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Your Home Improvement Project ? Working Smart and Safe | Honest ...

When you are facing a substantial home improvement undertaking, its really essential that you plan everything out ahead of time. Even if your job needs to be done somewhat urgently, you can save potential heartache by careful planning. When the work you want to accomplish is a type of work you have never done before, then it is especially important that you prepare in advance and have a solid plan of action. The internet is a great source of data on just about any subject you can imagine. You will be able to find everything you need for your project online and comprehensive directions on how to do the work. Its not hard to find expert advice on the internet. Just do a search and you will discover detailed directions for your project as well as lists of all the supplies, equipment, and parts you might need. Even if you do have some experience, these resources will make it all a lot easier for you to get started on the right foot.

Power equipment generally comes with a lot of safety features. A safety guard is one such feature and power tools used in grinding and cutting usually come with one. You want to avoid removing the guards just because it is more convenient. Due to all the debris, you could end up easily hurting a hand, your face or your eyes. It is critical that you also wear safety glasses. Alongside protection glasses, you also want to wear leather gloves. All this is basic common sense and not hard to remember. Unfortunately, there seems to be a percentage of people who will ignore them and get hurt.

Heres a simple but effective suggestion if you are working on something that requires you to hammer nails. This is a great piece of advice for those who havent used a hammer all that much. To hold the nail steady when hammering it, buy or make something like a support. A nail holder can be made from something as simple as a paperclip. Another popular way to make a nail holders is to break off one or two teeth from a comb. Until you experience it yourself, its hard to understand exactly how much pain is involved in hitting yourself with a hammer.

Another area of safety concerns working with adhesives and strong bonding agents. These chemical agents can be a danger to your home, as well as to yourself. Dont try to work with potent chemical products, such as adhesives and glues, without wearing protective gloves. The kind that are necessary are the heavy-duty latex gloves. Its easy to find the safety gloves you need for working with chemicals at such home improvement centers as Lowes, Ace Hardware, and Home Depot. Keep in mind that, in addition to protecting your skin from chemical burns when you use these chemicals, some of them are also carcinogenic. It is imperative if you have a project in an unventilated area to use a mask respirator with a filter cartridge.

This quick overview in no way covers every possible safety hazard that exists. To be safe, work slowly and efficiently, which will help you stay out of trouble. If you dont cut corners, and do the job the recommended way, youll accomplish your task safely and securely.

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Why Is That Undulating Blob Of Flesh Inspecting My Oil Rig?

Every so often, the Internet astonishes. Things I wouldn't, couldn't, shouldn't expect, sometimes happen. Take this, for example:

On April 25, somewhere in the ocean off Great Britain, a remotely operated video camera near a deep sea oil rig caught a glimpse ? at first it was just a glimpse ? of an astonishing looking sea creature. It was a green-gray blob of gelatinous muscle, covered with a finely mesh-like textured skin, no eyes, no tentacles, no front, no back. It moved constantly, floating up to the camera, then it backed off and disappeared. The camera operator tried to find it, and then, suddenly, out of the darkness, back it came.

What was this thing?

?

It had no mouth. It seemed to be undulating, or at least moving with intention. It looked like it was coming back to the drill to ... to do what? Or maybe it was dead. Just a floating bit of tissue, a whale placenta, perhaps?

You'd figure a video like this, once it went on the Internet (which it did last month) would produce the usual wild explanations from people who know little but post madly, rumors masquerading as knowledge, a great riot of misinformation and silliness. But not this time.

Yes, for a few hours, The Thing From The Deep got passed around by hundreds of thousands of people who ooh-ed and ahh-ed, and got giddy with it. (Loch Ness monster? Return of The Blob? ) But then, up popped Craig McClain, chief editor of the Deep Sea News.

"Dr. M," as he's known, is a scientist at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center at Duke University. He knows his deep sea critters, and very promptly he posted his guess: First of all, he said, this isn't a whale placenta. Placentas are too tasty, too nutritious to make it 5,000 feet down without getting eaten.

Instead, he went hunting in the library and found two papers that described an animal that could be The Thing. The critter on the oil drill video has, he noticed, a sex organ, "gonads" ...

Those gonads vaguely resembled a similar organ in a giant jellyfish called Deepstaria enigmatica. (Strange what marine biologists think about ...) As for its shape, alone in quiet water, these big jellyfish look like you'd expect; bell-shaped tops, with dangling parts, but the motion of the video camera, pushing left, right, up, down, may have created a turbulence that caused the jelly to undulate and get all flappy.

Did Dr. M get it right? Is this a Deepstaria enigmatica? Not quite. Right away, marine biologists from all over rushed in with their own guesses, and the consensus was; yes, it's a jellyfish, but not an enigmatica. What we have here is a very similar jelly called Deepstaria reticulum, an unbelievably weird-looking blob that eats with those little membranes in the skin, fights with bumps on its surface, has an opening (that, when lit, seems to glow). It should be a contender for The Strangest Looking Earthling On Earth.

And maybe because the truth in this case was so much more fascinating than any fiction (I mean, Nessie seems tame compared to this), the Web, even the British tabloids, went straight for the truth. Everywhere, everybody was suddenly learning about a giant jellyfish ? seen 29 times previously by marine biologists, but not by your average Jane and Joe, so this, as they say on NBC, was "new to you!" What could have been another zany viral video turned instead into a global science lesson ... which I hope will include you. Instead of an accidental peek at this jellyfish, I want you to see Deepstaria reticulum as it ought to be seen. If Vogue did fashion shoots of jellyfish, they would look like this.

Thanks to marine biologist Steve Haddock of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (who does the narration), here's the supermodel version, dangerously glamorous:

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Expanding or not, retailers rethink stores

(Reuters) - Retailers believe there is life left in their brick-and-mortar stores and they're trying new ways of making them more inviting by pampering customers - both the two- and four-legged kinds.

PetSmart Inc , for instance, will offer overnight dog accommodations at more stores. Macy's Inc is offering a "virtual concierge" kiosk, and handbag maker Coach Inc is opening up dozens more men's sections this year.

These are just some services retailers are trying to keep stores relevant as they try to compete with mobile devices, the Internet and daily deals.

"The customer is changing dramatically and is wide open to new ways of shopping," Macy's Chief Executive Terry Lundgren told Reuters last month at a conference in Tucson, Arizona.

Macy's other initiatives include a "virtual concierge" kiosk that can make beauty product recommendations and a $400 million multiyear make-over of its flagship in Manhattan.

U.S. cities are littered with empty retail space, wreckage from aggressive expansion last decade that contributed to the demise of chains like Borders book stores and Mervyns department stores, and led to lower sales-per-square-foot for many that made it through.

"We will always have stores. But they're going to get smaller, they'll have new technology and different services," said Madison Riley, managing director at consulting firm Kurt Salmon.

U.S. retail spending continues to recover from the recession: the National Retail Federation expects sales to rise 3.4 percent this year, below last year's 4.7 percent clip. Only 31 percent of U.S. retailers surveyed in 2011 by NRF and KPMG said they planned to expand in 2012, underscoring the emphasis they are putting on existing stores.

REJIGGING STORES

Top chains are also changing how they use their space.

Coach, for instance, is betting it can have as much success with men's wallets and travel bags as it has had with women's handbags. It plans to have 100 of its 350 North American stores stock items for both genders by the end of this fiscal year, up from 42 last quarter, a project CEO Lew Frankfort told Reuters last month was its "most important initiative."

Retailers are trying to offer services available only in their stores.

PetSmart, a 1,200-store chain will double the 200 "pet hotels," or kennels, they already offer shoppers in hopes of luring in owners, who now can turn to wag.com or Costco Wholesale Corp .

"What you really want to do is build an environment where you become the local pet store," CEO Robert Moran said in April.

Morningstar analyst Paul Swinand applauded such plans, saying services available only in stores are crucial.

"People are trying to think up stuff you can't download," Swinand said.

Others are adding stores.

Michaels Stores Inc , an 1,066-store arts and crafts chain planning an IPO, said in its prospectus it thinks it could eventually have as many as 1,500 stores in North America. So it is trying out smaller formats to reach urban.

Family Dollar , is planning on some 400 new stores this year, and has been adding hundreds of food items and remodeling its current shops.

The 25 largest chains had 2 percent more stores in 2010 than in 2007, led primarily by dollar stores, drugstores and discounters like Wal-Mart Stores , according to NRF data.

Because such chains sell staples and draw shoppers more frequently, they need more locations, Kurt Salmon's Riley said.

Experts said the vision of physical stores disappearing is apocalyptic and rooted in a lot of panic. At the same time, retailers cannot sit still, or they could suffer the same fate as Circuit City, Linens'n Things and other defunct chains.

"If retailers aren't experimenting, then they are doomed to fail," said Wendy Liebmann, CEO of WSL Strategic Retail.

(This story removed extraneous word in 1st paragraph)

(Reporting By Phil Wahba in New York; Additional reporting by Jessica Wohl in Chicago; Editing by Leslie Gevirtz)

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Fighting Self-Delusion in Leadership - LeaderLab

by guest on May 21st, 2012

?In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future.??Eric Hoffe

People who become executives begin their careers as functional or technical specialists. A specialty is the basis on which to grow new, diverse expertise and ultimately either choose to stay on the specialist ladder or move to management.

As a person moves from first time manager, to managing others, to managing groups, to managing an organization; work continuously broadens, organizational dynamics and politics become increasingly complex and require an evolving set of priorities.

A leader?s awareness and their speed of adaptation in a new role influence the organizational culture, employee engagement, client loyalty and financial results. The keys to a leader?s success? Knowing yourself; assessing preparedness and requirements of work, being clear about internal and external measures of success, being honest with oneself about personal readiness, ways to maintain resilience and creating trusted connections with others.

Mentors and role models all serve to give feedback, provide perspective and increase awareness. They can be our trusted advisors and the ones who we can rely on to tell us the truth. They can become the accelerator of a leader?s success.

The tendency towards self-delusion increases the higher a leader/manager ascends the organizational hierarchy. The higher one climbs, the more placating peers and subordinates become, resulting in acute insulation and putting leaders in a type of vacuum away from constructive feedback. What?s the culprit? Isolationism, a relative lack of honest, critical, and corrective feedback, all part of a phenomenon that conventional training and development practices, in style and substance, cannot adequately address.

That?s where Leadership Assessment and 360 feedback can play a proactive role to provide information for self insight. We all have blind spots or areas where personal growth once areas, when identified, can improve our effectiveness.

The following graphic illustrates how to use feedback and create a plan for growth.

  • Step one is to have information through a 360 assessment or Leadership Assessment
  • Step two is having someone who can review your assessment data with you and discuss your strengths and areas for development, such as a mentor
  • Step three is to create a plan for growth and change
  • Step four is ongoing practice to master new behaviors
  • Step five is meeting with your mentor to discuss success or times when you weren?t so successful and determine improvement tactics

This diagram illustrates the following points:

  • We all learn from examining how similar our self perception is to our public perception
  • The closer the self and public perception are aligned, the more authentic we are ?coming across? and the more comfortable we are in our own skin
  • Having a mentor who can give us feedback about a self assessment or a 360 broadens our perspective and can help us reframe or coach us on areas which are more difficult ones to change
  • Practice is key. Growth as a leader requires practice, feedback and acknowledgment that practice is not an event. Rather it?s ongoing and takes time to fully master behavior change.

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Voyager Mobile shakes off network issues, launches a few days behind schedule

Voyager Mobile launches

It's tough being the new kid in town -- ask Voyager Mobile, an up and coming MVNO that had its launch delayed by a "malicious network attack" last week. The tenacious firm may have missed its planned May 15th launch, but managed to pull things together in time for the weekend, piggybacking unlimited talk, text and data off of Sprint's CDMA and WiMAX network for $40 a month. A basic unlimited voice plan is also available to the tune of $20, without data allowances, of course. Phones are available too, albeit without subsidies -- Samsung's Epic 4G Touch or Galaxy S II will each set you back $550, though an assortment of more affordable devices can be had from $120 and up. Tempted to jump ship? Check out the source link below and let all your MVNO dreams come true.

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Children's Health & Fitness ? Childhood Obesity Contributes To The ...

May 21st, 2012 by Len Saunders

From The Canton Rep?..

Type 2 diabetes is a disease that once was called adult-onset diabetes.

The name becomes less accurate when you consider Type 2 diabetes in children is on the rise, fueled largely by a childhood obesity epidemic.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years.

The percentage of children age six to 11 years in the United States who were obese increased from seven percent in 1980 to nearly 20 percent in 2008. The number of adolescents age 12 to 19 years who were obese increased from five percent to 18 percent over the same period.

In fact, says the CDC, in 2008, more than one third of children and adolescents were overweight or obese.

To read the full story?..Click here

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Play All Your Favorite PlayStation 3 Games in One Console

When you hear people say PlayStation, you primarily think of great games on a great game console. You think of Sony as the developer of a one-of-a-kind high quality game console and you also think of a gaming console that changed the way people think about home entertainment systems.

Today, one of the most enthusiastically awaited game consoles in the market is the PlayStation 3. This gaming console promises to yet again, revolutionize the way people play games on game consoles all over the world. With features that are considered as state-of-the-art and integrated technology that are highly advanced, people will really want one for their own home.

Aside from the sleek and attractive looking outer shell, PlayStation 3 packs one of the best technologies in the gaming console world. This particular gaming console is expected to be one of the greatest gaming consoles ever developed and released in the market.

PlayStation 3 has a powerful graphics chip together with a powerful 3.2 GHz CPU and 512 MB of RAM that will make you experience a one-of-a-kind game play. Another contribution for maximum enjoyment is the Blu-ray drive. The Blu-ray disc can handle data 5 times higher than your conventional DVD. This means that game developers will have more leverage in designing PlayStation 3 games and this will result in more realistic characters with detailed and also realistic environment.

Because of this, games will far more be realistic and detailed than ever before. In fact, Playing PlayStation 3 games on blu-ray discs will make you feel as if you are a part of the game itself and not just a person on the outside world playing with some game.

PlayStation 3 can definitely give you that extra spice you want in a game.

Another great contributor in PlayStation 3 is the game controllers. The game controllers for PlayStation 3 games are Bluetooth capable. This means that you can play PlayStation 3 games wirelessly. This will give you more freedom when playing with your PlayStation 3 games. For example, if you like football or soccer, you can literally run around your room like a football or soccer player who just scored a goal while holding your PlayStation 3 controller.

PlayStation 3 controllers are also integrated with the multi-axis motion sensing system technology that will allow you to control the game in real time and with maximum precision. With this system, the game controller will virtually become a natural extension of your body.

PlayStation 3 also has a backward compatibility feature. This feature will enable you to play with your old PlayStation and PlayStation 2 games in this console. This means that your investment in your old games will not be wasted. With PlayStation 3, you can play all your PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 games. In fact, because of the HDMI features of the PlayStation 3, it will even further enhance your old games.

Not only that, PlayStation 3 will enable you to play your DVD movies, and Audio CDs. PlayStation games aren?t the only discs that this game console can play. It is a game console that is also a DVD player and CD player.

So, investing in this game console is definitely not a wasted investment at all. So, watch out for it when it is released on November 2006 in Japan, United States, and Canada and on March 2007 in Europe and Australasia.

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Why Social Media Marketing Is Impossible To Ignore For Successful ...

Social media marketing is a rapidly increasing concept and is becoming a huge part of the internet marketing strategy for many online businesses. The main advantages of social marketing include the following:

* Increases the amount of visitors to a company website * Increases exposure of the brand of the business * Helps to develop natural links as a way to improve search engine rankings for the business

All of the above points should help to increase the overall sales and profitability of a company, which ultimately underpins the long term success of the business.

Social media SEO can be utilised by sites such as Facebook and Twitter. These are two social media sites that have taken the internet by storm throughout the last few years, with millions of users from all over the globe accessing the sites regularly. Twitter SEO permits businesses to create regular tweets about their work, for instance what?s new on their website on that day, or perhaps an award they may have recently won. The tweets may then create a great talking point for other Twitter followers, so an on-going discussion may continue. This form of Twitter SEO can help to increase the awareness of the brand and the familiarity of the name can help potential customers feel a loyalty towards the company and might help to increase overall sales.

By updating their statuses on Twitter and Facebook, businesses can also include links to their website to allow users instant access to their site. This generation of traffic to the website can surely only be a good thing, and is a fast and easy way for companies to market their products and services.

Blog posts are another method of social media SEO which is a great way to increase targeted traffic to a website. The posts allow companies to discuss their latest news and developments or maybe what special promotions they might have for that month. Most people enjoy reading blog articles which are interesting, informative and simple to read.

So when revamping your business marketing strategy, make sure you include Twitter SEO, as it is an exciting and efficient way of increasing visitors to your website and creating a more effective online exposure of your brand.

To find out more about the benefits of social media SEO why not visit the SEO it Right website where you can learn all about their Twitter SEO.

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