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Craigslist Makes it Big
Posted by Skip Butner in Sales on October 1st, 2009
Like any other successful company, Craigslist had its humble beginnings as a simple information sharing digital newsletter developed for professionals in San Francisco many years ago. After a while, its advertisement services expanded to other United States areas, with visitor web hits beckoning them to take a pat in the international web scene with a network of four hundred cities all over the world.
All that is takes is a valid email which must be verified first. This entitles one to access the site’s full services given that they read the standard posting rules. Security is not an issue since transactions are purely between the person who placed the ad and the person who responded unless a complaint is submitted.
What makes Craigslist a hit with every American is the ease of use when it comes to navigation as it does not use complicated details. Such is the simple but functional appearance of the site as developed by CEO Jim Buckmaster with the approval of its founder, Craig Newmark.
Revenues pour in from the fees for job and apartment listings which range from ten to seventy dollars. Rental ads also have a certain price and such profits are enough to run the twenty five Craigslist employees.
An ongoing matter that this company constantly addresses is the misuse of its services for theft or revenge. Many claim that it even has the power to rob journalism of its prowess and has since transformed the future of the information industry.
Keep in mind as any other business, this site is constantly on the move to eliminate many hoax advertisements posted by some users to lure innocent victims. Moreover, this ever expanding service of Craigslist somehow poses as a threat to local newspaper journalists who thrive in print media industry
Inside Knowledge – Help Me Diet Naturally
Posted by Scott Edwards in Sales on August 17th, 2009
Keeping a food diary is a very accurate way to establish your current eating habits. Start a full week before you plan to commence dieting. Write down everything you eat and drink (be honest!) throughout the day. Look at what you’ve written down, and after a few days you should be in a position to see where adjustments could be made.
Patently if your record shows a higher consumption of alcohol or fatty foods than you’d realised, you might begin by reducing those initially. If what you’re eating is mainly healthy, then maybe you’re just eating too much of it. Whichever one is closest to your situation, what’s in the diary will reveal a lot.
List the changes you plan to carry out over the next seven days. Include an eating plan, and the exercise you will take. Under the food heading, write a list of ‘banned’ foods, and ‘weekend only’ food. And then write down the food you can eat in generous amounts.
If you can’t imagine going without any beer or wine, then decide which two days you will permit yourself to have a maximum of two small glasses. Ban all sugary drinks. When it comes to exercising, commit to paper your intended regime, noting which days of the week you will be doing it.
Accurately weigh yourself the morning your regime starts. Repeat this procedure every week, and make adjustments if appropriate. And write down how heavy you are at the beginning of each week.
A plan such as this will allow you to manage your weight loss programme and adjust it to suit yourself. Your diary is a working document – make notes about how each day has gone. Don’t forget to be honest about how much exercise you’re taking. Write it all down! A diary is a very simple way to monitor your progress – and a remarkable tool for staying with the program!
However, this won’t give quick fix results. It will take a little time, but within a month you’ll start to feel more energised and maybe less out of breath. Try to exercise patience, and do persevere. Motivating yourself over a long period has it’s challenges – but if you concentrate on the prize instead of the price it becomes much easier.
If you do get demoralised with your results, analyse what’s been happening. It’s possible your programme needs some adjusting. Additional physical activity can help you catch up. A brisk walk several times a week can be done at any time of day.
Feel good about every pound you lose. Your efforts will be much more sustainable if you do. A whole new wardrobe isn’t a good idea until your desired weight is achieved. But you could spoil yourself with a pamper session when you reach a mini-goal.
Fresh Insights – Natural Slimming Products
Posted by Scott Edwards in Sales on August 16th, 2009
Doctors talk about our body mass index when they refer to weight issues. If our index shows we come in above 18.5 and below 25 then our body mass is appropriate. An index greater than that reveals we have weight issues that could need dealing with. What’s more if we take that figure over thirty we’re defined as obese – over forty and the definition is morbidly obese.
To work out your own index – You’ll need to know your weight and height in kilos and metres respectively. Your index is your height squared, divided by your weight.
So your figures might look something like this: You’re 1.45m tall (1.45 x 1.45 = 2.10). Your weight is 68 kilograms (68 / 2.10 = 32.38). The above illustration plainly shows that with those stats you would be designated obese.
Unless we restrict highly calorific food to high days and holidays, the weight will stay put! Smaller, higher fibre lower fat meals will help the body to metabolise the fat stores that have previously built up.
You should avoid crash diets which usually end up with you either feeling ill or giving up in desperation. Dietary regimes that propose a calorific consumption of no more than 1,200 a day are what we consider crash or ‘miracle’ diets. These ‘quick fix’ options are not real solutions. Weight that comes off quickly usually goes back on quickly as well.
Healthy dieting that will make you fitter for life can take months. If you consume around five hundred calories less each day than you normally eat, you can expect to lose up to two pounds a week in weight. So not the un-realistic promises fed to you from the instant remedy brigade, but a real solution to help you stay out of the danger zones.
Fat-laden food tends to contain the highest calories. So the easiest way to drop the calories is by cutting out fatty food. To stay satiated, eat more grains, and enjoy liberal amounts of veg and fresh fruit. You’ll soon start to notice the health benefits associated with this change.
Trying to eat fewer meals to preserve calories doesn’t work. (Snacks become too irresistible when the hunger really bites!) Really, you’ll do yourself more favours if you have four or five little meals spread throughout the day. Starving yourself actually makes it more difficult to lose weight. Your metabolic rate (which affects your body’s ability to lose weight) is assisted when you nourish yourself little and often.
Teaching, Learning, and Knowledge
Posted by Jay Polmar in Sales on August 9th, 2009
How do we teach one another? How is it that we were taught everything that we now know?
At some points in history, knowledge was elitist and even a forbidden concept. In 399 BC, Socrates explained that he was known as the wisest of all men since he understood that he knew nothing. Socrates was ultimately executed because of his unyielding questioning to the Athens population to find out how they knew what they knew.
In this days, we still ask Socratic questions and have yet to fully understand the answers; however, technology is bringing us closer and closer.
Science and technology discovered is that the human brain is capable of processing 10,000 to 50,000 units or single words in one minute. But, these are older statistics from the 1980s, but new technology studying speed reading combined with brain development research indicates that you can most likely read even faster. Most high school graduates read 200 words per minute, down from 252 wpm from 25 years ago. College students, only one or two years older, have improved to 120% words per minute simply from having to read so much and the brain practicing reading so much. Regardless, of your beginning reading speed “increases for 50-60% the first day is more than likely, in two days of reading practice ” youve doubled your reading speed.
The brain is a computer composed of human organic materials. If you were to consider your brain as the hardware (CPU = Central Processing Unit or a computers own brain) and your mind (the thoughts you think) as the software, you wouldnt be far from what the scientists evaluating the brain believe; that the mind and brain are component parts of our physical bodies is to give us an efficient way to determine more things.
The human mind is connected to our physical bodies to make life more useful for us to learn and thrive. This amazing tool allows us to absorb a universe of knowledge in many different ways.
Childhood education creates the very first limitations to reading ability. Heres what the first two years usually look like to a young learner of language: 1. First, we are introduced to the alphabet and how each letter sounds. 2. Then, we move on to put letters together into syllables and hear their unique sounds. 3. Later, we formed words and their individual pronunciations. 4. Then, we progressed to sentences and lastly paragraphs, which we read aloud.
In that learning method, we move our lips slowly and carefully so that we would pronounce each syllable and each word clearly. There were entire classes dedicated to learning how to read out loud.
We did pronounce every single word correctly, and then we were praised by our teacher and we felt the thrill and excitement because we were learning so well. Soon, it was determined that we could indeed read, so we no longer read in the classroom out loud. Most of us, however, were still concentrating on every syllable and reading each word out loud to ourselves for confirmation. This phenomenon, called sub-vocalization, is what causes us to have the 200-300 words per minute limitation to our reading speeds in high school and University. Interestingly, its the same speed at which most people talk (unless you live in the Southern US and have learned the Southern Drawl that slows you down even more).
Theres been research to show that high school students that use speed reading techniques can double their reading speed. When these techniques are practiced on a regular basis, the results are even more impressive.
With the power of the brain and mind combined, you can stretch out and achieve far greater skills. In fact, the amount of words that can be read per minute has no bounds. It is only a persons inner voice that can limit us, stop us and confuse us while reading or studying.
These voices tend to Babble On while you are striving to perform tasks, such as reading. It is the same voice that can make you panic before an exam. It is only when you silence this Babblers voice that you can truly transfer and speed read material at a phenomenal rate.
SPEED READING can help you to overcome slow reading habits developed from your early education. You can then retrain yourself to read faster.
It is remarkable how your brain and mind have the ability to absorb thousands of bits of information in a small amount of time. You are like many people that read slowly on account of early education. You become bogged down when you are mouthing syllables and words. Even though you have developed these bad habits in early education, its great to know that from this moment on, you can retrain yourself to be a powerful SPEED READER and your potential has no limit.
One benefit of Speed Reading is that it can assist you in reading and understanding written information much quicker. Speed Reading is useful in careers, especially where you are required to master large volumes of information quickly. Many people run into burn out from information overload. Speed Reading assists you to absorb and retain, for later recall, all the information that you read.