Sun Life Financial marketing campaign wins two AMA Mark of Excellence Awards
“The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial, Inc. (NYSE:SLF, TSX:SLF) has been honored by the American Marketing Association (AMA) for its Income ON DemandSM marketing campaign. The award-winning campaign was honored in both the “integrated campaign” and “collateral sales kit” categories at the AMA Connecticut chapter’s 2008 Mark of Excellence Award Ceremony held on March [...]

“The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial, Inc. (NYSE:SLF, TSX:SLF) has been honored by the American Marketing Association (AMA) for its Income ON DemandSM marketing campaign. The award-winning campaign was honored in both the “integrated campaign” and “collateral sales kit” categories at the AMA Connecticut chapter’s 2008 Mark of Excellence Award Ceremony held on March 27…” (Read full article here)

AllofMp3.com goes out with a whisper
“AllofMP3.com was perhaps the only online music store where hardcore members of the file-sharing community would spend money - other than newsgroup access. For a few cents per track, customers could download songs from a catalog of millions without any type of DRM (Digital Rights Management). Currently, the AllofMP3.com domain is off line and inaccessible. [...]

“AllofMP3.com was perhaps the only online music store where hardcore members of the file-sharing community would spend money - other than newsgroup access. For a few cents per track, customers could download songs from a catalog of millions without any type of DRM (Digital Rights Management). Currently, the AllofMP3.com domain is off line and inaccessible. However the mirror site AllofMP3.ru displays the message, “Attention | We are sorry but the server is closed for [maintenance]. If AllofMP3 is truly dead, it’s the end of an online icon. AllofMP3.com was more popular than iTunes in many markets, and showed that for the right price and file compatibly, people were willing to buy music online…” (Read full article here)

Sun Life Financial names Melody Powell Assistant Vice President of Diversity & Inclusion
“The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF, TSX:SLF) announced the appointment of Melody Powell to Assistant Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion. As Assistant Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion, of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Powell will be responsible for developing and implementing Sun Life’s diversity initiatives strategy. Additionally, Powell will research [...]

“The U.S. division of Sun Life Financial Inc. (NYSE:SLF, TSX:SLF) announced the appointment of Melody Powell to Assistant Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion. As Assistant Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion, of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), Powell will be responsible for developing and implementing Sun Life’s diversity initiatives strategy. Additionally, Powell will research best practice and benchmarking information to share across the enterprise on topics ranging from recruitment, retention and work-life issues to career development and educational practices….” (Read full article here)

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Microsoft enters PC retailing market
“Microsoft crafted their empire with software. Operating systems, office suites, desktop productivity – it made them one of the most successful companies in the world. They are no stranger to hardware, either, crafting Microsoft-branded keyboards, mice, gamepads and a slim variety of other hardware. However, it has long been a more bit part of their [...]

“Microsoft crafted their empire with software. Operating systems, office suites, desktop productivity – it made them one of the most successful companies in the world. They are no stranger to hardware, either, crafting Microsoft-branded keyboards, mice, gamepads and a slim variety of other hardware. However, it has long been a more bit part of their business – until now. Microsoft is for the first time ever going to be selling desktop computers. Launching initially in India, their PCs are part of their Unlimited Potential program, which intends to foster technology growth in developing nations…” (Read full article here)

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Hundreds of commercial bathroom accessories and products, from automatic soap dispensers, paper towel dispensers, touch free hand dryers, baby changing stations, and more.

Google Desktop arrives on Linux
“Google has finally released a long-awaited native Linux application: Google Desktop for Linux. As with the already shipping OS X and Windows versions, Google Desktop enables Linux users to search for text inside documents, local e-mail messages, their Web history and their Gmail accounts. The first version supports many popular versions of Linux. It comes [...]

“Google has finally released a long-awaited native Linux application: Google Desktop for Linux. As with the already shipping OS X and Windows versions, Google Desktop enables Linux users to search for text inside documents, local e-mail messages, their Web history and their Gmail accounts. The first version supports many popular versions of Linux. It comes in the form of both RPM and a DEB distribution packages. The RPM can be installed on Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, and Mandriva distributions. The DEB will install on Debian and Ubuntu systems. The program works with both KDE and GNOME…” (Read full article here)

AMD launches Radeon HD 2600, 2400 graphics cards
“As expected, AMD has finally introduced mainstream derivatives of its flagship Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card. These derivatives include Radeon HD 2600 XT, Radeon HD 2600 Pro, Radeon HD 2400 XT, and Radeon HD 2400 Pro models. The 2600-series cards are based on the 65nm RV630 graphics processor, while the 2400-series models are based [...]

“As expected, AMD has finally introduced mainstream derivatives of its flagship Radeon HD 2900 XT graphics card. These derivatives include Radeon HD 2600 XT, Radeon HD 2600 Pro, Radeon HD 2400 XT, and Radeon HD 2400 Pro models. The 2600-series cards are based on the 65nm RV630 graphics processor, while the 2400-series models are based on the 65nm RV610…” (Read full article here)

My Calasa, Samboan Trip
Feb 5-7, 2008. Hisoler's Mountain

Evaluating the SBA bailout
Big news is afoot in Washington as it seems that the US Treasury is about to step in and launch a $15billion bailout of the Small Business Administration. The plan is to use federal bailout money to buy out SBA loans. There is also talk that President Obama is to raise the cap on SBA [...]

Big news is afoot in Washington as it seems that the US Treasury is about to step in and launch a $15billion bailout of the Small Business Administration. The plan is to use federal bailout money to buy out SBA loans. There is also talk that President Obama is to raise the cap on SBA loans.

The Washington Post has all of the information. Interestingly, it was only a week ago that we wrote that CIT must be saved and criticized the federal government’s failure to bail out CIT. Well, CIT seems like it will keep its head above water and survive. The SBA bailout is probably the best news to come out of Washington in months, and its worth noting that IFA First Vice Chairman Kenneth Walker (Driven Brands CEO), IFA Secretary Jon Luther (Dunkin’ Brands Exec. Chairman) and IFA President and CEO Matthew Shay have been holding meeting with Treasury representatives this week.

Here’s a brief run-down of the reaction to the decision.

Over on the Huffington Post, business columnist Jerry Chautin provides a
run-down of all the chatter on Twitter to the move. He quotes Stacy Kildal, owner of Advanced QB ProAdvisor, who wrote “Even if a loan/line of credit isn’t needed right now, who knows what may happen down the road? Form the relationship now.” A window as opened, Kildal and Chautin urge entrepreneurs and prospective franchisees to get out there and talk to your loan officer.

“Get an introduction to the chief loan-officer and find out how the loan committee makes its decisions. Ask how business loans are underwritten, what collateral is required and learn about the credit qualifications you need to pass muster,” Chautin writes.

Meanwhile, over on the always interesting New York Times’s You’re The Boss blog, Scott A Shane provides some charts on the decline of small-businesses in the US. One can only hope that this bailout by the federal government can reverse this trend.

Finally, the Wall-Street Journal offers small-business people tips on other routes to secure funding, beside the big loan providers. For franchisees, Advice on pursuing funding via microloans and peer-to-peer networks seems especially worth considering.

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West Los Angeles Dental Practice Adds ezlase Laser Treatment to its Services

Dr. Sheba Mahmoodian strives to provide her patients with the utmost comfort in soft tissue dental procedures with the latest in technical advances, ezlase laser treatment, the newest addition to Woodside Dental practice's comprehensive list of dental procedures. (PRWEB Jul 26, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/Dr_Sheba_Mahmoodian/Woodside_Dental/prweb2660714.htm

AfterOurs Urgent Care Opens at University of Nebraska Medical Center Physician's Clinic

University of Nebraska Medical Center's Eagle Run facility now offers both primary and urgent care services. A co-location with AfterOurs Urgent Care creates affordable urgent care services and expands access to non-emergency healthcare. (PRWEB Jul 24, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2671184.htm

Team24 News Article - New EU Directive Offers a Healthy Outlook for Niche Recruitment Companies like Team24

The European Working Time Directive states that by 1 August 2009 all doctors in training should be working a 48-hour week. Aimed at protecting trainee doctors' health and safety from the effects of working long hours, recruitment industry leaders are also seeing this move as a great opportunity, writes Robert Stiff MD Team24. (PRWEB Jul 23, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2629834.htm

A Solution for the "Sandwich Generation" That Still Wants to Retire: Serena Senior Care Opens the First Assisted Living Residence in Baja California

For many "Boomers" the dream of retirement is now becoming an illusion, with shrinking investment funds and with the new found responsibility of taking care of their parents. The Solution: Retire in Mexico and Bring Mom Along. To take care of your parents Serena Senior Care, recently opened the first Assisted Living Residence in Rosarito, Baja California, Mexico called Casa Harmony. (PRWEB Jul 24, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2670254.htm

More Than 500 Philadelphia Youth with Asthma and Their Families to Attend Keystone Mercy Healthy Hoops Program

Terrence Howard, Tyrese Gibson, Brent Celek and Jameer Nelson, Celebrities and Players of the Charlie Mack Celebrity Basketball Game, Expected to Attend the Day's Events (PRWEB Jul 24, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/Keystone_Mercy/Healthy_Hoops/prweb2671574.htm

Snoring Isn't Sexy, LLC Announces Commendation Program to Honor Sleep Physicians Who Work with Dentists to Manage Sleep Breathing Disorders

Snoring Isn't Sexy, LLC has developed a section at SnoringIsntSexy.com to commend those sleep physicians and sleep centers who work with member dentists to recommend and refer those patients who have failed CPAP treatment, those who cannot tolerate CPAP therapy, and those who prefer oral appliances to CPAP . (PRWEB Jul 23, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/sleep_apnea/snoring/prweb2669944.htm

APEC Extends Trade Agreements to 2010
Jul. 23 - The members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have decided to extend its present investment and trade regulations until 2010. The group held its Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting in Singapore this week attended by trade ministers from the 21 APEC economies.  At the top of their agenda were policy changes to improve [...]

Jul. 23 - The members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) have decided to extend its present investment and trade regulations until 2010.

The group held its Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting in Singapore this week attended by trade ministers from the 21 APEC economies.  At the top of their agenda were policy changes to improve the region’s response to the financial crisis.

Instead of adjusting trade and investment barriers at the end of this year, trade ministers have decided to maintain the status quo and hopefully wait for the markets to rebound.

“We agreed to extend the above commitment for another year, that is until 2010, and stand ready to extend this further, if necessary,” the  trade ministers attending the Ministers Responsible for Trade Meeting of APEC 2009 was quoted by Xinhua in a statement.

The group added that they will “promptly notify the WTO of any measures that fall short of these commitments.”

The trade ministers also promised to regularly evaluate their commitment to free trade and open markets by reducing barriers to trade and investment reform.

Careerjet Türkiye İçin İş Arama Motorunu Hazırlamıştır

Yüksek trafikli iş arama motoru olan Careerjet, Türkiye için yeni web sitesini yayımlıyor

Careerjet tarafından yayımlanan yeni bir iş arama motoru (www.careerjet.com.tr) iş arayan Türklerin hizmetine sunuldu. Internetteki en kapsamlı global iş arama motoru olan Careerjet iş arayanları maksimum sayıda iş verenle buluşturan uluslar arası ağını güçlendiriyor.

Sadece müşterilerinin verdikleri iş ilanlarını yayımlayan kariyer sitelerinin aksine Careerjet, sahip olduğu teferruatlı teknolojisi sayesinde, bütün internet sitelerini iş ilanları için taramaktadır. Careerjet'in sahip olduğu sistem, interneti, Türkiye için iş bulma kurumları, gazeteler, iş ilanı siteleri olmak üzere pek çok kaynak için tarama yapar. Bu iş ilanları daha sonra iş arayanların arama kriterlerine uygun biçimde düzenlenir. Düzenlenmiş olan bu listedeki ilana tıklandığında iş arayanlar doğrudan ilanın orijinal halinin bulunduğu sayfaya yönlendirilirler ve böylece iş aramada yaşanılan kargaşa ortadan kalktığı gibi aynı zamanda iş arayanların doğrudan başvuru yapabilmelerine de olanak tanınmaktadır.

Artık, Careerjet'in diğer ülkelere özgü iş arama motoru hizmetlerinden iş arayan Türkler de faydalanabileceklerdir. Aralık 2007 tarihinden beri beta halde olan careerjet.com.tr iş arayanlara evlerinden rahatça yapabilecekleri ve her an kullanabilecekleri bir iş arama hizmeti sunmaktadır. Careerjet arama motoru, içerdiği iş ilanlarının büyük çoğunluğu da dahil olmak üzere türkçedir.

Careerjet Türkiye'ye on binlerce iş ilanı eklenmiş olup, son iki ay için sitenin aldığı trafik katlanarak artmış böylece siteyi Türkiye'nin en kapsamlı güvenilir iş bulma motoru yapmıştır.

2002'den beri, iş arayanları milyonlarca iş verenle buluşturarak iş arama motoru sıralamalarında aldığı yüksek trafik yardımı ile en yüksek konumlara tırmanmaktadır. Careerjet, global iş ilanlarını tek bir veritabanında bulundurarak ayrıntılı bir biçimde planlama yapmaktadır. Bu iş ilanı listelenmeleri, iş arayanları doğrudan iş ilanının verildiği asıl siteye yönlendiren bir araç olarak görülebilir.

Careerjet her bir internet sitesini oldukça gelişmiş, semantik, bir analiz teknolojisi yardımı ile taramaktadır. Bunun anlamı sitenin nasıl göründüğü veya nasıl dizayn edildiğinin önemi olmaksızın, Careerjet herhangi bir arayüzü irdeleyip anlayabilir, okunabilir hale çevirisini yapıp yoğunlaştırarak arama sonuçlarında gösterebilmektedir.

Firmanın kurucu ortağı Thomas Busch Careerjet'in diğer iş arama sitelerinden farkını şöyle belirtmektedir, “Careerjet benzersizdir, çünkü sahip olduğu iş ilanları iş arayanları 6 büyük nüfuslu kıta üzerinde (üzgünüm Antartika) iş verenlere ulaştırmaktadır. Geniş kapsamlı web sitemiz 50 nin üzerinde ülke için her ülkenin dilinde hizmet vererek her bir ülkeye özgü iş ilanlarını barındırmaktadır. Careerjet böylesine geniş bir aralığı kapsayan tek iş ilanı veritabanıdır.”

Careerjet Türkiye web sitesine ulaşmak için: www.careerjet.com.tr

Inan Aksoy
Careerjet
basin@careerjet.com.tr
+44 20 3051 5121

İş Arama Motorunun Umman Açılımı

Careerjet'in yeni hizmeti ülkedeki tüm iş olanakları toplıyor

Artık Umman'daki iş arayanlar da Careerjet'in benzersiz hizmetinden yararlanabilecekler. İş arama motorunun yeni hizmeti Careerjet.com.om, Ortadoğu'nun bu bölgesini özel olarak hedef alıyor.

Eylül 2008 itibariyle, Umman'da iş arayan tüm kişiler Careerjet'in özel dizinleme sistemiyle derlenmiş ve içerisinde binlerce iş teklifi olan bir veritabanına erişebilecekler. Hizmet İngilizce sunulacak ve tüm iş arayanlar için ücretsiz olacaktır. Bu, Careerjet'in 2008 başlarında açtığı Katar arama motorundan sonra Ortadoğu bölgesindeki ikinci hizmetidir.

Careerjet'in kurucularından Thomas Busch, yeni Umman hizmetini "Ortadoğu'daki iş arayanlar için bu heyecanlı bir zaman. Bugün Maskat'ta bulunan ve eleman arayan birçok uluslararası inşaat ve finans şirketi var. Careerjet'in arama motoru, bütün bu iş tekliflerini bir yerde toplayıp yayımlayacaktır" sözleriyle açıkladı.

Umman hizmeti, Careerjet'in altı kıta üzerinde işlettiği 50'nin üzerinde sitenin sadece bir tanesidir.

Careerjet, 2002'den beri internetten iş bulma işlemini basitleştirmeyi hedeflemiştir. Mühendislerin geliştirdiği semantik analiz teknolojisi, arama motorunun dünya çapında milyonlarca sayfadan iş ilanları bulmasına olanak tanıyor.

Kardeş siteler Option Carriere ve Opcion Empleo ile birlikte Careerjet markası, 57 ülkede görünmektedir. Sistem, günde 10 milyonun üzerinde iş ilanı dizinliyor.

Careerjet Uman http://www.careerjet.com.om adresinden şimdi erişilebilir.

Michael Daventry
Careerjet
pr@careerjet.com
+44 20 3051 5124

Solar Eclipse to be seen Over India, China
Jul. 21 - The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century is scheduled to happen tomorrow and will be fully visible in certain parts of China, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar. The phenomenon will last for as long as 6 minutes and 39 seconds. The next eclipse of its kind will occur on June 13, [...]

Jul. 21 - The longest solar eclipse of the 21st century is scheduled to happen tomorrow and will be fully visible in certain parts of China, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Myanmar.

The phenomenon will last for as long as 6 minutes and 39 seconds. The next eclipse of its kind will occur on June 13, 2132.

According to U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the total eclipse of the sun will be seen from within a narrow corridor that traverses half of earth and the path of the moon’s umbral shadow will begin in India then will gradually cross towards China.

There will also be a partial eclipse to be seen in parts of Indonesia, East Asia, and the Pacific Ocean including the Ryukyu Islands, Iwo Jima, Marshall Islands and Kiribati. In Shanghai, China, the moon is expected to block out the sun for 5 minutes beginning 9:39 a.m. local time.

In addition to Shanghai, the total eclipse will also be visible in the Chinese cities of Chengdu, Chongqing, Yichang, Nanchong, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Huanggang, Hefei, Hangzhou, Wuxi, Huzhou, Suzhou, Ningbo and Jiaxing.

Starting around 5:28 a.m., the eclipse will be seen from the west coast of India before it passes over the eastern states of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh. It can also be seen in the Patna, Surat, Indore, Bhopal and Varanasi.

The event should boost tourism to the cities where the full solar eclipse can be viewed. Travel agencies, hotels and restaurants are offering visitors special tour packages and eclipse brunches to celebrate the event in style.

The JW Marriot hotel in Shanghai has a 360˚ Solar Eclipse Package that includes accommodation and breakfast while Kathleen’s 5 has a black-themed breakfast for RMB128, to name a few. Event company, Eclipse City, has even set-up an observation deck at the Yangshan Island, located about 130 kilometers from downtown Shanghai.

Last July 17, Shanghai Daily reported that China’s Cabinet instructed local government to make preparations for the solar eclipse and ensure that public facilities still run smoothly.

From Banana To NRC: Comparing Overseas Chinese and Indians
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis Jul. 24 - Ask the average Chinese what they think of the mainland Chinese who have been educated or worked overseas and the typical response will be the politically incorrect term describing the said individual as a “banana” – meaning yellow on the outside, white on the inside. Ask the average Indian, the same [...]

By Chris Devonshire-Ellis

Jul. 24 - Ask the average Chinese what they think of the mainland Chinese who have been educated or worked overseas and the typical response will be the politically incorrect term describing the said individual as a “banana” – meaning yellow on the outside, white on the inside.

Ask the average Indian, the same question and instead they’ll refer to the individual as an NRI or a non-resident Indian. The reasons the different responses exist – and the underlying feelings between mild mockery and respect – demonstrate the wide global integration differences that exist between the two countries.

NRI’s have existed and been acknowledged as an important source of overseas knowledge and finance in India for decades. Only recently are professional Chinese regarded in the same light. More usually, being sent overseas has had an attached stigma – often because the Chinese have themselves often been victims of trafficking. But the importance of mainland China’s growing overseas professionals is increasing.

However, with the exceptions of the foreign-educated elite, most overseas Chinese usually just come from three provinces: Guangdong, Fujian and Hainan. Moreover, many of those do not wish to return, seeking a perceived freedom in the West. Obtaining an American passport is seen as more of an incentive than remaining Chinese.

Indians however, not having the stigma of historic human trafficking or “coolie” labor, have generally dispersed with greater influence, and through historic ties with Britain, and to some extent the green card system in the United States, carry more of a cachet in India than their Chinese counterparts do.

No “coconuts” here. NRI’s are thought highly of, with many returning to India armed with knowledge and expertise gained overseas, and keen to play a part in a resurgent India. The difference is marked also in government perception and encouragement. While the Indian government actively engages NRI’s, even issuing overseas Indian ID cards to Indians who may now possess a non-Indian passport, the Chinese government has no such policy.

The Indian ID card affords a welcome home, with financial and tax benefits attached. China provides no such incentive or courtesy. It’s a mistake, as overseas nationals or even those with ethnic ties to their parent country can be valuable resources of intellect, dynamism and finance.

In total, there are about 40million overseas Chinese, mainly spread throughout South-East Asia. Many however are now second, third or even fourth generation and with family memories steeped in civil war and unrest, emotional ties to China have become largely divorced. That’s higher than the number of overseas Indians, generally regarded to being 30 million.

However, the spread of Indians overseas has been, due to links with Britain and the Commonwealth, far more diverse and spread among the West. There are extensive studies on both populations here and here.

China needs to become more mature about how it views its increasing number of overseas nationals and to encourage deeper ties to the mainland. Only by actively reaching out to the Chinese diaspora and engaging with them, and in particular the new generation, will alter the perception.

Overseas Chinese deserve more than to be known locally as “bananas. ” Only when China starts to actively recognize them as a non-resident Chinese or NRC, will the country be able to reconcile the love of the motherland with the experience of gaining knowledge and expertise from abroad.

In this regard, India’s maturity as a nation finding its place and integrating with the world remains far more advanced, a point China’s social analysts may wish to dwell upon.

Chris Devonshire-Ellis is the founding partner of Dezan Shira & Associates and is the publisher of 2point6billion. He has lived in China for 21 years and is now based in Mumbai, India.

British Government Redefinition Could Re-Ignite China-India Border Dispute
By Chris Devonshire-Ellis A statement posted on the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office website last year could cause potential conflict over North-East India territories which are also claimed by China. Since the days of the British Raj, the historic border areas between Tibet, British India and China were usually coordinated by the three. Although some conflicts remain [...]

By Chris Devonshire-Ellis

A statement posted on the British Foreign & Commonwealth Office website last year could cause potential conflict over North-East India territories which are also claimed by China. Since the days of the British Raj, the historic border areas between Tibet, British India and China were usually coordinated by the three.

Although some conflicts remain in West China and India due to agreements made by Tibet and British India and not ratified by the Chinese, the new potential for dispute centers on the Eastern territories of India. These have based upon the Simla Accord, signed in 1913 and 1914 in which Britain only recognized the suzerainty of China over Tibet, and not sovereignty.

Suzerainty is a situation in which a region or people is a tributary to a more powerful entity which controls its foreign affairs while allowing the tributary some limited domestic autonomy. The superior entity in the suzerainty relationship, or the head of state of that more powerful entity, is called a suzerain.

The term suzerainty was originally used to describe the relationship between the Ottoman Empire and its surrounding regions. It differs from sovereignty in that the tributary has limited self-rule. This definition for Tibet has never been accepted by China.

The Simla Accord provided that the area referred to as “Outer Tibet” would “remain in the hands of the Tibetan government at Lhasa.” This region, approximately the covering today’s Tibet Autonomous Region, would be under Chinese suzerainty, but China could not interfere in its administration.

The accord with its annexes also defined lines which would designate the boundary between Tibet and China proper and between Tibet and British India, also known as the McMahon Line. However, China refused to accept the accord and their plenipotentiary, Ivan Chen, withdrew on July 3, 1914.

After his withdrawal the British and Tibetan plenipotentiaries attached a note denying China any privileges under the accord and sealed it as a bilateral agreement on the same day. This lack of a tri-party agreement is the root cause of the existing border disputes that now exist between India and China, and over which several border wars have flared.

This issue was visited again when the British foreign secretary, David Miliband, issued a ministerial statement on its website last October 29 that recognized Chinese claim over Tibet.

On the ministerial statement an Economist article published last year, reported that although the statement does explicitly recognize Chinese sovereignty, it does mean that as far as Britain is concerned: “Tibet is part of China. Full stop.”

This change in Britain’s position consequently affects India’s claim to the North Eastern territories which rely on the same Simla agreement that Britain’s prior position on Tibet’s sovereignty was based upon.

The diplomatic consequences mean that India’s claim over the state of Arunachal Pradesh is compromised, a situation that has already seen China refuse to grant a loan by the Asian Development Bank to India because of its sovereignty claims on the same territory.

The state has a population of over a million people and is agriculturally fertile. How the future of the state will be played out remains uncertain. China has a long history of being patient and is unlikely to repudiate its claims. India however views the state as historically part of India, however, any attempt to further development the state is likely to be met with strong opposition from China.

One hopes the present easing of diplomatic tensions between China and India, as demonstrated at the recent meeting of foreign ministers continues. However, the position that has now risen gives a stronger play to China’s claims and any dispute between the two nations is likely to focus on this region.

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China-India Border Disputes: Arunachal Pradesh or South Tibet?

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Chinese GDP Growth Lifts Asian Markets
Jul. 16 – Asian markets reacted positively with the news that China’s gross domestic product grew by 7.9 percent based on the latest figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The market grew by 2 percent while every major stock market in the Asian region is currently trading in the green tonight, reports the LFB-Forex.com [...]

Jul. 16 – Asian markets reacted positively with the news that China’s gross domestic product grew by 7.9 percent based on the latest figures released by the National Bureau of Statistics.

The market grew by 2 percent while every major stock market in the Asian region is currently trading in the green tonight, reports the LFB-Forex.com Trade Team.

Investor optimism was also buoyed by better than expected results from major U.S. companies like Goldman Sachs and Intel. Investors have been bullish on the huge emerging Chinese market as a way of offsetting depressed demand in traditional Western markets.

So far, this has proven true in the automobile and commodities market but has yet to hold water in other industries since domestic spending in the mainland has yet to reach its peak.

Chinese growth has been fueled by Beijing’s aggressive use of its huge stimulus plan that has it funneling funds to its ailing industries but it remains to be seen whether it will be enough to nurture lasting growth and value. Will things still be as good when the stimulus money runs out?

Despite these, some analysts speculate that China may reach its goal of 8 percent GDP growth by the end of the year.

“This should give people confidence that China’s economy is on strong footing and that there are a lot better days ahead,” Alan Landau, Hong Kong-based president of Marco Polo Pure Asset Management told the AP.

“All the signs point to expansion in China. Sentiment is very positive toward China. Where else in the world right now can you find that kind of growth?”

Trading Getting Better As Week Rolls On: +$295.79
I really like my patience of late. It appears that my lack of focus is a good thing as it doesn’t make me eager to put on trades all the time. Finding the right spots is a big part of this game and the last few days I’ve picked my spots quite effectively. Here are today’s results: After [...]

I really like my patience of late. It appears that my lack of focus is a good thing as it doesn’t make me eager to put on trades all the time. Finding the right spots is a big part of this game and the last few days I’ve picked my spots quite effectively.

Here are today’s results:

After commissions are factored in, I ended up with +$295.79 in profit.

I don’t have much to say as I’m usually more talkative when things go bad and I try to figure out why. Days like today, I just stuck to my rules and traded with patience. I wasn’t greedy trying to stretch profits. My entries were pretty good and the trades worked from the start. Can’t complain.

Here is what the MA trade looked like on the 1 minute chart:

Here is what the SRS trade looked like on the 1 minute chart:

Off to buy ingredients to make lobster sandwiches for dinner. We live in a lobster heavy part of Canada and nothing beats paying around $7 a pound for the freshest lobster. Enjoy the rest of your day everyone.

Unitech Forges Strategic Alliance with Summit

Enhanced partnership brings market-leading Wi-Fi to Unitech devices (PRWEB Jul 24, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2666264.htm

Launch of Naturally for Her™ Revolutionizes Natural Fertility Management for Women

Naturally for Her™, the first U.S. company dedicated to offering women across the globe safe, natural, healthy fertility management options and the premier U.S. distributor of the FDA approved Lady-Comp, launched in early July and offers women access to a complete line of 100% natural, organic and hormone-free fertility management and personal health products. (PRWEB Jul 24, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2661054.htm

Life Sciences Real Estate Outperforming Other Sectors

Occupancy rates and rents for spaces leased to biotech, pharma and medical devices tenants are faring better in some markets than office, retail and other property sectors. (PRWEB Jul 25, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2677404.htm

TagTooga.com: gardening / honda
About gardening / honda

Spectrum Announces Fetal Bovine Serum Product Line

Spectrum now offers Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) originating from abattoirs located in the US, Mexico, Canada, and Australia. In addition to untreated premium FBS, secondary treatments such as heat inactivation, dialysis, or gamma irradiation are available as standard catalog items. Spectrum also announced the availability of specialty pre-screened FBS for embryonic stem cell research. Each FBS order includes a full biochemical and chemical profile, as well as certification of the country of origin. (PRWEB Jul 24, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/fetal-bovine-serum/stem-cell/prweb2670684.htm

As comedies go…
…this one might not be that bad. Especially since it’s got Zach G and Todd Phillips directing. It’s Three Men and a Baby meets Old School, meets every zany Vegas movie meets Mike Tyson’s fist. Watch the trailer for “The Hangover”

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…this one might not be that bad. Especially since it’s got Zach G and Todd Phillips directing. It’s Three Men and a Baby meets Old School, meets every zany Vegas movie meets Mike Tyson’s fist.

Watch the trailer for “The Hangover”

Teknipure Cleanroom Wipers Offer Innovative Solutions for Contamination Control Engineers

Cleanroom wipers manufactured by Teknipure offer innovative solutions for critical environments. Our cleanroom wipers are manufactured from start to finish in one facility enabling maximum quality control. Our wipers are then tested to ensure all quality parameters are met; these include Basis Weight, Sorbency, Liquid Particle Count, Non-Volatile Residue levels, Ionic Extractable contribution, Fibers, Organics, and more. This testing is done internally on every lot and the data can be found at www.teknipure.com Additionally, Independent Testing is conducted periodically to ensure data compliance and correlation. A variety of cleanliness levels are available thru proprietary cleanroom laundering methods. (PRWEB Jul 23, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/cleanroom/wipers/prweb2660114.htm

HCG Diet Direct Sees More Clients with Severe Health Issues - HCG's Alleviation of the Negative Economic Impact of Obesity

HCG Diet Direct has been seeing more and more clients looking for help due to severe health issues as a direct result of obesity. The fast, safe results of the HCG diet offers immediate relief to the negative impact that obesity has on the economy is an added benefit for everyone. (PRWEB Jul 25, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/HCG_Diet_Direct/weight_loss/prweb2679874.htm

Accounts Receivable Factoring for Small Businesses Can Help Convert Payments on Terms to Cash on Delivery to Help Pay for Health Care Costs

The Interface Financial Group (IFG), North America's largest alternative funding source for small business, reports that accounts receivable factoring for small business can convert payments on terms to cash on delivery, aiding small businesses in their effort to pay for health care costs for employees. New research was released by the U.S. Public Interest Group (USPIRG), revealing that 17 percent of small businesses currently do not offer health coverage due to the red tape and high costs. Successful health reform could yield some serious benefits for small businesses in the United States. (PRWEB Jul 23, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2009/07/prweb2667474.htm

New FDA-Approved Shape-HF™ Cardiopulmonary Testing System Validated in Mayo Clinic Study

All results from a recent Mayo Clinic study validate the measurement accuracy of the Shape-HF™ Cardiopulmonary Testing System. Data collected--including HR, SaO2, VO2, VCO2, Fb, VT, and PetCO2 measurements -- by the Shape-HF™ compared favorably to that of the Mayo Clinic Cardiopulmonary Research System and reflected a tight reproducibility of the results. The Shape-HF™ is a new, non-invasive medical device that assesses heart-lung interaction and ventilation in patients with chronic heart failure and other cardiopulmonary disease. (PRWEB Jul 24, 2009)

Read the full story at http://www.emediawire.com/releases/Shape-HF_Medical_Device/Mayo_Clinic_Validated/prweb2673564.htm

Father's Day Top 7 Gifts for Assisted Living Dads

Give Assisted Living Dads Cool Presents
Father's Day is a special time of the year. It is a chance to share memories and to spend time with Dad for all the years he was there for you. Dads that are in assisted living arrangements can enjoy father's day tremendously. Here are some gift ideas to help make the day special.
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Butler struggled with lines and dancing for 'Ugly Truth'
Gerard Butler forgets his lines if he has too many.

China celebrates traditional Lantern Festival with lamps and flowers

A U.S. citizen (L) learns the brush calligraphy of Chinese characters, literally, "Happy Lantern Festival", during a get-together party of local residents and foreigners living on Dongsisitiao Hutong (Alley), inside a quadrangle courtyard, the typical residential rectangular compound, to live a jovial Chinese lunar Lantern Festival, in Beijing, Feb. 8, 2009. (Xinhua/Hao Fei)

Seve wants to play next year's Open
Seve Ballesteros has vowed to play at next year’s Open despite struggling with his vision following surgery and chemotherapy on a brain tumour.

8 Gifts to My Friends

1) THE GIFT OF LISTENING . . .

But you must REALLY listen. No interrupting, no daydreaming, no planning your response. Just listening.

2) THE GIFT OF AFFECTION . . .

Be generous with appropriate hugs, kisses, pats on the back andhandholds. Let these small actions demonstrate the love you have forfamily and friends.

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Missed a week of posting there after being captured in disputed territorial waters… Back now with deadlines looming… It’s exactly as they described it in school – deadlines come and go, progress slows down as you have to work harder and harder to find the last nagging glitches, tempers and patience are tested, but through [...]

Resurfacing
Finally resurfacing from hibernation for a couple of reasons, one of which is to note that in the relatively short time I’ve been blogging, the sheer number of blogs on WordPress has increased from about half a million to 938,000 at last check (moments ago) – if they are all updated as regularly as [...]

The struggle continues
The work continues on our API, though we have had a major breakthrough over the last few days and are on schedule for early March to roll out the build.  It’s been a challenge, with all sorts of issues emerging, and a few instances where we simply thought too much about certain things, instead of [...]

In my natural Habitat
I was out at Habitat last night, on Queen West, for what must rank as perhaps the best meal I’ve eaten in Toronto in quite some time. Arriving early, there was a bit of a delay which the manager put down to Microsoft problems in printing out their new menu, and as an Office [...]

The good, the bad, and the very good
Headed out to Koolhaus last night to catch Damon Albern’s latest incarnation, The Good, The Bad and The Queen.  While the album seems a bit mopey and introspective, the live sound was massive and dynamic, and the show was dynamite.  The band performed a fairly short set – understandable since they only have one album [...]

Craig vs Bill – clash of the titans
Some of the big web personalities want to come out to play. I caught Craigslist founder Craig Newmark on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night, following his Der Spiegel interview of a week or so ago. He seems to be a funny and clever fellow, pointing out to Stewart that the [...]

Better late than…
It’s weeks like the last two that make maintaining a blog rather difficult – so much happening, so many meetings, so much code to write/evaluate/re-write… between that and my busy social life, there isn’t much time at the end of the day to gather one’s thoughts into anything approaching coherence. At any rate, a [...]

More than money
I recently read this very interesting article (Nine things developers want more than money) about what motivates developers, and it got me to thinking about the kind of challenges I like to deal with, and how Shipping Pal has literally exploded over the past year or so as we transitioned from our working proof-of-concept to [...]

Work, music, batteries, placebos
I don’t have a lot of time to post this week as we finally wrap up our API build, coming soon to www.shippingpal-api.com. In the meantime, I’ve got a lot of coding to do myself, as well as integrating all the third party work that has gotten us this far. Such dedication – [...]

Mercedes Unveils Plans For Coming Year
Mercedes-Benz continues to invest heavily in research and development: “well over €1bn is committed to the truck group alone,” says MD Ian Jones, despite what he expects to be the “smallest truck market in the last 100 years”. A dual-fuel Axor will reach the UK later this year and a dual-fuel Actros will follow – despite [...]

Mercedes-Benz continues to invest heavily in research and development: “well over €1bn is committed to the truck group alone,” says MD Ian Jones, despite what he expects to be the “smallest truck market in the last 100 years”.

A dual-fuel Axor will reach the UK later this year and a dual-fuel Actros will follow – despite a forecast that UK truck registrations (above 6 tonnes) will fall by 20,000 from 2008 to 29,000 this year.

Mercedes’ expectations for the van market this year show a similarly marked fall in registrations. The large van market is forecast to fall from around 124,000 registrations last year to 97,000 this year, while the medium van market is expected to fall from nearly 68,000 registrations in 2008 to 55,000 this year.

However, van sales and marketing director Steve Bridge reveals some significant improvements to the Sprinter this summer: in July it will gain a Euro 5 engine with a van-specific, six-speed gearbox, and will benefit from a claimed fuel saving of up to 11%, a 3.5-tonne towing capability, enhanced ESP and trailer stability assist.

And a month earlier, the natural gas Sprinter will be launched. It will have a 1.8-litre supercharged petrol engine backed by a range of gas tanks.

The Vito will gain a facelift in 2010 with EU5 engines (which will also be fitted in the Viano).

Intriguingly, Mercedes-Benz Bank is conducting a feasibility study of establishing in the UK. Jones reveals: “We hope to establish a banking licence here in the UK to enable us to utilise our banking facilities to the benefit of our commercial vehicle business.”

This article was taken from: Road Transport

Free Quickbooks for small businesses
Accounts software firm Quickbooks is offering a free version of its system to small businesses for three days only. The software, priced as around £40 ($60) is available for download until Thursday, so hurry if you want to take advantage of the offer. It’s called Quickbooks SimpleStart and is described as “small business finiancial management software”. You [...]

Sometimes It Is Good To Quit And Let Things Go
Often in business, and life, it is good to quit and let things go. I quite like it when people say “winners never quit”, and I always reply with “yes they do!”. But it is when that matters, they know the right time and they are able to let go. A bit like when big businesses [...]

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Sometimes It Is Good To Quit And Let Things Go

Often in business, and life, it is good to quit and let things go.

I quite like it when people say “winners never quit”, and I always reply with “yes they do!”. But it is when that matters, they know the right time and they are able to let go. A bit like when big businesses expand into new regions. We have seen companies lose millions from it, but instead of pushing on they realise it isn’t working and quit to focus on their home land.

A Few Examples
Yesterday I decided to cut a revenue stream from my online business which has been battered by the credit crunch. It has dived from generating over $400 per month to around $40 per month now (falling horribly over the last 6-12 months). So I’ve called it quits on it, I am very disappointed as over the next year it is thousands of pounds less in revenue that I had forecast!

In the past I’ve also lost money on shares (via spread betting). I set-up a football website hoping to dropship football memorabilia which didn’t work so I quit it. I set-up a debt books site but couldn’t make that work so I quit it. And I spent months on an ecommerce site where the dropshipper then ceased trading just as I had got going making sales, I couldn’t find another dropshipper to fill in so I just killed of the website.

The Lesson
I’m trying to show that I run my online business full-time and love it, yet I’ve had plenty of situations where I had to quit, and I’m really happy I did instead of plodding on with those ideas!

Know Why You Are Doing It
I recently finished reading a book about sharedealing. It spoke about when shares move against you and you lose money. If you researched and everything suggested it was going to rise, then it was the “right” trade, it may not have been successful but it was still in theory “right” (IE long-term you will profit). As long as you know why you are doing the trade you should not be downbeat about the trade.

The same is true for business. Know why you are doing what you are doing. If your market research shows there is a gap in the market for your product, and your costs/profit margins and other factors add up then you have a viable business on your hands. If it doesn’t work then nevermind, the research suggested it would so it was still the “right” decision to set-up the business.

If Things Aren’t Going Great, It Doesn’t Mean Quit
This relates to what I’ve just said above. If your figures add up nicely and your plans are good then you should carry on, going back to the “know why you are doing what you are doing”, if your reasons still stand true then carry on. Quitting as I’ve said is fine, but it has to be done at the right time.

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Sometimes It Is Good To Quit And Let Things Go

New Script & Defamation Email

Preparation for Bux Reload Beta Testing

My Current Bux.to Stats

http://PayBux.com - Bux.to very own payment processor

Barnes & Noble R.I.P.
Founded in 1917, the venerable Barnes & Noble retail chain appears to be well on its way out of business. My assumption is that that is not their goal, but as best I can tell, they are just throwing the grease out in front of themselves towards retail death. Ever since I grokked Amazon in 1996, [...]

Two injured in Limerick row
Two men in their 20s are in hospital following a street brawl in the Castletroy area of Limerick.

UK mortgage approvals hit 15-month high
The number of mortgages approved for house purchase in the UK rose to a 15-month high of 35,235 during June, the British Bankers' Association said today.

What is the Role of a Mentor?
I’ve been working my way through Sir Ken Robinson’s the Element and this evening stumbled into a brief, interesting discussion of mentorship. It seemed worth sharing. Sir Ken believes that “mentors tend to serve some or all of four roles for us [mentees]“: RECOGNITION of the subtleties and nuances that set us apart ENCOURAGEMENT – “mentors lead [...]

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
I think it’s time we moved the word FUCK into the common lexicon. It’s a stellar word. It’s no less stellar than MURMUR, LILT or SCINTILLA. It’s no less useful than LAUGH, SUNLIGHT, GO or COME. A word has only those powers that a society agrees to confer upon it. We are in complete control of those [...]

Robert Scoble vs Facebook (or Freedom of Information vs. Commercial Silo-ing)
The Robert Scoble vs. Facebook saga is me thinks a taste of some of what is to come in the year and even years ahead. Its the old silo-race rearing its ugly little head again. Basically Facebook is saying you’re allowed to use ‘your’ accounts information as long as you do so manually, thus their [...]

EU red tape may slashed for small business
Good news for small business owners in Britain and Europe. The new Czech presidency is preparing to tear up the notorious red tape mountain of the EU. Under new plans, small firms would be required to file only one set of reports and accounts, rather than having to submit information to several government agencies. SMEs would [...]

New ReveNews logo (and a new font, maybe)
The images above are not the new ReveNews logo. The new logo will look like this: The ReveNews guys ran a two day contest at Sitepoint to have the new logo designed offering the winning designer $250 for the design. Rocking up a couple of hours before the deadline I thought I’d give it a quick [...]

Can olderpreneurs ride to the rescue?
A new study by Standard Life suggests that “olderpreneurs” are choosing to set up business on their own rather than seek retirement. Up to a third of people aged 45 to 65 want to work on when approaching the normal age to take it easy. It’s no coincidence perhaps that this is the “baby boomer” [...]

A picture can say so much
What a picture… Quoting from the presidency’s website: President Thabo Mbeki has, to date, received letters of resignation from the following members of Cabinet which, regretfully, he has had to accept:1. Deputy President 2. [...]

Salutogenic Perspectives on Lifelong Learning
Firm Learning: Salutogenic Perspectives on Lifelong Learning as a way towards cultivating Organised Sustainable Prosperity and Well-being of Learning Organisations and their People This Version by André S Clements, 2004 For UNISA IOP377-J: Unisa School of Management Sciences, Industrial Psychology - Human Capacity Development (HCD) Assignment 3: Becoming a Learning Organisation. Introduction - Salutogenic Orientation : Aiming at Optimal Well-being � � Well-being : A Sense of Coherence � � Confident Well-being � � SAVVI/Y - Integral [...]

REPRESENT.CO.ZA
I’ve been impressed by Represent a couple of times, its one of a handful of local sites definitely worth keeping an eye on, especiall their characteristic blend of authentic home-grown voice and urban street smart, so I’m very pleased they like the DK world… Canonball Press opening at David Krut tonight | REPRESENT.CO.ZA Check out one [...]

TagTooga.com: building / premises
About building / premises

The axis of evil in South Africa - Media24’s, Educor, ICG, Damelin College & Intec’s correspondence qualifications circus
The axis of evil in South Africa is Media24, Educor, ICG, Damelin, & Intec’s opportunistic irresponsible profiteering. Media24’s diploma circus Media24 Damelin College Intec NQF National Qualifications Framework correspondence courses South Africa South African

Open thread
For the long weekend ahead, an open thread for you holiday revelers looking for your gospel fix. Some things to get us started. Janet Paschal has the new No. 1 song. The Talleys had a No. 1 with “Life Goes On” in last month’s issue. Good to see good music at the top of the chart. Have [...]

For the long weekend ahead, an open thread for you holiday revelers looking for your gospel fix. Some things to get us started.

• Janet Paschal has the new No. 1 song. The Talleys had a No. 1 with “Life Goes On” in last month’s issue. Good to see good music at the top of the chart.

• Have we talked about this: Guy Penrod is billed as a “Gaither artist” for this benefit show (anybody know how Rector, AR, managed to land the Goodship Gaither?). Perhaps Penrod’s solo career all along was going to work out within the contexts of other Homecoming artists (just what the HC needs: another soloist!), so maybe I’m the one who’s off here. Anyway, and no matter, I’m always interested to see how and when Homecoming prodigals are rehabilitated.

• L5, Booth Brothers and Greater Vision are bringing out a joint project, Jubilee. KingsGold redivivus!

• Daniel Mount reviews Gerald Williams’ has released an autobiography, with the great title, Mighty Lot of Singing’.

What else?

Open thread
What’s on your mind? Some things to occupy the time while you think. Mickey Gamble over at Gospeleer thinks the Perrys have the right idea streaming live feeds of their concerts for free. My question to anyone who caught the recent webcast: what was the quality? And if you’re a diehard (what Mickey calls “followers”), does [...]

What’s on your mind? Some things to occupy the time while you think.

• Mickey Gamble over at Gospeleer thinks the Perrys have the right idea streaming live feeds of their concerts for free. My question to anyone who caught the recent webcast: what was the quality? And if you’re a diehard (what Mickey calls “followers”), does the quality of the feed matter, and how much?  I’m actually asking.

• Speaking of Gospeleer, why does the main blog page only show one post at a time? Sort of makes it onerous on the non-daily visitor who’d like to see the most recent posts without digging into the archive. FWIW.

• Daniel Mount has some clips of the new Inspirations. DBM says they sound better than the old Is. I’d say they sound less bad.

• There’s going to be a big choral extravaganza - Fire in the Choir - at NQC to promote Daywind’s new choral music line (must everything rhyme?). About the same time I saw this, I noticed Roy Webb is playing the SBC convention this year. Which made me wonder, is DW doing a similar choral event for the Baptists at their big get-together? Certainly would make at least as much, maybe more, sense than doing it at NQC.

• The oldest known instruments have been uncovered in an ancient trash pile in Germany. They’re primitive flutes made from bird bone and mammoth tusks some 75,000 years ago. You can listen to the sound of a replica here.

• The SN is confirming what regular readers of this site have known for a while now, Terah Penhollow has left Crabb Revival.

• Kyle must be bored. He’s back at it with another installment of recording oddities.

What else?

Housekeeping
I had a post up here earlier this evening about Greater Vision and popular taste vs being led by your creative lights. But it turns out the post was based on a bogus reading of the facts, so I took it down. The point I was trying to make about the limits of the “nobody [...]

I had a post up here earlier this evening about Greater Vision and popular taste vs being led by your creative lights. But it turns out the post was based on a bogus reading of the facts, so I took it down. The point I was trying to make about the limits of the “nobody likes it but the people” dogma in sg is worth making, but I’ll do that some other time, when I’ve got my facts right. Mea culpa. H/t, NonInsider.

Name that musical move
So there’s that thing the Kingsmen were known for back in the day – you know, where they go from pianissimo to mezzo forte in the space of a measure or less, often using a drum kick and sometimes revoicing the harmonies and occasionally double-timing the rhythm to end big … Here’s an example, which [...]

So there’s that thing the Kingsmen were known for back in the day – you know, where they go from pianissimo to mezzo forte in the space of a measure or less, often using a drum kick and sometimes revoicing the harmonies and occasionally double-timing the rhythm to end big … Here’s an example, which starts around the 2:55 mark:

There are slight variations here (around the 3:05  mark) and here (2:45).

So what is (or, if it doesn’t have a name, should) it be called? Kingsmen in the Clutch? Cloud Formation (as in four chords and cloud of glory)? Big fat forte?

Welcome to the weekend
I’m back, so let’s get started on the miscellaneous stuff we’ve missed in my absence. Via Adam Edwards, there’s another clip out of the Perrys singing another song from their new album live. Via Musicscribe, there will, evidently, be a sg quilt at NQC. For those of you who enjoy southern gospel funerals, Burke has [...]

I’m back, so let’s get started on the miscellaneous stuff we’ve missed in my absence.

• Via Adam Edwards, there’s another clip out of the Perrys singing another song from their new album live.

• Via Musicscribe, there will, evidently, be a sg quilt at NQC.

• For those of you who enjoy southern gospel funerals, Burke has a link to video of Eva Mae LeFevre’s memorial.
  

• James D. Walbert, grandson of James D. Vaughan, and an accomplished pianist and teacher in his own right, died earlier this month (h/t, SS).

• This just in: there is a lot of libido in sg.

• I thought I saw a link to story on a blog somewhere about Billboard making some change to its charting system that related to sg, but I can’t seem to find it now. If anyone has a clue what I’m talking about, chime in below.

What else should we be talking about?

While no one was looking
Judy Nelon’s GospelMusicUpdate.com is well on its way to becoming the go-to site for news from the world of southern gospel, inspo, and Christian country. I actually find the site difficult to navigate (it’s a bit spastically designed and the recent news often gets lost on left). But it’s such a welcome relief to see someone exercise [...]

Judy Nelon’s GospelMusicUpdate.com is well on its way to becoming the go-to site for news from the world of southern gospel, inspo, and Christian country.

I actually find the site difficult to navigate (it’s a bit spastically designed and the recent news often gets lost on left).

But it’s such a welcome relief to see someone exercise some editorial judgment so that personnel changes and album releases and other news of interest from gospel music isn’t muddled in with the sick, dead, newly birthed, and infirm watch from the lives of every performer’s extended family. And by placing news from the top tier of sg alongside other headlines from the adjacent worlds of inspo, CCM, and Christian country, the site implicitly imagines a place for southern gospel beyond the parochial borders that other publications help build and police.

Meanwhile, an artist friend of mine writes:

I used to sell 400 subscriptions of the SN a month at my table. Now I’m down to about 50.  How the mighty fall.

Songs and Celebrity in American Music
Via regular reader NG, and apropos the ongoing conversations we’ve been having about the shifting role of personality/persona in gospel music, a review of a new book about American pop and rock, provocatively titled, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock-n-Roll. It’s not at all about sg, but it may be of interest to anyone curious about [...]

Via regular reader NG, and apropos the ongoing conversations we’ve been having about the shifting role of personality/persona in gospel music, a review of a new book about American pop and rock, provocatively titled, How the Beatles Destroyed Rock-n-Roll. It’s not at all about sg, but it may be of interest to anyone curious about the tensions in commerical music between song-driven albums and celebrity brands built on live performance. Money quote:

Wald’s tome starts and ends with them, but in between there are 16 chapters, hundreds of pages, without so much as a mention of the Fab Four.

It’s a book about the whole scope of American pop, from ragtime, swing and foxtrots to teen idols, disco and the Twist - not to mention how nightclubs replaced balls and barn dances; how radio ruined the sheet-music business; how small combos and DJs replaced dance orchestras; and particularly how records slowly became a bigger business than live music.

That switch took most of the 20th century; it was not really complete until the Beatles retired from touring into the studio. (And it might be reversing itself again now.) While dance bands were somewhat interchangeable, records are marketed on novelty and uniqueness, so a pop mentality that once centred on songs (which would often become hits in multiple versions) evolved to focus on individual musicians as artists and celebrities.

so sorry the sad news
Y Dear friend of Lisa Yumi, So sorry so bad the news. I return Tokyo hospital the early today plane, Rodney wait me tell Lisa having problem in early morning time. Didn’t want telling me the phone. Doctor say Lisa have the brain some blood run out inside make her falling down sleep. Lisa now the long sleep [...]

work call me back
Y Tonight feel difficult time. Lisa no change the memory the walk, all same. Agent phone me say the film the shoot begin the next day. I say cannot, agent saying must do maybe career die no do. Director say Yumi don’t working he the next times I staying Tokyo. I talkng Rodney, he the minder he the [...]

Is Yumi. I return, have new blog.
Hello all beautiful friends, Now almost 2 year from time Lisa go away. In the end I come back but having the new blog is fresh start. If you like is call Sweet Butterfly In Sky I wish I may see you in there. Love, Yumi

I love song think Lisa
Y I memory this Lisa favourite song. Sound Lisa talking me little bit. Make crying stupid Yumi listen sad song. She singer Missy Higgins come Australia. Song call it The Sound of White Like a freeze-dried rose, you will never be, What you were, what you were to me in memory. But if I listen to the dark, You’ll embrace me [...]

Video: How To Use Rentacoder
Step-by-step guide on how to outsource your website development projects using Rentacoder.com

Outsourcing: How It Can Benefit Your Business
"Don’t think of outsourcing only as a way to reduce your costs. Think of it as a way to expand your business." - Source Aside from wanting to save a lot of money, companies also want to outsource to unburden themselves from heavy workloads — often caused by a growing demand of their products. While cost [...]

Understanding Outsourcing
"You don’t need to be a giant company to enjoy the benefits of outsourcing." - Source Outsourcing Defined Despite outsourcing’s increasing trend, there are still some companies that don’t clearly understand what it means. In its most basic terms, outsourcing is when a company delegates certain tasks to a resource that isn’t employed by the company. This [...]

Video: Sample Project Outsourced Through Rentacoder (Part III)
Preview of a project outsourced to Rent-A-Coder (RAC).

Video: Outsourcing Secrets II
(via Armand Morin)

Major Short Sale Tip
Short sales are often taking a long time, too long. And why? Because the servicer doesn't know what you know. (...)

Short sales are often taking a long time, too long. And why?

Because the servicer doesn't know what you know.

And you don't know how to present things to the servicer so they practically beg you to get rid of the property, practically at any price.

This secret in this video can be used to make short sales quick and to turn them into no cash flipping opportunities.

If you can get the servicer (lender) to accept a low enough valuation, you will practically always find flipping opportunities.

Click here to register for next week's workshop. Limit 250 people

How flipping opportunities are everywhere

What if you could get the servicer to accept quite a below market valuation on the property? You could easily find someone to buy the property from you at a bit of a higher price. They would still get an extraordinary deal. And you would pocket a bunch of profit.

What if you could repeat this again and again, day in and day out?

What if you could have other agents and brokers bring you deals and what if you had to do virtually no work? Because someone else was doing ALL the work.

And someone else was putting up ALL the money.

We will be presenting a unique workshop next week, stuff nobody is using except a very select few. I got someone who has done hundreds this way to reveal what he is doing and this is dynamite, absolute dynamite, even if you aren't flipping anything and even if you never thought about doing short sales at all.

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Fundamentals of Credit Cards

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How Stocks and the Stock Market Work
The stock market appears in the news every day. You hear about it any time it reaches a new high or a new low, and you also hear about it daily in statements like “The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 2 percent today, with advances leading declines by a margin of…”. Obviously, stocks and the [...]

WAHI Weekend Wrap-up XXVI
 This week’s vid is fairly short. I ask, once again, for you help but this time for the Baby Boomers Forum and Blog.   I’m trying to configure the header text for the title with a border around the INDIVIDUAL  letters, not a box around the whole title. Check out the Title on the Forum & you will see [...]

 This week’s vid is fairly short.

I ask, once again, for you help but this time for the Baby Boomers Forum and Blog.

 

I’m trying to configure the header text for the title with a border around the INDIVIDUAL  letters, not a box around the whole title.

Check out the Title on the Forum & you will see what I mean.

Oh and the Interview in which I am being interviewed is this Wednesday, July 22  at 9pm Eastern US at Deb Bixlers Blog,  join in if you can.

And as always for you RSS & e-mail Sucscribers, just Click Here to View the Video.

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The Blog vs Website eBook


by Joe Hauckes

こち亀　ドラマ
こち亀がまさかの実写ドラマ化。 まさかのキャスティング。 ありえねー、とか思いつつも こち亀全巻、山止めたつひ時のコミックスもコンプリートしている 身としては、見ちゃうだろうな。 このロゴはけっこう好き。 こち亀 →　http://www.tbs.co.jp/kochikame/comment.html


こち亀がまさかの実写ドラマ化。
まさかのキャスティング。


ありえねー、とか思いつつも
こち亀全巻、山止めたつひ時のコミックスもコンプリートしている
身としては、見ちゃうだろうな。


このロゴはけっこう好き。


こち亀
→　http://www.tbs.co.jp/kochikame/comment.html







新型か
昨日調子が悪く、雨のせいで偏頭痛も併発。 で、今日熱を計ったら３８以上の高熱。 これから病院。 だるい。熱い。喉いたい。朦朧

昨日調子が悪く、雨のせいで偏頭痛も併発。


で、今日熱を計ったら３８以上の高熱。

これから病院。


だるい。熱い。喉いたい。朦朧

A Sneak Peek of the Baby Boomers US Forum/Blog
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As I mentioned in the Weekend Wrap-up Video this past week, I have been working on getting the Baby Boomers Forum/Blog ready to launch in the near future.

I have the Blog under the Maintainence plugin, but I can give you a sneak peek at the Forum if you’d like.

Click the screenshot to see what the Forum looks like so far.

As I said, neither is done, (I haven’t even started on the individual forum/posts yet) but I wanted to give you an idea of what look I am aiming for.

Waddya think?

BTW, feel free to offer suggestions for Forum Topics and if you would like to Register before the official launch, please do.

Thanks

Joe

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The Blog vs Website eBook


by Joe Hauckes

夏には何かある、他戯言。
風邪ひいた。 なんか毎年夏に風邪をひいている。 風邪だけじゃなく、夏は自分にとって鬼門なのか 自分からひきおこしたもの、そうでないものをひっくるめて 災いがふってくる。 8月に広島の厳島神社に行く。 せっかくなので、大鳥居をくぐり、きちんと上納をしてお払いを しても...
風邪ひいた。


なんか毎年夏に風邪をひいている。


風邪だけじゃなく、夏は自分にとって鬼門なのか
自分からひきおこしたもの、そうでないものをひっくるめて
災いがふってくる。


8月に広島の厳島神社に行く。
せっかくなので、大鳥居をくぐり、きちんと上納をしてお払いを
してもらおうと思う。


運気とか、魂だとか、宇宙との会話とか
若い頃はまったく信じていませんでしたが、今はそういった類の
不思議な”何か”はきっとあるって信じちゃってます。


さて、話題かえて　最近のひとこと含めて戯言。


・Twitterが会社でもはやりだした。〜なう　が飛び交う。
・エヴァの再放送はうれしいけど、編成がおかしくない？
・今日、指輪をとりにく
・のどが痛い、、、、、酒のみたいぃいいいい！！！！
・マンマミーヤDVD買う
・NHKの番組に母親が出るよ。仕事の流儀にもでてもらいたい。
・SugerSyncが気になるところ
・大地の子を読みはじめた。　またもや歴史を知る
・以下のものを買う予定













Working at Home Blog Carnival-147th Edition
Welcome to the July 17, 2009 edition of working at home blog carnival. This weeks Carnival has, as always, some really good articles. So, Sit Back and Enjoy. And Here We Go… advice The Smarter Wallet presents Tips To Maximize Personal Productivity posted at The Smarter Wallet, saying, “Thanks!” Steven Handel presents Build Your Career Around Your Life (Not Your [...]

Welcome to the July 17, 2009 edition of working at home blog carnival. This weeks Carnival has, as always, some really good articles. So, Sit Back and Enjoy.

And Here We Go…

advice

The Smarter Wallet presents Tips To Maximize Personal Productivity posted at The Smarter Wallet, saying, “Thanks!”

Steven Handel presents Build Your Career Around Your Life (Not Your Life Around Your Career) posted at The Emotion Machine.

GP presents Inn Your Comfort Zone « Musings from Montana posted at Manely Montana, saying, “Getting out of your comfort zone to be more comfortable with yuor customers”

Melanie presents Three Ways a Mom Entrepreneur Can Get Time to Herself posted at Welcome to the jexbo® blog – Tips for self-published authors and entrepreneurs!, saying, “Great tips for Mom entrepreneurs and self-published authors.”

Amy Dyslex presents Learn Business Writing: A Few Commandments posted at Write a Writing, saying, “learn business writing”

GreatManagement presents What posted at We Build Your Blog, saying, “Most bloggers feel that by uploading content onto their blogs they are providing information that will be believed to be accurate and contribute to their online credibility. However, that it is not always the case.”

The Digital Archives presents Get great exposure through article directories posted at The Digital Archives, saying, “Article directories are a great way to get exposure for your articles and for yourself the writer. And if you have an internet marketing business then you will most definitely want to use article directories to help you market your business.”

Robert Alan presents Big Mistakes to Avoid with Your First PPC Campaign posted at Sell It on the Web, saying, “We put together a top ten list of things that new online marketers MUST avoid when building out and running their first paid search marketing campaign.”

business

Emma Taylor presents 100 Business Execs You Can Learn from on Twitter posted at MasterDegreeOnline.

BrandonLaughridge presents Top 5 Non-Advertising Methods to Monetize Your Blog posted at SmartBloggerz!, saying, “Some interesting ways to make money on the web without tradition ad networks.”

John Crickett presents How To Start A Home Based Web Design Business posted at Business Opportunities And Ideas, saying, “A guide to starting a home based web design business based on my experience doing so.”

general

Debbie Foster presents How to Ramp Up Your Blog Traffic posted at Internet Income – The Journey.

Simon Stapleton presents The 12 Dumbest Mistakes Network Managers Make posted at Career & Personal Development for CIOs, Technical Professionals and Self-Professed Geeks, saying, “What are the 12 most stupidest gaffes a network manager can make? More to the point, have you made one, or experienced one yourself? See if you recognize any of these clangers?”

tips

Robert Alan presents How Fresh Content Can Increase Your Website Traffic posted at Sell It on the Web, saying, “List of reasons how and why regularly updated content can steadily increase your website traffic over time.”

Gloria Booth presents Network Marketing Offline posted at MLM Marketing UK, saying, “In today’s high tech world, the internet has given every network marketing business a boost by enabling online marketing. So much so that traditional offline marketing sometimes gets forgotten by new home based entrepreneurs; particularly if they’re a little shy or unsure of how they will cope with meeting and talking to new people about their business opportunity or product.”

Helene Zemel presents Internet Marketing Basics for Work at Home Moms & Dads posted at Work at Home Mom and Dad, saying, “Whether you own a brick and mortar store or work out of your home, advertising on the internet will allow you to reach thousands of people with your ads. This article provides you with some of the basics for getting started with internet marketing”

Shawn M. Driscoll presents Real Growth in Unreal Times posted at Shawn Driscoll.

Gregory E. Rouse presents Google Analytics posted at Free Online Business.org, saying, “FreeOnlineBusiness.org “How to start an online business for FREE without spending one cent!” This site finds and posts FREE tools for running an online business!”

Smart Unemployment presents Individual Health Insurance: How To Lower Your Premiums In Three Steps posted at Smart Unemployment, saying, “Here are three ways to lower the cost of your health insurance premiums.”

Merlyn Sanchez presents The 5 Biggest Time Wasters posted at Smart Business Owners.

work

Christopher X. Gerber presents Experiment: Gerbus ? First Month Report posted at Experiment: Gerbus.

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The Blog vs Website eBook


by Joe Hauckes

自分へのごほうび
自分へのごほうびposted with amazlet at 09.07.08住吉 美紀 幻冬舎 売り上げランキング: 34176おすすめ度の平均: かなりレベルが高いですね。 珠玉のエッセイ集 休日の午後にお似合いの一冊Amazon.co.jp で詳細を見る NHKアナウンサー住吉美紀さんのエッセイを昨晩買った...


NHKアナウンサー住吉美紀さんのエッセイを昨晩買った。


あまりの読みやすさに、通勤の往復で読了。


読みやすさの種類はいろいろあるけれど、
住吉さんのエッセイのそれは、”冒頭１行”。


・本当は猫が飼いたかった


のように、次に”なに？”と思わせるキャッチがどれも秀逸。


有名人の（タレント）のエッセイは人より読んだことが多いほうだと思う。その中で、このエッセイは間違いなくNO.1。


ちょうど山崎豊子の「大地の子」2巻を読み始めたばかりで、
小説内の歴史を理解するのに疲れていた、自分のエンターテイメント脳をすっきりさせるのに具合がよかったってのもある。


はじめに〜最後まで、ずっと、ほっとする一冊。
オススメ。





Google　×　七夕
Googleの数あるロゴデザインの中で、この”tanabata”は かなり好き。 おおっ！　って　小さく感嘆。


Googleの数あるロゴデザインの中で、この”tanabata”は
かなり好き。


おおっ！　って　小さく感嘆。

The Name-bearing Son
26 years ago, an aging and weary Masahiro–”John” since the 2nd World War–sat down next to his then 7-year-old grandson and said, “I have to talk to you about something very important.” “What?” I replied, still giggling, thinking another game was on the way. He continued, “Well, Steven, you are my only grandson, and you have to [...]

UVA / Darden Essay Topics 2009-2010
The UVA / Darden essay topics for the 2009-2010 admissions season have been released! The two questions are below: 1. How have the changes in the global economy over the last 18 months affected you and your plan for the future? (400 words) 2. What will you contribute to an MBA program and what are your personal [...]

The UVA / Darden essay topics for the 2009-2010 admissions season have been released! The two questions are below:

1. How have the changes in the global economy over the last 18 months affected you and your plan for the future? (400 words)

2. What will you contribute to an MBA program and what are your personal and professional expectations of the program you attend? (600 words)

The school’s 2009-2010 deadlines will be announced later this summer.

Addicted to Technology or How I learned to stop worrying and love the robots.
Guest Contributor Post I’ve stumbled on a couple of articles recently that struck a chord with some sort of half thoughts I’d been having earlier in the week. When you’re as busy as I am half thoughts are all you have time for. So I had been thinking about this prevailing sense of non-specific [...]

Espresso Book Machine
I’ve been expecting an on-demand book printer for a while, so I’m glad see it’s finally being done: It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more [...]

I’ve been expecting an on-demand book printer for a while, so I’m glad see it’s finally being done:

It’s not elegant and it’s not sexy – it looks like a large photocopier – but the Espresso Book Machine is being billed as the biggest change for the literary world since Gutenberg invented the printing press more than 500 years ago and made the mass production of books possible. Launching today at Blackwell’s Charing Cross Road branch in London, the machine prints and binds books on demand in five minutes, while customers wait.

Signalling the end, says Blackwell, to the frustration of being told by a bookseller that a title is out of print, or not in stock, the Espresso offers access to almost half a million books, from a facsimile of Lewis Carroll’s original manuscript for Alice in Wonderland to Mrs Beeton’s Book of Needlework. Blackwell hopes to increase this to over a million titles by the end of the summer – the equivalent of 23.6 miles of shelf space, or over 50 bookshops rolled into one. The majority of these books are currently out-of-copyright works, but Blackwell is working with publishers throughout the UK to increase access to in-copyright writings, and says the response has been overwhelmingly positive.

Feedback. Courtesy. Try it. Accept it. Use it.
photo credit: woodleywonderworks Today’s guest post comes from Barry Moltz, who talks about those people (euphemism) who don’t return calls or emails. While I’m sure none of us ever do that, all of us know someone who needs a little advice about this – or maybe just a reminder. Check out “Feedback is a gift“. Like it? Bookmark [...]

Today’s guest post comes from Barry Moltz, who talks about those people (euphemism) who don’t return calls or emails.

While I’m sure none of us ever do that, all of us know someone who needs a little advice about this – or maybe just a reminder.

Check out “Feedback is a gift“.

I am a slacker. Are you?
photo credit: striatic Yes, me.  I am a slacker. I admit it. A year ago, I was planning to release my first book, “Business is Personal”. You probably don’t remember me doing a launch promotion on it. That’s cuz I didn’t launch it. As you might suspect, stuff happened and pushed it out of my immediate view and [...]

Yes, me.  I am a slacker. I admit it.

A year ago, I was planning to release my first book, “Business is Personal”.

You probably don’t remember me doing a launch promotion on it. That’s cuz I didn’t launch it.

As you might suspect, stuff happened and pushed it out of my immediate view and soon enough, a year went by.

Bet that never happened to you.

It’s still sitting in my authoring software, laughing at me: “You can’t finish me today, bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaa” (yeah, that’s supposed to sound like an insane creepy laugh).

Enterrrrrr theeee excuuuuuuuuusee zoooooooonnnnnne (you can figure out how that is supposed to sound).

The Excuse Zone

See if any of this sounds familiar, even if you have to adjust the facts.

• Before first light today, I headed out to Melita Island to help teach the 2nd part of Boy Scout Wood Badge. WB is an adult leadership course for Scout leaders and I am part of the instructor team.
• The morning after I get back from Melita, I leave for Scout camp for a week.
• The next week is 4th of July week and I have to go to a swim meet that will be a lot about remembering a dear friend who in her last 18 months of life literally willed a small town into getting a new swimming pool suitable for swim meets – all while battling pancreatic cancer.
• Meanwhile I have client work, coaching sessions, blogging, writing my newspaper column, working on my own product development work, doing family stuff, visiting with that awfully cute granddaughter you see in that photo on the blog, a week in Missouri with the in-laws and such right after the 4th, out of town swim meets every weekend till August, then (not 100% sure on this one) 10 days in the backcountry on a wilderness pack trip.
• That gets me to August 16 and doesn’t count other troop activities, Rotary (yes, I’m still club president), a few other volunteer gigs here in town and again, more of that client work stuff.

All the while… it sits there and taunts me. The book, I mean. You can probably hear it giggling.

Choice

You probably think “Heck, no wonder you didn’t get it done, with all THAT stuff going on.”

And you would be completely missing the point.

It has nothing to do with how much other stuff I have to do. It has to do with making a choice about the stuff I AM doing.

Each day since the Spring of 2008 when I started “Business is Personal” (the book), I’ve made a choice – several times a day.

These choices were made to do something else other than chip away at the book, even if I chose to do something that might have seemed important at the time.

No one else made these choices. Just me.

A few of my favorite Jim Rohn quotes come to mind:

• “When you say ‘No’, you say ‘Yes’ to something more important.”
• “Learn to say ‘No’. Don’t let your mouth overload your back.”
• “We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things than we can to spend minor time on major things.”

What did you not get done today that you should have gotten done, if only it wasn’t for that “really important” thing you did instead?

Say “No” to the not-so-important so that you can say “Yes” to the really important.

PS: Stay tuned for the book. If you’d like to help with it, take one minute to slide on over to http://www.businessispersonalbook.com and enter a question (someone will win a pair of free consultations, may as well be you).

"Pivotal to Success"

Michael Shearer has been pivotal to the success of our sports league FACKA. By updating our website, aiding in marketing and getting our ranking up in the search engines, we were able to expand our leagues and sponsors by a…

Michael Shearer has been pivotal to the success of our sports league FACKA. By updating our website, aiding in marketing and getting our ranking up in the search engines, we were able to expand our leagues and sponsors by a wide margin. We are now known in the public eye as adults that love to have fun, network and do good in the community. We appreciate Michael’s work and recommend him to anyone.

Jason Mecler
President/Founder of Frederick Adult CO-ed Kickball Association

"Highest Recommendation"

“I hired Michael twice – need I say more? Highest recommendation.”

Terry Grant
Director of Admissions, American Public University System

“I hired Michael twice – need I say more? Highest recommendation.”

Terry Grant
Director of Admissions, American Public University System

Cleaning Up Your Hacked Wordpress Site

1) Back up all wanted files

I back up my theme, export my posts, pages and comments via the built-in Export tool. Remember, the import/export tool only works for up to 7MBs, so you may want to consider exporting your database…

1) Back up all wanted files

I back up my theme, export my posts, pages and comments via the built-in Export tool. Remember, the import/export tool only works for up to 7MBs, so you may want to consider exporting your database tables separately too. I back up my full database, too using phpmyadmin (even though I know it is quite possibly the culprit)

2) Make note of all plugins you need/want to reinstall and your sidebar widget configuration (if any).

This is a good opportunity to purge your site of unused or unnecessary plugins.

3) Create your new database via phpmyadmin.

4) Create new sub-directory.

I install my new version on a sub-directory and move it over via the instructions here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

5) Upload most current version of Wordpress and go through install (updating wp-config.php file with most new database info)

6) Upload backed up theme to wp-content/themes directory.

7) Delete “Hello World” post and “About” page.

Import posts, pages, and comments via built-in Import function.

9) Fix your sidebar widgets where applicable.

10) Upload fresh downloads of all plugins you want to use, activate and configure.

11) Fix permalinks.

Please post questions in the comment section below!

"Trusted Business Partner"

Net_Experienced has been a trusted business partner for over 2 years. The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Programming knowledge they provide is invaluable to our business growth. The recommended SEO strategies have tremendously increased our clients search engine visibility and…

Net_Experienced has been a trusted business partner for over 2 years. The Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Programming knowledge they provide is invaluable to our business growth. The recommended SEO strategies have tremendously increased our clients search engine visibility and site rankings. With the “ever changing” web technology, Net_Experienced stays ahead of the curve. We look forward to working even closer with Net_Experienced in 2009. If you are looking for a professional SEO company, that gets proven results look no further!

Jason W. Feaga
Principal, 18 Visions Design & 18 Visions Green

"Invaluable to Our Business"

I would like to send you a note of my deepest gratitude for your knowledge, expertise, creativity & willingness to do whatever it takes for our website. Since you redesigned our site, I have received countless compliments on the look,…

I would like to send you a note of my deepest gratitude for your knowledge, expertise, creativity & willingness to do whatever it takes for our website. Since you redesigned our site, I have received countless compliments on the look, feel & ease of navigation. My clients are able to access information at the click of a button and are drawn into areas that they weren’t navigating before. Our search engine rankings have gone from page 5 to the first page and often we appear in the Top 3! This is invaluable for our business. Additionally, you have been more than helpful in your willingness to change, update and adjust information on a continual basis. We always know that if we need something, you are just an email away often responding to us within minutes. I am so very grateful that we found you and the service you are providing for us impacts our bottom line probably more than anything else we can do. This is an honest and sincere thank you from all of us!

Aimee McBride
Owner, Ananda Shala LLC

Prison break? Probably not

Actor Lane Garrison was sent to the slammer today for a December 2006 crash that left an Armenian-American teen dead. Garrison, 27, was a star in the show "Prison Break," and now comes the inevitable punch line: He'll have three years and four months in prison to try to make life imitate art.
Garrison was driving his 2001 Land Rover when it hit a curb and struck a tree. Vahagn Setian, 17, of Beverly Hills was one of three teenage passengers in the car, and he was killed.
Here is a link to a page for the Vahagn Setian Charitable Foundation, which was created in his honor after his death. Vahagn played a wide variety of musical instruments, and the foundation is dedicated to supporting students in the performing arts.

Ready, set, hike

The Forest Service reports today that it will be ending the temporary emergency closure that was put into effect for the Angeles National Forest on Oct. 23. The forest will be open again starting tomorrow (Thursday). The Angeles, along with the Los Padres, San Bernardino and Cleveland national forests closed down temporarily because of the wildfires.

Some parts of the Angeles National Forest that were damaged by the Buckweed and Ranch fires will remain closed until rehabilitation efforts are complete. This includes the Rower Flat area for off-road vehicles and Drinkwater Flat. The fire danger level in the Angeles remains extreme.

The Cleveland National Forest will re-open on Saturday.

An Armenian in Istanbul

Glendale police Officer John Balian is back from Istanbul, Turkey, the land of his birth. The Armenian-American Police Department spokesman spent a breezy three week vacation in Turkey, driving around in a rented Fiat with his dad. Balian grew up speaking Turkish and Armenian, with a couple other languages mixed in there. With animosity against Turkey running high because of its continued denial of the Armenian Genocide, it's sometimes forgotten that Turkey is still home to a sizable Armenian population.

Balian was born in Turkey and spent the first 6 years of his life there, going to an Armenian school affiliated with a church. His early years were spent in a middle class suburb of Istanbul called Green Village, and his father worked as an auto parts wholesaler. He remembers that his grandmother lived in front of the Bosphorous, and he remembers going out in a wooden rowboat to fish.

Armenians in Turkey talk less about the genocide than Armenians living elsewhere, Balian said. Given the Turkish government's hostility to any discussion of the genocide, Armenians in Turkey tend to reserve their discussions about the genocide to conversations with friends. Economically and socially, Armenians have been able to thrive in Turkey. But there is still descrimination, especially in government employment.

"In Turkey, you can't even be a parking checker unless you're a Turk," Balian said.

While vacationing in Turkey, Balian was able to meet family members he had never seen before. He said his Turkish relatives are prospering, with one cousin having been featured in magazines for her work as an interior designer. And Turkey is becoming more modern and continuing to orient itself toward Europe, Balian said. On one street in a tony part of town, Balian counted eight Starbucks in a quarter mile stretch. People wear the latest styles, and the streets are not totally empty when the sun sets during Ramaddan. Balian would like to see Turkey be more open to the neighbor on its eastern border: Armenia.

"My (hope) is one day to see the borders of Armenia and Turkey open up, so both countries can prosper," he said.

Still, there are twice weekly flights between Yerevan, Armenia, and Istanbul, Turkey, and on a personal level citizens from the two countries are interacting, even if the two nations stand politically opposed.

Will tell jokes for food

Well, the Tonight Show may be leaving town in a couple years, but all is not lost for fans of a good monologue. Sure, he's not as well known as Jay Leno, but Will Rogers can tell a good story. On Dec. 6, the veteran journalist will put on a one man show at the Colony Theatre in Burbank. All proceeds from the show will go to the Burbank Temporary Aid Center, a food bank for the poor.
In a press release on his Web site, Rogers explained why it's a charity show:
“Face it,” Rogers said. “A lot of people who might otherwise be interested would never buy a ticket if they thought there’s a chance the cash they’ve worked hard to amass through city redevelopment projects and rampant cronyism could ever make its way to me.”

DeGeneres dogless in Burbank

Ellen DeGeneres made a heartfelt plea during the taping of her show in Burbank on Monday. She wants her dog back, or more specifically, she wants the dog that she gave away to her hairdresser to be returned to her. You see it's not the hairdresser who has it; the dog was taken away by a rescue agency called Mutts and Moms. Ellen cried real tears, according to the Associated Press story about her on-air plea. The whole thing involves a written contract between Ellen and the rescue agency, and Ellen says she didn't read the contract carefully enough. What's this? A Hollywood star getting ripped off by not reading a contract? How could it be?

The show airs today.

Angeles National Forest closed

The Forest Service has closed the Angeles National Forest because of the wildfires. The closure went into effect today and will last "until the extreme conditions subside," according to the Forest Service.

The Forest Service says that individuals and organizations with special use permits for sanctioned activities within the Angeles National Forest are exempt from the order. The closure affects all recreational facilities, roads and hiking trails.

County roads and state highways, such as the Angeles Crest Highway (Highway 2), will remain open to through traffic. Drivers are urged to be cautious.

As someone who just went hiking Saturday in the Angeles National Forest, taking a 10-hour trek to the Bridge to Nowhere, this is disconcerting news.

Armenians support Obama

It's not only aging lions from New England like John Kerry and Ted Kennedy supporting Sen. Barack Obama. Barack mania apparently has overtaken the Armenian community, as the Armenian American National Committee of America recently announced it was throwing its support behind the senator from Illinois. The organization cited Obama's strong support for the Armenian Genocide Resolution, and his pledge to recognize the Armenian Genocide if he is elected president.

A little Warner Bros. on your wall

Just in time for the holidays (OK, almost too late if you celebrate Hanukkah) Warner Bros. is offering for sale images from its collection of films and TV shows. With the launch, the studio is selling photos from 300, A Christmas Story, CHiPs, Forbidden Planet, Friends, Gilligan's Island, The Goonies, Gone With the Wind, King Kong, The Lost Boys, Nip/Tuck and The Wizard of Oz.
In a press release, the studio informs us of this handy fact: "Orders are filled on-site, in the heart of the Warner Bros. Studio lot." I don't know why that's such a big deal, but fans of the studio can know that their print passed through the hands of someone at the Burbank facility. What a thrill.
The photos are available at www.WBPhotocollection.com.

Darfur movie

The Rev. Vazken Movsesian of the Glendale-based church group In His Shoes reports that the new movie "Darfur Now" has a passage featuring a postcard campaign the group did to stop the genocide in Darfur.

Last year, Movsesian went to Rwanda to chronicle the African country's 1994 genocide and to bring attention to mass killings in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Glendale tree lighting

Glendale will hold its 23rd annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on Wednesday at 7 p.m., with performances by school bands and an appearance by Santa Claus.
The outdoor event will be held at the Glendale City Hall plaza, at 613 E. Broadway. Mayor Ara Najarian will be in attendance, and musical groups from R.D. White Elementary and Hoover High will perform.

Mobile Social Networking at Hillington
The Wireless Innovation Centre at Hillington, a key hub drawing together the disparate wireless scene in Scotland, hosted a mobile social networking event the Friday before last. The centre’s technology manager Alisdair Gunn kicked the day off by installing Andy Campbell (”Chief Networker” and CEO of Specialmove) as compere. Andy, well known in the [...]

The Wireless Innovation Centre at Hillington, a key hub drawing together the disparate wireless scene in Scotland, hosted a mobile social networking event the Friday before last. The centre’s technology manager Alisdair Gunn kicked the day off by installing Andy Campbell (”Chief Networker” and CEO of Specialmove) as compere. Andy, well known in the games industry, is currently exploring Facebook as a recruitment tool. If you ever get blown out by a Facebook indiscretion, get in touch with Andy: He’s the kind of guy who will see the funny side. By way of diversion, prurient readers wishing to see the author caught in a moment of tendresse with a beautiful blonde look here.

Phil Taylor, Service Director at Strategy Analytics provided the business context - and numerous nuggets for business plan enhancement. He was followed by Richard Marshall, founder of Rapid Mobile, presenting work done with Betfair. Betfair made an interesting case study showing how the immediacy of mobile technology can tap into critical events: those where money changes hands. Mike Kinsella of Weeworld is an engaging speaker with a memorable turn of phrase. He described the company he founded prior to investment - with millions of users and five people employees - as “the world’s tallest dwarf” (which definitely demands a WeeMee ). Mike stressed the importance of understanding users and not building services that will attract “as many users as a Wigan B road”. His comment resonates with a remark made by Ian Hay at Barcamp Leeds: it’s possible to build a use case for anything - that doesn’t mean it will be useful. Frank Boyd offered a similar warning in his session on Persona development at the BBC Innovation Labs Edinburgh launch.

Emal Rumi of the Motorola European Innovation Team presented an overview of Moto’s enabling technologies for social networking. Motorola’s strong convergent technology portfolio, spanning emerging wireless technologies and the connected home, provides a natural platform for the next generation of seamless mobility applications. Hopefully this will not be under threat from the recent change of CTO and pressure for breakup into separate divisions.

So did the event live up to the promise and answer the key question: How can your company get its share of this growing market? Realistically, the best it was going to do was produce some interesting food for thought - which was duly served up. My particular problem is that, while accepting that advertising revenue will grow, I’m skeptical about the amount that can be rung out of mobile without totally trashing the user experience. It takes a shed load of cash to run the mobile network infrastructure and there is little scope for further operational efficiencies. Phil did touch on subscription services. But, although there is an argument that anything worth having is worth paying for, it may well be lost on a user base that is getting increasingly used to free. In my view, developers of mobile social networking applications will have to be a lot more subtle in their pursuit of a viable return. So, building on this, bring on the next event. How about Norman Lewis, Martin Geddes and Ian Hay?

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Funimation® Entertainment and Namco Cybertainment Inc. Bring Anime’s Greatest Hero to Game Centers across the U.S. (Anime News Network)
Flower Mound, Texas (July 15, 2009) – FUNimation Entertainment , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation , Toei Animation , Ltd., and NAMCO Cybertainment Inc., one of the largest amusement game operators in the U.S. and Caribbean, are bringing the Z-fighters to more than 780 amusement centers around the country.

Flower Mound, Texas (July 15, 2009) – FUNimation Entertainment , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Navarre Corporation , Toei Animation , Ltd., and NAMCO Cybertainment Inc., one of the largest amusement game operators in the U.S. and Caribbean, are bringing the Z-fighters to more than 780 amusement centers around the country.

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Pubs, BBC Radio 4 iPM and the Future of Facebook
I’ve always thought that social networking sites will turn out to be like pubs: rising in popularity, going out of fashion and then being reinvented. On this basis, planning future development on the basis of Facebook’s inevitable rise does not seem prudent - strategically, this is an important issue - even before the Beacon fiasco [...]

I’ve always thought that social networking sites will turn out to be like pubs: rising in popularity, going out of fashion and then being reinvented. On this basis, planning future development on the basis of Facebook’s inevitable rise does not seem prudent - strategically, this is an important issue - even before the Beacon fiasco and its envelope of fog. Eddie Mair’s Radio 4 interview on Saturday, which can be found as a Podcast here, makes interesting listening. Eddie talked about the tipping point from a perception of good to evil. From a reputation perspective, there’s certainly bad stuff coming out for Facebook right now - and more storm clouds on the horizon.

Following the classic BBC formula, Seamus McCauley forecast of impending implosion was juxtaposed with Johnny Chatterton’s more benign view. Seamus predicted the growth of sites like Kaioo, while Johnny thought that Facebook had some way to run. Neither view is wholly good news for Facebook, but then as As J.M. Keynes said: “in the long run, we are all dead”.

The 7th Mass Media, SIMs and Individuality
It’s been interesting to watch the reaction to Tomi Ahonen’s Mobile the 7th Mass Media post. You either like Tomi’s brash style and bold claims or you don’t. I do. Even if he goes too far, the blog and the book are powerful antidotes to a pervading cloud of negative sentiment - often unsupported [...]

It’s been interesting to watch the reaction to Tomi Ahonen’s Mobile the 7th Mass Media post. You either like Tomi’s brash style and bold claims or you don’t. I do. Even if he goes too far, the blog and the book are powerful antidotes to a pervading cloud of negative sentiment - often unsupported by evidence - enveloping the mobile world. A few years back, I was being told that any business plan predicated on smart phones was doomed to failure: Nokia was going to be hammered by the PDA manufacturers. There is no need for further comment - it’s pretty clear who emerged as top dog.
I would not accuse Dean Bubley of negative sentiment - and certainly never of proffering unsupported opinions (the meticulous construction of his arguments makes Dean’s Disruptive Wireless blog a pleasure to read). In his contribution to the debate on Tomi’s post Dean homes in on two potential fallacies concerning the personal nature of mobile communications. First, he points out that it is increasingly hard to define a mobile communications device. While true, this does not in itself depersonalize mobile communication. However, Dean’s second point is potentially more troubling for Tomi’s case. He points out that the one-to-one relationship between SIM, mobile number and identifiable number is breaking down. The seven items of supporting evidence including the blurring of fixed and mobile numbers, the use of SIMs in M2M, mobile devices as gateways and shared devices are at first sight compelling (careful readers will note that Dean’s first point re-emerges as item four).

So where does this leave one-to-one marketing? That depends on the assumed primacy of the SIM in identity management. Even acknowledging that the SIM will continue to play a critical role in identity management, I think its primacy is open to question. Tom Nolle’s notion on individuality is close to the vision behind Calico Jack’s Smart Presence and Context technology. Mobile can still be personal - it just getting a bit harder to do.

Suveillance Cameras, IRC, Privacy and Data Use
Catching up on Bloglines, I came across this post by Alec Saunders about proposed surveillance cameras in Ottawa. It evoked a strange kind of cultural dissonance: virtually every town in Britain is already a panopticon. And most people don’t think twice about the roving, all seeing eyes (there are two within sight of Calico Jack’s [...]

Catching up on Bloglines, I came across this post by Alec Saunders about proposed surveillance cameras in Ottawa. It evoked a strange kind of cultural dissonance: virtually every town in Britain is already a panopticon. And most people don’t think twice about the roving, all seeing eyes (there are two within sight of Calico Jack’s Dundee office). Should they? While CCTV undoubtedly does contribute to the detection and deterrence of crime, there are broader questions about how we came to this and where we are going now. Is the loss of civil liberties that surveillance cameras represent an inevitable consequence of both failures to address social fragmentation and to provide proper policing? And, if the battle against surveillance cameras is lost - sorry, Alec, I think it is - where is the current front-line in the defence of privacy?

One reason that people can live with surveillance cameras, is the assumption of anonymity provided by being unremarkable in an ocean of data. We make similar assumptions about email, phone calls, IM and IRC (Internet Relay Chat) - a group communication technology that I have always thought to be under-exploited. But now read Roi Carthy’s Techcrunch post on IRSeek, an Israeli startup that indexes IRC channels. It’s worth taking time to read Roi’s post and the IRSeek blog along with the many comments. Maybe we’re not so hard to spot in the big ocean? I don’t think that IRSeek are doing anything fundamentally wrong. In fact they have triggered an important debate, the resolution of which will assist companies such as Iotum (Alec’s company) and Calico Jack . As individuals we need to get serious about controlling use of our data and assert ownership rights. Can we blame Facebook for being cavalier with our data if we don’t treat it seriously ourselves?

Scott McNealy once said: “you have no privacy, get over it”. Although the remark was seized on as a gaff, in context it is probably a pragmatic reflection on our current situation.

Come see me at SXSW, Friday at 5pm
I’ll be on a panel called Try Making Yourself More Interesting Friday at 5pm, in Room A along with Brian Oberkirch (Small Good Thing), DL Byron (Bike Hugger), David Rees (mnftiu.cc), and Kristina Halvorson (Brain Traffic). I’ll be talking about Photojojo and the topic is how to get people to pay attention to what you’re doing. As [...]

I’ll be on a panel called Try Making Yourself More Interesting Friday at 5pm, in Room A along with Brian Oberkirch (Small Good Thing), DL Byron (Bike Hugger), David Rees (mnftiu.cc), and Kristina Halvorson (Brain Traffic).

I’ll be talking about Photojojo and the topic is how to get people to pay attention to what you’re doing.

As usual, if you’re in town and want to meet up, drop me a line!

Upcoming Speaking Engagements: Macworld, PMA, SXSW
Jan 7th: I’ll be on stage at Macworld with my pal Rick Smolan talking about Photojojo and cool new things in digital photography. March 1st: At PMA this year, I’ll be doing a solo session on day 1 of DIMA (the series looking at emerginc tech trends in photography). I’ll be talking about some of the [...]

Jan 7th: I’ll be on stage at Macworld with my pal Rick Smolan talking about Photojojo and cool new things in digital photography.

March 1st: At PMA this year, I’ll be doing a solo session on day 1 of DIMA (the series looking at emerginc tech trends in photography). I’ll be talking about some of the “wacky” things we’re doing with Photojojo and how brick-and-mortar retailers can get involved.

March 13th: And I’ll be going to SXSW for the first time, where I’ll be sitting on a panel my friend Brian Oberkirch is organizing called “Try Making Yourself More Interesting” talking about how we built Photojojo’s brand and community to be more human and fun.

If you’ll be at any of these events, come by, or drop me a line. I’d love to meet you!

Photojojo and Jelly on Pop17!
Sarah Austin did an interview with me for Pop17 (Thanks, Jamie!) when I was at speaking at PSFK SF a couple weeks ago, and it just went up! I talk about Photojojo and Jelly. p.s. Here’s a post by Jeannie on the panel we did on Core77.

Sarah Austin did an interview with me for Pop17 (Thanks, Jamie!) when I was at speaking at PSFK SF a couple weeks ago, and it just went up! I talk about Photojojo and Jelly.

p.s. Here’s a post by Jeannie on the panel we did on Core77.

An idea for Yelp, Menupages, and their brethren
Allow people to review, fave, or star individual menu items. Here in San Francisco, Yelp is indispensable. In NYC, I used Menupages all the time. Both are great for simple, honest, user-generated feedback of places to eat. Often, I’m visiting the page for a restaurant I’ve already tried, just to skim through the reviews and decide what [...]

Allow people to review, fave, or star individual menu items.

Here in San Francisco, Yelp is indispensable. In NYC, I used Menupages all the time. Both are great for simple, honest, user-generated feedback of places to eat.

Often, I’m visiting the page for a restaurant I’ve already tried, just to skim through the reviews and decide what to order. Case in point, my favorite sammy shop in the whole wide world, Ike’s Place, has a ton of amazing vegetarian sandwiches on the menu. My favorite is their “Going Home For Thanksgiving” sandwich, but sometimes I want to try something new.

Wouldn’t it be neat-o if you could just look at the menu and see reviews for each item? Maybe even sort by popularity or rating? I think it would.

Ishikawa plays with Tiger at British Open

Organizers of the British Open have decided to create a ‘must be watched’ television spot for Japan in pairing Ryo Ishikawa with Tiger Woods for the first two days.

Room available in my apartment (San Francisco)
UPDATE: Room now taken! One of the rooms in my apartment just opened up, and we’re looking to fill it by November 1st or sooner. We’ll start interviewing this week. The apartment is a three bedroom in San Francisco that I share with two other people, and one of them (Jenny) started grad school and moved into [...]

UPDATE: Room now taken!

One of the rooms in my apartment just opened up, and we’re looking to fill it by November 1st or sooner. We’ll start interviewing this week.

The apartment is a three bedroom in San Francisco that I share with two other people, and one of them (Jenny) started grad school and moved into school housing*.

The room is small (12′ x 13′), has a window, a large closet, and is quiet. The rent is very cheap ($550/month + utilities) and the lease is month-to-month.

• In Duboce Triangle (seriously great, super walkable neighborhood with tree-lined streets, and lots of places to eat.) A quick walk to the Lower Haight or Castro. 2 blocks from Duboce Park (swell dog park — and the apt itself is dog-friendly.)
• Within 3 blocks, you’ll find burritos, burgers, vietnamese and chinese, bars, a gym, and a 24-hour Safeway (grocery store)
• Washer and Dryer in unit.
• Bike parking in back.
• Shared Kitchen + living room + bathroom
• 2 blocks from the Church St. MUNI (K,M,T) and N-Judah, J-Church, F-Market, and 22.
• Available 11/1 or sooner.
• $550/month. (Yes, really. It’s rent controlled because my other roommate has been here for a while.)

We might be picky, but if you are awesome and are interested, email me. And if you know someone who might be interested, pass it on. Thanks!

* Jenny was going to move out a few months ago but she decided she didn’t want to give up the room and stayed on a bit longer. In the end, paying for a room she wasn’t using didn’t seem like the best idea, so now we’re looking again!

I’m Speaking at PSFK SF on July 17th
Just a quick note — I’ll be speaking on a panel at PSFK’s San Francisco conference on July 17th, alongside Liz Dunn of FunnyOrDie and Jeremy Townsend of The Ghetto Gourmet. I’m fearful that it will start ridiculously early. (But glad that Piers took my suggestion and booked the Swedish American Hall, which is only a [...]

Just a quick note — I’ll be speaking on a panel at PSFK’s San Francisco conference on July 17th, alongside Liz Dunn of FunnyOrDie and Jeremy Townsend of The Ghetto Gourmet.

I’m fearful that it will start ridiculously early. (But glad that Piers took my suggestion and booked the Swedish American Hall, which is only a block away from my apt!)

Link: A mini-interview with me on PSFK
Link: Conference details + tickets
(I have one free ticket… haven’t decided how to give it out yet..)

The Ozaki Brothers - Pioneers of Bluegrass in Japan

The Ozaki Brothers — Yasushi and Hisashi — came all the way from their home in Yokohama, Japan to attend 2009 River of Music Party in Owensboro, Kentucky. The Ozaki Brothers are credited as being Pioneers of Bluegrass and for being in the small group of people who introduced bluegrass music to Japanese audiences.

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I’ll be at CHA in Chicago July 18th through the 20th
I’ll be in Chicago on 7/18 through 7/20 to attend CHA for Photojojo and to see buddies Sean Johnson (thanks for putting me up!) and Jacob DeHart. It’s a brief trip, but if you’re in town and wanna meet up (or have suggestions for things I MUST see), let me know!

I’ll be in Chicago on 7/18 through 7/20 to attend CHA for Photojojo and to see buddies Sean Johnson (thanks for putting me up!) and Jacob DeHart.

It’s a brief trip, but if you’re in town and wanna meet up (or have suggestions for things I MUST see), let me know!

Balanced news key for Yahoo Japan

nota bene: "He also said it is important for the people who select new topics to balance readers' needs, such as entertainment and sports news, and news value.

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The Meyer Group plays it smart

How often have you looked for an email only to realize that it was deleted long ago? In truth, the amount of email most mailboxes currently receive is many times larger than that of previous years. Voicemail has been replaced as the primary communication medium. Many contemporary business transactions take place without a single verbal exchange. Unfortunately, the positive impact of the history trail emails provide is countered by the burden of their impermanent archival nature.

What happens when that important, irreplaceable email is no longer in your inbox? This is the question The Meyer Group recently asked when a critical email needed to be recovered. The answer: access the backup. The Meyer Group instituted an automated archival process to store copies of their emails to a server on a weekly basis. Having a backup of all your electronic communications guarantees lost emails can be retrieved in a matter of minutes. It also provides a safeguard should something disastrous befall your computer. Replacing equipment is a relatively minor challenge, but would you be able to continue working efficiently if your emails permanently disappeared?

netmanos has been helping companies such as The Meyer Group to safely keep and recover their email as well as other sensitive data. Contact us today to learn how we can help your business guard against a preventable catastrophe.



OPM's Assessment Decision Tool web application goes Live!

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released today the second and final phase of the Assessment Decicion Tool (ADT) to the public. It can be found at http://apps.opm.gov/adt

The purpose of this project was to convert OPM’s Competency Assessment Handbook to a web-based, interactive, user-friendly format.

The conversion of the Handbook occurred in two phases. In Phase I, netmanos developed an online version of the Handbook with limited interactivity. Specifically, a website was designed and developed that provided access to the handbook material through easily updatable static HTML pages using the look and feel of OPM’s existing website. In addition, a user feedback module was included to gather information from visitors about the application and the information provided. Password protected pages were built to enable authorized users to review the survey results.

An administrator’s manual was developed to be used as a reference for content updates.

The Phase II effort was devoted to developing an interactive Assessment Decision Tool (ADT) web application. This interactive application became an extension of the online Handbook developed in Phase I.

The interactive application is driven by user-specific queries that describe individual users’ hiring situations. In simple terms, these queries can be thought of as profiles of user responses obtained by asking users questions regarding their hiring situation (e.g., target series, required competencies, budget). The queries are used to dynamically generate customized reports focused on the assessment methods and tools most appropriate for users’ hiring situations. Apart from the application, netmanos designed and developed a help menu and a frequently asked questions area that allows end users to reference functions of the tool, as well as an administrator’s module for updating the tool.

The online Handbook and Assessment Decision Tool was designed to be Section 508 compliant and its content easily updatable and modifiable by OPM.



netmanos.com adds Really Simple Syndication (RSS)

An often overlooked aspect of web site development lies within the realm of news distribution.

Countless web sites have a section in which pertinent news items are displayed. Unlike news-centric websites, whose main function is to continuously supply information, these sections are seldom updated. The problem with this scenario is that a site visitor will not return to the website once in a while hoping that there will be new information; thereby losing touch with the website. The solution is to send the news to the visitor when they become available. Enter RSS, the “newsletter” of the future.

According to Wikipedia, RSS is a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated content such as blog entries, news headlines, and podcasts. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") contains either a summary of content from an associated web site or the full text. RSS makes it possible for people to keep up with web sites in an automated manner that can be channeled into special programs or filtered displays.

RSS content can be read using software called an "RSS reader", "feed reader" or an "aggregator". The user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed's link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader checks the user's subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.

We have implemented RSS for the netmanos.com website. Subscribe now by clicking on the RSS icon on your web browser.

Contact us today to find out how you can utilize the RSS technology for your website and keep in touch with your visitors.



netmanos partners with IBM and Lenovo

IBM and Lenovo are veteran Information Technology leaders. In fact, they are among the very few organizations devoted to providing technology products and services for a multitude of business needs.

netmanos recently partnered with IBM and Lenovo through a uniquely tailored program. Utilizing these giants’ training, support, web shops, online downloads and other services enables netmanos to offer more incisive expert advice and support. With these tools at our disposal, we can continually adapt to our clients' ever-changing needs.

Additionally, being a Lenovo partner garners significant values and incentives. These we happily pass on to our customers, creating a better return on their investment.

Need to infuse some cutting-edge technology into your infrastructure? Here are samples of the premium equipment available as a result of this new partnership:

• ThinkPad and IdeaPad Notebooks: There is no better way to stay mobile and connected. Both notebook lines offer a wide range of features encompassing any combination of form factor and performance.
• ThinkCentre and IdeaCentre Desktops: Reliable, secure, energy efficient desktops customized to the needs of any work environment. The combination of solid hardware components together with user-friendly software makes these systems truly superior.
• ThinkStation Workstations: Built for power hungry applications such as Computer Aided Design and other graphically oriented programs. A premier resource suited to meet the specialized demands of your profession.
• ThinkVision Flat Panel Monitors: In addition to their excellent image display, these top-of-the-line ergonomic monitors adhere to the latest environmental guidelines.
• ThinkServer Servers: Highly adaptive solutions such as rack mounted systems providing best the level of performance suited to any number of users.

Contact netmanos today to discover how we can make technology work for you.



netmanos becomes a Microsoft Certified Small Business Specialist

As part of our continuous endeavor to provide the most valuable service to our clients, netmanos has successfully passed thought the rigorous Microsoft training channels to receive the Microsoft Small Business Specialist Certification, signified by the blue Microsoft Small Business Specialist Logo.

What does that mean?

This means that netmanos has demonstrated proficiency in identifying the needs of Small Businesses, and designing technology solutions to address them. Our proven skill-set extends from single computer configuration to enterprise network deployment and support.

It also means that netmanos has expertise in all Microsoft Software used by Small Businesses. Whether it is Windows Server, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Microsoft Office, we know how to install it, configure it, and troubleshoot it when it doesn’t work as expected.

All in all it is a third party assurance to the Small Business owner that netmanos is capable and committed to helping Small Businesses make smart technology decisions.

Contact us today to take advantage of our Microsoft expertise.



The Healing Design helps save trees

Paper is becoming obsolete. Faxes have become emails. Statements that were previously mailed can now be found online. The Paperwork Reduction Act was established for the primary purpose of diminishing the number of documents handled by the United States government and the general public. [Full text] Conserving paper reduces the need to harvest trees. And in preserving forests, the lungs of the planet, we aid in maintaining the Earth.

Despite the current trend, the practice of expressing ourselves through the application of ink has endured. With electronic means not always within reach, and paper easily accessible, people often fall back on the age-old tradition of the scribe. Still, progress is being made.

Healing Design is an architectural firm with headquarters in Virginia. When their two main printers showed signs of impending failure, the Healing Design team took action. They contacted netmanos, inquiring about environmental friendly alternatives to their existing printing process.

Today’s equipment features intelligent ink dispensing technology that dries print quickly. This translates to more consistent results, less blotches and better quality. These new units can also print on both sides of the paper, utilizing its entire surface, even the margins. Printer upgrades can save a business both money and grief. Outmoded equipment is more likely to malfunction. Should this occur during a major job, the time and resources wasted impact deadlines and budgets. Such errors take conservation beyond a philosophical issue, and illustrate environmental concerns are often rooted in practical matters of efficiency.

Although we do not yet live in a paper-free world, small steps can make significant improvements. Combining a new printer with recycled or tree-free paper can have a noticeable effect on your business, whether your goal is to go green or just work smarter.

Contact netmanos today to find out how you can help save the world, one page at time.



OPM's Competency Assessment Handbook online version goes Live!

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has two efforts underway that are particularly relevant to the work performed. First, in June 2006, OPM introduced the Career Patterns initiative – a new approach for bringing the next generation of employees into Federal Government positions. Federal agencies will use this new approach beginning next year to build new environments to recruit potential employees. To help agencies plan and build new environments, OPM has developed the Career Patterns Guide to introduce the Career Patterns way of viewing recruiting. It presents techniques for identifying opportunities and crafting action plans to ensure employment efforts are successful. Second, OPM has a number of efforts underway to help "fix the hiring process" for the Federal Government. This effort involves providing agencies with a variety of tools and techniques to help them streamline and reform their hiring processes.

To support and further OPM’s efforts under the Career Patterns and Fix the Hiring initiatives, OPM/SHRP is developing a Competency Assessment Handbook. The Handbook will serve as a resource to agencies implementing competency-based assessment strategies to fill critical vacancies at all levels within the organization. The Handbook will provide information on various assessment tools and methods appropriate for a variety of hiring scenarios. The Handbook capitalizes on OPM’s long-standing occupational studies program that has resulted in the identification of competencies for hundreds of Federal occupations.

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released today the Competency Assessment Handbook to the public. It can be found at http://apps.opm.gov/adt

The second phase of this project is expected to be released sometime next month.



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B&M Transport Inc. is a Wheelchair Inter Facility Transportation company with offices in Virginia and Mississippi. A major part of their operations relies on the execution of on-demand transportation services requested by various local governments through the form of lists. These lists are posted daily to a secure website.

Initially, the owner of B&M Transport Inc. was concerned about the time it was taking for the lists to be reviewed, corrected, and imported to their system. It used to take a few hours every day just to cut and paste all the customer information in each driver’s daily log; a manual process prone to errors.

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How to keep the cash flowing

Any kind of profit making business will encounter cash flow problems once in a while. Business Accountants can assess the financial condition of any business, track cash flow, cash requirements and estimate financial requirements. They will prepare cash flow statements which eventually becomes an invaluable management tool and the company’s financial master plan. Business Accountants will develop cash flow plans including setting up payment schedules, establishing credit policies, exercising inventory controls and maintaining payroll accounts. To get the right guidance and help in regard to maintaining your cash flow and payment schedules, contact Cirimelli Pyle and Associates in San Jose, California.

 

Tax Professionals to help maintain your financial stability

 

Cirimelli Pyle and Associates based in San Jose is a Certified Public Accounting Company which offers in depth service in business expertise and professional skills to a variety of organizations. Tax professionals will help you monitor and update your annual cash flow plan. Proper cash-flow statements will help the business owner to determine whether he will need a bank overdraft or make the necessary arrangements to increase extra capital into the business. This Certified Public Accounting Company will make sure your cash flow plan is in place and will also monitor the planned figures against the actuals, at the end of each month.

 

To contact these CPA professionals, call 408-879-9990 or Fax them at 408-879-0992. Visit www.cpasllp.com for more information on other services. Whether you need a CPA professional in Campbell, Cupertino, Los Altos or Santa Clara, you could contact Cirimelli, Pyle and Associates LLP .

 

 

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Credit card companies trim rewards

 

The economic downturn has claimed another casualty:  the rewards programs offered by credit card companies.  Used to encourage credit card holders to charge purchases, these programs offered cash rebates, airline tickets, and other freebies for each dollar charged. Now banks are struggling to remain profitable and are cutting back on their rewards programs.  Airlines, too, are trimming their free mileage programs by raising the number of miles required to qualify for free tickets.

If you use a credit card that offers rewards for purchases charged, be aware of these changes. You might want to monitor your rewards more carefully than in the past and cash them in before they expire or stricter redemption rules are put into effect.

 

Put your tax refund to good use

 

Did you recently receive an income tax refund?  Here are some suggestions for making the most of it.

 

* Pay off consumer debt.  This is generally one of the best uses for extra cash.  For example, if you typically carry a credit card balance and pay 16% interest, you'll realize a 16% return if you pay off that debt.  You probably won't save quite as much by paying off other types of loans, but you should consider that as well.

 

* Contribute to an individual retirement account (IRA).  A contribution to an IRA is a good idea whether it's tax-deductible or not because IRA earnings grow tax-deferred.  If you're self-employed and show a profit for the year, you can also make a tax-deductible contribution to a Keogh plan.

 

* Start or add to an education fund.  Consider investing your extra money for your child's education. We can help you decide whether your education fund should be held in your name, your child's name, or in trust.  We can also make sure that you don't get snared by the "kiddie tax."

 

* Invest in yourself.  While planning for your family's education, don't forget yourself.  Have you put off training for new job responsibilities or a new career because you couldn't afford it?  Now that you have some extra cash, spending it on yourself may be the best investment of all.  You also may be entitled to a tax deduction for education expenses that are required by your employer or that improve the skills required on your current job.

 

To employ the best, get in touch with Cirimelli Pyle and Associates LLP in San Jose, California. This company has professional staff to help you get started on filing your income tax returns in the Bay area and other surrounding areas of California. They provide a FREE consultation to select the right structure for your company. To get started on filing your income tax returns in the Bay area, call (408) 879-9990 and ask for Steve to discuss your specific needs.  For more information, please visit: http://www.sanjose-cpa.com/ and http://cpasllp.com/ .

Tax tips for retirees and families

Mention the words “employee benefits” to a small business owner and you might hear the groans of someone burned by skyrocketing costs and mind-numbing complexity. But one type of benefit, a retirement plan need not be a stress-inducing perk. In fact, it might just be the powerful tool you’ve been looking for to save taxes and retain employees. While choosing a retirement plan can be complicated, the underlying concepts are not. The best plan for you will depend on your personal retirement needs, the size of your business, and how you wish to motivate your employees. Some of the most popular plans are the 401(k) Plan, Simplified employee pension plan (SEP IRA) and the Simple IRA. To help you choose the right one, employ the services of a business accountant from Campbell, if you’re living in California, to get the best plan suited for you.

 

Qualified business accountants to serve you

 

Cirimelli Pyle and Associates LLP is a Certified Public Accounting Company in Campbell dedicated in providing you the highest quality of service possible, in a timely manner. To better meet the needs of their accounting and tax clients in Sunnyvale California, these business accountants from Campbell have customized services for small businesses in industries like construction accounting, real estate accounting, healthcare accounting, technology accounting, and other service businesses. Cirimelli Pyle and Associates in Campbell they give several interesting ideas and suggestions on Capital gains and losses, Business Assets, Charitable donations, Medical expenses, Tax penalties, Business Travel, Tax tips, Splitting of Family Income and Kiddies tax.

 

These business accountants from Campbell are part of this Certified Public Accounting Company who provide accounting, tax and financial management services to meet the needs of small and large business enterprises. They can be reached at (408) 879-9990. If you would like a free consultation, visit their website www.incometaxbayarea.com and register with them. You can get various resources and tax tips by contacting them.

Corporate Tax planning

According to Christianet.com, Corporate Tax planning provides strategies that are significant in minimizing taxes. Some valuable ways to save include sponsoring a retirement plan, writing off company assets, claiming depreciation expense, taking deductions on business automobiles, office expenses, self employment health insurance, and employer sponsored child care resources and using a home office for the company. Corporate Tax planning will help business owners save on tax payments both in the short and long term. The income received should be reported but deductions will depend on the type of industry the business owner is in. To save on payments or tax filing help, contact Cirimelli Pyle and Associates in San Jose.

 

A Certified Public Accountant Company to file your tax returns

 

Cirimelli Pyle and Associates LLP is a Certified Public Accountant Company in San Jose offers professional tax filing help and business expertise to different types of organizations. Their services include Individual and Business Income Tax Return Preparation, Client Accounting and Write-Up Services, Year-End Tax Planning Services and an initial consultation free of charge. Their business accountants will help your business grow by offering sound financial advice and information necessary to help you make sound business judgments.

 

To contact these business accountants in California, call (408) 879-9990 or email them at cpa@cpasllp.com for an appointment. You can also visit www.cpasllp.com for more information.

 

The purpose of using QuickBooks

What are QuickBooks? They are accounting software developed for the sole purpose for small time businessmen who don’t have formal training in accounting. This software dominated the accounting software market 80% of the time. Small Businesses use QuickBooks for financially related business processes like tracking business expenses, preparing invoices, entering sales receipts, preparing financial statements and tax returns. To get access to QuickBooks, you can contact Cirimelli Pyle and Associates in Los Altos. This CPA Company in Los Altos is a certified QuickBooks Proadvisor which offers various services to help do-it-yourself business owners manage their day-to-day operations using accounting software packages like QuickBooks and Peachtree.

 

Professional Accounting help

 

Many San Jose businesses have contacted Cirimelli Pyle and Associates in Los Altos to help them get started with QuickBooks and empower them to manage their bookkeeping and control their cash flow. This will enable them to work with a San Jose CPA Firm in an advisory capacity. However it’s not enough to get started on this process alone. This CPA Company in Los Altos will give you the proper training and guidance while answering all your questions. As small time businessmen, getting the most of everyday could be an overwhelming experience. If you would like to work alongside any San Jose CPA Firm, then this is the right place to get started.

 

 

They will provide training, oversight and ongoing support. Call them at (408) 879-990 and ask for Steven Pyle CPA to discuss your specific needs. You can email him at steve@cpasllp.com.

New rules for NOLs

Essentially, a net operating loss or NOL is generated when a business has more deductions than income.

Under prior rules, a business that had an NOL could carry that loss back only two years for a refund of taxes paid in those earlier years. (The business could also choose to carry the loss forward for up to 20 years.)

The "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009" changed the carryback period to as many as five years. The new rule applies only to 2008 net operating losses in companies with average gross receipts over the last three years of $15 million or less.

* Planning opportunities

The carry back periods of three, four, or five years are elective. That means that the taxpayer can choose how long to carry back the NOL as long as it doesn't exceed five years.

This opens up many tax planning opportunities, especially if taxable income has fluctuated significantly over the years. Not only that, it's a terrific benefit to taxpayers with NOLs larger than could be absorbed over the traditional two-year period.

As an alternative to carrying the loss back to prior years, you can still elect to forgo the carryback altogether and simply carry your losses forward to reduce future taxes.

Remember that the new NOL rules are elective, and you may choose to carry losses back as you see fit for up to five years.

There are filing and time restrictions on this tax break for businesses, so contact us if you need details and filing assistance.

What's New in Finances

"Do Not Call" doesn't prevent scammers

Registering with the National Do Not Call Registry is supposed to keep you from getting all those annoying mass marketing phone solicitations.

It appears that the current recession has brought out scam artists hungry for revenue and unconcerned about the illegality of their sales pitches.  During the first quarter of this year, the Federal Trade Commission received 450,000 complaints from those who signed up with the Do Not Call Registry, but who are still receiving unwanted calls.

Among the scams currently being pitched:  extended auto warranties, swine flu cures, debt renegotiation plans, and free lunch seminars promoting "low-risk" investments.

Be aware that the scammers are especially active right now, and be very skeptical of offers and promotions made by phone or e-mail.

How to deal with finances after a spouse's death

The death of a spouse can leave the survivor with a bewildering array of financial problems. In many families, one partner handles all the financial matters. If that partner passes away first, without having discussed and documented the couple's financial affairs, the survivor may face a steep learning curve or make poor financial decisions out of ignorance.

In many cases, the surviving spouse will be the wife. In fact, recent studies indicate that seven out of ten baby boomer wives will outlive their husbands. So getting a handle on the family's financial affairs is especially important for women.

If you're dealing with the death of a spouse, here are a few guidelines to help you navigate.

* Locate important documents. These include wills, insurance policies, deeds, investment certificates, powers of attorney, birth and marriage certificates, bank statements, and vehicle titles. You'll need these documents to change beneficiaries, revise asset titles, and verify account balances.

* Keep paying bills. Don't risk losing your good credit by neglecting ongoing expenses.

* Check survivor benefits. Contact the Social Security Administration to learn about survivor benefits. Also call your spouse's former employer to find out about employee benefits, such as payouts of unpaid salary, unused vacation, and pensions.

* Decide how you'll handle life insurance proceeds. Benefits may be paid in a lump sum or an annuity. If you take proceeds in a lump sum, you'll want to place them at least temporarily in readily available investments, such as money market accounts. Survivors often live on insurance proceeds for many years, so think twice before using the insurance money to remodel the house, pay off the mortgage, or take an expensive vacation.

* Get competent legal and financial advice. Seek out qualified and trusted professionals to help you through the process of probate, taxes, and planning for your financial future. All too often, the surviving spouse makes irrevocable financial decisions or unnecessary purchases in the days and weeks following a partner's death. Unfortunately, widows and widowers are easy prey for con artists. Someone may call with a great deal on a "sure fire" investment, or attempt to capitalize on your grief by offering unnecessary goods or services. A trusted professional advisor can provide objectivity when such "opportunities" are presented.

* Plan before a death occurs. Ideally, you and your spouse will develop a financial plan before a death occurs. One way to organize such a plan is to set up a tabbed binder that outlines the family's financial affairs. One tab might list key contacts, such as lawyers, accountants, and business associates. Another tab might disclose the location of important documents.

Discussing and documenting your financial affairs will be time well spent. If you need assistance, give us a call.

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Menjelang Peringatan Hari Kemerdekaan 17 Agustus 2008, PT Ecxelcomindo Pratama Tbk. (XL) menerapkan tarif murah telepon dan SMS ‘Semaumu’ untuk pengguna kartu prabayar. Program tarif murah Rp 1.000 untuk menelepon gratis berkali-kali ke sesama XL itu berlaku mulai Jumat (8/8) hingga 31 Oktober 2008 mendatang masing-masing mulai pukul 00.00 WIB hingga pukul 17.00 WIB.

“Pola tarif yang diluncurkan hari ini memberikan kebebasan kepada pelanggan untuk memilih tarif sesuai dengan pola dan perilaku mereka berkomunikasi,” kata Manajer Marketing Area XL Central Region, Adi Yuharman, di Bandung, Kamis (7/8).

Sama halnya untuk layanan pesan singkat (SMS), XL mengenakan tarif baru Rp 9 per SMS ke sesama XL dan Rp 99 per SMS untuk ke operator lain pada jam 00.00 WIB hingga pukul 12.00 WIB.

Bila sebelumnya XL lebih banyak menggenjot tarif promo XL-bebas, kali ini operator itu memberikan tarif promo bagi pelanggan XL-pasca bayar melalui rebound new concept dengan tarif Rp 9 per detik ke sesama XL sejak detik pertama hingga detik ke-300, selanjutnya dikenakan Rp 0.

Tarif promo untuk XL pasca bayar itu berlaku mulai pukul 20.00 WIB hingga pukul 08.00 WIB. Tarif sama juga dikenakan untuk tarif video call.

“Sedangkan tarif telepon ke operator lain melalui pasca bayar Rp 20 per detik untuk 300 detik pertama, setelah itu dikenakan tarif Rp9 per detik,” kata Adi.

Sementara itu, Adi mengungkapkan selama 12 tahun hadir di Indonesia, XL telah mencatat 22,9 juta pelanggan. Sebanyak 98% di antaranya adalah pelanggan XL pra-bayar dan sisasnya pelanggan pasca bayar. “Infrastruktur kami saat ini telah mampu mencakup 90 persen populasi Indonesia,” katanya.

Pada akhir keterangannya, ia menyebutkan pendapatan XL hingga semester pertama 2008 telah mencapai Rp 5,8 triliun. (Sumber: INILAH.COM)

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INDOSAT RAIH PENGHARGAAN INDONESIA’S BEST WEALTH CREATOR AWARD 2008

PT Indosat Tbk (Indosat) berhasil meraih penghargaan Indonesia’s Best Wealth Creator Award 2008. Penghargaan diterima oleh Direktur Corporate Services Indosat, Wahyu Wijayadi dan diserahkan oleh President Director Stern Stewart & Co, Erik Stern dalam acara Penganugrahan Pemenang SWA 100 Wealth Creator Award 2008.

“Indosat bangga menerima penghargaan Indonesia’s Best Wealth Creator ini. Kami berharap penghargaan ini merupakan wujud peningkatan kepercayaan publik terhadap perusahaan yang dinilai mampu memberi nilai tambah secara berkelanjutan dan mampu menciptakan nilai tambah kekayaan bagi para investor atau pemegang saham Indosat,” demikian disampaikan Wahyu Wijayadi.

Dalam Pemeringkatan SWA100 2008 ini Majalah SWA bekerjasama dengan Stern Stewart & Co, dengan menggunakan metode pengukuran Wealth Added Index atau WAI™. Metode ini dikembangkan oleh Stern Stewart & Co, konsultan bisnis internasional untuk value management guna mengukur shareholder value yang diciptakan perusahaan yang melebihi harapan para investor atau pemegang saham. Dasar perhitungan yang digunakan dalam metode ini mencakup kinerja keuangan perusahaan yang diperoleh para pemegang saham. Sehingga peringkat perusahaan yang masuk dalam SWA100 ini bisa menjadi acuan bagi para investor dalam memilih saham perusahaan yang tercatat di Bursa Efek Indonesia.

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Mungkin bagi yang sudah menonton Film Batman: The Dark Night pasti sadar tidak sadar melihat sesuatu yang menarik perhatian penggemar gadget. Ya, betul sekali, gadget tersebut adalah ponsel Nokia yang dipakai oleh aktor Morgan Freeman (Lucius Fox) sewaktu di Hongkong. Sepintas kita menyangka itu adalah Apple IPhone. Namun ternyata mereknya memang (sengaja) diperlihatkan yaitu Nokia.

Menurut sumber gsmarena.com Nokia yang dimaksud adalah Nokia 5800 Tube yang memboyong label Xpressmusic dan bukan Xpressmedia seperti yang digosipkan selama ini. Secara general ponsel ini memiliki memory internal 140mb dan external sampai 8GB keunggulan lainnya adalah Wi-Fi b/g, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP) and USB 2.0 dan 3.5mm AV jack and TV output.

Ponsel yang belum diumumkan secara resmi ini juga disertai dengan kamera 3Mpx AF, carl seizz lens and dual LED flash serta geo-tagging support (khas IPhone) dan dilengkapi dengan GPS receiver dengan A-GPS fuction.

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How To Become a Leader
Copyright © 2009 Frank Kanu Visit the original article at How To Become a Leader In my humble opinion its best said with this anecdote:A young man asked Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart how one starts composing symphonies. “You are still young” commented Mozart. “Why don’t you start with songs?” “But you were just 12 when you composed [...]
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In my humble opinion its best said with this anecdote:

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Things That Make You Say Ugh: -$1634.10
I had a great September, a bad October and an average November. With that said, December started off horribly wrong. It’s not just the total loss on the day, which is pretty bad, but the thing that really makes me say “ugh” is that I keep repeating the same mistakes. Why do I keep repeating the [...]

I had a great September, a bad October and an average November. With that said, December started off horribly wrong. It’s not just the total loss on the day, which is pretty bad, but the thing that really makes me say “ugh” is that I keep repeating the same mistakes.

Why do I keep repeating the same mistakes? Well, because on many occasions when I do steer off course, I get bailed out and end up with profits. This helps reinforce my lack of discipline.

Today i did not get bailed out. Today, I had to endure pain for my mistakes, and rightfully so.  Let’s get to the result:

After commissions I ended the day at an abysmal loss of -$1634.10 to start the month of December.

So where did I go wrong?

Like many times when I end up with a loss, I tried to assume that I knew what the market was going to do.

In today’s case that was thinking that we would bounce off down 300 at one point in the session and I would book some easy profits. I did not have a stop loss because the trade was placed on the assumption that the market was going to bounce at some point in the day. I kept that hope alive going into the last hour and  when things started to deteriorate, I just let the loss build up. Comically so, I sold near the bottom of the day.

Not only did I lose money on this trade but I also lost other opportunities because I was “mentally stuck”  in my bounce assumption.

So it wasn’t a good day to start the month but it was good reminder to not be stupid. Back at it tomorrow.

The Week That Was: +$673.69
The first week back writing on this blog is in the books and it was a profitable one to the tune of $673.69. It would have been much better had it not been for the horrible Monday which was a blowout caused purely out of my own stupidity. I must say that it does feel good turning [...]

The first week back writing on this blog is in the books and it was a profitable one to the tune of $673.69. It would have been much better had it not been for the horrible Monday which was a blowout caused purely out of my own stupidity.

I must say that it does feel good turning thoughts into words again as it gives me a good perspective of what I am doing. I’ve been on and off with this blog for a while now but really feel like this time around it will stick especially if it proves beneficial to my trading.

Here is a quick recap of the week:

Monday: -$1634.10 [ recap link ]
I wouldn’t call what I did on Monday trading because it was not. Instead of following my plan and trading according to my rules, I placed a trade based on a thesis that never did materialize. This one day hampered my results for the week in a major way but it did serve a purpose to remind me to stay focused.

Tuesday: +$912.82 [ recap link ]
A good bounce back day which did include a risky trade at the open that panned out. The first trade set the stage for my other two trades which were also winners. Not bad at all.

Wednesday: +$705.76 [ recap link ]
My best trading day of the week. Felt comfortable and focused while following my rules like I should.

Thursday: +$338.38 [ recap link ]
This day was much harder on me emotionally than Monday until the final trade when I called it quits. I was good at cutting my losers but felt like I over traded and wasn’t picky on my entries. Even though I ended the day in the positive, my trading wasn’t good at all.

Friday: +$350.86 [ recap link ]
I felt very comfortable again, traded with patience and took good entries on the two trades I did place. Next to Wednesday, this was my best day of the week and I know it will set a positive foundation for next week.

Patience And Discipline Being Rewarded: +$705.76
Well I have basically dug myself out of the hole I was buried in on Monday, give or take a few dollars. Here’s a lesson to takeaway: So far this week I took 7 trades, which resulted in 6 winners and 1 loser yet I’m even. This goes to show you how one bad trade can ruin the [...]

Well I have basically dug myself out of the hole I was buried in on Monday, give or take a few dollars.

Here’s a lesson to takeaway: So far this week I took 7 trades, which resulted in 6 winners and 1 loser yet I’m even. This goes to show you how one bad trade can ruin the whole week. That is why it is always important to stay disciplined and always have an exit plan that minimizes the damage. Otherwise you will always end up swimming upstream.

Today’s trading results:

Very happy to report that after commissions I booked +$705.76 in profit today.

What makes me happy about my results today is that I was very patient and disciplined. I stuck to my plan and didn’t make impulsive decisions. As you will see from the AAPL chart that I posted below, I held the 2nd trade for 42 minutes and had the “urge” to close it a few times. However, before placing the trade I had a exit point of either 89.50 or 91.40. I stayed on through the bouncing around till my objective was reached. Here’s the chart:

Here is the POT trade chart:

Today was a great example of how good things happen when I stick to my plan. Now if I could just rinse and repeat this day, everyday.

Round And Round I Went On A Choppy Trading Day: +$338.34
As is the case most of the time when I trade a full day, it usually means that I am having a hard time making a profit. Today was one heck of a hard day to trade, it was chop city! I did not help matters any by taking a loss on my first two trades before [...]

As is the case most of the time when I trade a full day, it usually means that I am having a hard time making a profit. Today was one heck of a hard day to trade, it was chop city!

I did not help matters any by taking a loss on my first two trades before finally getting into a profitable one which was immediately followed up by another loser. I kept at it though and here are the results:

After seven total trades on the day, I was able to squeak out a profit of $338.34.

My day started off getting long GS, only to get out right before it bounced two points. Literally a minute or two later. I followed that up by trying to catch an upside move in GOOG which never did materialize. Not a good start at all.

What I did like today is that I cut my losers off and let my winners run, almost out of necessity. It is something that I’m constantly still struggling with (cutting losers) and a day like today is positive reinforcement. In all honestly I do not feel like I traded well today but because I did cut my losers I ended up in the green.

Although I must admit that on the -$431.25 SKF trade I did lower my stop a few times. Originally, it was set at 131.00 which I lowered to 130, ignored it again, and finally let it go at 129.15. Doh!

Another thing I want to touch and work on is trying to not trade during times when I see that market is chopping around. Let me explain further:

As I write this with about 20 minutes left in the trading day, I must say that the last hour was probably the best time to trade as the trend is clearly to the downside. The rest of the day was very difficult as the market just chopped around. I need to work on placing trades when there is a clear trend and not trade when the market is choppy. By the time the final hour came around, I was mentally exhausted and just happy to end the day with a profit. Thus, I missed opportunities at the end of the day.

However, I do find it difficult to not trade when I start the day with a loss. Something inside me just wants to get that money back. I need to realize that the market isn’t going anywhere and I need to be picky and choose only the best opportunities.

Unemployment numbers out tomorrow should make for some good moves in the market. Time to rest up for what should be an eventful day.

Ending The Week Quickly And Positively: +$350.86
What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I had to work my butt off to squeak out over $300 in profit. Today, on the other hand, I achieved that number in 45 minutes of trading. I made two trades, both of which were positive and decided to call it a day. One thing I’ve learned over [...]

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday I had to work my butt off to squeak out over $300 in profit. Today, on the other hand, I achieved that number in 45 minutes of trading.

I made two trades, both of which were positive and decided to call it a day. One thing I’ve learned over the years is to quit when I am content with my gains and my trading. I react badly to giving up gains and that leads me to lose my discipline. Bad habits die hard. When I am able to end a day on a positive note, it builds a good foundation for the next trading day.

Here are today’s results:

After commissions I ended the day with a nice profit of +$350.86.

Now let me show you how both trades looked like on the charts. Financials including GS looked strong off the open so I jumped in at 67.30 with a stop 1 point below. After some bouncing around it finally broke 68.50. I set my mental stop to that # and when it was hit, I exited.

I always keep an eye on SKF as it presents some great trading opportunities. My basis for the trade was that once it broke 143 this morning it would run to test 145. As you can see my thesis did come into fruition. I exited at 144.39.

Glad to end the week on a positive note and I feel very good about my trading today. Later on in the day or tonight, I will do a weekly recap post. Till then.

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A survey commissioned by Click&Buy (provide online payment solutions) has turned up some interesting stats about shoppers.

Here are some interesting stats to emerge from the survey:

• 50% of shoppers don’t complete the transaction if their preferred method of payment isn’t available
• 40% would feel more comfortable with a retailer who offers a range of payment methods
• 36% will shop more online than on the High Street in 2009 than 2008
• 54% are concerned about security risks from entering credit card details online

I’ve banged on a few times in the past about increasing customer confidence, these stats are further proof their is a need for owners of ecommerce stores to pay real attention to these issues.

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On another note…the blog now has a new RSS feed, so if you are subscribed via RSS please change your subscription to: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/thedropshipper. I didn’t want this change but after Googles acquisiton of Feedburner and subsequent complete mess of integrating everything into their own systems they have managed to completely mess up my feed! Apologies for this.

If you aren’t yet subscribed it is a great way to instantly find out about new articles, it is completely free and you can unsubscribe at any time. Read the subscribe page for instructions.

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Sometimes It Is Good To Quit And Let Things Go
Often in business, and life, it is good to quit and let things go. I quite like it when people say “winners never quit”, and I always reply with “yes they do!”. But it is when that matters, they know the right time and they are able to let go. A bit like when big businesses [...]

Often in business, and life, it is good to quit and let things go.

I quite like it when people say “winners never quit”, and I always reply with “yes they do!”. But it is when that matters, they know the right time and they are able to let go. A bit like when big businesses expand into new regions. We have seen companies lose millions from it, but instead of pushing on they realise it isn’t working and quit to focus on their home land.

A Few Examples
Yesterday I decided to cut a revenue stream from my online business which has been battered by the credit crunch. It has dived from generating over $400 per month to around $40 per month now (falling horribly over the last 6-12 months). So I’ve called it quits on it, I am very disappointed as over the next year it is thousands of pounds less in revenue that I had forecast!

In the past I’ve also lost money on shares (via spread betting). I set-up a football website hoping to dropship football memorabilia which didn’t work so I quit it. I set-up a debt books site but couldn’t make that work so I quit it. And I spent months on an ecommerce site where the dropshipper then ceased trading just as I had got going making sales, I couldn’t find another dropshipper to fill in so I just killed of the website.

The Lesson
I’m trying to show that I run my online business full-time and love it, yet I’ve had plenty of situations where I had to quit, and I’m really happy I did instead of plodding on with those ideas!

Know Why You Are Doing It
I recently finished reading a book about sharedealing. It spoke about when shares move against you and you lose money. If you researched and everything suggested it was going to rise, then it was the “right” trade, it may not have been successful but it was still in theory “right” (IE long-term you will profit). As long as you know why you are doing the trade you should not be downbeat about the trade.

The same is true for business. Know why you are doing what you are doing. If your market research shows there is a gap in the market for your product, and your costs/profit margins and other factors add up then you have a viable business on your hands. If it doesn’t work then nevermind, the research suggested it would so it was still the “right” decision to set-up the business.

If Things Aren’t Going Great, It Doesn’t Mean Quit
This relates to what I’ve just said above. If your figures add up nicely and your plans are good then you should carry on, going back to the “know why you are doing what you are doing”, if your reasons still stand true then carry on. Quitting as I’ve said is fine, but it has to be done at the right time.

Website Development For Small Businesses Should Be An Ongoing Process
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With regards to web design, in the past I thought about whether it was best to:

• Method 1: Record all plans and ideas, and then do lots of updates all at once. Or;
• Method 2: Each time I get an idea or find important info on web design issues make the changes straight away

The second method means rather then spending a lump amount of time (say every 3 months) doing upgrades to your website, it is more of a continuous ongoing process.

Types Of Sites
The method you choose should be based on your type of website. If it is purely an ecommerce website then I think using method two is much better. It is a lot more flexible and if the issues will improve your sales, such as these tips, then can you really afford to wait until your next round of upgrades? Best to just get the changes done to start benefiting straight away.

Alternatively if the site in question is a blog for your business, or a related minisite you use as a feeder to your main site then I think method 1 is better. The nature of these sorts of sites means waiting to do a whole round of updates would be more beneficial as you could continuously build up ideas, and then carry them all out when you have a set amount of time available to you. And unlike with ecommerce sites the web design changes you make to these sites probably won’t have as big an impact on sales/profitability.

Conclusion
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I’m sure other people will have differing opinions on this but I’ve found this way best, and alternative opinions are the beauty of business