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The Three Golden Rules of Online Content Writing for Businesses

By Stuart Withers + July 31st, 2012

Trying to establish your business in the digital realm is no walk in the park. If you?re a business owner and you?re not considering the content that you are producing, then you need to re-think your online strategy and pay close attention to a few of the golden rules detailed here. Content is the hidden [...]

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Trying to establish your business in the digital realm is no walk in the park. If you?re a business owner and you?re not considering the content that you are producing, then you need to re-think your online strategy and pay close attention to a few of the golden rules detailed here. Content is the hidden key to your online success, whether you?re using it to get to the top of Google or using it to promote your products and services. Read on to find out why content holds all the power and why you need to play by these rules.

Content is king!

First, I want to show you why content is the most powerful tool you have. So, to do that, I want you to perform a little imaginative exercise. Close your eyes and picture the internet without content. Now, close your eyes and picture the rest of the world without content. What do you have left? A massive void of nothingness that doesn?t disclose anything.

That is the power of content. It?s everywhere, from the information on your website or brochures to the words written on bus stop ads. Without content, the world wouldn?t have a voice! So, now that?s established, let?s have a look at the golden rules.

Rule number 1 ? Write for the human user

I?ve seen so many businesses get side-tracked with search engine optimisation (SEO) that they completely forget about the humans that have to read through their content. If you don?t write your content for the human user, then you?re doing nothing to attract them to your business.

SEO is important, but you are doing your SEO to attract more traffic to your website. So if people arrive at your site and see a load of jibberish that doesn?t give any value to them, then they?ll soon be heading elsewhere. Focus on writing informative, engaging, and useful information for your visitors and they?ll be coming back for more. At the end of the day, the best SEO is natural SEO.

Rule number 2 ? Use keywords sparingly

This is another one of the downfalls of many businesses online marketing campaigns. Keywords are important for SEO, there?s no doubt about that, but spamming keywords like they are the only words you?ve ever learned will do nothing but damage your efforts. Plus, your visitors are going to have a hard time reading your content if the keywords are in there unnaturally.

The art of ?keyword stuffing? is an SEO technique that has long gone. Google?s algorithm updates (mainly its Panda update) have fully revised the way it gives sites relevance. It can instantly spot the overuse of keywords and will punish your site for it, even banning sites in extreme cases. Instead, use your keywords strategically so the content still flows and can be read naturally. You only need a keyword density of about 1%, which means a keyword should only appear four times in a 400 word article or web page.

Rule number 3 ? Break up your content

This golden rule is one to abide by if you ever write content that?s over a few hundred words, or even a few paragraphs. In the online world, people have short attention spans. There are so many clickable distractions littered around the virtual world that can easily see them navigating away from your web page, article, or other content. The best technique you can use to hold their attention is to give them your content in bite-size chunks.

Take this post as an example. I?m placing a bet that you?ve read this far because you could easily see the journey this article would take you on. You have the main heading, the intro text, and then the neat little subsections. This breaks a 700 word article down into easy to digest chunks.

Just imagine if this article was nothing more than a heading and a large chunk of text. You?d either be too scared to start reading, unsure of what the article contained, or you would?ve got a paragraph in, looked at the rest, and thought to yourself ?will this ever end??.

If you structure your content so that your readers know exactly where it is going and what it is about, then they?ll be more inclined to read on. Another great technique is to do as I have done here, and make each paragraph only a few sentences long, as this breaks your content down even further, giving you an even greater opportunity to hold those attention spans.

That?s the golden formula

Well, that?s the three golden rules covered. There are other ?not so golden? rules too, but if you master these three then you?ll be writing quality, readable content that users can enjoy in no time at all? and you?ll still be doing your all-important SEO. So, what are you waiting for? Get writing and see what you can come up with!

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Stuart Withers is an internet author, copywriter, SEO pro and content marketing whiz kid. He spends most of his days writing articles, blogs, websites, press releases and more for a variety of clients. He currently works for Marketing By Web, who specialise in SEO, PPC, and social media marketing. If you need help with any of these, or with your content creation and website copy, then pay them a visit and see what they can do for you.

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Workers' Compensation Insurance Rates Increase Accross The USA

July 31, 2012 Posted by admin

BusinessInsurance.com published an article on July 29th, 2012 discussing the workers? compensation rate increases across the United States and what some companies are doing about it.

Some of the key points:

Liberty Mutual, the largest writer of Workers? Comp insurance, has raised rates on Middle Market workers compensation policues?by an average of 12.1% during the 2nd quarter.

As rates increase, many businesses?are leaving their fixed cost policies behind for loss sensitive plans where they have more control over their premiums.

What you can do?

1- The most important fact in determining your net Workers? Compensation Insurance costs is how well you control losses. If you do not have a loss control or injury prevention and treatment plan in place, or your current one has not been effective, getting it in place and working is step one.

?2- If you pay $100,000 or more in Workers? Compensation Insurance premiums and have good controls in place, a?loss sensitive plan such as a large deductible plan or Group Captive Insurance program might help you gain long term control over your workers? compensation insurance costs.

Note: The ?Webinars and Video? section of our website?includes how to control your losses as well as group captives.??https://www.sbhins.com/webinars-and-video/

Here is a link to the entire article on BI.com: http://www.businessinsurance.com/article/20120729/NEWS08/307299979?tags=|329|76|304|92

This infomration is brougth to you by James S Smith, of Smith, Buckley & Hunt Insurance Agency, your Mass workers? compensation insurance resource.

Jim can be reached at Jim@sbhins.com or at 508-586-5432

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Exclusive 'Nitro Circus 3D' Clip: Nail Or Fail?

By Ashleigh Schmitz From the MTV show "Nitro Circus" comes "Nitro Circus 3D." The TV show that went there with ridiculous stunts is now a 3-D film. In this exclusive clip, take a peak at one particular stunt involving an inner tube, a ramp and a human pyramid. We won't ruin it for you ? [...]

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Dick Cheney on his heart pump and Obama's record

With a new heart, Dick Cheney is back.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Jonathan Karl, Cheney reflects on the "miracle" that a heart transplant promises to give him years of added life. And Cheney shows he is as confrontational as ever, taking on President Obama -- and even Sarah Palin.

Cheney, 71, details how far back he has come. He remembers waking from weeks of heavy sedation after having a pump installed in his heart in 2010, a grueling operation that left him seeing his own mortality in the mirror.

"Two years ago this time I was on a respirator, heavily sedated. Just had a pump... installed on my heart because my heart had gotten so weak after six heart attacks and 30-some years of heart disease that it was, you know, it was at the end," he said.

"I lost 40 pounds. I was heavily sedated in the intensive care unit for weeks afterwards. I had pneumonia while I was in recovering from the surgery. And by the time I came out from under I looked in a mirror and what I saw was my dad shortly before he died. He was in his 80s," Cheney said.

That is why Cheney, in his first interview since his heart transplant four months ago, calls his recovery "nothing short of a miracle."

"I haven't felt this good in years," he said.

He doesn't know who gave him his new heart because protocol is to maintain anonymity, but the former vice president said there is a program that allows an intermediary to reach out to the donor family to see if they want contact with the recipient.

"At some point I would be, you know, certainly amenable to contact with the family. But we have not at this point exchanged any information," Cheney said.

If contact was made, Cheney said he would "express my gratitude for what's a magnificent gift. I can't think of a more magnificent gift than to be given additional years of life."

Healthy again, Cheney has resumed his love of fishing and his frank evaluations of politicians, including himself.

Cheney left office as one of the most unpopular vice presidents in the country's history, but the man known for his defiance of public opinion is vintage Cheney.

"I'm very comfortable with what I did, and why I did it, and how I did it," he said.

When asked if he had any regrets, Cheney replied, "Not really."

"You can't be judged, and shouldn't judge, people in those senior levels by the polls," he told ABC News.

He does not spare his fellow Republicans, calling Sen. John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin as his vice president running mate a "mistake."

Cheney said Palin had been governor of Alaska for two years at the time and "did not pass the test" of being ready to be president.

He also wryly described how the list of vice presidential candidates is used by officials up for reelection.

"I had a couple of calls from politicians who'd say, 'You know, it'd really help me in my race back home, Dick, if I was on the list.' Done. You're on the list," said Cheney. "Then somebody could go leak the fact that they were on the list."

Cheney helped vet candidates for Gerald Ford in 1976 and George W. Bush in 2006 that ultimately settled on Cheney.

"But that was the big list. It was easy to get on the big list. The tough part is the small list, the one that's really under active consideration," he said.

Cheney's harshest criticism, however, was for President Obama.

"I obviously am not a big fan of President Obama. I think he's been one of our weakest presidents. I just fundamentally disagree with him philosophically. I'd be hard put to find any Democratic president that I've disagreed with more," he said.

When asked if he thought Obama was "worse than Jimmy Carter," Cheney replied, "Yes."

Cheney gave Obama credited for killing al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, but added that "a lot of that intelligence that laid the groundwork for what ultimately led to the capture of Bin Laden [was] as a result of programs we had in place in the Bush administration."

He was sharply critical, however, of Obama's plans to withdraw troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We should not be running for the exits. We should not be turning our backs on our friends in that part of the world," he said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/newsmakers/dick-cheney-on-his-heart-pump-and-obama-s-record-20120730.html

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Young-adult books? Or kids' books? ? Joanne Jacobs

[unable to retrieve full-text content]The panelists aimed to include books like Catcher in the Rye, William Golding's Lord of the Flies, and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, which have been essentially ?claimed by teens? but weren't initially intended for them.

Source: http://www.joannejacobs.com/2012/07/young-adult-books-or-kids-books/

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Creative Adventures At Home: School Room Organization

It took me a long time, but I finally got the school room looking the way it should. We moved in six months ago and the school room/family room/dining room was the last one to be finished. Being on the spectrum, C needs a lot of routine, schedule and organization. It was tough homeschooling him with all of stuff being in such disarray.
Welcome to our homeschool world!





This is the bookcase where I keep the curriculum, books that I reference, teaching games, flash cards, software and sentence cards. I keep magazine files at the bottom for each subject to hold smaller items such as items that I want to copy or magazines, thin books, etc... In this bookcase I store the non-fiction books, readers and fiction books. We keep our world map here on the wall for marking as we travel along with Galloping the Globe and next to the bookcase I have hanging file folders to hold my weekly files 1-36 (more on that later). The credenza is next to our little bookcase and I store a lot in here. Science kits, craft supplies, extra school supplies, paper, folders, etc. On top I keep books for our geography study and the globe. I have baskets of books based on our units of study for easy access. Here is my action area and where most of our schooling takes place. Directly across from the desk is a large dining room table where we do our school work. I found the most adorable calendar and trim set from Trend at the local teacher's store. Personally, I don't laminate, but I just have one student and we get tired of the theme after one year. We got our sentence chart from Target for $1. I bought a few of them and use them in quite a few places throughout the house. Over the printer, I have a clipboard hanging where I keep library lists so that I know which books are due when. It has really helped keep down our overdue fines! ;) On top of my desk, I keep a hanging file box where I keep all of my teacher's manual in use. This way, all I have to do is pull out each one as we need it and then I just slip it back in the box after I am done. No more searching for manuals before a lesson! Next to the desk are C's workboxes. We really enjoy using these and I have written previously about how I have set them up. I base my set-up on Sue Patrick's book, Sue Patrick's Workbox User's Manual. Above the workboxes is a 3-drawer box where I keep our school supplies. I will write more about my system and what I put in his drawers as soon as I can. I so enjoy organization! As you can see by this wall, I have more charts :) One is to show our daily schedule. I bought two more sentence charts at Target for $1 each and glued them together. The Dollar Tree had the time schedule cards for $1 and I had them laminated so that I could change times if I needed to. The hanging file organizer works great for holding all of our file folder games. I put the games into C's workbox on certain days. My toughest challenge was to find a place to put the chalkboard. We are really short on wall space. So I got creative and put it on top of the dinosaur of a television that sits in the family room. It works. I just move it over to the dining room table when we need it. Behind the chalkboard, I store our morning basket which holds our books and memory work that we use at our morning meeting. I found the cutest little basket at Target in the $1 bin. I feel like we finally have some peace and that we are "home". C is much more happy with school now that there is routine and organization. Things flow so much better. Now if I could just get those lesson plans done...

Source: http://creativeadventuresathome.blogspot.com/2012/07/school-room-organization.html

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X-cite by Alghanim Electronics announces the launch of X-cite Blog

The X-cite blog available on (xciteblog.com) is a technology portal created to provide an interactive platform where latest trends, product reviews and opinions are shared. The X-cite blog is an effective channel for product reviews, recommendations and exchange of opinions between the brand and its audience.

Ali Maaz, Head of Product amp; Sales at xcite.com commented, X-cite believes in an era where companies differentiate themselves based on superior customer experience through different channels. The X-cite blog is an effective platform for communicating and reaching out to anybody interested in consumer electronics and home appliances. It gives us an interactive and engaging platform that helps us serve our customers better.

Apart from being the electronics only blog in the region, the X-cite Blog is all about communicating to people. Customers can review the expert opinions and product reviews made by the blog authors as well as get truthful insights from our readers on various products. The blog consists of posts that vary from basic thoughts on rumored or released electronics to in-depth reviews on wild card electronics, and helpful guides on how to make the most out of the latest gadgets. The posts even carry video previews of the products so readers can get a real time experience of what is spoken about the product. The authors are trained technology specialists and the general style of the blog is to encourage community participation by enabling readers also to add in with their experiences, comments and feedback on products. Readers are encouraged to comment, rate, ask, discuss, critique, or simply speak their mind. The blog also announces new products that are launched on xcite.com as well as the various ongoing promotions and discounts. X-cite customers can use the blog to read comments on different products and therefore have better insight before purchasing it online. The X-cite blog aims at attracting and developing a regular audience through constant and freshly updated content.

In the past few months, xcite.com has built a strong presence on social media channels such as twitter ,Facebook, Instagram, Google plus and Pinterest. With the effective use of social media, X-cites online portal xcite.com has been actively expanding its customer reach. Following the launch of X-cite blog, the newest edition in social media, xcite.com aims to build a stronger online community.

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VENITISM: INDUSTRIAL ESPIONAGE AND SABOTAGE

China has made industrial espionage an integral part of its economic policy,
stealing company secrets to help it leapfrog over foreign competitors to further
its goal of becoming the world's largest economy. What has been happening over
the course of the last five years is that China has been hacking its way into
every corporation it can find listed in Dun& Bradstreet!

Chinese are stealing entire industries. This may be the biggest transfer of
wealth in a short period of time that the world has ever seen. The hackers are
part of a massive espionage ring codenamed Byzantine Foothold by U.S.
investigators. They specialize in infiltrating networks using phishing e-mails
laden with spyware, often passing on the task of exfiltrating data to others.
The hacking is centrally coordinated in China. Byzantine Foothold is made up of
one hundred hackers.

Chinese hackers provide unique room service, infiltrating internet service
providers to the world's leading hotels, gaining access to millions of
confidential messages of traveling executives, as well as to the victims'
corporate networks. They've also infiltrated major brothels of the West,
gaining personal information on top executives.

Governments and gangs realize malware is much cheaper than mainstream warfare.
Malware, short for malicious software, consists of programming designed to
disrupt operation, gather information that leads to loss of privacy or
exploitation, gain unauthorized access to system resources, and other abusive
behavior. Malware includes computer viruses, worms, trojan horses, spyware,
dishonest adware, scareware, crimeware, rootkits, and other malicious and
unwanted software or program. In law, malware is sometimes known as computer
contaminant.

Computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a
computer. A virus can spread from one computer to another. Viruses can increase
their chances of spreading to other computers by infecting files. In order to
replicate itself, a virus must be permitted to execute code and write to memory.
For this reason, many viruses attach themselves to executable files that may be
part of legitimate programs. If a user attempts to launch an infected program,
the virus' code may be executed simultaneously.

The more sophisticated a virus is, the more exciting it is to crack its
algorithm. There's a little professional respect involved, too. But it has
nothing to do with enthusiasm. Every virus is a crime. A cyber war can't be
won; it only has perpetrators and victims. Out there, all we can do is prevent
everything from spinning out of control.

Based on the number of programmed viruses, Russia is in third place behind China
and Latin America. Russians are also among the most sophisticated
and advanced players in criminal cyber activity. These days, they invent viruses
and complex Trojan programs on demand. They launder money through the Internet.
However, the largest number of harmful programs are written in Chinese. This
means that they can be coming directly from the People's Republic, but also from
Singapore, Malaysia and even California, where there are Mandarin-speaking
hackers.

In general, the crime level in India is low. It's probably a matter of the
mentality. India and China have roughly the same population, the same computer
density, a similar standard of living and similar religious roots. But China
spits out viruses like they were coming off an assembly line.

Americans are now openly saying that they would respond to a large-scale,
destructive Internet attack with a classic military strike. But what will they
do if the cyber attack is launched against the United States from within their
own country? Everything depends on computers these days: the energy supply,
airplanes, trains. The Net has become a war zone, a platform for professional
attacks on critical infrastructure.

Governments are behind many of the virus attacks! Russian spammers directed
special computer networks known as botnets against Estonia. It became the
prototype of a belligerent cyber attack on a country. The attackers didn't just
cripple government websites; they also sent so many spam e-mails that the entire
Internet channel to Estonia quickly collapsed. The country was cut off from the
world. The banking system, trade, transportation, everything ground to a halt.

Stuxnet, a computer virus developed by CIA and Israeli Intelligence, can
infiltrate highly secure computers. Stuxnet entered the global political arena in June
2010. The virus had attacked computers at Iran's Natanz nuclear facility, where
scientists are enriching uranium, and manipulated the centrifuges to make them
self-destruct. It is a digital bunker buster. The virus represents a
fundamentally new addition to the arsenal of modern warfare. It enables a
military attack using a computer program tailored to a specific target.

Internet security firms have raised the specter of a new round of cyber warfare
with the detection of the Duqu virus, a relative of last Stuxnet. Duqu's
detection comes amid growing talk in Europe about launching pre-emptive strikes
to stop cyberattacks before they happen. But the nature of malware like Duqu and
Stuxnet make pre-emptive strikes unrealistic.

The problem is you can't really say where they come from. You need evidence
about who is behind an attack before you can strike preemptively, but you can
never be sure. You can't attack infrastructure, or even send in a stealth
bomber, because any information about a location could be a red herring.

Duqu is not spreading like Stuxnet. Duqu was carefully placed and can be
controlled remotely. Duqu has been used to target only a limited number of
organizations for the specific assets. Its warhead is not aimed at the
technology industry. Duqu is being used to steal information; it's industrial
espionage.

Flame is a new virus developed by CIA and Israeli Intelligence, much stronger
than Stuxnet and Duqu. Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on
computers, turn on PC microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and
log instant messaging chats. Both Flame and Stuxnet appear to infect machines by
exploiting the same flaw in the Windows operating system and employ a similar
way of spreading.

Flame stays hidden because it is so different to the viruses, worms, and trojans
that most security programs are designed to catch. Flame tries to work out which
security scanning software was installed on a target machine and then disguises
itself as a type of computer file that an individual anti-virus program would
not usually suspect of harboring malicious code. Flame also escapes detection
because it is so tightly targeted. It's much much easier writing protection for
a piece of malware than analyzing what it actually does. Dissecting Flame to
find out all of its quirks and functionality will take time.

Kaspersky Lab unearthed Flame. While the espionage toolkit infected systems
across the Middle East, Iran appears to have been its primary target. United
States, UK, India, Israel, China and Russia are among the countries capable of
developing such software, which costs at least a hundred million euros to
develop. Software that manages industrial systems or transportation or power
grids or air traffic must be based on secure operating systems.

Malware makers can hide their tracks using spoofing, VPNs, proxy services, and
other means to make it look like they are based in any number of countries -
when in truth they are somewhere completely different.

The government of China has made trillions of euros doing industrial espionage
with malware developed by Western corporations! This is an unfair and illegal
comparative advantage. Moreover, China has infiltrated all the infosystems of
all governments and all international organizations! Now Uncle Chen knows
everything about Uncle Sam, Uncle Ken (UK), and Fourth Reich (EU)! But nobody
can penetrate the Firewall of China, which was developed by Cisco!

The West has developed electronic weapons that could be used to defend the West
against cyber attacks or prevent them. The West is prepared to strike first in a
cyber conflict. Cyber arms grow out of control. No government can guarantee it
can protect a country or entity against cyber attack. In future wars, there will
be a cyber element. Countries hope that if they threaten to use missiles to
retaliate against a cyber attack, others will think twice about launching one.

After security experts learned that Flame had infected computer networks in Iran
and even systems in neighboring Arab countries, its creators have dispatched a
suicide command that killed off the virus.
The suicide code was designed to completely remove Flame from the compromised
computer, but in doing so it does more than just eliminate the infection. The
prompt that kills off Flame removes so much of the virus' information that
researchers will be unable to study the outbreak.

The module contains a long list of files and folders that are used by Flame. It
locates every file on disk, removes it, and subsequently overwrites the disk
with random characters to prevent anyone from obtaining information about the
infection. This component contains a routine to generate random characters to
use in the overwriting operation. It tries to leave no traces of the infection
behind.

Very early on there was some sharing between authors of both Stuxnet and Flame.
Obama authorized the continuation of a cyberwar program aimed at Iran that had
been initiated during the presidency of George Bush. Given the ties between the
two malicious programs, the killing off of Flame could very well be an attempt
by the government to give researchers less time to further find a relationship
between the viruses.

Eugene Kaspersky declares that cyber terrorism can bring the end of
civilization! Doomsday scenarios are a common occurrence now, but coming from
Kaspersky they should raise alarm bells. A global Internet blackout and
crippling attacks against key infrastructure are among two possible
cyber-pandemics. Kaspersky is afraid cyber terrorism is just beginning. Very
soon, many countries around the world will know it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
Kaspersky is afraid it will be the end of the world as we know it!

Kaspersky believes the evolution from cyber war to cyber terrorism comes from
the indiscriminate nature of cyber weapons. Very much like a modern-day
Pandora's Box, Flame and other forms of malware cannot be controlled upon
release. Faced with a replicating threat that knows no national boundaries,
cyber weapons can take down infrastructure around the world, hurting scores of
innocent victims along the way.

Source: http://venitism.blogspot.com/2012/07/industrial-espionage-and-sabotage.html

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The Three Major Benefits of Using LinkedIn for Business | Arty Apt

If you are trying to gain more online attention to your small business, then LinkedIn for business should be the first place you start! LinkedIn is one of the most popular social media platforms that can be utilized by a business because the goal of this site is to network business professionals with one another, just like you would do in person!

What Are the Benefits of LinkedIn for My Business?

There are three huge benefits that a business professional can gain from using LinkedIn properly for their business, they are as follows:

1. Networking opportunities ? By creating a business page for your company via LinkedIn, you can network with other professionals that have companies in your local area, thus opportunities for cross promotion are available to you. Your business will also be known to their followers. Linkedin for business is a great way to even expand your company by finding reliable business owners that you can partner with to build your business bigger within the local area.
2. Lead people into your site ? You can use your social media page to also direct followers to your website, which is just another way that you can increase your presence in the community and sales too!
3. Share your expertise- By posting in the forums and sharing your relevant and positive comments you are able to establish a presence online as an expert in your field.

Consider this social network as a business opportunity that all business owners should be taking advantage of!

What If I Don?t Know My Way Around Social Networking Sites?

Not all business owners are technologically savvy, or simply have the time to update social media sites regularly. This isn?t necessarily a bad thing. Outsourcing professionals to keep you on top of your LinkedIn site can help to ensure that you are making the most of this online resource. These professionals understand that LinkedIn for business is a tool that can help to create networking opportunities and even boost your business, and they can take charge of building your online credibility and presence so that your business can benefit from all of these opportunities.

Why Outsourcing This Need is Smart!

While you might be thinking that you can hire someone in house to take care of your Linkedin account, it is important to think of costs first. Hiring someone for a few hours a week to take care of your social media account can cost more than it might even be worth in the long run. But, outsourcing can help to cut your costs by up to half of what it would cost to pay for someone to improve your account on payroll. Outsourced professionals know all the ins and outs of LinkedIn for business, and dedicate their time to ensuring that you are successful with your social media accounts. Saving money is always important, and with outsourcing assistance you can have that. On top of that, you will have a great presence on social media accounts, which will then boost your sales and help you grow your business.

Linkedin for business is a great way to share your business with others and get noticed!

The Three Major Benefits of Using LinkedIn for Business is written by the LinkedIn Marketing Experts at OutsourceGeek. More info on LinkedIn Marketing can be found by clicking this link.

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Aykroyd officiates at Chase daughter's wedding

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Dan Aykroyd officiates at Chevy Chase's daughter's wedding.

By Randee Dawn

Maybe they weren't ever an official comedy team, but "Saturday Night Live" veterans Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase have certainly brushed up against each other in the funny business over the years, sharing screen credits in films like "Spies Like Us."

Recently they took up entirely different roles in each others' lives -- as Aykroyd officiated at the wedding of Chase's daughter, according to a post Aykroyd put up on his Facebook account?Thursday.?

"It was an honor, privilege and great responsibility to have officiated as the spiritual minister at Chevy Chase's daughter's wedding," he wrote. "The bride and groom are delightful and beautiful young people who will help define together a more positive and loving future for themselves, family, friends and the world."

New York Magazine's Vulture column?speculates that the daughter is Chevy's eldest, Cydney Chase, and that the gray-haired man with the bald spot in the front row (see the photo) is likely the father of the bride. Of course, that's Dan in the middle of the bride and groom, giving plenty of laughs to the entire bridal party.

Congrats to all!

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Benefits that help:- Any abuse of business mobile devices.- Parents who give a device to their children and want to track the call records or locating the positions of their kids.- Know any activities of your girlfriend or boyfriend by tracking the calls.

With the breathtaking development of CPS technologies, a number of latest cell phones have been incorporated with GPS capabilities. By applying a sophisticated algorithm for location pinpointing, owners of GPS-embedded phones can do the tracking based on the signals of local transmission powers.The employer can then trace the position of the employee using the GPS location tracking systems.

Point three: Cell phones save people time. I can?t count the number of pointless trips the cell phone has saved me. ?Hey are we still going out for supper Friday? on the other end of the phone I occasionally hear ?Uhhhhhh?? I forgot, can we make it next week?. My cell phone just saved me a wasted 20 minutes of traveling across town and waiting at a table, just to realize they had obviously forgot about our meeting.

You may uncover several advantages of using a program that enables one to spy on mobile cellphone texts. Children and teenagers use texts for some with their communications. With mobile phone spying, you can actually investigate those your toddlers offer with everyday. Since plenty of teenagers use various Internet web-sites to produce new pals, it is essential to have option of something excess to aid retain them secure.

It is not enough to trace a mobile cell phone tracker once but, you need to make sure that this number is repeating every day in order to make sure that there is something wrong in this relationship. In other words, your partner could be calling a certain person for business purposes for a couple of days then this situation stops and the calling ends but, if the calling procedure is continuous then there is a relationship that you need to know its limitations. Trace a mobile phone number or even several numbers before you talk to your partner about cheating.

In the midst of the technological bliss that the whole world is experiencing as of today come the latest innovations and developments in looking up unknown owners of the numbers that have been calling you. Whether it is with regard to telephone numbers or mobile phone numbers, it does not matter. One particular field to keep focus on is the free cell phone number lookup service widely available in the internet and the commercial market as of today. It comes in two forms, first in software and second through any of the reverse mobile phone lookup service providing websites available in the web as of today.

Not only is this new cell phone text tracking good for family purposes but also great for any business. People concerned over a kids phone messages can certainly feel more at ease knowing all that is being sent. But businesses too can benefit knowing that employees are not taking advantage of being able to send a quick personal text message on company time.

This software has been manufactured for use on smartphones for example BlackBerry, iPhone and Android, and it is suitable for Windows Mobile, Symbian OS and iPad. After it is installed on a phone, the application boot styles up each and every time these devices is started up.

You can find a number of alternatives at your disposal when you really need a mobile phone trace. One example is, if you have the number, you can do a reverse directory search on it to learn who the owner is. These in most cases let you know a lot more information than merely the owner?s identity. You can usually also uncover where the account is located, the address associated with the account, any other phone numbers on the account, and which cellular phone supplier the account is on.

Realtime?s tracking function allows the Garmin 305 provides all the details about distance, speed and also your heart rate when you are moving. All this data is recorded and used as historical data of GPS in accessibility features Training Center Software. This training data can be downloaded for detailed analysis, even an online mapping and route sharing can now be done with the hint. So that this feature makes it easy and efficient in planning the next exercise.

The method lets you spy on text along with every other pursuits about the cellphone.
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BELLA laser achieves world record power at 1 pulse per second

Public release date: 27-Jul-2012
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As Berkeley Lab's laser plasma accelerator project BELLA nears completion, its drive laser has delivered 1 petawatt a quadrillion watts of peak power once each second, a world record for laser performance

On the night of July 20, 2012, the laser system of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA), which is nearing completion at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), delivered a petawatt of power in a pulse just 40 femtoseconds long at a pulse rate of one hertz one pulse every second. A petawatt is 1015 watts, a quadrillion watts, and a femtosecond is 10-15 second, a quadrillionth of a second. No other laser system has achieved this peak power at this rapid pulse rate.

"This represents a new world record," said Wim Leemans of Berkeley Lab's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (AFRD) when announcing the late-night success to his team. Leemans heads AFRD's Lasers and Optical Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies program (LOASIS) and conceived BELLA in 2006.

"My congratulations to the BELLA team for this early mark of success," said Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos. "This is encouraging progress toward a future generation of smaller and far more efficient accelerators to maintain our nation's leadership in the tools of basic science."

"Congratulations to all of you on this spectacular achievement," said Stephen Gourlay, Director of AFRD. "It doesn't seem that long ago that BELLA was just a dream, and now there is even more to look forward to. Thank you all for the hard work and support that made this a reality."

Leemans says, "BELLA will be an exceptional tool for advancing the physics of laser and matter interactions. The laser's peak power will give us access to new regimes, such as developing compact particle accelerators for high-energy physics, and tabletop free electron lasers for investigating materials and biological systems. As we investigate these new regimes, the laser's repetition rate of one pulse per second will allow us to do 'science with error bars' repeated experiments within a reasonable time."

The BELLA design draws on years of laser plasma accelerator research conducted by LOASIS. Unlike conventional accelerators that use modulated electric fields to accelerate charged particles such as protons and electrons, laser plasma accelerators generate waves of electron density that move through a plasma, using laser beams to either heat and drill through a plume of gas or driving through plasma enclosed in a thin capillary in a crystalline block like sapphire. The waves trap some of the plasma's free electrons and accelerate them to very high energies within very short lengths, as if the accelerated electrons were surfing on the near-light-speed wave.

LOASIS reported its first high-quality electron beams of 100 million electron volts (100 MeV) in 2004 and the first beams of a billion electron volts (1 GeV) in 2006 in a sapphire block just 3.3 centimeters long. Planning for BELLA began shortly thereafter.

The BELLA laser is expected to drive what will be the first laser plasma accelerator to produce a beam of electrons with an energy of 10 billion electron volts (10 GeV). Before being converted to other uses, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center achieved 50 GeV electron beams with traditional technology, but required a linear accelerator two miles long to do it. By contrast, the BELLA accelerator is just one meter long, supported by its laser system in an adjacent room.

"LOASIS know-how in assembling our own laser systems allowed us to specify the laser requirements and specifications we'd need to achieve reliable, stable, tunable 10 GeV beams with short warm-up time," Leemans says. "U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said that new tools lead to new science, the kind BELLA is specifically designed to do. "

The BELLA laser system has already demonstrated compressed output energy of 42.4 joules in about 40 femtoseconds at 1 Hz. Its initial peak power of one petawatt is twice that of lasers recently said to produce pulses more powerful than that consumed by the entire U.S. "at any instant in time." "Instant" is the operative word, since the BELLA laser's average power is just 42.4 watts, about what a typical household light bulb uses. The enormous peak power results from compressing that modest average power into an extremely short pulse.

Developed by Thales of France, whose team at Berkeley Lab was led by Francois Lureau, and installed in facilities constructed at Berkeley Lab, the BELLA laser system is fully integrated with Berkeley Lab equipment and personnel protection systems. It is expected to rapidly improve upon its first record-breaking performance and will soon be able to deliver the powerful pulses needed to create 10-billion-electron-volt electron beams in an accelerator just one meter long. Experiments to demonstrate BELLA's ability to attain 10-GeV beams will begin this fall.

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More about BELLA is at http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2009/12/22/accelerators-tomorrow-part2/ and http://www.lbl.gov/publicinfo/newscenter/features/2008/apr/af-bella.html.

More about LOASIS is at http://loasis.lbl.gov/, http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/AFRD-GeV-beams.html, and http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/AFRD-laser-wakefield.html.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world's most urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab's scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes. The University of California manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. For more, visit www.lbl.gov.

DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit the Office of Science website at science.energy.gov/.

Thales is a global technology leader with a unique capability to design, develop, and deploy equipment, systems, and services that meet the most complex requirements. Thales has operations around the world working with customers as local partners.

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paul_preuss@lbl.gov
510-486-6249
DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

As Berkeley Lab's laser plasma accelerator project BELLA nears completion, its drive laser has delivered 1 petawatt a quadrillion watts of peak power once each second, a world record for laser performance

On the night of July 20, 2012, the laser system of the Berkeley Lab Laser Accelerator (BELLA), which is nearing completion at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), delivered a petawatt of power in a pulse just 40 femtoseconds long at a pulse rate of one hertz one pulse every second. A petawatt is 1015 watts, a quadrillion watts, and a femtosecond is 10-15 second, a quadrillionth of a second. No other laser system has achieved this peak power at this rapid pulse rate.

"This represents a new world record," said Wim Leemans of Berkeley Lab's Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (AFRD) when announcing the late-night success to his team. Leemans heads AFRD's Lasers and Optical Accelerator Systems Integrated Studies program (LOASIS) and conceived BELLA in 2006.

"My congratulations to the BELLA team for this early mark of success," said Berkeley Lab Director Paul Alivisatos. "This is encouraging progress toward a future generation of smaller and far more efficient accelerators to maintain our nation's leadership in the tools of basic science."

"Congratulations to all of you on this spectacular achievement," said Stephen Gourlay, Director of AFRD. "It doesn't seem that long ago that BELLA was just a dream, and now there is even more to look forward to. Thank you all for the hard work and support that made this a reality."

Leemans says, "BELLA will be an exceptional tool for advancing the physics of laser and matter interactions. The laser's peak power will give us access to new regimes, such as developing compact particle accelerators for high-energy physics, and tabletop free electron lasers for investigating materials and biological systems. As we investigate these new regimes, the laser's repetition rate of one pulse per second will allow us to do 'science with error bars' repeated experiments within a reasonable time."

The BELLA design draws on years of laser plasma accelerator research conducted by LOASIS. Unlike conventional accelerators that use modulated electric fields to accelerate charged particles such as protons and electrons, laser plasma accelerators generate waves of electron density that move through a plasma, using laser beams to either heat and drill through a plume of gas or driving through plasma enclosed in a thin capillary in a crystalline block like sapphire. The waves trap some of the plasma's free electrons and accelerate them to very high energies within very short lengths, as if the accelerated electrons were surfing on the near-light-speed wave.

LOASIS reported its first high-quality electron beams of 100 million electron volts (100 MeV) in 2004 and the first beams of a billion electron volts (1 GeV) in 2006 in a sapphire block just 3.3 centimeters long. Planning for BELLA began shortly thereafter.

The BELLA laser is expected to drive what will be the first laser plasma accelerator to produce a beam of electrons with an energy of 10 billion electron volts (10 GeV). Before being converted to other uses, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center achieved 50 GeV electron beams with traditional technology, but required a linear accelerator two miles long to do it. By contrast, the BELLA accelerator is just one meter long, supported by its laser system in an adjacent room.

"LOASIS know-how in assembling our own laser systems allowed us to specify the laser requirements and specifications we'd need to achieve reliable, stable, tunable 10 GeV beams with short warm-up time," Leemans says. "U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu said that new tools lead to new science, the kind BELLA is specifically designed to do. "

The BELLA laser system has already demonstrated compressed output energy of 42.4 joules in about 40 femtoseconds at 1 Hz. Its initial peak power of one petawatt is twice that of lasers recently said to produce pulses more powerful than that consumed by the entire U.S. "at any instant in time." "Instant" is the operative word, since the BELLA laser's average power is just 42.4 watts, about what a typical household light bulb uses. The enormous peak power results from compressing that modest average power into an extremely short pulse.

Developed by Thales of France, whose team at Berkeley Lab was led by Francois Lureau, and installed in facilities constructed at Berkeley Lab, the BELLA laser system is fully integrated with Berkeley Lab equipment and personnel protection systems. It is expected to rapidly improve upon its first record-breaking performance and will soon be able to deliver the powerful pulses needed to create 10-billion-electron-volt electron beams in an accelerator just one meter long. Experiments to demonstrate BELLA's ability to attain 10-GeV beams will begin this fall.

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More about BELLA is at http://newscenter.lbl.gov/feature-stories/2009/12/22/accelerators-tomorrow-part2/ and http://www.lbl.gov/publicinfo/newscenter/features/2008/apr/af-bella.html.

More about LOASIS is at http://loasis.lbl.gov/, http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/AFRD-GeV-beams.html, and http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/AFRD-laser-wakefield.html.

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory addresses the world's most urgent scientific challenges by advancing sustainable energy, protecting human health, creating new materials, and revealing the origin and fate of the universe. Founded in 1931, Berkeley Lab's scientific expertise has been recognized with 13 Nobel prizes. The University of California manages Berkeley Lab for the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. For more, visit www.lbl.gov.

DOE's Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit the Office of Science website at science.energy.gov/.

Thales is a global technology leader with a unique capability to design, develop, and deploy equipment, systems, and services that meet the most complex requirements. Thales has operations around the world working with customers as local partners.

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Google TV now lists movie New Releases, to let users control YouTube vids from phones and tablets

While hardware manufacturers like Sony and Vizio have been hard at work making new Google TV devices, the folks in Mountain View have been in the lab cooking up new software features for the platform. We got to speak with Google TV's VP of Product Management Mario Queiroz today, and he shared a couple of tasty tidbits with us.

Firstly, he informed us that there's now a New Releases section in GTV's listings, which makes it easier than ever to find the latest and greatest movies. Additionally, it turns out that GTV's taking a page from the Nexus Q and YouTube Remote playbooks to let users control YouTube videos on the big screen from their phones and tablets. Essentially, you'll be able to bring up a video on your mobile device and have it populate on your TV with the tap of a finger. However, unlike Apple's AirPlay -- which delivers a similar UX by streaming video from a mobile device to an Apple TV -- Google's tech simply has your Google TV device stream the video directly from the web. Naturally, Mario wouldn't dish out any more details about new feature, nor would he say exactly when this functionality will be pushed out to the public, but rest assured we'll let you know when it does.

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Critical Factors on Email Encryption and Other Basic Safety Software

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An entrepreneurs day spent examining and working through hundreds of email messages is a day thrown away because they are able to do more with their time. Fortunately, email encryption, anti-spam, and email archiving might help manage web mail to deliver much better productivity for companies.

Blocking Unsolicited mail

Junk mail is unrequested e-mails sent to people. They mainly focus on certain users within a particular group, while some target anyone arbitrarily. Its main purpose is to market a product, support, or brand promoted by a certain company. This organization desires to have more consumers to get a lot more profits. Emails with no valuable email filtering software cant sort which emails are junk mail or otherwise.

Junk mail companies can also vary. Many online gaming players, for example, may send email communications to promote an internet site, blog, and so on. Cellular phone consumers might also receive unsolicited mail SMS randomly. At these times, charges may apply and the client winds up having to pay extra amounts.

While delivered or obtained junk e-mail may be innocuous, an e-mail list full of such e-mailmessages is frustrating. Checking the mentioned e-mail communications can be tedious as you try to arrive at important emails. In some instances, deficiency of spam blocker could also prove harmful. Emails with spyware and adware can easily corrupt your personal computer or a network system fast. Spyware and adware may even cause file losses and such occasion leaves you vulnerable as an organization. Papers lost often means lack of ability to reconcile product sales differences because you dont hold the papers to justify your claim. It may also lead to legal cases if unscrupulous individuals got your client information and other important details.

This condition is a sure-fire way to spend far more. Your business will more than likely need fixes and resetting at this time. Restoring data files on your own may also mean spending on overtime work. Even worse, you may also need a lawyer to defend against suits as they come.

Encryption and E-mail File Archiving

email encryption is a method of delivering secured electronic mails. Authorized individuals have the key to open the program code and therefore read its entire material. When compromised or acquired by the incorrect receiver, information will be more challenging to figure. Many e-mail message encryption software program have certain limitations. Some may not enable printing of the e-mail communication when unauthorized.

email archiving software is mostly about holding and saving communications. This ensures records are typically in certain semblance of order for later access. Certain software applications may try this by means of cloud storage to allow online accessibility anytime. They may likewise arrange confined accessibility through limited passwords.

Simple guidelines

False positive involves authentic emails taken out by the anti-spam software program. When you buy, check the numbers offered by merchants in regards to this feature. Ideally, lower number of false positives is far better to decrease the risk of deleting significant communications. When it comes to file encryption and archiving, go through the basics before choosing advanced solutions. At times, fundamental characteristics might curently have the solutions youll need and this might be more affordable.

Merchant status also matters so better check with with colleagues and friends if they are aware of efficient merchants. You may also do your very own research by browsing through accounts and media information on the top suppliers. Compare prices, package deals, consumer warranties to protect your interests.

Source: http://www.article-i.com/internet/critical-factors-on-email-encryption-and-other-basic-safety-software/

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Futurity.org ? New risk factors for chronic skin cancer

The study reveals that particularly intense sun exposure before the age of 30 is a strong a predictor of basal cell carcinoma occurrence among the high-risk study population, even decades later in life. (Credit: iStockphoto)

BROWN (US) ? New analysis suggests that for some people with high risk factors, basal cell carcinoma is a chronic disease.

High sun exposure before the age of 30 was a major predictor, as was a history of eczema.

?Basal cell carcinoma is a chronic disease once people have had multiple instances of it, because they are always at risk of getting more,? says Martin Weinstock, professor of dermatology in the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, who practices at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

?It?s not something at the moment we can cure. It?s something that we need to monitor continually so that when these cancers crop up we can minimize the damage.?

Dermatologists hold out hope for a medication that will help prevent recurrences of BCC. To test one such medicine, Weinstock chaired the six-site, six-year VA Topical Tretinoin Chemoprevential Trial, which last year found that the skin medication failed to prevent further instances of BCC in high-risk patients.

Weinstock is the corresponding author of the new study, published online July 19 in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, which presents an analysis of the risk predictors of BCC recurrence found among the trial?s population of 1,131 people, all of whom were veterans, 97 percent of whom were men, and whose median age was 72. On average, a participant had more than three episodes of BCC or squamous cell carcinoma before entering the study.

History, eczema, and early exposure

Overall, 44 percent of study participants developed new BCCs during the study period. The biggest predictor of another bout with BCC after three to four years of follow-up was a prior history of them.

The 129 participants who had more than five BCCs in the five years before the study had a hazard rate ratio that was nearly four times as high as that of the 204 people who had none or one and more than twice as high that of the 200 people who had three.

Eczema was another predictor of BCC recurrence in the study?s high-risk group. Participants who acknowledged a family history of the skin condition had a hazard rate ratio 1.54 times higher than people who did not, after statistical adjustments.

?We don?t know why this is,? Weinstock says. ?The connection with eczema is something that?s new, that needs to be further explored.?

Age was another predictor, and not just in providing further confirmation that the risk people face increases with age. The study also showed that particularly intense sun exposure before the age of 30 was a strong a predictor of BCC occurrence among the high-risk study population, even though for most of them their 30s were decades ago.

?We talk about sun protection, which is important, but that?s something for basal cell that?s most important in your youth,? Weinstock says. ?While we don?t exonerate UV exposure in one?s 40s, 50s, and 60s, it was particularly UV exposure before the age of 30 that was most closely related to BCC in our study.?

Awaiting a new trial

If limiting UV exposure is most crucial before the age of 30, what can doctors do for older people who may be headed for multiple bouts with BCC?

?Right now we have this wait and cut approach,? he says. ?We know these people are at high risk and we know that most of them are going to get more.?

A better solution comes back to finding and testing preventive medication. Tretinoin didn?t work, but Weinstock says he and his colleagues are testing another called 5-Fluorouracil. He said he is optimistic but has not yet seen the data from a trial that began about three years ago.

Robert Dyer of the Providence VA Medical Center and Brown University is the study?s lead author. In addition to Dyer and Weinstock, other authors on the paper are Tobias Cohen, Amilcar Rizzo, Stephen Brigham, and the VATTC Trial Group.

The US Department of Veterans Affairs Co-operative Studies Program funded the research.

More news from Brown University: http://news.brown.edu/

Source: http://www.futurity.org/health-medicine/new-risk-factors-for-chronic-skin-cancer/

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