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Origin : a novel / Dan Brown.
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- 28 of 36 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Fort Nelson Public Library.
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- Physical Description: 461 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he will reveal an astonishing scientific breakthrough to challenge the fundamentals of human existence. But Langdon and several hundred other guests are left reeling when the meticulously orchestrated evening is blown apart before Kirsch's precious discovery can be revealed. With his life under threat, Langdon is forced into a desperate bid to escape, along with the museum's director, Ambra Vidal. Together they flee to Barcelona on a perilous quest to locate a cryptic password that will unlock Kirsch's secret.
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The Progress of the Pilgrim0
February 28, 2011 by Steven Worden
In case you missed it, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, turned 333 this February. Although the ancients believed three to be the perfect number and thus, three threes might be extremely portentous, you don't have to be an ancient numerologist to marvel at a book that has been in continuous print for over 300 years. Said to be second only to the Bible in popularity, it has been translated into over 200 languages. In fact, when the Chinese government loosened up and first allowed Progress to be published, over 200,000 copies were sold in three days. Even considering that in China the US Tax Code might sell 200,000 copies in three days, that's still pretty amazing demand. In addition to impressive print-runs, numerous adaptations of Pilgrim's Progress have been produced as radio serials, television and film treatments, stage plays, musicals, cartoons, operas, and even computer animations, the most recent being released in 2009. As a producer might quip, "It has legs." So, how can we account for this longstanding fascination with The Pilgrim's Progress? Probably a lot of it has to do with the fact that it is simply a great, fantastical, allegorical adventure. Rudyard Kipling was so moved by …Read More...
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Food Pantry Born Out of Bus Ride to Greenland0
February 28, 2011 by wcobserver
To Serve Greenland, West Fork, Winslow By Susan McCarthy Chance or perhaps fate brought Tina Holt to the Greenland First Baptist Church six months ago. Her business in Tulsa had just failed and she'd lost everything including her car. She landed on her mother's doorstep on the south end of Fayetteville with her suitcases and pets to start her life all over again. A friend had suggested Holt attend her church, but she was without a car, so she went to the church that offered a free bus ride and that's what literally brought her to Greenland. Six months later she is juggling two jobs and the birth of a new food pantry that will serve Greenland, West Fork and Winslow. Holt and her fellow members of the Women on Missions group from the Greenland First Baptist Church opened their "Our Mission Food Pantry" on Jan. 31. The pantry is open on Tuesdays from 3:30 p.m. until 6:30 p.m. and for a short time on Wednesday night following the church's evening service, around 8 p.m. "Everyone wanted it, but didn't know how to get it," said Holt who has put her 20 years of military logistics experience to work …Read More...
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WF Cheer Team Places Tenth in Nationals0
February 26, 2011 by wcobserver
By Kelsey Franklin WEST FORK- While most of the area spent last week digging out from nearly a foot of snow, the West Fork High School Cheerleaders battled against the nation's best cheerleading teams to place tenth in the National High School Cheerleading Competition in Orlando Florida. On Tuesday, Feb. 8, coaches, cheerleaders, parents and supporters made a 21-hour bus trip to Orlando, Florida. The cheerleaders were Florida bound with one thing in mind, competing in the Universal Cheerleading Association (UCA) 2011 National High School Cheerleading Championship (NHSCC). This season the WFHS team competed in two invitational competitions, taking home first place titles, regional and state level competitions where they won the title of 2011 State Cheerleading Champions. West Fork placed tenth in the nation in their division of co-ed small varsity. After winning the state title the race was on to raise the funds needed to make their dream of reaching nationals come true. With help from the West Fork community, local businesses, fans and parents they raised the $13,000 that was needed to make the trip. "It was a wonderful, exciting journey," said cheerleading coach Deborah Hughes. Between school, games and nine hours of practice each week, cheerleader …Read More...
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Pink Flamingoes And Global Warming0
February 24, 2011 by wcobserver
During my birding peregrinations I recently came across a pink flamingo standing in a yard. It had been through our snow and ice. At one point it exhibited a pretty good pile of white on its back. I first looked it over with my binoculars, then with my spotting scope. Flamingo! Wow! It wasn't the first one I had ever seen. When I showed my friend Amy the picture included with this article, she dryly observed that global warming had advanced quite a bit when we have flamingoes right here in the land of eternal snow. The Greater Flamingo, Phoenicopterus ruber, nests in the Bahamas, Cuba and in the Yucatan and is a rare visitor in Florida. But Winslow, West Fork and northwest Arkansas are not Florida, not the West Indies, and certainly not on a snowy day in February. It might as well be an Ivory-billed Woodpecker. Likely some folks have driven right by that same yard and not noticed – or so I thought. One morning I walk into the coffee shop and all eyes are upon me. It's like they've been waiting. Over the years we have hashed over the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. They consider it an upland …Read More...
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More Ball Sports Added to City's Youth Programs0
February 24, 2011 by wcobserver
Commission Shrinks Size to Comply with Ordinance Staff Report WEST FORK- More community activities and year round youth ball programs may soon be things local residents will see from the city's parks and recreation department. At its monthly meeting on Feb. 14, commission members approved a proposal to take over the West Fork Quarterback Club's youth football league. They also approved a city-sponsored adult flag football league and will take action on a youth basketball league at their March meeting. The commission started its meeting by accepting the resignation of Vickey Mesplay and Russell Ogle to reduce the parks commission size from seven to five members. The ordinance which formed the parks commission allows for only five members. John Selph, who chairs the parks commission, said he had no idea when the commission was expanded to seven members and didn't realize the commission had not been in compliance. Commission members approved to ask the city council in March to authorize an ordinance to expand the commission's members to seven. Selph said the commission planned to reappoint both members at a later date if the council agrees to expand the size of the parks commission. The bulk of Monday's meeting …Read More...
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Farm To Market: An Ongoing Challenge1
February 24, 2011 by wcobserver
By Steve Winkler There are two Washington Counties. Most often we hear about the fast growing metropolitan area that's home to giant corporations, retail Meccas and a world class university. That Washington County occupies about half the land area, the other Washington County is rural. The nature of that rural landscape spans the whole spectrum of country living from sprawling stately "gentleman farm" estates with pedigreed livestock roaming inside white fences to some of the most rugged, remote, and inhospitable agricultural land in the region. Those rugged landscapes are populated by two types of people; the ones that have deep family roots and the ones that have come here from somewhere else. The small land holders with ten and twenty acres regardless of their origins share a vision about their relation to the land – can they make a living on it? Small farming enterprises have historically abounded in the Ozarks. The idea of self sufficiency and subsistence farming are compatible with much of the terrain and seem to suit the independent minded individuals that for some reason have chosen to live here. But geographic isolation and bad roads made it difficult to get produce to market. Things began …Read More...
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Lady Tigers Stay Unbeaten In Conference0
February 14, 2011 by wcobserver
By Brent Harrison WEST FORK- The Lady Tigers picked up three big conference wins to run its win streak to eight consecutive games. West Fork began last week with a 56-24 win over Elkins, the Lady Tigers jumped out to the early lead and maintained things down the stretch in a 54-31 makeup win over Cedarville on Wednesday. On Friday, the Tigers turned up the second half intensity and came away with a 55-34 win at Lincoln. West Fork 56, Elkins 24 After a nip and tuck first half that saw the Tigers whistled for eight fouls, West Fork put that behind them and played its game in the second. "[Melissa] Jones gets two fouls three minutes into the first quarter and that just put us in a bad spot," West Fork coach Nathan Wells said. "We had a sophomore Sydney Franklin come in and do a great job for us. She scored for us in the first half and picked up her defense and showed a lot of toughness. We just hung in there in the first half and weathered all of those problems." "We came back in the second half and played smart," he said. "We played tough …Read More...


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Has the warm weather finally settled in where you live? Things are heating up quickly in my neck of the woods, and although I'd love to hit the beach this Summer- it's looking like trips to the local pool with my littles will be as close as I get.
Enter: my beach bag essentials! I swear I pack enough for a small army every time I go to the pool, but I live by the motto 'it's better to be safe than sorry'. You never know when you'll bump into an ex boyfriend... and who wants to be all splotchy & dry-skinned in a time like that!?! Not me!
Plus when I go to the pool, I want to be comfortable so that I can get the most out of my day. Moisture is the key to comfort when you are near water- so stocking up on hydration rich products is a must do. I have been obsessed with that Evian spray for almost 10 years, and never go swimming without it. The Baby Lips Dr.+ formula is so good at quenching parched lips, plus it adds a hint of color without screaming 'I have makeup on at the pool!' Likewise, the Hourglass Tinted Moisturizer helps to even out your face, protect from the sun and combat the drying effects of salt and sweat. Don't forget to hit the showers post swim and get any chlorine out ASAP! The Ecru Acacia line is super rich and repairing, but still cleanses thoroughly. And lastly- take your favorite fragrance with you for post-swim freshness. These Travalo perfume buddies are so cool, you can fill them with any perfume by popping off the sprayer on your full size bottle, then just insert the straw into the bottom of your Travelo and simply pump the fragrance from one bottle into the next.
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Transport Minister Danny Kennedy has given a firm commitment to look into the potentially lethal 60 mile per hour speed limit at the entrance to a Derry primary school.
Mr. Kennedy was speaking as he arrived at Groarty Integrated Primary School to meet with concerned school staff and parents to discuss a range of safety concerns.
The meeting was organised by SDLP Derry City Councillor John Boyle, who attended he meeting along with Foyle MLA Mark H Durkan.
A representative from Transport NI was also in attendance at the meeting, which was held at the school shortly after the end of the school day.
Just moments before the Minister's arrival, one clearly anxious mother spoke of how her child was narrowly hit by a passing motorist who then shouted at her.
Staff and parents at the school expressed anxiety over the speed limit, the lack of a footpath on the country lane leading to the school gates and lack of parking at the school.
Speaking on arrival, Mr. Kennedy said: "I'm happy to be here with officials to look at any measures we can do to improve the situation.
"We understand it's a school, a very busy stretch of road, and it's a relatively narrow one, so there are issues that are challenging, but we will attempt to try and make progress."
Groarty P.S. Principal Nick Tomlinson said that upon taking up his post this academic year he immediately identified tackling the road and traffic issues at the school- which have been the subject of a campaign stretching back more than a decade- as something he too wanted to prioritise.
Mr. Tomlinson said: "We're in a situation that accidents at other schools have happened and how many more have to happen before the safety of the children is put before other considerations. That should be the top priority.
"It's so evident when you come to the school and when you are in a position where you are responsible for the health and safety of the children, parents and families it is something that stands out and to my mind needs dealing with and needs dealing with quickly before we end up reacting to an accident. We would rather do something now to ensure we can keep them safe."
He added that the mornings and afternoons would be the main times when the danger was most evident.
"Some families don't have access to cars or money for taxis and they walk their children to school and I think they should be able to walk their children to and from school safely.
"I know from talking to parents they fear bringing their children to school by foot.
"I think we have a responsibility to take that fear away."
Gordon Elder, chairperson of the board of governors at the school, added: "We have situation here that has been ongoing for a long number of years.
"Unfortunately we have had a series of folk looking at the problem and we are always hopeful that there is going to be a solution.
"We have come so far now. There was a serious incident recently at Cloughmills and I think that maybe that has awakened thinking. I don't know if that will affect our situation.
"The roadway is narrow as you can see. We have warning lights on either side of it and the WELB and the DoE have been trying to help us, but we feel we have a problem with folk coming to leave kids off in the morning and picking them up in the afternoon."
Mr. Elder said that given the speed limit, it was only down to the vigilance of parents and staff that there had not been fatal accidents on the Groarty Road.
Colr. Boyle said his own father had attended the same school in the 1940s and had told him the road hasn't changed much since then.
"That's a clear indictment of the situation as it stands currently and I am very hopeful the Minister will listen to the concerns of the parents, take them on board and treat this matter as a priority," he said.


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Currently, I am working on the Zigzag Afghan from the Fall 2010 issue of Knit Simple. This is the largest knitting project I have ever tackled. I am impressed with my progress since I decided to really work on it. I'm almost done with the green, just two more blocks! Then three more colors, eight blocks each yay! I can't
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37.8 % of all statistics are made up on the spot by the 26.9% of statisticians who are in the ball park when they should be back at the office gathering facts to back up their statistics.
I can vouch for the validity of those figures because I just made them up. Whether or not you find that funny will depend on your falling into the 49.3% of people who are skeptical over statistics.
The thing that makes something funny is when a statement contains a modicum of truth, and the point here is that some of us are skeptical of certain statistics. Whether we buy into them depends on our opinions to begin with.
Here is one I see all the time:
"Wearing a bike helmet is estimated to reduce head injury risk by 85 percent."
I'm not sure where this one started, but it has been around for twenty-five years or more and I'm assuming that originally it had some other statistics and solid data to back up that figure.
It has been repeated over and over, and over again so many times, that it is now stated as fact without reference to the original study. When you analyze the 85% all it does is reinforce a person's view that bike helmets are a good idea, only if that person held that view to begin with.
Without the original study and the data to back it up, 85% is as meaningless a number as the ones I made up at the start of this piece. Like many statistics, the number is big enough that it sounds good, but not too big. This makes it believable if you don't give it too much thought. I think this is what has given this particular statistic its longevity.
I don't even know any more if wearing a helmet is supposed to reduce injury by 85% or does it reduce death by 85%? People have accidents with and without helmets, some are injured and some die, but can anyone prove to me that it is even close to 85% survivor and 15% casualty rate.
Debates about helmet use can become as passionate as any religious or political debates. One argument is that helmets make cycling appear more dangerous than it really is. Less than two cyclists are killed each day on US streets and highways. A small number compared to the 85 people who die each day in automobiles. (These are statistics that a simple Google search will confirm.)
Of course far more people drive cars than ride bikes, but even so in a country with a population well over 300 million, less than two cycling deaths a day is not what I would label a dangerous activity. Unfortunately, the general population does not see it this way.
Here is an article by an injury lawyer stating that jurors in civil cases have a bias against cyclists. They view cycling on the public highways as a highly dangerous practice, and when people are perceived to engage in dangerous activities, juries tend to place some of the blame on the participant. This has a direct effect on the amount of compensation they award.
By voluntarily wearing a helmet you at least appear to a jury or an insurance adjuster to be someone who takes responsibility for their safety. They cannot award you less with the argument that you didn't wear a helmet; therefore you contributed to your own injuries.
Unfortunately the 85% helmet statistic gives legislators fuel to press for mandatory helmet use for cyclists. While many more people die each year from a simple trip or slip and fall than from cycling related accidents.
That's because almost all of us walk on two feet, but only a select few ride a bicycle. Maybe upon waking each morning we should place a helmet on our head before we even put slippers on our feet; not removing it until we return to bed that evening. Viewed in this light does it not make the whole issue somewhat ludicrous?
Making helmets mandatory only re-enforces the general public's view that cycling is dangerous. I still maintain that wearing a helmet should be a personal choice; making them mandatory stops some from taking up cycling in the first place.
Most start riding a bike without a helmet, a few will become serious and eventually buy a better bike and all the equipment that goes with it, which will probably include a helmet.
To sum up I wear a helmet because it offers some protection; I don't believe it is even close to 85%, but wearing one can't hurt. I may hit a pot hole and fall on my head, in which case my helmet may save me from serious injury. But a crash involving a motor vehicle? The best way to avoid injury there is to ride defensively and circumvent the collision altogether.
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Bayside High alumnus EJ Manuel had relatively pedestrian statistics, but he and the Buffalo Bills stunned the Bears at Chicago's Soldier Field in one of the NFL first week's most notable results.
Here's a look at how players with Virginia connections fared in regular-season Week 1:
Listed by jersey number (if still applicable), name, connections and statistics. Does not include players who previously were listed on injured reserve and remain there, or who previously were listed on a practice squad and remain there.


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For a script that I am working on, I need to access System Properties such as the base folder of the errorlog.
SQL Server Management Studio ( SSMS )
Of course the information is available via SSMS, just click on the Server's Property and you will see something like this…
- We can that "Root Directory" is "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL"
Registry – CPE
Knowing the value that we are searching for took to the registry and searched for "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL11.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL".
Ended up here…
Registry – Setup
Most of the most important information is saved in the Setup branch.
Registry – MSSQLServer
Btw, the MSSQLServer path is very important, as well.
Let us read ErrorDumpDir from the CPE branch
Code Snippet
DECLARE @rootKey NVARCHAR(500) DECLARE @path NVARCHAR(500) DECLARE @name NVARCHAR(500) DECLARE @value NVARCHAR(1000) set @rootKey = N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE' set @path = N'SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSSQLServer\CPE' set @name = N'ErrorDumpDir' EXEC master..xp_instance_regread @rootkey = @rootKey , @path = @path , @name = @name , @value = @value output PRINT 'Error Dump Dir :' + isNull(@value, '')
Knowledge Base
Please keep in mind that xp_instance_regread is an extended Stored Procedure.
As there could be a few SQL Server Instances on a box, Microsoft abstracted things a bit and xp_instance_regread is able to read information for the specific Instance it is ran on.
The more generic SP that does not abstract for the specific instance is xp_RegRead.


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Welcome to the Creative Inking April Blog Hop. We're doing a color challenge this month using Pear Pizzazz, Peekaboo Peach, and Flirty Flamingo. Gorgeous colors for spring flowers! I made two cards for this month's challenge.
The first card using an interesting technique of using a die cut as a stencil. I loved how it turned out. I used the May Flowers Framelits and die cut the large petal flower on a scrap of Whisper White cardstock. Leaving the die cut in the paper, I only removed the insides of the flower. That became my stencil.
Thanks so much for stopping by - I sure hope you enjoyed my creations for this hop. Now let's go see what wonderful creation that Lori Mueller has for us!


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Vigilant Leadership
If I rank the organizations I consult on their effectiveness, those that do all three of these do best overall. They generate more profits, have better looking balance sheets, attract investment, or serve their stakeholders the best.
I like to call it "vigilant leadership."
What's involved?
Vigilant leadership engages as many individuals as possible in an organization, and certainly all of the directors and senior management, in a discipline of looking ahead. That means staying abreast of events, being advised of emerging issues, recognizing "weak signals" of shifting environments, having depth of knowledge in areas specific to the organization's strategy, and focusing particularly on long term thinking about what will affect the organization over a decade-or-longer time frame.
This is extraordinarily difficult for most organizations to achieve. Clients of mine have difficulty with it. I think it's for several reasons.
One is the lack of a major commitment to foresight. For example, with some of my financial service clients an environmental scanning piece developed by a national trade organization is distributed to the board in advance of the annual planning retreat. When I ask about what foresight process they're using that's the answer I get. A start, but not nearly enough.
Another difficulty is the governance structure and expectations. I don't believe organizations ask enough from their directors. Every organization's director should be expected to be not only up to speed on the industry market as well as geographical or industry or product or service niches. They should be accountable for depth of knowledge in the much broader and higher impact developments in the economy, consumer behavior, emerging competition, and geopolitical forces.
A third barrier is the lack of discipline, time, and process for contemplation. Retreats are for contemplation. Their very label presupposes getting away to do some thinking. They are for discussion certainly. But most of all they should be an immersion away from one's typical environment in order to gain perspective and spend time in thought.
I find thought is rare in most retreat settings. There are many reasons. One is the assumption that because the retreat is being held in a nice location with recreation opportunities then one should focus on those. Another is the presence, in too many settings, of spouse and family. Nice, but counterproductive largely. Another is a tendency to crowd agenda. One presentation after another. A need to sign off on strategy. A board meeting with a consent agenda. A race to complete work in order to have fun, socialize, or get to a meal.
Most of all retreats feature way too much opinion expression and much too little contemplation.
This doesn't mean that directors and senior management should be shut up in monastic cells to think. But it does mean that there should be time to gather one's thoughts, form opinion, discuss deeply, and only then to reach consensus on decisions.
Fourth is stamina. Vigilant leadership is a process, a journey. There is no letup. There is no downtime.
I'm not suggesting that all of an individual's time away from an organization should be spent in foresight. Nor am I espousing huge amounts of force-fed reading. But I've found through the years as I've taught anticipatory skills to management, installed foresight systems in organizations, and consulted on strategy that the really good work that makes a successful organization happens in between all the other daily responsibilities in my clients' lives.
When directors and senior management are introduced to foresight techniques, integrated into a system that pushes appropriate amounts of information to decision-makers, and encouraged to contemplate on one's own time, good things happen.
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Walter Thompson on behalf of the Helen McCardle Group
Project Details
Sector: Commercial – Care Homes
Location: Redcar
Duration: 3 Months
Value: £239,000
Scope of Works: To supply & erect a Three Storey 64 bedded care home
A modern purpose built 64 bedded care home in Redcar built for the Helen McCardle Group via local building contractor Walter Thompson over 3 storey with an overall square meterage of 2658m2.
With a tight deadline of 13 weeks we delivered the project on time and to the agreed budget.
By using timber frame construction instead of traditional brick and block Walter Thompson were able to handover the completed project early and the Care Home opened some 13 weeks ahead of schedule to the delight of the end clients and residents.


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Alida was originally released in 2003 on Macintosh and PC platforms, and searching 'alida game' online you may find vintage releases available.
Five years in the making, the world of Alida will captivate you with its wondrous graphics, intriguing puzzles and original music score.
This atmospheric graphical adventure is set on Alida, a guitar-shaped island theme park constructed by a young and wildly successful band. However when money woes and paranoia set in, the band splits up.
Alida Game Attributes:
Unique Locations
Bizarre Transportation Machines
Ornate Objects
Electronic Imagery
Tactile Contraptions
Massive Constructions
Animated Natural Elements
Enticing Original Music Score
Alida is devised by a widely successful music group. Paranoia sets in and the band splits up, each claiming different areas of the island theme park for themselves. They devise strange and elaborate systems to protect their wealth. Each grow increasingly isolated and the band eventually abandon Alida.
Several years later the band's manager Kivas suggests the band reunite on Alida. Soon thereafter, band member Arin leaves for Alida and is not heard from again.
Imaginative and beautifully rendered 3D environments
Engaging puzzles ranging from simple to complex
Mesmerizing audio
Story of intrigue and mystery
During the Alida Game start up, the opening dialogue sets the stage. Julia, the wife of Arin, explains to you her plight and pleads with you for help.


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The wall i am painting on has high exposure to the elements and also leaks some water durring the winter. Is there a paint that will let the water pass through? The wall is cement.
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First you probably want to get a sealer for the concrete before you actually paint. If you go to a good hardware store you will find masonary paint for your project. It would be a good idea to put a clear coat sealer on after you finish too.
My first selection of paint would be oil based house paint. That paint is designed to withstand the elements. If there is a lot of exposure, it might last 5 years.


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|Most of the 1,000-footers on the Great Lakes carry cargo down bound but not usually up bound. For example, the Indiana Harbor, due here this evening to load coal, will arrive with no cargo. It is big enough and can load enough cargo to make it an efficient boat even when it is empty half the time. Still, the ideal is to keep your boat filled with cargo. The smaller Algowood will arrive here with salt loaded at the Ojibway Salt Dock in Windsor, Ontario. It will discharge that cargo at the Hallett #8 dock in Superior, on the St. Louis River just beyond Midwest Energy Resources, the next stop for the Algowood. After discharging the salt, it will move up river a bit to load coal and will depart sometime Tuesday for Ontario Power Generation in Nanticoke.
|*submitted to the Duluth News Tribune for publication on 06-18-2007


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Seriously, we didn't plan to have our 4th meal but because of our friend, Ling, she wanted to "tar-pau" back some kompia (chinese bagels) from this Noodle House.. so we have no "choice" but to follow her there... heheheee... such a nice excuse!
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Our 4th Meal In Noodle House, Sibu
Seriously, we didn't plan to have our 4th meal but because of our friend, Ling, she wanted to "tar-pau" back some kompia (chinese bagels) from this Noodle House.. so we have no "choice" but to follow her there... heheheee... such a nice excuse!
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Wahhh! The kong piang looks so much better than Sitiawan's. This is a must try item when I go to Sibu one day. Looks so porkilicious...ReplyDelete
mille crepe at RM6.90 only?? that's really cheap. i can't resist the juicy pork there too!ReplyDelete
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pam: you really made me laugh with a new word.."porkilicious!" hahaha...ReplyDelete
fish: if i m not mistaken, it is that price....
Yup! The vanilla mille crepe's RM6.90 and the double chocolate mille crepe's RM8.80. I hear it is RM9 something at Fouund Foundry or what's the name of that place in KL...and I bought from Arthur Crepe at Tokyo Street, Pavilion for RM10.50...and they were not even nice! Tsk! Tsk!ReplyDelete
These are soooo....out of this world! Yum! Yum!
And the 3 types of kompia came in a set with two or three Horlicks Godzilla if I'm not mistaken - can't remember the price now but definitely cheaper than if you order them individually!ReplyDelete
*Food Foundry...in PJ*ReplyDelete
i think it is nice just eat the kosong fresh kompia... right?ReplyDelete
stp: the price is unbelievable! yes, these kompia comes in set of 3... RM21.90 with 2 drinks too! not bad, huh...ReplyDelete
simpleperson: yes, can be eaten just like that... especially fresh and hot! :)
the kompia looks so yummy to me, all three different fillings!! wow, I think the pork belly one should be the better one??ReplyDelete
have food will eat indeed .. food makes the world go round. Glad to see you guys being so happy XDReplyDelete
sk: for those of you who likes a bit of fats, these will be nice..ReplyDelete
issac: have food will travel!
The food there looks good!ReplyDelete
my favorite lunch hangout place... :)ReplyDelete
You're in Sibu M-Knight? Blogger friends came all the way to your little hometown, didn't even bother to meet and entertain them. Or you're in KL or someplace else too...like Borneo Falcon?ReplyDelete
I would love to go to a noodle house like this! the swan sculpture below is very pretty, but I want that mint chocolate shake!!ReplyDelete
Hahhahah...yes the precious kompia-s. Very delicious!ReplyDelete
wow..definitely a great place to enjoy food!ReplyDelete
@STP : The plc in KL is called Food FoundryReplyDelete
Claire: LOL...i this each meal we ate twice...two breakfast two lunch two dinner :p
Nice food....Yummyy...ReplyDelete
STP: wan to but right now traveling.... :)ReplyDelete
- Irene TanMarch 19, 2012 at 12:16 PM
I prefer kompia with minced meat too. The porridge with century egg is something I like.ReplyDelete
chris: memang good!! u miss a lot of that.. hahaa..ReplyDelete
m-knight: wow.. what else is nice there?
stp: hope he sees your comment! :)
kathy: will that happen in Bali too?? hahaha..
mery: u visited there too?
irene: cos we are scared of fats! hahaa..
Who's going to Bali? Hmmmm....not coming to Sibu again kah? Sulk! Sulk!ReplyDelete
he he he, makan non-stop.....siok lah can eat so many types of food....yum!ReplyDelete
stp: come join us in Bali if jadi!! the more the merrier!ReplyDelete
pete: we are food wallopers ma.. hahaa..
That kompia! kompia! Waaaah so tempting! I like oh I LIKE!ReplyDelete
Haha holiday in Malaysia is always about foods foods foods.
Wahhh, Claire... the kompiah looks divine! I want some too... but not pork ones... I wan chicken or beef inside... got kah?ReplyDelete
Wow...the vanilla crepe looks so delicious. :DReplyDelete
daniel: i agree with you!!ReplyDelete
cleff: oh, u got to ask stp then.. i think sure got... ask them to do special..hehee..
chris: and some more so cheap!


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19 June 2013
In the next part of our series of interviews designed to introduce BHS Oxfordshire members to their local committee, we meet Penny Holley, Publicity Officer and Vice Chairman…
Name: Penny Holley
Lives: Kidmore End, South Oxfordshire
Age (a ballpark, please!): 60s
Family: Husband, two children, two step-children and two grandchildren
Occupation: I founded Phipps Public Relations, a London-based company which was sold in 2003. I now run a holiday rental business in the UK and Spain, and look after five horses at home.
Tell us about… your first pony: Aged 11 I was taught to ride in the "hands down and grip with your knees" style by a rather strict riding school teacher called Miss Mason. I would save up for lessons, but the best fun was falling off - something I do anything to avoid nowadays. As an adult I saved up some more and bought my first horse when I was 45. I was far too hold to stop gripping and tipping forward, and he was a 6 year old 16.3hh Irish thoroughbred, so we had some interesting times! He died only last year.
… the first fall you can remember: I'm not sure about the first fall, but my most embarrassing was quite recently, off of an eventer I was exercising. He was only walking and I wasn't paying attention!
… the first rosette you remember winning: At the Croft Equestrian Centre this year. It was my first dressage test, and having had so much practise and so many lessons for this five minutes of fame I just did not dare fail or forget anything. I was so happy when it was all over!
… your horsey highlight: Riding holidays with my daughters and husband Tim are magical. We love to make a journey and for my 50th birthday we went to Ecuador and rode 150miles through countryside and cloud forest. It was unbelievable! The trip also introduced us to the Peruvian Paso breed, and Tim now has one he rides in the UK. They have the most fantastic partnership and, following two hip replacements, this is the only horse Tim can comfortably ride in trot. Tim would dearly love to act the part and swoop along in a Peruvian cloak and sombrero if we would let him.
… your most embarrassing horsey moment:Tim riding in a cloak and sombrero would be pretty embarrassing but, until then, here's a cautionary tale of embarrassment. I love following eventing, and was cheering on my cousin enthusiastically one day. I had no idea it is against the rules to communicate with competitors ("outside assistance") and my forthright vocal encouragement nearly got her eliminated! I am now the most silent of spectators.
… your current horse(s): Gulliver, a 16.3hh chestnut Irish Sports Horse bought in Ireland as a two year old project horse to bring on and sell. As we all know, that never happens - Gulliver is now 11 and here to stay. He evented up to Novice with my cousin and is now back with me. I have another project now, a five year old ISH called Morse who is going to be a superstar. I'm lucky to have help from Lou Austin who has a far more realistic view of matters.
Do you compete? What is your preferred discipline? I am undisciplined and hopeless. My only salvation is to have lessons with the marvelous Terrie Cross, who has made me improve my riding and improve my horse, and taken me out in her wonderful purple lorry to competitions. Highly recommended!
What's your favourite horsey activity? The horses live out 24/7 as this level of neglect allows me to keep them at home without any help. I am spared a lot of the stable work and Tim manages the fields, so this is horsey heaven. Helping the project horses improve and grow in confidence is my favourite activity. I much enjoyed the Kelly Marks Intelligent Horsemanship training. I have always tried to let the horses live as natural a life as possible and can bore for Britain on the subject.
What's your equine ambition? I am lacking in ambition and terrified even spectating. I would like to do more to encourage people 'my age' to try riding again and being around horses. When I bought my first horse and took him to his London livery yard, I asked the owner how long it would take me to learn to ride. I thought she would say something like six weeks, instead she said 12 years. She was completely right, in fact I never stop learning and being fascinated by these very beautiful, special, kind animals. So my ambition is to keep owning a horse and riding in to very, very old age - and encouraging others through all the good work that the BHS does.
Tell us about your involvement with the BHS… what is your role on the committee? I am the publicity officer and deputy chairman.
How long have you been on the committee, and how long in this role? I think I've been on the committee four years, but it's such a good group of people I have lost count.
How did you get involved with the BHS? I saw they needed a press officer and I thought this was something I could do because of my background in PR. I have found that the best way to get coverage is to organise events with the best, most high profile riders and teachers we can find.
What's your favourite part of the role? I loved organising the events with Mary King, the Monty Roberts and Kelly Marks talk, and the recent meeting with K C LaPierre, which was amazingly popular for a talk about horse feet. But I very much enjoy the companionship of the committee. Members are very supportive and never mind any kind of remark or suggestion from someone like me who has no formal horse training at all. Our chair, Troth Wells, is wonderful and so well organised, and so meetings are a pleasure.
What are your plans for the year ahead? I am getting to grips with Twitter, as I have just found the "discover" button. I am hoping that Morse progresses with his training and I know I will be nagged in to another dressage competition. I often represent Oxfordshire at the South Region meetings, and would like to help organise one really exciting event for the whole region to attend. Also, before the end of 2015 I want to ride my horse from Hay on Wye to the Welsh coast and I am starting the research now. I love the idea of making a journey on horseback to discover some of our wonderful British routes.
Thanks Penny! Next time, we meet another member of the Oxfordshire committee.
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restrictions have been removed. For example, prior to 1985, an Ontario
customer could only buy natural gas from one source - the natural gas
utility that served their area.
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more buying options. That means an industrial, commercial or residential
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How can I buy natural gas?
Today, you can buy your natural gas from your local gas utility or you
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Deregulating the natural gas market
Choosing your natural gas supplier is a big part of deregulating the
natural gas market - but it's not the only part. There are also rules
about moving gas between provinces as well as rules for moving gas in
and through local townships and communities. Here's a quick look at
natural gas markets - then and now.
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monopolies to natural gas utilities. This helped consumers avoid paying
for the additional costs of competing and overlapping gas delivery
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One Giant LeapBook - 2009
Commemorating the 40th anniversary of man's first walk on the moon, this book is a tribute that transports readers to the stars, where they will experience the moon landing just as Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin did.
Publisher: New York. NY : Philomel Books, c2009
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British plane 'dodged missile above Sharm el-Sheikh which passed within 1,000 feet of aircraft'
A British jet packed with holidaymakers had to "evade" an Egyptian missile in what the Department for Transport described as an incident just over two months ago.
According to one report, the missile came within 1,000 feet of a Thomson flight with 189 passengers on board.
Thomson said the incident was not a cause for concern, while the DfT said the flight was not the victim of a terrorist attack, adding that the incident was probably connected to routine exercises being carried out by the Egyptian military.
But given there are strict protocols designed to keep civilian aircraft away from such military exercises, it remained unclear how the Thomson flight found itself in that position.
Details of what appears to have been a near miss emerged as evidence mounted that the Russian Metrojet flight was brought down by a bomb.
Analysis of information on the flight data recorder – or black box – revealed there was an explosion 24 minutes into the flight.
In addition, NBC reported that fresh intelligence had provided further evidence that terrorists were responsible for the Metrojet crash which killed 224 people.
What was described as "chatter" between Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leaders in Raqqa, Syria and jihadists in the Sinai Peninsula included a boast that they had taken down the aircraft.
Meanwhile in Sharm el-Sheikh, progress in bringing back British tourists was slow, with only eight of the 29 evacuation flights being allowed to land.
John Casson, Britain's ambassador to Egypt, bore much of the frustration and anger voiced by UK holidaymakers who had been trapped at the Red Sea resort.
Those who did get back spoke of chaotic scenes at Sharm el-Sheikh airport with some claiming that they had to pay bribes to avoid lengthy security queues.
More flights are due to arrive on Saturday to continue the evacuation of around 20,000 British tourists who have been trapped at Sharm el-Sheikh.
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Today, I was a little more excited for school than a regular day. Today was not a regular day for me. Today, I was the Head of School. I started off my day by shaking everyone's hands at the back door. I noticed that some students were very tired as they came to school. I then led morning prayer and announcements. I also played the song, Sugar, by Maroon 5, for the whole school to enjoy. I think this made people happy and woke up some of the students that were tired. I walked around the school and learned some new things, like the Examen prayer, creating a bumper car course and exponential growth. I was able to teach PE to the 4th grade and we played my favorite games.
When we were walking back to the office we saw the Fatheads with words describing graduates of The Woods Academy. So I decided to come up with a unique word to describe me. Since I love to play basketball and I love to do art, I came up with the word Swishartist to describe me. What unique word can you create to describe you?
Some things I learned while being Head of School are that time is very important, because you could have places to be at certain times. Knowing the time is important. Also, I learned that being very organized is important because you could lose important papers. Being organized helps you know where everything is. Today was a lot of fun and I enjoyed being Head of School. It is a lot of work, but it was exciting.
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'PATHWAYS TO YESTERYEAR: STROLLING THE STREET OF DREAMS' is the title of the June 9th walking tour of the University Park neighborhood of West Adams. That's just over a week away, on a Saturday.
What will you see?
A portal to the past. Mansions like the one at right, which is the Dockweiler-Stearns residence. This is the last true mansion in University Park, completed over 110 years ago. Only two families have owned the place since and they haven't changed much.
There's even a DS monogram on the chimney that you can see in this Flicker photo.
Flicker says there was a murder-suicide at the mansion in 1924--hopefully, that story will be part of the tour.
A centerpiece of the self-guided walking route is Chester Place, our city's oldest gated community. Today it's Mount St. Mary's College, but in 1899 it opened as an enclave for the city's elite.
Another highlight is the Queen Anne cottage at right: the John B. Kane residence of the 1890s, designed by architect Fred Dorn. It still has stables in back!
Here's how the West Adams Heritage Organization describes the tour:
A century ago, Adams Boulevard was Los Angeles's Street of Dreams – the main artery of a "Bon Ton District" that included Chester Place, St. James Park and the Belgravia Tract, home to some of the City's finest residences.
There will be a sign-in tent at St. James Park, your starting point.
The tour runs from 10 am to 4 pm, but the last $30 ticket will be sold at 1pm. If you order in advance (before June 6th) tickets are $25.
Additional information: 323-732-4223 or firstname.lastname@example.com or www.WestAdamsHeritage.org.


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One step forward Two step backwardWhen it comes to setting budget, be smart, economical and compliant with Google's recommendation. You know not following Google's recommendation may impact your visibility and performance. So when Google asks you to increase, just do it and then smartly bring it down again. You might be rewarded with overdelivery credit!
A saucy Cocktail with All their ColorWhen you have no clue why you are performing below par, just put everything they are claiming. You don't need to be even slimy, just a bit of smartness, like if they are approved by xyz, then you too can say Approved(by inhouse specialists!). A Small caveat, don't lose the trust, but offer a credible explanation that you do meet the standards and deserve their attention as much, by disclosing who the Specialists are and why they count.
Split the Keywords into More Adgroupsif x no of ADG didn't perform then 2x with same no of keywords in the campaign will increases the chance of your survival. If your adgroups contained 50 Keywords, break them into 20-25 each writing more specific ads around them.
Double the number of extensionsExtensions are often ignored. However, they are as much important as the Adtexts are. Doubling their number or ven tripling would give the system more varietes to choose from and hence will increase the chances of qualifying in the auction where it used to fail. In other words it enhances quality score and brings your cost down.
Keep Experimenting with New FeaturesGoogle keeps on rolling out new features and your competitors are just lazy adopting them. Actually they are goldmines, if you could master new features early, they are great source of good conversions. People who experimented with Display Network, Youtube, Mobile and nowadays Mobile Apps advertising, got rewarded and were far more sucessful than those who were stuck in Search Only.
5 Box Clever Google PPC Ads Survival Strategy
Adwords Overdelivery limit raised to 100%, Know Your Monthly Limit
Few months back Google increased the overdelivery limit for adwords ads to 100%. Many advertisers have started complaining that on odd days spend goes too far away from what they envisaged.
There is a Daily Budget feature in every campaign. While setting up daily budget you actually tell Google How much you want to spend on any day. However, web traffic does not remain static over time, rather it varies widely across your chosen keyword/topic/interest... candidates. To comply with it Google used to allow your ad to go past your daily budget, so that it may survive the occasional surge in traffic. Earlier it used to be only 20%. Now this is upto 100%, which means Google can spend upto Rs200, if your Campaign Daily Budget is Rs100.
Impact on Advertisers
Advertisers need not panic. Google while delivering more than your daily budget also takes into account the monthly limit, which is Daily Budget x 30.4. So, Google's system while giving you extra exposure on some day always calculates, the deficit and gaps in scheduling to make up for it. That is to say overdelivery algorithm is designed to keep monthly spend within the limit of 30.4*DB and if by any chance it goes past it, Google won't bill you for that. Those clicks are free! So, if you are using ad scheduling limiting exposure of your ads Or to say your daily budget doesn't get consumed because of time limits you have set up or opting out of some days of the week or you are a casual advertiser who turns his campaign on and off manually, you are more likely to see your daily budget getting breached, on odd days. For advertisers, who keep their ads turned on for most of the time, Google won't find gap within Monthly Limit and real monthly spend & so this behavior is unlikely.
Advertisers should calculate 30.4 x Daily Budget, figure and actual expected spend, like if you don't run ads on sundays then you are expecting a total spend of only 26 x DB. Say, your DB is Rs100 & you don't advertise on Sundays & expecting a total spend of Rs2600 only. However, Google will see the limit as 30.4 x 100 = Rs 3040. To not get piqued at the end of the month, just equate the two, 2600 = DB x 30.4, So, DB = 2600/30.4 = Rs85.53 . Hence, if you set up Daily Budget as Rs85.53 with 4 Sundays in a month, you will see effectively a spend of Roughly Rs100 everyday. Happy!
How Internet changed the Fundamental Laws of Economics
There is a law in economics which you must have learnt in school days. Perhaps still being taught, why bank's rate for keeping your money with them can't be zero. The law is deduced from three kinds of motives why people would keep money with them rather than in bank and why incentives like interest are required to make them keep it in bank. The law formulated long back when internet was not even in the wildest of imagination among the best of world's economists. Internet made it possible, keeping money in banks won't limit its liquidity and thus nullified the motive ascribed for keeping cash for transactions, which actually is better if it remains in bank. This Law seems done for in the internet era, where it is now possible to reverse the motive and fearing reversal in rate of interests Banks will give you lower interests for Fds for longer duration. You can sense what is in store.
There is another law which every student of microeconomics, studies. It is called the Law of diminishing Marginal Utility. This Law says if I have two umbrellas the first one has greater utility than second one, which can work as a spare or for some other purposes which are of lesser significance than first one. So Marginal Utility of second one is lesser than first one and successively third, fourth etc will have diminishing successive marginal utility. There is an exception associated with this law and this is it is not applicable on a drunkard, who tends to enjoy every successive glass of wine more than the previous one. Just like a drunkard enjoys every successive drink more than the previous one, if you serve data about something of interest it seems to have similar impact. More data you share with your client More they demand! The greatest gift of internet based advertising for businesses is that it can generate great amount of data relevant to their business. You will find the impact of data sharing that you have generated is so great that it can effectively countervail the impact of law of diminishing utility. You can see it clearly in international Arms market, Saudi Arabia who already has state of the art Thaad missile defence system from USA, is going for S400 by Russia which is a similar product. Why? because both are dependent on Data fed to them which are different. Same is the case why India and many other countries have aircraft of so many makes, when they all promise to serve them the same. Answer lies in they have been marketed using trustworthy data which makes each of them unique. We are living in the age of abundance of Data, each of us generate and has appetite to consume. Let us drink in some data with our customers all the time.
Conversions in Mobile Era - Web Forms have had their Day!
Web Form Conversions are declining. That is the news which you either experienced or heard from your online marketing staff. Business Leads doesn't come the way it used to. Most people before contacting you have surely checked your web presence on at least two devices. So, mobile targeting is something you need to focus on. Here I must clarify mobile targeting doesn't simply mean ads on mobile. Even if someone is on desktop, if you don't have something for his mobile you are missing something.
Web Tracking and Conversion Figures are partially correct
The way businesses used to happen have changed considerably. First it changed in favor of online. That is why we considered everything online trackable. It laid the foundation of analytics and conversion tracking tools. Measurable ROI became the benchmark of online investment. Things changed with proliferation of different kinds of devices accessing web more conveniently. Desktops still rules the roost among all devices and we still consider it first deciding upon the layout of a webpage. However, a large part of decision making is influenced by mobile and other handheld devices which can serve you a webpage on the fly. No matter whether travelling, running, cooking or watching TV. If suggestion comes for spending a holiday somewhere, someone in the family is quick to look into details then and there and make an influence. Same is true with in an office. People are changing devices back and forth before coming to any conclusion & major part of it are not tracked!
Google claims, it extrapolates mobile data into All Conversion column, which you must take with a pinch of salt, but dismissing it altogether may too not be a wise idea given the fact Google owns Android platform which is used by a very big percentage of mobile users. So, we may assume Google knows which PC connects with which mobile and perhaps is capable of mapping and pairing them with clusters of devices used in decision making. Perhaps! Google too insists it is good for you if you believe this data. Its a Grey area and for those who are bogged into conversion data on dashboard its a bad news. Whole thing is too fuzzy.
You rather need to analyse things in larger perspective now. Just analyze it like other advertising program where you don't track outcome directly. To judge the success of ads you must look into the impact it generated on your overall business, ignoring what dashboard figure says.
Web form vs Mobile Forms
Forms served on mobile devices should be brief, intuitive and one which requires less typing, only then you can ensure they are not ignored. Also, make it limited to 3-4 fields max.
Form fill ups are still the most important part of conversions and gives you valuable insight about your prospects.
So, pull up your socks and give your mobile website a little bit more attention, everyday.
Horizontal & Vertical shift in Google Ads
Google removed Right side search ads some 6 months back. With this the game of search changed a lot. This escalated the bids to new levels and all of a sudden the metrics like lost impression share and relative CTR started looking relevant. In fact every metric which you dismissed as junk on dashboard needs to be analyzed for refinement opportunities. Google's Webinar a while back announced gradual roll out of features like demographic bidding and complete device wise targeting and bidding on search. So, competition on search won't be limited to the vertical space, it has many dimensions and more to come in future.
Changes in Adtexts
All of you must have gone through new format of ads. Display Url has two vacant fields. Since you can't change first one which defaults to TLD of your Final Url, the fun of writing myKeyword.XYZ.com seems gone for good. So, the format would only be XYZ.com/FirstText/SecondText. Probabaly, it has been done to keep ads along the line of Organic result's url structure, which shows breadcrumbs, like xyz.com > Category > Subcategory. I'd suggest you to always keep the spirit of change in your mind while writing ads.
People advertising on Bing already are familiar with continuously running two lines that Google has introduced now. Only thing to keep in mind is that Two Headlines sometimes become too long and Google Truncates them at many places. It has been observed that truncation of headlines on Desktop are quite common and truncation of texts below headlines are common on mobile devices. So, keep them a bit shorter, to avoid it.
Some precious Valuetrack Parameters
Set up your Tracking Template with valuable tracking parameters, like {adposition}, {devicemodel} and {Random}. Analytics , utm freaks tend to overlook adwords tracking features, but adposition and random are unique parameters that can be tracked only through adwords. The Random number tagging will help you identify & match the url with other metrics and present it side by side analytics data.
After tagging you would get valuable adposition data reported as 1t1, 1t2 for above organic result appearance and as 1o1, 1o2.. for below organic result ads. You know how helpful these data are these days! With proper tagging you would also know how ads perform on different device models.
Top Content on Display
A hidden control for display ads. You must have noticed this tab in Display Campaigns under setting tab. It is meant for changing the bid of placements you have opted for. Name of the tab is not intuitive. However, in one shot you can change the bid of all the "managed placements" in your campaign to a 10%, 20%, 30% higher bids than automatic placemets and hence improve the impression share on the placements you have selected compared to those which system has automatically selected for you.
Fix for Responsive Design of Blogger Designer Template
It is very Important to know that Designer templates like Popular "Simple Template", has no Wrapper element in their CSS, so it is futile to look into the solutions offered using them at many places. Also, You won't be able to detect and use css elements via Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox element inspectors, for what has been rendered. I would discuss important issues only.
Problem with hyperlinks, Landing on different Page Or Home Page
Many bloggers are using mobile template which has in built feature to append the urls with ?m=1, forcing the browser to open mobile version of the page. However, it creates its own problems. Instead of writing ?m=1 at the end of url, it writes something like example.com/?m=1..... resulting into, you being landed upon the Home Page instead of the page you wanted to land on.
To fix it, find this piece of code
in your template and replace it with:
if (screen.width <= 699) {
document.location = "/?m=1";
if (screen.width <= 699) {
document.location = document.URL + '?m=1';
Responsive Design without using Mobile Templates:
Many Bloggers have come out with solutions about this issue. Most of them are using wrappers and containers for resizing according to device width. However many templates including this one (Simple), I am using don't have wrappers. Good news is in fact these templates are Responsive by default. You don't need to write many media queries parameters for different width sizes. Just a very simple tweak does the trick. Simply, find the following code in your template:
body {
min-width: $(content.width);
.content-outer, .content-fauxcolumn-outer, .region-inner {
min-width: $(content.width)
max-width: $(content.width)
_width: $(content.width)
Change it to:
body {
min-width: $(device.width);
.content-outer, .content-fauxcolumn-outer, .region-inner {
min-width: $(device.width)
max-width: $(device.width)
_width: $(device.width)
With this simple tweak, you get the Responsive Design which adjusts according to the device width and
you don't need to do anything. After doing it, you get the desired dynamic width adjustment and only other thing is to make your other size elements Fluid. Fluid means simply remove static size elements in pixel and start writing in percentage term. (PS: Although it is a good starting point to make your template responsive, keep experimenting till you have fixed every issue with responsiveness).
I've added following piece of code to limit the width of the blog,spreading too far. Just find .content-inner in CSS, and alter it like this:
.content-inner {
padding: 10px;
margin: 0 150px 0 150px;
Also, add a little piece of code like this one in CSS:
@media all and (max-width: 900px){
.content-inner , .columns {width:100%; margin-left:0 !important;margin-right:0 !important;}
#header-right {float:left}
#crosscol {
width: 80%;
Implementing all the above, You would exactly have website like mine. I need to work on Header and footer too. So, it is still not right time for saying Goodbye to the mobile template.After coding for responsiveness, you may opt out of mobile template version of your blog. You will get a single Responsive Version of CSS which is compatible across every device. Cheers!
Keywords are Curate's Egg, Make the Most of Them
Keywords are at the center of managing a search ad campaign.
You can further divide them into Exact, Phrase and Broad. They Provide targeting precision in the same order. Broad gives you really broad coverage of search queries, you need to block the bad part of it on routine basis. No matter how old and tight your campaigns are they will keep on surprising you. To a lesser extent same is the case with phrase too, however we can guess its bad part with reasonably good accuracy. Those who live and breathe exact matches find it too costly, sooner or later.
3 Solutions for Managing Keyword Match types
All Match Types In the Same Adgroup
An age old practice in adwords. Soon after finishing up with Keyword List, break them into Three Parts: [kw], "kw" & kw, then & there. If you remember, we used to set the bids too using asterix after them. You can bid on them in decreasing order starting from highest for exact and lowest for broad for the same keyword. Earlier, no matter how many times you have added the keywords, Google consolidated the stats for them and assigned same Quality Score irrespective of the match types. However, things have changed now and all are treated differently. There are reports that it is no more the most restrictive type which will reflect the stats, actually broad may compete with exact and phrase for same query. So, this technique though has the merit of simplicity, there are some caveats associated with it.
Different adgroups for different match types
Maintaining different adgroups for each match types allows you to add negative as exact in broad and phrase adgroups. So you go like this Phrase Adgroup will have Exact as negative and broad will have phrase as negative. In this way you will have traffic for each adgroups which does not interfere with each other and so you can set bids according to priority. This method achieves everything except for segregation of budget.
Different Match types in different Campaigns
To allocate different Budget which are allocated to each type you need to segregate them into Campaign. I had talked about penumbra match type, for brand keywords. However, no matter what match type you added Google blocks all the queries around it and it spills over to many keywords. So, to keep tab on them it is better to put them into different campaigns now. Also, keeping different match types in different campaigns will give you better ROI, because there is nil chance your bad keywords eating into the share of Good ones. So, if you are dealing with account that has limited number of keywords and accuracy matters the most, it should be implemented.
The Best Way to Track Adwords Conversions
You can track adwords conversion in many ways. From Thank You Page tracking to import from analytics, to tracking via Tag Manager. There are different ways, and each has its own merit.
Thank You Page Conversion
Its the oldest and the simplest way of tracking conversions. You just have to download the code from your adwords account and paste it on a hidden page of the website, that is displayed only after completion of a process, you consider useful, like form submission. Though there are other new methods, I still prefer it. It doesn't make your other pages code heavy, its greatest merit. So, if it can be installed it should be your first priority. For websites which doesn't have too many kinds of form submission, it is still the best way to track conversions.
On Click Conversion Tracking
If you want to track clicks on some links or your website points to some third party payment gateway, where installing the code is not possible, tracking click on button is your best bet. For this again, you simply need to download the relevant code, from your adwords account, which is easy, and tag the links after a, like a YOUR ON CLICK CODE href="" with relevant tags. It will start tracking your onclick conversion. However, if your HTML Link contains Target_blank element, this method won't work. That is to say, if your links open in a new window, this method won't track it. Also, if it results into button freeze in some browsers then again you shouldn't install it.
Goal Imports from Google Analytics
This is preferred by Google analytics freaks. There are several caveats associated with it. One, very often it fails to give real time figures. What it gives are corrected after sometimes. Misleading enough, if you are on adwords dashboard. Two, Most often advertisers mix it with other kind of conversions, polluting the dashboard figure. Why not keep analytics limited to GA account. It looks nice, while analyzing it there, but messed up when mixed with Adwords Dashboard. I love to see adwords data inside analytics but hate to see its data on adwords dashboard. Just keep few metrics like bounce rate on adwords dashboard. No need to clutter it with too many imports from there.
Conversion Tracking via Tag Manager
You need to create an account in tagmanager.google.com and download the container code from there. Once you paste it all across your website, you can manage what to track via a configurable dashboard. You can load conversion code via it and it is compatible with many services apart from adwords like analytics, linkedin etc. So, no need to paste code again and again on your website. Simply get some ids like conversion id, label id etc and configure it through web interface. It is very beneficial for tracking form submission if you have different kinds of forms across the website at different places. It can identify forms easily if you are using standard html coding and has <form></form> element, otherwise you may have to tweak it further and let it sniff through some class and other ids. It does make it a bit complicated but its worth attempting. Again, don't forget to tick off the option for validation, otherwise your subsequent pages won't load till all values are passed via this code. Don't go for too much accuracy, because page load time has to be your priority. When this was launched I didn't recommend it to anybody because of this issue only. However, it has the option to deactivate. You can easily track link clicks via this too, even if your link opens in a new window. In this way it gives you maximum with minimum efforts.
Good Cop Google leans left leaving Right hang out and dry
What is Left?
You do Adwords Marketing, Right way or Wrong Way. Right way is strictly following all the guidelines in letter and spirit. Google adwords was created in such a way as to reward the honesty and punish the wrong no matter how sneaky they are. It was true in the initial phases of adwords marketing. Google has broken the mold it was cast in, long back. Right Wing practitioners of adwords marketing who bought into the idea of radical honesty on internet marketing should be alarmed or be ready to get edged out by ones who are not right but fits into Google's scheme of doing the semblance of legality, hence not wrong either. Prod at Google for quality check falls flat.
Free Voucher Economy Thriving
In fact good number of agencies have made fortune out of free voucher program. A little gaming with the system allows them rake in huge profit by quoting to advertisers at the fraction of Click cost & running adwords at zero cost. Another trick employed is using $100 coupon(meant for US account only) in new account and then request to turn it into Rupee account after which about Rs7000 becomes the free credit value. Some claim Google automatically turns them into rupee account detecting Indian mobile number during SMS verification. This loophole is deliberately created to benefit to whom it is communicated. You should know Indian new accounts are eligible for Rs3000/- max. free credit Only. Google's benefit is, they help push the click cost in auction upward and make some honest advertiser pay higher. Google has altered TOS for applying these vouchers to pander to these bad boys of PPC. When I last checked Terms & Condition, I could find this poorly written document with a conspicuous grammatical mistake, promising credit in your account after "an minimum" spent. It tells on them, how much analysis has been done and how many people actually care about reading it. Clearly, Google didn't even check it back after posting.
Tech Support ads still run
Its an industry created by Google. You know Microsoft Bing pulled itself out of this murky business by categorically declaring Third Party Tech Support won't be allowed on Bing Platform. It is in black & white and talking to Bing support I felt they are in no mood to cut you some slack. In contrast, Google has no cut and dried version on this business. It continues to play fast and loose on this front. Most of its sales partners, SMB, Google authorized, blah blah.... were heavily dependent on this industry and may not like to be saddled with other kind. So, you still find some ads in this category running on Google, terms of which are not above board.
Double Serving is an art
Google in 2008, relaxed double serving rules. It has four points out of which at least two should not be breached. 1) Two websites should not be owned by same person. 2) Brands & Logo should be different. 3) Pricing difference should be more than 25%. 4) It should not lead to same customer support experience. If co. X & Y, points you to same customer support after buying then they are one and same breaching the fair use policy of ad network.
Despite all said about it. It is considered an art by many and Google turns blind eye towards them. In fact some agencies, close to Google, are considered specialist in this area. Talking to some advertisers, it was revealed, Google recommends them or rather they are "Authorized".
Abuse of Invoicing Account
Google extends direct invoicing privilege to some advertisers with good credentials fulfilling both regular account spent and legal norms. However, it has been brought to my notice that several advertisers get this privilege even if they fall short of requirement. In fact these accounts are abused to run Free PPC by many agencies who are in cahoots with some Google India Reps. Higher Threshold is set for payment which are never reached actually and so they are never billed. They also keep on creating New invoicing accounts using fictitious credentials to run Free PPC at regular interval in collaboration with Google! One guy confided some "Mr. V" is so smart and have such great inside track that every detail of click and cost is reset or wiped off after some time, looking like the account had never run in the past. Having myself seen a disapproved ad mysteriously turning into approved, I can't doubt this claim either.
It is the common observation of PPC guys around the globe, if your ads run 24x7 and you are willing to pay a decent amount to Google then Google seems more than willing to cut you some slack. They only pick on small advertisers.
Right Side Search Ads Disappeared- Implications !
Post February, 23rd, 2016, Google Adwords has stopped showing Paid Ads on Right Hand side of the search result pages.
To adjust with the new situation, advertisers need to tune their campaigns.
Following Implications are immediate concerns:
- Reduced number of ads will show on the Search Result Page. Although Google has increased the number of Top Listing from 3 to 4, this is only for Highly Commercial queries
- Search ads will show on Top and bottom of the Organic Results. It means number of ads on a page will vary from 3to7. How frequent bottom ads shows is not certain. Even if we assume 7 ads on a page, its a drop from earlier 11-14. Huge!
- Only Exception so far disclosed are Product Listing Ads, PLAs Or Shopping ads, which are eligible to appear on the right side.
- It is not clear whether, ads without extensions and all other bells & whistles are allowed to enter the Top or not. Documented Position so far which perhaps still holds is such ads get preference. So, if your campaign contains only ads and keywords, they will be worst hit with this change.
Your To-Do List after the change:
- Immediately extract Top Vs Other Report and calculate the bid to cope with the situation.
- Study the Competitors Report via Details tab. How many have outranked you how many times and figure out How to survive in the changed ecosystem.
- Create as many extensions as possible. Although only 3 can show at a time, you never know which will give you extra punch and impressions, when others fail to trigger.
- Make your campaign as much feature loaded as possible. More features you add more likely they are to appear
- Elevate your bidding to the level of CPA/Portfolio. It would act as a hedge against crazy competition. Let Google's algorithm take care of your Cost of Acquisition.


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Customising Tables
As we discussed in the Data Views guide, whenever you are viewing a set of stocks as a table, the View Bar provides eight different table views. While these are preset with very sensible defaults, it may be that you're unable to see the data that you want. To solve this, we made them editable so you can customise them as you wish.
If you click any table tab you'll see a blue Pencil icon next to the name of the table.
If you click this icon, you'll be able to customise the columns displayed in that table from a modal Table Editor popup box that looks something like this:
The table editor is split in half:
- On the left-hand side is a clickable list of all the data available to add as columns, categorised into folders. Clicking an individual folder will open up a list of the available data points. By clicking the 'add' button on any row the field will be added to the list on the right hand side.
- On the right-hand side of the pop-up are displayed vertically all the metrics being used as columns in the current table view.
Managing your columns
Adding new data points to your table view is simple. Just click a category and scroll down through the list. Each data point has and Add button next to it. Clicking 'Add' will add that data point to your current table as a column. It will then be shown in the right hand side of the Table Editor.
In the Miscellaneous folder you will find a —Separator— column that can be useful for adding a visual separation between sets of related columns.
You can reorder the columns in your table by opening the Table Editor and dragging the relevant metric up or down in the list on the right hand side of the popup.
To remove any of the columns from your table view simply click the red cross on that data point on the right hand side of the popup.
NB: If you remove anything by accident you can always click the grey coloured Reset to Default button at the bottom of the pop-up. This will return everything to how you found it. So play around !
When you are done, click Save Changes. This will close the Table Editor and show you your new table view.
Customising the Folio Holdings view
One of the main tabs in tables and portfolios is Holdings. In tables, it will show current price and volume information. In portfolios, you'll also see details about your positions, holdings and performance.
In a portfolio, the Table Editor allows you to add more details to the Holdings view. Just click the Portfolio Holdings category on the left-side of the Table Editor pop-up. There you will be able to add data points like Cost per share, Realised gain and Total gain, among others.
Renaming your table view
You can rename the table by re-opening the Table Editor and clicking the cog icon at the top right of the Table Editor. You can change the name by using the field provided.
Once you've created a table on Stockopedia - whether it's using a Screen or a Folio - you have the option to download the data, copy it, or print it out. You can download the data displayed in any table using the download tools at the bottom of the page.
To do this, scroll to the bottom of the table, where you'll see a Download button. Clicking that will launch a menu offering various options:
- Excel
- Copy
Download to CSV is the most popular. If you opt to download the data, you'll be asked to give the file a name and location (such as your desktop). Click Save to complete the download.
If you have any issues it is likely that your operating system isn't configured to open CSV files into your spreadsheet program - if this is the case, open your spreadsheet program (e.g. Excel, Numbers, Google Sheets) and import it manually.


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Fertitta proposed a deal on Jan. 27 to acquire all outstanding common stock for $23.50 per share in cash, or about $380 million, representing a 40-percent premium over the stock's Jan. 25 closing price. Including
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