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Now News Wire dropped a bomb yesterday declaring that “Google is planning to enter SEO Business”. But they just forgot to pack some explosives into that bomb. The result of that crazy post by Serena Shaper0 c was that half the SEO world got perturbed real bad. Questions flew everywhere and Facebook and Twitter went crazy with Serena too? How can you dare make such bid claims without valid proofs? The SEOs may be mystics but they are not dumb.

Funny thing is that some people will believe anything they read. They dont even bother to cross check the validity of the claims made by the other person. So I took some time to dig out the fact behind this all. First I arrived at this Google Forum post where a concerned SEO wanted an answers from professional whether Google is really planning to kill our profession? Similarly our dear old Matt Cutts clarified this on his twitter account.

Apparently google did post something like this on 1st April and we know how to deal with such big announcements. Remember BBC once claimed with an online show on April fools day about the improving harvest of Spaghetti noodles where europeans were plucking noodles from trees?  Ha ha… So our funny reporter found the article some 27 days latter and lost her brains over it.

Hey You...its a April Fools Joke

The final product is that we have the hoax circulating the whole web and spreading like hell fire.

One of my friends just shared  a hot trend on social media – BoobQuakes. Incidentally it steams form the Iranian cleric’s remarks about adultery influencing earth’s seismic activity. (More on Yahoo)
Quoting form Yahoo –

“Many women who do not dress modestly… lead young men astray, corrupting their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted last week as saying by Iranian media.

So Mr Sedighi who probably has done some deep research into seismic-sex is of opinion that jerks in society who cheat on their partners are responsible for the jerks on earth’s crust, that we call earthquakes.
One brave female blogger defied the preaching and called for a public bashing of this idea. This has eventually snowballed into BoobQuakes. There have been two BoobQuake rallies to prove Mr Sedighi wrong. Believe it or not after the Boobquakes hit the streets a 6.5 Richter scale earthquake hit Taiwan. Do you see any logic behind Taiwan people being punished for the immodesty of European and West Asian Chics?

Well here is the world seismic activity map(courtesy – http://www.iris.edu/seismon/). Most of the harsh quakes seem to be happening in the island and coastal regions. Do the sharks and octopuses have anything to contribute to our equation of illegal sex and earthquakes? May be it is the shrimps who live in the coastal waters. You might also notice that the deserted places are void of earth quakes too. No earthquakes seem to hit Tundra or Siberia or Ice Caps. So it has something to do with sexual activity.
Again what about the European countries where sex trade is permitted? They do not get as many Quakes as Indonesia does – the world’s largest Muslim population area.

Here is my final report on this issue.
Don’t waste your time relating Adultery to Earthquakes. If women could cause natural disasters by flaunting cleavage then men are doomed, but so are women.

We have faced this problem many of the times. When we want to display some message on top of all layers on a page or use some feature like jQuery light boxes. Normally the flash file continues to shine through the page. No matter what you do with layering the dom elements using z-index.

See the layering flash content problem definition here.

Before this, people used to dodge this issue with some fixes like hiding the flash area completely and then showing a static image of the html file in its place. Then it gave a semblance of layering flash beneath html content. But since flash 9 we can layer flash elements under html with ease.

See the solved situation where we have content over flash.

What you need to do to achieve this?

Nothing much. You set z-index value to your divs. Say we have a flash div (#flasho), a div for creating a the transparent layer (#transo), and the div for displaying content as a light box (#boxo)

Here is the css for them all. There is also the javascript code for the effect call on button click. (see solved example link above.

<style type="text/css">
#flasho{z-index:0;}
#boxo{top:200px;left:400px;border:1px double #600;width:532px;height:210px;margin:0px;z-index:100;position:absolute;display:none;background:#FFFFFF;}
#transo{background:#000000;height:400px;;width:100%;-moz-opacity:.80;top:0px;left:0px; filter:alpha(opacity=80); opacity:.80;display:none;position:absolute;z-index:99;}
</style>
<script type="text/javascript">
function addthiseffect()
{
document.getElementById('transo').style.display="block";
document.getElementById('boxo').style.display="block";
}
</script>

Now for the flash part we need to do this little addition. Add wmode=”transparent” to the <embed> tag and <param value=”transparent” /> to the <object> tag. See my Flash code below that I have used in my example.

<div style="float:left;width:343px;height:160px;margin-top:7px;z-index:0;">

<OBJECT

codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"

WIDTH="343" HEIGHT="160"><PARAM VALUE="flash/course-in-aviation.swf"><PARAM VALUE=high><PARAM VALUE=#00000><param value="transparent" /><EMBED src="flash/course-in-aviation.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#FFFFFF WIDTH="343" HEIGHT="160" wmode="transparent"

NAME="myMovieName" ALIGN="" TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"

PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED></OBJECT>

</div>

This post will address your owes about taking Counties in Three Kingdom online strategy game. Counties are special cities that have very high resources output and a huge troops capacity. I know you want to have one of them. I just did and it is darn useful.

blue - Counties - TKO - 15,000 defenders.

What are counties and What do I get out of it?

The Blue ones are counties with around 1100-1200 population. They have fully upgraded buildings. These are packed with granaries and ware houses. You cannot trade from these cities. But you can send resources form other cities to this one. Barrack and Stable are level 20 so you can churn out troops fast. Plus, you get 4500 of each resource per hour. 5500 or so food.

Can anyone take away my county?

Yeah they can. Your County or Capital does not count as a permanent city like your cities. So it does not reflect on your rankings as well. Nor does it eat up your culture points required to take the capital. You probably need to defeat the standing army to win over the county form another player.

Who Guards the Counties?

The system guards it. There is a force of 15,000 troops to defend the city. 10000 swordsmen and 5000 heavy infantry of wei type. So be prepared before you plan to take it. Nothing less than 10,000 troops will bring it down. If you don’t have so many troops then you might need to seek help form you friends or league. For example the county I took recently with my friends needed 12 players sending between 1000 to 2000 troops each.

It can be effectively be achieved with 3-4 players sending a force of 3000 to 4000 each. The more the cavalry you send the better. There are theories that 3000 cavalry (Imperial Guards, Quing Cavalary or similar) can do it alone.

Capital Cities appear purple. See the image below. They have got 30,000 defenders in there. I have no idea what are the benefits. There will be more resources I guess. Will let you know when we do take one on s9 server.

Capital City in Three Kingdom - 30,000 defenders