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The knock at the door makes me jump. I was lost in thoughts of the past. A short reverie about the moon over the deep woods, myself and Janice out there in the trees celebrating and performing rituals. It is a good memory. One that I like to keep close when I am between assignments. The knock sounds a second time and I sigh through a grumbled, "I'm coming!"
The stacks of books between my couch and the door rise from floor to ceiling causing more than hazards; they make my small apartment feel claustrophobic. I get up from the pile of overstuffed cushions on my end of the sofa and dodge through the nearby stacks before opening the door to see who my unexpected visitor is.
A woman in a white trench coat stands there, smiling behind sun glasses large enough to obscure most of her face. She is tall, standing in front of me with her hands holding her little red purse by its top in front of her. Her overcoat is cinched tight around her waist and the wide brim of her hat droops around its edges, barely containing the blond curls of hair. She is the very picture of civilized charm and etiquette.
As opposed to me. My cornrowed dreads reach well past my waist, I probably smell like I could have used a shower two weeks ago, the gauge on my ears is more than enough for them flop when I don't have anything in, and my current wardrobe consists of a t-shirt sans bra (the girls need to be freed every once in a while) and sweatpants sans underwear.
"Oh, it's you," I say.
"Indeed, honey child," she replies with her sweet southern accent. "Aren't you going to invite me in?"
"Not until you tell me what you want," I say.
"Ever the lady," she says, taking off a glove. Her pale skin almost glows in the twilight shadows of the hallway.
"Fine. Ruin the surprise," her arms flop over one another as a few strands of hair stray over her glasses. She blows them away as she says, "I have a little gift for you."
Remaining in the doorway, I watch the corners of her mouth. They're not moving. Neither are the tips of her fingers.
"You found the book?" I ask in a whisper.
Her nod is almost imperceptible. I swallow hard, sucking on my teeth.
"Come in then," I say, stepping aside.
Once inside she takes off the glasses and looks around. The tiny beads of light, in the place of her pupils causes me pause when she turns around.
"Oh, don't be so dramatic. You've seen it all before," she says.
"Yes, Janice, but that doesn't make it any less creepy," I say.
"You should be one to talk, Mary. Awake at all hours, chanting, this place of yours absolutely reeking of charnel. Really now, what do your neighbors think of you?" she asks.
I gesture to the sofa and make for my corner. I don't sit so much as throw myself into the dent waiting there. If this is the book I think it is, I'm going to need some help getting into the pages. My pipe floats out from the end table drawer as does my lighter. Lighting the bowl and taking a deep draw, I smile and send a cloud towards Janice's face. She just smiles and sits down at the other end, her bright red lips pulled tight to the point of almost bursting.
"Not a whole lot," I say with a slight cough. "Considering I keep them under illusions when they're here. As far as they know, I'm just another poor college student."
Janice shakes her head and leans forward, her hand waving the smoke away as she does so.
"And your guests, like me?" she asks.
"That's up to you people," I say.
I take another deep gulp from the pipe and let it float back to its tray. A few seconds later, I let it go, slowly blowing it in a ring around me. It lights up pink and blue with a few green sparks here and there.
"Looks like I'm ready to go," I say. "Let's see it."
My hand extends toward Janice and waits there. She smiles again and shakes her head.
"Not until we make a deal," she says, wagging a finger at me.
"But I've already lit myself up. I don't have the money for another batch of Granny's Goodness," I say with a whine.
Janice leans back, clucking her tongue at me. Around her springs up the aura she's had since I've known her. Black swirls of reddish light centered around her eyes and teeth and chest. Classic vampire.
"You should have waited. I'm not giving you this without a deal in place."
"Okay. What do you want?" I ask. My impatience bleeds through the words as the magical world starts to play before my eyes. The walls of my apartment begin to sway, wobbling with wood-sprites and house spirits playing everywhere.
"Two things," she says, holding up her fingers.
"First, I want a promise that you're not going to something stupid with this," she says, peeling back a finger. "The last time, well, let's not talk about the last time. The thing is, I don't want it coming back to me."
I try to keep from watching her words form in the air and bounce around the room but I can't help it. Easily distracted. But as soon as she's stopped talking and staring at me for a response, I snap back around.
"It won't. I promise. All of this, if anything, is going to be totally on me," I say.
Janice nods and holds the remaining finger right between my eyes, causing me to cross them. She laughs a bit before continuing on.
"Two…I want another night with you."
I blink and shake my head.
"Wait. You want that now?" I ask.
Janice nods again.
"It's been so long, Mary honey. Some might say too long," she says and reaches out to hold my hand. Her room temperature flesh sends goosebumps up my arm, my mind screams how wrong that is, but that memory replays overriding everything else.
I should refuse her. Letting a vamp get a hold of a caster like me is always bad news. But Janice has behaved herself. Never taking and never giving too much, we have been able to remain professional. Even if I didn't want anyone or anything else for the following six months. It would be nice to know, one of these days, if she felt the same way and if that's why she brings me these little trinkets from time to time.
Swallowing hard, I say a single word.
Her face lights up, smile revealing the two sharp points that might be my downfall one of these days.
"But," I say, holding up a hand. "It can't be tonight. I have plans."
She starts pouting and stands, her back to me. I follow and pull her back down to the couch with a kiss on her lips. She sinks back down with me, holding my head between her hands and pressing her lips against mine with just enough force. I have to will myself to stop and push her shoulders back far enough to get a breath. Janice looks like she is about to cry.
"However, I am free tomorrow night. And should be the rest of the week. What do you have to say to that?"
"I say we have a deal," she says with her pout turning to a smile. She leans in for another kiss.
I can feel the hooks she left in me stir and how tight my very loose sweatpants and t-shirt feel. Pushing her back again, I shake my head at her.
"Tomorrow," I say. "Tomorrow night. I promise. Now, where is the book?"
She stands and fishes it out of some hidden pocket of the coat. For a second he holds it high above and like teasing a cat, waves it back and forth, waiting for me to reach for it. As I give her an unhappy look, she tosses it to me and with a grin, she zips out the door, slamming it shut as she leaves. I get up from my couch to make sure the hallway is cleared and sigh on my way back.
"My life has too many complications," I say to the empty room.
One quick invocation later (to keep Janice from coming back too early) I return to the couch and grab the pipe for one more drag, the earlier puffs wearing off quicker than I want. The book sits on a pile next to my cushions and calls for me to open it before I'm ready. There are boundaries to put up, wards to ensure before I start playing.
And with those preparations in place, I open the book just as someone knocks at the door.
"Damn it," I say, looking up.
They knock again.
"Go away! I'm busy," I shout at the door.
It is answered with another knock.
"Damn it! Did you not hear me the first time? I'm busy! GO AWAY!"
Despite the wards. Despite the enchanting. Despite everything I am capable of, the door blows in, splintering in the process and sending a thousand pieces at me.
I throw a blanket in front of me to catch the worst of it.
As it falls back down, peppered with a hundred new holes in it, I see the perpetrators. Two people in robes dragging a figure between them and a third robed person following. They step inside without a word and throw Janice to the ground. The third comes up behind them and stands over her unmoving body.
"Who are you?" I shout.
The one standing over Janice takes off the hood and looks around the room before turning back to me. He has large, glassy eyes. Eyes too big for his head and a too wide mouth to go with them. His skin looks like he's trying to shed it like a lizard, all scaly and dry. There isn't a stitch of hair to be found on his face, none on his pate nor above his eyes or fish-like lips. His hands look mostly normal, but I can see a hint of webbing between them before they're hidden in the sleeves.
Then the stench hits me. I don't know how, given how clean I keep my place, but their odor overpowers it and makes my stomach twist.
"We are the previous owners of that tome," he croaks, pointing at the book that I'm holding against my chest.
"What of it?"
The confidence of my words sends a shiver down my spine. I am not this aggressive most days. The words seems to have put the two followers off as they appear to be surprised by the challenge. Although the leader is less impressed. He steps forward and sticks out a hand.
"I believe that we would like it back. And don't think of that as a request or question. Your friend here was mistaken in thinking she could get away with her little theft."
I look at the other two who've laid Janice out on the floor in front of my door and have rejoined the talker behind his elbows. A smile comes to my lips.
"You know, the three of you must be grunts," I say.
The lead raises a fleshy eyebrow just before the ward hits them.
"Because real magic users know to ask for permission before entering a home. They tend to have nasty traps like that waiting for idiots."
They fly up to the ceiling and smack it going something like seventy or eighty miles an hour. Their spines snap, the echo of the event sounding sweet to my ears. They fall back to the ground, feather like and are bundled by my spell into the broom closet to start rotting.
I get up from my sofa and take a quick peak out the shattered remains of my door. No one else seems to be waiting for the three idiots, so I dig an extra rug from behind my sofa and hang it across the empty space. Casting a quick illusion to make it look like a door, it should keep the curious out for the next couple of days.
"And now for you, Janice," I say.
I jump over her unmoving body and into the kitchen, where my ceremonial knife is tucked away in the silverware drawer. Seems like the best place for it. Grabbing it and a few other necessities, I walk back to the entrance and kneel over Janice and bring her head up to lay against my knees. Using the knife to make a small cut on the side of my finger, I wait for a small drop of blood well up. Just enough to give her a taste and hopefully wake her back up.
I smear the drop across her lips and wait a minute. At first, I don't think anything is happening but then her tongue flits out snake like, tasting the air and the fresh blood. I lean back and smile a little.
"So you're not completely gone, are you?" I ask.
She smiles, "Sometimes you have to know when to play 'possum."
Taking my wrist she looks at me with pleading eyes. I nod, and bring it closer to her mouth. She doesn't bite very hard, just enough to break my skin and then her tongue does the rest. Closing my eyes in the pleasure of the moment, I stifle the moans trying to escape my throat.
Damn you Janice. Why does this have to feel so good?
I let her continue for a few minutes before I start pulling my wrist away. She doesn't resist my movements, just clings and then relents, releasing my wrist back to me. The bites have already started healing, only small nicks that have the crusts of scabs growing.
"Couldn't stay out of trouble for five minutes could you?" I ask.
"What are you talking about? It's been a day since I left here," Janice says.
I frown at her.
"No, I just got back to the sofa when those guys came crashing in."
Janice sits up and takes a long look into my eyes.
"Mary, I don't know what happened to you, but I left here, had a night on the town before going home for some rest in the morning," she says. "That's how those idiots got me. Waiting until I was asleep before barging into my home and assaulting me."
I get up and help her do the same. I open the broom closet to look at the still twitching bodies.
"If you want a quick snack, you could have those," I say.
She recoils and sneers, her face growing ugly at the suggestion.
"I'd rather drain an actual fish," Janice says.
"Fair enough," I say and close the closet door with a shrug.
I walk over to the sofa and pick the book up from where it landed. Turning it over in my hands, I finally get a chance to look it over. There's a dustcover I hadn't noticed before, which belongs to the book I mentioned to Janice, but after peeling it off, I can now see that it doesn't match what's underneath. I feel the blood drain from my face as I read its cover.
"What is it?" Janice asks.
I shake my head at her.
"Then what is it? Why did you go pale?" she asks.
I show her the actual cover of the book, the one that was hidden by the dust cover.
The Abridged Necronomicon
"I don't get it," Janice says. "What's this book?"
I sigh and sit down on the sofa.
"I thought it was only a rumor, something people writing fiction made up. Seeing this, having felt this," I pause and shake my head again. Janice sits down and puts her arms around me, nuzzling my neck with her face without making any attempt to bite me. I lean into her and give her forehead a quick kiss.
"It's a translation of a very old book. A very powerful book. Something I never thought I'd have a copy of it in my hands," I say.
I turn to Janice, a frown on my face and take her hands in mine.
"How did you get this? I mean, I know it had the dustcover on it, but still. Why this book?" I ask.
She shrugs at me, and looks down to our joined hands.
"I don't know. The book, it just was there in their room. One minute I was scanning the shelves and the next I had it in my hand," she said.
I nod, picturing her actions. She's fast, she's also very accurate. Usually. The book did something. It did something to get into her hands and then it did something to me last night.
"So what are you going to do?" she asks.
"The only thing we can do. Run," I say.
She pulls back and turns my face to hers. She smiles at me and pulls us together until we're touching by the forehead.
"You never run. That's not who you are," she says.
I smile back at her.
"You're right," I say.
"Good. We need to find out exactly what happened to you," Janice says.
I nod, thinking. This is where I lost a day. If it was the book's doing, then it knows my home. It knows how my home is set up and operates. Not that I want to give it up and all of the power here, but I think I have to get away. I need somewhere which will give me the space to really examine the book.
"What are you thinking, hon?" Janice asks.
"I'm thinking we may need to go to the lake."
The cabin is cold, the lights are not working thanks to no gas in the generator's tank, and it smells like something died here.
In other words, it's perfect.
Janice has found a place up in the rafters to wait out the day and I've been buzzing since those five coffees I got from the coffee house down the block.
The drive here wasn't all that bad once we got off the interstate. The single lanes and back roads make me happy. Their curves and blind corners are far more interesting than miles of plain blacktop. Much easier to make myself to pay attention. Mom was the same way back when this was her place. I took it over when she decided it was time to move on, cosmically speaking. She always wanted me to have a safe place to disappear to, if needed.
And I think this counts.
I grab some candles from the small kitchen and roll back the rug on the floor. Mom's old circles are still there, cut into the stone under the cabin. I take a few minutes to arrange things, grabbing a few more trinkets from the cabinets before settling myself in the center with the book.
Closing my eyes, I find that place inside where my power comes from and open it to the book sitting in my hands. The world swims away and I find myself sitting in the pages of the book. From this perspective, the words are buildings, tall skyscrapers filled with the meanings and powers of the book's words.
Somewhere in between the word towers I see it. A figure walking through the words, stopping every once in a while and doing something to them. It takes me a few times watching it happen to realize this is the shadow. The thing behind the words, the thing that gives them power.
There's no physical form, this is just an echo, the shadow of the real beast that's made up of a thousand impressions. I feel it reaching out through the pages, the countless tentacles miles in length, the hands flabby with cosmic age, the acre great wings that blot out skies, and a mouth large enough to consume the greatest whales of the sea.
And as that thought crosses my mind, it turns and sees me. There's no escaping, no running away. I'm in it's world and it is on top of me.
It doesn't stand over me, it overwhelms, or it tries. Mom's circles do their job and keep it from consuming me soul first. After a few moments of trying, it backs off and tries a different approach.
For a change, I meet someone who seems to know how to handle themselves. It is good to see you once again.
"I know enough to keep myself safe, and what do you mean once again?" I ask.
If a book or word could smile, this would be it. A tentacled word reaches up like an dismissive hand and it proceeds to walk and lead away. No matter what my guts are telling me, I choose to follow.
So to what do I owe this rare pleasure?
"Your friends are after this book. I was hoping to find some way to get them to back off. I happen to like living."
Ah. Many have the same wish and the same problem. Interesting that you have brought it to me, its source.
"So you can do something about it?"
I might. But it depends on what you have to offer in return. I have not been running a charity all these millennium.
If there was some way to pause and think about what was going on, I would. But this isn't something I have much control over. Yeah, I can leave any time but it doesn't mean I can return and pick back up where we left off. There's no guarantee that the shadow will have me or respect the circles or even be here.
"What did you have in mind?" I ask.
These followers of mine. They need some…correction. One might even suggest that they require a redirection in their worship.
There's a moment, a pause in the book's thoughts. It's enough for me to think about something that's been bothering me the entire time.
"So they're not doing it right?"
Do you really think they kept it right through all of these years? These beings of flesh? It is hard enough to contact them in dreams. And few of them have your abilities to get closer to the source material, as it were, who are not blinded by the desire for power. It is all very frustrating for me.
I gave them their instructions millions of your years ago. Even with the longest of lives, memories fade, words and meanings change, drifting away from their original forms.
But here you are and here I am, both with problems that could be resolved with a little cooperation.
Again it pauses, allowing me a thought for myself. There's a lot going on here, a lot more than it's letting on but I feel like it's telling the truth. I can't see a reason for it to lie. It comes down to one thing.
"How do you know that I can trust you? Trust you to not do with me as you will after I've passed your message on?"
The way I see it, we both stand to lose if there isn't any trust between us.
I nod as I would if I were sitting across a real table from someone. It has a point. There's not much else between us besides trust.
"Fine. How is this going to go down?" I ask.
First, you're going to open your eyes and see that they've already found you in the cabin. You might break a few of their spines while you're at it, since you'll see that they've…well…I will let you have a small surprise there. But you will have to surrender, let them capture you. They aren't going to be nice about it.
Then again, you won't be either.
And with that the shadow lets me go.
True to its word, there are another half dozen of them in my cabin, just as stupid as they were before. Two are holding a smoldering skeleton and the third in their group has a oak stake in hand.
Their heads whip around as I shout her name. The three of them standing over her body lose theirs as a ward sends loose beams jumping into their faces. The other three rush me from behind, grabbing and hitting me with something on the back of my head.
And into darkness I fall.
When I wake up, I'm in the lake, about ten meters from the shore and tied to a post. My arms are stretched out and my legs spread eagle. The pole feels solid, like it's anchored deep in the mud somewhere below me. There's a group of what looks like fifty or so fish-headed people on the shore watching. One of them, with some sort of weird crown steps forward and starts chanting. Around me the water churns and writhes.
"Oh, I don't think so," I say.
A door opens inside my mind and I can feel the words and what they mean go spilling out. My tongue aches to try a few of them out. So I do.
Tentacles burst through the surface the water.
The fish-headed folks on the shore give a shout and immediately fall to their knees. I think they're praying in a language that not even the stars remember properly. But I do. I know what they're supposed to be saying.
"You're doing it wrong. And have been for a while," I shout to the shore. "Just so you know, you've gone and pissed it off once too many times."
Their priest in the weird headdress stops and looks up. I smile at him, close my eyes and start intoning.
Below, the tentacles stop moving. With a very sudden shift they're circling around me and reaching up out of the water. Several of them caress my body slowly, healing my wounds. One even snakes it way between my legs, the tip of it glowing. Other ones reach up and untie the ropes holding me up against the wood. I reach down and drag the one between my legs up, holding it between my thighs making it look like something I wasn't born with. It stiffens and the glow pulses with my heartbeat.
For a second its very much like how Janice made me feel and I smile, remembering that these idiots are going to pay for killing her. I take a step forward and the other tentacles lay themselves out providing a path for me to walk back to shore.
I look up at the fish-headed idiots standing at the edge of the water, their mouths hanging open in shock.
"Today…today I think you're the sacrifice."
They scream as the water explodes with a thousand more tentacles reaching out for them. I don't know what is happening to the others, but the priest is held in place for me. As I approach and he is stripped of his robes and made prostrate on the ground.
"I have some knowledge a mutual friend would like for me to impart," I say and reach between my legs to the new appendage. It thrums as I stroke it, growing and stiffening even more. I like the sensation it sends down my spine.
"How do you wish for me to continue?" I ask.
It struggles against the tentacles, screaming obscenities at me. They stretch him against the ground and with a snap, immobilize him.
I shrug and get on with my half of the deal.
I don't remember much of the next couple of days. Sometimes when I dream, I catch a few fragments. They're not very pleasant and some of what I did twists my stomach. But when I wake up, I remind myself of two things. First, that they were prepared to do worse to me and second, they murdered a sleeping Janice.
It's not much, but it does slow my heart down and lets me feel some measure of justice.
I kept the book and every once in a while I go for a walk between the words, but the shadow is gone. It's just a silly thing now, a storybook for those in the know. I'm not sure why I keep it, maybe it's a reminder or maybe I hope to see the shadow again.


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You can run/execute a program from a java program by using the Process and Runtime classes. Create a command line to "run the jar file" and pass it to the methods of the above classes to execute it.
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Here is a beautiful guide of reminding yourself...
1. An ex is called an "ex" because it's an EXample of what not to have again in the future. e.g.#1 eating bad cheese.
2. Don't blame the partner/others for ruining the relationship. Blame yourself for not realizing that person was terrible for you from the start.
3. Never get jealous when you see your ex with someone else because our parents taught us better to give our used toys to the less fortunate...or for the next sucker/Trash
4. Break ups were not meant for make ups. Sometimes they end in order for you to wake up!
5. Fun things about eating gummy bears is knowing that they can't fight back when you bite off their heads off... unlike Attack on titan...Ha!
6. You can't start on a new episode if you keep re - watching the last/same episode!
7. Life is better when your laughing.
8. You didn't love her/him. You just didn't want to be alone. Or maybe, maybe she/he was just good for your ego. Or, or maybe she made you feel better about your miserable life, but you didn't love her. Because your don't destroy people you love. - Grey's Anatomy
9. The best revenge is to live well.
10. I now pronounce you fairy and pie. You will be married under an oak tree and feed your 70 children walnuts.
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Novel ink and process for metal-coated and conductive 3D objects
3D Printing, Nanoparticles, Nanoprocesses, Nano Materials and Nano Structures, Coatings, Printed Electronics
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Proof of concept and laboratory demonstration
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PCT filed
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New copper ink and a new method, reactive transfer printing (RTP), for patterning a metal on 2D and 3D substrates
Schematic representation of Reactive Transfer Printing A) The donor substrate with printed pattern. B) An acceptor substrate is placed above the donor substrate, with a gap between them maintained by a spacer. C) The two substrates after decomposition, showing the pattern obtained on the acceptor substrate. D) The pattern obtained on the acceptor substrate flipped right-side up
Copper electrode printed on a plastic substrate (PEN). Pictures were taken during a flexibility test. The sample can undergo more than one thousand bending cycles with as little as 50% increase in resistance
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Nucor Earnings Beat Estimates After Steel Prices Rise
Nucor Corp. (NUE), the largest U.S. steelmaker by market value, reported first-quarter earnings that beat analysts' estimates after the metal's price climbed.
Net income rose to $111 million, or 35 cents a share, from $84.8 million, or 26 cents, a year earlier, the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company said today in a statement. Profit excluding one-time items was 41 cents a share, beating the 38-cent average of 13 estimates compiled by Bloomberg.
Sales climbed to $5.11 billion from $4.55 billion, exceeding the $4.84 billion average of 12 estimates.
Domestic steel prices rose as construction spending climbed in the first two months of the year while U.S. Steel Corp. (X), the largest domestic producer of the metal by volume, had operational problems that affected output at two facilities.
The price of hot-rolled steel coil, a benchmark product used in cars, building and appliances, rose 6 percent from a year earlier to average $655.83 a ton in the first quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg from The Steel Index, a trade publication.
U.S. construction spending climbed by 9.1 percent in January and February compared with the year-earlier period, on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau data. Building and construction uses about half of the steel consumed in the U.S., according to the American Iron and Steel Institute.
Nucor melts scrap steel in electric furnaces to produce metal that's sold to customers including appliance manufacturer Whirlpool Corp., and Bluelinx Holdings Inc., a distributor of building products. The company also sells steel used in cars, trucks and construction equipment.
U.S. Steel reduced output of the metal after abnormally cold weather on the Great Lakes hampered iron-ore shipments to its largest plant, while accidents beginning in March led the company to temporarily idle some operations.
Nucor rose 0.6 percent to $52.54 yesterday in New York. The shares have declined 1.6 percent this year.
(Nucor scheduled a conference call at 2 p.m. New York time, which can be accessed at the company's website http://www.nucor.com.)
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Definition: Channels are criterias usefull to track in reports in order to determine what works and what doesn't
1- Ad Type Channels (is it adlinks, search, adblock) and always defining size and kind of the ad IE: "adlinks 4 ads 728x15"
2- Language Channels (to track what users are making you earn money) IE: "spanish", "french"
3- Position Channels (where is the ad positioned on page) IE: "top", "left column", "bottom"
4- URL Channels (what page is paying) IE: "mydomain.com/home", "mydomain.com/product1.asp"
5- Color Schema Ad Channels (what color palette are ads using, you can put palette's name or description) IE: "contrast, red", "mypalette1", "site similar look and feel"
So what do you do with them? Create a good set of channels for every domain of yours. Name it in a way you can track easily later as:
What for? To check your stats, and see what is working.
Suppose you get good earnings in your homepage but 90% is for rectangular ads and 10% for skycrapers. Wouldn't be interesting to test what happens if you blow up skycraper and try 2 rectangular ads?
Are german pages getting valuable clicks (more than other language pages also in my site) but I just have 50% of my site translated? Why don't I focus on developing 100%.
And things like that.
and that sort of thing.
I have a lot of sites that have state names in them, so I have a channel for every state.
I have an channels for the overall theme of the site.
I have channels for colors.
I would like to have url channels for everything, but they just plain don't give us enough channels for me to be able to do that, even when I double and triple up.
Visitor types? And how could you know that?..
I'm using PHP and cookies. The first time somebody visits my site a cookie containing a unique id and a timestamp is created.
With PHP i then check that timestamp.
if no cookie detected
visitor is new serve new_channel
if now - cookie_timestamp > value
visitor is loyal serve loyal_channel
elseif now - cookie_timestamp <= value
visitor is new serve new_channel
At the same time, I'm beginning to suspect that channel URLs can go wrong if you use them for related pages that require different ads. Take the example of pages about red widgets with blue knobs, with green knobs, with brown knobs, etc. We call it the red widget channel. Over the course of time, perhaps years (it's been around that long), there seems to be a lot more advertising of red widgets with green knobs on the pages about blue knobs and brown knobs. I think it's because the green knobbed widgets have the greatest number of page views. But people with blue and brown knobbed widgets usually aren't interested in the green widget ads. I can see where it makes sense from Google's perspective, if they are trying to honor the channel as a logical unit. But who knows.
I only noticed this week that you can do URL channels for whole directories, not just individual URLs.
That's incorrect. You can track directories like this mysite/directorie and you can track individual urls like this way: mysite/mypage.html
Another question: about Channels, you can use something like "HorizontalskyToppageRedandwhite" but what if you use 3 different channels like "Horizontalsky" "Redandwhite" "Toppage" all combined into one single ad?
Would that provide useful information to you? I mean you can notice if HorizontalskyToppageRedandwhite works or not.
But would be useful to know if "Toppage" performs in general best than "Bottompage"?
Another question: about Channels, you can use something like "HorizontalskyToppageRedandwhite" but what if you use 3 different channels like "Horizontalsky" "Redandwhite" "Toppage" all combined into one single ad?
That's exactly how I do it. I might have one channel for the size, one for the state, and one for the theme, or otherwise tell me which of my sites it's on. Three or four channels on one ad.
So then I can write my reports, and get reports on which size ad or link units are doing well, which states are doing well, etc. etc.
However, 200 channels still isn't enough. It still is 200 channels, isn't it?
That's incorrect. You can track directories like this mysite/directorie and you can track individual urls like this way: mysite/mypage.html
How is that different from what I said? I was just pointing out that it took me longer than two years to notice it was possible.
BTW, breaking up the channel I mentioned either made a huge difference in ad targetting and click through, or it's one of those Adsense coincidences.
Or maybe, it's proof of the new whining theory:-)
With PHP i then check that timestamp.
if no cookie detected
visitor is new serve new_channel
if now - cookie_timestamp > value
visitor is loyal serve loyal_channel
elseif now - cookie_timestamp <= value
visitor is new serve new_channel
slightly OT: detecting if visitor to the page/site is new or returning is reallly difficult and above logic will not cut it. What happens if I was at you site, and later emptied my cookies, and afterwards I came back? Or I access your site from different computer? or... but it's entirely different topic
I usually test about 8 layouts at a time, each with minor differences in ad placement. During a test run, I randomly serve up the various layouts, which gives me a nice side-by-side comparison of which layouts perform best.
The layouts themselves are similar enough to each other so as not to be too jarring to a visitor, but the small changes in ad placement seem to help prevent "ad blindness," where the user gets so accustomed to an ad's position that they train themselves to ignore it. So unless one layout absolutely dominates in terms of results, I tend to use the top 3 or 4 layouts once I've determined what the best performers are.
I should add that my particular site only has one main page* with a handful of side pages, so the content itself doesn't vary greatly from page to page. Only the layouts, colors, etc. serve as real variables in my particular case.
(* The main page is a results page with about 32,000 possible sets of data query results)
I also track all 50 states+DC and the 98 largest metro areas, but those channels have proved a bit inconclusive for research purposes. I keep them mainly because they are "targetable" and advertisers may wish to target those metros.
I can see the logic of this from a reporting standpoint, so that numbers aren't piled up too much, but it seems odd that they never subtract individual page URL channels from custom channel totals, but do it for subdirectories.
I got some 60% increase in a pair of sites. Hope it lasts!


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When we mentioned yesterday that Pfizer had put two of its planes up for sale, we were reminded of that moment in late 2008 when every company in America seemed determined to dump their flying palaces in response to the downturn. That had us wondering about the fate of some of the jets that had been placed on the market in the waning days of 2008. Did Citigroup's Vikram Pandit manage to dupe someone into taking a couple of planes and a helicopter off his hands? What about that New York Times Co. jet? Sadly, very few of them have found a new home (or hanger) yet. But some of them are cheaper than ever! And since the thought of these jets sitting forlornly at Teterboro pains us all, we've rounded up a bunch of corporate planes that remain on the market. Print out the used-plane ad above, hand it around the office, and spread the word: A little word-of-mouth marketing goes a long way!


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A state judge has barred enforcement of Pennsylvania's strict voter-identification law in the Nov. 5 general election.
Commonwealth Court Judge Bernard McGinley also barred the state from requiring local elections officials to verbally tell voters at the polls that photo IDs could be required in future elections. But he says officials can distribute written material about the law.
McGinley's ruling marks the third consecutive election in which enforcement of the law has been blocked by court order.
The constitutionality of the law is being challenged and was the subject of a 12-day trial before McGinley that ended earlier this month.
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Silver, book one of The Silver Series, is a coming-of-age story about a teenage werewolf whose father is murdered. He has to come to terms with his new life, new school, and new friends while trying to stop a killer. Attempting to make peace with the territory's pack and falling in love make his new situation even more perilous.
A fresh new werewolf series,Silver is fast paced and exciting, and shows that with love, there truly are no limits.
©2011 Cheree Alsop (P)2013 Cheree Alsop
"bad narrated"
loved these books but couldn't get passed the first chapter as I found the narrator felt nothing for them and was very dull.
"The NARRATOR was horrible."
The narrator. I listen to a lot of audio books. I often pick the books that I want to listen to by who is doing the narration. The narrator of this book was odd from the first word. Everyting was read extremely roboticly. Narrators of these books most of the time do an wonderful job of assigning a new voice to each character. This narrator could not even remember from sentence to sentence whose voice he was using for which character. UGH!
I could not finish the book.
Different narrator. There is a wealth of wonderful male voices to pick from.
"Narration was the worst I have ever heard."
No! I couldn't even get through the first chapter.
This narrator was like a computer generated voice. Terrible. I wish that I had read the reviews before purchasing it.
I will definitely have to be aware of this narrator in the future and avoid anything with his name on it. I'm going to read it on Kindle.
I have read this entire series and like it so I thought I'd give the audible a try. I could not even make it past the first chapter because the narrator was so bad. Too bad, I really liked the series. I gave it one star just so I could write a review but it's not even good enough for one star and it's all because of the narrator.
He was so bad that I wish I could get my money back. Could not even make it past the first few pages.
"Narrator problems."
I listen to a lot of Audible books. I believe I have more than 400 these days. I can say uncategorically that this was one of the worst narrators I have listened to. He was so bad that I considered giving up on the book and asking for a refund. He overly articulated every word. He had very little emotional inflection in his voice. His attempts to vary his voice with each character was comical and juvenile. That being said, Cody if you just read out loud in a normal speaking voice and with normal articulation without attempting dramatic voice changes, I think there's hope for improvement. The story itself kept me plodding through. It was not stupendously wonderful but neither was it incredibly bad. Nice little story. I will not, however, read anymore books by this author, nor will I listen to this narrator again.
"Great new series!"
Jaze has been through a lot for a teenage boy, who's also a werewolf. Author Cheree Alsop did a great job writing this story. I love the characters, the story is written extremely well, and each character has their own personalities. The story is even fun and I found myself laughing out loud at times. I'm looking forward to the other stories that follow.
"Awesome, so happy there is two more!"
Between vampires and werewolfs, I'm a werewolf type of guy, this book is awesome in that fantastic sense, good drama, suspense and love coming of age without spilling overboard in any of the aspects. Loved it! And I'm happy there are two more to the series.
"Horrible Narration"
Horrible, robotic, digital recording sounding, no emotional inflection narration voice. I'm glad I got the kindle book along with the audio, and that I didn't have to pay much. Not even five minutes in and it was too painful to continue listening. Reading kindle book now, and I hope to be able to give the book a better review, and one actually relevant to the story.
"An OK story with a painful narrator."
This story had potential, but it progressed way too fast. The relationships were shallow and transparent. too many convenient coincidences, and the story lacked much depth our purpose.
Having said that I did enjoy the story. I just wish it had been a little fuller and more realistic. Ok, it is fiction about werewolves, but it was hard to believe that the real life things happened as fast and as perfectly as was written. But, again, I did listen to the whole thing and enjoyed the basic premise of the story.
The narrator was the most difficult part of this audio book. he read so show that I had to listen at 2x and almost moved to 3x.
His ability to speak in complete ideas is lacking. he pauses at awkward places and reads author a very robotic pace. The... words... were... sometimes... read... with... large... pauses... between... them. I almost deleted the story due to the narration.
To be fair, his voice was pleasant, at 2x speeds, it was just his poor timing and lack of good flow.
"Narrator is horrible"
This narrator is absolutely horrible, he sounds like a robot and cannot read out loud. the story line is good, but he is extremely difficult to listen to. I will NOT listen to another book that he does.
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Simplicity 3110v ( bought today) not running. Only thing wrong with it was spark plug wire came off. Cub original went through a fire then resurrected to what you see so far. Case 220 was saved from a parts buyer not a bad thing but don't take it apart because the battery was shot. The 446 was going to be blowen apart for the sheet metal to build a pulling tractor. All cool but do to scrap a tractor because you want the tins off it common
Breathing new life
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Posted April 09, 2016 - 11:19 PM
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Posted April 10, 2016 - 06:25 AM
Very nice tractors. Great saves.
Posted April 10, 2016 - 06:42 AM
Makes one feel good to save a few once in a while. Nice looking tractors now. Is there something under the front of the Case to stabilize the blade from side sway? Looks to me like there would have to be.
Posted April 10, 2016 - 08:01 AM
Good looking tractors. It's nice that you could save them from being scrapped out.
Posted April 10, 2016 - 08:09 AM
Posted April 10, 2016 - 09:07 AM
Thanks that's a 3rd of what we have and most of what I bought was headed to the dump. I've got a johndeere 110 seen in avatar that I got out of a junk yard with loader wasn't a runner the guy said but a end bat and spark plug brought it back to life.
The blade dose move side to side a little but not bad. If I angle it left or right it moves but still pushes the dirt to the outside of the wheel.
The blade dose move side to side a little but not bad. If I angle it left or right it moves but still pushes the dirt to the outside of the wheel.


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It's the end of the school day and you're excited to start the weekend. But when you realize the bus driver has his own agenda…Follow the cheerleader, the loner, two brothers, and an army brat as they discover they have been kidnapped on their way home from school. Pick up Ransom by Lois Duncan today and enjoy the twist and turns of this fast moving book. From the bestselling author of I know What You Did Last Summer, Lois Duncan will keep you wanting more.
If you like this, you may also like: Twisted by Laurie Anderson and Killing Mr. Griffin by Lois Duncan.


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LONDON uMedia's Belgian distribution arm, uDream, has struck an output deal with Dutch distrib A-Film.
A-Film will put out uDream titles theatrically and for home entertainment across the Netherlands.
The first theatrical release under the partnership will be Bibo Bergerson's toon "A Monster in Paris," starring the voices of Vanessa Paradis and Mathieu Chedid.
Pic, which has grossed more than $20 million internationally to date, is set for June release in the Netherlands.
This will be followed by a July release of Florent Emilio Siri's "Cloclo."
Future releases will include helmer Philipp Stolzl's actioner "The Expatriate," toplining Aaron Eckhart and Olga Kurylenko, which was co-produced by uMedia and shot in Belgium.
The partnership's first home entertainment release is Fred Cavaye's French action thriller "Point Blank," toplining Gilles Lellouche and Gerard Lanvin.
"Our collaboration with A-Film offers us the best possible partner to release our titles in the Netherlands," said uMedia co-founder and CEO Adrian Politowski.
A-Film director of acquisitions Erik Engelen added: "This new partnership between A-Film and uDream creates great new opportunities for us both in Belgium and the Netherlands and will reach an even broader audience."
Last week, uMedia, one of the backers of "The Artist," announced that it had hired former Lakeshore Intl. prexy Peter Rogers to head its new London-based sales division, uConnect.


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Excellence Riviera Cancun Brides?
Posted 18 January 2015 - 06:16 PM
@Sabes44 my timeline affords us about 1.5-2 hrs. For 20 pp I think it's nuts to pay essentially for 650 an hour for if you focus on post dinner.
Posted 19 January 2015 - 02:28 AM
@HNeal The pics are great! Thanks for sharing.
Posted 19 January 2015 - 08:18 AM
@hapykat I agree. Doesn't seem worth it to me either. I didn't know anything about paying for tables, linens or chairs, I thought they were all included. Gloria, Jessica or our travel agent never mentioned that....
Posted 19 January 2015 - 09:03 AM
You get chairs and linens, etc. included in your package. They are whatever "standard" issue the hotel offers. The linens are white, for example. What costs extra are colored linens, "fancy" chairs... Basically anything you want upgraded you would order through their preferred vendor, which I believe is Event One. When you start ordering that stuff it adds up and you have to pay for delivery, etc.
Posted 19 January 2015 - 10:10 AM
True linens and chairs are included but it's basic white linen and chair covers. Anything else ie. Tiffany chairs different linens are extra
Posted 19 January 2015 - 10:37 AM
Thanks! That's what I thought, I am fine with just white. We are doing our reception at Los Olas, I don't think fancy linens go with the space anyways.
Posted 19 January 2015 - 06:27 PM
@JenniferH114 thank you for making some clarity in my overwhelmed head lol... yes jessica emailed me a picture to show me that everything comes in white ....although i don't understand why the prices of flower centerpieces are so high, and so are the bridesmaids bouquets ...
i think I'm going to bring my own table runners, i saw some pretty ones on etsy.
@Sabes44 i agree with you, you made the right choice!
@hapykat omg yes with every little extra that i want it would definitely be just as pricey as it would be hosting it at home.....and that would defeat the purpose haha
Posted 19 January 2015 - 06:27 PM
Holy shit am I starting to freak out!
I sent Jessica our flight booking confirmation number in July of last year and I get an email from her asking me if I still want my wedding date to be on the 11th as someone is asking for it! I told her hell no that it's our date!!! So she gets back to me and tells me that she will hold it for another month (Damn wedding date is on the 11th Feb 15) and if I can send her my confirmation number!!!
I think she has scrambled her wits because she goes on to say that if I need more than a month to book to let her know!! WTH is going on????
Has anyone here had anything like this happen?
Posted 20 January 2015 - 07:36 AM
Just sent it to both of you as an attachment and I think that worked....
@Sabes44 Can you please send me your picture, too? firstname.lastname@example.com
thank you!!
@hapykat - I totally understand your perspective when it comes to the DJ and how much it costs. For us, at the end of the day, we just don't want to have to worry about anything. Also, the DJ will play music during dinner and provide added ambiance with lighting. When we met with Jessica she told us the day would roughly go as follows:
5pm - Ceremony (about 15-20 minutes)
5:20 - Break for some photos
5:45 - 6:45pm - Cocktail hour
6:45pm - 7:30pm - Fire show
7:30 - 9pm - Dinner
9 - 11pm - Dancing
Again, we could change the fire show to after dinner but I think it might flow better for us to go before. I feel like with that schedule we are still getting some good use out of the DJ, including during dinner.
@JenniferH114 - fire show sounds so fun! do all ceremony/receptions last 6 hours? or is yours extended bc you're incorporating the fire show?
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After two frustrating seasons leading the Jets, Rex Ryan doesn't feel any additional heat this summer.
But he stressed to me that the Green & White need a collective effort to turn things around.
"We'll win as a team though," he said. "It's not going to be we're going to be carried by one side of the ball or another, or just one individual. It's going to take the entire group — the complete effort of everybody and I know we'll get that."
After making offseason memories with his son in Spain while avoiding 1500-pound bulls, the trimmed down Ryan has always had a special relationship with the Jets faithful because of his genuine approach and the way he embraces opportunity.
"I think Jets Nation — in particular — they connect with me because I'm just like them even going back to my roots as Jets fan," he said. "My dad was coaching this team. (I'm) just a guy who enjoys life. I'm fortunate to have this opportunity for what I do as a profession and to be head coach of the New York Jets — I understand it's a great opportunity and a great responsibility."


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As much as any other driver in NASCAR, Jeff Gordon is an absolute pro when it comes to knowing how to act when the cameras are rolling. He's articulate, naturally telegenic, almost always even-keeled, and has a knack for not uttering anything within a zip code of controversial. This, of course, has made him sponsorship gold over the years, but it's also alienated him from a certain fan base -- namely, that of Dale Earnhardt Sr., who was the definition of the tell-it-like-is, expletive-spoutin', old-school racecar driver.
And so it was somewhat surprising to see Gordon's raw emotions in full boil after the Martinsville race last April Fool's day. After he finished second to Jimmie Johnson, his Hendrick Motorsports teammate, Gordon hopped out of his car on pit road. I was standing a few feet away from Gordon, and right away I could tell that Gordon was livid -- as upset as I've seen him in my four years on the beat. On the last lap he and Johnson had banged into each other hard -- several times -- and Johnson successfully blocked Gordon from winning the race, even though Gordon clearly had the faster car on the last lap.
So what did Gordon do when he got out of his Chevy at Martinsville, which is where the Cup boys will be racing on Sunday? Well, with the cameras on him, he cursed, he said he now knew who exactly his main competitor was for the championship. As he stormed away, he booted a water bottle with impressive force. This may not sound like an over-the-top-display of emotion, but for Gordon, this was a defining moment -- in fact, I would argue that it was THE defining moment of his season.
What we viewed at Martinsville in April was a rare glimpse at Gordon's high-strung intensity. His team saw this as well, and it's no coincidence that Gordon's dominance this season started soon after Martinsville. The next week he finished fourth at Texas, and then he won four of the next seven events to establish himself as the driver to beat in 2007.
What can we expect from Gordon on Sunday when he returns to Martinsville? I think at least a top-five run, if not higher. I still like Johnson to win the title, but Gordon should have an excellent chance to finally beat JJ on Sunday.


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An Ottawa man has been arrested and charged with child luring after police say they received a report someone was engaging young people online in sexually explicit conversations.
Ottawa and Ontario Provincial Police investigated the report and last Thursday executed a search warrant at an Ottawa home and seized a computer and related equipment.
A 31-year-old man from Ottawa was charged with one count of internet child luring.
He is scheduled to appear in court on Dec. 18.
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on AIX 5.2 system my process fails closing the file descriptor
the same was observerd in 5.1/5.3
Truss output shows fail of close() function call. close() has returned with exit status 1.
This problem is noticed only on AIX 5.2 systems installed with ML04 directly during Operating system installation (Using OS CD which comes with Base OS and ML04). Systems which are installed with Base Operating system are working fine even after applying ML04 on the same.
With ML 7 also we were able to notice the problem.
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Re: Closing file descriptor gives error On AIX 5.2 system2006-01-18T21:22:46ZThis is the accepted answer. This is the accepted answer.Do you mean it is returning -1? What is the value of errno? Note that if the close subroutine is interrupted by a signal that is caught, it returns a value of -1, the errno global variable is set to EINTR and the state of the FileDescriptor parameter is closed (from http://www16.boulder.ibm.com/pseries/en_US/libs/basetrf1/close.htm#idx414)
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HOUSTON – The message that a scientific approach should trump the all-out wildcatting of the fading shale boom is echoing through more corridors of the energy industry. But oil producers may not want to hear it.
Frac sand suppliers say U.S. oil producers should use the lull in drilling as a chance to step back and study mountains of oil field data to see which blends of water, sand and chemicals are best for blasting open shale rock, a process called hydraulic fracturing. Rapid-fire drilling – a practice that shale producers used during the boom to keep output rising over natural well depletion – often yielded bad, unproductive wells, as does hasty hydraulic fracturing, they say.
"There's a high failure rate because we don't do our homework," said Jim Venditto, vice president of technical services at Trican Well Service, a fracturing firm that coats sand in material that makes it more buoyant and easier to pump into a well. He said producers have been talking more about finding ways to bolster well productivity, even as they send hundreds of drilling rigs to the sidelines.
"You're not going to be able to drill your way out of this," Venditto said. "Every so often we have to reinvent the oil industry again."
The CEO of proppant provider Preferred Sands says his firm last year launched a free iPhone app called NavPort that tracks hundreds of thousands of wells in North America and provides data on aspects of frac jobs, including the types and amounts of proppants used.
"Our market has been prolific, but it's been a victim of its own success," said Michael O'Neill, CEO of Radnor, Pennsylvania-based Preferred Sands, in an interview with Fuelfix. He said his firm had been developing the Navport software for four years because oil companies have had to live with obsolete data. "It's going to have to become very scientific. When you have $50 oil, everything matters."
In a similar vein, oil field service giants Baker Hughes and Halliburton have recently put their weight behind efforts to better understand shale reservoirs and ways to extract oil out of them. They've advocated diagnosing old wells and stimulating them again through "re-fracking," a second round of hydraulic fracturing. It's about a quarter of the cost to drill a new well, and in a few cases, it has led to significant production growth from aging wells, the firms say.
The oil industry has only re-fractured about 2 percent of the 50,000 wells that went through one round of fracturing in North America over the past few years. But O'Neill said trend has grown substantially and is bound to keep expanding.
"I don't think people will be able to afford not to do it," he said.
But at the moment, putting theory into practice appears to be difficult amid low oil prices. Demand for frac sand is set to fall 14 percent this year as drilling declines, said Samir Nangia, a principal with PacWest Consulting Partners, an IHS company.
Some firms could get hit harder than others because oil companies are snapping up more local sand, saving money on transporting higher-quality sand on rail cars, Nangia said.
There have been more converts to the philosophy – touted by Texas oil companies EOG Resources and Pioneer Natural Resources – that pumping more sand into an oil well can bring up more oil. They generally pack 20 percent more sand into a well, a boon for frac sand firms. But some producers have backed away from that as oil prices have fallen, largely because it's costly to add more pressure pumping, Nangia said.
"When oil was $100 a barrel, a lot more people were interested in experimenting," he said. "Now they're more focused on costs."
According to data collected by PacWest, the 30-percent decline in exploration and production spending in North America will likely mean the use of frac sand among oil companies will stay flat this year, a "conservative assumption." The firm says pricing for new minegate sand contracts has fallen 20 percent, and that fine-grade sands will likely feel the most pressure in 2015.


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It was hot this week, like SUPER hot! 38 degrees Celsius hot to be exact (that's 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit). Summer has well and truly arrived here in the land down under 🙁 My garden was starting to look a bit withered after the successive days of > 34 degrees heat – I hope the plants make it though…
It was my wife's last day at work today and she now starts her 1 year off to await Vanilla Bean's arrival into the world and then look after him in his first year of life. It's weird thinking that she won't be around at work for the next year and a bit. I suspect the days at work might end up going just that little bit slower now 🙁
Not much happened in the world of Glen this week. Highlights include:
- Passing the 200K Alexa rank 2 days after my November goal review, I guess I start the march onwards to 100K now… Not sure how long that's going to take, but I suspect it won't happen until at least January next year.
- Finishing all the purchasing of baby items
- Getting mum's Christmas present sorted (I'm pretty sure there will be a Christmas themed post next week)
- Our Prime Minister (Julia Gillard) said on live TV that the world is going to end on December the 21st. She's lied before though, so I wouldn't believe her if I was you. But if you are curious, you can view her speech here
Posts This Week
I had 1 posts this week (excluding this one) and 1 guest post.
- Monday I had a goal review for November November Goal Review
- Wednesday I had James guest post for me and he spoke about Using your Mortgage as your Emergency Fund
Welcome to the Pool Room
Time for the pool room!
In case you don't know what the pool room is, I explain it in this post.
1st Place goes to DC at Young Adult Money with this post – 10 Things I Learned from Working at Pizza Hut This was a great read! Anyone who ever started out in a low paying job, will completely understand exactly where DC is coming from with this post. DC worked at Pizza hut, I worked as a fruit and veggie boy at the local shopping center – we both learned the same things as it turns out.
2nd Place this week goes to Scott Dinsmore at Live Your Legend with his TED talk titled How to Find And Do Work You Love: 3 Dead Simple Steps. This is the first time I have seen anything from Scott and I liked it! He is so passionate about his topic, you will find after watching his video that you will soon be exploring the rest of his website looking for more inspiration – and you won't be disappointed. The video is about 17 minutes long, but I do highly recommend you watch it.
3rd Place goes to Justin at The Frugal Path with his post titled Co-signing: A Path Best Avoided. I thought this post was well reasoned and contained a heap of good information on a topic that can land a lot of people in trouble. It is really good to understand the pitfalls associated with Co-Signing and so I recommend you check this post out.
Congratulations to this weeks winners – I hope everyone enjoys the posts mentioned above as much as I did.
For next week – If you think you have a top post and you want to make sure I see it, be sure to leave a comment somewhere on my blog and include the link in the Comment Luv section. I make sure I check every blog owners page if they have left a comment on my blog, so that's a sure fire way to ensure I see your blog post.
I'm being super nerdy this weekend and am catching up with some old friends to play video games on Sunday. What are you getting up to? Whatever it is, I hope you have a great time and don't spend too long in the stores looking for Christmas presents – Have a great weekend everyone!


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Pablo Larrazabal birdied the fifth playoff hole to beat fellow Spaniard Sergio Garcia and win the BMW International Open on Sunday.
Larrazabal made his short putt on the par-5 18th after Garcia missed from about 5 feet, giving him his first European tour title since winning the 2008 Alstom French Open.
After 23 straight years in Munich, Germany's only European Tour event will alternate between Munich and Cologne starting in 2012.
"I had nothing to lose," Larrazabal said. "If you tell me who you want to beat in a playoff, then I would say first Tiger Woods and then Sergio. I have a lot of respect for Sergio, he is one of my heroes. He is still for me one of the best players in the world."
The outcome also allowed both players to qualify for the British Open at Royal St. George's next month. Their prize money put them atop a mini-money list from six European Tour events starting with the BMW PGA Championship last month and ending in Munich.
"I think my game is the type of game for the Open," Larrazabal said. "When we played the first hole of the playoff, we congratulated each other."
Garcia birdied the 18th during his final round to shoot 4-under 68, matching Larrazabal at 16 under and forcing the playoff. They matched each other's score at No. 18 twice, then did the same at No. 12 and No. 17, before playing the last hole for the fourth time on Sunday.
"Making the Open was definitely one of the goals. I wanted to win if I could, but unfortunately Pablo was just a little bit better today," said Garcia. "I think the playoff was awesome -- we hit good shot after good shot. I so wanted to make that putt and I don't know how it didn't go in.
"Overall I am pretty satisfied. Sure we can learn some good things from this and move forward," he added. "Unfortunately I got on a bad roll after the 11th, but the up and down on 17 and the birdie at 18 meant a lot."
Before the playoff, Larrazabal had birdies at Nos. 1, 6, 7 and 9 before two more at No. 10 and 11 gave him the outright lead. Garcia started with five pars but, having relinquished the lead, made a long eagle putt at No. 9 to give him back a share of the lead.
It remained close until the 18th, when the two players were deadlocked.
"Pablo and I played some great golf in the playoff. It is a pity one of us had to lose," Garcia said. "But seventh at the U.S. Open and second now, this shows my game is coming around."
Defending PGA Champion Martin Kaymer shot a 69 for a share of 18th place with Dustin Johnson (67) and former European Ryder Cup Captain Colin Montgomerie (69). They were seven strokes back.
Kaymer will drop out of the top three when the world golf rankings are published Monday, allowing U.S. Open winner Rory McIlory of Northern Ireland to rise to third behind the English duo of Luke Donald and Lee Westwood. It will be the first time that players from Britain and Ireland have held the top three spots.
Larrazabal's victory came only 20 days after he lost on the sixth hole of sudden death in a British Open qualifier in England.
Earlier, Garcia had been two ahead after a magical run of three successive birdies from the sixth and eagle putts of 25 and 40 feet at the ninth and 11th. Then came four bogeys in five holes, but finding the green in two at the 568-yard last and two-putting enabled him to catch Larrazabal.
They first played the 18th twice more -- and birdied it both times -- and then the 12th and 17th, two par 3s, could not separate them.
Tied for third two strokes behind were Scotland's Scott Jamieson after a best-of-the-day 64, England's overnight leader Mark Foster, South Africans Retief Goosen and George Coetzee and Dutchman Joost Luiten.
Garcia has not missed a major since the 1999 British Open at Carnoustie -- the one in which he shot 89-83 to finish in last place and cried in his mother's arms. His run looked set to end only a few weeks ago, but he survived a seven-man playoff for four places in the U.S. Open and then showed that he is a force to be reckoned with again.
The 31-year-old even took time out from golf last year to try to rediscover his passion -- and being invited to join Colin Montgomerie's vice-captains at the Ryder Cup helped him to do it.
His second place takes him just outside the world's top 50, while Larrazabal will be back in the top 100 after starting the week 180th.
England's Simon Dyson and Swede Johan Edfors were in position to take the Open places before this event, but Dyson missed the cut and Edfors did not play.
Jamieson achieved his round playing with Kaymer and, after chipping in for eagle at the 11th and closing with three birdies, he said: "I didn't imagine that at the start of the day -- yesterday I didn't play well at all."


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County Launches Smart911 Program
FARMINGTON — The emergency dispatch center launched a potentially life-saving program Tuesday that allows residents to provide emergency responders with information that can be used during emergencies.
The program is called Smart911. San Juan County residents can go online and log family information and pictures into a database which police, firefighters and other emergency responders can access if the person calls 911.
Emergency medical services could access family and medical histories while en route to a home. A police officer could see a picture of a child if she goes missing. Firefighters could learn how many people and pets are in a burning home and where they might be in that home before arriving on scene, said David Ripley, the director of The San Juan County Communications Authority.
"It's a major leap forward in public safety," he said.
The communication authority purchased the program with money that was collected through a gross receipts tax that funds emergency medical services and emergency dispatch.
Voters approved creation of the tax in 2003 and there is an election in March where voters will decide if the tax can continue indefinitely.
There is $45,000 annual fee to use the program and there was a $4,000 fee to set it up at the dispatch center.
Anyone in the county can go to www.smart911.com and create a home profile.
Ripley said the program doesn't invade its users' privacy.
"It's very secure," he said. "The information is only available if you call 911 and it's only available for 45 minutes."
The program asks for information about people and pets in a home, bedroom locations, medical information and the layout of the home, including how to turn gas and electricity on and off.
David Burke, a battalion chief with the Farmington Fire Department, said the program may help firefighters in any type of emergency, medical or fire.
In a medical emergency, having a person's medical history can help paramedics start treatment quicker and more efficiently, he said.
The information could also prove useful during a fire.
"The first engine on scene looks for power, gas and other hazards," Burke said. "If that's identified earlier, that's a couple seconds that can be critical."