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		<title>eWin Marketing Focuses to Help Small Businesses Leverage Internet for Marketing</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2010/10/ewin-marketing-help-small-businesses/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dale Harris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Released by: eWin Marketing eWin Marketing is a specialist SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company focusing on small &#38; emerging businesses looking for quality SEO services at affordable prices. eWin Marketing has been established by experienced SEO people with each key person having an experience of helping at least 300 websites get first page rankings on [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Released by:</strong> eWin Marketing</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">eWin Marketing is a specialist SEO (Search Engine Optimization) company focusing on small &amp; emerging businesses looking for quality SEO services at affordable prices. eWin Marketing has been established by experienced SEO people with each key person having an experience of helping at least 300 websites get first page rankings on major search engines. eWin Marketing’s goal is to empower their clients to win online against their competition and dominate their markets.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">eWin Marketing has a satisfied client base with more than 60% repeat client rate and has rated eWin Marketing services on an average of 4.9 out of 5 from 21 client reviews managed by a third party. Also, 100% of clients have opted to recommend eWin Marketing’s services to others, when asked by the same third party.eWin Marketing has helped small and emerging businesses in increasing their online business leads as well as sales and profits by providing various Internet marketing services like Organic Search Engine Optimization, Local Search Listings, Link Popularity Building &amp; Social Media Optimization.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">eWin Marketing has helped clients across Northern America &amp; western European markets to achieve their web marketing objectives by providing affordable search engine optimization solutions.</p>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>About eWin Marketing:</strong><br />
eWin Marketing is established by experienced SEO people based in Hyderabad, India. Each key person in eWin’s team has at least 3 years experience in delivering SEO services to US/European markets. Be rest assured, their systems, people will ensure that working with eWin Marketing will be according to what their clients’ expect. In the past six months, they helped hundreds of websites get first page rankings within reasonable budgets and there by increase web traffic, online business leads as well as sales and profits.</p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/10/ewin-marketing-help-small-businesses/">eWin Marketing Focuses to Help Small Businesses Leverage Internet for Marketing</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>America, Slavery and Abraham Lincoln</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2009/09/america-slavery-and-abraham-lincoln/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Vanalstyn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s position on freeing the slaves was one of the vital issues in American history. Though Abraham Lincoln was one of the people recognized as most responsible for the abolition of slavery, his place evolved over the years, and while he early went on record as being in person opposed to slavery, he did [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Abraham Lincoln&#8217;s position on freeing the slaves was one of the vital issues in American history. Though Abraham Lincoln was one of the people recognized as most responsible for the abolition of slavery, his place evolved over the years, and while he early went on record as being in person opposed to slavery, he did not originally take the position that it was suitable that federal laws be passed to stop the practice in states where it already existed. Most Americans agreed that slavery had to develop to maintain its political power, and by ending that expansion, Lincoln proposed to put slavery on a course of steady extinction. Before the American Civil War and even on the war&#8217;s early stages Lincoln said that the Constitution prohibited the federal government from abolishing slavery in states where it already existed. His position and the position of the Republican Party in 1860 was that slavery should not be allowed to enlarge into any more territories, and thus all future states admitted to the Union would be Free states. In this manner, he expected that slavery would be put on a path to final extinction.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act, written to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, included language, designed by Stephen A. Douglas, which allowed the settlers to decide whether they would or would not recognize slavery in their region. Lincoln saw this as a repeal of the 1820 Missouri Compromise which had forbidden slavery above the 36-30&#8242; parallel. Douglas and Lincoln aired their divergence in three public speeches during September and October of 1854. The main comprehensive address, the &#8220;Peoria Speech&#8221;, was given by Lincoln in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16. He and Douglas both spoke to the large audience, Douglas first and Lincoln in reply two hours later. The three hour speech, transcribed after the fact by Lincoln himself, presented thorough moral, legal and economic arguments against slavery, and set the stage for Lincoln’s political future.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">During the war he used the war powers of the presidency to issue the Emancipation Proclamation, which stated &#8220;all persons held as slaves within any State or elected part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free&#8221; but exempted border states and those areas of slave states already under Union control. As late as February 1865 he offered to pay the owners for the emancipated slaves; the buyout offers were rejected. It has been argued that by making a statement only about territories he did not control, as a practical matter, he did not free a single slave. Slaves that had escaped to the Union side were, however, immediately freed &#8211; as were millions more as areas came under Union control. In 1842 Lincoln had married into a prominent Kentucky family of slave-owners. Lincoln returned to the political stage as a result of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act and soon became a leading enemy of the Slave Power&#8211;that is the political power of the southern slave owners. Before 1861 he also opposed the abolitionists. Lincoln&#8217;s critics, particularly the Radical Republicans during the war, said he moved too slowly.</p>
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<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/04/haiti-earthquake-in-leogane/">Haiti Earthquake In Leogane</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/03/animal-extinction/">False Beliefs Force Animals Towards Extinction</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/03/spare-the-coyotes/">Coyotes Victim’s Mother Asks to Spare the Killer Animals</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/09/world-economic-forum-and-operations/">World Economic Forum And Operations</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/08/the-drastic-hurricane-katrina/">The Drastic Hurricane Katrina</a></p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/09/america-slavery-and-abraham-lincoln/">America, Slavery and Abraham Lincoln</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Highest Sky Lounge Opened In Dubai</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2009/07/highest-sky-lounge-opened-in-dubai/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:38:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Dubai is one of those happening cities where we get great news from and especially the news which we can count on. You could have probably heard about The Address, a new brand of Hotels and Resorts that acquired a good name within less time, in the international luxury hospitality industry. It has opened Neos, [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Dubai is one of those happening cities where we get great news from and especially the news which we can count on.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">You could have probably heard about The Address, a new brand of Hotels and Resorts that acquired a good name within less time, in the international luxury hospitality industry. It has opened Neos, a sky lounge in the Dubai city.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The specialty of this sky lounge is that it is the highest of the lounges in the entire Dubai city. That makes a good reason why a person who visits Dubai must at least be at this place once.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are many other specialties in this lounge such as its floor-to-ceiling windows, where the visitors get to view of the world’s tallest building, the Burj Dubai. It also encompasses some spectacular sights of the Dubai city.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">People also get to enjoy a world-class dishes where reflect the royalty of the lounge.</p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/07/highest-sky-lounge-opened-in-dubai/">Highest Sky Lounge Opened In Dubai</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Home Rental Vacancies To A Rise</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2009/03/home-rental-vacancies-to-a-rise/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald Gonzalez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>According to Colorado Division of Housing, vacancies of single-family home rentals surged to a three-year high in the last quarter of 2008. Denver’s vacancy rate rose to 4.9 percent for the in the last quarter of 2008 from 3.3 percent in the same quarter of 2007. The situation was better than that of 2006’s. The [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">According to Colorado Division of Housing, vacancies of single-family home rentals surged to a three-year high in the last quarter of 2008.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Denver’s vacancy rate rose to 4.9 percent for the in the last quarter of 2008 from 3.3 percent in the same quarter of 2007. The situation was better than that of 2006’s. The vacancy rates of home rentals in the last quarter of 2006 were 5.5 percent. The situation seemed to be well in the third quarter of 2008, with 3.4 percent vacancy rates.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The real estate market was down due to economy downturn. It resulted in fall of home prices. Owners were reluctant to sell their properties at such low prices and thought of renting them. This led to increase in availability of homes for rentals. I don’t think there is a significant increase in people who used to stay in rented homes. I know that the economy is bad, but would they stop living in houses for that? Thus, the increase in rental houses is the main reason for this.</p>
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<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/08/when-moving-out-from-the-apartment/">When Moving Out from the Apartment</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/01/credit-card-crisis-ahead-for-consumers/">Credit Card Crisis Ahead For Consumers</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/03/decline-in-global-hotel-prices/">Decline In Global Hotel Prices</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/11/warning-for-surging-yen/">Warning for Surging Yen</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/04/improving-employment-rate/">Measures Taken By US Government To Improve Employment Rate</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/03/travel-spending-declines-in-us/">Travel Spending Declines In US</a></p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/03/home-rental-vacancies-to-a-rise/">Home Rental Vacancies To A Rise</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>More Demand for Electric Lighting Ahead</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/12/more-demand-for-electric-lighting-ahead/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesus Dosreis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 09:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Benjamin Franklin did a great discovery of electricity. Thanks to the lightning and thanks to the Kite (Franklin used a Kite to discover electricity). I am sure that if Thomas Alva Edison (or Humphrey Davy) did not discover the electric bulb, Franklin’s great discovery would not be as popular. I am sure we can live [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Benjamin Franklin did a great discovery of electricity. Thanks to the lightning and thanks to the Kite (Franklin used a Kite to discover electricity). I am sure that if Thomas Alva Edison (or Humphrey Davy) did not discover the electric bulb, Franklin’s great discovery would not be as popular.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">I am sure we can live much comfortably without all those machines running on electricity except for the electric bulbs. That shows the importance of lighting in our life.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">According to a recent study, the demand for electric lighting all over the world is to increase by at least 7 percent a year. The growth may look small when considered in terms of percent. But the market is so big that even a billion dollar increase will seem to be a very small amount of increase through percentage.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">By 2012, the demand will worth $40 billion. So, is the number big now?</p>
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		<title>Bombers Still Active in Iraq</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/11/bombers-still-active-in-iraq/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Vanalstyn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>It was very horrible to look at the dead bodies lay scattered after the first bomb hit streets of Baghdad. People rushed to help the bomb victims and this is when the second blast occurred killing many people and injuring many others who came to rescue. People living in Iraq are habituated to these circumstances. [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">It was very horrible to look at the dead bodies lay scattered after the first bomb hit streets of Baghdad. People rushed to help the bomb victims and this is when the second blast occurred killing many people and injuring many others who came to rescue. People living in Iraq are habituated to these circumstances. They live in inconsistency of their lives. They have no guarantee for their lives for they don’t know whether they will be the victims of next bomb attack.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The suicide bomb attacks have not reduced in Iraq to any point since 2003. No one ever dares to count the number of victims of Iraq war. There are foreigners, soldiers, civilians, and also terrorists in the list of the dead in Iraq bomb blasts.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Recent bomb blast recorded in Baghdad is said to kill 31 people and injured 71. This blast is said to the deadliest in the city among blasts in the recent months.</p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/11/bombers-still-active-in-iraq/">Bombers Still Active in Iraq</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Warning for Surging Yen</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/11/warning-for-surging-yen/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 09:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>On Monday, October 27, 2008 group of seven nations warned the surging yen posed a threat to financial and economic stability. The latest coordinated effort made by the world’s richest nations for controlling the worst financial crisis in 80 years. Spread of signs the crisis were continuing clearly across the world with South Korea gashing [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">On Monday, October 27, 2008 group of seven nations warned the surging yen posed a threat to financial and economic stability. The latest coordinated effort made by the world’s richest nations for controlling the worst financial crisis in 80 years.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Spread of signs the crisis were continuing clearly across the world with South Korea gashing interest rates, Australia was intervening in the currency market, Gulf Arab oil producers urging quicker monetary union and International Monetary Fund bailing out in Hungary and Ukraine. In last week, slash of interest rates to almost certain level along with Federal Reserve and central bank action may be more widespread.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Inflation will come down in next few months and this gives scope to all monetary authorities including Bank of England, round the world to make a decision about the interest rates. More than 3 percent down in MSCI’s main stock index and is closing in on a 50 percent loss for the year. Its emerging markets counterpart is touching four-year low with 4 percent down.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">With combination of financial crisis and global recession, financial markets are continued to react sharply.</p>
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<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/03/home-rental-vacancies-to-a-rise/">Home Rental Vacancies To A Rise</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/08/when-moving-out-from-the-apartment/">When Moving Out from the Apartment</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/01/credit-card-crisis-ahead-for-consumers/">Credit Card Crisis Ahead For Consumers</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/03/decline-in-global-hotel-prices/">Decline In Global Hotel Prices</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/04/improving-employment-rate/">Measures Taken By US Government To Improve Employment Rate</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/03/travel-spending-declines-in-us/">Travel Spending Declines In US</a></p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/11/warning-for-surging-yen/">Warning for Surging Yen</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>World Economic Forum And Operations</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/09/world-economic-forum-and-operations/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The world Economic Forum (WEF) was founded in 1971 by Klaus M. Schwab in Switzerland. It is Geneva based foundation and conducted the annual meetings with top business leaders, national political leaders and selected intellectuals in Davos, Switzerland and also regional meetings throughout the year. World Economic Forum is an ideal place for dialogue and [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The world Economic Forum (WEF) was founded in 1971 by Klaus M. Schwab in Switzerland. It is Geneva based foundation and conducted the annual meetings with top business leaders, national political leaders and selected intellectuals in Davos, Switzerland and also regional meetings throughout the year. World Economic Forum is an ideal place for dialogue and debate about the major social and economic problems of the planet now I explain the world Economic Forum operations.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Operations: Attend the most powerful economic organizations and the most powerful political organizations are present; intellectuals also participate; and there is a generally informal atmosphere encouraging wide-ranging debate. And more than 600 journalists from print, TV and radio in the meeting. And NGO leaders from groups such as Amnesty International, Transparency International, Oxfam and various UN organizations attend, as well as trade union leaders and religious leaders. In 2006 it is open representative office in China and New York. And it is impartial and non profit and it is not tied with any political and national interests. It has the most powerful governance body, consisting of 20 members including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. January, 2005, a new branch was installed as an independent organization, the Young Global Leaders consisting of 40 leaders in economy, communication and science interested in global improvement, also incorporating royalty members around the world.</p>
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<a href="https://big-topics.com/2009/09/america-slavery-and-abraham-lincoln/">America, Slavery and Abraham Lincoln</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/04/improving-employment-rate/">Measures Taken By US Government To Improve Employment Rate</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/04/haiti-earthquake-in-leogane/">Haiti Earthquake In Leogane</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/03/animal-extinction/">False Beliefs Force Animals Towards Extinction</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2010/03/spare-the-coyotes/">Coyotes Victim’s Mother Asks to Spare the Killer Animals</a><br />
<a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/08/the-drastic-hurricane-katrina/">The Drastic Hurricane Katrina</a></p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/09/world-economic-forum-and-operations/">World Economic Forum And Operations</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>The Drastic Hurricane Katrina</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/08/the-drastic-hurricane-katrina/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Wilson Brian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The Katrina hurricane was most expensive and that of the five hurricanes more the mortals in the history of the United States. It was the Atlantic hurricane sixth-extremely ever recorded and the hurricane third-extremely on the disc which made the unloading in the United States. Katrina formed August 23 during the season of hurricane of [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The Katrina hurricane was most expensive and that of the five hurricanes more the mortals in the history of the United States. It was the Atlantic hurricane sixth-extremely ever recorded and the hurricane third-extremely on the disc which made the unloading in the United States. Katrina formed August 23 during the season of hurricane of 2005 Atlantic Ocean and caused devastation along a great part of the coast of the center-north of Gulf. The most serious loss of the material life and property occurred in New-Orleans, Louisiana, which flooded while the system of lifting failed in a catastrophic way, in much of case of the hours after to give it the attack moved interior. The hurricane caused the serious destruction through the whole coast of Mississippi and in Alabama, until 100 miles (160 kilometers) of the center to give the attack with Katrina was the eleventh tropical one give the attack to, the fifth hurricane, the third principal hurricane, and the second hurricane of category 5 of the season of 2005 Atlantic Ocean.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">It formed above the Bahamas August 23, 2005, and crossed southernmost Florida like moderate hurricane of category 1, causing deaths and flood there, before reinforcing quickly in the Gulf of Mexico and becoming the strongest hurricanes on the disc while at sea. To give the attack to weaken before making its second and the third unloading as category 3 give the attack to the morning August of 29 in Louisiana of southeast and to the border of state of Louisiana/Mississippi, respectively. The sudden rise to give the attack damaged serious along the coast of Gulf, devastating the cities of Mississippi de Waveland, the compartment St Louis, Christian of passage, Beach Length, Gulfport, Biloxi, springs of ocean, and Pascagoula. In Louisiana, the federal protection system of flood in New-Orleans failed in more than 50 places. Almost each lifting in the subway open New Orleans a breach as Katrina hurricane passed to the east of the city, later the flood 80% of the city and several sectors of the close parishes during weeks.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">At least 1.836 people lost their lives in the Katrina hurricane and the following floods, making him the mortal hurricane of the UNITED STATES since hurricane 1928 of Okeechobee. One estimates that to give it the attack to is responsible for $81.2 billion (2005 dollars of the UNITED STATES) in the damage, making him the most expensive normal disaster in the history of the UNITED STATES. The catastrophic failure of the protection of flood in New-Orleans encouraged the immediate examination of the army corps of the engineers since the agency has by the single responsibility for congressional mandate of the design and the construction of the protection of flood. It also critical had spread federal reaction there, of local state and governments with giving the attack to and having for result a research by the congress of the UNITED STATES and the resignation of federal director Michael D. Brown of agency of management of help. Reciprocally, the center of hurricane and the national Surviving nationals the service was largely recommended for precise forecasts and the abundant completion period.</p>
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		<title>Hoax Or Jokes? Recognize Them before You Panic</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/07/hoax-or-jokes-recognize-them-before-you-panic/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dale Harris]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 09:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>People always like to play pranks and like to enjoy seeing others panic. This is very common behavior within every human. Many people don’t let it come out as they know how to manage their social behavior and dignity. But some people never learn any thing good in whole of their lifetime. Since it is [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">People always like to play pranks and like to enjoy seeing others panic. This is very common behavior within every human. Many people don’t let it come out as they know how to manage their social behavior and dignity. But some people never learn any thing good in whole of their lifetime.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Since it is not possible to play tricks directly they use some medium like emails or phone calls or even letters. There are many people out there always looking for a chance to create a hoax, because there are really a big number of people easily vulnerable to such things. It is them who encourage such ill minded psychos to create more such things.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">So before you panic to anything, just try to figure it out whether they are hoax or jokes. All it requires is some commonsense and good idea on the topic. If you don’t have idea on the topic, use Internet because there is much useful information out there which you can access easily.</p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/07/hoax-or-jokes-recognize-them-before-you-panic/">Hoax Or Jokes? Recognize Them before You Panic</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>How To Know Online Relationship Is Serious</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/05/how-to-know-online-relationship-is-serious/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesus Dosreis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 09:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Sometimes it is hard to determine if any relationship is serious especially in online relation. But if you have the clear ideas it may not be difficult here are some useful tips to find whether your relationship is serious are not. The relationship is serious if both of you no longer communicate with other on/offline [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Sometimes it is hard to determine if any relationship is serious especially in online relation. But if you have the clear ideas it may not be difficult here are some useful tips to find whether your relationship is serious are not.</p>
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<li> The relationship is serious if both of you no longer communicate with other on/offline singles. The operative word is &#8220;both&#8221; of you no longer communicated with other singles. The two of you are in constant communication with each other. You both look forward to &#8220;being&#8221; with each other any way you can.</li>
<li> Both of you have reveal all information about themselves and their lives. Nothing is being detained back. There are no hidden secrets, and then your relation is serious.</li>
<li> Each of you is working to make yourself and your life better. Each of you is committed to giving 100% of yourselves to each other and the relationship. If both of you have volunteered to remove the online dating site. Not coerced into it but volunteered. Then you might have the serious relationship.</li>
<li>The relationship is serious if there are &#8220;additional&#8221; children. You already know about it. If there is a potential bankruptcy pending&#8230;it has been discussed.</li>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">If you have the above list of qualities then you are crossed the infatuation stage so you may settle down jointly.</p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/05/how-to-know-online-relationship-is-serious/">How To Know Online Relationship Is Serious</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Mission Of Amnesty International</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/04/mission-of-amnesty-international/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Donald Gonzalez]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization which defines its mission as &#8220;to undertake research and action paying attention on preventing and ending abuses of the rights to physical and mental honesty, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from favoritism, within the background of its work to promote all human rights.&#8221; And it was [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization which defines its mission as &#8220;to undertake research and action paying attention on preventing and ending abuses of the rights to physical and mental honesty, freedom of conscience and expression, and freedom from favoritism, within the background of its work to promote all human rights.&#8221; And it was founded in the UK in 1961; AI draws its notice to human rights abuses and campaigns for fulfillment with international standards. It works to activate public opinion which exerts pressure on individuals who commit abuses. The organization was awarded the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize for its &#8220;campaign against torture&#8221; and the UN Human Rights Prize in 1978, but has received criticism for both alleged anti-Western and alleged pro-Western bias.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">There are five main areas which Amnesty deals with they are Women&#8217;s Rights, Children&#8217;s Rights, Ending Torture and Execution, Rights of Refugees and Rights of Prisoners of Conscience. Some definite aims are to eliminate the death penalty, end extrajudicial executions and &#8220;disappearances&#8221;, ensure prison conditions meet international human rights standards, make sure prompt and fair trial for all political prisoners, make sure free education to all children worldwide, fight impunity from systems of justice, end the recruitment and use of child soldiers, free all prisoners of scruples, promote economic, social and cultural rights for marginalized communities, defend human rights defenders, promote religious tolerance, stop torture and ill-treatment, stop unlawful killings in armed conflict, and to uphold the rights of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers.</p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/04/mission-of-amnesty-international/">Mission Of Amnesty International</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>International Opium Convention</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Vanalstyn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>The International Opium Convention, signed at The Hague on January 23, 1912, was the first international drug control treaty. The United States convened a 13-nation conference of the International Opium Commission in 1909 in Shanghai, China in answer to increasing criticism of the opium trade. The treaty was signed by Germany, the United States, China, [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">The International Opium Convention, signed at The Hague on January 23, 1912, was the first international drug control treaty. The United States convened a 13-nation conference of the International Opium Commission in 1909 in Shanghai, China in answer to increasing criticism of the opium trade. The treaty was signed by Germany, the United States, China, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Persia, Portugal, Russia, and Siam. The meeting provided that &#8220;The contracting Powers shall use their best endeavors to control, or to cause to be controlled, all persons manufacturing, importing, selling, distributing, and exporting morphine, cocaine, and their respective salts, as well as the buildings in which these persons carry such an industry or trade.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The Convention was implemented in 1915 by the United States, Netherlands, China, Honduras, and Norway. It went into force internationally in 1919 when it was included into the Treaty of Versailles. A revised International Opium Convention was signed on February 19, 1925, which went into effect on September 25, 1928. It introduced a statistical control system to be supervised by a Permanent Central Opium Board, a body of the League of Nations. Egypt, with support from China and United States, recommended that a prohibition on hashish be added to the Convention, and a sub-committee proposed the following text:</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">The use of Indian hemp and the preparations derived there from may only be authorized for medical and scientific purposes. The raw resin, however, which is extracted from the female tops of the cannabis sativa L, together with the various preparations of which it forms the basis, not being at present utilized for medical purposes and only being susceptible of utilization for harmful purposes, in the same manner as other narcotics, may not be produced, sold, traded in, etc., under any circumstances whatsoever. India and other countries objected to this language, citing social and religious customs and the prevalence of wild-growing cannabis plants that would make it difficult to enforce. Accordingly, this provision never made it into the final treaty. A compromise was made that banned exportation of Indian hemp to countries that have prohibited its use, and requiring importing countries to issue certificates approving the importation and stating that the shipment was required &#8220;exclusively for medical or scientific purposes.&#8221;</p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/02/international-opium-convention/">International Opium Convention</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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		<title>Lies, Damned Lies And Polls</title>
		<link>https://big-topics.com/2008/01/lies-damned-lies-and-polls/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jesus Dosreis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Most of the people depend on the data. From product development to demographic targeting to campaign measurement, data inform our actions and gauge our success. In last presidential primary pollsters asked, &#8220;Who will you vote for?&#8221; when what everyone actually wanted to know was &#8220;Who is going to win?&#8221; The answer to the first question [&#8230;]</p>
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										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: justify;">Most of the people depend on the data. From product development to demographic targeting to campaign measurement, data inform our actions and gauge our success. In last presidential primary pollsters asked, &#8220;Who will you vote for?&#8221; when what everyone actually wanted to know was &#8220;Who is going to win?&#8221; The answer to the first question on the Democratic side was &#8220;Obama,&#8221; but the answer to the second proved to be &#8220;Clinton.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">This is not to say that pollsters asked the wrong question. In fact, they asked precisely the right question. Yet statistical sampling necessarily involves weighting, assumptions, and projections, which are routinely ignored. It is quite obvious everyone gets shocked when the results of these vagaries become manifest.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Still, the failure to accurately predict the primary&#8217;s outcome does call for examination. Are the New Hampshire results a warning sign against placing too much stock in survey data, or are they just part of the roller coaster that is our political process? Analysts weighed in on what the primary and the campaign ahead say about data and marketing. One analyst says this is partially applicable to the kind of data we look at. When it comes to areas that respondents may have some emotional reaction, more caveats are involved. Of course, that&#8217;s highly true in the political arena. But it can also be true for areas like “How do you feel about online advertising? And &#8220;Would you accept commercial messages on your mobile device?&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Social networking will play a critical role in this election. Facebook co-sponsors the debates and teams up with ABC for an application that has had north of a million downloads. Every candidate has a social networking profile. It&#8217;s a click of a button to express your political viewpoint in a public social networking environment. It may be as small as giving a political affiliation in your profile or as big as supporting a specific candidate or posting a comment about a candidate on your profile or someone else’s. And each action you take on a social network is completely traceable. I’d suggest that political marketers should be paying more attention to what people are saying about candidates in social networks than what they say in pre-election polls. Especially if, as they say, is the youth market is a key to this election.</p><p>The post <a href="https://big-topics.com/2008/01/lies-damned-lies-and-polls/">Lies, Damned Lies And Polls</a> first appeared on <a href="https://big-topics.com">BIG-TOPICS.COM</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded>
					
		
		
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