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Brian Clark on lions, fear, and building a booming business
"We don't need to see out the window to fly the plane."
Hearing that conversation between the pilot and my co-worker mid-flight didn't make me feel any better.
I was on a teeny tiny Cessna plane. A plane so small there were only seats for eight passengers. One of those eight passengers was the pilot. My co-worker was sitting in the seat next to him, when he asked about flying the plane with little to no visibility.
My colleagues and I were on our way to a team meeting on Nantucket Island, in Massachusetts. We were supposed to take the ferry over. But the rain was so vicious, the ferry was cancelled.
And because the meeting was so "super important," our boss had us get on that tiny plane instead. A plane where all the passengers had to be weighed before getting on.
That was the first time I ever feared for my life.
I spent the whole flight praying.
Thankfully, my worst fears did not come true. We made it safely onto the island. The plane did not crash. And we did not die.
Sometimes our worst fears do come true
Back when I was noodling over quitting my corporate job, I realized one of the things that was holding me back was health insurance.
Even though I was in great shape, I had a pre-existing condition that I knew would make it tough for me to get covered. My fear about all the bad things that could happen made me stay much longer than I should've, in a career that wasn't meant for me.
Eventually, I pushed past the fear and made the leap.
But unlike that plane ride to Nantucket, my worst fears did come true. I did have trouble getting health insurance. And eventually, I ended up in the hospital. It took months to climb out from the aftermath (that's a story for a different day, but in case you're interested, here's the short version).
My worst fears were realized, and then some. But I'm still standing. And actually, I'm doing pretty good. These days I'm healthier and enjoying life more than ever.
The truth about fear
It can paralyze you. And most of the time, it's for nothing. Most of the time, the things that scare us are all delusions, and false-limitations we create for ourselves in our minds. On those rare occasions when your worst fears are realized, it doesn't mean the world has to come to an end. You can bounce back.
The good news? When you feel fear, there are often things you can do to minimize the likelihood that the worst will actually happen. That's one of the things Brian Clark and I chatted about in the latest episode of I Am the One.
Brian, CEO of Copyblogger Media, knows a thing or two about facing fear. Being told you have to undergo brain surgery would devastate most people. But Brian went into it with no fear, and came out of it with a whole new outlook on life.
With his fresh perspective, he built up a $10+million a year business that helps entrepreneurs build their own businesses with content. Here's an excerpt from my favorite part of our chat:
"Now fear is a very useful emotion. If there's a lion around the corner and you're afraid, that's a good sign to run. Or someone is trying to hurt you, or someone is trying to hurt your family.
But most of the things we fear are not like that. They're not really true things that can harm us physically or endanger our lives or something like that, and yet we have the same exact response, that paralyzing fear and anxiety about it." – Brian Clark
Here's what else you'll pick up from the discussion:
The right way to attract people to sell your stuff to
The only way to have credibility
What to do when you feel fear
Why floundering around for a while isn't always a bad thing
Brian's 3 keys to success
In the comments below, tell me about any fears you've had when it comes to building your business. What have you done to overcome those fears? I'd love to high-five you for pushing through it, or if necessary support you in making sure fear doesn't paralyze you or prevent you for moving forward.
Thanks so much for watching.
Copyblogger
The story of Brian's brain surgery: The Snowboard, The Subdural Hematoma, and The Secret of Life
Rainmaker.fm
Rainmaker Platform
Further.net
Brian's next karaoke song – Plush by Stone Temple Pilots
The Transcript
Brian Clark: I'm Brian Clark, and I Am the One
Sonia Thompson: Welcome to episode 2 of I Am the One, a show that features entrepreneurs who decided they were going to be the ones to make life better for the people they serve.
I'm Sonia Thompson, and for today's show, I had the privilege of chatting with Brian Clark, CEO of Copyblogger Media.
Brian started Copyblogger in 2006, to teach internet marketing to small business owners.
Over the years, the company has expanded into training, software, and other media. With their top notch content, products, and conferences, the Copyblogger Media team has acquired a massive audience of raving fans, that buys more than 8-figures worth of their stuff.
Not too shabby!
So take out your notebook, cause Brian's got a lot to teach you about how to succeed with your business. Here's Brian.
The failed business that fueled an empire
Sonia: Hey Brian, thanks you so much for joining us today. I'm glad to have you.
Brian: I'm glad to be here. Thank you.
Sonia: Awesome! I want to just go right ahead and jump right in. Just share with us briefly about your experiences as an entrepreneur, now, of course you're the head of Copyblogger.
But, I've heard you mentioned several times that you are unemployable. Can you talk a little bit about what made you unemployable? Give us a little bit about the experiences you had with your first businesses that you started.
Brian: Well, I guess 16 years later, it's because I hadn't had a job or a boss in 16 years. That is a big part of why I use that word. But even back then, I started as an attorney. I certainly didn't like the practice of law much.
I think that's valid, but I think I also just didn't like answering to anyone else, I wanted to do my own thing. It didn't have to be huge it just had to be within my own control.
When I first started, I was really focused on writing as a way to make a living, and it turned out that I was more of an entrepreneur than I thought. I was really interested in starting businesses, but as you know, writing can stay with that the entire time. Truly, a win-win for me I guess.
Sonia: What was that first business that you started? Was it something writing related as well?
Brian: Yes. My very first business was the only one that failed, and I started out publishing online. It was pure Internet based, it was pure pop-culture of entertainment related, fun stuff for me.
I did build audiences, and I did get a little press coverage because back then the Internet, everyone wanted to talk about it, but I made no money, and it wasn't until when I paired what we now call content marketing, where you had something to sell other than advertising because that was the original plan.
The only thing I had to sell was legal services because I was still a license attorney. Rather than starve, I figured I would start a new email newsletter about legal issues related to the Internet, not a lot of attorneys knew anything about that much less talked about it, and it just completely took off.
That was my first successful business. After that, I realized how to succeed, but I didn't want to practice law, so I started a real estate brokerage and another one, really just focusing on OK, whether offline things people want that I can grow into a business using online marketing.
The mindset change that changed Brian's approach to business
Sonia: Then you were able to turn all that you learned from all those experiences in what's now Copyblogger?
Brian: Right. In 2005, I had a life altering, life threatening experience. I had a snowboarding accident that required me to have brain surgery. The short story. After that, I was just not going to do anything business wise that I really didn't want to do. I knew I had the knowledge and the abilities to operate on my own. That was what I was good at.
I was good at content. I was good at marketing. I was good in strategy. I wasn't that great at running the business that resulted from it. With Copyblogger I grew an audience. I focused on what I'm good at. Then, I partnered with other people to help me do the other things I needed to do.
Sonia: You've mentioned the part about the accident you had and the brain surgery and the piece that you wrote on Copyblogger about that experience. One of the things that stood up to me was this line in particular. I'll read it:
"Every delusional and self-defeating system of thought I had carried around with me for years was revealed for what it was – my own mind creating false limitations."
After that you started Copyblogger. Did you approach Copyblogger very differently from your previous businesses based upon that realization?
Brian: Absolutely. Instead of going with a safe in-demand service such as real estate brokerage, I just went out and started to build an audience. I had faith that if I paid attention that they will tell me what they wanted to buy. That's literally the story of Copyblogger.
I waited over a year and a half before we'd had any kind of product to sell. Then, we built or created what the audience wanted. That's what got us into software and the all WordPress base. We continued to grow from there.
Sonia: I'm so glad that you did. I'm a happy, proud customer of Copyblogger for years. The things that you guys have produced have done wonders for me. What made you decide that you were going to be the one?
You had the experience. You enjoyed content marketing, but what made you decide that you are going to be the one to fill the need that was existing in the market place?
Brian: When I originally started Copyblogger, as far as I know the phrase "Content marketing" didn't exist. I didn't really start becoming the terminology until 2008. I think all of us reluctantly adopted it, because it's not the greatest term. But, no one saw of a better one.
What I did know in 2005 going to 2006 was that this entire pro blogging or commercial blogging movement was started to gain scene. People were struggling with content creation. Number one. Then, they were struggling with how do you turn on that into business.
Those were two things I had figured it out even though I did it on accident and then just did it on trial and error in 1999. But, there were two principles there that I had taught myself: copy-writing, once I figured out that content is way to attract people to sell stuff. Not advertising.
The other thing of course, I figured out was that you sell stuff not advertising. Applying copywriting techniques to content, like better headlines, the way you structure your post to be read, these principles of engagement that are part of copywriting.
I was the first one to teach that as applied to blogging hence the name, Copyblogger, then other thing of course was, "Look you need business blogging." You're selling products and services. You're really going to have a hard time trying to sell a business of advertising, and I think nine years later, everyone realizes online advertising is hard. Even the ones who get huge amounts of traffic struggle with it.
It was the right thing at the right time. I was very fortunate to have floundered around and figured this stuff out earlier. The only way to have credibility
Sonia: It's part of the process. Now recently, you've started a new venture that's completely unrelated from content marketing and software with Further.net.
With all the things that you have going on as CEO of Copyblogger Media, what made you decide to turn your attention to something that's totally different and in a new field?
Go ahead and tell us about Further.net as well.
Brian: To answer your initial question, I guess insanity might be the reason? All this time, I've never had a personal blog and I've always kept it really focused about Copyblogger, the brand, helping the audience and then creating things that help our customers.
I'm still obviously leading the company. We're getting more ambitious not less, but as far as writing about content marketing, I lost steam after I said everything three different ways.
You can only do it so much, of course. I'm podcasting, I'm still exploring new issues but I'm also doing it in a way that is personally-driven. Like where is the next level? What's a new way to do something? The only way that I can really have credibility is to try new things.
On one hand, Further.net is my just version of a personal project, it's not designed at this point to make any money, it doesn't sell anything. I just want to write and these are the things I'm interested in.
The reason I took a curation approach or really linking to other pieces of content and other ideas and stuff like that is, I'm not trying to be the authority figure here, I'm just learning and sharing. It's like we are going on the journey together and I really love that, because there is no pressure, it's fun, and I enjoy doing it.
At the same time, a lot of people are interested in content curation. It does relate to the day job and to the Rainmaker Platform, which is built on all that good stuff. But, other than that, I just love doing it, it's a blast.
Why fear is a useful emotion
Sonia: That's awesome. Now, I've heard you mention before, maybe you must be experiencing with your new project. But, whenever you feel fear, that means that the thing that's making you fear follow something that you cannot do. You actually have to move forward with it.
How do you actually get over that paralysis? That fear makes a lot people to do nothing. How do you get over it to move forward, to go forward with the project?
Brian: Yes, first of all with Further there is no fear because, again, it's fun, it doesn't matter if it does well or not and actually, my wife always says, "The day you start something you don't care about for money, it will be the huge thing."
Who knows but regardless, but going back during my early days as an entrepreneur, and even the four years that I practiced law, I was just kind of frozen and didn't know what to do. You're trapped by your own fear, mainly fear of failure, what are other people going to think, all of these kinds of stuff.
Now, fear is a very useful emotion. If there's a lion around the corner and you're afraid, that's a good sign to run. Or someone is trying to hurt you, or someone is trying to hurt your family.
But, most of the things we fear are not like that. They're not really true things that can harm us physically or endanger our lives or something like that, and yet we have the same exact response, that paralyzing fear and anxiety about it.
I guess part of my development over time is when I feel that and it's not a lion or someone trying to beat me up or something like that, then I need to conquer that because the consequences of being afraid or the worst thing that can happen, it's generally not that bad.
The things I try and mess up, I always learn from them. I always come out stronger by doing it, and then other things are just insecurity. When I started speaking originally back in, I think, 2007, I had no intention of doing that when I started that blog.
I wanted to start a blog so I don't have to leave the house, but even though I'd been an attorney I had a fear of public speaking so I said yes.
I just went up there and did it. It's just a personal creed. I don't think I'm any braver necessarily than anyone else. Courage is really just maybe being afraid and doing it anyway. That's how I grow as a person or at least try to.
Sonia: Got it. Is there anything that you do to get you more comfortable with the process of overcoming or conquering your fear aside from just getting up and doing it?
Brian: Yeah, insane amounts of research and preparation to a certain degree. I never took that approach really to speaking, like I prepare and I know what I'm going to say but I'm not a heavily rehearsed speaker. I just have to know what I'm talking about, go up there and be comfortable that it's going to be OK. Anything we do with regard to the company or even the newsletter, which I read a lot, I research a lot, I watch a lot, I listen a lot.
Then when it's time to do whatever, you're just prepared. It never goes the way you think it's going to go necessarily, but if you know your stuff and you've done your preparation and you've done the work, you can adapt pretty quickly.
Lessons from Brian's entrepreneurial journey
Sonia: That's true, absolutely. Through all your years of experience running businesses, starting new ones, starting new projects, what has been your biggest lesson learned?
Brian: From the beginning, it's what's in it for other people. No matter how much you want to succeed or how much you think something is cool, you're either going to live or die on that. Whether you are meeting the needs or satisfying the desires or solving the problems of people out there.
That can be your content. That can be your products and services. It's just a hard lesson for some people to learn because we hear the stories about things like Twitter. Who knew that would work?
The thing is, they didn't know it was going to work, they were all experienced entrepreneurs. They got funding. People would listen to what they would say and it just happened to work. Instagram, it makes no money and it's bought for a billion dollars.
That's not reality though. Reality in most businesses, 99.9 percent of them are not those stories. It's simple hard work, understanding what people want and giving it to them in a new way that feels unique and human, I guess, is probably the biggest difference these days.
Sonia: All right. That's true. I guess that's probably what a lot of people struggle with in entrepreneurship, they feel like they need to take a lot of safe routes. That's probably what makes them most invisible or what makes it the biggest challenge for them as they're doing the same things that everybody else is doing.
Brian: Yeah, that's the flip side of it, just because you're satisfying an existing need or desire doesn't mean you don't have to be unique and differentiate yourself some way. That's marketing 101 and that's the thing people forget.
Instead of being themselves, they try to speak in a bland safe way like a corporation. That's what the corporations are struggling with. Why would you mimic them? As small business owners and entrepreneurs, sometimes us, is the key differentiator. It's what makes us stand apart.
Even though we're talking about the same stuff or maybe we're providing a similar service, no one is going to replicate you. Unless you are just a horrible person, which some people probably need to maybe get a different front person. In most cases no, not at all.
Sonia: Is there anything that you would change over the past 10 plus years of working as an entrepreneur? Is there anything that you would change if you had the ability to go back and do something over again?
Brian: Of course, absolutely. Too many things to really list, although I'll say the mistakes are what led to the correct decisions in many cases. I'm just a better adjusted person now than I was even four years ago, much less 10 or 15. That's my own personal journey.
I wish I was as calm, confident and able to always make the right decision especially when it comes to people online like to mess with you a little bit. There are better ways than others to deal with that. Overall, you can't really say you change anything because you wouldn't be where you're at right now if you didn't go on that path.
Sonia: That's true. That's true. Are you able to boil down your keys to success in three words? I know a lot of times a lot of people have trouble making it into just one. If you had to say that there are three things that were keys to your success, what would they be?
Brian: Number one is generosity. Give people something before you ask in return or even make an offer, just builds trust. It attracts people to you in the first place, that's really one of the foundational reasons why content marketing works.
You're solving one part of a problem for someone before you say "Hey, here's the rest of it," right? The other thing is of course we've already touched on focus on their problems, their desires, their needs. Let's say, hard work at the end of day.
I got a great team now. I work just as hard because I love it. It does get easier depending on what you're trying to accomplish. There are many ways in which Copyblogger could have more of a lifestyle business instead of trying to make it to 10 million and beyond.
We just chose not to do that because we wanted to do something else. It truly is driven by passion not money, because there's lots of ways to make money. I think that's a fourth thing. Anyone I guess can fake it and make it but if you really care and you can make that match up, and you do the work anyway but it just so happens that people pay you money to do that work, then that's a total win.
Sonia: Absolutely it is. What can we expect to see from you in Copyblogger Media or Further.net in the future?
Brian: With Further, I've got some plans that I've already kind of revealed on the Rainmaker podcast that I do every week.
For Copyblogger, we got really big plans. A lot of them are centered around the Rainmaker platform that was released last year.
That's the all-in-one hosted website, and soon to be marketing automation platform. We just launched a pilot of a reseller program for that. Designers, content creators, consultants, can take that website development headache out of it by using Rainmaker.
We're launching, we're actually turning Rainmaker.fm, which is the name of my podcast right now. That's a bigger thing. That's actually going to be a podcast network. We're narrowly known at Copyblogger for teaching people how to write, text heavy, and copywriting heavy.
To grow the audience further, we need to build another authority site, and this one built on audio, which as you know, really took off last year.
It's really an amazing format, even for people who prefer to read, because you can't read while you're working out at the gym. You can't watch video while you're driving a car.
Audio is this on-demand, portable, it's really perfect for educating busy business people. We think that's our path forward, of course, Copyblogger will keep growing, and chugging along, but it's time to have another format.
As you and I are sitting here talking, right now, many people are going to be able to listen to this while they're doing something else, on the go, what have you. We see that as a big thing, for 2015, for us.
Sonia: That sounds very cool. I'm excited to see all the new things that you guys have coming out on there. It's going to be very helpful.
Brian: Cool.
Sonia: If I can have one more little bonus question for you. Actually, before we do that, any other last parting words for entrepreneurs who are working on their business now, or who are thinking about starting one?
Brian: I say do your homework. Think about the problem that you're solving for someone really, really hard, but you've got to stop at some point and do it. You'll hear people say, "Well just try something!"
Then people are completely unprepared. You have to do your upfront work. You have to do your research. You have to understand what you're trying to accomplish, but then you have to not be paralyzed by continued analysis.
I did that. I did that for four years, in the '90s. That's one thing I've shaken off. I think things through a crazy amount, but once I decide, it's either no or yes. If it's yes, we're all over it.
Sonia: Full steam ahead.
Brian: Absolutely.
What Brian will be singing at his next karaoke night
Sonia: Going back to the bonus question. I always think that what people listen to, their music choices, tells a lot about them. If we were to find you at a karaoke night, what song would we most likely be seeing you up there doing?
Brian: That's a trick question. We just had our company meeting, so we're about 50 people, but we're all over the place, US, Canada, Brazil, Europe. We always get together at least once a year in one place, which is always a lot of fun, and we always have karaoke night.
I refused to participate in karaoke, although some of our people have some talent, let me tell you. I was not aware. That is a hard question, because I am almost a snob on the range of musical tastes that I have.
When I was in the '80s, when I grew up, I listened to everything from R&B to early rap, to goth punk, what was called alternative. If it wasn't top 40, I was listening to it. That's exposed me to so many things, including jazz.
Back to the karaoke thing. If I thought I could sing, which I'm pretty sure I can't, there's a song by Stone Temple Pilots called "Plush" that is like one of those great sing-along songs like when they perform it in concert the whole audience sings along.
I would sing that song. Maybe I should just get some lessons, and sing that one song. I'll give it a shot.
Sonia: You should just do it. Absolutely! Absolutely! Brian, this has been great. Thank you so much for taking time out of your schedule to come and chat with us. Lots of really great pearls of wisdom in here that have been super helpful.
Brian: Thank you so much for having me.
How will you conquer fears you have for your business?
Sonia: Brian had lots of great stuff to share. And one thing I've been noodling from what he talked about, is the notion of facing fear. Most things aren't as awful as we make them out to be – so it's just a matter of facing our fear and finding a way to get comfortable enough to move forward.
So the question I have for you is, what is it about building your business that makes you most fearful?
What's one thing you can do to get prepared to put yourself in the best position to conquer that fear? Think about it, and then put your answer in the comments. Then we can all support each other in giving fear the finger.
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How to get the confidence you need to build the business you want
Henneke says
Great interview, Sonia!
I love the point that Brian made about generosity. I sometimes worry I'm giving away too much, but this strengthens me in my belief I'm on the right track. We can't really give away too much, can we?
Hey Henneke – we sure can't. I suppose generosity is a lot like love. The bucket well never goes dry! And generally, the more we give, the more we have to give away.
Raspal Seni says
Hi Sonia,
It's true, what we fear comes true at times. Because, what we think, we create — thoughts are energy which we send to the atmosphere. I've travelled in a plane only twice, and I feared a lot, the first time. It was like having the final journey.
Fears are most of the times for nothing, but they're also due to past experiences sitting deep inside our sub-conscious. Yes, I'm talking about past births.
Hey Raspal – I so agree. Our thoughts are energy. All the more reason to guard our thoughts closely, so we put the right energy out there.
I am so glad that I connected with you and your blog Sonia. Great interview. Brian is such an ordinary guy. Real guy giving real information. Great interview also… Now I see that your writing style and your interview style are equally comfortable. Would love to do some work with you one day.
Hey Kelly – I'm happy to be connected with you too!
A lot of times we romanticize people who are super successful, when most of the time, they are regular people just like me and you.
And writing and interviewing – my goal is to make sure that I come across as me. So if someone were to meet me in the street – they would feel the same thing they experience when on my blog or watching my videos. I'm glad you enjoy my style!


Although this vehicle fits into the "entry-luxury" category, there is little evidence of the entry part of that term in the fourth-generation C-Class from Mercedes.
And there is another consideration in this regard: While some of the other vehicles in the company's fleet might get more plaudits and attention, the C-Class is the volume sedan for Mercedes-Benz. It has been the company's top seller for six years running (2001 to 2006).
Although the category is "entry-luxury," Mercedes, from the start, didn't stint on the sedan. For example, the 190 (1984-1993) featured the company's first multi-link rear suspension, which has been subsequently refined and replicated on all of its passenger cars (as well as those of virtually all other vehicle manufacturers). For the new C-Class, they are debuting, in the U.S. market, what's called "Agility Control" suspension, which Glaser describes as a selective damping system that is purely hydro-mechanical in operation. Essentially, if there is input of less than 10 mm to the damper, then the ride is tuned for comfort. "As soon as you start taking the car out, driving dynamically, and the damper moves more than 10 mm, then one bypass closes in the damper and the setup becomes stiffer." More European.
And there is another interesting number related to the C-Class: Seven. No, that's not the number of air bags (there are six). The vehicle is available as a C300 Luxury, C300 Sport, and C350 Sport. The first two have 228-hp three-liter sixes; the latter has a 268-hp 3.5-liter six. The C300 sport is available with the newly designed NSG 510 six-speed manual transmission. But the other vehicles come with a standard seven-speed automatic, which Glaser says is the first such transmission in the vehicle's class. One interesting aspect of this transmission is that it will skip gear ratios when downshifting—such as going from sixth to second—to facilitate acceleration yet providing smooth operation, as should be expected of a luxury vehicle. Even entry luxury.
Speaking of the transmission, the 4MATIC all-wheel-drive system, the new version that was developed for the current S-Class, is available for the C-Class. One of the differences of this system as compared with the previous generation 4MATIC is that it is compact such that it can be integrated into the seven-speed transmission. What's more, it uses the same suspension parts as the non-equipped vehicles. Previously, it was necessary to have not only different suspension components, but also a wider transmission tunnel to accommodate the 4MATIC system. Whereas the Mercedes SUVs have a system that provides a nearly even split of torque between the front and rear during normal driving conditions, the system in the C-Class (and S-Class) is biased so that there is a 45/55 front-to-rear torque distribution, a rear bias that makes the all-wheel-drive feel more like a rear-drive setup. The system is comparatively light weight, adding just a 145-lb. premium over the standard rear-wheel-drive arrangement.
That word, "deproliferated," is one that Glaser uses to describe the way that the vehicle is coming to market. In the previous generation there were three models: the C230, with a 2.5-liter engine, and then three-liter C280 and 3.5-liter C350. The entry level six has been eliminated.
Another thing that was done in the previous generation (and this one continued) was, in 2005, the distinction between two categories: Luxury and Sport. One benefit of adding the Sport option (and Glaser acknowledges that if you look at the competitive set, the vehicles are generally more sporty than not) was that it took the average age of the C-Class purchaser down a few notches, from 52 to closer to 50. If one of the purposes of the C-Class is to bring buyers along to the higher-level offerings, than younger is certainly better as it increases the opportunities for purchase.
More than just a category.
Rather than just making minor modifica-tions to a vehicle and designating it "Luxury" or "Sport", depending on the change, Mercedes designers executed some significant differences. Glaser calls it "a revolution." He explains, "For the first time, Mercedes-Benz has the star integrated on a sedan." That is, heretofore, the star has been integrated into the grilles of Mercedes coupes, convertibles, and SUVs. But in the case of the C-Class Sport, there it is, right in the middle of the three wide slats of the grille. In the case of the Luxury models, the star sits atop the hood as is befitting the stately Mercedes sedan. The Sport versions also exhibit what Glaser describes as "AMG styling," such as the deeper front and rear aprons, rocker panels that twist toward the rear, and standard 17-in. wheels that are staggered (i.e., narrower in the front than in the back, with the standard tires on both models being 7.5-wide in the front and 8.5-in. wide in the rear).
The body-in-white uses 70% high-strength steel, of which 20% is ultra-high-strength steel. This use is, Mercedes believes, a record quantity for a vehicle of this type.
Back in mid-2003, a test was conducted at the Mercedes Sindelfingen plant to test a new laser welding system that deploys a robot to help manipulate the location of the beam. It was called "RobScan." The process was tested on some 25,000 S-Class components, where the laser seams were used in place of spot welds. Not only were the engineers determining production feasibility, but also the welds were tested for their physical performance user various conditions. Based on the work that was done, it was determined that RobScan would be used for the production of a passenger car series. The C-Class, which happens to be produced in Sindelfingen (and elsewhere) may be the vehicle that was targeted back in '03. There are approximately 640 RobScan welded seams on the door, side wall, and rear body areas of the C-Class.
In addition to which, there is plenty of adhesive used, as well. There is more than 196 ft. of bonded seam on the C-Class.
Overall, the new vehicle is 17 lb. lighter than the previous model and yet its torsional rigidity is 13% higher.
None of this was achieved by chance. Mercedes produced 280 prototypes for the C-Class. But in addition to those physical artifacts, they created virtual prototypes for the car that were used for a number of development applications, like crash tests. The C-Class was crashed some 5,500 times—on a network that consists of more than 1,500 processors. The digital model of the C-Class consisted of some 1.9-million elements; the impact calculations for a crash consisted of 320,000 million operations (hence the exceedingly large network). In addition to crash, the 2,130-gigabyte digital car model was used for other development operations, including handling, NVH, durability, thermal verification, thermal and electrical energy management, climate control, powertrain, and aerodynamics. One of the more interesting assessments performed in the virtual space was that of climate control. Factors that have to be taken into account are vehicle speed, temperature, level of sunlight, and humidity. Mercedes engineers developed what they call "TIM," a computer model. (The name is an acronym for the German for "thermophysiological occupant model.") TIM simulates the human body in 14 areas and takes into account blood circulation. TIM was linked with other programs, for example one that divides the interior into 7.8-million spatial units and measures the air flow, temperature, and other parameters at each point.
Entry-lux? All this sounds pretty full-on despite the market positioning.


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One of the most popular dive resorts of Maldives, the Bathala Resort has a number of recreation options, specially designed fro the tourists, that will keep the young as well as the old entertained and bu8sy during their vacations to this island resort.
The recreation facilities in Bathala Resort cater to all age groups and hence there is something for everyone in this exotic island resort of Maldives. The most popular activity that one can go for over here is diving. Being a premiere dive site, Scuba diving and Snorkeling are the most popular activities that the tourists go for when on a holiday over here.
The beautiful blue sea and the coral reefs that surround this island are simply perfect to go for such adventure activities. The most popular dive suites that one can find over here include House Reef, Bathala Thila, Dinolhu Gaatu, Maaga Thila and others. The waters over here are filled with different species of marine life, which one can check out. The resort provides the eager divers with all the equipments that are necessary for embarking on these adventure water sports. One can get to see different kinds of fishes over here like sharks, Murays and giant barracudas. Diving workshops are also conducted for first time divers. One can participate in these workshops also.
Apart from these, boating, sailing and fishing are some of the other recreation options that one can go for in the Bathala Resort in Maldives. Night fishing is extremely popular amongst the more adventurous tourists. One can take their families also for Banana Boat rides in this island resort. Other popular water based activities that one can go for include water skiing, surfing and wind surfing.
For recreation, one can also participate in beach activities like Beach Volleyball. The resort also has a games room where one can play indoor games like Table Tennis and carom. Animation programs are also conducted over here, especially for the children. Apart from these, one can also go for island hopping or embark on an adventure tour or excursions around this island.
The recreation facilities in Bathala Resort are simply fantastic and will surely make your vacation a fun filled and adventurous one.


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Automile Scores $5M To Connect Your Car To The Cloud
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Automile, which offers a device and platform that connects your car to the cloud so you can track various kinds of data, has closed a $5 million Series A round. The investment was led by Dawn Capital and Point Nine Capital — money that will be used by the Swedish startup to expand globally and continue developing new services for car owners.
Initially targeting the enterprise — namely fleet management — but with a consumer-facing service in private beta, the Automile platform consists of a tiny device that plugs into your car's OBD-II (on-board diagnostic) port and an accompanying cloud service and apps.
The device itself features GPS for location tracking and GSM for data connectivity, which is included as part of the service's subscription fee.
One way to think of the device is like a fitness tracker (and more) for your car, with its ability to track journeys, mileage and fuel consumption, as well as alert you to potential mechanical issues.
And while the data captured is currently being used primarily to power fleet management applications, via the company's Automile PRO service, the startup says it has other potential applications.
These include capturing outside weather data to help power weather forecasting models, and providing road condition aggregate data to improve safety.
Or, for individual use, Automile can potentially "turn back the clock" to tell you when and where a vehicle was damaged or a part failed.
In the future, Automile plans to offer an API, making its service and data available to third-party developers who can use it to power new applications in the areas of fleet management, logistics, insurance or in entirely new markets. The latter is particularly interesting.
Dawn Capital's Norman Fiore said in a statement: "What most impressed us about the Automile team was its burning ambition of owning the vast connected car market, tempered by its pragmatism and execution excellence in dominating fleet management as the first step."

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In the contemporary business world, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is an essential brand strategy adopted by large and small corporations. In order to appeal today's consumers, companies not only need to provide high quality services and products but also need to support social issues and find ways to give back to the community. A recent study by Prof. Cao Jie at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business school reveals that socially responsible firms are proven to be popular among investors.
The study "Investor Preference, Corporate Social Performance, and Stock Prices" was conducted by Associate Professor Cao Jie in the Department of Finance at CUHK Business School, in collaboration with Finance Professor Sheridan Titman from the University of Texas at Austin; Assistant Professor Zhan Xintong and PhD student Zhang Weiming, both at CUHK Business School. The team investigated whether preference for social performance influences the investment decision of institutions, which then affects the stock return predictability and stock market efficiency.
The study has drawn great attention globally from asset managers and corporate decision makers. It has been presented at the 4th Geneva Summit on Sustainable Finance; Deutsche Bank Global Quantitative Strategy Conference in NYC; Institute for Quantitative Investment Research (INQUIRE) European Conference in Budapest; Chicago Quantitative Alliance, Asian Pacific Chapter (CQAsia) and Bank of America Merrill Lynch Conference in Hong Kong. Drawing the attention of policy makers, it has also been presented at China Institute of Finance and Capital Markets, the research center of China Securities Regulatory Commission. It has received the best paper prize in the 26th Conference on the Theories and Practices of Securities and Financial Markets in Taiwan.
Mispricing happens when a stock's market price doesn't match the true value of the company. Some investors would try to identify the mispriced stocks in order to beat the market. The most famous example is Warren Buffett, who have known to beat the market by investing in undervalued stocks and gained a tremendous amount of profit.
However, socially responsible investors seem to be constrained when they try to trade mispriced stocks, according to Prof. Cao.
Prof. Cao explains that a socially responsible investor will shy away from a firm with bad social performance, even though it will deliver a positive risk-adjusted return in the future. On the contrary, the investor would be reluctant to sell a socially responsible stock, even if it is overpriced. Therefore, underpriced stocks with bad social performance will have positive returns in the future as investors fail to immediately correct the price, which is below the true value of the stocks. In the same vein, overpriced stocks with superior social performance will have negative returns in the future, as investors do not sell to lower the price to the true value immediately.
The team investigated how CSR affects stock prices, conditional on the mispricing of the stock price. They used a composite mispricing score (MISP) to capture the mispricing magnitude of a single stock at a given month. MISP considers 11 asset-pricing anomalies: net stock issues, composite equity issues, accruals, net operating assets, asset growth, investment-to-assets, distress, o-score, momentum, gross profitability premium, and return on asset.
"If investors do not consider CSR performance when they do arbitrage, we should expect no relationship between CSR performance and stock return, no matter if the stocks are overvalued or undervalued" says Prof. Cao.
However, the study finds that investors indeed consider a firm's CSR performance when they make investment decisions. Underpriced stocks with poor CSR performance have a higher future stock return – at around 0.40 percent higher than underpriced stocks with good CSR performance per month. Overpriced stocks with good CSR performance have a much lower future stock return than overpriced stocks with poor CSR performance at around 0.60 percent lower per month.
"Socially aware investors do not use future expected financial returns as the only standard for investment. They would even forego financial profitability if the investments are against their personal beliefs," he adds.
The return predictability documented in this study emerges as the rise of ESG investing. Such results do not exist for the period before 2003. The growing trend of ESG investing has highlighted the importance of re-defining stock market efficiency under the framework of investors' personal beliefs. Prof. Cao adds that the current asset pricing models have not yet incorporated the ESG preference.
"More research is needed to better understand the new equilibrium of market efficiency under an accelerated trend of socially responsible investing," he says.
In view of the growing trend, Prof. Cao believes the government also needs to educate investors properly to ensure they can differentiate between financial performance and social responsibility performance, as well as choose their investment products wisely based on personal preferences and investment horizons.
"It is still unclear how this trend of socially responsible investment will affect the financial market in future, however, we're certain that its importance will continue to grow," he says.


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Official On Killed Giraffe: 'He Didn't Fit Into The Whole Puzzle' Why was Marius, a healthy 18-month-old giraffe, killed on Sunday at the Copenhagen Zoo? Employees say it's because Marius had genes too similar to other giraffes and was killed to avoid inbreeding. But the act has caused an uproar on social media and among animal activists. Robert Siegel talks to Bengt Holst, the scientific director at the Copenhagen Zoo, about the decision to put the giraffe down.
Official On Killed Giraffe: 'He Didn't Fit Into The Whole Puzzle'
February 10, 20144:00 PM ET
Why was Marius, a healthy 18-month-old giraffe, killed on Sunday at the Copenhagen Zoo? Employees say it's because Marius had genes too similar to other giraffes and was killed to avoid inbreeding. But the act has caused an uproar on social media and among animal activists. Robert Siegel talks to Bengt Holst, the scientific director at the Copenhagen Zoo, about the decision to put the giraffe down.
A coldly scientific decision to put down a giraffe at the Copenhagen Zoo has outraged animal lovers around the world. Yesterday, the zoo killed a young male giraffe named Marius, conducted a public autopsy and fed the carcass to the lions. The animal wasn't stricken by illness or injury. The intent was to prevent inbreeding. The animal's death caused an uproar on social media and among animal rights activists who say that there were ways to save its life.
Well, joining us now is Dr. Bengt Holst, who is the scientific director of the Copenhagen Zoo. Welcome to the program, Mr. Holst.
BENGT HOLST: Thank you.
SIEGEL: And first, the idea here was to avoid inbreeding. Can you explain what hazard would have been posed by this male giraffe remaining - remaining alive at the Copenhagen Zoo?
HOLST: Well, actually he didn't fit into the whole puzzle of if you take all the animals in the European population and try to give them the best position in the various zoos that are available, then he didn't fit in because his genes were not as valuable as the other ones. And if we put them together, just let them breed with some of the other ones, we'll get inbreeding.
They should be self-sustaining so that you can keep this population healthy and sound, not only now but also for 50 years or 100 years, 200 years. And then, if necessary, you can also use for (unintelligible) if that is the question. That is not a question now but it may be in the future.
SIEGEL: Now, as you know, animal-rights activists and others have said that there could have been another zoo - something short of killing the animal. Or, for that matter, perhaps he could have been castrated to avoid contributing to the gene pool.
HOLST: But first, to the last one, if we castrated this male then he will still take up space for genetically more valuable animals than the other ones. So that would not be an option. And then send it to another zoo; if we sent him to another zoo it should be within the breeding program, because they have all the same values that we have. I mean the way you manage your population.
For example, we don't sell our animals. We only give them for free to other zoos in order to optimize quality of the population. But if you send them to other zoos that don't want to join this framework, then you risk that they're sold next day to another substandard zoo or to a circus and we will never deliver our animals for those.
SIEGEL: Though you can imagine someone saying was that really worse than that giraffe being dead yesterday.
HOLST: Yeah, I do think so because I think it's much worse if we sent this giraffe to a place where he just spent the next 20 years in very bad conditions.
SIEGEL: Visitors were invited to attend the autopsy of the giraffe and some of the giraffe was fed to the lions. Videos of this have gone viral around the world.
HOLST: Yes.
SIEGEL: First of all, was this something that you zoo chose to be a learning experience, a teachable moment? How did you regard it?
HOLST: When animals die in the zoo that's the general routine here, so considering this and we have to do it in the open because he was too big to be in the autopsy room, then we said that's a good opportunity to educate people. And this space is, and I must say, it's off exhibit area. It's a place where public normally don't have any access. So we said you're welcome to join this autopsy if you want. And if you choose not to, it's fair enough, so then you just pass by so you won't see it by accident.
SIEGEL: How would you describe the reaction from those who chose to view the autopsy?
HOLST: It was - they were really fascinated, especially the kids are really curious when standing there. They have no filter behind themselves and the questions they asked. They just ask which is good because then you also get the right answers.
SIEGEL: Dr. Holst, let me ask you about what appears to be an inconsistency here that's a problem for zoos. On the one hand, you speak very clinically. It's a case of eugenics for the giraffe population. On the other hand, this giraffe had a name. He was Marius.
HOLST: No.
SIEGEL: He's been anthropomorphized for people.
HOLST: No. Yeah. Well, it was not official. We have never given him this name. This name was picked up from the visitors from when the keepers among themselves talked about this animal. But this has never been an official name. And that's what we should strive at in the zoos, not to personalize the giraffes or the animals we have, but to make them part of a population. So what we strive at is to ensure the populations for the future, not necessarily all individuals.
SIEGEL: Dr. Holst, thanks a lot for talking with us today.
HOLST: You're welcome.
SIEGEL: That's Bengt Holst who is scientific director of the Copenhagen Zoo.
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This is a special praise report about SummerFest, July 23-25, 2012.
1)���� We exceeded our attendance goals (goal was 100 students +staff)! We reached a total of 170 persons.
2)���� We definitely achieved the goal that at least �1/2� the student attendees be unbelievers/unchurched.
3)���� One couple at our church offered to cook lunch EVERY day for ALL the attendees!!� We were able to get local church members to donate the funds to purchase the ingredients � and so we actually included lunch for free in the event.
4)���� 43 students came forward to the altar to commit their life to Christ � many with tears running down their cheeks!
6)���� We gifted each student a �Every Young Man/Woman�s Battle� book and asked them if they would consider coming to 8 weeks of small groups to study and discuss the book.
7)���� 2 weeks in to the small groups ��there are�over 60 students and leaders attending (between the mother church and church plant locations)! �At least half of these students are unchurched.
Saulo and 3 of his friends took the Video Editing breakout � and they each made a salvation commitment the last day.� They went home and filmed their very own 12 minute mini-movie and uploaded it to YouTube.� It�s called �La Calle� (the street) and is all about a few bad boys from the street getting into trouble until someone comes and shares Christ with them and they get saved and change their ways! �The final screen says, �we were once bad boys on the street, but now we are part of The Trinidad Church!� � These guys are attending the small groups and have now been coming to some of the regular church services as well.
THANKS AGAIN for your prayers.� I love knowing that we have a team not only on site at our ministry events in the DR, but also to know we�ve got a powerful, praying team of back-up in the States (and around the world!)� Blessings to you all for your part in transforming a whole bunch of teenagers lives during SummerFest 2012, July 23-25th.


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Q: We've wanted for a long time for these programs to be recognized A news article titled "Adoption programs are doing wonders for WAHS" starts as follows:

PetSmart Charities on Thursday recognized two adoption programs of the Western Arizona Humane Society with a check for $5,000.
The Humane Society's "Senior Animal Program" and "Buddy Program" received what Executive Director Patty Gillmore said was long-sought recognition.
"This is huge for us," Gillmore said. "We've wanted for a long time for these programs to be recognized." ...

Is the last sentence that the executive director was quoted as saying well-formed English?
Also, how about these variants?

(1) For a long time, we've wanted for these programs to be recognized.
(2) For a long time, we've wanted these programs to be recognized.
(3) We've wanted, for a long time, these programs to be recognized.

A: We've wanted for a long time for these programs to be recognized.
It's a well-formed sentence. I think any change in the sentence will derogate from the quality and real meaning of the sentence.
You cannot omit "for" from the phrasal verb "want for" that has a different meaning from the meaning of the verb "want".
The phrase is used to mean to lack or need something, whereas the verb want means to desire, wish, or have a feeling to possess something.  Hence the phrase want for and the mere verb want are not at all interchangeable. Look at the foĺlowing sentences to find the difference between them:
We don't want for helpers around here (= don't lack/need).
We don't want helpers around here (don't desire).

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Want to start your own online business? We have come up with five useful tips to help you run a successful eCommerce business. Whether its B2B or eCommerce strategies.
When choosing a path to take in the business world, many opt to go down that of e-commerce. This could be because they enjoy the freedom that comes with operating a business solely online or because they like being able to target audiences all over the world. Whatever the case, there are many opportunities in the world of e-commerce, so it's definitely a great path to take. You may be reading this because you're a new business owner and need tips regarding how to make your platform as effective as possible. In the below article, you're going to find five tips you can consider using in your e-commerce business.
One of the most critical aspects of running an e-commerce business is the transaction stage for customers. Seeing as they don't have a physical till to go to when buying their goods, it's vital that you ensure their process is as seamless as possible. It means making sure that you have efficient merchant services which enable the customer to pay for products or services safely and quickly. It is also imperative that they're secure on these platforms and the risk of fraud happening is as low as possible. Some other key things to look out for when it comes to card processing services is ensuring that there is multi-currency conversion so that customers can pay in the currency of their choice.
As an e-commerce business, most of your marketing efforts are likely to be based online. In light of this, you want to take digital marketing extremely seriously and make SEO a priority. To start with, one key way of improving your SEO is to take time out to create well-researched and high-quality content. In addition to this, using the right keywords, using paid ads to help with visibility and optimizing your content for the web should also increase your chances of SEO success.
It is key that you do the steps mentioned above on a regular basis as it can help you rank high in search engines. It is so important as it's one of the only ways to gain the visibility that you need online and, in turn, customers who will buy your products. Ultimately, it's about looking for ways to make yourself an authority online and ensuring that you're a go-to business for your niche.
One challenge many e-commerce businesses may face is reducing the number of abandoned carts left by people who visit their site. You may need to explore ways of getting every customer to complete the process and make the purchase. One of the ways that this can be done is by ensuring that the process from checkout to final purchase is as easy as possible. You can choose to optimize your site's speed so that it doesn't slow down. In addition to this, customers are also said to abandon their carts as a result of additional fees that pop up when they're about to pay. To resolve this, try including all costs as early as possible, so there are no surprises. Follow-up emails also happen to be an excellent way of reducing the occurrence of abandoned carts.
If you want to improve your e-commerce site, it's key that you look for ways to make their lives easier. As briefly mentioned above, your goal should be to ensure that your customers are easily able to navigate your site and find what they're looking for. In light of this, evaluate your site and look at your analytics to identify what customers seem to be engaging most with on your site. Based on your findings, see how you can make their lives easier whether it be by adding a greeting card they can send with their gifts or making checkout quicker for new customers by allowing them to skip the sign-up form.
When you have a physical business, often customers and prospects have a physical person to speak to when they have challenges. It is imperative that you try and create the same accessibility and availability for online consumers too. You can do this by adding chatbots or live chats to your website. Doing so should ensure people are able to ask any questions or concerns that they might have easily.
Running an e-commerce business can be just as challenging as doing so in the physical sense of things. In light of this, you have to constantly look for ways to improve your business, especially if you want to know your competition out of the ballpark. As mentioned above, ensuring that your business operates as efficiently as possible is one of the best places to start.


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Public spaces protection orders (PSPOs)
High Wycombe PSPO
High Wycombe town centre PSPO [PDF |410KB]
This order prohibits at all times "consuming alcohol, or having an open container for alcohol, in the Restricted Area subject to the exemptions listed in Schedule 2".
PSPO map: High Wycombe town centre [PNG | 3.3MB] (opens in new window)
Summary conviction may lead to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale or a fixed penalty notice of a maximum of £100.
Desborough Road PSPO
Desborough Road PDF [PDF 229KB]
This PSPO states that person(s) shall not engage, loiter or solicit with a view to engaging in obtaining sexual services.
PSPO map: Desborough Road [PNG | 841KB] (opens in new window)
West End Road PSPO
West End Road PSPO [PDF 137KB] (opens in new window)
This order restricts access to the public right of way detailed in the map. The order authorises the installation of gates which will enforce the access restriction. Any person, other than those persons listed in schedule 2, who is found on the public right of way will be in breach of this order and will be laible to a fine or penalty.
PSPO map: West End Road [PDF 324KB] (opens in new window)
PSPOs deal with particular nuisance or problems in a particular area that is detrimental to the local community's quality of life, by imposing conditions on the use of that area, which apply to everyone. They are designed to ensure the law-abiding majority can use and enjoy public spaces, safe from anti-social behaviour.
We have introduced PSPOs to deal with specific, identified, ongoing anti-social behaviour issues.
The power to create PSPOs was enacted in Chapter 2 of the AntiSocial Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 (external website).
Email: communitysafety@wycombe.gov.uk


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Ontario Regulator Lifts UFC Wagering Suspension
January 20, 2023 8:04 am by Daniel Thompson
After the recent controversy about suspicious betting activity in UFC, Ontario has now decided to renew regulated wagering on its fights. The decision from the province's regulator, the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario comes after the federation updated its policies and procedures. Provincial operators can now offer and accept UFC wagers, effective immediately.
It should be reminded that AGCO banned wagering on the federation's events on December 1, 2022. This move came after alleged incidents including possible wagering by UFC insiders and reports of suspicious betting patterns in some jurisdictions. The regulator mandated that all registered gaming operators suspend betting on UFC events.
Wagering Ban Now Raised
As the gaming regulator of Ontario, the AGCO's Registrar's Standards are implemented to protect bettors from odds manipulations, match-fixing, and other related sports wagering integrity concerns. That is why sports and betting operators must guarantee that sporting events they offer wagers on are successfully monitored and overseen by a governing body, which must establish rules and enforce protections.
On Thursday, the UFC reported that it has made some changes to its policies. Some of the amendments include the Athlete Conduct Policy to forbid all insiders from playing any bets directly or through a third party on any match of the federation. This includes wagers on themselves. It also provided assurances for improved monitoring and action against insider wagering.
The federation also reminded these same prohibitions against wagering apply to athlete's coaches, handlers, managers, athletic trainers, and other positions related to the UFC fighters. It also wanted that violations by insiders may result in disciplinary action against related contracted athletes. And reiterated its expectations that contracted sportsmen will report cases of suspicious activity.
After hearing the changes, AGCO's Registrar shared that it is satisfied that integrity concern issues have now been dealt with, hence allowing for provincial operators to resume offering UFC-related wagering. Meanwhile, operators must continue to abide by all applicable Registrar's Standards and the AGCO will continue to monitor compliance with the Standards
Taking Care of Ontario's iGaming Sector
AGCO is responsible for overseeing Ontario's brand-new private market for third-party brands and the regulator keeps a close eye on it. The commission is not hesitant to sanction operators who violate the rules, as in July 2022, it issued a CA$100,000 monetary fine to DraftKings. According to AGCO, the operator breached the rules by promoting boosted odds for hockey matches during the NHL playoffs.
In addition to keeping gaming brands in check, the regulator is also responsible for registering new brands that wish to join the market. In December 2022, the commission licensed several new operators. One of those brands was Betsson AB-owned TonyBet, which is a Baltic sports betting company. It gained its operator registration on December 5, 2022.
Source: "AGCO Reinstates Betting on UFC Events in Ontario" AGCO, January 19, 2023
Author: Daniel ThompsonDaniel had previously worked as a correpsondent and editor for several local Canadian news websites. He developed true interest in the ways of the gambling industry after several accidental visits to casinos with friends.


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Two companies announce exclusive partnership, custom security tools to shore up social network.
Facebook today said that it has struck a one-year partnership with security giant McAfee to better stamp out spam and malware from the world's biggest social network.
Through the exclusive arrangement, McAfee (NYSE: MFE) is offering Facebook users a free six-month subscription to its security product, and a discounted rate after the trial expires.
The two companies partnered to develop a custom suite of security tools, including a software application, a scanning and repair tool and a spate of education materials to promote safe computing practices.
"For the rare case in which an account is compromised, we've developed a unique process that requires the account owner to take steps to secure the account and learn security best practices," Facebook project manager Jake Brill wrote in a blog post explaining the partnership. "We've also incorporated custom McAfee software into this process for people identified as having infected computers."
Facebook, like other social sites, has come under frequent and occasionally severe cyber attacks, including the infamous Koobface worm that began targeting the site in 2008.
Through the partnership announced today, McAfee has become Facebook's exclusive provider of security tools. In the event that a person's Facebook account is compromised, Facebook said it will initiate a free McAfee security sweep to restore the account and clean the user's computer.
Facebook said that it will not take any revenue from the subscriptions it refers to McAfee, pledging instead to reinvest that money into its security apparatus.
"We invest in dedicated teams and advanced technical systems that detect and block suspicious behavior," Brill said. "When we find a message with a link to a fake login page or other malicious Web site, we prevent it from being sent and delete all instances of it from the site. We also work with third parties to get malicious sites added to browser blacklists or removed completely."
McAfee is promoting the free security trial on its Facebook page.
The custom security suite is initially rolling out to users in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Brazil and several countries in Europe. Facebook said it will expand to additional markets throughout the first quarter of this year.
Kenneth Corbin is an associate editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the internet.com network.


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La Rohloff AG è una azienda tedesca con sede a Fuldatal di Kassel, che produce componenti per biciclette. La società venne fondata nel 1986 da Barbara e Bernhard Rohloff con la produzione della S-L-T 99, una catena per deragliatore.

Storia e prodotti

Dopo la introduzione sul mercato della S-L-T 99, nel 1990 la italiana Campagnolo la usò per i successivi quattro anni per tutti i prodotti del gruppo Campagnolo.

Werk 3

La sede attuale nella zona industriale di Fuldatal.

Curiosità
 Il simbolo della Rohloff è un corvo in volo su sfondo giallo.
 Il logo fu quasi "vivo" nel marzo 1995 quando nidificò una cornacchia chiamata poi "Rohloff" nei pressi dell'azienda. I suoi scherzi nel quartiere la resero popolare. Da allora la cura di pulcini orfani è diventata prassi per la azienda.

Note

Bibliografia
 Barbara Rohloff, Marco Rauch, Thomas Tiggemann, Margit Grimm-Bettermann u. a.: Rohloff Geschichten. Fuldatal 2009. ISBN 978-3-00-028542-4

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Produttori di componenti di biciclette

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