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Diary Of A Mad Health Nut!!
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Cookbook creator says: I used to prepare Pita Pizza myself before running across this recipe. I didn't think to spice it up a bit. Gives me new ideas for my next perparation. Quick, simple, reasonable calorie count; for lack of a better word : Perfect!! Submitted by KSWASSON44 Carbs: 32.9g | Fat: 4.5g | Fiber: 5.2g | Protein: 16.7g | Calories: 228.8
Make this ahead of time and then refrigerate for a quick, protein-packed breakfast that's also portion-controlled. Top with salsa (optional) and serve with toast for a complete breakfast. Submitted by COACH_NICOLE Carbs: 3.9g | Fat: 4g | Fiber: 1.4g | Protein: 5.3g | Calories: 71.3
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Cookbook creator says: Another keeper!!!! Submitted by LLCURTS Carbs: 15.7g | Fat: 5.3g | Fiber: 2.3g | Protein: 3.6g | Calories: 118.1
You can always have a sweet tooth. Submitted by PEACE4EVER33 Carbs: 60.4g | Fat: 3.7g | Fiber: 8.3g | Protein: 10.8g | Calories: 304.2
Submitted by BONDGIRL2010 Carbs: 22.2g | Fat: 1.8g | Fiber: 2.2g | Protein: 6.6g | Calories: 116.5
Submitted by PWHATLEY Carbs: 12.3g | Fat: 0.6g | Fiber: 4g | Protein: 1g | Calories: 50.3
You can reduce the calories by 90 if you use zSweet or Splenda. Submitted by WISPINE Carbs: 37g | Fat: 1g | Fiber: 2g | Protein: 2g | Calories: 150
This is a delicious salad. I like roasted sesame seasoning or French. 2 tbs for large portion. And it has just the right amount. Compliment it with toasted, buttered sour dough and you have the perfect meal Submitted by CRAIG_ANITA Carbs: 49.7g | Fat: 16g | Fiber: 10.4g | Protein: 26.1g | Calories: 418
This salsa is the best that I have ever had. Don't judge it because it is a fruit salsa. It is very healthy and has no oil. It'll be sure to be a kick at your next outing. Submitted by KADIE-WA Carbs: 7.3g | Fat: 0.1g | Fiber: 1.6g | Protein: 1.5g | Calories: 33.3
I bet you never thought that a waffle with under 1 gram of fat could have 7.5 grams of protein and taste so good. Plus, the batter is ready in the blender in 5 minutes! Submitted by BANANAFISH711 Carbs: 15.9g | Fat: 0.7g | Fiber: 3.3g | Protein: 7.5g | Calories: 102.9
Submitted by SINAMON1978 Carbs: 40.6g | Fat: 5.8g | Fiber: 5.2g | Protein: 11g | Calories: 245
A great crispy and fluffy low-fat waffle - high in protein and fiber, with whole grains and fruit. Great for the whole family! Submitted by S318830 Carbs: 50.3g | Fat: 1.9g | Fiber: 8g | Protein: 8.8g | Calories: 236
The triumphant result of my first attempt making home-made bread. A hearty, filling way to get your daily allotment of whole grains. Great drizzled with raw honey! (Adaptation from recipe found at http://maplencornbread.blogspot.com) Submitted by RACINGSLUG Carbs: 25.3g | Fat: 3g | Fiber: 3.6g | Protein: 3.7g | Calories: 139.5
A tasty breakfast dish. Carbs: 23.3g | Fat: 8.6g | Fiber: 4g | Protein: 13.3g | Calories: 230.7
Sweetened with only honey and using whole-wheat pastry flour, these pretzels are a tasty and healthy version of the classic. Submitted by KRAVMAGAGIRL Carbs: 50.9g | Fat: 4.4g | Fiber: 7.5g | Protein: 10.5g | Calories: 267.7
Coarsely chop frozen blackberries, and place them back in the freezer until ready to stir into the batter. To freeze muffins, let cool completely, and place in zip-top plastic bags. Reheat in microwave 20 seconds. Submitted by LADYWEEZ Carbs: 35.4g | Fat: 2.5g | Fiber: 4.5g | Protein: 5.6g | Calories: 189.6
Crisp – tender, emerald spears of fresh Spring asparagus join rich, meaty slices of mushroom under a decadent blanket of herbed lemon butter Submitted by JO_JO_BA Carbs: 4.4g | Fat: 4.9g | Fiber: 1.8g | Protein: 3.3g | Calories: 66.9
Fresh Fruit Dessert Submitted by CMMIRANDA72 Carbs: 14g | Fat: 2.5g | Fiber: 1.5g | Protein: 0.4g | Calories: 74.8
Cookbook creator says: Another keeper!!!! Submitted by BELLATROTTA Carbs: 6.5g | Fat: 1.7g | Fiber: 0.4g | Protein: 0.7g | Calories: 41.8


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I have decided to purchase either the G36 or the G30 as a primary cc weapon.
The 36 weighs less unloaded and loaded (probably due to mag capacity of only 6)
the 36 is longer than the 30 but narrower , heights are about the same.
the 30 is heavier by 7 oz loaded, and 3 oz unloaded...(unloaded not really a factor as will always be loaded).
the 30 is shorter by 5mm.
mag capacity is 10....
anyone have any comments (advantage/disadvantage) on these two...
I need to decide as soon as I can make up my mind.

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Funk's Pig Honey Hot and Fast Rib Heaven.
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First time trying Barbefunkoramaque's Hot an Fast Weep and Pig Honey Ribs. There's a lot to be said about this high heat approach. I'm thinking Funk was trying to send the traditional Texas message here and what you get is a great rib as compared to the foiled 3-2-1 rib that you smother in sauce.
Pulled out the offset and went at it. The taste and texture is wonderful when you follow the Funks layered spice approach. I went with Hit Me Fred, Atomic Dog Sprinkle and Butt Glitter. This rib was amazing. Any sauce would have destroyed the texture (bark) and taste that you get when you combine those spices and that heat level. This was my first attempt and I'm going back. I really enjoyed NO SAUCE! |
I am a no sauce guy and those look great Tom.
WOW those look good!! No, they look outstanding! What a great appetizing color to those ribs. Very nice!
Wow, now I AM hungry! Great lookin ribs!
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Outstanding looking ribs!! Now I'm hungry and I want ribs.
Outstanding looking plate. How was the heat in the peppers? I'd hit that plate for sure.
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Nice ribs...:-D
Nice rack!
Looks great.
Nice looking ribs Leanza!
Beautiful.:cool: I also like no sauce.
Absolutely wonderful ribs. I have been meaning to make a batch of the Hit Me Fred sauce to.
Very nice!!!
They sure look great. I always considered sauce an add in.
Those Ribs look KickAss.
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With so many channels on TV now you would thing there would be a great channel that showed old TV shows from the sixties and seventies. There was, it was called Tube Time. It was a free On Demand channel available on Comcast. Tube Time was great it ran shows from my childhood like 'Whats Happin', 'Silver Spoons', and Bewitched. But Tube Time is no longer. It seems every month my Comcast bill goes up and my "free" options go down. I went to rent a movie the other day and the price was $5.99. With places like RedBox and Netflix, you think they might be a little more reasonable. I'm starting a petition to bring back Tube Time. If you would like to sign-up and voice your opinion, please do so.
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a sketch I did a while back while practicing animal-like creatures....for some reason it went from normal hunting dragon to rotting zombie dragon
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the torso area and legs are in a very muscular detail, cool. it doesnt really, in my opinion look like much of a zombie, just a wounded one. not enough exposure to violence. still pretty cool doe.
Well While I appreciate your comment and all I don't appreciate the self advertisement......
Also, with that much of a chunk missing out of it's tail....it'd bleed to death, fairly quickly, so definately zombie :P
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I have a silver 2001 Tacoma crew cab Prerunner with a matching Century camper shell. The original owner installed it before I bought the truck. It's nice, but ultimately I'm indifferent to having it. I'm thinking of selling the camper shell to help fund some other projects I'm working on. I've checked ebay and CL in my area to see what similar shells go for, but haven't found any solid info to help me decide a good asking price.
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I used to work at a design firm where fonts were on the server and it worked well. As George said you need someone to manage it properly.
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UTS Universal Type Server is probably a good place to look for a start. It's by Extensis. They used to have Font Reserve and that was not so great with lots of issues, but UTS seems pretty reliable. I think they have plug-ins specific to Adobe Illustrator, but I don't remember the details on that.
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The Universal Type Client is based on the same code as Suitcase Fusion.
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- 1/2 bacon, diced
- 2 pounds cubed beef stew meat
- 3 large onions, medium dice
- 1 bunch celery, well scrubbed, cleaned, and chopped
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- 2 quarts beef broth
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- 2 pounds potatoes, well scrubbed and diced, skin on
- 1 (8-ounce) package frozen okra
- 3 bay leaves
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Brown bacon in a large (8-quart capacity) pot. Add beef and brown in the bacon fat. Add onions, celery and carrots and saute for about 5 minutes. Add red wine and beef broth, and simmer until reduced by half. In a small bowl, mix flour and oil, then stir this mixture into the stew and let simmer for a few minutes to thicken and integrate flavors. Add potatoes, okra and bay leaves to the stew and let cook until potatoes are fork tender. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
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Very disappointed with this recipe. You need a much bigger pot and more time. Too plain. No spices except for 3 bay leaves and salt/pepper at the end? The meat was tasteless. Next time I will season the meat with Season All, garlic powder, celery salt, a sprinkle of cumin powder and some Worcestershire pepper then sear it like I do when making a pot roast. Brown your flour (make a roux) mi before you add it too.
It's a good stew but it's also taking me all day to make it.Definately doesn't take just an hour but I love this recipe going to make it more often now that winter is here.
So I need to learn what I am (we are) doing wrong. I've helped to cook this meal at two camping events and once at home. I do not understand what we need to do to help "simmer" the stew down to 1/2 after adding the broth and wine. That is to say we bring the stew to a boil and then turn down the temp to a simmer. But to remove 1/2 of the stew takes at least an hour. The first time we blamed the camping stove. The second time we had a more powerful camping stove and the third time was at home. Each time though it took much longer to simmer off the stew. Should it be at a high boiling point?
Otherwise I we really enjoy the stew. It's a good one for camping with minimal cleanup.
Otherwise I we really enjoy the stew. It's a good one for camping with minimal cleanup.
Have made this recipe several times. At home, on the trail for non scout events (alcohol and Scouting is a no-no). All have come out great. Hints for those that think this recipe is expensive. Use cheap red wine, non organic Beef Broth and bypass the okre. I use only one medium to large sized onion (make a sweet one!), don't boil down too far (about 20 minutes), used 1/2 the oil/flour mix, add a little salt and pepper and my kids can't eat enough of it. Keeps great for lunches and dinner. Even freezes well and when you reheat from frozen, add about a cup of broth (either beef or chicken) and it is better than before. This recipe will stay a staple in my arsenal of easy to make and maximum enjoyment meals.
Chef Irvine must be my kind of cowboy! This isn't your typical chuck wagon grub! I followed the recipe exactly, but halved it. I didn't use grocery "beef stew meat," but bought chuck, which I trimmed & cubed. I chose to use Barefoot Merlot for the red wine. It gave the stew incredible flavor! The stock and wine took a long time to reduce, but that gave the meat time to get tender. Allow more than the stated 45 minutes. Dinner was on my table about 2 hrs after I started chopping veggies--pretty normal for a stew. One negative: the recipe called for too much oil/flour mixture. It made the gravy too thick, but I added another cup of broth to compensate, and all was well again. The stew tasted heavenly, and was budget-friendly! Potatoes, carrots, and chuck aren't expensive, and since my wine was reasonably priced, this was an economical dish. On the side, I served only a crusty baguette, a wedge of Brie, and some sliced pears. It was a simple dinner, but one fit for a king!
There were a lot of things not good about this recipe: cost, time, and taste. This was expensive to make, took a lot longer than 45 minutes to cook, and didn't taste that great in the end. Cost: $30. You can't cook stew meat in 45 minutes and have it come out tender. It took about 2 hours total. Disappointing all around!
The wife and I made this and turned out to be outstanding. I couldn't rave about it enough. There is one change we made and purely by accident. I accidently bought the Ockra that was already breaded instead of plane and we did not need to use any flour at all. No salt was added either. We really enjoyed this.
after trying to pin down a good homemade "beef stew" like recipe, the long drive is over. on a cold day on the trail, this stew jumps outa the pan and into your mouth quicker than you can say HEE-HAW!! forget the boxed and packeted stuff at the store, round up the little doggies for some darn tootin good "cowboy stew" . if yar yearning to, throw it on some soda crackers or some buttered bread. makes one big ol' pot so don't be afraid to half the portions
super great recipe i fed two guys and they went for thirds! next time i'll use less 3/4 cup flour. it was a little too thick for my liking. be careful this is a lot of food.yum yum!!!!!


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[edited by: tedster at 7:11 am (utc) on May 10, 2007]
I beleive that you have a little gem here that many have overlooked. Well done!
Others should in fact MUST read the paper.
Then consider what if Google has implemented this as a three stage process.
Stage 1. Select a sample using the standard "old" Google algorithm and store the ranking of those pages.
Stage 2. Apply LSI excluding the actual term used in the search. This ranks #1 the site which has the strongest match to the theme around the search.
Stage 3. Combine the two rankings and present the results in the users browser.
In fact as they are only doing this on a list of terms the LSI processing could be done offline and the vector stored for combination with the standard rank.
This explains how a so called OOP penalty could be applied.
LSI in this implementation could have a site element. Larger sites and directories would have a better chance of having themes close to the term than smaller more concentrated sites.
It explains why some pages that don't even have the term on them rank #1
If you search for term +www you throw out the LSI vector in the algorithm since this is only stored for the terms that Google has identified for this form of analysis.
~widgets -widgets is very useful in showing you terms that area a very close semantic match to your term for incorporation in your site.
This is the silver bullet.
Thank you Marin.
Best wishes
I can confirm that this technology works well. I can also confirm that it has problems if extended too far--which I think Google has done.
Back in 1998 I was publisher of several trade journals. One was for the equine (that's horses) industry. This new employee with the funny title of "webmaster" (I thought she should wear black leather with that title) took our text and put it on this thing called a "web site."
In a meeting she demonstrated this software called a "search engine." You could find any article easily. Just type in what you're looking for, and hit return, and ta da! there it was.
OK! Our most popular story--often reprinted--was a basic feature on colic. So, I typed in colic. Couldn't find it.
Turns out, the article never used the word colic, other than the headline, which was not indexed. Instead, the author used the more informal words, such as "tying up."
This happens more than you think, especially on powerful authority sites which use their own short hand. (For example, to find the most useful posts on this site searching on the subject of "search engine optimization" you'll do better searching on SEO.)
This excellent paper--it is, indeed, a must read--talks how this is addressed in stemming. But how we talk evolves faster than you can image. (Again,a good example is SEO.)
Google knows all of this, let me assure you. And they will get it worked out. But, I'm convinced there is a market for services that provide custom access for readers with different interests and different communities which Google will not be able to address for years.
I don't know: Maybe you could get a Google franchise to handle a certain area? Wait! Forget that, this sounds like Sprinks. Wait again, Google bought Sprinks.
LSI [webmasterwoman.com]
[edited by: tedster at 4:28 am (utc) on May 10, 2007]
I don't think this is the only change, but it appears to me to be a major part of it.
I am quite convinced that this is a major part of the new algorithm. It also is evident to me that this is not calculated on the fly. That creates a sort of glass ceiling for certain sites. IF you do change things, you won't know if you're successful until after they calculate this thing again.
This is true. For many reasons, obvious and not so, Google sees this lack of indexing as their job to fix, but won't let anyone give them a hand in it.
As far as selling ads goes, Kanoodle, other the hand, has said that, hey, let's just ask the web sites (and the advertisers) to ID themselves to where they are suppose to go. Quigo is going to have a means of getting a bit of a helping hand from the web site, but with a lot of AdSense-type software filtering (and now you know how it works!) thrown in as well. (I think both Kanoodle and Quigo are heading to the same space, just from different starting points.)
If Quigo and Kanoodle look a little silly, Check this out: As far as indexing the web, Google is getting some help (if they want it or not): The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Tuesday (Feb 10, 04) passed two key standards for helping computers get more information out of the applications they are processing and match content more appropriately for end-users.
The standards body unveiled the Resource Definition Framework (RDF) (define) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as part of its plan for the "Semantic Web," which W3C Director and Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee described as a "great big database" at an event last year.
The idea behind the Semantic Web is to give data more meaning through the use of metadata, (define) which describes how and when and by whom a particular set of data was collected, and how the data is formatted.... [internetnews.com...]
Bottom line? Search is going to get better--but this isn't for children anymore.
This process condenses our documents into sets of content words that we can then use to index our collection.
Assuming that semantics and stemming are an integral part of the algo, does this mean that the way Google looks at keyword density is different than how most of the kw density tools calculate density?
Hi Kirby,
I'm sure that it is much more complex than this but in simple terms I see this as probably a three step process.
1. Search for sample to be analysed using standard Google algo. Store some form of rank index.
2. Analyse sample from 1. using LSI but in addition to the words thrown out in the standard LSI also throw out the search term.
3. Combine the results from 1. and 2. and present the SERPs to the browser.
In this way you still get some benefit from being high in standard rankings but pages/sites that are just stuffed with the search term without a good measure of closely semantically related terms (in the view of the Google/Applied Semantics Ontology) get dropped back and those that have very close related words rise up. Also words in some places are better than those in other places on your page. Links to pages either on your site or outside that are on closely semantically related topics seem to be given more weight than words in body text for example.
What you need to do is to look at your pages excluding the search term. Now is it still very clear what the page is about without those words. Think of closely related terms that you could use to make the page about the broad topic and up you will come.
If you need help finding what Google thinks are the most closely related terms to your own do this search ~widgets -widgets and look at the words that are highlighted in the results. Repeat this with all of the words in your search terms and build those into your page and have pages on those on your site.
I'm comming to the conclusion that it is not necessary to remove or lower the density of the terms in question. It may be sufficient to simply add in related terms and pages on related terms.
What are related terms. First of all they may not be what you think they are. Do the Google Synonym search detailed above. Look at the pages of your competitors that are ranking highly excluding the terms involved and then add in some of those terms into your pages paying particular attention to having them in anchor text and having pages on those topics at the ned of the link.
Thats what I'm doing anyway!
The examples I've used here are so basic as to be almost meaningless, but the point is important: Look at how the high ranking sites are speaking about the search term might give you a clue to how that high rank was achieved. Yes, linking is still important, certainly.
My thinking is that the filtering is going to be more sophisticated on the more important or popular searches. Take, for example, breast cancer or any other health topic. The rankings here are very sophisticated.
But, again, one has to have the words on the page. If your web site is about Anytown, Alabama, it should have Anytown, AL, and Anytown, Ala. all in the text so that a search engine can find it. Now, the question is, in this case are search engines such as Google building filters to as to give higher ranks to sites that assume authority with city names in combination with phrases such as "government" or even "directory" or "news."
You really need to go and read this [javelina.cet.middlebury.edu ]
The point is that it explains the generalities of how CIRCA works. CIRCA is a form of Latent Semantic Indexing which belongs to Google.
What I'm suggesting is that yes you do have to put the terms in your text. Those as part of the old Google ranking will get you into the LSI game. Then it comes down to close semantic matches.
Organic old style Google ranking plus CIRCA/LSI vector gives you the current rank.
Google doesn't have a sliding scale for different classes of search it doesn't need to. If a term is in the ONTOLOGY then CIRCA can find a word match map. If we assume that it then disregards the actual term then the sites that will rank well are those with authority terms.
There is a lot more to it than this but in principal that is the basic knowledge. What you do with it is up to you.
The thing I find interesting about this theory is how it might explain the way queries like "AnyCity real estate" and "AnyCity hotels" took such a big hit. Finding closley realted terms for real estate is not very hard at all (homes, for sale, Realtor, realty, land, property, etc.). But, what if the city name is very unique, like Verton? If the page is now erased of that term, that creates a problem. To the best of my knowledge, there are no similar terms that would indicate the page is about real estate in Verton (a fictious city). In the eyes of Google, the page would just be another page about real estate.
So what happens when a search query contains words that there are no closley realated terms for?
very good point. many of my sites are technical in nature, and the keywords aren't real words - they were made up by someone when the technology was created. an example would be if i made a new technology to measure the amount of times a dog's tail wags in response to different situations, i might coin the term, wag-o-meter. so, if google decides to dump that term, it would be very difficult to find related terms.
What about the state that Verton exists in, or perhaps the region? These are much more common, and therefore less likely to get hit. There are tons of pages that contain "Ohio" or "Middle East" and these are far less likely to get bumped. Yes, it means that all the optimization for "Verton" is shot, but I think it should be recoverable.
I agree that a search for Ohio real estate may give better results. But, if I only want to know about homes for sale in Verton, I'm not interested in inner pages from the Ohio Department of Real Estate that only mention the word Verton once on an 800 word page. These are the type of results I started seeing in real estate searches after Florida. I'm just wondering if it could be because city names are often unique and similar terms in other documents may be difficult to come up with. As a result, the search engine is forced to give you serps of a much broader and less relevant nature.
[edited by: More_Traffic_Please at 4:44 pm (utc) on Feb. 11, 2004]
Gee, if something like this were really in place now, and I'm not saying it is...it would explain more than a few things.
I took heart in some of your suggestions several weeks ago and am now bouncing from page 1 to page 2. Definitely better then being lost post Austin.
I think you have some valuable info here. Old style Google ranking plus CIRCA/LSI is probably the last step as to why I can't get over the #1 hump. The site was #1 for a couple of years for very competative keywords. This combining of 2 algos makes sense when viewing what happened to me.
I have posted in the past of the steps I took over the weeks to get back. I used the word synonyms as how I approached this. In the kids dictionary, for those like me who need things spelled out simplistically, the definition is as follows...
Synonyms are words that have the same, or almost the same meaning.
The words stones and rocks are synonyms.
I took this approach and SLOWLY adjusted keyphrases in the titles and body of some pages. After every change I waited several days to see if the results were positive. Not only were they positive, it seemed to have attracted googlebot to crawl more often. Don't know if this is related, but this is in fact what happened.
Stuffing KWs is pretty much dead. I would pick several good phrases and try to write naturally to portray what you are trying to say by alternating the phrases with synonyms.
Phrase = custom widgets
Alts = personalized widgets custom relatedwidgets customized widgets personalized relatedwidgets etc.
Just my 2 cents.
That would certainly explain a lot of the problems with city real estate and travel related SERPs.
I just did a search for ~city -city on 10 well known cities.
And the same for states.
None of them had any matches.
There are no pages that have a synonym of ****** on them without the word ****** on the pages.
If you do a search for the same state like this ~state all of the pages have the actual state name on them not a synonym. It seems that there are no synonyms for place names. So NewYorks sites can't even use "The Big Apple".
In my own case accoring to Google there are synonyms for my problem word but these are not in normal use in the UK they are US centric synonyms. I can at least work around this problem by introducing other limeys to the glory of American English ;)
I hope someone from Google is reading htis because this is the new algos achilese heel and they need to get the spear out quick.
isnt the point that this is probably a second phase of sorting?...so all pages have already been ranked for green widgets, now they are being re-reanked on related factors...so they arent in effect dropping the term..they are applying the theme
Don't forget that the published paper describes one take on LSI. I'm pretty sure that CIRCA is a variant on this.
My hypothesis is that the term searched for is excluded or its value markedly reduced. If they are creating the sample for analysis using the old algo then it is a safe assumption that most or all of those pages will have that term on them. What seperates out the authority from the lesser sites is words associated with the term.
But to Sid's points, on the now much discussed points of stemming, CIRCA, etc.....
Unless your homepage has: a) a very high PR b) a substantial number of kw's tightly related to the words you care about, or, c) both...
You have little hope once the re-rank is done, of showing up for your really important search phrase: only for the related phrases, which may or may not be what your site is really about. Or at least, that is certainly true if, as pointed out above, there are not many good substitute words to use.
In our case, we see lots of sites showing in the SERP's that have kw's tightly related to our important kw's *on a purely semantic basis* but that don't have any real relevance to the searcher.
And adding in a lot of those tightly related kw's, the way that G might prefer, would make our homepage confusing at best, if not downright bizarre.
More evidence that if the old game was hitting targets, the new one is overcoming hurdles....
The indexing is fine: this page shows up for "Martian War" and some related phrases, and not at all for Martian. In our case this is exactly right. Very few people searching for "Martian" would be interested in our site.
However, there are adsense ads on these pages, and I notice that this page is the *only* one for which Google serves the public-service ads (on all of the other pages Google is running ads for history books and other pertinent things). A page about the "History of the Xyzzy War" may have ads for books about military history on it, but the page about the "History of the Martian War" does not. Google gets too confused by the presence of the city word to notice the words "history" or "war" anymore. The prominent presence of the city word seems to really throw Google for a loop as far as deciding what the page is "about."
I suspect that if "Martian War" were a term lots of people were competing over, then that page of ours might well be fluctuating wildly in the SERPs.
Just a thought... As Google refines their algorithm, they may improve the way it handles city names, which could solve a lot of these problems.
Why would you assume that?
My experience with different web sites (I have a few wag-o-meter for dogs sites; we have the TOP result in Google) indicates that value is added to having terms that stems from the ontology, but it doesn't disregard or replace that term.
Other wag-o-meter for dogs have come on the market, but we have maintained our number one position not by links (only three sites link to us), but having "dog" and "tail" in the text.
The City, State SERPs are interesting. This might be the area where Google has to sit down and make a decision what they're going to provide and then users ca adapt. Right now, what you get depends on what city and state you're talking about. It's not good and this is a major use of Google.
What I mean is if you were to apply LSI to every page which had an Adsense script on it, naturally some of the AdSense ads would get higher CTRs. Someone searching for "Who let the dogs out" would be less likely to click on the ad for a Bassett Hound Cookies site than he would for an Amazon Baha Men CD page. So would this sort of feedback aid in further refining the serps or in finding the places where a human being's intervention is needed?
Just a thought.
Why not?
I see your point.
Yeah, this get's back to the Sprinks and niche search point I made. Google just simply can't be everything to everyone, so they're going to be most things to most people.
Sure, they'll still help you find the vendor of bird diapers for your parrot but there will be this huge middle ground (horses, for example) where it's just not working.
Murphy's Law as applied to journalism is this: Everything you read in the newspaper is absolutely true, except those things which you have first hand knowledge.
Google's search results are going to run into this law. That is, the results are great, except if you know something about the subject you're searching.
One problem with this LSI approach seems to be lack of importance given to HTML tags such as TITLE and Hx.
If the keyphrase is weeded out of the analysis on the grounds that all pages in the set contain it, then no weight can be given to having keyphrase in the title.
Sorry, Google, but if fifty pages have similar semantic relevance to my search phrase then I am much, much more likely to be interested in the one with my search phrase in the title and/or H1 tag.
Another problem would be that LSI has no way of telling if a page has genuine content or is simply a random collection of semantically related words. Such a collection could be....hmm, let me think... oh yes, a directory page. Nah, Google would never be daft enough to let one of them appear on page 1 of the SERPS.
All the PhDs in the world can't bestow common sense.


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to support the most crucial element in effective literacy instruction: time for structured collaboration for educators to implement the comprehensive literacy learning included in LEARN, Striving Readers, and the Common Core State Standards.
to not support assessment practices that rely wholly or in part on machine scoring of writing for high stakes outcomes because machine scoring cannot validly assess student writing.
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I'm literally on my 8th tube of this chapstick. You need this in your life. I use it every day; I keep extras in my bag, the car, at school, in the bathroom, etc. While it does start out pretty slippy, the moisture sinks into the lips over time and keeps moisture in very well. This is super important for me because I pick my lips and need the moisture for repair. Plus... seriously... it tastes just like yellow PEZ!
* so moisturizing
* great wear time (a couple hours)
* smells and tastes amazing
* enhances/glosses up other lipsticks/lip stains gorgeously
* not super shiny
* applicator allows you to get most of the product
* if left on its side somewhere hot, the product will 'lean' against the tube
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I love, love this. It smells so delicious, like fresh, tart lemonade! I am a huge fan of fresh sugar lip balm- well this is by far an amazing dupe! I have three backups!
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My sister bought me this lip balm when they had a sale at Bath&Body Works. It was around $7 I think. It's smelled like smelled like lemons which was refreshing and sweet and ALSO it tasted like lemons not sour, but sweet. I feel it love with the lips balm the moment I used it. I used about 3 tubes of this lip balm, but because of the price i stopped. I personally think the balm makes my lips softer, smoother and definitely less chapped. It worked wonders! I would recommend this to anymore.
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I've only bought this once because of the price $7.50. But I really loved this! I wouldn't recommend if your lips get really chapped and dry, or if they crack and bleed. This isn't potent enough for that. But its the only lip balm I've used that makes my lips baby soft and supple, and I've tried a lot of lip balms. The smell is great, it smells like lemon but it has a sweet side to it. Taste like lemon as well but also with a sweet side with no tartness. It gives a nice little shine to the lips. Within having this I notice the black letters on the tube wear off after a little while. My only complaints are I wish it had SPF in it and it was cheaper. When I have the money I love purchasing this.
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LOVE the taste and smell of this product. Those are the only things I look for in lip products. I absolutely love lemon scented products and the fact that is tastes just as good makes it my HG lip product. It's lightweight, sheer, and soft. The only cons are that the stick of balm does eventually lean or break b/c it's so soft, but I don't care b/c it's a great product! A little pricey, but BBW usually has a buy 2 get one free deal with their lip stuff.
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Best lip balm EVER. It tastes like lemonade and keeps my lips moisturized throughout the day. I find myself reapplying just to taste it, lol!
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On my 2nd tube, but running down to the nub... Gonna have to start digging it out :) i love this lip balm
This is really emollient, and soft, and i guess "greasy", i love the slippy feel of it, its really light weight on the lips, and gives off a kissable sheen to it ;)
The wear time is alright... Last all night on my lips, but during the day it lasts less than 2 hours, but im Ok with that...
Because im always constantly putting on lipbalm anyway.
The packaging is cute and has a cheery yellow color and its overall cute but impractical... The tube itself is too large for the actual product, and here is the doozy, because of it being soft and the tube being large, it tends to smush, lean, scrape, and whatever it likes to do when feels like it
Ive had to remold it several times
The first time being when i was acting like an idiot and trying replicate it into a lipstick, *plopped right off*...
Any how as long as you dont do anything stupid like me you should be fine
One other downside is that it contains no spf... But i love this little beauty!!
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I bought this absurdly expensive product because I was beguiled by the scent...
It does smell and taste very good, I must admit. But not worth the price, especially since it's not even an adequate lip balm.
I feel like it's not very moisturizing, or rather, it doesn't absorb well. I feel like it just sits on my lips and creates an annoying oily/glossy sheen that I'm not too fond of. Maybe if you prefer the gloss, it's an added benefit, but I'd rather something less conspicuous. Also, I find myself needing to reapply every half hour or so because it dries and leaves my lips feeling unpleasant.
On the other hand, the little tube thing is cute, I guess.......
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This is a good product. It smells like the sweetest lemon zest, almost like lemonade bottled into a lip balm tube. It feels great on your lips, but sort of has a waxy feel to it. I will admit, it is not the most longest lasting moisturizer. If I put this on my lips before bed, I do find sometimes that I have to reapply in the middle on the night if I wake up and my lips are dry. Another thing that I don't care for is that it is incredibly soft, perhaps too soft. The reason I say this is because it leans, leans, leans. No matter how low you wind the balm down, it still has this awkward leaning thing going on and I often times find myself having to readjust it with my fingers which is not good, because you have to be very gentle with it or it will break off or completely fall apart and melt in your hands. I don't think there is a lot of product either. As others have stated the packaging is huge but when you really get into the actual balm it's a lot smaller. I got this as a free gift with a coupon from BBW. I'm glad I did because otherwise I would have never gotten this because it is $7.50 and that is entirely too much money for a lip balm.
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This is my favorite lip balm! It tastes and smells great, and the moisture lasts. It feels really nice on, and it's moisturizing without being greasy. The packaging is a little bit awkward because the lip balm is a lot skinnier in the tube, and there are a total of 3 different tubes holding the lip balm. The letters also rubbed off, so now I just have a suspicious looking yellow tube. It's okay though, because packaging doesn't really matter to me. Overall, it's worth paying a few extra dollars for and it's the ideal lip balm.
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CHANDRAPUR: The district administration has decided to provide necessary chemical fertilizers to the farmers directly at their fields in kharif season. Decision was taken following the requests made by farmer groups. There were allegations of irregularities in distribution of fertilizers during last kharif season.
Collector Vijay Waghmare announced that the fertilizers will be provided directly at the farms of the farmers with the help of Vividh Karyakari Sanstha and fertilizer companies.
"While this will save the transportation charges, farmers will get the fertilizers in time at less than maximum retail prize," he said. The decision was taken at meeting held at collectorate for planning the allocation and distribution of fertilizers and seeds in district for this kharif season.
District receives average rainfall of 1142mm every year. Last year average rainfall of 1084mm was received in the district, while this year 98% of average rainfall is expected during monsoon. Cultivation for this kharif season has been planned for 4.50 lakh hectares.
It includes soyabean cultivation area of 1.60ha, paddy 1.58ha, cotton 90,000ha, tur 32,000ha and other crops in 6,000ha, informed district superintending agriculture officer, AM Kuril. Officers also informed that stock of soyabean seeds is available with the distributors. Similarly necessary stock of fertilizers is also available in the district.
The Chandrapur District Central Co-operative Bank and nationalized banks have already started distribution of crop loans to the farmers. Banks have distributed credits cards to 1.20 lakh farmers.
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It's entirely possible that Nicki Minaj's "Starships," the RedOne-produced single from Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, will be the anthem of the summer –so it makes sense that Minaj has worked up a beach-centric video for th etrack.
In typical Minaj fashion, "Starships" is full of bright colors, fast cuts, and lots of spastic movement meant to mirror her rap flow (which, it should be noted, is largely absent from this particular song). Perhaps the biggest headline-grabber is the fact that Minaj spends the bulk of the clip writhing around in the sand in a skimpy bikini. Watch it below.
Since "Starships" is the anchor of the pop-centric half of Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (the same sequence of songs I suggested could be immediately jettisoned from iTunes in my review of the album), it's only appropriate that Minaj adopt the look and feel of a more traditional pop video.
Save for the wacky hair, this could have been done by Jennifer Lopez or Britney Spears, and based on what we've heard, that seems to be exactly what Minaj wants us to think.
Readers, what's your take on "Starships"?
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I have one of these in 'Vivacious' and I wasn't that keen on it for the one reason that I dislike most lip products - it seemed to dry my lips. Not once have I worn this lacquer and not found my lips shrivel a tiny bit; they're just a bit parching for me.
It hasn't completely put me off using it - I try to make it work, but ultimately, I usually end up scrubbing it off with a tissue and rescuing my pout with real balm.
I didn't find the same problem with the other balm stains; it must be something to do with the vinyl finish.
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After reading rave reviews, I went out and bought this in the shade Ingenue. I must say, I love it! Although the color looks darker, it is a nude with a slight brown pigment. The texture is great, creamy in the tube and glossy on the lips. The perfect gloss without that sticky, wet look that some leave. I plan to buy more, as well as Revlon's other balm colors.
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I usually prefer the balm stain because they are more pigmented and last longer, but I was looking for a nice nude shade to wear every day. I picked up the Lacquer Balm shade "Demure" because it looked the most natural of all the Colorburst products. It had a very slight shimmer in the package, but as soon as I put it on my lips, all I could see was sparkly glitter on my lips. GLITTER! I refuse to wear glitter lipstick. Will not repurchase this shade, but I might consider purchasing a different shade.
This is a really great tinted balm. It tingles a bit and is very nourishing and makes my lips soft. My only complaint is that it just doesn't have very good staying power. A good alternative is Just Bitten balm stain, which gives you great color AND lasts all day. This is a good balm for the price but I don't think I will repurchase. I hate having to reapply lip products constantly.
I bought this in the shade "Flirtatious", which is a bright fuchsia pink (think Barbie!). It actually came in a gift set from Walgreens that had a Lip Butter, a Lacquer Balm, a Matte Balm, a Super Lustrous lipstick, and a Super Lustrous lip gloss for only $15, which is a steal for full-sized products ($3 per product!). I test-drove this today during a regular day at the office, and I have to say, I really like it! It held up well through coffee and numerous presentations, and I only had to reapply twice. The color mostly fades in the middle of my lips, so it only took a quick swipe to make the color look fresh again. The color has a nice satiny finish and can be built up from sheer to full coverage. The mint scent is apparent but not overwhelming. The happy surprise for me is that this stuff didn't bleed around my lip line, even though I didn't pair this with a liner.
This is a keeper. It's not anything absolutely mind-blowing, but it's a good, serviceable product. Not sure I would pay full retail to replace it if I ran out or lost it, but I'm glad I tried it.
I love the crayon lip products but tend to prefer matte formulas, but between these lacquer balms and the matte ones Revlon rolled out at the same time, I might actually prefer these, though I do like the matte formulas a lot, too. (Those definitely have more staying power, as mattes tend to do.) I have four of these and am inclined to pick up one or two other colors. Provocative is a bright cherry red; Coy leans deep nude brown; Enticing is more a deep, vampier red; and Tease is mainly orange. I like all of them, though a couple have a bit more shimmer-glitter than I'd likek but it's really only a bother to me when some f the fomula fades and some shimmer is left behind -- easily fixed by reapplying. But they feel good, give a nice wash of color, some pretty shine, and the crayon packaging just adds to the fun (for me). My favorite of the bunch is Tease. A quick swipe and it's almost a peachy-coral wash of color, but build it up a bit and it's a bright orange-red, with no shimmer. Color seems to stay on pretty well, too. A few sips of morning coffee at work and when I reapply I still find I have a decent amount of pigment that remains on my lips.
OMG!! These are AMAZING!! I have coquette which is like a pink coral color with sparkles. Now, i will just let you know: people who don't like mint might have a little problem because it is minty, but isn't that bad. Very long-wearing, pigmented... I can't rave about it enough!! I would totally repurchase!
I got the colour Ingenue and it's amazing! I love it. Looks great day or night and for a lacquer it has relatively good staying power. It's not sticky and it feels really good on. I'll definitely be buying this colour again.
I like the matte version so I expected a similar experience. Unfortunately these seem to be much less pigmented and less long-lasting. Otherwise the scent is lovely and they're fine if you're looking for something less intense but I won't be repurchasing.
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I have three of these and I love them! I own Provocateur (cherry red), Tease (tangerine) and Vivacious (magenta). None of the shades I have are glittery. I avoided purchasing a couple in shades I otherwise liked (Demure, Coquette) because of the glitter aspect, especially because it seemed fairly coarse.
These go on very easily and last pretty well. The color is bright, intense and opaque. I usually have to reapply if I eat or anything, but otherwise they stay on well and don't feel heavy at all - I can barely even tell that I have them on. They have a nice minty scent, which smells and feels nice (in addition to probably helping plump the lips a bit).
I really like the packaging, it's easy to use with a twist-up base instead of needing sharpening. Unfortunately, unlike the Balm Stains (which are in a tube exactly the same size and shape), these only have a small piece of tape closing them, and it can sometimes be hard to find one that hasn't been opened.
The price on these is a bit high ($9-10 at the stores I've been to) but they sometimes are on sale for buy one get one half off, which helps.
I'm not sure that any of the other shades would look good on me, but I'd be willing to try them (minus the ones with glitter). And I will probably repurchase these once they run out.


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POSTED: Sunday, August 5, 2012 - 7:00am
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NBC NATIONAL NEWS — A wounded alligator is guarding her massive nest in Everglades City, Florida.
"It's a good size nest average two or three feet tall...inside the center of the nest is a tiny cubby hole she's dug out and deposited 30 or 40 eggs," says "Gator" John of Wooten's Everglade Airboat Tours.
While the nest is impressive on its own, it's the mother gator that's catching their attention.
The mother gator has been able to defend her home despite her limitations.
"The front tip of her jaw is missing. The lower jaw front piece, lower flap, is barely hanging there with her teeth fully exposed," "Gator" John explained.