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How To Prepare A Modern Meeting Agenda
The agenda is the key to a successful meeting – it is the roadmap, the guide, the plan. Studies have shown that up to 70% of meetings either have no agenda or have a poor agenda which is not helpful. In this article, you will see that there are some steps which you can take to make sure your agenda will contribute to making your meeting more productive. There are also hidden advantages. If the agenda is well constructed, you will also spend less time in the meeting and more time actually doing the things the meeting determines need to be done!1. Remember the key – the more detailed the agenda, the more focussed and generally, the shorter the meeting will be.2. You cannot expect intelligent decisions if people do not have time to think through the issues before the meeting. Therefore, agendas need to be sent out in advance, not given out at the meeting. People who have genuine desire to reach the best decision, and people who are organised, always have their agendas distributed in time for people to give thought to the issues.3. Adopt the strict policy that if an item is not on the agenda, it will not be discussed at the meeting. Do not allow items to be raised without notice. Allow only true emergency items to be exempt and allow no other exceptions. Organised people have no difficulty with this. It is only disorganised or "slack" people who object to this because they cannot get their act together. Research shows, that if an item is raised without notice, the meeting will spend time talking about it, but then defer the decision until the next meeting anyway w

ry digital photograph sample to be used for facial recognition. Usually about 20K in size.
4.3. Fingerprint image sample – Optional storage for fingerprint biometrics, should the issuing country choose to include it.
4.4. Iris image sample – Optional storage for iris biometrics, should the issuing country choose to include it.
4.5. Secondary facial image storage – Optional storage of a second image. This is for profile images, angled images.
4.6. Reserved
4.7. Signature image storage – Optional image of the bearer’s signature.
4.8. Substrate security features – Optional. This tells a chip reader what security measures to look for in the paper
4.9. Data structure security features – Optional. This tells a chip reader what security measures to look for in the data structure.
4.10. Data security features – Optional. This tells a chip reader what security measures to look for in the data itself.
4.11. Additional personal details – Optional name, alias, address, or document numbers.
This is stored in national characters (whereas the rest of the document is stored in the Latin alphabet).
4.12. Additional details about the document – Issuing agency, issue date, image of the document, observations, and amendments.
4.13. Optional data field – An

Latest Interview Trends - You've Heard Of Speed Dating But What About Speed Interviews?
You’ve heard about speed dating, but did you know speed interviewing is one of the latest trends being used by employers and recruiters to assess potential applicants?Current industry research on Career Industry Megatrends by Career Directors International (www.careerdirectors.com) shows that Puzzle Interviews, Fishbowl Interaction Activities and Simulation Interviews are just a few of the newer interview innovations being used in the ever-evolving quest by employers to make smart hiring decisions.With increasing litigation and costs associated with hiring mistakes, employers are now placing increased focus on the job applicant’s performance at interview to determine their potential match with the company’s values and objectives.So what are the newer techniques being used and how can you prepare for these pressurised situations?Speed Interviewing:Speed interviewing is where recruiters meet and screen multiple candidates at one time. This technique is being used increasingly for graduate positions and employers could meet and interview anything up to 15 candidates in a sitting. The key to performing well under these circumstances is preparation. Never before has a first impression been so important. Before you attend research the company so you know what they are looking for in their employees and prepare a few key messages that you can draw on during the interview to convey your relevant expertise. On the day bring with you spare copies of your career documentation, be well groomed, and when your name is called walk confidently to the interviewe

The increasing threat of identity fraud means the government must strengthen the security features in passports. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) chose facial recognition as the primary biometric with iris and fingerprint as backup. ICAO is a multi-national, transnational organization that sets the standards and rules by which international flights are conducted. One of their top mission priorities is to regulate border crossings by airplane. As such, they have taken on the task of developing the standards which all nations will adhere to when sending or receiving international passengers on flights across their respective borders. The goal of the passport specifications as developed by ICAO are meant, quite simply, to create the most secure document in the world. The use of biometric information to link a person to a passport can help to counter identity fraud. In practice, biometric verification can be used at border controls and to verify the image on a passport renewal application against images held on record. The use of biometric information to link a person to a passport serves a dual role:
• helps to detect counterfeit or manipulated documents
• confirms the identify of the individual

2. Biometric in the passport

2.1. Facial recognition: Facial recognition technology has quietly matured to the point where software can scan live video feeds in real-time, find faces in the video stream, capture them, and match them against photographs in databases in merely a few seconds. Facial recognition maps various features on the face, for example, the distances between eyes, nose, mouth and ears. The measurements are digitally coded and this can then be used for comparison and verification purposes. Biometric technology is perfectly safe as facial biometrics can be taken from a good quality passport photo.

When the person enters a place where he is presumed to volunteer his face for biometric examination, he will be required to remove hats and facial coverings. An e-Passport scanned the passport, pulled the physical image up, scanned the chip and pulled the digital image up, placed the two side by side for comparison, verified they were identical, took a picture of the person standing in front of them, used facial recognition to compare the person to the pictures, all while comparing the pictures to a watch-list database for a match. Four points of comparison keyed on one photograph, with three comparison methods. engaged: visual comparison by the operator, one-to-one match against the photos on the passport, and one-to-many match against the watch-list databases.

3. The Physical e-passport

There are three threats to the security of the e-Passport; forgeries, falsifications, and illegal issuance. Forgeries involve the complete creation of a false passport. Falsifications take an existing legally issued passport and change the data on it. And illegal issuance is to convince the government to actually issue a legal passport to someone they didn’t want to, or to steal blank passports and issue them fraudulently. The substrate of the passport, or the paper, is highly recommended to include several features that you’ll probably recognize from all the Monopoly™ money floating around the globe nowadays. UV reactive paper lights up all special and pretty under an ultraviolet lamp. Dual-tone watermarks are difficult for all but the top-end photocopiers to duplicate. Chemical reactions like those special pens they use to check a $20 can be built into the paper. Fluorescent fibers, colored flecks, and plastic threads are all options to make it difficult to reproduce legitimate looking passport paper.

The printing on the passport is also subject to a wide variety of security methods. These include background art and text, often in rainbow colored print. There can be UV printing that is invisible to the naked eye but shows up clearly under the same UV lamp. Micro printing and printed watermarks are also included. In addition, today’s printing techniques allow all of the above to be personalized to the passport. So there could be the bearer’s name micro-printed or UV-printed into the paper. Or perhaps the background art includes a UV version of the photograph. Personalization makes it impossible to get a generic template for the printer to run off a bunch of legitimate looking passports, because each one must be customized. And printing the data for the passport is not printing on the paper, but into the paper, laminate, or plastic. The result is that an ink-jet printed passport actually has ink injected into the substrate. Laser engraving into the laminate offers the same challenges, particularly when that laser engraving is personalized.

4. RFID Chip

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. Chip-based RFID tags contain silicon chips and antennae. The International Standards Organization has specification 14443 for contact-less chip design for identification. It is a radio-frequency ID chip, that’s the contact-less part. Mandatory minimum data size is 32K. ICAO has specified the LDS, or Logical Data System so that all countries will implement data on the chip the same way. The LDS consists of 16 data groups. And here they are:

4.1. MRZ – the same data that is in the Machine Readable Zone visible on the passport.
4.2. Facial image sample – this is the mandatory digital photograph sample to be used for facial recognition. Usually about 20K in size.
4.3. Fingerprint image sample – Optional storage for fingerprint biometrics, should the issuing country choose to include it.
4.4. Iris image sample – Optional storage for iris biometrics, should the issuing country choose to include it.
4.5. Secondary facial image storage – Optional storage of a second image. This is for profile images, angled images.
4.6. Reserved
4.7. Signature image storage – Optional image of the bearer’s signature.
4.8. Substrate security features – Optional. This tells a chip reader what security measures to look for in the paper
4.9. Data structure security features – Optional. This tells a chip reader what security measures to look for in the data structure.
4.10. Data security features – Optional. This tells a chip reader what security measures to look for in the data itself.
4.11. Additional personal details – Optional name, alias, address, or document numbers.
This is stored in national characters (whereas the rest of the document is stored in the Latin alphabet).
4.12. Additional details about the document – Issuing agency, issue date, image of the document, observations, and amendments.
4.13. Optional data field – Any

Shared Web Hosting Providers
There are many different kinds of web hosting providers available on the internet. Some are free, others are paid, and all web hosting providers offer different services for different prices with varying levels of customer service and satisfaction. One web hosting option is shared web hosting. Shared web hosting providers are also called “virtual” hosts. This web hosting provider offers the services typical to web hosting while accomplishing support through a shared server. Plainly, multiple sites are hosted on one actual server. This kind of web hosting provider takes a lot of burden off of the individual sites as their costs are much lower due to sharing the expenses of web hosting. The added expense for this kind of web hosting provider is that they have to organize an administrative team in order to orchestrate, organize and control the many users sharing the single system. Without this administrative element, this kind of web hosting provider could have a lot of problems and find themselves unable to offer adequate services to their users. Generally, this sort of web hosting provider utilizes a tool called a control panel. The web hosting provider is in charge of all aspects of server upkeep and has to accommodate all of their users. Domain names are tricky with this kind of web hosting provider. Although the site must have one name, multiple users have unique sites using the same server. The web hosting provider must find a way to deal with this conflict either through the use of IP-based virtual hosting or dedicated IP hosting. Som

n live video feeds in real-time, find faces in the video stream, capture them, and match them against photographs in databases in merely a few seconds. Facial recognition maps various features on the face, for example, the distances between eyes, nose, mouth and ears. The measurements are digitally coded and this can then be used for comparison and verification purposes. Biometric technology is perfectly safe as facial biometrics can be taken from a good quality passport photo.

3. The Physical e-passport

4. RFID Chip

Big Company Intelligence on a Small Company Budget
Information is the lifeblood of the economy. That’s especially true for businesses, because the ability to identify current customers and locate new prospects makes the difference between boom and bust. So how do successful companies do it? Through targeted market research, which usually means arcane computer systems, large staffs, and six-figure budgets.That situation is ripe for change, according to the CEO of Catenate, LLC, Wendy Cobrda. “Solutions that used to sell for $100,000 plus are now available for less than $5,000. And even better, these tools are web-enabled, which allow companies of all sizes to easily access the information they need instantaneously for a relatively small investment.”Ironically, many of those companies rely on the U.S. Census Bureau data, because of its low cost, but by the time Census data is compiled and formatted, it is two to three years out of date. That data often doesn’t reflect the reality of today’s marketplace. And what if you need a finer-grained solution than the 10,000 foot view that the Census Bureau offers? That’s where Catenate’s web application, Catopshere, enters the picture. Catosphere leverages databases which include Census data, current year estimates and five-year Projections (ESRI), traffic counts, shopping centers, market potential, consumer expenditures, and lifestyle segmentation. Site guests simply carve out a subset of that data that applies to a geographical region of their choice. What results is a geodemographical study that captures the statistical “vital signs” of the target region. Surprisingly, obta

issuance. Forgeries involve the complete creation of a false passport. Falsifications take an existing legally issued passport and change the data on it. And illegal issuance is to convince the government to actually issue a legal passport to someone they didn’t want to, or to steal blank passports and issue them fraudulently. The substrate of the passport, or the paper, is highly recommended to include several features that you’ll probably recognize from all the Monopoly™ money floating around the globe nowadays. UV reactive paper lights up all special and pretty under an ultraviolet lamp. Dual-tone watermarks are difficult for all but the top-end photocopiers to duplicate. Chemical reactions like those special pens they use to check a $20 can be built into the paper. Fluorescent fibers, colored flecks, and plastic threads are all options to make it difficult to reproduce legitimate looking passport paper.

4. RFID Chip

Link Building for International Search Engine Optimization
Link building forms the core of any search engine optimization campaign, and it becomes more important for websites that are looking to reach out to the global audience and international market. Search engines pay marks to the incoming links for your website on other websites and web-pages. It should be noted that search engines are entirely dependent upon the spiders that provide the data to them, and if you provide links which are accessible by these spiders, you will get the ranking. Reciprocal links are very effective in achieving SEO for your site; however, there are a few things that you need to take care while reaching for global marketing and ranking on regional search engines.Links from Complementary BusinessIt is good to generate links from other websites, but if your company has reciprocal links with other websites that are complementary to your business, you build credibility both with the customers and also with the search engines. Sometimes, your customers may need supplementary things along with the products and services that you are selling. Providing links to the websites that can address these needs eases the process of searching, and users try to search through your own site. Reciprocal links and back links provided by those websites to your website automatically generate traffic, which of course helps you to secure higher ranking in search engines.Regional linksMost web owners while thinking about search engines, target Google and Yahoo only—most popular international search engines. However, it should be kept in mind that almost eve

r UV-printed into the paper. Or perhaps the background art includes a UV version of the photograph. Personalization makes it impossible to get a generic template for the printer to run off a bunch of legitimate looking passports, because each one must be customized. And printing the data for the passport is not printing on the paper, but into the paper, laminate, or plastic. The result is that an ink-jet printed passport actually has ink injected into the substrate. Laser engraving into the laminate offers the same challenges, particularly when that laser engraving is personalized.

4. RFID Chip

VIX
No, this is not a symbol for some Latin number. The Wall Street mavens talk about this market timing device as if they knew how to use it to determine which way the stock market is going – up or down. It is pretty obvious that brokers, analysts and financial planners have not learned the language.What does it mean and can it be used to predict market moves? The VIX is actually a measure of volatility for those who buy and sell stock options think about the market. To make it simple you can find it displayed as a chart on the Internet at www.cboe.com. It measures the volatility of the market calculated by taking a weighted moving average of the implied volatility from eight puts and calls on the S&P 100 index. I hope I didn’t lose you here. Stay with me a moment and I’ll try to make it simple.Every trader is looking for the Holy Grail indicator and recently the VIX seems to be it. Of course, like all indicators it will work until too many use it and then it will fail taking with it the spoils of the market – their life savings.It seems relatively simple to use and therefore attracts novices as well as professionals. When the indicator goes below 30 it would be a time to be short the general market such as the DOW, the S&P or the Nasdaq. When the numbers go above 45, which is supposed to show panic of investors, it is a time to buy. It is an inverse indicator. The lower the number the more complacency of the little investor – SELL; the higher the number the greater panic – BUY. Maybe it has become too simple because there is a sing/song that goes “When VIX is hi

The data on a passport includes a hash value of the data in the MRZ (Machine Readable Zone). A hash takes a string of characters and performs a calculation on them to get the hash value. For example, if we say each letter of the alphabet’s numeric value is its position, A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, and we have a hash formula of +4, then the hash value of “ABD” = 568, because A (1) + 4 = 5, and B (2) + 4 = 6. So the passport contains the data, plus the hash value of the data. Next step is to secure the hash value. This is done by encrypting the hash value with a 2048 bit encryption scheme. If you’re familiar with PGP, this stuff is the same. The hash is encrypted with a 2048 bit private key, which can only be unlocked using the appropriate public key. So when a government issues a passport, it calculates the hash value, and then encrypts it with its ultra-secure private key. That private key is recorded in the inaccessible-to-all-but-itself private memory of the chip. When a reader wants to validate a passport, it looks at the data on the passport and applies the hash calculation. Then it takes the country’s public key and uses it to try and open the encrypted hash value stored in the passport. The chip matches the public key presented by the reader to the private key stored in secured memory and if they match, decrypts the hash value.
The reader then compares the two hash values to see if they match. The public keys are shared among the issuing countries and to ICAO in what is called the Public Key Directory (PKD). This is a wide open directory of keys and anyone can download all the keys.

5. Is the biometric passport secure?

The new biometric passport has many new security features including a chip. The new design will be harder to forge, the new security features will show if the passport is genuine or that it has been tampered with and the facial biometrics on the chip will help link the passport holder to the document. The data on the chip (your photo and personal information as printed on page 31 of the passport) will be protected against skimming and eavesdropping, through the use of advanced digital encryption techniques. The chip will complement the security features currently inherent in the passport, including the 'machine readable zone' (found on the personal data page of the passport).

6. How is the biometric passport protected?

The chip in the new biometric e-Passport is part of a suite of new security features to help fight passport fraud and forgery. It is protected through three layers of security:
1.A digital signature to show the encoded data is genuine and which country has issued the passport.
2.A protection against unauthorized readings ("skimming") through Basic Access Control, a secure access protocol.
The data will be locked down using a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which provides protection against encoded data being changed. PKI is a digital encryption technology, which enables validation of the data as being genuine.

7. Value additions

7.1. International Standard Compliance: Machine-readable booklet compliant with ICAO standards.
7.2. Robust Security: Secure system through a combination of physical and soft security features, and validation of applicants through citizens’ database.
7.3. Integration: Online link with Automated Border Control, country-wide access through Wide Area Network, integration with National Data Warehouse and central control.
7.4. Security: Biometric e-passport booklet with transfer laminate and Central Issue Authorization and tracking.
7.5. Network: Backbone infrastructure and data warehouse facilities with Automated Border Control (ABC).

8. Technology Update

While talking in this paper regarding e-passport, many countries around the world have started discussing about e-Visa, which will become a norm once this biometric passport implementation has been stabilized.

9. Conclusion

In this Globalization era, as Thomas Friedman puts it, “WORLD IS FLAT”. It’s a matter of time when technology advancement in one part of the world will have an impact on the entire world. Biometric passport is one such technological advancement that will spread across the world soon and the country that has not adopted it, be alienated from rest of the world. Coming to our Country INDIA, which is in the process of becoming a SUPER POWER, has made a mark in the world map for itself which is being acknowledged world over. So naturally our is we have to be in par with other super powers most importantly technology wise, security wise , service wise. In the past we had not only adapted the technology, but also have added an Indian touch towards it. Take the example of ATM, where in we had reduced the cost of manufacturing ATM to 1/10th of the cost in which it is produced world over or be it Space shuttle launch where in we were able to do it in less than half the cost what the leaders in that field has done. In a similar fashion, now the action point in our Technology diary will be to develop a sophisticated, cheaper and a customer centric y

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Pre selling will increase your monetizing conversion rates and boost your websites income potential. Lets go over a little bit about what pre selling is. Instead of you just placing banners, text ads and so on all over your website and hope for clicks let alone conversions, you actually write small reviews about the product(s) you are trying to sell.

Mortgage rates are always the driving factor while choosing any type of mortgage. The mortgage market has become so competitive that lenders are using all kinds of marketing strategies to lure consumers. Such aggressive marketing can at times become misleading, which may result in a wrong choice on the borrower's part. Such wrong choices often lead to a situation where borrowers are forced to default on their payments. This puts a pressure on the lenders as well as a regular source of income dries up. On the other hand, there might be a situation where the borrowers are quite reliable and still the lender may require a lump sum urgently. This is where mortgage buyer step in and offer to buy the mortgage notes from the lenders either in part or full. Because of so many different possibilities, borrowers and lenders, along with the mortgage buyers, have started to feel the need of an open space where they can discuss their problems and share their experiences.

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