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The purpose of this article is to familiarize individuals with InfraGard, which is an organization whose purpose is to help protect “critical United States infrastructures”. This article will describe the organization, its mission and goals, and how individuals and organizations can become involved with their work. The “2005 FBI Computer Crime Survey” indicated that 90% of organizations are not familiar with InfraGard.

About InfraGard
InfraGard is a partnership between the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), and the private sector. The mission of InfraGard is “…to improve and extend information sharing between private industry and the government, particularly the FBI, when it comes to critical national infrastructures” (Source: InfraGard web site). President Clinton defined “critical national infrastructures” in 1998 in the following way - “Critical infrastructures are those physical and cyber-based systems essential to the minimum operations of the economy and government. These systems are so vital, that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on the defense or economic security of the United States.”

The infrastructures that InfraGard is concerned with protecting include:

• Agriculture
• Banking/Finance
• Chemical
• Computer Security
• Defense
• Emergency Services
• Energy
• Food
• Postal/Shipping
• Public Health
• Transportation
• Telecommunications
• Water Supply

InfraGard is an FBI program that was started in 1996 in the Cleveland Field Office. It initially focused only on the cyber arena. Since then, program responsibility has transferred to the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) and then to the Cyber Division of the FBI in 2003. InfraGard now focuses on more than the “cyber arena”. InfraGard now also deals with the exchange of information concerning various terrorism, intelligence, criminal, and security matters.

InfraGard Goal
The goal of InfraGard is to promote communication between members and the FBI. InfraGard members gain access to information that enables them to protect their assets and in turn give information to government that helps it to prevent and address terrorism and other crimes.

What Does InfraGard Do?
InfraGard is an alliance between the FBI and the private sector (businesses, academic institutions, state and local law enforcement agencies, and other participants). InfraGard is an association dedicated to sharing both information and intelligence with the goal of preventing hostile acts against the United States.

InfraGard Organization
InfraGard is organized into chapters that are geographically linked with FBI Field Offices. Each InfraGard Chapter has an associated FBI Special Agent Coordinator who helps to form the chapter and coordinate activities.

InfraGard chapters hold regular meetings where members discuss issues, threats, and other matters that may impact their companies. Chapters have speakers from public and private agencies and the law enforcement community.

Membership
Individuals who wish to become members should apply at local chapter meetings. The FBI requires photo identification with an application. All applicants will undergo a background check performed by the FBI. Membership is limited to United States citizens.

According to InfraGard, 68 of the top 100 firms in the Fortune 500 have an InfraGard representative. There are currently over 13,000 InfraGard members.

Related Links
Following are some related links that may be helpful:

• InfraGard Web Site: http://www.infraguard.net/index.htm
• Internet Crime Complaint Center: http://www.ic3.gov/
• OnGuard Online: http://onguardonline.gov/index.html
• Staysafeonline.org: http://www.staysafeonline.org/

Rob Pirozzi is a freelance writer who provides timely, quality professional writing of all types. He is also the publisher of the web site Low-Cost-Computing.com which provides information on low-cost computers and low-cost or free software for the average home or small business computer user.

Ringtone makes you alert of the incoming calls and messages in your mobile phone. This is very necessary while there are many mobile phone users in a room. Ringtone has become an important accessory of any mobile phone because it provides quality sound and pleasure to listeners. It has now overtaken the music industry and people like to have each hit sound track as their mobile ringtone.

As there is increased demand for these ringtones people want to get them easily at fewer rates. This has paved way for various websites that provide with cell phone ringtones download services. You can download ringtone for tmobile or any other cell phone service carrier online. For this you need to have compatible software in your mobile phone. Once you download these ringtones, you can easily customize them.

Previously, there used to be a dull beep tone for incoming mobile phone call, then came monotones which used to have better quality sound, and then with the advent of polyphonic tones, truetones and voice tones there was a whole lot of things in store to be used as ringtones.

Today there are polyphonic ringtones, voice tones that could be customized with the voice of your family or dear ones. At the same time, the true tones also resemble voices of different artists, animals and many other that easily attracts ones attention. As such, ringtone defines your personality as a person.

But while you choose a ringtone for your mobile you need to follow some common rules of courtesy. If you like to have any specific kind of ringtone, you should take care of the environment because at some places, it is necessary that you keep the volume of your ringtone low. You should use silent and vibrant phone ringers while you in a meeting or discussion. You can also customize your mobile phone with environment friendly ringtones.

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Olivia Andrews is a freelance journalist and has written many reviews on subjects such as finance, education, entertainment, music, apparels and mobile phones.

So you have decided that you want to make a new e-book for you site and it’s business or service. This is an excellent idea, and can easily generate a large amount of profit if it is done right. Along with the usual preview chapters and index, you have the beef of the matter. Well have you ever considered exactly how you are going to package the whole deal, to make it look good enough to sell?

If you want to go with something spicy and original, you can bet you are going to pay an arm and a leg for someone such as a designer to do it for you. This in turn eats at your products profits to begin with. What happens if you have no idea on how to even make an e-book cover? Do you know the coding? Do you know how to format it? If the answers are no, which no offence is more than likely, you will need some help. Why however would you want to pay a large sum of money to someone else to do it, if there is no guarantee of success with it? This is where the new generation software comes into play, not only can it be a snap to run, you will be up in no time with your e-book in hand ready for the market place.

The fact remains true; there are a great many e-book cover software programs on the market. What you get with the program and the ease of use is what truly separates the good ones from the bad. It is true that you will get a poor product if you do not invest from the start; you get what you pay for. The best way to look at it is this way, if you spend a larger sum of money now and get a good product this product will sell. On that note if you make an e-book with a great title page, and can sell it for $45.99 online, within a couple of sales it is already paid for itself. Then you turn around and make another e-book at the same value, and you guessed it you are now in the black and have the profits to prove it.

Another major benefit to this type of software is this, if your business has been floundering the last little while you have something else to fall back on. This is a very lucrative business, where some designers are charging up to $250.00 per cover page. One cover page made for someone else and the software is again paid for. This could easily be a turn around, or an extension to the business you already have.
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Just like spring cleaning a house, the html code of your web
pages should get periodic cleaning as well. Over time, as
changes and updates are made to a web page, the code can become
littered with unnecessary clutter, slowing down page load times
and hurting the efficiency of your web page. Cluttered html can
also seriously impact your search engine ranking.

This is especially true if you are using a WYSIWYG (What You See
Is What You Get) web design package such as FrontPage or
Dreamweaver. These programs will speed up your web site
creation, but they are not that efficient at writing clean html
code.

We will be focusing this discussion on the actual html coding,
ignoring other programming languages that may be used in a page
such as JavaScript. In the code examples I will be using ( and )
characters instead of correct html so that the code examples
will display properly in this newsletter.

Up until recently when coding a page in HTML we would be using
tags such as the (font) tag and (p) paragraph tags. Between
these tags would be our page content, text, images and links.
Each time a formatting change was made on the page new tags were
needed with complete formatting for the new section. More
recently we have gained the ability to use Cascading Style
Sheets, allowing us to write the formatting once and then refer
to that formatting several times within a web page.

In order to speed up page load times we need to have fewer
characters on the page when viewed in an html editor. Since we
really do not want to remove any of our visible content we need
to look to the html code. By cleaning up this code we can remove
characters, thereby creating a smaller web page that will load
more quickly.

Over time HTML has changed and we now have many different ways
to do the same thing. An example would be the code used to show
a bold type face. In HTML we have two main choices, the (strong)
tag and the (b) tag. As you can see the (strong) tag uses 5 more
characters than the (b) tag, and if we consider the closing tags
as well we see that using the (strong)(/strong) tag pair uses 10
more characters than the cleaner (b)(/b) tag pair.

This is our First Principle of clean HTML code: Use the
simplest coding method available.

HTML has the ability of nesting code within other code. For
instance we could have a line with three words where the middle
word was in bold. This could be accomplished by changing the
formatting completely each time the visible formatting changes.
Consider this code: (font face=”times”)This(/font) (font
face=”times”)(strong)BOLD(/strong)(/font) (font
face=”times”)Word(/font) This takes up 90 characters.

This is very poorly written html and is what you occasionally
will get when using a WYSIWYG editor. Since the (font) tags are
repeating the same information we can simply nest the (strong)
tags inside the (font) tags, and better yet use the (b) tag
instead of the (strong) tag. This would give us this code (font
face=”times)This (b)BOLD(/b) Word(/font), taking up only 46
characters.

This is our Second Principle of clean HTML code: Use
nested tags when possible. Be aware that WYSIWYG editors will
frequently update formatting by adding layer after layer of
nested code. So while you are cleaning up the code look for
redundant nested code placed there by your WYSIWYG editing
program.

A big problem with using HTML tags is that we need to repeat the
tag coding whenever we change the formatting. The advent of CSS
allows us a great advantage in clean coding by allowing us to
layout the formatting once in a document, then simply refer to
it over and over again.

If we had six paragraphs in a page that switch between two
different types of formatting, such as headings in Blue, Bold,
Ariel, size 4 and paragraph text in Black, Times, size 2, using
tags we would need to list that complete formatting each time we
make a change.

(font face=”Ariel” color=”blue” size=”4″)(b)Our
heading(/b)(/font) (font face=”Times color=”black” size=”2″)Our
paragraph(/font) (font face=”Ariel” color=”blue” size=”4″)(b)Our
next heading(/b)(/font) (font face=”Times color=”black”
size=”2″)Our next paragraph(/font)

We would then repeat this for each heading and paragraph, lots
of html code.

With CSS we could create CSS Styles for each formatting type,
list the Styles once in the Header of the page, and then simply
refer to the Style each time we make a change.

(head) (style type=”text/css”) (!– .style1 { font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; font-size:
24px; } .style2 { font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
font-size: 12px; } –) (/style) (/head) (body) (p
class=”style1″)Heading(/p) (p class=”style2″)Paragraph Text(/p)
(/body)

Notice that the Styles are created in the Head section of the
page and then simply referenced in the Body section. As we add
more formatting we would simply continue to refer to the
previously created Styles.

This is our Third Principle of Clean HTML Code: Use CSS
styles when ever possible. CSS has several other benefits, such
as being able to place the CSS styles in an external file,
thereby reducing the page size even more, and the ability to
quickly update formatting site-wide by simply updating the
external CSS Style file.

So with some simple cleaning of your HTML code you can easily
reduce the file size and make a fast loading, lean and mean web
page.

Outsourcing is when you hire outside professionals or
services to take on part of your business workload.You
may want to outsource part of your work because you
don’t have the room, you need an expert, you have periodic
busy periods, or you need more production to get orders
out on time etc. You could outsource accounting,
secretarial tasks , factory help, computer training, web
design etc. Below are ways to use outsoursing to beat
your competition.

By outsourcing part of your workload you can save time
and spend more time concentrating on beating your
competition.

-you won’t have to take time training new employees

-you won’t have to do time consuming tasks like adding
on new equipment

-you won’t have to learn a new software program or other
equipment

-you won’t have to interview employee candidates

-you won’t have to fill out all the complicated employee
paper work like tax forms, scheduling, retirement plans etc.

By outsourcing part of your workload you can save money
and spend more money on marketing or advertising to beat
your competition.

-you won’t have to buy extra office and other equipment

-you won’t have to buy extra office or work space

-you won’t have spend money on employee costs like;
taxes, medical, vacation time, holidays, workers comp.,
unemployment costs etc. (these may vary by which
country you do business)

There are many other ways outsourcing can help you beat
your competition. Here are a few more:

-the extra help can help you complete and deliver orders
faster

-you could expand your market share by becoming the
middleman and offering your subcontractors services or
products

-you could end up getting orders from your subcontractors

-it will allow your business to take on extra or large orders

About the author:

Rojo Sunsen is a specialized bounty hunter who prefers to work quietly/confidentially for the benefit of her clients.

Hurricane preparation can be a very confusing and stressful, and you usually do not think about what you will actually do when the storm has hit. This can leave you with a lot of empty time. Many hurricanes cause power loss that can last for days. That means there won’t be any televisions or computers that you can use to entertain yourself. It is also especially hard to entertain larger groups of people when the power is out if you are not prepared. There are some easy things you can do to ensure that you do not find yourself completely bored during a storm.

Small Radios are one of the best things to have in a storm because they are can supply music and important updates during a storm. They also do not require much power, so a set of batteries can go a long way. A deck of cards is also a great item to have because you can play games like solitaire or get a group poker game started. They are also a very small item that is great if you are evacuated because they are light and small. If you know you are going to be solo, you can never go wrong with a big book and a lantern. Any reading material is great, but a larger novel is best because you never know how much time you might be stuck without power. If games are more of your forte, then you can make sure to pick up a couple of jigsaw puzzles and a few board games in case you do have some company. There are also many books full of other puzzles like crosswords and word jumbles.

They real key to entertain yourself in a storm is to think of what you would do if you were camping. It is best to have a plan for just yourself and a group of people. That way you are set for any situation that may arise.

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