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As for Never Give Up! Nooooo! I love this series. I don't normally read that much Tokyopop but this one dragged me in.
And I agree with the comments about not liking e-books. The entire point of me liking buying manga is because I like holding it. E-books really don't do it for me, and whilst I'd read them to finish a series, I don't see why I shouldn't turn to scanlations.]]>
i was waiting for J-POP IDOL VOL.2
so unfair! i hope it will continue i want to buy & read it so badly ;_;]]>
New code folks! Tell your retailer! I almost missed it…]]>
ALSO! About Love Mode, this was in the JUL08 Previews for items shipping in September (and October):
PLEASE NOTE: The following titles are offered in the July PREVIEWS, but have been cancelled by the publisher after PREVIEWS went to press: Atelier Marie And Elie -Zarlburg Alchemist Volume 5, Blazin' Barrels Volume 11, Blood Sucker Volume 8, Dragon Voice Volume 11, Forget About Love Volume 2, Gakuen Heaven-Nakajima, Gosick Volume 2, I Wish… Volume 3, Kat & Mouse Volume 4, Liling-Po Volume 9, Love Mode Volume 11, Missing (Novel) Volume 4: The Hanged Man, Mobile Suit Gundam Ecole Du Ciel Volume 9, Nosatsu Junkie Volume 7, Pick Of The Litter Volume 5, Planet Blood Volume 9, Poison Candy Volume 2, Rure Volume 4, Saver Volume 7, Shin Megami Tensei (Kahn) Volume 3, Snow Volume 2, Sorcerer Hunters — 100% Authentic Format Volume 11, Suppli Volume 4, That Guy Was Splendid Volume 1, Trinity Blood – Reborn On The Mars Volume 3, and Zig*Zag Volume 4. In addition, Star Trek: The Next Generation Volume 1 has been postponed until Spring 2009. While these items are listed in the catalog, they are not available for order. Please use caution when placing your Tokyopop order.
So, yeah. I don't know what to tell you, but as a retailer I was not even allowed to place orders, so I don't know HOW they're shipping that for the first week of October.
- Chris]]>
They've also used the words "publishing" to mean both print and online, which is a little duplicitous in my mind…
Oh, and to the commenter who was worried about LOVE MODE 11, at the BLU blog they said that one has actually been rescheduled. I don't have a link handy but if you google it you should find it.]]>
Hopefully "postponed" doesn't mean "stuck on the web" for everything else…]]>
That's the final volume.
*head smacked into desk repeatedly*]]>
I am also very unhappy that there is a lot of current Manhwa series' on this list. I hope they're not the first to go. I was in shock when I saw "Hotel Africa" on this list! If things go drastic for Manhwa, I can only hope that another publisher can pick those licenses up. (Or being that it is Manhwa, Tokyopop will make all those titles online-only. Remember that the Korean pubs make more than just the printing rights available to English pubs)]]>
It's hard to say what exactly the reasoning was. Maybe he was being pressured by Tokyopop to stop, but I'm thinking it's equally likely that they are picking the book up again.
Who knows, maybe these books will see the light of day.]]>
Also, they're doing a promotion on their website for the Star Trek ultimate edition right now. It's scheduled for March 2009. Vol. 11 of Love Mode is listed as an Oct. 1 release, and I don't see it on the Previews cancellation list.]]>


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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Brian McCann hit a grand slam, Tim Hudson tossed four-hit ball over seven innings and the Atlanta Braves beat the Philadelphia Phillies 5-0 to spoil Ryan Howard's season debut Friday night.
Howard doubled in his first at-bat and was 2 for 4 in his first game since rupturing his left Achilles tendon on the final swing in a postseason elimination loss to St. Louis last October.
But even with their regulars together for the first time, the struggling Phillies generated nothing on offense. The five-time defending NL East champions are a season-worst 11 games under .500.
Hudson (7-4) nearly went pitch-for-pitch with Kyle Kendrick, who also threw seven scoreless innings and allowed four hits. Kendrick had five strikeouts; Hudson had none. But Hudson got the W.
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Is Mike Shanahan going to make Week 3 of the preseason a statement game for RG3? Griffin looked jittery in the pocket last week and never developed a rhythm. How much playing time with Griffin see this week? At the end of the day it is just preseason, but will we see a much more dynamic playbook against the Colts on Saturday?
The offensive line depth chart has me worried, especially after reading Parks Smith's article "What we should have done" (http://www.hogshaven.com/2012/8/21/3257559/what-the-redskins-shouldve-done#storyjump)
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WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- Peter McClure has been coaching the golf team since 1993, the year he completed a round-about journey on the road to his Whitman College degree.
Born and raised in Walla Walla, McClure graduated from its high school in 1962 and then spent two years in the Navy, serving on a destroyer off the coast of Vietnam.
After returning to the U.S., McClure attended Yakima (Wash.) Community College for two years before enrolling at Whitman in 1969. After completing two semesters as a sociology major at Whitman, he left campus to work at Union Pacific Railroad and raise a family.
In 1989 he took advantage of Union Pacific's educational assistance program to resume his pursuit of a Whitman degree. Switching his major to English and attending classes part-time, he completed his degree during the 1992-93 academic year. He retired from Union-Pacific in 2004.
McClure, who joined the Whitman golf program as an assistant coach in 1993, replaced long-time coach Jim Mastin as the men's golf coach in July 1997. Later that fall he established Whitman's first-ever women's team.
McClure plays golf regularly and has competed in the championship flight of Walla Walla's All-City golf tournament for several years, placing as high as fourth overall. In the 2007 championships, he placed 11th in a field of 98 golfers and was third in the senior division. He has three holes-in-one on his golfing resume, with all three coming in tournament play.
A two-time winner of the Club Championship at Veterans Memorial Golf Course, McClure continues to play competitive golf and has won several regional "senior exchange" tournaments. His last victory came in 2006.
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Vikings' OT Chris Liwienski was a 7th round draft choice of Detroit in 1998…
Vikings' LB coach Brian Baker coached in Detroit from 1997-2000…
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We're probably getting a top 3 pick this summer and we might acquire what will become the second best big man in the NBA, but, there are so many holes in the wizards' squad that a second pick would be very very welcome.
This is how i would try to acquire it :
trade Jan Vesely / C. Sing and Trevor Booker or JC or next year's first round pick for a mid/high lottery pick
By doing this, we can draft Anthony Davis or Thomas Robinson and Bradley Beal or MKG. Sure, we would lose very talented players with bright futures ahead of them but we would get a dominating big and a wing scorer wich is something we really need.
Of course if we can't get another pick, we should definitely draft the best player available then go after OJ Mayo in Free Agency.


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Charlie Wi posted a bogey-free, three- under 69 Saturday to maintain his three-stroke lead after three rounds of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am.
Tiger Woods, who is making his first PGA Tour start of the year, carded a five-under 67 at Pebble Beach to move into third place at 11-under-par 203. And now there's only one more day for Woods or anyone else to catch Wi.
Ken Dukes is currently the only golfer between Wi and Woods, shooting 12-under after a 65 on Saturday.
The top players remaining will all play on Pebble Beach Golf Links. Here are the notable tee times for Sunday. All times are Eastern
Pebble Beach Golf Links Tee #1
12:40 p.m.: Charles Wi, Ken Duke
12:29 p.m.: Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson
12:18 p.m.: Kevin Na, Brendon Todd, Dustin Johnson
12:07 p.m.: Hunter Mahan, Bob Estes
11:56 a.m.: Ricky Barnes, Padraig Harrington
TV: 12-2:30 p.m. ET on Golf Channel, 3 p.m. on CBS
As for notable amateurs, Tony Romo will play alongside Woods and Mickelson while Bill Belichick will play with Barnes and Harrington.
For more of everything golf, visit SB Nation's golf hub and golf blog, Waggle Room.


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RESIDENTS and business are being asked if they want to see a trial opening of a bus-only route in Whiteley.
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Currently, the route is blocked off with bollards that only lower for buses. But highways bosses are now asking people in Whiteley, Burridge, Swanwick, Park Gate and Curbridge if a six-month trial opening from June to November should go ahead.
Fareham Borough Council leader Cllr Sean Woodward said: "The reason I have asked for this consultation to be carried out is because the Fareham local plan is currently being reviewed.
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Lexovisaurus (Greek for "Lexovii lizard"); pronounced lex-OH-vih-SORE-us
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About 15 feet long and half a ton
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Medium size; plates and spines along back
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Lexovisaurus (which is named after the Lexovii, an ancient, savage tribe from western Europe) is one of those stegosaurs that hasn't quite been nailed down yet, classification-wise. It was originally assigned as a species of Dacentrurus, then reassigned to its own genus, though paleontologists have attributed some remains to the even more shaky Loricatosaurus. Whatever the case, Lexovisaurus appears to have been one of the earliest European stegosaurs, a medium-sized herbivore that browsed the low-lying vegetation of modern-day France and England.


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I watched the Elite 11 show last night because I wanted to get a look at Shane Cockerille. I tuned in a little too late, and only saw the part where the team of coaches were putting together their first rankings of the 11 guys in camp. The first few guys didn't have Shane on their short list, but then Trent Dilfer basically said that he needed to have him in the 11. He also noted his accuracy and maturity, which was refreshing because I was afraid that those might have been weaknesses considering running is one ofhis hallmarks. The other coach said something to the effect of "He's a bad dude, and he is absolutely someone that I want to be in the huddle with"
I think we may have found a little bit of a diamond in the rough here. Not ranked very highly when he committed, but I haven't heard a single negative review about the kid. And the fact that he can get into a camp with the other top QB's in his class and show out in these incredibly important areas of the game lead me to believe that the kid is just a winner. Very impressed and looking forward to getting him here. I think he could really do a lot of good as a QB here.


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Romanian President Traian Basescu sent a message on Monday on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in which he voices firm belief the Romanian society can offer an example of good coexistence, that should cultivate every citizen's dignity.
'The International Holocaust Remembrance Day is, for us all, an opportunity to ponder over the significance that our gestures and attitudes have before history. This day offers us the possibility to think of the mistakes we have made against our fellows. Condemning the Holocaust, alongside condemning the totalitarian rules and all the crimes against humanity are necessary steps that the Romanian state made and keeps making out of the wish of being able to continue its evolution in full freedom and responsibility', Basescu says.
The president expresses conviction that the Romanian society is able of offering an example of good coexistence that 'should cultivate every citizen's dignity, no matter what the ethnic or religious minority they belong to'.
'We have a tradition that can offer us the real prerequisites for constructive dialogue, beyond the moments which proved our weakness in the face of extremism and the totalitarian ideologies. I am confident that, by constantly bearing in our conscience the shared responsibility for the historical past, we will be able to consolidate a society of solidarity and dialogue, by which we should prove, particularly for the generations to come, our firmness against everything that may dehumanize us. ?Let us remember' by respecting the memory of the suffering by the responsibility that we assume day by day and by also cultivating the will of peace and reconciliation, as a foundation of our individual and political action', the Romanian leader's message says.AGERPRES


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Iconoclast is a near classic; it has some interesting cruxes that are mostly well protected while maintaining fairly easy climbing on a spectacular wall. Most of the climb shares pitches with Hyperspace while exiting the Iconoclast corner/dihedral system to the right for the Shield (Hyperspace continues up for two more pitches). The exposure on the Shield is wild as you roam around slinging chicken heads and a few sparce bolts.
Approach Snow Creek Wall via the Snow Lakes Trail. Stay on the trail for ~1.5 miles, until you just enter the trees (parallel to the wall). A trail down through the woods leads to a log crossing on Snow Creek, and up to the wall at the base of P1. A windstorm from the winter of 2010/2011 obliterated the trail proper for a few hundred feet on either side of the creek, follow the path of least resistance (look for rock cairns and cut branches through/on the maze of logs)
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6:00am Tuesday 14th January 2014 in News
Scouts from 2nd St Ives Sea Scouts met up with 3,000 others from across the UK to welcome in a new year of adventure at the annual Winter Camp at Gilwell Park in North London.
The event is one of the most popular Scout weekends, with over thirty different adventurous and challenging activities ranging from abseiling to zorbing to pedal go karting and brush boarding.
The scouts, along with nearly 1,000 adult leaders, enjoyed the exhilaration of sleeping in tents for two nights and cooking in open fires whilst experiencing the extremities of British weather in the middle of winter.
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Local Scout Katie, aged 14, said "Climbing that wall was hard but so much fun and gave me a massive adrenalin rush. I am now really looking forward to the disco tonight with all my mates. Without Scouting, there's no way I would be able to have such amazing adventures with my friends and achieve things that I had no idea I could do.
"My friend came last year and recommended it. I am so glad I gave it a go. I am definitely coming back next year too".
Chief Scout, Bear Grylls, said "Winter Camp provides a whole new adventure experience for young people. This challenge is all about empowering these Scouts with the confidence and skills to survive the sub-zero temperatures, and keep warm and comfortable in their tents. It's humbling to see so many inspiring young people enjoying such a wide range of activities, from climbing, abseiling, quad biking and high ropes, all in January, the coldest month of the year."


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Principal Investigator: ARMANDO JOSE PARODI
Country: Argentina
Abstract: The quality control (QC) of glycoprotein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) involves the interplay of a glucosyltransferase (GT) that only glycosylates not properly folded glycoprotein conformers, glucosidase II that removes residues added by GT and two ER resident lectins (calnexin, CNX and calreticulin, CRT) that specifically recognize monoglucosylated glycoproteins. This mechanism prevents exit of not properly folded glycoproteins to the Golgi and enhances glycoprotein folding efficiency and is directly related to the so-called "conformational diseases". To continue our characterization of the structural features that determine the participation of GT in the QC mechanism we now propose to study: (i) the subtle conformational differences, including those that may eventually result in the formation of amyloid fibers, that determine whether glycoproteins are recognized or not in vivo by GT; (ii) the maximum distance between the N-glycan and the structural distortion that allows GT-mediated glucosylation and (iii) whether glycoprotein structural stability determines its fate in the ER, i.e. successfully passing through the QC or being diverted to ER associated degradation (ERAD). For this purpose, we will express several N-glycosylation and stability lysozyme mutants (including some ones leading to the production of amyloids) in S. pombe cells and to follow whether they are recognized by GT, and whether they successfully fold or if, alternatively, they are derived to ERAD. These data, coupled to a structural characterization of the lysozyme mutants will provide information on why cells fail, in certain instances, to derive dangerous, aggregation-prone glycoproteins to degradation and on whether the structural stability of glycoproteins determines their fate in the ER. To continue our characterization of the role of N-glycans on ERAD we will further study the mechanism by which the ER mannosidase, the putative lectins Htm1p/Mnl1p/EDEM and Yos9p and the conformational sensor GT participate in driving irreparably misfolded glycoproteins to degradation. As a model system we chose S. pombe, a yeast that, contrary to what happens in S. cerevisiae, has a QC of glycoprotein folding similar to that occurring in mammalian cells. We plan to further study the proposal, derived from our own results, that the role of ER 1-mannosidase in ERAD is related to a putative lectin capacity of the protein and not to its enzymatic activity and to evaluate the relative importance in both productive glycoprotein folding and in diversion to ERAD of the first, partial glycan deglucosylation-dependent and of the following, reglucosylation, GT-dependent, CNX-glycoprotein interactions.
Funding Period: 1990-08-15 - 2012-07-31
more information: NIH RePORT
Detail Information
- How sugars convey information on protein conformation in the endoplasmic reticulumJulio J Caramelo
Laboratory of Glycobiology, Fundacion Instituto Leloir, Avda Patricias Argentinas 435, C1405BWE Buenos Aires, Argentina
Semin Cell Dev Biol 18:732-42. 2007..The purpose of the review is to describe the most significant recent findings on the mechanism of glycoprotein folding and assembly quality control and to discuss the main still unanswered questions...


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It may be hard to believe but some businesses are happy to see cold weather.
Most people won't like these freezing temperatures but one landscaper says homeowners will when spring and summer arrive.
"For the last two winters, it's been so warm we've had an abundance of bugs," Jimmy Rockett said. "Lot of termites, fire ants, and Argentine ants."
Rockett believes the cold snap will take care of those annual pests.
"We're hoping that this 60 something hours of continuous weather is going to do something for that," he said.
And it's not just bugs. The cold can also eliminate some weeds if you're willing do to some trimming.
"Take the weed eater and cut the tops of your weeds," he said. "If you expose that crown...that's going to freeze that weed and it's going to kill it."
There are also those businesses who love cold weather. Coffee shops and firewood sellers have been busy as well as some restaurants.
Baker's Famous Pizza in Bluff Park has been flooded with calls from those who don't want to venture out for food.
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The Apollo Group securities class action has turned out to be far more interesting than anyone could have predicted. The case is based on the company's alleged failure to disclose the existence of a government report finding that its wholly-owned subsidiary, the University of Phoenix, had violated Department of Education regulations.
After a jury trial, the plaintiffs won a $277.5 million verdict. The trial court, however, held that the plaintiffs had failed to prove loss causation and overturned the verdict. In its decision, the court found that the two analyst reports relied upon by the plaintiffs as "corrective disclosures" that led to a stock price decline "did not provide any new, fraud-revealing analysis." Instead, the reports merely repeated information about the government report already known to the market or provided information about the University of Phoenix that was factually wrong (and therefore could not have been corrective).
The plaintiffs appealed to the Ninth Circuit and, in a summary, unpublished opinion, the appellate court held that "the jury could have reasonably found that the [analyst] reports following various newspaper articles were 'corrective disclosures' providing additional or more authoritative fraud-related information that deflated the stock price."
So it is on to the Supreme Court, where the question will be whether the justices are ready to revisit the issue of loss causation a mere five years after their Dura decision. Commentators are making a strong argument that the court should grant cert. The Ninth Circuit's decision appears to suggest that the efficient market hypothesis, which forms the basis for the presumption of reliance in securities class actions, somehow does not really apply when examining loss causation. In other words, the market rapidly absorbs information for the purpose of allowing investors to argue that they relied on false information incorporated into the stock price, but once that information is disclosed, these same investors can argue that it was only when the media or analysts more widely broadcast the information that their loss occurred.
In a recent New York Law Journal column (Dec. 8 edition - subscrip. req'd), the authors discuss the case and the related circuit splits over the necessary timing and nature of a "corrective disclosure." SCOTUSblog has the cert petition and other pertinent information here. According to the docket, a number of amicus briefs have already been filed (e.g., a brief from the National Association of Manufacturers supporting the granting of the cert petition).Posted by Lyle Roberts at December 23, 2010 6:53 PM | TrackBack


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Pirates, zombies, witches, a giant banana—costumed partygoers came out in droves Saturday night for the Dearborn Firefighters' Halloween Party, held at O'Kelly Banquet Hall.
The evening included food, drinks, music and lots of prizes. All proceeds benefit the Dearborn Firefighters Burn Drive, which serves families in need in southeastern Michigan.
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Yunlian Jiang, Kai Tian, Xipeng Shen, Jinghe Zhang, Jie Chen, Rahul Tripathi, "The Complexity of Optimal Job Co-Scheduling on Chip Multiprocessors and Heuristics-Based Solutions," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 1192-1205, July, 2011.
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Route Guide - iPhone / Android - Partners - Forum - Photos - Deals - What's New - School of Rock
Routes Sorted
L to R R to L Alpha
Starts just right of Girls With Guns (10d). Climb past pockets to a shallow, left-facing flake and up to a no hands stance below a small roof.
This starts about down and left (100 feet) of Tooth or Consequences. This is the center route of three routes on this face. Girls With Guns, the left route, is spectacular for the area.
6 bolts, chain anchor with steel lowering biners.


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So guys as the title reads, I'm 19 years old and already have grey hairs at the side of my head since I was about 16.
Feeling unconfident about grey hair, AT AGE 19!!
I know that you could just suggest that; Dye your hair! or Go bald!
But that's not me, I'm happy with my hairstyle just not with the gray hairs though, is there any reason for me to feel ashamed?
Greetings from Gandalf The Gray!


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I am very concerned with our wide reciever depth. Donald Jones is clearly not the option at number 2. He is a good blocker and can make catches as a slot reciever, but he doesnt work outside, he is not strong enough. David Nelson is only a slot guy and he is gone for the season. I think TJ can be good in near future, but again, I dont see him as an outside guy either. Eventually we need to draft a talented WR because we lack talent. I understand Fitzy isnt very good, but he needs help too. I wonder why Gailey doesnt try out Easley. Give him a chance at least for one game.
What do you guys think?


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use v6;
=begin pod
A solution to problem 2 of the Perl 6 2011 Coding Contest
by Ian Fraser, 2012-01-29
Finds the first N numbers that can be expressed as a sum of two cubes
in more than one way
=end pod
sub solve_for(Int $n) {
my %sum_one_way;
my %candidates;
my $max_of_first_n = 0;
# We need to find the smallest $n solutions.
# Although there may be some candidates smaller than the first $n we find
# we don't need any that are larger than the mmaximum of the first $n.
my $i = 1;
repeat until (%candidates.elems >= $n && $i ** 3 >= $max_of_first_n) {
for (1 .. $i) -> $j {
# we're computing cubes more often than we need to here
# but indexing into a lazily computed list of cubes was slower
my $sum = $j ** 3 + $i ** 3;
my $formula = "$j ** 3 + $i ** 3";
if ! %sum_one_way.exists($sum) {
%sum_one_way{$sum} = $formula;
} else {
%candidates{$sum} = [ %sum_one_way{$sum} ] unless %candidates.exists($sum);
$max_of_first_n max= $sum if %candidates.elems <= $n;
my @in_order = %candidates.pairs.sort( { +.key } );
for @in_order[ 0 .. $n - 1 ] -> $p {
say join(" = ", $p.key, $p.value.list);
multi MAIN(Int $n) {
return unless $n > 0;
Yes, correct.
This is the only solution that took into account that there can be more than two ways to write a sum of cubes and that was efficient enough for us to observe it. Thumbs up.
The code is laid out consistently, and vertically aligned where it makes sense.
For no apparent reason, there are two spaces after the
my in the first four
declarations in
solve_for. The rest of the declarations have one space as
It is easy to follow the author's line of thought. The variable names are expressive.
This is the fastest solution that has been submitted for task 2. Enough said.
Pleasant use of
max= and array slicing.
Some constructs could have been visually optimized in small ways, for example
@in_order[ 0 .. $n - 1] could be written as
@in_order[ ^$n ], and use of
//= or
||= could simplify hash element initialization.
Superstitious parentheses in the innermost
for loop.
One of the shorter solutions.


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nice affordable task chair
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This chair is what I expected for the very low price - everything works and it was very easy to assemble, but it's not the most comfortable seat ever. I thought I had ordered a mesh seat, but that was my fault, the one I ordered was actually this one with a very lightly padded hard seat with no ergonomic shape to it.
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Categories > Celebrities > My Chemical Romance > The Forbidden Game - The Hunter
The Escape1 Reviews
Bert tells them they can't leave... But does Gerard have a plan??
"This is stupid." Bob said "We're not getting anywhere."
"Well what do you suggest we do?" I asked him "There's nothing more we can do."
"We could stop, think and then carry on." Mikey said, standing still. So did Bob, so I had to give in. And it was a good thing Mikey suggested it because when we all stopped, the wall suddenly began to slide away revealing a staircase behind it.
"Well done Mikey!" I cried, hugging him.
He pushed me away, laughing "Save it for Frank, loser!"
We all followed the staircase to the top, expecting to find another corridor like the other ones... But instead we found ourselves in The More Games shop. I was confused until someone said my name.
"Gerard?" A small voice came from the corner of the room "Cookie?"
"FRANK!" I cried, running to him and giving him a huge hug. He hugged me back, leaning his head on my shoulder. He looked so small then, like a tiny baby. I wanted to hold onto him forever, but I was worried about Frank's nightmare.
"Frankie, what did you draw?" I asked him, but he didn't reply. He began to shiver though.
"It's the door!" Bob cried, pointing. I looked up and saw he was right. We could leave!
"Not so fast." Bert suddenly appeared.
"We won!" I yelled at him "You said you'd let us go!"
"No I didn't." He reminded me "I told you, that you could either stay forever and I'd free your friends... Or you could play until the end of the game. I said nothing about letting you go."
I gasped as I realised he was right. "B-But... You have to!"
"Fine, you can leave." He smiled "Only if you can get past my friends..."
Suddenly, a large snakey figure and a huge wolf appeared out of no-where and blocked the door-way. "The Creeper and The Lurker." Frank whispered.
"I want you Gerard." Bert smiled at me "If you stay with me, then I will let your friends go. Free of charge."
I glanced at my friends. Mikey who was trying to act care free was shaking, Bob was angryily staring at The Creeper and The Lurker like he wanted to beat them up and Frankie... Oh Frankie, who was shivering in my arms. He was terrified.
Then I knew what I had to do.
"I'll stay with you." I said, letting go of Frank and standing up.
"NO!" Frank cried, reaching for my ankles. But he missed, because I dived out of the way,
"Y-You want to stay with me?" asked Bert.
"Bert," I looked him in the eyes "Did you ever think that maybe, if you had just came to my house and asked me to stay with you, I would've said yes?"
Bert thought for a second "No, I never thought about that."
"That's because you think everything has to be taken by force." I shook my head "But not everything."
"Gee, you can't stay!" Mikey cried.
I turned to look at him "You don't understand. I'm staying because I WANT to."
They just shook their heads in disbelief. They'd understand soon enough.
"Gerard, please..." Frank whimpered.
"Too late COOKIE." Bert sneered "He's staying here." He gestured towards The Creeper and The Lurker to move "You three are free to go."
"We're not leaving without Gerard." Bob said firmly.
"Well you have ten minutes." Bert told him "But then the gate will close up and you'll be stuck here forever. And don't think I have any reason to keep you all alive."
"Let's go somewhere a little more private." I said, taking his hand and steering him down the staircase. I turned to face him. He smiled at me.
"I do love you, you know." He whispered, edging closer.
I just smiled at him and then kissed him. It went on for another couple of minutes before I pulled back. "I know where I want to go."
He laughed as I pulled him away. I found the right door and pulled him through. Back into my nightmare.
"You actually want to be in here?" He asked, looking confused.
"I like confined spaces." I told him, pulling him inside the wardrobe my Grandpa had been sucked into.
"It's not very... Comfy. Is it?" He asked.
"You're right, let me step out a second..." I edged out of the wardrobe. Bert turned to follow me, but I slammed the door shut in his face.
I found a pen and drew a rune on the door. One that would keep him in there until someone opened it... Like I had, all those years ago.
Then I turned and ran. I ran out of my nightmare, down the corridor and up the staircase until I found Frank, Mikey and Bob still waiting for me.
"Thank god!" Frank cried.
"COME ON!" I yelled, pulling Frank off the floor. We all ran through the door...
Then everything went dark.


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How To Build Local Internet Traffic - Quick!
Posted 23 January 2013 - 08:32 PM
If you could only do three things as a traffic builder and they had to produce in the next 30 to 90 days, which
three things would you do? Let's see if we can put together a list of small business marketing tips that work!
Note: The ideas should be other than Paid Advertising. Don't include -- PPC, Content Network, Facebook (paid ads), YouTube (paid ads), Banner Ads, Display Ads, Text Links, etc.
The idea is to put together Free ideas that any small business could include in their internet marketing plan. This may include home business internet marketing too.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 08:42 PM
Locate some local who is influential online and do something nice for them offline.
Put your location on your website - preferably in the title. I don't care if your business is set in beautiful rolling countryside, if you don't state which bit of countryside!!! I've been trying to hunt down businesses online this week from their company names and the number that don't include their location is astounding!
Posted 23 January 2013 - 09:17 PM
2. Claim your listing on all the major directories that deal with local businesses (yelp, etc.)
3. Put your NAP (name, address, phone) on every page of your website.
Bonus tip: Make sure your NAP is EXACTLY the same everywhere you list it. EXACTLY. Did I say EXACTLY? I mean EXACTLY. If you use 1234 Main St. one place, don't put 1234 Main Street somewhere else. EXACTLY the same everywhere.
Posted 23 January 2013 - 09:45 PM
EXACTLY the same
everybody got that?
Posted 24 January 2013 - 02:56 AM
EXACTLY the same
everybody got that?
Now what exactly do you mean by that?
1. Claim your listing on Google Places.
Bonus tip: Make sure your NAP is EXACTLY the same everywhere you list it. EXACTLY. Did I say EXACTLY? I mean EXACTLY. If you use 1234 Main St. one place, don't put 1234 Main Street somewhere else. EXACTLY the same everywhere.
So true. Places is one place (scuze the pun) where you can be in first postions within 20 minutes, depending on competition and strength of your site.
I'm glad you brought up NAP and the importance of "Exactly". I was going to do a thread just on that topic, and probably will at some point.
Let it go out and be said throughout the kingdom that Princess Donna proclaimed not once, not twice, not thrice, not 4 fold but 5 times that NAP must be exact in all locations that it is written. It is written and so it shall be. Violate this rule at your great peril! And, punishment will be meted out by the fair Donna according to her desires. -- Think Shakespeare has anything to worry about? LOL!
That is the number 1 best way to fragment your brand so badly across the internet that it will take years and tons of work before you can undo it. When I write that thread on NAP I'll tell you why. (Donna knows, being an author as she is, that to be a good novelist, you should create suspense and expectation of satisfying a nagging curiosity, and so I have. How am I doing, Donna. Think I'm ready to be published )
Now let's take it one step further. How do I decide what should go in my NAP (name, address, phone)? It makes a difference. Depending on how you set it up, you may have other factors working against you and you may be very, very sorry.
For example, when picking a format for your address, I highly recommend you use the USPS format here --> https://tools.usps.c...t.action?mode=0 This is a USPS lookup for zipcode. When It delivers the zipcode, however, it will also put your address in USPS format. So, if their format is -- 100 EXACTLY RD -- you should use Exactly that. Don't include a period -- RD. -- don't spell it out -- ROAD -- just use -- RD -- just as they have it. This may create a problem with a very small number of the Local Directories, which you can resolve with them by putting in a lot of time and effort, but, if you don't use the USPS format, you'll have an even bigger problem.
You see, Localeze, the largest Data Provider, will only use USPS format. So, if you use ROAD, they will be blasting RD all over the internet. And, their feed goes to Google and Bing and many of the largest data aggregators that will provide it to their customers (some of which are search engines) and on, and on, and on. Now, why is that important?
One word -- Trust. Many of the data providers, aggregators, syndicators, etc. have algorithms that tell them whether they can trust your business data. When multiple versions show up, they may be more inclined to use a trusted source such as Localeze, or maybe they won't include you at all.
We rebranded a client and I found more than 12 different versions of his NAP being propagated over the course of a year. I spent a year tracking down duplicate Places pages, and updating incorrect data sources. And get this -- google generated a duplicate Places page (one of many) and the client's Places page was put in a "rejected" status because of duplicate Places pages -- that google created! It took me 2 1/2 months kicking up dust in the help forum before I could get the listing back. During that time, incorrect data was being presented on the Places page and I couldn't update specials as I had no access to the account.
So is NAP important? I would say -- yes, yes, yes, yes and yes (5 x)!
Edited by chuckfinley, 24 January 2013 - 07:13 PM.
Posted 24 January 2013 - 03:23 AM
Write an article for the local paper and include the web address. I don't know about your local papers but ours have trouble finding any news to put between the adverts and will basically print anything emailed in, particularly if it includes a picture.
Locate some local who is influential online and do something nice for them offline.
Excellent ideas. Newpapers respond very quickly to articles that satisfy two main criteria -- 1) Public Interest and 2) Need to Know.
It's easy to position your business to satisfy these requirements and I've rarely been turned down when I was able to.
1) Public Interest -- For example -- A Home Girl/Boy Does Good story -- everybody loves the underdog pulling it out. I think because it means they can too.
2) Need to Know -- For Example -- Something bad is going to happen to people if they don't have your product. Or, glass half full -- Something good is going to happen to somebody if they have your product. Or -- Something good already did happen to somebody because of your product or Company.
On your second point -- Brian Tacy calls it the law of reciprocity. People feel obligated to recognize a good turn. Or, as Zig Ziglar always said -- if you help enough other people get what they want, you'll end up getting what you want.
Both very smart moves.
I'm saving my Title Tags for more important things, though. NAP can go in the footer and up top on the Local Page.
I would inlcude a Local Telephone Number at the top of each page, but not in the Title Tag. That's assuming you want telephone calls.
Edited by chuckfinley, 24 January 2013 - 03:38 AM.
Posted 24 January 2013 - 09:30 AM
Donna knows, being an author as she is, that to be a good novelist, you should create suspense and expectation of satisfying a nagging curiosity, and so I have. How am I doing, Donna. Think I'm ready to be published?
You started off the suspense well, Chuck, and then like a kid with a secret, you couldn't help but share it. You have much to learn, young Anakin.
But aside from that, great post!
Posted 24 January 2013 - 02:02 PM
If I wanted instant visibility I'd run a groupon or a living social. They have huge email lists in major cities. huge it creates instant visibilty. OTOH, they need lead time to run your deal.
I'd definitely focus on Google Places as Donna suggested, absolutely ensuring that all your NAP data is utterly consistent. (although I'll tell ya, I have trusted sites and they don't have consistent data no matter what I do (but that is a different story).
I'd go the PR route for instant publicity. I'd do an event. I'd go for PR upside down and backwards in a local environment. I'd try and capture the eyes of the biggest local media sites if I was focused on need to get high visibility in a short time frame.
Posted 24 January 2013 - 03:53 PM
In theory I agree with the above with regard to focusing on Google Places to get web visibility. But there are caveats attached to it. For instance within a smaller community with limited competition there is no impediment to getting into Google Places with high visibility. (no competition is best but only 1 or 2 competitors ensures you an instant spot in a 3 pac.
In a larger city competition comes into play. If there are 25 florists in your city....just doing a mediocre job on Google Places won't help much. You probably won't make a 7 pac (the top 7) shown on first page google.com. (If you aren't on the first page its as good as worthless)
Competition is critical. I'd use distribution sources where competition is necessary for spreading NAP info, and I'd enhance it with detail work and/or a tool such as http://whitespark.ca which is a great citation finder among your competitors or different smbs.
Even with all that there could be further caveats with G Places. Suppose you are a specialty business in a metropolitan region and you have strong Google Places data and a web presence of your NAP in many sources...BUT....your location is in the suburbs of that city.
Lets say your topic is Magician and you are located in a suburb of Baltimore., there are a lot of searches and needs for magicians in Baltimore, and there are about 12 of them and you have basically the 1st, 2nd, or 3rd strong magician ranking in Places.
Sometimes Google will generate a Map and a Pac of local magicians that just extends to the borders of the city. Sometimes it will show a larger regional map and include more suburbs and more geography for magicians. In the 2nd example your business shows on Google Places on page 1 google.com In the first example you aren't going to show in the PAC. You have no control on that. Google changes those views, associated with a phrase called "location prominence" (from their patents).
So even with a strong Places presence you could be out of luck depending on where you are located.
That means I like strong Title pages on appropriate pages on the web site that help with your organic rankings for various local business searches in the event competition or a "bad" location relative to searches pushes a firm out of the Google Places rankings.
What Chuck experienced and did is so vital. Duplicate Google Places records mess things up. I've been working w/ a strong business with a lot of messed up records. For instance they are the only smb of their type in a certain suburb. Do a search on the singular version of their major product with that suburban community and of course they have a great G Places presence. But if the search is made with the plural version of the main product the smb doesn't show up in Places...and providers located towns away show up. There is a record for them for that search in G Places but it was 17th. A duplicate record was showing for the search term with plurals. Ughhhhhhhhh!!!
As Tam suggested I've found PR works. It gets that word out about a new business. One other thing I've found that works is to tie your business with another complementary business or charity, wherein a newer business gets PR and/or links riding somewhat on the coattails of the more established business.
In general building a strong Google Places presence is easier these days than attracting links, at least IMHO.
Posted 24 January 2013 - 07:32 PM
If I wanted instant visibility I'd run a groupon or a living social. They have huge email lists in major cities. huge it creates instant visibilty. OTOH, they need lead time to run your deal.
I had a florist that put up a Groupon ad and was flooded with responses. For him it was a huge success. You have to have the margins to make it work long-term, though. Between the discount and what you pay Groupon, it can be kind of pricey. Or, am I missing something?
Another point on NAP
It's also important to get NAP updated on all Local Directories and other Local Sources, such as Hyper-Local Blogs, because everybody provides data to somebody. When they sell your info, they continue to propagate it through the system.
You started off the suspense well, Chuck, and then like a kid with a secret, you couldn't help but share it. You have much to learn, young Anakin.
I just have never known when to shut up, LOL! But, I never give up -- I'm going to keep honing those author skills. Thank you Obi Wan, let me know when I'm ready.
Edited by chuckfinley, 24 January 2013 - 07:44 PM.
Posted 24 January 2013 - 08:34 PM
I'm saving my Title Tags for more important things, though. NAP can go in the footer and up top on the Local Page.
I disagree If you're a local business showing that is a pretty important thing. If I search plumbers and your name comes up as being in the same town then you've just bumped yourself up my possibility list. I'm not saying still your address and phone number in their but 'Dave the Plumber, based in Town Name' is definitely more click worthy than just 'Dave the Plumber', which might not be the Dave I'm looking for!
Posted 24 January 2013 - 11:09 PM
I disagree If you're a local business showing that is a pretty important thing. If I search plumbers and your name comes up as being in the same town then you've just bumped yourself up my possibility list. I'm not saying still your address and phone number in their but 'Dave the Plumber, based in Town Name' is definitely more click worthy than just 'Dave the Plumber', which might not be the Dave I'm looking for!
I would agree that, as long as I can promote the keywords I need to. Organic is a large part of ranking for Local. If I don't rank well for Organic, I likely won't rank well for Local. Also, many keywords don't produce a Local Search result, so I need to maximize exposure for those keywords.
There's nothing wrong with a title tag like this -->
Serving the Olympia Area - Bathtubs and Bath Tub Accessories | Bob's Big Baths
I would want to get my top 2 keywords in the title tag. I thought you meant putting address in the title tag.
Keep in mind that if the search returns a 3 or 7 pack, google won't show the Title Tag there. The user will click through to the Company's business page and that will be headed up with address and telephone number.
If google doesn't return a Local Search result it's more important, especially since google may not use the Description Tag provided on the webpage. My experience is that google will use the Description Tag most often, though, and location information could be included there. It might be equally important to have location info at the point of the visitor's entry to the webpage.
The other thing to think about is that for Local businesses, searchers are usually using Local keywords. So Bob's Big Bath might want to promote keywords such as "Olymipa Bathtubs" or "Olympia Bathtub Accessories". Based on that, the searcher knows that the search result is likely to be in Olympia and they may not need to see that info in the search result.
Also, the location goal may be resolved through Visual Communications. I usually try to do it that way so I don't need to put an address at the top of the website where I have limited space to deliver a message.
There's lot's of variables. All we can do is make best use of the space available to satisfy concerns that may compete with each other -- bringing traffic to the website, maximizing user engagement and converting them. Every situation is different.
Edited by chuckfinley, 25 January 2013 - 06:21 PM.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 02:00 PM
First a couple of anecdotal experiences on the phone with users/customers/searchers:
1. I was on the phone with a friend from another part of the country in a long conversation. She referenced a little gossip and then we tried to follow up on this on the web. While doing this I asked her to look up a search phrase on google. I know she never uses it.
I had her clear her location setting (she didn't know it was there--it was her hometown) and replace the town with United States.
Then I had her look up a search phrase that is usually presented organically with local intent. So if you look it up and your near NY you'll get NY locations, Toronto..and you'll get Toronto locations, etc etc.
I asked her to read what was first. She kept referring to the ads. The coloration for the top ads was incredibly light, virtually non recognizable. Then she read the small reference by google "ads related to "keyword phrase" with a link. Then under the ads she recognized the references to related searches.
She had no idea there were ads on the top of the search page. She could scarcely see the coloration difference between the shaded ads on top and the white background.
Smart person. Simply clueless that ads sit on top of the organic results.
There is nothing in popular culture, everyday news, mainstream media, classes or any structured methodology that tells everyday users that ads sit atop the organic results.
2nd anecdote: I took a call for one of our smb's off a person who looked us up on the web. Right into the conversation she said "I liked your reviews". That person hit the Google Places Page links, hit the link to the reviews and took the time to read some (if not all). She may have seen the full site. We were on the phone working on the sale more than me pressing her for questions.
3rd anecdote: I spoke to a person who came to one of our smb's for some subsequent service. She had looked us up previously. We outrank the other rivals (in most cases--we have more credibility but we are priced higher than most competitors). We offer more services.
The person bought the main service from a competitor but was using us for a follow up service. She told us the competitor was closer and that was why she chose them.
Users will hit different links to your site. If you have Organic, Places/Maps and PPC they might hit any of them. If they are in the buying mode or seriously looking at alternatives they could look at many alternatives. Their buying decisions will be all over the board.
Having referenced all that I like to add PPC into the mix for quick responses for a number of reasons and frankly if you can afford it.
All of our smb's run a lot of ppc. It works for all of them. I could go into ROI but the big thing is simply that the cost per click is very minimal compared to the price points for the services and the conversion rates on leads and clicks to leads to sales are far healthier percentages than are the impact of the aggregate costs from PPC. Basically we might be paying $0.80 to an average of about $3.50/click and the price points for sales are roughly in the $300 to into the thousands of dollars ranges.
You can compute ROI all day...but the differences between the cost per click and the differences between selling prices are great enough and we convert enough that it works.
But here is a real key for us with regard to PPC.
We've looked at these smb's and we run regional ppc campaigns for them. We then look at conversion phrases that are relatively high volume.
What we tend to see is that the percentage of PPC clicks to the site (when we are generally first in ppc) are running abt 8-15% of all impressions. Then we get traffic organically. When our organic ranking: Maps/Places Ranking is VERY STRONG...we get this amazingly high percentage of all the impressions in the area. Incredibly high. That normally occurs with Recovery Searches (searches using our name or a very close substitute.)
Fortunately we also have some VERY strong organic visibility for discovery searches (ie pizza Milwaukee not Luigi's Pizza, Milwaukee). So we are fortunate to get a lot of traffic on some key high volume discovery searches.
But from a key business perspective, there are a LOT of searches on PPC. Our aggressive campaigns seem to pick up on average between 8-15% of all the searching in the regions....and that is a lot of visibility. Now the caveat it has to work financially. It really requires the business person//the client to work with the SEO because even if the SEO data is showing very positive data if the business isn't converting the visibility into sales then it doesn't work.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 03:58 PM
Here's another idea that might work for some businesses. Get really involved in a niche related forum that allows signatures. The goal of the forum involvement is not to mention your business or website at all, but rather to contribute and help out and offer your expertise. People who need a professional in that niche visit forums to get answers to their questions. When they see you helping out they may want to check out your signature link and hire you.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 04:58 PM
Great comment. Have you used that? I would think that is a great resource for a vet.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 05:35 PM
I had great success using this tactic though for my non-veterinary related sites. As I mentioned in another thread I have been fascinated with Google penalties lately and have learned a lot and done some consulting for site owners. I put a link in my signature on a couple of SEO forums and get a steady flow of traffic from these sources. I went from having a brand new website about Google penalties with zero business to suddenly making a full income in a matter of weeks just from the traffic I got from forums.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 06:06 PM
Also you basically gave us two great lessons: What to do and what not to do.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 06:49 PM
We get a lot of businesses try out the site but most only do a couple of posts before drifting off. It's quite involved to become a recognised community member so I would guess it has to be the right mix of business and forum to be worth the time commitment. Although it's excellent for other things to eg keeping an eye on what issues your customer base are interested in.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 06:51 PM
Posted 25 January 2013 - 07:17 PM
Great discussion!
Here's another idea that might work for some businesses. Get really involved in a niche related forum that allows signatures. The goal of the forum involvement is not to mention your business or website at all, but rather to contribute and help out and offer your expertise. People who need a professional in that niche visit forums to get answers to their questions. When they see you helping out they may want to check out your signature link and hire you.
Absolutely excellent idea -- just basic networking which is at the core of all local business marketing.
And, at the risk of sounding like a broken record (but it's so important) --
Brian Tracy calls it the law of reciprocity. People feel obligated to return a favor. Or, as Zig Ziglar always said -- if you help enough other people get what they want, you'll end up getting what you want.
I'd say it's the biggest lesson a small business owner can learn. Your success will increase exponentially when your paradigm changes from -- 1) what can I get from my customers, to 2) how can I make my customers successful.
#2 creates value and value is what business profits are based on. Also, so many businesses use #1 that using #2 will differentiate you in the marketplace and allow you to bill more, retain customers longer, and receive more referrals.
Posted 25 January 2013 - 08:28 PM
You can apply that in other ways too, make friends with your competitors and get referrals when they can't help or refer people to them. Maybe that's something that's getting less common now with more big chain stores, but it's great when somewhere doesn't have what you want but knows just which shop you can get it in - makes you feel good about the shop even if you couldn't buy what you wanted there.
Posted 26 January 2013 - 05:22 PM
Things that work and don't work
I looked at one of our sites and found something that no longer works. The site is several years old. The home page had a footer which referenced the business service and every town, zIp code, county, and geographical term in a radius plus most of the geography of a particular state. The region has medium sized cities but is primarily suburban and rural.
We knew this was spammy when we did this but decided it wasn't killer spammy and decided to try it. It used to work. It worked one year ago. Its not working now.
I tested this for both traffic on the organic side and for visibility. Its not working anymore. It was originally done to cover the long tail with search phrases for town names or zip codes and the service or a variation of the service. Not only did it drive traffic but the site would show up with a snippet under the home page link for the service and town or zip.
Not anymore.
Google though has layered the geo perspective over the combinations of words from the content. We were showing for nearby towns and zips and were showing with snippets referencing those appropriate words. Stretch the search for further away town and we had no organic presence. We did have a Places/Maps presence, though.
Another thing that doesn't work to try and capture long tail traffic with a lot of different town names is to create duplicate content for every nearby town with the only difference being the name of the town or zip. Even with title tags referencing the town, that seems to put you low on the serps totem pole. I've seen a few of those.
Original content with your service and different town names and then a combination title tag that has town names and service does work. The content has to be original. We've done that on different sites. We try and add specifically compelling content that adds substance and meaning to the content that is original. That does drive real leads.
On those we use some data to get this out. We take our locational data from analytics, from ppc and from our internal data bases and create the content for the locations that drive the most traffic, visits, contacts and sales. We start with the biggest communities and work down the list.
One thing that supplants these relics from older google algo's that didn't overlay geo information and give it prominence over simple content are citations, that chuck referenced above.
Among the citation sources that have endless content with town names and a service business are a lot created by local.com and by citygrid.com. They have made arrangements with different local media sources such as newspapers.
So you might see something like washingtonpost.local.com with a directory/ citation source ///made for ppc content source. Those types of sites get a lot of visible serps for combinations of smb products and services and various town names. Local.com and citygrid generate a lot of that stuff with different media sources. They work as citation sources and they do show up in serps and they do add traffic, in our experience.
Hey they are spammy crap...but google gives them rankings and credibility for these long tail phrases.
Posted 26 January 2013 - 07:58 PM
Things that work and don't work
I looked at one of our sites and found something that no longer works. The site is several years old. The home page had a footer which referenced the business service and every town, zIp code, county, and geographical term in a radius plus most of the geography of a particular state. The region has medium sized cities but is primarily suburban and rural.
Hi earlpearl,
Great comment! I will be studying this very closely.
Two Questions --
- How did Yahoo! and Bing respond?
- Do you think having NAP in the footer is important to establish your brand in the Local space? What I mean by that is it may increase trust for google +, Bing Local, the many Local Directories, etc. so you don't end up with duplicate pages, pages with wrong NAP, etc.
My theory is that the NAP you put on your site is more important than NAP from a 3rd party source. By establishing it clearly and often on your site, there is a lesser chance of your brand getting fragmented out there on the Local internet. It's a factor that can't be tied to a specific search result but affects ranking overall -- the Local version of building "Authority" for Organic ranking.
Edited by chuckfinley, 26 January 2013 - 08:24 PM.
Posted 27 January 2013 - 02:56 PM
Thoughtful points and questions. I went back and looked at Y and B. I hadn't. The main reason is that their traffic pales in comparison to google. When I did check I did some long tail searches more recently which included language with business service/zip code. LOL when I looked that one up in bing, there was a snippet with a partial list of zips.
ooops snagged. spammy...but working. Still the G traffic is infinitely larger than the Y anb B traffic. We'll get more long tail off of google. that smb has a ppc campaign on B and Y besides organic. still traffic is tiny for Y and B combined.
So long as traffic and user choices are the way they are, I'd rather be on the right side of google than using something that works in Bing (and Y). We are getting rid of the spammy town and zip names. We are keeping the regional descriptions b/c it is still working.
Which NAP is more important, on the site or from 3rd parties? Good question and point.
A while back in the places forum there was an issue wherein google requested an official license to operate from some smb trying to claim the listing. The G mod in places said it was very very rare.
Regardless Google is looking for TRUST....as you so aptly put it above. Trust from various sources; your website, from the claiming process, from 3rd parties, from mapmaker.
Websites spam stuff. They could spam NAP info. smb's have worked to "relocate" via different methodologies to get into the center of a centroid for the biggest metro part of a region. It was "suggested" smb's move to get into the middle of the centroid for a city by a respected local commentator. I think he was half kidding.
So google might test the NAP info on a site for believability. OTOH I have seen dupes and problems occurring from misinformation about NAP on websites. Usually those are big institutional websites: hospitals, schools, institutions with various locations, etc. Those things cause problems for Places. On that basis there may be a high degree of places algo belief in what comes out of an smb site.
Which is most important? I can't say for certain but I think you nailed it above by using the word "trust" and I would follow that up with consistency.
at least that is my $0.02
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I walked into what looked like a fancy liquor store and found the beer and brew supplies on the left wall. The people there were more than helpful and down to earth. Professional and friendly, very nice.
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Now known as Coralville Liqour Store again? Make up your mind, people..
Not the largest assortment of homebrew supplies I've ever seen, but has the basics. The beer selection is pretty impressive, with an entire large aisle devoted to craft beer. The left wall of the store features American brews, and mirroring it across the aisle is a European selection that is well layed-out and quite diverse. I left with a good haul of beer..most of which you could probably find at John's a few miles down the road in Iowa City, but it's certainly the best place for beer in Coralville. Well worth checking out.
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I was rather surprised with the selection here. Plenty of beer to choose from with plenty of descriptions for those curious about a new beer which is a nice thing to see. Homebrew supplies could have a bigger selection, real basic stuff, but in a bind that have enough to cover you. Service was very good and were willing to go the extra mile to keep you happy. Though they didn't have all sorts of homebrew supplies in, they were willing to get it in for you right away and help you find what you need.
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03-27-2005 23:04:18 | More by neonbrown82
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I've stopped in here numerous times, as it's just a couple miles from home. This review was written in November 2004. "To Your Health" (formerly known as the "Coralville Liquor Store") is a wine specialty store with a decent selection of liqour, beer (local and international) and a small selection of homebrew supplies/ingredients. The wines are in aisles to the right with American and international features of prices ranging from about $7ish/bottle to $200+/bottle. A dandy selection of liquors are in the middle aisles ranging from standard brands to pricier selections, such as many select malt whiskeys. The far right aisle contains a section of beer singles (international one one side and Amercian on the other), as well as 6-packs. They have a nice selection of Mid-west craft brews, such as Boulevard, Millstream, Capital, etc. The homebrew section consists of just 8 feet and supplies the basics. Equipment to start up (carboys, tubes, caps/corks, etc) and a small selection of beer and wine ingredients and some kits. A mini-fridge nearby holds a hops and yeasts. Due to the limited space, the selection is bare bones. A few grains in pound bags, cans of extract, a couple tubes of White Labs yeast, and perhaps 10-12 different types of hops. Nothing in bulk. The homebrewing section is commissioned from an outside company and the guy who owns that company is happy to order whatever you want (just call him, his number can be found on some of the packaging. It may take a week or two before you get your supplies, but his prices are quite competitive (plus no shipping charges). The store is well maintained and run by personable staff that have knowledge about the beers I've asked about (although they can't answer any questions about homebrewing). When passing by I often stop in just to see what new beer selections they have and see if there's anything new in the homebrew section. This store doesn't compare to a couple of doozies I've visited out east, but it's one of the best stores in the area.
12-01-2004 19:14:36 | More by mentor
To Your Health in Coralville, IA
- out of 100 based on 5 ratings.


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Former Gov. George Leader recalled as caring, innovative
Former Gov. George Leader was remembered at his funeral as an innovative governor and a compassionate man.
Leader's three children delivered testimonials to their father during a 90-minute service that opened with the singing of "We Shall Overcome" and concluded with the "Battle Hymn of the Republic."
Gov. Tom Corbett and former governors Ed Rendell, Tom Ridge and Dick Thornburgh were among the mourners at the 90-minute service at Derry Presbyterian Church in Hershey. A reception at Hershey Country Club was planned afterward.
Leader was 95 when he died a week ago following a brief illness.
As governor from 1955 to 1959, he fought to clean up state government and made special education a requirement in Pennsylvania schools. Later, he became a success in the nursing home business.
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So if let's do a quick check here. So Harbaugh wants to be a successful head coach in the NFL yes? Maybe, who knows, but I digress. If you wanted to come from college and make a statement that you are in fact a great NFL head coach, would you:
A) Choose the team that gives you solid picks in the draft, a team brimming with talent and in a place where you've already begun to raise your family?
B) A ridiculous amount of money...
Alright I'm sure there's more appeal to going to the Dolphins than just the huge amounts of money being thrown at him....like Disneyworld? But the risk he is taking, with taking over a poor team, with a little talent just because of the money? Maybe this guy really isn't interested in winning a super bowl at all. He's choosing a division where he'll have to play against the Patriots and Jets 2 times a year, and he'll be letting his brother spank him once every 3 years. Where as if he came into the Niners organization, he has a clear cut path to the playoffs every year...right Jed?
Anyways, am I disappointed about this? Yeah definitely. I was on Harbaugh watch last night like most of you. But if he wants to take that risk for that kinda money can we really blame him? Say the dolphins offered him 8 million for 5 years. He will be making 17.5 million more then he would be making with us. Did he sell his career for it? Possibly, only time will tell.
Now my only concern is, what the hell are the Niners gonna do now that nobody wants to come coach for them? "Hi....Mike? After you're done reviewing that tape of your firing you wanna come back?"


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