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• Helps for business start up Ti Helps for business start up Tips

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    Unemployment is at an all time high and thousands more jobs are at risk. In these tough economic times many ambitious people, and those who simply need to meet the needs of their family, are looking to start their own business.

    While starting your own business can lead to greater freedom and the chance to make more money than you did as a worker drone in the collective, many new business opportunities are nothing more than a fraud, selfish shams stealing money from the desperate. Many other business opportunities, which seem good at the beginning, quickly leave you burdened as an hourly slave (think retail stores) or at the mercy or economic tides that ebb and flow. Who wants to own a business they cannot control.

    

     

    So how then does one determine if a business opportunity is a good one?

    After reviewing hundreds of business opportunities, Here we have found 7 key characteristics that nearly every good start-up business opportunity contains:

    1. Customers Can Be Obtained This Week

    Your ability to get customers (and the cash they give) quickly will have the greatest impact on how long you will stay in business. Most new start-ups fail because they weren't able to get paying customers quickly, in a volume sufficient to pay the bills and their salaries. Before you begin any new business venture, be absolutely certain you know exactly who your customers will be, where and how you will contact them, and how much it will cost you to get those first critical customers - in terms of advertising expense and time.

    

    2. Start-Up Cost Less than $1000

    You really are taking on an enormous amount of risk if you are shelling out huge sums of money before you ever get that first customer. The most successful businesses start small then reinvest a significant portion of their PROFITS back into the business. The best practice is to grow from your profits, from what is working, rather than dumping a whole bunch of money into something unproven. Don't begin in the hole buying expensive business equipment, office space, and paper supplies. There are so many businesses that can be started small which quickly turn to bigger incomes that you'd be silly to be digging out, when you should be digging in. Many online programs are available to help you start a new business. The best ones show a quick return on your investment.

    3. Sales are Made Based on Emotion Rather than Commodity

    Let's face it, certain business are limited in what they can expert to earn. If you decide to go into business as a plumber you can only expect to make what every other plumber in your town makes, and probably less to start. Same if you want to clean houses. And if you choose to sell a particular item you had better find something unique that everyone can't say, "Oh that's only worth so much." You want to be offering something unique, something which you get to decide how much to charge and how much profit you'll make. Something which gets your customer thinking, "I have to have that, no matter how much it costs."

    

    4. Not Trading Time for Dollars

    This relates closely to numbers 2 and 3. The most successful and rewarding start-ups let you choose the hours you work, how many and when. Your income and profits will be tied more to what you are selling than to how long it takes to produce it.

    5. Endless Pools of Repeat Customers

    Avoid a business where you sell something once and might never see your customer again, no matter how great the profits on that one sale might be. Lots of real estate salespeople quit because most folks aren't repeat house buyers. If you fall into this trap you'll find you spend most of your time prospecting, finding new customers, rather than doing what you love to do. Frequent repeat buyers, even at smaller profit levels, prove to be worth many times more as your business grows. They're like compound interest... growing and growing exponentially.

    

    6. Mentors and Cheerleaders Available for Free

    While starting your own business is the surest road to ultimate wealth, it can often be a lonely journey. You'll have questions along the way. Many so called gurus are more than willing to sell you their guidance, but beware their game. Often times it's a money sucking operation that gives you just a little info, then requires you pay even more for the complete answers. You'll be digging a pit of greater and greater dependency even as your business fails. The better option is to go where there is a free forum of folks just like you. The best business opportunities have online forums where you can get advice from the experts for free, critiques of your work, and a little cheerleading and hand-holding when needed.

    7. It Should Be a "Smile" Business

    True, people are dying to get into the mortuary business, but ideally you want to pursue a business that makes you happy to get out of bed each day. A business that makes others smile as well. Life is short and if you settle that's all you'll get. The business opportunity that proves most successful is the one that's easy for you to commit your heart and soul to; the one that you're proud to tell your family and friends about. The one that leaves your customers smiling too, as they gladly hand over their hard earned money and make plans to come back for more.

    There are many great business opportunities available both online and off. Using these guidelines will help anyone a chose a business that's fun and profitable. And Smallvolume.com could offer all the products you need to make a start of your businee, as you can buy in any quantity in SmallVolume.com. If you've make up your mind to do your own business, Smallvolume.com is your most should be considered online one-stop store.

    

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• Chinese Mahjong, u know how to Chinese Mahjong, u know how to play?

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    Mahjong is a game for four players that originated in China. Mahjong involves skill, strategy, and calculation, as well as a certain degree of luck (depending on the variation played, luck can be anything from a minor to a dominant factor in winning). In Asia, mahjong is also popularly played as a gambling game. In the game, each player is dealt either thirteen or sixteen tiles in a hand, depending on the variation being played. On their turn, players draw a tile and discard one, with the goal of making four or five melds (also depending on the variation) and one pair, or "head". Winning comes "on the draw" by drawing a new or discarded tile that completes the hand. Thus, a winning hand actually contains fourteen (or seventeen) tiles.

    Mahjong Competition Rules

    The top three in the World Mahjong Championship in Tokyo, October 2002. In the middle: world champion Mai Hatsune, from Japan.

    The first Open European Mahjong Championship, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, June 2005.

    The winners of the second Open European Mahjong Championship, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 2007. From left: Kohichi Oda, Martin Wedel Jacobsen , and Benjamin Boas.

    In 1998, in the interest of dissociating illegal gambling from mahjong, the China State Sports Commission published a new set of rules, now generally referred to as Chinese Official rules or International Tournament rules (see Guobiao Majiang). The principles of the new, wholesome mahjong are: no gambling, no drinking, and no smoking. In international tournaments, players are often grouped in teams to emphasize that mahjong from now on is considered a sport.

    The new rules are highly pattern-based. The rulebook contains 81 ombinations, based on patterns and scoring elements popular in both classic and modern regional Chinese variants; some table practices of Japan have also been adopted. Points for flower tiles (each flower is worth one point) may not be added until the player has scored 8 points. The winner of a game receives the score from the player who discards the winning tile, plus 8 basic points from each player; in the case of zimo (self-drawn win), he receives the value of this round plus 8 points from all players.

    The new rules were first used in an international tournament in Tokyo, where, in 2002, the first World Championship in Mahjong was organized by the Mahjong Museum, the Japan Mahjong Organizing Committee, and the city council of Ningbo, China. One hundred players participated, mainly from Japan and China, but also from Europe and the United States. Mai Hatsune, from Japan, became the first world champion. The following year saw the first annual China Majiang Championship, held in Hainan; the next two annual tournaments were held in Hong Kong and Beijing. Most players were Chinese, but players from other nations attended as well.

    In 2005, the first Open European Mahjong Championship was held in the Netherlands, with 108 players. The competition was won by Masato Chiba from Japan. The second European championship in Copenhagen (2007) was attended by 136 players and won by Danish player Martin Wedel Jacobsen. The first Online European Mahjong Championship was held on the Mahjong Time server in 2007, with 64 players, and the winner was Juliani Leo, from the U.S., and the Best European Player was Gerda van Oorschot, from the Netherlands. The next European Championship will be held in Austria, in 2009.

    In 2006, the World Mahjong Organization (WMO) was founded in Beijing, China, with the cooperation of, amongst others, the Japan Mahjong Organizing Committee (JMOC) and the European Mahjong Association (EMA). This organization held its first World Championship in November 2007 in the Chinese town of Chengdu, attended by 144 participants from all over the world. It was won by Li Li, a Chinese student of Tsinghua University.

    Critics say that the new rules are unlikely to achieve great popularity outside of tournaments. They argue that regional versions are too well-entrenched, while the mahjong Competition Rules use many unfamiliar patterns. The new mahjong's advocates claim that it meant to be a standard for international events, not to replace existing variations.[citation needed]

    Some other parties have also attempted to create international competition rules. The most noticeable one is the Zung Jung (中庸) Mahjong Scoring System, created by Hong Kong mahjong scholar Alan Kwan. Unlike the Chinese Official rules, Zung Jung is designed with simplicity as one of its design goals and aims to be suitable for casual entertainment as well as tournament play. Zung Jung is adopted by the World Series of Mahjong event held annually in Macau. The World Series of Mahjong was last held in September 2008, in which 302 participants took part. The main event had a prize pool of US$1-million, which was won over three days of play by Alex Ho, from Hong Kong. He won US$500K from the prize pool and a mahjong necklace designed by Steela+Steelo.

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• Earliest ‘human footprints’ fo Earliest ‘human footprints’ found

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    Earliest ‘human footprints’ found

    Laser scanning was used to plot the exact dimensions of the prints

    The earliest footprints showing evidence of modern human foot anatomy and gait have been unearthed in Kenya.

    The 1.5-million-year-old footprints display signs of a pronounced arch and short, aligned toes, in contrast to older footprints.

    The size and spacing of the Kenyan markings - attributed to Homo erectus - reflect the height, weight, and walking style of modern humans.

    The findings have been published in the journal Science.

    The footprints are not the oldest belonging to a member of the human lineage. That title belongs to the 3.7 million-year-old Australopithecus afarensis prints found in Laetoli, Tanzania, in 1978.

    Those prints, however, showed comparatively flat feet and a significantly higher angle between the big toe and the other toes, representative of a foot still adapted to grasping.

    Exactly how that more ape-like foot developed into its modern version has remained unclear.

    The fossil record is distinctly lacking in foot and hand bones, according to lead author Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University, UK.

    “The reason is that carnivores like to eat hands and feet,” Professor Bennett told BBC News.

    “Once the flesh is gone there’s a lot of little bones that don’t get preserved, so we know very little about the evolution of hands and feet on our ancestors.”

    
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    The footprints were found near Ileret in northern Kenya. The site, on a small hill, is made up of metres of sediment which the researchers carefully cleared away.

    What they found was two sets of footprints, one five metres deeper than the other, separated by sand, silt, and volcanic ash.

    The team dated the surrounding sediment by comparing it with well-known radioisotope-dated samples from the region, finding that the two layers of prints were made at least 10,000 years apart.

    Another critical feature that the series of footprints makes clear is how Homo erectus walked.

    There is evidence of a heavy landing on the heel with weight transferred along the outer edge of the foot, progressing to the ball of the foot and lifting off with the toes.

    “That’s very diagnostic of the modern style of walking, and the Laetoli prints don’t give that same character,” Professor Bennett said.

    The finding is a critical clue for mapping out the evolution of modern humans, both in terms of physiology and also how H. erectus fared in its environment.

    H. erectus was a great leap in evolution, showing increased variety of diet and of habitat, and was the first Homo species to make the journey out of Africa.

    “There’s some suggestion out there that Homo erectus was able to scour the landscape for carcasses and meat…and was able to get there very quickly, had longer limbs and was much more efficient in terms of long distance travel,” Professor Bennett added.

    “Now we’re also saying it had an essentially modern foot anatomy and function, which also adds to that story.”

    http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/02/26/kenya.footprints/

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