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Blogs are a great way for anyone to get their ideas across to others and a great way for businesses to do some free advertising. Creating a great blog is an excellent way to drive more traffic to your site. When building your site there certain tips a person should pay attention to when they are writing their blog.

1. Write When you are writing your blog write it with your reader in mind.  When a reader is looking for information that may pertain to your idea they want the information in a way that they can both read and understand easily.

2. Valuable and Worthwhile With everyone busy life no one has time to waste to look at a boring site. If you cannot think of anything creative to talk about, then try to do interview, or even a book. Anything will do as long as you are not posting useless content.

3. Proofread It is grave importance that you proofread your material before you push that post button. Once you push that post button that is it the error is out there and there is no way back. Respect your reader and keep your site free of errors and easy to read.

4. Short and Simple Keep your postings as short and simple as possible because its human nature that people are scanners. You will need to make your point quickly otherwise risking losing your reader completely.

5. Lively Write to your readers like you would talk to your friend or family member. The more lively your posts, the more snagged your readers will become. Make it seem like you are talking directly to them and only them. But be sure to make your point quickly 6. Links Use links as often as you can. This will help you create credibility and help establish you to the reader as an expert on the subject. You can also create a network by linking to other similar blogs. The other bloggers will clearly thank you.

7. Keywords Use your keywords as often as you can it will allow you to stay on task and the search engines will love it. The more keywords you use the higher your rankings on the search engine your blog will appear.

8. Write Clear You need to write your blogs in a way that the average person can understand. Do not ever try to put more than one idea in a sentence this will confuse your readers. Make sure you use your commas as often as possible

9. Headline Make sure your headline is easy to understand and should have keywords relating to your blog in it.

If you follow these simple steps, you will have a great written blog in no time with a lot of readers.

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Author’s program note. In the great classic film “Casablanca” (1942), Claude Rains plays a cynical French officer, Captain Renault, whose job, as he sees it, is to stay alive, live well and to get along, go along. Thus, he contributed one of the best lines in movie, maybe even human history when he tells his underlings to arrest the “usual suspects.”  Since Rains and his sophisticated weariness are nowhere to be seen in the matter of Trayvon Martin… I shall assume the role myself as it is a particular favorite of mine for we are both men of the world who haven’t got a minute for what my solidly Midwestern grandma used to call “guff”… and there’s been a world of it already in the Trayvon Martin case.

The facts, so far.

One of the most inconvenient aspects of any matter, especially high visibility murders, is the facts. Thus, the first thing sidewalk kibitzers do is to massage those nasty blighters, the better to make their case and fuel the fulminations they do so enjoy. As a trained Harvard historian, I adhere instead to the single-word motto of the world’s greatest university — “veritas” (truth) — although nothing is more difficult than seeking it, discovering it, and adhering to it whilst all the other commentators have far more frolic and fun indulging themselves in the usual rodomontades, posturings, exclamations, expostulations, deceits, connivances, verbal by-plays and outright lies. Oh, yes, they have far more fun than mere truth tellers ever do, for we must strictly tread the straight and narrow path.

Here is what happened  February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida.

Trayvon Martin was a 17-year-old African-American male who was unarmed. George Zimmerman is a 28-year-old with Caucasian father and Hispanic mother. At the time of the fatal incident Zimmerman was a community watch coordinator.

Martin was walking to the home of his father’s girlfriend in a gated community where he was staying when Zimmerman began following him, while contacting the Sanford Police Department to say he witnessed what he described as suspicious behavior. The police told him to disengage, to let the police handle it. Yet soon afterward there was a confrontation that ended with Zimmerman fatally shooting Martin once in the chest at close range.

The police enter the scene.

When police arrived at the scene, Zimmerman told them he had shot Martin in self-defense because Martin had attacked him. According to police, Zimmerman was bleeding from the nose and had a wound at the back of his head. Responding officers took Zimmerman into custody, transporting him to the Sanford Police Department where he was questioned by investigators. Zimmerman was released without being charged because police said they did not find evidence to contradict his assertion of self-defense and that he acted within his right to self-defense under the Florida “stand your ground”  law.

The lead homicide investigator reportedly said he did not believe it was self-defense, and he wanted to charge Zimmerman with manslaughter, but the state attorney’s office said there was insufficient evidence for a conviction.

Later, in the face of growing indignation and because he had not followed explicit police instructions to back off as well as inconsistencies in his testimony,  Zimmerman was arrested and charged with second-degree murder.

All these facts are generally agreed. As is the fact that at his death young Trayvon Martin was wearing a black hooded garment commonly called a “hoodie”… and it is this garment, how used, how worn and what it represents that provides the fulcrum of this story… and here there is no general agreement at all. Only charges, countercharges, bitter claims, more bitter recriminations, every one generating far more heat than light.

All about the hoodie, the provocative garment of young urban blacks of the ‘hood.

Throughout history, humans have worn hoods to disguise themselves whilst committing every unsavory act mastered by our species. Such hoods were also used to frighten, intimidate, and cow designated populations. In terrorist organizations as diverse as  America’s white-hooded Ku Klux Klan (founded in 1865) and Russia’s black-hooded oprichniks (founded in 1564), the hood was always a tool of menace.

Some folks, including the usual posse of self-appointed community leaders, axes to grind, anxious for another pointless round of envenomed accusations, will try to tell you that this was “racial profiling” pure and simple, a hate crime; that this garment is just an adolescent fashion, like bobby socks or greased hair. However this assertion is disingenuous in the extreme.

The hoodie is the garment of choice of drug dealers, pimps, and criminals of every kind, people undermining Black communities right this minute, while reaching far beyond, to even greater destructiveness. Let’s be clear: this garment is their uniform of choice, and is designed to do what such garments have always done: to intimidate, hide, confound, and alarm.

No, this is not the newest fashion by Perry Ellis or Ralph Lauren. It is instead the chosen symbol of those who mean to subvert the law, incite violence, and create mayhem and dismay; those who wear and support this garment condone its history.

This is the garment seen by George Zimmerman and in which young Martin had but minutes to live and in which he died, his life’s blood trickling down his lithe body into the rich soil of Florida.

What had gone so terribly wrong? Just this: the still unfinished business of racial dissonance, distrust, disharmony no longer tolerated in law is still in other forms so destructive and discernible today. Thus, this scenario: Martin wore what he wore to be “wicked cool”, impress his lady, showing the support and adherence one home boy shows another.  He meant no more than that, perhaps, but even that was provocation enough…

George Zimmerman saw that garment very differently, seeing not cloth so rendered but clear evidence of destructive intent, an active threat to home and neighbors.

And so two people who saw this single thing, this hoodie, so very differently played out their fate, their portion of the still unfinished racial business of the Great Republic… and here’s the greatest irony. Had Zimmerman worn the hoodie…. and Trayvon Zimmerman’s apparel… the one would not be notorious, not marked for life, the other not dead, but still among us.

A plea for the humanity in each of us.

Thus this plea, certain to be heard by the good people of the Great Republic, who have responded carefully, thoughtfully, generously before… and are called, yet again, to do so. We must not stop our work for racial harmony, racial empathy, racial understanding; though it has advanced…. it is not yet finished. For so long as there is racial dissonance anywhere, there is racial harmony nowhere.

Moreover, until this corrosive, divisive matter is truly cleansed from the heart of everyone … the Great Republic remains unfulfilled, incomplete, riven by mistrust, hobbled, not yet the living ideal we need and must have to complete our destiny and place at the forefront of our troubled world; a world where the unsettled spirits of two young men — and all like them — can never rest until this great matter is solved… and neither can we.

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Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author’s permission by Robert or Linda Elze <a href=”http://CyberWealthZone.com”>http://CyberWealthZone.com</a>. Check out Millionaire Society ->  http://www.CyberWealthZone.com/?rd=cp6RltSi

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Most people, who aren’t internet marketers, don’t fully understand what internet marketing really is all about. At it’s core, internet marketing is just a way to use the vast potential of the internet to find more customers. There are many things you will want to learn when you start marketing online and that is where advanced internet marketing training comes in.

Obviously, before you worry about advanced internet marketing you need to make sure you have a firm grasp of the basics. With so many methods to connect with others online you must know what works, and what doesn’t.

Another thing you should keep in mind is that things online change quickly. What worked great yesterday, or last year, either might not work as well or they might not work at all.

A big part of the reason for this is that the search engines are continually updating their programming (their algorithms) in the hopes of improving the experiences of their searchers.

These changes can, and sometimes do, have a dramatic impact on the websites online. It is important that you stay current with these changes.

More than one internet marketer has gone to bed with a website that was doing really well:ranked high and getting a lot of traffic, only to wake up the next morning and find their once first page site is now on page 117 of the results.

Of course there are ways to avoid that and the best method is to update your site frequently (this is why a lot of internet marketers prefer a WordPress blog style website. It is easy to update) and provide your website visitors with a lot of quality.

The search engines are getting better at being able to detect quality content on a website. They will reward that site by giving it a high placement on the results page.

Here are a few of the internet marketing strategies you will want to implement. Some of these are more about getting traffic to your website, others are more about converting that traffic into paying customers. But they are all necessary:

1. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – if you want your website ranked highly, you have to let the search engines know what your site is about. Using simple SEO strategies on your site can help you get more free, targeted traffic.

2. Pay Per Click (PPC) – this advanced technique of getting traffic can work quickly but only after you learn how to do it. There is a learning curve and it will cost you if you make mistakes.

3. Email Marketing: this is more about “bonding” with your website visitors and building trust with them than actually driving traffic. Online it can be hard to stand out from the crowd and let people “get to know you” or trust you. By having a chance to send them emails over a period of time you can build rapport with them.

Learning some basic and advanced internet marketing skills can help you turn your business into a very profitable endeavor. It doesn’t matter if you have an offline business or an online business, learning new skills can help you make more money.

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Being in the affiliate marketing business is not that hard now with the internet at your disposable. It is much easier now compared to the days when people have to make use of the telephones and other mediums of information just to get the latest updates on the way their program is coming along.

So with technology at hand, and assuming that the affiliate is working from home, a day in his or her life would sound something like this?

Upon waking up and after having breakfast, the computer is turned on to check out new developments in the network. As far as the marketer is concerned there might be new things to update and statistics to keep track on.

The site design has to be revised. The marketer knows that a well-designed site can increase sign ups from visitors. It can also help in the affiliate?s conversion rates.

That done, it is time to submit the affiliate program to directories that lists affiliate programs. These directories are means to attract people in joining your affiliate program. A sure way of promoting the affiliate program.

Time to track down the sales you are getting from your affiliates fairly and accurately. There are phone orders and mails to track down. See if they are new clients checking the products out. Noting down the contact information that might be a viable source in the future.

There are lots of resources to sort out. Ads, banners, button ads and sample recommendations to give out because the marketer knows that this is one way of ensuring more sales. Best to stay visible and accessible too.

The affiliate marketer remembered that there are questions to answer from the visitors. This has to be done quickly. Nothing can turn off a customer than an unanswered email.

To prove that the affiliate is working effectively and efficiently, inquiries would have to be paid more attention on. Nobody wants to be ignored and customers are not always the most patient of all people. Quick answer that should appear professional yet friendly too.

In the process of doing all the necessities, the marketer is logged on to a chat room where he or she interacts with other affiliates and those under that same program. This is where they can discuss things on how to best promote their products.

There are things to be learned and it is a continuous process. Sharing tips and advices is a good way of showing support. There may be others out there wanting to join and may be enticed by the discussion that is going on. There is no harm in assuming what opportunities ahead.

The newsletters and ezines were updated days ago, so it is time for the affiliate marketer to see if there are some new things happening in the market. This will be written about in the marketer?s publication to be distributed to the old and new customers.

These same publications are also an important tool in keeping up to date with the newly introduced products. The marketer has put up a sale and promotion that customers may want to know about. Besides, they have to keep up with the deadline of these sales written in the publications.

It is that time to show some appreciation to those who have helped the marketer in the promotions and sale increase. Nothing like mentioning the persons, their sites and the process they have done that made everything worked.

Of course, this will be published in the newsletters. Among the more important information that have been written already.

The marketer still has time to write out recommendations to those who want credible sources for the products being promoted. There is also time to post some comments on how to be a successful affiliate marketer on a site where there are lots of wannabees.

Two objectives done at the same time. The marketer gets to promote the product as well as the program they are in. Who knows, someone may be inclined to join.

Time flies. Missed lunch but is quite contented with the tasks done. Bed time?.

Ok, so this may not be all done in a day. But then, this gives you an idea of how an affiliate marketer, a dedicated one that is, spends the marketing day.

Is that success looming in the distance or what?

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by  Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Authors program note. You cannot pick up a newspaper this week, or turn on the television… or even snatch a glance at your SmartFone without seeing the single word “Titanic” for this is the centennial not merely of a ship, albeit the grandest on earth, but of an entire cottage industry and of people worldwide who cannot get enough of the ship once called — without irony — “Ship of Dreams”, “Last Word in Luxury,” and “Millionaire’s Special.”

… But that was before she struck an iceberg and became a thing not only of history but of imagination, fascination, persistence… the most famous ship of all the ships which have ever sailed the world’s broad seas.

The facts.

11:40 pm April 14, 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg.

12:07 am April 15, 1912 RMS Titanic sank, taking with her 1500 passengers and crew.

Ships of every kind had sunk before in human history; even ships on their maiden voyage, like Titanic. Passengers and crew had gone down with these ships before. Why then has Titanic seized us so, so that even the smallest detail of this ship and her catastrophic end is grasped with enthusiasm, avidity, and reverence?

To answer this question, we must start with the undeniable facts about this great engine of human ingenuity, human craft… and, as it happened, human hubris and human ineptitude.

Born to be a symbol… but not the symbol she became, the symbol which will always be a part of her riveting tale.

First of all, this is the story of men, rich men, business men, visionaries all. Not until the “unsinkable” Molly Brown (1867-1932) enters the picture in the early morning hours of April 15, at the helm of one of the too-few lifeboats, does a woman emerge… and it is significant, I think, that when woman emerges into the sharp, unremitting glare of history, she is doing the humanitarian work which has always been hers, saving souls and mending lives from the consequences of the ideas run amuck of their bruised and imperfect menfolk.

Titanic is the story of men who dreamed, who set the highest goal, who raised the considerable funds required, who insisted upon perfection… upon unexampled luxury and never-before seen efficiency, speed, and nautical mastery… of men who got everything they wanted to gain their soaring goal… but who, in the event, made error after error, thereby dooming their inspiring project, like Icarus who insisted upon flying close to the sun… and paid for his insistence with a watery death.

Titanic’s end on April 15 is one of two dates you should remember if you are interested in why male-dominated society, which was the order of this Edwardian day, began to crack and crumble; the other, of course, is July 28, 1914 when the great nations of monarchical Europe turned their full attention and resolution to the exacting business of destroying each other and a cultured civilization millennia in the making. After such glaring instances of bombast, arrogance, and miscalculation the world had enough of the very idea of male superiority. All that was missing from this sea- change was a painter of brilliance to immortalize Molly Brown, vital, vulgar, outspoken, practical, American, and very, very rich, in her moment of unimagined triumph as she brought her lifeboat of dazed and frail humanity to safety while great Titanic, her blazing brilliance still afloat, sank beneath the calm sea on that night of terror — and courage.

“God himself could not sink this ship.”

This is the most famous quotation about Titanic. It is also apocryphal, though (suitably) Captain Edward J. Smith said this several years before his plum (and last) assignment: “I cannot imagine any condition which would cause a ship to founder…. Modern shipbuilding has gone beyond that.” This same Captain Edward J. Smith, always pictured as a man promoted above his abilities, went down with his ship, aware that no other course was possible for a pukka English gentleman… a decision which spared him a lifetime of the denigration, contempt and obloquy  which thereby accrued to the account of J. Bruce Ismay, chairman of the White Star Line, who made sure he lived by disregarding the immemorial protocol: “women and children first.”

(Some) vindication for Captain Smith and all the men who created Titanic.

Good stories need good story tellers, people of dedication, committed to discovering all facts, and presenting them in a way that not only captures the imagination of people… but does whatever is necessary to hold that imagination until the story is well and truly told. Here Titanic has been blessed indeed… most notably by Walter Lord, now by Tim Maltin.

Walter Lord, a man to remember.

Walter Lord (1917-2002) was the right man for the arduous job of telling Titanic’s story just so. As a boy he traveled on RMS Olympic, Titanic’s sister ship and he conceived a passion for how such a marvel could simply disappear. What might cause nightmares in other children made Lord want to know more. And so years later, in 1955, his mesmerizing book was published to reviews which indicated at once that here was a classic, a page-turner, the stark sobering truth told in language that held you captive and made you read, though the matter was often horrifying and always dismaying.

In due course, Lord’s great achievement, “A Night to Remember”, became a 1958 film to remember. No one interested in the whys and wherefors of Titanic can afford to miss either. Thus Lord deserves his ineradicable connection with the ship that obsessed him until the day he died.

The benefaction of Tim Maltin.

Tim Maltin is a zealot, a man obsessed with truth — and exoneration. He is well known in Titanic circles, where his book “101 Things You Thought  You Knew About The Titanic – But Didn’t” is often cited. Maltin’s research, reported in his new e-book “Titanic: A Very Deceiving Night”, is significant. It poses the probability of a natural cause for what occurred, namely that icy waters created ideal conditions for an unusual kind of mirage that hid icebergs from lookouts and confused a nearby ship as to the liner’s identity, delaying rescue efforts for hours.

Thus his conclusion, soothing to family members and the unsettled spirts of the shroudless dead, that there was no blundering, just people doing the best they could under unexampled duress.

Earth’s nearness to the moon and the sun, a fatal factor.

Researchers from Texas State University-San  Marcos and Sky & Telescope magazine reported in the magazine’s April issue that there was another significant natural factor. They report that the Earth’s closeness to moon and sun — a proximity not matched in more than 1000 years — created much more ice than usual, including the fatal iceberg some of which uncomprehending passengers playfully used to ice their cocktails.Surely, they had nothing to worry about on this “unsinkable” masterpiece…

Sadly, they did not know that the rare gravitational pulls producing record tides — and record  ice — between December 1911 and February 1912  signalled the end of all… ship, most passengers and crew, and any vestige of cosmic certainly and the comfortable verities of the Victorians. Thus Titanic’s gliding descent into communal memory was in fact the first ceremony of note for our own nightmares… That is why we are fascinated by Titanic… compelled by her story of hell… for we are all passengers on this tragic vessel where “Nearer My God To Thee” may have been the last arrangement the brave band played as their world ended around them. We may have good need of it ourselves.  Go then to any search engine and listen to this hymn. And while you’re there, listen, too, to the score by William Alwyn (1905-1985) for that best of Titanic’s many films, “A Night To  Remember,” for it precisely captures the mixture of grandiloquence and menace required.

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Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author’s permission by Robert or Linda Elze <a href=”http://CyberWealthZone.com”>http://CyberWealthZone.com</a>. Check out Millionaire Society ->  http://www.CyberWealthZone.com/?rd=cp6RltSi

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Do you know the characteristics of successful blogs? Successful blogs that make a lot of money have a lot of readers so if you want to have success with your blog, focus on getting lots of readers. There are many ways to go about getting readers, but you should know that only about a handful of them work to get you the readers that you desire.

If you didn’t already know, you need a blog so that you can propel your business to the next level. I think it’s plain to see that having a blog can do a lot for your business growth. In the internet marketing world, there’s an old saying that says “the money is in the list”, so if you want to earn money with your blog, focus on building a list.

Popular blogs have a readership level in the thousands. It could take some time to build this up from scratch or you can pay for advertising and set up a capture page to get users to subscribe to your blog. I personally feel that the first option of building a list from scratch is better. With this you are using free advertising. For one these people know you and like you and have grown to listen to your advice. If you think that you can’t build a successful blog from scratch, then think again.

Internet marketing in general is hard, and building a successful blog is even harder. Popular blogs get a lot of traffic on a daily basis but you shouldn’t let this discourage you if you’re not getting a lot of traffic yet. You want to build successful blogs so that you can be perceived as an obvious expert in your niche. With credibility behind you, it will be easier for you to sell your products and services.

It doesn’t matter what you use to monetize your blog – you need a lot of subscribers to make it successful. If you have Google AdSense on your blog, you should know that you will get a lot of clicks, but to repeatedly see the numbers rise in your favor, you need a following of people who will visit your blog on a daily basis. This is something that successful blogs have.

I mentioned above that successful blogs have a lot of traffic to their blog. This is important because without a lot of traffic you’re dead in the water. You need a lot of traffic if you want to survive in the internet marketing world – that’s just marketing 101. There are a ton of ways to get traffic, but only a few of them are worth your time. If you’re a beginner, you should stick with the free ways to get traffic since you probably won’t have a lot of money for advertising.

One of the best kinds of free advertising is video marketing. All you do is create 3-5 minute long videos and submit them to the top video sites. Sites such as YouTube, Metacafe, and Google Video are all popular sites and get a lot of traffic to them on a daily basis. You can stand to benefit from the traffic that these sites can deliver to you.

Another way to get traffic is with article marketing. Simply write up 300-500 word articles and submit them to the top article directories. Here are a few of my favorites below:

- EzineArticles.com – ArticleDashboard.com – ArticlesBase.com – GoArticles.com – IdeaMarketers.com

All of these sites can deliver a ton of hits to your blog. You will want to write on topics that are related to your blog so that you can get targeted visitors. You get search engine traffic when you write for the article directories, and you also get traffic when website owners publish your article on their website.

Another great way to get free traffic is with forum marketing. Sign up to a forum and post helpful messages on the forums. Reserve your advertising message until your signature line as this is the proper place to put your message – so keep this in mind.

Successful blogs have all of these things in common. If you want a blog that is successful, simply follow the tips in this article.

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Author’s program note. Future historians, if any of Clio’s ranks remain, will scrutinize this period of our planet as the days when Earth reached its tipping point and began its descent to the unimaginable horrors of the Apocalypse. At least this is the sobering prediction of the International Panel on Climate Change, founded in 1988 by the United Nations. This article highlights this panel, its work, its dire predictions… and asks you not only to contemplate what is happening to us all… but what you can do to save yourself, your family and the pied a terre in the Cosmos for our vulnerable species.

But first, go to any search engine and smile. For not all weather predictions are cataclysmic. Take the one made in 1982 by The Weather Girls, also known as Two Tons o’ Fun. Their hit — their one and only hit — was called “It’s Raining  Men” and featured two plus-size African-American women cavorting with scantily clad boy toys falling from a beneficent heaven. It was cheeky, irreverent… and a superbly good dance song. When this ancient body was much younger and more limber, I cut the rug with it myself. Listen to it now…. because it’s the last thing in this article that gives you absolutely nothing to worry about.

About the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

March 28, 2012 this Nobel Prize-winning panel of climate scientists released its latest bomb shell, in the form of a 594-page report. This report represents an important development in its work. Up until now, the panel has focused on the slow, inexorable rise of temperatures and oceans as part of global warning. Their work, while important and telling to anyone who could read between the lines, didn’t attract much notice. Indeed, since it was the work of scientists and climate wonks who never met a somnifacient phrase they didn’t like, their important work went largely unread.

But this year and this report are very different.

This report is the first to examine the less common but far more noticeable extreme weather changes, which in recent years have been causing $80 billion annually in damage. As Stanford University climate scientist Chris Field, one of the report’s top editors, says, “We mostly experience weather and climate change through the extreme. That’s where we have the losses. That’s where we have the insurance payments. That’s where things have the potential to fall apart.”

“There is disaster risk almost everywhere.”

The conclusion of Field and fellow panelists is stark and cannot be misunderstood. Thus, you can almost hear the instructions given to participants at the start of their important work…

“Friends and colleagues. Our many previous endeavors reported facts in a calm, deliberative fashion. We knew what the findings meant… but because we were not explicit in our conclusions almost no one else did. Thus we assuaged our consciences by reassuring ourselves that we had done our work… and it was for others to draw the implications and do the necessary follow-up work to make sure that the science we knew became the basis for necessary policy changes. But this is no longer enough. We must not only be accurate fact finders, but absolutely clear on what this means and what must be done. In other words, we must go beyond the usual role of scientist and behave as a citizen of the world committed to saving our planet by doing what is necessary before it is too late.”

On this basis, the panel has produced what is to date their most important and influential work.

Item: Some places, particularly parts of Mumbai in India could become uninhabitable from floods, storms, and rising seas. In 2005, over 24 hours nearly 3 feet of rain fell on the city, killing more than 1000 people at once and causing massive damage. Roughly 2.7 million people live in areas at risk of flooding.

Item: Many other cities are also at high risk including Miami, Shanghai, Bangkok, Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City, Myanmar’s Yangon (formerly Rangoon), and India’s Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

Item: Entire countries like the Maldives are at risk, facing submersion because of rising seas and fierce storms.

Said Field, “The decision about whether or not to move is achingly difficult, and I think it’s one that the world community will have to face with increasing frequency in the future.”

At risk.

This report is unique because it emphasizes managing risks and how taking precautions can work. In other words, it not only highlights risks but is explicit in its recommendations about how to handle them. In fact, the panel report uses the word “risk” 4,387 times… and gives examples of how various cities and countries have learned from them, thereby providing solutions and models for other challenged entities.

Item: Field pointed to storm-and-flood-prone Bangladesh, an impoverished nation that has learned from past disasters. In 1970, a Category 3 tropical cyclone named Bhola killed more than 300,000 people. In 2007, a stronger cyclone killed just 4,200 people. Despite the loss of life, the country is reckoned a success story because it was better prepared and invested in warning and disaster prevention.

By comparison, a country that was not so prepared, Myanmar, was hit with a similar-size storm in 2008, which killed over 138,000 people. This avoidable disaster makes it clear why the work of this panel is so important. Over 138,000 people might well be alive if the repressive government of Myanmar focused less time and money crushing its people and more on the early warning and other tools needed to diminish the horrific weather effects that batter them so often and which this report makes clear will worsen in the years ahead.

The worst is yet to come… unless…

The study — all 594 pages of it — is a Pandora’s box of looming catastrophes. Tropical cyclones — including hurricanes in the United States — will get stronger because of present-day and worse-to-come climate changes. Heat waves and record hot temperatures worldwide will increase with increased downpours in Alaska, Canada, northern and central Europe, East Africa, and north Asia.

Action now… or worldwide grief later.

In the face of so much alarming news, all supported by exact science, it is easy to opt out, confident there is nothing the average person can do but wait and hope. Such a conclusion is not only wrong but calamitous. Here’s what you can do:

1) Urge school officials to disseminate these findings so that young people, who have so much to lose, can be informed.

2) Ask your elected representatives what they are doing to stem the tide and give us meaningful measures, not just partisan rhetoric that is so out-of-place in solving this problem.

3) Make every day “Earth Day”, a top priority. For there can be no progressive change of any kind if the very Earth is threatened, at risk, and increasingly vulnerable.

And I tell you this: when all the water is polluted, when all the air is toxic, when every once fertile acre is arid, we shall still have money. For unlike all the other elements, God-made, money is man made; so let’s spend what is necessary to ensure that our one and only home — Earth — remains as secure as possible, as verdant and productive… a place not of lamentation and anxieties but where all the crucial weather information can be sung by Weather Girls who tell you, “According to our sources, the street’s the place to go/ Cause tonight for the first time/ Just about half past ten/ For the first time in history/ It’s gonna start raining men!” And that’s a fact.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author’s permission by Robert or Linda Elze <a href=”http://CyberWealthZone.com”>http://CyberWealthZone.com</a>. Check out Social Metrics Pro ->  http://www.CyberWealthZone.com/?rd=ba76TrOw

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by  Dr. Jeffrey Lant

We know now that history is a tricky business, that it is easy to forget times and dates and confuse and muddle what actually happened. Suzy tells everyone she must have been the first person he spoke to, but Suzy is an unreliable source… and besides was a confirmed addict who often disappeared into her own world where she heard voices and saw people who didn’t really exist but frightened her anyway….  still when she tells this story she gets a far away look in her eyes… and she looks younger, calmer and she’s almost beautiful again. What drug, I wondered, has that quality?

Here’s what we do know.

One day the man who called himself Jesus wasn’t here in Harvard Square…. then the next day he was. That isn’t unusual. When the first mild spring days arrive run-aways, addicts, the homeless and down and out spread out from the Pit at the main subway entrance, in the stretch along Massachusetts Avenue from the Coop to the bus stop at the corner of Mass and Garden St. It’s all hospitable territory for the panhandling down-and-out. That’s why no one took much notice of Jesus; he was just another loser blown in, to stay for a while, then go on his tangled way.

Still, the man wasn’t what we usually saw hereabouts.  He didn’t seem to be strung out on drugs, wasn’t up to snuff on where to find drugs, which drugs you could mix to intensify the high… and which ones you must never mix if you want to wake up again. He didn’t talk to you or even seem to listen to the conversations about where to find drugs, who had them, who you needed to conciliate, who was a good guy and who wasn’t.

But then there was that incident with Ben…

Ben was Suzie’s… what? Lover? Boy toy? Child? One minute you’d see Ben up and pan handling; the next moment his head would be in Suzie’s lap, a pieta’ not quite blocking the way into the CVS store. she coddled him, held him, tolerated his infidelities. One day, and it must have been the first such day, Ben started vomiting, screaming, moaning. Suzie was hysterical. She kept saying “Help us! Help us! Help us!” But no one wanted to hear, much less help…

… except Jesus.

And as it happened, I saw the entire episode myself. Jesus appeared as if from nowhere. But it was his eyes which were so arresting. His eyes… and his hands. He looked first at Suzie; she stopped screaming. I can tell you that Jesus didn’t say a single word… then he placed his hands on Ben’s head, as if to comfort and reassure. First Ben stopped moaning… then he sat up and smiled, “Thanks, man,” he said. “I’m better now.” With his hands still on Ben’s head, Jesus said these words, his eyes were infinite and kind:

“Don’t think about tomorrow. Think about today for tomorrow will take care of itself. Remember, sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.”

“Cool”, said Ben.

I thought, he’s one of these new street healers popping up in the Square. But they always ask for something; Jesus didn’t. Maybe there’s some kind of free offer.

I didn’t see Jesus again for a few weeks. that, too, was completely normal. I was immersed in my business…until one springtime Sunday in the late afternoon I saw about 40 people gathered around the Lincoln Memorial. Jesus was standing on one of the concrete benches. He hadn’t yet started to speak.

It was a lovely afternoon and the people were happy and, at the margins, a bit obstreperous and boisterous, too. Drugs of course, or liquor.

Raising his hands in an embracing gesture, arms outstretched, palms up, he commenced, without welcoming word or introduction. It was almost a chant, simple, moving; I reached into my pocket for my pen and found not paper but a used napkin for my notes:

“The poor in spirit are blessed.The kingdom of heaven is theirs.”

There was no commentary, no explanation, just one declarative sentence like this after another, the words delivered softly, his voice never raised.

“Are you mourning for someone you loved? You shall be comforted.

Are you meek of temperament? Then you’ll be blessed. You shall inherit the earth

Are you merciful? Then you are blessed, for you will get mercy.

Are you working hard to find the righteous way? You will get what you seek.”

As a public speaker myself, I was fascinated by his delivery.The words were simple, the delivery free of artifice even emphasis. Nothing seemed radical or revolutionary about Jesus… but nothing seemed very important about him either.  However, in retrospect two items do stand out. First, as the obstreperous part of the crowd grew even more restive, he simply looked at them with his fathomless eyes. He bid them to come forward… and after being asked again by Jesus and coaxed by the crowd, some did. And I do not think I am wrong in saying that there was a touch of fire and heightened tone in what he said:

“You will be blessed when men shall attack and prosecute you. You will be even more blessed when men shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.”

This was the first time anyone had heard Jesus say such a thing for the words  “for my sake” clearly indicated he saw himself as a person of consequence. Most people in the crowd missed this. But I didn’t.

At just that moment, Ben ran into the Common and shouted, “Jesus, your friend Lazarus has died and his sisters are upset. Can you come at once?”

“Are you sure he is dead?”, he said. “Oh, yes,” said Ben. And so Jesus walked to Huron Avenue… and into history. I don’t have to remember what happened next;  it’s all over the Internet… Jesus’ arrival at Lazarus’; the determination he was dead… and the call he made to Lazarus to get up, get up and walk… even the awe of the crowd when he did, changing the life of everyone there and the people worldwide who were willing to trust what they saw.

For the moment these video clips went online and viral, the whole thing became a zoo… these reaffirming what they saw and advocating for him…. those proclaiming their acute disbelief in what could only be a hoax.

To help sort out the matter, Jesus accepted an invitation from Rush  Limbaugh; in retrospect a terrible mistake for Limbaugh lacerated Jesus up and down, calling him a fake, an impostor, a charlatan, out for money, a man who lied, scammed, and deceived.

Jesus didn’t retaliate, didn’t raise his voice, and simply said, “Blessed are the pure in heart; for they will see God.” And as Limbaugh continued his stream of unending venom, rousing his listeners to hate and frenzy, a man named Judas who lived near the studio grabbed his gun. He shot Jesus three times as he walked out the door. In terrible pain, he said just before he died, “Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.”

But now we do. Starting with Judas, who immediately shot himself mingling the blood of ignominy with the most precious blood on earth.

Note: The title for this article comes from a sublime 1770 aria by C.W. von Gluck entitled “Of my sweet ardor” (O del mio dolce ardor). Go now to any search engine and play it. “I seek you, I call you, I hope, and I sigh.” It will comfort you.

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Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author’s permission by Robert or Linda Elze <a href=”http://CyberWealthZone.com”>http://CyberWealthZone.com</a>. Check out Social Metrics Pro ->  http://www.CyberWealthZone.com/?rd=ba76TrOw

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Author’s program note. In 1952 Teresa Brewer sang a peppy little ditty called “Gonna get along without ya now.” It was bubble gum music, all bobby socks and pony tails. Sweet sixteen though it was, its lyrics perfect for the soda shop, there was yet a salient point here that none of us can ever forget. We are all expendable, replaceable, just a movable part in any organization. It is a sobering thought for any person, but it’s vital every CEO of every organization not only understand this essential truth, but build his administration on it and rule accordingly.

Before reading the rest of this article, go to any search engine and find this tale of comeuppance warbled by Ms. Brewer. Carefully read its lyrics, including this unforgettable couplet:

“Got along without ya before I met ya Gonna get along without ya now.”

What a CEO is and what a CEO must do… crucial aspects of the job you never learn at Harvard Business School.

For the last almost 20 years now, I have been a CEO, specifically CEO of worldprofit.com, which began its life in 1994 as an Internet hosting company, expanding since then into providing complete Web traffic and online services, tools for every kind of business organization. Let me be perfectly candid with you; the daily education I’ve had over the past two decades has been not only practical, exhaustive and timely, but hands-on and never-ending, as must inevitably be any training and instruction about e-matters.

The necessary training has included, but was never just limited to matters fiduciary, legal, product development, marketing, and sales. But the most important instruction of all has been what I’ve learned about handling people; in this case the other partners, employees, our unique online monitors, and, always, our customers worldwide for together these far-flung people constitute the vital essence of our business… as such people will constitute the vital essence of yours. Just how you handle them will determine not only the degree of success delivered by your administration but whether you will be allowed to keep your lofty position at all.

My father’s insight.

My father, Donald Marshall Lant, spent almost all his life in business managerial positions. As a result he came to develop a keen understanding of why some executives rise, whilst others stumble, fall, and pass as a matter of course into oblivion.

As sharp as a tack at age 86, he is still adamant on a significant point he insisted my siblings and I understand, a principle not only for business success but also for living the best lived life: “Learn to manage people,” he insisted, “and you can achieve anything.” Right as rain here as elsewhere, he reminded us (particularly at such moments when we seemed to have forgotten) of this crucial adage; at these times he also taught us clear, practical and field-tested admonitions, tactics, and the wisdom that only comes from experience.

Now, here, I am enriching you with as many of these people management insights as the space allows.

1) Know their names.

The first rule for successful CEOs is to know the names of the people, ALL the people, who are part of your patrimony. People like to know that you, Poobah of the Western Isles, know them…. and their names.

Hint: Make up flash cards with the names of people associated with the enterprise you head. This is a superb way to turn “scrap” time into stronger relations with your people.  2) Use them.

This ought to be self evident to every CEO; yet how many of you wonder whether your CEO knows you even exist, much less your name?

3) Know their families.

Family and all its elements are most important to the people most important to you. Make it a point to get the names of spouse and children. And when you’ve congratulated their proud mama or papa, send this intelligence to them, so that they understand just how valued their parent is and how essential their services to you.

4) Contact them when they’re ill.

This is a biggie. When those connected with your enterprise fall ill, each wonders whether this will adversely affect their relationship with you and their job. By calling and visiting you reassure them at a difficult time. And, remember, while sending flowers and a fruit basket is nice; they want to hear from YOU!

5) Pop up at their work stations… and never come empty-handed.

Do you know every nook and cranny, every department and project of the company you head? If not master the elements of your enterprise by stopping by the various work stations which constitute the parts of your empire. And never, ever go empty- handed. Bring gifts, gift certificates, checks. Remember, you are the deliverer of the loaves and fishes. Act like it.

6) Share your (particularly edible) gifts and treats.

CEOs by virtue of their high office gets lots of presents. Share these with some of the hard working folks in your business. They will never forget the gesture, your kindness and thoughtfulness. These are the memories that they’ll remember forever… and the person who made it happen — you.

7) Praise and congratulate… and (get the drift?) never come empty-handed.

No one is better placed in your organization to give plaudits and kudos than you are. Thus because you can, you must. Within your company you are, like the sovereign of England in hers, the Fountain of Honor. It is an evocative image, an image of liberality, giving, and above all the empathy that should epitomize your administration.

Make impromptu invitations.

No particular plans for lunch today? Great! Select two or three of the essential people in your organization and invite them to share tuna fish sandwiches with you. Make it clear it’s a chance to get better acquainted and to share their views and informed opinions with you. You’ll soon grow addicted to these “come as you are” events, making friend after friend, supporter after supporter.

9) Deliver promotions, raises and bonuses personally.

When the news is good, make yourself its Mercury. When was the last time you saw your CEO deliver even the best of news? Exactly. That’s why when you get to the top of the corporate tree, you’ll perform this task yourself… and gladly.

10) Implement at least one of these recommendations every day you wish to remain CEO, or advance from your present position. Don’t miss a single day or opportunity. If you do that, Teresa Brewer will have a very different song to sing, for they can’t get along without you now. Boom Boom Boom Boom.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author’s permission by Robert or Linda Elze <a href=”http://CyberWealthZone.com”>http://CyberWealthZone.com</a>. Check out Social Metrics Pro ->  http://www.CyberWealthZone.com/?rd=ba76TrOw

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By Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Author’s program note. March 25, 2012 the Boston Globe ran a story about the auction of treasures from the estate of the late Reverend Peter Gomes,  the well known Harvard minister who died young (just 68), February 28, 2011. Gomes was a certified pack rat who searched the ordinarily unpromising antiques shops of Boston and New England in search of the elusive “finds” that make a collector’s life so satisfying  — or so frustrating.

Gomes was out early and late in hot  pursuit of — what? — he couldn’t say in advance, no collector can, but he’d know it when he saw it. I am an obsessive collector myself, and I am writing this article in the hope not merely of understanding collectors in general, but myself in particular… for I’ll be darned if I can figure out why I who have so much spends so much time and treasure collecting — more! Perhaps this article will help you; I certainly hope it helps me!

“You can’t take it with you.” (1936).

We all know this well-known saying, but I long ago reached the conclusion that it most assuredly doesn’t pertain to bona fide collectors. Just how we make the transport and presentation arrangements in heaven (much less in that other place), I cannot say. But I do know this: every single collector I know (serious or otherwise) believes they most assuredly get an exemption. For if it all (every last baseball card, match box or movie star autograph) cannot go… why then we have some serious explaining to do, what with all the trouble (to say nothing of the expense) we’ve gone through to acquire everything that is now mine, mine, all mine. For you see, the more we collect the more others believe us to be (and certainly say right to our faces) that we are mad as a hatter. (That reference, by the way, is from  “Alice in Wonderland”, and if you had an autographed first edition (1865) in your collection it would be worth a packet… but I digress.)

Equally if you had the autographed sheet music to Cole Porter’s most famous tune “Night and Day” (1932) that, too, would be a great find and a worthy acquisition. However, for right now, I recommend you go to any search engine and listen up. I selected this incidental music because collectors never stop looking, participants day and night in the great hunt and always know “you are the one” when they find their next “must have” acquisition. Porter would have understood; after all, he was a strenuous collector himself, of the silver cigarette case variety.

Important things you should know about collectors.

There are things you really need to know about us collectors. First, things that alarm and distress more pedestrian people positively make us giddy and thrilled. I mean things like death, economic turmoil, wars, revolutions, even garden-variety mayhem… we positively thrive in circumstances which depress others. When, for instance, a great empire falls with massive misfortune for millions, you can be sure its bibelots, artifacts, and what-nots will, in short order, pop up in the royal and imperial “yard sales” held at the world’s greatest auction houses, names like Sothebys, Christie’s, Dorotheum, et al. We collectors positively thrive on other people’s miseries; it’s what we do.

We have to say, of course, (and we must deliver these sentiments with as much sincerity as we are able) that we regret such catastrophes… but, in truth, that’s generally a little white lie. This lie was very much apparent at Gomes’ estate auction. Gomes had spent a lifetime acquiring items from the overrated antiques stores of Beacon Hill, Essex and Groton… items his many friends, former students, congregants in Harvard’s Memorial Church… even readers of his books and sermons … picked through with avidity, enthusiasm, and a jaundiced eye. For such people, collectors all, a demise, however untimely, means pure, unadulterated bliss… unless they fail at the auction to secure the things they “had” to have.

Scrutinizing you and your possessions.

Collectors love meeting others who collect the same kinds of things… but not for the reasons you suppose. Collectors want to meet you and visit chez vous not to swap tips, bond, or brainstorm. By no means. They wish to see and minutely scrutinize and peruse what you’ve got that they, hopefully sooner rather than later,would like; indeed must have. Thus, when husband calls wife to “see Dr. Lant’s marvelous portrait by Lawrence of Lord Shaftesbury” and lauds it over much whilst taking out his pocket diary the better to take notes, you must understand that he is thinking there is only one thing between where this highly desirable object now resides and its potential new home… and that thing is you. Make a hasty excuse about why such creatures must be shown the door and at once, for they cannot possibly wish you well. Absolutely no collector is or ever will be that magnanimous. After all, you’re not. And neither am I!

Close mouthed before… unendingly voluble forever after.

I aver that collectors would all be suitable for the CIA and all other “spook” organizations. Why? Because we can most assuredly be discrete with information. Consider this: When I was a young man working on my first book (“Insubstantial Pageant: Ceremony and Confusion at Queen Victoria’s Court”) I was the first American ever admitted to the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle. Thus, I was able to walk across to Eton, its famous school, and a High Street well stocked in those days with antiques stores. And there I applied my specialized knowledge to the flotsam and jetsam on display in these stores… scoring, I am pleased as punch to tell you, bulls-eye after bulls-eye; to name but one satisfying “steal”, the acquisition — and for just about 50 cents each –of a pleasant quantity of rare hand-colored royal prints in mint condition; now worth thousands. I have them to this day and whenever I have the need to gloat review them with the greatest possible glee. I tell you this now, decades after the fact, because it cannot help my erstwhile colleagues and fellow sleuths. When this event was taking place, however, nothing, absolutely nothing would have caused me to be so indiscrete. And so it is with all collectors…. secret as the grave whilst in the process of acquiring; the exact reverse, a positive Niagara of self-praise and egotism, once acquisition was secured… self-praise and egotism available anywhere, anytime lavishly applied — whether asked for or not.

Provenance, or Marie Antoinette emptied this stone from her plum-colored slippers as she went to the guillotine.

Collectors collect for many reasons but to one-up friends, family and the ill-educated and credulous is clearly the most important of these. Here provenance is absolutely crucial, that is to say who possessed and may actually have used the object in question. Be clear on this: collectors always want the most detailed and exalted provenance possible. Thus to have a cracked plate from the Siberia service of the Empress Catherine of all the Russias is more desirable and socially elevating that a complete place setting from the 3rd Prince Regnant of Moldava… or an entire and immediately useful service for 12 owned by your next door neighbor. And be clear on this as well: not only do you want such absolutely essential historical reference… but you must learn to say it with hauteur, panache and such exquisite intonation that you must surely be noble yourself. Parbleu!

But enough of these insider secrets. I’ve got important work today… yes, for the benefit of my burgeoning collection. And if you think I’ll share a single syllable about the work at hand, think again. Mum’s the word… that is until I get the this or that I’m after now. And when I get it, prepare to be impressed… and say so… over and over again. I deserve it.

About the Author

Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a wide range of online services for small and-home based businesses. Services include home business training, affiliate marketing training, earn-at-home programs, traffic tools, advertising, webcasting, hosting, design, WordPress Blogs and more. Find out why Worldprofit is considered the # 1 online Home Business Training program by getting a free Associate Membership today. Republished with author’s permission by Robert or Linda Elze <a href=”http://CyberWealthZone.com”>http://CyberWealthZone.com</a>. Check out Social Metrics Pro ->  http://www.CyberWealthZone.com/?rd=ba76TrOw

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