Integrity is now the issue - Society, Politics, and the Planet ...

545 vs. 300,000,000 People
-By Charlie Reese

"Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them.

Have you ever wondered, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, WHY do we have deficits?

Have you ever wondered, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, WHY do we have inflation and high taxes?

You and I don't propose a federal budget. The President does.

You and I don't have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.

You and I don't write the tax code, Congress does.

You and I don't set fiscal policy, Congress does.

You and I don't control monetary policy, the Federal Reserve Bank does.

One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one President, and nine Supreme Court justices equates to 545 human beings, out of 300 million, that are are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.

I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered, but private, central bank.

I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman, or a President to do one cotton-picking thing. I don't care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator's responsibility to determine how he votes.

Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.

What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits. The President can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it.

The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes. Who is the speaker of the House? John Boehner. He is the leader of the majority party. He and fellow House members, not the President, can approve any budget they want. If the President vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.

It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted -- by present facts -- of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can't think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 people. When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.

If the tax code is unfair, it's because they want it unfair.

If the budget is in the red, it's because they want it in the red.

If the Army & Marines are in Iraq and Afghanistan it's because they want them in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it's because they want it that way.

There are no insoluble government problems.

Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like "the economy," "inflation," or "politics" that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.

Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.

They, and they alone, have the power.

They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses.

Provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees...

We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!"

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Using planarian flatworms to understand organ regeneration

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2012) ? In a new study published in the Oct. 16 issue of Developmental Cell, corresponding author Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Phillip Newmark and colleagues report the identification of genes that control growth and regeneration of the intestine in the freshwater planarian Schmidtea mediterranea.

How animals repair their internal organs after injury is not well understood. Planarian flatworms are useful models for studying this question. After injury, they are able to re-grow missing body parts, as well as all as organs that are damaged or lost, such as brain, eyes, and intestine.

Injury initiates a complex set of cellular events. In planarians, specialized somatic stem cells called neoblasts divide and give rise to all of the different cell types required to rebuild fully functional body parts. Old tissue remaining after amputation remodels and integrates with the new cells that are produced.

The molecular signaling pathways coordinating these cellular behaviors to achieve organ regeneration have not been well characterized. David Forsthoefel, a postdoctoral researcher in Newmark's laboratory and the lead author on the study, wanted to address the problem using the planarian intestine as a "model organ," in part because so few animals are capable of repairing severe damage to their digestive systems.

"The ability to recover from loss of digestive tissue is rare in the animal kingdom," Forsthoefel said. "What we learn from how a simple worm deals with gut damage might one day help us to come up with better medical therapies, for example in the treatment of short bowel syndrome, in which segments of intestine must be removed from patients with digestive diseases, leading to impaired nutrient absorption."

Forsthoefel developed a method for purifying a single intestinal cell type from the planarian gut. He and Newmark lab members then went on to identify over a thousand genes that were uniquely expressed at higher levels in intestinal cells than in the surrounding planarian tissues. Guessing that some of these genes would have important roles during intestinal growth and regeneration, they probed the function of a subset of these genes using a technique called RNA interference, in which the expression of individual genes is selectively inhibited. They were able to pinpoint functions for specific genes, for example in the establishment of the appropriate pattern of intestinal branches, and the production of functional intestinal cells capable of taking up nutrients.

The authors also identified a transcription factor called nkx-2.2 that, although expressed in the intestine, was required for neoblasts to proliferate in various contexts, including after injury. This result suggests a potential role for the intestine in regulating stem cell division, a result Forsthoefel is following up by identifying genes downstream of Nkx-2.2 that might have more direct roles in communication between the intestine and neoblasts.

"How cells in the vicinity of damaged tissue contribute to the choices stem cells make in response to injury is an area of regeneration biology where much more research is needed," Forsthoefel said.

The field of regeneration research is rife with such uncharted territory. How do animals manage to produce the correct number specific cell types, at the correct locations? What are the signals that instruct stem cells to become specific cell types, and where do they come from? How is organ-specific morphology, for example the number of intestinal branches, determined? This study from the Newmark lab, the first systematic effort to elucidate intestinal morphogenesis in planarians, lays the groundwork for addressing many of these fundamental questions of organ regeneration.

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1. David?J. Forsthoefel, No?lle?P. James, David?J. Escobar, Joel?M. Stary, Ana?P. Vieira, Forrest?A. Waters, Phillip?A. Newmark. An RNAi Screen Reveals Intestinal Regulators of Branching Morphogenesis, Differentiation, and Stem Cell Proliferation in Planarians. Developmental Cell, 2012; 23 (4): 691 DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2012.09.008

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Tunisia jails Salafist leader in U.S. embassy attack for one year

Tunis (Reuters) - A Tunisian court on Wednesday sentenced a leader of radical Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia to one year in prison for inciting an attack on the U.S. embassy in Tunis last month in which four people were killed.

The conviction of Abu Ayub was the first in connection with the attack - launched to protest against an anti-Islamic film made in California - and is likely to please the United States which has been urging the authorities to jail those responsible.

"The judge decided to jail him on charges of inciting violence ... This decision is unfair ... we will go to appeal," said Rafik Ghak, a lawyer for Abu Ayub.

The authorities arrested 144 people, including two prominent leaders of Ansar al-Sharia after the embassy attack. Saif-Allah Benahssine, the leader of the group, has urged the government to release them.

Benahssine on Tuesday accused the country's government of being a puppet of the United States and un-Islamic.

The United States this month requested Tunisia bring the embassy attackers to trial, pledging to continue its support for the democratic transition in Tunisia.

A suspected Islamic militant under arrest in Tunisia is being investigated by the United States in connection with the September 11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, U.S. government sources have said.

Tunisia expects Washington to guarantee around a fifth of its $2.2-2.5 billion borrowing needs next year to help its economy recover from last year's revolution, the country's minister of international cooperation, Riadh Betaib, told Reuters last month.

(Reporting By Tarek Amara; Editing by Andrew Osborn)

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Armie Hammer helps car accident victims

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By Bruna Nessif, E! Online

Imagine looking up to see that Armie Hammer is the guy helping you out of a tragic situation.?The actor got added to our list of celebrity heroes Tuesday after we found out that he and model Leeann Tweeden went to the aid of some strangers who got into a car accident on Friday night.

Luckily, Tweeden gave a detailed description of what happened on her Facebook page.

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"So random random RANDOM. I was sitting in my house when I hear an accident tonight. I throw on my shoes and run out of my house to see if I can help," she wrote. "I see it's on my (busy) corner and run down that way. I run up as a guy is helping an older woman (60ish?) out of her smashed up car that both airbags deployed in.

"Now mind you, it's rush hour at a busy intersection. People are honking at other cars because one lane is blocked and people can't go through the debris in the open lane fast enough for others.

"But it's me and this guy helping the woman (2 other girls are there. One was a witness on her Vespa. The other in her car in the parking lot of the flower shop.)"

T.I. saved someone from committing suicide

And then she finds out that "this guy" is not just any other guy.

"When the guy turns around, who is it?!!!! None other than: ARMIE HAMMER!!!!! (Yes, from "The Social Network," "J. Edgar" and the upcoming "The Lone Ranger" with Johnny Depp!)

There are more real-life heroes than you may think

"Yes, ladies. The cutie Armie was in the opposite turn lane in his Audi and watched the whole thing go down and got out of his car to help. Me and him. Out of millions in LA."

How exciting! Tweeden also mentioned that she had met the actor and his wife once before, and leaves fans knowing that "no one was seriously injured."

-- reporting by Ken Baker

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Top 10 Ecommerce Tips | Business 2 Community

Achieving success in the ecommerce world is very much like becoming successful in other business formats. Some of the necessary ingredients for building an online shopping cart site that is successful include determination, persistence, hard work, and careful attention to details. Before you decide that launching an online business venture is right for you, however, review these ten online?shopping cart tips.

Tip #1: Consider your company?s name. What is the best way to feature that name in the universal resource locator, or URL? (The URL is your company?s website address.) Often, your business?s exact name is no longer directly available as a URL. However, a slightly different version of it, or a version that uses your store and product name will likely be available for registration. This website address will be a key component of your advertising and marketing strategies, so choose it carefully.

?Tip #2: Develop a website for your web shopping cart that is easily navigated and attractive to customers. Use a design template, or consult with professionals to design a website that will accomplish both these objectives.

Tip #3: Invest in an online shopping cart solution or network storage solution that can be expanded when your store grows. In addition, choose one that best meets the needs of your ecommerce website. Some of the elements to evaluate include security of transaction data, reliability (how frequently the server crashes, and what volume of traffic the network or solution can manage), and specific functions offered by the solution. Also, search for shopping cart solutions that offer ecommerce business strategies.

Tip #4: Select merchant accounts for secure credit card and banking transactions that are designed especially for online shopping carts. Opt for an account that offers the capacity to accept, at minimum, the three most popular types of credit cards as well as Paypal. Evaluate accounts that also accept bank draft transactions.

Tip #5: Make the most of online shopping cart solutions that include ecommerce features such as dedicated email addresses and targeted mailing lists. These components can help your online retail business stand out among competitors, and further the enhancement of ecommerce business strategies designed to further differentiate and advance business branding.

Tip #6: Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of ecommerce marketing strategies by using a specific promotional code for each strategy. By doing this, you will be able to identify which promotions are most effective.

Tip #7: Evaluate all of the text used on your ecommerce website to ensure that you are using terms that will result in effective search engine optimization. Select words that will offer the best search results for your business, and use these words carefully to obtain the highest possible search rankings. Doing this, and submitting the website for your business to top search engines will increase the probability that people shopping online for products will be directed to your online shopping cart.

Tip #8: When developing a website, choose a certain date to celebrate a Grand Opening ? or a reopening ? of your online store, if applicable. Then, promote specials that will be available on this date by targeted email advertising campaigns.

Tip #9: Schedule regular times and dates for website maintenance and redesigning. Remember to introduce and announce new elements in your shopping cart site design. Some of the features to include are feedback forms, blog sites, surveys, and polls.

Tip #10: Keep track of what online shopping cart tips work ? and be aware of the ecommerce tips that don?t work. Use web analytics to continuously monitor the ecommerce marketing strategies that customers find effective. Evaluate which of your pages might require design or text changes to encourage visitor traffic. After you have made these changes, be sure to inform your customers and regular visitors by

email that you have done so. Additionally, note the changes and updates you made to other pages on the website?s main page as well.

Utilizing these ten ecommerce tips, you can establish a successful Internet store, or further the success of an already-existing store. Begin by using these tips, and continue to update your virtual store and expand your business by following these guidelines.

Source: http://www.business2community.com/strategy/top-10-ecommerce-tips-0313473

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UH professor to lead international drilling expedition

Public release date: 23-Oct-2012
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713-743-8192
University of Houston

Voyage to give scientists glimpse into earth's development

HOUSTON, Oct. 23, 2012 From finding the first deep-water hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico to locating the meteorite impact that doomed the dinosaurs, scientific ocean drilling has unlocked some major mysteries. A University of Houston (UH) geologist hopes to uncover more such secrets as co-chief scientist on a major international expedition to recover the first-ever drill core from the lower crust of the Pacific Ocean.

Jonathan E. Snow, an associate professor in the department of Earth and atmospheric sciences, will co-lead 28 scientists, chosen from hundreds of applicants around the world, aboard the JOIDES Resolution research vessel on a voyage supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The geoscientists on this two-month, $10 million expedition will gather rock samples and data from the lower crust of the ocean that will distinguish between two competing theories on the rate and location of the intrusion of magma into the Earth's lowermost crust.

"We will be the first to see the rocks that test these models, with the rest of the global ocean crust community eagerly waiting to see the results," Snow said. "Volcanoes are spectacular things, but they do much more than pose hazards for human populations. They are directly responsible for creating the ocean crust beneath two-thirds of our planet. Deep beneath the volcanic eruptions, molten magma that doesn't erupt cools slowly to form the crystalline layers of the deep crust, through processes that we don't yet understand well."

Covered by miles of water and rock, the deepest layers of the ocean crust are about as inaccessible as it gets, and little was known about them until the 1970s, when deep-diving submersibles and deep-water drilling vessels came on the scene. Since then, scientific drilling has discovered that the ocean crust is formed by a continuous process of volcanic seafloor spreading, one of the key revelations that led to the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics governing many of the key processes that shape the Earth.

"The formation of the deepest layers, the intrusive lower crust, is the most difficult part to study, because it's situated not only beneath three to five miles of seawater and sediment, but also beneath the extrusive upper layers," Snow said. "Getting at these deep layers requires a combination of deep drilling, using advanced technologies developed for oilfield use, and a location where deep cracks in the Earth remove much of the volcanic layer, making the lower crust more accessible."

The JOIDES Resolution is the ship that will drill into the lower crust. Designed for deep-sea exploration, it is more than 450 feet long, with a drilling derrick, accommodations for 130 people and a floating laboratory for the analysis of core samples. Snow will share his co-chief scientist duties with Kathryn Gillis, professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and associate dean of the Faculty of Science, at the University of Victoria in Canada. They will join 26 other international scientists on this expedition from December to February.

"Researchers work their entire careers to be co-chief scientist on one of these expeditions," Snow said. "I am flattered that my name came to the top of the list. I'm only the second person from UH ever to get the call."

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About the University of Houston

The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the nation's best colleges for undergraduate education. UH serves the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning and strategic industry partnerships. Located in the nation's fourth-largest city, UH serves more than 39,500 students in the most ethnically and culturally diverse region in the country. For more information about UH, visit the university's newsroom at http://www.uh.edu/news-events/.

About the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

The UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, with 187 ranked faculty and more than 5,000 students, offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in the natural sciences, computational sciences and mathematics. Faculty members in the departments of biology and biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, earth and atmospheric sciences, mathematics and physics conduct internationally recognized research in collaboration with industry, Texas Medical Center institutions, NASA and others worldwide.

About the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international research program dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the Earth through drilling, coring and monitoring the subseafloor. The JOIDES Resolution is a scientific research vessel managed by the U.S. Implementing Organization of IODP (USIO). Together, Texas A&M University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership comprise the USIO. IODP is supported by two lead agencies: the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. Additional program support comes from the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), the Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium (ANZIC), India's Ministry of Earth Sciences, the People's Republic of China (Ministry of Science and Technology), and the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources. For more information, visit http://www.iodp.org.

To receive UH science news via e-mail, sign up for UH-SciNews at http://www.uh.edu/news-events/mailing-lists/sciencelistserv/index.php.

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Contact: Lisa Merkl
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University of Houston

Voyage to give scientists glimpse into earth's development

HOUSTON, Oct. 23, 2012 From finding the first deep-water hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico to locating the meteorite impact that doomed the dinosaurs, scientific ocean drilling has unlocked some major mysteries. A University of Houston (UH) geologist hopes to uncover more such secrets as co-chief scientist on a major international expedition to recover the first-ever drill core from the lower crust of the Pacific Ocean.

Jonathan E. Snow, an associate professor in the department of Earth and atmospheric sciences, will co-lead 28 scientists, chosen from hundreds of applicants around the world, aboard the JOIDES Resolution research vessel on a voyage supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program. The geoscientists on this two-month, $10 million expedition will gather rock samples and data from the lower crust of the ocean that will distinguish between two competing theories on the rate and location of the intrusion of magma into the Earth's lowermost crust.

"We will be the first to see the rocks that test these models, with the rest of the global ocean crust community eagerly waiting to see the results," Snow said. "Volcanoes are spectacular things, but they do much more than pose hazards for human populations. They are directly responsible for creating the ocean crust beneath two-thirds of our planet. Deep beneath the volcanic eruptions, molten magma that doesn't erupt cools slowly to form the crystalline layers of the deep crust, through processes that we don't yet understand well."

Covered by miles of water and rock, the deepest layers of the ocean crust are about as inaccessible as it gets, and little was known about them until the 1970s, when deep-diving submersibles and deep-water drilling vessels came on the scene. Since then, scientific drilling has discovered that the ocean crust is formed by a continuous process of volcanic seafloor spreading, one of the key revelations that led to the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics governing many of the key processes that shape the Earth.

"The formation of the deepest layers, the intrusive lower crust, is the most difficult part to study, because it's situated not only beneath three to five miles of seawater and sediment, but also beneath the extrusive upper layers," Snow said. "Getting at these deep layers requires a combination of deep drilling, using advanced technologies developed for oilfield use, and a location where deep cracks in the Earth remove much of the volcanic layer, making the lower crust more accessible."

The JOIDES Resolution is the ship that will drill into the lower crust. Designed for deep-sea exploration, it is more than 450 feet long, with a drilling derrick, accommodations for 130 people and a floating laboratory for the analysis of core samples. Snow will share his co-chief scientist duties with Kathryn Gillis, professor in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and associate dean of the Faculty of Science, at the University of Victoria in Canada. They will join 26 other international scientists on this expedition from December to February.

"Researchers work their entire careers to be co-chief scientist on one of these expeditions," Snow said. "I am flattered that my name came to the top of the list. I'm only the second person from UH ever to get the call."

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About the University of Houston

The University of Houston is a Carnegie-designated Tier One public research university recognized by The Princeton Review as one of the nation's best colleges for undergraduate education. UH serves the globally competitive Houston and Gulf Coast Region by providing world-class faculty, experiential learning and strategic industry partnerships. Located in the nation's fourth-largest city, UH serves more than 39,500 students in the most ethnically and culturally diverse region in the country. For more information about UH, visit the university's newsroom at http://www.uh.edu/news-events/.

About the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

The UH College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, with 187 ranked faculty and more than 5,000 students, offers bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in the natural sciences, computational sciences and mathematics. Faculty members in the departments of biology and biochemistry, chemistry, computer science, earth and atmospheric sciences, mathematics and physics conduct internationally recognized research in collaboration with industry, Texas Medical Center institutions, NASA and others worldwide.

About the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program

The Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) is an international research program dedicated to advancing scientific understanding of the Earth through drilling, coring and monitoring the subseafloor. The JOIDES Resolution is a scientific research vessel managed by the U.S. Implementing Organization of IODP (USIO). Together, Texas A&M University, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University and the Consortium for Ocean Leadership comprise the USIO. IODP is supported by two lead agencies: the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. Additional program support comes from the European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD), the Australia-New Zealand IODP Consortium (ANZIC), India's Ministry of Earth Sciences, the People's Republic of China (Ministry of Science and Technology), and the Korea Institute of Geoscience and Mineral Resources. For more information, visit http://www.iodp.org.

To receive UH science news via e-mail, sign up for UH-SciNews at http://www.uh.edu/news-events/mailing-lists/sciencelistserv/index.php.

For more information about UH, visit the university's newsroom at http://www.uh.edu/news-events/.

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Hot Topics in the Small Business Community: Olympic buzz ...

Olympics creating business (1)

Wasn?t the Olympics magnificent? Wasn?t it grand? Wasn?t it beneficial for every small business out there?

According to some, most notably this post, believed that the Olympics helped start-ups to grow and flourish. Livesheets used the Olympics as a springboard to boast about its crowd flow model. It was the most detailed and complex one ever build for a sports event. It was built in Excel and gave it the simplicity it required.

Not bad going, eh?

Livesheets is just one of many extraordinary cases that benefitted from London 2012. It provided a timely extra boost to the country?s economy and the capital?s infrastructure. Start-ups, like Livesheets, had to carefully identify a niche in the market, and those that did, did it successfully.

The Games provided great opportunities for small businesses.

Tell us about your successes? Or if we got it drastically wrong, please tell us too!

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Entrepreneurs Not Reaching their potential (0)??????

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There?s been much talk and focus about entrepreneurs and small business owners failing to reach their potential. However, before sounding like a poor football pundit, there?s help available.

No one has ever said that being an entrepreneur is easy. Creating your own destiny and career path is tricky and hard-work ? succeeding in this lifestyle seems to require an elusive mix of traits.

There are many reasons why some entrepreneurs make it big, while others flounder. Later this week, this blog will give you a run down and supply helpful tips why small business owners aren?t reaching their potential?

After all, most entrepreneurs are intelligent folk. They are hardworking and usually at the top of their profession. However, some of these smart people go from thriving in the workplace to struggle in maintaining the success of a small business.

Make sure you look out for that one. It will be a cracker.

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#WebSummit in Dublin (1)

Following last week?s post of the value of attending conferences, there was a Web Summit in Dublin. Did that provide any value? According to our good friend Twitter and the hashtag #WebSummit, it does. Makes that post look rather silly now, doesn?t it?

The papers labelled it as ?Impressive?, ?Extraordinary? and ?Top of the Pile?, making last week?s blog post look even sillier.

With over 200 international speakers and over 3000 attendees from 50+ countries, it provides a good basis from seasoned CEOs to start-up entrepreneurs and everything in-between.

More interestingly for this blog, there were 250 start-ups from over the world exhibiting in the Start-up Village. Very cool, indeed.

Did you attend? Was it interesting?

What do you think of these ?Hot Topics?? Let us know. Please. We have twitter and everything.

Source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/smallbusiness/archive/2012/10/22/hot-topics-in-the-small-business-community-olympic-buzz-entrepreneurs-not-reaching-their-potential-amp-websummit.aspx

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Caterpillar cuts forecast, sees global economy weakening

(Reuters) - Caterpillar Inc, the world's largest maker of tractors and excavators, said on Monday the global economy is slowing faster than it had expected and slashed its 2012 forecast for the second time this year.

The company's retail dealers are selling off inventories, rather than buying new machines, forcing Caterpillar to idle some production, executives said.

"As we've moved through the year, we've seen continued economic weakening and uncertainty," Chief Executive Doug Oberhelman said in a statement.

The statement came despite better-than-expected third-quarter profit on a rebound in U.S. sales of heavy equipment to repair crumbling infrastructure. Europe and parts of Latin America remained tough regions for Caterpillar.

For the third quarter, the company posted profit of $1.7 billion, or $2.54 per share, compared with $1.14 billion, or $1.71 per share, in the year-ago period.

Excluding one-time items, the company earned $2.26 per share. By that measure, analysts expected earnings of $2.22 per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Revenue rose 5 percent to $16.45 billion. Analysts looked for $16.77 billion.

For 2012, the company now expects to earn $9 to $9.25 per share on sales of $66 billion. The company had looked for about $9.60 per share.

Analysts estimated 2012 profit of $9.40 per share on revenue of $67.64 billion.

In July the company also cut its 2012 forecasts.

(Reporting By Ernest Scheyder; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe)

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WATCH: Golf May Not Be For Yao

During the peak of his 8-year NBA career, Yao Ming displayed a finesse that belied his hulking size The same can not be said of his recent display on a golf course.

Video of the 7-foot-6 retiree golfing has been going viral due to the incredible awkwardness of his swing (despite the endearingly earnest effort he seems to be making). Per Business Insider, Yao participated in the the Mission Hills World Celebrity Pro-Am in China over the weekend.

The description accompanying this video on YouTube doesn't name that event or provide much detail at all. The description provided by user BasketballBroNews actually just repeats two sentences three times over.

"Yao starts a new career in golf in his retirement. He is so tall and it is a little hard for him to play well in golf."

Yup, that about sums it up. In this video it takes more than one repetition of his long swing for him to make contact with the ball.

Nicholas Schwartz of BuzzFeed sees "a genuine, yet unrefined golfer inside that massive frame," which would put Yao well ahead of at least one other NBA star turned golfer.

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National Geographic Channel Takes An Unflinching Look At America's Longest War - Afghanistan - As Experienced By The Men And Women On The Front Lines

Network Presents New Two-Hour Special Featuring Raw Battlefield Footage, Soldiers' Photographs and Testimonies For A Comprehensive 360-Degree View Of The Entire War

"Not once in a minute of time over there did I ever fight for any piece of Afghanistan ? I fought for my men and I fought for my country and I fought to get home" ? U.S. Army MSG David Dzwik

Inside the Afghanistan War Premieres Monday, Nov. 5, 2012 at 8 p.m. ET/PT

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The longest war in America's history was sparked by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Less than a month later U.S. forces entered Afghanistan and ousted the Taliban. Chronicling a conflict that has spanned more than a decade and bridged generations, Inside the Afghanistan War shares the comprehensive 11-year-trajectory from its swift and relentless beginnings to the eve of the U.S. pullout in 2014.

Transporting viewers to war-torn Afghanistan, National Geographic Channel (NGC) delivers an all-inclusive, raw panorama of a complex war fought on a terrain known as "The Graveyard of Empires." Inside the Afghanistan War, premiering Monday, Nov. 5, opens the door to a heart-pounding realm of survival, death and rebuilding ? seen and heard through the rolling cameras of soldiers, rare photos and firsthand accounts of servicemen and women. From the producers of Inside 9/11 and Inside the Iraq War, Inside the Afghanistan War charts the shifting goals of coalition and Afghan forces as the evolving War on Terror enters its second decade.

Inside the Afghanistan War brings viewers the soldiers' perspective, from the deciding moment to enlist during the waking hours after 9/11 to the harrowing battlefield accounts that were often buried in the back pages of the daily papers as the media's attention shifted to the conflict in Iraq. See the changes in tactics on the ground as strategic focus shifted from remote northeast outposts to the more populated south of Afghanistan as the 2014 planned U.S. exit from the conflict drew nearer.

Hear U.S. Army Col. Mark Mitchell's accounts of the first U.S. casualty of the war, when a prisoner riot claims CIA agent Mike Spann.

Follow Major Allison Black, the only woman among an AC-130 gunship crew of 13, during a bombing campaign of the city of Kunduz. She was given the nickname "The Angel of Death" by U.S. ally General Dostum, who was convinced the U.S. had a "laser" during the weeks of air strikes.

Embed with Capt. J.J. Konstant in the summer of 2005 as his team of marines is charged with eliminating Ahmad Shah's cell, which has adopted the use of improvised explosive devices in the Pech Valley and is responsible for the deadliest day of the Afghanistan war, in which 16 Navy SEALs are killed in a rescue operation.

Objective and unabated, Inside the Afghanistan War captures all angles of the war, in many cases with helmet cams worn by soldier in combat. Raw footage of combat from different periods of the war offers a level of in-depth perspective never before seen by the American public: PFC. Channing Moss sits atop his truck as a gunner when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) blasts through the windshield and lodges inside him, unexploded.

"I was like, 'Oh ****, something's in me,'? I remember blankin', and when I came to, I smelled myself smoking," Moss said.

Maj. John Oh and his surgical team defy Army protocol after being warned that Moss is a human time bomb ? the dramatic surgery to remove the grenade lodged inside Moss is all caught on camera, despite warnings from an explosives expert.

"He said we'd all be 'pink mist,' so that's all he needed to say," Oh said.

Fast-forward to 2010, as a company of U.S. soldiers is charged with the task of ousting the Taliban from Kunduz province. With helmet cameras rolling, viewers experience the shock and panic of a mine-clearing operation gone wrong, as Spc. Matthew Hayes steps on an undetected plastic mine.

"Do you want it to be a land mine or you want it to be an RPG?" Sgt. Dean Lee wisecracks to Hayes as he is being stabilized. "Better get our story straight now for the chicks back home."?

While many of the soldiers chronicled in Inside the Afghanistan War would like to know what a straightforward victory feels like, it may be impossible to know the lasting effects of a war that will be in its 13^th year before U.S. troops are expected to come home.

Inside the Afghanistan War is produced by Towers Productions, Inc., for NGC. For Towers Productions executive producer is Jonathan Towers; co-executive producer/writer is Kristen Akers Gozdecki; executive in charge of production is Seneca Lester; and field producer/additional writing is Nicolas Zimmerman. For NGC, executive producer is Jack Smith; vice president, production and development is Kim Woodard; and executive vice president of programming is Michael Cascio.

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Based at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington, D.C., the National Geographic Channels US are a joint venture between National Geographic and Fox Cable Networks.? The Channels contribute to the National Geographic Society's commitment to exploration, conservation and education with smart, innovative programming and profits that directly support its mission.? Launched in January 2001, National Geographic Channel (NGC) celebrated its fifth anniversary with the debut of NGC HD.? In 2010, the wildlife and natural history cable channel Nat Geo WILD was launched, and in 2011, the Spanish-language network Nat Geo Mundo was unveiled.? The Channels have carriage with all of the nation's major cable, telco and satellite television providers, with NGC currently available in 84 million U.S. homes.? Globally, National Geographic Channel is available in 440 million homes in 171 countries and 38 languages. For more information, visit www.natgeotv.com.For more information, visit www.natgeotv.com.

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Police find fire, chaos at Wis. spa were 7 shot

This photo provided by the Brookfield Police Dept. shows Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Wis. Deputies are searching for Haughton on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, who's suspected of wounding multiple people in a shooting at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall. (AP Photo/Brookfield Police Dept)

This photo provided by the Brookfield Police Dept. shows Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Wis. Deputies are searching for Haughton on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, who's suspected of wounding multiple people in a shooting at a spa near a suburban Milwaukee shopping mall. (AP Photo/Brookfield Police Dept)

Police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

A police officer responds to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

Police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday,Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

Spectators and media look toward the Azana Spa as police and swat team members respond to a call of a shooting at the Azana Spa in Brookfield, Wis. Sunday , Oct. 21, 2012. Multiple people were wounded when someone opened fire at the spa near the Brookfield Square Mall. Deputies are still looking for the gunman. (AP Photo/Tom Lynn)

BROOKFIELD, Wis. (AP) ? A Wisconsin man who had been accused of domestic violence and slashing his wife's tires took a gun into the spa where she worked Sunday and shot seven women, three fatally, before killing himself, a police chief said.

The shootings set off a confusing, six-hour search for the gunman that locked down a nearby mall, a country club adjacent to the spa and the hospital where the survivors were taken. The search froze activity in a commercial area in Brookfield, a middle-to-upper class community west of Milwaukee, for much of the day. Ultimately, he was found dead in the spa.

Authorities said it would take time to sort out exactly what happened, and emphasized they were still interviewing witnesses and rescuers and did not have a firm timeline of events. At a news conference Sunday night, Mayor Steve Ponto called the shootings "a senseless act on the part of one person."

The chaos started around 11 a.m. at the Azana Day Spa, a two-story, 9,000-square-foot building across from a major shopping mall. The first officers on the scene found the building filled with smoke from a fire authorities believe was set by the suspect, Radcliffe Franklin Haughton, 45, of Brown Deer, Brookfield Police Chief Dan Tushaus said.

They also found a 1-pound propane tank they initially thought might be an improvised explosive device, Tushhaus said. That slowed the search of the building as law enforcement agents waited for a bomb squad to clear the scene.

Tushaus said later that police didn't know whether the gunman brought the propane tank to the spa or it was left by a contractor.

The search also was complicated by the layout of the building, with numerous small treatment rooms and several locked areas, Tushaus said. While officers initially thought the gunman had fled the building, they later found his body in one of the locked areas, he said.

The bodies of the victims were also found in the spa. Tushaus said investigators were still working to identify them. He said the four survivors were between the ages of 22 and 40. He didn't know if they were employees at the spa or customers, and it wasn't clear if the man's wife was among the victims.

Haughton had recently been arrested after witnesses identified him as the person who slashed his wife's tires, police said.

He appeared in court Thursday. A four-year restraining order was issued, and Haughton was ordered to turn any firearms over to the sheriff's department.

Haughton's father, Radcliffe Haughton, Sr., spoke to a television station and The Associated Press shortly before police announced that they had found his son's body. In telephone interviews from Florida, he said he had last spoken to his son a few days ago, but didn't have any indication anything was wrong. He begged his son to turn himself in.

After learning of his son's death, he said only: "This is very sad."

A sea of ambulances and police vehicles collected at the scene shortly after the shooting. A witness, David Gosh of nearby West Allis, told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel he was returning from duck hunting with his father and a friend when he saw a woman emerge from the spa, screaming, as she ran into traffic.

"She ran right out into the street was pounding on cars," Gosh told the newspaper. Moments later, a man with a handgun ran out. He appeared to be chasing the woman but then went back inside, Gosh said.

At the hospital where the victims were taken, staff members were escorted inside during the temporary lockdown and critically injured patients were accepted with a police escort. Officers were stationed at entrances.

The hospital released a statement saying two women had undergone surgery, and one was in critical condition. Another was expected to have surgery Sunday night.

The shooting investigation and manhunt paralyzed a normally bustling shopping district. Inside the mall across the street from the spa, people waited patiently for updates. Gina Kralik, a bartender at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, said people had been allowed to leave at one point but then police had decided not to let anyone come or go from the mall.

"We're just sitting watching the news and also trying to find out what's going on," she said about 3 p.m.

Austin Della, 17, was working at a department store in the mall when he heard announcements over the loudspeaker asking people to move their cars out of one parking lot. The mall was then locked down for almost three hours, he said, and customers joked about the good service they would get as the only clients in the store.

"Everyone was really calm," Della said. "If not for all the announcements, I don't think anyone would have known that anything was happening."

It was the second mass shooting in Wisconsin this year. Wade Michael Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran and white supremacist, killed six people and injured three others before fatally shooting himself Aug. 5 at a Sikh temple south of Milwaukee.

The shooting at the mall took place less than a mile from where seven people were killed and four wounded on March 12, 2005, when a gunman opened fire at a Living Church of God service held at a hotel.

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Associated Press writer Steve Karnowski in Minneapolis contributed to this report.

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Drag racer hits family's car head on, killing dad, son

By Karen Franklin and Donna Rapado, NBCMiami.com

MIAMI -- Three people were killed early Saturday when a driver racing two other cars crashed his vehicle into oncoming traffic, police say.

The accident occurred just before 2 a.m. on Flagler Street and 58th Avenue, according to authorities. Miami Police spokesman Willie Moreno said a Toyota Scion, racing westbound with two other vehicles, lost control and crashed head on with a family of four in a Ford Expedition.

"I knew what kind of car it was because I know about that," said onlooker Antonio Hernandez. "But it was, my impression was I have to stop to see that because I need to stop racing."

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The impact killed father Jose Serrano, 43, and his son, German Serrano, 15. The mother, 42-year-old Carmen Orta and the second child, 12-year-old Gabriel Serrano, remain in extremely critical condition at a hospital.

Also killed was 20-year-old Ivan Rodriquez Jr., the passenger in the Scion, who was ejected and pronounced dead on the scene.

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?You can see that the impact is so massive that it tossed this SUV, just tossed it around,? Moreno said. ?The vehicle continued to rotate an additional three times before coming to a resting point. Also so massive the impact that the entire engine was dislodged from this vehicle.?

Police said that the Scion was traveling at an ?excessive high rate of speed,? possibly 100 mph.

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Moreno said authorities believe one of the other cars involved is a black Chevrolet Impala, but police are looking for accident footage from local businesses.

The driver of the Scion, identified as 19-year-old Alejandro Hernandez, who was also ejected from the vehicle, is in critical condition.

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Character guidelines and skeleton

In a realm of magic, war rages. Will the continent be consumed by strife, or will the people unite against the greater danger?

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- Try to be realistic within the setting. A thirteen-year-old stablehand won?t be a master swordsman, a beggar won?t charm his way into every brothel in town, and the blindingly beautiful Id-Heran princess won?t be good at cooking, singing, sword fighting, blacksmithing, caber tossing, NASCAR racing, and catching bloody unicorns.

- No Mary Sues. People have flaws, and the world does not revolve around them. Glance over this if you?re not certain of the term.

- Don?t create a fighting idiot.[b] This is a roleplay about countries at war. Naturally, there will be combat, but if you intend to chain endless fighting scenes together, you?re in the wrong place. You cannot trade your ability to put on pants for +1 to damage. The story will be action-driven as much as character-driven, and the war is larger than any individual action taken in it.

- [b]On magicians: It is not expected or particularly encouraged for you to play a magician. They have pretty restricted lives, and the magic system is rather rigid. The presence of magicians on both sides of the war levels the playing field, so normal fighters (or even diplomats) are perfectly capable of making a difference.

- You may omit information from your character profile if you wish to keep certain information a mystery. Secret pasts would be a good example of this. A hidden set of lock picks would not ? anything that might seem like an ass pull goes on your profile.

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Notes on character skeleton

Picture and avatar: A picture is not required, but it is encouraged. Illustrations are preferred over photos. Do not spend too much time looking for one ? your text description will take precedence over anything else. Do try to find (or make) a recognizable 100x100 avatar for your character.

Name: English, Germanic or fantasy names are all allowed. It has to be pronounceable in the English tongue though. If you're a commoner, you're not going to have an overly long name. Only Spelheim citizens have a last name. Id-Herans may also state the name of their father (son of, daughter of).

Race: Sile, Kanloi, Citian Human, Id-Heran Human.

Sex: Male, female or undisclosed. In the human society, some women may impersonate men for safety or work opportunities, and spies may be in disguise.

Age: Try to be realistic, in relation to skill set and background.

Appearance: Try to avoid subjective terms in your description. Your character may be conventionally beautiful [for their race], but she may not be attractive [to everyone]. Some characters may fear beauty, and different people and races have different standards. As for racial differences: blond characters generally have Id-Heran blood, while red hair originates in Spelheim. Black hair can always be tracked back to the Socharev.

Personality: please provide a clear personality. ?She is timid but will get angry at you when you insult her enough? isn?t a personality, it?s common sense. Characters with conviction or motivation are preferred ? I?d rather not have isolated hermits that look forward to dying alone. Room for character development is encouraged. Check the other characters for any disturbing overlap in personality.

History: what made your character into the person (s)he is today? Arranging previous relationships with other characters is encouraged if appropriate. Two Citians needn?t know each other, but two dragon riders probably would.

Magic: no magic potential, latent potential, or awakened mage. If the latter, list Talents and illustrate relative proficiency. The magic academies rank their students, so magicians have a fair idea of their capabilities. Keep in mind that the City forcibly awakens all magic potential: no one in the Spelheim capital can remain latent.

Additional information: equipment, hidden scars, whatever you think is important.

Writing sample:
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While on a midnight stroll through a dark alley, or a forest road, your character encounters a faint silhouette. The person approaches at a relaxed pace, holding an object that might be a sword, or a walking cane, or even a tree branch. You are not sure you have been seen, but the chances are fair.

Illustrate suspicions and the appropriate action. No word minimum. This does not have to be elaborate. Hide behind a tree and you?re done. Charge the silhouette with your sword and you?re done. This is not canon, i.e. do not start your first post running from an alley.

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