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Religion has so many connections to political and economic beliefs, there needs to be a place to identify linkages, problems, goals, options, action plans and evaluation criteria.

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An eternal question, what is the purpose of life?, occupied philosophers’ thoughts throughout history. Stone pictographs reveal even primitive peoples reflected on this query. Each one has the capacity to define his or her personal thinking about politics, economics and religion.

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Pope Francis: Priests Can Forgive Abortion If Women Are 'Contrite'

Started by Bertold Brautigan. Last reply by Plinius 2 hours ago. 4 Replies

Frankie has just pissed off (and nonplussed) a whole load of people.The Vatican has…Continue

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Change.org Petition - Jon Stewart Should Host a Presidential Debate

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Aug 24. 7 Replies

The above petition just landed in my inbox a few minutes ago ... and I think it is perhaps one of the most brilliant ideas I've heard in a while.  Entirely too many debates, both primary and presidential, have been little more than photo ops for the…Continue

Tags: change.org, petition, debate, Jon Stewart

The Geographic Span of Actions of an Omnipotent, Omniscient God, Displayed Graphically

Started by Loren Miller Aug 16. 0 Replies

Yahweh as described by the old testament, Yeshua of the new, and Mohammed of the quran are taken to be massive actors on the world stage.  Care to see just how massive?  Take a look at the following:…Continue

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Romans and Christians (delanceyplace.com)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Gerald Payne Aug 13. 5 Replies

Today's selection -- from Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. Empires have been the dominant form of government in human history. Most early empires of such as the Roman empire were polytheistic, and made a practice of being…Continue

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Comment by sk8eycat on October 2, 2012 at 8:55pm

Joan, my late friend, Judith Hayes, wrote something about the  story of Jesus having to carry his own cross to the execution site (which is silly for many reasons, mainly because the Romans built the crosses ON site), and the exhortation to new Christians to "take up your cross, and follow Christ."  Plus the morbid Catholic ritual of the Stations of the Cross.

She asked, "What if he had refused to carry the cross?"  "You wanna crucify me?  Fine.  YOU carry the cross."

Comment by Joan Denoo on October 2, 2012 at 8:06pm

Faith is the surrender of the mind

Isn't the religious imperative to surrender, yield, obey, let go-let god, turn the other cheek, crucify yourself in imitation of the crucified christ?

No wonder grown-up problems don't get solved, unresolved conflicts don't get resolved.

Comment by Joan Denoo on October 2, 2012 at 12:05pm

A fellow asked me some questions and here are my answers:
"Who are you?" I am I.
"Why are you here?" To participate in life.
"Where are you going to?" I shall dance in star dust, just as you.
"You have nothing to navigate by," I have stars, constellations, electromagnetism, forces of nature.
"because it's all relative to you being the center of the Universe," I am not the center of the universe, I exist in the universe with all that implies. I am part of it all, I exist, not superior to or inferior to anybody or anything, we are all passengers on planet Earth and it is one wondrous ride.

Comment by Ruth Anthony-Gardner on October 2, 2012 at 11:39am

Horray! As a Pennsylvanian I celebrate the judicial decision that the voter suppression law here will not take effect here for this election.

Pennsylvania Judge Blocks Voter-ID Law

(The "view interactive" state by state breakdown map didn't work for me.)

Comment by Joan Denoo on October 2, 2012 at 10:38am

Science Bulletins: Learning from Lyme

We can hope or wish or pray, but to find out why so many children have juvenile arthritis we need science. By looking, paying attention, conducting studies we find what causes the disease, how and why. Then we can develop strategies to decrease the risk of children contacting carriers.

Comment by Joan Denoo on October 2, 2012 at 2:05am

The Two Major Views About Why Romney is Losing ...

GOP, “a party that’s been taken over by Tea Partiers, nativists, social Darwinists, homophobes, right-wing evangelicals, and a few rich people whose only interest is to become even wealthier.

“Romney’s failing isn’t that he’s a bad candidate. To the contrary, he’s giving this GOP exactly what it wants in a candidate. And that’s exactly the problem for Romney — as it is for every other Republican candidate — because what the GOP wants is not at all what the rest of America wants.”

~ Robert Reich

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Comment by Joan Denoo on October 1, 2012 at 8:45pm

Thanks to Ruth Anthony-Gardner

Comment by sk8eycat on September 30, 2012 at 7:50pm

I second Joan's comments.  I couldn't have said anything better.

Comment by Joan Denoo on September 30, 2012 at 7:31pm

Ruth, these cartoons are real jewels! To the point, don't mince words, and makes one laugh between tears! As usual, you are a genius.

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    Today during an segment on CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” tech correspondent Jon Fortt shared his thoughts on why the deal could potentially result as a bust for Apple.

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Sunday, 17 August 2008 11:09
by Timothy V. Gatto

Adolf Hitler amazes me in one sense. Here he was, a brown-eyed, dark haired little man, and he convinced a large number of people that the he represented the “Aryan Race” of supposedly tall, blond haired, blue-eyed people. Nice trick. The thing about what Hitler said, and what the reality consisted of, was that people wanted to believe him. I see this desire reflected in the candidacy of Senator Obama.

When I see this “modern left” embrace Barack Obama I seem to always ask myself the same question over and over again, how can the same people that were so disgusted, and who felt so much moral outrage over the policies and duplicity of George W. Bush and company, turn a blind eye when Obama demonstrates some of the same behavior? This turn of events has truly been an eye-opener for me. Since 2001, I have read many op-ed pieces, and have written a number of them myself, that reflect moral disgust with this administration. Bush has claimed the moral high ground on many issues while he simultaneously engaged in behavior that was contradictory to the reality of the situation.

The critics of this administration have rightly called out Bush and his minions, and have expressed not only dismay, but disgust with allegations of torture, misleading the American people, and using force in place of diplomacy. The Democrats and others have opposed these behaviors. They have castigated these people while pointing out how truly and utterly contemptible and hypocritical they are. As an example, Bush decries Iran’s support of Hezbollah in Lebanon and extremists in Iraq, while at the same time U.S. Special Forces and Iranian subversive groups cross into Iran and carry out missions in support of “regime change”. Usually, every facet of Neo-Con duplicity is not overlooked when the administration’s opponents illustrate the extent of their manipulations. I have no problem with this, in fact, to effectively counter the far-right’s skewed agenda, the more lies that see the light of day, the more effective the attempts to stop them are.

I mention this because I want to illustrate just how good the Democrats are at exposing and uncovering the lies and hypocrisy of the administration. In fact, years of digging through facts to get at the real story have become the norm when it comes to this executive branch. We all understand that we cannot take anything that comes out of the White House at face value. This has been proven time and time again, so you would assume it would be second nature to distrust the administration and their spokespeople. It would also be very easy to believe that the pattern of distrust would also carry over from Bush to McCain and to Obama.

Apparently this is not the case, and I’m wondering why. I cannot believe that the political pundits, all of the reporters and even the general population, can suffer through the lies and deceit of the last eight years and instantaneously regain all the trust and confidence that has been lost and automatically regain their faith seemingly overnight. The last few months of this presidential race has seen the Democratic candidate, since he became the presumptive nominee, change his policy in midstream, but the rhetoric coming from the campaign hasn’t changed.

The earnestness and the honesty of Obama’s supporters and the hope for change they possess is written about and discussed with the same fervor and honesty that the disgust with the Bush administration was talked and written about. I’ve seen many souls laid bare in their support of Obama. These same people wrote just as passionately about the crimes committed by Bush and his followers. What has me scratching my head in wonder is the total lack of objectivity from them when Senator Barack Obama says one thing and does another.

I have never seen anything that even approaches what I have seen over the past few months. Integral areas of Obama’s philosophy have changed dramatically and not a word is uttered by a majority of his supporters. His plans for the military and our continued involvement in the Middle-East have drawn hardly a whisper, even though our military involvement in Iraq resulted in volumes of scathing indictments against Bush from the left. Obama’s plan to move the war from one country to another are greeted with silence from people that months ago were decrying our unilateral and imperialistic military policies. The same demographic that decried the “Global War on Terror” seems to have accepted our need to continue the offensive.

Those that warned us about the shredding of the Constitution and the dismantling of so many civil liberties that we enjoyed pre-911 don’t issue a challenge to Senator Obama to restore them. Many who based their objections on laws like the Military Commissions Act of 2006 that effectively eliminated habeas corpus for terrorists or “suspected” terrorists, even after passionately speaking out or writing about it, seem to be quite ok with letting a sleeping dog lie. Those that were disgusted with the percentage of our budget that went towards military spending seem quite content with Barack’s plans to add a couple of divisions to the Army. Those people that spoke out against the military industrial complex and corporate contributions’ to the Republicans that threatened to eclipse individual citizen’s power over their government don’t bring it up now that corporate money and influence are finding safe haven in Democratic coffers.

The latest polls taken are finding that the economy is now the big issue, and we are at the verge of economic meltdown. The core Democratic issues like stopping deregulation of business, ending government bail-outs of banks and financial institutions and strengthening unions no longer seem to be issues. In fact, so many issues that were front and center of political discussions just a few months ago have taken a back-seat to the necessity of defeating the Republicans in November. Policies which were once thought to be conservative policies and values are now accepted by the Democratic Party.

The most intriguing facet of this entire race in my mind is that the Democrats seem to have no trouble accepting ideas that just a few months ago were shameful, almost criminal in nature. I guess it is more important to look at who is espousing ideas, rather than of the ideas themselves.

I’m starting to understand how Hitler got away with getting people to go against their nature. The truth is that if you want to believe in something bad enough, no amount of logic can stop you. I’m not saying that Obama is another Hitler, not at all. I’m just pointing out that people will believe what they desperately want and need to believe in.
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jonh said:

I think you article is Unbalanced
I'm not american, but has a writer on my country has wrote:"the presidente of the U.S. will be the president of all of us so we all should be allowed to vote". my opinion is that if you are going to make this paralel between Hitler, Bush and obama tou should present some facts to confirm it. because has i see, you are presenting a personal opinion has a scientific fact. that's always wrong
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Edwards Readies for Sandbox Showdown with Stout

“There was a spot where I think my game didn't evolve much, but in the past year or two years it has evolved again and I'm starting to get back to shooting for the front of that curve.” - Yves Edwards
Yves Edwards isn’t scared of Sam Stout. Actually, Edwards isn’t afraid of any 155-pound fighter the UFC has on their ultra competitive roster. He’s a seasoned veteran with almost 60 professional MMA fights under his belt, and has stood toe-to-toe in combat with competitors from nearly every inch of this planet and not batted an eye. Edwards isn’t frightened or startled or intimidated by any lightweight opponent the UFC throws into the Octagon with him.

Unless that opponent is on fire or a zombie.

The 34 year old native of the Bahamas fully admits he is spooked by two things: fire and zombies. “I really believe zombies are a realistic possibility,” states Edwards, who has a surprisingly rational origin story for zombies and an outbreak of it in our lifetime. “Patient zero will start out of someone's gym. A guy has their dog in the gym, the dog gets a staph infection, the dog gets bit with rabies, some type of cross breeding with the staph and rabies happens and then the dog bites the person because the dog goes crazy. The person goes to the hospital and this crazy strain of staph/rabies turns them into a zombie and it all started right there in somebody's gym.”

This is clearly a disconcerting theory for the American Top Team lightweight, considering he is a professional athlete who trains in several fight gyms all around the nation. Edwards is currently knee deep into his 14th year in MMA and has secured back-to-back wins since his return to the UFC last September. Even with all of this fight experience including a distinguished 40-16-1 overall record, Edwards knows his patented brand of “thugjitsu” is no match for the walking dead.

“You can't armbar a zombie. You try to armbar a zombie and it will bite you on the leg. You can't do jiu-jitsu with a zombie. Kickboxing might help a bit. At the same time, I'm a ‘germaphobe’. I'm afraid I'll get scratched and infected. I could kick the zombie in the head and his head explodes and I'll get zombie juice on me and I get infected because I have a scrape somewhere. It's kind of scary.”

Luckily for Edwards, at UFC 131 in Vancouver, Canada he will not be squaring off against a brain hungry zombie. Instead, Edwards will face the equally menacing “Hands of Stone” Stout. With his 17-6-1 record, the kickboxer turned MMA fighter has been a fixture of the UFC’s ever expanding lightweight division for the past five years. The most impressive stat of Stout’s Octagon career is him receiving four “Fight of the Night” awards.

“That tells me he is always in it. It tells me there is never a second where he is not prepared to fight, not ready to fight and not trying to win. Look at the guys he's fought. Spencer Fisher, Jeremy Stephens, Matt Wiman, Joe Lauzon, Rich Clementi are all tough guys who go in there and are ready to throw down. Then you watch the fights and every minute he is in it to win it. Even the fights he is obviously down on the scorecards, he's still fighting his ass off come the third round. He fights the third round like he fights the first round. He's always there, he's always dangerous.”

Stout’s main weapon is his standup, which has been honed by famed striking coach Shawn Tompkins. But the two attributes that keep Stout alive and well in these cage wars lie elsewhere. “The kid has a great chin and he's got great conditioning,” Edwards explains, noting that Stout’s head and gas tank could be made of stone as well as his hands. “But with a guy like Sam Stout who can always push the pace, the most important thing to train is conditioning. His skills are solid, his kickboxing is solid and I'm sure he hits hard, but he's got a great chin, he doesn't get discouraged and he has great conditioning.”

For the past year, Edwards has been sharpening his thugjitsu skills and working on his gas tank in sunny Southern California. “I've been doing a lot of work on my conditioning at the Body Shop in LA with Antonio McKee and the guys down there,” says Edwards, who jokes that some of the younger fighters have said they used to watch him fight when they were in high school. After all these years, Edwards believes he is still developing as a better fighter. “There was a spot where I think my game didn't evolve much, but in the past year or two years it has evolved again and I'm starting to get back to shooting for the front of that curve.”

It isn’t a wholly new Edwards, just a better version of him and on that is even more confident. Edwards made his Octagon return in front of a hometown crowd at UFC Fight Night 22 in Austin, Texas where he scored a solid unanimous decision victory over John Gunderson. Edwards followed this up with a second round rear naked choke win against TUF alum Cody McKenzie, which earned Edwards both a “Submission of the Night” and a “Fight of the Night” bonus. For the third time in less than a year, Edwards will be entering the cage and this time it is against a challenger who is always a potential “Fight of the Night”.

“It definitely gets you more pumped. You do this because you love the competition. I love to get paid and the money is great, and the fame I could do without because that means nothing to me. But to fight a guy like that is exciting. It kind of makes your mouth water. I seriously have been watching his tapes and watching his fights and I start giggling to myself that this is going to be so much fun. I'm really excited about it. It's going to be one of those things. I know he is going to bring all his toys to the sandbox and he's going to be looking to play with them and I'm bringing all my toys too, so it is going to be a good time.”

On June 11th at Rogers Arena, Edwards’ thugjitsu will clash with Stout’s “Hands of Stone”. Almost a decade and a half in MMA, Edwards is more psyched than ever about fighting tooth and nail with best competition the world has to offer in arguably the toughest division. “The way the game is right now it is freaking fantastic, and being a part of it is like living in a movie.”

As long as it isn’t a zombie movie, Edwards should be ok.

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Cream of Celery Soup

I'm still here just way busy with a full-time job and three teenagers.  Oldest monkey is now a college freshman.  Can you believe it?

I still have my garden, but don't grow as much as I did before going back to work full-time.  Now, I am concentrating on growing things that are hard to come by at the grocery store or farmers' market.  We receive a produce share every two weeks for the regular vegetables.  I currently grow edemama, swiss chard, herbs and other things that are either very expensive or hard to find fresh.  Heirloom tomatoes can break the bank, so I have at least 10 of those plants each spring and fall.

The produce share is pretty amazing.  It is about 40 pounds or more of fresh often local produce for $25.  Only problem is sometimes it is hard to use it all up.  We don't always eat meals together every evening and I certainly don't have time to cook every day.  We end up with extra stuff that either gets fed to the rabbits or composted.  I'm trying to stop that.  Soup uses up a bunch of veggies.  Today I made cream of celery soup and I will never buy canned stuff again. Our broccoli cheese casserole will be made with homemade cream of celery this year.

While the recipe is super easy you will need a wand blender or a standing blender that can handle hot stuff.  Also, you have to make a roux.  I know some people struggle with that, but it is really just a matter of patience and heat control.

4 ribs of celery (break them a few times crosswise and strip out some of the strings)
1 onion
1 tablespoon of butter
1/8 cup of olive oil
1 tablespoon of ham or chicken base or a cube of bouillon.
1/2 cup of milk

Chop the celery and onion up into small pieces and sauté in the oil and butter until tender.  Cover with water and cook until very soft.  Add the ham base (or chicken base or chicken bouillon) and blend until smoothish.  I like a little texture.  Make the roux.  Stir the milk into the roux and heat until slightly thickened.  Add the milk/roux to the celery and onions and mix well.  Eat.

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 tablespoon butter
handful of bread flour

Over medium heat stir together until it turns a little brown and feels creamy = roux.

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Upon analysing nothing; one finds themselves processing the something's, anything's, everything's. Each things, as potentially thought provoking as the next. Thoughts, without too many considerations. And this is not due to “its” own perceived value . But as a one THING does pass by, another as interesting or as un-interesting or seemingly out of place (or even just perfectly abstract), catches the minds eye; it is naturally spiralled into ever new unknown directions. Repeated ever after and always within moments of the first/previous. Odd, i don't know? To me i guess so. Any perspective gained, most definitely uneducated. Some of the things (listed hereafter) are only given any initial thought for its proximity to my perceived know normality:

The road, usually carved into a climbing terrain, narrowly clings on curves each tighter than the next. Double yellow lines and slow speeds the caution but the fatal sight of crumpled metal is the definitive warning. Scars of once operational vehicles and “safety” balustrades string the path. But the memorials of the lost, highlighted with catholic symbology also immortalised with headlights and car part shrines; are the ultimate reminder of danger.

Terpel selling only fuel, diesel for $8700 COP per gallon delivers service to the Dodge and Chrysler Trucks of all shapes and sizes. Makeshift establishments, where six or more men all gaze into hoods - staring at engines doing nothing. Young individuals work upon tires that should never be reclaimed. An auto mechanic industry meets demand in unlikely ways.

In what you may consider to be a long distance from anywhere –happily people walk, children play and redundant horses still carry loads like yesteryear. One feels inclined to stop and ask (or watch) their day unfold.

Hoses and pipes of unknown origin and destination follow the road. A littering of spanish lettering - some instructional, others advertorial signpost the way. The unmistakable pepsi and coke logo’s are matched in number with some think new; "minotos y cellular" phone credit available here! Checkpoints and tolls cut the journey. Gardens make way for family farms, farms for cattle fields and green houses, then a landscape of commercial crops. But as townships end, forest (or is it jungle) with a mix of dense vegetations take hold. Birds and butterflies navigate old trees, bamboo, vines, palms, ferns, grasses, huge leaves, flowers of every colour. A wildness, a wilderness that is only managed (sculptured) by the passing traffic on this road. Exciting for it’s mystery and deep darkness within. Then, “scrub” a bushland that could be mistaken for home. Gum trees, yes eucalyptus - straight and tall, wait... where am I?

And when there is nothing. Be amased with unique, creative crafted fence lines/gates/barriers of innumeroous materials that divide the country side.
Hours spent in transit to the next city or tourist location. Inner Colombia, observed from a window seat.

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5am or there abouts. 2600 meters above sea level. A fresh 4 degrees. Jan 9 2013, the years adventure is now to be realised. Dressing in what would appear and best be described as abstract. I set myself on finding the best El Cafe that La Canderlaria may provide for at this hour. Entering the clean one way streets one is met by the smell of breads being baked at the many closed “la panarderias”; sounds of distant transport and the normal on goings of a commercial city centre, i find an unusal mass of police officers with heavy arms and every second with a large dog, but unusually few peoples? Rollers doors covers windows and store fronts, grilles across others, lights within remain unlit - this city sleeps. A comfortable feeling, exploring alone, the tourist just watching and wandering, never lost yet anaware of exact location .The stories heard, none feared but any bad disolved with over pressence of different uniformed personnel. I greet locals with smiles not words and can only imagine what they are observing in my appeared randomness (both visual and with aimless direction), but then they do not meet any particular fashionable steryotype, most displaying a mix of new and old some of which branded, said expected in a metropolitan as such. Sometime later; finally, a girl of maybe 10 or 12 places a framed sign outside her door, it advertises combo’s? I assume her Caferteria is open so upon approach, in best day old broken spanish i enquire about the possability of El Cafe Sin Leche (black coffee)? Pleasantly escorted inside i sit and wait in one of the many booth style table settings. After turning on a small tv, the girl disappears behind the counter and looks to resume converation with her mother or older sister. They both busy themselfs and look pleased to have their first customer of the day. Shortly after arriving, having only spent minutes a watching the mornings news understanding nothing, i am brought a tray with the coffee as ordered but also a bagette shaped loaf and a large soup bowl of broth containing boiled potatoes, an interesting cut of meat that was possibly once beef but now grey and unrecogniseable and all scattered with dill and fine chopped parsely. I thanked the girl as i assumed i ordered the combo as advertised and was soon glad i had. My first meal and it was good. Arriving late the previous day, i hadnt actually eaten... Bogota’s El Doro International Airport is only 15 minutes by authorised taxi to my hostel of choice. But finding it, checking in and paying for it with freshly aquired Colombian Paso’s had been alot to do on little (if any) sleep. So; in my weary long travelled state, i managed to do little and climbed into bed for a well deserve marathon nap. But this ment presently although only seeking coffee the breakfast was welcomed and as it was tasty, so much so that i indulged in a second serve - all for the sumly price of $2.00AUD. The rest of the morning as the city awoken so did i and exporing the streets took its toll. It was not long before i decided either time difference (some 16 hours), the altitude or just jetlag in general meant i had earnt more coffee and further rest. Thus have had time to write these words.

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Spy on Competitors for Keyword Opportunities

One of the common misconceptions amongst people trying to rank in Google for a given term, is that the sky is the limit. For instance, some might think because they’re in the tourism business that they can rank in the top 10 for “travel.”

With universal search, one day, maybe. But we want to consistently rank for the terms that mean the most to our business that are within reach.

One way to figure out if a keyword is a good opportunity is to see what sites currently rank in Google. That will give you a pretty good idea that if there isn’t a site like yours (i.e. a competitor isn’t ranking), then it might be more difficult to penetrate because Google is essentially saying, they don’t want sites like yours in that search result.

That means we need to do a lot of Googling to see where our competitors rank, right? Well, kind of. Googling hundreds of keywords is incredibly time intensive so why not use a tool that already checks site rankings in Google to speed up the process?

What we’re looking for are keywords where Google says sites like ours belong. To do this, we are going to use a tool called KeywordSpy to identify great opportunities to rank. Just to note before we dive right in: KeywordSpy is meant to give an overview of rankings, not necessarily the exact rankings. Therefore, if KeywordSpy says www.eyeglass.com ranks #1 for “cool glasses” it could actually rank #3 or #10 tomorrow.

For this example we’re going to be using the eyeglass frame space. At the end of the exercise you should have a keyword list where Google is already rewarding your competitors, so why not you?

Let’s say you’re top 5 competitors are:

  • framesdirect.com
  • zennioptical.com
  • eyeglass.com
  • bestbuyeyeglasses.com
  • eyesave.com

Here is what our end output will be:

1. Plug the first domain into KeywordSpy.com:

2. Go to the organic keyword tab:

3. Download the keywords in CSV format:

4. After your download is ready, let’s download it!:

5. Repeat this process for all of our keywords and put the data into one Excel sheet with one header. It should look like this:

6. Now, we want to compare our sites. It would be very difficult to do so if we use URLs as an indicator. For instance, if we used www.framesdirect.com/page-1 as the company, www.framesdirect.com/page-2 would be a different company when we know it’s the same.

That means we need to “clean” the URLs. Copy and paste the URLs into a new column (from column I to J):

7. Select our copied URLs by click the letter in the column. So in our case, we’d click “J:”

8. Now, let’s clean the URLs by finding and replacing the http://, https://, www. and everything after the slash.

Find and replace the following with nothing:

  • http://
  • https://
  • www.
  • /*

So your data should look like this:

9. The end goal is to see how many competitors rank for a given keyword. However, what happens when a competitor has multiple pages ranking for the same keyword? That occurrence will skew the data if we want to see how many competitors, not competitor pages, are ranking for a given keyword.

Therefore, we need to first figure out the highest rank a competitors page has, then eliminate all lower ranking pages. We can do that by first sorting rank smallest to largest.

Go to the data tab and select filter:

10. Sort position by ascending:

11. Select all of your data by clicking on the first column, hold shift and select the last column in our data set:

12. Let’s delete duplicate competitor pages by going to the data tab, select the remove duplicates button. Once you’ve done that, unselect all in the tab that opens so every column will no longer have a checkmark next to it. Select only the first and last column (A and J in our example):

13. It’d be incredibly difficult to find opportunities with over 50,000 rows of data. We need to consolidate it with a pivot table.

While pivot tables can seem intimidating, it really is as simple as selecting data and dragging and dropping. Let’s give it a try.

Grab your data by selecting the first column, hold shift, then select the last column:

14. To create the pivot table go to the data tab and select the pivot table button:

15. Once your pivot table has been created in a new tab, drag and drop the columns (called “field name”) in the following way:

Above you’ll see keywords where all of our competitors rank. That means Google is telling us that it wants to rank sites like ours for the above keywords, therefore, if we can provide more value than our competitors, we could rank higher than them.

Now that we have all of our data available, we can start to answer different questions. For instance, what are my competitor’s most important pages? Or, where do my competitor’s rank in the top 10 and I do not? There are any number of ways to slice and dice the data so feel free to play around with the pivot tables to answer questions you might have.

Keep in mind this is only one way of doing keyword research, and I’d advise it not be the only method.

Have fun and keep analyzing!

About Ethan Lyon

Ethan Lyon is an Account Manager at SEER Interactive -- a Philadelphia-based SEO, PPC and Analytics agency. He enjoys tinkering around in Excel and Google Docs to make processes more efficient while always seeking new ways of looking at problems. Follow him on Twitter?and?Google Plus.

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Would you be willing to expand on step 15, please? You lost me. I was unable to get my data to appear like yours. I was able to get the pivot table but could not implement the “drag and drop” function to create your savvy list.

Thanks in advance.

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We consider the steady group motions of a rigid body with a fixed point moving in a gravitational field. For an asymmetric top, rotation about the axis of gravity is the only permissible group motion; for a Lagrange top, simultaneous rotation about the axis of gravity and spin about the axis of symmetry of the top is permissible. Our analysis of the heavy top follows the reduced energy momentum method of Simo et al, which is applicable to a wide range of conservative systems with symmetry. Steady group motions are characterized as solutions of a variational problem on the configuration space; local minima of the amended potential correspond to nonlinearly orbitally stable steady motions. The combination of a low-dimensional configuration space and a relatively large number of parameters that produce substantial qualitative changes in the dynamics makes possible a thorough, detailed analysis, which not only reproduces the classical results for this well known system, but leads to some results which we believe are new. We determine general equilibrium and nonlinear stability conditions for steady group motions of a heavy top with a fixed point. We rederive the classical equilibrium and stability conditions for sleeping tops and precessing Lagrange tops, analyse in detail the stability of a family of steady rotations of tilted tops which bifurcate from the branch of sleeping tops parametrized by angular velocity, and classify the possible stability transitions of an arbitrary top as its angular velocity is increased. We obtain a simple, general expression for the characteristic polynomial of the linearized equations of motion and analyse the linear stability of both sleeping tops and the family of tilted top motions previously mentioned. Finally, we demonstrate the coexistence of stable branches of steadily precessing tops that bifurcate from the branch of sleeping Lagrange tops throughout the range of angular velocities for which the sleeping top is stable.

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Rivals in NASA’s efforts to develop a U.S. commercial crew transportation capability — Boeing’s CST-100, Sierra Nevada’s Dream Chaser and the SpaceX Dragon — are in line to initiate and wring out the new universal NASA Docking System (NDS). NASA is targeting 2017 for the first ISS commercial crew missions and planning two U.S. segment docking ports equipped to accept the new, non-proprietary system.

Several years of station operations with the Boeing-inspired Soft Impact Mating Attenuation Concept (Simac), which has replaced NASA’s in-house International Low Impact Docking System (Ilids) design, are envisioned to help qualify the NDS international standard for the rigors of deep space.

“That is the driving force, a more simplified design that is lighter overall, less costly,” says Mike Suffredini, NASA’s ISS program manager. “We want to fly beyond low earth orbit one day, and one of the tenants of the space station is to wring out critical systems at station before we use them for deep space.”

The NDS goal is to accommodate dockings between spacecraft with masses ranging from 5 to 350 metric tons.

The project began with an international docking system standards discussion by ISS Multilateral Control Board representatives in 2009 to encourage greater global cooperation in space, while establishing a more robust rescue capability.

In taking the project lead, NASA’s Johnson Space Center turned to Ilids prototyping underway within the center’s engineering directorate since the mid-1980s. Ilids, intended to eliminate the need for the jarring post-contact thrusting that accompanied shuttle dockings, was adopted in the mid-1990s as part of NASA’s ultimately cancelled X-38 ISS crew rescue vehicle, then NASA’s Orion capsule under the also cancelled Constellation program. One Ilids unit was installed at the base of the Hubble Space Telescope by astronauts in 2009 during a final shuttle servicing mission to the observatory.

However, Ilids was dropped in favor of Simac as the new international standard for the ISS and the post-Constellation Orion Multipurpose Crew Vehicle in 2012 to address several concerns.

Those included the width of the outer soft contact ring in the Ilids system that constricted the post docking passageway, or tunnel connecting the two joined spacecraft and through which astronauts and cargo pass; as well as weight and cost considerations, Suffredini says.

The Russians pushed to retain the current 800-mm (31.5-in.) width afforded by the probe-and-drogue system used by the Soyuz and Progress capsules as well as the Russian-derived androgynous peripheral attach system (APAS) used by the shuttle to dock with the ISS. Engineers with NASA, the agency’s Jacobs Engineering Group support team and Boeing assessed options for narrowing the width of the Ilids soft contact ring to meet the Russians’ request.

Unable to do so, ISS managers turned to an alternative, Simac, proposed by Boeing.

“It was clear we were struggling with our Russian colleagues to agree on the inner diameter,” Suffredini says. “So, we went back and looked at our requirements again and realized we could build a different system that meets our requirement without building a light impact docking system.”

Ilids relied on a network of magnets and software controls as part of the soft capture ring to lower the initial impact loads that drive the latches and actuators of the older APAS hardware.

Spacecraft dockings unfold in two stages — soft capture and hard capture, which typically take 20 min. The first joins the two vehicles. The second draws them together to form an airtight seal.

Simac is an actuator-driven latching system that meets the international system’s low impact requirements. One of those was to join a pair of space vehicles as light as five metric tons each. Simac features two rather than six electronics boxes. The lower weight opens up the center of gravity, another concern for multiple vehicle docking operations.

However, Simac, which has reached the pre-preliminary design phase, will not eliminate all post-contact thrusting.

“We prefer not to do them [post-contact thrusting], but the spec does not prevent them. The early data says for nominal docking you will not have a need for that,” Suffredini says. “But as we explore the outer envelope of all the different conditions and modes, with the angles and contact conditions, we will have to see if some thrusting is required for certain occasions. That is certainly okay.”

Simac’s lower complexity helps to address the larger goal of creating a non-proprietary spec that will support production by multiple U.S. suppliers, while enabling it to be copied globally.

The NASA Docking System, as currently conceived, will require changes to the station’s two U.S. segment APAS-equipped docking ports. The ISS docking adapter (IDA), which is in production, will modify the APAS inner ring soft capture mechanism to accommodate commercial crew vehicles with Simac, Suffredini says.

The IDAs should be ready for station delivery in 2015, according to his estimates. The Simac docking hardware should be ready a year later, and NASA will likely provide the early production units to the winning  commercial crew transportation initiative participants.

As far as Ilids, the development effort is being archived so that it could be available to the commercial sector, perhaps through a Space Act Agreement (SAA) with NASA.

“If someone would like it for whatever reason, I’m sure we could work out a SAA,” Suffredini says. “We have no conversations like that going on right now.”


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No Such Thing as the Casting Tardis

Courtney Love's left boob makes a break for it

Courtney Love's left boob makes a break for it

Someone aught to tell poor Courtney that the casting call for the Red Queen is long over. Also that the woman sleeping with the director had it locked up from the beginning. Also, that if you’ve lost so much weight your implants are getting smaller, you need to eat a sammich.

Also, don’t be so shelfish.

Courtney Loves Canadian Thanksgiving

courtney loves it

courtney loves it

To tell you the truth, I kind of love it, too. It’s like she was on her way to a drag queen’s funeral, realized it just wasn’t fabulous enough, and stapled some wild turkeys and Shih Tzus around the hips. For Courtney Love, this is an improvement.

Hump Day Hunk: Viggo Mortensen

That's not hot sauce, ladies

That's not hot sauce, ladies

His protestations to the contrary, we have conclusive proof that Viggo Mortensen is a Red Wings fan.

And that’s just too gross to explain, even for me.

Wash your mind’s eye out with a Muff Diver shooter (no hands, please!) and a few gossip links:

Zachary Quinto has a message for young people (Lolebrity)

Who won the fashion wars? (Ayyyy)

The St Valentine’s Day Massacre/Roundup (raincoaster)

The most perfect food in the world, in 926 words (ManoloFood)

Charlie Sheen pulls an Edith Piaf (AgentBedhead)

You know, I’d pay good money to watch her in the UFC ring (BusyBeeBlogger)

Tila Tequila has gone Amish on us (CelebDirtyLaundry)

In fairness, I’d snub Avril Lavigne too (CelebritySmack)

Wait till Shia LaBeouf hears about this! (CelebVIPLounge)

I don’t blame him: EVERYONE hates Daleks (CityRag)

Your straight boyfriend will care about this story (DailyStab)

Jessica Simpson is as spontaneous as a NASA rocket launch (Earsucker)

Anne Hathaway wears support hose! (FitFabCeleb)

Celebrity fashion week (GirlsTalkinSmack)

Gosh, Emma Watson, lay off the ‘roids! (GossipTeen)

Lance Armstrong has had more comebacks than Cher (HaveUHeard)

A bunch of Yanks at the Brit Awards, why? (INeedMyFix)

Britney’s leaking! (PoorBritney)

Courtney Love perfects the “Dexedrine-addicted, glamorous auntie” look (PopBytes)

Who invited HER? (TheSkinny)

Proof positive that if you sleep with Robert DeNiro you get a career when you get dumped

Pity, if you will (if you can) the girls past and present of Sir Mick Jagger. For every one that becomes First Lady of France, there’s one that’s gone the publicly humiliating L’Wren ScottGeorgina Chapman route and foisted a line of unsuitable, unflattering,ill-fitting duds on an unsuspecting public, like this poor, clueless member of the public right here. If I were Julia Roberts and I had to appear in public in that, I, too, would be tempted to bash out my brains right there, center stage.

Cute shoes, though.

Isabella Rossellini fills the convents! (raincoaster)

Parker Posey is no angel either (Ayyyy)

Putin aside temptation (Lolebrity)

Industry Swiftly makes Kanye prOn (AgentBedhead)

Conan O’Brien is a cunning linguist (BusyBeeBlogger)

Adrien Brody is pursued by a succubus from Hell (CelebDirtyLaundry)

Angels get pregnant? (CelebritySmack)

Celebrity hobos (CityRag)

Cojo eulogizes Liz Hurley’s dress (CojoStyle)

Recession fashion tips from Vivienne Westwood (CyberBoris)

Kanye in the Sky with a microphone? (DailyStab)

Anne Hathaway is Jake Gyllenhaal’s guardian angel (EvilBeet)

Don’t EVER touch Charlie Sheen’s watch (Earsucker)

These are your people’s choices (GabbyBabble)

and deliver us from Speidi (GirlsTalkinSmack)

Un-chain Hilary Swank’s heart (GoFugYourself)

A Kardashian is judging you (HaveUHeard)

Russell Brand leaves his wife for Prince Charles (INeedMyFix)

Victoria Beckham and her incubus step out in daylight (JustJared)

Shalit be time for trading places? (Movieline)

The government hates your boss too (PerezHilton)

and in related news, Castro is still alive (PoorBritney)

Before Pee-Wee! (SeriouslyOMG)

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My Own Private I’da …

LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 21: Global ambassador for Cointreau Dita Von Teese poses for a portrait to promote the launch of the limited edition 'My Private Cointreau Coffret' at Selfridges on October 22, 2010 in London, England. The unique beauty essential & cocktail kit has been designed by Dita Von Teese and is available at Selfridges. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images for Cointreau)

Oh, even I couldn’t bring myself to make that pun about Dita von Teese, the woman who brought elegance back(?) to the profession of ecdysism. She’s seen here a) schooling Christina Hendricks in how to wear florals and b) launching a super-high-end Cointreau Coffret, which is basically a jewelry box full of booze and two glasses, which is generally the sort of thing I need, so call me, Cointreau. Americans can enter to win it by following the instructions at this link.

And now, to the Halloween-themed gossip links!

Stick it to zombies with this bedtime story for grownups (raincoaster)
Does Sharon Stone bathe in virgin’s blood? (Ayyyy)
Sarah Jessica Parker reeks of the open grave (Lolebrity)
I’m going as this spicy hot stuff for Halloween (ManoloFood)
Welcome your weekend of horror (CelebrityBeehive)
Lindsay Lohan to be saved from fate as flesh-eating monster (AgentBedhead)
Well, that’s ONE way to get a vampire’s attention (BusyBeeBlogger)
Can one of these heros save us? (CeleBitchy)
The sex tape rumour that Will! Not! Die! (CelebDirtyLaundry)
Every Day is Halloween! (CelebritySmack)
Celebrity Halloween treats (CityRag)
I’m sorry, Anne Hathaway, but this is horrifying (CojoStyle)
Kim Kardashian makes the punchlines too easy (DailyStab)
Elizabeth Hasselbeck is not long for this world (DListed)
Damien? (Earsucker)
Hideous corpse walks the Earth, needs pants (EvilBeet)
The year they cancelled Halloween (fourfour)
Zombie Justice for Anna Nicole Smith (GabbyBabble)
The Story That Will Not Die continues (GirlsTalkinSmack)
The Shoes That Will Not Die rise again (HaveUHeard)
Unspeakable golem creature forces human into servitude (INeedMyFix)
Jude Law vs Cthulhu! (JustJared)
The Halloween Hater’s guide (Movieline)
Emma Roberts calls for help! (PerezHilton)
Elusive creature sighted (PoorBritney)

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Dirty Martini Links

CANNES, FRANCE - MAY 23: Actress Linda Marraccini (Dirty Martini) attends the Palme d'Or Award Closing Ceremony held at the Palais des Festivals during the 63rd Annual Cannes Film Festival on May 23, 2010 in Cannes, France. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Sari about that: renowned ecdysiast Dirty Martini models perhaps the only example of a bondage sari in existence.

Here are your Dirty Martini emo links. Why am I so emo today? Read the last post and then mix a pitcher of Black Widows for yourself and me.

Underemployed Jedi single dad starts drinking early (Lolebrity)
Brian Atene is at the Nembutal and self-doubt again (raincoaster)
Brian Atene invented Superman Vodka, he’ll have you know (raincoaster media)
Here are two decorative, talented men as a sort of unicorn chaser (TeenyManolo)
This mystery man is filthy (ManoloMen)
Blohan blew it (AgentBedhead)
More Don Draper! (BusyBeeBlogger)
Paris Hilton says “Marriott? I wish I’d thought of buying it! I love Pocahontas!” (CeleBitchy)
As if the world didn’t have enough stupid things that make you want to die in it (CelebrityCosmeticSurgery)
Hey Gaga, Scotch is fattening! (CelebDirtyLaundry)
Well, alcohol IS a preservative (CelebritySmack)
Dita, NEVER get between me and the Cointreau (CojoStyle)
My god, what were they ON when they greenlighted this? (DailyStab)
THIS man is intoxicating! (DListed)
This is the only man perhaps more perfect than Jon Hamm (EvilBeet)
Hallelujah and pass the Jesus Juice! (GabbyBabble)
I thought what happened in Vegas stayed there? Is that too much to ask? (HaveUHeard)
Where was SuperHamm when THIS happened? (INeedMyFix)
What’s wrong with Drink, Bitch, Sulk? (JustJared)
Can even Jodie Foster’s might save Mel? (PerezHilton)
If Pink is a drunk I love her even more (PoorBritney)

and now, your cheer-em-up unicorn chaser featuring OK Go and Puppehs!

Hump Day Hunk Links: Prince Andrew Edition

circa 1981:  Andrew, Duke of York standing by a Royal Air Force helicopter.  (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

Yes, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, ex-husband of Fergie, the former Randy Andy, uncle of the two reigning Royal Hunks. These two shots are living proof that the minute they discover golf they begin to go to seed. (side note: feathers are totally in this year)

ROTORUA, NEW ZEALAND - MARCH 17:  Prince Andrew, Duke of York makes a speech as he attends a ceremony to honour the gallantry of Lance Sergeant Haane Manahi, at Te Papiouru Marae, Ohinemutu on the third day of his seven day visit to New Zealand, on March 17, 2007 in Rotorua, New Zealand. Manahi was not awarded a Victoria Cross for his actions at Takrouna Ridge in North Africa in 1943 during World War II, despite recommendations that his gallantry warranted the highest award for valour. This year, the government, working with Te Arawa, the Manahi VC Committee, and Buckingham Palace, announced that it would hold a special ceremony to recognise Lance Sergeant Manahi?s deeds, and The Queen expressed her admiration for his bravery The presence of the Duke at the ceremony reflects her wish to be personally associated with the initiatives to recognise his gallantry.  (Photo by Phil Walter/Getty Images)

James Dean has a surprise for Roddy McDowell (Lolebrity)

Barack Obama’s terrorist connections! (raincoaster)

This is beyond(ce) good taste (AgentBedhead)

KFat is back (AmyGrindhouse)

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Period of time that elapses when two males stand next to each other at a urinal to pee. This extended elapsed time before the piss comes out only occurs because of the presence of the stranger next to you and disappears when the muscles finally relax (or the other person leaves).
I stood at the urinal for 5 minutes because i had stage fright.
BigWillyStyle tərəfindən 24 Avqust 2004
Can be used in two terms

1. Happens when two males stand next to each other to urinate, usually they cannot. This is called stage fright

2. Happens usually on first time intercourse but can happen in other times of intercourse...
When the male wants to have intercourse with the female, but his penis does not.
Instead of staying/getting erect, his penis denies him the privilege.
Girl: want to have sex?

Boy: Errr Yeh!!

Boy: Your such a dick

Girl: Awww you've got Stage Fright!!
imimortal tərəfindən 20 Mart 2009
The tension of bladder exit muscles so that no pee can be expelled. It happens when other guys at the urinal are pissing away and also if one or two are hung like a horse and you are not.
"Hi guys Joe has stage fright again and can't pee." "I came in here because I need to pee bad. I am not leaving until I do"
Clean Fil tərəfindən 18 Fevral 2005
The inability to use public bathroom stalls or urinals because of you feeling very uncomfortable or embarrassed
I hate going to the bathroom in public I always get stage fright
LBJwitness23 tərəfindən 18 May 2009
an embarassing disease afflicting males who are unable to urinate in public places, especially when there are others present.
johnny regularly pisses in cubicles because he has stagefright and can't face the urinals
craigy. tərəfindən 21 May 2009
An inability to defecate resulting from an excess of chaos in one's environment.
(Shouted through a bathroom door) Would you shut up? You're giving me stage fright!
Phoetus tərəfindən 13 Noyabr 2007
The time-freezing effect which occurs when you speak to someone through a bathroom door.

Telling them to hurry up will only prolong the experience.
You: Hurry up, we have to go already!
They: Stage Fright.
You: Damned Freelance Bladder, we're only going around the corner.
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If Kimberly Perry of the Band Perry‘s boyfriend is planning to propose, the singer is sure to be surprised. Perry told Taste of Country that marriage and starting a family are not on her to do list for 2013, adding with a laugh, “And that goes for all three of us. We can’t have babies.”

The group is hyper-focused on their new album, ‘Pioneer,’ the release of which leads right into the ACM Awards, which leads to another tour with Rascal Flatts and then planning sessions for a headlining tour in 2014…

As for the identity of the mystery man the blonde singer is dating, she would neither confirm or deny rumors that it’s JP Arencibia of the Toronto Blue Jays (Neil and Reid were similarly tight-lipped).

But Arencibia’s Twitter page is feeding fans’ thirst for gossip. In addition to some playful tweets and pictures that included both he and the female Perry, the MLB catcher made reference to his as girlfriend as #TheMostBeautifulGirlintheWorld. He’s also from Nashville, played at the University of Tennessee and most recently encouraged his followers to buy ‘Pioneer,’ the trio’s sophomore album. He even retweeted a message by Perry’s record label to pick up ‘Pioneer.’ Seriously, who besides a boyfriend would do all of that? Other than a stalker.

Perry’s love life doesn’t appear to be totally off limits when it comes to the Band Perry’s songwriting. One of the more powerful songs on ‘Pioneer‘ is ‘Back to Me Without You,’ a song she told ToC is about a friend. A close listen to the lyrics (“Slow death of a slow dance / The tailspin of a romance”) indicates this “friend” may have been much more.

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10 summer signings who have made an immediate impact

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We are only 3 games into the 2012/13 Premier League season and we’ve already hit an international break.  Chelsea are the only side to have won all their opening games whilst Southampton are the only side to lose all three.  Although we haven’t given them much time to be judged, here are 10 new players who have already made a positive impact since joining their respective clubs over the summer:

Eden Hazard (Chelsea) – 3 games, 1 goal, 4 assists, 2 penalties won

The Premier League’s most-expensive summer signing, Eden Hazard made an instant impact for Chelsea when he setup the European Champions’ opening goal and won a penalty both in the opening 6 minutes of their season opener.

The back-to-back Ligue 1 Player of the Year and 2010/11 Ligue 1 winner with Lille has shown his playmaking abilities in victories over Wigan Athletic, Reading and Newcastle United to start the season.  The young Belgian international with have tougher tasks ahead, but his talent has yet to be denied with 4 assists and a goal from the penalty spot helping Chelsea to victory in each of their Premier League games to date.

Santi Cazorla (Arsenal) – 3 games, 1 goal, 1 assist

Arsenal took until game three before they recorded their first goal of the season.  Despite taking so long, new playmaker Santi Cazorla who arrived after just one season at Malaga has looked like a summer bargain for the Gunners.

The former Villarreal star recorded both his first goal and assist in a 2-0 victory over Liverpool last weekend, but in his prior two matches had created chances for his team mates.  Only Leighton Baines has created more chances than Cazorla’s 12 through three games.  An eye and the technique for a pass, Arsenal’s new number 19 is set for a successful time in London.

Michu (Swansea City) – 3 games, 4 goals, 1 assist

Another Spaniard who arrived for La Liga over the summer, Michu has made a very impressive start to his Premier League career by scoring 4 goals in 3 games, helping Swansea City to 7 points.  The Swans’ £2 million replacement for Gylfi Sigurdsson is filling in where the Icelandic playmaker left off by finding the net playing behind Danny Graham.

Michael Laudrup has got the best out of Michu in victories over Queens Park Rangers, West Ham United and in a 2-2 draw with Sunderland.  The Welsh side will be anticipating how the Spaniard copes through a full season of the physical Premier League and over Christmas, where the football goes on, unlike the Spanish league.

Steven Pienaar (Everton) – 3 games, 1 goal

Despite paying 50% more than what they sold him for, 30-year old Steven Pienaar has made a positive impact following his £4.5 million summer resigning from Tottenham.  The South African midfielder played in victories over Manchester United and Aston Villa to start the season, scoring in the latter.

Everton have made a positive start to the season, winning 2 of their first 3 games and Pienaar has been a big part of that.  Marouane Fellaini is taking a lot of the plaudits, but the left midfielder has teamed well with Leighton Baines, looking good in possession of the ball.

Shinji Kagawa (Manchester United) – 3 games, 1 goal

Sir Alex Ferguson took a chance in purchasing one of Borussia Dortmund’s playmaker over the summer.  The 12-time Premier League winning manager hasn’t had many players occupying Shinji Kagawa’s position over the seasons, but the Japanese star has already lit up Old Trafford with his quick, accurate passing and eagerness to receive the ball at his feet.

Shinji Kagawa’s only goal came when he tapped home from close range in a 3-2 victory over Fulham, but the former Dortmund player has come close with other strikes in his first 3 matches.  He has setup 5 chances for team mates as well as completing over 90% of his passes.

Robin van Persie (Manchester United) 3 games, 4 goals

Many were talking about Manchester United having more problems defensively than they did in attack last season, with the likes of Wayne Rooney, Danny Welbeck and Javier Hernandez to choose from.  Arsenal turned their backs on their former star and many raised questions over the price tag of a 29-year old injury-prone striker.

Robin van Persie has already recouped a small part of that fee as it was his two late goals that overturned Manchester United’s 1-2 deficit at Southampton to win 3-2 late on.  A missed penalty in that game could have been a low point, but a hat trick in only his second start for the English record champions was a perfect way to introduce himself to his new fans.

Mladen Petric (Fulham) – 3 games, 2 goals, 1 assist

Martin Jol’s free pick up from Germany, Mladen Petric made an instant impact scoring two goals and setting up another in an emphatic 5-0 thrashing of Norwich City to start the season.  It hasn’t been so great for Fulham since, losing 3-2 at Manchester United and then 3-0 at West Ham, following the departures of both Mousa Dembele and Clint Dempsey.

Mladen Petric has had two quiet games since his debut, but his form in pre-season, his eye for goal and ambitious and acrobatic shooting should win him over the fans over the course of the season.  Competing with Dimitar Berbatov and Hugo Rodallega to partner Bryan Ruiz up front this season, the Croatian will have his work cut out.

Arouna Kone (Wigan Athletic) – 3 games, 1 goal, 1 assist

Following the sale of Victor Moses at the end of the summer transfer window it would be easy to fear for Wigan’s survival chances.  I’m one of the few who believe Roberto Martinez will keep Wigan up again this season.  New signing Arouna Kone is one to help them avoid dropping down to the Championship.

The Ivorian opened his account in a 2-0 victory over Southampton and in game three provided a confident assist for Franco Di Santo in a 2-2 draw with Stoke City.  He showed last season whilst on loan at Levante in La Liga that he can score goals (as he previously did with Roda JC and PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch Eredivisie before an unsuccessful time at Sevilla).  I believe Kone and Di Santo have goals between them this season.

Steven Fletcher (Sunderland) – 1 game, 2 goals

There were lots of questions raised when Martin O’Neill splashed out £12 million on Wolves striker Steven Fletcher from the second tier of English football this summer.  However, Sunderland did not have a proven goalscorer in their ranks and lost Asamoah Gyan.  Fletcher performed well in two seasons at struggling Wolves, scoring double figures both times out and leading the league in headed goals during that time.

Steven Fletcher made an instant impact for Sunderland, scoring 2 goals during a 65-minute debut in a 2-2 draw at Swansea last weekend.  The first was a well-placed finish, capitalising on an error from Ashley Williams.  With Sebastian Larsson, James McClean, Adam Johnson and David Vaughan to put the ball in the box for Fletcher, O’Neill’s made a solid signing to score goals for the Black Cats this season.

Claudio Yacob (West Bromwich Albion) – 3 games, 7 points

The Argentinian international put in a man of the match performance on his debut in a 3-0 thrashing of Liverpool.  West Brom have since gone on to pick up a further 4 points in their next two games and only Arsenal have kept more clean sheets than the 2 the Baggies have kept in their first three games.

Claudio Yacob has already made 11 tackles and 5 interceptions in the holding midfield role alongside Youssouf Mulumbu, who together have offered great defensive protection to Jonas Olsson and Gareth McAuley in West Brom’s defence.

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8/10/12 Report – Drunken Belgian Cyclist Sent Home, NFL Rookie Hazing. Bobby Petrino

Don’t you just hate it when that happens: – The Belgian Olympic Committee has sent track cyclist Gijs Van Hoecke home from the 2012 London Games after pictures appeared in British newspapers of him looking drunk and being carried into a taxi after a night out in the city. Seems to be a lot of that going on in London these days.

From the BleacherReport: Recapping the Best and Worst NFL Rookie Hazing so Far. Some great haircuts in there!

Meanwhile, over in Arkansas, former Razorback  football coach (and part time motorcycle trick rider)  Bobby Petrino opens up about affair that cost him his ‘dream job’.

“How could I put what we had in jeopardy?” Petrino said. “This is what I wake up early every morning thinking about, what I lay in bed thinking about. Why?   “I just don’t understand how I could do it. You put energy into the people that love you, that count on you,” a teary-eyed Petrino added.

And, from our “Nice Try” Files: Former Penn State players, coach submit appeal of NCAA sanctions at the same time bookstores on campus are selling T-Shirts that say National Communist Athletic Association with a Soviet hammer and cycle in the design. Yeah, that’ll help smooth things over with the NCAA.


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Finance Minister Wants to Block Re-Appointment of Central Bank President

Finance Minister, Jan Kees de Jager (Christian Democrat), wants to change the law so that the President of the Central Bank (DNB) cannot serve more than two periods of seven years. This makes it impossible for the present bank president, Nout Wellink, to stay beyond 2011. There was much criticism of Wellink and the Central Bank when the DSB Bank went bankrupt. Prior to this Wellink was criticized for his attitude in the sale of the ABN Amro Bank and the problems of the Dutch activities in the Iceland Internet Bank Icesave. Parliament reacted positively to de Jager’s proposed measure.

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Why Bosnia can’t be divided

La Bosnia e il suo assetto futuribile tornano oggetto di discussione, dopo le ultime "sparate" di mister Srpska, al secolo Milorad Dodik, come sempre pronto ad alzare il prezzo della permanenza della sua entità all'interno della cornice di una Bosnia unita.
Al riguardo segnalo un interessante analisi di Daniel Serwer pibblicata sul suo interessante blog

Some of my Twitter colleagues (antagonists?) are interested in my answering this question:
can join the without , so why can’t join without the Federation? Double standard?
The answer to this one is easy:  The EU only accepts for membership sovereign states.  Serbia can join the EU without Kosovo because Serbia is a sovereign state.  I have no doubt that many of the EU’s 28 members (the 27 current ones plus Croatia, which will join next year) will insist that Serbia be clear about where its sovereign borders lie.  Germany appears to be insisting on that before the EU gives Serbia a date for negotiations to begin.  None of Kosovo (not even the Serb-controlled north) will enter the EU with Serbia.
Republika Srpska (RS) is not sovereign and will not be.  But that begs the question, why can’t the RS be sovereign?  So this is a better formulation of the question:
Speaking of reintegration/independence…why can’t the Republika Srpska divide from B-H & stand alone—or rejoin ?
I have addressed this question on many times, but I suppose there is no harm in revisiting it.  After all, you can skip this post if you feel I’m repeating myself.
My colleague here at SAIS, Michael Haltzel, offers a moral argument:  Republika Srpska, which occupies the 49 per cent of Bosnia and Herzegovina, is the product of an ethnic cleansing campaign conducted during the Bosnian war (1992-95).  Few non-Serbs have been able to return.  He argues that the international community will not and should not recognize as sovereign a political entity whose origin lies in war crimes and gross human rights violations.
This is not what I argue, even if I agree with Mike on the merits of the case.  After all, Kosovo Albanians chased Serbs from the area south of the Ibar river and relatively few of them have returned.  Yet the United States and 90 or so other countries have recognized Kosovo as sovereign.  There are many differences of both degree and principle between the two cases, but I don’t expect my Twitter colleagues to appreciate them.
I incline towards the realist arguments.  RS independence would inevitably lead to a three-way division of Bosnia.  The Croat-dominated southern portions would also secede from Bosnia, leaving what my State Department jcolleagues and I during the Bosnian war called “a nonviable rump Islamic state that would be a platform for Iranian terrorism.”  We imagined the terrorism would be aimed at Europe, not the U.S., but the prospect was still to be avoided.  It is even less appetizing today than it was in 1995.
In fact, the prospect is worse than our quoted phrase portrayed.  While some may imagine that the inter-entity boundary line drawn at Dayton divides the RS from any future Islamic state in central Bosnia, there is no comparable line defining the Croat state.  Nor is there any reason why the Bosniaks (that’s the non-religious term many Bosnian Muslims prefer) should accept the inter-entity boundary line as defining the limits of their state, especially as the eastern portion of RS before the 1990s was largely Bosniak, not Serb, majority. In short:  an RS claim of independence would reignite the Bosnian war, as each of the ethnic groups seeks to lay claim to territory it regards as its own.
In the meanwhile, no one in the international community would be interested in recognizing RS independence.  Even Serbia would refrain, because of the implications not only for EU membership but also because there is nothing attractive to Serbia about having a nonviable rump Islamic state on its border.  Croatia’s President Tudjman understood how unattractive that prospect was, which is why he shifted from supporting Croat secession from Bosnia to support of the Croat-Muslim Federation.  Slobodan Milosevic did not understand this, but many in Belgrade today do.  They also understand that RS secession would cause unrest in Sandjak and trouble in Kosovo as well.
In short, division of Bosnia  would cause a whole lot more trouble than Serbia, Croatia, the EU, the United States and most of the rest of the world think wise.  That’s a good enough reason for me to think it should remain a single state, albeit one in which there is a large measure of self-governance not only in Republika Srspka but also in the Federation.  But that is a different subject.

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WBB Hosts Western Michigan Wednesday In Worthen

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Ball State vs. Western Michigan
Worthen Arena (Capacity 11,500)
Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014 at 7 p.m.
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-  For the second time this week, Ball State will play at home in Mid-American Conference action when it hosts MAC West Division foe Western Michigan Wednesday night at 7 p.m.  The game will be televised live by Sports Link TV and can be viewed on Comcast Indiana 81 and Comcast Michigan 900.  The talent for Wednesday’s game will be Tyler Bradfield, Dillon Welch and Matt Organ.

- After Ball State plays its midweek game at home, the team will be back on the road for the third time in the past five games as they head to Kent State for a 2 p.m. tipoff Sunday.  The game against Kent State will mark the second meeting this season between the Cardinals and the Golden Flashes.  Ball State won the previous meeting Jan. 2 by a score of 55-31 at Worthen Arena.

- Western Michigan enters Wednesday’s contest with an 8-10 overall record and a 4-3 Mid-American Conference mark.  The Broncos are coming off a 113-87 loss to MAC leader Central Michigan.  Western Michigan has played Miami twice, winning the contests 88-78 (Jan. 4) and 86-75 in overtime (Jan. 22).  The Broncos have also defeated Buffalo 82-72 (Jan. 7) and Toledo 78-72 (Jan. 18).  Western Michigan has suffered league losses to Ohio (70-53) Jan. 12 and Eastern Michigan 83-77 (Jan. 15).  The Broncos won four non-conference games this season, Massachusetts 66-58 (Nov. 8), Detroit 103-86 (Nov. 14), Chicago State 67-49 (Dec. 1) and Valparaiso (72-50) Dec. 29.

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 • Wednesday’s game against Western Michigan will mark the 71st time in program history the two schools have met, with the series being tied 35-35.  Last season, the Cardinals swept the Broncos winning a 73-50 (Jan. 31) in Kalamzoo and then 60-46 in Worthen Arena, March 3.  Ball State owns a 15-5 ledger over Western Michigan dating back to the 2004-05 season.

• Ball State is 3-5 when they play on Jan. 29.  The last time the Cardinals won on this date was a 76-75 victory against Marshall in 1997-98.  Ball State has never played Western Michigan on this date.

• The Cardinals were the only team in the Mid-American Conference to own a 12-4 league mark while only having seven active players on their roster in 2012-13.

• From 2009-present, the Cardinals own a 28-15 MAC record when playing at home during conference action.  Brady Sallee is 8-3 at home during league play.

- Ball State was selected to finish second in the MAC West Division preseason poll.  This is the Cardinals highest ranking in the MAC preseason poll since the 2008-09 season, when Ball State was picked to finish first.

• After scoring a career-high 30 points in the Cardinals’ loss to Buffalo (Jan. 26),  Nathalie Fontaine has scored in double digits 44 times out of 50 career games.  Fontaine has 734 points for her career as a sophomore and needs 66 to reach 800.  The Cardinals have at least 12 games remaining this season and Fontaine could become just the second Ball State player in program history to reach 900 points by the end of her sophomore year.  Tamara Bowie (1999-2003) was the first to accomplish the feat with 943

• Ball State has three players averaging double figures; Nathalie Fontaine (17.3 ppg), Brittany Carter (13.2 ppg) and Jill Morrison (10.1).

Shelbie Justice collected her first career double-double at Eastern Michigan (Jan. 9).  Justice pulled down a career-high 12 rebounds while adding 15 points in the Cardinals win.

• Junior guard Brittany Carter posted 13 points at Toledo (Jan. 23) which marked the 41st game in her career she has scored in double figures.  Carter has surpassed the 700 point mark for her career with 756 points.  Carter needs 44 points to reach the 800 milestone.

Nathalie Fontaine, the 2012-13 MAC Freshman of the Year, averaged 13.2 points per game and 6.6 rebounds in her first season at Ball State.  Fontaine was named to the MAC All-Freshmen squad, while also earning All-MAC Second Team honors.  As a true freshman, Fontaine ended the season just eight points shy of what Ball State’s all-time leading scorer Tamara Bowie had when she was a true freshman.  Fontaine ended the season with 423 points while Bowie tallied 431 points her freshman year.  Fontaine is now averaging 14.7 points and 6.6 rebounds over her career.

• Freshman guard Jill Morrison’s made a season-high six three pointers versus Western Kentucky during non-conference action.  Recently, Morrison went 5-for-6 behind the arc in Mid-American Conference play at Ohio, Jan. 18.

• In Mid-American Conference games only, Ball State ranks third in 3-point field goal percentage (.345), second in 3-point field goal defense (.273), and third in 3-point field goals made (6.9).  Nathalie Fontaine is fifth in the MAC in scoring (17.7 ppg) while Jill Morrison is second in 3-point field goal percentage (.485).

Jill Morrison entered the week ranked second in the MAC with a .885 free throw percentage.  Morrison, who has made 46 of her 52 attempts this season, is also 21st in the nation in free throw percentage at .885.  Morrison also ranks first in the MAC and 31st nationally in 3-point field goal percentage (.421).

Fontaine Scores 20 or More:  Sophomore forward Nathalie Fontaine scored a career-best 30 points at home against Buffalo (Jan. 26).  She managed a 20 point performance at home against Bowling Green (Jan. 5) and then matched the performance the next time out at Ohio (Jan. 18).  The pair of 20-point performances, along with her 30 point showing, give her seven for the season and nine for her career.

Taking Tall Orders:  Freshman Renee Bennett, a 6-5 center who is the tallest Cardinal in school history, scored a personal-best 14 points against Tennessee Tech (Nov. 30) at the South Point Shootout in Las Vegas, Nev. and at IPFW Dec. 29.  She brought down a season best eight rebounds at Wyoming, Dec. 14.

Winchester Wonder:  Jill Morrison has made eight career starts so far this season at Detroit (11/23), against Tennessee Tech (11/30), at home versus Western Kentucky (12/6) at Wyoming (12/14), at home versus No. 7 Louisville (12/17), at Northen Kentucky (12/21), at IPFW (12/29) and at Akron (1/4).  She has scored in double figures in eight of her last 16 contests, including a career-high 26-point performance in a win at home over Western Kentucky.  Morrison also added 15 points in wins against Detroit Mercy (11/23), Tennessee Tech (11/30), 17 points in a loss to Louisville (12/17), 14 points in a win at IPFW (12/29) and a loss at Akron (1/4).  She recently scored 19 points in a victory at Ohio (1/18).

Similar Opponents:  Ball State and Western Michigan both played Detroit Mercy this season.  The Cardinals earned their first win of the season at Detroit after posting a 80-74 victory in Calhihan Hall, Nov. 23.  Nathalie Fontaine led the Cardinals in scoring with 23 points while Brittany Carter scored 18 points, including four three pointers.  Jill Morrison tallied 15 points in her first career start.  Shelbie Justice also added 15 points for the win, Katie Murphy had nine and both Fontaine and Merder each had seven rebounds.  Western Michigan defeated Detroit 103-85 on Nov. 14 in Kalamazoo.  Sophomore Miracle Woods scored a team-high 25 points and junior Michelle O’Brien recorded her fourth career double-double.  Woods shot 13-for-14 at the free throw line, setting a new career high for free throws made. She also pulled in eight rebounds and had two blocks. O’Brien totaled 19 points and a game-high 15 rebounds.

80 Is The Magic Number:  When the Cardinals score 80 points or more in a game it results in a Ball State victory.  Ball State beat Detroit Mercy (80-74) Nov. 23, Western Kentucky (85-77) Dec. 6 and IPFW (83-75) Dec. 29.

Brady Ball:  Head Ball State women’s basketball coach Brady Sallee was a head coach at Eastern Illinois from 2004-12 which is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference, where he posted a 91-55 (.623) overall league record. In his first two seasons at Ball State, he currently owns a 15-5 career Mid-American Conference mark.

D-D-D DEFENSE:  Ball State recently defeated Kent State 55-31 in Worthen Arena, Feb. 12.  The Cardinals had not held an opponent to 31 points since the 1974-75 season, when Ball State defeated Notre Dame, 78-31, Feb. 8 in South Bend, Ind.  That same season, the Cardinals defeated Goshen, 66-30, Feb. 21.

NOTHING BUT NET: Ball State had its best shooting performance of the season at Ohio (Jan. 18).  The Cardinals shot 58.7 percent from the field which included a 72.2 percent showing from behind the arc.

DID YOU KNOW:  Ball State is the only Mid-American Conference school to have beaten reigning 2013 MAC Champion Central Michigan last season not once but twice.  The Cardinals defeated the Chippewas at home 68-61 Feb. 7 and then again in Mt. Pleasant 67-63, Feb. 28.

BEHIND THE ARC:  Ball State’s 13 threes against Ohio (Jan. 18) were the most in a game since the Cardinals hit 14 against Buffalo, Feb. 10, 2010.

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