Tuesday, December 4, 2012

The Pros and Cons of Geothermal Heat Pumps in Mentor | Apple ...

If you live in the Mentor, OH area, you?re probably like a lot of people who are looking for ways, both large and small, to save money on heating your home. Geothermal heat pumps are a terrific way to take advantage of renewable energy. However, many of our customers in Mentor, OH?have been asking about the pros and cons of geothermal systems. We thought it would be beneficial if we put together a comparison of pros and cons about geothermal systems.

How Geothermal Systems Work

While geothermal systems are gaining popularity, there are some people who aren?t quite sure how they work. Here is a basic overview of geothermal systems.

  • Renewable energy ? If you were to dig down about 10 feet into the ground, the temperature there would be around 55? F. It stays this temperature all year long?no matter what the temperature of the air is above it.
  • Ground loop ? Using a series of coils buried in the ground, geothermal systems take advantage of that temperature consistency. In heating mode, a heat pump in your home circulates refrigerant through the coils in the ground to absorb heat. The heat is delivered to the heat pump and transferred to the air using a heat exchanger. In cooling mode, the process is reversed.

Geothermal Pros

  • Doesn?t burn fuel ? One of the main benefits to geothermal systems is that they don?t have to burn any fuel to heat your home. Instead, they just move heat from the ground into your home.
  • Uses free, unlimited, renewable energy ? By taking advantage of energy stored in the ground, geothermal systems use clean, free and renewable energy that will never run out.
  • No pollution ? By using clean energy, your geothermal system doesn?t create any pollution.
  • Durable ? Geothermal systems are known to be durable and have a long life.

Geothermal Cons

  • Reduced efficiency ? In extreme temperatures, in order to keep up with heating demand, geothermal heat pumps will actually consume more energy.
  • Initial cost ? While geothermal systems have the potential to save you money on heating and cooling your home, they typically cost more to install than other, more traditional systems.

If you?re interested in having a geothermal system installed at your Mentor, OH?home, contact the experts at Apple Heating. Our knowledgeable and friendly staff will be able to answer any questions you might have. We would love to schedule a time to come out to your home to see if geothermal is a good option for you.

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Source: http://www.appleheating.com/blog/geothermal-service/the-pros-and-cons-of-geothermal-heat-pumps-in-mentor/

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Record price for Marvin Cone painting in Sotheby's auction ...

Artists gather at Stone City in 1932. Featured in photo (back row) are Marvin Cone (at easel) and Adrian Dornbush. Seated between them is Marjorie Nuhn. Credit: Grant Wood Art Gallery, Anamosa, IA.

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Marvin Cone just took a giant step out from Grant Wood?s shadow.

Cone?s 1936 oil painting, ?Stone City Landscape,? has sold at auction for $752,500 ? a record for the Cedar Rapids native who has not enjoyed the worldwide fame of his lifelong friend, colleague and collaborator in the Stone City Art Colony of 1932 and ?33.

Sotheby?s New York sold the Cone work Nov. 29 during its American Art Auction, which tallied $27.6 million, exceeding expected sales of $24.2 million. The Cone piece, privately held for 25 years, far exceeded its expected selling range of $120,000 to $180,000. Multiple bidders drove up the price, but Sotheby?s officials said they cannot divulge the buyer?s identity.

?It?s wonderful,? Sean Ulmer, curator at the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, said of the sale. ?Marvin Cone has been an undervalued and under-recognized artist in the broader scene in American art.

?It seems as if collectors are paying more attention to his work. This sale price is phenomenal. He?s had other strong sales in the past, but this piece is particularly stunning,? Ulmer said. ?It comes from an important period in his life ? the 1930s, when he was making some of his best landscapes, so the buyer chose well.?

Sotheby?s also sold Cone?s ?The Appointed Room? for $80, 500 on Sept. 28. Other recent sales range from $4,740 for ?In a Paris Park? and $34,160 for ?Cloud Patterns,? both in September, to $186,000 for his ?Farm Silhouette,? sold at Jackson?s in 2011.

Known as a Regionalist painter, Cone (1891-1965) explored various subjects during his prolific career. The Cedar Rapids Museum of Art holds more than 500 of his works, ranging from landscapes, clouds and circus scenes to architecture, doors and stairs.

Ulmer said the ?Stone City Landscape? is unusual, however.

Unlike his friend Wood, Cone didn?t do too many Stone City paintings, Ulmer said.

Related: American Master getting his due through massive exhibition

?The actual sketches by him done at the Art Colony are figural and very, very sketchy of that period. He was spending most of his time teaching, not making art,? Ulmer said.

Also, while Cone?s landscapes often reflected his home state, he changed certain aesthetic aspects, making them more generalized.

?This one is more secure in identification, because we have the Stone City cliffs that make it very specific,? Ulmer said. ?He was not interested in painting what a camera would shoot.?

Visitors to the museum and its online gallery ? crma.org/Gallery/Marvin-Cone.aspx ? will see similarities between Cone?s other landscapes and this ?singular, stellar piece,? Ulmer said.

And now the art community?s spotlight will rightfully shine on a man who preferred to live a quiet life, painting at home and abroad, and teaching for more than four decades at Coe College in Cedar Rapids.

Review: Marvin Cone exhibition is visual revelation

?More people will be paying attention to work of Marvin Cone because of this particular sale,? Ulmer said. ?More people will say, ?Who is this person? I should get to know this person?s work better.?

?The whole point of our exhibition is to increase his visibility, which is long overdue. This phenomenal sale will help in our cause to make him a much better-known artist,? Ulmer said.

?The quality was always there. He was fairly well known during his lifetime but people across the country have kind of forgotten how good an artist he was. Our exhibition and a sale like this will go a long way in resurrecting his reputation.?

Source: http://thegazette.com/2012/12/03/record-price-for-marvin-cone-painting-in-sothebys-auction/

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Monday, December 3, 2012

Biophysicists unravel cellular 'traffic jams' in active transport

ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2012) ? Inside many growing cells, an active transport system runs on nano-sized microtubule tracks that resemble a highway, complete with motors carrying cargo quickly from a central supply depot to growing tips or wherever materials are needed. In spite of the cell's busy, high-traffic environment, researchers know the system somehow works efficiently, without accidents or traffic jams.

Now a team of biophysicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, using a special technique and unique microscope, have improved upon earlier studies that used too-simple models not able to account for the densely crowded, dynamic conditions in a real cell. The new work, led by biophysicist Jennifer Ross, greatly advances understanding of how active transport proceeds smoothly, particularly in long cells such as neurons where it is vital to their survival. Findings appear in the current early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academies of Science.

Ross says, "What others learned from the simpler models and experiments gave insight into how single motors work, how load affects velocity, and how single motors are stopped by static objects such as microtubule-associated proteins or intersections. But so many questions remained, such as what happens in a high-traffic with many other motors? How can single motors and cargos with many motors efficiently maneuver?"

With this work, she says, "We're getting closer to understanding the more complex, crowded environment of the cell and how large objects, like organelles, can be moved from the cell body in your spine out to your big toe along a neuron one meter long. Although previous studies thought that traffic would be a problem because it would cause motors to detach, we found it is not a problem for an organelle because there are so many motors. We found that the traffic would slow you down, but not enough to hurt any essential processes. It would take the organelle 12 days instead of six to travel a meter."

A key to Ross and colleagues' experimental system is a custom-built, single-molecule total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscope she built for her laboratory. It is much brighter than commercially available instruments and gives researchers the remarkable ability to see and photograph individual molecules in real time.

For this investigation exploring the effect of high traffic on active transport via microtubules, they also used quantum dots (Qdots), a nanocrystal of semiconductor material that fluoresces in different colors based on size, making them useful biological probes, Ross points out. "We use them as a stand-in, a model for common cellular cargo such as a mitochondrion, after we discovered that they bind to multiple cellular kinesin motors. If individual motors are like cars, Qdots are a bus," she adds.

The transportation analogy works remarkably well for understanding the molecular-level active transport system, says Ross. The multi-lane nano-scale microtubule system in a cell is like a multi-lane highway along which essential cargo is moved. An organelle needed at the growing tip floats around until it finds a microtubule. Kinesin motors with two "feet" that fit neatly into the tracks then latch onto it and "walk" along toward the goal in prescribed footprints.

But a basic problem for the motors is they cannot change lanes. If they come upon a slow-moving or stopped motor in the track, all traffic stops in that lane and cargo may be released. This led earlier observers to assert that stalled protein on the microtubules, a "traffic jam," poses a threat to active transport. Yet Ross says evidence doesn't support this view; somehow cells find a way to use active transport smoothly and successfully.

In the UMass Amherst experiments, she says, "We're trying to find out how cells do this, work without accidents or stalls. We set up experiments in which we kept adding motors to see what happens in a high traffic situation." An unusual quality of the Qdots, Ross adds, is that they attach to multiple motors and move along all lanes of traffic at once.

The researchers use three colors for labeling the Qdots, 10 percent of the motors and the microtubules, then take videos in real time to measure how far the single-track motor moves in a given time compared to how far the Qdot goes. They also measured how fast each component moved and how much time each spent on the microtubule.

"We were surprised at first because the Qdot could move eight or 10 microns along the track in these high-traffic situations when a single motor could almost not move at all. Then we realized the Qdot had multiple motors attached and further, it could take on or let go of motors while still holding onto the other parts of the track. They might have 10 motors bound with 20 feet on several tracks. So even if a single motor gets hung up, the cargo can still move," Ross explains.

"Interestingly, the Qdot and single-motor velocities were identical, so they didn't go any faster, they just stayed on longer and it enabled them to go farther. We have showed that having multiple motors is one way a cell can handle high traffic situations in active transport."

"We've shown that high traffic is not an issue. It slows things down but it does not stop transport. I think this is a big discovery. Others before us have said that traffic could bring it all to a halt, but it turns out that if you have multiple motors it would solve this problem."

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  1. Leslie Conway, Derek Wood, Erkan T?zel, and Jennifer L. Ross. Motor transport of self-assembled cargos in crowded environments. PNAS, December 3, 2012 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209304109

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Carbon pollution up to 2 million pounds a second

WASHINGTON (AP) ? The amount of heat-trapping pollution the world spewed rose again last year by 3 percent. So scientists say it's now unlikely that global warming can be limited to a couple of degrees, which is an international goal.

The overwhelming majority of the increase was from China, the world's biggest carbon dioxide polluter. Of the planet's top 10 polluters, the United States and Germany were the only countries that reduced their carbon dioxide emissions.

Last year, all the world's nations combined pumped nearly 38.2 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the air from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and oil, according to new international calculations on global emissions published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change. That's about a billion tons more than the previous year.

The total amounts to more than 2.4 million pounds (1.1 million kilograms) of carbon dioxide released into the air every second.

Because emissions of the key greenhouse gas have been rising steadily and most carbon stays in the air for a century, it is not just unlikely but "rather optimistic" to think that the world can limit future temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), said the study's lead author, Glen Peters at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research in Oslo, Norway.

Three years ago, nearly 200 nations set the 2-degree C temperature goal in a nonbinding agreement. Negotiators now at a conference under way in Doha, Qatar, are trying to find ways to reach that target.

The only way, Peters said, is to start reducing world emissions now and "throw everything we have at the problem."

Andrew Weaver, a climate scientist at the University of Victoria in Canada who was not part of the study, said: "We are losing control of our ability to get a handle on the global warming problem."

In 1997, most of the world agreed to an international treaty, known as the Kyoto Protocol, that required developed countries such as the United States to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 5 percent when compared with the baseline year of 1990. But countries that are still developing, including China and India, were not limited by how much carbon dioxide they expelled. The United States never ratified the treaty.

The latest pollution numbers, calculated by the Global Carbon Project, a joint venture of the Energy Department and the Norwegian Research Council, show that worldwide carbon dioxide levels are 54 percent higher than the 1990 baseline.

The 2011 figures for the biggest polluters:

1. China, up 10 percent to 10 billion tons.

2. United States, down 2 percent to 5.9 billion tons

3. India, up 7 percent to 2.5 billion tons.

4. Russia, up 3 percent to 1.8 billion tons.

5. Japan, up 0.4 percent to 1.3 billion tons.

6. Germany, down 4 percent to 0.8 billion tons.

7. Iran, up 2 percent to 0.7 billion tons.

8. South Korea, up 4 percent to 0.6 billion tons.

9. Canada, up 2 percent to 0.6 billion tons.

10. South Africa, up 2 percent to 0.6 billion tons.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/carbon-pollution-2-million-pounds-second-180229689.html

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Sunday, December 2, 2012

Letterman, Hoffman, Zeppelin honored at White House

WASHINGTON (AP) ? David Letterman's "stupid human tricks" and Top 10 lists are being vaulted into the ranks of cultural acclaim as the late-night comedian receives this year's Kennedy Center Honors with rock band Led Zeppelin and three other artists.

Stars from New York, Hollywood and the music world joined President Barack Obama at the White House on Sunday night to salute the comedian, the band, and their fellow recipients: Actor Dustin Hoffman, Chicago bluesman Buddy Guy and ballerina Natalia Makarova.

The honors are the nation's highest award for those who influenced American culture through the arts. The recipients will be saluted by fellow performers in a show to be broadcast Dec. 26 on CBS.

Obama elicited laughs from his guests when he described the honorees as "some extraordinary people who have no business being on the same stage together."

Noting that Guy made his first guitar strings using the wire from a window screen, he quipped, "That worked until his parents started wondering how all the mosquitoes were getting in."

The president thanked the members of Led Zeppelin for behaving themselves at the White House given their history of "hotel rooms trashed and mayhem all around."

"It's fitting that we're doing this in a room with windows that are about three inches thick and Secret Service all around," he said to laughter from the diverse group of artists.

Obama went on to note Letterman's humble beginnings as an Indianapolis weatherman, who once reported the city was being pelted by hail 'the size of canned hams.'"

"It's one of the highlights of his career," he said.

All kidding aside, Obama described all of the honorees as artists who "inspired us to see things in a new way, to hear things differently, to discover something within us or to appreciate how much beauty there is in the world."

"It's that unique power that makes the arts so important," he added.

Later on the red carpet, Letterman said he was thrilled by the recognition.

"It supersedes everything, honestly," he said. "I haven't won that many awards."

Meryl Streep first introduced the honorees Saturday during a formal dinner at the U.S. State Department hosted by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and attended by celebrities including comedians Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel, and Letterman's longtime band leader, Paul Shaffer.

Clinton noted the ballerina Makarova "risked everything to have the freedom to dance the way she wanted to dance" when she defected from the Soviet Union in 1970.

Makarova quickly made her debut with the American Ballet Theatre and later was the first exiled artist to return to the Soviet Union before its fall to dance with the Kirov Ballet.

Clinton also took special note of Letterman, saying he must be wondering what he's doing in a crowd of talented artists and musicians.

"Dave and I have a history," she said. "I have been a guest on his show several times, and if you include references to my pant suits, I'm on at least once a week."

The crowd gave Clinton a standing ovation as she hosted her final salute to the nation's artists as secretary of state.

Kennedy Center Chairman David Rubenstein gave her a subtle nudge to run for president in 2016, saying there's another room at the State Department to name after a secretary who later becomes president.

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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/letterman-hoffman-zeppelin-honored-obama-004142953.html

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Unlocked iPhone 5 provides opening for T-Mobile stalwarts

Apple will begin selling an unlocked, contract-free version of its popular iPhone smartphone.?

By Matthew Shaer / November 30, 2012

The Apple iPhone 5. Apple has begun selling an unlocked version of its flagship smartphone.

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Beginning today, consumers can order a contract-free iPhone 5 at three price points ? $649 for a 16GB version, $749 for a 32GB version, and $849 for a 64GB version. (Freedom comes at a price, folks!)?

It's important to note that the unlocked iPhone 5 will not work on CDMA networks like the ones operated by Verizon and Sprint. It will work on GSM networks such as the ones operated by AT&T and T-Mobile. Since T-Mobile does not currently sell subsidized iPhone 5 handsets, the announcement from Apple kinda/sorta paves the way for a T-Mobile iPhone 5.?

So why would someone want an unlocked iPhone 5, anyway??Well, it gives you more options.

"If you don?t want a multiyear service contract, or if you prefer to use a local carrier when traveling abroad," Apple wrote on its website, "the unlocked iPhone is the best choice. It does not come with a micro-SIM card for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, or a nano-SIM card for iPhone 5, so you?ll need to get one from any supported GSM carrier worldwide."?

In related news, the iPhone 5, which was hard to come by in the first few weeks after launch, is now readily available at most brick-and-mortar Apple stores, according to a new survey from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster.?

"We believe the iPhone 5 has finally reached a point where consumers can walk into an Apple Store and walk out with a phone," Munster wrote in a note to investors obtained by Apple Insider.?

The iPhone 5 has received a warm reception among critics.?"On balance," one reviewer wrote,?"I still consider the?iPhone?the best smartphone on the market."

So do many consumers, apparently: Kantar Worldpanel recently reported that blockbuster sales of the iPhone 5 have helped Apple's iOS to put Google's Android in the rearview, and become the most popular mobile OS in the US.?

For?more tech news, follow us on?Twitter @venturenaut.

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Twitterific | Mystery Writing is Murder

Twitterific

by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig

Twitterific is a compilation of all the writing links I shared the previous week.


The links are fed into the Writer?sKnowledge Base search engine (developed by writer and software engineer Mike Fleming) which has over 19,000 free articles on writing-related topics.? It's the search engine for writers.
Sign up for our free newsletter for monthly writing tips and interviews with top contributors to the WKB or like us on Facebook.
Try ?My WKB?--a way for you to list and sort articles, view your read articles, and see your search history. Read more about it here: http://bit.ly/S9thqS. The free My WKB page is here: http://bit.ly/PV8Ueb. And check out Hiveword to help you organize your story.

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iBook?store in 50 Coun?tries: A Step-by-Step List?ing Guide: http://bit.ly/QuqeJH @lizcastro @Porter_Anderson















How to Perfect Your Elevator Pitch & The Low-Down on Agency Assistant Salaries: http://bit.ly/QX2HRw @breeogden






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Scholarly writing: Open Access ? What Do Authors Really Want? http://bit.ly/Th0ywh @scholarlykitchn















Writers' most common submission mistakes ? and how to avoid them: http://bit.ly/Tl2VBk @MidgeRaymond



If Self-Publishing Books Is SO Easy, Why Do Self-Pubbers Work So Hard At It? http://bit.ly/Tl3c7g @badredheadmedia












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Guide to Book Launch and Advance Sales Strategies with CreateSpace and Lulu: http://bit.ly/RbGIGE @jfbookman







Freelancers: 8 Rules You'll Need to Become An Editor's Go-To Writer: http://bit.ly/ULZ3HQ @problogger




5 Ways To Get Your First Draft Material Out Of Your Head And Onto The Page: http://bit.ly/ToMgNb @thecreativepenn

Backlists:Authors Discover the 1978 Copyright Act: http://bit.ly/TnYi61 @jeffjohnroberts @Porter_Anderson




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"I'm going to be me," says Brian Wilson | bettor.com

"I'm going to be?me," says Brian Wilson

These were the words by star relief pitcher Brian Wilson when the San Francisco Giants signalled with slight hope that he will be coming back in 2013 Major League Baseball season.

However, it seems a distant call now as the Giants recently did not tender his contract making him a free agent this offseason.

"I like our choices, including him being one, as we start the regular season," general manager Brian Sabean said earlier Friday.

"We've visited it internally, We are open to the idea. He certainly deserves that?consideration, It's really a snail's pace at this time, Not a ton expected. He's throwing 60 feet flat ground, We have fallback positions, We've created some options if one or both doesn't decide to sign with us," General manager Brian Sabean said.

He further said, "We may be prepared to go with the same group, We're open to that. He certainly deserves that consideration, I would think it would be later on."

Many say it was expected that Wilson will not get any potential extension with the Giants. He did not play well during the 2012 Major League Baseball season. He finished with 9.00 ERA along with one save, two strikeouts and 3.00 WHIP.

Overall he possesses career 3.21 ERA along with 171 saves, 340 strikeouts and 1.34 WHIP.

Last season, Wilson underwent Tommy John surgery which was the main reason he could not play the whole season.

Now free agent, Wilson, can make his moves choosing another franchise for his potential future. Many teams have also started looking ways to negotiate with Wilson?s agent.

On the other hand, few experts also mentioned a possibility that now since Wilson is a free agent; the Giants might talk to him for another season but with low priced deal. Before tendering contract, the three-time All Star was guaranteed $6.8 million.

Regarding re-signing, it all depends upon Giants general manager Brian Sabean. He likes him and always regarded him one of the best relief pitchers of recent times.

Next few weeks will be critical when Giants reliever will be deciding on his future relationship with another leading Major League team. ?

Source: http://blogs.bettor.com/Im-going-to-be-me,-says-Brian-Wilson-a205133

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Saturday, December 1, 2012

You Can Buy an Unlocked iPhone 5 Now

If you've been waiting to buy an unlocked iPhone 5, you have your chance now. Apple just began selling the unlocked iPhone 5 after promising it'd become available "several weeks" after the initial launch. The prices will be $649 for 16GB, $749 for 32GB and $849 for 64GB. Ship time is a week and be sure to check if the unlocked iPhone 5 works on your carrier. [Apple via Apple Insider] More »


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Property marketing with Pinterest - A how to guide - Dynamic Business

Using social media?sites like Pinterest?as a method of real estate marketing may still be considered a novel approach. However, when used in combination with traditional campaign methods, it can be a complimentary tactic to help drive a property sale. Here are some helpful hints to get you started.?

Think about aesthetics

Pinterest is now the photo sharing successor of sites like?Flickr and Picasa, but it offers more in terms of being visually expressive. It evokes the imagination of the user, either through brand, storytelling or vision ? and suggests a lifestyle rather than just being a picture gallery. When you look at how much real estate is based on visual presentation, it?s an ideal union when joining the tools of this 11 million user platform with the needs of real estate marketing. Here are some items you should include when creating and managing a Pinterest real estate page:

  • Good quality photography. Good lighting makes a room noticeably bigger, cleaner and newer
  • Be sure to emphasise how much storage the property has as this is a good selling point
  • Embed media clips ? such as virtual tours of the home ? as your pins. Pinterest can take Vimeo and Vevo formats as well as YouTube clips. Clips are also a great way to drive organic traffic back to your source
  • Split imagery ratio as 50% interior, 50% exterior
  • Go beyond the features of the house. Think of your boards as points of storytelling for your neighbourhood and everything you admire, such as wildlife, DIY, green energy, foods, local bars etc
  • Choose attractive board covers as these will feature the most prominently amongst pinboard images

Attributions: The Key to SEO

Many Pinterest users are missing out on opportunities to reference their brand and presence simply because they forget to properly reference and attribute their pins.

Never upload a pin without referring it back to a domain. If a Pinterest user decides to share (?re-pin?) your content, you will miss referral traffic back to your Pinterest page, or your original website. For example, a property listing should link back to the original real estate listing, blog or classified advertisement.

Using keywords will ensure that your pins will show up not only in the Pinterest search itself, but will increase your Google search rank. Because the Pinterest search option is still quite simple, people may be looking for items which are very specific, and will therefore choose to use quotations to increase their search results; hence why using strategic keywords is paramount. For example, if you are selling a one bedroom apartment in St Kilda you would take advantage of informative key terms and anything else which makes the listing more unique and appealing:

Use descriptive, informative keywords

#realestate

#StKilda

#apartmentforsale

#onebedroom

#HockingStuart

#selling

Use additional keywords

#beach

#Melbourne

#lifestyle

#summer

#modern

Pinterest is an ideal platform for e-commerce, which is why all users listing pins with a sale value should take advantage of the monetary value classification, which can be automatically added as a price ribbon across the image thumbnail. For example, you may wish to add the market value of your property to your pin.

Using an application like PicMarkr will ensure that your property images are accredited with a custom watermark, especially if you wanted to reference the real estate agent or the website of the property listing.

If you are hosting content on a referring site, such as a blog, make sure that you are able to add a Pinterest button so that visitors can pin from your original content source. A Pinterest application such as WooBox will also expand your online presence by allowing a tab of your pinboards to be visible on your fan page ? this is an advantage for social media fans that may only use Facebook.

Get adventurous with your wording

Pin descriptions allow up to 500 characters, which is incredibly generous from a search perspective. Many pinners do not take advantage of this character limit because they do not realise that they are allowed this amount in the first place. It?s an added advantage for a real estate listing because it allows descriptions to be comprehensive whilst creative at the same time. Go beyond describing the basics about the property and think in terms of selling a lifestyle.

Don?t do it alone

Despite its online success as a top referral traffic booster, Pinterest works best when used in unison with other marketing methods, such as other social media, online and print advertising. Enlisting the help of an agent will ensure that a property sale is still run through traditional and trusted avenues, and this will ensure potential buyers in the market ? who don?t use social media ? will still be in the running for a bid on your property.

Source: http://www.dynamicbusiness.com.au/blogs/property-marketing-with-pinterest-a-how-to-guide-30112012.html

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Friday, November 30, 2012

AT&T's HTC One VX should finally be available by Dec. 7

HTC One VX

It's tough to sell a smartphone if you're not selling the smartphone. That tongue-twister refers to AT&T's HTC One VX, a mid-level Android smartphone that was supposed to have been released back on Nov. 16. Only, it wasn't. No sign of it on AT&T's website, and stores we've contacted seemed to have never heard of the thing. (We gave them a stern lecture about reading Android Central at least twice a day.)

The details surrounding the absence of the One VX still aren't entirely clear. AT&T plainly said that it was to launch alongside the One X+. One phone made, the other didn't. But an AT&T spokesperson today told us the carrier "expects to be fully stocked in all channels by Dec. 7."

So if after seeing our hands-on with the One VX you can't wait to get yours on one as well, you're going to need a little more patience. And hope this new date plays out.



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Selena Gomez Surprises 10-Year-Old Cancer Patient - Hollywood Life

Selena Gomez

A little girl in Wisconsin learned she had a brain tumor and all she wanted to do was meet the one and only Selena! Read on to find out how Selena gave her the shock of a lifetime.

Selena Gomez is in the business of making dreams come true. The 20-year-old starlet was approached to meet Frehley Gilmore, an adorable 10-year-old, who was diagnosed with stage 3-4 cancer, and she jumped at the opportunity to meet this fan.

The Make-A-Wish foundation asked Selena if she would travel to NYC to help make the surprise a reality. Selena headed over to the famous ice cream shop Serendipity, a fave of Selena?s, and walked into the restaurant where Frehley unknowingly sat talking to GMA host Josh Elliott.

?You know, me and my mom make a tradition every time we come to New York, which is a lot for my job, we always used to come here together, so it was my mom and daughter place,? Selena said of the meet-and-greet. ?It?s probably one of my favorite things that I do for my job. It makes me happy to come out and do this. I feel like I?m not doing enough.?

Frehley had brain surgery and had the tumor removed. She is currently cancer-free.

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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Basis Takes On Jawbone, Nike, Finally Launches Its Impressive $199 Health Tracking Band

Screen shot 2012-11-29 at 4.31.31 AMFor Quantified Self devotees, data hounds and fitness enthusiasts, it's a good time to be alive. Recent improvements in sensor technology, battery life and connectivity (and lower costs) have given rise to a slew of wearable gadgets and apps that make it easy to track and make sense of our health data. Yet, as the space heats up and gets noisier, some have begun to ask: Do we really need another fitness watch? Basis, the makers of a new wrist-based health tracker, think so.

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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider: New legal challenge to Obama health law

New legal challenge to Obama health law | Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider | www.boortz.com

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Posted: 10:34 a.m. Monday, Nov. 26, 2012

By Jamie Dupree

The U.S. Supreme Court today reversed course, and is allowing a challenge against the Obama health law by a religious school to go forward before a federal appeals court, signaling that the legal challenges against those reforms are by no means over.

This case involves Liberty University, a religious school in Virginia, which filed one of the first legal challeges against the Obama health reforms; the case had been thrown out by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Supreme Court originally stood by that decision.

But five months after upholding most of the health law, the Supreme Court today allowed the Liberty challenge to go forward, remanding the case to the Fourth Circuit for hearing.

That case covers some very familiar ground, but also has some new items involved, like the issue of religious liberty, as the school charges "that the individual and employer mandates exceed Congress' delegated powers under Article I, ?8 of the Constitution, violate Petitioners' rights to free exercise of religion under the First Amendment."

Liberty is also specifically challenging the employer mandate, which has not been ruled on by the Supreme Court.

The Obama health law would penalize those businesses with more than 50 employees who don't offer health insurance to their full time workers.

Business groups say the employer mandate creates all kinds of new red tape for small businesses and even creates a Catch-22 where if the spouse of an employee loses his or her job and makes that family eligible for government medical subsidies, the business could be liable for fines dealing with its coverage.

All of that will now get sorted out before the Fourth Circuit, and one could see this issue getting back before the U.S. Supreme Court over the next two years.

The National Federal for Independent Business has its own rundown of what the employer mandate would mean - in their eyes - you can find that at http://is.gd/oxdrfO

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Red Bull Racing dismiss rumours regarding Sebastian Vettel's - Bettor

Red Bull Racing dismiss rumours regarding Sebastian Vettel?s contract ? Formula 1 news

Red Bull Racing have dismissed all the rumours which stated that their driver, Sebastian Vettel?s contract is until the end of 2016 Formula 1 season.

Vettel has performed amazingly well in this season and has tremendously claimed his third consecutive world championship title with the Milton Keynes based team. Moreover, he has been deemed as one of the most talented drivers in the history of the sport.

The veteran German driver has signed the deal with Red Bull until 2014, but there have been many speculations that he has extended his contract for two more years.

However, the team advisor, Helmut Marko said that they have not made any kind of extension in their deal with the 25-year-old and discharged all the ongoing rumours.

?Total nonsense!? Marko told Germany?s Sport Bild. ?I don?t even know the journalists who wrote it, or the news portal. Vettel?s contract is to 2014, full stop.?

There are many who believe that the three-time world champion is not one of the great drivers in the sport as he has attained success only because of his most competent car which has been developed by the chief technical officer, Adrian Newey.

It will be important to mention that Red Bull struggled with their car?s design during the opening few races because of the amendments in the rules and regulations by FIA. Nevertheless, Newey kept on working hard along with his other team members to make the car competitive enough to challenge their main rivals and came out triumphant in the end.

Therefore, Mark Webber has praised the genius engineer for all his relentless efforts and has called him their beacon of success.

?You have Adrian on the drum kit who's a big beacon for the team here in terms of design and philosophy of where the car needs to be,? Webber said. ?Because when you strip it all down that's what it's about; for all smoke and mirrors and that stuff it's racing car, let's make it as quick as possible to go to every different track around the world and do the business in qualifying and the race.?

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Sunday, November 11, 2012

Democrat Jay Inslee elected Washington state governor

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5 Steps for Long-Lasting Roofs | Halpert Construction

Your roof would offer the most necessary protection to your home against?environmental?conditions, such as-sun rays, rain, frost, snow and wind. Hence, the roof would suffer more ear and tear than other parts of your home.? Roof improvement and eventually maintenance is therefore a necessary part of home improvement.

Regardless of the material used in the roof, it would need regular maintenance and whenever you discover damage in it you may consult a roofing company without delay.? Some roofing company may also offer regular maintenance as a part of their roofing services.? Hence, you may ask the roofing company about their maintenance services. Anyway, following are the tips to help you maintain the roof of your home and ensure that it remains at the working condition.

Signs of damage: Depending on the material used for roofing, the roof can decay faster or slower. Check constantly for any sign of damage. Roof shingles are likely to suffer wear and tear with time. Damaged shingles would make your home prone to water?damages. During roof?installation?you can therefore use shingles with maximum longevity to minimize the hassle of regular inspection.

Discoloration: Another sign of damage is discoloration. Not only it would make the roof weak but would also lower the value of your property. Black steaks on your roof are an indication of fungus and algae attack. Longer they would stay, greater would be the damage caused by them. Roof replacement would become necessary if you spot fungus?damages?in your roof.

Trees: You mustn?t allow a tree to grow near your house. The branches of the tree and leaves are likely to cause heavy?damages?to the roof. If the leaves are allowed to decompose on the roof top, they can accelerate thedamages?from mold. Moreover, the branch can fall on the roof and cause severe damage during storms and high wind, which would call for immediate roof replacement. To avoid the expense a tree close to your building should therefore be removed. Your insurance company may also urge you to do the same.

Clear debris: Time to time, debris should be removed from the rooftop. This may need the service of a professional company. You may ask your?roof installation company?if they would offer the service of removing debris from the roof.

Water leakage: Rain and wind cause the maximum damage to your roof. Keep a check for water damage. The leak can grow if remains undetected and eventually cause greater damage. Most often a home insurance company wouldn?t cover?damagescaused by water leakage. Hence, it can be an incentive for you to keep check for water damage.

Depending on the material used for roofing, it may need more frequent maintenance. However, regular maintenance of the roof would also ensure saving in the long run. Discolored and damaged shingled would also lower the value of your property.

Source: http://www.halpertconstruction.com/2012/11/10/5-steps-for-long-lasting-roofs-2/

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Friday, November 2, 2012

The 115 Page PPC Guide That Actually Gets Results, Fast

The 115 Page PPC Guide That Actually Gets Results, Fast

2 Experts, Each With 6 Years Of PPC Experience Of Managing Over $7,000,000 Of Ad Spend Through Google Adwords Share All Their Secrets.

Most businesses are wasting large chunks of their marketing budget through poorly managed PPC!

The Deep Footprints PPC How to GuideDoes that sound over dramatic and emotive?

Well, I can tell you for certain that we have not picked up an Adwords account EVER where we haven?t found at least 10% of the traffic is irrelevant to the business. In most cases it is between 20% ? 50%.

So, if you do the maths ? what is say, 20% of your monthly PPC budget? What could you save over 1 year if you were more efficient?

We have also found that it is difficult for small advertisers to get expert help on PPC as they cannot afford it. If your PPC budget is $1,500 / ?1000 per month or less then it does not make commercial sense to pay an agency $500 per month to manage your Adwords/Bing account for you.

Therefore, many small businesses simply have no other option but to do it themselves.

The problem with this is that it takes many years of experience to be able to do PPC properly: It has personally taken me 7 years of solid day in day out PPC work (mainly on Google Adwords) to get where I am and I still learn new things every week.

That is where this book comes in.

Our team have spent 6 months compiling all of our PPC knowledge and best practices into this 115 page comprehensive ?How to do PPC ebook? that shows you step by step how to do PPC properly.

You can forget Google?s tutorials that only really tell you what they want you to know and learn from people who have been in the trenches and working on some of the most competitive PPC sectors in the world.

So sit back, relax, and let me give you three damn good reasons you should learn how to use Google AdWords yourself instead of hiring someone else to do it for you? for now, at least when you?re starting off.

Reason #1 ? You Retain Control

The whole reason for investing in paid advertising is so that you gain control over your marketing. By doing it yourself you will build up the marketing skill set within your business, which you retain for the long term instead of paying an agency to borrow their knowledge.

Don?t get me wrong; we are a digital marketing agency and it makes sense for a lot of businesses to outsource, but in a lot of cases it simply does not make sense to use an agency.

Additionally, by building up knowledge yourself on PPC you will be in a strong position to evaluate the effectiveness of an agency in the future, should you use one.

Ignorance is not an excuse for not knowing if they?re following best practices, or neglecting your campaign, effectively wasting your hard earned money.

So educate yourself.

Reason #2 ? You?ll Save Hundreds Per Month

As I said above ? on average Adwords advertisers are wasting between 20% and 40% of their budget on irrelevant traffic.

If you are spending $1000 per month and you reduced irrelevant traffic from 20% to 10% then you would be saving $100 every month from that point on.

A good PPC management company is relatively expensive. As in a minimum of $500 per month to create and manage AdWords campaigns.

NEVER spend more than 50% of your ad spend on agency fees. Never. Don?t do it.

Also, never spend money on an ?inexpensive? PPC company either? They?re usually inexperienced, just starting off or outsourcing abroad, and will make costly mistakes with your money.

You?re better off learning and doing it yourself.

Reason #3 ? Experience And Self-Training

Experience is the best educator of all; yes there is a lot of information on the internet about PPC, and the majority of the information will tell you WHAT to do but rarely specifically HOW to do it.

We have managed literally millions of pounds of ad spend on Google and Bing over the past 7 years and have learned a LOT in that time.

This book will take you step by step through the key 11 facets of PPC. We spent 6 months discussing, devising, testing, re-jigging before publishing this book as we wanted it to be the best guide to PPC available anywhere in the world. That?s a tall order but we feel that there is incredible value in these pages.

It is a practical guide for small business owners and marketers to learn PPC in a short space of time ? it is all practical, step by step advice that shows you exactly what you need to be doing to get your PPC account bringing you a much greater return on your investment.

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Fast Payday Loan: The Selective Mode To Solving Cash Problems ...

Scribbleprint Articles ? Economy-finance ? Fast Payday Loan: The Selective Mode To Solving Cash Problems


Home Improvement Loan are a particular form of mortgage that can be received by homeowners when they finish doing their renovation work, or home development work done, and need some additional finance for the renovation of the house in order to finish it. These loans can works much like a formal second mortgage, however a more complex refinancing procedure might work for a few homeowner.

When a lot of traditional mortgage is organized for a home improvement loan UK, it can be through with the form of home equity loans or a home equity line of credit. Home equity loan can be increased in the form of quite numbers of years, with daily monthly payments being made on both the interest and the principal of the loan. The interest rate that always come from the home equity are forever fixed .Upon sanction of a home equity loan, the homeowner will give the loan with the full sum at once, which can be beneficial for homeowners that are involved in large construction projects, when large sum of cash are required at once.

A home equity line is the second mortgage very much like a home equity loan, but line of credit does works quite differently. Firstly, lines of credit as they are called, almost forever service on a inconsistent rate, unlike home equity loans, and instead of making the similar, continuous payment, the only payment due on home equity lines of credit are interest payment. These payments are due to paid till the next date at the end of the loan, when the whole balance payment will be due.

Typically the only requirement that homeowners will have to do is to sanction for home equity loan or a home equity line for about 20% in their residence. There is the total amount of the residence that the homeowner personalizes either by paying through mortgage or through down payment. Even when the homeowners have the equity at their residence they are not able to lend money at all as only8% of the equity is in usual standard that investor permit.

A refinance might be a best choice by having cash for those in the traditional who don't want second mortgage. Refinancing which involve a lot of paperwork with a complex procedure and can take a quite a long time by the homeowner which is seriously need to consider before embarking on it .A cash refinance which allow the homeowner to change both of its terms of their mortgage and decrease their monthly payment, while giving the some additional cash at closing to use their home improvements.

Home equity loan, home equity line of credit and cash out refinancing are just the some of the name that home improvement loan go by. Whichever you choose will depend upon what the best suits your situations, as all of them have different term and qualification, and dissimilar benefits too. Making home improvement is one of the best means to add value to your residence, and to your investment. And knowing which home improvement loan choice to utilize is a great means to get it done!

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Gene responsible for many spontaneous breast cancers identified

ScienceDaily (Oct. 2, 2012) ? Cancerous tumors contain hundreds of mutations, and finding these mutations that result in uncontrollable cell growth is like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. As difficult as this task is, it's exactly what a team of scientists from Cornell University, the University of North Carolina, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York have done for one type of breast cancer. In a report appearing in the journal Genetics, researchers show that mutations in a gene called NF1 are prevalent in more than one-fourth of all noninheritable or spontaneous breast cancers.

In mice, NF1 mutations are associated with hyper-activation of a known cancer-driving protein called Ras. While researchers have found earlier evidence that NF1 plays a role in other types of cancer, this latest finding implicates it in breast cancer. This suggests that the drugs that inhibit Ras activity might prove useful against breast cancers with NF1 mutations.

"As we enter the era of personalized medicine, genomic technologies will be able to determine the molecular causes of a woman's breast cancer," said John Schimenti, Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Center for Vertebrate Genomics at Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine in Ithaca, New York. "Our results indicate that attention should be paid to NF1 status in breast cancer patients, and that drug treatment be adjusted accordingly both to reduce the cancer and to avoid less effective treatments."

To make this discovery, scientists analyzed the genome of mammary tumors that arise in a mouse strain prone to genetic instability -- whose activity closely resembles the activity in human breast cancer cells -- looking for common mutations that drive tumors. The gene NF1 was missing in 59 out of 60 tumors, with most missing both copies. NF1 is a suppressor of the oncogene Ras, and Ras activity was extremely elevated in these tumors as a consequence of the missing NF1 gene. Researchers then examined The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) data, finding that NF1 was missing in more than 25 percent of all human breast cancers, and this was associated with a decrease in NF1 gene product levels, which in turn is known to increase Ras activity. ? "This research is compelling because it helps us understand why some breast cancers are more likely to respond to only certain types of treatment," said Mark Johnston, Editor-in-Chief of the journal GENETICS. "The findings reported in this article may guide clinicians to better treatments specific to the needs of each patient."

This study was supported by NIH training grants IT32HDO57854 and 5T32GM007617 that supported M.D.W.; Empire State Stem Cell Fund contract numbers C026442 and C024174 to J.C.S.; and C.M.P. and A.D.P. were supported by NCI Breast SPORE program (P50-CA58223-09A1), by U24-CA143848, and by the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

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