Motorola Solutions 3Q profit up on gov't spending

NEW YORK (AP) ? Motorola Solutions Inc. reported a 61 percent increase in third-quarter net income, helped by higher government spending.

Motorola Solutions, which is based in Schaumburg, Ill., sells communications equipment to government and corporate customers. It said Wednesday that it earned $206 million, or 72 cents per share for the three months ended Sept. 29. That compares with $128 million, or 38 cents per share, a year ago. Last year's results were weighed down by a loss on discontinued operations.

Excluding the cost of employee stock options and one-time items, the company earned 84 cents per share. Revenue rose 3 percent to $2.15 billion from $2.09 billion.

Analysts had expected 73 cents per share on revenue of $2.15 billion, according to FactSet.

The company's revenue forecast also topped analyst expectations, and shares rose $1.54, or 3.1 percent, to $51.31 in afternoon trading.

The company said it had record sales of $1.5 billion in its division that sells to governments, with higher demand in North America. In the division that sells to businesses, sales dropped 13 percent to $632 million.

Motorola Inc. split into two in early 2011. Google snapped up one of the resulting companies, Motorola Mobility, which makes cellphones and cable set-top boxes.

Motorola Solutions expects earnings of 98 cents to $1.03 per share in the fourth quarter, with a revenue increase of 6 to 7 percent, suggesting revenue of $2.44 billion to $2.46 billion.

Analysts project profit of $1.02 per share on revenue of $2.42 billion.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/motorola-solutions-3q-profit-govt-spending-191428540--finance.html

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Q&A with Kelly McLaughlan, CEO & Interactive Marketing Expert ...

Kelly McLaughlan, KME & Fulcrum

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Kelly McLaughlan is?a DC-area Interactive Marketing expert and Google Adwords Professional who is?CEO and founder of?KME Internet Marketing, and CEO and co-founder of the recently-launched?Fulcrum Marketing Group ? both firms located in Northern Virginia.

WashingtonExec got the chance to talk with McLaughlan, uncovering practical advice and timely strategies for businesses, government entities and nonprofits promoting their goods and services on the Internet.

Read on below to see what McLaughlan had to say about social media and online strategizing.

WashingtonExec:?It seems like the Metro DC online marketplace is extremely competitive for local businesses ? is it?

Kelly McLaughlan: We?ve found that the amount of time and resources required for investment in DC area Internet marketing and advertising really depends on the industry segment, and in some cases is very locality-driven. For example, to gain superior visibility and attract new customers online as a real estate agent or home services provider ? this is extremely competitive, and a lot of time and energy needs to be spent on daily or weekly monitoring. Government service providers and local nonprofits will cluster their marketing attention and spend around procurement cycles, fundraising events or civic campaigns ? so you get intense competition in bursts. For businesses like private schools, dentists, restaurants ? these can be really competitive within very tight geographic boundaries, that aren?t necessarily defined by government or zipcode boundaries, but are defined by neighborhoods or other drivers of local affinity (i.e. ?hyperlocal?). Some B2C or B2B providers (especially medium-sized, regional businesses) can still very quickly gain competitive advantage and own their market share of online visibility; but it takes a very well-balanced and experienced orchestration of local marketing tactics.

WashingtonExec:??Orchestration of local marketing tactics? ? such as?

Kelly McLaughlan: At KME, our core service is SEO or ?Search Engine Optimization?. This means placing very high in search engine results for terms (a.k.a. ?keywords?) that matter to your business, your customers. This core discipline of SEO is then strategically extended across all search engines, social media channels, marketing campaigns online and offline ? in a way that takes best advantage of the most appropriate mechanism for the target audience.
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One business may be very successful with Facebook and Twitter, but not sell the sort of thing that a lot of articles or blog entries can be written about. Another business may be very technical and easy to highlight across a variety of unique search terms and professional search engines ? but doesn?t lend itself well to social interaction or marketing.?

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Some areas of DC, Maryland or Northern Virginia respond well to paid search ads, but don?t really pay attention to social media. It really takes local marketing expertise and well-informed, professional strategy to create or purchase the best mix of marketing content, channel and frequency. We also run our own network of content sites, social media and mobile channels, offering additional exposure and highlighting client business reviews, offers and events.

WashingtonExec:?What?s the best way to use professional networking sites, like LinkedIn, to promote a local business?

Kelly McLaughlan: The WashingtonExec audience is no doubt already familiar with the importance and success that comes with regular contact updates, participation in discussion groups and personal profile upkeep. These activities enhance your personal profile, expose your expertise, and enable new relationships that may lead to future business opportunities. Connect with everyone you meet, except the spammers. Your business also needs to maintain its ?personality? and profile on LinkedIn ? via business pages and all the content optimization tools enabled for managers of these pages. What?s probably most important is that your activities on LinkedIn be integrated across the various channels ? i.e. your posts, your discussions and groups, your links, your pages; they should always be fresh, relevant and cumulatively support any marketing or messaging objective you have. Your content and interactions, however, should be ?socially professional? ? not artificial or sounding like an advertisement, but not overly-social or personal.

WashingtonExec:?Is there an online marketing tactic we don?t know about yet, but should?

Kelly McLaughlan: We?re always keeping an eye on the trends and changes to search platforms that aren?t Google or Bing ? for example, searching within Facebook, within Twitter, within Amazon or other eCommerce or consumer content networks.
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While Google is still the big kahuna for gaining undisputed visibility online, both for ?organic? and paid searches ? I find my kids, for example, operating all day long on their cellphones and computers without ever going to Google (even for school assignments)?searching (or just asking) their social circles for advice, content, ideas.?

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So while an answer for businesses is still ?create great, unique content for the search engines to index?, it?s also more and more frequently ?create great, unique content that?s shareable and easily findable across the media channels your users actually use?.

WashingtonExec: How did you develop your expertise?

Kelly McLaughlan: The long story involves a stroller accessory patent and a computer training service for kids, which I?ll save for another time. The shorter story evolves from my systems engineering and ?Big 6? (PriceWaterhouseCoopers and EDS) project management background, plus proficiency with financial analytics ? which I translated into Google Adwords and Analytics skills for some early, individual clients as I re-entered the workforce following the ?toddler years?. My husband (an Enterprise Information Architect for companies including Accenture and Oracle) and I gained clients and grew our expertise in Interactive Marketing through hundreds of web design, development and online marketing gigs, keeping up to date with the rapidly changing trends in social media, search engine algorithms, coupon sites and online advertising networks. Now our business is composed of a very talented, local ecosystem of employees, partners and contractors, delivering current, relevant marketing and advertising solutions ranging from national ad network buys to social media strategies and video marketing. Our clients come up at the top of any search results for their Loudoun, Fairfax, Northern Virginia or DC services ? it takes hard work and a lot of time, but there?s always a strategy that will be helpful.

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Source: http://www.washingtonexec.com/2012/10/qa-with-kelly-mclaughlan-ceo-interactive-marketing-expert-social-media-online-strategy/

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Craft Room: Ribbon Organization

As well as being a?paperholic?I?m also a ribbon hoarder. Bet you find that hard to believe! One glance at my?scrapbook room?and it?s true confessions time. Much of this ribbon has been collected over the years. Yard sales, after Christmas and holiday sales, crafting products from years and years ago, hand me downs and thrifting. Surprisingly, with all this ribbon I?m not a bow maker. I?m sure there?s a great tutorial on Pinterest, but making a pretty bow is not something I?m good at. Collecting ribbon is.

What do I use all this ribbon for? Mostly for scrapbook pages and cards. I just love the added touch they bring. I?m all for tactile in my pages as much as possible. I also use the ribbon in tablescapes and home decor when it gives a special look.

The twin bed we have in the scrapbook room has a great selling point: drawers underneath for storage. Guess what I found to put in them! More ribbon. Imagine that.

This is the prettier version of ribbon storage. Five wooden dowel rods 1/4 inch thick, as the individual ribbon rolls demanded. We hooked off the ends with a washer and hung them up with a eye bolt. Easy and pretty to look at. I tried to organize according to color families. I?m a little OCD like that.

See all those tiny rows of ribbon spools on the bottom row? I won those in a blog drawing quite a while back. Yes, I actually won something! Can?t beat free!

Yes, there?s still more. I used a cd rack (yard sale for $1) and bought baskets at the dollar store to store even more ribbon. Not crazy about the colors but they were inexpensive.

I know. I?m a little obsessed. Don?t tell me husband, k?

I would love for you to see the vinyl wall quote I made for my scrapbook room to inspire me. I also used my Cricut for a family gallery wall in our den.

Source: http://www.martysmusings.net/2012/10/craft-room-ribbon-organization.html

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Red Letter Edition - Weekdays! 10/01 by TRI Communications | Blog ...

Tonight's guests will include Barbara Musser, Founder and CEO, Sexy After Cancer, Tarsha White-Jones, Cancer Resaercher, Pamela Cromwell, Founder, Pink For Pam, Young African Breast Cancer Patients, Mailet Lopez, Founder, I Had Cancer.com, Principal, Squeaky Media.

Mykelti Williamson has been featured in some of the best known films ever: Ali, Con Air, Heat, Three Kings, Waiting to Exhale, and the award-winning Forrest Gump. He's been seen on TV's 24, CSI: NY, and is now a regular on Justified.

The Best Ever You Show welcomes Joan Benedict Steiger who has decades of work on stage, screen, and television. She has already lived a full life, but is excited for what's to come.

Willie Taylor is an American singer, best known as a contestant from MTV's, Making the Band 4, where he was chosen by Diddy to be one of the main vocalists of the band Day26. Tune in to hear what's news since the break up of the music group.

Syleena Johnson is one of the finest R&B voices to have emerged during the past decade. Having fought the major label system to allow her true identity to shine forth, she now steps forward with her most personal statement to date, with her album Chapter V: Underrated.

Rodney Perry Live is bringing you the cast of Unconditional, a powerful thriller that will leave you hanging. Unconditional stars Michael Ealy and Lynn Collins.

Faith ABeliever?s Book Club welcomes Toneal Jackson, 2011 National Black Book Festival Best New Author. Her relationship book was celebrated at the 2011 Dayton Book Expo and recognized in CBS Chicago?s 5 Indie Chicago Authors and Publishers to Watch Out For.

Indie band, The Trap, talks about their new release ?Silence.? Tune in to hear their story as well as their music on the Conversation Crossroad' INDIEvening.

Hot Guys With Guns, the first gay action film, is a Neo-Noir where a wanna-be actor and his ex get literally sucked into a crime spree decimating Hollywood?s Velvet Mafia. Tune in to meet the creative team of this film.

Poet, comedian, and actor Paul Mabon tells how he seduces women with his One Of A Kind Style of Poetry. From his poem "She Ain't Got No Man" to "The Magical Pu##y" Paul brings the funny to his art of Poetry.

Think cleaning your contact lenses with tap water is safe? Think again! Learn why tap water should never be used to clean your soft contact lenses, as well as the answers to commonly asked questions about contact lens wear and care in the new episode of Healthy Vision? with Dr. Val Jones.

Source: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/tri-communications/2012/10/01/red-letter-edition--weekdays

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10 Things to Know for Monday

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Monday:

1. WHAT THE SUPREME COURT MAY CONSIDER THIS TERM

The justices return Monday with rulings ahead on affirmative action, gay marriage and voting rights.

2. AP ANALYSIS SHOWS NARROW WIN FOR OBAMA IF ELECTION WERE TODAY

The review says that to win, Romney would need to quickly gain the upper hand in nine hotly contested states.

3. WHY U.S. HOSPITALS WILL PAY EXTRA ATTENTION WHEN DISCHARGING PATIENTS

Starting Monday, Medicare will fine facilities that readmit too many people within 30 days.

4. HOW PUBLIC OPINION MAY AFFECT PUSSY RIOT'S APPEAL HEARING MONDAY

The punk rockers' imprisonment has been bad PR for Russia, and the government and church may want to put it behind them.

5. EUROPE REBOUNDS TO RETAIN RYDER CUP

Inspired by the late Seve Ballesteros, the team overcomes a 4-point deficit for victory over the U.S.

6. SECOND CHANCE FOR SOME JUVENILE CRIMINALS

New California law lets inmates who were under 18 when sentenced to life to ask judges to reconsider after they serve 15 years.

7. IRAN'S CHALLENGE IN CREATING A NEW WEB UNIVERSE

Tehran can expect political and economic fallout by trying to close the tap on familiar sites such as Gmail.

8. SCHWARZENEGGER BLAMES DIVORCE ON HIS SECRECY

The ex-governor, whose book comes out Monday, tells "60 Minutes" he traces his detachment to his bodybuilding days and his belief that emotions make athletes lose.

9. LOHAN GETS INTO DISPUTE OVER CELLPHONE PHOTOS

The actress and a California man are seeking harassment complaints against each other.

10. A BIG DAY FOR NOTORIOUS GUN SALES

Two toted by Bonnie and Clyde were snapped up at auction for a cool half-million, while a Butch Cassidy revolver went for $175,000.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/10-things-know-monday-104352258.html

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USGS reports deep 7.1 earthquake in Colombia

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) ? Colombian authorities say there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage from an earthquake centered deep underground in the country's southwest whose magnitude the U.S. Geological Survey placed at 7.1.

The USGS says the quake struck at 11:31 a.m. local time on Sunday 30 miles (48 kilometers) from the regional capital of Popayan. It says it was centered at a depth of 94 miles (150 kilometers).

National disaster director Carlos Ivan Marquez says there are no immediate reports of injuries or damage. The regional emergency director, Isabel Hernandez, also reports no damage.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/usgs-reports-deep-7-1-earthquake-colombia-170733886.html

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Study shows scientific fraud is on the rise

By Art Caplan, Ph.D.

Can you trust what biomedical researchers have to say about your health?

There are plenty of people out there who say no, including anti-vaccinators, mega vitamin proponents, lovers of non-Western medicine and those who see a pharmaceutical company plot behind every drug, device or genetically altered seed. Few of these skeptics have any sound evidence to offer on behalf of their distrust. Often their opposition is based more on ideology or politics than it is solid evidence for doubt.

But, that does not mean that biomedical science should ignore problems that do undermine public trust in what they have to say. One of the most important and disturbing is fraud.?

A study published Monday in the very trustworthy journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that fraud is a real problem in scientific publications.? This study is both a reason for concern and, ironically, a reason to trust what scientists and doctors say.

The study reviewed 2,047 retracted biomedical and life-science research articles dating back to 1973 and found that?the biggest reason for their retraction?wasn't?honest error but fraud.? More than 40 percent of the retractions were due to the discovery of outright fraud and another 23 percent to plagiarism. The rate of retractions of published articles, while a tiny percentage of all papers published in biomedical journals ? 2,000 out of tens of millions published in the past four decades -- is growing. The rate has jumped 10 fold in the past 37 years.? ?

It?s an unsettling trend. A teeny number of fraudulent articles can do an enormous amount of harm. Prominent cases of fraud certainly and rightly make the public wonder about the credibility of biomedical claims. Why, however, does this study and its findings have a silver lining?

Let me ask you a simple question: When is the last time you heard critics of vaccines or GMO food admit that there is fraud on their side? In my experience, the answer is never. Those who tout the benefits of?chelation, megavitamins or cleansing enemas never confess to any degree of fraud among their number. Strange as it may seem, what makes mainstream biomedicine trustworthy is its willingness to admit that there are frauds and charlatans out there and that efforts need to be made to catch them.

Real trustworthy science knows that error happens, that sometimes the error is malicious, that there are bad apples out there and that you have to try and weed error out.? If you are not ready to admit these truths then you are not trustworthy at all.

That said why is fraud on the rise?? The study authors are not sure.?

I suspect the increasingly competitive nature of science, the drive to secure more grants, patents and equity by individual scientists and the huge proliferation of journals that are not doing a good job peer-reviewing articles are all to blame.? So are scientists who have agendas.?

The biggest fraud mentioned in the study is Dr. Andrew Wakefield. Wakefield is no friend of vaccination. His bogus paper reporting a link between autism and vaccines had a huge and devastating impact on the health and well-being of babies and kids all over the world. Even though it was retracted and he was discredited, many still continue to believe he was right. ?

Biomedicine needs to do more to stop the growing trend of fraud.? More education of young researchers, tougher penalties for fraud, and increased resources and rewards for peer reviewing will help. The fact that biomedicine is willing to look hard and publicly at its ?bad apples? shows that there is every reason to think that scientists and doctors ought to continue to be trusted.

Arthur Caplan is the?head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Langone Medical Center.

More by Arthur Caplan:

Bioethicist: US children suffer from vaccine exemptions

Greenpeace out to sea on GM rice, bioethecist says

Autism link to aging dads won't change vaccine debate or speed cure, bioethicist says

Source: http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/01/14172241-bioethicist-why-the-rising-retraction-of-fraudulent-medical-articles-is-good-news?lite

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Ryan: Gun Owners Should Fear an Obama Re-Election

COLUMBUS, Ohio ? Vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan courted the votes of hunters on Saturday in a speech to a sportsmen?s group, suggesting that President Obama would seek to strip gun owners of their rights by appointing judges hostile to a broad interpretation of the Second Amendment.

?I shudder as a gun owner ... what would he do if he never has to face the voters ever again?? Ryan asked aloud during a speech to the National U.S. Sportsmen?s Alliance?s 16th Annual Save Our Heritage Banquet here.

?The next president is going to pick a lot of judges. The next president will appoint a lot of different judges and these are lifetime appointments. If you want to make sure that judges respect our Second Amendment rights, you need a president who respects those rights as well,? he said.

Ryan likened gun ownership to religious liberty, suggesting that the federal government had intruded on people?s First Amendment rights as well. He also stressed the importance of appointing people to government agencies who will ?respect the rights of hunting and fishing,? and said that the widely criticized Fast and Furious gunwalking operation ?would never occur under a Romney-Ryan administration.?

He also responded to claims by Vice President Joe Biden on Friday that he and Romney could raise taxes on seniors receiving Social Security. The Obama campaign has sought to argue that because various analyses of Romney?s tax-cut plan suggest the tax burden would shift from wealthy to middle-class families, it is reasonable to assume that the shifted tax burden would fall on Social Security benefits.

But Romney has never said that he would raise taxes on Social Security benefits, and he has promised that he will not reduce Social Security benefits for current retirees. The Obama campaign has been making a similar argument using the Romney campaign?s Medicare plan.

Ryan said his and Romney?s plan makes no changes for those in or near retirement and that Biden himself had voted to raise taxes on seniors? benefits by supporting President Clinton?s 1993 budget ? tax increases that Obama voted to keep in place three times, he noted.

?Shame on the politician who wants to use this issue to try and scare seniors when those of us who are out there [are] trying to fix this problem for my generation and my kids? generation and your kids,? Ryan said.

Responding to Ryan's comments, Obama campaign spokesman Danny Kanner noted that Republican Gov. John Kasich said in introducing the House Budget Committee chairman that Ohio has added 123,000 jobs since 2011 "and is moving forward. But rather than building on the progress we'vemade under President Obama, Mitt Romney and Congressman Ryan would take us back."

Ryan?s appearance before the group Saturday evening underscores his role in the campaign as an ambassador to the middle class who better understands some traditions, such as hunting, with which Romney has less experience. Ryan is a former chairman of the Congressional Sportsmen?s Caucus for four years, and lauds the values he and his wife Janna have taught their children during hunting trips.

?You teach them patience, you teach them respect, you teach them conservation, the outdoors. You spend time with your kids,? Ryan said.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ryan-gun-owners-fear-obama-election-212204322--politics.html

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Report: Half of US adults own tablet or smartphone

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Americans' news habits are on the move.

Half of all adult Americans now own either a tablet computer or a smartphone, and one-third use their mobile devices to view news stories and video clips at least once a week.

That's according to a survey by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, which polled more than 9,500 adults from late June to early August.

The findings have "major implications for how news will be consumed and paid for," says Pew. About 20 percent of the mobile news users surveyed said they paid for an online subscription in the last year.

But mobile viewing doesn't necessarily mean that people are cutting back on viewing news on PCs or in newspapers. About half of the tablet news users that Pew surveyed say their tablets spur them to spend more time consuming news, and about one-third say they get news from new sources they didn't use before. Nearly one-third of the mobile users also have print-only subscriptions, and most have no plans to give them up.

Devices based on Google's Android platform are gaining momentum. Pew found that just over half of tablet owners reported owning Apple's iPad, compared with 81 percent a year ago. Forty-eight percent now own an Android-based device, including Amazon.com's Kindle Fire.

Copyright 2012?-?The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Source: http://www.nbcnews.com/technology/technolog/report-half-us-adults-own-tablet-or-smartphone-6200002

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