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Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Vatican and Oxford libraries scan ancient works, let scholars stay in their armchairs

Two of the world's most hallowed libraries are about to get even quieter, having been given $3 million to go with the flow and put some of their oldest collections online. The Vatican Library and Oxford University's Bodleian Library will together offer up 1.5 million pages of hoary text, including Gutenberg's Latin Bible from the 15th Century, a 1,200-year-old Hebrew codex called the "Sifra," and enough Greek philosophy to make even Homer seem succinct. At the end of a five-year flatbed scanner marathon, these digital copies will be accessible to speakers of dead languages everywhere, and hopefully for less than sacrilegious prices.

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Japanese watchdog agency wants to fine Olympus $2.5 million

Japanese watchdog wants to fine Olympus $2.5 million

Wondering how this whole Olympus accounting scandal is gonna wrap up? Well, it might simply come to a close with a 200 million yen (about $2.5 million) fine. That's the seemingly tiny amount the Japanese SESC (Securities Exchange and Surveillance Commission) is recommending the company be fined. Ultimately the FSA (Financial Services Agency) will decide how large of a monetary punishment is appropriate for the $1.7 billion scandal. And, don't forget, there's still the drama of Olympus suing its own president and other executives to look forward to.

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Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie: A Timeline Of Their Love

We take a look back at the seven-year relationship between two of the world's biggest movie stars.
By John Mitchell

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2007
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That noise you just heard was the heads of celebrity tabloid editors' heads exploding in unison at the news that Brad Pitt finally put a ring on it and proposed to Angelina Jolie.

Rumors of an engagement began to swirl when Jolie was spotted at a private viewing at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's Chinese galleries on Wednesday rocking quite a sparkler on her ring finger. Pitt's manager Cynthia Pett-Dante confirmed the engagement to People, saying, "It is a promise for the future and their kids are very happy."

The pair have been together for seven years and have six children. Their love story has been documented like crazy by the tabloids, but in honor of their long-overdue engagement, we decided to take a look back at the highlights of their relationship to show you how they got from meeting on a movie set to preparing to walk down the aisle.

» Summer 2004: Pitt and Jolie meet on the set of "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Rumors of an on-set romance begin almost immediately, though both deny the allegations, saying they are just friends.

» January 2005: Pitt and then-wife Jennifer Aniston announce that they have decided to formally separate after nearly five years of marriage and more than seven years together.

» March 2005: Aniston files for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences."

» April 2005: Paparazzi photos of Pitt, Jolie and her adopted son Maddox on a beach in Kenya surface, seeming to confirm long-standing rumors that the pair are a romantic item.

» July 2005: Pitt and Jolie pose for a photo shoot for W magazine entitled "Domestic Bliss," portraying them as a family with several children. Though rumors that they were a serious item had reached a fever pitch, they continued to refuse to confirm anything. Following the paparazzi images of the couple together in Kenya, many considered the shoot a major affront to Aniston, as her divorce from Pitt had not yet been finalized.

» July 6, 2005: Jolie adopts her second child, 6-month-old daughter Zahara Marley, from an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

» October 2, 2005: Pitt and Aniston's divorce is finalized by the Los Angeles Superior Court.

» January 11, 2006: Jolie confirms to People that she is pregnant with her first child with Pitt.

» January 19, 2006: A judge grants Jolie's request to legally change the last names of her adopted children from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt. Pitt's legal adoption of both Maddox and Zahara was granted soon after.

» May 27, 2006: Jolie gives birth to the couple's first biological child, daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in Swakopmund, Namibia. Shiloh's first pictures were sold exclusively to People and OK for $4.1 million and $3.5 million, respectively, and all of the cash was donated to charities benefiting African children.

» October 2006: Voicing his support for same-sex couples seeking equal marriage rights, Pitt tells Esquire magazine that he and Jolie would marry "when everyone else in the country who wants to be married is legally able."

» March 15, 2007: Jolie adopts 3-year-old Pax Thien from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Because Vietnam's adoption regulations do not allow unmarried couples to co-adopt, Jolie adopted Pax as a single parent, but filed a request to legally change her son's surname from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt a month later.

» May 2008: After much speculation, while promoting "Kung Fu Panda" at the Cannes Film Festival, Jolie confirms that she and Pitt are expecting twins.

» July 12, 2008: Jolie gives birth to a son, Knox Léon, and a daughter, Vivienne Marcheline, in Nice, France. As they did following Shiloh's birth, Pitt and Jolie sold the rights for the first images of the twins jointly to People and Hello! for $14 million (the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken) with proceeds going to their Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

» October 15, 2008: Jolie ignites controversy after telling The New York Times that she is excited for her children to see "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" because "not a lot of people get to see a movie where their parents fell in love." Both Pitt and Jolie had long maintained that while there was chemistry on the set of "Smith," Pitt did not cheat on Aniston during production and began his relationship with Jolie after they'd separated.

» November 2008: In an interview with Vogue, Jennifer Aniston says that Jolie's comment to the NYT that she and Pitt fell in love on the set of "Smith" was "uncool." "I felt those details were a little inappropriate to discuss," Aniston said. "That stuff about how she couldn't wait to get to work every day? That was really uncool."

» July 5, 2011: Praising New York on passing marriage equality legislation, Pitt reaffirmed to People that he and Jolie will not marry until all Americans are afforded marriage rights.

» September 2011: Pitt finds himself embroiled in controversy after telling Parade, "I wasn't living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn't." This was, as usual, scooped up by the tabloids as if he were hurling an insult at Aniston, and much of his "Moneyball" press tour was spent explaining that he was simply at a bad place in his life near the end of his marriage and that his relationship with Jolie reinvigorated him.

» December 2011: Promoting her directorial debut "In the Land of Blood and Honey," Jolie tells Christiane Amanpour that her kids were pressing her to get married. "The kids asked me the other day, and I asked them if it was just because they wanted to have a 'big cake,' " Jolie said. "They see movies that have the people getting married in the movies ... you know, the happily ever after. Shrek and Fiona are married. ... We've explained to them that our commitment when we decided to start a family was the greatest commitment you could possibly have. Once you have six children, you're committed."

» January 2012: Pitt co-signed Jolie's statement that their children were pushing them down the aisle. "We'd actually like to," he told The Hollywood Reporter of marrying Jolie, "and it seems to mean more and more to our kids. We made this declaration some time ago that we weren't going to do it till everyone can. But I don't think we'll be able to hold out. It means so much to my kids, and they ask a lot. And it means something to me, too, to make that kind of commitment."

Those spoiled Jolie-Pitts, always getting what they want!

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Stressed-out monkeys show it in their genes (+video)

A new study demonstrates a link between social class and genetics in non-human primates.

Stressed-out monkeys tend to have a lower quality of life. But why? It turns out the answer might be in their genes.

Skip to next paragraph Harry Harlow shows what happens when a young rhesus macaque is scared.

Rhesus monkeys have a clear social ranking system. Those in the highest ranking group have the best access to food, water, and grooming. The opposite is also true: those in the lowest group have a difficult time when resources are scarce.

Researchers began with 49 captive female rhesus macaques of medium social rank. They sorted the monkeys into ten new groups, so that the monkeys sorted themselves into diverse social classes. Afterward, the scientists collected blood samples from the animals.

Blood samples showed a significant relationship between gene expression and social rank. So much so that, 80 percent of the time, the researchers were able to predict an individual monkey's social status just by looking at its genes.

Notably, it appeared that genes associated with the immune system were more active among low-ranking group members. This immune system activity could be tiring for the animals over time.

On the positive side, immune system activity levels did not seem fixed. As the researchers added new group members, altering the social stratification, gene expression changed. As the monkeys moved up in the world, they became less stressed.

This finding demonstrates an important linkage between the social world and individual physiology.

?If an individual is able to improve their social environment, the genome is pretty plastic, which is kind of optimistic,? Jenny Tung a geneticist at Duke University and the study's lead author told The New York Times.

In future studies, Tung plans to explore the question of the health impacts of social rank-associated gene expression.

This study appears in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Developers ? Blog Archive ? FX Rogue Review

Day after day, hundreds of thousands of trades are created inside a currency exchange market place termed Currency trading. The term ?Forex? instantly stems forex trader from the start of two phrases ? ?foreign? and ?exchange?. Compared with other investing solutions like the stock market place, Currency trading is not going to entail the investing of any items, bodily or representative. Rather, Foreign exchange operates as a result of obtaining, advertising, and buying and selling involving the currencies of assorted economies from all over the world. For the reason that Foreign exchange marketplace is really a world wide investing program, trades are created twenty-four hours a day, 5 times weekly. Furthermore, Fx is just not bound by any one particular command company, which suggests that Foreign exchange may be the only accurate absolutely free market place financial buying and selling procedure out there currently. By leaving the exchange prices outside of any one particular group?s fingers, it truly is substantially extra hard to even try and manipulate or corner the currency market place. With all the positive aspects linked with all the Fx procedure, plus the world wide variety of participation, the Foreign exchange market place is definitely the greatest market place during the full environment.

Anyplace amongst one trillion and one.five trillion equivalent U.s. bucks are traded to the Foreign exchange marketplace every single and just about every day.

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Although while in the Fx Market place a little something to hope for will be charts and evidence.

Most currency trading selections investing is done by means of phone as there are actually only several forex trading brokers supplying on the net currency trading alternative investing platforms.

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The Foreign exchange Alternative Purchaser ? The customer, or holder, of the foreign currency choice has the alternative to both offer the foreign currency choice agreement ahead of expiration, or she or he can elect to maintain the foreign currency solutions agreement right until expiration and exercising their correct to choose a place during the fundamental spot foreign currency. The act of training the foreign currency alternative and using the subsequent fundamental situation while in the foreign currency spot promote is called ?assignment? or staying ?assigned? a spot situation.

As I stated earlier mentioned, the foreign exchange investing is regarded as on the list of most prosperous and appealing chances for expense as any man or woman can quickly do at your house or office environment and from any element of the earth.

For succeeding the Foreign currency trading, anyone is simply not necessary to carry out any on the web marketing, promoting and so forth. The only real need while in the Fx trading could be the account that anyone is needed to open up with trusted and registered brokers, a pc procedure and quickly world wide web relationship.

Now, you may have for being very careful when opening a Currency trading account with any broker simply because some might be Rip-off. The Commodity Futures Buying and selling Commission (CFTC) in US has jurisdiction about all Futures and Forex trading action. When buying and selling from the foreign exchange markets, consumers really should only trade which has a CFTC registered entity which is also a member in the Country wide Futures Association (NFA) and is particularly controlled by CFTC. For non-US broker/ financial institution entities, make certain the broker or lender is registered with that country?s ideal regulatory bodies.

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Tony Romo, Candice Crawford Share First Photo of Son

After welcoming their son Hawkins on Monday evening, Tony Romo and Candice Crawford snuggle up to their baby boy in a sweet new snapshot.

The picture-perfect moment came after she delivered the 8 lbs., 8 oz. newborn, already named “a part of the Dallas Cowboy family” by the team.

The Dallas Morning News reports that as of Wednesday morning, the proud new parents packed their bags and headed home from the hospital.

All together now ... AWW!

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Book Marketing Bestsellers: Book Promotion Blog: Do You Waste ...

Guest post by Jan Bear

For many authors, book marketing is overwhelming and exhausting. Experts tell authors how to use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest; and then there's blogging and guest blogging, participating in Goodreads, answering questions at forums, blog commenting. And that's not even to mention all the offline promotion.

On top of that, reliable sources say that your best marketing for this book is your next book.

The array of options is dizzying, and your time is limited. The truth is, any of those methods can work - for the right audience. And none of them will work for the wrong audience.

Target Marketing Is the Key

The principle of finding and meeting the right audience is at the heart of restoring sanity to your book marketing efforts. In marketing circles, it's called target marketing, and it involves finding the people who are most likely to want your book, and speaking directly to them. Once you know your target market, the rest of your decisions fall into place.

Choosing Your Book's Topic

Target Marketing for Authors

The best time to start thinking about your audience is before you write your book. Knowing your audience can help you find an unmet need that your book can answer. If you're a doctor writing about diabetes, you may find out that there are many books about adult-onset diabetes but not enough about juvenile -- or vice versa.

Target marketing can tell you if the audience will support the effort you're planning to put into writing the book. If only a small audience shares your passion for the Atlantic hagfish, you may not want to devote years of effort on a massive exploration of its beauties, but instead write a short ebook to start building awareness and an audience.

Writing Your Book

Once you've chosen your topic, knowing your audience can help you write a more successful book.

If you're writing fiction, how you tell the story depends on who you're talking to. Children or adults? Science fiction or romance fans? People familiar with your setting or someone who has never been there? If you keep your audience in view, you'll help them enter into the story you're telling.

If you're writing nonfiction, knowing your audience will solve similar questions, such as how well versed they are in your topic and how much -- if any -- jargon to use. If you're writing to an audience reading English as a foreign language, you'll want to cut down on the idiomatic expressions, such as "Elvis has left the building." If you're writing to a hyperlocal audience, you might want to use the dialect of the people you're talking to.

Designing Your Website and Marketing Materials

If you know your target market, you can choose colors, images and fonts that make sense to them, make them feel at home. You will help them see you as one of themselves and view you as a trusted authority.

People are reading these nonverbal signals all the time - on the cover of your book, when they arrive at your website, when they pick up a promotional postcard at a book fair. They're asking, "Is this for me?" and they make that decision very quickly, before they've even had a chance to think about it.

You want to make sure you connect with your people, because otherwise the right ones won't see your book, and the wrong ones will be disappointed (and give bad reviews) if they read it.

Finding Your Readers Online

Now that you know who your audience is, you can invest your time in social media wisely. If your book is business-to-business, LinkedIn might be your best bet. If it's fiction, Goodreads will serve you better. You can use Twitter's search function to find your people on Twitter. The result is you're not talking about hours of browsing the social sites, but instead you can budget your time to get the best use out of it.

Meeting Your Audience Offline

When you know your audience, you can laser target your advertising and promotion efforts offline to make the most of your marketing budget. You can also find targeted audiences of people predisposed to like your work.

One woman, whose novel involved a beauty shop operator, set up a book signing in her hair dresser's salon. Another, whose murder mystery involved a racehorse, got a book signing at a horse racing arena and sold out all the hardbacks she took to the event.

By focusing on your audience, you can find where they congregate and get your book in front of them. So much easier than trying to scream loud enough to be heard by everybody.?

Finding Your Book's Target Audience

Finding your book's target market takes some thought and imagination -- but authors have plenty of that. By crafting your message to the people most receptive, you not only save time and money on your marketing budget, but you also save yourself from the unnecessary discouragement of having the wrong people saying, "No."

There's never been a book that "everybody" liked. Embrace that, and find your people. Speak to them in words and images that they relate to. You'll find that your book marketing -- and the next book's writing -- go much more smoothly.?

About the Author

Jan Bear helps authors build their online platform even if they don't have any experience producing for the web. She writes about book marketing at http://www.MarketYourBookBlog.com. She is the author of a new book, Target Marketing for Authors, available at fine online booksellers.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Boosting Online Sales and ecommerce | Inbound Marketing and Sales

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About four months back a single of my customers consulted me on how finest they could enhance on the web revenue on their ecommerce internet site for a big-ticket, much awaited digital gadget. They explained they had been hunting to increase their organic and natural rankings and provided the quickly approaching product start day, essential a marketing campaign as quickly as achievable that would provide their desired outcomes.

Your content material requirements to be unique

When I appeared at the content material they experienced set up and compared it with content place up by their nearest competitor, I found there was just about no variation among the two. Up coming, I looked at the brochure provided by the maker of the new gizmo. The subject material was the same i.e. my client and the competitor experienced merely reproduced material from the brochure. Of training course equally the online ecommerce sites have been various in look, graphics, animation and so forth. but to be enticed by the site graphics, or enhance on the web product sales, the consumer has to 1st get there at the web site and therein lay the crux of the dilemma.

When the client searches for the item, equally ecommerce web sites are listed and both are far more or significantly less identically ranked. So clearly, to attract the customer?s attention, the lookup final results necessary to screen some thing that would help catch the potential customer?s eye and induce him to go to my client?s web site. The battle for online revenue therefore, begins even just before the buyer reaches your ecommerce web site.

I conducted an audit of my client?s website content and established that if the new merchandise is to catch the prospective customer?s focus, then solution particular key phrases ended up planning to be essential. Also, the solution description required to be different and exclusive. For this, I advised the services of a content administration consultants and revenue copywriter who specializes in producing distinctive content that induces the buyer to click on on the ?buy? button.

Each and every web page on my client?s ecommerce web site dealing with the new product was as a result re-created to be not only distinctive and eye-catching, but also include targeted keywords. The keywords themselves have been chosen following an exhaustive research of search styles and key phrases employed by goal customers. While at it I also recommended some slight alternations to the web site navigation so that the consumers could quickly find the goods and info they ended up searching for.

Aside from the higher than adjustments, I also designed a new blog and forum segment. The blog part added more content material to the internet site and the discussion board area enabled the customers to discuss item relevant problems and exchange notes on merchandise apps and so on i.e. far more content material.

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In significantly less than a thirty day period all the major lookup engines had picked up the new material. Based on the final results and the way it was making online visitors, I further great-tuned the content material and navigation of the ecommerce web site.

With a lot less than 40 days to go before merchandise start, my client?s ecommerce web site was previously producing far a lot more visitors than his nearest rivals. At this phase we presented pre-booking on the internet product sales campaign that supplied a entire bunch of free goodies. A lot more on the web targeted traffic, much more hits and we were generating on the internet product sales even before the actual product start date. That is precisely what you want is not it?

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Google Chrome 18

One area in which the Google Chrome Web browser has trailed competitors Internet Explorer and Firefox has been graphics hardware acceleration, which can speed up webpage rendering. In my tests of previous versions, Chrome's acceleration only worked with specific graphics cards. With the release of the latest of version of the browser, Chrome 18, Google erases this drawback with extended hardware acceleration that works with more hardware. In other graphics news, the browser now extends 3D WebGL graphics support to older computers, such as those running Windows XP.

This is just another chapter in the overriding theme for Google and its Web browser? "instant." First, there was Google Instant, by which Web search results start appearing as soon as you start typing in the Google search box. Then came Instant Pages, in which Chrome tries to guess which link you're likely to click on next, and preload that page in the background. Another "instant" feature, pre-loads the first-proposed autocomplete site in the background when you start typing in the browser's address bar, so that it springs into view instantly when you click on the auto suggestion's entry.

Chrome 17 also added a new security protection, taking a page from Internet Explorer's SmartScreen Application Reputation protection. This extra layer warns you when you're about to download a file (especially a program file) from a known malware-distributing site.

As it increases in popularity, Google Chrome is becoming more and more a conduit for Google services. With the previous release of Chrome, the Internet search leader also changed just one user-facing feature?the new tab page, which has been tweaked to give more prominence to the Chrome Web app store. Though this isn't a huge improvement, Chrome remains your best Web browser, thanks to blazing speed, and ground-breaking features. ?It boasts unique features like Chrome Instant, built-in Flash and PDF display, leading Web standards support, and a minimalist application window that lets Web pages shine unimpeded.

Despite the lack of exciting new eye candy or super-duper capabilities in Chrome 18, the competition?Firefox 9 (Free, 4 stars), Internet Explorer 9 (Free, 4 stars), Safari 5.1 (Free, 4 stars), and Opera 11.60 (Free, 4 stars)?still struggles to equal Chrome's sparse user interface, speedy operation, and emerging standards support. For this, Google Chrome remains our Editors' Choice. Its recent expansion of graphics hardware acceleration, which previously trailed that in Internet Explorer 9 and Firefox, renders Chrome's performance unrivaled.

Previous releases have brought major new features, such as bookmark syncing, a built-in PDF reader, and extensions, though others have just added speed, stability, and new standards support. The remarkable Chrome Instant loads pages before you even finish typing their addresses or titles. And in an homage to IE9, Chrome continues to build on its graphics hardware acceleration. The browser's fine design, compatibility, and especially the speed have impressed the Web community enough to make Chrome the fastest growing browser in terms of market share. On this measure, it's nearing 20 or 25 percent, depending on whose numbers you believe, and poised to overtake Firefox as the number-two browser. Let's take a look at what makes this browser so special.

Swift Setup
Even the setup process shows Chrome's commitment to speed: Just click the Install button on the Chrome Web page, and you'll have the browser up and running in less than a minute, with no wizard to go through and no system restart. The browser's available for Mac OS X and Linux, as well as Windows. In each platform the browser's up and running before you realize it, and it updates itself automatically in the background.

With version 17, a change in the first-run appearance of the browser occurs. You still see a generous dialog box giving you the option to use Bing, Google, or Yahoo as your search engine, but the first view of the browser wind asks you to sign into a Google account. This doesn?t change the behavior of the browser, but it does show Google?s increasingly solipsistic view of the Web, and raises concerns about browser tracking. On the plus side, it does give you the benefit of being able to sync your different browser settings and bookmarks on different computers (more on this later).

Chrome Instant Pages
Not to be confused with Chrome Instant (see below) or Google Instant (which works on all browser to load Google search results as you type), Chrome Instant Pages requires both Chrome and a site that supports the feature. Of the latter, there is now just one important one: Google Search. The idea is that when you perform a search in Google, the browser will pre-load the page for the result link you're most likely to click on.

In several tests on a slower Wi-Fi connection, however, I only noticed an occasional improvement for simple pages. It seemed only to work for the first result link. Heavy multimedia sites still took their time to load. On a very fast wired connection, some page result were extremely fast, but in that case, you don't really benefit from pre-loading. I saw a definitely faster load for grainger.com than in Opera on the same connection. The idea makes a lot of sense though, particularly for multipage articles, where it's most likely that the next link you'll hit is the one labeled "Next."

The only drawback: If the site guesses your next click wrong, page load could be slower than without Instant Pages, and you'll have wasted bandwidth loading a page you never visited. But this is a technique that's been done using JavaScript or HTML and CSS for years, so I'm not sure why we need a browser-specific solution to preloading pages, but Instant Pages does have the ability to load outside sites, rather than just pages of your own. If you don't like the idea of your browser loading pages before you click on a link, you can turn off the feature in the Under the Hood section of Options (accessible from the wrench icon), and uncheck "Predict network actions to improve page load performance."

Built-in Flash and PDF Support
Chrome is the only browser to come with Adobe Flash built in, rather than requiring a separate (and annoying) installation. And not having to perform the frequent required updates of the Flash plugin separately is another boon?it updates automatically with the browser. With version 10, many of the security issues with Flash (famously bemoaned by Apple's Steve Jobs) went away, thanks to running the plugin in an isolated sandbox so that it doesn't have access to critical system areas.

Chrome boasts a PDF reader as well, so you don't have to worry about installing any Adobe plugins for viewing specialized Web content. When you load a PDF, an intuitive toolbar shows when your mouse cursor is in the southeast vicinity of the browser window. From this, you can have the document fill the width of the window, show a full page, or zoom in and out. By default, you can select text for cutting and pasting, but I couldn't copy and paste images. You can print the PDF as you would any Web page.

Chrome's PDF viewer not only does what its name implies, but also serves as a print preview feature. Unlike IE's print preview, Chrome's shows up in a tab rather than its own window. But you have to go through it to print: In IE, I can just click the printer icon to send a page to the printer if I don't want to fuss with settings. I could choose between color and B&W, portrait and landscape, and choose the target printer, or print to PDF.

An Advanced button got me into the printer's own settings dialog, but this dismissed the print preview, making me have to choose Print from the menu again. But Chrome didn't let me choose a zoom percentage for the printout as Firefox and IE did, nor did it let me turn page headers on and off or choose margin sizes in a Page Setup dialog as those two did. So Chrome's print preview is a decent start, but it's still a bit behind the competition.

Interface
Minimalism has been a hallmark of Chrome since its first beta release. Tabs are above everything, and the only row below them holds the combined search/address bar, or "Omnibox." Here you can type any part of an address or page title, and the most likely site candidates will be presented in a dropdown. Optionally you can display bookmark links in a row below this. And the control buttons on the top-right of the browser window have been reduced to the absolute minimum?just one.

Google has removed the Page icon and placed some of its functions under the wrench button. Some of the Page options have been combined into buttons on one line in the menu, such as Cut, Copy, and Paste. I like what Google's done with the Zoom choice on the menu, adding plus and minus buttons that save you from having to fly out another submenu.

Another theme in the Chrome interface is that everything looks like a Web page, displaying in the main browser window, rather than in separate dialog boxes. This includes the interfaces for History, Extensions, Bookmarks, and even Options.

Mac users haven't been overlooked in the interface department, either. The browser now supports OS X Lion's full screen view, along with overlay scrollbars that only appear when you're scrolling. Other more minor characteristics of the OS X "Aqua" style give Chrome on the Mac a more Mac-y appearance.

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Petrino, mistress exchanged 100s of calls, texts

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) ? Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino and his mistress exchanged more than 4,300 text messages and nearly 300 phone calls over the past seven months ? on game days, before dawn and even as the police report that hastened his downfall was being released to the public, according to a review of his business cellphone records by The Associated Press.

The messages, among some 300 pages of records released under a Freedom of Information Act request, appear to include picture and video files, though there was no way to verify the content. But the records clearly show a married father of four in frequent contact with Jessica Dorrell, a 25-year-old former Razorbacks volleyball player.

Petrino was fired Tuesday night for failing to disclose his relationship with Dorrell, whom he hired last month without disclosing his conflict of interest or the fact he had once paid her $20,000. Athletic director Jeff Long said he had determined their relationship had been ongoing for a "significant" amount of time, but he did not say for how long.

The phone records show that Petrino remained in close contact with Dorrell following the April 1 motorcycle accident in which Petrino suffered four broken ribs, a cracked neck vertebra and scrapes and bruises

That day, Petrino and Dorrell went for a motorcycle ride on a two-lane highway southeast of Fayetteville and skidded off the road. Petrino and Dorrell talked for 16 minutes earlier that day before the crash at 6:45 p.m., and they also had a 22-minute conversation the following day ? while Petrino was apparently still in the hospital recovering.

Petrino's accident report was disclosed by state police on April 5, and the two talked 11 times that day. That included a pair of 2-minute calls around 3:30 p.m., when police were releasing the report that for the first time exposed her presence at the accident.

Later that evening, as questions swirled about his future at Arkansas, Petrino exchanged four calls with his agent, Russ Campbell, totaling 10 minutes.

The cellphone records show Petrino and Dorrell were in contact at least as far back as Sept. 12. The university provided nearly seven months of Petrino's business cellphone records, and that is the first date listed. Among the findings:

Petrino, a married father of four, exchanged 91 texts with Dorrell on Sept. 13 and 84 texts with her over five hours on Oct. 28, the day before a game at Vanderbilt. On Oct. 17, the two swapped 73 text messages, and on four days in a row in the week before a loss to eventual national champion Alabama, Petrino called Dorrell early -- at 5:52 a.m., 6:35 a.m., 5:49 a.m. and 7:55 a.m.

The day Arkansas beat Troy, the two exchanged 70 texts. They exchanged 26 texts the day Arkansas beat Mississippi State and four following the Razorbacks' loss to LSU on Nov. 25. Dorrell sent Petrino during Arkansas' Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State, though the coach didn't reply until the following day.

The 51-year-old Petrino built Arkansas into a national power, including a 21-5 record over the past two seasons and a No. 5 ranking in last season's final AP poll. He was expected to lead the Hogs on a national title run next season, but his career was effectively ended the day of the accident.

Petrino didn't disclose her presence on the ride until the police report was issued; he told his boss, athletic director Jeff Long, about 20 minutes before the report was released to the public.

The records show Petrino's six-minute call to Long at 3:11 p.m., the call during which the coach first told Long of his inappropriate relationship with Dorrell and her presence at the accident.

Petrino has issued a lengthy apology and said he was focused on trying to make amends to his family.

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Associated Press writers Chuck Bartels, Jeannie Nuss, Allen Reed and Andrew DeMillo contributed to this report from Little Rock, Ark.

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When you think of laptops that are extremely thin and light, the MacBook Air is generally the first one that comes to mind. Apple's svelte aluminum notebook has been the most successful at bridging the gap between form and function, but it's not the only one trying. Intel is spending literally hundreds of millions of dollars to develop and promote super-thin notebooks, which it calls "ultrabooks."

The problem is they haven't quite caught on yet, at least not as much as the MacBook Air has. Lackluster early models and high prices have prevented "ultrabook" from becoming a household name. But Intel is just getting started. They say that there are 75 new models in the works, and that prices are dropping as well.

While the expensive components and materials needed to make ultrabooks and other thin, light laptops initially put the devices in the over-$1,000 range, Intel has always maintained that the price should be far lower, and expects some to be available for $700 or less by 2012's back-to-school season.

The 75 new models were not described one by one, but presumably Windows 8 and other factors are to be thanked for this great variety. Devices with touchscreens, depth-sensing webcams, convertible form factors, and other non-traditional designs (like the Lenovo Ideapad Yoga, pictured) are sure to be included alongside the usual suspects.

Most of the major laptop makers are planning ultrabook releases, as the attractive and portable form factor has been shown (mostly by Apple) to be a popular market.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

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Monday, April 9, 2012

40Billion.com Drives Crowdfunding Law for Small Businesses to ...

(Free Press Release) President Obama signs JOBS Act making it easier for startup entrepreneurs to raise capital.

Atlanta, GA ? Small business crowdfunding pioneer 40Billion.com, the leading professional social funding platform, has helped drive several provisions in the new JOBS Act recently signed by President Obama and passed by the U.S. Congress. Now, startup entrepreneurs and small businesses can seek out everyday investors and advertise their fundraises and offerings publicly over the Internet.

Part of the JOBS Act facilitates crowdfunding, in which entrepreneurs use the Internet to raise money from a large number of investors and funders. The legislation allows small businesses to use Internet services like 40Billion.com to raise up to $1,000,000 in funding from lots of everyday people, including social networks of friends, family, peers, and others.

?We?re excited about the recent news of the passing of the JOBS Act and what it means for our nascent industry and for aspiring business owners across the country who want to do their part to boost the economy while realizing their American dream,? said Cornelius McNab, founder of 40Billion.com. ?When I dreamed up 40Billion back in early 2008, so many folks were skeptical that a social funding network for business startups over the Internet would ever work. Just four years later, we?ve made skeptics into believers. Crowdfunding has become an industry, and we?ve worked with the federal government to help create new laws that revolutionize how small businesses raise money.?

Before the advent and widespread acceptance of Internet social networking tools, it was nearly impossible for entrepreneurs to tap into micro-funding sources cost-effectively. 40Billion.com applies state-of-the-art online tools to enable businesses to build social networks of friends and family members that facilitate raising capital.

With 40Billion.com, users launch business fundraising projects online via the Web. It then enables users to route the projects to people in their social network ? friends, family, and other contacts ? most likely to fund that project, either through gifts, donations, private direct loans, or commercial paper (short-term loans up to $1 million for 270 days or less). The platform does not facilitate equity investments or sales of company stock at this time.

According to Harendra Jani, VP of Strategy and Planning at 40Billion.com, ?Business crowdfunding has been legitimized by a grassroots effort that culminated in the passing of the JOBS Act to help U.S. small businesses and entrepreneurs. This movement will help close the $40 billion funding gap.?

Raising funds from one?s friends, family, and peers can be a daunting challenge as an entrepreneur raising capital for a startup business, and there are many questions. Whom should you contact to request funding? How do you facilitate multiple fundraising requests and manage multiple funders (i.e., those who provide funds, such as investors, donors, and lenders) in a structured and scalable way? How do you give potential funders peace-of-mind and increase their trust so that they are more willing to provide you the money you need? How do you reward funders when their motivation is not purely a financial one? How do you find business resources after you raise money?

?Do you know how it seems really hard for entrepreneurs to raise funding? What 40Billion.com does is lets entrepreneurs use their Internet social networks to raise more funding quickly, easily, and affordably so they can start and grow successful businesses. It?s friends-and-family funding on steroids,? said McNab.

With over $60,000,000 in Raises facilitated so far, 40Billion.com is seeking partnerships and strategic investors to promote growth and provide additional services that would benefit its users. Interested parties are invited to contact the company.

About 40Billion.com
40Billion.com is the social funding network for small businesses and startup entrepreneurs. 40Billion.com, Inc. is the first Internet-based microfinance company serving American small businesses. 40Billion?s patent pending micro-funding platform helps entrepreneurs raise funding more affordably through friends and family than through banks or other traditional financial institutions. Using proprietary online tools, entrepreneurs build social networks ? including friends, relatives, colleagues, customers, and other contacts ? and use these connections to raise capital through small business loans and gifts. Entrepreneurs create fundraising profiles and invite their connections to offer funding in exchange for discounts or potential returns. In business since 2008, the company aims to address a $40 billion funding gap. 40Billion.com, Inc. is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

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Romney faces lengthy to-do list as likely GOP pick

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Mitt Romney faces a daunting to-do list as he transitions into the role of likely Republican presidential nominee.

Among the tasks: Raise as much money as possible for the general election campaign against President Barack Obama. Hire more people and send them to the most critical states in the fall race. Hone his message to appeal to voters across the political spectrum.

And do it all quickly while fending off challenges from GOP rivals who refuse to quit the primary race.

Obama, with the advantages of an incumbent, is well ahead of Romney on fundraising, organization and broad pitches to voters. So Romney can be expected to spend part of his time over the next three weeks trying to catch up. There's a break in the primaries lasting until April 24, when several Northeastern states vote.

Romney also must start thinking about a running mate and strategy to amass the 270 electoral votes needed to win the White House on Nov. 6.

The former Massachusetts governor must prepare to put his imprint on the Republican National Committee and figure out how to achieve unity with a conservative base that has resisted his candidacy. In the general election, party loyalists will be counted on to raise money and get out the vote.

"I do think the Romney team is thinking about how they put in place their fall campaign," said Terry Nelson, a former top aide to President George W. Bush. "But they clearly have some contests to get through, so they won't be able to turn their eyes entirely to that."

There's little question that Romney will clinch the nomination in June, if not earlier. He has a wide lead in the race for the 1,144 delegates required to secure the GOP nomination. But chief rival Rick Santorum says he'll press on at least through the end of the month. Pennsylvania, which he represented in the House and Senate, votes April 24, along with Connecticut, Delaware, New York and Rhode Island.

In hopes of convincing Republicans it's time to rally behind Romney, leading Republicans such as Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin have endorsed him recently; both are viewed as potential running mates. Former Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri has said he would back Romney and Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad may announce his support soon.

Romney is sounding more like a general election candidate each day. "It isn't about one person or about even one party," he said last week. "We're Republicans and Democrats in this campaign, but we're all connected with one destiny for America."

After a break for the Easter holiday, Romney is expected to plunge back into fundraising in New York and South Florida. That's none too soon for Republicans, given Obama's fundraising advantage.

"Ultimately, the thing we have to focus on is getting the general election money raised," said Brian Ballard, of Florida, one of Romney's top fundraisers.

Obama, without a Democratic challenger, has been free to raise money strictly for the general election. He's so far raised more than $300 million for his re-election campaign and the Democratic National Committee. Romney can't raise cash for the Republicans until he clinches the nomination, but he's brought in more than $75 million for his campaign.

Romney aides said solicitations for general election donations were starting to go out.

Obama showed his fundraising clout recently by spending about $1.4 million on TV ads in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Nevada and Virginia that criticize Romney. An outside group that supports Obama also is running ads attacking Romney in those states, as well as in Michigan and New Mexico.

Illustrating the disparity, Romney's team responded to the Obama ad with a statement promoting an Internet attack video.

It's not just money where Romney lags.

The president's re-election team has opened offices and assembled teams of workers in Ohio, Florida and other critical states. The campaign has mapped out the combination of states it will compete in as it works to reach the 270 electoral votes needed for victory.

"No question Mitt Romney is the best-organized Republican I've seen in a long time, but that's not the question," said Florida Republican campaign strategist Susie Wiles, a senior Romney adviser in the state. "The question is not whether he is organized. It is whether he can identify his supporters and get them to vote better than the Obama people. I wouldn't bet against him."

Romney's team is tight-lipped about how he can get to 270. It also won't discuss when and where staff will go in the coming weeks or when it will run ads in the most contested states.

That's probably because there isn't a definitive plan - or maybe even a tentative one.

Republicans expect Romney will compete most vigorously in Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Ohio, Nevada, Virginia, Michigan and New Mexico, states considered among the most contested in the general election.

Obama won all eight in 2008 against Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. In 2004, all but Michigan were carried by Bush during the Republican president's re-election. Republicans say Romney sees Ohio, Michigan, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado as fertile ground this year.

Romney aides say they've lined up staff to send out to states once Romney secures the nomination, and the campaign is preparing the first floor of its three-story Boston headquarters for the influx.

Some key players have returned to states, such as Romney's Florida director Matthew Parker. And, aides point out, Romney has loyal activists and a network of supporters in key battleground states where he won primaries such as Florida and Ohio.

At the same time, the RNC is opening coordinated campaign offices in Florida and other battleground states, and has spent more than a year raising millions to support the eventual nominee. But Romney and the RNC are barred from coordinating until the nomination is in hand. Even so, the candidate and the party are entering a joint fundraising agreement to get ready for that day.

Once Romney seizes the nomination, he's expected to have little trouble taking over the party, considering his campaign manager, communication director and political director all are RNC veterans.

But an alliance with the RNC doesn't mean the party's rank-and-file will automatically rally behind Romney.

Veteran GOP presidential campaign strategist Mary Matalin said Romney needs to anchor his schedule with "unifying events" that focus on the conservative establishment.

In a sign that Romney knows he has work to do on this front, he has scheduled an appearance before the National Rifle Association's annual meeting on April 13.

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