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Friday, August 31, 2012
As Mitt Romney's convention closes, the buzz in Germany is about Paul Ryan
The Republican focus, of course, was the official nomination of Mitt Romney for president. But Germany appears more interested in his choice of running mate.
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and vice presidential nominee, Rep. Paul Ryan (l.) wave to delegates during the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday, Aug. 30.
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EnlargeAfter the last balloon fell at the Republican convention in Tampa, Fla., last night, German media delivered their verdict on the now-official Romney-Ryan ticket. Despite the fact that the convention focused on the crowning of Mitt Romney, it was really his sidekick, Paul Ryan, that grabbed German attention.
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As Mr. Romney has been campaigning for years to get his shot at the White House, he is a well-known name in Germany. His big acceptance speech, however, still hit the news, given that he is the one challenging President Obama, who is still highly popular overseas.
The Munich based Sueddeutsche Zeitung gave Romney credit for a solid speech, but summed up its take with its headline: "Romney wants to take America back to the past." The weekly Die Zeit was less polite, wondering in its online election blog: "who the hell has written that speech for Romney?" It gave him only 5 out of 10 possible points for his performance.
But much of the comment was about Ryan. Germany is still trying to figure out who that 42-year-old politician with the college boy look is ? and what influence he would have in a potential Romney administration.
The daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung stated what many thought: that Paul Ryan is a far better speaker than Romney. Spiegel Online comments in its editorial that Ryan is "more dangerous than Sarah Palin" because his ideas would be a declaration of war on America's social welfare. The Hamburg-based online publication showed concern that Ryan could lead the Republican party more to the right for years to come, even if team Romney-Ryan fails at winning the White House.
'Ryan is the real king'
The business paper Handelsblatt made an even stronger statement, suggesting that once in the White House, the Romney/Ryan administration could become more of a "Ryan/Romney presidency." The Berlin daily Der Tagesspiegel drew a similar conclusion, saying that Ryan could become the next president in 2016 if Obama wins over Romney: "Ryan is the real king."
Concerns about Ryan's ideas aside, he is regarded as a smart politician and is given credit for at least having a plan for solving the economic crisis (even if it's not well received) ? which German commentators so far don't see in the Romney campaign.
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Thursday, August 30, 2012
What IS Financial Responsibility? - Personal Finance - eWallstreeter
From: Get Rich Slowly - Personal Finance That Makes Sense. - 7:00am - August 30, 2012This article is from new staff writer Honey Smith. ?Be Responsible. Take responsibility for your actions.? It sounds simple, right? But what responsibility means to me has changed over the course of my life. In fact, there are so many definitions of responsibility that Wikipedia doesn?t even have a definition listed on its main responsibility [...]
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Tymoshenko loses appeal, stays in Ukraine jail
KIEV (Reuters) - A Ukrainian high court rejected an appeal on Wednesday by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko against her conviction for abuse of office, leaving her in jail and Ukraine's relations with the West severely strained.
Tymoshenko's defense lawyer said the ruling by a three-judge panel had been steered by President Viktor Yanukovich for political reasons.
"These findings have no relation to justice," Serhiy Vlasenko told journalists after judge Olexander Yelfimov ruled that lower courts had delivered "correct decisions on the crimes of Tymoshenko."
"This is a decision of Yanukovich to keep Tymoshenko in prison," Vlasenko said.
Western leaders condemned the seven-year prison term meted out to the 51-year-old opposition leader in October as political persecution, and blocked strategic agreements on political association and a free-trade zone with the European Union.
But despite months of chiding by the European Union and the United States, Yanukovich has refused to act to secure her release. No one had expected her to be released on Wednesday.
Yanukovich did not immediately react to Vlasenko's comments, though in tough remarks last Friday he said he would not negotiate integration with the European Union at the price of allowing it to interfere in her case.
In Brussels, the European Union urged Ukraine to reform its judicial system "to redress the effects of selective justice" like that seen in Tymoshenko's case.
"We stress the importance for the Ukrainian authorities to take concrete steps to address the systemic problems of the judiciary," Michael Mann, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said.
Tymoshenko, recognizable for her peasant-style hair braid and known for fiery rhetoric, was not in court because of persistent back trouble which has kept her confined to a state-run hospital in eastern Ukraine.
About 300 of her supporters gathered outside the courtroom, chanting slogans such as "Yulia - Freedom!" and "Keep convicts inside and get Yulia out!" They lowered a mock coffin into the ground outside the courtroom to symbolize the death of justice.
The continued incarceration of Tymoshenko - by far the most vibrant opposition figure on Ukraine's political landscape - is certain to figure as a major issue in an October 28 legislative election.
Yanukovich's Party of the Regions goes into that election with the government highly unpopular over reforms that have increased taxes on small businesses and raised retirement ages, and it will have to work hard to retain its majority.
The abuse of office conviction relates to a gas deal that Tymoshenko brokered with Russia in 2009 when she was prime minister. The Yanukovich government says the agreement was reckless and saddled Ukraine with an enormous price for strategic supplies of gas which is taking a toll on the stressed economy.
"SHAMEFUL"
Tymoshenko has denied betraying the national interest, with her lawyers arguing that the gas negotiation with Russia was a political act which did not amount to a criminal action.
Ukrainian state prosecutors said Tymoshenko's guilt was clearly established at her trial last year.
In Wednesday's judgment, the three-member panel said: "The judges of the court have reached the conclusion that the appeal cannot be satisfied ... The judges believe that the previous courts reached correct decisions on the crimes of Tymoshenko."
Tymoshenko's daughter Yevgenia, who has sought international support for her mother's cause, told journalists: "Today we again received a shameful decision which proves that a dictatorship is establishing itself in Ukraine."
She said the ruling would be the basis for a fresh appeal to the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
The authorities have ignored Western criticism and piled up fresh charges against Tymoshenko for alleged past misdeeds.
In a separate trial, which has been adjourned several times because of Tymoshenko's ill health, she is accused of embezzlement and tax evasion going back to alleged offences when she was in business in the 1990s.
Lawyers for Tymoshenko pressed her case at the ECHR on Tuesday, arguing that her pre-trial detention had been unlawful and that she had been subjected to degrading treatment in prison.
The former prime minister was a leader of the 2004 Orange Revolution protests against sleaze and cronyism in Ukraine that derailed Yanukovich's first bid for the presidency.
She served two terms as prime minister under President Viktor Yushchenko, but the two fell out and their partnership dissolved into bickering and infighting.
She narrowly lost to Yanukovich in a run-off for the presidency in February 2010 after a bitter campaign.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk in Kiev and Sebastian Moffett in Brussels; Writing by Richard Balmforth)
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Five Most Profitable Restaurant Chains in Australia
In Australia, large numbers of busy families eat meals on the go, and the restaurant industry in this country is big business. Eateries have sprung up everywhere, and proper marketing of each restaurant means a healthy profit margin. According to government figures, Australians spend about $62.5 billion each year on eating out. Five profitable restaurant chains are leading the pack in terms of retail food sales.
Eagle Boys Pizza
The chain was founded in Albury, New South Wales in 1987 by high school dropout Tom Potter. By 2010, Eagle Boys Pizza was Australia?s second largest pizza maker. It now operates more than 335 stores in Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales, the ACT and the Northern Territory. It is 100 percent Australian-owned, and has racked up some impressive statistics.
- ?It has a $160 million annual turnover.
- Eagle Boys sells 16 million pizzas each year.
- There are 8,000 team members working for the chain.
Its success can be attributed to several factors, including the technology it uses, customised business models tailored to the individual community, vigilant marketing of its product, branding, trade marking and profitable business relationships. The chain continues to grow today.
Gloria Jean?s Coffees
Gloria Jean and Ed Kvetko opened the first store in 1979 near Chicago, and it spread overseas when the first Australian Gloria Jean?s opened in Sydney in 1996. The gourmet coffee concept quickly took off, and franchising began in 1997 with the second store opening in Eastgardens, NSW. By 2003 a Gloria Jean?s was present in every state and territory in Australia, and in 2004 the chain became Australian-owned. Regular milestones marked its steady growth.
- ?By 2008 Gloria Jean?s Coffees had opened more than 900 stores, with 470 of them in Australia. It signed 36 Master Franchise agreements in 35 countries.
- By 2011 those figures had increased to 1,000 stores, with 480 of them located in Australia. It had inked 42 Master Franchise agreements.
Coffee consumption is increasing in Australia, and the chain is one of the top 25 fastest growing franchises in terms of revenue and number of stores. Australians drink 65 percent more coffee than they did in 1996, and most coffee purchases are made at franchised coffee stores. Gloria Jean?s Coffees is now the country?s largest coffee shop, and serves about seven million guests per month.
Hungry Jack?s?
In 1971 Jack Cowin opened Hungry Jack?s, a franchise of the international Burger King? Corporation, in the Perth suburb of Innaloo, Australia. Initial success led to the opening of another store on Anzac Highway Everard Park in 1972, and a third in Kedron in Queensland in 1974. Within a decade, the restaurant chain grew to 26 stores in three states.
Its growth can be attributed to shrewd business moves as well as a solid branding of its product. Hungry Jack?s broke into the Victoria market by buying 11 stores from the Wendy?s Hamburger chain in 1986, and converting nine of them to Hungry Jack?s restaurants. Hungry Jack?s marketing slogan, ?The Burgers are Better at Hungry Jack?s,? maintained its brand awareness among competitors.
- During its 2009-2010 fiscal year, the chain reported an after-tax profit of $32.1 million from sales of $1.043 billion.
Today it has more than 300 locations, with restaurants operating in every state. Hungry Jack?s continues to reinvent itself, and plans to overhaul its image by 2013. It has changed its old marketing slogan to ?Hungry Jack?s makes it better,? and it will add new menu items as well as update its website and renovate its restaurants.
Oporto??s
In 1986, Antonio Cerqueira opened Oporto?s, a Portuguese chicken restaurant, in the Sydney beach suburb of Bondi, and since then the chain has steadily grown in popularity. It has become known for opening an average of 15 stores per year, and is one of the few businesses to be featured in the BRW Fast Franchises edition for nine consecutive years.
There are now more than 140 Oporto?s restaurants across Australia and New Zealand with a customer base of more than 13 million people a year. It expanded into Britain and China, and then to the U.S. in 2011.
Oporto?s marketing strategy includes promoting its ?fresh, not frozen, grilled, not fried? method of food preparation, and the menu items include burgers, chicken, wraps and salads. Its business model encourages individuals to purchase franchises for a $50,000 franchise fee, and open their own store. The potential business profits for each location, says Oporto?s, depends on the drive and ambition of the individual operator.
Red Rooster
In 1972, the Kailis family opened the first Red Rooster restaurant in Kelmscott, Western Australia, never realising it would grow into Australia?s biggest, most successful roast chicken franchise. The company?s growth is marked by a series of purchases, acquisitions and careful business decisions.
- In 1981 Coles Myer bought the store.
- By 1992 it was converted back into a Red Rooster chain, growing to 230 stores.
- In 2002, Australian Fast Foods Pty. Ltd. acquired the chain.
- In 2010 Red Rooster expanded its menu, adding burgers, baguettes and wraps.
Today, Red Rooster, with the logo ?It?s gotta be red,? has more than 360 locations across Australia. It has more than 7,500 employees and is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the country. In 2011 it posted more than $442.5 million in system wide sales, and Restaurant News named it as being in the International Top 25 regional chains.
Demand for fast food in Australia remains high, and some of the savviest restaurant chains have capitalised on the profits to be made. In order to stay in business in this competitive industry, franchises must constantly remain vigilant to prevent the competition from overtaking them. With the lifestyles of most families and working professionals leaning towards eating out rather than eating at home, the promise of large profits will be the goal of successful franchises.
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Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Logitech unveils new Ultimate Ears range, includes $99 mobile boombox (video)
Logitech's Ultimate Ears marque is unveiling a plethora of new products designed to keep you smothered in music from the moment you wake up. First up is a trio of speakers that push tunes from your smartphone, including a $180 WiFi-connected Smart Radio, a $250 Boombox and a $100 Mobile Boombox, the latter of which seems like it could take on Jawbone's Jambox and win on price alone.
If you prefer strapping your tunes to your skull, the company's got a lovely looking pair of $400 in-ear monitor-style earphones that are said to be the closest you'll get to a professional set. Cans-wise, the range is topped by a $350 pair of Bluetooth-headphones that are built for the rigors of being tossed in your bag when you reach the office. If you're worried about nursing your battery after a long day, the company thoughtfully bundled a cable in the set. If your wallet won't stretch to those prices, lower-spec wired versions are available for $200 and $100, respectively.
For those of us who've found our sets die at the cable connections, the company's smartly built all of theirs to be braided, detachable and each one has an in-line hands-free kit as standard. The range goes live in Europe in September, so we've got pictures, video and PR galore to whet your appetite in the meantime.
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Restaurant review: The Fat Duck, Bray ? Trivial Pursuits
In last year?s exceptional documentary Closer To The Edge, central protagonist Guy Martin says that the word unbelievable is bandied around too much these days. Despite spending most of the film inches from self-afflicted doom, he refutes claims that what he?s doing is unbelievable, going on to say ?When a man eats his own head, I will hold me hands up and say: ?THAT is unbelievable?.?
It?s hard to argue with his sentiment. In the overhyped, sensationalist world in which we live, reputations are built up and knocked down with one fell swoop of a journalist?s hand. Amid mediocrity, the good can seem great, the great can seem extraordinary and the plausible is often labelled with that word? Unbelievable.
It was with those sage words ringing in my ear that I arrived in the sleepy Berkshire village of Bray last week to go for dinner at Heston Blumenthal?s flagship restaurant The Fat Duck. Three Michelin stars are not handed out willy-nilly, indeed only four such places in the UK have ever been exalted to such pantheons of greatness, but at the same time I was wondering if food could ever achieve the tag affixed by so many to the place. Unbelievable.
The restaurant itself is a surprisingly low-key affair. No garish sign outside (it?s entirely possible to walk past and not even acknowledge its existence), nor lavish d?cor to distract you. The bells and whistles that adorn so many places are stripped out. This is a gastronomic experience, laid bare. Even the element of choice is removed, something an indecisive and non-fussy eater like myself is hugely appreciative of. You are seated, told what you are going to eat, and that is the end of it. The curtain is raised.
The first course (of fourteen, no less) was described as nitro poached aperitifs, a phrase that only really makes sense in hindsight. A choice of three classic pre-dinner drinks were offered, in mousse form, and poached in smoking liquid nitrogen before your very eyes. The waiter?s dexterity in their creation somehow transforming the scientific-looking canisters into an effortless art form. This is far from the only time this bridge between those age-old polar opposites is crossed during the course of the meal. The result here, resembling a small meringue, was ice cold yet melted in the mouth to leave the exact sensation of your drink of choice. It was a strong opening statement.
A tasty dish of red cabbage gazpacho was quickly followed by another of the eccentrically original creations that I had gone to experience. We were instructed to place a slither of oak moss on our tongues to prepare our palates for what was to follow. A slice of truffle toast sat aside a bowl of quail jelly, crayfish cream and chicken liver parfait. As the moss coated your mouth and prepared you for the earthy nature of the truffles, dry ice was poured liberally all over the table top, lending the impression that you were eating from the morning fog in a woodland clearing.
If you go down to the woods today?
At this stage it?s probably worth noting that the inner cynic is screaming at you to ignore this OTT mumbo jumbo, but the fact of the matter is that you have gone to this extraordinary place to be entertained both sensually and theatrically. If you buy into the drama of the piece, the rewards are obvious. It was, needless to say, phenomenal.
Next up was one of the signature dishes of the place, in the form of snail porridge. The equally famous eggs and bacon ice cream had sadly been removed from the menu a while ago, but when Heston first hit the scene all those years ago, it was these dishes that captured the nation?s imagination. Many would recoil at the thought of snail porridge, it sounds rather like the sort of elaborately repulsive things that the baddies in Roald Dahl novels would eat, like bird pie or snozcumbers. It was however deliciously textured, and topped off with some intricately shaved fennel. Another extraordinary taste sensation.
Snail porridge
It feels strange that I would not elaborate on the next course, but with fourteen to get through, the ?mere? excellently roasted foie gras (which I hasten to add would be a highlight of most other meals) seems somewhat too ordinary to mention. The same cannot be said of the next dish.
The mad hatter?s tea party from Alice in Wonderland was lovingly, deliciously and totally insanely recreated in front of our eyes. A gold pocket watch was dropped into a teapot of clear liquid, only to transform the contents into a tea-coloured consomm? once shaken. From here, you were instructed to pour the contents into a teacup of veal and miniature poached egg to create the famous mock-turtle soup that the Hatter served up. It was a hilarious concept really, and one that played on the inner child in everyone. A good, yet unspectacular tasting dish was elevated through interaction. Conceptually, it took the cheap thrill you got from adding your own salt to crisps, or shaking your own salad? and ramped up the theatre a notch or ten.
Mad Hatter?s Tea Party? Before and after.
The following dish was another headline act, the sounds of the sea. For this, we were given a conch shell with headphones coming out of it (as most conches do, naturally), and were instructed to listen to the noise of a gently-lapping shore as we marvelled over what was in front of us. A shoreline scene, briny sea crafted from edible froth, a sand substance made of anchovy and tapioca, all strewn with edible seaweed and sashimi, was to be the focus our four remaining senses. Heston has long claimed that sound can enhance your sense of taste and while it certainly added to the novelty of the experience, to my humble taste buds, the aural aspect was probably unnecessary. Bah, humbug!
The sounds of the sea
The rest of the menu was a mix of the extravagant and the excellent, with the two very rarely separated. Salmon poached in a liquorice gel proceeded immaculately cooked lamb. A cup of hot and iced tea (each entering a different side of your mouth to cause the oral equivalent of when you?re simultaneously washing your hands under a hot and cold tap) was followed by a tiny edible picnic, complete with a white chocolate rug and wild strawberries.
By the time the sweeties came out at the end, I was unsure as to whether it was even the same meal as when I started. Fans of Heston?s television programmes will know that he possesses a sizeable inner child, and this manifests itself in the doggie bag you are given to go home with. Edible wrappers, coconut tobacco, jam-filled playing cards. It?s straight out of Willy Wonker, and given that you almost certainly?won?t?have room for them after the meal, a nice way to carry the experience over to the following day.
Anyhow, in summation, what were my overall feelings. Of course it is pretentious, that?s without question. In terms of sheer quality, you can definitely do better elsewhere, while the bill is big enough to make a Toucan jealous. But that?s missing the point. This is food served as theatre. This is novelty and invention, in the grand traditions of this fair isle. And with that in mind I find it hard to deny that, despite my reservations over the word, much of what you eat at The Fat Duck is? unbelievable.
by Harry Harland
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Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Yes, Tom Hanks is the coolest celeb out there
By Courtney Hazlett, TODAY
We know from the comments related to this post about Tom Hanks' star power that you're big fans of the actor. And as if that plus his onscreen capability do not?provide sufficient evidence to prove Hanks is worthy of your affection, the below photos should.
Here, a fan ran into Hanks in a restaurant, proceeded to borrow the actor's glasses, and then played drunk. More importantly, Hanks played along, proving that really really famous people can take some time out to be nice.
Have you ever had an encounter with a?star that proved to be as great as you hoped? Let us know on Facebook. Or just take the opportunity to love on Hanks.
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Razor-blade of Life: The doghouse - party food - 2
The standard regular get-together was, of course, the drinks party, which happened regularly. ?A number of my parents' friends never held dinner parties, though they might invite us round for Sunday lunch, but of course hospitality was returned in one way or another. ?We all belonged to the Yacht Club in Lowestoft so often met there - I seem to be including me in this, but of course it depends on what was happening and how old I was at the time. ?As we got older, Wink and I certainly joined our parents at Sunday drinks dos, and when they invited people round we'd have helped out, offering plates of food and so on.
Canap?s would have been quite simple in the early days, eg caviare on Ritz crackers, bits of smoked salmon on brown bread, morsels of cheese and so on, and there would have been olives, nuts, crisps, all the usual. ?It was fine just to have the latter, there was no need to do more as it was a pre-lunch or dinner affair and only lasted an hour or so. ?Interestingly - well, to me anyway - although neither of my parents smoked, they always provided dishes of cigarettes for their guests back in the early '60s. ?That's a real mark of changing times. ?I don't know when that stopped, but ashtrays were still put around for years. ?Now of course, few people would smoke inside their hosts' house but go outside for a smoking break, even if invited to stay.
The other thing that strikes me is how much people drank in those days - although I suspect that alcohol wasn't a part of everyone's everyday life and just kept for the weekends. ?As I said in an earlier post, wine was always on the table at dinner time in our house, but that wasn't the norm with everyone. ? But at drinks parties it wasn't just wine on offer but a full range of spirits and mixers. ?As a child, I remember drinking Bitter Lemon at our friends, Frank and Jean Barnitt's house, which I liked very much as we never had it at home and it seemed sophisticated. ?Once I was in my teens I was given sherry and I seem to remember knocking back a fair bit - easily a couple of glasses, enough to make me feel warm and woozy. ?From my teens, I was allowed wine at home too, but I rarely drank it as it was a bit dry for me, it took some time to build up the palate for it.
But at dinner parties, everyone would start with pre-dinner drinks, at least two, sherry, gin, whisky, Martini or beer, then go on to wine with the meal - a different wine for each course, that is, though I don't think we ever served a dessert wine with the pudding, then port with the cheese, and/or brandy and liqueurs. ?Wine was less alcoholic then and glasses were quite small, but even so. ?I don't remember anyone ever appearing the worse for wear and everyone cheerily drove home afterwards, but they all must have had what was known as a "skinful.'
An abiding memory for me, and one that I'm sure I've mentioned before, is a Sunday morning drinks party when my parents served champagne. ?One of the guests had Parkinson's Disease. ?She was the mother of a friend, whose husband later became our family doctor (it was he who delivered Al) and lived with them. ?She was probably in her early sixties then, and already quite shaky and incapable of holding a glass steadily. ?She was always happy, chatty and laughing however, with an indomitable spirit. ?I have an abiding memory, half a century on, of her sitting on the settee, one person holding the champagne glass, another holding the straw to her lips, another keeping her head steady as she sipped, and of her laughing at the ridiculousness of it, so much that she could hardly drink. ?As an example of sheer gumption and determination to retain a love of life, whatever adversity hit you, it made a huge impression on me.
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Herbal Health And Fitness: Effective Ways to Cure Weak Eyesight Tips
Eyes are an actual adored organ. They advice us to appearance this bright apple about us. Apparition may be authentic as the ability of the eyes to appearance things. Acceptable apparition is a benefaction while anemic or bad apparition can be a absolute agitation for an individual. Anemic apparition may be an adumbration of afflicted eyes.Some of the causes of anemic apparition accommodate aging, genetics, refractive errors like amaurosis and hypermetropia, disorders like cataract, glaucoma and astigmatism, academician weakness, alcoholism, accepted cold, stress, account in effectively lit area, abutting examination of TV, alive in bare light, Vitamin A deficiency, amiss diet, digestive arrangement disorders etc. The affection of anemic apparition are blurred vision, watering of eyes, afire activity in the eyes, adversity in seeing either adjacent or far off objects, depression in arch while account or writing, abiding accepted algid etc Cures for anemic eyesight:
1. in adjustment bulwark off weakness of eyes about-face from an ailing to a advantageous diet. Accommodate aliment items affluent in Vitamin A and C in your diet. Vegetables like carrot, pumpkin, papayas, spinach, coriander, colossi, fruits like oranges and mangoes could accumulation abounding Vitamin A to your body. Aliment items like Indian gooseberry, guava, orange, auto etc are a affluent antecedent of Vitamin C. By arresting these foods you can empower your eyes and advance your eyesight.
2. Perform some eye contest like clockwise and anticlockwise circling of eye balls, affective eye assurance up and bottomward and larboard and appropriate etc several times during the day in adjustment to strengthen your eyesight.
3. Blinking eyes several times during the day is a acceptable cure for anemic eyesight.
4. Abutting your eyes and awning them with your palm. Hold for 2 account at a time and again leave. This conveyance takes off accent from your eyes.
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5. While account something, go slow. Do not jump agilely from one chat to another. That will body abstraction in your eyes. Instead focus patiently on anniversary and every letter.
6. Perform concrete contest like clockwise and anticlockwise circling of amateur and neck. These will advance your apparition in the continued run.
7. Stay abroad from booze assimilation for it impairs the claret apportionment in the eyes and appropriately weakens eyesight.8. Avoid abrasion eyes anon afterwards acknowledgment to calefaction and sun.9. Avoid backward night work. This weakens eyesight.
10. You can try out the afterward home cures for anemic eyesight: a. Use honey as an eye bead if your apparition is weak. Few drops of eyebright assemble can be acclimated to avoid weakness of eyes. Anemic apparition may additionally be advised by arresting walnuts in plenty.
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Monday, August 27, 2012
What's on this week for the kids? 27 -31 August summer holiday ...
Wow- August is nearly over. If you're looking
for things to
do next week then look no further. Here is our round up of great things that are on in the holidays in North London and Central London for children including museum events, theatre, camps, courses and more. Here is a list of North London playgroups running throughout the holidays.
See below for details of one off events running across North and
Central London this week.
It's Airfix fortnight at the RAF Museum where you can make and paint your own 1:72 scale Hurricane model to take home for free. Sessions will be taking place daily in the Museum's Dermot Boyle Wing from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm.
for things to
do next week then look no further. Here is our round up of great things that are on in the holidays in North London and Central London for children including museum events, theatre, camps, courses and more. Here is a list of North London playgroups running throughout the holidays.
See below for details of one off events running across North and
Central London this week.
It's Airfix fortnight at the RAF Museum where you can make and paint your own 1:72 scale Hurricane model to take home for free. Sessions will be taking place daily in the Museum's Dermot Boyle Wing from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 5pm.
At the Victoria & Albert Museum the Imagination Station is open daily from 10.30 to 5pm. Activities are for all ages, with specific ideas for under 5s. Activities are devised by artists, and facilitated buy a family friendly team, with lots of inspiration from the museum.
There are outdoor family games daily from 11 to 4pm at the Museum of Childhood. Drop-in, suitable for all ages.
This is also the last week to catch the Fab Kids Week in the West End.?
Monday 27 August- Bank Holiday Monday
The Alternative Village Fete takes place this Sunday and Monday at Watch This Space at the National Theatre, 12-5.30pm. Free. The Alternative Village Fete is home live art's very own anarchic jamboree: expect a sideways slant on the traditional family day out where the folk is activism and the bunting is radical!A packed programme of participatory and performance projects across the stage and stalls, embraces all that is Fete - Morris dancing, make do and mend, the British Gent and tea & cake, as well as artist's fete games, participatory performances, Hill Billy barn dancing, rocking folk fusion live music and much much more!
For something cultural, head to the family matineee Prom at the Royal Albert Hall, 3-5.30. The family Orchestra and Chorus and the Northern Sinfonia are joined by Montenegrin guitar star Milo? Karadagli?, the gospel vocal group Blind Boys of Alabama and Radio 3's World Routes Academy protege, veena player Hari Sivanesan for a journey to 4 corners of the world.?
Tuesday 28 August
Green Peas Eco-Friendly Art have art picnics (as seen at the top of this feature) - join them for a fabulous creative play outdoors! Bring your picnic and enjoy splashing paint, crafting and getting messy in stunning Waterlow Park!Waterlow Park Centre, the lawn opposite to the Centre,Waterlow Park N19 5JF
The NCT CUFOS Playgroup meets every Tuesday at 3pm-4.30pm. We welcome mums-to-be, babies, toddlers and children up to school age. ?1.50 per family. Expect weekly arts and crafts, baby area, outside play, lots of toys, storytelling and singing.CUFOS, The Old Railway Station, Top of The Avenue, N10 2QE
Mini Mozart are running classes in Highgate for babies and toddlers (up to 4s welcome). These are great classes that have professional musicians playing live for the children as well as fun, bubbles and more. Classes can be booked individually and are running weekly all summer. Tuesdays at Pond Square Chapel, N6 6BA. Toddler Classes at 9:30, Babies & Toddlers (great for siblings!) at 10:15 and Babies at 11:10. Sibling discounts available.All bookings and more information can be made at www.minimozart.com
New Mum/Bump? Want to meet other mums/bumps? Come to the Tuesdays NCT NW2 Bumps & Babies Group 10.30am-12.30pm @BusyRascals and have a coffee (and a treat or two!). Aimed at bumps and parents with babies up to walking age http://ow.ly/b4Ci5
London Canal Museum has boat trip fun. Boat trips and activities for 6-12 years, ?4.
On Hampstead Heath, there is The Secret Summer Garden at Parliament Hill, drop in 12 noon to 4pm. Free
A few activities at libraries in Camden:? Kentish Town Library has a summer craft activity 11 to 12.30pm. Celebrate the end of the summer reading challenge at Highgate Library by making your very own Olympic wreath headband this session is suitable for 4-11 years old, 2pm. Come along to Camden Town Library listen to a story and join the summer reading scheme. Free Craft and story telling on Tuesday afternoons 2-3pm.
Wednesday 29 August
The Jewish Museum is holding a 2 day workshop, 11-3pm, on Wednesday and Thursday. Inspired by the museum?s current exhibition World City: Refugee Stories explore themes of immigration and identity and discover the meaning behind personal objects brought by refugees on their journeys. Then use the museum?s collection to create and film your own stories as part of this 2 day filmmakers? workshop. For 11?16 year olds
Pop Up Tales are running sessions at new children's bookshop Pickled Pepper Books, N8 for babies and toddlers - Enjoy your favourite children's stories brought to life with puppets, music and bubbles.9.45-10.15.
Tiny Tempo classes are running throughout the summer - Wednesdays 10am and 11am at Clissold House, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington
For older children 8 to 12, the Rookie Rangers Wildlife Club takes place from 10 am to 4pm, Education Centre, Parliament Hill.
Head to Kentish Town Library at 10.30 for Rhyme Time for under 4's.?
Thursday 30 August
Barnet NCT Bumps and Babies group is meeting every week at 11am at the Arts Depot, North Finchley. There is a small soft play for older children and the cafe serves drinks and light snacks.
Tiny Tempo classes are running throughout the summer - Thursdays 11am at Clissold House, Clissold Park, Stoke Newington
Hartbeeps, great music sessions for little ones are running over the summer at 10am for walking to 4 years and 11am for sitting to walking at CUFOS in Muswell Hill.
Hampstead Heath has Zoo Day at Golders Hill Park. Free, drop in.
Bongo Babies is running every Thursday in Crouch End at The Maynard Arms. 2.10 and 3.10 for babies and toddlers up to 4.
Friday 31 August
Green Peas Eco-Friendly Art have art picnics - join them for a fabulous creative play outdoors! Bring your picnic and enjoy splashing paint, crafting and getting messy in stunning? North Bank House, Muswell Hill - North Bank Gardens, Muswell Hill Methodist Church, 28 Pages Lane, N10 1PP
Hornsey Library has a great storytelling session - 10.30-11-30 Free storytelling for children 4+. Tall tales from the depths of the ocean. Meet a brave monkey, a foolish jelly fish, courageous heroines and deep sea monsters.
Movers and Shakers is running at Baskervilles Tea Shop in Palmers Green - for 0-3s. Everyone taking part has the chance to sing, play a musical instrument, be amazed by the parachute and get lost in a world of bubbles! Every Friday in July at 10.30 and 11am and in August at 10.30 only.
Al's Little Singers, a great music group for little people is running at The Clissold Arms, N2 at10.30am.
Busy Rascals also have a Sing and Sign in Willesden Green throughout the summer for 6 - 16 months. For more details click here.
Eeny Meeny Music has sessions at 9.15, 10.15 and 11.15 in Hampstead Garden Suburb.?
Museum of Childhood has Puppet Making Fun and Puppet Festival Fridays.
Head to the V&A Museum of Childhood to create a puppet with puppet makers from the Little Angel theatre. Booking required. Accompanied 5 ? 11 years. Cost ?5.
Kentish Town Library has a storytelling and storlylab session at 2.30pm.?
Other Ideas
If on the other hand, what you want to do is get out of London, then see our list of great days out around North London including seaside outings, parks, zoos, farms and more.
Or see our round up of all the best things on in London's museums, theatres and attractions for children this summer holidays.
Or our ultimate list of theatre, museums, courses and camps in North London this summer.?
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Scope of this role includes supporting corporate strategic and organizational initiatives such as new business models, company acquisitions and system upgrades.? The ideal candidate must have the ability to manage projects and changes in business process and systems through extensive collaboration with both internal and external customers and must work well in a highly complex global organization.
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?? Assist GPO in overall management and ownership in enabling the
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?? Must be able to partner and work closely with all stakeholders in the
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?? Operational experience from a functional perspective within Procure to
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?? Ability to apply best practice solutions.
?? Contributes to the development of innovative ideas.
?? Works under consultative direction and pursues course of action to
?? achieve desired results.? Must be able to work independently with
?? minimal direction.
?? Solid appreciation for the importance of internal controls, as well as
?? reporting requirements.
?? Must have strong analytical skills to identify and interpret potential
?? business process issues and problems.? Strong problem solving skills.
?? Strong project management skills in order to organize and implement
?? business process solutions; ability to track and document project
?? deliverables.
?? Exhibit ownership of tasks and see them to closure.? Self starter, able
?? to learn quickly and to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
?? Ability to make quick, well-informed decisions to avoid project delays.
?? Excellent attention to detail yet ability to understand the big picture.
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?? Bachelor's degree or equivalent (Business, Accounting, Computer Science
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?? A minimum of 10 years experience in business analysis and/or project
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?? Experience with ERP systems (Oracle required). SAP experience a plus.
?? Must have excellent written and verbal communication.
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?? Proficient using MS Office software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access).
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Sunday, August 26, 2012
Dozens killed in explosion at Venezuela refinery
A Venezuelan oil refinery will be restarted within a few days after a blast Saturday killed at least 26 and injured 80 others. NBC's Lester Holt reports.
By The Associated Press
Updated at 10:10 p.m. ET: A huge explosion rocked Venezuela's biggest oil refinery and unleashed a ferocious fire on Saturday, killing at least 39 people and injuring more than 80 others in one of the deadliest disasters ever to hit the country's key oil industry.
Balls of fire rose over the Amuay refinery, among the largest in the world, in video posted on the Internet by people who were nearby at the time. Government officials pledged to restart the refinery within two days and said the country has plenty of fuel supplies on hand to meet domestic needs as well as its export commitments.
The explosion shattered walls of nearby shops, ripped out windows from homes and left the surrounding streets covered with rubble and twisted scraps of metal.
President Hugo Chavez declared three days of mourning and ordered an investigation to determine the cause of the explosion. "This affects all of us," Chavez said by phone on state television. "It's very sad, very painful."
Vice President Elias Jaua, who traveled to the area in western Venezuela, said on state television late Saturday that at least 39 people were killed by the explosion, up from the earlier death toll of 26. He said that the dead included 18 National Guard troops and that six of the bodies had not yet been identified. Other officials said earlier that the dead included a 10-year-old boy.
In a neighborhood next to the refinery, shopkeeper Yolimar Romero said she was at her computer when a shock wave swept over the area shortly after 1 a.m.
"At that instant, the whole house shook as if it were an earthquake," she said. "The windows went flying off with their frames and everything."
Electricity was knocked out, leaving Romero in the dark and her house filled with smoke. She found a flashlight and started looking for her husband and three children.
Outside on the street, the family saw scattered hunks of brick walls and ruins of a National Guard post and about 20 other homes. Bodies were being pulled from buildings down the street.
At least 86 people were injured, nine of them seriously, Health Minister Eugenia Sader said at a hospital where the wounded were taken. She said 77 people suffered light injuries and were released.
Officials said firefighters had largely controlled the fire at the refinery on the Paraguana Peninsula, where flames were still visible on Saturday night after billowing dark smoke all day.
The blast occurred about 1:15 a.m. when a natural gas leak created a cloud that ignited, Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said.
"That gas generated a cloud that later exploded and has caused fires in at least two tanks of the refinery and surrounding areas," Ramirez said.
Images shortly after the explosion showed the flames casting an orange glow against the night sky, and injured survivors on a stretcher and in a wheelchair. The bloodied bodies of victims were loaded onto pickup trucks.
Ramirez said a panel of investigators was being formed to determine the cause of the gas leak. A prosecutor was appointed to lead the investigation and troops were deployed to the area.
While the cause of the disaster remains unclear, some oil workers and critics of Chavez's government have recently pointed to increasing numbers of smaller accidents and spills as an indication of problems within the state-run company.
"We warned that something was going to happen, a catastrophic event," said Ivan Freites, secretary general of a 1,200-member union of oil and natural gas industry workers in Falcon state where the refinery is located. He spoke in a telephone interview from an area near the refinery, where he could see the flames raging in the distance.
Daniela Primera / AP
An explosion at a Venezuelan oil refinery triggered the fire seen at right early Saturday.
The refinery complex's general manager, Jesus Luongo, denied that a lack of maintenance was to blame, saying in the past three years more than $6 billion has been invested in maintaining the country's refineries.
Ramirez said the explosion hit an area of storage tanks, damaging nine tanks.
"All of the events happened very quickly," Ramirez said. "When we got here in the middle of the night, at 3 or 3:30 in the morning, the fire was at its peak."
The oil minister said that supplies of fuel had been cut off to part of the refinery and that firefighters were using foam to extinguish the flames in one of the remaining tanks.
"This regrettable and sad event is controlled, is under control," Ramirez said on television, while plumes of smoke continued to billow.
Amuay is part of the Paraguana Refinery Complex, which also includes the adjacent Cardon refinery. Together, the two refineries process about 900,000 barrels of crude per day and 200,000 barrels of gasoline. Venezuela is a major supplier of oil to the U.S. and a member of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Ramirez said the state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA should be able to "restart operations in a maximum of two days."
"We want to tell the country that we have sufficient inventories of fuel. We have 10 days of inventory of fuel," Ramirez said. He said the country's other refineries were operating at full capacity and would be able to "deal with any situation in our domestic market."
An official of the state oil company, known as PDVSA, said the country also has enough supplies on hand to guarantee its international supply commitments. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly about the matter.
In terms of international oil markets, the disaster is not likely to cause much of a ripple, said Jason Schenker, an energy analyst and president of Austin, Texas-based Prestige Economics LLC. Noting that other refinery accidents and shutdowns regularly occur around the world, he said: "There's likely to be relatively limited impact on global crude or product pricing."
"The real tragedy," he said, "is that these events continue to happen, not just in Venezuela but everywhere. It is a dangerous business."
Gustavo Coronel, an energy consultant and former PDVSA executive, called the tragedy "probably the worst one the oil industry has had in many years."
"Accidents happen, of course, although the problem with PDVSA is the inordinate amount of accidents that have taken place during the last years," Coronel said. Considering the overall record, "we are not talking about bad luck but about lack of maintenance and inept management," he said.
The labor leader Freites, who has worked at the refinery for 29 years, said workers had repeatedly alerted state oil company officials to problems that they feared could lead to an accident. "We've been complaining about problems and risks, including fires, broken pipes and a lack of spare parts," Freites said.
One opposition group comprised of former PDVSA employees, Gente del Petroleo, or Oil People, said it could not yet pass judgment on the cause of the explosion. But it but noted there had been ample concerns about lack of maintenance and poor management.
The group said in a statement that since 2003, 79 other serious accidents have been reported at the Paraguana Refinery Complex, collectively killing a total of 19 workers and injuring 67 others.
Opposition leader Henrique Capriles, who is challenging Chavez in the country's Oct. 7 presidential election, expressed condolences to the victims and their families.
"We Venezuelans are one, and we grow in the face of this type of situations," Capriles said.
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Kodak selling off iconic film business to pay off debt
Kodok has been a household photography and film brand for years, but the once thriving firm is going to give up its film business in order to stay afloat.?
In addition, the Wall Street Journal reported that Kodak is also trying to sell its digital imaging kiosks, heavy duty commercial scanners, and related software.
Earlier, Kodak was hoping that it would be able sell part of its patent portfolio to pay back creditors, but due to unforeseen circumstances they didn?t make enough money to pay the banks.? Despite declaring bankruptcy, Kodak is still optimistic that it can remain a household brand through the printer business.
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Friday, August 24, 2012
5 Qualities of a Strong Leader - The Self Improvement Blog
By Kelsey Clark -
Leadership has a bit of an ambiguous meaning associated with it, and is often used out of context. People frequently make the mistake of calling a boss or an owner a leader, even though they are people who manage through fear tactics and hostile attitudes. The result of this type of leadership is that they lead teams that have very little respect for them and are willing to turn on their leaders in an instant. True leaders, however, are those people who command the respect of those around them, and lead under strong and fair tactics. If you have been trying to fulfill the role of being a strong leader, there are several defining character traits that need to be cultivated; here are five of them:
1.?????? Strong communication skills ?Anyone who is in a leadership position has to be able to communicate clearly and effectively with his team and those who work under him. People need to be able to trust that their leader will be forthcoming and candid, two qualities that instill a level of trust and commitment into team members.
2.?????? The ability to change course when necessary ? Sometimes even the best laid plans are going to veer off course. The defining factor between a good leader and a poor one is that a strong leader understands that sometimes changing courses is necessary for the greater good, and she is able to roll with the changes so that her team still comes out ahead.
3.?????? Being able to embrace failure ? The reason that so many people fail is that they let one round with failure tear them down. A true leader is able to embrace failure and learn from it so that he comes back stronger and more prepared the next time around, taking him one step closer to success. He is able to see failure as one very small part of a much bigger picture.
4.?????? Unwavering dedication ? While any leader needs a team that is committed to her, that team also needs a leader that has unparalleled dedication to them as well. Without that dedication teams can turn against their leaders and themselves in an instant, resulting in chaos and disorder. Unwavering dedication from a leader makes the team trust their leader and want to work harder for her in return.
5.?????? Being assertive, not aggressive ? Assertive behaviors are those that are characterized as being self-confident and self-assured; they are firm and forceful without being overbearing and intimidating. Having self-confidence is something that instills a level of trust in others, encouraging them to want to follow along. Being aggressive, however, only turns people away, as most people don?t operate well trying to follow someone who is hostile and volatile.
Strong leaders are assertive, communicative, and honest, dedicated, and have the ability to evolve over time. These are both intrinsic qualities and qualities that are developed over time. Being a good leader means that your team is able to trust that you will make the best decisions for them; without this trust, failure is imminent. Spending time fine-tuning these qualities in yourself will help you forge ahead on the path to leadership and success.
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Red Giants and White Dwarfs Make Explosive Stellar Pairings
A new study indicates that stellar explosions can involve many different kinds of stars
A red giant star sheds material, which is drawn in by a nearby white dwarf in this artist's conception. The white dwarf eventually exceeds its maximum stable mass, triggering a supernova.
Image: Romano Corradi/Instituto de Astrof?sica de Canaria
Mysterious stars that incite their stellar companions to explode in spectacular supernovas have just been revealed ? these culprits can be bloated red giants, researchers say.
Supernovas are exploding stars that are bright enough to briefly outshine all the stars in their galaxies. They can occur when one star sheds gas onto a dying star known as a white dwarf, the dim fading core of a star that was once about the size of our sun.
Eventually, all this extra gas increases the white dwarf's mass enough to trigger runaway nuclear reactions that detonate the white dwarf.
The nature of the white dwarfs' companion stars in these explosions, which are a rare type of stellar conflagration dubbed a Type 1a supernova, is hotly debated, since researchers have not directly observed these companions. To learn more, astronomers used observatories in California, Hawaii, Arizona and the Canary Islands to investigate the supernova PTF 11kx, which is about 675 million light-years away. [Amazing Photos of Supernova Explosions]
Red giant star trigger
The scientists observed the complex shells of gas closely surrounding this supernova in very fine detail. This material from the white dwarf's companion star yielded insights regarding the identity of its source.
"We really saw for the first time detailed evidence of the progenitor for a Type 1a supernova," study lead author Benjamin Dilday, an astronomer at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network in Goleta, Calif., told SPACE.com.
The researchers suggest the companion was a red giant star, much like what our sun is expected to become in about 5 billion years. As this red giant swelled with age, this matter poured on its white dwarf companion, occasionally triggering explosions known as novas. Enough material eventually poured onto this white dwarf to set off a far more powerful supernova. The researchers estimate that novas give rise to more than one-tenth of a percent of all type 1a supernovas, but less than 20 percent.
Past evidence suggested that only merging white dwarfs could cause Type 1a supernovas. The new findings suggest these kinds of explosions can involve many different kinds of stars.
"It is a total surprise to find that thermonuclear supernovae, which all seem so similar, come from different kinds of stars," said study author Andy Howell at Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network. "It is like discovering that some humans evolved from apelike ancestors, and others came from giraffes."
The new study also suggests that studying smaller star explosions called novas, which don't entirely destroy the star, might also shed light on Type 1a supernovas.
"We may be able to gain a better understanding of supernova 1a progenitor systems in general," Dilday said.
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Type 1a supernovas are ideal for measuring cosmic distances. They always erupt from white dwarfs of certain masses, and so always have the same relative brightness.
This predictability makes them extraordinarily valuable in figuring out how far away their host galaxies are ? scientists compare how bright they know these explosions should be with how bright they appear to calculate the distance of the supernovas and their galaxies.
Knowing the distance of far-flung galaxies helps astronomers better understand how the universe evolved, and as such, learning more about Type 1a supernovas could help shed light on cosmic mysteries such as the dark energy that is apparently causing our universe's expansion to accelerate, Dilday said.
The scientists detailed their findings in the Aug. 24 issue of the journal Science.
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Learn Email Marketing Tips And Tricks That The Pros Use ...
24.Aug.2012 at 24 | John Miguel
Email marketing is an efficient method that has been used since the beginning of the Internet. There are more spam junk filters than there were a decade ago, but a personalized email marketing strategy is a good thing for both the recipient and the business. Keep reading for some effective ways to help other people, while helping your own company.
Right on the subscription form, tell your new subscribers about the emails they can expect you to send them. Inform your subscribers about the kinds of emails that will be sent, along with the frequency of the emails. That makes sure that new readers are not shocked by the content they receive, or the amount of email they get from you.
Avoid adding someone?s email to your list without their permission. Many people will regard such actions as a betrayal of trust and may cease to be clients. Others who have opted in may also be put off by these actions. In addition, you may end up being reported and, ultimately, banned by your Internet service provider for breaking rules regarding spam.
Only make one clear message for each email you send. It is important that your audience does not grow bored or bogged down by an excessive amount of facts within a single message. Think of what your message is, and say it clearly and simply. Your customers will appreciate not being weighed down with extraneous information.
When researching email marketing, use as many resources as possible. Search online for information, or check out books from the library. In addition, lots of local classes and workshops can be discovered in your area. Therefore, it would help you to attend these when you can.
Limit subject lines in your emails to 60 characters or less. A lot of email clients will cut off long email subjects. Other email clients are simply incapable of displaying a longer subject. Most subscribers decide with no more than 60 characters whether they will read or delete your message regardless.
Keep in mind that email marketing is all about building up your reputation. Cutting corners, using deceptive practices and targeting uninterested customers are all unacceptable. Keep in mind the reputation of your business is at stake.
You can learn some valuable information about how not to email market by studying spam. Get a free account and sign up on a few websites. The spam should come in quickly. Study these emails for examples of what not to do, and tweak your own campaigns as needed. If you wish to have a brand that?s credible, take measures to be different from spammers.
Use as many sources as possible to help you find out as much as possible about email marketing. There are lots of books both online, as well as in libraries. You may also be able to find workshops in your area that will help you learn more about email marketing.
Email marketing can be used as an effective way to keep in touch with those you do business with. Take the information you have learned here and apply it to your own email marketing campaigns to help you achieve positive results. Reaching customers by email makes it easy to increase your business.
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