Affiliate Marketing Secrets

I just enabled TrueView Ads on my Music Youtube Channel:http://www.youtube.com/user/alfonsopablo
I understand that viewers have the option to skip the ad after 5 seconds, but I have the following questions:
1. With Overlay Ads I know that I get the money when viewers actually CLICK on the ad. What is the equivalent to a “CLICK” in a trueview ad ? When do you get the money ? Is it after a fixed period of time (ie. 50% of the ad, 30 seconds, 100% of the ad ?)
2. As it is illegal to watch your own ads, how do you prevent this to happen when you access your own channel ?
3. What is the average earning per view ? 20 cents ? 50 cents ?

I would like to advertise some apple products on my blog without having to deal with affiliate networks. My blog is at http://www.ipaddecals.net/blog/

It seems like there is so much technology out there (Cisco, Juniper, XTML, Pearl, Adobe and so on) there is no way one person can grasp all its concepts. So I guess my question is, whats the best way to base my career path in IT? Is it to study a niche, like Networking or Programming? Or should I spend my time learning about bits and pieces of as much as I can to be more well rounded?

I wrote a series of comical essays book, based on adventures I’ve had.
Below is the synopsis, which of these titles should I name it?
1) Splash, the world is my puddle
2) Cali for my kidney
3) Adventures of a girl not so famous
In this sarcastically written book of essays, Emily takes getting in and out of trouble to a whole new level.
A small town girl chasing dreams in Manhattan as a struggling actress, Emily finds herself in one crazy adventure after another. She explains the ups and downs of serving pretzels for a living, while cluing readers in on the secrets of airline. One day she’s riding around with Mr. Softee, the next day she’s naively being flown first class to Los Angeles by a sketchy director. She almost sold her kidney on the black market for money to move to California, and almost married a guy in Vegas she never slept with.
While she might not be rich or famous, she lives an exciting life abundant in adventure. She’s been almost kidnapped, chased by mobsters, and attacked stray dogs in Costa Rica, her theory is “The world is my puddle waiting for me to splash.”
thanks!

I’ve recently found out (according to my father) that I’m 1/16th Cherokee, which, according to what I’ve read, is supposed to be a qualifying amount to be registered with the EBC.
I’ve known pretty much all my life that I was some degree of Cherokee, and I knew that it had to be not too far off because I show a lot of the features (dark hair and eyes, facial structure, etc). I’ve had people ask me if I was Cherokee and how much without me mentioning it, so I finally decided to ask how close it was.
Now that I know that it’s close enough, I was wondering what steps you have to take to actually become part of a tribe. I’m not looking for the benefits or anything (to be honest, I’m not even sure if there even are “benefits” or what those benefits would be), I just really like the culture and the history and think that it would be an awesome privilege to be affiliated with them.
Do you think I’m taking too much of a leap, here? I wouldn’t want to try anything that would be disrespectful toward them. If not, I’d really like to know how I could actually do something about joining.

My friends and I frequent a restaurant on my college campus. When we arrive, we drop all of our jackets and book-bags in some closets at the front of the restaurant before going in (at the request of the restaurant) so that we don’t have to put them on the floor under the tables and also, in part, to ensure that we are not bringing alcohol into the restaurant. We have always complied with this policy, because the restaurant asked us to. However, I recently found out from one of the restaurant’s former employees that the general manager would frequently ask restaurant staff to search through our bags while they were in those closets. I have never seen a sign posted in the restaurant indicating that this is policy.
I realize there are various moral and ethical implications at play, but is this legal? For what it’s worth, we are in the state of Connecticut, and the restaurant is an independent restaurant (not affiliated with our University).