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Sunday, September 30, 2012

The London best: Brightening facials

Your skin is steamed, scrubbed and squeezed until it glows. I left relaxed, with my face softer than it has been in years. Susannah Butter

?38 for 30 minutes, Shoreditch House, Ebor Street, E1 (020 7749 4531, cowshedonline.com)

2. Eve Lom Signature Facial, Spa NK

This is pampering (a rich mask) with some pain (black head extraction) thrown in. It left me with the kind of clear skin that only healthy eating can usually bestow. Rosamund Urwin

?120 for 90 minutes, Spa NK, 127-131 Westbourne Grove, W2 (020 7727 8002, uk.spacenk.coms)

3. The Chelsea Day Spa

Collagen-boosting facial that leaves your skin plumped. Bags under the eyes were much diminished. Felicity Lloyd

?125 for an hour, 69A King?s Road, SW3 (020 7351 0911, thechelseadayspa.co.uk)

4. Bliss Triple Oxygen Treatment

An indulgent facial so relaxing I found myself drifting off. Lindsay Watling

?148.10 for 85 minutes, Bliss Spa, 60 Sloane Avenue, SW3 (020 7590 6146, blissworld.co.uk)

5. Carol Joy Diamond Facial, Dorchester Spa

This treatment is laden with diamond dust to leave your complexion sparkling. Emma McCarthy

?205 for 90 minutes, The Dorchester Spa, Park Lane, W1 (080 0344 3440, thedorchester.com)

Source: http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/health/the-london-best-brightening-facials-8112982.html

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Preserving old ships is dear to U.S. veterans, costly for museums

MOUNT PLEASANT, South Carolina (Reuters) - The Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum, a popular tourist spot in South Carolina's Charleston Harbor, is facing the same challenge as other U.S. Navy ship museums: keeping retired, once-storied warships afloat.

Its World War Two destroyer, the USS Laffey, just had a nearly $13 million restoration. The almost 70-year-old World War Two aircraft carrier, the USS Yorktown, will need eventual repairs at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.

The USS Clamagore, a 1945 submarine at a dock nearby, could roll over in the next hurricane without extensive work to shore up its hull. While a veterans' group tries to raise enough money to save the sub, museum officials are making plans to have it towed to sea and turned into an artificial reef.

"Every ship cannot be kept as a floating museum," said Robert "Mac" Burdette, executive director at Patriots Point, which as the country's oldest aircraft carrier museum draws 230,000 visitors a year. "I wish they could. The money's not there in the world anymore."

The nation's 48 Navy ship museums are trying to balance preserving history and sentiment with the expense of maintaining huge, aging warships, a delicate act complicated by the fact that most do not get funding from the U.S. Navy or other government entities.

The ships need maintenance that was once done daily by hundreds of sailors, and a few need significant restoration to stay afloat. With the country strapped by budget woes, those ships may have to be sunk if money cannot be found.

At Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, the 1892 USS Olympia, a relic of the Spanish-American War and the world's oldest steel-hulled ship still floating, needs up to $20 million worth of work, said museum marketing director Hope Corse.

The museum does not have the money and cannot raise it, so it is looking to transfer the Olympia to one of two interested groups out of state, she said.

That solution is not ideal. The ship has not been hauled out of the water since 1945, and towing it would be expensive and risky, said Jesse Lebovics, museum historic ships manager.

REPAIRS PRICEY, BUT APPRECIATED

Other museums have funded costly repairs through loans from state governments or a combination of ticket sales, donations, grants and events. The Navy does not help finance the ships it began donating to museums in 1948, museum officials said.

"They have to fund the fighting ships, the ones that are still there," Burdette said.

In June, the USS Texas, a 100-year-old World War One battleship near Houston, sprang a leak. "And it led to many more leaks," said Andy Smith, ship manager for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, which operates the ship museum. "We took on a lot of water."

Repair and environmental cleanup cost $2 million, Smith said. With funds that include a $25 million state bond, the ship will now get major repairs, he said.

South Carolina's Patriots Point is a state agency but receives no taxpayer dollars toward its $9.5 million annual budget, Burdette said. The museum was able to restore the Laffey over the course of three years with help from a $9.2 million loan from the state.

"It's beautiful," said 92-year-old Wilbert Gauding of Ravenna, Ohio, during a recent visit to the ship.

An original crew member, Gauding said he was a machinist's mate second class aboard the Laffey on D-Day, June 6, 1944. "We escorted the boats across the (English) Channel," he said. "We did a lot of shelling of the pillboxes on the beach over there."

"If you don't bring this home to the next generation, they'll forget what his generation did for us - the sacrifice they made for our freedom," said Gauding's daughter, Pat Goodhart, 63.

On the nearby Yorktown, rust streaks the hull and bulkheads. Belowdecks where the public is not allowed, painted green Xs mark corroded deck metal that might not bear a person's weight. Most of the flight deck and a number of steel hull plates on the 888-foot (270-metre) carrier will eventually need to be replaced.

To those who might suggest sinking the old warships rather than paying for the repairs, Burdette answers that doing so with the Yorktown could cost as much as $60 million. "We have married her for better or worse for a lifetime," he said.

Having opted to focus on raising money for its centerpiece exhibit, Patriots Point hopes to find a buyer who would pay to sink the Cold War-era Clamagore within the next few years in order to create an artificial reef and relieve the museum of that cost burden.

The decision upset hundreds of Clamagore veterans, who have responded by raising about $30,000 toward the $3 million needed to save the submarine.

They are not optimistic about the likely success of their efforts.

"I don't think we're going to be able to come up with the bucks," said veteran George Bass, 86, of Salisbury, North Carolina, who served for nine years on the Clamagore. "It means everything to us. It would be just like losing a member of your family."

(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/preserving-old-ships-dear-u-veterans-costly-museums-120730655.html

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

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California Law Bans Landlords From Requiring Declawed ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill that prevents landlords from requiring tenants to have their pets' claws removed or vocal cords silenced. Landlords cannot reject tenants who refuse the surgeries to declaw or "devoice," and can't advertise in a way that discourages people whose pets have claws or vocal cords.

The law, SB1229, also stipulates that any landlord caught advertising or establishing those rental policies will face civil fines of up to $1,000 for each pet. Of course, any landlord who doesn't want to risk having annoyingly loud or sharp-clawed animals in a rental is still allowed to enforce a no-pets policy.

In 2010, then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill that he said went "too far in attempting to deal with inappropriate demands by landlords."

(For advice on how to live with a pet -- claws, voice and all -- see AOL Real Estate's guide to pet-friendly living.)

How annoying can a noisy pet be? While they wouldn't be affected by this law, it's probably not happy news for Craig Fontaine and Kathleen Melker of Warwick, R.I., who say their neighbors trained a cockatoo to repeatedly shout obscenities at them.

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Family Faces Eviction Over Toddler's Noise
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Portugal: File-Sharing for Personal, Non-Commercial Use is Legal ...

Last year the movie industry anti-piracy group ACAPOR delivered boxes full of IP-addresses that they alleged had engaged in illegal file-sharing to the Attorney General?s Office of Portugal. The group wanted the AG's office to act against these 2,000 alleged pirates, saying that they were doing anything they could to "alert the government to the very serious situation in the entertainment industry." Fast-forward to the present day and the AG has a decision that the group is not too pleased with..

Portugal's Department of Investigation and Penal Action (DIAP) looked into all of the complaints the group submitted and came to the conclusion that the 2,000 IP-addresses submitted will not be brought to court. What's worse is that the prosecutor overseeing the investigation comes to the conclusion that file-sharing for personal use is not against the law and the IP addresses do not represent "people."

"From a legal point of view, while taking into account that users are both uploaders and downloaders in these file-sharing networks, we see this conduct as lawful, even when it?s considered that the users continue to share once the download is finished," an order from the DIAP reads.

The prosecutor goes on to say that the right to education, culture, and freedom of expression on the Internet should not be restricted in cases where copyright infringements are non-commercial.

As for the IP addresses, the ruling comes to the conclusion that the person connected to the IP address "is not necessarily the user at the moment the infringement takes place, or the user that makes available the copyrighted work, but rather the individual who has the service registered in his name, independent of whether this person using it or not."

ACAPOR boss Nuno Pereira vocalized his disappointment with the ruling and accused the prosecutor of being lazy:

"Personally I think the prosecutors just found a way to adapt the law to their interest ? and their interest is not having to send 2,000 letters, hear 2,000 people and investigate 2,000 computers," Pereira said.

Source: TorrentFreak

Source: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2012/09/28/portugal-file-sharing-personal-non-commercial-use-legal

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Tight Nevada Senate race despite ethics issues

HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) ? Rep. Shelley Berkley ended her speech at a recent gathering of union members and retirees here by bringing up a potentially risky subject ? her husband, Dr. Larry Lehrner.

Lehrner was supposed to be an albatross in the seven-term congresswoman's attempt to replace Republican Dean Heller in the U.S. Senate, because his involvement in a kidney transplant program that Berkley pushed to save sparked a House Ethics Committee investigation of the congresswoman. But Berkley focused instead on health care, luck and love.

Fourteen years ago, she was introduced to a man a friend described as "a Jewish doctor with money." Berkley said Lehrner asked her if she'd test a new machine at his office, telling her: "It'll only take five minutes and you won't have to take your clothes off."

The machine found that Berkley, 61, had osteoporosis, a dangerous bone condition. Not every American has access to the health care that might have caught the condition so early.

"I don't think, in this country, you need to be dating a Jewish doctor with money to get good health care," she thundered to cheers.

It's a powerful argument in a tight race for Senate, in a state that's home to the nation's highest unemployment rate and where 12 percent of the population is over age 65. Nevada is key, too, to the wider national race for control of the Democratic-led Senate. Republicans need to gain four seats to win control, a task that seemed well within reach a few months ago but has lately grown uncertain. GOP leaders have high hopes that Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney will be a top-of-the-ticket draw for Nevada's high Mormon population.

For Democrats, Heller's seat is one of the party's best chances to oust a GOP incumbent and hold control of the Senate. Heller, 52, was appointed to the seat in 2011, after former Sen. John Ensign resigned amid an ethics investigation into his affair with the wife of a staffer.

The contest is also becoming a national test of which issue is more potent: Ethics or Republicans' attempts to remake Medicare.

Berkley has attacked Heller for backing Republican vice presidential nominee Paul Ryan's Medicare proposals. Heller has blasted the Democratic congresswoman on ethics and as a rubber-stamp for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi. Each side has responded to their perceived weakness by trying to turn the tables on their opponent. Heller and his backers have aired ads accusing Berkley of voting to cut $1 trillion from Medicare. Berkley has fired back with ads trying to tie Heller to a pair of Nevada political scandals to which he has the most tenuous links.

Democrats contend the pressure is on Heller, who last week in Washington sharply criticized Mitt Romney's comments about Americans who don't pay income taxes and called Berkley "the most corrupt and unethical person I've ever met." His campaign refused to make him available for an interview.

Steve Ernaut, a Republican consultant, noted that Nevada is closely-divided.

"In most of the big, statewide races, if you have two good candidates who are well-funded, they're going to be in a close, competitive race," Earnut said.

He added that Berkley's ethics issue might not seem that outrageous to many Nevadans. "The average voter has built up a bit of a callous to those things."

The contest exemplifies the divide in Nevada politics. Like Romney, Heller is Mormon from the mostly-rural north that dominated state politics for decades. Berkley, who is Jewish and the daughter of a waiter at the Sands Casino, is a feisty resident of the more labor-friendly and Democratic metropolis to the south whose growth turned Nevada into a swing state.

Eric Herzik, chair of the political science department at the University of Nevada in Reno, recalled that, in last year's Nevada Days parade, Heller rode a horse. Berkley rode a red 1966 Camaro.

"This is just Nevada in a nutshell," Herzik said.

The campaign has taken a nasty turn as the two candidates, buttressed by millions in outside spending, have aired sharp and personal ads. Berkley's ads accuse Heller of being in cahoots with corporate interests who want to slash Medicare and end with the phrase: "He's never been on your side." Heller's ads have honed in on Berkley's ethics woes, with one ending: "Shelley Berkley: A history of public corruption."

Heller hasn't entirely ridden Romney's coattails. Last week, he bluntly disavowed the nominee's secretly-recorded remarks about the 47 percent of Americans who don't pay federal income taxes. Potential Republican voters, after all, are part of that 47 percent? and in Nevada, they probably are among the state's 12.1 percent unemployed.

"My mom was a school cafeteria cook, so I have a very different view of the world," Heller told reporters in the Capitol. "I do believe the federal government has certain responsibilities. One of those responsibilities is building bridges and roads, and national defense, but I also believe in a safety net for individuals who need the help, so that's why I would respectfully disagree with the comments that he made."

The contest is so tight that, earlier this month, the two campaigns were arguing whether a small Filipino Veterans Group that endorsed Heller actually existed. Both campaigns expect it to remain close. Berkley's supporters are banking on Democrats' edge in organizing and President Obama's persistent lead here to bring enough voters to the polls to let her move up.

Heller's backers expect some Obama voters in the pivotal swing county of Washoe, in the north of the state, to split their ticket and support the Republican senator.

In an interview, Berkley said she was confident voters would back her because she wants to protect Medicare and the middle class. She dismissed the ethics issue, noting that all of the state's congressional representatives, including Heller, joined her in trying to preserve the program.

"I know, when this investigation is over, that everyone is going to know that my only concern is for the safety of patients in Nevada," Berkley said.

Herzik said the competitiveness of the race is a testament to Berkley's skill at responding to the ethics charges. But, he added, it could also represent a troubling trend for Republicans nationally -- swing state voters soundly rejecting the congressional Republican agenda to which Berkley has tied Heller.

"If she wins," Herzik said, "it's a warning sign."

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/tight-nevada-senate-race-despite-ethics-issues-192144390.html

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Younger version of 'Mona Lisa' to be presented

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A painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and representing Mona Lisa is seen during a preview presentation in a vault in Onex near Geneva, Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2012.

By Robert Evans, Reuters

GENEVA --?A younger vision of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" will be presented in Geneva on Thursday with the suggestion that it is the original version of what has been called the world's most famous painting.

The Swiss-based Mona Lisa Foundation organising the event said on Wednesday that detailed research over three decades strongly indicates that it is an earlier portrayal by the Italian genius of "the lady with the mystic smile."

"We have investigated this painting from every relevant angle and the accumulated information all points to it being an earlier version of the Giaconda in the Louvre," foundation member and art historian Stanley Feldman, told Reuters.

In Italy and France, the one currently recognised Leonardo "Mona Lisa" is known as "La Giaconda" or "La Joconde" after Lisa Gherardini, wife of early 16th century Italian nobleman Francesco del Giacondo who commissioned a portrait of her.

But Leonardo never delivered it to him.

The portrait to be presented to experts and media in Geneva shows a woman appearing to be in her early 20s -- rather than the early 30s of the Louvre painting -- in the same pose and with much the same enigmatic stare as the Louvre masterpiece.

The Irish-born Feldman and his brother David, long involved in the art world, said historical evidence, critical comparison and scientific examination using the most modern techniques supported their view on what it really is.

Cautiously backing the "two versions" thesis -- which if proven would create a major sensation in the art world -- are leading Italian Leonardo specialist Alessandro Vezzosi, another foundation member, and U.S.-based expert Carlo Pedretti.

But other experts on the artist, sculptor, architect and designer who bestrode the European cultural world from the late 15th century until his death in a small French chateau on the Loire at the age of 67 in 1519, are strongly sceptical.

In a luxuriously produced 300-page illustrated volume to be issued by the foundation on Thursday, Vezzosi, director of the Leonardo museum in the artist's home town of Vinci in central Italy, calls on the critics to keep an open mind.

The book, "Mona Lisa-Leonardo's Earlier Version," "will permit an unbiased judgement of the claim of this painting to be the earlier portrait, incomplete, of a young Mona Lisa, much younger than that of the Louvre," Vezzosi writes.

But in comments printed last weekend in a London newspaper, Oxford University professor Martin Kemp argued that the Geneva portrait is probably a copy of the Paris version by an unknown painter who simply chose to make the subject younger.

"So much is wrong," said Kemp, a world-recognised authority on Leonardo, pointing to the fact -- among others -- that the foundation's portrait is painted on canvas and not on wood, the artist's preferred medium.

The "younger version" -- which the Feldmans think was probably painted around 1505 -- is not new to the art world, though -- apart from a brief excursion to Japan -- it has been in a Swiss vault for many years.

It was discovered in 1913 by collector Hugh Blaker -- who had already made several art discoveries -- in a manor house in the west of England where it had hung for a century unnoticed. How it got there is unknown.

Blaker took it to his home in a London suburb, where it was dubbed "the Isleworth Mona Lisa." On his death in 1936, it was bought by American collector Henry Pulitzer, who deposited it in a Swiss bank while writing a book about it, published in 1972.

When Pulitzer died in 1979, it passed to his Swiss business partner, and on her death in 2010, it was bought by an international consortium, its current owners.

The Louvre "Mona Lisa," which draws huge crowds daily, was in Leonardo's possession when he died in France. It then found its way into the collection of King Francois I, but exactly how it got there has never been established.

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Whom You Know: BBC Home Entertainment Hits One Out of the ...

A staple of the Paul Mayer collection is the simple ballet-flat, with true ballerina construction for a perfect fit that comes in a variety of colors and materials. A cult favorite is the cozy, a flat with lavender-scent infused soles adding style and fragrance to collector's closets as Paul's designs emerge in sophisticated design incarnations season after season in the most incredible hues, textures and modern innovations in luxury footwear because we know firsthand how incredibly brilliant he is. Here are two recent hot numbers from the Paul Mayer hit parade:?

Mayer founded the brand in 2004 with partner, Jeff Levy. All shoes in the line are manufactured in Spain?s Valencia region, along the Mediterranean coast by a skilled staff of 12 artisans. They craft each pair of shoes with an old-world attention to detail that includes in-house embroidery, quilting and stitching as well as custom tanned leather. This allows the brand to cater to each retailer?s specific demands in with timely and consistent alacrity, with orders completed in an unheard-of 3 to 5 weeks.?

In 2011, Paul Mayer stepped out into Manhattan's Upper East Side with a new attitude, opening his flagship store at 1388 Third Avenue. The store which cleverly resembles a pink and black shoebox offers up to 150 shoe styles, including his popular ballerinas, exclusive designs and more. As an added bonus, shoppers have the chance of running into the designer, himself. Paul's sage shopping advice and style eye has made him the New York shoe lover's best kept secret. When not in New York, Paul can be found traveling to his myriad of stores across the country meeting his loyal clientele or vacationing in his favorite spot, the Royal Hawaiian on Waikiki Beach.?

Absolutely Fabulous, where have you been all our lives? Sweet Dreams ARE made of these, and Eddy and Patsy are the only external PR people we EVER would hire. In this smashing 20th Anniversary Special by BBC Home Entertainment they will have you roll-on-the-floor laughing, and that is saying something for those from the country with a stiff upper lip. And we hope Eddy and Patsy themselves are reading us-and to entice them, we?d encourage a look at some Stella video we did far before we ever heard of them:

If you?ve never seen this show, it is a bit like an I Love Lucy comedy with a fashionable modern twist but there?s no Lucy and Ethel: it is all Eddy and Patsy and make no mistake: it is all-Brit in London. All Peachy Deegan can say is that she now wants to see the last 20 years that she?s missed and on the next special Eddy and Patsy do, we want them to come to Manhattan and hang out with Peachy because we think they are so totally still fresh and happening. And that?s an authentic opinion since we?ve never seen them other than these three episodes! We are dying to meet you plus we have champagne here for you to drink and even better, the Peachy Deegan cocktail of course!?

In the first episode we find Eddy cruising through Brixton, which seemed like an outer borough to Peachy the Uppereastsider. We won?t tell you why Eddy visits a prison or any of the other escapades that ensue, but we will ensure that you will be highly entertained. They are on the same page as us with comments like ?There?s a New Disease Called the Kardashians? which they develop quip after quip with more. We love their cappuccino-sipping moustaches, we love the wallet-turned-cell phone, and we simply love Eddy and Patsy. Our esteemed panel says:

I try to live my life fabulously. This means I only allow myself to experience absolutely fabulous things! And it is why you must understand my complete and utter excitement over the new Absolutely Fabulous 20th Anniversary Special released by BBC Home Entertainment! I have always been a fan of the show. I was ecstatic once I found out they were releasing a new special! Divided into three segments, the first begins by reintroducing the familiar characters we know and love. The first episode, will have you rolling on the floor! You will not believe the situation that Patsy, Edna, and Saffron get themselves into. Or, I suppose if you really are a fan of the show, you probably will believe it. If you are a diehard AbFab fan, I promise you won't be disappointed with this special!

Having never seen or heard of Absolutely Fabulous from BBC Home Entertainment before, I was so excited to watch this show. Since this was the 20th Anniversary Specials, I did a little research and found that this show had been a hilarious hit. In this episode, they did a wonderful job reintroducing everyone quickly, but effectively. I didn't feel lost at all. You could tell they were trying to pick up after Saffron had been away for a considerable amount of time. Without giving any more away, all I can tell you is to watch this episode. I laughed harder than I had in a long time. I could watch this show over and over again. If you know anyone who needs a good belly laugh, this is the show for them. I know I'm recommending it to several friends.?

After twenty years, the over the-top ladies from Absolutely Fabulous are back. BBC Home Entertainment is fast-forwarding into the year 2012 even though the characters seem out of place. Yet that is what makes them endearing and entertaining. In the ?identity? episode, Eddy?s daughter has been in jail for a couple of years and returns home. Their she finds her family in rare form. Of course they are absolutely fabulous helping her catch up on the last two years. From trashing reality stars to swooning over William and Kate?s marriage, they make you laugh and laugh. With her scary jail mate joining her at home, the ladies are forced to reveal many things about themselves previously unknown to all. A new identity with the same wit and humor from 20 years ago.

BBC Home Entertainment's "Absolutely Fabulous" is exactly that! Making its first appearance in 1992, Ab Fab was bold, witty and outright hilarious. After five series and some one-time specials (the last in 2003), Ab Fab is back in 2012 and dare I say better than ever? The same beloved group of characters- Edina, Patsy, Saffy, Gran, Bubble and the rest of the gang are back in action. This particular episode, "Identity", finds Edina still doing Public Relations, Patsy is still a fashion editor, and Gran is still...well, Gran. The main focus of this episode is Saffy. Saffy is released from prison and is dealing with her former cellmate who just so happens to be Patsy's former drug dealer. As you can imagine the plot is funny from start to finish! I truly enjoyed "Identity" and highly recommend "Absolutely Fabulous" to anyone who is fond of British humor, you will love it. In fact, it's so funny that even those of you who aren't particularly fond of British humor will love it too!?

Whom You Know Gives Absolutely Fabulous Our Highest Recommendation.?

Source: http://www.whomyouknow.com/2012/09/bbc-home-entertainment-hits-one-out-of.html

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Google offers 25 cent Android apps to celebrate 25 billion downloads

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Gay TV comedy "The New Normal" takes a surprising political turn on Tuesday with an episode touching on hot button election issues - from all points of view. The NBC show about the efforts of two gay men to have a baby through a surrogate, takes on racism, health care, abortion, religion, same sex marriage and the Republican and Democratic contenders for the White House in the episode called "Obama Mama". ...

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/google-offers-25-cent-android-apps-celebrate-25-180228365.html

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Several Good Ways To Help Personal Development

Self improvement is essential for that development of individuals. Self improvement enables us as human beings to figure out ways to higher our own selves, whether they are by means of spiritual, intellectual, or bodily means. If you want some pointers on personal development, then pay attention to the information in the following paragraphs.

Envision success. If you can see oneself succeeding in a sensible array, you are much more apt to succeed. When you can picture yourself performing a project effectively, then picture oneself honoring your ability to succeed, you will possess much less functionality anxiety plus it positive thinking will help you achieve your objectives.

If you realise your self dealing with exhaustion and exhaustion on a daily basis, check out your diet for feasible clues. 3 square foods with healthful snack foods in-in between gives your mind and body with the power and nutrients which make it much easier to make it through an day with out sensation like you are jogging on unfilled.

Producing inside an everyday log could be a valuable way to keep yourself motivated as you try to attain your own improvement targets. Even when you don?t consider yourself to be a blogger, just jotting downward your feelings regarding your successes, or even about anything at all occurring in your life, can provide you with the energy to be with your attempts.

Learn to banish unpleasant and unfounded negative thoughts about others. If you locate a really nasty emotion rising, end it there and power on your own to create at least two positive or flattering things about anyone or persons involved. With time, on a regular basis rehearsing this exercise designs all your other worries by quickly contacting in your thoughts the most beneficial areas of equally men and women and circumstances.

As was reviewed at first of this report, looking for self improvement can be a healthier and positive project. As a way to succeed in attaining personal development there are various crucial bits of suggest that anyone need to comply with. Utilize this article?s assistance and acquire one step ahead in accomplishing on your own aid goals

Source: http://intellectualredneck.com/2012/09/several-good-ways-to-help-personal-development/

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Creating a More Engaging Website

Gone Live :-) Creating a website is very simple, but creating a good one that is both engaging and utilised by your target audience is an entirelydifferent challenge. Using your website to engage an audience enables you to generate traffic and offers you the opportunity to create a larger income stream through sales. The web is an amazing business tool, and if you engage with correctly, you could see your business profits explode rapidly.This article considers what you need to do to create a more engaging website.

Outsource

Unless you run a web design company, then outsourcing your online offerings is worthwhile. Marketing budgets are rarely focused on the Internet, despite the fact that most people and businesses look online first for their needs. Redirecting your marketing budget into the online arena can make an amazing difference to the success of your products, but to get it right, you must have expertise. Web development and promotion are elements of outsourced IT that can greatly benefit your business as it develops online.

Target Your Audience

Your website and your brand as a whole needs to directly target your audience, so that you can fully engage with the people that are most likely to visit your store and buy your products. Targeting your audience properly and actively by focusing your efforts through the use of pay-per-click advertising will get you the results that you require. If your web content does not appeal to the target audience, however, then you will not get regular visitors, and will struggle to turn the visits into sales too.

Promote Your Page

The old adage of ?build it and they will come?is simply not true in the World Wide Web. There is so much on offer online that you need to actively battle to get your web page seen before the millions of other websites out there.

Promoting your web page through physical advertising is one thing, but promoting it through targeted search engine optimisation will have a far greater effect. Such promotionmeansthat your web page will appear much higher up the list of results, and that people will bea lot more likely to be exposed to it. This is a very worthwhile investment of time and money, because it will mean that people can actually find your business without knowing about it.

Retain Your Customers

Another challenge that comes with an online presence is the retention of customers. When customers land on your page, you should convert their presence into sales, as soon as possible. This is a challenge, because being too pushy will deter them, and being too relaxed will make themnot bother either. Making the sale is crucial, but getting these customers to return is even harder.

A Complete Package

Collecting email addresses and contacting previous customers with regards to targeted offers is one of the best ways of turning theminto repeat customers. To retain them, however, you will need them to trust you, and this requires a great service,from the point of landing on your pageto the point of sale anddelivery. Your business must be successful as a whole to retain all of the customers,and thus eventually build a customer base.

Source: http://www.veganfreak.com/creating-engaging-website/

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Anti-Japan protests in China swell, turn violent

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