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March 3, 2009
Gmail Brings Back the Web Search Button
It's one of the few areas that didn't evolve since Gmail's launch and I think it's embarrassing to place the "search mail" and "search the Web" buttons next to the same search box.
As you probably noticed, the web search button is now back in Gmail after a brief disappearance. A small number of vocal users complained and Google restored the button.
Here's how Gmail describes its search feature:
"You can use Gmail search the same way you'd use Google Search, by entering a word (or multiple words) that appears anywhere within the message you want to locate. If you're looking for a message that contains the word shopping, simply type shopping in the search field and press Search Mail. Your results will be displayed with your search terms highlighted in yellow. Gmail doesn't recognize special search characters like square brackets, parentheses, currency symbols, the ampersand, the pound sign, and asterisks. It also doesn't recognize partial or similar matches, so a search for travel will find travel, but not travels, traveler, or travle."
How would you improve Gmail search?
29 comments:
I would like the from: operator to look at email addresses, names, and the name groups that are now used to organize contacts (Friends, Family, etc). This would help to improve the Gmail filters as well.ReplyDelete
yess finally it s back.ReplyDelete
i was really upset because of this situation.
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Search messages with attachments by minimum attachment size would be appreciated. Sooner or later you'll have to clean your mailbox to make space and starting to delete messages with big attachments is the fastest way to do it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2009 at 3:00 PM
I think it's really annnoying that you can't search for a part of a word. Not even in the subject. All other web mail clients I've tried manages that!ReplyDelete
I guess Orli got her wish.ReplyDelete
recognize special search characters - especially brackets.ReplyDelete
Like michael says above- parts of words, maybe even wildcards.
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2009 at 4:48 PM
I'm happy that the web search button is back; if they do want to remove it I think that it would be a prime candidate for a Labs add-on to appease the vocal minority of users like myself that appreciate having the button.ReplyDelete
I think the 'Search the Web' button is incredibly useless. How many ways do I need to search google? I can type "? string" into Firefox's location bar. I can use Firefox's search box, or I can simply navigate to google.com and search from there. I don't need to search the web constantly!ReplyDelete
Google, ignore the vocal minority and make Gmail simpler. And if you can't do that, make it an option. Just don't make me write a Grease Monkey script to remove a button that shouldn't be there in the first place.
- AnonymousMarch 3, 2009 at 11:15 PM
"How would you improve Gmail search?"ReplyDelete
Stemming. That's it. "travel" should return "travels".
Bout time too. Should never of removed it!ReplyDelete
When you work in a business that still uses IE6 and has a mega slow broadband connection - leaving GMail open to search the web is so essential.
Thank you Google.
Very interesting that they restored the button.. Say, does anybody else has a problem of rearraging the navbar items (offcourse the lab item is enabled!), since yesterday? Tried to clear the cache and a different browser but no luck!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2009 at 9:54 AM
"A small number of vocal users complained"? i disagree.ReplyDelete
this http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Settings-en/browse_thread/thread/5d0a9b43c47ff225/911decc651d97c94 thread has 118 replies and there are few more i know of.
i personally terribly missed it, used it at least 10 times a day.
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2009 at 1:39 PM
Sooo stoked that the button is back. I used it all the time. Of course you could open a new window and search, but the 'search the web' button was (is!) awesome if you work within gmail a lot.ReplyDelete
OMG YAYAYAYAAYAYAYAY!!! My gmail is my main window and it sucks to always go to a new tab to search the web. I've been dying over here! Thanks Google!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 4, 2009 at 6:48 PM
Okay, great! The filter and search options links are now further about 8/more pixels away... heheReplyDelete
The link in your first paragraph, "only a small number........", takes the reader to a page showing a mere nine posts by Gmailers unhappy about the peremptory dismissal of the Search the Web option. A host of other Gmail-ers who were dismayed about the apparent removal of the "Search Web" option may be found at the following locations:ReplyDelete
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Settings-en/t/5d0a9b43c47ff225?hl=en (Vanished Search Button)
http://www.google.com/url?url=http://groups.google.com/g/80f7faa1/t/5424b4fa7bfee7e9/d/242a5601aaa3ddf%3Fq%3DGMAIL%2BSEARCH%2BOPTIONS%230242a5601aaa3ddf&ei=pKqJSZiQFYbg-gGL9eSuDA&sa=t&ct=res&cd=5&source=groups&usg=AFQjCNGD9uWVb6z8QAdqLjubUq8jBnkD0A (Search Web Option Missing)
http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-labs-suggest-a-labs-feature/browse_thread/thread/6a665783cd040dc6 (Please Bring Back the Search the Web Button!)
http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Organizing-Messages-en/browse_thread/thread/111055e1fea7529a (Gmail "Search the Web" button missing)
http://getsatisfaction.com/google/topics/bring_back_the_gmail_search_the_web_option (Bring Back the Gmail Search the Web Option at GetSatisfaction.com)
Also, Gmailers signed various petitions, wrote blogs, posted comments to articles on technology news sites and at blogs, and submitted respectful suggestions to Google via this link:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=suggestions.cs (Suggestions > I have another idea > Other > Bring Back the "Search the Web" option!)
A thorough reading of the posts at these sites and threads reveals it isn't just that the protesting Gmail-ers found it bizarre, ironic, and frustrating that Google, the leading search engine, should remove the "Search Web" option from their Gmail pages; you discover the incredibly diverse ways Gmail users found the "Search the Web" button useful, accomodating to their style or skills, and for those whose choice of browser is restricted by employers and institutions, necessary. Despite a variety of artful work-arounds suggested after the STW hijack, nothing worked as UNIVERSALLY well for ALL users as the Search the Web option on the Gmail page.
partial word search and/or wildcard support, that's what's missingReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM
Yep, 100% agree with partial word search and wildcard support.ReplyDelete
The whole idea of Gmail was that you didn't need to organize your email, but simply search for it. Yet the search feature is incomplete and unless you know exactly the right keywords you'll never find it.
I find it really astonishing that google use different search syntax between their services.
I use the web search button constantly throughout my work day. We have IE6 on our work computers and are unable to install Firefox. Having to click over to Google's web search page every time I needed to search for something was cumbersome and annoying.ReplyDelete
I can't imagine how the web search button interferes with anyone's use of Gmail, but it's certainly helpful to those of us are unable to use Firefox at work (a substantial number of people I know).
- AnonymousMarch 14, 2009 at 7:59 AM
From Baby Boomer....ReplyDelete
Thank God and thank you Google for restoring the web search button.
It was extremely annoying, extra work, to each and every time click on "older version" to Google something. I was thinking of leaving Gmail because of the inconvenience. I use Firefox, that isn't the problem. Gmail home page is where I search web from all day long. Thank you for listening Google. I'm sure you know we are not a teensie weensie majority. Or maybe you are just kind. I represent the voice of many who don't comment in print.
- AnonymousJune 29, 2009 at 4:53 AM
it's gone when you select a theme??ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJune 29, 2009 at 5:04 AM
sorry found it.. have to turn off the labs google search featureReplyDelete
Yes, I have a theme, and it is NOT there. Is there anyway to get the search web button with a theme selected?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 29, 2009 at 7:24 AM
Agree with many others that partial word search and/or wild card support is a major missing functionality.ReplyDelete
Hope it can be done soon!
- AnonymousNovember 22, 2009 at 8:16 AM
Thanks for bringing the search button back, many may not have complained too loudly... but it was the #1 complaint on every home service call for me.ReplyDelete
Thank you for returning the search button :)
- AnonymousApril 16, 2010 at 1:54 AM
Wildcard search for email is painfully lacking. Otherwise happy with service and options.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 12, 2010 at 3:39 PM
NOT having wildcard for search AND part word search is an absolute PAIN IN THE REAR END. Please change it. You give the space to store but make it as difficult as possible to find the history when "Isn't this the main reason for having storage and keeping emails" To not be able to search efficiently is a BIGGGGGGGG! problem!ReplyDelete
Google mail searching is irritating......ReplyDelete
Well, folks, it's gone again! This is very annoying...ReplyDelete


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I just love this excellent letter written by Pakistani journalist Kunwar Khuldune Shahid. Such a wonderful response to those 'educated' women who are proud of being veiled Muslims and who foolishly defend Islam, the anti-women religion. The author of this letter is a man. I am proud of men like Kunwar Khuldune, who believe in women's rights.
A letter of gratitude to #MuslimahPride social media jihadis!
Dear Muslimaat,
I don't have words to express my gratitude and appreciation for your noble battle against evil. Your #MuslimahPride movement against #Femen was a slap on the collective face of Western imperialists who believe that Muslim women can't fight for a cause. It was also a resounding reminder for the rest of the world that you have what it takes to spark a revolution. What the ignorant world does not realise is that once you have the permission of your husbands, fathers, brothers, uncles, the approval of your neighbours, in-laws, their relatives and the consent of your spiritual guardians, their God and their scriptures, you can be quite the rebels.
It takes a lot of courage to ridicule something that is already taboo where you live. It takes volumes of bravery and valour to bow down to the status quo, and toe the lines that have been forced upon you. It takes unbelievable amounts of gallantry to act out a script that someone else has written for you. And it must take guts and the proverbial cojones to take a stand against cruelty and the personification of tyranny that a horde of topless women is.
Who on earth are those damn Europeans to try to steal your voice? Do they not realise that your lives were defined a million-and-a-half ago by the Arabs, who protected your rights and guarded your modesty by ensuring that you don't have much of a say in most things? Who are those unabashed infidels to protest on your behalf? Do they not realise that you are not allowed to express, let alone clamour in favour of, anything that contradicts the ostensibly divine scriptures? Who are those shameless activists to try and liberate you? Do they not realise that you can't be liberated without the permission of your mehrams?
I can't thank you enough for choosing to be more offended by naked bodies than dead bodies. And since there are so many different kinds of you to thank, I'll try to address you one by one.
Dear 'guardians of modesty' Muslimaat, thank you for letting patriarchal societies define 'modesty' for you. Thank you for accepting contrasting definitions of modesty for men and women, and for not being a source of strength for your sisters and daughters, vindicating the men's claim of you being the weaker sex. Thank you for teaching your daughters about the sin that having sex is, throughout their lives, and then compelling them to do it immediately with a man they first met a couple of hours ago, after signing a few papers and getting the clergy's approval. Also, thank you for blaming your fellow women when they are raped, since men have the divine license to refuse to keep their emotions in the right place. And thank you very very much for being more misogynistic than any male chauvinist can ever possibly be.
Dear 'feminist' Muslimaat, thank you for being a ray of hope for bacon-eating vegetarians, god-fearing atheists and peace-loving terrorists. Thank you for reiterating the fact that your mehrams choose to overlook the divine orders and allow you to think freely and take your own decisions. Thank you for citing your personal example to highlight how you wear the hijab by your own choice, ignoring the fact that an overwhelming majority of Muslim women are coerced into doing so. Thank you very much for making the whole debate about you, when it was always about the torment and suffering that most of the Muslim women are going through.
Dear 'liberal' Muslimaat, thank you for defying the orders of your deity by choosing to not cover your heads. Thank you for disregarding other restrictions that your religion commands, and then having the audacity to condemn someone who is critical of these very commands. Thank you for cherry picking the commandments and making your ideology sound compatible with the 21st century, only to castigate those that take the same ideological orders literally and implement them. Thanks a lot for elucidating that you don't need liberation and for paying no heed to the fact that the most of the women in your country do. And thank you very much for clinging on to those very shackles that have enchained the prospect of women empowerment in your country.
Dear 'revolutionary' Muslimaat, thank you for ignoring the life threats that Amina Tyler and many others like her are facing, after choosing to protest against the harassment that they have to bear on a daily basis. Thank you for overlooking other lesser issues like terrorists attacking a 15-year-old schoolgirl; female genital mutilation; women being raped with judicial approval just so they don't die virgins; two-year-old girls being forced to wear veils because the disgusting men in your country have no self-control; and fathers legally getting away with raping their daughters by paying a few riyals. Thank you very much for screaming bloody murder over half-naked women's claim of representing you, but accepting rapists, pedophiles and sorry excuses for human beings as your state leaders and role models.
#MuslimahPride is not just a hashtag, it's a symbol of integrity and pride. It's about taking pride in inequality, in half testimonies, in blaming rape victims and in gender discrimination. It's about taking pride in chauvinism, where men have divine permission to beat and rape their wives, marry multiple times and possess slave girls. It's about taking pride in patriarchal societies where husbands are categorically told in detail how they should punish their "disobedient" wives, while not a single text exclusively tells women what they should do with unfaithful husbands. It's about taking pride in not being allowed to vote, let alone lead your nations, and about finally being allowed to ride a goddamn bicycle – under a mehram's supervision – in the year 2013 AD.
The #MuslimahPride jihad will be written down in history as the moment where Muslimaat made it clear to the world that no one should protest on their behalf, half-naked or otherwise. Thank you, dear Muslimaat, for saving the rest of the world's time by clarifying that you're fine living in the 7th century AD, and no one should push you towards the enlightened times, regardless of whether they have clothes on or not. Thank you for being a source of inspiration and an illuminating example for everyone. We all know that you have what it takes to transform the plight of the women and change the dynamics of the world, as long as you are back home before sunset.
More power to you.
PS: I hope being addressed as 'dear' does not land you in trouble with your oversensitive male guardians.
Yours thankfully,
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid
Bravo Kunwar!


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Some sort of fascist
More anti-Zizek hysteria
December 17, 2008 25 comments
Since it has for a time been my self-imposed burden around these parts to point out idiotic things said about Slavoj Zizek and then explain at tedious length how they are idiotic (don't ask why; I don't even like Zizek that much), I winced when I came across Adam Kotsko's link to this enormoslab of Zizek-hating in The New Republic. But for you, readers, I read it. And it's quite interesting as an example of the kind of innuendo and sloppiness (not to call it deliberate fakery) that often characterises spluttering denunciations of the man. Since Kirsch does little more than cherry-pick out-of-context Zizek quotes to make the angry face at, I will adopt the same technique here in solemn hommage to his hard-of-reading spleen.
And the whole premise of Violence, as of Zizek's recent work in general, is that resistance to the liberal-democratic order is so urgent that it justifies any degree of violence.
No it isn't. Next!
Zizek, who sometimes employs religious tropes but certainly does not believe in religion
Religion, as I understand it in general, is the believing in a god or whatnot. But what is this believing in religion of which Kirsch speaks? It can't be simply that I believe in religion if I acknowledge that religion exists in the world, because I don't think Zizek denies the existence of religion. That would be silly. And yet he "does not believe in religion". Say Zizek did believe in religion — what exactly would he be believing? Oh, forget it.
For the revolutionary, Zizek instructs in In Defense of Violence, violence involves "the heroic assumption of the solitude of a sovereign decision." He becomes the "master" (Zizek's Hegelian term) because "he is not afraid to die, [he] is ready to risk everything."
What is this book called In Defense of Violence of which Kirsch speaks? I've never heard of it; and what is more, Zizek has never written it. In fact these quotations come from Zizek's discussion of Robespierre published in Verso's Virtue and Terror series, ((The first quotation, but not as far as I can tell the second, also appears in Violence, page 173. Wherever Kirsch got it, he has copied it down wrong: in both cases Zizek writes "the solitude of sovereign decision", not, as Kirsch gives it, "the solitude of a sovereign decision". A fuller context from Violence: "Divine violence should thus be conceived as divine in the precise sense of the old Latin motto vox populi, vox dei: not in the perverse sense of 'we are doing it as mere instruments of the People's Will', but as the heroic assumption of the solitude of sovereign decision. It is a decision (to kill, to risk or lose one's own life) made in absolute solitude, with no cover in the big Other.")) which fact Kirsch has carefully hidden by suppressing the sentence that comes immediately after the second one he quotes: "In other words, the ultimate meaning of Robespierre's first-person singular ("I") is: I am not afraid to die". Instead, Kirsch thinks it's okay to pretend that the preceding constitutes Zizek's own general "instruct[ion]" to wannabe violentists.
But I suppose if your head was so smoky with the fumes of righteous ire that you accidentally made up the name of a book and couldn't be bothered to check who was writing about whom at the time — well, who would care, right? Especially if you had this up your sleeve next:
There is a name for the politics that glorifies risk, decision, and will; that yearns for the hero, the master, and the leader; that prefers death and the infinite to democracy and the pragmatic; that finds the only true freedom in the terror of violence. Its name is not communism. Its name is fascism, and in his most recent work Zizek has inarguably revealed himself as some sort of fascist. He admits as much in Violence, where he quotes the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk on the "re-emerging Left-Fascist whispering at the borders of academia"–"where, I guess, I belong." There is no need to guess.
Some sort of fascist. Maybe the sort that's not really a fascist but it's fun to say so anyway because it makes your "critique" sound more important? You've got at least to admire the bathetic haste with which Kirsch scurries down from the solemn certainty of "inarguably revealed himself as…" to the weaselly mutter "some sort of…", before rousing himself for the triumphant squeak of "FASCIST!"
Still, Kirsch is right that "there's no need to guess" about that part in Violence because I can look it up, since I actually read the book and everything. Let's see:
Leftist political movements are like 'banks of rage'. They collect rage investments from people and promise large-scale revenge, the re-establishment of global justice […]
The problem is simply that there is never enough rage capital. This is why it is necessary to borrow from or combine with other rages: national or cultural. In fascism, the national rage predominates; Mao's communism mobilises the rage of exploited poor farmers, not proletarians. No wonder that Sloterdijk systematically uses the term 'leftist fascism' […] For Sloterdijk, fascism is ultimately a secondary variation of (and reaction to) the properly leftist project of emancipatory rage. […] Sloterdijk even mentions the 're-emerging Left-Fascist whispering at the borders of academia', where, I guess, I belong … [Violence, pp158-9.]
Is Zizek here "admit[ting]" that he is a fascist? Of course he isn't: in the course of his critique of Sloterdijk, he is ironically acknowledging that Sloterdijk would call him a "Left-Fascist". ((The term is explicated in a footnote: "The irony is that, in this work, Sloterdijk regularly resorts to the term Linksfaschismus made famous by his arch-opponent in Germany, Jürgen Habermas, who used it back in 1968 to denounce violent student protesters who wanted to replace debate with more 'direct action'. Perhaps this detail tells us more than may at first appear, since Sloterdijk's conclusion, his 'positive programme', is not so different from Habermas's, in spite of their public antagonism." (p194) )) Selective quotation, of course, can always be used to make it appear that the writer you are attacking endorses everyone he cites, even when he explicitly doesn't. Weirdly, this seems to happen repeatedly in outbursts against Zizek in particular…
For his final trick, Kirsch tries hard to smear Zizek as an anti-Semite, the details of which need not bother us here, except that I will point out that an argument of the form "Even if X were true, Y would still be true" is not a sly way of somehow "keep[ing] open […] the possibility" that X really is true, as Kirsch affects to think.
Phew. So, what idiotic things have you read recently, readers?


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On Bill Poff
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Err on the Side of Mercy
- Terri Camp Home school author and mother
- 2003 28 Jul
Bryan had taken his place beneath the pool table after doing something he knew was wrong. My mind began to whirl as I tried to figure out what to do with this naughty little boy who would hide beneath the pool table, trying desperately to avoid the wrath of Mom.
Just as I was feeling my blood begin to boil at his stubbornness, a phrase uttered by my friend who had been to a Mark Hamby talk entered my mind: "Err on the side of Mercy."
I knew at that moment it was the answer for Bryan. I was to err on the side of Mercy. Instead of my customary, "Get into the bathroom young man!" I crawled under the pool table and sat beside him. He stopped being angry for a minute and smiled at me. Perhaps it was the idea that Mom was sitting beneath the pool table all scrunched up just to talk with him. Im not sure what was going through his head at the time, but I know what was going through mine.
I was scrunched up and didnt want to spend a great deal of time in that uncomfortable position. "So, how are you doing today, Bud?" I asked him.
"Not good!" He replied. Progress is being made! He went from crying and grumping to speaking! He scooted a little closer to me. Then he put his head on my shoulder. It was almost like he was telling me, "Thanks for coming to my place. I just need to talk."
Thinking perhaps its a good opportunity for a moment of spiritual growth, I questioned him, "Do you know what happens to bad boys?" I figured he would say, "No," then I would have the opportunity to tell him how important it is to have the Holy Spirit living in you, so that you can call upon Him to help you not make the bad choices in life.
Instead, he quickly answered my question. He said, "Bad boys grow up to become BAD GUYS!"
"Yes! Thats right. If little boys dont learn how to call on the Holy Spirit to help them, they will grow up to become bad guys. You dont want to be a bad guy do you?"
When he hesitated answering my question, I thought perhaps I was in a bit of trouble. Here I was sitting under the little pool table having a philosophical, life-changing moment with my son, and hes hesitating about if he wants to grow up to become a bad guy.
I gave him a moment to reflect. He then said to me, "If I point this way (pointing to the right), I will be a good boy. If I point this way (pointing to the left), I will be a bad boy."
I couldnt believe he was doing this! Doesnt he know its not an option? I wanted to shout at him, "You dont get to choose! You MUST be good! There arent any other options!"
Thats when the Lord in His oh-so-gentle way said to me, "I let you choose."
But what if Bryan chooses to be a bad boy? What would I do then? Would I have any options left?
If I truly want my children to walk with the Lord throughout their lives, then I must be the one to show them what He is like.
Suddenly my mind was flooded with the times that I have tried shaping Bryan by telling him he didnt have any choice. How wrong I was! He does have a choice. He was born with a free will, just as I was. I simply dont want him to make the choice he makes.
The battle now rages in my mind. How can I be merciful and forgiving, while still training my children to walk the way of the Lord? Can I be merciful when my children make the wrong choices?
How can I ever get my children to be obedient the way I want when I want them to, if I am practicing the art of Mercy?
I dont know that I have an answer to that question. But, I know that for now, Jesus has requested me to be the example of Him in their lives. And He wants me to err on the side of Mercy.
Bryan interrupted my thoughts, "I will choose ... " he hesitated a moment; "I will choose ... " Then with great fanfare he pointed to the right! Immediately he hugged me, then said, "Im ready to be good!"
I then felt the Lord minister to me again, "See! I do it with you! Do it with them! Err on the side of Mercy!"
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Defining Link Metrics that Impact SEO Link Building Development
As SEO becomes more involved in the marketing initiatives of the organization, search marketing professionals work in greater coordination with additional team members and departments. Last week our SEO team met with an organization's marketing communications team. The goal being defining opportunities for outreach and understanding how we could assist in an effort to acquire high quality links.
It is interesting how our teams use different metrics in evaluating opportunities, but still seek to provide similar outcomes. We all want our clients and organizations to receive quality traffic, provide visibility in appropriate markets, and drive measurable results (leads, visitors, etc). As the KoMarketing Associates' team reflected on why we chose specific sites and publications for outreach, we discussed the following criteria leading to our recommendations for link acquisition.
Link-Specific Metrics
- Location of the link opportunity – will the link be placed in the main body of text or some navigational location (like a blog sidebar or footer area)
- Text used for and around the link (even though Google has acknowledging changes to how they handle anchor text this past month, obtaining keyword relevance should still be a focus where possible and applicable)
- Accessibility of the page where the link will be placed – how easily search engines and users can access the page where the link will be located (by clicks and navigation from the home page)
- Coding used in coordination with the link (IE, making sure rel=nofollow or JavaScript will not be used, impacting a search engines' ability to crawl and understand the link)
SEO-Specific Metrics
There are SEO-specific link building tools that mash-up various metrics such as those listed above to create scores for links, and pages and domains that links are located on. These scores help evaluate future link opportunities and prioritize strategies.
- Open Site Explorer Domain / Page Authority, mozRank, and mozTrust
- Majestic SEO ACRank and ACRank Spread
- Website's number of domain-specific links (via Open Site Explorer)
- Website's total number of inbound links (via Open Site Explorer)
I recommend understanding the factors involved in SEO scoring, at least at a high level, for both Open Site Explorer and Majestic SEO, or whatever commercial / free link building tool used to measure link importance.
Site Popularity-Specific Metrics
- Compete Metrics (Visitor Traffic, Rank)
- Quantcast Metrics (Traffic, Rank, Demographic Information)
- Alexa Metrics (Reach, Rank)
- Domain Age/History
- Google Toolbar PageRank (More so for cross-referencing sites for outreach prioritization, but toolbar PageRank is not a regularly updated metric and has very limited value)
Social Media-Specific Metrics
- Number of social media profiles being managed and general activity in those social media communities
- Twitter-specific metrics (followers, follower/following ratios, frequency of updates, influencer metrics such as Klout score)
- Facebook-specific metrics (likes, interaction ratios)
- Google+ specific metrics (number of included circles, interactions)
- Additional, publicly accessible popularity/success metrics based on specific social media site activity
- Frequency of blog posts
- Interactivity of blog posts (comments as well as shares in social sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Facebook, etc)
- Significance and reach of contributing writers, bloggers, and site network as possible to identify
Site Owner-Specific Metrics
Are we able to find and determine the following details about the site owner, publisher, blogger, editors, etc:
- Appropriate contact (name, title, etc)
- Email address, phone number perhaps
- Social media profile information
- Editorial calendar or identification of the type of content assets the site owner is interested in
Business-Specific Metrics
There are certainly times when paying for a link is appropriate. Examples could be sponsorship, charitable donations, organizational memberships, or even direct sales/advertising opportunities in industry-specific sites. In this sense, consider how the link and visibility will have an impact beyond SEO. Some of the possible benchmarks include:
- Cost per impression
- Expected cost per lead or cost per visit
- Traffic and demographic reports provided by site owner
- Position and location on website or web page
Final Thoughts and Considerations
Are we able to evaluate every one of the metrics listed above? That is pretty unlikely. Even when using link building tools, ranking systems, and prospective link scoring systems, common sense and market (and SEO) competence still dictate outreach and recommendation priority.
For example: It would be easy to get so weighed down in ranking data that a link builder ignores time investment in outreach or that the client already has easy to reach contacts that can be leveraged (but might not be the most valuable link from a scoring perspective)
The key is in evaluating search engine specific metrics (traffic, keyword visibility, leads) to make reasonable determinations on whether link building initiatives are having a positive impact on the website. What are your thoughts and perspective? I would love to read your comments below or let's have a discussion on Facebook or Google+.


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When the U.S. fired Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield a year ago after a chemical weapons attack, the Pentagon gave Moscow advance warning to get its personnel out of harm's way.
Since then, U.S.-Russian relations have soured, and the two nuclear powers have raised the ante, getting dangerously close to a potential military clash in Syria.
U.S. President Donald Trump has taunted Moscow to "get ready" for "nice and new and 'smart"' missiles coming to punish Syria for a purported chemical attack on Saturday that killed at least 40 people. The tweet followed Russia's warning that it will strike at incoming U.S. missiles and their launch platforms.
The defiant posture leaves both the White House and the Kremlin with fewer options to respond without losing face.
A stern statement last month by Russia's top military officer effectively drew a red line on any U.S. strike. Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian military's General Staff, said Russian military officers are at Syrian facilities throughout the country and warned that "if a threat to our servicemen emerges, the Russian armed forces will take retaliatory measures against both missiles and their carriers."
Some say the U.S. could launch a limited strike like it did in April 2017, when it hit Syria's Shayrat airfield with cruise missiles after warning Russia. Such a scenario would allow Washington to claim it made good on its promise to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad without triggering a clash with Russia.
A pinpoint U.S. strike on Syrian targets that does not harm Russian personnel "will allow Trump to say that the Assad regime has paid a heavy price … and Russia, in its turn, will be able to limit itself to ringing statements," said Fyodor Lukyanov, the head of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policies, an association of top Russian political and security experts.
He added, however, that the U.S. would be unlikely to warn Russia of the coming strike this time.
"The context of the relations has changed radically in the past year: We're in a state of a real and tangible Cold War," Lukyanov said.
Cooling relations
Moscow's hopes of warmer ties with Washington under Trump have been shattered by the ongoing U.S. investigations of alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election and its potential ties with the Trump campaign. The Trump administration has ramped up sanctions against Russia and expelled dozens of diplomats. Tensions between the two countries have escalated on a broad range of issues — from the crisis in Ukraine to the war in Syria to the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain, which triggered the massive diplomatic war.
President Vladimir Putin's top adviser, Vladislav Surkov, said in an article released earlier this week that Russia has abandoned its centuries-long aspirations of integrating into the West and is bracing for a new era of "geopolitical loneliness." Surkov warned that "it's going to be tough," but added cryptically that "it'll be fun."
Opinions vary about what may happen in Syria.
"The situation is pretty bad, but it shouldn't be overdramatized," Alexei Malashenko, a leading Russian expert on Syria said in televised remarks. "I don't believe that a clash between Russia and the U.S. is possible."
Washington and Moscow both have said that a hotline established in 2015 to prevent incidents between their militaries in Syria has worked well, but the rising stakes make the situation more unstable than ever during the Syrian conflict.
Possible scenarios
Under one possible scenario, Russia may try to use its sophisticated electronic warfare systems deployed in Syria to make U.S. missiles veer off course without shooting them down. If that softer option doesn't work, the Russian military could use an array of its state-of-the-art air defense assets in Syria to target the U.S. cruise missiles or drones.
Vyacheslav Nikonov, a senior lawmaker in the Kremlin-controlled lower house of parliament, said in televised remarks that the Russian military was getting its electronic countermeasures and air defense assets ready for action. He added on a combative note that the situation offers a "good chance to test them in conditions of real combat."
An even more threatening situation may evolve if the U.S. and its allies use manned aircraft, and the Russian strike results in casualties.
Such a scenario could trigger a quick escalation, leaving Russia and the U.S. on the brink of a full-scale conflict — a situation unseen even during the darkest moments of the Cold War.
Retired Lt. Gen. Yevgeny Buzhinsky, the former chief of the Russian Defense Ministry's international department, warned that Russia has thousands of military advisers in Syria "practically in every battalion," and a strike on any Syrian facility could jeopardize their lives. He warned that Russia and the U.S. will quickly find themselves in a major conflict if they allow a collision in Syria to happen.
"I have an impression that Americans' survival instincts have grown numb, if not vanished completely," Buzhinsky said. "They seem not to really believe that Russia will give a tough military response and expect some sort of a local brawl, exchanging some minor blows. It's a miscalculation. Any clash between Russian and U.S. militaries will expand beyond a local conflict and an escalation will be inevitable."
Fears of war
Andrei Klimov, the head of an upper house committee that investigates foreign meddling in Russian affairs, proudly said on the top talk show on Russian state TV that his relative, a Soviet pilot, won a medal for combat duty in Vietnam. Klimov pointed to heavy U.S. losses from Soviet missiles and jets in Vietnam, adding that Russia stands ready to counter any possible U.S. strike.
Unlike the Vietnam War, where Soviet advisers helping North Vietnam supposedly weren't directly engaged in combat, the potential clash in Syria would pit Russia directly against the U.S.
Fears of war swept Russian newspaper headlines and TV news, with commentators discussing the darkest possible outcomes, including a nuclear war.
"What if the war starts tomorrow?" the front page of Moskovsky Komsomolets clamored on Wednesday. Russia's best-selling newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda wondered: "Is macho Trump going to start World War III?"
Even former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev weighed in. The 87-year-old former president compared the tensions to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis and said he feels "great concern."


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Smart Ordering: Low(er) Calorie Menu Ideas
Dining in ethnic restaurants can be tricky. Many dishes have so many ingredients that it's hard to figure out how many calories you're eating.
Some people eat in restaurants a few times a week or more. If that group includes you, then you should know that's often enough to wreck your diet if you're not careful. And choosing food in ethnic restaurants deserves some special attention, because the dishes are often a lot more complicated. It's not only harder to know what to choose, it's also tough to figure out exactly what you're eating.
Read the calorie road signs
It would be nice if more restaurants posted calorie counts for their dishes, but most don't. Large chain restaurants are more likely to have that information, but if you like to seek out less common dishes at your neighborhood independent restaurants, you're on your own.
Here in the U.S., new federal guidelines recently went into effect that require any restaurant chain with 20 or more locations to post the calorie content of their menu items. But about half of all U.S. restaurants are independent, so they won't have to comply. This means we'll probably never know exactly how much we're eating when we visit our neighborhood "hole in the wall."
When faced with complex ethnic dishes with a lot of ingredients, it can be hard to get a completely accurate calorie count if that information isn't available. But the tips below may at least help you make the best choices by steering you to some of the healthier options that are typically offered. Take some time to get familiar with popular offerings in ethnic restaurants so you know what ingredients they might contain. Keep in mind, though, that portion control is key, even if you choose wisely – because yes, you can eat too much of a good thing.
Tips for making the best choices in ethnic restaurants
Here are some pointers for the best choices from some of the most popular ethnic cuisines:
Mexican Food
Say yes to: grilled seafood and poultry, soft tacos, salads, salsas.
Have less of: chips, quesadillas, chorizo, sour cream, cheese.
Chinese Food
Say yes to: veggies, tofu, seafood, poultry, stir-fried, steamed, simmered, braised dishes, oyster, black beans, lobster sauce, soups, green tea.
Have less of: white rice, noodles, fried appetizers or meats, sweet-and-sour sauce.
Italian Food
Say yes to: green salads, broth-based soups, grilled meats and fish, marinara, wine or clam sauce.
Have less of: fatty meats, cheese, cheese-filled pasta, cream sauces.
Japanese Food
Say yes to: miso soup, yakitori, sukiyaki, sushi, sashimi, vinegar, teriyaki, soy sauces, green tea.
Have less of: white rice, katsu (fried dishes), tempura, udon.
Thai and Vietnamese Food
Say yes to: fresh spring rolls, broth-based soups, stir-fried or grilled dishes.
Have less of: fried appetizers, heavy coconut curries, peanut sauces, mee krob, sweet sauces.
Indian Food
Say yes to: most bean and lentil dishes, tandoori, tikka, paneer, yogurt sauces, chutney, pickles, raita.
Have less of: fried appetizers or entrees, korma, creamy curries.
Middle Eastern Food
Say yes to: salads, grilled fish and poultry, dolmas, hummus, baba ghanoush.
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Tuesday, 26 January 2010 06:36 PM EST
Toyota Motor Co. said Tuesday it was suspending U.S. sales of eight recalled vehicle models to fix accelerator pedals that stick, the latest quality problem to confront the world's No. 1 automaker.
As part of the plan, Toyota said it was halting production at five manufacturing facilities for the week of Feb. 1 "to assess and coordinate activities." There are 2.3 million vehicles involved in the recall, which was announced last week.
"This action is necessary until a remedy is finalized," said Bob Carter, Toyota's group vice president and general manager.
The Japanese automaker says the sales suspension includes the 2009-2010 RAV4, the 2009-2010 Corolla, the 2009-2010 Matrix, the 2005-2010 Avalon, the 2007-2010 Camry, the 2010 Highlander, the 2007-2010 Tundra and the 2008-2010 Sequoia.
It was unclear how long Toyota would suspend production of the vehicles. In an e-mail to employees, company officials said, "we don't know yet how long this pause will last but we will make every effort to resume production soon." Toyota officials did not immediately return phone messages.
Toyota said the company would stop producing vehicles at plants in Indiana, Kentucky, Texas and Canada. They said no other North American Toyota facility would be affected by the decision.
The auto company said the sales suspension would not affect Lexus or Scion vehicles. Toyota said the Prius, Tacoma, Sienna, Venza, Solara, Yaris, 4Runner, FJ Cruiser, Land Cruiser and select Camry models, including all Camry hybrids, would remain for sale.
Toyota said last week it was recalling 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. to fix accelerator pedals with mechanical problems that could cause them to become stuck.
That announcement followed a larger recall months earlier of 4.2 million vehicles because of problems with gas pedals becoming trapped under floor mats, causing sudden acceleration. That problem was the cause of several crashes, including some fatalities.
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MALLET, DENIS, master wood-carver and carpenter; son of Louis-Denis Mallet and Renée Padouillet, originally from the parish of Notre-Dame in Alençon, diocese of Laix (France); interred 1 Nov. 1704 in Montreal.
It is not impossible that Mallet came to Canada at the same time and in the same circumstances as Lajoüe, with whom he shared a house in 1692. We have no clue as to his age, but we may suppose that he was in his twenties when he arrived around 1688. On 14 Oct. 1695 at Quebec he contracted to marry Marie-Madeleine Jérémie, daughter of Noël Jérémie*, by whom he had three children who died at an early age. On 10 Nov. 1699 at Sainte-Foy he remarried, his second wife being Geneviève Liénard, and went to live at côte Saint-François-Xavier. Two daughters and a son were born of this marriage, all of whom attained adulthood.
The earliest of Mallet's known contracts was that by which he undertook to build a tabernacle ten feet wide and seven feet high, canopy included, for the sum of 600 livres, This contract, dated 24 Dec. 1693, which was concluded before Frontenac [Buade*], the protector of the Recollets, for whom the work was intended, specified that the tabernacle "will be movable . . . and that in place of the roof of the tabernacle there will also be a niche consisting of three angels holding up a royal crown, and that he will also make five figures for the niches in the said tabernacle." The tabernacle for the main altar of the church at L'Ange-Gardien, which is preserved in the provincial museum at Quebec and which was done at the same period by Jacques Leblond de Latour, no doubt permits us to visualize the work by Mallet, which has disappeared. It is not until 1700 that we again find a mention of Mallet practising as a wood-carver; at that time he carved a lion to decorate a Montreal merchant's bark.
The following year he ran foul of the law. He was sentenced and imprisoned, along with the notary Genaple, a former carpenter, for disrespect and failure to obey the authorities. He had, in fact, given expression a little too noisily to his desire to undertake a trip to the Mississippi region without waiting for the governor's permission. Worn out, perhaps by his misfortunes or by a malady contracted during a recent escapade, he died in November 1704 in Montreal, far from his wife, who was then in France. In the inventory of his belongings are listed "twelve small tools used in wood-turning, some old mortise chisels for carpentry work . . . of little value in all." It is on this quiet note that Mallet's career, which we have difficulty in following, comes to a premature end. It must, however, have left its mark on contemporary wood-carving at Quebec; indeed, during a lawsuit with the Jesuits, the testimony rendered in his favour by Juconde Drué and Leblond, two important figures in Canadian art, proves the significance of his role.
Mallet's activity corresponded to the period when the Jesuit and Recollet monasteries were being built and decorated, and was limited in great part to those programmes, of which we know very little. Undoubtedly he spent the rest of his time on day-to-day carpentry work and minor wood-carving orders; his role as a teacher at Saint-Joachim is hypothetical and not very likely. Richard Short*'s views of the interiors of the Jesuit and Recollet churches and the panels in the Quebec museum attributed to Mallet show the extent to which decorating was carried on in New France and prove that this art stands comparison with that in France from which it descended.
AJQ, Greffe de Louis Chambalon, 10 mai 1694; Greffe de François Genaple; Greffe de Florent de La Cetière, 13 mai 1705; Greffe de Guillaume Roger, 14 oct. 1694, 9 nov. 1699. IOA, Dossier Mallet. Jug. et délib., IV, 478; V. Morisset, La peinture traditionnelle au C.f., 28. J.-E. Roy, Histoire du notariat, I, 124.
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As he toweled perspiration from his forehead, Iglesias shared the good news with a young executive from Sony Music named Jimmy Sabatino, who sat in the dressing room with him. Sabatino at the time was a plump, baby-faced teenager, carrying 200 pounds on a frame less than five and a half feet tall. He certainly didn't look like an entertainment mogul, what with his shaved head and skin dotted with acne. But he wore a new suit and spoke in a cocky, stream-of-consciousness sort of way that seemed to fit the part. And he carried a gold-plated connection: In telephone calls before the concert, Sabatino had arranged the meeting by claiming to be the nephew of Sony Music chairman Tommy Mottola. Iglesias records for Sony, and while talking to Sabatino after the show, he revealed his disappointment with the level of promotion he had received, especially compared with the strong push the label was giving to aging rockers Pink Floyd. "You tell your uncle that the young people love me, too," Iglesias requested, according to more than one person familiar with the encounter.
Sabatino, however, is not the nephew of Tommy Mottola. He is the son of Peter Sabatino, a man described in sealed federal court documents as "reportedly a captain of the Colombo crime family who acted as a liaison with the Gambino family." Jimmy has never worked for Sony, though he harbors ambitions of breaking into the music business. He's also proven time and time again that he can get almost anything he wants from almost anyone.
Over the course of the next few days, until Iglesias learned the teen's true identity, the two racked up some intensive quality time. During one dinner (just the two of them at the singer's Indian Creek mansion in Miami Beach) Iglesias begged for better marketing of Latin acts. Sabatino discussed his plans for possible joint ventures with the crooner, perhaps something involving Luciano Pavarotti.
The ease with which Sabatino infiltrated Iglesias' camp is no surprise to the security chiefs of some of the United States' largest corporations. They've been tracking his exploits for years, ever since he began traveling the world first class by claiming to be an executive at Disney, or the president of Paramount Pictures, or the head of the music division of Warner Bros.
Today, at the young age of 22, he's already a career criminal believed to have conned millions of dollars in goods and services. More than the dollar value, though, it's the way he's grifted that makes Jimmy Sabatino notorious.
He simply asks for things, and people simply give them to him.
As part of his most infamous caper, in 1995, Sabatino exploited Wayne Huizenga's stewardship (at the time) of both the Blockbuster Entertainment Corp. and the Miami Dolphins football team. He posed as a Blockbuster vice president to ask the Dolphins if they had extra tickets to the upcoming Super Bowl, to be held that year in Miami. His inquiry was so convincing that the team sent him a letter, in Dolphins president Eddie Jones' name, explaining when and where the tickets would be sent.
On shipment day Sabatino called Federal Express, claimed to be Jones, and demanded that all 262 tickets be recalled. A friend of his subsequently picked up the tickets at a FedEx distribution center in Miramar, no questions asked. Sabatino sold his haul to ticket brokers at an estimated $900 per, a tidy take of $235,800. But fans who bought the tickets from the brokers -- unaware they were hot merchandise -- were not allowed into the game.
"He's like Tony Curtis in The Great Impostor," says Thomas Hays, vice president for studio protection at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. "He's so ballsy, it's almost like a challenge for him. In the movie Curtis posed as a doctor or a professor; it was an obsession to him to be someone else. This Sabatino kid is the same way. He's crafty."
The sheer gutsiness of Sabatino's exploits has won him fans in the most unlikely places. "I know I shouldn't say this, but I can't help it: I love the guy," allows Max, a security consultant to a prominent corporation Sabatino has repeatedly victimized. (Max is an alias.) "I can't help but respect what he's able to get away with. Even when he was 17 he'd just walk into the Waldorf-Astoria with three or four or five or ten people, get them all rooms and room service for a week and limousines. He'd have no credit card and would be dressed like a ghetto kid with the crotch of his jeans hanging down to the floor. He's incredible."
Police eventually arrested Sabatino for the Super Bowl caper. He pleaded guilty in Broward County Circuit Court to three counts of dealing in stolen property and two days later to an unrelated charge of fraud for acquiring $12,500 worth of pagers by again claiming to be Tommy Mottola's nephew. For both crimes he served two years in prison.
He's back in prison in Miami's federal detention center (FDC) now, having admitted guilt two weeks ago to his most serious (and most bizarre) crime yet. From a prison in suburban London, England, where he was serving a short sentence for skipping out on a typically outlandish hotel bill, Sabatino telephoned the White House and threatened to kill either Pres. Bill Clinton or his brother, Roger. He also repeatedly called the FBI in Miami and threatened to kill two federal prosecutors, a federal judge, and -- for good measure -- to blow up the federal courthouse in downtown Fort Lauderdale. In several calls he left his full name and date of birth.
As part of a plea agreement, charges arising from the Clinton threats were dropped. But Sabatino awaits sentencing for threatening to kill the prosecutors and the judge; he faces a minimum of four years in prison. He could spend even longer behind bars as a result of two more unrelated charges: violating probation and assaulting a prison guard, a case scheduled for court next week. Outstanding warrants await him in Atlanta, New York City, and who knows where else. "He thinks he's smarter than everybody in the world, and truthfully he is," says Max, the security consultant. "I guess he makes mistakes, too. I think he just went a little bit overboard here."
Jimmy Sabatino declined a formal interview for this story, a fact that surprises almost everyone who knows him. "He loves attention," says Max. "I would think he'd love to talk." Actually Sabatino originally agreed to an interview, then changed his mind. "All he told me is that his father said he would kill him if he talked," says FDC spokesman Erwin Meinberg.
Though Sabatino rejected an interview request and refused to allow his picture to be taken in jail, he did contact New Times through a person who identified himself only as Sabatino's paralegal. "Yeah, he just wants to know when the story is coming out," said the paralegal over the phone. "He also wants to know what pictures of him you plan to use. And he said to say that if you're gonna use a drawing of him, he really, really doesn't want you to use a cartoon. He doesn't want to look funny, OK? And he doesn't want any stupid headlines either."
Obviously Sabatino craves attention. One of the many ways his craving manifests itself occurred on April 9, 1995. A 21-year-old woman named Tashanda Elliot told a Boca Raton police officer that her boyfriend, Jimmy Sabatino, "hit her over the past few days and held her against her will" at a Marriott Residence Inn. Police arrested Sabatino for false imprisonment and on an outstanding warrant from the Sony pagers theft. As he was being transported to the Boca Raton Police Department, he asked an officer if he recognized him from the newspapers.
"Sabatino then told me that he was an equal partner in the theft of the Super Bowl tickets that occurred with Federal Express," wrote Ofcr. John Wagner. "Sabatino told me that he didn't commit the theft but the person who did steal them approached Sabatino for the resale of the stolen tickets for which Sabatino was a willing participant. Sabatino further stated that he did not make the amount of money that the newspaper reported, $250,000."
Four months later Sabatino filed a missing-person report stating Tashanda Elliot had been gone for a day and a half. Eventually he found her at a friend's house in Pompano Beach. In anger he broke down the front door to find Elliot hiding in a bedroom. Sabatino was charged with domestic violence, though he was not convicted. In court, while the prosecutor repeatedly reminded her she was under oath, Elliot changed her story, saying the arrest was all a mistake, that Sabatino didn't shake her or beat her as she had previously claimed.
His current girlfriend lives in Houston, Texas, near the campus of Rice University. Sometimes she telephones reporters who have written or who are currently writing stories about Sabatino. She gives her name only as Shanita. "He's a good guy to me," Shanita says. "Everybody doesn't really know him like I know him. He's a loving and sweet person. He's good with kids." She says they've been seeing each other for most of the past three years, even though he's been in jail for most of the past two. A baby's cry can be heard in the background. Is Jimmy the father? "I can't give out any information about that to you," she says with a laugh. "You're trying to get me killed, right?"
Sabatino was born in Brooklyn, raised on Staten Island. He dropped out of Staten Island High to run one of the family's produce businesses. According to a court-ordered psychological evaluation conducted earlier this year, his "mother was estranged from the family for a number of years before she died of cancer."
That report begins: "Mr. Sabatino is a twenty-one-year-old who hails from a family with alleged ties to the Colombo/Gambino families of the Cosa Nostra. His father reportedly is a captain of the Colombo family who acted as a liaison with the Gambino family."
The evaluation, which drew on documents and affidavits provided by the FBI, as well as arrest data from the National Crime Information Center, remains under court seal. It continues: "According to Mr. Sabatino, from a very early age he became aware that he was treated different than other children. More specifically, others fawned over him and catered to all of his wishes. He soon became aware that this special treatment was accorded to him because his father allegedly held a high position within the Italian-American Mafia. He recalls being fourteen years old and his girlfriend's father asking for favors from him. He also recalled going out to clubs and having people step aside to let him and his cohorts through the crowd. He would always obtain the best seats in the restaurant, and often people would give him money just so that he would speak favorable about them to his father."
Jimmy's father, Peter Sabatino, is the manager of a Bobby Rubino's restaurant in Pompano Beach, part of a Fort Lauderdale-based chain owned by two sons of the late Paul Castellano, the legendary former boss of the Gambino crime family murdered by John Gotti, who succeeded him as boss. A third partner is Frank J. Galgano, grandson of a Gambino captain. (A source with South Florida's Metropolitan Organized Crime Intelligence Unit says Peter Sabatino has "been clean" for at least the past twenty years. Prior to that, no records are available. The elder Sabatino did not respond to a request for an interview.)
"Mr. [Jimmy] Sabatino related a life full of luxury, money, strong family ethics, and immediate gratification," states the court-ordered psychological evaluation. "In fact, he noted how from an early age he became used to immediately obtaining what he desired. If he did not then he would have a 'temper tantrum.' Mr. Sabatino acknowledged having temper tantrums since he was in preschool. As a child Mr. Sabatino either won at every game he played or, if he did not, he would take away the game or stop playing. He also found himself in frequent verbal matches with others which inevitably got him in trouble. He was often expelled from school and his father eventually had to resort to providing the schools with very generous donations and gifts in exchange for tolerating his son's outbursts.
"Mr. Sabatino recalled being twelve years old when he was admitted to the psychiatric ward of [a hospital]," the report continues. "He had been taken to the hospital, he explained, after a week-long temper tantrum during which he kicked and screamed out of anger. (He could not recall what precipitated the anger.)
"At the age of fourteen the defendant was sentenced to juvenile hall for racketeering. At the age of fifteen he was violated [sic] for carrying a gun. As usual, he was granted special privileges even in juvenile hall. 'My father always bailed me out of trouble. I grew up with power and when things didn't go my way I'd blow up. I expect things to go my way. I've been having problems ever since I can remember between having power and having to react to people who would not acknowledge it.'"
Sabatino was arrested in Miami in September 1993. Details of the incident are sealed. More juvenile arrests followed in New Jersey and in Puerto Rico, where he was incarcerated. Those court files are sealed as well.
For most of his professional career, Sabatino operated out of a house in Ocean Ridge, an upscale oceanfront community in Palm Beach County. The house, owned by his uncle, Richard Sabatino, was once a waterfront villa with a four-car garage, expansive windows, a pool, and a hot tub, all with unobstructed ocean views. These days it sits in extreme disrepair, abandoned. The walls have been gutted to the framing. Some windows are broken. Chipped tile dominates the patio, and the pool is empty save a thick green sludge stewing on the bottom.
That home is at the center of a federal criminal complaint against the uncle. In late 1995 Richard Sabatino pleaded guilty to receiving illegally a shipment of stolen Italian shoes valued at nearly a quarter-million dollars. Two of his accomplices in the shoe caper were also convicted of unrelated crimes: participating in a racketeering conspiracy that included kidnapping, robbery, and the distribution of cocaine and heroin.
A federal judge sentenced Richard to two years' incarceration and ordered him to pay more than $200,000 in restitution. In a fresh set of federal charges, filed earlier this year, Richard Sabatino is accused of trying to hide his ownership of the Ocean Ridge house as well as two Bono's rib joints in Palm Beach County to avoid paying his penalties.
In 1982, as part of an ongoing investigation into organized crime at Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market, Richard Sabatino was charged with a fraudulent scheme to obtain $57,000 worth of fish and lobster from a seafood company in Ramsey, New Jersey. He still lives in Palm Beach County but could not be located for comment.
Organized crime is central to Jimmy Sabatino's identity. Often he is the one to bring up the connection. He once told a friend that 75 percent of his business was in the music industry and the remaining 25 percent was in the "Family" business, meaning the Mafia.
"That's a bunch of bullshit," counters a member of South Florida's multiagency Metropolitan Organized Crime Intelligence Unit who insists on anonymity. "Who [in organized crime] would want a guy like him around? How can you trust him? Everything he does draws attention, and attention is usually something you try to avoid."
First-class airline tickets, luxury hotel rooms, limousines, cell phones, pagers by the hundreds, scores of computers -- based on this extensive list of booty, it's impossible to document the number of scams Sabatino has pulled off. The victims include PolyGram, Disney, Delta Air Lines, and American Express. By simply posing as Tommy Mottola's nephew, he used the Sony name to defraud Mac Warehouse of $60,000 in laptop computers, New York's Waldorf-Astoria of $16,000 in rooms and services, and the New York Marriott Marquis of more than $20,000. In Los Angeles he ran up a $16,000 bill at the Ritz-Carlton. His rap sheet spans the globe.
"He's embarrassed many, many companies," says Max the security consultant, who asserts that Sabatino has committed many more crimes than he's been charged with. "I got after him pretty good every time he went after us, but other companies get so embarrassed they hide in the woodwork. Often they won't press charges, preferring instead that the whole thing just disappear."
Max has assembled a Sabatino file five inches thick. Inside it are pictures of the young con artist, the names of other companies he's targeted, of hotels he's ripped off, and of police detectives to whom Max has spoken over the years. Sabatino occasionally calls him just to talk, sometimes from prison. "Jimmy's a likable kid," Max says. "He's a criminal, though. I had a guy from a hotel in New York call me up to say that he sees a discrepancy in this bill for $33,000. He asked if I knew anyone named James Sabatino. When the guy found out all that Jimmy had done, he realized [Sabatino had] run up a hell of a bigger loss than that."
Sabatino's methods are simple, though they usually require a bit of advance work. Say he's targeting a hotel. The first thing he does is write a letter to a major company such as Disney or PolyGram. The response invariably comes back on the company's letterhead and is signed by a company official. A few days before checking in, he'll fax the hotel's front desk with a letter from the official at the company announcing that James Sabatino will be staying at the hotel and that the company will be paying all his charges. Usually it's no more complicated than that, though Sabatino is willing to put in extra work when necessary.
"He'll call a company and say he'd like to speak to the comptroller," explains Max. "Then he'll ask to be directed to the comptroller's comptroller, then to the comptroller's comptroller's comptroller. Finally he'll go, 'Gee, I'm doing the budget. I've got the first four numbers of the budget code [the numbers he needs to bill a hotel room to the company] and I'm having trouble getting the last four numbers.' He gets information from whoever he talks to, and from that they wind up with a problem."
The hotel rooms and airplane seats are almost always booked in his real name; it's one of his calling cards. The entertainment industry is also a common thread running through most of his cons. When he was arrested in Boca Raton on the outstanding warrant for stealing pagers, he gave his occupation as the president of Soundstorm, his own (defunct) music label. He once charged $6000 worth of gifts at Tiffany & Co. in New York City to BMG Entertainment, a recording-industry giant. He brags that he's tight with rappers Lil' Kim, Lil' Cease, and others in the Junior M.A.F.I.A., a rap coalition sponsored by Biggie Smalls, the late rap superstar. Sabatino has boasted of attending the 1995 Grammy Awards with Smalls.
"He's a flashy, flamboyant wannabe in the music industry," Max continues. "He has his own labels. He can go up to a guy like Puff Daddy and bullshit him for two hours, and Puff wouldn't know the difference. He doesn't understand why he's not the next agent for Michael Jackson. The hotels and the limousines, the champagne are all part of his image. He has to have that."
Sabatino often took his hotels and limos and liquor in Atlanta, a capital in the rap-music industry. He always stayed first class and for free, even after getting caught. In May 1994 he conned the Nikko hotel for rooms by posing as a Coca-Cola executive. After a few days, he was discovered and arrested. As soon as his father posted the $5000 bail, Jimmy immediately moved his posse to the Hilton hotel across the street. A week later he jumped to the Renaissance hotel. The same detective arrested him every time. Atlanta police sources say Coca-Cola officials still intend to press charges.
These weren't always victimless crimes. While in one of those Atlanta hotels, he told a representative of SkyTel Communications that he was a Warner Bros. executive and that he was contracting out all of the giant entertainment company's beeper business. The salesman rushed over 75 beepers worth $18,750. A second order of 130 more beepers was on the way when the fraud was discovered. The SkyTel salesman was fired on the spot, according to Max, who is familiar with the case.
When Sabatino checked out of Miami's federal detention center after serving his two years for the Super Bowl caper, he successfully transferred his ten-year probation from South Florida to New York. One day after the transfer, New York City police arrested him when he couldn't pay the nearly $55,000 tab he'd run up at his welcome-home bash at the Marriott Marquis hotel in Times Square. Out on bail from that predicament, he took off for London (in violation of the terms of his probation) and checked into the posh Four Seasons.
He set up those accommodations in the usual way. According to sworn witness statements on file with British law-enforcement authorities, the hotel received a call on January 12, 1998, from an American claiming to be Mike Andrews, chairman of Paramount Pictures. Andrews said a James Sabatino would be staying at the hotel from January 15 through 19. Sabatino was to be afforded a suite and a full accounting, meaning that Paramount would pay for every service he used and everything he bought. The hotel balked at first, noting that they usually deal with Paramount's British division. "Andrews" called back to complain. After he filled out a credit application sent via fax, the reservation was accepted.
During the course of his four-day stay in the luxurious Park Suite, Sabatino inquired at the hotel shop about a Rolex watch worth approximately $40,000. He told a clerk he was working with Sony Recording Studios in London, preparing for a movie being made with Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone. Sabatino asked about a diamond bracelet to go with the watch, an accessory that jacked up the price to more than $100,000. Two days later he called the gift store to say he'd take the watch and also a second platinum Rolex they had in stock. He tried to charge the purchase to his room, but the hotel refused. Thinking quickly on his feet, he said a colleague would be arriving from Paramount in two days with a company credit card and that he would pay for the watches then. Without settling the hotel bill, he took off for Japan.
"On Tuesday morning I received a phone call from Jean Forest, who is director of marketing at Four Seasons in Tokyo," recounted Kristien Deleersnijder in a sworn statement. Deleersnijder is sales and marketing director at the Four Seasons in London. "The text was, 'Do I know a James Sabatino?' I said, 'Yes, of Paramount Pictures.' She said, 'No, of Sony Music.'"
In Tokyo, Sabatino had apparently presented two credit cards to the hotel clerk, both of which were rejected by the hotel's computer. As a possible explanation for the rejection, Sabatino showed her the envelopes from two first-class airline tickets to Tokyo, which probably pushed his credit cards over their spending limits. The tickets, though, were in the name of "Phillips." When contacted by the hotel, Sony Music in Tokyo claimed not to know Sabatino.
Sabatino and a friend immediately flew back to London. Brazenly they tried again to stay at the Four Seasons. Prior to his arrival, Sabatino phoned the receptionist and told her he needed to conduct interviews for Billboard magazine and wanted to book 12 single-occupancy rooms. Hotel management, which was onto him by this time, processed the request. On January 22 police arrested Sabatino at the hotel. He was charged with two counts of obtaining services by deception involving the Four Seasons and the Athenaeum hotels in London, and one count of obtaining property by deception for the Rolex watches he attempted to "purchase."
"Prison life in England was difficult for Mr. Sabatino," states the court-ordered psychological evaluation. "He was away from his cohorts and among individuals who did not know of his peculiar background. He was also labeled a 'Yankee' although his identity, up to then, was that of an Italian-American. The only food he had access to was not appetizing to him, and in addition he was housed in a 'dungeon' with inmates who were predominantly members of the Irish Republican Army.
"Mr. Sabatino placed all of his hopes in being granted bail and returning home to America where the system made sense to him. However, the judge refused to grant him bail allegedly as a result of his intimate ties to the Mafia. The defendant admitted reacting strongly to this decision ('I went ballistic.') in large measure because he did not think this had been a fair decision. Mr. Sabatino promptly placed blame for his legal tribulations on Mr. Jeffrey Kay and Mr. Paul Schwartz, both Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the Fort Lauderdale area."
This is how Jimmy Sabatino goes ballistic, according to a sworn affidavit from Charles O'Neal, an agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Miami:
On May 4, 1998, from his prison outside London, Sabatino called the FBI in Miami and said he would kill Jeffrey Kay. Then he left his name and date of birth. A few minutes later he called back to say he would also kill prosecutor Paul Schwartz. If he couldn't locate them, he said, he'd blow up the whole courthouse.
On May 11, 1998, he telephoned the White House. When the switchboard operator asked what the call concerned, he responded, "A threat against the President." The call was forwarded to a Secret Service agent, to whom Sabatino recited a written statement concerning the people who "were going to die at [his hands] for mistreatment" of him and his family. Included on the list were Kay and Schwartz, "unknown members of the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI," and Bill Clinton or even Roger Clinton, "because [Roger] is more accessible."
According to an affidavit from FBI agent Charles O'Neal, Sabatino explained, in a mangled sort of way, that "members of his family and friends are being targeted and harassed by the U.S. government for reasons being that they believe [them] to be a part of the 'Cosa Nostra' by association." He asked for a presidential pardon for his three outstanding warrants and a letter from Clinton stating he will no longer be harassed.
Later the same day, in another call, he vowed to kill the federal judge who presided over the case of Bonnano crime-family captain Gerald Chilli, a family friend in federal prison for racketeering, gambling, drug trafficking, loansharking, and other crimes.
The calls continued almost daily through mid-June and were much the same. On June 16 he phoned the FBI in Miami. After being assured that a tape recording of the conversation would be forwarded to Schwartz, he said, "You old skinny fuck, I'm going to cut your head off," followed by, "You Jew fuck, I'm going to kill you."
The threats won Sabatino a free trip from Brixton prison in London back to the federal detention center in Miami but only after he had served his complete three-month British sentence. One day after his return, he allegedly assaulted a prison guard.
Sabatino and his lawyer, Allen S. Kaufman, initially announced in court documents that Sabatino planned to plead insanity, with his irrational behavior stemming in part from a brain aneurysm he reportedly suffered in 1995. Kaufman now says the threats telephoned from England were merely a misguided attempt by Sabatino to serve the rest of his British time in the United States. "He had no intention of doing harm to the President or to the prosecutors," Kaufman says. "It wasn't even a consideration. In his mind he thought he'd be able to serve his time in the U.S. Now that was a major mistake."
Three weeks ago, on August 24, Jimmy Sabatino walked into the courtroom of federal Judge Edward B. Davis to plead guilty to the threats against the prosecutors and the judge. Two U.S. Marshals held his arms, his hands cuffed behind his back. Sabatino's head was shaved to a fine stubble, the fat on the back of his neck rolling up like the skin on a shar-pei. His dark eyes drooped sheepishly on a face that hadn't seen sun in almost two years. His right eye is lazy; when he sat next to attorney Kaufman at a table before the hearing began, he seemed to stare into his lawyer's ear. Acne spots covered his forehead. He wore prison-issue tan pajamas.
The few spectators in the gallery sat as if at a funeral, family to the left, three reporters to the right. "How are you feeling?" he mouthed to his father, who sat beside a younger woman whose arm draped over his shoulder. Peter Sabatino quietly responded that he was all right, though he declined to speak to the reporters. "I don't want to talk about it," he said.
Before pronouncing Sabatino guilty, Davis read through a perfunctory list of questions. Do you really want to plead guilty? Do you understand what your plea means? Do you recognize that I am friends with the judge you threatened to kill? Sabatino answered yes to every query.
"I've caused enough trouble," he told Davis in his only statement. "I just want to end this as quickly as possible."
Nothing is going to end soon. Sabatino still faces sentencing for the death threats. This week he is scheduled to begin trial for allegedly assaulting the prison guard, a charge that carries a maximum penalty of ten years in prison. (He has requested to be co-counsel in his assault defense.)
He filed a civil lawsuit last month seeking damages for the nearly full year he spent locked in the FDC's solitary confinement ward. He wants $100 per day in lost income, though he didn't spell out exactly what income he could have been generating from jail. And he also asked for punitive damages of -- what the heck -- ten million dollars.
"As he gets older, it's going to be tougher for him to pull this off," says Max the security consultant. "His boyish charm is leaving him. For years judges would look at him with a gleam in their eye and see this little kid who has taken on the big bad corporation. It will be interesting to see what happens to him now."
Max adds one more thing. "If you get a chance to talk to him," he implores, "give him my love, will you? I mean it."


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