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|Reviews for Requiem
| IarIz chapter 2 . 12/29/2016
sniff... its great... and that last l8ne got me a small laugh
| roxicodone chapter 2 . 3/21/2014
I cried like a babe. Oh, Tifa...oh, Cloud! The lady beside me shot me weird look because I sobbed aloud but they were just the best and saddest three words from my BFF Tifa. One of the best fics ever! Thank you!
| Lindsey chapter 2 . 9/26/2013
A perfect story. Oh, this takes me back to such a long time ago. It's a perfect, perfectly beautiful story. And I love how your write Cloud and Tifa.
| caledon chapter 2 . 7/23/2013
gah I don't akljfdsjskgjslgk
How do you do that?
How do you write cloti so amazingly awesome?
I am overwhelmed by feels. so much.
| lapaxlove chapter 2 . 7/12/2013
Omg, just love this so much, especially the second chapter where cloud tells her the story of her past.
And the last part was hilarious. Love this story and your descriptions too!
| Aki no Ryu chapter 2 . 4/8/2013
This was lovely. I admit I had to read it twice to truly appreciate it though! But it has a beautiful ending and I lvoe it. Thank you, TamLin, you write absolutely wonderful Cloud and Tifa fics.
| Lackadaisycal chapter 2 . 10/17/2011
Words can't describe how much I enjoyed this wonderful piece of writing! I re-read this twice. Read it once, then I just fell in love with this and I just had to read it again! It's just that beautiful! Don't ever give up on writing, you're amazing :)
| Kala chapter 2 . 9/21/2011
You have a lovely writing style. Perhaps you could use that style on fanfiction other than Cloud and Tifa? They are a good couple, but I'd like to see other characters portrayed through your writing. Just an idea.
| cookies18 chapter 2 . 12/18/2010
Not matter how many times I read this, it still brings tears to my eyes.. I never thought that this might happened to Tifa after she gave Cloud her light. Such a refreshing idea. You're really a talented writer. You portrayed and captured everyone's emotions so perfectly. Thanks for writing this amazing story and keep writing more stories on Cloud and Tifa! :)
| Higashikaze chapter 2 . 11/23/2010
Ok, that was great. An idea I never would have thought of before, and done brilliantly. Really, really good job.
| ayannaaki chapter 2 . 11/21/2010
Wooooaaaahhh. I don't read many Kingdom Hearts Fic's but i really liked this one. To me, it felt like its own story as well as tying in with KH. This fic was very interesting and i enjoyed it. Great job :) *Favourites*
| SakuraJade chapter 2 . 10/2/2010
Aw, that was a nice short story :) You wrote it beautifully. Job well done!
| dreaming.sapphire chapter 2 . 5/9/2010
Lmao. Yuffie's adorable. XD You portrayed each of them perfectly; I loved how Cid was so worried he forgot about his beloved tea. So, I'm assuming since Tifa gave her light to Cloud, she was dumped in a deserted area on her own where she steadily forgot things; almost like a heartless? Cloud manages to rescue her and so in this chapter he works on rebuilding her and returning her light? I'm guessing since Tifa could sort of see Cloud near the end that she eventually receives her light back or she gets her eye sight back. Did I get it right? :o
| hanlikesolo chapter 1 . 4/11/2010
| laniemarie chapter 2 . 4/9/2010
Best. Story. Ever.
The way you described things... was incredible. The sensory detail and just EVERYTHING. It was so raw and real! Very deep and VERY well written! Fantastic job!

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It's been nearly five years since Missy Elliott's last album, The Cookbook, was released, and her new LP Block Party was postponed yet again this summer. But a preview of the record's potential first single has leaked: "All 4 U," featuring the king of cameos, Lil Wayne. The track streaming on Nah Right sounds like an unfinished version of "All 4 U" — the long instrumental outro following Wayne's verse sounds like it's awaiting additional Missy vocals. But even this rough sketch boasts a steady beat that's a combo of P-Funk, G-Funk and Dam-Funk.
In a June 2009 interview with ELLE, Elliott revealed that Weezy would be making an appearance on Block Party, saying, "There are a lot of great collaborations on the record, but I can only give one away right now, and that's Lil Wayne. He's a person who I think is really deserving of the success he's had. I'm someone who can stay in the studio 24-7, and I've watched him stay in there just as long. He has a creativeness about him that I love."
Like Wayne's Rebirth, which has been postponed so many times that even distributors didn't know when it was supposed to be released, Elliott's Block Party has also been pushed back repeatedly. The album was scheduled for December 2007 and then January 2008, when original first single "Ching-a-Ling" was released (It instead popped up on the Step Up 2 soundtrack). In the ELLE interview, Elliott said Block Party would be out in Autumn 2009, but that obviously didn't happen, and the target date was moved to January 2010.
In the meantime, like Rebirth, potential songs from the disc continue to leak, like "Best Best," "Act a Fool" and "Put It on Ya." At press time, no release date has been solidified for Block Party.
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A favorite amongst visitors are certain nights on the Marigot port and Marina Royale which feature many local bands and 'avant garde' street entertainers. The Marina area is also a hotspot for several chic nightclubs so a night out in Marigot is a great reason to dress to impress! Traditionally, the French culture enjoys a long and leisurely evening meal, which means that many of the livelier bars and nightspots get going later in the evening. When they do, you can immerse yourself in a choice of sultry Latino music, rhythmic Reggae or the latest in European dance and Techno. There are many popular clubs scattered around the town, often hidden down little side streets so get some directions from a local!
Whether your preference is a romantic stroll along the waterfront or losing yourself in the hot Caribbean rhythms, Marigot will certainly seduce you with its French flavor in night entertainment. If you've never been to the Caribbean or France then here is a chance to enjoy both cultures in one evening. 'La Belle Vie' of this quaint little town will leave you with a truly lasting impression of French side St. Martin.
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I was asked today for a price to jet the a/c condensate lines in two waterfront condos. It's some of the worst piping that I've seen. 1" pvc for the stacks, then they tie in together into 1-1/2" pvc(backpitched every so often), and eventually into 2" pvc that goes into the sewer. IT's been like theis for over 20 years and they have a stack clog every so often. I know they won't spend for a repipe. I have 1/4" hose on my reel right now, can i get a nozzle that would pull the hose up 7 floors? Does the 25 degree or 45 degree nozzle have more pulling power? Should I invest in a 1/2" or 3/16" hose?
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I don't know, but I never got through a 1" 90 degree ever. It is small enough that a repipe in areas of concern should not be that costly in material. The time of access is another story.
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I don't plan on going through any elbows, the stacks go straight up and the horizontals in the parking garage i was just gonna cut the elbows off and fernco them back on after i jet everything. I would have straight shots.
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the 25 degree will out pull the 45 degree. but the 45 degree has better hitting power on the walls of the pipe.
since i can't picture this like you. i will answer it based on my explanation.
7 stories = 70' vertical feet. the pipe is 1'' which will help as the hose will have better pulling in the smaller pipe. plus you should be able to push hose up a good 20' with no water/ jetting help.
the hose will create a weight issue, but it will also help in pushing up.
so my answer is with some luck and all rear 25 degree nozzle, it should make it 70' with help and no front restrictions.
as far as hose goes, the 1/4'' id will be pretty large and heavy. i would try it, but be prepared for 1/8'' hose and 1/8'' nozzle. plastic is very easy to clean.
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i just purchased 150' of 1/8'' hose. you're buying it for a special application and not for everyday use. i would attempt the 1/4'' but the od is getting pretty close to the 1'' id pipe with sludge. remember that the sludge you're cleaning still has to pass the hose. if it doesn't you'll pull the hose out with the hydraulic pressure.
have the 1/8'' with you and if need be use it. i think you'll need it for the 70' vertical run.
take photos and impress us all
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At MIT, the January time frame was given to us as a vacation but the school still offered classes to students in various topics. These classes lasted from a day to a few weeks. One of the most popular classes that they have is Charm School. To commemorate the Charm School at MIT, I figured I would help those people that want to propose marriage and want to do it with charm. Below are some tips from your Marriage Proposal Planners at The Heart Bandits for doing exactly that.
Include Sentimental Items
When you include cute things in your proposal that are sentimental to your relationship, then that is very charming. The fact that you took the time to be thoughtful and add it in says a lot. It doesn't have to be anything over the top either. Say for example if your girlfriend loves those little "Love Is…" cartoons. If you include a lot of those into your proposal then that will go a long ways and will make your proposal very memorable… not to mention charming.
Propose at a Romantic But Fun Location
Proposals are usually romantic and the location that you choose for it plays a large role. If you choose a location that is both romantic and fun, then that will equal a charming place. If your partner is fun loving and playful, then you can choose a place that is romantic and maybe has a swing or a slide so you two can use after she says yes. Again, this shows that you're thinking ahead.
Involve Children or Cute Pets
One surefire way to make a proposal charming is to involve children or pets, just be extra careful if you're involving pets because you never know what they're going to do. If you're involving children, it makes the proposal adorable and very charming. Say your girlfriend is a school teacher. One great way to propose in a charming way is to have her students hold up signs asking her to marry you when she's not looking and then surprise her.
Make Your Partner Smile
When you think about what is charming, then the answer really lies in what makes your partner smile. If you know your partner well, then there are things that will just make her smile and warm her heart. I'm not talking about laughing, but just something genuine and good-natured. If you incorporate something that does that into your proposal then it will be perfect.
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On Dec. 20th 2008, the City of Victoria opened a state of the art 15,000 square foot skatepark. The park features a large street area and a flow bowl, and is hailed as a destination skatepark in South Texas. Unfortunately, when the park opened it lacked common park amenities like restrooms, water fountains and shade structures. On top of that, the skatepark was poorly sited behind a large dirt berm which increased graffiti and other bad behavior. In 2009, the city erected a large fence around the park, but the bad behavior still continued. At this time, the Police Department opened an investigation into gang and drug activity at the skatepark.
Other problems arose when the city began to neglect the landscaping around the park. The grass had not been mowed for months and the it began to grow upwards of 2.5 – 3 ft. Plus the landscaping was not allowing the skatepark to drain properly creating a breeding ground for mosquitoes in the non-drainable areas. Although the conditions of the park were bad, it did not seem to phase the local skaters. Unfortunately, most of the skaters were young teens who were not familiar with advocacy or opening the lines of communication with the local government.
It took months of pestering the City Parks and Rec. Director, creating a Police endorsed skatepark community crime watch association, and meetings with the City Council members who would listen to reason, and by August 2010 I was able to get the City to start cleaning up the park. A spray paint removing solvent called Elephant Snot was used to remove the graffiti in the skatepark. Plus the Parks Commission told the Director to start a scheduled maintenance of the park more regularly, and to communicate with me on how to work on improving this asset in the City's best interest.
Convincing the Parks Commission that the skatepark was one of the greatest assets to children and the community was not difficult. The skatepark brings in a good amount of tourism from neighboring cities like Corpus Christi, San Antonio and Houston. Plus it gives our youth a positive outlet and a safe alternative from the streets.
Keeping the positive vibe going, getting the lines of communication open, and staying upbeat and gracious when working with all aspects of the City was key in changing the skatepark for the better. They remedied the cosmetic problems of proper landscaping for a safe environment, adding port-a-potties, repairing all the blown out lights, adding drainage in the low areas of the edges of the street section, adding a water fountain and adding proper signage and police and non emergency contact information. The skaters were blown away, and started writing thank you notes and their own comments in the newly installed comment box at the park. Out of town visitors even say hello on comment cards and leave them in the box, further giving evidence to the City that the skatepark is a tourist destination.
In August 2011, they installed canopies at the skatepark, a year earlier than the city budget approved for us! Also we have been able to receive wonderful support and increased maintenance from the Parks Director, who once was under the impression that the skaters were not utilizing the park nor cared for it.
In June 2011, I was able to have the City and Mayor W. Armstrong proclaim every June 21st Go skateboarding day in Victoria, and we had a huge day full of free classes, food, contests and jams.
This skatepark is now a gem in the City's Parks, and monthly draws skate tourists from around the U.S. If you have any questions on how to win back your skatepark from crime, vandals, and litter, then post your questions on on the forum.
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In previous tutorials we went through the background information and instructions you needed to start a blog. In this WordPress Tutorial for beginners segment you will learn how to install WordPress, how to customize your newly installed blog, including how to make it "pretty" and efficient. You will also learn about categories, plugins, widgets, navigation menu, writing on your blog and much more…
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WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMC) online, for blogs and even websites. In other words it is the most popular blogging platform in the whole Blogosphere. Because of its intuitive and easy to use interface anyone can easily publish their content (blogs). In fact, once you set it up you will realize that even a child can easily use it.
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Improving relevance and Quality Score
AdWords rewards advertisers who choose relevant keywords and write compelling ads with good Quality Scores. The better your Quality Scores, the less you'll need to pay for each click, resulting in more profits for you. This ecosystem evolved to benefit users, Google, and advertisers. If the ads on Google were irrelevant and of poor quality, users would get frustrated and not click on them, and Google would lose revenue. From an advertiser's perspective, when users click on irrelevant ads, they tend to leave your website, costing you money and not contributing to your bottom line. AdWords was designed to encourage high-quality ads, and as an advertiser you'll reap many benefits from optimizing them to improve relevance.
Getting ready
First, check your Quality Scores to identify low quality keywords to focus on.
- Go to the Campaigns tab.
- Click on the Keywords tab.
- Go to Columns and choose Customize columns.
- From the Attributes section, choose Qual. score.
- Click on Apply and you will see an extra column with your Quality Scores.
- In your Keywords tab, sort the Qual. score column to review low Quality Score keywords. Generally, Quality Score 1 to 3 is considered low, 4 to 6 is average with room for improvement, 7 to 9 is good, and 10 is considered great.
- Another way you can identify low-quality keywords is with filters. Create a keyword filter to see all keywords that are below a certain Quality Score. Download this report to have an easy to refer to summary of all keywords you'll need to focus on.
How to do it...
To improve your Quality Scores, follow these 10 tips:
- Start with low Quality Score keywords that get the most impressions. This is where you'll have the biggest impact.
- Re-organize your keywords into more tightly themed ad groups. If a keyword has a low Quality Score, try moving it to its own ad group with more specific ad text and its own negative keywords.
- Your broad match keywords may be getting expanded to irrelevant variations. Try changing them to a more specific match type.
- Add negative keywords to eliminate irrelevant impressions and increase your CTR. For example, add free as a negative keyword to eliminate someone looking for free products and services online. Run a search terms report to see what queries are triggering clicks and get new negative keyword ideas.
- Some of your low quality keywords may not be relevant to your website. If a keyword has a very low Quality Score and rarely shows, it could be negatively impacting the rest of your account. Consider deleting it.
- Write new ads for your low Quality Score keywords, placing each keyword in your ad text, ideally in your headline.
- Test multiple ad versions to see which one resonates better with your customers. Experiment with different calls-to-action, promotions, and ways to describe the unique benefits of your products and services.
- Pause the lower performing ads in each ad group, if you are testing multiple variations to ensure that ads getting a better CTR show more often.
- Try implementing dynamic keyword insertion to have AdWords automatically insert your keywords into the ad titles or description lines.
- Choose more specific landing pages. Your landing page should be relevant to your keywords and contain your keywords on the page. If it does not, consider creating new landing pages for your most important keywords.
How it works...
Quality Score is a measure of relevance and is calculated by taking into account the following factors:
- Your keyword's CTR: Your CTR is like an online voting system; people in the search auction vote on how relevant your ads are with their clicks.
- Your display URL's CTR: Your display URL's past CTR affects your Quality Scores.
- How relevant your keywords are: Some keywords you choose will be more relevant to your business than others. If you sell snowboards, but would like to run on a keyword like "snow," a generic term that's not as relevant to your business, you will receive a much lower Quality Score. Pick specific keywords that clearly describe your products and stay away from general keywords that could apply to many different businesses.
- The relevance of your ads to your keywords: Your ads need to include your keywords in the ad text. If you have too many keywords for them all to be reflected in your ad copy, create additional, smaller ad groups. When a searched keywords is included in an ad text, that term is highlighted by Google in your ad, helping it stand out even more on the Google search results page.
- Landing page quality: The keywords you choose should be included in your ad text and further mirrored on your landing page. In addition to your landing page being relevant to your keywords, it also needs to be transparent and easy to navigate.
- Historical account performance: Advertisers who continue to choose poor quality keywords will receive low Quality Scores when adding new keywords. This system helps Google discourage advertisers who continue to choose irrelevant keywords and encourage advertisers who create relevant, quality keywords and ads.
- Performance in the regions you are targeting: The regions you target via your campaign settings page will affect your Quality Scores.
- Performance on the devices you are targeting: You may get different Quality Scores on mobile and tablet devices, if your keywords perform differently depending on device.
Quality Score is dynamic and is calculated every time a search triggers your ad. In order to achieve better Quality Scores, you'll need to focus on tying together all of the various elements that comprise Quality Score. Increasing relevance helps you achieve a better ad rank and pay less for each click. The Quality Score algorithm is designed to reward relevancy and encourage advertisers to create high-quality accounts, which will in turn help you achieve better ROI with AdWords.
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The more general your keywords are, the more difficult it will be to obtain a high Quality Score for them, even after following all of the recommended AdWords best practices. In such cases, you'll need to weigh if the lower Quality Score is worth the traffic and conversions you get from these keywords. Keep in mind that if you continue to choose low-quality keywords, this will hurt your overall account performance.
Improving ad rank
Your ad position is going to heavily impact visibility and traffic, with the top-ranked ads receiving the most clicks. Obviously, the more competitive your keywords are, the more costly it will be to have your ads show in the #1 spot. However, there are specific shortand long-term strategies that will help you obtain the best possible ad rank.
Getting ready
First, isolate the keywords that are not ranked optimally:
- Identify keywords that are not showing on the first page of Google's search results
- If you have a specific ad position in mind, use filters in your Keywords tab to see which keywords are not meeting this criteria
Quickly diagnose your keywords to figure out if they are showing or are restricted by Quality Scores and bids. On your Keywords tab, click on Keyword details and select Diagnose keywords.
How to do it...
To improve your ad rank, you can:
- Increase your bid
- Improve your Quality Score
Increasing your bids is the easy fix short-term solution. However, continuing to increase how much you spend on each click when your ad rank slips is not going to be profitable in the long run.
The long-term strategy to improving ad position is to raise your Quality Scores. To improve Quality Score, start with the following:
- Refine your campaign structure, breaking out related keywords into their own ad groups, which will help you write more relevant ads.
- Refine ads with more compelling ad copy, using keywords in ad text.
- Pause lower CTR ads if you are running multiple ad variations.
- Add negative keywords to weed out impressions that are not relevant and are weighing down your CTR.
How it works...
Your ad rank determines your ad position, or where your ads show in relation to other advertisers. The ad rank formula consists of your Quality Score and your bid:
Ad Rank = Quality Score x Max CPC
Ad rank is calculated each time your ad enters the ad auction. This means that for each new query your ads could appear in a different position.
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The higher your Quality Score, the less you'll need to bid to maintain your ad rank. This strategy helps AdWords ensure high quality ads on Google.com and encourages advertisers to optimize their accounts.
Changing keyword match types
Keyword match types control who sees your ads and how the keywords you have chosen are expanded to match other relevant queries. Using too many of your keywords in the most restrictive match types can limit your traffic, while using too many broad keywords can generate some or a lot of irrelevant clicks.
Getting ready
Determine which keywords you might want to change match types for. Here are a couple of common edits advertisers make:
- Broad match keywords with low Quality Scores and no conversions. Change to phrase or exact match to restrict variations.
- Exact match keywords with no impressions. Change to more general match type to broaden reach.
How to do it...
To change a single keyword's match type:
- Go to the Campaigns tab.
- Click on the Keywords tab or click on a specific campaign and ad group first.
- In your keyword table, click on the keyword you'd like to edit. Before you can proceed, you might need to agree to the system warning by clicking on Yes, I understand. The system warns you that if you edit a keyword, it will be deleted and treated as a new keyword in AdWords. You can check the Don't show this message again checkbox so you don't have to see this warning each time you edit a keyword.
- Next, you'll be able to choose a different match type from the drop-down menu. In this screenshot, we are choosing to change a broad keyword to a more specific match type.
- Click on Save.
To change match types for multiple keywords:
- From your Keywords tab, check all of the keywords you'd like to edit.
- From the Edit drop-down menu, choose Change match type.
- Choose what you'd like to change your match type from and to.
- Since changing a match type deletes the old keyword and creates a new one, you have the option to create duplicate versions of the keywords you have selected and add them in the new match types. To use that option, check Duplicate keywords and change match type in duplicates.
- You can preview your changes before they go live by clicking on Preview changes.
- Click on Make changes.
How it works...
Changing a keyword's match type deletes the old keyword and creates a brand new keyword in your account. It also resets a keyword's history to 0, but performance data will still be available for all deleted keywords.
Scheduling ads to run during key days and times
Many advertisers choose to run AdWords campaigns only during hours when they have customer support available. If you have a limited budget, you might want to focus your ad budgets on days and times your customers are most likely to be looking for you.
Getting ready
Determine if ad scheduling is necessary and appropriate for your business. Advertisers that may benefit from this include businesses that operate primarily during specific hours. For example, a website with customer support available to take calls during business hours only, or a pizza delivery service that only delivers evenings.
Review performance by day and hour of day, keeping in mind that you will see fewer clicks and impressions during less busy times, so you have focus on conversion rates and CPA instead. Some advertisers get great conversion rates during off peak hours, late at night and in the early mornings, when fewer advertisers are competing in the ad auction.
Keep in mind how your customers interact with you. If you rely on calls and only have customer support during specific hours, make sure your ads are focused on when you have the proper support available.
How to do it...
To enable ad scheduling:
- Go to the Campaigns tab.
- Click on the specific campaign you'd like to edit.
- Go to the Settings tab.
- Select Ad schedule.
- Click on Edit ad schedule.
- Click on + Create custom schedule.
- From the drop-down menu, choose to create a schedule for all days, Monday through Friday, or specific days of the week, and then set your hours.
- Click on +Add to add additional parameters.
- Click on Save.
How it works...
Ad scheduling helps you control when your ads appear to potential customers. Ad scheduling is set at the campaign level, which means that it applies to all keywords and ads within a single campaign. By default, AdWords campaigns are set to run all days of the week and all hours of the day.
There's more…
When you set up ad scheduling, keep in mind your account's time zone. You can find out your time zone by going to My Account | Preferences. AdWords will also reference your time zone as you create a custom schedule for each campaign. You cannot change your time zone.
Expanding your keyword list
Expanding your keywords will be one of your main strategies to increase clicks as well as conversions. Just as markets evolve and search patterns change, your keywords also need to be updated in order not to become stagnant. Here we will discuss several tools you can use to build up and refresh your keyword list.
Getting ready
Review your website and compare your list of products and services to your AdWords account. Are your current keywords covering all of the categories you specialize in? Are there other ways to describe some of your key offerings? Who are your main competitors and are they doing PPC?
How to do it...
To expand your keyword list, try one of the following strategies.
Automated keyword suggestions
To see automated keyword ideas relevant to your website, follow these steps:
- Click on the Campaigns tab.
- Go into a specific campaign and ad group.
- Clock on + Add keywords above your ad group's current keyword summary.
- AdWords will suggest new sample keywords based on a scan of your website grouped into related categories.
- Click to expand each category and review the suggested keywords. If you like a keyword, click on Add to move it to the Add keywords box. Do not simply add all of the automated suggestions, as not all of them will be specific enough. You as a business owner know your audience best and should pick and choose only the keywords that are the most relevant. Make sure that you are not adding keywords that may be already present in your other campaigns or ad groups.
- Click on Save after adding all of the relevant keywords.
Search terms report
Review your search terms report regularly and add any relevant keywords that resulted in clicks and conversions. Click on Add as keyword recipe after viewing your search terms to add them to your account.
Competitor keywords
Use websites such as spyfu.com to see what keywords your competitors' ads are appearing on and to download their keyword lists. Enter a competitor's URL into the search box to uncover profitable keywords you missed.
You can download a competitor's full keyword list, sort, and filter it, or export it to an AdWords-friendly format. The tool can even organize a domain's keywords into targeted ad groups so you have less manual work to do.
Google's keyword tool
In addition to entering your own domain into Google's keyword tool, try typing in a competitor's website and see what keywords are being recommended.
How it works...
Adding new relevant keywords to your AdWords account will help drive more impressions and clicks. With new and unique keywords, you can capitalize on previously untapped opportunities to drive new leads and sales.
Analyzing ad copy performance and picking top performers
A big advantage of AdWords over traditional media is that you can easily set up and run multiple ad versions in just minutes. Even better, you'll get fast responses via real-time votes or clicks from your actual customers on what speaks to them so you can fine tune your message to reach even more qualified visitors.
Getting ready
In order to compare ads against one another, you'll need to set up multiple ads within an ad group. Create no more than 2 to 3 ads per ad group while you are testing. Let your ads accumulate some impressions and clicks before you make decisions about the effectiveness of each ad.
How long you'll need to wait before analyzing your tests will vary greatly based on how many impressions and clicks you receive, which will partly depend on your budgets. The general rule of thumb is to have at least 1000 impressions per ad copy before analyzing performance.
Set your campaign's ad rotation to rotate evenly to get an even split in impressions to each ad.
How to do it...
To analyze multiple ads within an ad group:
- Go to the Campaigns tab.
- Click on the campaign you're looking to analyze and choose an ad group.
- Click on the Ads tab.
- If the ads you are analyzing are low in impressions and clicks, allow for more time, until you have ~1000 impressions per ad version.
- Review multiple metrics, rather than basing your decision on just one metric, such as only CTR or just conversion rates. The following table shows an example of two ads being tested within an ad group:
- In the preceding example, Ad 1 is the winner. It has a higher CTR, lower average CPC, and even though it's converting at about the same rate as Ad 1 it costs less to convert a visitor through Ad 1.
- In some instances, you'll see clear winners, such as ads that are clearly getting a better CTR and are converting at better rates. However, the ad with the best CTR will not always have a better conversion rate, and you'll need to review other metrics to determine your next steps.
- If an ad is getting a high CTR but no conversions, it might not pre-qualify visitors enough and it might in fact be too appealing. Pausing it might lower your CTR, but if another ad is converting better and your goal is to have more conversions, pausing the high CTR ad without conversions might be a cost effective decision.
- Once you determine a winner and a loser, pause the lower performing ad.
- Some tests will have a major positive impact and others will fall flat. Continue to add new ad text variations to keep your message fresh and learn about what your customers will find compelling.
How it works...
Pausing low-performing ads helps you get more impressions and clicks on ads that work better. Even if you turn on Optimize for clicks or Optimize for conversions ad rotation settings, your low performers will continue to show occasionally. Figuring out which ads are meeting your goals and pausing the ones that don't ensures that the ads that work are shown to more users.
Adjusting budgets to maximize traffic and conversions
Most advertisers, except for large companies with unlimited funds, have specific budgets for AdWords that will need to be managed and redistributed among the different campaigns. This section discusses the key considerations and data to review as you decide where to focus your funds.
Getting ready
Keep in mind your overall ad budgets. Also, review your current performance and outline your goals. Are your conversion rates and cost per conversion acceptable and you'd like to get more such traffic? Or, are your current CPAs a bit outside your comfort zone and you need to improve on that?
How to do it...
- First, determine which campaigns are limited by budgets.
- In your main Campaigns tabs, some campaigns may show a Limited by budget message, indicating that they could earn more impressions and clicks if you raised your daily budget. Sort your campaigns by the Status column to see which campaigns are limited by budget.
- You can also review competitive metrics Search Lost IS (budget) and Display Lost IS (budget) to find out which campaigns are losing impression share due to low budgets. Customize your column views to see those metrics and sort the data to highlight campaigns where ads are not capturing all possible impressions. The higher the percent, the more impression share you are losing due to insufficient funds.
- Next, analyze conversion rates and cost/conversion for each campaign that's limited by budget.
- If a campaign is within your target CPA and is losing impression share, move some funds over from a less profitable campaign.
- If a campaign is outside your target CPA and it's limited by budget, it might not make sense to raise its budget, since this would further increase your overall CPA.
Here is an example of how you might want to redistribute a budget of $100/day based on performance with a CPA goal of $10:
Current budget
Limited by budget
Recommended budget action
Campaign #1
Increase budget
Campaign #2
Leave budget as is
Campaign #3
Decrease budget, move funds
to Campaign #1
How it works...
With AdWords, you have the flexibility to adjust budgets across your different campaigns at any time and as often as you would like. Performance varies and shifts all the time, which is why budgets should be monitored and adjusted regularly to maximize returns.
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You can change your budgets in bulk if you have a large number of campaigns that will need to be adjusted. After selecting your campaigns, click on the Edit button and choose Change budget.
Then, choose to set your budgets to a specific amount, or increase or decrease budgets across selected campaigns by a specific percent. You can set an upper or lower budget limit to make sure your budget changes are not going above or below what you are comfortable with.
Tips to increase traffic
If you're getting great results from AdWords, chances are you would like more traffic. Be cautious as you expand and implement the proposed strategies, focusing on a select few at a time to keep your ROI steady.
Getting ready
Review your current campaigns and figure out which ones are meeting your ROI goals. You'll want to start your optimization efforts there.
Catalog your current strategies and campaigns:
- Are your campaigns targeting all of the relevant locations?
- Are you advertising all of your current products and services?
- Have you tried running ads on Google's Display network?
How to do it...
To increase traffic, try the following strategies:
- Increase your budgets on campaigns that are restricted by budgets and not showing ads as often as possible. Check lost impression share and move more funds to campaigns that have high Lost IS (budget) percentages. Lost IS (budget) metrics show you how often your campaign's ad did not show due to a limited budget.
- Raise bids on ad groups that are losing impressions share (Lost IS (rank) metrics) due to low ad rank. Focus on ad groups that are generating conversions within your CPA goal.
- Change your campaign's ad delivery from Standard to Accelerated, so ads are displayed as soon as possible.
- Expand your keywords with additional relevant terms. Create new ad groups for the new keywords to stay organized and keep your campaigns themed and your Quality Scores high.
- Add new campaigns and ad groups for products and services you are not currently advertising. For example, if you sell car parts and are only advertising your Honda car parts through AdWords, add campaigns for additional brands you feature, such as Toyota or Mercedes.
- Test the various targeting options available through Google's Display network. If you are already running display campaigns, consider adding some of the less frequently used campaign types. For example, you can target display ads through interest categories to reach users visiting pages about specific topics.
- Consider expanding your locations to additional relevant geographic locations where your customers are located as well as targeting additional appropriate languages.
How it works...
Raising your bids and budgets helps you achieve a better ad rank and increases your ad delivery with your ads showing more throughout the day.
Adding new campaigns and keywords helps to increase your impressions and clicks through new terms that you were not previously bidding on.
Loosening some of your campaign settings, such as location and language targets, can help you reach additional customers not captured through your previous settings.
Running search term reports to optimize keywords
If you are using keywords in match types other than exact, your ads are showing on a number of other variations that you should be aware of. You can find out what these variations are through the search terms report and use it to add new relevant keywords or exclude the irrelevant queries.
How to do it...
To run a search terms report:
- Go to the Campaigns tab.
- Go down into a specific search campaign or ad group. You can also run a search terms report for keywords across all campaigns, but it might be overwhelming and difficult to focus. It is recommended that you start with specific campaigns instead.
- Go to the Keywords tab.
- This recently changed in AdWords. This sentence should read "Click on the Details button and select All under SEARCH TERMS.
- Next, you'll see a list of search terms that triggered your ads as well as CTRs and other performance data.
- Column Added/Excluded tells you if a keyword is already a part of your keyword list (Added), if you previously excluded it (Excluded), or if it triggered your ads but you have yet to add or exclude it (None).
Once you know what search terms are triggering your ads, you have three options:
- If a keyword has solid performance, such as a high CTR or has generated conversions, add it to your account. You can do so easily from within the AdWords interface by selecting the high performing keyword and clicking on the Add as keyword button above the report.
- If a keyword is irrelevant to your business, has low CTR, or has not generated any conversions despite high costs, exclude it from your keyword list. Be careful not to use negatives that could prevent your relevant keywords from showing. Select the low performing keyword and click on the Add as negative keyword button. You will need to select whether the exclusion should apply to just the individual ad group or to an entire campaign.
- You can choose to download your search terms into an Excel file or other convenient format as well as schedule it as an ongoing report that can be e-mailed to you.
How it works...
The search terms report shows you the exact queries that triggered your ads and led to the clicks. It is available for searches performed on Google.com and Google's Search Partners.
Search terms reports are not real time; they have a one-day delay before you see the data. You will only see impression data if a search term generated at least one click in the last 30 days.
There's more…
If you'd like to eliminate clutter in your search terms report and only focus on keywords that you have not added or excluded already, you can create a filter after viewing your keyword details. Saving this filter will allow you to access it again the next time you log in.
Optimizing bids for ROI
ROI focused bid optimization is the key to keeping your conversion rates high and CPA as low as possible. Many advertisers get distracted by ad position and keep increasing their bids to stay above their competitors. That's not always the optimal strategy, when it comes to ROI. This recipe focuses on identifying which keywords to adjust bids for and how to adjust them based on conversions.
Getting ready
In order to optimize for ROI, you will need to implement conversion tracking and your keywords will need to have accumulated some data that you can work with.
Also, keep in mind your overall CPA goal. That goal will help you identify ad groups and keywords outside and within a profitable range.
How to do it...
You can optimize bids at the ad group level as well as at the keyword level. The rule of thumb is as follows:
- Increase bids on ad groups and keywords that are converting within your target CPA, so you can get a better ad rank and more clicks.
- Decrease bids on ad groups and keywords that are converting outside of your target CPA. This can help you lower your CPA on terms that are currently not cost effective.
For the purposes of this exercise, we'll focus on keyword bid strategy, but the same general guidelines apply to ad groups as well. The following table outlines the recommended bid adjustments for various performance scenarios with a CPA goal of $10.
Recommended bid action
New car
Decrease bid
Honda dealership
Decrease bid
Honda civic
Leave the bid as is
Honda civic best price
Increase bid
Here are four ways you can interact with your AdWords data and use the various AdWords tools to prioritize bid optimization efforts:
- Sort keywords by Cost/conv. (1-per-click) to see the most costly and highest CPA terms first. Decrease bids on the worst offenders. You can start with a 20 percent decrease, but if the CPA is way outside of your target, you might want to decrease bids even more.
- Create a filter that isolates all cost effective keywords. Increase bids if the CPA is well within your target.
- Create a filter to isolate all costly keywords with no conversions to see where you are spending money without any results. Decrease bids on these terms or pause them.
- Monitor and adjust bids on a regular basis to ensure CPAs stay within your targets. You can even set up automated rules to increase and decrease bids regularly (such as each week or every day) based on performance.
How it works...
Increasing and decreasing your bids based on prior conversion data will help you bid more on keywords that are working for you, and less on keywords that do not convert.
There's more…
To automate the process of adjusting bids, you can test CPA bidding in AdWords to let the system adjust bids for you based on a specific CPA goal. Make sure to watch results closely after you implement conversion optimizer, as it does not work for all advertisers. If CPA bidding does not produce the desired results, you can also try enhanced bidding.
Optimizing keywords to improve ROI
You've set up your campaigns and added lots of keywords, and people have started clicking on your ads. Now the ongoing work of fine tuning begins. A key aspect of optimization is making sure that the keywords that work for you get the most possible exposure while the keywords that do not are properly identified.
Getting ready
First, understand your low and high performers. Customize your keyword columns to include conversion metrics.
Use filters and sorting to identify keywords that fall within and outside your CPA goals. Download keyword data into an Excel file, or another easier to work with format.
How to do it...
First, focus on your top performers:
- Create separate campaigns for your best keywords to set a unique budget for top performers. This will help you ensure that your other, less profitable, keywords are not taking impressions away from your highest ROI terms.
- Increase bids on keywords that are profitable but are not appearing in the top position. This will help you get a better ad rank and more clicks from keywords that you know do well.
Next, make changes to keywords that are underperforming:
- Lower bids for keywords that are converting at high costs or on keywords that have accumulated lots of clicks without any conversions.
- Add negative keywords to improve CTR and quality of your low performing keywords.
- Restructure by moving poor performers into their own ad groups with custom ads.
- Try using different, more specific landing pages that better match your keywords.
- Change the keyword match type to a more specific keyword matching option. This can help you reduce impressions and improve CTR.
- If a keyword continues to under-perform, pause it. Click on the green status button to the left of the keyword you wish to pause and change the status from Enabled to Paused.
How it works...
Optimizing keywords based on your historical conversion data helps you improve performance and maximize ROI, since you can assume similar patterns from future searches. Optimizing keywords for ROI involves maximizing ad visibility and ad rank on keywords that work and refining keywords that have not performed well in the past.
Excluding IP addresses from seeing your ads
Are you worried that competitors are clicking on your ads? The good news is that AdWords offers a comprehensive click-fraud system that will in most cases filter out those clicks from your bill. However, you can also exclude competitors and other suspicious IPs from seeing your ads to further protect yourself.
Getting ready
AdWords does not provide IP address data for impressions and clicks you receive. However, you can get this information from your web logs.
How to do it...
To exclude specific IP addresses:
- Go to the Campaigns tab.
- Go to the Settings tab of a specific campaign you'd like to add IP exclusions to.
- Scroll down to the Advanced Settings until you see + IP exclusions and click to expand this section.
- Click on the Edit link.
- Enter one IP address you'd like excluded per line.
- Click on Save.
How it works...
IP address exclusion in AdWords blocks your ads from showing on related computers and networks. You can exclude up to 500 addresses.
Be careful about excluding certain generic IPs that internet service providers (such as AOL) assign to a large number of their users.
Optimizing your landing pages
Your landing pages are a key part of the sales process and need to convince the visitors who clicked on your ads not only to stay, but to continue browsing your website and buy what you are selling. A typical visitor stays on a website only a few seconds before deciding to bounce, and it is the job of your landing page to keep potential customers from leaving. Even if you have chosen the best keywords and ads, your online campaigns will not be a success without an effective landing page.
Getting ready
Analyze your bounce rates and time on site through Google Analytics. Figure out if specific campaigns and ad groups have higher bounce rates than others and zero in on the landing pages you are using.
How to do it…
First, make sure that you are taking visitors to the most appropriate pages on your website. Perhaps you are taking your visitors to a page that's too general or too specific, and there is a section that is a better match for your keywords.
Next, consider some of the landing page optimization best practices to help improve engagement and conversions:
- Customize your landing page's headline to your keywords. This will help reassure the users that they have arrived at the right place and will help boost your AdWords Quality Scores.
- Keep important information above the fold, including your heading and any other important elements.
- Make your conversion activity prominent and easy to spot. If you are capturing leads, your lead form should not be below the fold where many visitors might not even look. If you sell products, the product "Buy" button should be big and enticing.
- Keep your forms short and only require users to fill out the most essential information. Each additional form field you add reduces the chances that the form will actually be completed.
- Include customer testimonials on your landing page to build trust and showcase what others love about your business.
- Include affiliations, guarantees, awards, privacy, security statements, and other reassurances that help build trust and reassure your customers of your credibility.
- Focus on a single call-to-action. Your landing page should have a single purpose. Do not distract visitors with too many options, such as a newsletter sign-up, whitepaper download, and a demo request all at once.
- Experiment with "Submit" button text, trying more enticing and non-intimidating language. For example, avoid the commitment-heavy "Subscribe Now" and try the less committal "Unlimited Access" instead.
- Show your products and services being used in context.
- Reduce unnecessary language and navigation, keeping the steps to complete a conversion short. Write succinct and to the point copy using easy-to-read bullets.
Keep testing and reiterating until you find what works best for you. There is no one size fits all approach when it comes to landing pages.
How it works...
Landing pages are a part of Google's Quality Score formula, affecting your overall ad performance. Your landing pages need to reflect your keywords but also be transparent and easy to navigate.
There's more…
To test different versions of your website and the impact of changing various landing page elements, set up Google Analytics Content Experiments. Content Experiments help you figure out which landing page elements work better for your predefined goals, such as signups or purchases. You can read more and find out how to get started at http://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1745147?topic=1745207.
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She saw a world of emotions pass over his face and wanted to catalogue every one of them. Instead she kissed him and slid a hand along his rib cage that started them "talking" once more.
Annie wasn't sure how much time had passed when she started to surface from sleep, there was a gentle light coming into the room and Auggie was snoring softly behind her, his arms wrapped securely around her.
Then she heard it, a distinct noise outside, the scrape of the gate. Auggie was awake instantly his Army training or CIA training or his improved hearing kicking in.
"Did you hear that?'
"Probably just the UPS guy or something," Annie murmured and burrowed back against his warm chest.
"You sure?" Auggie sounded dubious and Annie realized she had been shot here not all that long ago.
A knock at the door convinced Annie it was not a killer and she rolled over to face Auggie.
"See, just a delivery, they'll leave it out…." a key in the lock stopped her cold.
Auggie was sitting bolt upright now and feeling for anything he could use as a weapon. Annie was searching for clothes, the comforter wrapped around her body.
"Annie? You awake? Your car is…" in came the voice and soon the shocked face of her sister.
"Danielle?" Annie and Auggie asked in unison.
"Um, hey you guys," Danielle smirked as Annie let out a huge sigh of relief and then instantly turned crimson at the scene in front of her.
Auggie was in her bed, sheets pooling at his waist while she was wrapped in a comforter, their clothes were everywhere, no thought given to where they would land when they were tossed aside last night. And surveying it all with a keen eye was her sister, the person who knew how she felt about Auggie before Annie had even admitted it to herself.
"What are you doing here?" Annie tried to sound more confident than she felt wearing nothing but bedding.
"I emailed you last week. When I didn't hear from you I assumed you were away for work, but now I think you have been shacked up here," she bent down and came up with Annie's bra dangling from her finger tip.
Auggie was simultaneously amused and horrified by the scene playing out across the bed he was trapped in at the moment.
"I was away. This," she twirled a finger in Auggie's direction, "is new…."
"Annie, where did the comforter go?" Auggie was feeling for it in an effort to feel less naked.
"I'm wearing it," Annie sighed now mortified.
"For the record, I am thrilled about 'this'" Danielle mimicked the finger twirling, "and I will put you both out of your misery by retreating to the kitchen in the house. I do expect to see you both up there and dressed within the hour though. I'll make breakfast if there is any food up there."
"There is some, um, food," Annie scrunched up her forehead trying to make the seconds move faster.
"I'm going, I'm going, don't have an aneurysm," Danielle laughed and exited.
Annie flopped on the bed.
"How am I suddenly 16 again?" she giggled.
"That was pretty brutal," Auggie agreed.
"Could have been worse. Could have been Joan," Annie shuddered at the thought.
"Come here," Auggie waved her towards him and she shimmied up the bed to capture his lips.
"In the grand scheme of our lives, how awful was what just happened?"
"Awful, no. Embarrassing, yes," Annie answered between kisses.
"So you aren't upset that Danielle knows?" he murmured against her neck as his lips made their way along her body.
"No, I would have told her any way. She knows how I feel about you. She's the one who told me."
That got Auggie's attention and he stopped what he was doing.
"I'll explain later, please continue," she laughed as she guided his head back to her body and slid a leg across his lap.
It was a good thing Danielle's invitation gave them the better part of an hour.


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ENTRIES have been pouring in for our fun caption competition to win a fantastically-festive jigsaw puzzle by Bognor Regis artist Mike Jupp.
Following on from the success of our I Love Summer competition, we now have six copies of Mike's hilarious I Love Christmas 1000-piece puzzles to give away.
Like all Mike's puzzles, the picture is intricately detailed and packed with visual jokes and puns to keep you entertained as you piece it together.
To win one, all you have to do is supply a suitably witty caption to the detail Mike has picked out (right) – and we even have some early suggestions above to get you in the right frame of mind.
The scene of seasonal mayhem is the forerunner of the eagerly-awaited I Love Winter, the new Mike Jupp/Gibsons 1,000-piece puzzle to be released worldwide on January 2, 2014
It looks like Santa's been caught unawares by a call on his mobile at an innoportune moment.
What might he – or even his reindeer be saying?
Perhaps he's been observed by someone in the houses below. Maybe even the weather vane has something to say – we want you to use your imagination!.
Whatever, we want you to come up with your own caption for the picture, and the funnier the better!
Suggestions so far include:
n Rudolph wasn't the only one with a red nose this year
n He knew the last brandy was a mistake
n He knew he should have gone to Specsavers
Email your captions to us at this address: firstname.lastname@example.com putting jigsaw in the subject line and including your contact details.
Or you can post your captions to Alan Cooper, Chichester Observer series, Unicorn House, Eastgate Square, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 1JN to arrive no later than 5pm, Thursday, December 12.
Please mark the word Jigsaw on your entry.


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Newt Gingrich has fired many shots at Mitt Romney's political past in an attempt to tear him down. But what no one could have possibly expected, and what no one on the right could possibly have wanted, was for Gingrich to launch an all-out assault on Romney's Bain Capital roots, and eviscerate the candidate for being a predatory capitalist. But that is exactly what Gingrich has done, and done with astounding thoroughness, by acquiring the rights to a 28-minute attack documentary that's come to be known as King Of Bain. Made "by former Romney supporters," the result is a potent polemic that paints Romney as a dark-hearted, vicious-minded, boodle-craving technocrat-privateer.
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To discuss the arguments for and against active government counter-stabilization policy.
1. Classical economists believe that there is little that the government can do to reduce unemployment and increase GNP growth, especially in the long run. They maintain that in the long run fiscal stimulus raises interest rates and monetary stimulus raises prices without affecting real growth.
2. Expectations may reduce the effectiveness of government stabilization policies.
a) expectations that the government will reverse an anti-inflation policy will keep the policy from being effective
b) "rational expectations may keep a stimulative policy from lowering unemployment because individuals and firms may simply demand higher wages and prices.
3. It is difficult to determine exactly what monetary policy to pursue because neither interest rates nor the money supply are perfect indicators of the restrictiveness of monetary policy.
4. Government fiscal policy has often been complicated by political problems, and large structural deficits make it even more difficult to use discretionary fiscal policies.
Classical perspective, rational expectations, credibility of government policies, constant growth rate rule, interest rates vs. money supply, structural deficits, inside and outside policy lags
Contemporary Issues Stabilization Policy
During the 1990s, the Fed
moved toward a more activist monetary policy, pushing up
interest rates to cool down the economy (in 1994 and 2000),
and pushing down interest rates to counter financial,
economic and geopolitical shocks (in 1998 and 2001). The
long boom of the 1990s and the shallow recession of 2001
might suggest that the Fed's attempts at fine-tuning have
been successful. However, how much of this was due to luck
and other developments, such as the technology boom, and how
much to adept policies?
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Comment and Analysis by Richard Gill One could argue that the difficult times of the early 1980s were really a reflection of the success of our past policies. The very success of these policies, however, undoubtedly contributed to the recent inflationary tendencies of the economy and, perhaps more significantly, to the expectation of future inflation. By 1980, they had created a general sense that the government would back down in the inflation fight as soon as it began to create serious costs in terms of recession and unemployment. People, in short, began
betting on continued inflation. And this made the governments task infinitely
more difficult. The government had to act strongly enough to break the back of these well entrenched inflationary expectations. It not only had to fight inflation,
but to fight a general belief that it would not fight inflation that hard. Expectations are important in economics. They made the task of monetary policy much harder in the early 1980s.


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In this short tutorial, support tech Josh Benham shows how to quickly and easily send a backup file to your Amazon S3 account using BackupBuddy.
- After you've created your backup, WordPress gives you the option to send it by S3.
- Remember, before you can send your backup by S3, you have to enter your S3 login credentials in the Backup Buddy "Settings" page.
- On your Amazon S3 page, you'll select which to which Bucket the backup is sent.
- On your WordPress backup page, select the "S3" button. If all your info is correct, your should enter the S3 upload queue.
- Remember, you must visit your site on another page to trigger the backup's upload.
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The owner of a fishing boat that sank in Lake Michigan Dec. 27 plans to conduct his own search for the bodies of three men believed drowned and also may attempt to raise the 60-ton boat from its resting place.
``The first priority is to locate and remove the bodies if possible,``
owner Lawrence Schweig said. ``The divers will look at the boat to determine her position. If they discover that she is in some position that they can`t raise her then it will change everything.``


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MINNESOTA NEWS ROUND-UP:Train carrying taconite derails near Two Harbors
TWO HARBORS - Two people are injured after a train filled with iron ore pellets derailed Thursday afternoon in Two Harbors on Minnesota's North Shore, but officials with Canadian National Railway say those injuries are minor.
The Duluth News Tribune quotes an official at Northshore Manufacturing who says rail cars were everywhere, stacked up like cord wood, with some pointing up. The derailment happened on a bend in the tracks.
While thousands of fast-food workers across the country went on strike yesterday, community members in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Cambridge gathered to protest poverty wages and show support for those striking workers nationwide. Pastor Grant Stevensen from Spirit of the Truth in St. Paul was one of about 50 people protesting outside a McDonald's location in Minneapolis, and says he and the others are, "Tired of seeing our community and our schools hurt by low wages." Representative Keith Ellison says that, in the richest country in the world, no one working full time should be living in poverty." The protesters demonstrated peacefully outside the McDonald's over the lunch hour.
More police are on patrol in the neighborhoods surrounding the University of Minnesota campus in response to a several assaults and robberies since August. Minneapolis Police Lieutenant Bruce Jensen tells WCCO-TV that they're primarily focused on the Como, Marcy-Holmes, and Prospect Park neighborhoods. The number of officers on patrol has more than doubled to try to fight back. At the same time, police are telling students they have a responsibility to be aware of their surroundings at all times.
Former Vice-President Walter Mondale is getting involved in the controversy over the federal government's massive collection of email and telephone records. Mondale is calling for Congress to prohibit the collection of metadata from what he says are "innocent Americans". Mondale served on the Senate's "Church Committee", (named after former U.S. senator Frank Church of Idaho) which investigated intelligence gathering in the 1970's. He says the government's current practice of "preventive intelligence" was "never the idea of our country."
With the first sub-zero readings of the season ahead, a Mayo Clinic physician says many Minnesotans forget to protect their skin. While frostbite is one of the most dangerous threats our skin faces in winter, Dr. Dermatologist Dr. Dawn Davis says excessively dry skin is uncomfortable and can also lead to infection so prevention is the key. Frequent hand washing, especially with hot water, can dehydrate skin, so Dr. Davis says after gently patting hands dry, reapply moisturizer.
Despite our arctic blast, the Department of Natural Resources is urging you to think twice before heading out onto the ice. The DNR's Kara Owens says recent precipitation and snow is slowing down ice formation. Owens recommends anyone heading out onto the ice check with a local bait shop for the latest ice conditions -- and you should measure the ice before you step out.
An Apple Valley assisted living facility has been cited after police found an employee passed out drunk-- leaving many elderly clients unattended. The Minnesota Department of Health ruled that Ecumen Centennial House was responsible for the neglect of the clients. The facility has since made corrections required by the state. The employee, who showed a blood alcohol level of .32 on the night of the May incident, was immediately fired. None of the elderly people living in the home were hurt.
The Farmington Police Department has issued a statewide alert for a missing woman who was last seen in the Rochester area in early November. Officials describe 37-year-old Laura Jean Simonson as a vulnerable adult who lives with mental health complications and could be without her medication. She is white, 5 foot and 105 pounds, with strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes. Anyone that know where she is should get in touch with police.
South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela died at the age of 95, after battling health issues in recent years. Mandela was imprisoned for 27 years for his fight against apartheid, but after being released in 1990 he was determined to unite the nation -- without bitterness U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (DFL-Plymouth) says, "Mandela's life is a powerful affirmation of the strength of the human spirit," and she says he transformed the world.
The remains of a second child killed in a farmhouse fire in southwest Minnesota have been recovered. Two adults and other kids were able to get out from the home in Lucan Wednesday afternoon when the fire started, but two children were unable to escape. One was found Wednesday night, with the other recovered yesterday (Thu) afternoon. Investigators have not yet determined a cause of the fire. Neal Hansen, the Vesta Fire Department firefighter injured on scene, is still in a Mankato hospital.
In a scathing order, U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle has denied Tom Petters' request to have his 50-year prison sentence reduced. Petters argued his trial lawyers did not inform him of a plea offer by prosecutors that would have capped his sentence at 30 years. But Judge Kyle said, quote, "staring into an abyss of nearly 15,000 days of incarceration, Petters has tried to pull off one final con." The judge goes on to say "Petters last-ditch attempt to escape just punishment for his crimes does not hold water; he received constitutionally effective counsel and his sentence was not unlawful. He is entitled to neither relief nor sympathy from this court."
It's been a tough year for Moorhead-based American Crystal Sugar. President and CEO Dave Berg told the cooperative's annual meeting in Fargo that overall payments will be down $410 million, with grower payments dropping than $300 million dollars. He calls it a "very serious situation" because money that doesn't wind up in farmers' pockets isn't spent in towns in the Red River Valley. Berg attributes the sharp decline to large imports of sugar from Mexico under NAFTA, plus lower sugar content in this year's beet crop. Berg wouldn't speculate on the possibility of future losses.
The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce is urging the DFL-controlled Minnesota Legislature to repeal three controversial business-to-business sales taxes. Governor Dayton said Thursday he'll support it, if the state's billion-dollar budget surplus holds up through the next forecast in February. But Senate Democratic leaders are noncommittal, saying they want numbers from the February budget forecast before deciding whether they'd support repealing the business sales taxes. The Minnesota Chamber's Beth Kadoun says businesses are telling them that they really want to stay and expand in Minnesota but are holding off on those decisions, hoping the new taxes are repealed.


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The old European cut is considered the father of the present round brilliant cut. The old European cut was more evident in the late eighteenth century till the early twentieth century. Many experiments were done on the old European cut during the early twentieth century regarding its various facet positioning and angles. Most notable were the cutting styles created by Henry Morse and Marcel Tolkowsky. They ultimately gave birth to the present round brilliant cut and the ideal cut diamond proportions.
An old European cut diamond is an old style of faceting a diamond in a round shape, hand worked, in a less than perfect fashion. This style enabled the diamonds 58 facets to show broader reflective bands of brilliance returning back up through the top portion of the diamond (the table facet). Old European cut diamonds continued the characteristic of the old cuts with their open culet and higher crown. It is similar to the old mine cut, but is round rather than squarish and has 58 facets.
The old European cut did not require the use of a diamond saw in fabrication, so until that piece of equipment was perfected, this cut along with the old mine cut were the standards in diamond cutting. Although few contemporary cutters use these facet designs, you will still see them commonly in antique and estate jewelry. These cuts follow the original shape of the rough, and are therefore usually heavy and deep and may have poor symmetry.
While being cut with less than exacting proportions, these diamonds have a beauty and magic of their own which give them a desirable, distinct beauty just as the bygone era in which they were fashioned. This cutting style began to disappear around the turn of the century.


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About the Book
Is it showing affection or aggression when it sucks a hole in your favorite sweater?
Why does it turn up its nose at the cat food you bought on sale, settling only for the most expensive meal?
Making use of the latest scientific evidence on animal consciousness, Dr. Milani shows how a thorough understanding of feline anatomy, physiology, and behavior can lead to a warm and lasting bond between cats and the people who love them. She also lets us know what our responses to feline behavior tell the cat about us and our emotions.
The Body Language and Emotion of Cats is a fascinating guide to understanding this enigmatic pet and provides a way to enrich and expand the bond between owner and cat.
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Product Details
- Imprint: Harper Paperbacks
- On Sale: 10/28/1993
- Trimsize: 6.125 in (w) x 9.25 in (h) x 0.75 in (d)
- Pages: 300
- List Price: 16.99 USD
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Not surprisingly, strength athletes have high BMIs. Endurance athletes have low BMIs. Those who rely on bursts of speed are somewhere in the middle. You can see these trends clearly if you look at the BMIs of recent men's Olympic gold medalists. (Note: Because the bodies of men and women are so different, we limited this list to men. We will look at women athletes in a separate post.)
Obese: 30 or higher
At the top of the list is the super heavyweight weightlifting champion Behdad Salimi with a whopping BMI of 41.6. He is followed by the brawny throwers of heavy things, most of whom are above the CDC's obesity line.
Behdad Salimi (super heavyweight weightlifting) 41.6
Tomasz Majewski (shot put) 34.1
Krisztián Pars (hammer throw) 33.4
Artur Taymazov (super heavyweight wrestling) 32.5
Robert Harting (discus) 31.5
Overweight: 25-29.9
The overweight category includes athletes from sports that involve hitting or shoving other people, such as boxers and hockey players. It includes the wealthiest athlete on the list, the beefy-armed basketball player, LeBron James.
Didier Défago (downhill skiing) 28.9
Sidney Crosby (hockey) 27.9
LeBron James (basketball) 27.5
Keshorn Walcott (javelin) 27.1
Oleksandr Usyk (heavyweight boxing) 25.0
Normal Weight: 18.5-24.9
Most Olympic champions and nearly all of the runners fall into the normal weight category. The sprinter Usain Bolt is at the high end of the range. The hurdlers and jumpers are in the middle. The 5K and 10K champion, Mo Farah, is at the low end.
Usain Bolt (100 m, 200 m) 24.9
Ashton Eaton (decathlon) 24.4
Greg Rutherford (long jump) 24.4
Sven Kramer (speed skating) 23.7
Andy Murray (tennis) 23.7
Michael Phelps (swimming) 23.6
David Boudia (diving) 23.4
Marco Fabián (soccer) 23.2
Félix Sánchez (400 m hurdles) 23.0
Ivan Ukhov (high jump) 22.6
Christian Taylor (triple jump) 22.5
Taoufik Makhloufi (1500 m) 22.1
Alexander Vinokourov (bicycling) 22.1
Evan Lysacek (figure skating) 21.8
Aries Merritt (110 m hurdles) 21.8
Renaud Lavillenie (pole vault) 21.8
Kohei Ichimura (gymnastics) 21.1
Mo Farah (5000 m, 10,000 m) 21.1
Kirani James (400 m) 20.9
Alistair Brownlee (triathlon) 20.9
Ezekiel Kemboi (3000 m steeplechase) 20.2
David Rudisha (800 m) 19.6
Chen Ding (20 k walk) 19.1
Under Weight: 18.4 or lower
Last—and least—are the distance guys, including the marathoner, Stephen Kiprotich. Leanest of all is Sergey Kirdyapkin from racewalking, an endurance sport so pure that it actually prohibits bursts of power. It would take exactly three 120-pound Sergey Kirdyapkins to balance the scales against one 360-pound Behdad Salimi.
Stephen Kiprotich (marathon) 18.2
Sergey Kirdyapkin (50 k walk) 17.5
To be a champion, your body doesn't necessarily have to look like Michelangelo's David. Bodies are tools—and different tools are suited to different tasks. Or as the Phillies' John Kruk once put it famously, "I ain't an athlete, lady. I'm a baseball player."


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The 10.3 torrents are have trackers but not 10.1. Can someone please check into this? Thanks.
ftp://ghostbsd.org/pub/GhostBSD/release ... so.torrent
kkuriyama wrote:I am just hosting Unix distributions and noticed the lack of a tracker on some of the 10.1 files. I'm not a GhostBSD user but reasoned that if the torrent was on ghostbsd.org that it was worth distributing via Bittorrent. Recommend that the 10.1 torrent links be removed if they don't have a URL tracker. Thanks.
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