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Varsity, local paper, press agency and then, at last, the international editorial office. The journalistic career of FOCUS editor Christian Liebig.
It wasn't an easy decision to make – to stop studying business administration after four semesters, to pursue his dream profession in journalism. "You can do the commercial nitpicking, I'm going to do something respectable," he is reported to have said to his fellow students in his typically tongue-in-cheek manner. And so he went on to get a masters degree in communication, economics and politics, covering club meetings and doing trade fair interviews for the local Essen editorial office of the "Neue Ruhr-Zeitung" as the first steps into his working life.
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In the past few months we have been exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages and URLs that we otherwise couldn't find and index for users who search on Google. Specifically, when we encounter a <FORM> element on a high-quality site, we might choose to do a small number of queries using the form.
For text boxes, our computers automatically choose words from the site that has the form; For select menus, check boxes, and radio buttons on the form, we choose from among the values...
I believe we now have at least some of the answer for two mysterious threads from the recent past:
Google indexing large volumes of (unlinked?) dynamic pages [webmasterworld.com]
Google is indexing site search results pages [webmasterworld.com]
I'd guess that during the development phase of this new form of crawling, Googlebot may have not always been as well-behaved as the engineers planned.
Only a small number of particularly useful sites receive this treatment,
I'm hoping this means that if you don't have sitelinks it doesn't apply. I don't have many forms which use GET, if any, but it would be tedious to have to comb my websites to check them all just in case. I'm underwhelmed by this development: if it's behind a form, I can't think of any instance where I want it spidered.
Same for me. My first thought was, tedster had come across an april fool's joke twelve days later;)
But indeed i found googlebot using some mysterious get-variables on my shop page quite recently. As a matter of fact, these needles were outdated at present, because I redesigned my system in February.
If of interest: This older variable used ?sch= plus integer in order to preserve the n-th step of a navigation-action inside my shop's search function. I used to display a random collection of my products if the internal product-search-function gave zero results and I found it quite annoying if you saw something completely different using the back button. Currently I work with other needles and skipped randomization completely.
But for a few weeks now I have begun to log such get-requests due to some amateurish hacker-attacks. And was really surprised to find googlebot among the delinquents. Given my above explanation I found it really mysterious googlebot had used integers as high as 22348 for testing, and the paranoid in me said "That was a human employee;)"
What bothers me most is the duplicate content issue: If google indexes a shop's search function it is quite likely, pages with different uris show exactly the same result, be it only two-word-searches in different word order. Until now, I never cared about the metatags of my cgi-output, but given this new development, I shoud probably go through the whole structure and make sure specific pages are displayed with "noindex"?
The other thing is malicious behaviour of competitors as described in this thread [webmasterworld.com]: If a competitor puts links to your site using varying get-variables, most of your pages will alway display the same result and may trigger filters. BTW: Are both phenomena related? Has that serious damage reported in that thread to do with google spidering random-form-variables?
> Only a small number of particularly useful sites receive this treatment,
The honour is well appreciated;)
My big dilemma was whether to use robots.txt to exclude googlebot. On the one hand I was concerned about duplicate content. But on the other hand, are these dynamically created and potentially indexed pages really duplicate content? These 'search results' results pages don't exist in any other format.
Moreover, as I said on my earlier thread, Google appeared uncannily accurate with the words that it chose to use to run queries on my site (my form is a site-search cgi script that searches a knowledge base section of my site). If those results then appear in the SERPS for keywords that I (or others) have not necessarily used in link text, is that really such a bad thing? Perhaps someone searching for that particular concept will be really pleased that they have found this result.
I eventually decided to exclude the search script from googlebot, mainly for good old fashioned duplicate content paranoia reasons. But I wonder if it is time to rethink this kind of thing? Have we been taking the whole duplicate content thing too literally? I assume that Google knows where it has drawn these results from and perhaps there is no need to be concerned?
This paragraph is particularly interesting:
The web pages we discover in our enhanced crawl do not come at the expense of regular web pages that are already part of the crawl, so this change doesn't reduce PageRank for your other pages. As such it should only increase the exposure of your site in Google. This change also does not affect the crawling, ranking, or selection of other web pages in any significant way.
On the other hand, unless Google gives some direct and clear guidelines, it is far too tempting to err on the site of caution. Which may be a shame for webmasters and searchers alike.
Any thoughts?
I presume that I can use a wildcard block in robots to stop further damage but how the heck do I remove the damage already done?
Begs the question, what is the point in designing a nicley structured site if Google can simply completely screw it up for you?
I would love to hear Google's comments on this. So the theory that one site can screw up another is confirmed beyond all reasonable doubt and the attacker is ..... Google!
the question is, whether google PERCEIVES them as duplicate and then triggers a filter, which may hurt you. Given that the canonical issue is said to have caused so many problems, we cannot be careful enough. And the difference between mydomain.com, www.mydomain.com and mydomain.com/index.html is something google should have fixed in the first place (without the help of webmasters via WTC), before beginning to crawl uncontrollable stuff behind forms.
Disclaimer: Normally I do not use the phrase "google should", but this issue is probably worth an exception.
The more I think about it, the more mysterious things get: It is relatively easy as long as be only have to do with GEt-requests leading to idempotent cgi-URIs. But what about POST-forms? Will googlebot randomly apply for mail-accounts on the various public mailservers and then send billions of mails? Will googlebot perform orders in my shop (Nice rich customer, eh?;)? Will googlebot place trillions of postings in forums and blogs(I'd like to know what golem has to say meanwhile;)?
I really do not see the point in Google indexing search results for random keywords. This is bound to create all kinds of unforeseen problems.
It would be wrong of Google to perform other operations with forms, such as POST, which might cause a stateful (and expensive) side-effect, such as ordering goods, etc.
Google seems to be clearly restricting itself to GET.
As it happens, mainly because I don't like search-results-in-search from other sites, I just moved my biggest site to have the search/results page noindex (though not nofollow).
They've been doing the following since last year:
Query the search form with words from the page at random.
Words they found to be prominent on the page.
They crawled and indexed these results pages.
Now on other domains which I work on, where it'd have made sense to crawl - for example - URLs used in <OPTION>s in a drop down menu... nothing happened, so I couldn't care less.
I hoped they'd stop doing it and decide this is an idea too crazy for prime time.
so all in all this:
Only a small number of particularly useful sites receive this treatment,
...means only high TrustRank sites get this... treatment.
Mind you the test domain isn't useless...
it has very informative articles written especially for it.
But to call is particularly useful might be an exaggeration *smirk*
None the less CNN, Google Blog search and all the rest felt the same way towards it. Some tests ended up on real, live, WEB search results within ( grab your seats ) 4 minutes time.
But after all they did NOT choose to drop this reckless idea.
Yeah, my opinion is...
This move is insane.
First they educated everyone *for 10 years* that if you use FORMs, OPTIONs, etc. your pages will *not* be crawled / are in effect, *hidden* from them.
Now that *finally* everyone understood this...
And used FORMs to HIDE pages from Google...
They start crawling and indexing them. Hey. Why?
Stepping out of line from my tech-sided comments:
I've reached a conclusion for the time being.
Google is a politician
Nothing more, nothing less.
Same credibility, same accountability.
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Perhaps, this is a new way for Google to deal with spammmers, get more useful content to swamp it! I wonder what constitutes a 'useful' site and what the selection process is.
Looks to me like Google is moving away from its algo based approach.
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Maybe I'm a suspicious type, but I just don't buy Google's explanation for doing this. It directly contradicts a number of prior statements, it will result in the discovery of the type of content they dump into the supplemental index, and worse still, it will cause pages to appear in the index that webmasters never intended to be spidered.
Where is the benefit to either searchers or webmasters?
I'm no fan of proprietary extensions to the robots exclusions protocol but a directive that amounts to 'no forms please' would get the thumbs up from me.
"Thank you, your request has been sent successfully. A member of our staff will contact you shortly."
"Sorry, there is no availability for your stay on those dates."
"I'm afraid we are out of stock of that particular product, perhaps you would like it in pink?"
Quit it, now!
Site selection is interesting. My site is in a small niche. It's key in the niche, but it's a small niche. It does show the supplemental results in searches. As for the small number of forms pulled, it went from googlebot pulling about 300-400 pages a day to 5,000-10,000 a day.
The forms were all radio buttons & dropdown selects. There are combinations no human would choose, but googlebot seemed to try every conceivable cross-indexed possibility. The form results include a lot of numbers and are very useful when produced, but the data changes hourly and is completely useless after several hours. I can't imagine it drawing clicks from google searchers. Googlebot started following forms on this site in September 2007.
It's only logical they'd take a shot at forms. Remember when search engines couldn't follow cgi scripts? That was the hidden web then. Now they're good at it. If good stuff can be found and Yahoo and MSN can't keep up, Google has a bigger edge. Of course, many forms lead to random gibberish if you didn't submit intelligently.
I'm all the time fighting referral spam through some of our search forms so I get notified of some of the odd requests.
How does google know what should be posted thorugh there.
Guess I'll have to block that directory from bots, unfortunately that also informs those referral spammers exactly where to do their dirty work .. great.
Only a small number of particularly useful sites receive this treatment,amazon. interesting
[edited by: Bewenched at 6:43 pm (utc) on April 12, 2008]
The other versions should not be indexed. Now I have to do extra work to stop that happening. Bad move by Google. They just crossed a line.
They're getting too nosey. Back off.
Given the amount of posters contibuting here and admitting to have been visited by googlebot on this issue, the phrase "small number of particularly usefull sites" seems a bit strange. Two explanations remain:
A) google is just clapping our shoulders for whatever reason
B) Many of us posting here are viewed as particularly trustworthy by the google-engineers. To a high percentage our websites are "clean" (i.e. "accessible" and syntactically correct), so that they make up a good starting point for testing new crawl-algos.
[edited by: Oliver_Henniges at 12:06 am (utc) on April 13, 2008]
It was just a basic drop down select box that may well have looked like site navigation so I can sort of understand that.
Goodness knows why they now feel the need to perform searches though, I can see no sense in trying to find stuff that way.
I'm still not clear who this even theoretically benefits.
The site owner (ahhh! more pages I forgot to robots.txt) or user (netizen doing a search)?
I mean, what would people be search FOR that they would pages behind a form to be in their SERP?
He says that this change is for the sort of corporate site that has a list of dropdowns on the home page to select a country or region.
Personally I think that this is a strange excuse - which corporate site has not already added text links to help the spiders? And if they haven't done that yet, I'm not sure they deserve to be indexed at all!
I don't quite understand what benefit this change will bring to users or Google - its just going to add a whole load of low quality content to the SERPs...
Does anyone LIKE this move?
I don't know about actively like but, as I've said (aside from my concerns about duplication), the way that Google have indexed my particular site does have potential benefits to searchers. If it helps people to arrive at my knowledge base via more keywords than before, then more power to them.
Having said that, looking at the wider picture and hearing from other people, it does seem like a rather unusual move. But Google have stated that these crawls are treated differently from normal indexes (see my post above) so, in theory we shouldn't really have much to fear from negative effects.
As regards actual visitors, I can't say that I noticed any major increase in referrals from Google before I disallowed the bots. But there was some.
I'm still in two minds about whether to keep disallowing.


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How high will oil have to go before triggering a global recession? In a recent survey of U.S. Oil and Gas industry leaders--more than half of respondents said the industry can withstand oil prices of up to $90 a barrel. But not everyone sees it that way.
On "Morning Call" CNBC's Liz Claman took a closer look at that issue with John Kilduff with Fimat USA and Jay Bryson, Global Economist at Wachovia Corporation.
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Charlotte Mews shared ownership homes go on sale
Applications to buy one of our two shared ownership homes at Charlotte Mews in Cadbury Heath are now open as the new homes near completion.
The homes, which are being built in partnership with Cotswold Homes, are part of a development of 25 new homes on the site of the former Cadbury Heath Youth Centre. We're taking on nine affordable homes at the development, of which seven will be for rent, and two available to buy through shared ownership and available now.
Both of the two homes available to buy have three bedrooms, full double glazing, an open plan kitchen/dining room with modern fitted kitchen and gas central heating. Just six miles from the centre of Bristol, the homes are ideally situated for commuting on the M4 or M5 and are within easy reach of the Longwell Green leisure and retail parks.
The homes are due for completion in phases during this summer and autumn. Having met our target to develop 130 homes in 2016-17, we're aiming to develop 235 homes in 2017-18, as we increase our home building programme to help tackle the region's housing crisis.


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Can media help to enhance the adoption of GMOs in Africa?
Mr. Henry Wagaba, from the Virus Resistant Cassava (Virca) project based in the National Crop Resources Research Institute (NaCRRI) at Namulonge, Uganda talks to Ugandan journalists about the virus resistant cassava trial at Mubuku irrigation scheme in Kasese early this year. Biotechnology, particularly the use of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs), has been a matter of […]Continue reading


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For years, tech companies like Google and Barclaycard have tried to get the world's consumers to adopt NFC-powered payment platforms, and the public take-up has been steady yet slow. But now that Apple Pay has graced millions of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus users in the US with NFC purchasing powers, things are beginning to change in a big way – and really everyone is a winner.
A report by The New York Times details how American consumer practices are slowly changing due to Apple Pay. Whole Foods recorded 150,000 iPhone transactions, Walgreens says NFC payments have doubled since Apple Pay debuted in October (thanks in no part to CurrentC), and McDonald's says Apple's payment service already accounts for 50 per cent of its tap-to-pay total.
Considering the service has only available three weeks on two iPhones compared to the big swathe of Android phones, that's pretty impressive. But as one analyst says, it's a slow-moving revolution:
"Quite frankly, a lot of it has to do with the strength of the Apple brand and how much merchants and customers love how easy the experience is... I'm not saying it's changing the landscape overnight. But this has never happened with other mobile wallets."
But Apple Pay isn't the only winner here. Google Wallet and Softcard, the US tap-to-pay alternatives for Android and Windows Phone, are also seeing spikes in downloads and user engagement, according to The New York Times. This has exciting possibilities for all of as rumours abound that Apple plans to extend its NFC offerings will further power all our mobiles.
In some ways, this is to be expected. While the comparatively small UK market has been ahead of the curve with the likes of EE Cash on Tap, a significant portion of the smartphone population in the US doesn't have access to NFC payments, so it's hard to make the argument to retailers to invest in the tech. With that worry now dissipating with each passing purchase of an iPhone 6, more and more companies are now more likely to take the plunge.
It's also possible we could see a similar adoption explosion when Apple finally releases the Apple Watch next spring. In fact, I'm almost certain this will be the case – after wearing Asus's ZenWatch the last couple of days, people keep asking me if it's an Apple one. But whether it's smartwatches or mobile payments, interest is already growing and that's a good thing for all of us. [The New York Times]


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Brewery: Seapine Brewing
Location: SODO Seattle, WA
Reason: Sporting events and beer
To be perfectly honest, its actually been a little while since Matt and I went to Seapine together, but I am trying to update this blog a little more often and when I was flipping through untappd, I noticed Seapine. I couldnt recall if we had written this one up, after a quick search, it appears that we have not. This is a problem for me because I ADORE Seapine.
Seapine is a wonderful brewery. Located in SODO close(ish) to Safeco and Centrylink its a great place to stop off before you make your way to park near the stadiums. Matt and I have stopped in a small handful of times together and its becoming a popular location for Matt to take his beer drinking buddies before a game. The taproom has a nice big, open feel to it with some outdoor seating for those great Seattle summer days before Mariners games.
The thing that really makes Seapine special though, is the beer. Prior to our first visit to the taproom, I don't think I'd ever had Seapine before, so I went with a sampler. This brewery makes beer I like. The Seapine IPA is a great flagship IPA, its light and smooth with some bitterness at the end, but not overwhelming. The Mosaic Pale is everything I want a pale to be. Its very similar to an IPA with a much milder hop profile. The Peach Gose is especially refreshing, and one of my favorite beers to find on tap. I really like when breweries have a sour on tap because 1. I love sours and 2. they are usually a little lighter on the alcohol content (though in this case, the Mosaic Pale is comparable) which is nice if you are heading somewhere after.
In my mind, the absolute best beer that Seapine makes is the Positron IPA. If you listen to our podcast you may remember our episode about IPA's, and our ranking our top 5. Positron is currently my #1 IPA. It is a single hop (Galaxy) IPA with the most tropical notes I've ever had in an IPA. It really is the most delightful IPA. Since we have growlers coming out of our ears at home, Matt and I have a general rule not to purchase any more. I broke this rule the first time we went to Seapine because I needed to bring the Positron IPA home with me. Try it, you won't be disappointed.


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After more than 40 years as a franchise, the L.A. Kings finally lived up to their namesake last night (June 11) with a 6-1 win over the New Jersey Devils in Game 6 of the Stanley Cup finals. Some of you were celebrating; others crying in their beers. The unity the team displayed last night, though, doesn't exactly carry over to their musical tastes.
In the video above, various Kings players share their favorite artists, showing off a surprisingly diverse soundtrack. Center/right wing Trevor Lewis bumps Eric Church in his car, while left wing Simon Gagne leans toward bands like Metallica. It seems that one player, though, is widely regarded as having the worst taste on the team. Find out who in the video above.
But in the interest of parity, we also spoke to the New Jersey Devils to discover what's on their iPods. Dance, country and metal are staples, but forward Dainius Zubrus runs most of the music, much to the chagrin of his team. Check it out below.


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Warm Winter Wishes to you all! Isn't this cozy image from lawn fawn stamps just adorable. Well it's one my favs and i am so glad i made this tag card with it and using the sketch from Freshly made Sketches Challenge #318.
For this card i followed the sketch shown here and first adhere a strip of pattern paper from the winter collection by Papericous on the white card panel before matting it on a black card base. Then i made a tag out of the same patter paper and adhered it on a black mat after fixing a eyelet and knotting a twine through it. I then stamped the image on the tag and stuck the image, which i had already colored with copics and fussy. Then i finished the card by stamping the sentiment from the same stampset on the white card panel.
Vola ! a card with cozy and warm winter wishes is ready for mailing.
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Memphis rockers Lucero have a timeless quality, a lowdown, from-the-gut, blue-collar rock 'n' roll sound that could have been recorded any time since the late '60s (save for a few flashes of class of '77 punk strut).
Timeless, but not timely, according to guitarist Brian Venable. After nearly a decade of indie label toil and a largely self-released catalog, the band hopped on the major label train, signing to Universal/Republic for 2009's 1372 Overton Park.
"True to Lucero fashion, we had excellent timing," Venable says. "We finally got signed to a major label just seconds before the whole infrastructure crumbled and disappeared. [We were real late to that party."
The band was promptly dropped, but things turned around nicely for the band, who's back with a brand new record, Women & Work, out today on ATO Records, the label founded by Dave Matthews and current home to rootsy acts like My Morning Jacket, Dawes, Alabama Shakes, and Drive-By Truckers.
"ATO said 'You get out there and tour and sell records, and we'll back you.'"
The record, which advances the Muscle Shoals soul and gospel touches of 1372 Overton Park, finds the band primed to hit the road, including a stop at Metallica's Orion Music and More Festival in New Jersey. Venable was happy to discuss Metallica, the new record, and the band's new home.
Lucero is scheduled to perform Monday, March 19, at Crescent Ballroom.
Up on the Sun: You guys have a brand new record, Women and Work. Where do you think this one fits in the Lucero discography?
Brian Venable: It used to be, "We've got 12 songs, let's make a record." Now, we're trying to...not define our sound so much, but kind of refine it, I guess. I think this one is closer to perfect. But we've been listening to it for months, and kind of picking it apart. The last record, we added horns, and this one, we wrote with the horns. It's not quite as "I've got a new shiny toy" with the horn section. It's a little bit more cohesive. Just kind of mature, laid-back rock 'n' roll record.
There's a lot of soul stuff going on.
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You always hate where you grow up, and you wanna leave. You think, "I can't wait to go to California, or New York or whatever." You sort of ignore the forest for the trees. At some point, we realized that if you take our country-rock drinking songs, as we think of them, and add some soul, all of the sudden you've got "Dark End of the Street." And that happens the same time you start discovering Stax records, or Hi Records, or discovering your musical history some more. It's kind of a like, "Man, we come by this honest." We're not a bunch of kids trying to do a Memphis sound, we're just from Memphis. It's pretty cool when you realize that.
Then you've got the full-on gospel choir with "Go Easy."
That's my dad'ss favorite song. He's like, 'Ya'll did it." [laughs]
This record marks a move to ATO Records. What facilitated that move?
Universal didn't want us anymore. True to Lucero fashion, we had excellent timing. We finally got signed to a major label just seconds before the whole infrastructure crumbled and disappeared. We were real late to that party. ATO has been really awesome so far -- I feel like they understand us more, because they have bands like My Morning Jacket, Drive-By Truckers, Alabama Shakes -- bands that tour for a living and make music, you know? Universal sounded good. You could tell people "Universal," and they know what you were talking about, but unless you're Rihanna or Taylor Swift -- who they know they're gonna sell a million singles [it's hard to get traction with the label]. ATO said "You get out there and tour and sell records, and we'll back you."
You guys are playing Orion Music and More Festival. Metallica says they handpicked the bands playing. Did you guys hear directly from them, or was it more a thing with their management reaching out to yours?
We've heard stories. I've got a friend in Austin, and his buddy works for 'em. And he went and hung out with his buddy, and he had a Lucero hat on, and James Hetfield was like, "Man, I love that hat. I love that band." That was way before this thing, and I thought that was kinda cool. To hear it was handpicked, I don't know if somebody put a list [in front of them] like these are bands that are available, and handpick from this group. I just don't see...I don't know. They might just sit around and listen to Modest Mouse a whole lot.
It's funny to imagine that.
I don't want them to do that. My Metallica still has long hair and drinks a whole lot. That kind of thing...but I don't know. Who knows?
But it's got to be exciting. You excited to be playing with anyone in particular, beside Metallica?
Probably Modest Mouse -- that's one name I read on the list. But I'm more excited [and hoping] we get the Ride the Lightning night. You know, nothing against the Black Album, but I'm a little older and that's the record for me.
Were you one of those guys who got mad when they cut their hair? Did you think they "sold out?"
I didn't think they sold out...I mean... I know -- you couldn't hear the bass on the records before that. I get it. I'm not mad at Metallica as much as I hate Bob Rock. [Laughs] They gotta make a living, I understand. We get called out [for changing the band's sound] all the time. You know, you can't make the same record your entire career. I don't think Ive listened to the last two [Metallica records] at all. I do exactly what I tell other people to do -- I have my favorite records, Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lighting, Master of Puppets [and that's what I stick to]. Cliff died Metallica died. Which is clearly not true -- but in my little world it is.
Well, I think people are excited to see you guys out here. I know a lot of Lucero fans.
I feel bad for the Southwest. In our formative years, the Southwest got cheated a lot. Either the band would break or someone would get sick and we'd have to go home. You guys have always been about two tours behind the rest of the country. We'd do the East Coast, end up in the Northwest, and all of the sudden one of the cylinders blows and we have to drive home 1000 miles doing 35 miles per hour.
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But the van is doing okay now?
Oh yeah. Everybody is good. When we play in the Southwest, we're like, "Man, nobody here like us." And I say, "Well, we've missed it enough." We're trying to make up for it.
Lucero is scheduled to perform Monday, March 19, at Crescent Ballroom.


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It seems like a lifetime ago that Britney Spears was the poster child for the pop star in crisis.
After all, it's been over a decade since that fateful night in February 2007 when she stepped into a hair salon in a Los Angeles-area suburb and shaved all her hair off as the prying eyes of the paparazzi documented every moment of the shocking incident. And in that time, of course, there have been plenty of other celebrities—from the music world or otherwise—who've experienced enough stumbles and pitfalls of their own, dislodging those sad memories of her from that place they'd once occupied in our minds. It didn't hurt that, at the same time, Spears, with the help of her father Jamie Spears and lawyer Andrew M. Wallet though a decade-long conservatorship, has gone on to rebuild her life, seemingly brick by brick, reforming it into the quietly mighty empire she now possesses—emphasis on the word quiet.
Despite her continued near-ubiquitous presence in the world of pop culture, thanks to a delightful Instagram feed and a history-making Las Vegas residency, life for the singer, who turns 37 on Sunday, Dec. 2, has been decidedly private. She does little to no press. If she's not on stage, she's rarely seen. It may be something of an oxymoron to say that the woman about to kick off her second stay on the Las Vegas Strip come February lives a small life, but it's accurate. In honor of her big day, let's take a look inside the private world of the pop princess.


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Behind the scenes: All Lives Matter panel
Faculty and students at Arkansas State attended a panel focusing on the All Lives Matter movement.
ASU-TV was there and will have the program up on air and online soon, but in the meantime here are some pictures from behind the scenes.
Once again, the All lives matter panel will be posted online soon. Stay connected on our website to see the production.


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We've got a wonderful selection of hot, cold, sweet and savoury buffet options for your upcoming event. Whatever the occasion, at The Hardwick Arms, we can cater for your birthday party, wedding parties, engagement parties, christenings, business meetings, charity events, reunions, and also drinks receptions.
We've got an excellent selection to choose from and you can tailor the menu to suit your requirements, making sure that there's something for everyone.
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This nebula is alive with stars
As the sun sets, one of the first constellations to appear is Orion, already high in the southeast, and by 8pm looming in the south. With its geometric, hourglass shape, Orion is one of the easiest constellations to spot and one of the most rewarding to study. The brightest star is blue-white Rigel to the lower right, marking the hunter's left knee. Opposite to the upper left is the red-giant Betelgeuse, punctuating Orion's raised right arm.
Marking the hunter's opposite shoulder is Bellatrix, meaning female warrior. While nowhere near as bright as Rigel or Betelgeuse, Bellatrix is still the 22nd brightest star. Juxtaposed to the constellation's lower left and marking the hunter's right knee is Saiph, bright enough to stand up to the glare of this week's bright moon.
Perhaps even more recognizable are the three almost perfectly aligned stars of Orion's belt, Alnilam, Mintaka and Alnitak. The belt points down toward Sirius in Canis Major, the brightest of all stars. Following the belt the other direction leads to Taurus the bull and its red-orange star Aldebaran.
Hanging perpendicular from the belt is another, fainter line of stars that forms Orion's sword. One of the objects in the sword isn't a star at all but rather a blazing and massive illuminated cloud of stellar gas, the Orion Nebula, or M42. At 1,400 light years distant, the Orion Nebula shines at fourth magnitude, appearing as a fuzzy patch to the unaided eye. Binoculars reveal M42's light as distinct stars, while even a modest telescope hints at the vast number of stars lurking within the clouds. But what really stands out is the luminosity as opposed to individual points of light. Nestled within the clouds like a celestial incubator are thousands of nascent stars, their light diffused and spread through the gas.
The beacon of light above Orion is Jupiter. It is visible all night before finally setting in the northwest around 4am. Mars rises around 10:30pm and is high in the south around 3am. Saturn rises after midnight, well to the left of Mars and high in the south with dawn. By that time Venus is well positioned above the east horizon, having risen around 4:30. There's no missing this morning star, unless you mistake it for a plane or some other unidentified flying object.


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Dinosaur Chess
How to play chess to win
Winning consistently comes not from stepping through a chess game as if it
were dancing to "Mr. Beveridge's Maggot." It's more like dinosaurs attacking.
Fight or flight —
Don't just stand there
Many positions in queen-versus-rook endgames can be very challenging
for both the defender and attacker. In the above position, however, white
can win quickly. Do you see the move? (Answer is found below)
Copyright 2015 Jonathan Whitcomb
Teamwork really counts —
Try to get your pieces to work together
A Dinosaur Chess Puzzle
Solution to dinosaur chess puzzle: White wins quickly
after Qg8+. Black has only one move to get out of that
check: Kh6. White now moves Qg5+, and the queen
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Tuesdays with Dorie – Country Bread
My schedule and this bread making schedule didn't mesh, so I could not follow the recipe as written, but I did manage to produce an acceptable loaf. The three grains made a heavy and hearty bread. I used dark rye from the Mennonite grocery store and ground my own wheat berries for the whole wheat with white flour from Trader Joe's.
The sponge is easy as long as you get the water temperature just right. It rose and fell, as the directions said it would, as it rested in my laundry room for 6 hours. Then I shaped the loaf and put it in the basket I use as a form or banneton. I don't have a large, heavy-duty mixer, so I kneaded by hand for about 8 minutes. The loaf rested on a towel covered with rice flour which is soft and silky and works best for me. At that point, I had to refrigerate it overnight. By the next morning, it had risen nicely. I brought it back to room temperature and baked it to a bit over 200 degrees internal temperature because I got distracted the last few minutes. A cheap instant-read thermometer is very good for gauging when bread it done.
Cooling is always torture, but I was a good girl and waited patiently for an hour; then I tasted it smeared with good butter and it was delicious. The rye and whole wheat flours give depth of flavor. I was wishing for a slab of really good cheese but that's for tomorrow. I usually work with a loaf that is more hydrated than this, very soft and moist based on William Alexander's loaf from the book 52 Loaves. Check the book out of your library – it's a fun read and you'll learn a lot about bread baking if you need or want to know more.
I can't wait to read the comments of others to see if their loaves were dense. I added more water and did not use all the flour called for. At 50 minutes I removed it from the oven.
Bread-baking is one of the most satisfying of all baking experiences for me. My first attempt — about 40 years ago — produced a brick-bat, so I gave up for a while, but ultimately mastered the technique. I taught my daughters to make bread and when my older daughter comes to visit, together we make a bread she loves and one I raised my children on – a whole wheat raisin bread. Anytime I make bread and give it away, it's appreciated.
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Tuesdays with Dorie – Blueberry Muffins
- The blueberry muffins from Baking with Julia for today were good – nice, light airy muffins, even though they presented me with some quirks. My blueberries settled on the bottom even though I coated them with dry ingredients. They baked in 15 minutes, so 18-20 minutes would have been way too long. I found them to be like light little cakes. A good snack with coffee, however.
- I used King Arthur Cake Flour Blend. Haven't sifted anything that much in a long time.
- Lots of bowls – bowl for liquid ingredients, bowl for dry ingredients, bowl for blueberries, and bowl for milk and egg mixture.
After 15 minutes, I was afraid to leave them in any longer. They were golden brown, sprang back to the touch, were just beginning to dry around the edges, and a bamboo stick came out dry.
See how brown they got on the bottom. I used Pam butter spray. Maybe that hurried the browning.
I would probably not make them again because of the extra work. I have a recipe from the King Arthur Whole Grain Baking book that I use, and my family really likes them. The blueberries stay scattered throughout, and I use ground wheat berries for part of the flour. The dry ingredients go into a bowl and the wet are mixed into a well in the center – all in one bowl mixed with a wooden spoon.
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Elana's Pantry is a favorite blog of mine. Elana has helped her family to enjoy good food in spite of their health problems. She is the picture of good health.
Eating bread is a real problem for those of us who are attacked by gluten, that component of wheat that prevents us from eating likr normal people. Elana.s bread has given me a good bread to nibble when I need it. In fact, I am going out to lunch today, so I cut two little pieces and tucked them in my purse.
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The small Saturday morning farmers' market down the street from where I live is a fun place to go. When my friend Linda said, "Let's go see what's at the market this morning," I was ready because I wanted some eggplant. I not only found a shiny eggplant, but also some fleshy, luscious, red and totally vine-ripened tomatoes, zucchini, spring onions, and peppers locally grown and picked just hours before.
I have always loved ratatouille. But, I am not crazy about the kind you cook on the stovetop because sometimes it gets mushy. When I scooted around the net trying to find a good recipe, I bumped into one somewhere that suggested baking all the veg in the oven. That sounded perfect. And it was.
I cut up a zucchini into rounds, the red and green long frying peppers into 1 inch pieces, quartered the small spring onions, added some sliced baby bella mushrooms, chunked the peeled eggplant and tomatoes into cubes, and put them all on a foil covered baking sheet. (Later, I wished I had peeled the tomatoes.) I topped it all off with just a drizzle. not a soaking, of good olive oil, some herbs de Provence, salt, pepper, and from my yard a stalk of rosemary and some rough-cut fresh basil. Baked it at 400 degrees for about 23 minutes all together, adding some chopped garlic about 8 minutes before the end so it wouldn't burn. I will post more pictures next time I make it. Decided to do this post after I finished cooking.
While the vegetables baked, I cooked some quoina in boiling water in a pot and in a sauté pan, sautéed some chopped onion, celery, and mushroom mainly for color and to flavor the quoina which is rather bland on its own. Quoina needs salt and pepper, too. Sometimes, I cook quoina with lots of sautéed vegetables, calling it Quoina Primavera.
The ratatouille turned out perfectly. The peppers and other veg held their shape, but the eggplant was a little mushy, though it had great flavor. A total success for a super vegetarian and gluten-free meal. The leftovers will be better after the flavors meld overnight and tomorrow will be dinner with a filet of cod baked with lemon, black pepper. and basil.
The first time I made ratatouille, years ago, I didn't even know how to say the word. The recipe I used then called for vinegar and capers, an ingredient I never heard of in rural Florida. Remembering that, I added a few drops of white balsamic vinegar and sprinkled capers across the top as a salute to one of my earliest efforts at "stepping outside the box" as I learned to cook. It really perked up the flavor a notch.. A sprinkling of cheese is not traditional on this dish, but it couldn't hurt.
When we were at the market, I told the vendor I needed these vegetables to make ratatouille. I asked, "Do you know what that is?"
He said, "It's a movie, right?"
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This week-end, I stopped in Ellwood Thompson, a locally owned health food store in Carytown to get some fresh spices, especially cumin, chili powder, and cardamon. In the bulk aisle, some of the best looking dried red beans called to me, so my brain started to work and plan something to do with them. I want to include more legumes in my diet since they are so good for us in so many ways (like iron in lentils) and fiber.
I remembered a time Patty and I stopped to eat at a small restaurant on the downtown square in Collierville, Tennessee one clear and crisp fall day and had the best red beans and rice anyone could imagine. They were flavored perfectly and not too spicy. I can't remember if they had meat in them but I do remember they were delicious.
So, I bought some red beans and brown rice. I soaked the beans overnight and got out the crock pot. I know the usual way to make chili is to open a can of red beans, brown some meat, add a packet of seasoning full of salt and some canned tomatoes, but that was not what I wanted to do. It is not that hard with a crock pot and a bit of time to make it from scratch.
Into the crock pot went the rinsed beans, chopped and sauteed onion, and beef stock to cover. I cooked this mixture for a while on high while I ran to the store.
Then, the spices. As you can see, I re-use my old spice bottles but put my bulk spices in the old bottles as I refresh them. I used: cumin, chili powder, cilantro, and oregano. Later, I added some garlic salt, kosher salt, pepper, 1/4 tsp. cardamon, and 1/4 tsp. coriander and 1 bay leaf. Note to self – the heat comes from the chili powder. At the last minute, I held back about half of the chili powder I intended to use, and was glad I did. It was hot enough with about 1/2 tablespoon. I realize others may want more spice, but this was perfect for my taste as hot and spicy food is not my favorite, though I do like well-seasoned food.
I took a quick trip over to Whole Foods and sweet Joan at the meat counter got me just one fresh smoky andouille sausage and I picked up a 1/3 pound chuck patty. I slipped the sausage out of its casing and browned the meat.
I am trying to reduce the amount of meat I eat. The meat I included was about a half pound for what would be 6 servings of chili over rice. I am trying to use meat as a condiment rather than keeping it center stage as we have done for so many years. Recently I read a book about how much grain it takes to produce a pound of meat; I think it was 16 pounds. It was thought provoking, though I am not ready to be a vegetarian. I just don't think we need to eat as much meat as we do.
The tomatoes I chose were diced organic with basil and garlic. One thing I intended to include, but didn't have on hand, was a green pepper. Next time.
I set the crock pot on high for about 2 hours, then on low for an hour or so. During that time, I cooked the brown rice separately. My crock pot is nothing special – just an older but cute Rival I picked up thrifting for $1.00.
At Ellwood Thompson's bulk area, I had picked up about a cup of long grain brown rice. More nutritious than white rice. I salted the rice well and also added some cumin to the cooking water.
Rice in the bottom, beans with meat (chili con carne) on top and a bit of shredded cheese in the cute little Serape dish I have is comfort food at its visual best. The spicing was just right and I will make this chili again.
My girls came to visit today and they asked what I was making (you could smell something in the crock pot all over the house). I asked them if they like beans and rice and they said, "Oh, yes!" So, tomorrow it will go to the their house.
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Fabric Material: (Tees 100% Combed Ringspun Cotton) - 10/10
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