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Fionn Downhill is an experienced speaker and the CEO of SEO and online reputation management company Elixir Interactive. Fionn’s impressive presenter bio includes over 23 renowned search marketing events including Search Engine Strategies as well as the Online Marketing Summit (OMS) — which kicked-off its 23-City tour May 20th in Phoenix, Arizona.

OMS isn’t the typical summit. With its focus on education,speakers must adhere to strict guidelines aimed at closely limiting the self-promotion and advertising typically seen at many search marketing events.

Fionn Downhill’s presentation at OMS Phoenix this May offered interesting insight into digital asset optimization for search in 2010. To find out more about Fionn or other OMS speakers visit visit www.onlinemarketingsummit.com/speakers/

Elixir Interactive’s CEO Fionn Downhill spoke at Search Engine Strategies New York on the topic of selling to search to traditional marketing. This lively session was called “Selling Search to the C suite”. Fionn also addresses the issue of integrating search into today’s college marketing curriculum.

The Cheltenham Gold Cup festival is coming up next week. The festival is the event of the horse racing season in the UK.   There are better hats at Ascot but the Gold Cup is te big one for horse racing enthusiasts.  I found this great clip of Mr Mulligan winning the 1997 Gold Cup on YouTube

The majority of people run into a time in their lives when they feel the need to see a counselor. It could be after a loss or in the midst of a big transition. The leading Scottsdale counselor and energy coach, says that the stigma associated with counseling is almost gone. Most people understand its value and respect those that seek help when they need it most.

Money laundering has to do with the process of making large sums of money disappear. This is done when one is either trying to avoid paying taxes, avoid paying a creditor or an ex-spouse, or when the actions it took to make that money involve some form of additional illegal activity. Shell companies and foreign bank accounts are used often times in order to just make the money disappear. The first step is in just that, making it disappear, and the second step involves ensuring that it does reappear at some point for personal use, but in a way that is not detectable to either those you are hiding the money from or a law enforcement agency that may have become suspicious.

When money is in a large sum of cash, some may choose to simply tuck it away in a safe deposit box. There would be no transaction record and it would remain hidden for as long as one needs it to be. However, in this manner of hiding the money is not being invested and so there is no chance to earn income. It is for this reason that many people decide to deposit the cash into foreign financial institutions. Many people deposit into the accounts of banks located in Liechtenstein, Austria, Switzerland or the Cayman Islands. However in this day and age, banks are starting to follow the lead of the United States in the way of the filing of a suspicious activity report. This is filled out by some institutions when large sums of cash deposits are made.

In the United States, a bank employee may not even be suspecting suspicious activity, how ever they must file a report when a deposit is over a certain amount of money, just in and of itself. There have been many scandals in involving banks over the last few years, that have made it into the news and into the courtroom, and getting away with “doing away” with cash in the foreign banking institutions is not as easy as it used to be. Not only is there the suspicious activity report, but bank managers have adopted procedures such as “know your customer” and “due diligence”. Many banks will thoroughly investigate potential new customers, as well as ensuring that steps are being followed properly by their employees.

The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, put the act of tyranny in the realm of what is considered to be political corruption. When a leader or a government ceases to put their country and its people first, and commits acts associated with those of tyranny, the government no longer remains to be acting soundly or ethically. A few weeks ago, the government of Africa was called to account for their own acts of tyranny by the United States President, Barack Obama. He is the first United States president to speak out so honestly and so harshly against the conditions of the citizens and the responsibility of the African government in this issue. He also the first to be directly descended from the country of Africa. He was speaking not only to a nation, but to his own ancestors as well. He stressed the importance and the necessity for the development and further success of the country, and the only way this while be achieved is through the destruction of tyranny and corruption.

He repeated his slogan that was used throughout his Presidential Campaign and soon enough, Africans were chanting just as the Americans had chanted, right along with him, the crowd began to shout, “Yes You Can”. He expressed to the African Parliament the necessity to seize upon the idea and practice of peace, the benefits of democracy and the opportunity for prosperity. Barack Obama was the son of a single mother, and grew up on the south side of Chicago. He is a man who speaks with experience and the authority of one who did not squander opportunity nor turn his back on the possibility of what he may achieve should he seize those opportunities. He spoke to the government and the people of Africa, without sentimental drivel and with directness about the opportunities that have discarded in the modern world of Africa today. Corruption is the evidence that the human race is capable of committing acts of an incredibly evil nature. He implored them to consider how capable they are of committing to the promise of committing acts of great good.