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		<title>This I Believe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:24:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the NPR Radio Show &#8211; &#8220;This I Believe&#8220;. I believe in barbecue. As soul food and comfort food and health food, as a cuisine of both solace and celebration. When I&#8217;m feeling good, I want barbecue. And when I&#8217;m feeling bad, I just want barbecue more. I believe in barbecue in all its regional [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the NPR Radio Show &#8211; &#8220;<a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4538138" target="_blank">This I Believe</a>&#8220;.</p>
<p>I believe in barbecue. As soul food and comfort food and health food,  as a cuisine of both solace and celebration. When I&#8217;m feeling good, I  want barbecue. And when I&#8217;m feeling bad, I just want barbecue more. I  believe in barbecue in all its regional derivations, in its ethnic  translations, in forms that range from white-tablecloth presentations of  cunningly sauced costillas, to Chinese take-out spareribs that stain  your fingers red, to the most authentic product of the tarpaper rib  shacks of the Deep South. <strong>I believe that like sunshine and great sex, no day is bad that has barbecue in it.(</strong>can I get an amen<strong>)</strong></p>
<p>I believe in the art of generations of pit men working in relative  obscurity to keep alive the craft of slow smoking as it&#8217;s been practiced  for as long as there&#8217;s been fire. A barbecue cook must have an intimate  understanding of his work: the physics of fire and convection, the hard  science of meat and heat and smoke &#8212; and then forget it all to achieve  a sort of gut-level, Zen instinct for the process.</p>
<p>I believe that barbecue drives culture, not the other way around.  Some of the first blows struck for equality and civil rights in the Deep  South were made not in the courtrooms or schools or on buses, but in  the barbecue shacks. There were dining rooms, backyards and roadhouse  juke joints in the South that were integrated long before any other  public places.</p>
<p>I believe that good barbecue requires no decor, and that the best  barbecue exists despite its trappings. Paper plates are okay in a  barbecue joint. And paper napkins. And plastic silverware. And I believe  that any place with a menu longer than can fit on a single page &#8212; or  better yet, just a chalkboard &#8212; is coming dangerously close to putting  on airs.</p>
<p>I believe that good barbecue needs sides the way good blues need  rhythm, and that there is only one rule: Serve whatever you like, but  whatever you serve, make it fresh. Have someone&#8217;s mama in the back doing  the &#8220;taters&#8221; and hush puppies and sweet tea, because Mama will know  what she&#8217;s doing &#8212; or at least know better than some assembly-line  worker bagging up powdered mashed potatoes by the ton.</p>
<p>I believe that proper barbecue ought to come in significant portions.  Skinny people can eat barbecue, and do, but the kitchen should cook for  a fat man who hasn&#8217;t eaten since breakfast. My leftovers should last  for days.</p>
<p>I believe that if you don&#8217;t get sauce under your nails when you&#8217;re  eating, you&#8217;re doing it wrong. I believe that if you don&#8217;t ruin your  shirt, you&#8217;re not trying hard enough.</p>
<p>I believe &#8212; <em>I know</em> &#8212; there is no such thing as too much  barbecue. Good, bad or in-between, old-fashioned pit-smoked or high-tech  and modern; it doesn&#8217;t matter. Existing without gimmickry, without the  infernal swindles and capering of so much of contemporary cuisine,  barbecue is truth; it is history and home, and the only thing I don&#8217;t  believe is that I&#8217;ll ever get enough.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: x-small;">Written by:<br />
Jason Sheehan -Jason Sheehan is a James Beard Award-winning restaurant critic for Denver&#8217;s <em>Westword</em> newspaper. His barbeque obsession began at 16 with a trip to Hercules Chicken and Ribs in his hometown of Rochester, New York.</span></p>
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		<title>The Truth About Search Engine Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.issac.com/2010/10/22/the-truth-about-search-engine-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 22:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to write to you let you know the truth about SEM.  You ready?  Here it is.  Search Marketing is just like anything else in life, it takes hard work dedication and a lot of time.  It takes understanding and most of all a lot of attention. There are no short cuts, and you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wanted to write to you let you know the truth about SEM.  You ready?  Here it is.  Search Marketing is just like anything else in life, it takes hard work dedication and a lot of time.  It takes understanding and most of all a lot of attention. There are no short cuts, and you need to surround yourself with people that know the industries best practice in order to be successful.</p>
<p>It is really amazing me just how many people are falling into the false promises of being #1 on Google for $500 bucks in a matter of weeks, when there are over 150,000 competitors in their market.  Don&#8217;t believe what everyone is telling you.  Do your home work.</p>
<p>Honestly, if it was so easy they would call it catching not fishing.</p>
<p>There are no shortcuts.</p>
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		<title>Google starts showing full page previews in search results</title>
		<link>http://www.issac.com/2010/10/06/google-starts-showing-full-page-previews-in-search-results/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 18:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Issac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[October 6, 2010 Google is today testing a major new layout to their search results – full page previews of the target site and blue backgrounds behind the search results when you hover over them. Click the image below for a full size version. Read more about Google starts showing full page previews in search [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong><abbr title="2010-10-06">October 6, 2010</abbr></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/category/google/">Google</a> is  today testing a major new layout to their search results – full page  previews of the target site and blue backgrounds behind the <a href="http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/category/search/">search</a> results when you hover over them. Click the image below for a full size version.</p>
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Read more about <a href="http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-starts-showing-full-page-previews-in-search-results/">Google starts showing full page previews in search results</a> by <a href="http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/">Blogstorm SEO Blog</a></p>
<p>http://www.blogstorm.co.uk/google-starts-showing-full-page-previews-in-search-results/</p>
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		<title>New Issac.com</title>
		<link>http://www.issac.com/2010/08/28/new-issac-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still working out the details of the new Issac.com web site and expect to have most of this done within the next 48 hours.  Stay tuned for more developments.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Still working out the details of the new Issac.com web site and expect to have most of this done within the next 48 hours.  Stay tuned for more developments.</p>
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		<title>EDI Financial</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:32:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Issac</dc:creator>
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		<title>Guidry Group</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Issac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Services Provided: Market Analysis SEM Analysis PPC Campaign Management Information Architecture Analysis Wire Frame for recommend layout with added features and required technology specs Custom .Net programing for private survey application]]></description>
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		<title>San Pedro Facial</title>
		<link>http://www.issac.com/2010/01/28/san-pedro-facial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Issac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An all flash site with over 25 streaming videos with information on Dental Implants. Services Provided: Market Analysis SEM Analysis Flash Programming Video Editing and Implementation]]></description>
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<p>An all flash site with over 25 streaming videos with information on Dental Implants.</p>
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<li>Flash Programming</li>
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		<title>Freebird Ski Groups</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Issac</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Services Provided: SEM Analysis Site Design Minor SEO &#38; SEM]]></description>
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<h4><a title="Freebird Ski Groups" href="http://www.issac.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/freebird_2008.jpg" rel="lightbox"><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-537" title="Freebird Ski Groups" src="http://www.issac.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/freebird_2008-300x294.jpg" alt="Freebird Ski Groups" width="300" height="294" /></a></h4>
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		<title>C San Antonio</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Issac</dc:creator>
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<li>Market Analysis</li>
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<li>PPC Campaign Management</li>
<li>Site Analytics and Conversion Monitoring</li>
<li>Newsletter Management &#8211; creation/proofing/sending/tracking</li>
<li>Custom CMS</li>
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		<title>X-Bouts</title>
		<link>http://www.issac.com/2010/01/28/x-bouts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Issac</dc:creator>
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