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North Chesterfield, VA Author Publishes Mystery Novel
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Covington, LA Author Publishes Spiritual Poetry
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Missouri City, TX Author Publishes Children's Book
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Vernon, NJ Author Publishes Autobiography
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Cyclonis Launches Cyclonis World Time (FREE) to Easily Track Time Zones Around the World
Cyclonis World Time is a FREE tool for tracking time in multiple time zones. The lightweight, easy-to-use Cyclonis World Time app lets you keep track of the current time in different time zones across the globe! Cyclonis World Time includes a highly customizable desktop widget that allows you to conveniently display a personalized list of important locations directly on your desktop.
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AnyDesk launched new channel partner program on March 1st
AnyDesk, a leading provider of remote desktop solutions, launched its new global channel partner program today to strengthen and expand its worldwide partner network.
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eM Client email app launches groundbreaking version 10 with AI support
Prague - 17.7.2024 - The Czech company [url=https://www.emclient.com/?lang=en]eM Client[/url] releases a new version of the eponymous application for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS. eM Client is a popular tool for managing (not only) emails, which has become the main challenger to Microsoft Outlook for both end users and businesses. Version 10 brings the largest number of new features and improvements in the history of the product.
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"Keep All Your Old Skin in a Jar", Says Biometric Fraud Tsar.
The Government stepped up its plans to introduce biometric ID cards this morning with the appointment of Alan Bladder, MP as the new Biometric Tsar.
Bladder, no stranger to controversy, immediately issued an urgent statement to encourage people to take their dead skin home with them in the interests of National...
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I Want More Raucous in the Caucus
Many people say that the Republican infighting over Kevin McCarthy's election as Speaker of the House is embarrassing and demonstrates a lack of governing ability. I say: more squabbling please!
The House should be raucous. Why should everything be politely settled behind closed doors? No! We need more public fighting among our elected officials, not less. Americans have major disagreements with each other, and the best way to sort them out is through politics. Let's have them yell and scream and argue with each other in public until someone wins.
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DnD situation is a symptom of a larger problem: our insanely long copyright protection (life of the author + 70 years!)
(I posted this to the DnD subreddit also: link.)
The Open Gaming License fiasco with Dungeons & Dragons producer Wizards of the Coast is a symptom of a larger problem: our insane Intellectual Property system that currently protects material for the life of the author plus 70 years. As a comparison, patents generally only protect inventions for 20 years.
The purpose of intellectual property laws is to balance public and private interests. IP law is an agreement between society and creators: the creator is guaranteed an exclusive right to their creation for a period of time, and in exchange the public gets rights to the creation afterwards. It's intended to be a balance of interests, but the balance has gotten completely out of whack thanks to (obviously) lobbying throughout the 20th century by major copyright holders like Disney.
In my opinion, the current copyright term, life of the author plus 70 years, is grossly unfair to the public. I believe that the internet era has demonstrated that creators would be incentivized to create even without such a long period of exclusivity. Think about it: would you create less stuff if your great-grandkids didn't get exclusive rights? I doubt it.
Listen: creators should be able to make money from their work. I don't think copyright should go to zero, but why not bring it in line with patent protection with a 20-year term?
Disney, DnD, and many other creations are part of our generation's cultural legacy, part of a 10,000+ year inheritance that has been handed down through time to our grandparents, our parents, and now us. It's morally wrong for our ancestors and corporations to lock our inheritance away from us.
Copyright protections must be re-balanced to protect both creators and the public. This problem with WotC shouldn't be just about a license, it should be about the IP laws that grant them exclusive rights to creations that are over 50 years old. Our generation should re-open these negotiations and come up with a fair copyright term.
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US Has Zero Chance of Debt Default
David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey explain why it's impossible for the United States to default on its debts.
Those who warn of default confuse debt payments with other spending obligations. "A failure on the part of the United States to meet any obligation, whether it's to debt holders, to members of our military or to Social Security recipients, is effectively a default," Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said in January.That's nonsense. Authorized and even appropriated spending isn't "the public debt." For constitutional purposes, promised benefits from Social Security, Medicare and other entitlements aren't even property, as the Supreme Court held in Flemming v. Nestor (1960), and Congress has as much authority to reduce them as to increase them. When lawmakers were drafting the 14th Amendment, they revised Section 4's language to replace the term "obligations" with "debts." If the Treasury ran out of money, the constitutional obligation to pay bondholders would trump all statutory obligations to spend.
Ms. Yellen also said that "Treasury's systems have all been built to pay all of our bills when they're due and on time, and not to prioritize one form of spending over another." But as the Journal has reported, department officials conceded in 2011 that the government's fiscal machinery certainly could prioritize payments to bondholders, and the Federal Reserve prepared for such a contingency. There's no question enough money would be available: The government collects roughly $450 billion a month in tax revenue, more than enough to cover the $55 billion or so in monthly debt service.
We've got plenty of money to make debt payments, but we may need to cut other spending to do it -- which we would be Constitutionally required to do.
(HT: Instapundit.)
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British author Samantha Harvey wins Booker Prize
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Small Businesses Are At Higher Risk For Fraud And Cyber Crime
Although major companies like Staples and Home Depot have dominated news headlines lately, they are not the only companies at risk for cyber crime and hacking. Small businesses are far more susceptible to hackers than their larger counterparts, according to information from the National Cyber Security Alliance
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5 ways to Reduce Small Business Fraud
According to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the median loss in small business fraud cases is $154,000. Can your clients absorb a loss like that?
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These Are The 16 Hottest Startups That Launched In 2014
2014 was a great year for consumer tech, so we decided to take a look at the best startups that launched this year.
When looking at the best startups, we took into account factors like funding, revenue, growth, and investor interest
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Hacking Leads to Precautions for Small Business Data
According to a December survey of owners by the National Small Business Association, cybercriminals raked in an average of $32,000 from small business accounts.
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6 Principles for Small Business Automation
Entrepreneurs and small business managers are hands-on folks. They are often involved in nearly every aspect of the business — from marketing to fulfillment to accounting to website design. At some point, however, all of that special attention may actually inhibit growth, so that the business leaders need to step back and let some processes happen automatically.
The term business automation is broad. For some businesses, it might mean automating physical processes like product assembly. For others, it might mean setting up automated emails to occur when a customer takes some action.
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How to Automate Social Media and PR for Small Business
It is not easy being a small business competing against the big boys. They have got the budget, the expertise, and the size to push you around. That said, it does not have to be half as hard as some small businesses make it. For example, for many businesses, their social media and PR plans can be a lot easier and communicate far more authority besides.
To that end, today we’re going to look at how you can automate both to make your efforts both easier and more fluid, using some simple best practice and strategic planning.
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Learn About Social Media Algorithms, Augmented Reality and More Changing Business Trends
The tools, platforms and methods you use to grow your business are constantly changing. So you need to keep up with all the latest updates and trends. Members of the online small business community have some great insights about these changing tools and trends, ranging from social media algorithms to augmented reality. Read on for some helpful tips.
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6 Businesses That Need to Be Launched Right Now
Entrepreneurs always need more -- more help, more time, more insight. So we asked: What is the one product you wish someone would create to help your business? Now maybe someone (you?) will make it.
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It is Going to Get Easier to Make Money the Next 5 to 10 Years, and It is Because of These 5 Technologies
As an entrepreneur and an angel investor, I get really excited about the future of personal finance.
As new technologies develop, from cryptocurrencies to virtual wallets, I see advantages for businesses. I also see opportunities for everyday Americans and our families to make--and keep--more of our own money.
In meetings with financial technology startups, I am seeing so many incredible new developments on the horizon. Any innovation that improves how we live, shop, and pay sets off alarm bells--of the good kind--in my friendly neighborhood Certified Financial Planner brain.
Here is a sneak peek of why I think the next five to 10 years are going to make making money easier for all of us. It is thanks to these five emerging technologies:
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How to Launch Your First Email Marketing Campaign and Get the Results You Want
Email is not going anywhere. There are 3.7 billion global email users, and that number is expected to grow to 4.1 billion by 2021. What is more, this communication channel is supremely popular: People check their emails multiple times a day, and when you're trying to market your company, you can get your name into thousands of inboxes just by launching an email marketing campaign.
The cost? Email marketing is also super-affordable, which makes it great for small businesses.
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A basic SEO audit for small businesses
Most small businesses can perform a simple audit and improve their SEO considerably without involving an agency. Ten steps you can take to get started.
I am a big fan of getting the basics precisely dialed in for small business search engine optimization (SEO). Ensuring you lay a solid SEO foundation will typically deliver around 80 percent of the results, for only 20 percent of the effort, for small local businesses.
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How to Deliver Bad News When It's Not Your Fault
Have you ever shared bad news with coworkers, employees or partners? As much as we don't want to shoot the messenger, sometimes we associate negative feelings with the person who tells us bad news.
Work is hard enough as is. You do not need a negative halo effect associated with you, especially if a situation was out of your control. For example, maybe you and a partner organization submitted a proposal and were waiting to hear back from a Fortune 1000 client. The client tells you that another company out-bid you with a lower quote.
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Small Businesses Lose $80K on Average to Cybercrime Annually, Better Business Bureau Says
The growth of cybercrime will cost the global economy more than $2 trillion by 2019, according to the Better Business Bureau’s 2017 State of Cybersecurity Among Small Businesses in North America report.
Cost of a Cyber Attack
When it comes to small businesses, the report said the overall annual loss was estimated at almost $80K or $79,841 on average. And as more small businesses become equal parts digital and brick-and-mortar, securing both aspects of their company is more important than ever.
The risks small business owners face in the digital world has increased their awareness of the dangers of this ecosystem. A survey conducted by GetApp in 2017 revealed security concerns ranked second as the challenges small businesses were facing.
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15 Examples of Augmented Reality to Inspire Small Business Owners
Incorporating augmented reality (AR), whereby an interactive experience of a real-world environment is created by computer-generated perceptual information, into business operations, marketing and functions, is not confined to big businesses with big budgets to play around with.
On the contrary, many small businesses are jumping on the burgeoning AR bandwagon, as a means of attracting new customers, retaining existing ones, and ultimately becoming more competitive and profitable.
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Top 5 Small Business Marketing Automation Trends of 2019
2019 Marketing Automation Trends
If you want to use marketing automation to help your business succeed in 2019, your approach to automation will predetermine much of your success. To start out strong, consider bringing the following marketing automation trends into your strategy for the year ahead:
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Seven Ways To Save Time With Small Business Automation
Running a small business may not seem too challenging from a distance. After all, it is a small business, so how much operational and management work could there be? But since I started my own agency, I’ve realized that running a small business or firm is not as easy as it looks.
The good news is that there are plenty of best practices small businesses can follow to save time and manage their tasks more efficiently with the help of automation.
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How Googles Youngest-Ever Hire Launched an AI Company Backed by Mark Cuban
The daughter of two entrepreneurs who immigrated to the U.S. during the Iranian Revolution, Falon Fatemi became known as Google's youngest-ever hire at the age of 19. After leaving Google, she founded her own AI company, Node — and secured famed investor Mark Cuban as a backer. Node aims to use deep learning to analyze relationships between people and companies, then pinpoint how clients can leverage those relationships into sales, marketing and recruiting opportunities. In this episode of How Success Happens, Fatemi spoke with Entrepreneur about landing a job in big tech, AI and data policies and how to give a top-quality pitch.
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How Is Launching A Startup Different From Starting A Small Business
Facebook and Walmart had one thing in common, they both built a product people loved. But their journey was different. Understanding how and why building startups is different from small businesses will help you make wiser business decisions. Here are the most important differences you need to know.
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4 tips to help your business survive the coronavirus pandemic from beauty icon Bobbi Brown
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IRS plans a 50% ramp-up in small-biz audits next year
The Internal Revenue Service is planning to ramp up audits of smaller businesses and their investors by about 50 percent next year, following years of persistently low examination rates, an agency official said Tuesday.
The result could be a surge in audits of companies ranging from mom-and-pop retail stores and technology startups to investment funds that have historically faced only infrequent checks thanks to the time and effort required at the IRS.
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Category: Medications
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Abdominal Pain Causes By Location
Title: Abdominal Pain Causes By Location
Category: Doctor's & Expert's views on Symptoms
Created: 7/12/2013 12:00:00 AM
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Federal Court Orders EPA to Re-examine Whether Roundup Causes Cancer
Title: Federal Court Orders EPA to Re-examine Whether Roundup Causes Cancer
Category: Health News
Created: 6/20/2022 12:00:00 AM
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Sandman Audio Adaptation
In 9 days, on the 15th of July, Audible will release the first of the SANDMAN audio adaptations. These are, well, full cast audiobooks of the first three SANDMAN graphic novels: Dirk Maggs gave me the role of the narrator, and I gave him the original scripts, so often what I'm saying as narrator is what I asked the artists to draw, over thirty years ago.
These are very straightforward adaptations. For the upcoming Netflix TV series, we're starting from now, and doing it as if it was being written, for the first time, in 2020. The audio adaptations are much closer to the original graphic novels, each episode being a comic in the original. Eleven hours of drama. The cast is amazing. The production and the music are glorious. I'm not sure about the narrator, but everything else is sparkling and exciting. I hope you all enjoy it...
For people who need it in a more tangible form, it will also be for sale as CDs.
Click on this, and you will hear James McAvoy as Morpheus...
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Sandman Audio Day
Today is the day that the first adaptation of Sandman is released.
It's the first three graphic novels, PRELUDES AND NOCTURNES, THE DOLL'S HOUSE and DREAM COUNTRY, released, as full-cast audio drama, on Audible. The adaptation was written and directed by audio genius Dirk Maggs, and only it's taken 28 years to happen -- since Dirk first pitched Sandman to BBC Radio 4 in 1992. (They said no.)
For years, blind and partially sighted people, or people who for whatever reason couldn't read comics but wanted to still get access to the stories, have asked me if there would ever be an audiobook of the Sandman books. It took a long time, but this is the closest we could come to giving the world the original graphic novels, bumps and all. You don't have the art, alas, but I hope that the performances and the music give you something that translates it to another place.
It should be out now on all the English-language versions of Audible. There should be versions in other languages coming relatively soon.
(It will be out in a few months on CD -- https://www.brilliancepublishing.com/title/50614/alt -- and I like that they begin their entry: This content is not for kids. It is for mature audiences only. Just like the original graphic novels, this audio adaptation contains explicit language and graphic violence, as well as strong sexual content and themes. Discretion is advised.)
Sandman was always "For Mature Readers" and this is no different.
Here's an interview with me (and an extract from "The Sound of Her Wings") at the EW site: https://ew.com/books/neil-gaiman-sandman-audible-adaptation-netflix-show/
So many talented actors and voices are involved.
I'm the narrator -- often reading descriptions of places or characters I wrote in the original scripts long ago for artists to draw, which Dirk has cunningly snuck into the script.
There are hundreds of characters in these eleven hours, brought to you by 68 actors (well, 67 actors and me):
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Heritage Auction wrap up
I'm starting to hear that the money that came in from the Heritage Auction is going out to people and doing what I hoped it would do, which is make life easier for artists and writers.
So this is a reminder to those of us who may have bought comic art long ago, often directly from the artists, when it was cheap, that now it's worth hundreds of times what was paid for it, the artists never see any of that.
Tracking down the artist and sending them a share will be a welcome gesture.
Or donating to The Hero Initiative, who are helping many elderly and infim comics creators, or to the Authors League Fund, or (if you are in another country) seeing if there is a charity that helps artists and/or authors that you could donate to would be a good thing to do.
(And for those who don't know what this is about, it's about this: http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2024/03/in-which-i-can-now-worry-significantly.html)
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Oral Health: 19 Habits That Cause Bad Teeth
Title: Oral Health: 19 Habits That Cause Bad Teeth
Category: Slideshows
Created: 1/27/2012 12:00:00 AM
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The Automotive Adaptive Front Lighting Market is LED by Europe, as per Maximize Market Research.
(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 30, 2024 ) Growing vehicle manufacturing is driving the need for enhanced lighting systems worldwide. Increased visibility during nighttime decreases accidents, prompting more stringent regulations and greater consumer demand for these safety systems. Adaptive headlights are...
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Integrated Visual Augmentation System Market Size, Trends, Growth Forecast 2029
(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 30, 2024 ) The Integrated Visual Augmentation System market is valued at USD 1.0 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach USD 1.7 billion by 2029, at a CAGR of 11.1% from 2024 to 2029. Integrated Visual Augmentation Systems (IVAS) are advanced solutions enhancing military...
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Automotive Adaptive Front Lighting Market was is expected to grow $6.55 Bn by 2030, as per Maximize Market Research.
(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 31, 2024 ) Automotive Adaptive Front Lighting Market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 27.8% throughout the forecast period, to reach US$ 6.55 Bn. by 2030 The global automotive adaptive front lighting market is on the rise, driven by increasing safety concerns and consumer...
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Digital Instrument Cluster Market Growth Accelerates with Rising Demand in Automotive Sector, as per Maximize Market Research.
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 01, 2024 ) The global Digital Instrument Cluster market is witnessing rapid growth, fueled by increasing demand for advanced automotive displays and enhanced in-car experiences. Driven by advancements in digital interfaces, these clusters provide customizable, high-resolution...
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Europe Wireless Headphones Market Expands as Demand for High-Quality Audio and Mobility Grows, as per Maximize Market Research.
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 01, 2024 ) The Europe Wireless Headphones market is experiencing substantial growth, driven by rising consumer preference for high-quality audio and seamless mobility. With advancements in noise-canceling technology, battery life, and Bluetooth connectivity, wireless headphones...
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Automotive Microcontrollers Market is dominated by Asia Pacific as per Maximize Market Research
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 01, 2024 ) Automotive Microcontrollers Market is expected to reach US$ 22.93 Bn. by 2030, at a CAGR of 8.2% during the forecast period. The automotive microcontroller market is experiencing significant growth, driven by the increasing integration of electronics in vehicles....
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Aluminum Flat Rolled Products Market Sees Strong Growth with Demand from Automotive and Construction Sectors, as per Maximize Market Research
(EMAILWIRE.COM, November 04, 2024 ) The Aluminum Flat Rolled Products Market is set for expansion as demand rises in automotive, construction, and packaging industries. Aluminums lightweight and corrosion-resistant properties make it ideal for use in energy-efficient vehicles and sustainable buildings....