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Travel booking system needs 7—Testing steps.

2019-11-07T07:10:00.002+01:00

The key steps of the web application review are as follows-

Step 1
Test plan creation. Plan based on the Documentation and Requirement Analysis.

Step 2
Functional testing to get as close as possible to the real use of the application and create conditions. Tools - QTP, Selenium.

Step 3
Usability testing, both within the company and from outside. Tools - Chalkmark, Clicktale.

Step 4
Interface testing to ensure all interactions between the web server and the user interface are reproduced as required. Tools - SoapUI, Postman.

Step 5
Security testing to check the protection of all closed pages. Tools - Wapiti, Zed Attack.

Step 6
Performance Testing to determine the speed of the site at a given load. Tools - Load Runner.

Step 7
Repeat and release the web application for beta launch.

SAUDI ARABIA MANPOWER JOB AGENCY LIST

2018-03-04T12:11:00.000+01:00

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Employment Center

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Alajeer Recruitment Co.

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Tel: +973 17382265

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Al Rajhi Recruitment

Saudi Arabia

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First National Human Resources Company

Riyadh Saudi Arabia

+966 9200 33335

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Taqat Ingeus

Employment Center

Jeddah Saudi Arabia

+966 9200 33996

Al-Sanea Recruitment

Al Khobar Saudi Arabia

+966 13 889 7411

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EARN CASH FOR TESTING A PRODUCT

2017-07-23T22:18:00.000+01:00

You Earn $10 per test by visiting a website or an app; complete a set of task, speaking your thoughts out loud

What do I need to get started?

A PC or Mac, an internet connection, and a microphone. You’ll need an iPhone, iPad, Android phone or Android tablet If you’d like to take Mobile tests

Ability to download testing software

You must be at least 18 years old

Ability to speak your thoughts aloud in English
               How much money can you make?

While UserTesting.com is a great way to earn a few extra dollars on the side, it won’t make you rich. The number of opportunities you receive will depend on a number of factors, such as your demographics and your quality rating.

How do you get paid?

Testers are pay via PayPal. You must have a PayPal account and live in a country that can receive PayPal money transfers. You will receive your payment exactly 7 days after completing a website or app test

Real Online Surveys Companies That Pay You Cash Worldwide.

2017-07-23T09:55:00.001+01:00

Looking for real online survey companies that actually pay cash? If you love taking online surveys from your computer, then check out some of the companies listed below that are always looking for panelists to take online surveys from home

Paid Surveys in Canada

a. VIP Voice Panel

b. Mobile Xpression

c. Opinion Outpost

d. Global Test Market

e. Opinion World

f. Harris Poll

g. Homescan Consumer Panel

h. iPoll

i. Ipsos Panel

j. Tellwut Survey Panel

Paid Surveys in Korea

a. Opinion World

b. Your Voice Panel

c. Paid Surveys in Germany

d. ACOP

e. Global Test Market

f. Paid Surveys in Spain

Paid Surveys in Australia

iSurvey World
Swagbucks
Global Test Market
Toluna Opinions
Surveys for Moms
My Survey Panel
My Voice
Valued Opinions
Your View

Paid Surveys in United Kingdom

Mixed Drinks Panel (Ages 18-24)
iPoll
My Survey Panel
Opinion Outpost
Toluna Opinions
Harris Poll Online
Global Test Market

The First Car To Completely Drive Itself While Owners watch TV

2017-07-15T17:00:00.001+01:00

Audi has revealed the world's first production car capable of driving itself while the owner takes their eyes off the road to watch television.

Launched at Audi Summit in Barcelona, the new luxury saloon car is the first production vehicle to offer Level 3 autonomous driving, where in certain circumstances the driver can completely disengage from the task of driving, letting the car take full control.

For the new 2018 A8 this is possible at

speeds of up to 60km/h (37mph) on roads which have a physical divider between each direction of traffic, like motorways and dual carriageways. Once the driver presses an AI (artificial intelligence) button on the centre console, the car can start, accelerate, steer, brake and stop itself with no human input whatsoever.

Audi says the driver can then "take their hands off the steering wheel permanently and, depending on the national laws, focus on a different activity that is supported by the car, such as watching the on-board TV."

The German car manufacturer adds: "As soon as the system reaches its limits, it calls on the driver to take back control of the task of driving."

This transition between car and driver is the aspect of autonomous driving currently most feared by car makers. Some are seeking ways to skip Level 3 entirely, jumping from Level 2, where a hand is required on the wheel at all times, to Level 4, where the car does not need to give back control in any situation.

Speaking about the grey area of Level 3 autonomy, Ford's head of self-driving vehicles Jim McBride told Techrepublic in 2016: "The biggest demarcation is between Level 3 and 4. We're not going to ask the driver to instantaneously intervene - that's not a fair proposition."

As well as the radar sensors, front camera and ultrasonic sensors found on other cars with autonomous features, Audi claims it is the first car manufacturer to also use a laser scanner to read the road and traffic ahead.

Called traffic jam pilot, the self-driving system will not be available when the car goes on sale, but will instead be rolled out to delivered vehicles once it has been developed further - and when motoring laws change to allow drivers to watch TV from behind the wheel, which could take some time.

Aside from driving itself in traffic, the new A8, which starts at €90,600 (£80,000) will, once the software updates arrive, be capable of remotely parking itself in a space or garage without a driver inside. Drivers can start the parking maneuver from their smartphone, while stood outside if they wish, and the car will do the rest under supervision.

Rear-seat passengers can control the car's climate, media and other settings via a tablet computer docked in the centre console, similar to that installed in the BMW 7-Series. The rear seats recline, offer massages, and there are two TV screens; the front passenger seat can be folded forward to act as a footrest.

Sell off any Bitcoin You can't Afford to Lose before 1am BST on Tuesday 1 August!

2017-07-15T16:07:00.000+01:00

The bitcoin network will be experiencing potential disruption at the end of July as the cryptocurrency goes through a "user activated soft fork", whereby miners on the bitcoin blockchain will have to decide whether they want to support a new technology or not.

After 1am BST on 1 August, it is likely that bitcoin confirmation scores will become unreliable, meaning that if you send and receive bitcoins on the network, the transactions may not show up in your wallet, or show up as

a type of bitcoin that other users will not be able to accept as payment.

Bitcoin.org, a community site started by Satoshi Nakamoto, is warning all users of the cryptocurrency to stop accepting or sending out bitcoin payments at least 12 hours before 1am BST on Tuesday 1 August, but it might be safer to stop from 30 or 31 July to be safe.

Users are also warned to avoid storing their bitcoins on any exchange or wallet service that doesn't allow them to make a local backup copy of their private keys. If any of these wallets or exchanges continue to accept transactions during the soft fork, they will potentially lose money, and will likely require their users to take some of the losses too.

Finally, it might be a good idea to sell off any bitcoin you can't afford to lose, as there are concerns that bitcoin's price could fluctuate significantly, and users should also beware of potential scams.

"Be wary of offers to allow you to invest in the outcome of the event by 'splitting' your coins. Some of these offers may be scams, and software claiming to split your coins can also steal them," Bitcoin.org wrote in a blog post.

Coin split: What's going on?

The core developers of bitcoin want to improve the bitcoin network by introducing new technology to the blockchain, which will enable the network to expand and scale more efficiently.

Segregated Witness (SegWit) is a process that enables all blocks on the blockchain to increase their size limits, so that more transactions can be processed within each block. This is achieved by removing signature data from bitcoin transactions, which frees up space so that more transactions can be added.

As time goes on and demand continues to escalate, the bitcoin network is slowing down because so many more transactions are being conducted on the blockchain than ever.

Bitcoin is decentralised and secure, and in order for it to be this way, bitcoin miners have to verify every single transaction that is made before the block can be added to the network. Due to the huge interest in using bitcoin, it can take hours for a transaction to be included in a block to confirm it's valid, even though blocks are being generated once every 10 minutes.

If things stay the way they are now, the network could one day come to a standstill, which is why the core developers of bitcoin want to implement SegWit, and have set out how in the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 148 (BIP 148). However, all the miners on the bitcoin network need to agree to do this at the same time.

What happens if we have two blockchains

Not everyone within the bitcoin community is happy with this idea, so at 1am BST on 1 August, all miners will be given a choice – if they agree to support SegWit, then their blocks will be added to the blockchain.

If everyone is in accord, then the network upgrades smoothly, but if some miners don't want to support the new technology, then the whole bitcoin network will be split into two different blockchains.

So for example, if you currently have 148BTC, in theory, if there is a split, you will then have 148BTC and 148 Legacy BTC. However, this isn't a cause for celebration – if the two sides don't come to an agreement, bitcoin's exchange rate could plummet dramatically, and you will definitely end up losing money.

Bitcoin Magazine's Aaron van Wirdum advises that if you decide to keep hold of your bitcoins, you absolutely must make sure that you are in control of your own personal keys. If your bitcoins are stored in an exchange or in a wallet, which holds your private keys for you, then you might end up with a nightmare situation where you have no coins at all.

Ways To buy Bitcoin, Litecoin and Ethereum on iPhone, Android and desktop

2017-06-27T03:38:00.002+01:00

Here are four options to get you started.

Coinbase

The largest cryptocurrency exchange online today, Coinbase operates in 32 countries and has over seven million users worldwide. Customers can buy bitcoin, litecoin and ethereum using a

credit or debit card, and funds can be withdrawn into a regular bank account.

Coinbase offers a desktop site as well as an app for iPhone and Android, but setting up a new account is easier on a phone as you can use the camera to photograph government-issued ID, part of Coinbase's verification procedure.

Once you have created an account, written down the 12-word passphrase for your new bitcoin wallet and had your identity verified (which can take a day or so), you just need to add a credit or debit card for payment ans a bank account for withdrawals (although you can do this later), and you are good to go. Transaction fees are 3.99% when buying with a credit or debit card.

The entire process should be simple and straightforward – and it often is – but during the recent bitcoin boom and bust Coinbase's servers struggled to cope with a rush of 40,000 new users trying to set up accounts.

New customers were unable to register their bank cards to buy currency for several days, highlighting a constant issue with the bitcoin ecosystem – there is a very real chance of you being unable to get money in or out at highly volatile times.

But when the system works, it works very well. Now the most recent bitcoin storm has subsided, payments go through in under a minute and both the website and iPhone app are nice and responsive. When Coinbase's servers are functioning properly, purchases can be made in a matter of seconds.

Coinbase only deals in bitcoin, litecoin and ethereum, so if you are after a different cryptocurrency you'll have to shop elsewhere.

Kraken

Founded in 2011, Kraken is another large-scale bitcoin exchange for buying bitcoins in return for pounds, US dollars, Canadian dollars, euros and Japanese Yen.

As well as bitcoin, Kraken offers the following cryptocurrencies:

Ethereum
Monero
Dash
Litecoin
Ripple
Stellar
Ethereum Classic
Augur REP tokens
Melon
Dogecoin
Tether
Gnosis

Kraken employs a similar verification process to Coinbase, whereby new users are limited in what they can do until they upload ID and have it confirmed by the exchange. Going beyond Coinbase, Kraken also asks users to confirm their address with a utility bill. Showing government-issued ID like a driving license is also part of the full sign-up process.

Unlike the direct purchase system of Coinbase, Kraken asks users to first deposit cash into their accounts, then use this to buy bitcoins, instead of paying for them directly with a bank card. Depositing money from a UK bank account costs £10 per deposit, then transaction fees range from 0.26% to zero depending on the size of the trade.

Kraken also has an iPhone app, but it hasn't been updated for two years – so we suggest you stick to the website for now.

LocalBitcoins

An option for buying bitcoins closer to home is LocalBitcoins. Here you can search for bitcoins being bought and sold in your country or city, then filter the results by payment method and look for the most cost-effective. For example, you could opt to buy bitcoins only from someone in the UK, who deals in pounds and accepts Paypal as a means of payment. Users are ranked with an eBay-style feedback system and some even allow transactions made for cash in person.
Once you have found the right seller, LocalBitcoins provides an instant messaging system to close the deal. For transactions made online there is a 90-minute trade window in which to pay

At an ATM

The idea of a bitcoin cash machine was unheard of just a few years ago, and when the first arrived in London it was big news for the cryptocurrency community. But now there are many bitcoin ATMs dotted around the capital and beyond, letting you buy and sell through a self-service touchscreen interface.

Some machines let you set up a bitcoin wallet there and then, ready to receive the coins. Others ask you to set up a wallet in advance, then give the address to the ATM. Then simply put your bank card in, select how much you would like to spend, and the cryptocurrency is transferred to your digital wallet.

Electric planes are slowly edging their way out of science fiction and into the real world.

2017-06-26T07:58:00.002+01:00

At the International Paris Air Show, Israel-based Eviation Aircraft revealed the first prototype of its all-electric airplane, called the Alice Commuter, which is claimed to have a range of up to 600 miles at almost 280mph.

If Eviation can stick to that timeline then the progress in electronic aviation is nothing short of staggering. Just two years ago, Icelandic airline Wow Air ran an April Fool's day joke about it launching an all-electric.

More than just an attractive computer

render and an impressive claimed range, Eviation says it is currently conducting test flights and could work to gain certification from the aviation authorities as soon as 2018. It also hopes to begin work on a commercial version of the aircraft that same year.

The plane is designed to cruise at 10,000 feet, a third of that of full-size commercial airliners, and is powered by a 980kWh battery pack, which is roughly ten times larger than those carried by the most powerful Tesla cars. The Alice is 12 metres long, has a wingspan of 13.5m and weighs 5,900kg.
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A teenager who invested $1,000 gift in bitcoin aged 12 is now a millionaire

2017-06-25T22:16:00.002+01:00

A teenager from a family he describes as the "Elon Musk version of the Kardashians" has become a millionaire after investing $1,000 (£800) into bitcoin when he was just 12 years old.

Thanks to a tip-off from his brother, Erik Finman, from Idaho, US, invested a $1,000 gift from his grandmother into the cryptocurrency in May 2011. At the time, bitcoin was unheard of outside of technology communities and worth around $12 per coin.

Finman told CNBC how he invested in bitcoin as a way of winning a bet with his Ph.D-holding, Stanford-educated

parents, who said he did not have to go to university if he became a millionaire by the age of 18.

That first investment quickly grew from $1,000 to $100,000 by the end of 2013. Finman then sold the lot and used the proceeds to move to California's Silicon Valley and set up a company called Botangle, which allowed students frustrated with the quality of their current education to video teachers to video chat with online.

A year later, in January 2015, Finman found a buyer for Botangle who offered either $100,000 in cash or 300 bitcoins, which was worth less, around $60,000, due to the cryptocurrency being valued at a little over $200 per coin. Finman opted for the less valuable option, believing his bitcoins would appreciate massively over the coming years, becoming "the next big thing".

Through further investment Finman now owns 403 bitcoins, worth $1.13m at the time of writing, but the currency's extreme volatility means it could rise or fall significantly in mere hours. Finman also has smaller investments in other digital currencies, including litecoin and ethereum.

While some analysts think bitcoin is already overvalued, others have recently claimed it has the potential to top $100,000 per coin. Finman, perhaps unsurprisingly, is even more bullish: "Personally I think bitcoin is going to be worth a couple hundred thousand to a million dollars a coin."

As for the bet with his parents, Finman still has no plans to go to university. Instead, he believes the internet offers a better education for free. "The way the education system is structured, I wouldn't recommend it. It doesn't work for anyone. I would recommend the internet, which is all free. You can learn a million times more http://www.frankiezer.com/

Israeli fighter jets destroy Syrian tanks as tension mounts on Golan Heights

2017-06-25T21:54:00.000+01:00

The Israeli army has released a video purportedly showing its air force targeting three Syrian military installations after at least 10 "errant" projectiles fired from Syria landed in Israel-controlled territory.

It is believed the fire was not aimed at Israeli targets and was the result of fighting in Syria, where the President Assad's troops are battling Islamist militants in Quneitra province, near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, on Saturday (24 June).

A Syrian official said rockets fired by Israel targeted a residential building and caused some deaths, alleging the strikes were in support of jihadist rebels in Syria, Reuters reported.

However, the Israeli army denied the allegations and released footage purportedly showing two machine guns and one tank being targeted and hit.

"The footage shows a precise strike on a heavy machine gun and two tanks from which errant fire hit the northern Golan Heights in Israel," an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson was quoted by local media as saying.

Arab media reported at least two Syrian soldiers were killed in the strikes.

"In the footage one of the tanks is seen preparing to fire but was hit before firing. The IDF views [the incident] with severity and will not tolerate any attempt to harm the sovereignty of the State of Israel or the security of its residents, and sees the Syrian regime as responsible for anything that takes place in its territory," the spokesperson continued.

The Golan Heights incident prompted Israel to file a complaint with the United Nations.

"With the IDF action today [24 June], we are making our policy clear again. We are not willing to accept any 'drizzle' [of fire] or 'spillover' on any front. We will react with force to any firing on our territory," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

Although no casualties or property damage were reported following the incident, the IDF instructed farmers and civilians near the Quneitra border to avoid open fields, the Jerusalem Post reported. Backpackers and hikers were also evacuated from he area.

Israel has previously targeted Syria after fire landed in the Golan Heights and to strike weapon supplies of Lebanon's Hezbollah group, which supports the Syrian government in the current conflict, Reuters said.

On Sunday, Netanyahu warned Iran against setting up a military presence in Syria and allegedly arming Hezbollah. The remarks came days after Iran conducted its first airstrikes against Isis terror group in Syria, in retaliation to Isis-claimed attacks that killed at least 17 people in Tehran earlier in June.

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'I dragged him by the balls' – Teen's sick boast after killing elderly Chinese jogger

2017-06-13T12:21:00.001+01:00

A British teenager who beat a jogger to death and then boasted about how he dragged him down the street by his genitals has been jailed for 19 years.

Nathan Richardson, 19, pleaded guilty to the murder of 67-year-old Chinese national Wen Qing Xu while he went for a morning run on New Years Day.

Richardson had been taking a cocktail of drink and drugs at a New Year's Eve party Eversleigh St, Preston, when he crossed paths with Xu in the Plungington area.

In a seemingly unprovoked and violent attack, Richardson then kicked and stamped on Xu, causing "extensive and catastrophic injuries" which Lancashire Police describe as some of the worse they've ever seen.

Following the "sustained and brutal attack" Richardson then dragged Xu's unconscious and partially-clothed body along Hammond Street until he was disturbed by two members of the public at around 8.10am and ran off.

Xu, who was in the country visiting his daughter, was taken to Royal Preston Hospital but died a short time later. His injuries included broken facial bones and teeth, internal bruising, a bleed on the brain and injuries consistent with being dragged along the ground.

Preston Crown Court heard how after killing Xu, Richardson texted a friend to say how he had "F****d sum ch**k up." He added: "Bodied him. I think pure crime scene – his head's gone."

The court heard how he also told a friend: "I've killed someone, it's unnatural what I've done. I've just done some guy I backhanded him and he weren't moving, I have done it. I kicked and stamped his head a few times. I pulled his pants down and pulled him by his balls."

Richardson also admitted to the crime to family members the same day.

He was arrested after a sock which was stained with Xu's blood and had Richardson's DNA on it was located by a police dog close to Xu's body. A cider bottle with Richardson's DNA was also found nearby, as well as a pair of bloody socks which were found behind a wall in the direction Richardson had run off.

Following the murder, Richardson went to a friend's house, 22-year-old Luke Jenkinson, who helped him dispose of key evidence by washing blood-stained clothing as well as providing him with clean clothes to wear. Jenkinson previously admitted the charge of assisting an offender and was also sentenced at the court to 33 months in prison.

Upon sentencing, Judge Mark Brown said that Xu's wife and daughter were so distraught that they were unable to complete a victim impact statement and had "found it difficult to put into words the impact of his death upon them."

Detective Chief Inspector Gary Brooks, of the Lancashire Police Force Major Investigation Team, said: "Nathan Richardson carried out what can only be described as a sustained, brutal and sadistic attack on an entirely innocent man. In my 24 years with the police, I can honestly say I've never seen injuries as bad as those inflicted on Mr Xu.

"When he left the house on the morning of January 1st he had no reason to believe he might not make it home. His family, who have been left devastated by his death, had no reason to think it would be the last time they saw him alive.

"Jenkinson later added to their misery by allowing Richardson into his home and helping him dispose of key evidence. I would now like to thank Mr Xu's family for the dignity with which they have conducted themselves throughout this investigation.

"My colleagues, all of whom have worked extremely hard to gather evidence and build a case against Richardson and Jenkinson, must also be praised. The scene that confronted them on New Year's Day was incredibly shocking, and their professionalism and dedication to this case cannot be understated."

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Remain Calm Under Pressure and Be Successful.

2017-06-13T02:38:00.001+01:00

The ability to manage your emotions and remain calm under pressure has a direct link to your performance. TalentSmart has conducted research with more than a million people, and we’ve found that 90% of top performers are skilled at managing their emotions in times of stress in order to remain calm and in control.

Research from the University of California, Berkeley, reveals an upside to experiencing moderate levels of stress. But it also reinforces how important it is to keep stress under control. The study, led by
post-doctoral fellow Elizabeth Kirby, found that the onset of stress entices the brain into growing new cells responsible for improved memory. However, this effect is only seen when stress is intermittent. As soon as the stress continues beyond a few moments into a prolonged state, it suppresses the brain’s ability to develop new cells.

“I think intermittent stressful events are probably what keeps the brain more alert, and you perform better when you are alert,” Kirby says. For animals, intermittent stress is the bulk of what they experience, in the form of physical threats in their immediate environment. Long ago, this was also the case for humans. As the human brain evolved and increased in complexity, we’ve developed the ability to worry and perseverate on events, which creates frequent experiences of prolonged stress.

The more time you spend worrying, the less time you’ll spend taking action that will calm you down.

Besides increasing your risk of heart disease, depression, and obesity, stress decreases your cognitive performance. Fortunately, though, unless a lion is chasing you, the bulk of your stress is subjective and under your control. Top performers have well-honed coping strategies that they employ under stressful circumstances. This lowers their stress levels regardless of what’s happening in their environment, ensuring that the stress they experience is intermittent and not prolonged.

While I’ve run across numerous effective strategies that successful people employ when faced with stress, what follows are ten of the best. Some of these strategies may seem obvious, but the real challenge lies in recognizing when you need to use them and having the wherewithal to actually do so in spite of your stress.

1. They Appreciate What They Have

Taking time to contemplate what you’re grateful for isn’t merely the “right” thing to do. It also improves your mood, because it reduces the stress hormone cortisol by 23%. Research conducted at the University of California, Davis found that people who worked daily to cultivate an attitude of gratitude experienced improved mood, energy, and physical well-being. It’s likely that lower levels of cortisol played a major role in this.

2. They Avoid Asking “What If?”

“What if?” statements throw fuel on the fire of stress and worry. Things can go in a million different directions, and the more time you spend worrying about the possibilities, the less time you’ll spend focusing on taking action that will calm you down and keep your stress under control. Calm people know that asking “what if? will only take them to a place they don’t want—or need—to go.

3. They Stay Positive

Positive thoughts help make stress intermittent by focusing your brain’s attention onto something that is completely stress-free. You have to give your wandering brain a little help by consciously selecting something positive to think about. Any positive thought will do to refocus your attention. When things are going well, and your mood is good, this is relatively easy. When things are going poorly, and your mind is flooded with negative thoughts, this can be a challenge. In these moments, think about your day and identify one positive thing that happened, no matter how small. If you can’t think of something from the current day, reflect on the previous day or even the previous week. Or perhaps you’re looking forward to an exciting event that you can focus your attention on. The point here is that you must have something positive that you’re ready to shift your attention to when your thoughts turn negative.

4. They Disconnect

Given the importance of keeping stress intermittent, it’s easy to see how taking regular time off the grid can help keep your stress under control. When you make yourself available to your work 24/7, you expose yourself to a constant barrage of stressors. Forcing yourself offline and even—gulp!—turning off your phone gives your body a break from a constant source of stress. Studies have shown that something as simple as an email break can lower stress levels.

Technology enables constant communication and the expectation that you should be available 24/7. It is extremely difficult to enjoy a stress-free moment outside of work when an email that will change your train of thought and get you thinking (read: stressing) about work can drop onto your phone at any moment. If detaching yourself from work-related communication on weekday evenings is too big a challenge, then how about the weekend? Choose blocks of time where you cut the cord and go offline. You’ll be amazed at how refreshing these breaks are and how they reduce stress by putting a mental recharge into your weekly schedule. If you’re worried about the negative repercussions of taking this step, first try doing it at times when you’re unlikely to be contacted—maybe Sunday morning. As you grow more comfortable with it, and as your coworkers begin to accept the time you spend offline, gradually expand the amount of time you spend away from technology.

5. They Limit Their Caffeine Intake

Drinking caffeine triggers the release of adrenaline. Adrenaline is the source of the “fight-or-flight” response, a survival mechanism that forces you to stand up and fight or run for the hills when faced with a threat. The fight-or-flight mechanism sidesteps rational thinking in favor of a faster response. This is great when a bear is chasing you, but not so great when you’re responding to a curt email. When caffeine puts your brain and body into this hyperaroused state of stress, your emotions overrun your behavior. The stress that caffeine creates is far from intermittent, as its long half-life ensures that it takes its sweet time working its way out of your body.

The easiest way to make stress intermittent lies in something that you have to do everyday anyway: breathing.

6. They Sleep

I’ve beaten this one to death over the years and can’t say enough about the importance of sleep to increasing your emotional intelligence and managing your stress levels. When you sleep, your brain literally recharges, shuffling through the day’s memories and storing or discarding them (which causes dreams), so that you wake up alert and clear-headed. Your self-control, attention, and memory are all reduced when you don’t get enough—or the right kind—of sleep. Sleep deprivation raises stress hormone levels on its own, even without a stressor present. Stressful projects often make you feel as if you have no time to sleep, but taking the time to get a decent night’s sleep is often the one thing keeping you from getting things under control.

7. They Squash Negative Self-Talk

A big step in managing stress involves stopping negative self-talk in its tracks. The more you ruminate on negative thoughts, the more power you give them. Most of our negative thoughts are just that—thoughts, not facts. When you find yourself believing the negative and pessimistic things your inner voice says, it’s time to stop and write them down. Literally stop what you’re doing and write down what you’re thinking. Once you’ve taken a moment to slow down the negative momentum of your thoughts, you will be more rational and clear-headed in evaluating their veracity.

You can bet that your statements aren’t true any time you use words like “never,” “worst,” “ever,” etc. If your statements still look like facts once they’re on paper, take them to a friend or colleague you trust and see if he or she agrees with you. Then the truth will surely come out. When it feels like something always or never happens, this is just your brain’s natural threat tendency inflating the perceived frequency or severity of an event. Identifying and labeling your thoughts as thoughts by separating them from the facts will help you escape the cycle of negativity and move toward a positive new outlook.

8. They Reframe Their Perspective

Stress and worry are fueled by our own skewed perception of events. It’s easy to think that unrealistic deadlines, unforgiving bosses, and out-of-control traffic are the reasons we’re so stressed all the time. You can’t control your circumstances, but you can control how you respond to them. So before you spend too much time dwelling on something, take a minute to put the situation in perspective. If you aren’t sure when you need to do this, try looking for clues that your anxiety may not be proportional to the stressor. If you’re thinking in broad, sweeping statements such as “Everything is going wrong” or “Nothing will work out,” then you need to reframe the situation. A great way to correct this unproductive thought pattern is to list the specific things that actually are going wrong or not working out. Most likely you will come up with just some things—not everything—and the scope of these stressors will look much more limited than it initially appeared.

9. They Breathe

The easiest way to make stress intermittent lies in something that you have to do everyday anyway: breathing. The practice of being in the moment with your breathing will begin to train your brain to focus solely on the task at hand and get the stress monkey off your back. When you’re feeling stressed, take a couple of minutes to focus on your breathing. Close the door, put away all other distractions, and just sit in a chair and breathe. The goal is to spend the entire time focused only on your breathing, which will prevent your mind from wandering. Think about how it feels to breathe in and out. This sounds simple, but it’s hard to do for more than a minute or two. It’s all right if you get sidetracked by another thought; this is sure to happen at the beginning, and you just need to bring your focus back to your breathing. If staying focused on your breathing proves to be a real struggle, try counting each breath in and out until you get to 20, and then start again from 1. Don’t worry if you lose count; you can always just start over.

This task may seem too easy or even a little silly, but you’ll be surprised by how calm you feel afterward and how much easier it is to let go of distracting thoughts that otherwise seem to have lodged permanently inside your brain.

10. They Use Their Support System

It’s tempting, yet entirely ineffective, to attempt tackling everything by yourself. To be calm and productive, you need to recognize your weaknesses and ask for help when you need it. This means tapping into your support system when a situation is challenging enough for you to feel overwhelmed. Everyone has someone at work and/or outside work who is on their team, rooting for them, and ready to help them get the best from a difficult situation. Identify these individuals in your life and make an effort to seek their insight and assistance when you need it. Something as simple as talking about your worries will provide an outlet for your anxiety and stress and supply you with a new perspective on the situation. Most of the time, other people can see a solution that you can’t because they are not as emotionally invested in the situation. Asking for help will mitigate your stress and strengthen your relationships with those you rely upon.

Jeff Bezos is on the cusp of overtaking Bill Gates as the World’s Richest Man

2017-06-13T01:59:00.002+01:00

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is poised to be the new king ― of the billionaires.Bezos is on the cusp of overtaking Bill Gates as the world’s richest man, buoyed by the strong performance of Amazon stock in recent months and the (comparatively) smaller gains of Gates’ Microsoft during the same period.

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows that Bezos’ net worth passed $86 billion on Monday, putting him “only” around $3.8 billion short of Gates, who clocks in at $89.8 billion.

Bezos owns about 17 percent of Amazon, which closed above $1,000

per share on Friday for the first time ever, up from around $850 per share in mid-March. At those prices, that makes Amazon worth more than two Walmarts.

From the beginning of the year until now, Bezos has added more than $20 billion to his net worth, according to the Bloomberg index.

The only other billionaire to approach those gains is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who added $15.6 billion to his net worth in the first half of the year. Worth $65.6 billion, he ranks fifth on Bloomberg’s list.

Ahead of Zuckerberg and not far behind Bezos is Spanish businessman Amancio Ortega, who co-founded Zara ― the world’s largest fashion retailer ― and is worth approximately $85.9 billion, followed by business magnate Warren Buffett ($74.6 billion).

Scientists Develop Invisibility Cloak for Soldiers to Hide from Enemy Radars

2017-06-11T15:50:00.001+01:00

Scientists from the Saratov State University in Russia have developed a custom-made invisibility cloak for soldiers that will help the camouflage with their background without being detected by radars and radio devices.

The cloak is not like the one seen in fictional content like Harry Potter movies but can be a crucial defence technique of the future as enemy troops will not be able to detect soldiers in hiding. By using radio-absorbing properties it will allow soldiers in ordinary uniforms to be invisible to the

enemy's radar devices

"It will allow to impart radio-absorbing properties of any fabric practically without changing its mass and other parameters, in other words — it allows to make fighters dressed in ordinary uniform invisible to radar reconnaissance devices," said a statement from the scientists accessed by Sputnik.

The cloak consists of a sophisticated membrane that uses nano-processing technology. Tiny light-sensitive cells embedded can detect surrounding colours and electrical signals then trigger the top layer to imitate those colours by using heat-sensitive dyes. Using this technology, military gear can be developed to suit a wide range of temperatures and loads.

The technology was first developed by the University of Illinois and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which other military research tanks have advanced. The US and the UK military has already tested a range of these cloaks since 2015 but continue to develop advanced technology to master the art of camouflaging.

'GyroDrive' Made First Flying Car to be Legal on Road and in the Air

2017-06-11T14:07:00.001+01:00

The race to produce the first commercial flying car has a new contender, as a Czech pilot called Pavel Brezina claims he has produced the world's first vehicle authorised to travel by both road and sky.

Called the GyroDrive, the one-off vehicle is a modified autogyro which can be driven on the public road. It joins a surprisingly busy market full of startups bidding to be the first to sell a flying car to the public.

"This is the only road certified flying vehicle I know about," Brezina told the AFP news agency. "Everyone is trying to make a high-speed car that can fly, but this is a different thing," the 51-year-old added. Brezina has been flying for 30 years and is the owner of Nirvana Systems, a company which produces motors for small flying machines.

Brezina buys autogyros in kit from their German manufacturer, before modifying them so that the wheels are powered by an electric motors, making it drive like a car.

There is a switch for the driver/pilot to operate either the petrol-powered rotor for flight, or the electric
wheels for driving on the road.; once the rotors are

folded away and a number plate revealed,
the GyroDrive is claimed to be road legal.

The two-seat vehicle has a top speed on the ground of 25mph, but can top just over 110mph in the air; it needs just 100 meters of runway space to takeoff and can fly for a claimed 600km (370 miles) on one tank of petrol.

Brezina is pricing the GyroDrive from 1.5m koruna (£50,000), but depending on specification this can increase to 4m koruna.

Competition in the flying car market includes the PAL-V Liberty, which is also based on a gyrocopter design but costs significantly more, at £255,000. But while the Liberty's top flying speed is the same as the GyroDrive, it can travel at a claimed 100mph on the road.

Another rival is the AeroMobil, a flying car from Slovakia which was launched at a glamorous car show in Monaco in April. Morercar-like than the others, this option can hit 224mph in the air and 110mph on the road, thanks to a turbocharged petrol engine. But speed comes at a price - the Aeromobil costs between £1m and £1.3m, with pre-orders open now.

IMF Doubtful on European banks' ability to generate sustainable profits

2017-06-11T13:18:00.005+01:00

European banks are not becoming profitable enough to be competitive despite increasing equity prices and a steepening yield curve, says the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in a report released on Wednesday (19 April).

The annual Global Financial Stability report highlighted the inability of European banks to generate sustainable profits. Chronic low margins increase global risk and banks would be unable to cushion themselves from an economic shock. They would be forced to take unhealthy and often risky ventures to increase their profitability, the report said.

'Overbanking' in the industry has been faulted as one of the main reasons for low margins. According to the report overbanking is "the variety of structural factors that lead to an overly large

banking
sector that affects the profitability of the banks in the system".

European economies exhibit different symptoms of overbanking, which makes the formulation of a policy prescription more difficult. For instance, overbanking can be applied to a banking system with excessive assets, or numerous weak banks with low buffers, or many banks with low ambitions and a restricted regional focus. Regardless of the nature, overbanking drastically reduces revenues and affects the industry's cost structure and operational efficiency.

According to the report, banking regulations may grow more challenging and complex. However, a possible upside to this is a reduction in the concentration of banking activities which adds the benefit of diversification to global financial stability.

A recent IMF report suggested that the persistent global environment of low growth and low interest rates could fundamentally overhaul the banking system worldwide.

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5 Major Russian Hacker Groups that have wreaked havoc in Cyberspace over the past Few Years.

2017-06-11T07:13:00.000+01:00

Russian hackers have been in the spotlight since the 2016 US presidential election. Over the past year, reports about Kremlin-linked hacker groups dominating cyberspace with widespread, global attacks have emerged, indicating that Russian hackers' reach may extend to targets across the world.Over the past year, numerous international government, private and political organisations have been targeted by what experts say are Kremlin-linked cyberespionage groups, in efforts to influence socio-political aspects of different countries.

Although there may be general awareness about Russian hackers, it is important that people also arm themselves with knowledge about the major hacker groups that have been actively conducting targeted cyberattacks. They includes:

Fancy Bear

The Fancy Bear hacker group is widely considered to be one of the most proliferate Kremlin-linked hacking units. Security experts have said that the group, which is also known as Sofacy, Pawn Storm and APT 28, among others, has ties to the Kremlin's primary intelligence agency GRU.

Fancy Bear has been accused of launching attacks against the DNC (Democratic National Committee) as well as American think tanks. The hacker group has also targeted government organisations in Germany, Denmark, France and elsewhere, in efforts to influence socio-political aspects during key political times, such as in the months leading up to major elections.

Cozy Bear

Cozy Bear hackers have also been linked to the Russian government and are believed to be involved in highly advanced and covert cyberattack campaigns. The hacker groups has been linked to the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB – the successor of the infamous KGB) and are believed to have been involved in several long-term cyberespionage campaigns, targeting thinks tanks and various private organisations across the globe. In comparison to the Fancy Bear hackers, this group maintains a relatively low profile.

Turla

Turla is one of the lesser known, yet highly effective Russian hacker groups that is believed to have been active for over a decade. The group has also been linked to a cyberattack against the US Department of Defence (DoD) in 2008 and counts among its victims various international government agencies, embassies as well medical research and pharmaceutical firms.

The group recently made a comeback after security researchers found it to be hiding and controlling its customised malware via the Britney Spear's Instagram account. The group has also targeted satellite internet providers in the Middle East.

CyberBerkut

CyberBerkut is a lethal Russian hacktivist group. Experts consider this hacker group to be yet another "front for Moscow" as the hacker unit is known to go after Russia's critics, dissidents and activists. The group is believed to have ties to Kremlin's intelligence services. In 2015, the group claimed responsibility for the cyberattack against Germany's government websites, including that of chancellor Angela Merkel.

Yahoo hackers

The details of the massive Yahoo hacks, which emerged last year left the world in shock as the tech giant confirmed that hackers had accessed millions of user accounts. Although the attacks targeting Yahoo were not coordinated by a specific hacker group, the attackers were later linked to Russia.

Why You should not trust your bank blindly.

2017-06-11T06:41:00.002+01:00

If you don’t trust your bank, you’re in good company. With financial regulations unraveling, and in the wake of several shocking banking scandals, it’s remarkable we haven’t all switched to a digital crypto-currency like Bitcoin and ditched our financial institutions.

The latest EY Global Consumer Banking Survey finds customers around the globe have diminishing trust in their banks. While they broadly trust banks to look after their money securely across markets, few have complete trust in their banks to give
them unbiased advice that puts customers’ interests first.

In the United States, 57 percent of customers trust their bank but only 33 percent say their financial institution will provide unbiased advice. Those numbers are comparable to the levels of trust found in Germany and Mexico.

Question is, how will banks go about erasing trust? To find out, I asked the financial experts.

Scandals, scandals, scandals! Banking scandals such as the Wells Fargo fake account debacle, in which it opened 1.5 million accounts without authorization, do nothing to help the situation. There’s also a long history of banking scandals, including those that led to the Great Recession. Perhaps the biggest lie is that the banking industry has learned from its mistakes. It clearly has not.

Free accounts that aren’t actually free. “Don’t fall for the trap of free checking accounts, because they come with several strings attached,” warns Chris Moon, a banking analyst for ValuePenguin.com. He notes that banks often stipulate certain minimums for balance or activity before they will waive your monthly account fee. “The most common requirements are to establish a certain amount in direct deposits to your account, keep a daily minimum balance of a certain amount and make a certain number of debit card purchases each month,” he says. And if you don’t? Well, then it’s not “free,” and you’re stuck with a bank account that can be pricey. Bottom line: “free” is a lie for some customers.

Deceptive overdraft protection products. These products confuse customers, according to a study by the Oakland, California-based California Reinvestment Coalition involving secret shoppers. It found banks’ explanations of overdraft programs were “highly inconsistent” and often unclear and incorrect. In other words, they lied. “Overdraft on ATM withdrawals and debit purchases is a debt trap that pushes lower income people out of the banking system,” noted Josh Zinner, co-director of New Economy Project, one of the organizations that participated in the study. “Regulators should ban this product,” he concludes.

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How Trump And Congress Are About To Ruin America’s $220 Billion Economic Secret Weapon

2017-06-11T06:28:00.000+01:00

When most people think of the U.S. Census Bureau, they probably don’t think of an agency that supercharges the profitability and efficiency of American businesses.

Nor do they realize that one of the economy’s best secret weapons is facing its greatest crisis since James Madison and Thomas Jefferson created it in 1790.

But then again, most people haven’t built a $4.5 billion fortune based on Census data, the way Jack and Laura

Dangermond have.The Dangermonds, sweethearts since high school, had an epiphany about data while they were graduate students at Harvard in 1967, a time when the university was awash in protests and political strife. They were both working in a lab developing the nascent field of computerized mapping, now better known as geographic information systems.

Their revelation was that good data, clearly presented ― in their case, with maps ― could help people better understand the world and make decisions without all the ruckus roiling their campus and nation.

He didn’t realize at the time how valuable their idea would be. But these days, the vast majority of the country’s 1,000 largest businesses use the software that the Dangermonds’ company, Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri), creates. Numerous state, local and federal government agencies also use the software, and the company reaps revenues north of $1 billion a year.

Businesses use Esri’s programs to figure out where their customers are and what they want. If Starbucks, Walmart or Target opens a new store, it’s because the data and maps have suggested where it has the best chance to succeed. Governments use the maps for everything from improving policing and disaster response to planning new schools, roads and untold numbers of other services.

“I like to call my work the science of ‘where,’” Dangermond said.

Much of the data his approximately 100,000 U.S. customers use comes from the Census Bureau ― the largest, most important source of the raw information that businesses and governments need to function.

“The world today is all about analytics, and the Census Bureau provides systematic and science-based information about the demographic profile of Americans,” Dangermond said. “Census data is in many ways the lifeblood of these kinds of organizations.”

That’s not an exaggeration ― and it’s why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spends a lot of time trying to persuade Congress and the White House to keep the bureau and its data production well-funded.

“Policymakers need the information arising from these federal activities to formulate sound policy,” said J.D. Foster, the Chamber’s chief economist. “Many Chamber members use this information more directly in their own business planning as they attempt to identify trends in consumer behavior and preferences, resulting in better business decisions and ultimately a stronger overall economy.”

Indeed, the businesses that use this government data generate up to $220 billion a year in economic activity, according to a U.S. Department of Commerce study.

But Congress and the White House don’t seem to share the same high estimation of the Census Bureau, judging by the money they are willing to spend as it gears up for two of the most challenging statistical counts on the planet ― the constitutionally mandated 2020 enumeration of every person in America, and the 2017 Economic Census. The Economic Census surveys the nation’s businesses every five years, and underpins all the government’s reports on things like unemployment and the gross domestic product.

Historically, when the bureau is preparing for the decennial census and starting the Economic Census, it gets a dramatic funding boost to address the enormous tasks. From 2007 to 2008, Congress increased the agency’s budget by nearly $500 million to cover prep work that year alone.

Nothing of that sort is happening this year, and the agency’s funding was already lower than its estimated need. The outgoing Obama administration had recommended a 2017 allocation of $1.63 billion. But Congress never got around to passing a regular budget for this year, instead pushing through a string of stopgap bills that gave the Census Bureau $1.47 billion ― a shortfall of about $160 million. The Trump administration’s proposed 2018 budget would only barely boost it, to $1.5 billion.

The stakes for the Census are especially high this time around. Counting every person in a country with a population of more than 300 million is difficult and expensive; the 2010 count cost about $12.3 billion over several years, or about $92 per housing unit. That was about 30 percent more than it cost in 2000. Part of the escalating cost is simple arithmetic ― the population had grown by 27 million people over that period.

But another factor is the declining percentage of Americans who respond to the Census by mail, forcing the bureau to open offices around the country and hire tens of thousands of people to go out and get that data by going door to door. According to the Government Accountability Office, that follow-up to non-responses is the agency’s largest, most costly field operation.

A failed attempt at using new, hand-held devices to automate more of the work also complicated the 2010 Census. When the costly machines didn’t function properly during tests, the bureau had to abandon them.

Bitcoin is close to reaching $3,000 per coin

2017-06-11T06:11:00.001+01:00

Bitcoin broke a new record on 6 June as its valuation crossed the $2,900 (£2,250) barrier for the first time.

The crypto-currency started the previous day hovering around the $2,600 mark, but took off shortly after midnight (BST), according to data published by CoinDesk. The currency reached $2,911 per coin, before dipping $100 then stabilising between $2,800 and $2,900.

It is unlikely to be long until bitcoin crosses the $3,000 mark, which would represent a near six-fold growth in

value since this time last year, when it sat at a little over $500 per coin. Much of the growth came in April and May, prompting fears of an imminent crash; but short of a brief $250 dip at the end of May, this is yet to materialize.

As is often the case with crypto-currencies, a rise in bitcoin has been echoed across the market. Ethereum had grown by over 5% in the 24 hours before the publication of this article, while litecoin saw gains of over 4%, to $258 and $30.73 respectively, according to data from CoinMarketCap.Unusually for bitcoin price spikes, there is no obvious reason for today's surge in value, other than continued optimism among Chinese users. The country's three largest bitcoin exchanges announced last week that their customers could once again withdraw their coins as real-world currency, having halted withdrawals in February.

Spiritually Attract Wealth In Your Life - Five Powerful Steps

2017-06-08T15:17:00.000+01:00

It's no secret - the global economy has taken a major turn in the last few years. On a personal level, I can't tell you how many clients I've had which either lost their jobs, or took a cut in pay.

Maybe you have concerns about your career stability, maybe you have concerns about supporting yourself/your family if inflation rises or maybe you are contemplating what the next step should be with your own business.

Soon you may have to seriously consider radical changes and new directions in your life to make certain you and those you love will be safe and prosper.

Regardless of how hopeless it may seem, I encourage you not to give up. Wealth can be achieved, even in a down economy – by YOU. Yes. There is a solution. By taking a more spiritual approach with wealth creation, you can have the abundance you deserve in your life. The personal freedom that accompanies wealth will become a reality.

Spiritually Attracting Wealth - The Basics

As you might have noticed, in the last few years, there has been a wave of books and movies about spiritually attracting what you want in your life. There was "The Power of Intention," "What The Bleep," various Law of Attraction books, and then of course "The Secret." As a long time believer/practitioner of spiritual attraction, it has been exciting to see these principles introduced into the mainstream.

Without a doubt, I can tell you there is a spiritual force that exists in everything, and connects everything. This force is a part of your life, whether you realize it or not. This isn't a philosophy or theory, it's a scientific fact backed up from research from powerful organizations like the US Army and the most credible universities throughout the world.

If you stop and think about it, you could probably remember a few times when there was evidence of this force in your own life. Have you ever had the sensation of someone watching you and turned to find someone staring at you? Did you ever think it would be nice to see an old friend that you lost contact with and then they show up, almost as if out of nowhere?

Before we get into how you can use this force to attract wealth into your life, in a nutshell, let's look at an example of how this force works in your life. When you mentally picture something you want, and you put emotional desire, expectation, and faith into this event, you communicate to this spiritual force. Through your actions, whether your realize it or not, you request your desire to the universal force.

When you make a request to the universal force, whether your request is productive or destructive, the universal force immediately goes into action to create this result into your life.

So to some degree, you have participated in creating everything you've experienced in your life. Now this doesn't mean that you are to blame for everything bad that has happened to you, or you need to feel guilty or regret your life up until now. It just means that you have had some level of participation AND if you take personal responsibility for this, you are in a much more powerful position in your life.

Of course, having more power in your life includes the ability to increase your level of wealth. By being aware of and taking more control over your participation on a spiritual level, you are less of a victim and more in control of what you experience.

The "Missing Chapter" Of Most Approaches To Spiritual Attraction

Whether it's "The Secret," "Think and Grow Rich," or "The Power of Intention," some people do get results through the different approaches available. But many people, even after sticking with a method for months, see lack of results in their own lives. Their hopes are once again destroyed and they are left feeling even more frustration, hopelessness, and skepticism. So many clients throughout the years have shared their experiences and disappointment with me regarding these failed attempts.

This constant feedback throughout the years confirms what I believe – there is no "one size fits all" when it comes to spiritual attraction approaches. In fact, much of what you will find is a great "introduction," but lacks the depth of training and understanding of what many people need. And lastly, simple positive thinking and visualizations do not work for most people. Often, a more complete, step-by-step approach is needed to get control of what you spiritually want to attract into your life.

Most of the spiritual attraction process occurs on a deep unconscious level. Western psychology refers to this part of us as the subconscious. This aspect of us is an accumulation of our beliefs, the effects of deep emotional experiences (even from infancy), the impressions that others have made in our lives, among other influences. Many forefathers of psychology have estimated that this subconscious influences 90% of our lives, without us even knowing it.

The good news is that you can become aware of and take control of your subconscious. There are techniques and more detailed training approaches that are effective, some of which I will cover in a few moments.

The point that you want to understand is that you are playing a large role in what you spiritually manifest in the financial area of your life, and every other area for that matter.

You can take more control over the wealth you create in your life by participating on the conscious, real-life level - you can use visualization, your can put desire into what you want and you can use proper thinking. But, you can also become aware of and influence what is occurring on the deeper, hidden levels within you. This is where the real power of spiritual attraction originates.

I don't expect you to just believe the principles that I am describing here. But I do encourage you to consider them. Ultimately, your belief needs to come from you through your own experiences, not from me. But if there is any truth to what

I am discussing, if you are actually spiritually manifesting what you experience financially in your life, or any other area, then it's critical for you to realize this process and take more control over it. This could potentially be the most defining realization in your life, so don't let this opportunity pass you by.

Wealth Attraction - Five Proven Methods You Can Immediately Use In Your Life

For over 25 years, I've researched and experimented with numerous systems of meditation, personal growth, and spiritual attraction methods. I've spent tens of thousands of dollars on books, videos, courses and seminars. I have gone through a great deal of trial and error to understand what works. My accomplishments as a professional psychic and teacher are proof of this - I have many clients and students throughout the world that credit their financial success to my assistance.

From my experience, here are some of the most important steps you will have to take in order to truly spiritually attract wealth. I've done the hard part by researching, testing, and putting together these methods for you, so pay close attention:

1. Get a clear goal of amount of wealth and the resulting lifestyle which you want to attract - The universe, spiritual force (or whatever you want to call it) does not deal very well with unclear or mixed messages. When you aren't clear about what you want or you change your mind from moment to moment, you aren't likely to get good results.

If you wish to order merchandise from a catalog and you send an illegible order form, or an order form with conflicting requests, chances are you will either receive nothing or, in an attempt to fulfill your request, the company will send you something that you did not want at all. Sound familiar?

2. Frequently align your visual mind, your thoughts, and your emotions with what you want to create - Sit in a quiet place and picture yourself in your mind's eye accomplishing your financial goals are if they are already happening. Close your eyes and imagine the joy of holding money in your hands. See yourself comfortably paying your bills, having plenty to save and invest, and having the abundance to start doing the things you've always wanted to do in life. When it comes to money, adjust your thinking to where you feel desire, joy, relief, and appreciation, not loneliness, frustration, or disbelief.

With persistence, drill affirmations into your subconscious such as "I deserve wealth," and "Others have the wealth they want and so can I." This work may take some practice, but the effort is worth it. This is what healthy people naturally do to create what they want in their lives.

Getting control over your emotions is especially important. Your emotions are the voice that shouts at the universe and tells it what you want to manifest in your life. Even after some practice, if you can't get control of your emotions, don't worry - there are approaches for handling this issue. You can see the resources that I have to offer at the conclusion of this article.

3. Start the process of removing your personal obstacles - This is where most spiritual attraction approaches fall short. A healthy person (mentally, emotionally, spiritually) can put intention into what they want, and the desired outcome arrives quickly and with little hassle. If you've persistently put intention into the wealth and lifestyle you want to create, and you consistently do not get the results you want, it may be time to examine how you may be blocking your desire from manifesting. Here's a good exercise to start with:

a. Sit down in a quiet place, close your eyes, and imagine in six months from now what type of financial situation and lifestyle you would "like" to have. Sit in that daydream for a few moments.

b. Now, imagine six months from now again, but picture what type of financial situation you "expect" to have.

Is what you would like to have different from what you expect to have? If so, why? What kinds of thoughts, beliefs, emotions, are stirred up when you focus on what you expect to have? This should give you a good idea of what you need to start working on, within yourself.

Doubts, negative expectations, low self esteem and hopelessness all block the flow of spiritual attraction. This is why clearing these personal obstacles has to be your top priority if you are serious about attracting wealth. When your car is not working and you go to a mechanic, what does he or she do? They don't look for ways to just improve the performance of your car. Their first priority is to find out what is specifically wrong and then takes steps to repair the issue. If you want to attract wealth into your life, this is the same approach you must take.

4. If it's not working, try something else - Many people will find a method to spiritual attraction that seems to make sense and give it their best. But it's important to realize when something is more damaging than helpful. For example, a common approach is to visualize yourself in a new wealthy lifestyle and affirm something like "I can do this. I deserve this."

But many people, when they do this, feel this deep down feeling inside, this deep voice from within saying "No you can't - this won't work - you haven't done it yet so why should it change - every Attempt to get ahead has been a failure and so will the next one," or something similar. Every time the visualizations/affirmations are attempted, that deep negative voice gets stronger. This type of experience is not helping you. When things like this happen, instead of giving up altogether, you need to shift to another approach. In this example, it may be appropriate for you to stop the visualizations and first address the deep dark feeling or that bad voice. There are solutions for these types of challenges.

5. Slowly build your faith in the process - You may be able to put out the intention to attract the wealth and lifestyle you desire and within a short amount of time, attain this goal. But you will likely be better off taking small steps to harness your skill of spiritual attraction. Rather than setting yourself up for failure, you want to approach the process in a way that keeps you on success. Take small risks to test and develop your skill. Try something like attracting a new promotion at work or a slight increase in customers for you business. Visualize it. Affirm yourself. Build up the emotion within yourself.

Each time you test the process and you are successful, your faith in the process strengthens. The stronger your faith in the process, the more power you gain in attracting what you want. Once your faith is strong, then start aiming for the big intentions such as the level of wealth that you've always dreamed about.

Make sure to give the universe some time to manifest what you request. Let it take care of the details of how things will fall into place. If you plant a seed in a garden, and you dig it up every day to see how it's doing, what happens? The seed dies and the plant doesn't grow. You have to stay back, give the seed that water it needs, and be patient. Think about how you can apply this same principle to spiritually attracting wealth into your life.

Also, keep an open mind to how the wealth may show op in your life. It may not be sum of money. Sometimes, when we set out to spiritually manifest things, we are given opportunities. Maybe someone offers you a new business proposal. Or maybe there is an unexpected opening for a high level promotion at work. Make sure you see these opportunities and act when appropriate.

Resources To Make Spiritually Attracting Wealth Easier For You

Although it's been called many different things, great thinkers have discussed spiritual attraction for literally thousands of years. There are many helpful books and videos on this subject, some of which I have already mentioned.

But remember, as with anything, the more popular something is, the less freedom it has. Spiritual attraction approaches that are designed to be marketed to the masses will often lack the depth and radical substance that is needed to create real change. A good approach will likely stir up the average person, confront their beliefs, and encourage personal responsibility of the individual.

These are areas of discomfort for the average person so many approaches will avoid this type of intensity, regardless of the importance. So, don't be shy about stepping outside of the mainstream for approaches to spiritual attraction.

Because this is such an important topic, down the road I will likely discuss more steps for spiritually attracting wealth, so keep an eye out for future articles. Although, the most complete, step-by step approach I've ever found is a training system which I personally use in my life every day. This training had such a radical impact in my personal life that many years ago, I decided to teach the training and I have been teaching it for many years with great success.

You can get started with this training approach for free at the end of this article.

Because I've been able to get the results I've wanted, even as odd as my life is, I'm sure you could also use and benefit from this approach in your own life. If having the tools to attract the wealth and lifestyle you desire is a top priority for you, I encourage you to get started today.

Regardless of what path you choose to harness your skills of spiritual attraction, I encourage you to take an immediate step. If the great teachers throughout time are correct, if I'm correct, then you are already spiritually attracting in your life the results you are getting. If this is the case, then it only makes sense to master this process - to understand it, to consciously use it.

Rather than standing on the sidelines as an observer in your life, it's time to get behind the driver's wheel.

Why Negativity Ruins More Good Ideas Than Anything Else (and 5 Tips to Avoid It)

2017-06-08T14:39:00.001+01:00

We are often faced with negativity in our entrepreneurial journey -- not everything will go the way we want it to. If you fail, embrace it, get up off the ground and try again.

That’s easier said than done, right?

How you react during difficult times has a lot to do with your mindset. If you have a negative mindset, it’s very difficult to improve anything. But, a positive mindset will help you overcome difficult situations or people and put them in your rear-view mirror. Here are five ways to help you maintain a positive mindset during difficult times. 1. Remove all negativity from your life.It's simple: If you surround yourself with positive people, then their positivity will often rub off on you. Unfortunately, negative people's negativity also rubs off. So, just like you might quarantine a contagious patient, you have to be willing to distance yourself from people who create a negative environment.

“It’s not always the easiest thing to do, but removing negative individuals or situations from your life will greatly improve your mindset. When you maintain a positive mindset, you are less likely to be thrown completely off course when you are faced with a difficult situation,” offers Kevin Adkins, CEO of Kenmore Law Group.

I know without a doubt that distancing myself from negativity has had a tremendous impact on my life -- both personally and professionally. Get rid of the Twitter trolls. Separate yourself from negativity and negative people. Once you've done that, you'll be in a good position to handle any situation in your personal or professional life.

Related: Become More Positive With These 5 Tips

2. Always have a detailed plan.

Any time you have a detailed plan mapped out in advance, you will recover from negative experiences much faster than you would if you were just winging it along the way. Jacob Taylor, CEO of Luxe Water Walls agrees, saying, “Without a plan of action, a difficult situation is going to take much longer to overcome. With a plan mapped out, you know what you need to do to get from point A to point B. When the going gets rough, a lack of direction can not only stall your progress, but also lead to a complete collapse.”

Creating a detailed plan helped me reach all of my entrepreneurial goals, whether those goals included building and scaling a digital marketing agency or launching an e-commerce brand in a week. A good way to map out your goals is to define a starting point and an end goal, then fill in the middle with as much detail as possible, breaking every major milestone into smaller micro-goals.

I have had plenty of negative experiences in business, but I didn't let that negativity get me down. Instead, I used a positive mindset to move forward. Giving up is the easy way out, but when your mind is in a good place, you won't even consider surrending.

3. Accept reality -- even if it's a negative reality.

Life as an entrepreneur can be brutal, and accepting reality isn't always easy. You might think you have the best idea for a product or service, but then the market dictates otherwise. People might not respond with the positivity you expected -- they might get even give negative or feedback -- or it might not be as scalable as you thought.

When confronted with a problem, the sooner you can accept reality, the quicker you can move on. Realizing that your idea can't get off the ground would be a huge blow, taking the wind out of your sails.

But, in that moment, you have two choices: You can either wallow in negativity or remain positive and move on to your next idea.

James Dyson, creator of Dyson vacuum cleaners, is a good example. He created 5,127 prototypes, all failures, until he produced the first successful unit.

This was over a fifteen years! I don't know if I could go so long without getting bitter or negative about the process, but I can promise you that his positive mindset is responsible for his current net worth, which Bloomberg lists at more than $8 billion.

4. Don’t let personal emotions -- positive or negative -- affect business decisions.

If you're in a really negative situation, sometimes you are better off cutting your losses and moving on. If you can remove personal emotions during difficult times, you will make more positive decisions for you and your business.

“Entrepreneurs are very passionate people, and the last thing someone wants to admit is that his or her idea sucks. If the ship is sinking, you need to be able to jump, and fast. By removing personal emotions from the situation, you are able to make decisions that will help to get you out of a bad situation as quickly as possible,” says Jacky Chou, Founder of Indexsy.

Too often, personal emotions -- whether positivity or negativity -- get in the way of good business. Just remember the first rule: if it doesn’t make dollars, it doesn’t make sense.

5. Turn negative moments into new opportunities.

When something devastating occurs, like a failed business, you can either let it destroy you or motivate you. When one door is closing, look for another door opening. I can’t tell you how many times I have failed over the years. Early on, I found myself stuck in a rut of negativity. I hated what I was doing. My only positive takeaway about my ventures was that I enjoyed marketing, which eventually led me to launching my own marketing agency seven years ago.

I turned something I hated into something I loved. Something negative into something positive. All because of mindset.

“If you find yourself struggling or faced with a situation that isn’t ideal, look for a new opportunity. A bad situation can be pivoted into something more positive as long as your mindset is right,” suggests Mark Ortiz, Founder of Reviewing This.

“I’ve made billions of dollars of failures at Amazon.com,” says Amazon’s Jeff Bezos. “Literally billions . . . . Companies that don’t embrace failure and continue to experiment eventually get in the desperate position where the only thing they can do is make a Hail Mary bet at the end of their corporate existence.”

Final Thoughts

The entrepreneurial lifestyle is a good one, but it isn't easy. You're going to face plenty of negativity, frustration and failure. That's just how business works. During those negative times, you need to make sure you have the right people around you because your mindset is greatly impacted by the people you surround yourself with. If you have negative people around you, then their negativity is will affect you. But, if you have good, positive people around to help pick you back up, then their positivity will bolster you and can make that difficult road easier.

Validate Your Business Idea -- Quickly -- With These 5 Steps

2017-06-08T13:40:00.003+01:00

If you are like most aspiring entrepreneurs, however, the problem comes in the immediate stage following your "ah-ha" moment, when the idea lingers as a passing thought or a series of sticky notes in a journal until the enthusiasm passes. Then, a few months later, you see your idea on the shelf at a local retail store or in the iTunes App Store.

We have all been there.

Ideas stall because the process of getting them to market can seem overwhelming. In reality, if you validate your idea -- prove it has worth beyond the bar napkin on which it is scribbled -- the process thereafter actually gets much easier.

Here are few things to consider the next time you have your next big business idea.

1. Look for it. When I hear that someone has the next big business idea, I pull out my iPhone and within minutes can often find an existing product or service with a search on Google or YouTube. Before you even get wrapped up in an idea, save yourself the time and do a thorough search to find out if it already exists.

If you find it does, do not give up on your inspiration too hastily. Perhaps there are ways to improve on the existing product? Can you offer value to the business already producing it? Could the market be satisfied better? If you answered "yes," move to the next step.

2. Seek feedback. Talk to others about your idea, especially people you trust. At this stage, what you want is brutally honest feedback. Entrepreneurs have a tendency to get stuck in "idea lock," when they are hellbent that their idea is a winner, regardless of what others say. If you are the only person who truly thinks the idea is good, then it is time to reassess.

3. Build an MVP. If your idea has support, then consider developing an MVP, or minimum viable product, to determine if it is a product you and others would really use. Channel your inner "MacGyver" and build a working prototype, or look to a resource that has the ability to leverage newer technologies, such as 3D printing, to help.

If you have a technology idea, such as a smartphone app, look to crowdsourcing or a StartupWeekend event to find the assistance you need. Once you have the MVP, use and test it and have others test it as well. If it turns out to be a product that you and your friends would never really use, scrap the idea.

4. Start building your identity. If your testing goes well and you feel that you might have a winning idea, start building a brand around it now. In today's fast moving and innovating business environment, an idea that is validated today may be knocked off or even obsolete tomorrow, so do not linger.

More importantly, unless your idea is founded in a groundbreaking and proprietary new technology, more than likely it is already being conceived by someone else already. It is off to the races.

Related: Test Your Idea With These Simple and Inexpensive Steps

At this point, some fear that "exposing" their idea may lead to someone stealing it. This is a completely valid concern, but these days, you should go on the assumption that someone will steal it or develop a newer and better iteration eventually, so the key to success will be to be first to market.

Also, while patenting is a great way to protect your idea, it is also a very expensive process that is not guaranteed to protect you. If you have the resources, engage a patent attorney and pursue the protection, but if you do not, then turn your focus on building your brand.

Start by choosing a great name and securing the website domain to create, at a minimum, a sharp business landing page. Next, secure your business name with every social-media site you can. Even if you do not use them, it protects you from others securing and using them, and it will ultimately improve your search-engine optimization. Then start leveraging these resources to build a fan base.

5. Hash a customer acquisition plan. Before you dive into a lengthy business plan, which more than likely will be obsolete before you even launch, focus on two questions:

"How do I get my first customer?"
"How do I get my n-th customer?"

You may have the best business plan in the world, but without customers, your business is nothing. Create a thoughtful customer-acquisition plan and marketing strategy and be prepared to explain it to investors, partners and stakeholders, as this will undoubtedly be the first questions they ask.

I was fortunate to recently be selected as part of the inaugural cohort in Startup.SC, a business incubator that focuses on scalable business ideas in South Carolina. All of the ideas are all in varying stages of development, but the primary criteria for the incubator was idea validation. Once validated through the steps above, it is much easier to proceed to the next steps.

Just remember, it is much easier to build a business around a demand than to build a demand around a business.

Steps to Test Your Business Idea

2017-06-08T13:29:00.000+01:00

I see a painfully large amount of people waste their lives on stupid business ideas. We all have…

A friend gets giddy over some new venture he thought up after reading the daily newspaper for the first time in years. He runs around telling EVERYBODY how GREAT their lives will be after their product has hit the market.

Me and Kyle call these people “Wantrepreneurs”. They spend THOUSANDS of dollars and YEARS of their lives trying to fool themselves into believing they’re entrepreneurs. They get business cards, make Facebook pages, start Tweeting constantly, file for an LLC, open bank accounts…TONS of GARBAGE!

Don’t Be a Wantrepreneur!

Luckily for you, you are reading StartupBros and won’t be subject to the Wantrepreneur’s agony…

It is extremely easy to prove to yourself your business is a failure or a success with just a couple hours of effort. And it works for almost any idea.

Let me show you exactly how we validate our business ideas for FREE…

Step 1 – Create a Landing Page

The first thing we are going to do is make a landing page for our business idea (as if it is already an established business).

I use ~~Unbounce (FREE)~~ (Update: I now use LeadPages instead of Unbounce for this) to create all of my idea validation landing pages. Once you have an account and get familiar with it, it is very easy to use.

(Note – Unbounce now requires a credit card for their 30 day trial, so you will have to remember to cancel after your done testing)

If you don’t like Unbounce, you can also use Google Analytics Content Testing for free, but you will need to host your own landing pages/site. I highly suggest Unbounce for these types of tests.

Here is one of the best performing landing pages we used to validate and test StartupBros…

Step 2 – Run an Adwords Campaign

Now head over to Google Adwords with a Coupon.

If you need a hookup, I got you covered… Google is running a promotion for $75 in free ads when you spend $25, you can check it out here.

Make a new account and load up your Coupon. Go through the process to set up a new campaign and be sure to try to hit your target demographic as much as possible. Set your bidding option to Automatic Bidding to Maximize Clicks, with a max big target of $0.50. If you don’t get any clicks, raise this up 0.25 every couple hours until you do. Put your budget around $20/day. Setting up a good Adwords campaign is obviously much more in depth than this, but we are going purely for speed here, you don’t even know if your idea is good yet.

After you have your campaign set up, write some ads and throw some good keywords in the campaign. If you don’t know how to pick good keywords then don’t worry too much for now. Keyword selection is an in-depth topic and I’ll walk you through the process of keyword selection in an upcoming post.

For now, check out the Google Keyword Tool and put a website similar to yours in the “Website” box. Then test some keywords that you’re thinking. Don’t be afraid to get specific with them. To get to the Keyword Tool go to www.google.com and type “Google Keyword Tool” and it’ll be the first thing that comes up (they’ve been moving the URL around recently so I didn’t want to give a link that would go bad tomorrow).

You can also run Facebook or LinkedIn ads for these types of tests (obviously), but I can’t hook you up with coupons for those

NOTE – Don’t forget to set up Conversion Tracking, or else this whole thing will be useless! In Adwords, set up Conversions under the Tools and Analysis section of your account. Take that script and put it on the confirmation popup on your Unbounce pages. Also, submit an entry into your landing page to make sure all tracking and lead capturing is working properly! If you have any trouble doing this, comment below and I will post a follow up!

Step 3 – Winner Winner Chicken Dinner! … or Try Again

Now you get to see what happens…

You will either start getting TONS of leads in your email, get a few leads, or get absolutely nothing. Be sure to contact your leads and find out as much as you can about them, their needs, etc. Start the sell!

You will soon find out if you have a smashing hit or a complete dud on your hands. People could start throwing money at you, or they may start cursing you out.

Moving Forward

After running your tests and looking at all your data, you will have INFINITELY more perspective on if you want to move forward with your business idea; and if so, which direction to take it in.

Start it now! It doesn’t take a lot of time and it has a very real possibility at changing your life for the better. You have pretty much zero to risk here – GET AT IT!

For real – when in all of history has it been possible to test a business in a week for $25 and an hour or two of work? It’s absurd not to.

And you did it all in a couple of days, for no cost but your time. Pretty nifty huh?

'Kidnap kit' with condoms, axe and balaclava found on groomer meeting 14-year-old girl

2017-06-08T13:03:00.001+01:00

A sex offender has been jailed for more than four years after being caught with condoms, an axe and a balaclava when meeting a 14-year-old girl he had groomed on Facebook.

Patrick Brezovsky was also found with CS knockout spray and duct tape when he was stopped in Exeter, Devon, on 24 November last year

At his hearing at Exeter Crown Court the 23-year-old admitted meeting a child after grooming her and five offences of possessing bladed articles or prohibited weapons.

It also emerged that he committed the above crimes whilst on bail after being caught with two 14-year-old girls in his car after he persuaded them to run away from home by offering them cannabis.

On this occasion he was also found with two flick knives he said he had brought back from his home country of Slovakia to handout as presents.

Brezovsky, a car park attendant, was intercepted before he met the 14-year-old girl at an Exeter bus station after she told him she was bullied, depressed and self-harming on Facebook and he sent her sexualised messages.

But the girl told a school friend what she was doing and the friend told her mother who contacted Devon and Cornwall Police.

Recorder Mr Ignatius Hughes, QC, said according to the Mirror: "If ever a case demonstrated clearly the danger of inviting intrusion into family life and children's lives by social media, this is it.

"The presence of the items in the car at the very least suggests some form of Walter Mitty fantasy although it is impossible to know precisely what you had in mind.

"You may have had them to impress others, but I do not find your explanations of why you had these items to be persuasive. I have no doubt you pose a serious and significant risk of causing serious harm to the public, and in particular to young women by further offending."

For the Crown, Miss Judith Cornwall said Brezovsky was arrested for the first set of offences on 20 June 2016 after the father of a 14-year-old girl alerted police she had left home without permission.

Cornwall said about the second offences: "He had two condoms, a CS canister in a sports bag, an axe under the mat behind the driver's seat.

"In the boot there was a balaclava, gloves, tape, a blue flashing light and a stab proof vest. These items are clearly a matter of concern given that he was meeting a young girl and it was clear from the messaging he was interested in sex.

"The girl made a victim impact statement saying she realised how fortunate she was that he was intercepted and cannot stop thinking about what could have happened to her."

Richard Franck, defending, said Brezovksy had "an innocent explanation" for all the items he had in his possession.

The Recorder jailed Brezovsky for four years and six months, ordered to sign on the sex offenders' register and made subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order which will restrict his contact with children on his release.

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2. Always have a detailed plan.

3. Accept reality -- even if it's a negative reality.

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5. Turn negative moments into new opportunities.

Final Thoughts

Validate Your Business Idea -- Quickly -- With These 5 Steps

Steps to Test Your Business Idea

Step 1 – Create a Landing Page

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Moving Forward

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