the actress wrapped up Lexie's storyline on her own terms -- but that doesn't mean filming her death scene was a total dream.

"It was cold," Leigh, 30, recalled to TVGuide.com of filming her character's final scene, which took place in the aftermath of a plane crash. "We were up at Big Bear and at one point it had snowed. Then it would rain and be sunny and hot. I never died before [on camera]. That sounds funny saying that. I think everyone has an emotional wellspring and that happened to be a moment where I was sprung."

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As all eyes were on Leigh's Lexie Grey during those last scenes, the actress quickly realized she could call the shots to keep herself comfortable. "Everybody was very accommodating -- the crew, cast. And I opted to stay underneath [the wreckage] for the most part over two days rather than trying to get in and out," she explained.

Leigh tells TVGuide.com that of all of her Seattle Grace scenes, Lexie's last moments were a highlight. "Ironically, I think [I'm most proud of] her death. It really was a chance for me to be able to go from the beginning of the character to the end," Leigh -- who worked closely with Grey's Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes to prepare a fitting end for Lexie -- explains.

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"There's something that's very bittersweet about that. Something about being able to be there for the moment of her death that I appreciate. I don't know if that's morbid or not, but that's how I feel," she continues.

Taking a break from TV for the time being as she raises her three children with her actor husband, Nathan West, Leigh wouldn't be opposed to returning to the small screen. "I'm always down to do a sitcom. I did That 80's Show back in the day and that was a really great experience. I think comedy would be good for a while," she hints.

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In the meantime, Leigh -- who is working on a children's book with her husband - is relishing in extra family time. "Right now I'm just taking a pause from everything," she tells TVGuide.com. "I am so grateful that I get to be home with my kids who are three beautiful, complicated, dynamic children. I have a lot of life to live."

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MIAMI (CBS4) The last time the Miami Heat won an NBA title was in 2006. It was their first.

So if the Heat win the Finals, people will party. To find out what a celebration might look like, we went back in time.

It was six years ago when the Miami Heat beat the Dallas Mavericks and won the NBA Finals.

Five minutes later, Im not kidding you, people started coming out with pots, and pans, said CBS4s Marybel Rodriguez, who was reporting from Hialeah that night. I remember this one guy was on top of his car, with a huge pink flamingo just screaming Go Heat!

There must have been thousands of people in Hialeah. They had their own Heat parade the night the Heat won, she said.

That wasnt even the official parade we saw a few days later.

We turned to CBS4 Sports Anchor Jim Berry to find out what a Heat celebration this year could be like.

Celebration? What celebration? Theyve gotta win it first! You trying to jinx the Heat? asked Berry.

CBS4s Lisa Petrillo remembers the 2006 celebration well.

Crazy, hot, and crowded, she said.

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The Anatomy Of A Heat Celebration & Parade

Internal Linking to Promote Keyword Cluster explained the math of how strength passes internally between pages of a website and how it can be influenced with a focused and planned internal linking structure. The limitation of this approach is that it assumes that all internal links are created equal. This isnt the case.

Several factors influence the weight and relative importance of an internal link. For example the format of that link, its position on the page, its position relative to other links, etc. While the specific way that the engines weigh individual links is not known (and would likely change even if it was), there are principles you can be apply to understand how the weight is being carried through your site past simple mathematics.

The simplest (and arguably most effective) first step is to think like a visitor. In the desire for search engines to provide as relevant a result as possible, they work hard to emulate as best they can a visitor experience.

While the fine folks at Google (and Bing of course) can't visit every site on the web, they can create automated systems that do an excellent job at understanding how the web works, how elements are positioned on a page, and what those elements look and behave like. From this they can gather an understanding of how important a link is.

Let's look at the following basic diagram of a simple website (the dotted line indicates where the fold line is, everything above it is visible to the average user on first visiting the site):

The rule of thumb you can follow is this: the more visible the link is, the higher the weight it will pass. Let's look at each of the main link elements and grade them on a scale of 1 to 10:

I list the sidebar links first as I tend to use them as my baseline. Sidebars are often the spot for links you want people to be able to find easily enough but not important enough to make it to your main navigation. They are positioned above the fold, however there are usually many of them in a list, thus reducing their visibility. When I'm thinking about my weighting of links, I usually use the sidebar links as the baseline at 5 and grade the rest up-or-down from there.

This is the single most visible link area on a page. The majority of websites use the logo as a link to the homepage. The weight of this link will be high as Google knows that this link is extremely visible and highly clickable. As far as a link zone is concerned, the header is the 10 as far as potential weight passing is concerned.

These links are highly visible and engines know that these links tend to point to the key pages on a website. This is where you as a visitor look to find product or contact information, and the engines know that. Pages linked to in this area will be given a high relative weight. This zone is given a 9 out of 10 for weighting.

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Anatomy of an Internal Link