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Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Paddy Power: Betting Company Sweats Over Early Payout on ROMNEY

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While Romney remains the favorite for the Republican nomination his odds have taken a significant slide from 1/14 to 2/5, while Gingrich’s odds have been chopped from 6/1 before the South Carolina Primary to 2/1. Following Newt Gingrich’s win in South Carolina, Europe’s largest betting company Paddy Power is sweating over its decision on Friday to pay out early on Mitt Romney winning the Republican nomination.

For next weeks Florida Primary, Romney and Gingrich are joint 5/6 favorites for the win with Ron Paul and Rick Santorum both at a very unlikely 66/1 to record their first victory of the campaign.

A spokesman for Paddy Power said “It looks as though we could have jumped the gun too soon by paying out on Romney. Newt Gingrich is continuing to build momentum and if he succeeds we could end up with some very expensive pie on our face!”

Updates of the said Nominations

Republican Presidential Nomination

2/5 Mitt Romney
2/1 Newt Gingrich
16/1 Ron Paul
50/1 Rick Santorum

Florida Primary

5/6 Mitt Romney
5/6 Newt Gingrich
66/1 Ron Paul
66/1 Rick Santorum

Next President (Winning Candidate)

4/6 Barack Obama
5/2 Mitt Romney
11/2 Newt Gingrich
40/1 Ron Paul
50/1 Hillary Clinton

100/1 Rick Santorum

Meanwhile, Paddy Power is also taking bets on what cliché President Barack Obama will say first during this Tuesday’s State of the Union speech. The favorite is “We have more work to do” at 8/1 followed by “Health Care Reform” at 10/1 while “Life is like a box of chocolates” is at a massive 250/1 to be his first utterance tomorrow evening. Tonight at 9PM (US-Time) you can watch the President Barack Obama live Union Speech at YouTube.

8/1 We have more work to do
10/1 Health Care reform
10/1 As I stand here today
12/1 Fundamental belief
12/1 God Bless America
12/1 Crossroads of history
12/1 Defining moment
12/1 Make Washington work
14/1 Common purpose
16/1 Pursuit of happiness
16/1 Building a better America
16/1 Reduce the deficit
18/1 War on terror
18/1 It won't be easy
18/1 Hungry for change
18/1 My civil liberties
20/1 Honour for me
20/1 I have a dream
20/1 Willing to listen to each other
20/1 Yes, we can
20/1 Don't get me wrong
25/1 Hard to believe
25/1 I'm fired up
25/1 Withdraw our troops
25/1 There are better days ahead
25/1 Do Nothing Congress
25/1 We'll have to make hard choices
25/1 We can be one people
25/1 A new direction
33/1 For far too long
33/1 Safe from harm
33/1 Jobs to the jobless
33/1 Reshapes our economy
40/1 Deepest gratitude
40/1 Greatness of our nation
40/1 Possibilities of this nation
40/1 Florida Primary
50/1 Believe in what this country can be
50/1 Unity is the great need of the hour
50/1 In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope
50/1 We can work together to keep our country safe
50/1 Abiding faith
66/1 Brighter day will come
66/1 Publish tax returns
66/1 Washington has a long way to go
80/1 Overcome the adversity
80/1 Bloated federal government
100/1 Diversity of my heritage
100/1 Yes, we might
250/1 Life is like a box of chocolates

About Paddy Power

Paddy Power is Ireland’s largest bookmaker and a leading provider of gaming services in the UK, Australia and Ireland. Founded in 1988 Paddy Power is a publicly quoted company and is listed on both the Irish and London Stock Exchanges. Its website www.paddypowerplc.com

Paddy Power Contact Details:

Féilim Mac An Iomaire
Paddy Power plc
Tel: ++353 87 160 7024
Feilim.macaniomaire@paddypower.com

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Romney Sets to Get His Mitts on South Carolina

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Mitt Romney was the 1/12 red -hot favorite with Europe’s largest betting company Paddy Power to win this Saturday’s South Carolina primary. Romney who has already notched wins in Iowa and New Hampshire is followed in the betting by former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich at 5/1 and Ron Paul at 14/1.

Further down the list at 16/1 is Rick Santorum who came so close to shocking Romney in Iowa while Rick Perry props up the market at 40/1.

With Romney so far ahead of the chasing pack in the betting, Paddy Power is also running a market without him in the South Carolina primary. Here, Newt Gingrich is the favorite at 4/7 followed by Ron Paul at 6/4, Rick Santorum at 13/2 and Rick Perry at 25/1.

A spokesperson for Paddy Power said: “Mitt Romney continues to build momentum and looks unstoppable at the minute. The rest of the candidates aren’t throwing in the towel just yet but it looks as though they face an uphill struggle.”

South Carolina Primary

1/12 Mitt Romney
5/1 Newt Gingrich
14/1 Ron Paul
16/1 Rick Santorum
40/1 Rick Perry

South Carolina Without Romney

4/7 Newt Gingrich
6/4 Ron Paul
13/2 Rick Santorum
25/1 Rick Perry

Republican Presidential Nomination

1/14 Mitt Romney
14/1 Ron Paul
20/1 Rick Santorum
20/1 Newt Gingrich
80/1 Rick Perry

Next President (Winning Candidate)

8/11 Barack Obama
5/4 Mitt Romney
20/1 Ron Paul
28/1 Newt Gingrich
40/1 Hilary Clinton
50/1 Rick Santorum
125/1 Rick Perry

Winning Party

8/11 Democrats
Evens Republicans
66/1 Any Other

Paddy Power is Ireland’s largest bookmaker and a leading provider of gaming services in the UK, Australia and Ireland. Founded in 1988 Paddy Power is a publicly quoted company and is listed on both the Irish and London Stock Exchanges.

Paddy Power Contact details:

Féilim Mac An Iomaire/ Paddy Power plc/ Tel: ++353 87 160 7024/ Feilim.macaniomaire@paddypower.com

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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

I Passed The Test: Time to Cheers

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From the time I started sharing my articles at Wikinut, my writing has improved . This year 2011, I published 200 articles. There are 17 articles I wrote about Saudi Arabia – this includes my personal experiences in the Kingdom. Another 9 articles about Business and Business Opportunities. And then another 46 articles about writing – this includes my personal experiences, humor, guides, tips, jokes, true stories, short stories, funny stories and poetry. And another 12 articles about health, general health, wellness, managing health care, alternative medicines, diseases and infections, diets and nutrition.

I also had written articles about religion and other affiliations, columns and opinions and news and entertainments and so far I published 15 articles. And then I published 10 articles about family, parenting, teenagers, education, languages and relationships. Also 8 articles about money, money saving tips and making money and another 7 articles about history, culture, social trends, nature and plants. In addition, also I wrote 40 articles about reviews of websites, social networks, and book marking sites, web marketing, emails, blogs and blogging.

Also I wrote 7 articles about fiction writing and 10 articles about science, math and numbers and numerology. I also published at least 11 articles about philosophy, logic, Ethics and reasoning. These include also 8 articles about celebrities, people, music, performers, artists, singers and authors.

Approximately 511 days to write my first 200 articles at Wikinut under the following categories: Articles about Saudi Arabia, Business, Writing, Health, religion, Opinions, News, Family, Money saving tips, History, Reviews, Fiction writing, Science, Philosophy and Celebrities. It took me Five Hundred Eleven days looking for ideas and additional information to support my articles. Now I can say I passed the test and it is about time to CHEERS!

Monday, December 26, 2011

Five Hundred Eleven Days on Writing My First 200 Articles at Wikinut

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For over a year now I am writing at Wikinut, I honestly can tell you that the site is an awesome place for your online writing activities. The site will pay for your awesome articles to share on their site but you have to see to it that they are originally written by you. All articles submitted for publication are moderated by real people. I even considered Wikinut as an Institution for Learning. From the time I started sharing my articles with the site, I have observed that my writing has improved drastically. So far, I have already published at least 200 articles on their site. The below is a summary of the 200 articles published at Wikinut – if you have the interest to read them – they are open for your visits, views and comments.

Articles about Saudi Arabia – this includes my personal experiences in the Kingdom.

Articles about business, business opportunities such as:

Articles about writing – this includes personal experiences, humor, guides, tips, jokes, true stories, short stories, funny stories and poetry such as:

Articles about health, general health, wellness, managing health care, alternative medicines, diseases and infections, diet and nutrition such as:

Article about religion and other affiliations:

Remarkable Religions in Philippines

Articles about columns and opinions such as:

Articles about news and entertainments such as:

Articles about family, parenting, teenagers, education, languages, relationships such as:

Articles about money, money saving tips, making money such as:

Articles about history, culture, social trends, nature, plants such as:

Articles about reviews of websites, social networks, book marking sites, web marketing, emails, blogs and blogging such as:

Articles about cracking the short story – tips and guides such as:

Articles about science, math and numbers, numerology such as:

Articles about philosophy, logic, Ethics, reasoning such as:

Articles about celebrities, people, music, performers, artists, singers, authors such as:

It took me approximately 511 days to write my first 200 articles at Wikinut under the following categories: Articles about Saudi Arabia, Business, Writing, Health, religion, Opinions, News, Family, Money saving tips, History, Reviews, Fiction writing, Science, Philosophy and Celebrities. it took me Five Hundred Eleven days looking for ideas and additional information to support my articles. I can say, I passed the test and now it is about time to CHEERS!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

How to Produce Article with Good Quality Contents

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Aside from bamboo, I learned that Google Panda occasionally eat other grasses, wild tubers, or even meat in the form of birds, rodents or carrion, honey, eggs, fish, yams, shrub leaves, oranges, or bananas along with specially prepared feed.

I recognized him with his black and white cat-foot. I saw its large, distinctive black patches around the eyes, over the ears and across its round body. I thought if he saw me he would become wild but I was wrong. When he saw me he smiled at me and invited me to sit down beside him. What a beautiful morning it was! Google Panda was in good mood to talk to a stranger.

So I did not waste my time. I started our conversation with laughter and normal greetings. And then my short interview for him followed. For all the questions I stoned to him, he answered them directly to the point without any hesitations. He was smart, friendly and it made me comfortable. And for the record, the below is the recorded interview I made with Google Panda.

Pruelpo: For what purpose Google has recruited you early this year?

Google Panda: The purpose is mainly to give better search results. The change aims to lower the rank of “low quality content sites” in search results and return high-quality sites to its users.

Pruelpo: Did it show good results? What websites mostly were affected?

Google Panda: Yes. It has affected the rankings of all search results. News websites and Social Networking sites benefited for this changes – their rankings rise but a drop in rankings for Advertising sites.

Pruelpo: You mentioned earlier about low quality content sites – What advice you can suggest to the owners or to the publishers of those sites?

Google Panda: To get high ranking pages on search results those publishers should aspire to conceive those low quality contents to high quality contents for their sites. If those publishers are hosting individual content writers – they should encourage them to produce articles with high and good quality contents. Now Google has started spotting, tracking and indexing acknowledgment of contents created by the individual content creators with the websites they appear on through listing the author’s link.

Pruelpo: What advice you can suggest to the individual content creators to produce articles with good quality contents?

Google Panda: For the benefits of all writers, first of all, they should realize that online writing is different from writing on print media like newspapers and magazines. If writers wrote articles for online publication with good quality contents the Search Engine crawlers will always love to crawl down those articles and will keep them coming back a year round because they found them as quality provider of good contents.

Pruelpo: I see your points though still I need more clarifications. Could you please elaborate them?

Google Panda: Writers should avoid publishing anything that is not quality or original content. They should avoid mixing some lower quality stuff with that high quality stuff just to get number of articles to publish. Injecting non-unique contents on their articles could not attract Search Engine crawlers. They need a lot of good quality contents and need to post them frequently. Frequency is also important part of the process because it helps train crawlers to come to find the food to bite. Search Engines will be happy to see that writers are consistently feeding good quality contents for the crawlers.

Pruelpo: They sound good and very effective. Are there some more helpful tips that you can advice to writers other than those you mentioned a while ago?

Google Panda: Writers should write naturally with good English grammar. And they should avoid not to keyword stuff of their contents. If they write articles of 500, 1000 and above words long – they should pick a main keyword and put it in the title of the post. They should select a bunch of sub-phrase keywords that relate the primary keyword and use them on sub-headings and fill them in about 100 to 200 per sub-section. Or for every 100 words they write they should use the keyword only once. For a five hundred word article they would use keyword at least five times. However, they can also mix two or three other keywords into the article with the primary keyword. They can also use the primary keyword once in the closing paragraph of the article. And also they can create links in the content to other pages.

The interview with Google Panda was interesting, memorable and exciting one. Now I realize that it is not yet too late for us writers to write good quality content articles. Following Google Panda’s advice we can improve our writing capabilities. Let’s do it!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

26,752,000 Filipinos FB Users are Recipients for Facebook Ban

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Philippines have 26,752,000 Facebook users and still increasing everyday. Philippines garnered the number 8 position in the ranking of all Facebook statistics by country. The number one Facebook user is America. And out of 26,752,000 - 39% belong to Filipinos ages from 18-24 years old and 24% belong to Filipinos ages from 25-34 years old. And out of 26,752,000 Facebook users 48% of them are male users and 52% are female users. These recorded numbers of Facebook users are only from Philippines. There are still more than 10,000,000 Filipinos Facebook users who are presently living in foreign lands including myself. If Mark Zuckerberg is really decided to kick out these Filipino Facebook users from using Facebook, first he has to think twice before finalizing his decision as it is improper to punish everyone for the crime done by one or by some!

Whether it is True or not, the allegedly an online statement of Mark Suckerberg - the CEO of Facebook, which was released on November 16, 2011 at 9PM Pacific Time Zone has generated favorable traffics, views and hundreds of comments at Facebook site and on other blog sites across the Internet. His allegedly statement directly warned the Filipino Facebook users of Philippines to be banned from using Facebook - if they continue uploading pornography (photos, videos and other types) and sharing spam to the site!

Yesterday, the whole day, I used my time on net surfing to look for the original source of the said official statement of Mark Suckerberg. I had used all the possible search engines I knew but I was in vain. No-one of the search engines has guided me to the original source of Mark's statement. All of the published articles regarding the statement were all copied from a copied piece. I even penetrated Yahoo but they were all the same from a copied source. This morning, I visited Facebook hoping to see the original and official statement of Mark Suckerberg but there was no recorded official statement of his found there.

I quoted the allegedly statement of Mark Zuckerberg that says, "The porn attacks originated in the Philippines and are being published by Filipinos all over Facebook, our experts here at Facebook are doing everything they can to stop it from spreading any further (outside the Philippines) and to eliminate the porn and spam threat completely which have been causing other Facebook users ‘a hard time’. Filipinos should also be vigilant and report any spam links and pornographic materials. 41% of Facebook members around the world are aged 12-17 years old, we cannot them be exposed to this kinds of things through Facebook. If this continues and more spam keep being posted, we will have no choice but to ban Philippine users from using Facebook. We at Facebook will not tolerate outlandish behavior and indecency.'' Even if this is true or not - Mark has pointed out all the Filipinos in general.

According to some of Facebook platform policies, I quoted some that said, "You agree that you will not promote, or provide content referencing, facilitating, containing or using, the following:

Content that is hateful, threatening, defamatory, or pornographic; incites violence; or contains nudity or graphic or gratuitous violence.

However, Mark Zuckerberg's statement is admirable. He shows how he really cares the minor ones and other Facebook users because Pornography is not really for general viewing!

For more details regarding Mark Zuckerberg statements and others you may visit the following links: