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Why has the number of male players gone up over the last few years?
I'm a heterosexual male, but often take notice of this around the bars, and within the general public. It seems that the amount of males playing... Show More
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I have noticed that. And it is because you can't approach the average woman at the club anymore and just tell them what's on your mind and what you would like to do. For example. "Hi I noticed you from over there and I was wondering if I could get to know you. Maybe give you my number and we could go out some time." Would get the guy laughed out of the club today.
My friend calls the current phenomenon "Selling a dream" Because that's all they will buy. I was having this same conversation with my sister. And I told her straight up. no one goes to the club to find their soul mate. And if they do, they are a fool.
But I have to say it works both ways,
The club scene is like a game The girls are trying to trick the guys into buying them drinks. And the guys are trying to... Well you know. And the victor is whoever gets what they want by the end of the night. Or by morning.
I don't really go to clubs anymore. unless I actually go with someone. because you can't get to know someone in a club. Aside from the music blaring and the alcohol being thrown back. People lie. Plain and simple. The club scene is worst that teenagers on the internet...
which is why internet dating is becoming more common place. You have to find a place where genuine people go to meet other genuine people. Million dollar idea? the club scene is a place to go hook up.
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Thanks for your advice, and I will completely with you on every level of your interpretation on discussing today's male and female agenda. Life has sure changed from when our parents grew, and I am with you on the idea to stay away from meeting girls at bars. I've not yet once met a girl at a bar who has not at least once tried to hook-up at a later date, or time.
it was so much easier when the adults forced you to marry someone. No lie. No misleads. No trickery. Just two people being forced to live under the same roof. Sad that that sounds better than people meeting and trying to take advantage of each other...
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Why has the number of male players gone up over the last few years?
Probably because most guys want to be players and can be players with PUA and sex outside of relationships being common. I think it's simply a combination of guys having the knowledge and environment to do as they desire as I don't see most male fantasies, paradises, p*rn, or envied lifestyles about a committed monogamous relationship rather it's about f*cking lots of young attractive gals.
Has anyone else seen this within the last year?
I have seen being quite a bit of players who use PUA tactics.
all I have to say is jersey shore. it created a new expectation for men. so unfortunate.
it has, but people were acting like that b4 the show aired.
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yup, I agree. don't know why all the down arrows,but ok.
It's the men who are worshiping "Jersey Shore" lol. I agree with you, and this theory. It's an addition to the situation.
I feel like most men in their late teens and early 20s are either players or betas crying a river about being in the "friend zone". I know that there's a substantial amount of great guys, though, especially since I'm dating a good one. Also, the amount of players does drop exponentially in the late 20s/early 30s because it hits them that they should settle down and have a reliable, lifelong companion and raise a family.
I agree with this, and have noticed these changes as well in my group of friends that are around the ages of 28-35. I've never been one to care about being friend zoned, nor have I ever been a player, but it's just an interest of mine to study these habits at bars, and observe the environmental aspect of what we call socializing with the opposite sex lol.
It's fascinating to me as well. Because I'm the opposite sex I guess. I never understood the "friend zone"... Thanks for treating our friendship like a crapy consolation prize because we're nothing to you but a vagina, no ones forcing you to be my friend! lol
I feel this trend may be due to how society is changing. We are becoming very materialistic, always going after the newest, hottest thing, which I believe is transfering into our relationships. As soon as a guy(the player) feels that his new girlfriend is old(been together a long time and not attracted as much as before) they want to upgrade, or trade them in for the newest girl who has caught their eye. which is bad for woman who want a real relationship. Women can be this way as well not just men.
We are wired to over-reach and get better and better.
We want better things,better health,better food,better living conditions or a better relationship.
I won't be a hurt if my girlfriend dumps me for someone better than me.
So I see nothing wrong in when a guy searches for someone better.
It's the fake men for fake women epidemic. Players are idealistic - Gentlemen are realistic. A Player wants a woman to fit into the role he has created in his mind for her - A Gentleman does not try to change a woman he is interested in to suit any idealisms he may have, instead he takes the realistic approach and accepts that no one is perfect.
Our society is going crazy honestly. Most girls are just disrespecting themselves and boys will see that and take that advantage. Most boys just don't care and are being judged of how many girls they had sex with and are trying to get with so many. That's just my opinion.
can you elaborate on "Most girls are just disrespecting themselves"
I have seen this too but also vice versa. There isn't love now a days just sex for both parties. This is why I am single now because my ex boyfriend started going out and he never gave me the respect of being his girlfriend. He rather let another girl flirt with him. It seemed as he liked the attention. I don't know why he changed but he did and also coworkers who are married are the same way now.
Oh dear :-( My ex actually instigated the flirting. Guess sometimes having that ego boost is more important than hurting someone else's feelings.
Oh wow yeah that is much worse, but that is why he is an ex. One day both will find true love. Things like this need to happen so when the right guy comes we can spot them and in the long run be happy with them.
Most men want sex. Period. They don't want to be tied down in a relationship and they want all the benefits they can get as if they were in a relationship, but really all he's doing is banging the woman for free. But hey, I don't blame them, women contribute a lot to this, and they STILL let men treat them like sh*t. If anything, women need to stop letting themselves go so easily and have more self respect and guys need to stop having the mindset of pure ignorance that fulfill the wannabe "tough" exterior, "I get more ass then you" persona.
I want a gentleman too, eve16!
A lot of men have this idea that if they treat women poorly or act like they don't care in general, women will be all over them. What they don't realize is GIRLS will be all over them. Real women worthy of mature relationships, will think of these men as silly and immature.
If men want girls and meaningless sex, then that's the way to go. If men want women and real relationships, then they'll treat women well and be a gentleman.
You're 26. So maybe you have gotten more sense, lol. But for us guys 18-24 or so, game is actually needed. Being nice and a gentlemen doesn't win girls our age over. You're better off being a cocky guy who's a bit of an ass than a "sweet guy." Not a drunk slob, but a bit of an ass. Seriously, search "Dear Females" on google and "Dear Males" you'll find it summarized. And that's sadly reality for guys my age.
Like I said, it's all a maturity issue.
Real women WORTHY of relationships and women that have self-respect don't want to be with as*holes. Girls go for game. Women go for gentleman who actually treat them well and act like they care. Please don't mistake gentlemen for pushovers - there's a big difference.
I'd say simply because more women are down for casual sex. Men didn't have the opportunity to play in the past because they had to put a ring on it first for 90% of women. Now, things have a changed a bit, and I don't necessarily think it's a bad think. I'd personally want to sleep with a man first before we got married. The pendulum just sometimes swings too far, but I believe we'll eventually come to a happy medium. In the meantime, more girls will be hurt, and more guys will suffer the consequences of that hurt later. They'll all be cleaning up the messes they made for each other. So we all end up suffering.
Yes there are more and more men that are players or, at least, aim to be so. I think it has to do with women sexual emancipation and the fact that masculinity is more and more tied to the number of women a man can get. This and also the sexualization of society, putting less and less emphasis on family values play a huge part in making men more likely to be players than ever.
I heard a lecture from a Stanford Professor talking about it, he said it was because we as a society used to tie sex to family and values, good things for society. Now sex is alone, a fun activity. Bad consequences...
Media and society as a whole has become more sexualized and much less committment oriented. I definitely feel this has contributed to the male population's lack of chivalry. Gentlemanly behavior has become almost old-fashioned in today's world.
I have to ask, why *should* there be chivalry anymore? Men and Women are equal. Or women are better, depending on your source. Chivalry only comes from a position of strength. Not equality.
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chivalry is dead for good
There's a few keepers out there still ;)
Definitely true. I don't know about the exact stats but I am approaching 40 started dating again recently and it has definitely climbed. Even men my age are acting like that. Some are divorced and want to 'play' women again before they settle down again or never settled down. I don't have a problem with it per se but the lying to people and misleading people I have a problem with. Nobody should play with someone else's emotions.
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The idea that '70% if men are players' is a joke. Also I would disagree that players are about 'misguiding' women into sleeping with them. If anything that's less true then it ever was in the past. Once upon a time the majority f women only had sex with guys they thought wanted a commitment, and lying was how 'players' got sex. Now huge numbers if women want casual sex. Mentioning commitments or relationships actually makes those women NOT have sex. Te modern player is much more about creating a 'this is just fun and we both want it and are mature and cool and can enjoy sex' vibe.
Are more guys players (ie guys who attempt to base attracting women in what appears to be successful) more common? Yes. The word is slowly getting out.
In my book a player is not a bad thing. If you have women who don't want a relationship then its OK to have sex with them. Also if they give up sex on the first date or later during date then they are not girlfriend material. For me to have a girlfriend she would have to make me wait for sex and have something going on in her life. untill I find that I will play the player role cause last week I mess around with this milf and every since then she has been hitting my phone up saying good morning and all. and am like huhh how werid chill out you have two kids and am like 22 lol
Guys that have little or no experience with women are indeed looking into the whole pua advice area which does have its good point and insights. My only real problem with the pua community is the outrageous prices they put on their "bootcamps" for a weekend and how complex (complete with diagrams) some pua's make it. I've seen up to $2500 being charged by some; shame on them.
they're all women go for. being the good guy gets old and frustrating.
the media also contributed to the rise of players. all the half-minded guys that fall for that stuff started using "bro-speak" to show off their social prowess to the half-minded girls out there. everything's like a bad MTV reality show out there now.
it makes me sick. but you either have to adapt with the times or get left behind.
has it? I think it's actually the opposite: fewer male players. See modern herbivore men for instance.
& MGTOW. More and more guys are taking the red pill, learning about the dark side of female nature, and are manipulating it for their own gain (PUAs) or just walking away in disgust (herbivores, MGTOW).
I agree.
That's because the stereo typical "slipper" or "slut" or any one of them label's has also skyrocketed and then the guys don't know how to be nice to a girl because guys (in teens) don't know how to treat them they play them (I would say I'm a nice who wants the best for his Girlfriend but I'm not sure if I'm a player or gentle man probably somewhere in the middle) and anyway they correspond the more girls who sleep around there are the more players and the more players the more girls who sleep around, its a cycle and it needs to be broken but its 50% guys and 50% girls and it is hard to stop because its about popularity in most cases "if you haven't had sex at 15 your a no body" is what its like in my school (I haven't but hey I wouldn't pressure a girl into it) so yeah its because guys have sex and then dump the girl, but more girls spread their legs and so the guys think they can get away with it.
This is very true, and puts things into perspective. One funny thing is that women go berserk when there is a nice guy that everyone knows is a nice guy. This usually means that the guy is good looking, semi-successful, and all around gentleman, but women do seem to pickup on this. Though the spreading of the legs is quite true. Not saying that I don't like sleeping with women, but I've had to turn down a lot at bars for the right to not have to deal with the Barney Stenson effect lol.
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erm what? I'm still a nice guy, I try hard in all relationships to get them to last because I wouldn't initiate a relationship unless I wanted to be with the girl, I mean it just causes heart ache and pain, its just the past 5 relationships ended with the girl sleeping with another guy behind my back -.- still looking for a girl I can be with who I'm able to relate to and hold conversation with but is faithful, and I won't find that by being a jerk so +1 nice guy
@JoSteffi : So a stripper is not a good girl?maybe her occupation is considered bad in society.
That doesn't make her bad.
I've actually read this same thing, just on a blog about a guy who teaches game. He said over the last couple of years, more and more guys have been wanting to learn game just to do it, not to snag a girlfriend or wife.
Honestly? I think guys are just getting smarter. They learn game, they learn how easy it can be if you actually do it right, and decide to go get there fun. That, and with the divorce statistics along with rates of child custody and alimony, marriage is a very risky proposition, financially. According to *Focus on the Family*, amid even people religious enough to go to church every week, divorce is 38%.
That's, even as a cherry-picked subgroup to look lower, is an awful high chance you'll go through a miserable, heart-rending soul-crushing financially-devastating thing called divorce.
And... it's a huge ego boost to those that do it. Constant pickups. It's the male version of being the hot cheerleader who can get any guy at school--so who are you or me to say they don't get to have *their* fun turn? lol.
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For five years Nathan Fox of the University of Maryland, College Park, and his colleagues followed 136 children from an orphanage in Bucharest. Sixty-nine of the children were placed in foster care, while 67 stayed in the orphanage. There were not enough resources in Bucharest to place all of the children in foster care, the researchers say.
When the children were first admitted to the orphanage, their IQ levels were below normal. The children's IQs seemed to increase when they were placed with foster parents, particularly the girls. The boys who were fostered seem to respond less well.
Physical development was also stunted in children who remained in the orphanage. Puberty was delayed by an average of two years in the girls in state care ...
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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to do something with that ginger you bought last week.
I'm geeked that so many of you are excited about The Ginger Challenge series, because honestly, I wasn't sure how it would go over. But I'm glad to know that plenty of people are in the same boat as me – you just need a little direction and a gentle nudge to learn to use a new ingredient, and then it can become one of your standards.
This week's posts are going to share LOTS of ideas to use ginger in recipes, including a roundup of ginger recipes from around the real foodie blogosphere and a slow cooker ginger beef that my family absolutely loved, courtesy of Stephanie at Mama and Baby Love and her Slow Cooker Freezer Recipes eCookbook.
The goal of today's Monday Mission is to give you some strategies to use ginger without needing a recipe, since I firmly believe that is a vital step to confidence and consistency in using an ingredient.
Why is the Monday Mission on Tuesday?
Two reasons – first, I'm not very good at "eating my frog" and working ahead, so my posts are written at the last minute. (But it's my goal to get a week ahead so I have time for editing – I can't wait until I reach that point!!)
Second, my parents were able to come into town yesterday for the afternoon/evening/today, in between consultations and evaluations for my dad's bladder cancer. It's the kind of thing where even I'm smart enough to realize you just say, "Yes, please, come on over!" and drop your millions of plans, cancel your staff meetings, send out a quick newsletter asking for help on our 2014 reader survey instead of the content-rich one I had planned, and clean the bathrooms. Nothing is more important than family. I knew you guys would understand…
(Speaking of, will you help with the reader survey too? I need advice!)
Back to the topic at hand…
Using Fresh Ginger
Most recipes that call for fresh ginger list it as a certain number of inches of ginger root. Personally, I find this annoying because you never know how thick or knobby someone's ginger is going to be, but we'll just have to deal with that little eccentricity of ginger now, won't we?
To get your ginger from the root (or "knob" as some call it):
…to be ready to put in recipes, most people either slice, grate, or puree it. Remember that when we learned how to store fresh ginger, we found you can freeze it whole, peeled or unpeeled, or sliced, grated or pureed, plus preserve it in alcohol in the fridge too! How you store it may depend on how you end up enjoying using it the best.
Stir Fry
A really common and really simple way to just use ginger without even having to look up a recipe is simply to include it in your next stir fry. Slice some meat, chop some veggies, and use fresh ginger as you might fresh garlic – added quickly near the end of the cooking time, or at least near the end of the long cooking time.
For example, if I'm making a stir fry, I'll cook the meat first and remove it because I really don't want it overdone and tough. Then the onions, peppers and mushrooms need a good saute, at least 5 minutes or 10-15 if I can spare it. The broccoli, pea pods, and greens only require a brief steam/saute, so I'll add them, cook with the lid on for a few minutes, then get the meat back in to warm up before serving.
Any sauce is added with or just before the green veggies, and coconut milk or coconut cream with some chicken stock makes a delectable sauce with ginger (or any seasoning!).
Where does fresh garlic or ginger go in all this? I would add it just before the quick-cooking veggies. Give it a good stir and about a minute with all the soft onions and such, and then mix in the rest of the ingredients.
How much to add? Start by using a microplane grater (found on Amazon) to grate about a tablespoon and see how you like it. If you're freezing your ginger, you could freeze pre-grated ginger in one-tablespoon plops or ice cube trays and just grab one or two for each stir fry, easy peasy! Some folks also very thinly slice the ginger for a stir fry, or even make extremely thin slices by using a regular vegetable peeler. Those would need a few more minutes to cook, I'd imagine.
fish and baked meats
Another simple simple main dish that you shouldn't need a recipe for is baked fish or chicken. Just choose your favorite herbs and spices, maybe some EVOO, some lemon juice or culinary vinegar, and bake until done. (Here's more on how to cook fish at home, including 5 ways to prepare it easily.)
Use finely grated ginger on top of a piece of chicken or fish along with complementary seasonings like garlic, cumin, turmeric, or curry. (More precise recipes to come later in the week!)
Sadly only two of us in the Kimball household enjoy ginger in smoothies, but if you dig it, smoothies are a wonderful way to enjoy the benefits of raw ginger without altering your meal plan (provided you make occasional smoothies). Warning: there's no hiding ginger in a smoothie, in case you were wondering.
If you have a high-powered blender like a Vitamix or Blendtec, you can just toss and inch or two of peeled ginger into your smoothie and it will be taken care of.
About this much…
If you have a run-of-the-mill blender, you might want to either freeze it pureed or grated, or test your blender with some thin slices and see how it does in obliterating the chunks.
baked goods?
Here's one I'm just not sure about – prior to challenging myself to use fresh ginger, I used plenty of dried ginger, but most often in things like these pumpkin pancakes and other sweet "pumpkin pie spice" type of applications.
Can one use fresh ginger in baked goods, or would it just be too overpowering? I'm guessing a totally ginger-based recipe would be great, but I wonder about mixing it with other spices too. Anyone know?
How are you going to use ginger this week?
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The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) was evaluating the strength of its case against seven youths on Thursday, who allegedly filmed themselves gang raping a Soweto teenager.
The seven, aged between 14 and 20, appeared in camera on Thursday, where their case was remanded until next Wednesday.
The seven accused were completely hidden from the public gaze and court proceedings were held in camera because two of them are minors.
Eyewitness News reported on Wednesday how the recording of the attack had gone viral and had led to the arrest of the seven accused.
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Howard Charles Lincoln (born February 14, 1940) is an American lawyer and businessman, known primarily for being the former chairman of Nintendo of America and the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, representing absentee majority owner Hiroshi Yamauchi until he died on September 19, 2013. (In August 2004, Yamauchi's shares were transferred to Nintendo as an estate planning measure, but as he remained chairman emeritus of Nintendo's board of directors, he was still considered the team's owner until Yamauchi's death in September 2013.)
Born in Oakland, California, Lincoln was an active Boy Scout. As a thirteen-year-old boy, he posed for the famous Norman Rockwell painting The Scoutmaster, which was published in a calendar in 1956.[1] In the painting, young Lincoln is on the immediate right of the campfire. Lincoln eventually attained the rank of Eagle Scout and received a Distinguished Eagle Scout Award.
Lincoln matriculated in 1957 at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned his BA in political science in 1962 and his law degree from Berkeley Law in 1965. From 1966 to 1970, he served as a Naval lieutenant within the Judge Advocate General's Corps. He then worked in private practice as an attorney in Seattle, Washington. There he did legal work in 1981 for Nintendo, culminating in the legal case Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd., in which Universal City Studios had sued Nintendo claiming that the video game Donkey Kong infringed upon Universal City Studio's rights to King Kong. Lincoln hired John Kirby to represent Nintendo in the courtroom. Nintendo won the case, as well as successive court appeals.
Lincoln joined Nintendo in 1983 as its Senior Vice President and General Counsel. In 1994, he was appointed its chairman. (He should not be confused with Howard Philips of Nester fame.)
Lincoln would later also be known for his defense of the video game industry during the joint hearings in the early 1990s on video game violence.
In addition to Lincoln's business achievements, he is an active philanthropist. He has served as campaign chair for United Way of King County and the Chief Seattle Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is also a trustee of Western Washington University.
Lincoln's tenure as CEO of the Seattle Mariners has seen both success and controversy. Lincoln was considered instrumental, along with former Senator Slade Gorton, in preserving the team's location in Seattle and negotiating with the city for a new stadium, Safeco Field. His stewardship has seen the team's first post-season appearances, in 1995, 1997, 2000, and 2001, as well as the aggressive expansion of the Mariners into the Japanese market, most noticeably through the acquisition of Japanese superstar Ichiro Suzuki. However, Lincoln is also held responsible by many for the team's stagnation and decline following 2001. His inability to retain successful field managers and general managers like Lou Pinella and Pat Gillick, carte-blanche attitude towards superstar players, contentious relationship with local media, and pattern of questionable hiring decisions have led to increasing calls within the fanbase for Lincoln to assume a less active administrative role.
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Google will soon use social media to tailor the map it shows you. A useful addition in many respects, but will it risk narrowing your view of the world?
YOU fancy going for pizza but you're new in town. Wouldn't it be nice if you knew where your friends who live there liked to eat? That is one of the ideas behind Google's latest move to automatically tailor maps for individuals.
At its annual developer conference last month, Google announced that it would be using data from users' social-media friends to alter their personal maps. A preview version of the new-style maps is rolling out around the world right now. At first it will result in nothing more than restaurant recommendations. But it will eventually lead to a highly augmented way to navigate, based on a hidden world of data representing the emotions, movements and actions of other people.
The restaurant recommendations will be based on ratings given by your friends on Google's social network, Google+. The firm unified its privacy policies last year to allow the sharing of user data between its cloud-based applications in order to build new kinds of services, and ultimately sell more ads.
Besides the privacy issue, some worry that personalised maps will only enhance the so-called filter bubble effect, whereby our own views or prejudices are reflected back at us. Reducing the differing views to which we are exposed may risk a ghettoisation of the web. But others believe creating a bespoke map for each user has its benefits.
A family driving through New York City as part of a road trip needs a slightly different map than a lone tourist on the way to the Statue of Liberty, for example. Such context plays a central role in defining what information we need from a map, says Georg Gartner, president of the International Cartographic Association. "Experiences and emotions – and those of my friends – are all part of that context," he says.
Gartner's research group is working on a system that embeds emotional information into maps. Called EmoMap, it uses smartphones to gather people's emotional responses to their immediate environment, with individuals ranking places on comfort, safety, diversity, attractiveness and relaxation. The results are compiled into a "heat map" and overlaid on the maps of OpenStreetMap. This method would allow people to plot the most comfortable walking path through a big city, for instance, or show the safest route home, as judged by strangers.
Pete Warden, founder of travel-mapping company Jetpac, based in San Francisco, says personalised maps will work best on a large scale. "Up-and-coming restaurants would be really interesting," he says. By tracking which restaurants Google Maps users search for and navigate to in real time, Google would be able to identify hot new restaurants far faster than any traditional media. "You can imagine a billboard chart of which restaurants are becoming fashionable for every city," says Warden.
Maps built on Google's wider range of data would allow for the popularity of different routes, areas and destinations to be tracked over time.
Warden ultimately sees map personalisation as Google's way to put its massive caches of geographical data to use, ultimately through future versions of Google Glass. "Google conquered ideas and culture with search, now it's trying to organise and index the physical world," he says. "Glass and Maps are different lenses to view the world with."
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The moment you start thinking about it as information, I think people start thinking about it differently, they think less about the container and the structure and a little bit more about the users.
That's especially important as the concept of "container" changes with the increase in realtime data and sharing across platforms.
The pair also talked about how to use that data (Betaworks has started both Bitly and Chartbeat); how Facebook isn't making the best use of its data for advertising and the need to break the CPM ad model; why Apple's app store and Google Play don't work; and a lot more packed…
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First it was a video of Guy Pearce, as the character Peter Weyland, delivering a speech about his vision for the future. Soon after came a new batch of breathtaking promotional images. Longer trailers were released, as were teaser clips. In April, a video clip introducing the David 8, a robot played by Michael Fassbender, began making its rounds. My level of anticipation began to grow with each…
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Matt Cutts, from Google's Webspam team, on the best way to check your site for keyword rankings (or more specifically, what else you should be doing rather than just paying attention to keyword rankings):