Launching: Visit Indonesia Year 2008

The Indonesian Culture and Tourism Ministry has launched "Visit Indonesia Year (VIY) 2008" in an effort to attract more foreign tourists to the country, December 29, 2007. Indonesian Culture and Tourism Minister Jero Wacik officially declared the start of VIY 2008 at a function in the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) on Wednesday night, the report said.

It is projected that 7 million foreign tourists will visit Indonesia during the VIY 2008, and the VIY 2008 was aimed at improving the people's welfare through the development of the tourism sector, the report quoted the minister as saying. Jero Wacik said although the tourist arrivals in Indonesia in 2006 was 5.5 million less than its target of 6 million, he was still optimistic that the 7 million target for 2008 would be reached.

"We have prepared more than 100 events across the country in a bid to increase the foreign tourist arrivals," Jero Wacik said before striking a gong marking the commencement VIY 2008. He called all tourism business people and the public in general to become a good host by being hospitable, help maintain security, and keep their regions clean.

Jero Wacik said his office has prepared 15 million U.S. dollars which will be used to promote the VIY 2008 all over the world, among others, through advertisements on overseas TV stations.

Guide : The AdSense Advertising

Before I start, I was hoping to bring you some figures on thenumber of users who own a scroll-mouse, or at least some recentsales statistics. While I haven't yet found that data, I can saythat I did find that the scroll-mouse (especially optical) areamong the most popular because of the ease it offers inscrolling documents.

With that in mind, the "Adsense Scroll Mouse Theory" goessomething like this:
People scroll a webpage in mainly two different ways: A) Theyare browsing quickly and looking for something to catch theireye, or B) They are reading a document where their scrolling ismuch slower and paced. When a user scrolls the page, there arenatural breaks which occur due to limited finger movement. Basedon the two kinds of scrolling, finger movements and the factthat eye-level content gets the most visibility, an estimate canbe made (in pixels) which determines where the majority of thesebreaks occur at eye-level.

In this experiment, I recorded results from 10 differentscroll-mouse users to measure their scrolls in pixels, based ontwo different scrolling habits.

A) Fast browsing - the average mouse scroll is 600-700 pixelsvertically, meaning when the user pauses, their eye-level fallswithin the 600-700 pixels range on the page (from the top of thedocument, not the browser). They scroll and stop, scroll andstop. They have no choice.

B) Slow browsing - the average slow mouse scroll is 400-460pixels vertically (scrolling in smaller chunks while reading),meaning that they pause at eye level every 400-460 pixelsvertically. As they read a section, they usually start to scrollbringing more content up into their immediate eye-level.

Considering these two key mouse scrolling behaviours, it wouldmake sense to place ads exactly at these points, or use anoverall average to concentrate ads within every 400-700 verticalpixels on the page. The best
fit would be a 336x280 ad block asit catches both ends of the slow & fast scroll.

You might be wondering about people using a browser's scrollbarinstead of a scroll-mouse. With a browser's scrollbar, fastscrolling habits either stopped at around the 2000 pixel mark(for very long pages equal to just slightly more than half-waydown a page) or the bottom of the page. For slow scrollinghabits, the pauses occurred at eye-level about every 400-460pixels, just as with a scroll-mouse.

The consistency in slow mouse & slow browser scrolling habitswould leave you to assume that Adsense ads placed around the400-460 mark might be something worth testing on your ownwebsite.

But consider this too: Initial eye-level on a webpage issomewhere around the 200-231 pixel mark. You could try placingads at this point, the 400-460 mark, and then at the 600-700mark. This way you are getting immediate visibility with the topads first presented when the page loads, caching slow readers asthey scroll, and catching fast scrollers too. The only groupyou'd have a problem slowing down are the ones using browserscrollbars. Images used next to Adsense ads can help catch theirattention, especially if the page has a lot of text.

Now it's very likely someone else has already thought of thisand it's already been discussed to death. I haven't foundanything related to it. Everything here is really just theory,but something I plan to test myself using live test subjects (itsounds cooler than 'search users') and will post results as theycome.

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Literature :
The Adsense Scroll Mouse Theory
By Carole Nickerson

HYIP: Make Easy Money

HYIPs have different investment plans. The interest and return offered by HYIPs usually anyway between 0.3% to 100% daily, weekly or monthly. You can make fast and easy money investing HYIPs.

However investing in HYIPs involve high degree of risks. HYIPs generally stay online anywhere between 1 day to 1.5 years so if the HYIP you invested closes down, you may lose all or part of your initial capital. One strategy you can use to minimize the risk is diversify your investment into several HYIPs equally and don’t leave any interest in your investment accounts for compounding, withdraw them to your e-gold account or other e-currency accounts immediately. HYIPs rank high on rating and monitor sites tend to last longer than those at lower rank and new HYIPs.

You can find HYIPs from those HYIP rating and monitor sites. HYIPinvestment.com is one of the biggest HYIP rating and monitor sites. They provide a long list of HYIPs with latest comments, rating and payment status on each HYIP.

If you plan to join HYIPs, invest only the amount you afford to lose because your principle and profit aren’t guaranteed. Also you will need an e-gold account to deposit fund and receive interest & return.

HYIP: Make Easy Money

HYIPs have different investment plans. The interest and return offered by HYIPs usually anyway between 0.3% to 100% daily, weekly or monthly. You can make fast and easy money investing HYIPs.

However investing in HYIPs involve high degree of risks. HYIPs generally stay online anywhere between 1 day to 1.5 years so if the HYIP you invested closes down, you may lose all or part of your initial capital. One strategy you can use to minimize the risk is diversify your investment into several HYIPs equally and don’t leave any interest in your investment accounts for compounding, withdraw them to your e-gold account or other e-currency accounts immediately. HYIPs rank high on rating and monitor sites tend to last longer than those at lower rank and new HYIPs.

You can find HYIPs from those HYIP rating and monitor sites. HYIPinvestment.com is one of the biggest HYIP rating and monitor sites. They provide a long list of HYIPs with latest comments, rating and payment status on each HYIP.

If you plan to join HYIPs, invest only the amount you afford to lose because your principle and profit aren’t guaranteed. Also you will need an e-gold account to deposit fund and receive interest & return.

Tips : Work At Home

The first thing you do is access some useful work at home tips, researching even before brainstorming a plan. In those work at home tips, you will likely find some helpful, empowering information. Here are some of the many work at home times I found over the first two years of researching and preparing to work as a freelance writer:

USE a MODEL
Study and read about those who blazed the trail before you. You will find numerous styles and approaches, with equally varied techniques and strategies, as told to you (in newsletters, on websites, in books, on tapes with work at home tips, specifically, etc.). Consider that which you feel and think will work best for you, your needs, your desires, and your skill sets (abilities and capabilities). Then, imitate that model, using similar steps and strategies. Do what works, according to those who have worked it!

PLAN AHEAD—FAR AHEAD
Make goals lists - short - and long-term goals lists. Make the lists complete with ideal outcomes, and as well, include things, people, and events or incidents that should be anticipated…and have a back up plan. For example, it is ideal to calculate your working seven days a week for the first five years, but it is unrealistic and therefore imperative you plan for life’s interruptions: When the power goes out; When the cat needs to be rushed to the vet, or worse, dies; When the computer crashes; When a client cancels an order an hour before deadline; When the bank, pharmacy, grocery, or other venue doesn’t have what you need, sends you twenty miles out of your way, or is closed….What tools will you have on hand, what back-up do you have?

HAVE SOME CAPITAL, FIRST
Do not launch without reserve fuel. I did. I had to get out of a ten-year job that was giving me migraines, making me fat, and that caused me to develop asthma - to say nothing of the political and social aberrations that were the source of these illnesses. I just stopped. Yes, I have wanted to write for a living since I was old enough to know what an adjective clause was, and yes, I knew if I did not do a kamikaze move, forcing me to work hard enough at freelancing to survive that I would stay at the destructive government job forever…. But if you are smart, and if you take any work at home tips to heart, take this one: have some money in the bank, have a sugar daddy or mama, or work a part-time job that you can tolerate while your business kicks off. (It takes, on average, 3-5 years to determine whether your business will be a winner or a flop.)

ESTABLISH a REGIME
While one of my absolute favorite assets to working at home and for myself is that I do not have to submit to an alarm clock, I still wake up, eat breakfast, brush teeth, and dress (on good days). Normalize your workdays by acting as if…as if you still have to be at your job on time, as if you get regular and regulated breaks, as if you are a professional with clean hair, shiny teeth, and shoes that are on your feet instead of slippers.

HAVE THE SKIN of a LIZARD
Realize and embrace the fact that you are working a real job, even if it is in front of a TV set or overlooking a pond with deer and elk milling about. And convince others in the house of the same: no one is allowed to interrupt during work hours, just as if you were at a building downtown where they would not be allowed to ask you where the ketchup is, if you would iron a shirt, or whether you minded if they blew a few joints while listening to jungle drums at 200 decibels. Discourage aberrant and invasive behavior from family members, roommates, and clients…who will also try to test you as a child does, and not pay, or email you ten times in one hour to ask you how it’s going, or who will try to get you to do unnecessary, extra, revisionary work for free.