Saturday, June 2, 2012

7 shocking facts about Casino gaming online told by an expert ...

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Any casino gaming online has two main types of players playing inside it. The first type of player is relatively new and has no experience at all. And, the next type of player is an experienced player who understands more than the basics of the games. You will find 3 tips for each type of player in the following paragraphs. These tips are compiled from the experience of expert gamblers.

Here is a the first set of 3 gambling tips or you may call them golden rules meant only for new gamblers. Stick to them and follow them in every casino game. These tips will help you leave the table most of the time with a profit.

The experts have formulated the first tip that says that new players should bet with only an amount that can be lost without affecting their daily or monthly budget. The next tip from experts says that you should judge the amount of money that you can put at risk while gambling. Don't use this money, but only half of it for gambling. Keep the other half so that you can use it to gamble another day if you lose the first half. And, the third strategy, being the most important one is to shed away greediness. This is because being greedy you can end up loosing all the money, even the money you have won.

The next set of 3 strategies are for expert players who have at least a few years of experience gambling. These strategies would help in increasing your odds of winning. The first tip is to start your bet from the smallest size and keep increasing it as you keep winning. So, your profit keeps growing as you continue to play.

The second tip is to take casino gaming online in a realistic form. Don't think that you are going to win every game and you cannot force the outcome of a game. You should break your game into shorter sessions, each with a fixed goal. And, the moment your goal is met, you should leave that session. If you want to survive in gambling, it is important to focus on overall profit and not winning every time.

The next gambling strategy for experienced players is with regard to fixing your profit level target. It is ideal to fix this level in the backward direction. It is easier and safer to fix a profit target that decreases as the game progresses. For this you would have to rely upon a low risk to win ratio betting system. So, the result would be ? small risk, big wins but lesser wins.

While playing in a casino gaming online, you must try to bet only for a limited number of times. This means that it is not necessary that you bet every time. With the help of the 3 strategies mentioned above for both types of players, it is possible to increase your chances of winning.

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TODAY Health - Diet, Fitness and Wellness Blog | TODAY.com ...

By Bill Briggs and Lisa Flam

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg stood firmly by his plan for a?first-in-the-nation ban on large servings of soda and sugary drinks to fight obesity?on Friday???even as the city celebrated National Doughnut Day.

?It doesn?t sound ridiculous,? the mayor told TODAY?s Matt Lauer. ?In moderation, most things are OK.?

Bloomberg?s proposal would prohibit the sale of soda and other sweetened drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces that are sold in restaurants, movies theaters, at food carts and ball parks.

While some called the plan a governmental overreach, others applauded the effort to combat obesity. Bloomberg said nobody would be deprived of the right to drink soda.

Vote: Will a ban on big sizes of sugary drinks curb obesity?

?We?re not banning you from getting the stuff,? he said on TODAY. ?It?s just if you want 32 ounces, the restaurant has to serve it in two glasses. That?s not exactly taking away your freedoms. It?s not something the Founding Fathers fought for.

?And all the studies show if the glass or the plate in front of you is smaller, you?ll eat less,? the mayor said.

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A woman holds a large soda on a street in New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced plans to implement a ban on the sale of large sodas and other sugary drinks at restaurants, movie theaters and street carts. The law is another effort by the administration to fight obesity.

Around the city,?reaction has ranged from sweet celebration to frothy anger. In the backwash of Bloomberg?s other municipal health crackdowns ? namely public-smoking suppressions and calorie count postings at chain restaurants ? some New Yorkers and even some obesity fighters say the mayor?s anti-soda push exceeds what city governments are designed to do.

?I consider myself to be fit and healthy, and I love large sodas!? said Christopher Potter, 48, a mortgage broker who lives and works in New York.?His favorite is regular Pepsi and he downs at least one 16-ounce soda per day.

?I go to the gym daily (and) run. I?m not fat. I think this proposed ban is a huge infringement on my rights. I always get the large soda at the movies and drink what I like," Potter said.?

Health experts largely praised the move to stop sales of sugared drinks served in containers of more than 16 fluid ounces.?

"I?actually support the ban," said Joy Bauer, registered dietitian and health expert for NBC's TODAY. "It?s a good compromise because the law wouldn?t completely take away these sugary drinks, but it limits portions and forces people to think twice before drinking more ? by buying a second beverage."

Her support was echoed by New Yorker Alicia Gay, who works near the city's financial district:?

"When I heard the news, I felt like Etta James ? 'At Last,'" said Gay, 32. "People have long applauded the mayor's decision to ban smoking in public. And, as a former smoker, I kept thinking: Why is smoking the only costly, life-threatening behavior being punished when obesity represents a health epidemic in this country? It's crazy that parents can buy their kids these drinks with hundreds of calories with zero regard for the health implications and the potential impact that can have."

On TODAY, Bloomberg said New York City has reduced the rate of childhood obesity by about 5 percent in recent years, and the city?s life expectancy is three years greater than the national average.

The supersize soda ban, he said, would also improve people?s lives.

?In the case of full-sugared drinks, in moderation it?s fine, and all we?re trying to do is to explain to people that if you drink a little bit less you will live longer,? Bloomberg said.

In a TODAY.com?poll that got more than 25,000 responses, the vast majority said Bloomberg?s ban would not curb obesity.

?When told the results, Bloomberg, who previously moved to ban smoking in New York City restaurants, parks and beaches, said such skepticism sounded familiar.

?Where did I hear this before?? Bloomberg said. ?Wasn?t it [that] smoking wasn?t going to work? Today it?s one of the best things we?ve ever done. Deaths from smoking dramatically coming down across the country, virtually every major city has adopted the smoking ordinances.?

While Bloomberg's plan "has been drawing a lot of snickering and quite a bit of anger," University of Pennsylvania's bioethicist Art Caplan says the NYC mayor has science on his side.

"Studies show that portion size is a big contributor to the obesity epidemic overwhelming America," says msnbc.com contributor Caplan, Ph.D., who cheers?Bloomberg's effort to draw attention to?the causes of obesity.??"That said, the effort to get people not to drink soda in bucket size containers is more symbolic then anything else."

The soda proposal, which is likely to win approval from the city?s Board of Health, could take effect in March. It would not apply to water, diet soda, coffee drinks, dairy-based beverages like milk or milkshakes, fruit and vegetable juice and alcoholic beverages. Grocery and convenience stores would be exempt.?Violators would face $200 fines.

Two years ago, Harvard scientists found that taxing soda, albeit in a different way, does cut consumption.?When researchers placed a temporary, penny-per-ounce tax on soft drinks sold at Harvard?s Brigham and Women?s Hospital in Boston, sales fell by 26 percent.

Via his own website, however, Bloomberg cited separate studies that ?have shown what common sense already tells us: When larger portions are in front of people, they simply consume more, often without recognizing it.? In one study, he said, people who were were given sugary drink portion sizes 50 percent larger drank 20 percent to 33 percent more, without reducing their food intake.

Not everyone's a fan. "Bans are an unfair as they treat everyone the same with a 'one-size-fits-all approach,'" said Hank Cardello, a former Coca-Cola executive. Today, he heads the obesity solutions initiative?at the?Hudson Institute, nonpartisan,??Washington, D.C., policy research organization that says it promotes global security, prosperity and freedom. ?

Cardello cited research by the Hudson Institute that shows 25 percent to 30 percent of American consumers pursue healthy lifestyles. "Bluntly,?bans are unfair to them as they act responsibly and do not?contribute to the $150 billion annual cost of obesity," he said.

"What?s needed now is an incentive for food and beverage companies to more aggressively lower the number of calories they sell," Cardello added. "Given the trillions of beverage calories sold each year, an incentive for lowering a company?s 'calorie footprint' by 2 to 3 percent would go a long way to pulling excess calories off the streets. This can be achieved by providing an extra 10 percent?tax deduction to those companies achieving this goal."?

Bioethicist Caplan's?concern is the focus on portion sizes suggests the solution to obesity comes down to simple choice.?"It doesn't and it is going to take a real serious effort to shift a society that is addicted to fattening foods at the dinner table and on the farm to lose weight."

Updated: On Friday afternoon,?a Coca-Cola Co. spokesperson responded to Bloomberg's proposal: ?The people of New York City are much smarter than the New York City Health Department believes. We are transparent with our consumers,"?the statement read.?"They can see exactly how many calories are in every beverage we serve. We have prominently placed calorie counts on the front of our bottles and cans and in New York City, restaurants already post the calorie content of all their offerings and portion sizes -- including soft drinks."

Original: The potential soda crackdown is encouraging to groups that have long lobbied against the soda scourge. The American Heart Association, for instance, urges Americans to sip no more than 450 calories of sugar-sweetened beverages -- or fewer than three 12-ounce cans of carbonated soda -- per week.?

But like residents of the Big Apple, even the AHA needs more details, said Julie Del Barto, a spokeswoman for the group.?

"The American Heart Association is very concerned with the rising rates of obesity," she said in a statement. "We look forward to reviewing Mayor Bloomberg's specific proposal, which we understand won't be available until the June 12th hearing."

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Over-55s pick passwords twice as secure as teenagers'

People over the age of 55 pick passwords double the strength of those chosen by people under 25 years old. That's according to the largest ever study of password security, which also found that most of us choose passwords that are less secure than security experts recommend.

Joseph Bonneau, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge, analysed the passwords of nearly 70 million Yahoo! users. The data had been protected using a security technique called hashing, which ensured he did not have access to the individual accounts. He calculated the password strengths for different demographic groups and compared the results.

A comparison of different nationalities found that German and Korean speakers choose the strongest passwords, whereas Indonesians pick the weakest.

People with a credit card stored on their account do little to increase their security other than avoiding very weak passwords such as "123456". Unsurprisingly, people who change their password from time to time tend to select the strongest ones.

Traditionally, security researchers look at the difficulty of breaking every password in a database, but that makes the problem seem much harder than it is, because the most secure randomly-generated passwords are almost impossible to crack. Bonneau instead looked at more realistic attacker scenarios. "Maybe an attacker is happy to only break one per cent of accounts they have access to, or 50 or even 90 per cent," he says. "Those are all very different than 100 per cent." Another important factor is whether attackers are trying to guess the password of a particular user by typing it onto a login screen, or attempting to crack an entire leaked database of passwords. These are known as online and offline attacks respectively.

Cracking bits

Password strength is measured in bits, where cracking one bit is equivalent to the chance of correctly calling a fair coin toss, and each additional bit doubles the password's strength. On average, Bonneau found that user-chosen passwords offer less than 10 bits of security against online attacks, meaning it would only take around 1000 attempts to try every possible password, and around 20 bits of security against offline attacks.

That's surprising, because even a randomly chosen six-character password composed of digits and upper and lower case letters should offer 32 bits of security. Bonneau says the discrepancy is due to people picking much easier passwords than those theoretically allowed. He suggests assigning people randomly chosen nine-digit numbers instead, which would offer 30 bits of security against every type of attack ? a 1000-fold increase in security on average. "I think it's reasonable to expect people to have the capacity to remember that, because they do it for phone numbers," he says.

Bonneau presented the findings at the Symposium on Security and Privacy in San Francisco, California, on 23 May.

"This is one of the rare studies based on a large set of passwords that are actively used and have been obtained legitimately," says Lujo Bauer, who studies passwords at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Most other studies are based on leaked databases that may be incomplete.

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Friday, June 1, 2012

The Best Guide On How To Be Successful In Internet Marketing ...

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As you face marketing on the internet, you will have some important decisions to make. One involves quantity versus quality, which affects the price you set. Do you want to put out a manufactured product and try to sell a lot at a low price? Or a handmade product at a higher price? The tips below will help you make these important decisions before you start selling.

When it comes to email marketing, be thinking long term strategy, not short term gain. Email can be a very powerful tool in your internet marketing arsenal, but only when real thought has been put behind it. A great place to begin is to calendar out your email touch points over the course of the next twelve months and stick to it. The follow through is essential, as a big piece of email marketing is consistency and repetition!

Include something free with every purchase made at your website. Even something as simple as a key chain or bumper sticker makes customers feel valued. If you include free samples of other products you offer, you will also give the customer the incentive to return to your business to buy the new product.

Internet Marketing

An important tip regarding Internet marketing is to be sure that you understand web analytics and how to apply them to your marketing strategy. This is important because this is where you all of the hard data about visitors to your site such as their location, where they visited, now many people visited, and where traffic came from.

Have a website! This may seem like the most obvious idea on the planet, but there are some businesses that attempt to market online without ever setting one up. Even if you only sell your products in-store, internet marketing is best successful when you have a website. You can use it to tell people what you do sell in your company, and entice them into visiting you in person.

Internet Marketing Business

When trying to get an Internet marketing business known, try to get your web site?s pictures added to an engine search. Even if your Internet marketing business does come up in a search engine, you will have more success when someone does an image search. Be sure that you name your images with keywords that are relevant.

A good way to support your internet marketing business is to start a blog using its name. Write a background story about your business, suggest ways to use your product, pass along comments you have received from other customers. This will keep your customers? interest engaged in your business and strengthen your relationship with them.

Internet Marketing Strategies

No matter what other internet marketing strategies you employ for advertising, you must use Google Adsense. Google is not the #1 internet company in America for no reason. Google is where everyone goes to search, and in one way or another, Google is involved in most business online. Google Adsense, when utilized correctly, is a powerful tool for advertising.

Don?t be afraid to try new internet marketing strategies. Often these ideas do not pay off right away, so do not get discouraged. When you first try something new, do not let the instant results or lack thereof determine whether you will continue with this way of marketing on the internet.

We hope these tips have helped you see the pros and cons of different approaches to internet marketing. Thinking clearly about the type of product you want to sell, its price and marketplace will help you put your best foot forward. Planning ahead will lay the groundwork for your business to succeed.

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Tips for Choosing the Best Personal Finance Software

A lot of personal finance software users are simply in awe at how simple they are to use and how well they work at tracking a household budget. Yet some programs are better than others, and you have to choose one that does what you need it to do. You can track an investment portfolio, download a financial software from the web or even use one that is entirely web based if you are comfortable enough to do this, the choice is yours. Keep reading for some helpful hints for locating the right software for your personal finance needs.

Before you buy any personal finance software programs, make sure that you understand the reasons you desire it. For illustration, not all software permits you to stay on top of your investments therefore if this is something you have a hankering for then make sure that you?re acquiring one that has this attribute. You could also favor a web based service, as opposed to software that you download. The plus to this is that you can have access to the program anywhere you are and you don?t necessitate your computer. Online services can additionally provide you with immediate information. These are some of the things to bear in mind when selecting personal finance software programs.

One popular product you should consider is the You Need A Budget since it can be used on just about any operating system including Linux, Windows and Mac. YNAB is well reviewed among consumers for its ease of use and many helpful features. It is of course more than just a program, it?s specifically designed to teach you all about budgeting from start to finish.

The four rules of cash flow are the basis for hits program helping you get out of debt, control expenses and improve your financial situation. Included with this program are live classes, and tutorials among other helpful resources and support services. Considering everything it does, YNAB is a good value for its $60 price tag.

MoneyStrands is a type of personal finance software for the Internet, which costs nothing and helps you to keep an eye on your budget and provides you with beneficial money management suggestions. This program makes it easy to keep an eye on each of you financial accounts, like credit cards, savings or checking to let you have an overall picture of your financial state of affairs. Additionally, it comes equipped with a free iPhone app which consents for you to access all of your data from your phone. As well as the financial tools, MoneyStrands is akin to a social network, as it gives you confidence to correspond with other members and exchange information and suggestions. The service also makes recommendations to you based on your lifestyle and financial situation. Personal finance software come in bunches of different forms, to Internet services to phone apps. A lot of these programs are incredibly potent and practical if you spend the time needed to learn all of its facets. The programs we?ve gone over in this article are the ones you might find to be effective, yet you should take a look at several of them to determine which one has all the things you need. Personal finance software can help you to comprehend your finances more, and this can relieve a lot of stress.

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SMLWRLD architects have designed Hell of the North, a restaurant/bar in Melbourne, Australia. . The Paris-Roubaix is a one-day, 260km cycling event in the north of France ridden mostly over bluestone cobbles, it is known as The Hell of the North for obvious reasons. With Parisian bistro references and plenty of historic Melbourne bluestone, the [...]

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