Archive for March, 2008
03.31.08
Posted in Marketing Stuff at 11:45 pm by admin
Basic Website Promotion for the Novice, by Brian @ RankAdvance
Many website owners & smaller internet businesses simply cannot afford to hire a specialized web marketing / promotion firm to properly market their site for them. [link] This is not the end of the world for them - there are other possibilities, many of them free and only acquiring a bit of your time. Basic website promotion requires very little skill, rather just a few pointers of what needs to be done !
Let’s say your site is ready to be seen on the www. You have done all the necessary things to optimize your site to a decent degree, ie. good title tags, description & keyword tags, plus have enough related content. The links between pages are all there, and you have a proper site map.
This will now be the very first time you market your site on the www. We assume that your site doesn’t appear on any search engine, nor have any other link (direct or indirect) to it.
Step 1 : Submitting to Major Directories & Search Engines
This is a logical step, and one that can take lots of time, especially if you do manual submitting. It can take many weeks, sometimes months before a search engine will visit and index your site. There is also a risk that your site might not even be indexed.
There is a shortcut that we can recommend. Ask a friend or acquaintance with a website already indexed by the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc.) to place a temporary link on their site to your “new website”. This will ensure a much faster inclusion in the search engines, and when the search engines visit your friend’s site again, your site will be “seen”, the link followed, and your site indexed. Your link can now be removed from the friend’s site, except of cause if it’s a related site to yours (an added bonus as you will have incoming link number one to your site).
Some directories ask a fee for inclusion. If you can afford a few, we highly recommend it, as this will count big time towards your search engine rankings. Be careful not to submit you site to insignificant, low traffic directories - go for the big ones. A proper internet search will put you on the track of the better ones.
Step 2 : Acquiring relevant links to your site
In essence this boils down to establishing better reciprocal links. You will do this over a period of weeks, months and even years. Put an amount of time every week aside for this purpose. It will be a very good investment in the end ! This long term link-acquiring program will eventually yield dividends. The trick lies in finding sites related to yours, but not directly in competition with your site or target audience.
You will need to “show cause” to the other site owner why it’s advantageous to link to yours. Start by compiling a curtious email link request message that you can use over and over. Make the message personal by addressing it to a specific person whenever possible. Remember, the more relevant links pointing towards your site, the higher your search engine rankings will be. Coupled to good related content, it will not surprise me if you eventually reach a number 1 position on a major search engine for more than one keyword phrase !!
About the Author
Brian is a freelance writer, website marketing expert & webmaster of 3 websites, including Rank Advance : http://www.rankadvance.com
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Posted in Recreation Resources at 7:57 am by admin
If your kids have skied before you may know the skis appropriate
for them and make the reservations before hand. If you are
skiing during a holiday of high skier count, you should ask
about reserving skis and equipment. Also, some ski resorts will
take reservations for group lessons. You should make
reservations for your private lessons in advance to assure your
lessons.
Your kids need a high-quality sun block, even if the sun is not
out and bright. They will also require goggles and perhaps sun
glasses. Goggles work the best for most kids. It is also
advisable to have helmets for the children. A number of rental
shops have helmets for rent. You will be able to purchase them
at the ski resort.
There is no set age to start your kids skiing. Some children can
do it at age six while some three-year-old children may be ready.
In a private lesson the child has one on one attention. Remember
the ski resort with all the distractions of new sites such as
lifts maybe snowmobiles, people on skis going by at speeds that
might seem to them as outrageous. All of this distracts them and
they do not have their attention on the instructor.
Many times the children will have more fun in group lessons. The
inter-reactions with other children and the games that a good
instructor will have the group play on ski’s make it a good
learning experience, as well as having fun.
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Posted in Web Of Medicine at 4:10 am by admin
Warts are small benign growths on the skin, caused by a variety of related, slow-acting viruses HPV (human papilloma virus). There are at least sixty known types of HPV. Warts may appear singly or in clusters. We will talk about three types of warts: Common warts, Plantar warts, and genital warts.
Common warts can be found anywhere on the body, but are most common on the hands, fingers elbows, forearms, knees, face, and the skin around the nails. Most often, they occur on skin that is expose to constant friction, trauma, or abrasion. They can also occur on the larynx (the voice box) and cause hoarseness. Common warts may be flat or raised, dry or moist, and have a rough and pitted surface that is either the same color as or slightly darker than the surrounding skin.
They can be as small as a pinhead or as large as small bean. Highly contagious, the virus that causes common warts is acquired through breaks in the skin. Common warts can spread if they picked, trimmed, bitten or touched, Warts on the face can spread as a result of shaving.
Common warts typically do not cause pain or itching.
Plantar warts occur on the sales of the feet and the underside of the toes. They are bumpy white growths that may resemble calluses, except that they can be tender to the touch and often bleed if the surface is trimmed. They also often have an identifiable hard center. Plantar warts do not tend to spread to other parts of the body.
Genital warts soft, moist growths found in and around the vagina, anus, penis, groin, and/or scrotum. In men, they can grow in the urethra as well. They are usually pink or red in color and resemble tiny heads of cauliflower. Genital warts most often occur in clusters, but they can appear singly as well. They are transmitted through vaginal, oral, or anal intercourse, and are highly contagious. Because the warts do not usually appear until three months or more after an individual becomes infected with the HPV that causes them, the virus can be spread before the carrier is even aware that he or she has it. Although genital warts are not cancerous, they appear to cause changes in the cervix that may be a precursor of cervical cancer.
An infant born to a mother with genital warts may contract the virus. If you have genital warts, you are not alone. Between the start of the “sexual revolution” in the sixties and the late eighties, reported occurrences of these warts increased tenfold. By 1990, one million cases a year were being reported in the United States alone.
We recommend.
Fresh Aloe vera juice is applied directly to dissolve warts and tone the skin.
Proteolytic Enzymes: Papaya (papain), Pineapple (bromelain), banana peel and figs contain enzymes that digest and dissolve warts in a safe manner.
The fresh plant, sap (figs) or concentrate (papain) can be applied; any of these can be taped to the skin for several hours.
Milkweed a weed that is wide spread across North America; the fresh milky sap of the leaf or stem is applied directly to warts once a day. Usually works dramatically; non-irritating, does not affect normal skin.
Increase the amount of sulfur-containing amino acids in your diet by eating more asparagus, citrus fruits, eggs, garlic, and onions.
By Charles Silverman N.D.
Charles Silverman N.D.
Is the author of The Homemade Medicine e-book First Edition
and owner of http://www.homemademedicine.com
e-mail: info@homemademedicine.com
http://www.homemademedicine.com/get_rid_of_warts_on_face_feet_genital.html
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Posted in Publishing Infos at 3:32 am by admin
Nike’s ad has taken on new meaning for me of late; “Just do it!”
runs through my mind like a mantra. Although my dreams have
nothing to do with athletic shoes and little to do with
athletics (unless you count the long list of ideas I have
developed which revolve around my sons and their activities), I
have spent a long time avoiding the one thing I’ve always wanted
to do - write.
Writing has actually been a part of my work life for a very long
time. I’ve written and edited in the business world. I’ve taught
writing to high school students. I’ve written countless lesson
plans, activities, etc. I have never tried to get any of my work
published, until now.
Making the decision to write for a living was actually one of
the most difficult obstacles I needed to overcome. (”Overcome”
is probably too strong. I am still scared to death that I won’t
be able to pay my mortgage.) I never doubted my ability to
write, but I did doubt my ability to write for a living. My
former employer helped me make the decision by firing me. (They
actually called it a reduction in force, or RIF for short.)
After avoiding the application process for weeks, then staring
at an online application for close to an hour, I finally had to
come to terms with myself and my goals for the future.
While I love teaching, I am tired of the politics that accompany
teaching. I can’t face it any more. I need to pay my bills and
be financially responsible, but part of raising my children
involves being a role model. I don’t want them to be afraid to
take a risk that could help them realize their dreams because
they watched their mother play it safe.
Having said that, I must admit that my new found bravery
faltered when I wrote two checks totaling $1100.00 for two
children to play travel soccer next year. Nevertheless, I
developed a game face and hid my fears from everyone. I even
fooled myself for a while. As the school year ended, my
colleagues began asking me about my plans for the fall. I
answered - with confidence that I only partially felt - that I
planned to write. After repeating this statement to the tenth
person, I began to feel somewhat guilty. After all, I was making
it sound as if it were a done deal, when I really had barely
started. I had a bunch of “how to” articles stacked in my home
office that were conflicting and sometimes confusing. I had not
even read some of the articles yet.
Many of my well wishers countered with questions that
unintentionally poked holes in my game face. “Write what?” they
asked. “For whom?” they asked. The answers to their questions
involved explaining the vast quantities of research through
which I had only recently begun to sift. I felt my courage
failing because I could not adequately explain the process I was
only beginning to understand myself. That insidious self-doubt
began to erode my courage.
But I persevered. As I plodded through articles about query
letters, marketing skills, and copyright I began to see
opportunity in the mountains of material.
That opportunity belongs to the writer who can stick it out. As
I delve into some of the markets listed online and read about
their requirements, I now think: “I can do that!” A torrent of
ideas spouts out of me as I work, as I sleep, as I drive car
pool. I have several pieces started, a myriad of sticky notes
hanging from shelves in my office, and a legal pad with several
pages of notes. My game face is back and for the first time it
is supported with real confidence.
Looking back on the those first weeks and months, I realize what
I have accomplished. I have taken the first step - I made the
decision to write for a living. I have learned that writing
query letters is the standard and expected practice for pitching
ideas to potential markets. I have learned what information
should be included in a query letter. I have learned that
Writer’s Market is the best place to find those markets.
I am now taking the next step: I’m looking for appropriate
markets and writing query letters to pitch my ideas. We’ll see…
If you like this article, read Starting a Writing Career (or How I Sifted Through the Muck and
Found My Way)
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03.30.08
Posted in Miscellaneous at 10:05 pm by admin
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Posted in Science at 1:52 pm by admin
VFD-Double-Stage High-Efficiency Vacuum Insulation Oil Purifier
Application VFD series is mainly used to improve the properties
of insulation oil. It can remove trace water, gas, particulate
matters etc. from the insulating oil effectively and rapidly so
as to boost performance of transformers, circuit breakers,
mutual inductors, cable and capacitors which has insulation
system. VFD series specialize in purifying branded oil,
insulating oil of high voltage and super high voltage
transformer. Additionally, it is suitable for treating low
viscosity lubrication oil.
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Posted in Universe Of Software at 12:37 pm by admin
Visual Basic is the best software programming language for developing technical applications, and it is the easiest one to learn. Sure, you can also use it to design fancy Internet sites, business applications, the most advanced database systems, and distributed transactions. For industrial and technical applications, however, Visual Basic is better than anything else. In this article I will try presenting few of the reasons behind my affirmations.
First of all, Visual Basic comes with an exceptional graphic interface, which is definitely the easiest one to work with. For those who know how to do it, Visual Basic does everything Visual C++ does, only ten to twenty times faster and easier. It takes just few minutes to insert a label or a red line to display the dynamic value of a technical parameter. Of course, some graphic controls are very complex, but you do not necessarily need them. The most important controls in technical applications are: labels, text-boxes, buttons, MSFlexGrid, then lines, rectangles and circles. This is all! You do not need fancy graphics. Using only the few basic controls I summarized you can design the most powerful technical applications today, in the entire World.
When we control hardware the most important is to process data as bytes and bits. In C and C++ we use pointers to break integers into bytes, or to concatenate bytes into integers and doubles. In Visual Basic we use mathematical operations on bytes, and results are exactly the same. In order to process individual bits we use “masks” and bit-shifting in C and C++. In visual Basic we also use masks, and we replace bit-shifting with mathematical operations. Few are aware Visual Basic has incredibly rich libraries of mathematical functions, and they are optimized for very fast calculations. You can easily discover logic and statistical functions, “sine”, “log”, “exp”, and all other mathematical goodies that bring happiness and sunshine in our lives.
Now, many readers will object saying Visual Basic is limited to Windows PC OS (Operating System). No doubts about that, but we are talking here about 80% of the World market! What more would you expect? The next step in PC development is what we name today “Tablet PC”, and Windows has a good grip on that one with Windows Mobile OS. Even on the PDA market (Peripheral Device Adaptors) Windows CE is one of the best OS available. Besides, all software applications are written for Windows PC first of all, and before everything else.
Right! Now, let’s detail a little this issue of controlling hardware using Visual Basic. The first thing to do is, design your intelligent hardware module using, say dsPIC30F3011 or even dsPIC30F4011. If you have no idea how to do it, this is perfect, and you do not have to worry about it. Once you have your nice little piece of hardware working, you will have to write an intelligent firmware program to give it “life”. Again, I suspect you do not know how to write firmware in C for Microchip dsPIC microcontrollers, but this is just fine–trust me with this one. I can guarantee you will become an expert in hardware and firmware in about 60 days–this is, considering you want to, and you do invest little, minimal efforts for this.
Next, it should take you a couple of weeks to learn how to write a Visual Basic application to “talk” to your hardware module. Hardware and firmware working together collect field data from peripherals, and they send it to your Visual Basic application. Wow! Your intelligent Visual Basic application is going to display analog field data dynamically, on a Graph Trace control–and you will know how to design this one–just like on an oscilloscope screen. You can store your processed data in binary files on PC; you can send commands to and from your hardware module; and you process field data as bits and bytes, mathematically, the way it pleases you most! To end, you can send the entire binary file to hardware and back, or even to an Internet site.
You are asking, probably, how you are going to do all those wonders. This is truly easy! Just visit my home website, and discover there a tutorial book about learning hardware, firmware, and software design. This is no joke, and the book I refer to is the best one you can find in the entire World today. It is just beyond belief! Find and read Table of Contents and the introductory chapters, and you will learn everything you want to know about it. Next, it is up to you, but my advice is, do not toss away precious, useful information, because you are going to need it one day. Knowledge it is never sufficient or too much.
O G POPA is Professional Engineer in BC, Canada. His home site is Corollary Theorems at http://www.corollarytheorems.com
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Posted in Better Management at 10:44 am by admin
Have you ever watched an old-fashioned delicatessen counterman or woman work?
For one thing, they work fast.
And unless you find them during a rare moment of leisure, they’re strictly business. When one transaction is finished, they’ll say, “Next?”
If the customer they’ve called is off somewhere, chatting or not paying attention, a second later and that word comes flying out again: “Next!”
One transaction is done and all attention is paid to you guessed it, the one coming up.
This, as I see it, is a beautiful Zen metaphor, a reminder that when you give everything to what is happening NOW, you get the payoff called the “pleasantness of presentness.”
It’s essential we do this, whether we’re in sales, customer service, management, and especially in the mechanical arts, such as school bus driving or flying planes. The past is interesting, and it may even contain lessons, but we’ll get to those in the future, when we can give over our entire consciousness to them.
But NOW, we need to address the things relevant to what is in front of us.
Sellers, especially when the next prospect pops up in front of them, as on the phone, have to wipe away vestiges of the last one, especially if it was negative.
Service people can’t blame all customers, or make this one atone for the sins of the last.
And drivers and pilots can’t spend a second considering the debris that they just avoided. Once it’s in the rearview, it must stay there.
So, how do we stay in the here and now?
(1) Take one deep breath between transactions, to remind yourself that the time is NOW.
(2) When you drift, have an image or a thought that you use to refocus. I use the image of a triangle. When I superimpose that on what I’m seeing, I return to NOW.
(3) Don’t hold back or resist fully doing what you’re doing. You can’t be here and now and saying, “I hate this” at the same time. Just do it, without commentary.
And if these don’t help, just say “Next!”
Dr. Gary S. Goodman, President of Customersatisfaction.com, is a popular keynote speaker, management consultant, and seminar leader and the best-selling author of 12 books, including Reach Out & Sell Someone®, You Can Sell Anything By Telephone! and Monitoring, Measuring & Managing Customer Service, and the audio program, “The Law of Large Numbers: How To Make Success Inevitable,” published by Nightingale-Conant. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, worldwide. A Ph.D. from USC’s Annenberg School, a Loyola lawyer, and an MBA from the Peter F. Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University, Gary offers programs through UCLA Extension and numerous universities, trade associations, and other organizations in the United States and abroad. He holds the rank of Shodan, 1st Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate. He is headquartered in Glendale, California, and he can be reached at (818) 243-7338 or at: gary@customersatisfaction.com.
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Posted in College Education at 9:46 am by admin
Marcha Thomas-Blades, “Caribbean Migration into Baytown, Texas,” Touchstone, vol. XIX (2000), 59-67.
This article traces the migration of Caribbean Islanders into Baytown, Texas, and explores the impact their immigration has had on Baytown. The first Caribbean peoples arrived in Texas as slave labor in the early nineteenth century. At this time, Galveston Island was an important port in the slave trade, which supplied slaves to Texas colonists.
In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century, a series of natural disasters and economic depression caused many Caribbean Islanders to immigrate to other countries. The building of the Panama Canal attracted Islanders to Panama, and oil production drew many to Curacoa and Venezuela in the early nineteenth century. In 1960, the U.S. Virgin Island of St. Croix employed many Islanders in the oil industry.
The first influx of Caribbean Islanders in Texas settled in La Porte due to Brown & Root’s active recruitment among the Islanders. In the 1970s, the Islanders began moving to Baytown, which was experiencing an economic boom due to the oil industry. Brown & Root recruited many Islanders to help build the Baytown Olefins Plant.
Mr. Jesse Powell and his wife Dorothy helped the Caribbean Islanders adjust to life in Baytown. They provided housing in their trailer park and transportation for the immigrants for $70 dollars a week. Mrs. Powell helped them with such things as enrolling their children in school, shopping, and finding employment.
Caribbean Islanders in La Porte also began moving to Baytown due to racism. Although Baytown was not as hostile, the Islanders still suffered discrimination on account of their skin color and accent. Consequently, many children found it necessary to suppress their ethnicity, even while their parents strived to teach them Caribbean culture and values.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Caribbean immigration continued into Baytown, and many Islanders from other parts of the United States and Canada also came to Baytown. Baytown was a preferred spot because of the availability of jobs, tropical climate, small population, and the existing Caribbean community. The 1990 Census reported about 1,081 Caribbean immigrants living in Baytown.
The Caribbean population began to have an impact on Baytown. Many businesses opened that sold Caribbean products, such as the Caribbean Snacks and Produce Store. Jah Colors sells Caribbean memorabilia, music, and clothing. The nightclub, The Robe, offers Caribbean music and dancing. Caribbean organizations were formed, such as the Lee College Caribbean Association, which sponsored the first Carifiesta in 1993. This festival was continued for three years, until the graduation of two of its most active members resulted in the decline of the LC Caribbean Association’s activities. In 1998, the LC Caribbean Association ceased to exist.
Since Caribbean culture has been accepted in Baytown, the children of Islanders are not ostracized and now are proud to exhibit their heritage. Marcha Thomas-Blades contends that while the Caribbean youth have held on to their culture, they have assimilated into the dominant culture. Consequently, they are experiencing the best of both cultures.
Mary Arnold graduated from University of Houston-Clear Lake with a B.A. in literature and history.
She is an author on http://www.Writing.Com/ which is a site for Writers.
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Posted in House Of Technology at 9:42 am by admin
When you’re preparing to pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP certification, one of the biggest challenges is learning BGP. BGP is totally different from any protocol you learned to earn your CCNA certification, and one of the differences is that BGP uses path attributes to favor one path over another when multiple paths to or from a destination exist.
Notice I said “to or from”. In earlier free BGP tutorials, I discussed the BGP attributes “weight” and “local preference”. These attributes are used to favor one path to a destination over another; for example, if BGP AS 100 has two paths to a destination in AS 200, these two attributes can be set in AS 100 to favor one path over another. But what if AS 100 wants to inform the routers in AS 200 as to which path it should use to reach a given destination in AS 100?
That’s where the BGP attribute “Multi-Exit Discriminator”, or MED, comes in. The MED value can be set in AS 100 to tell AS 200 which path it should use to reach a given network in AS 100.
As with many BGP attributes, the MED can be set with a route-map. What you need to watch is that there is no “set med” value in route maps. To change the MED of a path, you need to change the metric of that path. Let’s say that there are two entry paths for AS 200 to use to reach destinations in AS 100. You want AS 200 to use the 100.1.1.0/24 path over the 100.2.2.0/24 path. First, identify the two paths with two separate ACLs.
R1(config)#access-list 22 permit 100.1.1.0 0.0.0.255
R1(config)#access-list 23 permit 100.2.2.0 0.0.0.255
Next, write a route-map that assigns a lower metric to the more-desirable path.
R1(config)#route-map PREFER_PATH permit 10
R1(config-route-map)#match ip address 22
R1(config-route-map)#set metric 100
R1(config-route-map)#route-map PREFER_PATH permit 20
R1(config-route-map)#match ip address 23
R1(config-route-map)#set metric 250
Finally, apply the route-map to the neighbor or neighbors.
R1(config-route-map)#router bgp 100
R1(config-router)#neighbor 22.2.2.2 route-map PREFER_PATH out
The key points to keep in mind is that while many BGP attributes prefer a higher value, the MED is basically an external metric - and a lower metric is preferred, just as with the protocols you’ve already studied to earn your CCNA certification.
Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, is the owner of The Bryant Advantage (www.thebryantadvantage.com), home of free CCNA and CCNP tutorials, The Ultimate CCNA Study Package, and Ultimate CCNP Study Packages. Video courses and training, binary and subnetting help, and corporate training are also available. Pass the CCNA exam and BSCI exam with Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933!
For a copy of his FREE ebooks, “How To Pass The CCNA” and “How To Pass The CCNP”, visit the website and download your copies! Get your CCNP certification with The Bryant Advantage!
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