10 Principles of Successful Business Blogging

Great business blogging can add value to your business, create loyal customers and build trust in potential clients. On the other hand, bad business blogging, or inconsistent business blogging, can have a negative impact on your brand. Keeping the points below in mind should help ensure your business blog is working effectively to draw clients in, not push them away.

1. Use your professional voice. When you take a business-related call with a client who you’re not familiar with, do you use slang, swear, or are you otherwise impolite? Hopefully, no, and the same rules should apply to blogging. Think of your writing as an extension of your professional voice.

2. Edit each post you think is done. Maintaining good grammar, spelling and fluid expression is a simple way to show potential clients you’re an intelligent and professional person. The more informal your writing looks the less professional you and your enterprise will appear. Avoid embarrassing slip-ups by re-reading and rigorously editing each post before you hit publish.

3. Present information clearly and concisely. Make your posts scannable by including sub-headings, by making key words and phrases bold, and by using paragraph breaks frequently. This makes your writing look more professional and will enable busy clients to extract the essence of your posts even if they don’t have the time to read each word.

4. Be personal. A funny anecdote or interesting story can help build a friendly face for your business, as long as the story is relevant to the topic of your blog. Injecting a bit of personality into your writing will help establish yourself as someone clients can relate to. In doing so you’ll also be building trust. A post I read recently that I thought did this well was ‘Apparently I Work for Google‘ at SEOmoz, a business blog about SEO.

5. Don’t be too personal. Don’t get into specifics about your family, your relationships, your work stresses or otherwise delve beneath the surface of your daily life. This is not only unprofessional but can imbue your blog with a sense of negativity. Keep your voice positive and stay away from personal issues.

6. Keep your opinions and beliefs to yourself. Today’s world is increasingly divided along political and moral lines. If you reveal your thoughts on controversial issues there will be some clients who’ll no longer be willing to support your product or service. Keep politics, morality and controversy out of your business blogging, regardless of how strongly you feel about an issue.

7. Be objective. Too many business blogs serve as extended advertisements for the company and little else. It is no wonder that these tend to be unsuccessful. A good strategy is to take a birds-eye view of the industry you’re in while frequently returning back to your own business.

8. Treat readers like you would customers. Respond to every comment and e-mail in a prompt and courteous manner. Answer every question to the best of your abilities. Enforce a strict comment policy to ensure your blog comments are a happy and productive place. Your readers are potential clients and will generate an impression of your customer service based on how you manage your blog community. Take the time to do this well.

9. Less is more. Every post you write is a reflection on the quality of your business. Take the time to produce well thought-out posts which offer value to readers, even if it means you end up posting less regularly.

10. Don’t start what you can’t finish. If you start a business blog you better be prepared to stick with it. A client who enjoys your business blog for a month only to watch it fall into disuse and disrepair will make some powerful assumptions about your business as a result of this. If you’re not absolutely committed to your business blogging then, simply put, don’t start. If you lose your enthusiasm at any point be sure to recruit someone who can keep things afloat for you.

Embedded Wi-Fi in PIC® Microcontroller With ZeroG

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, today announced from the Sensors Expo in Chicago the immediate availability of the ZeroG Wireless ZG2100M and ZG2101M Wi-Fi^® Modules, ZeroG IEEE 802.11 Development Kit for Explorer 16 (part # AC164136) and the ZeroG Wi-Fi PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board (part # AC164136-2) athttp://www.microchipDIRECT.com, and through the Microchip sales team. Microchip and ZeroG Wireless, Inc. signed a multi-year, non-exclusive deal, which began with a joint engineering program to develop an optimized Wi-Fi solution for embedded designers and resulted in modules for Microchip's 8-, 16- and 32-bit PIC^® microcontrollers (MCUs) and dsPIC^® Digital Signal Controllers (DSCs). The agreement ensures long-term compatibility and availability of this joint solution.

The ZeroG Wireless "Wi-Fi I/O" (ZG2100M and ZG2101M) is an easy-to-implement, low-power, low-system-cost Wi-Fi solution that provides Wi-Fi connectivity for nearly any electronic device. The new Microchip development tools are based on the standard Microchip PICtail™ and PICtail Plus daughter-board connectors, which allow a designer to easily plug Wi-Fi connectivity into a variety of Microchip development kits. These kits allow easy development with the 8-bit PIC18, 16-bit PIC24 and 32-bit PIC32 MCUs, as well as the dsPIC DSCs using the broad Microchip development tools and MPLAB^®Integrated Development Environment.

"We have watched the Wi-Fi market continue to grow, and have correspondingly seen an increase in our customers' requests for an embedded Wi-Fi solution," said Steve Caldwell, director of Microchip's RF Products Division. "ZeroG Wireless has developed an embedded Wi-Fi product that meets the needs of PIC microcontroller designers, and our tools make it easy to integrate."

"Partnering with Microchip to develop and distribute a highly optimized solution for their customers has provided us with an opportunity to directly reach thousands of customers who would like to 'just add Wi-Fi' to their embedded design," said Tim Colleran, vice president of marketing, ZeroG Wireless. "Microchip is a leader in the embedded market, and we feel our unique business model has provided us with the opportunity to team with such leaders."

The ZeroG Wi-Fi PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board (part # AC164136-2) is available today for $59.99, and consists of the ZeroG ZG2100M FCC and Wi-Fi certified module. This daughter board allows designers to quickly create a direct connection to the Internet by seamlessly connecting to standard wireless access points. In managing the connection, the ZeroG ZG2100M module controls the MAC and baseband layers, and is connected to the host MCU or DSC via an SPI port. The 8/16/32-bit PIC MCU or dsPIC DSC that resides on the Microchip development board controls the free Microchip TCP/IP networking stack and runs the system application. Additional key features of the daughter board include:

• FCC, IC and ETSI Certified, providing considerable cost savings and quick time to market
• Wi-Fi Certified and IEEE 802.11b Compliant wireless solution
• ZG2100M small-footprint module with integrated antenna, MAC, baseband, RF and power amplifier
• Microchip's free TCP/IP stack supports standard suite of Internet Protocols
• Supports WEP, WPA and WPA2 security protocols

The ZeroG IEEE 802.11 Development Kit for Explorer 16 (part # AC164136) is available today for $189.99. This kit demonstrates 802.11 Wi-Fi connectivity using the separately available Explorer 16 development board, which supports all of Microchip's 16-bit PIC24 MCUs, 32-bit PIC32 MCUs and dsPIC DSCs. Everything you need to connect and begin development with the Explorer 16 is contained within the kit, including:

• ZeroG Wi-Fi PICtail/PICtail Plus Daughter Board
• Pre-programmed PIC24FJ128GA010 Plug-in Module for the Explorer 16, with TCP/IP and Web server application
• Pre-configured wireless broadband router

The ZeroG ZG2100M and ZG2101M Wi-Fi transceiver modules are also available today for $31.95 each in single-unit quantities. The modules provide a complete Wi-Fi wireless connection with full FCC, ETSI, IC and Wi-Fi certification, which reduces the overall design risk, eliminates design and certification cost, and enables quick time-to-market for customers wanting to add Wi-Fi to their PIC microcontroller-based products.

About Microchip Technology:

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP) is a leading provider of microcontroller and analog semiconductors, providing low-risk product development, lower total system cost and faster time to market for thousands of diverse customer applications worldwide. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, Microchip offers outstanding technical support along with dependable delivery and quality.

Time Management Tips For High School Students

It's 10 p.m.—Do You Know Where Your Homework Is?

Does it seem like there's never enough time in the day to get everything done? Feel like you're always running late? Here are some tips for taking control of your time and organizing your life.

1. Make a "To Do" List Every Day.

Put things that are most important at the top and do them first. If it's easier, use a planner to track all of your tasks. And don't forget to reward yourself for your accomplishments.

2. Use Spare Minutes Wisely.

Get some reading done on the bus ride home from school, for example, and you'll kill two birds with one stone.

3. It's Okay to Say "No."

If your boss asks you to work on a Thursday night and you have a final exam the next morning, realize that it's okay to say no. Keep your short- and long-term priorities in mind.

4. Find the Right Time.

You'll work more efficiently if you figure out when you do your best work. For example, if your brain handles math better in the afternoon, don't wait to do it until late at night.

5. Review Your Notes Every Day.

You'll reinforce what you've learned, so you need less time to study. You'll also be ready if your teacher calls on you or gives a pop quiz.

6. Get a Good Night's Sleep.

Running on empty makes the day seem longer and your tasks seem more difficult.

7. Communicate Your Schedule to Others.

If phone calls are proving to be a distraction, tell your friends that you take social calls from 7-8 p.m. It may sound silly, but it helps.

8. Become a Taskmaster.

Figure out how much free time you have each week. Give yourself a time budget and plan your activities accordingly.

9. Don't Waste Time Agonizing.

Have you ever wasted an entire evening by worrying about something that you're supposed to be doing? Was it worth it? Instead of agonizing and procrastinating, just do it.

10. Keep Things in Perspective.

Setting goals that are unrealistic sets you up for failure. While it's good to set high goals for yourself, be sure not to overdo it. Set goals that are difficult yet reachable.

Consider these tips, but personalize your habits so that they suit you. If you set priorities that fit your lifestyle, you'll have a better chance of achieving your goale

Google Released Page Speed for Firefox

Google just released a Firefox/Firebug add-on called Pagespeed. It is basically a tool that will help you improve the loading performance of your website. After you run it, you will see a list with all the factors that would make your site load faster, with an image illustrating whether or not your website checks for each.

There are some similar plugins available for Firefox, but this one seems to be more robust. It checks for a wide range of optimization steps, including proxy caching, DNS lookups, CSS combination, Javascript loading and parallel downloads. Worth a try.

86% of teenagers involve in Internet hacking out of curiosity

A new survey published by Panda Security shows that hacking on occasion is something natural for teen Internet users like downloading music from a website. Panda Security composed a report based on the poll of over 4,000 15 to 18 year-olds. The report revealed that nearly one in five of them have the knowledge to use 'advanced' Internet-distributed hacking tools. Of that group, nearly a third claimed to have used them on at least one occasion.
The survey further says that 2/3 of the group admitted they had actually succeeded in hacking instant messaging or social network accounts of people known to them, with% saying that they published embarrassing photographs or videos of acquaintances on the Internet.
While among the reasons there were mischief-making and competition with their peer group, other substantial motivation for them was that trying out hacking appears to be curiosity, with 86 percent citing that as the point from which their involvement started.

Extreme Series High Output 12038mm fan 180-360cfm

The new YS TECH 12038mm Extreme Series fan has incorporated a stationary rotor and robust motor design to achieve higher rpms levels providing greater cfm/pressure ratings. The fans are available in 12, 24, and 48V version that we can incorpoarted with tachometers, PWM, thermistors, and value added features such as connectors and fan trays.
The fans are available now, contact us directly or through your local rep for samples, specs and pricing.

Heart disease more often misdiagnosed as stress in women, than men

Gender bias in medicine is alive and well, according to the investigative study - Gender Bias in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Interpretation of CHD Symptoms: Two Experimental Studies with Internists and Family Physicians." The study, led by Gabrielle R. Chiaramonte, Ph.D., postdoctoral associate at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and Clinical Fellow at New York-Presbyterian Hospital, looked specifically at the effects of patients' gender on how coronary heart disease symptoms are evaluated by primary care physicians.
The researchers found that stressful events in the lives of women were "pyschogenic" in origin, but "organic" in origin when the same symptoms presented in men. Specifically, in the study, 87 internists and 143 family physicians were asked to interpret a "vignette" of a 47-year-old male or a 56-year-old female presenting a variety of coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms and risk factors. After reviewing the vignettes, the doctors specified a diagnosis and made treatment recommendations. As the investigators suspected, the results showed a clear gender bias when CHD symptoms were presented in the context of stress, with fewer women -15% - receiving CHD diagnoses, compared to 56% of the men. In addition, women were referred to cardiologists just 30% of the time, compared to 62% for men, and the doctors prescribed cardiac medication to just 13% of the women, versus 47% of men. The bottom line? Primary care doctors are more likely to attribute shortness of breath, chest pain and other symptoms of heart disease to stress in women than when they see the same symptoms in men.
"We know that there is a delay in diagnosing CHD in women and this is an important step forward in understanding why," said Alexandra J. Lansky, M.D., director of the Women's Health Initiative at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). The CRF sponsored the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics scientific symposium, at which the research was presented last fall. And warns Dr. Chiaramonte, "Given the overlap of CHD and anxiety symptoms (e.g., chest tightness common in both) and given the higher prevalence of anxiety symptoms or disorders in women, physicians need to be aware of gender differences in symptom presentation and they need to be especially careful to rule out CHD before considering an anxiety diagnosis. In the case of women, anxiety appears to have a pervasive influence on medical judgments regardless of the gender of the health care provider making the evaluations. Our results suggest the need for the development of educational initiatives aimed at improving health care providers' understanding of gender differences in symptom presentation

Flu Virus Trots Globe During Off Season, Mixes With Other Viral Strains

ScienceDaily (Sep. 21, 2007)

The influenza A virus does not lie dormant during summer but migrates globally and mixes with other viral strains before returning to the Northern Hemisphere as a genetically different virus, according to biologists who say the finding settles a key debate on what the virus does during the summer off season when it is not infecting people.

"Nobody really knows why flu is a winter disease in the temperate regions and more continuous in the tropics," says Edward Holmes, professor of biology at Penn State. "The big question is, 'Why is flu seasonal?'"
Flu infections in the Northern Hemisphere typically follow a familiar pattern. Some time before the start of the winter infection season, the virus evolves, changing enough to evade the previously primed immune system. Then, just before summer, the virus disappears, only to resurface the next fall with a completely different genetic makeup, ready to fool the immune system anew.
But little is known about what happens to the virus between two successive winters, or how and where it is able to sustain itself.

Prepare for big flu pandemic economic hit

UN says
10 Jan 2008 11:14:45 GMTSource: Reuters
LONDON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Governments around the world need to do more to prepare for the dramatic economic impact of the next flu pandemic, the United Nations influenza coordinator said on Thursday.
David Nabarro said his team had recently collected information from nearly 150 countries to see how prepared they were for a pandemic and the picture was mixed.
“Most countries have now focused on pandemic as a potential cause of catastrophe and have done some planning. But the quality of the plans is patchy and too few of them pay attention to economic and social consequences,” he told BBC radio.
“The economic consequences could be up to $2 trillion — up to 5 percent of global GDP removed,” he said, reiterating previous World Bank and UN estimates.
Nabarro will deliver a lecture at the London School of Economics later on Thursday on the global state of preparedness for any pandemic, which could be triggered by bird flu.
The current H5N1 form of bird flu is mainly an animal disease, but experts fear it might mutate into a strain that could spread easily between people, causing a pandemic which could kill millions. (Reporting by Ben Hirschler, editing by Mike Peacock)

Publisher's description of AVG Anti-Virus Free Edition

From AVG Technologies USA:
AVG Free Edition is the well-known antivirus protection tool. AVG Free is available free of charge to home users for the life of the product. Rapid virus database updates are available for the lifetime of the product, thereby providing the high level of detection capability that millions of users around the world trust to protect their computers. AVG Free is easy to use and will not slow your system down (low system resource requirements. Highlights include automatic update functionality, the AVG Resident Shield, which provides real-time protection as files are opened and programs are run, free Virus Database Updates for the lifetime of the product, and AVG Virus Vault for safe handling of infected files.
Version 8.5 now includes LinkScanner's Active Surf-Shield to check every Web page for threats at the only time that matters--when you're about to click on the link

The most downloaded program ever

DescriptionWhat would your guess be? Which is the most, officially, downloaded program on the web? The first name that probably comes to mind is ICQ, and rightly so since it was the most downloaded program for a long time. On Friday however, all that changed and a new popular champion stands at the top. Reaching 100 million downloads in August, 2002 and then jumping on to 200 million on March 11th, 2003 Kazaa Media Desktop has now reached the staggering 230 million plus, mark which makes it officially the most downloaded free program on the web. All these figures are as measured by Download.com, which is owned by CNET Networks Inc. Sharman Networks have done a good job of convincing users that Spyware, the controversial "funding" mechanism used by Kazaa's previous owners, is out and arranging a variety of licenses for offering legitimate downloads, they seem to have overcome the last hurdles in their way. The greatest hurdle, of course, is still to come and has to do with a little known organization called the RIAA. Kazaa is facing a variety of law suites regarding the use of its service. The news of the record set by Kazaa will certainly strengthen record label resolve to throw everything they've got at Sharman. There is hope for Kazaa however, since Record labels suffered a setback in April when a federal judge decided that similar networks, Grokster and Morpheus, could not be shut, claiming that they had no control over what is traded on them. In order to better place themselves for their time in front of the Judge, Sharman have entered into a partnership with a company called Altnet, in order to provide a variety of content including, music, movies, games and software

Aurora Media Workshop 3.4.26

Aurora Media Workshop is a program that includes all the media tools, all in one. Aurora Media Workshop is such a kind of program that includes prefessional features in Video, Audio, and Compact Disc media. With Aurora Media Workshop you can convert, edit, join, split, between nearly all types of video files, you can extract audio tracks, pictures from video files, can make any favorate pictures and photos to video films with fascinating transition effects and graceful background music. You can record audio from any audio source, and convert audio files between mp3, wav, wma, ogg and you can also ripper and save your favorate music CD albums to disk audio files; you will find it is a very easy thing to store all kinds of audio, data, video files to CDs.

SAMSUNG number one in the UAE with a 27% market share

March 5, 2009- Dubai, UAE: SAMSUNG Electronics, the global leader in consumer electronics and advanced technology solutions, maintained the lead in the Global TV market riding on strong demand for its TV, LCD TV, and FPTV product despite economic recession around the globe. According to the DisplaySearch, SAMSUNG recorded sales of 10.2 million units of TV with revenue of USD 6.73 Billion in the Q4 2008, giving it a market share of 17.7% and 22.0% respectively. This performance consolidated SAMSUNGs number one position in the world market, who consequently recorded the most units sold for the last 10 quarters and has lead in revenue for the last 12 quarters. Statistics showed that SAMSUNG achieved top revenue in the United Arab of Emirates with a 27% market share. SAMSUNG ranked top in Q4 sales revenue share with 22% followed by Sony (14.5%), LG Electronics (11.5%), Panasonic (8.7%) and Sharp (7.6%) and Philips (8.8%). Unit share in the total TV market during Q4 was also led by SAMSUNG with 17.7% followed by LG 13.4%, Sony with 9.2%, Panasonic with 6.8%, and Sharp with 5.5%. Riding momentum from strong demand for LCD TV and FPTV product, the company also achieved number one position in total market share for LCD TV with 19.7% units and 22.7% revenue, additionally FPTV with 20.3% units and 23.1% revenue. In the Middle East and Africa, SAMSUNG enjoys a stronger position and continues this leadership trend by maintaining Triple Crown in the 4Q sales revenue for TV, FPTV and LCD TV with 32%, 38.8% and 40% market share respectively. The company also remained no. 1 position in market share, by volume of 37% in LCD TV and 36.3% in FPTV. Meanwhile, SAMSUNG was the only company that increased its revenue share from the previous year up to 31% among the top four players in the Middle East and Africa market, thanks to the strong growth in the LCD TV market. SAMSUNG ranked top in the total LCD TV market in Q4 with 36% of unit share (10th in a row) and 31% of revenue share (12th in a row). “Despite the challenging market conditions created by global economic uncertainties, sales of SAMSUNG TV’s, particularly LCD sets have continued to show good growth in the Middle East and Africa. This increasing demand reflects consumer preference for SAMSUNGs high quality and innovative product in the region. SAMSUNG will look to gain further consumer trust with the launch of its 2009 TV range, highlights include ultra slim LED LCD TVs incorporating the latest backlighting technology that are setting new bench marks in picture quality around the globe.” said Mr Kyungtae Bae, the president of SAMSUNG Middle East & Africa Headquarters.

Fanless Mini Box Computer - Commercial/Industrial

The Lanner LEC-2204 is designed for flexible deployment in industrial control scenarios. With four COM ports, two USB ports, one LAN port and a Compact-Flash socket, the LEC-2204 provides sufficient I/O for a wide range of industrial control applications in a small, lightweight and fanless package. Combining the advantages of ULV Celeron processors, advanced thermal design and solid connectivity, Lanner industrial control computers provide optimal platforms for energy-efficient, long-lasting, connected solutions for industrial applications

• Durable fanless enclosure


• Slim 36mm case with heat dispersing fins


• neg 20°C to 50°C operating temperature


• Intel Celeron M 1GHz onboard CPU


• 512MB DDR2 memory onboard


• VGA display


• 10/100/1000 Mbps LAN


• COM x 4


• USB x 2, Audio


• CompactFlash Type I/II

Joboshare Video Converter 2.4.2.0407

Joboshare Video Converter is easy-to-use, powerful video and audio converting software, which can convert between all popular video and audio formats. It provides rich profiles for popular multimedia devices such as iPod, iPhone, mobile phone, windows mobile, portable multimedia device etc., enables you to convert audio and video to their respective formats supported. Joboshare Video Converter supports to adjust parameters of audio/video codec and the ID3 editing function of audio formats such as WMA and MP3. With it, you can also extract and convert the audio from a video file, to recopy a music CD.
Joboshare Video Converter support almost all popular video formats, such as AVI, MPEG, WMV, DivX, MP4, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, RM, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV, VOB (the video format used in DVD), DAT (the video format used in VCD, SVCD), and so on. It's an all-in-one video converter including 3GP Video Converter, iPod Video Converter, PSP Video Converter, Zune Video Converter, AVI MPEG Converter, MP4 Video Converter, MOV Converter, MKV to MPEG converter, etc.

Why is Search Engine Optimization Potentially the Lifeblood of Your Online Business?

When you are working on building traffic to your website, search engine optimization is one of the strongest tools that you could use. This technique works around the way that search engines are built to operate and knowing how to do this can help you gain visitors. When someone is running a search on a search engine, they type in certain words called "keywords," into the engine. The search engine will then go out and look for all of the websites which have those keywords. The websites that feature those keywords more often are considered to be more relevant to the search and will appear higher up on the list of results.

The higher up on the list that a website is, the more likely it is to be looked at by a person on the Internet. Therefore, you want to put your website as close to the top of that list as is possible, a tactic that often relies on using keywords as much as possible on your website. This can come from writing specific articles using the search engine optimization techniques to simply including that text in your descriptions or headers.

How Else Does This Work?

Many search engines will also place a great deal of importance on the number of other websites which link to your website. Establishing yourself as a reliable authority on the topic can go a long way toward doing that. Link sharing can also be an important way to gain links as many people will place a link to your website on theirs if you agree to do the same. Taking a smart approach to search engine optimization can help you gain a good place on the results list.

Water-Tight Computer

BIS-6310 is an water-resistant and dust-proof Water-repellent industrial computer met with protection grade IP68. It is developed for the applications of water-tight applications.
With the water-tight duralumin enclosure featuring special ballseat "snap-in", direct conduct cooling, percolate-res..

Cost Effective and Easily Configurable

The LP-E Series is our multiplex transmission Full-2Way remote lighting control system. The LP-E series uses just two ±24 V signal wires for all the switches on a network, and controls lighting using pulse signals. This reduces the number of wires needed compared to conventional remote control wiring. With the LP-E Series Full-2Way multiple transmission, load addresses comprised of channel and load numbers are set up in advance, and the signal is transmitted to the designated addresses that correspond to remote controlled HID relays when switches are operated. The LP-E Series Full-2Way remote control has the cut-in signal circuit method that can control relay at high speed and indicate on the On/Off status.

The LP-E Series lighting control panel is a cost-effective and easily-configurable lighting control system with programming and accessories specifically optimized for office building, factory, school/gymnasium and restaurant applications. The LP-E Series contains centralized monitoring and control of lighting that can handle up to 256 circuits per system. It is logically capable of turning up to 127 groups of lights on and off in an entire section of any application area. The LP-E Series can be programmed up to 72 control patterns to match work schedules or habits, allowing you to effectively use the necessary lights for low energy and cost savings.

The LP-E Series timer control can easily be configured to match a daily schedule for lights to be automatically turned on and off. Passive infrared sensor control is also offered with the system to detect occupancy movement that will enable the lights to turn on and off and can be programmed after a certain period when room light is no longer needed. In addition to the timer control and passive infrared, labor-savings and energy conservation are achieved using daylight sensors that respond to the brightness of their environment.

Custom Thermal Imagers

PhantomIR by ELCAN is a rugged lightweight infrared biocular system that uses the latest in low-power, compact, un-cooled thermal technology.

PhantomIR xr can recognize a man-sized moving target at greater than 2,000 meters. The PhantomIR xr is ideal for: military combat operations, border security, surveillance and targeting applications.

Unlike image intensification night-vision devices that only magnify existing light, thermal imaging cuts through the darkest night and easily separates heat-emitting targets from background clutter. It sees in total darkness, through smoke, dust and most fogs. It cannot be defeated by artificial light or adverse visible conditions. Despite its advanced technology, PhantomIR is surprisingly affordable for large-scale deployment.

ELCAN wins $180 million USD Marine contract to supply PhantomIR xr

Chronic Fatigue Treatment

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, also known as CFIDS (Chronic Fatigue Immunodeficiency syndrome), is a condition that has become widespread in the United States . Viruses such as Epstein Barr, Cytomegalovirus, mononucleosis, and herpes have often been associated with chronic fatigue. Some people feel that massive immunization campaigns, which are designed to eradicate communicable diseases, have weakened the immune system in some individuals rather than strengthen it, making it easier for viruses to cause diseases. Other causes may be the fungus Candida albicans, chronic mercury poisoning from dental amalgam fillings, heavy metals (e.g., lead, arsenic, and cadmium) from the environment, anemia, hypoglycemia, hypothyroidism, and sleep problems. All of these conditions can stress the immune system and lower your resistance to disease.

Some symptoms of chronic fatigue syndrome are fever, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, extreme fatigue, loss of appetite, night sweats, intestinal problems, anxiety, depression, mood swings, sleep disturbances, memory loss, inability to concentrate, headaches, and muscle and joint pains. CFS is not always easy to diagnose correctly because its symptoms resemble flu and other viral symptoms. Officially, a patient is considered to have CFS if fatigue persists for six months and is accompanied by eleven other chronic or recurrent symptoms. If you have elevated viral antibodies then an underlying viral component is suspected. In this case, antibiotics will not help.
Recommendations for prevention and treatment

1. void processed foods (e.g., as white flour), refined foods (e.g., as white sugar), and stimulants such as coffee, tea, and tobacco as these can all depress your immune system.

2. Make an effort to increase your consumption of water. Attempt to drink eight glasses of purified or reverse osmosis water daily.

3. Ensure that your bowels move at least once daily by increasing your fiber consumption in the form of fresh fruits and vegetables. Oat bran and psyllium husk are also good sources of fiber. Coffee enemas can be very helpful here, as well as for stimulating liver detoxification via bile production.

4. Check your thyroid function by measuring your basal body temperature. This is done by placing a thermometer under your arm for 10 minutes before arising from bed on two consecutive days. For menstruating women, this is best done at the beginning of the menstrual cycle. The average basal body temperature should be greater than 97.8 degrees. If not, a trial of natural thyroid should be considered.

5. Consider an evaluation for free radical damage from environmental pollutants such as lead, aluminum, cadmium, and mercury. If elevated, heavy metal detoxification therapy is indicated.

6. Supplement with antioxidants such as vitamins A, C, E, Bioflavonoids, and Coenzyme Q10, B-vitamins, magnesium, free-form amino acids, thymus gland, and acidophilus. Consider also using Proteolytic enzymes, DMG, and vitamin B12 injections. Chlorophyll in tablet or liquid (such as barley or wheat grass) is also helpful.

7. Herbal preparations from burdock root, dandelion, echinacea, goldenseal and pau d’arco all promote healing. These can be made in teas and combined or alternated daily.

8. Homeopathic nosode preparations, such as those made from viruses themselves, are particularly helpful. However, these must be obtained by prescription from a homeopathic physician. Other homeopathic remedies known to be helpful in fatigue include Carbo Vegetabilis, Cocculus, Ferrum Phosphoricum, and Phosphoric Acidum. Combination remedies can also be helpful, especially if they contain the substance (e.g, virus) identified as the possible source of infection and/or fatigue. Isode therapy (e.g., preparations made from the patient themselves) can also be very beneficial here.

9. Take sublingual fermented lactobacillus three times daily for immune stimulation.

10. Gentle skin detoxification through a medical spa with steam sauna, infrared sauna, and/or contrast shower.

11. In severe cases, get intravenous solutions for better and more complete response. There should include either vitamin C or amino acids or combinations of both.

12. Intramuscular injections can be helpful for the delivery of energy medicines (e.g., B5, B12, AMP, NADH). These can be given 1-2 times weekly.

13. Subcutaneous energy injections can be administered daily and can include not only some of the products mentioned in #12 above, but homeopathic preparations as well.