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Yesterday, we took a look at Market Samurai's Keyword Research module – and how Market Samurai gives you more raw keyword data, more accurate results, and more detailed analysis and filtering tools than any other keyword software – and does it at a lower cost.
Today, I received an email saying: "But [XYZ more expensive keyword tool] can do 100% of what Market Samurai can do."
Not true…
…But it made me think – maybe they just didn't know what Market Samurai actually did?
Are You Getting Everything You Can Out Of Market Samurai?
There are so many features available in the "Market Samurai toolkit" that it's so easy to miss or forget about one or two – and miss out on the benefits that they can provide you with.
So today, I want to share with you some of the specific features that you have access to inside Market Samurai – in JUST the Keyword Research module – and how you can use them.
Call it a Market Samurai "refresher course" – looking at all of the features that are available to you right now, and helping you to get value out of features that you may have otherwise forgotten about or overlooked.
But, before I begin – just a quick warning…
Because Market Samurai gives you more raw keyword data, more accurate results, and more detailed analysis and filtering tools than any other keyword software – this is going to be a BIG post! …So I'll do what I can to keep this brief.
Are you ready?
Let's go!
When it comes to generating keyword lists, Market Samurai gives you focused, high-quality keyword lists based on the keywords the search engines want to see.
Because you're getting the keywords that the search engines want to see, not keywords that could distract search engine algorithms when working out what your site is about (hurting your rankings), you get better results. (BIG concept – I'll go into it more in a later blog post.)
And because you're not having to wade through and filter out thousands of long-tail junk keywords (with no traffic), you spend less time on keyword research to get to the same end result.
- #1-2: Keyword Sources -
The two primary sources for keyword generation are Google's Keyword Tool, and Google's Search-Based Keyword tool.
1. The Google Keyword Tool
The Google Synonym Tool (known by most marketers as "the Google Keyword Tool") is particularly helpful for generating lists of synonymous and semantically related keywords.
2. The Google Search-Based Keyword Tool
The Search-Based Keyword Tool is valuable for finding the most profitable, most popular long tail keywords (and Market Samurai is the first keyword software to utilise this data source).
Together, there isn't much that these two tools miss – with the one exception being extreme long-tail keywords (keywords with traffic levels too low to provide any substantial benefit for SEO or PPC advertising).
And because you're asking the search engines what they want to see, you get an up-to-date list of highly targeted, high traffic keywords that Google "wants" to see when it is ranking a web-site (instead of an untargeted keyword list that includes keywords that could hurt your rankings) – meaning you spend less time doing keyword research, and get better results with less time and effort.
- #3-4: Traffic Filters -
Because targeting keywords requires an investment of time, effort, money and skill – it's important to only focus on keywords with enough traffic to make your investment of these commodities valuable.
Market Samurai allows you to filter out keywords with low levels of traffic, during in the keyword generation phase, so that you spend less time doing keyword research, and are left with a much more focussed and targeted list of keywords for your needs.
3. SEO Traffic Filter
This option allows you to filter out keywords with low traffic levels for SEO-optimized sites, and quickly focus your attention on only the highest value keywords – saving you time in keyword research.
4. Adwords Traffic Filter
Likewise, the Google Adwords Traffic filter quickly filters out keywords that have very low levels of Adwords traffic, and are unlikely to give you a substantial return for the time you invest creating ads and targeting the keyword.
- #5: Phrase-Length filters -
You can also filter out keywords that have too few, or too many words.
This is helpful for quickly targeting, or avoiding, either long-tail keywords or short-tail keywords.
- #6, 7, 8: Positive / Negative Keyword Filtering -
Market Samurai also has the most in-depth Positive and Negative keyword filtering in any keyword tool.
6. Positive Keywords
Inside Market Samurai, you have the option to filter keywords based on Positive Keywords.
While Negative Keywords are keywords (or parts of keywords) that you want to avoid, Positive Keywords are keywords (or parts of keywords) that you want to focus on exclusively in your keyword list.
Inside Market Samurai, you can remove all keywords except for selected Positive Keywords by clicking on the tick icon beside the keywords you want to focus on.
You can also focus on specific words or phrases by clicking on those words or phrases and then hit the tick button – or by typing the words you want to see inside all of your keywords into the Positive Keywords box before hitting "Update".
7. Negative Keywords
Removing individual selected Negative keywords can be done by clicking the "x" icon beside the keyword you want to remove.
You can also remove any keyword that contains a specific word or phrase – by clicking on the word (or words) within the keyword that you want to avoid, and then clicking the "x" icon.
OR just type in a word or phrase into the "Negative Keyword" list box and hit "Update".
8. Show Removed
If you ever want to see your whole keyword list (excluding any negative or positive keyword filtering), you can click the "Show Removed" button.
- #9: Add Keywords -
This is a handy tool if you want to analyze a couple of keywords specifically, and ignore other related keywords…
Or, if you want to add a specific keyword to your generated keyword list for comparison.
- #10: Add Permutations -
This is a unique tool to Market Samurai – and something that allows you to find the optimal keyword combination to use.
When it comes to keyword data, computers often mess up…
They put keywords in the wrong word order – so instead of seeing "trout fishing lures", you might see "lures trout fishing".
The difference in word order can make a big difference to your results – if your site is optimized for the wrong keyword combination, you're not optimized at all!
The "Add Permutations" tool allows you to check which word order is best for a keyword by comparing all possible options. This is particularly handy for unlocking the often overlooked value of low PBR keywords (I'll get to this in a minute.)
- #11-16: Import / Export Keyword Lists -
If you have an existing keyword list (from your web site logs, an old Adwords campaign, or even from another keyword research tool) and you want to access Market Samurai's in-depth keyword research for those keywords – there are several ways you can import those keywords into Market Samurai.
11-12. Import / Export Keyword Research Lists
If it's just a few keywords – typing into the "Add Keywords" box, and hitting "Add" is a quick way to go. But for longer lists, you can use the "Import" buttons to import keyword lists from saved text files.
You can also export keywords generated in Market Samurai to text files.
13-14. Import / Export Negative Keyword Lists
Are you planning to run an Adwords campaign? Already recognise the value of Negative Keywords?
Great! – Just export your list (or copy it from the "Negative Keywords" box) and paste it into your Google Adwords account for better quality clicks, and to avoid wasting money on unprofitable, untargeted traffic.
15-16. Import / Export Positive Keyword Lists
Similarly, you can import and export positive keyword lists to help you to target and focus your keyword research later.
It only takes one glance at Market Samurai to see the depth of research that it provides on keywords.
For most people, the sheer amount of data available to you for your keywords will not fit on a single screen. (In the screenshot below, I needed to use a widescreen monitor.)
- #17-19: Broad, Phrase, Exact -
Broad, Phrase and Exact-match keyword data is available inside Market Samurai for all keywords.
This shows you exactly how many people are typing in your keyword – exactly, in phrase-order, or in any order.
Market Samurai was the first keyword software to provide Broad-Match keyword data based on actual Google searches – before going one better, and incorporating both Phrase-Match and Exact-Match keyword data too.
17. Broad Match
Broad match data tells you how many people are searching for the words inside the keyword – in any order, mixed with any other additional words. It's a good indicator of the longer term traffic for a keyword – the type of traffic that an established site will pick up.
18. Phrase Match
Phrase match data shows you how many people are searching for the keyword phrase in the order that you see it appear in – potentially with additional words at the beginning or end.
It's an indicator of medium term traffic, and helps you to get the right word order for your keywords.
19. Exact Match
Exact match data is the number of searches for the precise keyword. It's also an indicator of the short term traffic that you might expect for the keyword if you're targeting it through SEO.
Market Samurai measures the potential value of "free" traffic from search engines – helping you to find the most profitable keywords to target for SEO, and allowing you to focus on the keywords that give you the biggest potential benefit.
The types of Organic Traffic data that Market Samurai brings together for you includes:
- #20: Total Searches -
This is simply how many people search for the keyword per day on Google.com, and Google's search partners (e.g. AOL's co-branded Google search engine).
Just like all traffic figures inside Market Samurai's Keyword Research module, these statistics are most accurate available, and exist for Broad, Phrase and Exact Match and are targeted to your chosen region or language – allowing you to do keyword research for any keyword market in the world.
For the first time with Market Samurai, you're able to get accurate keyword information for any keyword, language or region – opening up new markets to you, and taking away the need for any keyword "guess-work".
- #21: SEO Traffic -
It's deceptive looking at the total searches for a keyword. It's easy to think about how great it would be to have all of the searches per day land on your site – when in reality, only a percentage of those people will ever visit ANY site.
Market Samurai's unique SEO Traffic score (SEOT) is unique in that it gives you the maximum amount of traffic that targeting a keyword is likely to give you.
This is based on analysis of millions of actual search engine queries, showing 42% of all clicks go to the FIRST listed result.
Using this data is the most simple way that you can get better results from your keyword targeting – the higher an SEOT figure is for a keyword, the more potential traffic you can capture from SEO for your web-site. Simple.
- #22: Phrase-to-Broad Match Ratio (PBR) -
This tool saves a lot of wasted time and effort optimizing for bad keywords – a risk of using any other keyword software available, as PBR statistics are only available inside Market Samurai.
Computers don't understand language like humans do, and will often mess up the word order of keywords. So instead of giving you the keyword "trout fishing lures" (which most people search for), they might suggest "lures trout fishing".
If you're optimized for the right keyword in the wrong word order – you're not optimized at all.
You might get rankings, but you won't get the maximum traffic for that keyword.
A low PBR score is a warning sign that your keyword might not be in the right word order. (The "Add Permutations" tool can help you to work out the right word order. See above for details)
- #23: Trends -
Some keywords are seasonal – "flowers" is popular around valentines day, "ski" is most popular during the northern hemisphere's ski season but has a smaller second peak during the Australian/New Zealand ski season.
With Market Samurai showing you daily traffic estimates from the past month, this figure can fluctuate.
By displaying seasonal traffic trends for the keyword, you can accurately predict likely future search demand for the keyword in Google.
Edit: For consistency's sake, in Market Samurai the trend graphs are displayed as January to December charts.
We found that Google would often display the charts with inconsistent time frames (with the beginning of the chart being anything from 12-15 months prior) so it was often confusing looking at the charts. So re-ordering them as January to December charts ensured consistency for Market Samurai users, and helped to improve on Google's already good work.
If you hold your mouse over one of the bars in the chart, a tooltip will appear showing which month the bar represents.
Thank-you to Frank Dobner for pointing out that we forgot to mention this. Thanks Frank!
This data represents the paid, cost-per-click traffic that is available from Google Adwords, and includes:
- #24: Adwords Traffic -
A highly accurate estimate of the amount of traffic an advertiser can expect for a top-ranked ad in Google Adwords (seen for the first time in Market Samurai).
Using this data, you can focus your Google Adwords advertising on the keywords that are most likely to give you the maximum number of customers.
- #25: Adwords Cost Per Click -
This figure is both represents the "market value" of a single keyword-targeted visitor, and how much you can expect to bid to consistently achieve the top spot in Google Adwords (not position 1-3, but position #1).
While other tools provide Cost Per Click estimates, Market Samurai is the only tool able to provide this highly targeted data.
- #26: Adwords Click-Through Rates -
What if you could predict the expected click-through rate for your ad, before it was even running, and use this figure as a benchmark to tell you whether your ad is performing well or poorly.
This information could help you to lower your costs per click and improve your quality score – meaning you could get more visitor traffic from Adwords, with less cost.
By bringing together accurate traffic estimate data from several sources, Market Samurai is the first (and only) keyword research software able to do this for you.
A lot of people waste a lot of time and effort targeting highly competitive keywords for SEO or Adwords.
By measuring the competition that there is for a keyword, and targeting high-traffic low-competition keywords, you can get better results with far less time, effort, cost and skill.
- #27: SEO Competition (SEOC) -
This is the number of web pages that mention your selected keyword phrase. In general, the fewer web pages that mention the keyword phrase, the faster you can get rankings.
- #28: Title Competition (SEOTC) -
Market Samurai users requested this feature, and we delivered. This figure shows you the number of web pages that contain the keyword in their title tags (in any word order).
With the keywords that you place in the title tag of a web page being a HEAVY search engine ranking factor, often you can get very fast front-page rankings by targeting keywords with very low title competition scores.
- #29: Title Competition to SEO Competition Ratio (SEOTCR) -
This is the ratio of the number of sites that mention a keyword phrase, to the number of sites that have the keyword in the title tags of the site – and can be used to find under-optimized keyword markets.
Keyword markets that have very low levels of keyword optimization will have low SEOTCR scores.
- #30: Adwords Advertiser Count (AWA) -
This is the number of ads that are running for a keyword phrase.
While some other keyword tools DO provide Adwords Advertiser counts, they do not provide statistics on the total number of advertisers – instead, they count the number of advertisers on the front page of Google (which is usually between 8 and 11 results).
Because Market Samurai provides more accurate data in this area, you can get a better insight into how competitive the keyword is in Google Adwords, and focus your efforts on the least competitive and most profitable keywords.
- #31: Adwords Competition (AWC) -
This measure of competition is provided by Google, and provides a sense of scale showing how many advertisers are bidding on a keyword when compared to all other keywords.
This general guide is another way to work out whether a keyword is is going to be high, medium or low competition – and focus your efforts on the lowest competition, highest value keywords.
Not all traffic is created equal.
Some keywords bring in more customers, or people who want to spend more money.
If you know which keywords are used by "browsers", and which keywords are used by "buyers", you can target the highest value, most profitable keywords first – and make more money with less effort.
- #32: Online Commercial Intent (OCI) -
Market Samurai was the first tool to provide OCI data
measures the likely buying habits of people using the keyword
if the score is high (above 50%), it's likely to be a keyword used by people wanting to buy
if the score is low (below 50%), it's likely to bring in more browsers than buyers.
Using this tool, you can focus on more profitable keywords.
- #33: Adwords Value (AWV) -
Ever wanted to know which keywords would be most profitable to target?
AWV gives you the maximum value of traffic (per day) that you could receive by targeting the keyword – for Adwords.
Both AWV and SEOV are unique to Market Samurai – and help you to target the most profitable keywords, and avoid worthless keywords.
- #34: SEO Value (SEOV) -
Ever wanted to know which keywords would be most profitable to target?
Just like AWV – SEOV is the total maximum value of traffic (per day) that you could receive by targeting this keyword through SEO, rather than Adwords
The way it is calculated is simply the market value of traffic for a keyword, multiplied by the amount of traffic that a single site could potentially receive. As a result, this figure takes into account both the value of the keyword, and the amount of traffic – so it's a good way of focusing on the most valuable, profitable keywords.
- #35-47: Columns and Sorting -
35. Sortable Columns
Market Samurai columns are sortable – so, by clicking on one of the column headings, you can sort all of your keywords by that piece of data.
Want to see which keywords have the highest traffic levels, value, or competition levels? – Just click the relevant column heading, and the keywords will be sorted in this order – highest to lowest.
Want to reverse the order, and see the keywords listed from lowest to highest? – Just click it again.
36. Tooltips
By holding your mouse pointer over a column heading, you can also see a description of the data in that column.
37. Fixed Column Headers
…And as you scroll down, all keyword columns remain visible – like this (note keywords)…
These are all little features that help you to analyze keywords faster and more easily.
- #38: Filtering -
Finding the best keywords to target used to take time and effort.
On the one hand, you want high-traffic keywords.
On the other, you want low-competition keywords.
PLUS – you want to make sure that your keywords are valuable – that people are using them to find things to buy.
Sorting keywords isn't enough. Which is why Market Samurai created 14 keyword filters – allowing you to filter out low-value, low-traffic, high-competition keywords and have a focussed list of the best quality keywords to target.
- #39: Easy Keyword Tabs -
Market Samurai uses Keyword Tabs – allowing you to keep research for multiple keywords together in one project for easy reference.
It also means keywords are grouped into sets of relevant keywords – all of them in the same relationship groups that Google wants to see.
- #40: "Quick Tab" Key Icon -
Beside each keyword is a key icon. Clicking this icon will allow you to open up a keyword in a new tab – so that you can "dig deeper" into interesting keywords, and find additional relevant keywords.
- #41-43: Color Coded Keywords -
You'll also notice that Market Samurai has different colors for different rows of keywords.
41. Active Keyword
The orange keyword is the main keyword in the current tab, and will always be visible (even after filters are applied) for you to compare other keywords against.
42. Open Keyword
The green keywords are keywords that are open in other tabs, showing you that you have already "delved deeper" into that keyword.
43. Zebra Striping
The rows are also "zebra-striped" – with alternating background colors on rows (light grey / white). This helps you to read keyword data more easily.
- #44: Clickable Results -
Beside relevant pieces of keyword data, you'll see a small green arrow (which turns orange when your mouse pointer hovers over it).
The arrow signals that clicking on this result will open the raw data source in a new window, allowing you to seethe actual websites and advertisers that you may be competing against in that marketplace.
You can also click on the Trends graph to see historical trends for the keyword.
- #45-46: Keyword Tagging -
Have you ever been asked for keywords or tags for a YouTube video, social bookmarking submission or blog post?
Within seconds, you can have a list of highly targeted keywords for this purpose using Market Samurai.
Just select the best keywords for the job (by placing a tick in the tickbox to the left of the keyword) and then click "Copy Tags"
You have two options for tags…
45. Copy Tags (Comma Separated)
The first is comma separated – for blogs and most social bookmarking sites. They typically look like this:
guitar lessons, guitar lesson book, bluegrass guitar lessons, lead guitar lessons, slide guitar lessons, learn guitar lessons, download guitar lessons, beginning guitar lessons
46. Copy Tags (Space Separated)
These are used by some social bookmarking sites and video sites, including Delicious.com, and they look like this:
guitar-lessons guitar-lesson-book bluegrass-guitar-lessons lead-guitar-lessons slide-guitar-lessons learn-guitar-lessons download-guitar-lessons beginning-guitar-lessons
- #47: Export to CSV -
Market Samurai allows you to export your full keyword research data to a CSV spreadsheet, to archive, share with others or even give to clients – just by clicking the "Export" button.
- #48: Export to Text File -
As I mentioned before, you can also export keyword lists to text files from the Keyword Generation page. This is not limited to your researched list – you can also export your positive keywords, or your negative keyword lists for use in Adwords or elsewhere.
(Note: Going back to the Keyword Generation page and exporting your keyword list as a text file is different after you have applied filters – as you will only see keywords that meet your filter criteria)
- #49: Region & Language Targeting-
Have you ever considered the potential to make money in large search markets outside of the United States, largely ignored by internet marketers?
Here you can find high traffic, high value "niches" with scarcely a competitor in sight – and dominate the industry yourself.
Market Samurai allows you to do keyword research in 234 countries, regions and territories – giving you access to more keyword markets than ever before – making Market Samurai quite possibly the only global keyword research software able to target any major language, country or region in the world.
- #50: Language -
Likewise, Market Samurai is able to give you accurate keyword research data for any major language – allowing you to tap into practically any market that exists online.
For the multi-lingual users of Market Samurai, this opens up whole worlds of untapped opportunities online.
- #51: Adult Filtering -
Market Samurai also allows you to avoid, or include, adult-related keywords among your keyword research results.
(These options are available to you when you begin a new Market Samurai project file.)
- #51-52: Add to Rank Tracker -
If you plan to optimize your site to rank well for a keyword, you can tell Market Samurai's rank tracker to track your rankings for the keyword from within the Keyword Research area.
The two options that you have for this work in different ways:
51. Rank Tracker Tickbox
By ticking this box, you add the main keyword for the tab you have open to Rank Tracker.
You will be asked if you want to categorize the keyword (to keep your keywords in a treelike structure in Rank Tracker), and if you want to assign a specific target page that you have optimized for that keyword.
52. Rank Tracker Drop-Down
Using this option, you can select several keywords that you plan on targeting (by placing a tick in the tickboxes beside those keywords) and then add them all to Rank Tracker at once.
This 2-second process saves you time and effort, and allows you to track your rankings more easily.
- #53: Begin Using a Keyword Immediately -
Market Samurai is about more than just keyword research – it's about getting the maximum amount of value out of a keyword, using the minimum amount of time, effort and expense.
Remember – keyword research is just the first step in the process…
If you want to unlock the potential value of a keyword, you need to actually DO something with the keyword.
With Market Samurai – once you've found your keyword, you're not "left in the cold" to try and make the keyword work by yourself.
You can begin using Market Samurai's tools straight away – to go into deeper SEO analysis, research topics to write about, find and promote affiliate products, publish content to your web-site, build high-quality backlinks, and track your website rankings – all at the click of a button.
…But I'll stop here – because today I'm just sharing the features available to you inside one module within Market Samurai – just the Keyword Research module.
This is literally 1/8th of what Market Samurai can do for you (just 1 out of 8 Market Samurai modules) – we haven't even touched the other 7 modules (SEO Competition Analysis, Rank Tracker, Find Content, Promotion/Link Building, Monetization, Adwords, or Publish Content!)
And it's obvious just by looking at this that you have access to more in-depth keyword research data than in any other keyword research software available today.
I hope you've discovered something new today that you can begin using right now.
P.S. – This is the bit where I explain how new readers can get access to Market Samurai…
If you want to try Market Samurai for yourself, you can get free access to the keyword research module (and all of the features above) – plus trial the other advanced features inside Market Samurai – you can get your copy here.
If you already own Market Samurai and would like to upgrade to the paid version (and get lifetime access to all 8 modules inside Market Samurai) the place to upgrade your copy is here.
P.P.S. – Several people have asked for a PDF version of this blog post.
Scott Harvey helpfully obliged – and now you can download the PDF of this blog post here. Thanks Scott!


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The movie rating system appears to be an imprecise, almost backward, process. My son says the ratings issue was discussed in one of his college classes, and the general view is that nudity bumps up the rating to R, whereas plenty of violence can still get a PG-13 rating. Use the F-word more than a few times, though, and the movie is automatically in the R category. To me, this is upside-down.
We recently watched the movie "Knowing," and it made me wonder about the movie rating system — specifically, the difference between the PG-13 and R ratings. The rating system appears to be an imprecise, almost backward, process. "Knowing," now out on DVD, has so many spine-chilling aspects I can't even name them all: a gruesome airplane crash, people on fire, a terrifying subway crash, animals on fire, sinister ghost-like creatures sending whispered messages into children's heads, young mothers killed in tragic accidents, eerie creatures appearing out of nowhere. It scared the hell out of me. Truly, when we pushed "pause" for a minute, I was a little creeped out in my own well-lit house, just walking alone to another room for a minute. This movie was rated PG-13. What parent in their right mind would let a 13-year-old see such a movie? Thank goodness our 13-year-old was otherwise occupied and chose not to join us for the film. I can't speak for him, but if I had watched that movie as a 13-year-old, I'd be sleeping under the bed that night with the lights on and my bureau pushed in front of the door to barricade me in, being fully aware even that setup wouldn't save me. My oldest son, now a sophomore in college, recalls seeing the movie "The Ring" when he was 12 years old, just a month before his 13th birthday. Since the movie was rated PG-13 and a friend's mother was taking them, I confess I didn't think much about his going to see it. The movie turned out to be about a mentally ill child who had the power to kill people through merely communicating with them via video. "That movie was terrifying for a 12-year-old!" my son exclaims now, vividly recalling the trauma seven years after the fact. He was so scared after he saw "The Ring" that I remember him getting up and walking out of the room whenever a commercial for it came on TV. I think "Knowing" and "The Ring" should have been rated R. How do these movies slip through the PG-13 cracks? Is it politics, or different sets of values? The rating PG-13 comes with the clarification "Parents strongly cautioned; some material may be inappropriate for children under 13." I think "inappropriate" is a pretty mild word to describe horror and mayhem. Meanwhile, the much stronger R, which stands for Restricted, is unambiguous; children under 17 are required to have an accompanying parent or adult guardian. The dividing line between the two ratings is apparently a thin, subjective blur. The Web site for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) asserts that each film is rated by a board of 10 to 13 members, who are parents, and that the MPAA tries to select a diverse group of parents from across the country to decide on the ratings. My son says the ratings issue was discussed in one of his college classes, and the general view is that nudity bumps up the rating to R, whereas plenty of violence can still get a PG-13 rating. Use the F-word more than a few times, though, and the movie is automatically in the R category. To me, this is upside-down. The human body is a part of nature. Unless the nudity is exploitative or overly prolonged, I think it's much more developmentally appropriate for young teenagers to see than bloodshed and carnage. On the flip side, there's the bizarre example of "Frost/Nixon," a rather sedate adaptation of the interviews between David Frost and former president Richard Nixon. This movie was rated R. We saw "Frost/Nixon" on the big screen, our 13-year-old in tow, and I can't remember anything even remotely R-worthy. Was it because Nixon used the F-word a few times? Please. I'd much rather have my kids hear a few swear words, which they've probably heard anyway, than be completely creeped out for weeks on end. Another movie that defies ratings logic is the classic "Rain Man," which is inexplicably rated R. I think most people have seen this movie a couple of times by now. My youngest son saw it when he was about 10. Of course, I had seen it prior to his viewing, so I knew it was not only appropriate but also worthwhile. "Rain Man" offers excellent lessons about human differences and frailties, compassion and the triumph of brotherly love over greed. This is the kind of movie teenagers should be watching, not restricted from. Instead, the movies condoned for them are ones overly fraught with gratuitous violence and terror, teaching only fright and foreboding. In a movie, if a person swears more than a few times, that movie is rated R, but if that same person is terrorized and dies a macabre, grisly death, it's only PG-13. And that's what's truly scary. Deborah Knight Snyder is a longtime correspondent for the Mansfield News, Norton Mirror and Easton Journal. She can be reached at email@example.com.

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After a several month hiatus Josh Clason's Depth of Speed is back with another fantastic video profiling one man's deep love of all things Datsun.
While they were once considered little more than disposable economy cars, you need look no further than Allen Anderson and his fleet of Datsuns to see an excellent example of the kinds of rabid fan following that surrounds these small cars.
It's hard not to see the appeal in one of these cars after watching this video—one viewing was all it took before we were scouring the internet in search of the perfect 510.
Hat tip to Josh!


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Optical SteadyShotimage stabilization reduces shake and blur by countering camera movements in both horizontal and vertical directions. Active 3-Way stabilization adds digital rolling control that counters clockwise and anti-clockwise rotation, resulting in more stable videos even at long focal lengths.
GPS and Compass
GPS and compass record location data and camera direction as you shoot movies and photos. GPS Log lets users track a photographic journey and later view the path and images on a map. Map View in ?PlayMemories Home? software, allows users to view images on a map showing where they were taken. The logged path and images can also be displayed on Google Earth.
Capture the decisive moment with up to 10fps
Capture full 18.2 megapixel resolution images at up to 10 frames per second, helping to ensure that the decisive moment is captured such as the soccer ball flying into the goal. In addition, a mechanical shutter helps reduce distortion when continuously shooting moving subjects.
3D Still Image and 3D Sweep Panoramamode
Produce awe-inspiring images with 3D Still Image and 3D Sweep Panoramacapabilities.3 Photos will take on a new dimension of creative capabilities for viewing the world in a whole new way.
Picture Effect
Picture Effect adds a new level of expression to photos, making ordinary landscapes and portraits come to life by heightening mood and emphasizing certain attributes. Select camera models have up to nine different effects.
Photo Creativity
Photo Creativity allows you to fine-tune your exposure settings, such as brightness, color, and vividness, and quickly choose the right enhancement for your subject. Now you can view Picture Effects and Photo Creativity effects in real time on the camera?s monitor or in the viewfinder before shooting.
Background Defocus
DSLR photographs are often beautiful because they blur the background, putting the emphasis on the subject. Now our point-and-shoot cameras can deliver this signature DSLR benefit. The system takes two shots, identifies the background and applies a defocused background keeping the subject crisp and clear
Superior Auto mode
Get cleaner, more dynamic pictures and fewer missed shots. The camera automatically recognizes the correct scene mode, then quickly shoots and combines up to six shots to produce images with greater clarity, optimum dynamic range using Backlight Correction HDR technology and lower image noise using 6 shots layering technology. Superior Auto intelligently detects 33 scenes for still images and 44 scenes for movies, making it easy to get the best shot.
Face Detection technology
Face Detection technology detects up to eight individual faces and adjusts focus, exposure, and white balance to help deliver crisp, properly lit images of family and friends.
Smile Shutter technology
Smile Shutter technology captures a smile the moment it happens. Simply press the Smile Shutter button and the camera does the rest. You can also select adult and child priority and indicate the degree of Smile Detection sensitivity. Intelligent Scene Recognition can be used together with Smile Shutter mode when the Intelligent Auto mode is on. This means that beautiful smiles can be captured with settings optimized for the particular scene, even in difficult conditions such as twilight and backlighting.
Anti-blink Function
It?s frustrating to capture the perfect shot, only to review it later and discover subjects blinked during the photo. The Anti-blink function works to help counter blinking and squinting. When the camera is set to Soft Snap, the Anti-blink function captures two images, recording only the photo with less squinting. If a blink is detected in other shooting modes, a warning will be displayed after you take the shot.
Soft Skin mode
Portrait subjects will love the results. Soft Skin mode recognizes skin tones and reduces the appearance of blemishes and wrinkles without affecting the rest of the shot.
Intelligent Scene Recognition Mode
Intelligent Scene Recognition (iSCN) Mode automatically detects 33 different types of scenes for photos and 44 scenes for videos and selects the appropriate camera settings. iSCN has two modes: Auto and Advanced. In Auto Mode, the camera takes a single shot using the optimal settings. In Advanced Mode, the camera takes a photo with the optimal settings and, if in difficult lighting (low light or back light) immediately takes a second photo with another optimized setting so you can choose which to keep.
Natural Flash
Conventional point-and-shoot camera flash shots just don't capture colors the way the eye sees them. Natural Flash controls the white balance of both the background and main subjects.
Motion Detection
Motion Detection, along with Face Motion Detection adjusts ISO sensitivity and increases the shutter speed when movement is detected, reducing blur in moving subjects and faces.
Sweep Multi Anglemode
In Sweep Multi Anglemode, the camera takes 15 images at different angles as it sweeps across the scene. By tilting the camera during playback, the camera?s Gyro Sensor detects motion and displays the image in a 3D-like view on the camera?s LCD.
Camera Type: High Zoom
Imaging Sensor
Imaging Sensor: 1/2.3" Exmor R CMOS Sensor
Processor: BIONZ
Pixel Gross: 18.9MP
Effective Picture Resolution: 18.2MP
Color Filter System: RGB primary color filters
Media Type: optional ?Memory Stick Duo? (No movie recording), optional ?Memory Stick PRO Duo? (Mark 2 only for movie recording), optional ?Memory Stick PRO-HG Duo?, optional SD Memory Card (Class 4 or higher), optional SDHC Memory Card (Class 4 or higher), optional SDXC Memory Card (Class 4 or higher)
Still Image Max Effective Resolution: Approx. 18.2 Megapixels
Still Image Size 16:9: 13M(4,896?2,752) / 2M(1,920 x 1,080)
Still Image Size 4:3: 18M(4,896?3,672) / 10M(3,648 x 2,736) / 5M(2,592 x 1,944) / VGA
Panorama Still Image Size: Sweep Panorama:HR(10,480 x 4,096) / Wide(7,152 x 1,080/4,912 x 1,920) / Standard(4,912 x 1,080/3,424 x 1,920)
Sweep Multi Angle Image Size: 2M (1,920 x 1,080)
Video Mode: AVCHD 60i:28M PS(1,920?1,080/60p)/24M FX/17M FH(1,920?1,080/60i)/9M HQ(1,440?1,080/60i),MP4:12M(1,440?1,080/30fps)/6M(1,280?720/30fps)/3M VGA(640?480/30fps)
Photo Capture from Movie: Yes
Dual Record: Yes
Audio Format: AC3 (Stereo)
Microphone/Speaker: Stereo/mono
Wind Noise Reduction: Off/on
Lens Type: Sony G
Aperture: f 3.2-5.8
Optical Zoom: 20x
Focal Length (35mm equivalent): Still 16:9: 27.5-550mm / Still 4:3: 25-500mm / Movie 16:9: 27.5-550mm(SteadyShot Standard), 28-784mm(SteadyShot Active) / Movie 4:3: 34-680mm(SteadyShot Standard), 35-980mm(SteadyShot Active)
Lens Construction: 12 elements in 9 groups
Minimum Focus Distance: iAuto:AF(W:Approx.1cm(0.03') to Infinity, T:Approx.170cm(5.58') to Infinity) / Program Auto:AF(W:Approx.1cm(0.03') to Infinity, T:Approx.170cm(5.58') to Infinity)
Aspheric Elements: 4
Clear Image Zoom: 40x
Steady Shot Mode:Active: Yes
LCD Display
LCD Type: 3.0? Xtra Fine LCDTruBlackdisplay (921K dots)
Brightness Control: 5(Bright) / 4 / 3(Normal) / 2 / 1(Dark)
Histogram: Yes
Grid Display: Yes (Off / On)
Focus Control
AF Modes: Multi Point AF / Center Weighted AF / Flexible Spot AF / Manual / Semi Manual / Tracking Focus / Face Tracking Focus
AF Illuminator: Auto / Off
Exposure System
Metering Modes: Multi Pattern / Center Weighted / Spot
Exposure Compensation: Plus / Minus 2.0EV, 1 / 3EV step
Scene Mode(s): High Sensitivity / Soft snap / Soft Skin / Landscape / Night Portrait / Night Scene / Handheld Twilight / Gourmet / Beach / Snow / Fireworks /Pet mode /Anti-motion blur / Backlight Correction HDR / Advanced sports shooting
D-Range Optimizer: Standard
ISO: Auto / 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 / 1600 / 3200 / 6400 / 12800
White Balance Mode: Auto (Intelligent) / Daylight / Cloudy / Fluorescent 1 (White Fluorescent Lighting) / Fluorescent 2 (Natural White Fluorescent Lighting) / Fluorescent 3 (Day White Fluorescent Lighting) / Incandescent / Flash / One Push, One Push Set / White Balance Shift
Drive System
Self-timer: Off / 10sec. / 2sec. / portrait1 / portrait2
Shutter Speeds: iAuto(4" - 1/1600) / Program Auto(1" - 1/1600) / Manual(30" - 1/1600)
Burst Mode: Approx 10 fps at 18.2MP (Maximum 10 shots)
Flash Modes: Auto / Flash On / Slow Synchro / Flash Off
Flash Coverage: ISO Auto: Approx.0.4m to 7.1m(1 feet 3 3/4 inches to 23 feet 3 5/8 inches)(W) / Approx.1.7m to 3.9 m(5feet 7 inches to 12 feet 9 5/8 inches)(T), ISO3200: up to Approx.10.0 m(32 feet 9 3/4 inches)(W) / Approx.5.5 m(18 feet 5/8 inches)(T)
Convenience Features
Red-Eye Reduction: Auto / On / Off
Erase/Protect: Erase: Single / Select / Date / Folder / AVCHD, Protect: Single / Select / Date / Folder / AVCHD
Advanced Features
Anti Motion Blur: Yes
Sweep Panorama: Intelligent Sweep Panorama / 3D Sweep Panorama
Face Detection: 8 Faces (Auto / Off / Child Priority / Adult Priority / Key Selected Face Memory)
Smile Shuttertechnology: Yes
Image Stabilization: Optical SteadyShotwith 3-way Active Mode Image Stabilization
In-Camera Editing: Trimming / Red Eye Correction / Unsharp Masking
Intelligent Auto: Yes
Shooting Tips: Yes
Background Defocus: Yes
Tracking Focus: Off / Auto
Blink Detection: Yes
Photo Creativity: Yes
Picture Effects: HDR Painting / Richtone Monochrome / Miniature / Toy camera / Pop Color / Partial Color / Soft High-key / Watercolor / Illustration
Memory Card Slot: MS Duo and SD/SDHC/SDXC Compatible
HD Output: Micro HDMI
USB Port(s): Micro USB, Hi-Speed USB(USB2.0)
TransferJet: Send: Yes, Receive: Yes
Weights and Measurements
Dimensions (Approx.): 4 1/4" x 2 1/2" x 1 3/8" (106.6mm x 61.9mm x 34.6mm)
Weight (Approx.): 9.0oz (254g)
Weight(Approx) (Main unit only): 2.7oz (221g)
Battery Type: LITHIUM ION NP-BG1 3.6V
Battery Capacity: typical:3.4Wh(960mAh), minimum:3.3Wh(910mAh)
Power Consumption (in Operation): Approx. 1.1W
Power Requirements: AC 100V to 240V, 50/60 Hz, 70mAh


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A lot of advertisers will often focus on a single form of advertising when creating a campaign for a client but it turns out, diversification is more vital than some think. The question is, what are the best combinations of advertising. Some reports in the past have said using TV, online video and print combined works best. Some others, like the one I'll be talking about today, have suggested that print is dead (not in so many words) and that online video is the key. Now the question remains, should it be paired with display or TV or something else?
Adap.tv and Digiday did some digging and pulled together some numbers together to give you some insight into where you might want to be spreading your advertising dollars. They polled the Digiday user base and got a cross section of online video users that included; agencies, brands, publishers and ad networks or DSPs. There were 638 respondents and they were incentivized with chances to win conference passes and/or the tablet of their choice.
Here's the break down.
It was conducted in late March and early April of 2012 from the universe of Digiday subscribers, conference attendees and speakers who themselves represent digital media and marketing professionals.
Video Ads + ?? Are Best
Right out of the gate, almost half of the respondents said that online video advertising should be more aligned with TV over display. But 40% did say that display was the right alignment. The remaining 11% thought it might need to be its own medium and that means it would need to be seen completely differently. I think it's more like a mixture of TV and display in that it's interactive like display ads but contains far more content per second of viewing, like TV does. If I had been asked, I would have been hard pressed to say one or the other and might have been in that 11% minority.
However, only 10% stated they believed that online video advertising was a replacement for TV advertising, while 62% said it would complement it. That's an increase of 6% for the latter from 2011 so it shows that people are starting to see the power of a combined TV/online video campaign.
33%, up from 28% in 2010, said it was neither. The report takes that to mean they believe online video stands alone in the minds of those respondents. They didn't put the actual wording of the question in the report so it's hard to know if what those 33% meant was that they're not doing TV advertising because in the report it says, "their use of online video is more likely to be a complement to TV rather than a replacement for TV." If they're not doing TV advertising and the question was "do you feel online video complements or replaces your TV advertising?" then the answer would be neither, right?
One Metric to Rule Them All
Yes, I've used that sub-header in the past. When I do that, it generally means there's an ongoing thread in the industry, and in my mind, which needs to be addressed. For example "When is a View a View?" which I think has been addressed but not really ever formalized. There are probably ten uses or variations of that which I've used in the last year.
This time round, it's once again talking about the unification of TV and online video metrics is a unifying factor. Yet, already this year there have been numerous announcements of just that. It could be that the survey was done before some recent GRP announcements starting trickling out as I think they were mid/late April. In fact, another just slid across my desk today from Brightroll who is offering iGRP measurement for in-flight audience statistics.
Regardless, it's abundantly clear that a comparable metric is required between TV and online video advertising. I do not believe it should ever be the only metric that is taken into consideration because, as I said before, online video advertising has all manner of other things that make it unique like interactivity, but I do believe that traditional TV advertisers do need a way to compare ROI between TV and online video to truly see the value in the latter.
So then the question remains, what is that one metric to bind them all?
Well there's the rub. It seems that agencies and brands are sort of split on what that should be. Brands want it to be brand engagement, a full 73% of respondents agreed. However, click through, which I think should be important but requires more tracking because I often accidentally click through a video ad trying to pause a video, etc. is still debated amongst them. Agencies say it's not at all important while brands placed it third. In fact, they think it so important it topped TV-like metrics.
Screen Convergence Beats Metrics Convergence
Much to my satisfaction is the report's paragraph on connected TV ad spend. If you read my articles often, you know I have been telling everyone to get their ducks in a row and get their video ads out to connected TVs. Did you all listen? If you did you probably got some good rates and probably had ease of getting inventory. Now, it looks like things are going to heat up in connected TV advertising. Both advertisers and publishers jumped in regards to ad spend and support for connected TVs over last year. A full 20% leap for advertisers and a cool 9% more publishers in fact.
Clearly, there is a group that realizes the power of connected TV. The report seemed mystified over why all these people are moving toward it as an additional 38% said it would be in the plan within 12 months. They suggested Apple TV… I like to think I had a hand in it. Did I? Have you or are you working on connected TV advertising because of ReelSEO?
Alright, enough seeking validation for our work and back to the work at hand.
Ad Spend Sands Shifting
Nearly everyone sees ad spend increasing for online video. Brands, agencies and ad networks were almost unanimously together (93%) in their belief that ad spend for online video would increase around 23%. On top of that, 80% of publishers stated average online video ad CPMS saw increases of 11% and 83% of them said ad fill rates for online video ads was up around 14% on average over last year.
Is TV bundled with online video ads? Pfft… Actually the broadcast and cable companies in the mix were split nearly dead center 52/48 on that with the minority saying they do bundle. This is part of what I see as the problem, the cable companies are still fighting online video, as evidenced by their attempts to push Hulu to require pay TV authentication for users instead of openly embracing it and trying to make the most out of the situation. If they were smart, they would be giving consumers reasons to plug those connected TVs into the network to further expand revenue through advertising. As it stands, around 1-in-5 US households has a connected TV, but most don't connect it to the Internet.
I think that bundling of online video and TV ads could have far-reaching impact on the industry. When combined with things like real-time bidding ad exchanges and cross-network purchasing it could create a marketplace that premium publishers would want to get involved in. Instead, many of them only do private placements of ads through their own ad sales force. If they were able to get top dollar for their inventory through an ad network and RTB exchange they might be willing to loosen up the restrictions on using them. That's something that the online video ad network industry needs to address but there are numerous other problems that would need to be addressed as well.
Some video ad networks are working on things to help increase ad bundling and metrics convergence already and that's a step in the right direction. I think that getting major publishers on board and believing they can get top dollar for their inventory through an exchange or ad network is going to be vital to continued growth and might even be the linchpin in bundling TV and online video one day.


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It's Start Your Family Tree Week again. How's yours?
Mine has grown a little, it's less lop-sided than last year's. But I'm going to be doing a bit of tree surgery and root-nourishing over the festive season.
If you'd like to join me in a spot of genea-gardening, here's a good place to start – FindMyPast Ireland has a week of tips and a competition on social media (you do use Facebook, Twitter or G+, don't you?)
And to help there's still time to take up the offer of 50 free credits, worth over £5, or up to 10 free views of original documents, at FindMyPast UK, along with useful tips.
You can also get 50 more FMP credits via the Lost Cousins newsletter, making a fantastic total of 100. If you subscribe, you'll get regular tips and news of offers. And until the end of the year you can use the site for free. There's also a free downloadable PDF ancestor chart with Ahnentafel numbers.
Another place for helpful SYFTW tips is Genes Reunited, which also has downloadable charts and family question sheets. They'll be running competitions, too, as British GENES points out. (Thanks, Chris, for explaining the FMP credits so clearly here.)
I still can't find one great-grandfather in the 1881 census. I know he was alive then, but as a mariner he might have been at sea on census day. Maybe I'll track him down this week?
If I find any other special Start Your Family Tree Week tips this week I'll post them here. And please let me know if you spot any.
Happy tree-growing!
Stop press: More (40) free FMP credits, this time in association with Who Do You Think You Are? magazine. And 50 more via FMP UK's Facebook page. Thanks to Tamara McCloskey for the tip.
And another 40 (that's a possible 230 in all, phew!) with the details here on British & Irish Genealogy. Thanks, Mick Southwick.
A big thank you to all the above – they've already helped me find out more about my more elusive family members.
Two great places to go for the latest in UK and Ireland genealogy news, including offers like these, are British GENES and British & Irish Genealogy.
Some of these offers have now expired, but Julie from Anglers Rest has pointed out another, expiring on February 2nd, here. It's for 40 credits. Thanks, FMP!
FMP Ireland has another 50 credits to celebrate Irish Family History Day. You could use them to look up some of the 'twenty-one million Birth, Marriage and Death records' they've added. Expires on January 31. And you can use the same code to get 50 more on FMP's US site.
… and there's more! To celebrate Australia Day (January 26 – watch this space for a special post), ancestry.com.au is opening up its convict and criminal records for free, unlimited access. But be quick – this only lasts till Monday 28th January.


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Victim of alleged Watertown home invasion testifies she feared for her life
By BRIAN KELLY
The victim of an alleged home invasion that turned violent testified Tuesday in Jefferson County Court that she feared for her life at her assailant's hands.
Kimberly S. Sargent told jurors that Jack C. Yates, her former boyfriend, became enraged after she ended their three-year, on-again, off-again relationship and entered her new residence on East Hoard Street on May 9, 2012, without her knowledge or permission.
"He was just there, all of the sudden, in my face," Ms. Sargent said.
Ms. Sargent and Mr. Yates lived together in a Glen Park apartment until a few weeks before the alleged incident, when she moved in with a female friend. She claimed that Mr. Yates had thrown her belongings onto the lawn at 413 E. Hoard St., but they had discussed the situation later at the Glen Park home and appeared to part as friends.
She said the amicable relationship continued until May 9, 2012, when she learned Mr. Yates was telling people she had recently brought back a large stash of drugs from Florida, a claim she denies. She said she confronted Mr. Yates about the claim and told him she did not want to see him any longer.
She said it was shortly after that confrontation that she found herself face to face in her kitchen with Mr. Yates, who had entered the residence through a back door. She testified that Mr. Yates then "bounced me off the refrigerator three or four times," also shoving her against a counter before twisting her necklace tightly to her neck, causing her difficulty in breathing.
"He said that if he couldn't have me that nobody could, and he was going to kill me, kill my girlfriend and kill himself," Ms. Sargent said.
She said Mr. Yates pulled her hair and "stomped" on her legs and hips with work boots and then pulled a knife from his pocket, waving it near her neck. She claims Mr. Yates told her that "I was dead" if she had him arrested, saying she would not live to see a trial in the matter.
"It was not the Jack I knew. He was full of rage," Ms. Sargent said. "I was begging him to stop. I was begging him not to hurt me."
She said in the midst of the attack, her large dog growled at Mr. Yates, distracting him long enough for her to shove him out the back door and close and lock the door. She then called police.
Ms. Sargent said Mr. Yates had taken care of her teenage son when she went to state prison for about 15 months in 2008 for violating terms of her Drug Court contract in Lewis County. She had been referred to the substance abuse rehabilitation program for selling cocaine, but testified that she had not used any illegal substances since being incarcerated.
However, her son, Jordan J. Page, told defense attorney Eric T. Swartz, Watertown, that he had witnessed her using drugs and other witnesses also testified that Ms. Sargent had used drugs since being released from prison. Mr. Page also testified that he thinks of Mr. Yates as a "father figure" and still lives and works with him in Depauville. Testifying on Mr. Yates's behalf, Mr. Page said he was given the choice of living with either his mother or Mr. Yates and chose Mr. Yates. He said he no longer has a relationship with his mother.
Mr. Swartz is expected to call a few additional defense witnesses this morning, although it was undetermined Tuesday whether Mr. Yates will take the stand.
Source: http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20131023/NEWS07/710239771


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Don't ask don't tell is repealed in the Senate. Will Obama sign the bill? Probably, but top brass are still worried about "distractions".
DREAM Act fails to pass in Grinch-like Senate.
Party like it's 1989: APD shuts down "illegal rave" this weekend. Those Journal links are a PIA, but it's worth it. High humidity in the building and bikinis were factors, apparently.
Bank of America joins others in suspending Wikileaks accounts.
Meanwhile, in a tit-for-tat scene the Swedish police report on the Assange accusations has leaked.
Only six more shopping days before ... synthetic cannabis is banned in the U.S. AGAIN with the Grinch.
Sonic booms turn crocodiles on.
Bangladeshi stock market has collapsed. Right now you're asking yourself, "Bangladesh has a stock market?" Yup, and so does Mongolia.
Check out this ridiculously tiny lighter.
Fun fact for journalists: on this day in 1918 Lenin made it illegal for the Bolshevik press to criticize in any way the original Soviet secret police, the Cheka--which had been formed exactly one year earlier. Lenin had originally intended the secret police to be a temporary institution. Oh well.


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Pork Ragu
Sorry to have kept you waiting a while for this recipe. I've just been a bit busy. But better late than never, yes? So, the ragu I made to go with my heretic pasta the other night was made with pork, because, as I said before, why offend only one religion when you can do three at once. Ha.
The recipe came from Paul Bertoli's amazing book, Cooking by Hand. This is not a book for the faint of heart, I should warn you. The Ragù alla Bolognese recipe alone is over 1,500 words--but who am I to complain about long winded treatise on a traditional dish, you've seen my Pad Thai recipe, right?
The recipe calls for beef, ground chuck, skirt, or hanger steak to be precise, but I made it with ground pork butt instead, because my friend Beccy doesn't eat beef. (Yeah, you can choose your friends but you sure can't choose what they eat!)
So, here's my slightly bastardized version of Paul Bertoli's Ragù alla Bolognese. Hey, if you want the real thing you could always go buy the book.
3 pounds pork
3.5oz pancetta, finely chopped
2 tablespoon of butter
1 celery stalk, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
1 onion, chopped
a few sage leafs
3 oz tomato paste
6 cups of meat broth (water will do in a pinch, really)
You start by browning the meat. Heat a large pot (I used my 8qt. Dutch Oven) over high heat, add a little oil, then spread the ground pork over the surface of the pot and brown it quickly of both sides. I found that doing this with half the batch of meat at a time allows the meat to brown up quickly and not overcooked by the time it's done browning. So if you do a half batch, spread half the pork over the surface of the pan and let brown, then flip it to the other side. Once brown on both sides, remove the first half of the pork. Let the pot stand to heat back up a bit, then add the other half of the meat and brown it up the same way.
Return the first half of the pork back to the pot, lower the heat to medium, break up the brown pork into chunks. Add the pancetta and stir to mix well. Cut the butter into a few pieces and spread them over the top of the meat. Let melt for a few seconds, then stir well to mix.
Add the celery, carrots, and onion, give it a stir and let the vegetables sweat with the meat for about 15 minutes. Add the sage leafs. Turn the heat down a bit if it looks like things are cooking up too quickly. While the vegetables and meat are cooking, heat up the meat broth or water in a medium pot.
After 15 minutes, add the tomato paste to the meat/veg mix. (You don't have to weigh it really, I just use roughly 2/3 of my 4.5oz tube.) Stir to mix and let cook another 5 minutes.
Add about 1 cup of broth or water to the ragu pot, stir to mix well. Let the meat absorb the liquid until almost dry, then add 1/2 cup more, and let the meat absorb it again. Continue adding 1/2 cup at a time, and let the meat absorb the liquid before adding more, until you've used up about 3 cups (or half the amount) of the broth.
Lower the heat to simmer and add the rest of the broth. Let the ragu cook for at least an hour, until the liquid reduces to the consistency you like and the meat soften. Add water (or more broth) if the liquid in the ragu evaporates too quickly. I'd add a little salt here too if your broth doesn't have salt (or if you use water.)
When the ragu is cooked properly. Check the seasoning. You might need to add a bit more salt. I like to add a little splash of sherry vinegar (or young balsamic vinegar) just to round up the flavor a bit. Add a little pepper if you'd like.
Serve the ragu with freshly made pasta, preferably Strozzapreti or Pici.


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- Product description
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Product description Estée Lauder Pure Color EnvyCharacteristics
The Estée Lauder Pure Color Envy blusher makes your face look healthy, fresh and natural.
- gives your face a healthy colour
- highlights facial features
- easy to use
How to use:
Apply to the face using a wide brush and blend in.
- Shade
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About the brand Estée Lauder
Estée Lauder fragrances | Estée Lauder beauty products - This world-renowned brand bears the name of its founder, American Estée Lauder (née Josephine Esther Mentzer) who started out with only four basic products which she sold in New York hotels and beauty salons.
The brand's philosophy is really quite simple - any woman can look amazing. However, for Estée it was equally important to show women how to maintain their beauty despite ageing. That's why she employed beauty consultants to teach customers how to take care of their skin. Before long, her company became an international enterprise with products available in more than a hundred countries.
Fragrances, mascaras, foundations and other Estée Lauder products contain luxury ingredients, such as microscopic particles of precious stones. Estée was also the first in the world to discover the beneficial effects of glucosamine on dead skin cells, and many of the brand's technologies have been patented.
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Estée Lauder is sure to satisfy anyone who likes treating themselves every day to a little bit of luxury, anyone who desires a youthful, attractive look, and any fan of high-end makeup products.


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Tiny Black Yarn
I should have known better than to start a fingering weight black lace project when our days are getting shorter and shorter. little lacy thingum It's Anne Hanson's design, Spiraluscious and a gift for my grandmother (shh, don't tell her!). I'm only on the fourth row and I've already bungled the (very simple) pattern. Damn […]Read More..>>


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Trip: Southcoastjune09
Wednesday June 17 2009 06:02:56 AM
Date: from Jun 10, 2009 to Jun 24, 2009
Surf trip description:
Kianga, Sandon, Potato Point-Jemisons, Inside Blackfellows, Boat ramps-Potato Point, Dalmeny.
Jemisons left at Potato Point was pretty good in the big ENE swell, but you needed a bigger board- sucky and big steep drops. Higher tides some big left barrels along the sandbar here, got one I swear was 6 seconds+, mostly covered up and 1.5 times overhead. North side of point ok as well, but fatter.
Inside Blackfellows had a little sandbar with a few little barrels, got one or two good ones.
Tow ins at Bawley Point lefts and Meroo Point lefts near Bawley. Bawley is barrel cent-al for NSW-5-6 excellent waves here.
Next week ESE swell will try Sandon, Sharkies, Headlands and maybe Pink Rocks and Boneyards
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Shepherd's Pie With Cheddar Scallion Crust Recipe 2010-02-23 15:30:42
Shepherd's Pie With Scallion-Cheese Crust
Shepherd's Pie With Scallion-Cheese Crust
From Michael Chiarello
- Ingredients
1 tablespoon olive oil
1/2 pound minced British lamb
1 pound minced beef
2 medium onions, peeled and chopped
3 carrots, peeled and chopped very small
1/2 pound cremini mushrooms
1 level tablespoon tomato paste
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme leaves
2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 level tablespoon all-purpose flour
1 cup red wine
1 1/2 cups fresh beef stock
Freshly ground black pepper
For the crust:
2 pounds Yukon gold potatoes
2 tablespoons butter
Freshly ground black pepper
1 cup scallions, cleaned and chopped
1 cup mature Cheddar, coarsely grated
- Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in a Dutch oven or deep saute pan. Brown the lamb and beef. Remove the meat from the pan with a slotted spoon.
- Add the onions to the pan and saute until the onions are tinged brown at the edges — about 5 minutes. Add the chopped carrots and cook for 5 minutes.
- Add the mushrooms, tomato puree, thyme, parsley and cinnamon. Stir and saute for 2 minutes. Next, stir in the flour, which will soak up the juice, then stir in the wine and the beef stock. Taste and add salt and pepper, as needed. Return the meat to the pan and bring to a boil. Cover, turn down the heat to low and simmer for about 30 minutes until the lamb is fully cooked.
- Peel the potatoes, cut them into large even-sized pieces and place into a pot of cold, salted water. Bring the water to a boil and cook potatoes until they are tender, about 10 minutes. (Potatoes are done when a knife can easily go through.)
- When the potatoes are done, drain off the water, return them to the saucepan, cover with a clean tea cloth to absorb the steam and leave them for about 5 minutes. Next, add the butter and mash them to a puree. Season with salt and pepper.
- When the meat is ready, spoon it into a 9-by-13-inch baking dish and level it out with the back of the spoon. After that, spread the mashed potato evenly all over.
- Sprinkle the scallions on top of the potato, scatter the cheese over the scallions and bake the pie until the top is crusty and golden, about 25 minutes.
Serves 10-12.
- Category
- Main Dishes, Lamb
- Cuisine
- North American


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Can I Drink Alcohol If I Have Mono?
My girlfriend has mono and now I'm feeling the same symptoms. I haven't seen
a doctor yet, but I'm wondering if I can still drink alcohol if I think I might
have mono. If I can't, why not?
– Mark*
People should avoid alcohol while they have mono. That's because mono and alcohol can each affect a person's liver. The two together could cause liver damage.
Since you haven't been diagnosed yet, hold off on drinking alcohol until you've seen a doctor or visited student health. If it turns out that you do have mono, you'll need to avoid alcohol for a few months, even after you start feeling better.
*Names have been changed to protect user privacy.
Date reviewed: February 2013


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The year was 1991. Journalist and ex-Marine Terry Anderson had just been freed after nearly seven years of captivity in Lebanon. Seven years is a long time. Luckily, a columnist named Mark Whicker was around to put it in perspective.
Today, you know Whicker as the author of the "2 girls 1 cup" of sports columns. Back then, as now, he was writing for The Orange County Register, and back then, as now, he was using sports to convey a sense of the long and traumatizing captivity of a newly liberated hostage:
How long was it? When Anderson was captured, Wally Joyner was in Triple-A. Michael Jordan was finishing his rookie year. Ted Tollner and USC were Rose Bowl champs. Doug Flutie was the reigning Heisman Trophy winner. Jennifer Capriati was 9. And Cal State Fullerton was coming off an 11-1 football season.
Wow! That long?
On the other hand, Jack Morris had pitched his team to the most recent World Series victory, and the Clippers were missing the playoffs. So it was only yesterday.
Congratulations, Terry. You've left the subterranean Lebanese dungeon!
The column comes to us via Whicker's interview with Poynter's Mallary Jean Tenore. She writes:
Whicker said he didn't get any feedback on the Anderson column, which was published long before the paper started posting stories online. (He e-mailed the passage to me.) He doubts this week's column would have gotten as much attention were it not for the "speed and the enormity of the Internet."
"I'm a little saddened by the tone of some of the responses because I think it says a lot about what's out there in computer-land," Whicker said. "I've had some e-mailers say, 'Why don't you write about 9/11 while you're at it?' Another person said, 'Why don't you write about the Holocaust next?' I think that's a really obscene thing to say."
Whicker added, "I don't think I'll be writing about kidnapping victims anytime soon." Aww, no more sports-and-captivity columns? Now that's deprivation.
Whicker on Jaycee Dugard column: 'I Wasn't Insensitive' about Kidnapping [Poynter]


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and add butter to your oatmeal. If you're eating your oatmeal every morning this winter without a giant pat of butter on top, you are missing out on ECSTASY. LET'S GO!
GLEE – 8:00PM (FOX) Ryan Murphy promises tonight's episode of the musical hit will be the most controversial episode ever aired. And that's because this one tackles Jesus and religion. Oh, yes. It's the "Grilled Cheesus" episode, in which Finn sees Jesus in a grilled cheese sandwich, causing the rest of the glee club to confront their feelings about God. Very heavy stuff, unless you include the four thousand musical numbers. This week's songs include "Losing My Religion," a song I dislike so immensely I want to put my head into an oven at the mere thought of its opening chords. And that Joan Osborne song gets the Glee treatment too. Man, is THAT an annoying song. It's like one giant annoying songapalooza. ANTICIPATION: JESUS WOULDN'T LISTEN TO R.E.M.!
THE BIGGEST LOSER – 8:00PM (NBC) Anna Kournikova stops by, presumably to remind all the male contestants that they have no shot with her. And how fitting that a lady who never managed to win a major tennis title would appear on a show with this title. ANTICIPATION: BLONDE!
30 FOR 30: FOUR DAYS IN OCTOBER – 8:00PM (ESPN) ESPN's documentary series revisits the 2004 Red Sox and their comeback from being down 0-3 against the hated Yankees in the ALCS. Because Red Sox fans just didn't get anywhere near enough mileage out of 2004. There are cows in Kansas that haven't been milked this aggressively. ANTICIPATION: OW-AH TITLE IS BETTAH THAN YOUR-AH TITLE!
MAKING HISTORY – 9:00PM (History Channel) Say, do you like history? I bet you do. Say, do you like historical reenactments? No? You say they automatically make any historical documentary feel sixty times cheesier? Oh, well then. You may not like this new show, in which filmmakers are asked to recreate history with no budget, a green screen, and homemade props. Because dramatizations are always more fun when they look REALLY cheap. Tonight's subject is, you guessed it, HITLER. Who else would it be? Expect lots of shoe polish mustaches. ANTICIPATION: HITLERY!
106 & PARK: TEN YEARS AND COUNTING – 10:00PM (BET) BET's #1 show celebrates its ten year anniversary tonight, with this retrospective of all the Hype Williams videos they've shown that have helped set African American culture back a solid two decades. No word on if Kanye will show up pushin' a Benz. ANTICIPATION: DRAMA!
Tuesday Watch List: Glee And God
Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and add butter to your oatmeal. If you're eating your oatmeal every morning this winter without a giant pat of butter on top, you are missing out on ECSTASY. LET'S GO!


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Do you want to show your support of both Google Now and Google Chrome? Do you need some kind of cotton garment to cover the space between your neck and your waist? Do you have twelve bucks? Then T-shirt seller Qwertee's daily sale is for you. Today Qwerty is offering the C-REX design from Marco Pedrazzolli. The background is taken straight from the default mountain view in the Google Now app, and the little T-Rex in the foreground should be familiar to anyone who's had problems connecting to a page in Chrome.
If you're not in the market for a T-shirt, Marco was kind enough to upload his design to both Dropbox and Google Drive in a staggering array of resolutions that should fit just about any mobile screen, laptop, or desktop.Read More


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Dallas will not host 2,000 undocumented immigrant children after all, county officials said Thursday, despite their original offer.
Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Thursday that federal officials have notified him that they no longer need space in Dallas, citing a steep decline in the number of children crossing into the United States.
Jenkins said the surge of children has slowed dramatically. Back in June, nearly 300 children were crossing the border every day. Now, that number is down to less than 150 and is still dropping.
The latest news from around North Texas.
More than 57,000 unaccompanied children have crossed the border into the United States from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras since October. But new federal facilities are being opened, and the number of daily entrants appears to have fallen in recent weeks.
Jenkins announced last month that Dallas County would help federal facilities overwhelmed by undocumented children. In recent weeks, he met with President Barack Obama and local community leaders on immigration and how to deal with the children.
Even though the children will no longer be coming to Dallas County, there is still a need for foster families, as well as donations to help the children who have crossed the border.


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The Slaaen (Sloan) and Vaterland branches of my mother's Norwegian family first settled in Coon Valley, Wisconsin upon arriving in America in the 1850s. Twenty-five miles long, Coon Valley lies a few miles southeast of La Crosse, Wisconsin. It was originally an area of small, thin woods surrounded by hills and ridges. Settlers from Norway were initially attracted to the area because of its cozy appearance, but also because of the creek which ran through it. Forest fires started a rich growth of grass which turned Coon Valley into a lush feeding ground for many species of wildlife. Norwegian immigrant men were good hunters and adequate protectors of their families, but once in awhile, there was an emergency requiring intervention by their women folk. When the emergency involved protecting precious winter food stores--these pioneer women took it quite personally.
From among the stories about the earliest settlers in Coon Valley, Wisconsin during the mid-19th century are some tales of exceptional female bravery and resolve.
One autumn morning, Gunhild Maurstad started outside to get a piece of pork from the lean-to storage room outside the cabin. As she opened the door to the cabin, she stopped suddenly. She slammed the door shut and turned toward her husband, Johannes, who had just finished lighting his pipe.
"Nei [no], things are going too far now. A big bear is standing in there and rummaging in the pork barrel! Let the dog out!"
Johannes gazed cautiously at the door. Yes, indeed! there stood the brute with his head down in the pork barrel gorging himself with all his might. The dog had also awakened now and ran barking toward the door, but Johannes grasped him by his collar.
"Let the dog out!" shouted Gunhild again.
No, Johannes thought the bear might harm the dog.
"Ja, but think of the pork; we cannot let that troll eat up our winter food." With that, Gunhild took a burning piece of wood, opened the door a little bit, and threw the burning stick at the bear. This was an unexpected attack, and the frightened bear rushed out the door and down the hill. Gunhild stood there quite satisfied and content, looking at her departing enemy; but her happiness did not last long. Just below the house was an enclosure, where a pig had just raised himself on his legs and was smelling around for something to eat for breakfast. The bear tore down the enclosure instantly, grasped the pig with it front paws, and rushed away with it.
"Nei, have you ever seen anything so awful? There goes the bear with the sow, too. Let the dog out, Johannes!"
"Nei!" Johannes feared that the bear would hurt the dog.
"Ja, but get your gun then , and shoot the bear. We cannot lose the sow."
Nei, Johannes was afraid of shooting, for he might kill the sow.
"Ja, ja, but the sow must be saved. Hei, pup, sick 'em! Get the troll!" With that, Gunhild gave the dog an enormous kick in the rear end, so the dog almost pulled Johannes down as he started after the bear.
It took just a moment for the dog to get a good hold of the bear's little tail, and since the bear's tail is a sensitive area, the bear released the pig which ran away howling loudly. The bear jumped and danced wildly while he tried to get a hold of his lively adversary.
"Get your gun now and shoot. Then we will be done with him," shouted Gundhild.
But, nei, Johannes was afraid he might wound the dog.
Finally, the bear became tired of this dancing around and lumbered away up the hillside, pursued by his brave canine adversary.
After Johannes had finished his usual helping of coffee, lefse, and cheese, he went after a neighbor to get help in tracking down the bear. Despite many hours searching, the pair was unsuccessful.
If Gunhild had gone after the bear with her wooden ladle, it is quite possible that she could have returned with a bearskin. These pioneer women were not to be taken lightly when they took charge.
Another example of Norwegian pioneer women pluckiness is the story about Roennoeg Sandbakken's encounter with a bear.
Thor Sandbakken was away from his farm one day, when his wife, Roennoeg, noticed that a strange and big animal has broken into their livestock pen and grabbed their only pig. The pig had to be saved above all else because it represented most of the Sandbakken's winter food stores. Instinctively, Roenneog ran to the woodpile and grabbed a piece of oakroot to hurl at the menacing invader in the pigpen.
Struck in the backbone, the animal was so startled that it dropped the pig. At the same time, Roennoeg hurriedly grabbed a pitchfork and stabbed the attacker in its side. She yelled: "Will you get going, you ugly thing?"
The big animal raised up to a great height on its hind legs, and she saw that it was a bear. It opened its mouth wide enough that it could easily have swallowed a pig whole. Then, the bear gave out a tremendous roar and started for Roennoeg. She let out such a shrill yell that it echoed on all ridges surrounding Coon Valley, and then she took flight. The bear was so frightened by the woman's scream that it took to the woods in the opposite direction.
Everything would have ended happily if the pig had only acted sensibly. Instead of gratefully crawling back into the peace and quiet of the straw pile and sleeping off its fright, the pig became so bewildered that it took off on the heels of the bear and was never seen again...
Finally, there is Helge Gulbrandsen, one of the very first Coon Valley settlers, who saved her livestock from certain death because of her command of folk medicine.
Helge Gulbrandsen was out in the field breaking land when her husband, Ole, came sauntering out to see how the plowing was coming along...
Just then one ox jumped suddenly into the air, and Helge saw a rattlesnake shoot out of the grass and bite the ox on the leg. Helge yelled instantly to Ole, who was watching at a distance, that Ole should run to the barn and get a live hen, an ax, and a sack or a rag. Ole did as Helge said, and Helge grabbed the hen and chopped it into two pieces. Then [she] placed the two parts of the hen on the leg of the ox, and bound it tight with rags made from a sack. Two days later Helge took the binding off. The chicken meat had drawn the poison out of the [ox's leg], and the ox was well again.
Source: Holand, Hjalmer R. Coon Valley: An Historical Account of the Norwegian Congregations in Coon Valley. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Augsburg Publishing House, 1928, pp. 33-35.


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Spring training is a time to evaluate talent, see which players may have taken a step forward or backward, and to see what some of your young prospects can do against some major league talent. The other thing the Spring is known for is injuries, and the number one thing that teams want to come out of spring with is health. The Cubs are not doing that. The troubling news coming out of camp today is that both Scott Baker and Ian Stewart will both start the season on the DL, that's not so great, and I haven't even approached the Matt Garza situation yet. We'll start with Baker, and the news is not good. Baker, who is coming of Tommy John Surgery felt some discomfort in his elbow after his spring debut this weekend, this could be considered normal, but the Cubs wanted an MRI. Baker got an MRI and has now been shut down indefinitely as there is some inflammation and fluid build up in the elbow, so you can throw that mid-April return date out the window. Now on to Ian Stewart, he can't run, like at all, he can't do it. You need to be able to run in baseball, I mean, usually you do, and right now Stewart can't do it because of a quad injury. So what does this mean? Well, the Cubs were prepared to start 2013 without Baker, so they will make do somehow with their increased starting depth, Samardzija, Garza (healthy?), Jackson, Wood, Feldman could be your rotation heading into opening day. As far as third base goes it looks like Brent Lillibridge is now a lock to make the team, and he will back up starting third baseman Luis Valbuena, gently weep if you feel the need to. Here are some quotes today that Brett had up on his site at Bleacher Nation…
Per Carrie Muskat
"Cubs pitcher Scott Baker had a setback, and his throwing program has been suspended indefinitely. Baker felt some discomfort in his right elbow after his first Cactus League start on [Sunday] and underwent an MRI on Monday. The results of the test were not released, and Baker was to be examined by team orthopedic specialist Dr. Stephen Gryzlo this weekend. There's no timetable for Baker's return and the extent of the injury is not known."
Per Paul Sullivan
"I can hit and take grounders," he said. "I just can't run."
Stewart said "it doesn't feel like" it's been healing, despite the prolonged rest this spring. Stewart will meet with manager Dale Sveum and the training staff this morning to assess his status.
"I know what it's like to play through pain," Stewart said. "That's what's hard about this. I can't get through that pain and play with it. It's just too much."
Well, shoot.
Thanks for reading,
– George


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This is a guest post from Rob Keve, Founder, CEO of Fizzback Group Ltd, a company backed by TAG and others.
"Last week I was invited to present to some MPs over breakfast in Parliament, about UK start-ups. In the first few minutes, their full English fry-up was clearly winning the battle for their attention.
The only serious question on all MPs lips is how to stimulate economic growth and they didn't see the relevance of a venture capital backed start ups on economic growth.
I told them that we were only a five year old business having raised modest amounts of funding but had created over 100 jobs in the UK alone – they stopped sipping their tea from the exquisite House of Commons porcelain teacups.
Next I explained we had generated more in direct tax income for the economy than the amount we raised in the first place and had just injected a further $80M indirectly into the economy by way of sale pro-ceeds from an overseas buyer – they put down their forks and put away the HP sauce.
Finally, I explained that a small group of brethren calling themselves Fizzback had won some of the world's largest brands as clients, was improving these brand's competitiveness all whilst putting British technology on the global map – they looked up to see who was talking.
Tonight, when they go home, I hope that as they are pulling up the draw-bridge they will 'get it'. Economic growth comes from innovation and self-initiative. It comes from a just a few dozen individuals in a few square feet of space designing a unique solution, garnering deep in-sight, selling & servicing to the top brands in the world.
That creates growth. That is economic leverage. The answer isn't to be found in public sector spending, in UK policy board rooms or in banking regulation.
The answer is to be found at Fizzback and the other ground breaking start-ups like us. We create economic activity, jobs and wealth."
Rob Keve