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A Christian Science perspective: Facing the temptation to make generalizations about those 'not like us'
Recently I was in the audience listening to the American writer and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout talk about her new book, ?The Burgess Boys.? Her depiction of a small Maine town conflicted by a wave of Somali refugees and the thoughts of discomfort and even racism that emerge make for a riveting story full of modern threads of diversity and the need for brotherly love.
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The evening?s sharing with this author made me run home and bury my nose in the book and made me think about how I view immigration, foreigners in our midst, and the temptation to make generalizations about those ?not like us.?
In the headlines today are stories about acts of terrorism or hatred against others, whether in conflicts in Syria or in American cities such as Boston. I have paused to ask myself, How am I judging others? Do certain manners of dress or cultural expressions cause me to separate my fellow man from those ?like me??
The New Testament reminds us: ?[N]ow are we the sons of God? (I John 3:2). It doesn?t say that some of us are the sons of God. It?s all inclusive! ?The Message? translates that verse even more emphatically: ?[W]e?re called children of God! That?s who we really are!?
As I?ve been reading Strout?s story of Somalis who are yearning for acceptance and reeling from hate crimes, I think back to a number of years ago when I was living in Kenya, near the Somali border, processing thousands of Somalis for resettlement in the United States.
These Somalis were refugees from war-torn Mogadishu, following the collapse of the government there. As I accepted the assignment to live and work in these refugee camps, I went with great trepidation and fear. I was concerned that I would be working for and with people who were against my country and who hated US servicemembers, and that I wouldn?t be able to carry out my work effectively.
How wrong my initial thoughts were. As I began to pray about my mission, and the presence of God, which surrounded all of us, I began to get a different view not only of the Somalis, but of all of us. The Bible says it for us: ?Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because he is, so are we in this world? (I John 4:17). I began to feel at peace in these camps housing 6,000 refugees.
My love for the work, for the people whom I was interviewing, and for the greater goal of finding hope and a bright future for these families gave me a sense of calm.
The elders of the community welcomed our team of workers. They built us shelters to work in to shield us from the hot Kenyan sun. The translators chosen were young Somali men filled with humor and compassion. I looked forward to going to work every morning, and the 14-hour days flew by. I learned to love these dear people.
They were not my enemies, or my country?s enemies. Regardless of their dress or religious practices, I felt that we were all linked together in God?s wonderful plan, forever brothers and sisters together. Mary Baker Eddy, who discovered Christian Science, tells us, ?The scientific unity which exists between God and man must be wrought out in life-practice, and God?s will must be universally done? (?Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures,? p. 202). God?s plan was being worked out in those refugee camps, and all of us were being blessed.
I was humbled by the love that poured out to me as our work came to an end. Refugee families wanted me to share meals and tea with them in their tents. Handmade leather sandals were presented to me. And the elders, mothers, and young men became my friends, some keeping in touch with me years later as they settled in the US. The lessons for me were great: that the peace of divine Love can melt prejudice and fear and bring home God?s wonderful promise, Now are we the sons of God!
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As Best Buy attempts a return to financial well-being, it's decided to sell the 50 percent share it still owns in Best Buy Europe to fellow joint venture partner Carphone Warehouse. The price is set at about 500 million GBP ($775 million, mostly in cash) and is expected to close by June. Best Buy paid $2.15 billion for its share of the business back in 2008 and the first branded store opened in 2010, but it was already looking for a way out by 2011. That's when it closed its UK stores and paid Carphone Warehouse $1.3 billion for its share in the US Best Buy Mobile business. Reporting the joint venture as discontinued operations for its next fiscal year will cause Best Buy to take a $200 million charge, and it's tossing Carphone Warehouse another $45 million to satisfy outstanding obligations like closing the Global Connect JV the two started in 2011. There's no word on any moves for its business in Mexico, Canada and China, and CEO Hubert Joly says this sale "should not suggest any similar action" elsewhere.
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?There?s my handsome son.? Sol turned and looked over his shoulder at his mother. She stood there beaming at him as if he?d hung the moon, her frame shriveled with age and her grey hair dyed pale apricot in the fashion so many of the ladies in her Bingo league sported. ?Where you off to today, huh??
Sol looked down at the white undershirt he was wearing, the worn-in jeans, and the socks on his feet. ?I?m not going anywhere,? he said, but his confusion made the statement sound more like a question than a statement of fact. ?Where are you going??
His mother was in her ?good? pearls, which were really just her best looking fake ones. Though he was sure she had real jewelry stashed away somewhere, it seemed only to come out at weddings, funerals, and Bar Mitzvahs. A brocade pair of Moroccan slippers were on her little feet and a small handbag was clutched under her arm.
?Off to see the girls!? She winked, teeth flashing in a smile. ?And Doris is bringing her granddaughter. Maybe you want to go??
There was a suggestive tone to her voice, and it didn?t take a genius to figure out what she was implying. At least once a month since he?d moved back in with her, his mother had been trying to set him up with all her friend?s daughters and granddaughters. She was forgetting though; he?d already met Doris?s granddaughter, and the girl- while charming- was a charming nineteen year old. At thirty-two, he?d felt like a pervert all through a long, awkward dinner in which his mother and Doris tried to set him up with the teenager. He?d smiled politely, nodded at all the right times, and made sure not to make contact with her when passing the peas.
Sol felt his neck go slightly warm, but said nothing for a moment. He carefully deposited his cereal bowl into the dishwasher, then turned and gave his mother a quick kiss on her brow. ?Thanks, ma,? he told her. ?But no.?
He hurried out of the kitchen before the inevitable interrogation began, passing through the formal living room his mother kept spotless and down the stairs to the basement. The air became slightly cooler as he descended. Two doors led off to separate rooms, the left leading to his temporary bedroom, the right leading to a storage space his father had once used as a workshop. It still held all of his tools, perfectly in place on his peg board as if he was going to come back for them. Sol shook his head to himself and went into his room.
The cellphone on his side table was glowing. He?d missed a call and had a voice message. He flopped onto his bed and reached blindly for the phone, then dialed his own number. The message began to play.
?Hey, Sol. It?s me, Juanita. Hey, I was wondering if... Actually, I think we better talk about this in person. Will you call me back??
Sol looked down at the phone that was cradled in his hand and sighed. Call her, one part of him was saying. Return her call. The other part of him was screaming at him to delete Juanita?s number from his phone book and write her off altogether. It was time to get over it, the voice in his head said. He scrolled through his phone book and pondered her name, face contorted into a deep frown. His hand hovered over the button to delete her- if not from his life and memory, at least from his phone.
?Argh,? he sighed, and closed his eyes. His finger descended onto the button and the phone beeped. He opened his eyes and saw that she?d been deleted. Sol felt stunned, and he swallowed hard against the knot in his throat. It refused to go down, sticking to the inside of his throat like one of those bitter horse-pills. His fingers clenched the material of the blanket he was sitting on.
That was when the panic set in. What had he done? He didn?t know Juanita?s number by heart! How was he going to get it back if he needed to call her? He didn?t know any of her friend?s numbers. He didn?t even know where she lived anymore.
?Shit,? he hissed, putting his head in his hands.
?Sweetheart!? His mother?s voice rang down from upstairs. ?I?m going out! Dinner?s in the fridge!?
He heard the door open, then close; heard her key in the lock. Minutes passed, then Sol crossed the room to his computer. He pulled up the search engine, hands poised over the keys.
Up came a link to a small electronics shop.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) ? For one night only, the Rolling Stones were an up-and-coming band again.
The legendary group rocked a small club in Los Angeles on Saturday night for a miniscule crowd compared to the thousands set to see them launch their "50 and Counting" anniversary tour a week later on May 3 at the Staples Center.
The band kicked off Saturday's hush-hush 90-minute concert at the Echoplex in the hip Echo Park neighborhood with "You Got Me Rocking" before catapulting into a mix of new and old material, as well as their bluesy covers of classics from Otis Redding ("That's How Strong My Love Is"), Chuck Berry ("Little Queenie") and The Temptations ("Just My Imagination").
"Welcome to Echo Park, a neighborhood that's always coming up ? and I'm glad you're here to welcome an up-and-coming band," lead singer Mick Jagger joked after the second song of the evening, "Respectable."
Despite clocking in several decades as a band, Jagger, drummer Charlie Watts and guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood showed no signs of slowing down Saturday.
Jagger, who promptly ditched a black-and-white track jacket emblazoned with the band's logo after the first few songs, worked the crowd into a sing-a-long frenzy with "Miss You," complete with a harmonica solo from the strutting frontman.
Tickets to the Echoplex concert were sold earlier in the day for $20 each ? a fraction of what tickets to the tour cost.
Hundreds of fans lined up outside the El Rey Theatre across town earlier Saturday for a chance to attend the spontaneous show. Buyers were limited to one ticket, and they were required to pay with cash, show a government-issued ID, wear a wristband with their name on it and be photographed. Their names were verified at the venue, which has a capacity of about 700.
Cameras and smartphones weren't allowed inside the Echoplex, which usually plays host to hipster bands and mash-up dance parties. The lack of personal recording devices made the Stones' performance feel even more exclusive and old school, freeing concertgoers' hands of the gizmos that have become commonplace at concerts nowadays, and further bonding the crowd, many of whom built up camaraderie during the confusing ticket lottery earlier in the day.
Toward the end of Saturday's show, the band was joined by former Stones guitarist Mick Taylor for their version of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain," as well as "Midnight Rambler."
The band, which was backed by Darryl Jones on bass, Chuck Leavell on keys, Bobby Keys on sax and Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer as back-up singers, encored with the hits "Brown Sugar" and "Jumpin' Jack Flash."
"(This is) the first show of the tour, probably the best one," Jagger said at the end of the 90-minute set.
Bruce Willis, Gwen Stefani and Skrillex were among the famous faces in the sold-out crowd.
Rumors of the surprise show spread across social networks last week after the band teased the appearance on their Twitter accounts. The dance-pop band New Build, which was originally scheduled to play the Echoplex on Saturday, was first to leak details about the performance.
"Our gig got shifted b/c the Rolling Stones are playing Echoplex," the band posted Friday on Twitter. They joked that they were looking forward to "having it out" with the Stones.
The Rolling Stones performed a few dates together in London, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Newark, N.J., last winter, but didn't announce a tour until earlier this month. They will play 17 dates in the United States but said they may add more down the line. The lowest price for tickets to the show at the Staples Center, which has a capacity of about 20,000, is $250.
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The harmonies they strike in this reality-inspired charmer are sweetly sublime.
You could drive an Abrams tank through the film's plot holes, but you'll likely be too busy enjoying yourself to bother.
"The Sapphires" feels like a movie you've already seen, but it's nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable, like a pop song that's no less infectious when you know every word.
"The Sapphires" sparkles with sass and Motown soul.
Sapphires is hardly a cinematic diamond mine. But this Commitments-style mashup of music and melodrama manages to entertain without demanding too much of its audience.
A surefire crowdpleaser with all the ingredients for the type of little-movie-that-could sleeper success that Harvey Weinstein has nurtured in years and award seasons past.
You've seen this story before, but never pulled off with so much joie de vivre.
They can put a song across just like the Dreamgirls. What's not to like?
Exuberant but fairly formulaic.
Doesn't always mix its anti-prejudice message and its feel-good nostalgia with complete smoothness. But despite some ragged edges it provides a reasonably good time.
Director Wayne Blair -- another veteran of the stage show -- finds his footing during the film's many musical numbers.
Despite the prosaic plot and reserved approach taken by Blair, Briggs, and Thompson, it's tough to get cynical about such a warmhearted picture that strives to tell so uplifting a story.
A movie with enough melody and camaraderie to cover up its lack of originality.
Draining most of the blood, sweat and tears from a true story, this music-minded movie capably covers a song we've heard a hundred times before.
"Sapphires," which was inspired by a true story, is propelled by a strong sense of music's power to connect people and change lives.
Fires on all cylinders when it drops all pretense and allows its talented cast to simply belt out a series of pure, unfiltered slices of ear candy.
A rousing soundtrack helps to compensate for some of the historical embellishments in this Australian crowd-pleaser.
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Chris Brown’s Dad Doesn’t Approve Of Rihanna?
Chris Brown’s father, Clinton Brown, doesn’t feel his son should have reunited with Rihanna. Clinton said he feels Rihanna and Chris are too similar, worrying that their toxic romance could end up tragically. Clinton spoke to the British paper The Sun, saying he thinks his son and Rihanna are not good together. He also hinted ...
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A Drum Circle led by Music Therapist Chance Selinger?will be the featured activity ?at a special Open House on Saturday, May 4, at Rosener House Adult Day Services, 500 Arbor Road, Menlo Park. The Open House runs from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. The event is designed to increase awareness of services for families and older adults with challenges such as post-stroke, Parkinson?s, mild cognitive impairment, Alzheimer?s or dementia.
Professional activity staff will lead a variety of activities ??music, art, exercise, cooking, brain games, therapies, and more. Social work staff, nursing staff, and therapists will be available to answer questions. Families are encouraged to drop in to see what a typical day at Rosener House is like.
Rosener House is celebrating 35 years of ?care and service to the community. As the wife of a participant said, ?The Rosener House program is a blessing for?our family. The opportunity to participate in arts and crafts and current events help him find success and satisfaction within himself.?
Rosener House Adult Day Services is a Peninsula Volunteers program. The Menlo Park-based nonprofit?sponsors program for seniors and adults with disabilities on the San Francisco Peninsula to help them remain active, healthy, and independent, living in their own homes in the community.
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At first sight, Suitey looks like nothing more than a run-of-the-mill real estate website. But while sites like Trulia and Zillow merely provide a listing of available properties from a large assortment of brokerages and owners, all the properties on Suitey are being directly offered by Suitey itself.
That?s because Suitey is a fully fledged real estate brokerage, and they believe they?re the first software-powered brokerage that offers a better, more transparent home buying experience.
At their core, Trulia and Zillow are really nothing more than virtualized billboards. They provide a centralized location for brokers and owners to advertise their for-sale properties.
Let?s say you?re looking for a new apartment, and you?ve narrowed down your list to five places. That means you?ll probably have to deal with five different real estate brokers, which from experience can be a total nightmare.
With Suitey, everything is simplified. Once again, let?s say you?re looking for an apartment in Manhattan (for now, Suitey only offers listings in New York City). Once you narrow things down to five options on their website, you can contact a Suitey agent who will set a time to view all the properties with you. In the future, you?ll be able to video chat with the agent directly from the website.
This face-to-face experience with Suitey?s agents is key to the company?s ethos. ?We want to ensure that our agents are people you?d feel comfortable buying a home from,? says David Walker, CEO of Suitey. He tells me that Suitey?s agents are heavily vetted by the company before they are hired in a process that ensures their competence and general likability.
Once you?ve agreed to buy the home, Suitey gives you a one percent discount to sweeten the deal. That may not seem like much, but if you?re buying property for several million dollars, that rebate ends up being a couple thousand dollars you can put towards your deposit.
?I?ve never heard of anything quite like it, and it would interesting to see what happens,? says Laura Goldstein, Managing Editor of AOL Real Estate. ?People have such a bad association with real estate agents, and the customer service approach feels very appealing.?
Suitey was one of the ten companies featured at the Entrepreneur Roundtable Accelerator?s Demo Day today. You can check out a roundup of startups from our coverage of the event here.
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The UFC 159 picks are in. Check out how Kevin Iole and I picked the fights, and who Cagereaders said will win. Thanks to everyone who weighed in on Cagewriter's Facebook page. Want to join in on the fun? Like Cagewriter on Facebook.
Kevin Iole -- Jon Jones TKO2 Chael Sonnen: I've been on a terrible run with my picks in 2013, so my choice might be the thing that helps produce one of the UFC's greatest upsets. But looking closely at the bout, I see no way Sonnen can win it. I expect Jones to get a takedown at some point, cut Sonnen open with an elbow and finish it that way.
Maggie Hendricks -- Jon Jones TKO3 Chael Sonnen: When you cut through the smack talk and look at their actual skills in the cage, Sonnen is moving up in weight to meet a fighter who is younger, faster and more skilled.
Cagereaders -- 68 percent of Cagereaders said Jones would win:
I believe that Jones has more of an arsenal and can keep sonnen guessing as to what is coming next. - Fred Mull
Sonnen never deserves this title shot. Jones by KO in 2nd by GNP elbows, or Sonnen simply quits before getting knocked out when he realizes he has no business in the octagon with Jones. - Chris Dryden
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Kevin Iole -- Michael Bisping TKO3 Alan Belcher: Both men are inconsistent and both badly need a solid win. I think Bisping gets it by staying on his feet and going back to his kick boxing background.
Maggie Hendricks -- Alan Belcher W3 Michael Bisping: This is a tight fight, but Belcher will take it by bringing the fight to the ground.
Cagereaders -- 50.8 percent of Cagereaders said Bisping will take this bout:
Belcher is more well rounded than Bisping -- Trampas Lee Fleming
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Kevin Iole -- Roy Nelson SUB2 Cheick Kongo: Roy has the power to knock Cheick out. I think he'll hurt him with one of those big windmill right hands he fires and then finish him with a choke.
Maggie Hendricks -- Roy Nelson W3 Cheick Kongo: Nelson has an iron chin, and will be able to withstand Kongo's power.
Cagereaders -- 81 percent of Cagereaders say Nelson will take this fight:
Nelson has a heavy hand and stronger chin than Kongo. -- Pinkie Aman Suarez
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Kevin Iole -- Phil Davis W3 Vinny Maghalaes: Davis will have to be careful on the ground with Maghalaes, but I believe he's the better overall fighter and that he'll score a convincing decision victory.
Maggie Hendricks -- Phil Davis W3 Vinny Magalhaes: It may not be thrilling, but it will be a wrestling-filled win for Mr. Wonderful.
Cagereaders -- 84 percent of Cagereaders said Davis will take this bout:
Potential submission of the night. Phil is too quick and talented, will submit the submission expert -- Marvin Ishmael
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Kevin Iole -- Jim Miller W3 Pat Healy: This has the potential to steal the show. It's an excellent bout and I see Miller with a very slight edge.
Maggie Hendricks -- Jim Miller SUB2 Pat Healy: It's been three years since Healy was submitted, but Miller has the skill to do it.
Cagereaders -- 92 percent of you said Miller will win:
Miller had a war against Joe last time out and will come out strong as usual -- Mike Terry
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Apr. 26, 2013 ? Atkins Diet, Zone Diet, South Beach Diet, etc., etc., etc. Chances are you have known someone who has tried a high protein diet. In fact, according to the International Food Information Council Foundation, 50% of consumers were interested in including more protein in their diets and 37% believed protein helps with weight loss. In a new study released in the May/June 2013 issue of the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, researchers found a relatively high proportion of women who reported using the practice of ''eating more protein'' to prevent weight gain, which was associated with reported weight loss.
Among a national sample, researchers from the University of Minnesota surveyed 1,824 midlife women (40-60 years old) to (1) describe perceptions about protein sources and requirements, (2) identify the reported frequency of using the ''eating more protein'' practice to prevent weight gain, and (3) compare reported protein intake to reported frequency of using the ''eating more protein'' practice to prevent weight gain.
Most women correctly identified good protein sources, and the majority could indicate the daily percent of dietary energy recommended from protein. ''Eating more protein'' to prevent weight gain was reported by 43% of women (and more than half of obese women) as a practice to prevent weight gain. Reported use of this practice was related to self-reported weight loss over two years. Two factors associated with effective use of this practice included the level of protein intake and self-efficacy toward weight management.
According to Noel Aldrich, lead author, those participants' who had reported weight loss with "eating more protein" had a protein intake that was consistent with the focus on protein suggested by the 2010 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. He said, "Education regarding dietary protein requirements may enhance the use of this practice. Women may need more information regarding protein energy content and effective selection of protein sources to enhance protein intake as a weight management strategy. Given that the majority of Americans are overweight, identifying the most effective practices and related factors surrounding successful weight loss and prevention of weight gain are important."
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HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) ? A Las Vegas man is behind bars after police say he became so enraged at being turned away from speaking with a pastor that he plowed his car through an entrance and down the hall of a large Henderson church.
Kevin Wilson was being held Thursday on $8,000 bail at the Henderson city jail pending a court appearance Monday on felony burglary and destruction of property charges.
Henderson police say the 51-year-old Wilson got out of his Kia Spectra, smashed furniture and knocked holes in the walls at Central Christian Church before police arrested him about 5 a.m. Wednesday.
Police spokesman Keith Paul says a city building inspector later determined the church building remained structurally sound.
It wasn't immediately clear if Wilson had an attorney.
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) ? The Mormon church says it welcomes the Boy Scouts of America's latest proposal to lift the gay ban for youth members but continue to exclude gays as adult leaders.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints posted a statement on its website Thursday saying it is satisfied with the proposal, which the Boy Scouts announced last week.
The church says the Scouts made a thoughtful, good-faith effort to address one of the most complex and challenging issues facing society. It also says the proposal recognizes Scouting exists to benefits youth rather than adult leaders.
The Mormon church has more Scouting troops than any other religious denomination.
Boy Scouts of America plans to submit the proposal to its National Council at a meeting in Texas the week of May 20.
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At the present time, your online business needs a strong focus on Website marketing. Promoting yourself and your website online is vital to the success of your business. If you're not engaged in Online marketing already, now's the time to begin. Before you get started, make sure you check out these marketing tips to help you promote your web business.
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Tailor versions of your website to different audiences worldwide. Translate the content into multiple languages so that people all over the world can read your site. This is a potent approach to increase global sales. Customers who can read your website in their own language are more likely to make a purchase from the site.
Ask major companies to add your link to their site, this will make you more credible. Visitors will see these familiar and trusted names on your site and have a tendency toward association, giving you the benefit of the doubt as well as a favorable customer image. In the future, their larger customer base will think of you when they think of them.
Design your banners to be subtle and not annoying to visitors to your website. Do not let them know that it is really a link. Many people do not click banners, but they will not hesitate to click a link that will lead them to more info.
When marketing your business online, it's important that you make your customers feel as if they're in control. This might require you to set up your content in such a way that the customer actually dictates the flow. This is important today in a marketing world full of spam and unwanted opinions. Always have a link people can click on if they wish to discontinue emails from you.
Create a 500 error page that is user-friendly. This happens when your code does not work properly. A boring page that gives this message may annoy your potential customer. You can inform your customers that you know about the problem and are working on resolving it in by better methods than resorting to the generic error page.
Change around the links you use in your emails. Emails that are always the same are the ones that are most often ignored. Customers don't like seeing the same thing repeatedly, and it's important to offer variation to keep them engaged.
Most of the tactics you'll learn about are very easy to implement. You just need to make sure you implement them correctly. There are several approaches for this. So much information is at your disposal to begin to reap the rewards. By following these tips, you are well on your way to becoming a successful internet marketer.
Businesses go to so much trouble when there is one sure-fire, simple, very inexpensive way to attract new clients to a business: Teach a free class. That is what article marketing is like. Your articles are just like free classes. You teach your target readers something helpful in your article. Your resource box then says, "If you enjoyed this article you can visit my website and apply what you have learned."
Being an entrepreneur and earning multiple streams of income is a dream that many have, but in reality it does take some initial hard work to achieve this. Earning multiple streams of income is the wave of the future, and here are some tips and advice for you when you are looking for ways in which to do this for yourself.
Starting a home based business to earn income online takes a significant amount of time and energy upfront to get things going. Not seeing results immediately can be discouraging and cause people to give up too early. In this article, we look at the process of starting a home based business and working through the frustrations to be there when the sales come flowing in.
Cyber marketing has now become an indispensable segment of e-commerce as well as the internet and World Wide Web related topics. Cyber marketing simply refers to a technique of attracting potential customers by advertising your products or services through such means as websites, emails, and banners.
If you want your SEO to work you now need to concentrate on appeasing Google Panda, and to do this you need to know what Google Panda's spiders/bots will be looking for. Find out here how to search engine optimise your website for the latest Google Panda algorithm, and achieve the success you deserve.
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- An Idaho alternative energy company beset by lawsuits faces another one, this time from a bike race that says it hasn't been paid millions in promised sponsorship money.
Exergy Development Group of Boise and its owner, James Carkulis, were sued in Colorado by Classic Bicycle Racing, owner of Colorado's USA Pro Challenge race.
John Moore, Classic's general counsel, said Wednesday company owners were forced to make additional capital contributions when Exergy failed to meet its contractual obligations.
Carkulis is accused of fraud, too, for allegedly misrepresenting his ability to pay.
Exergy canceled Idaho developments, surrendered control of a Minnesota wind farm and was sued for reneging on a Pennsylvania turbine deal.
Amid these woes, Exergy jettisoned its men's cycling team and canceled the now-defunct Exergy Tour women's race in Idaho.
In a statement, Carkulis said it stands to reason that challenges with the company's main energy business have constrained the cash it has available for its sporting obligations.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/struggling-idaho-alt-energy-company-011701062.html
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The moon toe-dipped through the Earth's shadow in a partial lunar eclipse Thursday (April 25), but stargazers around the world still captured surprisingly spectacular views of what they expected to be a minor celestial event.
Partial lunar eclipses like Thursday's event occasionally receive a bad wrap because they aren't nearly as dramatic as the red glow of the moon during a total lunar eclipse, and some times they aren't even noticeable. That, however, wasn't the case today.
A live webcast from a telescope in Dubai and hosted by the online Slooh Space Camera streamed amazing views of the lunar eclipse at its peak around 4 p.m. EDT (2000 GMT). The lunar eclipse's entirety was primarily visible from Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia and Western Europe, so stargazers in other parts of the world had to rely on webcasts like those provided by Slooh and the Virtual Telescope Project in Italy to catch the event. [See more photos of Thursday's Lunar Eclipse]
"I am still stunned," Slooh President Paul Cox said during his group's webcast. "I thought we were going to have trouble discerning any shadow at all from this lunar eclipse."
Instead Cox and his fellow co-hosts were met with gorgeous shots of the Earth's shadow passing over the face of the moon. During the eclipse, a small upper left-hand section of the full moon was totally obscured, a beautiful and unexpected sight.
"It's only more recently that I've become a fan of lunar eclipses because they're beautiful in their own right," solar scientist Lucie Green of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory in the United Kingdom said during the Slooh webcast.
This particular lunar eclipse defied expectation partially because the satellite only passed through a small portion of the umbra of the Earth ? the innermost shadow of the planet that prevents any direct sunlight from reaching the moon.
A total lunar eclipse occurs when?the moon passes directly within this inner shadow, but those are rare. The moon is slightly tilted in its orbit around the Earth, preventing it from orbiting on the same plane as the planet. If it did, we would have a total lunar and a total solar eclipse every month.
"Amazing view, the moon, even with such small eclipses, it always breathtaking," astrophysicist Gianluca Masi, who hosted the Virtual Telescope Project webcast today, told SPACE.com in an email.
Typically, ?partial lunar eclipses can be difficult to see at all, but Thursday's event not only impressed lunar observers, but also photographers hoping to catch a glimpse of the moon and another celestial body.
"Like every year we capture this events," photographer Stojan Stojanovski said of the eclipse. "I may say this year is special because we have Saturn near moon at the same time with eclipse. This night will be long first because we take photos from eclipse, second level will be watching and taking some photos of Saturn."
Saturn will appear near the moon?tonight. If you hold your closed fist at an arm's length toward the night's sky, the ringed wonder should be less than "half a fist" way from the moon.
If weather permits, the planet will look like a bright star to the upper-left of the moon and should appear all night long. The planet is close to a point in the night sky called "opposition," when it will be directly opposite the sun.
Saturn's opposition will be the next broadcast from Slooh carried on SPACE.com this Sunday (April 28) during its peak.
Editor's note: If you snap a great photo of the April 25 lunar eclipse or any other celestial event that you'd like to share for a possible story or image gallery, send photos, comments and your name and location to managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
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These days, music and technology are inexorably linked -- from creation and recording, to distribution and discovery, it's hard to imagine a song reaching our ears that hasn't made its way through some electronic filter. Being the huge music nerds we are, we figured we'd use our April episode to explore the state of the music industry in 2013 and the roles technology has played in its successes and failings. This month, we start things off with a visit to Santa Cruz, where UCSC professor emeritus David Cope has spent decades developing classical music composing computer programs, work he began after one particularly bad bout with writer's block. We also stop by Seattle's Experience Music Project, where we speak to curator Jacob McMurray about the role technology has created in building a better music museum.
Next up, we've got a trio of interviews with artists who are using technology to very different ends in the creation and distribution of their music. John Vanderslice is the founder and proprietor of San Francisco's Tiny Telephone, one of the last remaining analog-only recording studios in a world increasingly dominated by Pro Tools. He's also a successful musician in his own right, who recently opted to eschew the traditional record label model for the release of his two new Kickstarter-backed albums. Hip-hop producer and emcee Black Milk, meanwhile, has taken to recording and producing recordings in his Dallas apartment. We discuss his crate digging, love of analog tools and the role of YouTube and Shazam in his production. And we meet up with indie electronic music Dan Deacon outside of LA's Natural History Museum to talk about his live rig and innovative iPhone app.
What about radio stations, you ask? We pay a visit to Jersey City's WFMU and Santa Monica's KCRW, two of the most prominent freeform stations in a space dominated Clear Channels and internet and satellite radio, to discuss the importance of human curation and embracing the same technology that has spelled the end of so many of their peers. We've also got interviews with Seattle's Sub Pop Records, music criticism site Pitchfork and California record store Amoeba, plus trips to music app developer Smule, internet radio pioneer Pandora and the legendary Moog factory. All that plus another installment of "John Roderick: Famous Prognosticator" and art by cartoonist Jim Rugg.
Oh, and we'd be remiss if we didn't remind you that today is the last day to vote for us in the Webby Awards! In the meantime, check out the full show, after the break.
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In 2007, Blessing Makwera found a device with wires sticking out of it in his native country of Zimbabwe. Not knowing what the device was, the then-15-year-old placed it in his mouth. It exploded, causing him to lose his jaw, teeth and part of his tongue. The device was a landmine.
Makwera had the majority of his jaw removed and tried to recover in a hospital in Zimbabwe for two months, with only a piece of piano wire holding his jaw in place.
"Initially I felt like I wasn't a normal human being in my community after the accident," Makwera told ABCNews.com. "After the surgery I was in a lot of pain for four months-there was no doctor there, and no one that can do the surgery, and I thought there was no way I am going to be normal again."
After hearing Makwera's story, Operation of Hope, a non-profit organization that provides surgical care, healthcare and medical training programs in under-served areas of the world- along with then 12-year-old Portland, Ore., native Hayden Skoch-decided to take action.
Maimed African Teens Amazing Journey to America "We met Blessing and everyone fell in love with him," said Jennifer Trubenbach , president of Operation of Hope. "The doctor who operated initially took away probably more than he needed to, and luckily it was able to heal, but it was a miracle he was able to survive. He had a wash cloth on his chest, and he just drooled and drooled, so we worked on getting that corrected first by removing the wire holding his jaw and creating a better structure. Basically we got him out of a bad situation of living, and gave him the opportunity to go to a private school in Habari, Africa, the city we do our operations in."
Skoch, now 16, who heard about Makwera's story from a family friend associated with Operation of Hope, also wanted to help. She arranged for the profits made at her middle school dance to be used to create a fund to get Makwera sent to the U.S. for post-operative care. She raised $1,100.
"It was that even though he was far away he was another kid who was my age and I just thought his story was so amazing and I couldn't relate to any story like that in my life or in the U.S. And the story was so amazing to me that I was compelled to be involved and help out," Skoch said.
With both Operation of Hope and Skoch's help, Makwera was able to finish high school in Africa. He then traveled to the U.S. for the first of three surgeries two months ago in San Diego, Calif.
"We were able to find a hospital to donate their hospital and surgeons to help him," Trubenbach said. "They took a bone out of his leg and rebuilt his jaw, and it ended up being a 13-hour surgery."
This trip to the U.S. was the first time Skoch and Makwera met. "It was crazy when I helped him four years ago, I didn't imagine it would be four years until I met him," Skoch said.
"It was very exciting knowing that someone who has helped me four years ago, was meeting me for the first time," Makwera said. "I felt she was another member of my family that I had not discovered and not known my whole life, but meeting her made me feel good. I also think knowing Jennifer and Stephen [Clawson] and their organization in my life has been a blessing."
Makwera is now living in Portland with Clawson, brother to Trubenbach and vice president of Operation of Hope, and volunteering as a teacher's aide at private school in Oregon. He still has two more surgeries, the second slated for mid-June. He is expected to be about "80 percent back to his original form after the third and final surgery," Trubenbach said.
"The sensitivity towards an individual with a disability in this country is not very accepting. They assume that because his face was damaged, his brain was too and that is not the case," she said. "He has been called monster to his face, and I know this surgery will help him with gaining a better sense of normalcy."
Trubenbach, who Makwera calls his "American mother," said her wish for Makwera post-surgery is for him to continue his education.
"You can have a beautiful face but if you don't have an education life can be very difficult," she said. "My personal hope and wish is not only would he have an opportunity to have normal speech and face but to get to go to school in the states. And his hope is to return to Zimbabwe someday. But if he could get an education here and apply it there it would be my greatest hope of all. He is so smart, takes the bus to get to work every day, and takes advantage of the gifts he has been given and he is really thankful. That is my wish for him."
For now, Makwera will stay in the U.S. until his next three surgeries are complete. He said he will always treasure his new American family and will never give up on his dreams.
"My advice to anyone is never give to up on yourself , you should always strive for the best in life. Don't listen to the negative because they don't know how you feel," he said. "You should know that you are great and to never give up on yourself. I feel like my world is coming back to normal, and I feel like a community loves me and still needs me. This experience has made me realize that the world is a great place to live in."
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