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IMO has been combating maritime piracy for some time and a series of measures, developed with the co-operation of the littoral States and the support of the industry, helped significantly reduce piracy in the hot spots of the late 1990s and the early 2000s: the South China Sea and the Straits of Malacca and Singapore. However, the problem has lately manifested itself in other parts of the world, most notably – but not exclusively – off the coast of Somalia, in the Gulf of Aden and the wider Indian Ocean.
IMO Conference on Capacity building to counter PIracy (15 May 2012)
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Resolution A.1044(27) adopted 30 November 2011 on Piracy and armed robbery against ships in waters of the coast of Somalia
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A Nigerian political scientist has said she would break up with her partner if she discover he plays sport bet,
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If we're dating and I find out you play sports betting, it's Over!!
Ordinary sports betting abi? Check rehabilitation centres to see people with sports betting addiction
I hate sport betting like crazy
If we're dating and I find out you play sports betting, it's Over!!
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What should a dessert be like?
Well, there are two views on this. There is the reasoned view of all the great Michelin-starred chefs. And then, there is my slightly prejudiced view.
At most fancy restaurants, the dessert course is now no more than a way for the pastry chefs to tell us what artistic geniuses they are. Nearly everything will have some baked biscuit/cake component. The items will be small or scattered so that the dessert can show itself off in the centre of a large plate. There may be (in imitation of the main course), many different little things on the plate; a scoop of this, a sphere of that, a little piece of crunch, a smear of something colourful. And so on.
The flavours will be restricted. Chefs like fresh berries. They think chocolate is a religion. They feel healthier cooking with fruit. They believe that a dessert should have many elements: something cold, something crisp, something wet, etc. The more adventurous ones will use air-dried or powdered ingredients: a 'dust' of something, a 'soil' of something else.
I yield to no one in my admiration for the tireless striving of pastry chefs. And these days, I have a new reason to be grateful. Thanks guys, I always say, you stop me from putting on too much weight by making desserts that I never, ever want to eat.
If you guys want to reinvent the Snickers bar or pretend to be painters when you design your plates, or re-interpret cheesecake as a milky foam – go right ahead!
But I'll never eat it.
And I am eternally grateful for that. Pastry chefs (who follow in the footsteps of Albert Adrià or Jordi Roca, without knowing who they are) spend lots of time trying to keep up with global trends. Which, I guess, is fine.
The problem is me.
My attitude to desserts is that of a man with an Indian palate who probably spent too long eating nursery food.
We don't really have the concept of dessert in most Indian cuisines. In many parts of the country, our ancestors ate on thalis and did not waste time on multi-course meals. There were sweets, of course, but we put them on the thali, next to the savoury dishes, and ate them whenever we liked – not necessarily at the end of the meal.
At my grandfather's house in Ahmedabad, the thali would always contain something sweet; perhaps a laddu or shrikhand. At the end of the meal, they took away the thali. There was no question of serving a dessert afterwards. The only sense in which our meal had courses was that chapatis were served first and the rice after that. The idea of a dessert course was alien to our food culture.
So it has also been in much of North India. A gulab jamun or a jalebi would find a place on the thali. It would not be served at the end of the meal. In India, dessert or the sweet item is just another way of balancing the thali with a little sweetness.
For most of us, this has fundamentally shaped our attitude to sweets. We will eat barfi or sandesh or laddus whenever we like. We don't think of them as dessert items. When I was hungry, my mother would do what many other Gujarati mothers did, she would make a sweet sheera out of suji. (What they call suji ka halwa in parts of North India.) It was a convenience dish, which would have looked terrible on Instagram. But I still remember the glorious taste.
As Indians, we come from a background where the idea of a fancy dessert at the end of a meal sounds strange. Even the new, popular, dessert restaurants that have opened in Indian cities (like The Big Chill) are not mealtime places. People go there whenever they want to.
Though we don't necessarily realise this, our Indian childhoods determine the kinds of desserts we like. Many Indian sweets involve milk. So we are biased towards milk- based desserts: that is why Indians like ice cream and don't have much time for sorbet.
We are brought up to enjoy sweets and fruit – but not in the same bite. So, fruit-based desserts rarely hit the spot. We may like the odd mango dessert but we have no interest in red, blue and black berries of the sort that Western chefs are obsessed with.
We don't necessarily like crunchiness in our sweets. Western chefs like putting a little crunch in everything. We value crispness (in say, jalebi) but on the whole, we want our sweets to be relatively soft and yielding: rasgullas, gulab jamun, barfi etc. (That's why gelatine-filled cheesecakes work with younger people: they like the soft but firm texture.)
Nor do we care that much about how wonderful a dessert looks. It's important for Instagram but not for real life. And in any case, in visual terms I would take a plate of jalebis over some over-designed Western plate with perfect little spheres and lurid smears.
Speaking for myself (and, I think for many urban Indians), the Western desserts I really like are the ones that the West regards as 'nursery food'. The French invented the Crème Caramel but I suspect that Indians love it much more than Europeans, whether we call it Caramel Custard or Caramel Pudding. (It helps that you don't need an oven to make it. It can be steamed, which is useful in a country where there was no real baking tradition.)
Few of us ever leaned how to make a real custard (or a Crème Anglaise to use the culinary name) so we have made do with custard powder. (Useless but interesting little fact: Custard powder was invented by a man called Bird who loved custard but was allergic to eggs. He had no idea how many egg-hating Gujaratis were going to benefit from his invention! His name survives in 'Bird's Custard Powder'.)
Because we grew up on milk based sweets (kheer, shrikhand, mishti doi, ras malai, etc.) we like the idea of custard: it is a sweet milky liquid.
I don't know how many people share my love for Bread and Butter Pudding, but I suspect many of you do. The idea of a bread and milk dessert is very Indian. Think of the Shahi Tukra. (And that's without considering the Parsi bread pudding or Malai Toast.)
Eggs (outside of a Crème Caramel) are a little tricky. There are as many Indians who love them in desserts and sweets as there are those who don't like the taste. But whenever I have made anyone try something like a Floating Island (beaten egg whites in a custard sauce), they have loved it. We are not that familiar with meringue, but I think the texture appeals to us.
No matter what people say about Indians and chocolate desserts, I am sceptical about how popular they really are. We grew up on milk chocolate (Cadbury's mainly) and I am not convinced that we have really embraced the taste of fine dark chocolate, however much money over-excited chefs spend on importing it.
The only chocolate desserts that I have seen work at most Indian restaurants are the ones where chocolate is used to flavour flour and ideally, also served warm. So, a warm Chocolate Soufflé will always sell. So will a melting chocolate cake (the one where the centre is just gooey chocolate).
I don't think most Indians like the taste of real chocolate. Why don't more people order chocolate mousse, for example? And when chefs start talking about ganache, cocoa content, Valrhona and all the other things they have read about in books, most Indians switch off.
The truth is that no matter how sophisticated we think we are, we are all prisoners of our Indian childhoods. When we respond well to a macaron, we are not demonstrating how refined our palates are becoming.
We like a macaron for what it really is: a badam biscuit.
So thank you, chefs. We admire your skill with classy Western desserts. But what to do?
We are like this only.
Vir:Bengali meals always have sweets at the end and they are served separately. Sweets are rarely served along with the main course. Desserts like mishti doi, rosogolla are always served in the end and in separate dishes.
Only five years ago I would have been stuck with Akasaka in Def Col. or Moti Mahal Deluxe in South Ex. Now I have amazing options to choose from.
In the pursuit of vegetarianism and vegetarian guests lies the future. And great profit.
I think that Indians have less desire to 'belong' than Brits do. We don't need social approval. And this is a good thing.
And ask yourself: have I really been enjoying the taste of vodka all these years or just enjoyed the alcoholic kick it gives my cocktails?
There is a growing curiosity about modern Asian food, more young people are baking and the principles of European cuisine are finally being understood
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Low haemosporidian diversity and one key-host species in a bird malaria community on a mid-atlantic island (sao miguel, azores)
- Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab
Publishing year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 849-859
Publication/Series: Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Volume: 47
Issue: 4
Document type: Journal article
Publisher: Wildlife Disease Association
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When host species colonize new areas, the parasite assemblage infecting the hosts might change, with some parasite species being lost and others newly acquired. These changes would likely lead to novel selective forces on both host and its parasites. We investigated the avian blood parasites in the passerine bird community on the mid-Atlantic island of Sao Miguel, Azores, a bird community originating from continental Europe. The presence of haemosporidian blood parasites belonging to the genera Haemoproteus, Plasmodium, and Leucocytozoon was assessed using polymerase chain reaction. We found two Plasmodium lineages and two Leucocytozoon lineages in 11 bird species (84% of all breeding passerine species) on the island. These line ages were unevenly distributed across bird species. The Eurasian Blackbird (Turdus merula) was the key-host species (total parasite prevalence of 57%), harboring the main proportion of parasite infections. Except for Eurasian Blackbirds, all bird species had significantly lower prevalence and parasite diversity compared to their continental populations. We propose that in evolutionary novel bird communities, single species may act as key hosts by harboring the main part of the parasite fauna from which parasites "leak" into the other species. This would create very different host parasite associations in areas recently colonized by hosts as compared to in their source populations.
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- Haemoproteus
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- Leucocytozoon
- Plasmodium
- prevalence
- Malaria in birds
- Centre for Animal Movement Research
- Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab
E-mail: dennis [dot] hasselquist [at] biol [dot] lu [dot] se
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PhD Students, main supervisor
PhD Students, assistant supervisor
- Fredrik Andreasson
- Hanna Sigeman
- Hongkai Zhang
- Samantha Mellinger
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June 15, 2020
Kenyon has announced plans to resume in-person instruction for fall semester. Read more here.
This summer, Kenyon is replacing its current phone system with a new service, based on the state of Ohio's Next Generation Telephony Service contract. Partnering with Cincinnati Bell, the College is in the final phase of installing new phones that connect directly to the campus data network and communicate with a phone switch through the Internet. The new phones will be activated July 20.
The switch to the new system will be cost-neutral to the College, with the potential for significant cost savings in the future, though the biggest advantage to the new phones is increased reliability over the current 20-year-old system.
Kenyon's current phone system is over 20 years old, and with each passing year, it becomes more unreliable. The College seized on an opportunity to make a cost-neutral change to a new phone system that delivers more features and enhanced reliability.
The new phones connect directly to the campus data network and communicate with a phone switch connected through the Internet.
When your new phone was installed, the network cable connected to your computer was removed and instead connected to your new handset. A new ethernet cable connects your computer to the phone. Your phone will send and receive data (and also receive power) using this connection while passing data to and from your computer. You should not notice a change in your computer's network performance.
On July 20, 2015, the new phone will be activated, which means the phone number will be transferred from the old switch to the new switch. At that point, you may begin placing and receiving phone calls using the new system. The old phone will stop working at the same time.


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Jogging is considered as one of the best physical activities to lose weight. And yes, it is completely true that it can help you to lose more than 440 calories in 45 minutes. But if you are looking for better options to lose weight and more calories than you need to check out these physical activities. So, in this article, we have shared some effective physical activities that will help you to burn more calories.
1. Dancing
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Yes, you heard it right. Dancing can help you to lose more calories than jogging. All you need is to put on your favourite music and then start dancing on it. And you can even enrol in a Zumba class. And it is said that people burn more than 443 calories per hour by doing aerobic activity.
2. Rowing
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Whether you try out this activity to the nearest water place or on the machine in the nearest gym, this simple activity can help you a lot in losing many calories and also provides your hands and legs an intense workout. It is also said that it can help you to lose 682 calories in an hour.
Also read: BE FIT: 7 Surprising habits that can help you to lose weight!
3. Jumping rope
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This simple thing is the part of every athlete's kit. And even the British Rope Skipping Association has said that skipping can help you to burn up to 1,300 calories.
4. Boxing
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Feeling the anger? Then, head to the boxing ring and take it out and lose some extra calories. It is said that when you work out with a heavy bag, it can help you to burn 354 to 558 calories per hour. And you can also opt for kickboxing as it can help you to lose 600 calories on an average which was revealed by the Harvard Health Publications.
Also read: Shed Weight Faster: 5 Unusual Ways to Lose Weight
5. Walking up to the hill
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For this activity, you need to fill up your backpack with some weight and after that climb up the slopes around you. This uphill kind of climb can help you to lose around 550 calories per hour. And it is said, the more weight you carry the more calories you will burn.
So, these were the ways to burn more calories than jogging.


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Food Truck Fridays, an offshoot of the Main Street Food Truck Festival, begin this Friday. Presented by the Downtown Little Rock Partnership in support of Main Street revitalization, the event will be held in the Main Street Creative Corridor on The Plaza at Main and Capitol from 10:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Participating food trucks include Bryant's BBQ, Hot Rod Wieners, Jackie's Mobile Café, Kona Ice and The Southern Gourmasian. Guests will also enjoy live music by Michael Shaw.
This week's menu includes:
- Bryant's BBQ: Smoked Brisket/Pork/Beef Sandwich Combos with Fresh Cut Fries, Jerk Chicken and Spanish Rice, Fresh Gulf Shrimp and Catfish Baskets and Homemade BBQ Nachos, Loaded Fries and Coleslaw
- Hot Rod Wieners: Gourmet All Beef Hot Dog on Boulevard Bun. Menu items include the Mudslinger: chili, cheddar, onions; Italian Stallion: meaty marinara, provolone, pepperoni chips, basil; Hot Cheese Injection: hot cheese sauce, peppers, hot sauce; MAC Truck: mac and cheese, bacon; Spicy Daewood: kimchi, mustard
- Jackie's Mobile Café: Old Fashion Artisan Crafted Hamburgers with all the toppings, Farm-Raised Catfish, Finger-Licking Wings, Chick-O-Stick, Nachos and Fries
- Kona Ice: Tropical Shaved Ice Experience… FLAVOR YOUR WORLD!
- Southern Gourmasian: Steamed Buns, Shrimp & Grits, Spicy Chicken & Dumplings, Almond Crusted Chicken Sandwich, S'more cookies
Food trucks and menus are updated weekly on Facebook.
Food Truck Fridays will take place on Sept. 4, 11, 18 and 25; and Oct. 9, 16, 23 and 30. There will be no Main Street Food Truck Fridays on October 2 before the festival.
Presented by Road Runner Stores, the 5th annual Main Street Food Truck Festival will be held Saturday, Oct. 3 on Main Street between 3rd and 8th streets from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
The festival will feature over 40 food trucks in addition to art and craft vendors, buskers, beer gardens, Heifer International children's activities and more.


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Head of the Analytical Forum and Special Projects Department at Bioforum and a lecturer at the Academic Tel Chai college, Weizmann Institute and Bioforum.
For 28 years Dr. Bar-Ilan sereved as head of the Analytical Chemistry Department in Migal (MIGAL – Galilee Research Institute) in Kiryat-Shmona.
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Using Sierra and iTunes 12.7 on iMac.
In iTunes Store, can't find music videos to buy. Were located on same page as Songs and Albums but not there.
To where have they been moved?
Where Are Music Videos Found In iTunes?
Using Sierra and iTunes 12.7 on iMac.
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Music videos are mixed in with songs. Just search for the artist or song you want. Scroll down on that screen and you'll see Music Videos as one of the categories if there are some in the results. Or, look on the right and you'll see: All, Songs, Albums, Music Videos, etc. Click on Music Videos and you'll see just those results.
This is a step back. Ok I can search by a particular artist but useless if I want to see the top 100 music videos or the latest releases. I'm sure it can be done, no I'm not really sure, but doesn't help me now.


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William Outhwaite This special issue of Discover Society, curated by William Outhwaite, welcomes the new year of Brexit negotiations with views [...]Read more
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John Holmwood This article discusses two schools in Birmingham, both of which have been subject to intense political discussion and media [...]Read more
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Mary Holmes, Lynn Jamieson and Alison Koslowski Jane Austen's most famous novel begins with the sentence: 'It is a truth universally [...]Read more
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Des Fitzgerald 'One of my most cherished possessions,' wrote Susah Desmond-Hellman, the Chief Executive of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [...]Read more
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Tendayi Bloom There are stateless persons living in every region of the world. The lack of any recognised formal citizenship can [...]Read more
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Filomin Gutierrez The first anniversary of Rodrigo Duterte's Philippine Presidency was on the 30th of June, as his controversial war on [...]Read more
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Matthew 11:28-29 - Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. (Verses like Matthew 11:28)
Isaiah 30:15 - For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not. (Verses like Isaiah 30:15)
Jeremiah 6:16 - Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk therein. (Verses like Jeremiah 6:16)
2 Chronicles 14:11 - And Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, LORD, it is nothing with thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power: help us, O LORD our God; for we rest on thee, and in thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, thou art our God; let not man prevail against thee. (Verses like 2 Chronicles 14:11)
2 Chronicles 16:8-9 - Were not the Ethiopians and the Lubims a huge host, with very many chariots and horsemen? yet, because thou didst rely on the LORD, he delivered them into thine hand.For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars. (Verses like 2 Chronicles 16:8)
Psalms 81:11-13 - But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and they walked in their own counsels.Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways! (Verses like Psalms 81:11)
Isaiah 11:10 - And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. (Verses like Isaiah 11:10)
Jeremiah 44:16 - As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the LORD, we will not hearken unto thee. (Verses like Jeremiah 44:16)
Zechariah 7:11 - But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. (Verses like Zechariah 7:11)
Zechariah 7:14 - But I scattered them with a whirlwind among all the nations whom they knew not. Thus the land was desolate after them, that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate. (Verses like Zechariah 7:14)
Hebrews 12:25 - See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: (Verses like Hebrews 12:25)


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This is a one of a kind embroidery on hand stitched leather— created in collaboration with the Banjara, a semi-nomadic tribe of Southern India and the Jawaja Leatherworkers.
Banjara Embroidery deploys one of the largest stitch vocabularies of any cultural group. Fully committed to strong bold patterns, most motifs are based on a geometry of nested and altered squares. Both mirrors and motifs have auspicious power and are believed to offer protection from harm.
Size is approx. height 33cm (13 in) , width 39cm (15.5 in) , depth 8cm (3 in)
Straps measure 62cm (24.5 in).
Features: A slightly tapered design with 2 handles that fit nicely over the shoulder. An inner pocket perfect for keeping your essentials handy.
Note: The Banjara embroidery pieces are one of a kind.
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My arms tired quickly (probably since I swam extra long yesterday) and I didn't want to fight the pack of longboarders on the main peak, so I stayed on the inside and had a break to myself much of the time. The waves were soft and I was on my 7'0" Emm, so I had to be at the peak and wait for the bigger set waves, which were going around chest-high. I got many fun rides that, while not long for Cowells, were longer than I've had in a while. It was nice to have a shoulder to play on. Stoked!
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The vigorous Royal Challengers Bangalore will take on the mighty Rajasthan Royals in their home ground. Both the teams have won one out of their two games and are head-to- head in the points table. In the eleventh match of this year's IPL, RR and RCB will look forward to trample their rivalry and go up in the points table.
Head-to- Head:
Overall: Matches – 17
Royal Challengers Bangalore – 8
Rajasthan Royals – 7
No Result – 2
M.Chinnaswamy Stadium at Bengaluru will host the clash of the two royal teams – Royal Challengers Bangalore Vs Rajasthan Royals.
Average 1st innings score: 167
Average 2nd innings score: 145
Highest Total: 263/5 (20 Ov) by RCB vs PWI
Lowest Total: 82/10 (15.1 Ov) by RCB vs KKR
Highest Chased: 204/2 (18.5 Ov) by RCB vs KXIP
Lowest Defended: 106/2 (8 Ov) by RCB vs CSK
(The above stats only include T20 matches played at M.Chinnaswamy Stadium)
The M.Chinnaswamy Stadium is a mid-high scoring pitch that favors batsmen in shorter formats of the game. However, it also helps fast bowlers during the initial few overs.
How do the teams stack up?
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Royal Challengers Bangalore After their first victory against Kings XI Punjab, Bangalore looks pretty strong in both batting and bowling. Skipper Virat Kohli and Sarfraz Khan should buckle down to hit some brilliant knocks, unlike the first two matches. RCB's playing eleven will see no major changes; nevertheless, if anyone has to be replaced, it should be Sarfraz Khan.
Probable XI: Brendon McCullum, Quinton de Kock, Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, Sarfraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Chris Woakes, Washington Sundar, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kulwant Khejroliya
Players to watch out for: Umesh Yadav, Ab de Viliers
Rajasthan Royals
Follow their humiliating defeat against Hyderabad; the Rajasthan Royals were lucky against the Delhi Daredevils. The Rajasthan team looks potent on paper and they are yet to reflect the same on the ground. Their costliest Indian player, Unadkat is yet to show his best performance. The RR squad will play against RCB with the same eleven; but Jofra Archer might be seen in place of Ben Laughlin.
Probable XI: Ajinkya Rahane (c), D Arcy Short, Sanju Samson, Ben Stokes, Rahul Tripathi, Jos Buttler (wk),
Krishnappa Gowtham, Shreyas Gopal, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jaydev Unadkat, Ben Laughlin
Players to watch out for: Ajinkya Rahane, Sanju Samson


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Bitcoin drops more than 10% as scrutiny of cryptocurrencies grows
steven36 posted a topic in General NewsLONDON (Reuters) - Bitcoin slumped more than 10% over the weekend to a two-week low as fears of a crackdown of cryptocurrencies grew on mounting scrutiny of Facebook's planned Libra digital coin. Bitcoin fell 11.1% from Friday to $9,855 early on Monday, its lowest since July 2. The original cryptocurrency slumped 10.4% on Sunday alone, its second-biggest daily drop this year. It was last up 1.3% at $10,319. Politicians and financial regulators across the world have called for close scrutiny of Facebook's Libra coin, with concerns ranging from consumer protection and privacy to its potential systemic risks given the social media giant's global reach. In a sign of widening U.S. attention, a proposal to prevent big technology companies from functioning as financial institutions or issuing digital currencies has been circulated for discussion by Democratic lawmakers, according to a copy of the draft legislation seen by Reuters. U.S. President Donald Trump had last week criticized bitcoin, Libra and other cryptocurrencies, demanding that firms seek a banking charter and subject themselves to U.S. and global regulations if they wanted to "become a bank". Bitcoin, which initially shrugged off Trump's Tweet, fell sharply after U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell called for a halt to Facebook's project until concerns from privacy to money-laundering were addressed. "Together they have increased the tail risk that the U.S. will look to crack down on it in some way," said Jamie Farquhar, portfolio manager at crypto firm NKB Group in London. Underscoring the growing attention on Facebook's plans, Japanese authorities have also set up a working group to look at Libra's possible impact on monetary policy and financial regulation, government sources told Reuters. European Central Bank policymaker Benoit Coeure is due to deliver a preliminary report on the matter at a meeting of G7 finance ministers this week in Chantilly, north of Paris. Bitcoin climbed nearly 55% in nine days after Facebook unveiled its plans for Libra on June 18, touching an 18-month high of nearly $14,000. The project has boosted hopes among some investors that cryptocurrencies could gain wider acceptance. Source
U.S. regulators divide scrutiny of Amazon and Google
steven36 posted a topic in General News(Reuters) - U.S. antitrust regulators have divided oversight of Amazon.com Inc and Alphabet Inc's Google, putting Amazon under the watch of the Federal Trade Commission and Google under the Justice Department, the Washington Post said on Saturday. Amazon could face heightened antitrust scrutiny under a new agreement between U.S. regulators which puts the e-commerce giant under the watch of the trade commission, the newspaper reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The development is the result of the FTC and Justice department quietly dividing up competition oversight on both of the American tech giants, Amazon and Google, the newspaper said adding that the FTC's plans for Amazon and the Justice Department's interest in Google were not immediately clear. The news comes after Reuters and other media reported on Friday that the Justice Department is preparing an investigation into Google in order to ascertain whether the company broke antitrust law in operating its online businesses. Google said it had no comment on the report while Amazon, the FTC and Justice Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the report. Source
Huawei Canada executive leaves post as scrutiny of company grows
steven36 posted a topic in General NewsNEW YORK/OTTAWA (Reuters) - One of Huawei Canada's top executives on Friday disclosed he was leaving his post after more than seven years with the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker, which is facing heightened scrutiny over security issues from Canada and its allies. Scott Bradley Scott Bradley disclosed his departure as the company's senior vice president for corporate affairs in a post on LinkedIn that did not give a reason for the move. He could not immediately be reached for comment. Huawei Technologies Co is under intense scrutiny in the West over its relationship with the Chinese government and U.S.-led allegations that its equipment could be used by Beijing for spying. On Friday, sources told Reuters that Poland arrested a Huawei employee and former Polish security official on spying allegations, a move that could fuel Western concerns about the security of the company's technology. Bradley was a key public spokesman for Huawei Canada, which has been under the spotlight since Canadian authorities in December arrested the chief financial officer of its parent company at the request of the United States. Huawei is a major supplier of telecommunications equipment in Canada, where Bradley had served as chair of the 5G Canada Council, a national trade group promoting adoption of next-generation high-speed wireless technology. The Canadian government last year launched a new security review of Huawei's 5G technology, which at least two major Canadian carriers have said they plan to test in small-scale pilots. Bradley will serve as special adviser to the company, assisting the company "as required," Huawei Canada President Eric Li said in a memo to staff that was obtained by Reuters. "We are saddened to see him leave but grateful for the tireless work he has put in to help us grow our brand and public image, and build various relationships with government," Li said. Bradley confirmed on LinkedIn that he intended to advise the company. "As we start 2019, it is time for a change," Bradley said in the post. "I continue to believe passionately in all of the values our Canadian team represents, and I believe that our team is one of the most innovative in the world." Source
How Microsoft has (so far) avoided tough scrutiny over privacy issues
steven36 posted a topic in Security & Privacy NewsThe "original gangster of big tech" has managed to dodge the bad headlines and congressional grilling that have ensnared its rivals by working with regulators and advocating its own solutions. Quietly but confidently, Microsoft is back. For the first time in almost a decade, it's the most valuable company in the world while its archrival Apple stumbles. It's been lauded for its smart pivot into AI and cloud services in recent years and its acquisition of the popular GitHub software development platform. And it's almost completely avoided the privacy debacles and questions about monopolistic tendencies that have dogged Facebook, Google, and Amazon, which have resulted in those companies facing negative headlines on a daily basis, nasty lawsuits, and their top executives being grilled in U.S. Congress. Microsoft sells targeted ads against search results, and users have complained about how their data is secured in the cloud, the company hasn't received nearly the same level of scrutiny, and it's been years since its executives were hauled before Congress. That's despite the fact that Microsoft owns LinkedIn, which has raised eyebrows with its uncanny skill at suggesting connections for its 600 million users, and was recently probed in Ireland for using email addresses of 18 million non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook. And European governments have raised concerns about the storage of user data in the cloud via Office 365, and how Microsoft plans to address those issues. And through a partnership with Facebook, Microsoft's Bing search engine was able to see the names of "virtually all" Facebook users without their consent through 2017. And just this week, Microsoft announced a deal with Kroger's to set up retail experiences, in which displays will feature digital ads personalized to the individual shopper, raising privacy issues as well as potential cutbacks in retail jobs. There are a few key reasons why Microsoft's practices haven't generated the same level of scrutiny from regulators–and the company's history is a big part of it. "They've been around the block, they've been the evil perpetrator before, and they've already learned how to play very nicely with regulators," Jennifer King, director of consumer privacy at the Center for Internet and Society Stanford Law School, tells Fast Company. "That's one of the reasons you don't see Microsoft executives being hauled in to Congress: They have a long-standing relationship, through lobbyists, policymakers–they've been in this space for decades." In fact, it's been over two decades since Microsoft's bespectacled, youthful CEO Bill Gates testified to Congress and was grilled on whether the company's "breathtaking growth" hurt competition in the software industry. And it was sued by the federal government, which accused it of running a monopoly, in a bitter, hard-fought case that took years to settle. Those confrontations taught Microsoft many lessons, including how to anticipate the concerns of regulators, reorganize the company in a way that satisfied anti-trust concerns, and make privacy a part of its organizational structure. "Microsoft took that action against them extremely seriously and really changed the organization as a result," King says. "They had close to 20 years where they had basically re-architected their entire organization to have people who deal with privacy issues from a legal standpoint, from software standpoint, from the usability, computer interaction standpoint embedded throughout the entire organization. That is unlike any of the other tech companies." After a series of antitrust investigations by the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Microsoft received a number of consent decrees, as the regulators looked closely at Microsoft's practices, prices, and growing market share. In 2000, there was a court judgment to split up the company, which was later overturned. "They're the original gangster of big tech, known for sucking the air supply from their competition in the 1990s [Netscape] with implicit subsidies," says Scott Galloway, a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and one of the most vocal critics of big tech. "Had the DOJ not put the brakes on Microsoft, we might not have Google today, favoring Bing as the dominant search engine." And Microsoft has taken steps to address privacy issues. In 2016, France ordered the company to stop tracking Windows 10 users, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized it for sending all kinds of telemetry data, including location, text input, touch input, and sites you visit, back to Microsoft. The company responded with a combination of more transparency—revealing what info it collects on Windows 10 users—and giving them more control, by letting users choose between basic and full levels of data collection. "Microsoft hasn't (yet) given any reason for Congress to call them to testify on Capitol Hill. While big tech has been ripe with scandal in 2018, Microsoft remains unscathed," Galloway notes. "While we keep barking at the moon about Facebook and Apple, Microsoft just keeps plugging along. It's impressive." The company's current CEO, Satya Nadella, who assumed the role five years ago, has also earned praise for navigating the latest wave of regulatory scrutiny and privacy challenges. "The award for tech CEO of the year goes to Satya Nadella, who's proven himself as a competent, responsible leader, able to protect the firm and its users from conflict," says Galloway, praising the executive's leadership and insight. Navigating roadblocks in Europe But it doesn't mean the broader discussion about user privacy and data collection hasn't touched them, especially as the company grows and adds more online communities like GitHub to its universe of products and services. Over the last few months, an army of European regulators and government agencies have shed light on some of the parent company's global user data collection practices at LinkedIn and elsewhere, even as the company is pressing forward with new initiatives, further broadening its reach and market standing. By all accounts, Europe has been more proactive than the U.S. in probing American tech giants and asking tough questions about their privacy and consumer data practices. And Microsoft voluntarily extended Europe's tough GDPR rights to its worldwide customer base, though it's not clear how it could he held accountable for violating voluntary rules in the U.S. In a November report, the Irish Data Protection Commissioner detailed how LinkedIn U.S., which serves as LinkedIn Ireland's data processor, had "processed hashed email addresses of approximately 18 million non-LinkedIn members and targeted these individuals on the Facebook Platform with the absence of instruction from the data controller." As a result of this audit, the Irish regulator told LinkedIn "to cease pre-compute processing and delete all personal data associated with such processing." The regulators found the company targeted non-LinkedIn members in violation of existing provisions. LinkedIn has said it compiled with the regulator's demands. "We fully cooperated with the Data Protection Commission's 2017 investigation of a complaint about a European advertising campaign, and found the global processes and procedures we had in place were not followed," says Kalinda Raina, head of global privacy at LinkedIn. "We took appropriate action and have made the internal changes to help protect against this happening again." As a result of this audit, LinkedIn says it ended globally the so-called "pre-computation" practice, which previously allowed new members to discover their connections when they joined LinkedIn. 'Alarming' privacy concerns led to changes Data privacy questions are not limited to LinkedIn. Microsoft stored sensitive data from users of Office, including subject lines from emails and full sentences that are run through a spelling and grammar checker or the translation tool, according to an audit commissioned by the Dutch Ministry of Justice & Security, which found "alarming" privacy concerns and a lack of "opt-out" options for users from having their data collected. The agency reached an agreement with Microsoft on October 26, which made changes to satisfy its customers' preferences. While the Dutch Ministry of Justice & Security is not the country's regulator, its report does pinpoint several gaps in Microsoft's practices. "Covertly, without informing people, Microsoft does not offer any choice with regard to the amount of data, or possibility to switch off the collection, or ability to see what data are collected, because the data stream is encoded," said Privacy Company, the file-storage and file-sharing venture started by internet mogul Kim Dotcom, which compiled the report for the Dutch ministry. When it comes to telemetry issues for Office 365 and Windows, Microsoft promises to do more. "We have done work in the past year to give customers more choice and transparency in what diagnostic data is shared with Microsoft, and we will do more in the coming months," said Julie Brill, deputy general counsel and corporate vice president for privacy and regulatory affairs, in a statement to Fast Company. "There are often tradeoffs between disabling diagnostic data, and our ability to ensure security, reliability, and the functionality of product features–so we always work to make sure customers understand the impact of each option. Our approach has always been designed around feedback from customers, and we deeply value their continued input." Concerns about the widespread use of Microsoft products by government agencies and how this data is stored offsite is not limited to Europe. In China, most Western social media sites like Facebook and Twitter are blocked, while LinkedIn has thrived and currently boasts 41 million users. To survive in the country, LinkedIn has worked with Beijing, setting up a joint venture with local partners and routinely removing posts and profile pages that are considered politically sensitive, such as those related to the Tiananmen Square massacre. Just last week, New York-based Chinese activist Zhou Fengsou, who was a student leader in the Tiananmen protests, was informed that his page had been blocked. "While we strongly support freedom of expression, we recognized when we launched that we would need to adhere to the requirements of the Chinese government in order to operate in China," the company told Zhou in a message. Further, privacy and consumer data watchdogs say that the United States government agencies and regulators are significantly behind Europe. Microsoft appears to recognize the responsibility. "Every one of our solutions is reinforcing our core intelligent cloud and intelligent edge platform," Nadella said on the last earnings call. "Not only are we optimistic about the opportunity for us and for our customers, we also recognize our responsibility." The increased focus on cloud computing adds more urgency to the questions about how data is compiled and used, as Microsoft's range of products and partnerships, in the private and public sectors. "Privacy considerations are fundamental to any acquisition and start with seeking out partners who have shared values," says Microsoft's Julie Brill in response to questions. "There is always more we can do on privacy at Microsoft, and the same is true for anyone we acquire." Forward march on military contracting Like other tech giants, especially Amazon and Google, Microsoft is a longtime government contractor, but it's largely avoided the negative headlines amid a surge in activism by tech workers outraged over how their products are used. In November, the Redmond, Washington-based company outbid multiple leading tech companies and defense contractors to win a $480 million contract with the U.S. government, committing to provide its augmented reality HoloLens devices. The U.S. Army will use Microsoft technology to "increase lethality by enhancing the ability to detect, decide, and engage before the enemy." The company is still in the running for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project, a $10 billion contract to provide cloud services for the Department of Defense and expand Microsoft's engagement with the U.S. government. Unlike Google, Microsoft has gone full steam ahead with government contracts that have sparked criticism among employees across the tech sector. Earlier this month, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith expressed ethical concerns over the use of AI by the military, but he reiterated its commitment to work with the Pentagon, saying that "we think it's more productive to be engaged than disengaged in shaping how the technology is used." And unlike Google, Microsoft doesn't seem as bothered by employee criticism, highlighted most recently by a blog post in October written by company staffers that urged company management not to bid on the U.S. military project JEDI. In June, 300 employees threatened to resign over its contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), which remains active. "They've been around longer than many of the other firms, so are very skilled at playing the government game, especially given what they learned based on past actions against them by various governments," says Lauren Weinstein, a technology consultant based in Los Angeles and cofounder of People for Internet Responsibility. Anticipating future concerns Going forward, the company is trying to be proactive about potential new data privacy regulations and other rules that rein in Silicon Valley, which are widely expected since there is a bipartisan consensus for such oversight of the tech sector. Last month, Microsoft expressed in a blog post its concerns about facial recognition technology's potential for abuse. Earlier this year, a study identified racial and gender discrimination in AI facial recognition. In the post, the company said, "We should not wait for governments to act," and committed itself to creating safeguards to address the tech in the first quarter of 2019. It remains unclear what that means for Microsoft's own Azure facial recognition technology, which it has been busy promoting on its site. The company also recently stood out from its competitors by backing the French government's Paris Call for Trust and Security in Cyberspace initiative, an international effort to regulate the internet and combat online censorship and hate speech. Conspicuously missing from the signatories: the U.S. government. Microsoft certainly seems all too aware of the importance of stressing user control in its new products. It recently launched a partnership with Mastercard to create a "digital identity," emphasizing that this tool will allow users "to verify their digital identity with whomever they want, whenever they want." It remains unclear how this initiative across financial, commerce, digital, and government services will help to create a "decentralized" identify, raising fresh concerns about Microsoft's reach and access to user data, and how they're collecting and using it. Arthur Patel, principal program manager in Identity Engineering at the company, insists that "Microsoft does not have and will not have access to Mastercard customer data." And in a statement, Joy Chik, corporate vice president in the Identity division of Microsoft's Cloud and artificial intelligence group, said, "We believe people should be in control of their digital identity and data, and we're thrilled to first work with Mastercard to bring new decentralized identity innovations to life." For now, it's likely up to Europe to keep Microsoft, and their tech rivals in check. As Fast Company's Mark Sullivan noted, it remains unclear if any congressional action on data privacy will take place this year, or get punted into 2020. And Galloway says the U.S. regulation is "absolutely" falling behind Europe. "Compared to the U.S., Europe tends to have tougher anti-trust rules and consumer privacy protections," he says. "I think we are headed toward a reverse D-Day. Just like we saved Europe in the middle of the 20th century, they're going to save us from the tyranny of technology." Source


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Now that I've amped up your expectations, let's hope this delivers. Here goes…
I love long tail keywords, but it occurred to me I should actually crunch the numbers to find out what generates the best ROI.
And so I did. My analysis of 5 scenarios is set out below.
Please keep in mind there are many assumptions in this analysis, including costs, revenue projections, etc.
It's a big picture view. There will be many exceptions and it should not totally dictate your niche site / blog publishing strategy.
Table of Contents
- What should dictate your niche site publishing strategy?
- What do I mean by long tail vs. link building ROI analysis?
- C. Notes to above scenarios
What should dictate your niche site publishing strategy?
Do what works.
If I knew 5 years ago what I know now, I'd have done quite a few things differently.
But what I know now is the result of being in the niche site trenches day after day, week after week learning, experimenting, adapting and forging niche site growth.
Over time I've learned what works and what doesn't. I still make mistakes, but fewer of them.
What do I mean by long tail vs. link building ROI analysis?
What I mean is I want to break down whether you're better off investing in:
- more content that targets long tail keywords,
- has low search volume, and
- requires fewer or no links to get traffic.
whether it's better to go after:
- higher search volume keywords, and
- putting more resources (time and money) into building backlinks.
The long tail keyword strategy, which I implement extensively across my niche sites, focuses on finding low competition keywords that have some search volume.
The overall goal is to publish LOTS of this content ranking for many long tail keywords so that overall traffic grows over time with little or not time and money put into building links to rank in the search engines.
Scenario #1:
- Revenue per 1,000 visitors*: $15.00 (equals $.015 per visitor).
- Cost to publish the one piece of content: $70
- Backlink investment: $0
- Estimated traffic per month: 350 visitors
- Revenue per month: $5.25
- Profit after 12 months: $3.00
- Profit after 24 months: $66.00
- Value of published content**: $105.00
In the above scenario, the content breaks even at 11 months with a 110% ROI after 24 months (a little over doubling money invested).
The above is a very good outcome and while not every piece of content will do so well, some can.
Scenario #2:
- Revenue per 1,000 visitors*: $30.00 (equals $.030 per visitor).
- Cost to publish the one piece of content: $25
- Backlink investment: $0
- Estimated traffic per month: 100 visitors
- Revenue per month: $3.00
- Profit after 12 months: $11.00
- Profit after 24 months: $47.00
- Value of published content**: $60.00
As you can see in scenario #2, it can pay if you can get your cost of content down. However, note the moderately high revenue per 1,000 visitors. That amount would generally require some affiliate promotion. That said note the very low monthly traffic. 100 visitors is 3.3 visitors per day, which isn't much (i.e. fairly low competition keyword).
Scenario #3:
Scenario #3 is identical to #2, except I put the cost of content at $100. Here's the breakdown:
- Revenue per 1,000 visitors*: $30.00 (equals $.030 per visitor).
- Cost to publish the one piece of content: $100
- Backlink investment: $0
- Estimated traffic per month: 100 visitors
- Revenue per month: $3.00
- Profit after 12 months: -$64
- Profit after 24 months: -$28
- Value of published content**: $60.00
As you can see, content cost does matter. This is in no way suggesting you should skimp on content. Instead, this suggests you should analyze your investment in content so that you have a reasonably good chance at generating a decent ROI within 1 to 2 years.
For scenario #3, if you can't generate the content you need so that it will rank for far lower than $100, you would want to pursue another keyword.
By link building scenarios, I'm referring to going after higher search volume or higher value keywords that in order to rank will require investment in backlinks.
Scenario #1: Moderately Competitive Keyword
- Revenue per 1,000 visitors*: $50.00 (equals $.050 per visitor).
- Cost to publish the one piece of content: $100
- Backlink investment: $800
- Estimated traffic per month: 1,500 visitors
- Revenue per month: $75.00
- Profit after 12 months: $0
- Profit after 24 months: $900
- Value of published content**: $1,500
In scenario #1 above, this would have to be content that successfully promotes affiliate content or target very high CPC keywords for AdSense. $50 revenue per 1,000 visitors is pretty good, but given the okay search volume is definitely a moderately competitive keyword.
Scenario #2: Competitive Keyword
- Revenue per 1,000 visitors*: $25.00 (equals $.025 per visitor).
- Cost to publish the one piece of content: $700 (text and custom graphics – whole shebang)
- Backlink investment: $8,000
- Estimated traffic per month: 35,000 visitors
- Revenue per month: $875.00
- Profit after 12 months: $1,800
- Profit after 24 months: $12,300
- Value of published content**: $17,500
With scenario 3, don't get your hopes up too much. Getting 35,000 visitors per month for a single piece of content is quite an achievement. While many sites have achieved this (somebody always ranks and there are keywords with far more volume than that), you can bet your bottom dollar that if you're #1 for that kind of keyword, you'll have competition nipping at your heels all the time.
That said, the profits are stupendous… and to think there are far better keywords than that. Yes, SEO is a winner take all pursuit.
C. Notes to above scenarios
* I use revenue per visitor and not revenue per page view (RPM). Converting to RPM is simply dividing the revenue per 1,000 visitors by average number of page views per visitor on your site. So if your site earns $15 per 1,000 visitors with an average of 2 page views per visitor, the RPM is $7.50.
**Anything that generates cash flow is a saleable asset. Websites are commonly valued at 20 times monthly net income. Therefore, I assess value of published content by taking monthly net income and multiplying it by 20 (a 20 multiple).
1. Risk and Reward:
The most glaring observation I glean from this analysis is that going after more competitive keywords that require investment in backlinks is far riskier, but with much larger potential reward.
Not only is the risk higher in terms of losing more money spent on links, but there's also the bigger Google penalty risk.
This is why people very skilled at SEO can earn fortunes. Skilled and experienced SEOs who have ranked for many competitive keywords learn what will work and how much investment is needed, therefore minimizing risk while increasing the chances for a massive payoff.
2. Content Cost is Almost Irrelevant for High Value Keywords
I also notice that when you budget $1,000 to $10,000 for backlinks and promotion, it doesn't matter whether you spend $100 or $400 for the content since it's a small amount of the overall investment (especially hyper competitive keywords).
What this means is if you focus on higher competition keywords, you can create a site with absolutely amazing content which could be great in the long run.
3. An amazing business
While 4 out of 5 of the above scenarios are positive outcomes, that's not always going to happen. I have plenty of content I've published that I lost money on.
However, as you get better at building niche sites, you can see that the potential ROI is amazing regardless of the strategy you pursue. When starting out, you probably want to keep your costs low to minimize risk, but as revenue grows, you can increase the risk by going after more competitive keywords.
To put it in perspective, a 10% return investing in stocks is really good. 10% return on a website is okay, but many publishers have exceeded that many times over.
4. Not entirely accurate
The failing of my analysis model is that content doesn't rank immediately. I did not incorporate ranking delays. For long tail, which can rank pretty fast, the projected results aren't impacted all that much. Moreover, if a site has social media channels and an email list, the content can enjoy an initial burst of traffic, which can generate a revenue pop out of the gates.
However, for the link building scenarios, it's likely it would take many months to rank number one for such keywords. Therefore, the actual yearly ROI and profit figures would be delayed by 6 to 12 months.
5. ROI vs. Net Profit
ROI is helpful, but for a small operation like me, I like profit numbers best. You can have a 500% ROI for a long tail article within 2 years, but the net profit could only be $1,000.
Wheres in the last scenario above, a 200% ROI is a $17,000+ profit.
I'll take a 200% ROI with $17,000 in my pocket over a 500% ROI that only puts $1,000 in my pocket any day of the week.
That said, and this is an important point… long tail isn't about ranking one piece of content. It's about investing in lots of content. If you have 200 pieces of long tail content generating a 500% ROI after 2 years, that's going to add up to some serious profits.
6. Opportunity Costs
Another failing of my model is the failure to incorporate the opportunity cost of money invested. Every time you invest money, a cost of that investment is the return it could earn elsewhere. Incorporating opportunity cost in my model would, in my view, overcomplicate the analysis. This type of analysis is for personal guidance only… not shareholders or bankers.
7. Limited Resources
Whether you do everything yourself or outsource the work, the fact is every single website has limited resources to work with. For niche sites, the lion's share of investment goes into content and promotion (i.e. link building).
Therefore, while building up a great niche site, you will be faced with many decisions with respect to where to put your money and time.
Not all keywords are equal. Therefore, given limited resources, learn how to find the best investment of your time and/or money. That's a significant point to an analysis like this.
8. DIY vs. Outsourcing
Obviously, if you do everything yourself, you don't incur the out-of-pocket expense. However, it would probably take you a long time to complete the equivalent of $8,000 worth of backlinks on your own to rank for a monster keyword like the one in the last scenario above.
This type of analysis is still helpful for anyone not spending money because you get an idea about projected revenue. The ROI figures may be skewed, but profits won't be… which is the ultimate number.
It's simplistic to suggest you must choose one strategy over the other. Nobody does that because sites rank for more unintended keywords than intended.
However, we do happen to do keyword research for a reason and very often you'll be faced with a decision as to which keywords to pursue. The above analysis can help with that decision.
I also believe you should pursue a strategy that aligns with your preferences. I'm not so wild about link building but I sure like mining for great keywords and publishing a lot of content. That doesn't mean I don't build links or go after more valuable keywords. I do both… but the link building part I prefer totally outsourcing all of it and so it's fairly costly, which means I must choose competitive keywords carefully.
I hope you find this as helpful as much as I've enjoyed putting it together. I'm not a hyper analytical person, but I enjoy it to a certain extent.
For this analysis I built a content ROI spreadsheet calculator that's provided to all coaching students. If you're inclined to join my coaching some time, it'll be made available to you. That said, it's not terribly complicated to create your own… it took me about 1 hour and I'm a novice at best with Excel.
Jon runs the place around here. He pontificates about launching and growing online publishing businesses, aka blogs that make a few bucks. His pride and joy is the email newsletter he publishes that's "the best blogging email newsletter around."
Hyperbole? Maybe, but go check it out to see what some readers say.
In all seriousness, Jon is the founder and owner of a digital media company that publishes a variety of web properties visited and beloved by millions of readers monthly. Fatstacks is where he shares a glimpse into his digital publishing business.


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While entering the hall I had the feeling I could feel the tension and anticipation downright. Maybe it was only my own emotion situation though. And yes, the tiredness sure had some influence on this day. After the Songbird Festival in Davos I had only 4 hours of sleep and a 5 hours trip to Montreux. Jumpiness and excitment, anticipation and insecurity mixed with what do I know else.
"Tous en choeur avec Bastian Baker" – with the first steps through the door of this hall I was already quite overwhelmed. The auditorium Stravinski got a capacity up to 4000 seats and then the big stage, the balcony, the light wood and the many lights, the sparkling room… impressiv! The auditorium was filled with chitchat and laughters. And when I finally was standing in front of my seat with the help of the attendant, I was kinda gobsmacked: The seat was not just sidewards close to the front, it was actually front row.
Bastian Baker played his songs on this weekend not just with his band of four (background singer Priscilla was missing), but a choir of 200 in the audiotirum Stravinski in Montreux. They played three concerts and I was part of the last one, on Sunday afternoon. On short notice I got my ticket. Somehow I had the feeling, I shouldn't miss this after all. It was the 5th time this even took place, on which the choir worked together with a musician. I don't know the other musicians though.
Around 5.15 pm the light went out, the band and the choir got ready and took their places. The intro started. On the screen you could see Bastian grinning into the camera. He entered the hall from the foyer with thundering applause and rejoicing, crossed it with his guitare and enterted stage to start the concert with "Lucky". From the very first moment I got swept of my feet. My heart was thumbing wildly of excitmend. I hadn't seen Bastian Baker live since Energy Air and was simply already looking forward to see a concert again. And then such a special one.
Full of energy and passion Jacky Locks conducted his choir, while Bastian and his band rocked the sage. I was so impressed by the atmosphere in the audience – despite the seats. Everytime totally goosebumps when the choir gently began and became louder. I hardly could sit still on my chair, would have loved to jump up. During "Leaving Tomorrow" [Video here] it was brewing up already and latest with "One Last Kiss", when Bastian only acompained by Simon at the keys and by the choir sang the wonderful ballade there in the front, the flood of tears started and actually didn't stop til the end of the concert. Esp. during songs like "Kids Off The Streets" by which I am always very touched. So many emotions came together. Once Bastian rocked with the whole band and full of energy during "79 Clinton Street" and the audience even got on their feet. Then he gently picked the strings of his guitar during "I won't cry" – only accompained by the choir. Or he let the choir sing his "I'd sing for you" all by themselves. Welcomings, stories and comments between the songs I didn't really understand though (ok, actually not at all. It was all in French.), but this seemed somehow not so important. The music, the band ,the choir, the whole atmosphere in the audience – indescribable. And then Bastian even sang in French a song called "Ensemble". And with "Le raz de vaches" [Video here], which was accompaigned by an alpenhorn, as well as the national anthem, which followed, it became very traditional and patrotic.
With the last song suddendly some fans stormed to the edge of the stage, a big part of the audience followed. None had to tell me twice of course. And the concert ended with "Dirty Thirty". Well, almost. Actually many encorse followed beyond the setlist and seemed barely to find an end.
I've seen so many concerts and shows in my life, but this was sure one of the most beautiful and most incredible ones. Such a (huge) choir is just magical. After I actually spent then at least 1 hour on the Christmas market: Not just, cos I was there anyway and like the market, but to actually to wind down and get myself sorted again… And as if that wasn't enough genious yet: The whole concert of this day is now available on DVD. There couldn't have been a better souvenir. And I keep getting goosebumps every time I put the dvd-player on.
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Titles at this point are more or less a product of a by-gone era on the Boards. They used to be awarded for special events such as the TTV Civil War April Fools event, and only masters would be able to edit/change their title.
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Why? At least for Masters?
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Alright. Even though the anility to change it from "regular" would be nice.
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There are special events?
When is the next special event?
Hey, that's me!
Like Prentice said, the mods/admins can grant you a custom title if you do something neat or special. I got the one you took a screenshot of, for example, for running an RPG.
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Voice. I lost mine this week.
I loved losing it.
Granted, I felt drab since I had to nod and smile as if I possessed no thought other than agreement. My dog indulged her scatological cravings since I couldn't yell for her to not eat whatever deadness she found in the yard. And the flu-snot that caused the voicelessness of course created a general feeling of grodiness.
But I liked the limitation of losing my voice. I liked how I had to respond to the world a bit differently: less interaction; more smiles; phone off. Overall, a return to the internal.
I began rereading Anne Carson's "The Glass Essay"—that thirty-eight page poem that consumes the worlds of the Brontës, a breakup, depression, parent-child relationships—and then redelivers all these worlds as one. How to keep a long poem hinged together and engaging is difficult—and Carson uses a few different techniques such as the triadic stanza and section breaks to do so. On this reading, I found the flat voice held it all together, too. I know some readers complain about this flatness in some of her lines—and the introduction of the book even addresses that issue by saying that she can seem "unpoetic." The flatness in this poem works because it lends a tonal quality of isolation and depression that reinforces the subject of the poem. And she often follows up the flatness with quick transitions to another space: be it the interior to the exterior or a physical space such as from the moors to the kitchen. What I mean by that is one result of flatness is clarity, so when a jolting transition happens, it's easy to follow. Here is a short example where the speaker is visiting her mother and her mother is prattling on. The transitions are quick between what the mother is saying and what the speaker is thinking, but since Carson delivers all of this in such a clear, flat voice, we can follow it. And if you haven't had a chance to read this entire poem, you can find it in Carson's book Glass, Irony, and God published by New Directions Books.
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It was hard for me to devise a proper description for this portion of the life of our daughter with the love both Rose and I had hoped to blossom out the full family fullness and hope of someday finding forgiveness. You see, Lydia was born and raised in a devout manner of Christ's teachings from which, I believe, would have crushed the beauty of her spirit otherwise. What follows might explain her sometimes depressed state in that she abhorred violence that seemed destined in her youth like a plague.
It all began after her first job as an assistant hired to clean and help with filing at the O'Rourke Detective Agency. The agency was located on the 2nd floor of a book store and frequently stayed late to study from the huge book sections which lined it's walls, even after the store had closed for the night.
She had been witness to arguments by some of the book staff who realized that Lydia had overheard their loose talk exposing the ties to a spy ring out of London and Mr. O'Rourke's name had come up. She was followed up the stairs by a female member and accost her as she was preparing to close the office. Lydia says she had a gun pointed at her and thought she was going to shoot her right on the spot but apparently decided to force her down the stairs perhaps to kidnap her and dispose of her later. As the grace of the Lord was with her, she was able to trip the woman who fell down the stairs and died immediately from a broken neck.
It was a period of weeks after she had called the police to report in her mind an accidental death. She was afraid. She was taken into custody and questioned relentlessly for hours. She felt she was being followed with that sense of foreboding, not only by the police but by the group that had immediately left the premises and disappeared. Sheer torment. Her dreams had awakened her in sweat as she walked up the steps to have a rope put around her neck. The police did not believe her story although they pretended such. Mrs. O'Rourke vouched for her but the fact that her husband had been murdered being pushed onto a subway track and crushed during an investigation and Lydia had deeply felt sorry for her boss as related during the inquiry. He had gone to London on such business. But the police could find no direct ties with his death or those who worked at the bookstore except on the word of Lydia. Case was filed as open.
All this time, Lydia was schooled with private lessons with Paul. She had, in fact, been invited to the Soviet Union, not for chess, but her musical talent although she did manage to visit with some of the area chess club members and engage in off hand games. This came about through a student exchange program. And the brief month had given her a look at how the Russians felt that socialism was the wave of the future. She had been at a meeting where Putin had been pointed out to her. He was head of the Russian KGB and described as a cunning and vicious man with a pleasant smile. The village reminded her of the English and American life of tranquility. Yet, despite the attempt to persuade the young people attending, in unison did they privately despise the apparent attempt at influence, a few having seen the true conditions as reported by dissidents.
Lydia did not know as related to me whether this group was a hold over from the Nazi days who had been forced through self protection to bond with known communists that had infiltrated countries like Canada, the USA, England, France and Italy prior to and following WWII. Eventually it was to engulf most of Europe immediately following the surrender of Germany. Socialism, the Communist brand, had completely annexed the countries into the Soviet Bloc which launched the Cold War. What the Soviet secret police did not know was that this exposure firsthand given Lydia made her patriotism soar. Both the British Isles and Canada were socialist by nature but it was to stir the juices of hatred for the Soviet Union when the spying apparatus of the Soviets was uncovered. Lydia never confided in me if she had any direct ties to this exposure but she was definitely during that era politically pursuing her government interest and ties that had eventually proved a part of the secrecy of M6 and others. Even I do not know her security clearance status despite her daughter-father relationship.
All through these years, the trauma felt through what Lydia called a necessary murder years before never left her a feeling of peace. Her religious love for life so embedded in her spirit even today she says sometimes finds dreams unwelcome as they seem to periodically return. Whatever other similar occurrences might have taken place she is mum about and I sense she hides any additional feelings from Rose and me. Being sworn to secrecy she has gone into hiding for fear of her life from either friend or foe. But she told me that maybe just having me know the truth, she would find family forgiveness of her past sins. The goal to avenge the death of Mrs. O'Rourke's husband and partner she was able to fulfill. She remains a private person, agonized by her treatment early on. Yet, she seems to have lain aside all this in the knowledge that Jesus came to save repenting sinners.
What I give is publicly known. She has gone on to raise her family with as much love and peace as God willingly fulfills within her heart. Her husband stands by her as do her children–each of whom is immensely happy and pursuing their own goals in life, none of which is interested in chess outside family play of various board and card games.
I give you, my readers, a testament to heroism of epic proportions although she remains silent on the subject of her past recorded in secret files.


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|We Are Not Human Beings
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→ "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View" (2000),
→ "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism" (2007),
→ "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism Versus Lockeanism: A Current Controversy" (1998),
→ "Noonan (Harold) - Animalism versus Lockeanism: Reply to Mackie" (2001),
→ Strawson, Galen – Selves: An Essay in Revisionary Metaphysics (OUP, 2009),
and others have done so as well. But nor is it a distinction that has escaped controversy36.
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House Plan
Written by Joshua Horn on Monday, April 19, 2010
Written by Joshua Horn. Labels: house, house plan, Joshua, moving, new house .
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- The Warrior said...
Is that really real??? I hope no one uses it for any nefarious purposes, now that it's public and online....
- April 19, 2010 8:26 PM
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Yes it is real.
Actually though you would probably be able to find the official one with the county anyway.
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