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Google Is Working on an Algo Fix - to help wrongly demoted sites
8:56 am on Mar 2, 2011
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Here's official news that many sites have been waiting to hear. Google fellow Amit Singal is quoted in Wired:
"We deeply care about the people who are generating high-quality content sites, which are the key to a healthy web ecosystem," Singhal said.
"Therefore any time a good site gets a lower ranking or falsely gets caught by our algorithm - and that does happen once in a while even though all of our testing shows this change was very accurate - we make a note of it and go back the next day to work harder to bring it closer to 100 percent."
"That's exactly what we are going to do, and our engineers are working as we speak building a new layer on top of this algorithm to make it even more accurate than it is," Singhal said.
4:08 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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what data do you have that shows that the average user/searcher of that keyword prefers to see your site over the twitpic page?
I don't need "data" for this. I know my niche. Would you like to see a picture of a pear when searching for info about apples?
By the way, I checked again and the twitpic is gone. It looks like Google is still tweaking.
4:10 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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Agree with Chrisv1963. This update is happening as we speak. I am seeing changes every day and reminds me of the Google dance days. Hopefully, like the old days, a true picture will emerge only once the dust is settled, but right now, like the old days, the results are crazy.
4:14 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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My site was affected and has no affiliate links and no adsense.
It's ecommerce.
4:16 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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I don't need "data" for this. I know my niche
...well, alrighty then.
5:32 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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directed at web sites running AdSense in general
I find it somewhat hard to believe that Google would punish sites that run AdSense.... it's that their bread and butter?
We are ecommerce, but we do run some adsense on brands that we no longer carry and a few other select pages to help pay for our server and bandwidth. If they are really dinging sites that run adsense are you guys saying it should be removed completely from any site that wants to rank at all?
5:43 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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The update is definitely still going. A phrase for which I ranked #2 last December, and then moved to #5 for after the last update, then moved to #12 for last week, is now MIA. It's not in the top 150 results.
As for sites with Adense on them, if we're to believe Google when they say that organic results rankings have nothing to do with the Adsense department, then could it be that Google is viewing sites as MFA if they have any prominently-displayed Adsense ads?
5:45 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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I find it somewhat hard to believe that Google would punish sites that run AdSense.... it's that their bread and butter?
I have to think that google can make more money getting advertisers to buy the keywords directly rather than sharing the revenue with publishers. Everyone using adsense has given google all the data they need to make sure that advertisers ads are disPlayed on google for the long tail terms that were driving the publishers business. Since publishers depend so much on google for traffic they really made themselves obsolete.
6:45 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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I have to think that google can make more money getting advertisers to buy the keywords directly rather than sharing the revenue with publishers. Everyone using adsense has given google all the data they need to make sure that advertisers ads are disPlayed on google for the long tail terms that were driving the publishers business. Since publishers depend so much on google for traffic they really made themselves obsolete.
to expand on this, google has the traffic and the advertisers. why would google want to send traffic to you for free so you can make money off of their advertisers? Now if you are a publisher and you get traffic from somewhere other than google then google will love you to use adsense. they all ready made short work of cleaning up almost all adwords arbitragers, now that they have all the data for long tail searches provided by publishers using adsense they will clean up the organic arbitragers too.
Ready for next year's shakeup? well it won't be long before google wants to get the majority of ecom only sites out of the organic results. why you say? well money of course but the public front will be because searchers don't want commercial results in their searches unless they are disclosed. searchers want wikipedia results for their organic searches... maybe i'm wrong but that's what i'm planning for with my tinfoil hat.
7:00 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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The problem I have is whether I'm barking up the wrong tree. I continue to see scrapers publishing 100% of my content and appearing ahead of my work in the search results as I publish new content right now. I've already shut down my RSS feed and it's still happening?
The problem is that there are potentially many factors in question, but it's hard to get focus on which ones to address, given that the biggest one -- the duplication and syndication cannot seem to be stopped.
Without these red herrings, it would be great to be able to step back and assess the true issues of a site. At this point, I don't even know whether the appearance of small scraper sites ahead of all our content is an intended feature of this algo or whether it is a BUG.
So are the existence of scrapers a side effect that they expected and just did not care about, or is this a mistake? I'd like to know.
7:14 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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Without an official comment from Google, I guess we'll never know for sure. But I agree with you - we were supposed to see a 1-2 punch with the Scraper Update and the Farmer Update. Right now, the first punch seems like it missed it's target pretty badly. Several gains even seems to have been partially wiped out by the second punch.
If these two updates are somehow technically in conflict right now, then we could hope for a real improvement in the scraper area soon.
7:14 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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I have to think that google can make more money getting advertisers to buy the keywords directly rather than sharing the revenue with publishers.
Unfortunately for us every single time we have run ads on Google we have had negative ROI. Every Single Time. Whether it's click fraud or what who knows, but it has cost WAY more for the ads than what we made of the sale of those products.
@falsepositive - I'm seeing the same thing. eHOw appearing at the top of search results for one of my exact phrase titles, they scraped my content without my consent in direct violation of our copyright statement and they are ranking above me for my own content ... even with their bogus credit link back to us. Really chaps me bad.
7:31 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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@Bewenched, are you talking about scraping or rewriting? I will give you one example, as soon as I release my content, my competitor writes exact article names and rewrite with very few words(not American English) and release articles. They are topping us now after the algo update. I don't think I can create DMCA as they are not scraping.
eHow does that too, but at-least they add my site in their source list.
8:10 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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@Bewenched and Browsee,
I am seeing word for word copies of some of my focused articles in my niche that are appearing on eHow ABOVE my article as well. No link backs. Here's a crazy example: One of my entertaining pieces, full of opinions and tips is a "how to". It was actually linked to by CNN! It has since been plagiarized and rewritten and now appears on an EHow article above my post, when it was not there before! The plagiarized piece is a 1/3 of my huge post. And it has a few minor changes here and there.
On another example, I found a site called "gulf news" that published one of my long, in-depth articles. There's been some minor syndication of my work through blogburst in the past. But today, all my new work is taken by small scraper sites and aggregate sites.
I have shut down my RSS feed to provide excerpts but I still am finding scrapers continuing to publish my new posts in full without links. Their sites are very light, with no links in or out. They only link to their own pages. My site has monetization elements and with links that are inbound and outbound. Plus lots and lots of comments on those posts. If anything, my blog shares a similar profile to CultofMac, albeit much smaller and less visible (but a big name in its space).
Again, something tipped the balance here, a little too far perhaps. There may be certain quality factors in play, and duplication is one of them. But if it's my #1 problem, then even if I cleaned my site out, who knows if I will see any restoration of ranks? Once a scraper finds you, there may be no way to shake them off (as seen when I stopped publishing full RSS feeds... they're still doing it!).
8:14 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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Excuse me for a simpleton butt-in, but be plain and simple: are you folks saying you're getting down-ranked apparently for running Adsense slots on your sites?
8:25 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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Why has eHow not been brought down by a DCMA notice? Don't hosting companies just take down sites with DCMA violations these days?
Am I missing something here, are they just too big?
8:33 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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"Why has eHow not been brought down by a DCMA notice? Don't hosting companies just take down sites with DCMA violations these days? "
You can't just send a note and expect them to be shut down just because you say so. They are a $2 Billion company
8:39 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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Gotcha. I guess the 2 billion dollar company part of it makes a big difference.
8:50 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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DMCA is still a good tool to use. If you aren't proactive in defending your own intellectual property rights, you can lose them. As I understand it, IP law places that burden on the owners themselves, whether the issue is copyright or trademark.
8:50 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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It can't be just the presence of AdSense. None of my AdSense sites were hit. They don't earn on the scale of a content farm, of course, but still. I still see plenty of other sites with AdSense out there, of varying quality (in my admittedly subjective view).
Now, placement and amount of AdSense in relation to content might be a factor. But it's not just the fact that there's AdSense.
9:40 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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I have been reading these forums since the algo change took effect. I had to join to put in my two sense and get in on the conversation so I could mention something I haven't seen in these forums.
I too have taken a 35-40% traffic hit. I used to rank for around 8,000 keywords and now it's around 5,000. I have about 300 posts all of which are unique content about 1 core topic. All in all it's about 120,000 words of unique content and over 12,000 images that accompany those posts. Google has me indexed for 1,870 pages.
I wanted to shed light on something I am noticing in my particular nitch that I haven't seen mentioned in these forums and that is the power google seems to be placing on DOMAIN NAMES in this update. (Although this could be a glitch, I sure hope so.)
After running through some main, mediocre, and longtail keywords I used to rank highly for I am finding sites ranking on the first page that have those specific keywords plastered in their domain name. A lot of them are thin content sites running adsense. Some are even adsense for domains.
It's almost as if google is telling me to break up my site into very specific sections and get a domain for each one of those sections. I guess by doing this sites will start to look less like content farms.
I keep hearing quality over relevance. But what if part of quality is being measured by very specific relevance?
It seems in this algorithm change google might have neglected all the user behavior data they have collected over the years. Where is that showing up in this algorithm update? It's like it totally disappeared.
My site has a lot of pageviews per visit, a low bounce rate, and over 2000 Facebook likes a month, or at least it did. Meanwhile sites I created years ago that are absolute crap and frankly that I have forgotten about seemed to have united together to make me $30 bucks in adsense yesterday.
I really hope some changes are made and some rankings are restored before this change rolls out all over the world. If not I guess all I have to look forward to is the sites I had forgotten about climbing up those SERPS.
10:16 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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@Mr3putt I've heard this theory, too.
I've got one main broad-topic site which took a hit, and a few narrow-niche sites, which all seem to have benefited from this update. None of them have keywords in the domain.
I wonder if what you're seeing isn't so much the keywords in the domain, but the effects on targeted, narrow niche websites?
10:22 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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I am not sure this even relevant to Google working on something, but in relation to our site some things are happening that look like Google is restoring some old backup data.
First of all, Webmaster Tools just started showing us HTML suggestions we fixed a few months ago. I know, because I have these exact pages in my old project "to do" log and now they are up again. Interestingly enough, we fixed these issues and the suggestions were gone for a few months. Now, the issues are still fixed (naturally, as we prefer not to do the same work twice), but HTML suggestions reappeared.
Second, when searching our site specifically using "site:" operator all our pages a out of order. We have a clear structure on our site and Google never fails to arrange our pages in intended order unless there are some ongoing adjustments on Google's end. Even if our pages are out of order they are very quickly sorted back and they were after the 24th, but now they are screwed up again.
10:27 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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@Mr3putt I've heard this theory, too.
I've got one main broad-topic site which took a hit, and a few narrow-niche sites, which all seem to have benefited from this update. None of them have keywords in the domain.
Our site is a very narrowly niched site, albeit a sizable one. A lot of related products, one theme. We got hit 50%.
10:42 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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It's almost as if google is telling me to break up my site into very specific sections and get a domain for each one of those sections. I guess by doing this sites will start to look less like content farms.
They tend to swing the pendulum in both directions. Those sites will be the exact ones targeted in the next major algo update. They sure have been in the past. It is like d�j� vu all over again. :)
The only way I know to survive long term without huge income fluctuations is to have all sorts of different kinds of sites. With this last update I lost 6,000 daily page views from one set of sites and gained about 8,000 from a different set of sites. My income is down a bit due to CPM differences but if I can get the down sites back to where they were or improve on them, overall I'll come ahead of even before the update.
For anyone who hasn't read it yet, I highly recommend reading the Who Moved My Cheese book.
10:57 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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Here's what I'm seeing.
As with every update I've watched since 2000, some are losing and are vocal about it and some are winning and just smiling at all the new traffic. The only difference now is main stream media is hungry for senstational news so this type of stuff gets published now where as before it never made the mainstream.
This update is good or bad depending on where you fall.
Been that way since the start and will be that way for as long as there are updates.
Everybody can't win, somebody has to lose.
Remember the Florida upate, that was a brutal one too.
As many others have said, if you depend on one website and Google for traffic, you are setting yourself up for a big let down sooner or later.
11:01 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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I haven't seen mentioned in these forums and that is the power google seems to be placing on DOMAIN NAMES in this update. (Although this could be a glitch, I sure hope so.)
I thought about this too, but then ran some of my 'stock-standard does the domain name matter' searches for key phrases we would all use and some we might not, and didn't notice anything 'odd' in the top 10 ... Meaning there was a nice assortment.
I do think it could be a minor ranking factor, because I believe Matt Cutts has said he would check and make sure keyword domains didn't have an unfair advantage (notice he did say
, not any), but imo any advantage is slight, otherwise you wouldn't end up with the top 10 you do for searches like search engine optimization, and I also remind myself, if they were 'super important' there are some without them in that list who could certainly afford to pick one up, so I have to think it's not as important as it may seem...
Yes, I do realize those may be some of the most competitive terms on the Internet, but since that's the case, I also think if a keyword domain was a necessity those players would all have them, because they probably could if they wanted to.
There are sites there (and in others) that have noting to do with SEO in the domain name though, so I can't help but think it doesn't matter that much, because that little top 10 list definitely gives bragging rights, so if someone could 'jump in there' with a keyword domain I'm sure they would ... I do think in the 'outer niches' where optimization is more 'freelance' than 'elite' domain name may 'seem' to be a larger factor than it really is, but when some of the best optimizers on the planet don't use keyword domains and they're in the top 10, I have to think it's not a huge factor in the rankings, still.
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11:01 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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@gotmetoo just did a site: lookup on ours and yea ... they are WAY out of order... our home page is like 3rd, I've never seen it like that... also our page description is old.
did a site: lookup on a competitor and theirs is out of order too. wierd.
11:10 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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I wonder if what you're seeing isn't so much the keywords in the domain, but the effects on targeted, narrow niche websites?
The only problem is the narrow niche websites that I'm seeing outrank me are of what I would call crappy. Sites ranking for competitive terms that have 9 million search results and consist of 5 pages of content and a contact page.
It's almost as if in this update it was easier for google to target relatively high indexed sites and the smaller ones slipped through the cracks. It's more likely google will find more things wrong with a 2,000 page site vs a 5 page site.
It's like the ratio for demoting the sites is off:
2000 page site/100 pages labeled as poor quality
20 page site/1 pages labeled as poor quality
Both sites have 5% of their pages labeled as "poor quality" but for some reason in this update it seems as though the 2,000 page site is taking the bigger hit then the 20 page site.
11:14 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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did a site: lookup on a competitor and theirs is out of order too. wierd.
Something else is weird. When you do a search, the number of results is not always the same for page 1 and 2.
Sample: when I enter a certain keyword and hit the search button, it gives 3,550,000 results. When I go to the next page it tells me that there are 7,660,000 results.
11:21 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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If you haven't seen it yet, I recommend having a look at the linked article in this thread:
Matt Cutts and Amit Singhal Share Insider Detail on Farm Update
Nice Find g1smd!
I think quite a bit of what we're seeing has 'document footprinting' factored in, rather than simply 'quality' of the text on the page. I've thought this was the case for a while and the article seems to reinforce that thought.
11:28 pm on Mar 3, 2011
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Sites that are narrowly tailored have been faring well (all other factors considered) for quite some time. Search phrases I tracked last summer showed that sites that were about the search phrase only could be out sites with more traffic or links.
It's tempting to build some focused sites for products I already sell, but have lost ranking for. As Jane_Doe said, it levels out some of these updates.
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The USC Trojans (6-3) will be back on the hardwood after a week long break when they host the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners (5-5) on Sunday.
The Trojans' last game was a 78-62 victory on Dec. 8 over Boston College, which moved the Trojans' home record on the season to 5-0.
The freshman trio of Kahlil Dukes, Julian Jacbos, and Nikola Jovanovic have combined to score 219 points in the Trojans' last eight games.
Jacobs has been particularly impressive in his last two outings, scoring 30 points, grabbing 15 rebounds, and notching 12 assists.
As for the Roadrunners they began the season 5-1, but are currently in the midst of a four-game losing streak. In four road games thus far, they are 1-3.
Unlike the Trojans, the Roadrunners are led by a senior in Issiah Grayson, who is averaging 12.8 points per game.
If the Trojans are able to replicate the balanced effort they put forth against the Eagles where five players scored in double figures, and five players recorded at least five assists, they should improve to 7-3 and shift their focus to the Dec. 19 game against Cal State Long Beach.
The Trojans are winners in six of their last eight games and are off to their best start since the 2009 season.
Probable Starters:
Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners:
G #3 Javonte Maynor 6-0, 175, Jr.*
G #12 Issiah Grayson 5-11, 165, Sr.*
F#0 Stefon Johnson 6-6, 210, Sr.*
F #24 Erik Kinney 6-4, 210, So.
C #23 Abdul Ahmed 6-10, 250, Jr.*
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G #10 Pe'Shon Howard 6-3, 190, Sr.
G #12 Julian Jacobs 6-3, 180, Fr.
G #22 Byron Wesley 6-5, 210, Jr.
F #32 Nikola Jovanovic 6-10, 220, Fr.
C #55 Omar Oraby 7-2, 270, Sr.
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BONHOEFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
Who better to face the greatest evil of the 20th century than a humble man of faith?
As Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seduced a nation, bullied a continent, and attempted to exterminate the Jews of Europe, a small number of dissidents and saboteurs worked to dismantle the Third Reich from the inside. One of these was Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a pastor and author, known as much for such spiritual classics as The Cost of Discipleship and Life Together, as for his 1945 execution in a concentration camp for his part in the plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
In the first major biography of Bonhoeffer in forty years, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas takes both strands of Bonhoeffer's life—the theologian and the spy—and draws them together to tell a searing story of incredible moral courage in the face of monstrous evil. In a deeply moving narrative, Metaxas uses previously unavailable documents—including personal letters, detailed journal entries, and firsthand personal accounts—to reveal dimensions of Bonhoeffer's life and theology never before seen.
In Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy—A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich, Metaxas presents the fullest accounting of Bonhoeffer's heart-wrenching 1939 decision to leave the safe haven of America for Hitler's Germany, and using extended excerpts from love letters and coded messages written to and from Bonhoeffer's Cell 92, Metaxas tells for the first time the full story of Bonhoeffer's passionate and tragic romance.
Readers will discover fresh insights and revelations about his life-changing months at the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and about his radical position on why Christians are obliged to stand up for the Jews. Metaxas also sheds new light on Bonhoeffer's reaction to Kristallnacht, his involvement in the famous Valkyrie plot and in "Operation 7," the effort to smuggle Jews into neutral Switzerland.
Bonhoeffer gives witness to one man's extraordinary faith and to the tortured fate of the nation he sought to deliver from the curse of Nazism. It brings the reader face to face with a man determined to do the will of God radically, courageously, and joyfully—even to the point of death. Bonhoeffer is the story of a life framed by a passion for truth and a commitment to justice on behalf of those who face implacable evil.
"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act." — DIETRICH BONHOEFFER
PRAISE FOR BONHOEFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy — A Righteous Gentile vs. the Third Reich
"A welcome new biography of one of the 20th century's leading lights. Metaxas magnificently captures the life of theologian and anti-Nazi activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945), who 'thought it the plain duty of the Christian—and the privilege and honor—to suffer with those who suffered.' In the finest treatment of the man since Eberhard Bethge's Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Man of Vision, Man of Courage (1970), Metaxas presents a complete, accessible picture of this important figure, whose story is inspiring, instructive and international in scope. …A definitive Bonhoeffer biography for the 21st century." — Kirkus Reviews
"Eric Metaxas tells Bonhoeffer's story with passion and theological sophistication, often challenging revisionist accounts that make Bonhoeffer out to be a 'humanist' or ethicist for whom religious doctrine was easily disposable. In Bonhoeffer we meet a complex, provocative figure: an orthodox Christian who, at a grave historical moment, rejected what he called 'cheap grace'—belief without bold and sacrificial action…. Metaxas reminds us that there are forms of religion—respectable, domesticated, timid—that may end up doing the devil's work for him." – The Wall Street Journal
"For anyone whose faith has been strengthened by the life and witness of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, this is the biography you have always wanted. Eric Metaxas has written a rich, detailed, and beautiful account of the great pastor and theologian who gave us The Cost of Discipleship and sacrificed his life for opposing Hitler. Metaxas' Bonhoeffer is a monumental achievement and a deeply important work." — Greg Thornbury, PhD, Dean of the School of Christian Studies at Union University
"A captivating and inspiring read from start to finish. Sets the record straight on Bonhoeffer's commitment to Scripture and his unyielding passion for truth that led him to give up his life in the battle to save the Jews of Europe. Buy it. This book could change your life." – James N. Lane, Founder, New Canaan Society; Former General Partner, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
"Dietrich Bonhoeffer's great gift is that his understanding of faith in times of conflict speaks to generation after generation. Eric Metaxas' Bonhoeffer is the biography for this generation. A masterpiece that reads like a great novel and weaves together in one opus an understanding of Bonhoeffer's theology, the complex and tragic history of 20th century Germany, and the human struggle of a true Christian hero. Eric Metaxas is claiming his place as the preeminent biographer of Christianity's most courageous figures." — Martin Doblmeier, Filmmaker, BONHOEFFER
"With great skill, energy, and warmth, Metaxas reminds us why the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer stands as a rebuke both to believers and skeptics. Rarely has the story of a Christian martyr been told with such realism and depth. It's a gem of a book." — Joseph Loconte, Lecturer in Politics, The King's College, New York City; Editor of The End of Illusions: Religious Leaders Confront Hitler's Gathering Storm
"A stunning achievement recounting Bonhoeffer's life with lucidity, historical detail, and a concretely contextualized handling of Bonhoeffer's often misunderstood theological legacy. …Metaxas masterfully distills Bonhoeffer's eventful and complex life into a true narrative biography that is comprehensive and vivid without being overwhelming." – Matthew Miller, Christianbook.com


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Apple unveils iPod touch 5th Generation
4th Oct 2011 | 18:08
Available in black and white
Apple has taken the wraps off a new iPod Touch, which will launch in both black and white.
It offers Retina Display, and will launch running iOS 5 which means you'll get a host of delicious new goodies to play with.
These include iCloud, Apple's Cloud storage/syncing system and iMessage for realtime chat among reams of other features.
The new iPod Touch also offers HD video playback, a gyroscope and FaceTime all cased in its ultra-thin design.
The new iPod Touch UK release date is set for October 12, and it will launch in 8GB, 32GB and 64GB iterations.
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West Brom 4 Newcastle United 2
NEWCASTLE United crashed out of the FA Cup after going down 4-2 against West Brom.
The Baggies went ahead when Jonas Olsson headed in a corner before Graham Dorrans scored from the spot after Tamas Kadar fouled Roman Bednar.
Andy Carroll's volley gave the Toon fans hope before Ryan Taylor was controversially red carded for a challenge on Jerome Thomas in the box.
The Magpies fans were incensed at the decision, especially as the ref could've given a penalty at the other end just seconds before.
Dorrans scored from the penalty spot and then Thomas tapped in a fourth, with Carroll firing home a late consolation.
The ref needed heavy security and had to be escorted from the pitch as the Toon supporters vented their fury at his performance.
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Some supporters may say that they are glad that the cups are now out the way - let's concentrate on winning the league.
Newcastle's F.A. cup campaigns have always been fought with pride and gusto (untill they get to the final). Hughton would have told the young'ns to go and fill ya boots and send the Baggies packing, prove your worthiness and show your pride. Kadar had a half decent game by the sound of things and Andy Carroll is getting there.
Before Ryan Taylor was wrongly sent off - it took ages for the decision, Newcastle were well on their way for a comeback into this game. Blatently rubbish reffing shafted the cup for Newcastle today.
However, although it seams that Shola has picked up an injury, not having to play so many games now may not be such a bad thing after all.
...Mr Ashley, it is now January 23rd - time to get off your backside and get your fat blankety blank checque book out or get your fat backside out of our club you fat blanker...
Come on ashley now is the time to put the momey on the table you want us back in the premier league? well prove it put an offer on the table for Beckford that leeds cannot refuse
I always thought that it would be Mike Ashley who would determine if we were to go up or not.
Get in a couple of quality players in - right side of midfield, defender and forward, for me - and we wil go up.
If Ashley does nothing then our excellent start to the season could be wasted.
Todays game showed that Forest and WBA are on a par with us, and are finding form. We are losing ours.
It's up to you Ashley.
You cant keep diving and cheating and keep expecting to get away with it,we have played you 3 times and outplayed you 3 times,good luck in the play-offs us n boro to go up.boing boing


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And a good Thursday morning to you all, as we kick things off with the semi-final match up between Argentina and the Netherlands, which kicked off earlier this morning. Of course, the winner, headed to the final against Germany, so let's take a look at the highlights.
Of course, no one expecting a 7-1 match in this one as both sides neck and neck throughout the 1st half
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For several years, I've been trying to persuade friends who care about movies to watch Carl Th. Dreyer's Ordet, surely one of my top-5 favorites. However, I've also had to warn them to be careful to read nothing online about it, which doesn't help the case to check out an obscure foreign film from 1954. Finally, Roger Ebert has written a review this movie truly deserves--he interestingly avoids criticism or any discussion of where the plot heads (which ruins it, in so many books and articles) and simply describes the experience of watching it, only up to the point that's necessary to convince you that it's worth seeing. They ought to give him another Pulitzer for casting some more attention on this film.
As much as I enjoy reading Ebert (if not for his actual recommendations all the time), I'm sad to learn that my favorite film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has retired. If you're unfamiliar, there's a nice list of selected reviews and a YouTube interview with him here, courtesy of the Chicago Reader. I credit him with greatly influencing my taste and will miss his film writing very much--though hopefully this will pave the way for new great works from him.


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According to Yankees, relief pitcher Shawn Kelley, who has missed the last week with a back injury, has been placed on the 15-day DL. Outfielder Zoilo Almonte has been called up from Triple A Scranton to take his place on the roster. This is the latest in a barrage of injuries that have hit the Yankees. Mark Teixeira is in the lineup for the Yankees tonight as the DH. However, Carlos Beltran, who suffered a hyperextended elbow last night and had to be removed mid game, is not.
#Yankees place RHP Shawn Kelley (strained lumbar spine) on 15-day DL; recall OF Zoilo Almonte from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre.
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Teixeira was getting the night off in the first game of the Subway Series last night, because according to Teixeira, his legs "felt like cement." It certainly was no exaggeration, as Teixeira, pinch hitting in the ninth inning for John Ryan Murphy, who entered the game innings earlier to replace the injured Beltran, lined what should have been a sure double into the right field corner, only to be forced to stop at first, due to his legs simply not being able to carry him fast enough in order to get to second.
It cost the Yankees, as Brian McCann would eventually ground into a game ending double play. It was an alarming sight for the Yankees and their fans, as the team is already without CC Sabathia, Michael Pineda, Ivan Nova, and now Kelley. Afterwards however, Teixeira vowed to be in today's lineup saying he was "playing no matter what." And here he is, in the lineup for the Yankees tonight, just as he promised.
After hyperextending his elbow while practicing his swing in between innings last night, Carlos Beltran is not in the starting lineup tonight. After the game last night, manager Joe Girardi announced what was wrong with Beltran, and also broke the news that Ichiro Suzuki was unavailable last night as well, due to a back injury.
There were concerns that Beltran might be headed for the DL, however, he reportedly received a cortisone shot, after an MRI revealed an old bone spur. Beltran said he hopes to avoid possible surgery, but it may take a couple of days for the injection to calm things down. He is currently day-to-day. "If he doesn't feel better in a couple of days, my level of concern would be pretty high," Girardi said.
Ichiro on the other hand, most likely will not be available tonight. It feels like 2013 all over again for the Yankees, who just can't seem to catch a break with the injuries. "We had a lot of practice with (injuries) last year, so we 're used to it," Girardi said.
The Yankees were able to cope with the injuries for a majority of last season, before it finally caught up to them in the end. And while the current list of injuries for the Yankees is still nowhere near as bad as it was last season, you do have to stop and wonder if last season's nightmarish injury debacle may be repeating itself for the Yankees.
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This was recorded by the Portsmouth Sinfonia in an experiment where all the members of the orchestra would swap instruments with each other and attempt to play them to the best of their ability.
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- the strings are lazy but also the same. like u can tell a lot of the ppl w/ the stringed instruments may already basically know how to play stringed instruments. like there's definitely a section at the beginning where you hear a good portion going "oh yeah this is like. a smaller/bigger version of what i do."
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Following the unfortunate announcement that the Thunder will be without Serge Ibaka for the rest of the playoffs. and with a series against perennial powerhouse San Antonio coming up, there is little time for Scott Brooks and company to feel sorry for themselves.
Ibaka is the team's number three option as well as its primary rim protector. In 13 postseason games, the 6'10" power forward averaged 12.2 points, 7.3 rebounds and 2.2 blocks, per ESPN.com. Against the Clippers, Ibaka did a spectacular job defending Blake Griffin, almost always doing so in isolation. Furthermore, he developed into an effective two-way threat, defending Griffin at one end and shooting 64 percent at the other. He even connected on 54.5 percent of his midrange jumpers, per NBA.com.
Now, Oklahoma City is forced to adjust. What does this mean? No, not more Kendrick Perkins, although given Brooks' reputation for relying on his older veterans, that certainly wouldn't surprise. However, what might be a more effective adaptation is going small.
The Thunder's rotation has just gotten even smaller, so increasing Reggie Jackson's minutes by sliding himinto the starting line up and playing Kevin Durant at the four seems to make sense. Popovich will adjust, but making this tweak might push Tim Duncan to the five, where if Brooks is wise, he would have to defend the more mobile big men, Nick Collison and Steven Adams, more than he would Perkins. Collison can stretch the floor, creating a lot of pressure on an undersized Spurs line up to keep the likes of Russell Westbrook of the glass. Adams meanwhile, can lure Duncan or Thiago Splitter away from the basket by setting screens to free up Oklahoma City's perimeter players, forcing switches and diving to the basket. Perkins is an excellent screener but not nearly as mobile as Adams or Collison.
Going small more frequently and having its big men set both on-ball and off-ball screens solves two of Oklahoma City's problems – spacing and stagnation. Far too often the Thunder's perimeter players stand in one spot, watching Durant and Westbrook attack, ready, should the ball get kicked out to them.
It wouldn't surprise anyone if San Antonio won this series, even if Ibaka was healthy. But the fact of the matter is that the Thunder need to adjust and given its personnel, sticking with small ball line ups and big men who can stretch the floor give the team its best chance to get back to the finals.
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The US Supreme Court Thinks Racism Is Dead. What Planet Do They Live On?
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In 1999 apartheid's last leader, FW de Klerk, explained to me his motivation for writing an autobiography. "I wanted people to look at our history in its proper time frame. The same mistakes that we made were still being made in the United States and the ex-colonies. Then we carried them on for around 20 years longer. It was a time when we thought it would go away."
De Klerk talked a lot of nonsense that morning, comparing South African apartheid to the EU and insisting it was him, not Nelson Mandela, who ushered in non-racial democracy.
But on the subject of "history's time frame" he was on point. For most of the last century, apartheid was not the exception of one nation but the rule for much of the world that described itself as "civilised". On 1 February 1960 17-year-old Franklin McCain and three black friends went to the whites-only counter at Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina, and took a seat. "The day I sat at that counter I had the most tremendous feeling of elation and celebration," he says.
Two days later, the British prime minister Harold Macmillan addressed the South African parliament in Cape Town with an ominous warning. "The wind of change is blowing through this continent," he said. "Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact." They didn't like it. But it happened anyway.
In the three years between Macmillan's speech and King's "I have a dream speech", Togo, Mali, Senegal, Zaire, Somalia, Benin, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Chad, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, Tanganyika and Jamaica all became independent.
Non-racial democracy is a relatively new idea to the west; racism is not. The notion that the people should govern may have been around since ancient Greece, but throughout that time the issue of who counts as people has been continually contested and episodically reassessed.
Last week the US supreme court reassessed the nation's history of voter exclusion and decided the contest was over. The court gutted a key element of the 1965 voting rights act, which demanded that areas with a history of racial discrimination at the polls get prior authorisation before changing their election or voting laws. "There is an old disease, and that disease is cured," argued Bert Rein, when opposing the act before the court earlier this year. "That problem is solved." Justice Roberts agreed, arguing that the provisions were based on "40-year-old" facts.
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HTC Thunderbolt $250 with Verizon Contract on March 17
St. Patrick's Day will have more going on than leprechauns and green shirts people wear only once a year. Verizon has announced that the long-delayed HTC Thunderbolt smartphone will officially go on sale March 17 for $250 with a Verizon contract.
It was supposed to launch shortly after CES, then on Valentine's Day, then several dates after that . This time, it's the real thing. The HTC Thunderbolt will be Verizon's first 4G phone , and the announcement confirms another bit of speculation that has been running through the industry: How much will 4G data cost. Verizon says that an unlimited 4G LTE data plan for the Thunderbolt will cost $30 per month (on top of the voice plan), which is the same rate as 3G data on the Verizon network.
Verizon says the Thunderbolt's 4G LTE connection will give users download speeds between 5 and 12 megabits per second and upload speeds of 2 to 5 megabits per second, but only in areas where 4G networks are available. Outside those areas, the Thunderbolt will revert back to Verizon's 3G network.
Verizon also plans to offer the mobile hot spot feature for free to Thunderbolt buyers through May 15. The mobile hotspot allows up to eight Wi-Fi devices to connect to the Internet through the Thunderbolt's 4G connection. After May 15, it will cost an additional $20 per month to use the mobile hotspot (with a 2GB data cap separate from the unlimited data for the phone itself).
The Thunderbolt has an impressive 4.3-inch touch screen display, and underneath is a 1GHz Snapdragon processor . There is a 1.3 megapixel camera in front for video calls (though Skype mobile won't be ready at launch) and an 8 megapixel camera in back capable of 720p video recording. The phone has 8GB of internal storage and Verizon will include a 32GB microSD card, bringing the total storage capacity up to 40GB.
The HTC Thunderbolt will not be available for preorders, but it will be available in Verizon stores and through Verizon's website on March 17. It will cost $250 with a new two-year voice and data service contract.


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