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Engineers Make Great Inventors by Lisa Parmley -

Or is it that inventors make great engineers? Either way, they go hand-in-hand.

Engineers of virtually any specialty get paid to experiment with the technologies of today and add in improvements of their own. In the process, they often create new, useful inventions that may be eligible for a patent.

Engineers invent new technologies for the rest of us.

There are many engineers (otherwise known as inventors) in history. I’m sure you’ll recognize the names of a few.

For instance, take Leonardo da Vinci. He drew plans for several flying machines, including a helicopter and a hang glider as well as many military machines. In addition, da Vinci may have made a great civil engineer as shown from his plans for a 720-foot bridge that was recently turned into a reality.

Another engineer/inventor is Eli Whitney. He invented the first cotton gin. Whitney is also credited with the creation of interchangeable parts. Oddly enough, the ability to interchange parts is thought to be a much more important and long lasting invention than the cotton gin (although that is all he is usually remembered for).

Orville and Wilbur Wright, otherwise known as the Wright Brothers are credited with the creation of a practical airplane. They actually wrote a patent application in 1903 which was rejected. Eventually, patent #821,393 for a “Flying Machine” was granted to them in 1906.

Fast forward to today, when inventors are rewarded for their labors with patents that can bring in large sums of money. A large number of the patents awarded today are granted to engineers. And the number of patents applied for keeps growing each and every year in the U.S.

If you choose this career field, you will no doubt be exposed to patents and quite possibly even apply for one yourself. Who knows? You could make history!

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The right web design look and feel – Does it matter? by Ralph Ramah

This might seem like an obvious statement. Of course the look and feel of my web site matters but how much does it actually matter and what can I do to improve my web design interface? Many companies are constantly tweaking their web site with a view to capturing the attention of potential customers. Although not all web sites are commercial in nature, the majority of web site owners are targeting potential customers with the ultimate aim of securing online leads and sales. Having a pretty web design is nice but it is no guarantee to converting visits into leads and sales.
On what basis then should web designers set the look and feel of a web site and how are they monitoring the results of the web design look and feel on visitor’s behaviour?

Whilst the web offers massive sales opportunities, it takes specialist knowledge and constant research and web design intervention to actually secure orders online. Getting traffic to your web site is important. Search engine optimisation to improve your web site’s organic ranking on search engines and pay per click will get you traffic. But traffic alone will not fetch you sales. You could literally have hundreds of visits to your web site and end up with no leads at the end of the day. If you are paying for your clicks, it could be a big waste of money.

The average web surfer i.e. your potential web design customers spends about 10 seconds on your web site. That is a very short time but it is the only window of opportunity you might have to sell your web design services and products to that potential customer. Putting together the web design solution that will work and deliver this tall order is the key to a successful web design business or any business for that matter.

You cannot beat marketing research in planning any selling tools and you do not have to be a marketing guru to start thinking marketing. Start by deciding which segment of the web design market you want to target. Is it the discount low cost segment or are you more into the corporate web design sector? Selling discount web design through a corporate sophisticated web site might put the potential low budget customers off. Conversely, corporate customers looking for an expensive, high end and sophisticated web design would expect their supplier to have a corporate web site.

Once you have established which segment of the web design market you are serving and decided on the ‘discount’ or corporate look, start looking at the web design elements and where these fit on your homepage. A good starting point to putting together an effective web page that works is research on the behaviour of web surfers. Try typing ‘heat map’ into Google and look for ‘Where should I place Google ads on my page?’ The web site offers some indication of the ‘hot spots’ on a web page i.e. the areas where web visitors are most likely to spend time looking. Use this as a first step in putting together your web design. Try placing your key product offers and contact details in the hottest spots of the heat map - showed as bright orange on the heat map.

Once our web site is online, no amount of reading can beat a good testing procedure for your web design. Get your web site online and start analysing what’s happening. Look at your basic stats like number of visits. Then start looking a bit deeper into your stats using some analytic tools to check the effectiveness of your web design. Google offers some free analytics tools that allow you to easily find out which links visitors are or are not clicking on your web page.
Look at important links that are key to generating leads, like your ‘request a quote button’. If these important links are being ignored, start tweaking the web design look and feel to make them more prominent and visible of on your web site. Use position (remember the heat map), bright colours and catchy words to draw the attention of your potential web design customers.

When it comes to the look and feel of your web design solution, remember that looking pretty is not enough. The web site must respond to key marketing issues like your market segment and web surfer behaviour. The next time you visit a web page, try and see if the look and feel achieves the objectives of the web site.

Ralph Ramah is CEO of Discount Web Design, a web design and search engine optimisation company offering affordable and effective web design solutions to business across the UK.

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Should a Celebrity Reveal a Major Illness? by Jeannie Giordano

One of the most recent examples is Georgia Frontiere, the Rams owner, who died at 80 of breast cancer. Family members and team officials kept her illness a secret according to her wishes.

Battling disease can be difficult enough without having to worry about the extra attention and unwanted press that this kind of news can bring. Deciding to reveal an illness or a deeply personal issue is not only scary, it can leave one feeling vulnerable.

For a public figure facing this decision, not revealing a major illness might seem like the obvious choice. There are other reasons a celebrity might not want to reveal their illness, besides the unwanted press.

Most people, celebrities included, want to be remembered for their work, not their disease. Also, going public with a disease can effectively end their career, so many choose to keep their battles private.

Great goodness can come from revealing a major illness, despite the difficulties in doing so.

Raising awareness is a positive by-product of speaking publicly about a disease. It can also help to encourage those at risk to get screened.

Lance Armstrong, a major sports figure who just won his 7th Tour de France race, revealed his battle with testicular cancer, even while his cancer metastasized to his lungs and brain.

What is the reason these celebrities reveal their illnesses? I have a hunch it's because the act of confessing is restorative. Clarity and a new purpose is often the end-result.

YouReveal.com is a gateway portal for revealing secrets and confessions anonymously. Learn more about celebrities secrets and confessions, and see this special and supportive space.

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Putting - The Feel Factor by

It has long been said that Putting is all about 'feel' but how do you explain what that is - and how do you get it? To answer that, and to achieve that magic 'feel' you have to be able to block out all distractions and get to know your putter so that it becomes an extension of your arms and shoulders. Like most things, there is a trick to it, and that trick can be learned.

Read this sentence and then try the exercise - Pick something to focus on in your mind, then close your eyes for a few moments and see how much easier it is to focus. The simple process of closing your eyes will remove well over half the distractions that we come across and that are continually impinging on our consciousness.

Imagine playing golf with your eyes firmly shut. It may sound crazy but this is an excellent way to hone your putting skills by getting the right 'feel'. To begin with you won't need the ball, just your putter. Standing on the practice green and move into your normal putting position. Visualize the ball on the green and line it up with the hole, just as if you were doing it for real. Swing your putter, exactly as you would if you were going to hit the ball. Close your eyes and repeat the stroke with your eyes closed. How does it feel? Make yourself aware of the pressure of your hands on the grip. How does it feel? Let your hands grip the club just firmly enough to stop it dropping out of your hands, sense the weight of the putter hanging in your hands. How does it feel? Store those sensations in your mind and keep practicing til you can recreate that feeling at will.

Move on and start to swing your putter gently, how does the club feel as it skims the grass on the green. Try and feel the pressure of the grass pulling gently on your putter. Continue to swing backwards and forwards in a smooth pendulum motion making small adjustments to eliminate the pull on your putter. More important still, you should be able to sense the delicacy of the grip you need on your putter. This is the most important part of the whole exercise. This allows you to swing your putter whilst maintaining the same delicate grip throughout the movement . You should never end up squeezing harder on the club at any point during your shot.

Practice this with your eyes closed and don't even attempt to put a ball down until you are really comfortable with the feel of your club in your hands. Then do it without your eyes closed until it is second nature. Only now should you place a ball on the ground and you should be able to concentrate more on the 'feel' of the club in your hands than the ball you are hitting.

This is also a useful exercise to do when buying a new putter. It caused vast hilarity amongst the staff where I was buying my last Putter as I stood there, eyes closed, swinging Putter after Putter backwards and forwards until I found the one that felt just right. It took hours but at the end of it I had a putter I felt was right for me and which I trust implicitly to get me round the course.

You can use this exercise in many ways - it is also excellent training for hitting the ball the right distance when you are on the green. As your familiarity with your club grows you will begin to have a better feel for what you can achieve with your putter and you should get some consistent results.

BQ Browning grew up in a Golfing family and has been involved with the game for many years. News views and information are willing shared with fellow addicts at Golf Techniques and Tournament Tips. You will find a treasure trove of golf information written with wit, humour and wisdom.

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Hair Extensions in New York: get yourself the new you by Peter Symcox

'There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.' Joseph Addison was very true when he stated this wonderful and truthful quote on beauty. Even though we all believe in the fact that “Beauty lies in the eyes of the Beholder” but we all want to look beautiful for our own sake also. And why not, looking beautiful makes ourselves as well others feel nice and give us immense confidence. In fact every creation by god is aesthetically beautiful. Beauty does not only mean to be physically beautiful, as a person you also need to be beautiful. But our appearance does matter. There are many aspects to being beautiful and having beautiful and healthy hair definitely adds on to the entire beauty of a girl. One can have any kind of a hairstyle and a particular length. But if you feel that you want to go in for a change of your hairstyle and length then hair extensions in New York is the best option. In fact hair extensions in New York also help you to better the quality and the texture of your hair.

Hair extensions in New York are being very extensively used as it helps to improve the quality of the hair and also gives a new look to your hair. In fact hair extensions in New York help to change your entire look and give you a completely new look. Hair extensions in New York include a procedure wherein artificial hair is bound with the person’s natural hair. This basically helps in increasing the length of your hair as well as adds volume to your hair. When you opt for hair extensions in New York you are free to choose the kind of hair that you would like to get artificially bound to your hair. After all the artificial hair has to suit your natural hair and you can be the best judge for this.
Hair extensions in New York can be easily found as various hair stylists offer the hair extensions New York services. If you at all want to go in for the hair extensions in New York you will have to do a bit of homework. You will have to find out the various beauty salons that offer hair extensions in New York and then you will have to see whether the stylist is well qualified to undertake this entire thing of hair extension or not. Once the stylist is fixed you should make sure that you and talk to him about the kind of hair extension you would want to undergo and whether you will be benefited out of it or not. Consulting hair extensions New York expert will help to clear all your doubts and apprehensions about the entire thing. At times you need to do something special to yourself so that you can look beautiful and stun the entire world.

But once you go in for the hair extensions in New York you will have to take care of your hair so that you can maintain the new look and the new hair style. And trust me you are bound to be the center of attention and you will surely make many heads turn.

Peter Symcox is a professional writer, who has an extensive knowledge of hair extensions and their necessity in the fashion world. He likes to disseminate his knowledge of hair extensions to people suffering from hair loss. To know more about Hair extensions Salon NY, Hair extensions New York visit www.jaiainc.us

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