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There was a time when the only way for you to advertise your business is with the use of television ads.
If you are running a small business, you might find this to be that challenging.
First of all TV ads are that expensive. However, are you aware that you can reach more potential clients through these free ways to advertise?
Yes, it is true that cold calling and door-to-door campaigns are that effective. But there is a better way to advertise without spending a lot of money.
Free ways to advertise on the internet have been gaining popularity because it can actually propel a business into success.
Even US Presidential campaign have tested this formula and find it that effective that it was in fact one of the reasons why President Barack Obama was elected in 2008.
Great Ideas on Free Ways to Advertise on the Internet
- Create a strong web presence. Utilize the power of the internet. Set up a business email using a great logo. You are actually leaving behind your brand.You are establishing your online identity and helping others realize who you and your business are. As much as possible leave behind a mark of your URL on everything that you can hold on to whether it is calling cards, flyers or brochures.
- Make use of Social Media. Social media like Twitter and Facebook are free ways to advertise your business on the internet. Set up your Twitter and Facebook page account so that you can interact with your potential customers on a more personal level. The current trend in social media advertising is to host give-away. The amount that you will spend for these give-away will actually create customer awareness of the product that you are selling.
Do try to offer free product samples but get your customer's email addresses. You can also ask them to fill up a survey about your product. This way you can make a follow-up and send them new offers. You can also make use of discounts before offering the product at its regular price.
- Make use of Blogs. Ever since blogs were introduced way back in 2004, these were catapulted into the limelight as a popular medium to get your message across. In this case it is your product. Blogs is another way to engage people in giving their customer feedback. Through the reviews made by bloggers you are bridging the gap between you and your customer. You are actually listening on what they have to say. Take the comments constructively to improve your product just in case it needs improvement.
- Use Google Places to list your business. You will notice that this is one of the free ways to advertise that can literally help place your business on the map. When people search for a certain product, these Google map searches will guide them towards your business location. Customers can also leave your business ratings and reviews. Yahoo is also offering a similar service as well so make use of these.
These are but just some of the free ways to advertise on the internet. Learn to be creative on tapping other online resources. You might just be surprise on how much these can affect your business. Eventually, by doing this you will be able to enjoy the success and laugh your way into the bank.

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I am currently working on approximately ten paintings concerning local environmental issues and losses, water quality issues, corporate and political apathy and abuse, genetic engineering, global warming, and more. One example of a local corporate abuse is the Polymet Mine proposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
The impetus for this project came about when I became a member of the foundation Art to Change the World. https://www.arttochangetheworld.org/mission/
The specific purpose of the non-profit Art To Change the World is to create opportunities for partnerships to defend human and civil rights and to protect the environment and build a safe and nurturing community for all people who seek to live a considered life and meet at the intersections of art and natural and social sciences. The foundation will partner with artists, educators, scientists, change makers and supporters to pursue funding and advancement of social practice art exhibitions and events. The purpose of these events and exhibitions is to provoke discussion, reflection and action on a wide variety of topics.
My paintings will be shown at the Squirrel Haus Gallery in south Minneapolis in October 2018 along with approximately 20 other artists with various social justice themes. http://www.squirrelhausarts.com/


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Getting to Know You
As we finish the third week of the semester, I finally feel like I have names memorized and am starting to get an understanding of my students personalities. I feel so fortunate I am an art teacher because I have some great visuals to rely on when it comes to getting to know my students and place names with faces.
Portfolio Names
The first thing we did in class this term was create portfolios and use the Design Thinking Process for creating each letter to represent interests and personalities. Some students used a substitution method for their letters, where they replaced letters with objects that look like them. Some students used a mosaic method, where they used multiple objects to form the letter. Some students used both. Not only does this project help me get to know my students better, but the large format letters act as name labels that help me match names with faces (rather than calling out, "Hey kid."). It is also the first project students upload to Artsonia, which is something we will do many times before the semester is through.
Graffiti Names
As a way to get students thinking about contemporary art issues, we watched the video below about the history of Graffiti shown below and then students created their own names and used Photoshop to put them in interesting places.
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Friday 12 April 2013
Friday random
it's all very well trying to clean your microwave in an eco friendly manner, but if you put half a lemon in a bowl of water in the microwave and turn it on for a few minutes you are probably meant to clean wipe it out straight away. if you leave it for 3 days you open the door to a rather nasty mouldy mess. and get the bleach out after all.........
when things say "do not wash" sometimes they really mean it. I have always subscribed to the theory that a gentle hand wash is always going to be fine, and if something is dry clean only I just won't have it in the house. So I washed the covers on the bean bags I ordered from the Olympic stadium from Remains of the games. I have to say whilst it was exciting to think we'd bought something that was part of the Olympics in reality it was a complete nightmare. You had to pay for the product with no idea what the delivery costs might be, and then wait forever for a delivery quote. The products said they would be used but in good condition, but the covers on our beanbags were filthy. I think it was warehouse dirt from the packing, and we may just have been unlucky as my brother bought one for my niece and it was fine. Anyway. It said do not wash and I ignored it. I decanted all of the beans and washed off all the warehouse grime. I failed to account for the fact that the fire retardant coating on the inside of the bags would disintegrate and then stick to the outside like glue. There was a LOT of rinsing. And some heated tempers. But finally they were clean, and very much loved they are too.
a 3 egg cake mixture will rise and swell over the edge of my sponge tin and all over the bottom of the oven when you are trying to bake for the spring show, even though it never has before.
if you spend 30 minutes carefully stirring bubbling caramel to make fudge, then a last minute decision to add some white chocolate is a Very Bad Idea. Crumbled mess anyone? However if you add a large dollop of golden syrup and some oats to the pan and then bake it makes quite awesome chocolate fudge flapjack..............
I have entered daffodils in the spring show that are still in bud. I am hoping a warm sport hall will cause them to open overnight.
14 mile training walk planned for tomorrow. I might take some flapjack with me................
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One of those days huh? Flapjack is a good remedy I find: eat before, during and after the 14 mile hike!! J xReplyDelete
Some days are diamonds, some days are stone as they say!ReplyDelete
That is a long walk. Happy weekend.
I sometimes think those labels should come in two types, 'Do not wash' and 'DO NOT WASH EVER, IT WILL NEVER FIT AGAIN!!!'ReplyDelete
You have had a very interesting week it would seem. It's good to hear you were able to rescue the fudge. Sounds delicious.ReplyDelete
Anne xx
I've just checked what the kilometre equivalent of 14 miles is and I think you are going to need the flapjack. Good luck with the daffodils.ReplyDelete
Oops, do you mind that I'm laughing a little? What a relief you managed to salvage the caramel, all else is bearable after that. You know, that is exactly how some of the best recipes and other nuggets of enlightenment have been discovered?!ReplyDelete
Enjoy that walk, you mad woman x
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Some days are like that and glad that you got the bean bags sorted in the end.
Hope the training walk goes well and good luck with the daffodils.
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We're back! And I think I saw you when we turned right at Scotch Corner earlier today... It wasn't you? Oh, it must have been another Nutter doing a 14 mile walk...ReplyDelete
Sometimes life just seems to do these things to you doesn't it?? But the flapjack recipe sounds very delicious :) I hope the 14 mile walk went well...we just had a 3 mile one (and no yummy flapjack!)ReplyDelete
Helen x
Yep, we all have days (weeks, months) like that. Hope you've enjoyed your mad walk today!ReplyDelete
Oh what problems I've been having commenting on Blogger...I am reading, I promise. Hopefully I've found a way round it at last.ReplyDelete
I once washed a dry clean only chenille throw. It disintegrated in the washer, just turned to fluff. Blocked the washer and the drain, took 3 days to sort out. I still ignore the labels, though!
I'm so glad I'm not the only person to do any......maybe even ALL of these things! Enjoy your walk, half way picnics are the best!ReplyDelete
What a nightmare re: Olympic beanbags. Though I'm so glad you've managed salvage them.ReplyDelete
I've very recently had the same problemas 'Rattling On'. Though it actually broke the washing machine and I've had to folk out for a new one. Shhh, you mustn't tell my other half that I tried to wash a chenille throw, he'd kill me. Though I am surprised that he never asked why all the 'fluff' coming out of the washing machine was a pretty Lilac colour!!!
Hope your daffs do well.x
At first I thought all of your random thoughts were going to be sad, but then you made some diamonds out of a few of them. I hope you enjoyed your training walk ... oh to have a training walk in your countryside. When you're having a bad day just remember...a bad day where you are is MUCH more exciting than a bad day here!ReplyDelete
I shudder at the thought of decanting beanbag beans. But then I have seen some things that a human being should never see, and which I will never speak of (and which was far more traumatic than bean bag beans, and which I don't know why on earth I brought up in the first place).ReplyDelete
I love your lemon story. Go eco.
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(RxWiki News) Being involved in sports is a good way to learn social skills, get some exercise and meet people. But certain sports can be more taxing on bones and ligaments.
Nearly 90,000 high school athletes injure their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) every year. Soccer, football, basketball, volleyball and skiing seem to be the riskiest sports for ACL damages. Not all ACL injuries can be prevented but warming up before exercising may reduce your chances.
Researchers also found women have a four to six times increased chance on injuring their ACL, and later in life women with osteoporosis may experience more knee issues as compared to men.
Timothy Hewett, Ph.D., a professor and director of sports medicine research at Ohio State University's Sports Health and Performance Institute, and other experts believe women are more prone to ACL damage because their muscles have not completely or fully developed. Women might use other muscles to balance out undeveloped muscles causing extra strain on the knee and thus a possible ACL tear.
"Warm up before you exercise to prevent an ACL tear."
This is extremely problematic for women because a torn ligament could increase their chance of osteoarthritis. Osteoarthritis is a joint disorder that causes pain and stiffness in joints.
Puberty brings different changes for both boys and girls, but women don't see a large increase in power like boys their age, Hewett tells the Wall Street Journal. Women usually use their front thigh muscles or quadriceps to balance their knee joints, but generally they have a hard time controlling their trunks, he adds, because of this women collapse inward, in a knock-kneed position and thus risking injury.
Jim Crowell, fitness expert, agrees, "I see many athletes and especially young women who come into my gym with very week bodies. When they don't strengthen the big muscles around the knee and the small stabilizer muscles close to their tendons, their bodies cannot handle the running, cutting, and loading that they put on it."
Hewett and colleagues have developed a six to eight week exercise program that will help athletes prevent ACL injuries. The researchers focus on strength-training, agility training, plyometrics and more. This exercise program can be shortened into a warm up before a games or practices to prevent injury as much as possible.
Crowell does similar things with his clients, "I teach them how to properly air squat, lung walk, use strength bands properly, and stretch so that they can strengthen all of the muscles around their knees. I also teach them how to run, cut, change directions, and back pedal because they are typically never taught how to properly move their bodies."
"The other important piece that all athletes need to do is to warm up properly. Instead of only static stretching I recommend that all of my athletes get their blood flowing but moving their bodies to warm up. When you take your body through an entire range of motion with a dynamic warm up you will prepare your muscles far better to play sports. Warm up properly, strengthen the pieces, and be technically sound and you will cut your chances of injuries greatly," Crowell suggests.
Hewett says on average, 50 percent of all injuries can be reduced by doing standard warm-up training routines.
There are other programs that are specifically directed at preventing ACL injuries. The Prevent Injury and Enhance Performance (PEP) program was developed by Santa Monica Sports Medicine Foundation in California. The program includes warm up drills that focus on bounding runs and lateral diagonal runs that will increase flexibility and strength in surrounding muscles.


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Bedros Alahaidoyan coll. 2 | Sivas/Sepasdia
This page presents songs and dance music collected and recorded by musicologist Bedros Alahaidoyan. Beginning in the 1980s, Mr. Alahaidoyan traveled to cities and towns populated by Armenians throughout the Diaspora, in search for Genocide survivors from whom he collected rare songs and anecdotes of their native cities and villages.
Editing of this page, as well as music engraving and digitization, provided by Dzovig Markarian, DMA. Translation: Simon Beugekian.
Sivas: A scene from the Armenian neighborhood (Source: Harvard University, Houghton Library)
Vocalist: Yervant Chaderdjian
Yervan Chaderdjian met Bedros Alahaydoyan in the Armenian nursing home of Fresno, on October 30, 1986. Mr. Chadhrdjian is a native of Sebastia.
1. Sebastio Barerk (Dance Song of Sebastia) (Armenian)
Yergou aghver choure g'ertan
Yergou aghver choure g'ertan
Megzmegou hartsoum gou dan
Megzmegou hartsoum gou dan
Yes al aghvor toun al aghver
Yes al aghver toun al aghver.
Translation –
Two beauties go to the water
Two beauties go to the water
They ask a question of each other
They ask a question of each other
I'm a beauty, you're a beauty
I'm a beauty, you're a beauty.


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Negotiations began last month in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 countries (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany) to reach a comprehensive deal on Iran's nuclear program after a decades-long standoff. Following the conclusion of this preliminary round of talks, which are set to resume in mid-March, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) offered a welcome assessment for those seeking to resolve the impasse. In the quarterly report to its board of directors, the nuclear watchdog verified that Iran's stock of 20-percent enriched uranium had decreased to 351 pounds (significantly less than the 550 pounds needed for one nuclear weapon) from its 431-pound inventory of last November.
Iran's cessation of enriching uranium to 20 percent, along with its agreement to more intrusive inspections by the IAEA, formed the cornerstone of an interim deal signed last fall between the P5+1 and Iran, which resulted in Iran receiving some limited relief from the crippling sanctions imposed on it by the United States.
The IAEA's report of Iran's compliance with the November agreement has certainly raised hopes of a successful denouement to this prolonged impasse. But Gareth Porter, author of the fascinating new book Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare, published this February by Just World Books, is less sanguine about the possibilities for a breakthrough.
Adding Missiles
In a recent Inter Press Service article, Porter notes that White House spokesperson Jay Carney recently insisted that Iran also has "to deal with matters related to their ballistic missile program" in these nuclear negotiations, even though this issue was not part of the interim deal signed last fall. The new demand, Porter concludes, is an Israeli-inspired monkey wrench thrown by its lobby—the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)—to derail the talks.
Readers of Porter's meticulously researched and richly detailed book will immediately recognize this U.S./Israeli bid to include ballistic missiles within the framework of nuclear negotiations. As Porter points out, it is the continuation of a well-honed strategy to continuously add layers of demands on Iran to prevent the finalization of a deal to ensure that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.
By delving into the nitty-gritty details of IAEA reports, combing through diplomatic cables revealed by WikiLeaks, interviewing former key U.S., Iranian, Israeli, and IAEA officials, and doing the type of good old-fashioned investigative reporting he properly excoriates most of the mainstream media for avoiding, Porter unravels a complicated, sordid tale in which the United States and Israel—sometimes separately and sometimes symbiotically—act to ensure the perpetuation, rather than the resolution, of outstanding concerns about Iran's nuclear program.
U.S. intelligence concluded in its 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that "the Iranian government had halted all work on nuclear weapons in 2003," an assessment based largely on electronic intercepts, according to Porter. And since that time, Porter determines, the only purported evidence of Iranian intent to weaponize its nuclear program has come from fabricated documents either delivered directly by Israel to the IAEA, or indirectly by Israel through the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK), an Iranian opposition group delisted by the State Department as a terrorist organization only in 2012.
Behind Malign Intent
Why, then, does the United States persist in divining a malign intent to Iran's nuclear program? The answer is multi-faceted, according to Porter. Part of the answer lies in the clandestine nature of Iran's nuclear program, a posture ineluctably adopted after the Reagan administration aggressively denied Iran access to nuclear technology permitted to it as a signatory of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Also, Porter recounts that in the post-Cold War environment, intelligence agencies justified their budgets by pointing to the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) proliferation and, in the process, created a built-in incentive to assume worst-case scenarios. And, of course, there were the neoconservative ideological proclivities of the George W. Bush administration, which infamously deemed Iran to be part of an "axis of evil" and overtly sought regime change in Tehran, a stance that "perversely" skewed U.S. policy "toward provoking Iran to accelerate its enrichment program," writes Porter.
But perhaps a more important factor in understanding U.S. policy toward Iran's nuclear program is the influence wielded by Israel through its lobby, AIPAC. Porter traces this process back to the Clinton administration, when National Security Council staffer Martin Indyk, a former Israel lobby employee, formulated the "dual containment" strategy of sanctioning and isolating both Iran and Iraq—a "harsh, new U.S. policy," Porter notes, "driven by Israel's ability to manipulate American politics through its powerful domestic lobbying arm." AIPAC's lobbying for sanctions and war against Iran continued through to the Obama administration, which both acceded to its demands to impose harsh new sanctions on Iran's banking and oil sectors and continued to threaten the use of force against Iran. At the same time, however, Obama staunchly resisted incessant Israeli pressures to drag the United States into war.
Israel has engaged in near-apocalyptical warnings of Iran's supposed imminent intent and capability to develop nuclear weapons since the early 1990s, when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin invoked "an extraordinary new threat from Iran" for the "immediate domestic political objective" of "providing political cover for Rabin's moves for peace with the Palestine Liberation Organization," according to Porter. But if Rabin's warnings were meant to convince the Israeli public of the need to come to terms with the Palestinians to focus on a supposedly greater threat, then current Israeli preoccupations with Iran's nuclear program are designed with the opposite effect in mind: to divert the attention of the international community from the failed "peace process" and Israel's ongoing, illegal colonization of Palestinian land. It's no coincidence that Israeli demands that the United States green light an attack on Iran intensified after the failure of short-lived, U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian negotiations in fall 2010.
Current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will bring a similar agenda to AIPAC's annual policy conference and his meeting with President Obama in early March. Members of Congress attending AIPAC's conference who will wildly applaud Netanyahu's bellicosity, rejection of international diplomacy to resolve the standoff on Iran's nuclear program, and advocacy for more sanctions on Iran would do well to read Gareth Porter's book. If they do, they will learn that the U.S. policy objective "to ensure that Iran cannot obtain a nuclear weapon and that its program is exclusively peaceful," as stated recently by Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman in Jerusalem, is well within reach. But this will happen only if the United States acts in good faith and in its own interests—rather than those of Israel—in the negotiations to resolve outstanding concerns on Iran's nuclear program.


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Picture this: A boy comes to stay at a farm for nine months and must do chores just like all the other children, and later one discovers what the boy must have had to endure to do even basic chores. Avery Parks got to know Nicolas Servais during a foreign academic exchange program when he stayed with her family at the Parks Family farm in South Dakota.
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Hoya Eskimo is a small, dense leaved, Semi-Succulent Hoya. Typically grown in a hanging basket or on the edge of a shelf to allow the Hoya to trail. Eskimo does not climb or vine much at all. Eskimo can grow past 6' in length and can be cut to encourage back-branching and thicker growth near the soil. Eskimo are easily recognizable by their adorable, slender pointed round leaves.
Hoya Eskimo have small delicate foliage that can reach 1"in length.
Hoya Eskimo is a semi-succulent Hoya, so slightly less water than a typical Carnosa. They like bright light, but prefer around 4 - 6 hours of direct sunlight. Feed your hoya monthly through the grow season to encourage fast growth and flowering. You can grow your Eskimo in a lower light area of your home with the addition of a 26 Watt Grow light.
Hoya prefer a high phosphorus feed to encourage flowering, and we find our All Purpose Fertilizer is a great feed for most Hoya collectors that are trying to encourage flowering an new growth.


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How Flagstaff Cyclists Can Prevent Injury
Caring for yourself when you're a Flagstaff cyclists may not seem like a high priority. After all, just riding your bicycle around the city may seem like the best way to keep yourself healthy and to take good care of yourself. And while riding as a form of exercise and movement can certainly contribute to overall health and wellbeing, there are things that you must do in order to protect yourself from injury and ensure that your new physical activity remains a healthy option.
- Stretch regularly, both before and after you cycle. Stretching before and after you cycle can help you avoid sustaining injuries when you're out for a ride. Even a short ride from your home can take a toll on your muscles and ligaments, and that's why it is important to make sure that you stretch to make them limber.
- Take care of your bicycle. You might think that taking care of your bicycle doesn't have much to do with taking care of yourself, but the two correlate very closely. When you ensure that your tires have the right pressure in them, you avoid making yourself overwork. When you take care to keep your brakes in working order, you make it easier to avoid accidents and the serious injuries that come with them.
- Get plenty of sleep when you're riding. Good sleep helps you have the energy you need to ride your bike everywhere you want to go. A good night's rest also helps you keep focused, lowering your risk of an accident.
- Keep yourself well-hydrated. Hydration is critical to staying well on and off your bicycle. Cyclists must drink plenty of water to keep up their energy and to avoid getting sick from overheating, exhaustion, and other problems.
- Eat a balance of carbs and proteins. Sometimes, when you ride your bicycle, you may forget to eat more to balance out the exercise. And that may mean less energy, less focus, less strength, and less passion.
Take care of yourself inside and out to make every ride the best ride of your life.
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Kompong Khleang
The floating villages of the Tonle Sap Lake are an enticing alternative attraction for visitors and each of them has its own unique characteristics. 99% of tourists who visit a floating village go to Chong Khneas at the northeast corner of the lake its just a stones throw from Siem Reap and is a real floating village, moving its location depending on the water level - but it gets a lot of negative press because of the mafia who run its tour boats, its drinkshops with tame snakes, pelicans and monkeys, and its plethora of Korean tour groups. Further south from Siem Reap are two more floating villages that are fairly easily accessible, namely Kompong Phluk and Kompong Khleang. I visited Kompong Phluk in 2005, so this time I headed for Kompong Khleang. But dont think thats it as far as large settlements on the banks of the lake are concerned Ive already paid a visit to Kompong Luong in the south and passed through Prek Toal in the north; and future visits to other villages like Moat Khla are on my must-see list. In all, there are 170 floating villages on the lake itself.
Our visit to Kompong Khleang 51 kms from Siem Reap began at 8am with the arrival of Rieng and Heng at my guesthouse in their Pajero 4WD. Id already been up for an hour, showered and enjoyed a chat over breakfast with new friends Juanita and Matthew. Taking Highway 6 through Roluos, it took us half an hour to reach Damdek. Heng told me it was 37 kms to our turn-off point to Kompong Khleang, opposite a small group of stalls a kilometre after the central market in Damdek. The road was sealed for another couple of kilometres then became less so as we took another twenty-five minutes of careful driving to reach the village. As it was the dry season, we were able to drive into the centre of the settlement, but at the height of the wet season, when the Tonle Sap expands to five times its normal size, its more likely youll need to enter by boat, as you do with Kompong Phluk. Rieng and I got out to walk along the high street as we entered the village something of a misnomer as upwards of 30,000 people live there as Heng drove to the market area to wait for us. Tourists are still something of a novelty in Kompong Khleang, so my presence elicited lots of hellos and waves from the adults and squeals of delight from the children. We stopped at regular intervals to chat to groups of women, of all ages, gutting the days catch of freshwater fish or setting out trays of tiny fish or shrimp to dry in the overhead sun. Behind the houses to my left all of which were on high wooden poles or stilts up to ten metres off the ground was the river channel that led to the lake but for now the street was dry and dusty, though would look considerably different in six months time.
We reached the market area at the centre of the village which is on a small hillock, enabling the market itself, the health centre, the primary school and the pagoda to remain on dry land all year round. A wedding reception was in full flow it was the wedding season in Cambodia afterall as we walked around the market and called into the pagoda, which has colourful paintings on its outside walls and a weather-worn lintel, with Indra atop Airavata, by its front steps, the only relic from a long-disappeared Angkorean temple on the site. The school children were on exercise duty which consisted of running around the main school building ten times, so there were blue and white uniforms everywhere and a cloud of dust. Behind me I heard someone calling my name and turned around to find Rachel Wildblood a VSO expert working with the fisheries office, who Id met last year in Kompong Thom in the middle of a meeting with the communes fishing hierarchy. As you can imagine, fishing is the lifeblood of the whole community I was told there are more than 200 species of fish found in the lake - so we agreed to meet later in the week, and I beat a hasty retreat to a drinks stall in the market, where Heng was in deep conversation about daily life in the village.
The area that the settlement covers is enormous, its the largest community on the Tonle Sap and extends out onto the lake where there is a permanent group of floating houses. Next to the market is a pontoon bridge with a removable central section to allow boats to pass, that straddles the main river channel and leads onto a lot more houses and the secondary school. As we retraced our route back down the high street, we were invited to lunch by a group of women, who asked lots of questions and who made me blush with their compliments, and who also invited us to return in three days for a big ceremony in the village, which I had to decline. Our two-hour visit to Kompong Khleang had been an enjoyable one I was the only tourist in sight and it would be easy to spend at least the next few days getting to see more of village life but I had a full schedule, so we said our goodbyes to our new friends and headed back to Siem Reap. A couple of kilometres along the road back towards Highway 6, we stopped as a large crowd had gathered after a moto had struck a young girl, who was lying motionless at the roadside but our offer of help was waved away. I also spied a broken lintel in a spirit house next to a small bridge, where the taxi boats congregate in the wet season.
I was back at the Shadow of Angkor guesthouse by 1pm for lunch with Kim in their excellent restaurant that looks out onto the Siem Reap river, just a block away from the bustling old market area. Kim is such a bright spark and an amusing lunch companion with her corny jokes, as we discussed her impending move to study at an Australian university. We also went for a browse around the aisles and stalls at the old market before I took a moto to the office of Sage Insights, close to the Hotel De La Paix. Sage is the brainchild of a pal of mine, Andy Booth and his Khmer partner, Phalla Chan and is a travel company with a purpose, whose profits go to supporting educational and social projects in the community and who have kicked off a volunteer program to support the children at Prey Chrouk school. I spoke to Andy using the online skype connection he was at home in Italy and also met Pip, their resident volunteer organiser, before returning to the Shadow with Phalla for a drink and a meal, where we were joined by Kim and later, by Pip. I agreed to visit their school in a couple of days time to see the difference their work is making to the lives of the children, and by coincidence, its also the home village of my guide Rieng. I was in bed by 11.30pm and went out like a light.
Blog post: I spent an interesting few hours in the floating village of Kompong Khleang on my most recent visit to Cambodia in January. Its a massive, sprawling community, believed to be the biggest of its kind on the Tonle Sap Lake and we spent an enjoyable morning there, and were made particularly welcome by the people we met. Much like its neighbour, Kompong Phluk, the main thoroughfare, during the dry season, looks like something out of a spaghetti-western film-set, with its high-rise homes set on tall wooden stilts along a dusty street. Above is a typical house on stilts though it will look completely different in the wet season, when the water level will rise substantially and the steps to the house will disappear under water. I certainly want to return at that time to experience the other side of Kompong Khleang.
Blog post: This young girl was amongst a group of women of all ages who were gutting the day's catch of fish in the village of Kompong Khleang, during my visit there in January. In fact, under the stilts of every second or third house along the main street, were groups of women, happy in their work, and keen to engage me in banter and laughter. I was invited to lunch by two of the groups and even asked to return three days later for a big festival in the village. Everyone was ultra friendly. Kompong Khleang is the biggest of the floating villages on the Tonle Sap Lake, believed to house about 30,000 inhabitants but for my visit, we managed to drive our 4WD all the way to the village, whereas for much of the year, the houses are built on very large stilts for good reason. Aside from the upper half of the market, the main pagoda and the primary school, the rest of the village is under water for long periods. Like its neighboring floating village, Kompong Phluk, it makes for a very interesting and engaging half-day trip from Siem Reap. Its 51kms from door to door. Give it a go, you won't be disappointed.
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January 2007 marked my 13th trip to Cambodia since my first-ever visit in 1994. It's a country that has a special magic all of its own and which draws me back every year to venture out into the Cambodian countryside in search of new adventures, ancient temples and to catch up with the friends I've made from previous visits. Each trip is full of laughter, smiles and a host of fresh experiences and my latest expedition was no exception.
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