HealthTap Buys Avvo?s Health Business, Looks To Become The Go-To Resource For Medical Advice, Info

Instead of anxiously searching Google or WebMD, people would rather turn to a real human being for answers to their pressing health questions -- preferably one who's been to school for 10 years. The problem is, of course, that visits to the doctor's office cost money. Plus, you need an appointment and you'll probably sit in a waiting room. Wellsphere's Ron Gutman founded HealthTap in 2010 to give anyone and everyone the opportunity to consult with human doctors in realtime, for free.

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Victor and vanquished: Obama has Romney to lunch

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The White House says President Barack Obama's lunch with Republican Mitt Romney focused on America's leadership and the two presidential rivals pledged to stay in touch, particularly if opportunities to work together come up in the future.

In their first meeting since the election, Obama and the GOP nominee met for lunch in the White House's private dining room, fulfilling a promise Obama made in his victory speech the night of Nov. 6.

The White House says Romney congratulated the president for his successful campaign and wished him well in the coming four years. The conversation during the hourlong meeting focused on America's leadership in the world and the importance of maintaining that leadership position.

The lunch menu included white turkey chili and Southwestern grilled chicken salad.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/victor-vanquished-obama-romney-lunch-080241495--politics.html

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AusAID Higher Education Forum: universities and education for ...

At the Education Effectiveness and Collaboration Forum convened by the Development Policy Centre in March 2012, Peter Baxter, Director-General of AusAID expressed concerns around expertise in Australian universities in the broad domain of education and development.

In response to these concerns, AusAID commissioned a study by the Centre for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne. The report, A baseline study of the current status of engagement of Australian universities and research institutions in education for development, was discussed at a Higher Education Forum hosted by AusAID on 6 November by a group of about 40 people from universities, AusAID, NGOs, the Australian Council for Educational Research, and government.

In the words of the report ?This study provides a baseline analysis of the current status of engagement of Australian universities and research institutions in international development issues that are relevant to Australia?s growing investment in aid for education.?? Any fair assessment would confirm the report presents this analysis as well as a good review of the key issues. The report leans a little towards being an inventory of relevant development activity; that the appendices take up nearly two-thirds of the report illustrates this ?inventory? approach.

I find that there are three important limitations of this study. The first limitation has to do with the report?s central concept of ?education for development?. My own engagement with this area has been since 1971 and continued with university work, publications, and numerous long and short-term consultancies since then. It was a field I had always thought of as ?educational development?. So it was something of a surprise to discover that it has been re-badged as ?education for development?. This name leads to a sense of confusion. It is unsatisfactory for the study to simply define the field in the negative: ??Education for development? is an area of study with no obvious natural disciplinary setting? and then proceed with documentation and analysis of something that lacks a clear focus.

So, what is ?education for development?? I can see that a good case for using the term can be argued as it does encompass AusAID activities such as the BRIDGE program and scholarships, which are beyond strictly educational development activities. But ?education for development? needs clarification and explanation.

Vagueness in locating the field of ?education for development? is partly a reflection of the Terms of Reference and partly because AusAID?s key planning documents were evidently not used to construct an understanding of the field that more closely aligned with AusAID?s education aid plans. These key documents are An Effective Aid Program for Australia, 2011 and Promoting Opportunities For All, Education, Thematic Strategy, 2011. The Thematic Strategy provides AusAID?s clear planning structure: access to education, improving learning outcomes, and better governance, management and service delivery. This structure could have been useful in focusing the study. Vagueness also leads to some odd inclusions in the report?s appendices. These inclusions suggest confusion between studies of educational development on the one hand and internationalisation and globalisation on the other. Examples suggesting this confusion are articles about Arts education research in Australia, studies of Singaporean and Hong Kong education, the health of international students in Australia, and French and Australian language teaching in international schools. The term ?education for development? has few links on the web and appears not at all in AusAID?s literature as best I can tell, including in the Education Thematic Strategy.

I labour this point because I think the issue of vagueness about the field leads to dubious assertions of the kind ?Education for development is weak in robust research inquiry and the associated publishing culture? (page 7). This assertion is questionable if you look through the publishing history of a journal such as the International Journal of Educational Development or the work published by Brian Caldwell and others noted below.

The second limitation is the five-year time frame for the study, 2007 to 2012. This limitation eliminates for consideration the rich and substantial history of the field. The study could not consider and learn from the lessons of early work such as the important support provided to this field by the (then) International Development Program of Australian Universities and Colleges (IDP) described here. Much of this work was done during the 1980s and 90?s in supporting both international development activities by universities and funding of small research projects. This research support led, in my case, to published work on the outcomes of overseas study for Indonesian students and subsequent follow-on design work for AusAID in several countries ? a very good example of research informing educational policy and practice.

Another area missing in the study is the academic area generally known as ?higher education research and development? of which Melbourne?s Centre for the Study of Higher Education, which produced this study, is one of the world?s finest examples. The intellectual orientations and practices of this field have a very good fit with ?education for development? and many practitioners from this academic area made important contributions from around the 1980s onwards in areas that mirror AusAID?s three pillars for its investment in education: access to education, improving learning outcomes, and better governance, management and service delivery. Surely there are some useful lessons for AusAID from this history?

The third limitation is a conceptual weakness. This relates to the discussion in the report around there being two broad groups of disciplinary specialists in universities, those that reside in faculties and schools of education ? the ?pedagogy-rich? practitioners ? and those in area and development studies, who are ?context-rich?.

There are two matters here that demand further analysis: the assumption that those in education apparently lack context and the further assumption that education is only about ?pedagogy?. Both assumptions are incorrect. Moreover, in making the assumption that education equates with teaching and learning, whole areas of institutional and organisational change, school improvement, the economics of education, finance, management, governance, and leadership are all at risk of being overlooked. It is exactly the complex interplay of teaching and learning with these areas that occupies so much time and attention in development.

This interplay is very well illustrated in the important book Why not the best schools? ?by Melbourne academics Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris and published by ACER in 2008. This is a surprising omission from the baseline study given the important conceptual and practical contributions of these Australian writers to educational development over a long period for Australian schools and for education in developing countries.

Recommendations were not called for in the Terms of Reference. Therefore, it is a pity that only three brief paragraphs were devoted to synthesizing all the work done in the study. Given that we heard at the Forum about the depressing prospect of Australian expertise in the area fading away, then urgent action is required if Australia is to retain capacity and credibility in ?education for development?. Why not some thinking about ways to support the capture of the knowledge from the consultant?s reports mentioned on page 57 and especially from those nearing retirement before this is lost?

Finally, to apply the concepts of supply and demand to the study, we find almost all the discussion to be on the supply side of the evidence base and skills required for ?education for development?. But what of the demand for, and use of, the results of any supply side success? We need to hear very much more about this to help AusAID with its stated intentions, set out in the Terms of Reference 2.2: ?The paper will be used to inform AusAID?s approach to strengthening the quality, quantity, and use of educational research, study and training in the aid program?.

Robert Cannon is an Associate of the Development Policy Centre and is presently working as an evaluation specialist with the USAID funded PRIORITAS Project in Indonesian education.

Source: http://devpolicy.org/ausaid-higher-education-forum-universities-and-education-for-development-20121129/

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Investing in a Bad Economy - Real Estate Economy Watch

With our economy finally recovering from a terrible recession and the possibility of another financial collapse in the coming months, it can be difficult to decide whether or not to invest. Is investing during a bad economy good, or bad?

Residential real estate invest has done surprisingly well for investors during the housing depression.

Large, affordable inventories of distress sales, foreclosures and short sales, have put real estate investing in reach of millions of investors who never would have considered it.? Returns of eight percent or better have encourages more than two dozen well-funded private equity investors to enter the market, creating additional demand for well-managed ?Investors saw their share of non-distressed property purchases inch higher from 11.3 percent to 12.2 percent over the past five months, according to Campbell Surveys.

While there are many bad investments that you should avoid during a down economy, there are also of plenty positive ones, too.?? In his new book The Only Three Questions That Still Count, ?Forbes ?Portfolio Strategy? columnist Ken Fisher suggests you ?begin your search or the right investment by answering three questions so you know exactly how to make good investing decisions.

Source: http://www.realestateeconomywatch.com/2012/11/investing-in-a-bad-economy/

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Online Education: Learning and Teaching in Cyberspace (e ...

Online education or instruction?any form of learning/teaching via a computer network, i.e. Internet, WWW, or LAN-is rapidly becoming a major mode of educational delivery used by schools, colleges, and corporations. ONLINE EDUCATION is a comprehensive introduction to and overview of learning and teaching in ?cyberspace.? Kearsley, an author of Wadsworth?s DISTANCE EDUCATION: A SYSTEMS VIEW, provides pre-service and in-service teachers, college faculty, and staff with a formal survey of this new and growing educational paradigm.

?Greg Kearsley received his Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of Alberta in 1978 and has written many books and articles about technology and education such as Online Education: Learning and Teaching in Cyberspace. His most recent book project is Online Learning: Personal Reflections on the Transformation of Education. He is currently an independent consultant specializing in online education. He has designed online courses for NCREL, Walden Institute and the MEPP program at the University of Wisconsin. He has taught at many universities including the University of Maryland, Nova Southeastern University and the George Washington University; was the Chief Executive Officer of Park Row Inc., a software publishing company in San Diego; chief scientist of Courseware Incorporated, a training development firm based in San Diego; and a senior scientist at the Human Resources Research Organization in Alexandria, VA.?

Online Education: Learning and Teaching in Cyberspace

e-Learning and the Science of Instruction: Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning

is a useful resource for all those who are involved in designing and developing e-learning experiences. (IACET Review, 4/1/2004)

?This book clearly points the way to improving learning environments and ensuring that e-learning is accessible, relevant, and effective.? (Technical Communication, August 2003) ?This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Pfeiffer; 3 edition
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470874309
ISBN-13: 978-0470874301
Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 1.3 x 9.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds

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Power in a Pinch: GE Mobile Gas Turbines Improve Africa's Grid Reliability and Counter Rising Diesel Costs

Economies cannot thrive and grow for long without a reliable supply of power. That?s why GE designed its TM2500+ trailer-mounted aeroderivative gas turbines; the ecomagination-qualified units quickly generate reliable and efficient power anywhere, on or off the grid, while keeping emissions low.

In December, five of the TM2500+ units will add 120 megawatts of rapid and mobile power in Angola to counter the rising cost of diesel fuel and improve grid reliability. The TM2500+ is part of GE?s PowerXpand portfolio, which was unveiled earlier this year to help meet the growing need for rapid power generation throughout Africa and around the world.

?With a population of 19 million people but only a 26 percent electrification rate, Angola is a perfect example of how a country can use GE?s PowerXpand? Portfolio to provide greater long-term energy and economic security to residents and businesses alike,? said Darryl Wilson, president and CEO?aeroderivative gas turbines for GE Power & Water. ?Our TM2500+ and other products in our PowerXpand portfolio are ideally suited to help meet the demand for fast, mobile power in countries that are seeking more permanent energy and water infrastructure solutions.?

The fuel-flexible system runs on either natural gas or liquid-distillate and can be used to support permanent power installations, as backup power to support natural disaster relief efforts or for plant shutdowns and equipment maintenance.

The units are going to LS Energia (LSE) ? an engineering, procurement and construction company ? on behalf of the Angolan state utility Empresa Nacional Eectricidade-E.P. (ENE). This is GE?s third TM2500+ power project in Angola.

?GE?s TM2500+ systems offer the right combination of efficiency and reliability needed to help ENE reduce its fuel costs and increase the reliability of grid service in order to support continued economic growth in Angola. We are providing a complete solution from fuel supply to electricity on the grid. Our partnership with GE gives the customer a single point of contact,? said Nyembo Ilunga, President, LSE Africa.

GE?s PowerXpand? Portfolio features products designed to address both temporary and permanent power needs ?in a pinch?. Industrial businesses, developing communities and government agencies managing disaster relief all benefit from the portfolio, which includes GE aeroderivative gas turbines, Jenbacher and Waukesha gas engines and Clean Cycle waste heat recovery solutions.

Top image: Luanda, Angola at night. Courtesy/Flickr user Felipe Miguel

Ysabel Yates is a science and technology reporter contributing to Ecomagination and Txchnologist.

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Card firms' block on WikiLeaks did not break rules: EU

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A block on processing donations for WikiLeaks by Visa Europe and other credit card companies is unlikely to have violated EU anti-trust rules, the European Commission said on Tuesday.

DataCell, a company that collected donations for WikiLeaks, complained to the Commission about Visa Europe, MasterCard Europe and American Express Co after they stopped processing donations for WikiLeaks in December 2010. Their decisions followed criticism by the United States of WikiLeaks' release of thousands of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables.

"On the basis of the information available, the Commission considers that the complaint does not merit further investigation because it is unlikely that any infringement of EU competition rules could be established," said a spokesman for the Commission, the EU executive.

He added, however, that the Commission would look at new information from DataCell before taking a final decision.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been staying in Ecuador's embassy in central London since June to avoid extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations.

Assange said there were no lawful grounds for the card companies' actions, which he said had cost Wikileaks 95 percent of its revenue and threatened his organization's existence.

(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee and Adrian Croft; Editing by Louise Heavens)

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Layover Vacation: How to Spend 18 Hours in Rome

11.26.12

Q: Any advice on how to spend my daylong layover in Rome? I?ve done the classics. ?Ania Byczkowska, Chicago, Ill.

A: Sure?here?s a tour of some of our favorite hidden gems around the city.

9 a.m.: The Outdoor Print Market, on Largo Fontanella Borghese, peddles hard-to-find art books and vintage prints. Finish your shopping with a coffee at nearby Ciampini (29 Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina).

2 p.m.: Head to the unsung Palazzo Nuovo (part of the Capitoline Museums) on Piazza del Campidoglio, where hundreds of statues and busts are displayed in their original 17th-century home.

7 p.m.: Craft beer is having its moment in Rome, and Open Baladin (6 Via degli Specchi) has more than 40 domestic varieties on tap.

9 p.m.: Inside the historic Palazzo Cenci, Ae Pompiere (38 Via Santa Maria de? Calderari; $$$) feels like a private club. A burnished wooden staircase leads to a suite of frescoed rooms where you can dine on carciofi alla giudea (fried artichokes) and the signature porchetta. Then swing by the new Eataly emporium (Piazzale XII Ottobre 1492)?open till midnight?to pick up Antonio Mattei biscotti for the plane.

Have a travel conundrum? The trip doctor is in. Send questions to tripdoctor@aexp.com.

Photo by David Leventi

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Video: Another Obama conspiracy theory

Facebook policy change results in hysteria ? and a hoax

A recent announcement sparked a hysteria which divided the Facebooking world into two factions: users who suspected the email was yet another scam; and users who believed that Facebook is rolling back copyright and privacy rights, and protested this by cutting-and-pasting a viral status update.

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Consumer News: The Best Cyber Monday Deals | Personal Finance ...

This column highlights the most interesting and useful business and financial commentary on consumer companies from around the Web.

Examiner
Link: Best Cyber Monday 2012 Tech Deals: Wal-Mart, Amazon, Gamestop, Target, and Best Buy (Video)
?Sunday,?Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT), Target (NYSE:TGT), Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN), and Best Buy?(NYSE:BBY) emailed customers about their exciting Cyber Monday sales and adding products to their sale list; Black Friday weekend is the biggest shopping weekend of the year and Cyber Monday...is the online version of Black Friday. Sunday, Amazon, Wal-Mart, and Target started their Cyber Monday deals and are calling them Cyber Week deals.
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?Wal-Mart has hundreds of items on sale for Cyber Week including: a 32? JVC TV for $199, an iPod Touch bundle kit from $179, Power Wheels Barbie Jeep from $88, and more. For more information on?Wal-Mart?s Cyber Week sales,?click here.?
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Reuters
Link: US Holiday Shoppers Buy Early, Often, Online
?US shoppers went to stores earlier this Thanksgiving weekend and bought online more than in years past, giving retailers a strong start to the holiday shopping season, data showed on Sunday.
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?The more successful retailers, analysts said, were companies such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc and Macy's Inc (NYSE:M), which did better at combining physical stores with their online and mobile channels into a seamless shopping experience.?
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Tech Crunch
Link: Pushing Fire Sales Outside the US, Amazon Says UK Black Friday Kindle Device Sales Tripled Previous Record, Stays Mum on Hard?Numbers
?Black Friday is not just for Thanksgiving-celebrating Americans. Amazon today?announced?that in the UK, where it has also been running Black Friday sales, it sold a record number of Kindle devices ? triple the previous record amount. As usual with Amazon, it is not giving a hard figure on how many actual units this means, or how many e-readers it sold compared to Fire tablets.
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?But it looks like at least some of the focus of activity here ? at least as Amazon would like it to be seen ? is on its Kindle Fire tablet.?
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Tucson Citizen
Link: Scattered Wal-Mart Protests Don?t Dent Bottom Line
?Scattered?walk-outs and protests by Wal-Mart workers and their supporters?in at least nine states may have scored symbolic points Friday by taking on the retail giant head-on, but apparently they did little to keep shoppers away as the company quickly claimed its best Black Friday ever.
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?The company said in a?statement?Friday morning that its stores rang up almost 10 million transactions from the time doors opened for Black Friday shoppers at 8 p.m. Thursday until midnight, or about 5,000 items per second.?
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Dividend.com
Link: Janney Commented on Black Friday and Holiday Sales on Apparel and Footwear Companies
?On Monday analysts at Janney reported on Black Friday traffic and sales which could lead to positive Holiday sales expectations for companies like Foot Locker Inc.?(NYSE:FL), Finish Line Inc.?(NASDAQ:FINL), and Dicks Sporting Goods Inc. (NYSE:DKS).
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?Overall, analyst Eric Tracy said that traffic on Black Friday was lighter than in years past, but this could be due to a migration to online shopping as well as extending hours at various malls and retail stores.?

No positions in stocks mentioned.

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Cheap Ways On How To Improve Your House | - Home Design

Making home improvements is a great idea for increasing the value of your home and making your home a more pleasant place, but it can also be a disaster if done wrong. Having to fix your home improvements with further improvements can be avoided with a little thought and effort. Use the below tips to practice the right frame of mind to make sure all your home improvements are successful.

If you don?t have time to take care of your lawn, or don?t want to pay to have it professionally maintained, consider putting in a low maintenance yard. This usually consists of rock beds with hearty plants that need little water. This option will cut down on maintenance time and water costs.

Before starting off on any home improvement project involving painting, make sure you have the essential tools at hand. Painter?s tape will prevent damage to doorways and windowsills, and a drop cloth will protect both your shoes and the floor. The right-sized brush will ease painting, and a roller and extension handle are vital for painting ceilings.

A creative way to improve your home is to put paintings up in each room. You can choose several smaller paintings or one or two large ones for each room. This will give each room its own unique feel and provide a feeling of comfort. Paintings, being relatively cheap, also will not hurt your wallet too much.

Improve your home by installing ceiling fans in your rooms. Ceiling fans can help you save energy when you need to heat or cool your home. In the summer, the fan can create a breeze that has a cooling effect in the room. In the winter, when the spinning direction is reversed, the fan can recirculate warm air, which means less work is required from your heater.

Organize your garage by buying some clear plastic boxes and arranging items according to type and how often you use them. Label your plastic boxes and make sure they?re stack-able. This is a cost effective way of cleaning out your garage, as well as keeping rodents and bugs away from your things.

When painting your bathroom, kitchen, or other area that sees lots of moisture (or kids? hands), choose a semi-gloss or high-gloss paint. Unlike flat (matte) paints, glossy surfaces are easier to wipe clean and are less likely to show spots when exposed to moisture from steamy showers or boiling pots.

Resurface the concrete walkways and driveways around your home for a new look. Replacing concrete can get incredibly expensive and doesn?t add much to the curb appeal of your home. Consider resurfacing with cobblestone or brick which will cost a fraction of replacing concrete and will look like a million bucks.

The above smart tips will get you looking at home improvements like a professional, so your projects will all sail straight for success instead of taking a more expensive, roundabout way to getting where you ultimately want to be. With the right attitude and mental preparation, you can transform your home into a dream home.

Source: http://hydendesigngroup.com/2012/11/cheap-ways-on-how-to-improve-your-house/

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Internet Marketing Search Engine Optimization SEM SEO service ...

There are millions of different online businesses out there, and if you expect your particular business to be successful, then you need to implement some sound marketing techniques. By reading through this information, you will find valuable information on how to best utilize the Internet for marketing purposes. Keep reading for great Internet marketing information.

Think about methods you want to use to advertise your webpage. Free or cheap methods to promote your business are to make a blog or use social networks to promote your business. There are many ways to get people to come to your site. It just takes some creativity.

Make sure that you maximize the quality of third-party security with transactions. Many different companies offer a variety of secure services. VeriSign is one of the programs that helps to keep financial information private. Security systems can cost money, but they are absolute necessities for doing business online safely.

Internet marketing is both similar to, and different from, other marketing tactics. Be ready for any changes that may come up, like if search engines stop putting focus on title tags. Knowing this, you might need to place more effort in marketing a video to viral audiences.

Every company should have both an interesting slogan and a professional logo, no matter the size of the company. You customers will remember you by how you portray your brand. Customers tend to remember catchy slogans for quite a while. When a customer is ready to buy a product, he might remember your slogan even if he doesn?t remember the name of your business. In the age of the internet, that?s not a big problem.

Sending emails is a great way to stay in touch with your customers, but make sure you send out varied content. A block of links that remain the same with every email your customers receive is easy to start ignoring. Create variety in your emails to gain attention.

Another option would be combining products into a package deal and selling it for a lower price. That way the customer gets more bang for their buck. Advertisements for sales or promotions must be detailed and contain the exact conditions of the offer.

Use social networks such as Facebook and Twitter to connect with your audience. You can use these sites to advertise new offers or to share your latest articles. However, make sure to not over-advertise on these websites. Rather, strive to post useful and smart messages with intermittent marketing messages interspersed.

Making your site stand out is a great Internet promotion advantage you can use. Making your site stand out is what drives visitors towards your site, and there are a lot out there so this is a good strategy. You should showcase something you offer that no one else does.

Make a webpage specifically built for public relations. This is where you can include information that online magazines and newspapers can publish. Not only is this simple to do, but it also is an excellent way to promote your business.

Spin the positives when selling your goods. Concentrate on the value your product or service will add to their life. Tell them how it will make their life better. Having a positive attitude, and being confident that your product will work to the customer?s benefit, will encourage more sales.

High-quality graphics of your products can make or break an online sale. Your customers need to be able to visualize the items they are about to buy, and see the detail of your high-quality products. Allow customers to post their own images of your products to show how they use them. If your product warrants use of ?before and after? pictures, they can be an effective selling tool.

If you can you should give your away something branded for free to help spread awareness of your business. For example, if it?s a wallpaper, submit it to sites that offer free wallpapers. Many websites give their customers freebies, downloads, and e-zines that accept links for you to submit your site.

As stated above, Internet marketing helps your business get noticed. Traditional advertising methods just cannot give you the visibility and the worldwide presence that Online marketing can provide. Use the helpful tips here, and find out what works best for you.

The formatting of your website?s text plays an important role in its attractiveness and success. You can emphasize a single word using tags to underline, bold, or italicize it. This can help to distinguish how you want your customer to receive a certain message, which can help with the clarity of what you are trying to say.

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2013 Finalists Announced for the World Spa & Wellness Awards ...

By The Beauty Hub??|??November 25th, 2012??|??Company News,Editors Pick,News

Finalists for the World Spa & Wellness Awards have now been announced. An extensive marketing campaign is underway providing finalists and their business with increased credibility and a fresh stream of customers. Winners of each category will be announced at a lavish awards dinner at the Hilton International, Park Lane, London ? in the heart of one of the world?s favourite cities.

Hosted at the Hilton International, Park Lane London, UK on 24 February 2013, the World Spa and Wellness Awards are designed to raise awareness for the spa industry and ultimately inspire dedicated spa professionals to future Award status.

The Awards cover a number of geographical regions including Europe, Middle East & Africa, Asia & Australasia and North & South America. Each geographical region has three awards: Day Spa of the Year, Hotel Spa of the Year, where the main business is that of a hotel and Destination Spa of the Year award where onsite accommodation for spa guests is offered.

Shortlisted finalists in each category will be visited by both an official and a ?mystery? judge. This vigorous process ensures the awards are completely fair and unbiased, making winning a World Spa & Wellness Award an indisputable achievement.

The finalists for each category, of which there are ten in total, are as follows:

Day Spa of the Year ? Europe
Escape Spa & Vanilla Browns, Limerick, Ireland
Urban Spa, Santander, Spain
Victoria Spa, Sofia, Bulgaria

Hotel Spa of the Year ? Europe
Monastero Santa Rosa Spa, Salerno, Italy
Spa La Reserve Ramatuelle, Ramatuelle, France
The Spa at Mandarin Oriental Barcelona, Spain

Destination Spa of the Year ? Europe
Ayurveda Parkschlosschen Bad Wildstein, Traben-Trarbach, Germany
Lefay Resort & Spa Lago di Garda, Gargnano, Italy
Sha Wellness Clinic, Alicante, Spain

Hotel Spa of the Year ? Asia & Australasia
Espa at Phulay Bay Resort, Krabi, Thailand
One & Only Spa by Espa, Reethi Rah, the Maldives
The Oriental Spa at The Landmark Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong
The Peninsula Spa at The Peninsula Hong Kong

Destination Spa of the Year ? Asia & Australasia
Bidadari Beauty Sanctuary, Ubud, Bali
Chiva-Som International Health Resort, Hua Hin, Thailand
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Clashes in Cairo after Egypt's president seizes new powers

CAIRO (Reuters) - Angry youths hurled rocks at security forces and burned a police truck as thousands gathered in central Cairo to protest at Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi's decision to grab sweeping new powers.

Police fired tear gas near Tahrir Square, heart of the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak at the height of the Arab Spring. Thousands demanded that Mursi should quit and accused him of launching a "coup".

There were also violent protests in Alexandria, Port Said and Suez.

Mursi on Thursday issued a decree that puts his decisions beyond any legal challenge until a new parliament is elected. Opponents immediately accused him of turning into a new Mubarak and hijacking the Egyptian revolution.

"This is the point of no return for Mursi. He has dug himself deeper in a hole and won't know how to get out of it," said Ahmed Saleh, an activist who said many would stay in Tahrir square until Mursi withdrew the decree.

"The people want to bring down the regime," shouted protesters in Tahrir, echoing a chant used in the uprising that forced Mubarak to step down.

The United States, the European Union and the United Nations expressed concern at Mursi's move.

Mursi's rivals condemned him as an autocratic pharaoh who wanted to impose his Islamist vision on Egypt.

The president's aides said the decree was intended to speed up a protracted transition to democracy that has been hindered by legal obstacles

"I am for all Egyptians," Mursi said on a stage outside the presidential palace, adding that he was working for social and economic stability and remained committed to the revolution.

JUDGES MEET

Egyptian judges will meet on Saturday to respond to Mursi's move, which put him above the judicial oversight. The judges could threaten to go on strike, which would bring the judiciary to a halt.

Some non-Islamist political parties called for a million-strong march on Tuesday to demand that Mursi rescinds his decree.

But Islamist parties, including the Building and Development Party, accused Mursi's opponents of undermining the democratic process that brought him to office.

"Those calling for the downfall of President Mohamed Mursi have rejected democracy because President Mursi has been democratically elected by popular will," the party said in a statement. Mursi's decree would "save the revolution from the remnants of Mubarak's regime", it said.

Buoyed by accolades from around the world for mediating a truce between Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip, Mursi on Thursday ordered that an Islamist-dominated assembly writing the new constitution could not be dissolved by legal challenges.

Mursi, an Islamist whose roots are in the Muslim Brotherhood, also gave himself wide powers that allowed him to sack the unpopular public prosecutor and opened the door for a retrial for Mubarak and his aides.

TURBULENCE AND TURMOIL

The president's decree has consolidated his power but looks set to polarize Egypt further, threatening more turmoil in a nation at the heart of the Arab Spring.

In Alexandria, north of Cairo, protesters ransacked an office of the Brotherhood's political party, burning books and chairs in the street. Supporters of Mursi and opponents clashed elsewhere in the city, leaving 12 injured.

A party building was attacked by stone-throwing protesters in Port Said, and demonstrators in Suez threw petrol bombs that burned banners outside the party building.

Although Washington has praised Egypt for its part in bringing Israelis and Palestinians to a ceasefire on Wednesday, it expressed reservations about Mursi's latest move.

"The decisions and declarations announced on November 22 raise concerns for many Egyptians and for the international community," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in a statement.

The European Union urged Mursi to respect the democratic process, while the United Nations expressed fears about human rights.

"The decree is basically a coup on state institutions and the rule of law that is likely to undermine the revolution and the transition to democracy," said Mervat Ahmed, an independent activist in Tahrir protesting against the decree.

Leading liberal Mohamed ElBaradei, who joined other politicians on Thursday night to demand the decree was withdrawn, wrote on his Twitter account that Mursi had "usurped all state powers and appointed himself Egypt's new pharaoh".

Almost two years after Mubarak was toppled and about five months since Mursi took office, Egypt has no permanent constitution, which must be in place before new parliamentary elections are held.

An assembly drawing up the constitution has yet to complete its work. Many liberals, Christians and others have walked out accusing the Islamists who dominate it of ignoring their voices over the extent that Islam should be enshrined in the new state.

(Additional reporting by Tom Miles in Geneva and Sebastian Moffett in Brussels; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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Google Makes A Pre-Holiday Marketing Push For Chromebooks With New Online, Times Square And Best Buy Ad Campaigns

We don't know much about how successful Google's Chromebooks really are. Outside of talking about their adoption in schools and businesses, Google has never released any detailed sales figures. Most analysts assume they aren't exactly a run-away hit. That hasn't stopped Google from pushing forward with this initiative in the past, though, and this holiday season is no exception. Not only is Google running a massive campaign on Times Square and online, it also looks as if it has managed to secure some prime real estate on Best Buy's storefront windows.

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Owl feathers inspire quieter change

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An owl glides by on silent wings. Many holiday travelers probably wish airplanes could do the same.?

"On airplanes, the back edge of the wing is where you get most of the noise," Justin Jaworski, a mathematician at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, told TechNewsDaily. "My work is looking at developing theoretical models to explain trailing-edge noise."

Most recently, he and his colleague Nigel Peake showed, mathematically, that the noise from airplane wings could be reduced tenfold if their designers took a few cues from the feathers that fringe the trailing edge of an owl's wings.?

In their latest research, Jaworski and Peake found that owl wings are especially quiet in part because their trailing-edge feathers are flexible and porous, allowing some air through. Plane wings, of course, are hard and solid. But the pair found that if the edge of a plane's wings were perforated in a particular way, "the theory says you should be able to reduce noise as if there were not an edge there at all," Jaworski said.

Makers of real planes might have a difficult time taking that suggestion. Holes in the wings might reduce a plane's aerodynamics too much for the companies' liking, Jaworski said. Also, flexible trailing edges might flap in the wind, which would also reduce aerodynamics. These are issues that other engineers would work out in later stages of research, Jaworski said. He collaborates with experimental researchers to uncover the engineering trade-offs in his ideas.

In any case, the findings are still in their earliest stages, and it might take two or three years before the ideas for a quieter airplane wing are tested with a small model in a wind tunnel, Jaworski said. After? wind tunnel tests, even more research would go into seeing whether the ideas would be cost-effective in real planes.

Meanwhile, the Cambridge researchers continue to refine their model and study owl wings for further secrets into their quiet flight, Jaworski said.?

On the theory side, the next step is to study other features of owl wings that are not common to noisier flapping birds such as pigeons. "We're really excited about looking at this downy material on top," Jaworski said, referring to a unique, soft covering owl wings have. He said the down covering is difficult to model mathematically, no one has studied it before, and it may be especially important to quiet flight.

Jaworski presented his and Peake's research Nov. 18 in San Diego at a conference hosted by the American Physical Society.

You can follow TechNewsDaily staff writer Francie Diep on Twitter @franciediep. Follow TechNewsDaily on Twitter @TechNewsDaily, or on Facebook.

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Superstorm moves film from theoretical to concrete

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ? In the documentary "Shored Up," scientists warn that with a rising sea level, a major storm could put New Jersey's barrier islands underwater and create devastating storm surges. In other words, what happened last month when Superstorm Sandy slammed into New Jersey and New York.

For Ben Kalina, the Philadelphia filmmaker who was nearly finished putting together the documentary when the storm hit, it meant that the ideas in the film that may have sounded far-fetched ? or at least, discussions of something that may happen sometime in the future ? were suddenly immediate.

"Until Sandy, we were making a film about something much more meditative, really," Kalina said. "And now the stakes are suddenly much more real."

It also meant Kalina and his crew had more shooting to do, revisiting places they'd shot ? some of which were wiped away by Sandy.

That again pushed back the completion date for a film he'd been working on for three years. He's now planning to finish the film in January. It's an independent effort that he is hoping will be shown on television. He is also planning to hold screenings, particularly in the places featured in the movie, such as New Jersey's Long Beach Island.

Kalina, 36, is not a scientist, but he's fascinated by telling the stories from science by looking at the cultural and political implications, too. He worked on "A Sea Change," about the state of the world's oceans, and "After the Cap," a look back at the Gulf oil spill of 2010, among other films.

He became interested in the state of barrier islands after reading an article about how surfers opposed beach replenishment projects on the New Jersey shore.

The story became broader than that, evolving into a look at the way shore areas are developed and protected through means like jetties and beach replenishment projects. As more structures are built on barrier islands, he said, more has to be done to protect them. "Once you decide to settle in a place that's so fraught, all the decisions you make have consequences and more consequences," he said.

The solutions can be expensive, and Kalina says, not sustainable.

"Beach replenishment is not going to save the day," he said. "You get this sense of security from beach replenishment that's a false sense of security in the long run."

The film uses animation, interviews with scientists, footage of storms past and some dramatic policy debates to tell the story.

Kalina started out focusing on New Jersey's Long Beach Island, but also traveled to North Carolina. There, officials decided this year to use historical trends to build their expectations for oceanside building codes and land-use decisions rather than the more rapid sea-level rise that many scientists now expect.

The filmmaker, who grew up going to family homes on Martha's Vineyard, said the ideal time to address these how best to develop vulnerable coastlines would be before a major storm, not after one.

The irony is that nothing can draw attention to the issue like a storm.

"It's a window of time when people have actually just witnessed the destructive force of nature," he said. "There are very few windows like that."

And it could also be a window for his movie.

Before the storm, when he talked about it in his neighborhood in South Philadelphia, Kalina said, he found himself explaining what a barrier island is.

Now, practically everyone knows.

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Painting exhibition starts - The Lahore Times

By Staff Reporter

Published: November 23, 2012

LAHORE: A painting exhibition by AQ Arif and Mussarat Arif kicked off at Ejaz Art Gallery on Thursday. A large number of art-lovers were present on the occasion. Almost 35 paintings are on display with beautiful colour strokes which try to give a variation in calligraphy by using designs of Sindhi Ajrak and Mirror work.

Paintings of historical places present in Pakistan were also on the display trying to an impact of red stone and brown stone used at ancient times. Students from Punjab University and National College of Arts were also attended the exhibition and admired the work done by both artists.

Talking to The Lahore Times, AQ Arif said that he has tried to show and preserve the damaging heritage present in our country. He said that he has used oil on canvas using colours relating red stone and brown to show clear view of stones used to make buildings at that time.

?I have also used blue and green colour in my paintings giving an inspiration of sky and atmosphere as blue colour gives a relaxing impact,? Arif said. Mussarat Arif said that she has tried to give a variation in calligraphy using designs of Sindhi Ajrak and Mirror work. She said that she has used oil on canvas using gold and silver leaves. ?This is my second exhibition in Lahore,? Mussarat said.

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Observatory: Grasshoppers Adapt Their Love Songs to Overcome Roadside Noise

Grasshoppers that live near highways change their tune to overcome roadside noise, a new study reports.

Male bow-winged grasshoppers produce their song, which serves as a mating call, by rubbing a toothed file on their hind legs against a protruding vein on their front wings. These songs are produced with low- and high-frequency components.

Grasshoppers living in noisy environments had higher-frequency components in the low-frequency portion of their songs, said Ulrike Lampe, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and one of the study?s authors. This makes sense because road noises can mask the grasshoppers? signals at the lower frequency, Ms. Lampe said.

She and her colleagues studied the insects in a laboratory environment and exposed males to females to encourage them to sing. They recorded more than 1,000 songs and found that even in a quiet laboratory setting, males collected from roadside habitats produced significantly different songs.

?So we are relatively sure that this is a long-term effect,? said Ms. Lampe. ?It could be a genetic difference, or it may occur during larvae development.?

Although the grasshoppers are not an endangered species and seem well adapted to the sounds of traffic, noise caused by humans may be affecting other insects in negative ways, Ms. Lampe said. Such noise has previously been shown to affect the acoustic communication of birds, frogs and mammals.

The study appears in the journal Functional Ecology.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: November 21, 2012

An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the insects that were studied in some instances.? They were grasshoppers, not crickets.?

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