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AUGUSTA, GA -- Just one month ago no one knew the fate of the James Brown Arena after the Augusta Lynx left the ice. But with the arena pulling in big acts like Winter Jam and Augusta's Futurity PBR, the extra cash flow is doing more than just helping them.
"It's not just helping us. It's helping the Augusta CSRA area as well. With people coming into town and just spending money and being downtown and being in the area. So it not only helps us, it helps overall," said Arena General Manager Monty Jones, Jr.
With all of the riders coming from outside of Georgia and South Carolina, the event is drawing a crowd that's willing to pay the price for the entertainment.
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Minimum bid changes
Disabled Keywords
Keywords which would have been disabled, and therefore you couldn't bid on them no matter what you did, will now have a minimum bid associated with them so you'll be able to bid on that keyword no matter what.
You can add keywords with bid prices. If fluctuations happen that means they're above the min price, they'll show. If the min price goes above the max bid, they'll be inactive (paused). This also makes it so that you can leave keywords you'd like to bid on, but aren't essential, in your account and let the system kinda take care of it.
Side effect
You can pause individual keywords by making a keyword bid below that minimum bid.
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There will be an active/inactive keyword report.
This report will also be available through the API.
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Bulk Upload
A new bulk upload sheet will be necessary once the new system is implemented. It will have an additional line for minimum bid per keyword.
Approximately one month.
Google will make another announcement before the change actually happens. They're really giving us time to make changes and get ready for this.
[edited by: eWhisper at 1:57 am (utc) on July 22, 2005]
Or their minimum bids get too high.
In some cases, the bids almost can't get to high because the desire is exposure just as much as traffic. This tends to be among the entertainment industry in particular but if the CPC was $50.00 and the effective CPM ended up being a few bucks, that would be just fine.
While small business/regionally targeted campaigns do tend to get pushed down by the larger advertisers, if the local companies take the time to write quality ads they can compete. If you write better ads, set the CPC high enough to get some initial traffic, targeted as can get much higher CTRs than generic stuff. It doesn't always work but often does.
We have lots of keywords on small niches that we've had to stop, because they weren't profitable at 5c. They may however be profitable at 2c or 3c. Dropping an arbitary minimum bid is a good thing - if it lets these niche keywords run, and find their own market value.
Similarly, there are content areas of my site that I can't afford to advertise at 5c - but I would want to advertise at 1c. Under the new system, we could run ads for those content pages - and everybody wins - we get traffic we wouldn't otherwise have got, surfers get to see relevant content, and Google makes money it wouldn't otherwise have made.
I always thought an arbitrary blanket minimum bid was a bad idea - and that keywords should be allowed to find their own level in the market. If this is a step in that direction, then I'm all for it. Well done Google.
At least Google isn't as greedy as Overture (or whatever it's called today - some of the terms in my DB still say GoTo - remember them?). In the UK, they have a blanket minimum bid of 10p - that's about 17c!
As far as Google goes... I tend to disagree with many of the naysayers. Google isn't trying to get more money out of their advertisers... they're trying to squeeze more clicks out of their searchers (and the bi-product will be more money for them). Google knows that the more relevant the ads, the more clicks they can generate. Also, in the long run, if the results in the right bar are VERY relevant, then searchers will look there more and will click there more often. This is a concerted effort to increase the relevance of the ads being shown in the "sponsored" section. Google�s banking on the same principle they've banked their entire business model on since the beginning. Relevance is KING. Whether it's organic or paid, Google wants the searcher to find EXACTLY what they are looking for. The latest (reported) changes are just another step for them to weed out those people who either:
a) Bid on irrelevant terms to drive traffic
b) Write bad generic descriptions and don't generate clicks
c) Arbitrage the Adwords/Adsense system
Get rid of all three. None of those help the end user. Those three types of advertisers drive up costs for those if us who are actually providing relevant content and products and providing something valuable for searchers.
This will be good for advertisers and searchers in the long run and it will hurt those who are doing well in the organic listings. Not a lot initially, but in the long run, the organic results will get less clicks because the sponsored results will be more and more relevant. In fact... they might even be MORE relevant over time than the Organic listings in some cases.
Yahoo/Overture is foolish. When they want more money, they increase the floor. Where�s the innovation? They�re just a glorified Looksmart. It's only a matter of time before they crank it to .15. The day WILL come... and it will be sooner rather than later. Yahoo and Google are two very different companies. Google lets the searchers and the market determine prices. Yahoo let�s the shareholders determine prices. Once again, Google goes for relevance and then cashes in. Yahoo just worries about the quickest way to make $. Look at Yahoo�s organic search results. You would swear they were providing horrible organic results just to increase clicks on Sponsored listings.
You must remember that the more complicated a system becomes, the more potential there is for arbitrage. The new algorithm, IMHO, actually opens the door for more arbitrage.
My guess is that the top affiliates will be the first to discover the "Secret formula" behind the Quality Score, and once they do that, they will definitely be able to get clicks cheaper than the average advertiser, make no mistake.
The new Quality Score could consist of the a number based on the following relevancy criteria:
1. Locality (the more granular (city versus country, etc), the higher the score).
2. Max CPC
4. Conversion Rate data
5. Ad Copy
6. # of Keywords in Ad Group
7. Relationships of keywords in Ad Group
8. Daily Budget
Probably a whole lot more if you sit down and think through it... so I'm sure it makes sense that affiliates will most surely be the ones to crack this formula first and put it into use first, in most cases, trumping high paying advertisers.
If Google is going for relevancy, price becomes less of an issue.
I also think that many of the people who think they were beating Google's old system with their huge campaigns and millions of keywords...will also bite the dust in the next coming weeks as they become overwhelmed with the keyword management aspect of Google.
In a lot of ways, I think the new system will be like managing a huge Overture account just with more flexibility on the number of terms you can have and the ability to change ads at will. With Overture, it's too time consuming and tedious to manage the keyword bids one at a time. To be competitive, it's almost a necessity to invest in bid management technology if you want to succeed in Overture...I think we may be headed in that direction with Google in light of the changes that are about to be made.
A targeted ad for "very specific widget style #7" will get a click from a searcher who finds positions #1-3 occupied by the big advertisers who bid a fortune on "widget", but their destination URL is their home page and they may or may not have "style #7" so I'm not that worried.
Should I be?
This change actually has the ability to remove relevence from the adwords.
I hadn't thoguht about that. Clearly, the reason for the change is to increase relevance, but those companies who are just interested in branding may actually remove relevance and throw a wrench in G's plans. I hadn't even considered that. But that is indeed possible.
The answer? My guess is that Google won't show the top 3 ads of companies just looking for exposure. If the click-through-rate is really low, the ad won't even get shown... or will get shown way down the list (even if they are bidding a high amount per click). Advertisers with higher CTR will get listed higher (not unike the current system). Low CTR's will get frozen.
Here is the quote from eWhisper about it.
If your minimum bid is above what you should pay based on the ad discounter, then you will pay the minimum bid. (i.e. if the discounter says you should pay $0.15, however, your minimum bid is $0.20, then you will pay $0.20).
This is the quote from the Adwords Blog
Question no. 3: Are you going to continue to discount ads?
As always, the AdWords discounter will continue to reduce your actual cost-per-click so that you pay the lowest possible price for your ad.
AWA any way you can clarify that, as I feel that it is critical for the way we bid, especially for the top positions where there is a lot of difference in the Max CPCs.
The minimum bid is the minimum that you may pay per click in order for the ad to show for a particular keyword. To put it another way, it's the lowest possible price you can pay to have the ad show.
So, if the discounter were to discount below the minimum bid required for the ad to show, then, by definition, the ad couldn't show.
Thus, the discounter can not discount below the minimum bid.
I hope that clears it up. ;)
Apologies if this question has been answered before. If you have a major improvement in the CTR of an ad that is subject to paying a minimum bid above what the discounter would otherwise indicate that you should pay, will the minimum bid ever reduce. Conversely if you run an ad paying the minimum bid but it has a horrible CTR will the minimum bid increase?
If you have a major improvement in the CTR of an ad that is subject to paying a minimum bid above what the discounter would otherwise indicate that you should pay, will the minimum bid ever reduce. Conversely if you run an ad paying the minimum bid but it has a horrible CTR will the minimum bid increase?
Short answer: yes, and yes - although I'd substitute Quality Score for CTR in your question.
Think of the minimum bid as a financial incentive be very relevant, and to run really targeted Ad Groups. Basically, the higher the relevance (i.e. Quality Score) the less the minimum bid will be.
On the other hand, the lower the relevance (Quality Score) the higher the minimum bid will be.
The beauty of it is that highly relevant ads are quite likely to give you better results, and to bring you better qualified customers. So you may just get better results, and pay less at the same time.
Meanwhile, users see relevant ads, learn to trust AdWords ads over time, and continue to click. :)
From where can I view the maximum bid of a particular keyword so far?
anjanesh, I'm not 100% certain what you are asking, so I'll answer the question in two ways:
* If you were asking where you'd see the Maximum CPC that competing advertisers are bidding: this is information that the AdWords system does not provide. The main reason for this is that it is not only Max CPC the determines position. One's Quality Score is very important as well. For this reason, it is possible for someone with a very high Quality Score to appear above another advertiser's, while actually paying less.
* If you were asking where you would see your own Maximum CPC, then you'd look in your stats chart at either the Campaign level or Ad Group level of your account.
I hope this gives you the information you need. ;)
Thousands of searches each day, 3 advertisers minimum bid �0.25p, now I wouldnt have thought such a general term would have converted well. you could be looking for anything related to teh film genre, so I wonder why this is so high?

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Earthquake proof a wine cellar
From Wired How-To Wiki
Want to guard the objects of your oenophilia from a temblor? Or maybe just save your grapes from shakes? Either way, there are often simple and inexpensive steps you can take to make your wine cellar more earthquake resistant.
This article begins with a little earthquake theory, addresses cost, then shows an actual cellar on the earthquake-prone west coast of the United States (with lovely pictures). Specific instructions applicable to a wide variety of wine racks are provided. The finished project is a wine rack retrofit capable of withstanding surprisingly severe earthquakes, at a cost far less than commonly advertised alternatives. Then You need to decide for yourself what method works, looks and performs best for you.
Probably, there is no such thing as "earthquake proof." A more reasonable goal is "earthquake resistant." Very rarely, a truly monster earthquake comes along, and they can happen even in places that are not known as earthquake prone. In such quakes, few houses can stand, so it's a waste of effort trying to ensure that every last bottle in your cellar survives, if at that point your house would have fallen into the cellar anyway. Choose realistic goals that can be achieved with a reasonable budget. For example: lose only a few bottles to a earthquake severe enough to damage but not destroy your house.
This article is a wiki. If you know a thing or two about building a wine cellar and earthquakes, you might have some valuable advice to add. Log in and help out your fellow wine tasters.
Earthquake Theory
This section discusses earthquakes at a modestly technical level. If you are a handy carpenter with a bit of math, this section should be an easy read. But if the following strikes you as tediously technical, you can safely skip ahead to the next section and still retrofit your wine cellar.
During an earthquake the ground moves and your house gets left behind. The foundation (and basement if there is one) will get dragged around by the ground whichever way it lurches. The building will come along a little more slowly, and will rush to catch up. This causes shear, which tends to cause walls to tear and buckle. The taller the building, the stronger the shear forces.
The same thing happens in miniature inside the wine cellar.If your wine rack is bolted to the floor but not the walls, the top of the wine rack will shear relative to the bottom, and the wine rack will tend to buckle and collapse. The forces can be substantial. A 750ml bottle of wine weighs at least a kilogram, or a bit over 2 pounds. Thus, each 144 bottle bay of a typical wine rack holds about 300 pounds of wine when full.
In the wine rack itself, as the rack accelerates, the wine bottle is left behind. If the lurching is in roughly the same direction as the bottles go into the rack, the rack can lurch away from the bottles, leaving the bottles unsupported in mid-air, where they crash Wile E. Coyote-style to the floor. Or the earthquake could smack the wall behind the rack into the bottles, possibly damaging them. So worst-case is a severe earthquake that moves parallel to the bottles. That's what we need to be able to handle. An earthquake that mostly shakes up and down or perpendicular to the bottles is also a problem, but if we can handle the worst-case, we've done most of what we need to do for the earthquakes that strike in other directions.
So what's a large earthquake? Most people think of the Richter scale. The Richter magnitude scale estimates the amount of energy released by an earthquake. It doesn't tell us how hard an earthquake will shake our cellar, so it's not of much help. In contrast, the "shindo" scale developed by the Japan Meteorological Agency is much more helpful. This scale describes the damage caused by an earthquake. Obviously, the same earthquake will cause different amounts of damage in different places, and so every earthquake will have different shindo numbers in different places. Each shindo roughly corresponds to a particular degree of peak ground acceleration. It is this acceleration that causes your precious bottles to end up as bits of wet glass on the cellar floor, so the first thing we need is a good estimate of how much acceleration we are likely to face, and the shindo scale gives us this estimate.
Shindo 7 is a really big earthquake. It is impossible to walk or even stand. Buildings fall down. Pretty much everything is damaged. Large cracks form in the ground. People slowly emerge from the ruins to gape in awe at an unrecognizable landscape. It's a cartoon earthquake brought to life. If your cellar survives a shindo 7 earthquake, you did good. Throw a party for your neighbors, uncork a couple of the good bottles, and commiserate with them in the loss of everything they know and love.
Peak ground acceleration for a shindo 7 earthquake is at least 4 m/s2. So surviving several shocks with acceleration half that of gravity, or 4.9 m/s2, is a reasonable if ambitious goal.
Thus, to minimize the damage of a severe earthquake, we need to make sure that, when subjected to repeated lurches of 4.9 m/s2:
- The wine cellar is in a building that won't fall down.
- The wine rack is strong enough that it will not collapse.
- The wine rack is adequately attached to the building such that it won't fall over.
- The wine bottles are adequately restrained such they won't slide out of the rack, or hit anything hard enough to be damaged.
- Nothing else in the wine room will fall on or into the wine rack with enough force to damage the wine.
Some people have lovingly crafted wine racks made of expensive materials. These are pretty to look at, and pretty expensive. But to what end? A proper wine room is colder than 60 ° F and rather humid to boot. This is not comfortable for long in shirtsleeves, so if you are intending to make a pretty wine room, you should ask yourself how much time you really plan to spend in your wine room admiring the woodwork.
It's more cost-effective to emphasize the aesthetic pleasure of a purely functional wine cellar. In this case, about $1 per bottle is a reasonable cost (in 2008) for the wine racks themselves. Less than this, and your wine rack is unlikely to be sturdy enough to withstand an earthquake. But you can pay many times this amount and gain no advantage relative to an earthquake. This is just the cost for the unassembled racks. Assembly, installation, and earthquake retrofit parts are extra cost, either in money or in your time.
Except for a few very expensive models, wine racks are highly earthquake-vulnerable as made. We will have to add earthquake resistant features, which is the point of this article. How much is reasonable for earthquake retrofit? It seems ridiculous to pay more per bottle for earthquake retrofit than for the racks themselves. Thus, earthquake features should cost less than $1 per bottle. $0.25 per bottle seems reasonable.
One caution: you often see people spending far more than the $1.25 per bottle for wine racking, and justifying this expense on the basis that some of their bottles will cost far more than this. But most people have most of their wine racks mostly empty for most of their lives. (The one exception I know of is a delightful Frenchman whose home I visited. He collected extensively during his long life. His wine cellar was dug out of the dirt under his house. As his existing racks filled up, he got out his shovel, added on to the cellar, and installed more inexpensive wire racks. When I visited him, he had dug out into the front yard, and could not go much further before he undermined the street. But I digress.) All of the empty slots have a wine cost of zero, so if your average wine bottle costs $40, your wine rack is 25% full and you paid $5 per slot for racking, then each occupied slot is costing you $20, or half again the cost of your wine. But, if each occupied slot cost you $1.25, you are paying $5 per occupied slot, saving $15 per slot that can more usefully be put towards wine.
From our discussion of earthquakes, we determined that, to minimize the damage of a severe earthquake, we need to make sure that, when subjected to repeated earthquake lurches of 4.9 m/s2:
- The wine cellar is in a building that won't fall down.
- The wine rack is strong enough that it will not collapse.
- The wine rack is adequately attached to the building such that it won't fall over.
- The wine bottles are adequately restrained such they won't slide out of the rack, or hit anything hard enough to be damaged.
- Nothing else in the wine room will fall on or into the wine rack with enough force to damage the wine.
Let's take each problem in turn.
The Building
If your cellar is in a building that will fall down in an earthquake, there are only a few practical things you can do. If the main problem is that the house is not bolted to the foundation, this can be fixed, and obviously the safety of the inhabitants is improved, which is hopefully a higher priority than the safety of your wine. There are a few other structural weaknesses that can practically be addressed. If you think you have a problem, a short discussion with a structural engineer could be in order.
You also can locate your wine cellar in the building with consideration to earthquakes. Ironically enough, the cellar is often a pretty good place. The example cellar in this article is in a daylight basement, in the corner formed by two massive foundation walls. The ceiling contains some of the strongest structural members in the house, including two large steel beams. It is literally the case that an exceptionally severe earthquake could bring down the building and leave the wine cellar standing. Such an ideal location is not always available, but the corner of a basement is usually a good start. Retrofitting to attach the house to the foundation, if necessary, is a good idea anyway. Other weaknesses can be addressed as necessary with structural reinforcing.
The Wine Rack
You need to start with a wine rack that is strong enough to do the job. If you're buying wine racks mail order, it can be a little hard to tell exactly what you're getting. If the racks show up and they just don't look robust, you can either send them back or try to reinforce them. Most kit wine racks consist of uprights you assemble into a frame with sheetrock screws. You have to be careful when setting the screws, as the wood can easily split if you drive the screws too hard. Yet, to make the rack strong, the screws must hold the pieces flush without gaps. It's best to be patient. One thing that will make a strong rack stronger is to put a thin layer of wood glue every place two pieces of wood contact, before you screw them together.
We can use gravity to help us tell if our wine rack is strong enough for a big earthquake. We determined above that we want our wine rack to withstand acceleration of 4.9 m/s2 fully loaded. This is roughly the same acceleration as the acceleration due to gravity when the rack is half loaded. (A realistic calculation of the dynamic load of an earthquake on the rack is much more complicated than this, but treating the peak acceleration as a constant acceleration is a passable first-order approximation.) This means that the wine rack should be able to hang fully loaded in all 6 orthogonal orientations, supported only by the points at which you will attach it, half loaded with bottles. Except, in the normal orientation, it should be able to withstand 1.5 times the fully loaded weight. If possible, test a module under these conditions. That's not always practical. In the example wine rack, the builder weighs about 180 pounds. After the glue dried on the first module, the builder stood on it, noting no motion nor sounds of strain. Subjecting the rack to a load of 180 pounds in various orientations, with that load concentrated in a few places, gave considerable confidence that the rack would withstand the required loads corresponding to the acceleration due to gravity on 150 pounds. Considering that the rack would be better supported and therefore stronger once bolted to a concrete wall and adjacent modules, the rack was judged more than adequately strong for a large earthquake.
What if you already have wine racks and they aren't strong enough? Unfortunately, the best course is to replace them. You may be able to devise a way to reinforce the racks. In the typical design with upright pieces in a frame, if the upright pieces are weak, the rack is hopeless. But if the upright pieces are OK and it is the frame that is weak, it may be possible to reinforce the frame. It may be faster and cheaper, however, to just start with new racks.
When choosing wine racks, make sure, by measuring carefully, that you can get the assembled wine racks into the cellar, even when some of the racks are already in there. There is almost never enough room to comfortably assemble the racks in the wine cellar. Inexpensive racks are often made of fir. Since cedar is a fir species, you may get cedar if you order fir. Cedar will make your cellar smell lovely for years to come, and it's a reasonably strong wood, but cedar is evil to work with. Many carpenters break out in hives just from touching cedar. If you are assembling cedar racks, you may want to vacuum up the dust before you begin. You may want to wear a woodworker's respirator and gloves, or at least take an antihistamine before you begin.
Installing the Wine Rack
The wine rack must be securely installed to a solid wall. As we discussed above, It's important to firmly attach the top and bottom of the rack securely to the wall. (Or possibly, the ceiling and floor.) For a tall rack, it's a good idea to attach the middle too. If you stack two rack modules on top of one another, it's almost always better to attach both the top and bottom of each module to the wall, even if you attach the modules to each other.
The picture shows a typical medium-sized wine rack holding 1000 bottles in modules stacked 2 high. The walls and floor are concrete. The modules were glued and screwed together. Three rows of 2x4s were anchored to the wall with big concrete anchors. (The holes for the concrete anchors were drilled through the 2x4 and the wall in one step with a hammer drill. A 7-pound sledgehammer was used to drive the anchors into the 2x4 and wall.) The anchors were angled slightly down, so that the weight of the wine rack tends to force the anchor back into the wall.
The racks were installed as follows:
- Put in a module on the floor, then screw it into the 2x4s behind it with #10 self-tapping screws. The screws are long enough to have at least an inch of threads embedded into the 2x4.
- Put a module on top of the first module. The modules come with wooden pins for stacking. The pins go into the top of the lower module, then the upper module rests on the lower module with pins between them. There is just enough ceiling clearance to get the pins in between the modules, which is good, because there isn't room to lean the two modules over, and once stacked, they're too tall to get through the door in any orientation.
- The first two modules are attached with concrete anchors to the wall on their sides as well as on the back. Holes were pre-drilled, then extended into the wall with a hammer drill. The position of the anchors was carefully chosen to allow the hammer drill and the sledge to fit into the rack. Firm attachment on the side as well as back makes the rack much stronger. A lurch perpendicular to the bottles tends to shear the front of the rack relative to the back. This could cause the uprights to break free of the front and back pieces, and the wine rack would then collapse. Anchoring the side of the rack forestalls this problem.
- After the first two modules are in, repeat with another lower and upper module. These modules are screwed into the previous modules with #10 self-drilling screws, so that they too are protected from the front shearing relative to the back.
- Repeat for the remaining modules.
Some installation notes:
- Pre-drill holes into the wine rack for the self-drilling screws. This will make it easier to get the rack in solid contact with the wall behind it.
- The self-drilling screws should be driven with a drill. You may need various flexible or angled adapters for your drill to be able to reach the screws to drive them in.
- The self-drilling screws have to be driven hard. Hex head screws are preferred.
- Be careful not to place a concrete anchor where you may want to drive a screw later. You might want to mark the locations of the concrete anchors on the top of the 2x4. You should be able to see and avoid these marks after you put in the racks.
- For the first modules, you need to make sure they are flush with the back before you drill the holes for the concrete anchors. Yet, before you screw them into the back, they must be flush with the side. One approach is to have somebody push the rack into the side wall while you screw it into the back.
- You can glue the rack to the 2x4s for a stronger connection, but this means you'd have to demolish the racks to remove them. In this cellar, the racks were not glued, but each module was held in place by 6 #10 screws. The screws will each hold 200 pounds or more, so they are plenty strong enough. The part of the rack that has the screws through it is made of 2 1x2s glued together, also strong enough. The 2x4 anchored to the wall is plenty strong and isn't going anywhere. Four screws, one near each corner, would almost certainly be enough to secure the rack. The center would tend to bow in and out, flexing the frame of the rack. Since the frame consists of two pieces of wood glued together, it's strong and quite stiff. For an extra measure of security, 6 screws were used instead of four, three along the top of the module and 3 along the bottom. Once installed, vigorous pulling and shaking produces no motion. The result is very stiff and solid. The result is already sufficiently strong, that gluing was seen as more trouble for no benefit.
Securing the Bottles in the Rack
Wine racks are typically sized to allow appropriate bottles to slide in from the front, but bottles can't move around in the wine rack any other way. Larger racks are needed for magnums and champagne. The example rack has one bay of 144 bottles for magnums and champagne. The remaining three bays of 288 bottles each are sized for typical 750 ml wine bottles.
Obviously, we have to keep the wine from sliding out the front, but before we get to that, what about slamming into the back wall? I'll write an article soon on how to test if a bottle might break when hitting a wall, but the short answer is: no. Even if the wall is concrete and the bottles rest as much as 15cm away from the wall, the bottles are unlikely to break when hitting it. When hitting a wall square on the bottom of the bottle, wine bottles are very strong. In almost every other orientation, they are more easily broken, but butt-on, they can take a big hit. It so happens that butt-on is the only orientation in which most bottles can hit the wall behind them. Oh sure, champagne bottles can twist around in a magnum rack and smack the back wall almost any which way, but champagne bottles are tough, and besides, most people don't cellar champagne for long periods, so even a total champagne massacre is, for most people, a loss of only a short period of consumption. Grievous, perhaps, but not emotionally scarring. If you have champagne that is most precious to you (or other odd-sized bottles for that matter), you may want to consider padding them a bit better, or perhaps not racking them at all. Anyway, even in a really big earthquake, smacking into the wall behind the wine rack is probably a minor problem.
Now for perhaps the most interesting earthquake proofing problem: how to keep bottles from sliding out the front? The author is aware of one commercial product to address this problem, called Quake Guardian. The author has no experience with this product, And does not have any experience or contact with professional shake testing Companys, such as Anco Engineers, but notes that the product is seems expensive in my opinion. At a cost of($2.50 in small quantities) But notes that the Company offers bulk discounts on orders over (25 or larger quantities) But no guarantees, Like all Earthquake restraint systems on the market today, Mother nature always finds ways to surprise us. The coil cord device looks flimsy, but the maker claimed to have subjected it to substantial forces: 1.3G for a total of 90 seconds, this is in the range of a 7-8 magnitude quake. They also have a new "EPDM" leash for the QuakeGuardians, that suggested to be much stronger and last longer. They claim this was made for a client who live's on top of the San Andreas fault line. Take a look at QuakeGuardian.
I never made an order of QuakeGuardians to test myself. But the retail price on small orders (less then 25) is $2.50 per bottle. I think this may be expensive. In fact, it's more than twice what the whole wine rack shown in this article cost.
Bottles in the example rack are held in place with o-rings. The o-rings are attached to the wine rack with zip ties. (AKA "wire ties" or "cable ties.") The look is spartan and functional, but not fussy. Cost is less than $0.20 per bottle, less than 1/10th the cost of the ready-made solution. Remember "No professional shake testing was preformed, on this method of using o-rings." Unlike on the QuakeGuardians, professional testing was preformed. You need to decide for yourself how much is your fine wine collection worth to you and if you are willing to loose it because of a cheaper, untested method!
You need o-rings and zip ties. This is what 1,000 o-rings and 1,000 zip ties looks like:
Nitrile o-rings are the cheapest but EPDM o-rings last longer. Nitrile should last 10 years, but who wants to replace 0-rings every 10 years? If you use EPDM, just put a note in your will reminding your kids to replace the o-rings in the wine cellar.
A size 226 o-ring (2" inside diameter, 1/8" thick) is probably about the right size. But buy a few o-rings in plausible sizes and try them out, before you order 1,000 of them. O-rings are not easy to return for credit. O-rings West may not be the cheapest, but their prices are pretty good, they are helpful, and are one of the few places that are likely to ship out 1,000 o-rings the day you order them. Their web site is also very informative. Just don't try to buy 10 o-rings from them: their minimum order is $20.
Marco Rubber has good prices and service.
EPDM o-rings should cost between $0.15 and $0.25 each (2008 dollars), depending on size and quantity. Buying them one at a time, the o-rings will cost at least twice this. To figure size, you can buy some cheap nitrile o-rings at your local hardware store. (Nitrile and EPDM o-rings have different stretchiness, but not enough to make a big difference. If you're worried about it, ask for a free sample of the EPDM o-ring before you place your big order.)
You also need to figure out what kind of zip tie you need. The 50 LB strength zip ties are sufficient, and 7.5" length should be enough. Again, get a few and experiment before you buy the whole lot. These ties came from elecDirect and cost about $18 per 1,000. It really pays to shop around for zip ties, and it pays to buy in bulk. There are usually price breaks at 100 and either 500 or 1,000. One thousand wire ties sounds like a lot, but you'll use 'em up eventually. If you follow the instructions here, you need half as many zip ties as o-rings, but get extra zip ties: you'll change your mind or screw something up and need extra. The o-rings can be re-used, but you shouldn't reuse the zip ties.
Nylon zip ties are fine. There are actually standards for zip ties, and you want a zip tie that conforms to a standard, so you have some idea that you're actually getting what you paid for. A reputable manufacturer's zip ties will be UL recognized. Better yet is a CSA certification and/or a mil spec.
The zip ties will spend almost their entire service life in the dark, so you don't need the UV resistant ones. One of the critical factors for zip ties is maximum operating temperature, which of course is irrelevant for our application.
Are these o-rings and zip-ties strong enough? The author calculated from material properties that a 1/8" EPDM o-ring should have a breaking strength (often incorrectly called a "tensile strength") of 44 pounds. The o-rings were tested as follows:
- put a shop vise (or similar heavy object) on a bathroom scale
- observe weight
- attach o ring to heavy object with a zip tie
- pick up heavy object with o-ring
- observe weight on scale when o-ring breaks
- breaking strength is roughly the initial weight minus the breaking weight.
Wear safety goggles if you try this. When the o-ring breaks, things are going to fly in your general direction at high speed.
The o-rings shown broke at 46 LBs. Since a wine bottle weighs about 2 LBs and we are planning for horizontal acceleration no more than half that of gravity, we have a safety factor of roughly 46. That's plenty.
Similarly, 50 LB zip ties seem like overkill, but the width of the 50 LB ties makes them easier to work with, and they're cheap anyway. Just for fun, the author tested the zip ties and found that the 50 LB ties consistently broke at over 70 LBs force.
Yeah, these o-rings and zip ties are plenty strong for this job.
What about the forces the zip ties will transmit to the wine rack? An accurate answer would be hard to determine, but the wine racks are probably plenty strong. For one thing, the o-rings will act as springs, so the rack will have some time to absorb all of the kinetic energy of that moving wine.
Attach the o-rings to the wine rack with the wire ties:
Experiment with different attachment methods. In this wine rack, the rack module is 1.5 inches (the width of a 2x4) away from the wall. The bottles need to be kept deeper in the rack, or else the bottles could work their way around the o-ring and fall out. So, the rings are better off trapped at the back of the upright: Their are many variables to consider, like the depth of the rack or the length or weight of the bottles. Not all bottles weigh or perform the same.
The inventor of the QuakeGuardians suggest the ring needs to move with the motion of the bottles and that attempting to trap or catch the bottles as they shoot forward towards the front of the rack may not stop the bottles because the rings may turn sideways from the kinetic energy produced and not stop the bottles. Here is a youtube video of the QuakeGuardians, From shake testing with two wine racks. This has been added for you to look at. One wine rack with the QuakeGuardians installed and the other wine rack that has slide rails at 6 1/2 degrees. The Manufactures suggest that it is "Earthquake proof or resistant" After shake testing was preformed, they found that in a moderate quake. (around 6.5 or greater)all the bottles flew out of the wine rack with the anged slide rails. Take a look for yourself and you be the judge. QuakeGuardian shake testing
If you have a rack similar to the one shown, you can put the zip tie around the horizontal rails. The problem with this is that the edge of the zip tie tends to scrape off the wine label. (Remember all bottles are not the same, such as the length or weight and may perform differently) Also all wine rack manufactures have different depths of slide rails. Double deep racks are completely different and this method may not work for you.
Now, If you are putting two o-rings per zip tie, you need to put zip ties on every other upright piece. You could use a checkerboard pattern for a stronger result, but this would be much slower. In fact, it's easy to let your mind wander and skip a row or put two rows next to each other. One way to avoid this is to do the top row of the module first, then fill in the columns one at a time.
Finally, make sure there isn't anything else in the wine cellar that will fall or possibly slide into your wine rack and cause damage. If all you have in your wine cellar is racks, then you're good. In the example cellar, the rack runs along one wall, and the opposite wall is steel shelving for storing wine in cases or other things. The steel shelving is bolted to the wall along both the top and bottom, to prevent it from falling over or collapsing. The shelving itself is double rivet-lock shelves rated at 600 LB per shelf. Heavy objects are on the bottom shelf, and objects big and heavy enough to be a problem are secured to the shelving with bungee cords or similar.
You're done! Sit back with a well-earned glass of wine, and wait for the big one.
This page was last modified 22:03, 26 February 2011 by quakeguardian. Based on work by howto_admin and eriknilsson.
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idle raiders save file?
wow! didnt know about that option! thank you :D
Where is the .sol file of idle riders?
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they load, but sometime in the middle it just stop and does nothing.
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in 'Cyclomaniacs epic' the game loads fine, but when i choose a race i just got a weird blue screen :P
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since i switch from linux to windows XP here, lots of games arent working anymore.
I tried some stuffs i read in here, but nothing could fix my problem yet….
both browsers (firefox and IE) gimme the same problem.
i tried reinstalling firefox and flash.
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chat and badges problem
i found the problem,
but in my case, it was an add-on that comes with firefox when running on linux…
disabling "Ubuntu Firefox Modifications" fixed everything for me
when i run firefox in safe mode everything works D: weird
im having the same problem, not only in firefox, but on chrome too.
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Some Games doesnt work...
tried on another machine here runnig ubuntu 9.1… the games ran without problems…
the problem is the same in my biglinux and the Virtual windows XP
Edit: BigLinux is based on Kubuntu, right? Make sure you have neither gnash nor swfdec installed, they are causing a lot of problems when Adobe's Flash is installed either.
i dont have any of this packages installed…
i dont know what more can i do…
im thinking in format the machine o/
the game loads, I see the loading game screen but after loaded nothing happens…
some games i can right click and choose "forward" ("Avançar" in my brazillian version flash) in the menu to reach the title screen, but nothing works fine after this….
In tower of gredd I can reach the title screen normally, choose options and all, but when i choose to play, the screen gets blank….
ruudiluca: i set to unlimited, but still the same…
Phoenix00017: i will look at google to see what is ISP, and see if can helpme, and i will try in another pc too…
Im using Firefox 3.5 and my OS is Biglinux 4.5….
No mather what browser do i use some games doesnt work…
my flash player version: 10.0.42.34, I already tried to reinstall it…
i tried to run theses games in a virtual machine running windows XP and it doesnt work too…
some games that doesnt work:
Endless Migration
Obey the Game
Bubble Tanks Tower Defense
Fly Squirrel Fly
Tower of Greed
but a lot of games work, it seems that the newest games arent working anymore…
what can i try to do?
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French rider Cyril Dessel has won today's stage of the Tour de France with Frank Schleck of Luxembourg retaining the yellow jersey as the overall leader.
The 16th stage saw the pack returning from Italy across two huge Alpine climbs.
Dessel won his first Tour stage by leading a breakaway group of four riders to a downhill finish after a 97.6-mile trek.
Schleck finished 1 minute, 28 seconds after Dessel, but didn't lose any time to his main title rivals. Bernhard Kohl of Austria is second overall, trailing by seven seconds. Cadel Evans of Australia is third, eight seconds off the pace.
American rider Christian Vande Velde lost even more ground in the title hunt. He's fallen to sixth place and is 3:15 behind. He started the ride 39 seconds behind Schleck in fifth.
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A dish best served coldtheSMOOF | Oct. 26, 2012 | Review of Dishonored - PC
Dishonored runs with the tagline "Revenge Solves Everything". This is earned by throwing you headfirst in to the role of the wrongly accused hero. You are framed for murder and must eliminate your enemies to restore your honor. I use the word eliminate, because for a game that puts you in the role of an assassin, you are never forced to spill one ounce of blood. The game lets you truly be in control and play how you want to play. If you want to assume the role of a bloodthirsty psycho warlock, you can be that person. If you'd rather be the Robin Hood guy sniping out the bad guys and saving the day, you can be that guy too. If you want to be a pacifist ghost that nobody every sees, it's going to be super hard, but you can be that guy as well. So many options give this game some real teeth. Some will call this game short. I'm sure you could blaze through this at a moderate pace and finish it in well under 20 hours. I clocked in over 45 in the first few missions alone. This is a game that lets you decide how challenging it is, and what kind of reward you will get from it. Overall: Compelling story with a fully realized world. Beautiful stylized art style and atmosphere. Exceptional sound design and attention to detail, great voice acting. Gameplay that works for the player instead of against them, giving you a true feeling of power and control. This game gets a near perfect score from me.


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Mobile Tablesaw Base, Part 1
Here's the start of my mobile tablesaw base. I'm riffing off of this design.
Started by dismantling the saw, as is my habit.
Built a new base from maple, incorporating plywood baffles and the saw's scavenged dust port:
And with the gracious* help of a fellow editor, I hoisted the saw onto its new home.
*We were carpooling in my vehicle that day and I refused to take him home until after he helped.
Still a lot of work to do. Replace the fence, add a router table in the wing, and add drawers and storage anywhere I can tuck it away. I'll keep you posted on the progress.
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November 23, 2009 at 10:42 am, by Mobile Tablesaw Base, Part 3 | After Hours with the WOOD Gang
[...] tablesaw base for those of you playing along at home. For those of you just joining us, here are part 1, and part 2. I'm riffing off of a plan that can be found in the October 2003 issue (no. 151) [...]
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[...] regularly read and re-read this series of blog posts, here's where you can get up to speed: part 1, part 2, and part 3. I'm riffing off of a plan that can be found in the October 2003 issue [...]
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WASHINGTON – Adele might have found her biggest fans.
Seven-year-old Charlotte Neve had been unconscious in a hospital for a week after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Her mother, Leila, had been told to prepare for the worst, The Telegraph reports.
But when Leila climbed into bed with Charlotte, Adele's "Rolling in the Deep" came on the radio. Mother and daughter used to sing the song together, The Telegraph says.
And Charlotte smiled. Two days later, she was speaking. Two months later, she is learning to walk and talk, and has gone back to school.
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By Smita Gaith, Women Deliver
Merck for Mothers, an initiative of the pharmaceutical company Merck (known as MSD in some countries), will be joining forces with the United States Government, the Government of Norway, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the Every Mother Counts campaign to target Millennium Development Goal 5 (MDG 5) – to reduce maternal mortality.
According to the United Nations MDG Report 2011, most maternal deaths occur in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. In 2008, maternal mortality in these regions was as great as 640 per 100,000 and 280 per 100,000 live births, respectively. Read more...
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Maternal and Reproductive Health Issues Take Center Stage in Africa
March 27th, 2012
Leaders from 27 African countries gather at 'African Regional Consultation on Achieving Millennium Development Goal 5' to make the health of girls and women a regional priority
Kampala, Uganda – On 27-28 March, policymakers, advocates and researchers from across sub-Saharan Africa are gathering in Kampala, Uganda, to reaffirm national and regional commitments to Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 5 – reducing maternal mortality and ensuring universal access to reproductive health.
At the regional consultation, convened by Partners in Population and Development and global advocacy organization Women Deliver, leading experts will discuss lessons learned in maternal, sexual and reproductive health and identify barriers to meeting the needs of girls and women in the lead-up to the 2015 MDG target date and beyond. Read more...
Celebrate Solutions: A Nepali Radio Show for 'Mutual Understanding'
March 26th, 2012
By Rati Bishnoi, Women Deliver
Every week, the Samajhdari or "Mutual Understanding" radio show creates a space for Nepali women to "speak out for themselves" and share their often "unspoken, internal dilemmas with one another," says Programme Director Jaya Luintel. Read more...
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Women Deliver is excited to announce that all scholarship applications for Women Deliver 2013 are open today.
There are two different scholarship applications - one for young people who will be under 30-years-old at the time of the conference and one for those who will be 30-years-old or over at the time of the conference. All scholarship applications are due April 23, 2012. We will offer full scholarships to a select number of participants in order to maximize participation from those who are traditionally under-represented; namely, young people and those from the Global South. This support includes conference registration, round-trip economy class airfare, hotel accomodations and a fixed stipend for visa fees and other incidentals. Read more...
UN Launches Commission on Life-Saving Commodities for Women and Children
March 23rd, 2012
NEW YORK, 23 March 2012 – UNICEF and UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, today launched a high-level commission to improve access to essential but overlooked health supplies that could save the lives of millions of women and children every year.
"Making sure that women and children have the medicines and other supplies they need is critical for our push to achieve the MDGs," said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. "The Commission will tackle an overlooked but vital aspect of health systems, and ensure that women and children are protected from preventable causes of death and disease." Read more...


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L. Jean Cox, 70, St. Joseph, Missouri died Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at Heartland Regional Medical Center after battling an illness for several years.
Jean was born August 2, 1943 in Wichita, Kansas, the second daughter of Arthur W. and M. Pearl (Waller) Lizar. As a young child, she moved with her family to Missouri and lived most of her life in Stewartsville where she became a member of the Stewartsville Presbyterian-Christian Church. She was also an artist, master gardener and an extraordinary cook.
She moved to St. Joseph after graduating from Stewartsville High School and was homecoming queen her junior year. She was a cheerleader and played on the basketball team for four years before graduating in 1961. She worked at the American National Bank for two years. She married Robert Lee Craig, Jr. and her two children were born of the union. She began a career at the St. Joseph Light & Power Company as executive assistant to two presidents retiring after thirty-three years. She later worked in the same capacity for the City Manager of St. Joseph. During her career, she was a member of Professional Secretaries, Inc. and Women's Career Network where she served on both boards and numerous committees.
Jean was preceded in death by her parents; a brother-in-law, Robert C. Kimes; and several aunts, uncles and cousins.
Survivors: daughter, Lisa J. Craig Bone and husband James, Gladstone, Missouri; son, Daniel L. Craig and wife Terri, St. Joseph, Missouri; four grandchildren, Morgan Scheib and husband Josh, Jakob Allen, Leah Craig and Trevor Bone; two great-granddaughters, Ainsley and Riley Scheib; two sisters; Karen Pickett and husband Eddie, Stewartsville, Missouri and Mary Kimes, Belton, Missouri; six nieces and nephews; and many dear friends.
Memorial Services: 10:00 A.M. Saturday, Meierhoffer Funeral Home & Crematory. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Flowers are appreciated or the family suggests memorial contributions to be made to Safe Place for Kids, Inc., 5510 NE Antioch Rd #193, Kansas City, MO 64119.
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What a big disappoinment with tetra products. Some of the local LFS only carry tetra products for certain items. I had bought the tetra whisper air pump and 2 week later it started making loud humming sound. Took it apart and the braket that hold the pump arm is broke. God back get another one. What happen 2 weeks later same issue same spot same broken part.
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WOODSTOCK Lena T. Romano, 100, died Jan. 30, 2013, at The Woodstock Terrace, Woodstock, Vt.
She was born in Danby, Vt., Feb. 26, 1912, daughter of Antonio and Luigia (Brevetti) Garofano.
Lena married Francisco B. Romano at Christ the King Church in Rutland.
Mrs. Romano was a longtime Rutland resident, moving to Woodstock in 2011.
She worked as a foster grandparent in the Rutland school system until the age of 92.
Mrs. Romano was a member of Our Lady of the Snows Church in Woodstock and a former member of Christ the King Church in Rutland.
She enjoyed family, Italian cooking, fashion, music and gardening.
Surviving are two sons, Frank J. Romano and his wife Elizabeth of Woodstock, Anthony Romano of Tucson, Ariz.; a sister, Amelia Bellski of Rutland; 12 grandchildren, 23 great-grandchildren, three great-great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her husband, Francisco B. Romano, on Jan. 11, 1955; a son, Robert Romano; daughter-in-law, Joyce Merrill Romano; and 13 siblings.
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