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Thursday, October 18, 2012

Choose Wisely: Company Name Or Domain Name First? [Infographic]

Now that it?s critical for every business to have an online presence, we are faced with finding a domain name that may or may not be to our liking. But wait, if you already have a company name, you pretty much know what domain name to choose, right? That could be the general understanding of course, but things have become a little bit more complex than that. There are currently over 98 million .com domain names registered, and while looking at that number, you suddenly understand that the chance of your preferred domain name being taken already is quite good. Back in 2000, things were a whole lot easier, but now you have to be careful and choose wisely when you decide on your domain name or your company name.

Back in 2000, we might have come up with a catchy company name and then registered our domain name, but today we are faced with the opposite really. If you want to have the same name on your company as well as on your domain, you will most likely have to choose wisely and check out the availability of the domain name before you register your company name (and don?t expect that to be easy either). You can spend literally days just trying to find a domain name available that fits your company name, which of course you have to change over and over again in order to fit the domain name. Complex? Yes!

As you see, choosing wisely is a big headache, but one that might ensure you faster success in future. There is nothing more annoying than trying to find a company you have heard of that doesn?t have the same domain name as that of their company. Of course, you can always purchase a domain name from an already existing registrar, but that can be both time consuming and expensive. So by all means, take your time and choose wisely!

Have a look at this infographic from Melbourne IT, which is a rather colorless piece of statistical advice that will have you reconsider registering your company name before you choose your domain name. Even though it is quite colorless, I still like the message it tries to convey. If you choose wisely, you can make it easier for people to find you and your brand online, as well as make a home for yourself that will last as long as your company does. Customers and clients hate searching for what they already know exists, if you know what I mean. If you choose wisely your ?following? will instantly get access to all your news, products and interaction without having to bust their butts just to find you.

When I say choose wisely, it doesn?t mean you should just concentrate on the .com domain names (even though that should always be your first choice). Have a look at some of the other popular ones also. A lot of companies choose .net as well, which is probably the second most used and searched domain extension. So, don?t just rush into picking a domain name with an obscure extension because it will most likely come back and bite you once it?s registered. Spend some time researching all your options. You will thank yourself for doing so in the long run. Choose wisely and you will succeed.

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Via: [visual.ly]

Source: http://www.bitrebels.com/technology/choose-wisely-domain-name-infographic/

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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Killer of hard-working family man to spend rest of life in ... - Crime Blog

A bank robber who gunned down a security guard during one of his heists was sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison Wednesday morning in federal court.

Enrique Lopez had been facing a possible death sentence for the murder of Cresencio Borquez in West Oak Cliff in 2009 during one of several bank robberies he committed in the area with an accomplice.

But Lopez, a Mexican citizen, agreed in June to plead guilty to robbing four area banks in five different heists over a nine-month period in 2009. Lopez pleaded guilty to a total of 11 counts, including the murder of Borquez during one of the robberies.

The life sentences handed down to her father?s killer did not alleviate the pain Mercedes Borquez said she has to live with.

?It?s not fair that he took my dad away from us,? she told U.S. District Judge Barbara M.G. Lynn. ?My dad?s not there. He?s in a grave. I can?t see him.?

She and her brother, Joel Borquez, told Lynn their father gave up his education to work up to 60 hours a week to provide for his family after becoming a U.S. citizen.

?All he did was work,? said Mercedes Borquez, adding that her father didn?t even have time to enjoy his only grandson, who is now 3.

Joel Borquez said he will never forget his father and what he did for their family.

?He gave us a great example. He was our everything,? he said.

Cresencio Borquez, 46, a Brinks security guard and married father of two,?arrived in an armored truck at a Chase bank on Fort Worth Avenue in September 2009 to load an ATM with money, according to documents in the case. As Borquez walked to the machine with a bag of money, Lopez grabbed him from behind and placed a stolen .45 caliber Glock pistol to his head.

Borquez pushed pushed Lopez away and Lopez shot him twice. Lopez then fired at Borquez?s partner in the armored truck before fleeing in a Honda Accord.

He and his accomplice in the robberies, an El Salvadoran citizen named Jesus Sandoval, were arrested in October 2009 after robbing a Chase bank in Balch Springs that was celebrating its grand opening with 40 people inside, according to court documents.

They had led police on a high-speed chase that ended when their getaway car got stuck in mud, court documents state.

Sandoval has pleaded not guilty to various counts he is facing and has requested a trial.

Lynn told the victim?s family that she wished she had an opportunity to meet him.

?His memory will give you comfort,? she told them.

She then asked Lopez if he wanted to say something. He declined.

Lynn called it ?reprehensible? that Lopez refused to give police the name of his accomplice.

?Mr. Lopez, you committed a horrible act,? she told him.

Lynn told him it?s not too late for him to take a different path in prison, where he will likely spend the rest of his life. She said she hoped he would ?live a life that will give something good back to society.?

Source: http://crimeblog.dallasnews.com/2012/10/killer-of-hard-working-family-man-to-spend-rest-of-life-in-federal-prison.html/

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US futures mixed ahead of housing report

NEW YORK (AP) ? U.S. stock futures are mixed as the market digests a new round of earnings from major U.S. corporations like Bank of America, PepsiCo, and Halliburton.

Dow Jones industrial futures are up 9 points to 13,462. The broader S&P futures have added 2.8 points to reach 1,452. Nasdaq futures are down 2 points to 2,763.25.

The Commerce Department releases its latest housing report Wednesday and economists expect that builders started construction on more homes in September than in August.

Citigroup analyst James Finnerty says the housing industry has struck bottom, but he's cautioning clients that high unemployment continues to weigh on the pace of recovery. He believes rising activity in housing is being fueled primarily by cheaper financing and higher share prices.

The Labor Department releases its weekly unemployment claims report Thursday.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/us-futures-mixed-ahead-housing-report-120902022--finance.html

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Dutch art heist 'a nightmare for any museum director'

Seven paintings ? including works by Picasso, Monet, and Matisse ? were stolen from the Kunsthal Rotterdam museum early Tuesday morning in a Dutch art heist that could be worth tens of millions of dollars.

By Peter Teffer,?Contributor / October 16, 2012

An empty spot on the wall marks the place where a stolen Henri Mattise painting was in Rotterdam's Kunsthal art gallery in the Netherlands Oct. 16, 2012. The theft includes works by Matisse, Monet, and Picasso.

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Seven highly valuable paintings by artists like Matisse and Picasso were stolen last night from the Kunsthal Rotterdam in The Netherlands in what the museum director called "a nightmare."

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The stolen works ? by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, Meyer de Haan, Lucian Freud, and two by Claude Monet ? were part of an exhibition called Avant-Gardes, a selection of 150 works from the Triton Foundation Collection. The collection is a private one, assembled by wealthy Dutch entrepreneur Willem Cordia and his wife, Marijke.

In a press conference this afternoon, Director Emily Ansenk of Kunsthal Rotterdam said she was ?shocked? by the theft, which would have been ?a nightmare for any museum director.? The museum refused to name the value of the collected works, but estimates have been made from 10 million to several tens of millions of dollars.

Ms. Ansenk called the museum's security ?state-of-the-art,? although Willem van Hassel, chairman at the Kunsthal, admitted that there were no guards present. The museum and its insurer had knowingly chosen ?technological security,? local media reported Mr. Van Hassel as saying. This includes security camera images that the police are now investigating.

The size of the theft ? seven paintings ? is remarkable, says Ton Cremers, a consultant on museum security (though not for Kunsthal Rotterdam) who spent all day at the crime scene. Mr. Cremers, who founded Museum Security Network, a website on ?cultural property protection,? points out that the paintings were easily seen from outside through the windows ? maybe too easily. ?You want works of such value in the heart of your building, in a separate space,? Cremers said.

What will this do to Kunsthal Rotterdam's reputation? ?Oh, this is not good?, said Cremers. ?This case will have a lot of international attention.? He expects the next time Kunsthal Rotterdam is organizing an exhibition, art owners will be ?very critical? toward the museum before entrusting them with their expensive works.

Kunsthal Rotterdam has no collection of its own. Its exhibition topics vary greatly, from models of moving dinosaurs, the history of Rotterdam's soccer club Feyenoord, to retrospectives on Leonardo da Vinci and M.C. Escher.

The report of a break-in came shortly after 3 a.m. on Tuesday morning, the police announced in a press release, calling the heist ?well-prepared.? Museum director Ansenk pointed out that ?all works have been internationally registered and described,? which she says will make it hard for the thief or thieves to sell them ? unless the buyer doesn't mind that he forever has to hide the works.

The chance of stolen art being returned to its owner generally is small, says security expert Cremers. ?For paintings, that chance is around 30 to 40 percent. On average it takes about seven years,? he says. But he notes that there is no guarantee of recovery, pointing to two works by Vincent van Gogh that were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam in December 2002. Two thieves were sentenced for that crime in 2005, but the stolen paintings have never been recovered.

The Kunsthal Rotterdam was closed for public today, but it will be open again tomorrow.

Source: http://rss.csmonitor.com/~r/feeds/csm/~3/lp5hDIIPtc0/Dutch-art-heist-a-nightmare-for-any-museum-director

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Cuba lifting hated travel restrictions

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will scrap much-reviled travel restrictions starting in January, making it easier for its citizens to leave the communist-ruled island in the first major reform to its migration policies in half a century.

The changes reverse tough restrictions imposed in 1961 when the government tried to put the brakes on a mass migration of people fleeing after the 1959 revolution that put Fidel Castro in power.

The government said on Tuesday it would lift requirements to obtain an exit visa permitting departure from Cuba and a letter of invitation from someone in the destination country, putting an end to a process that Cubans complained was too time consuming and expensive, with no guarantee of final approval.

Now, most Cubans will only have to show their passports, national identity cards and, if needed, a visa from the country they will visit to go abroad, deputy immigration chief Colonel Lamberto Fraga told reporters.

In theory, the changes should make it easier for Cubans not only to travel but to work abroad and return home when they want.

But Cubans will still need to obtain visas from most countries, which may not be easy because of fears that those who were granted tourist visas might not want to return to the island.

"For most, the key bottleneck will now be getting an entry visa from the target country," said Bert Hoffmann, a Cuba expert at the German Institute of Global and Area Studies in Hamburg.

The changes, which Fraga called "profound," are the latest reforms under President Raul Castro, who has modestly liberalized Cuba's Soviet-style economy, but mostly eschewed the notion of political reform.

The new law also extends the time limit of visas for foreigners wishing to live in Cuba. "They want people to come and live in Cuba, and invest in the country," said Antonio Zamora, a Cuban-American lawyer in Miami who travels frequently to the island to study Cuba's legal system.

But the law maintains restrictions on Cuban exiles who it says might seek to return to the island to "engage in hostile political actions."

An editorial in the Communist Party newspaper Granma blamed the island's longtime policy on the United States, which it said had long tried to sabotage Cuba in various ways, including the enticement of doctors and other professionals away from the island.

Over the past half century, thousands of Cubans have died trying to cross the treacherous Florida Straits in flimsy boats and homemade rafts, while hundreds of thousands more have completed the journey, many of them in mass migrations in 1965, 1980 and 1994.

The United States now accepts about 20,000 Cubans annually via legal immigration, as well as family members seeking reunification, and also takes in those who manage to reach U.S. shores without being intercepted.

Under the "wet foot, dry foot" policy, it turns back Cubans picked up at sea. Almost 1,300 Cubans were repatriated to Cuba in the past 12 months after failing to make it to U.S. soil.

"We obviously welcome any reforms that will allow Cubans to depart from and return to their country freely," said U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland. "We are analyzing, obviously, all of the details and any implications it may have for our processing" of Cubans seeking to travel to the United States.

The new travel measures, set to take effect on January 14, extend to 24 months, from the current 11, the amount of time Cubans can be out of the country without losing rights and property, and they can seek an extension of up to 24 months more, the government said.

'BIG STEP FORWARD'

Cubans welcomed the changes, which Castro promised last year and then delayed because he said there were issues and details to be worked out.

"There have been many expectations for many years about a new travel law. It's a big step forward that will save us money and simplify the process," said Rafael Pena, an office worker, as he headed to his job in Havana.

"At last, our government is not going to treat us like children," said Israel Gutierrez, a college student, while waiting to board a bus.

One woman said she hoped finally to take her daughter to Disney World in Florida.

In Miami, center of the Cuban exile community in the United States, fashion designer Vicente Chinor said increased family visits from Cuba would be "fantastic."

"There are people here who have families (on the island). They live here alone, missing their children, their parents, their siblings."

Prominent Havana-based dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez, who complains that authorities have denied her travel permits 20 times, said on Twitter she would test the lifting of restrictions as soon as they took effect.

"My friends tell me not to get my hopes up about the new immigration law," Sanchez said. "They say I'm on the 'black list' but I'm still going to give it a try."

It was not clear if dissidents, derided by the government as "mercenaries" in the pay of the United States and other enemies, would be allowed to travel under the new rules.

Fraga said restrictions would still be in place for certain groups that Cuba does not want to lose, including doctors, members of the military and athletes, and for reasons of national defense or security.

Cuba experts praised the changes as a big step forward.

"Like earlier decisions legalizing the personal sales of homes and cars, this is another step in the direction of loosening restrictions and opening up Cuban society," said Sarah Stephens, executive director of the Center for Democracy in the Americas, a Washington group opposed to the U.S. embargo on Cuba.

The changes also mean that "Cuba now gives its citizens more freedom to travel to the U.S. than the U.S. gives its citizens to travel to Cuba," said John McAuliff of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, which advocates better U.S.-Cuba relations.

Under its long-standing trade embargo against Cuba, the United States allows Cuban-Americans free travel to their homeland, but requires most other Americans to get a license from the U.S. government to visit the island.

(Additional reporting by Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta in Havana and Evelyn Gruber in Miami.; Editing by David Adams, Kieran Murray and Peter Cooney)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/cuba-lift-broad-travel-restrictions-easing-exit-return-114001621.html

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Harrison: I've had "double-digit" concussions

PITTSBURGH (AP) ? Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker James Harrison didn't want to wait for the NFL to do something about protecting his head, so the four-time Pro Bowler decided to do it himself.

After enduring what he estimated as "double digit" bouts with concussion-like symptoms throughout his decade-long career, Harrison began using a special layer of padding inside his helmet last fall and is pleased with the results.

"I haven't seen any spots or had any blackouts," Harrison said Tuesday.

Harrison was the first NFL player to use the CRT padding developed by Unequal Technologies inside his helmet. Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Michael Vick began using a flak jacket lined with military-grade Kevlar during the 2010 season, but Harrison was the first player to put the quarter-inch padding in his helmet.

He's been joined by around 100 players over the last 12 months and feels the extra weight (about 3-4 ounces) is worth the feeling of safety it provides.

"To protect my head I'd take a pound more," Harrison said.

The outspoken 2009 NFL Defensive Player of the Year believes the movement could catch on. One of the NFL's fiercest hitters, Harrison says he played through concussion-like symptoms in the past but as he's aged has become more wary of the long-lasting impact repeated head shots can have on a player's future health.

"If something works, I'm going to use it," he said.

The green padding uses material developed to protect combat military personnel. The padding square packs that can be cut into different shapes then stuck inside helmets from various sports, including hockey and baseball.

Harrison became aware of the product while looking for a little extra protection after fracturing his right orbital bone last season. Pittsburgh backup quarterback Charlie Batch, a member of the NFL Players Association's executive council, introduced CRT to player representatives from around the league, which quickly helped expand usage.

Unequal Technologies president Robert Vito said the product doesn't claim to prevent concussions but that anecdotal evidence from players from all levels seem to indicate the material can help minimize the recurrence of concussions.

Harrison noted the NFL has gone to great lengths to address concussions and hand out "crazy fines" to players who make illegal hits but haven't taken aggressive action in trying to update the equipment.

"The league is mandating next year that we wear thigh and knee pads," Harrison said. "I don't know how many people's career has been ended on a thigh or knee bruise. We have guys now that are 30, 31 years old that are having to quit the game because they have severe headaches ... I think you should be focusing more on (the helmet) than knee or thigh pads."

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Google tests searches that include Calendar, Drive in results

Google has been testing an expanded search that includes Gmail results ever since August, and it's been enough of a hit that the company is swinging for the fences with an expanded test. The new version lets Gmail members find Calendar appointments and Drive files through the autocomplete results in the search box. Visit the main Google page and the results won't be quite as broad, but they'll include both the previous trial's Gmail infromation as well as Drive -- thankfully, tucked to the side rather than dominating the main page. Any individual, English-literate Google fans can join the new trial to get early access and find that long lost spreadsheet in the cloud.

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