Coming Up With A Practical Strategy For Web Design Business ...

When it comes to creating a web development or web design business, the first step you need to take to be successful is to create a personal and honest vision. You know you have both the talent and the skill to be successful, so you can relate this to a positive professional business for yourself. Unfortunately, it is easy to get carried away with these thoughts and think further about how you?re business will soar as long as you have the right pricing. Read on to get more information.

Outsiders don?t need an insider view to be able to tell if your web design business is running smooth and well organized. All they need is a positive perception, and with that comes the perception that your business should be taken seriously. A necessary step to take in order to run a successful web design business is creating an all-around business plan. You?ll need to take time to do a lot of personal research, that is, if you?re trying to get extra funding from a bank. Banks will not provide funds to people with a ?good guess.? Buy a good domain name if necessary.

Whatever you are planning on doing, whether it?s getting a business bank loan or if you are funding it yourself, you need to approach this the same way. Your money is just as important, if not more, than the bank?s money. Your business plan needs to be very detailed and extremely specific. It should outline every single aspect of your web design business and how and every way you?ll be generating money. Your web design business plan should include the following as well.

Who is your audience? Who will your potential customer or clients be? Who is your competition? What makes your web design business different than the rest? ?What kind of experience do you have, if any at all, in this field?? You?ll need to include all of your potential advantages and disadvantages. Not all web firms and web designers have the same niche or types of clients. To go about figuring out your potential client base is you have to assess your own web design skills along with your experience. You?ll also want to target a market or audience that allows you to deliver on time, provide to that type of client?s needs, and one that will best suit your own finances.

Developing a full list of all expected expenses plus expenses that ?could? occur is very important for a successful web design business. You have to have a plan and know how much you need in order to function as a business. You can?t forget to include taxes, your salary, salaries for your potential employees if you?re going to have them, all business expenses such as rent, electricity, office supplies, software, hardware, furniture and so on. Be sure to include any possible expenses that might occur. One can also check http://www.bringyourownlaptop.com.au/training/indesign-training-courses.html for more details.

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Desalination no panacea for California water woes

In the Central California coastal town of Marina, a $7 million desalination plant that can turn salty ocean waves into fresh drinking water sits idle behind rusty, locked doors, shuttered by water officials because rising energy costs made the plant too expensive.

Far to the north in well-heeled Marin County, plans were scrapped for a desalination facility despite two decades of planning and millions of dollars spent on a pilot plant.

Squeezing salt from the ocean to make clean drinking water is a worldwide phenomenon that has been embraced in thirsty California, with its cycles of drought and growing population. There are currently 17 desalination proposals in the state, concentrated along the Pacific where people are plentiful and fresh water is not.

But many projects have been stymied by skyrocketing construction costs, huge energy requirements for running plants, regulatory delays and legal challenges over environmental impacts on marine life. Only one small plant along Monterey Bay is pumping out any drinking water.

From Marin County to San Diego, some water districts are asking themselves: How much are we willing to pay for this new water?

"We found that our demand for water had dropped so much since the time we started exploring desalination, we didn't need the water," said Libby Pischel, a spokeswoman for the Marin Municipal Water District. "Right now, conservation costs less than desalination."

Desalination plants can take water from the ocean or drill down and grab the less salty, brackish water from seaside aquifers. Because of their potential impacts to marine life, the California Coastal Commission reviews each project case-by-case.

There was great fanfare in 2009 when the last regulatory hurdle was cleared to build the Western Hemisphere's largest desalination plant in Carlsbad, north of San Diego.

At the time, it was proposed that the $320 million project would suck in 100 million gallons of seawater and be capable of producing 50 million gallons of drinking water a day. It was expected to come online by this year.

Since then, the plant owner, Poseidon Resources LLC, has been negotiating a water purchase agreement and is close to clinching a 30-year deal with the San Diego County Water Authority, a wholesaler to cities and agencies that provide water to 3.1 million people.

The compact is essential for Poseidon to obtain financing to build what has become a $900 million project, which includes the seaside plant and a 10-mile pipeline. The San Diego agency hopes the plant opens in 2016 and anticipates desalination will account for 7 percent of the region's supply in 2020. It estimates the cost is comparable to other new, local sources of drinking water, such as treated toilet water or briny groundwater.

Interest is still high, but "people are realizing that desalination isn't a magic fix to the state's water issues," said coastal commission water expert Tom Luster.

Water can be de-salted in different ways. Poseidon's project will use reverse osmosis. Other plants shoot ocean or brackish water at high pressure through salt-removing membrane filters. Because pumps must be used constantly to move massive amounts of water through filters, these facilities are extremely energy intensive.

Also, in many cases, desalinated water is pricier than importing water the old-fashioned way ? through pipes and tunnels. And it is cheaper to focus on conservation when possible: new technologies like low-flow toilets and stricter zoning laws that require less water-intensive landscaping have helped curb demand in communities throughout the state.

Desalination has been around for years in Saudi Arabia, other Arab Gulf states and Israel, which last year approved the construction of a fifth desalination plant. The hope is that the five plants together will supply 75 percent of the country's drinking water by 2013.

The process also has helped ease thirst in places such as Australia, Spain and Singapore. Experts say it has been slower to catch on in the United States, mainly because companies face tougher rules on where they can build plants and must endure longer environmental reviews. Poseidon, for example, is facing opposition by environmental groups over its proposed plans to build another facility in Huntington Beach. The company has received several permits for the Orange County project, but still needs approval from the coastal commission.

About six miles south of the ghost desalination plant in Marina, the mechanical whir coming from a nondescript cinderblock building in a Sand City industrial park is the only evidence that the state's sole operating municipal desalination plant is at work.

The $14 million facility has the ability to produce up to 600,000 gallons a day of drinkable water for the town of about 340 people. Sand City's plant now produces half that amount each day; a third is used by the city with the rest sent elsewhere in Monterey County.

City leaders hoped to develop the former military town into an artsy, Bohemian beachside destination. With no other possible water options, they turned to desalination. "We're just like Saudi Arabia. There's nowhere else to get water and we want to develop," said Richard Simonitch, the city's civil engineer.

It's not that easy in Monterey Peninsula, where regional water use from development has exceeded its yearly rainfall replenishment and desalination is one of the only options available.

Proposals have been fraught with mistakes, political infighting and scandal, and have cost Monterey area ratepayers tens of millions of dollars.

Earlier this year, state utilities regulators rejected Monterey County's desalination plan, citing problems with environmental review. The plan was also mired in alleged corruption by a county water official, who now faces criminal charges.

Still, desalination will be an important part of the Central Coast's future: the state ordered water suppliers to stop drawing from the Carmel River, its main source of the precious resource, starting in 2017. Even officials in Marina, with its shuttered plant, see a future in which demand will require their current desalination plant to resume operation and are planning another, larger plant to help make up for the expected water loss.

"Water politics in Monterey County is a blood sport," said Jim Heitzman, general manager of the Marina Coast Water District.

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Chang reported from Los Angeles; Elliott Spagat in San Diego contributed to this report. Jason Dearen can be reached on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/JHDearen.

Source: http://www.pjstar.com/free/x1217099038/Desalination-no-panacea-for-California-water-woes

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Libyan Islamist militia swept out of Benghazi bases; response to attack on U.S.

BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - A Libyan Islamist militia was swept out of the eastern city of Benghazi in a popular protest against the armed groups that ran into the early hours of Saturday morning, Reuters witnesses said.

At least one person was killed and 20 wounded, a hospital source said, as militias tried to fight the demonstrators from a heavily fortified base. Gunfire could be heard in the area before the fighters were forced out.

Looters carried weapons out of the vacated Ansar al-Sharia military base compound as men clapped and chanted: "Say to Ansar al-Sharia, Benghazi will be your inferno."

Ansar al-Sharia has been linked to the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week in which the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans died. It denies involvement.

The action against the group appeared to be part of a coordinated sweep of militia headquarters buildings by police, government troops and activists following a mass public demonstration against militia units on Friday.

Chanting "Libya, Libya," hundreds of demonstrators entered, pulling down militia flags and torching a vehicle inside Ansar al-Sharia's headquarters in Benghazi - once the base of forces of former leader Muammar Gaddafi, which tried to put down the first protests that sparked last year's uprising.

The crowd waved swords and even a meat cleaver, crying "No more al Qaeda!" and "The blood we shed for freedom shall not go in vain!"

"After what happened at the American consulate, the people of Benghazi had enough of the extremists," demonstrator Hassan Ahmed said. "They did not give allegiance to the army. So the people broke in and they fled."

"This place is like the Bastille. This is where Gaddafi controlled Libya from, and then Ansar al-Sharia took it over. This is a turning point for the people of Benghazi."

Adusalam al-Tarhouni, a government worker, who arrived with the first wave of protesters, said several pickup trucks with the group's fighters had initially confronted the protesters and opened fire. Two protesters were shot in the leg, he said.

"After that they got into their trucks and drove away," he said, adding protesters had freed four prisoners found inside.

As protesters left Ansar al-Sharia's headquarters, the crowd swelled, reaching thousands as it headed toward its military base, which was shared with another militia group.

Protesters said the militiamen opened fire as they arrived and several people were wounded.

"We came as peaceful protesters. When we got there they started shooting at us," student Sanad al-Barani said. "Five people were wounded beside me. They used 14.5 calibre machine guns."

After the crowd entered that compound, Libyan army trucks sped away from the base carrying government troops cheering in victory and crying out, "God is greatest."

Vigilantes armed with machetes and clubs blocked the highway leading away from the compound, stopping cars to prevent looters from driving off with heavy weapons.

"We went into the camp and we didn't find anyone. We just took these Kalashnikovs," said one youth, holding rifles.

The demonstrators also took over a compound belonging to the Abu Slim brigade and another Ansar al-Sharia compound.

"RESCUE BENGHAZI"

Thousands of Libyans had marched in Benghazi on Friday in support of democracy and against the Islamist militias that Washington blames for the assault on its consulate. Hundreds of Ansar al-Sharia supporters held their own protest.

Friday's "Rescue Benghazi day" demonstration called for the government to disband armed groups that have refused to give up their weapons since the NATO-backed revolution last year.

"It's obvious that this protest is against the militias. All of them should join the army or security forces as individuals, not as groups," student Ahmed Sanallah said. "Without that there will be no prosperity and no success for the new Libya."

Although the main demands of the marchers did not mention the attack on the U.S. consulate, it seems to have provided a strong impetus for the authorities to rally support behind the country's weak government.

U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens was well liked, and many Libyans condemned the attack on the consulate despite being angered by the anti-Islamic U.S.-made film that triggered it.

Some protesters' placards read: "We demand justice for Stevens" and "Libya lost a friend." Others had mixed views.

"I am out today to defend Benghazi. Killing the ambassador is a completely separate thing," said 26-year-old Amjad Mohammed Hassan, a network engineer. "I don't give a damn about the killing of the ambassador because the Americans offended the Prophet. I am just here for Benghazi."

Benghazi, 1,000 km (600 miles) from Tripoli across largely empty desert, is controlled by various armed groups, including some comprised of Islamists who openly proclaim their hostility to democratic government and the West.

Some are identified by local people as being among those who were at the consulate protest last week. U.S. officials have described the violence as a "terrorist attack."

Abu Al-Qaa, a demonstrator at the Ansar al-Sharia demonstration, said Stevens had been "preparing for the entry of American troops into Libya."

"The will of the Prophet was to expel infidels from Muslim lands so that Muslims prevail. Terrorizing your enemy is one of Islam's tenets." He said he had fought U.S. troops in Iraq where he was arrested, sent back to Libya and jailed for three years.

One banner at the Ansar al-Sharia demonstration read: "Day to rescue Benghazi or day to rescue America?"

(Additional reporting by Omar al-Mosmary and Mohammed Al-Tommy; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/libyan-islamist-militia-swept-benghazi-bases-022901566.html

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Huffington: Issue 16

In Issue 16 of Huffington, we introduce you to a new resident of the Hartford suburbs--the Connecticut mountain lion. We also sit down with dissident artist Ai Weiwei in advance of his first major art show in the U.S. and sort out the motivations of a national gay Republican group that supports Mitt Romney--and one that doesn't. Don't miss memorable images of our volunteer firefighters, a startling look at the past decades' natural disasters, commentary on topless Kate Middleton and more.

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Chinese Audi Dealer Promotes Murdering Japanese People

Tensions are rising out in China, as anti-Japanese sentiment continues to grow as a result of the two countries? dispute over a group of islands in the East China Sea.

Perhaps looking to show its allegiance to China, an independent Audi dealership hoisted a banner that read, ?Japanese must all be killed even if it means China is covered in graves. Diaoyu must be reclaimed even if China becomes barren land.?

Needless to say, the German automaker did not condone such an act, asking the dealership to quickly remove the banner once the photo hit the Internet. Audi media relations was quick to point out that it was an isolated incident, but it?s clear that Japanese automakers are feeling the impact on sales, and undoubtedly German automakers? independent dealerships are trying to take advantage. Many Japanese vehicles are being damaged throughout China as a form of political protest against the Japanese.

?As a company, we should not take positions in political issues,? the Volkswagen AG said in a statement released on its website. ?We sincerely regret such kind of behavior happened, and feel indignant toward this behavior.?

China?s Passenger Car Association is now predicting that Japanese brands will lose their lead over German brands for the first time since 2005 as a result of the anti-Japanese sentiments spreading throughout China.

[Source: Automotive News]

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Ex-Church Volunteers Gets Life for Molestation

MARIETTA, Ga. (AP) -- An ex-church volunteer has pleaded guilty to sexually molesting nine youths and will serve a life sentence.

Cesar Pastrana pleaded guilty Friday in a Cobb County courtroom.

Authorities said Pastrana met victims while volunteering at NorthStar Church in Acworth.

Investigators said Pastrana confessed to police after initial allegations were made against him.

The families of the victims have filed a lawsuit against the church, arguing the abuse could have been prevented.

Church officials told WSB-TV that they could not comment because of the ongoing investigation. Pastrana is an illegal immigrant from Mexico.

Source: http://www.wtvy.com/news/headlines/Ex-Church-Volunteers-Gets-Life-for-Molestation-170850051.html

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Meteors make alien planets deceiving

Meteoroids slamming against the atmospheres of alien worlds could add organic gases that make them look inhabited by life even if they are not, researchers say.

In recent years, astronomers have detected hundreds of extrasolar planets. Many of these exoplanets lie within habitable zones, the zones around their stars warm enough for liquid water to persist on a planet's surface, raising hopes that life as we know it might live on these distant worlds.

Ground-based observatories and proposed-but-canceled spacecraft such as the European Space Agency's Darwin project or NASA's Terrestrial Planet Finder could scan the atmospheres of exoplanets for signs of extraterrestrial life. Molecules each absorb specific types of light, resulting in patterns known as spectra that allow scientists to identify what the molecules are. Some chemicals or combinations of chemicals might be unique to life as we know it, and could thus serve as strong evidence of aliens.

One key gas astrobiologists looking for extraterrestrial life would concentrate on would be oxygen, since researchers often think this molecule is too chemically reactive to remain for long in the atmosphere of a rocky planet like Earth without organisms to continuously produce it.

Another possibility would be methane, a colorless, odorless, flammable organic gas that microbes on Earth produce. Seeing both together in an exoplanet's atmosphere might be an especially significant sign of life, since they would both ordinarily remove each other from the atmosphere without something like life to constantly replenish them. [ 6 Best Solar System Spots to Seek Alien Life ]

Methane on Mars
For more than 40 years, hints of methane have been seen on Mars, the first organic compound seen there. In the last decade, researchers have even suggested they have seen methane clouds that may have been forming over the Red Planet during the summer months in the last decade, raising the possibility of past or even extant organisms just below the surface, although these findings remain hotly contested.

Although life or the byproducts of life are responsible for nearly all the methane found in Earth's atmosphere, it is not the only source of the gas. For instance, volcanism can produce methane, as can chemical reactions between water, carbon dioxide and minerals.

Another potential source of methane are carbon-rich micrometeoroids that generate the gas as the compounds in them burn up while entering a planet's atmosphere. Our solar system's main asteroid belt happens to be dominated by carbonaceous asteroids.

Although the number of micrometeoroids hitting Mars would not explain the levels of methane seen there, exoplanets in much dustier systems could potentially have enough methane produced in this manner to give off a false atmospheric signature of life.

"This could pose a problem, since the search for life on these exoplanets is dependent on remote observations such as spectroscopic analysis of their atmospheres, as had been used to detect the methane in the atmosphere of Mars," said researcher Richard Court, a planetary geologist at Imperial College London. "There is no chance of spacecraft physically visiting these exoplanets many light years away in the foreseeable future."

Past research suggests the only systems likely to possess debris disks dense enough to mimic a methane signature of life are either very young, or systems undergoing a massive set of collisions, such as was the case in our solar system during the Late Heavy Bombardment about 3.9 billion years ago, when millions of rocks cataclysmically blasted Earth and the rest of the inner solar system over a roughly 100-million-year period.

"Astronomers have been able to observe events analogous to the Late Heavy Bombardment occurring in other star systems," Court said.

Methane in meteorites?
To see how much methane carbonaceous micrometeoroids might generate on exoplanets, scientists calculated what an early, dustier version of our solar system was like. Currently Earth receives about 40,000 metric tons of micrometeoroids annually, while Mars sees about 12,000 metric tons. The researchers estimate that during the Late Heavy Bombardment, Earth and Mars saw about 1,000 to 10,000 times more.

During the entire Late Heavy Bombardment, Earth may have received about 33 million billion metric tons of micrometeoroids, while Mars received 1.7 million billion metric tons. This all may be enough for an exoplanet to have enough methane to make it look as if it might have life.

"These are the first people to address exoplanet atmospheres as they relate to micrometeoroids that produce methane upon atmospheric entry ? people working with exoplanets hadn't thought of this before, and it's cool and something we should be aware of," said planetary scientist Sara Seager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who did not take part in this study.

Court did caution that they assumed that the chemistry and abundance of the organic matter in micrometeorites falling to Earth is similar to that of micrometeorites in other star systems. "While some differences are inevitable, it is likely to be a reasonable assumption, because a search for evidence of life on planets outside the solar system will naturally seek to investigate a star system as similar as possible to ours," he said.

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So far astronomers have detected a number of exoplanetary systems that may possess both planets and debris disks. One example may include Gliese 581 about 20 light-years from Earth, which has one and maybe two " super-Earths " ? rocky planets larger than our own that can reach up to 10 times Earth's mass ? around the red dwarf of the system's habitable zone.

"As we observe more star systems, it will be possible to apply our work to more extrasolar planets," Court said.

Court and his colleague Mark Sephton detailed their findings online Sept. 6 in the journal Planetary and Space Science.

This story was provided by Astrobiology Magazine, a web-based publication sponsored by the NASA astrobiology program.

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