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|2006-11-13, 23:10
|Link #121
Nothing More
Join Date: Mar 2003
Age: 39
The generic ones being, well, generic... lack strong taste or smell. Basmati on the other hand has a very strong smell and noticeably different taste (when cooked right), but similar texture to the generic ones. Which is where the Japanese rices stands out... they're more sticky. Though they do have their own distinct smell and taste too if my memory serves. It seems hard to find the so-called "Japonica" rice varieties in the UK though (and even harder to get real imports from Japan) so I've not had any in a long time.
I guess it depends how many different types you've tried yourself though, you need a big enough difference in the type of rice to be able to compare. With 1000s of different types on record the differences can be subtle... I couldn't tell one Japanese rice from another, for example.
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|2006-11-15, 13:09
|Link #123
✖ ǝʇ ɯıqnɾl ☆
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Mortuary : D
I have a question to kj1980 .
How does the tradional Japanese new year coincide with Western New Year. I mean we follow the Gregorian calender which is a lunar calender . While Tradional Japanese follow the solar calender with shinto being the principle religions ( influenced by Budhism )
|2006-11-15, 13:50
|Link #124
Gomen asobase desuwa!
Join Date: Nov 2003
Age: 38
As for religion, religion isn't a major issue here. Like I said many times, our country is as closest to being a "polytheistic-atheism." In many ways, we are Christian (capitalistic St. Valentines and Christmas), pagantry (Halloween is gaining popularity these days), New Years rites (Shinto), obon (Buddhism), funerals (Buddhism), weddings (Western = "Christian" or Traditional = Shinto), etc. etc. But quite frankly, no one gives a damn about religion.
We don't celebrate Christmas because it's Christian, we celebrate it because it is a day of lovers, presents, and cakes.
We don't celebrate St. Valentine's Day in order to honor St. Valentinus, we do it because of capitalistic drive of chocolate companies forcing us that "girls should give to men they like," and the like.
We aren't Buddhists because we do most of our funerals that way, we do it because it's the way it has been all this time.
And we don't go to New Year's festivals because we are Shintoist, we do it because it's part of our culture.
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|2006-11-15, 14:46
|Link #125
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Join Date: Feb 2006
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I found this info after I wiki-ed it
Actually Traditional Japanese New Year coincides with the Chinese New Year (solar calendar). From 1873 during Meiji restoration Gregorian calendar (lunar) came into practice and became a standard Calendar . January 1st became the official New Year since 1873.
The reason I asked you this is it is impossible for Lunar and Solar calendar system to be in conjunction
Japanese New Year
Edit: The reason I brought Shinto into the picture is , Shinto though the oldest religion in Japan, has strong influences of Buddhism . Buddhism follows the Solar Calendar which does not necessarily last 365/366 days. It takes the earth revolution around the sun as a measure rather than taking Lunar Cycles.
As you stated it followed on first of January has to do more with Meiji restoration which enforced Shinto as a principle religion as the Emperor could be elevated to the status of a demi God / descendant of the sun. Meiji restoration was responsible for unification of Japan . Also centralizing power to the Emperor as opposed to decentralized Shogun system of governance in practice .
During that period Japan became industrialized and westernized hence Gregorian calendar came into practice
EDIT : Yeah You are correct I interchanged the calenders in question . What I was looking for is Sidereal Calender . As I said the two resp calenders are never in conjuction hence the query arised
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|2006-11-23, 01:44
|Link #126
Join Date: May 2006
Location: where Grudge is Greatest, Rancour Endless and Malice Eternal(at school^^;;)
There's like thousands of other things you can mix into rice, and he's complaining about soy sauce?
For Christmas, someone should give that poor guy one of those big cookbooks centered around rice meals.
Old geezer would die of a heart attack, it would probably be the ultimate tome of blasphemy to him.
I want to see that happen!
But it's not like I ground the chopsticks vertical to the rice. I usually do is at an angle, resting on the edge of the bowl or plate, same thing with spoon and fork too.
Still good to know I guess.
|2007-07-11, 21:36
|Link #127
Join Date: Jun 2007
Is this how Japan actually is?
Now there are many things that are bad in this world, but one of the worst things is to be ignorant of something. I am pretty ignorant of specifics about the Japanese culture/society. Now I know a lot of stuff, but I do not know specifics of for example how the job atmosphere is, or dating, or male/female teenage relationship etc.
I lurked around the internet a bit and I found out this one very cool website. It was a very interesting read that was very informative. However I am not sure exactly how accurate it is.
I have recently read up some on Japanese culture/society. Now what I read really shocked me, interested me, and sometimes even disgusted me. There were some very interesting and good things to learn about Japan and the society, but there were also some nasty things to come into realization with and accept that the country I have up until recently looked at with a lot of admiration is EXTREMELY different from what I imagined it to be.
Read what the website says or just add your own about Japanese society/culture, so that I can hopefully learn a bit more.
Website: http://www.thejapanfaq.com/FAQ-Primer.html
Some excerpts from the website:
This is one of the first things you will notice about the Japanese. The Japanese have been raised to think of themselves as part of a group, and their group is always dealing with other groups. This is viewed on many angles -- internationally it is "We Japanese" vs. everyone else (more on that later), but in schools, companies, sections of companies etc. there are many groups and sub-groups -- and not always in perfect harmony and cooperation as it may look on the surface. Dealing with Japanese on a one-to-one basis usually comes very easy to non-Japanese, but dealing with Japanese as a group can be a different matter altogether. And no matter how nice you are, or how good your Japanese becomes, you will always be treated as an outsider. In fact the literal meaning of "gaijin" is outsider. Many westerners see Japanese as aloof, shy, and always walking on eggshells. There is a lot of truth in that -- Japanese are extremely sensitive to what others might think of them (or worse -- what they say behind their backs, and Japanese really do engage in gossip) and are very hesitant to do something new, different, or independent. Being ostracized is one of the worst things that can happen to a Japanese, who is raised to be part of a group and depend on others. Therefore, when making requests, it often takes more time since the person asked usually consults others in the group to reach a consensus. It also might interfere with what your goals are -- when teaching an English class a teacher gave some subjects for the students to debate. Of course the goal was for the students to use as much English as possible and improve their abilities. But what happened was the students reverted to their old habits and tried to compromise and reach a consensus -- in which case, the debate promptly ended. In short, however, while the westerner starts so many sentences with "I", the Japanese "I" usually means "with the approval of the group". This is not to pass judgement on this trait, as in many things there are both positive and negative aspects. For the westerner, it can be good in that you are often not subject to what sometimes becomes excessive, even oppressive methodologies. On the negative side, even if you do find a group or niche that you want to be in, you may be frozen out or the last one to find out about many decisions that profoundly affect your schedule and work.
Uchi-soto has one other important trait -- there are next to no strikes in Japan. Ever. Because Japanese labour-management relations are better? Partly, yes. But in Japan there are almost no unions like the Teamsters or AFL-CIO. But each large corporation has its own union, and they feel no bond with other company unions even if they're doing the same work. In one sense, the company union is almost a puppet, led by a management executive. But in another, everyone in a Japanese company knows that to succeed they need to act together, and being profitable in the long run is the only way to guarantee employment. You don't see a lot of the friction between labour and management in Japanese firms -- one reason is that the workers often cave in since they know a profitable company eventually benefits them. Another is that they know the CEO and execs don't make 100 times the money the workers do, or $2500-$5000 per hour (That's no exaggeration either -- you do the math.)
Osekkai! -- Mind Your Own Business!
Japanese society has two concurrent streams that frequently bump heads and the result as you can guess is tension and stress. One current is protecting your own privacy, following your dream, and doing things your own way at your own pace. Facing this is the overwhelming social pressure to conform, follow the rules, and make sure everyone else is in the same boat as you. With big Japanese cities having extemely high population densities, personal space is scarce, and with little space in front of you many Japanese retreat to the only space they can; inside their heads. Becoming introverted, shy and withdrawn is not atypical. There are exceptions to this of course; some young people love to associate with westerners because of this and they can more freely express themselves and not have to worry about being looked down as too gregarious. Liquor consumption is also high in Japan and used as a social lubricant to loosen up. But privacy in Japan is a precious commodity, more for cultural than demographic reasons, and nobody likes someone to butt into your life.
Unfortunately pushing everyone to conform often does just that, and many Japanese take it upon themselves to make sure everyone is in lock-step with one another. Most often, like many things in Japan it is done indirectly, such as through gossiping, backbiting and meddling. Hence in Japanese there's a plethora of terms referring to a nosy busybody, such as osekkai, sewa yaki, kansho-zuki, yakkai na sewa, and deshabari. This is viewed in different ways of course. In the ivory tower books on Japan there is the company superior who is also your counselor, paving your way to a better future, getting that reservation at a popular place or bank loan for you, etc. But there may also be the company autocrat who tries to know everything about you to manipulate you or run your social life, and for women can even cross the line into sexual harassment (seku hara).
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|2007-07-11, 22:04
|Link #128
Gregory House
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First of all, I'd like to point out something here that bugged me when I read it:
That small detail aside, I'd like to point out that views such as these, from a completely western point of view, usually fail to deliver the whole picture. I certainly can't comment on this matter because I haven't been to Japan myself, but my best friend is of Japanese descent (of direct Japanese descent) and they don't close themselves up that much. Granted, the society they live in is different.
And once again, even when in a single society you'll find a common trend, there will always be a gazillion of deviations from the norm. So I don't believe that the Japanese society can be completely summarized in a few paragraphs. Even less when it comes from a website named "Japanese Culture for Newcomers". I'd trust much more a serious, extensive paper on the matter.
And besides, I'd like to hear the opinion of some of the Japanese members of AS.
|2007-07-11, 22:19
|Link #129
Join Date: Jun 2007
Of course the society/culture can not be summarized in such a short way. However I am sure there is some merit to what the author of the website was talking about.
I have spoken to Japanese and they do seem very "shy". They are extremely soft spoken and do not input a lot of personal opinion into a matter unless they have their friends around.
Now I am not sure if that is in direct correlation with the "need the group" to make a decision and the "shy" the author mentioned, but I can believe very well that what he said in his website is mostly true. However I of course never want to state with full certainty.
Asian culture is different than ours, so that is why I can accept anything when talking about this subject.
I have read in many other places and even watched documentaries on T.V how foreigners are seen as these mysterious outsiders, how it is EXTREMELY hard to fit in, how it is hell finding a place to live, getting a car, etc, and how there is a very "group" related mentality.
|2007-07-11, 22:24
|Link #130
Gregory House
IT Support
|2007-07-11, 22:46
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Gregory House
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|2007-07-11, 23:08
|Link #133
Join Date: Jun 2007
However when I read it immediately my mind registered what "meaning of the word" and what the word "actually" means in society.
Maybe I am reading into this too much.
|2007-07-11, 23:13
|Link #134
Gregory House
IT Support
|2007-07-11, 23:58
|Link #135
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Gaijin is like any other word... it can mean "not of the body" (Star Trek reference), can be a term of respect, fear, or a slur depending on the context. My wife and her family use the term "hagaijin" when discussing outsiders (hell, after 35 years of hanging around with them,*I* use it and I'm a tall scary white guy).
The biggest complaint I have about the text the OP found is that it is a summary... a sweeping generalization of the type you usually find in fantasy novels that describe races in such overly-generalistic terms (hobbits eat, dwarves are greedy, elves are snotty, etc).
Many asian societies simply value the "harmony" of the society over the needs of an individual. It is up to the individual to support the 'harmony' of the society. One could argue that over-value of individual desires drives the current mess the US is in, in large part because of the imbalance of societal needs versus the individual (in this case, very powerful and greedy individuals). Of course, one could also argue that the 'harmony' preferred by asian society is simply another way to enforce the status quo so that the powerful remain so .
Japan is a country with beauty and warts --- just like any other culture. If you've had a fantasy view of it til now, consider this a first step into a wider world. Like any culture, Japan is a complicated place and the assumptions you have as a member of a different culture do not apply.
Probably the most dangerous thing about Japan is that it often appears so Westernized that people make the mistake of assuming it *is* Western. Kind of an extreme version of assuming that Canadians are just another state in the USA.
Random personal notes:
When asking a question of a japanese student, they will often want to huddle and arrive at a consensus answer. They tend to do well or fail as a class rather than individuals. Individuals who make the class look bad are treated pretty horribly. There's too fine a line between innovation and standing out of the group (which is why japanese sometimes have trouble innovating rather than improving technology).
On the other hand, when I walk through a japanese school... its spotless because they all take pride in its appearance. Group work tends to actually be done by the group.
In American schools, its the rare kid who stops to pick up a piece of trash and improve the look of their school ("Its not MY trash!!!"). Group work is done by one or two who care and the rest who just freeload on them. On the other-other hand, an American student doesn't need "the group" to make their experience a success or failure.
In one sense America is the golf team, Japan is the soccer team.
I've rambled in a few directions now... but that's because its a lot more complicated than a few hundred words on a web page. I recommend you do some real research on the history and culture using actual books
If nothing else, it'll give you an understanding of why anime/manga characters make the choices they do as Japanese.
|2007-07-12, 00:45
|Link #136
Evil Little Pixie
My number one complaint is that it's too generalized - ALL Japanese do this, ALL Japanese do that, etc. You can describe the culture and the overall Japanese view on certain things, but you can't say that every single Japanese person will feel certain ways.
Another reason to be wary is that the text is... I won't say written poorly, but it seems like the author's thoughts are all just kind of stuck right in there without much paragraph focus. I know it may seem trivial, but the way a person writes can tell a lot about them.
There is truth in what you pulled from the site, but take it with a grain of salt. And the best way to see if Japan's really like what you think is to go there yourself...
|2007-07-12, 14:11
|Link #137
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Found an interesting article in newscientist.com on studies done about self-centered versus collectivist societies -- and how it affects an *individual*'s perspective:
The intro paragraph:
"When it comes to putting yourself in the shoes of others, cultures that emphasise interdependence over individualism may have the upper hand. In a new psychological experiment, Chinese students outperformed their US counterparts when ask to infer another person's perspective. The researchers say the findings help explain how misunderstandings can occur in cross-cultural communication. .... "
|2007-07-12, 15:09
|Link #138
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
Double posting because of the vast difference of subject item.... gomen.
The rice we've been using for years changed their variety and there was an instant "wtf?" taste response from everyone in my household. So we went on a rice tasting expedition, bringing home 5 different kinds of short grain japanese rice.
Medium grain and long grain rice have immediately obvious different textures but taste is more subtle (I know some people can't tell the taste difference between mushrooms either ).
When presented with the different rices all at the same time, even my 16 yr old could tell the difference. One of the losing rices tasted too "papery" he said. Each rice was prepared according to its instructions (the water/rice ratio varied.... depends on the ability of that particular variety of grain to soak up water).
We've looked at the costco rice (yeah, mostly indian varieties) but more its a problem because medium and long grain rice doesn't stick together as well as short grain (caveat: some medium grains are okay in that regard). The rice served in most chinese restaurants fails for us because it's almost sticky-free and difficult to maneuver with chopsticks (moreso because they don't offer ricebowls. Several of my chinese friends refuse to use chopsticks at chinese restaurants because they say "chopsticks and bowl are combined eating utensils ... don't offer one without the other")
If anyone thinks Uncle Ben's converted rice is rice.... well then I can't help them.
As far as rice toppings.... my wife likes powdered shiso leaves, I tend to like seaweed bits... but we use all sorts of things like:
kimchi, pickled spicy eggplant, umeboshi, daikon bits, random pickled veggies. My younger son does use a bit of soy sauce but we've gotten him to cut back as he ages.
|2007-07-12, 15:29
|Link #139
Evil Little Pixie
My rice is cooked with a variety of little beans... Unfortunately I don't know the names of them, but one of the beans makes all the rice turn a deep, vibrant shade of purple. My mom is fond of putting in little nut-like beans (is it a big bean, or a soft little nut? I don't know), but I don't care for them. The beans are cooked with the rice in the rice cooker, not added once the rice is done. I guess I could get pictures of all the beans and the purple rice, if anyone's interested.
For toppings, I particularly like kimchi and all its cousins (other veggies made the same way kimchi is; my favorite is kimchi made with daikon instead of cabbage), daikon, random pickled veggies (pickled daikon is my favorite, again.. is there anything daikon can't do?), many varieties of mushrooms, potato, water bean-sprouts (I'm not sure of the name in English; kong na-mul in Korean), cooked and spiced anchovies, tofu, seaweed (both dried and non-dried variety), spiced leaves (don't know the English name... I'm aware I just made it sound as if I go in the backyard and pick leaves from the tree T_T), fishcake... I know I'm forgetting a bunch.
I don't use any sauce with my rice (love to dip it in kimchi soup though), but one of my apartment-mates last year used to put BBQ sauce over it. XD
[*puts umeboshi in mouth*]... "SUPPAIII!" >x<
|2007-07-12, 15:46
|Link #140
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 61
It took me literally decades to develop a taste for daikon (I actually learned to tolerate natto faster).. but now I reach for it without hesitation.
I'll have to research the "cook bean with rice" thing.... I've heard of certain recipes that call for putting things in with the rice as it cooks but this is new to me.
O yeah, I forgot about the powdered anchovie/fishy bits and bonito flakes. I like them but my wife doesn't use them (she sarcastically calls it fish food... which it really is mostly).
The main brakestop on using shoyu (soy sauce) on rice is that people tend to use too much (it ain't ketchup). Soy sauce is like injecting sodium into your veins if over-used. Instant high blood pressure and secondary problems. It also can easily swamp other tastes in the food (like oversalting does). So if you're going to put soy sauce on your rice... measure it out, really only a few drops (1/4 teaspoon/max) are needed.
Most cultures revolve around their food in some way but its funny how fast asian culture discussions devolve into food chatter
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- If you want stories to be considered for Google News, there are additional requirements for URLs and you will benefit from using a news-specific sitemap.
Keywords for Features and ProjectsThe average search is 3.1 words. This small input returns a SERP that is filled with sites that are focused on that content and have made that focus visible through content SEO best practices and are deemed most credible by Google's analysis of whom is linking to sites that focus on that content. Selecting the right 3 keywords is obviously critical for connecting your site to users searching for your content. If there isn't a match, you are unlikely to see much traffic from search. Your content isn't likely to be "considered" by the search algorithms for inclusion on the SERP unless your content contains keywords that match the 3.1 word search term entered by the typical user. Researching and analyzing keywords can help you focus your content and help define your information presentation.
Keyword development is a processSo how do you determine what keywords to use? Developing keywords is a process. As you go through your analysis you will continually improve your understanding of how visitors search for and find the information you have published. Just like the entire SEO process, developing and using keywords will improve over time if you continue to monitor and analyze user behavior. First, your keywords must be "real." Do not add keywords to your document that are not genuinely part of your content. You need to analyze your content to see what are the naturally occurring keywords in your content. Feature and enterprise project journalists and beat bloggers frequently become subject matter experts and are aware of technical terms and subject-specific vocabulary. These industry or trade specific terms may be good keyword candidates for technical reporting. The general public will likely need a more general keyword set. Understanding the target audience is a primary consideration for SEO in general and for keywords in particular. A member of the general public may not want to dive into a mathematical analysis of Google's Page Ranking algorithm, but an SEO specialist at a Silicon Valley start-up will "bounce" if the content is obviously written for a casual user. The role of SEO is to link the right content to the right user; keywords are the foundation for bridging content to users. Should you re-write your content to include keywords that your users actually use to search for the type of information you are publishing? Yes. Your content is most valuable by connecting to users.
Google Keyword ToolsGoogle has two good free tools for developing keywords. Google Adwords has an external keyword tool that is available to everyone—no Google Adword account required. This tools allows you to type in a keyword and immediately see related keywords and statistics indicating the volume of searches using the term. The Google Keyword Tools also can analyze the keywords on a web page. For example, if you are building a content around the general topic of immigration you might want to analyze the keywords used on community sites that cover the immigration issue. This will help you understand the language of the issue from the POV of the community. Google Zeitgeist examines "Search patterns, trends, and surprises" provides insight into global, regional, past and present search trends. Google Zeitgeist is actually home to several tools.
- Google Trends – For a broad look at search query data, enter up to five search terms to see relative popularity over time.
- Trends for Websites – Google Trends for website traffic data. Type in a website address to see visitors by region and related sites visited.
- Insights for Search – A deeper dive into search query data for marketers and power users. Create your own lists of "most popular" and "fastest rising" queries for different geographic regions over time and by topic.
- Hot Trends – The top 100 fastest-rising search queries right now (U.S. only). Updates throughout the day.
The "People" Keyword ToolRight from the conception and initial development of your project, ask people what keywords they associate with your content. As you listen to the answers you'll learn how to structure and present your content in terms that are meaningful (and searchable) by your target audience.
SEO Page TitlesThe page title tells both the reader and the search engine what the page is about. The page title appears in the search engine result and should correctly inform the reader about the content. Good SEO requires that every page have a unique page title that accurately labels the page content. Never have a page go up with an page title "Untitled." The page's title is the name by which the site will be bookmarked, the name that appears in the user's browser's menu bar, and most importantly, the name that will appear in SERP pages (to see how NOT to do it, Google for the string "Untitled Document" sometime). The page title is contained in the web page <title> tag that is contained within the <head> tag. You do not need to be an HTML warrior to take care of the basics. A quick read of Berkeley Advanced Media Institute's HTML 101 tutorial will introduce you to the everything you need to understand how to find and change the HTML code you need for SEO purposes. The page title should be a few words or a short phrase and should contain the key words that reflect the page's primary content. Place the most important key words near the front of the title. The W3C specification for the Title element is "less than 64 characters." Google actually uses the first 66 characters. Yahoo uses 120 characters. A good SEO strategy is to have your "primary" page title fit within the 66 characters and continue with an extended title that is less than 120 characters in length. Spaces and punctuation are included in the character count. One important and frequently overlooked point is that the page title is what shows up in the SERP and is the first introduction the user has, not just to your content, but to your entire organization. The page title is also what appears if a user bookmarks your page. Good SEO requires that your home page <title> actually includes the name of your organization. In the example above taken from Google's Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide you can see that working with the Title Tag is not complicated. The only code necessary is the opening <title> and closing </title> tags. Good page titles provide a strong enticement to end users. Consider this search… …and the result… The page title is the page element that connects the search result to your site. By including clear information about the focus of the site, a user knows what to expect at the site. The matching search terms are in bold to further connect the search result to your content. This connection is complete when the user clicks the link and arrives at your site. The informative page title appears at the top of the of the browser tab or window. For news articles use the hed for the <title> tag. Shorten the hed if necessary.
Description Meta Tag
Use the "description" Meta TagThe description meta tag gives search engines a summary of the page's contents. While Google and other search engines now exclude meta tags from natural search result algorithms, meta tags still do serve an important purpose. Whereas the <title> tag is a few words or a short phrase, the description meta tag may be up to a short paragraph. Google may use a portion of the description meta tag text as a search result snippet if it does a good job of matchup up with a user's search. Google will extract the portion of the text that best matches the user search. Put the best page content description within the first 166 characters. A good, informative meta tag can drive additional traffic. In this example from Google's SEO Starter Guide the "description" meta information shows the description appearing in the search result. This informative description promotes the content. A user searches… …the results display an informative page title and a snippet from the description meta tag that promotes the content… Use unique descriptions for each page if at all practical. Do not just copy and paste page content into the description meta tag. Do not "stuff" the description meta tag with keywords—keywords here will not improve your Page Rank. While the meta tag "description" will not improve your Page Rank it is important if you want the user to select your site from the 10 returned on the page. You want to give the qualified user every reason to click the link to your page.
SEO-Smart URLs
Use SEO-Smart URLsUsers and search engines both reward you for intelligent, readable URLs. For readers, URLs that are shorter have a higher clickthrough rate. Search engines reward you because keywords in your URL help the search engine determine how relevant your content is to a query. URLs frequently contain session IDs, sorting strings and other machine-generated code. Some of this may not be avoidable in your operation, however, if you can create "human readable" URLs make the effort. Short, clean, readable URLs can be read over the phone without mistakes, and won't break when forwarded around in emails. Keep in mind also that many people "read" URLs as they're surfing, as a form of navigation breadcrumb system. Seeing that a piece of content is at http://domain.com/articles/sept_2009/mayor_quits/ tells the user a lot about where they are in the overall structure of the site. Understanding URLs is the first step in learning how to make URLs a part of your SEO workflow. The actual work of changing the URL in WordPress is completely non-technical. Here is a great "Cheat Sheet" on URLs from SEOmoz.com — an excellent resource for SEO information. A larger version is available at the original post. If your URL is http://kdmctutorial.com/article/2128.html/ the reader cannot determine what the page is about by looking at the URL. However, http://kdmctutorial/seo-basics-tutorial.html/ conveys the content of the page. If the user searches for "SEO Tutorial" both "tutorial" and "seo" would show in bold on the SERP. Do use punctuation in your URLs to improve readability for both readers and search engines. For example, http://kdmctutorial/seo-basics-tutorial.html/ is better than http://kdmctutorial/seobasicstutorial.html/. Use all lowercase in your URLs—lowercase is easier read and to recall. Do not mix www and non-www URLs on your site. In general non-www URLs are preferred because they are shorter. Readable URLs help if your information is included in a blog post. If your URL is used as the anchor text other users are more likely to follow the link and you will get a higher Google relevancy rating for the link by having the keywords in the URL match the content on your site. Changing your URL will improve your relevancy in search and will help you appear higher in search results so this is an important element to change. Even more important, "readable" URLs will improve your clickthrough…really the more important goal for your SEO work.
Site Structure and Navigation
Site Structure and NavigationOne "top level" (literally) decision you will need to make is what the actual address of your site will be. You register example.com and your hosting site enables you to install WordPress using that domain. Not a problem so far. The address of your site is www.example.com. The recommended best practice is to use "example.com" as the definitive address and redirect users who enter "www.example.com". This seems confusing but implementing a solution is important for SEO. Google will track both addresses separately and this dilutes the traffic reports. The actual step-by-step for solving this varies depending on your web site host. Excellent instructions and a more complete discussion are available at Google Webmaster Central's discussion of "Preferred domain (www or non-www)." While this is more technical than other aspects of SEO, do not skip this. You only need to do this one time and the Google directions are well-written. You web host will also be familiar with this process and will be able to help. Your site must be easy to navigate or users will leave. You will be amazed at the "bounce rate" when you begin to monitor user behavior on your site. The "bounce rate" is the count of users who arrive at a page on your site and leave without viewing any other information on your site. One of the best ways to help users find good related content in addition to the content at the page they land on is to provide clear navigation to other content on your site. Here are specific site recommendations:
- Keep your site focused on a topic. Do not mix gardening information with a petition opposing the current American war(s).
- The number of pages is important. A site with 1 page on a topic does not rate as high as site with 10 pages on a topic. The amount of content you have to offer matters.
- The amount of text content on a page should be at least 200 words. Recommendations vary, but 500 words is a good target for word count.
- The growth of pages informs Google that your site is adding valuable content. If it makes sense, grow your site with additional pages over time. Ideally you should add some new content to your site every day.
- Avoid using subdirectories on your server for your content pages unless your site grows beyond a few dozen pages. Search engines consider pages in subdirectories less important.
- Focus each page on one keyword phrase. Adding more keywords dilutes the SEO value. Focusing on one keyword phrase will also help you better edit and target your content.
- Spend extra effort shapening your keyword phrase and all SEO element for your home page. This is most likely the page that will be highest in search and is a good gateway to your in-depth content.
- Use text links for your site navigation. Use keywords as your text link words. This clarifies the site navigation to users and gives additional SEO significance to the target page of the link. This also helps direct users to the key content that matches their interest.
- Do not use graphics for navigation. Graphics cannot be read by search engine bots.
- Add an HTML sitemap to help users navigate your site. This is in addition to the sitemap.xml file that you upload to help search engine bots index your site. XML-Sitemaps.com will generate both xml and html sitemaps for you automatically and for free if you have fewer than 500 pages. Here is an example of an HTML sitemap produced by the commercial tool Site Map Pro. Here is the sitemap for w3schools.com.
- Add a custom "404" Page that matches the look and feel of the rest of your site. Add the (free) Google 404 widget to your custom 404 page to provide visitors with useful ways to continue with your site.
- Add "breadcrumb navigation" to aid in site navigation.
Use Keywords in Anchor Tag
Use Keywords in Anchor TagAn essential component of the web is hypertext or hyperlinking—linking from one piece of content to another. The basic HTML element for creating a link is the anchor tag. The HTML format for the anchor tag is <a href="url">Link Text</a>. Both the destination URL and some link element are required. You can improve SEO by using relevant, accurate keywords as the anchor text. Using descriptive keywords as the anchor text describes the destination content for end users and for search engines. Having someone refer to your site content with a "click here" link does little to improve your SEO. If the other text around the anchor text is also related the relevancy of the link increases. The above example from Google's SEO Starter Guide shows that anchor text is directly related to the content at the site. If the surrounding text discussed collecting rare baseball cards then this link would add even more to the destination site SEO. A list of links with "Click here" would add little to the destination site's SEO score. Linking from the page or article the visitor to your site is currently viewing to other content on your site helps the reader see more of your related content. These internal links also improve your SEO. Use the same thought in your internal links as you do with your external links. Make your links easy to spot. With CSS it is easy to style your links and it is tempting to make your links blend smoothly with the rest of your text. Make sure your links stand out for visitors. Visitors to your site are interested in your information and your hypertext link are important.
Use HTML to Structure Your Content
Use HTML to Structure ContentPeople come to your site to find content. If you don't make information easy to find—and find quickly—the visitor you worked hard to attract will leave. Use basic HTML to provide structure to your content so that it is easy for the reader to scan and focus on the desired content. Use the appropriate heading tags in your document. Journalists understand story structure with heds, dek, and subheds. Structure in HTML uses heading tags <h1> through <h6>. Actual usage is generally <h1> through <h4>. This example shows the use of <h1> and <h2> tags to establish content hierarchy. Use HTML heading tags like you would the heading tags in an outline. An H3 should be subordinate to an H2. Only use one <h1> tag per page. Only use heading tags to provide logical and useful entry points into a clearly defined portions of the content. Don't use heading tags to make text bigger or bold; use the appropriate HTML semantic tags: <em> for italics and <strong> for bold. Where possible use your keywords in your headings. This will help with SEO and will visually guide the visitor to the words that best match the original search.
Optimize Images for SEO
Optimize Images for SEOImages attract user attention and provide important visual information. Users can see and understand the content of an image. Search engine bots cannot; bots can only understand text. In order for bots to "understand" your images you need to use good SEO practices. The most important action to take with images is to use the <alt> tag. The <alt> tag is a brief text description that is displayed if the image cannot be displayed for any reason. This shows the alt tag text. Search engine bots can read this and add this information to the page index. Note also that the file name, "2008-world-series-baseball.jpg," also helps the bot understand the "meaning" of the image. Good SEO uses both the file name and the alt tag to make the content of the image bot readable. In many WordPress themes there is a field for image captions. This is another opportunity to use add useful text that will help readers and bots. For example a caption that includes the first and last names of the people in the photo, the location and the date will help that image be indexed and found during a user search. Google has two good technical recommendations for your images. First, use standard formats for your images. Stick with .jpg, .png, and .gif images. Speed is an important factor in user experience so pay attention to optimizing your images for appearance and size displayed. The second technical recommendation from Google is to keep all your site images in a separate folder on your server to simplify paths to your images. Use a keyword in the directory name for your images. Use descriptive file names for your photos. Bots read file names and this is one more way to inform search engines about your content. If you have a great photo, include a link to a larger version. Make sure you include good keywords as your link text in the anchor tag.
Build Connections and Links with Your CommunityAll of the previous elements are controlled within the site. All of these are the necessary foundation for building good SEO. Even if executed perfectly—a tough presumption—these preceding elements are not sufficient. A significant amount of SEO is based on links to your site. Other web sites will link to your site because you have good, valuable content. Search engines use this inbound link information to rate the significance of your site and its content. There are two elements that determine your place on an SERP. The first element is content relevancy. This relevancy is based on content analysis, how well you structure your content and how well you inform the search engine bot of your content. The second element is an analysis of the inbound links to your site to determine how valuable your content is to the larger community. This link citation index or link popularity is based on the number and quality of the inbound links. A link from the Washington Post home page is intuitively more significant than a link from a hyperlocal site that serves a rural community of 2,000 residents. The link citation index takes both the number and the importance of inbound links into account. Each search engine has a unique method for actually calculating the citation index. The Google Toolbar (for Firefox and IE) will show the a numeric pagerank for pages you visit. While the number is in fact a range, the displayed number is sufficient to determine a pages relative pagerank value. The scale displays an whole number value from one to ten, the higher the number the better. The scale is also logarithmic. Each numeric increment indicates a site jumps 10 times in significance. By using Google Toolbar pagerank you can see the relative ranking of sites as you travel the Internet. Developing inbound links is both an organic and a planned process. As you develop great content people will find it and link to it. The better the content the more referrals and the more sites will link to your content. This organic process is well served by the attention to detail that makes your site easy to navigate and makes your well-structured content easy to use. However, sitting back and waiting is not going to move the needle much—or move it very quickly. Here are considerations for developing your inbound link plan:
- Have a site brand and identity. In addition to having great content, have a strong voice. Set your site apart from the noise by providing clarity, focus and a unique perspective.
- Build a solid base of good evergreen content that can continue to grow and will be an ongoing resource for your audience—and a reason to bookmark and refer your site.
- Submit your site to general directories including dmoz.org (an open source directory project). Only submit to sites that have actual hard-coded links back to your site. Script driven URLs do not help your SEO. You can determine if a site uses hard-coded links by viewing the source code and searching for one of the URL links.
- Do not submit your site to Free for All sites. Sites that take "anyone" without any screening are just spam factories and links from them have no SEO value.
- Link Exchanges are just that. In general, link exchanges done solely for SEO are not part of a news organization SEO plan.
- Thank sites and bloggers that link to you with a personal email. The personal touch counts in the virtual realm just as much as in the traditional marketing world.
- Engage in your topic by quoting, linking, adding comments to other sites, and highlighting the good work of others.
- If someone does link to you with "click here" anchor text, send them your preferred, reasonable link text and politely request the change.
- Link to others first. Community news publications can do a valuable service by linking to active community organizations and to community services.
- Invite others to write a column for your site.
- Offer to write a column for other sites that explains why your project has benefits for that audience.
- Use Twitter. News consumers are heavily represented on Twitter. Feed your followers with news and information that is significant. Have a "voice" for your Twitter feed. Automated Twitter feeds—except for important breaking news stories or subscribed alerts—don't work well. Create a hash tag for special events and breaking news stories.
- Make it easy for your readers to share your content on digg.com, delicious.com, reddit.com, techmeme.com and others. Make it easy for readers to email and repost your content.
- Create content widgets your readers can post to Facebook, Myspace and blogs. Berkeley Advanced Media Institute has a tutorial: Creating a Publication Widget.
- Create a Facebook fan page and keep it active. Tie your Twitter feed to your fan page news feed. Give your fans "advanced access" to special features. Invite them to "beta test" new content areas or provide feedback on new initiatives.
- Create a Myspace page and keep it active. The demographic differences between facebook and myspace mean one "social networking site" will not reach your all your market segments.
- Partner with your community/audience. Ask your audience for tips, leads and ask what the community considers important. Ask for content you can use including photos, videos, opinion pieces and local news reports. Ask for feedback and suggestions on how your site can be more useful and helpful. Create a virtual suggestion box and post suggestions and your replies.
- Checking links to your site is easy—type: link:www.example.com into a Google search.


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It may seem obvious that a television show called "How I Met Your Mother" is about family, but that familiar theme plays out in an unfamiliar way.
Ted Mosby (Josh Radnor), a happily married man in 2030, is telling his children the story of how he met their mother. But the tale Ted relates through flashback is neither simple nor straightforward. In the pilot episode, in the "future" Ted tells of falling "head over heels in love at first sight" with the pretty newscaster Robin Scherbatsky (Cobie Smulders). It's a storybook romantic moment. But at the episode's end Ted surprises both his children and the audience when he says "and that's how I met...your Aunt Robin."
In response to their bewilderment, Ted offers that he's "getting to it...it's a long story." It is a long story, because in order to tell his children about the formation of their family, he needs to recount the details of his life with his friends—Marshall (Jason Segel), Marshall's wife, Lily (Alyson Hannigan), Barney (Neil Patrick Harris) and, most recently, Robin—who were and are a family unit in their own right. "Mother" isn't just about Ted's 2030 family but about the importance of his earlier family and the path it places him on, the path that eventually leads him to his children's mother.
The theme of family is coded into the language of the CBS show beyond just its title. Barney, Ted's womanizing "wingman," regularly refers to Ted and Marshall (and, on one occasion, Robin) as his "bros." At their first meeting, he plops down next to Ted in a booth at a bar and tells him, as a big brother would, "Ted, I'm going to show you how to live." In many ways he is a pig, to put it bluntly, and what he hopes to share with Ted is how to "score" with women. But underneath is a real sense of brotherhood with Ted, and also with Marshall. For all his resistance to marriage or fidelity, it is Barney who flies to San Francisco to talk to Lily after she has broken off her engagement to Marshall and convinces her to return; in spite of all his (apparently feigned) protests during their engagement, it is Barney who delivers an impassioned speech about why Lily and Marshall belong together. When Barney hears Ted was in a car accident, he rushes out of a meeting and then gets hit by a bus as he runs all the way to the hospital (don't worry: he rebounds nicely). These well-crafted plot points reinforce Barney's "bromanity," his commitment to their family unit, which is a value Ted appreciates and shares.
None of the characters are literally kin, yet they regard one another as family. In a season three episode entitled "Slapsgiving," Lily is irritated that Robin is bringing her new boyfriend, Bob, to their group's first Thanksgiving dinner. For Lily, their first Thanksgiving is a momentous occasion; she considers it significant not simply because it is the first holiday dinner for her and Marshall as a married couple, but because this is the first time they are all celebrating together as a "family." Lily worries that 30 years from now, she will look at photos and say, "There are the four people I love most in the world...and Bob." As unofficial den mother, Lily is protective and territorial, unafraid to offer frank advice or even, quite comically, to sabotage her friends' bad relationships. She and Marshall are both the series' romantic lynchpin and individuals who see their friends as an essential part of their worlds. (One episode dealt with Lily and Marshall confronting life without Ted, who had been their longtime roommate and on whom they have depended for everything from toilet paper to TV-watching companionship.)
As illustrated by the episodes "Lucky Penny" and "Right Place, Right Time," Ted believes strongly that every decision we make (from something as simple as choosing to turn left or right to more complex choices like with whom we choose to form relationships) is significant. You'd think Ted could simply say, "I met your mother at ______." But for him, it is the context that makes the story compelling, not just the events that led to their meeting but also those that prepared him to be the man she would want to marry.
Aunt Robin is important because Ted falls madly in love with her on their first date and, in spite of every indication that they could not be less compatible (he dreams of marriage and kids; her dreams revolve around her career), he pursues her doggedly (and charmingly). To realize how deeply he desires a wife and children, he needs to take this turn with Robin. But even though it is a wrong turn, it brings the happiest of consequences. Not only does he realize how much he values marriage; he also brings Robin, a young, ambitious career woman who is new in town, sequestered in Brooklyn with her five dogs, into a group of people who are her first "family" in New York. She quickly changes from being a two-dimensional concept (a sort of "dream girl") to a real person, one who establishes and nurtures bonds with all of Ted's friends, who become her friends.
Ted cannot tell his children the story of his meeting their mother without talking about the life he lived before them, because without that life, they might not ever have existed. If not for the example of enduring love Ted sees in Lily and Marshall, if not for the adventures that Barney forces him to experience, and if not for his failed relationship but solid friendship with Robin, Ted could not have become the man their mother married.
Really the show is just as much "How I Became Your Father" as it is "How I Met Your Mother." As with all deep friendships, the bonds Ted creates provide him with great training in love and responsibility, which are what he will need to win his future wife, and the patience to wait for her.


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Broadcast TV stocks up strongly on Aereo rulingAssociated Press |
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shares of broadcast TV companies rose strongly Wednesday after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that online TV service Aereo is violating their copyrights.
The court rejected Aereo's argument that it is merely an equipment provider because it gives subscribers Internet access to free-to-air TV signals captured by thousands of tiny antennas. It found the service still amounts to a public performance of copyrighted works, which is the exclusive right of copyright holders.
The ruling could shut Aereo down or force it to enter licensing deals with content owners, potentially increasing what it must charge customers for the service.
CBS Corp. shares rose $3.64, or 6.2 percent, to close at $62.48; Gannett Co. Inc. shares rose $1.48, or 5.1 percent, to $30.67; Lin Media LLC shares rose $1.48, or 5.7 percent, to $27.25; and Journal Communications Inc. shares rose 63 cents, or 7.8 percent, to $8.74.
Analysts said the ruling preserves the market for retransmission rights — in which cable and satellite TV companies pay broadcasters billions of dollars annually for the right to relay their TV signals to customers.
Research firm SNL Kagan expects those payments to hit $7.6 billion industrywide by 2019, up from $3.3 billion last year.
The ruling has the effect of "lifting the overhang that had weighed on CBS for the past 15 months," Nomura analyst Anthony DiClemente wrote in a research note.
Fitch Ratings agreed.
"A ruling against Aereo is positive for broadcasters as the need to protect their high-margin retransmission consent revenues is a key factor in their operations," the ratings agency said.
Needham & Co. analyst Laura Martin said the ruling will dissuade other technology startups from creating business models that will rely on getting the content for free.
"This decision dramatically lowers the risk that new entrants will perceive they can steal video copyrights," she wrote in a research note.
As of late Wednesday, New York-based Aereo was still functioning. The lower court, whose ruling was overturned Wednesday, will still have to review factual elements of the case in light of the higher court's decision.
Spokesman Mike Schroeder said in a statement, "Aereo is still evaluating its options."
Shares of larger media conglomerates that are not as heavily reliant on broadcast TV revenue rose more modestly.
Fox network owner Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. saw its shares rise 67 cents, or 2 percent, to close at $34.88; ABC owner The Walt Disney Co. saw shares gain $1.22, or 1.5 percent, at $83.90; NBC owner Comcast Corp. saw its shares rise 57 cents, or 1.1 percent, to $53.21.
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by Jon King
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The recent agreement between the University of Montana and the Department of Justice on the issue of sexual assault investigations has come under fire by a free speech advocacy group, that argues that the agreement puts student rights in jeopardy.
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education President Greg Lukianoff describes one of the dangers of the agreement.
"In the course of giving its opinion on what happened at the University of Montana, the Department of Education and [the] Department of Justice took an entirely unnecessary detour and redefined 'harassment' in incredibly broad, flatly unconstitutional, language," Lukianoff said.
Not only is the burden of proof lower for University of Montana students now, according to Lukianoff, but their punishment for crimes of harassment may come before they've been found to be guilty.
"One of the really important factors is that they got rid of the reasonable person standard," Lukianoff said. "That means that if you're offended by sexual speech, or sexual related speech, or for that matter, gender related speech, it is no longer required that it be reasonable that you are offended. So, this basically means that anyone can subjectively take offense to a whole host of issues, from sex to gay marriage, to what is called gender expression, whether or not you think someone is conforming with a 'gender stereotype.' That means you're putting it into the hands of the most sensitive person in the room, as to whether or not you're guilty."
Lukianoff said these new lower standards are compounded by a 2011 letter by the Department of Justice that requires that universities use a 'preponderance of evidence' standard rather than an 'innocent until proven guilty' standard when prosecuting harassment crime.
"It's now easier than ever to be charged with harassment, easier than ever to be found guilty of it," Lukianoff said. "To make matters even worse, in the course of that University of Montana letter, they even said, flat out, that there may be circumstances where you may need to take disciplinary action before you find someone guilty."
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I've never been a big fan of decorating chandeliers for Christmas ... but then I saw a few Mary McDonald options that made me re-think it. For instance, this dining room in her LA guest house:
Gorgeous, right? I mean - if you're going to decorate this space for Christmas why would you touch the chandelier? Just plop some Christmas plates on the table and voila, right?
Coordinating ribbon to the tablecloth and some simple cedar really jazz up the chandelier without taking away too much from the beauty of the fixture.


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I was nervous. Really nervous.
It was my first time performing in front of so many people. Sure, my friends had seen me do it before — I had always been a crowd pleaser. Even my classmates had been supportive of my endeavor. But this was different. What if these strangers found my performance to be offensive or, worse, boring? It didn't matter at this point. It was do or die.
I was sitting in the back of the room trying to calm my nerves with a couple of beers. Two of my classmates had just gone up. They didn't look nervous. All of us had just completed a six-week course to perfect our stage performances. (It was news to me that such a thing could be taught.) All of us had practiced in front of each other and criticized our various techniques. I knew I wanted firsthand experience on the subject so this was the best way to do it. I watched, I laughed. They were great.
The audience at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club enjoys a recent show.
Photo by: Scott Alan Mount
"Next up is Michael Sullivan. Give her a round of applause!" Randy Lubas of the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club revved up the crowd.
"Yes. Hi. My name is Michael Sullivan. And just in case you are wondering, yes, these are real," I spoke nervously and pointed to my obvious assets — my blue eyes, of course. (Or not. You had to be there to know.) "I'm here to talk to you tonight about my dating life as a 6-foot-1-inch woman named Michael."
The crowd laughed and cheered — my dating life has always been such a bother and they knew it by only those three simple facts. For the next five minutes, things were a bit hazy as my heart raced; my only hope was that not all of my bits would fall on deaf ears. I was funny, or at least I thought I was. It was a blur, really. I am certain my face was flush and I might even have stuttered and stammered. I know that I missed some of the jokes I had wanted to tell. The one about the little person who called himself Little Rich Man was fairly funny. I know that I forgot some of the punch lines, too; it didn't really matter in the scheme of things. It was only five minutes but, surprisingly, it felt like five hours. And so my life as a standup comic began and ended in the same night — at least for the foreseeable future. But the class, the performances, the drive to make people laugh … and the need to laugh, to be entertained, it all became crystal clear.
Several months prior to the standup performance in May, it became obvious that the comedy scene in Ventura County had accelerated at a rapid pace. From only weekend shows at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club, the Ventura Improv Company and Borderline in Thousand Oaks years ago to produced shows and open mics at several restaurants and bars practically every night of the week popping up over the last several months, the comedy scene in Ventura County had exploded, for good reason.
I took the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club standup workshop because I wanted to learn how to write jokes, tell jokes in front of a crowd and build enough courage to actually do it — I knew I didn't have enough nerve to do it on my own. I wanted to know what it was like to be on stage and why so many were willing to share so much of their personal lives to keep a crowd amused. And I did get it, doing my own standup and then going to so many shows. Laughter is the best medicine. The reality of this scene is that there is no way to hold it back: Laugh, be laughed at or get out of the way.
Andres Fernandez
Back in the day
As far back as locals can remember, there were only, really, two places one could catch a standup comedy show. First and foremost was the Comedy Club at Hornblowers Restaurant at the Ventura Harbor. It was the place to catch a regular weekend show in the 1980s and '90s. You'd grab a burger at the restaurant and then head toward the back, disappearing behind the curtains that separated the restaurant from the club. Harry Capehart was the reason the comedy club came to be in the first place.
In an L.A. Times article, "Stand-Up Takes a Tumble," published May 25, 1995, Capehart spoke about going to the management of Hornblowers in 1981, proposing the idea of a comedy club. (At one point, Capehart was booking talent for nearly 30 venues.) By 1983, the Comedy Club was fully realized and local residents caught the comedy fever.
"Imagine the first business undertaking you decide to do, a hit beyond your wildest imaginings," Capehart said in the article. "Lines out the door, turning away 100 people. People in the county were starved for comedy. It was huge — like wildfire."
While Capehart had hit the mother lode of affection for the local comedy scene, the other player, the Ventura Theater, wasn't as fortunate. Over a seven-year course, the theater was able to attract big names such as Jim Carrey, Sam Kinnison, Roseanne Barr, Jerry Seinfeld, Dennis Miller, Sandra Bernhard and Dana Carvey — before they became superstars. Despite the big acts, former general manager Tom Welton told the L.A. Times that comedy at the theater was not a moneymaker.
The 1990s, however, forever changed the standup comedy scene when many of these big-name acts went mainstream, starring in sitcoms and offering audiences the option of staying in the comfort of their own homes. And so the comedians went off to other ventures.
From that point on, things were never quite the same again, at least in Ventura County. But there has been a recent resurgence, a rapid growth in local up-and-coming comedians as well as audiences who want to be entertained by them.
Randy Lubas
It's all about stage time
Over the last five years — beginning nearly 15 years from the point that the local comedy scene basically went bust — there has been a dedicated effort to recapture the love for standup. Enter Randy Lubas and Andres Fernandez. Both comedians had gained a certain notoriety and success with their careers but they were looking for a change of scenery and found the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club. By 2008, the comedy club was really struggling and Lubas and Fernandez were presented with an opportunity they couldn't refuse: Buy the comedy club and change the status quo. And that's exactly what they did.
"Whenever we finally bought the club, within a matter of three years, we quadrupled the business," Lubas said.
The club's offerings grew from just regular weekend shows with bigger-name acts to hosting open mics, themed shows, karaoke and more every night of the week. Some days, different shows will be running simultaneously in the theater and the Green Room, which is a smaller space adjacent to the theater, with its own bar and stage and which has been open for about a year. On any given Tuesday, the club hosts an open mic in the Green Room where up-and-coming comedians all from over the county and elsewhere get five minutes to test out their bits on audiences partially made up of other budding comedians. Beyond the actual club at the Harbor, Lubas and Fernandez created the annual Ventura Comedy Festival, which has brought hundreds of comedians to the city to perform on stages all over the city. This year it will take place Sept. 22-28. But just as the club grew in participation on both sides of the stage, the scene was gaining momentum throughout the county.
Jason Love
On occasion over the last several years, the Canyon Club in Agoura Hills, the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza and the Ventura Theater have featured bigger-named acts as well, such as Dana Carvey, Lisa Lampanelli, Lewis Black and Bob Saget. Four years ago, local funnyman and cartoonist Jason Love began hosting sporadic shows at Borderline Bar and Grill, featuring Adam Carolla, Jamie Kennedy and more; it's now a regular show called Friday Night Funnies. In late 2013, Love began producing Laugh Out Loud Comedy Night, a show every third Wednesday of the month, at Paseo Camarillo Regency.
Love has been entertaining audiences in print or on the stage since 2003, but the recent jump in interest in the county has created a dynamic he really enjoys.
"I love the Ventura comedy scene because every time I work out in Ventura County is one more day that I don't have to drive to L.A.," he said. "I go up three [to] five times a week, so my car hates L.A. … and the L.A. driver trying to bulldoze it from behind."
Jarred Kiel
Around the same time the comedy club started to see a boom, Ventura County's main stage for nightlife, downtown Ventura, was finding its funny bone. In fall 2011, Bernie of Bernadette's on Main was approached by Marty Finklestein, a resident who had just relocated to Ventura and had decades of experience managing comedy clubs in his hometown in Texas, about hosting a comedy night once a month. For the next year, the comedy night filled every seat of Bernie's small cafe until she was forced to close her business due to failed negotiations with her landlord. But that little stage at Bernadette's, the open mics and opening act opportunities at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club, and just a general passion for standup put the wheels in motion for the recent explosion in standup in the Downtown district.
Various local comedians have now moved onto other venues and shows, most of them taking off just recently, in the last six months or so: Andrey Belikov presents the Comedy Hideaway on Wednesdays at Peirano's (formerly at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club); Samantha Ross presents What's Up with Merlot, every other Thursday at The Wine Rack; and Camilo Alvear and Jarred Kiel co-produce the Pre-Game Comedy Show at Bombay Bar on Friday nights. Also, in Midtown Ventura, Hypno Comics presents Comics and Comics one Saturday per month. The Keynote Lounge on the east end and Hong Kong Inn in downtown also offer open mics Mondays and Thursdays respectively. With this rapid growth, however, there has been some backlash. The owners of the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club have one strict policy — if anyone goes on to produce his or her own show or does routines at any other local shows, this person is no longer allowed to appear at the club.
"Free enterprise — that is your choice. You decide to go off on your own, then go ahead and do it," Lubas said. But "The one thing we don't like is disloyalty, those that have turned around and tried to compete against us, especially when it is people we have really opened our doors to."
Camilo Alvear
Lubas added, though, that even with the new shows popping up, it really hasn't changed the way they do business.
"I don't have any basis to think it has affected us at all," Lubas said, noting though that the policy hasn't actually been put into practice.
This policy has created some tension in the comedy scene as the goal of most comedians is to get as much stage time as possible, wherever they can. But so it goes in the world of funny business.
Alvear, Belikov, Kiel, Ross and others have all been affected by this policy, though Kiel and Ross in particular weren't normally performing at the club. For the most part, producing shows and performing at other local shows — unless the comedian is a headliner — is more about the stage time; most fledgling comedians don't get paid anything for their time and that is standard at the Ventura Harbor Comedy Club as well. The show, however, must go on.
"I think it's positive, obviously, that there is more of a variety, that there are more opportunities for local talent and to have different style shows and comedians," Ross said.
Samantha Ross
Ross, who originally got her start doing standup at Bernadette's, recalled her first gig producing her own shows at Zoey's in early 2013 and how important that was to her.
"It was a huge transition point for me and a huge opportunity for a newer comic, something that I would have not given up for an unpaid guest spot every couple of months," Ross said.
On the future of comedy in Ventura County, Ross is optimistic.
"I feel that if we continue to respect the audience and keep putting on great shows, the customers will keep coming back," Ross said.
Full disclosure: Samantha Ross is an employee of the VCReporter.
* See related story here: Improv celebrates 25 years
Comedy Hideaway:
Top-shelf television comedy writers and performers.
Every Saturday.
Peirano's, 204 E. Main St., Ventura, 648-4853.
Comics and Comics:
L.A.-based geeky indie standup troupe.
One Saturday per month.
Hypno Comics, 1803 E. Main. St., Ventura, 651-9767.
Glory Hole Comedy Night:
Local stand-up showcase hosted by Camilo Alvear.
Every Thursday.
Hong Kong Inn, 435 E. Thompson Blvd., Ventura, Ventura, 648-3161.
Laugh Out Loud Comedy Night:
Jason Love presents standup, with celebrity headliners from Showtime,
Comedy Central and more.
Every third Wednesday of the month.
Paseo Camarillo Regency, 390 N. Lantana Road, Camarillo
Pre-Game Comedy Show:
Local standup showcase.
Every Friday.
Bombay Bar, 143 S. California St., Ventura, 643-4404
Ventura Harbor Comedy Club:
Well-known touring stand-up comedians.
Fridays through Sundays and some Wednesdays.
1559 Spinnaker Drive, suite 205A, Ventura Harbor Village, 644-1500
What's Up With Merlot:
Well-known indie-circuit comics. Hosted by Samantha Ross.
Every other Thursday.
The Wine Rack.
14 S. California St., Ventura, 653-9463,
Comedy Open Mics
Ventura Harbor Comedy Club
1559 Spinnaker Drive, suite 205A, Ventura Harbor Village, 644-1500,
Tuesdays at 8 p.m.
Keynote Lounge
10245 Telephone Road, Ventura, 647-9390.
Mondays at 8 p.m.
Occasional Comedy Venues
The Canyon Club:
Well-known touring standup comedics
28912 Roadside Drive, Agoura, 879-5016.
Well-known touring and indie-circuit comics
99 Rolling Oaks Drive, Thousand Oaks, 446-4435.
Ventura Comedy Festival:
featuring celebrity and well-known comics,
plus a chance for anyone and everyone to compete
for the funniest person title and much more.
Sept. 22-28.
Throughout the city of Ventura,


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MU Extension "Farm Page of the Air" radio program (Session 186 of 261)
When: Saturday, Oct. 19, 2013, 9 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.
This radio program is intended to educate viewers on a wide range of topics related to gardening in the Ozarks. Morris Westfall conducts the interview with Patrick Byers, MU Extension-Greene County regional horticulture specialist. The program airs several times on Saturday and Sunday on radio stations KWTO, KTXR, and KBFL.
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Captain's ReportLots of Value in a Small Package from Legendary BuilderBy Capt. Ron SvobodaFor three generations, the Smoker family has been designing and manufacturing aluminum fishing boats. So it's safe to say they know what they are doing, and it shows in the newly released 151 Resorter. The 151 is the baby of the Resorter series, featuring an all-welded hull finished off with an attractive paint and graphic scheme and a classy interior. At the HelmWhat's more is that the little boat comes with a helm console to starboard, giving the pilot greater comfort and deflecting some of the wind while running. The handsome dash has analog gauges for monitoring the engine and toggle switches for the accessories. A comfortable steering wheel and adjustable captain's seat adds to the pleasure of driving.Forward Raised DeckJust forward of the helm station is the bow's raised deck, built from specially treated lumber covered in marine-grade carpet. This foredeck is the best place to fish from as it provides a comfortable casting chair and access to the optional trolling motor. From this vantage point, you also can access the boat's livewell and recessed storage locker, both situated in the sole. Your fishing buddy will have to use the aft deck, which is quite a bit smaller, but is fitted with a chair and mount.Storage at the SternAcross from the helm console is a second bass chair that can easily be removed to make more space, or can be placed in either of the six standard base mounts that are located throughout the boat. As far as storage goes, the port side gunwale has built-in rod storage racks and a cup holder aft, near the transom. Two concealed storage compartments are housed in the stern. One is for your removable fuel tank to port. And on the starboard side, is a spot for the outboard engine's battery box, while a carpeted coaming rail and a cup holder finish of the accoutrements.Despite her small size, the 151 maneuvers effortlessly and delivers a surprisingly smooth ride, even in sloppy weather. Propelled by a 50-horsepower outboard, you can expect to fish all day on one small tank of fuel. But best of all you can do it in comfort and with a touch of class as the 151 Resorter adds some sophistication to the sport.
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Four-Star Hilton with Rooftop Restaurant Overlooking Niagara Falls
Every day, about 200 billion liters of water surge over Canada's Horseshoe Falls, the largest of Niagara's three waterfalls. Though impressive, statistics fail to capture the falls' full power: at ground level, there's a thunderous roar, and a massive cloud of mist rises high above the brink. From a higher vantage point at the 4-star Hilton Hotel and Suites Niagara Falls/Fallsview, you can see the entire waterfall crash.
Each of the hotel's guest rooms features expansive views of either Niagara Falls or the city, but the view of the falls from the 33rd-floor Watermark Restaurant is arguably the best in town. Between bites of prime rib or roast rack of lamb, you can gaze down on Horseshoe Falls and speculate on the province's astronomical water bill. Those who choose Options 3 or 4 can take advantage of their credits at two of the other onsite restaurants—choose one of 12 cuts of meat at Brasa Brazilian Steakhouse, or taste authentic Italian food at Romano's Macaroni Grill.
A glass walkway connects the hotel to the Fallsview Casino, where you can try your luck at 150 gaming tables and 3,000 slot machines. The casino's Avalon Ballroom has played host to Ringo Starr, Jay Leno, Diana Ross, and several other major acts. Check out upcoming performers here. For a more mellow experience, make use of the wine tasting at Peller Estates included with this Getaway. About a half-hour drive north in the fertile Niagara-on-the-Lake region is Trius Winery at Hillebrand and Peller Estates, the former boasts Ontario's signature ice wine, a dessert wine made from frozen grapes.
Niagara Falls, Ontario: Panoramic Views of the Falls near Vegas-Style Casinos and Water Parks
At Niagara Falls—considered by many to be one of the world's seven natural wonders—water thunders downward from a height of nearly 200 feet, crashing onto craggy boulders below. The falls straddles the border between Canada and the United States, with segments located in both New York and Ontario. The Canadian side of the Niagara River is universally hailed as the finest vantage point to take in all three of Niagara Falls' photogenic brinks: American, Bridal Veil, and Horseshoe Falls.
Year-round, Journey Behind the Falls grants a glimpse behind the curtain of Horseshoe Falls — visitors board an elevator that descends 150 feet into the bedrock, then stand at an observation deck steps away from the cascading water.
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- 5 pounds russet potatoes, peeled, cut into 1 1/2-inch cubes
- 8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter
- 2/3 cup (or more) whole milk
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- 1 1/2 pounds crimini mushrooms, thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup chopped shallots
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- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
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Cook potatoes in large pot of boiling salted water until tender, about 25 minutes. Drain potatoes. Return to same pot. Stir over medium heat until excess moisture evaporates, about 1 minute; remove from heat. Add 5 tablespoons butter to potatoes; mash well. Add 2/3 cup milk and mix, adding more milk by tablespoonfuls to reach desired consistency. Season potatoes to taste with salt and pepper.
Melt 3 tablespoons butter in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add half of mushrooms; sauté until beginning to soften, about 3 minutes. Add remaining mushrooms and shallots. Sauté until juices evaporate and mushrooms brown, about 12 minutes; season with salt and pepper. DO AHEAD Potatoes and mushrooms can be prepared 2 hours ahead. Let stand separately at room temperature. Rewarm separately over medium heat before continuing.
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