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An unexpected week in La Paz
Trip Start Jan 23, 2010
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Hospadaje Jimenez
Dude: How much does the hostal cost
Don: 25 Bolivianos ($3)
Dude: Shared bathroom?
Don: Yes, 35 Bolivianos for a private
Dude to me: Beds good?
Me: yeah, for straw stuffed in potatoe sacks and a piece of foam, they�re not bad...
No I didn�t really say that. Lets try again
Dude to me: Beds good?
Me: Yeah
Dude to Don: does it include breakfast?
Don: no
Me to dude: and they charge you a peso to use the extremely funky kitchen, three if you cook a big meal, but you�re welcome to some of my Nescafe.
No I didn�t really say that. Lets continue.
Dude: eehhhh alright. Is there wireless?
Me: Are you fucking kidding?
No I didn�t really say that....but I sure wanted to!
Don: No, no wireless
Dude: eh alright, thanks bye.
Don Teodoro and I smile and he goes back to cleaning the bathrooms (but most certainly not the kitchen, as they don�t clean that) and have another tasty mug of instant coffee. I love Bolivia
I�m back in La Paz. Again. For five days. I can�t help but say I�m less than thrilled with the idea. La Paz is really an interesting city. Built in what can almost be described as a bowl, its full of steep narrow roads, street vendors, churches, plazas, etc. However, it is STILL a big city, and I, quite frankly, am not a fan.
I arrived on Sunday with the intention of spending the night and leaving the next day for the Amazon. Unfortunately, it was the very day that I arrived that the Coqueros (or Coca farmers) decide to go on strike and block off access into the Yungas region, the area that I had hoped to visit. Initially I tried to find a way around it all. Take a taxi, walk across the road blockades, another taxi, more walking and so on. Then I heard that moving vehicles were difficult, if not impossible, to come by as the blockades had created all kinds of congestion and confusion.
Then I talked to a tour agency who said they were taking a tour on backroads to a riverhead and then they would float the river to Rurrenebaque, a few days away (by boat, that is). However, I can�t really afford the tour, so I asked them if they would just give me a lift to the river on their backroad route. The tour operator said he�d speak to his boss and get back to me. As it turns out, the only boats that take this river north are tour boats and thus if I were to arrive and look for my own form of transport, I�d be shit out of luck. And so I wait.
Five days later, I am still here. During this time I�ve become the official greeter in my hospadaje courtyard, kept up to date on the road bloackades in the Yungas and the protesters in Santa Cruz (they�re protesting a new anti racism law, one which seems to be a thinly veiled excuse for media censureship, and the media is going all out with hunger strikes and riots. I am yet to meet a Bolivian in favor of the law, though many support Evo Morales, the president. From what I gather, it is an unfortunate path for Evo to take, as the country undoubtably would benefit from a better written law). And of course, like the rest of the world, I watched as Chile rescued the 33 miners stuck deep in a hole near Copiapo.
A few comments on the situation. First of all, wow, it really is pretty freaking miraculous that these men had first survived the collapse, were found, able to live 70 days so isolated and so far beneath the earth�s surface, and were finally reunited with, well, us. No doubt about it.
Second, maaan was the whole spectacle so very, so distinctly, Chilean. The patriotic nature of the country was literally oozing from every scene. Flag hats, signed footballs, the infamous CHI-CHI-CHI-Le-Le-Le chant, modified, of course, to fit the current curcumstances (instead of Viva Chile, it was something like Vivan los mineros de Chile), all night parties to celebrate the rescue, and the celebratory blare of car horns that, no doubt, sounded through the country for days to come.
Also true to Chile�s nature was their penchant for romance. Anyone who has every been to Santiago knows that public displays of affection (meaning full on make-out sessions) are common amongst all ages, and some might say that you really haven�t experienced the country until you�ve done some heavy petting in Santiago�s subway (preferably on the red line during rush hour when it seems couples eliminate any airspace between them and lock lips simply to make room). Anyway, point is, stories of women buying lingere and the most romantic reunions dominated the news.
And then there was Pi�era. Needless to say, Chile�s president did everything he could to bring those men back to the surface. He had plans A through Z, consulted NASA, constructed Camp Hope and ensured the miners and their families were well cared for. He even spent almost 30 hours standing outside the tiny hole through which the miners were surfaced and welcomed each one with a hug. However, I couldn�t help but feel his actions were juuuust a liiiiitle opportunistic.
Pi�era is the first conservative president to be elected since Chile�s dictatorship, which ended just 20 years ago, he is a billionaire in a country that still has severe poverty, and is undoubtably looking to prove himself. And I couldn�t help but feel just a little irked as he flashed his big white smile, eyes blinking uncomfortably, standing next to two bottle blondes (blonde in Chile is ideal, as it is associated with the west, wealth, and the developed. Never in my life have I seen such a love of blondes-even bottled- as that which I saw in Chile), greeting these men who in theory would never have been there in the first place had their well-being as laborers been taken into consideration by the big business owners such as Pi�era. Well there you have it.
Anway, I�m giving up my weeklong wait tomorrow and heading toPeru...I think.


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Oct 20, 2013
FIM MotoGP World Championship Race Results From Phillip Island
© 2017, Roadracing World Publishing, Inc. by David Swarts
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A map of the Phillip Island circuit.
FIM MotoGP World Championship
Phillip Island, Australia
October 20, 2013
Race Results (all on Bridgestone tires):
1. Jorge LORENZO, Spain (YAMAHA), 19 laps, 29:07.155
2. Dani PEDROSA, Spain (HONDA), -6.936 seconds
3. Valentino ROSSI, Italy (YAMAHA), -12.344
4. Cal CRUTCHLOW, UK (YAMAHA), -12.460
5. Alvaro BAUTISTA, Spain (HONDA), -12.513
6. Bradley SMITH, UK (YAMAHA), -28.263
7. Nicky HAYDEN, USA (DUCATI), -32.953
8. Andrea IANNONE, Italy (DUCATI), -35.062
9. Andrea DOVIZIOSO, Italy (DUCATI), -35.104
10. Randy DE PUNIET, France (ART-Aprilia), -37.426
11. Aleix ESPARGARO, Spain (ART-Aprilia), -46.099
12. Colin EDWARDS, USA (FTR-Kawasaki), -48.149
13. Yonny HERNANDEZ, Colombia (DUCATI), -49.911
14. Hector BARBERA, Spain (FTR-Kawasaki), -49.998
15. Danilo PETRUCCI, Italy (IODA/SUTER-BMW), -58.718
16. Luca SCASSA, Italy (ART-Aprilia), -58.791
17. Claudio CORTI, Italy (FTR-Kawasaki), -68.105
18. Michael LAVERTY, UK (ART-Aprilia), -87.230
19. Lukas PESEK, Czech Republic (IODA/SUTER-BMW), -91.093
20. Hiroshi AOYAMA, Japan (FTR-Kawasaki), -1 lap
21. Damian CUDLIN, Australia (PBM-Aprilia), -2 laps
Bryan STARING, Australia (FTR HONDA)
Marc MARQUEZ, Spain (HONDA)
World Championship Point Standings (after 16 of 18 races):
1. Marquez, 298 points
2. Lorenzo, 280
3. Pedrosa 264
4. Rossi, 214
5. Crutchlow, 179
6. Bautista, 147
7. Bradl, 135
8. Dovizioso, 127
9. Hayden, 111
10. Smith, 99
11. Espargaro, 88
12. Iannone, 55
13. Michele Pirro, 50
14. Edwards, 36
15. De Puniet, 33
16. Barbera, 31
17. Petrucci, 24
18. Hernandez, 20
19. Aoyama, 13
20. Corti, 11
21. Ben Spies, 9
22. TIE, Alex De Angelis/Karel Abraham, 5
24. Laverty, 3
25. Staring, 2
26. Javier Del Amor, 1
More, from a press release issued by Bridgestone:
Lorenzo comes out on top in thrilling Australian Grand Prix
Round 16: Australian MotoGP™ - Race
Phillip Island, Sunday 20 October 2013
Bridgestone slick compounds available: Front: Extra-soft & Soft. Rear: Medium & Hard (Asymmetric)
Bridgestone wet tyre compounds available: Soft (Main) & Hard (Alternative)
Weather: Dry. Ambient 26-27°C; Track 30-32°C (Bridgestone measurement)
Yamaha Factory Racing's Jorge Lorenzo won a dramatic flag-to-flag Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island to breathe life back into his championship challenge.
With the race reduced to nineteen laps with a mandatory stop where riders were required to change bikes, Lorenzo led the opening stint before making a flawless pit stop on lap nine to put himself in a strong position for the second half of the race. Once on his second bike Lorenzo pulled away from the chasing pack to take the chequered flag by 6.936 seconds ahead of second-place getter, Repsol Honda's Dani Pedrosa. Rounding out the rostrum was Yamaha Factory Racing's Valentino Rossi who claimed his sixth podium of the season in Australia. Having shown great pace throughout the race weekend, the top CRT rider in Australia was Power Electronics Aspar's Randy de Puniet who placed tenth in Australia. Amid the excitement of today's race, a new Circuit Record Lap of 1'28.108 was set on the thirteenth lap of the race by Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez.
Conditions today were dry but cooler than yesterday, with the peak track temperature of 32°C recorded at the start of the race. With the harder of the two rear slick options – the medium compound for CRT riders and the hard compound for works riders - being made mandatory for the race, the only variation in tyre choice came from the front slicks. Eleven of the twenty-three starters chose the softer front option, the extra-soft front slick, with the other twelve riders opting for the harder option, soft compound front.
With two rounds remaining, Repsol Honda's Marc Marquez still leads the championship standings by eighteen points – despite being black flagged for not pitting in the mandatory stop window in today's race – over Lorenzo. Pedrosa remains in third place in the championship, sixteen points adrift of Lorenzo.
Shinji Aoki – Manager, Bridgestone Motorsport Tyre Development Department
"Today was quite an exciting contest that passed without incident and I would like to congratulate all the teams and riders for working so hard to adapt what was a unique race situation. After warm-up, we analysed the tyres of the riders to see how they fared during the long runs they did this morning and it was evident that we had to reduce the maximum running time of the rear slicks to ten laps. Considering this new information, we had discussions with the FIM, Dorna and IRTA regarding the situation, after which race direction decided a flag-to-flag race with a nineteen lap duration was the best option. We have arranged for the used tyres from this weekend to be transported immediately to our technical centre in Japan for detailed analysis which will be the first step in developing new tyres for future MotoGP races at Phillip Island."
Jorge Lorenzo, Yamaha Factory Racing – Race Winner
"Today was a crazy race with us having to the change of bikes in the middle of the contest. We practiced a lot before the race to find the best way to swap between bikes and this helped me a lot in the race. Twenty-five points is the best result possible and is good for the championship and I hope we can still be challenging for the title at the last race in Valencia."
More, from a press release issued by Repsol Honda:
Second place for Pedrosa as black flag terminates race for Marquez
It has been a remarkable day in Phillip Island for the MotoGP paddock, especially the Repsol Honda Team.
After Race Direction last night changed the format of today's twenty-seven lap race due to tyre issues, this morning, the rules changed once again after more troubles in warm up. The new format dictated a new race distance of nineteen laps with a mandatory change of bikes at least once during the race. Riders were also not permitted to complete more than ten laps on any one rear tyre, meaning they had to change machine at the end of lap nine or lap ten.
The race began well and Championship leader Marc Marquez held second position from the start, behind pole man Lorenzo. Teammate Dani Pedrosa had a fantastic start jumping from 5th to 3rd by the first turn. The three Spanish riders raced hard for the first nine laps and Dani was the first to pit at the end of lap nine. At the end of lap ten, race leader Lorenzo entered the pits - along with the majority of riders - but Marc did not follow, instead completing lap ten and then entering the pits before passing the line of lap eleven. Marc rejoined the circuit as Lorenzo came through turn one and slotted into second.
However, shortly after Marc rejoining the race, he was shown the black flag - meaning instant disqualification - as he had exceeded the lap limit as set out in Race Direction's earlier instructions. The team made a mistake, understanding he was able to complete ten laps and come back in before completing lap eleven, and the 'BOX' instruction on his pit board was therefore one lap late.
Dani also experienced some drama after he slightly crossed the white line before the end of the filter lane when rejoining the race after his pit stop. He was ordered to relinquish a position, letting Marc pass him before being shown the black flag. He held ont o second position comfortably but was unable to chase down Lorenzo in the final laps. Marc retains his Championship lead on 298, but it's been cut to just 18 points with two races remaining with Lorenzo on 280. Dani is now on 264, 34 points off his teammate.
Dani Pedrosa 2nd Championship Standing: 3rd - 264 points
"Today's race was very stressful -above all before the start, as the rules were being changed every five minutes. Everything was turned on its head and it was very difficult to adapt first time, without making any mistakes. Marc made mistakes and I did too. Everything was going so fast and it was confusing for both the riders and the mechanics. We had to be clear about which lap to enter the pits, as it wasn't obvious which was lap 9 and which was lap 10. The two bikes needed to be prepared and the tyres as well, the pit lane was much longer than normal... it was all so strange today. The exit line from the pits wasn't clear, and neither could you see the entry line very well, so it was all a bit improvised. In my case I was able to rectify my mistake on the track and, although the se cond bike wasn't the same for me as the first, I managed to take second in the race and be very competitive"
Marc Marquez DNF Championship Standing: 1st - 298 points
"Today was our first experience of a Flag-to-Flag race, and suffice to say it wasn't a good one. My team and I had set out a strategy and we thought that we could come in after lap 10, but in reality this counts as an extra lap. We hadn't had that in mind and this was a huge mistake. We had everything well planned and I followed the instructions on my pit board. You learn from these things though, so now we have to move on and focus on the race in Japan"
More, from a press release issued by Yamaha Factory MotoGP Team:
Lorenzo Scores 50th Grand Prix Victory in Phillip Island Thriller
Phillip Island (Australia), 20th october 2013
Defending world champion Jorge Lorenzo delivered a stunning ride today to win the Australian Grand Prix in a thrilling spectacle filled with drama. Teammate Valentino Rossi delivered another exciting performance, fighting to take third on the podium.
Following concerns over the safety of the Bridgestone tyres to last full race distance the race was changed to incorporate a bike change at the ten-lap mark, with the total laps reduced to 19.
The start saw Lorenzo take the hole-shot from his pole position with riders Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa in hot pursuit. The reigning champion gave no quarter but was unable to pull away, the rivals staying within 0.5 of a second as they counted down to the pit stop. This itself turned into a bizarre event with potential consequences for the championship. Pedrosa pitted a lap early, Lorenzo pitted at the ten-lap mark and Marquez pitted a lap too late. As a result Marquez was given a black flag and disqualified and Pedrosa was forced to drop a position after crossing the white line on his pit lane exit.
Further disaster was also narrowly avoided when Marquez exited the pits just as Lorenzo passed down the straight at high speed, the two making contact into turn one. Luckily both were able to stay upright and continue. Lorenzo kept the pressure on and held the top spot for the remaining nine laps to claim the race win.
Rossi enjoyed yet another intense race long battle with rivals Cal Crutchlow and Alvaro Bautista. The three swapping positions in the fight for the last podium spot throughout the first ten laps and again in the following nine. Rossi completed a super fast pit stop, beating both out to gain two positions. As one of the most successful MotoGP riders of the modern era in Phillip Island it was never going to be easy for them to beat him, and they couldn't. The Italian claimed third at the line to make it another double Yamaha podium.
The result leaves Lorenzo now on 280 points, 18 behind Marquez as they head to Motegi for the final of the triple-headers. Rossi stays secure in fourth position on 214 points, 35 ahead of Crutchlow in fifth.
Jorge Lorenzo
1st / 29'07.155 / 19 laps
"I'm really happy with this win, we've also been lucky because Marc made this mistake. Without that he would have been second or first because he was really fast today. So we've been lucky but we were unlucky in the middle of the championship so today is a balance. When I was entering the first corner Marc was exiting the pit at exactly the same time, the situation was almost impossible to avoid. I was braking a little later to open the line and I don't think he was looking so much entering the corner so it was both our fault. Now we have options, if Marc keeps constant on the podium then it is impossible to win the championship but there are a lot of laps to go so anything could happen. It's unbelievable to have 50Grand Prix victories at 26years old. It seems like only yesterday when I won in Brazil in 2003 but it's been ten years. I'm very proud of it and hope to win some more in the future!"
Valentino Rossi
3rd / +12.344 / 19 laps
"At the end the result was good, I'm so happy to be on the podium here at Phillip Island because it's always a great pleasure and a great atmosphere. I tried to give the maximum, the race was very thrilling and I enjoyed it very much, especially because with the team we were able to do a very good job in the pit and gain two positions. I had a great battle with Cal, when I understood it was for the podium I tried to give the maximum. In the last half of the lap it started to rain which was very scary but at the end it was ok and a good result. We still need to work and improve to be faster for the next race."
Yamaha Factory Racing Wilco Zeelenberg
Team Manager
"A perfect result, winning here is a dream for us after two tough races. With Marc making the mistake it opens the championship a little more as well. 18 points is a completely different story to nearly 40. We are very pleased with that."
Yamaha Factory Racing Massimo Meregalli
Team Director
"It has been an incredible race, Jorge didn't make any mistakes and led from the first to the last lap, always pushing hard. It was also nice to have the flag to flag in dry conditions and we got a lot of points to close the gap. There is only 18 points between them now so the championship is more open. We are looking to Motegi now to keep going and close it more. Vale did another great race, another double podium which is a great result for Yamaha. We had some doubts before the start of the race on grip but we got a great result."
More, from a press release issued by Ducati Corse:
Hayden seventh at Phillip Island, Dovizioso ninth
In a dramatic Australian Grand Prix that featured a "flag-to-flag" format in the dry, with obligatory pit stops, Nicky Hayden and Andrea Dovizioso maintained their cool in challenging circumstances, riding to seventh and ninth place finishes, respectively. The unusual format, which had riders switching bikes at the midway point of the shortened 19-lap race, was implemented by Race Direction in response to tyre wear being much higher than anticipated over the course of the weekend.
In the race's first half, the two Ducati Team colleagues battled with one another and fellow Ducati rider Andrea Iannone. Hayden used good pit strategy to get away from the other two Ducati riders and make a run at sixth-place Bradley Smith that ultimately fell just short. Similarly, Dovizioso was unsuccessful in his late bid to overtake Iannone and ultimately had to accept ninth place.
With the first two legs of this overseas tripleheader now complete, the MotoGP teams now return to Asia for next weekend's Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi.
Nicky Hayden - Ducati Team, 7th
"If I'm honest, I hoped to be more competitive, but it went better than some of our recent races. My first tyre didn't feel as grippy as I expected. I was racing with Iannone and Dovi, but I knew I was faster than those guys and didn't want to tow them. I waited to do the opposite of them, so when I saw them go in the pits, I put my head down and did a good in-lap, then did a good lap leaving the pits and was able to put a couple of seconds onto them. I got to the back of Smith at the end, but I was struggling in the last corner, and there were some spots of rain. As for the pit stop, it was easy. I've been with my team for five years, and we practice it sometimes. Yes, this pit is tight, but we're used to doing 340 Km/h, so if you use your head, I don't think coming in at 60 is so dangerous."
Andrea Dovizioso - Ducati Team, 9th
"The race was more enjoyable than usual because of the changes they made, as well as the strategies. I had a pretty tough battle with Nicky and Iannone but it was all a bit difficult for me, also because my two GP13s didn't have the same feeling. The second bike wasn't as good as the first. Anyway, I don't have any excuses; I'm just not happy with the result. I had another battle with Iannone and came close to him at the very end, but I didn't manage to beat him. Nicky did a good job and had a really fast in-lap; he caught Smith and managed to have a good pace from the start of the race."
Paolo Ciabatti – Ducati MotoGP Project Director
"Today's race was really strange, exciting with many twists. The 'flag-to-flag' format in the dry with a maximum of 10 laps per tyre and an obligatory pit stop put more pressure on our team. Still, I must say everything went smoothly, and I'd like to complement our boys, who didn't make any mistakes. The final result of the race definitely isn't very satisfying for us, but Nicky and Dovi tried their hardest, as always."
More, from a press release issued by Dorna:
Jorge Lorenzo has inflicted maximum damage on the day Marc Marquez could have clinched the MotoGP™ crown, as the current title-holder clinched his 50th career race victory in a Tissot Australian Grand Prix including mandatory bike changes. Failing to acknowledge the pre-determined pit window, Marquez was shown the black flag.
Prior to the race, it was announced that the duration would decrease from 27 to 19 laps on the grounds of safety, with tyre degradation throughout practice having been significantly higher than expected on the newly resurfaced Phillip Island circuit. Furthermore, all riders would be obliged to pit for bike changes on either the ninth or tenth lap of the race, while also running the harder available compound throughout.
A clean start saw no fallers, with Marquez (Repsol Honda Team) attacking Lorenzo at the Honda hairpin, but the Yamaha Factory Racing man immediately retaking the top spot on the run into Siberia. The sensation would come with the mandatory pit window, with Marquez's teammate Pedrosa first to peel off from third place at the end of Lap 9 and followed by numerous other riders.
Lorenzo would pit at the end of the tenth tour but, having expected a pit lane duel with Marquez, saw the 20-year-old rookie continue for another circulation of the circuit. Marquez then came in at the end of Lap 11, outside the pre-determined window of pitting by Lap 10 at the latest. In a remarkable twist for the 2013 World Championship battle, Marquez was disqualified, as was Australian Bryan Staring (GO&FUN Honda Gresini) as the same error had been committed.
Having escaped a touch with Marquez as the latter re-joined from the pits, Lorenzo went on to claim win number six of the season; this also marked the first time since 2006 that a rider other than the now retired Casey Stoner had clinched victory at Phillip Island. Pedrosa finished second to maintain his own title aspirations, as Yamaha Factory Racing's Valentino Rossi beat Monster Yamaha Tech3's Cal Crutchlow and GO&FUN Honda Gresini's Alvaro Bautista in a thrilling contest for third, while light rain began to fall as proceedings drew to a close.
Bradley Smith was sixth for Tech3, having run as high as fourth thanks to a rapid start, while the top ten was rounded out by Nicky Hayden (Ducati Team), Andrea Iannone (Energy T.I. Pramac Racing), Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) and Randy de Puniet (Power Electronics Aspar) who ended a race as lead CRT for the first time this year. Danilo Petrucci finished 15th for Came IodaRacing Project, denying a first point for Luca Scassa as the Cardion AB Motoracing rider finished less than one tenth of a second behind. On the same day, Aspar's Aleix Espargaro collected honours of top CRT for the season.
After the race, the Repsol Honda Team put Marquez's disqualification down to a misunderstanding in the team, saying that it thought he was able to run ten whole laps before pitting in, which is why he entered in the 11th.
The MotoGP™ fight now rages on to Motegi Twin Ring and the Grand Prix of Japan, with the championship lead having been decreased from 43 to 18 points. The season will then end at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain on 10th November.
Pol Espargaro has retaken the Moto2™ World Championship lead, winning Sunday's Tissot Australian Grand Prix in the absence of Scott Redding. Tom Luthi and Jordi Torres completed the podium, with Tito Rabat sinking to eighth place.
When looking back at the Phillip Island round of the 2013 season, the race is likely to be remembered as a key turning point in the campaign. Redding's chances took a major blow on Saturday, with the Englishman and long-time championship leader being ruled out of action as he fractured his left wrist. Following an operation on Saturday night, the Marc VDS Racing Team rider was left helpless on the sidelines.
Espargaro (Tuenti HP 40) started from his fifth pole of the season, joined on the front row by teammate and last weekend's Sepang winner Tito Rabat who has demonstrated rapidity since practice began on Friday. A reduced race distance saw the riders tackling only 13 laps of the southern Australian venue, with fears over tyres having seen changes to the duration following the qualifying session on Saturday.
It would prove to be a lights to flag victory for Espargaro, his fifth of the season, allowing the Catalan to win at Phillip Island for the second consecutive year; in the process, he snatches back the championship lead for the first time since after the season-opening race in Qatar. In a brilliant day for Espargaro's championship situation, teammate Rabat finished only eighth after running off the circuit.
Tom Luthi (Interwetten Paddock Moto2 Racing) pushed Espargaro all the way, finishing only half a second behind Espargaro for a fifth rostrum of the season and his second within the space of a week. Jordi Torres was third for Aspar Team Moto2, collecting his first rostrum result since winning the German Grand Prix in July.
The top five was completed by NGM Mobile Racing's Simone Corsi and former Phillip Island winner Alex de Angelis, who ran second for NGM Mobile Forward Racing in the early stages of the race. Redding's teammate Mika Kallio was seventh from the aforementioned Rabat, Aspar's Nico Terol and QMMF Racing's Anthony West who successfully finished in the top ten in his home event. Reigning Moto3™ World Champion Sandro Cortese finished 11th for Dynavolt Intact GP from Forward's Ricky Cardus and Tech3's Danny Kent.
Five riders failed to finish: Julian Simon (Italtrans Racing Team), Johann Zarco (Came IodaRacing Project), Xavier Simeon (Maptaq SAG Zelos Team), Louis Rossi (Tech3) and Alex Mariñelarena (Blusens Avintia), while Tuenti HP 40's Alex Pons finished 24th after an early-race off. Pons, Italtrans' Takaaki Nakagami and Maptaq SAG Zelos Team's Marcel Schrotter were all handed penalties for jumping the start.
With just the Japanese and Valencian rounds of the season remaining, Espargaro leads Redding in the championship by 16 points following a dramatic shaking up of the establishment. Rabat sits third, 36 points behind the leader with a maximum of 50 left on offer. The action will continue at Twin Ring Motegi next weekend.
Alex Rins has won a thrilling Moto3™ Tissot Australian Grand Prix, coming out on top of a multiple-rider battle to beat Maverick Viñales by just three thousandths of a second. Both riders decreased the championship-leading advantage of pole-sitter Luis Salom, who completed the podium at Phillip Island.
Rins' latest victory of 2013 was surely his most dramatic to date, ensuring he has now matched Salom on six race wins this season, as well as having won three of the last four Grand Prix. Remarkably, the top seven riders were covered by just over one second, with Niccolo Antonelli only a further 1.1 in arrears.
The majority of riders in the field found themselves in tight groups for the duration of the 23-lap race, affected by light rain on certain parts of the newly resurfaced circuit. Philipp Oettl (Interwetten Paddock Moto3) would fail to start due to engine problems and there were retirements for Francesco Bagnaia (San Carlo Team Italia) and Hyuga Watanabe (La Fonte Tascaracing), but no less than 30 riders managed the testing conditions to finish.
A titanic battle at the forefront saw a selection of riders enjoying time in the lead, whereas Salom ran as low as seventh but looked to be making his customary climb to the very sharp end in the closing minutes of the race. However it was Mapfre Aspar Team Moto3's Jonas Folger who stole the limelight as the final lap began, shooting into the lead at Doohan curve, only to run wide and drop to sixth three corners later.
The run to line resulted in the closest finish so far this year in the World Championship, with Rins (Estrella Galicia 0,0) pipping Viñales (Team Calvo) after having both started on the second row of the grid. The winner now moves to within just five points of championship leader Salom (Red Bull KTM Ajo) with a pair of races remaining in Japan and Valencia, whereas Viñales is also in contention and 22 in arrears of the overall leader.
Rins' teammate Alex Marquez finished fourth, with the first group completed by local favourite Jack Miller (Caretta Technology – RTG), Folger, front-row starter Efren Vazquez (Mahindra Racing) and Antonelli (GO&FUN Gresini Moto3). Avant Tecno's Niklas Ajo was a further 12.8 seconds behind and headed the second group, with Alexis Masbou rounding out the top ten for Ongetta-Rivacold. Mahindra's Miguel Oliveira recovered to 26th spot and was fortunate to avoid injury after flying over his handlebars at the MG hairpin on the opening lap.
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Video: CPC Central Committee to investigate into Bo Xilai's serious violations
BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) -- The Global Times, an English-language Chinese newspaper under the People's Daily, the flagship newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, published a commentary on Thursday.
Following is the full text of the article:
Bo's downfall result of inflated sense of influence
By Shan Renping
The case of Bo Xilai shows that officials should not overestimate their personal influence in China, or they will have the illusion of being above Party discipline and the law. If those who study China do not perceive this, they will misinterpret the country.
As a former member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee as well as the former Secretary of the CPC Chongqing Municipal Committee, Bo was in a high position with extensive power. As such a high-level official is being investigated, there will undoubtedly be a blow to the region and authorities under his previous leadership.
But the impact will only be temporary. Personal influence and high rank will not shield wayward officials from punishment. A few high-level officials apparently misjudged and gambled on this fact.
With the development of new media, especially the Internet, some within the Party think that their fall would be unbearable to the public. They overestimate their personal influence. China has investigated and punished many corrupt officials. Some of these cases have drawn great attention but China has not changed.
Some in the West imagined a struggle between different political factions in China after Bo's case, and some Chinese believed it. But they overestimate Bo's personal influence.
Reform and opening-up has long been established as a basic national policy of China and the Party is working resolutely for the construction of a socialist country with Chinese characteristics. Bo does not have the ability to change China's political landscape. His influence in Chongqing is regional and cannot expand to the whole country.
There is only one way for high-level officials to realize personal ambitions and influence the development of the country positively, namely to promote the implementation of the Party's lines. Some hold that Chongqing's revolutionary song campaign and crackdown on organized crime was part of political in-fighting. They confused local practices with national policies.
The central government has the absolute authority to judge local practices, while local governments are unable to upgrade their local actions to the national stage. There is no political in-fighting.
There were such controversies of ideological fighting during China's revolutionary period, but these ended when the country embraced reform. The general direction of China is decided based on historical lessons and global patterns. No internal affairs can challenge this direction.
Personal influences cannot penetrate Party discipline and State laws. Highlighting a struggle between political factions may stir up public opinion on Bo's case, but cannot affect all of China. With further investigation, the Chinese public will get to understand this case fully.
Zhang Dejiang -- Vice-premier of State Council
Bo Xilai -- Politburo member of CPC Central Committee
Zhang Dejiang replaces Bo Xilai as Chongqing Party chief
CHONGQING, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Zhang Dejiang has been appointed Party chief of Chongqing, replacing Bo Xilai, according to a decision of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee announced Thursday.
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BEIJING, April 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese central authorities and relevant departments have paid great attention to the death of British national Neil Heywood, and police have set up a team to reinvestigate the case according to law and seek truth from facts.
Bogu Kailai, wife of Bo Xilai, the former Party chief of southwest China's municipality of Chongqing, and Zhang Xiaojun, an orderly at Bo's home, have been transferred to judicial authorities over suspicion of homicide. Full story
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On April 10, the CPC Central Committee decided to investigate into comrade Bo Xilai's serious violations of discipline, and the police announced the reinvestigation results of the death of Neil Heywood and transferred suspects to judicial authorities. Full story
CPC Central Committee to investigate into Bo Xilai's serious violations
BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- As Comrade Bo Xilai is suspected of being involved in serious discipline violations, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has decided to suspend his membership of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and the CPC Central Committee, in line with the CPC Constitution and the rules on investigation of CPC discipline inspection departments. Full story
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Wang's removal is being handled according to procedures, the official told xinhuanet.com. Full story
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Hey S&K Just caught up with some of your travels. Boy Tassie is so beautiful. Ross and I first holidayed together in Tassie and still have fond memories. Especially of Cradle Mt and Lake St Clair. We are envious.
We were going to travel this year to Tassie but changed our mind when we decided on our travel to China - now counting down the weeks - 5 to go
Love to both of you XO
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Tuesday was a leisurely morning after a late rising, partly because it was so cold and mainly because it was great to have a sleep in. We spent some time at the Information Centre, enjoying the log fire and collecting maps for our walks. We watched the backpackers arriving from the 6 day 80 km Overland hike and most were smiling!
This national park is so famous now, that it is a symbol almost of Tasmania's wilderness; we thought the facilities very worn out and badly maintained at the camp ground and they were managed privately! But the environment is special and once you get away from the camp, there is a feeling of real nature. The area was declared World Heritage in 1982.
We completed all the short walks around the camp, Watersmeet, Platypus Bay and Larmairremener and they were lovely!
We spent time at Lake St Clair, the deepest lake in Australia; it is moody and grey on this cool overcast day and we needed to keep the three layers of clothing on for the whole day. The lake is surrounded by mountain ranges, craggy peaks and thick rainforest. The Big River tribe occupied the area pre white habitation and called the lake "sleeping water".
A large number of fires have swept through the park and we guessed that is why there were so many fallen and dead trees scattered around.
On Wednesday we tackled the Mt Rufus track, 16kms return. It's a steady climb up and a knee stressing journey down. You actually climb 700metres to reach an altitude of 1416 metres at the summit and wow! You feel like you are on top of the world. This must have the best mountain top views in Tassie!
There are layers and layers of mountain ranges stretching into the distance all around you. And below, the lakes are blue and impressive
The sky was cloudless and the temperature reached 25 degrees, very unusual at this time of the year. First you go through a peppermint gum forest that smells gorgeous, past button grass plains and then as you go higher you get into the sub alpine vegetation with snow gums and pretty little gardens. Our favourite pandani made an appearance here and there!
A tiger snake gave us a huge fright as it looked like it was going to go straight at us but it eventually turned off the track into the bush. Sheila, out in front moved so fast you could hardly see her. This made us nervous and very cautious for a while but we recovered and did not encounter another.
We sat for an hour on the summit having lunch and comparing notes with other hikers, today mostly international travellers. In winter the spot would be covered in snow.
This was indeed a very special experience and we felt happy but pretty tired by the time we arrived back at camp, 7 hours later. A relaxing hot shower, some tasty pasta and life was sweet!
Hey S&K Just caught up with some of your travels. Boy Tassie is so beautiful. Ross and I first holidayed together in Tassie and still have fond memories. Especially of Cradle Mt and Lake St Clair. We are envious.


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About 45 kilometres out of Napier on the way to Taupo you'll get to a place called Te Pohue, solid sheep and beef farming territory. The land's not suited to other more intensive uses, so sheep and beef it is.
Te Pohue is where Bruce Wills farms and he, like others in the district, has drastically reduced his sheep flock. With fewer numbers, Wills can achieve a heavier ewe and command a better price at market.
Beef, says Wills, who is a Federated Farmers' meat spokesman, is a little easier on the land and back pocket in terms of irrigation and other costs, a particular concern after many lean years. Water is always an issue on the East Coast, but three years of drought has made it particularly acute.
All the more need, then, for fertiliser. All farms need fertiliser, but hilly, water-starved country like Te Pohue, which struggles to achieve the output of the lush lowland paddocks of Southland, Waikato and Taranaki, needs the stuff more than most.
Wills won't fertilise his fields this year. At $392 a tonne for superphosphate, it's unaffordable. To put that in perspective, in April last year it was $261 a tonne. For Wills, it's uneconomic to fertilise until superphosphate drops below $300.
He freely acknowledges he's running a risk. If Wills skips fertilisation for longer than one or two years, he risks significant damage to his fields, the engine room of his farm. Most other farmers around the country, according to agricultural analysts, are making similarly hard decisions.
Driving the price rises is resource scarcity, global demand for food (particularly among the rising Asian middle class) and growing thirst for alternative energy sources. Increased production demands greater fertiliser use.
Before the financial crisis, buying a tonne of fertiliser ingredient diammonium phosphate (DAP) would set you back more than an ounce of gold. DAP, which peaked at more than US$1200, and urea prices have since fallen but this has yet to feed through into the cost of market fertiliser. Manufacturers have scaled back production, stabilising prices, but potash is still at elevated levels, according to the Rabobank Agribusiness Review.
Wills may get his wish of superphosphate for less than $300 a tonne next year, but that price is unlikely to stay low in the medium to long term. Demand, strangled by high prices and financial distress, may be manageable but scarcity isn't.
A fascinating but alarmist piece in Scientific American by David Vacari, a US agricultural scientist, points to a looming crisis in production of phosphate, which comprises about 12 per cent of every bag of fertiliser. Vacari writes like a true Green believer, but the bare bones of his narrative is worth a read and justifies his alarmist language.
Nearly a third of global phosphate production is mined. The world's biggest producer is China, followed by the US. More than 10 per cent of global mined production comes from pits in Tampa, Florida, which have a shelf life of only 20 to 30 years. Other major producers are South Africa and Morocco. The North African country holds 40 per cent of world reserves, making it (hilariously) the ''Saudi Arabia of phosphorus''.
''Although Morocco is a stable, friendly nation, the imbalance makes phosphorus a geo-strategic time bomb,'' writes Vacari. Blimey. Maybe he's right but I can't see the US invading Morocco on the false premise of weapons of mass destruction, no matter how high the price of fertiliser goes.
But Vacari's point about phosphorus scarcity making peak oil seem a distant prospect is well made. Recoverable reserves of phosphate are 15 trillion tonnes, about enough to last a reassuring 90 years at today's rate of consumption.
The world's food and energy sectors, however, are chewing up the stuff. A UN report points to bio-fuel production, which will displace 21 million hectares of food crops by 2018 when an extra 70 million mouths will need to be fed.
The UN is estimating an annual global increase in fertiliser use of 1.7 per cent in the next three years. But it concedes that global politics, bio-fuel production and other unknowable factors make its prediction guesswork and, possibly, on the conservative side.
Already, the world's second-biggest producer of phosphate, the US, is importing the stuff, presumably from Morocco because China, cognisant of its own exponentially expanding fertiliser needs, has slapped a high impost on exports.
New Zealand, apart from a tiny urea plant Ballance Agri-Nutrients operates out of Kapuni, Taranaki, imports all its fertiliser ingredients. Widespread Energy is investigating mining prospects on the Chatham Rise, 600km off the Canterbury coast. Featherston Resources, which mines diatomite near Dunedin, hopes to bring a local fertiliser to market later this year. But that's it.
Farmers looking for a silver lining will find none. In the short term, the price of superphospate will drop but longer term, persistent high prices seem a certainty.
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making it (hilariously) the ''Saudi Arabia of phosphorus ???? What's hilarious about the situation?I do not think anyone sees the humor in it. Morocco is a friendly nation and should be helped to secure its borders and be made even safer. All it takes is for mercenaries such as the Polisario to take up arms and prices of Phosphates will soar. Think about it. It is one thing not to be able to drive and quite another not to be able to eat. The Western Sahara issue, a product of Spanish colonialism and Cold War needs to be put to rest once and for all and Morocco needs to be supported in its quest to recuperate its territories lost to Fascist colonial Spain and murderous French Algerian Authorities
Well said Germelou!
If farmers had to pay for the environmental cost of fertilisers, they would never use them. But then farmers in nz have a long history of using the land for profit at the expense of the environment. This, compounded with the initial aquisition of land by confiscation and theft, leaves farmers as amongst the biggest vandals in the country.
@pp - so what do you tell yourself when you're tucking into roast lamb, or beef mince or cheese and crackers? Get off your high horse.
Seth - does the end justify the means? pp makes a valid point. Many farmers have contributed significantly to environmental damage. Are you a farmer?
pp - ignorance is never in short supply in this country. No doubt, you drive a vehicle (spewing huge volumes of toxins, carcinogens, etc, into the air we breathe daily), pollute our waterways (with your sunlight, palmolive soaps, shaving creams, persil, and other eco-toxic materials), and pollute and use up the world's limited resources (by shopping at the Warehouse, Countdown and numerous other retail outlets no doubt, to satisfy your "needs".) Or maybe you are not a modern "consumer"? Recycle all your mountains of plastic and steel and aluminium and convince yourself that you're "saving the planet". Very funny. Think about this as you commute for hours every week, going to your meaningless, paper-shuffling job (which is REALLY helping to turn the planet around of course...) I agree, real costs will have to be factored into produce in the future - so if you want "free range" eggs and no animals in pens, then Kiwis will need to adjust to eggs at $12+/doz, milk at $5+/2L, etc. No doubt, the same no-hoping whingers will be complaining again and expecting working for families and other parasitic welfare schemes to take care of them. "Land by confiscation and theft"....you're referring to the entire world aren't you? You only need to go back 60-70 years (let alone 150yrs+) in Europe and elsewhere to find land "theft" and "confiscation" on a major scale (unlike the minor scale in NZ). Does the whole world stop and look back at all the injustice? No, they move on and get on with it. Every generation that lives off the hard work and backs of others is doomed to failure (proven over and over throughout history). Injustices abound, but that's life - going back centuries will never, ever make up to THOSE people affected (i.e. dishing out land, etc, to some people 20 times removed and mixed with 5-10 other races centuries later is a joke and achieves no justice in any sense whatsoever. God will have taken care of that for us long ago). But, then again, it's always somebody else's fault, and I have a "right" to live in the "manner in which I have become accustomed on the entitlements that the state has allowed me". The West has long passed its "peak" and glory, and "nothing fails like success" as they say.
What a crap environmentalist wank comment that was.
Farmers in nz have an even longer history of keeping the economy going in a financial crisis.
You probably think farmers produce 50% of NZ's greenhouse gas emissions too.
Economy vs environment - a fair battle. Which is more important to us? pp asks a fair question. Just getting p-ed of at her /him does not answer much except to show that people have real sensitivities re this topic. Farm use of fertilizers has caused damage in a variety of ways. We can't deny that can we?
FYI it works like this; Government agencies tell farmers how to farm including mandating the use of DDT at one point, farmers follow the Govts directions. Then ignorant Greenies try to crucify farmers.
So farmers are just doing what they are told by the Govt- and therefore are not responsible for the environmental damage that occurs?
Ignorant greenies or ignorant farmers Matt? Surely most farmers are not that thick.
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The project, known as MegaDroid, is expected to result in a software tool that will help model similar environments and allow others to study the behaviors of smartphone networks.
A key element of the MegaDroid project, according to computer scientist John Floren, is a "spoof" Global Positioning System (GPS). According to the press release, the researchers created simulated GPS data of a smartphone user in an urban environment. "The researchers then fed that data into the GPS input of an Android virtual machine. Software on the virtual machine treats the location data as indistinguishable from real GPS data, which offers researchers a much richer and more accurate emulation environment from which to analyze and study what hackers can do to smartphone networks," Floren said.
"MegaDroid primarily will be useful as a tool to ferret out problems that would manifest themselves when large numbers of smartphones interact," said Keith Vanderveen, manager of Sandia's Scalable and Secure Systems Research department. Vanderveen said Sandia also plans to use MegaDroid to explore issues of data protection and data leakage.
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Canon Fodder: Susan Stewart
[Note from the editors: Maybe some poems just don't get the respect they deserve. We've asked nine poets to recommend nine poems that they think should be added to the canon: poems that should be taught, anthologized, revered. We will be adding their recommended poems to our archive as we obtain permissions for them. Susan Stewart is the fourth poet of nine we've asked to recommend nine poems yet to be added to anyone's canon. Stewart sneaked in three extra poems into what she calls the "anthology I carry around in my mind," which spans 14 centuries. Unfamiliar poems by familiar poets like Coleridge, Christina Rossetti, and Poe mingle with ancient gnomic verses and an argument for the poems of novelist Malcolm Lowry.]
What makes a poem stay out of an anthology? It can be too short or too long, too new or perhaps too old, too weighty or too light, in the wrong language, out of its time, or not at all characteristic of an author's work as a whole. The English poems I have chosen meet some of these (un)criteria, but they are also poems that I carry around in the anthology in my mind, so they have some connection to life and, often, a memorable form. It is difficult to choose only nine of them, so I have cheated and in truth have named a dozen.
1. Gnomic verses from the Exeter Book, 7th–10th century
These earliest English poems are rarely included in anthologies, but they, like the riddles that also can be found in the thousand-year-old Exeter Book, are a treasure of images and thinking. Consider these lines, translated by Michael Alexander: "Frost shall freeze fire eat wood / earth shall breed ice shall bridge / water a shield wear. One shall break / frost's fetters free the grain / from wonder-lock—One who all can."
2. "Since There's No Help" by Michael Drayton, from Idea, c. 1620
Less often considered than other Renaissance sonnet-sequences, Drayton's Idea includes this wonderful breakup poem, a masterpiece of unsuccessful self-convincing. The best part is its emphatic "glad, yeah glad."
3. "The Ballad of Sally in Our Alley" by Henry Carey, 1717
A lilting and joyful song by one of the saddest 18th-century poets. Once anthologized widely, this poem rarely seems to be read today. Here is what Carey himself wrote about how he came to write it: "in this little Poem he [the author] had no other view than to set forth the Beauty of a chaste and disinterested Passion, even in the lowest Class of human Life. The real Occasion was this: A Shoemaker's 'Prentice making Holiday with his Sweet-heart, treated her with a sight of Bedlam, the Puppet-shews, the Flying-chairs, and all the Elegancies of the Moorfields: From whence proceeding to the Farthing Pye-house, he gave her a Collation of Buns, Cheesecakes, Gammon of Bacon, Stuff'd-beef, and Bottled-ale; through all which Scenes the Author dodged them (charm'd with the Simplicity of their Courtship), from whence he drew this little Sketch of Nature."
4. "Work without Hope" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1825
Coleridge is less well known as a sonnet writer than are the other Romantics, yet here he turns the Petrarchan form upside down, as Shelley did in "England in 1819," to show his contrary spirit. The poem begins with a buzzing, intense description of spring and a self-portrait of the poet: "I, the while, the sole unbusy thing." Saying more would lessen the pleasure of reading the poem.
5. "Who Has Seen the Wind?" by Christina Rossetti, c. 1872
This "nursery rhyme" by Rossetti is the first poem I ever learned by heart, and its simplicity belies the enormous questions it holds: Why is feeling, like the wind, invisible? Does life reside in parts or in the whole? How do we know who we are via the remarkable and confusing technique of switching positions as "I" and "you"?
6. "Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe, 1875
Perhaps Poe's most haunting and powerful poem, with a directness to match his usual obsessive sense of form.
7. "How She Went to Ireland" by Thomas Hardy, c. 1924
This lyric, from Hardy's great last book, Winter Words, is a completely mysterious, out-of-the-blue work in that volume. It is nonsensical and profound at once.
8. "Love and wisdom have no home" by Malcolm Lowry, 1939–40, 1945–46
Although his reputation as a poet has been eclipsed by his great achievements as a novelist, Lowry nevertheless was a musical poet who worked with great economy. This work deserves to be in the anthology of great 20th-century villanelles, along with Dylan Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" and Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art."
9. For my ninth (tenth, and eleventh) choice, I'll list three recent poems that are perhaps too new to be in anthologies: Susan Howe's elegy, "The Nonconformist's Memorial"; John Kinsella's fervent ode, "Rain Gauge"; and Eleanor Wilner's dream vision, "The Girl with Bees in Her Hair."
And if I may add a twelfth poem—here, from Robert Herrick, is the best poem to put on a birthday cake—a large birthday cake:
Praise they that will Times past, I joy to see
My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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Yesterday, Maki (owner of DoshDosh.com) wrote a blog post titled "Marketing your Website Without Search Engines." I've always said, when teaching traffic strategies the Google is not the only game in town. In fact when you get down to specific topics Google is sometimes one of the smallest traffic sources.
For example let's say you had a Photoshop related product, maybe a video tutorial…
Well Google claims a little more then 300,000 people on average are searching for that keyword on their search engine. It's also a VERY hard keyword to rank for since tons of people are trying to rank for it. It's been said that even the #1 listing in Google for any keyword only recieves around 50% of the clicks.
Now we're down to around 150k – 160k possible traffic each month. Then you take a look at a site like tutorialized.com, that Quantcast.com says gets over 800k visits per month and over 4 MILLION pageviews per month.
Of course just because you put an advertisement on their site doesn't mean you're going to get all their traffic. Although, just like if you were good at SEO you could have a #1 ranking in Google… If you were good at banner advertising you could get a 1% click thru rate on your banner.
At 4 million pageviews per month a 1% CTR would be 400,000 visits per month and that's just one banner on one site! What if you had banners on 3 sites, 5 sites, 20 sites?
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I've said it a million times, forum marketing is the most underrated traffic strategy of any other free traffic method. If I had a Photoshop video course I would join any of the hundreds of photoshop forums found here. Then I would setup my sig box so that a mini-headline and link to my product was shown under every post I make in the forum.
Then I would devote 2 hours per day to try and make 5 posts in five forums per day. That would be 25 drops of my headline and link. Depending on the popularity of the threads I'm posting in, that could mean hundreds to thousands of impressions to my "ad" everyday.
We have outsourced this in the past as well. We just told our assistants to stay in the "Introduction" areas of the forum and say hello to every new person who posted an introduction. Then if there was a "website reviews" section they would make one small generic comment about each site that posted a thread asking for a review.
It's very possible to ad an additional 25 – 200 visitors per day using forum marketing (depending on popularity of the forums).
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This is another traffic method that I hear a lot of people referring to as "dead" and I ask "then why are there still so many of them?" Seriously, lots of people are still using banners from fortune 500 companies to super affiliates for cpa offers.
I would run a search in Technorati to find every photoshop or design related blog that had Adsense on it. By them having Adsense I know for sure that they are interested in making money from their blog. Then I simply contact them and ask them how much it would cost to replace their Adsense ads with my banners.
With most blogs even if you offered to triple whatever they are making from Adsense you could still be paying less then $30 – $50 per month.
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Earlier this week I created a specific blog post that would attract people from social media sites, specifically social bookmarking sites. The blog post took me about 50 minutes in all to create, then I watched an episode of House (one of my favorite shows!).
When House was over I checked my stats to see if it was working and sure enough… 106 visitors in just the first hour! 78 of them just from StumbleUpon!
I would blog everyday, I would shoot quick video summaries of my blog posts and submit them to Youtube. Then I would post status updates on Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter about my blog posts and Youtube videos. My blog stats right now tell me that I get about 20 – 30 visitors per tweet that I send out about my blog. Not bad for about 30 seconds worth of work it takes to write a tweet!
Then I would just focus on building my followers like a mad man on all three networks so that I'm getting more and more clicks from each status update.
There are a lot more things I could do also since I didn't even talk about offline tactics. I remember when I first started I thought all there was to traffic was article marketing. Article marketing was LIFE to me, but now I know that the traffic is out there, you just have to go out there and get it!


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What chance do I have to win
We are going to court this month for full custody and supervised visit's (IOWA).
I am the step father and we have very real concerns regarding the biological fathers ability to keep him out of harms way.
First he is an alchoholic and drug addict. We have him admiting that while leaving a message for my wife. We downloaded it to an MP3.
Second. He and his current girlfriend moved a convicted child rapist into there home when our son was living there part time. The rapist has since moved out. He still lives there.
Third. The biological father lives with a lady who's son molested my child. He has not moved out of the home and has claimed to have moved out of the home. We have proof that he still lives there even though he says he does not live there.
His father also does not take him when he is supposed to take him and claims disability to make a living. His is currently suing some company claiming he got injured there and wants his money. We already sent the company video of him doing chores for money.
So what are our chances of making sure our kid only has supervised visits with his biological father. I am now at about $11,000 in attorny fee's. It's killing me and if we lose this case it might kill my wife when our kids has to go over there.
Tue, Sep 4 2007 4:00 PM
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re: What chance do I have to win
First of all, it is your wife who is the parent and they are her kids and this is her case.
I don't know that you have enough actual proof of the things you accuse Dad of doing and being. That would depend upon Iowa law, and your wife would need to discuss the voice message on MP3 and the convicted child rapist issues with an attorney. Did she file any reports or motions at the time the rapist was living with Dad and SM?
What has Mom done, legally, about the claims of abuse by the son of Dad's roommate/gf? Proof that he lives there is not proof of molestation.
Visitation is a right -- Dad does not have to use his visitation. That is not a crime.
How Dad makes his living is none of your business. If he's on disability, then that is how he supports himself.
Involving yourself in his personal business, such as insurance claims, does NOT help the coparenting relationship between Mom and Dad, does it?
I don't know what Mom's chances are at supervised visitation. That depends in part on the answers to my (and others') questions, and also upon the judge and many other factors.
Tue, Sep 4 2007 4:15 PM
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re: What chance do I have to win
O.K. first off your wrong on one thing. It is my wife's kid but I do take care of the kid and so therefore it is my child also. This is my case as well. Anytime a kids that lives with me is put in harms way it is my case also. My job as a secondary parent is to make sure that I keep the child out of harms way. I would not be a good parent or step father of a child if that were not the case.
Second we do have documentation through DHS regarding the molestation occuring in the home that he currently lives. The kid that did it to him still lives there. DHS has recomended that the child not be allowed to go back to the home. That is the biggest concern.
Third his job does have an impact. He is not making child support payments and is about $8,000 in the rear on his payments. He also did not hold up his end of the bargin on the health insurance for the child that he was required to do in the divorce decree. I currently have the child under my insurance. Sorry I did not mention that is why the disability is a point in the case. He is currently using his disability as an excuse why he does not pay and why he has no health insurance on the child. It's not big but he is lying about it.
We also have the police chief of the town testifying about him having prior knowledge of a sex predator in the home with him and my step son.
We also played along with his B.S. regarding not taking the child when he was supposed to . We always chalked that up to a no big deal thing.
It has no bearing weather he is a good dad or bad dad. It has all to do with the fact that he puts the kid in a bad spot and a dangerous spot at that.
Tue, Sep 4 2007 4:31 PM
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You wrote:
"O.K. first off your wrong on one thing. It is my wife's kid but I do take care of the kid and so therefore it is my child also. This is my case as well."
And you are wrong in the legal sense. Legally, stepparents have no rights to the child/ren, and are considered legal strangers. There's a legal danger in your attitude: IF you represent yourself in this way to a judge or mediator or GAL, you may cause problems for your wife. Overinvolved stepparents are not popular in court.
All that aside, I can only repeat that the proofs your wife has against her child's father must be reviewed by a local attorney who knows the local rules of evidence.
Child support is a separate issue from parenting time (visitation), and will not be an issue in a custody situation. If he is not paying his CS, Mom must file contempt.
Tue, Sep 4 2007 10:33 PM
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We're not going to get into a prolonged discussions about various perspectives of the current state of the "system". This board is dedicated to providing general legal information.
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I hope the responses you've received are helpful.
When you joined this site, you stated you had read and would abide by its Rules, which state that foul language is not allowed. Abbreviating it ("B.S.") makes it no more acceptable.
This site wants messages to be comfortable for everyone to read.
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Wed, Sep 12 2007 4:13 PM
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re: What chance do I have to win
Taking care of this child does not make him yours. YOU ARE A LEGAL STRANGER TO THIS CHILD, NOT HIS FATHER! I see a change of custody coming because of your overinvolvement and overstepping your bounderies. THIS SITUATION IS LEGALLY NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS.You are going to cause your wife a lot of problems if you dont step back and stay out of it
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In last week's food section, we gave you 10 amazing Jewish sandwiches from across the country, which in true "top list" fashion sparked some debate over which sandwiches were really the best and which were missing from the list. Luckily, a tidy little poll let readers kvetch constructively by voting for their favorite (with a write-in option). With over 600 votes, favorites were all across the board — and world.
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