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Video Conference as Off-Site Trip Alternative for Prisoners
Today technology plays a leading role in innovation, but it isn't the only factor. It could be the establishing base for innovation, but people are the ones that drive it forward. Technology is really only the mechanics of the process. Real innovation is about great people generating and then implementing new ideas. One such innovation is video conferencing.
There are several video conferencing benefits and its use is becoming increasingly popular among people in different fields. In past days, Government had to spend lots of money in transporting and escorting sick inmates to the doctor. But now using telemedicine, there is no need to take them out. From a private room at the prison, inmates will be connected by video to a consultant located outside the facility and would provide care and treatment as if they were sitting together in the same room.
Basically, this is a two-way Video teleconference vendors such as RHUB’s TurboMeeting are available in the market that serves its best to the users.
Ultimately, the use of this technology will help to conserve valuable corrections, court and law enforcement resources.
Some of the Prisons in different countries have video conferencing facility are listed below:
1. Northern Ireland Prison
2. Thailand Prison
3. Delaware Prison
4. India (Trivandrum, Thrissur, Kottayam, Ernakulam)
5. USA
6. Australia
7. Malaysia
8. New Zealand and so on
Web Design - Image Optimisation
Now that Google is looking at download and rendering speeds to rank pages, it’s worth thinking about what you can do to improve your website's rendering speed. SEO now seems to cover every aspect of a web design!
There's a plethora of things you can do to address this issue but the primary and probably the easiest thing you can do is optimise your images. Photoshop has got to be the worst program to use, especially as it always seems to add extra metadata that is totally unnecessary.
One program I have found that does a fantastic job or reducing the file size and remove metadata too is JPEG & PNG Stripper - http://www.steelbytes.com/?mid=30
It's free and fast and all you have to do is drag and drop your images into its window and hay presto it’s done!
You can reduce your image file sizes by 75% by using this neat little program.
One final tip. No matter what program you use to optimise your images, BACK THEM UP FIRST! Just to be on the safe side.
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Record your SEO Changes on Google Analytics
If you are running an SEO campaign of any description or size it's vital to record your amendments, changes and link building activity. I find it's quite handy to add my SEO activity on Google Analytics using the annotate function.
All you need to do is open up Google Analytics, go to the dashboard of the site you are monitoring, click on a datapoint and hay presto, 'create new annotation' appears under the datapoint data. Just click on that link and type in your SEO note!
What makes this a top idea in my opinion is that the annotation is placed directly on the Analytics timeline so you can see when you made the change on your website / web design and how that change affected your results!
The most Reliable Way on How to Lose Weight Fast
There are a thousands or even a hundred thousands of topics and guides in the Internet, Books, Magazines and others on How to Lose Weight Fast. When you don't have any idea on How to Lose Weight Fast, you tend to jump in on the first guide or topics that you read about losing weight. Not all of what you read are true, it may have been written by some amateur and do not have any scientific explanation. Basically all of the articles that you have read on How to Lose Weight has some similarities. Most of them are true and some of them are not. If you are to tried to find out what are these steps that are effective. I have narrowed it down for you.
Drinking Water – This must be the most underrated method or way on How to Lose Weight Fast. Most people don't now that water can greatly help us on losing our weight, by increasing our metabolism rate. Not only that it keeps us hydrated it flushes out the toxins in our body that can cause us to gain more weight. It also flushes out dead cells in our body. Water can also helps us on recovering from a sickness.
Preparing a meal plan – Some people think that exercise alone can make them losing weight, but if you don't change what you eat then you ain't going no where. Prepare your meals for the week, create 5 to 6 meals a day that is compose if your breakfast, lunch, dinner and 3 or 2 snacks. Eating more often during the day keeps your body guessing on when is the next meal, so the body burns all the foods that it gets. Not only that it burns fats as well and it increases your metabolism rate. In your meal plans you must include vegetables and fruits in your diet. If you don't like it, well you have no choice you must start eating green now. Vegetables and fruits are a great source of fiber and contains a little amount of calories. You can eat more without the risk of getting fat. Eat fruits before the main meal it will make you fill up more faster and you can only eat a small amount of your main course.
Have a exercise plan – This is the most common steps on How to Lose Weight Fast. Most people do this when they are planning to lose weight but they don't have the right knowledge on how to do it effectively. Create a exercise plan that is acceptable to you so that you can continue on doing it. Do not force your self on something that you don't love. You will only stop on the middle of the process. Do some exercise before you eat your breakfast. This can be very effective because of your body did have something to eat and so there is no calories to fuel your body, but it will turn your stored fats to energy. That will burn all your stored fats.
These are the most common steps on How to Lose Weight Fast. It is very important for you to remember all of these things. The right amount of knowledge will make you go through and succeed on How to Lose Weight Fast.
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-Mark Overby
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Web Design - Back Up Your Data
It is a disaster waiting to happen. It's already in the post. But we rarely keep it at the forefront of our minds - data loss. I have to admit that I've been caught out more than once. But never again, I never want to feel that sinking feeling of realisation that everything has gone, never to be seen again.
All my SQL Server data is triple backed up. Twice a day as a SQL backup and nightly as a complete mirror onto another drive as well as running a RAID configuration. This is by no means unusual and this kind of paranoia should be reflected on to management of local files used to design or develop a website.
Here is my regime for keeping my web design data safe:
1. Keep all your files (including psd files, mockup files, raw images and copy) on a USB harddrive. I keep one with me all the time.
2. If you have hosting set up for the website your designing, upload the same files on a 'backup' folder that's below or on the same level as the live public root folder. This way you won't have all your files available to the world to view! Check your hosting terms and conditions as some hosts don't like you storing files in this way.
3. Register a DropBox account. Its free and really cool. I use it to keep a back up of all my fonts and Photoshop brushes, patterns, swatches and other add-ons. So whereever I am, I have access to that data. If you upgrade your account you can keep entire websites and support files easily.
4. Finally, I also keep a complete record of every web design I've ever done on a RAID configured NAS box. This also allows me to keep complete mirrors of all my PCs and Laptop.
With web design, whatever you do, don't ignore the importance of keeping backups. With so much data storage technology available, whether it be hardware or virtual, there is no excuse! Do it or be damned!!!
Which Hosting Account?
If you had asked me that question a year ago I would not have hesitated. It would have been Windows Server using IIS. However, in my view things are changing. More and more I am turning to Apache and Linux. Why? Well mainly it's my recent love affair with Wordpress which definitely works better under Apache in my view, mainly because of Permalinks.
IIS cannot handle url rewriting out of the box and does not work with .htaccess natively. So you need some form of plug in/add on.
So, if you need to rewrite your urls (especially for Wordpress), then I would always go down the Apache road. However, if you really need to use Windows based servers then you can always install URL Rewrite Module 2.0 (for IIS7) or the brilliant Helicon Isapi Rewrite 3 or their new Helicon Jet packages which are both under $100!
I have to say Helicon have a fantastic support service and will help you on any Regex writing problems you have with their package.
Web Design in Firefox, Tweak for IE
When designing a website never use Internet Explorer to test your pages with. Allways use Firefox.
There are two main reasons for this:
1. Firefox renders more closely to the w3c web standards than IE does (by miles)
2. Firefox has lots of neat plugins to help you test your designs (Firebug for one)
Once you have tested that your web design is perfect in Firefox you should then tweak or hack your CSS to work for IE. Firefox is definitely the web designer's friend.
We all know IE is a law unto itself so don't be a slave to it. Design your website to the correct standards first - Always!
A little bit about Rutland Water
Rutland Water is a great destination for a multitude of activities such as sailing, wind surfing, trout fishing and bird watching as well as the ever popular walking and cycling. On my various visits to Rutland water I have been caugfht short by the uk weather, so make sure you purchase your rainwear before hand. Dont take any chances so grab some waterproof trousers and a waterproof jacket.
Several international competitions and events take place at the reservoir throughout the year. The reservoir also caters for visitors and holiday makers who are welcome to try any number of exhilarating activities during their stay in Rutland. You can try your hand at fly fishing, sailing, kayaking & windsurfing.
There are also a number of walks taking in the 25 mile shoreline, through picturesque villages that gently hug the lake. You can walk around the beautiful Hambleton peninsula or through the bluebell woods at Barnsdale or across the dam at Normanton. If you enjoy an outdoor picnic, Rutland Water has plenty of picnic tables around the key sites, and parking is plentiful. My Outdoor Scene walking trousers and walking shirts came in handy as it was a hot day. The hiking trousers breathability was noticeable.
In addition, you can hire bicycles for all the family and cycle around the lake – a perfect way to pass a summer’s day! The waterproofs are very pricey in the shops so don’t be surprised. Rutland Water was recently voted number 2 in the UK’s Top Most Beautiful Cycle Routes by the Times and it is easy to see why! There are also the two Rutland Water nature reserves at the Anglian Water Bird Watching Centre in Egleton and Lyndon Nature Reserve. These make a fabulous base to start exploring the nature and wildlife around the water. You may even be lucky enough to spot ospreys in flight!
This year the ever popular Bird Fair takes place over the weekend of 20 – 22 August, when the Birdwatching Centre becomes home to thousands of exhibitors and visitors alike. People come from all over the world to hear expert lecturers in natural history such as Simon King, Bill Oddie and Johnnie Kingdom, and experience the atmosphere of a truly international event in a relaxed and tranquil setting. This event is known as the ‘Glastonbury of the Bird World’ and attracts young and old alike. Please consider Outdoor scene when getting prepared. Our waterproof range is perfect as bird watching clothing. Packabale waterproof jackets and waterproof trousers and get some extra comfort and warmth from our gorgeous fleece jackets, which come in at a great price.
Peter Shalson Biography
Peter Shalson left Hendon County School at just 16, like many other successful UK business men he started out within the sales industry and his business sense escalated from there.
At 52 Shalson is one of the UK’s most experienced entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and business investors. He first sold encyclopaedias, door to door, to save enough money for his first car. His first taste of success started in the mid 1970’s working as a clothes hanger salesman in London. Here his potential for making ‘it big’ within this industry quickly grew .
Braitrim was then a small manufacturing company making clothes hangers for the trade, which Shalson bought with a £10k down payment in 1978. The next 20 years saw Shalson build this small company into an international packaging manufacturing brand. In 1998 Braitrim was sold to Mercury Asset Management (a private equity arm of Merrill Lynch), for £85million, Shalson retaining a 20% stake of the company. He disposed of this holding in 2001 when Mercury sold Braitrim to ‘Spotless Group’, an Australian business service for £120million.
In 2004 Shalson expanded his ever growing business interests and investments and decided to venture into the pub industry. Initially acquiring approximately 20 pubs Shalson then built up a portfolio under the name ‘Pubfolio’- the biggest acquisition being 545 pubs in 2005 for an estimated £162.5million from Punch Taverns. Thus bringing the Pubfolio’s investment value up to £250m and some 800 pubs on their books. In 2004 Pubfolio ‘sprang from no where’ and became number 10 in the UK’s largest pub estate, the day to day running of such is done out of Country Estate Management whilst the directors of the company are focusing more deals in the City.
With the exception of the pub industry Mr Shalson has various other interests. In 2001 he founded ‘Brightview’ which focused his interest within the internet technology sector. Brightview quickly became the UK’s most successful privately owned Internet Service Provider and was sold in 2004 for £25m to Invox.
In 2003 he joined as Chairman for Consolidated Equity, which is a highly profitable, privately-funded company that provides 100% backing for property deals with professionals and entrepreneurs.
Mr Shalson’s next investment in 2005 was within the Sky TV market and acquired ‘PitchTV’ a television and online shopping channel business. The slogan for the company being ‘its’ clever, it’s simple, it works!’, Pitch TV focuses on selling several niche products , 24 hours a day seven days a week and since December 2009, Shalson has turned from Investor to taking an active role in the running of the company. In 2006, he also bought into two gaming channels and an entertainment channel.
In 2007 Peter Shalson bought the majority stake in TradIndex , which was founded in 2002 as an online spread bet trading platform. He re-branded the company as ETX Capital. Responsible for several hundred million £s of client deposits, ETX is constantly growing into a highly regarded financial spread betting company within the City and offers clients’ access to 1000s of global instruments from a single trading account over the phone or online.
In 2007, Peter Shalson was approached by 2 good friends who persuaded him to invest £2m into a new soft drinks business called Hopper, developing the new soft brew category. By the end of 2009 , soft brew was successfully selling in Marks and Spencer and in May 2010 it achieved a Waitrose listing. Shalson is convinced that The Juice Brewery (founding company) is destined for global success.
For personal interests, Shalson has devoted time to supporting and raising funds for a number of different charities, including the well-regarded Osteopathic Centre for Children, a special school for autistic children in London. Shalson’s biggest single donation is the £1.5 million sponsorship of ‘The London Academy’, a City Academy based in Edgware, which is a ‘non-selective, mixed, all ability Academy’ and is based in North London. Having been acknowledged by Ofsted to be the one of the most successful academies in the UK, rising from 9th from bottom in the national league tables ten years ago, is now achieving 63% of GCSE results with grades A-C. This places the academy within the top 10% of the national schools’results table. He is also a past member of the Development Board of the Prince’s Trust, also having served on the Advisory Council of the Trust with Sir Angus Ogilvy.
Another charity that Peter Shalson has been hugely active with is ‘The Presidents Club’. The charity mostly raises money for sick children, amongst other charities.
Under Shalson’s Chairmanship, the success of the charity has meant that it has been able to donate many millions of pounds to worthy causes. Shalson, when it comes to helping children’s charities is consistently generous and willing to give all the help he can. Recently working with the Presidents Club on the Royal Marsden Hospital to help build Europe’s leading Children’s and Teenage Cancer Centre. Going into their 26th year Shalson continues to give his support in every way he can to help those in need.
Outside of business and helping others, Peter Shalson lives in St.Johns Wood, London with his wife Polly and four daughters. He says that the most worthwhile thing he has ever done is to have built The London Academy, which continues to be dedicated to improving the lives of thousands of students from disadvantaged backgrounds by offering them educational opportunity and facilities that they would never have had the benefit of.
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