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Stewart And Colbert Tag-Team To Demolish John Kyl
After Senator John Kyl's (R-AZ) ridiculously incorrect statement that more than 90% of Planned Parenthood's work is abortion (it's actually only 3%), Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert both absolutely went to town on this poor bastard. Watch 'em at their best:
And if you're looking for an encore, check out the Twitter war on Sen. Kyl launched by Colbert himself: http://twitter.com/stephenathome#.
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I'm looking for site that lets you simply add text links to it. I'd like to have a page with a bunch of links as my homepage, so it should load up basically instantly. I don't need to restrict access to the page. Currently I have a simple HTML page that I update manually via FTP but it's a lot more hassle to change something than I like.
Surprisingly I have not found anything that fits the bill. There are a lot of "smart" pages like iGoogle or Netvibes out there, but I have not found a simple, "dumb" one.
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I currently have a Gentran 3028 subpanel connected to a 12,000 watt generator over a 30 AMP branch and the utility/main panel over a 60 AMP branch. I want to replace the Gentran with a APC UTS10BI. I would like to mount the APC more than the recommended one foot distance away from the utility/main panel. The APC can use a UPS as an alternate power source until I can get the generator running. This is also the reason I need to mount the APC away from the utility/main panel. There isn't enough floor space for a rack mounted UPS system near the main panel. My question is how much of a gauge drop do I need to make to cover the 18 to 20 foot distance? The installation manual recommends a utility line of "Circuit: 12 AWG Two Neutral:10 AWG". If I drop the circuit to 10 AWG and the two neutral to 8 AWG would that be safe?
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I'm guessing the unit has permanently attached wires in a raceway, which is of a limited length. So mounting the unit further from the panel would require you to extend these wires and raceway, which requires knowledge of wiring methods to do properly. It's not likely you'll have to upsize the wires, but you will have to understand basic wiring methods (Chapter 1-4 of NEC).


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I don't see any obvious way of getting all comments by a user, or all likes.
If tried such queries as https://api.facebook.com/method/fql.query?query=SELECT post_fbid, fromid, text, time FROM comment WHERE fromid={1}&access_token={0}
and variations with me(), and such, but the clearly won't work per the documentation stating the WHERE clause must be associate with a * column defined in the documentation.
Does anyone know a way of getting all comments by a user, or all likes by a user?
to be more specific... Likes by user all together... not just "like" a page.


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Travis Bonnett is a man of practicality. It's that realism that served as the impetus for the 24-year-old Onion Creek resident to mount an engine on the 26-inch Schwinn bicycle that he bought from Wal-Mart in order to save money on gasoline. Yes, that's right. After watching a "how to" video on Youtube, Bonnett thought, "Why not me?" He ordered an engine kit from www.gasbike.net, complete with a half-gallon gas tank, that he installed on the frame of his bike. "My friends were skeptical at first," Bonnett says. "But honestly, it wasn't very hard to do." And much kinder on the wallet. Bonnett estimates that he saves on average of $35 to $40 a week on gasoline. A round trip of 26 miles uses about 3 ½ cups of fuel and his daily commute to work at Super One takes roughly 35 minutes. He recently purchased a Road Master bicycle with plans to convert that into a motorized bike as well, using a 66cc two-stroke engine. "The frame is smaller and more compact, which means the engine just pops right into place on that one," Bonnett explains. "The Schwinn works well enough, but the frame on the bike is too big, so the engine and wires don't fit like they should. Right now I just have to get one of the rims fixed, bolt the sprocket on and it's ready." Bonnett has equipped both bikes with a speedometer, headlight and a small tool kit for any roadside repairs. Again, Bonnett's efficiency and calculations come from what he views to be just common sense. He's not out to make a statement; he just wants to save some money. "I've had some people ask me, 'Why don't you just get a Moped or a gas efficient car?'" says Bonnett. "If I did that, I would still be paying thousands of dollars, not including maintenance, tabs, licensing, registration, all of that." He figures he has invested around $500 in expenses on both bicycles. He will drive his Chevy pickup truck in the winter, though he casually jokes about putting studded tires on his bike. "Everyone's got their own opinions and advice; I just wanted to find the cheapest way possible to get from point a to point b," Bonnett says.


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Are there any good tools that can be used for Security auditing of Redhat Linux. That can audit all the critical areas of System and provide the detailed output of all the audited sections.
Free automated assessment tools are notoriously missing. Historically we had Bastille, which was reasonably not terrible, it also hasn't been updated since 2008 and doesn't support any of the EL releases of RedHat. Currently we do have Tiger, which requires a fair bit of configuration to be properly useful. It is also infrequently updated, the current release being from 2010, but it does provide some baseline usefulness.
In any event, in order to audit a system, you must first know what you're going to audit against. So pick a standard that fits for your environment (both technically and business process) and start using it. Depending on which standard you pick there may be assessment tools available. For example, if you are a CIS member then you can use the CIS-CAT tool to audit systems against their standards. If you are a Nessus Pro Feed customer then you can use their auditing system to test a system against a number of standards including CIS and DISA STIGS.
Configuration auditing isn't necessarily easy, and will likely require some capital outlay, but it is a necessary step if you're going to claim to use a standard.
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Feb. 24, 2011 -- Bunions -- deformities at the base of the big toe that can cause pain and disability -- are common and can really slow a person down, a new study shows.
The study, which is published in Arthritis Care & Research, found that more than one in three older adults has at least one bunion, a hard bony bump that forms at the base of the big toe.
Bunions are thought to have a hereditary component in that they tend to run in some families. It has also been suggested that wearing shoes with elevated heels and a narrow toe-box may contribute to bunion development.
Study participants with bunions were more likely to experience pain in other parts of their body, including the hip, knee, low back, and foot. And those with the most severely deformed big toes, a condition known as hallux valgus, also had the poorest scores on measures of life quality, like social and physical functioning.
"Our findings indicate that hallux valgus is a significant and disabling musculoskeletal condition that affects overall quality of life," says Hylton Menz, an associate professor at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, in a news release. "Interventions to correct or slow the progression of the deformity offer patients beneficial outcomes beyond merely localized pain relief."
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For the study, researchers in the U.K. surveyed more than 2,800 people ages 56 and over.
Part of the survey included pictures of the left and right feet where the base of the big toe was progressively more deformed. Participants were asked to look at their own feet and pick the pictures that most closely resembled them. That helped researchers determine the severity of each person's problem.
The study participants then were asked additional questions about their mental and physical health, pain intensity, concerns with personal appearance, and socioeconomic status and education level.
The study found that bunions were about twice as common in women as in men, and that the likelihood of having a bunion increased with age. Overall, about 28% of people ages 50 to 59 reported having bunions, compared to nearly 56% of people over age 80.


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According to several dictionaries, a "trunk" is a large case or box that can be used when travelling or for storage, whereas a "chest" is used only for storage. Is that the only difference between the concepts of "chest" and "trunk"? Which word is more common? Which one comes to your mind first when you see that kind of large box?
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I found it interesting that the words were practically synonymous in two very different senses.
As to your comment: dictionaries do not seem to be very specific when defining "trunk" and "chest", that's partly because, much like the storage items themselves, the words are very versatile.
Quite often, you'll find a descriptive word in front of chest: treasure chest, tea chest, tool chest, medicine chest, e.g.
There are other ways the words differ, too: some might call a bureau a chest (or chest of drawers), and many of us carry a key that opens the trunk of our car. I suggest visiting the Wordnik pages for expanded definitions and example uses.
As for using the words in your original sense (to describe an object such as the one depicted below), I think you were onto something when you said we'd be more likely to travel with a trunk than with a chest, but I might use either word to describe the object in the picture.
Both words overlap in meaning but also have some very different alternate definitions, and dictionaries notoriously don't give the nuance that is obvious to native users of the words.
A chest is - a large reinforced container of a certain size - a large piece of furniture for holding clothes (a chest of drawers) - the thorax (the lungs, heart and breast area) considered from the front. From the back it is referred to as the upper back.
A trunk is - a large reinforced container (of that same general size, so synonymous) - the enclosed storage area in a car (in American English) - the main part of a tree coming out of the ground (and by analogy any large cylindrical conduit or linearly organized central 'thing'. - the main part of the body excluding head and limbs
Because of these many meanings, an ngram comparison will be very misleading (who knows which meaning is being used?).
For the thing one travels with, 'chest' or 'trunk' feel equally interchangeable (especially given that one normally just uses a 'suitcase' nowadays). On reflection, it feels like 'trunk' would be more likely to call the thing you travel with (as it is also a synonym for a 'suitcase', but chest is not).
For the anatomical regions, even when used informally and not technically, 'chest' is much more common; one is more likely to refer to the specific area, chest or abdomen (the lower part of the trunk) rather than the entire trunk.
That is basically it.
A chest has connotations of keeping valuables safe, a tradesman would keep his tools locked in a tool-chest for example. A trunk would usually be used for clothes, and would be lined in some way to prevent them from being torn. Traditionally it would be covered in leather.


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Become a Traveling AffiliateJuly 27th, 2010
I recently wrote an article about how to become a traveling affiliate in the current issue of FeedFront magazine.
If you have any questions, post them in the comments section and I'll be sure to respond.
I recently wrote an article about how to become a traveling affiliate in the current issue of FeedFront magazine.
If you have any questions, post them in the comments section and I'll be sure to respond.
Looking forward to a trip to Israel on Thursday. I'd like to continue to update this blog, but take it in a different direction. Instead of only talking about affiliate tips, I will share with you my life experiences and thoughts on topics like personal productivity, laws of success and other areas I find interesting.
I've been enjoying life a lot these days. That's not to say I'm not working, but I am very thankful that I have a lot of free time to go to the beach, read good books, while still working when I feel like it.
Although I'm still an affiliate, I've been working on other things including getting up an electronic cigarette offer to put on affiliate networks, as well as a start-up mobile affiliate company called KingSide.com.
There's different ways to bat at this game. You can be an affiliate, merchant, advertiser, traffic broker, content provider, etc. I suggest you always try to learn new things, step up your game, and move from an affiliate to another role if are interested in making more money.
Here are some of the books I've enjoyed reading (or re-reading).
One of the most difficult things in PPC is finding a solid keyword list and grouping into relevant ad groups. This process is often time intensive and annoying. In this post, I'll show you how to quickly create a very highly relevant keyword list by using Google's own keyword data. I'll then show you how to quickly group these keywords using Adwords Editor.
1) Download and Install Adwords Editor. Create new campaign named "Test" and new Ad Group named "Test" in Adwords Editor.
2) Select the new "Test" ad group and then select Tools->Keyword Opportunities
3) Enter 1 or 2 generic words in your niche, like 'cigarette' (make sure "Include additional terms" is selected), then click "Get Keywords"
4) Copy those terms to Excel.
5) Now, for each relevant keyword, you want to enter it under "Get Keywords" then click "Add Selected Keywords" – This will ad the keywords to your ad group. (The keyword relevancy improves if you put the keyword and then also add 1 or 2 common terms to the end).
6) Do this 10-15 times for each relevant broad keyword in your niche. Then click "close"
7) Now, copy & paste your new keyword list from Adwords Editor into Excel (go to the keywords tab, select your 'test" ad group then highlight all the keywords with your mouse while holding "shift", CTRL+C to copy, then paste into Excel).
Remove the duplicates in Excel by highlighting the keyword column and selecting Data->Remove Duplicates
Then copy the keyword column from Excel (from Step #7) and open up this word frequency counter and do a word frequency on your newly added keyword list.
Put the results from the word frequency list back into Excel. These are the words which will become the ad groups. (In Excel, do Data->Text to Columns by Delimited and check mark "Space" then click "Finish" to get rid of the numbers next to the word frequency).
Make sure you only group into meaningful ad groups. So delete the words that you do not want as ad groups.
9) Now go to Tools->Keyword Grouper in Excel and put in your groupings from Step #8 (DONT click 'generate common terms' – The "generate common terms" usually gives you very poor ad groups. That's why we do this ourselves using the word frequency in step #8).
Click "Next". Then click "Finish".
10) Add your ad titles for each ad group.
You should now have relevant keywords sorted into beautiful Ad Groups ready to upload or export to Yahoo.
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Affiliate Summit East 2009 just finished wrapping up in New York.
If you are a newbie, I highly recommend going. There's a lot of newbie information in the sessions, and you'll probably pick up a few tips that make the whole trip worth it.
I met up with a bunch of my affiliates, affiliate managers and a few advertisers. CX Digital took me and some of the top guys out to the Yankee's game with box seats which was fun..
Here are some tips:
1) Affiliate marketing, like any business, is based on relationships. I met a lot of people who I've worked with but never met, and there was a TON of valuable information exchanged. Everyone is way more open in person. Try to build these relationships before going to conferences.
2) There are many "ME TOO" networks with nothing to offer you. They all want your traffic, but cannot provide a clear and compelling reason why they are different from any other network. Although it's nice to chat with these networks, your time is better spent talking to affiliates.
3) Go with an open mind towards learning. This business is constantly changing, and it's important for even the most sophisticated marketers to keep an open mind and realize there's always more to learn.
4) Be real. There's no reason to try to present yourself as someone your not. Just be yourself and enjoy your time.
Did any of you guys go to ASE? What did you get out of it?
Below are the answers to round 2 of the Q&A. I know I went through these questions quickly, so if you have any further questions feel free to leave a comment and I will try to respond.
One of the questions that came up a few times was how do you quickly set up a PPC campaign with several thousand keywords..
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Answers to Q&A Round 2
Hello everyone, welcome to scrappy business question and answer round two. I'm going to try and get through all your questions, there's about 23 questions, I'm going to get through them as fast as I can.
Q. I respect your spiritual side and was wondering what are your thoughts on splogs/flogs?
A. Of course this is the first question. Basically I've done them before; I think that they are borderline unethical depending on how you do them. First of all I don't suggest you do a 'flog' or a fake article unless you're willing to accept the risks, and the risks are basically legal liability, consumer liability, getting sued different ways. There's ethical issues and so you have to go through them in your mind. The first and the biggest one I think is the legal liability of the flogs. Number one – most of the flogs are not from a real person. So, you're dealing with that issue of fake advertising, or fraudulent or deceptive advertising. That's one big issue. The second issue is that sometimes the comments aren't real, that can get you into trouble. The third one is not disclosing that you're an affiliate. So, what I suggest if you are going to do a flog, you have to be careful of those three issues. I would suggest putting a disclaimer at the top of your page, a big disclaimer which is in the same point font as the regular text, that basically says that you're an affiliate, that the person who is on the blog is not a real person and has not actually used the product, and that you're related, you're an affiliate. And so those are the things you have to keep in mind. There's other ethical issues involved and you guys have to kind of realise that you have to take on those risks and if you're willing to do that, that's fine but just be careful.
Q. Can you give us a play by play of what your average day/week looks like?
A. I have no particular set schedule, I sometimes wake up late, sometimes I get up early. I try to have, like I said in my last video, I try to have all the notes, what I want to accomplish during the day organised on a sheet of paper so that way you're not getting distracted you're not going from one thing to the next on the cyber world. So just try to keep yourself organised, try to prioritise, I mean it's the same basic thing that any other person does, you want to keep track of what you're doing, how projects are going. I always like to keep the ball in the other persons court so if I'm working on a few different projects and they're emailing back I like to get on top of that and make sure that everything that I'm doing is on their side, so that my employees, my outsource team can handle everything.
Q. You mentioned in your first Q&A about regulation coming to our industry; What offers/ marketing techniques/ income will be regulated?
A. Basically, I think that the regulation's going to come in the form of the FTC is going to probably crack down a little bit on the re-bills. What re-bill is, is when you go to an offer and at the bottom of the page, they say in the terms of service the billing amount but it's not very clear and it's not above the fold. So I think there's probably going to be some changes to that, in essence making it above the fold or more clear so the consumer's aware they're being charged. There's also going to be regulations in terms of blog endorsement, so if you're running a blog and you're getting paid by an advertiser to endorse a product, you have to disclose that relationship. There's some links available now coming out of the FTC I think about these issues, specifically with the blog endorsement, that's something that's getting passed pretty quickly and its going to affect our industry almost immediately I think.
Q. Have you used video for squeeze pages or sales pages?
A. Yeah I do sometimes, I don't really do that often, usually works pretty well but I'm not like an expert at it. So what I suggest is just being personable, explaining yourself in very clear terms as soon as they get to the page – who you are, what you're offering, what they need to do next, if it's filling out an email submit.
Q. I use Aweber and I find that my unconfirmed opt-in rate is very high, what should I do?
A. So basically what they're talking about is when someone goes to your page and they opt-in they have to then go to their email direct and double confirm or double opt-in that they subscribed. I suggest that you use GetResponse.com, it's an alternative to Aweber and basically allows you to not have to have that double opt-in.
Q. Josh, I appreciate your Q&A. When you advertise on Google content network do you use text or image ads?
A. I use both, both are very successful.
Q. If image ads, do you make them yourself or hire them out?
A. Try not to do anything yourself so if you're trying to do graphic design and you love graphic design yeah maybe you should do it, but in my opinion it's probably not worth your time. As a business owner, you have to have other people doing all the low-value activities. So in terms of creating images for a content network campaign, you want to have that handed off to someone else.
Q. You mentioned getting a good CTR in the content network; Is that more important for your quality score or because you're paying via CPM instead of PPC?
A. I think basically what he's talking about is how you get your ad to run successfully on the content network with a high quality score. The main thing you've got to think about is your click-through rate. If you have a very high click-through rate using image ads either on the search or content, but more specifically with content, you're going to have more or less a good quality score. Google is going to reward you because you're making them the most money every time they display your ad. So the most important thing to think about when you're running image ads on the content network is that you have image ads that are getting clicked very much, a very high click-through rate.
Q. Do you typically link directly to offer pages or do you link to your own site first?
A. I used to suggest testing an offer and then by direct linking or linking directly from your PPC ad to the offer but now what I realise is that it's much better to have a landing page especially if you see other people in the industry promoting a certain type of offer over an extended period of time, you probably know that that offer is successful so you more or less want to start off with creating your own landing page and then from the landing page linking to the offer. There's numerous benefits to that; Number one – you can control what's on that landing page, you can also track it a bit better and also you're not going to get bumped if two people are using the same URL in Google Adwords.
Q. With regard to choosing CPA offers to promote, do you typically opt for higher or lower pay out programmes? i.e. $1 for an email submit or $22 for a purchase?
A. To be honest, I don't really go after the email submits at all, I think that it's just a very difficult way to make a lot of money. I would suggest going for offers that are $30 and higher, most of the CPA offers that you see nowadays will pay $35. Typically they just convert better, meaning they have a higher EPC (earnings per click) so every time you send traffic to there it's typically going to convert better than a $1 email submit. For example if you send a hundred people to a $1 email submit you might only make 40c a click whereas you send the same people to a $32 CPA you might make $2/4/5 a click so it's just a matter of making a wise business decision, how much you want to make per click.
Q. How do you pick a CPA offer? I know market research is initially important.
A. Basically what you want to do, as I mentioned over and over, look at what the competition is doing. If you see them there over a long period of time, that offer, the CPA offer is probably successful. Stay away from offers that you don't see anyone running. So if you basically find like on Bids.com you see an offer or some other CPA offer that you don't see anyone running, I'd be very wary of running it.
Q. From the CPA offer, how do you determine which words to use to build your keyword inventory?
A. I use keyword spy, Google keyword tool, just any type of keyword tool on the market, combine it into one big keyword list, and then run that keyword list through the Google traffic estimator and only use the keywords that have a search volume of 1 or higher.
Q. How do you deal with or manage potential buyers of affiliate products who contact you through the contact page on your affiliate sites?
A. So what they're saying is if I am bidding on Google and someone comes to my website and I'm just promoting someone else's product, they come to my affiliate site and they click the contact button and they ask me questions. Generally speaking I don't really answer the questions. If they have a problem with some sort of cancellation issue, I'll immediately go ahead and send them the terms, and what number to contact if you have to cancel. I think you have to do that or else you're kinda screwing them.
Q. Do you feel that affiliates should email folks back?
A. Yeah you should, especially if it's a pertinent issue like cancellation.
Q. Here are my stats – 10,000 clicks, $4,000, 8 campaings and 0 sales. At this point I'm thinking that all the guru sites are bogus.
A. So basically what it sounds like is you're doing something wrong, obviously. You shouldn't have to spend $4000 and make 0 sales. Either you can send me an email, shoot me your campaign information, I'll take a look at it or have someone else take a look at it. It sounds like you're probably not promoting the right offer or you're promoting it in the wrong way, such as using a small keyword list or you're not having a correctly set up landing page. If you have ads that are pretty good, you have a landing page that's pretty good and you're linking to a pretty good offer, you shouldn't have a decent return as soon as you start, meaning you should, let's say if you're spending $100, maybe you're going to lose like $30/40 or $70 on the first day but you shouldn't have to spend $4000 and not make any sales.
Q. I hear that a lot of people are using blog platforms for CPA and SEO purposes.
A. In the last video I suggested building 30-50 custom landing pages for each keyword. Obviously this would not be appropriate for a blog since many of the keywords would be similar.
Q. Do you have a preference on site design – traditional vs. blog?
A. You could set up a blog with WordPress, and it's very easy but I suggest you just hire a programmer from RentACoder and have them set up a custom design. And in terms of adding articles, you want to add 40-50 articles; they're not necessarily for SEO purposes but you want to link to them for each keyword, you want to have a pretty good landing page that's semi-targeted. That's why before I suggested creating all those landing pages. Basically the purpose is to get them really targeted and get into the customer's head. So if you're advertising a 3 day diet for example, your page should all be about the 3 day diet. The headline should say "3 day diet", the intro paragraph should say "3 day diet", on the side it should say "tips for a 3 day diet".
Q. Google has changed the rules only allowing one destination URL per ad group. How do you go about testing which is a better converting domain name?
A. You don't necessarily need to test your domain name right off the bat. If you've tested your offer, your ads, pretty much everything else, then you want to start testing your domain name but unless you are super highly skilled, I don't suggest you start off with testing that domain name. If a year or 6 months down the road, you've tested everything else on your site, all your keywords and everything and you still want to test your domain name, maybe put it into a separate ad group and use separate keywords. There's different ways to do it but there's not a really good way to test a domain name right now. What he basically said was, Google came out with the terms that you could no longer use two different URLs in the same ad group.
Q. In my previous question I forgot to ask – In order to test the conversion rate of a domain name itself
would you launch two separate sites that were identical to each other?
A. You see already this guy Simon, he has a question about domain names; he's getting all focused about the domain names. That's what you don't want to do; domain names will make a difference in your CTR a little bit or a lot depending on your domain but if you start with a semi-good domain name that's short, you shouldn't have to spend all this time worrying about your domain name.
Q. What's your bidding strategy for content network? Do you bid high at first and then slowly lower the bids day by day?
A. I suggest you bid high, for example, 30/40/50/60c and then see what type of traffic you have and you can always go down lower but you want to see what the potential traffic is. If you bid too low off the bat then you're not going to get any traffic. What I suggest is if you have like let's say a 60c bid, then the next day lower it to 55c, then 50c, then 45c and slowly lower it down slowly and generally speaking that's the best way to lower your CPC while maintaining some level of traffic. If you go from 60c down to 20c, you're not going to really get that much traffic in my opinion.
Q. Do you find success with Google placement targeting?
A. I've never really had great success with placement targeting; I suggest you try it, let me know if it works for you. Apparently what the trick is, is that you have to bid pretty high to get on the sites. I've never really had that much success.
Q. You've mentioned that the best headline for content network is recommend a free download. I guess you send traffic to an opt-in page this way and give away something like a free report?
A. There's so many ways to do affiliate marketing, you can send them to an opt-in page, I usually don't, a lot of times I'll just have my offer right on the page. Sometimes I do collect their email and I do an autoresponder sequence.
Q. What's your primary goal when sending traffic to a site – building a list or sending traffic straight to a landing page?
A. Generally speaking I just send the traffic to a landing page, I don't collect their email. I know that's sort of a short term strategy but for me it's worked. I've never had a lot of success with email marketing. I do it on a lot of my sites but I don't really care for it all that much
Q. What are the top ways to get a high CTR and quality score?
A. Basically, like I said in the last video, you want to have a privacy policy, contact page, terms of service, disclaimer, you want to have 20-30 articles on your site that are all unique, you want to have a links page which has outgoing links, you want to have the landing page have a lot of content, let's say 200-500 words, you want to have links coming into your site and you want to have your homepage have generic content that's all about your niche.
Q. How do you pick your keywords for testing campaigns? Just take the list from keyword spy or some other relevancy?
A. Like I mentioned, what you want to do is get a long list of keywords, combine them to one list, run them through the Google traffic estimator and only take the keywords that have high traffic volume.
Q. How many keywords do you recommend to start with in search?
A. This is a very good question. Basically what you want to do is start off with about 1000-2000 keywords, could be less, could be more. That way each keyword group should basically have its own custom landing page that has content around it. If that's too much work, start off with let's say 500 keywords. I start off my campaigns with around 5,000-10,000 maybe even 20-30,000 depending on the market. Now, Yahoo used to allow you to go in and just dominate and spread all sorts of keywords around the place. They're getting a little bit more strict in terms of the keyword policy so it's a little bit more difficult. Google's always been difficult to run on a huge set of unrelated keywords. So what I suggest is starting out with 500-1,000 keywords approximately, setting up targeted landing pages and making sure your ads all are custom. Meaning if you're advertising on the 3 day diet, make sure in your ad it says "3 day diet" and in your ad text it says something about the 3 day diet.
Q. How many clicks do you wait before you dump the specific keyword?
A. For example, you're running on PPC and you have a keyword in your campaign and you want to see 10 clicks or 15 clicks. Basically what I do is if I look at the keyword and it's really relevant, like I said we're talking about the keyword '3 day diet', so that's a really relevant keywords if your selling a diet product. So what I suggest is, if it's a relevant keyword, waiting until, let's say if the CPA offer pays out $36, you could wait until you spend $36 on that keyword. Now if the name of the keyword is 'going to the gym', now that's a very unrelated or untargeted keyword, or what I like to call 'indirectly related keyword'. So if it's an indirectly related keyword, you can dump it after half of the CPA, so after $18, or even after a third of the CPA, so after you spend $10 on that keyword, or $15, it's not working out, just dump it.
Q. Have you heard of bidding on demographics in search?
A. Some platforms allow you to do demographics in search. For example, Yahoo allows you to do demographic targeting in search and I suggest you do it. I've had a lot of great results, you can set structure your tiered bidding. So for example if it's female, I raise my bid price 100%; if it's over the age of thirty, I would raise it another 100%. So if you start off with a 50c CPC bid price you would raise it to $1, and then raise it to $2, depending upon the demographics, especially if you know your offer. If you don't know the demographics, I suggest you go to Quantcast.com and it'll allow you to see the demographics of the sites. Just plug in the site in there and you can see the primary audience is females aged 30-40 and then you go back to Yahoo and you set the demographic targeting to that.
Q. When you decide to promote an offer do you start by direct linking to it, analyse the competition and build landers?
A. So we talked about this in a previous question. Basically what you want to do is, if you see it in the market, people are running it over an extended period of time, don't direct link, just build up the site and make sure it's a great site and it's better than your competition. Don't just steal their page blatantly – try to change it, make it better, improve it somehow.
Q. Any tips on travelling abroad and working as an affiliate with a laptop?
A. Actually yeah,Ii travelled for three years working with a laptop, or not working with a laptop and working in a cyber cafe. Basically what you want to do is pick an apartment in one location and then you can bring your laptop. For example you can go on Craigslist, find a place in Buenos Aires, bring your laptop there and it works out great. If you're travelling, if you're on the move a lot, I don't suggest you bring a laptop, it's going to be a pain to carry around, just work in cyber cafes. That worked for me, it depends on how serious you are. A third option is what I did also, was just take my laptop, get an apartment in a certain city and then from there you can make side trips for a week or two weeks but always have that home base where your laptop is located. I really don't suggest travelling with a laptop.
Q. What's your best advice on successfully getting accepted to a CPA network?
A. Number one – if you have someone to refer you and you can just contact their affiliate manager directly, that's a really easy way. Another way is to set up a website that has all the content on it and put that in the description. The other way is if they ask you how you're promoting it, just say you're promoting it through PPC and try to be honest, but you can't say that you're just a beginner with no site or they're not going to want you.
Q. I love Adwords editor and I know it significantly eliminates time on setting up campaigns. How do you suggest efficiently organising a campaign with 10,000s of keywords?
A. Ok, I have a course that I've put out called the keyword spy masters course. I'm going to link to it with this video and it tells you step by step how to do this, how to basically efficiently organise your campaign, using keyword spy, putting it into Excel and I can build out a campaign with 10,000 keywords in about 10mins.
Q. He's talking about protecting his assets once he starts making money.
A. The first thing is I just suggest you pay your taxes, to me that's the biggest thing. In my opinion don't do the offshore thing, just do it legitimately, set up an S-corp, pay your taxes, just be legitimate about it and yes you're going to pay the taxes but you're not going to have any legal headache. You're making enough money in this business to do it legitimately.
Q. What kind of business entity do you have?
A. I have an S-corp. I don't have business insurance.
Q. I have absolutely no idea how you organise 10k or more keywords
A. Ok we just talked about that, I'm going to offer you my keyword spy masters course. It's an absolutely free course, all you have to do is buy keyword spy and then you send me the link. I have my affiliate link for keyword spy, and once you do that I'll send you my course. So you're not paying anything above the standard keyword price which is $90 per month.
Q. Three questions – immediately you say do first lateral and then do deep keyword research, you also suggest finding golden nugget keywords, domain names, trade names. So my question, I'm a fairly newbie, I'm testing a new offer. Adrian in PPC Classroom says to get a hundred keywords first.
A. So basically if you're doing any type of PPC marketing you have to do more than a hundred keywords. I don't know how you guys or anyone is successful with only doing 100 keywords. You're going to probably only test like the most popular keywords in your market which happen to be the most expensive and also the most competition, that's the wrong way to go about it. What you have to do is start broad, have the budget. I know you're going to say "I don't have the budget to test a thousand keywords". If you don't have $50 a day or $100 a day to invest in your education then you shouldn't be doing PPC at all. So basically start with 1000 or 2000 keywords and then narrow it down from there. When you first start out, test all sorts of different types of keywords.
Q. Is this broad, lateral and deep keyword concept applicable to CTA offers or useful for Clickbank CJ type offers?
A. Yes you want to test any type of offer. In PPC, what you have to do is basically think about your keywords as your investment portfolio. So each keyword represents one particular stock. Now if you have only 100 stocks, you would take that investment, they might go up or down , you might lose money or not lose money. If you have 2000 you could very quickly see which ones giving you an ROI that's positive and which ones giving you an ROI that's negative within the first few days of the first week. Then all you want to do is cut out all the keywords that are giving you a negative ROI. So yes you did initially invest in all those keywords, but basically your goning to be left with a whole bunch of keywords, maybe 500 or 200 keywords that are very profitable, the ones that are making all the sales. Now remember the 80-20 rule, 20% of your keywords are going to produce 80% of your profits so this whole process of using 2000 keywords to start, the essence of that comes from the 80-20 rule and finding out which keywords are the 20%. If you only start with 100 keywords, that's really not going to be enough to test your whole market segment.
Q. For spying on the competition and finding profitable ads, do you recommend PPC , bully affiliate lead, GCD?
A. No I don't recommend those tools. If you want to be successful, study your competition yes, but don't invest in all these software products. What I suggest is that you should have maybe one or two subscriptions to keyword research tools but besides that don't buy products. I recommend two products, I recommend The SEO Book, that's from Aaron Wall and I recommend the Perry Marshall Google Guide to Adwords. Those are the only real books, they're like $20 or $80 I forget, and those will really help you a lot, you know just stay away from buying stuff. That's a really big tip, I see everyone putting down $1000-$2000 for a product, don't do it, it's not worth it.
Q. Thanks for giving me the opportunity for Google content network. Do you target based on keyword or demographic?
A. So he's basically saying if you're going into a market, let's say diet, do you want to advertise on the word 'diet'? Well yeah you do. Do you want to advertise on all the other keywords? Yes. You want to advertise on all the keywords that are directly related. So would "going to the gym" be directly related to a diet offer? No it's not. Someone who's looking for "going to the gym" is probably looking for some sort of gym in their area. Now that's what I call indirectly related, and it's not going to convert as high as someone with a directly related keyword such as let's say for a diet campaign it would be like the 3 day diet. In my opinion the keyword "3 day diet" is directly related. That person is looking for a diet, interested in more information. "Going to the gym", not entirely related. So start with the ones that are only directly related and then move out and branch out from there.
Q. You mentioned before about focusing on revenue-generating activities, how do you go about planning your day, what do you get done?
A. Generally speaking like I said, you want to have an idea of what you want to do. A lot of my day consists of talking to media companies, signing IOs which are insertion orders for media buys, managing or optimising my campaigns, logging into Prosper202.com which is a great software for tracking your campaigns, and making sure that all my campaigns are getting optimised, that all my team has stuff to do such as writing articles, designing new sites or getting new banners up. I also track my stats from the previous day, just all revenue-generating activities. You don't want to be browsing forums, you don't want to be on twitter all day long, you don't want to have AIMS coming at you all day long.
Q. In your last video you talked about setting a goal of earning $10,000 a month, how would you go about it?
A. Like I said last month, you want to figure out how many offers you would need, let's say you want to start off with 3 offers, how many clicks you need for each offer. So for example if you have 10,000 clicks earning you 50 cents per click you're goning to make $5,000. You have to set a goal for a month and then break it down per click.
Q. Do you use html site or WordPress?
A. You could use WordPress but to be honest I just use html, it's easy for me, I don't really have that much of a problem editing html files so use html if you can, use WordPress if you're not html savvy.
Q. Not sure how to set up the structure.
A. If you're not sure, just go on RentACoder or Elance, there's thousands of people out there wanting to set up these types of sites for you.
Q. Thanks for your time and insight. You said you do x amount per day.
A. I don't want to really go into how much I make per day, I do pretty well.
Anyway guys, thanks for your time. Hit me up if you have any questions, I might do round three but let me know all your feedback. Talk to you later, bye.
I had fun doing the last Q&A. If you didn't see it, it's located here.
Let's do Round 2- Feel free to ask any newbie or advanced question in the comments section about affiliate marketing and I will answer it.
It took a long time to answer your questions! Hopefully this helps you guys out a bit.. Let's do round #2 soon.
Hey guys.. Feel free to ask any questions you have about PPC, keyword research, adwords/yahoo optimization, media buying, landing pages, traveling, etc, etc..
Just leave a comment with your question.
I will answer your questions sometime soon.


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Without any DE or even X, I want to use
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This would only work in an interactive shell, however, not when a program invokes another.
Under Linux, you can set up execution of foreign binaries through the binfmt_misc mechanism; see Rolf Bjarne Kvinge. Good Linux distributions set this up automatically as part of the mono runtime package.
If you can't use binfmt_misc because you don't have root permissions, you'll have to settle for wrapper scripts.
Put the wrapper script in the same directory as the
It is possible:
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Note that this is not the recommended way, read the above mentioned Guide page and also the page on how to do application deployment for mono applications.
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"Year ago, Jansma discovered she had head and throat cancer. And Wednesday evening, she died at age 22 in a Florida hospital, leaving Carolina Ballet dancers and staff forlorn as they prepared for Thursday's opening night of its run of "Cabaret."
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My heart goes out to her family and friends. Life's path is uncertain and she is in my prayers. May she be at peace.
Posted 09 February 2008 - 08:14 PM
I did not know Jennifer very well, but I will always remember her as a student. Her personal strength and determination enabled her to make tremendous strides as a dancer in a very short period of time, and I admired her for that. She was a hard worker; it seemed that she worked (in her dancing) with an unusually clear focus- undaunted by any challenge. I wish I had known her better. I offer my sympathy to all who knew her.
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Why don't you duplicate entire DB and remove articles you don't need? In case if another installation is fresh install.
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STEUBENVILLE - The Steubenville City School District employee accused of tampering with evidence, obstructing justice and providing false testimony to a special grand jury investigating if additional crimes were committed related to the Steubenville teen rape case pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon during his 15-minute arraignment hearing.
William Rhinaman was granted a $25,000 signature personal recognizance bond by visiting retired Summit County Judge Patricia Ann Cosgrove.
Rhinaman was released from the Jefferson County jail shortly after the arraignment.
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Steubenville attorney Stephen Lamatrice represented Rhinaman during the arraignment hearing but told the judge Rhinaman would need a court-appointed attorney or legal representation from the Ohio Public Defender's Office for a pre-trial hearing set for 11 a.m. on Oct. 25.
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ARRIAGNMENT — Defense attorney Stephen Lamatrice stands with William Rhinaman, the director of technology for the Steubenville City School district Wednesday afternoon in Jefferson County Common Pleas Court. Rhinaman was named in a secret indictment Monday on four counts of tampering with evidence, obstructing justice and perjury. A pre-trial hearing was set for Oct. 25 before visiting retired Summit County Judge Patricia Cosgrove.
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Rhinamam arrived approximately 15 minutes early for his arraignment proceeding, clad in a Jefferson County jail orange jumpsuit and wearing wrist and ankle cuffs. The wrist cuffs were removed by a sheriff's deputy before the hearing.
The 53-year-old Mingo Junction resident sat at the defense table, both legs twitching throughout the hearing.
The director of technology for the city school district said he has an annual income of $67,000 a year, "but I don't know if I will be paid while I am on leave. I have not talked to my supervisors since I was arrested Monday."
Rhinaman also told the court he and his wife "are under water with our house. We owe more than the house is worth."
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When time is limited, what is the best way to keep two herding dogs active and entertained?
I have two high drive, high energy herding dogs. A Border Collie mix who is about three and a half and an Australian Cattle Dog mix that is about eight. Both require plenty of attention and activity.
The Border Collie is bursting with energy, while the Cattle Dog just wants non stop attention. The Border Collie can entertain himself by chasing dogs, playing with the Aussie and chases birds. But the Australian Cattle Dog needs all kinds of attention and when he doesn't get it he will dig under the fence to outside and entertain himself.
My schedule is now busier than ever, so how do I get the most out of the limited time I have each day. I walk them regularly, about four to six blocks per day.
Playing with them is harder. The BC will gladly play anything, but the Aussie keeps running in front of me and stops at my feet just to get my attention. All he wants is to be petted and brushed constantly and often disrupts playtime with the BC.
Any ideas? Thanks for your help.
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This may just be a bizarre case but my sheltie freaks out when she sees moving light- flashlights, reflections off a glass of water or a phone screen, or anything else bright. I bought a high power laser pointer (one you can use outside during the day) to give her exercise. Now I can sit on a chair getting fat while my dog runs around getting exercise and providing entertainment. If this works with your dog then you're set.
So if I can get my Border Collie to chase the light then I can give the Australian Cattle Dog all the attention he wants. Sounds like it could work.
Or tie a laser to your BC and set them both loose.
I don't really have experience in these things but if you can afford the extra expense, you can always hire a dog sitter to play with them while you are at work for a few hours.
Try this laser toy: http://www.amazon.com/FroliCat-BOLT-Interactive-Laser-Pet/dp/B0021L8W6K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1336303991&sr=8-1 You won't even have to hold the laser!
You can also play the "look close" game my family has always played with the dogs. Without the dogs watching, we hide chunks of dog biscuits around the house, tucked under pillows, behind chair legs, sitting under a dog toy on the floor, etc. Then we bring the dogs back into the room and tell them to "look close!" This keeps them busy for at least 15 minutes.
Walking 4-6 blocks is not exercise to a dog like this. We walk our Australian Shepherd 3+ miles in the morning and by 5 PM she needs another activity (like fetch or the tug rope) or she gets nutty.
Interactive toys like a Kong or a Busy Ball give the dogs a "job". My husband drilled holes in a tennis ball and I stuff kibble in it. The dog pushes this ball around the house to work for her food. She loves it and will walk past a bowl of easy to eat food to bring me her ball to fill with food.
I bought my Border Collie soccer balls to play with. She would chase those balls non-stop all over the back yard. But she would quickly puncture them with her teeth. Got to be a little expensive replacing them, so I bought her a basketball with a harder (leather?) cover. Works like a charm! In fact, she's outside, right now, playing "basketball".
I was looking into getting a husky a while back and was told that this is a good activity to work off boredom and it gives them a "job". I've seen pictures of people training all breeds of dogs to pull carts, so I'm sure a herding dog would be able to adapt.
If you have a large yard, your doggies can help out by moving heavy bags or tools. Or they can pull the kids around. You said that you're busy. Do you have kids? Training the dogs might be a good summer project for an older child. win/win.
Three or four sheep.
Get a herd of something for them to herd.
We just lost one of our border collies a couple of weeks ago and are still grieving. Her sister has become very attention-demanding since then, so I sympathize with both the high activity need AND the attention need.
As @barnabee suggested, our BCs loved to chase large balls (never had an interest in tennis balls). We finally bought them a ball with knobs they learned to toss in the air and chase by themselves. We were careful to keep it put away most of the time so it was "special" when we tossed it out for them to entertain themselves.
We also discovered that, although we couldn't keep sheep for them to herd, our pups LOVED kittens. We started fostering cats and kittens for a local shelter and the dogs were thrilled to have cats to "herd." They cheerfully shared their food bowls with the cats (but not with each other), cuddled with them to nap, and had a blast. The cats enjoyed the attention up to a point, then climbed out of the way. Win-Win!
@belyndag: So sorry to hear about your loss. I'm still grieving for my Australian Shepherd that I lost a few months ago. They truly become one of the family, don't they?
A friend who is a retired professional dog trainer routinely throws kibble into the yard, thus making her dogs hunt for their meals. She's also an advocate of frozen carrots as snacks, especially in summer.
I really liked the suggestion above about hiding treats around the house for the dogs to hunt out, and the suggestion of a part-time dog-walker is one that may work best for your "look at meeee!" guy.
@barnabee: Absolutely! And thanks to @thetexastwister for posting this. It inspired me to post a question about our recent loss. For some reason it was easier to post than it has been to talk about.
@ohcheri: I looked up the Kong and Busy Ball on Amazon and they both look to be good items for my Border Collie. Especially since he as already destroyed just about every other toy I have given him. He will chew them down to their atomic structure by the time he is done.
The Kong and Busy Ball should hold up well and give him plenty to do for long stretches.
I actually have tennis balls and tug of war toys to play with the Border Collie, but the Australian Cattle Dog keeps getting in the way because he wants all the attention.
So letting my BC play with these toys will allow me to brush and pet the Aussie so he won't feel left out. Thanks.
@barnabee: My Border Collie has punctured his share of Soccer Balls. I'll have to give the basketball a try. Thank you.
@purplefeather: That might work for the Border Collie. He is always willing to try something. The Australian Cattle Dog, on the other hand, won't stand for it. He was adopted after another family gave him up and he is really spoiled. The Aussie just wants to be scratched and brushed all day, every day.
I don't have any kids. I take care of a disabled parent so I do all the work around the house, drive all the errands, doctors' appointments, shopping and just so she can get out of the house. On top of that I'm back in college changing careers.
I adopted the dogs before all of this and I had plenty of time then. But things have changed and now time is pretty limited.
@zuiquan: I live in a large city, sheep are hard to come by here.
But I would lo-o-o-ove to rent some sheep.
@belyndag: My sincerest condolences. I've lost several pets as a result of age and illness. A little time and another pet to love has always been the best route to dealing with the sorrow.
I'm going to look for one of those balls that the dog can throw in the air. If I pair that with a basketball that another poster suggested it should keep the Border Collie well occupied.
I'm not sure the kittens would work. My BC loves to chase the birds that fly into the yard and has occasionally killed them. So I would fear for the kittens.
Strangely, the Australian Cattle Dog has no desire to herd anything. He just wants to be around someone at all times.
@magic cave: Since I have the dogs the trees are filled with birds who drink the water and eat the dry food. If I through the kibble out for the dogs to find the birds will gobble it up first.
I do like your suggestion of hiring a dog walker. He or she could give my two canines the exercise they need to expend their excess energy.
Thank you.
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The only common activity I've found that works well so far is fort building. My 2 year old boy is very active, but my 4 year old daughter loves to have books read to her. However, when I'm alone with them the fort strategy works well. Can you think of other indoor activities that toddlers of multiple age ranges would enjoy doing together?
What are some fun (no TV or computer) activities that a 2 year old and a 4 year old would enjoy together?
I have a 5 year old boy and a 2 year old daughter. Finding something they can play together can be challenging, especially because my 2 year old doesn't have a lot of the fine motor control required for many of the things that my 5 year old takes for granted. Its also important to note, that developmentally a 2 year old will not necessarily play with others. Often what will be most fruitful will be to create activities they can do in parallel and activities in which the 5 year can assist (so that you don't have to).
Here are some of the activities I have found that my kids can easily do together:
You are at a challenging age. I empathize. My 5 y.o. likes to build, but my 2 y.o. literally cannot wait to tear things down -- which is intractably incompatible. My 2 y.o. also wants to do whatever her older brother is doing. Which sounds great, but if he is drawing then she is only content if she is drawing on his paper too. So there are not a lot of things they can do collaboratively. The trick is finding something they can do independently, but side by side.
I have found though that left to their own devices, they will surprise me by entertaining themselves. And they will find fun in the simplest of things together. Be it spinning in circle till they fall over, or jumping in a pile of leaves.
I know I'm repeating myself here, but LEGO is such an awesome toy. For ages under 5, there's LEGO Duplo which are basically just bigger blocks that can't be swallowed. I'm building stuff with my nearly-2-year-old and it's still fun although I'm 37!
Just stacking and creating all kinds of silly constructions. My son will mostly tear them apart but also sometimes add some blocks - which in turn provides an interesting challenge To me for whatever I was trying to build until that point.
New LEGO is expensive, but we just have one small bucket of blocks that we got used (cheap!), and it's plenty. In fact I like that there are only blocks and no cars and windows etc because that encourages creativity even more.
I'm keeping an eye on this one, I have a 6 year old and 1.5 year old and I have a hard time doing anything with them where I am involved. Together they play pretty well, so long as I keep the older one in check, but with me it's pretty much the following:
I hope to get some other ideas as well!
My eldest two are two years apart. Things they loved to do together at that age (and even now for some of these):
How about puzzles?
Our 3 yr old loves doing smallish jigsaw puzzles. Whether they work independently on puzzles of differing difficulty or together on a single puzzle its great cognitive exercise and comes with a great sense of accomplishment when they are done.
We have found some great puzzles available for not very much money, in fact there are some packs of puzzles that come with multiple puzzles of differing difficulty (24,48,63 or 48,63,100 panoramics are a hit at our house) that would probably be great for the 2 yr old on the smaller end and the 4 yr old on the higher piece count end.
There are plenty of childrens cookbooks out there with simple recipes that anyone can enjoy. Even if you're not into that, something you might do regularly (like monthly or maaaybe weekly) is tube-dough cookies with your own frosting or toppings. A nice little treat for their alone time with daddy. Pizza can also be done this way . . . Generic frozen cheese especiale (or whatever) and add your own toppings. They'll love flopping pepperonis on it.
Then there's Highlights magazine. Always a winner.
I would also suggest just make some crap up. My wife told me the story of how one day her mom decided that they were going to go on an Alpine Adventure. They went to Sears and tried on coats, went to a sporting goods store and hung out near the ski display while the sales guy talked about all the places he's skied and they asked questions. they did a couple other things and capped it off with dairy queen. Along this line, you could do say a 'camping adventure' which winds up being little more than a glorified picnic in the yard. Doesn't really work indoors, but there's nothing to stop you from making up your own indoor games... you can do a lot with paper, markers (dry erase around the kiddies isn't so bad), playing cards "if you draw a mans face you have to fly like an airplane to the stairs and draw a smiley face on your page!"
So after going thru all the specifics, i think my point is that you can be as creative as you want to be. It's less important what you do, so long as you're doing it hand in hand with them, spending time with them.
A good one is stuffed animals and role playing. You can make a house out of pillows and put an animal in there, invite another animal in for tea, and see what happens. You can create conflicts, have a "bad guy", and then do conflict resolution. That can be fun. Be careful though. Use your judgement as to what is appropriate for the animals to do, because they may take it and run with it.
We also used to have a math game which I called The Bean game, which was only playable for a short time but helps to build math skill in a fun way. I have no beans. I need to go to the shop to ask for some beans. He has 10 beans. He gives me 3. How many does he have left? He gives me 2 more beans. Now how many do we each have? (WARNING: this game gets boring quickly).
one thing that my kids love when there is snow outside for the winter is really simple and cheap get a spray bottle and fill it with water and food coloring then they can go outside and paint the snow. Something that keeps them entertained in the colder weather.
Mine (4.5 year old boy and 2.5 year old boy) have a cubic metre tent that looks like a pirate ship. They stuff a blanket in it, assorted toys, fuss about taking their shoes off, optionally put on a pirate shirt, then stuff themselves in, and go ARRRRRHHH!
A big box, without the stuff, works well too.
The older one likes welcoming the little one in his home, the little one is awed that he's playing with his big brother and any excuse to shout is always welcome with him.


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What I mean by "primeless isomorphism" is essentially a relation on finite groups by identifying groups whose structure differs only in which primes divide the groups' orders. The groups aren't exactly isomorphic, but they are close to it; I'm having trouble formulating the idea rigorously, so I think it might be best to explain what I mean through examples.
In the simplest case, take cyclic groups $C_{p}$ and $C_q$ for distinct primes $p$ and $q$. Obviously these aren't isomorphic, but they would be "primeless isomorphic" as the only difference in the group structure is what the primes actually are. By contrast, $C_{p}$ and $C_n$ would not be considered primeless isomorphic for composite $n$, because $C_n$ has proper nontrivial subgroups and $C_p$ doesn't - a structural difference independent of which primes divide $n$.
For another example, we could look at the class of Frobenius groups $C_pC_q$ where $C_q$ acts fixed point freely on $C_p$ (again with distinct primes $p,q$). There are constraints on what these primes can be in that $q$ has to divide $p-1$ for the group to exist, but among those groups that do, it doesn't seem like they are qualitatively different. Groups of order $p^3$ have been classified in exactly the way that I mean; the same thing goes for Dihedral groups $D_{2n}$ of squarefree order, which split into different "primeless isomorphism classes" depending on the number of prime divisors.
The set of all groups with order $p^3$ for some prime $p$ would be divided into seven equivalency classes: $[C_{p^3}],[C_{p^2}\times C_p],[(C_p)^3],[Q_8],[D_8],[\text{Heis}\,Z_p],$ and $[G_p]$ (where for the last two classes $p$ is odd).
It's hard to say precisely what I mean, but hopefully you get my drift.
Has it been studied? Is there a name for it?
If not, is that because it is somehow logically difficult (or impossible) to define?
If nobody's heard of this,
- Can anyone think of a good way to formulate a definition for two groups to be "primeless isomorphic?" The definition should give rise to an equivalence relation on any given set of groups that partitions it into classes which are only "quantitatively" different, but not "qualitatively" in the way I've been getting at.


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Civilizations record their history, but how do we derive information for periods before record keeping started? How much do we know for that era of human civilization?
closed as not a real question by DVK, American Luke, Gangnus, knut, Russell Dec 17 '12 at 2:36
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The invention of writing, roughly in the 4th millennium BC divides human history in two major periods:
The divide isn't uniform for all civilizations, obviously not all civilizations invented writing at the same time. Furthermore some ancient civilizations, although they thrived in a period that's generally considered part of recorded history, didn't really do a great job recording their own history. For example, in Ancient Sparta, record keeping and any kind of written history was forbidden by law. In such cases, most of the information we have are from neighbouring civilizations.
Prehistory is distinctively different than recorded history, all the information we have for prehistoric times comes from remains and artefacts. Archaeologists studying the prehistoric era of a civilization utilize a vast array of interdisciplinary techniques, such as the study of geologic records and fossils, techniques that are more commonly associated with palaeontology and geology.


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ROCK HILL, S.C. – With the 2014 Food Lions South Atlantic Conference Men's Tennis Championships getting underway on Wednesday, the conference office has announced on Tuesday its annual postseason teams, as freshman Juan Carracedo headlines the Trojan lineup being named SAC Freshman of the Year and All-SAC First Team.
Carracedo is joined by three other Trojans who were honored by the league as Carracedo and Rivas were picked to the All-SAC Second Team Doubles list. Sophomore Tomas Passalacqua was named to the All-SAC Honorable Mention Singles list, while the sophomore tandem of Passalacqua and Inaki Iriberry were named to the All-SAC Honorable Mention Doubles squad.
Carracedo becomes the first Trojan in the history of the program to be named to the Freshman of the Year honor and the first Anderson player since 2012 to be named to the conference's first team. For the year, the Buenos Aires, Argentina native finished the year with an 8-9 overall record, but a 7-4 mark in the conference, playing all his singles matches at the No. 1 position. The freshman highlighted his season with four straight SAC wins over conference opponents in a grueling five-match week earlier this season.
The first team All-SAC selection joins classmate Rivas on the All-SAC Second Team Doubles squad, as the tandem closed the regular season with a 6-9 overall record with a 6-3 SAC mark for the year. Entering the spring season regionally-ranked after an impressive fall campaign, the tandem grabbed key SAC wins over Newberry, Lincoln Memorial and Catawba while playing No. 1.
Passalacqua, who is in his first season with the Trojans, is the lone Anderson player to make the first-ever All-SAC Honorable Mention Singles Team. The Neuquen, Argentina native went 6-11 on the year with a 5-6 mark in SAC matches, while splitting time at No. 2 and No. 3. Passalacqua is joined by Iriberry to claim a position on the All-SAC Honorable Mention Doubles team as the duo finished the year 10-6 with a perfect 10-0 mark in conference matches.
Fifth-seeded Anderson begins its postseason on Wednesday when it takes on fourth-seeded Queens in the opening round of the SAC Tournament. First serve from the Rock Hill Tennis Center is scheduled for 1 p.m.
2014 SAC Men's Tennis Awards
SAC Player of the Year: Lukas Winkelmann, Tusculum
SAC Freshman of the Year: Juan Carracedo, Anderson
SAC Coach of the Year: Michael Cabana, Wingate
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Lukas Winkelmann, Tusculum
Andre Staab, Coker
Vinicius Botelho, Newberry
Nic Planchard, Tusculum
Tom Sizeland, Coker
Juan Carracedo, Anderson
All-SAC First Team Doubles
Lukas Winkelmann/Jonas Winkelmann, Tusculum
James Corfield/Andre Staab, Coker
Neal Towlson/Sebastian Hall, Wingate
All-SAC Second Team Singles
Per-Erik Soler, Queens
Jonas Winkelmann, Tusculum
Sebastian Hall, Wingate
Equerio Guerrero, Mars Hill
Filippo Pezzoli, Wingate
Robin Hochguertel, Lenoir-Rhyne
All-SAC Second Team Doubles
Juan Carracedo/Mateo Rivas, Anderson
Ryan Forbes/Connor Kudrick, Wingate
Per-Erik Soler/Jules Athalis, Queens
All-SAC Honorable Mention Singles
Connor Kudrick, Wingate
Juan Sebatian Perez, Carson-Newman
Tomas Passalacqua, Anderson
William Marrafao, Coker
Joao Pedro Oliveria, Carson-Newman
Fernando Espana, Newberry
All-SAC Honorable Mention Doubles
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As simple as that, when I'm using the official Gmail app to access my email account, does it use a secure connection?
One should be careful to differentiate between the gmail app, and the default mail client.
Gmail App
The Gmail app is the pre-installed app created by Google that can only be used with Gmail. The answer to whether or not the Gmail app is secure requires some understanding of Android app security. This passage from the dev guide explains how developers may connect to an SSL Socket to securely send TCP/IP communications.
Since the Gmail app uses SSL Sockets when sending and receiving mail, all communications are secure [citation needed].
Mail Client
Unlike the Gmail app, the default mail client can be used with any email account, including Gmail. When using this client to send and receive Gmail, an SSL connection must be used. The app is therefore also secure. Google explains how to do this in their help pages.
According to this Google page the Android Gmail app uses an SSL connection in both directions.
I don't believe that it does use SSL, but my evidence is circumstantial/anecdotal.
Yesterday I connected to a public WiFi from my Nexus 7. The native Gmail client successfully retrieved mail (on two accounts), but when I went to open a Google website through Chrome, I got the "The site's security certificate is not trusted!" message. Chrome for Android wouldn't give me any more details (what the specific problem was), but it seems to me that if the SSL connection wasn't good enough for Chrome, it shouldn't have been good enough for the Gmail app either. Ergo, either Gmail doesn't use SSL, or it doesn't use it securely (which amounts to the same thing).
I'd welcome another explanation, but based on the above, I changed the passwords on both those accounts immediately after.


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The season began on Wednesday night with K. Sergeev's Raymonda, starring Novikova and Schklyarov (a debut for him). Russians are 'quick on the draw' with YouTube vids, including curtain calls:
The MT website has published the annual season's-start announcement, with details on the upcoming ballet & opera season:
http://www.mariinsky...liz_2012_09_19/ (so far only in Russian, sorry)
Highlights/Interesting Notes on the Ballet season:
- the season's first premiere will be soon -- Sept. 27 -- with Jiri Bubenicek's ballet 'Tender Memories' for Ekaterina Kondaurova, also featuring I. Baimuradov, A. Sergeev and A. Pimonov.
- the 13th International Ballet Festival 'Mariinsky' will occur earlier than normal this season: 28 Feb - 10 March 2013. The festival will open with Lavrovsky's Romeo & Juliet, starring Vishneva, and directed by Gergiev. Company premieres will include Lifar's Suite en Blanc and Alexei Ratmansky will stage the company premiere of a ballet to Shostakovich music [interjection: this may be [i]Concerto DSCH[/i], created for NYCB? just a guess]. The festival will also see the revivals of the mixed bill of William Forsythe ballets that have been out of repertoire for some time.
- Gergiev announced that the 'Mariinsky II' opera house is on schedule for a grand opening at the start of the annual White Nights Festival, beginning early May 2013. Among the ballet offerings at the summer festival will be the premiere of a new Rite of Spring by modern choreographer Sasha Waltz, to be shown on a triple bill to also include the Nijinsky-Hodson Rite of Spring and Balanchine's Prodigal Son. This 3ple bill will honor the 100th anniversary of the premiere of Nijinsky's work in Paris. Thus, there will be 'dual premieres': on May 14 in St petersburg, then the troupe will travel to Paris to dance the same 3ple bill at the end of May!
- "...many DVDs will be issued of ballets and operas..." according to the article....but all of the titles cited are only of operas, including a Wagner Ring Cycle, Iolanta, Khovantschina, etc.
- Other Tours during the season will include the USA - California and DC -- in early/mid October; Asia fm late Oct to early December; Abu Dhabi in March 2013, Moscow, for the Golden Mask Festival, to show Balanchine's Midsummer Night's Dream (so I guess that it has been nominated?); and the troupe's first-ever visit to the Salzburg "Whit-Sun" festival in summer 2013 [according to Wikipedia the 'Whitsun Festival' is an extension of the usual Salzburg Summer Festival]. The Salzburg run will present works by Igor Stravinsky, exclusively. [Interjection: Although not mentioned in the press release, I believe that the troupe is also scheduled for their annual December season at Baden-Baden.]
- Foreign companies visiting the Mariinsky during the 12/13 season will include Israel's Batsheva Dance Company and Nederlands Dans Theatre.
- Finally, the news that the ranks of the Mariinsky Ballet's corps now boasts no less than FIFTEEN (15) graduates from the Class of 2012. [Names of the lucky grads not cited but we will see them soon enough on the website roster.]
2012/2013 Mariinsky Ballet Season: General News, etc.
Posted 19 September 2012 - 02:18 PM
The season began on Wednesday night with K. Sergeev's Raymonda, starring Novikova and Schklyarov (a debut for him). Russians are 'quick on the draw' with YouTube vids, including curtain calls:
Posted 19 September 2012 - 02:47 PM
Posted 19 September 2012 - 02:55 PM
There will be a triple bill with TWO versions of Rite of Spring?
That's what it says, ksk04! Somehow this brings back memories of 'Shostakovich Festival' bomb at the London Coli ca 2006. I hope I'm wrong. No disrespect to the individual works but...is the Mariinsky trying to blow itself out of existence?
The miracle, I suppose, is that Gergiev isn't going for a "Rite Three-peat" with the Nijinsky-Hodson, the 1990s Ratmansky, and the Sasha Waltz! Instead, there will be some 'light entertainment' in the form of Prodigal Son, in between the two Rites.
Their one big summer tour, according to this, will be the Salzburg Festival, featuring ballets to the music of Stravinsky...so more Rites of Spring?
Posted 19 September 2012 - 02:56 PM
IGOR STRAVINSKY • Les Noces (The Wedding)
featuring the choreography of the world premiere (1923) by Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) with stage sets by Natalia Gontcharova (1881-1962)
IGOR STRAVINSKY • Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)
featuring the choreography of the world premiere (1913) by Vaslav Nijinsky (1889/90-1950) with stage sets by Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947)
IGOR STRAVINSKY • L'Oiseau de feu (The Firebird)
featuring the choreography of the world premiere (1910) by Michel Fokin (1880-1942) with sets and costumes based on designs by M. Fokin, A. Golovin and L. Bakst
Posted 19 September 2012 - 03:10 PM
So if Whitsun Festival in Salzburg is in May (not summer, as Wikipedia states), then perhaps the troupe would be free for a London tour in July/August? However, I seem to recall that the Bolshoi will be in London during that timeframe (end July/mid-August 2013) and, as history shows us from the 2006 experiment, it's not wise to program the Bolshoi and Mariinsky at the same time in London, in neighboring theaters.
I suppose that my $64,000 Questions are:
Where is Petipa?
Where is classicism?
Other than the fact that the season began last night with a Raymonda -- thank goodness for that! -- the company isn't exactly showcasing its heritage this season, back home. At least not in the spring events and festivals. Californians are lucky - they get two weeks of Swan Lake.
Posted 19 September 2012 - 09:24 PM
Such is life, but I would be rather broken-hearted if my one opportunity to visit St. Petersburg corresponded to a time when I couldn't see the company at its home theater...Timing of potential trip can't be changed as it corresponds to my partner's work exigencies in Europe.
I can live without the Rite program -- especially as I can imagine my partner's face when I try to explain it to him. He likes "the one where the swan dies." (Okay: it's not really the only one he likes, but you get the idea...)
Posted 20 September 2012 - 02:47 AM
I am hoping that, once all 3 theaters are in operation, the old Petipa classics will be performed in the grand old theater, with modern works in the 2 modern venues. They cannot dump Petipa totally; if anything, that's what tourists love to see (traditional tutus-and-tiaras works)...and a heck of a lot of 'local balletomanes' love to see that too. I'm wondering, for example, what the 'local babushkas' think about the return of the Forsythes or a triple bill to feature not one but two Rites. They don't even fill the theater for Balanchine, let alone Forsythe. I'll never forget being in a half-full auditorium during a Mariinsky Ballet Festival, no less, when Rite of Spring was programmed. Gergiev's conceits do not all sell, sorry to say.
Posted 20 September 2012 - 05:10 AM
Posted 20 September 2012 - 07:23 AM
Posted 20 September 2012 - 07:46 AM
The English version of the season's-start press release is now out. http://www.mariinsky...liz_2012_09_19/
Ksk04, my translation was correct; it will indeed be a 3ple bill consisting of two versions of The Rite of Spring + Prodigal Son!
[size=3]Sasha Waltz will be staging her original version of Le Sacre du printemps to music by Igor Stravinsky for the Mariinsky Ballet Company as part of a joint project between the Mariinsky Theatre and Paris' Théâtre des Champs Élysées. The project marks one hundred years since the premiere of Le Sacre du printemps with choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky which took place at the Paris theatre. The premiere of Sasha Waltz' ballet in St Petersburg will take place on 14 May, followed by the Paris premiere in late May in a programme also including Vaslav Nijinsky's Le Sacre and another famous ballet of Diaghilev's Saisons russes – George Balanchine's Prodigal Son. [/size]
Posted 20 September 2012 - 08:17 AM
Posted 20 September 2012 - 09:19 AM
the sequence of multiple entrechats-six, here only 24
"ONLY" doesn't seem to be the right word, somehow.
Posted 20 September 2012 - 09:25 AM
Posted 20 September 2012 - 12:26 PM
Posted 20 September 2012 - 02:48 PM
The only difference is that the others alternate legs during each entrechat. Novikova switches a couple of times but seems to keep the one leg in front most of the time. Not sure if that matters. You guys can tell me if this is bad or good to do or maybe doesn't matter.
A side note: Lopatkina does not go past 90 degrees on her extensions either which is an artistic choice, b/c she has that ability. All the others lift higher in this variation.
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