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Officer Jason Van Dyke has been locked up since November 24Bond was set at $1.5 million and he needed to post $150,000Police union members helped his family raise the moneyVan Dyke is charged with the murder of 17 year old Laquan McDonaldDashcam footage of the slaying from October 2014 sparked protestsIt shows the cop firing 16 times, and even stopping to reload Van Dyke's attorney says his client is 'hopeful' he can post bond soon By
Officer Jason Van Dyke, 37, left Cook County Jail looking downcast and pale on Monday evening, having been locked up sinceNovember 24, when prosecutors charged him with first degree murder after he gunned down 17 year old Laquan McDonald in October 2014.
His bond had been set at $1.5million earlier in the day, meaning he needed to post $150,000 to get out.
The police union president said union members were helping Van Dyke's family raise the amount needed to get him out of jail.
Attorney Dan Herbert says Van Dyke is pleased the judge set a bond amount after ordering him held without bond last week.
He argued that his client was not a flight risk, had significant ties to the community and planned to fight the charges.
Herbert says Van Dyke is 'very scared about the consequences he is facing'.
He also says Van Dyke 'absolutely' can defend his actions in court.
Herbert says he has information that isn't yet public,
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A judge had ordered the video released the previous week. On Tuesday, Cook County State's Attorney Anita Alvarez said she had decided a few weeks earlier to charge Van Dyke with murder and was planning to announce charges in a month.
But knowing the intense public anger that the sight of the 'chilling' video would generate, she announced the charges before the video's release in an effort to encourage calm.
Van Dyke's attorney last week reassured the judge that Van Dyke is not a flight risk, explaining that he has deep ties to the community, lives with his wife and two children in Chicago and does not possess a passport.
In the audio free video, McDonald can be seen walking down the middle of a four lane street. He appears to veer away from two officers as they emerge from a vehicle,
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One of the officers, Van Dyke, opens fire from close range. McDonald spins around and crumples to the ground. The officer continues to fire.
Van Dyke's attorney, Dan Herbert, maintains that his client feared for his life, acted lawfully and that the video does not tell the whole story. Police have said that McDonald was carrying a knife and an autopsy revealed that he had PCP, a hallucinogenic drug,
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Protesters have marched on Chicago's streets since the video's release. The largest and most disruptive protest blocked off part of Michigan Avenue in the downtown shopping district known as the Magnificent Mile on Black Friday, preventing access to big name stores on what is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year.
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Last week on Time with Bill Maher, a panel featuring one of the nation's most prominent anti religious voices, Sam Harris, discussed radical Islam. Harris made quite a few valid points, as he often does, and so did the rest of the panel but they all managed to leave some important context out of the discussion that is crucial to understanding the hatred and violence consuming so many in the Arab world: a century of imperialism. arming the Mujahideen to the bombing campaigns of the two Bush presidencies. Harris acknowledges this history, but apparently regards it as not all that consequential, blaming the existence of Islamic violence almost entirely on the Quran. It's remarkable that someone as intelligent and knowledgeable about the brain as he is would deny the role steady exposure to imperial violence has in fermenting extremism.
Except for Ben Affleck saying, "We've killed more Muslims than they've killed us by an awful lot," American on Arab violence isn't even broached in the Time conversation. invasion. For as big a deal as we make of war here, where bombs aren't being dropped and where the streets are not filled with insurgents and gunfire, just imagine how big a deal the war is there.
But even that most basic exercise of empathy is forbidden in discussions about the Middle East. Perhaps the collective weight of American war crimes on our consciences would be too great a burden to bear. Whether or not American operations in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere had benevolent intentions, the way they've been carried out and the consequences they've had for the region have been utterly disastrous, . Failure to understand what went wrong in a society after you've bombed it and tried to install a government favorable to you is just insanity. Not surprisingly, they usually are.
Harris is often accused of being bigoted against Muslims. I don't feel qualified to make a judgment on that. There isn't any clear motivation for it if he is; he'd probably sell more books if he weren't. He knows how to point out passages in the holy texts of all religions that any modern society would find morally repellant Biblical endorsement of slavery and genocide, Koranic stoning of women and removal of the clitoris, and on and on. Inasmuch as his criticism of Islam is of the Quran and its ideas, and not the whole 1.5 billion of the faith's adherents, Harris is not often wrong.
One good point he, Maher,
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The "concentric circles" analysis Harris makes of radicalism in Islam is interesting. In the center, smallest circle are actual jihadists like ISIS. Outside of them is a bigger circle that doesn't participate in the violence but actively supports it. The further out you go, the less extremism you find. Harris assumes those hostile inner circles represent about 20 percent of the world's Muslims, which is about 300 million people. It's an extraordinary claim, and almost certainly much too broad,
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Note that plenty of fundamentalists hold extremist beliefs in America. The single most dangerous position held by people in power is that the environment doesn't require our attention, a fantasy justified primarily on the basis of Christian science denial and capitalist profit dogmas. Similarly, feverish Christians complicate the teaching of evolution, one of the most foundational and least controversial processes in science. Anti homosexual hate speech pours brazenly out of the Christian right. The gun lobby's fanaticism has resulted in armed madmen full of hyped up self righteousness marching through towns and occupying businesses. The media now treats mass shooters as practically a banality. Propaganda masters on the radio and TV tap into the disillusionment of Middle America, fueling the fire by blaming gays, liberals, scientists, vegetarians anyone but the people actually in charge of policy. Thankfully, apart from the science deniers, America is probably not in much danger of being taken over by such extremist elements, but if things were as bad here as they are in Iraq it would certainly be possible.
In the debate, Harris called Islam "the motherload of bad ideas." There are a lot of bad ideas in the Quran, as there are in any religious text. But bombing people is also a bad idea. So is not taking care of the environment, the sick and the poor. If America devoted itself to pursuing clean energy for the entire world, it could eliminate the motivation for imperial powers to meddle in the Middle East over oil. Perhaps some of that extremism would go away when we infidels leave. Even if it didn't, we'd be in a superior moral position to combat Muslim fundamentalism with education and an inviting progressive example. There's a maxim Noam Chomsky often repeats that gets to the heart of the problem of Mideast violence: the best way to stop terrorism is to stop participating in it.
analysis and trial sequential analysis of randomised clinical trials
Risk ratios with 95% confidence intervals were estimated with fixed and random effects models.
Results Fourteen clinical trials that randomised 28614 participants with type 2 diabetes (15269 to intensive control and 13345 to conventional control) were included. Intensive glycaemic control did not significantly affect the relative risks of all cause (1.02, 95% confidence interval 0.91 to 1.13; 28359 participants, 12 trials) or cardiovascular mortality (1.11, 0.92 to 1.35; 28359 participants, 12 trials). Trial sequential analyses rejected a relative risk reduction above 10% for all cause mortality and showed insufficient data on cardiovascular mortality. The risk of non fatal myocardial infarction may be reduced (relative risk 0.85, 0.76 to 0.95; P=0.004; 28111 participants, 8 trials), but this finding was not confirmed in trial sequential analysis. Intensive glycaemic control showed a reduction of the relative risks for the composite microvascular outcome (0.88, 0.79 to 0.97; P=0.01; 25600 participants, 3 trials) and retinopathy (0.80, 0.67 to 0.94; P=0.009; 10793 participants, 7 trials), but trial sequential analyses showed that sufficient evidence had not yet been reached. The estimate of an effect on the risk of nephropathy (relative risk 0.83,
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Conclusion Intensive glycaemic control does not seem to reduce all cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes. Data available from randomised clinical trials remain insufficient to prove or refute a relative risk reduction for cardiovascular mortality, non fatal myocardial infarction, composite microvascular complications, or retinopathy at a magnitude of 10%. Intensive glycaemic control increases the relative risk of severe hypoglycaemia by 30%.
IntroductionObservational studies suggest an association between the extent of hyperglycaemia and the risk of death and of macrovascular and microvascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes.1 2 3 Three recent randomised clinical trials in patients with type 2 diabetes were not able to detect (or reject the possibility of) reduced cardiovascular disease or mortality with intensive compared with conventional glycaemic control.4 5 6 Worries arose as the results from the Action to Control Cardiovascular Risk in Diabetes (ACCORD) trial in 2008 showed increased all cause mortality and cardiovascular mortality in the intensive treatment group compared with conventional treatment.4 The increased mortality led to early termination of the ACCORD trial.4 On the other hand, randomised clinical trials have indicated a beneficial effect on microvascular complications of intensive versus conventional glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. However, inconsistencies exist among the trials with respect to which type of microvascular complications are prevented and the magnitude of the effect of intensive glycaemic control.5 7 8 The price of intensive glycaemic control may be an increased risk of hypoglycaemia. Achieving intensive glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes requires enormous effort from the patient as well as resources from the healthcare system,
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The definition of intensive glycaemic control varies among trials and guidelines. The ACCORD trial and the Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT) used a target of glycated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) below 6.0% for intensive glycaemic control compared with a target of HbA1c below 6.5% in the Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease Preterax and Diamicron Modified Release Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) trial. The results from these trials have created a debate about the optimal choice of glycaemic target. The American Diabetes Association recommends an HbA1c level of less than 7.0% as the standard glycaemic treatment goal, whereas the International Diabetes Federation recommends a level of less than 6.5%.10 11 12
In our published protocol, we predefined inclusion of all trials comparing patients treated to a specific target for intensive glycaemic control with patients treated to a conventional but higher glycaemic target.13 The difference in treatment strategy between the groups was clearly defined either as values of HbA1c or as intensifying glycaemic control. The intensive glycaemic targets varied across the trials, but the trials compared the results of trying to achieve a distinct lower target with those of aiming for a higher one. We believe that the existence of a "gold threshold" target remains to be established and that the hypothesis so far has been that targeting/lowering the HbA1c may have a beneficial effect along the entire scale of measurements of HbA1c unless hypoglycaemia is reached. In this sense, we have included all trials comparing an intensified glycaemic target with a more "relaxed" glycaemic target, often reflecting usual clinical practice for a given place and time.
This systematic review reanalyses current evidence of the effect of targeting intensive glycaemic control on all cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, cardiovascular disease, and microvascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes. We consider the effects of intensive glycaemic control irrespective of differences among trials in individual targets or achieved glycaemic control.13MethodsThis review follows the recommendations of the Cochrane Collaboration.15 It is based on our published Cochrane protocol.13
We included all randomised trials that compared the targeting of intensive glycaemic versus conventional glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes.13 14 We analysed trials according to the setting of the intensive glycaemic intervention. We analysed trials of targeting intensive glycaemic control in patients without acute events at entry or without concomitant treatments targeting other cardiovascular risk factors as "trials exclusively dealing with glycaemic control in usual care setting."13 The data in the review reported here are from this group of trials, representing 28614 (95%) of 29986 participants included in our review.13 14 We excluded three trials assessing multimodal interventions,16 17 18 as well as three trials assessing intensive glycaemic control as part of an acute intervention.19 20 21 For the vast majority of estimated effects of intervention, these exclusions did not cause noticeable changes.13
We analysed trials of targeting intensive glycaemic control as part of an acute intervention and trials with multimodal interventions separately.13 14 We also did an overall meta analysis combining data from all included trials irrespective of the setting in which intensive glycaemic control was applied.13 14 We refer only to data from the analyses of trials exclusively dealing with glycaemic control in usual care setting in this paper, but the Cochrane version gives a full presentation.14
Search strategyWe did a search in the Cochrane Library, Medline, Embase, Science Citation Index Expanded,
alhambra bracelet knock off van cleef, LILACS, and CINAHL in December 2010 for randomised clinical trials of targeting intensive glycaemic control versus targeting conventional glycaemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes. Web appendix 1 describes the search terms and strategies for each database. We also searched abstracts presented at the American Diabetes Association and European Association for the Study of Diabetes congresses. We contacted relevant drug companies and the US Food and Drug Administration for unpublished randomised trials relevant to our review. We searched reference lists of included trials and (systematic) reviews, meta analyses, and health technology assessment reports. We did internet searches for all trials to find additional information about the included trials. We included a trial if it was a randomised clinical trial, compared targeting intensive glycaemic control versus targeting conventional glycaemic control, and was done in patients with type 2 diabetes. We included trials irrespective of duration, language, publication status, or predefined outcomes. Web appendix 2 gives details. Translators extracted data from all relevant non English articles.
We extracted data on several baseline characteristics of the participants (such as age, duration of disease, HbA1c) and outcomes.
When we identified more than one publication of an original trial, we assessed these together to maximise data collection.
Statistical analysisWe used Review Manager version 5.0.25 for statistical analysis.22 We summarised data on all cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, non fatal myocardial infarction, and severe hypoglycaemia statistically as relative risks with 95% confidence intervals. We used both a random effects model and a fixed effect model.23 24 In case of discrepancy between the two models, we report both results; otherwise, we report the random effects model.
We examined heterogeneity with the I2 statistic, quantifying the proportion of between trial variance to the sum of the between trial variance and a common sampling error.25 We graded values of I2 between 0% to 40% as "heterogeneity might not be important," values between 30% and 60% as "moderate heterogeneity," values between 50% and 90% as "substantial heterogeneity," and values between 75% and 100% as "considerable heterogeneity."25 When we found heterogeneity, we attempted to determine potential reasons by examining characteristics of individual trials.
We did subgroup analyses stratifying trials according to risk of bias, length of study, diagnostic criteria for type 2 diabetes, language of publication, and source of funding for all cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and non fatal myocardial infarction.
We did trial sequential analyses.26 27 This is similar to interim analyses in a single trial, where monitoring boundaries are used to decide whether a trial could be terminated early when a P value is sufficiently small to show the anticipated effect. Because no reason exists why the standards for a meta analysis should be less rigorous than those for a single trial, analogous trial sequential monitoring boundaries can be applied to meta analysis.28 29 30 Cumulative meta analyses of trials are at risk of producing random errors because of sparse data and repetitive testing of accumulating data when the required information size (analogous to the sample size of an optimally powered clinical trial) has not been met. Trial sequential analysis depends on the quantification of the required information size (the meta analysis sample size). In this context, the smaller the required information size the more lenient the trial sequential monitoring boundaries are and, accordingly, the more lenient the criteria for statistical significance will be. We calculated a heterogeneity (I) adjusted required information size. We did the trial sequential analyses with an intention to maintain an overall 5% risk of a type I error, which is the standard in most meta analyses and systematic reviews. On the basis of pre determined criteria,13 we initially calculated the required information size to detect or reject an intervention effect of a 10% relative risk reduction with a risk of a type II error of 20% (power of 80%). We chose a 10% relative risk reduction equivalent to a number needed to treat of approximately 100 patients, because even this decrease in mortality is likely to be clinically meaningful. For severe hypoglycaemia, however, we chose a 30% increase in relative risk equivalent to a number needed to harm of 50. We also provide the 95% confidence intervals adjusted for sparse data and repetitive testing, which we describe as the trial sequential analysis adjusted 95% confidence intervals.
ResultsResults of the search and trial,
van cleef and arpels clover knock off bracelet, participant, and intervention characteristicsFigure 1 summarises the results of the search. We excluded 42 references after further evaluation. The main reasons for exclusion were that the trial was not randomised (11 references),31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 participants were not patients with type 2 diabetes or we could not separate data on patients with type 2 diabetes (four references),42 43 44 45 or no predefined differences in glycaemic intervention target existed (16 references).46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 In addition, we excluded trials that assessed intensive glycaemic control as a part of an acute intervention (five references, three trials) or had concomitant targeting of several cardiovascular risk factors in the glycaemic intervention arm (six references, three trials).16 17 18 19 20 21 62 63 64 65 66 Table 1 gives a list of excluded trials.
Fig 1 diagram of identification of randomised trials for inclusion
Two of the trials had a factorial design.4 5 The UK Prospective Diabetes Study (UKPDS) had a substudy in which some of the participants were randomised to intensive blood pressure control versus conventional blood pressure control.102 The University Group Diabetes Program (UGDP) randomised participants to five different treatment regimens.88 We chose to report the "insulin variable" group as the intensive group and the "insulin standard" group as the conventional group.
The Kumamoto trial had a planned length of intervention of six years.7 Only two of the included 110 participants changed their glycaemic intervention regimen after the predefined intervention period. The trial therefore continued on the initiative of the participants. We have reported all outcomes in this analysis after 10 years of follow up, except for severe hypoglycaemia (reported after eight years of follow up).95
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Brahms' French Horn Of Plenty
John Zirbel, principal horn player for the Montreal Symphony Orchestra,
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When Brahms composed his Horn Trio in 1865, he was working with a revolutionary instrument. The earliest horns used by hunters and by military bands were capable of making a lot of noise, but they weren't very expressive instruments, and by the middle of the 19th century, that had changed. Newer, easier to play horns with valves could blend nicely into the background of an ensemble piece and also carry a beautiful solo melody much easier.
But Brahms didn't appreciate the newfangled French horn. He once mocked the instrument, calling it the "brass viola." And he was uneasy about imagining his Trio played with such a thing.
"But I would be apprehensive about hearing it with the valve horn," Brahms wrote to a friend. "All poetry is lost, and the timbre is crude and dreadful right from the start."
Oddly, his description of the new horn is precisely how many people would describe the sound of the older horn today. Perhaps Brahms loved the old, romantic sound of what he called the "Waldhorn" (or "hunting horn") because he played one as a kid. So when he set out to write his Trio, he knew it would be written for what is today referred to as the "natural horn." In fact, the title on the manuscript reads, "Trio fur Pianoforte,
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How Do You Take Your Horn, French or Natural?
Actually, the jury is still out on which type of horn Brahms preferred for his beautiful trio, which was premiered in Zurich on Nov. 28, 1865. This is the territory of sleuthing musicologists.
George Bozarth, professor of historical musicology at the University of Washington, points out evidence to support both sides of the story. For one thing, Bozarth says,
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Bozarth says that some scholars feel Brahms intended the valve horn right from the start because one can see that "he wrote a number of passages in the autograph score that were not idiomatic for the natural horn." Then, at some point later, Brahms revised them to be playable on the instrument.
Another camp, Bozarth says, proposes that in the beginning Brahms wrote for the natural horn, "but did not fully appreciate what would and would not work on it until he heard a trial performance. Then he made the necessary changes."
These days, the Trio is played both ways. In this concert performance (at the top of this page), John Zirbel plays the modern valve horn. At the side of this page, compare the sound by listening to a new recording performed by Teunis van der Zwart on a natural horn built in 1845.
Anyway you hear it, there's no denying that Brahms was inspired, and came up with some of the very best music for the horn valves or natural in the history of the instrument.
CNN HOSTS JOURNEY TO FIND THEIR
Storytelling is at the core of what CNN does, and in a week long series beginning Sunday, October 12th, thirteen of the network's prominent hosts and anchors set out on a journey to find their ROOTS. A project one year in the making, these journalists embark on an emotional journey across continents as they discover never before known details of their family histories.
ROOTS: OUR JOURNEYS HOME will kick off on Sunday, October 12th at 9 pm ET with a special episode of Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown and will air across the network throughout the week, culminating in a two hour special on Tuesday, October 21st at 9 pm ET. The following is the broadcast schedule for ROOTS:
Anthony Bourdain (9 pm ET) This investigation into the puzzling history of the Bourdain's great, great, great, grandfather, Paraguayan migr Jean Bourdain, serves as a springboard to his first tour of this South American country. In Paraguay, Bourdain explores both jungle and desert land, a rich culture, and savory local dishes that include Bife Koygua, Bori Bori, and Sopa Paraguaya.
Michaela Pereira (6am ET on New Day) Michaela Pereira's adoption journey began when she was very young just three months old in Canada. Although she "hit the jackpot" with her adoptive family, she also knows that much of what you see in front of you the color of her skin, the curl of her hair comes from her biological parents. After a brief search years ago led to closed doors, Michaela embarks on her roots journey again this time not in pursuit of her birth parents, but for the place that her ancestors came from in St. James Parish, Jamaica.
Anderson Cooper (8pm ET on AC360) Many people know Anderson Cooper as having come from one of America's most famous families the Vanderbilts. But growing up, Anderson was always drawn to the southern roots of his father, Wyatt Cooper. Anderson travels to Mississippi where his father grew up and discovers ties between the poor farming family and the rich Vanderbilts that existed before his parents ever met.
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Erin Burnett (7 pm ET on Erin Burnett OutFront) After 50 years of living on a farm in Maryland, Erin Burnett's parents are packing up their memories and moving on. The move prompts Erin to learn more about her roots beyond the home she grew up in and loves so much. Her journey takes her to a remote Scottish island where she uncovers her ancestors struggle to survive the potato famine, and meets relatives who still call Scotland home.
Don Lemon (10 pm ET on CNN Tonight) Because of poor record keeping, it's nearly impossible for descendants of slaves in America to trace their ancestry past 1870. So CNN's Don Lemon sets off to find his roots and fill the gaps in his family tree. It's a journey that takes him from a Louisiana plantation to the hub of the transatlantic slave trade in West Africa.
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Sanjay Gupta (8 pm ET on AC360) CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, takes his family half way around the world to uncover his roots. Their trip, from his mother's tiny village in Pakistan to his father's hometown just outside Delhi, is full of surprises. And you won't believe how mom and dad actually met,
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Kate Bolduan (6 am ET on New Day) Kate Bolduan just gave birth to her first child, a daughter, so finding out about her family tree comes at a perfect time. Bolduan grew up in the Midwest, and was surprised to learn that she comes from a long line of glass blowers from a tiny village in Belgium. Pregnant during her journey, Bolduan set off to find out more about the family business, learning her great great grandmother traveled to America while SHE was pregnant, too. And you never believe what historic event happened just weeks before she set sail.
John Berman (6 am ET on New Day) Could John Berman be royalty? Is he related to the Dutch philosopher Baruch Spinoza, noted as the Prince of Philosophers? John Berman travels to Amsterdam, the country where his ancestors, the Spinozas, lived for 140 years in search of his "Inner Spinoza" and the truth.
Fareed Zakaria (8 pm ET on AC360) Fareed Zakaria takes viewers on a historical journey as he explores his family's roots and discovers how his personal story intersects with critical moments in history. Fareed's father, an orphan and self made man who eventually became a Minister in India's government,
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ROOTS: OUR JOURNEYS HOME 9 pm ET CNN anchors Anderson Cooper and Michaela Pereira will host a two hour special featuring 12 of the network's hosts and anchors stories. The special will also include interviews with Anderson Cooper, Michaela Pereira, Erin Burnett and Dr. Sanjay Gupta about what the experience has meant to them personally. As the journeys unfold on air, viewers online will be invited to watch and share the segments as well as explore more of each anchor's story through video extras, exclusive photos and first person accounts of their individual journeys. They will also be able to compare their habits and hobbies to CNN's anchors with a new "Which anchor are you?" quiz. Throughout, the Roots experience will extend across on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Tumblr using the hashtag CNNRoots.
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but Don't Forget to Act Locally
We all know that the Internet is a powerful global network that can reach remote customers, but what does this mean to a business that wants to sell something to the person down the street? Maybe not much if you believe a good sign is the best way to reach the local buyer. But a sign is very limited in providing details about your offerings or value points, so are you hoping they will stop by and pay a visit? Everybody has plenty of spare time and all of our target local buyers will stop in regularly to see what we have to offer, won they? Don count on it! People don want to spend all afternoon driving around asking questions. They expect instant answers, a mouse click away.
Also, new businesses come and go, and old ones expand or change their direction so who has time to keep on top of these facts? The Yellow Pages? Not likely since the paper versions of the phone book is quickly outdated and it is not the best option to inexpensively elaborate what you have to offer. Enter a new player, the search engine web sites. They are investing in a new web service by developing local directories where an Internet user enters a search keyword and location or Zip code to find a local business instantly. Along with address and phone listing are maps, directions, links to the businesses web site and even related sites. A local search engine directory will provide a lot more then you can get from a Yellow Page listing, and information is as current as the business cares to make it.
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You may be very familiar with the major search engine sites like Google, Yahoo! or MSN and find them a useful tool for a range of needs like researching a new purchase or finding answers with homework questions, but would you use it as a replacement for the Yellow Pages? Maybe not today, but this is something these search sites are trying to change. Both Google and Yahoo! are working on versions of their search engine tools to help users find a local business that sells or services by matching their offerings to related search keywords. These new services are in the early stages, where Google local search is in test mode only and planned for release later this year.
Will search sites like Google replace the classic Yellow Pages? The key advantage they have over the way of looking up information for a local business is their reputation as an effective utility for finding things that are highly relevant. The search function has become one of the Internet most commonly used and relied on tools. It becoming embedded in the culture of America youth and yet still reaches a broad range of audience acceptance. It is also one of the most profitable Internet based businesses and has become a big industry. Over time, search sites will be the most common method people will use to find local businesses. So what should you do to prepare for this change?
Begin by ensuring your business web site is visible by the major search sites. There is plenty of free advice about what you need to modify in your web pages to achieve good visibility. The more competitive your on line world is, the more this will cost you in marketing investments, but if you enjoy little local competition then some simple tasks will be required. Does it come up at the top of the rank? If not, make sure your web site home page contains your business name.
Next, search on a phrase that defines your products or services related to your business, for example computer if you are a computer reseller and enter your town and state. Does your business show up in the top position again? Try a couple of other related phrases to see if they too show up in the top rankings. One thing you will notice is the listings are returned not in alphabetical order,
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It is in this area of free searches that the search engines will go way beyond the capabilities of the classic Yellow Pages or even online directories,
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As the search engine web sites work to develop more local relevance to users, make sure your web site is tuned for your local market. Start with simple web site check ups, like ensuring your business address information is there. Then, associate regional names to target search phrases in your web site to attract random free searches, for example, instead of the title to our Country Inn use the phrase Country Inn in Woodstock VT in the Green Mountains of Vermont for your web page title. This will bring people to your web site and your business that didn know you were in the neighborhood. The search engines have been great at allowing small businesses to be seen as big players in the Internet, but don forget that a lot of business begins at the grass roots.
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