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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Obama honors Medal of Freedom recipients

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

John Torode launches 15th Annual Manchester Food and Drink ...

Celebrity chef and television favourite John Torode was in Manchester to launch the 15^th annual Manchester Food and Drink Festival and announce that Metrolink is the event?s official travel partner for the third year running.

John is appearing at the festival in September and was on hand to help mark the official countdown to the event.? Arriving in the city, the Masterchef host took a scenic trip on an iconic yellow tram and it was announced that Metrolink would once again be the official travel partner to the festival, providing the vital link between events for Manchester foodies.

Celebrating its 15^th year, the Manchester Food and Drink Festival takes place from 21 September to 8 October.? A raft of exciting events, activities and tastings are planned including an exclusive Metrolink Masterclass and Q&A with John Torode which will take place in the Live Cookery Theatre as part of the Festival Hub on Albert Square on 29 September.? Full details will be announced soon.

The Festival Hub, the main festival outdoor site on Albert Square, looks set to provide the most exciting food and drink adventure ever, extending over three weekends due to popularity with a super-sized local ales festival, craft beers bar, Pub on the Hub, Pop Up Wine Bar, Cider Carnival, Oktoberfest, cocktail bar, Independent Producers Fair, Manchester Cook Off, communal, long-table banquets, Live Cookery Theatre, and the biggest street food festival the region has ever seen!

Plus there?ll be the Big Indie Wine Fest, Whisky Festival and a programme of restaurant events for the mammoth 17 days. The event, as usual, will be topped off with the MFDF Gala Dinner and Awards (8 October) ? the glamorous finale to the festival, where the region?s food and drink heroes are rewarded in glittering style.

Commenting on the festival, John Torode said: ?I have heard great things about the Manchester Food and Drink Festival and am delighted to be taking part in this year?s event.? Manchester has a fantastic foodie reputation and I?m looking forward to sampling the best that the city has to offer.?

As the official travel partner of the festival again this year, Metrolink provides the vital link for galloping gourmets looking to connect between events across the city centre and surrounding areas of Eccles, Altrincham, Chorlton, Bury and Oldham.? With Metrolink, festival-goers can leave the car at home and travel quickly, safely and easily between venues, enjoying the best that the festival has to offer.

Philip Purdy, TfGM?s Metrolink Director, says: ?Metrolink continues to be at the heart of the city and we?re proud to once again show our support for the Manchester Food and Drink Festival.? It?s been a pleasure showing John around the city on the tram and we look forward to welcoming him back for his Masterclass in September.?

Siobhan Hanley, MFDF Director, said: ?We are so excited about this year?s landmark ?big fifteen? festival. The event and its thousands of fans deserve a birthday party to be proud of and that?s what they?re going to get ? with the UK?s best chefs, restaurants, brewers and producers providing the food! We?re delighted to welcome Metrolink back as our official travel partners. They are a crucial supporter in making the festival happen, and in connecting the huge number of participating venues and customers ? what the festival is all about!?.

For full details of the events planned to celebrate this year?s Manchester Food and Drink Festival, please visit www.foodanddrinkfestival.com.? For further information on Metrolink, please visit www.metrolink.co.uk.

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Video: Military families struggle to re-acclimate after deployment

SpaceX capsule provides supplies for ISS

One day after docking with the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon capsule - the world's first privately owned space ship - is providing the ISS crew with vital supplies. Elaine Quijano reports on the details of this special delivery.

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Monday, May 28, 2012

Small plane sinks in San Diego Bay, 2 survives

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Sunday, May 27, 2012

Iran: No reason to halt 20 per cent uranium enrichment despite international demands

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Photos: Perfect baseball weather for annual Michael Napoleone baseball tournament

This weekend, young ball players from throughout the region are in Batavia for the annual Michael Napoleone baseball tournament.

The tournament acts as a fundraiser for the Michael Napoleone Foundation, which provides donations to cancer research, and as a memorial to Michael, who loved baseball.

Michael died in 2006 from Burkitt's?Lymphoma/Leukemia, an aggressive form of blood cancer.

This pictures are from Saturday. The tournament runs through tomorrow.

If you're unable to view the slide show below, click here.

To purchase prints of these photos, click here.

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

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Strategic use of business advertising is one way of getting success in business. Advanced marketing and business advertising makes your potential customers aware of what products a company has to provide them. Advertising is important if you want to gain customers. To get a head start on your competitors, individual promotion techniques can be used.

With the use of better business marketing strategy than your competitors you can be more successful and improve your sales. But you must also know that your rivals may be doing exactly the same thing, so it is recommended that you always have an alternative plan in place. Your presentation in advertising is what gives you an advantage over your competitors. We are all conscious of the fact that brilliant advertising can get the community interest but the products that you are advertising must be of top quality in order to keep the clients.

As the internet is continuously growing it is gradually taking over the world.

You are missing out on the internet advertising prospective if your business is not on the internet. We now invest the most of the portion of our day on internet, due to using it at our work places, for analysis, purchasing products, communication and dealing with customers and for many other things.

Internet advertising aims its preferred viewers. Google AdWords tool helps you advertise your business to your prospective customers who enters the keywords in the Google search that you have selected for your business website. Your advertising will appear in the provided links on the right-hand part or at the top of the Google search results and you only pay when someone click on the backlink to your website.

Another form of internet advertising is SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Through SEO your website optimizes and appears in the natural results on the left-hand side of the search results. You have to pay a monthly fee which guarantees you hold your top position in Google and other search applications. You can also do some web directories submissions, blogging, press releases etc like stuff to bring your website to the first page of Google search results for your selected keywords. Traditional types of promotion such as television and radio stations only focus on a small percentage of your viewers and can be very expensive too.

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Etan Patz Case: Pedro Hernandez Arrested For Murder

Pedro Hernandez confessed to murdering Etan Patz yesterday, meaning that after more than three decades, the famous missing persons case may be over.

Hernandez, a former corner store worker, was arrested on suspicion of second-degree murder after he confessed to strangling 6-year-old Patz in 1979.

"He was remorseful, and I think the detectives thought it was a feeling of relief on his part," New York police Commissioner Ray Kelly told the media.

Incredibly, today, May 25 marks the 33rd anniversary of the disappearance of Etan Patz, who became the nation's first "milk carton child."

Etan Patz Case: Pedro Hernandez Arrested

The case sparked the movement to raise awareness of missing kids.

Etan vanished on his way to a New York bus stop, triggering a massive manhunt, but no sign of the little boy had ever been detected.

The Etan Patz case returned to the headlines last month when authorities re-launched the search, tearing up the basement of a nearby building.

Kelly said a recent tip led investigators to Hernandez, 51, a Maple Shade, N.J., resident with a teenage daughter. The commissioner said:

"In the years following Etan's disappearance, Hernandez had told his family that he had 'done a bad thing' and killed a child in New York."

On Wednesday night, Hernandez was questioned in New Jersey and then voluntarily returned with detectives to New York, says Kelly.

"He brought them to the scene of the crime, which is now a store that sells eye glasses," says the commissioner.

"Hernandez described to the detectives how he lured young Etan from the school bus stop at West Broadway and Prince Street with the promise of a soda."

"He then led him into the basement of the (store), choked him there, and disposed of the body by putting it into a plastic bag, and placing it into the trash."

At the time, Hernandez was a 19-year-old stock clerk in the business and lived in an apartment nearby, says Kelly.

Kelly said investigators arrested Hernandez based on "the fact that he had told his story in the past, and the specificity of what he said in the confession."

Hopefully, as horrible as this is, the family can finally have closure.

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Friday, May 25, 2012

VIDEO: Chef Spike Mendelsohn tempts taste buds at NRA Show 2012

?By Derrek J. Hull, Blogger-in-Chief

Top Chef star Spike Mendelsohn packed the house earlier this month at World Culinary Showcase at the 2012 National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show at Chicago's McCormick Place.

Chef Mendelsohn shared stories of growing up with his Greek grandmother who made yogurt in the shower, as well as tempted the crowd's taste buds.

Join the NRA Show and?International Wine, Spirits & Beer Event (IWSB)?for news and updates year-round?on Twitter?@NRAShow,?Facebook,?Linkedin?and?YouTube.?

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State Pushing Sub-Prime Energy Home Loans | CalWatchDog

May 24, 2012

By Wayne Lusvardi

Wasn?t the sub-prime disaster of the last decade bad enough?

From 2003 to 2007, it was likely the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) helping unqualified low-income renters fill out sub-prime home loan applications to buy homes at an inflated price. This may have resulted in a foreclosure or an ?underwater? mortgage with more money loaned than there was actual market value in the home.

Now, the California Energy Commission is sending canvassers into single-family residential neighborhoods to offer homeowners one-stop home energy improvement loans with a rebate.? CEC will batch the names of interested homeowners and then find them a home energy improvement contractor, a lender and an appraiser, and do everything for them through its Energy Upgrade California program.? Several friends have already informed this writer that canvassers have come knocking at their front door offering such a package.? And the canvassers are apparently paid for by the CEC.

California politicians are in a panic. It is an election year.? Unemployment has barely ticked downward in California.? And worse: by 2015 California?s ?Renewable Energy Portfolio? of 33 percent green power will lower every household?s income by $2,400 per year. Additionally, California?s Cap and Trade program, which requires industries and utilities to buy pollution permits, will cost about $500 per year per household loaded into the price of everything ($6.25 billion per year divided by 12,393,852 California households).

Dirty Secret: No payback on energy loans in down market

No matter what cost savings the contractors and loan brokers promise homeowners for taking out an energy improvement loan, they won?t tell them the dirty little secret about such loans.? There is no payback in a down real estate market.? Buyers won?t pay for upgraded energy efficient windows, solar panels, window caulking, or attic insulation when the market is depressed.? And economist Gary Schilling, who has predicted all the recent recessions, is forecasting that home values will drop another 20 percent this year.

But homeowners might say they don?t care as long as their power, natural gas and water bills can be lowered.? However, another problem is the payback period.? Most major energy improvements take seven years to break even with what they cost to install, plus the interest cost on a loan.? If a homeowner moves within that period, it would not be worthwhile to take out an energy improvement loan.? And if the home is so old that its highest and best future use is demolition for a new home, then spending on energy improvements would be a loser.? One might be restricted from demolishing one?s home within the period of the loan.

Most cost-effective energy-efficiency improvements do not need a contractor to install.? Using contractors picked by the state will only inflate the price of such upgrades because the contractors will likely have to comply with Davis-Bacon Act prevailing wage laws and other costly regulations.? And the $1,000 to $1,500 rebate will likely only cover the cost of the building permit. This would result in more jobs for municipal unions.? Most energy efficiency upgrades can be done more cost effectively by homeowners.? Any government inducements for home energy efficiency improvements will only result in an inflationary bubble, especially in a recessionary real estate market.

Many homeowners are fearful of pulling building permits for older homes because the homeowners would likely be forced to bring the entire structure up to code.? For example, this writer relocated an 82-year-old lady from San Marino, Calif. to San Antonio, Tex. this past year.? A prospective buyer of her California home wanted to install a new electrical panel with circuit breakers as a condition of sale. ?The city of San Marino would not allow her to upgrade the electrical panel in her home unless she brought the entire structure up to building code at a cost over $150,000.? In a falling market, this was economically infeasible.

Local building code compliance is a barrier to energy-efficiency loans.? This is especially so for old commercial buildings, where it would be cheaper to demolish the structure than install any energy improvements that might trigger full building-code compliance or an Americans with Disabilities Act noncompliance lawsuit.

Older homes would be the best candidates for home energy loans.? New homes built after 1978 are constructed with modern energy-saving improvements to conform to Title 24 ? Energy Efficiency Building Codes.? About 60 percent of California?s housing stock was built before 1978.? But the California Public Utilities Commission has been mandating electric and natural gas utilities to provide energy rebate programs for the past four decades. So the actual number of homes that might benefit from energy improvements is uncertain and likely over-estimated.

But not to worry: President Barack Obama has rigged the rules so that you can get a higher real estate appraisal for any energy improvements that you install.? Federal regulators might even take away an appraiser?s license if they have an independent opinion that such energy improvements don?t add value to your home.? Apparently, there no longer are independent real estate appraisers, bankers, contractors, or home energy payback consultants.

And federal tax credits for home energy efficiency improvements for home purchases in 2012 have expired.

Repeating the sub-prime loan meltdown

Evidently, we have learned nothing from the collapse of the national bank financing system in 2008. Opportunist legislators are still clamoring for bubble financing to create jobs and provide banks with loans that might save on energy costs that cannot be recouped upon resale of the home.? The California Energy Commission apparently has no conscience about proposing bubble financing for deadweight energy-efficiency improvements in a declining real estate market. And banks will probably have to comply with new energy loan quotas to keep their banking charters in the state of California or face penalties for discrimination.

As we can plainly see with the CEC?s Energy Upgrade California program, perverse incentives for ?greed? start out as well-intentioned and slickly marketed proposals, fashioned by government and highly regarded academic institutions such as U.C. Berkeley, as well as by low income or green advocacy special interest groups. It does not start with banks.? Banks will be prone to being corrupted, but only to keep their bank charters.

Banks will be prone to securitizing such high-risk energy loans by slicing and dicing them to spread the risk of ultimate losses among many lenders. This is precisely what happened with sub-prime home purchase loans during the 2008 mortgage meltdown and bank panic. Banks were unjustly accused of causing the mortgage meltdown by securitizing their loan portfolio of what they knew to be high-risk loans. But it wasn?t securitizing such bad loans that caused the mortgage meltdown as much as it was government policies. The same situation will likely repeat itself with home energy loans in California.

Is California now a predator lender?

The state of California has now joined the ranks of the so-called predator lenders. Once again, low-income homeowners will be the likely targets of the Energy Upgrade program. This is because many middle class homeowners will be more likely to understand that utility bills may be reduced but home energy improvements won?t likely add value to their property.

Where are the Occupy Wall Streeters?? ?One of their demands was: ?Begin a fast track process to bring the fossil fuel economy to an end while at the same time bringing an alternative energy economy up to energy demand.? ?California?s Energy Upgrade California program is creating just such an artificial demand.? We can only imagine as homeowners later complain about unrecoverable energy improvement loans that the Occupy Movement will be protesting for debt forgiveness.

Conversely, the ?fracking? energy boom -? hydraulic fracturing of rock formation to extract oil and gas ?- is largely market based.? Any time government builds a ?false economy? without market-based prices and economic feasibility, it is going to lead to economic busts, widespread corruption and suffering. Sub-prime home purchase loans, redevelopment, green power and now sub-prime home-energy loans are examples of false economies made by government jobs programs.

Note: The author was a real estate appraiser for a large utility for 20 years. Prior to that, he was the coordinator, for a short time, of a large solar hot water heating project for all public housing in Los Angeles County.?

Tags: bubble, California Energy Commission, Energy Upgrade California Program, renewable energy, solar energy, sub-prime energy loan, subprime mortgages, Wayne Lusvardi

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One of the pioneers of baked goodness in the city, Golden Brown Bakery offers more than cupcakes. But it?s the cupcakes that I?m concentrating on now because they had me at first sight. My mother and I were walking in Thalateen Street one night when we decided to finally check out Golden Brown Bakery. The place has always caught our attention whenever we passed by the street and it was time to satisfy our curiosity. The Golden Brown Bakery beckons with its warm interiors. It has two counters where cupcakes, cheesecakes, tarts, croissants and other pastries are proudly displayed. They are oh-so inviting ! We couldn?t make up our minds with what to get at first. I zeroed in on the cupcakes because that was what I was looking for in the first place. Even choosing among the cupcakes proved to be a challenge! What flavors should I get?!

Finally, I decided to get mini cupcakes so I can taste lot of flavors. For SR3 each, I thought the cupcakes were a little bit overpriced. Seriously, that small for SR3 each?! But after getting a bite it was worth it. I can gobble that one up in a heartbeat. They?re too cute to be just gobbled up like that but I can?t help it.? What I love the most about Golden Brown?s cupcakes is the icing. Yes, the luscious cream cheese icing. I just love it. I also like the strawberry, red velvet, blue velvet, and carrot cakes .. topped with the cream cheese icing of course. They?re moist and soft and delightful ! I have always ordered these four flavors ever since my visit .. Yes, drool-worthy much!

The spicy chocolate cupcake adds a nice kick to the usual. I tasted the spice from the powdered chili on the topping. The lavender and jasmine cupcake are also unique. The chocolate and vanilla cupcakes are a little bit dry and there?s nothing exceptional. Just okay. I like the way they personally decorate the cupcakes according to their flavors.

The bigger cupcakes go for SR6 a piece while there?s an even smaller cupcake for SR2. If I were you, get the big ones early in the morning because they?re freshly-baked and perfect for breakfast. You can also drop by after a day?s work for some sweet indulgence. GB always give a nice discount, mostly 10% off. Nice! There?s also a small area where guests are welcome to enjoy the pastries.

Golden Brown?s mini cheesecakes and tarts are also very good! The quality and taste of their cheesecakes are the ones I?ve been looking for in Riyadh. Glad that I found them in Golden Brown Bakery. I also like their almond croissant. They have cute mini burgers called Darling Burgers. And they also have mini sandwiches too. Golden Brown offers their pastries and sandwiches in platters and trays .. Excellent for parties!

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Thursday, May 24, 2012

Stem-cell-growing surface enables bone repair

ScienceDaily (May 23, 2012) ? University of Michigan researchers have proven that a special surface, free of biological contaminants, allows adult-derived stem cells to thrive and transform into multiple cell types. Their success brings stem cell therapies another step closer. To prove the cells' regenerative powers, bone cells grown on this surface were then transplanted into holes in the skulls of mice, producing four times as much new bone growth as in the mice without the extra bone cells.

An embryo's cells really can be anything they want to be when they grow up: organs, nerves, skin, bone, any type of human cell. Adult-derived "induced" stem cells can do this and better. Because the source cells can come from the patient, they are perfectly compatible for medical treatments.

In order to make them, Paul Krebsbach, a professor of biological and materials sciences in the School of Dentistry, said, "We turn back the clock, in a way. We're taking a specialized adult cell and genetically reprogramming it, so it behaves like a more primitive cell."

Specifically, they turn human skin cells into stem cells. Less than five years after the discovery of this method, researchers still don't know precisely how it works, but the process involves adding proteins that can turn genes on and off to the adult cells.

Before stem cells can be used to make repairs in the body, they must be grown and directed into becoming the desired cell type. Researchers typically use surfaces of animal cells and proteins for stem cell habitats, but these gels are expensive to make, and batches vary depending on the individual animal.

"You don't really know what's in there," said Joerg Lahann, an associate professor of chemical engineering and biomedical engineering. For example, he said that human cells are often grown over mouse cells, but they can go a little native, beginning to produce some mouse proteins that may invite an attack by a patient's immune system.

The polymer gel created by Lahann and his colleagues in 2010 avoids these problems because researchers are able to control all of the gel's ingredients and how they combine. "It's basically the ease of a plastic dish," said Lahann. "There is no biological contamination that could potentially influence your human stem cells."

Lahann and colleagues had shown that these surfaces could grow embryonic stem cells. Now, Lahann has teamed up with Krebsbach's team to show that the polymer surface can also support the growth of the more medically-promising induced stem cells, keeping them in their high-potential state. To prove that the cells could transform into different types, the team turned them into fat, cartilage, and bone cells.

They then tested whether these cells could help the body to make repairs. Specifically, they attempted to repair 5-millimeter holes in the skulls of mice. The weak immune systems of the mice didn't attack the human bone cells, allowing the cells to help fill in the hole.

After eight weeks, the mice that had received the bone cells had 4.2 times as much new bone, as well as the beginnings of marrow cavities. The team could prove that the extra bone growth came from the added cells because it was human bone.

"The concept is not specific to bone," said Krebsbach. "If we truly develop ways to grow these cells without mouse or animal products, eventually other scientists around the world could generate their tissue of interest."

In the future, Lahann's team wants to explore using their gel to grow stem cells and specialized cells in different physical shapes, such as a bone-like structure or a nerve-like microfiber.

The paper reporting this work is titled "Derivation of Mesenchymal Stem Cells from Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Cultured on Synthetic Substrates" and it appears online as an article accepted to the journal Stem Cells, to be published in a future issue. The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health. The university is pursuing patent protection for the intellectual property, and is seeking commercialization partners to help bring the technology to market.

Paul Krebsbach is also the Roy H. Roberts Professor of Dentistry and a professor of biomedical engineering. Joerg Lahann is also an associate professor of materials sciences and engineering, an associate professor of macromolecular sciences and engineering, and the director of the Biointerfaces Institute.

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Faces in the crowd in Egypt's election

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Faces in the crowd in Egypt's election
By The Associated Press?

?By The Associated Press

Abdullah Ali, 82, poses for a portrait after casting his ballot at a polling station Al Saff, Giza Province, Egypt on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. On Wednesday morning, Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. This election is the first free and fair presidential race since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)

Ibrahim Ali, 74, stands outside a polling center in Maadi, a southern suburb of Cario, Egypt on Wednesday, May 23, 2012. "We had the biggest of them all and now we're going to elect a good man," he told the Associated Press. On Wednesday morning, Egypt commenced two days of presidential voting after 16 months of interim rule by the Supreme Council of Armed Forces. This election is the first free and fair race since the ouster of former President Hosni Mubarak. (AP Photo/Pete Muller)

An Egyptian voter shows his inked finger after casting his vote in the first day of the presidential election in a polling center in Alexandria, Egypt, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. More than 15 months after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians streamed to polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in generations. Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last minute over their vote in a historic election pitting old regime figures against ascending Islamists. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

An Egyptian elderly man walks after casting his vote votes in the first day of the presidential election in a polling center in Alexandria, Egypt, Wednesday, May 23, 2012. More than 15 months after autocratic leader Hosni Mubarak's ouster, Egyptians streamed to polling stations Wednesday to freely choose a president for the first time in generations. Waiting hours in line, some debated to the last minute over their vote in a historic election pitting old regime figures against ascending Islamists.(AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

CAIRO (AP) ? Egyptian voters of many ages, occupations and beliefs stood in line for hours Wednesday to cast their ballots for a new president. The winner would replace Hosni Mubarak, deposed in a popular uprising last year. He was voted in several times, but those elections were generally regarded as blatantly rigged, and turnout was low.

The people waiting patiently on a hot day to vote for a new leader appeared mesmerized by the prospect of a real election, the first free ballot for president in the Arab world. The main candidates among the 13 running for office were Islamists or representatives of the old guard ? officials who served in Mubarak's government at one time or another.

Absent were prominent candidates representing the young, secular liberals who led last year's uprising, and some voters expressed disappointment over that.

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Real estate agent and seo consultant releases new book on local ...

Memphis real estate agent and Local SEO consultant David Sandy released his new book Webcentric Local Business Marketing: How to Market Your Business on the Web and Beyond. The book outlines what Sandy has learned in marketing for his law practice, real estate practice and from the experiences of his clients. Following are some of the salient points in the book.

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Traditional and Contemporary Marketing Tools ? The book focuses on the local search engine optimization, or SEO, as a tool, but Sandy also discusses most forms of advertising tools in it. One such tool is the Yellowpages, which is usually ridiculed by internet marketers but is still useful for small businesses.

Lead Generation and Measuring Results ? Sandy drew his cases from ranking his site on Google, at times ranking #1 for many competitive local terms, and by using a variety of lead generation services. In the book, he shows why it is important for small businesses to be aware of lead generation services which use intense telemarketing to target small businesses. In the section ?How You?re Going to Get Ripped Off?, he reminds business owners that ?you get what you pay for if you?re really lucky?. The book also discusses how to determine best methods and tools in promoting a business, such as categorizing the business as fun or not fun, or measuring the frequency of customer visits. (A high fun factor, for example, and frequency of visits such as in restaurants, can indicate that a social media strategy can be an especially important influence the business? performance.)

Dangers of Negative SEO and Other Pitfalls ? The book warns of the dangers of negative SEO and manufactured fake reviews by competitors as marketing tools. Sandy also lists link building technique but is quick to add that ?the best link opportunities can change constantly? and may ?quickly become dated?.

?I?ve also found that a lot of SEO and internet marketing books can become glorified users manuals, which is unfortunate because books aren?t the best place to put brief technical instructions? he wrote. He plans to place instructional videos on needed topics on the site of his consultancy Critwit, which he states should both be more effective than including the content in the book and allow the book to concisely convey the big picture.

Not a Book for Specific Niches ? The book stopped short of discussing SEO for specific niches such as law or real estate. David explained: ?I?ve found that lots of SEO consultants trumpet a particular area of focus primarily for marketing purposes. The basics of SEO are the same for most niches except for possibly real estate where the display of a large number of temporary listings makes overall domain authority more important. I get over half my leads from my site http://www.memphishomes.pro from property listing pages that don?t have any links, that won?t happen for any other area.?

The book Webcentric Local Business Marketing: How to Market Your Business on the Web and Beyond is available through Amazon.com as a Kindle edition for $3.50 for a limited time only. A printed version is also available for $13.95.

About David Sandy
David Sandy practiced Bankruptcy and Divorce law for five years. He quit the practice of law and now works as a real estate agent with First National Realty in Memphis, TN working internet leads and helps other small businesses through his local SEO consultancy Critwit.

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Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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Vacationers are all about having fun and enjoyment with family and friends but today?s working scenario demands you to stay connected 24/7. Therefore, whether it is mobile, laptop, palmtop or any other device; we need to carry our stuff so that we should remain connected with everyone through any part of the world. But this advantage has also invited a lot of trouble in the form of cyber crimes, hackers and viruses that can mistreat with our information even when we are travelling and show many aftermaths of it.

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5. Disable automatic connections from your laptops. This will prevent your laptop from automatic connection from any wireless networks to your range.
6. While mobile banking on the roads, make sure to download your bank?s official application so that you may not open any copycat site and avoid saving your login credentials.
7. Let your family and close friends know when and where you are traveling and how to reach you. Unfortunately, cyber crooks can compromise your email account and send messages to your contacts to create cyber bullying.

Remember even if your devices are protected with antivirus download, there are many chances of getting your information and data stolen and taken advantage of. Thus, smart online activities and awareness will make your journey more secured and protected from viruses and cyber attacks.
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FairPoint Communications Announces Sale of Payphone - VoIP News

?FairPoint Communications, Inc. announced today that it has agreed to sell its payphone business in northern New England to Pacific Telemanagement Services.? PTS is the single largest payphone provider in the country, operating nationwide.

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"Payphones have seen dramatic decreases in usage over the last decade and the trend is likely to continue," said Ajay Sabherwal, executive vice president and chief financial officer. "We believe we can best deploy our resources to focus on our core lines of business including bringing more broadband service to northern New England."??

FairPoint operates in broad outline 4,000 payphones across northern New England. The payphone business accounts for only about $1 million in annual revenue and due to the decrease in usage is becoming increasingly unprofitable. ??

The deal is closed

PTS will purchase monthly access from FairPoint for any payphones it continues to operate afterwards the deal is closed.? FairPoint and PTS expect the deal will close later this year.

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Obama on Afghan: Leave on time, no 'perfect' end

President Barack Obama speaks at a news conference at the NATO Summit in Chicago, Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)

President Barack Obama walks off stage at the end of his news conference at the closing of the NATO Summit in Chicago, Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama speaks at the start of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) meeting on Afghanistan at the NATO Summit in Chicago, Monday, May 21, 2012. From left are, British Prime Minister David Cameron, left, and Gen. John R. Allen, Commander of the International Security Assistance Force. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

President Barack Obama mingles before the meeting on Afghanistan during the NATO Summit, Monday, May 21, 2012, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

The NATO leaders gather as the opening session of the NATO Summit begins in Chicago, Sunday, May 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

CHICAGO (AP) ? President Barack Obama and leaders around the globe locked in place an Afghanistan exit path Monday that will still keep their troops fighting and dying there for two more years, acknowledging there never will be point at which they can say, "This is all done. This is perfect."

Obama, presiding over a 50-nation war coalition summit in his hometown, summed up the mood by saying the Afghanistan that will be left behind will be stable enough for them to depart ? essentially good enough after a decade of war? but still loaded with troubles.

The war that began in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks will finish at the end of 2014.

"I don't think there's ever going to be an optimal point where we say, 'This is all done. This is perfect. This is just the way we wanted it,'" Obama said as the NATO summit closed. "This is a process, and it's sometimes a messy process."

Obama never spoke of victory.

Afghan forces for the first time will take over the lead of the combat mission by the middle of 2013, a milestone moment in a long, costly transition of control. Even in a backup role, U.S. forces and all the rest will face surprise attacks and bombings until the war's end.

Wary of creating a vacuum in a volatile region, the nations also promised a lasting partnership with Afghanistan, meaning many years of contributing tax dollars, personnel and political capital after the end of their soldiers' combat.

The United States has already cut its own deal with Afghanistan along those lines, including a provision that allows U.S. military trainers and special forces to remain in Afghanistan after the war closes.

In an escalating election-year environment, Obama was as at the center of the action in Chicago, beaming and boasting about the city's performance in hosting the event. Noisy protesters loaded the city's streets at times, which Obama called just the kind of free expression NATO defends.

Tensions with Pakistan undermined some of the choreographed unity. Pakistan has not yet agreed to end the closure of key transit routes into Afghanistan ? retaliation for American airstrikes that accidentally killed 24 Pakistani soldiers months ago ? and the issue hung over the summit.

Obama had no official talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, although the two chatted briefly. Obama spoke of progress on the standoff but he added: "I don't want to paper over real challenges there. There's no doubt that there have been tensions."

On Afghanistan, led by Obama, the partners are in essence staying the course. They stuck with a timeline long established and underscored that there will be no second-guessing the decision about when to leave.

Since 2010, they have been planning to finish the war at the end of 2014, even as moves by nations such as France to pull combat troops out early have tested the strength of the coalition. The shift to have Afghan forces take the lead of the combat mission next year has also been expected. Leaders presented it as a significant turning point in the war.

It will be "the moment when throughout Afghanistan people can look out and see their own troops and police stepping up to the challenge," said the NATO chief, Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.

What the world is poised to leave behind is an Afghanistan still riddled with poverty, corruption and political instability.

Yet, out of money and patience, the U.S.-led partnership said it is confident Afghanistan will be stable and prepared enough to at least be able to protect itself ? and, in turn, prevent its territory from becoming a launching pad for international terrorism.

Questioned about what will happen if Afghanistan eventually falls apart, Obama signaled there is no turning back. "I think that the timetable that we've established is a sound one, it is a responsible one. Are there risks involved in it? Absolutely."

British Prime Minister David Cameron said the leaders were "making a decisive and enduring commitment to the long-term future of Afghanistan. The message to the Afghan people is that we will not desert them. And the message to the insurgency is equally clear: You cannot win on the battlefield. You should stop fighting and start talking."

The political stakes are high for the U.S. president, who will go before voters in November with tens of thousands more troops in Afghanistan than when we took office. His emphasis will remain that he is methodically winding down the war after closing out the one in Iraq; U.S. voters desperate for better economic times have long stopped approving of the war mission.

NATO said it will keep providing "long-term political and practical support" to Afghanistan after 2014 but added: "This will not be a combat mission."

Despite the size of the coalition, the war remains a United States-dominated effort.

The U.S. has 90,000 of the 130,000 foreign forces in the war. Obama has pledged to shrink that to 68,000 by the end of September but has offered no details on the withdrawal pace after that, other than to say it will be gradual.

The fighting alliance called negotiation the key to ending the insurgency in Afghanistan, but avoided mentioning the Taliban by name. The insurgents walked away from U.S.-led talks in March, and urged the NATO nations to follow the lead of France in pledging to remove combat forces ahead of schedule.

The alliance agreed on a fundraising goal to underwrite the Afghan armed forces after the international fighting forces depart.

The force of about 230,000 would cost about $4.1 billion annually ? the bulk of it paid by the United States and countries that have not been part of the fighting force.

U.S. and British officials said during the summit that pledges total about $1 billion a year so far and that fundraising is on track to make up the rest. French President Francois Hollande said the U.S. had requested a little less than $200 million but was non-committal, saying France was "not bound by what Germany or other countries might do."

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Associated Press writer Julie Pace and Jamey Keaten contributed to this report.

Associated Press

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