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Hey everyone, we just wanted to announce that Michael Todd Cosmetics has been featured on the CBS program The Doctors. Their Knu Anti-Aging Tri-Complex was featured and tested on air. It’s a specialized cosmetic which is partially made up of snail secretion—which turns out to be great for your skin. But don’t take my word for it you can watch The Doctors segment on Knu as well as visit the Michael Todd Cosmetics site for more information.

3PRIME is proud to work with Michael Todd Cosmetics and we’re eager to see what new ways they come up with to keep us young.

We know that the West Hartford Food Pantry will make every penny of the $6400 count towards helping low-income families and soup kitchens feed the hungry. Good job!

USA upset Canada 5-3 on Sunday to reach the quarterfinals

Image Courtesy of NHL.com

This motto should be easy to…recall…

With the recent news about Toyota’s brake system failing on many of its cars, I stumbled upon this image and it got a good laugh out of everyone in the office…

For those of you who haven’t heard, Yahoo! has officially shut down Geocities. And they’re just in time for Halloween in case anyone wants to go trick or treating as their dead GeoCities page. Spooky.

But why would Yahoo! just throw away something that they spent good money for, about 3.57 billion dollars in 1999. GeoCities web pages still saw around ten million visitors per month and some may think (as many did) that those kind of numbers were worth having around. At the very least they could have tried to sell the company, basically anything they made would end up being more than what they got by unceremoniously shutting it down.

Of course, they could have been trying to cannibalize GeoCities into their Yahoo! web hosting service. An offer to join the service was included with the announcement that GeoCities was closing to its users. It must have been a bitter pill to swallow: “So, yeah, we’re shutting all of this free stuff down but now you get to pay for web hosting for only 4.99 a month! We know you must be excited.”

And while 4.99 isn’t a lot for web hosting it’s still 4.99 more a month than most GeoCities users were paying. Besides, 4.99 is good for almost two gallons of gas in some places. Maybe.

Yahoo! never found a way to make GeoCities profitable or at least–profitable enough for them. And while I’m not going to say that they ran it into the ground–that’s surely where it is now.

R.I.P.

Finally purchased some new VPS space for our FormTracks service, and the migration process is well underway!

The new environment is a very robust entity to say the least - memcached, zend optimized, and fully loaded with automation up the ying-yang to make even the seasoned admin say 01000110 01110101 01100011 01101011 00100000 01011001 01100101 01100001 01101000 00100001 (gotta copy the text in to translate it…)

anyways, short post today, more tomorrow, so check in then. Tah-tah…s

-C

The month of October is most readily identified as the beginning of Fall as well as the month of Halloween. While this is certainly deserved, there are also events/observances that are not as easily recognized. October 1st, also known as World Vegetarian Day, kicks off National Vegetarian month. Suggested in 1977 by the North American Vegetarian Society, World Vegetarian Day was endorsed by the International Vegetarian Union in 1978, and has been observed ever sense. While the entire month is National Vegetarian Month, the first of the month is when World Vegetarian Day is actually observed.

One of the biggest organizations which publicly supports this national observance is the Humane Society of the United States. The HSUS is the nation’s largest animal welfare organization, and aims to raise awareness regarding the treatment of animals, specifically farm animals. During this month, consumers are encouraged to indulge in healthy vegetarian alternatives, as opposed to their normal meals. One reason is attributed to the neglect and routine abuse which farm animals experience on a daily basis.

Farm animals are kept in tight captivity, neglected, sometimes even abused. They are forced to undergo painful procedures, some including mutilations, without any type of painkiller or anesthetic. Currently, the HSUS is providing delicious recipes for mouth-watering vegetarian treats. There are very few restaurants in today’s society where vegetarian alternatives can not be located. Whether visiting a fast-food chain or a more prestige establishment, vegetarian alternatives are plentiful in today’s society.

Interested in partaking in this months green festivities? Visit the homepage for World Vegetarian Day at http://www.worldvegetarianday.org/. Through this site there are a variety of options to participate in the months festivities. Some include rallies, veggie parties, displaying posters in schools, businesses, restaurants (for educational services), or just eating vegetarian alternatives privately. So regardless the extent of your celebration, join us here at 3-Prime and do your part – Eat Vegetarian Alternatives! Search the web and visit places that can provide you vegetable nutrition tables. This will help you not only realize just how much healthier it is to eat vegetarian, it will also give you good reason to do so! So hop online today and review a plethora healthy recipes and nutritional facts to help you live a healthier, greener lifestyle!

Looking for Internet statistics? Google, probably as a response to searches for statistics websites, went ahead and created a portal for viewing internet statistics on core subjects like

• Macro-economic trends
• Technology
• Consumer Trends
• Media Consumption
• Media Landscape

We have only begun to see what this can do but the most intriguing opportunity to us is the ability to submit statistics to google.

We are considering utilizing some of our clients extensive industry experience and authoring informational articles on statistics that we can back up and then submitting them.

What statistics would you offer?

Did you get your check from Department of Revenue Services? If not, that’s probably because you DID NOT overpay your business taxes! Congratulations!

Check from CT DRS

We have been warned, this flu season could well be more active than in recent years. As a business owner, I thought it would be helpful to create a single source for “best practices” as far as advising our employees and informing ourselves on the topic.

Most of what I have read seems simplistic, but here’s what 3PRIME will be doing next week and we recommend the same to you!

Fact 1)
Typical Incubation period (time between infection and full-on symptoms) is one to three days.

Fact 2)
Hand washing with anti-bacterial soap will reduce exposure to the flu virus in general, including the H1N1 virus.

What to tell your employees
1) If you feel the notable symptoms of flu, please stay home for 48 hours. We will provide you with work to perform at home to limit any lost time in hourly wages. If you treat yourself with anti-viral drugs within the first 2 days of symptoms, you will feel better quicker.

2) We have provided alcohol based hand sanitizer and paper towels, please use as often as you like, particularly before and after meals and after using the bathroom.

3) Seasonal flu shots are often available at Walgreens for $25. If you get one we will reimburse you for 50% of the cost.

4) Cover your mouth and nose with a tissue when you sneeze and use your sleeve when you cough. This prevents the airborne spread of bacteria.

5) Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth to reduce the spread of germs

Things you can do at your office
1) Clean doorknobs and other common surfaces
2) Provide plenty of disposable tissues, paper towels and alcohol-based hand sanitizer

List of Notable H1N1 Symptoms
  • fever
  • chills and fatigue
  • cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose
  • body aches, headache
  • diarrhea and vomiting has also been reported as an H1N1 symptom

Many more resources
If you want lots of resources, there are links below, but above I have tried to summarize the most critical aspects of preparing your office and employees

pandemicflu.gov/professional/business/
www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/flyers.htm