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Want to advance in your career? Its time to learn business speech, it is time to lose your accent. It is a statistical fact that people with accents are passed over in promotions because it is the accepted norm that non-accented English is easier to understand, and it is that way because it is true.

You should take a course on executive language training if you are serious about corporate and professional communication. You can learn more that speech rhythms , you can learn the vocabulary to communicate clearly with less effort that you did before, and your supervisors will notice it.

Putting this off will not assist you, but taking advantage will get you further, in personal goals, and in professional goals. Everyone wants to get ahead, now you can give yourself the edge to be a step ahead of them.

Communicating is something we do constantly, and as such the returns will be tenfold. there are things we learn and never use, but I can guarantee you that you will always use this skill.

There is a new technology sweeping the corporate world, and I for one am finding it outstanding and fascinating.Telepresence is a way of meeting with clients, colleagues or counterparts who are distant from you. It reminds me of some very futuristic science fiction technology. Instead, it is very real, and affordable. Its practical uses vary greatly, but it definitely increases productivity.

Telepresence is the way of the future and the future is the digital era. Does not your company want to be a part of the future?

Kinderstart.com is claiming in the lawsuit that Google has them blacklisted. This theory seems to be incorrect because one would think that a blacklisted party wouldnt be found in google, and clearly kinderstart.com is listed in google.

In fact Kinderstart.com has more than 43000 listings indexed in google.

With regards to visibility in the google search engine, it really comes down googles “page rank”. page rank is how google determines the sites viability, and lists results in relation to their page rank. A page rank of zero would prevent kinderstart.com from apearing at the top of the list.

Kinderstart claims google is infringing on their right to free speech…

Of course I say that if google is forced to promote another search engine then someone is infringing on googles rights…

With this post I will close this series for a time, as there are some controverseries unfolding in the legal world that i want to devote time to, and we all know technology and  its abuse wont be leaving us soon, so we shall revisit.

In the event you do not know, London specifically, and the UK generically, are absolutely surveiled by closed circuit cameras. There are over 500,000 in London alone, and one study has shown you can expect to be filmed 300 times a day. Londons main line of their railways boasts 500 cameras among 34 stations that films 166 million people annually.

New York City officials think thats a good idea for their city, 2 weeks ago they installed 505 television cameras. The name of the American “ring of steel ” is called Lower Manhattan Security Initiative. 505 security cameras in a 1.7 square mile area.

I think its safe to assume in time, all of NYC will be as saturated with cameras. And as we know most law enforcement is modeled after and trained by  NYC.

Its disturbing, we in America used to fight for freedom, now we give it away.

A newer form of technology works like this, with some minute differences between systems.

A special car is driven along the city, with a camera that scans license plates, and a radar type device that connects to gps satellites. When a target vehicle is found, the exact location is marked, and a towing service is dispatched via automated computers. At this point your car was stolen, by the police.

Thats the most extreme set up. Most are handled without the automated computer. Basically whats being deployed is a system capable of scanning 1500 plates a day, compared with the old numbers of 40. However, this service isnt just used byt the police, and the police themselves are using it for rather petty reasons.

In san fransisco, police unit drive around and scan for plates that have recieved parking tickets. Upon a match they pull over and attach a “boot” to the car preventing it from being driven. You must then go pay the amount and wait for the authorities to remove the boot before life may progress.

The problem with it is abuse. A rather extreme case was the Illinois women who had her car towed for 1.85 in library fines.

In recent years technology has blossom faster than ever previous in our nation and the world over. While it has proven useful to things like national defense, and medical science, its my fear that these tools will be turned against us.

One example is these nifty “recognition camera” systems deployed at major transportation areas. Places like airports, grand central station, etc. These cameras are able to scan the crowd and match the face to known terrorists.

Fantastic!! But if I know this, and you know this, does not the terrorist mastermind know this? Of course he does.

Yet you would be a fool to think that the government is going to let go to waste the billions of dollars in deployed technology. No, in fact I think its a fair assumption to believe they will lower the caliber of bad guy they seek. Perhaps add the facial data of some drug kingpins types, some murderers, arms traffickers and the like.

Before long that wont be enough…

One day you will be flying to your family’s emergency function and prior to boarding, be apprehended by police units. In the end, you will discover you owed on a parking ticket… Its not so far fetched.

In fact, the 2001 Super bowl game was completely scanned. Every person there was scanned as they went in the stadium, and matched against a database held by Washington.

How long before the technology is everyday common? Its at that point that the commercial industry will enter the fray, and records of our every movement will be available to the public for a price.

Scary.