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The first wine Marimar Torres ever made was a 1989 chardonnay from estate-grown Russian River Valley vines.
It was her first harvest after having bought in 1981 cleared land 10 miles from the Pacific Ocean on Graton Road. It's an area now known as Green Valley, a sub-appellation of the Russian River Valley.
On the advice of her brother — who had told her the land was too expensive, had too low a soil pH and without any other vineyards around was too isolated — she started a system of high-density planting, putting in 2,000 vines per acre, four times the traditional spacing in California.
"Our planting style is unique in chardonnay," explains Marimar Estate cellar master and vineyard manager Tony Britton. "The denser planting has become popular in premium pinot noir vineyards, but there aren't a lot of chardonnay vineyards planted with this spacing. We're thinking that with the root competition we're getting more concentration of flavors than you otherwise might see."
In Spain, Torres' family had been growing grapes and making wine since the 17th century, establishing the House of Torres in 1870. Her father, Don Miguel Torres, and mother, Dona Margarita, had guided the family winery through 60 years of growth and progress.
They didn't quite understand why Marimar, their only daughter, was fixated on Sonoma County instead of on joining her two brothers to run the wine business back home.
But Marimar brought her chardonnay to Spain and had her father try it. He declared it the best white wine he had ever had, turning to his wife Margarita and announcing that "we must have a winery in California."
"Our chardonnay gets some of the best soil and best microclimates on the property," Britton said. "We get tremendous acid structure, there's a crispness that we find that maybe you don't find in some of the warmer areas of the Russian River and Napa Valley."
And so Marimar Estate Vineyards and Winery began. She added an estate pinot noir in 1992 and built their onsite winery and tasting room.
In 1999, she released "Dobles Lias," a chardonnay that gets extended lees contact, a traditional Burgundian technique that adds richness and complexity. Torres admits it's a wine people either love or hate.


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Is Hagel out of the Mainstream?
"Chuck Hagel is out of the mainstream of thinking … on most issues regarding foreign policy," says GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham. Neocon William Kristol concurs: Hagel is "out on the fringes."
But where, exactly, is the mainstream on foreign policy in 2013?
Since the Bush II years, "the three amigos" — Sens. Graham, John McCain and Joe Lieberman — have clamored for new wars.
"We are all Georgians now!" thundered McCain when Vladimir Putin was thrashing the Georgians for attacking South Ossetia.
"Bomb, bomb, bomb — bomb, bomb Iran," trilled McCain in 2008 in parody of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann."
Ten days ago, McCain, Graham and Lieberman urged the U.S. to impose a no-fly zone over Syria, provide weapons to the rebels and send Patriot missile batteries to protect northern Syria. And what has been the response to their calls for air strikes and new wars? The sound of silence.
George W. Bush ignored McCain on Georgia, and in 2008 McCain was crushed by a dovish Democrat who had opposed the Iraq War.
Like Hagel, who voted for the Iraq War, a majority of Americans have come to believe that 8-year war was a mistake. Even some neocons have expressed second thoughts.
Obama pulled all U.S. troops out of Iraq and is pulling them out of Afghanistan, and he won easy re-election over the more hawkish Mitt Romney. And has anyone heard any echo of the amigos' call to plunge into Syria's civil war, outside the editorial pages of The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal, and the little magazines of the neocons?
Let's do our nation-building here at home, Obama said in the debates.
Any doubt this idea had been poll-tested as a winner?
How many Americans today are saying that what we did in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan was worth doing and should serve as America's model for dealing with Syria and Iran?
From 2001 to 2005, McCain, Graham and Lieberman were in the mainstream. Those were the days of bipartisan votes for war, of "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists," of our goal being "to end tyranny in our world." Those were the days of the democracy crusade of George W. Bush.
But that was yesterday. The crusade is over. Americans want the crusaders home.
This is not an argument for mindlessly seeking out and parroting mainstream thought. If the amigos believe that intervening in Syria and war with Iran are essential to the national security, they should continue to say so.
Nothing wrong with being out of step with majority opinion, if that is where one believes that truth and wisdom lie.
But the amigos and neocons deceive themselves if they think that in their hostility to Hagel's views they occupy the mainstream.
Set aside the nonsense about homophobia and anti-Semitism. What, at bottom, are Hagel's views? Where does he part company with much of the Senate GOP? What are the substantive disagreements?
First, Hagel believes in direct communication with our enemies, be it Hezbollah, Hamas, Iran or Cuba. Second, he believes war is a last resort to be undertaken only after all diplomacy has failed, and war should not be undertaken unless vital interests are imperiled.
Third, he believes a Pentagon budget as large as all the defense budgets of the other 190 nations combined is bloated and too big to carry when, as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Adm. Mike Mullen said, the deficit and debt are the greatest strategic threats to the United States.
On communicating with enemies, was Richard Nixon, who rescued Israel in the Yom Kippur War, wrong to go to Egypt and Syria, and meet with Anwar Sadat and Hafez Assad, who had launched the war?
Was Yitzhak Rabin wrong to negotiate with Yasser Arafat, his enemy, to achieve the Oslo Accords? Was Bibi Netanyahu wrong to give Hebron to Arafat or deal with Hamas for the return of Pvt. Gilad Shalit, in exchange for 1,000 Palestinian prisoners?
Was it not absurd that, to get a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, both parties had to go to Hosni Mubarak, because the world's superpower does not allow itself to talk to Hamas?
If we are going to cut a deal with Iran where it retains the right to peaceful nuclear power, but we get solid guarantees of no bomb, how do we do that without sending representatives to negotiate the deal with Iran?
Is a nation that kept an embassy in the Third Reich eight years, whose presidents sat down with Stalin and Mao, now fearful of being contaminated by having to sit across a table from Raoul Castro?
Hagel speaks for the realist school of foreign policy, and he can speak for the nation. For he reflects the views of a president who just won another decisive vote of confidence from that nation.
Sorry, Sen. Graham, you are no longer in the mainstream.
That river changed course, half a decade ago.
Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" To find out more about Patrick Buchanan and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
Read more by Patrick J. Buchanan
- Stumbling to War With Russia? – November 26th, 2015
- Is Putin Our Ally in Syria? – November 16th, 2015
- The Republican War – Over War Policy – November 12th, 2015
- War in Syria? Where Is Speaker Ryan? – November 2nd, 2015
- America in Search of a Cause? – October 22nd, 2015
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Nice piece by Pat. But the $64,000 query is where is Hagel on China.
We know where Obama is. He is pirouetting to East Asia to assault the sovereignty and growing economy of China. That will bring more damage to the world than even the carnage wrought by the US Empire and the Apartheid Jewish state in the Middle East.
Is Hagel out of the mainstream in thinking? In Tel Aviv or in the Knesset, maybe. But certainly not in the US.
I disagree completely with Buchanan's assertion that there is nothing wrong with the three amigos or any other leaders being out of step with majority opinion. This is no longer the 18th century. Americans are literate and capable of being informed about news in real time. All the reasons why the people may have needed someone to represent their interests in the 18th century are invalid today. And yet our leaders in Washington are not only out of step but proud of it. Hence they are an ongoing threat to the nation's peace and economic stability, to say nothing of global peace and justice. Buchanan should cut them zero slack.
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The names sound different, their positions on certain issues may be different, but in the end, they align themselves to the "Agenda". The only difference will be not hearing all that verbiage on constant war ( with Hagel in) . America needs to rebuild itself; not the rest of the world. However, that is not happening. The new masters of the universe are those that control the money. These international elitist are a danger to the U.S. and we must go back to winning friends through economics rather than taking them by force. War should be the last resort in any conflict.
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The Elizabeth Forward boys basketball team qualified for the WPIAL Class AAA playoffs for the second consecutive year with a 74-69 win over host Belle Vernon on Friday.
The win put Elizabeth Forward (12-9, 6-6) in a three-way tie for third place in Section 4-AAA with Steel Valley and East Allegheny. All three teams split their meetings this year and qualified for the playoffs.
JaQuan Davidson scored 24, Matt Bernadowski 15 and Austin Matta 14 for EF. Belle Vernon got 19 from Jesse Kallam.
Norwin 66, Penn-Trafford 61 — Norwin knocked rival Penn-Trafford out of playoff contention in Section 1-AAAA. Curtis Perz scored 23, Matt Stewart 18 and Nick Idele 17 for the Knights (12-9, 8-4). Penn-Trafford (13-8, 6-6) got 15 points from Dorian Stevens.
Gateway 63, McKeesport 61 — McKeesport's fourth-quarter rally came up short, and the Tigers fell into fourth place in Section 2-AAAA with the road loss. Gateway (14-5, 11-3) outscored McKeesport, 20-16, in the decisive final quarter.
Delvon Randle led all scorers with 24 for Gateway while Jamie Grayson (16), Damonje Walker (11), Jordan Payne (10) and Matt Sutton (10) all hit double figures for McKeesport (13-7, 9-5)
South Allegheny 41, Serra Catholic 40 — South Allegheny outscored visiting Serra, 17-8, in the final quarter to come away with a Section 3-AA upset. Kordell Thompson scored 19 and Jeiron Lewis 11 for South Allegheny (8-14, 4-8). Serra (13-7, 6-6) got 12 from Max Kaminsky and 10 from Tyler Grebur.
The Eagles have lost five of their last six games after starting the season 12-2.
Penn Hills 99, Woodland Hills 81 — Penn Hills (5-16, 2-12) had five players in double figures, led by Deandre Schifino-Winbush's 24 and Willie James' 21, to give the Indians a Section 2-AAAA win. Charles Tarrant scored 26 and Ryan Thomas 25 for Woodland Hills (4-17, 0-14).
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Gateway 57, McKeesport 23 — Gateway (17-4, 10-2) got 14 points from Chelsea Richardson in a Section 2-AAAA win over McKeesport (6-15, 0-12).
Penn Hills 50, Woodland Hills 33 — Penn Hills (9-13, 5-7) clinched a playoff berth out of Section 2-AAAA with the home win. Gloria Schifino led Penn Hills with 19, while Delrika Jones-Kerry paced Woodland Hills (7-15, 3-9) with 21.
Penn-Trafford 51, Norwin 45 — Penn-Trafford (18-3, 12-2) got 18 points from Maria Palarino and 15 from Taylor Cortazzo as the Warriors (18-3, 12-2) won the Section 1-AAAA game. Madi Guffey scored 11 and Alayna Gribble 10 for Norwin (12-10, 10-4).
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Bill Austin, a Vince Lombardi disciple who failed to produce a winning record in three seasons as the Steelers' coach from 1966-68, has died at age 84 in his home in Las Vegas.
Austin was a longtime NFL coach and player who also served as the Redskins' head coach for one season.
With young Dan Rooney beginning to assert more control in the Steelers' front office, the team broke from tradition and hired Austin — an assistant coach best known for his six years and two NFL titles on Lombardi's Packers staff — as their head coach in 1966.
Austin succeeded Mike Nixon, who had gone 2-12 in his only season as the Steelers' coach in 1965.
Despite trying to transform an organization that had long relied on veteran players and eschewed the draft for building a roster, Austin went only 11-28-3 as the Steelers' coach.
"Bill Austin was a great contributor to the growth of the National Football League as both a Pro Bowl lineman and coach," Rooney, the Steelers' chairman, said Thursday in a statement. "He was highly recommended for the Pittsburgh Steelers' head coaching job by Vince Lombardi, who Austin served as the line coach for in Green Bay and Washington. Austin was an excellent person when he coached for Pittsburgh and our condolences go out to his family. He will be missed."
Despite Austin's lack of success, the Steelers went out and hired another assistant coach off a successful team to replace him: Chuck Noll, who went on to deliver the first four NFL championships in Steelers history.
Austin went on to succeed Lombardi as the Redskins' coach in 1970 after Lombardi died of cancer just before the start of the season, but finished 6-8 and was replaced by George Allen the following season.
Austin was a member of the Giants' 1956 NFL championship team and was a Pro Bowl guard in 1954 during a playing career that lasted seven seasons. He coached for eight NFL teams — mostly as an offensive line coach — and another in the USFL, concluding his career with the Jets in 1985.
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No one was hurt when a gas and service station in Westland caught fire on Monday.
Wayne-Westland Assistant Fire Chief John Adams said the fire started when a mechanic at the Citgo station at Middle Belt and Ann Arbor Trail roads dropped a gas tank.
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The following events took place in 0 BBY, in the part of the year that preceded the Battle of Yavin in the Galactic Standard Calendar. 0 BBY and 0 ABY collectively comprised a single year.
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- 35:1:9—Taliff takes direct control of the government of Dentaal.[8]
- Freighter pilot Kinnin Vo-Shay came out of a black hole in the Tyus Cluster, after falling into the other side fifty years earlier.
- The Alpha-class Xg-1 Star Wing formally entered Imperial service.[9]
- Completion of the first Death Star, along with the subsequent destruction of Despayre
- Princess Leia Organa was kidnapped by Imperials and brought aboard the Death Star, but the plans were kept by the escaped R2-D2 and C-3PO (35:3:3).[10]
- Dissolution of the Imperial Senate (35:3:5)[11]
- Luke Skywalker joined the Rebel Alliance by leaving Tatooine aboard the Millennium Falcon with Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, R2-D2 and C-3PO. (35:3:7)
- Destruction of Alderaan (35:3:7)
- Princess Organa was rescued from the Death Star. (35:3:7)
- The Death Star was destroyed by Skywalker over Yavin Prime and Yavin 4.
- The Wookiees celebrate Yavin and Chewbacca's triumph.
- Battle of Ylesia[12][13]
- Attack on the first Death Star[14]
- Destruction of Despayre
- Skirmish in the Horuz system
- Mission to Danuta
- Battle of Toprawa[12]
- Duel on Kalakar Six
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- Battle of Ruul
- Destruction of Alderaan[15]
- Sabotage at Rhen Var
- Rescue on Death Star I[15]
- Mission to Commenor[16]
- Raid on Yavin 4
- Battle of Aargonar
- Second Battle of Ord Biniir
- Battle of Yavin[15]
- Armand Isard on Coruscant
- Horst on Danuta
- In the Battle of Ylesia
- Zarien Kheev on Danuta
- Nond Kendo[17]
- Jaim Helaw aboard the Undauntable[17]
- Breth Gart
- In the Battle of Toprawa
- Darth Maul's resurrected self on Kalakar Six[19]
- In the First Battle of Tatooine
- On Tatooine
- At the Destruction of Alderaan
- Detien Kaileel aboard the Kuari Princess[35]
- In the Rescue on Death Star I
- In the Battle of Yavin
- Aboard the first Death Star
- In space
- Dr'uun Unnh on Yavin 4[32]
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- "Skippy the Jedi Droid"—Star Wars Tales 1
- Trooper
- "Smuggler's Blues"—Star Wars Tales 14
- "Best Birthday Ever"—Star Wars Tales 16
- "The Rebel Club"—Star Wars Tales 19
- "The Long, Bad Day"—Star Wars Tales 16
- "Star Wars Publications Timeline"—Star Wars Insider 23
- Secrets of the Sisar Run (Indirect mention only)
- The Essential Chronology
- The Essential Guide to Alien Species
- The New Essential Guide to Characters
- The New Essential Chronology
- The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
- Corla Metonae in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org) (Indirect mention only)
- The Essential Atlas
- Star Wars: Beware the Sith
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Interviewed February 29, 2000
JACK SHEPARD: Imagine that you and I ran into each other in an airport terminal. You were going to San Diego and I was going to New York City and we had about two minutes in order to strike up a conversation. What would you tell me about this Capitol and the project?
BILL DIKIS: Well, I'm often asked a question like that. And for the last 19 years I've been able to answer the question with the first project that I mention, which is always the Iowa State Capitol restoration. It's been a wonderful project. It's a great privilege to work on this building which has tremendous landmark heritage importance in the state. It's such a wonderful opportunity to be able to preserve the heritage of this capitol for future generations of Iowa.
JACK SHEPARD: Tell me what you think about the quality of the original construction.
BILL DIKIS: Well, the original construction certainly came out of a different era. It's load-bearing masonry, and therefore it's quite a bit different than today's technology. But, I think the craftsmanship that we see as we look through the details -- and we get to see a lot of the details -- is really quite wonderful. And it often gives me pause to stop and be impressed by the knowledge as well as the skill of those who worked on the building in those days.
JACK SHEPARD: They were doing their absolutely best, you think?
BILL DIKIS: Oh, they were motivated and driven, I think, to do well. It must have been a wonderful team of people who made this happen.
JACK SHEPARD: Can you comment on what's going on now?
BILL DIKIS: It's been a delight to see the craftsmen who are working on the project today and how motivated they are to do as well as those who had built the building in the first place. All of the people, I think to a person, who are privileged to work on this project, are very excited about being a part of it and do their very best.
JACK SHEPARD: You think that everybody has been able to step up their work just a notch because of the importance of their job?
BILL DIKIS: I think they definitely have stepped up their level of interest in what they do because the project is so important to them. They hold it high in their own esteem.
JACK SHEPARD: So this building is obviously one of a kind.
BILL DIKIS: There are not many one-of-a-kind projects built these days. And in those days, just think how amazing it must have been to see this building rising from the plains of Iowa. It is absolutely the finest landmark we have in Iowa!
JACK SHEPARD: Can you give me an idea of the extra steps that have been taken to ensure that this building is put back the way it was or as close to where it was as possible?
BILL DIKIS: The preservation effort entails a very careful recording of what existed in the first place. Sometimes the information that we need to develop is not actually there, or is very difficult to get. On rare occasions we need to use circumstantial evidence in order to be able to get to the restoration effort itself. The research efforts document a great deal of the building either by its very presence or by the photographic research and written research that we're able to find. We make a great effort to preserve the materials that are in place. And we only reluctantly remove those materials and add new materials where it's absolutely necessary because the originals have lost their life value. And so when we put those things back they're done with a great deal of careful effort in dimensioning, photographic evidence, and so on to replicate what was there so that we preserve the character and the texture of the original building.
JACK SHEPARD: This is a little bit of a history lesson, isn't it?
BILL DIKIS: It is. In fact it's sent me to the library many times to enhance the understanding of the building and its original builders. It's interesting how much we can learn about today's buildings from our historic buildings. There was a great deal of knowledge that still is amazing today in terms of how the weather interacts with buildings and degrades them and what we can do to prevent that. But, it's also a very interesting opportunity to integrate modern day technology and embed it within the building -- things like fire prevention technology, life safety, things that we can take advantage of today and integrate very quietly into the character of the original building.
JACK SHEPARD: Very quietly. I've spoken with more than one person who has said that the highest compliment they can receive is when someone walks into a room and says, "I thought you said you worked in here." We talked last week about one thing that you're doing to make sure that the stone in certain areas can withstand all the water that's going to come down on it. Tell me about the extra steps that might not have been known about in the past.
BILL DIKIS: An advancement in technology that's available to us today to help prevent the stone degradation that has happened in the past. First of all we have changed the stone material from sandstone to limestone which has proven to be much more resistant to the weathering process. One of the other things that we have changed is on sloped ledges that are exposed to the rainy atmosphere. We've covered those with a lead-coated copper so that it will shed the worst of the rain.
JACK SHEPARD: So we're hoping that this is going to last another hundred years?
Bill DIKIS: We think it'll last much more durably during this next hundred years than the last hundred years, only because we know more about what's available than the original builders did.
JACK SHEPARD: When your grandchildren come along and you're walking up there at the Capitol and pointing to something that you were instrumental in putting back the way it was originally, how's that going to make you feel?
BILL DIKIS: I'm going to feel wonderful to be able to point that out to my grandchildren. I've taken children into the Capitol, and it's been just delightful to have them understand what I do for a living.
JACK SHEPARD: That's great, and it's THE monument that every Iowan associates with the state.
BILL DIKIS: It is; it's a symbol and an icon for the state. I hope it can become a national landmark sometime.
JACK SHEPARD: It's definitely a museum and a working building at the same time.
BILL DIKIS: It is.
JACK SHEPARD: That's a little bit of a trick, isn't it?
BILL DIKIS: It's very tough to keep today's functional requirements habitable in such a historic building as this, but it works very well.
JACK SHEPARD: Part of this restoration project has been updating some of the Capitol's function to a more state of the art situation.
BILL DIKIS: Yes, especially for the Legislature who makes extraordinary demands on the building. The needs for computer technology and the speaker system, as well as the more quiet things like fire protection for the inhabitants and those sorts of things, are just a very interesting mix of the old and the new.


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The embassy compound and school were surrounded by Tunisian police and army vehicles and personnel on Saturday, a day after several thousand demonstrators angry over a film that insults the Prophet Muhammad stormed the compound in Tunis. They tore down the American flag and raised an Islamic one, while looting and burning buildings.
Four demonstrators died, including two following operations in the hospital, and 49 people were injured, according to Brahim Labassi, spokesman for the Ministry of Health.
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I'm writing this a little bleary-eyed, a little caffeinated and a lot motivated. My wife, Anna, and I serve on the Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee for American Farm Bureau with 26 other great young leaders in our industry, and with that comes a lot of responsibility at the annual meeting. Primarily, we're responsible for putting on the Discussion Meet, Excellence in Agriculture, and Achievement Award competitions (all of which will be discussed in greater detail in later posts), which means that we're putting in 12- to 18-hour days of work to make sure these events go off without a hitch. If you see some smiling young members running all over the Opryland Hotel while you're here, there's a good chance it's one of us.
But since the 28 of us only get to get together four times a year, we make the most of our socializing time after the work is done, leading directly to the bleary eyes and caffeine needs. (Without going into too great detail, I'll just say we've uncovered some unexpected musical talents among the group in the last two nights.) The bonds that are formed when we're playing and working together make the 18-hour days fly by, and we'll all be looking forward to the next time we get together and do it again.
If you're at the meeting and you have any questions, feel free to grab one of us and we'll do our best to help you. Odds are good that we'll know where to find the coffee.
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|Systematic Review of the Benefits of Physical Therapy Within a Multidisciplinary Care Approach for People With Schizophrenia.
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|BackgroundAlthough schizophrenia is the fifth leading cause of disability-adjusted life years worldwide in people aged 15 to 44 years, the clinical evidence of physical therapy as a complementary treatment remains largely unknown. PURPOSE: /b>The purpose of this study was to systematically review randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the effectiveness of physical therapy for people with schizophrenia.Data SourcesEMBASE, PsycINFO, PubMed, ISI Web of Science, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro), and the Cochrane Library were searched from their inception until July 1, 2011, for relevant RCTs. In addition, manual search strategies were used.Study SelectionTwo reviewers independently determined study eligibility on the basis of inclusion criteria.Data ExtractionReviewers rated study quality and extracted information about study methods, design, intervention, and results.Data SynthesisTen RCTs met all selection criteria; 6 of these studies addressed the use of aerobic and strength exercises. In 2 of these studies, yoga techniques also were investigated. Four studies addressed the use of progressive muscle relaxation. There is evidence that aerobic and strength exercises and yoga reduce psychiatric symptoms, state anxiety, and psychological distress and improve health-related quality of life, that aerobic exercise improves short-term memory, and that progressive muscle relaxation reduces state anxiety and psychological distress.LimitationsThe heterogeneity of the interventions and the small sample sizes of the included studies limit overall conclusions and highlight the need for further research. CONCLUSIONS:/b>Physical therapy offers added value in the multidisciplinary care of people with schizophrenia.
|Davy Vancampfort; Michel Probst; Liv Helvik Skjaerven; Daniel Catalán-Matamoros; Amanda Lundvik-Gyllensten; Antonia Gómez-Conesa; Rutger Ijntema; Marc De Hart
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Late last year, I reviewed MarketingSherpa's "Buyer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization & Positioning Firms." Since that time, the first edition of the guide has undergone two further updates and a completely new second edition is on the way.
The updates to the first edition have continued to build the guide into a resource that I'd highly recommend to anyone seeking a search engine marketing firm. However, they've also given rise to some serious concerns from some search engine marketing companies.
The guide was first released last September and contained reviews of 24 US-based search engine marketing firms, with a promise to add over 30 additional firms by March 2002.
The second update came out in October, listing two new US firms and 17 UK-based companies. However, a much more important change was the addition of a "Best Practices" ranking chart. This gave companies a letter grade showing how well they scored against the Buyer's Guide's "Best Practices" criteria. The grades were maintained when the latest update listing additional firms in the US, Canada, Australia and the UK came out at the end of February.
Grading Search Engine Marketing Firms
MarketingSherpa said the grades were added to make it easier for the guide's readers to identify which firms followed practices that might cause them trouble with the search engines, a major worry for potential buyers of SEM services.
"You dont want to get your company bounced from the search engines," said the guide's new managing editor, Alexis Gutzman.
Companies earned points for following good practices that MarketingSherpa deemed unlikely to jeopardize what it calls "client safety" on search engines. For example, a company that said link building or keyword research was important to the work they performed gained points.
Bad practices, such as depending heavily on cloaking or mirror sites, cost points. Companies earning the most points earned an A, with the scale slipping down to the ultimate failing grade of an F.
A problem with the ratings is that MarketingSherpa's Best Practices criteria are not an official industry standard. Indeed, the search engine marketing industry lacks any real "official" standards about what's "right" and "wrong."
Guide Creates De Facto Standards
Of course, it's perfectly acceptable for MarketingSherpa to create its own guidelines that it recommends to readers in lieu of official industry standards. Consumer magazines are a good example of this. They decide what they think is important for their readers, then rate products according to those criteria.
Indeed, despite cries throughout the SEM industry that official standards are needed, divisions within the industry mean that they aren't likely to come anytime soon, if at all. Given this, MarketingSherpa's best practices criteria have essentially become de facto standards to fill the gap. Those reviewed in the guide either meet the standards or face the embarrassment of a bad grade.
Lawsuit Involving Ratings
Of course, a bad grade can be more than embarrassing. It potentially could ruin someone's business. It was this concern that prompted firm International Crossing to file suit against both MarketingSherpa and the guide's chief US researcher, Anthony Muller.
As part of its review, MarketingSherpa had asked an International Crossing sales person if the company cloaked, among other questions about practices and tactics. The reply was that the company did not. However, when MarketingSherpa checked on one of International Crossing's listings for a client in Google, the page MarketingSherpa saw looked different than the page shown in Google's page cache, which is what Google's spider would have seen.
Because of the differences, MarketingSherpa wrote that International Crossing had lied during its interview, an action that caused the company to get an automatic failing grade, when it was included in the guide's third release.
However, International Crossing denied that it was cloaking. The company was showing the same page to spiders and humans but using frames in way so that some portions would not be visible to humans. This was important, because the MarketingSherpa report defined cloaking narrowly as using IP detection to show different pages to spiders versus human beings.
Concerned about its reputation -- and already having had one client question its tactics within hours after the report came out -- International Crossing filed suit the day the report was released, claiming defamation, trade libel and unfair competition. The company sought to have the allegations that it cloaked and lied about cloaking withdrawn and wanted to be paid for damages.
Two days later, on February 28, MarketingSherpa had retracted its statement, saying that after talking with International Crossing, it had now realized they were not cloaking.
As a result of the retraction, International Crossing dropped its action against MarketingSherpa. However, MarketingSherpa stressed that its retraction was not done as part of a legal settlement.
"The retraction we issued, less than 24 hours after International Crossing brought their problem to our attention, was issued completely voluntarily as have been other updates we've done to the Guide. We want our readers to have the best information possible. This was not a quid pro quo -- we did not have any legal agreement with IC at that time," said MarketingSherpa editor Anne Holland.
International Crossing is also no longer included in the report.
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While the case against MarketingSherpa has been dropped, International Crossing is still taking action against researcher Muller.
That Anthony Muller is embroiled in a lawsuit over the ratings is ironic, in that both he and MarketingSherpa agree that Muller didn't want to add ratings to the guide.
"Anthony felt his hand was forced into the rating scale," said Gutzman.
When the plan to rate was pushed through, Muller's firm ZenHits-- which is included in the report -- was the only one not graded. Muller asked for this to be done to ease concerns that ZenHits would have an advantage over other firms, since Muller was involved with the report.
That's not enough to save Muller from criticism, however. Other firms can still view him with suspicion, as International Crossing does.
"The main problem I have with Anthony Muller is that he is rating other SEOs, yet at the same time he owns a competing firm. It is difficult for a industry to set standards when those writing about them have competing interest. You would not see this in a mature industry like accounting and/or finance. I know we are not the only SEO firm that feels this way," Pruitt said.
To further reduce criticism, Muller is no longer taking on new SEO work but rather providing only consulting services, where he evaluates web sites, offers usability and search engine friendliness suggestions, and helps companies in finding SEO firms if they require further assistance.
"We no longer perform SEO in the way that a client would come off the street and say, 'Can you get me to the top?.' It's more like, 'Let me take a look at what you have, what you need, what you can handle in house and make sure we get the right company to do the rest," he said.
Muller also said that if he refers clients to other SEOs for work, he does not accept a referral fee. In addition, in the second edition of the guide, Muller said his firm will not be included, since his business model has changed.
Damaged By Being Left Out?
While International Crossing was upset by how it was going to be listed in the MarketingSherpa guide, Oneupweb president Lisa Wehr launched a PR battle last month over how the guide is impacting firms like hers that are not included within it.
Wehr claims that SEM firms left out of the guide are by implication seen as disreputable or less than worthy than those which are included, especially given the way the MarketingSherpa report has advertised itself.
"Who determines who's reputable? Are firms not included, not reputable? This appears to be the implication. How can anyone possibly state that these firms are the 'leading' firms when only a very small percentage of companies have been interviewed?," Wehr writes, in an editorial posted at her company's web site.
In her editorial, Wehr lists three different ads that MarketingSherpa has run, which include statements such as "Which 64 firms are best in the US and the UK" and "Which 55 firms are named among the 'Most Reputable'?"
"This guide is suggesting it has the best and most reputable," Wehr said, who says she's lost potential clients who asked why her company wasn't in it. "I can attribute loss of business to the fact that we were not included."
How New Firms Are Added
Wehr was especially upset that her company was passed over for inclusion three times by the guide. However, as far as MarketingSherpa is concerned, Wehr's firm missed out only once.
The confusion has to do with the "first edition" of the guide being released over several months in three different updates. Each update added more firms, but MarketingSherpa says these firms were those initially identified through its polling of several marketing mailing lists.
A "second edition" is in production now, and it is expected to include about 200 new firms, when released in the Spring of this year. These are all companies that asked to be included since the guide first came out through the close of the "nomination" period on Feb. 15 or which were identified in other ways as important to include.
"Everybody who asked to be included by February 15th who is a SEOP firm is being included. It's very democratic," said Holland.
MarketingSherpa is also accepting nominations for additional companies to be included in the second update of the second edition, due to be published in the summer. If you'd like your firm to be included, see the URL at the end of this article.
Thanks But No Thanks
Don't expect to see Wehr's firm included in the second edition. While Oneupweb was scheduled to be reviewed, Wehr says she doesn't trust or respect the rating system that's now in place.
"They did call me and told me they were ready to do my interview, and I told them that I declined at this point in time," Wehr said. "I dont want to be included in a guide that I dont think represents the industry fairly," she said. "Why do I want to put my entire livelihood at risk by having them review me, when I dont even respect the people doing it," she added.
MarketingSherpa suggests that Oneupweb might not want to be included because it is fearful of a bad review.
"It is not clear what Oneupweb's actual reasons are for withdrawing from the second edition. While they cite 'lack of trust,' they might also simply be afraid that we'll give them a bad ranking based on their actual practices versus what search engines and other experts maintain are best practices," said Holland.
By the way, for a short time MarketingSherpa was considering publishing a list of companies that were nominated but which declined to be included in the guide. However, the company decided it wouldn't be helpful to its readers and so has abandoned that idea.
Refining The Ratings
Given all the flak MarketingSherpa is taking over the ratings, you'd think the company would consider dropping them from the guide. However, the original goal of the ratings -- to help consumers know if they can trust a company not to get them banned in a search engine -- would be lost. To that end, MarketingSherpa says that it's going to stick with ratings but plans further enhancements, to try and make them more fair.
For example, cloaking wouldn't be seen as a client safety penalty, if you do it on a search engine that allows it in certain forms. In addition, the goal is to make the client safety grade only one of several that would be listed in an aggregate chart. The chart would also show key services offered and pricing.
MarketingSherpa is also planning to expand the list of sample clients to three for each firm and will include comments they receive from the companies' clients, pro or con. Indeed, MarketingSherpa has been actively surveying now for client comments.
MarketingSherpa also said that it does want to hear from companies that feel they've been wronged in the ratings. It has corrected scores for some companies when, upon further review, it was found they deserved better scores than were initially given.
"Boy were we sorry, and we fixed it," said Gutzman. "In every case, we had it fixed in 24 hours."
Need For Accepted Standards
Both Oneupweb and International Crossing -- which have objections to the existing MarketingSherpa guide -- said they saw value in some type of guide that could help consumers make safe choices about choosing a search engine marketing vendor. But how do you establish the criteria about what's safe? Both companies wanted some type of panel of experts to be involved.
"I would certainly be interested in being included when a fair grading system could be implemented. I dont what that is. I would like to see a group of people involved in doing it whose opinions I respected," Wehr said.
Of course, what's to prevent that panel of people from finding themselves sued, if a company doesn't like how they got rated according to standards that were established? International Crossing said it thinks such suits aren't likely to happen, if the panel has industry support.
"MarketingSherpa is writing about the industry but they havent been accepted by the players in the industry," said Pruitt. If a panel was somehow approved, he explained, it would offer more protection. "You cant just go sue them because of a statement they make, because theyve been accepted."
Involving Search Engines
An ideal solution in starting the creation of such a panel would be for the search engines themselves to rate or at least declare whether a company has been banned by them for some reason. After all, they are the ones who ultimately set standards, in that they decide what's acceptable for their listings.
Certainly all the major search engines have their own internal "blacklists" of companies and web sites that they consider to have spammed them. They've even discussed sharing such lists among themselves or with the public. However, the search engines also worry that someone might sue them for making such public statements. As a result, to date, none of them have moved forward on this front.
Given this situation, consumers seeking help with search engine marketing may continue to have to sort out for themselves whether a company is trustworthy or not. The best advice here would be to, as always, check references.
It's important to note that the search engines have been involved to some degree with helping build the MarketingSherpa report, the company says -- along wide advice from others.
"We have also updated the survey and rankings system to reflect new practices in SEO and better gather clear non-biased data that consumers can use to select the right firm for their needs," said Holland. "These changes and updates have been based on input from the search engines themselves, input from recognized industry experts, input from consumers who buy the guide, and last but not least, input from SEOP firms."
Final Observations
I started out the review by saying that MarketingSherpa's guide is a resource that I'd highly recommend to those seeking a search engine marketing firm. It's not perfect, but for a consumer, it provides an excellent starting place in understanding what types of services are offered by search engine marketing companies and for getting an initial list of firms to contact.
The rating system, if it is to be retained, does need to be overhauled so that the companies reviewed feel it treats them fairly. This doesn't mean that everyone gets top scores, of course. However, an emphasis on client lists and customer comments may be a move in the right direction.
One hope would be that the search engines themselves could organize a system to let MarketingSherpa and others who will no doubt produce similar guides to get some feedback directly from them. Perhaps the search engines could review a particular company's work and give the nod to say whether they'd had problems in the past or not. The entire industry could be helped by this.
Consumers considering the guide should understand that is not a guide to the best search engine marketing firms out there. There are no doubt good firms in the guide, but there are also plenty of good firms not in it.
Inclusion in the guide shouldn't be seen as a stamp of approval, nor should you immediately consider a company that is not listed as having done something wrong. Instead, use some of the good advice that the guide gives about choosing a firm, in order to review companies that you are interested in yourself.
A longer, more detailed version of this article is
Buyer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization & Positioning Firms
Information about the guide and the ability to purchase it online, from MarketingSherpa. FYI, the odd URL is not an affiliate link -- simply the format MarketingSherpa uses for its pages. Search Engine Watch does not benefit if you purchase a report.
I had problems getting to the store site when reverifying links before posting this article. If you also have problems, try visiting the MarketingSherpa site itself, to see if they post a different link to reach the report form.
Surplus Of Search Engine Marketing Reports
The Search Engine Report, Oct. 2, 2001
Includes the last review of the Buyer's Guide. Search Engine Watch members: use the link at the top of the article to reach the extended review.
Desperately Seeking Search Engine Marketing Standards
The Search Engine Report, Nov. 5, 2001
Examines how different philosophies among marketers and a lack of guidance from the search engines themselves make this a difficult challenge. Search Engine Watch members: use the link at the top of the article to reach the extended article.
Ethical Search Engine Marketing Committee
WAIM, Feb. 16, 2002
The World Association of Internet Marketers is trying to move forward with creating standards for search engine marketing, through the creation of a new committee.
International Crossing
The MarketingSherpa Guide to SEO Debate
Oneupweb, March 2002
Oneupweb's Lisa Wehr outlines her concerns with the MarketingSherpa report. Includes responses sent by MarketingSherpa, as well as comments from other firms in the industry -- pro and con -- about the guide.
MarketingSherpa SEOP Guide Nomination Form
Firms interested in being reviewed for the guide's third edition can nominate themselves here.
MarketingSherpa SEOP Guide Client Comments
Been the client of a search engine marketing firm? You can contribute your comments about particular firms to MarketingSherpa via this form.
iProspect Ranks #1 Among Search Engine Optimization Firms;
Earns the Only A+ Rating in Industry-Wide Study
iProspect, March 12, 2002
iProspect is more than happy with the MarketingSherpa ratings, having earned the only A+ among the firms reviewed, as it explained in a press release last month.
SEO Consultants
New online listing guide to those offering SEO services, planned to launch in June 2002.
Interview With Edward Lewis, Creator of The SEO Consultants Directory
The Search Light, March 20, 2002
More details about the planned SEO Consultants Directory.
Behind the Scenes at the SEO Industry's First Buyer's Guide: Part 1
SEO Today, Dec. 19, 2001
Explains how the Buyer's Guide came to be and how ratings were added to the second update.
Behind the Scenes at the SEO Industry's First Buyer's Guide: Part 2
SEO Today, Jan. 10, 2002
Covers surprises the guide found about a significant number of firms failing to follow what it considers best practices and other findings.


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Last week you may have read about Audrey in the Toronto Star. We wanted to share with you news that she has received her award.
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"They taught me that if you make a commitment that you should keep it," she said.
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Audrey, from Toronto, has volunteered with the Red Cross for 54 years, in particular with the transportation program and several different committees. She was recently recognized for her commitment by being awarded the Order of the Red Cross, Officer Level during a ceremony in front of Red Cross staff, volunteers, family and friends.
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