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How to Prevent Identity Theft
by John Mussi
The best
way to prevent Identity Theft is always to be vigilant. Never assume or take
things for granted. Here are examples of some of the steps you can take to protect
yourself against Identity Theft:
Buy a shredder – they are readily available from any office supplies company. They are also relatively cheap compared to the cost of having your identity stolen.
Do NOT throw bank statements, cheque books, utility bills or old credit cards in the waste or rubbish bins. Always shred them or cut them up by using a pair of scissors.
When paying for goods at a shop or withdrawing money from a cash point machine always protect your passwords, codes, PIN numbers from prying eyes.
Protect your personal information within your own home. You may be careful about
locking your doors and windows, and keeping your personal papers in a secure
place but an identity thief may not need to set foot in your house to steal your
personal information. You may store your financial records, tax returns, birth
date, and bank account numbers on your computer.
These tips can help you keep your computer - and the personal information it stores - safe.
Virus protection software should be updated regularly, and patches for your operating
system and other software programs should be installed to protect against intrusions
and infections that can lead to the compromise of your computer files or passwords
[92]. Ideally, virus protection software should be set to automatically update
each week. The Windows XP operating system also can be set to automatically check
for patches and download them to your computer.[Click
here for the most efficient AntiVirus software]
Do not open files sent to you by strangers, or click on hyperlinks or
download programs from people you don't know. Opening a file could expose your system to a computer virus or a program known as "spyware," which could capture your passwords or any other information as you type it into your keyboard.
Use a firewall program, especially if you use a high-speed Internet connection that
leaves your computer connected to the Internet 24 hours a day. The firewall program
will allow you to stop uninvited access to your computer. Without it, hackers
can take over your computer, access the personal information stored on it, or
use it to commit other crimes. [84]
Use a secure browser - software that encrypts or scrambles information you send
over the Internet -to guard your online transactions. When submitting information,
look for the "lock" icon on the browser's status bar to be sure your information
is secure during transmission.( Click
here on how to beef up security and privacy)
Try not
to store financial information on your laptop unless absolutely necessary. If you do, use a strong password a combination of letters (upper and lower case), numbers and symbols. Don't
use an automatic log-in feature that saves your user name and password, and always
log off when you're finished. That way, if your laptop is stolen, it's harder for a thief to access your personal information.
Before you dispose of a computer, delete all the personal information it stored. Deleting files using the keyboard or mouse commands or reformatting your hard drive may not be enough because the files may stay on the computer's hard drive, where they may be retrieved easily. Use
a "wipe" utility program to overwrite the entire hard drive.
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About the author: John Mussi is the founder of Direct Online Loans who help UK
homeowners find the best available loans via www.directonlineloans.co.uk (Article
source: http://www.isnare.com/).
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Opportunities SUGAR-CANE
& PRODUCTS - PART III: - INTRODUCTION TO SMALL-SCALE
SUGAR-CANE JUICE PRODUCTION
The first
issue pertaining to current series outlined the importance of sugar-cane
as Economic
Catalyst to developing. This current delivery deals with sugar-cane basic
processed product resulting from the crushing of sugar-cane sticks: the sugar-cane
juice.
As for any other transformed produce from agricultural raw-materials, the (gustatory)
quality of the juice is related to the quality of the processed-sticks. High
quality sugar-cane sticks (harvested at the right time in optimum conditions)
will yield good juice content with high sugar levels (up to 20% and above). By
contrast, poor quality sugar-cane sticks - particularly the ones that had been
too early harvested, could yield good juice content, which however has fairly
low level of sugar content.
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PRODUCTION OF SUGAR-CANE JUICE
Cleanliness is vital to the whole process above described. Once the juice
has been heated, impurities will speed the 'inversion' of sugar and lead
to reduced yields. All boiling pans and tools need to be thoroughly cleaned
between uses. [Source],
therefore, in order to produce a high quality fresh juice (and other final
products) it is better to use modern equipment, which makes the control
of cleanliness more easier.
Brazil, South Africa and India developed small-scale technology for sugar-cane
crushing into fresh juice and correlative equipment to processing the juice into
cane sugar.
The following link give
an extensive presentation of manufacturers of crushing equipment in Europe,
Asia, South America and Africa. This manufacturer
market a compact sugarcane juice extractor for medium scale operator. For
technology and equipment
from South Africa click here. To have an idea on equipment pricing for
small-scale equipment click
here.
For more on the matter
Click here. Next delivery (April
15, 2007) will review the several products that could be manufactured from
sugarcane juice.
| MORE ON
SUGAR CANE & PRODUCTS |
1- Sugar
Cane Industry, The (Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography)
by J.H. Galloway (Paperback Sep 23, 2005)
2- The
House Surrounded by Sugar
by Leanna Williams (Paperback - Mar 8, 2006)
3- From
Cane to Sugar (Start to Finish)
by Jill Braithwaite (Hardcover - Aug 2004)
4- Cane
Sugar Handbook: A Manual for Cane Sugar Manufacturers and Their Chemists
by James C. P. Chen and Chung Chi Chou (Hardcover - Nov 8, 1993)
5- Sugar
Cane
by Alex Morgan (Paperback - Aug 28, 2002)
6- The
Sugar cane factory: A catechism of cane sugar manufacture for the use of
beginners
by Frederic I Scard (Unknown Binding - 1913)
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7- Sugar
Cane Cultivation and Management
by Henk, Bakker and H., Bakker (Hardcover - Jan 1, 1999)
8- Sugar
Cane (Tropical Agriculturalist)
by R. Fauconnier (Paperback - Feb 24, 1993)
9- Management
Accounting for the Sugar Cane Industry (Sugar Sciences, Vol 8)
by A. E. Fok Kam (Hardcover - Mar 1988)
10- The
nature and properties of the sugar cane
With practical directions for the improvement of its cultures, and the
manufacture of its products)
by George Richardson Porter (Unknown Binding - 1831)
11- Sugar-cane
and Sugar Industry in Nigeria
The Bitter Sweet Lessons
by Abdul-latif D. Busari (Paperback - Nov 2005)
12- The
2007-2012 World Outlook for Sugar Cane Mill Products
by Philip M. Parker (Paperback - Oct 13, 2006)
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Acrobat Reader Is Available here
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to read more about the matter
Control Your Desktop
BEAT HACKERS AND BEEF UP YOUR SECURITY AGAINST IDENTITY THEFT:
USE ARMOREWARE OR ARMORGATE
We all know it: Big-Brother is tracking the Internet traffic to search for terrorists exchanges
and consequently is trampling citizens's Constitutional rights. National security
Agencies - worldwide, are screening mails and Internet phones exchanges searching
for lead to evil-doers. The result is that innocent people legitimate mails and
Internet phones's exchanges are also scrutinized.
There are also Internet crooks, who are doing their best trying to take control
of people computer to do all sorts of mischief: private data stealing, credit
cards passwords retrieving, financial transaction highjacking and transformation
of personal computer into zombie to dispatching millions of spams around the
world.
So honest people are caught between governments which want to know everything
and thieves. Professionals cannot stay put and let it go if they care for their
bottom-lines.
Competition is also tight and if security and privacy is not assured, competition
will also steal your reports and hard won contracts when transferring them to
clients through the open Internet.
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THE ULTIMATE SOLUTION DOES EXIST
There are Virtual Private Networks that make it secure to transferring files
between two computers. But, most of the times, these VPN are not flexible and
not easy to manage on a corporate network environment. As for private businesses
(not networked) the deployment of such VPN is costly and not so easy to manage.
controls are
little pieces of code placed in web pages that download Windows compatible programs
onto your computer. While some ActiveX controls download useful programs to make
the surfing experience a friendly one, allowing payment interfaces such as PayPal,
Google Checkout and the likes; or enabling the download of a mortgage calculator
to make calculation right fhuge bills. For more on the matter click here
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