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Hi all, I'm not writing as many reviews these days due to time constraints, but I will try to write reviews for most of the movies I watch this summer. If you're new here be very aware: SPOILERS ARE COMING. SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS. I do not hold anything back in my reviews. I talk about whatever I want, so if you haven't seen Iron Man 3 and you don't want to know anything about it, don't read any further. If you're simply unable to make decisions and are looking to a stranger on the internet for advice on whether you should see this movie or not, the answer is, Yes. One last time, spoilers lie beyond this point.
Iron Man 3 (2013) – The 7th Marvel Cinematic Universe Film – Directed Shane Black – Starring Robert Downey Jr., Don Cheadle, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce, Ty Simpkins, Rebecca Hall, Jon Favreau, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale, Paul Bettany, William Sadler, Miguel Ferrer, Ashley Hamilton, and Stan Lee.
"Ever since that big guy with the hammer fell out of the sky, subtlety's kinda had its day." – Aldrich Killian to Tony Stark
In Phase One of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel needed to win mainstream audiences over to characters they were likely only partly familiar with, and the payoff for this was THE AVENGERS, the third highest grossing movie of all time.
Creating a superhero cinematic universe on this level had never been attempted, and Marvel cleverly built one film on top of the other, using Nick Fury, Phil Coulson, and Tony Stark to connect the films. Anticipation for the post credits scene became an actual thing; it became a sign of membership in the Church of Marvel. Theaters emptied out but a few remained to get the thrill of evidence of the connection. Comic fans had spent forever waiting for the films to acknowledge that they weren't just watching Spider-Man in New York, but Spider-Man in Marvel's New York. The nature of film rights made this difficult for Marvel, of course, and DC and Warner Brothers had only a halfhearted interest in doing anything except printing Batman money. They tried and failed with Superman Returns, Bryan Singer's $200 million love song to Christopher Reeve and Richard Donner, and then tried and failed with Green Lantern, Martin Campbell's $200 million gamble on the precociousness of Ryan Reynolds.
Both films were stuck in the past. Superman Returns was clearly designed as a nostalgia fest, but Lantern was the more disheartening film, and not just because Martin Campbell had previously directed Casino Royale, the best action movie since Die Hard. It's not awful, but it's empty and cobbled together. Both films commit one of the largest sins of cinema in the 2000s – they had no souls of their own. They lacked vision: Singer borrowed his from Donner and Campbell got his from … marketing execs? Focus groups?
Forget quality for the moment – the truth of it all, the actual, honest-to-goodness, real difference between Marvel and DC at the moment isn't that Marvel knows what it's doing and DC doesn't, but that Marvel and Disney want to make superhero movies and DC and Warner Brothers doesn't.
Be real – if DC/WB had wanted a Wonder Woman movie to get made, it would have gotten made. There were rumors, there were people hired to write scripts, but … nothing. Remember when Vin Diesel was going to play the Flash? When David Goyer was going to do a Green Arrow prison movie? When Halle Berry was going to play Catwoman?
What happened to these movies? (Go with me on that last one.)
Chris Nolan's Batman movies are excellent and it seems that DC/WB thought that was enough. (Watchmen is a DC movie but it's not about the DC Universe.) The first and third movie in the Dark Knight trilogy aren't so much Batman movies, anyway, but Bruce Wayne movies. As good as the films are, there's a hint of "putting on a costume really is a silly thing to do." Across town, Marvel has no access to Spider-Man or the X-Men, but they're pushing on, getting a loan from Merrill Lynch to take control of the movies that get made with their characters. DC is commissioning scripts from everyone but barely committing to anything, and Marvel is tossing Iron Man and Hulk and Thor and Captain America onto the screen in solo movies and people are going to see them.
Seriously. All of a sudden, people not only know who Iron Man is, he's the coolest superhero on the block. Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. created the blueprint for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and everything built to the phenomenon that was THE AVENGERS.
So … where does one go from there? Does one regress to the past or push on to new stories?
Sequels have tended to operate on the bigger is better model: more villains, more action, more of everything. I was very curious about how IRON MAN 3 would work – was it going to be a sequel to IRON MAN 2 or AVENGERS? Were we going to get a video call to Steve Rogers? Lunch with Thor? A double date with Bruce and Betty? Was there going to be a nice easter egg on a screen somewhere about Thanos? When you've gone and made the third highest grossing movie of all time by filling the sandbox with all of your toys, how do you take the next step? How do you outdo what you've already done?
Short answer: you don't even try.
IRON MAN 3 beautifully blends both the IRON MAN films and AVENGERS. There's no Cap, no Thor, no Fury, no Coulson … only Banner (Mark Ruffalo) shows up for this go-round and they save him for the post-credits scene. Marvel clearly set out to make a film which refocused on the individual characters. Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is haunted from his experiences in AVENGERS which has made it hard to go back to his old life. Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) is running Stark Industries now and she's committed to Tony's "no weapons" decree. When Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce) shows up, having lost his old Igor appearance for a GQ look and pitching a new, admittedly impressive piece of tech, Pepper turns him down because it's a tech that's too easily weaponized.
There's a nice mix of personal growth between Stark Industries' three main actors: Pepper has never been better, Tony has never been worse, and Happy has never been better and worse at the same time. The expanded roles for Pepper and Happy (Jon Favreau) at the start of the film feel right. Deep in the film, when Tony has been captured by Killian, the antagonist tells the protagonist, "Ever since that big guy with the hammer fell out of the sky, subtlety's kinda had its day," but amidst all of the explosions and Iron Man suits, IRON MAN 3's central argument is that subtlety has definitely not had it's day.
Shane Black's film will not be as influential as Favreau's first IRON MAN, but there are some very nice, very subtle examples here that other films in Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe would do well to emulate, and the key to that is seen in how Tony, Pepper, and Happy are used. Black deftly balances the decline of the first with the rise of the latter two. In this film, Pepper still loves Tony but she doesn't need Tony. She's more important to the company than he is, and while he's still giving her large stuffed animals for Christmas, tinkering with new suits of armor, and reliving New York, she's running a company.
In the previous MCU movies, Tony Stark goes to his lab because that's where he wants to be, but now he's in the lab as an escape. He's hyper aware of his public image, of course, so he's not Howard Hughesing it, but he's definitely a man in crisis, a man exhibiting post traumatic stress disorder over the Chitauri attack. It's important that Killian references Thor in his "subtlety's kinda had it's day" speech and not the Hulk because it's Thor and the Chitauri that Tony focuses on as the reason for his problems. He understands science, but gods and aliens don't fit into that model. Be clear, though, that Thor and the Chitauri are what he focuses on, but his problems go deeper.
When Happy's expanded role gets him put into a coma by agents of the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley), Stark tells the press that he's going to go after the terrorist. "This isn't about nations," he insists. "It's personal." It's a powerful moment but it's not exactly Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech. Tony's words feel empty and he looks tired. He's lashing out, desperately searching for a new project to focus on. In a great scene between Tony and James Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at a restaurant, Tony practically begs to be let in on the Mandarin issue but Rhodey shuts him down. Contrast that to earlier films where Tony actively resisted working for the government. Now, it's he who wants them and not the other way around. This exchange is a small part of a longer talk that ends with Tony suffering an anxiety attack when two kids ask for his autograph and present him with a crayon drawing of Iron Man. Tony writes the girl's name on the drawing but then writes, "Help me" after it as his attack hits.
Subtlety has had it's day? Not quite. Stark, and the film itself, forwards all the explosions and drama and snark, but look past that and here's a guy who doesn't have it figured out anymore. Who's scared. Who's unsure of his place in the world. It used to be fun when he was down in that lab, making fun of Dummy and trading barbs with Jarvis (Paul Bettany) and having his new invention not quite work out, but here it's a bit sad, almost desperate. The billionaire playboy genius philanthropist has stopped being a visionary. Instead, he's looking for comfort. Instead of building something new, he's endlessly tinkering with his last invention. Pepper thinks he's on Iron Man suit Mark 15, when Tony's actually on Mark 42. The visionary is circling. When Tony looks at his armor now, it's like he knows he's created his masterpiece and all that's left is to refine it instead of leaving the refinement for others and moving on to the next Big Idea.
In most of these sequels, when a character does the same thing he always does, it plays as tired because we've been there and seen it, but the subtle smarts of IRON MAN 3 is that it knows you want to see this scene even if it knows you'll probably end up feeling that it's just an echo of better scenes from days gone by, so it gives you the scene and makes it a purposeful echo and uses it to not celebrate Tony Stark, but to show how he's as much stuck in the past as the audience. We're watching IRON MAN and AVENGERS over and over again on Blu-ray and he's watching them over and over again inside his mind. We're all stuck together on the shelf.
So what do you do? Where do you go when you haven't gone anywhere?
Critically, it's only after his desperate plea to the Mandarin to come get him results in the Mandarin's goons coming and getting him, blowing up his California mansion, that Tony gets moving forward again. Tony falls into the ocean and the armor gets him out of it and while Pepper ends up driving away with Maya Hansen (Rebecca Hall), a scientist/ex-one night stand of Tony's, Jarvis delivers Tony to Tennessee. He crashes in the snow and his armor shuts down and he has to drag the heavy suit someplace warm. He breaks into a garage and gets to work, and it's here, in this small garage, where Tony's life gets going again. His work is interrupted by Harley (Ty Simpkins), a kid sidekick who manages to make the film better instead of worse by challenging Tony. The two of them cut deals and help each other and give each other crap. I like that Tony actually seems most comfortable in this film with someone who he doesn't know. Part of being a visionary, one imagines, is a restless spirit. Tony has always treated life like it's his playground, but over the last six MCU movies, he's increasingly had to play the grown up.
What has that brought him? He already had fame and fortune, but it gave his life a purpose, it delivered him his One True Love, it put him in position to save the entire freaking world. It's taken away his restlessness and replaced it with stagnation.
But thanks to the Mandarin, all of that is taken away from him and he has to build himself up again, and from that moment on, you get the sense that as awful as the things are that are going on, Tony's actually happier now that he has a new problem to solve.
And about that problem …
The Marvel Cinematic Universe has largely stayed true to the comics. Oh, the details have been altered a whole bunch but there has yet to be a really large disconnect between the films and the comics.
Which brings us to the Mandarin.
In IRON MAN 3, Iron Man's most classic foe has been turned into a fraud. The Mandarin is presented as a terrorist mastermind, blowing people up and teaching the United States lessons in the process. Kingsley's approach to the character is to speak in long, slow, monologues punctuated by threats and promises of additional violence. He's got Aldrich Killian's Advanced Idea Mechanics (AIM) think tank helping him broadcast his message of hate out to the world.
Except he's a phony. Without the benefit of his armor, Stark plays James Bond, breaking into the Mandarin's mansion in Miami and discovering that the Mandarin is just an out of work British actor-slash-junkie holed up doing drugs, drinking beer, and fornicating with some whores. It's bound to be controversial, of course, as Marvel has sacrificed one of its greatest villains on the altar of comedic distraction.
For me, though, I thought it worked beautifully. Maybe IRON MAN 3 didn't need to do something to send shockwaves through fandom the way Nick Fury showing up in a post credits scene, but what this says to me is that Marvel has made a conscious decision to remind its fans that they're not making films simply to translate the comics into celluloid. Phase One was about establishing the heroes and building up to AVENGERS. Phase 2 apparently isn't interested in playing things safe. Marvel doesn't want to sit on the shelf. It wants to push forward. The risk is that it comes across as disrespectful, but the number of people who are going to be so upset by this and not come back for future MCU movies is bound to be negligible.
And here's the thing – this might ultimately make the Mandarin and even badder-ass villain than how he appears in the first half of IM3. There's a couple things to keep in mind here. One, this could all be a ruse. Trevor Slattery (the name of the actor playing the Mandarin) might be nothing more than a backdoor escape the Mandarin created in case he needed him. One of his ten rings of power, after all, allows him to increase his psionic energy. The film presents Aldrich as the mastermind but there's no reason Marvel couldn't reveal in the next movie that the Mandarin used one of his rings to make Aldrich think he's the mastermind.
Two, Aldrich claims at one point that he's the Mandarin since he created the terrorist to help manipulate the global war on terror. There's no reason Pearce couldn't come back as the Mandarin in the next movie, either. Those dragon tattoos on his body could be more than just ornamental.
Three, Slattery claims that he's completely unaware of any of the violence being perpetuated in the Mandarin's name. He thinks he's just playing a role, but even with all the drugs and booze and whores, that seems an illogical stretch of the truth. Does he really not think he's talking to the President? Was his assassination on live television of a Roxxon Oil Exec all an act? Is he completely unaware that there's no violence being committed out there? In the film, Stark and Rhodey need information from him that he's willing to provide, so they overlook any inconsistencies in his story in exchange for stopping Killian.
Black forgoes a personal confrontation between Stark and the Mandarin for his climax, instead orchestrating a CGI orgy of multiple Iron Man suits versus Extremis soldiers. It's effective without being excellent.
IRON MAN 3 is a very good movie. There's no way it was going to top AVENGERS but as the duty first fell to Robert Downey Jr. to launch the MCU, it falls to him again to relaunch it. He is, once again, very good: funny, smart, fast-talking but now with self doubt added to the mix. I hate seeing him blow up all of his suits of armor, but I love that he goes back to his destroyed mansion to rescue Dummy from the wreckage without the film milking it for cheap emotion.
Subtlety's day isn't over, yet.
When he's not talking to other writers, Mark Bousquet is doing some writing himself. He is the author of multiple novels and collections, including the recently released The Haunting of Kraken Moor, Gunfighter Gothic, Stuffed Animals for Hire, Dreamer's Syndrome, Harpsichord and the Wormhole Witches, and Adventures of the Five. He has also published a review collection entitled Marvel Comics on Film, which covers every cinematic and TV movie based on a superhero from the House of Ideas. A complete listing of all his work can be found at his Amazon author page.


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Nipper won a four-year term for his school board seat in August 2012. If he resigns for his Zone 6 seat, the commission would appoint an applicant to complete the remainder of Nipper's term. ...

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The Chamber of Horrors held an open audition for its haunted house. Zombies, vampires and dead security guards were all in attendance. Videojournalist: Randee Daddona (Sept. 3, 2013)
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The game is 50% off for today's daily deal (next 48 hours) and I imagine a bunch of new players will come here looking for this. Hopefully they will appreciate the hard work... I know I do.


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How to Promote Your Business With Personal Social Profiles
Do you want to expand the online visibility of your business?
Have you thought about leveraging your personal social media profiles?
Optimizing your personal profiles to highlight your business is a great way to raise awareness.
In this article you'll discover how to use your personal LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook profiles to promote your business.
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Ultimate Blogger's Guide to Search Engine Optimization
In the competitive world of search engine optimization (SEO), your business blog is a critical tool for your success.
Why is blogging so important to your search engine visibility? Because search engines serve up web pages—not websites—when people ask a question. And here's the important part:
Every blog post is a new web page and every web page is another opportunity to rank well for another search term.
5 Ways to Develop Meaningful LinkedIn Connections
Are you on LinkedIn? Did you setup an account there years ago but rarely leverage your contacts? Perhaps you're a LinkedIn regular, but you want to take your your efforts to the next level?
This article will reveal five ways you can build meaningful relationships on LinkedIn that will lead to business opportunities.
Is LinkedIn Not Working For You?
Up to this point, you've probably focused on building up your connections to grow your online influence and visibility. However, the greater challenge lies in actually going deeper with those connections that you've made online. If you're simply connected to someone but have no further dialogue, what have you really accomplished?
6 Ways to Constantly Produce Quality Blog Content
Are you suffering from blogger's block? Is it hard to find time to create content for your blog? If so, look no further. This article lists some easy-to-implement tips to help you get over the hump.
But first, there's a big myth (and it may be your roadblock) that needs attention.
The Myth: I Have No Time to Blog
Every now and then I poll my blog readers and ask about their challenges with blogging. Without fail, most people say that their number-one challenge is that they don't have time to write on their blog. Frankly, I think that is a false problem because you make time for what's important.
I suggest reframing the challenge from "I don't have time to write on my blog" to "I make time to market my business." In the context of your business, blogging is a marketing tool.
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It's been said visibility equals opportunity.
No matter how great your product, service or business is, if your prospective customer can't find you on the web, it's like you don't exist.
As you know, anyone who has access to the Internet (at last count, there were 1.8 billion people), uses it to find solutions to their problems.
Here's a three-step formula to get you started creating a visible presence on the web, resulting in more opportunities for your business: leads, prospects, sales, media queries, speaking gigs and joint ventures.


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Novelist Patrick deWitt speaks at the University Bookstore on May 18, 2011, at 7 p.m.
Patrick deWitt's novel The Sisters Brothers opens in Oregon City in 1851, and from the first words there's something head-tiltingly odd to the scrupulously "authentic" narrative–"I was sitting outside the Commodore's mansion, waiting for my brother Charlie to come out with news of the job and I was cold and for want of something to do I studied Charlie's new horse, Nimble. My new horse was called Tub."
It's possible that the narrator, Eli, doesn't realize how drily funny his recounting of the horrific events that ensue are, but I think deWitt probably does. (John C. Reilly liked Eli so much he optioned the story and will star as the character.)
Eli and Charlie Sisters are two hardcases for hire, mostly hired by the Commodore to erase people he makes the appearance of having been done wrong by. By page 8, the Sisters brothers have their job in front of them: to travel to San Francisco, California, and kill a prospector by the name of Hermann Kermit Warm.
Their intelligence on the matter states that while Warm is small in stature, "he will not be teased about his size. I have seen him fight several times, and though he typically loses, I do not think any of his opponents would wish to fight him again. He is not above biting, for example."
Because it is 1851, there are no direct flights from Oregon to California, and so some 200 pages pass in picaresque adventure just getting to San Francisco, where the mystery of Warm's death sentence is revealed, and, if you can easily envision someone scratching through their skin, you may hurry along more than usual.
People are calling the book "cowboy noir," which is close but doesn't quite get to the unique assemblage deWitt has managed. The heart of the book is taken up by the uneasy but close relationship Eli and Charlie have, the sibling rivalry and private judgements. Charlie is the more suited to shooting people remorselessly; Eli is enraged by any attack on Charlie. Yet, except for the slaughter and thievery, they seem like good guys–dogged in their pursuits, tough on a bottle.
Eli is a soft touch, as such things go: "I had never been with a woman for longer than a night, and they had always been whores. And while throughout each of these speedy encounters I tried to maintain a friendliness with the women, I knew in my heart it was false, and afterward always felt remote and caved in."
He also thinks very little of the man who has brought his son to see a duel, so he can see a man killed. Still, his main concern is what their employment is doing to the both of them, and he has time–in between run-ins with crazed prospectors who brew dirt for coffee, trials in dentifrice and dental surgery, and a short-lived experiment wearing a blue sash–to ruminate on what has made the two of them what they are (a difficult childhood, for one).
DeWitt has a way of parceling out these clues to the brothers' characters amid the muck and guts of an earlier, much rougher time. Sometimes they come during a droll attempt to order a meal with vegetables. Sometimes while he's working on gouging out Tub's infected eye with a spoon. In the end, the book achieves a sort of triangulation: it stinks like history, though it's an invented past, to suit a modern sensibility perhaps not quite sure of the present.
In connecting these points for his corpse diorama, deWitt creates an allegory inverse to The Pilgrim's Progress. Here, you are constantly reminded that this world is the world to which you have come:
Crows and gulls fought over what was left, hopping and pecking, the clammy flesh gone purple, the wind coating it in sand, and the flies insinuating themselves where they could. I felt San Francisco standing behind me but I never looked back, and I thought, I did not enjoy my time here.


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|Selective spinal anesthesia for outpatient transurethral prostatectomy (TURP): randomized controlled comparison of chloroprocaine with lidocaine.
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|PMID: 22236346 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review
|BACKGROUND: This is a study comparing two short-acting local anesthetics lidocaine and 2-chloroprocaine in combination with fentanyl, to provide selective spinal anesthesia for outpatient transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP).
METHODS: In this prospective, randomized double-blind study, selective spinal anesthesia was performed in 40 American Society of Anesthesiologists I-III outpatients undergoing TURP using either 40 mg of chloroprocaine mixed with 12.5 μg of fentanyl (n = 20) or 35 mg of lidocaine mixed with 12.5 μg of fentanyl (n = 20). The primary outcome was duration of spinal block. Secondary outcomes were time to reach T10 (onset), time to maximal level, duration above T10 and lidocaine 3, maximal level of block, and adverse effects.
RESULTS: The median (minimum, maximum) onset time was 4 (1, 16) and 3 (2, 10) min for chloroprocaine and lidocaine, respectively. Time to maximal level was 20 (17, 29) and 22 (16, 26) min for chloroprocaine and lidocaine, respectively. Mean maximal level was T7-T8 for both agents. Duration of block above T10 was 54 (28, 88) and 63 (31, 87) min for chloroprocaine and lidocaine, respectively. Duration of block above lidocaine 3 was 93 (56, 218) and 98 (58, 151) min for chloroprocaine and lidocaine, respectively. There was no statistical difference between the two groups with respect to these clinical end points. Four patients in the lidocaine group developed transient neurological symptoms. One patient in the chloroprocaine group developed a cauda equina-like syndrome but recovered fully after several weeks.
CONCLUSIONS: Selective spinal anesthesia with chloroprocaine and lidocaine for TURP yielded comparable results for clinical characteristics. Further research on transient neurological symptom and cauda equina risk with chloroprocaine is warranted.
|H Vaghadia; G Neilson; P H Lennox
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Many months ago, I discussed a legal (though highly antisocial) exploit of our blogs - a web site that devotes itself to hijacking those surfers who mistype "xxxxxxx.blogspot.com" as "xxxxxxx.blogpsot.com". Today, we see that in addition to "blogpsot.com", we have similarly "blogpot.com".
It's the same deceitful trash, too. The same picture of the Holy Land, and the same phony biblical prophecy and assorted fraud.
Please advise your readers to type your blog's URL with care. Type "xxxxxxx.blogspot.com" - not "xxxxxxx.blogpot.com", "xxxxxxx.blogpost.com", or "xxxxxxx.blogpsot.com".
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Looking up historical PageRank scores
Ever wonder how your home page's Google PageRank score has changed over the past couple years in comparison to your competitors? There's a way to go back in time and check, assuming you've been listed in the Google Directory for a while. Just use the Wayback Machine and dig up archived versions of your category page in the Google Directory. For example, if your site is listed under Shopping: General Merchandise: Major Retailers, simply type into the Wayback Machine the URL "directory.google.com/ Top/Shopping/General_Merchandise/Major_Retailers/" (view the archives of this page here). This isn't just useful for checking the actual PageRank scores. Since the sites listed on the Google Directory are sorted by PageRank score, you can also review your movement relative to the other sites in your category for smaller incremental PageRank changes. For example, did your site climb to the 5th position in that category even though your integer score didn't change?
Don't rely on the Internet Archive to capture these Google Directory pages with any sort of regularity. Going into the future, you should ideally be monitoring and recording the PageRank scores of you and your competitors on a regular basis.
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Hi Chris,
Gotta love it when I search "historical pagerank" on Google and your site is #1 on organic. Nice work!
Comment by Bill — 1/22/2007 @ 8:51 am
Stephan's article – so the credit for this keyword search goes to him!
Comment by Chris Silver Smith — 1/22/2007 @ 12:22 pm
What about pages not in the google directory ?
Comment by Eyal — 4/8/2008 @ 10:47 am
any solutions to that ?
Comment by Loan — 4/8/2008 @ 10:47 am
Great point, thank you just looking for this information for a tweet request…
Comment by David — 7/3/2009 @ 12:53 am
I am trying to find out what a site's natural ranking for certain search terms was in the past. I must be using this tool wrong because all I can find is old versions of the site. Any advice?
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I'm back!I was away for a week, in Melbourne visiting my daughter.
Good to be home, my place wasn't burgled (again) while I was away, good!
I enjoyed excursions into the Melbourne CBD. As I am vegetarian, I scouted around for cheap vegetarian meals, and found these two:
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Om Vegetarian charges AU $6.50 for all-you-can eat, Crossways charges AU $7.50 (or $5.50 concession) for all-you-can-eat.
Fantastic prices.
I love Indian food, so these places suit me very much. However, Crossways use Ghee (clarified butter) for cooking, which conflicts with my trend toward becoming vegan.
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hope to make sure trips again... one cannot forget a nice trip! thieves are everywhere in the world but it's a pity that happens so often. i had all my studio stolen several times and i really need a better world...
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Lord Of The Fries
While I am on the subject of vegetarian eateries in Melbourne CBD, another favourite of mine is Lord Of The Fries. They are take-away only, and they do vegan options on everything.
They do chips and burgers, the same kind of food that you get at fast-food joints, except vegetarian.
They are an Aussie company, with three stores right in the Melbourne CBD.
Lord Of The Fries: http://www.lordofthefries.com.au/
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Burgled stuff
Just being curios as you never did give us an update.
Did you get any of the stolen items back?
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Re stolen items
No, last I heard, they were going to interview the fellow, but I presume that the goods have been on-sold.
I haven't got any insurance refund yet either, as they want proof of ownership of the items, plus quotes for replacement. The proof part is difficult, I can probably only provide evidence of ownership for a few of the items.
...I'm inclined to just not be bothered to do it.
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Vegeterian conflicts
I am by nature a dedicated carnivore. However, I can sympathize with and respect the views of those with differing philosophies - as long as they do not proselytize
Us Texans have a saying (we have many, but this is an appropriate one):
"If we ain't supposed to eat animals, how come they is made outa' meat?"
Happy eating what pleases you - and I am also very fond of Indian food.
Posted on 11 Jul 2011, 6:24 by Tony
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Hi Barry, if ever in a country that has a "Country Life Restaurant" they are brilliant. There used to be one in London but it closed due to rent increases. It was all vegan apart from honey in some of the creams. All you could eat for a fair price.
If ever you are in Wales UK I will treat you to a meal at Govindas in Swansea, their vegan cheese cake is yummy.
Glad you did not get robbed again.
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Hi Barry if you like great tasting coffee, well there is no better coffee than Tim Horton's its a Canadian coffee franchise, I come from a small city of 46,000 and we have 8 of them, actually Canada has over 400 of them, Forget Starbucks, etc Tim's has always been the best, but its expensive here in Australia, http://ocanada.com.au/shop/catalogsearch/result/?q=coffee&quickSearch=search but its worth the flavor. Back in Canada I used to pay, $1.73 for a extra large coffee at Tim's, it was 500ml.
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I used to like Mondays because I could watch everybody else dragging themselves to work where as I managed to negotiate a contract with only three days a week work. Now I have a client on Monday mornings as well so am part of the pack
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All the more business for English courses I guess. Whether they scrap it from the national curriculum or not it still doesn't change the importance of learning English.
It is sad to see they are giving up on it; but not too surprising considering the progress national primary schools have been making in teaching English over the years (which is very little progress at all).
There was talk of replacing English with some subject called 'Attitude' or the like. My colleagues and I feel 'attitude' should be integrated into every subject anyway.
It would definitely be a loss for the poorer class whose only chance of learning English is in school; but to make English acquisition effective in poorer areas serious professional development and salary assistance needs to be given to the teachers anyway (perhaps that's why they are talking about scraping it?).
An interesting topic though. Considering the situation above do you guys think they are right to give up on English?
Personally I think if things are going to keep going as they are, with teachers teaching a language they can't speak themselves and students learning about a language instead of actually acquiring it. Perhaps it's all for the best?
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I know a very safe hotel. Where you can get your own room for 180,000 a night. Air Conditioning and a short walk from transportation to Lebak Bulus which can get you into the city. The name is 'Syahida Inn' and it's on the UIN campus. Has a nice gym as well which is free for guests to use. Probably a bit far out for you though.
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Davisites, we should support Dan Wolk for Assembly.
My fear is that this election is turning out to be more of a popularity contest than one based on important social issues. This is much greater than a race between Joe Krovoza and Dan Wolk. This is much bigger than relations with UC Davis and environmental issues related to Davis. This is about a progressive social agenda — one that addresses income inequality, development and financing of affordable homes, and a fully funded social safety net.
Wolk believes the growing gap between the rich and everyone else is unfair and bad for California. He has a proven track record in voting for programs/activities that ensure that all working families and our working poor have a safe, decent, affordable place to call home (those in Davis earning around $77,000 per year and below).
He started the Legal Clinic of Yolo County, helping those in need by providing free/reduced legal services to the working poor who struggle daily to meet basic living needs due to cuts in our social safety net programs.
We need Wolk, who understands the struggles of young professional families — he will be 37 when elected to the Assembly (after serving in local elected office and working in local government), following the path of other great young Dems like Vic Fazio, Mike Thompson and even Gov. Jerry Brown.
Make your vote count and vote for Dan, a social progressive Democrat with a vision for strengthening our schools, improving health care and making homes affordable for all income levels. Dan is experienced and ready to lead in our region and our state.
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MOSCOW, Idaho – Before walking across the stage to receive their master's degrees, two graduate students will showcase their artwork at the Prichard Art Gallery during the annual Graduate Art Exhibit.
The exhibit will run Friday, April 13, through Saturday, May 5, with an opening reception held on Friday, April 13, from 5-8 p.m. at the Prichard Art Gallery.
"This year the MFA exhibit will feature two students who use the gallery as a space to create elaborate installations," said Roger Rowley, director of the Prichard Art Gallery. "They will have more space than usual to explore their ideas. It should make for quite the visitor experience."
The two graduates to exhibit their work are Allie Feezell and Youdhisthir Maharjan. The students have created, researched and written about their work for three years, culminating in the thesis showing of their artwork.
Feezell describes herself as an artist creating metaphysics. She attempts to transcend ready-made concepts while dispensing the representation through symbols and present the vital forces of life itself. She uses natural fiber fabrics and other organic objects to modify the space the viewer can walk through along with video projection to immerse the audience in her ideas.
"The underlying essence of Taoism and Zen Buddhism is to lose the sense of an individual self, to understand absence and to have no worldly attachments while still understanding the interconnectivity of all," said Feezell. "Absence and non-attachment are nearly inconceivable in our contemporary world thus it seems that only through form may we come to understand emptiness. Let us embrace the silent gap and be satisfied with an emptiness that can never be filled by objects meant to target our manufactured desires."
Of his work Maharjan said "my interest is an expression, allowing phenomenological awareness. Not in the business of explaining and describing. Only experience interests me, explanation is useless." His elaborately patterned wall pieces envelope the viewer in a cross cultural experience informed by Maharjan's Nepalese heritage.
This exhibit is free and open to the public. The Prichard Art Gallery hours are: Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; it is closed on Monday. The gallery, an outreach facility of the University of Idaho, is located at 414/416 S. Main St. on the corner of Fifth and Main streets in downtown Moscow. Additional information is available at www.uidaho.edu/prichardartgallery.
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November 23, 2012
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Ryan Shazier would have been the defensive player of the game against Wisconsin if not for John Simon with his 12 tackles and 3 TFLs. He is going to have to have to play at that same level against a team that has speed to burn. Zach Boren and Etienne Sabino will both be playing their last games as Buckeyes, both taking strange journeys to this point, Boren playing 90-percent of his career on offense and Sabino taking a rare late career redshirt season. The Ohio State run defense has a whole was pushed last week against Wisconsin and gave up a lot of yards but only 1 TD via the run and came up with a highlight reel play when Shazier knocked the ball out of Montee Ball's hands to deny the Badger RB the rushing record on his own. Ultimately this will be the battle that determines the outcome of the game.
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There are a lot of people traveling out there. It's really not just me wandering the globe with my family. I thought it was time to introduce you to a few of my traveling friends. You can learn about their journey on their blog, but I wanted to dig in a little deeper to find out what makes them tick. Well ok, it's not going to be that philosophical; I really just wanted to find out what their favorite snack is. Come along on the ride as we "Get to know" a few travelers just a little bit better.
So, Dave from A Couple Travelers, what do you blog about? Vicky and I (Dave) have been traveling together since we were 17. As seniors in high school we spent 12 days in Italy after graduation. Since then we've gone to Spain, Israel, and Greece, as well as many other countries separately. Our upcoming two-year trip will be our longest consecutive travel time together. We have a very detailed route through Asia and Europe that maps out the next two years. We blog about our experiences in these countries and specifically about tips for budget travel.
Favorite late night snack? Ice Cream…sundae if I can muster up the strength
Best food discovery? Rice balls in Japanese convenient stores. They're cheap, delicious, and filling. Also very easy to pack/transport. I've had about a dozen so far after a week in Japan.
One thing you can't leave the house without? We take our Kindle everywhere as a great way to get information in a compact way. It fits right in your pocket!
Plane, train, car or boat? I really like when I can double up on transportation AND accommodation. So any sort of overnight train or boat I think is the best.
Carry on or checked bag? Check it and forget it.
What kind of luggage do you prefer? Right now we travel around with backpacks (mine is 65L) and when I don't have to carry it around for an extended period of time. I like being a minimalist and having as few belongings as possible.
Do you ever get tired of packing? Of course! We have to pack up our stuff almost every night because we CouchSurf so much. It gets tedious but we don't have much stuff and you get the hang of it.
Favorite place you have traveled to? I think Greece is my top pick right now. It was the perfect combination of relaxation (beaches in Santorini) and sightseeing (monuments in Athens).
Dreaming of going to next? Heading to South Korea next and am very excited for a StarCraft tournament in Seoul.
One thing you search out on your travels? Always searching for a place to get free wi-fi.
Best travel advice? Do it while you're young. When we told everyone about our trip, so many of our co-workers said the same thing – "Man, I always wanted to do something like that but just never got around to it". We decided that we did NOT want to be those people. Make it happen. It doesn't have to be two years. Even people I know who have backpacked for just two months have come back with great experiences and new perspectives.
Worst travel advice? Don't travel to so many places
Favorite jet lag trick? When arriving in a new place make sure to wait it out until nighttime (at least 9-10pm) before falling asleep. If you take a nap it throws you off for days.
Biggest travel pet peeve? People hassling you when you're looking for a place to eat (market vendors, street vendors). I just want to walk around and look without someone harassing me.
Most embarrassing incident while traveling? I once asked my CouchSurfing host if a picture he had on his wall was his son…it was his wife.
Most beautiful sunset/sunrise? The Oia sunrise on Santorini Island in Greece.
Most amazing accidental discovery? Most amazing is hard, I usually think about food. So, for example, a small, hole-in-the-wall, noodle shop in Osaka that had the most delicious soup.
And finally…sweet or savory? Definitely SWEET!
Having spent 2 years in the working world, Dave and Vicky are ready to exchange their briefcases for backpacks, dress shoes for sandals, and beds for sleeping bags. Starting in September they will be embarking on a 2 year journey across Asia and Europe. You can follow along at A Couple Travelers where you'll find travel reflections, blogging resources and restaurant reviews. Subscribe to them on Twitter and Facebook,
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The last group of prisoners granted a special remission of sentence by President Jacob Zuma will be freed on Friday, prison authorities said.
"This is the very last group that will be released," correctional services ministry spokesman Mahlodi Sam Muofhe said on Thursday.
Last month, 43 of the offenders freed so far were back in jail.
Zuma announced the special remission of sentence for some categories of sentenced prisoners, probationers, and parolees on April 27, Freedom Day.
At the time, Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa said it could apply to more than 35 000 offenders, subject to an assessment.
He estimated that around 20 855 probationers and parolees, and 14 651 sentenced inmates would be released "conditionally or unconditionally".
Offenders who qualified were released from May 14 in "controllable groups".
Those sentenced for aggressive, sexual, firearm, and drug-related offences did not qualify for the special remission.Sapa
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Now that Fisker Automotive's assets have been approved for sale, the question now turns to how the proceeds of that sale will be split up among the many parties to whom Fisker owes money, including the state of Delaware.
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- Operation Super Coupe
Audi 5.2 Lier R8 and Lexus LFA from Westover Joint Air Reserve base in Mass.
- American Extreme
The Dodge Viper and Ford GT.
- Factory Tuners
The BMX M3 and Lexus ISF, street legal 415 horsepower factory cars.
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A tuned Audi R8 and the Porsche 997 Turbo in a round of challenges in southern Arizona.
- Worlds Fastest Supercars
The Bugatti Veyron fends off Tanner Foust's Ultimate Aero at the Boeing Aircraft facility.
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The KTM Crossbow against the Aerial Atom, a pair of open wheel street legal sports cars.
- Ferrari Experience
In Quebec, Tanner and Paul have access to a program designed to teach Ferrari aficionados the art of performance driving while behind the wheel of the new 548 and 599.
- The British are Coming
Paul's Bentley Supersport challenges Tanner's Aston Martin DBS in a showdown of front engine, 12 cylinder GTs.
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Tanner puts his Cadillac CTSV up against Paul's Mercedes E63AMG in battle of the super sedans at the Laurens Proving Grounds in S.C.
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Audi V-10 powered R8 vs. Supercharged Ford GT-500.
- The Ultimate American Supercar
Paul Tracy pits a Dodge Viper SRT 10 against Tanner Foust in a Corvette ZR1.
- Apple Pie versus Strudel
700hp GT Malan vs. 700hp Gumpert Apollo.
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Turbocharged 1000 horsepower 2010 Chevrolet Camaro challenges a Supercharged 2010 Shelby Mustang GT-500 in Texas.
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On the high desert roads of Mojave Air and Spaceport in Southern Calif., Tanner Foust drives the Porsche 997 Twin Turbo as Paul Tracy challenges behind the wheel of the GTR, designed by Nissan.
- Reconnaissance Mission: Ferrari and Porsche
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I need ur penis! This is not drunk texting, either! This is I need ur penis texting. There IS a difference!
Actually, I'm graduating from college on Saturday so that makes me a well educated bitch.
I'm gonna stay in bed all day and watch porn in an attempt to stay warm.
college "breaks" should be renamed "reminder why you left your hell hole of a life in the first place"
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you broke a plate. told her her wedding china was ugly and you were doing her a favor. then proceeded to break every plate you could get your hands on.
just watched the video of me leading you with a trail of french fries.
we got plastered, then made lists of anything thats ever been in our vaginas
I know. Brad is upset because he was lower on the list than "that carrot stick"
Recent Google searches: "babu kangarooz"... "why 2 tacos bell" and "is dinosaur in real life"
She said, and I quote "how do you run with something that big between your legs".
I cleared a drunken path to my bed for you. If you hit clothes you've gone too far.
wanna play who's drunker? I just made macaroni & cheese taco and offered it to the pizza Guy as a tip.
Does your throat ever get sore from being choked too hard or do u think I'm just getting sick??
Ohmy god im about to fuxk my TA. i thyought this was a dream but i love you. <3
Can you do me a favor and fuck someone with a car so I can get a ride home?
Please get rnbert tn get chebk h'm in i'm no dead when he getr gome
Sometimes I wonder how different my life would be if I didn't share a weekly margarita with my mom since i was 12
my 3 favorite things in life are tequila, dicks, and making sandwiches. that DOES NOT make me a bad person.
she got to the point every few minutes she checked to see if her boobs were still there.
she keeps giving me cups of everbeer.. its everclear and beer mixed. i guess its blackout or backout time
It was the most graceful puke ever. I just thought she dropped something underneath the bar until she told me what happened.
I mean, I know they're ugly, but I cant turn down a birthday threesome.
He just kept pointing to each of us saying "arrested, arrested, arrested"
i took some ambien and I TRIPPED out...i went into my mom's room to say goodnight and i don't remember anything...she said that i got really pissed at her because we were living in the Keebler elf tree and she was visiting other trees, then i started laughing hysterically and she goes "whats so funny?" and i go "there are 7 people sitting on my knees" and she goes "doesn't that hurt?" and i said "no we're sitting in a bowl" and then i capped it off and said "join the crazy train bro" and passed out.
I remember going home with 2 girls. Woke up with 4.
and then she said I drew a line on her forehead with my cum and whispered "Simba"
I just found out my mom named me after her fake ID from college...
Let me make this really simple. We woke up this morning and fucked three times. When I got up and took a shower she cleaned up the mess from last night and did the dishes. Then we went out and she bought me brunch. I don't give a FUCK how much you don't like her.
He came in like 30 seconds. That's how I know he hasn't been cheating on me while I've been gone
I'm gonna wear that dress that makes me look like a slut. You know, the one your sister got arrested in.
I looked at you and you stared at me dead in the eyes then sprayed febreze at your crotch and winked.
you blew your rape whistle in his face every time he got near a girl till he left the party...
My professor complimented me on the well drawn penis on my face then asked if I would like a seat closer to the garbage can.
We name dropped you at the liquor store and got a ten percent discount!
I'm having a self conscious moment and I need your complete honest opinion of my boobs.
I'm pretty sure that I'm earning a horrible reputation with your friends, but I'm having a fucking great time in the process.
Just know that as we speak i am injecting vodka into gushers
Okay, good. And if you have one of those portable strip poles that would be nice too.
she just came into my room, drunkenly shoved six dollars into my bra and told me to spend it on chicken wings.
im just sayin im driving an hr to pick her up, just cause shes your gf doesnt mean i shouldnt be entitled to a bj
I'm not going to need your "it doesn't mean you're a slut" pep talk after all.
Just hide your weed in your baby brothers shirt. TSA wont check a baby, thats fucked up
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Gentle gamers of all ages adopt bear cubs as virtual playmates, in the first follow-up to Microsoft's premiere family franchise for the Kinect motion-sensing accessory. Onscreen animals can mimic the movements of their owners, and learn to follow several gesture and vocal commands. When the animal is close enough for tactile interaction, a pair of translucent hands appears, allowing players to scratch ears or rub a belly by making the motions in view of the Kinect sensors. Players can choose one of five different bears as their own. The game plays out on a virtual island, which players may safely explore with their pets, unlocking new rewards and discovering collectables and upgrades. A friendly animal guide called Bumblina is on hand to show new players around the island. In addition the five species of bear cub -- black, grizzly, cinnamon, glacier, and polar -- the game also includes the five feline species featured in the first Kinectimals. As with the original game, stuffed animal "plushies," sold separately, are also available to be purchased and imported into the game.
- Platform: Xbox 360
- Release Date: October 11, 2011
- Product ID: 3008128
- Genre: Simulation