There are several different types of new business ideas for 2011 that you can opt for in order to generate a decent amount of primary or additional income. Read on to get to know about few hot business ideas for 2011.

Along with traditional ways of earning money, with the use of Internet technology and the need for supportive services, there are many kinds of small business ideas for 2011 coming up. Though these are small business ideas, they have a lot of income generating potential, which decently may add up to the primary earnings of the owner. A large amount of customers for small businesses come from the working class, which does not have spare time for simple tasks such as cooking and cleaning. Let us have a look at some hot business ideas for 2011.

Hot Business Ideas for 2011

Cleaning Businesses
Cleaning businesses are an all time favorite business for earning money. However, those who are planning to consider this small business opportunity should realize that it does involve a lot of physical work and management. You can either offer cleaning services for homes and offices, or simply windows. The only investment would be the required accessories and understanding of work procedures.

Physical Fitness Businesses
Since more people are experiencing stress in their lives, there is an increasing need for services that would help people stay fit and healthy. Owing to this requirement, you can take relevant courses and start a yoga instruction, physical fitness, or nutrition home based business. You can even start mental health consulting and similar other small businesses for secondary income.

Event Management
Almost all of you would agree to the fact that the services of event management professionals are inevitable. Event planning is required in all kinds of gatherings, conferences, company outings, and other occasions. In order to make this business successful, you need to have a good skill set about managing transportation, local laws, arranging for food, time management, and other managerial aspects.

Home Improvement Businesses
It is also a fact that people do not want to waste time on decorating their houses, but want their homes to look attractive. Considering this, you can set out with an interior decorating business. Similarly, you can even render services which are concerned with home improvement, furniture restructuring and refurbishment, home automation, etc. These home improvement services are really in great demand at present.

Internet Businesses
No other income opportunity is as versatile as doing business on the Internet. You have got a wide range of web based businesses to start with. The most common way is article writing, wherein you write on certain topics for websites who in turn pay you a decided fee. Another most popular method of making money online is product selling on websites like eBay and Amazon.

Fast Food Services
This is a small business opportunity which has proven to be a good income generating method for many people. If you are good at cooking and want to make money out of it, you can arrange for setting up a small catering or fast food business. The amount to be invested in the food catering service would depend on till what extent you want the business to grow.

Businesses with Hobbies
You can even consider your hobby for the purpose of earning a certain amount of secondary income. If you are good at photography, you can use the skill to get contracts of wedding photography or projects for formal occasions. Similarly, you have the option of using painting, teaching, playing a musical instrument, taking care of pets, and many other hobbies as a mode of income generation.

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CALGARY-Oil and gas companies are expected to turn in generally higher fourth quarter results with a few exceptions when they start to close the books on 2010 starting this week.

Although oil prices were up about 12 per cent from 2009, natural gas prices continue to lag and despite a colder winter in key consuming regions the outlook remains uncertain.

Another question mark hanging over the industry is the lingering impact of pipeline outline outages last summer that have prompted Enbridge Inc., the country's largest oil pipeline operator, to restrict space on its export pipelines to the United States for at least another month.

Canadian Oilsands, the largest owner of Syncrude Canada, will offer a glimpse into the state of the industry when it kicks off the earnings parade on Wednesday.

According to Bloomberg data, analysts are expecting the company to report fourth quarter profits of 40 cents per share compared to 44 cents in the same period of 2009. However, full-year earnings are expected to jump more than 60 per cent to $1.62 per share thanks to firm commodity prices and lower natural gas prices used to make synthetic crude oil.

Canadian Oilsands converted to a corporation from a royalty trust effective Dec. 31 and slashed its dividend payout to 20 cents a share which sent its stock tumbling by more than 15 per cent.

Despite positive quarterly profits, the combination of pipeline restrictions and facility outages could weigh on the newly-converted corporation's per unit cash costs, which were more than $40 a barrel in the third quarter, said UBS analyst Chad Friess.

The company has pledged to lower those costs into the $30-plus range, but the trend could actually be higher given the difficulties faced by producers over the past six month getting oil to market.

"I think there will be some noise from the Enbridge outages, but it'll vary by company," Friess said.

Although Canadian Oil Sands has previously insisted the outages weren't material, in situ oilsands players like MEG Energy reportedly saw production volumes cut by some 1,500 barrels per day, which will have a negative impact on cash flow per share numbers.

In addition, BMO Nesbitt Burns analyst Randy Ollenberger said the pipeline outages were responsible for widening differentials, or discounts applied to Canadian heavy oil, which will further erode cash flow numbers for the senior oil producers.

The spread between American benchmark West Texas Intermediate and Western Canadian Select jumped about 30 per cent in the fourth quarter, although it remains within historical averages. The one-two punch of higher differentials combined with a rising Canadian dollar meant that many producers were unable to enjoy the benefits of higher oil prices.

However, Ollenberger said the big integrateds such as Imperial Oil and Suncor can take solace from improved refining margins after several quarters of weak profitability that weighed on results.

Despite a positive outcome for oil-weighted producers, natural gas producers are likely in for another tough year, he added. "We expect gas prices to remain weak into 2012, so it's going to be a while yet," for a meaningful recovery.

In a research note, CIBC World Markets analyst Andrew Potter said other names to watch include Nexen Inc. which is benefiting from higher European oil prices despite continuing operational issues at the Long Lake oilsands project.

On the natural gas front, he expects companies like Encana to post lower year-over-year cash numbers as a result of lower gas prices throughout 2010.

Encana's shares have lagged the broader market but Potter remains bullish on the company which is negotiating a potentially large joint venture with China National Petroleum Company that could inject up to $5 billion in development capital, which would make it one of the biggest partnership deals with a foreign firm to date.

In addition, the company's historically low trading multiples make it an attractive takeover target given its extensive assets and role as one of North America's largest and lowest cost gas producers.

"It is arguably one of the best-positioned unconventional gas producers today, yet its valuation is near historically low levels, making it an attractive target for a bigger, longer term focused player," he said. "We believe the risk/reward is now stacked in Encana's favour - even with a weak short-term gas outlook."



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How do you fully secure something as big and sprawling as an international airport against a terrorist bombing like the one on Monday at Domodedovo Airport in Moscow?

You cannot, security experts I spoke with on Monday say. Airports are by definition public places requiring relatively free access.

The experts have long contended that serious holes in security at airports have been neglected while most of the effort and money goes into looking for weapons on passengers at checkpoints.

But they have also warned that a sensational incident in one place can lead to widespread overreaction and demands for quick fixes.

“It always does,” said Bruce Schneier, a security technology consultant and author who has long argued that there is no such thing as perfect security, and that pretending otherwise is foolish.

Douglas R. Laird, a former Secret Service agent and onetime head of security for Northwest Airlines who now operates an aviation security consulting firm, Laird & Associates, made much the same case.

“At some point, it needs to be made clear that nothing is 100 percent secure,” he said. “With airports, if you were to build a new terminal from scratch, sure, you could do a better job of anticipating certain security issues.

“But still, we’re talking about public areas,” he said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s an airline terminal, a train station or the front of Macy’s — as long as you have free access, you’re going to have these potential issues.”

One measure already in place that could address threats like the terrorist attack in the Moscow terminal is what the Transportation Security Administration in the United States refers to as a behavioral detection officer program. In the program, plainclothes officers trained in what the agency calls “nonintrusive behavior observation and analysis” mingle with crowds, looking for signs of potential trouble in physical behavior.

The T.S.A. has more than 3,000 behavioral detection officers at 161 of the 450 or so commercial airports in the United States. Usually, they work near checkpoints, but they are also elsewhere in airport terminals.

A spokesman for the agency, Greg Soule, said passengers may notice “unpredictable security measures in all areas of U.S. airports, including before the checkpoint.” He said the T.S.A. was monitoring reports from Moscow and sharing information with international agencies.

Christopher Bidwell, the vice president for security at Airports Council International North America, which represents domestic airports, said airports had regularly assigned local law officers to augment the T.S.A. undercover officers and federal air marshals in terminals.

After the Moscow attack, travelers in the United States will quickly see an increase in random security checks “above and beyond the baseline measures currently in place,” he said, including checks in public areas like baggage claim and ticketing.

Airport terminals operate in two zones, the already secure areas and the public areas. As many news reports since the 2001 terrorist attacks have shown, there are problems even in the secure areas, with poorly supervised access points, as well as inadequate credentialing and monitoring of some airport employees and delivery people.

In the public areas, experts say, behavioral detection can be useful as part of a protection program that also includes sophisticated intelligence gathering.

For most airports, adding physical security to public spaces is as much an engineering issue as a procedural one, as Mr. Laird pointed out. In places like India, where air travel is growing rapidly and many airports are being built or expanded, new designs allow for stricter access to terminals. Often, people without tickets or reservations are diverted from main terminals.

But Joe Brancatelli, the publisher of JoeSentMe.com, a site for business travelers, said, “They’ve merely pushed back the perimeters.” People still have to come to the airport, he said.

While technology for detecting explosives is being improved, the main defense is vigilance, despite its limitations. Behavioral detection is a part of the highly regarded Israeli aviation security system, for example, though the Israeli process is time-consuming and perhaps more invasive than would be acceptable in the United States, where more than 1.5 million people a day pass through the T.S.A. checkpoints.

Behavioral profiling is “a good idea, assuming it’s done right,” said Mr. Schneier, who nevertheless has serious reservations about how it is being done here. “You can go around looking for people who look suspicious, which works great if you actually know what suspicious looks like, rather than just deciding, this guy dresses funny and his food doesn’t smell right.”

Mr. Laird, who retired from the Secret Service in 1989 to become the global head of security at Northwest Airlines, agreed that a cadre of trained behavioral detection officers can add a layer of security in a place like an airline terminal. But he said the quality of training needed to be emphasized as well as the great difficulty of securing any big public place against terrorists, who can simply choose another site.

“Nothing in public is ever going to be anything near 100 percent secure in a free society,” he said. On the other hand, he said, “good, well-trained cops are a little like good lifeguards. You need to have the ability, but what you look for is: what stands out here?”

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More than 654 people killed in attacks over 15 years
More than 654 people have been killed in Moscow bombings and other attacks blamed on terrorists over the past 15 years. Here's a timeline, beginning with the Jan. 24 explosion at Domodedovo airport.

Jan. 24, 2011 -- Bombing, Domodedovo airport international arrivals hall: at least 35 people killed; more than 180 injured.

March 29, 2010 Double suicide bombings, Moscow subway, during rush hour: 40 killed; more than 100 injured. A Chechen rebel warlord claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov. 27, 2009 -- Bombing, high-speed Moscow-to-St.Petersburg train (the Nevsky Express): 26 dead; 100 injured. 700 people were on the train.

Aug. 13, 2007 -- Bombing, the Nevsky Express: 60 injured.

Aug. 31, 2004 — Suicide bomber blows herself up outside Rizhskaya subway station: 10 killed; 50 injured. The Islambuli brigades, an Islamist extremist group, claimed responsibility.

Aug. 24, 2004 -- Two female suicide bombers blow themselves up aboard two Russian Tupolev jets that took off from Domodedovo airport: 90 killed.

Feb. 6, 2004 — Suicide bomber, Moscow subway train, rush hour: 41 killed; 134 injured.

Dec. 9, 2003 — Two female suicide bombers, National hotel. 6 killed; 13 injured. Officials said one of the bombs detonated prematurely.

July 5, 2003 -- Two female suicide bombers, open-air rock music festival, Tushino airfield: 16 killed; 60 injured.

Oct. 23-26, 2002 — Hostage-taking, Dubrovka theatre during a performance of Nord-Ost. Chechen rebels took about 850 people hostage. After two days, Russian special forces stormed the theatre: 129 hostages and 41 Chechen fighters were killed, mostly from the effects of a narcotic gas Russian forces used to incapacitate the rebels.

Feb. 5, 2001 — Bombing, Moscow subway, Belorusskaya station: 20 injured.

Aug. 8, 2000 — Bombing, pedestrian tunnel leading to Tverskaya metro station: 13 killed; 90 injured.

Sept. 13, 1999 — Bombing, eight-storey apartment building: 119 killed; 200 injured.

Sept. 9, 1999 — Bombing, nine-storey apartment building: 94 killed; 249 injured. The Russian government blamed Chechen rebels for the Sept. 9 and Sept. 13 attacks, as well as for bombings at two other apartment buildings elswhere in Russia. Others said the government orchestrated the bombings as a pretext for reigniting the war in Chechnya. Russian troops were ordered back to Chechnya at the end of the month.

Aug. 31, 1999 — Bombing, underground Manezh shopping centre, close to the Kremlin: 1 killed; 40 injured.

April 26, 1999 — Bombing, Intourist hotel overlooking Red Square: at least 11 injured.

Jan. 1, 1998 — Bombing, Moscow subway, Tretyakovskaya station. three injured. No one claimed responsibility.

June 11, 1996 -- Bombing, Moscow subway, Serpukhovskaya line: four killed; 12 injured. Officials blamed Chechen separatists, but no one claimed responsibility.



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• Start planning for relocation. Relocation is an extensive process and you need proper planning to relocate smoothly from one place to another. You should take a diary and mention your entire plan and execute tasks on time.

• Sort out useless items of home. You should not pack all items of home uselessly. This is the ideal time to get rid of useless items of home. Donate the unused items to charity that can be used by them. If the items are completely useless then you should put them on scrap sale.

• Collect required packing supplies to pack items of your home. Bring strong and durable packing supplies. Commonly available packing supplies are packing boxes/cartons, foam, bubble wrapper, packing peanuts, tissue paper, packing paper, etc. You will need these supplies in packing household items.

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"Pro-life" has apparently become the new normal in America. Gallop reports that the conservative shift in Americans' views on abortion that was first recorded a year ago has carried over into 2010. Slightly more Americans call themselves "pro-life" than "pro-choice," 47% vs. 45%, according to a May 3-6 Gallup poll. This is nearly identical to the 47% to 46% division found last July following a more strongly pro-life advantage of 51% to 42% last May. While the two-percentage-point gap in current abortion views is not significant, it represents the third consecutive time Gallup has found more Americans taking the pro-life than pro-choice position on this measure since May 2009, suggesting a real change in public opinion. By contrast, in nearly all readings on this question since 1995, and each survey from 2003 to 2008, more Americans called themselves pro-choice than pro-life.And surely to no one's surprise, Gallop found the shift to be limited to Republicans and Independents: According to two-year averages of these results since 2001, Republicans have become more likely to call themselves pro-life since polling conducted in 2003/2004, as have Republican-leaning independents since 2005/2006. Independents who lean to neither party also became more likely to call themselves "pro-life" between 2003/2004 and 2005/2006, but have since held steady.

Democrats' self-identification with the pro-life position has moved in the other direction, declining from 37% in 2003/2004 to 31% in 2009/2010. Among independents who lean Democratic, there has been no movement in either direction.

Gallop's report shows other measures are also highly relevant to the abortion issue - age and gender. Over the last ten years, every age group has seen and increase inidentification with pro-life. The percentage of seniors identifying as pro-life has gone up seven points; young adults ages 18-29 has gone up in pro-life identification four points; those in the 50-64 age group have increased in pro-life identification by five points; and those in their 30s have increased in their pro-life identification by two points in ten years.

And as Ed Morrissey points out, women may provide the most surprising demographic of all, however. In the past ten years, there has been a six-point gain among women identifying as pro-life. Men have increased only by three points in the same period, and now only are a single percentage point higher in pro-life identification. At 49% and 48%, both are coming close to establishing themselves as majorities instead of pluralities.Ed also suggests that Gallup may be working the analysis in the wrong direction - we may be looking at a cultural shift rather than a political shift: We are looking at a cultural shift on abortion, where its perceived morality (consistently rejected by majorities over the same period of time) has finally come into closer relationship with personal identification on the issue. It's not the political divide that's driving these numbers -- but it may be that the cultural shift has started to impact political identification as well. If so, pro-choice Democrats could find themselves in a minority party in the next several years.Regardless of how one frames it - be it political or cultural, what is clear is that the evidence points to Americans growing more wary about the morality of abortion per se - and it's about time they're finally waking up to the big lie of the Left - that unborn children are nothing more than a lump of tissue.



 
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NEW YORK Jan 23 (Reuters) - RockTenn Co (RKT.N) will buy Smurfit-Stone Container Corp (SSCC.N) for about $3.5 billion to create the second-largest containerboard producer in North America, the companies said on Sunday.

Under the merger approved by the boards of the two companies, RockTenn will pay $35 in cash and stock per each Smurfit-Stone common share, representing a 27 percent premium to Smurfit-Stone's closing stock price on Jan. 21.

The strategic transaction will create a $9 billion company in the North American paperboard packaging market, the companies said.

Following the acquisition, RockTenn shareholders will own approximately 56 percent and Smurfit-Stone shareholders will own 44 percent of the combined company.

 
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 President Barack Obama will call for a "responsible" effort to shrink the deficit but won't offer detailed plans on spending and taxes in a State of the Union address Tuesday that will presage the broad themes for political debate through the 2012 election.

The president is expected to call for "shared sacrifice" from both parties, and to reach out to the GOP with a nod to possibly lowering the nation's corporate income-tax rate as part of an overhaul of the corporate-tax code, according to people familiar with speech preparations.

President Obama gives an advance look at what he'll ask of Congress on Tuesday. Video courtesy of Whitehouse.gov.

The speech and the Republican response are likely to frame contrasting philosophies that will drive political discourse for the next two years. Mr. Obama has chosen "competitiveness" and "investment" as terms to guide discussion over how to create jobs, daring Republicans to resist his push for new spending in areas that he will call vital to the nation's future. He will seek to wall off education, infrastructure, science and energy from cuts, in effect making them the ground on which the 2012 campaign is to be fought.

Republicans have chosen House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin to deliver the State of the Union response. Mr. Ryan has outlined a vision of smaller, less-intrusive government, extending to popular programs such as Medicare, which he would turn increasingly over to the private sector.

Since what Mr. Obama described as his party's "shellacking" in November, he has tried to appeal to the political center by moving right. He struck a deal with Republicans on taxes and has been remaking the White House with deal makers from Bill Clinton's White House schooled in bipartisan outreach. He also has reached out to business with pledges to pare regulations and consult more closely on trade, taxes and "competitiveness."

The moves appear to be yielding political results. A slew of new polls have put the president's approval ratings at levels not seen since the pitched partisan battles over Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul began in August 2009.

In his address Tuesday, the president is expected to appeal for national unity and a bipartisan effort to grapple with festering problems, especially job creation and the deficit. He will point to the tax deal and other recent bipartisan successes, and say that momentum from last month's lame-duck session of Congress must not be squandered, officials familiar with the speech say.

The president will try to keep the deficit conversation in broad terms, fearing that detailed proposals would put Republicans, Democrats and Washington interest groups into a defensive crouch before real negotiations can take place, according to those officials. White House officials, for instance, have assured Democratic lawmakers that the president will not explicitly call for cuts in Social Security benefits, though he will say changes are needed to put the program on a solid fiscal footing.

At the same time, Mr. Obama will call on both parties to be prepared to put everything on the table. That means Democrats have to be ready to look at changes to Social Security, and Republicans to consider tax-code changes to increase revenue.

Both the White House and House Republicans are making the budget deficit central to their economic programs.

Republicans want immediate, dramatic cuts to domestic programs in Congress's annual spending bills. "We have to shrink government. We have to cut spending. And we need to really look to the private sector to grow jobs," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R., Va.) Sunday on NBC's "Meet the Press."

The White House and a bipartisan group of senators are focusing on restructuring the tax code and entitlement programs such as Social Security, which could have more dramatic impacts on the deficit in the long run but would do little in the short term. White House officials say Republican calls for $100 billion in spending cuts this year would choke off the economic recovery while doing little in the long run to tame the deficit.

"The American people say, don't touch Social Security, don't touch Medicare, don't cut defense. That's 84% of the federal budget," Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D., N.D.). who is retiring when his term ends in 2012, said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." "If you can't touch 84% of the federal budget...you're down to 16% of the budget at a time we're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend."

An administration official said late last week that a tax overhaul was expected to get at least a mention in the address, in the context of improving U.S. competitiveness. The U.S. currently has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the industrialized world, and is one of the few major economies that tax companies' overseas profits when they're brought back home. Mr. Obama and his top economic advisers have expressed interest in cutting rates to improve U.S. investment and exports.

On Friday, Jason Furman, principal deputy director of the National Economic Council, said reducing rates on corporations "could have meaningful benefits, especially in an increasingly global economy where business activity responds to tax rates." He also suggested that the White House will focus on longer-term proposals to redesign the tax system's basic architecture.

Such overtures and a renewed focus on fiscal matters have sparked hope that a comprehensive deal can be reached to reshape the government's finances.

"The president knows full well that we're going to have to cut discretionary spending right away, and Republicans know we've got to focus on structural changes to entitlements," Rep. Jeff Flake (R., Ariz.) said Sunday.

But such an agreement won't be easy. Republicans are on edge over news that Mr. Obama will call for increased "investment" in areas he believes are necessary to keep the nation competitive internationally, such as education, infrastructure, scientific research and renewable energy.

White House officials see no contradiction on spending more in some areas while pursuing some short-term spending cuts and trying to reach a broad deal on taxes and entitlements. Republican plans to immediately cut spending, especially on programs funded by the stimulus law of 2009, would kill programs that have men in hard hats right now, they say.

—John McKinnon contributed to this article.
 
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