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A decade ago, Denise McColister envisioned a comfortable retirement around the time she turned 62.
"At 45, I felt really secure," the Dallas resident, now 55, recalled. Back then, her husband made good money, and their house was paid for.
Then he became disabled and their house, which they had borrowed against, plummeted in value. Now, instead of padding her financial cushion, she's working a part-time call center job while hoping for a better position. There's no retirement in sight.
"I'll probably be working until I'm called home," she said.
Many Americans have had to adjust their retirement dreams since the recession and housing bust. For some, like McColister, the question is whether they can ever retire.
A study by the Employee Benefit Research Institute determined that 1 in 3 households headed by people now age 55 to 64 won't be financially prepared to retire even by age 70. Lower-income people face the biggest problem.
It's generally accepted that the effects of career-interrupting layoffs, flatlined pay, declining property values and a turbulent stock market have eroded wealth to the point where many can no longer expect to stop working when they're 65 — let alone earlier.
The demise of traditional pension plans and spotty participation in 401(k) plans or other savings vehicles also has undercut retirement readiness.
Still, the conventional wisdom — bolstered by other studies — is that retirement should still be feasible at least by age 70, thanks to higher Social Security payouts, the accumulation of more savings, and the shortened post-retirement lifespan. Even that extra time on the job may not be enough when potential long-term care and medical costs are factored in to the equation, as in the EBRI study.
The problem is that working much beyond 65 may not be practical for many. The EBRI's retirement confidence survey found that nearly half of all retirees who were interviewed said they were forced to retire because of a spouse's medical condition, their own health or their employer's choice. In other words, they couldn't extend their careers even if they wanted to.
"It would be comforting from a public policy standpoint to assume that merely working to age 70 would be a panacea to the significant challenges of assuring retirement income adequacy, but this may be a particularly risky strategy, especially for the vulnerable group of low-income workers," said Jack VanDerhei, the study's author.
The EBRI projections are more pessimistic than those from other groups because they factor in longevity risk, investment risk and the chance of long-term health care costs.
Barbara Wainwright, 66, of Marietta, Ga., recognizes the importance of covering health care costs for a senior.
Like McColister, she works a part-time job in the Georgia Department of Labor office in Marietta and is looking for something more. A widowed breast cancer survivor, she looks back now and says, "It was my plan to retire at 65."
After a career working jobs in fields as diverse as health care, education and security, and after raising four children, she faces having to pay for a mortgage, a car, food and utilities as well as mounting medical bills. Her late husband's Social Security benefits are not enough.
"I'm working to pay for medication," she said.
Because of her health, she's not sure how long she will be able to work, but said, "You may give out, but you don't have to give up."
Janie Walker, 65, has no plans to give up her job for a while. Associate state director for community outreach at AARP of Georgia, she expects to work to "more like 71 or 72," for financial reasons.
"I do feel I will be able to retire, but it will be much later than I would have expected when I was 50," she said.
Walker's well-laid financial plans went sideways when a corporate restructuring and the recession led to layoffs.
"When you get laid off in bad economic times, it takes a long time to find a job," she said. "You go through your savings and it takes a long time to recover from that."
Now, she wants to work long enough to help pay for her grown daughter's specialized music study and her mortgage.
Working until 70 will allow her to collect the maximum Social Security benefit, whichincreases annually until then.
That's one of the key reasons to work that long, according to The National Retirement Risk Index, done by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College. The NRRI takes a more optimistic view of Americans' retirement readiness, and working to 70 is a key reason why.
The NRRI determined that 85 percent of households would be ready to retire if they worked until age 70.
By contrast, it said, 51 percent of workers are "at risk" of not having enough money to maintain their living standard if they retire at 65. When health care and long-term care costs are factored in, the number rises to 65 percent.
"The one piece of advice that's relevant to those with a good job and good health is that work is a powerful antidote to not having saved enough for a comfortable retirement," said Anthony Webb, one of the authors of the work, which is subtitled, "How Much Longer Do We Need to Work?"
Webb acknowledged that working to 70 (or beyond) may not be "appropriate" for people who've worked in physically demanding jobs, or for those who don't have a job or can't hold on to one. Studies have shown that while older Americans are less likely to lose their jobs, they have a harder time finding a new one when they do.
Webb also called paying for health care "the big wild card," as its costs are so difficult to project.
Walker, who's not planning to retire until her 70s, knows about wild cards, and how they can cause a person to put off retirement.
"I have a lot of friends who don't think they will ever be able to retire," she said.
That saddens McColister, who's put the idea of retirement out of her head.
"I've seen so many people who worked up to the time when they couldn't work anymore," she said. "And they never got to enjoy retirement because their health gave out. So I don't even think about it."
Source: MCT Information Services
Retirement Roadblocks Mount for Many
A decade ago, Denise McColister envisioned a comfortable retirement around the time she turned 62.


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I feel like I am having a brain fart but for some reason on my newest project, I am getting no velocity data in my FusionWorks or standard velocity render elements. I just get the generic 127 gray for the entire image. The alpha shows up properly though.
I have always just had to ensure I simulated with the velocity channel selected which I have done. However, no dice. Is there some other option I may have inadvertently messed up which would cause the renderer to fail to get velocity data? I am using standard scanline and fume 3.5.


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Con-way Freight, a less-than-truckload (LTL) carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc., has announced that it has been named by Walmart as its 2011 National LTL Carrier of the Year.
Walmart presented the award to Con-way Freight last month at its carrier conference at the company's Home Office in Bentonville, Ark. following an annual performance evaluation of its trucking and logistics service providers. It's the third time in five years Con-way Freight has been recognized as Walmart's top-performing national LTL carrier. The company also won the award in 2005, 2007 and 2008.
Con-way earned the honor based on an evaluation of key performance criteria including daily on-time delivery performance, market coverage, transit times, claims prevention, effective communication and ease of doing business and customer service.
"In going above and beyond to exceed expectations and service our customers, Con-way Freight has continuously separated themselves from other carrier partners in the field," said Ken Braunbach, senior director of carrier relations for Walmart, in a letter notifying Con-way Freight of the award. "The company's overall dedication to customer service, operational excellence and the ability to provide creative solutions to complex supply chain opportunities has set the company apart and raised the bar for quality in the industry."
"It's a testament to the expertise and commitment of our team that we've been able to maintain superior performance and service levels for Walmart despite the many challenges of today's marketplace," said Greg Lehmkuhl, president, Con-way Freight. "We thank our employees for their exemplary efforts and are grateful to be honored once again by Walmart as its top-performing LTL carrier. We look forward to continuing this strong, rewarding partnership well into the future."
Walmart launched its carrier award program in 1997 to recognize the outstanding contributions of its transportation providers in categories including truckload, LTL, small package, produce and intermodal.
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Convertible on rottiserie
I am about to put a 68 Olds 442 convertible on a rottiserie and I was just wondering if anyone has put a convertible on one, do I need to add extra bracing or should it be just fine the way it is? I put new floors and wheel houses in it while it was on the frame now its time to seperate the two. I'm assuming it will be fine but I thought I would ask just in case.
It should be fine as long as you welded those replacement parts in solidly. You might want to tack some braces across the door openings anyways....I would
I agree with Poncho, better to brace it now and have the insurance than to not brace it and find out after your doors and top don't fit right...I brace everything on a rotisserie, better safe than sorry.
If the body was real solid I wouldn't think a thing of it. But if you already replaced the floor and wheel houses there may be something you didn't see, inside the rockers for instance. It may not be bad and you would never know painting and driving it. But the forces are pretty tough on those rockers on a rotisserie. Run a 1x1x1/8" bar at least across the door jamb. And I would make them so they clear the doors, just in case you want to install the doors while it's on the rotisserie. You may not think there is a reason, but I would recommend you simply spend a little time making those braces so you can do that.
Agree with all posters that you really should put a brace across the very top of the door post opening, I always do. When the car is still on the frame and you know that everything fits just right, that is when you should tack weld a brace as mentioned by Brian to the inside of the top jamb so you can fit the door without any interfearance with closing the doors. I never remove that brace until it is bolted back on the chassis, this way there is no chance at all of anything ever moving even slightly.
Just don't brace across the doors. Make sure you cross brace like an X.Brace front to back on the doors but also brace front drivers to rear of passenger and rear of drivers to front of passengers. Then to play safethan sorry brace across from driver to passenger on front oand back of doors. Might seen over kill but wait till you try to hang your doors if you don't
I have to say, unless there is a rust problem that you have dealt with, bracing isn't needed, I mean they didn't have braces at the factory when they were handling those bodies did they?
I have had a few converts off the frame and simply used common sense as to how they were handled and never had a problem.
Very true Brian, but he put new floors and wheel house in, how strong are the inner rockers? I have taken convertibles off of frames in the past as well without a problem, but, he has done some repairs already and I would brace it...maybe they can get away with but at the factory their not dealing with 45 year old structure. All I'm saying is the insurance value.
Having done several frame off convertibles...... I'm assuming all gaps and panels fit well now? 1" square tubing is cheap. I would brace it, and just not one bar across door openings, triangulate it. Also When you remove body bolts and lift the body off...... draw a diagram of the mounts and take notice of the body shims and their thickness. When you reassemble, there will not be as much guess work when it comes to properly shimming the body. Its amazing what a difference a 1/16th inch shim, the whole way in the rear of the car can make in a door/quarter panel gap.
Bear in mind I usually build older cars which may or may not have the original strength left in them but I have knowledge of 2 different convertibles that ended up with severe problems while being taken off the frame without doors on them. Bracing is cheap and easy. Even if there is only one chance in 20 of having any issues it is not worth taking that chance. One of them folded in half. BRACE IT. I also recommend doing it in such a way that you can hang the doors and verify gaps as you work.
John L
Have done a couple of mid fifties caddy convertibles off the frame and put on a rottiserie, of which neither cars had any rust problems. But I will say this when you bolt a car to a rottiserie your putting an extreme amount of force against the center of the car , because you are attaching the jig at the very ends of the body forcing pressure in the middle. If you are lifting the body off the chassis with a 4 post lift, your most likely lifting evenly from the center of the body. Not so with the rottiserie, as John L has stated it is cheap and easy just to brace the jamb so all that pressure won't be able to move anything. With a coupe or hardtop the roof is keeping the car from bending, unless you have some serious structure rust problems. By the way you can use your rottiserie as a 4 post lift to remove the body and reinstall it as well, providing that the wheels are not welded on and can be removed. DO NOT attempt to do this with the wheels attached.
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A plant that loves the sea
The European searocket is indigenous to Malta. Known in Maltese as kromb il-baħar, the plant grows mainly on sandy beaches. It starts flowering in December and remains in flower until August. This weekend I found it flowering at Għadira and Golden Bay.
The searocket is adapted to a harsh environment where few other species manage to survive. Its roots are surrounded by salty water and its leaves are often covered with sea spray. Sometimes, especially in inclement weather, the plants are completely covered with sand. By surviving under these difficult conditions, it faces less competition from other plants.
The plant is also found throughout Europe and North Africa and has been introduced in many other parts of the world, including such faraway places as the US and Australia. It has become very common in some countries and is considered a noxious weed.
The European searocket is a member of the mustard family which includes commercially important species such as cabbages, cauliflowers and broccoli. The seeds of members of the mustard family are produced in a capsule called siliqua. In the searocket, the siliqua is made of a light, corky substance that can float – a factor that helps the seeds disperse in water.
The mustard or cabbage family, to which the searocket belongs, consists of about 3,700 species. Most species are found in the north temperate region with maximum diversity around the Mediterranean. Over 40 species are found on our islands.
The flowers of this family are made up of four petals shaped like a cross. In the past, members of this family were known as crucifers, a word derived from crucis, the Latin word for cross.
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I spotted this recipe in a newspaper when teaching in California more than 20 years ago. Even today, my son says these are his all-time favorite treat.
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- 3/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon instant coffee granules
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/2 cup butter, cubed
- 1 cup butterscotch chips, divided
- 1 egg
- 1/2 cup chopped salted peanuts
- In a large bowl, combine the first five ingredients; set aside. In a heavy saucepan over low heat, melt butter and 2/3 cup butterscotch chips. Remove from the heat. Stir in the dry ingredients and egg until well blended.
- Spread into an ungreased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Sprinkle with peanuts and remaining chips. Bake at 300° for 25-30 minutes or until lightly browned.
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How do you change the fog light bulbs on 04 wrx??
This is a discussion on replacing 2004 wrx fog lights?? within the General Maintenance, Troubleshooting & Accidents. forums, part of the Tech & Modifying & General Repairs category; How do you change the fog light bulbs on 04 wrx??...
How do you change the fog light bulbs on 04 wrx??
take a small flat head and the bezel of the foglight and it will pop out, youll see the screws holding the foglight housing. you can see images in the owners manual.
1. Read this first 2004 ( 04 '04) foglight ( fog ) bulb replacement
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8. Insert newly purchase bulb into assembly
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11. Right side still doesn't work, disassemble everything again
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Read this again, then complete your bulb replacement in half the time I did.
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Celebrating his 36th year as director of the Sacramento Youth Symphony and Academy of Music, Michael Neumann's highly acclaimed Premier Orchestra ensemble has not only toured across the globe—from Brazil and Beijing to Vienna, Tuscany, and Wales—but it has garnered top prizes and accolades along the way.
Michael Neumann's career had a fortuitous beginning, as his first violin teacher was the great- great-granddaughter of Antonin Dvorak.
Eventually winning a full scholarship to the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Mr. Neumann went on to earn his bachelor's and master's degrees. He then began his career with the Birmingham Symphony as Assistant Conductor.
His affiliation with the Sacramento Youth Symphony began in 1979 as Assistant Conductor then as Associate Conductor of the former Sacramento Symphony in 1989. Along the way, Mr. Neumann has also made appearances with the Cheyenne Symphony, the Santa Rosa Symphony, Camellia Orchestra, the Fresno Philharmonic, the Napa Valley Symphony, and just completed his 10th year as Music Director of the Folsom Symphony Orchestra.
Interview with Dr. Larralde-Muro (Ph.D. Civil Engineering-Purdue University)
This interview was first aired on January 11, 2016 Monday evening in Sacramento County at 96.5 FM and is available via podcast around the world.
Dr. Jesus Larralde-Muro, Associate Dean of the Lyles College of Engineering at Fresno State University.
Dr. Jesus Larralde-Muro obtained MS and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Purdue University and has been part of the Lyles College of Engineering since 1994.
Having served there as associate professor, professor, program coordinator chair in the Civil and Geomatics Engineering department, Dr. Larralde-Muro is currently Associate Dean of the College. His area of expertise is in highway infrastructure assessment and design.
Dr. Larralde-Muro is the author or co-author of several dozen technical publications in referenced journals, conference proceedings and special technical publications and is a member of the American Society of Civil
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Interview with County Supervisor Henry Perea
This braodcast/podcast featues Fresno County Supervisor Henry Perea.
Supervisor Perea addresses the role of a County Supervisor and the importance of the Californi High Speed Rail.
Supervisor Perea was first sworn in as a member of the Board of Supervisors onin January 2005 and is now in his third term.
Prior to that, Supervisor Perea served as a Fresno City Council Member for six years and lon the Fresno Board of Education for five years.
Selected by President Obamato serve on the Regional Selective Service System Board in 2011 and in 2012 he was appointed by Governor Brown to serve on the State of California Wrokforce Investment Board.
This broadcast was first aired on 96.5 FM om Sacramento County on January 4, 2016.
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Interview with Shad Vick, CEO of LunaSoft
Shad Vick, CEO of LunaSoft discusses the needs of Small Business with regard to digital marketing including high-impact web site design, Search Engine Optimization and the effective use of graphics and video.
LunaSoft is focused on providing tools to Small Business via their Cloud Platform in their ongoing effort to optimize their business, increase revenues, lower their costs and have a competitive edge.
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Interview with Ralph Morales-Safety and Security Manager with the California High Speed Rail Authority
Mr. Ralph Morales, Safety and Security Manager for the California High Speed Rail Authority for Construction Packages 2 and 3 is the CloudScoops guest on this show that aired on Monday December 7, 2015 in Sacramento County.
Mr. Morales distinguished career includes 30 years in construction with over a decade dedicated to loss control and safety management. In addition to the California High Speed Rail, Mr. Morales had key construction safety roles with BART, the California Aqueduct System and other mega infrastructure projects.
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Cloud Supplier: Leveraging the Channel to Reach the SMB Market
In this Broadcast/Podcast, John Ochinero identifies the size of the SMB market, where this market is spending their IT dollars and how Cloud Suppiers can leverage the Channel to reach this market.
This show addresses the benefits of working with Master Agents and Agents, the key responsibiities of each group as well as the key issues to understand when developing the Agent Agreement.
Interview: Cheryl Marcell-CEO, CA State Railroad Museum Foundation
This radio broadcast with California State Railroad Museum President and CEO Cheryle Marcell was produced on November 12, 2015 and aired on Monday November 16, 2015.
Topics included the mission of the Foundation, revenue streams, opportunities for contribution, major exhibits and events.
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Tongue and groove patio ceiling nailers
I will be installing a tongue and groove ceiling on the patio with 1" x 6" pine. I intend to nail into the top of the tongue so the nails will not be exposed. I've never used an automatic nail gun before and intend to purchase one for this and future jobs. Which type of nail gun would be best for this application? Do I need an angle nailer? Are there any recommended cordless guns?
Boy, I'm sure I'll be corrected if I make this statement--and I'm wrong. You don't nail into the grooves, you nail into the top of the tongue. The nail should be covered by the next board. That's the way I was taught to nail down flooring and ceiling T&G. IF you happen to put in a nail and it does not set all the way into the groove, then you cannot put the next board in. If you nail into the tongue, right where it meets the main part of the board, and the nail does not set all the way in, then you can set the next board into place with a piece of T&G board and some persuasion. As far as which guns to use, I've only seen the pro's use a special gun for T&G boards (mind you, this would be for flooring), I've never seen anyone use just a framing or finishing nailer for T&G boards, either flooring or ceiling. Good Luck, David
We've used a finish stapler(air,with 3/8" crown) for T&G and it works great.As long as you set the staple 45* through the tougue,it will be hidden with the next board.
Thurman is right,you nail into the tongue side.
Cordless guns seem to be a bit bulky for this application,too hard to set the nail in the right location.
I haven't used t and g but I have recently purchased a nail gun to do a bunch of quarter-round work along my baseboards. I got a middle of the road gun, I think I spent 50 dollars on one, on sale from 75 at home depot. It worked okay, but the thing that I noticed was that I really had to hold down the gun very, very firmly or the gun would kick back and the nail would not be all the way in. Now that's enough to make you shout out some profanities while doing a job! Anyway, if I were to do it again, I would definitely invest a little more, even double, to get a better gun, or better yet, just rent a professional level gun. It would have saved a lot of frustration in the long run. And with your job being on the ceiling, that job will be tedious enough without struggling with a cheap gun! good luck and I hope your neck gets a nice massage when you're done - you'll need it! :) sounds like a cool idea
Any type of nail finish nailer should work. Just make sure the nails/staples are long enough to go through the material and grab the ceiling joists you are attaching it to.
Additionally, if the nail does not go all the way in, as oldhouselover explained, turn up the pressure on the compressor. I use bostitch nailers and usually fine with pressure set around 80-90psi. It is always better to start a little lower and have to hit a few in with a hammer, than to start pressure too high and spilt the tongue.
Thanks for the help!
I appreciate the nailer recommendations. First, thanks for the correction about the groove versus tongue. I installed T&G maple floors in 2 bedrooms a few years ago, so I would have nailed the correct side. I erred in the post (better here than on the job). Gravity makes the big difference between floor and ceiling. The nailer I rented for the floors was too heavy to hold overhead, hence the need for a lighter weight nailer. The comment that cordless nailers are still too bulky for this application is important. The lighter the better. Thanks for the advice.
I used this nailer in 400 sqft of 1x4 T&G bead board....it worked well, use galvanized nails.
My neighbor has the bostich version:
One thing I like about his is the profile nose tips that help the nose of the nailer stay put.
Either will work fine...pick your weapon!
Paslode makes a good cordless finish nail gun but it is bulky and very expensive. Over $350. I like the angle nailers better than the straight nailers for T&G. The best one that I have used, and have used for many years, is a Senco. Any of the name brand nailers will work well for you though. Good luck with the project.
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Which QB Threw Four Interceptions in 2003 AFC Championship? – Video Dailymotion.
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Peyton Manning lost another playoff game. Starting as a common quarterback narrative, the story has breathed too many years without more Super Bowl success to dispel, because we all know the "NFL For Dummies" handbook says to judge a quarterback based on championships won in the ultimate team sport.
So when Manning loses a playoff game, the popular thing to do is bash his reputation as a postseason quarterback, bash his losing playoff record (9-11), and call him a choker. The latest loss was probably the most painful one yet, and it gives Manning 11 playoff losses (tied with Brett Favre for record) and eight one-and-done postseason's (another record).
But when someone throws that last fact out, they clearly do not realize what they are criticizing. If you want to bash the Colts and No. 1 seed 2012 Broncos for losing these games, five of them at home (by a combined 14 points), as a team, then feel free. They probably should have won at least 5-6 of them.
Though if you are bashing Manning based on his performances, then you need your head examined. Which other QB in NFL history could possibly produce these numbers and go 0-8 in the process without getting royally screwed over by his teammates and various other factors in a way no player ever has?
This is what you are knocking when you throw out the eight one-and-done seasons and 0-8 record:
These are not normal occurrences, and somehow the same quarterback keeps experiencing them, and becomes the easy target every year.
Saturday was the ultimate bow on top. Rahim Moore had a shot at a game-ending interception, and instead offers up what will go down as the worst ball misjudgment in NFL playoff history, resulting in Baltimore's 70-yard game-tying TD. That is "Game Over" for any other quarterback. This was supposed to be "Manning's best defense ever," yet they suffered the biggest lapse and letdown in his career.
The game incredibly continued into overtime, and on Manning's second possession, he went Favre and threw a bad interception. Immediately this cues the "Manning with another crushing playoff INT" talk, yet look at the list. This is the first time he's ever thrown an interception in a close game like this that was actually his fault.
Just like how the Tracy Porter play in Super Bowl XLIV was the first time Manning ever turned the ball over in the fourth quarter/overtime in a one-score game in the playoffs. Yet the narrative is he always does these things. How does that happen when the facts show otherwise? These plays are first's, not repeats.
What Manning usually does in the playoffs is give his team a chance to win the game in a way no other quarterback has. When they don't, he takes the blunt of the criticism regardless of his play.
This stuff isn't that hard to analyze. They only play 11 playoff games a year. Blame the quarterback when he deserves it. Don't just blame Manning because of his status, and that you expect a touchdown every single drive from him. He's not perfect. No one is in the playoffs.
In a 20-game sample, things are not going to even out, and they certainly have not evened out for Manning just yet, and he is really running out of chances. If the playoffs are supposed to be so important, so micro-analyzed, why are we seeing more garbage analysis than ever before? Just saying "9-11" does not prove a thing.
You know why quarterbacks who win a lot of playoff games do so? It's not because they statistically out-produce Manning, because few do in the postseason. It's because their teammates don't muff onside-kick recoveries like Hank Baskett in the Super Bowl, miss clutch field goals like Mike Vanderjagt, forget a snap count on 3rd-and-1 with a chance to clinch the game, or allow a back-breaking 70-yard touchdown bomb.
Winning playoff teams limit their mistakes and finish games in the playoffs. There is no magical playoff quarterback formula about it. Manning was just over 30 seconds away from clinching his 50th game-winning drive, moving onto next week's AFC Championship, and then disaster struck. A disaster other quarterbacks simply don't have to deal with, because games never end that way.
Stop writing your stories before the game even starts, and pay attention to what actually happens. Be a defensive writer; one who reacts to what they see. Otherwise, you end up with garbage that truly defines the word "offensive."
Finally, history has been made. After waiting years for Peyton Manning to just tie Dan Marino – and NEVER John Elway – with his 36th comeback win in the fourth quarter, it only took five more games for that record-setting 37th fourth quarter comeback win.
It came in epic fashion, as Manning completed his first 13 passes of the second half for the biggest single-game comeback of his career (24 points).
Fitting that the go-ahead score came on a great touchdown to Brandon Stokley, who caught the 49th touchdown pass (vs. San Diego) in 2004 in one of Manning's other comeback wins. Thanks should also go out to Philip Rivers. Consider this payback for the 23-0 comeback in 2007 in San Diego that Manning should have had when Adam Vinatieri blew the late kick.
Two articles on Manning today:
Peyton Manning is the NFL's All-Time Leader in Fourth Quarter Comeback Wins
Crown his ass: Peyton Manning, new NFL comeback king.
In light of the three-year anniversary of my first ever article, I have decided to share the ride's ups and downs in my attempt to rewrite NFL history by blowing open a statistical conspiracy on the Denver Broncos and the use of fourth quarter comebacks.
Thursday's article was basically the 8th chapter in the story (first seven are notably linked throughout here), but today is a perfect time to summarize the last three years, while also providing even more new evidence of a Denver comeback clusterfudge.
Documenting this process has been very important to me, and I hope it has been an entertaining and eye-opening look into the dark side of record-keeping and history.
The irony is I never had any intentions of being a journalist or anything of the sort, but this story has basically been my form of investigative reporting, and my angle to breaking into the business.
Please pass this link along and help spread the truth.
2009: The Rookie
August 6, 2009. Three years ago today, I crossed over from the world of internet forum/Excel-worshipping stat nerd to writer. I posted my first ever article.
Actually Doug Drinen of Pro-Football-Reference posted it, but it was my writing, and it was called "Guest Post: Quarterbacks and fourth quarter comebacks, Part 1." (Chapter 1)
I thank PFR for giving me that first platform to turn my researched data into words, and I can only wish I would have written a better two-part article (Chapter 2) than I did. But that was my first time, and after hundreds of thousands of words later, I think I have a much better grip on this writing thing.
On that same day three years ago, Mike Tanier gave me a boost into the sports writing world by infusing my piece into his great Walkthrough column at FootballOutsiders. That helped spread the word and was phase one of my crusade. Thanks again, Mike.
I have said before I am not the first person to reject or disprove Elway's mythical "record" of 47 fourth quarter comebacks, but I am the first to create a standardized system of fourth quarter/overtime wins so that we can track the real all-time leaders.
Though in my first articles you can see I was still caught up on trying to bunch all of these wins together, I soon after realized the best method is to make them two stats, and say "QB X has Y fourth quarter comebacks and Z game-winning drives in his career." This continues to catch on, which I greatly appreciate.
Not long after those first two articles, I sold my database to Pro-Football-Reference and we put the comeback tables on every quarterback's page for all to use. I added a part three (Chapter 3) to the series during the playoffs to explain the nuances of the data on the site. The data started showing up in writers' coverage of the NFL.
I talked to Pittsburgh's best sports writer, Ed Bouchette, for a story after game one of the 2009 season, and it made the front of the Sports' section in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which had me excited as a local guy. Later that season I contributed data to articles which appeared on Forbes and The Wall Street Journal.
2010: The Plot Thickens
For a newcomer, things were going pretty well, though not once had I heard anything from the Denver Broncos. E-mails to the head of PR went unanswered, as did any phone call attempt. I can't even get Woody Paige or any Denver-related media person for that matter to slay the dragon. Are they afraid they'll lose their job or something?
I was also ill-prepared in the instance that Peyton Manning, who pulled to 35 comebacks, one shy of Dan Marino's record 36, broke the record. I never could get into contact with the Colts on this matter either, despite the fact Manning and Johnny Unitas are two of the most prolific QB's ever in this area. I will be over-prepared this season in the event that Manning finally ties and then surpasses Marino.
In the summer of 2010 I contacted NFL spokesman Greg Aiello after reading a 1996 article in which he stated the league would look into making comebacks a standard stat. I figured I have already done so much of the necessary work, so why not push him on it?
He eventually got me into contact with another NFL employee, and from there it was passed to the Elias Sports Bureau, who handles the league's statistics. I must admit I was poorly prepared in adding a professional proposal, and basically just went off the three articles I had written at that point. Had I sent them something along the lines of what I have to work with today, things may have been much different.
Instead, the response was basically that teams are going to keep doing what they want in their media guides and press releases, and Elias, who only uses game-winning drives and never comebacks, was not changing anything.
The one time I tried to call Elias myself, a Spanish woman answered, creating a Consuela from Family Guy-esque moment, and I just hung up out of frustration. If you're not familiar with the ESB's website, it is basically an ad for buying a baseball book. It would be easier to reach the CIA for information or discussion.
I recently found this great article by Michael Weinreb, which talks about researcher John Turney's similar plight with career sack totals. The NFL only made them official in 1982, but obviously sacks occurred for decades prior to that. With NFL Films having every game, why not go back and create the historical record of sacks? I of course fully support Turney's position.
Weinreb's characterization of dealing with Elias was classic:
So I called the Elias Sports Bureau, which keeps all the official statistics for all the major sports leagues in this country. I spoke to a man whose name I cannot use because he never gave it to me, and whom I cannot quote because he declined to be quoted, and who didn't want to be forced to repudiate my premise. At times, I felt like I was engaging in a semantic discussion with the Comic Book Guy from "The Simpsons."
To summarize: The Elias Sports Bureau feels as if there is no need to revise the history before 1982 because it would be impossible. They claim it would be impossible because there is no uniformity, because there was no standard definition of a sack before 1982, because then you fall into that statistical booby trap of comparing generations, and therefore, to go back to the play-by-play sheets and videotapes is both time-consuming and useless. In fact, Seymour Siwoff of Elias told Pro Football Weekly a couple of years ago that the only reason sacks were adopted as an official statistic in 1982 is because an increased number of incentive clauses and bonuses were built into contracts. This led to increased complaints and queries about statistics, which essentially, Siwoff said, "forced our hand.
It's not impossible when people like Turney and me are willing to do the work. We may not be the Elias Sports Bureau, but I dare you to check the research and try and question the validity. It doesn't take a genius to find mistakes in the "official" record.
In the 1990s, George Halas and Fran Tarkenton each held NFL records for most wins as a head coach and starting quarterback, respectively. But go figure, they each had one more win than they actually earned.
In 1992, Pro Football Hall of Fame's Joe Horrigan found an error in Halas' total based on a game he won despite having already left for World War II. Horrigan had the total changed from 325 wins to 324 twenty years ago, and it came at an important time as Don Shula was nearing the NFL record.
Sound familiar to anything? I tried contacting Horrigan recently, but he did not return the call.
When I was researching QB starts, I made note of this 1963 game that Fran Tarkenton could not have possibly started, as evident by his lack of any pass attempts or runs, and the fact that every newspaper archive said it was Ron Vander Kelen making his first career start. So I took it away from Tarkenton, which moved his record down from 125 wins to 124, and I put that total on PFR. I also changed it on Wikipedia, and before long, noticed some teams like the Patriots and Colts changed it in their media guides.
Last year I passed it along to the Minnesota Vikings' PR and they agreed and made the change. They were very courteous about it, unlike some teams would be. Note: the Denver Broncos still have Tarkenton at 125. Gasp.
We'll get another look next month when Tom Brady (124) takes the field. Right now he's tied with Tarkenton, and the next win should surpass him.
But back to comebacks, because 2010 was when some really interesting stuff went down.
I wrote this article about the chronology of the records (Chapter 4), which expressed some of the stunning semantics blunders that went on between Elias, Denver and the Miami Dolphins in the mid-90s. That clued me in that this has been a problem that's been going on for nearly two decades without a correction.
In late November, I put together an article that shines some of the sweetest irony you'll ever see in life. Do you know what John Elway really did 47 times in his career? (Chapter 5)
47 is the number of times he had the ball in the fourth quarter, trailing by one score, and did not win the game.
46 losses and a tie. How unbelievable is that? I found similar results for Roger Staubach, who was falsely considered to have 23 comeback wins (real number: 15), yet 23 ended up being the number of losses in his career opportunities.
Speaking of Staubach, I experienced an incredible moment of success followed by disgust in the fall of 2010. The NFL Network aired a great NFL Films series called Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players. During Staubach's video, the narrator said that Staubach had 15 fourth quarter comebacks in his career.
15, which is my number I put out there in the second article I wrote. Someone had to see it, because you wouldn't get that number anywhere else. Remember, I was in contact with the NFL that summer, making them aware of the issue. It was a sense of accomplishment. If they use the right number for Staubach, then what was to come for Elway and Marino?
What came next was the first moment I thought there might be a conspiracy that goes beyond the Broncos' botching the stats for their star quarterback. With Marino aired and no mention, they teased before commercial break about the "king of comebacks" coming up next.
It was Elway, and the first line out of the narrator's mouth included "a record 47 comebacks." I could have broken my TV if it wasn't so expensive. How do you use the factual number for Staubach, ignoring the Cowboys in the process, but then go and use Denver's falsified number for Elway? It's absurd.
I contacted NFL Films about it, but nothing came of that either. Could not get in touch with someone that had a clue of what I was talking about.
On the field, Peyton Manning was less than a minute away from that record-tying 36th comeback in the playoffs, but a long kick return by Antonio Cromartie put a damper on the ending with the Jets getting the walk-off field goal win. After seven straight comebacks to get to 35, Manning lost his next six opportunities and hasn't played a game since that Wild Card loss.
2011: Captain Comeback Begins
Last year I had full intentions of doing a weekly column where I go over all the fourth quarter comebacks and game-winning drives of the week. This would provide an undisputable account of each week's games, and with lots of exclusive data.
With PFR moving away from blogging, I joined the new site Football Nation last July and one of my first articles (Chapter 6) was about the news I received from the NFL that their Record and Fact Book for 2011 was going to feature game-winning drives. They only limited it to since 1970 and listed the top five, but it was accurate, had Dan Marino at the top, and it was a step in the right direction.
From Football Nation, I quickly got involved with the Cold, Hard Football Facts brand. That would be the destination of Captain Comeback, which had a very successful first season. By midseason I found a format I love, and will continue to provide this type of analysis each week during the season.
Last summer I refined my database of fourth quarter/overtime wins, which allowed for me to have good information done in a timely manner for my articles. I focused more on writing and building a brand rather than trying to get the Broncos or NFL to change anything.
It was a great season with plenty to write about in this area.
Even with Peyton completely gone in 2011, his brother Eli picked up the slack with a record-tying seven comebacks of his own. Tony Romo's "clutch vs. choker" persona being questioned was good to write about. There was also the Tim Tebow story, which meant good news for me. Even got to correct Elias again on stats related to Tebow's game-winning drives. And of course the whole Green Bay Packers/Aaron Rodgers mystery of how they're such an anti-comeback team (3-18 record) continues to be a key story for me.
Getting the @CaptainComeback name on Twitter and networking/promoting there has been a huge boost as well. Interacted with a lot of cool people the last 12 months.
2012: Big Plans
This offseason I have been hammering away at completing an even bigger database in the hope that I can get the information people have been looking for the last three years: full comeback/GWD opportunities. I have been teasing some of the information here on my blog and in some articles lately, and hope to have results during the season.
I also have thought about writing a book in the future on this topic. A complete guide, from going over this history of how screwed up the semantics and use of comeback stats have been, with full tables of stats on teams and quarterbacks, and numerous case studies that you would expect from analysis of thousands of the close finishes in NFL history. So much great stuff could come from these databases. I'm excited about just the possibilities alone.
Peyton is back this year, so hopefully that will lead to a lot of attention over this Denver story. You can say I haven't done enough to get it out there, but I always thought on-field action backed with indisputable research would always speak louder than anything I do by myself. But admittedly, I could have done (and do) more to get it out there.
I called ESPN's Outside the Lines on Saturday to pitch a show idea about this story, and I should probably not stop at that one voice message.
I cannot rely on Peyton alone. I thought him joining Denver would do the trick (Chapter 7) by itself, but of course the Broncos have gone with a defense that makes it look like Manning's comebacks never existed by not mentioning them once in 678 pages of their media guide.
And these are the days of searchable PDF files, so they can't say it's in there and I just missed it. If they try and add it in now, I have the original copy saved and the revision date of 6/24/12 listed inside.
The use of their media guides against them was fun to compile last week, and I went even deeper over the weekend to look at their material from the Jake Plummer era. It further proves how badly the Broncos are botching comeback records and fabricating Elway's legacy in the process.
This is from a 2006 press release:
There's a lot going on here. First, it's very interesting to see Denver focus on only comebacks, as evident by the 21 and the table. Note: in the 2006 media guide, it even calls them "pure" comebacks. What's awkward is the table saying since 1995, yet Drew Bledsoe's total is listed since 1997. Something wrong with the five comebacks he had in 1995-96?
I know that for Bledsoe's career (since 1993), he had 24 comebacks, but I bet my life they are not the same 24 games Denver had in mind here. Peyton did in fact have 19 comebacks then, which gives me a good idea of what number, if any, they will try and say he has this year. Hint: it will be about a dozen off what they have for Elway.
Plummer's 21 is a farce. They include this 2002 game against Seattle as a comeback/GWD for Plummer, even though it consisted of Arizona blowing the lead to start the fourth quarter, and MarTay Jenkins returning the ensuing kickoff 95 yards for the game-winning touchdown.
"Pure" comeback, baby. Plummer was so good he got the offense the 4QC/GWD without even taking the field. The masters of comeback deception have outdone themselves here, as I have never seen any team credit their quarterback for a fourth quarter win like this when the return score did all the work.
One could argue Plummer started his career in Arizona, so maybe they were working off bad information. A logical argument, but I have the evidence this isn't the case.
This is the Denver Broncos' 2006 media guide claiming in Plummer's player bio that the Seattle game was Plummer's 17th comeback. Note the list of games here. That game, listed appropriately in "other games of note" at the bottom, was on 9/15/2002.
If you put the game in chronological order, it would be the 17th game on that page. This is Denver calling all of Plummer's fourth quarter wins comebacks, even though three of the games (4, 9, 15 on PFR) were just game-winning drives where Arizona never trailed in the fourth quarter. And of course counting the Seattle game is pure lunacy. Plummer never even took the field for the opportunity, let alone do anything to deserve the comeback/GWD.
The Denver bio goes on to say Plummer finished 2002 with 21 comeback victories, even though six of them weren't actually comebacks for him.
Plummer joined the Broncos in 2003, and his lone comeback/GWD of the season was noted by Denver as being his first for the team and the "22nd of his career."
In 2004, Plummer had four game-winning drives, but only one of them involved a comeback (Carolina game). This time Denver says that Plummer led "four fourth quarter or overtime game-winning or game-tying drives on the year" to increase his total to 26.
Where they really blow it is when they give Plummer credit for his 19th comeback victory twice in two different seasons (2002 and 2004). Fancy that with both coming against Carolina, but they are two different games set over two years apart.
What does it show? When he was with Arizona, Denver refused to consider the difference between a comeback and a GWD, and just called them all comebacks. When he joined the team, they tried to get cute with "pure" comebacks, but outsmarted themselves when it came time to keep track of the stuff.
The 10/10/2004 game against Carolina was not Plummer's 19th comeback. It was his 17th. Even if we get dumb about it and count the 2002 Seattle game, then that's 18, which still comes up one short.
In 2005, Plummer had a comeback (9/18/2005 vs. San Diego) and two game-winning drives, though nothing specifically mentions them.
If the 10/10/2004 Carolina game was the 19th "pure" comeback of Plummer's career, and he had 21 through 2005, then that means Denver is counting either the 12/12/2004 game against Miami or 11/24/2005 game in Dallas as a "pure" comeback, despite the fact Denver never trailed in the fourth quarter either time.
That would explain the bogus 21 comebacks at the beginning of 2006. However, that means there was another change when Plummer actually did have a comeback in Week 2 over Kansas City, but the number remained at 21 comebacks. Game-winning drives went up to 29.
Sticking with 2006, after a game-winning drive over Baltimore, the Broncos now went with 22 comebacks and 30 game-winning drives.
Even though the graphic clearly states the teams were only tied 3-3 in the fourth quarter, they add one to Plummer's comeback total. The 0-point "deficit" is a popular thing for the Broncos.
And that is one of the core factors in how they were able to fabricate a record for John Elway, and get away with it all these years. If they can't even handle a few Jake Plummer games from the digital media era, then it's no wonder they had such ridiculous numbers for Dan Marino the 1990s.
That is why pure ignorance like the following from the Denver Post in 1996 has been allowed to exist: "Despite what you've heard and saw again Monday night, Elway is the NFL's king of comebacks, not Dan Marino. Elway has 41, Marino has 32."
Why is this so hard for people? In the words of Denver's own PR man Jim Saccomano from a 1996 Denver Post article:
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that you're either ahead or behind and you either won or you didn't.
Nope, it doesn't take a genius. It takes Captain Comeback. It takes someone willing to put in the effort and call out a team when they are indisputably wrong.
From the confines of my home, I have done my part to rewrite NFL history. My history does not stand for one team winning the semantics battle to falsify a record to make their Hall of Fame quarterback look better.
For once, I feel very optimistic about this 2012 season, and the next chapter in the crusade over comeback conspiracy. The darkest days are behind us. The hardest work has been finished. Now we wait for new history to unfold, and put the past behind us.
Pass the link, and spread the truth my friends.
If conventional wisdom is what most people believe to be true, and if most people are stupid, then what does this say about conventional wisdom?
Writing an article that goes against the grain is one of the toughest things to do, but is also my favorite. This week has shown some good examples of that, and I'll highlight some others I've done in the past.
Perception is one hell of a difficult thing to shake out of people's minds. I like to dig into how these perceptions are built in the first place, and then expose them with the facts, or the reality of the situation.
So much of what happens early on in a player's career shapes their long-term perception. Even if years go by and that player is far removed from his past success, the perception could still be so strong that they get a pass anyway.
For example, people still think Tom Brady is a great postseason QB, even though he hasn't put together consecutive quality starts since his last Super Bowl win more than seven years ago.
Cam Newton instantly received a lot of hype in 2011 because he started the year with back-to-back 400-yard passing games. Never mind the fact Carolina lost both games or that Newton did not even play well against Green Bay, it was the simple fact that he had a ton of yardage (volume) as a rookie that made people go wild.
Problem is little did we know at the time that 2011 would be a record-setting season where passing yards were never gained at a higher rate. League records were set for 300-yard and 400-yard passing games, and three quarterbacks went over 5,000 yards. It was the season with the most points scored and highest yards per pass attempt since 1965. We didn't know how badly the lockout would hurt the defenses.
But stats like passing yards will only take you so far. Super Bowl rings and playoff success still drive the biggest perceptions of players.
When Tony Romo bobbled the snap on the field goal in the 2006 Wild Card game at Seattle, he started a perception that follows him to this day.
Romo is known as a choker because most of his biggest failures have come in nationally televised games. It happened again at the start of last season when he lost to the New York Jets on Sunday Night Football. He fumbled and threw a late interception in the fourth quarter.
Romo is today's player who "fails in the clutch every single time", even though facts clearly show otherwise. He fares just as well as Troy Aikman and Roger Staubach did in similar situations for Dallas, but he doesn't have rings like those players. Unsurprisingly, he doesn't have the teams they had either.
While a lot of the perception is a matter of selectively choosing what to remember, maybe the worst kind is using flat-out lies to build someone up.
How about when a team popularizes a stat for their quarterback, does not research it properly for other team's quarterbacks, claims they have the record, and manages to shape a legacy over it?
Aaron Rodgers' Hidden Flaw
Imagine being in the presence of the most beautiful woman in the world. But as you get closer and things are heating up, the dress rises and it's The Crying Game all over again. She was hiding something deep between her legs all along.
That's basically the equivalent of Green Bay and Aaron Rodgers.
Yesterday I wrote another article about Aaron Rodgers in the fourth quarter, and the stat that no one ever talks about in regards to Green Bay.
Kenney is a forgotten Mr. Irrelevant from the 1980s Kansas City Chiefs. Rodgers is the league's latest superstar QB.
Yet because he has one postseason that earned a ring (one-and-done the other two times), Rodgers gets the pass here.
Someone like NFL Network's Jamie Dukes will even go as far as to say (multiple times on the air) that Rodgers had the best game of his MVP season in the Packers' playoff loss to the Giants.
This is the same person that will remind you that Romo missed Miles Austin on a third-down pass against the Giants in December.
That night Romo played a fantastic game, a game that no other QB has lost with that kind of performance, and yet some will only focus on that one play.
It's fine if certain players are held to different standards than others, but make sure players are still being held accountable. What you did a couple of years ago should not change the reality of how bad you screw up in the future.
I love writing articles in support of the players/teams getting unfair criticism. I love writing articles that take the shine off the overrated players/teams.
I will continue to call it like I see it, guided by the way of facts and real, tangible evidence.
If you're curious about any other relevant, active quarterback with a record like Rodgers in the fourth quarter, well there's this one to bring the week full-circle:
Cam Newton is 1-8 (.111) in fourth quarter comeback opportunities.


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After lots of experimentation over the last couple of months, I've found a very easy way to kick-start a topic based blog with an immediate influx of search traffic.
This strategy will be useful for anyone starting a blog from scratch, whether you're creating a blog as a passive sales funnel, or if you eventually want to build up a big following.
The main requirement is that your blog has to cover specific topics, preferably from a how to/advice perspective.
This strategy is almost purely content based and does not rely on inbound links. I don't enjoy link building and article marketing much, so the extent of my link building for the test blog was to participate in a forum on the topic of the blog and put a link in my signature.
I've participated in 2 forums in this way, left a few comments here and there with the blog linked via my username (no links in comments), and that's it for inbound links I've created.
Yet, I was extremely happy with the blog's first week of traffic, and more than 80% of it was from search:
654 visits and 1,175 page views. A month after that, the traffic increased to 1,303 visits in one week, 87% from search. This strategy is an excellent way to kick-start new blogs, especially in niches where guest-posting is difficult.
In this post I'll show you exactly how to use this strategy for your own blogs.
The idea
When working to create a blog that gains traffic passively, you need to set up an automatic stream of traffic. Search is the obvious answer, yet I didn't want to spend hours and hours on directory submissions, forum posts, commenting and article marketing.
I thought that if I could create enough content that targeted long tail search terms within a particular topic, the dribs and drabs of search traffic for each long-tail phrase would snowball into something bigger.
Most of the time when I search for a long-tail search term myself (like 'is convolvulus poisonous to cats') I end up on some kind of Q&A site. I often use Google like some kind of oracle, asking questions like 'how do I' and 'where is' and 'what is' and searching for answers.
Based on the huge amounts of traffic these Q&A sites get, I'm confident in saying that I'm not the only person who uses Google like this!
I decided to seed the blog with Q&A style content. I'd target keyword phrases people were using to find answers, and then give them the answer they were looking for.
But how do you know the questions people are asking?
Google Auto Suggest
As you're typing a search term into the Google search bar, you're met with a bunch of suggestions for what other people searched for – people who started their query the same way as you've done.
Here's an example of how Auto Suggest looks for a search about kayaking, and then starting to type a word beginning with W:
I realized that by starting a search term about my topic in the same way someone is likely to begin asking a question, I could get dozens of ideas for content.
Let's run with the Kayaking example. You could type in:
- Kayaking how
- Kayaking why
- Kayaking when
- Kayaking where
- Kayaking what
Here's what Auto Suggest gave me when I started typing 'kayaking how':
Immediately, I have 10 ideas for articles I could write. To make sure the article is good quality, all I need to do is thoroughly and carefully answer the question asked, or provide the information the searcher is looking for.
This doesn't mean the article needs to be lengthy, just so long as it provides what the searcher is looking for.
Searchers regularly use this form of search query: 'topic' + 'phrase to search within that topic'. For example, 'Kayaking how to get in' really translates to "Within the topic 'Kayaking', show me articles about how to get in."
While this is a very sensible way to search and likely to return a more varied range of potentially relevant results than the phrase 'how to get into a kayak', it's not the way people speak.
If I wanted to know how to get in to a kayak, I would never approach an expert and ask:
"Kayaking how to get in?"
And for this reason, it's very tough to find content with exact match titles for these terms, even though searchers are using them in droves.
Yet it's perfectly reasonable to create content with an exact match title for these kinds of searches, which will help your site punch above its weight in search results.
In this case, all you'd do is use the following title format:
Kayaking: How to Get In
From Google's perspective this is no different to 'kayaking how to get in' as it ignores punctuation, but to the reader this sounds like a perfectly reasonable title.
Using this method it's easy to publish posts that are exact matches for hundreds of long-tail search terms, many of which may have no prior exact match results. This makes it easy for you to rank highly in search results without hundreds of inbound links.
If you need more topics from Google Auto Suggest, try typing in the name of your topic, a space, and then a letter from the alphabet. You can get topics from all 26 letters.
Wrapping up
This method is frighteningly simple, yet it's also a very powerful way to seed a new blog with a constant stream of valuable search traffic.
By using Auto Suggest you can create dozens of exact match articles for long-tail search terms. If 30 articles bring in 5 visits a day, that's 150 visits a day on autopilot.
And, as your site ages and gets more backlinks, your articles will climb in the search results. Soon that number will be 300, 600, 900…
Now my test site for this method has been around for a bit over two months. During this time, I've been adding more and more brief articles that are exact matches for long-tail search terms.
Here's what traffic looks like over the last week:
4,508 visits and 6,713 page views in the last week, 86% from search. The only link building I've ever done is a few forum posts and blog comments, probably taking up 1 – 2 hours in the entire lifetime of the site. The site succeeds because I'm providing quality content where Google believes there is none.
This strategy is likely to be of extreme interest to people who start niche blogs for passive income, but it's also a smart way to kick-start a new blog in a tough niche.
Once you seed the site with Q&A style content and are happy with your initial traffic levels, you can move the Q&A content off your main page by changing date stamps, allowing you to switch over to more traditional styles of blog content.
A final tip: When using an exact match title for a question search term, i.e. 'Kayaking how do I get in', you may want to tweak your post title a little bit so it's clear that your content offers an answer, rather than someone asking the question. You can do so like this: Kayaking: How Do I Get In? [Answer].


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Rihanna almost went bankrupt!
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So according to Rihanna - her former accountants almost lost all her money because they weren't watching out for her and mis manged her money! According to RiRi and court documents she blew through 9 million dollars in one year. So how did that happen?? 1. They gave her the go ahead to buy a 7 million dollar house and then the house was a bust and she sold it but lost five million dollars. THEN they didn't let her know that her "Last Girl On Earth" tour wasn't doing well. Thankfully Rihanna has bounced back since then and she has an estimated worth of $43 million dollars but she for sure won't let these accountants get away with this!


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[CONCACAF CHAMPIONS LEAGUE] Seattle did all the little things to prepare for its Concacaf Champions League quarterfinal series against Santos, traveling to
Mexico in preseason for a single game and bringing another Mexican team to Seattle for another and sending advance scouts to prepare for the second leg in Torreon. It got an off weekend to prepare for
Wednesday's second leg, but it all went for naught. Santos blew out the Sounders, 6-1, to win the series 7-3 on aggregate.
(Click here for complete highlights.)
American Herculez Gomez scored the two decisive goals -- his fifth and sixth in his last four games for Santos -- in the second half as MLS frustration continued. No team has won a head-to-head knockout series against a Mexican team in the Champions League.
Santos looked set to blow out the Sounders with goals by Christian Suarez and Oribe Peralta in the 8th and 9th minutes, but Seattle held its own for the rest of the first half and evened the score on Alvaro Fernandez's goal on Fredy Montero's assist -- the Colombian's third in two games.
Seattle had its chances to add a second goal that would have meant Santos would have to score at least four goals, but the Sounders failed to convert.
"I thought at the end of the first half, the last 20 minutes, we put ourselves back in the game and we played better," said Seattle coach Sigi Schmid. "We were a little unlucky early in the game when we had the good header from Fernandez that we could have scored on. Then we came out in the second half. Mauro Rosales had a chance, then they scored off the counter and made it 3-1. Then David Estrada had a good chance and we didn't put that away."
By contrast, Santos broke down the Seattle defense time and again for easy goals off counterattacks.
Gomez, who only joined Santos this winter and did not start until the last four games, put Santos back ahead on aggregate in the 48th minute when he was left alone in the area to slot home a pass from Suarez and made it 4-1 on the night, effectively ending Seattle's chances in the 67th minute when he finished off another counter after being set up by Ivan Estrada and Peralta.
Gomez was done for the night, limping off to be replaced by another U.S. product, Carlos Ochoa, who attended high school and college (Cal Baptist) in Southern California.
Suarez made it 5-1 in the 76th minute and Ochoa finished off the scoring four minutes later.
"When they made it 4-1," added Schmid, "I think we lost our concentration. We have to look at why we started the game slowly, why we started the second half slowly. I have to look at that and see what I can change to make sure that doesn't happen."
Schmid blamed the poor defending on a lack of concentration.
"Defensively, I thought we had a poor game today," he said. "I think they won the duels. They won a lot of the duels. When they win all the 50/50 balls, its tough for your team to gain momentum. From that standpoint it was disappointing. Like I say, it's easy to point fingers and say this guy or that guy didn't have a good game. Us as a coaching staff, we need to look at it and we need to see what we need to do to avoid these kind of things in the future."
The exit means Seattle can turn its attention to MLS, but when it opens against Toronto FC on Saturday it will probably be without new signing Eddie Johnson, who left the Santos game with a hip flexor injury.
March 14 in Torreon
Santos 6 Seattle Sounders 1. Goals: Suarez 8, 76, Peralta 9, Gomez 48, 67, Ochoa 80; Fernandez 36.
Santos -- Sanchez, I.Estrada, Galindo, Baloy, Mares, Crosas (Salinas, 32), Rodriguez, Luduena (Ramirez, 62), Suarez, Gomez (Ochoa, 69), Peralta.
Seattle Sounders -- Gspurning, Johansson, Parke, Hurtado, Gonzalez (Sivebaek, 76), Rosales, Alonso, Evans, Fernandez, Montero, D.Estrada (Johnson 61; Levesque 82).


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Tess Vigeland: The fast-moving story out of the Middle East took several turns today. Reports out of Tripoli say the Libyan government fired on protesters both from the air and on the ground. Members of Libya's U.N. delegation called on Colonel Moammar Gadhafi to step down.
Yemen's president said he will not heed the demands of demonstrators for him to leave office. And Morocco's king said he will not cede to "demagoguery" in calls for constitutional reform. In Egypt, a top prosecutor requested that ousted president Hosni Mubarak's assets be frozen around the world.
Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman is in Cairo, which right now is the closest journalists are getting to Libya. Mitchell, what does it look like from there?
Mitchell Hartman: Well, it's a long way across a big, very empty desert to the Libyan border, so there's no spillover in that sense. But people are watching Al-Jazeera and other reports really closely. There have been rallies in front of the Libyan embassy. There was one outside of my hotel near Tahrir Square today. And you know, Tahrir is symbolic here because the Egyptians really feel that as the biggest Arab country -- the second, after Tunisia, that went people's revolutionary -- that they're on the vanguard of throwing out autocrats all across the region.
Vigeland: Now the revolution in Egypt is starting to stabilize -- people are back to work, banks have opened. The British Prime Minister David Cameron was in Cairo today, as was William Burns, a senior U.S. diplomat. Are they also trying to work an angle on what might happen in Libya?
Hartman: Good luck with that. I mean, Libya is not Egypt. Egypt gets more than a billion in U.S. military aid, even Bahrain has the Fifth Fleet parked in the port. The U.S. has very little trade with Libya, even in oil. We've only had normalized relations since 2008. Magda Kandil from the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies says there's one way both Libya and Algeria, which is its neighbor that's also bubbling over, matter strategically to the U.S. and Europe -- and that's oil.
Magda Kandil: The entire region could be on fire, and this will have significant impact on the global economy if we see a surge in the oil price because of instability in the region as a whole.
And there really couldn't be a worse time for this with Europe and the U.S. still in very fragile recoveries.
Vigeland: All right. Marketplace's Mitchell Hartman joining us from Cairo. Thanks Mitchell.
Hartman: You're welcome.


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Good shit Joe! Now let's tear them a new one!
A relaxing ravens win would do wonders for my hangover!
Great start, finally jumping on a poor team early.
Just rewatched the TD - Colts had 4 Dbs in the endzone on a 1-reciever formation, and couldn't cover Smith. Unreal.
Inadvertent facemask by Webb there, but legit.
WOW the colts are BAD
this could be a shutout
Cory Redding is having a good start. Tackle for loss and a sack.
Corey Redding is in beastmode.
Redding is playing possesed today !