Let LinkedIn Becomes Part of Your Business Venture Online

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional social network with over 300 million users managing their professional identities, building and engaging with their professional networks. It is a place where users can discover professional opportunities, business deals, new ventures and a place where to get the latest news, inspiration, and insights from professional people.

Every day there are hundreds of posted new jobs from employers from the four corners of the globe. They are looking for professionals and qualified people for the job hiring. They are using LinkedIn to advertise their companies job vacancies for both online and offline job opportunities - from SEO experts down to content writers, online writers, ghost writers, journalists, skilled workers, products promoters and other imaginable available jobs vacancies.

LinkedIn is also used by hundreds of online job seekers. There are thousands of LinkedIn members who are willingly updating their LinkedIn professional profiles with photos, school attended, work experiences and other interesting things of achievements as to add flavors for their best published professional profiles on the site hoping to get hired by the interested employers.

There are hundreds of online groups available on LinkedIn created officially by its users - from technology group down to content writers group, online writers group, blog and blogging groups, gardening groups, freelancers groups, journalists groups, poetry group, natures group and many more. These LinkedIn groups are accepting members who are willing to share their best and interesting ideas with the other members.

There are hundreds of merchants and advertisers who are happily promoting their products and services on LinkedIn. These merchants and advertisers are also looking for people or affiliates who are willing to help them promote their products online. They target people who are experienced on online blogging and maintained their own blog sites or websites.

LinkedIn has a pulse section that caters a user's original articles either reviews about anything, news and other blogging items. So, bloggers and other types of online writers can use the pulse to showcase for their high quality columns or blog pieces. This is the place where online writers can promote and share their products and other services that they offer to their online audience in the form of writing pieces, photos, videos, etc.

It is already eight years have passed from the time I had joined LinkedIn that started in 2006. At first I was reluctant to use the site to share to other users what I had published online because I thought that LinkedIn is created only for people of highly professionals. However, that idea I have has changed when I received the invitation to write for LinkedIn. Of course, it surprised me and without any doubts I accepted it.

So far there are about nine articles I published on LinkedIn. Some of them were already published on some of the sharing revenue sites I am also writing. I just re-wrote them with new titles, introductions including the article body. All these published articles on LinkedIn bear my authorship with the backlinks leading to the websites that first published them.

Yes. LinkedIn does not pay for the articles published on their site but it is one of the best places I know where to spread out our writing hobby. Aside from the social networks and other bookmarking sites to market and to share our awesome articles - LinkedIn is also open for this purpose too. And to think that LinkedIn has more than 300 million users - who can tell us that 10 to 20 percent of these users would be attracted to read our write-ups?

Ingredients Needed to Write Attractive and Easy to Read Article

Your style is the manner in which you express your ideas. That is the words you use and the order in which you use them.

Your aim should always be for clarity. Your style should be an attractive and as easy to read as you can make it. When I say attractive, I mean that at least it should be attractive to you and sound good when you read it yourself. If you don’t like your style, then it is most unlikely that anybody else will either. But, remember this all your writing life, whatever style you develop it should be unique to you. Of course, you can learn a lot by studying the style of other writers. Even so, do not attempt to write exactly like them. It would only be, at the best, as second-rate imitation.

Your style must develop naturally from within yourself. Neither I nor anybody else can impose a style upon you and say it will suffice you for the rest of your writing life. It is unlikely that you will have a perfect, natural style from the start. It has to be worked at and honed until you produce attractive prose. It takes time to develop a style, too. Practice leads to a facility to write and, of course, the more you practice and write, the more confident and better you will become. 

In eighteenth century Jonathan Swift, the famous novelist, commented on writing style as follows: Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style. 

Here the 5 C’s – correctness, conciseness, clarity, coherence and completeness should be considered and be applied in writing of non-fiction.

• Correctness – your facts must be accurate and your use of the English language must also be correct.
• Conciseness – this does not necessarily mean brevity. You can write a long article and still be concise. What it does mean is avoiding irrelevant facts, unnecessary words and long-winded explanations.
• Clearness – avoid ambiguity. Make what you write clear to your reader by giving him all the necessary information and expressing it in a way he will be sure to understand.

The readers should not have to read a sentence or paragraph more than once in order to understand its meaning. If your meaning is obscure readers will not spend time puzzling over it. They will turn to something else which can be understood easily, that is if the work is even published in the first place.

Clarity in writing must be preceded by clarity of thought. If you are not sure what you hope to say you cannot expect to express your meaning in the correct words. The better you are at thinking, the more skilled you should be at writing. You should have a clear of what you want to say at the start, middle and end of an article or story when you sit down to begin it.

• Coherence – this means presenting your ideas in an orderly, logical way so that your reader is able to follow your reasoning process.
• Completeness – ensure that your reader has all the facts that are available without being burdened with what is unnecessary or trivial. 

Ban Ki-Moon The Secretary General of The United Nations is Used and Abused by Online Criminals

On August 2, 2014, I received letter from Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says: Please view the attached letter and contact Dr. PATRICE TEME immediately for your cheque/bank draft amounting to $500,000,000. You are required to contact the above person and furnish him with the following of your information that will be required to avoid any mistakes: Your Full name, Your Country, Contact Address, Telephone Number, Fax Number, Marital Status, Occupation, Sex and Age. Congratulations. I  look forward to hear from you as soon as you confirm your payment making the world a better place.

The whole world knows that Ban Ki-Moon is the eight and current Secretary-General of the United Nations, after succeeding Kofi Annan in 2007. Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban Ki-Moon was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. Now his name and authority is being used and abused by these hoaxers scamming people around the world. The real Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-Moon should protect his name and reputation against hoaxers.

He said, "You may not understand why this mail came to you. We have been having a meeting for the past 7 months which just ended few days ago with the secretary to the UNITED NATIONS. This email is to all the people that have been scammed in any part of the world, the UNITED NATIONS in Affiliation with WORLD BANK have agreed to compensate them with the sum of USD $500,000,000."

I believe that FBI is capable to combat online scams and can send Ban Ki-Moon, Dr. Patrice Teme and other people who are involved on this craft to jail if caught and found guilty. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a governmental agency belonging to the United States Department of Justice that serves as both a federal criminal investigative body and an internal intelligence agency. The FBI's main goal is to protect and defend the United States, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal and international agencies and partners.

The FBI's top investigative priorities are: Protect the United States from terrorist attacks; Protect the United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage; Protect the United States against cyber-based attacks and high-technology crimes; Combat public corruption at all levels; Protect civil rights; Combat transnational/national criminal organizations and enterprises; Combat major white-collar crime and Combat significant violent crime.

My two-cents advice: Because on-line hoaxers and other scammers are abusively using the Internet to victimize people. To avoid them, online users should not bite their sweet promises. They should not entertain unsolicited emails coming in to their mail boxes.

Below are contact locations, telephone numbers and other information for Ban Ki-Moon and Dr. Patrice Teme as per the attached letter I received on August 2, 2014:

Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon
UN Visitor Centre
Department of Public Information
United Nations Headquarters
Room DHL-1B-154
New York, NY 10017
E-mail: unitg@teewars.org

DIRECTOR IN CHARGE: DR. PATRICE TEME
E-MAIL: patrice-teme@infomagnumbank.fh2web.com
TELEPHONE:+234-8102086275
FAX: +234-1-8968850

Sources of facts and other info: My Yahoo Mail and Wikipedia

Beware of Scam Websites: Bubblews.com is Found One of Them

At the time Arvind - the CEO and Founder of Bubblews.com started attracting people online to venture with his founded online business, he assured them that his team is capable to pay the earnings earned by every bubblews contributors as long as the earned amount has reached the threshold redeemable amounting to 25$. His promise is supported with a published documents, I quote, "I launched this website on February 2nd, 2012. The community that exists and continues to grow believes in the movement. The community also believes that WE ALL SHOULD BE PAID FOR OUR THOUGHTS, INTERESTS and FEELINGS. We are the passion that the world so desperately needs. We all speak freely."

On June 23, 2014, the official registered contributors of Bubblews.com have reached so far to 240,255. However, these numbers do not actually reflect for the total active members or contributors of bubblews who are actively uploading their items to the site - as there are thousands of members who have left the site voluntarily and there were also thousands of contributors who were kicked off from using the site when those thousands contributors have started complaining against the site for not paying them for their hard works and efforts.

The above photo is the 240,255 contributors of bubblews.com as of June 23, 2014

When Arvind launched the site on February 2, 2012 - the site has attracted thousands of new contributors that came from the four corners of the globe - who found it as an alternative site to get the easy online money in exchange from publishing articles of 400 characters. However, after six months of existing, Bubblews.com was bombarded of thousands complains from its members for not paying the money due to them.



The above photo is Arvind account - the CEO and Founder of Bubblews.com 

However, thousands of bubblews contributors have caught Arvind - lying to his thousands contributors. They believed that Arvind was just using his sweet assurances and promises to make them become more active members for his site by uploading more items to the site and by inviting more people to Bubblews.com. And they found Arvind and his team is maintaining Bubblews.com a SCAM WEBSITE. Because at the time these contributors asked for payments with their complains, Arvind and his team have just ignored them and the site's solution to stop these complainants - all of them have received letters - telling them that their bubblews accounts are subjects for deletion with the attached TOU (Terms of Use) see the below photo.



During the early months of Bubblews.com, the site and its contributors are happily working hand-in-hand. Its members received their first and second e-check payments through PayPal. However, when Bubblews.com had become popular and had attracted thousands of new users, the site became incapable to pay all its contributors, so Arvind and his team have applied a method - the so called "Selective Payments" strategy. And until now the site is using this strategy. And those contributors who have requested their third, fourth payments and so on amounting to 25$ are still on waiting status. And Bubblews.com could no longer pay them because Arvind and his team have changed the redeemable amounts from 25$ to 50$ effective on December 14, 2013.



See the above photo of how Arvind - the CEO and Founder of a SCAM WEBSITE which is Bubblews.com has used his flowering words to re-assure its doubtful contributors and etc.

When the said changes was implemented on the site, thousands of its contributors bombarded Arvind and his team with questions about those requested payments that Bubblews.com has not been paid yet but Arvind instead of answering them has just ignored them. Below is another photo - a reaction from one of Bubblews.com contributors.



I admit I am also a victim of bubblews.com. On April 18, 2013, I uploaded an article on bubblews.com. It was a call for the site regarding my third payment request that the site has ignored. I used the title as Bubblews Admin is Hiding Because The Site Cannot Pay Its Users. But my call did not work! See the photo below for details.



But I did not stop calling for Arvind and his team regarding payment request and it was followed my fourth payment request - see the below photo for details. I used the title My Seven Posts Earned 25.50 US Dollars - I published it on April 27, 2013.



And on June 18, 2014, I visited the site's Facebook page. I left a message addressed directly to Arvind - asking him for the payments I requested for my third, fourth and the fifth which was in the form of a Visa card gift worth of 103$. See the photo below for details.



And the result after I posted my short message to Arvind on his bubblews' Facebook page - on June 21, 2014 my Gmail box received a letter from bubblews' staff with a CC to Arvind and that's the only time I learned that Arvind's real name is Arvind Jay Dixit with his business email add (adixit@bubblews.com) - the CEO and Founder of Bubblews.com - the subject (VIOLATION OF TOU - pruelpo) and telling me that my bubblews account is subject for deletion.

As part of being professional in dealing with people, every time my mail box receives communications from people not related to me I always entertain them - how much more if the said communication came from people I am working with. So, I replied it on June 22, 2014 with honestly and frankly, I quote:

Mr. Arvind
CEO & Founder of Bubblews.com


Greetings:


Your communication serves as your acceptance and a proof that Bubblews.com has no capability to pay its writers. And this is also a proof that your site is a scam site by using the hard works and efforts of your contributors to give life to your existing scam site bubblews.com. This is also a proof that you are not professional in dealing issues raised by your contributors as the CEO and founder of Bubblews.com. 

And this is also a proof that you don't even know how to communicate to your contributors - when a contributor asked you payments - your action is to delete his account immediately without any valid reasons. I asked those payments last year 2013 - but you failed to pay me (my third and fourth request) including my last 5th request which was in a Visa gift card worth 103$. Now you replied it telling me that my account is subject for deletion!

What the heck are you Mr. Arvind - CEO and founder of Bubblews.com? Honestly speaking you know that it is your duty to pay me the amount of 203$. If you have the balls - don't just run. You owed me 203$ and you should pay what is due to me, ASAP!


Regards,


Paul Pruel

To date there's no additional communication my Gmail box received from Arvind Jay Dixit and from his bubblews staff.

More about Arvind Jay Dixit - he is the CEO and Founder of Bubblews that many people he victimized including me believed that the site is a SCAM WEBSITE. He is presently living in Fair Fax, Virginia, USA as per his bubblews account. He's 25 years old when he put up his bubblews.com website. He said he is a first-generation, natural born citizen of the United States of America, and the son to a Polish mother and an Indian father who both emigrated from their respective countries. On his website - he uses different user's name, namely:

• Arvind
• harvinderjoshi 
• marvindy1015
• Arvinder061
• and PSArvind

Below is also a photo with some details about bubblews.com as reviewed by scamadviser.com. It is said that the owner country is United States but the website location is Costa Rica. The review made by scamadviser was bombarded with comments. Visit the site for more details.



Bubblews Official Pages:

• Its Facebook official page is https://www.facebook.com/Bubblews
• Its LinkedIn official page is http://www.linkedin.com/company/bubblews-com
• Its Twitter official page is https://twitter.com/BubblewsBlog

This article was written based from my opinion, reactions and my experiences with bubblews.com. I admit that I really hate people who is cheating and scamming people no matter who is the person and his affiliation. And I am ready and willing to answer for any questions from people read this piece including Arvind himself - the CEO and Founder of Bubblews.com.

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The Benefits of Guest Blog Postings

The author and the blog site owner will benefit from guest blog posting as - it unites bloggers who are also interested in connecting to other bloggers, online journalists and other web content creators in any niche through publishing their high-quality articles on their blog sites if approved.

A guest post is an article written by a certain author professionally and is intended to be published at a blogger's site. Here the guest poster will contact the blog owner to discuss his or her intentions. A guest poster is a professional writer not connected to the blog owner. He writes high-quality articles of any topic for a certain blog site.

Photo Credits Guest Infographic by Brandon Rhodes demonstrating the benefits to enjoy by the author from his guest blog posting.

And from guest blog posting, the writer who offers his knowledge and know-how will enjoy the expansion of his reach to the blogger's audience and the blog owner will also enjoy some great high-quality articles completely for free with free links going to the site of the guest poster.

Below is an offer I received on June 12, 2014 from a certain guest poster. I withheld her name, I quote:

Hi,

My name is Ms. X and I had gone through your blog and found it very informative. I would like to share my experience and knowledge with your audience by publishing Guest Post on your blog. You can suggest me any topic on which you want me to write article on for publishing it as a Guest Post on your website. 

I can also suggest you great topics for your blog. 

Looking forward to your reply. 

Best Regards

Ms. X
__________________________
On the same day, I replied her letter with simple instructions, I quote:

Hi Ms. X,

I accept your offer. If you can write articles about people/celebrities between 400 and 500 words length with photos I would appreciate them. First write three articles for the said subjects and then send them off to ppruel@yahoo.com as attachments. In case your articles were already published on your blog site, website or on other publications - change the "Title" and rewrite the "Introduction".

Your articles should bear the following: your author's name, your blog site or website name with a valid URL link, if published on other publication include the link and your articles should have at least 3 to 5 tags (write them on the bottom of each article).

Your submitted articles will be published at Wikinut Awesome Publishing Site For Articles

And be sure that you are the original author for those articles. Do not forget to include the link going to your own site (it will help increase your site views and traffic). Once the articles are published - they will travel automatically across the Internet through the social networks (Facebook and Twitter), G+, Stumbleupon, Digg, Delicious, Pinterest and other bookmarking sites I am connected with.

This time I do not accept explicit materials or matured contents. I will also appreciate if you will link my blog to your site.

That's all for now. Thank you for the interest. I will wait those submissions from you.

Best regards,

Paul Pruel

(PS: If everything works well - I will display some of your best articles to my own domain website at Wikinut Awesome Blog.)
__________________________
The next day June 13, 2014, her reply of two words arrived, I quote: "OK. Thanks."

From June 14 until now - there was no additional communications from her that my yahoo mail box has recorded. And yet, still, until now I am still waiting for her submissions.
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Nowadays, guest blog posting is trending its popularity and is considered as an effective marketing and advertising approach applied by professional online writers and bloggers. While it is helping to promote a writer's career and profession, it is also helping to promote a blog site to boost its traffic and views as well as helping the site to increase its page rank on search engines. And there are more advantages to mention from this method.

However, there are also disadvantages from guest blog posting - one is, it pushes the blog owner to become lazy. He would stop from thinking what to update for his own blog site as he is depending from those guest blog postings from authors who happened to use his blog to promote their stuff and expertise. The blog owner would no longer be inspired to do his research on good topics thinking that there are people outside who are willing to feed high-quality articles for his blog site. And the worst of all worst is when the blog owner becomes idle - his tendency to learn for new discoveries to enhancing his blogging expertise will decrease. And eventually he would no longer be interested to write his own high-quality articles for his own blog site.

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President Aquino Meron Na Bang Napatunayan? Distance Education is Best For People Who Cannot Attend School

I am in Kaki attending an English Camp seminar at At-Mutlaq Hotel Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

This is my stand that home study program is best for people who have no time to go school and who are busy working like me - who at that time was working with the company Kawasaki Helicopter (S.A.) Ltd., Saudi Arabia as an account analyst. I am a product of a home study program. I started my creative writing course with The Writers Bureau in Manchester, London in 1999 by mail. Now already available online.

During the course, I had enjoyed the training and I found it that it's a first-class comprehensive course written by successful professional writers. I had enjoyed the caring, constructive help from my expert tutors who're all published writers. 

The course has a flexible study program to suit me. There were twenty individual writing assignments for my practice and guidance. With most of my assignments I will be writing material which can be submitted for publication. There're specialists who helped me and guided me on how to sell my writing. The best was that I studied the course anywhere in the world where there's a postal service as all study material, returned and corrected assignments and etc. are sent off to me by air.

I also have the choice to pay my tuition fees by installments. I could have the choice to study and to progress at my own speed to suit my circumstances. During the course I was given six specialist handbooks and an 80 minute cassette tape. For the whole course, I spent at least 680 sterling pounds - this includes expenses for postal services when sending off my assignments back to the Bureau for corrections plus other miscellaneous expenses. The course was actually designed for two years though I finished it for only one year.

This is the fruit of my home study program. I wrote this poem in Pilipino language as advised by my tutor that I should also write article in my own language.

The course was divided into two parts

The whole course was divided into two parts: Writing non-fiction and Writing fiction. During the course I received 30 modules with twenty assignments. Fifteen of the course modules were for non-fiction writing and the other fifteen for fiction writing.

I also received six handbooks

Aside from the 30 modules I received from the course for my practice and guidance. I also received six bonuses of handbooks written by remarkable authors. These handbooks are totally helpful for me with those 30 modules which until now I am using them as my references for my blog and blogging hobby online.

Thank you to the VIP of Writers Bureau

The two very important people I know at the Writers Bureau - who actually have encouraged me to pursue my tutorial course are no other than Mr. E.H. Metcalfe, the principal and Mrs. Diana Nadin, the Director of Studies. Mr. Metcalfe has worked in home-study training and distance learning since 1962 and this has involved him a substantial amount of technical and non-fiction writing. 

Mrs. Diana Nadin is an honors degree graduate in English from Nottingham University and she has worked in home-study tuition since 1978. Her experience has given her a deep insight into student needs and how to help student progress with his studies. She said, "It is particularly important that a student has competent, conscientious tutors throughout his course."

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After the course, I applied what I learned from my tutorial course. I started my blog and blogging hobby online and also writing for other publishing sites like Triond, Wikinut, HubPages and ExpertsColumn.

Triond The Largest Writing Network Online For Writers

Triond is an old and established writing site. It is now the largest writing network ever created online. Triond has partnered more than twenty publishing sites that publish anything and everything you liked and loved so greatly. Just enjoy creating your best original articles that are not yet published somewhere else, submit them to Triond and you will get paid. Old sites have normally more importance and are more trustworthy than the young ones and Triond is one of them.

Pruelpo @ Triond

Triond writers should become proud for the site and should become thankful also for being part of Triond for the past eight years, three months and four days that this site is kicking off across the Net - feeding people online about anything and everything under the sun. Triond is already a history. 


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Happy Father's Day is to Honor The Dead Fathers: How About The Living Fathers

If your greetings said "happy father's day" that greeting is intended to your only father. But if your greetings said "happy fathers' day" that greeting is meant holiday to all the fathers in the world. The dictionary explains that with the apostrophe before (s) in father's "belongs" to each individual father, while the apostrophe after (s) in fathers' that would be a holiday "belonging" to all fathers as collective.

Not everyone celebrates father's day. There are countries that do not celebrate father's day - may be because of the idea that when the greetings said "happy father's day" is meant to honor the dead fathers. But there is an interesting question during this holiday - Would you wait your father dies before you can greet him "I Love You Dad. Happy Father's Day?"


Photo Credits Flickr

If we will take the idea from the origins of "happy father's day" and "happy fathers' day" that greetings are intended merely to honor the dead fathers. The first origin of father's day and fathers' day was taken when the Monongah mining disaster of 1907 in West Virginia has killed 350 men and it was Grace Golden Clayton who organized an event to honor the fathers killed. For details visit The Origins of Father's Day by Dictionay.com blog.

The second origin of father's day and fathers' day was absorbed when Sondra Smart Dodd attended a mother's day sermon in 1909, and she believed that there should be a corresponding holiday to celebrate fathers too. Her idea was taken and the first father's day was celebrated by Washington State in 1910 in June - the month of Sondra's father's birthday.

The greetings "Happy Father's Day" have so many meanings: It may be said as your simple way to say thank you to your father, to show your love and respect to your father and more else. So now to say happy father's day is not merely intended for all the dead fathers anymore but specially to all the living fathers in the world for their unconditional love for their children too either they are singles or married fathers including all the church men (fathers) priests.

Happy Fathers' Day...

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The Language of Business Part 3

The problems in commission are actually percentage problems in which the elements are: Commission or brokerage is percentage, rate of commission or brokerage is rate and purchase price, sales price or amount collected, whichever is the case, is the base.

The simplest type of commission problem involves is finding the commission when the rate of commission is a uniform amount for each item transacted. Example: A newsboy receives $.15 for each Weekly Women’s Magazine that he sells. What is the amount of his commission, if he sells 125 copies? Solution: 125 x $0.15 = $18.75.

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It is normal to customers that before they purchase products or services from business firms – first they would request quotations for the prices of particular products and services they needed. Customers are normally looking for good quality and with the lowest prices of products. So, they go from one company to another company to check them out and to compare products prices.

Customers need fast action when they requested the quotations of the prices for the products and services they needed, they wanted them at once. They cannot wait for long – their reasons - there are other companies who also sell the same products and services they needed.

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The Language of Business Part 2

The elementary banking problems concern deposits and withdrawals; these require the operations of addition and subtraction. A person may arrange with the bank to have either a savings account or a checking account. Banks have different specific rules regarding the opening of accounts. 

The bank statement refers to a monthly report or statement which the bank prepares for every depositor having a checking account. The items normally included in this statement are: deposits, withdrawals and service charges. Deposits consist of money placed in the bank mainly for safekeeping and possibly for interest earning. Deposits are usually in cash amounts; however, the bank also honors deposits in the form of negotiable instruments.

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The adjectives “Net” and “Gross” have to be noted. Gross means whole, total, without deductions; net means remaining, clear of extraneous items, free from all deductions. Therefore, Net Sales = Gross Sales – Refunds andallowances and Net Profit = Gross Profit – Operating expenses.

The main reason why a person is primarily engages in business is for profits. Profits represent the difference between what a man puts into the business and what he gets in return. In the normal run of business, the businessman expects to hit back a satisfactory increase over what he has put in the business; thus, the simplified buy and sell set-up is summarized by the formula as: Net Sales – Cost of Goods Sold = Gross Profit.

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The Language of Business

Ordinary interest is calculated on the basis of a 360-day year or a 30-day month; exact interest is calculated on a 365-day year. The interest formulas for both ordinary and exact interest are actually the same, with time slightly differing when given as number of days.

Interest is the sum paid for the use of money. Business concerns and individuals who find themselves in need of cash or financial credit borrow money and agree to pay a certain percentage for the privilege of using the borrowed amount. Interest is computed on an agreed rate of interest: it is a certain per cent of the sum borrowed called the principal. After the interest period or loan period is over, the money-lender would receive the original amount of the loan together with the agreed interest.

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Camels Most Endangered Mammals Need Proper Health Care and Protection Too

For the past few weeks, I was reading news articles from both print and digital media - I did not find one article suggesting that camels should also be conveyed with best treatments and cares. They need also medicines, antidotes and vaccines to save them from the deadly MERS virus and bacteria too but instead, all of the reports were focused on people's health and safety. Our planet is full of hundreds animal experts, scientists and other health specialists who can help determine the root cause of the said virus and to save the lives of many camels too by creating and experimenting drugs right to exterminate the deadly viruses and bacteria living on camels.

The Milking Camels

Camels have been once man’s best utility tools and friends. And they also provided man’s foods; man’s milks, yoghurt's and cheese, man’s transportation, man’s guards to scare off other wild horses, man’s vitamins and minerals, man’s bag and shoes, man’s clothing and shelter, man’s jewelry and utensils through their bones; man’s fuels through their feces, man’s medicines through their urines and man’s tourists attraction through camel sport racing competition. Camel is one of eight most endangered large mammal on the planet. It is critically endangered mammal now. And they are also victims of MERS virus. They should also receive proper health care and protection too!

Below are awesome and interesting facts about camels

As recorded in our old and modern history, camels have existed on the planet for thousands of years ago. They are large and strong desert animals. They can travel great distances across hot and dry deserts with or without food and water. They can walk easily on soft sands where trucks and other vehicles would get stuck because they have gaits and widened feet that help them move without sinking into the sand. And camels can carry people and heavy loads to places that have no favorable roads.

Camels carry their own built-in food supply on their back in the form of a hump. The hump is a large lump of fat that provides energy if food and water are hard to find. Camels do not actually store water in their humps as was believed long ago. Camel hump is actually reservoir of fatty tissue. They are body fats in their humps helping camels survive in hot climates. When these fats are metabolized, they yield more than one gram of water for every gram of fat processed.

Two species of ancient camels

There are two surviving species of ancient camels - the dromedary, or one-humped camel, which inhabits the Middle East and Africa; and the bactrian, or two-humped camel which inhabits Central Asia. Both species have been domesticated and they provide milk, meat, hair for textiles or goods such as felted pouches and are working animals with tasks ranging from human transport to bearing loads. But aside from the dromedary and bactrian, there are other four camelids: the llama and alpaca also known as the "New World camels" and the guanaco and vicuña also known as the "South American camels".

The average life expectancy of a camel is 40 to 50 years. A full-grown adult camel stands 1.85 meter at the shoulder and 2.15 meter at the hump. Camels can run at up to 40 mph in short bursts and sustain speeds of up to 25 mph. The Bactrian camels weigh 300 to 1,000 kg and dromedaries weigh 300 to 600 kg. The male dromedary camel has in its throat an organ called a dulla, a large, inflatable sac he extrudes from his mouth when in rut to assert dominance and attract females. It resembles a long, swollen, pink tongue hanging out of the side of its mouth. Camels mate normally done on sitting position on the ground, with the male mounting from behind. The male ejaculates three or four times within a single mating session.

Bactrian Camel (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

As of 2010 reports, there are still around 14 million camels alive, with 90% are dromedaries. They are domesticated animals mostly living in the Horn of Africa, the Sahel, Maghreb, Middle East and South Asia where camels constitute an important part of local life. They provide milk, food, and transportation. While the Bactrian camel is reduced to an estimated 1.4 million animals, most of which are domesticated. And the only truly wild Bactrian camels are less than one thousand and are thought to inhabit the Gobi Desert in China and Mongolia. While in Australia there are around 700,000 dromedary camels and this population is growing about 8 percent per year.

Camel meat is eaten worldwide

And until now its meat is still eaten in certain regions, including Eritrea, Somalia, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kazakhstan and other regions where alternative forms of protein may be limited or where camel meat has had a long cultural history. And even Camel blood is also consumable, as in northern Kenya, where camel blood is drunk with milk and acts as a key source of iron, vitamin D, salts and minerals.

In Islam, camel meat is halal. However, according to some Islamic schools of thought, a state of impurity is brought on by the consumption of it. Consequently, these schools hold that Muslims must perform ablution before the next time they pray after eating camel meat. Also, some Islamic schools of thought consider it haram for a Muslim to perform prayer in places where camels lie, as it is said to be a dwelling place of Satan. And according to a hadith collected by Bukhari and Muslim, Muhammad (praised be upon him) ordered a certain group of people to drink camel milk and urine as a medicine. However, according to Abū Ḥanīfa, the drinking of camel urine, while not forbidden is disliked in Islam.

Camels used in military combats

Camels were also used in wars throughout Africa and the Middle East. Fighting armies have also used camels as freight animals instead of horses and mules. The camels were used mostly in combat because of their ability to scare off horses at close ranges. Horses are afraid of the Camel's scent, a quality famously employed by the Achaemenid Persians when fighting Lydia in the Battle of Thymbra.

The United States Army established the U.S. Camel Corps, which was stationed in California in the late 19th century. One may still see stables at the Benicia Arsenal in Benicia, California, where nowadays they serve as the Benicia Historical Museum.  France created a méhariste camel corps in 1912 as part of the Armée d'Afriquein the Sahara in order to exercise greater control over the camel-riding Tuareg and Arab insurgents, as previous efforts to defeat them on foot had failed. The camel-mounted units remained in service until the end of French rule over Algeria in 1962.

Dromedary Camel (Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons)

In 1916, the British created the Imperial Camel Corps. It was originally used to fight the Senussi, but was later used in the Sinai and Palestine Campaign in World War I. The Imperial Camel Corps comprised infantrymen mounted on camels for movement across desert, though they dismounted at battle sites and fought on foot. After July 1918, the Corps began to become run down, receiving no new reinforcements, and was formally disbanded in 1919.

In World War I, the British Army also created the Egyptian Camel Transport Corps, which consisted of a group of Egyptian camel drivers and their camels. The Corps supported British war operations in Sinai, Palestine, and Syria by transporting supplies to the troops. The Somali and Camel Corps were created by colonial authorities in British Somali in 1912 but it was disbanded in 1944. Bactrian camels were also used by Romanian forces during World War II in the Caucasian region.

Camel domestication in Genesis is said anachronism

The domesticated camel was mentioned 20 times in Genesis. However, a recent publication by Tel Aviv University - archaeologists Erez Ben-Yosef and Lidar Sapir-Hen suggest that camels were not domesticated in Israel until the end of the 10th century B.C.E. These two archaeologists were doubtful based on their findings using the 9th century bones to generalize when and where camels were domesticated in ancient Israel. So I asked myself: To whom I should believe? To Moses who was believed the author of the first five books of the old testament or to the two archaeologists who were born 40, 50, 60 or 70 years ago?

Health Ministries of affected regions of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus and the World Health Organization should also deliver proper health care and protection to camels. Yes. Camels are linked to MERS Corona virus that wiped out many people. But we cannot blame camels. They are also considered victims of this deadly disease. And camels need also the best health care and protection that any governments and health agencies can offer.

References:

• Holy Bible
• Holy Quran
• Wikipedia Encyclopedia
• Wikimedia Commons

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