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Monday, July 15, 2013
Find Out How To Gain Attention For Your Website - Internet ...
Any business can increase profits through good Internet marketing strategies. When you use the Internet to market your business, you can reach customers across the world. There are some tricks, however, to market your business more effectively. What follows are ways to maximize the effectiveness of your Online marketing strategy.
Pay attention to your competitors. Their strategies may help you refine your own, allowing you to better reach your customer base. When looking at a competitor?s website, put yourself in the shoes of a customer. If you would purchase their products, what about their marketing encourages you to do so? How can you incorporate some of these strategies into your own website?
You possess the skills needed to be successful in web marketing. Advanced software programs are not needed to be profitable. With plenty of thought and effort, you will work through your decisions and strategies when it comes to marketing.
Video marketing is a good way to get your business Internet exposure. Incorporating an informative video onto your website is a great method for gaining the attention of your viewers. Remember that you have to entice customers into watching the video in order to realize the benefit; a compelling title and an intriguing picture are important.
You must know your competition if you are to succeed with an online business. Compare the web pages of your competitors to garner ideas on things that may work for you too. If you see that your competition is not providing certain services on their websites, offer the same services on your site so that your customers will choose you over your competition.
If you can create an Ezine, it can be a great tool to get subscribers and market your company. You can experiment with adding photographs of your staff, customers, or even family. In addition, write some fun memories about your employees or family. Use of captivating words in your subject line, such as examples of easy, fast ways to attain their goals, will peak your customers interest.
Be sure to back up any claims about your business or products that you make with cold hard facts. For instance, if you say your product works great, people may or may not believe you. However, if you make a video showing how effective the product functions, you will be far more convincing. Real life videos and images can be a great boost to your Internet promotion campaign.
The above advice will enable you to improve your internet promotion efforts. Next, you should try them to see how well they work. Alterations may be in order to customize them to fit your own particular needs. Be bold in exploring new approaches and keep an open mind to progressive ways of thinking.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Yemi Sax wedding photos
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Award winning Saxophonist, Adeyemi Adeosun, popularly known as Yemi Sax married his longtime girlfriend, Sholatayo Durojaiye, yesterday July 12th in Lagos. Congratz ...
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Microsoft?s Xbox One chief product officer admits big mistakes in messaging
Xbox One chief product officer Marc Whitten admitted that Microsoft made mistakes in communicating its policies on digital rights to its consumers, according an interview published by?IGN.
The mistakes started on May 21, when the company announced its next-generation game console, and then multiplied as Microsoft executives gave different answers to the same questions on used game sales, once-a-day connection requirements, and privacy issues. The company issued a clarification on the policies just before the E3 trade show in June, and then it backtracked after a gamer revolt after the show on June 19. Then games chief Don Mattrick left the company and Microsoft installed Windows chief Julie Larson-Green as the new Xbox hardware boss.
?I think it?s pretty simple. We?ve got to just talk more, get people understanding what our system is,? Whitten told IGN. ?The thing that?s really gratifying is that people are excited about the types of features that are possible, and it?s sort of shame on us that we haven?t done as good of a job as we can to make people feel like that?s where we?re headed.?
?The number one thing I want to do is I want to get the product out, because people are going to use it and obviously a lot of this is more evident, but certainly what I want to do right is now is talk more about how we thought about these features,? he continued. ?How we thought about how Xbox Live works, how digital works. I see people feeling like we?ve moved away from digital, when certainly I don?t believe that?s the case. I believe we?ve added on choice for people. It was an addition of a feature onto Xbox One, not a removal of a feature. And I understand people see things like Family Sharing and they?re like, ?Wow, I was really looking forward to that,? which is more of an engineering reality time frame type-thing.?
Whitten said that an online petition asking Microsoft to overturn its backtracking was another indication of the company?s need to talk more openly.
?What it tells me is we need to do more work to talk about what we?re doing because I think that we did something different than maybe how people are perceiving it,? he said. ?When I read some of the things like that petition, from my perspective we took a lot of the feedback and, while Xbox One is built to be digital native, to have this amazing online experience, we realized people wanted some choice. They wanted what I like to call a bridge, sort of how they think about the world today using more digital stuff. What we did, we added to what the console can do by providing physical and offline modes in the console. It isn?t about moving away from what that digital vision is for the platform. It?s about adding that choice. Frankly, I think we need to just do more to let people see how the console works, what they?re going to be able to do for it. I think a lot of the things they?re wishing for are frankly there.?
Microsoft has taken a beating from Sony, which has argued that it is thinking more about hardcore gamers.
?We love core gamers,? Whitten said. ?They?re the people that have built Xbox and Xbox Live. That?s the place where we need to do a better job showing up, and we need to engage more.?
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It's Dumb Easy to Wreck a $20,000 Camera with Just a Couple Lasers
Lasers are bad for your eyes
The camera in question here is a Red EPIC?a bit more expensive than the Canon 5D
Fortunately the busted sensor should be replaceable at a cost less than the camera's full $20,000, but it's still a multi-thousand dollar screw-up, and apparently two cameras there got hit. So be careful where you point, well, everything; the damage doesn't look quite awesome enough to justify that cost. [Reddit]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/its-dumb-easy-to-wreck-a-20-000-camera-with-just-a-co-771211069
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Let's Hear It Once More for Florida Georgia Line and Luke Bryan
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Did you see something move?Well, it probably wasn't this week's country charts. Once again, it's Florida Georgia Line's Here's to the Good Times and Luke Bryan's "Crash My Party" topping the albums and country airplay rankings, respectively.
Compounding the sluggishness is the fact that there's only one new album and three new songs to announce.
The debut CD is the multi-artist collection Mud Digger 4, which climbs aboard at No. 8.
Making comebacks, however, are Country: Willie Nelson (returning at No. 66), Mud Digger: Volume 3 (No. 68), Chris Cagle's Back in the Saddle (No. 70), Johnny Cash's The Greatest: The Number Ones (No. 72) and Craig Campbell's Never Forget (No. 74).
First-time-appearing songs include the Henningsens' "I Miss You" (No. 54), Jake Owen's "Summer Jam," featuring Florida Georgia Line (No. 57) and Lauren Alaina's "Barefoot and Buckwild" (No. 58).
The No. 2 through No. 4 albums, in that order, are Blake Shelton's Based on a True Story, Darius Rucker's True Believers, Hunter Hayes and the various-artists grab bag, Now That's What I Call Country, Volume 6.
Completing the Top 5 songs cluster are The Band Perry's "Done," the Zac Brown Band's "Jump Right In," Kip Moore's "Hey Pretty Girl" and Brad Paisley's "Beat This Summer."
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013
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Move Over Peter Thiel, Oregon Proposes Investment Model For ...
As college debt skyrockets to over $35,000 per student, the state of Oregon has proposed a novel investment approach to loans: free tuition at public universities in exchange for 3 percent of earnings for the first 25 years after graduation. Just like a venture-capital portfolio that earns its profit from a few star investments, many students would end up underpaying the cost of their college, subsidized by the school?s star businessmen.
For example, students who earned a meager $600,000 over a quarter century would pay just $18,000 for their degree, while a multi millionaire would theoretically pay enough to subsidize all the artists, public servants, and most of the humanities. Assuming the Higher Education Coordinating Commission?s pilot goes according to plan, Oregon will roll out a polished version of the so-called ?Pay It Forward? student loan program statewide.
Critics of ?higher education, especially venture capitalist Peter Thiel, have long argued that college simply isn?t worth the price tag:
?Probably the only candidate left for a bubble ? at least in the developed world (maybe emerging markets are a bubble) ? is education. It?s basically extremely overpriced. People are not getting their money?s worth, objectively, when you do the math.?
To prove his point, he opened the deliciously controversial Thiel Fellowship, which pays a cohort of 20 entrepreneurial youngins $100,000 to opt-out of college for at least 2 years and invest the money. The implication is that students are better off investing their time and money directly into a product, rather than delaying it for a double major in Beer Pong and 18th-century literature.
But as Stanford?s Dean of Engineering, Jim Plummer, argues, the problem with Thiel?s market-only approach is that most investments will fail, leaving students without marketable skills or a network of support. Perhaps more importantly, the general education requirements of college give students an important humanities background, necessary to be a well-rounded citizen. In other words, Thiel?s model doesn?t scale for a democracy.
Oregon?s approach is a happy hybrid between the old college loan model and Thiel?s investment approach. The state bets that it?s investment in public universities will yield enough brilliant minds to justify the cost of universal higher-education.
It should be noted that Oregon?s proposal isn?t entirely novel. According to the New York Times, libertarian icon and Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman proposed it back in 1955. Yale University piloted it for their own students before the introduction of federal loans.
Starting in 2012, President Obama established an Income-Based Repayment (IBR) system for student loans, based on one that the U.K. and Australia have done for years.?But according to the Chronicle of Higher Education [PDF], mass confusion over student loans has yielded a disappointing adoption rate. Oregon?s may succeed because it is state-wide and done in conjunction with universities.
With any luck, it will also incentivize colleges to invest in curriculum that teaches real-world skills. If the entire college system was tied to financial success, administrators would have to start thinking long-term. Given that many of the most successful businessmen of our time, including Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, are college dropouts, educators are going to have to do a much better job appealing to their new economic life lines.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Hearing loss from loud blasts may be treatable
July 1, 2013 ? Long-term hearing loss from loud explosions, such as blasts from roadside bombs, may not be as irreversible as previously thought, according to a new study by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Using a mouse model, the study found that loud blasts actually cause hair-cell and nerve-cell damage, rather than structural damage, to the cochlea, which is the auditory portion of the inner ear. This could be good news for the millions of soldiers and civilians who, after surviving these often devastating bombs, suffer long-term hearing damage.
"It means we could potentially try to reduce this damage," said John Oghalai, MD, associate professor of otolaryngology and senior author of the study, published July 1 in PLOS ONE. If the cochlea, an extremely delicate structure, had been shredded and ripped apart by a large blast, as earlier studies have asserted, the damage would be irreversible. (Researchers presume that the damage seen in these previous studies may have been due to the use of older, less sophisticated imaging techniques.)
"The most common issue we see veterans for is hearing loss," said Oghalai, a scientist and clinician who treats patients at Stanford Hospital & Clinics and directs the hearing center at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital.
The increasingly common use of improvised explosive devices, or IEDs, around the world provided the impetus for the new study, which was primarily funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. Among veterans with service-connected disabilities, tinnitus -- a constant ringing in the ears -- is the most prevalent condition. Hearing loss is the second-most-prevalent condition. But the results of the study would prove true for anyone who is exposed to loud blasts from other sources, such as jet engines, air bags or gunfire.
More than 60 percent of wounded-in-action service members have eardrum injuries, tinnitus or hearing loss, or some combination of these, the study says. Twenty-eight percent of all military personnel experience some degree of hearing loss post-deployment. The most devastating effect of blast injury to the ear is permanent hearing loss due to trauma to the cochlea. But exactly how this damage is caused has not been well understood.
The ears are extremely fragile instruments. Sound waves enter the ear, causing the eardrums to vibrate. These vibrations get sent to the cochlea in the inner ear, where fluid carries them to rows of hair cells, which in turn stimulate auditory nerve fibers. These impulses are then sent to the brain via the auditory nerve, where they get interpreted as sounds.
Permanent hearing loss from loud noise begins at about 85 decibels, typical of a hair dryer or a food blender. IEDs have noise levels approaching 170 decibels.
Damage to the eardrum is known to be common after large blasts, but this is easily detected during a clinical exam and usually can heal itself -- or is surgically repairable -- and is thus not typically the cause of long-term hearing loss.
In order to determine exactly what is causing the permanent hearing loss, Stanford researchers created a mouse model to study the effects of noise blasts on the ear.
After exposing anesthetized mice to loud blasts, researchers examined the inner workings of the mouse ear from the eardrum to the cochlea. The ears were examined from day one through three months. A micro-CT scanner was used to image the workings of the ear after dissection.
"When we looked inside the cochlea, we saw the hair-cell loss and auditory-nerve-cell loss," Oghalai said.
"With one loud blast, you lose a huge number of these cells. What's nice is that the hair cells and nerve cells are not immediately gone. The theory now is that if the ear could be treated with certain medications right after the blast, that might limit the damage."
Previous studies on larger animals had found that the cochlea was torn apart and shredded after exposure to a loud blast. Stanford scientists did not find this in the mouse model and speculate that the use of older research techniques may have caused the damage.
"We found that the blast trauma is similar to what we see from more lower noise exposure over time," said Oghalai. "We lose the sensory hair cells that convert sound vibrations into electrical signals, and also the auditory nerve cells."
Much of the resulting hearing loss after such blast damage to the ear is actually caused by the body's immune response to the injured cells, Oghalai said. The creation of scar tissue to help heal the injury is a particular problem in the ear because the organ needs to vibrate to allow the hearing mechanism to work. Scar tissue damages that ability.
"There is going to be a window where we could stop whatever the body's inflammatory response would be right after the blast," Oghalai said. "We might be able to stop the damage. This will determine future research."
In addition to the Department of Defense, the study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (grants K08DC006671 and P30DC010363) and Chosun University in South Korea.
The first author of the study, Sung-Il Cho, MD, assistant professor at Chosun University, was working at Stanford during the study. Other Stanford authors were graduate students Simon Gao, Jongmin Baek and David Jacobs; senior research scientist Anping Xia, MD, PhD; research technician Rosalie Wang; research associate Felipe Salles, PhD; computer programmer Patrick Raphael; and research coordinator Homer Abaya.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/Vz9QFbqbnIQ/130701172108.htm
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