INTERNATIONAL COUNSELORS ADD TO THE FUN …

Posted on May 19, 2012
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LINCOLNVILLE, MAINE- Multiple international staff members will be returning this summer to lead educational programming at Tanglewood 4-H Camp and Learning Center. Counselors from Russia, Columbia, Finland and the UK will work with our American staff members to educate campers at Tanglewood?s residential camp about sustainable living through fun and creative activities. With new games, cultural traditions, dances and recipes of favorite foods campers and staff make discoveries on how big the world is and how small it can be.

Tanglewood offers weekly residential programs throughout the summer starting on June 27th with a three day Mini-Camp for campers looking for a shorter camp experience. Mini-campers enjoy two nights of exciting traditional Tanglewood programming including creative arts, hiking, swimming and group games. A highlight for many of the mini campers is the campfire that brings all campers together for an unforgettable evening program with music, skits and fun.

Children interested in a full week of activities at Tanglewood can enjoy any of the residential programs that begin the first week of July. Campers have the opportunity to choose how they spend their time at Tanglewood, ranging from the food they eat to the activities that fill their days. Afternoon ?electives? provide residential campers the opportunity to participate in educational and recreation activities, including court and field sports, swim instruction, creative art projects, cultural activities, woodworking, music, cooking, and water games.

The diverse background of Tanglewood staff brings a variety to the programming offered during daytime and evening activities. International and American staff working at Tanglewood this summer bring a unique opportunity for campers to learn how different cultures can work together to create experiences that build memories lasting a lifetime. Check out our Facebook page to see bios of many of our 2012 staff! Tanglewood began its summer camp programs in 1982 and is celebrating being thirty with special events all summer. Camp registration is open and spaces are filling, so sign up today!

Tanglewood and Blueberry Cove 4-H Camps strive to create, live, and teach a model of sustainability and balance that includes the physical, social, emotional and spiritual aspects of life. This goal embraces our core values and defines who we are. Summer day camps, discovery trips, teen leadership programs and school programs are offered at sites in Lincolnville and Tenants Harbor. For a complete list of programs and more detailed information, visit our website at www.umaine.edu/tanglewood/.

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For more than 90 years, University of Maine Cooperative Extension has supported UMaine?s land-grant public education role by conducting community-driven, research-based programs in every Maine county.

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health care: Making the Choice to Execute a Health Care Power of …

Posted on May 19, 2012
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Advances in medical technology, recent court rulings and emerging political trends have brought with them a number of life-and-death choices which many have never before considered. The looming prospect of legalized physician-assisted suicide is one such choice which severely erodes the inherent value and dignity of human life. The much-publicized efforts of certain doctors to provide carbon monoxide poisoning or prescribe lethal drugs for their terminally ill patients constitute euthanasia. So may the removal of certain life-sustaining treatments from a patient who is not in a terminal condition. Euthanasia and willful suicide, in any form, are offenses against life; they must be and are rejected by the vast majority of U.S. states.

However, people faced with these difficult dilemmas should be made aware that there are morally-appropriate, life-affirming legal options available to them. One such option, for Catholics and others, can be a “health care power of attorney” and “living will.” South Carolina State law allows you to appoint someone as your agent to make health care decisions for you in the event you lose the ability to decide for yourself. This appointment is executed by means of a “health care power of attorney” form, a model for which can be obtained from your attorney.

A health care power of attorney can be a morally and legally acceptable means of protecting your wishes, values and religious beliefs when faced with a serious illness or debilitating accident. Accordingly, for persons wishing to execute health care powers of attorney, see the following instructions and guidance from the authoritative teachings and traditions of various religious faiths.

The intent of the health care power of attorney law is to allow adults to delegate their God-given, legally-recognized right to make health care decisions to a designated and trusted agent. The law does not intend to encourage or discourage any particular health care treatment. Nor does it legalize or promote euthanasia, suicide or assisted suicide. The health care power of attorney law allows you, or any competent adult, to designate an “agent,” such as a family member or close friend, to make health care decisions for you if you lose the ability to decide for yourself in the future. This is done by completing a health care power of attorney form.

You…

o Have the right to make all of your own health care decisions while capable of doing so. The health care power of attorney only becomes effective when and if you become incapacitated through illness or accident.

o Have the right to challenge your doctor’s determination that you are not capable of making your own medical decisions.

o CAN give special instructions about your medical treatment to your agent and can forbid your agent from making certain treatment decisions. To do so, you simply need to communicate your wishes, beliefs and instructions to your agent. Instructions about any specific treatments or procedures which you desire or do not desire under special conditions can also be written in your health care power of attorney and/or provided in a separate living will.

o Can revoke your health care power of attorney or the appointment of your agent at any time while competent.

o May not designate as your agent an administrator or employee of the hospital, nursing home or mental hygiene facility to which you are admitted, unless they are related by blood, marriage or adoption. 1996

Your agent…

o Can begin making decisions for you only when your doctor determines that you are no longer able to make health care decisions for yourself.

o May make any and all health care decisions for you, including treatments for physical or mental conditions and decisions regarding life-sustaining procedures, unless you limit the power of your agent.

o Will not have authority to make decisions about the artificial provision of nutrition and hydration (nourishment and water through feeding tubes) unless he or she clearly knows that these decisions are in accord with your wishes about those measures.

o Is protected from legal liability when acting in good faith.

o Must base his or her decisions on your wishes or, if your wishes cannot be reasonably ascertained, in your “best interests.” The agent’s decisions will take precedence over the decisions of all other persons, regardless of family relationships.

o May have his or her decision challenged if your family, health care provider or close friend believes the agent is acting in bad faith or is not acting in accord with your wishes, including your religious/moral beliefs, or is not acting in your best interests.

CONSIDERATIONS FOR ALL PEOPLE FROM CHRISTIAN/CATHOLIC TEACHING

The following is an attempt to gather information from the doctrines of Christianity, Catholicism, and Judaism to see if there are any commonalities with regard to health care agencies and living wills. We will see that all three religions have placed a value on dying with dignity and the right of the person to direct how their dying process will occur.

A major tenet of the faith is that it is unethical to take a life. It is not the highest of all values to stay alive, but you cannot affirmatively take steps to kill someone. The church is strongly against euthanasia and suicide. But often if the patient and medical care providers permit nature to take its course without heroic intervention, the person’s life may be taken by God.

This is a narrow path. Taking a life is inappropriate; on the other hand, using heroic medical measures to keep a body biologically functioning would not be appropriate either. Mere biological existence is not considered a value. It is not a sin to allow someone to die peacefully and with dignity. We see death as an evil to be transformed into a victory by faith in God. The difficulty is discussing these issues in abstraction; they must be addressed on a case-by-case basis. The Christian church’s view of life-and-death issues should ideally be reflected in the living will and health-care proxy.

Roman Catholic teaching celebrates life as a gift of a loving God and respects each human life because each is created in the image and likeness of God. It is consistent with Church teaching that each person has a right to make his or her own health care decisions. Further, a person’s family or trusted delegate may have to assume that responsibility for someone who has become incapable of making their decisions. Accordingly, it is morally acceptable to appoint a health care agent by executing a health care power of attorney, provided it conforms to the teachings and traditions of the Catholic faith.

While the health care power of attorney law allows us to designate someone to make health care decisions for us, we must bear in mind that life is a sacred trust over which we have been given stewardship. We have a duty to preserve it, while recognizing that we have no unlimited power over it. Therefore, the Catholic Church encourages us to keep the following considerations in mind if we decide to sign a health care power of attorney.

1. As Christians, we believe that our physical life is sacred but that our ultimate goal is everlasting life with God. We are called to accept death as a part of the human condition. Death need not be avoided at all costs.

2. Suffering is “a fact of human life, and has special significance for the Christian as an opportunity to share in Christ’s redemptive suffering. Nevertheless there is nothing wrong in trying to relieve someone’s suffering as long as this does not interfere with other moral and religious duties. For example, it is permissible in the case of terminal illness to use pain killers which carry the risk of shortening life, so long as the intent is to relieve pain effectively rather than to cause death.”

3. Euthanasia is “an action or omission which of itself or by intention causes death, in order that all suffering may in this way be eliminated.” “[Euthanasia] is an attack on human life which no one has a right to make or request.”

4. “Everyone has the duty to care for his or her own health and to seek necessary medical care from others, but this does not mean that all possible remedies must be used in all circumstances. One is not obliged to use ‘extraordinary’ means – that is, means which offer no reasonable hope of benefit or which involve excessive hardship.

5. No health care agent may be authorized to deny personal services which every patient can rightfully expect, such as appropriate food, water, bed rest, room temperature and hygiene.

6. The patient’s condition, however, may affect the moral obligation of providing food and water when they are being administered artificially. Factors that must be weighed in making this judgment include: the patient’s ability to assimilate the artificially provided nutrition and hydration, the imminence of death and the risks of the procedures for the patient. While medically-administered food and water pose unique questions, especially for patients who are permanently unconscious, decisions about these measures should be guided by a presumption in favor of their use. Food and water must never be withdrawn in order to cause death. They may be withdrawn if they offer no reasonable hope of maintaining life or if they pose excessive risks or burdens.

7. Life-sustaining treatment must be maintained for a pregnant patient if continued treatment may benefit her unborn child.

Such principles and guidelines from the Christian heritage may guide Catholics and others as they strive to make responsible health care decisions and execute health care proxies. They may also guide Catholic health care facilities and providers in deciding when to accept and when to refuse to honor an agent’s decision.

CONSIDERATIONS FOR ALL PEOPLE FROM JEWISH TEACHING

Jewish tradition as understood by Conservative Judaism teaches that life is a blessing and a gift from God. Each human being is valued as created b’tselem elohim, in God’s image. Whatever the level of our physical and mental abilities, whatever the extent of our dependence on others, each person has intrinsic dignity and value in God’s eyes. Judaism values life and respects our bodies as the creation of God. We have the responsibility to care for ourselves and seek medical treatment needed for our recovery-we owe that to ourselves, to our loved ones, and to God.

In accordance with our tradition’s respect for the life God has given us and its consequent bans on murder and suicide, Judaism rejects any form of active euthanasia (“mercy killing”) or assisted suicide. Within these broad guidelines, decisions may be required about which treatment would best promote recovery and would offer the greatest benefit. Accordingly, each patient may face important choices concerning what mode of treatment he or she feels would be both beneficial and tolerable.

The breadth of the Conservative movement and its intellectual vitality have produced two differing positions put forward by Rabbis Avram Israel Reisner and Elliot N. Dorff, both approved by the Conservative movement’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards. Both positions agree on the value of life and the individual’s responsibility to protect his or her life and seek healing. Both agree on a large area of autonomy in which a patient can make decisions about treatment when risk or uncertainty is involved. Both would allow terminally ill patients to rule out certain treatment options (such as those with significant side effects), to forgo mechanical life support, and to choose hospice care as a treatment option.

Nevertheless, important differences between the two positions may be found regarding both theoretical commitments and practical applications. Rabbi Reisner affirms the supreme value of protecting all life. Even the most difficult life and that of the shortest duration is yet God given, purposeful, and ours to nurture and protect. All nutrition, hydration, and medication should be provided whenever these are understood to be effective measures for sustaining life. Some medical interventions, however, do not sustain life so much as they prolong the dying process. These interventions are not required. The distinction may best be judged by our intent. We may choose to avoid treatments causing us fear or entailing risk or pain, in the interest of the remaining moments of life. We may not avoid treatment in an attempt to speed an escape into death.

Rabbi Dorff finds basis in Jewish law to grant greater latitude to the patient who wishes to reject life-sustaining measures. He sees a life under the siege of a terminal illness as an impaired life. In such a circumstance, a patient might be justified in deciding that a treatment that extends life without hope for cure would not benefit him or her, and may be forgone.

Both Rabbis Dorff and Reisner agree that advance directives should only be used to indicate preferences within the range allowed by Jewish law. They disagree as to what those acceptable ranges are. In completing a health care power of attorney and living will, it is recommended that you consult with your rabbi to discuss the values and norms of Jewish ethics and halakhah. You also may wish to talk with your physician to learn about the medical significance of your choices, in particular any decisions your physician feels are likely to be faced in light of your medical circumstances. You may find it helpful to discuss these concerns with family members.

CONCLUSION

In the end, the decision to execute a health care power of attorney and living will is a uniquely individual choice. Every person has their own set of principles by which they will live, and by which they will eventually pass on. When executing these documents, it is wise to examine how these documents assimilate into your worldview and religious beliefs. While the topic of death and dying is an uncomfortable one, you are well advised to discuss this decision with your family members, friends, and members and leaders of your religious community that you respect. Having done this, you can rest easy knowing that you have made a good decision with regard to your health care power of attorney and last will, and that your last wishes will be respected and undertaken.

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Romney hits Obama on debt, campaigns in Fla.

Posted on May 18, 2012
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Obama raises $44M for campaign, Dems in April

Posted on May 18, 2012
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Accountability and Integrity: The Golden Rules of Business | Best …

Posted on May 18, 2012
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Deciding to do the right thing seems like a simple rule of business but often it gets lost in the day-to-day grind.

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Say what you do and do what you say. Do the right things, and the right things will happen. It sounds as simple as the Golden Rule, but there is a surprising lack of accountability and integrity in the business world today.

These two attributes are central to OtterBox and our ability to continue to grow at a rate that?s landed us on the Inc. 500|5000 four times. Integrity and accountability are, in fact, two of our core values.

I think most of us know what the right thing is, but being able to execute on it is another matter. Doing what?s right isn?t always easy. People frequently default to the simplest option as an automatic response, which often means integrity is not upheld and accountability is at stake.

An extreme example of lack of integrity and accountability can be seen in today?s political landscape. No matter where they land on the spectrum, politicians are consistently promising to do the right things if elected. Lower taxes, save the environment, stimulate the economy ? every election season the American public is inundated with promises.

To be fair, these politicians might actually think they can follow through on their vows, but the lack of results from any single one of them or any party as a whole has become an epidemic in and of itself.? That?s where accountability comes in ? you must do what you say.

Much like the American public, customers are quickly fed up with a lack of accountability. However, unlike the American public will quickly respond and take their business elsewhere. ?Like Howard Beale said in the 1976 film Network, they?ll be ?mad as hell? and surely are ?not going to take this anymore!?

Also unlike politicians, businesses can and must admit when they have fallen through on promises. Not all decisions made will be the right ones, but open and honest communication about those situations maintains integrity and accountability.

Integrity and accountability are daily decisions, not one-offs reserved for top level decisions by the CEO. Every employee must adhere to these values in all the tasks and operations they do. If a business doesn?t have integrity in the small things, no one will believe it has integrity in the big things.

OtterBox founder and CEO, Curt Richardson created the first prototype of a waterproof case in his garage in the early 90?s and in 1998. OtterBox evolved into a leader in protective cases for mobile technology.?@OtterBox

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App Builder ClearMechanic Wants To Be the “Open Table” for Car …

Posted on May 17, 2012
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Just the Facts:

  • ClearMechanic is developing a pilot service that would enable customers to book repair and service appointments online.
  • The company is a California-based developer of smartphone apps for car dealers and repair shops.
  • The online repair booking service is scheduled to roll out this summer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

SAN FRANCISCO ? ClearMechanic, a California-based developer of smartphone apps for car dealers and repair shops, is developing a pilot service that would enable customers to book repair and service appointments online ? what the company describes as an “Open Table for car repairs.”

Just as Open Table enables customers to make online restaurant reservations, ClearMechanic said it wants to cut the time and effort now required to schedule car repairs by phone or e-mail.

“By giving customers the ability to schedule instantly online, we can cut that time by more than half,” the company said in a statement.

ClearMechanic plans to launch its pilot online program this summer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

It said the service will enable customers to search for appointment availability at multiple dealerships and repair shops, and instantly book an appointment with their provider of choice.

Inside Line says: Presumably, ClearMechanic will offer a repair booking app if the pilot program is successful.

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Warm water threatens vast Anatarctic ice shelf

Posted on May 17, 2012
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A new study indicates that a large ice sheet is at risk. Warm water from below is causing it to melt.

Scientists are predicting the disappearance of another vast ice shelf in Antarctica by the end of the century that will accelerate rising sea levels.

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The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf fringing the Weddell Sea on the eastern side of Antarctica has so far not seen ice loss from global warming and much of the observation of melting has focused on the western side of the continent around the Amundsen Sea. But new research from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany says the 450,000-sq-km ice shelf is under threat.

“According to our calculations, this protective barrier will disintegrate by the end of this century,” said Dr Harmut Hellmer, lead author of the study, published in the journal Nature this week.

The huge ice shelves that float on the seas fringing Antarctica provide a buffer against warming waters eating away at the base of the much larger glaciers behind them that sit on the land.

“Ice shelves are like corks in the bottles for the ice streams behind them,” said Hellmer. “They reduce the ice flow.

“If, however, the ice shelves melt from below, they become so thin that the dragging surfaces become smaller and the ice behind them starts to move.”

Hellmer and his team predict the melting of the Filchner-Ronne shelf could add up to 4.4 mm per year to rising global sea levels.

According to the latest estimates based on remote sensing data, global sea levels rose 1.5 mm a year between 2003 and 2010 due to melting glaciers and ice shelves, the scientists say. This is on top of an estimated 1.7 mm annual rise due to the expansion of the oceans as the water warms.

Costly Sea Defences

The research was funded by the European Union’s ?Ice2sea’ program, set up in the wake of the 2007 report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that highlighted ice-sheets as the most significant remaining uncertainty in projections of rising sea levels. Projections from the Ice2sea project will feed into the fifth IPCC report due in 2013/2014.

It will also inform plans for major capital spending on sea defenses to protect Europe’s coastlines, particularly areas of economic importance like London, with its tidal barrier on the River Thames, and the port of Rotterdam. A large part of the Netherlands is below sea level and protected by an elaborate system of dykes.

Professor David Vaughan of the British Antarctic Survey, who heads the Ice2sea program, told Reuters the Alfred Wegener Institute’s findings add to evidence that warming oceans are having the greatest impact on the ice sheets, as opposed to atmospheric changes or the legacy of some long-term change decades or even hundreds of years ago.

“What people need to know with a sense of urgency is what is going to happen to sea levels over the next few decades,” said Vaughan. “In those terms, these results are very big news indeed.”

Vaughan is cautious about precise projections of the impact on sea levels. “For me, those numbers are about what might be plausible,” he said. “I think we need to do some more work with the ice sheet models to determine exactly what sea level rises we might expect, but those are plausible numbers.”

All other things being equal, the polar ice sheets reach a balance where the amount of snow going in each year is broadly matched by the number of icebergs coming out, but subtle changes like those associated with global warming, can affect that balance quite rapidly.

Vaughan said there was clear evidence that the widely-reported disintegration of the Larsen A and Larsen B ice shelves in 1995 and 2002 respectively, had led to the ice sheets that fed them moving faster into the sea, some of them many times the rate seen before collapse.

The scientific focus on the melting ice in the Amundsen sea is down to the fact that this is where it is happening now, but Vaughan said although the Weddell

Sea is not seeing ice loss at the moment, the German research supports the view that it will spread to other areas.

If there is a lesson for climate scientists, it’s “don’t behave like the infant school football team and follow the ball,” he said.

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Computer Safety for Kids- datingswift.com

Posted on May 17, 2012
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Computer Safety for Kids

Start With the Basics ? Protect Your PC

Guarding Access to Your PC ? Get a Firewall

Beginning in the Zhou Dynasty, which was in the 11th century BC, construction was commenced on what was to become the Great Wall of China. For 2,700 years, culminating in the mid-1600s, construction continued on the wall until it stretched 4,163 miles from east to west China. The wall was constructed to prevent invasion by other stdined ons of China and outer tribes.

When you connect your PC to the Internet either through cable, dial-up, or DSL,Chat En Espanol Gratis. it is like China prior to the Great Wall. Anyone can invade your PC, and plunder, pillage, and destroy content on your PC. A firewall acts just like the Great Wall of China. When installed, it acts as a barrier between your PC and the outside world. It prevents unwanted and unauthorized associdined ond with your PC over your Internet connection.

Firewalls come in two basic forms:

  • Hardware firewalls ? hardware firewalls are some of hardware, like a PC, that gets installed between your PC and your Internet connection. Literally, a cable from your cable or DSL modem gets connected to the hardware firewall.What Is The Definition Of A Chat Room?. Another cable is connected from the hardware firewall to your PC. When done, the hardware firewall acts as a barrier between your PC and the Internet. It lets you get out to the Internet, but it does not allow unauthorized access from the Internet to your PC. Many cable, DSL, and wireless routers/switches have firewalls built into them.
  • Software firewalls ? A software firewall serves the same purpose as a difficultware firewall. It, however, is software that gets installed directly onto your PC.How To Use All Messengermailsocial Network In Single Software?. The software monitors all inbound and outbound Internet traffic, and credined ons comfortableware barrier between the Internet port into your PC and everything else on your PC. Once installed, it lets you get out to the Internet, but it does not allow unauthorized access from the Internet to your PC. Software firewalls have an advertisementvantage in that they can implement rigid controls over what software installed on your PC will be permitted to access the Internet.

Many people use both a difficultware firewall and comfortableware firewall. It is similar to having a fence to protect associdined ond with your yard, and then a front door to protect associdined ond with your house. Everyone should use at least one firewall, hardware or software. If you have a laptop,for. you should use comfortableware firewall. That way the firewall goes with you, wherever you go, protecting your PC.

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Plug the Holes ? Make Sure to Download Operating System Upddined ons and Patches

By now,for. the security holes and flaws in Windows have become legendary. To their credit, Microsoft publishes a steady stream of fixes, patches, and upddined on releases to plug all known security holes, flaws, and problems. In order for your PC to gain benefit from these patches and upddined ons, you must, at minimal, download as well as install of the critical security upddined ons that Microsoft makes getable. You can do this one of two ways:

  • You may download as well as install of them manually by visiting the ?Microsoft Upddined on? link on the Microsoft web site.
  • For newer versions of Windows, such as Windows XP, you can turn on the ?Automatic Upddined ons? feature of the operating system and also the upddined ons to be downloaded as well as installed automatically.

Either method works well. The ?Automatic Upddined ons? route takes the thought and work out of the process. Regardless of which method you choose,How To Join Aol Chat Rooms?. the important thing is to keep Windows up to ddined on. Out of ddined on versions of Windows can leave your PC open to hackers and viruses.

If you are using Mac OS or LINUX, then none of this practical applicationlies. You are actually using inherently more secure operating systems. It is still, however, important to install upddined ons and patches to these operating systems as well to be up to ddined on and to provide the best protection against unwanted intrusion.

Take Your Medicine ? Install Antivirus Software

A computer virus is an unwanted software program that:

  • Gets loaded onto your PC
  • Replicdined ons itself, meaning that it copies itself and distributes itself to other computers

A virus can get onto your computer from any of several sources, including:

  • From a removable disk
  • From an attachment to an e-mail message
  • From a download while surfing the web
  • From a worm through a known hole or flaw in your operating system

Once on your PC,kids. the impact of a virus can range from relatively benign to rendering your PC unusable.

Antivirus software is software that you use to protect yourself from computer viruses. It can detect and remove known computer viruses. There are many excellent antivirus package ranges getable that are relatively inexpensive. There are also several excellent antivirus package ranges getable for free for home, non-commercial use.

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To prevent viruses form being able to hhand your PC, you need to select one of the antivirus package ranges as well as install it on your puter.

TIPS: Make sure that your antivirus software is setup to:

  • Automatically check for upddined ons so that its? virus definitions database is up to ddined on and you are protected from the ldined onst threats. Most upddined ons are provided on an annual subscription time. Make sure that you renew your subscription when it expires. Free products, such as AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition, provide the upddined ons at no cost.
  • Automatically perform a virus scan at least once a week. If the PC is used to surf the web extensively then you may wish to perform virus scans more frequently, even once a day.

Stop the Spies ? Install Anti-Spyware Software

Adware is any software that displays advertising on your computer screen, either through banner advertising within an practical applicationlication, or through pop-up windows.Safety. Spyware, which may also be known as a spybot, or tracking software,How To Effective Online Dating Online Dating Tips?. is computer technology installed on an individual?s PC that gathers information about them and their computer use. Adware and spyware removal software, or anti-spyware software, is software that is installed on your computer to comsoftball bat the threats of adware and spyware.Kids. It will search your computer?s memory, file system, system registry,Free Music for Cell Phone. and comparer cspasms for the existence of adware and spyware. It will then remove or quarantine any items that it finds. Adware and spyware removal software may also monitor for, and actively block, the downloading of spyware practical applicationlications.

There are two excellent anti-spyware programs getable for free, Ad-Aware SE Personal from Lavasoft, and Spybot Search & Destroy from Safer Networking Ltd. There are also many excellent anti-spyware package ranges that range in price from $19.95 to $39.95. Select as well as install one of these package ranges and run it on a regular time.

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To prevent adware and spyware from being able to gather information about you, you need to select one of the anti-spyware package ranges as well as install it on your PC.

TIPS: Similar to antivirus software,http://datingswift.com/html/live-links-watch-packers-vs-colts-online-on-pc-nfl-scores-watch-packers-vs-colts-live-on-pc.html.Kids. make sure that your anti-spyware software is setup to:

  • Automatically check for upddined ons so that its? adware/spyware definitions database is up to ddined on and you are protected from the ldined onst threats. The two free package ranges, Ad-Aware and Spybot do not have automatic upddined on features, so you will need to perform this task manually. Ad-Awhave least tells you that your definitions database is getting old and requires you if you want to upddined on it.
  • Automatically perform an advertisementware/spyware scan at least once a week. If the PC is used to surf the web extensively then you may wish to perform scans more frequently, even once a day.What Is Judge Greg Mathis Worth?. Ad-Aware SE Personal will only run automatically at system startup time. If you leave your computer on all of the time then you will have to remember to manually run the scans. Spybot can be scheduled to run automatically as one of its ?Advanced Mode? features.

Spring Cleaning ? Think About Privacy Software

As you use your computer, and surf the web, traces of your activity get left behind, stored on your computer in lists, temporary files, and cspasms. The best case is that these ?leftovers? can clutter up your PC,How To Use Juno Email For Beginners?. and, with time, degrade its performance. The worst case is thseveralone who gains unauthorized associdined ond with your PC can read these files and learn a fair helping about you, potentially helping them to steal your identity.

Privacy software removes all traces of your PC and Internet activity, helping to protect your privacy.

As with antivirus software and anti-spyware software, privacy software should be run on a regular time. It, too, can be setup to run automatically on a regular time so that a conclusion-user does not have to do anything to protect their privacy. The first time the privacy software is run it is not at all uncommon for it to recover in excess of 500MB of disk space by deleting the ?leftover stuff? on your PC.Free Chat Rooms No Registration.

To prevent unauthorized intruders from being able to gather information about you, select one of the privacy package ranges as well as install it on your PC.

Think Before You Click ? Use Some Common Sense

A little common sense can go quite a distance when trying to protect your PC. Most of what can compromise your security will come through e-mail, or when you are surfing the web. Because of this, you definitely need to think before you click. If you have not realized it undoubtedly, most unsolicited e-mail is gargolf bage. No matter how good the offer may sound, the common sense rule of ?if it sounds too good to be true,safety. it is?? practical applicationlies. Most of what you receive unsolicited is designed to scam you out of money, to trick you into divulging privdined on information, to install spyware and adware on your computer, or to install viruses on your computer.How Old Is Nicki Minaj?.

Identifying Suspect E-Mails

So how do you identify the bad ?stuff?? It actually is fairly easy to identify ?suspect? e-mails. Common bad or suspect e-mails include:

  • E-mails from people or companies with whom you have never corresponded or conducted home business. You may receive e-mails that you need to verify your account information from a company that you do not do home business with. You may receive a message that looks like it is from eBay that says they are going to shut off your account and you have never done home business with eBay. Individuals and groups trying to perpetrdined on fraud will go to great lengths to try to look like a legitimdined on home business. You need to use common sense. If it does not ?feel? right, it probably is not.
  • E-mails with gibberish in the title or in the complete body of the message.
  • E-mails from friends, relatives,Free Downloadable Books in PDF Format. or home business associdined ons that do not make any sense.
  • E-mails from yourself that you never sent or e-mails that are ?returned? to you from someone that you have never corresponded with.

This list can go on forever with the many subtle variations. The bottom line is that if it does not feel right then consider it to be a bad e-mail.

Suspect e-mails should be deleted. Never click on links in suspect e-mails. Never open file contraptions to suspect e-mails. Never reply or forward suspect e-mails. Simply delete them and move on.

Safe Surfing

Installing firewall software and antivirus software, and running anti-spyware software and privacy software should go quite a distance to protecting you when your are surfing.Computer. Here, again, some common sense practical applicationlies. Avoid sites that do not ?feel? right. Sites that are constantly trying to get you to fill out forms before you have much of time to learn anything about the site and the organization who owns the site are highly suspect. Pornography sites are famous for downloading spyware and viruses onto people?s computers. Stick to sites you know, the sites of reputable companies, and sites that come recommended by people you trust and you should be okay.

Protecting Your Kids

Now that you have taken care of the basics and protected you PC, it is time to specifically worry about keeping your kids safe. When trying to protect your children,Safe Teenage Chat Rooms. it is important to:

  • Set expectations
  • Monitor and control what your children do online
  • Use some common sense

Setting Online Expectations

It is important for you as a parent to be clear with your children what you expect of them when they are using the PC. You need to be clear about what you consider to be practical applicationropridined on online behavior,How To Chat In Yahoo Messenger?. as well as what is and is not practical applicationropridined on to be accessing online. Children should be taught:

  • That they should never give out personal information such as their name, address,Oprah Teen Book Club. e-mail address, phone number, or age to anyone over the Internet without your express permission.
  • That they should never fill out forms without your permission.
  • That they should tell you if they come across anything or anyone online that they feel is not practical applicationropridined on or that makes them uncomfortable.
  • That they should ask before downloading or installing software on a PC.
  • That they should never, under any circumstances, arrange to meet alone with someone who they have met online. This can be especially important for your teenage children who may feel that they have met the daughter or son of their dreams online. If they feel that they absolutely must meet this individual, then they should arrange to do it with a responsible adult present. You should remind them that it is very easy for someone to masquerade as someone else online.

Monitor and Control What Your Children Do Online

The PC that your children use should be setup in a public location where it is easy for you to monitor what your children are doing. It is very difficult for a child to engage in questionable online activities when everyone in the family can easily look over their shoulder.How Do I Create A Website Totally Free?. If you have children who participdined on in chat rooms or use instant messaging software you should regularly ask them who they are communicating with. If they are evasive or do not tell you, take away their computer privileges. Having a safe mad child is recommended than having a dangerous hpractical applicationy one.

There is also software that can help parents protect their children.Where Can I Build a Free Website?. Softwin order to help keep children safe comes in two forms: monitoring software, and parental control software.

Monitoring software allows parents to monitor activity on the family PC. Many package ranges will allow you to monitor computer activity including web surfing activity, e-mail message ranges, chat, as well as instant messaging. Some software will even allow screen shots to be taken at predetermined increments of time. Mall of these package ranges will operdined on in stealth mode, meaning that no one will know that the software is even installed and running. Of course telling your children that you have software that is monitoring their activity may also act a a deterrent. Monitoring software typically does not filter out any bad content. It simply lets you know if someone is accessing things that are inpractical applicationropridined on.

Parental control software, or Internet filtering software, allows parents to control content that is displayed and block specific web sites. Some filtering software will filter e-mails and chat rooms, block pop ups,How Do I Send a Home Video through Email?. as well as in many monitor chat rooms. This software is, by its very nature, more intrusive than monitoring software. It will filter out lots of bad stuff. It may also miss some bad stuff. It may also filter out some good things.

The choice of which softwin order to use will come down to personal preference. Some parents use both. If you choose to use no software than having the family PC in a public place and prompting questions about what your children are doing online becomes much more important.

Use Some Common Sense

You should be aware if your child becomes secretive about what they are doing online. Averting a computer monitor, or quickly turning it off whenever someone walks into the room is not normal computer behavior. It is, however, the behavior of an individual who is trying to hide something. If your child is exhibiting ?odd? computer behavior question them. If you get no answers or you do not like the answers,Computer. take away their computer privileges and/or get software that monitors their activity. As has undoubtedly been stdined ond, a mad safe child is recommended than a hpractical applicationy unsafe one.

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Einstein's Real Estate Relativity Century 21 Manausa and Associates 1140 Capital Circle SE #12A Tallahassee, FL 32301 (850) 366-8917 www.manausa.comAs all my friends and family can attest, I?m no Albert Einstein, but I can still explain the concept of relativity in real estate to those who get confused about the current supply and demand dynamic in housing.

Specifically, when discussing relativity in real estate (or the relative supply of homes for sale), we look at the current number of homes for sale in Tallahassee and compare it with the current rate of demand.

To simply report the falling supply of homes for sale in the Tallahassee MLS without referencing the sales trends is like pointing out the falling supply of Ipad2 devices without acknowledging that demand has shifted to the Ipad3.

Relativity In Real Estate And The Tallahassee MLS

When we look at a graph of all supply and demand for homes in the Tallahassee MLS, we are not first drawn to the falling supply of homes (even though it appears to be the hottest topic among real estate professionals right now). No, our eyes are actually first drawn to the green line in the real estate graph below, showing that demand is at an all time low.

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Relativity In Real Estate In Tallahassee

In the graph above, the data source is the entire Tallahassee MLS, which includes Leon County, Wakulla County, Gadsden County, Jefferson County, Franklin County, and ?other? counties. It is far more than just the Tallahassee area, but Tallahassee represents the majority of all activity in the MLS.

The green line shows the trend of annual home sales, which is near an all-time low.

The red line records total listings (supply) in the MLS. Notice how it is at a four year low, but still far above what we saw prior to the boom of the housing market.

Currently, the real supply of homes is nearly double what we saw in July 2003, so reports of falling supply should be taken with a grain of salt.

The relative supply of homes (purple line in the graph) is at its lowest point in 5 years, and while that is good news, the 16 months of supply being reported is nearly 3x what is needed for a balanced real estate market.

Using Relativity In Real Estate To Your Advantage

Whether you are thinking about buying a home or selling a home, or even both, knowing the relativity in real estate of homes similar to yours will give you the knowledge to play the housing market to your best advantage.

If you want to know more about using relativity in real estate to your advantage, then just drop me a note and we can schedule a time to discuss your personal situation.

May 15, 2012 – 8:09 am by TallahasseeRealEstate
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