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Gov. Christie says he may end up Romney?s running mate

Romney and Christie at a campaign event in New Hampshire in January. (Charles Dharapak/AP))

Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, has been careful to say that he is not "campaigning" to become Mitt Romney's running mate, the 2012 vice presidential nominee of the Republican Party. But he's certainly open to the possibility that he would accept the job.

During a visit Monday to a high school in Plainsboro, N.J., Christie said he could be convinced to join the Republican presidential ticket.

"He might be able to convince me," Christie said in reference to Romney, according to Matt Katz of the Philadelphia Inquirer. "He's a convincing guy."

Just last week, Christie assured constituents that he would fulfill his entire term as governor, which ends January 2014.

"I'm not going anywhere, don't worry." Chrstie told an audience of supporters in Springfield last week when asked if he would serve his full term.

Christie endorsed Romney in October and campaigned with him in several states during the Republican primary campaign.

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Five UFC belts up for grabs this summer

Over the weekend, two more UFC championship bouts were finalized for the summer, and it's clear that the UFC wants to keep those championship belts moving. Every belt, except for the welterweight belt that is in limbo because of Georges St-Pierre's injured knee and the just-contested light heavyweight belt, will be on the line between Memorial Day and Labor Day weekends.

-- Bantamweight: Champion Dominick Cruz will rematch Urijah Faber at UFC 148 on July 7 in Las Vegas

-- Featherweight: Champion Jose Aldo will fight Erik Koch at UFC 149 on July 21 in Calgary

-- Lightweight: Champion Benson Henderson will rematch with Frankie Edgar at UFC 150 on Aug. 11 in Denver

-- Middleweight: Champion Anderson Silva will rematch with Chael Sonnen at UFC 148, which is the most stacked UFC event since UFC 129 last April.

-- Heavyweight: Champion Junior dos Santos will fight Frank Mir at UFC 146 on May 26 in Las Vegas.

Throw in a free on Fox show, a Fuel and an FX show and UFC 147 with Wanderlei Silva fighting Vitor Belfort, it's going to be a ... wait for it ... hot summer of MMA. Which belt is most likely to have a new owner by Labor Day? Tell us in the comments, on Facebook or on Twitter.

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Fresh attacks target symbols of Syrian state power

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian man, left, stands in front of a building that was damaged after two bombs exploded near a military compound, in the city of Idlib, northwestern Syria, Monday, April 30, 2012. Two powerful bombs exploded near a military compound in the northwestern Syrian city of Idlib on Monday, killing several people and causing heavy damage, Syrian state media and opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Anti-Syrian regime mourners shout slogans and carry the body of activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by Syrian security forces on Sunday, during his funeral procession, in the Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, April 30, 2012. (AP Photo)

Syrian security forces, background, hold their machine guns and surround anti-Syrian regime mourners, foreground, during the funeral procession of the activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by the Syrian security forces on Sunday, in Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, April 30, 2012. (AP Photo)

An anti-Syrian regime mourner shouts slogans during the funeral procession of the activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by Syrian security forces on Sunday, in the Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, April 30, 2012. (AP Photo)

Anti-Syrian regime mourners carry the body of activist Nour al-Zahraa, 23, who was shot by Syrian security forces on Sunday, during his funeral procession, in the Kfar Suseh area, in Damascus, Syria, on Monday, April 30, 2012. (AP Photo)

BEIRUT (AP) ? In fresh attacks on symbols of state power, twin suicide bombs exploded Monday near a government security compound in northern Syria and rockets struck the central bank in Damascus, killing nine people and wounding 100.

The regime and the opposition traded blame, accusing each other of dooming a United Nations plan to calm violence that has largely failed so far. The head of the U.N. observer mission acknowledged that his force cannot solve the country's crisis alone and urged both sides to stop fighting.

The attacks are the latest in a series of suicide bombings that started in December and have mostly targeted Syrian military and intelligence positions.

The regime routinely blames the opposition, which denies having a role or the capability to carry out such attacks. After other similar bombings, U.S. officials suggested al-Qaida militants may be joining the fray, and an al-Qaida-inspired Islamist group has claimed responsibility for previous attacks in Syria.

The powerful blasts, which blew two craters in the ground and ripped the facade off a multistory building, came a day after Maj. Gen. Robert Mood, the head of the observer mission, took up his post in Damascus.

"Ten, 30, 300 or 1,000 observers will not solve all problems," he told reporters Monday. "So everyone has to help us achieve this mission."

More than 9,000 people have been killed in the 13-month crisis, according to the U.N.

An April 12 cease-fire agreement has helped reduce violence, but fighting persists, and U.N. officials have singled out the Syrian regime as the main aggressor.

An advance team of 16 U.N. observers is on the ground to try to salvage the truce, which is part of a broader plan by special envoy Kofi Annan to launch talks between President Bashar Assad and his opponents. By mid-May, the team is to grow to 100, but U.N. officials have not said when a full 300-member contingent is to be deployed.

Monday's bombs went off in the northern city of Idlib, an opposition stronghold that government troops recaptured in a military offensive earlier this year. TV footage of the aftermath from the blasts showed torn flesh, burned-out cars, twisted debris and pavement stained with blood. The force of the explosions shattered windows and sent debris flying for hundreds of meters (yards).

"Is this their freedom?" one man yelled at the cameras at one of the blast sites.

A distraught woman shouted: "What have we done to those people? What have women, children and the elderly done to them?"

The state-run news agency SANA said security forces and civilians were among those killed. State TV said that many of the nearly 100 wounded were civilians.

The bombers detonated their explosives near a military compound and near Idlib's Carlton Hotel, SANA said.

A local activist, who only gave his first name, Ibrahim, for fear of repercussions, said the two sites bombed in Idlib are several hundred meters apart and that the explosions went off within five minutes of each other after daybreak Monday.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. State media blamed "armed terrorists," a term it uses for rebels trying to topple the government. Activists claimed the regime was behind the bombings to discredit the opposition.

A statement by the Local Coordination Committees activist network called the series of suicide blasts "fabricated, staged explosions" and said "they can no longer fool anyone."

Two members of the U.N. observer team toured the site of the bombings, SANA said. Ibrahim said the observers have been staying at the Carlton, and a pro-government website reported that the hotel sustained some damage.

Analysts said it was doubtful the presence of U.N. observers would help improve the situation or halt such bombings.

"The U.N. is a political body, not an investigative body. The U.N. creates a political consensus among countries, but it's not a judge and jury about which side violated what agreement," said Jon Alterman, Middle East director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

An al-Qaida-inspired Islamist group called the Al-Nusra Front to Protect the Levant claimed responsibility Monday for a suicide bombing in downtown Damascus that killed at least 10 people on Friday. The Associated Press could not verify the authenticity of Al-Nusra's statement, which was posted on a militant website.

Top U.S. intelligence officials also have pointed to al-Qaida in Iraq as the likely culprit behind the previous bombings, raising the possibility that its fighters are infiltrating across the border to take advantage of the turmoil.

Al-Qaida's leader called for President Bashar Assad's ouster in February.

Earlier Monday, gunmen fired rocket-propelled grenades at the central bank and at a police patrol in the capital of Damascus, wounding four officers, SANA said.

The bank's governor, Adib Mayaleh, said the only damage to the bank was shattered windows.

He also denied reports that Syria is trying to sell gold reserves to raise money as international sanctions take their toll. French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said earlier this month that sanctions have reduced Syria's foreign currency reserves by half, from an estimated $17 billion at the start of the uprising.

The bank doesn't need to sell gold "as we have a big quantity of hard currency that can stand up to all those attacks," Mayaleh said.

As part of the cease-fire agreement, Syria's military was to have pulled tanks and troops off the streets, but it has instead continued to raid and attack opposition strongholds.

Near Damascus, amateur video posted Monday showed dozens of uniformed troops in helmets and body armor marching through a street in the suburb of Douma. A local activist, Mohammed Saeed, said the troops were carrying out arrests for a second day Monday.

In another suburb, Zamalka, activists said security forces tried to break a commercial strike by damaging shops that had been closed in solidarity with the protest.

In London, British Foreign Secretary William Hague warned that "there is a limit to the patience of the international community" with the regime's continued truce violations.

However, Western powers have limited options because Russia and China, Syria's allies, have shielded Assad from U.N. Security Council action.

___

Associated Press writers Albert Aji in Damascus and Karin Laub in Beirut contributed to this report.

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Leaked Verizon document details Android updates

Verizon Android update schedule leaked

A Reddit user by the name of DroidTosser claims to have the inside scoop on Verizon?s Android update schedule, and has posted the images to back their story up. According the photos, the HTC Rezound is slated receive an update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on May 9th, followed by the DROID RAZR and RAZR MAXX on May 21st. Verizon?s first Honeycomb tablet, the Motorola XOOM is currently awaiting ?technical approval? and will be updated directly by Google. The DROID Bionic, HTC Thunderbolt, LG Revolution, Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and Sony Xperia Play are all in testing, however the updates aren?t?labeled?as Ice Cream Sandwich builds and may just refer to bug fixes. Additional images can be found after the break.?

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Boy, 11, urinates on $36K worth of Apple MacBooks

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He had the means and the opportunity, but we may never know the motive of an 11-year-old student who urinated on a couple dozen laptops left unattended at Upper Allen Township Elementary in Pennsylvania.

In a report now?bemusing Mac fan forums across the Internet, the Upper Allen Township Police Department states?that "the cart and computers were damaged beyond repair, resulting in the loss of over $36,000."?

The cart in question contained approximately 30?school-owned MacBooks, according to a police department spokesperson I spoke to, who couldn't tell me why the kid did it ? let alone how. ?Because, c'mon ? 30 MacBooks, even stacked, make for?a formidable amount of square footage to cover, especially for a kid.

Nevertheless, all MacBooks went down as a total loss, and John Brownlee at Cult of Mac educates us on the likely reason why.?

We can all surmise that urinating upon your Mac will not be covered by your AppleCare, but here?s an interesting question: If you stand up right this second, unzip your fly and hose off all over your MacBook, can you even pay Apple to service the machines? The answer is no, because Apple looks at micturated-upon MacBooks as a biohazard.?

Sure enough, not even dog urine is acceptable. I know this because the helpful woman who answered the phone at the New York City's Fifth Avenue?Apple Store told me that no, if my dog urinated on my MacBook, no Apple Genius would touch it. What's more, "biohazard" is the exact word she used, right before she?encouraged me to "Google" a?repair outfit that would deign to?do such dirty work. ?

Dog urination aside, there are other MacBook?pathogens that may surprise you. So if?you smoke, heads up.?Cigarette smoke-infused Apple products count as biohazards too, as Consumerist reported in 2009.?

For the crime of creating $36K in Apple biohazards, the boy in question was charged with institutional vandalism and criminal mischief. While the police spokesperson assures me that, contrary to some reports, the kid was?not arrested, his case was forwarded to the Cumberland County Juvenile Probation Department.

Helen A.S. Popkin goes blah blah blah about the Internet. Tell her to get a real job?on?Twitter?and/or?Facebook. Also,?Google+.

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One year later: The death of Osama bin Laden

President Barack Obama took to a White House podium a year ago Tuesday to tell the world that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed in a U.S. Navy SEAL raid. A year later, former White House counter-terrorism advisor and ABC News consultant Richard Clarke looks at what role bin Laden really played and how the world has changed since his death.

Appearing on ABC News' "This Week" on Sunday, White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan reaffirmed the Obama Administration's intent to destroy al Qaeda. It was at once a muscular declaration of an aggressive policy and simultaneously an admission that al Qaeda is not dead yet. Asked by George Stephanopoulos if the death of Osama bin Laden seemed as important now one year after his death as it had at the time, Brennan quickly said that the al Qaeda leader's demise was very significant, but he then used the word "symbolic" to describe the importance.

What then are we to think about al Qaeda and its late leader on the one year anniversary of his demise?

Historians once debated the relative importance of the "great man" theory of events compared to the "inevitable forces" or trends as the shapers of history. With bin Laden and al Qaeda we see the importance of both.

Prior to the unlikely founder of al Qaeda, no man had ever been able to unite Muslims from so many regions into a revolutionary movement that combined ideology, organization, funding, military training, and direct action. He did so without being a government official and without the overt assistance of any government (except the Taliban regime which ran much of Afghanistan). Bin Laden facilitated groups as far flung as Indonesia and the Philippines in the Pacific and Morocco and Libya in North Africa. Far more than just a symbol, he was an administrator, intent on insuring that the nuts and bolts of terrorism were provided to widely dispersed and semi-autonomous franchises.

By the time of his death, bin Laden may have had little control over the far flung affiliates of al Qaeda.

We can think of him in his last few years as a CEO of a multinational organization, trying to operate without the Internet or telephones, watching as members of his team of executives were picked off one after another. His organization, which had pioneered the use of the Internet and mobile communications to operate a terror network, now knew that if its leaders used that modern technology, it could result in death from the buzzing, flying killer robots from America.

Bin Laden had been reduced to a man unable to leave his house, pulling on organizational levers that appear to have been connected to little or nothing. Documents recovered from his house reveal his frustration at America's success in killing the leaders of his core organization, the team that U.S. counter-terrorism experts called Al Qaeda Central.

One man, however, is not responsible for the millions of people who supported the violent Sunni Islamist extremists that spread across dozens of nations. They were the outgrowth of bad government, of regimes unwilling to share power with their people, or incapable of solving grinding socio-economic problems. Violent Islamist extremists offered the only readily available alternative, a dream of a theocracy in which the application of a strict version of Sunni Islam would somehow solve the problems created by globalism, over-population, and under-education. With or without bin Laden and his al Qaeda, many frustrated Muslims would have turned to the so-called religious men with bombs and guns.

What bin Ladin added to the mix, in addition to his organizational skills, was the psychological ploy of projection.

He encouraged his followers to project their anger about their condition on to an external force, America. Calling America "the Far Enemy," he reasoned that the oppressive, local regimes could not be defeated until the Far Enemy was driven from the region. When his terrorist attack teams inflicted pain on America, their actions not only proved that America was weaker than had been thought, but the attacks also galvanized supporters into thinking that they too could attack the governments they feared.

In the process of such attacks, al Qaeda went from being a pseudo-religious organization meant to advance theocracies to a killing machine. Most of the people its cells killed were Muslims. Most Muslims eventually turned away in disgust or horror. Later, many in the Muslim world turned their attention on the "Near Enemy," their own sclerotic governments, toppling four regimes and extracting concessions from many more in the wave of uprisings we call The Arab Spring. Al Qaeda had almost no role in the "Arab Spring," leaving its isolated leadership to wonder how they could remain relevant.

That narrative, however, is incomplete. The al Qaeda franchises are still a major factor. Groups calling themselves al Qaeda or claiming affiliation with that movement have large, armed formations in Yemen, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Nigeria, and in the Magreb and the Sahel regions of Africa. They are conducting military-styled attacks in some countries and waves of bombings in others. They are participating in the "Arab Spring" fighting in Libya and Syria.

For them, bin Laden is still a motivating hero. What is not yet clear is how many of them are motivated by bin Laden's call to attack the Far Enemy. Some of them still are.

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Detox diet?!? | Health and Fitness Source

Question by MJay: Detox diet?!?
My friend is doing this 3 day detox plan where on the first day you eat only protein. Every two hours from the time you wake up, you mix in a certain amount of protein into water. And the hour inbetween you drink a large amount of water. Your only solid meal for the first day is a 3-6 cup veggie salad with grilled chicken, fish or turkey. The second and third day you eat fruit every two hours from the time you wake up with water for the hour inbetween fruit servings with the same salad on both the 2nd and 3rd nights

This three day diet claims you loose up to 10 pounds and when my friend did it the first time she lost 6 which isnt bad at al! But what is the likelyhood that this weight stays off? It seems like too short of time to loose that much weight and keep it off!

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Answer by Sai2301
you have to aim to lose weight safely rather than quickly,or else they wont last(because u wil lose muscle and moisture and its always fat that returns) and will affect ur health?aim about losing a pound every 2 or 3 days and work for it?good luck

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To Predict Dating Success, The Secret's In The Pronouns

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People who are interested in and paying close attention to each other begin to speak more alike, a psychologist says.

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People who are interested in and paying close attention to each other begin to speak more alike, a psychologist says.

On a recent Friday night, 30 men and 30 women gathered at a hotel restaurant in Washington, D.C. Their goal was love, or maybe sex, or maybe some combination of the two. They were there for speed dating.

The women sat at separate numbered tables while the men moved down the line, and for two solid hours they did a rotation, making small talk with people they did not know, one after another, in three-minute increments.

I had gone to record the night, which was put on by a company called Professionals in the City, and what struck me was the noise in the room. The sound of words, of people talking over people talking over people talking. It was a roar.

What were these people saying?

And what can we learn from what they are saying?

That is why I called James Pennebaker, a psychologist interested in the secret life of pronouns.

About 20 years ago Pennebaker, who's at the University of Texas at Austin, got interested in looking more closely at the words that we use. Or rather, he got interested in looking more closely at a certain subset of the words that we use: Pennebaker was interested in function words.

For those of you like me ? the grammatically challenged ? function words are the smallish words that tie our sentences together.

The. This. Though. I. And. An. There. That.

"Function words are essentially the filler words," Pennebaker says. "These are the words that we don't pay attention to, and they're the ones that are so interesting."

According to the way that Pennebaker organizes language, the words that we more often focus on in conversation are content words, words like "school," "family," "live," "friends" ? words that conjure a specific image and relay more of the substance of what is being discussed.

"I speak bad Spanish," Pennebaker explains, "and if I'm in a conversation where I'm listening to the other person speak, I am just trying to find out what they are talking about. I am listening to 'what, where, when' ? those big content heavy words. All those little words in between, I don't listen to those because they're too complex to listen to."

In fact, says Pennebaker, even in our native language, these function words are basically invisible to us.

"You can't hear them," Pennebaker says. "Humans just aren't able to do it."

But computers can, which is why two decades ago Pennebaker and his graduate students sat down to build themselves a computer program.

The Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count program that Pennebaker and his students built in 199 has ? like any computer program ? an ability to peer into massive data sets and discern patterns that no human could ever hope to match.

And so after Pennebaker and his crew built the program, they used it to ask all kinds of questions that had previously been too complicated or difficult for humans to ask.

Some of those questions included:

Could you tell if someone was lying by carefully analyzing the way they used function words?

Looking only at a transcript, could you tell from function words whether someone was male or female, rich or poor?

What could you tell about relationships by looking at the way two people spoke to each other?

Which brings us back to speed dating.

See, one of the things that Pennebaker did was record and transcribe conversations that took place between people on speed dates. He fed these conversations into his program along with information about how the people themselves were perceiving the dates. What he found surprised him.

"We can predict by analyzing their language, who will go on a date ? who will match ? at rates better than the people themselves," he says.

Specifically, what Pennabaker found was that when the language style of two people matched, when they used pronouns, prepositions, articles and so forth in similar ways at similar rates, they were much more likely to end up on a date.

"The more similar [they were] across all of these function words, the higher the probability that [they] would go on a date in a speed dating context," Pennebaker says. "And this is even cooler: We can even look at ... a young dating couple... [and] the more similar [they] are ... using this language style matching metric, the more likely [they] will still be dating three months from now."

This is not because similar people are attracted to each other, Pennebaker says; people can be very different. It's that when we are around people that we have a genuine interest in, our language subtly shifts.

"When two people are paying close attention, they use language in the same way," he says. "And it's one of these things that humans do automatically."

They aren't aware of it, but if you look closely at their language, count up their use of "I," and "the," and "and", you can see it. It's right there.

Pennebaker has counted words to better understand lots of things. He's looked at lying, at leadership, at who will recover from trauma.

But some of his most interesting work has to do with power dynamics. He says that by analyzing language you can easily tell who among two people has power in a relationship, and their relative social status.

"It's amazingly simple," Pennebaker says, "Listen to the relative use of the word "I."

What you find is completely different from what most people would think. The person with the higher status uses the word "I" less.

To demonstrate this Pennebaker pointed to some of his own email, a batch written long before he began studying status.

First he shares an email written by one of his undergraduate students, a woman named Pam:

Dear Dr. Pennebaker:

I was part of your Introductory Psychology class last semester. I have enjoyed your lectures and I've learned so much. I received an email from you about doing some research with you. Would there be a time for me to come by and talk about this?

Pam

Now consider Pennebaker's response:

Dear Pam -

This would be great. This week isn't good because of a trip. How about next Tuesday between 9 and 10:30. It will be good to see you.

Jamie Pennebaker

Pam, the lowly undergraduate used "I" many times, while Pennebaker didn't use it at all.

Now consider this email Pennebaker wrote to a famous professor.

Dear Famous Professor:

The reason I'm writing is that I'm helping to put together a conference on [a particular topic]. I have been contacting a large group of people and many have specifically asked if you were attending. I would absolutely love it if you could come... I really hope you can make it.

Jamie Pennebaker

And the return email from famous professor:

Dear Jamie -
Good to hear from you. Congratulations on the conference. The idea of a reunion is a nice one ...and the conference idea will provide us with a semi-formal way of catching up with one another's current research... Isn't there any way to get the university to dig up a few thousand dollars to defray travel expenses for the conference?

With all best regards,

Famous Professor

Pennebaker says that when he encountered these emails he was shocked to find that he himself obeyed this rule. He says he thought of himself as a very egalitarian person, and assumed he would never talk to people differently because of their status.

But in retrospect he says it makes sense. We use "I" more when we talk to someone with power because we're more self-conscious. We are focused on ourselves - how we're coming across - and our language reflects that.

So could we use these insights to change ourselves? Like Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady, could we bend our personalities by bending the words we use? Could we become stronger? More powerful? Healthier?

After 20 years of looking at this stuff, Pennebaker doubts it.

"The words reflect who we are more than drive who we are," he says.

You can't, he believes, change who you are by changing your language; you can only change your language by changing who you are. He says that's what his research indicates.

Pennebaker has collected some of this research in a book called The Secret Life of Pronouns, but says he feels the practice of using computers to count and categorize language is really just a beginning.

It's like we just invented the telescope, he tells me, and there are a million new places to look.

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Success in Pay Per Click Advertising - How to Earn a Living Online

There are many business models to maximize your profits online and allow you to earn huge of money on the internet. In this article, you will discover and learn 5 affiliate business models in pay per click search engine marketing to earn huge affiliate commission and grow your home based affiliate business.

1. PPC ? Merchant Site.Basically, this approach is the easiest affiliate marketing strategy to earn commission online. You can start earning affiliate commission in PPC online advertising by: (1) joining the affiliate programs and getting the affiliate links (2) signing up the PPC search engine account and (3) creating PPC online advertising campaigns with those affiliate links. It is used to drive directly visitors from pay per click (PPC) search engine, like Google Adwords, Overture and MSNAdCenter, to merchants? website. The approach is suitable for testing the new affiliate products in your affiliate marketing business only. With the niche keywords, this technique is a great way for testing whether those new products can be sold in the markets. You can not maximize profits online and earn huge commission with this approach.

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5. PPC ? Squeeze Page ? Tell a Friend ? Review Page ? Merchant Site.The last affiliate marketing business model is the best approach for affiliate entrepreneurs to earn huge affiliate commission and maximize the power of several affiliate marketing strategies in this article. Obviously, you can insert the viral marketing strategies, particularly the ?Tell a Friend? script, in order to spread out to the world. You can redirect from your squeeze page to the web page with the ?Tell a Friend? script, before forwarding to the review page, where the content is, and merchant site respectively.

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7 life secrets from an 18-year-old Tetris Grand Master

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M?nica Guzm?n , GeekWire

You can find dedication in all kinds of places. The office. The football field.

The glossy, old-school arcade tucked in the back of Ballard?s?Full Tilt Ice Cream.

Eighteen-year-old Kevin Birrell is here most every night. The University of Washington freshman is one of just 5 people ? 2 outside Japan ? to have achieved the World Grand Master title in ?Tetris: The Grand Master 3,? the latest and toughest game in the 28-year-old franchise?s most challenging series.

Birrell, who will reprise a talk he gave at last week?s?TEDxUofW?at?the next Seattle Startup Weekend in May, guesses he?s played more than 1,000 hours of what people like to tell him is ?just a game.? But the fun of Tetris, like the other arcade games he?s conquered, isn?t in the play. It?s in a hungry, stop-at-nothing quest for achievement.

?I?ve learned a lot about becoming better at something. Anything, really,? he said.

As the pieces rushed down, here are seven lessons he picked up.

1. Excessive practice pays off
Birrell earned Grand Master status on ?Tetris: The Grand Master 1, 2, and 3? in February 2009, June 2010 and September 2011, respectively, and doesn?t kid himself; he knows it looked like he had ?no life? when he spent up to six hours a day after high school making it happen.

But it?s been a thing ever since he got into??Dance Dance Revolution??as a 7?year?old: Once he decides to get good at a game, he?s got to get really, REALLY good.

Those hundreds and hundreds of Tetris rounds ?consumed his life,? he said, as did the time he spent recording and analyzing his gameplay. But each round helped him find an approach or variable he could tweak to get better.

?I?ve become pretty good at isolating my weaknesses,? he said. And so he?s learned: Like so many things, game mastery takes persistence, patience and ? always ? time.

Looking for shortcuts is a waste of it.

?Right now I?m taking a math class that?s killing me,? Birrell said. ?But I know what I don?t know. I?ll get there.?

2. It?s not over ?til it?s over
It?s tough enough to follow how Birrell manages to teleport the game pieces from the top of the Tetris screen to ? 19 times out of 20 ? its ideal home on the stack. But the few times mistakes cost him big and I saw that stack rise way, way too high in a round of??Tetris: The Grand Master 2 Plus??at Full Tilt (see the video above), I couldn?t figure out how he could stay so calm.

?No matter how bad your situation gets, you have to make it something you can handle,? Birrell said after an error cost him a few rows. Over the arcade buttons, his fingers kept fluttering.

?If you want to have a good game, you?ve got to keep going.?

Seconds later, he was back to playing at the bottom of the screen, like it never happened.

3. Aim for ?second nature?
When I asked Birrell if he could narrate his way through a ?TGM2? round I recorded it with my phone (which you can watch here on GeekWire), I half expected he?d refuse. Playing to the max must mean staying focused to the max. Birrell shrugged his shoulders.

?The way I see it, if you have to think too much about what you?re doing, you don?t know it well enough yet,? he said. ?Once you?ve figured out what you need to do, you shouldn?t have to think about it at all.?

It was only when he reached one of the last levels in an almost nine-minute round that he calmly announced that he?d need to stay quiet.

4. Pick your battles
You?ll find Birrell?s arcade initials ? KCB (he?s KevinDDR online) ? on the leaderboards of all kinds of games at Full Tilt. But for every game he?s taken on, there are several he?s abandoned.

?You?ve got to notice, do you have the capability to get to the top or not?? he said. ?You can?t be too pessimistic, but once you?ve been successful at something, you?re going to know if you?re progressing at a good rate or not. If you?re not, you?ve got to ask yourself, why bother when you can be spending your time on something else??

The Xbox Live Arcade game??Trials HD??is one he walked away from after a while. So was ?Starcraft.? With more hours in the day, he could take on every game he liked. In the real world, he?s got to choose.

?There?s only so much you can do. You can?t be the best of everything.?

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5. Embrace the competition
Birrell learned Japanese in high school, inspired in part by the community of mostly Japanese gamers who make up Tetris? and other games? best. They, along with Tetris masters around the world, are his rivals and his muses. And they always talk.

Birrell checks in with Japanese players on social media and others in IRC chat, reporting his stats and catching up on theirs. In October 2011 he saw many of them in person at the?Classic Tetris World Championships?in Los Angeles. They share tips, tricks, even tutorials. It?s like they all realize that only by knowing how the others are doing can they fuel their own drive to improve.

?I don?t think that high school is competitive enough. There?s too much emphasis on making people not feel bad,? Birrell said. ?If you want people to do well, they have to compete.?

6. Know when to take a break
Birrell has one trophy left to claim from the Tetris: The Grand Master series ? the Classic Grand Master title in ?TGM3.? Unlike most Tetris Grand Master titles, you can?t claim the Classic crown with one stellar round, but a streak of them.

?It?s stupidly hard,? Birrell said.

After 18 grueling hours of Classic mode play ? ?pretty much all my free time? ? he got to the promotional exam needed to secure the title, a milestone no one else outside Japan had reached then or since, but failed. He reached the exam five more times in the ensuing weeks with no success. Finally, he took a break, putting time into newest competitive obsession ? pinball ? before he comes back for another try ? hopefully with fresh eyes.

7. Ignore the critics
Birrell thinks of himself as a digital athlete. But to many Americans, at least, gaming is strictly self-entertainment. That makes it tough for Birrell to explain how his incessant play is anything but.

?I hear that a lot ? it?s just a game, or whatever,? he said. ?There?s not a lot of inherent value in lots of things. It?s just what you make it.?

Reaching the top of those leaderboards has taught Birrell that he can reach the top of anything. That?s a great lesson. And when he earns his UW computer science degree and gets a job doing one thing he knows he?ll love ? programming ? he plans to give back to the gaming community that helped him learn it. Even as he struggles to conquer yet another game, and another, and another.

?Gaming is me. I couldn?t not do it.?

M?nica Guzm?n is a community strategist in startups and media and a digital life columnist for GeekWire. You can find her tweeting away at @moniguzman, subscribe to her public Facebook posts at facebook.com/moniguzman or reach her via email. Here's an archive of her weekly GeekWire columns.

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This Facebook page is documenting debris from Japan?s tsunami, aiming to return items to their owners

It?s been just over a year since a devastating tsunami hit Japan, and the Maritime Museum of British Columbia (MMBC) has come up with the latest online project aiming to help survivors, in a unique way, with the use of a Facebook page.

With everything from ?ghost ships? to toothbrushes?making their way across the Pacific Ocean,?there is an estimated 1.5 million tons of debris floating from Japan to North America.

Inviting users to upload images of the debris they have found on North American shores, the page aims not only to document all of these items, and determine their origins, it also aims to connect lost belongings with their owners.

This is not the first way in which technology has been used in one way or another to either alleviate the effects of the tsunami, or document them. We?ve seen everything from?robotic seals?comforting tsunami victims to the documentation of the recovery process in Japan through?satellite images?provided by Google.

While the debris has just begun to wash ashore, according to the Facebook page, it won?t be until the next two years that the majority of the debris will actually hit Canadian and American coasts.

The museum will play an active role in identifying the content of the photos:

Moderators at the museum will attempt to determine the origin of debris, assess any potential value and share the photos and add comments. Japanese visitors to the site could scan the site for lost or recognizable items. In some cases where an object has been collected from the beach it may be able to be returned to its owner through the Japanese Consulate.

The page is an amazing testament to something which makes us more than happy to pull out a tired and over-used clich? about how the Internet makes it easier than ever to connect with people from all over the world.

It will be fascinating to watch and see the kinds of things that wind up on North America?s shores, almost like thousands of accidental ?messages in bottles?, so to speak.

If successful, the project could also see those items make their way back to Japan, reuniting sentimental or prized possessions with their Japanese owners.

The Tsunami Debris Project is another wonderful example of how our online connectivity has the potential to make us better human beings.

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Weaker al-Qaida still plots payback for US raid

WASHINGTON (AP) ? A year after the U.S. raid that killed Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida is hobbled and hunted, too busy surviving for the moment to carry out another Sept. 11-style attack on U.S. soil.

But the terrorist network dreams still of payback, and U.S. counterterrorist officials warn that, in time, its offshoots may deliver.

A decade of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that has cost the U.S. about $1.28 trillion and 6,300 U.S. troops' lives has forced al-Qaida's affiliates to regroup, from Yemen to Iraq. Bin Laden's No. 2, Ayman al-Zawahri, is thought to be hiding, out of U.S. reach, in Pakistan's mountains, just as bin Laden was for so many years.

"It's wishful thinking to say al-Qaida is on the brink of defeat," says Seth Jones, a Rand analyst and adviser to U.S. special operations forces. "They have increased global presence, the number of attacks by affiliates has risen, and in some places like Yemen, they've expanded control of territory."

It's a complicated, somewhat murky picture for Americans to grasp.

U.S. officials say bin Laden's old team is all but dismantled. But they say new branches are hitting Western targets and U.S. allies overseas, and still aspire to match their parent organization's milestone of Sept. 11, 2001.

The deadliest is in Yemen.

"They are continuing to try to again, carry out an attack against U.S. persons inside of Yemen, as well as against the homeland," White House counterterrorism advisor John Brennan said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

"We're working very closely with our Yemeni partners to track down all these leads," he said.

Brennan says there's no sign of an active revenge plot against U.S. targets, but U.S. citizens in Pakistan and beyond are being warned to be vigilant ahead of the May 2 anniversary of the night raid. U.S. helicopters swooped down on bin Laden's compound in the Pakistani army town of Abbottabad, killing him, one of his sons, two couriers and their wives.

The last view for Americans of the mastermind behind the Sept. 11 attacks was that of a wizened old man sitting in front of an old television, wrapped in a blanket.

The world may never see photographic proof of his death. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg in Washington ruled last week that the Obama administration, under the Freedom of Information Act, would not have to turn over images of bin Laden during or after the raid.

"Verbal descriptions of the death and burial of Osama Bin Laden will have to suffice," Boasberg wrote in his ruling on the lawsuit by the public interest group Judicial Watch.

Bin Laden's killing and al-Qaida's stumbling efforts to regroup are now the national security centerpiece of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.

The White House frequently cites the president's decision to approve the raid, with only a 50-50 chance that bin Laden was even at the compound. Obama could have gone down in history as the man who put the Navy SEALs and the relationship with Pakistan in jeopardy, while failing to catch the al-Qaida leader.

"Al-Qaida was and is our No. 1 enemy," White House spokesman Jay Carney said last week. "So it's a part of his foreign policy record, obviously, but it's also part of a very serious endeavor to keep our country safe."

How safe remains in question.

U.S. officials say al-Qaida is less able to carry out a complex attack like Sept. 11 and they rule out al-Qaida's ability to attack with weapons of mass destruction in the coming year. These officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they say publicly identifying themselves could make them a target of the terrorist group.

U.S. counterterrorist forces have killed roughly half of al-Qaida's top 20 leaders since the raid. That includes U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, killed by a drone in Yemen last September, less than six months after bin Laden's death.

Only a few of the original al-Qaida team remain, and most of the new names on the U.S. target lists are relative unknowns, officials say.

"The last terror attack (in the West) was seven years ago in London and they haven't had any major attacks in the U.S." says Peter Bergen, an al-Qaida expert who once met bin Laden. "They are recruiting no-hopers and dead-enders."

Yet Zawahri is still out there. Though constantly hunted, he has managed to release 13 audio and video messages to followers since bin Laden's death, a near record-rate of release according to the IntelCenter, a private intelligence firm. He has urged followers to seize on the unrest left by the Arab Spring to build organizations and influence in Egypt, Libya and elsewhere, and back rebels in Syria ? a call that U.S. intelligence officials say is being heeded.

U.S. attempts to deliver a "knockout punch" to Zawahri and his followers in Pakistan have been hamstrung by a breakdown in relations with Pakistan's government over the bin Laden raid.

Pakistani officials saw the raid as a violation of their sovereignty, made worse by a U.S. friendly fire attack that killed almost two dozen Pakistani troops on the border with Afghanistan last fall. Pakistan's parliament called for a redrafting of what the U.S. is allowed to do, and where.

CIA drone strikes in Pakistan's border area continue, but are limited to a relatively small area of the tribal region.

"Our efforts are focused on one small kill box and, we've hit them hard, but they still maintain a vital network throughout Pakistan" says Bill Roggio, editor of the Long War Journal, which tracks U.S. counterterrorism efforts worldwide.

Al-Qaida also takes shelter in Pakistan's urban areas, as shown by the bin Laden raid, and the CIA's efforts to search those areas is often blocked by the Pakistani intelligence service.

U.S. officials say they believe factions within the agency shelter and even fund al-Qaida's senior leaders and related militant groups such as the Haqqani network, which attacks U.S. troops in Afghanistan, from their Pakistani safe haven. Pakistan denies the charge.

Afghanistan is the temporary home to up to 100 al-Qaida fighters at any single time, U.S. officials say, adding that a steady series of U.S. special operations raids is essential to keeping them out. With the withdrawal of U.S. forces, U.S. counterterrorism officials fear al-Qaida could return.

By the numbers, al-Qaida's greatest presence is still greatest in Iraq, where intelligence officials estimate up to a 1,000 fighters have refocused their campaign from striking now-absent U.S. troops to hitting the country's Shiite-dominated government.

Yemen's al-Qaida of the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) is becoming a major draw for foreign fighters as it carves out a stronghold in the south of the country, easily defeating Yemeni forces preoccupied battling tribal and political unrest. The White House recently agreed to expanded drone strikes to give the CIA and the military greater leeway to target militant leaders.

This al-Qaida group has been a major threat since 2009, when one of its adherents tried to bring down a jetliner over Detroit.

Al-Qaida affiliates such as al-Shabab in Somalia are struggling to carry out attacks in the face of a stepped up CIA-U.S. military campaign, and a loss of popular support after blocking U.N. food aid to some 4 million starving Somalis, officials say.

But the group is kept afloat by a stream of cash, partly from piracy and kidnapping of the Somali coast. Brennan, the White House counterterrorism chief, told an audience of CIA officers that total ransom payments paid to Somali pirates increased from approximately $80 million in 2010 to $140 million in 2011, according to remarks obtained by The Associated Press.

Cutting off those finances by persuading companies and U.S. to stop paying up is now central to the terrorism-fighting effort.

So, too, is the strategy of fighting small, smartly and covertly, avoiding land invasions such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan that caused Muslim outrage and helped draw fresh recruits, says Rand's Jones, in his new book "Hunting in the Shadows," a comprehensive history of the counterterror search since Sept. 11.

Many U.S. officials cite the Yemen model as the way ahead: a small network of U.S. intelligence and military forces working with local forces to selectively target militants.

"The key challenge will be balancing aggressive counterterrorism operations with the risk of exacerbating the anti-Western global agenda" of al-Qaida and its affiliates, says Robert Cardillo, a senior official in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

In other words, adds Jones, "it is a war in which the side that kills the most civilians loses."

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Kimberly Dozier can be reached at Twitter (at)kimberlydozier

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Cyberpunks Rejoice: Kickstarter Project Aims To Resurrect Shadowrun

If you spent any time in high school thinking about ley lines and bio-implants, you were probably a Shadowrun player. The game, which petered out after a disastrous run as a PC/Xbox game in 2007, brought the high-tech of William Gibson to the magical realms of Mr. Gygax. It was, in short, pretty cool. A Kickstarter project aims to bring back all that fun in video game form, adding lots of what you missed about Shadowrun back to the PC. This new version will be a RPG involving the Shadowrun world complete with various character types - elves, samurai, humans - and, although this is discouraged, deals with dragons. $15 gets you a copy of the game while $60 gets you a t-shirt and some in-game perks.

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Need Help Organizing Your Closets? Here are 5 Tips to Live By

Do your closets overflow with sporting equipment, out-of-season clothes, boxes and toys? If so, you?re not alone. Fortunately, with a little effort you can keep your closets organized year ?round. Getting your closets organized doesn?t have to be complicated. In fact, getting your closets organized is quite easy. Here are five easy tips:

1. Regularly Maintain Them. Closets should be regularly cleaned and organized to avoid disorder. Make a habit of sorting through your items every few months to keep the clutter from taking over your closet space. If your closets are extremely cluttered, you can purchase closet organizers in Westport, CT. For example, California Closets offers a variety of custom closet organizers that will help keep your closet space clutter free.

2. Get Seasonal. When it?s time to put your winter coats away, compress them into sealed, air-tight bags or boxes to take up less space and preserve them. Give away clothing you didn?t wear this season to keep from hoarding unnecessary items.

3. Invest in Storage. Buy various size boxes, shoe storage and small containers to keep your clothing, accessories, toys and miscellaneous items sorted and stackable. You can also consider closet organizers, which provide divisions for different types of items, such as hanging poles for clothing and drawers for other items. In addition, California Closets provides storage for wine pantries and storage for mudrooms in Wilton, CT.

4. Use Smarter Hangers. There are now different types of clothing hangers that are thinner, as well as those that stack downward, that take up less space in your closet. This can maximize the space you have for clothing.

5. Store by Type. If you?re storing more than just clothes in your closets, organize each closet by type of item. For example, a hall closet can store linens, bath towels and extra bathroom products like soap and toothpaste. A closet in a guest room can hold out-of-season clothing and sports equipment. This makes it easier to find items, and sorting similar items together make them easier to store.

By being proactive about organizing closets, you can get the most out of a tiny amount of space! Whether you're searching for a wardrobe closet in Greenwich, CT or storage shelving in New Haven, CT, California Closets has one-of-a-kind closet solutions.

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