Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Hospitals battled to protect patients as Sandy raged

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HBT: Series gets Taiwanese animation treatment

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I do not know who?Takuya Tsuchida is beyond the fact that he?s an 18 year-old Japanese outfielder, but the Indians have signed him, reports Paul Hoynes. Hoynes says he?s ?a left-handed hitter with speed and athleticism, who can play several positions,? including center field and second base. The Indians don?t have a need for a?

Source: http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/10/30/because-of-course-there-is-a-taiwanese-animation-of-the-2012-world-series/related/

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Monday, October 29, 2012

11 Tips for ?Tapping Into? Healing for Kids and Teens | Make The Lists

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EFT Tapping is a positive and unique form of therapy that can be used on your child or teen who suffers from anxiety or emotional problems. These types of concerns are fairly common at this juncture in life and could affect one out of every eight kids. If gone unchecked, these issues can cause difficulty in their family life, with their friends, and at school. The tapping method is quick and easy to master and can help them to overcome physical and emotional issues. The following is some helpful information on how to heal your kids and teens through the tapping method.

What is EFT Tapping?

Watching your child or teen suffer and go through emotional distress can be overwhelming and painful to you, the parent. Emotional and behavioral issues are typically caused by an anxiety, danger or some kind of threat they may be experiencing in life, and it can make children unable to function logically. Tapping works along the same lines as acupuncture but without the use of painful needles. The theory behind?emotional freedom techniques?is based on getting rid of the negative emotions that are in the body and replaces them with positive energy in a matter of minutes.

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How Does Tapping Work?

The child or teen can begin by assessing the issue and summarizing the problem at hand. It then gets ranked a level of intensity and how serious the issue seems to them. Before the tapping process begins, positive affirmations are discussed. As the affirmation is being said out loud, the light finger tapping can begin. The various meridian points consist of the inner eyebrow, on the side of the eye, underneath the eye, nose, chin, collarbone and head. As the areas are tapped, positive energy is released and takes over the negative thoughts and feelings.

Eleven Ways EFT Tapping Can Help Your Child or Teen



There is no limit to the variety of problems that EFT tapping can help combat. This form of therapy can be used on children, teens and adults that suffer from:

  • Anxiety over starting a new school
  • A child or teen that is being bullied
  • Being afraid to talk in public
  • Overcoming physical and mental challenges

EFT for Teens and Children

When a problem begins to interfere with the daily life of your child or teen, it is your responsibility as her parent to help her find a resolution to cope with and work through these problems. The EFT tapping technique is simple to learn, and your child can teach herself to do it on her own when she is experiencing a difficult situation or anxious thoughts and feelings in everyday life. Parents can also master this skill and tap along with the child. The EFT method has been known to be a long lasting technique that conquers the issue permanently. It also works better than alternative forms of therapy like hypnosis or medication.

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This technique is a positive tool to help children and teens learn to overcome common fears, anxieties, worries and serious traumas. The EFT tapping method can also help them build self-esteem by providing them with a safe outlet to get rid of the negative energy. If you have tried other methods of therapy, or even medications that have not been successful long term, the EFT tapping method may be your best solution for everyone involved.

Karla M. Somers is a firm believer in holistic forms of therapy and alternative healthcare options. She is a contributing writer for The Tapping Solution, a website dedicated to introducing people who are struggling with challenges in their lives to the natural, holistic approach of?emotional freedom techniques.

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Car Insurance Basics ? Breaking out the Windows - Like a crazy man

State Farm Insurance Arlington TX Each year, more cars and drivers travel the highways. With countless cars on the road, accidents will happen. The difference between a small aggravation and major obstacle can be automobile insurance. How can you decide what insurance you need and how to buy it? Required coverage varies by state/province but usually includes the following: Liability pays for damages due to bodily injury and property damage to others for which you are responsible. Bodily injury damages include medical expenses, lost wages and pain and suffering. Property damage includes damaged property and loss of use of property. If you are sued, it also pays your defense and court costs. Higher recommended insurances are available that cover more than the lower, state-mandated insurance. Personal injury protection: This is required in some states and is optional in others. Sometimes referred to as no-fault coverage, this pays the medical treatment for you or your passengers regardless of who was at fault. It may also cover lost earnings, replacement of services and funeral expenses. State law usually sets minimum amounts. Medical payments: This coverage is available states that are not considered no-fault; it pays despite who may have been at fault. It pays for an insured person?s reasonable and necessary medical or funeral expenses for bodily injury from an accident. Collision: This pays for damage to your car caused by an accident. Comprehensive: This applies if your car is stolen or damaged by causes other than collision, including fire, wind, hail, flood or vandalism. Uninsured motorist: This pays for damages when an insured person is injured in a crash caused by another person who does not have liability insurance or by a person who cannot be identified (usually a hit-and-run driver). Under-insured motorist: This pays for damages when an insured person is injured in a crash caused by another person who does not have enough liability insurance to cover the full amount of the damages. Other coverage, such as emergency road service and car rental, is also available.Your auto insurance payments vary by company and will depend on several factors, including: *Your selected coverage *Your vehicle?s make and model * Your driving record * Your age, sex and marital status and * Where you live Some have come to think of auto insurance as a necessary evil, but it can truly rescue your economic health Evaluate your needs, research your options and with the support of your insurance agent choose the option that best suits you. Insurance Policies

Source: http://breakingoutthewindows.com/car-insurance-basics-2/

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Thursday, October 25, 2012

South Africa charges oil majors with price-fixing

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Have Keywords Stopped Being A Proxy To The Customer? | SEO ...

It?s said that keywords are a proxy for a customer, right? So let?s talk about the customer. Schema this, canonical that, and black and white zoo animals? if you don?t have a search expert on payroll, you?re already behind the Joneses.

I get emails like the one below all the time, this one being from the talented owner of?Castleview 3D Architectural Renderings:

?I need your help. ?I realy don?t get the whole keywords/SEO/web marketing thing ? but I know enough to know that I shouldn?t and don?t want to tackle it myself. I?m a small business (small = just me) and maybe I can?t afford you. ?But I?d like to find out. I get solicited by 2 or 3 SEO firms a week, but something about them and their approach really puts me off.?

Therein lies the problem. There?s an old joke that ?99% of lawyers give the other 1% a bad name.? I think that?s just as true with SEOs. There?s 1% of SEOs out there that actually know what they are doing and do it well. Of those, about one third are black hat and about two-thirds are white hat (that?s not scientific, just an educated guess).

Now consider the average starting fee for SEO services. According to?SEOMoz?s 2011 survey, the average retainer fee for an SEO agency is $2500-$5000 a month.

So what is a small business like the one above to do? The popular answer would be to hire a single SEO ? maybe one of the many consultants out there?charging between $100-$150 per hour.

But for many small businesses,?even that is too much. How do they compete with the huge companies who are able to spend 5K and up a month on services? And here?s the kicker?

Google Is Making It Worse

Google has implemented so many elements to their algorithm that rely on webmasters knowing detailed SEO (not just basics) that they are making it harder and harder for SMBs to compete.

Here is just a small list:

  • Favoritism in logged-in listings given to sites that have Google+ profiles
  • Pay to play Google Shopping
  • Enhanced listings with schema.org tags
  • Duplicate content reduction and consolidation with canonical tags
  • Authorship tagging
  • Link disavow tool?(which even Google says not to use unless you know advanced SEO)
  • Data sharing and control with Google Webmaster Tools*

*No algorithmic impact, but the ability to influence things like sitelinks that the majority of SMBs don?t even know exists.

When & Where Does It Stop?

I?ve asked at plenty of conferences if this is the new normal. Are the days of being able to just put up a website with great content and getting it ranked over?

The answer I always hear is that Google just needs help from us while it catches up to the technology available. I say that?s a cop-out. I don?t see Google doing anything to catch up to the technology. I see them continuing to target people who don?t know any better ? SMBs who have unwittingly hired one of those ?2 or 3 SEO firms that solicit [them] each week.?

Sure, Panda and Penguin are targeting spam, and that?s good for all of us ?white hats,? but in most cases, the people who fall victim to that spam are the SMBs. Generally, the big brands have plenty of layers between the SEO and the decision maker to rely on plausible deniability. I?d like to see Google focus more on improving their ability to understand all types of content rather than continuing on this witch hunt.

And in the meantime? The number-one result in my area for ?architectural rendering company? is a site with keyword stuffed text in their description tag and at the bottom of their home page. And Bing isn?t much better.

The #1 result there is for a different firm (located in Toronto, and I?m in the US), with keyword stuffed description tag and spammy anchor text links at the bottom of the home page. So clearly, the?improvements?to reduce spam aren?t working.

Side note: someone should tell the ?SEO?s? these sites hired that the description tag doesn?t impact ranking.

So my question to you, dear reader, is: have keywords stopped being a proxy to a customer?

In other words, if you create great content, can you get it ranked? Or will we allow authorship, canonicals, schema, and manipulation of keywords to become the new normal?

One more thought before you share your comments, and I hope you will. The following statement appears in?Google?s current quality guidelines, and has been there since the first time they were published:

?Make pages [primarily] for users, not for search engines.??Primarily was added in June of 2008, and?Matt Cutts?(head of Google?s webspam team) had this to say about it:??the spirit of that guideline is that users should be the primary consideration. But it is fine to do some things that don?t affect users but do help search engines.?

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So, it?s ok to do these many things to help search engines understand your pages. But where do we (as users) draw the line? At what point are we designing pages more for search engines than for users?

Cited from http://www.searchengineland.com

Source: http://www.seochampion.com/seoblog/have-keywords-stopped-being-a-proxy-to-the-customer.php

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