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ONE OF THE TOP SEO SPECIALISTS IS IN TOWN

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Looking for some fresh SEO secrets to launch or expand your business?

Well you can't miss out on the A4U Expo coming up on 12th-13th October 2010 at the London Excel. Gary R. Beal the Managing Director of Vanguard SEO, will be in town. Gary has been established as a successful Search Engine Optimization specialist for the past 13 years. He has presented at numerous A4U Events before, in addition to many Search Engine Strategies (SES), Casino Affiliate Program (CAP), Social Networking, Dating plus other conferences, all around world. So without a doubt, this year he is guaranteed to deliver exciting new and innovative ideas to the world of SEO.

Gary is a down to earth guy famous for his free one-to-one service at conferences and his straight to the point yet simple to understand presenting style, which makes people feel at ease.

This testimonial says it all:

“Gary’s seminar was far superior to any on SEO I have seen before. There is a tendency amongst most speakers to either regurgitate basic information or go into overly technical detail. Gary managed to avoid both by giving a well presented, highly informative and easily understandable presentation.”

Paul Harris - www.allaboutlaw.co.uk

Over the years Gary has worked in highly competitive industries such as Online Gaming, Travel, Banking and Finance, Insurance and Dating. He has also been on many expert SEO panels and has written many specialized articles for several online marketing publications.

Search, Pay Per Click, Affiliate Management and Email Marketing are his specialist areas that he has vast knowledge and experience in. The SEO/SEM/PPC forums Gary is well known as GaryTheScubaGuy and a Moderator. As an analyst and consultant, he has been influential in the development of many SEO and PPC tools – and he gives them away!

One of the hot topics Gary will be discussing in this conference is the release of two free tools that will have a major impact on the industry. Vanguard SEO has been working hard over the past 2 years developing them internally within Vanguard SEO and they are constantly being improved to obtain optimum results, by tracking web and ranking traffic. This is something to be excited about and as always with the generous Gary; he is offering all this at no cost.

Oh, as usual he will be doing his Top 12 SEO Tips as well.

So if you want to find out some of Gary's top SEO secrets for this year, then come and visit A4U Expo on the 12th-13th October 2010 at the London Excel. For more information visit our website at https://www.a4uexpo.com.

source:www.responsesource.com

Nokia N8 Contract: Enjoy Talking

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Nokia N8 Mobile
Nokia is known for its many advanced and hi-tech mobile phones. Success behind the brand is due to its ability to manufacture all possible handset and that can fulfill all the requirement of every kind of mobile users. One such mobile phone is Nokia N8. It is a simple classy device with good communication tool that shows the unique and elegant features. With this user can access friends, family, information, files more comfortably. This N8 handset is available under Nokia N8 Contract in market with which user can enjoy facilities of reduced handset’s price with many pleasant offers.

Orange, Vodafone, Virgin, O2, Talk mobile, 3 Mobile are some of the famous network service provider companies that are presenting many contract of different time periods. Time periods varies as 6 / 12 / 18 / 24 / 36 months. To acquire the contract, it is necessary to sign up an agreement of any of the associated network service provider. An individual can go for any of the available time period depending up on their calling habits, dependency on mobile and necessities. The Contract is a win-win situation where both the parties (that is retailer and customer) get benefited.

Samsung Galaxy S Goes Free with Mobile Phone Deals

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The new Samsung Galaxy Tab is to be bundled as a free gift with a range of mobile phone deals upon its launch, the independent retailer BuyMobilePhones has now confirmed that they will be including a free Samsung Galaxy Tab with a large range of their mobile phone deals and best of all consumers can receive their new tablet in under 72 hours.

Examples of the deals that will be available include the best selling HTC Desire with a free Samsung Galaxy Tab at only £40 per month, with the HTC Wildfire at just £25 per month and at the same line rental the Sony Ericsson X10 Mini.

Obviously, all of those are Android powered phones but the range of handsets on offer include all operating systems with the cheapest deals on the lower specced phones starting from just £20 per month. Of course consumers will also be able to buy this first Samsung tablet on its own with a contract deal as soon as it is released.

The Samsung GALAXY Tab brings together all of Samsung’s leading innovations to provide you with more capabilities while on the move. You are able to experience PC-like web-browsing and enjoy all forms of multimedia content on the perfectly sized 7-inch display, wherever you go.

As a new category of device, the Samsung GALAXY Tab brings a wealth of mobile experiences. Its striking 7″ TFT-LCD display delivers exciting mobile experience for watching films, viewing pictures, e-reading or sharing documents. In design, its light (380g) build provides perfect portability, with its svelte dimensions making it easy to grip and use. Supporting the latest Adobe Flash Player 10.1, the Samsung GALAXY Tab fully supports swift, seamless viewing of every single page of the web.

With 3G HSPA connectivity, 802.11n Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 3.0, the Samsung GALAXY Tab enhances your mobile communication on a whole new level. Video conferencing and push email on the large 7-inch display make communication more smooth and efficient. For voice telephony, the Samsung GALAXY Tab turns out to be a perfect speakerphone on the desk, or a mobile phone on the move via Bluetooth headset.

Powered by a Cortex A8 1.0GHz application processor, the Samsung GALAXY Tab is designed to deliver high performance whenever and wherever you are. At the same time, HD video contents are supported by a wide range of multimedia formats (DivX, XviD, MPEG4, H.263, H.264 and more), which maximizes the joy of entertainment.

While the front-facing camera allows face-to-face video telephony over 3G, the rear-facing camera captures still images and video that you can edit, upload and share, all without any hassle. As online content explodes, the Samsung GALAXY Tab is the best portable solution for every lifestyle that needs a constant connection.

About Phones Limited: A price comparison website for the latest mobile phone deals from over 20 leading UK mobile phones retailers and networks resulting in over 1.5 million deals compared daily.

source:mynewsdesk.com/uk

My Home Finance scheme a boost to excluded borrowers

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The government's My Home Finance scheme aims to offer borrowers with a poor credit history a cheaper alternative to loan sharks


Borrowers who are normally forced to seek exhorbitantly expensive credit from door step and pay day lenders will be offered a cheaper source of borrowing by the government and the National Housing Federation from today.



Work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith is launching a new loan scheme for people who are financially excluded by the high street banks because they have a poor credit record or are on a low income.

The scheme My Home Finance, run in collaboration with the Royal Bank of Scotland, 26 housing associations and the Wates Foundation, will provide loans charging a typical APR of 29.9%, comparing very favourably to the rates charged by doorstep and pay-day lenders, which can range from 200% to 2,000%. Loans of around £500 will usually last for a year, but borrowers can select a shorter or longer term if preferred.

My Home Finance will start with 10 branches across the West Midlands by the end of October, and will roll out to the rest of the UK from next April if successful, writing up to 150,000 loans to people on lower incomes over the next 10 years. The branches will be located in busy high streets and shopping centres, providing easy access to those who have previously been turned away by high street lenders.

The West Midlands has unemployment levels among the highest in the UK and the National Housing Federation says the area is in particular need of affordable credit, access to bank accounts and money advice. Branches have already opened in Hereford, Worcester, Walsall and Northfield, south Birmingham. By the end of October, further branches will have opened in Coventry, Tamworth, Dudley and Wolverhampton, and in Birmingham city centre and Erdington, in north Birmingham.

Around 2.5 million people borrow from doorstep lenders at rates often in the region of 272% for new customers. A further 200,000 are estimated to borrow from loan sharks. A majority of those financially excluded are social housing tenants.

Dixon Erroll, a cleaner from Birmingham who has three or four part-time jobs and a history of missed loan payments, is borrowing £1,000 from My Home Finance to pay off two payday loans totalling £800 which cost him £200 a month to renew. He will be paying an interest rate of 16% APR over one year to repay the £1,000 loan.

He said: "I've dealt with doorstep lenders in the past, and payday lenders now, and they are robbers. My Home Finance are very fair to deal with, and the loan will be repaid after 52 weeks so you know exactly where you stand."

Loan payments will be made by direct debit: My Home Finance will help those who don't already have an account open one with the Royal Bank of Scotland.

Itisam Akhtar, office manager for the Birmingham branches, said that each case would be judged on its merits: "If they've got a recent entry on their credit record, we need to look at that with a bit of caution. We will have a chat with the customer – we know what questions to ask. But we can't dismiss them out of hand – that would undermine the whole purposes of the scheme."

David Orr, the federation's chief executive, said: "My Home Finance will provide an affordable, convenient and trusted option for people on lower incomes looking to build up their savings and borrow modest sums.

"By offering fair loans at fair prices, we hope to offer an alternative to both loan sharks, who cynically prey on hard-up families, and doorstep lenders, who are all too willing to lend cash to the desperate at hugely inflated rates of interest.

"This ambitious not-for-profit sustainable scheme shows the determination of the housing association sector, the government and RBS, to help financially excluded consumers to join the financial mainstream by saving and borrowing in a fair and responsible manner."

Malcolm Hurlston, chairman of the debt advisory charity Consumer Credit Counselling Service, welcomed the launch of My Home Service, but said that given the limited number of loans the service was intending to make, it would not replace doorstep lenders and payday loans.

He also questioned the wisdom of collecting payments by direct debit, pointing out that although this has enabled the service to keep interest rates low, lenders in the the high risk, "sub prime" market have previously said that regular face-to-face contact with borrowers was necessary to ensure payments were made. "Although paying by direct debit will keep the costs down, it could be a weakness as well," he said.

sources: guardian.co.uk

A Mingling of Leaf - Peeping and Time Travel

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CONSTRUCTION began in 1846 on the Boston, Concord and Montreal Railroad, so business travelers and others have been gazing out the windows of trains huffing north into the White Mountains of New Hampshire for quite some time. Eddie and Brenda Clark only took the idea of a train rolling through tree-carpeted countryside and turned it into a lavish autumn excursion for sightseers in no particular hurry
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When the Clarks bought the line, in the 1980s, they originally had in mind a railroad theme park. That plan grew into the Hobo and Winnipesaukee Scenic Railroads, which cover about 55 miles of track in New Hampshire.

The trip “fits that whole image of New England in the fall,” said Emily Clark, Eddie and Brenda’s daughter-in-law, who works for the family-owned Hobo line.
It is one of many vintage (or tourist) railroads — using steam or diesel engines — in the Northeast that do most of their business in the autumn, and for good reason: They take sightseers through woodland faster than on foot but slower than in a car. On the tracks, “you make good progress, but you aren’t flying by, unable to enjoy the view,” said Jim Wrinn, editor of Trains magazine.

Peak foliage season in the Northeast varies from year to year, depending on temperature and rainfall. But generally leaves turn color from north to south during a six-week period from about the middle of September to the first week of November, according to tracking sites like foliagenetwork.com, which provides regular reports.

In recent years, about a dozen tourist railroads in the region have added and expanded programs that take advantage of the exquisite autumn views. The Hobo and the Winnipesaukee, for example, offer one-, two-, four-hour and all-day trips. The Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway in Pennsylvania, the Catskill Mountain Railroad in upstate New York and the Wilmington & Western Railroad in Delaware are among the lines that cater to leaf peepers.

And seats fill fast. “We shotgun these things out the door, one after the other,” said David Ludlow, executive director of the Wilmington & Western.

Aesthetically, vintage steam or diesel locomotives offer trips back in time. Although the notion of “foliage trains” has been around since tourist railroads replaced some working ones 50 years ago, Mr. Wrinn said these trains retained their popularity because most roll through undeveloped land, like woods and farms.

“You can drive and see the fall colors, but you’re spending 75 percent of your attention on the road,” Mr. Wrinn said. “While with the train, you can let someone else take care of the transportation, and you can enjoy the changing kaleidoscope of autumn colors.”

Some of the rides are open-air, and Mr. Wrinn said that onboard, “there’s a certain joy in feeling the chill of the air in your face — it’s a subtle reminder that this beauty is fleeting and should be savored.”

Mr. Wrinn said he was a big fan of the Conway Scenic Railroad, in northern New Hampshire near the Maine border, and the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad, whose tracks slip through the rolling, tree-blanketed Allegheny Mountains. But you do not have to be a train buff to take advantage of lines within a short drive from New York with views — at comfortable temperatures.

The Catskill Mountain Railroad, which runs between Mount Tremper and Phoenicia near the Esopus Creek, chugs through a majestic tunnel of tree branches that looks like a cathedral. The Wilmington & Western, a 10-mile excursion, travels from the Coastal Plain region to the Piedmont, offering a glorious display of hardwoods with leaves in blazing colors.

Many of these panoramas cannot be seen from a road or are very difficult to access, even on foot. The Potomac Eagle runs along the south branch of the Potomac River, near Romney, W.Va. David Corbitt, president of the railroad, said there was no way a car could get down into the deep valley, locally known as the Trough.

That’s one reason the landscape remains pristine. Mr. Corbitt said activity around eagles’ nests among the limestone cliffs was at its peak in the autumn. Fox and bear sightings are common. Waterfowl migrate through the area. Paddlers in canoes or kayaks can enjoy the autumn scenery, Mr. Corbitt said, “but that’s about it.”

Although there are elaborate, multiday New England fall foliage excursions like those coordinated by Vacations by Rail and other companies and some leaf peepers have been known to book a year ahead, smaller railroads say those who call ahead for information and arrive at least an hour before the departure of foliage excursions usually get seats.

Some lines tie into autumn’s splendor with pumpkin patches at stops along the way, offering cider and cookies to everyone, and pumpkins to the youngest riders. Others coordinate trains with local foliage festivals, like the Lehigh Gorge line in Jim Thorpe, Pa., which offers special two-and-a-half-hour Hometown High Bridge excursions on weekends in October.

“We were turning hundreds of people away a day,” so more trains were added last year, said Laura Kennedy, the director of the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway.

Visitors to the Conway Scenic Railroad come from all over the world in the fall, and the number of visitors from the Western United States spikes dramatically in October, said Susan Logan, the railroad’s director of marketing and events. To meet the demand, the railroad offers short excursions to a pumpkin patch and longer excursions like a five-and-a-half-hour trip.

The mood on a foliage train tends to be more serene than it is in the summer, Ms. Clark said, because children have returned to school, and the riders tend to be older. And as leaves thin, rock formations and waterways are more visible.

Those who built railroads like the Boston, Concord and Montreal through the Northeastern United States more than a century ago were simply trying to find a way to transport freight and passengers from one rural outpost to another. Now passengers are looking for a way to move like a slowpoke.

“You definitely get that old-world nostalgia,” Ms. Clark said.


sources: travel.nytimes.com