Archive for January, 2008

Sun’s Heat A Major Factor In Weather Types

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
by Greg Hansward

What makes weather, well, weather? The simple answer might be the Earth’s atmosphere and the changes that take place there. But take the investigation a step farther and ask how those changes occur. Or better yet, why they occur.

There is one factor that can take most of the blame (or credit) depending on how the weather change affects life on Earth. Without the sun, we would have no weather formations. First of all, without a sun to warm the planet the atmosphere and everything else would be frozen. But thanks to the sun’s warmth air masses warm up, rise, cool, sink toward the ground and so forth. These patterns of circulation have the distinct task of creating differences in atmospheric pressure. The resulting air movement is commonly called win.

Weather types are, to put it quite simply, the result of the constant interaction of the sun’s heat, the atmosphere and its air masses, and the land or water beneath the air mass. As with all matter, air in the atmosphere is made up of molecules. While these basic items of matter move all the time, there are differences in how concentrated the molecules are. When many molecules are packed together (denser) greater air pressure results.

This one fact has a great deal to do with the various weather styles plants and animals experience around the globe. Air pressure is strongest or greatest near the surface of the Earth, and of course, this pressure decreases higher in the atmosphere. It is common knowledge that the atmosphere, at sea level, places 14 pounds of pressure on each square inch, though plants and animals are quite comfortable with this level of pressure.

Constantly moving molecules in the air can “speed up” when heated or “slow down” when cooled. Heating of an air mass by the sun causes that mass to expand and become lighter. The lighter air mass then rises, completing a process called convection. This unique process is happening constantly somewhere in the atmosphere, somewhere around the globe.

However, the process is anything but consistent when it comes to levels of heat. A number of factors can alter the activity of an air mass. For instance, warm air above the ocean, for example, may rise at first (low pressure) but it will cool as it goes higher in the atmosphere. That air mass, now cooler, will eventually sink toward the Earth (high pressure). Air masses moving from one type of pressure area to another creates what we commonly called wind. It stands to reason that if there is a great difference between the high pressure area and the low pressure area the resulting winds will be stronger.

There are a few other factors to take into consideration when discussing weather patterns and weather changes. The orbit of the earth around the sun will have some effect on planet conditions, as will the earth’s rotation and the fact that it is tilted several degrees on its axis. This tilt alone has a lot to do with how much heat a certain part of the Earth will receive. Understanding these few basic factors can start us on the road toward more solid knowledge of weather and weather patterns.

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“weather formations,weather types,weather styles,weather,news,travel,entertainment,family,News”

EPT Dormund by Pokerstars: Pipotib in the Money!!!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Thibault reached the money and he will win 12,650 euros minimum!!!

Congratulations!!!

He's now up to 124k and the average is 121k.

32 players remaining.

Day2 is over, players will be back tomorrow afternoon at 3:00 pm

thi

Thibaut "popotib" Durand, 12,650 euros minimum

Jordane is OUT!!!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Jordane just went out in 50th position.

Short stack, he went all in with 67s and was called by QQ...

Very good game Jordane!!!

jori

Jordane, 50th place for his first EPT

47 players left and Thibault is still in with 100k chips.

EPT Dortmund by Pokerstars: Popotib is up to 108k!!!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

On a flop 8JQ, Thibault called the bet of his opponent. the turn was a 6 and check/called. The river is a T and Thibault bets 20.000. His opponent thinks a lot and calls.

Thibault showed 89 diamonds, for a straight and his opponent mucked.

He's now up to 108k!!!

EPT Dortmund by Pokerstars.com Day 2, Chip Count Dinner Break

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Here is the chip count for our players at the dinner break:


Thibault "popotib": 76.000 chips
Jordane "jo.x": 28.000 chips

70 players left in the tournament, the top 40 will be paid and the average is 59.000, blinds are 1k/2k ante 200

EPT Dortmund by Pokerstars.com Day 2

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Leroy Soesman and Sandro Simon are out !!!

Leroy was the first of our players to go out of the tournament. Short stack, he moved all in with pocket 6 and was called by 77. No miracle for him, he finished in 140th position.

leroy

Leroy finished in 140th position

Sandro decided to call all in with 99 and his opponent had AQ for a classic coin flip but with an ace on the turn, it was finish for him in 112th position.

sandro

Sandro Simon, itto, finished in 128th position

We still have now our two French players.

Jordane Beraldin had around 50.000 chips and Thibault Durand had 45.000. They are at the same table.

jor

Jordane, jo.x, has now 50.000 chips

tib

Thibault, popotib with 45.000 chips

Go Go Go !!!

EPT Dortmund by Pokerstars.com Day1B

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Very bad day for our players because nobody will go to the day 2.

On day 2, 150 players will play and the Chip Leader has 110,000 chips with an average of 30,000.

Blogging Like A Pro!

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
by John Millet

The task of marketing a website can sometimes be a very boring task. Yes, marketing is important and vital to the success of a business but it cannot be denied that the tedium could get to the most persistent internet marketer or business owner.

One way to combat the boredom is to use many different internet marketing tools as a way of diversifying the marketing choices that will be used for the website. But there is one new internet marketing tool that is not only very effective in promoting your website, it is also quite fun to do. This is making and posting blogs.

One of the most popular blogging services right now is Blogger - now owned by Goggle. Blogger’s easy to use blogging interface has proven to be a hit among bloggers of different persuasions. Google has even established a dedicated Blog Search in its search engine as a way of addressing the fast growing popularity of blogs. Blogs are like online diaries where people can post their thoughts about a variety of subjects and issues or even report news in various points of interest. The readers of the blog are also encouraged to post their replies to the blog posts, thus forming an informal community that sends messages to each other. Blogging has been a popular internet pastime for quite some time now. Blogging has actually taken a life of its own and has transcended its initial life as an online diary.

Search engines know that most blogs are updated regularly and this results in more favorable page rankings for the topic that it deals with. Blogging has also given media relations a new effective tool because bloggers are often recognized as the opinion leaders in the field in which they blog. Recently, internet marketers saw the potential of blogs as a powerful internet marketing tactic. They realize that one of the biggest advantage of blogs is that it gets good search engine positioning because of its interlinking aspect as well as the regular fresh content. There are also topic-specific blogs that can be setup as a form of soapbox for the internet where people can freely voice their opinions regarding important issues of the day.

When it comes to more in-depth marketing efforts, blogs can be used to promote a website directly or use the generated traffic to bring attention to an affiliate program like Google adwords to set up another income stream. Blogs can also be used for various promotions strategies. You can either launch your own blog to promote a service or, as previously mentioned, a website, or participate in ongoing blog discussions within relevant subjects or topics and then promote the service or website there by participating in the discussions.

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“blog,blogging,online,Online”

Ten Detailed Tips And Guidelines For Video Seo

Thursday, January 31st, 2008
by Mark Robertson

All have heard about the online video phenomenon that is hitting the internet. Viewers by the millions are going online to upload and watch online video content each day. Often, videos are a more effective way to convey an advertiser’s message than typical offline advertising. And because video is becoming so mainstream, the cost to create online video content is extremely low and affordable for almost anyone. Online video has seen massive improvements in the past 2 years with regard to broadband connectivity, streaming, etc… Keeping in mind the vast popularity of online video as a method of internet marketing, it is important to learn the techniques most effective for optimizing your video for search engines.

1) In order to have your video more easily discovered, one very popular technique is to submit a text transcript along with your video for users and for the search engines to understand and index your video more easily. Use a keyword rich title for the transcript and be sure to include an introduction or summary that describes the video content in text form.

2) Keep in mind that when users search for videos on search engines, often time they use the word “video” in their search. For example, “car racing video.” Therefore, in addition to the keywords that you are targeting, also be sure to include the word “video” or “videos” in your description, text, title, meta data, etc…

3) Just as with normal techniques for SEO, it is just as important that you develop links to your video for off-page search engine optimization. Try to get as many quality links to your video as possible. Perhaps submit to social bookmarking sites and friend’s blogs.

4) Create a video sitemap exclusively for your online video content so that engines can find all of your videos and understand the structure of your site more easily. This helps the web crawlers to locate your video files speedily and effortlessly.

5) When hosting video content on your own, keep in mind that flash is next to impossible for search engines to read and understand. Try to work with a format that is not flash. However, the simplest way to enable video on your site is via the popular flash players. That being said, do your best to take advantage of the other tips for SEO so that search engines can easily understand what it is your video is about.

6) Keep a keyword friendly URL structure that uses a few of your main keywords in the url string. For example - website.com/videos/car-racing-video/ is much better than website.com/videos/?videoID=123kjh

7) Various video search engines use to capture thumbnails of your in different manner. Some of them take the first frame of your video, while others try to take from the middle or end. It is better to experiment with each site individually to make sure they are displaying the right thumbnail for your video. A video thumbnail is always crucial when it comes to decide for a viewer which video to watch.

8) Try to keep one video per page and put all video pages into the same directory or folder.

Besides the tips mentioned above for Video SEO, there are a few other guidelines to keep in mind:

9) Keyword research, as with search engine optimization for other online content, is crucial for targeting the audience you desire most effectively. Use keyword research tools available in order to identify those words that most often are searched for when searching for related content online.

10) Enable ratings, reviews, comments, and feedback on your videos. Research shows that allowing users to provide feedback results in greater views for your video in addition to the fact that users who provide feedback tend to be those users that act.

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“search engine optimization,SEO,video marketing,video streaming,multimedia,video,search engine marketing,internet marketing,video,marketing,internet,online,multimedia,web development,blogging,search,promotion,web development,web design,blogging,search,Online”

May and Maurizzio are out !!!

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

Our spanish player, Maria Maceiras is unfortunatly out the tournament on this hand:

She raised 3 times big blind with AJ and she's called by the player on the dealer position and the flop come: 3 9 Q

She bets 55% of the pot and she's raised by her opponent. The turn is an A and she check-raise all in, but the other player had QQ for trips... Another ace on the river gave her trips but moves his trips in a fullhouse

Maurizzio is also out on a allin preflop move. He had QQ and his opponent had AJ.

Ace on the turn...

Because Joris Jasper was kicked out 1 hour ago, we will only concentrate on Stephane Gerin who was really high during before the break but he lost a huge pot with AK clubs on a flop 6 8 K with two clubs. All in for him but the other player held AA and nothing changed.

stephane

Stephane Gerin, MrGERIN