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Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook
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- Set up your Adwords account and track results beyond the click
- Create relevant keywords and write compelling ads
- Learn about reporting, analysis, managing Adwords, and troubleshooting performance
- Optimize performance for maximum ROI and implement strategies for Remarketing to past visitors
- Step-by-step format with bite-sized, easy-to-digest, and implementable suggestions
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Release Date : June 2013
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Table of ContentsPreface
Chapter 1: Researching the Market and Competition and Setting Goals
Chapter 2: Setting up Your Account
Chapter 3: Tracking beyond the Click
Chapter 4: Structuring Your Account
Chapter 5: Creating Relevant Keywords
Chapter 6: Writing Compelling Ads
Chapter 7: Budgets and Bidding
Chapter 8: Running Display Ads
Chapter 9: Remarketing to Past Visitors
Chapter 10: Reporting and Analysis
Chapter 11: Optimizing Performance
Chapter 12: Advanced Strategies and Features
Chapter 13: Managing AdWords
- Chapter 1: Researching the Market and Competition and Setting Goals
- Introduction
- Focusing on relevance
- Identifying your competitors using Google search results
- Using third-party tools to research competitors
- Analyzing budgets and bids to determine market saturation
- Setting advertising goals
- Predicting if AdWords will be profitable and calculating potential returns
- Chapter 2: Setting up Your Account
- Introduction
- Creating an AdWords account
- Determining the right billing option for your needs
- Inviting other users to access your account
- Changing user access levels or removing users
- Enabling auto-tagging at the account level
- Changing your notification settings
- Chapter 3: Tracking beyond the Click
- Introduction
- Linking AdWords to Google Analytics
- Creating a conversion goal in AdWords to track leads or sales
- Importing goals from Google Analytics into AdWords
- Verifying that conversion tracking is working
- Analyzing how long it takes to convert customers
- Analyzing assist clicks and impressions
- Analyzing AdWords data in Google Analytics
- Analyzing time on site data and bounce rates
- Chapter 4: Structuring Your Account
- Introduction
- Planning account structure
- Common ways to structure campaigns
- Deciding where to show your ads
- Device targeting options
- Choosing which locations to target
- Excluding locations from seeing your ads
- Selecting target languages
- Creating themed ad groups
- Renaming campaigns and ad groups
- Chapter 5: Creating Relevant Keywords
- Introduction
- Using keyword matching options effectively
- Finding relevant keywords
- Analyzing competitor keywords from spyfu.com and similar tools
- Generating negative keywords
- Identifying keyword duplicates
- Multiplying keyword phrases
- Changing broad keywords to broad match modifiers
- Adding new keywords to an existing ad group
- Editing, pausing, or deleting keywords
- Chapter 6: Writing Compelling Ads
- Introduction
- Researching competitors' ads
- Setting campaign ad rotation
- Creating effective ads
- Choosing landing pages
- Implementing dynamic keyword insertion in ads
- Avoiding common ad copy mistakes
- Split testing ad copy
- Editing your ad text
- Pausing or deleting ads
- Chapter 7: Budgets and Bidding
- Introduction
- Setting and adjusting campaign budgets
- Evaluating your current budget and potential impact of budget changes
- Setting and adjusting ad group level bids
- Setting and adjusting keyword level bids
- Enabling enhanced bidding
- Enabling Conversion Optimizer
- Adjusting CPA bids
- Setting separate bids for calls
- Predicting impact of bid changes using the Bid Simulator
- Modifying mobile bids
- Adjusting location bids
- Adjusting bids based on the day of the week and time of day
- Chapter 8: Running Display Ads
- Introduction
- Creating an automatic placements campaign
- Creating a managed placements campaign
- Researching and adding display placements
- Targeting display sites based on topics
- Excluding irrelevant and poorly performing placements
- Avoid displaying your ads on certain pages
- Excluding categories of sites and potentially sensitive topics
- Adding image ads to display campaigns
- Creating rich image ads with Display Ad Builder
- Analyzing relative CTR to benchmark display performance
- Chapter 9: Remarketing to Past Visitors
- Introduction
- Generating the remarketing code
- Creating remarketing audiences in AdWords
- Creating custom remarketing combinations via rules
- Setting up a remarketing campaign
- Setting remarketing bids
- Setting frequency caps to limit how often ads show
- Increasing traffic to your remarketing campaign
- Remarketing to YouTube viewers
- Chapter 10: Reporting and Analysis
- Introduction
- Running and scheduling reports
- Customizing columns to personalize data views
- Analyzing the days and times when ads perform best
- Analyzing geographic performance
- Reviewing call details
- Finding out where on display your ads are appearing
- Segmenting performance reports
- Creating filters to customize reporting
- Viewing data in graph format
- Evaluating sitelink extensions
- Using impression share metrics to increase conversions
- Chapter 11: Optimizing Performance
- Introduction
- Improving relevance and Quality Score
- Improving ad rank
- Changing keyword match types
- Scheduling ads to run during key days and times
- Expanding your keyword list
- Analyzing ad copy performance and picking top performers
- Adjusting budgets to maximize traffic and conversions
- Tips to increase traffic
- Running search term reports to optimize keywords
- Optimizing bids for ROI
- Optimizing keywords to improve ROI
- Excluding IP addresses from seeing your ads
- Optimizing your landing pages
- Chapter 12: Advanced Strategies and Features
- Introduction
- Creating sitelinks
- Setting up call extensions
- Implementing social extensions
- Setting up location extensions
- Promoting application downloads
- Setting up Dynamic Search Ads
- Creating product ads
- Using experiments to test campaign changes
- Using advanced negative match keywords
- Automating actions based on rules and goals
- Common AdWords mistakes
- Chapter 13: Managing AdWords
- Introduction
- Troubleshooting why your ads are not showing up
- Finding out your ad's approval status
- Creating custom alerts to monitor performance
- Reviewing past changes and revisions
- Viewing or hiding paused or deleted items
- Getting started with AdWords Editor
- Making changes to campaign settings via AdWords Editor
- Reviewing account statistics through AdWords Editor
- Copying campaigns or ad groups with AdWords Editor
- Adding keywords in bulk using AdWords Editor
- Updating ads in bulk using AdWords Editor
Submit Errata
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Sample chapters
You can view our sample chapters and prefaces of this title on PacktLib or download sample chapters in PDF format.
What you will learn from this book
- Tracking and reporting tips that will maximize your returns
- Take your Adwords account to the next level using the overlooked advanced features
- Research your market and competition to analyse budgets, calls-to-action and offers
- Measure the success of your ad campaigns
- Write compelling ads, choosing relevant keywords, and choose where to focus your money
- Learn using examples advantageous key ad strategies and little known industry tools
- Implement advanced strategies and tools to help you save time
- Recommendations include actual account snapshots and detailed instructions on how to implement each strategy
- Guidelines for budgets and effective bids and Strategies for running display ads
In Detail
Google Adwords is one of the most effective ways to advertise today with unprecedented reach and potential to show your ads to millions of Internet users instantly. It helps in bringing highly relevant ads to customers who are searching for you in real-time, resulting in highly accountable and cost-effective campaigns that even the smallest advertisers can take advantage of.
Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook is a step-by-step guide with practical tips and everyday examples that will arm you with the tools necessary to run effective Adwords campaigns.
"Advertising on Google: The High Performance Cookbook" is a collection of hands-on recipes for creating and optimizing Adwords campaigns The book begins with the research you'll need to conduct before starting with Adwords, including figuring out how competitive your market is and finding out what your competitors are doing. It takes you through the account set-up process from the beginning to the end, including how to fine-tune your campaigns based on the rich reporting available.
You will also learn how to bid effectively so that you are not overspending and instead focus your budget on what is working for you. You will also see how to track ad results and act on the data to maximize ROI. This book highlights the most successful keyword building and ad copy writing techniques with real-life examples that will make your ads stand out. Advanced ad formats and campaign types are introduced with recommendations based on a decade of experience.
The book concludes with advanced strategies and features that the most successful advertisers are taking advantage of and account management tools to help you save time.
This book contains practical recipes on everything from creating an Adwords account, reporting, analyzing, bidding effectively to remarketing. The book is a guide to getting hands-on experience in Adwords strategies. It is extensively focussed on helping you build an Adwords account, which appeals to the visitors and attracts more clicks!
Who this book is for
This book is great for the users, who are ready to start using Adwords, as well as for experienced advertisers, who are looking to take their accounts to the next level. Just create an Adwords account and run ad campaigns to take advantage of the hands-on recipes.


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- Combine water with salt, ground black pepper, oregano, basil, onion salt, parsley, garlic powder, bay leaf, and salad dressing mix in a saucepan. Stir well, and bring to a boil.
- Place roast in slow cooker, and pour salad dressing mixture over the meat.
- Cover, and cook on Low for 10 to 12 hours, or on High for 4 to 5 hours. When done, remove bay leaf, and shred meat with a fork.
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Absolutely AWESOME!!! The prep couldn't have been easier, and the house smelled wonderful all day. To save others some time, I read most of the 150+ reviews, and here are the most consistent suggestions that I believe made the recipe: 1) Use a chuck roast instead of rump, as it shreds better (and is cheaper!). 2) Subsitute beef broth for the water 3) Double the salad dressing mix 4) After shredding the beef, put it back in the crockpot to cook an additional half hour to soak in the juices. I only used a 2 1/2 pound chuck roast, but I used the amount of spices called for a 5 lb. one, and it was just perfect. I cooked on low for 10 hours, and around the 8 hour mark I took the meat out to shred it and it was so easy, it practically fell apart. I put it back in and it cooked for another hour and a half along with a couple pepperoncini before we finally got to eat. I served on toasted hoagie rolls with a bunch of optional toppings....sauteed mushrooms, red onion, sliced pepperoncini and sliced roasted red peppers. Then ran the sandwiches under the broiler to melt the extra sharp provolone cheese. My husband was in heaven and if we weren't already married I think this sandwich would have gotten me a proposal! I had never heard of Italian Beef before, but this recipe makes me want to visit Chicago to try theirs! Thank you for another permanent in our meal rotation!
Tasty and flavorful, as well as easy to make. There is an error in the list of ingredients: it calls for a 4.7 oz package dry Italian salad dressing mix. That would be way too much seasoning. The correct amount is a 0.7 oz package.
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Originally from the Chicago 'Burbs, I've been looking for a good Italian Beef Sandwich recipe for AGES... and this one is the BEST I've found, by far! It tastes almost exactly like the ones I used to get "back home"... plus it's sooooo easy to make in the crockpot! I followed the recipe exactly, except I substituted beef broth for the water and added 2 packages of the italian salad dressing mix. I also added a few sliced green peppers to the crockpot an hour or so before it was done. When it was done, I removed the peppers, shredded the beef, and then returned the shredded beef back to the liquid in the crockpot. I then served the shredded beef and peppers on toasted hoagie rolls. My husband and I were in HEAVEN!! :) Oh, and here's a tip -- make sure you DON'T drain the meat before placing it on the rolls -- the liquid has an AWESOME taste, so make sure you get plenty of it on your sandwich for the best flavor. In Chicago they say "the wetter, the better" when it comes to Italian Beef Sandwiches!!
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- Calories
- 318 cal
- 16%
- Fat
- 15.8 g
- 24%
- Carbs
- 1.6 g
- < 1%
- Protein
- 39.4 g
- 79%
- Cholesterol
- 100 mg
- 33%
- Sodium
- 819 mg
- 33%
Based on a 2,000 calorie diet
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HCG Diet: You're Still Here?
Caution: Weight loss on this diet comes at a price, expert warns.
As a registered dietitian, fad diets are one of my pet peeves. But thankfully, most of them come and go so quickly that they are but a distant memory. However, the hCG diet just doesn't seem to disappear. I first found out about the hCG diet in April of 2008, when I was asked to speak about it on the Fox Morning Show with Mike and Juliet. Three years later, I was on the Dr. Oz Show once again speaking about this, in my opinion, crazy diet.
So what is the hCG Diet? HCG stands for human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone found in the urine of pregnant women that supposedly works as an appetite suppressant. HCG is injected, typically into the thigh, or taken as a drop under the tongue. Along with a daily dose of this hormone, individuals are also placed on a 500-calorie diet, or more recently, 800 calories per day.
The hormone as a weight loss tool has not been substantiated by any conclusive scientific research. In my view, and that of many other health experts, the reason for weight loss is simply because of the diet's restrictiveness. Almost anyone who eats fewer than 1,200 calories per day will lose weight. But at what cost—physically, mentally, and financially?
First let's talk financially. The average cost of a 21-day cycle of hCG is $450. When I think of all the fruits and veggies a person could buy at that price, I wonder why anyone would choose differently. Healthy weight loss should not break the bank.
As for mentally—I don't know about you, but I need food to think clearly. Our brain depends on glucose to operate normally, and 500 to 800 calories per day certainly won't guarantee enough of it. And besides, when I think of my mental health, I also think of exercise, and 500 to 800 calories definitely won't supply energy for the gym. Oh, and do you like being social? So much for dining out with friends: On this diet regimen, it's not going to happen.
Lastly, and probably most importantly, is what this diet can do to you physically. Any healthy weight-loss regimen should promote 1 to 2 pounds of weight loss per week. The hCG diet promises 1 to 3 pounds per day. With this amount of calorie restriction, a person is at risk for bone and muscle loss, electrolyte imbalance, and gallstones. Not to mention daily fatigue and irritability.
Sound like fun? Not to me! I prefer the tried and true way to lose weight: by watching portion sizes, eating plenty of fruits, veggies, whole grains, lean protein, low-fat dairy, and healthy fats; and incorporating daily physical activity. Learning to change our eating behaviors—now that can last a lifetime versus learning simply to restrict and only achieving temporary weight loss.
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Political Islam is Islam's ideology about unbelievers, kafirs.
After the Mumbai jihad a friend received a letter from someone who works in
counter-terrorism. The friend is an apologist for Islam. The counter-terrorism
friend poses their dhimmitude (apologies) so skillfully that it is worth countering
their arguments.
The argument goes on for a...
December 22, 2008
The Evil of Good Deeds and Good Thoughts
After the Mumbai jihad there was a response of "Do good deeds." The Jews of Chabad (the sect that had its members tortured to death) asked for Jews to do "a mitzvah," good works. A yoga group that had some of its members killed believes that love...
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From the Bookshelf: The Straight Path to Mumbai
There is a corner of the book world that has been little known or appreciated. Before 9/11, Hindu scholarship on Islam was some of the best in a world dominated by Western dhimmi academicians.
If we choose, we can learn much from India, a country that has defied Islam's...
A charity for LeT jihad in Pakistan will challenge a ban to close it down.
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December 5, 2008
The following article by Ben Shapiro is one of the best so far to come out
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The sum total of Choices
September 29, 2008
"What could I have been, and where might I be now had I not made some of the choices that I had in the past…"
These are questions that would come to mind – and quite often too in the pre-Pusat Serenti Gambang past … the "what if's"; especially that of "What if I had not taken that first dose that had started the relapse in 1993 that brought about the spiraling of my life and those closest to me". And each time I'd end up feeling so sorry for myself – and angry and bitter with myself.
Now you should know why I was struck by that internal turmoil upon reaching the final two paragraphs when writing that post of "God, why hath Thou forsaken me?" (Part 5). I had spent hours after that thinking about this matter – of "Why" I was feeling that way.
I think I know the answer: I had not properly dealt with it. And it will continue to come back to haunt and torment me again and again in the future until I do. This is what I had learned from the fellowship of Narcotics Anonymous (NA), and they are spread over a number of specific Steps:
- STEP FOUR – "We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves"
- STEP FIVE – "We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs"
- STEP SIX – "We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character"
- STEP SEVEN – "We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings"
- STEP EIGHT – "We made a list of all the persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all"
- STEP NINE - "We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others"
Caption: The original "Jimmy K" logo of N.A. The fellowship currently use a different logo, but the "NA" font at the centre remains. Who is this "Jimmy K"? I don't know. However, it's a tradition of NA not to focus on individuals. Instead, the fellowship emphasises "anonymity". That's one reason why I'm using "Cendana287″, "Ahmad Anon", "Mart Anon" (and "Mat Cendana" at the other site); although quite a number of people here know my name. Wanting to be (and remain) anonymous was another reason why I was nervous and apprehensive on realising that Rocky's Bru had started a post about this site, which was almost totally unknown except for a very few.
Those six Steps above – That's a lot of work! Yes, and I get scared each time I read of them; and am frequently tempted with "It's too tough … Let's just forget about it … just live life the best that I can." But I know that I'll be cheating myself if I abandon these principles of NA. All of these steps (and the others) are mentioned in Islam; although not in exact such words, of course.
I'll be very happy should someone come up to me and tell me "all that I need to do is to `taubat' (repent), and everything will be okay again…". But is `taubat' merely "the uttering of words"?..and then joining dakwah-related groups and spend a lot of time inside mosques and suraus? By the way, I have nothing against anyone joining dakwah (missionary) groups, nor against those who spend a lot of time at religion-centric buildings (a lot better than those who spend their time under bridges and abandoned houses; on in pubs, nightclubs and restaurants).
But in my case and situation, I don't think merely to utter taubat to all and sundry is anywhere near adequate. Which is why I feel "the N.A way" is possibly the only specific way to go when it comes to me and myself. By the way, should someone here have some doa (prayer) or `air tawar' that, on the basis of using it alone will prevent me from a possible relapse, I'll be more than happy to force myself to believe it:-)
Anyway, before we look back as to how I had suffered a relapse in 1993 – which a NA guy at at the Pusat Khidmat AADK in Kuantan had said was actually a "collapse" (It was Rahim; also the PENDAMAI secretary) - it might be better to start even further than that – when and how I had started using drugs in the first place. It was in 1976, when I was in Form 5, at the age of 16 (was promoted to "express class" during primary school; hence the age `discrepancy').
There's one thing that I remember about that period – the authorities and the public were quite clueless about drugs and other matters relating to it (like treatment and rehabilitation). Many are still clueless about it right now, and coupled with the "bodoh sombong" (ignorant but with excessive pride) attitude of some, are making a mess of things. But I'll leave this one for another time.
Yes, it was generally known that "drugs are dangerous" – there would be all those anti-drug slogans and posters in between television programmes (only two black-and-white channels then) that would remind of "Dadah membawa Padah" (Drugs lead to disaster – Which is very accurate, come to think of it; although the guy who had created it was probably only concerned that it rhymed).
But there were these curiosity and rebellious streaks that are found in many teenagers… "How bad is it?"; "Why do some people take it then?" And it was a time when rock stars were like demi-gods. Since many of them were said (rightly or wrongly) to be taking drugs – and they still became rich and famous – the feeling was that "it isn't as bad as some people make it out to be" and "it should be okay if you control its usage and not to get addicted" (As if you can choose, as I was to find out the hard way!).
Then there were my peers who took it – they would boast of how "Best! Stim…"; describing how `uplifting' a session would take them when consuming ganja (cannabis/marijuana) and fit (heroin – `the destroyer of worlds' as described of Shiva aptly describes this and morphine). The "clean ones" like me would sit quietly listening; and be in awe of them. "If drugs were so bad, then why aren't these guys all the worse for it?!" (Because, it was still their early days yet. The time to pay the piper will come – sooner rather than later).
Caption: Sultan Abdul Hamid College, Alor Star. The classroom to the right of the office was, in 1976, my Form 5H. No, not as in "Hijau" but "Eighth"; the last class (This was a school for "the selected", that also included Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad)…people with `some attitude' (and "potential", had they been fortunate to have received the guidance of others). The class to the left was where I had bombed out with heroin a number of times at night (some of us had obtained permission to use it at night for studying and discussion groups. It (the studying and not the heroin, of course) had played a big part in my having obtained very good MCE (GCE O-Level) results. Oh, I know what some of you might be thinking: "But I thought you are in Kelantan…" Yes, too. More will be revealed in its own good time.
But I held on; still not taking it because there were some worries inside me that held me back. For one thing, I had heard and read a lot about "drug addicts" – of how drugs had gripped them until they were obviously no longer in control. I had also heard stories of older users doing some desperate thing or another to obtain money to buy drugs.
I remember one such guy, Azmi (about 20 then) who was working at my school's canteen (the contractor was a Chinese guy named "John", who had a BMW). One way of obtaining money to support his habit was to siphon some of the day's collection. And I was one of his collaborators. I'd pay RM1 for a plate of rice – gave him a RM1 note, and he'd "return my change of RM4″. I'd later give him RM3 (minus my cut of RM1). I had also bought a pair of brown "Melbourne" jeans which were quite new from him. I can't remember how much but it must have been "cheap enough", for my father gave me the money when I asked. And I remember that he was quite desperate to sell it, telling me he was `gian' (hard up/severe cravings, with physical withdrawal setting in)
[Footnote: Azmi died the following year. He had taken "Roche" (valium) pills when he couldn't get heroin, in a desperate attempt to stave off the physical withdrawal pains (BTW valium, which was easily available and for free at government clinics then, doesn't do much - unlike methadone or buprenorphine, which were not available at that time. But it's better than nothing...) However, he must have taken a few too many for he became like someone heavily intoxicated with drink. Witnesses said he had walked onto a lorry's path...]
It was stories like this that had held me back from trying any of these drugs. Until "an accident" happened…
[Will continue `later' with another Post. In the meantime, have a look at this blog, kata kama. I had accidentally discovered it when I followed up on who had clicked from where to this site. It's a personal site by a former journalist who is now in PR; which explains the smooth and elegant writing style]
*Thurs 2 Oct 10.46AM : Had just read a post at "My Journey to Recovery" (ArahMan7 in Kuala Kangsar). It is about Raya (and Puasa) – especially about what it was like when one was an active addict.
*Sun 5 Oct 11.22AM: I'm aware of a few people wondering and asking "Why am I not writing more often/more post?" The main reason is that, I don't want to force myself – I want everything that comes out here "to be from inside… from my heart". When the time is right, then "something will appear here"…
Life is about choices – and their consequences
September 22, 2008
I hope to make this a continuation of the last two paragraphs of the previous post where I got bogged down and was in some mental turmoil.
This will come about whenever we remember regrettable things and actions that we have not fully come to terms with. With me in that one, it is memory of the first dose in 1993 after 12 years that resulted in fullblown relapse. And the natural sequence of that would inevitably be the disasters that were to follow over the years … of damaging, losing and destroying various persons, places and things.
This is the imagery about I that I had written in an e-mail message yesterday: – saat mula relapse, yang kemudian s-a-t-u d-e-m-i s-a-t-u benda-benda yang penting dalam hidup saya mula hilang dan hancur… I saw it all again being replayed…
Try imagining it; drug addiction "like a bowling ball" in slow-slow motion approaching the pins – not knocking down all of them at once, but hitting just one pin at the side near the gutter, which symbolise any one aspect of life. The bowling ball is no longer there, but the pin, which flies and flips in slow-slow motion, and in dropping down still flipping, now hits and launches another pin which does the same. And so it goes…
Over the years, whether in active addiction or some phase of either treatment, rehabilitaion or recovery, I would emotionally beat myself again and again – feeling something like "I need to be punished" … of self-hatred or scorn for that crucial DECISION and CHOICE despite already knowing about the risks and possibilities from personal experience of addiction during teenage years. And the condition and fate of contemporaries who had made that choice earlier.
There would always be "what if I had not?" moments; which the regret, remorse and anger created further adding to the gloom, depression and hopelessness … making continuing with it "more tolerable" than quitting, which did not seem like a viable nor sustainable choice . Dismay; zero confidence to think about this attempt to "Rebuild a self and a life destroyed", much less to try it.
[Folks, perhaps that one might help explain why addicts seem to be caught in an endless loop ... perhaps explaining the question of "Why don't they do something about their addiction?... ngapa takder self-motivation langsung diorang ni." ]
When at the end of the road we find that we can no longer
function as a human being, either with or without drugs, we all
face the same dilemma. What is there left to do? There seems
to be this alternative: either go on as best we can to the bitter
ends–jails, institutions or death–or find a new way to live. In
years gone by, very few addicts ever had this last choice.
[From: Narcotics Anonymous ISBN 1-55776-025-X; 286 pages. I was given a copy of this one by Mark E, an English recovering addict married to an American and living in Brooklyn, New York in 2000. I consider this as one of the very most important books that I have]
In my case, in that previous post – What exactly was I facing? What did I do? Did I reach that state above?
*UPDATE 25 Sept 3.30PM: Being kept busy at the other `cari makan' site. This site is more important actually, for it concerns "Life, and what I want to be" … which is why I don't want to rush with things by writing Posts just to increase the content here. They have to come from the inside…
* 10:40PM: Had added a link to Connie Madson ( "Who's she?") under "Self-Improvement". Someone from the US had visited this site, and had given me the link: From ethics to glamorized investing to humanitarian optimism, to wanting to work with the Russian Prime Minister, Connie Madson is a fish swimming against the tide of F. Scott Fitzgerald's modern day Jazz Age http://www.connie-madson.com/about.html
"God, why hath Thou forsaken me?" (Part 5)
September 20, 2008
Tempoh selepas Mahkamah Majistret Pasir Mas mengeluarkan perintah supaya aku di hantar ke Pusat Serenti Gambang selama DUA TAHUN, adalah waktu yang paling perit dan menyakitkan dalam hidup ku. Aku telah buat usaha yang terbaik sejak bulan Ramadan bermula, telah tanam niat, rancangan dan keazaman yang aku yakin adalah jujur dan ikhlas.
Sebaliknya, Tuhan telah kurniakan kebebasan ini kepada "mereka-mereka yang secara terang dan jelas telah menyatakan bahawa mereka akan kembali ke jalan yang tidak elok ini, sebaik saja dapat peluang melalui kebebasan ini". Apakah MAKNA ini semua?!…makna Kehidupan ini sendiri?!
[CATATAN Kepada saudara-saudari yang dari "Kelantan Bloggers" dan "Blog Kelate" khususnya, serta yang lain: Walaupun Post ini ( atau post-post lain) banyak menggunakan Bahasa Inggeris, saya rasa ramai yang boleh faham, sebenarnya. Saya ingin nyatakan bahawa saya amat berharap saudara-saudari tidak akan rasa segan, kekok atau malu jika hendak buat Comment dalam Melayu. Untuk pengetahuan semua, KAWAE PUN MAKAE BUDU JUGOK, kawe pahae gapo demo rhoyak, dan kawae serta oghe lain tak pernah/tidak akae plekeh sapa-sapa yae nok Comment kok Melayu, Kelate atau campur-campur dengan oghe putih. Kawe sendiri dok nulis kok oghe putih ni sebab (1) Kalu kawe tak guna, sut-sut akae jadi lupo (2) Ramai hok baca blog ni yae tak brapa rethi bahasa Melayu. Tu saja. SELAMAT DATANG, kalau ni kali pertama - Cendana287]
"Depths of despair" – I had read this phrase many times in fiction and biographies. Yes, there were moments in my life where the word "despair" was accurate and relevant enough without overly exaggerating the situation encountered. But many had involved things, events and incidents that, in retrospect, were rather petty; "important" they might have seemed then. Events like … the 1979 FA Cup final where (my favourite) Manchester United lost 3-2 to Arsenal after conceding a goal in the last seconds of injury-time; after they had clawed back from 0-2 to level the score at 2-2 in the last minute of normal play. "Petty", yes; but "despair" was the correct-enough word to describe that feeling.
But it was only when I had relapsed into drug addiction again from 1993 that "despair" occurred with more frequency – at the supposedly "mature and safe" age of 33, having been 100% clean for 12 years, and holding a decent and respectable-enough job plus a family to boot.
[21/9 12:47 AM Bogged in "certain memories". Need to `re-balance' spirit and self first. Will continue soonest. Sorry. ***[UPDATE: 1:30 PM – "The power of God"… Briefly (for now), I'm happy to state here that I had been a recipient of "a minor miracle that happened in slow motion" that dissolved the internal turmoil that was hinted of in that midnight update. A couple of seemingly minor and unrelated routine events between then and around 9.30am today somehow helped my self to undergo that hoped-for `re-balancing'. I'll write a post about it later. The Comments from 2am onwards might be of interest should you have the time, inclination and mental patience to audit and analyse traces of "spiritual stardust":-)


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Twitter Files Plans For Initial Public Offering of Stock
Social network giant Twitter may be worth $9.8 billion.
Social networking website Twitter announced on Thursday evening, in a tweet, that it had submitted initial papers for a stock offering.
Twitter has become a globally important microblog since its founding in 2006, and on Thursday the company announced it will cash in its chips with a public stock offering.
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At 5 p.m. EDT, after the stock market had closed, the tech titan's Twitter account read, "We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale."
We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale.
— Twitter (@twitter) September 12, 2013
Despite a skeptical reception by public investors, tech companies including LinkedIn, Pandora Media and Yelp Inc. have gained more credibility for investment in social media stocks during 2013, according to the Financial Post.
Facebook enjoyed popularity when it went public in May 2012, but the company's stock slumped for months after the company failed to reassure investors of its value. Facebook finally surpassed the stock price of its IPO in July, and traded at a new high on Wednesday when it rose above $45.
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Twitter's valuation was set at $9 billion in January by financial investment firm BlackRock Inc., and at $9.8 billion in May by financial investment firm GSV Capital Corp., according to Bloomberg. Twitter has made recent acquisitions of tech startups to prepare for an IPO, according to Time. The company reported in March that it has 200 million active users, which send approximately 400 million tweets daily. Twitter will generate more than $500 million in advertising revenue in 2013 and nearly $1 billion in 2014, according to a report by research firm eMarketer in March.
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Currently, there are about 10 million people living in the Dominican Republic, with a median age of only 27 years. Family values, religion, and hospitality are the cornerstones of life in the Caribbean country. Thus, it is not rare that three generations of the same family are living under one and the same roof, with the oldest male making the important decisions affecting the entire family.
Although you are free to choose your own religion, Catholic beliefs influence many aspects of life in the Dominican Republic. After all, 95% of the overall population is Catholic. Dominicans often go out of their way to treat their guests royally and to make them feel particularly welcome. In return, you should make sure to be a respectful guest in order to not upset your hosts while living in the Dominican Republic.
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After we have taken a brief look at the country's historical background in our article on moving to the Dominican Republic, it does not come as a surprise that Spanish is the official language of this country. Thus, before starting your life in the Dominican Republic, you should make sure to brush up on your Spanish language skills, even though your business partners might speak English. Expats living in the Dominican Republic may find it hard at times to understand the local population, even if they have a basic knowledge of the local language.
Dominicanese and Dominicanisms (the local dialect with Dominican elements) can prove to be somewhat of a challenge for foreigners. However, it can also be great fun to learn these new words and phrases. For instance, a baby is called chí chí while small children are referred to as carajitos. While living in the Dominican Republic, you should be careful not to confuse bonche and boche: the former is simply a party, but the latter describes a scolding or disagreement.
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Dominican food is heavily influenced by Spanish cuisine with a touch of Caribbean spices and herbs here and there. While spending your life in the Dominican Republic, you should make sure to try food which is prepared "a la criolla" or "guisado", which means your meat or your sea food will come in a tomato sauce with garlic, olives, onion, and cilantro.
Dominicans also particularly enjoy all types of fried food such as "carne frita" or "chicharrones de pollo" with plantains dipped in salt water and fried in vegetable oil. The fondness of fried food is also reflected in a typical Dominican breakfast which contains mashed plantains (mangú) with onions, fried white cheese, fried eggs and orange juice.
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Marcus Bowman of the Halifax County High School outdoor track team completed a stellar high school track career last weekend as he competed at the Outdoor Track & Field Championship Meet held at Sports Backers Stadium in Richmond.
Bowman, who plans to attend George Mason University, recorded a time of 16.12 seconds in the preliminary round of the 110-meter hurdles at the state championship meet, good for 25th-place.
Trey Holloway of Grassfield High School won the 110-meter hurdles with a time of 13.85 seconds.
Bowman had qualified for the state meet with a fourth-place finish at the Northwest Regional outdoor track meet with a time of 15.30 seconds.
A competitor for both the Comets outdoor and indoor track teams while in high school, Bowman capped his high school indoor track career in February helping his team tie Patrick Henry for the Western Valley District Indoor Track Championship.
Bowman qualified for the Virginia Group AAA State Indoor Track & Field Championship Meet earlier this year with a fifth-place effort in the 55-meter hurdles at the Northwest Region meet.


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Is Bill Murray White? An Unscientific Census of 'Saturday Night Live'
The unexpected questions that pop up when you try to tally up the show's diversity.
Sasheer Zamata made her "Saturday Night Live" debut last weekend, playing Rihanna, a bar mitzvah attendee, and a teenage girl at a slumber party, among other things. But regardless of what roles she played during her Jan. 18 debut, Zamata brought some diversity to a show whose cast has over the course of 39 seasons been heavily white and mostly male.
Just how homogeneous has the show been? I set out to count up past cast members by race, ethnicity and gender. As I found, quantifying that is next to impossible.
It's a project that at first blush seems like it shouldn't be that hard. Finding the basic data of who has been on the show and in which season was easy enough: NBC pointed me to the SNL Archives, an obsessively detailed online trove of cast members, characters played, and sketches. And figuring out how to do the breakdown seemed to be simple enough – the Census is the nation's official count of race and ethnicity, so the Census Bureau's broad categories (Black, Caucasian, American Indian, a variety of Asian divisions, and different categories of Hispanics of any race) would work.
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But what would an official count of the show's races and ethnicities even look like, and who would maintain that? When I asked the network if they had such a list – admittedly, a long shot, but due diligence is important – there was no response.
Trying to count on my own wasn't going to work, either, because this is journalism, there is fact-checking involved, and there's no conscionable way of saying, "I guessed at [famous person]'s race." And when you try to Google this sort of thing, what sites are reputable? Does Ethnicelebs.com count as a trustworthy source?
Plus, when you start asking yourself about mixed-race cast members, it leads to questions about people who might seem easier to categorize. Fred Armisen has said he is half-Latino, one-quarter Japanese, and one-quarter German, but what about Garrett Morris? Is he black? Are you sure? Is Bill Murray white?
This is where the rabbit hole starts.
It is true that in the run-up to Zamata's hiring and first show, article after article pointed out that "SNL" cast members have been heavily white and male. Society knows this, even if there is no official count. So I decided to go to the place where modern society mashes together its knowledge: Wikipedia.
Under normal circumstances, any journalist who based her research on Wikipedia would have her journalism license revoked. But as an example of how the hive mind puts people into boxes, the online encyclopedia is perhaps the best possible source. And the entries make it easy: Choose any person with an entry, scroll to the bottom of his or her page, and you find how the site's authors have categorized the subject. Tracy Morgan is an African-American comedian, for example, and is also on the list of "People from Bedford-Stuyvesant." Tina Fey is of Greek and Scottish descent and, for those wondering, is also among people born in 1970.
For some cast members, the racial and ethnic categories are blank – that is, no race or origins are mentioned. That group includes Chris Farley, as well as Cheri Oteri and Jane Curtin. And some had races that easily fit into Census boxes – Morgan, for example, as well as Danitra Vance and Zamata, all of whom are listed as African-American.
Below is a map of what Wikipedia has to say about every "SNL" cast member over the years. Bubble size is proportional to a cast member's tenure on the show. Women are represented by darker colors, while men are represented with lighter colors.
(Danielle Kurtzleben for USNWR; Source: SNL Archives, U.S. Census Bureau, Wikipedia)
Note: Two cast members had no Wikipedia pages and have races/ethnicities listed as "unknown."It should be emphasized that there's no guarantee all of this information is perfect. There already seem to be some problems inherent with this sort of categorization: Rich Hall, for example, is in many places listed as "part-Cherokee," but Cherokee is the only classification that Wikipedia provides him. But let's say the (only somewhat reliable) numbers are relatively useful. What does it all mean? For one, it means that for a large share of the cast members on "SNL," represented in light blue (men) and dark blue (women) above, Wikipedia's authors did not even mention race. It is also safe to say that the people who fall into this category are largely people whom many Americans would, at a glance, likely characterize as white. It could mean no one researched them, or it could also mean that information is not out there – perhaps because the cast members never felt compelled to mention it or the authors never bothered to look. The point seems to be less something about "SNL" than about a broader racial phenomenon: that being non-Hispanic white and not having your race commented upon are related.
Still, there is of course that large mass of cast members, represented in light and dark green, who by the Census Bureau's definition are "white," though precisely zero of those people were categorized on Wikipedia as "caucasian" or "white."
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The bureau says the "white" category includes people who "report entries such as Irish, German, Italian, Lebanese, Arab, Moroccan, or Caucasian." Wikipedia listed people under these types of categories, as well as "Tunisian" and "Iranian" – two other groups that "SNL" cast members share and that would seem to fall into the Census Bureau's definition of "white." Cast members of Jewish descent would also seem to fall into this category.
The point is not to point the finger at Wikipedia or the Census Bureau for handling race incorrectly. Rather, it is simply that race is, to use a scientific term, really terribly squishy. For proof, look no further than the ever-evolving Census form. While for some people, Wikipedia's authors see no need to use a racial category, minorities' differences are readily pointed out, with their own separate classifications.
Meanwhile, any given race is a hodgepodge of different ethnicities or nationalities (and vice versa), sometimes vastly so. What does it mean to be "white" when the category includes so many different variations? Do America's Arabs feel a particular racial kinship with their fellow Irish countrymen? What about white Jews and Italians? Or, for that matter, what about African-Americans and blacks from Haiti?
It doesn't mean that race doesn't matter, and certainly not that it doesn't exist. There are those who argue about the biological basis of race, but society most definitely constructs its own concepts of race and ethnicity and their importance. The same goes for gender – it may be a societal construct, but lots of women laughed just a little bit harder when the Tina Fey era of "SNL" included bits like the hilarious Annuale commercial. Being in on the joke – especially with a show that has been as big a part of the zeitgeist as "SNL" has – is important, and with every new, less Caucasian and less male hire the show makes, a few more people may find themselves watching (and maybe even laughing).
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Senator Tim Kaine is taking a page out of President Obama's playbook. He hosted his first social media town hall Wednesday afternoon, responding to constituent questions on Facebook and Twitter.
Six months into his term as Virginia's Junior Senator, Kaine kept things interesting during his social media town hall. Kaine answered questions on everything from the state of the economy and budget negotiations to immigration reform, and explained how he thinks lawmakers can cut through partisan gridlock by listening and building bridges.
On the more lighthearted side, he explained his humble beginnings as an amateur harmonica player.
He and fellow Virginia Senator Mark Warner also cracked some jokes, comparing a short, 140-character tweet to a long-winded filibuster on the Senate floor. And Kaine's office isn't stopping at Facebook and Twitter, it's even making forays into Instagram and perhaps even Vine - all good ways to connect with younger voters and others outside of mainstream channels.
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A Colorado newspaperman fights for his valley's water
Bob Rawlings, publisher of the Pueblo Chieftain, has battled for decades to bring water to southeastern Colorado and, once it's there, to keep it no matter what.by Matt Jenkins, Mar 26, 2012
Can an old mine become a work of art?
The old Ute-Ule mine site outside Lake City, Colo., is under scrutiny by the Hardrock Revision Team, which wants to clean up the mine and yet preserve it as a living and historic work of art.by Laura Pritchett, Dec 02, 2011
Growing up political
Charles Conklin had an unlikely political career, successfully running as a Democrat in a Republican part of Colorado -- for a time.by Marty Durlin, Nov 25, 2010
A scrappy community weekly hangs in there
The Silverton Standard & the Miner has held onto life in its tiny Colorado mountain town since 1875, and now it's become a "public paper."by Mark Esper, Apr 20, 2010
The paradoxical call of the wild
Wolves may be returning to Colorado on their own 70 years after their deliberate extirpation from the state.by Jonathan Thompson , Feb 09, 2010
My father's political career
A writer remembers her father's unlikely political career, running as a Democrat in a Republican part of Colorado.by Marty Durlin, Oct 27, 2009
Winter camping can be hazardous to your health
One hundred and thirty-five years ago, Alferd E. Packer survived winter starvation in the Colorado mountains with the help of his friends -- or at least of the meat on their bones.by Andrew Gulliford, Feb 27, 2009
The West remains a mysterious region
Ed Quillen says that even in this so-called "Year of the West," presidential candidates and media pundits demonstrate a deplorable ignorance of the region's history and culture.by Ed Quillen, Jan 10, 2008
A poet's novel of the San Luis Valley
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Metra Metropolitan Rail officials have permanently removed the Front Street pedstrian crossing at the Mokena Train Station on Front Street.
If you park in the Front Street or Willowcrest Street lots, make sure to give yourself some additional time to access the downtown station's south platform and board the train.
This week, Metra is permanently removing its pedestrian platform crossing over the tracks directly between the Front Street lot and the downtown station, said . Metra will also be installing fencing between the train tracks in the immediate vicinity of the downtown station to discourage commuters and other pedestrians from crossing the tracks at any point other than the gated pedestrian crossing on Mokena Street.
He said, the change is intended to "permanently promote a higher level of safety in the downtown station area as Mokena continues its push to silence the horns of trains as they travel through the community." These safety enhancements are among the final steps needed to silence the horns and create a "quiet zone" on the Rock Island line later this month.
While traversing the tracks at the Mokena Street pedestrian crossing may create a slight adjustment for some. Zoellner called it a "necessary trade-off to help protect the safety of commuters once the train horns no longer blow."
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This resolution could affect:
- Couples without children who make $83,000 or more per year; and
- Families of four who make as little as $90,000 per year.
The resolution would not have raised taxes on its own without additional legislation.
It has also been stated that Obama's tax plan holds for these tax increases. This is false.
According to FactCheck.org, "… Obama's economic plan would produce a tax cut for the majority of American households, with middle-income earners benefiting most."
This vote was counted on March 14, 2008. It is important to note that during the October 2, 2008 vice presidential debate, Sen. Joe Biden countered Sarah Palin's accusation of Obama voting to raise taxes by incorrectly stated John McCain had also voted the same way on this budget resolution. The is not true. McCain did not vote at all on this particular budget resolution one way or the other. McCain voted the previous day, on March 13, 2008, on a different amendment.


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July 22, 2014
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- University of Wisconsin System officials have released the names of the finalists vying to become the next system president.
The candidates include Raymond Cross, chancellor of the UW Colleges and Extension; Peter Garland, executive vice chancellor of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education; and Robert King, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education.
A Board of Regents selection committee plans to interview the finalists on Monday and recommend one to the full board. The board expects to announce a hiring decision on Wednesday.
Kevin Reilly officially stepped down as president on Tuesday. He announced in July he would resign at the end of 2013 after taking intense criticism from Republican lawmakers for allowing system campuses to build massive reserves while raising tuition year after year.
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First things first, this isn't stolen, we built it for Playstation to promote Patapon 2.
Its a rhythm game where you control the Patapon tribe using "pata" or "pon".
As with our last game, its not meant to be a exact replica, just a flash minigame taster.
The instructions are in the game but its really no more complicated than hitting the left arrow key for "pata" and the right arrow key for "pon" in time to the music. The Patapon will tell you what combination does what and when you need to do it.
Oh and finally - there is no drum sound when you press the keys because Flash 10 still cannot respond with audio on a key press without serious lag (on PC - better on Mac). And those few nanoseconds of lag totally throws out your timing when playing this. So we left the drum beats off intentionally.
Way far from patapon2.
this game sucks. i mean when you make a flash game or a demo of a upcoming awaited cool game you can at least make the demo or mini game decent and worthwhile I mean the fever's not connected to each other but still does represent patapon 2 a little.
it's fun and really clever. I like how you use beat to play a fighting game and it is really stylish. Still, it is not something I would actually pay money for. Way too simple for PSP. Since it's a demo for a game to be purchased, and it is something I don't think is worth purchasing, 7 and 3
all u people complaining
how about not looking at the lines and just LISTEN ( no looking or else ) since that is the point of the game
That was great!!!
That was really fun. Im gonna go buy the game now. I never liked the game because it was too childish but now I know its really fun. Thank you.
Cool men!the people complaining,they dont hav ryt
Cool game man, it was perfect, and i can play and unlocked all thngs even with a horrible pc
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I am a little late in mentioning this, but for those of you who have not seen it, here is a picture of designer Michael Chen's Reactiv cycling jacket. The jacket, which uses colored LEDs to indicate when the rider is accelerating or decelerating based on movement sensed by a built in accelerometer, recently won a 2008 James Dyson Award. The jacket also has amber LEDs in the sleeves that serve as turn signals when the wearer's arm is lifted. A recent article in BikeBiz pointed out that two other bike related products were on the shortlist for a Dyson Foundation prize this year. A single-handed brake lever, designed by four students at the University of Guelph in Canada, was highly commended and a bike lock that doubles as a front and rear light, designed by Adrian Weidmann of the Zurich University of the Arts, was also in the group of 13 concepts that made the final cut. The BikeBiz article also pointed out a few previous products for cyclists that include wearable indicator lights. Take a look; the article is worth a read.
Les sent me a link to a sculpted wooden tandem that I don't believe I have posted before. The bike was made by Jens Eichler, a student of wood-technology at the University of Applied Science in Eberswalde, Germany. According to his post, Jens spent about 400 hours working on this project. Check out a few more pictures here.
While I am passing along links from readers, I'll mention this Japanese multi level bike parking garage that Murray sent. Pretty cool.
Finally, I want to point out a few nice photos of bikes that Ken Conley took at stage one of the Tour de Georgia. I agree with Ken that the older Marco Polo graphic scheme with the dragon details is much nicer than the plainer new bikes. The graphics on the Rock Racing bikes are pretty nice too for racing bikes. You just can't miss that "lizard juice" green on black color scheme in the peloton. Speaking of the Tour de Georgia, I will be there on Thursday for the team time trail and on Saturday for the Brasstown Bald stage. Not sure about the circuit race in Atlanta on Sunday yet, but I do want to try and make it if I can. Look for my race photos on Flickr toward the end off the week. I'll post a link here when I have them uploaded, so stay tuned.


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Below are the bracket-by-bracket winners with percentage of votes, grouped together with their second round match-up. Voting for the second round will begin tonight at midnight and run through next Thursday morning.
Look for an updated bracket graphic later today thanks to the boys at The Pens Blog.
(1) Ladies and gentlemen, Elvis has just left the building! 96.92%
(8) Book 'em, Dano! 67.25%
(5) He's handing out checks like it's the first of the month! 62.08%
(4) Get in the fast lane Grandma, the bingo game's ready to roll! 93.9%
(11) The turkey is on the table. 60.43%
(3) He beat him like a rented mule! 89.63%
(2) Look out Loretta! 85.39%
(7) He hit him so hard his kids will be born dizzy! 58.45%
(1) Call Arnold Slick from Turtle Creek! 94.69%
(8) He put it in the top shelf where grandma keeps the cookies 59.59%
(5) Let's go hunt moose on a Harley! 75.56%
(4) He hasn't scored since the eighth-grade picnic. 76.96%
(11) They threw everything at him but the kitchen sink! 52.25%
(3) Scratch my back with a hacksaw! 98.21%
(2) He doesn't know whether to cry or wind his watch 80.18%
(10) Oh, slap me silly, Sidney! 68.47%
(1) Buy Sam a drink and get his dog one too! 84.35%
(9) Never sit on a bald man's hat. 50.38%
(5) Lord Stanley, Lord Stanley, bring me the brandy! 91.64%
(4) Heeeeeeeeeee shoots and scores! 93.75%
(11) If you missed this, shame on you for six weeks. 59.17%
(3) Oh no, Eddie Spaghetti! 72.45%
(2) Michael, Michael, Motorcycle. 91.76%
(10) He picked his pocket like he was walking down 5th Avenue. 50.38%
(1) Well, shave my face with a rusty razor! 68%
(9) He's smilin' like a butcher's dog 87.01%
(12) Get that dog off my lawn! 75.72%
(13) He takes the heat out of a hot kitchen 65.86%
(3) It's a...HOCKEY NIGHT in Pittsburgh! 91.95%
(6) He gave 'em more moves than Mae West. 50.53%
(2) She wants to sell my monkey! 89.86%
(7) He smoked him like a bad cigar! 59.64%


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The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the framework which we currently use to measure development, will come to an end in 2015. How will this affect the HIV response?
I'm not making any predictions at this point but what I do know is that the paradigm has been shifting in the last few years away from disease specific approaches to broader comprehensive health and development frameworks.
HIV has been lucky. What do I mean by this? Included in the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDG), is MDG 6 (combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases). Although MDG 6 is not exclusive to HIV, two of the targets (Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS; and Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all those who need it) are HIV related and the third has a strong reference to HIV in relation to TB.
Much progress has been made since 2000. MDG 6 and its targets have afforded HIV a certain level of priority to both governments and donors. But this has not been sufficient. We did not reach universal access to treatment by 2010 and we won't have started to halt new infections and reverse the spread of HIV by 2015.
So let's take a look at what lies ahead…
The MDGs expire in 2015.
The 'buzz' across the development sector is that the post-MDG framework will only include one health related goal (if we're lucky).
Donors continue to move away from disease specific funding towards broader health systems strengthening.
Things have never been 'easy' in the HIV response and addressing HIV isn't going to get any easier. What I do see is that there are big changes on the horizon. The HIV sector will need to embrace this change and if we want to have the biggest impact we will need to own this change as our own.
Let's be purposeful in engaging in the post-MDG framework development. This means taking leadership roles at national, regional and global levels to ensure that the voices of people living with HIV and key populations are at the centre of the post-MDG framework development processes. This means clearly demonstrating the impact of HIV on development.
Let's be purposeful in making sure that what we have learned over the last 30 years isn't set aside, as broader health and development take the stage. This means strategically positioning our organisations and achievements at key decision making fora. This means being able to translate how the HIV response benefited from stronger communities, community mobilisation and human rights-based programming to broader health and development outcomes.
We have always wanted the HIV response to be embedded within broader health and development to ensure that people living with HIV and key populations have the same access and rights to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support and to realise their overall right to health and life.
Let's aim higher and reach further than anyone expects us to.


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A King Street homeowner called police this morning after a man allegedly broke in through unlocked door, Mount Pleasant Police Sgt. Michael Pierce said.
The department received a call from a resident of 940 King St. at 11:45 a.m. reporting the break-in, Pierce said. The house is in northern Mount Pleasant, near the border with New Castle.
"It was an interrupted burglary," he stated.
The homeowner reported that the man, who was wearing a red hoodie, fled the scene in a black Altima. It is unknown whether there was more than one suspect at the scene.
"We are conducting a canvass and other departments are being made aware," he said.
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Top Wallabies must pick up act for Lions
March 19, 2013
Quade Cooper's passing game is awry and his confidence as a ball-runner has flagged in 2013 © Getty Images
Robbie Deans' tried-and-true Wallabies favourites need to significantly lift their acts if they hope to be involved in this winter's British and Irish Lions series. Very few of Deans' established Test team which ended last season would be picked in a form Australian 15 after the first five rounds of Super Rugby.
While the coach is weekly picking the best side of each round as a selection exercise, he ideally wants to rely on pre-existing combinations and bank on experienced soldiers for what ranks among the most intense battles in Test rugby.
Only a couple of uncapped players were included in the Wallabies' extended 49-man squad for a logistics camp earlier this year and Deans has admitted it would be a difficult arena for a rookie to make his Test debut.
But Wallabies captain James Horwill shone a light on the issue when he stressed form - not experience nor reputation - should be the priority for selectors when they pick their squad for the three-Test series on June 1.
"Oh definitely; you want the best guys picked," Horwill said, when asked whether uncapped players should be chosen on form. "We're in a performance-based industry and guys need to keep performing to continue to get their spot. That works at this level and any level."
"You have to keep performing to keep your position and that's the most important thing," Horwill added. "It is positive for Australian rugby, as a whole, that there are guys who are putting their hand up who were not mentioned in that Wallabies space."
Deans has admitted Brumbies trio Christian Lealiifano, Ben Mowen and Jesse Mogg have put themselves into contention with their tremendous starts to 2013 while numerous rising teammates could also be in the frame for Test debuts.
In contrast, the large majority of Wallabies who played in the last Test against Wales on December 1 have been well off their best. Only Brumbies front-rowers Ben Alexander and Stephen Moore, Reds prop James Slipper, and three-quarters Ben Tapuai and Digby Ioane have been in good form.
The biggest form problems are at New South Wales Waratahs, who boast 11 incumbent Wallabies, where their stars have stumbled so far this season.
Queensland playmaker Quade Cooper, unable to repeat his scintillating form prior to the 2011 Rugby World Cup and a knee reconstruction, has created a different selection headache for Deans.
Cooper's normally-sharp passing game is awry, while his confidence as a ball-runner has flagged. Deans has used Cooper, James O'Connor and Kurtley Beale all at five-eighth when they were last fit and it remains the most contentious selection for the Lions series.
Reds director of coaching Ewen McKenzie expects Cooper will improve once he renews his combination with fit-again halfback Will Genia.
"He's a bit off the pace from '11 but a lot of things have happened since then," McKenzie said. "There's different people around him every week so it will settle down with combinations."
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Once the recruiter has "pre-determined" your qualifications for enlistment (or gotten permission from his/her superiors to process you, in the event a waiver is required), you'll start the enlistment process.
This begins with filling out a bunch of forms, that the recruiter will send to MEPS (Military Entrance Processing Station), where the real processing is done.
The Armed Forces Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB)
While this test is usually accomplished at MEPS, that's not always the case, so it deserves separate mention.
There are three ways to take the ASVAB to qualify for military service (and military job qualification):
High School. Results of ASVAB Tests taken in high school (Vocational ASVAB Program) can be used for military accession, if the test was taken less than two years before, and the scores achieved on the test are high enough to qualify for military service.
Paper ASVAB Test. Most people take the computerized ASVAB at MEPs, as part of their overall military processing, but it is possible to schedule to take the paper version of the test in the local area. MEPS has a traveling team, called the Mobile Examination Team (MET) that gives the ASVAB on a scheduled basis at designated locations (usually National Guard Armories). The recruiter can schedule applicants to take the paper version of the ASVAB through the MET.
Computerized Version at MEPS. Most people, however, take the computerized version of the ASVAB when they go to MEPS for their physical examination/enlistment processing. Quite often, the ASVAB is given on the afternoon before processing, then the recruit spends the night in a military-contract hotel, and undergoes the medical physical/enlistment processing on the next day.
The Trip to MEPS
The recruiter will schedule your trip to MEPS, and will arrange transportation to and from (sometimes the recruiter him/herself will drive you to MEPS, but they are not allowed to accompany you through the MEPS process).
The visit to MEPS is two-phased: Part of the process does not belong to any individual service. It's a joint-service operation, that attempts to determine whether or not you are qualified for the military. This includes the medical examination, and the testing (ASVAB, DLAB, etc.) portions of MEPS.
Once the "joint-service" part of MEPS determines your qualifications, you're turned over the the enlistment processing part of MEPS. This part of MEPS is not "joint-service," and is staffed by members of the Recruiting Command for the military service you are there to process for. This portion includes the Job Counselors, Security Clearance Managers, and the personnel who prepare the enlistment paperwork/contracts. (See The MEPS Experience for more detailed information).


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Irish Soda Bread: The Jey of Cooking
First-timer, Jey of the The Jey of Cooking was thrilled to be assigned Jean's blog, The Tasty Cheapskate. Jey is happy to have found The Secret Recipe Club and, since marrying into an Irish family she has fallen in love with Irish Soda Breads. Jey says…
"My Mother in Law always buys her loaves from the local Irish bakery and I'd never made it before so when I saw that Jean had, not one but TWO, recipes for soda bread, I did a little happy dance and got to baking."
Check out the recipe for Irish Soda Bread
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Thanks so much for featuring my recipe! So cool to wake up to!
Oh my gosh, this looks so good! Good to have you in SRC!