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Scargill Cove is the perfect place for Fallon Jones, confirmed recluse and investigator of the paranormal. It's a hot spot, a convergence point for unusually strong currents of energy, which might explain why the town attracts misfits and drifters like moths to a flame. Now someone else has been drawn to the Cove — Isabella Valdez, on the run from some very dangerous men.
When she starts working as Fallon's assistant, Isabella impresses him by organizing his pathologically chaotic office—and doesn't bat an eye at the psychic element of his job. She's a kindred spirit, a sanctuary from a world that considers his talents a form of madness. But after a routine case unearths an antique clock infused with dark energy, Fallon and Isabella are dragged into the secret history of Scargill Cove and forced to fight for their lives, as they unravel a cutthroat conspiracy with roots in the Jones family business…and Isabella's family tree.
I do find Jayne Ann Krentz's Arcane Society series quite interesting so I have read all the books set in the present times in the series whenever I was in the mood for them. In Too Deep is Fallon Jones' book and I have to say I had been looking forward to this one because I curious to see more about Fallon whenever he made a cameo in the previous books. In Too Deep turned out to be a really good book.
Let's start with Fallon cause I am very excited about him. Fallon Jones is the descendant of the Jones' who were the founders of the Arcane Society. Fallon is a recluse and an investigator of the paranormal. He has a lot of power and works on multiple cases at a time. I really liked Fallon. He was an almost geeky hero who didn't see his appeal. I loved how direct he was with Isabella. He made for a great hero.
Isabella has been running her entire life. When some dangerous men come very close to catching her she decides to go to Scargill Cove and become Fallon's assistant. I really liked Isabella too. She was a heroine with her head on her shoulders. I loved how she spoke what was on her mind. Isabella was a heroine who was very easy to relate to and I really enjoyed her with Fallon.
With the mysterious case going on at Scargill Cove, we see Fallon and Isabella working together. I loved the chemistry Isabella and Fallon shared. You could see it in each conversation they had. It was so cute to see them accept each others weirdness and quirks. Isabella and Fallon made for a great couple.
I also love the suspense elements which come with these books. In Too Deep had a good suspense going on and it kept me hooked. I also liked meeting all the characters residing in Scargill Cove. They made for a great if not slightly mad small town. All in all, In Too Deep was a really good read.


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Good Companies Adopt Technology That Improves Internal Efficiency. Great Companies Invest In Technology That Generates External Impact.
I remember when my previous construction company invested in a new project software. It was a good tool for us, nothing exceptionally crazy that shook the world, but it had more bells and whistles than our prior software. Internally, it was a small step up, valuable enough for us to learn and use, but it made zero change to our customer experience.
The new project software did not help us communicate better with customers. We did not provide new or better levels of service. To customers, life was the same. I began to wonder 'Can we invest in a different place, a more visible place, a more impactful place? How can we make the biggest impact with technology for our customers?'
Investing In Technology That Changes Customer Experience Is An Investment In Your Customer Base.
Technology companies understand this better than any other industry. It is the reason that your smartphone constantly prompts you to update your apps. Now, and for the foreseeable future, competitive advantage is all about new features and new functions making the customer experience better…making the experience different…making it faster…making it easier.
Industries such as field service and construction have traditionally lagged on this effort because change is hard. The change from handwritten paperwork to digital communication was—and probably still is—the biggest customer-centric investment many companies have made in our industry. It was an enormous shift and was something that once gave you a talking point during a sales presentation or in the bid process. Here's a question…is it still a competitive advantage? Or something your customers expect?
Now I ask you another tough question, was the leap from pen and paper the last customer-centric technology investment you made? If it was, it's almost 2019, you are due for another one. If you have not yet made that leap, I encourage you to waste no time in doing so. If you are currently debating yourself in your mind whether your GPS investment was customer centric, I can tell you, no matter how you swing that stick, it was not.
A Key To Customer-centric Technology: Invest In What's Valuable, Not What's Cool.
So how can you identify smart investments customer-centric tech? A customer-focused technology should do three critical things:
- Deliver value on every single call, including service, installs, site surveys, etc. Great technology needs to become part of how you deliver service every single time.
- Provide a platform that is easy for customers to access, consume, and understand information, whether they are using a mobile device or a desktop.
- Help you inform and educate your customer by enabling you to communicate on the service provided, any service-related issues, and any recommendations you make for the betterment of their home or building.
If the technology you are evaluating checks all three of these boxes, then you are looking at one hell of a good product. Whatever you choose, avoid the cool, find the valuable, and make sure it makes an impact.
Hopefully this got you thinking about where your investment dollars will go as the 2019 Budget Planning season kicks off. Investing in your customer experience is a solid strategy for allocating technology dollars to generate real impact.

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The client sends a firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758513672210090047.post-47570992310510370722011-09-05T08:13:00.000+01:002012-12-05T21:43:48.990+00:00Subnet Addressing / Subnet Masking By looking at the addressing structures, you can see that even with a Class C address, there are a large number of hosts per network. Such a structure is an inefficient use of addresses if each end of a routed link requires a different network number. It is unlikely that the smaller office LANs would have that many devices. You can resolve this problem by using a technique email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758513672210090047.post-62559515679325386402011-09-05T07:59:00.000+01:002012-12-05T21:44:17.687+00:00Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses Because TCP/IP networks are interconnected across the world, each computer on the Internet must have a unique address (called an IP address) to make sure that transmitted data reaches the correct destination. 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Don't think to buy a firewall which solves all your security problems! You always have to ensure good configuration and updates - this should be an integrated process. But you never will reach 100% of security, it's like a bank safe: you can make it difficult to crack, but there will always be somebody, who email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5758513672210090047.post-78467329624549776312010-06-20T09:02:00.000+01:002012-12-05T21:46:34.074+00:00What is Firewall? Understanding the Concepts behind Firewall. Introduction Access to e-mail and other Internet resources is very much a necessity for conducting business and accessing information. However, along with the convenience that network connectivity brings, it also raises serious security concerns. 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Do we in Britain suffer from theatrical xenophobia? I used to think so. As a young critic, I was appalled by how little we saw outside the familiar Anglo-American rep, and our snooty attitude to visiting companies. Now in 2012, as we relish the delights of the Cultural Olympiad and London's World Stages season – to mention only the most high-profile projects – I sometimes wonder if the pendulum hasn't swung rather far in the opposite direction. Do we now have an uncritical acceptance of anything foreign?
That certainly wasn't true when I set out. The French classics, especially Racine and Corneille, were regarded as untranslatable, unplayable and theatrically arid. As for the Germans, no one bothered much with dry-as-dust Schiller, while Goethe's Faust was fit only for the study. We loved Chekhov, largely because we turned his plays into celebrations of the twilit pathos of the English country gentry: we studiously ignored, however, the rest of the Russian heritage and glibly assumed all modern Soviet plays were about tractors. And, while we revived the naturalistic plays of Ibsen and Strindberg, we turned a blind eye to their epic or expressionist works.
I exaggerate only slightly: British theatre was marked by its cosy insularity and its fog-isolates-Europe attitude towards the continental mainland. As for Asia and Africa, they barely registered on the radar. All that changed because of the emergence of a whole new generation of writers and directors, both well-travelled and culturally omnivorous. The poet and playwright Tony Harrison deserves an immense amount of credit for his pioneering versions of The Misanthrope and Phaedra Britannica. Declan Donnellan and Nick Ormerod at the touring company Cheek by Jowl opened a window on the world with their productions of plays by Racine, Corneille, Calderón and Ostrovsky. Stephen Daldry and Laurence Boswell at west London's Gate theatre, Jonathan Kent and Ian McDiarmid at the Almeida and Michael Grandage in his seasons at the Sheffield Crucible and the Donmar were also instrumental in expanding the rep. I remember Grandage saying that he hoped other work at the Crucible would pay for his risky 2004 revival of Don Carlos: instead it turned out to be the Schiller that audiences adored, and which the next year turned into a West End and Broadway hit.
We have shed our xenophobia and our theatre is all the richer for it. But I suspect we now operate a double-standard, especially when it comes to the wilder excesses of directors' theatre: OK if it's foreign, to be rubbished if it's British. I was thinking of two recent productions of Macbeth and King John. The former came from Poland and was seen briefly at Shakespeare's Globe as part of the World Shakespeare festival; the latter is in the RSC's current season at Stratford's Swan. Both productions made extensive use of pop culture. Both were cynical about power. Both were sexually explicit: a transvestite whore went down on Macbeth at the Globe, while Pippa Nixon's female Bastard and Alex Waldman's King John get it together at Stratford. Yet while the Polish Macbeth was greeted with whoops and cheers, Maria Aberg's King John has had a decidedly mixed reception and was dismissed as "stupefyingly dire" in the Independent. Personally, I couldn't see all that much difference between the productions – both, I thought, mixed the innovative and the idiotic. I was just struck by the way a Polish director could get away with things for which a British-based one was gratuitously crucified.
In short, I think we need to be as critically discriminating about visiting theatre as we are about our own and avoid falling into the trap of assuming that anything from abroad possesses some magic elixir denied to our own prosaic playwright-led process. I'm happy as Larry that we have banished our cultural xenophobia. I'm just anxious we don't replace it with a naive acceptance of anything exotically foreign.
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Coring and peeling apples, and slicing them to make an apple pie, apple crumble, crisp, or any other apple recipe, or simply to enjoy as a healthy snack can be done easily with a paring knife or an apple peeler.
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Self-empowerment, ambition, potential, determination, desire, temptation, indulgence.
Artist Interpretation
Clever Jackal always finds the tools needed to unlock trapped energy. The barriers that hold him back are of his own making, and freedom from obstruction is of his own will. Jackal is the master of the land of shadows that live within the subconscious. By dancing with his shadow-self, he is reborn with new insight and spiritual wisdom. Everyone has a shadow-self composed of desires, repressed thoughts, and instincts. It represents the unknown, and is necessary to embody the whole true self. Without it, we are fragmented. Anger, fear, and other darker characteristics are often associated with negativity, but these are all part of spiritual growth. By accepting all sides of yourself, you can master your shadow self instead of letting it control you The shadow-self is a powerful source for creative energy. If it is repressed, the inner fire is extinguished and blockages increase. As a hunter of opportunity, Jackal will guide you in overcoming the illusion of limitations. Self-empowerment is born from action combined with expression, so release yourself from creative restrictions. Imagination is the ultimate power. It brings about a new awakening and the knowingness that, with care, anything is possible.
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After years of record-breaking venture funding in the virtual reality industry, Greenlight Insights expects 2016 to be a record-breaking year. The numbers are starting to roll in, as reported in the 2016 Virtual Reality Industry Report.
A diverse set of companies made up the largest venture deals of the year. Earlier this year, MindMaze ($100M) and NextVR ($80M) have raised two of the largest single venture rounds we've ever seen. This week's announcement that Osterhout Design Group, a leading developer and manufacturer of mobile AR/VR smartglasses, has closed $58M in Series A funding is another prime example of the mega deals in VR venture funding that have been the story of 2016.
"It's likely 2016 will shatter funding records. The number of deals and actual dollar value is up significantly year-over-year," says Clifton Dawson, Greenlight Insights Founder & CEO. "As for next year, we expect to see more breakout deals as the first wave of innovation matures."
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Working from our Beverley office, Amy carries out LPA drafting and probate file administration.
Graduating from the University of Sheffield in 2016 with a law degree, Amy completed her Practice Course at the University of Law in Leeds whilst working as a Paralegal at Wilkin Chapman. She graduated from the University of Law in 2018 with her LPC and Masters degree (LPC LLM).
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I see the media are laughing at Sarah Palin when she referred to the White House being at 1400 Pennsylvania Avenue.
And yet no one laughed at Google in 2009 when it didn't know what was at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Google Maps was new to me then and I installed it. I had heard so much about how you could check out landmarks. So I typed in '1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC'. This is what it showed:
Mrs Palin and I have very different political beliefs and I'm not a fan of hers, but I'm curious why no one had a go at Google in 2009. Such an error by one of the largest companies in the US deserves more ridicule than whatever she said, which is akin to President Obama's 57 states and his mispronunciation of corpsman, or Vice-President Biden's belief that a hypothetical President Roosevelt could go on television in 1929.
This was not version 1 of Google Maps, but version 5.
This means that in five versions of Google Maps, no one had checked where the White House was. And do you wonder why I don't have much faith in Google?
At the time, I wrote:
Nothing around here even looks like the White House. Can any American readers please explain what I am doing wrong, or is this another one of those computer glitches that only happens to me?
If I have done nothing wrong, then here are some possibilities of what has happened:
the White House doesn't exist and never did. I only dreamed that it did; the White House only exists in fiction, like Ernie Wise's wig; the boss of Google voted Republican; the White House has been moved to another location, like they did with the Museum Hotel; the White House has been blocked from Google Earth for a 9-11-related reason; UFOs have beamed up the entire White House; the Manhattan Project has beamed up the entire White House.
A Washingtonian confirmed that when they typed the same address into Google Maps, they got the same result, so it wasn't just me.
Since 2009, this error has been remedied.


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Bangladesh's handyman without hands
Ask anyone in Tongi, Bangladesh about Mosharrof Hossain and they'll tell you he's the man to fix your fridge. What they probably won't tell you is that he will do it without hands - both were amputated following an electrical fire. having a disability has not stopped him becoming a father, a mechanic, an entrepreneur and a trainer though.
Skills in Bangladesh are changing, through the introduction of the National Technical and Vocational Qualifications Framework. Bangladesh needs skilled workers, so we are making technical and vocational education easier to access for all, higher quality and directly linked to jobs.


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About Rockford Drive Line
Since 1947 we have been a leading producer of drive line universal joint components for OEM suppliers, the automotive after-market and various department of defense agencies. Rockford Drive Line is well known for competitively priced, OEM quality drive line components.
Our success can be attributed to our investment in high production manufacturing equipment, stringent quality control procedures and in anticipating and meeting our customer's demands for quality, price and availability.
Engineering and Manufacturing
Rockford has been supplying driveline components for light duty automotive, heavy duty truck and specialty equipment for almost 70 years. We would appreciate the opportunity to provide any service or product you may be in need of. We are dedicated to the engineering, development and manufacturing of unique driveline products to meet the diverse needs of our customers.


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This song is difficult to date for there have been several people who claim it as their composition and yet it can be found in one version or another dating to the mid-1800s. It can be found in such books as "American Sea Songs & Chanteys" c.1948, "Oxford Book of Sea Songs" c.1986, "Iron Men and Wooden Ships" c. 1924, "Shantymen and Shantyboys" c.1951. The text was originally a poem composed by Charles Mackay on 26 May 1858; while homeward bound from America as a passenger on the Europa. Stan Hugill, who calls it 'the most famous homeward-bound song of them all'…Used both at the pumps and the capstan. It was easily added to and bent to the desires of the singer, thus "Rolling Home To Dear Old England", "…Merry Old England", "… "Old Caledonia", "… Dear Old Ireland", &c, &c, &c. The melody bears a marked resemblance to the tune used for the Irish rebel dirge "Kevin Barry" dated to 1920.
The version below is how it is presented by Paul and by Tim. For a long version, I suggest this link to Mudcat
Jos. Morneault
Call all hands to man the capstan
See the cable running clear
Heave away and with a will, boys
For New England we will steer
Rolling home, rolling home
Rolling home across the sea
Rolling home to old New England
Rolling home dear land to thee
There's ten thousand miles behind us
And ten thousand miles before
Ancient oceans lead her homeward
To that dear New England shore
To the friends we leave behind us
I must bid a fond adieu
To this time we spent together
To this time we spent with you.


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[Get] Fearless Social Mastermind – Dr. Ben Adkins
Social Media Marketers who are looking to just make money overnight and not set up a long term strategy for their Social Media Marketing Business.
Marketers who are afraid to talk and engage with other members and share their successes and failures so that everyone in the mastermind can grow.
Marketers who are intimidated by running a Social Media Business that can net at least 5-6 Figures a month.


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It was 2004 when Homegrown Fantasy won a Cannabis Cup for this "instantly famous" strain that originated in the UK. It was an instant hit when first released through our coffeeshop in Amsterdam. It took a few years of back-crossing until we were able to guarantee a consistent seed that can produce the high quality buds that you expect.


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The Alzheimer's Association's is the world's largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer's care, support and research. Held annually in more than 600 communities nationwide, this inspiring event calls on participants of all ages and abilities to reclaim the future for millions. The Tullahoma/Lynchburg Walk to End Alzheimer's will be held on September 19th. Join us by registering your walk team at alz.org/walk. If you register your team by May 22nd, you will receive a limited edition team captain ballcap.
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Everything was fine until the stuff started coming up this spring.
The center planting area is still my favorite, with the pom pom in the middle, and all the creeping phlox and yellow sedum surrounding it. The phlox was amazing a few weeks ago!
Target! It's gold and mostly blends in to the brick, so I'm considering changing the color...not sure what I will do yet.


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Computer vision helps enforce social distancing
Computer vision technology from Zensors, a firm spun out of Carnegie Mellon University, is being trialled in Pittsburgh, New York City and Mumbai to help enforce social distancing.
Zensors' algorithms analyse feeds from existing CCTV cameras to provide real-time data on the number of people in an area and whether safe distances are maintained between them.
The company says its platform can answer questions like: the number of people in a facility or public space; whether people are following social distancing policies; when and where cleaning staff should clean based on the surfaces people have been using; and the number of people passing through a scene that are wearing face masks.
In a blog post, Zensors said it is providing its platform for free until 1 June to help fight the Covid-19 pandemic. It is also inviting machine learning researchers and experts to collaborate on using the platform.
In the post, it was stated: 'We have an open API and can enable anyone with technical knowledge or unique data sources to build novel systems and solutions. We invite machine learning collaborators to join our team of Carnegie Mellon University computer scientists in designing more robust and helpful deep learning models during this unprecedented crisis.'
The company is also interested in working with geographic information system experts who can help integrate Zensors' data onto ESRI and other mapping platforms.
The technology was developed by the Future Interfaces Group, led by Chris Harrison, an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University's Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII).
In a Carnegie Mellon University article, Anuraag Jain, an HCII alumnus and inventor of the Zensors technology, said airports and other potential clients contacted the company as the Covid-19 threat grew, seeking assistance in using computer vision to help them manage their facilities.
Other companies are employing computer vision in similar ways. Swisstraffic has modified its traffic and people monitoring system to analyse the places where it's difficult to maintain a 2m distance. It's platform uses existing cameras and infrastructure to provide video analysis. It can create a heat map of an area showing where people are getting closer than the recommended two metres.
Irida Labs has done a similar thing with its neural net, which can run on edge devices and also blurs the people in the video to make it anonymous.


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When the Army Core of Engineers and a reputable New Jersey-based construction company sought help excavating an 18′ x 23′ x 30′ cofferdam for the installation of a municipal pump station, they consulted Hydro Spy LLC, a Texas-based vacuum excavation specialty contractor. Hydro Spy outlined a qualified plan of action involving coordination with other contractors to excavate more than 480 cubic yards of soil over several days using a GapVax hydro excavator.
The general contractor faced two challenges. The first challenge was finding a way to perform a 30 ft vertical excavation in a 23′ x 18′ box with a track-hoe (hint: not gonna happen). The second challenge was finding a way to remove excess water from the soil prior to the excavation process.
Sheets piles were driven into the ground to form a 23′ x18′ box, then wet-wells were installed around the box to manage all ground water. Afterwards, Hydro Spy excavated the pit using an industrial truck-mounted vacuum loader in conjunction with controlled water pressure to break up the soil.
It took Hydro Spy less than 2 days to reach an initial target depth of 20 ft, as load after load of beach sand and water were sucked into a 15 yard debris tank and hauled a mile away where it was dumped in piles for reuse.
After reaching the initial target depth, the excavation process was interrupted for two days to allow the general contractor to install wales and braces around the interior of the sheet piles. Afterwards, Hydro Spy resumed excavating, finishing the entire cofferdam pit in a total of 3 1/2 days.
Craft Notes: Excavating a cofferdam or pit of these dimensions poses certain risks that must be mitigated prior to the start of the project. First, only highly trained craftsman should be involved in this type of excavation procedure. Minimum training includes 1 year hydro excavator experience, Basic Plus, Confined Space and Excavation Safety. Personnel needed to safely and compliantly hydro excavate a cofferdam includes 1 operator and 2 technicians or 1 operator, 1 technician and 1 supervisor.
Safety Elements: Confined Space Attendant, full-body harness with lanyard and lifeline, air & gas monitor.
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Popcorn Ceiling Removal Mississauga
Ceilings with a bumpy, lumpy texture are often called cottage cheese or stucco ceilings. They are uneven in appearance and are very noticeable. For more information textured ceiling removal.
Popcorn or stucco ceilings were utilized in home building and home renovation from the early fifties to the late seventies.
However, the popcorn ceiling started to go out of style in the late eighties. Homeowners of today are now hiring contractors for popcorn ceiling removal.
If you reside in Mississauga Ontario and you have issues with your home's ceiling treatment, it's best to look for Ontario-based painters.
Stucco ceilings are often made of harsh chemicals. Let professionals with years of experience do the work for you. Don't gamble your family's health by doing it yourself.
What is Popcorn Ceiling?
Popcorn, textured, or stucco ceiling is a ceiling with a paint-on or spray-on treatment. In the 1950s, it was the standard design for hallways and bedrooms.
The ceiling treatment was also used for hiding imperfections like cracks and holes. However, it was discovered in the 1980s that stucco ceilings contain harmful chemicals and can cause a variety of fatal diseases.
What Are They Made Of?
Stucco ceilings contain polystyrene foam. This creates an uneven appearance and rough texture.
Properties built between the 1950s and 1970s have textured ceilings inside them that may contain asbestos. Ceilings with asbestos or polystyrene foam tend to peel or flake. This is due to years of wear and tear. As a result, people are exposed to harmful chemicals.
Health Risks of Asbestos
Asbestos is a mineral fiber that is found in soil and rocks. Decades ago, it was widely used in the manufacturing of products and building materials that provide heat insulation and resistance.
When materials containing asbestos are undisturbed and intact, asbestos doesn't pose any health risk. If the materials are damaged or disturbed, the microscopic asbestos fragments can be inhaled.
Stucco ceilings deteriorate over time. The following are asbestos-related diseases:
Asbestosis is characterized by scarring of the lungs. Typically, high exposure levels to the chemical over a long period can trigger the onset of this disease.
Late-stage symptoms include chest pain, frequent coughing, and shortness of breath.
Plural plaques or pleural changes
Patients with pleural plaques exhibit hardening and thickening of the pleura.
The pleura is the lining covering and protecting the chest cavity and lungs.
Often, patients don't exhibit symptoms, but some experience difficulty breathing and decreased lung function.
Mesothelioma is fatal cancer. It arises from mesothelial tissues and forms the lining of the lungs, abdominals, and heart cavities.
Mesothelioma is associated with exposure to asbestos.
Generally, the latency is thirty to forty years. This means that an individual who was exposed to asbestos 30-40 years ago may develop this form of cancer.
Exposed workers, as well as those who perform stucco ceiling removal on their own, can swallow asbestos fibers.
The fibers are cleared from the airways in mucous and then swallowed. This contributes to the onset of mesothelioma in the peritoneum.
The peritoneum is the lining of the abdominal cavity. Like lung cancer, the severity of this illness depends on the amount of time the individual in question is exposed. Even only months of exposure can cause this cancer.
About This Home Renovator
By chance, your home's stucco ceilings have deteriorated, and your family may be exposed to asbestos.
Every skilled worker from Mississauga Handyman is equipped with protective gear. They can't be affected by harmful chemicals.
During such jobs, they wear the following:
- Eyewear
- Respirators
- disposable coveralls
- rubber boots
- Decontaminants
- Disposable gloves
Mississauga handyman only hires individuals with years of experience in the industry. You will not find any amateur in their roster.
They have been in business for 40 years now. Their workers have been trained to be courteous and provide precise work. They follow protocols set by the Canadian Victoria Residential Builders Association. This company is also a proud member of this organization.
Nevertheless, they will respect your wishes. As long as your request does not go against their guidelines, they will fulfill it.
Final Words
Popcorn ceiling removal should never be performed by a beginner. Although there are tons of DIY guides on the web, don't take the risk of exposing your family to harmful chemicals such as asbestos.
Improper removal and installation of textured ceilings can cause long-term health effects, including asbestosis, mesothelioma, and pleural changes.
Mesothelioma could even be fatal if not diagnosed early. Therefore, it's best to hire a skilled worker from a prominent and trustworthy company like Mississauga Handyman.
So don't hesitate if you. need our services at Mississauga handyman to do any drywall repairs and popcorn ceiling removal give us a call at 416-568-3547
Popcorn ceiling removal costs
It's something you might consider before you start doing DIY popcorn ceiling removal.


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How to Update Samsung Galaxy Ace with Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean official CM10 ROM
Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean ROM for Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 is now officially available from CyanogenMod. The Jelly Bean ROM for Galaxy Ace from CyanogenMod is named as CM10(CyanogenMod 10). You can upgrade your phone to Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean Operating System by installing this custom ROM.
The Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 is normally comes with Android 2.3 Gingerbread as an Operating System. There is no official Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade from Samsung mobile Support. The Phone is comes with 800 MHz processor, 5 Mega pixel camera, 3.5 inch capacitive touch Screen. Galaxy Ace is capable to run CM10 custom ROM Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on your phone.
Warning before installing Jelly Bean ROM on Samsung Galaxy Ace:
- We are not responsible for any damages that may happened due to using this ROM. If any problem happens that related to installing, we will help you to solve it.
- Use this guide at your own risk. We shall not have any liability or responsibility for whatever happens to you and your device by using the instructions in this guide.
- The instructions provided in this tutorial for educational purpose only. There is no guarantee that these steps will work for your device.
- The steps given in this tutorial is only to use with Samsung Galaxy Ace and the model number GT-S5830. Applying this guide to any other device or any other model may produce many problems.
- Read and Understand the whole tutorial first, before going to perform the steps.
What Doesn't Work:
- Camera
- Proximity Sensor
Pre Requirements:
- First your mobile must be rooted. Check this – How to root Samsung Galaxy Ace
- Then install ClockWorkMod custom Recovery. Check this – How to install ClockWorkMod Recovery on Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830
- We recommend you to take a backup of the data in your phone. After installing the ROM, all the files and data will be deleted.
- SMS – How to Backup Messages
- Contacts – Sync with Gmail App
- Videos, Images, Songs and Other Files – Copy to internal / External SD card or System
- APN Settings – Take Manual Note from "Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names
- Then maintain minimum 60% charge in your phone's battery. This will help you to don't get switched of your phone.
- And disable any antivirus and firewalls too.
How to install Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean CM10 ROM on Samsung Galaxy Ace:
- Download the ROM cm_ace-ota-eng.maclaw.beta1.zip – 133.94MB – Here
- Transfer the downloaded file to your SD card.
- Switch off your phone.
- Reboot in recovery mode. You can do it by pressing HOME button + Power button together untill gets the recovery screen.
- Then you will move on to ClockWorkMod Recovery screen.
- Select Wipe/Data reset and confirm it on the next page.
- Select Wipe cache partition and confirm it on the next page.
- Go back to Main menu of the Recovery page, Select Advanced and then Select Wipe Dalvik Cache and confirm it on its next page.
- Then Go back to Main Menu, and select Install Zip from SD card and then select Choose Zip from SD card.
- After that browse and choose the downloaded zip file. Then confirm it on the next screen.
- This will install the ROM from you selected zip file to your mobile phone. Wait for the installation process finish.
- After the installation complete, Go back to main menu and select Reboot System Now option to restart your phone.
Also check this – Install Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean on Samsung Galaxy Ace
You can get all the news and guides about Samsung Galaxy Ace S5830 – Here
Now you can enjoy the experience of the latest Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on Samsung Galaxy Ace. You have successfully learnt how to install Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean on Samsung Galaxy Ace.
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What does an Internet Marketing Analyst do?
Market analysts study market conditions to examine potential sales of products or services. They help companies understand the products people want, target demographics for purchasing the products, and the necessary price points. They monitor and forecast marketing and sales trends and measure the effectiveness of marketing programs and strategies. They research and collect data to help companies market their products and services, and consider data including consumer demographics, preferences, needs, or buying habits.
Market analysts gather their information through interviews, questionnaires, focus groups, and public opinion polls. They help determine the company's position in a marketplace by researching competitors and analyzing them for prices, sales, and marketing methods. Their research informs potential markets, product demand, and pricing. Market analysts need a bachelor's degree in market research or related fields including statistics, math, or computer science. Some market analysts also go for voluntary certification.
- Prepare models in support of marketing and midstream development projects.
- Compile and understand market data in support of marketing efforts.
- Leading contributor individually and as a team member, providing direction and mentoring to others.
- Support business initiatives by identifying key trends in big data that can drive growth for the business.
- Identify, evaluate, and recommend marketing opportunities in support of product line objectives.
- Preparation, review, briefing, and filing of contractual documents and related activities.
- Development and implementation of business plans, marketing strategy, and forecasts for a product/service or vertical market.
- Keep abreast of digital trends and best practices across digital media, CMR, and offline.
- Assist in the development and creation of client marketing materials.
- Manage the quality of inbound and outbound traffic and optimize toward business targets daily.
- Analyze performance trends and identify areas of opportunity to solve a business problem.
- Partner with multi-disciplinary teams to identify and resolve business short-falls and build upon wins.
- Maintain current status of customer specifications for existing and future products.
- Responsible for maintaining geographical territory assignment across channels and providing analysis and reporting of market coverage and major account bid opportunities.
- Demonstrate consistent, outstanding judgment, honesty and integrity in all aspects of job performance.
- Work with internal stakeholders and external partners on conducting analysis and communicate insights.
- Assist in the performance maximization of campaigns across existing and emerging social platforms.
- Acquire and maintain a database of external information to develop market intelligence and knowledge of market fundamentals.
- Bachelor's or Graduate's Degree in information systems, computer science, or engineering or equivalent experience.
- Experience with Google Analytics.
- Fluency in statistics, machine learning, and datasets.
- A critical thinker and problem solver who pays strict attention to detail.
- Demonstrated dedication to the studying and furthering of hypotheses.
- Comfortable with prioritization of tasks alongside root cause analysis and decision making.
- Experience in a consulting position.
- Fluent in Adobe Analytics, Python, SQL, and R Language.
- Demonstrated leadership and decision making skills.
How much does an Internet Marketing Analyst make near United States?
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Internet Marketing Analyst Career Path
Learn how to become an Internet Marketing Analyst, what skills and education you need to succeed, and what level of pay to expect at each step on your career path.
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"The individuals I work with are some of the best and supportive groups I have ever worked with."
"Great culture and flexibility to do your job however and wherever you're comfortable from."
"It was a great learning experience as I had gotten my feet wet into the data and analytics career path."
"The pay was a little under what I was expecting based on average salaries and my background."
"Team members have no issue lending a hand when you get stuck which is super helpful."
"Huge potential for career growth even if you want to completely change what you're doing."
"It's an opportunity to grow your career while working on exciting projects that make a real impact."
"5. HR and Senior management including CEO are liars and try to threaten your career with false accusations and try to manipulate you."
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Frequently asked questions about the roles and responsibilities of an Internet Marketing Analyst
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I've worked for the same company about 8 years or so and have yet to hit the $50k mark in salary even after a couple promotions, raises, and given more responsibility. Is this normal for someone with my role? On a different note, I am also becoming more interested in project management but don't don't know how to transition? Is getting a Google PM certificate worth it?


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The two obvious trends in local deals lately is public offerings, by Groupon and LivingSocial, and the rising competition from web giants like Google and Facebook. But the more I see of American Express in this space, the more I think it stands a chance to be the next major player to watch in this field.
The credit card company is 162 years old. But you wouldn't know it by the way it's been throwing itself into social media and activating local deals and discounts through emerging social channels. With its Smart Offers API, a platform that allows third-party deal services to build upon its payment system, it's been able to partner with Foursquare, SCVNGR and, most recently, Facebook to offer local deals to its members.
American Express has some 90 million card members worldwide, and its service is a simple and elegant way to offer a very robust and personalized deal service. While it only works for existing card members, it will have lot of reach with businesses. Altogether, if AmEx can execute, it could show many of the new deal companies how commerce, loyalty and offers are really done.
Here are some of the reasons I think so, which I expand on in a report for GigaOM Pro (subscription required):
Multiple Hats: With its unique make-up as a card issuer, merchant acquirer and payment network, AmEx has direct relationships with both consumers and merchants unlike other credit card companies, which work with acquiring banks. This allows it to appeal directly to both groups and enables it to quickly strike deals with third parties like Foursquare and Facebook.
Valuable Data: Because of its structure, it commands a vast amount of data that is valuable for merchants, helping them understand how effective their deals are, how people are spending money on their visits and how often they're returning. It's all helpful in "closing the loop" and helping businesses measure their return on investment and seeing how they need to tweak their outreach.
Linchpin: AmEx is well positioned to appeal to merchants and brands. It's already established a relationship with companies big and small and it's got a very easy way for them to implement deals. They not only get information but they don't have to train staff to learn how to redeem coupons. That's one catch that can hold up some deals; employees aren't always ready to handle them.
Modest Cut: AmEx is also not looking to take a big 50 percent cut of deals like many services. American Express vice president of global marketing capabilities David Wolf told me that the deals are negotiated individually and small businesses using AmEx's new self-serve product Go Social don't pay anything. The company sees a revenue opportunity in providing advanced analytics or pay-for-performance campaigns down the road, but right now it's primarily looking at just driving more sales and taking its usual transaction fees.
Consumer Brand: Consumers have a lot to like, too. AmEx deals are showing up on popular social services like Facebook and Foursquare, and their likes, interests and check-ins are helping determine what deals they see. That's another big issue with some of these deal sites. Their discounts are often not relevant for a user, so many just ignore them. Also, consumers can take advantage of AmEx's system with minimal effort. With AmEx, members are just using the cards they already have. And with the Facebook partnership, AmEx is offering not only deals but membership rewards and early access to events. This builds upon American Express' existing work in building loyalty with its members.
Deal Army: Groupon and Living Social have thousands of sales people, which have helped fuel their growth but AmEx has thousands of client managers and representatives of its own spread across different areas — membership rewards, merchant services, global advertising and sponsorships — that all interface with millions of business clients. They're all now being tasked with presenting these deal opportunities to businesses. That's a formidable force that already has their foot in the door of businesses.
If AmEx makes this massive deal flow army a priority, it shouldn't be hard to convince many existing partners to sign on. That should help with one concern I had about AmEx, what kind of deal volume it will be able to muster. It's not only about getting personalized deals but also having enough offers overall to keep people interested and coming back regularly.
-Ryan Kim, GigaOm (via reuters.com)


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60" Square Tabletop Display Board w/ Custom Printed Graphics Wrap, Hopup Collapsible
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- Large multi-color graphics entice passersby to your booth.
- Collapsible unit easily set-up and broken down.
- Includes carrying bag for ease of transporting.
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What better way to represent your organization than with this full color custom fabric trade show booths popup displays. Ideal for trade show booths tabletop use, this fabric popup is 60" wide x 60" tall, with printed endcaps, when placed onto a standard table it is under the common 9ft height limit. The printed graphics remain attached to the lightweight aluminum frame making setup quick and easy. Just raise the Hopup® frame, fasten the 9 clips and wrap the end panels around the sides. The printed end caps are a seamless part of the front graphic. This allows your image to wrap around the frame. These exhibition booths tabletop displays will attract customers' attention in trade shows.
Your custom image is printed on a stretchable poly-knit fabric using a four color inkjet process. The output resolution is approximately 600dpi and is ideal for this type of advertising. Any wrinkles that occur during transportation or storage are stretched out when tension is applied by the frame. The end panels remain attached to the front image, but need to be detached from the side of the frame to collapse the frame.
Our graphic displays are replicated precisely from your artwork submissions. Variations in color or shading are often a result of viewing on un-calibrated monitors. We are not responsible for these variations, which should be expected in the printing process.
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PCB is an interactive printed circuit board editor for the X11 window system. PCB includes a rats nest feature, design rule checking, and can provide industry standard RS-274-X (Gerber), NC drill, and centroid data (X-Y data) output for use in the board fabrication and assembly process. PCB offers high end features such as an autorouter and trace optimizer which can tremendously reduce layout time.
... part of T2, get it here
URL: http://pcb.sourceforge.net/
Author: Thomas Nau
Author: Harry Eaton
Maintainer: Rene Rebe <rene [at] t2-project [dot] org>
License: GPL
Status: Stable
Version: 20060822
Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pcb/files/ pcb-20060822.tar.gz
T2 source: pcb.cache
T2 source: pcb.conf
T2 source: pcb.desc
Build time (on reference hardware): 20% (relative to binutils)2
Installed size (on reference hardware): 5.78 MB, 214 files
Dependencies (build time detected): 00-dirtree at-spi2-core binutils cairo coreutils diffutils expat findutils flex fontconfig freetype gawk glib glitz grep gtk+ xorgproto libgd libice libjpeg libpng libpthread-stubs libx11 libxau libxcb libxcomposite libxcursor libxdamage libxext libxfixes libxi libxinerama libxpm libxrandr libxrender linux-header m4 make pango perl perl-gettext pixman pkgconfig xorgproto sed sysfiles tar xcb-util xorgproto zlib
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2) Compatible with Linux From Scratch's "Standard Build Unit" (SBU).


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The Lowest Maintenance Cars On The Market
Sometimes, you just can't afford that pillar-box red Lotus in the window of your local car dealership. No matter how much you want it, it's always about £20,000 over your budget. Everybody's got to have a dream, though and one day – one day you'll be driving a MINI that's the exact same colour as that Lotus. How's that for excitement?
Seriously, though – owning and maintaining a car is a serious business. It's seriously expensive too. We can't all afford to race around town in a sports car. Some of us have got bills to pay, kids to feed and petrol prices to contend with. If you're currently struggling to keep up with the cost of owning a car, it might be time to trade your vehicle in for something a little friendlier. Here's a guide to the lowest maintenance cars currently on the market.
Nissan Versa (S Sedan)
According to ExtremeTech.com journalist Bill Howard, the Nissan Versa is one of the very best subcompact cars on the market today. Whilst it might not be the most exciting vehicle that you'll ever drive, it is fairly inexpensive to buy new, to run and to maintain. If expense is a big concern, the Nissan Versa is a very good choice to make. It has a rather impressive array of gadgets – navigation, cameras, infotainment options. Most of these are optional extras, but they're surprisingly cheap compared to the extras offered by other manufacturers. For a very reasonable price, you can even purchase a 360-degree monitor that lets you see your car from every angle. It's useful for backing out of tricky parking spaces, that's for sure.
Chevrolet Spark (Base)
The Chevrolet Spark is a pretty nifty little car. It's Chevrolet's first ever subcompact vehicle and though it only has a small engine, it handles like a much bigger car. It's nimble, agile and lots of fun to drive. Plus, it's cheap too – a brand new one will only set you back about £11,000. Some experts have criticised the Spark's rather noisy nature, but most agree that it's a very competent and satisfying car for drivers on a budget, say the experts at WhatCar.com. It does come in some rather eye-watering shades of green though, so pick carefully when they ask you what colour you want yours in. Don't say 'I don't mind' or you'll end up with a lime green monstrosity.
Toyota Yaris (L)
Now, this car isn't one of the cheapest to buy brand new, but it is one of the cheapest cars to own and maintain. Just like the Echo and the Tercel, the Yaris is the very epitome of low maintenance driving. It comes with low emissions, low insurance premiums and a very pleasing gas mileage. Even though this car is a little more expensive than the Chevrolet Spark and the Nissan Versa, it's still reasonably cheap compared to other vehicles currently on the market. In fact, the Toyota Yaris is just a great all rounder. If you're looking for a low maintenance car – grab one of these as fast as you can manage. You won't regret it.
Ford Fiesta (S Sedan)
The Ford Fiesta is one of the cheapest cars on the market right now. It's also one of the most enjoyable to drive, say the experts at TopGear.com. There's a long list of very good reasons why this car is the top selling vehicle in the country – buy one and you'll find out for yourself. It's not the quickest car in the world, but that doesn't matter. It handles like a pro, turning corners in an effortless, agile fashion that'll have you whooping from the front seat. Jeremy Clarkson called it a remarkable car with preternatural abilities. It could be time for you to find out if he's right.
Author Bio: Ryan Wilkinson is a car enthusiast and automotive blogger. He recently bought a brand new Chevrolet Spark from Balgores. Ryan can usually be found reviewing new releases on his personal website.


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Optima OP5-E Maemo MID gets reviewed [Video]
Nokia may only have plans for a single further Maemo device in 2010, but that's not to say the market will be limited to that unnamed handset and the N900. Optima have launched the first non-Nokia Maemo MID the shape of the Optima OP5-E, a 4.3-inch resistive WVGA touchscreen, 806MHz Marvell PXA310+ ARM processor and integrated 3G (CDMA now; HSDPA coming next month). Over at ARMDevices Charbax has reviewed the OP5-E, and he seems pretty excited about its possibilities.Video demo after the cut
The OP5-E squeezes in GPS, WiFi b/g, Bluetooth and a 2,600mAh removable battery. There's a microSD card slot (16GB cards supported), a 3.2-megapixel camera on the back and a VGA camera up front for video calls. The whole thing measures 143 x 74 x 17.6 mm and Optima reckon you'll get around 8hrs video playback out of it.
Charbax reckons the VoIP possibilities of the OP5-E are one of its strongest points, together with the size of its screen – the N900 is 3.5-inches, in comparison; however there are some Bluetooth issues and lacks a TV output. Still, at $500 unlocked (Optima are looking for carriers who might want to subsidize it, but we reckon that's relatively unlikely) it's an interesting alternative to the Nokia for those not enamoured with the N900's hardware keyboard.


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The Importance of a Professional Website for Your Business Success
I believe that you will agree with this:
Having a website for your business is no more a choice, but it has become a must-have thing (you may even call it a necessary evil if you are not a techie and you feel forced to have a website) for all businesses whether they sell products/services online or offline.
As a matter of fact:
The Importance of a website is so certain that I would say that even if you do not have an online business or a business that has to do anything with the internet, you must have a website and this is what this blog post is all about.
In this blog post:
I am going to unveil the undeniable and totally making sense answers to the questions: "what is the importance of having a website for small business?", "How important is a website for a business?" "Why your business needs a website in 2019?" & "what is the importance of a website in digital marketing?".
Here you go:
1. Importance of a Website for Digital Marketing of a Local Business
This one is for those who'd always say, "But I sell donuts, why do I need a website?"
The answer is, "You need a website because people will Google the "best donuts" in their area and if you do not have a website, you will lose a significant number of local customers."
As per statistics, over 60% of internet users use it through their smartphones and from the nearest hospital to the shopping mall to diners, they Google them all.
"83 percent of consumers plan to conduct mobile commerce in the next 12 months":
Likewise, Google My Business is a service offered by Google through which you optimize your website/business for local searches and people in your vicinity or in all the areas where your branches exist start seeing your outlet's address, phone number, website, and reviews.
On top of these details, there is a map that shows where exactly you do your business.
This is exactly what you need. If out of every 100 people in your area, 80 use the internet, it means that roughly 50 of those 80 use it on their cell phones and if you do not have an online presence, they will not buy from you.
Now think about it and tell me if you are willing to lose 50 out of every 100 prospects only because your business is not optimized for Google My Business.
If you want to learn how to optimize Google My Business, check out this Guide by Neil Patel.
2. Importance of a Website for Local SEO
Yes, I know:
Technically speaking Google My Business is a part of local SEO, but since it is too important and yet there is a lot more to local SEO, I decided to talk about both of them separately.
So you must be wondering what is Local SEO apart from Google My Business, and why do I need a website for Local SEO?
You must have heard of yellow pages and Yelp and other forums like this. These forums are the directories of businesses in a particular area.
For example, if you want people in Paramus, New Jersey to find about your business and its exact location in Paramus, what you will do is register your business (with its website) on Yellow Pages or Yelp or other local directories such as NJ Business Directory.
Local SEO includes tactics that an SEO expert tries to make sure that his client's business must appear in Google search for their business in their area.
Now you must be thinking why a website is needed for all this. Well, for starters, people who find you online want to know about you – online.
A website with details of your products or services etc. will not only educate your clients about you but also plays a vital role in increasing your sales.
For local SEO, you need a website because Google ranks web pages, not businesses. It is just as simple as this. Except you decide that in an age where people Google before they dine or before they buy anything, you want to go down with zero presence online.
3. It helps to Establish a Relationship with your Clients
Tell you what:
Businesses who do not go beyond selling and do not establish a relationship between them and their clients always lose the race to the companies that build a better relationship with their customers.
What could it be? It can be a mutual set of skills or hobbies and workshops around them! It can also be educating the clients and customers about the product or service.
And how can you do it best but with a website? The textual, visual, or audio-visual content on a website can educate your clients and let them know that you are the authority on the subject matter.
Take Neil Patel for an example of this or Woodward or many like them; they are masters of digital marketing and search engine optimization, but their websites do not only yap about what they do and why people should acquire their services, but their websites provide a great deal of education on the subject matter.
This leads to an ever-growing trust in their expertise, which then leads to conversions. Do, you still wonder what is the purpose of a website? If yes, then keep reading.
4. Importance of a Website for Sales
Everyone wants to make more money than what they're making today. It is a matter of fact. Well:
If you have a business, online or offline, but you do not have a website so far, you can make more money by simply having a website.
Let me explain. Websites are what you need to rock on Google My Business and to gather a big and then huge crowd via Google and other search engines.
You must have watched that thrilling Hollywood flick on Google internship? Yes, The Internship!
Do you remember what Billy McMahan said to the owner of the pizza joint? "Everyone's searching for something, and they're searching for you …"
Yes. Your customers are searching for you, and you are missing out on them by not having a website.
Your website boosts your conversions and profits because:
- It can educate your customers and establish your authority.
- A website helps you appear in local SEO searches.
- The site also helps you look better and more authentic in Google My Business.
- Content and backlinks of a website help you appear in international and local searches, and thus, more and more clients find you.
- The site has all the educational and conversion-oriented content that you need to impress and convert a lead.
- It has your contact information and address and everything that makes you look like a real and big business.
5. Importance of a website for Digital Marketing
Get this:
We're not living in pre-2000 anymore. And the world that we're living in has gone digital long before 2000.
Without going digital and getting your hands dirty in digital marketing and presence practices, you cannot spread the word about your brand just as effectively as you can with a website.
Think about it:
You have your business Facebook page, and perhaps a LinkedIn page and pages on one or two more social media handles just to do some marketing, but you have not laid down the foundation.
Your own business website.
Benefits of having a business website are unlimited, and your social media handles are useless if you cannot channelize that traffic to a website from where they will get more information, and then they will buy.
You need a website that will work for you, just like the US President nominated campaign office works for his campaign.
A significant part of online marketing (apart from Facebook or Google ads) is email marketing. For starters, you cannot just launch an email marketing campaign with your Gmail or other webmail address.
Words cannot merely explain how unauthentic, unprofessional, and casual appears a marketing email sent to one from a webmail address.
You need your personalized and custom email address. So if your domain is www.imfinallysellingthosehotdonuts.com, your email address, with which you will send and reply to business emails will be firstname.lastname@example.com
Now that's the minimum that you need for prospects to take you seriously.
PPC ads are an essential part of digital marketing. For Google to place your business on top of search results for a keyword related to your niche and to place on websites, you first need to have a business website of your own.
6. A Website is vital for Credibility
If someone came to you and asked that paying only $150 you can win a limited amount of credibility in the eyes of your prospects, would you do it or won't?
I bet that any business owner with adequate cash in the circle or a bank will not take a minute in spending those $150.
Because everything takes time and what demands most of the time is credibility. In business, credibility and goodwill do not come too early. It can easily take from a handful of years to a decade or more.
What is it that you can buy for $150 and which, in return, will make you credible in your market?
That's $10 for a domain + $140 for excellent hosting. Yes, you need a website and people who deal in a certain field and have their own website, are considered more credible than those who do not have a base of operations.
Final Thoughts:
Being a firm believer of "less is more", I would stop this blog post here. There are too many advantages of having a website for business, and this is not limited to blue-chip companies.
Even bloggers, personal branding guys, and small businesses go for a website because it is the best investment in personal/organizational growth.
The importance of a website for small businesses is simply undeniable, but I would only leave you with a challenge. Tell me a single disadvantage of having a website! I'm waiting!
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Lead by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, was the conferment of awards to the Gawad Career Executive Service Honorees and to 26 individuals and 4 groups that made up the roster of finalists in the 2017 Search for Outstanding Government Workers, at the Rizal Hall Malacañang Palace on Sept 20, 2017.
The award, spearheaded by the Civil Service Commission aims to "recognize members in the Career Executive Service (CES) for exemplary performance and significant contributions, particularly in the areas of innovation, information and communication technology, social services, administrative reforms and public policy." Distinguished recipient of this award is Dr Maria Lourdes K. Otayza, Medical Center Chief II of Mariano Marcos Memorial Hospital and Medical Center and also the Chairman of the Region 1 Health Research and Development Consortium (R1HRDC). She took home a plaque with the Presidential Seal, a medal and prize money amounting to PhP100,000.00.
In order to qualify for this prominent award, the nominee will need to pass the validation process and the selection of winners shall have three levels. The first or pre-screening level shall be done by the CESB Secretariat to ensure adherence to criteria and completion of documents. The second level shall be done by a group of previous years' winners of the GAWAD CES who will short-list from among the nominees the finalists for in-depth validation. The third and final level shall be done by the Committee on Awards which will select the winners for the year's GAWAD CES from among the validated finalists.
This rigid process is no joke for only a few is being selected to receive the award. In the year 2015, there were only 5 awardees while only 3 receives the award for the year 2016.
To quote on the article published by the Philippine Daily Inquirer dated September 20, 2017, stating the reasons why Dr Otayza was granted the prestigious award says, "For developing the Innovative Health Assistance Financing System, which has lightened the burden of the sick while fostering one's responsibility for health; for her successful endeavour on Global Standard Health Care and Acquisition of Equipment, which enabled Mariano Marcos Hospital to become a specialized reference center in Northern Luzon; and for spearheading the creation of a comprehensive human health resource development that led to the establishment of the Mariano Marcos State University College of Medicine, as well as the maintenance of the accreditation of training of the different clinical departments and the creation of Family Medicine and Rehabilitation Medicine Departments."
During his speech, the President commended the honorees calling them "the men and women of goodwill" and "brilliant and innovative". He also encouraged and reminded his fellow civil servants to "reduce the case of graft and corruption to the most minimal level" if not "totally eliminated".
Photos of the awarding ceremony were also published by the same publication dated September 24, 2017. Congratulations!
Source: http://rtvm.gov.ph/main/?p=50482


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Soka University of Japan | Tokyo
SUA offers a study abroad program at Soka University of Japan in Hachioji, Tokyo.
Program Characteristics
The fall semester begins in late August and ends in January. The spring semester begins in late March and ends in early August.
You will attend three to four hours of class daily, study grammar, conversation, kanji, reading, and culture, and focus on language acquisition only. High advanced language students may be allowed to take university courses.
You may participate in many unique and fun student clubs, and part-time employment on campus is also available (Chi-chat-club, World-language center, English Forum).
You are required to live in a dormitory located close to campus. There are two female dormitories and one male dormitory. Female dorms are all single rooms and the male dorm is double rooms.


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Stephen Levine (1937 – 2016) was an American poet, author and Buddhist teacher best known for his work on death and dying. Born in Albany, New York, Levine attended the University of Miami, and after working as an editor and writer in New York City, he became one of the founders of the San Francisco Oracle. One of the most significant aspects of Stephen's work was his working with the experience of grief. Although drawing upon the teachings of a variety of wisdom traditions, including Native American, Sufism and mystical interpretations of Christianity, Stephen's writing was most significantly informed by the teachings of Buddhism.
Quotes by Stephen Levine…
And we see that with all our imagined unworthiness and fear, with all our doubt and desire, it's hard to be loving all the time. But it's harder not be loving.
If you made a list of everything you own, everything you think of as you, everything you prefer, that list would be the distance between you and the living truth.


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Quick story here, not so much about Lean but about customer service and general incompetence. The WSJ shares data about how complaints about the Transportation Security Administration have jumped:
"Complaints to the TSA about security courtesy, procedures, processing time and personal property fell sharply during the first five months of the year, but began climbing in June, with a 9.2% jump in the total number of complaints, compared with June 2006. By August, total service complaints were 88.1% higher than a year earlier, and September, the most recent month reported by the government, saw a 71.4% increase in TSA complaints."
That might seem to be a clear indicator that service has gotten really bad. Not so, says the TSA leadership. You see, in the past they weren't even able to count or track all complaints properly… so instead of complaints going up, what you really have is just better tracking. So hurray for the TSA?
"The TSA concedes it was missing and underreporting complaints in the past, with travelers either frustrated at getting busy signals on phone lines (1-866-289-9673) and never recording a complaint, or emails (email@example.com) not being properly handled. The numbers suggest the TSA was missing a very large chunk of complaints."
The TSA has a new "customer service" center with better software for tracking these problems and complaints. That's not really getting to the root cause of the poor attitudes and the cause of the complaints, is it?
I guess there is a parallel to manufacturing, if your scrap or defect rate went up, only because you weren't inspecting products at the end of the line or tracking defects before? Maybe the surest path to "zero defects" or Six Sigma quality levels is to not count or track it!!! :-)
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